skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"- founders, especially first time founders, often have middling experience hiring for any role, and zero experience hiring execs."

These seem like (and this one especially) exactly the sort of problems a VC would be positioned to help solve.

So I wish PG would give advice instead of just complaining about bad execs here.
Might've been less nice pesticies in the past, but I guess awareness of possible lawsuits from employees has forced their hand.
Apple has never locked down a Mac.

The EULA on the Apple Silicon Macs allows you to run another OS.

Apple put in a large amount of work to design a system that applies security settings per partition instead of per machine, so that installing an unsigned custom OS doesn't require you to turn off "Secure Boot" for the whole machine.
I just found the limit on Safari mobile .. 500 for those who are curious :)

I'm just lazy too, I almost never go back and read the old ones. Digital hoarding I suppose.
Not necessarily apple to apple, but I use Amazing Marvin [1], which allows similar type of configuration, and more. (It's kind of application where 10 different configuration would come out from 10 different people...)

The pricing is high-end, but there's one time option (which I opted couple years ago and paid itself, pretty much!) and optionally usable offline for most features.

[1]: https://amazingmarvin.com/
How else could Coinbase have ended up? It's a company for people to speculate on digital tokens. There's no grand mission to the thing, his rhetoric has always struck me as hollow and self-serving. "Create more economic freedom" lol. I have an account, the app didn't even show you your return till fairly recently.

Coinbase will die, even if crypto survives. But he's already taken out his millions.
Maybe a good solution for CEOs in that situation is to be pretty clear about that - make the CxO role a purely "public face" role, and leave day to day operations to VP / SVPs.

In my experience that rarely happens, the "golfing buddy" types may be good at the golfing buddy stuff but also exert a lot of influence (often quite forcefully) on the overall org where their actions tend to be mostly negative.
Great to see that. Kind of disappointed not seeing it developed first in Firefox.
This is a solution to a core problem of mine. My current workflow is to create/edit a google doc or quip doc for all of my notes/todos/daily planning. The price point is reasonable, and is something I would pay for as part of my personal "productivity" software budget which includes tools such as Jetbrains/grammarly/overleaf etc.

However you are too fast to make me enter my credit card info. It's 2022, can't I at least play with the app to see if it's what I want? Demo for a day? Create just one page of notes?

As it stands the landing page was not enough to get me over the hump to put in my credit card info. I somehow can't get back to the landing page now that I started the signup flow.
Space Shuttle is a clinker, here. It never did anything well, and its costs gutted other, overwhelmingly more valuable programs.
s/fission/fusion/g (fission is how we currently do nuclear power, fusion is "just round the corner...")
Volkswagen ID.R on Pike's Peak?
I have some good news for you about fission :P
I guess you could get a dual Sim phone and only give out the second number for that kind of situation.
I think this is insightful and probably an unconscious bias of the core team (who have all used Java for decades) and have a good sense of that.
To be fair, in most cases private industry can produce far more efficiently than government. Healthcare in our country is so screwed up that it may be a glaring exception.
> If you're from a country without mosquitoes- like the United Kingdom-

I wish this was true, but they certainly exist in this country
This is not how Europe works... Misconception no1: Denmark has no minimum wage. We rely on market forces.

It is truly terrifying to see how the narratives about Europe, and especially my home country, have infested the internet to a point where young people in Denmark actually believe random foreigners online know more about Denmark than their parents.
I've personally noticed that multiple US cities have (conveniently?) removed 'room for the arts'/counterculture slowly and almost imperceptibly since the 1980s. Easily-affordable housing (for creatives and low-income students) and storefronts (for their works, performances, and socializing) have been (carelessly? carefully?) shoved aside for more gentrified concerns. Individualized 'cafes' have been 'Starbucked'. The 'unifying conformancy' is never matched by unified rights or incomes.

Non-journalist Gibson smelled the 'trend' early. It is also visible in videos which wander 'developed' world city streets. Space for inscrutable (nothing to say) welded sculptures/'child-like' murals always seems to be found. And space for 'approved' historic cultures. But not for an underground press, nor for non-violent protest, nor for authentic graffiti. Not nearly as total, then, but somewhat like North Korea, the land of identical choices.

Edit: "Through the policing of all these scales, moral geographies contribute to the construction of desired "Singaporean" identities."

( Singapore Lily on "Music and moral geographies: Constructions of "nation" and identity in Singapore"
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41148026])
So your argument is, not that Eastern bloc housing was good, but that it was good enough to be far better than homelessness? That's... probably true. Given the choice, I'd probably take a Warsaw Pact apartment over a cardboard box.

