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Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by lonk11 »

jordwest wrote: post #88

I want to bring back old school distributed forum communities but modernise them in a way that respects attention and isn’t a notification factory. Mastodon is a pretty inspirational project but the Twitter influence shows, I miss the long form writing that was encouraged before our attention spans were eroded. Not at all close to solving it, but it’s been on my mind for a long time. Would love to hear if there are o…

I am building a project (https://linklonk.com) that does information discovery in a way that respects your attention. In short, when you upvote content you connect to other people upvoted that content and to feeds that posted that content. So to get your attention other users need to prove to be a good curator of content for you.

I'm planning to do a "Show HN" post next week for it and would appreciate any feedback that I could address before it. We have about 4 active users and a couple more would be great.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by jaxx75 »

jordwest wrote: post #88

I want to bring back old school distributed forum communities but modernise them in a way that respects attention and isn’t a notification factory. Mastodon is a pretty inspirational project but the Twitter influence shows, I miss the long form writing that was encouraged before our attention spans were eroded. Not at all close to solving it, but it’s been on my mind for a long time. Would love to hear if there are o…

Looking forward to see where you go. I used forums primarily for my automotive hobbies, but they all seemed to have died around 2013-2015 as Facebook groups took over. Still, forums are often the best place to find good information. I worry about the day that Facebook solves the search and weekly "repeat topic" problems that are the only thing holding it back.

It's a shame phpbb, vbullettin and other big players in the space were too slow to adapt to mobile.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by bestcoder69 »

ooaaythrwwy wrote: post #104

This isn't a technical question, but it's a problem I'm going to have to solve soon! I just accepted an EM role at a FAANG. This is a career "boomerang" for me - I was an engineer in the past, but then moved into technical support management. I'm coming back to engineering, but this is the first time I will have done it at a large company. All of my engineering experience has been at small scrappy startups where we j…

(Caveat: not an EM myself)

This guy made the switch from dev to EM and has written articles on running effective teams,(e.g. one on how to help devs act as project leads) and even has resources like the docs he sends to tech leads when they start a new project, w/ lists of responsibilities etc: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transi... (just linking to the most directly applicable article but definitely browse around)

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by ibaikov »

I could really use some help with adversarial attacks.

If there's someone trying to use CV to recognize stuff and we are trying to prevent it (basically, a black box situation) - is it viable to use adversarial attacks at all?

Will it work long term? Can they overcome our AA by downsampling and adding noise? Can we make another AA that would still prevent them using CV? If it's better to chat elsewhere - my Twitter is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by qchris »

PhilippGille wrote: post #55
pedrokost wrote: post #27

We are experiencing very high CPU load caused by tinc [0], which we use to ensure all communication between cloud VMs is encrypted. This is primarily affecting the highest traffic VMs, including the one hosting the master DB. I am starting to consider alternative tools such us wireguard to reduce load, but I am concerned of adding too much complexity. Tinc's mesh network makes setup and maintenance easy. The wireguar…

Apart from some smaller projects building on top of WireGuard, there's Tailscale [1]. One of the founders is Brad Fitzpatrick who worked on the Go team at Google before and built memcached and perkeep in the past. Outside of the WireGuard ecosystem there's ZeroTier [2] which has been around for a while and they're working on a new version; and Nebula [3] from Slack, which is likely to be maintained as long as Slack u…

Similar to Tailscale is the Innernet project, which has similar goals but is fully open source (also built on Wireguard). I've heard that set-up is a bit more painful, but for those who are interested in FOSS or self-hosting, it might be worth looking into.

[1] https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

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Post by high_byte »

ibaikov wrote: post #125

I could really use some help with adversarial attacks. If there's someone trying to use CV to recognize stuff and we are trying to prevent it (basically, a black box situation) - is it viable to use adversarial attacks at all? Will it work long term? Can they overcome our AA by downsampling and adding noise? Can we make another AA that would still prevent them using CV? If it's better to chat elsewhere - my Twitter i…

every week I read about autonomous driving adversarial attack, so I would say it is beyond feasible.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by spiralganglion »

davehcker wrote: post #48

I have posted this here before- hexafarms.com. I am trying to use ML to discover optimal phenotype for growing plants in vertical indoor farms to a. have the higest quality produce b. to lower the cost of producing leafy green/med plants, etc. within cities itself. Basically, every leafy green (and herbs, and even mushrooms), can grow in a range of climatic condition (phenotype, roughly) ie temperature, humidity, wat…

Reminder to focus on nutritive content, flavour, and crop diversity, not just yield. The past 100 years of industrial scale agriculture, with the singular goal of maximizing yields, has done incredible harm. (This has come up on HN repeatedly, so I trust you've seen it, but it's worth championing)
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