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I have been on a similar journey. It's been a trying endeavour but my spirits are buoyed knowing now that I am not alone.

One I found last week, FullHost, is Victoria-based with multiple datacentres in Canada and the US. I'm not sure if they support everything you're looking for.

https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/

I gave OVH a try a couple weeks ago. It's difficult to explain what the user experience is like. It's like a byzantine interpretation of what cloud computing is all about. Beyond that I tried both their VPSs and the Cloud instances. The VPSs are very well priced but there's no private network so each instance is on its own. I read (but didn't verify myself) that the firewall rules only apply to inbound connections so any other VPS can connect to any port on any other VPS (of any customer). It seemed plausible. So I got a refund on those and tried the Cloud Instances. I could get any to boot up. Just a long delay and a few minutes later an error message and a failed state.

So I've been working with DigitalOcean this past week. Literally 20 minutes ago figured out that my app's verification emails stop sending b/c they now block all SMTP ports. Incoming I can understand to prevent people running their own mail servers, but it seems to also apply to connecting to remote SMTP servers. Wild. I opened a ticket and I'm hoping I just missed something.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

Anyway, that's what brought me to HN today. Overall, I'm just really surprised their aren't cloud hosting options in Canada right now. There used to be a few but at least two of them were acquired and absorbed.

Thanks, I hadn't seen this.

Thanks, this is a big help.

At Hetzner, in one of the data centers in Germany.

There's a bit more info on our blog:

https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-12-ddos-day-4

https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-09-denial-of-ser...

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you have to invent the universe.

Wow, yeah. "Bringing backend features to files."

This feels a bit like that time we saw Etherpad playback for the first time. I'm just not sure if I've grokked the big picture yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336

If it works like Jupyter, as a file that can be version controlled, and like Deepnote where multiple people can be viewing/working on it at the same time, my mind would be blown.

In LM Studio you can branch off of any message to start a new conversation at that point: https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/assets/1206/f...

https://lmstudio.ai

In B.C. (British Columbia), there were over 2500 overdose deaths just last year. ~85% involving fentanyl.

[The chief coroner] said almost 14,000 people have died since the province declared toxic drugs a public health emergency in April 2016.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-gri...

You don't need to check every one though. Or any. You create a known account with known content in it (similar to your hash idea) and monitor that.

Even if they never got around to automating it and were highly laissez-faire, manually checking that account with those testcases say once a month would have caught this within 30 days. That still sucks but it's at least an order of magnitude less suck than the situation they're in now.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for the mention. That was an interesting read!

Crafting descriptions of an artist and/or individual works may function as a reasonable replacement for specific names. That's what's happening behind the scenes anyway.

It's an interesting problem. Like, what's the point of conception for a work of art?

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

That's one part of it.

I can't speak for mike_d specifically, but there is a concern with having (potentially significant) modifications made to the codebase that aren't surfaced in the release notes. I imagine closed-source projects do this on a regular basis whether customers know (or care) or not.

The expectations for opensource projects are different though, particularly when it comes to system-level or near system-level components. So not being able to access the functionality is a great default but it doesn't address side effects of the changes or the desire to know about changes being made in our environments.

Quantified Citizen | Multiple Positions | Vancouver, BC | REMOTE | Full-Time

Quantified Citizen is a Canadian-based mobile health startup developing solutions to disrupt the clinical and health product research markets. We give professional researchers a way to easily create their own scientific studies, while building a movement towards more timely insights into the latest health research for citizens of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on psychedelic research and therapy.

https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/

We're hiring experienced engineers to help us build out the latest version of our mobile and web app products. We're looking for product-minded people that are comfortable both leading/mentoring a team and working independently, and have an interest contributing to product decisions.

Some of the technologies we use: Elixir/Phoenix, Dart/Flutter, Python/Pandas/NumPy/SciPy, QuickSight, Power BI, ggplot2, D3, even Excel spreadsheets from time to time.

Positions we're currently hiring for: Data Analyst QA Engineer Director of Research Backend Engineer UI/UX

More information about the positions and how to apply is available here: https://www.notion.so/quant/Work-at-Quantified-Citizen-a298b...

For technical positions, you can also apply here: https://github.com/qcitizen/qc-apply

In practical terms, IP could be referred to as unique advantages. What is the purpose of an organization that has no unique qualities?

In general, what is IP and how it's enforced are two separate things. Just because we've used copyright and patents to "protect" an organization's unique advantages, doesn't mean we need to keep using them in the same way. Or maybe it's the best we can do for now. That's why BSD style licences are so great.

Quantified Citizen | Senior Mobile Engineer | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Vancouver, BC | REMOTE | Full-Time

Quantified Citizen is a Canadian-based mobile health startup developing solutions to disrupt the clinical and health product research markets. We empower professional researchers to easily create their own scientific studies, while building a movement towards more timely insights into the latest health research for citizens of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on psychedelic research and therapy.

We are hiring experienced engineers to help us build out our mobile and web app products. We love product-minded engineers that are comfortable both managing a team and working independently, and love to contribute to product decisions. Our tech stack is built from the ground up on Elixir/Phoenix and Flutter/Dart.

We launched our flagship mobile research app [1] in November 2019 on the Joe Rogan Experience [2] and have since had over 35,000 iOS app installs with a 4.8 star rating. Among our flagship studies, we've partnered with world-famous mycologist Paul Stamets [3] on a UBC research ethics approved 12,000+ participant correlational study [4] on the effects of microdosing psychedelic substances on cognitive performance and mental health. We've also partnered with award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg on a 5,000 participant Gratitude Study.

Apply here: https://github.com/qcitizen/apply

More information about working at QC: https://www.notion.so/quant/Work-at-Quantified-Citizen-a298b...

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[0] https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/quantified-citizen/id1485884140

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6Ym719urg&feature=youtu.be...

[3] https://paulstamets.com/

[4] https://microdose.me/

[5] https://movingart.com/

[6] https://www.gratitudestudy.com/

Yeah but did you win the Putnam tho?

Wow, that is a reckless implementation.

05:00 GMT last night

:-?

Also, Y Combinator has never referred to themselves as an accelerator.

Ranked by upvotes from users who signed up in the first year. It was made as a counter argument to the idea that the site was declining in quality.

Thanks for mentioning One-Time Secret. It used to support view limits but I removed the option to avoid the scenario where someone thinks it can be viewed only once but ends up still being available. It simplifies the UI as well.

I made the command line tool on a whim and it became surprisingly useful. I copy a lot of config files around that way.

Your opinion might change after someone sends messages to your contacts as you by spoofing your phone number (very easy).

The line between being helping and selling is ambiguous. My hunch is that you're being downvoted because recuter didn't state a specific need, just that "most clones are pretty terrible".

svn is fine for very small, highly co-ordinated teams which is rare in a corporate environment. It's decidedly not fine for complex merging, development outside of the private network, or maintaining multiple versions of the same codebase (customer installs) among other things.

Packaging systems that are not language specific were created to solve this exact problem. Making the switch is a sensible decision that has nothing to do with Rubygems.

Your project is maturing which is great. There's no need to throw the technology that helped get you there under the bus.