skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ec2instances.info/rds/?cost_duration=monthly is great for comparing prices of different AWS instances.
Ask HN: I feel like a lot of my email accounts have been unprofessional
How do I go about finding an email service and domain?

I am just looking for a service that I can use for personal and professional email. What kind of combination would work well?
Can we repurpose this to find which locations have McRib? Improve upon https://mcriblocator.com/ which seems to be more of a crowdsourced approach?
Hopefully code like this is marked with a standard comment for future grepping.
I've always found it strange that such a strong Mac advocate as Gruber was behind Markdown. After all, the Mac was doing real rich text in 1984, and with just one more push in the early browser days we might have got there for the web too.

Instead we're left with this inconsistent mess — hell, even Gruber gets his own link syntax wrong from time to time - because good enough was the enemy of better.
Like perl is a "write-only" language, YAML is a "read-only" format. Humans should not be manually editing YAML, there are way too many caveats.
(my favorite being the country code for Norway "NO" being a boolean-false, if not quoted)
> If the risk-adjusted cost of a ransom is less than the cost of implementing proper backups, then it makes sense to just not do backups.

Then again you have people who do it just for the lulz (err...meows?) -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957510
Frustrating that after all those nice world web saving words "only" egoistical overpaid upper management people remain. On the other side, these are likely the people who bring in all the money from Google. Hmm?
I agree that it's difficult to get to the core practical side of these things. Buddhism and related religions/philosophies have had a lock on meditation for so long that it can be hard to disentangle the real stuff from the stuff that got made up along the way.

So when you reach for The Mind Illuminated, which is a 400 page book, and trivialize the 390 pages of good pragmatic instructions on improving concentration and insight skills because you read 10 pages of spiritual mumbo-jumbo, you're missing a powerful opportunity.

The fact is that if you sit quietly and pay attention to your breath for a couple hours a day, some very transformative stuff will eventually start happening all on its own. No books or religion is required. But as a society, we mostly aren't willing to do that because of attitudes like that displayed in your post. We're making progress, though. Brains of advanced practitioners are being put in fMRIs with surprising results, and things are happening slowly. My point was that we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater in the name of being good scientists.
Statistical analysis does not require running experiments but it does require an unbiased approach.
My kids play Minetest daily and love the game and community.

I'm looking to teach them coding and graphics with Minetest's approachable lua API so I'll be diving in to that side of things soon.

The Minetest team has purposely focused on keeping bloat in the way of excessively pretty graphics/shaders out of the game engine making it playable on old machines and requiring less bandwidth for community play.

Here is a great recent article https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Open_source_game_developer_Pert... interviewing the Minetest creator and leader, Perttu Ahola.

- I can vouch for two community kids-safe servers: (1) The Epic Server (regular survival game) and (2) Capture The Flag.

- Great Youtube Minetest channel => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdiuryhdSBUxQse2rarVqPg
Security theater doesn't apply evenly, however. I know a couple students who could pretty blatantly cheat without getting caught simply because they owned a second computer they could position in the right spot, and had a hardware disconnect on their microphone. People that aren't well-off or tech savvy are going to be at a significant "disadvantage" here.
AWS provides the binary for RDS users, right? Why do you need to block on upstream for these improvements?
Sensory input is the other 50% of the game that remains unsolved. If Neuralink's robot works it will be a game changer for artificial eyes, limbs, everything.

Besides that a robot limb can't be autonomous in it's movement as most movements we do are asymmetrical and thus it needs input from the other limb as well.
Never thought I'd need to lecture HN about Occam's Razor:
Permanent residency is a status for foreign citizens, who have been residing in the country permanently i.e. living there for a long time (e.g. 7 years) and might stay indefinitely. Rather than applying for a visa renewal every year, it saves time and money to grant those people a permanent residency.
For the more machine learning-minded folks, this happens almost always in doing inference with Exact Gaussian Processes (GP), where because of the non-parametric nature of a GP model, the covariance matrix grows with the size of data points. The inference routine is cubic in the number of data points. Hence, sparsity in the posited covariance matrix is _extremely_ important for fast inference.
But John Doe in the Guardian is? What's the difference?

Joe Rogan is a worldwide phenomenon larger than most TV channels. Around 200 million downloads a month, and he's basically a guy who interviews people on YouTube. Plenty of independents online with huge reach compared to older media.
Mathematically speaking, no. They are isomorphic duals. But ergonomics are important to prevent errors. I personally think Matrix-in-front is nice because it evokes the idea that the matrix is a function acting on the vector.

