skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding a good assistant is rough, it requires patience, initiative & chemistry. Once you find 'the one' reward them, because a good assistant is like having a 3rd hemisphere to your own brain -- it sucks when you lose it.

Retooling for an assistant is the most important thing you will ever do for your company, it is what will ultimately allow you to perhaps grow or exit someday.

For new assistants - start them writing down your processes as an operations manual. Every day, they should be making updates and journal entries in the operations manual. The primary purpose of this is to see they can write in a way you can understand, if they can't do this - then fast fire.

If you find somebody who can write/edit/update -- Make sure they know "this role temporary, until it is permanent" and their role is to make themselves indispensable by anticipating your needs.

review your inbox, edit your documents, organize your calendar, and do research, follow up with clients, billing/collections, whatever tasks they can identify and offload from you.

A good assistant once fully trained will be 80% right, 20% wrong, .. you need to accept they aren't you - but eventually you'll both find how to make sure they do the 80% .. and defer/check with you for the other 80%.

A good assistant will write things down for your next assistant.
We call this the "BUS" (or Tram) factor.

I know this seems cold & harsh, but having/updating an operations manual should be the first week of any new person as they are training.
> And it made me think that making an interesting on-chain game is actually possible, even if this was not it.

Sure, it's possible. But I would add that any on-chain game would be equally good, if not better by not being on the chain. I dare anyone to show me a game that is only good by existing on the blockchain.

I'll wait.
Less than half of US children under 15 are white, census shows
There's an interesting sociology and economics of science and academia which could use more attention and ... research. This includes why and how specialisation and focus on narrowly-scoped rather than synoptic, integrative, systemic, or "generalist" study, scholarship, and instruction emerge. The problems are not especially new or specific to our time. Yes, there were in the past scientific generalists who studied or contributed to a large number of fields, but there've also always been those who guarded their own domains, not necessarily scientific, against such approaches. Jealousies between science and religion, law, medicine, and crafts or (technical) arts, for example.

I think that trend is more generally human and speaks to tribalistic tendencies. Those themselves emerge for numerous and complex reasons. Innate complexities of fields, difficulty in judging or assessing new contributions, an inherent conservativism focused on what is rather than what might be, of preserving established order against change, and the like, seem major components.

I'll note that in the computer and technical field, as I age and hopefully experience, I increasingly find myself in the more conservative camp myself, just for the record.

On compensation and reward: it's been observed in education where much has been made of metrics focusing on individual teachers and students that those indicators seem to hold very little validity. The strongest evidence of this is for teachers working at multiple institutions, either simultaneously or transferring within a given year. Looking at those datasets, there's no correlation between performance between the two.

I'd argue similarly that attemtping to reward or penalise researchers based on individual performance or papers is ... a false metricism. That true assessments of value are difficult (and that most metrics used --- papers published and patents issued, for example) are meaningless. There's little agreement even on what, say, the ten most significant inventions of all time have been. (And were any of those developed in the past 100 years?)

Cultivating a research cadre, or sets of cadres, ensuring that they are supported, testing where appropriate against measurable criteria, but allowing for a high level of fuzzing and uncertainty in those metrics, and looking more to aggregate performance of teams, institutions, disciplines, and the like, might be a better approach. Markets work poorly here. Institutions and patronage in its various forms (including national support) seem far better suited.

And yes, revisiting and testing of recent and older results should be a constant part of that process.
Queen Elizabeth is the 3rd longest reigning monarch The problem with definitions
Some people genuinely believe in their work. Jonas Salk worked hard because he believed his work mattered. This guy works hard at Replit because he believes his work matters. My family friend with Down Syndrome works hard at his menial job because he believes his work matters. If people didn’t work hard to accomplish hard things we would still be living in mud huts with 50% infant mortality.
By the creator of Advent of Code!
If you ban someone toxic from a game you don’t want them logging into another game and being toxic there too. An ounce of prevention…

Perhaps you could be lenient and if you’re only worried about prevention and not deterrence you could restrict the ban to online games and forums.
https://archive.ph/IXEGu

April/May declines not included in Q1 figures...
Supabase dev and the maintainer of Supabase Realtime here!

Meteor was before my time (I was doing product when Meteor was all the rage back in the day and never had a chance to explore it as a dev) so can't speak to that but Realtime scales pretty well since it's an Elixir/Phoenix server listening to a Postgres database.

We've recently added Realtime RLS, a more secure version of Realtime, so we need to continue to tune it to make it more performant. I think a couple hundred is doable for now. You should give it a try and give us feedback.

We have a Supabase user who is running the version prior to Realtime RLS, which is more performant at the expense of security, and they have thousands of users chatting concurrently. Just to clarify these chat messages are being saved to a database and then being broadcast to thousands of users.

