Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | ebilgenius's commentslogin

Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghostarchive.org/

Update: hmm seems like they're involved in this whole thing too somehow, how strange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629646


That comment is weirdly confusing/confused. But if you try archiving any site on ghostarchive, or clicking on any existing ghostarchive links, it just says "site is down for maintenance".

For now I've given up on using any archiving sites until we can find a safe and reliable alternative.


You can tell it's a scam call immediately because Google has no such thing as "support", let alone an actual "support engineer"


But you don't know that. Nor I would expect most people to know the internal structure of Google.


I can’t get ahold of google support while paying them hundreds of thousands per year. I’m not convinced they do support.


They do support if you spend enough money with them. At least with GCP. Access to in-house cloud architects level of support, even.


While I agree it's hard to claim one is outright better than the other and there are a lot of factors that go into it, I do feel it's important to toss my chip in as someone who's not familiar with Lisp, Scheme, or any other functional language that I find it's syntax and layout particularly difficult to parse, let alone get started with compared to say, the INI-inspired systemd conf files. I can detail why but the mere fact that I'd have to learn an entire functional programming language (no matter how "easy/simple" it's claimed to be) to be able to competently edit a service file is a huge immediate turn-off for me.


This is very basic Scheme syntax (plus Guile's keyword argument extension), nothing advanced and definitely not all of Scheme.


Incredible website design, I hope they keep the theme. With so many AI startups going with advanced WebGL/ThreeJS wacky overwhelming animated website designs, the simplicity here is a stark contrast.


Probably Daniel Gross picked it up from Nat Friedman?

1. Nat Friedman has this site: https://nat.org/

2. They made this together: https://nfdg.com/

3. And then this: https://andromeda.ai/

4. Now we have https://ssi.inc/

If you look at the (little) CSS in all of the above sites you'll see there's what seems to be a copy/paste block. The Nat and SSI sites even have the same "typo" indentation.


I'm seeing this already with how they're handling the new right-click contextual Search feature being moved to open the results in the new "Search sidebar" rather than a new tab. This was supposedly able to be disabled with the flag "Search web in side panel" (there's no option for it in the preferences), however if the completely undocumented "CSC" flag was left at it's default then it overrides any other flag to force enable the feature. You can see the consequences of this decision to this very day in places like /r/chrome with users complaining that disabling the feature flags isn't working.


I don't think we necessarily need a more reliable source to point out that this one is wildly unreliable


Be concrete and point to specific unreliable information in the thread or to conflicting information elsewhere. Until then I'll put my money on falcon-backed securities.


Can you also look at adding the time/date's timezone on the end? Thanks, I love the site's layout/design


What do you mean?


I think he meant like: "23/11/2022, 15:00:00 GMT+1"

Doesn't seen necessary imo as long as the dates aren't in MM/DD/YYYY format and are in browser's timezone.


That's quite the final conclusion to be drawing based on the aimless wanderings of a fidgeting police helicopter camera operator.

Perhaps declaring that the algorithmically condensed footage of a police helicopter camera equates to a supposed general mindset of the law enforcement profession in general might be just a bit reductive.


From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota.

To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.

>This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm.

Not according to this professor of meteorology:

>“We’re living through a really historic event going on right now,” said Jason Furtado, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, pointing to all of Texas under a winter storm warning and the extent of the freezing temperatures.

https://apnews.com/article/2-dead-texas-subfreezing-winter-w...


>From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota. To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.

I don't recall saying every state, I said Texas. Because this type of weather happens on a somewhat regular basis.

>Not according to this professor of meteorology:

I guess finding a soundbite from one individual isn't very interesting to me. The entire state of Texas was told in a report in 2011 after a similar storm that they needed to winterize their power plants and chose not to. If by "historic" you mean "first time in 10 years" - I guess? I don't really consider that "historic".

>Ed Hirs, an energy fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, blamed the failures on the state’s deregulated power system, which doesn’t provide power generators with the returns needed to invest in maintaining and improving power plants.


Is Texas as a state poorer than Minnesota or something? What makes it unrealistic, other than laziness?

It's not more taxing on Minnesota to implement the infrastructure than anyone else

It's as unrealistic as it is to expect a credit agency to encrypt their data, because credit agencies don't get hacked


Looks like the FBI and DEA were involved as well as several other country's police agencies, with Europol acting as coordinator. Lots of money moving across countries means lots of taxes probably not being paid, hence the IRS.


Well the IRS would only have been involved if the money flowed into the US and/or to a US citizen.

They have no jurisdiction abroad


The markets are used for transactions around the world. Probably a lot of them in the USA.


Which fits with what I wrote. Either a US citizen or crosses US borders. If not, then the IRS has no jurisdiction.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: