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New comment by kaba0 in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

kaba0 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:57:25 +0000

The Nakba is not without prior history either.

It's simply the most complex sociopolitical issue on Earth today, if not ever in human history, it can't be "summed up" in some hot take.

New comment by kaba0 in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

kaba0 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:48:45 +0000

I don't think this "claim to land" works in the modern age.

Countries were established and fought for in blood all thorough history, and the winners kept their land. End of story.

Unless we are talking about some remote village, every single country was funded on blood and violence, and after a certain point it just makes no sense to track it.

New comment by kaba0 in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

kaba0 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:36:18 +0000

"The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group.."

From Wikipedia. You are absolutely wrong here, it is as much an ethnicity as it is a religion.

"Palestinian" didn't mean anything before, it's just the name of a land where Jews and Arabs coexisted.

New comment by kaba0 in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

kaba0 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:33:10 +0000

Would you be okay with being responsible for the never before seen bloodshed that would result in, with millions of innocent people dying as the direct result of your actions?

New comment by kaba0 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

kaba0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:27:47 +0000

Maybe the "solution with the lowest Kolmogorov complexity".

In a sibling comment, I replied that usually a repeating pattern can also be applied, but that one usually requires storing the n-sequence, rarely making it the shortest encodable rule.

New comment by kaba0 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

kaba0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:24:06 +0000

This is exactly what I hated about these kind of questions!!

Or just, the pattern simply repeats for the n next number.. like come on, there is no objective metric for which rule is "better".

New comment by kaba0 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

kaba0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:20:21 +0000

The implementation details don't matter. LLMs not being able to properly reason though is a fundamental limitation and no amount of re-running will help.

New comment by kaba0 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

kaba0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:33:16 +0000

Nation/culture != the current regime

New comment by kaba0 in "Show HN: Indentation-based syntax for Clojure"

kaba0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:24:14 +0000

But it's not itself, it's an array of characters. It's AST can be represented as simply as a recursive list data structure (with a head and a tail), but I think this is a bit over-mysticized.

New comment by kaba0 in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)"

kaba0 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:58:30 +0000

Well, foreign projects communicating with each other is always ground for a mess, but this is not an either-or question.

Also, your mileage may vary based on the niche you are working on - in case of, say java, the initial setup of the build system may not be "fun", but it will just work from then on.

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:38:34 +0000

More like there were actually multiple vendors that would have to agree on a common thing, but they died out so the single leftover can do whatever it wants...

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:18:42 +0000

Miro board is simply unusably slow, but plenty of other commonly used websites have annoying breakages, like login screen not actually logging in and the others.

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:17:29 +0000

> Or they could do what Brave, Vivaldi and others do and simply use Chromium as a base.

Don't you even see the problem?!

Even Microsoft dropped out from developing a web browser, it literally has a larger scope than a whole OS.

But sure, enjoy your Chrome OS proprietary "open" web.

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:25:03 +0000

Sure. Continuing my analogy to the British empire's rule over the seas has also surely resulted in technological improvements, but that is not the only way to achieve that.

For a more practical example, Linux is also developed mostly by paid employees, but they are from many different companies and thus improvements can't be weaponized as easily.

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:48:01 +0000

Try using a miro board. Unfortunately many sites have started breaking under Firefox, and it's a shame that web devs don't test under the 3 remaining browser, at least on a surface-level, before release.

It's not like supporting a completely different OS..

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:44:52 +0000

So why are those standards impossible to keep up with and we already see plenty of sites break under Firefox? Which by the way is the only independent browser remaining in game, even goddamn Microsoft leaving the domain behind?

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:41:22 +0000

I do mostly agree with grandparent, but not with your take.

What is the problem with government regulating, say, the ingredients that can be used in foods, forbidding addictive drugs from being added to them? Or selling drugs that are completely fake or outright dangerous?

This obsession with small governments (and basically, libertarianism) doesn't really stand on proper grounds.

Why can't the government work for you? Maybe it's an inherent bias given that I'm from Europe, but I think the stereotypical utopia about "big government" is much more true for huge corporations (which have absolutely no safety mechanisms built in to prevent a paper clip factory going overboard in the name of profit) compared to the slow-moving, democratic, slightly corrupt governments. Only one of these have accountability in a humane form, while the only metric for corporate is a single number.

New comment by kaba0 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

kaba0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:50:40 +0000

I think what people fail to see is that this is the same as "owning the sea by the British Empire" or "owning the railroads/roads". The economical benefit is not direct monetary gain, but nonetheless absolutely huge, and basically plays outside the "normal" rules.

Google can use their web dominance to push another service of their, or cripple a competitor's in a completely different domain.

New comment by kaba0 in "Show HN: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework"

kaba0 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:14:25 +0000

Both. My phone could easily serve thousands of concurrent users.

New comment by kaba0 in "Hobby Project: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework"

kaba0 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:56:50 +0000

The second point is absolutely fair and your project is very cool and impressive, but the speed one is misleading. I am fairly sure you actually leave a fair bit of performance on the table simply by how convoluted parallelism and async IO are in C, and something like Java might easily outperform it in standard CRUD backend use cases.