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Ask HN: Blog Platform of Choice?
As an occasional writer, I am a big fan of Medium. I even pay them $5 each month, not because I make any money from the site or particularly like their content, but because their writing tools are really amazing - makes writing very enjoyable.

In addition, their SEO abilities are great, one of my articles on formatting Lisp code is now the highest ranked post on Google :)

(Link: https://link.medium.com/NbSWkq4hJcb )

However, Medium has some issues:

- No syntax highlighting on code (big issue for programming blogs)
- No color options (would like an accent colour)
- No Mathjax or Latex support (this is a bit too niche for most blogs)

Running my own website has a lot of pluses and I’m well versed in creating static websites for free (particularly like vanilla html / css / JavaScript on GitHub Pages), but I will never get the SEO rankings or audience that Medium can give me.

I honestly can’t find much alternatives. I basically want Medium with a syntax highlighter but I don’t see any blog platform that does this?

What do you guys recommend? Not just for my use case but in general for programming blogs.

Substack looks like an option, but it requires you to bring your own audience, which, if I had, I would just do it via my own website since I have the technical skills for it (but for other writers, substack can be great as it packages up a mailing list + hosting very well).
I believe it may now be less than this: e.g., 200 results max.
I would say that when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them.
Absolutely correct about the technology. Qatar is doing that.

I lived in Qatar for 7 years, drove a car. All speed cameras are not visible. Some are marked with sign boards, but many are hidden permanently on a lamp post, or in a palm tree, or in anything. There are even mobile cameras, which an operator puts on a heavy tripod, & goes away, & camera takes photos of offenders & send back to data centre. Cameras are on highways, on streets, on intersections. Every traffic signal has built in camera. Fines go up progressively with each offense & over the limit. Owner of car gets a mobile notification as soon as his car speeds in front of camera. All fines are payable fully at yearly registration. If paid in some x days, there is a discount.On Holy Month of Ramadan also sometimes there is a discount.

The biggest is, there is no need of a man standing behind camera. Two photos taken apart a second or such are the proof. Owner can only contest it if he has gps recordings. Speed limit is speed limit. No +5 or +10.

But then, fine amount stings only if they are enough. For an expat like me, a fine of $200 is a lot. For a local Qatari 20ish year boy, thats nothing. Some of my photography club members had fines in tunes of $2500 a year, & totally normal.
So you want people to discuss the economy without mentioning the genocide camps of forced labour that underpin manufacturing?
Loakee is an online sharing platform for apps and coding projects
I didn’t realize 18F has a training program. That’s awesome.

I agree with your frustrations about training in general too. I wish companies provided that _and_ provided real career progression goals. Instead it’s learn the tech for your job after work and some vague one page sheet from HR about what the next level is, which really comes down to a manager’s opinion more than anything really measurable.
Interesting how you heard about that one dogfight, but not its record since then. Again, places like The Drive have been pushing bad F-35 news because it draws lots of clicks.

The F-35's k/d ratio since that dogfight in 2015, when pilots were just figuring the plane out:

15-1

https://www.businessinsider.com/f-35-once-beaten-by-f-16s-sh...

> Since then, the F-35 has mopped up in simulated dogfights with a 15-1 kill ratio. According to retired Lt. Col. David Berke, who commanded a squadron of F-35s and flew an F-22 — the US's most agile, best dogfighter — the jet has undergone somewhat of a revolution.
The blog ranks really well without any special effort, but for Divjoy I haven't put in the work of setting up extra landing pages to rank for different topics. For example, I'd like to have a page like divjoy.com/nextjs+stripe that emphasizes that stack combination.
> 5-10 F-16s

The new F-16V costs as near as makes no difference the cost of an F-35
(Former Mapzen employee here).

I _think_ you're talking about Eraser Map(https://github.com/mapzen/eraser-map) right?

It was awesome! It's the closest I know of to "Google Maps, but open source and based on open data". It was an app built for _end users_, not OSM editors. And it worked pretty darn well. When it didn't, any problems could (at least theoretically) be addressed with improvements to OSM data or the Mapzen open-source projects.

There was a team of at least two people working on it full time, plus lots of work on the design, product, and integration with geocoding, routing, transit etc. The multi-modal (switching from walking to transit to car, etc) transit directions were particularly awesome.

I used it as my daily driver for much of my navigation around NYC, and as time went on only had to fall back to Google Maps maybe 25% of the time, usually for missing POI data.

