skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"based" is a slang term that originated from internet culture, particularly associated with certain online communities. It generally means something that is authentic, unfiltered, or grounded in truth, often with a connotation of being bold or unapologetic. The term was popularized by rapper Lil B, who used "based" to describe a mindset of staying true to oneself, regardless of societal norms or criticism.

I had to look it up.
You lose 100% of the conflicts you slink away from.
Non-technical employees are by definition replaceable.

Unless they are sales reps that have good relations with customers.
How do you objectively judge that? It's just my opinion, value that for what its worth to you (sounds like not much).
I am surprised that the VSCode team hasn't gone after them for mirroring the marketplace, as the Visual Studio team made it very clear that they don't want anybody to do that -- it is their marketplace.
Definitely reset your password/account even if you can delete it from their website. Otherwise, you are trusting a stranger with no privacy policy or reputation.
> That game would cost $90 today with inflation.

Speaking of $90 - Nintendo recently announced the Switch 2 and physical copies of the games will be just that, $90.
It's working now with the 0.1.0 for me. But I will let you know if I experience any issues once I get updated to 0.1.1.

Thanks, great job! I like it overall, but I noticed it has some issues entering text in forms, even on google.com. It's able to find a workaround and insert the searched text in the URL, but it would be nice if the entry into forms worked well for UI testing.
They read the CV but placing too much weight on it makes it difficult to compare candidates objectively.
Using AI tools in a professional code base, currently, seems a bit dangerous to me. However I have changed my mind on using it for vibe coding.

I used to type in program source code from magazines and had no idea what I was doing until something broke then I had to fix it. If I am honest, that was how I learned how to code.

AI will either teach that kind of thing to the new generation, or coding will become irrelevant. Either way, I think that’s good.

But I still don’t want my bank or airplane guidance software using it.
Article title: Digital RMB vs SWIFT: The emerging tech-backed disruption of cross-border payment settlement
10M to 20M in what amount of time? This is not incidental, it is critical to determining IRR (Internal Rate of Return).

If the company goes to 20M in 10 years, that sounds great, but is only a 7% compound rate of growth. I can get that with much less risk by investing in the S&P 500. And don’t discount the risk. It is critical. A small business has a very large chance of 100% total loss. Compare that to the 500 index, which has a very small chance of a 50% loss, max.

To count for risk, I would look for a doubling (10M to 20M) in at least 2-3 years, min.

You also have to think about liquidity. If you want to cash out, who is going to buy your shares at the price you want? This might not be as easy as you might think. I can liquidate 500 index shares in seconds. It might take a year or more to find a buyer for your 10% at the price you want.
Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It's Still a Terrible Idea
Interesting that humanity comes up with stuff like this in times where shipping is cheapest. Wouldn't this have been much more impactful in the 19th century or so when getting chocolate was more expensive than now? Or is the process that hard that it can be only done with modern technology?
> For example, I spent $30 for Atari video games in the 1980s and it was a lot less expensive to produce. That game would cost $90 today with inflation.

And the Nintendo Switch has sold 5x as many consoles as did Atari. Likely a similar scale for games sold. Nintendo very likely makes more in total than Atari did, even with lower prices.
> Here’s what we’ve found out: It’s not about the cocoa-beans, but about the way they are treated during the manufacturing process.

I eat a lot of high end single origin chocolate bars, and I simply don’t believe this. Two bars from the same brand at the same percentage of cocoa content using different beans taste completely different. In exactly the same way as wine or coffee. It’s one of the most interesting parts of eating good chocolate. I just don’t believe this approach will ever replace my chocolate consumption, but may have a shot at the larger market of bad chocolate bars.
You (don't) think a lot of things. It's probably. So you think.

What about some data, then?

> I don't even think most world population has a tattoo.

Tattoo is a booming business (around 9% growth in 2024). There are stats.

Quoting https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/industry/tattoo-arti...

"A Pew Research Study conducted in 2023 shows that 32.0% of Americans have tattoos. 41.0% of individuals under 30 have at least one tattoo, as do 46.0% of individuals aged between 30 and 49."

That's not "most" in the sense, 50%+. It's still pretty significant.
Indeed. In 2020s, if you're not sandboxing each thing, and then sandboxing each library the thing depends on, you're running with way too many opportunities for vulnerability.
> firing should not come as a surprise.

The surprise was for the people around them, not the person being fired.

> Totally unrelated people should reserve judgment.

