Should bring some interesting new features to Zed quickly. Glad to see it.
Readit Newslazzlazzlazz commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
Obsidian just being markdown files
Pepperidge farm 'members
I believe the Bases are Markdown files that contain filters for other Markdown files. So it's still all Markdown. Amazing actually.
lazzlazzlazz commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
The fact that you can't actually see the passkey is absurd. I understand it's a "feature" prevent phishing — victims have a lot less to share — but it constrains more sophisticated storage and use of passwords.
lazzlazzlazz commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero
Python as a language is nice. Python's version and package management is nothing short of a nightmare.
This hasn't really been true for a while now. `uv` has radically improved the experience.
I have personally found Marc's takes refreshing and vital. HN, like many sites, has become more cynical and even self-loathing. There are so many in here who hate tech and even progress and growth.
Marc's descriptions in the link are validated even just by the comments here. It's incredible.
I still can't figure out if he was always a charlatan or something happened that turned him into one.
The honest truth is that you (like many; I say this blamelessly) have been swept left, whereas Marc has not. He has remained utterly loyal to technological progress, which is under assault right now politically.
Ask yourself honestly if you are still as optimistic about technology and the intellectual freedom (and chaos, "unfettered conversations") as you may have been in the past. I have asked many friends this and the answer is "no".
The phrase "grift behind AI doomerism" suggests that either the book author or the reviewer (or both) don't have a clue. AI will cause real and huge problems.
Cars have killed millions of people. Add to that the consequences of electricity, industrialization, urbanization, and even capitalism itself. But billions and billions of people are not only better off -- living lives of outrageous luxury when measured against recent history -- but they wouldn't have existed at all.
Everything good comes with tradeoffs. AI will likely also kill millions but will create and support and improve the lives of billions (if not trillions on a long enough time scale).
lazzlazzlazz commented on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/sqs
If this is true, why isn't our compensation scaling with the increases in productivity?
It usually does, just with a time delay and a strict condition that the firm you work at can actually commercialize your productivity. Apply your systems thinking skills to compensation and it will all make sense.
lazzlazzlazz commented on Tailscale has raised $160M tailscale.com/blog/series... · Posted by u/louis-paul
If they had taken just say $40 million would they be able to sustain their project for the foreseeable future and perhaps not yield as much future product direction and equity?
I honestly don't know how this big dealmaking works but it strikes me that when you take out this big of an obligation that the obligation has a gravity that may drag you in a direction you (or consumers) do not want to go.
Love Tailscale as a product (as does everyone I talk to) but genuinely want to learn more about the trade-offs as usually when we see big dollar signs all we do is celebrate.
Equity investments like this don't need to be repaid, so there isn't a legal obligation to repay them. Of course, there is an obligation to maximize shareholder value — but that is totally independent of the dollar amount invested.
When founders raise this much money, it's because there's (1) a lot they want to do and hire for, or (2) they don't want to worry about monetizing the product for a significant period and focus on growth or product development.
lazzlazzlazz commented on John Carmack on AI in game programming twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/jjordan
John, this isn't a power tool. This is a copy machine.
And while I don't have anything against copy machines per se, that's not how it's being sold to the public. The public is being told this copy machine is a really good power tool that can do lots of things. So what creatives are hearing is "your work is interchangeable with a slightly smarter copy machine, so stop paying creatives and just rip them off".
When an artist trains by studying the masters and prior art, and even imitation, they are not acting as copying machines. Unfortunately for your interpretation, these are not copy machines neither on a technical nor philosophical level.
Separately, whether AI models ought to owe credit or compensation to the data used to train them is an interesting and nuanced debate.