skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA, addresses are somewhat more regular, due to the US Post Office and The Bell System both working on making addresses more consistent. For instance, most "burgh towns had their names changed to "burg. But of course "Pittsburgh" is an exception. The old Bell Operating Companies (Pacific Bell, Mountain States Bell, etc) actually had "address bureaus" that worked with cities they serviced.

Since The Bell System broke up over 40 years ago, and the US Postal Service has lost a lot of influence, I wonder if addressing the US is getting more irregular. Folklore has it that your ZIP code can effect your car insurance rates. If addresses become less regular, how does that change how voting precincts, car insurance, and other location-based parts of life get apportioned and zoned?
I think this is a great analogy.
Few days ago I've read such a fascinating article. It mentioned that more and more boomers start to love together, renting a flat or house with friends or just random people - also because of rising living costs. so this dream is lost for older gens as well.
NASA has a handbook on it:

https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/NASA-HDBK...

Apparently you attach all grounds to some common component, like the chassis and then you have a zero volt reference. As long as it is stable and the relative voltages to it are consistent, that should suffice for electrical systems. Handling overall charge of the craft might be a bigger challenge, but no idea how that would be handled.
The British Isles is a geographic term. It includes(&always has) Ireland given that Ireland is a part of the British Isles but has never been part of Great Britain (the land mass).

The United Kingdom you refer to has a fuller name - "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" (past) replaced by "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (present).

I assume you're familiar enough with history to recognise that Ireland(landmass/people/culture) was a colony of the British (with or without your pedantry)?
Indeed, and depression is what I usually bring up when someone says that we can manage guns by keeping them away from people with mental illness. My knee jerk response is that it's too many people, and impossible to make it actually work.
Missing linkedin and also missing mastodon. Neat tool! If the page is missing something it would be helpful with some text on how to improve such as what should be done.
The Model 3 and Model Y will eventually be self driving... any anyone that wants to can simply buy one.

Obviously many other manufacturers will also sell consumer cars that can completely drive themselves.

Even a person who lives in Tok, Alaska will just be able to buy one and then sleep in the car as it drives down the Alaska Highway*

* Trust me, once you've driven it a handful of times it's a chore.
I'm not sure China is a good example of it working, unless you limit it to the past couple decades and ignore the human rights issues. South Korea may be a decent example, but also has some possible indirect negative effects, given all the protests, urban/rural divide, and social/birthrate issues. Sure they have the whole not starving thing handled, but so do the majority of countries regardless of central planning or not.
The social studies are well known to have a replication problem, but you don't generally retract a paper just because it can't be replicated. Even if a conclusion turns out to be wrong you generally don't retract it.

Retraction usually connotes some level of fraud or other serious and deliberate problem. It's a serious black mark on your record, which we don't do merely for being wrong. Science is all about hypothesis revision, and we expect to be continuously wrong.

There should perhaps be a designation for "yeah, turns out we were wrong". Instead, you're expected to just find the contradicting papers in your literature search. Saying "I have a paper which proves X" isn't a complete argument unless you've done the full search of relevant papers.

That doesn't fix the replication problem in the social sciences, where the subject (groups of people) are too hard to model and control. People do too often cite a single tiny study as if it meant something, and that's just not a valid way to use science.

But retraction isn't the solution, not so long as the term connotes malfeasance. Like all sciences they need the room to be honestly wrong, because that's fundamental to science.
I think the idea that managers are professional liars are something boards need tackle head-on if they want to see stock prices rise.

Throughout my career I've seen a lot of managers willfully focus more on crafting a narrative of "everything is fine" than fixing problems -- usually by hiding and mismeasuring known problem areas for example. At first I thought those were bad apples, but I came to realize those managers' managers are perfectly content with this type of dishonesty, because they get credit if it's not caught, and can wash their hands of it if they have plausible deniability.

So multiple times I see a founding team who's utterly sincere, and then a huge management chain that believes in nothing, couldn't care less about customers, and treats the whole job as a game/performance, and some very sincere engineers. And I just think to myself... "How does the C level not see this?"
That is two sentences, but his post has a few more and those two don't say quite what you're interpreting them as. He didn't say that he expected YouTube to host all his content for $100/month. There are two separate ideas - one presenting credentials and the other was saying that he'd be happy to pay for hosting if he could avoid ads - but not that he'd expect to be hosting thousands of hours at YouTube quality for $100/month.

