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cholantesh commented on Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?   zed.dev/blog/windows-prog... · Posted by u/janjones
steve_adams_86 · 4 days ago
No, there are good reasons developers are on Windows. Industrial and embedded systems are very often Windows-based, for better or worse. Heaps of games are developed on Windows. Windows-based software itself is developed on Windows.
cholantesh · 4 days ago
As someone who's ambivalent about the experience, I'd say "because that's what my employer issued to me" is perfectly acceptable.
cholantesh commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
cholantesh · 4 days ago
A sibling comment claims that making a comment like this constitutes waging a 'political'/'ideological' battle that 'tramples curiosity', because raising a legitimate concern is inherently ideological, but silencing any and all scrutiny of a VC is not.
cholantesh commented on Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent    · Posted by u/ykurtov
nerdjon · 5 days ago
I am normally pretty quick to jump on how bad for privacy shoving some random LLM tool into a product is and the serious security risks especially in the terminal...

But looking at the marketing for Warp, this thing screams LLM everything. Nothing about this hints that things are processed locally. I can't imagine using a tool like this and not thinking that everything I type into it (and give it access too) is getting routed to a server somewhere.

What am I missing here about being upset that... it seems to be doing its job?

Unless I am missing that it is installing something so this happens in your normal terminal or something like that... to be blunt if you used this tool and this is what breaks your trust... how did you think it worked in the first place?

cholantesh · 4 days ago
IIRC it wasn't always this way - but it did ask for a login which I felt was a non-starter.
cholantesh commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
throwaway329044 · 4 days ago
Because Paul consistently violates HN guidelines:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cholantesh · 4 days ago
This flagging is pretty obviously the actual violation of the guideline.
cholantesh commented on Notion releases offline mode   notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo
layman51 · 5 days ago
I think you're correct. But I remember back around 2020 when Notion became very popular, it was definitely marketed toward individuals like students, or professionals who wanted to do a lot of planning or organization related to their working/personal lives.
cholantesh · 5 days ago
I actively used Notion with a lot of my fellow students at the time. I've subsequently gravitated towards Joplin for 'richer' content and Obsidian for general text.
cholantesh commented on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?    · Posted by u/nomilk
cholantesh · 5 days ago
Great post; I'm reminded of how firstly 'no-code' was often used adjacent to 'low-code' in blogspam and press releases, but also how the only shop I've ever worked in that used such a tool had an ever-expanding team of devs building stuff with it, as opposed to the non-technical users it was supposedly meant to target.
cholantesh commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"   github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
notatoad · 5 days ago
>essentially all the feedback said "no, please don't". And they said "thanks for the feedback, we're gonna do it any way!"?

this is a perfectly reasonable course of action if the feedback is "please don't" but the people saying "please don't" aren't people who are actually using it or who can explain why it's necessary. it's a request for feedback, not just a poll.

cholantesh · 5 days ago
You're literally commenting on a thread full of those explanations that were handwaved away.
cholantesh commented on Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition   bbc.com/news/articles/ce8... · Posted by u/mhga
progne · 6 days ago
The fact that the two highest profile examples of starvation in Gaza have confounding conditions makes me suspect otherwise. If it is as widespread as feared, it should be easier to find pictures of starving Gazans than fat Gazans.

It is notable that in the same famous photo of the emaciated Mohammed Zakaria al‑Mutawaq in the NYT article, his not-malnourished looking brother Joud was cropped out. And their mother is not emaciated. Is she supposed to be starving her younger child to feed herself and her other son? To me this is evidence of press cooperation with a propaganda campaign.

I submit that if you find either side in this propaganda war to be credible by default, you do the other side a disservice.

cholantesh · 6 days ago
>The fact that the two highest profile examples of starvation in Gaza have confounding conditions makes me suspect otherwise. If it is as widespread as feared, it should be easier to find pictures of starving Gazans than fat Gazans.

Sure, if Israel wasn't actively targeting journalists and cutting off telecoms from within the strip, and the case for starvation rested entirely on a couple of photographs in mainstream US broadsheets.

>It is notable that in the same famous photo of the emaciated Mohammed Zakaria al‑Mutawaq in the NYT article, his not-malnourished looking brother Joud was cropped out. And their mother is not emaciated.

You're right, just like it's notable that in the retraction, they didn't mention that his 'confounding condition' was caused by her malnutrition during pregnancy, per the same report that was used to force said retraction. Also, emaciation is not present in all cases of malnutrition.

>To me this is evidence of press cooperation with a propaganda campaign.

But, not say, calling it the 'Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry' to diminish the credibility of the casualty figures which were good enough for the WHO and UN? Odd.

>I submit that if you find either side in this propaganda war to be credible by default, you do the other side a disservice.

If you were sincere about this standard, you would apply it to yourself. Even this statement is implicitly propagandistic, if not conspiratorial.

cholantesh commented on Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble   theverge.com/ai-artificia... · Posted by u/madeforhnyo
hellisothers · 7 days ago
I realize this is suspicious tin-hat in a can but it makes me wonder what he and OpenAI have to gain by him saying this? Does he feel they got their nut and now it’s time to undermine the ability of other AI companies to raise money?
cholantesh · 6 days ago
In the article he specifically shitcans AI startups that were founded by former OpenAI execs, but also he has a habit of characterizing AI as something that needs expert hands, mainly his, to manage and contain. At the end of the article he delivers on this self-aggrandizement.
cholantesh commented on Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition   bbc.com/news/articles/ce8... · Posted by u/mhga
progne · 7 days ago
Blown up hospitals can be secondary to firing rockets from the parking lot and using them as ammo dumps and military headquarters. You can take this line of reasoning back to the big bang without addressing the quality of evidence of a severe food shortage.
cholantesh · 6 days ago
They can be, but given how many times Israel's made the assertion only to go "oopsie doodle, our multibillion dollar intelligence apparatus made a boo-boo and it turns out that there actually was not an installation under this civilian infrastructure", this isn't as robust a premise as you think it is. Anyway, the quality of evidence seems to suffice for doctors, NGOs, human rights watchdogs, practically anyone who isn't an Israeli official or an apologist thereof, probably something worth considering.

u/cholantesh

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