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Trango is a cross platform, calling and file sharing solution which works on LAN and the wider internet. Your data never leaves your local Wifi. The internet is only used to discover those on the same network as you.

We were in the same office and needed a fast, simple way to communicate with eachother without coming in close contact (covid 19) and wanted to do that over LAN rather than use tools over the internet NOR use our ancient intercom system. So now we are using this internally for fast file sharing and good quality video calls.

It is open source and a self hosted version is available here https://github.com/trango-io/trango-self-hosted. Native Windows, Mac, iOS and Android applications are in the works right now and should be ready sometime at the end of this month.

We have been talking to quite a few of you as to how you would like to use trango. Many of you would like to use it in offices, factories, hotels and even homes.

Some very interesting use cases have been built about how trango can be used off-grid, connecting remote communities to eachother over W(LAN). If you guys are interested, please join the trango community on reddit and suggest as to how/where you would like to see trango going:

/r/trango/

Thank you very much guys! Really appreciate the feedback
I'm pretty sure I've heard plenty about the Epstein network from the mainstream media over the past couple of years. Are you really sure there's no media investigating it?
It's superfluous.
Well... criticising anyone's degree (even though I also have such a degree) is always arrogant. That's the point we're at though. It has become the most popular degree while simultaneously getting worse in quality... starting from a low base.

As I said, I have one of these degrees, and have hired and worked with many people with such degrees.

First, I agree that the math and (particularly) the statistics classes are useful. Finance and accounting too, in theory, though the vast majority do not seem to internalize much. Business pretty minimal though. A 3-4 years business degree comes with less math education than the first year of an engineering degree, chemistry, physics, etc.

Also.. the majority of business degrees today allow students to avoid most math altogether... and most students do this. The whole thing is continuously moving downmarket. Most business degrees (graduate & undergraduate) are not recognised BAs anymore.

"The market" wants easy degrees with no math. They also don't want accounting or finance. This leaves just the nonsense.

IMO, at this point, most business degrees are less useful than history, philosophy, etc. Graduate salaries are about the same.
> Gold mining is probably only profitable at current gold prices

There is no reason to make this assumption.
it's very inspiring to see factorio in the first place on HN. It's been a while that I'm trying to publish a successful game. I read that the version 1.0 took you 8.5 years. Do you mind talking a little bit about that? Were you always funded? Did you had any investors?
I've read recently a discussion on the Roman Praetorian guard. The gist seemed to be that Roman Emperors were largely at their whim -- sometimes they would decide to kill the emperor for no good reason. Any kind of rogue unchecked power is a disaster waiting to happen (because they can yield their power in self-interest or in various irresponsible ways).

See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard#Severan_dynas...

They went as far as auctioning the emperor title at one time!
Micro$hit keeps getting baffled at how ea$y it is to turn around the opinion of majority of developers by thinking of them as salivating dogs and throwing them bone$ like 'M$ open $ource' and 'M$ love$ linux' and making parts of V$Code open $ource.
Technically you can disable implicit this: just raise the level of corresponding diagnostic to Error.
But having a female name didn't keep Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and many other women from having very successful careers.

Because they lived some 150 years after Eliot and the Brontes.
The point is restoring respect to women who, at the time they were alive, were expected to use male pseudonyms.
They are obliged to not add software protections that I cannot bypass because it prevents me from installing whatever software I like even if I do exactly what you just mentioned.
I disagree, look at the origins of the Mormon religion and just their first 50 years of history - this stuff has been happening forever and it usually involves groups of people being killed/raped/tortured for being against it.
It's not like they're hiding the fact that they utilize mullvad. The price doesn't differ that much also. Currently, it's even cheaper through Mozilla: 4,99$ < 5,00€.

You're right that they have indeed more brand recognition.
Basically, the value proposition is: Out of all the VPN providers, we already did the research for you, to pick one that's trustworthy.
HoR seat but yes
NIH is not military. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329

And we can go with your opinion that EV subsidies weren't necessary and take that as fact.

Agricultural subsidies. Coal receives subsidies, too. Battery research funded by the DoD (military). Kodak and its ~760 Million dollar loan through the Defense Production Act.

At this point, I'm moving away from the original point. I'm now swerving into subsidies and loans. Although they still stand to benefit private companies for endeavors that might not otherwise be profitable, I think there are far better examples.

Let's talk about CERN. ️
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> If I own a successful business, who gets to decide what it is worth?