He didn't actually say or imply what you think he did. In fact a later part of the comment ("10/month? That's 30 videos in HD max. $100? 300 videos in 4K... etc. ... or whatever.") clarifies that he meant what he wrote and it is something quite different to what you're picking out.
To sleep better at night, perhaps.
I loved the reflective LCD screen on my pebble time. Glad folks are rediscovering it.
Or perhaps just someone who has a conspiracy minded, pot scattered brain? They do call themselves "Illuminati Ganja 86"
Door’s open with the keys in the ignition…
I'm actually right now working through this book (3rd edition). It's pretty much the most abstract and most clear and simple maths books I've worked through so far (I'm not a mathematician).

Personally I find it suits my needs perfectly, even though initially it can be intimidating. But once you start getting the hang of it I think it can allow you to build a much deeper intuition for things than a more applied text.
As I mentioned previously on HN, Niccols is literally the most successful CEO in the restaurant market today - having grown Chipotle's stock from $200 to $1300 (before the stock split last year), and helped shepherd Chipotle in the aftermath of it's food safety scandal.

With that kind of a CEO you have to bend over backwards to poach them (eg. Making them Chair and CEO - very rare for non-founder CEOs to be granted this role)

Starbucks is simply extremely desperate to have good leadership after Laks didn't fit in well.
At least it's not there's no Earth. I think we've seen that movie where Earth disappears from the space station.

I would assume everything on ISS and capsules are running DC. Does DC need a ground? Every electronic circuit I've built just uses ground as the common leg to battery or power.
I think it's ridiculous to try to paint Google as a little fruit stand asking to "please pay me". Google has more money than god. They are an awful abusive company, and they do break all social contracts and abuse every loophole they can get away with.

If you're trying to use morality to defend your argument, then yeah, we just have different values. If Google wants to give me something for free and then, as you said, put a sign asking to please give them my money, I'm sorry, but I don't make donations to trillion dollars companies.

But again, I don't think any of that really matters. As I said, they are using the open web, they're free to stop anytime they want, but not to change the rules the web is based on.
>Central planning has a very good record in countries like China

It's got a very terrible track record in China; the government caused tens of millions of its own people to starve to death, and set the economic development back decades. The GDP per capita in Taiwan is more than double that of China currently, but both started at a similar position. If China had had a similar political system to Taiwan, its people's standard of living would be much better.
It's amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Paul graham is nothing but another corporate shill who has ruined the lives of others to benefit a few. Why does our industry keep following advice from people like this? Stop putting this guy on a pedestal. Manager mode, founder mode blah blah blah. Seriously. Next year he will write something else contradicting this point of view. Just read his essays. It’s all nonsense and we end up supporting it. Stop making Silicon Valley people some god like person to follow. It’s ridiculous.
"Freedom of speech" can't coexist with "illegal speech".

The moment that something is deemed "illegal" to express, there inherently is no more free expression present.
Yeah I think you did. You can't just switch founder for leader. A great leader would inspire the organization to work productively and effectively, but that's not what distinguishes the founder. The founder would make sure the organization is actually working on the most effective thing, and I think what Paul tries to convey is that one of the tools the founder uses to accomplish this is crossing the organizational tree (i.e. skip-level meetings).

I think the founder not only motivates people to work on the correct thing by doing this, but the founder also directly experiences feedback from working with people lower on the org chart, enabling them to steer the company with more accurate information.
I was thinking more that someone doesn't have their seatbelt fastened.
How are docking spacecraft handled, which likely have a different base charge?
> There's nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood pertaining to "modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multiple political parties..."...Better to deal with a secular dictator

The Muslim Brotherhood has no appreciation for multiple political parties in Egypt. Nor do you, as you are openly supportive of a dictatorship.

You and yyyk both support my point - the West does not support for Egypt what the original poster called "modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multiple political parties, free speech, independent court systems, a secular state".
Scary movies don't really work in a small space... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uXl-Sp00s7M
You can't prove "who shot first" because the answer depends entirely on where history starts. People who want to argue about unanswerable questions like these don't want peace. They just seek justifications for further bloodshed. The actual moral questions are not difficult if you believe a Palestinian life is worth as much as any other life.
Ah yes, free speech: the final death knoll of western democracy.
Linear Algebra Done right did not help me try to demystify linear algebra. Quite the contrary. It is the Youtube channel 3Blue1Brown[1] that gave me an intuition of what linear algebra was about, and I am forever thankful to him.

Watch it and if you are a teacher, don't be a smug "formalist".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
well this looks cool , gotta give a try
> but know that you're severely limiting the growth of your community and excluding people who could really contribute.

Quite the opposite. By not having the usual sources of annoyance and tedium Gleam's community has grown much faster and larger than similar technologies in the same space.

