skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this is a result of acquisitions.

They buy some startup, bring them all under Meta's HR umbrella with all the rules and perks that comes with. Since these recently acquired guys are running out of random offices in random places they just give them a stipend rather than force them to all relocate to a campus with dining.

The $400k employee was probably a higher up (or key SME Meta felt they needed to put in golden handcuffs) at one of these acquired companies and was probably already on his or her way out.
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In Brazilian Portuguese:

* Cornstarch is called maizena

* Adhesive bandages are called bandaid

* Instant noodles are called miojo

* Yogurt sold in small pots are called danone

* Chewing gum is called chiclete (from Chiclets)

* Photocopies are xerox

* Bouillion is knorr

* Glass plates are pyrex

* Scooters are lambretta

* Soluble cofee is nescafe

* Sunglasses are rayban

And same goes for teflon, jacuzzi, velcro, tupperware, vaseline, botox, googling, ...etc, etc
Tears of joy!
All these middle managers are complaining about founder-mode espousing micromanagement.

Yet, when given the freedom, these middle-managers themselves abuse it to micromanage their own reports via measures for stack ranking, butts on seats, # of commits, or other such BS proxy metrics.
bitcode policy i'm aware of - it's the "IR" part that caught my attention.
Exactly. Although tbh that message has been clear for a long time.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerr...

"Nationally, extreme partisan bias in congressional maps gave Republicans a net 16 to 17 seat advantage for most of last decade. Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania alone — the three states with the worst gerrymanders in the last redistricting cycle — accounted for 7 to 10 extra Republican seats in the House."

Re: Citizens... I don't even know where to start. Read about the McCain-Feingold Act. It was in place for a decade when Citizens was decided and the only thing it prevented was billionaires and corporations spending unlimited amounts of money on electioneering. (Media companies love it: they get more spending on ads).

Before and after McCain-Feingold media companies by law aren't allowed to refuse any political ad - in fact, they have to offer them a slightly _below commercial market rate_! Weirdly, though, they are responsible for the _factual content_ of any ad they run. Election law is really interesting.
> political parties that are using it to hide the real problems of ultra rich and corporations abusing the country

Yup, same in Europe. There's constant fear mongering with racist undertones in the media about illegal immigrants and refugees, it's driving people crazy and violent against each other. All the while they're conveniently distracted from the root of their social ills.
Yeah, there are a lot of things in our political and economic system that are oriented towards making victim blaming, or blaming individuals for systemic problems, the easiest and most natural line of thinking.
It sounds like an awesome idea to me. Personally I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life as soon as I discovered computers and how to manipulate them with code, but then on the other hand my sister's youngest two daughters both hit 18 recently and neither had any idea of what they wanted to do.

As a result both of them just got pushed into something at the end.
How does wearing a Nokia phone affect anything?
To change your mind about making sure everything is in writing in a binding contract?
You should write a book about how a society composed entirely of pure-bred mercenaries outlasted all other competing civilizations on the planet. I'd be very interested in reading it.
I was shocked when I first started participating in discussions on-line on international boards like this one, some 10+ years ago, and discovered that in America, you sneeze into a Kleenex and cut stuff with X-Acto knives.

Then again, we've been calling a certain class of shoes "Adidas" since 1990s, so I shouldn't be surprised by the phenomenon. Not to mention, I don't think anyone in Poland ever used the generic term for a photocopier - we all call it "ksero" machines (from Xerox).
I've used Java Swing, Cocoa, Qt, Android. They are pretty good and were enough to build any kind of complex UI that I needed. I'm not sure what's the best one in the world, but generally I've found most GUI layout managers pretty good.

Even basic tools like those which were found in old Delphi, with anchoring components to the parent side, were sufficient for many UI-s, although some tasks like internalisation could case some pain.

In the end my opinion is that there should be a balance between usability and ease of implementation. Especially for technologies which are supposed to have many implementations.
You can opt for security only automatic updates which a lot of server admins do. However, if you are running something in production, you don't want to risk any breakage due to an automatic update. This is independent of the operating system.
“Is it really an abuse? Oh no, he used meal credits to buy toothpaste and tea instead of food”

Yes. This is called fraud. Even if you feel mega corp X is bad, defrauding mega corp X is… also bad.
Thinking about people as PID controllers: left to our own devices we're normally very good at the D term, but lousy at the I term, with the P term somewhere in the middle.

Give people clay/parchment/paper, however, and it becomes much easier to reliably evaluate an I term.

