skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The way managers are taught to run companies seems to be like modular design in the sense that you treat subtrees of the org chart as black boxes. You tell your direct reports what to do, and it's up to them to figure out how. But you don't get involved in the details of what they do. That would be micromanaging them, which is bad.

>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, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.

>One theme I noticed both in Brian's talk and when talking to founders afterward was the idea of being gaslit. Founders feel like they're being gaslit from both sides — by the people telling them they have to run their companies like managers, and by the people working for them when they do. [...] , and C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world.

Those 3 paragraphs are similar to the description from Slava Akhmechet in an 2018 HN comment[1] and matches my experience :

>When there is a lot of money involved, people self-select into your company who view their jobs as basically to extract as much money as possible. This is especially true at the higher rungs. VP of marketing? Nope, professional money extractor. VP of engineering? Nope, professional money extractor too. You might think -- don't hire them. You can't! It doesn't matter how good the founders are, these people have spent their entire lifetimes perfecting their veneer. At that level they're the best in the world at it. Doesn't matter how good the founders are, they'll self select some of these people who will slip past their psychology. You might think -- fire them. Not so easy! They're good at embedding themselves into the org, they're good at slipping past the founders's radars, and they're high up so half their job is recruiting. They'll have dozens of cronies running around your company within a month or two.

>From the founders's perspective the org is basically an overactive genie. It will do what you say, but not what you mean. Want to increase sales in two quarters? No problem, sales increased. Oh, and we also subtly destroyed our customers's trust. Once the steaks are high, founders basically have to treat their org as an adversarial agent. You might think -- but a good founder will notice! Doesn't matter how good you are -- you've selected world class politicians that are good at getting past your exact psychological makeup. Anthropic principle!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253
> We don't tax unrealized gains for that exact reason.

I may be missing your point but the example you give looks like an argument to tax unrealized gains.

> Let's say you have $10M in in index funds. You don't want to cash out and pay capital gains, so you get a $5M credit line with your stock as a collateral. Then, there's a market crash, your collateral is all of sudden worth just $4M, and you have a bank knocking on your door - but you already spent $5M on a McMansion. Now what?

Now you have a problem caused by leverage - and it was at least in part because you didn't want to pay taxes. If unrealized gains had been taxed just the same the concern about paying taxes when cashing out would disappear.
it's been shown that metformin reduced all-cause mortality, so this isn't surprising.
Clever to use physic without electricity to replace (hopefully in the future) electric components
Funny how Musk bought Twitter for saving it from censorship and pushed it into censorship. The fact that decentralised services are becoming a thing it's a good outcome though. Maybe that's what always been in his mind after all :) ?
I just ordered the nxtpaper 11 arrives next week so will post back later.

I was torn between the HannsNote2 and Nxtpaper 11 but the battery life for the HannsNote2 is apparently less than 3 hours which I think is not going to cut it for a device which is meant to take me away from my phone

I ordered the nxtpaper from TechInn - I think they ship global
Atari (more accurately, what’s left of Atari), has just announced the Atari 7800+ console and a bunch of new and rerelease cartridges, releasing later this year.

https://youtu.be/vsArjSWdNV8
Getting taxed on a laptop in Mexico isn’t a scam

Actually it is a scam, but just it is run by the government.
Yes. And people tan waaaaaaaaaaay more or work outside.
European Artificial Intelligence Act
But if twitter != free speech, then what's the alternative? It was ripe with misinformation even before Musk's takeover. It wasn't balanced before, it was left-leaning, with arbitrary definitions of what counted as misinformation.

I think it's now only leaning right because, once Musk took over, the left-leaning users decided it was best to leave. In fact, they had already decided it's not worth staying on the platform even before Musk had made any changes. 'Fear' and 'safety' were being thrown around without any substantial proof.

I think misinformation should be fought with information, not hiding away in 'safer' social networks while cheering for censorship and authoritarianism.
Beyond the Brew: The Medicinal Power of Hops
Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream
> Even Zuckerberg now backpedals and says that Covid censorship and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake.

It's easy to say with the benefit of hindsight what was a mistake and what was not. Some things need to be censored - that's how it's always been. The question, of course, is WHAT needs to be censored, HOW MUCH it needs to be censored, HOW it should be censored, and WHO decides.

In the old days, it was easy: If it wasn't on prime time (TV, major newspapers, syndicated radio), it didn't exist. And this cabal served us well, providing a small number of voices to tell people who they were and what to believe.

