skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. And he could have effortlessly achieved tolerability in most right wing circles that reflexively dislike "smug liberals" simply by not saying "smug liberal" stuff whilst encouraging right wingers to talk up what a great capitalist innovator he was, running red state targeted ad campaigns and making a pickup truck that people that normally drive gas-guzzlers would actually want to drive. His aspirations for colonies on Mars were already at least as appealing to much of the right as they ever were to the left.

Buying Twitter and wading into political debates isn't a depoliticization strategy, and if he'd wanted to pick a colour of his politics to optimize his business success (surprisingly unimportant when your product line is as far ahead of competition as SpaceX/Tesla have been) the correct choice would have been beige.
If we're talking about E ink, it happened to study with a guy who had a boox something and it was really cool, however he mainly used it for notes and for writing, and not for coding. I think they offer a lot of products for various needs, perhaps some of them are backlighted. Boox ultra pro c has an underclocked snapdragon 855 so it shouldn't suck too much, just a little. However, they're not cheap
Colder is actually better and more fun. You see, the theoretical lower limit for how much energy your super-computer takes to run is given by temperature, and thus on a larger scale by the temperature of the background radiation in your part of the cosmos. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
I’m hopeful that the ‘working outdoors’ issue may be solved within a couple of generations of AR glasses.

Something that can project one or two virtual monitors at a workable resolution, without totally cutting off the outside world, and while looking roughly like a pair of glasses.
What about the nature of your follow up responses?

Do you say "No, not x, y"? Or perhaps "Now Baz the Foos"?
I am writing a book about an idea - software literacy is a new form of actual literacy and will be as impactful.

And I keep coming back to how important organising above the Dunbar number is and how bad economics etc is at this.

This resonates for me - and it’s still just grasping in the dark - but they seem to revolve around the idea that with software a company is no longer a lot of Dunbar number tribes working together through politics of their representatives (managers) but that action through the whole company can be co-ordinated through software (I even have the idea that the workers are CPUs so the coders are new managers).

Anyway the point is that founder mode might mean simply acknowledging that software runs / orgnaisies a company more than anything else - and building for that. What’s more important if your whole company is software controlled - relations between managers or the whole-org-test-rig?

Edit: apple famously has a run-book that is insanely detailed - basically instructions on how to run the org that builds the iPhone - this is software running a whole compmay. And if it’s software, it can be in one repo and that repo can be owned by Steve Jobs. Conceptually- that’s founder mode…. Maybe :-)
I don’t think he’s suggesting we can teach how to be a good founder in general. Just that we can study and then teach the difference between managing a team as a founder vs general management practices
Make it optional and all is good
Your best solution right now is the 13 inch Onyx Boox Tab X. Put it in front of your MacBook screen and connect through VNC, or leave the Mac at home. They can't connect through wire. Or wait and see if they release a color version of the same size soon.
https://archive.ph/Ogx0b
If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, yes, nothing is usually best.

> accept the diktats of authority

Is this not what Musk is doing in China? Does he not believe the Chinese have a right to free speech? If he actually cared, he would speak out about it. The fact that he’s choosing Chinese money over human rights, you might say that hurts the West.
Interactive Linear Algebra Dan Margalit, Joseph Rabinoff
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> The threats were themselves due to failing to follow a court order.

To the individual representatives of a company? That's very rare, and not common like you make it sound.

"The company you're representing in this legal process hasn't complied with my orders so I will have you personally arrested".
To be clear, a baseball hides more of your face than a hijab. (Niqab is a different story.)
That only works if you think transsexualism is a fad and people are talked into it. I don't agree and these treatments are not provided lightly.
Don't get me wrong, stochastic calculus is very useful for options pricing for example. Totally useless in the case I was describing.
> Firstly, Twitter took that down because it violated their long standing policy against doxxing/posting hacked materials, not for any political reason.

That was a BS reason chosen by Twitter. Twitter Files exposed that already. You are late.

> Secondly, Twitter leadership realized very quickly that their policy wasn't really designed for this specific event, and within a day they changed the policy and unblocked the posts that they had blocked.

Yeah you clearly haven't read the Twitter Files. It shows.

> And now it's 2 years later and uninformed people still bullshit here about election interference and this being a first amendment issue.

Because it clearly was and now even Zuckerberg has come out admitting that it was interference.

> (Twitter is a private company and can block whatever posts it likes)

Sure. But if FBI is involved, it does not become a Twitter issue alone but it becomes Government censorship through a private company. That is election interference and a first amendment violation.
At the beach again!
What a great life as a president! I’m sure he gets to solve many of the US problems thinking carefully at the beach…
It clearly doesn't scale infinitely, which is why PG says you still need to delegate.