We're also actively working on Realtime Broadcast which doesn't need to go through the database. Great for ephemeral chat messages and definitely more performant.
I know you don't appreciate now how poorly this comment will age, but I at least hope you remember to reflect back on it sometime.
What is bottom up vs top down process? It isn't mentioned in your link.

> The best value creation process is just an iterative/incremental cycle, with lots of power in the court of the value creators over the value extractors.

This is consistent with the development process I've used with my game/app (nebulous) for the last 7 years. I learned very early on that players responded directly (as in told me via reviews and emails) and overwhelmingly positively to frequent substantiative updates. Early on it pushed me to find my absolute limit: ~2 weeks of < 4 hours of sleep each night, on a ~28 hour day schedule.

I kept bureaucracy, overhead, and expenses to a minimum and have been fortunate enough to reap the rewards over an extended period of time. My focus has always been on maximizing user experience first, revenue second.
> Maybe it would be interesting for power companies and govt to pair up and provide coins that [...] are only mined by putting power back into the grid.

That idea sounds good, but would only be a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

Bitcoin's design solves two problems:

(1) only someone who owns a coin should be able to spend it

(2) they should only be able to spend it once

The first problem had been solved for ages: use digital signatures to authenticate messages of essentially the form "I, Alice, hereby send 3 bitcoins to Bob." Given some initial coin assignment to specific private/public key pairs, you can follow along these messages, keep a tally in a ledger, and know how much everyone has.

Solving the second problem is where bitcoin innovates. Without a trusted third party coordinating things, Alice could just show a message to Bob and Charles each 'sending' them the same 3 bitcoins. Bitcoin uses proof-of-work to pick (at most) one of these messages to be part of the consensus reality.

The scheme you are suggesting requires some trust in the partnership of government and power companies. But as soon as you have very minimal amounts of trust, you can just solve the double-spending problem directly.

And that direct solution involves much less trust than what is required for accepting any statements about the power grid.

If you want, I can sketch out a minimum trust system for the direct solution I mentioned.
Including the whole family, 21. Add tablets and it’s closer to 40
I don’t need to add much more commentary than the original post already has, but this is hardly considered an apology in my eyes:

> While I still think that the totality of the design decisions was a clear a privileged copy, I don't think it warranted my reaction. I'm sorry for that, and I give you permission to publish Riju.

Like thanks for giving me permission to publish MY weekend project that you have 0 say over what I do with, and blame the project as being a copy over “design decisions”. Meaning, a square box with the name of the language overlaying it?

Instead of owning his mistake as he should he basically claims “I have to remember I’m not the struggling kid from Jordan anymore” to avoid taking responsibility and shifts the blame to this ex-intern anyways.
"$AUTHOR has actual courage" - Ben Shapiro - the back of that book

Something something paradox of tolerance
I think the problem is that the Phone app has a lot of legacy behavior from the early days of the iPhone when people actually used the phone functionality. As the sibling commenter notes, they only recently changed the incoming call notification to not take over the entire screen regardless of what else you were doing. It's just not totally fixed yet.
I use https://github.com/wagoodman/dive for this type of task
While I agree with this sentiment, I wouldn't be so quick to completely dismiss pervading company cultures.

I think a better suggestion would be to say that when you read articles like this you should ask if the author has the right perspective to know what the truly common elements of a company's culture are or if they're extrapolating from a single data point.
Can't be right at all. Photo flash capacitors store hundreds of joules, and if you short them out all you get is a fairly exciting *pow*. Lightning strikes light trees on fire, melt sand, vaporize metal..
"Why Information Goods and Markets are a Poor Match"

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...

(I'm agreeing with you.)
Or terminals.
> In the opposite end

Although it might be convenient to treat life as being somehow legally symmetrical, I think that is still a position that needs to be justified.

To give a strange analogy, if someone gathers all the materials needed to make a bomb, but doesn't mix them together, they can still be arrested for bomb-making, even though, in a strictly chemical sense, they haven't made anything that can donate.
MIPS unveils RISC-V eVocore P8700 and I8500 multiprocessor IP cores
I understand your argument, but I disagree with your premise.

The idea that we, each, are the responsible party in this equation is ill founded. Companies have been pitching the idea that we need to be accountable to prevent disaster so that they absolve themselves of the responsibility. We are not the problem even with all the planes. That's the pitch and you are out in the wild trying to further their work for free.

Industrial pollution is orders of magnitude greater than consumer pollution. So, force the populace to adhere to a contrived austerity and continue with the profits.

'Pray tell' have you read the HN code of conduct?

Your solution is a marketing end game.
Dear Apple,

The iPod changed my life when I was 12 years old. I gave you 6 months of my savings to pay half the price of an iPod (the other half was a Christmas present).

Your sticker said "Don't steal music."

