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Maybe one way to think of it is fractal management where a manager would have deep read-write interactions with few skip levels. HBR style says read everywhere, write only direct reports. And it makes for a good software design except that humans are not computers, but there is a shared global context - the company vision and mission.

Through fractal management, a visionary leader can have a better chance to ensure that the vision is translated into practice at the various levels of detail.

Fractal management is only part of it, though as it is a technique, but it doesn’t cover the enormous skin in the game founders have about the success of the company. For many founders, the company is their baby(I am projecting here) and they want to make it succeed. Contrastingly, many of the professional fakers instead see it as just a job, and a step on the ladder. Principal/agent. Without genuine care, and cohesive vision, fractal management can quickly devolve into chaos. It is high reward and also higher risk!!! Maybe that’s why only the founders do it but not their VPs. I wonder if any VPs at Airbnb are doing anything remotely similar to what Bryan Chesky is doing as management style? (Honestly I have no idea)

I am sure that many founders failed also because of it as they might have been missing the charisma, clarity and conviction to pull this off.

(PS. Take my ideas with a big serving of salt, I am a founder but not at a large organization, and the article mainly focuses on large orgs)
Hey, looks good, thanks for this. How can we leave feedback when there is no feedback/contact-us button on the site?
> Ukraine isn’t our ally. That’s a silly sentiment.

You know what, I agree.
This is a good point. I try to check out Wikipedia's league tables[0] now and again to put things in perspective.

Of course raw death toll isn't the only way to judge the newsworthiness of a story, but it is illumiating how things (presumably via trad media, social media, psyops) either enter public conciousness or don't.

Particularly I find it absurd how little I hear about the Yemeni civil war.

[0] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
Same but if you click the copy icon you can get the url

smdh
> Steve Jobs used to run an annual retreat for what he considered the 100 most important people at Apple, and these were not the 100 people highest on the org chart. Can you imagine the force of will it would take to do this at the average company? [...] Steve presumably wouldn't have kept having these retreats if they didn't work.

Probably, but before we assume that Steve's management style was unabashedly good at scaling... well, it reminded me of this story from a former Apple employee:

https://techreflect.org/2019/05/horsey/

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There used to be a weekly meeting with Steve Jobs to go over user interfaces and workflows for macOS [...] with the higher ups [...] After this meeting, there would be a “debriefing” where one or more of the attendees of that meeting would report to the underlings. Sometimes that included people like me. [...] What was fun about these debriefings is that they were like a game of telephone.

1. Steve might say something in the weekly meeting

2. Someone would jot down what they think he said

3. The notes might get passed to someone else who would go to the debriefing

4. Someone in the debriefing would relay their version of what was written down

The debriefing was a meeting often consisting of puzzled looks.

One time an icon change was being proposed. The note we got in the debriefing was that Steve said it was “horsey”, which prompted endless discussion:

• What does horsey mean?

• Is horsey good or bad?

• How do we make something less or more horsey?

• Is the horsey-ness something minor that needs tweaking or so major that it needs to be redone?

• Did anyone just ask Steve what the hell he meant?

[...] People would sometimes present the same content [to Steve at next week's meeting] and Steve would magically “change his mind” but I often wondered whether [...] what appeared to be a change of mind was just a message that was garbled in the first place.

There was definitely an element of control as well. Some of the higher ups who had closer access to Steve wanted to exercise more control than perhaps they had. For example, the horsey comment could be tweaked to fit a change someone below Steve felt needed to be made. Since not everyone had speed dial access to Steve, it was easy to take advantage of any ambiguity.
Not relevant as the partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947 which created the constitutions. The Act was agreed upon by the legislature representatives of the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League, and the Sikh community with Lord Mountbatten.

The point stands that decolonisation was a mess and the colonisers played a large part in it.
So horrible that it’s been the standard for 50+ years.

The relational model is great. Embrace it, because it isn’t going anywhere.
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Anyone here have any experience using Acetylcysteine to treat long covid? Or any other safe drug?
>it's been going on since the inception of Israel

It's been going on ever since at least Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been warring over who controls the Holy Land. Remember the Crusades? Or the Holocaust?

I'm not sure if it's even worth going all the way back to ancient Egypt's involvement even further back seeing as there's so much on the dinner table already.
This is especially when there’s less VC money available to support mediocre outcomes. It’s also on the founder to disclose the realities of the startup to employees. If we don’t raise money, we can’t pay salaries. If we don’t make a product, we won’t find customers. If we don’t find customers, we won’t raise money. It’s a never ending cycle until someone does the hard work to break the loop.
I live in the former Roman province of Hispania. We were at least colonized by Romans, then by Saxons and then by Arabs.