The argument seems to be that if you understand the business as deeply as the founder does, you can get away with selectively breaking some conventional management wisdom.
From the same article:

"In contrast, long-wavelength light is growth-inhibiting and short-wavelength light is growth-promoting in rhesus monkey (57) and tree shrew (58)."

Modern monitors have high amount of shortwave spectrum, blue is unusually shortwave.
Yes? https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cr....
Thanks for your work and for bringing up this issue to them!
He had to improvise on the Hammerklavier when visiting Frederick the Great in Potsdam. That (improvising for Frederick) is also the starting point for the later creation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering .
Seems like it's supposed to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415637 by jasode, which is in turn quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253 by coffeemug in 2018.
the main bernefit of eink for me is that battery life is so much better.
It’s so convenient to have buffer renaming as an user of a graphics API. What’s not to like about it?
With deepfake AI? Absolutely. You do not even need AI, you just need to time it just right (or crop the video).
> is a nonstarter for probably most of the US population.

I disagree.

I grew up in Rural Australia, lived in the Yukon and have driven to many of the world's most remote and undeveloped countries.

You are saying "Self driving cars will NEVER work in <this specific case>"

When what you mean to say is "Self driving cars will first work in the easy cases, and then years later will work in more and more cases until they eventually work everywhere."

FWIW, people said exactly the same thing when the automobile came around and horses were the best transport. Of course automobiles didn't work well in places with no gas stations or very nasty horse tracks for many years. But the years will always roll on, and things will change.
Also, I'm 99% sure that Steve Job once said (paraphrasing): "We don't hire talented people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do". Which to me sounds like "Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs".
So there is a discrepancy here as Steve Job is also used as an example of a "Founder Mode" CEO.

Not saying there is a contradiction, just a piece missing somewhere in the essays logic.
And yet it is what happens. Humans do generalize based on repeated pattern observation.

Get used to it.
It would be good if people would universally use any of the extant tools for citation management. It’s not a problem in CS and associated disciplines but in the humanities and social sciences a shockingly large number of researchers don’t use tools like Zotero and Mendeley. They just keep notes and copy/paste entries in a bibliography.
Think Carmack is faking it too? Some people just have that cadence
There is a more charitable explanation for the different outcomes than assuming that the professional management class are all “fakers”. Every business has to decide how much of their org chart and processes should be industry standard and how much should be proprietary. Those businesses that do everything the standard way are too similar to competitors to provide greater value. Ideally, you want your competitors to misunderstand why you are doing things differently.
The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
It's so fun! And for me at least, it sparks a lot of curiosity to learn the theory behind them, so I would imagine it is similar for others. And some of that theory will likely cross over to the next AI breakthrough. So I think this is a fun and interesting vehicle for a lot of useful knowledge. It's not like building compilers is still super relevant for most of us, but many people still learn to do it!
You should watch Black Mirror.
Testable proposition. Conduct hundreds of paired attacks at once one discussed on signal and one on telegram.
What is described here is for me a competent technical manager. As they scale, it is just that their focus cannot be on everything at the same time so they need to pick what is the most important and help a specific team at specific times.
It also means that they need a good bullshit detector to dodge those that are skilled at "managing up" and know the real underlying state.
Unfortunately the organizations tend to follow Peter's principle and you end up with incompetent managers everywhere that just "manage" and don't understand what is made or how.
That $1M cap rose year by year. According to ProPublica, it was $8.2M in 2014.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-executive-pay-cap-tha...
I blame rent-seeking academic "publishers" for the lack of these features. There are multiple high-impact features to be built in this regard, many of which would take an experienced dev around an afternoon to build, if a proper data source existed.

Instead, the only way to access many papers is as an idiosyncratic PDF, often only including a post-hoc OCR layer, and of course locked behind a 49.99$ 24-hour-access paywall that can also not be automatically accessed, even if you had the required millions laying around.
Most references to Jobs' management style refer to his second term, presumably after he matured a bit.
I think I have made a poor choice by using the word "scales". I do not mean within the lifetime of the company -- that much is clear -- but scales across different startups, founders, and niches.
Aww, I was expecting something like /dev/null-AAS - https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints
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Good to see this essay, it resonates a lot with me after a hard week with staff which fortunately had a positive outcome in the end thanks to what I've come to believe is important. Having been through several disasters as a founder and come through: scaling is possible through clear, direct communication and setting heuristics that are important to you as the founder, and having senior management develop processes. Iterate through each failure, develop stronger heuristics and documentation, communicate and communicate and communicate again and again to your team and you should find that over time it's embedded in culture as if it were written in stone. "Hire good people and let them do their job" has only worked for me once we were in full agreement on the outcomes, including budget, time, resources and how we treat each other.
Answered in the article:

