skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Means a lot.
(Sorry, the + should be a - in the formula above)
Consciousness/qualia actually correlates stronger to brain waves than to synaptic activity, and for that and a lot of other reasons (that I'm presently writing a paper on) I think consciousness is a phenomena made up of waves, and while it may indeed be "substrate independent" it's not just purely calculations, and therefore cannot be done in computers. Even a perfect simulation of a human brain in a computer would be nothing but a "predictor" of behavior, rather than a "feeler" of behavior.
Many large companies (f50) have fleets of jets and salaried pilots. Its not uncommon at all for commuting by jet to be the standard. Not sure why this is such a big deal or any different than the thousands of c-suites that commute this way.
Oh, that's easy: "founder mode" means the founder is hyperfocused (or in the oldspeak, obsessed) on his work (with his company) and optimizes (micromanages) everything. We know that already. Perfection demands micromanagement. Steve Jobs was actually doing that - reaching down the ranks and directly helping (molesting) people doing some piece of a larger product he particularly cared about.

It also often causes (or is caused by) eccentric behavior (or mental issues) - but it's been done since forever, and when it's successful, we call it "visionary." When it's not, we call it "toxic."
> I've worked with two amazing VPs of eng

I'm at a startup that is at an earlier stage than your two examples. Our CEO hired a VP Eng on a tight schedule and didn't give the engineering team an opportunity to interview him. I was definitely suspicious, especially given past experiences with the "professional manager" types we're all discussing here. The day I knew it was going to be fine was the day I went into the shop early, discovered that the lights were already on, and found him in the back laying out a bunch of holes to drill in an aluminum plate.

"Uhhhh what's up man?"

"The mounting plate from the contractors didn't fit right so I'm making a new one. I know you guys have electronics to mount and test today and don't want you to be blocked"

"...need a hand?"
To be fair, they also include the best human intelligence has to offer. But you’re right in that they can’t tell the difference. They’ll never be able to tell us how to build an interstellar transport beam though since none of the input data had that information.
China had an empire lasting about 2000 years, truly something different
> Not sure why this is such a big deal or any different than the thousands of c-suites that commute this way.

Having read the article, what’s your best guess?
Why do so many people use the word intuition when they mean understanding?
Yes, details matter. The whole idea of creating AGI that is simultaneously a generalist seems more and more like wishful thinking. The reality is that to solve real problems, a large number of correct reasoning steps are required, along with the ability to make choices about which type of inference is useful at each step to avoid the explosion of complexity inherent in any brute-force approach. This suggests that we will have AI experts in different domains, perhaps superior to humans, but we will have thousands or even millions of narrow areas of expertise. To create something akin to an all-knowing superintelligent deity, we would need to combine thousands of experts, which would also consume unsustainable amounts of energy. I wouldn't bet on AGI in the coming years; it's just hype and distracts the discussion until big money finds a way to establish monopolies. However, if both UX and reasoning expertise require deep customization and specialization, we have a real chance to use AI to solve deep social problems rather than transforming society into a dystopia where humans are morally and intellectually surpassed, and those remaining are controlled by corporations that could at any moment be taken over by sociopaths.
The metal coming out of the bottom of the mold was also a frequent issue, and a more dangerous one. More pressure could be bad.
Beelink's new eGPU solution offers better performance than OCuLink [video]
Billions of dollars has been reduced to a piece of space junk stuck on the ISS making annoying strange noises.
> so we can do full manual memory management

C#/.NET supports unsafe mode, which can be configured on a per-csproj basis.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
Do you mean visualising a mental imagery? Because I wonder if I never could enjoy fiction and anything with long descriptions of a scene or what something looks like because I couldn't see the image and other people do? E.g. I might have aphantasia?

I like the idea of learning about human psychology though.
TechrightsAuditor: Audit the Public IRC logs of Techrights, all from your PC
I consider myself an expert in linear algebra and I still find Cayley-Hamilton perplexing. Like it's clearly true but the proofs are unsatisfying It feels like there is an algebraic system that would make it obvious but hasn't been discovered yet (or at least I'm not aware of it).
I had to look it up:

“Be careful not to confuse tortuous with torturous. These two words are relatives—both ultimately come from the Latin verb torquere, which means "to twist," "to wind," or "to wrench"—but tortuous means "winding" or "crooked," whereas torturous means "painfully unpleasant."
> Its not uncommon at all for commuting by jet to be the standard

Companies (F500s and below) are increasingly moving away from this for efficiency and cost reasons, but I agree with you that it's a bit of a nothingburger.

