Where'd you go? What'd you find?
Glad it's back up now.. :)
I checked news sources more directly from the websites i am personally familiar with instead of using the hacker news front page as a filter + expanded domain
They'll be so disappointed.
There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians under H1B
We're launching in Sept.
Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the day
Figured I'd point it at Hacker News to get an update when my uptime monitoring detected it was up again.
The second outage gave me time to dogfood it a bit: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD
I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI output for things building.
Have a great weekend everyone!
They also might shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it to be interesting, but no new physics.
Could literally just do
find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; |
jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))'
Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.
I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.
While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too, so thank you :-)
Then I replaced all the fancy, spring loaded, "replace the back of the junction box for new functionality!" interface stuff with some vintage, 1980s style soldering and bypass diodes. Because I don't care about the optimizers on my well-sited array with no shading, and I don't need rapid shutdown for a ground mount array, etc.
And then proceeded to short the leads, put them in the sun, and ensure that the junction box guts didn't get hot, while observing just how brutal on panels doing this is - you really highlight the difference between cells thermally, when in "normal running," you don't see any differences in the array.
And now I'm writing all this up as a blog post. :)
The sheer utility of every component of the craft is awesome.
If you don't take it too seriously, it is a fun and entertaining place, also people keep it more real as people don't hold the punches. (due to anonymity).
Also it is a good place to know about tech interviewing in general, what to do, leveling, negotiation. It servers as a mini forum/guild for tech folks. It can be very helpful on that aspect.
Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession):
You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers.
A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design.
The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy.
There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design.
OK, infodump over.
Now I realize I can't stand it unless I don't read the comments. Sort of an anti-HN :|
It's one file per domain, so looking at specific urls is no prob with this setup.
There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from happening.
On Blind, you can go ahead and claim you make $600k salary working 4 days/week after 18 months of grueling interviews. Write up whatever fan fiction as long as it makes sense.
ok, now refresh...
It won't be up that quick, you have to be patient!
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refresh...
Start a rubbish piece of software, proving again that reach is the most important thing these days
This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.
Obviously, the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/
HN’s official status page: https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus
This URL checks if the API is up: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret...
HN Search Engine: https://hn.algolia.com
AWS Route 53 status, it is the service that manages HN’s DNS: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws
YC DNS record: https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com
HN’s official email: hn@ycombinator.com
Note: Intentionally left off YC, since it appears to be unrelated beyond the DNS.
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Forgot something, let me know. Thanks!
Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay.
The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.
Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this anymore", "Use if you have to, but we're hoping to make this go away some day, so keep your eyes out here."
Anyhow, the article referred to "3-D printing" to make copies of the marbles, but the writing was confused and to me it looked like automated carving, so I wanted to post it to see what others here thought. As it happens, having just checked the article again, the original copy has been amended to read "3-D machining" rather than "3-D printing" - but there's no correction notice to say that the article was changed. Mind you, the clue is still in the url: ... science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html
Without HN, then, I read my stock sites as usual, but felt deeply that I missed the sanity-checks/informed input from HN commenters. It was lonely, in a way, and also made me fret about my missing issues with articles that usually others at HN would point out; different perspectives, questions about credibility or robustness of stats/data/methods of obtaining info on which articles might rely.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-...
I developed the habit to announce all changes in my service on Slack when deploying to production, even seemingly invisible ones, and that helps not to forget the tickets after writing the code. But team lead still finds some finished but unclosed ones on each backlog GC run.
It was nice and I wish there were more outages.
It should be possible to replace the battery with a good one, e.g. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+...
I wasn't worried about it, I figured dang and others were working on it and would have things back online.
I do depend on HN for taking a break from coding though and it was tough not getting my fix on demand :D
Material Design is way up in the club member territory, but my gut feeling is they're not very committed to. On the other hand, they have @ExperimentalApi slapped all over things like Compose and Flow but those are probably here to stay.
Flutter seems like it's dangling close to the chopping board. I feel sorry for all the people who think that it's going to stay because Google.
I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.
P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc
How long was it?
Is there any post-mortem?
>Where'd you go?
Depends on how long it was out.
>What'd you find?
Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world.
Or something like that.
