iFred

As an individual, will I have access to pricing or is that limited to institutions as well?

For that matter, how transparent is this marketplace? Do I need to put in an RFQ for a specific SKU to get a point-in-time price or do I see the whole marketplace?

You mention $300 million dollars in RFQs, but how much of that resulted in chips and cash trading hands? What stops someone from offering the seller a better price to continue the transaction outside of Stoa?

Nothing short of a gut punch.

Yes, nearly every working day.

The ability to focus on something while the world around me melts away. When it is just myself, the virtual display of my Mac, and the drifting grains of gypsum at White Sands, I seem to be at peace with whatever I am working on.

With these guys you get into a weird world of "is it them, us, or upstream of both of us" all the time. I had been using Twilio's telco partner maintenance notifications as a way of figuring out if someone like Orange was responsible for a bunch of French end points independent of Twilio had network degradation.

I mean, their viz is free and straight forward, not hidden behind a paywall or a demo page. I also appreciate not putting any comment based signal indicators as that is often noise.

High end resins and epoxies are in a critical supply shortage right now. I suspect that there are going to be some serious resource driven PCB shortages in the very near future.

What kind of image set is used here? A quick scan over the site and I don't know if I can provided my own aerial or satellite imagery or if you provide it.

Looking forward to an CNN breaking chyron titled "Oops!"

The German “ICON” model uses a spheroid shape that escapes me right now, but each grid cell is effectively a triangle. Most others are gridded squares.

I keep hoping for a Microcenter in either Portland or Seattle but alas, I get the "we're always looking for new locations" email from their team and a "why not just order it from Amazon" from nearly everyone else.

I can't be the only one let down that there wasn't some new slot design. Something with pizzazz and flare.

SLA contracts, clawbacks, and performance obligations make these pages a bit of a minefield for CSPs. When I was at a top-tier CSP, we had the status page that was public, one that was for a trusted tier of customers, one built for a customer-by-customer basis, and one for internal engineering.

Down Detector can have a poor signal to noise ratio given from what I am assuming is users submitting "this is broken" for any particular app. Probably compounded by many hearing of a GCP issue, checking their own cloud service, and reporting the problem at the same time.

I feel like a kindred soul of sorts with this author.

I’m on my fourth iteration of a smart home setup with HA. Depression, neglect, a feeling that I need to burn it all down and restart, and depression again were all extinction level events for my setup. At one point I had meticulous Grafana dashboards worthy of a Golden Grot that could tell you the concentration of CO2, the pressure waves from the Tonga eruption, a map of Puget Sound gas prices, and other bits and bobs. I had dozens of Airthings sensors, plant sensors, ZWave temp sensors, three weather stations, countless LIFX bulbs, all working in unison to give me a pulse on my house.

Then I had a bout of the existential sads and just stopped looking at the slack notifications when HA connected the dots between a spike in radon and a nearby earthquake. I stopped caring that the CO2 concentration in my office was over 750ppm, or that watering my plants in my office in the winter was contributing to increased particulate in the air. Because I wasn’t listening to the interesting stuff, I stopped listening to the important stuff- alerts about failed drives, dying batteries, and broken updates.

Not caring felt so freeing. I didn’t start things up again until a few months later when I realized I wanted something cool to show in an interview. The cycle started anew.

Are you folks working directly with utility companies or pulling the data yourselves?

Complete aside, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen Apple’s internal DNS outside of Apple.

Learned about this last night and needless to say it was a gut punch. There is a whole generation of us that have Gordon to thank for our monthly pilgrimage to the magazine section looking for the latest edition of Maximum PC. Once a year we were treated to a buffet of hardware with amazingly high specs and prices to match with these Dream Machines later serving as mental checkpoints of the eras fastest personal compute. The. There was the effort that Gordon put into consumer advocacy in his columns, bad parts, badder corporate practices, and he was there fighting for us on the printed page.

Rest in peace Gordon.

Bought it at launch and use it a couple dozen times a week.

For me, the killer function has been doing display mirroring with my Mac and leveraging the environments like Mt Hood or the Moon as a way to get into a focused flow. I love the idea of windowing in a virtual space, but the there is the same feeling of limitation that I get with this device as I get with my iPad. I've used it to capture some VR photos and videos of family, survey the house to identify the source of a water leak, used it for a couple workouts, to play some Xbox games in bed without waking my wife.

Weight only seems to be an issue for me at the 3h mark or so, but at that point I am taking a break. My eyes don't seem to be effected so far and the only visual quality issues have been either due to pancake lense physics or fogging up when the device is cold. App quality has been okish for the most part. I periodically check the app store for something new, but so far nothing that feels incredible. I'll probably buy a MetaQuest Pro after this just to see what that is like

I'm ultimately waiting for the ultrawide enhancement they teased earlier this year and hoping they add a few more environments.

Transall Saga by Gary Paulson. One of those young adult survival stories he was known for writing but with a sci-fi element. The book has been living rent free in my head since an elementary school book fair 26 years ago.

Oh man, xray is just a nightmare waiting to happen.

also partially on https://openinframap.org/

The past seven months of Twitter as observed through HTTP response latency of various endpoints exposed to the client.

Interesting to see the drop of latency in May inline with BlueSky and the rise in the latency of backend services which looks like a “robbing Peter to pay Paul” situation with compute.

https://bsky.app/profile/ifred.bsky.social/post/3jzi7qzjzzd2...

The Grafana - https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/0ybkyhO4k/twitter-death-wat...

Things started to get pretty bad on 2/24 where a lot of the backend stuff used to serve media started to get slower.

https://twitter.com/iFred/status/1641552082003193857

Twitter services that are publicly exposed have seen a global latency average has racked on 150ms with regular spikes of several seconds or more. [1]

Core services for Twitter have been throwing 500s a dozen times every few hours. [2]

Twitter performance for users in Australia has fallen apart twice due to what was found out to be someone losing access to a root certificate and mitigation delayed because the team that could fix it is no longer employed. [3]

This is far more than a few stability glitches.

[1] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...

[2] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...

[3] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...

Hey, my side thing got mentioned. Check out https://deadbird.singlepane.io for the graphs that were mentioned. We are in the middle of expanding scope past just Twitter to other parts of the internet, SaaS and internet infrastructure.

Open to what the HN community thinks!

Evokes the same "staring at a lava lamp" feeling as Weather Sandbox [0]. I yearn for a Sim Earth replacement and seeing folks work on simulation sandboxes like this give me hope.

Now give me something planet scale with basic climate, biosphere, evolutionary models, and a Simpsons "Genesis Tub" approach to Civilization and I might not leave the keyboard days on end.

[0] - https://niels747.github.io/2D-Weather-Sandbox/