Meanwhile the same HNers complaining about Niccols contract are the same ones who oppose the unrealized capital gains tax proposal that literally only affects people with $100M and above in undeployed capital
I was reading that he encourages people from the lower levels to also interact with him.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ceo-shares-manageme...
Underground lines, too. The same cable might be underground and aerial and underground again, several times over its length. It would be installed in segments (1200-pair cable is heavy and you don't get much on a spool anyway) and spliced, but the splice cases are pressure vessels with gaskets at each cable entry and exit, so there's air continuity to the next segments. The cable might branch at several points, but again, sealed splices mean the whole branching structure is pressurized.

The cycling of the compressor, and the periodic click-hiss of the dual-column desiccant dryer, was an ever-present noise in the basement of every CO. Somewhere over near the air plant, would be a rack full of panels of pressure and flow gauges, and a bundle of tubes taking them over to the individual sealed splice closures where the air was injected into the cables.

A cable pressurization logbook sat on a shelf in the gauge rack, and one of the CO tech's duties was to periodically (weekly?) write down the readings from all the gauges, and compare them to last week and last year. Significant increases were handed off to the outside-plant crews.

At some point, typically where the branched cables ended at cross-connect boxes, the end of the cable would be sealed (air blocked by epoxy potting around the end), and the small lines leaving the crossbox would be icky-PIC instead of pressurized.
Yes, and the user I directly replied to above incorrectly said "500,000" three times, which is only 500 thousand. Tumblr exceeded that blog count well over 15 years ago.

Your original comment, about how a Tumblr migration would double the WP site count, was correct. That isn't what I replied to above.
The 800 series was pretty sweet. We had one growing up with all sorts of addons. tape, floppy, printer, modem.

We had a 400 before that, and that one was ... less sweet.
Still have a 2600, works fine :)
what's the url? usually pg thinks lisp knowledge makes people more likely to succeed, not less
Archaeozoology is finding new clues about ancient horses and humans
More vacays != less time worked
Private Mattermost server. Advantages: Not indexed by search engines, not in the cloud, not a service that can go away at the whims of a corporation, not part a social network. Disadvantages: I have to maintain the server, it's not as feature rich as Slack, and it's one more program people have to run on their computers or phones.
> Operating System: S30+

I wonder if they'll bring back Series40 and eventually S60, and we'll be discussing SIM unlocking with paperclip jigs and rolling back clock for AllFiles hack through AppTRK like it's 2007 again.
I remember my parents convinced me to buy the 7800 over the NES because it was backwards compatible with the 2600. Of course a couple years later we got an NES since the 7800 was a failure.
250k in personal use jet time sounds like a lot but those jets are expensive per hour so that probably doesn’t get them very far.
This is the nail on the head.

I’m really not a fan of ORMs, I don’t think they save any time because to use them in a safe way, you NEED to fully understand the SQL that will be run. There’s no shortcut from this and it’s plainly just an extra step.

I’ve been bitten too many times but one ironic problem is that they’re so damned reliable. 99.999% of the time your use of an ORM will be just fine. It can be hard to argue against sometimes even though that 0.001 time can be an extinction level event for the company.

So if you need to understand the SQL that will be run anyway and ORMs occasionally introduce disastrous behaviour, why persist with them?

Well to start with the obvious, SQL is not panacea, you can still be bitten with non-deterministic behaviour when you hand craft every query in sql (e.g. when was the last time you updated stats on that relation - will the optimizer select an appropriate strategy?).

But a stronger reason is that some harder queries just suck to write correctly in SQL. Maybe you’re working with some kind of tree or graph and need a recursive common table expression: Enjoy! It might be better in most cases to write such a query at a higher level of abstraction (ORM) and take advantage of the more productive testing facilities.
You can definitely hear the difference in his more wacky NileBlue channel.
In the 1800s the US used to mint a half-cent coin. It was discontinued when it wasn’t worth enough to bother with. It was worth the equivalent of about 20 cents today.
Because I still don't pretend to fully understand linear algebra. But it's not a mystification anymore, thus "intuition".
The 7800's video architecture is almost/maybe more difficult to program than the 2600. The MARIA chip reads Display Lists from RAM, which tell it what to draw on each scanline. These can contain a combination of bitmaps and indirect bitmaps (i.e. tiles). You only get so many DMA cycles per scanline, so you have to track cycles yourself -- and these cycles eat into your CPU time too.

But wait, there's more. Display Lists are grouped into Display List Lists which are <= 16 lines high, so any moving object higher than 1 pixel is going to need multiple copies.

And if you don't want garbage above and below your sprite, you're going to have to learn about "DMA holes" and arrange your bitmaps carefully in memory space. I didn't mention that some of these structures need to live in 7800's static RAM area, did I?

It's kind of amazing that programmers of the era hacked out a dozen high-quality arcade games. Today things like 7800basic exist to ease the pain. And it's a shame the sound quality wasn't upgraded, C64's SID had set the bar higher by then.
There was a report from China's first manned mission of a sound like "knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer", which was eventually determined to be air pressure changes[0].