In the real world, they don't.
I wrote "slippery slope fallacy", not just "slippery slope", for a reason.
Pentiment (2022)
Finally somebody with a sane take.
Yeah that's the political problem. Honestly, I don't see a way out of this. One way or another, it's going to be a mess.
Great coverage, however it failed to mention code review and artifact signing as well as full source bootstrapping which are fundamental defenses most distros skip.

In our distro, Stagex, our threat model assumes at least one maintainer, sysadmin, or computer is compromised at all times.

This has resulted in some specific design choices and practices:

- 100% deterministic, hermetic, reproducible

- full source bootstrapped from 180 bytes of human-auditable machine code

- all commits signed by authors

- all reviews signed by reviewers

- all released artifacts are multi-party reproduced and signed

- fully OCI (container) native all the way down "FROM scratch"

- All packages easily hash-locked to give downstream software easy determinism as well

This all goes well beyond the tactics used in Nix and Guix.

As far as we know, Stagex is the only distro designed to strictly distrust maintainers.

https://stagex.tools
I strongly prefer a declarative configuration instead of one that is fully-programmable. I want to be able to just look at a configuration and see what the settings are. Not have to account for the possibility that the config itself is also dependent on runtime variability.
I used to watch sci-fi films and think: "well this isn't realistic, people simply wouldn't accept eating Soylent Green or a nutrient paste ration"

Now I realise that these things will come to us branded up as desirable and high-status. It isn't ultra-processed pea protein, this is a 'vegan steak'

Human beings evolved to eat whole foods. If you're going to eat something else, you better be very, very sure about the long-term effects.
Yes maybe it is more like a pint of weak beer per day by modern alcohol standards. Not great for you but maybe a good source of clean water.
Docker files too, basically just bash scripts with a different syntax
I don’t mind the slop. Filtering and discovery is a solvable issue. I care about tons of niche and educational content that I enjoy that would not exist if it had to be funded / approved by gatekeepers.
Does it matter how the data is processed?

You're still just saying that while stealing a lot from one person is wrong, stealing only a little but from many people would be OK.
And the people who are stolen from don't agree with you.
Understanding TanStack/Router's beforeLoad and loader behavior
This immediately reminded me the episode from Friends about Mockolate - is just me?
It's not a setting which determines how a value stored in a sheet is interpreted. It's a setting which determines how inputs are interpreted before being stored.

When you type eg "4/4", "4-Apr", "2025-04-04" or whatever, it is converted to a number based on your local date format. The cell has a date format applied to it so that the number appears as a date. If you send the sheet to someone else, it will display the same numeric value, using their settings to display it as a date.
If they're selling surveillance tech to law enforcement (especially American law enforcement, who will deploy it disproportionately against marginalized groups), they're fascists. Simple as.
America has become a nation of people who cannot get anything done.
What I really wish about this article is that the author would say if they tried any other video card in this system.

A DEC Alpha should load SROM and then jump straight into SRM (firmware - BIOS essentially) or ARC (Windows NT firmware).

Any VGA capable PCI video card should work in an Alpha well enough to get into SRM, even if the RAM and/or SCSI controller are dead.

He said the Matrox video card did not work in other systems. But how about other video cards in his Alpha?

This is an amazing write-up but I want to know if he really needs to get into mini-console or if he just needs a working video card to get into SRM.

Perhaps there is something of use in here… (it describes working with the mini-console for example)
https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/MDS-2000-01/cd...
Yeah, at least in the context of music synthesis, everyone just says PWM. (The term even being subject of a meme with a certain youtuber who seems to be fond of it ;)).
Crazy, in looking up some info on the web and creating a Spreadsheet on Google Sheets to insert the results, it worked almost perfectly the first time and completely failed subsequently on 8-10 different tries.

Is there an issue with the lag between what is happening in the browser and the MCP app (in my case Claude Desktop)?

I have a feeling the first time I tried it, I was fast enough clicking the "Allow for this chat" permissions, whereas by the time I clicked the permission on subsequent chats, the LLM just reports "It seems we had an issue with the click. Let me try again with a different reference.".

Actions which worked flawlessly the first time (rename a Google spreadsheet by clicking on the title and inputting the name) fail 100% of subsequent attempts.

Same with identifying cells A1, B1, etc. and inserting into the rows.

Almost perfect on 1st try, not reproducible in 100% of attempts afterwards.

Kudos to how smooth this experience is though, very nice setup & execution!

EDIT 2:
The lag & speed to click the allow action make it seemingly unusable in Claude Desktop. :(
> increasingly shrinking pool of people and organizations

What do you mean, is the pool really shrinking, worldwide? I must have missed some statistics?
That's fair. It's certainly not "open source" in that way that term is usually used. I still think that's not the primary issue and that the manufacturers are being honest about their preference for proprietary formats. But I see that Adobe legal concerns hanging over their heads isn't an advantage, for sure.
> Not having no value, but being of less worth to investors and companies to invest in. This is simple fundamental economics, since game prices are not growing as fast as their input costs.

