Hacker News: calanya

Twitter Is Down Globally

calanya — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980805

Points: 68

# Comments: 29

Israel: What Went Wrong?

calanya — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@eran.segal_16457/israels-second-wave-and-lockdown-lessons-learned-d6b34536e638

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24708380

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

calanya — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/facebook-employees-criticize-zuckerberg-s-inaction-over-trump

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376057

Points: 62

# Comments: 38

New comment by calanya in "Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS"

calanya — Wed, 23 May 2018 10:53:54 +0000

How does Newsboat support non-Latin scripts? Seems like a pretty basic requirement.

E.g., this blog is in Hebrew, you can see the expected text layout on its website: https://workaround.blog/

I wonder if Newsboat can replicate that layout. Here is the RSS feed:

https://workaround.blog/feed/

New comment by calanya in "Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA"

calanya — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:52:09 +0000

They should have notified the users whose information was leaked, as soon as they knew about it.

The 50M users whose information was handed to Kogan, and then Kogan sold to CA, should have been notified by Facebook as soon as Facebook found out.

Those users did not agree to that kind of usage of their information.

New comment by calanya in "Phone numbers are not proper verification"

calanya — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:10:17 +0000

The author's concerns are well justified, however they suggest to provide an alternative.

New comment by calanya in "Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released"

calanya — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:13:16 +0000

Measuring time in picoseconds. The current unix timestamp is roughly 2^70 picoseconds, so won't fit in 64 bits.

New comment by calanya in "Time to Dump Time Zones"

calanya — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:36:48 +0000

For male scientists. Feels weird

New comment by calanya in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)"

calanya — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:01:41 +0000

That the clock always moves forward.

As one example, some clocks are cpu specific (rather than system specific). When a thread gets scheduled to a different cpu, it might be talking to a different clock, and getting a backwards time.

The user might also be changing the clock while the program is running, of course.

If the forward direction of time is important, make sure the the source of time is a monotonic clock API.

New comment by calanya in "It's time to publicly shame United Airlines' so-called online security"

calanya — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 07:37:25 +0000

Providing account authentication as a service seems like a no-brainer.

Does no company in this space know how to sell to conservative IT organizations like air lines?

New comment by calanya in "Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?"

calanya — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 04:38:32 +0000

33.

New comment by calanya in "Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?"

calanya — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:21:51 +0000

The moment my girl was born. I now regret waiting so long to be a parent.

New comment by calanya in "Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know"

calanya — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:24:18 +0000

That's fine. I am really interested in the possibility of running a 'homeserver' directly on a phone.

Do you think that would be possible?

New comment by calanya in "Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know"

calanya — Sun, 29 May 2016 06:45:04 +0000

Is anyone working on it that I could help?

New comment by calanya in "Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know"

calanya — Sun, 29 May 2016 06:21:37 +0000

I have a computer which is always on and always connected.

It's my smartphone.

Can I just run a 'homeserver' on that and be connected?

New comment by calanya in "The pressure that U.S. inequality exerts on parents"

calanya — Sat, 07 May 2016 20:17:54 +0000

A school is made up of buildings and teachers, but most importantly - peers, and that must have changed dramatically.

Also, the home environment of the students has a huge impact on the school itself, and very little is done to mitigate that by American schools.

New comment by calanya in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

calanya — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:23:53 +0000

The alternative to small modules is not no modules at all, it's libraries.

New comment by calanya in "Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC"

calanya — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:53:48 +0000

"Secure" but "we advise against using Bitfly for highly sensitive data. You have been warned.".

So is it secure or isn't it?

PyType

calanya — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/pytype

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by calanya in "Stop Comparing JSON and XML"

calanya — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:22:59 +0000

It's funny to say json and edn represent data, because they are both strictly UTF8 encoded - raw bytes have to be encoded somehow (with neither standard specifying a prefer erred method) to be represented. Why is this important? Sometimes we want to embed a binary formatted piece of data (e.g. an image) as part of our data.