skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right. CEOs (and other execs) need measurable workload, just like the rest of their staff. If you're not measuring it, is the CEO landing deals, or are they just playing golf with other members of the managerial class? The inquiring mind wants to know.
Thanks! I knew about Stackshare. Mainly curious about apps that share this stuff on their own website (inspired by https://buttondown.com/stack that I just stumbled across)
This is amazing. It might be my Visual Basic nostalgia kicking in, but this is the icing on the imgui cake for me.
You could say it's a denial-of-service attack on your phone. But I guess it's not exactly a secret that misbehaving websites that you visit can slow down your phone.

(However it seems wrong that Android doesn't set up things via eg cgroups or whatever to make sure that the browser can't hog all the resources. You'd want to reserve say 5% of memory and RAM for use by system tasks perhaps? (Reserve in the sense that these system tasks can pre-empt anyone else using these, not that no one else can use these.))
Play first, try things out, ideas will bubble up, trust your own ingenuity
Cost of sales is actually a huge issue for all kinds of products and services.

It costs a business half or more of all revenue simply to make a sale in many cases. High-friction subscription services and all the support involved is a large piece of this.

Many products and services suffer from the fact that they are too cheap to produce to make meaningful individual revenue recovery sensible.

Raise the question with your hometown or city. What would it take for Reuters to licence gratis access to all residents through a city-paid arrangement? That's one sales contact for Reuters, and thousands to millions of readers onboarded. Vastly more efficient than one-at-a-time relations.
Ooh, you're in for a treat!

I'm working on a fun project creating just the kind of websites you're talking about. Reach out to me (addr in profile) if you'd like to be notified when it is ready.
A reticulum is a netlike structure, seems good to me. Ain't you never reticulated splines?
I acknowledged what Air Force One was referring to in this discussion and in the article, did you miss that? then I added some information.

now I'll add some more, both from wikipedia:

Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president of the United States. It usually denotes a helicopter operated by Marine Helicopter Squadron One "Nighthawks", consisting of either the large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King or the newer, smaller VH-60N "White Hawk"

Air Force Two is the air traffic control designated call sign held by any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States, but not the president. The term is often associated with the Boeing C-32, a modified 757 which is most commonly used as the vice president's transport.

I always try to add information or clarification, knowledge is power.
What is more popular than the Apache Foundation? I thought Apache was top... Is there a cooler/better Apache? If so, please let me know.

And when was Apache more popular? I thought it was the uncool place where stuff was written in Java, that became popular because people's conception of Java (and the language/ecosystem itself) changed.
Best startup idea of the week. Unfamiliar buts in seats. UBIS! the guilt of not knowing anyone
AI and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online
You’d be surprised how many people don’t, despite having the same Internet as me.
Are you serious?

Doctors are often on call 24/7 and do significantly more work than the average C-suite, yet you're complaining about a two hour work day?

The lack of self awareness is astounding.
Mostly I feel sorry for people whose lives are so empty that they feel the need to fly across the world to have a conversation about work. Stay home! Zoom works great and you can go for a walk with your spouse after you log off instead of drinking alone in a hotel bar.
> So it's equivalent with a subway train at crush capacity running every 1000 seconds or 16 minutes.

The Berlin subway typically runs 4-minute and 5-minute intervals (except at the periphery) and they're seeking to upgrade it. Some more advanced systems in the world run at 2-minute or even 90-second intervals. So, by your calculation, the tunnel has the capacity of 1/4 of an old subway and 1/10 of a cutting-edge subway.
are there elites that are not wealthy? or does wealthy elite just sound better as a soundbite?
That completely depends on what qualifies as meaningful. From a rational point of view, every impactful change came by regulation, which is a proxy for force. After all, what's going to happen when you break this regulation?
That doesn't mean that regulation would solve this particular crisis though. The best you can achieve with national regulation is pollution and that's just not gonna stop the coming climate disaster.

And you're mistaken wrt what I labeled dumb: I specifically phrased it in the context of actions, not people.
To be fair they were introduced in 1936.
Maybe the AI can work it out?

More seriously usually issues where the observed behaviour is "the system is slow" are harder to root cause than complete outages. It depends partly how good your capacity planning is obviously, but maybe an AI could help with that too.
I think this is a great take. Those problems have traditionally been hard to solve in engineering and you can get pretty reliable solutions from just an api call.
No worthwhile indicators, other than the gut feelings of the decision makers in that moment.
I agree that implementing it like how cryptocurrency works would be bad. I'm not in favor of that. But as I had said, I'm not arguing for any specific implementation. However, smart cards for IDs is one implementation that already exists [1], and it would be more like using a security key instead of just typing in your SSN. I think that would be more appropriate for people with a broad range of technical experiences, but as I had said, I'm not advocating for any particular implementation, just pointing out that the technology exists to at least attempt to solve the problem.