> However, it has exemptions for health and religious reasons.
But I mean people can always rent GPUs too. And they're getting pretty ubiquitous as we ramp up from the AI hype craze, I am just an IT monkey at the moment and even I have on-demand access to a server with something like 4x192GB GPUs at work.
Can you expand how that would help with this problem? In my understanding the tools used to write a paper are completely hidden and non-consequential once a paper is published, no?
All prices are (very roughly) ten times what they were a lifespan ago; the smallest coin should be the dime, the smallest paper money should be $10.
Basically, not at all. Dolphin's ubershader does one thing; simulate fixed-function blending/texturing using modern flexible hardware. (It was already an old technique when Dolphin adopted it, by the way.) This project is a complete renderer, with the rasterizer and all, and as you can see from the text, it includes an ubershader for the blending. The shader doesn't draw triangles, it just gets called for each point in the triangle and with some inputs and gets to decide what color it is.

It's vaguely like comparing a full CPU emulator with something that implements the ADD and MUL instructions.
The thing about Jobs is that he's become whoever you want him to be. If you believe yourself a visionary, he's the one to emulate. But, conversely, you can't visit Linkedin for a second without seeing the Jobs quote about hiring smart people and getting out of their way. (Ironically, considering the point of this essay.)
Founder mode is implementing cliches well (hire pros, empower with agency) and manager mode is implementing them poorly (hire fakes, watch them fail)

That’s it, folks. As always, the devil’s in the details, not the Startup School maxims.

As Ed Catmull said, (lightly paraphrased) “everyone says story is everything, even if their story is drek…once you reduce an idea to a concise phrase you can use it without risk of changing behavior. What really matters is, what are you going to do about it?”
Yeah my forerunner 955 MIP was the sweet spot of size and battery life. Sadly the battery lifespan is fairly short on those too.

I went for the Instinct 2 next purely to avoid the OLED infestation.
The € penny still exists but here in NL every cash transaction is rounded to the nearest €0.05. I make less than one cash transaction a month, so this whole conversation seems a bit silly.
While the problem description of how to scale a small company to a larger one and the solution offered of skipping the corporate hierarchy every now and then and being careful about delegating too much autonomy have merit, the main reason given by the author as to why the black box model of leadership is problematic does not seem very convincing to me, to say the least: "... in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground."

If this really is the way founders describe it, it sounds more like a blame game: I, as the founder, was successful on my own when the company was small; now I have organised the company into a kind of small sub-companies that are not as successful; ergo, the pseudo-founders I hired for these sub-companies are impostors.

Rather, I think that we are "simply" dealing with fundamental management problems that have nothing to do with whether a company is relatively new or a century old, or run by a founder or run by a manager. It is more about size and managing innovation on a large scale, the flow of information and, to borrow terms from the military, a well-balanced command and control between strategic, operational and tactical levels.
Mexico just wants you to unplug while you vacation.
> suburbs have a lower cost-per-mile for trips than urban areas.

Can you explain why?
A fair point. You could have two simultaneous code paths access the same hardware device, if such were not protected by a lock or some form of exclusive access to some associated data structure.
Would someone writing code for a 2Kb microcontroller even be using full-fledged C++, or just C With Classes?
One might say the same of founders, but with respect to the org they are a part of: society. Founder? Nope, professional money extractor.

Anyone who's critical of, which is to say critically aware of, the underlying nature of capitalism will get what I'm saying.

Elon Musk (who proofread PG's post) is a master at extracting money from society and its government, while extracting labor from workers for minimal pay.[1] Zuck is a master at extracting money from society (by maximally playing to people's addictive tendencies and selling their attention to companies who want to extract more!). These types are driven by money and power, not by bettering society, though as masters of extraction they are masters of selling themselves as the latter.

Compare them to people who are driven not by money but by a desire to contribute: Albert Einstein, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds. If capitalism/markets were efficient, Albert Einstein would have been the richest person in the world, not Musk. The inventor of the web would be worth a lot more than the inventor of a web app that prey's upon people's addictive tendencies. Linus Torvalds' baby runs the internet (and android phones) yet his net worth is... Remember how Microsoft said open source was un-American, akin to communism? Now Microsoft is a master at extracting money from open source.

Capitalism's measure of net worth (money in the bank) does not correlate to actual net worth (positive impact on society).

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[1]: btw, how is the Founder Mode he instituted at what was formally known as Twitter working out?
Two places were notable, one because it was a practical sweatshop and required it... the other because of magical culture I haven't seen since.

