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I read the entire PDF and I felt he was pretty spot on about works and what doesn't in running a business.

This is Hacker News, ostensibly created as a website for hackers and founders.

If you are a hacker and a founder then a ton of this advice is spot on.

For example it's a simple concept but he absolutely nails a key factor by distinguishing between A, B and C employees. A high performing team really can't have more than one or two C's. It moves them out even if they're nice, cool, good people. If the team is run by good humans it does what Mr. Beast does and gives them severance.

I can smell a couple C employees fuming on here and in the Twitter thread. I've had C employees work for me and they were always the ones who lobbied me hardest for being more tolerant of mediocrity. Sorry but you just have to hold the line against the average if you want to succeed, this is dictionary definition level of obvious. To be above average, you have to be above freaking average. Half the world is C's and to win your team needs to not be in that half.
It's called lying for clicks.
Joke's on you, I got depression and that counter only goes up to rookie numbers. /meme :)
CSS is a high level language used very often as a low level one. The styling doesn't use any "cascading" and everything is repeated all the time. In this context minifying can make a difference. But either way it is not among my favorites.
Huh?

Gygax's own campaign was decidedly medieval and the rules were written before his milieu was published, so he left it as an exercise of the imagination for rule-book consumers to produce their own milieus until such a time as his could be published. The rules include descriptions of the possible selection of governmental structures. Technologically represented in the rules (aka weapon types) were decidedly medieval, as the author concedes.

That it was left to the DM to implement bureaucracy does not mean that it was anti-medieval.
IE6’s refusal to display any page served with the XHTML MIME type was certainly the main reason nobody deployed real XHTML, but the overstrictness was not far behind. Hard enough to justify a complete rewrite of your website’s HTML; even harder when any encoding error or tag imbalance generated by your CMS would display the yellow screen of death rather than a best guess or even displaying everything up to the error:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_screen_of_dea...
>That quote reads like its reminding people that youtube and a youtube production company job is not where you go to make art house silent films.

It's more specific, a YouTube video is very different from a TikTok video or an Instagram video.
Riccar, Miele, SEBO. Brands you may not have heard of (I know I hadn't). Highly recommend a visit to your local vacuum repair store. Talk to the guy who's job is fixing all the shitty stick vacs.
are we talking about people doing bitcoin mining or hash cracking?

bitcoin mining is an extremely competitive business of finding the cheapest sources of energy and mining hardware; because the cheapest energy sources are all renewable, mining bitcoin with fossil-fuel-produced power is unprofitable. so the electricity we're using to mine bitcoin is mostly solar, wind, and hydroelectric

as for the cracking, i don't think we know anything about where it was done or how much energy was needed, but if the energy cost was significant, i'd expect the solver to have done it somewhere where energy was cheap
> Doesn't the IRS get more money than homeland, border services, secret service and the FBI combine?

No. IRS budget is $16B, DHS alone is $60B. [0][1]

>
> Wasn't there a recent bill authorizing 80,000 new employees?

No. [2]

Where are you getting this incorrect information from? 30 seconds on DDG is all it takes to know that is wrong.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/2024_0311_fy...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/irs-87000-new-agents/
There is a certain propagandistic line about capitalism that implies that it is the natural state of affairs and everything leading up to it was a proto-captialist society (see the myth of a barter society, which never existed). I wonder how much revisionist media like this that makes people associate medieval aesthetics with an economy that works like the American frontier aids that propaganda. Not that I think D&D is a purposeful piece of propaganda. Just that it unknowingly reinforces the brainwashing of the public into believing capitalism is an immortal and immovable default state of human being.
Watching a review on a device you'll never buy is hardly a net positive compared to watching a yacht get blown up.
It doesn't really matter if the domain is the same.

If you're building a regulated document management system for life sciences, the big picture aspects of what it has to do, how it has to scale, and how it has to be packaged (process, testing, documentation) doesn't have much variance.
You can perhaps use local file:// references in the files and open them in a browser, or you can use ledger from within a tool like Obsidian, LogSeq or DevonThink. Perhaps associate attachments in that way?

https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian
A lot of that is because the gods are usually part of some sort of pantheon or otherwise juxtaposed with other deities in some fashion. They have followers and creeds and lore and all these other elements that slot into the larger world. If you scoop them out, aside from just changing their name/look, you have to replace all of that in theory.
THIS. I would like to tell you a bit of a personal story and this may shed some light on your question. Disclaimer* I am American.

I was working at Tesla on the CapEx team, and unless you were doing something "interesting", like going to Tahoe or something, then you were expected to be in the office on Saturday and Sunday.

I worked my ass off, pulling 70 hour weeks, catching naps in a conference room when there was a big push. I learned to be energized by my work, seeing the factory cells come together gave me this giant rush. Eventually, I got the thought you had but i worded it differently. "I will never be Elon, working for Elon".