The Arab imperialists left here 500 years ago.

If I were to live further to the East in many of today’s EU/European countries, I could very well live in places where Ottoman imperialists left only 100 years ago.

Sudan is now free of imperialists for 70 years. Only 30 years less than countries like Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and a few others in Europe.
If the west keeps allowing the best people from third world countries to immigrate, it’s removing the business, political and social leaders who have the potential to improve their country.

Come to the west, get trained and return home and build something better. Doctors and engineers driving a cab in New York is so broken.
Correctamundo! And here's 15 more... https://www.komment.ai/blog/18-good-reasons-why-developers-h...
Very cool!

I've also been writing my own terminal text editor for a while (just crossed the ten years mark!), so I know how much dedication this takes. :-)

One thing I did recently was start writing the lessons I've learned in my journey, I figured I'd share it in case it helps you, maybe you'll find one or two ideas interesting: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/edge-lessons.m...
> Where is the colonialism within Europe?

The most notable was the Roman Empire. Romans colonized and exploited vast areas of Europe for centuries for the benefit of Rome.

There were instances of invasion and foreign ruling by Africans and Arabs in Europe as well.

More recently, the Germans attacked and colonized France for a brief period of years. The Russians attacked and colonized almost half of Europe...

Europe was completely destroyed less that 100 years ago and many areas in Europe suffered terrible famines, some comparable or worse than Sudan now.
I applaud your good-fauth engagement with GP. Honestly I thought that calling conflict in the middle east "black and white" had to be either subtle humour or outright trolling.
That we haven't yet seen the successor is why I'm suspicious we're leveling out.

OpenAI teased their new model for months and willingly let the media assume it was GPT-5, then released it as 4o because it was faster and cheaper but no better. They intentionally burned a lot of the hype for GPT-5 on a different, less exciting product—that's not a move you make if you have a clear path towards the next generation.
> Where is the colonialism within Europe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_under_Swedish_rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1801%E2%80...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Cyprus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Colony_of_Malta
What's the strategy for when the locals violently resist colonization, with the aid of various countries which are hostile to the colonizing power?
> Yeah you clearly haven't read the Twitter Files. It shows.

Oh, the Twitter Files! Oh my, how I haven't read anything related to the Twitter Files!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a597e6Wv_xg

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-t...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-r...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/13/the-anti-twitter-files-j...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/twitter-fi...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-co...

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying...

https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/08/23/starbird-house-judiciary-c...
Yes, I know, but that’s irrelevant. You can replace the word piano in my comment with harpsichord if it makes you happy.
> These are in no way equivalent. e.g. the first amendment only protects you from the government not from private organizations (if anything them deciding to publish or not to publish your content is an expression of freedom of speech and is right that the Supreme Court has confirmed).

Sure, but we are not discussing the first amendment, or US law in general. As you must be aware, protection of freedom of expression rights are different in different jurisdictions.

> Obviously I'm not fully aware how exactly this works in Brazil but I doubt if it's fundamentally different.

I would not be so sure. For example, it is not legal to display a swastika in Germany (even though Germany is usually considered a democratic rule-of-law country), even though it might be legal to do so in the US.

> That's still unreasonable.

Just stating this (without any further argumentation) doesn't make it so. My only point is that, apparently, there is legal precedence for such kinds of things (i.e., banning a certain social network when it refuses to appoint a legal representative in Brazil).

> Also you're still dodging the VPN ban order...

I'm not dodging anything... that is a different issue, that we can further discuss, if you want to have a discussion in good faith. Trying to change subjects without addressing the point I made could be seen as moving goalposts, though.

> Anyway.. I understand that authoritarianism has a certain appeal to some people [...].

Ad hominem argumentation is not the best approach to argumentation, if you want to be taken seriously and have a discussion in good faith.
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I seriously doubt the indirect support for the war in Yemen or in Sudan through proxies even comes close to the direct support for Israel.

Also please dont dismiss opposing views as irrelevant copy pastas. Im not blind to your argument either. If you have sources that say the level of support is similar after all ill consider them.
These facts are interesting given the current trend of decrying colonization.
Very sincerely: You are no better.

Consider reading what you just wrote, perhaps looking in the mirror, and reevaluating your thought process. Even for Hacker News I expect better than this.
> Where is the colonialism within Europe?

If you see colonialism as a foreign group establishing control over a people and region over a long time, then:

* The Roman Empire colonized Europe for hundreds of years

* Napoleon colonized most of continental Europe (this one might be debatable)

* The British colonized Ireland and Scotland

* The Ottomans colonized the Balkans

* Muslim Caliphates colonized Spain/Al-Andalus

* The Vikings colonized areas around the north sea.