Economics that are not that old and that have been reinforced via a 'tailor made' customer culture. Marketing and business culture fucked up consumers beyond any recognition, then quantified them and keep optimizing via peer-flagellation and sociopathic feedback loops.

Economists and leadership's ways are ugly.
They don't say he's a fascist, they say he cozied up with several people often described as fascists and then back up that accusation with plenty of individual data points..

If this paragraph is factual - and I have no reason to doubt that it is -- that's pretty fascistic behavior!

> Journalists were another target. In May 2017, Bass emailed Cassandra Fairbanks, a far-right activist whom the first Trump administration allowed into press briefings, to ask for the names and emails of reporters in the White House press pool. This would potentially enable Ton-That and his partners to surface social media accounts, pull photos, and, as Bass put it, investigate the “leanings” of the journalists. Fairbanks quickly sent the names and emails of eight reporters to Bass, who forwarded the details to Ton-That. “These shills are high-priority,” Bass wrote. “Dope this is going into smartcheckr,” Ton-That replied. The company later created a “Politicians – Academics – Journalists” category in its biometric database.

Likewise this one..

> Ton-That and Johnson quickly bonded. They brainstormed “alt-tech” ideas and a few months later, in early 2017, launched Smartcheckr, Clearview’s predecessor. Ton-That also got to know Duke and other radicals associated with Johnson, including Marko Jukic, a self-described extremist Catholic traditionalist who once argued that diversity is “corrosive to civilization”; Tyler Bass, a white nationalist who, according to his former girlfriend, attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; and far-right influencer Douglass Mackey, who used a pseudonymous social media persona to disseminate Nazi propaganda and advocate for “global white supremacy.”

These are not good people..
The setting only applies when you enter or edit a value. It doesn't convert values which are already stored in a cell.
Roset – (ROS Encryption Tool) – An Encryption Tool for Both File and Text
This article is really worth a read and talks about the much deeper mechanics and institutional power behind what is happening now.

Clearview had compiled a massive biometric database that would eventually contain billions of images the company scraped off the internet and social media without the knowledge of the platforms or their users. Its AI analyzed these images, creating a “faceprint” for every individual. The company let users run a “probe photo” against its database, and if it generated a hit, it displayed the matching images and links to the websites where they originated. This made it easy for Clearview users to further profile their targets with other information found on those webpages: religious or political affiliation, family and friends, romantic partners, sexuality. All without a search warrant or probable cause.

A diehard Donald Trump supporter, Ton-That... Here, Ton-That appeared to conflate support for the Republican leader with American identity, proposing to scan migrants’ social media for “posts saying ‘I hate Trump’ or ‘Trump is a puta’” and targeting anyone with an “affinity for far-left groups.”

By the end of Trump’s first presidential term, Clearview had secured funding from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, one of Elon Musk’s earliest business partners, and signed up hundreds of law enforcement clients around the country. The company doled out free trials to hook users, urging cops to “run wild” with searches. They did. Many departments then bought licenses to access Clearview’s faceprint database.
I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky for you that you managed to skip Subversion
Yes they will. But then we’ll have them, and there will be jobs making the robots and maintaining the factories here.

Also, when AI replaces knowledge economy jobs, we’ll want the “stuff making robots” in America not China. If AI makes our knowledge industry exports obsolete, then we’ll be really fucked if China has the robots that make stuff.
Speaking of git front ends, I want to give a shout-out to Jujutsu. I suspect most people here have probably at least heard of it by now, but it has fully replaced my git cli usage for over a year in my day to day work. It feels like the interface that jj provides has made the underlying git data structures feel incredibly clear to me, and easy to manipulate.

Once you transition your mental model from working branch with a staging area to working revision that is continuously tracking changes, it's very hard to want to go back.
Just wait until we start creating user friendly IDE's that automate the technical moat needed right now to go from code to running program.

Recently I (Gemini 2.5?) created an android app that calculates options prices given different sets of parameters set by the user. The hardest part of doing that is doing all the android studio leg work to get the pieces in place to eventually compile the code into an app and put it on your phone.

No real reason that cannot be automated to "Paste the text the LLM gave you here, and the app icon will show up on your phone in a minute" right now. I'm almost positive it is already being worked on somewhere.
Anything that can be copied infinitely for free has a market value of 0, and is in a bubble whenever its price is above 0. This doesn't mean that video games have no value, but that markets aren't suited for finding it.
I am not insisting anything. I wanted to point out that the "reason why browsers exist/came to exist" can be relevant in this discussion but is not a direct logical contradiction to their current complexity.