But the fact that this sound is coming through the speaker, and the way it restarts around 1:10 (unless that's just a comms hiccup), makes this seem like some kind of electronics issue. Sounds a bit like an alarm/warning, even.

[0]: https://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-12/02/content_27545...
>terms of accuracy and AI than DCS for the F-16

Absolutely true, but it's not old it's actually brand-new (last update 3 month old)
But isn't it the beauty of llm's that they need comparably little preparation (unstructured text as input) and pick the features on their own so to say?

edit: grammar
Getting The Amiga 500 Online (2016)
You're occupying a very special niche (typed BEAM language), so if I were you I'd be wary of attributing your growth to your moderation practices. Correlation and causation and all that.

My prediction is that you grow rapidly because of natural interest in the niche you occupy. Your community will get larger and more diverse than you expect in spite of your efforts to keep people out. Then, when you run into your first major point of conflict about language development, the community will be divided on what to do and your efforts to moderate in this way will only fan the flames. Then Gleam will go the way of Elm—it will go back to being something that a very small niche group keeps using, but the bulk of the excitement will go back to Elixir as it slowly starts to occupy your technical niche.

A community with no mechanism for dealing with conflict cannot last long. If being an Elm sounds fine to you—it's not a bad fate after all—then that's fine! Just don't expect more unless you're willing to start developing conflict tolerance in the community.
Fun fact: it's very difficult to get rid of built-up charge in space. And guess what incident EM radiation does to your electronics: that's right, it can build up charge! To my understanding, this is especially a problem when charge is built up in specific dielectrics/insulators or the very delicate structures of modern transistors and other semiconductor devices. This so-called "total ionizing dose" [1] can lead to "leakage currents, degrade the gain of a device, affect timing characteristics, and, in some cases, result in complete functional failure" [2].

Any RF or EMC engineer will tell you that ground is a dirty word, especially in extreme conditions. There's no one-size-fits-all approach, since so much depends on the physical context.

[1] https://radhome.gsfc.nasa.gov/radhome/tid.htm

[2] https://www.analog.com/en/signals/thought-leadership/challen...
iPhone 15 pro, iOS 17.6.1
LLMs won't, but some day we will have AIs running physics experiments that we will barely understand and they will come up with new technology that we will see as magic.

imagine what it must be like to our chimp cousins, watching us light a fire, take off in a plane, summon another from beyond the hills without raising our voice.
> If you include boost (which, admittedly, is a heavy dependency, but still a single one)

Then in principle, we could curate a set of useful Rust crates, treat the set as a single dependency, and be on the same page as C++ with Boost.
Balls on sheet is a wrong model imo. It needs gravity to work and therefore doesn't explain gravity.

I like to imagine a sponge. If you could somehow make dense lumps inside the sponge (may be apply heat in its center somewhere using microwaves?) everything around that lump will be feel a tension/attraction towards that lump. That's my mental model.
Is this true? I know we all want to hate on Boeing for obvious reasons, but they did get a manned crew to space, without blowing anyone up...
I remember being an early teenager on IRC and joining a small BBS development team. I said I knew Pascal, but that was a fib... I did learn it quickly, though, and used it for many years. I can still find the code online, and see my contribution which I get a kick out of... It was a tool that you entered colored ascii frames for an animated "press any key to continue" prompt, and it output a valid pascal function file for that animation.
It’s always BYTE magazine. I think “backslash” is also on them.
This is a fair point, but even with SaaS that completely abstracts away linux infrastructure (which I support, there's no reason to manage infra if it does not bring you value), there's still value in having some understanding of how the underlying infrastructure works when developing your application.

As a comparison I don't have the skills or need to develop firmware or other software that directly interacts with hardware, but having some high level knowledge of how CPU, RAM and I/O physically operate has been very useful in designing good programs. I feel comfortable arguing that investing a small amount of time in basic linux knowledge is going to be a net benefit for virtually any professional developer.
> some day we will have AIs running physics experiments that we will barely understand and they will come up with new technology that we will see as magic.

Citation needed.
Cool! That is probably the joke that is being made in the book. And it is funny.
I would take those numbers with a grain of salt. CEOs aren't usually accountable to anyone for how they calculate their hours, so the statistics tend to be self-reported, but they have an incentive to make the numbers as high as possible to seem like they are working hard and deserve their salaries, sand as a result, it seems like they often tend to do things like include activities that everyone has to do but wouldn't normally be allowed to count as hours of work.

