Hacker News: spacehunt

New comment by spacehunt in "A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)"

spacehunt — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:35:59 +0000

It doesn't work fine for Korean and Chinese either, we just accept it begrudgingly.

Check out the Noto Sans CJK fonts repo[1], as of now it has five variations: Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong. There wouldn't be a need for so many variations if Unicode works perfectly.

But Unicode is already infinitely better than what existed before, so as I said above, we just kind of accept it begrudgingly.

[1] https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk

New comment by spacehunt in "Flags Are Not Languages"

spacehunt — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:28:48 +0000

Hong Kong people speak Cantonese, and there is no "Canton" flag. (Hong Kong does have its own flag, but sometimes people want to show only "country-level" flags and well...)

New comment by spacehunt in "Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet"

spacehunt — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:21:43 +0000

Is there a way to push data into it, rather than have it pull data from data sources? I have some use cases where users want <3s latency from source data updates to the display being refreshed. For reference, I managed to get to ~10s using Google Sheets' API.

New comment by spacehunt in "Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"

spacehunt — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:41:47 +0000

The transmission tunnel indeed is an issue, but they do use it as additional space for batteries to make the seating position a bit better for the rear left/right passengers.

New comment by spacehunt in "Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"

spacehunt — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:41:36 +0000

The XC40 was in the middle of a refresh which might explain the waiting time. Availability should be much better now, and MY24 has some really nice upgrades.

New comment by spacehunt in "Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs"

spacehunt — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:31:30 +0000

Reverse DNS does not give you all the hostnames that can point to a particular IP address though.

New comment by spacehunt in "Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty"

spacehunt — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:40:43 +0000

You don't have to put all 10,000 BTC in a single wallet.

New comment by spacehunt in "I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken"

spacehunt — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:08:49 +0000

Interesting. Here in Hong Kong, apparently the non-Tesla chargers work so well, the Superchargers often lie empty because most Teslas charge at non-Tesla chargers as they are usually cheaper.

New comment by spacehunt in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

spacehunt — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:19:01 +0000

Speak for yourself. I would pay for RiF to add HN support, while I couldn't care less about other clients, including Apollo.

New comment by spacehunt in "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]"

spacehunt — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:37:27 +0000

Living in Hong Kong, I'll tell you what's loud: the constant remodelling, both in apartment and office buildings. Try working in an office where someone is trying to drill 50 holes into a concrete wall next door.

In comparison, all other noises can be easily ignored.

Updates to Hasura Pricing and Plans

spacehunt — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://hasura.io/blog/updates-to-hasura-pricing-and-plans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34621927

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by spacehunt in "CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions"

spacehunt — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:15:57 +0000

Unfortunately this site is not useful for me, as it seems there is no way to select my current car, a VW Golf Mk6 5 door.

New comment by spacehunt in "Safari blocks gitlab.com because Tencent says it contains misinfo"

spacehunt — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:01:38 +0000

Unfortunately yes it has, but I don't think Apple should be helping the CCP to speed up the process.

New comment by spacehunt in "Safari blocks gitlab.com because Tencent says it contains misinfo"

spacehunt — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:55:14 +0000

But Hong Kong is still a separate legal jurisdiction, and in this particular case, the "misinformation" law does not apply to Hong Kong.

If what you say is the reason, then why won't Safari block gitlab.com in Macau also?

In short, Apple messed up.

New comment by spacehunt in "Ask HN: Best tips for reducing eyestrain while coding with astigmatism?"

spacehunt — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:05:07 +0000

Agreed, for me also a light theme, with the screen's brightness turned way down (I prefer 10%, sometimes even lower). The room itself should also be neither too bright nor too dark.

New comment by spacehunt in "35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again"

spacehunt — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:24:52 +0000

Apologies. It was the only "foreign" / "imported" thing I paid for while in Japan (I was road-tripping around the Fuji Five Lakes which does not have a train network at all.)

Accommodation and food prices seemed to be roughly around the same as before, but I did note some bottled soft drinks seemed to come in smaller sizes than before (450ml vs 500ml).

Checking my notes again just now, I did see the Nest Mini 2nd Gen for ¥2980, but that seems to be part of a Christmas promotion going on, so not a useful data point.

New comment by spacehunt in "35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again"

spacehunt — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:26:00 +0000

I just came back from Tokyo. Everything seems cheap right now, especially food, but prices are starting to rise. For example Uniqlo has announced they will raise prices by quite a bit next year.

Imported goods have been adjusted already. Regular unleaded petrol is around 170 yen per litre around Tokyo.

New comment by spacehunt in "McDonalds Event Driven Architecture"

spacehunt — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:39:10 +0000

Is it really scalable? Every time the local McDonald's have some cross-promotion going on with a certain boy band (for example this week's collectable cards), their app's backend always crash right at 11am when the promotion starts.

New comment by spacehunt in "Binance to acquire FTX"

spacehunt — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:41:15 +0000

The seminal HK show about the stock market would be The Greed of Man (大時代) [1]. It's 30 years old, but classic scenes in it are still used in memes even today.

Edit: I totally forgot to mention the "Ting Hai Effect"! [2] Wikipedia has a great summary which I'll just quote here:

> The Ting Hai effect, also known as the Adam Cheng effect, is a stock market phenomenon in which there is a sudden and unexplained drop in the stock market whenever a film or a television series starring Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng is released. It still remains as a popular topic among stock brokers, years after the television drama The Greed of Man was broadcast in Hong Kong in late 1992. The effect is named after Ting Hai, the primary antagonist in the drama, who was portrayed by Cheng.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0843185/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting_Hai_effect

New comment by spacehunt in "Just don’t"

spacehunt — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:58:06 +0000

"I've worked with similar problems in the past, let me know if you want to pick my brains" would be a much better start. Don't assume people want help, even if it seems crystal clear to you help is needed.