So when Covid hit, i got put fully remote and started having some conversations with potential clients to launch my own consultancy. After a couple of months, our managers told us to start coming back into office. I had gotten some traction with the consultancy, so i decideded to "do [myself] a favour and do it as a leader where [i] call[ed] the shots and have the equity instead of as a follower."

At first it was great! I was learning an absolute ton, designed my own website from scratch, wrote a bunch of automation code, my sales ration was like 85% because i was just calling on all my old associates and references of references... life was great!

Then after i scaled, I realized I wasn't actually doing anything... I have these meetings, and my schedule is always swamped with evaluating this peice of software/this person, generating "Work" for different people, and i freaking hated it! I stopped learning... I had no peers, only employees. I had "Mentors" but my consultancy was so nitch so outside "Executive mentorship" i had no one to guide me. I tried to focus on growth opportunities within the company, scaling different verticles as different companies and other things to keep my mind working, but i slowly but surely lost interest. I couldn't push myself 70 hours a week because i didn't have anyone pushing me, and i hated "Consulting".

but every chance i got i would be watching drone videos over the Giga Texas progress. I kept up with every SpaceX, Tesla update ever...

And suddenly i realised,
i deeply missed working at Tesla...
i don't want to be Elon...

But that Elon is building some pretty cool shit, and factories, robots, automation is super cool and fun.

So i sold my consultancy for 1.5X revenues (Pretty shit deal but i wanted out). It didn't give me fuck you money but i could have chilled for a bit...

but now I'm happily working my ass off back at Tesla, fulfilling Elons dream. But i get to "Give up my life" to get to play with robots all day. I'm learning a ton again, i love my team, and i've never met a smarter group of people.
They’re not unreasonable in themselves. What sucks is the process around them, because it impedes progress. Why because each tasks varies, and often it morphs while you’re working on it. So whenever a metric is fixed or something interrupts you repeatedly, it just sucks.
I would have thought palaeontology one of the flashier topics.
HN has ads.
Eh, I wouldn't really call it "basic input validation", it's more like fuzzy presumptions of trustworthiness. You have one part of PowerShell team that is wary of deserializing ScriptBlocks into ScriptBlocks instead of strings because that could trivially lead to RCE; and then there is other part which sees nothing wrong with executing code with arbitrary semantics (e.g. Get-ItemProperty) on whatever strings are lying around in the blob.

The root of the problem is IMHO is having code with arbitrary semantics; it's undoubtedly quite handy to use but the price is the inherent uncertainty about the security implications. I mean, who is aware that if you feed Get-ItemProperty something that starts with two backslashes, then it will blindly send your credentials to whatever domain is written after those backslashes? Why is it even doing that? Oh, right, because that's how you make remote shares look like local directories.
This is to say nothing of the modern "baristacore" fantasy, which seems to be a projection of modern American urban life, with many of its social attitudes and creature comforts, into a fantastical set-dressing evoking a mixture of high-fantasy and medieval aesthetics. Like a fancier-looking version of the Columbia U bar scene.

For recent examples, Dragon Age, Warcraft, and D&D itself are pushing further and further in this direction lately.
Dysphemism isn't an innovation, it's been around a long time. It simply means the opposite of a euphemism. Where a euphemism is a nicer way of saying something, a dysphemism is a worse or derogatory way of saying something. E.g. Referring to your car as a "banger"
that's a ridiculous take and blinded by your own preferences... It's all content... and it's all trying to get "Eyes on content. For a long as possible."
China has already started launching its own Starlink competitor. They likely don't need Starlink to do this if they discover that it actually works for tracking stealth fighters.
Yep. Part of me is terrified every time I go to sleep -- but the sleepiness wins.
Sorry did you read it, the point was there is literally nothing medieval/feudal except the fact that there are swords and pointy sticks.
There is nothing odd about the fact that most people don't validate claims they receive most of the time, particularly if there appears to be a lot of other people adopting that view.
Short answer: no.

Was forced to move to a new place. Had to buy a secondhand fridge. Thermostat was out of whack. Instead of calling a technician, I decided to have fun, replaced the thermostat by an Arduino with a couple of thermometers (top shelf, bottom shelf), a relay driving a contactor, and a beeper. Firmware stayed in "beta version", never thought about publishing it.

When I moved again to a new place I ditched the frankenfridge.
If you want to see an actual fantasy feudal setting check out Burning Wheel.
Kind of off topic, but when articles have a “conclusion” section nowadays it just screams chatgpt to me, even if chatgpt wasn’t involved at all.

I wonder what the tech blog meta will shape up to be in a couple years.
My original comment was about stock buybacks and how they boost stock prices. I repeat, no one was talking about houses. I thought it was obvious "assets" meant "stock" for the purposes of this comment thread. But since this is HN there's always at least one pedant.