So I stole music. I repaired friends' iPods. Now I work in Embedded Systems.

Now I can't fix my original iPod 1st Generation (P68 Prod) because I don't have the parts. I tried to buy your 5GB hard drive but that didn't work. I asked Tony Fadell and he put a <3 on the tweet.

https://twitter.com/tfadell/status/1520470531123945474

What is your intellectual property team protecting now? Please can you share the schematic and boardview for the old iPod? It's my "right to repair" or something like that. And the wonderful company that I work for here in New Zealand has an amazing lab with all the tools for fixing everything.

God bless you!
Peter
> do you consider a Unix root a single file system?

No idea. On Windows, I consider volume a single file system.

> you've just ignored the whole line about loading custom registry files

I know about them. If you really want multiple instances of the registry, you can also use virtual machines with guest Windows OS.

Still, 99% of Windows users don't do any of that. But their OS runs several programs like Windows search indexer which create and use ESENT databases.
That's why I consider ESENT to be the most deployed NoSQL DB.
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/15242334800407101...
Tiger probably did get pretty good managment fees so they are not losers here.
I always just found it incredibly hostile to access and use. Hate to think the hours I've lost from my life using Regedit.

But that goes for all sysadmin stuff in Windows. Give me plain text files I can grep and edit with vim, backup by making copies, diff, version etc. Make it JSON if you want but let me use real tools and not the horror show of Regedit and it's ilk.
> As Brazillian I deal all the time with online distrust with Brazillians, and often when people explain why they distrust us, I can't fault them, there are even online games where Brazillians have their own server separate from the rest of the planet just to "silo" Brazillians from other people, to prevent Brazillians from ruining their fun or causing damage.

Nem todos pensam assim. Sou gringo, moro no rio e acho que o brasileiro é gente boa! TMJ
The concern that EAs have about AI alignment is that there is practically no satisfying theoretical framework right now for how to build "safe" AI, and that's kinda concerning as we approach human-emulating AI (at least in the realm of chatbots, art, writing...)

There are hotfixes people add on for edge cases like "don't label people as gorillas" or "don't say certain words that Nazis say", but for problems like "don't ever initiate a conversation likely to cause someone to commit suicide"... there's no foundational work (that's not super vague) that compels an AI to optimize for human success and life.

That's not great IMO, and we should probably dedicate as much money to it as we dedicate to, I dunno, potato chips ($65 billion a year in the US IIRC).
Brian Potter's "Construction Physics" blog has a lot of information about past and current efforts to improve construction productivity.

"Where are the robotic bricklayers?"[1] is illuminating, but there is much more in the other blog entries.

Many of Brian's other essays go into the detail of various aspects. The whole of them taken together make the following points: every construction project has site differences, materials differences, and requires different mix of workers (so group learning/workflow automation is pointless), with the workers doing a vast array of different tasks with bulky, heavy, and low-value materials, each task being a tiny percentage of total building effort and cost, and there are strict safety, performance, and aesthetic requirements on the product (the building). And there are always surprises.

These factors incentivize a tightly regulated, single-project contractual system, great conservatism, and little possibility for whole-system construction innovation to take off.

Successful construction innovations are for (parts of) a single task, e.g. nail guns replacing hammers for framing, rather than being a whole-system "house printer"which also prints the required permits from the local authorities.

Any attempt to replace humans is going to have to deal with all of that. That article was from 2018. Progress in robotics and AI since then has not been on pace to meet the OP's "widespread in 2028" goal.

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The author uses manufacturing as an example of successful replacement of humans by machines and argues by analogy.

As an aside, it's not the shiniest one. Agriculture went from employing around 60% of adults before the industrial revolution to well under 2% today, a 30-to-1 ratio. Manufacturing peaked at around a third of the workforce and is now near 10%, so maybe a 4-to-1 ratio.

The more important point is that manufacturing automated by rigorously standardisng inputs, factory operation, and products. In each construction project, the site is different, different materials are used because of different climates and different regulations and different customer demands, there are different logistics, and the customer wants a different-looking product. Manufacturing's automation success is not an appropriate analogy.

TL;DR: writers need to get up from their desks and go and look at whatever it is that they're writing about.

1. https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-rob...
> there has been zero evidence (except Heard’s wild claims) to support that Depp ever acted similarly.

I'm a bit confused about this point - didn't Depp & his witnesses go first? I'd expect the majority of Heard's evidence in this trial to come out (and be examined) over the next couple of weeks.

If she calls witnesses that corroborate what you call her 'wild claims', would that change your opinion?
My first iPod was the original Shuffle. The one that was basically a thumb drive with a headphone jack and some buttons. It's still sitting around somewhere, I think. It was a brilliant little device for its time, just an objectively good product. It was easy to use. It didn't try to sell you stuff, it didn't try to box you into buying more Apple products. It just was, and it was good.

