Hacker News: LogicX

New comment by LogicX in "Space Economy Institute"

LogicX — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:39:53 +0000

I didn't feel blown away reading the page...

I'm a future astronaut with Virgin Galactic and have been learning a lot about the industry through their future astronaut events, and everyone you meet through that, their companies, etc.

They have a NXTGen astronaut program: https://www.virgingalactic.com/nxtgen-sign-up Where I imagine you'd learn a lot!

New comment by LogicX in "People with CarPlay are mostly just listening to AM/FM radio"

LogicX — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:44:16 +0000

I'm concerned about the quality of an article written by someone admitting they don't know how to listen to FM in their car.

New comment by LogicX in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"

LogicX — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 04:16:34 +0000

From TFA: “The DOJ’s suit comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that emissions defeat devices would no longer be a top priority for the agency.”

So literally the EPA did the exact opposite of your complaint. Or you meant to say DOJ.

New comment by LogicX in "Shell employees urge CEO to rethink shift from renewables in rare letter"

LogicX — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:27:27 +0000

Also “open” — an internal board, which Reuters was shown. So… not open.

Garry Tan is the new President and CEO of Y Combinator

LogicX — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garrytan_in-2008-i-showed-up-to-y-combinator-startup-activity-7015423451939188736-yZLN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218675

Points: 24

# Comments: 6

New comment by LogicX in "Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view (1973)"

LogicX — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:37:20 +0000

Oddly enough there was a different recent submission to HN a few below this for me... here it is: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=GNhlNSLQAFE&t=1

New comment by LogicX in "Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs"

LogicX — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:49:22 +0000

And I’ve read numerous threads where people don’t agree with that. I think most are more concerned about their shitty situation no longer being tolerated, but most still believe they should work for someone.

New comment by LogicX in "Buying an ebike"

LogicX — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:41:30 +0000

Most: no.

I have this: https://lunacycle.com/sur-ron-x-bike-black-edition/

The Sur Ron has a 7000W motor. I weigh 260lbs. It climbs hills. At 30-40mph and is awesome!

New comment by LogicX in "Buying an ebike"

LogicX — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:38:39 +0000

Yes. And the article explicitly states “over 60” ;)

New comment by LogicX in "Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees"

LogicX — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:58:29 +0000

0? To 100?

New comment by LogicX in "Complexities of e-mail validation logic"

LogicX — Mon, 24 May 2021 14:19:26 +0000

Nice article.

My only technical nit would be the statement “if there was an MX record”.

Many systems will fall back to an A record to attempt delivery in absence of a MX record.

New comment by LogicX in "There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic"

LogicX — Sun, 16 May 2021 23:03:50 +0000

I’ve asked myself this question. I have no hard data to back this up, but wonder If it’s related to outside time and vitamin D absorption, which seems to have an affect on covid. Ex: did NYC have a tougher time than Florida as a result of this, and even with all the protocols in NYC, they could do only as well as Florida with no rules.

New comment by LogicX in "Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to"

LogicX — Sat, 08 May 2021 23:02:38 +0000

Not according to the article: “For developers to have run the counterfeit version, they would have had to click through a warning delivered by Gatekeeper, the macOS security feature that requires apps to be digitally signed by a known developer.”

Worked just fine. Developers circumvented it. Should’ve been the red flag.

New comment by LogicX in "The Mystery of AS8003"

LogicX — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:37:51 +0000

New comment by LogicX in "Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20"

LogicX — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:37:27 +0000

New comment by LogicX in "Ask HN: Considering colocated hosting over cloud, what should I know?"

LogicX — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:07:58 +0000

I agree with the other posters... Start with bare metal dedicated.

Checkout Web Hosting Talk: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36

For some deals, pick something with low latency to you... and start there.

I’ve rented hundreds of servers over the years and only done colo a handful of times. A fine experience to have, but learning you need a KVM/IPMI through a dedicated server to start, and experiencing the ropes of hardware failures is going to be easier with a dedicated.

New comment by LogicX in "AWS EC2 Having Issues"

LogicX — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:43:19 +0000

I see what you did there...

New comment by LogicX in "Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool"

LogicX — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:10:55 +0000

Sounds like https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/ which I’ve used in the past. Same cost per drive, but 4x the bandwidth included.

New comment by LogicX in "Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres"

LogicX — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 18:54:23 +0000

Came here to say this - I was looking to see how compression compared to timescale’s stated 91% compression.

https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...

New comment by LogicX in "Ask HN: Best cloud infra provider for a startup to start small and scale a bit?"

LogicX — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:02:44 +0000

Rent a VPS.

Then rent a dedicated server when you outgrow it.

Whatever you design will be platform agnostic. You’ll be able to decide for yourself when you get big enough what’s the right path for hosting. You won’t be locked in to any particular platform.

Install something like dokku. Use Docker containers.

My startup scaled to $2M ARR on a single dedicated server for our core infrastructure. (Yes, that’s a bit extreme)

Now we have over 30 dedicated servers servicing our core infra, many of which live in a colo rack in Dallas.

Everyone is all about ‘the cloud’ - however IMHO it’s overly complicated and a distraction to start, and overly expensive as you scale. (AWS would be 16x more expensive for us than our colo setup)

Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode... are all fine for getting started. Many even have programs where startups can get free credits: https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/

When you grow checkout some Dedicated Hosting providers like Hivelocity, or checkout webhostingtalk’a dedicated offers forum.

Put cloudflare infront of your service for some protection and lots of options/flexibility. Backup offsite. S3 is fine to start. Can get expensive. Look to back blaze B2, or c14 from scaleway.

Source: 20 years of hosting, many startups.