Glad it's back up now.. :)
They'll be so disappointed.
Could literally just do
find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; |
jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))'
Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.
I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI output for things building.
Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession):
You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers.
A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design.
The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy.
There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design.
OK, infodump over.
The sheer utility of every component of the craft is awesome.
Then I replaced all the fancy, spring loaded, "replace the back of the junction box for new functionality!" interface stuff with some vintage, 1980s style soldering and bypass diodes. Because I don't care about the optimizers on my well-sited array with no shading, and I don't need rapid shutdown for a ground mount array, etc.
And then proceeded to short the leads, put them in the sun, and ensure that the junction box guts didn't get hot, while observing just how brutal on panels doing this is - you really highlight the difference between cells thermally, when in "normal running," you don't see any differences in the array.
And now I'm writing all this up as a blog post. :)
Have a great weekend everyone!
Obviously, the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/
HN’s official status page: https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus
This URL checks if the API is up: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret...
HN Search Engine: https://hn.algolia.com
AWS Route 53 status, it is the service that manages HN’s DNS: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws
YC DNS record: https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com
HN’s official email: hn@ycombinator.com
Note: Intentionally left off YC, since it appears to be unrelated beyond the DNS.
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Forgot something, let me know. Thanks!
It should be possible to replace the battery with a good one, e.g. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+...
There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from happening.
Figured I'd point it at Hacker News to get an update when my uptime monitoring detected it was up again.
The second outage gave me time to dogfood it a bit: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD
P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc
Anyhow, the article referred to "3-D printing" to make copies of the marbles, but the writing was confused and to me it looked like automated carving, so I wanted to post it to see what others here thought. As it happens, having just checked the article again, the original copy has been amended to read "3-D machining" rather than "3-D printing" - but there's no correction notice to say that the article was changed. Mind you, the clue is still in the url: ... science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html
Without HN, then, I read my stock sites as usual, but felt deeply that I missed the sanity-checks/informed input from HN commenters. It was lonely, in a way, and also made me fret about my missing issues with articles that usually others at HN would point out; different perspectives, questions about credibility or robustness of stats/data/methods of obtaining info on which articles might rely.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-...
It was nice and I wish there were more outages.
I wasn't worried about it, I figured dang and others were working on it and would have things back online.
I do depend on HN for taking a break from coding though and it was tough not getting my fix on demand :D
I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.
This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.
Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay.
The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.
I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.
They also might shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it to be interesting, but no new physics.
There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians under H1B
Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the day
How long was it?
Is there any post-mortem?
>Where'd you go?
Depends on how long it was out.
>What'd you find?
Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world.
Or something like that.
While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too, so thank you :-)
Start a rubbish piece of software, proving again that reach is the most important thing these days
We're launching in Sept.
I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.
"masks of the illuminati"
ok, now refresh...
It won't be up that quick, you have to be patient!
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refresh...
I checked news sources more directly from the websites i am personally familiar with instead of using the hacker news front page as a filter + expanded domain