[Edit: There are submarines that are free market, and are for sale to (wealthy) private individuals. There are also free market interstate highways; they are toll roads. Still official interstate highways, but privately owned and operated.]
That makes sense, fair enough, thanks!
Right before the pandemic hit I was invited to go drive some 1st gen Formula E cars. I really regret passing on that.

(I'm told they can be made much more driveable for non-pros)
As a central Florida native I have little doubt that the landscape architecture plays a big role. Mosquitoes breed and multiply incredibly quick in this climate. Every city sprays regularly to keep populations lower, but they are still around.
> Requiring that a community exist that is willing to spend many years of collective time reverse engineering your products when you could have just released documentation is still a massive middle finger to everyone.

If you were handling this situation for Apple, how would you handle customer support for non-apple OSes?
>They need little robots/drones to scout about at night for larva and kill them.

Those are called dragonflies. And they have the highest success/attempt rate in the animal kingdom at 95%: https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/article-s...
I wonder if they could tweak the PWM to give some louder, pleasing, sound.
I saw this first hand: company hired a "killer CEO" from a non-tech firm based on the boards insistence, he brought along his CFO. A year in, the company almost died and had to raise an emergency round. The CEO took off w/ a huge amount of equity and, meanwhile, the CFO had completely screwed the books up.

All very funny.

In retrospect.
excellent thought friend
Your compensation is determined by your power within an organization, not your contribution to it.

What blows my mind is the degree to which people believe that perfect competition exists everywhere and “the market” will fix all inefficiencies.

Edit: I want to make clear that I am not denigrating the value of markets, I’m only looking to point out the idealization that exists in many people’s minds, especially as I have encountered on this exact forum.
Replace Brex with Tillful Card for SMBs by Aug 15 Deadline
Good chuckle imagining that as the laser light show every night... title alone.
I've seen this in a startup that grew to around 500 people, and it wasn't pretty. The office is full enough of politics as is, and it only gets worse when you have to campaign for your job.

Hiring externally side steps all of that, and can bring a fresh perspective.
I bought a house last year in a very active market and briefly looked at OpenDoor listings, but was not at all impressed with the company. I love the idea of being able to buy/view/sell a home without dealing with a realtor, but my experience with Opendoor was rough and something about the company was off-putting. I'm not surprised about the headline complaint here, but this detail shocked me:

> its costs have been higher than what consumers typically pay when using a traditional realtor

Really?! Beating the seller costs of a traditional realtor in the US is an incredibly low bar. Creating a tech solution that costs even more is absurd.
May I ask where you feel it the most?

For me it’s definitely been browsers and IDE’s, but I just install those to /opt.
I get that Formula E isn't a spec series, but it is weird that so much of it is homologated spec parts. Given that the racing isn't that great (maybe entertaining, clumsy, or wacky would be descriptors of FE), imo it'd really make sense to fully lean in on the technological progress goal. In 10 years they'd have one hell of a series.

If you think about all the progress that was made during the group B and early formula 1 days and look at the regulations that were in play at the time, it seems like opening up the regulations in Formula E would make a lot of sense.
Deer have more cones and less rods than humans. They have no red-sensitive rods at all. They also have no ultraviolet filtration, so they see blue much more acutely and pick up on UV-wavelength brighteners quite easily.
Agreed, wish that more software made use of local databases and storing more data client-side.

Yes it takes more space, but phones can affordably be configured with 256GB and laptops with multiple TB of high speed storage nowadays.
Congratulations on shipping. Looks great!

From my limited experience in this space: any two users typically have very different needs and want to see very different features (mobile? desktop app? themes? integrations? offline?) before they would feel comfortable making the jump.

So my hunch (although I hope you prove me wrong!) is that getting serious growth requires creating a lot of little features and getting all of them right. I found the prospect of this exhausting when I took a crack at it years ago.

On that basis, my feedback is that it would be great if you all decide what you want this app to be. If you want it to perfectly scratch your itch, that would be a wonderful thing, and I think you would see steady growth in a niche market. If you want it to grow massively, long-term I think it needs to be some kind of platform with a killer edge.

For example, I think Obsidian falls in the platform category. Its killer edge is a great UI over plain markdown notes just stored on disk, and it's also a platform for all kinds of extensions on top.

Also: charge more! [1]

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=patio11+charge+more
I worked for a large, late stage, Softbank backed company. They brought in some C-suite execs while I was there. A CTO paid several million annually with large, public company experience. They were totally clueless, and the engineering org was almost revolting within 6 months, trying to stage a coup to the CEO. No technical experience, no leadership, installing cronies, speaking in opaque platitudes.