Unfortunately I think it's one of the few Mapzen projects that hasn't seen new life after the company shut down, and like you said it would take quite a bit of work (read: money) to keep it going. It might be possible with some work to find grant money through a couple organizations. The OSMF has done some awesome work lately with the micro-grants, but this would definitely be a level we haven't seen (yet).
Pebble's over, sadly. I assume fitbit will want to do something with the assets, why else would they have bought it? (PS: I always wondered what was in it for them actually)

I really hope the PineTime will pick up where it left off! But it's only in dev kit stage now.
£2Bn seems like a hilariously British amount of money to develop a modern fighter for.
Sun Tzu didnt have stealth aircraft. In many ways, if they see enough of you to be intimidated then they can see enough of you to kill you. The f-35 wants to make the kill before the target even realizes it is in danger, let alone sees the aircraft comming. I doubt Sun Tzu would have encouraged his spies or saboteurs to stand out from the crowd.
I myself spent a lot of time on the computer back then, mostly playing computer games. And I remember how everyone talked about how addictive and bad computer games were.
Noticed in the code no Huffman tree. Then FN2 in the paper: "In this work, we always use the negative sampling formulations of Word2vec objectives which are consis-tently more efficient and effective than the hierarchical softmax formulations." Is that consensus?
Show HN: HyperTag – File management made easy using tags
I always appreciate a good bug story. Here‘s one I just came across, following a discussion linked above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044952
I know you're mostly joking, but here were some of the takeaways I took from the article:

* China lied about the virus. They banned investigators from outside the country and tried to cover everything up. Experts knew they'd lied previously about SARS, but rather than assuming the worst they more or less assumed it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

* The FDA completely dropped the ball on testing kits and it took an incredibly long time to resolve the issue. Its unclear that people in power even realized this. Back in January and February when we were hearing about a case here, a case there there was almost certainly rampant community transmission and death occurring.

* CDC leaders were very slow to consider that the virus might transmit through the air. This led to the early advice being misguided (6ft of distancing and washing your hands protects you) and just flat out wrong (wearing a mask does nothing).

* Inside the executive branch, people who gave bad news were forced out and people who gave good news got promoted. Predictably this made things much, much worse.
It was a pretty hot yeast: https://i.imgur.com/YGhx1kr.jpg
I should also point out that ray traversal / intersection costs are generally only around 40% of the costs of extremely large scenes, and that's predominantly where GPUs are currently much faster than CPUs.

(I'm aware of the OSL batching/GPU work that's taking place, but it remains to be seen how well that's going to work).

From what I've heard from friends in the industry (at other companies) who are using GPU versions of Arnold, the numbers are no-where near as good as the upper numbers you're claiming when rendering at final fidelity (i.e. with AOVs and Deep output), so again, the use-cases - at least for high-end VFX with GPU - are still mostly for lookdev and lighting blocking iterative workflow from what I understand. Which is still an advantage and provides clear benefits in terms of iteration time over CPU renderers, but it's not a complete win, and so far, only the smaller studios have started dipping their toes in the water.

Also, the advent of AMD Epyc has finally thrown some competitiveness back to CPU rendering, so it's now possible to get a machine with x2 as many cores for close to half the price, which has given CPU rendering a further shot in the arm.
Who are these people, both smart enough and dumb enough, to build the high tech death machines anyway?
It may be difficult to evolve, but it should be possible.
Hijackings were extremely common prior to flight security. TSA was another level, that was extremely frustrating throughout the 2000s, but at a minimum it prevents wildly unstable people from boarding with weapons

Check out this list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings
I think this is much more common and crucial for success than we admit. Aesthetics have a very real impact on customers and observers, but we like to pretend it’s not that important.
Oh god. One client I work for does automated scans, and we had an s3 bucket set up as a static site.

They freaked out when /admin/ returned permission errors, essentially a 404, because it was information leakage about admin functions of the website.
> More generally, the issues I see reported only ever seem to be fixed in the Cloud version. I currently have to use the Data Center version.

> Why go through the trouble of reporting an issue I'll never see fixed involving a feature that I loathe using?

I find the same issue with Nessus Professional. They too are trying to funnel everyone into using tenable.io (SaaS nessus scanner). And they also are very resistant in doing much of any changes (other than removing the API) from their onprem solution. But tenable.io keeps getting regular updates.

Worse yet, when you talk to anybody there, the first thing is "Why arent you using tenable.io ?" My response every time is, "Has it been fedramped YET?".. Of course it hasn't. Not entirely sure they even plan on doing that.

For maintaining data integrity and preserving a secure environment, these companies are demanding that we open our networks and store our critical data somewhere we really don't have access to.
I work in a fear-based culture right now. The CTO never saw a kludge he didn’t want into production stat, and in his dual role as CEO won every disagreement. There are many pieces on tech debt that are true and valid, this one IMHO covers more salient issues than most.

If you’re reading this comment before you read the article: it’s about how to avoid getting caught too badly in the first place, not about magic bullets to get you out when you’re basically bankrupt.
There is a startup called slamcore doing this in London. They've some interesting talks with the founder on their site.
Can you expound on this? Windows doesn't let you use VirtualBox and WSL2 at the same time?
Given current consumer GPUs are at 24 GB I think 3-4 years is likely overly pessimistic.
Hey,
I have been hacking on HyperTag over the last few days. I am keen on feedback and potential contributors.

