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HedgedHumanon Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152640.Dropping_Ashes_on...

Paraphrasing what one reviewer said on GR, it's a good read if you are taking life too seriously, or, the complete opposite.

I didn't get it the first time I read it.

I do find myself going back to the riddles and the poems in the essays now and then when I feel I'm stuck, blocked, or trapped in a loop. It made me ... more humble?

Also a good read if you just want to learn more about Korean Buddhism and Kong-an's in general.

HedgedHumanon AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances

Neat! Did not know that. Thanks :-) The 100GB RAM cap seems rather limiting though.

The ideal case scenario imho (one step beyond this stop/start-at-will feature) would be "convertible" spot - being able to migrate to on-demand with zero downtime when ec2 needs that capacity back - that'd solve a lot of my problems.