skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at distributor single-unit quantities, they are close in cost. If you look at hobbyist stores, they are the same price (or more expensive for the seven-segment version).

If you ask a factory in China to make you 1 million displays, the seven-segment version will be a lot cheaper. That's why new products use them. Even at 1k quantity from distributors, seven-segment displays are substantially cheaper.
It's not a Maxwell daemon, it's just a device for which nothing but helium exists. In the ideal gas model it would indeed create almost vacuum but the second law of thermodynamics is not violated since the process is symmetrical. Pressure of helium outside is also almost zero.
on-premises, not on-premise. but if these are hosted in AWS and aren't actually on-premises, maybe use of the term is not correct at all?
A cracked LCD screen also makes the display unreadable. There are all sorts of ways for anything to fail, so calling out one failure method of one thing while ignoring similar failures for the device being compared comes across as very short sighted
I had considered that maybe new 7-segment displays aren't being made, so maybe they cost more for that reason, but even that doesn't seem like it'd be true.
Which intern messed with the BGP config?
How would you make an API accessible on the browser side but prevent the return values from being sent to the server? Somebody would surely find a way to use it for user fingerprinting.

Edit: I guess if you only want to make a local debug tool, you could make it callable only from a completely isolated sandbox. Maybe?
A bookcase would look ridiculous with just the one kindle on it
Where I worked back in 1995, we had DEC Alpha workstations running Windows NT processing what were then huge images. We had DEC workstations running 4 GB of RAM.

I think some Alpha systems had 8 GB installed even back then.

The Alpha was 64 bit native but Windows NT was still 32 bit so I think you needed VMS if you wanted more than 4 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows 2000 for Alpha was created but never released ( this was the first 64 bit Windows ).

It was not totally impossible to see beyond 4 GB of RAM.
I received a HDD only last year where the SMART status immediately reported a failure for status 22, and it led me to https://www.backblaze.com/blog/smart-22-is-a-gas-gas-gas/

It's an immediate "return the drive" scenario, as something happened between factory and the SMART test and the drive is no longer within spec.

Thankfully an easy returns and replacement process, but an eye opener too, I hadn't heard of SMART 22 prior to this.
Yep, FedNow is a good step in the right direction, but the list of banks that participate needs to grow substantially. Many small and mid-sized banks/FIs aren't having a great 2023/2024, so I wouldn't expect to hear much about them integrating with new payment rails until their fundamental economics improve a bit allowing the decision makers to loosen up the purse strings again.

source: have worked in the industry consulting and doing technical design and implementation
Same, also saw a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg and it felt like the air around me was vibrating. Also fairly loud.
>Each of the defendants was handed a year’s probation and ordered to attend classes on gender and equality awareness

Sounds like it has absolutely nothing to do with gender inequality and everything to do with a teenager's spiking hormones.
The whole point of naming vulnerabilities is to establish a vernacular about them, so it's not surprising that academic papers name them. The literature about hardware microarchitectural attacks, for instance, would be fucking inscrutable (even more than it is now) without the names.
>There was massive antitrust lawsuit about behavior like this, when browses where new.

I'm still no sure why I should care.
The payload of SLS is like five times that of Ariane 6. They can't really be compared at all.
> I don't think conflicts are a problem as long as a single history is kept up to date properly with git.

That is easy when you work alone. It becomes more difficult as your team grows in size.
I am fairly certain that glibc uses SA_RESTORER in its sigaction wrapper and implements a suitable sigreturn() function which is provided as the sa_restorer argument.
Maybe. That drugstore chain mainly sells hygiene products. Their "main" side-business is printing photos, both digital and on film. (Yes, even in 2024 in Germany it's still possible to hand in your film in a small drugstore and have the photos developed and ready for pick-up a week later.)
So I guess printing on normal paper is just a side-side business that developed naturally.

Anyway, the 10c/page (A4 b/w) is still a good estimate, at least when I looked pre-pandemic (it might've increased slightly to 12 or 15c by now).
A lot of cities, especially those with a University, have dedicated small "Copyshops" where you can walk in and get your 100+ pages thesis printed and bound within 20min. So the prices and service are aimed mostly at Students. It's true colored pages are significantly more expensive than b/w, but overall that's still cheaper.
Insert "aren't" after the first "Slack".
I've been to the last 3 Starship Launches, it's only a 10 hour drive each way! I hope I'm able to go to everyone and to eventually see a booster catch in person.

Everyday Astronaut did a great writeup on seeing a launch in South Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWvHrih-Juk&t=795s

My preferred way is to get a hotel room on the south end of the island (Everyday Astronaut recommends Margaritaville and I agree). I woke up an hour before launch and walked a mile down the beach with my kids to Isla Blanca park. Coming from off island you'll have to leave much earlier because the bridge onto the island becomes a parking lot.

