skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of comparison are you expecting?

Go to hetzner.de, create an account, fire up one of their 5€/month VPS and see if it runs your application well. If it doesn't, upgrade the VPS (or whatever) till the max or until you decide that AWS or whatnot might be better suited (or cheaper).

It's nothing personal against you, but those comparisons aren't worth anything. They are highly specific to the test case, which might very likely not be like the stuff you are trying to run.

And I've just so often seen people on StackOverflow ask how to fix their AWS setup to run a simple WordPress site, it's unbelievable.

There's this old saying: "If the only tool you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

That pretty much works for GC/AWS/Azure, too.
You are right, ICE does support TCP. Not all ICE implementations support it though, probably where the incorrect anecdote comes from.

ICE TCP did get a little more limited recently in Chromium though [0] because of the TCP port scanning issue [1]

I have also heard that some gateways/firewalls/$x don't allow any non-TLS traffic, so you can't even establish ICE. In those cases the DTLS/TLS transport of TURN is nice.

[0] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2020Feb/0...

[1] https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/using-webrtc-ice-servers...
Do you happen to remember which story? I like Greg Egan and that one sounds interesting.
I suffered from mild bruxism about 10 years ago and have had several bouts of TMJD where I couldn’t close one side of my jaw. For me, the key has been poor posture induced by stress; these bouts coincide with heavy laptop and mobile phone use (neck angle forward and down). What fixed it for me was switching to a good desktop set-up whenever possible and self-treatment via Kelly Starrett’s Becoming A Supple Leopard (there is whole section in the second edition on neck and jaw). He has good general advice in this video as well - https://youtu.be/kfg_e6YG37U

I haven’t used the mouthguard now in probably 5 or more years.
Yeah, video playback sucks both on desktop and mobile websites
Ahhh, that makes more sense then. Thanks. :)
Yes. It's been my defaultish interpretation since I've learned quantum mechanics.

There is a wonderful lecture by Harvard Professor Sidney Coleman, called "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face"[1]. In it, he essentially leads into precisely this. It's what happens when you take quantum mechanics seriously.

My issue is that I can't take quantum mechanics seriously, or expect that it's interpretational issues can be sorted out within itself. The problem is that quantum mechanics is "merely" an extremely excellent approximation to quantum field theory. It can be thought of as an "effective theory" in a very similar way to QFTs as low-energy versions of other QFTs. Which means naturally that we should expect the framework of QFT to answer the interpretational issues, especially to provide guidance as to how the changes due to the approximations change the interpretation.

This is all a fine idea, but quantum field theories have even worse interpretational problems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyNMlXN-sw
I can't speak for bruxism link, but mouth breathing is pretty awful. You're completely bypassing the filtering that goes on in the nose, the air conditioning (temperature and humidity), and gas exchange in the paranasal sinuses (nitric oxide). In addition, you're more likely to overbreathe through your mouth.
Tau Day: 6/28?
See my sibling comment. We’ve been trying to make a bigger engine for decades, and have yet to succeed.
> 15 sounds a bit high though

No way. Time is short. They aren't selling carrots. This isn't a commodity. There's no "market price" for a quality service. If you don't think it's a quality service, then don't use it. If you do think it's a quality service, then $15 is a no-brainer.

I follow the Patio11 school of thought. Charge more. Then charge more again. You should be doing that for your own services and you should be using services which do this.

Sure, there are some consumer focused services which in reality do need to be price conscience. Roam isn't one of these services.

As I said in another comment, if Roam were a commodity, then why are we even talking about it? Let's change the subject. So, Notepad...
Hello, author here.

1. When I started working on this I was not fully aware of the large array of services that AWS provides and therefore our setup may not be the best possible one. So I would be checking out Elastic beanstalk for sure and see if it is feasible to use for my next venture.

2. Just to clarify, we are not running mysql on a lightsail instance, rather we are using a managed database provided by lightsail which automatically takes backups on its own and also has the option to restore a new DB from an existing backup.

3. Thanks for the insight on EB. Will be looking into it for sure.

The thought of any of these instances going down scares me as well. but I would like to believe that I have set up enough alerts everywhere so I can take immediate action :)
You can now boot directly from USB with relatively recent firmware. This means my only remaining gripe with Raspberry Pi hardware is not including an NVME slot.

Underneath the board, for instance, would be perfect, and although the glue logic might make it a bit more expensive, the 8GB model is already near €100 anyway, so... We’re already into Z83ii/mini-PC territory here.
Is the bottom of the barrel VM's really what AWS is aiming for though? Or is it the auto scaling, variable, HA workloads...
Why doesn't HN allow emoji usually? Always wondered about that...
The only model where a one-off payment really makes sense is for products that have zero cost for the developer to keep alive. For example an SQL Client doesn’t need a cloud component.

