Hacker News: ignasl

New comment by ignasl in "It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere"

ignasl — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:19:49 +0000

No, you are wrong.

>the fact that not so long ago they were over 3 times higher

They never were. You can check futures price data here: https://www.investing.com/commodities/natural-gas On top of that you're probably talking about those spikes in 2005 and 2008, but they were short lived and spikes are natural for gas markets because of various circumstances (seasonality, pipeline situation, weather, how full are the reserves etc).

>not so long ago It was 13 years ago! And now it's the highest price since. The reason for such a ridiculously low prices for so long was shale gas extraction. Now US is losing this and more. Because natural gas prices are so sensitive (and react quickly!) to various things - you better hope for warm winter with decisions like these...

Also comparing prices in US and in other countries is intellectually dishonest or you simply don't know how natural gas market works.

New comment by ignasl in "Spiders are much smarter than you think"

ignasl — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:59:31 +0000

Yes, killing spiders is a bad omen in Lithuania. Usually they're simply thrown out. Not sure how many people does this nowadays but it stuck with me.

New comment by ignasl in "Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe"

ignasl — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:15:02 +0000

I don't know if that guy was spreading some fake info on twitter but this article is very detailed and factually everything is correct.

New comment by ignasl in "Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe"

ignasl — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:03:52 +0000

No one will come for you. They will simply cut you off - won't provide healthcare, won't allow you into the stores to buy food, force your employer to fire you so you have no income. But it's not force - you can choose. Same way like people actually have all the freedoms in North Korea - they can be critical of supreme leader if they want to they just need to choose to do it.

New comment by ignasl in "Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe"

ignasl — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:04:24 +0000

Lithuanian constitution specifically states that no one can be forced to use experimental drugs, yet now you can't go to the shop and buy food if you are unvaccinated. Just yesterday hundreds of cops were checking people in stores for papers. If this is not a dystopian autocracy then I don't know what is. I am seriously consider moving away while I still can.

New comment by ignasl in "Show HN: Discord/Reddit alternative with follow functionality (mongo/meteor.js)"

ignasl — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:57:32 +0000

Hi, I have already showed my project here but now I introduced a pretty big new feature. Now you can follow any user/channel/thread and the latest 5 posts from your follow will appear on your personal wall on the homepage.

You might ask why only 5? Turns out personal wall is not as easy to solve without significant time investment if you want to keep it performant too. Simply naively aggregating posts would be costly on database and wouldn't scale for sure and potentially wouldn't even perform on small scale. Some smart architecture with smart caching for each user wall seemed complicated for that project that is already too big for one person. But then I thought of using things I already use - mongodb and meteor.js. My architecture is quite simple: there are tracker doc collection where document contain 5(or X) latest posts in an array and every-time something is posted this tracker is updated. Then there is userFollows collection with docs to connect users with trackers. From there I allow meteor.js to handle the rest. Once it subscribes to trackers that user follows all the posts of those trackers are shown on the front page with the added advantage that any new post if transferred right away because of meteor's reactivity so front page is "real time". I also use redis-oplog package for meteor which caches collections server side and made this pretty performant and very easy to implement. It's not ideal but hopefully it will be good enough.

Show HN: Discord/Reddit alternative with follow functionality (mongo/meteor.js)

ignasl — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heahy.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883956

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by ignasl in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

ignasl — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:51:06 +0000

If they didn't have antibodies how did they beat covid?

New comment by ignasl in "NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report"

ignasl — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:30:59 +0000

They won't invade Poland or Baltics because those countries are in NATO and EU and it's way too risky. Russia seems pretty involved in all the hotspots lately including starting a war in Ukraine. Very likely same fate would be for Poland and Baltics if they didn't protect themselves with stronger allies. And even if current Russia is not interested/capable to cause trouble to east EU - that doesn't mean it won't change in the future. Country leader shouldn't just look in the last 2 years - he needs to prepare country for the next 50 years.