Being tolerant of abrasive behaviour has a cost to the technology project, and I'm not interested in paying it, especially not for ideological "everyone is welcome" reasons.
> This is conventional wisdom.

I'm not sure it is.

Let's look at those three links:

1. The first of these dovetails -- not the same, but on the same hunt -- with Graham's piece, and is an excellent read.

- Unconventional wisdom

2. The second is formulaic anecdata consultjunk, the same method incurious journalists use covering politics through "focus groups".

- Conventional wisdom

3. The third uses the same formula, and while more effort (think "polling" or "survey" instead of "focus group") in an attempt to elevate from anecdata to study, seems not to have read or understood the first.

This third one is also contrary to the (often rejected while not yet disproven) theories* of Elliot Jacques, that people have sweet spot time horizons, and most can only flex +/- 2 horizons. As this article bullet lists (because of course) how to "shift from a leader/manager mindset to a lead/manage one and balance the two skillsets" it applies solely the manager rubric to action, through the lens of a manager that doesn't understand Graham's piece or the first article, almost irreconcilable with Graham's stance or the first HBR piece.

- Conventional wisdom (orthodoxy, even)

PG article and first link are not conventional wisdom, though it might sound that way to Taylorist thinking.

- - -

Perhaps the lack of awareness Graham keeps noting is to be expected.

Seems unusual for serial startup entrepreneurs who have built firms from $0 to $B to have also individually joined and worked up to C-level in "institutions" (50+ years old, and 5K - 100K+ employees, not just other tech unicorns still bearing Founder imprints) after learning the startup experience that lets them see management practice through a "it doesn't have to be like this" lens, making it rare to find the perspective necessary to delve into Graham's take or the difference between these three HBR articles.

Perhaps it's not only that management culture is a distorted bubble (PG: "VCs who haven't been founders themselves don't know how founders should run companies, and C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world").

Perhaps it's that founders with institutional perspective are themselves unicorns.

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Footnote:

* Elliott Jaques' "Stratified Systems Theory of Requisite Organization" suggests that individuals have a natural "sweet spot" time horizon for decision-making at work (which should align with the time horizon of the decisions' scope and impact), and most can only communicate up or manage down within a range of one or two levels above or below their own optimal horizon. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requisite_organization
Periodic Solutions of the Planar Three Body Problem
For what it's worth:

"The title of this book deserves an explanation. Most linear algebra textbooks use determinants to prove that every linear operator on a finite-dimensional complex vector space has an eigenvalue. Determinants are difficult, nonintuitive, and often defined without motivation. To prove the theorem about existence of eigenvalues on complex vector spaces, most books must define determinants, prove that a linear operator is not invertible if and only if its determinant equals 0, and then define the characteristic polynomial. This tortuous (torturous?) path gives students little feeling for why eigenvalues exist.

In contrast, the simple determinant-free proofs presented here (for example,
see 5.19) offer more insight. Once determinants have been moved to the end of the book, a new route opens to the main goal of linear algebra—understanding the structure of linear operators."
This is my first time sharing this here, but you've likely seen visualizations like this already because the website uses an underlying tool called gource.io to generate the visualizations! It just makes the process much easier since you don't have to run and self-host Gource on your local machine.
Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills
For anyone with a strong enough computer, you can see the firehose stream of what people are posting on bluesky live here: https://firesky.tv/

The stream has noticeably more Portuguese in it these last couple of days.
That isn't the only Starbucks environmental initiative. A relevant one for this purpose is they've pledged to cut carbon by 50% between 2020 and 2030.
thanks for this mate
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/physicsgifs/comments/14db21p/a_few_...
Manager mode sounds like magical thinking mode.
This may be for a niche group. Really funky things going on in tech as a result of LLMs.
I see iPads, Huawei, Surfaces, and Samsung tablets all over the place in the European coffees, trains and planes.
> However it tries to paint a comparison to Starbuck’s environmental initiative that speaks to giving back more than it takes in terms of agriculture. This seems like a false comparison. Two have nothing to do with each other.

Of course they are related. How can a company say with a straight face on the one hand that they are committed to environmental initiatives while on the other hand their CEO uses one of the most environmentally harmful forms of travel for a regular commute?
> Brian Chesky gave a talk

anyone find this talk he's referring to?
Random: https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/world-news/german-woman-given-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15gn0lq7p5o (Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government)

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

One can easily find examples in all countries. These countries do not have a free speech right in their Constitutions, for example, and no plans to include it.
Give three examples
My first exposure to big company management was, ironically, at a startup. They hired their C-level executives from big companies. Those executives hired VPs and extra layers of management who were also from big companies. Very quickly we had a deep org chart where ICs could be 5 steps removed from the CEO even though they hadn’t decided exactly what product we were going to build.

