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ryanisnan··on Starcloud
Cool, thank you. So I read this as fundamentally, the heat they dissipated far exceeded the heat they produced. Do you mind opining on what similar figures would be with modest passive radiators and a typical data centre rack heat output?
ryanisnan··on Starcloud
I'm inclined to think you're right, but I can't figure out one thing - the command module (apparently) in Apollo 13 got down to 38F without active heating. That's much colder than standard data centre rack temps.

In the example of a data centre, there would be considerably more heat generation than 3 astronauts, but, I would like to understand more. 38F is cold, so heat is clearly lost not as slowly as we might think.

ryanisnan··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Anecdotally, I think you should disregard this. I found out about this issue first via Reddit, roughly 30 minutes after the onset (we had an alarm about control plane connectivity).
ryanisnan··on Your data model is your destiny
One nit, while I think Notion's data model is probably superior to that of Google Docs, I don't think their data model is what allowed them to succeed. Much stronger, I think, is their execution.
ryanisnan··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
This is an opinion, yet you state it like fact. While I'm hesitant to want any AI features in my browser, what a "browser" does isn't necessarily a settled debate.
ryanisnan··on Spotify users ask for a setting to hide AI generated contents but they refuse
I am not affiliated with Spotify, but I pay for their services.

They very infrequently raise their rates, and I feel like I'm paying an acceptable rate.

I have yet to notice AI generated music infiltrating my feeds.

I rarely encounter them removing an artist I can't listen to.

I may be rare, but I just don't see the problems you're raising.

ryanisnan··on Spotify users ask for a setting to hide AI generated contents but they refuse
This is a poorly titled HN submission. This isn't what's happened, if you read the post - A user asked about being able to do this. Spotify claimed it isn't currently a feature, however they have a feature request that the requester can add their voice to if so inclined.
ryanisnan··on Chat Control Must Be Stopped
I think you're being hyperbolic. It wasn't terrible, but I do agree, I had to dig for "What is Chat Control". It read to me like a panicked person, repeatedly saying, "You've gotta hear this..." over and over, before getting to the point.
ryanisnan··on iPhone dumbphone
I'll shout out Clearspace[1]. They're YC W23[2]. I am in no way affiliated with them.

I find the app is very useful. I do find it still takes some discipline, but it adds enough friction into accessing pointless apps, that it makes a real dent in my doom-scrolling. It isn't cheap, but it works well enough that at the current price point, I will pay.

[1] - https://www.getclearspace.com/ [2] - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace

ryanisnan··on Purposeful animations
Am I the only one who dislikes off-angle animations?
ryanisnan··on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought that running an SSO integration is that painful. I've done it before, albeit for a single enterprise client, and while annoying at first, after delivery was just like another feature.
ryanisnan··on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
Can you clarify, are you suggesting that the bills footed by large orgs that require SSO are paying the bills for these features?
ryanisnan··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
This is super neat! I love tech that expands beyond the internet. I have a strong feeling that this kind of technology plays a very important, but limited job in our future.
ryanisnan··on JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
This is super exciting. It seems possible to one day receive higher resolution images of this type of find. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with this subject can opine.

The moment we have our first, direct-observation photo of an earth-like exoplanet will be a defining point in our history.

ryanisnan··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Thank you!
ryanisnan··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Is HN/YC going to submit the google form submissions to the relevant committee members on the signers' behalf?
ryanisnan··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
That makes sense. I do love the idea of living in a world without NAT.
ryanisnan··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
There are a whole host of things people could (and probably are) using LLMs for. Think about what the tool fundamentally is. An enabler. A helper. A teaching assistant. A more ergonomic search tool.

Now think about all of the dumb, violent, ideological, illegal things that folks do.

ryanisnan··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
It's very useful to have this additional information in something like a network address. I agree, you shouldn't rely on it, but IPv6 hasn't clicked with me yet, and the whole "globally routable" concept is one of the reasons. I hear that, and think, no, I don't agree.
ryanisnan··on Space Selfie
> Stuff Made Here

Whenever I am feeling smart or particularly talented, I like watching Shane's videos. I'm swiftly reminded that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing and carry on.

ryanisnan··on CSS Minecraft
Well done!
ryanisnan··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
> if you don’t think about the security of it.

This is big brain energy. Why bother needing to make yet another round trip request when you can just defer that nonsense to the client!

ryanisnan··on Migrating away from Rust
One of the challenges I never quite got over completely, was that I was always fighting rust fundamentals, which tells me I never fully assimilated into thinking like a rustacean.

This was more of a me-problem, but I was constantly having to change my strategy to avoid fighting the borrow-checker, manage references, etc. In any case, it was a productivity sink.

ryanisnan··on Migrating away from Rust
This seems like the right call. When it comes to projects like these, efficiency is almost everything. Speaking about my own experiences, when I hit a snag in productivity in a project like this, it's almost always a death-knell.

I too have a hobby-level interest in Rust, but doing things in Rust is, in my experience, almost always just harder. I mean no slight to the language, but this has universally been my experience.

ryanisnan··on Migrating away from Rust
Strange, I had no such issue.
ryanisnan··on Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps copilot with guardrails built in
I can't help but completely agree. I could see an abstraction like this working really well on top of a simpler foundation, and I desperately think that's what the industry needs.

But as it stands, on top of Helm/Kubernetes/Terraform/AWS/GCP/etc., there are so many dragons.

I wonder if this tool could be repurposed to leverage much simpler cloud concepts that inherently require less operational skills to maintain.

ryanisnan··on SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
Cease and desist from Signal incoming, from their legal terms:

> "Signal", Signal logos, and other trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Signal Technology Foundation in the United States and other countries (more info here).

ryanisnan··on xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
This is a cursed project, but I can't help but admire it.
ryanisnan··on Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
ryanisnan··on Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
I mean, if a sufficiently capable entity is interested in snooping on an individual like this, mimicking a sewer tv inspection van is a trivial endeavour. You don’t know at all what that van was doing.
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