skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starbucks never clubbed the chair and CEO position before and only did it for Niccols because he negotiated the same deal at Chipotle after he was poached from Taco Bell.

Also, the CorpGov blog (love it btw - highly recommend RSSing it) also shows the same trend over the past several years - that companies increasingly split the CEO position and Chair position.

And as an investor, I tend to demand that unless the CEO is an absolute rainmaker due to conflict of interest, and Sbux's closest competitors (Dunkin's and RBI) do the same split.
Men: inventing new statistics methods to prove a lady wrong

Lady: is right
"Thanks to...Elon Musk...for reading drafts of this."

Good to know he's still held in high esteem by these people.
Set-Top Boxes and Remotes have had mics.
I just wish everybody adopted JSON7, all the advantages of JSON6 + a few more human ones.
Bilinguals perceive color shades differently based on language they're using
Wasn't this demonstrated by the Royal Chemical Society that pouring the milk into the tea creates a detectable trace of caramelization of the milk sugar or protein denaturation due to the momentary high temperature on the milk while the tea:milk ratio was very high at the initial pour?

https://www.vahdam.com/blogs/tea-us/milk-first-or-last-the-s...
Localsend? https://localsend.org/
There's nothing stopping anyone here from coming to your public website and downloading your images for use in a training set. If someone did that, why would they be posting online where they pulled data from?
Yes, remember to backup.

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Backing_up_Termux
You’d be surprised. I’m pretty sure std::format is templated. That doesn’t mean that it’s still easy to convince the compiler to delete that code.
I have an HMD-made Nokia XR20. Rugged, waterproof, headphone jack, dual SIM or SIM + microsd, unlocked, Android One (little or no vendor or carrier bloatware). Really great phone.
>Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12645
Doubt we’re much closer to that. When was the last time you had an Elephant burger? Definitely the closest alternative that isn’t really accessible today for a bunch of good reasons.
They are too busy transitioning from Chapel to DBOS.
"It produces no goods and facilitates no conversations." - said in an article about them.
Well, it's not as if the surrogacy would continue indefinitely, putting a continuous strain on elephant reproduction. They would need surrogates only long enough to establish a breeding mammoth population, and there's even the possibility that, should elephants get even nearer extinction, future mammoths could return the favor, so to speak, by performing as surrogates themselves.

If, as I've been told, grasslands are a better carbon sink than taiga, and mammoths are capable of converting the latter into the former, I'm hopeful for efforts like this.
So because some people choose to express their democratic right to disagreement for their own reasons, and this includes doubt about vaccines, the idea of being against vaccines should be treated as extremism to be forbidden? If that's your interpretation of how personal rights and free expression work in a democracy, then I fear for the direction of democracy with idiots such as yourself guiding policy.

As for what happened on January 6th, it was in practical terms a concentrated bit of aggressive protest theater, and far from anything seriously resembling an attempted coup. You'd have to be deluded by ideology to call it something so serious. For example, that event was much smaller than the enormous amount of government property damage and calls to topple governments made by a much larger number of people during the earlier Floyd protests across the US and other countries. Would you call those extremist too?

In any case, by naming the most radical actions of a certain subset of a wider belief system as a reason for considering all aspects of that wider belief system as extremist and worthy of banning, you're just another garden variety autocratic monkey at heart, looking for ways justify banning whatever concept doesn't fit your tribal identity.

By your ridiculous logic, any belief system could be justifiably banned because in some ambiguous way, it's "responsible" for the specific activities of certain people who hold to its most extreme version, though the two things (a wider system of beliefs and specific people's active choices) are separate.
I like this comment because I think it does a good job of demonstrating four kinds of important people.

You have people who are most important to a:

- a project.
- a problem.
- the organization.

And I think we can divide organization into internal and external. When you divide like that, you’ll usually end up with four very different lists with some overlap at an upper management level.

None of the four areas are more important than others. If your software problem has a month long outage, that’s a huge problem. But that’s different from if you only have two months of runway left or if nobody has cleaned your office in a month. And since the problems are different, the people involved should be different too. Then you’ll end up with a lot of different hierarchies of most important people depending on what lens you’re looking through.
I don’t believe you can entangle items remotely like that.
Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_approach_path_indica...
If some bigwig has marked an API “depreciated”, but hasn’t provided a viable alternative and the user experience suffers when user agents stop allowing their users to invoke the helpful functionality, the agents who do let their users do what they want are not the issue.
http://archive.today/faiXa
The range of the Mammoth currently includes massive chunks of Alaska, Canada, and Russia where few people live. They might thrive in that environment much more so than the Asian and African elephants we have alive today. Maybe would even give them more breeding partners in the long term.
It’s interesting that Graham doesn’t seem to say what Founder Mode looks like in any capacity, other than referring to a few outlier founders.

