skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are three different kinds of environment:

- Startup. Doesn't know how to make money yet, or if it does, is still learning how to execute its vision. It's essential to have a small team of maximally competent people, so recruitment is cautious. Employees are pets, not cattle. Projects are executed in time linear in the man-hours required

- Scale-up. Has found an opportunity so big that it needs to occupy it as fast as possible, before the competition does. Recruitment has to take risks. Large critical projects are executed in time proportional to the square root of the man-hours required[1].

- Established business. Has big battalions, but does not grow them very quickly. concentrates on not losing its market position. Recruitment optimizes for fungibility. Projects are executed in time linear in the man-hours required.

Each of these requires a different skill set from leadership.

[1] McConnell, "Software estimation - Demystifying the black art"
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The Nokia 2720 flip phone has WhatsApp. Sadly no Signal app.
It's not about how much they get.
The reality is that you can give 100k extra to a software engineer, he will still prefer his kids and wife.

Money isn't buying love.

You can hire a prostitute, she will work for you, but she will still not love you.

This is the same with companies.
You know the deal about unnatural borders people keep saying? This is actually true regarding Sudan. South Sudan didn't want to be a part and didn't get its autonomy, and Darfur was internal colonialism in all but name. Sudan had to create a big military sector and militias to try to keep them, with the result of said militias later turning on each other.
We've been running it in production for 2 years now. It got a lot of things right that Adobe ColdFusion don't, and it's rock solid and free.
Yeah, exactly, thank you.
PS1 is famous among game developers for being the first games console for the home market with a C SDK, instead of only Assembly as programming option.

All games tap into Assembly, in some form or the other, even nowadays.
Still cannot get the images of the Ethiopian famine out of my head - truly horrific stuff. I’ll let people smarter and more powerful than me debate what could/should be done - I’d personally hazard a guess nothing short of military intervention can stop something like this but that has its whole slew of unintended side effects. It seems like there are enough resources in the world to prevent things like this, at least for now - and if not, a conversation needs to be had very soon how this should be handled because I don’t think this will become a situation that becomes less common.
What struck me from reading Elon Musk’s (he proofread this essay) biography is that he would do things that you could obviously hire someone else to do. For example, to make the Tesla car line more productive. His heavy involvement seems to be a way to create decisiveness and quickly iterate. if something goes wrong, the blame is on him, and he’s the founder and chief executive. Whereas if an employee attempted to do some of these things they might have to write up a detailed report and rationale and possibly even conduct studies. in probably less time than someone would normally finish their studies and report (let alone make any changes) Musk had iterated to tripling the throughput of the Tesla factory.

Musk as a founder-like role (he wasn’t actually a founder) has the incentives to make this happen. in this case, he had a specific milestone to reach to get a very lucrative bonus. at the same time, he had a lot of stock and would not want to do anything that would damage the long-term prospects of the company. Whereas an executive might go after a bonus without worrying about long-term negative effects. Even if an executive has stock options, they might not vest and even though they are an executive, the founder and others are creating the fate of the company and the value of the options, not just them.
Because of clueless extremists.

They don't try to understand the spirit of rules, but blindly apply rules to the letter
And then oversized phones killed tablets, bringing us the worst of both worlds :-P

I was looking into tablets recently and there is a dearth of options - a quick search in a local eshop aggregator has ~20 2024 tablets after i filter out the sucky specs and ~72 2024 laptops (including some larger ones), again after filtering the sucky specs. Meanwhile there are ~276 2024 phones after sucky spec filtering and that is with greater specs than the tablet ones (because the aggregator had no filters matching the tablet specs - even the minimum specs in phones were higher than the high specs in tablets).

All these give me the impression that we're long past the hype days of tablets.
i've used both. they both have pros/cons. use whatever tool your team is most proficient with/stop wasting your time arguing about which framework is best
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This is conventional wisdom.

https://hbr.org/2004/01/managers-and-leaders-are-they-differ...

https://hbr.org/2016/06/do-managers-and-leaders-really-do-di...

https://hbr.org/2022/09/the-best-managers-are-leaders-and-vi...

Almost every HBR "Must Read" series on enterprise management says the same thing as this blog post. The business world has been talking about this stuff since the 90s.
A lot of the HMD/Nokia phones have WhatsApp. All those running KaiOS I believe, but not Signal :-(

Edit: Looking more at the specs and the promotional material, this starts to make a little more sense. Barbie brand the phone, in an attempt to make it trendy, so that young girls will want it. Avoid adding the social media, so not to expose the girls to an environment which we know to be bad for them. It actually makes a little sense, but sure if young teens are that into Barbie though. I'd love to see the sales numbers next year.
You see, you are a victim of misinformation. You are reaching at an immaterial argument that doesn’t advance the question really. Twitter has not been good to any society, or we would to go throug heaps of evidence on the bad effects social media has on society.

