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imranhou··on Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads
It looks more closer to go routines, which to me begs the question - where are the channels that I could use to communicate between these virtual threads?
imranhou··on Is Rust Web Yet?
How do you debug rust code that has been compiled to we assembly?
imranhou··on Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
Racism = discrimination based on race.
imranhou··on Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
Just arguing about naming doesn't erase the bottom line that lots of people were grouped in camps, murdered and raped...
imranhou··on Psychiatry and politicians: the ‘hubris syndrome’ (2018)
I think he is talking about him/her referring to his/her self (singular), using "we".
imranhou··on You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough
Is there a chance that the hole creates a mini volcano that cannot be stopped?
imranhou··on Send text messages for free using Python
The primary limitation here is inability to receive responses back from users. From a business revenue generation angle, that's probably not enough of a feature set to monetize for the carriers.
imranhou··on “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
This is so relevant in terms of tech and business thinking, many parts of the email response could be applied generically to any competitive threat.

Albeit the blackberry story against iPhone doesn't really fit this bill, the "incumbent" got put out of business pretty quickly

imranhou··on Poll: Which big tech company will thrive most in the years ahead?
Are you asking in terms of Market Cap? Employee Satisfaction? Innovation (may not translate directly to revenue) ? I think all these companies are here to stay, they are not going away quickly.
imranhou··on Search engines and SEO spam
I think the only issue there might be that google might be unaware that it is a paywalled content due to how many sites allow crawlers access to content but not to users (based on crawler ip ranges). Agree such a flag would save time when available or even a search filter option to skip those results.
imranhou··on Search engines and SEO spam
Not all that google indexes is public, primarily paywalls/loginwalls allow google IP's to crawl information unhindered but as users you are not, so a new search engine will have to get to a scale and popular enough for others to open up. Quick example: Google can index many news sites, or LinkedIn profiles for example that a regular user with no account cannot.
imranhou··on Search engines and SEO spam
Agree that is annoying, but if you start excluding such results then how does one find that type of content?
imranhou··on Search engines and SEO spam
I believe google tracks click throughs from search results pages, which should provide in theory plenty of insight into what links aren't really working for specific keywords and what are... thus helping improve or reduce rankings of SEO laden sites.

Wonder if someone can throw light on to why this isn't effective.

imranhou··on Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
As tech like this nears perfection, How long before models created using data from movie audio would be treated as unauthorized use of content by classifying it as derivative copyrighted works?
imranhou··on Wish HN: Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas to you all. Incredible!!

P.S Wish the next iteration allows for multi touch!

imranhou··on High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior
Interesting, but even in the case of your example, one can interpret that lack of sugars can cause mood change, but not consumption of it as is claimed in the post.

To put it differently, causation is tricky to prove, presence of something causing an effect is quite different than absence of something causing it.

imranhou··on High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior
Is it possible we are seeing it the wrong way, does anxio-depressive mood trigger you to go on sugar binge?
imranhou··on Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
Not to mention, implementation of new protocols is one thing, adoption of such protocols is another - I would dare say the harder part of the two. If you are required to serve a population that won't keep up, its an uphill battle.
imranhou··on NEWScan – Front pages of today’s newspapers in customizable carousel view
This is great! How are you dealing with copyright issues here?
imranhou··on Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
I don't disagree with some of the specific points, and to be clear success of Amazon is not all attributed to one individual. I'm sure one can agree that success at this scale is a combination of right strategy, lucky timing.

But I also believe in butterfly effect, the levers a CEO holds on a company have 1000X multiplier effect than a normal employee, and any change of leader means an Amazon with a market cap of 3T vs 3B. Thats is not to say a 3B company doesn't have a flywheel and won't make consistent profit. I look at the likes of eBay, Newegg all were non B&M and still couldn't grow to anywhere near the size.

In the end, it could have been Joe Pizza that was at the helm of Amazon that succeeded to 3T market cap, same argument can be made that replacing Joe Pizza wouldn't have lead to the similar result. All the pieces (luck, personalities, vision, skills etc...), of the puzzle have to match just right for such a large scale success.

imranhou··on Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
Then why isn't there a lot of serious competition to Amazon? Where are these hypothentical CEO's who would have replaced a dead Bezos, why aren't they running walmarts/targets/new startups of this world? I am not actually a fan of the guy, but I like to credit where it is due.
imranhou··on Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
Someone who is trying to bring attention to a biased question. Just replace the word Rich with any other class of people here and reread the question and I hope you'll understand.
imranhou··on Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
Do you believe Amazon would have succeeded as it has with Elon Musk at its helm? Everyone has different qualities and strengths... Amazon's success(in consumer goods) is merely a reflection of our society as to how it wants to live and what its priorities are and Jeff Bezos has found a way to capitalize it.
imranhou··on Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
I have got a question for you instead... What do you call someone who criticizes/mistreats an entire class of people, because there are some bad apples?

Disclaimer: I do not belong to the class being referred to.

imranhou··on Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is to be wary of problems slipped under the rug. The climate change issue is backed by hard evidence, and the eventual result of the current situation if unchanged is dire.

If we wait to act until the eventual result is in our face, then we are no different than animals that try to outrun a flood, if so then what is the purpose being self aware? Freedom eh?

imranhou··on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
Imagine someone was hired to reduce the problem of child trafficking/exploitation, and are the head of this group at the justice dept. Lets say they have the option to work with private orgs that may have solutions that could walk a fine line between privacy and their dept goals.

I'm interested in knowing your perspective on how one should approach achieving these goals.

imranhou··on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
I think it's easy to say no to any solution, but harder to say "this is bad, but we should do this instead to solve the problem". In a world with ubiquitous/distributed communication, the ideas that come up would generally avoid direct interception but need some way to identify a malicious transaction.

When saying no to ideas like this, we should at the same time attempt to also share our thoughts on what would be an acceptable alternative solution.

imranhou··on GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
Google copied an interface(declarative), not code snippets/functions(implementation). Copilot is capable of copying only Implementation. IMO that is quite different and easily a violation if it was copied verbatim.
imranhou··on U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says
I don't think this is valid comparison. If you are trying to compare software on a plane to application, then airplane software is not attempted to hack into due to it being generally well isolated from outside networks. If you are comparing physical build of systems in a plane to software, then hacking of software is equivalent to bird or drone running into an engine or a laser attack or hijack attempt... Which while we know do not happen often, but lets say if a lot of money were to be made by doing so, I'm sure the frequency would increase.
imranhou··on Columbia Engineering Team Builds First Hacker-Resistant Cloud Software System
When something seems too good to be true, it usually is.
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