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sdan··on Moving Away from Gmail
You can actually get a google account with any email (hosted on your own platform, etc.)
sdan··on Moving Away from Gmail
I have kind of a long last name and combined with the fact that many have said to only use .com for professional purposes (general public isn't so familiar with many other tlds), I do:

firstname@firstname[first character of my last name].com

Although... I do have firstname@sdan.io but unsure how "professional" that is, so I use it for other newsletters/subscriptions

sdan··on Ask HN: Are you using A.I. to solve anything around COVID-19?Where can I find it
People are for real -- But there's also a majority doing "AI" for COVID19 only to plaster on their resumes (Using CNNs or some other basic algos to detect COVID isn't that hard)
sdan··on The Docker Compose Specification
Not sure what you're saying, I can run ARM and regular AMD platform containers via docker compose without problems (other than I have to build ARM using buildx).
sdan··on [dead]
The issue here is not just some regular service is down: thousands (even hundreds of thousands possibly) of websites are down as well.

The only reason I saw this was when I was accessing my teacher's course page only to find it was down (alongside mine, just to verify).

sdan··on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
Anyway I can subscribe? Maybe a newsletter?
sdan··on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
I write about infrastructure and AI (subscribe to get emails once a few months https://sdan.io/subscribe).

In particular I write posts about setting up your own servers (one about hosting your website from your Raspberry Pi at home and WireGuard is coming up) and about handling massive loads as well as interesting AI topics such as how Transformers work or new and exciting AI papers.

You can check it out here: https://sdan.io/blog and subscribe for infrequent emails here: https://sdan.io/subscribe.

sdan··on Dolt is Git for data
Reminds me of sports:

Just because Steph Curry uses Under Armor doesn't mean everyone will too.

I think obviously something created by Linus was deemed to be of great value, but what made Git as profound as it is today is: UX for the majority of people who are beginners, which was Github backed by millions of other developers.

sdan··on Dolt is Git for data
I'd argue it succeeded (at least more recently) because of the UX that companies like Github and Gitlab gave, not particularly linus or because it was free.
sdan··on Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount
Say bye to that projected 2020 IPO
sdan··on Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager
The benefit of Pass is it already has Chrome/Firefox plugins so all you need to do is press a keyboard shortcut and it automatically fills it in on the site.

Given SpicyPass doesn't have that, I think I'll still be with Pass, because it's free and simply amazing.

sdan··on I got my file from Clearview AI
You can even upload the scraped images onto google photos (does a boatload of ai classification)

Pretty much anyone with python familiarity can do this.

sdan··on Stanza: A Python natural language processing toolkit for many human languages
This is basically hugging face with more languages?
sdan··on What the heck is Backstage anyway?
My summary: Centralized portal to deploy microservices.

No need to go through GCP/AWS list of portals (config networking, ssh, etc.) and then get your Git account setup on that VM.

sdan··on RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
+1 on Svelte. Seems like the better/faster option.
sdan··on GitHub for mobile is now available
I'm fairly sure a good chunk of Github isn't open sourced either, no?
sdan··on Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B
IP? Didn't JP Morgan take all their patents last year?
sdan··on Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B
Was there a reason why ML was in Florida?
sdan··on Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B
Chase, google, and a ton of others (I think even pichai personally) put big bets a few years back. ML portrayed the aurora of Snapchat, but ultimately their secrecy killed them as well.

Really reminds me of what happened with general magic (In secrecy w/ failed product and huge investor hype)

I also interviewed with this a while back: they were clearly frantic from what I could tell

sdan··on Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B
Chase, google, and a ton of others (I think even pichai personally) put big bets a few years back. ML portrayed the aurora of Snapchat, but ultimately their secrecy killed them as well.

Really reminds me of what happened with general magic (In secrecy w/ failed product and huge investor hype)

I also interviewed with this a while back: they were clearly frantic from what I could trll

sdan··on IncrediMail shutting down on March 20
Either I’m imagining things or this was posted months ago here.
sdan··on Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
I think it’s Wordpress that enables /rss on a ton of websites.

I’ve recently needed to get RSS feeds and a good number of times I can find it via /rss or view the source of the site and search for xml.

sdan··on Netflix releases Dispatch
Pretty sure this was submitted to HN a few weeks ago
sdan··on Facebook sues Namecheap
Thank you Namecheap.

Been using Namecheap since 2017 and was thinking of switching over, but this decision (although malicious, protects users privacy).

sdan··on The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
It’s all about redundancy. lidars do help though immensely if you integrate it in your ML algorithms currently
sdan··on CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot for now
Sounds possible
sdan··on What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]
I don't have time to pull up specifics, but in general openai open sources and posts about what they're doing.

Deepmind on the other hand doesn't open source stuff (I think it was alphafold that they promised to open source and didn't for over a year... i think they may have open sourced it recently).

sdan··on What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]
Just wanted to point out: She was saying that it was ironic that at a place like OpenAI, she doesn't get unfiltered access to their 2nd/3rd floors/eat lunch with them.

I understand that its a bit ironic, but I think the reporter needs to understand that strangers (esp. reporters) don't usually get this types of access regardless of whether it's "openai" and since the reporter is probably not under a NDA, any company would put tight restrictions of what strangers see and do.

I agree that OpenAI sometimes overhypes stuff (I think the gpt-2 case was unintentional) and some of the criticism she points out, but overall the piece in my mind was more of a hit-piece than showing that OpenAI does try to have a diverse group of people (fellows/scholars) and was probably the only nonacademic non-profit before needing large amounts of compute.

sdan··on What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]
That's what I was thinking... I just read it like a dialogue between two people... made sense to me.
sdan··on What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]
The original piece itself was flawed. Like many if not most tech companies, reporters or other strangers don’t get unfiltered access to the company. There’s reasons why (unpublished work that may be reported in a bad light).

OpenAI has made huge initiatives in bringing in diversity and really opening their work (deepmind rarely ever does) and I think that profiting in the way they set it up only ensures they can do bigger and better research.

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