In the real world, When you start doing matrix-vector, if you aren't careful with row-major vs column-major storage you can introduce performance regressions. Let's say the architecture can do 256 bit memory move into 4xf64 mmx registers, you have to think carefully about what is going where before proceeding. Some architectures might be able to do an arbitrary stride so that those f64s can be nonadjacent in a simultaneous move. I suspect not handling this correctly is part of what holds back really good fp8, fp16 performance, and I suspect for example the TPUs struggle with this.

Of course optimizing for matrix-vector can be different for optimizing for matrix-matrix, since the column vs row memory access preference for the front matrix is exactly the opposite of the back matrix.
We don't actually do any hosting. This is a very common misconception.

OPS - https://ops.city can deploy to any public cloud and can run on openstack/kvm/vsphere as well.
It's funny how the end user isn't even in the list.
Simplified markup of text was standard on wikis, beginning with Ward's Wiki at c2.com in 1994, a full ten years before Markdown appeared.
For reverse engineering, I highly recommend learning burp suite. (This is a bit like saying "Just learn vim!" in terms of learning curve, since the curve is basically a wall, but it's well worth it.)

E.g. I was curious how TPUs actually work -- the low-level protocol, built on protobufs. But burp suite is only good for analyzing HTTP. No worries, a couple plugins later and I was good to go: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1315638127772405761

You'd be shocked the amount of information you get when you merely look at the traffic. Chrome devtools is nice, of course, but it's not an intercepting proxy; you can't (easily) capture every request, modify it, replay it, see how the webserver responds to malformed input, etc. Burp repeater makes all of that super easy.

Unfortunately the power is hidden behind a rather unfriendly UI, with some unfriendly defaults (the very first thing everyone wonders is, "why did burp cause my website to freeze?" answer: it starts up in intercept mode, so that's actually a sign that things are working; but you have to turn off intercept mode to actually get it to do useful things / see a bunch of requests).

Emacs users might feel at home, at least. :)
Yeah, I don't think people outside of very specific areas realize how easy it is to "option up" trucks to $80/$90k. There are hundreds of GMC 3500 Denalis going for >$80k on Autotrader:

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/all-cars/gmc/sierra...

And that's before you get to the really bougie stuff -- some Ford F350s start at $85k and there's a handful of MSRP >$100k:

https://shop.ford.com/build/superduty/#/config/Config%5B%7CF...
s/stalemated/winning/
I wouldn't have trusted bloomberg either way, but the guardian deserves respect. There was a spectacular chance that his password was maga2020

I'll never understand how some of the brightest minds of our generation can end up following this guy. I understand we're seeing confirmation bias => brainwashing en mass, but people on this site should be smart enough to break out of the cycle
wow, no idea about that. the site is just a simple redirect to the appstore or google play, depending on the device you open it from.
You can be pseudonymous but I'm sure they have KYC requirements of some kind.
I still have my MD recorder. A few weeks after I discovered that I could make perfect digital recordings, I sold my mint condition Studer-ReVox B77 MkII reel-to-reel tape recorder to a friend, and never looked back. The B77 was a lovely thing, but a pain in the ass to haul around, and the tapes were exorbitant.

I now have a little Tascam pocket digital recorder that I love.
If you tell the customer "It's down" or "Down for maintenance" you will absolutely get some who tell you "Just turn it on for me and give me my ice cream". If you tell them "It's broken" then you don't get that.

Even though it's a valid distinction, I'm not sure it's one that's valuable to the interaction being described.
Ex-Googler Meredith Whittaker on Tech's Political Power, Flaws of Social Dilemma
The machines still get taken apart and washed by hand, along with some maintenance, every 14 days. So every machine will additionally be off for an afternoon every two weeks.
If they want to make it a good work truck, they need to bring the bed back down to a reasonable level. It's ridiculously high now.
Another way of saying it is the Toyota Corolla was a Geo Prizm that didn’t suck.
Well, the usual definition I see for unikernels also stipulates that there's only a single process. So FreeRTOS is still a unikernel, but early UNIX wouldn't be.

Though the distinction between "process" and "thread" gets very fuzzy when you have only a single address space.
I don't have a problem with the existence of paramilitary local law enforcement agencies.

I have a problem with centralized, all-purpose paramilitary law enforcement agencies.

If you ignore half the words of a description, it can change the meaning significantly.
^this is the correct answer!
NTP is what I meant, yes.
Perhaps people here are clever enough to distinguish between the phrase and the movement and not be caught out in accidentally supporting their actual core political principles.

