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abpavel

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Developing Network Assurance for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.
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abpavel··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
You deserve better
abpavel··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
This is the best answer. Internally, we have to deal with bureaucracies of every country for employment and residencies. Separately.
abpavel··on The kind of company I want to be a part of
> You, as the developer, always know

Definetely not "always".

abpavel··on I Love My Wife, My Wife Is Dead (1946)
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.
abpavel··on Poker Tournament for LLMs
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.
abpavel··on Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June
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.
abpavel··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Because the difference between a prototype and production is 99%
abpavel··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
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.
abpavel··on Show HN: NetFabric – next-gen network monitoring solution
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.
abpavel··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
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.
abpavel··on Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo
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.
abpavel··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
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.
abpavel··on My favorite programming problem to teach: Digit length (2019)
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.
abpavel··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
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.
abpavel··on Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time
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.
abpavel··on Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business
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.
abpavel··on Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business
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.
abpavel··on Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?
'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.

abpavel··on A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
> 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.

abpavel··on Show HN: A/B test Hacker News titles with AI
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.
abpavel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
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 pavel@ipfabric.io
abpavel··on Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
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.

abpavel··on BitTorrent v2
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.
abpavel··on Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server
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.
abpavel··on Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
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

abpavel··on Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
I see a number of issues:

1. no deforestation before July 9th.

2. In 10 days between Aug4 and Aug14 2% of the area was deforested, signifying all forrest will be gone in about 1.5 years. However forrest area in 2015 was almost the same size as reported total. Can't be right. Are you mixing ha and km2 by any chance?

3. No tracking between what is part of Forest Management Act, what are is part of designated production forest, and what is illegal deforestation.

4. No data on loss due to natural causes such as wind, fire, and no data on reforestation numbers.

abpavel··on Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
To talk about the topic, one must first understand about a topic. Citing a twitter number does not help when it's not even known how much was destroyed by winds or fire and how much is reforested. Remember, wood is a renewable source, and chopping down trees is part of healthy forest management.
abpavel··on Wait until you get to picture #30 1875 Howard County Sheriff's House and Jail
Sheriff is a person too. It actually makes sense if he's the only law enforcer in town.
abpavel··on Radioactivity in Tobacco
Incorrect. There is no such thing as safe dose with Radon. You're thinking of gamma rays and 50mSv/year safe limit. You won't find safe limit for Radon. There are guidelines when you should be very concerned, but there is no safe limit.

It decays into radioactive lead, and once we breath it in, it's hard to get rid of, and stays in our bodies.

abpavel··on John Conway has died
I know he resented to be known for the game of life, because of all the other wonderful works, but it will forever standout in our memories of him because of profound influence it had on us.
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