Now with a potentially unlimited number of voices going up and down in popularity with unprecedented speed and across nations, we're headed into unknown territory, so there are going to be a lot of mistakes, and nobody can know for sure if our nations can even survive it.
Basically, you don't believe in government except to protect you from others who might take, while you have would have to ability to take advantage of others freely. No basic humans should be satisified by the government.

That's exactly what the ultra wealthy seem to generally believe too. Sorry that many of us reject your premise that you should be freely protected to screw over everyone else and think that's a moral decision (it's not, but I won't waste my time).
According to its own statistics, Musk's Twitter complied with 83% of government takedown requests compared with 50% in the year before it was taken over, and he's found plenty of novel grounds for kicking people off Twitter for things which annoy him.

Obviously for people whose idea of freedom of speech begins and ends at actively promoting vice signalling in regimes which have some degree of speech protection whilst doing exactly what an autocrat like Erdogan asks because "you can't go beyond the laws of a country", Musk represents an improvement, but that doesn't have anything to do with promoting First Amendment ideology overseas.
I really like Sebastian's content but I do agree with you. I didn't get into deep learning until starting with Karpathy's series, which starts by creating an autograd engine from scratch. Before that I tried learning with fast.ai, which dives immediately into building networks with Pytorch, but I noped out of there quickly. It felt about as fun as learning Java in high school. I need to understand what I'm working with!
It's always fmt. Incredibly funny that this exact problem now happens in .NET. If you touch enough numeric (esp. fp and decimal) formatting/parsing bits, linker ends up rooting a lot of floating point and BigInt related code, bloating binary size.
> As an outsider, I can't help but feel that the American election system that boils everything down to just two parties imposes a limited binary lens onto at least the American view of the world.

I don't think that the American election system holds any relevance to the problem.

The problem is fueling divisiveness to manipulate people with a "us vs them" mentality.

How else can you force working class people to vote against their best interests, such as taxing the rich fairly, ensuring access to affordable health care, uphold basic workers rights, without resorting to blatant fearmongering and moral outrage with bullshit like "they want post-birth abortions, impose sexual abuse in schools, import scary criminal gangs from distant foreign lands, etc"?

Not to mention the industrial level of propaganda dumped by foreign actors to destabilize democratic nations.
I don't think anyone is questioning whether that's technically possible, just whether it's an appealing use case for the majority of it's target users.
I don't know, the declarative API is awkward. I get SQLAlchemy is quality software but I found DX poor.
Of course there is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_citizenship

Anyone living for more than 15 years was denied the right to vote but not denied the right to have their citizen forcibly removed against their will.
There is no one entity who has control. It is a combination of the CEO, shareholders, governments, employees, and the customers.
I thought it was a great start to an idea. I think it went sideways once it decided founder mode could be studied and taught.

Teaching founder mode sounds as simple as teaching creativity or how to be an individual. Founders are most likely are made up of people divergent of social thinking in some way and have a non-verbal need inside trying to get out.

Founder mode is fed by an intense focus, desperation, and insight. Which are all difficult to teach.

The whole thing feels off to me. Isn't the VCs that try to stop Founder mode. I think SV has a slew of carcasses of companies that founder modeded to death.
It is a featureful formatting library, not simply a library for slow printing of ints and strings without any modifiers. You can't create a library which is full of features, fast, and small simultaneously.
LLMs hallucinating, lying and doubling down on things that are wrong seem very human.
Lots of fonts have monospaced numbers, they just need to be enabled! Look for OpenType (TTF and/or OTF) fonts with feature "tnum", and enable it.

For CSS, use font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums.
So Sharp Memory LCD isn't quite unpowered, but it is measured in hundreds of microwatts of power.... Nearly power free. And this is while updating the screen.

EInk is truly 0 energy to hold an image.... but each refresh uses a lot of energy. IIRC, the breakeven vs Sharps memory LCD was like 15-minute refreshes.

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Many battery packs have internal leakage in the ~50 microwatts region just a magnitude below to the power needed for Memory LCD.

So Sharp Memory LCD is close to the point where we stop caring about power consumption at all. But not QUITE zero or otherwise ignored. Still very impressive how low they got.
It would be nice to see somebody do a device that isn't crippled in terms of hardware and software. In my experience, most hardware companies aren't very good at software and vice versa. Apple seems a rare exception to this rule.

I'd love a laptop that I can use outside. Even my current macbook pro isn't that good outside. It kind of works but it's not that comfortable on the eyes. And that's supposed to be a screen that is suitable for this.

My kindle on the other hand I can use sitting in the sun wearing sun glasses. Not a problem. Not that I do that a lot, I stick to the shadows. But we've had some nice warm temperatures here in the last few weeks and it sucks having to sit indoors to be able to do work. I'd much rather be in some nice garden or park.

