skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think knowledge work perhaps is more similar to being a composer rather than a musician.

Musicians performing existing pieces add touches of nuance but are penalized if deviating too much from the original.

A composer on the other hand should be adding significantly new components to the existing body of works and is measured on how much they are deviating from the existing body of works.

A sports analogy (although a bit weaker) would be Olympic/NBA/NFL/MLB/FIFA sports which have known rules and limits versus X-game/RedBull type sports which are pushing boundaries of non-existent rules.

Tech activities more similar to athletes/musicians that benefit from repetition would probably be like timed competitive leetcode or competitive Excel tournaments[1].

[1] Financial Modeling Worldcup https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/
It’s not a premium — it’s a business decision as to whether based on expects number of requests it makes more sense to pay for a serverless or VPS setup
2020, judging from the URL.
Murder leaves evidence, namely the corpse/vanishing of the victim, which leads to investigations. Usage of a memory-wipe drug could remain totally undiscovered.
As both a 4x founder and recovering manager-of-managers, I have to say Founder-vs.-Manager is a bit of a false dichotomy.

Interestingly, the most successful managers I've seen have themselves been founders. They had both autonomy and organizational trust, and also tenacious creativity, which led to significant successes. This binary notion of "are you a Manager™ or are you a Founder™?" is a false dichotomy and leaves great people out.

A founder mentality has certain recognizable characteristics: doing whatever it takes to succeed, applying creative solutions to challenging problems, going outside your lane to win, and putting in energy well beyond the standard 9-5 expected of a standard employee. You can hire talented people with such qualities AND build an organization with trust and autonomy. Bringing it back to Chesky's disastrous results with delegation, I'd ask this: Did he just hire bad people?

This dichotomy may at worst cause an entire generation of new founders to ignore really fantastic advice, "Hire really great people, and give them the support and space to succeed." This is not antithetical to: "Oh, and those people should look like founders." It's a Both, not One-or-the-Other.

All this said, I do think PG is touching on something super interesting, which is an almost anthropological understanding of "The Founder", and view that as a very important area of discourse and study for the next generation of great companies.

The point that both PG and BC are really trying to say is that rigid, hierarchical employee types are detrimental to company's long-term success, and instead you should be building your team with hungry, bright, and creative problemsolvers who aren't afraid to break artificial rules to succeed. But you sure as hell be building an organization with trust and giving those founder-types everything they need to succeed.
People for years buy add on tablets as a peripheral for many types of graphics work, so the device is already a global maximum for certain types of work. No and low code solutions aside, anytime you’re bringing a keyboard in the mix the tablet has already lost.
Yeah, but `@scope` is only if you don't want to support Firefox.
Well yes, that's a lot easier than trying to do it at the recycling facility. Do you expect the garbage man to do your dishes? The easiest time to rinse off the container is immediately after it is opened. By the time the container gets to a recycler the residue will be caked on. You use plastic bags to protect yourself but you aren't thinking of anyone else.
> Athletes and musicians are performers. They are repeating a set sequence of movements over and over. They are reacting to the same situation with minor variations over and over.

This is peak hacker news.
Windows is pretty fast nowdays on modern hardware (especially if it's booting off an SSD drive) and Debian/GNOME is also pretty fast to a desktop as well. Slow boots off a SSD drive would point at an issue somewhere regardless of your OS.

I generally do shutdown on my gaming tower PC as the idle power usage isn't great and shutdown/boot is fast enough that it's not much difference compared to suspend. Laptops though I just suspend -- I often get weeks of uptime in Windows.
My first instinct: can we use some other core? Do we really need Linux to take a photo and transfer it to the cloud?

I'm not a hw person so curious how to complete the task with minimum budget.

Interesting read. Thank you!
Nice!
I was spending about $350 dollars per month in gas driving in our Honda Odyssey. I got the 2023 Bolt EUV with 17k miles $300/month which now is used for over 90% of our commutes. It feels like a new vehicle for free.

I have a level 2 charger in a box that I need to install, but so far the 12 volt charger has pretty much kept up...but my wife and I tend to need to drive more after the kids start school, so we will see if I can just return that charger or not.
We are in 2024 and somehow people still falls for the same scam as they did 30 years ago. But I guess it is good these stories get reposted and hopefully more people are aware of it.
Dublin Core, what is it good for?
Do you feel moreso people depend on culture, moreso culture depends on people, or equally interdependent?
Why do you believe life-long pain and suffering limited to physical ailments?