If I say, the pdf came to be in order to be a simple way to digitally represent printed/printable documents that may be correct but wouldn't actually express anything about the current complexity of the pdf format. Admittedly perhaps a bad example due to how similar it is.

It's possible I misunderstood though. If so, I apologize.
> Clearview AI is owned by fascists?

The article doesn't say that.

> What proof do they have?

They do provide links to information on the organization they refer to as fascist. You can draw your own conclusions, but it seems fairly comprehensive.

> I doubt what motherjones is saying.

Considering you're making up stuff about what they said, I can see why.

> I checked.

If you did, you failed.

> "That" (the founder of Clearview AI) is from Australia and seems to have been an artist.

I was not aware that an artist from Austria couldn't be fascist.

> MJ should be careful with their articles.

You should be careful with your comments.
The role of exercise in cancer suppression: insights from a mathematical model
It seems that there is one sane PM left at VScode who knows that such move would only lead to MSFT losing more PR. And anti-trust scrutiny?
1000% we think it can be very valuable, and also it can add a layer of security, have you been able to try it?
The new Kevin Smiths are on youtube.
> He meant to build an efficient tarball history database toolset, not really a version control system. He assumed that someone else would write that layer.

Famous last words: "We'll do it the right way later!"
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.
SAP is kinda of a monopoly no ? The software is bloated and complex to use. The UI is dated but everyone still uses it because it is so embedded into the core arteries of businesses.
I see why they're leaning into the environmental angle, but I think they're better off marketing their product as upscale, better than regular chocolate.

They should be selling upscale, luxury-priced high-end "chocolate" bars, doing taste tests against fancy brands.
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Counterpoint: Natural sorting likely will be orders of magnitude slower sorting than ordinal sorting.

For most situations, the better solution is storing the index separately to the name in another column or in metadata.

But for some stores, there isn't an easy way to do to store or sort on metadata, and so prefixing leading zeroes helps keep things stored more naturally while using the more efficient sort.
It is not the responsibility of the rest of society to pay you a handsome salary for a programming hobby. If your code isn't generating enough value that someone wants to pay for it, it's about as useful as model trains.
FizzBuzz in Pdf
Sadly this prediction could have been generalized to the US executive branch regardless of the most recent election. It's more of the same from what we've seen in the past, Democrat and Republican leader alike.
Big Tech's Unspoken Policy: Don't Rock the Boat, Even with Results
I work at a FAANG company and have consistently performed well above expectations. Instead of recognition or support, I’ve been rewarded with more work and zero help.

Management seems directionless — I’ve asked point-blank where we’re heading and get nothing in return. They ignore the initiatives that actually drive results and instead chase shiny, unproven ideas that "sound strategic."
After years of trying to push things forward, I finally realized they don’t want impact — they want safe, predictable mediocrity. So I’ve stopped overperforming. There’s no upside in a system that punishes initiative and rewards inertia.

If you're wondering why big tech feels like it's stagnating, this is a big part of the answer.
Another example is fast fashion. It’s almost impossible to get clothing in a store that will last, say, 10 years. While in earlier decades, that was pretty normal.
A local small farmer nearly got bankrupted when mountain lions killed most of his alpaca herd along with a bunch of sheep and goats. The cats engaged in surplus killing and didn't bother eating most of their kills (the state thought perhaps a mother was teaching a cub hunting skills, but it's not like they got an interview with Mom).

Easy to talk smack until it happens to you or someone you know.
> Interesting that humanity comes up with stuff like this in times where shipping is cheapest.

Go look at the news. A trade war just started, and tariffs are going to drive up the cost of chocolate in the US.
Thanks. It's certainly not about the reader's intelligence. At this moment, we do not know how to explain it succinctly. So, today it requires time.

We are trying a different way of explaining starting with the overall problem of how to make decisions in software engineering in a book Simon Wardley and I are writing in the open. Perhaps it's of interest and sheds a bit more light: https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-900c...
Speculation is fun and one thing, but this article appears to be journalism and comes with a lot of receipts for the Vietnamese/Australian white nationalist supporter with connections to the usual suspects in Silicon Valley accelerationism.
Excellent points. Building on that, if the people who are bothered by that leave or withdraw, won't the workplace come to be dominated by people who aren't bothered by that?

If so, a question is why they aren't bothered by that. Is the culture then cold-hearted? Mercenary? Sociopathic? Oblivious?
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