Finally primary homes don't have any capital gains tax on sale (or at least not up to a pretty high limit). So this whole discussion is irrelevant. Ordinary people can always sell their "biggest asset" without paying much in tax.
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is currently doing some great digging into RSS readers, so her posts may be useful to peruse.
What Were the Powers of the Great Rings?
The worst thing is not failing. Could have excuses to justify a bad life due to family, poverty, violence, war, decadence, health or whatever but nothing worked. Always float back up with success, somehow.

You have a brain, it solves problems without your permission.
According to https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/998/096/4a3... there's two more stages afterward: wraith at 50 and overgod at 90. I shall expect your commands.
Because, in my opinion, this is a worse thing to do with your life than the many better options.

I don't have some One Right Answer to what the best thing to do with your life is, but I'm comfortable having a personal - but strong - opinion on a rough ordering that, for instance, puts family and friends much higher than a life dedicated to "THE CREATOR of our generation". Maybe you think that sounds impressive? I think it just sounds very sad.
This is literally everything in the creative industry...
You actually don't know that.

A LLM has a huge amount of data ingested. It can create character profiles, audience, personas etc.

Why wouldn't it have potentially even learned to 'understand' what 'being aware of your limitations' means?

Right now for me 'change of reasoning' feels a little bit of quering the existing meta space through the reasoning process to adjust weights. Basically priming the model.

I would also not just call it a 'trick'. This looks simple, weird or whatnot but i do believe that this is part of AI thinking process research.

Its a good question though what did they train? New Architecture? More parameters? Is this training a mix of experiments they did? Some auto optimization mechanism?
> You can use the same tools used to reason about performance in time as we do for nearly every program.

That's simply not true. Reasoning about performance of imperative languages is fundamentally easier.
I wish there was something like this for iPhones.

My Chinese / Hong Kong model takes dual nano SIM but no eSIMs
And the dog was keeping predators from plundering your livestock.

It's such an impulsive, nearsighted, and frankly child-like reaction.
Yep, 1,000,000%, yep, can't +1 this enough, saw it at another big tech myself, had friends who saw it happen at Google. The companies that were going from nothing to dominance were so different from the companies that rest today on their monopoly laurels. To go from not successful to successful there were all these insanely smart people pulling 80 hour weeks and all the work life balance stuff came later. Unreasonably hard work doesn't guarantee success but it's always a component of massive success. Mr. Beast is not making this shit up and if you're not down for this you are one of his C employees which is fine, you can be a nice and valuable human in other ways, but those companies who want to go big are not for you. Starting a company, certainly a VC fueled one probably is not either.
Web fiction as a draft has essentially become the norm for light novel type books (<300 pages ultimately published as epub)

Random example: https://www.ironteethserial.com/dark-fantasy-story/story-int...
You manage 5 discs in a device because you care about data protection, being safer than a single disc.

Yes SSDs in theory are faster but you are only as fast as your slowest link, which is the spindle drive. so that cache is a buffer only for frequently read data. in home environments they’re next to useless. in enterprises they’re certainly useful.
We read it, and we're listening.

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you get the help you need.
Waitlists don't make good HN submissions but when you're ready for people to try your thing, you can post a Show HN as outlined here https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It’s a popular activity because you aren’t being graded or financially incentivized to make it all work seamlessly. You’re playing make-believe with your friends, so if you want to project some realism into your game because that just sounds like a fun idea, well then you can!

As long as everyone is on board you can kind of do whatever the hell you want, like playing with legos and toy cars and whatever else is on the ground as a kid. I’d venture to say it’s also why “rule of cool” is so popular. Sometimes you just want to do cool/funny/etc. stuff and D&D told a lot of people “hell yeah get after it.”
I suspect the intent was the best for the customer. Like it or not, YouTube is the customer here. The viewers are YouTube's customers.
What do you mean about the function being taken down?
Oddly, I believe French as spoken in Belgium actually _does_ have a proper word for 80.
Thx! Yea I actually reached out to her last week, and I'm planning on installing her reporting tag after our launch day.
There is a middle around between seeking camaraderie by total bad-mouthing of the executives and singing praises of the management while wagging your tail vigorously.

From the article:

> When you receive a new headcount, you need to prioritize hiring experienced, self-sufficient, autonomous engineers who can tolerate (even better, strive) in high-stress environments and are experienced enough to contribute immediately.

Yeah, such people would be able to spot and smell "this BS" from a mile and trying to sell it to them by re-packaging won't exactly help raise motivation. I would wager that most of them can probably appreciate the truth behind "this is what we are paid to do so we need to do the best we can for what needs to be done" - they are probably exercising that discipline in their personal lives too.
There are a lot of authors and RPG creators who create coherent fantasy worlds. I feel it is mostly just a matter of preference and I can enjoy both. Worlds without internal consistency like Discworld and worlds with internal consistency like Amber or any of the many worlds created by Sanderson. Excepting realism does in no way destroy the fantasy, in a world which was created with a focus on consistency it only makes it easier to play RPGs since you can use the already existing rules to easily make up new things.