Not all depression can be cured or even easily managed. Not all mental illnesses consist of depression.
Japanese is a relatively difficult language to learn.
The way I always explain it to newcomers now is to start from digital signatures.

Digital signatures are useful, we all know that, now imagine if you could sign not only data, but also computation result. As in “I ran this code with these inputs and it produced that output”.

If you imagine that this would work, and it takes less time to verify that signature than running the program myself, you have a succinct proof.

If in addition you can hide some of the inputs you used, then you have a zero knowledge proof.

So ZKPs are “stronger” signatures as they can sign more than data. Sometimes a signature is enough, sometimes you need more. Sometimes you need privacy so you verify a signature inside a ZKP :D
For the video-challenged:

The following two recent books may say more. Editorial at the end of this post.

Deep Utopia (2024)

Blurb:

A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought?

Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right?

Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of the cornucopian wealth and near magical technological powers that this technology can unlock. If this transition to the machine intelligence era goes well, human labor becomes obsolete. We would thus enter a condition of "post-instrumentality", in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable.

Here we confront a challenge that is not technological but philosophical and spiritual. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day?

Deep Utopia shines new light on these old questions, and gives us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.

Superintelligence: (2014)

Blurb:

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.

But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?

This profoundly ambitious and original book breaks down a vast track of difficult intellectual terrain. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than a reconceptualization of the essential task of our time.

Editorial: I think I figured why I can't handle videos. Other than the obvious difficulty in navigating one, a video forces me to save information in real time in my brain, whereas a digital text copy assures me that I won't miss anything, and "it's just there" for search and not taking up neurons. YMMV, of course. Transcripts are garbage. Now there's a problem to solve! Only a little formatting, the kind our lovely brains do, is needed.
I'm fairly sure this is, I recall playing with this when I first got my Raspi.
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Delusional technohopium to cope with the fact that we are only increasing the rate at which we are annihilating biodiversity globally. Just today the government of Namibia announced they are going to cull wild animals amid drought (https://www.dw.com/en/namibia-to-cull-wild-animals-amid-drou...). This is e/acc delusion akin to entropy pipe dream that is atmospheric carbon dioxide removal.
> except Macbooks I guess???

My M1 MacBook takes an order of magnitude longer to start than my Windows Desktop PC. Once it's started up, leaving it on re-logging in takes no time but rebooting takes a while.
> Sure, but by that reasoning whether or not the earth is flat is debatable.

It is not, because in that instance we have incontrovertible evidence of the truth. It’s just that a minority claims that evidence to be faked.

In psychology we’re working on much shakier ground and it’s widely understood there’s little we know for sure. The field is rife with reproducibility issues.

> We do though. We know it's true for some people. There's no shortage of data corroborating that.

The link I initially shared touches on that point. The evidence we have was observed only on people who believed willpower works like that. Thus it’s not a universal truth.
I imagine this wasn't shipped, it was a person-to-person transaction. Probably cash or equivalent. A rock wouldn't pass muster, but a regular buyer would look at this "chip" and be fooled. By the time they figure it out, the seller has moved on to the next target.
The joke is copied from a real life example [1].

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...
But then you're explaining virtualization and networking to your students, how to manage interactions in and out ("I wrote a program in Txtedit, how can I run it?"), when it's started and when it's not etc.

I could see giving them a remote access to a prebuilt env (which can be containerized) to be simpler to explain.
> Authoritarianism would be if the government was pre-screening everything that was posted

I've got you covered then. Before the 2022 elections, this exact same judge did just that.

I witnessed him and his electoral court censor a documentary a priori. Before watching it, before it was even released, they declared it was "fake news" and did not allow it to be published.

To this day that fact shocks me. In my lifetime, I witnessed the exact same a priori censorship that was omnipresent in last century's military dictatorship, the same dictatorship my parents were subjected to and told me stories about.
>it's a lot they pick apart the human body.

The chest opener is one of the scarier physical tools within surgery... "ca-RACK-k-k-k-KK"
The most common example in the talks I've been to have been for verifying anonymous voting amongst a group that you want to verify is valid to vote in the process. ZKPs allow for doing this without needing a central authority to attest to the person's credentials.