Example: https://xkcd.com/1205/ ; maybe each single time you do the task it seems like sanding out the glitches would be more trouble than it's worth, but a little record keeping allows one to see when a slight itch becomes frequent enough to be worth addressing. (conversely, it may be tempting to automate everything, but a little record keeping allows one to see if it'd obviously be rabbit holing)
I can’t speak for how it works in other frameworks but HMR for React works flawlessly in Vite.
I've made lots of money with bug bounties over the years and mostly stopped this year in favor of private consulting. Companies will try anything to get out of paying, even through the major platforms.

I once found a bug where I could access all of the names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers of all users for this new contest this company was running. I even found public announcements on Twitter. They told me this was a staging environment and wouldn't pay me. It clearly wasn't as the urls were linked directly to the announcement.

Another time, a company had an application that allowed other companies to run internal corporate training. I was able to get access to all accounts, information, and private rooms of all fortune 500 companies using it. They initially tried to get out of it by telling me they didn't own the application anymore (and immediately removed it from scope). I had proof it was in scope at the time I found the bugs (and even confirmed it before-hand with the platform).

Luckily, the platform I went through fought this and I got my payout...6 months later.

Even now, I have 50+ bugs that were triaged over the past year and the companies just sit on them and won't respond or pay out. Major platforms like Hackerone and Bug crowd don't seem to protect their researchers at all.
> Yeah, nuclear power can be profitable when it is enormously subsidized.

No, it is pretty much always profitable. When you negotiate rates that are similar to what renewables get, the profits get obscene. One person I showed these numbers to, who had previously also made the claims about nuclear never being profitable, changed his tune quite quickly. The profits at those rates are so obscene that he claimed it must be corruption.

> The CFD for Hinkley Point C proves that nuclear power does not have a business case in 2024.

No it doesn't. HPC's primary purpose is to rebuild the UK's nuclear industry. In addition to providing incredible amounts of reliably electricity.

> ... for more subsidies ...

Don't have access to the article, but the headline speaks of a loan guarantee. Which is less than what renewables get.

> The reality of this is evidenced by Sizewell C.

Which they are building. Evidence that there is no business case?

In fact UK plans to quadruple nuclear power. Because there is no business case. Riiiight.

> Building nuclear power as a cost plus contract, there you have true insanity.

Evidence of the "cost plus" contract?

> It is vastly undercut by renewables

Only when the renewables are massively subsidized.

And they don't deliver the same product: reliable, dispatchable electricity.
and leerob did one a few days before that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVL4JMqRfc
I still remember.As clear as day: I bought raw eggs and raw meat with my French equivalent "tickets resto", as well as a couple of beers. I am a horrible person. Granted, I was only being paid 2300€/month at that time.
Poor international companies providing me generous perks, and I.. I occupy the position of someone else who would be strictly abiding the rules. I should have been fired on the spot. If only the world were run by law abiding individuals like the ones running those generous companies
Can you tell me your experience? Any bad points? The bigger one looks really nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QRVHSexJQ

But it seems something one would better test in person especially regarding the contrast/crispness of text hence my question how it works in the 11 model.
Just another LLM hallucination project. The headline is almost correct, this is the last tool I would consider to use.
who are we to hold others accountable for their actions when money is at stake?
People love free stuff just as much as they love spending money I guess. There are deals even in upscale stores for brands used by people who don't know how much money and how many properties they own.
Where has our mind shown the capacity to be an engineer of the universe? With this limited intellect, we cannot encompass the beauty of the whole.
Even if it were beneath a forearm-length nose, if only attention were paid to it, beauty could still be found!"
UK government should consider suing PO ex-directors over scandal says Alan Bates
For many uses decompression speed is more interesting than compression speed.
I found this behaviour at Google fascinating:

> The company had also reportedly become more stringent on office supplies including staplers and tape, with staff having to borrow items from their reception desks instead.

I’m sure Google can compute the cost of a $400,000/- a year employee traipsing down the hallway to borrow a stapler. Pretty sure the stapler will pay for itself in a few trips.
Funny how there isn't any desire to go Founder mode on the less exciting parts of the business. HR, compliance, facilities...

If you were good at product but bad at business hire a business person and accept that CEO is a different skill set. Don't wrap it up in some egotistic 'once more unto the breach' nonsense.
Founders will be managing (perhaps future) senior executives, not junior managers. Senior execs are given a lot of leeway (budgets, staff, goal setting) and will have massive impact on the “shape” of the business overall. As such they are willful people, and not really “micromanagable”. These are absolutely the kind of people you need in these positions.