I'm not angry about it, though they did oversee us being on the cusp of a promising IPO to a pretty bad outcome that cost me a lot of money, but I'll say that any illusion that you have to be competent to be a C-suite exec, and any imposter syndrome I ever had, went out the window after that. Ironically it increased my personal confidence, if these idiots can do it I certainly can.

I think the old saying "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" kinda applies to some execs maybe, like nobody gets fired for hiring some stellar resume exec with lots of experience, but they may get fired for taking a chance on an upstart.
Modeling the Economics of Residential Solar
It would not work. At all. No where in the world does it work, nor has it ever worked.

It is just politics... Semi communist statements like that can gain traction in California, so they are uttered. It will not happen, but will spur another round of talks about how great state is, and what ifs
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We live in a society ... where humans do human things. Cronyism, nepotism, and tribalism are normal human behaviors, regardless of how some people think humans should behave. Our fellow humans are under no obligation to surpass humanity and behave altruistically. I think a more useful question is how do we utilize or exploit our human behavior to improve ourselves and our societies.
I predict: Sundar will be replaced by Ruth Porat (the CFO) as the CEO of Google in a year (with sundar remaining CEO of Alphabet). The company will undergo a finance-driven adjustment of priorities which will involve large-scale downsizing touching every area of Google that doesn't bring revenue/profit, user traffic, or research credibility (leaving Ads, Search, Cloud, and Research). Many ambitious future products and existing duds will be shut down (with a promise this will allow them to focus on their core). It seems unlikely Google Cloud will catch up to AWS or Azure, but shutting down GCP would probably cause a lot of serious problems.

When I joined Google in '07 I thought they were already pretty late to the cloud game and faced uphill resistance from every Urs flunkie about cloud- "it will never match the profit margins of ads". When Urs finally did get serious about cloud, he eviscerated TI which has taken years to rebuild itself.

I still have a hard time understanding exactly why they've committed so much money to Verily with its focus on high-touch medical dx.
Given that two different houses owned by OpenDoor that I looked at smelled of cat pee, I'm not really sure what standards they had.
500+ HN comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31912763

Todays article is largely a follow-up update to the above HN post.
Clean desk but messy tabs here. I like the aesthetics of clean interior design, it’s peaceful and inspiring like a blank whiteboard. Also, nobody can see my tabs.
As a worker, I create wealth. There is also a parasitic class of heirs who are LPs for VCs, or who get dividend, rent and interest checks - rentiers expropriating surplus labor time of those who work. Yes, my attitude towards them is about what Lenin's were for the tsar and his parasitical family.

I can care less what those who are parasites off my labor think of me, and their cadre who somehow benefit off this paraditism. Workers work, create wealth and have no need of these parasites. Yes we resent them, and will eventually eliminate this parasitism.
>I think the TikTok videos are a symptom, what's the cause?

We celebrate failure and not success. As a simple example no one gets praised for not being an addict, but we keep hearing about the stunningly brave addicts who became barely functioning members of society.
Generalization (not specialization) was it’s strong point as well as it’s weakness. The reason why it was a design boondoggle was because it had to meet the requirements of many masters. People forget it has a number of DoD missions in addition to the more publicly known NASA missions.
This subject has come up before.
Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes(https://www.greenmatters.com/p/why-no-mosquitoes-disney-worl...)
262 points|jbonniwell|12 months ago|125 comments

The Fascinating Reason Why There Are No Mosquitoes at Disney World(https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/548281/reason-why-there-...)
25 points|elorant|2 years ago|3 comments

Why There Are No Mosquitoes at Disney World(http://mentalfloss.com/article/548281/reason-why-there-are-n...)
3 points|amelius|3 years ago|0 comments

You Never See Mosquitoes at Disney World(https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-never-see-mosquitoes-dis...)
2 points|redm|1 year ago|0 comments

Why Are There No Mosquitoes at Disney World? (2018)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30jPKzWdN0)
I've seen extremely sales / marketing oriented CTOs that worked well despite having not much / very outdated tech skills. It usually works pretty well when you have a lot of enterprise sales, and the CTO is often there to help get through procurement, relay technical requirements from sales calls, bizdevvy stuff re: integrations / platform, etc.