Everything was done by committee in increments of the 1-hour recurring meeting once a week. You could be on 10 of these recurring meetings for 10 different projects.

The first part of every meeting was a recap of last meeting. The middle part was about 20 minutes of trying to make progress on blocking items while the ex-BigCo managers came up with excuses for why they didn’t do their part yet (usually it was because they had too many meetings). The last 20 minutes was a performative exercise where we decided on action items for the week which we all knew were unlikely to get done.

The company went on like this for years after I left until they ran out of extra funds to keep the charade going. The management scattered to other “startups” where I’ve heard they’re continuing to repeat the same games.
The article says exactly the opposite. The central point is that a founder runs a company differently from a “professional manager”

> There are as far as I know no books specifically about founder mode. Business schools don't know it exists.

> …what they were being told was how to run a company you hadn't founded — how to run a company if you're merely a professional manager. But this m.o. is so much less effective that to founders it feels broken. There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
Upvoted but there’s no way Columbia is safer. Men are getting drugged by scopolamine or datura there more than in any other country, made to max out every ATM card they brought, and then left for dead or with permanent brain fog. Maybe it’s safer for women but not for men.
Control systems for this machine is a beast. I surely think this is not a clear picture. Seeing self-driving car development over the past decade doesn't give me lot of hope either.
OpenWrt's dnsmasq will serve PTR records corresponding to DHCP leases, so you can use reverse DNS lookups. Use something like:

dig -x ip_address_here

For me it would be ideal if the prometheus exporter would expose the actual DHCP leases, but it doesn't seem to by default.
It’s true; CEOs and direct reports to the CEO are often working long hours.

It’s important to note that, motivation-wise, running a company is very different from being a worker at a company under a manager. From experience running my own (very small) company, its very easy to put in long hours for something that’s your own, something where anything that goes wrong is your responsibility, something where success is defined by and depends on you. It’s much harder to motivate long hours as a regular employee, especially if the extra hours aren’t your choice and/or are the result of problems other people created. Being in charge is not for everyone, but for some, sixty hours a week is relatively light.
Okay, the one linked in the article didn’t reference that from what I could ascertain.
Better to wait for Nintendo switch 2 before buying a console for the first time?
Hi,

I want to buy my 9yo his first game console. do yon think I should wait for Nintendo to release the replacement for their Switch before making that purchase?

Note that I don't know a thing about games and consoles.

Thanks!
The nuclear necessity (2023) [pdf]
You're drastically underselling your point: the US didn't just passively sell arms to the Saudis—US foreign policy deliberately supported their bombing campaign in Yemen, since the Houthi group is a common enemy to both (and to most of the world, really). It was only very late into the Saudi atrocities that the US government started to balk—late, because, as is our topic, US domestic media narratives entirely ignored the civilian consequences of what the Saudis did in Yemen.

There's an entire Wiki entry devoted to this question,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Saud... ("United States support for Saudi Arabian–led operations in Yemen")

(It might be clarifying to remember that the start of this conflict, the Saudis weren't the aggressors. The Houthis (at least from the US PoV) were the aggressors. The US (and others) viewed this as a defensive war against the Houthi rebellion, in which war the Saudis were allies and partners in defending the legitimate Yemeni government against a violent, Iran-backed, terroristic insurgency. This was the context in which the US sided with the Saudi military).
This deck talks about how NASA handles overall charge on the station:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110014828/downloads/20...

TL;DR they dissipate charge using three Plasma Contactor Units (PCUs) on the Z1 truss, and measure it using the Floating Potential Measurement Unit (FPMU) on the S1 truss. This clamps the ISS to within 20 volts of the local plasma.

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20060929171819/http://space-powe...

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/floating-potential-measur...
After they settle in for a fee years. CEO's take far far more vacations than me or you.
Just want to add vote for Design of Everyday Things. If you are into creating anything that other people use (software, code, appliances, doors), you should read this book.
Why object literals instead of the standard function calls? Seems much less flexible.
Neural network performing approximations are not suitable for such a task. Surely, AI will play a role, but for safety and robustness will require deterministic control system.
> it’s just not possible to get promoted straight up the ranks in your 20s no matter how good you are. Seniority trumps ability.

Experience. Experience and wisdom is what trumps the exuberant overconfidence of an ignorant youth.
Leaning into complexity by reducing code entropy
Venting xenon plasma. (Also important for not frying astronauts on spacewalks.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_contactor
same. I even have my first disk of turbo pascal programs, written by my grandad, on github: https://github.com/byronka/turbopascal