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This is the best answer. Internally, we have to deal with bureaucracies of every country for employment and residencies. Separately.
Re:The kind of company I want to be a part of on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:14AM (#45887493)
> You, as the developer, always know

Definetely not "always".

Re:I Love My Wife, My Wife Is Dead (1946) on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:59PM (#45778906)
He was brilliant in physics, not physical relationships. He married his fourth wife because he had a dream with a pool table where he couldn't score a ball for goodness' sake.
Re:Poker Tournament for LLMs on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:07AM (#45731334)
After reading your comment I gave ChatGPT 5 Thinking prompt "Give me a random number from 1 to 10" and it did give me both 1 and 10 after less than 10 tries. I didn't do enough test to do a distribution, but your statement did not hold up to the test.
Re:Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:56AM (#45558649)
Nobody is 100% right or 100% wrong. There is no "side" that talks about the size of the world population, and the fact that the scientific advances are the reason for the ability of entire human race to exhaust available resources. There is also no "side" that ranks the global climate change truly globally, and focuses on top priorities. There are no global "sides". There are only people. People do care, but people also don't want to make hard choices. Finger pointing is just too easy.
Because the difference between a prototype and production is 99%
Indeed, it is the stuff of science fiction, and the you get an "akshually, it's just statistics" comment. I feel people projecting their fears, because deep down, they're simply afraid.
Hi Tobias and Beni, Pavel here, co-founder of IP Fabric, the Automated Network Assurance Platform for the Enterprise Networks. We're solving for the problem that you're describing, albeit in a more deterministic way, by modeling the entire enterprise network infrastructure. There are also competitors in the valley already - Forward Networks. While we welcome the competition, and while I am curious how you are solving for such a noise coming from the variety of networking products, I must say that you could have chosen a name that is copying us a little bit less.
Re:Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:49PM (#40665124)
CRM selection heavily depends on stage of the company and GTM motion complexity. I would never recommend to anyone to ever start with SFDC, but I can't not recommend ending there.
Feels like humans cheering for Kasparov when he beat Deep Blue. That fleeting moment in time, a crest of a wave, before the change of times.
Re:Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:50AM (#40658147)
It's clear that the author is first time founder. The article is disingenuous in that it talks about secondary availability, but the solution is longer exercise and shorter vesting? That wouldn't solve WeWork situation at all. Also, the risk of founders and employees is not comparable. A good analogy of the relationship is Landlord vs. Tenant. Founder burdens statutory obligations, is responsible with their personal belongings, has to lay the groundworks, and get the investors. Employee has to pass a job interview. If company fails, both lose a job, so that part is shared. First employees are sometimes special, but they are not founders. Musk was not even an employee and he became founder of Tesla.
Re:My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:32AM (#40593843)
This is a fantastic example of how seemingly simple programming tasks can teach deep concepts. His methodical approach to uncovering edge cases and alternative solutions demonstrates the importance of critical thinking and comprehensive testing in software development, a valuable lesson for all developers.
This planned retraction of a landmark Alzheimer's paper due to doctored images is a stark reminder of the critical need for integrity in scientific research. This scandal not only undermines trust in published findings but also highlights the importance of rigorous peer review and transparency in the scientific community.
Re:An Overview of the Starlark Language on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:20AM (#40593787)
This is a powerful and flexible configuration language that blends Pythonic syntax with sandboxed execution, making it ideal for large-scale build systems like Bazel. Its deterministic and reproducible nature is a boon for developers seeking reliability and consistency in their builds.
Re:Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:15AM (#40593761)
This showcases a significant leap in optimizing cargo ship routes, leading to more efficient and profitable operations. This innovation in mathematical optimization promises to enhance global supply chains by solving complex logistical challenges at an unprecedented scale.
The scandal underscores the alarming erosion of our privacy expectations. As technology advances, our acceptance of surveillance grows, highlighting the urgent need for a comprehensive and democratic approach to privacy standards akin to ecological conservation efforts.
Re:Research as Leisure Activity on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:58AM (#40593664)
Transforming research into a leisurely activity resonates with anyone who loves diving into topics purely for the joy of learning. It highlights the beauty of self-directed exploration and intellectual curiosity, a sentiment that will resonate with many here.
I suggest reading "Bastard Operator from Hell". Historically ISPs could read all email, see all AOL chats, and all the search queries. They could see you entering your payment information. If we go by fisheries example, there was no privacy in the 90s. It's reasonable expectation that you trust someone with your information. I feel lake author falls into imaginary world fallacy, where people don't know that the meat comes from killed animals, or that cooking is not normally done in latex gloves.
Truly Awesome! However "the website is not supported" is a dealbreaker for me. I do my doom scrolling through browsers, as the apps have already been restricted through screen time.
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:43PM (#33038921)
No, because they would cause the following scenario: Malicious attacker looks for exactly what Microsoft detected, and fixes each specific detection while keep operating the undetected ones. The end result would be operational malicious site, without being detected.
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:43PM (#33038910)
Easy. Scenario: Malicious attacker looks for exactly what Microsoft detected, and fixes each specific detection while keep operating the undetected ones. The end result would be operational malicious site, without being detected.
'Lingo' has teams drawing balls of different colours and competing head to head. It is not 'clone'. There are dozens of similar word games in various cultures with similar concepts of giving information about the presence of a letter and position of a letter in the word. Your response is a classical cynical mindset of a jealous person.

