Hacker News: whoknowswhat11

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Why the school choice movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:24:16 +0000

Doesn’t success academy do a lottery system?

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "VSCode Removes Twitter Integration"

whoknowswhat11 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:34:51 +0000

What was the issue with twitter?

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell"

whoknowswhat11 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:44:34 +0000

I remember this. I don’t remember if it was cloud unit or something else like a pre hardened ami, but basically that - you got hammered in seconds after starting in default config so was good to take some steps right on launch.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell"

whoknowswhat11 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:42:11 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t want to distract but in my use case simpledb was even a fit after first dynamodb release for a reason I forget. Even more they took it totally off marketing after depreciating it but the hammer never dropped! Absolutely love this. The ec2 classic termination was actually a bit surprising in that context.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell"

whoknowswhat11 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:13:52 +0000

Note my one complaint was that it would have been nice to wrap the resource finder script into the gui / web interface

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell"

whoknowswhat11 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:07:35 +0000

Ec2 classic was dirt simple. You basically were on a big public lan it felt like. If I remember right there were some issues with folks running scans / abuse originating inside AWS that felt like got a touch slow of a response - then at some point it all cleared up? I remember hardening internal systems as if the they were public which was a good practice even as vpc arrived. They might have gotten a default public ip as well?

I used google app engine which was orphaned (at least version I tried) so that was a clear contrast w AWS.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Netlify Announces the Evolution of Cloud Platform"

whoknowswhat11 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:08:08 +0000

One thing AWS has done well is charge enough out the gate that they don’t need those “good news” posts where companies jack rates up. Google maps, but many business focused apps I’ve used too end up squeezing ridiculous price increases through. I’ve not experienced that with AWS.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Amazon Honeycode Shutting Down"

whoknowswhat11 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:00:12 +0000

I was a user of this. But didn’t find it that useful! So if others had my experience traction would have been super low.

Like a lot of AWS stuff but not this.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations"

whoknowswhat11 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:49:31 +0000

And of all the predations on the net - it’s wild THIS is what the ftc goes after. How about non age gated / warned gore and porn? How is that no a violation?

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:24:18 +0000

That was very memorable- grainy photos projected on a wall while nasa admin (old white guy) briefed Biden? Jwst had a pretty well planned out program for first images including events and it just got crushed.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:55:07 +0000

Is it still updating? Was hard to tell. But just 30 seconds of that would be great

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:54:28 +0000

Right - they had a great camera running - let’s enjoy a few rolling frames of the same spot showing touchdown area and systems working

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:44:43 +0000

Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512"

whoknowswhat11 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:38:47 +0000

Is avx512 broadly available and error free w no stalls slowdowns or other side effects. For a long time it felt like a corner intel thing

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco"

whoknowswhat11 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:47:38 +0000

That’s a trope that doesn’t bear on the Fleishhacker pool closure. There’s been a shift I think in govt spending from things like recreation to social services. If you took the SF homeless and other social services budgets including state Medi-cal funding that dwarfs recreational spending - and this is a shift in allocation over time. And I thought pools were racially integrated historically and it’s when they integrated genders the race panic stupidity came in big time. Especially in south some bad behavior.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative"

whoknowswhat11 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:12:05 +0000

A quick note that the "open source" license they use requires activation and license keys that block feature activations in the "open source" software be preserved.

This license was popular w folks like apollo who arguably hijacked nearly 700 contributors efforts w a license like this. Because they are using it from start at least that won't be as bad

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "X, formally known as Twitter, takes over (at)music account from user"

whoknowswhat11 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:49:25 +0000

The subhead is "X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account." That may not matter much to Twitter.

I'd lean towards a subhead of x signals product direction while angering some users.

One good thing is Twitter does move followers etc

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "NHTSA probes 280k new Teslas over loss of steering control"

whoknowswhat11 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:49:14 +0000

A break in steering system would be a big deal. And unlikely. What is more likely is a reduction in power steering. If you are used to it manual steering is brutal especially on city streets or for things like parking.

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says"

whoknowswhat11 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:05:45 +0000

Ha! So true. And there would be huge savings if they would both simplify things and focus much harder on substance

New comment by whoknowswhat11 in "FedNow"

whoknowswhat11 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 05:26:33 +0000

My question too - a lot of names but not seeing actual implementation