What solution do you think would work here?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_201
...especially when they don't read documentation as often as they should ;)

ahem

Yes, I mean the setuid bit. The bit that makes the groups work for read/write to a directory. The same bit that's dangerous if it's set for a root user or group, and can be iffy if it's executable... yes that bit.
what about your daughter's ability to get an abortion or health care coverage if she is unemployed?
> teenage daughter has shared her classmates feel apathetic towards current events

So, a teenager feels apathetic... and you're claiming this is a new development?

> politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work

Hard disagree. It won't immediately change anything. But on the scale of months, years, decades? It has the potential to change nearly everything. If not for you, then surely for the marginalized.

If you're from the UK - Brexit was not an inevitability. Different parties in power, even a different PM at a certain point, and it wouldn't have happened. And it's demonstrably wrong to claim that isn't changing the lives of everyone in the UK by a huge amount.

If you're from the US - are you really so dumbly apathetic that you're going to claim that the choice of the next president won't affect your life?

There are a few countries that are stable enough (currently) that an argument could be made any political actions like voting won't change much. But these countries are few and far between,and even those are not guaranteed to stay stable.
>Mp3s were yesterday literally long time ago

Since when? Some people keep local copies of their media. Censorship and arbitrary license disputes can have streaming content snatched away at any moment.
How are you judging others who make this claim?

I'm a FAANG Sr. Software Engineer, use it both in my company and personal projects, and it has made me much faster, but now I'm just "some other person who made this claim".
Another one of these companies which will sell to other YC companies and "exit" in a few years.

I wish you luck but honestly it seems like you have not done the ground work behind what operation managers actually do.
Give them good plot lines like: i dont think ive seen you here before? Do you normally work remote?
I am saying that old school projects aren't paying the developers' bills because they aren't profitable. The developers realize this too, there is only so much altruism to go around but you got mouths to feed and rents to pay.

As an alternative to working on a second job to fund their passion, we are seeing developers trying various things to make their one passion job pay, such as licensing tweaks or VC funding. These don't seem to work out very well, I think it's best explained here:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

"So it is with free software. You literally cannot pay for it. If you do, it becomes something else."
The Mosler Model
> How is it faster to press `*` than `Ctrl-I` in any other rich text editor?

The shift key is right under my pinkie, a bit easier than the CMD key on my Mac (much less the Ctrl) for me.
I had this experience with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I am sure I read it at the wrong time in my life.

For me The Fountainhead was life changing precisely because I was an insecure and overly-mothered boy that needed to read about pursuing one’s own ends to the exclusion of all expectations otherwise. Today I’m a father and would find it uselessly myopic.
IMO theory of mind fails at scale and distance due to the sheer diversity of humanity and disconnection from local signals. No human can accomplish this, which is why we need population-level studies.
biased ? sure they are. Groundnews ranks them as clear left leaning.

https://ground.news/interest/npr
Chipotle's stock dropped 10% and Starbucks's rose 25% when the CEO switched from one to the other this past week. If this guy is just a meritless lottery winner, then you can make a lot of money betting against the market and the extremely large group of heavily motivated and intelligent investors who think otherwise.
In Belgium everybody has an ID card which has a chip which can be used to sign anything.

It's a private key that is only on the card. So it's totally possible. But there needs to be a will from the government AND a will from the people to allow the government to store data on their citizens (address etc).
But what kind of authentication signal can you possibly get from someone supplying a name, date of birth, SSN and address?