From the README:
What is the point of HyperTag's existence? HyperTag offers some unique features such as the import function that make it very convenient to use. Also HyperTag's code base is written in Python and thus extremely small (<500 LOC) compared to TMSU (>10,000 LOC) and SuperTag (>25,000 LOC), making it very easy to modify / extend / fix it yourself.
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Maybe the corresponding role was "front-end marketing designer".
The title of the pie chart in the article is "December 2020 France passenger auto registrations".
This kind of garbage is why open source software can't compete with the likes of Google. I started out reading this comment chain thinking "great, I'm going to try maps.me". 10 seconds later, I've learned I can't just try it, I have to find the right fork, of which I see several, each with people mentioning serious caveats. And who knows when the currently best fork will get taken over by the next wallet software huckster?
I agree with parent and I’ll provide my own answer: I live in the moment. A simple but powerful lesson I learned from my pets.
Can someone explain what it's doing? Is it using an algorithm with far superior space complexity than the usual algorithm?

Python seems a curious choice. Compression is computationally intensive.
> their America doesn't include murdering thy neighbor. They might "want to kill each other"

Well, you can find a lot of message boards in which they fantasize about doing this. And it sells a lot of weapons. But the energy barrier is high; people like Kyle Rittenhouse cross it only rarely enough that they can be dismissed as isolated incidents. It's not every day that someone blows up a telephone exchange. Just another isolated incident.
I wish there was a service that restructures twitter like a reddit thread.
I was going by the “®” in their logo. From https://trademarks.justia.com/879/58/cloudkitchens-87958653.... it looks like USPTO acked a plan to use the mark within three years. I don’t know whether that means they could complain if you opened “Talukder’s Pizza Cloud Kitchen.”
Is electricity significantly cheaper in France because of the abundance of nuclear? Or are nuclear costs high there as well?
how badly they need a clickbait piece to bring in visitors

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Graphical models are just a way to encode relationships between different variables in a probabilistic model. Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) allow you to specify (most of) the conditional independence structures that you can have between things like parameters and random variables.

This is really useful information because it can help you identify what information is truly relevant for the estimation of certain parameters (so sufficient statistics) or help you crystallize your understanding of the implications of the model you’ve created. In other words, it helps show you the ways in which your model says different aspects of your data should influence others.

This creates testable implications of the model. If your model says that two variables should be conditionally independent given a third, but they’re not, you have an avenue for refinement. You can also clearly identify your assumptions or the implications of your assumptions.

Another great thing about them is that exact inference for certain (most) structures is known to be computationally infeasible. There are a lot of different inference schemes available that can help you with different approximations with various drawbacks/advantages, heuristics that sort of work, or even ways of drawing samples from the true distribution if you can identify the structures. See belief propagation, loopy belief propagation, sequential Monte Carlo, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

On top of this it helps you see everything in a general framework. Lots of the fundamental pieces of ML models are really just slight tweaks to other things. For instance, SVMs are linear models on kernel spaces with a specific structural prior. Same with splines; it’s just a different basis function. All of this helps you see the pieces of different methods that are actually identical. This helps you make connections and learn more effectively, in my opinion.
You can't make the F-18 a stealth fighter. But those planes will still be used for a long time. The F-15 may even be making a small comeback: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a26413900...
Producers are the more influential overall, in terms of the business metrics(budget, schedule, box office). They get to make a lot of key decisions, if only through vetos.

What a director does is more akin to structuring the day-to-day focus. A director who has taken to relaxing intent on some broad aspects of the production is going to have a smoother production, be more agreeable, be easy to hire again. But a director who is more stringent may deliver a product that coheres better. It's a kind of balancing act on the part of the producer to not end up with a staff full of prima donnas fighting for control and wasting money through indecision and résumé-driven development.
The A-29 is functionally not all that different than armed drones like the predator or reaper. Except the latter have an even longer loiter time, and take pilot losses out of the equation.
Better to have a well written law on the side of the civilian than a badly written one that can be enforced on the whim of a bureaucrat. At least, that's the way I see it.
The enemies of America are presumably meant to see American stealth aircraft in movies and TV shows, not over their capitols.

However, I think these airplanes are indeed designed foremost for function. The similar appearances of the B-1 and Tu-160 suggest that when two planes are designed using similar technology with similar mission requirements, they tend to have a lot of similarities. (In the years since they were initially designed, the way these aircraft are used has changed. But they were initially designed to meet similar requirements.)
Word of mouth is person-to-person, not online or media. Brand marketing is also different from product marketing.
Yes and no. The whole thesis of the F-35 is apparently an airborne sensor fusion and electronic warfare platform as well as a modern BVR jet - it's going to be harder to jam because of both redundancy and the amount of hardware real estate the designers can play with to counter said jamming.