The market, if its publicly traded. This proposed law is about taxing the Zuckerberg's and Musk's in the State, not worrying about putting a precise value on smaller assets.
That makes no sense. People might not know about WASM or Rust, but people like fast browsers. Rust is what powers Servo, which in turn made performance of Firefox somewhat acceptable. Gutting both teams is extremely short-sighted.
Especially when those alternative explanations are exciting (Spies everywhere!) and simple ("Oh, so that's why!") instead of boring, vague, complex, and nuanced.

I believe there's also a fair bit of package-deals. If you believe in one thing, you trust people more who also believe in that thing ("they see the world as it really is"). If they also believe in something else, that's a strong vote for that other thing.
Maybe that's how it started, but I think foreign actors work to amplify what's happening. I can't help but thinking of this paper though:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

> Conclusions. Whereas bots that spread malware and unsolicited content disseminated antivaccine messages, Russian trolls promoted discord. Accounts masquerading as legitimate users create false equivalency, eroding public consensus on vaccination.

Substitute any other absurd topic. By having any discussion at all, it legitimizes position.
It's not so straightforward to go from a word representation to a query, sentence, or document representation.

If you come from the tfidf direction you can first tune up BM25 or something based on the ks-divergence, then you can use a random matrix, LDA, or the deep-network autoencoder that I worked on that crushed conventional tfidf vectors to 50-d vectors.

(Like many things people want to apply word vectors to, you go from 50% accuracy here to 70%, but we know it because we tested it on TREC gov2)

Today I'm interested in systems that have an input-to-action orientation and there you have to be able to put together a story like: "these 10 messages are parsed correctly and not by accident" and that requires that certain 'king/queen' inferences be done correctly or alternately the system has paths to recover from missing an inference.

Often there is no path to go from "popular models in the new A.I." to "something that can serve customers off the leash" and that's the problem.

Now I do like subword embeddings, but that just points out the problem that there is no such thing as a "word".

Let me justify that.

You can split up English into words like "some text".split() but it is not easy to do it from audio. Speech is punctuated by silences, often in the middle of words whenever you make a "[st]op" sound enough that separating words is equivalent to the whole speech understanding problem.

We can turn words into subwords and mash them together with subwords to make words. (e.g. "Fourthmeal", "Juneteenth", "Nihilego")

Also there are many cases you can replace a phrase with a word or a word with a phrase. Putting 'word' at the center of a model means the system is going to be in trouble w/ linguistic phenomena that happen 30% of the time.
The ad with the downwards red triangles had me spooked, personally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-cam...
ah, that makes sense. I don't deploy to macos.
That's entirely our industry's fault. After all, there are no files anymore, just cloud documents on remote websites.
It's not so dissimilar to the Tea Party movement in its early days. That was a fringe tax-revolt movement that relied heavily on misconceptions and ignorance about how progressive taxation works and who benefits from social spending; and it really took off when it gained assistance from private capital and public figures.
> Being able to just ssh into a machine is one of the problems that we did solve with containers.

you should be able to ssh into a machine and strace a process to see why something is going wrong. If your only solution is always "restart the container" or "revert to an old container" or "only deploy containers that are known to work" you're not actually debugging extant problems.
I am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns by state actors), but unless it is in the redacted parts, it is not there. But even casually investigating banned Twitter accounts used for Russian propaganda, you see a lot of clear connections with the "totally organic" Christian MAGA Qanon soccer mom accounts.

Leaves me mere speculation: I believe Q was initially conceived in case Trump had lost the election. It was to be a group of useful idiots/unwitting agents protesting about the "rigged" election, maybe even riled up to the point of taking up arms. Then when Trump won it was repurposed to sow disinformation about child sacrifice and child porn rings by the elite democrats. 9/11 saw the same thing: Massive efforts by Russia and Middle Eastern countries to seed inside job conspiracy theories. With the result that many Americans now believe 9/11 was an inside job, and can't really trust their government anymore (social cohesion damaged).

I believe some of these unwitting agents are so impressionable and gullible, that they can be made to act as "manchurian candidates", doing the bidding of foreign intelligence agencies (spreading propaganda, muddying the waters with disinformation and conspiracy, picking up a gun and going out to free children from a basement of a pizza parlor). I believe these intel agencies are able to infiltrate grassroots movements and subvert their ideals to be hostile to their host countries. I believe these agencies are able to create fake online realities, where unwitting agents are made to be believe they are part of something big, and everyone agrees with them, while they are psychologically manipulated.
What's the pricing?
I've read the GP 3 times now and I can't find any mention of HVAC... Did it get edited or something?
This is the result of under funding education, and allowing the boundary between church and state to blur. Those with a religious fairy tale cause and effect understanding of reality, QAnon makes perfect sense. While anyone with a firm foundation in reality sees pure nonsense.
There is still some unclarity as to whether or not multiple fines can be issued for different transgressions, there hasn't been such a case yet and nobody has gotten close to the limit so for now this is still grey. But I think that once fined at that level no sane CEO is going to risk getting a second such fine in the same year or even at all.
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It's also worth examining the material itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtjTRYrF8X4&list=PL18vrD9EPj...

and

https://qanon.pub/

are popular stops.