Providing a tuple of those values that match a record in the social security database, or the Experian or Equifax databases, does absolutely nothing to tell you whether the person applying for a loan/job/credit card/twitter verification etc is the human being who that SSN record corresponds to.
Colleges and universities started moving towards the book fee instead of buying books years ago. Many institutions already do the folding book costs into tuition.
```case class Bidual[V](v: V) {
def apply(f: Dual[V]) = f(v)
}

def unwrap[V](ff: Bidual[V]): V = ff.v```

There's both directions of the isomorphism explicitly defined in a programming language. No choice of basis needed to define the maps, only to prove that the constructor for Bidual really gives you all linear functionals on the dual.
I work for a medium (~$10B) public company and when I check the CEOs calendar he's booked 12 hours a day, and it's a lot of hard staff meeting with complex outcome. Not sure where this idea that CEOs don't work come from
> it's private industry who needs to admit that it makes for a poor shared-secret

This isn't specifically a problem of private industry. I've worked for the federal government, and I distinctly recall several times that they used my SSN to identify and authenticate me.

The government doesn't even follow its own instructions. Why is it surprising when others don't?
Knowledge is power. If you're launching, you need all the help you can get, and I like helping people, just as makers before me did. This "playbook" shares what worked for me, and even though it's not a one-size-fits-all approach, you might learn one thing or two.
> who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview

News websites have pushed video in various forms, as it generally has higher ad revenue, but people often skip right over it for the text.

A perk of text is you can glance through it extremely quickly, to see if there is anything interesting.
> Imagine hearing a CEO say something like "I care about Company X" but they're saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there.

And they're so insulated from what it's like to be a normal non-Ivy-League rank-and-file worker that they probably don't even know how tone deaf it is. Either they don't know or they know and don't care. They get off the Zoom call and call their chauffeur to drive them to their jet to fly to their third home, thinking just how wonderful a leader they are.
I might use Money Market Funds if moving money between accounts wasn't such a pain. Until then the HYSA will be the default place to stick money that might be needed with 24 hours notice. Maybe this will change when FedNow has fully rolled out.

For longer term investments I hold my nose and suffer through the Treasury Direct website.
what about hydroponics? that doesn't need vast amounts of horizontal land
I see the opposite. Conversations that used to happen in ear reach so I'd know what was going on with various team members and be able to contribute when I knew a solution are now conversation that happen in private chat or private VC.

Productivity is way down.

Even more interesting, a team lead lives in another country 6 times zones away. Some times they visit the main office for 1-2 weeks. Productivity shoots through the roof those weeks.
Continuing with your points, I've been told that "... is the root of all evil" is likely an idiomatic use of hyperbole.

I.e., in modern colloquial English we'd say, "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
I think the real pain comes from many managers discovering that if they're going to have remote workers, might as well go whole hog and hire them in Bangalore for 1/10th the price instead of paying SV salaries.
Hmm, still unless the ratio of them VS him playing was close to 50% that’s quite incredible given how massive the game was already and how demanding it is to be competitive, skills-wise but also just time-commitment-wise. I imagine to stay in top-10 requires no less than 4-6 hours of daily win-heavy gaming.
I found the solution one time but it is hard to reproduce: I make an angry face and shout from up close "It is important that people enjoy working here. Do you understand?" Then I laugh at my own joke.
I only started parking my money at Vanguard/Fidelity in my mid 20’s. The familiarity penalty was very real: I felt like I could trust Chase since national brand, brick and mortar stable. I wish I had moved sooner.
Some people here have mentioned microtransactions for news, and that reminded me of an app I used to use called Blendle. Back in the day you used to be able to top off your account and pay <$1 for each news article. I used to use it quite a bit. From what I can find online, the business model never succeeded, and the majority of the people who downloaded the app never actually made any microtransactions. It's a shame because I really enjoyed it.
Honestly? ‘deals with the devil’ aren’t dangerous because the devil is doing any of the enticing, we are to ourselves.

The devil just gives us a glorious chance to be hoist on our own petard (long term) in exchange for short term glory/enjoyment. A temptation eternally present in humanity, no matter the environment. We’re more than happy to scam ourselves later.
we could probably do this in people rn but we'd kill quite a few till we nailed down the dosing.
> Sitting by passively and praying

Curious what you have done instead?
Anyone working on a Tufte-like WordPress block theme?
I frankly think my company's offshore devs and QA (largely India-based) are a net negative. The existence of a decent sized team to do QA manually has made adoption of automated testing (and writing code that it easily testable) almost impossible because no one wants to change.
You need 26 stacked tunnels to meet the capacity of a subway line with 60 second interval, remember? (I don't think they've achieved intervals that low, but give it time)
Have I mentioned that I’d be happy to loan you money for your startup’s cashflow issues, with deferred interest, secured only by your immortal soul?
I can wire funds from my cash management or brokerage account for free, use the debit card for anything that takes debit payment rails, etc. I do keep a Chase account around for Zelle, but am looking to switch to Navy Federal Credit Union to eliminate Chase but retain Zelle until FedNow uptake improves. Wires to my Wise account land super fast for quick cross border money movement to EUR and AUD. Wise only charges $1-$2 for domestic US wires, so also convenient for funds that need immediate availability elsewhere.

