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The problem with Steve Jobs advice like this is that it doesn’t work out of context.

I worked for a VP and CTO who embraced this advice literally: They wanted to hire smart people and have them decide what would be done. They took it to so much of an extreme that they washed their hands of the responsibility for deciding and executing anything. Their job, they thought, was to call us to meetings and then ask a lot of questions about what we were going to do.

The problems became immediately apparent when we lacked the organizational authority to actually get important things done. We could write the software, but we needed the VP and CTO to actually use their positions in meetings to get agreement from other departments about the important cross-organizational factors of getting software implemented and adopted.

Instead, it was never-ending circles of Socratic method questions: What do you need to succeed? How will your team accomplish that? Who can you talk to make that happen? Whenever we tried to make it clear that we needed them to do some work in the organization, we got a lecture about learning how to be self sufficient and get things done ourselves.

Not surprisingly, little got done. We wrote the software fine, but any time we encountered issues that required VP or C-level collaboration we hit a wall. You can only defer to IC employees to tell you what to do for so long. Beyond that point it’s just laziness.

This is also a stark contrast to how Steve Jobs actually operated, which by all accounts was extremely demanding, dismissive, and command-and-control with him at the center.
For the main purpose that they are used for, displays that don't need to be updated frequently, like e-reader or "smart" price tag display.

However updating the display is more costly in terms of power than lcd.

We can also factor in that most e-reader also include backlight.

As a caveat, I appreciate e-ink technology, and the innovation that it brought us. I would also love to get my hand on one of those color e-ink android tablet. But I am not hoping to have a huge difference in battery usage from it, e-reader are very specialized device and can afford optimization that more versatile device cannot.
To add: I found the M4 iPad Pro keyboard to be a better typing experience than my MacBook Pro keyboard or the standalone Magic Keyboard
Sure by some interpretations. Unfortunately the current SCOTUS doesn’t see it that way, they think webcams and electronic surveillance should be in the constitution or authorities can do anything. If there isn’t a law or constitutional text to the effect then it doesn’t exist to them. So we have to approach this from actually getting a law passed.
HA! I didn't think how that might come across, but no: it's just been a long time since I last took a chemistry class, and the instructors were old back then. I'm sure they've all since passed of old age, not from beryllium inhalation or organic mercury exposure or etc. etc.
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I've done those work trips. They suck.

Who cares if you're eating at Per Se when you're stuck with other people vying for your job or trying to push their agenda.

You have almost no time for personal enjoyment, and you're almost entirely stuck with coworkers so you can't let loose.

C-Suite and C-Suite adjacent end up working 60-80 hour weeks, and you have to be always on because that is what the role entails

> I'm sure can arrange to go to Europe "for work"

CEOs report to boards, and we ask their C-Suite peers about each other and any issues.

And even before it could reach that level, the CFO would absolutely push back on a frivolous expense like that.

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Best bang for your buck between luxury and free time is Staff/Principal Engineer - you earn enough that you can afford to take fancy vacations, but you are still an experienced IC so you can shop around for jobs if god forbid you lose yours, and you aren't expected to work most weekends
Your broader observations match what I generally know, but the moderation system wasn’t created as a reaction to Japan or any other specific set of circumstances we were facing. It was a system we had been developing since before launch and was designed to resolve the tensions of different perspectives in what’s acceptable
> with the "submitted" dates reset to reflect that

Huh. Okay.
If I'm reading this correctly, a few themes PG touches here are:

1) loss of control when hiring a professional manager without intrusion to sub organization, because you rely on the manager provided information. If the manager is not straightforward, the sub organization may become a black box, where issues can go unseen

2) Lack of access to the frontline people and their understanding, which is opened by the Jobs like key people meeting across the org

3) Id also imagine that if you have a founder with deep domain knowledge, who has worked across all aspects of business, going fully hands off with the details, and replacing decision makers with more generic managers potentially from other industries, means that lot of expertise gets disconnected from the relevant decisions.

Ultimately the outcomes are all about the decisions and the decisions are all about understanding, which is all about the information. As such, it's not surprising if cutting the seasoned founder from both key mid level decisions and the firsthand information flows brings disadvantages.

