skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kamala Harris says she plans biggest digital ad campaign in US history
aha, this is awesome! and indeed the solution he suggests (locking the cockpit door) is the only one of the various security measures put in place to prevent a recurrence that is generally agreed to have been effective rather than just security theater

i want to give pg a lot of credit for clear thinking here, but of course if he'd suggested locking cockpit doors in august 02001 instead of september, that would have been significantly more impressive

your original summary of https://paulgraham.com/hijack.html was not correct
I concede most physical terminals still alive will have some form of VT100 emulation (up to VT500-level, usually), but half the fun is to make something that can actually run on ancient hardware.
I'm not sure those are instances of executives being held to account for harm to the public as much as they're instances of people being punished for stealing money from the wealthy.
Fasnacht: Basel's "three most beautiful days"
Most doctors agree that people in the throes of a psychological crisis must sometimes be detained against their will to stabilize them and prevent harm. These can be tough calls, balancing patients’ safety with their civil rights.

IMHO it's acceptable sometimes to balance others' safety with a patients' civil rights. But it's not acceptable to trump someone's civil rights with concerns about their own safety. That balance can certainly result in tragedy when people make horrible choices. But it preserves the concept of civil rights against the incompatible alternative of overruling them in the name of safety. We can't get the benefits of freedom by only allowing "good" choices, because those benefits flow largely from learning from the bad ones. We are very capable of collectively making bad choices (from slavery to lobotomies) and defining them as good. Civil rights are a way to counterbalance those.
Reddit can still be a great place to discuss hobbies and foment helpful and insightful discussion in my experience. While the platform has its flaws, I don't see it being wrong to try and replicate.
Yeah but their victims were other wealthy people.

Who went to jail for the BP oil spill? The wells Fargo auto signing? Will anyone go to jail for the price fixing for rentals?
Amazon and Bezos fund's influence over carbon credit market raises alarm
It doesn't need to be a flip phone for my need, but it does need to not run Android, or KaiOS. I have a slight issue with trusting Google.
Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
We tend to have zillions of passwords in IT jobs right?

What are the recommended ways to store and give access to passwords?

How can a new hire be given access to all required passwords day 1?

And when such new hire gets promoted, how can we give access to the additional passwords they will need?

And if someone leaves the company, how can we change only the sensible passwords they had access to and preferably notify everyone with access to it that it was changed?

Any best practices? Any 80/20 suggestions? Low hanging fruits? Any warnings about what not to do?
My reaction to this whole controversy is “meh”. I am not sure why this story has the traction it does. It’s literally a global brand that has become synonymous with overpriced coffee and does nearly $25B a year in profit. Does anyone really believe that there aren’t CEO perks like this associated with an organization this size?

I have worked for regional orgs making a fraction of that revenue where the CEO had a corporate jet.
The WhatsApp preview is not accurate at all compared to my Android. Is this designed around how it would look on iphones?
Two of the best books for software engineers are actually not specific to software engineering:

* “The Design of Everyday Things”. Have you ever pushed on a pull door, or vice-versa, because it was unclear how it worked? Designers call those doors “Norman Doors”, now, after the author of this book Donald Norman so effectively dissected and criticized them (among plenty other objects). Too many APIs suffer similar problems—and if you don’t want yours to, this book is a great place to start.
* “On Writing Well”, by William Zinsser. Good code and good prose have a lot in common: they know what they’re trying to do, are stripped to their clearest components, and have internal structure that supports understanding. Add to that the fact you’ll be writing lots of prose anyway (design docs, postmortems, etc), and the value of writing well should be clear.
I mean more like C- and V-suite. Their priority is the company, and their own promotions. In order for both to excel, they need control, and to encourage the path they are trying to go down, and not side quests. This includes their reports and so on. There is a natural order to the hierarchical work of giving the upper-class what they want. As my last boss was very fond of reminding me: "this is not a democracy."
I think this is under discussed/not understood in startup land, particularly by the young. Maybe this is by design.

Of course the founder is highly motivated, they can become a billionaire if all goes well.

And the VC guys are essentially holders of a diversified basket of lottery tickets requiring that they attend some board meetings and give advice.

For the IC level, especially if not "founding engineer", the upside is an EV+ outcome where you make what, 10% more than if you just went the MAG7 route? The downside is you work 2x harder to make 50% less than the MAG7 route and ends in a layoff where your last paycheck doesn't even clear.
I have a different resolution for the paradox about letting good people do their thing vs. micromanaging. PG’s resolution is to split on the CEO - are they a founder or a professional manager?

I would instead split on the employee: are they in a competitive position where 1) direct performance can be evaluated directly, and 2) multiple other people have a substitutable role and can thus fill in for any deficiencies / blind spots? Or instead is the employee’s seat a functional internal monopoly, where they have exclusive control over some key resource or process.