Let’s argue over whether social media is beneficial or not, because unless you are a lawyer specialized in constitutional law and individual rights, there’s no lawyer here to really argue over fine points of the law.
It takes effort, requires goodwill, has damaging implications to internal politics and ultimately is not the best way to maximize tenure at C-level roles.

Executives are solving for their job, not for the company's success.
When I wanted a replacement for my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 (a 12" tablet w/ a bundled folding keyboard case and included S-Pen) I had to go up to a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (since that was the only high-resolution device w/ an S-Pen then available) and had to go shopping for a new bag to carry it.

I do use it for development after a fashion (OpenSCAD, https://pythonscad.org/ and sometimes https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ or OpenSCAD Graph Editor, usually using TeXWorks for Literate Programming), but also for drawing/sketching and note-taking and annotating PDFs.
Well put as always. Here's what I think is the primary alternative hypothesis.

Assume that it's very hard to forecast a manager's fit and future performance. With a new CEO, manager mode is the less-risky proposition. Spread risk around by delegating more. The founder has a proven track record leading the company, making founder mode usually preferable.

In other words, the non-founder CEO may just be one of the professional fakers that the essay mentions as plausible subordinates. There's a ton of research literature on adverse selection of CEOs. Some of it goes back decades, so there's always the question of whether the selection process has improved over time. But there will always be people that excel at getting selected and promoted.

The way this hypothesis differs from the essay's is in boiling down to actual performance. A high-performing non-founder does not need manager mode, while a low-performing founder would be better off with it.
1. I only said the meaning of the title is wrong, and I praised the content

2. I didn't say CUDA wouldn't be ground up or low level (please re-read) (I say in another comment about a no-code guide with CUDA, but it's obviously a joke)

3. And finally, I think your comment comes out as holier than thou and finger pointing and making a huge deal out of a minor semantic observation.
What I think is most interesting is that one feature that they call out is its “ a real phone without social media”.

Guess if they want to go after a different demo, they could make a GI Joe phone. The “action figure” phone.
Doctors and engineers drive a cab in New York because, for them, it's better than home.

It's broken, all right, but what's broken is "home", not the west. (All right, the west is broken too, but in this situation the brokenness of the west is not the primary issue.) And they didn't that they could fix "home", so they left, and for the most part they aren't interested in going back and trying to fix it. They probably have a better perception of how hard it would be to fix than we do.
That’s one way to define “local,” and in fairness to you, it is the most popular. But the other way of looking at local production - not unlike times before globalized agriculture - had one’s diet actually match the climate available. Perhaps tomatoes don’t grow where you are, but surely something else did: very few places were founded without an agricultural/fishing base.

On a global scale, the huge (emissions) efficiency of loading a single enormous shipment of produce is only true on the receiving end, a number of farms far away all ran their own small deliveries to a depot for shipping at the start of the chain. There is no magic turbo-carrot-farm that harvests the world’s supply in one go.
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> Ie when in Eastern Europe communism and central planning failed

I am not saying central planning is a cure all. Trying a bad economic system with any kind of planning will fail.

> Maybe but its doesn't work in democracies well.

Correct, in the absence of strong top down rule (whether democracy or not), social changes are just going to be very slow (this doesn't mean strong top down rule will result in good changes, just that otherwise it is slow). The US needed a civil war to abolish slavery and two world wars for many other social changes (similar to most of western Europe).

I am not saying A or B is better. But without central planning the chances of any big cultural changes in Sudan type countries happening in the next 50 or even 100 years is very remote.
Once a company becomes successful, it attracts the second kind of people in Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Target customer group doesn't know how to use a computer, for the most part.

VGA is not that bad for phone pictures. If you scale down a photo from decent camera to VGA, it can look fine. The problem is that for VGA cameras, the resolution is the smallest issue - colors, sharpness, dybamic range are likely tragic.
There are various accounts on Twitter which were being investigated etc. for criminal misconduct, Twitter was given a court order to block those accounts. I have no idea if that order was itself justified (IANAL and I don't speak Brazilian) but the orders were given by someone with authority to give them.

Twitter refused the order, which means that Twitter is interfering with the legal process in Brazil. This sounds like "contempt of court" to me, which is a thing which results in a judge sending people to prison — no idea what it is in Brazil, but IIRC the maximum penalty in my country of birth is 2 years' imprisonment.

Brazil's legal system requires companies like Twitter to have an office in the country in order to receive such orders, which I think means it's literally her job to make those orders happen. Regardless, by closing the office Twitter was directly violating Brazilian law.