The phrase isn't the problem, however the actual movement... [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200917194804/https://blacklive...
Well, maybe you shouldn't do drugs. It doesn't follow that no one should; not everyone is you.
A standalone GPS NTP server is $750 retail. Commercial soft serve ice cream machines are at least $4000. Just building the machines with an autonomous GPS clock that doesn't need to be set, would double the revenue but only increase the upfront cost by 18%.
Trying to get https://seemyresume.io off the ground and gain some users.
Land doesn't depreciate, only structures and improvements to the land. Mortgage interest is not included in the basis of real property or in depreciation. It's just another deductible expense.

Most real estate companies are partnerships or REITs due to special tax provisions. But most of their investors are corporate entities.

Generally, profits from rent are not reinvested in buying more real estate because they simply aren't sufficient for that. Real estate is a cash flow game: real properties are purchased through commercial mortgages, and rental income services the debt. Generally, profits arise when real properties are sold for appreciated values. Because of this, real estate investment flourishes in low tax years: as a result of depreciation, the cost basis of the real property has been reduced, so the taxable income from the sale has increased.
I want a service that lets me delete money. I’m serious. I think it’s healthy not to get too attached to money and deleting $10 without getting anything in return seems good for the soul.

I haven’t thought about this a lot but it might actually be pretty hard to do. You can’t just burn cash — that’s illegal. I don’t want the money going to anyone else, so you can’t just buy something with my money and destroy it. Also, you’d need to figure out a way to prove that it has been deleted and that you’re not just pocketing it.

Figure out how to delete my money and I’ll gladly pay $10/month.
It's uncommon enough that none of the ton of websites I visit (a healthy mix of tech, gaming, hobby, news and other sites) employ this trick. Call it what you will, UX or UI: it's still poor, as in "nonstandard" and "confusing".
We have a base Debian image maintained by our Platform/Security team (compliance) that we build our Flask apps off. Other than them forgetting to push an ARM compatible image when they update we haven’t ran into issues, but I don’t know what went in behind the scenes to get the image working if anything.

I would say I’m the bridge between the infra/DevOps teams and our back end team of 12 people and as far as everyone else on the team is concerned it “just works”. Still waiting for the first big time it doesn’t
Sure, but the cat's out of the bag. We have nearly ubiquitous cameras, and huge databases of images. I think it's essentially impossible to regulate that back to old expectations of anonymity.

Back in the old days, you could just go to the next town, take on a new name, and build a new life. Or, you could sexually assault a woman while in high school, then become a Supreme Court Justice. We may need to adjust our sense of what things are forgivable, since in the future none of us will be able to simply leave the past behind.

Edit: If it wasn't obvious, that was sarcasm about the Supreme Court Justice. I think it's a tragedy he was appointed, and was alluding to the idea that if that house party had cameras streaming to the public internet, it wouldn't have happened.
Well again, looking at the graph, I'm seeing 10-20% down time, so it's not "just an extra 9"
You can't have usage data for a feature that doesn't exist.
So far they seem to be stalemated.

It's telling that you apparently didn't consider legitimate users a peer of the other factions fighting for control. Unfortunately, that just means the user is being abused by all of the others to varying degrees rather than one dominant abuser.
Well, what unfree operating systems are there:

* Windows
* macOS
* Android
* iOS

I think that is, at least for general purpose consumer level hardware, exhaustive.

The article excludes macOS and by extension iOS. It also excludes Android, since it points out these are the same shenanigans pulled by Google.

The only possibility, then, is Windows. Microsoft have root access to your system and can do an update whenever they want. There has been a back and forth about how much the end user can push back, but obviously Microsoft wins that battle. This is definitely a security benefit - but it also means you cannot check out the behavior of the system and have confidence about the behavior of the system tomorrow.

So the answer is no. Anyway this is no surprise. Business have worked out they can rent you the things they used to sell you. Why wouldn't they?
Given the "entitled customer" incidents I've experienced, seen, and heard about, "scheduled maintenance" sounds intentional and like something "you shouldn't be doing when I want my ice cream", where "broken" sounds like something the guy behind the counter can't help.

I'd be willing to bet that "broken" is just less likely to start a fight with an enraged customer whose day was very slightly inconvenienced by their inability to consume extra junk food.
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Yes, having a higher speed decreases the amount of time the driver has to react to impending collisions. Even the slowest of passenger vehicles are capable of reaching unsafe speeds for surface streets within a couple of seconds. The majority of pedestrian collisions are due to inattention -- which is almost universally correlative with a lack of driver inputs. Someone looking at their phone is almost never applying 100% throttle.

I would bet that your relative difference in experience between different types of vehicles is more of a function of:

1. vehicle size and shape compared to the total available road space

2. differences in driver attitudes as they correlate with the vehicles they choose to drive

It is worth noting that the Hummers you find to be particular problematic are some of the slowest vehicles on the road. The average sedan today accelerates faster than any hummer ever made.
> Plus, not all engines have the same data layout, so an “effect crate” would either require your engine to work a very specific way, or would require integration work that would probably defeat the purpose of using a package manager in the first place.

