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Star rating doesn't help here

They are not morally equivalent but they are both morally deviant for different reasons.

You could say Hamas is more evil in intent though but Israel more evil by measure of death, destruction, displacement, imprisonment, war crimes, since they have the power to function as a free economy unlike Palestine which is occupied by Israel and they get arms and money from US tax payers.

parriton You could just choose optimism

en-dash my friend

parriton The Cannae Problem

Action is more important than intent. I'm sure many at Kodak knew that digital was a threat too. Organisational resistance prevents knowledge turning into action.

parriton Normalizing Ratings

For uber you don't need a rating at all. The tracking system knows if they were late, if they took a good route and if they dropped you off at the wrong location.

Anything really bad can be dealt with via a complaint system.

Anything exceptional could be asked by a free text field when giving a tip.

Who is going to read all those text fields and classify them? AI!

parriton Normalizing Ratings

https://xkcd.com/1098/

https://xkcd.com/937/

parriton How do I help a key employee stuck in Kafkaesque immigration limbo?

Or relocate the business to an immigration friendly jurisdiction. Korea maybe?

parriton Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups

Thanks! That was a pleasant read. I have been wanting to mess with cgroups for a while, in order to hack together a "docker" like many have done before to understand it better. This will help!

Are there typical use cases where you reach for cgroups directly instead of using the container abstraction?

parriton Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

If I see a cute cartoon with a cryptocurrency mining like "KHash/s" thing I am gonna leave that site real quick!

It should explain it isn't mining and just verifying the browser or such.

parriton All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

Why not? They develop an OS when they could use Linux.

parriton Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

Eye roll. I get capitalism. It's OK. Just say "we do capitalism". Why pretend otherwise?

parriton Third party cookies must be removed

Proxies for analytics are already a thing. E.g. plausable shows you how to set one up. A 3rd party cookie can however be the same value sent again and again from the same browser from different sites to the central server tracking you across the web. The global who you are is in the cookie.

parriton Redis is open source again

So nice to hear talk like that in the AI "your code is worthless age". Keep the craft going!

parriton Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

That's the point. "$175k is good enough for me" doesn't mean much, especially as they also have a large stake in the company (not an assumption) as well as possibly other advantages (or not, they dont divulge).

Don't get me wrong. Rethinking comp is great and they are paying well. But you can't make the argument that X is enough for founders (plus let's forget equity!!) and so X is generous for everyone.

parriton Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

Yeah $175k plus 30% say stake in high growth company plus already owns home plus parents help woth kids and they own home nearby is different to $175k none of above.

parriton 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Your brain is analysing the light in the "room" when zoomed out and compared to that it looks moist. When you zoom in there is no reference. I think then the brain switches from "real scene" analysis to "abstract".

It is a bit like those illusions where one grey looks darker than the other, based on surrounding shadows in the image and what the brain assumes... but the RGB values are the same.

parriton All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

Microsoft and Apple can afford to keep developing a browser. Hopefully FF can get money from another knowledge discovery company e.g. Anthropic? OpenAI?

parriton Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)

I wonder what stopped me being at that level. Mostly attitude, fear and perhaps aptitude. I liked things that were easy to install and follow tutorials. I got into Visual C++ as it actually installed as opposed to a magazine cover Linux distributionn that barely run. I think having the main system (gotta get those grades) takes most of the energy for most people. Either those who are happy to drop out or genius enough to both study and hack survive to do really cool stuff.

parriton I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

Well done. No mean fear getting to 250k. I hope you can get to 1M as hiring people with just 250K is challenging (unless you are not paying yourself).

parriton I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

It wouldn't exist at all. It isn't AI.

parriton Ask HN: Resources for LeetCode Grinding?

Leetcode

parriton Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule

That doesn't apply to Trump. s/law/what actually goes down/

parriton Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive

It is even better to have 100 functions work on 100 data structures. Powerful programming languages like Lisp and Haskell give you that. Generics gives you most of that.

If every ounce of performance matters, e.g. in a database, you want 10000 functions, 100 for each data structure.

parriton Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

So if you now hide my original comment and try to recall what I said, do you know it word for word (and are thinking if every word, e.g. did I use one or 2 spaces somewhere as that would change tokens) or do you have a rough concept of what I said?

OTOH if you had to remember a phone number to write it down, how does that differ?

parriton First, They Came for the Software Engineers

But compilers write 99.99% of all machine code in production. We should be out of a job, right.

parriton I Can Hear Thoughts

https://archive.is/UGeo9

parriton About the 10k applicants 1 hire post

Good reason to avoid AI jobs.

parriton Show HN: Abra Actions – Plug-in AI assistant that executes front end functions

Looks handy! So it is all done front the front end? And piggy backs on the fact the user is already authenticated?

parriton Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

What an LLM does is stuff it all into short term memory. Humans dump the first pages into long term memory and "make sense" of it. Humans have a massive context window because of this (and sheer brain size and efficiency).