(lots of detail that might be potentially unhelpful, but I hope it helps others, the plumbing is easy if you know the primitives; Chase is horrible, I do not recommend, Schwab, Vanguard, or Fidelity is the way)
>I once asked her if she thought in English or ASL and she said ASL

It's common to think that we think in languages, but at a fundamental level, we simply don't. Ever have the experience of not being able to remember the word for something? you know exactly what you are thinking, but can't come up with the word. If you thought in your language, this wouldn't happen.
I don't know; it was after I left. I don't think they have the same CEO anymore, but they're still at the new location. Maybe they hired local.
Then you don't understand how to use the tools. LLMs are an accelerator for people who learn how to work with the prompts correctly and already have a good grasp of the domain in which they are asking questions.
Not everyone can simply start a software company. It takes either a lot of capital, a lot of time, or both. Even if you have those, not everyone's aptitude is in business. That's particularly the case in software where there's not the, for lack of a better term, inherent value embodied in a physical product.
What bothers me personally when I read quotes from CEOs describing how often they work in the office or how productive they are is the lack of perspective that their "day in the office" is vastly different for them compared to the rank and file.

A CEO has much more autonomy to set their daily schedule as they see fit, which one day might be showing up at 6am if they're in that grind mindset, and the next day might be showing up at 11am after a tee time and casual breakfast with colleagues or friends. They may have a schedule full of internal meetings but can choose to skip whichever they feel like isn't a good use of time at their own discretion. They don't ask permission from their supervisor or get passive aggressive texts asking if they're planning to come in if they don't show up by 9:30AM.

Psychologically speaking having that much freedom to direct one's own schedule fundamentally changes one's relationship with work. Obviously they have their own non-negotiable obligations so it isn't completely in their control but the typical office worker at most companies is rarely entrusted to manage their own schedule to that degree even if they're keeping up with their tasks and a high performer.

It doesn't bother me that the nature of the CEO job is much different than a lowly software dev but instead it's the lack of awareness or deliberate dishonesty that I find grating in the RTO debate.
The question is what does programming with an LLM get you over batteries-included frameworks with scaffolding like Rails or Django?

Three years ago an LLM would conversationally describe what the code would look like.

Two years ago it might crib common examples with minor typos.

Last year it could do something that isn't on StackOverflow at the level of an intern.

Earlier this year it could do something that isn't on StackOverflow at the level of a junior engineer.

Last week I had a conversation with Claude 3.5 that went something like this:

Write an interactive command-line battleship game
Write a mouse interactive TUI for it
Add a cli flag to connect to `ollama` and ask it to make guesses
There's a bug: write the AI conversation to a file so I can show you
Try some other models: make options for calling OpenAI and Anthropic
GPT and Anthropic are throwing this error (it needed to switch APIs)
The models aren't doing as well as they can: engage them more conversationally

Elapsed time: a few hours. I didn't write any code. Keep in mind that unlike ChatGPT, Claude can't search the net for documentation - this was all "from memory".

What will LLMs do next year?
> This is engagement bait unless it has stats

This is correct, and unfortunately describes a nontrivial fraction of articles submitted to HN from traditional media outlets. Use that flag button!
+1. It doesn't entertain me, and it doesn't help me make more money. And I don't need it to survive. I think that pretty much sums it up
I paid a guardian subscription for years. They upped the price twice, significantly more than inflation overall and they nagged me endlessly for donations. When you already pay being begged at is tiresome. I decided to stop paying and put up with the begging. I gave my money to another independent news source for a year or two instead and I will revisit this in a while.

Their international edition was fantastic. Printed on airmail tissue paper and federating several other news sources, weekly. I'd pay for that again.
BISAAS?
That’s just what they want you to think!
Wikipedia is not a citation.
Product Hunt Launch Playbook: How to Become #1 in 2024
People are just responding to the article which points out the hypocrisy from C-suite level execs.
I'd love to shadow a CxO one day and see for myself how much hard work it is. I have a (likely flawed) picture in my mind of someone who's jetting around the world, constantly on their cell phone all day from Paris in the morning and Tokyo in the evening, saying yes and no to people but not really doing any actual hard labor or much complex cognitive thought-work. But who knows, they live in this parallel universe, physically separated from commoners like me. I've never even seen anyone in my company with a CxO title or even any of their direct reports in the SVP layer. They might as well live in the North Pole.
Nothing would come with liability if it were entirely up to vendors. Fortunately it isn't.
multi-tier payment structures (subscription + ads + paid placements) are very common for most news industry players..
Some quick googling suggests that a dedicated (DIA) 1gbit connection is around $1k/month, which would be $65ish for 2 days.
You can buy treasuries and money market funds with Chase self directed accounts.
When I compose, I usually begin by sitting quietly and humming or singing out loud until I have a melody that I like. Because I was born and raised in the west, acoustically I'm naturally accustomed to a 12 tone equal temperament.

Atonal music is more difficult for me to grok, and I kind of imagine that for you to be fluent and compose in these sort of microtonal scales you would need to be introduced to it at a young age - in much the same way that it's significantly easier to learn a second language if you grow up in a bilingual environment.