I'd probably buy anything with a decent amount of hardware power and a good screen like this. I'm OK installing linux on it. Not a problem. I can deal with external batteries and extension cords if needed. But I need my laptop to be fast and have decent keyboards and touch pads.

But it seems all the companies in this space fall in the trap of trying to be Apple and then failing miserably on both the hardware and software front. Slow/outdated CPUs, crippled by anemic amounts of memory, paired with somebody's take on how to do Android, etc. When the screen is just about the only thing about a device that isn't shit, it's still a shit product overall.
That's the one! High enough quality that I would guess it would highly convert from torrents to purchases. Hypothetically, of course.
> VP of marketing? Nope, professional money extractor. VP of engineering? Nope, professional money extractor too.

Wasn’t this obvious? I’ve been in the software industry for long enough to distinguish people who do actual work from those who don’t. All the VPs I’ve encountered share the following traits:

- huge paychecks

- they hire others under their supervision to do the actual job

- you don’t actually know what their job is because they all delegate

So, it always seemed to me that being a VP always meant: no matter what you do (good decisions or bad ones) you are getting paid tons of money. It’s worse when these VPs come from faang-like companies: they are treated like gods who know everything and you cannot contradict them.
The premise of this is that advice to hire "Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs" is bad because that turns into "hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground".

So, if I get this right, hiring is done by the founder, who is not capable of choosing good people in a sea of fakers, and because of founders incompetency the advice is bad?

I do agree that every founder/CEO should have a tool for gauging how their company is behaving out of their bubble, but I see this new mode as a dangerous proposition which will invite all sorts of paranoid founders/managers to take micromanaging/abuse to a whole new level.

Maybe a better question founders(VCs) should be asking themselves is why are there so many "professional fakers" in top/middle level positions, instead of figuring out how to augment their behavior?
Curious what space space you work in? What kind of devices, what are they used for?
Thank you for posting that!

Just for context, this was posted to Github by the author of Clean Code himself, Robert C. Martin, while exchanging messages with Casey Muratory [0]. They talk about performance, about testing, and maybe other stuff (I'm at less than half of it)

[0] of Handmade Hero fame, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2dxjOjWHxQ
You'd hope the unused stuff gets stripped out but I don't know much about this topic so not going to argue.
> your issue is with courts in general

Not all laws are equal, just like not all countries and courts are. Some are more authoritarian and arbitrary than others and therefore inherently less legitimate.

> His side of this is literally nonsense
> actual sin is pissing off some crybaby libertarian for having to comply with the law

Musk is a jerk, I get it and fully agree with that. How is this relevant, though?

Also you really have no issue with the attempted VPN ban and fines for individual who are using Twitter? Or a legal system that could allow something like that? Really?
Is there a good resource on the management methods of Steve Jobs as indicated by the essay?
> This is just speculation.

This is not speculation. When Elon Musk did that stunt on open-sourcing Twitter's source code right after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the source code explicitly included references to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in hardcoded rules to downrank discussions on the topic.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-...

This is just the stuff he accidentally leaked.
This is an excellent example of how statistics can be manipulated. Of course people don’t want to ban a service they use, but if the question had been “is it ok for foreign companies offering services to Brazilian citizens to ignore Brazilian law” the result would probably be different
No, modulo the aligned allocation overloads, but applications are allowed to override the default standard library operator new with their own, even on platforms that don't have an equivalent to ELF symbol interposition.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/road-deaths-us-eu/

Seems to be more of an issue in the US.
Where did you get these "facts"? From Elon's tweets?
I agree. Unicode support is top priority. Thank you for sharing those links.
The essence of Founder Mode is simple: The founder's principal duty is to communicate a vision to their team and ensure that vision is executed faithfully to the spirit of the vision. This is precisely what Jobs did effectively and why he was successful.

Involving oneself at all levels of the company is by no means at odds with avoiding micromanagement. Likewise, neither is empowering people in your company with degrees of creative freedom that are aligned with the vision.

SV dogma dictates selecting for hustle, which is merely one trait in the equation. There's a lot of people out there with great hustle, executing on visions that aren't worth a damn. Some of these people then land large funding rounds and find themselves unsure of what to do, and end up succumbing to VC pressure to do something stupid that's wholly incongruent with their business (as opposed to the stupid things which are wholly congruent). For example, hiring bloodsucking C-suite and V-suite types.