The first place was doing support in web hosting. All the layers worked well to create feedback loops. Think phone techs, stats, and engineers all working to drop queues. Very high turn over but they had the absolute best training staff I've ever seen.

The second place wasn't in web hosting, but was similar in rigor. The culture was generally more relaxed. They relied less on trainers but still had very good ones. Their docs were more well-maintained. The work was reasonably well-distributed until they were acquired...

Most places don't have trainers (quality or not), feedback loops or docs. Opting to learn while chasing the dragon, ignoring the hoard.
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Founder mode examples I've noticed:

1. Steve Jobs approach:

- Multiple teams tackling the same problem with different approaches (done for Mac OS X and iPhone)

- Let the best approach win

2. Nat Friedman's take:

"The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful. Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment. The goal is not to avoid mistakes; the goal is to achieve uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension. The downsides are worth it"

3. Stay connected to the customer

- Have a separate early adopter version of your product even when your company is big

- Founders taking customer calls (Eric Yuan, Zoom)

- Checking customer notes on X (Brian Chesky does this)

- Reading external cold emails from customers to the CEO, and replying to some (Steve Jobs and Bezos did this)

4. Stay connected to the reality of the company

- Anyone internally can email the CEO and suggest ideas, critique things

5. Have redundancy

- For any areas of the company that are critical, run two separate versions for as long as possible

- Humans have two of basically everything critical (except the brain, likely due to energy constraints): reproductive organs, hands, legs, eyes, ears, nostrils, why don't companies
Small company, but putting READMEs in the root of each repository for specific documentation on that service and build/deploy process.

More READMEs live in a monorepo for things that aren't specific to one service (e.g. secret sharing, key rotation steps)
Oh my. I clicked on this and uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger went nuts: 14 & 6 blocked just on the first page.

Clicking "lesson 4.1. printf" bumped that up to 101 & 16. That is just too much.
Some people on Reddit speculate the Daylight Computer is also a Sharp screen. Unsure whether memory LCD and IGZO are related as I'm very new to this space (and trying not to fall too deep into the rabbit hole)

The play date screen is beautiful. So is the daylight computer but no colour is just a deal breaker for me unfortunately.

Some charts/diagrams use colours and being unable to understand how the colour is being used is probably going to end up being too annoying in the end for my intended usage even tho I am predominantly looking to read (pdfs and blogs)

For books I still prefer the real thing whenever possible

EDIT source - https://old.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1dw9a7g/daylight_comp...
There is a funny kind of bias here: Fields and subfields who actually retract papers are more likely to win the this negative award of "most heavily citing retracted studies" — contrast that psychology, where things are almost never retracted, and there is no way of knowing whether a paper has been replicated consistently except reading hundreds of other papers: no chance of such criticism being leveled.
So your sources are one unrelated story from four years ago and one random “theory” page?
I presume the sort of custom routines that GP described?
would this be an eli5?

A owns assets worth of $500M and wants to turn it into cash. Selling it would require him to pay income taxes on past appreciations. So, instead he'll get a loan worth somewhat less than $500M and uses the asset (as is or transferred to a Trust) as a collateral. He wastes the cash from the loan and eventually dies. Now the bank gets the collateral and nobody ever paid a significant amount of taxes.

Is that it?
To get 50TB usable storage you're gonna need at least 100TB, otherwise everything will go down once a single disk fails until you've restored the raid.

Unless you want to be completely capped and unable to ever publish again you're gonna have to add at least a few TB (+10TB, 120TB total) and then you'll need a secondary storage for backup, so another 60 TB, 180TB total

At $320 per 16TB disk that can handle being active 24/7 (actually only ~14 TB usable, but let's ignore that) you're left with $3750 at the very least, ignoring that you'll have to continuously replace them, electricity is also pretty expensive with HDDs.
House them in a server etc

You too are wildly off with your math, as I'm literally flooring every calculation. Realistic estimates by a professional are gonna be _way_ higher, especially because this kind of storage doesn't have the iops to serve video to multiple consumers. It'd be at best a NAS that can serve to maybe 2-4 ppl at a time
> ORMs are a bad idea in the first place: relations are a great way to organise your data, why would you want to sully that by converting to something object oriented?

One big why is SQL. It's a horrible language/API but sadly practically all relational databases are SQL.
Tony Fadell’s idea of a Parent CEO vs Babysitter CEO in Build comes close to this founded mode concept but I am so glad PG memed the founder mode concept into existence, and talk about the gaslighting. And I bet he is right about there are many founders operating somewhat that way already but without a shared mental model and a name to it.

It is really hard to put in practice because of all the gravitational pull towards mediocrity.