New comment by ignasl in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

ignasl — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:49:29 +0000

If your car breaks you would spend 400 eur in an instant without even thinking. If you feel something is off or to do this comprehensive biochemical tests every 3 or 5 years is not that expensive.

Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals

ignasl — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/eco-disaster-at-kamchatka-peninsula-with-mass-death-of-sea-animals-at-precious-pacific-beach/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24674082

Points: 286

# Comments: 58

New comment by ignasl in "UX Debate for Chat/Comments UI"

ignasl — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:19:10 +0000

Hard to say without using application itself and how important that form is, but I would say second option feels more natural. Anyway in both cases you need to do an action to access form (toggle or close overlay). Just choose whichever and test another option on real users.

New comment by ignasl in "Ask HN: Intel Core i5-10600K Versus Ryzen 5 3600X"

ignasl — Sun, 24 May 2020 10:12:41 +0000

3700X since it's almost the same price as 10600K

New comment by ignasl in "Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help"

ignasl — Mon, 04 May 2020 21:00:24 +0000

I am not sure what's wrong with you and why you are happy but unhappy?! but if I would have to guess - it's most likely antidepressants/therapy. There is new "you" but you miss old "you". Brain chemistry is no joke and if you don't absolutely absolutely need medication don't do it. Ask good doctors for second, third and fourth opinions if needed.

Linux multiple monitor setup with HiDPI 4K monitor

ignasl — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:10:32 +0000

I've read on HN before that Linux has shaky HiDPI support but after I setup my new computer and started looking into it I got really worried as my research indicated I am in trouble. I have 1070ti nvidia card, 3 older 1080p monitors and beautiful new 4K LG monitor. It seems X server does not support different dpi setup and using Wayland is not possible because nvidia. However actually I managed to solve it quite simply. I have not tested it fully yet but maybe it will be helpful to someone too. 1. I am using Kubuntu so I went to KDE -> Display configuration and set 200% global scale. Now my 4K monitor is fine but everything is very large on 1080p monitors. 2. Do xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --scale 2x2 on all 3 1080p monitors. 3. Go to NVIDIA X Server Settings (I installed NVidia proprietary drivers) and align all 4 displays as I want (they all should be 3840x2160). Also check Force Full Composition Pipeline on all 1080p monitors. Go Antialiasing settings and uncheck FXAA (had some issues of blurry text that is out of focus). Apply. Save to X configuration file. 4. Restart. It worked! I was so excited that I had to post it here :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22989803

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ignasl in "Ask HN: I lost my job"

ignasl — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:22:03 +0000

It seems you still don't know exact reasons why you were laid off. Did your managers tell the exact reason during your lay off interview? Maybe it's just bad luck with current situation. Did your managers tell you about lack of leadership problem at any time during your reviews and one on ones?

New comment by ignasl in "Firefox 73"

ignasl — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:52:14 +0000

Still waiting for when Firefox starts supporting Matroska container for videos. Right now it cannot play h264 recorded by Chrome as Chrome puts it in Matroska for some reason. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422891

New comment by ignasl in "Investors Bet Against Tesla–and Lost $8.4B in Five Weeks"

ignasl — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:52:20 +0000

Stock market is much much much more efficient compared to housing and wages. One of many reasons is of course ability to short sell. In addition to price discovery short selling provides support when overpriced companies share price free falls and investors starts to panic. It also provides incentive to uncover outright frauds.

> Furthermore, the advantage appears to be extracted purely as profit by the short seller. So? Do you work for free? Short selling is extremely risky business as we could see here with TSLA. Even if you are right you can get obliterated by a short squeeze. It's basically impossible to go against solid company and damage it. And there is no reason to - there are plenty of badly managed companies with questionable financials that you could go after.

City Where Chernobyl Was Filmed Fears Real-Life Nuclear Disaster

ignasl — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:44:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/city-where-chernobyl-was-filmed-fears-real-life-nuclear-disaster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910217

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ignasl in "GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines"

ignasl — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:27:40 +0000

If that’s true then the gdpr was not used according to it’s spirit at all. They punished annoying guy who was trying to get some attention. Of course google or fb is fine...