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dualvectorfoil

127 karma · joined February 11, 2021

Head of data, lapsed HN lurker, erstwhile physicist.

Interested in: - Databases - Narratives - MMT - Biology

Strongly believe that the highest form of wisdom is kindness.

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dualvectorfoil··on Auth0 Down
What alternatives to Auth0 are worth looking into? Between this P0 (with no ability to check the status or file a ticket) and the Okta acquisition, I hesitate to continue using Auth0 as the default when spinning up new web apps.
dualvectorfoil··on Auth0 Down
I believe it still does: https://status.auth0.com/
dualvectorfoil··on Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough
Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I was surprised to learn that lucid dreaming is a skill that can be practiced, rather than a random occurrence.

Here’s a previous HN thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047370, and the main subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming.

dualvectorfoil··on Dante: Our Medieval Contemporary
Despite reading the Inferno in college and finding it quite interesting, I only recently learned that it was part of a trilogy.

Does anyone know why the Inferno appears to be more widely read than Purgatorio or Paradiso?

dualvectorfoil··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
Unrelated to the algorithm, I’ve found that doing things “by hand” is a surprisingly good way to develop intuition for otherwise opaque concepts. I wonder if it’s a function of doing work more slowly or paying closer attention. Examples include writing code written by others and working through math on paper.
dualvectorfoil··on Where do you go for Customer Discovery?
You go to where your customers are. If you’re building for yourself, find people like you. If you’re building for someone else, reach out to them cold, then ask them to refer you to people like them. If you’re building something they want, they will refer their friends.

The best book on the subject is the “Startup Owner’s Manual.” If you’re starting a B2B company, try “Lean B2B.”

dualvectorfoil··on Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice
Original study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.6420...