As for buying albums- Do it. Something about listening to a whole album puts my head at ease. My car's glovebox is stuffed with CDs I got in places ranging from the local bookstore to a dive bar in Memphis. It's great music, but it's also a fond memory.
Is there any mapping service available which shows directions based off of OpenStreetMap[0]?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Spending 30k promoting hpmor sounds like a great investment if done well.
> half agree with that. PoW is the most efficient method of converting raw energy into a digitally secure token. It would be much better if the work done was actually useful beyond that.

I'd say PoW is not the most efficient method. It's a terrible waste by design.

The kind of 'work' that works in PoW has some rather strict requirements, that's why it's almost impossible to shoehorn useful work into a PoW scheme.

Wikipedia tells me that eg GridCoin uses proof-of-stake to prevent double-spending attacks; its rewarding people for BOINC work is a totally separate gimmick.
My experience was very similar. I was excited to start working on a personal project in Deno and found trying to use npm and import maps to be so painful, it left me wondering how I hadn't heard of these problems before (or since, really).
> No one was buying them.

It doesn't help that Apple was pretty much hiding that they still sold them. They were not discoverable through the site or most Apple stores. You have to use the search or ask someone about it, respectively. They were pivoting away from it first.
House (or medium/large condo): bought in last 3 years $1.5mm usd
Mortgage (20% down): $105,000/year
Property taxes: $17,000/year
Maintenance: between $3600-11,000/year (including capital things like AC, roof, flooring, repainting interior, foundation amortized)
Total: $133,000/year

Family:
Grocery: $20,000/yr
Daycare 2 kids: $48,000/yr (yes daycare is $2000/mo in SF... to START)
Transportation: $8,000/yr (car payment + insurance + gas)
Annual one week "really nice" vacation: $10,000 (4 round trip tickets, 2 hotel rooms, food, transport, entertainment etc)
Misc costs: $10,000
Total: $96,000

Comes out to about $230k/year in raw expenses. These are pretty accurate for 2021 San Francisco 40 minutes walking distance from FiDi. Of course there's no way you'd qualify for an $8500/mo mortgage on that salary (19k/mo) so instead you'd have to settle for a 2 bedroom condo ($960,000? maybe? can you squeeze 2 adults and 2 kids into 1050 sq feet? long term?) for the four of you, sharing one car.

You might be able to pull this off on $300,000 with substantial help from family if they are local, but after taxes etc you will be struggling to save 1% of your income and not really building/maintaining an emergency fund or building savings for other projects/hobbies.
Haskell and the Elegant Attack (2021)
But who should bell the cat?

https://satibal.com/cat-mouse-and-bell-story/

What perpetuates the prestigous-journal practice are review and hiring committees, often swayed by journals themselves through various means, which hold the true power.

Changing institutions, particularly academic ones, is difficult. Far more often, splinter groups are formed.

Schism at Balognia resulted in Padua. Schism at Oxford resulted in Cambridge. I believe there may have been a similar dynamic between Harvard and Yale. Arguably the same might be said of Harvard's failure to cultivate an engineering curriculum, and hence M.I.T.

Though it might be interesting to look at academic disciplines and institutions and identify which are most controlled by journals. I suspect business, medicine, and law would be near the top of such a list.
They wanwan, obviously. (わんわん）
Maybe the most stunning computer design I have ever seen. Like something out of BioShock. Ridiculously beautiful.
> The cost of PoW is based on scarcity in energy, which incentivizes production of cheap and clean energy.

Where do you get the 'clean' from?
A 50 kWh car battery charging to 80% in 15 minutes would be a 160 kW average load. That's going to need high voltage or a thick cable. Is that going to be practical?

Also I wonder what the power connection to a busy all electric refueling station/convenience store by the highway would look like if it wanted to have 16 of these. At least there would be no fumes so it could be more enclosed than a gasoline pump, and presumably no safety reason why you'd need to pay attention to the refueling.
Controversial concept, "female names".
You don't appear to understand how either stocks or CGT works.

Cloudflare does not issue dividends. Dividends are distributions of profit. If I bought Cloudflare stock at $30 and sold at $90, for example, the $60 profit I'm making isn't taken from Cloudflare, it's paid by the buyer on the other end of the stock trade, which is usually an institution or a retail buyer.

I'm not and are never "taking profit" from Cloudflare, in fact I provide them liquidity and also allow them to dilute my ownership in order to pay their employees in stock grants.

Selling shares doesn't really mean the company is hurt by it, especially since I'm a retail investor who doesn't have the capital to impact the price even a single cent.

Owning their stock when they aren't paying dividends is a bet that either growth of the company will inflate the price so I can profit, or it's a bet that they'll one day issue dividends (not anytime soon).
Mechanical scrollwheels are revolutionary!