Hearing protection is probably wise, but it's a different kind of "loud". You feel it in your chest. Looking at the distances you are much closer to a much bigger rocket in South Padre than in Florida.

The most important thing is to get down at least a day early and drive over to the rocket. Starbase and the OLM are on a public road so you just pull over and look straight up at the world's biggest rocket. Also plan on being there a couple extra days to account for delays. Second most important thing is to go to Hopper Haus (Starbase themed bar/restaurant in Port Isabel).

People always say to me they'd like to join, when's the next launch? Driving down there is a leap of faith since there is only an announcement 4-5 days out and the launch license sometimes isn't issued until the day before. So you have to be ready and have a flexible schedule.
> It'd be lovely if one could "re-train" youth culture, to greatly reduce the impact/thrill of the crime.

That just makes me think of "A Clockwork Orange."

> kids are often routinely browsing "extreme" porn

How do we determine this?
Epic probably does expect the indie devs to have laptops, yes.
I'm not sure if I agree with the premise.

Microsoft had a lot of big successes in the "dead" period - Xbox for example is pretty absent, as is Surface. They also had a lot of non-successes that were revolutionary in their own right - basically inventing the first major music streaming service.

Also, most of the key changes at Microsoft were underway before Nadella - most importantly getting business customers to agree to subscription service models and cloud migration.
This happens on startup for many critical systems. They turn every segment on and they turn every segment off.
Right, good point. There is of course the option to see saved wifi passwords on most devices... but I can see how an engineer decided to bypass all this bikeshedding and just send the damn password haha.
With “cheap” i meant it was still affordable. If it was 10x then it would not be affordable. Just like a bottle a water costs more at the airport, internet access costs more on a plane in the sky.

Perhaps i am a bit biased i would expense the bill to the company. A few hours of work definitely pays back the prepaid internet.

As mentioned, a decade or two ago, this was not possible or very limited to the elites. I certainly dont feel or behave like an elite. So it is “affordable” to me
Sure, I was sloppy in my use of the term "dead". Hangouts the product/brand ceased to exist, Hangouts the codebase lives on. It was ever thus. I worked at Google too, y'know ;)
Such an absolute tragedy. I hope modern medicine can make large advancements, but I am not holding my breath for any miracles in my lifetime.

Still, I couldn't help but be reminded of the final installment of a blog from a woman in a similar situation a few years back:

Van Life (Cancer Edition) Finale

https://imgur.com/gallery/van-life-cancer-edition-finale-prU...

I honestly have read the finale once or twice a year since it was posted in order to try and sort of reground/reassess my life's direction.

After reading about the woman in the article or the woman in the blog I posted, I can't help but get this feeling. A feeling of struggle. Struggling to rationalize the life that I have been conditioned to believe that I am "supposed" to live. After all, that very well could be me one day.

It further spurs this almost sick to my stomach feeling that if I were in either one of these women's shoes, then I would probably have quite a few regrets about how I chose to live my life so far into my early 30s. All the countless hours of hard work, all the frugality, all the stress, the lack of taking risks, etc.. What has it all truly been worth? The stability and security has brought sustainability and placation but the contentment such a life has bred is equally ensnaring. I can't shake the feeling that there is more to life, but alas, what is it then?
I have heard that in some markets the only way to get unlimited service from Comcast (with no monthly cap) is to use their hardware.
I thought it was more using their router, especially over time. They charge $15/month for the router/modem which doesn’t sound too bad, but is $180/year on a device that retails for $180 or so. And they’ll happily keep charging that, forever - long past when their costs and a reasonable profit have been made.

They also force you to share your cable/wifi connection with other Xfinity users who are near you.
Buying your own router and modem is a much better deal.
Is there any reason someone couldn't make these drawings by hand? If so, wouldn't that already be a crime? So what are specific regulations going to do here?
Yeah, about 15 is the furthest I'd be wiling to go for an in office job. Otherwise you're losing an hour a day just to travel.
lol - so your opinions are valid, everyone else must bring data.

Here the dumb thing about this - almost anything worth discussing is uncertain, else it wouldn't be discussed. If the only way you can change your mind is for someone to present an absolute, water tight, backed up by data argument, you'll never change your mind. You make several assertions in this thread with zero data.
> People's imaginations run far ahead of reality.

Can you really blame people for that when the company in question has been enmeshed in a case like this [1] involving Chrome.

1: https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-settles-5-billion-consu...
Makes sense. My PC has turned into a machine that violates my privacy and serves me ads in odd places. I even remember seeing Microsoft AI agents running in the background recently that I cannot recall seeing in the past. I can’t trust that my data is safe on it going forward, and nor can the company I work for.