Less than one quarter of companies that go public do so with their original CEO.

Most people would say that indicates Founder Mode doesn’t generally work as companies scale.

It looks like Graham feels that it’s because too many founders listen to common wisdom and eventually get pushed out / leave?

I honestly don’t buy it. In order to scale, companies have to learn how to operationalize more and more processes. This fundamentally looks like “hiring people and giving them the space and authority to operate.”

I feel like his entire post could have been reframed as “just as VCs know there are relatively few excellent founders and identifying them is hard, there are similarly few excellent executives and identifying them is also hard.”
Two ways to get these numbers. Consider the total miles driven, divided by cost of the car. Or consider the cost of a taxi if you don’t own a car.

I believe uber says their average cost per mile is roughly $1. So maybe $2 in urban areas. Waymo is $3 they said.

I saw some statistic that said a new car costs $800 a month now. Since we’re talking about selling new manual vs self driving cars, we can ignore people buying used cars or particularly cheap cars.

If you own a car in a city, you might drive to get groceries once a week and you may drive to a furniture store once every few years, and you take a couple trips to the airport every year. Cost city dwellers walk or take transit. Cities are dense, so the grocery store may be 2mi a way, so roughly 200mi a year, and then maybe 200mi a year for everything else. That’s 400mi a year (or 8mi/wk) with a car that statistically costs $800/mo in America - or 200/wk, so it actually costs $25/mi.

In the suburbs, you may drive 20mi round trip to the grocery store. Then 20mi a day round trip to commute, then 5mi a trip to a restaurant… it adds up to a lot more miles total. I googled it and the average American drives 1200mi/mo. That’s $1.5/mi assuming the same average $800/mo cost of a new car.

That means it’s cheaper for an urban dweller to take uber or Waymo instead of buying a new car. It’s almost but not quite cheaper for a suburbanite to take an uber but definitely not a Waymo.
Yes, lots of artists, teachers, econ, and NAFO. The British and Brazilians have had major influx over political spats with Musk

Major news orgs now have accounts too
Where can I find information about “silent cornermen”? I can’t picture them, and the only relevant result when googling the phrase is your post.
It’s a question of what is legal in each country. The censorship orders in Australia and India and Turkey complied with local laws so X stuck to their policy of following them. I detest censoring and authoritarianism in general, but X has publicly stated their policy is to comply with laws in each area.

One thing I’ll mention: after Musk acquired X in 2022, they were engaged in a lawsuit against the government of India in 2023 to fight censorship orders, that they ultimately lost (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66083645). Not that it matters because India ended up passing various regulations (legally) that give their agencies various powers to censor.

Note that in Brazil, no new legislation or constitutional amendment was passed that would give this one Supreme Court justice this power to censor, ban, or arrest. Also note that the orders aren’t from the Supreme Court but one person sitting on it, Alexandre de Moraes.
> Thus, if and only if the lady properly categorized all 8 cups was Fisher willing to reject the null hypothesis – effectively acknowledging the lady's ability at a 1.4% significance level (but without quantifying her ability).

Important to realize though, that failure to categorize all 8 doesn't prove anything either. It just means this one experiment isn't conclusive in itself (at 95% confidence).

It's good to be aware of how easy it can be to get a false result by chance, but it's imo a worse statistical sin to propose that not proving something is proving the opposite (a mistake I see quite often).
I have a hard time accepting that some of those are what trips people. That a something called “file” is in one place (device or particular location) seems more readily understandable than an ethereal thing that’s (sometimes, to some degree, at some resolution) ubiquitous.

The format topic is also something that I see causing frustration, but it is not complicated to understand, as long as someone is familiar with the concept of incompatibility (screwdrivers, human languages, etc.)

In my opinion at this day and age is more an issue of “never needed to learn / cared to” than that of “it is difficult to learn”.
Let me ask, are you capable of conceiving of ideas that exist outside of linguistic representation?
Why does "privately funded" make a difference?
Another way of stating it: how dare all those greedy web publishers want to eat! /s

The first couple decades of the web were build on an implicit promise: publishers could put their content out on freely accessible websites, and search engines would direct traffic to those sites. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: publishers got the benefit of traffic that they could monetize in different ways if they saw fit (even hosting ads from the search engines a la AdSense), and Google etc. could earn mountains in AdWords revenue. I'm not saying it was always a fair tradeoff on both sides, but both sides had an incentive to share content openly.

