Hacker News: zifnab06

New comment by zifnab06 in "Fly Kubernetes"

zifnab06 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:34:13 +0000

Inbound IPs use anycast - the IP we give you routes to the nearest fly region and then hits a wireguard tunnel to get to the correct region.

Outbound IPs are tied to the individual host your machine is running on (which is located in a single region). These are tied to a single region, and in some cases, these were resolving to the wrong region in a few of the GeoIP databases. We hopefully fixed this part.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Fly Kubernetes"

zifnab06 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:39 +0000

fwiw - our network folks _should_ have fixed this a few weeks ago. Some of the outbound IPs were incorrectly tagged in some of the geoip databases as being in the US when they were not.

New comment by zifnab06 in "On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs"

zifnab06 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:35:14 +0000

Oh, this is good to know I must have missed it.

I assume this is the same Cerberus Capital Management that acquired Safeway and has been running them into the ground?

New comment by zifnab06 in "On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs"

zifnab06 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 04:51:38 +0000

To clarify, Jody Allen took over Paul Allen’s fortune when he passed. I’m unsure what all has been closed since then, I know at least Stratolaunch (a space firm), Vulcan Productions (a small-ish media company), and now Vulcan Entertainment (LCM, Cinerama, and the flying heritage and combat museum) have all closed.

The Museum of Pop Culture (preciously Experience Music Project + Science Fiction Museum) was spared - they’re technically self funded now.

It feels like she’s cleaning house. COVID definitely didn’t help but Cinerama closed for a “remodel” sometime last year and laid off all their staff.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico"

zifnab06 — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:00:41 +0000

The large majority of Android is Apache 2, rich requires attribution but no release of source code.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?"

zifnab06 — Mon, 25 May 2020 00:10:48 +0000

I’ve been working remotely since last June.

I decided to stay in Seattle. Sure, we have our issues (homelessness, high rents) but we also have some perks (close to nature, beautiful weather 8 months of the year, fast internet, cheap power, roughly sane state government).

New comment by zifnab06 in "Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it"

zifnab06 — Sat, 23 May 2020 19:27:30 +0000

I did the same thing at a previous job. Got signed up for an 8 hour security training because of it - somehow I refused to go and they didn't fire me.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more"

zifnab06 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:06:28 +0000

Let’s say I have 1000 outstanding shares all worth $10. I need to pay someone a $5000 bonus. I’ll just issue 500 shares of stock to them instead because, well, that’s about $5000.

Hypothetically the per share price goes down by 1/3 here and is now worth $6.67 (but the company’s still worth $10,000 total it’s just 1500 * $6.67 instead of $1000 * $10).

Generally though bonuses like this come out of a pool that’s already been allocated years ago and there’s no change to stock price

New comment by zifnab06 in "What happened to Mint?"

zifnab06 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:50:11 +0000

I’ve looked at a lot of budgeting apps. In order of priority, I want:

1. Don’t be evil (aka don’t be intuit)

2. Web based with some sane security (2fa, encryption at rest, etc)

3. The ability to sync transactions from my bank.

4. Budgeting/reporting.

5. Some sort of sane forecasting. You’ve got N months of data from a customer, why can’t you tell them in 6 months this account is expected to have $x in it?

6. Sane APIs.

No one I’ve been able to find has been able to do all 6 of these.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)"

zifnab06 — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 02:14:15 +0000

Or they did what I did - spent it. At the peak I would have had $8 million before taxes had I not turned it into cash to pay for the electricity my CPU was burning to mine it.

Oh well. Good thing I actually enjoy my current job.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop"

zifnab06 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:21:40 +0000

Thanks! I was wrong, look at that :P

New comment by zifnab06 in "Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop"

zifnab06 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:02:28 +0000

I have one qualm with /e/: they use LineageOS as their base, add a few apps, and avoid mentioning this to anyone. Most of their repos aren’t special, they’re a 1:1 copy of upstream.

I realize the license allows this but attribution would still be appreciated.

New comment by zifnab06 in "My .in domain has been transferred to another registrant without notification"

zifnab06 — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:12:50 +0000

I have a few domains I don’t host public-facing websites on - they’re used for either email, or internal things at home, or just hosting txt records.

There’s no sane way to validate a domain isn’t in use.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed"

zifnab06 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:52:34 +0000

For the payment aspect, charge $5 then refund it once both people say they’ve met?

New comment by zifnab06 in "How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service?"

zifnab06 — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:14:03 +0000

These are still maintained in windows 10 for backward compatibility, oddly enough

New comment by zifnab06 in "Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead"

zifnab06 — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:17:23 +0000

I like 1Passwords auth for this. There's a long key you need once (this stays in a lockbox), and a master password you need every sign in (safety deposit box with no information about what it is).

New comment by zifnab06 in "US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits"

zifnab06 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 06:21:56 +0000

Github is primarily Rails/MySQL (or was last time I paid attention to any of their blogs), I'm guessing they're storing dates as a TIMESTAMP and not a DATETIME (4 bytes vs 8 bytes).

GitHub's BigQuery public data set has 234,759,841 unique commits, and it appears there's 2 dates per commit (author and committer dates). So an extra ~1.8GB per master/shard group.

Entirely doable but I have no idea what their scale actually is or how that translates to network throughput or anything else really.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement"

zifnab06 — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:10:43 +0000

I moved for college to a small town with a decent engineering school, along with two very good friends from high school (we're still friends today). The town itself was rather depressing, the school was mostly male, and there wasn't much to do outside of drink or video games. The town is an economic black hole, about what you'd expect for somewhere with 10,000 people in rural America. The school was good though.

I'm doing much better these days. I ended up taking an internship somewhere local, working more / doing worse at school because I was actively avoiding it. I will say this was mostly a personal problem - I really don't do well sitting and listening to people talk about subjects I don't find interesting.

I eventually moved to Seattle, switched jobs a few times, and now work remotely for a company I (so far) love. Remote + unlimited PTO (ish, it's capped at 2 continuous weeks per quarter) has given me an excuse to travel to wherever I want. Life's now a blast :)

New comment by zifnab06 in "Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement"

zifnab06 — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:44:02 +0000

I was a solid B student in high school. I got a 35 on the ACT, which apparently helped me land a scholarship. So same boat as you.

Except I then it lost due to being a depressed anxious wreck, not showing up to classes, switching majors 2-3 times and finally dropping out after 5 years full time + 2 years part time + 50k in student loan debt.

It's fine now though, apparently degrees aren't all that important for most software development jobs.

New comment by zifnab06 in "Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US"

zifnab06 — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:48:54 +0000

To clarify: I don't fault the individuals. The flex driver program itself is broken. "Gig economy" seems to be a way to avoid minimum wage and employment laws.