praveenhm's comments

On: Behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry

[praveenhm]

May be Enzo, is our current generation Elon Musk, who pisses off many people too, many built a rivalry car company.

On: Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments

[praveenhm]

I am mozilla VPN, which uses Mullvad, is there any disadvantage using Mozilla over directly using Mullvad?

[csande17 → praveenhm]

If you use Mozilla's VPN, you have to trust that they won't backdoor their VPN client in order to serve their public policy goals. (Mozilla has taken a lot of public stances against things like "disinformation" and "harassment", which could theoretically motivate them to unmask the hateful trolls who use VPN services!)

On: You can now ask Google to remove your phone number...

[praveenhm]

Removing from google doesn't go far enough, the big culprit is the data broker. Displaying your age, is the biggest worry, among your friends circle. John oliver recently made a late night show on data brokers, threatening the congress members, must watch for anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

On: Framework Laptop Mainboard

[praveenhm]

It would be interesting if you can build something like Mac Studio desktop for linux.

[Flankk → praveenhm]

I mean, you can build your own with any Mini-ITX motherboard. The only thing is you don't have the tight integration of soldered RAM, the quality slave-assembled parts, and the two years of faster speed before lowering performance for power consumption reasons.

On: NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of ...

[praveenhm]

Excellent work, I am looking for notepad++ equivalent on Mac..

[lastofthemojito → praveenhm]

BBEdit from Bare Bones Software is a longstanding Mac text editor in the same vein as Notepad++, though it isn't open source or fully free to use. Bare Bones used to offer a free text editor for Mac called TextWrangler (with fewer features than BBEdit), but I guess they've now made the free mode of BBEdit their free offering.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

[MBCook → lastofthemojito]

This is what you want. It’s fantastic.

[kzrdude → praveenhm]

How are sublime and textmate doing? Thought there was a lot of better choice than notepad++

[com2kid → kzrdude]

Sublime is way too heavy weight. Notepad++ is that thing I open up when I need to edit a 2GB log file really quick. Or use a regex to fix up a CSV file that somehow got messed up.

Not having Notepad++ on MacOS is a major pain point for me.

Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.

[have_faith → com2kid]

> Sublime is way too heavy weight

Damn, sublime is what I use as my light weight editor ha. Never had trouble opening (relatively) large files.

[com2kid → have_faith]

More in terms of UI.

Notepad++ has what you need to edit a file and not much else, but it also has a decent plugin system.

[have_faith → com2kid]

ST almost has no UI when opening a single file (no sidebar etc), would be curious how it could be more minimal.

[nicoburns → com2kid]

Check out the view menu. Pretty much all the UI bar the actual text you’re editing can be easily hidden.

[wolpoli → com2kid]

> Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.

I looked and it turns out that Notepad++ does have the ability to open a folder as a workspace. So it's an extra option if it is needed.

On: Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS...

[praveenhm]

This is cool project, will try it out. how does it compare to cortex.dev? they use AWS spot instances too.

[vishnukool → praveenhm]

Haven't used cortex.dev, but looking at the docs, I'd say primarily simplicity and ease of getting started quickly (<3 mins) to get it up and running. Also with cortex, It's not clear to me yet if spot instance fails, cortex can wait for next spot/replace it with onDemand, to keep training going automatically. If not, that would be the second difference.

On: Show HN: Wallstreetbets Sentiment Past 24 Hours

[praveenhm]

Nice chart, can you share some insight, how are building this, I believe you use reddit api and store the comments and run NLP on that? cleaning data is a headache.

On: Opt out of Clearview.ai

[praveenhm]

To opt-out you need to upload a clear photo, this is more rishy..

On: FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in

[praveenhm]

Is there any apache Spark foundationDB integration, like drivers?

[gregwebs → praveenhm]

You might be interested in TiDB's TiSpark which is all built on top of TiKV (equivalent to FoundationDB).

https://github.com/pingcap/tispark

On: Oculus Rift is Shipping

[praveenhm]

I never wore one, don't you get a headache, after wearing it couple of hours and also the gadget is heavy.

[whatever_dude → praveenhm]

The gadget is not that heavy, and the little weight that it has is well distributed.

You don't get a headache, but depending on what kind of content you're playing, you can get nausea due to conflicting sensations in your body (your eye thinks you're moving, your body doesn't feel it, etc). Some people get it more than others. It's similar to being in a boat.

But you can get used to it fast, and again, it depends on content.