But it is early days and I think there's going to be many more use cases in the future around data privacy. Take an example of credit bureaus. What if instead of a lender sending over all the personally identifiable information needed to do a lookup it could instead send a ZKP to prove it knows enough information about an individual to be authorized to retrieve their record, meaning instead of sending SSN, DOB, Address, Phone, Name, they could instead just send enough specific values in the hash of a combo of some of those fields to prove that the full hash is known but without exposing the full hash itself (along with the existing shared secret to have authorization do lookup a value in the credit bureau in the first place).
There’s something wrong with your M1 MacBook. I’ve used three and none of them has taken longer than 20-30 seconds from power button to desktop.
Amazing how often "unskilled" is used to describe those whose skills are merely low on the social prestige scale, or who are ill-positioned to ensure that they & their peers get an oversized slice of the economic pie...
Assuming weight doesn't matter, it's also a question of visibility. Large SUVs and trucks have such high waistlines and poor front and side visibility that I could easily see a child running out thinking they were visible when they weren't.
> The image you see above was made back in 2021

Slow news day?
Nothing annoys humans more than someone who obeys traffic laws in front of them. I've read the vehicle code, i know where you're supposed to leave gaps, time to clear, how long to stop. People get mighty aggressive if they perceive you as "losing them time".

At least here in the deep south people don't pack intersections before a light change like they did in southern california, that made driving way more tedious than it needed to be. Nothing like being at the front of the line, light changes in your favor, and you gotta wait for all the late-left-turn people sitting in the intersection.

eta: after watching the video; I've never seen a human do this without being impaired in some way. That is, i've only seen this a couple of times, and it was obvious the person shouldn't have been driving.
For Texans, UNT has both a medical school and an anatomy farm.

https://www.unthsc.edu/center-for-anatomical-sciences/willed...

I had a blast.
IMHO better write automation as much possible to rotate passwords firsts. Then remove ability for humans to set passwords (if possible). Your automations should store it vault (for machines) or write to 1Password directly (for humans).
Lets be real, there's no other country that has the same amount of patriotism than the US (for better or worse). You have kids in school "pledge allegiance" to a flag each morning. The only other countries comparable on that level are China, Russia, and North Korea - and they're not exactly doing it out of free will.

A more apt comparison would be how Americans feel towards their president. Most like them, others dislike them, but overall they're proud to have them. They're there in tough times and easy to blame when something doesn't go their way.
Innovation needs an owner. Repeat work needs a manager.

Its that simple.
My Windows box starts fast, gets to login in moments, and is usable immediately. Are you sure you don't have a bunch of extra software set to run at startup? Steam? Adobe Creative Cloud? Oculus Support?

My corp Mac actually has this issue as it launches some security software, launches the browser, checks that apps are up to date and security patches are applied etc. It takes several seconds (10-20?) before it's ready to use.
> nobody is "textbook" anatomy

And I think with "most of the cells in your body are not you" and gut biomes and more...

I think everyone is their own ecosystem too.
RBAC and Active Directory are different things.
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I remember full page ads for this card featuring deus ex in my gaming magazines. I wanted one so bad. I think I had an ATI card at the time.
20-30 seconds is much longer than the ~6 seconds for my Windows PC.

Old article but:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-windows-10-boot...
lscpu |grep ^L3
The sheer volume of human effort spent on xml means that there are some pretty great libraries out there for working with it.
The stuff that makes news is that stuff that people care about (papers report on what matters to their readers). So news coverage acts as a pretty good proxy for either how important or interesting a matter is to a population.
It's all relative of course. But keep on mind that 700 hours is about 4.5 months of full time work. I sure have had epics lasting much longer than that. And the "concert" is just shipping/launching whole I'm already working on the next epic. Maybe later on we bug fix, but we never truly get to "own" a feature the way a musician owns a song and gets to re-perform it in their repertoire.

I'm not really trying to establish which is harder or easier. Just that the pipelines and layoffs differ immensely.

And
This recent presentation from Kepler Airospace claims that Einstein was on the right track and a goes even further, stating that gravity can be manipulated through EM. I've graduated in Physics but not quite sure what to make of it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383609891_Gravity_M...
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I attended the Bodies Exhibit c. 2007/8, which was a bunch of deceased Chinese prisoners preserved without consent... but it was still really cool.

Models of circulatory systems with plastesizers and then all other flesh removed — incredible and complex and unique-to-each-human.

