Hacker News: mhsabbagh

Is Firefox Headed Towards a Decline? (2010)

mhsabbagh — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/18/future-of-firefox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28627745

Points: 1

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Google's Cloud blog gets 12/100 score on PageSpeed Insight

mhsabbagh — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:52:22 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.google.com%2Fblog%2Ftopics%2Fsustainability%2Fgoogle-releases-carbon-free-energy-percentage-for-2020&tab=mobile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678515

Points: 2

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Persistent Anti-Muslim Bias in Large Language Models

mhsabbagh — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05783

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27561692

Points: 1

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An Update on YouTube in Turkey

mhsabbagh — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:37:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-youtube-turkey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442315

Points: 2

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New comment by mhsabbagh in "Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image"

mhsabbagh — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:52:01 +0000

Those are his companies, he founded them with his money. He's the CEO of all those companies, unlike the situation here. She wasn't the leader of the entire project. And she didn't even put her hands on the other aspects other than processing the image from the data.

> Another team leader might have botched it and we wouldnt have the picture.

How do you know that? The "might" means nothing here. There were many other teams working too and each of them have their talented leader doing complicated things. Choosing this one specifically from all others to take the credit is meaningless.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image"

mhsabbagh — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:36:52 +0000

No I am not, in order to create the image they observed the black hole for years, which is coming from the work of the people I linked to in my source, 200 people from 40 countries and all the other astronomers, being the team who just produced the image from the data is relatively smaller effort comparing to the overall work of all the people involved for years. I am not blaming her, I didn't say she's the one pushing this thing, I am blaming this BBC article. She never said "I am the one".

Yes she was in charge of the team responsible of producing the image from the data, it doesn't mean in anyway that she's "behind the first image of the black hole". Everybody involved is behind the image.

This is not about celebrating those people, it's giving the main chunk of the credit to this person alone. I have no idea why is it such a hard thing to understand or why is this even an issue. Claiming that this person is the only "crucial" person involved is a straightforward lie. If that's how the media has been doing it for 30 years, then the media needs to change and fix their lies.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising"

mhsabbagh — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:40:58 +0000

The price of using Google.com, YouTube.com, Gmail.com and many many other services, for free.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]"

mhsabbagh — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 07:56:18 +0000

It's Saturday 11AM here, though.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]"

mhsabbagh — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 07:08:21 +0000

Ah, here I am, setting under the blanket and drinking a cup of tea with lemon, watching a rocket 9600km away from me that's about to go to space in few minutes.

What a time to be alive.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "Ask HN: Successful projects that weren't received well on HN?"

mhsabbagh — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:37:35 +0000

On just a small side note to remind our selves: Projects that didn't receive well in HN doesn't necessarily mean that HN didn't find it promising/useful or ignored it. It could have been posted at times when participation is low (e.g midnight), for example, so nobody actually saw it. Or people simply just forgot to upvote it, and it went unnoticed in the flood of too many other submissions.

I remember that I posted an article that I wrote to HN someday, and it got only 10 votes. Just a day later, some other guy posted MY article and got around 320 votes. I think it's just luck sometimes.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic"

mhsabbagh — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:09:31 +0000

Am I the only one who's extremely pissed off by the subtitle?

> Beating Aids is India’s greatest public health achievement. A new book says it wouldn’t have happened without women

Replace this with "it wouldn't have happened without men" and you would feel how ridiculous this subtitle is.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

mhsabbagh — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:17:20 +0000

Probably if things go wrong, every community will just fork the code and move on.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

mhsabbagh — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:13:43 +0000

First Microsoft buying GitHub and now IBM buying Red Hat.

I wonder how the next year will be for Linux and open source in general, looks like we are going to have a lot of drama.

New comment by mhsabbagh in "Blood money"

mhsabbagh — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:04:18 +0000

Funny having this read on my screen while I was also reading this: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/mosul-moria-air-s...

Social Justice Attack Survival Guide

mhsabbagh — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:05:43 +0000

Article URL: http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/6926

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059348

Points: 5

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Show HN: FOSS Notes: Notes, tips and problems solutions for open source software

mhsabbagh — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:51:48 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.foss-project.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522081

Points: 1

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New comment by mhsabbagh in "Only a few vendor-paid developers do almost all open-source work"

mhsabbagh — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:51:35 +0000

This is hilarious:

>> It is fair to say that for almost all of the projects in the CNCF, specific vendors account for most of the development work being done.

> Not just “many” open source projects—all of them.

The author moves from an analysis written about CNCF projects to generalize a conclusion about all open source software. What a misleading title and content, it remains hanged without any evidence on those claims.

So, you want to learn AWS? AKA, “How do I learn to be a Cloud Engineer?”

mhsabbagh — Fri, 11 May 2018 17:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8inzn5/so_you_want_to_learn_aws_aka_how_do_i_learn_to_be/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17049162

Points: 1

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Google rolls out new policies for U.S. election ads

mhsabbagh — Fri, 04 May 2018 18:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/04/google-rolls-out-new-policies-for-u-s-election-ads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16996882

Points: 1

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New comment by mhsabbagh in "Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails"

mhsabbagh — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:17:50 +0000

Mailerlite is good: mailerlite.com