The media is often presenting a less-crazy image of QAnon than it actually is. It is growing in influence:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/11/qanon-facebo...
Have you reached the construction robot tech? It removes the requirement to place items by hand, and the game largely turns into a "planner" game.
"What that means I don't know."

I see you're doing your own research. Very QAnon.
Sorry, you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.

Self hosting our company infrastructure would require hundreds of physical servers. That's the easy part. Put those servers into a room, where they can work, they have power, network etc. Yes, we could move to self hosting. Yes, the company is dead before the servers are shipped, if amazon goes down everywhere and not recover. If they lose a region we are fine.

And we are a medium company.
The design is great, would be nice if it simply saved to localstorage if you don't log in for those who aren't concerned about syncing and backing up.
If you flood the world with crazy conspiracy theories, when news breaks of an actual crazy conspiracy, nobody will notice. Raise the noise level in the signal, do your clandestine activities in the open.
Mozilla provides financial statements as recent as 2018 which will answer some of your questions.
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...

See page 5 for expenses.

There are several comments here about Mozilla needing to save cash. The balance sheet as of 2018 shows 100+ million in cash assets.
If you think what the media tells you about any country is an accurate representation, I have a bridge to sell you.
That’s a better comment! I agree with that. What you said above was not this.
A great "hack" to improve the postal system: Fully fund it. It's been death by a thousand cuts for decades now.
> It’s easier, for me, to write websites that require JS.

Why? You can literally just put HTML on a server an start an HTTP server and you're done. How does JavaScript make that easier?

> Why should I spend time on that 1 lonely user who browses with JavaScript disables when I could focus on maximising value for the other 100,000?

Your webpage will be smaller and faster if you just deliver the HTML. I don't know what your website looks like, but it's not uncommon to see 4 MB of JavaScript transferred just to draw 400 bytes of text on my screen.

Moving HTML from your server to my screen is a solved problem, and using JavaScript to do that is just as silly as using Java, Flash, or Silverlight.
Be that as it may, it makes no sense to replace a public service with a rent seeking operation. Improve the public service, don’t give up and part it out.
The long-term viable approach is to not make forward-backward incompatible migrations in short period of time.

If your system is truly distributed (multiple machines hosting it), then if one server performs migration that deletes the table, then the other server stops working.

You must have 2 checkins and 2 rollouts: Create a new table while maintaingin the old one -- and let it bake in; and then delete the old table a week later (or whatever is your cadence/release cycle).
The WYSIWYG view/editor has been removed: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4020780&pos...
If you look at all the people who achieved military success the great majority of them had the right skills at the right time. Grant and Sherman were field generals who understood how to adapt the new tactics and technology. Eisenhower and Zhukov were staff officers who knew how to juggle the interests of many competing stakeholders. Eisenhower in particular was very light on "expiring skills"
If you want a Ford then the Ford Motor Company is unquestionably a monopoly
Unfair to bats.
Well, it is a horror considering all that Intel ME staff.

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
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Should I not do research and checking?
I’m having trouble engaging with your comment in good faith when it looks like you’re implying that the ability to access messages I have sent that are sitting locked up in my own device makes it “easier to hack”?
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Tella is free during beta (which will likely be for a few more months). We'll introduce paid individual and team plans after that (and keep a free tier). However, we don't have figures on the pricing we can share yet.
Of course I did that, too.
For visual learners - there is no educative image in the page.
Thanks for the tips!

God willing, I’ll try out the same-time same-days tip this weekend and see if I can sustain it for a month. If I can’t make it work, I’ll trial the gym membership tip.

Thanks!
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We can keep learning by playing as we get older, we just change the scope. You have to tend to your curiosity to keep it fit and capable.
Some Black Power and Black Israelite proponents do seem to believe that a very literal, criminal conspiracy is involved in oppressing Blacks, going far beyond the mainstream characterization of "racism". To be sure, these views are not exactly widespread or mainstream in the BLM movement - but they're probably at least as common as belief in the Qanon story.
Montana, probably one of the bigger cities or nearby. Already in the region, but would like to be closer to the mountains.
>Executives and investors aren't hip to the latest software engineering trends, and even if they are, it's not at all common that non-technical executives are asking engineers to rewrite the business in a new framework, this is pretty much never what they want, even in the rare case when that's actually a good idea.