If it’s the former: management is trivial because evaluation is trivial and deficiencies don’t spread. But the latter case requires extreme vigilance from the CEO. This category encompasses all middle management. This vigilance cannot be delegated because the roles reporting to the CEO are definitionally the most susceptible to rent-seeking.

The challenge is that a portion of people in the first spot will always seek to maneuver into the second spot.
Love is not love when it does not realize that the person being loved is their own unique individual self. Moreover, as I tried to express, that the function of a parent is to help that child become the best version of themselves, hence my noting:

>...realization that each child is a unique person with their own potential, and hopes, and dreams...

That your parents labeled how they treated you as "love" does not make it an act of lovingkindness (to pull from my wife's Master's thesis) --- it is important that people should evaluate things without considerations for labels applied by others, and then arrive at a reasoned, impartial perception which is valid in terms of logic and correlation with the facts of the past. (Q: How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg? A: Four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.)

The drunken and enraged parent who claims, "This will hurt me more than it does you." as he unstraps his belt is lying to himself and to the child, and it is important for the child to realize that --- understanding the self-deception which makes such an act possible may be helpful, but it is more important to understand the facts of the matter --- by way of contrast, the toddler who bites another person has to be slapped because their intellectual engagement does not yet admit of other people having feelings (which is why they are able to inflict pain since they do not realize that others will feel pain), and since they are on the cusp of that realization, explaining afterwards along with some natural consequence will help guide them to that realization.
Do you realize we're talking about approaches that work? What stages did China and South Korea go through to get to today? The 40s and 50s were pretty bad in either country. Show me a prosperous centralized government that didn't have some ethnic or political cleansing at it's roots.

Or you could not red herring me and supply a proposed solution that could work instead of painting my opposition to central planning as an opposition to fixing famine in an emotional appeal.
> sometimes you need the excellent dry theory and sometimes you need the more concrete but messy application, and in truth you will always vacillate between the two - this is the former

Fully agree. Axler says it quite clearly that the book is intended for a second course in linear algebra. While not an applied text, I find it close enough that it allows you to subsequently go back to your applied material and see it with new eyes.
A problem with trying to use concepts like this and asking "what if?" is that it's reasonning and trying to extrapolate from an analogy

It's one thing to use analogies to guide your intuition, but physical theories are written in the language of math, and not the language of analogies!

You don't have to use QM to describe protons and electrons at a fine level, but it is very hard to do otherwise, because whatever new theory you want to invent would also have to agree with QM on all the experiments where we have observed quantum effects. You can make an even bigger theory, but you can't throw away the existing approach without reinventing most of its results.

You're welcome to try, of course. But be aware you'll need cold hard math, not just high-level ideas
I've been using Gemini-1.5-Pro-2M through Poe for creating e-book recaps and just generally interactively jogging my memory about a prior entry of a book in a series when a new one comes out. It's been working surprisingly well, even for very large books.
Compensation isn’t determined by worth, it’s determined by competition in the job market. The question to ask is why the job market has such a limited supply of semi-competent CEO candidates that it commands that level of compensation.
There's a new company whose name I forget making a transflective display tablet.
Do You Get Angry at People When They Disagree with You?
You mean Americans can’t make it work?

Cuz it clearly works elsewhere to limit rent increases, so that renters don’t get pushed out of their residences.
Or ripples in a table-cloth - the ripples gather the surrounding cloth, just like mass deforms spacetime.

These models are also an intuitive way to illustrate why the speed of light is a limit.

A ball rolling on a rubber sheet, or a boat on a lake, etc, can travel faster than waves in the rubber or water. So why can't matter travel faster than light? With ball-on-sheet type models, you need to resort to abstract relativity arguments about mass going to infinity, time slowing, causality, etc.

But if particles are actually just waves or knots or whirlpools or whatever, they clearly can't possibly travel faster than the speed of waves in the medium.
It doesn’t. On iPhone the image and the text are in one line
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-designs-quantu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHTMbHCeRw

https://www.anl.gov/article/autonomous-discovery-defines-the...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02251

https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK603480/

https://thevarsity.ca/2024/01/13/self-driving-labs-how-ai-co...

Have you heard of Google? I realise that carbon chauvinism is currently edgy, but progress is already being made.
1. Don't have passwords. This is why there's an "SSO tax". If you setup SSO then there will be less passwords / accounts.

2. Use a password manager that enables sharing. There are 1s with company accounts and different ways to share. A new hire can pick up a certain role/group and get all the passwords.
Cisco have been found to have hard coded credentials in their products .. how many times now?
> The "balls on a rubber sheet" is a pain because nothing is in free-fall

The balls on a rubber sheet model is actually really great, but not in the way it's typically presented (rolling a ball down the curvature). Instead, just use a pen to draw lines to show the concept of geodesics.