I'd over all interpret the article to be about how hands on the founder should be about the different aspects of the business rather than the leadership, as implied elsewhere
> it’s hard to fault the city for that

It's not hard at all. The people like the decisionmakers here inflict violence upon people's willingness to help them with very bad cybersecurity issues. Which are everywhere. If we lived in a healthy society, whoever decided to prosecute this would be sacrificed to a volcano (metaphorically).
Emanating from a speaker?
Took me a moment to parse “readbale” correctly. ;)
I don't see how that argument would leave coffee shops and other gathering places able to stay open during elections.
The only mention I see in the article that he will be using the plane to commute is in an annotation:

> For his commute, he'll be covering the 1,600km each way via corporate jet.

No mention of how often he'll make that trip. One might read the requirement of "in the office three days each week" and infer these would be weekly trips, but there's no support given for this inference in TFA.

...which gives the article a distinct air of outrage chum. Instead of reporting on what someone is doing, it is trying to stir up resentment about what someone might do, based on their employment contract?
Great idea! The challenges one can imagine with that are:

1) human reviews are expensive

2) the citation might not have anything to do with the reason why the cited paper was retracted.

Now, if it all could be automated (say with some emerging technology that can grok the context of the citation and say classify it into flag/no-flag buckets say), then we are cooking with some real fire. :-)
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This is quite possible, and I'm sure someone's doing it. At $OLD_DAY_JOB I developed a way to byte compile and then encrypt Python byte code for plug-ins, to meet a requirement from some third party partner.

This was long enough ago that it was in the Python 2 days, so I don't know if the method survived the product's transition to Python 3. I do know the method would probably not have survived a dedicated reverse engineer who wanted to figure out how to recover the unencrypted bytecode.
There are couples of not-too-outdated Android based LTE flip phones if you really need one, and most of them run apks so long it runs on 512MB-1GB RAM and without GMS.
https://archive.ph/3OQzp
> Their advice could be optimistically summarized as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." He followed this advice and the results were disastrous. So he had to figure out a better way on his own

This is why I still strongly advocate that, at some point in your career, you may consider reinventing the wheel if needed.

> In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode.

An interesting video [1] from Logically Answered referred to CEOs of type manager mode as Vanilla CEOs. In short, the video raises questions about innovation versus stability; while these Vanilla CEOs excel in financial growth, they may lack visionary leadership that is a built-in feature in the founder's DNA.

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1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3RV8nMzh8
I’m sure the vast majority of them are. Occam’s razor version: fear sells. If you can appeal to the clutching pearls part of the psyche then you can win over people to the idea of constant surveillance as necessary because of the current “wave of crime”. No matter how much crime is down or how many rights have to be taken away for “public safety”. Most reporters are just trying to put food on the table and outside of freedom of the press they couldn’t care less.
HBR is certainly conventional, but the content is pretty much indistinguishable from what a LLM would tell you. There's a reason its popular among HR careerists, the PMC, and MBAs. All the content just reads like generic self help literature to me. I far prefer the casual nature of a blog post from someone like pg.
They are explicitly mentioned in the article. Where they are headed is definitely compelling, but to echo so many other comments, it’s just not quite what I want, yet.
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Yep, and I think perhaps that’s where folks are getting hung up.

NVIDIA didn’t invent the GPU. They coined the modern term “graphics processing unit”. Prior to that, various hardware existed but went by other expanded names or don’t fully match NVIDIAs arbitrary definition, which is what we use today.
Planes, trains, monster diggers: the vehicles pushing limits of electric power
I get the criticism of manager mode but does this article really articulate what founder mode is? Does it deliberately not specify it in order to leave it to Chesky's talk?
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I think you’re being too dismissive of a third kind of player that is neither “leader” or “manager”, which is “owners”.

There’s a saying (which I’m sure has an English equivalent) where I live that goes something like “It’s the owner’s gaze which fattens the cow”.

Owner vs manager is the original “AI alignment problem”, usually taught as the principal-agent problem in business schools, and is very real. SV-type founders are, by and large, meaningful owners in their enterprises and thus heavily invested (literally) in the company’s performance. Professional managers, leaders or not, are just selling their labor. There is a whole field of management science about designing proper compensation structures to make CEOs better aligned with shareholders, but you get that quicker by making them the same person.

Of course there’s a whole other world of majority shareholders leveraging their position to extract value from minority shareholders, which is just another version of the same problem.

All this to say, you’re right that there’s prior art about what he’s writing, but its the principal-agent problem, not leaders vs managers, and in general business literature does not equate the issue of founder ownership with the PA-problem (obviously any undergrad can link the two issues, but that’s not how they’re usually approached)
First $100M, then when that's not enough it'll be $50M, then $10M, then $1M, then $500k. The definition of "rich" will keep being adjusted down.