Every time I've seen that pattern work though, it's been paired with a very effective VP Eng, and quite a lot of autonomy on teams owing to the lack of a technical vision, or at least a technical vision that can be directly implemented (i.e. the CTO might have vague directional goals, but there's a lot of legwork required to turn that into something real).
I think you prefer silence over noise. Most people do.
With Supernal, Hyundai Spreads Wings to Advance Its Air Mobility
Is Denmark representative of Europe?
> funds the most depraved regimes

I would also push back against this idea. The two biggest "rogue regimes," Iran and Russia, generate hundreds of billions in clean money and substantial portions of their budget from oil/gas sales. Iran just has to have somewhat unique financial relationships with Turkey/China/UAE due to sanctions and their removal from SWIFT but I don't think that's really what you or most people mean by organized crime. They don't need financial crimes to make money. In fact their governments are often the victims of massive financial crimes and looting (Russia during privatization, Russia today with corrupt government contracts, Iran with subsidized goods like gasoline being smuggled out of the country on a massive scale, etc).

North Korea is maybe an example of what you're talking about but as a percent of total financial crimes its activities are small. They're also aren't doing structured cash deposits in bank accounts or whatever. They're stealing money through phishing and wire transfers or crypto hacks. After stolen money has been sent through 3 or so jurisdictions the amount of international cooperation needed to recover it will take at least a year.
Anecdotally, I've observed that man CxO roles are created at the behest of the board or to acquire prestige for some purpose. It would not surprise me that it's easy to find highly successful people who will trade Prestige for money and WLB after a certain point in their career.

Promoting internally won't buy your firm more prestige/credibility.
Hillside Letters
It's a proposed-bill post which is a poor fit for HN which, in turn, is why it's no longer on the front page. I did not say anything about it being 'irrelevant' or 'the average tech professional'. Again, this is explained in the linked moderation comments.
> "If you're from a country without mosquitoes- like the United Kingdom"

The article suggests that there are no mosquitos in the UK, but this is not correct. The UK has over 30 native mosquito species, and many of them bite humans.

One urban-adapted species, Culex molestus, is even known as the "London Underground Mosquito": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_mosquito
> My mom to this day (over 40 years later) still uses punch cards as note paper. Good memories.

My mom ran out of punch card note pages, sadly. They're a real nice size for taking notes.
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (2013)
Worldwide rem0te?
Soil needs microbiology, gas exchange and hydrology this is what makes elements available. Nothing needs to be added and all the elements are plentiful. We killed the microbiology, the research is already done. Keep many kinds of plants in the soil year round, stop adding chems, this increases yield 3x and water retention enough to reduce irrigation demand up to 70%. Strange thing is, this is free and removes a bunch of business models + gov subsidies from industrial ag and the universities that support them through "research". Just finished a year talking to farmers and growers of all kinds across the US.
That and the ultra-stagnant economy which in turn leads to mortgage rates of around 1%.
great landing page. will give this a shot.
Interesting, very similar to what I'm building as well: https://getartemis.app

I've done a lot of research into this calendar/tasks/notes space, how does this compare to

- Sunsama [0]

- Daybridge

- Routine [1]

- Agenda

- NotePlan

- Cron

- TickTick

and the hundreds of others out there?

I've also seen a lot of apps like this shut down over the years, such as Sunrise [2], Woven [3] and more. Personally speaking, I even hesitate to continue on my own app as well because it seems the market is saturated with the same exact idea and style, but it seems that users aren't really that attached to one company for it to generate enough revenue to keep building.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990238

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565629

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11676448

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882680
tell that to the bitcoin bros.
I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. Firefox allows thousands of tabs without stopping new tabs being created. I currently have 3109 open (with only a dozen or so loaded though) which has survived abrupt power loss, freezing and force quitting, and updates across several years worth of versions both in the background and manually triggered. It's using 1571MB RAM at the moment and rarely goes over 10Gb, even after having viewed hundreds of tabs recently. In that case it's easy enough to unload everything by restarting the browser or selecting a bunch of tabs then unloading them with Sidebery.
I mean I wouldn't, but documentation would be appreciated. I feel like this is a common error in reasoning (not accusing you, honestly not accusing Apple, mostly accusing the people who would move the goalposts if Apple really did release documentation) where you identify one action as clearly good, and another action as possibly bad, and then not do the former for fear that you'll then choose to do the latter.

It's not quite slippery slope, because at least under slippery slope it's other people who are the concern. Apple could just choose to do the easy stuff and not the hard stuff! They could release documentation with no promise of support! You see the same argument with open sourcing things; "Oh well then I'd have to support it". Just literally choose to let people see the code and also choose not to give them support. Who exactly is gonna twist your arm?
gotta love random driveby pricing opinions from people who have never used the product lol