Start like this:

1. Imagine that you can move without friction if you stay at the same vertical level.

2. Draw a line on a flat rubber sheet, that's a line in free space. It's just a straight line that can go on to infinity.

3. Now put a ball onto the rubber sheet, so you get some curvature. Now the lines near the ball that stay on the same level are not straight lines, but circles.
Came here to say just that. Totally inaccurate depiction using facicon.
"Their partnership began when Jobs appointed Ive as Apple's senior vice president of industrial design in 1997. Ive described their daily routine, saying, "We worked together for nearly 15 years. We had lunch together most days and spent our afternoons in the sanctuary of the design studio."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/111457691.cms...

This is a great talk by Brian on why he is CEO, he has a bit of a chip on his shoulder about designers not being CEOs from what I gathered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6h_EDcj12k
Okay, let's go with that. It's still very few views just for egress, as mentioned: with a 15min video that's something like 400 views on one video.

My point from the beginning was that $100/month is not enough to host a successful channel on YouTube. You absolutely can do it on vimeo, self hosted jellyfin or similar. Plenty of options around. It just get extremely expensive if you're serving content to hundreds of thousands or even millions of viewers.

You can probably start at $10/month with a hetzner shared instance and 1tb storage and unmetered 1 Gigabit Ethernet. Gonna be fine for ~2 simultaneous viewers

I only addressed the storage first because his idea was so far outside of a realistic price. Storage cost is a rounding error on the invoice if you're serving videos to consumers with views as a semi successful YouTube channel gets
Tesla Model 3 is right below that $30,000 mark, Tesla FSD does the bulk of my driving today. I think your core premise is flawed, it will be cheaper and sooner than you anticipate which will alter the conclusions you’ve come to.
This will be very useful for the half-decade we might have left until links to anything except the top 5 sites are auto-filtered.
It's an ancient and likely irrevocable error, like "font" instead of "typeface" (no really, go look it up, we have all been saying "font" when the thing we're talking about is (well, was) "typeface". I only know this because Woz used to tilt against this particular windmill.)

Jef Raskin pointed out years ago in his "Humane Interface" that in UI when we say "intuitive" we really mean just "familiar".

His example was the computer mouse. He gave one to an architect (buildings not software) friend and they turned it upside down and used it like a little trackball with their fingertip. (Raskin is that old mice were new.) Few read or heed Raskin.
iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia support rotating MAC addresses, and it's configurable on a per-network basis.
There’s an SEO factor to some of these tags too, if you care about that. But otherwise no, feel free to not bother with them.
Wish I had listened to my 2.5 YO.
Sorry, it seemed pretty obvious to me. I have now added some examples of present day work - Google might be able to help you find more.
This doesn't properly parse open graph meta data. It's inaccurate.
Why US Nightlife Sucks
Well the normal folks will care when one of the nerds creates something personally useful to them. Then that becomes the killer feature that makes the platform sticky.

Will this happen? No clue but it is cool to see someone innovating in this space. Let’s see what people come up with.
Sudan is, like, over 1000 km wide. The Gaza strip is only 25 km in its longest side. In one case sheer distance imposes some logistic challenges to deliver aid. In the other the distance that separates starving people from food could be traversed by foot, if occupation forces were not playing target practice with them. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini... and https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/11/13/if-gaza-w...
Because the judgment of tens of thousands of individuals on the importance of their particular issues and the framing of said issues in a way the CEO can understand does not correlate with their disposition towards emailing the CEO.
My boss (serial builder of consultancies and all round good guy) has a simple policy.

Any time 3 or more employees go out for coffee together it is a business meeting and should be expensed.

His reasoning: the value of the knowledge transfer in going for coffee far exceeds the cost of the coffee or loss of time.
Also looking for it..
This is half-baked for now.

For a lot of SPA, we generate OpenGraph images if the user-agent matches a certain pattern, e.g. if it's Facebook, Discord, Twitter, etc. making a request.

If you're not mimicking the user agents of the platforms, it will often not be the same result.
I dislike Musk like many others, but I think Teslas are still the best EVs out there.
Works for natural ecosystems because we accept that mass casualties is "normal" in the natural world; if some species doesn't survive a mass fire/drought/etc, welp, that's nature. When millions of people starve to death, we don't accept that.

(lol, well, we do accept it, as history has shown us time and time again, but we tend to not want to do nothing)
No discussion in the article of how likely this is to be simply a coincidence?

There's a ton of ancient artifacts depicting humans in fanciful and non-realistic ways, and a ton of diseases that affect the body. That two of these will happen to superficially coincide is basically guaranteed.