As companies cannot themselves be imprisoned, I do not see what alternative there would be than directing obligations onto a specific human. Buck has to stop somewhere, and while I know a lot of people who would celebrate if this judge decided that the correct somewhere was "international arrest warrant/request extradition of Elon Musk personally", I suspect this judge would have to go through a few more checkboxes before that doesn't get "major diplomatic incident" written all over it.

(Perhaps less of an incident if it's concurrent with the EU saying "We're issuing Twitter with a 6% fine on their global annual turnover for non-compliance with the Digital Services Act", which seems to be another battle Musk is Leeroy-Jenkins-ing himself into).
> my previous instructors are now complaining from the grave

Ha ha, did you mean to give the impression that they were in fact not that competent after all?
With the visual distinction between them, I actually read “beta” and “alpha” as two separate products, with alpha being like a premium tier that would coexist with beta.

I’m sure this isn’t actually the case, but it’s funny how swapping the order just disabled my brain’s ability to view them as typical software release phases.
Have you considered:

https://www.lincplustech.com/products/lincstudio-s1-drawing-...

(if I hadn't panicked and bought a spare Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, I'd be trying one)
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This book has software engineering concepts that I never did see or hear anywhere else: "Expert C# Business Objects". Its concepts are language agnostic, even though it has C# examples. You might try some videos by the author of that book too.

Related to this book is what we call "vertical feature slicing". (I'd be curious to know what other books cover this topic.) There are some Youtube videos on the topic. There was a great 2-hour video from 20 years ago that influenced me. Unfortunately, I don't remember the title and cannot find it today.

The video "Simple Made Easy" had a profound influence on my programming: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
Manager mode assumes that workers clock in and do what they can to drive the company forward. But there is no altruism among workers. Their decisions are for themselves first and for the company second.
Hey, glad to see you here! I've been following Gleam from the sidelines for a while and I'm really excited to see where it ends up.

I can tell that you take moderation very seriously, and that's part of my concern—there's a trend among a certain newer crop of FOSS projects to moderate in a way that is opaque, passive-aggressive, and somewhat self-righteous. This is usually done in the name of creating safe spaces, where "safe" means "things that make anyone uncomfortable get erased".

It starts out fine with erasing hate speech and similar. But then you get in the habit of removing things and you start removing content that isn't hateful but is uncomfortable for some other reason. I've seen projects (Forgejo) remove evidence of reasonable dissent about the appointment of a moderator (going so far as to erase that dissent from the internet archive).

One anecdote isn't enough for me to believe that you've gone that far, but it's a trend that I've seen and your rhetoric falls into that concerning pattern. I'm not interested in having a private conversation (as I said, opaque moderation practices are part of the problem I'm identifying), but I would caution you against going too far down this safe spaces route. Keep out the hate speech, but be wary of deleting things that aren't.
Says who? Have you considered the alternatives?
Yeah, people really don’t seem to understand that most kids currently in high school have only used a desktop computer to play PC games, if at all.
I run a web server at home, and have for decades. The constant scans is something you realize is "normal" and just ignore.
It's easy to sail a boat when the wind is behind you. It's during storms that you can see outstanding captains. When Nvidia was firing part of the CUDA core devs 3 years ago, he wasn't considered a genius internally.
I wonder if it's because they're young and all the "Sigma, Alpha and Beta" memes led them to believe Alpha is better than Beta so it should come after. That would be really intersting.
This is a phone marketed at kids. I'm not sure they need IMEI spoofing.
The lack of social media is a (IMHO valid) selling point of this phone.
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The Kobo tablet seems to be a straightforward Linux instance running on an arm chip. I think it's going to run arbitrary userspace code just fine.
Indeed, I agree.

A private founder-owner-CEO combination (like Steam) might be the least vulnerable organization to many of those ills, short of a cooperative (not sure it counts as private ownership).
That seems to be what I remembered. I did try a few searches; But I didn't find it in the first few results of "byte magazine gpu" on Google, and my search on IA wasn't completing. I didn't feel like spending more time than that...
This is what happens once you start down the road of making Paperclips…
> Ironically it seems as all the "AI wrappers" look like they have more of a moat than the models (as UX etc is actually quite hard), which is not what I expected at all when the LLM boom started.

In interviews lately, Sam Altman has been alluding to this more and more.
I’m not sure the web an Linux can be judged with todays valuation in mind. Both succeeded through openness not capitalism. Einstein was from a whole different society.
As per the submitted article, famine is also only declared in the refugee "camp" (which houses about 500.000 people as per this article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqv5nvq69lwo) because the UN doesn't have enough information about other parts of the country.
Drones are legally classified as aircraft.