The difference here is, Roam and similar services run on servers that cost money monthly. The service is almost worthless without it. Ultimately someone needs to pay for this.
Are you talking about the therapy where they inject low doses of allergens? Doesn't that take ages?
Is this not exactly how macOS does input dispatch? Input comes in from the HID subsystem in the kernel and is redirected by WindowServer to the right application via Mach which queues it on its runloop, and then it updates its view and tells WindowServer again via Mach to composite that to the screen?
I cook rice in a casserole, the amount of water not absorbed at the end really depends since I don't measure anything (whether quantity of rice nor water), but anyway I add some water at the end to cool stuff down and eat directly in the casserole
I'm all for a premium, but $15/month is a bit too much. Almost all their competitors are half the price. Here's the pricing of their competitors I can think of on top of my head:

Evernote: €7/month

Notion: $4/month

Ulysses: $5.49/month

Standard Notes: $9.99/month

OneNote (+ the entire Office 365): $9.99/month

Inkdrop: $4.99/month

Bear: $1.49/month ($14.99 per year!)
It has changed and it is just observations of competing waves of pessimism and optimism and the patterns they demonstrate. I'll put a model trained on TQQQ and SQQQ price and time data only. I will bet you 5k mine will beat yours using whatever inputs you choose over any reasonable time you specify.
old.* works well for me on mobile too, with the one exception that links opened from modmail open in the bad ui
I use a tiling window manager, meaning all windows combined take up 100% of the screen, and all of them are always visible.
The only UIs that never handle this correctly are modern, responsive websites which sometimes become unusable and show baffling design decisions at certain window sizes.

Although in the case of Reddit the old design isn't perfect either, because if the browser window is narrow enough it'll have a bug where you can shift the whole website out of the visible area by writing a long line in a comment.

To be clear, I know this is not a trivial thing, but when UI designers don't know how to handle certain viewport sizes they should rather just let the browser's scrollbars do the job they've been doing fine for decades.
There was an interlude in Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years about reconstruction of early societies by their vocabulary, using reconstructed root words from Uralic:

"So we can imagine them sitting around the campfire of an evening in larger groups, making and mending tools and wraps while they swapped interesting stories of their adventures, of their friends or comrades and of the women's suitors. Sometimes people would wrangle, admonish, or curse and sometimes get high. But they also knew how to give presents and distribute goods."

I'm pretty sure female dolphins have suitors, and these friends or comrades are said to get high. Do dolphins give presents?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/dolphins-sex...

Do you even shell, pod-mate?
That's probably a good point, for those. :)

There are systems which use passwords stored locally (encrypted) though, and use cut-n-paste from the displayed password into the appropriate field.

This "Apple universal clipboard" functionality sounds incredibly dangerous for things like that, if it can't be disabled.

That being said, I haven't personally used macOS much in years, apart from keeping a project build server ticking over. So, this doesn't affect me personally that I know of. ;)
Mine is triggered by: caffeine after 1 pm, cold sleeping conditions, sustained stress like job stress or family health stress. Maybe related to acid reflux. Also I sleep on my back to keep force off my jaw. Probably more and maybe related to congestion, too.
That approach won’t fix the “thousands of files in a folder” problem. It will just add another: “thousands of subfolders”.

A full hierarchical approach (not just single level) is much better (believe me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years and have nearly 8000 notes/posts at taoofmac.com).
I found some interesting ones in this thread!
I suffered the same thing (deviated septum runs in the family it seems). I just got the septoplasty and a turbinate reduction done (3 weeks ago) and even though I'm not fully recovered I can already breathe better than ever before. The recovery was also very easy. I highly, highly recommend it.
The natural background seems to be around 0.13-0.16 µSv/h in Helsinki: https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra... (select a station to see history).

Seems there is unit confusion as it only rose to 0.18 µSv/h in Helsinki, not to 0.18 mSv/h which would exceed Chernobyl impact.
Not sure about how much is actually available but you can generate about 1000 keypairs before it starts to throw errors at you
So Lightsail is the AWS equivalent of DO/Linode/etc?
Hello, author here.

We definitely considered using other cloud providers like DO, linode, etc. But it was important for us to go with AWS because we needed some of the other services that AWS providers like s3, Route53, etc.