The similarity here isn't even that great; if the statue had a huge goitre or something I'd be more inclined to buy it, but here it just looks like a little chubby squinting dude.
They're trying to figure out how fast the galaxy is rotating by looking at the redshift from the stars. Some are moving towards us and others away. That spreads out the distinctive frequency of hydrogen emissions.

They think it's broader than the conventional explanation (active galactic nuclei) can explain. But it can't be ruled out.
How much does this chart differ from one of population density in Europe?

Looking at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/c/... that’s hard to judge, but I guess it’s not much.
Whistler is a major mountain resort in Western Canada, the largest in North America. It has now been renamed to Squamish (the name of another town 40km to the south) for 24h, by what I can only assume has been a concerted effort to prank the app.
I dislike Musk like many others, but I think Teslas are still the best EVs out there and it's very possible that my next one is a Tesla too.
In theory, the stock price is at least partially tied to sales and brand perception, which in turn correlates with the perceived quality/price ratio by the public.
I was wondering if you go this route, how do you dispose of the liquid after? Once the liquid evaporates, dust is left behind.
Considering files have been at the center of how operating systems work since the beginning, and computers have been used in school and businesses for 30 years now, I find it disappointing that people are still confused by files.

When people were confused by the keyboard, Jobs said that death would take care of that. When it came to files, he saw that as a problem that needed to be solved in the system, but I think it is more confusing on the iPad than macOS.

People have had to use files, moving them to floppy disks, burning them to CDs, copying them to flash drives, and now dealing with them with services like Dropbox. I would think files and folders in a home directory would be something people understand now. I think the modern smartphone and tablets made a lot of people regress, and the youngest simply aren’t learning it. The less it’s used directly, the abstract the idea becomes, and that makes systems harder to use, because at the need of the day it’s still files and folder. Avoiding that has so far created confusing layers of abstraction that haven’t worked so well.
I’m guessing you’ve never had to deal with a loved one in the throws of addiction or severe mental illness. We are not perfectly rational beings and sometimes we make very bad choices, especially when we suffer from a mental illness like addiction. If I had the choice between seeing a loved one temporarily institutionalized versus having them die of an overdose, I would take the former. It isn’t ideal, but sometimes you have to choose the least awful thing.
Not the strongest on C++ myself, but the new[] will attempt to run constructors on each element after calling the new operator to get the RAM. The delete[] will attempt to run destructors for each element before calling operator delete[] to free the RAM.

In order for delete[] to work, C++ must track the allocation size somewhere. This could be co-located with the allocation (at ptr - sizeof(size_t) for example), or it could be in some other structure. Using another structure lowers the odds of it getting trampled if/when something writes to memory beyond an object, but comes with a lookup cost, and code to handle this new structure.

I'm sure proper C++ libraries are doing even more, but you already get the idea, new and delete are not the same as malloc and free.
There are modern cars that do this still. One needs to be careful when connecting jumper cables for this reason.
Whatsapp has been disabled for new registration as of June this year, and will be disabled for all registered users from January next year.

So these phones are mostly useless going forward. Fancy, but under powered, and unable to pull off instant messaging in a reliable enough manner.

My son used a Nokia 7880 for the past 3 years, i unsuccessfully tried switching to a nokia 800 tough from January to May this year and intended for my daughter to have her own flip Nokia phone, to no avail.

We reluctantly had them switch to secondhand smartphones over the summer...
I think the vast majority of businesses are run in "Founder Mode," and maybe the majority of start ups. That's why they don't make it. The books about delegation from the HBS crowd are in some respects a reaction to that default mode.

Chesky and Jobs are obviously managerial outliers for their extreme accomplishment. Anytime one cites Jobs as a guru I'm reminded of an evaluation Bill Gates made about Jobs, to the effect of: entrepreneurs think Steve Jobs was an asshole, so they can be one too. But they're not Steve Jobs.

Even then: Airbnb in Founder or Manager Mode efficacy is very hard to disentangle from Airbnb and Covid. With no Covid, manager mode continues - would it be worse off? Hard to say. Apple has done exceptionally well (at least financially) under Jobs' successor Cook, surely in manager mode.

As other commenters note there are ample examples such as Nvidia (or Valve, Bloomberg, many others) which run as surprisingly flat but scaled organizations.

Fear of the ossifying effects of bureaucracy is a consistent theme in PG's essays for good reason. Finding ways to incentivize/align middle managers with the same urgency a founder has is another. "Founder mode" in the wrong hands drives away other good managers and is perhaps best used in the Ben Horowitz framework of Wartime instead of Peacetime for companies.

But boy I really do wish to have seen the original speech, surely more replete with details that answer my objections. I love the professional liars observation, they are the antagonists to both good founders and good managers.
AirBnB is contributing massively to the housing crisis. I can’t wait until their parasitic business is banned from every continent! Paul Graham is buddies with Peter Thiel btw