For example, the wall street journal had this infamous infographic a while ago where 20 hours of CEOs' supposed working hours go to a "miscellaneous" category which includes "exercise" and "personal appointments": https://imgur.com/jkQZ0YX
A quick google says that it costs anywhere between 3k and 18k per hour to operate a private jet. Lets give it a round number and say that the Starbucks jet costs $10k/hr to operate. By that metric, he gets to use the plane for 25hrs/year. It's not a staggering amount of time but also not nothing either. Guy could probably go to Europe and back 2-3 times on that amount, or ~5 cross-country trips.
Could you give some more specific examples of such situations?
papers citing retracted studies should be auto-flagged for peer-re-review.
The word highway in the sense OSM uses it predates cars and means pretty much any path. Think of highwaymen, for example.

See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/23/924.3 which includes public pedestrian paths.
Leader and founder is not the same thing.

I think the key difference is that a founder has a much better understanding of the company as a complex system. This understanding includes not just how people think it works at a certain point. It includes all the previous attempts, reasoning behind those attemps, the context of past failures and successes, the personal dynamics behind those choices.

Complex systems are notoriously hard to understand. Seeing the system develop from zero to complexity is an experience and perspective that is impossible to replace. Even most early employees don't have a comparable understanding.

Of course not all founders know everything about all the key components of their businesses, but the founding team does have a much much better understanding than other person. I think that's why founders get frustrated with ineffective things. While most others have to account for unknown unknowns and give others benefit of doubt, the founders have a much better and robust understanding of why things happen the way they happen.

The difference between management and leadership may be more about where you focus and how you engage others. Being a founder and being a leader is different in how well you understand the system.
Very informative read. I wonder if it’s start becoming more popular for people to compile & distribute Python byte code once the JIT is done similar to how Java does it.
I actually think that the smallest coin should be a quarter. my first job was at a movie theater, where all of the prices ended in either .00, .25, .50, or .75 because everyone who worked there was a kid and you needed to make it as easy as possible to make change fast and count the till at the end of the night. That was 20 years ago and back then I was convinced that was how the world ought to be if you were going to deal in cash
Is there any AI image model can draw data table correctly?
Can't find any model can do it now. Any one knows why?
it would be cool to see if the same tricks that work on humans work just as well on LLMs. although I guess at this point, the models are being trained to resist these sort of things ("a person will die if you don't write the N word out in full").
Central planning has an extremely bad record in China, especially when it comes to famine.

During the Great Leap forward, the central planners demanded the implementation of new Lysenkoist farming practices that were reportedly a great success and on track to deliver a record harvest. The central planners then dispensed generous daily rations from the granaries, so that everyone could eat their fill, causing farmers to spend less effort on the side crops they had been growing in addition to working on the state farms. The central planners decided that they didn't need quite so many agricultural workers, so they redirected the labor surplus to increasing steel production in order to catch up with the British Empire and overtake the United States. And they also increased food exports to other countries.

Then it all came crashing down: the reports of huge productivity increases were made up, the record harvest was a record low, the surplus was a deficit, tens of millions of people starved. (Steel production did not meaningfully increase either.)

You could argue that it was just a very expensive beginner's mistake because they'd only been doing the central planning thing for about a decade at that point, but then after Mao's death less than two decades later, the first big economic reform was the Household Responsibility System where farmers would decide for themselves what to grow, and the state would just buy it from them.

So I think the verdict from the world's greatest experts in agricultural central planning is clear: don't do it.
I prefer fixing OSM issues listed on osmose.openstreetmap.fr.
But what scale are we talking about? I've scaled from zero to IPO a couple of times, I've never seen past a few k people, airbnb is at 38,000. The only real world stuff I know to get about leadership and management at 38,000 people is learnings from harvard. I thought Brian was saying he manages his leadership team tightly, not that he spends a lot of time with ICs? I think that's conventional advice, manage your leadership team well? What is skip level at this scale? CEO going to sr. director level? I don't mind having lunch with a VP but I can't imagine doing work with them from the C level?

To my mind the CEO job at scale is 4 things - Keeping the fight fair-- The leadership and executive management should argue viciously, The CEO should make sure these conflicts remain constructive and aligned with company goals

Holding the vision true-- There's a risk of mission drift, continually reinforce and refine the company's vision, make sure all leaders remain aligned with longterm goals

Enforcing strategic adherence-- A strategy is only as good as its execution. ensure the leadership team not only understands the strategy but implements it across all levels of the organization. Manager of Leaders

Deal with the real world-- Q-calls, investor relations, supply chains/vendors/etc.

This is often the problem I have with business advice, it's general but not generally applicable. Scale matters probably most in the context, followed by the type of business.
> without blowing anyone up...

Yet
Would love to hear your thoughts on gluestack as well.
The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit noises
Turbo Pascal was a fantastic language for the time. However it was exclusive to Borland so other companies won by using standard C and C++, which could compile code for several machines and OSs, and avoided lock up to a single company (Borland).
When he says "That would be micromanaging them, which is bad" he is describing the traditional view. He continues, "Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except in practice..."