Some of our static websites are in fact hosted entirely using CloudFront + s3 combination which is something I forgot to mention in this post :)
Why OKRs Are Broken and How to Salvage the Good Bits
For heztner, just read the list prices for dedicated servers:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ or maybe https://www.hetzner.com/sb

For example, a dedicated "AX51-NVMe" server for 65 euro / month = 73 usd / month gives you: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Octa-Core (8 physical aka 16 logical cores), RAM: 64 GB DDR4 ECC, NVMe: 2x 1 TB NVMe SSD, unlimited traffic. That's less than half the cost of lightsail per logical core, or less than 1/4 of the cost of lightsail per GB of ECC ram.
I remember that a few years ago a galaxy had been discovered with a claimed ~>90% of dark matter.
Personally I believe the theory is epistemologically weaker than MOND
> It’s the same issue with static sites: you get a posts folder, dump everything in it, and then you dump all the images in an images folder and lose association between them.

Not with page bundles in Hugo: https://gohugo.io/content-management/organization/
ELF: Better Symbol Lookup via Dt_gnu_hash (2017)
Hello, Author here.

While this is true, we wanted to go with AWS for 2 primary reasons

1. We use some of the other services provided by AWS like s3 and Route53.

2. Just the reliability and brand that AWS has is something that we had to take into consideration
Right, for much of that time we didn't have digital distribution. 40 years ago we were buying vinyl records (probably superior products) and cassette tapes. 10 years ago, selling subs were a pain because we didn't have providers such as Stripe to make it easy.
Side note: You can use python classes for that. It's a common pattern for me to have something like this in my projects

class Holder:
pass

Simply add any attributes at runtime. It's essentially a different interface for the built-in dict of the instances.
Add a bit of getattr magic and you can read undefined attributes, too.
This is what we do also, but at a slightly higher level. EB web, and worker environments, t3a.small instances, auto scaling between 10-100 instances. And using Aurora serverless RDS.
An instantiation of me from a backup, however accurate, would be no use to my sense of having survived as I would have ceased to exist and not even be aware of the copy.
And copper. People stripping contaminated cabling out of old soviet nuclear test sites and selling it as scrap was a major problem in Kazakhstan in the 90's through to the early 2010's. Everything has since been backfilled with concrete, but not before the majority of the cabling entered the supply chain. A long-distance haulier I know found himself surrounded by police with machine guns at Dover, after his truck lit up like a Christmas tree on radiation detectors - he was carrying scrap copper from Romania, which had apparently come from Kaz. That load got stopped, because it went through a radiation detector at a port - but you've got to wonder where the other tens of thousands of tonnes that were lifted ended up over the years.

Here's an article on the cleanup, which mentions the copper theft as an aside:

https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/one-greate...
From the OP: 'I believed that I could implement an efficient JSON parser based on my assumption that encoding/json was slower than it could be because of its API. It turned out that I was right, it looks like there is 2-3x performance in some unmarshalling paths and between 8x and 10x performance in tokenisation, if you’re prepared to accept a different API.'
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn networking?
I have been using several of the WebAPI's like WebSockets and WebRTC for a while, but I never fully understood what is happening behind the scenes. Today I read a HN post about WebTransport, and frankly I have to say that most of the terminology flew past my head. Where would be a good place to start learning networking in depth (from the physical layer and upwards)?
Hello, author here. I just want to confirm that this is one of the reasons why we did not go with Lambda and the other reason being I was not fully aware of and versed with serverless when we started this venture
Would like to start using Wren though issues like this put me off: "Stack corruption" https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/issues/761

Using older and more established languages seems less risky.
Reboot: A New Operating System for Humanity
one of the design goals is

> CRDT as a mechanism for concurrent modification.

i am genuinely wondering if concurrent modification is really, truly needed ?
> An EC2 instance with 2 virtual cores, 4GB RAM and a storage of 80GB costs roughly 37$ a month and a Lightsail instance with the exact same configuration costs 20$ a month which is almost half the cost!

The author completely failed to do his homework. An a1.large instance is only 37$ if it's an on-demand instance. You pay a high premium to be able to pull the switch in the exact minute you cease to need one.

If he's willing to go with AWS lightsail with it's monthly plan, the same a1.medium instance type is about 11.75$/month as a reserved instance, and can be had for about 131$/year as well.
Just to be clear, this would be more appropriately titled How we saved money moving from AWS to VPS providers.

It comes as little surprise to me that the AWS lightsail offering saved them money over traditional AWS services, just as they’d save even more using two dedicated servers with any reasonable provider and being able to have a hot-failover for everything.

At DNSFilter we’ve gone through the evolution of Heroku -> AWS -> VPSs -> Dedicated -> and now are setting up our first colo rack.

I did a price comparison recently between Dedicated, AWS, and Colo. Dedicated is 15% the cost of AWS for our needs, and colo will be 42% the cost of Dedicated for us.