2008/9 I did anatomy prosections and had an absolute blast, but ultimately did not become licensed.
Very interesting, thanks! What about adding a few other server tasks, like automated backups, and running Immich (Google Photos clone)? I'm seeing a lot of conflicting information online, with some people swearing by the N100 as a home server capable of these tasks, and others saying it's just too slow and something like a Celeron 13100 is needed. Since I can't exactly build a system, and then return the motherboard/CPU if it's too slow, I'm a little afraid of under-speccing it. My goal is to have a 3-5 drive system with ZFS, and use it for NAS, Jellyfin (with 4K transcodes, because of subtitles; probably never more than 1 movie at a time though), Immich photos, and backups.
You need to be able to automate 3 things:

1. Account pass retrieval
2. Account pass rotation
3. Account pass ref update

(1) is how a user gets the pass when needed (normal process or break glass debug). (2) is how the pass rotates to an unknown value, automatically, after the user is done with it. (3) is how the new value gets updated in references, without the user knowing the new value.

At the root of any solution are answers to those 3 needs.
Quite the opposite. Lack of succession planning is unlikely to be correlated with the effort required to organise retention of staff as Apple do.

And an overly dominant CEO generally doesn’t like senior staff who might provide counsel to stick around.
> I know you’re exaggerating for poetic effect but this might actually be true in some parts of the human anatomy.

I had an ingrown toenail fixed. There is a nerve that comes in and branches in two in the bug toe. In my toe it branches into three!
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> That's a non tangible item and it means people are finding excuses to avoid participating in the market.

> Your goal is to have lots of "somethings" being done. That's how your economy grows and new opportunities are created.

That's quite a slanted view of how people participate in a real labour market. Pay is the easy to quantify stuff but most humans tend to have more than just pay as a priority, among others:

- time required for work (vs time spent on private endeavours, family, friends, ...). A Family and/or a healthy social life is a goal for most people.

- location (you might prefer to live in certain places due to culture or QoL)

- company culture (ideally, you might like how and with whom you work)
> Since Steve Jobs died, Apple's valuation has gone up 10x and revenue about 4x

I say momentum.

What new products has apple come out with post-jobs?

(I think apple pay and airtags aren't compelling, and arm is not a product)

Jobs said not to chase money anyway.
It feels like Ladybird is going to reach "the last 10% of work takes 90% of the work"
You replied to me because your point has nothing to do with the point I made. Sorry still no idea why.
As someone who went through this with a child and Acadia’s competitor UHS, yes. Yes, they do. The number of parents in our support group who fought in court to get their kids or relatives out of one of these hospitals only to be presented with a back-breaking bill for their commitment is genuinely nauseating.

This is one of the prime examples of the utter failure of the US for-profit healthcare model.
Don't hold back, that level of puns is what I live for.
Sales tax impacts poor people more than it does rich people, though. Sure, everyone is paying it, but if all the money you make each month is spent on food and living, than ALL of that money was taxed. Whereas a rich person might only spend 10% of what they make each month, and so only 10% is taxed.
Yeah, I thought they were referring to vigilantism.
Isn't this epilepsy protection a counter point to this? I don't think an epileptic response is a risk of reading a blog post, and even watching a video online is a much smaller and more controllable example, and if pre-recorded it's probably straightforward to automatically detect.
Bitwarden can be used with groups, or even Google Sheets or something with proper access control (both are just kv after all... both should require 2fa, and both include auditing)

There's no good solution imo for what I think you're asking for (and that isn't: how can I share passwords for services that allow SSOv?)

"This reminds me of a problem that I wanted to solve in the future, but I don’t have the expertise.
The problem is when an organization has a single account on an external service which needs to be used by several people, and the organization wants to safely manage the access to the shared account on the external service, adding accountability: who was using the account at X time?
Users of the shared external account should not know the credentials of the account, so rotation of passwords when employees leave/change roles is not as necessary.
I thought of something like a proxy which could use a Selenium (or something else) script for each of the external website, which would handle the login/authentication flow for the external service.If this was a business, those scripts could be offered as a per-website/month package. An administrator would create the automatic flow for a specific service, and save the username and password somewhere in the script. Normal users of the external service’s singular account would then use the proxy using their individual credentials, to add accountability to accessing the external service.
Maybe someone in this realm could come up with something and market it."