AI breaks that model. Publishers create all the content, but then the big search engines and AI companies can answer user questions without giving any reference at all to the original sites (companies like Google are providing source citations, but I guarantee the click-through rates go WAY down). This breakdown in the web's economic model has been happening for a while even before AI (e.g. with Google hosting more and more "informational content" directly on SERP pages - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105465), but with AI the breakdown is really complete.

So no, I don't fault people at all who don't want all the toils of their labor to be sucked up by trillion dollar megacorps.
What are the good reasons? I assume we're talking about a situation where we could create the elephants "on demand", like with these mammoths.
It will be built on the labeller tech aiui, so there can be many community notes providers and systems, with users deciding which they want to follow
Replacing private monopsony’s with a state one doesn’t help in the slightest. States also engage in rabble rousing, shaping debate and even crime. Questioning the legitimacy of the state or its organs is not harm or mass panic it is the most sacred civil right in a democracy. Whether that right is being protected by assholes or angels is irrelevant. Whether or not there should be interop (I broadly agree with you on that) is irrelevant. In the matter at hand, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge is the one violating civil and human rights.

The Media Matters trial is completely different. It is being conducted according to established laws and will fail or succeed based on those laws. Elon Musk has the same right to try his luck in the courts as any other citizen. Other people’s jealousy and resentment towards him does not change that.
I like this idea! It relates well to things I've been calling "pride assets", things that I can return to time and again to remind myself of things that I've done or thought that make me feel proud or happy with myself, often to inspire me again with visions of my ideal self when I'd strayed away from it/been too caught up in other people's BS.
Just about 2 years ago, a long dormant project surged back to life becoming one of the best crawlers out there. Zimit was originally made to scrape mediawiki sites but it now is able to crawl literally anything into an offline archive file. I have been trying to grab the data i am guessing will shortly be put under much stricter anti scraping controls soon, and I am not the only one hoarding data. The winds are blowing towards a closed internet faster than I have ever seen in my life. Get it while you can.
Possibly but humans basically hunted Mammoths into extinction and they consumed them to the last bite. They must have been delicious compared to elephants. Just like different breeds of cow or pigs, etc, have vastly different marbling, flavor, and texture. Humans ate them out of existence they must be good eating!
Slightly bigger challenges Netflix faces:

• You have deals with N big media companies who each have their own restrictions on who can stream what from where. The list is constantly changing, so permissions to view media are locale-specific and revokable; you need a way to say “okay this person is not allowed any more to do that.”

• Multiple-screen detection emphatically needs to be rock solid. Someone is going to unplug their Roku player when their laptop says “you're watching from too many screens,” and by the time they get back to their laptop you need to be detecting them as streaming from 0 screens. At the same time a hiccup in this process shouldn't cause like 3% of your users to get a big streaming interruption as they don't seem to be online.

• You have to recommend stuff based on what this person has watched. An acquisition team needs to do cluster analysis on this to get new stuff to fill all of the different clusters of interests that emerge in your user base.

• People will search for shows you don't have. (Because of point 1, the big media companies only permit access to a fraction of their backlog.) You have to know this media that you don't have access to, well enough to recommend something related that might keep the user on Netflix instead of hopping to another service.

• All of this has to happen on pretty low latencies when someone starts up Netflix. That is, anybody who jumps into Netflix should see a personalized view of what they were watching, what they can watch, filtered by your allow lists and not cached on their device, within just a few seconds.

• All of this has to be portable to all of the different platforms Netflix supports.
Presumably because they would be opposed to tax money being used to fund a project that they consider pointless.
Probably one of the few actual wins of human activity.
Sir, that's our premium offering - we call it 'extra windy seats'.
"Diagrams as Code" has been around a long time (e.g. DOT), not sure what this is really bringing as an improvement, especially as seems to require an account (at least it does when I click "get started" and, as someone else points out, is closed source.
Diffusion Studio: a browser-based framework for programmatic video editing
Take those low teen megabits and scale it through $x users in $y locations streaming $z content items. Consider that 15% of those $x users will take to the internet to complain about problems. Also consider that once you’re a big enough name, mainstream media will cover those complaints on slow news days. Finally consider that a large portion of budget goes into constantly maximizing x, y and z.

Thats where the engineering problem goes from trivial to extremely complicated. Lots and lots of people demanding a similar quality of service across a wide pool of content on a wide pool of devices.

And that doesn’t even fully cover last mile issues.
The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought
They would never use that word because it acknowledges that there are impacts that aren't accounted for in the costs to them.
Sure, it almost certainly won't unless you buy a mansion. However, a job is still required to pay a mortgage, save for retirement, have health insurance, and cover living expenses. In a lower cost area, there are fewer job opportunities. If I spend 40+ hours a week at my job, I'd prefer it to be a job where I don't spend my days looking at the clock waiting for the day to be over every single day.
I've made a bookmark of the URL https://web.archive.org/web/%s in Firefox, and assigned the "wm" keyword to it, so I only have to prepend that.

