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New comment by diafygi in "Haunted by Data (2015)"

diafygi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:08:34 +0000

This presentation is also recorded here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk

Haunted by Data (2015)

diafygi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776967

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by diafygi in "Who Will Command the Robot Armies? (2016)"

diafygi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:33:26 +0000

A video of this talk is also available to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-Ktqhlloc

Who Will Command the Robot Armies? (2016)

diafygi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/robot_armies.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585830

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by diafygi in "Who Will Command the Robot Armies? (2016)"

diafygi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:18:53 +0000

A video of this talk is also available to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-Ktqhlloc

Who Will Command the Robot Armies? (2016)

diafygi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/robot_armies.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198503

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by diafygi in "Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship"

diafygi — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:37:09 +0000

> Failure to pick problems that are relevant for both will result in increased decision making complexity at all levels of the organisation: do we optimise for impact (the environmental problem) or for revenue (the customer’s problem)?

I've been an climate tech entrepreneur for the past 7+ years, and the most reliable way I've found to accomplish the combo viable-business + climate-impact:

1. Get a job at a revenue generating climate-change-fighting company (solar, EVs, policy/regulatory consulting, etc.).

2. Keep your eyes open for pain points that your company (or especially you in your position) would pay money to solve.

3. Quit and start a company solving that pain point (or if you're not the founder-type, go work for a company trying to solve that pain point).

I suppose this kind of strategy would work in many other industries, but it's especially effective in climate tech, because:

(a) As OP mentions, the pain points are very hidden to the general public, so you really need to be actually working inside the industry to find and understand them (since energy often has very complex business models and regulatory constructs).

(b) By focusing on finding pain points for already climate-change-fighting companies and solving them, your impact goals are already built-in, since you're enabling more impact by default. So you don't have to worry as much about finding the magical combo of viable-business + impact.

(c) The climate-change-fighting sector is so young that many of the pain points are still major issues and don't have many viable solutions yet. In other more mature industries, many pain points already have established companies solving them, so there's less of green field for new companies.

Anyway, for people looking to fight climate change, by far the biggest thing you can do is join the industry and make a career out of it. There's so much ceiling here!

Show HN: Vax.Codes – Open-source Covid-19 vaccine verification QR codes

diafygi — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://vax.codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26546384

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Vax.Codes – Open-source Covid-19 vaccine verification QR codes

diafygi — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:46:46 +0000

Article URL: https://vax.codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423940

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by diafygi in "Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics"

diafygi — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:45:08 +0000

Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.

New comment by diafygi in "One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey"

diafygi — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 21:19:07 +0000

You sign the envelope containing your ballot. Then, when they receive it, they verify the outer envelope is proper (signature, etc.). If accepted, they open the envelope and dump your ballot into the box of accepted ballots. Finally, later, they open the box and count the ballots.

This process keeps your vote anonymous.

New comment by diafygi in "Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera"

diafygi — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:28:43 +0000

The EFF sells some removable stickers that cover your laptop camera while still being able to close the lid fully.

https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

Been using them for years, and they work great!

New comment by diafygi in "“Seems like the type of job where you’re only noticed when you make a mistake”"

diafygi — Sun, 17 May 2020 16:23:34 +0000

While it may not be a good idea for an individual to do this type of job, it can be quite lucrative for a business.

If you're a business that can get its products embedded into the "default procedure" of your customers and only get noticed if you don't work (e.g. Stripe, Twilio, AWS, etc.), customer churn is minimized and continued revenue is the default.

New comment by diafygi in "The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks"

diafygi — Sun, 17 May 2020 05:11:20 +0000

In the past, a team would wait until the statue of limitations had lapsed before publishing their evidence.

https://jalopnik.com/alex-roy-reveals-transcontinental-run-c...

Bootstrap Native

diafygi — Wed, 13 May 2020 11:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thednp/bootstrap.native

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165809

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by diafygi in "No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body"

diafygi — Wed, 06 May 2020 16:06:02 +0000

Is there a setting in Firefox that allows you to whitelist specific cookies and ignore all others?

That combined with Firefox Containers would make for a very powerful combination since you could have different containers that would be your logged-in interface to a specific site, without then having to allow other sites be able to set cookies.

New comment by diafygi in "OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice"

diafygi — Wed, 06 May 2020 04:25:50 +0000

Have a link?

New comment by diafygi in "OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice"

diafygi — Wed, 06 May 2020 04:24:43 +0000

Do you have any examples of this?

New comment by diafygi in "Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi"

diafygi — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:35:10 +0000

Is there a way to integrate a phone call-in number to Jitsi? Maybe via Twilio or something?

New comment by diafygi in "Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]"

diafygi — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:59:27 +0000

Keep in mind that state unemployment websites and call centers are often overloaded and there are many complaints that people can't even file in the first place.

It's is highly likely that these high numbers continue for additional weeks because all the people who couldn't get through will manage to get through in upcoming weeks.