And for what? So politicians can spend it on some photo-op project for themselves? Maybe sending "aid" to other countries (bullets and bombs)? Using it to spy on it's own citizens and quell dissidents? Surely individuals can on average invest the money more productively.
I also live in Austin and got my recent capacitor replacement from Johnstone when mine failed on a Saturday and I didn't have a backup handy. It was, IIRC, around $50. Significantly more expensive than Amazon.
>I think societies don't become free before they get prosperous.

Put more bluntly: Freedoms don't put food on your table, but killing the bastard next door so you can use his land might. Guess what hungry people will do.

So you are quite right; freedoms only become a concern once the people have most if not all their immediate needs satisfied. People need to enjoy life first before they will start caring about freedoms.

Of course, the vicious cycle is that being poor is expensive. It's not easy to break it and start accumulating societal prosperity.
It’s relevant because the author mentions microcontrollers as the reason for focusing on binary size.
A house in a cheaper area may not require a Bay area salary to cover the mortgage. If employers did away with remote work, getting a job that pays less but doesn't require moving can be a viable choice but it is all a matter of lifestyle choices and priorities.
That's pretty cool! Get ready to keep these up to date monthly or become obsolete quickly.

One of the downsides of tools like this is that your URL needs to be available online so if there's an issue, your iteration loop is quite long.

In Polypane [1] I've built social media previews that work with any local URL but also let you overwrite that URL for the social media that display those. I built (and frequently maintain) previews for X/Twitter, Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn, Discord, Mastodon, Discord, Google Search, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads. For all of those I have the design for their light and dark mode so you really can test everything. It also tells you what's missing and what is incompatible. Check it out: https://polypane.app/social-media-previews/

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This is directed more at the above comment than yours, but, do note that gay marriage is in fact not legal in Israel, nor is inter-faith marriage.
Why this tool over https://socialsharepreview.com/ or https://www.opengraph.xyz/ or https://socialmediasharepreview.com/ ?

Feedback...

You're failing on URLs that don't have HTTPS... that's awkward. I should be able to type any site and have it be smart enough to go to the URL and scan against the resolved URL. Like type in "blizzard.com" and have it load "https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/" for me.

Nice to see Discord and WhatsApp I guess, but what about LinkedIn, what about Pinterest. Or Slack (should be the same as Discord).

You don't include what to fix. Check out how socialsharepreview.com does it.

https://socialsharepreview.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycomb...

https://i.imgur.com/LDXNYYR.png

It has a bunch of helpful tips on what to fix to make your content unfurl correctly. Really useful for the marketing crowd that loves this stuff. These sites all use different formats, different character counts... It's good to share information about what to fix. Twitter cards, vs. Open Graph metadata, for example. (I didn't check but it'd be good to make sure you're loading the right ones for the right site.)
I think you're misunderstanding here. We have very robust mechanisms for dealing with conflict and we have been successfully employing them for years. We have also consulted with moderators of much larger communities and very confident with how it is going.

Not sure what you mean about the Elm remark. They took the approach you're advocating for and have seen less success than we have financially and in terms of community growth metrics.
Or just move the headquarters. ;)
> I’d personally hazard a guess nothing short of military intervention can stop something like this

Please don't guess, then? The famine started because of a military intervention gone south. The reality is that the Sudanese are a victim of circumstance. A war between some Arab rulers over who controls the Sudan.
What’s stopping tickets having fixed prices?

Should “dynamic pricing” be legal?
henry ford was also pretty far from this warren buffett mode of letting the upper management of the company do what they want. very deeply involved in every level of the company, much like steve jobs
This is good to see the great disconnect in the récent years between CEO compensation and workers compensation.

Imagine that is is getting 10 millions as sign-in bonus, just because he joins. When it easily represent a thousand years of work of a Barista that is the one really working hard every day to bring the cash in.

Sure, the CEO work value is important, but not that multiple thousand years of employees.

I like to translate such a CEO compensation into the number of products that you have to sell every year just to cover for the pay of this single person.