Here's how I'd select if I ran an accelerator, in no particular order:

- Minimum 5 years working on the project already, ideally a decade

- Founder has decided it's what they want to do with their life

- Has a list of the first 100+ people they're going to hire picked out, with detailed explanations of who these people are and why they make sense

- Has a plan to sell each independently wealthy person on that list on why they'll be happy working the project when money isn't their primary concern

- Has a plan to sell investors who hopefully aren't VCs (because most suck)

- Has otherwise found VCs that don't suck

- Solid character; kind human being with principles

- Decent hustle acceptable; high perseverance required

Suffice it to say someone fitting these criteria probably wouldn't even get that precious 10-minute YC interview. Neither would most of the so-called eccentric folks out there. They'd be deemed failures. Or crazy. Especially the solo founders.

Speaking of dogma, there's a lot of emphasis placed on both coming up with business ideas and then externally validating those. Any founder that has a legitimate, deep-seated vision will find those concepts offensive. After all, Jobs is famous for the following quote:

'Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.'

I omitted the rest, which was an apocryphal misquote of Henry Ford. Of course, Jobs was also needlessly ruthless and cruel. However, despite being an asshole, he was at least a world-class vision guy.
How are those better?
> It would be nice to see somebody do a device that isn't crippled in terms of hardware and software.

Have a look at PineNote.
Interesting. Cool library, I'll check it out. :) Thanks for sharing
I can't believe anybody honestly thinks that building a powerful AI is honestly a good thing. It seems that we're all trapped in a "keeping up with the joneses" style race where even if every individual person agrees that building AI is a bad thing, they're not able to stop because they still want to beat the competition and reap the rewards. And once there are millions or billions of these AI agents running around each of whom is smarter than every human on earth, good luck trying to predict or control them..
The problem is about understanding the problem you have to solve. Chatbots are good to generate templates and boilerplates for sure. But when you rely on GPT or else for every task that necessitates a bit of reflexion, your brain looses slowly the ability to think. When you will confront a situation when the chatbot is useless, and trust me you will, you will have more difficulties to solve the problem. To me chatbots will just split more apart good devs from bad devs.
I think that some of the advice hasn't aged well into modern language features and computer power, similar to the GoF Design Patterns book. Rather than an entry level book, this would be better for a budding intermediate who can parse what is good and bad about it.

But, even then, other resources are better IMO. (Metz, Ousterhout, Kay, PragProg, language-specific design patterns books, etc.)

The experience of doing things wrong is valuable, but I think you also don't want to get quagmired there. It just depends on how voraciously/quickly you read and seek out better patterns.

(Also, elephant in the room, Uncle Bob has been very vocal and opinionated on the internet about various things and it hasn't endeared many to him because of it)
> Pray you have programmable blending

I prayed for programmable blending via "blending shaders" (and FWIW programmable texture decoding via "texture shaders" - useful for custom texture format/compression, texture synthesis, etc) since i first learned about pixel shaders waay back in early 2000s.

Somehow GPUs got raytracing before programmable blending when the former felt like some summer night dream and the latter just about replacing yet another fixed function block with a programmable one :-P

(still waiting for texture shaders though)
Or sometimes it is the death sentence.

I agree with you, FWIW.
It looks like the two packages that were bumped forward are ones where the changes were very minimal (it's not obvious why errno even bumped their 'major' version, and udev seem to do it on every release even when backwards compatible). Also errno 0.4 doesn't seem to exist, so I think that's a typo.

(There is a somewhat frustrating trend in rust packages for them to sit on 0.x versions for a very long time, even if they're fairly heavily used in the ecosystem and pretty stable in practice)

From what the author of bcachefs is saying, the forward moves were not a problem, it was moving bindgen backwards which broke the build, meaning the packaged version of bcachefs-tools stayed very out of date, causing him to get bug reports for known and fixed fairly serious bugs (ones which rendered machines unbootable).
vim FTW! :D
> Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the consequences of illegal speech.

In Brazil you can go to jail for a slur against a queer person. That is not the case in the U.S.

The question is not about Freedom of Speech, it is about changing the laws on what is protected and illegal speech. I do not like Musk as a person, but what he is doing is an act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government.

I am wary of the tightening fence around what is protected speech. I am a historian, and the censors never end up being the good guys.
It isn't designed to be small; it's designed to be a fully featured string formatting library with size as an important secondary goal.

If you want something that has to be microscopic at the cost of not supporting basic features there are definitely better options.

> I can assure you that when writing code for microcontrollers with 2 kilobytes of code space, we don't include a 14 kilobyte string formatting library...

No shit. If you only have 2kB (unlikely these days) don't use this. Fortunately the vast majority of modern microcontrollers have way more than that. E.g. esp32 starts at 1MB. Perfectly reasonable to use a 14kB formatting library there.
There’s plenty of data to support my personal experience.