My Mac, although it is within Apple’s authoritarian walled garden, respects my privacy, has top notch build quality, really long battery life, and feels worth the premium by a long shot.

Still, I wish a consumer friendly long battery life Linux laptop were an option. Yes technologists can adapt. But it’s not yet there for everyone else. Debugging basic issues like sound or graphics or WiFi is tedious. And problems with standby or short battery are a nonstarter in 2024.
> causing a PR damage

The most you can expect from PR damage like this is that maybe an update goes out faster that fixes the problem (or at least hides it better). Nobody is afraid of bad PR. The most hated companies in the US are also massively wealthy and successful. If people refused to by routers from companies that pulled shit like this, nobody could buy a router. You can enter pretty much any major brand of wireless router into google next to words like "hardcoded" "backdoor" and "plaintext" and get results going back decades.
How is the weather in Englin today ? Also if you don't want to stick out like a sore thumb on here, think of making comments that actually use technical jargon sometimes.

Pretty funny that you mention the IRA since I was threatened with open brain surgical torture by one of them a few months back. Like you, he assumed I was part of an opposite three letter agency. Do you guys never stop and consider that maybe, just maybe, the inevitable fate of conspiracy theorists is to become conspirators ? It always boils down to dialectics. Always.

For the wider audience running across this comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Unfortunately, installing pytorch via Poetry was not for the faint of heart, last I tried. [1]

For example, it used to download wheels for all matching distributions (say pytorch for a few platforms) to get metadata. That would be like a 10 GB download for 4 wheels of pytorch, to generate the lockfile.

Another thing it used to do is ignore local cache, so for some locking operations would download the same wheel multiple times.

In general, it was not entertaining, from an ML practitioner's perspective, to infer an attitude from the Poetry maintainers that the mountain shall come to Muhammad, so to say. Their abridged position was that pytorch is not compliant with standards, when Poetry itself, e.g., is not PEP 440-compliant, in a manner pertinent to the issue at hand. [2]

I realise that my grumbling about pytorch has nothing to do with your perfectly adequate comment, that said. Please interpret it as nothing more than an expanded rationale fore being more interested in learning about Rye/uv than in revisiting Poetry, at least for the projects I've worked on.

[1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409

[2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7748
Please bring data for that.
> Maybe cheaper, but what about power consumption? I would have expected them to need significantly more, which might matter for battery-powered devices.

Seven segment displays are quite power hungry relative to what information they can display. LCDs sip power, the issue is their backlight.
data required.
So helpful that no other website and no other browser can use it?
Not saying that this breach is somehow connected, but all of my Wise cards(both physical and virtual) got charged($10, $100, $500) at random locations of the globe in May & June and method was manual entry. While some charges were declined initially because the expiry date was entered wrong on first try(all of my cards coincidentally have expiry date like 04/24 or similar) but cvv was always correct. To make matters worse, all these charges were manually entered somewhere and NO approval notification(thing that I get when I make any online Txn, regardless of amount) ever popped up. I only noticed the declined txns in the evening when I went to check my phone after work.

Wise sent me an email this month that there was a breach at Evolve but all ties were broken with them and no data was affected. But these random rise of fraud txn were saying otherwise. Also, thankfully, the txns were declined due to insufficient fund(I only use wise during travelling and add fund before departure) which gets me extra worried that those might have gone through if I had funds even when all of those cards were frozen[1].

[1] This is my typical habit after getting one of my real credit card with very high limits getting charged thousands of Euros while I was out sick in hospital for a month and then getting greeted by all these charges while I was barely able to sit still and still recovering. Thankfully, my creditcard provider accepted my paperwork and removed(reversed?) those txn and immediately sent me a replacement card in a week and disabled my hacked card. Since then, I always keep my CC frozen and only use proxy(Wise) when doing txn online with limited balance.
If they intercepted it, then one must assume it was truly plaintext. Because if they were able to get access to the private key for Linksys's server certificate, that would be even bigger news.
I wouldn't call their mobile OS a failure. We now see the Windows mobile platform was pretty far ahead of both Apple and Android at the time. The one thing that sunk it was the app store and Google refusing to allow its products to be used on Microsoft's platform.

It's interesting the article completely leaves out how Microsoft abandoning stack ranking when Satya was brought on as the new CEO. Ballmer continued to defend it even after he left the company. I think getting rid of this had a huge impact on the "growth mindset" that allowed them to get out from under a lot of the underperforming products and teams within the company. Instead of competing with each other, they were all on the same team now, trying to collectively push the company in a better direction.
>... but other people remember that in the time since, that entire Microsoft monopoly fiasco is held up as an example of bad prosecution, and we don't go after companies like that anymore.

