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Tell HN: HN was down
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Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah me too. Wake up -> HN down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> loop. That was a few hours ago. I'm glad this loop is broken.
sounds very much like an evil social media dopamine feedback loop. ironic given everyone on HN is so anti social media.... its clearly only bad for kids though i should add, silly of me to exclude such a detail
I guese developed this addiction on Facebook and now that I don’t use it, I come for methadon shot to HN
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's entirely possible that this is the smartest place on the internet, but also often dumb. In fact, it seems likely. More of an indictment of the rest of the places on the internet.
> It's entirely possible that this is the smartest place on the internet, i cant find the link, but there was a post about how to "be nice" and it was a revelation to a worrying amount of "geniuses" on here. bare in mind the sum total of the advice was "be nice, dont be rude"
1. niceness and genius are orthogonal
2. your characterization of the article sounds uncharitable
3. my point isn't exactly that this is necessarily the smartest place
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poe's Law for a parody of the self-important sv techbro
It's a testament to Poe's Law that I genuinely cannot tell if the OP was being funny or not.
There's a reason why HN of all places has such a terrible record of handling actual sarcasm and telling it apart from genuine belief and that reason is NOT that "HN is really smart" lol
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#245Yes, sorry! We're investigating, but my current theory is we got overloaded because I relaxed some of our anti-crawler protections a few days ago. (The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users, and we don't want to block legit users. However, it seems that I turned the knobs down too far.) In this case, we also had a secondary failure: PagerDuty woke me up at 5:24…
> anti-crawler protections
Sometimes I could not open the comment section, receiving a blank page with "... We're sorry" or something along these lines when opening from new private window. It works when opening normally.
Logging in on the private window seems to resolve the issue. Can you take a look on this if possible?
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#246Yes, sorry! We're investigating, but my current theory is we got overloaded because I relaxed some of our anti-crawler protections a few days ago. (The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users, and we don't want to block legit users. However, it seems that I turned the knobs down too far.) In this case, we also had a secondary failure: PagerDuty woke me up at 5:24…
> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users How does this happen?
Every filter process has false positives and false negatives, especially when crawlers are trying to fake their status.
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's entirely possible that this is the smartest place on the internet, but also often dumb. In fact, it seems likely. More of an indictment of the rest of the places on the internet. Almost every (non-troll) online community that is relatively peaceful and has some semblance of moderation to remove flamewars thinks of itself as "the best community". Usually as compared to reddit, though if it's on reddit they will…
> It goes without saying HN is not the smartest or more thoughtful online community. How does that go without saying? Name some others then, compare and contrast. As-is your argument is just posturing.
> Name some others then, compare and contrast.
No need, because whether an online community is more thoughtful or smarter than another is very subjective. Almost by definition, HN is not it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and all that. Of course, by internet law, HN (or a subset of its members) considers itself to be the smartest, more thoughtful online community.
There are communities I like better, which are smarter and more thoughtful, but I've no desire to argue with you.
> As-is your argument is just posturing
Nah. Hard pass. Nice try though!
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
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I feel such a sense of kinship for anyone who carries a pager, almost 7 years at my current role doing it. Super cool that dang is among our number :)
Do you carry a literal pager? We use the PagerDuty app.
Oh no, I just always hear it termed that way and it captures the “feeling” for me since it feels like a dedicated device. I just just carry a work phone w/ PagerDuty during my shift.
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a testament to Poe's Law that I genuinely cannot tell if the OP was being funny or not.
There's a reason why HN of all places has such a terrible record of handling actual sarcasm and telling it apart from genuine belief and that reason is NOT that "HN is really smart" lol
Agreed! I think HN is average, and its userbase think themselves smarter than they really are.
... but I still cannot tell if the original commenter was sarcastic or not! ;)
Re: Tell HN: HN was down
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you carry a literal pager? We use the PagerDuty app.
My organization is, for now, using OpsGenie. My pager noise: https://www.soundjay.com/transportation/sounds/train-crossin... That will not only wake the dead, it'll wake me no matter how asleep I am.
Haha I made the mistake of using the default iPhone ringtone, now when strangers get called in public my heart rate spikes. Too scared to change it.