Hacker News: gregimba

Mercury Personal Banking

gregimba — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:30:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mercury.com/personal-banking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240881

Points: 5

# Comments: 9

AWS Operational issue – Multiple services in us-east-1

gregimba — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115094

Points: 47

# Comments: 13

Psychoanalysing ChatGPT using statistics to make a dating app

gregimba — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:46:34 +0000

Article URL: https://duolicious.app/blog/psychoanalysing-chatgpt-using-statistics-to-make-a-decent-dating-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289882

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

My Presidential Platform

gregimba — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-presidential-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37399187

Points: 77

# Comments: 7

Dream First Bank Assumes All of the Deposits of Heartland Tri-State Bank

gregimba — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 23:35:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23058.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914849

Points: 29

# Comments: 28

Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent

gregimba — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/14/23760975/texas-ban-social-media-kids-louisiana-utah

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335546

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gregimba in "America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter"

gregimba — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:37:34 +0000

I think the overall workforce participation rate paints the reality much better than unemployment numbers. The drop was the sharpest in the entire dataset going back to 1950 and while a portion of jobs have returned the possibility we may not see workforce participation return to pre COVID levels within the next 2-3 years is a definite possibility.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

Edit:

St. Louis Fed quote from article on unemployment

> For perspective, in June, we were short by about 7.1 million jobs compared with the pre-pandemic level. This analysis suggests that this gap will only close about half by June 2022.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/october/labor...

Tesla Will Move Its Headquarters to Austin, Texas

gregimba — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:15:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/business/tesla-texas-headquarters.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793360

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by gregimba in "Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm"

gregimba — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:55:53 +0000

The reason we got smart meters in Austin, TX is because they weren't even recording readings just guessing what that reading should be based on historical data.

https://texasmonitor.org/settlement-reached-on-austins-made-...

New comment by gregimba in "Police have been quitting in droves in the last year"

gregimba — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:57:37 +0000

> Minneapolis, which had 912 uniformed officers in May 2019, is now down to 699.

23% of officers leaving in only a year and a half. What kind of impact will this have in 3-5 years as officers who are holding out for pensions also retire?

New comment by gregimba in "Prometheus, but Bigger"

gregimba — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:37:28 +0000

If AWS has a regional outage this service is so far down the list of services to recover/restore that it probably will be overlooked. Accept the increased risk for the cost savings since it meets the reliability requirements of the service.

New comment by gregimba in "Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021"

gregimba — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:28:06 +0000

As someone who lives in Leander, I would say Westlake is the affluent area of Austin and Leander is the up and coming suburban middle to upper middle class area. Leander ISD has some great schools and some bad schools and historically wasn't great.

New comment by gregimba in "Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021"

gregimba — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:49:15 +0000

During high school we had had an exchange program with a German college track high school. My family hosted a student for a month and then they hosted me in Germany. I was shocked at the difference in expectations and quality of education compared to an average American high school. I really wish we offered something equivalent of their combination Vocational Tech/High school with industry partnership as a viable career path compared to the 4 year high school only option I had.

New comment by gregimba in "Prometheus, but Bigger"

gregimba — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 20:55:47 +0000

The reducing cross-AZ data transfer savings on one service resulted in a low 6 figure per year savings. Its something we overlooked during initial setup and now its something I check for when dealing with AWS networking.

New comment by gregimba in "Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home"

gregimba — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:38:03 +0000

I plan to do the same in a couple years, my hometown is unaffordable, with tech like Starlink coming online and the pandemic making remote work more common I can foresee a subset of tech workers choosing this path if they feel alienated in the larger tech cities.

New comment by gregimba in "Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming"

gregimba — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:22:29 +0000

Talking with the person checking me into the hotel he mentioned he had heard to food was good at a restaurant across the street but mentioned he couldn't afford to eat there.

There was a lovely older couple who were running the tourism center and provided a bunch of great information. The person in front of me repeatedly interrupted this nice old woman and talked over her, after she got the info she needed she got into a 4 runner with California plates.

The surrounding OHV and hiking trails are phenomenal but the town is going to be very boring once the locals are forced out.

New comment by gregimba in "Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming"

gregimba — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:47:26 +0000

As someone who recently spent a couple days in Kanab, UT the collision course of rural natives with Californian expats has made me accelerate my plans to buy enough land to escape the cities and further enforced my feeling about the cultural divide in America.

EDIT: I was born in a small western town and find myself missing certain aspects living in a larger city working in Tech.

New comment by gregimba in "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?"

gregimba — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:50:56 +0000

As an Austin Energy customer a large portion of the blame for this on their poor infrastructure configuration and the number of critical circuits.

New comment by gregimba in "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?"

gregimba — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:24:58 +0000

Currently running a generator to run the wood stoves fan, its not ideal but not amazing.

New comment by gregimba in "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?"

gregimba — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:24:38 +0000

This is essentially the crux of the problem, multiple friends/and coworkers are staying in islands of power that have been interrupt free due to proximity to Fire/Police/Hospitals and others have been without power for extended periods of time, if 60% of a grid is essential you can't roll non essential loads because simply maintaining the critical loads takes up 100% of capacity. More granular control could significantly help alleviate this issue which is specific to Austin Energy.