The question was about monetization, not about your engineer syndrome.

Re:A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:27AM (#27299701)
> On a warm day in 2008, Silicon Valley’s titans-in-the-making found themselves packed around a bulky, blond-wood conference room table.

The author has read The New Yorker a lot. Some captivating details, made irrelevant at the end of the paragraph.

Re:Show HN: A/B test Hacker News titles with AI on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:57AM (#25245883)
Seems to be affected by heavily by capitalization in a surprising way. "Show HN: AI OpTiMiZeR ToOl" fares 6% better than same written in non-braindamaged way, and fares even worse when compared to all caps.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020) on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:33AM (#24659598)
IP Fabric | Senior Backend Developer | Prague, CZ | ONSITE

We're looking for experienced developers with passion for quality readable code, reducing technical debt, large scale systems, databases and api.

Our stack

  * Node.js, RabbitMQ, ArangoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis

  * React.js, Websockets, Redux

  * Typescript, Webpack, Babel
Who we are

  * IP Fabric, Inc. is headquartered in New York, with offices in Prague, Czech Republic, and is a leading solutions provider of network assurance and intent-based network analytics for hybrid and large-scale networks. Its proven automated network assurance platform serves as a single source of truth for the network infrastructure, enabling policy standardization, continuous compliance, and incident prevention.
Email me at [email protected]
100% pay for 100% work and 16/5 availability. 50% pay for 75% work and 10/3 availability. Are you going to be ok with this on the receiving end?

The second part of comment is asinine trolling. No one is ready for once-in-a-century thing by definition. If once in a century flood leaves the team stranded and water still does not drain away after 6 months it has nothing to do with management. There are no continuity plans for disasters that keep happening for such a long time.

Re:BitTorrent v2 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:53AM (#24405832)
However "transfer money" is a market need, and there are a number of companies that are doing that. I had to switch after I ran the costs of the service vs transaction fees of bitcoin. It's not much, but it adds up.
Re:Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:51PM (#24370674)
This looks like reincarnation of "Lock & Key" feature of Cisco routers available since the late 90s. There were two major issues that led to abandonment and hindered adoption. The first is that it's an extra step. Extra steps for installation, for complexity, for single point of failure, for availability of key services. The second is that instead of thwarting attackers, you're thwarting yourself, every single time. It breaks so many usecases, for example if you have a new machine, or if you want to access through a jump host, or from ssh client on phone, etc.
Thanks for the reply. For point 2, the source states that from 2001 to 2019 1.3% of the tree cover was lost [0]. However in the twitter feed the loss is 2% per 10 days.

[0] https://gfw.global/3gm1aRN

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