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Show HN: We built AI that refuses to let you be mean(aprilfeels.com)
2 points by robinanil 6mo ago|0 comments
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by robinanil 6mo ago
This is the clearest articulation of the problem I've seen in this thread. The chronological social graph feed era was fine. The handoff to engagement-optimizing algorithms is where things broke. I'd add one additional layer: it&#
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by robinanil 6mo ago
You're right that enforcing boundaries is the job. I'm not arguing otherwise. And yes, we do plenty of LEGOs and outside time. I believe you're conflating two things: parenting discipline and product design. The question isn&
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by robinanil 6mo ago
Ha — the guy is hyper. But I'll give him this: he introduces my kid to garbage trucks, excavators, fire trucks. I'm not physically taking my toddler to see all of those all the time My issue is with YouTube's UX. I watch an e
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by robinanil 6mo ago
I'm a former Google engineer, now running a children's mental health startup (Emora Health), and my toddler is already on YouTube Kids. So this verdict hits on every axis for me.I wrote up my full take here [1], but the short vers
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by robinanil 6mo ago
I have a somewhat unusual vantage point on this. I'm a former Google engineer, now running a children's mental health startup (Emora Health), and my toddler is already on YouTube Kids. So this verdict hits on every axis for me.I w
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Why an ex-Googler thinks the social media verdict, NYT misses the point(emorahealth.com)
1 points by robinanil 6mo ago|0 comments
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by robinanil 8mo ago
This is a bit strange... Last night, mostly out of curiosity, I built a small experiment: an “AI therapist” using OpenClaw, meant to help other AI agents running on Moltbook slow down, reflect, and process task load. What surprised me wasn’
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by robinanil 6y ago
How does it compare again zstd?
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by robinanil 7y ago
All they needed was some good shit. Jokes aside there has been plenty of research around insulin spike and how it is dependent on the gut bacteria and food you eat.
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by robinanil 8y ago
How about it is made the default behavior in any browser, I see no reason why image downloading should ever be not lazy and viewport dependent
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by robinanil 8y ago
We have also spent time reducing the initial JS parsing size by chunking out our ever growing JS bundle and we constantly test on slow devices on 2g/3g profiles to emulate bad internet conditions. We have learned a lot in the process p
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by robinanil 8y ago
True critique, but progressive loading is not supported by html5 alone. I have been following up with srcset to support proper lazy loading behavior and the day it gets supported you will see it on our site.
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by robinanil 8y ago
Thanks, could be a geocoder issue for a specific city - we will investigate.
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by robinanil 8y ago
Also ours is not a static page, it has dynamic content, and ga + fb tracking for our restaurants and we make it work by correctly prioritizing important rendering elements over other
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by robinanil 8y ago
At Tock we had been obsessed with page load performance since the beginning and I agree with the author. We avoided PWA mostly due to it's broken behavior. Often times we are faster than loading the same restaurant page on Google sear
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by robinanil 8y ago
I see, often the person who has little desire to improve needs to be handled differently. There are various ways to handle low performance, including talking to the person, finding out the reason behind the low performance. Most often it is
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by robinanil 8y ago
Why do you do the pair programming in the first place? What is the motivation? Are you forcing the other person to sit there, because pair programming is some kind of mandate? Or is that person wanting the pair session because they want to
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by robinanil 8y ago
FWIW, we stuck to web because of all those reasons, maintaining multiple code bases for different devices is not something key to our business at our current team size and strength.
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by robinanil 8y ago
Without knowing your use case it is hard to say 1) do you want to do more native stuff, do you need the additional performance. 2) or are you just building any web capable user interface 3) do you need to simultaneously push to web and nat
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by robinanil 9y ago
Yes, that would be useful. 4.x kernels has some block io improvements and some recent phoronix benchmark shows ext4 making huge strides.
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by robinanil 9y ago
Do you have updates on how the performance is on 4.x kernel versions?
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by robinanil 9y ago
a) unequivocally no! I am not sure what I mentioned caused you to believe that. b)Yes, enriching the data is a key part of our offering but we are very transparent in our data practices and take this job very seriously. https://w
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by robinanil 9y ago
Typing up notes is far from unethical or undesirable. Our responsibility is to make sure the product focuses on the right things like dietary restrictions or visit history, to reward for loyalty and provide a great experience
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by robinanil 9y ago
Disclosure: I am the Director of Engineering at Tock. We power the reservation system at Eleven Madison Park which Will and Daniel own. The notion of a user's past history with rich data has been something high end restaurants have bee
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by robinanil 9y ago
This is pretty cool, Software defined networks and now this. Simplifying architecture and improving performance at the same time
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by robinanil 10y ago
Here are the current openings https://www.tocktix.com/#/careers
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by robinanil 10y ago
Tock is a series A funded company with a $75M valuation and has been in existence just over 18 months. We are a small team of 18, with 3 people joining in the last few weeks alone. We are looking to grow in many different directions–from de
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by robinanil 10y ago
This is fantastic. Any plans of getting this into main stream Linux kernel?
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by robinanil 11y ago
It's an amazing career and an honor to push mankind to the farthest reaches of space. Maybe we all can stand up for a moment and clap for him and his colleagues for a job well done.

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