On the subject of electronic warfare - I assume it's still very classified but given that the current teen series aircraft apparently have some serious EW magic in them (I don't have any citations for exactly what they can do other than I read some comments by IIRC an Australian ground radar operator and apparently they were completely outgunned - i.e. fake formations rather than mere jamming) I think we will be reading about exactly they can do at great length on the hackernews's of the future.
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There's speculation that the cutting edge radars fielded by China and Russia can detect stealth aircraft, so the advantage may be moot now.
So does Python. Asyncio is mediocre at best and difficult to express certain patterns in. Other libraries are far better, but not in the standard library.
The censorship currently on Facebook is identical to the tactics of H1tler and his pal Dr. G0bbels.

I was banned merely for sharing my polite opinion backed up with statistics and scientific facts.

Why is that not OK?
On the other hand, the foreign government may see pictures of the plane and go “that’s scary” and not start the fight which the less-scary-more-stealthy alternative can win better.
Not to mention the reputational damage from people asking "why the hell is this in the contract in the first place?"

It says they're so afraid of the quality of their product they'd rather litigate their customers than fix their product.
In India, on some newer signals in last 5-6 years, I have seen that when Red is on, & is going to go to Green, the Red will start blinking in last 5 or so seconds. Then Green will be ON.

When Green is ON, & is going to switch off, it will start blinking & then off, & then yellow will start blinking. Its ok to drive through blinking green or yellow if safe. But common training os drive through blinking Green, but if you see blinking Yellow, then stop.

Plus, some of the lights have counter. It shows how many seconds are remaining for the lit color. An experiment led the Bombay Municipality to install Noise Sensors are one busy traffic light with counter. Every time there is a Red Light, & counter is less than 10, normally people start getting impatient & start honking to force the front ones to move. But on this light, if the noise is above certain decibel while Red, the counter resets.
Stick up for them? No, it's about not making false accusations against folks who are not racist. If the KKK held a democratic vote for their next leader, does that make the democratic process, thus popular vote racist? I cant tell if you're trolling or just plain inbred stupid.
It's not complete bullshit. Against other sophisticated actors, yeah, it's bullshit. But posturing and intimidation is important to keep less sophisticated actors in check.
>And that a Maga hat and Antifa supporter might be neighbors but want to kill eachother.

You seem to be ignoring the possibility that these people come to these ideologies because of the Internet, which leads to the hollowing-out of community coherence that you mention.
Marriage rates across the US dropped between 26% and 44% in 2020
I keep hearing concerns that modern radars may be able to defeat the F-35's stealth, or will be able to defeat it in the near future. I can't help but think that it will be hard to keep a plane flying at mach 1 hidden in the face of fast scanning and networked phased array radars with modern deep learning based detection algorithms.

My understanding is that if you take away the stealth aspect the F-35 is a sluggish fighter bomber that would be outperformed by most 4th gens. Considering an F-35 is nearly the price of 10 4th gen fighters the choice to "upgrade" becomes pretty suspect for a lot of Nato partners.
Ray tracing is embarrassingly parallel, but it requires having most if not all of the scene in memory. If you have X,000 machines and X,000 frames to render in a day, it almost certainly makes sense to pin each render to a single machine to avoid having to do a ton of moving data around the network and in and out of memory on a bunch of machines. In which case the actual wall-clock time to render a frame on a single machine that is devoted to the render becomes the number to care about and to talk about.
Zephyr uses NimBLE
> "Crap wing loading"

Yes, why does this super stealthy plane not have support for lots of reflecting metal things hanging from its wings?
Used to be done with uniforms. Hence the Pope's guards with Michelangelo uniforms, and the Nazis with Hugo Boss.
> a Maga hat and Antifa supporter might be neighbors but want to kill each other

There's even a dedicated reddit for this fallacy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM
Morten Harket also had an amazing voice though.
Any books you recommend along these lines?
Can confirm cloud GPU is way overpriced if you're doing 24/7 rendering. We run a bare metal cluster (not VFX but photogrammetry) and I pitched our board on the possibilities. I really did not want to run a bare metal cluster, but it just does not make sense for a low margin startup to use cloud processing.

Running 24/7 for three months, it's cheaper to buy consumer grade hardware with similar (probably better) performance. "Industrial" grade hardware (Xeon/Epyc + Quadro) it's under 12 months. We chose consumer grade bare metal.

On thing that was half surprising, half calculated in our decision was despite the operational overhead how much less stressful running your own hardware is. When we ran experimentally on the cloud, a misrender could cost us 900 euro, and sometimes we'd have to render 3 times or more for a single client. Bringing us from healthily profitable to losing money. The stress of having to get it right the first time sucked.