Hacker News: parrit

New comment by parrit in "Normalizing Ratings"

parrit — Sat, 03 May 2025 03:42:45 +0000

Star rating doesn't help here

New comment by parrit in "The Cannae Problem"

parrit — Sat, 03 May 2025 03:38:11 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "You could just choose optimism"

parrit — Sat, 03 May 2025 03:29:03 +0000

en-dash my friend

New comment by parrit in "The Cannae Problem"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:41:08 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "Normalizing Ratings"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:28:30 +0000

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!

New comment by parrit in "Normalizing Ratings"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:22:15 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1098/

https://xkcd.com/937/

New comment by parrit in "How do I help a key employee stuck in Kafkaesque immigration limbo?"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:10:14 +0000

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

New comment by parrit in "Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:06:02 +0000

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?

New comment by parrit in "Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:16:20 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 08:59:41 +0000

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

New comment by parrit in "Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:12:40 +0000

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

New comment by parrit in "Third party cookies must be removed"

parrit — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:10:17 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "Redis is open source again"

parrit — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:04:00 +0000

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

New comment by parrit in "Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?"

parrit — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:59:51 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?"

parrit — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:51:06 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring"

parrit — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:43:28 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

parrit — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:37:47 +0000

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

New comment by parrit in "Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)"

parrit — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:02:53 +0000

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.

New comment by parrit in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

parrit — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:05:29 +0000

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).

New comment by parrit in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

parrit — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:04:13 +0000

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