Hacker News: stefek99

New comment by stefek99 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

stefek99 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:04:31 +0000

Each government should run a drill backup exercise.

New comment by stefek99 in "ChatGPT Search"

stefek99 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:37:31 +0000

> "Who Gets To Decide What Is True?"

Independent Tribunal: https://www.independenttribunal.org/ (a project of mine)

Even in the of law there are various schenanigans and loopholes such as "legally true" :)

New comment by stefek99 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

stefek99 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:37:13 +0000

FYI, that is a long sentence, a few industry jargon lingo that I wasn't familiar with:

> "Cisco ThousandEyes is a digital experience assurance (DXA) SaaS platform which applies machine-learning capabilities on top of synthetic active monitoring conducted from points of visibility around the world to surface actionable insights about the performance and reliability of critical applications and network infrastructure and provide customers a way to go from a telescope view to a microscope view of any issue to understand its blast radius and quickly get to MTTI/MTTR."

New comment by stefek99 in "2M users but no money in the bank"

stefek99 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:42:02 +0000

Brilliant, genius idea, defo worth trying.

New comment by stefek99 in "2M users but no money in the bank"

stefek99 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:13:39 +0000

Archchair business strategist, snippet from the homepage: "Exercism is fun, effective and 100% free, forever"

Business model: "I've lost faith in the nonprofit business model"

Also noting changing in the IT market, tech layoffs, AI revolution, less demand for tech workers.

Hope it will work out for you!

New comment by stefek99 in "Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)"

stefek99 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:42:25 +0000

SOP = standard operating procedure.

I would be surprised if it was otherwise.

New comment by stefek99 in "Light Tech Backpack: 10 Tools to Defend Your Attention"

stefek99 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:33:55 +0000

Why no screen Fridays, as opposed to a weekend day?

New comment by stefek99 in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

stefek99 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:08:41 +0000

Worth differentiating recreational drugs that are not perfectly fine to use and continue with normal (if not better) life.

Fentanyl. Opioid epidemics. Addition as business model.

See the chart: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-...

I'm worried that cannabis is less likely to be legalised elsewhere due to pharma drugs being so harmful.

New comment by stefek99 in "AI Alignment Metric: Life"

stefek99 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:48:17 +0000

The mirror publishing platform does not support comments yet - posting to HN to faciliate discussion

AI Alignment Metric: Life

stefek99 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:48:17 +0000

Article URL: https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/ETK6RXnmgeNcALabcIE3k3-d-NqOHqEj8dU1_0J6cUg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37345440

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by stefek99 in "Discord is not documentation"

stefek99 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:10:22 +0000

Search function? I always use search... Much faster than trying to put stuff in docs.

New comment by stefek99 in "Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud"

stefek99 — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:50:14 +0000

This is exactly stuff I'm interested in, factual source information, as opposed to media bullshit.

New comment by stefek99 in "The concurrence of three climatic events"

stefek99 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:06:25 +0000

> "pandemic that is still ongoing but mostly ignored by global media"

That is good right? Watch the PART 2: https://plandemicseries.com/ (Event 201)

Putin captured media headlines. Speaking of Putin, Russia is probably the only country that benefits from melting Arctic - opening Northwest Passage - figured it out after debating with a bunch of climate change deniers on Twitter.

(I enjoy debating, I had fun doing it, at some point they were quitting, if they were like me they would continue debating)

In all seriousness, I'm working on Metacrisis - a new term reaching mainstream consciousness:

— Runaway climate change + food system + global hunger

— Economic inequality + compound interest + exponential growth on finite planet

— Nuclear proliferation + pandemics + lost trust in media + lost trust in government

— Regulation of AI + polarisation and engagement metrics + mental health

Problem well defined is problem half solved

New comment by stefek99 in "De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)"

stefek99 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:37:32 +0000

This should be illegal.

Luckily we have regulators to prevent such abuses.

New comment by stefek99 in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

stefek99 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:48:47 +0000

Firefox is guilty of the same thing. I was spinnign some VM in the cloud and I was WTF Firefox showing me all this crap on the homepage.

New comment by stefek99 in "It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it"

stefek99 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:46:01 +0000

Once upon a time - corporate environment - budget for learning - I've sent the title of the book and the link - intention to supporting the author.

The PDF was available on the 1st page of Google. At the end we did not complete the purchase - person responsible for shopping sent me pirated copy.

(I hear what you say)

New comment by stefek99 in "Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?"

stefek99 — Sat, 14 May 2022 14:36:18 +0000

Haters gonna hate.

Builders gonna build.

The most impactful technology since the internet.

Changes trust, governance, economy, incentives.

Changes everything.

New comment by stefek99 in "$625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network"

stefek99 — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:06:01 +0000

I guess there is no point trying to convince you?

The most important technology since the internet.

Changes the foundation of trust, governance, economy, incentives.

New operating system for humanity.

(and there is no way to stop it, countries who will ban it will go into dark ages while other will prosper)

New comment by stefek99 in "Google Search Is Dying"

stefek99 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:07:17 +0000

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED

Screenshot of the error code: https://imgur.com/URyK4N2

Probably / most likely too much traffic (1st result on Hacker News with 3503 points which is pretty high)

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220215203539/https://dkb.io/po...

New comment by stefek99 in "Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies"

stefek99 — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:24:57 +0000

Blockchain is the most impactful technology since the internet.

It changes everything - foundation of trust. New economy. New incentives.

“If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

I'm pretty sure some people were angry at the internet 30 years ago.