LPT: you can right click on any search box and select "Set a keyword to this search" (or whatever it is exactly in English).
It looks like a summer intern’s project made in Visual Basic.
> I find it so socially interesting that “the most successful CEO in the restaurant market” is judged by something that has nothing to do with the quality of the food.

Great observation!

Different industries have different margins. High margin industries give breathing room for stronger Product-Market Fit to emerge. PMF forces companies to try and optimize for customer satisfaction, and protects against commodification by keeping customers happy.

On the other hand, in industries with low margins (eg. Restaurants), commodification is extremely high so penny pinching is critical in order to manage your operating costs. Furthermore, you will be dependent on outside investors to raise capital, so Investor Relations becomes critical.
Freer from both govt and corporate controls

Feed (algo) and moderation services are choices at the individual user level
This is the dumbest post ever.
Since you seem well informed: what about Ratta, the maker of Supernote? Their software seems pretty good, and they are about to release another product.

They are also a Chinese company, I believe, which does make me so what nervous about writing down any IP...
Fourth of July, kids sports that take place outside, etc. are all regular occurrences where people need to be able to easily go up onto a curb and park in the grass.
I feel like talking about robots.txt in this context is kind of a pointless enterprise given how there's no guarantee it will be followed by crawlers (and TFA fully acknowledges this). Before AI, there was a mutually (not necessarily equal, but mutual) beneficial economic arrangement where websites published open content freely, and search engines indexed that content. That arrangement fundamentally no longer exists, and we can't pretend it's coming back. The end game of this is more and stronger paywalls (and not ones easily bypassed by incognito mode), and I think that's inevitable.
Hey, I'm sorry, I missed this comment. It's still in early development but if you have experience setting up docker environments, it should be possible to set it up locally. I've put a lot of work into investigating production setup in recent weeks but I haven't yet published any of that, but if you want any help with local setup I'd be happy to problem solve.
I'm fine to disagree.

Again, I lived in different places, including US, and I know what I don't want.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be bashful. I am not familiar with S3 and maybe what you describe is a perfectly safe solution for S3 and certain classes of usage.

I could not get past the point where you promulgate the idea that ZK can be used to implement locks.

Traditionally a 'lock' guarantees mutual exclusion between threads or processes.

"Distributed locks" are not locks at all.
They look the same from API perspective, but they have much weaker properties. They cannot be used to guarantee mutual exclusion.

I think any mention of distributed locks / leader election should come with a giant warning: THESE LOCKS ARE NOT AS STRONG AS THE ONES YOU ARE USED TO.
Skipping this warning is doing a disservice to your readers.
To me when I first came across this in college it was fascinating. I think any stem field should be taught about these statistical methods.

The power of being able to put an objective answer on any personal claim (e.g. mint gives me a headache) with statistics & a blind design is a very powerful tool to approach fields where our science just isn't good yet (psychology, health, etc).
I don't know whether approaching linear algebra using a "gut feeling" approach is a good idea though.
1. I agree that anarchists probably need to grapple with the fact that people think of this as a first association...

2. ...but terminology does not at all fail here, there is a separate term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie which describes a breakdown in order and social function.

Notably, anarchists would probably claim that the fact that there's a civil war of various warlord factions and wannabe-states going on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80...

is a good example why anomie and anarchy probably _should_ be distinct concepts, as there's probably plenty of hierarchy, localized state power and centralized
decision making going on in Sudan, while e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Lib... appear to have done absolutely fine keeping and improving a social fabric for the last 30 yeras (until recently, gangs arrived and brought the anomie that comes with organized crime).

Again, I don't think it's a winning strategy for political anarchists to try and convince people that "acshually it's anomie, not anarchy", but I think on this page, peoples professed self-identity makes sharing out this separation of concept worth it
I'm wondering as well, there should be sufficient supply of those dying old age or accidents to have at least some going around. The long gestation cycle and comparatively long time to maturity reasonably make them inefficient, but still some supply would be expected.
De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies
That seems short sighted. I live in Denver, CO. I consider it pointless to fund roads on the east coast. I'm never going to drive on them.

That's silly. Goods arriving at East coast ports travel via systems I have no clue about.
What a crock.

Most startups fail. So they commonly get advice about how not to fail. Most of them still fail. That doesn't mean the advice was bad. Founders are gamblers and the odds suck.

If founders weren't looking for someone to tell them how to run their businesses or trying to rid themselves of their pesky responsibilities, this situation would be different. But that's a story that most founders don't want to hear.
Yeah, this article is really very imaginative.