But of course if you expect consistency where there is none to being with you will likely be disappointed.
No, it's not "anti-medieval" it's medieval fantasy. Or in the words of the greats “Rules for Fantastic Medieval War Games”.
I understand that, but that's only useful if you're only looking at it from a shallow business perspective.
Given the context, you've got to wonder if the ambiguous terminology was deliberate.
I struggle with my math courses at university (computer security), so much so, that I currently think about hiring a personal teacher for a couple hours a week before giving it another try.

I think my main problem (at least last time) is my inability to stay interested - I like having a real-world use case for the things im doing. It probably also didn't help, that my ADHD wasn't diagnosed last year.

Since MathAcadamy seems to address this problem (somewhat) I will try it for a couple weeks and report back. Might be interesting for some of you to get an entirely different perspective than the author's one.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve been programming since I was very young, but never did well in math classes.

In programming you can always dig into the “how” something works, but math is descriptive as opposed to programming being prescriptive.

I got it in my head that I never understood math bc I didn’t get how it worked and that destroyed my academic career in math for my whole life.

It wasn’t until I read the first chapter of “Mathematics for Programmers” that it finally clicked for me. The last paragraph had a quote that was like “if this didn’t quite make sense to you, maybe you spent too much time learning how to think like a computer” and it shattered my whole worldview.
I have observed in dozens of countries that the youngest generation now speaks English quite fluently in most of the world. Boomers might know only a few phrases, many millennials can speak well enough, but quite a lot of teenagers now are speaking fluently, using slang and making jokes.
I've had a similar experience. I've now done math with Math Academy for 349 days in a row as of today. I'm not going as fast as I'd like due to other higher priorities like my kids and my startup, but Math Academy helps me make the most of the time I do have. I highly recommend it.

I also documented my experiences when I hit the 100 day streak mark here: gmays.com/math
Is there a German word for the feeling you get where you want the opportunity to apply a hard-won skill, but also kind of don't? I feel that reading this all-too-accurate comment.

Like many/most of us, I've been through this, but by virtue of luck and experience, haven't in a while. I think I've learned to spot the symptoms early enough that I avoid the companies/teams/projects that are on that path.

For those who think this is inevitable and unavoidable in a tech career, take heart in the fact that it's not!
Bad, in your opinion.
iTerm2 features I find useful
defining a unit of processing like duration or quantity and then feeding the algorithm with the equivalent of units consumed (pre or post processing a request) might help.
A lot of Japanese video games lean into this idea pretty heavily, too. It's kinda funny how the Zelda series just can't get away from it—no matter how far into the past they go, the magic is always technology from a previous civilization. Skyward Sword was supposed to be the Zelda origin story, and yet the Master Sword still has an AI companion in it from who knows where.
D&D was definitely, uh, borrowed quite heavily from Tolkein. Even using creatures that Tolkein invented.

Tolkein, I think, is pretty much Beowulf + WWII
In a similar vein is https://pbeshai.github.io/tidy/ which I've used for 3+ years. It's a really nice lightweight transformer.

I've also used https://github.com/uwdata/arquero once (better performance for large datasets).
Completely agree. Google modern standby or hybrid sleep. Its terrible.

I just full hibernate or shutdown when going into a bag. This is as true for my work thinkpad, as it is for my personal razer as it is for our more family/general use framework 13 that is de facto my wifes computer.
At least in the case of software development, which seems to be what Scrum is targeted at, you get the project reports for free by way of the commit log.

That said, the 12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto offers another solution: Get rid of management entirely. It states that developers are best to work with the rest of the business collaboratively. Which is the irony of Scrum claiming to be Agile: Only management wants to use it, defying Agile to its fundamental core.
My solution was five-fold:

1. Remove ALL social media apps

2. Disable all audio alerts

3. Keep an aggressive Do Not Disturb schedule

4. Enable phone ringing only for calls from people in my contacts list

5. Keep the phone put away and out of sight until actually needed

I use my phone for:

- Communication - primary purpose (text, WhatsApp, Teams - no email)

- Camera

- Banking, Shipment Tracking and the like

- Music software (hobbies)

This keeps me focused on the phone being a tool to do something, that is, get things done. This goes along with keeping the phone put away until you actually need to do something. If your phone is out and you're not doing something for which you could ascribe a SMART goal, then put it away.
The same thing with job titles happens in France, too.

Also, back when tech meetups were more common, you would often have where the title and description were in English, and the talks in French.
You need 2^65 operations so this is likely not what happened. What you're thinking about is the birthday attack that only works to find collisions and not to find a specific "pre-image"
The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves