Hacker News: subway

New comment by subway in "TSMC to Keep Supplying Chips to Huawei"

subway — Sun, 26 May 2019 20:27:39 +0000

You'd think the ROC/PRC situation might make them cautious about wandering into the middle of a US/PRC pissing match though.

New comment by subway in "Antergos Linux Project Ends"

subway — Wed, 22 May 2019 03:55:22 +0000

That's dangerous thinking. Any un-patched service can turn into a pivot point. If the same folks who managed more critical pieces of infrastructure log in there, it can almost certainly be used to pivot onto their other systems.

New comment by subway in "Antergos Linux Project Ends"

subway — Wed, 22 May 2019 03:51:16 +0000

Not really. It's technically possible with Ksplice, but almost no distro actually supports it.

Beyond the kernel, you have various libs and binaries that will be replaced during upgrades. All can usually/mostly be restarted without a reboot, but just upgrading packages alone won't guarantee all running processes have been updated.

New comment by subway in "Antergos Linux Project Ends"

subway — Wed, 22 May 2019 03:43:17 +0000

Does that mean part of your infrastructure saw no kernel patches in 4 years?

OS uptime gave me pride in the 90s. Today it's usually a bad sign.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:07:32 +0000

And before Tera, SGI bought Cray in 1995.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:01:45 +0000

The consumer gear was trash. The server lines were an entirely different story. Also worth noting that by the mid 2000s, Compaq was just a branding on the consumer side. The hardware was all the same old HP consumer junk.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:58:11 +0000

Try again: https://www.top500.org/system/179566

There are plenty of System X HPC installs. They just no longer come from IBM. Even when IBM still owned the line, it was being outsourced. The University of California SRCS system from ~10 years ago was an iDataPlex sold to us by IBM. Most of the boards had Asus marked on them.

Also remember the System X line was sold way after the Think lines.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:52:11 +0000

IBM never left HPC. They sold off their x86 lines, but all their big toys run POWER variants.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:50:14 +0000

Arguably, HPE has more of a Compaq legacy than HP legacy. Much of their x86 server line has a Compaq lineage.

New comment by subway in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

subway — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:45:31 +0000

HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.

New comment by subway in "Grocery Outlet S-1"

subway — Thu, 16 May 2019 04:04:36 +0000

The Berkeley location was also their corporate HQ.

I think 90% of my meals were from GO (with the remaining 10% split between E&J BBQ and Brennan's) when I lived in Berkeley.

New comment by subway in "Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked"

subway — Thu, 16 May 2019 03:21:01 +0000

A mix of the two seems more likely -- ipv6-only to the device, with nat64/dns64 used to handle ipv4 traffic.

T-Mobile has been ipv6-only for devices supporting 464xlat since 2014.

New comment by subway in "We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible"

subway — Mon, 13 May 2019 17:01:02 +0000

> Deeplinking from web into the app is hard

This is exactly whay I was getting at before. Please stop fixating on the deferred form of deep links. The play store need not even be involved for deep linking to an already installed app.

The mobile_guide instructions are where most people bail out.

"Yeah, no. This is too complicated." is the response when they see

"Install an app, then click on a check box that changes the UI, then enter https://foo.bar:8448, then register".

That's a massive turn off before your app is even installed. A flow of "Install this app, then return to this web page" is significantly easier. Or if/when branded builds of Riot are possible, it becomes "Install this app."

New comment by subway in "A free XMPP server powered with green energy"

subway — Mon, 13 May 2019 13:28:16 +0000

Yelling... repeatedly, both inband and out of band. You never responded last time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19865151

Manually entering homeserver URLs is a non-starter unless you're a technical user.

New comment by subway in "A free XMPP server powered with green energy"

subway — Mon, 13 May 2019 02:40:47 +0000

> without configuration hell.

As long as you're a matrix.org user

New comment by subway in "Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS"

subway — Sun, 12 May 2019 19:27:45 +0000

And that means...?

New comment by subway in "Twilio Super SIM"

subway — Sat, 11 May 2019 18:35:58 +0000

A Project Fi data only sim is probably your best bet.

New comment by subway in "GitHub Launches Package Registry"

subway — Fri, 10 May 2019 20:50:05 +0000

Existing discussion and a more direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19881709

New comment by subway in "Open source firmware is important for security"

subway — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:06:26 +0000

I'm not sure -- I haven't messed with a Pixelbook. On Chromebooks, the trust root lives in the bootloader's flash with no security beyond the write protect screw.

A quick googling led to a reddit post that indicates it's possible with the Pixelbook, but likely a PITA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/7kv944/does_anyo...

New comment by subway in "Open source firmware is important for security"

subway — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:28:54 +0000

Awesome post, but a very minor nitpick:

> Chromebooks use both, coreboot on x86, and u-boot for the rest.

This isn't entirely true. Coreboot is used on a number of ARM Chromebooks, including rk3288 and rk3399 based devices. It seems like u-boot is used less and less in the space. Libreboot has builds for a few devices that kill the annoying "untrusted os" message, and even allow you to set your own trust root.