18 U.S. Code § 32 makes it specifically illegal to damage or interfere with the operation of aircraft.

The FAA takes this quite seriously, as not taking it seriously compromises their position of being able to regulate drones per se. Lax enforcement of protection of drones as aircraft is a potential legal argument that efforts to regulate drone activity outside of the scope of interference with manned aircraft are similarly deprecated in importance and legitimacy.
> I think he legitimately believes that “the woke mind virus” is an existential threat to our society

Musk blames 'wokeness' for his daughter rejecting him after he didn't accept who she was. His entire conflict with the left and the 'woke' is centered around this one issue. He can't accept that he was rejected because of what he has done, so he needs someone else to blame and fight with.
He bought X as his propaganda tool, he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions on society—he only wants to win.

> Musk is primarily driven by a savior complex

I don't think that's correct, it seems more likely that he was always driven by an inferiority complex.
Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood was such a swell brand, just tell the Copts that. Transnational Islamism doesn't make any trouble either. And to be frank, the US didn't want communism to take over after apartheid. One Mugabe was bad enough, and an even more badly mismanaged SA would be a disaster. On all issues you mention, the choices were often unpleasant, but always had their reasons.
Ok the app is beautiful and seems like it solves a real need. But the thing I’m most impressed with is that you actually seem to have written up a real ToS that covers most top-of-mind issues, including a section for recommended insurance coverage.

Recognizing that the “app” is just one piece of a larger business model (including considerations for legal, support, etc) is a legitimately mind-blowing level of professionalism for a 17 year old. You’re going to go far.
Things can be done about mass shootings in the USA, too.

I speak of the observed responses, not to the actual limits to those willing to champion for a better world.
That is not the main reason. Not even close. Here’s a list of main reasons, in no particular order:

- 8 different currencies across EU member states
- 24 languages
- 27 sovereign countries with wildly different economic, social, foreign, military … policies
- laws and regulations are only slowly harmonised across the board
- deep seating historic prejudices (which lead to major wars in the past)
- unfriendly and downright hostile neighbours
- a smaller amount of natural resources to exploit
- etc etc
One could create it using zeroconf but i'v yet to see one software do that.
I am not advocating for colonisation, but most of human history has no good track record for the ruled people. Colonisation was able to uproot some very bad social evils by fiat which would be just very hard to remove in a democratic society (for good or bad). Colonisation might be a very bad idea maybe even the worst, but when no solution is working and none in sight, people might want to throw anything they can on the table and restart debating all approaches.

I think the parent comment has shared their experience which makes them think this idea might be better than status quo in their country.
I can put 12w through a lighting cable. That’s fine for most if not all of their iPhones and iPads. Hell it’d be ok for my MacBook
Our understanding of organizations completely derives from military and manufacturing. It is essentially top down. Heck, our whole society and schooling is top down. Someone else knows more than you and is better at things than you are. So if you want to be good at something, you follow. Guess what?

So what is the alternative to top down? Another model is that the persons in an organization act in two roles. First they effectuate. They take effective action. The people 'in situ' know what the situation is. Secondly they act as sensors. They provide information to others. And groups can act in the same way.

We humans evolved by being very good at this model. There were no CEO's in small communities. There were no schools that taught you how to be a hunter gatherer or make cheese.

Yes I know that large corporations and armies have in the past scaled better. Perhaps that is because we have had better technology to give orders better than to collaborate.

The (mythical) Mythical Man Month tells us that New York City cannot exist. And no corporation runs NYC. So clearly it cannot exist. Right? Yet it does. Perhaps we need to understand how. My attempts have started with 'Hidden Order' by John Holland. Don't follow it. Just use it as a starting point.
I would think sarcasm is inappropriate in public discourse.
> Even my current macbook pro isn't that good outside.

There's a hack for that. Involves running a full screen transparent overlay which tricks the OS into letting you turn the screen brightness all the way up. Silly that it's necessary but works very well. I don't remember the name of the program.
I believe you're right. That was the piece I was missing. And it makes a big difference indeed.
In general "private" WiFi doesn't work like this. Instead it's per SSID. So on iOS [0] and Android [1], a new private MAC is generated once per SSID and preserved until network settings are reset. This is why you won't generally have issues with connecting to and leaving a captive portal (hotel, airplane, etc).

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102509
[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-mac-random...
Maybe it's just different learning styles. Some people, me included, like to start getting some immediate real world results to keep it relevant and form some kind of intuition, then start peeling back the layers to understand the underlying principles. With fastAI you are already doing this by the 3rd lecture.

Like driving a car, you don't need to understand what's under the hood you start driving, but eventually understanding it makes you a better driver.