Here if we think something like 5 to 15 millions of dollars per year, and a Starbucks drink is probably sold around 7 dollars:

With that, employees have to sell around 710 000 to 2 142 000 drinks per year just to pay a standard year of this guy. My brain has hard time comprehending such a number.
You mean, you didn’t enjoy the “spill resistant” membrane keyboard? I was trying to describe it to someone a few weeks ago. The best I could come up with was that it was like trying to type on a microwave or stove panel. But not a glass one. Maybe a better analogy would be trying to type on a really cheap remote control - but full keyboard sized. Fun times…

I was too young at the time to appreciate the greater computing ecosystem, but today, I find it fascinating. Growing up, we too had a 400 and then 800, and that’s where I first started. And now you can find YouTube videos building a computer from scratch using the same chips.
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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

— Douglas Adams
I’m thinking of the metaphor between Newtonian and general relativity. At low energies, masses and velocities the two theories correspond in predictions with little discrepancy. If the velocity/mass/energies increase dramatically, then Newtonian physics will fail to give accurate predictions.

Same with “hire smart people and let them work”. When salaries are relatively low, consequences are limited and incentives are well aligned, that approach works. As soon as any of those things change, then the “manager mode” fails dramatically.

As someone who ascribes to “manager mode” most of the time, I’m going to start looking more at places where the assumptions break and (carefully) try out “founder mode”.
People make such a big deal out of this and rightfully so but Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan did the same thing for years. At least Niccols is successful at running a major company (strictly) from an investment perspective. Moynihan did absolutely nothing.
Particularly good combination of scope (including differences across systems and browsers) and depth (including both gotchas and workarounds).
Our freedom comes from sources other than technological privacy. It comes from our ability to be in charge of the law and to make the normal fun we want to be legal, legal.

I would be mich more concerned with regulatory capture by the spying corporations or laws passed by a minority seeking to impose a religious based set of laws than car cameras.

As you point out, you can be arrested for being gay without all those cameras, but the possibility of making laws to protect the right to be gay is also doable.

And if you don't think any sort of consumer right to own your data law will be lobbied against by Google and Meta lobbiests, well I think you are wrong.
Phew... good thing that the eye recording implant hasn't been invented yet, or some of us would have their personal life turned into an evidence log.
After watching the Karpathy videos on the subject, of course.
I often see my dad use his iPad in keyboard/mouse mode. At this point I question the point of the iPad. It seems like the user is seeking to interact with it like a laptop, yet the OS is far more compromised than macOS. Window management isn’t as flexible, all apps need to come from the App Store, things that power users would generally want (like Terminal) aren’t there for the native OS, Files is less capable than Finder, and the entire OS is build around apps rather than files, which makes working on a file across multiple applications more difficult.

I think my tech life would be more simple if I could use an iPad as my computer, but I can’t see a path there. I’d have to give up too much.
LLMs excel at regurgitating conventional wisdom. Paul, on the other hand, is doing it poorly.
Thank you for the link GP!

I’m the ‘maintainer’ but I’m hands off and not planning on significant improvements.

Discussion on HN was also quite interesting and you may find some ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083366

I also recently presented this at HOPE(.net) and was very well received by a technical crowd so congrats on independently inventing the same thing ;-)
> This simply never happens.

China did well after their cultural revolution. Took time but the page has been turned on that episode.
I don't own a Tesla, and frankly, don't want to own anything associated with Musk. However, I do have dash cams in both my vehicles that will start recording when the car is not running.

If I was driving in my car near a crime scene and discovered my dash cam recorded something that could be used as evidence, personally, I would call the local police and ask them if they were interested. However, to have the police discover my vehicle was in close proximity to the crime, and me not realizing my dash cam had recorded anything of value, and then the police try to impound my vehicle in a parking lot without my knowledge is outrageous!

The above situation is the result of two major realities: once again technology has emerged without adequate laws to deal with the consequences.(I realize this is usually the norm, law makers MUST speed up the process to protect citizens.) Second, police reform has to bring local law enforcement up to date with current reality. (The seizing of a vehicle based on possible crime info isn't protecting citizens, it's theft. Contacting the vehicle owner and requesting the info is serving the citizens, if they're not willing there is a court system.)
Front lighting isn't always ideal because it increases the distance between the screen and the user and makes it feel less paperlike, which is why Remarkable isn't front lit.

It also uses power. Both types of displays don't need power for light, which is a huge advantage. The power advantage e-ink has is not needing power to retain an image. While that's a requirement for some use cases, they should both have very low power consumption compared to backlit lcd screens.
are we talking about steve jobs here? iphone in the fishtank steve jobs? roundrects are everywhere steve jobs? because that sounds pretty close to telling ics how to solve a problem