>As far as engineering leadership goes, if they're rewriting the business based on technology fashion they're simply a terrible engineering leader and that is the consensus opinion within the industry.

Yes this is basically always a bad idea. That it's a bad idea and doing it makes you a bad executive/leader/whatever doesn't stop it from happening.

>Finally, the talent pool argument just doesn't square with reality; the JS talent pool is one of the most robust in existence, the idea that businesses are having trouble hiring engineers because their JS frameworks are going out of date is fiction.

You can always find candidates. Whether you can find candidates in your particular locations, for the price your company is willing to pay, that don't require more training or ramp up time learning your framework than your company is willing to privde is another story entirely.

>Wow. That's a very disingenuous twisting of what I wrote. It's not a starwman, it's an extremely common criticism of the js ecosystem, i.e. that it has too much complexity and that all these fancy tools don't contribute much of anything useful except fluff for cowboy programmers to pad their resumes. The use of the word "churn" implies that nothing useful is gained, otherwise it's not "churn" it's "progress" and something to be lauded rather than looked down on.

You aren't the one making the argument, you are picking the version of the argument that fits your argument.

One of the biggest arguments for using vanilla JS is performance, and there are plenty of people arguing against churn and for performance. But you dismissed the performance advantage by saying that people arguing against churn don't care about low level performance.

>"Why we rebuilt our front-end in Rust/Ruby/Go/Haskell etc" blogs hitting the front-page? It's exactly the same damn thing.

I'm sure that will happen.

The difference is that if you decide to work for a C# shop doing Blazor development, they are less likely to switch their company over to Ruby, than a JS shop is to switch to a new framework or introduce new tooling.

If that sounds good to you, then it makes sense to simultaneously dislike the state of the JS ecosystem, yet like the introduction of wasm.
You're onto something here. I hate having a separate calendar and task list. With Tweek I can just scroll down and put unscheduled tasks in the "someday" category. I also love the simple interface which emphasizes canvas size. Honestly, great job. Ideally there would be a robust notification system on the level of Google Calendar.

Semi-related anecdote: This reminds me of those free calendar planner booklets you get in college, in a good way. Before college I didn't use any kind of calendar. On my first day on campus, I got a calendar booklet from a random lady and it changed my life. For some reason at the end of syllabus week I had the impulse to put all the homework deadlines, assignments, exams, etc...from my syllabi into the planner. On top of that I put all the same stuff into my google calendar so that I get multiple notifications ahead of important deadlines.

I was a procrastinator in high school, but in college I had better foresight than most of my peers. I got homework done 1-2 weeks ahead of time. I would get a dopamine rush from crossing an assignment off of my planner. Each semester at the end of syllabus week, I would sit down for a few hours to fill out my calendar booklet and my google calendar. I wouldn't stop studying until I was satisfied with the number of things I scratched off on my booklet - and if I didn't feel like doing the hard stuff, I would do my reading for next week so I have more time for the hard stuff later on. Being productive was as easy as opening this booklet that I carried with me everywhere and just doing the next thing. I was super involved in campus activities because I always had my studies taken care of. If my friends wanted to hang out, I would open the booklet and see if I had enough things crossed off, otherwise they would be met with a prompt "sorry I have stuff to do."

This sounds silly, but I am honestly not sure if I would have excelled so much in college if a random lady didn't give me a calendar booklet as a freshman. To this day I have not found an app that feels the same way that that booklet did for me. It would be wonderful if Tweek can be that app, but I also wonder if there was something special about the dual analog and digital experience of writing on paper + Google Calendar notifications. I would also be able to star, highlight, circle, etc...different deadlines depending on the nature of the deadline and its importance. You can do a lot more than mere color coding on actual physical paper, but that is something that can be replicated in a digital format.

I know the greatest thing about the calendar booklet: the forward feeling it gave me, and the satisfaction I got with scratching off or "defeating" tasks. The ease with which it enabled to pounce on the next thing. The reason I speak about feelings is because hormones and feelings have as much of an impact on your productivity as logic. Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman discusses the importance of feeling which way is forward in this podcast with Joe Rogan https://youtu.be/gLJowTOkZVo
If you'd like to increase the depth of the production tree, consider checking out Pyanodon's mods:

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