This, but also, I still don't see anyone posting a compelling reason why I should care about this issue. The government and I don't necessarily have the same interests. Personally I don't care that google gives their own browser more access to my computer when I use google services, and if it improves my experience, I actually want that to be the case.

The bulk of the complaints about this just seem to be tattletale behavior you see from children, not any thought out complaints based upon an actual harm.
Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1].

[1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
The power doesn't stop with the courts though, the courts will merely decide whether the power is with the agency or with congress.

In the rare case that congress can function and act on issues as subtle as cyber security, congress passes laws. Those laws may then be struck down as unconstitutional based on things that are not written in the constitution, and in the end the laws are executed by the President who has no incentive to regard the laws in his official duties.
Off-topic, but I was watching this golf instructional video from the 70’s or 80s by Gary Player. And he’s talking about all the different golfers he’s played with and he mentions this blind golfer,

“Blind golfer offered to play me a round for $100/hole. He had two rules. We play his home course and we tee off at midnight.”
New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere
The most common models of small OLED displays (SSD1306, etc) have a (write-only) framebuffer in the display controller, and can be written to incrementally. If you structure your visual interface with certain simple constraints in mind, you can update it without using any additional dynamic memory.
This was well written and (imo) a pretty objective analysis of the sociopolitical shift of things in the US. Thanks for writing it, especially the part about the 90s not being all that much better. It kinda seems to me that many people forget this due to Y2K and 9/11 resetting peoples' memory, or maybe the average internet user has gotten younger and that's affected "discourse".

Your last bullet also kinda hints at why the trend towards "low-trust" cuts both ways -- liberals and progressives are similarly "done" with interacting with the other side. I don't see a way out but it saddens me we're heading to a more anti-social society (anti social in the political sense, oxymoron intended)
> The market is flooded

Yes, I'd also like to note, the market is flooded with crap. Multiple devices I've owned with these "cheap" displays have been on crappy, battery-intensive devices. The devices with simpler segment (or dot matrix) displays last longer and work better.

I get some of the points where extreme legibility trumps (nearly) all other concerns, however I'd propose the issue could have been solved more simply with more specialized segment displays.
How close is AI to replacing product managers?
FCC to block phone company over robocalls pushing scam "Tax Relief Program"
It's not blindness, it's institutional inertia.

Ariane 6's design was selected in 2014. At the time, Falcon 9 1.0 was flying for 4 years, had less than 10t of payload and the first landing and recovery of a first stage wasn't for another year.

Given than the Ariane program is about independent European access to space for institutional launches, efficiency and costs are secondary concerns. Each country pays for a share of a program and expects a corresponding industrial share. Launches aren't priced to expect a financial return, even if Ariane 5 was an unexpected success for geostationary commercial launches in its time.

ArianeGroup produces three main things: Ariane 6, Vega and the M51 missile used on French SSBNs. It's there so that the French can lob nukes without asking the Americans (unlike the Brits) and that the Europeans can lob institutional satellites in space without asking anyone else. It's not there to be SpaceX, to be profitable or to be efficient.
> technologically adept, but lifelong windows user

Windows power users are also the ones who rant about the lack of video games in the ecosystem. They already have their happy place, and are not a worthwhile target for recruitment.
Heh, 100% agree. I switched to Chromebook went WFH started because of it. It couldn't handle it on an external display but at least it wasn't painfully bad
Yes, I am. Music is currently layered by a series of copyrights, including their copyright music copyright, mechanical reproduction copyright, etc. Each stage exists as a layer to accommodate a new technology, and rent is extracted in each stage.

Music on physical media, files, or streams is not sold. You rent a "performance license," which permits playing the music on that media. The type of performance license depends on the context in which you are "performing." see: https://www.soundreef.com/en/blog/music-licenses/

As I said, copyright has nothing to do with compensation. It creates a monopoly, and the purpose of a monopoly is to enable rent-seeking.
These arguments about not risking losing capability and training a workforce are worn out, ArianeSpace's insistence on not earnestly working to innovate led to them already having had a gap in domestic capability. Similarly, they're just maintaining the workforce at great expense, but the private space booms in the US and China are actively growing the workforce on the back of mostly private capital.

On top of that, it isn't as if ArianeSpace is just acting as a stopgap until a private provider is ready, they're actively opposing the rise of private providers. They're even lobbying to choke the European satellite industry by forcing them to be restricted to European launchers, regardless of availability or capability.
so they can turn the coil on when they hear you taking a puff

the margins on these things are incredibly tight; the implication (maybe I'm reading into this post too much) that they are spying seems very silly to me.
A star link dish with internet access will set you back $500 plus $120/ mo, but you can cancel any time