You could say the same thing about nodes in shader graph systems, but in practice they work quite well.

> It can’t be worth the headaches, especially when you consider how a TON of devices still only support OpenGL, which not only requires runtime compilation of shaders (so only GLSL unless your app ships a cross compiler)

You can AOT compile SPIR-V to GLSL with SPIRV-Cross.
$50 is a lot for a feature that most SaaS are offering for free.

> Running your own mail list and custom domain isn't trivial

Regardless of whether this is trivial or not, Substack is a service, not a partner.

If one day you decide to increase your prices and work your ass off to produce more valuable content to your readers, why should Substack get more money?

If instead of sending newsletters we were talking about ecommerce (which is way less trivial) would you be ok with Shopify charging 10% of revenue?

What about AWS charging you 10% of your revenue?
Beautiful essay, thanks for sharing.
Yup. We save DNGs, but aside from attaching your geo tag (if you have it enabled), we don't touch the DNG at all.

DNGs support XMP, which is an XML based way of describing edits. However, we're doing post processing that can't really be described in XMP.

We're launching Instant RAW as an MVP to see how people use it, so to that end we've only focused on "I want amazing details from RAW but I have no idea how to use Lightroom. Just let me share it on Instagram." For now.
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Nobody besides cyclists gives a damn what cyclists want, as is pretty apparent from American roads.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that it’s for the MAOIs in tobacco, which is cute and I thought about that occasionally when I was smoking. I would highly suggest that no one smoke, because if you’re getting a benefit from the MAOIs in cigarettes then you’d probably be a great candidate for any number of low-dose ssris and the rest of the pro/cons list tilts heavy con for smoking.
Total U.S. police spending is around $100 billion, which is around $285/person/year.

Considering over 240 million 911 calls are placed in a given year, at a surface level this feels extremely efficient — certainly more so than other parts of our bureaucracy.

Crime occurs for social, cultural, and/or financial reasons — focusing on the financial, we have a giant bureaucratic and inefficient government, an incredibly large population, and a lot of waste. I don't think one could argue the $24/person/month we pay for police would make a substantial difference / stop a ton of crime.
Does tesseract count as box too? ;)
I do look forward to just waving my hand over a screen and having the data transferred to my tattoo. Or a tattoo that changes shape according to my heartbeat. This research seems like a nice baby step in the right direction.
Yes, 1 and 2 would seemingly apply like property tax, but it gets much more complex than having an appraiser come out.
I have one too and can attest for this...
I wrote "for taking away control from the legitimate user" at the end and you didn't read that far. I have since posting this edited "the device owner" in at the top, because people have been misinterpreting the intent.
It's like having 12345 as the code on your luggage.
When I was a kid and was taught using a mouse, the standard practice was to press these little tiny buttons on a calculator app to practice fine motor skills.
Has the goalpost been moved? Upthread you compared Chrome to "all popular web browsers [which] had a user interface for installing client side HTTPS certificates for user authentication". I just opened up Firefox, and found a very similar menu to Chrome's: the only option was to "import" a cert from the filesystem. I agree that we should expect more from our tools, but has any popular browser ever allowed the user to generate a new cert? If one were to do so, how would the generated cert be connected to PKI -- who would sign the cert and how would they do that?
That would still make him a creative director at Stadia.
Yes, there is. My company does sound id among other things. https://www.sensory.com/sound-identification-scene-analysis/
Right, my point is just that non-standard UX does not need to be confusing if you properly explain what is happening to your users.

Every standard interaction started out non-standard, after all.
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Is something on that page problematic to you?
I wrote "for taking away control from the legitimate user" at the end. I can't believe people are taking the worst possible interpretation of this, but I suppose that's HN. I have since posting this edited "the device owner" in at the top.
I think if in any context one uses the usual matrix algebra, it is the same linear map, just in a more abstract setting.

If you tell me storing a lookup table is matrix, I think that is sort of out of context. But then again, I could be labelled a purist here, and I'm trying really hard to not fall into the trap.
https://github.com/nanovms/ops-examples/tree/master/rust/01-...

&&

https://github.com/nanovms/ops-examples/tree/master/java

to get you started - i don't know any of our users that are using those in prod though atm
"Enforced" — isn't that just phrasing in a file in a git repo, and it's editable by anyone who wants to edit anything in their clones?
> It seems like it will never evolve into a CUDA like heterogeneous environment that's more common in scientific computing and ML.

I don't think anyone would be opposed to evolving the project into a strong alternative for scientific computing and machine learning!