Now keep in mind we have dedicated DevOps staff and are running at a very different scale from OP, and such a solution is not for everyone. But I personally have never understood the folks who love to brag about having spent much time and effort optimizing AWS to spin up and spin things down, when for the same cost I could just have a 10x more powerful server sitting there, on all the time to handle a spike in load, and I can utilize the extra resources or get things done faster with faster gear at 1/10th the price.
There is one book that I would highly recommend - https://gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts
Available under Creative Commons!

https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Same response as I gave to another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667492

Why are we talking about Roam rather than those services then? Why don't we just "find and replace Roam with Bear?" (anyone know the Regex for that?)
AWS CodePipeline: Setup and Maintenance from Scratch
> this incident caused 0.18 mSv/h in Helsinki

According to graphs here https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra... it rose to 0.18 µSv/h, not mSv/h, which is just slightly above normal in the area (0.13-0.16 µSv/h depending on station, looks like)
Your sibling comment (I presume https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667336) says nothing of the sort.

It doesn't say nasa has been trying to make a bigger one for decades.

> They still haven't figured it out.

...is not what the article said. They lost the plans, they're recreating them.
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory
This appears to be physics only. Is there an equivalent book that focuses on Chemistry only?
I'm not sure what your point is. Your comment is overly complicated. Are you saying notepad is a good alternative to roam?
sure there is no one team america internally in America but externally there is an ever evolving war of multiple countries seeking more gain, through military, digital, and economic means. If you do not believe this, then you are naive. There are actual war battles being fought 24/7 sponsored by governments, land grabs, state sponsored cyber attacks from plenty of countries. So in the case of the Chinese government, where the current leadership has proven countless times they want to enact Mao's plans, it is in America's best interest to be wary of companies that are Chinese. How many times have our governments and corporations been hacking by Chinese backed agents to steal blueprints, plans, and valuable information. There is nothing childish about what is going on GLOBALLY. not everything revolves around internal America politics.
I was unaware of imzy, but reading between the lines of that article the cause of demise seems to be "not enough traction to be successfully run as a business". sounds like there were communities there who were using it and enjoying it, so the real failure was the expectation that it would get as large as reddit and sustain a business model, not in the lack of usefulness to its users.
> progress exploded

Did it? Deep Learning provided us with some mindblowing performance art (FaceApp, DeepFake, etc.), but as far as I know any actual business value that claims to be derived from 'AI' is fake news.
This is indeed a problem. But i think a big part of writing is organization. The organizational principles changes over time as the folder grows, and I refactor to realize new principles. For notes, this refactoring is healthy for me. It makes me realize things about my own thoughts.
“The Intellectuals and the Masses”
These sensors can be incredibly sensitive and can capture contamination from small technical or medical radiation sources over a long distance.

What is much more of a mystery is how little we understand about the effects of low-dose radiation. In Germany, there was a study started after since 1990 a cluster of leukemia cases appeared around a specific power plant near Hamburg. So, a large statistical study was done about the incidence of leukemia in all of Germany, and whether there is a correlation with distance to power plants. There was a correlation found (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0221-20100317939), the incidence of Lekuemia appears about 50% higher - but we don't know why. The classical radiation-dosis effect models do not explain what is observed.

As there were no significant contamination accidents in Germany, there is some suspicion about the effects of low-dose radiation. Of course, the largest case of low-dose contamination in Western Europe and Germany was the Chernobyl accident from 1986. There have been some statistical large-scales studies which observed (small) changes in sex ratios (that is, the quotient of male and female offspring) https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3765590/mode/2up . But still, these are only correlations.

One train of thought has been that low-level radiation could effect the expression of genetic information. The field of study which looks at this is called epigenetics. It turns out that the working of the genetic "code" is surprisingly complex. It is not like a app package that gets installed on your PC, but it is rather a very complex self-modifying program which reacts to different environmental factors during installation. Now, there is some research of which factors could affect gene expression and how radation could play a role:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=epig...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783...

This is by far not mainstream research, but the fact that we have no explanation for the correlation between incidence of leukemia and distance to nuclear plants points at that the classical models are missing something significant and we do not know yet the whole picture.
Ah, I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation.
Hugo is an exception, and a recent one at that (I followed the page bundles discussion with interest since I considered moving to it at one time, but relative link handling is still over-complex from my standpoint...)
If you haven't tried eliminating all stimulants like ADD meds and/or caffeine, they're obvious places to start.
I think the whole point is to not have hierarchical folders because they make it harder to see connections between ideas.

But you can tag your ideas, or create "folder" notes that contain list of other notes.
And you can nest those notes or course, and even have loops in your graph, so it's more flexible than folders.

Also, for static sites, I use Jekyll and I create a folder for each post in the image directory. It's very convenient.
I know that hetzner is affordable, but is digital ocean really cheaper than AWS?
Did you not find this post through one particular non chronological feed?
> They lost the plans, they're recreating them.

Which is exactly the point I made at first. That we've lost the knowledge to make the engine.