And probably a lot of smaller scales things I am missing.
I think if you reread the comment you'll find that movedx didn't propose what you think he proposed. At no point did he suggest what you seem to be cost-estimating.

He suggested $100/month for 300 videos and noted that he was experienced in content creating.
Which is why TikTok must die - then social media in general.

It is all very toxic and manipulative
Are you implying that Europe hasn’t had hundreds of wars where empires conquered areas in Europe? Genuinely asking for clarification.
What does "f.ex." mean here? Is it equivalent to "e.g."?
How do you guys actually hire the superstars to join your startup as the early employees/partners? And not just the typical friend you know who's "a pretty smart guy" and his friend and so on
> only the third time in the past 20 years

Only the third time in the last 20 years? I thought we were firmly past this…
The use-case I can probably see more is schools.

Lots of schools give all their students ipads.

Also lots of kids have iPads but not laptops (my girlfriend's daughter does not have a laptop that could do Godot development, but has an iPad).

My assumption is it's more about introducing people to development than professional developers moving to iPad.
Treating “Sudan” as an actual entity to be helped. Consider it has failed as a political concept (the state of Sudan) and allow the people that inhabit it figure out what the borders and political entities actually are. By delivering aid to Sudan and treating it like a real entity you only prolong suffering in the region as factions fight over control of it.
> into artisinal coding

Is this the new phrase for "writing code that isn't going to blow up in my face in six months"?
The only oddity I have noticed with Github is that if a network stack is optimized for high throughput large initial window size they seem to choke on it but you would know if you tuned for that on your router or each of your machines so it's probably not that. Have you by chance closed your browser, started tcpdump then fed the cap file into Wireshark and run the Analyze -> Expert Information tool? What OS are you using?

If Linux, as root:

tcpdump -i any -p -NNnn -s0 -v -c10000 -w /dev/shm/p443.cap port 443

all interfaces, not promisc, disable dns, full packet size, verbos, up to 10k packets, write to a ram disk to avoid dropping, port 443 both tcp and udp just in case we try quic and time out when that fails.
It's arguably ambiguous.
I'm assuming that you are trying to keep your content, styling, and markup maintainable or even upgrade it as you move the pages though?

I'd imagine this is a different scenario. The content created by users will be put through some AI transformation and it will be completely and utterly unmaintainable slop (and a significant portion of it would have already been that anyway before they started since it's user submitted). They aren't going to care that much if some edge cases break. Users can go fix that themselves. It seems much different to me than trying to delicately move something you care about.
No, you tick 'nearby' and it's a non issue.
Massive amounts of food aid combined with patriarchal religion.

There's a political co-factor on food subsidies and keeping prices in a range in the West.

Edit: fertility rate 4.46 births per woman (2021)
Democracy export? That has worked so well in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Kids, I'd suspect. More and more of them are stuck exclusively on tablets.

From what I can tell, there isn't even a version of Roblox Studio available. Scratch seems to work though.
This is ART.
That choice does come with the consequence of having to abide by the agendas of people who are trying to push their will onto other people though.

It's only a viable option if you trust your political system to function when your back is turned.
First Sudanese Civil War was 1955 – 1972. Second Sudanese Civil War was 1983 – 2005.

Up to a million deaths in the first civil war and between one and two million deaths in the second civil war.
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In addition to what everyone has already said, property taxes paid are also very explicitly deductible from income taxes. They’re more like an indirect transfer from the Federal government to municipalities, and don’t necessarily result in a substantial aggregate increase in tax burdens.
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> Why was the famine in Gaza so hot when Sudan's famine is two orders of magnitude worse?

The proclamation by UN is regarding a specific refugee camp (Zamzam) that doesn't have any governance, not Sudan as a whole. Gaza has governance, so any famine in Gaza would be announced by the government there, not UN, as far as I understand things.
Alltheplaces.xyz and experimental tools like https://matkoniecz.codeberg.page/improving_openstreetmap_usi...
> This language is so high level that you need to come up with tricks and query analyzers in order to hack the high level query into something performant.

What? You have to understand a language to write performant code in it. That’s not a hack, that’s basic competence.
Yeah, because this worked so great last time.
Relational model is good, SQL is not. They are not the same thing.
In the US the CEO is often also the chairman of the board so they are accountable to themselves.

Which is kind of weird and illegal in many countries, but in the US it is almost the norm.
I’d argue it’s still about marginal utility, but you’re talking about second order marginal utility. That is, by increasing the amount of wealth that’s locked up in equities, you’re “funding progress”.

