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trevordixon

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trevordixon··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Using all that asphalt doesn't increase throughput at the chokepoint, right? If the queue is long enough that people who want to exit before the chokepoint are needlessly prevented from accessing the exit, then using all the lanes could help, but it won't get anybody through the chokepoint any faster that I can tell.
trevordixon··on It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
My naive understanding is that forceless spacetime distortion predicts somewhat different things than the old model. That's how general relativity finally explained the procession of Mercury's orbit for example.
trevordixon··on Ask HN: Suggest features my Ngrok alternative that doesn't require downloads
Ssh can do TUN/TAP tunneling. There might be some cool lightweight VPN features you could enable using that. I do serveo.net by the way!
trevordixon··on Best Ngrok Alternatives in 2023
I run another alternative serveo.net. As far as I can tell, it was the first or second to use SSH for the client/transport. It was down for a couple years but is running again since March.
trevordixon··on The toll of dating app burnout
Are you satisfied with your friendships? I daresay it's more important to have abundant friendship than any romance, besides the fact that friendship leads to love.
trevordixon··on Show HN: This website is valid JSON
My resume is an XML document and a stylesheet I feed to Prince (https://www.princexml.com/), which is an amazing piece of software. I also used it once to generate a book I had printed by some on-demand printing company. I got great output out of it.
trevordixon··on Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
Because a few hundred people upvoted it over the last few hours. That I know for sure, though I can't speak to their reasons for visiting HN in the first place.
trevordixon··on This Artwork Does Not Exist
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedernorrby/sets/7215763227711...
trevordixon··on Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used
Security and simplicity. Such a low-maintenance system. When I sign in to any Chromebook, my wallpaper, shortcuts, and settings are just as I left them. For example, I may never have to find the setting to maps caps lock to escape ever again if I stick to ChromeOS.
trevordixon··on The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019
Certain placebos only work when administered by a doctor in a clinic (heard it on some podcast once). Seems like ketamine could have different effects in different environments.
trevordixon··on TypeScript 3.7
Could do something like this:

    async function test() {
        const promise = Math.random() < 0.5 ?
                        Promise.resolve('wow') :
                        Promise.reject('oops');
        try {
            await promise;
        } catch (e) {
            console.log('caught');
            return;
        }
        const result = await promise;
        console.log('result', result);
    }
    test();
trevordixon··on قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
> Programming in a foreign language is a pretty significant barrier.

There are only a handful of English words you have to memorize. Music students have to memorize a handful of Italian words to follow written music. It hasn't been a problem.

trevordixon··on Show HN: Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet
https://serveo.net is similar.
trevordixon··on Serveo: Expose Local Servers to the Internet
Hey cool, this is my side project! I've been trying to think of other interesting things to add to the project. For example, OpenSSH can do TUN/TAP tunneling, so you can use SSH as a proper VPN. (See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VPN_over_SSH)

How could that be useful in Serveo? How else could SSH be used creatively?

trevordixon··on Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?
I run https://serveo.net. Lets you expose local services through a proxy server (a la ngrok), but uses SSH as the transport, so there's nothing to install.
trevordixon··on Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor
The reason I switched to Lambda was to handle bursts. Occasionally some teacher would have a classroom open LilyBin, and my one server couldn't compile 30 scores at once. Lambda made it easy to handle.

Hacklily is great! Obviously doing fine with the HN burst! I may just point people to yours at some point.

trevordixon··on Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor
Very cool! I run LilyBin (http://lilybin.com), which I've unfortunately let languish. I compile using AWS Lambda and stay within the free tier. Did you consider using Lambda?
trevordixon··on Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
We certainly have our strengths, but also our own unique mix of sins.
trevordixon··on Hosted reverse tunnel to your SSH server; uses nothing but SSH
Serveo is my side project. It's similar to ngrok, but only uses SSH as the client.

With this feature, you can set up a reverse tunnel to an SSH server:

ssh -R my-alias:22:localhost:22 serveo.net (on the machine where sshd is running)

Then conveniently connect to it over the internet:

ssh -J serveo.net user@my-alias

trevordixon··on Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly
I run a service that fixes this problem. https://serveo.net/ It uses SSH port forwarding to proxy public HTTPS traffic to your local server.
trevordixon··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
MarkMonitor. Out of my league!
trevordixon··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
Google Domains. I asked:

> How is abuse reported? Can I be made aware of reports of abuse before the domain is suspended?

And support responded:

> Abuse reports can be submitted to our Abuse Team via email using registrar-abuse@google.com where reports are analyzed and investigated further. Warnings are not given out, however, unless the reporter also reached out to the registrant of the domain in question. If a domain has been found to be in violation of our terms of service, the necessary actions are taken.

trevordixon··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
Yep, I've learned that hosting other people's stuff on your domain will harm the domain's reputation. Use a different domain for user content, and make it fungible.
trevordixon··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
My registrar suspended my domain because an abusive user was using a subdomain for phishing. They told me they can't inform me first of abuse so I can deal with it; they'll suspend the domain immediately.

Who's a good registrar that will contact me first if they get an abuse report?

trevordixon··on Reverse tunnel to your SSH server over SSH
Serveo is my side project. It's similar to ngrok, but only uses SSH as the client.

With this new feature, you can set up a reverse tunnel to an SSH server:

ssh -R my-alias:22:localhost:22 serveo.net

Then conveniently connect to it over the internet:

ssh -J serveo.net user@my-alias

trevordixon··on How to send local files to Chromecast with Python
I have http://movies.foamsnet.com/url/ bookmarked. Give it a URL, and it will send it to Chromecast and provide playback controls in your browser.
trevordixon··on Ask HN: Blindsided by massive counter offer
Ask for more! They've been paying you as little as they could get away with, and they're now realizing they underestimated. Ask them to significantly beat the other offer to make up for the past underpaid years. If they're only willing to match it, they're still paying you as little as they have to. Take your allegiance elsewhere.
trevordixon··on Show HN: Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address
ngrok link https://ngrok.com/product/ngrok-link is definitely meant to be used for production stuff.
trevordixon··on Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
I may try that next time. I'm a beginner and used https://arch-anywhere.org/ to install. It was as easy for me as installing Ubuntu.
trevordixon··on Show HN: Localname – Secure Access to Your Local Development Server
"It’s a beautiful and simple to use macOS app that just works out of the box."

"Localname doesn’t require any configurations and you don’t have to fiddle with cryptic command line parameters."

That seems to be the main difference.

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