I would still posit that the second order marginal utility of those 20 cents is higher in hands of somebody who needs it. In the same way you talk about how that 20 cents impacts the derivative of “progress”, think about how those 20 cents would impact the derivative of the people it’s redistributed to.

It’s my opinion that there’s no better ROI than investment in early childhood education, for example. Because it’s an investment that pays compounding dividends integrated over an entire human lifetime.

And again, we’re not talking about removing the whole dollar from the market, just 20 cents. An amount, by the way, that is around what would be taxed if you were investing in a non-tax-advantaged account. There’s some irony in there.
Some countries in Eastern Europe actively opposes gender stuff (it is banned in education). I do not know why "gender" is being asked in the first place, it should be "sex", and that is biological. Why do we ask for gender on websites, for example? What is the purpose of it, really?
There’s nothing of value in this article, and the title is clickbait.

It’s only speculation about how Apple will deal with generative AI in iPhones, from someone who seems to have not watched the WWDC keynote and subsequent interviews.
There could also have been moisture on the beryllium.
most platforms come with their own libraries for this, which are usually a mix of hand coded assembly and C. You #include the whole library/sdk, but the linker strips out all bits you don't use.

Even then, if you read the disassembled code, you can usually find within a few minutes looking some stupid/unused/inefficient code - so you could totally do a better job if you wrote the assembly by hand, but it would take much more time (especially since most of these architectures tend to have very irregular instruction sets)
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You can do everything which is better than the nothing available. When I join a new company, I note *everything* during the onboarding for 2 or 3 weeks. How to get the application, how to build, who does what, what is the branching strategy...

I also note all the issues, the things that people hate, when you talk about a sensitive topic and people grin like a serial killer because it's been pissing them off for months of years.

And after 2 or 3 months, when you can work on your own, go back to your notes and put everything down in the internal wiki (even the GitLab wiki if that's all you have), and improve the onboarding guide because it exists /s No, actually, it's your job to create this doc because it never exists.

As for what can be automated by scripts, you can do that, but a wiki is always nice because it tells people where those tools are, and how to use them, even it has a short description like "to build the application, 1. install this from winget, 2. and run this script." Automation is fun, but a guide or FAQ is great for what can't be automated.
I like Bluesky, its devs, and its tech. I even built a third-party web client for it in Solid.js. But I find Bluesky to be too toxic. There's too much unwanted nudity, even if all my filters are turned on.
It’s not that I don’t care.

It’s just that my ability and will to do anything more than care is lacking.

Presumably if I cared enough I’d donate to some charity, but I feel fixing this kind of stuff is why we have governments with humanitarian aid programmes (which I happily pay for through taxes), which should theoretically be a thousand times more effective.
Mhm, that's called "entertainment". If you don't have 40 minutes (or 20 on 2x) to spend on something that isn't work, that's pretty sad.
You might have pockets that are at this moment appear to be less corrupt, less violent, and more fair…but human nature is human nature. Those things don’t go away—they hide temporarily until circumstances change just enough for them to emerge again.
Just for a context here: I actually live in almost-third-world country. Thankfully no famine and loss of live but extremely dysfunctional state and society and with educational system collapsing - probably no future. My countrymen, we, could not govern ourselves. I wish this country was occupied and someone built better society!
onyx is know for flagrant disregard of GPL terms around the kernel
If you have a finite capacity for empathy, it probably isn't empathy you're measuring.
And the title of Software Engineer becomes even more meaningless.

Imagine an electrical engineer saying, “I don’t really know what a bridge rectifier is, but I plugged these things into the breadboard where ChatGPT told me, and the output signal looks correct.”
1. build something that becomes better as AI models improve (like opencraftai.com, perplexity.com)
2. build something useful
> It's kind of mindblowing to see how much code floating point formatting needs.

If you want it to be fast. The baseline implementation isn’t terrible[1,2] even if it is still ultimately an implementation of arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

[1] https://research.swtch.com/ftoa

[2] https://go.dev/src/strconv/ftoa.go
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One part of the answer is it's taken decades of organizing to get this much attention for Palestine and Gaza, throughout which a bad situation has gotten steadily worse.

When people bring this up, why does it always seem to be to suggest we should not care about anything, instead of to wonder how we can build more action (just attention alone does not do anything) on more disasters?
> Some things need to be censored - that's how it's always been.

No. There are very few things that 'need to be censored' by the government (or corporations with almost government-level power), and it's hard to think of any beyond CSAM or legitimate threats to national security.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things that children should be protected from. But we're failing miserably at that. They're watching extreme porn and gore while the censors are focusing on silencing adults with the wrong political views.