With this willfulness comes the challenge of “herding the cats” to an achieve an ultra-focused vision. This is what requires “founder mode”.

No talented founder will resort to typical junior manager mircromanagement antics as it would drive the company into the ground. Instead, they seem to have some kind of “reality distortion field” ability, what we’re calling “founder mode” here. The challenge is discovering the parts and pieces that make up “founder mode”… we know it exists but don’t really understand it.
Either the lockdown policy before March 2022 was correct or the sudden "back to normal" after March 2022 was correct. The virus was still there and does not care about presidential edicts and speeches.

Given the the world still exists, I think the pre-2022 policies were a gross overreach and the cancellations of the likes of Malone are an eternal shame for the U.S. that is comparable to what happened in the Soviet Union.
Unfortunately selling things online, I found these meaningless and obnoxious AI hype descriptions to bring in a lot more interested buyers than a simple straightforward description of the item.

I had a bunch of items taking up space in my garage that just wouldn’t sell with good photos and a clear description…. But sold immediately when I let GPT-4 write an (obnoxious sounding, to me) ad hyping it up and telling buyers why they needed it.

It reminds me of my dog who refuses to chew a bone unless I fake act really excited about it like I want to chew it myself.

I quite dislike this because it appears to be AI emotionally manipulating people into buying products they don’t really need or want.
Seeing "nedanriqgjbwantecoja.supabase.co" as the site name when I attempt to log into your site. Doesn't inspire a ton of confidence.
At least you can play the tic-tac-toe game.

What will you do with a partially finished C++ to Rust project? With automated tools the first 90% conversion takes 10% of the time and the remainder 10% of cases take 90% of time. So, you actually rarely end up with any gains if you go full parity except is tiny code bases.
And a VMM is going to require a lot of unsafe rust code. There are strategies to minimize it to make that surface easier to audit, but it is not a panacea for systems programming gremlins.
And why does it have to be UEFI and ACPI? Just put u-boot and devicetree on an EEPROM - the same EEPROM/flash that would be needed for UEFI.
I’ve used both standalone esbuild as well as Vite for hundreds of hours and HMR works flawlessly in React using Vite, it’s the only reason I use Vite instead of just using esbuild directly. I suggest you to try it out.
Global Commission on the Economics of Water
The solid-state batteries hype is fading
Life changing isn't it? Coupled with a holder attached to the bed I feel like I read twice as fast when I'm using it rather than holding the kindle, side effect being that I look like the people in WALL-E.

I understand that people would prefer if it were built into the device but in all honesty it isn't really that much of an inconvenience when you're already only using it while it's stationary.
of course an accelerator would dislike c levels... they would have more people to convince. if there are no c levels in their portfolio, they only have to push the founder for a pivot etc.
I would have lost interest and wandered off by about step 3 of that process.
Show playing song's album cover inside terminal
This is likely an app that solves a problem that literally no one had, but I was kinda bored, didn't find a widget for Mac that satisfied me, so I did this. Since I know nothing about AppleScript or how to 'talk' with the different processes going on in my laptot, it is 80% based on output from Claude, but it seems to work so...
Anyway, I'm sure it could be made nicer, faster, better optimized and plenty of other stuff, so if anyone wants to upgrade it just let me know ;)
I get my salary every month. I hope they don't find out or else I'll be fired for not saving the company that amount of money.
Can you purchase products directly on Twitter? Is Twitter taking a cut of such purchases?

In other words, is Twitter a market? That's kind of a crucial distinction when discussing the Digital Markets Act.
It also depends a lot on what type of ICE we are talking about. A very high power output downsizing engine with two turbochargers, direct fuel injection, EGR, intercooler, electric oil pump(s) (for turbo cooling), variable valve timings and/or lift systems etc. -- what you'll typically find in a high trim ICE mid-class car -- has far, far more parts and experiences a lot higher stresses than e.g. the naturally aspirated port injection engine you might find in a city car.
But you should be able to use it as a "parabolic" mirror, to make a very directed ray to the planet. (Assuming diffraction is not a problem.) (Assuming no time delay, because to see the planet you should look to were it was many years ago, but to send a message you should aim to where it will be many years in the future.) (Assuming I'm not missing a few more technical problems that are not impossible to solve, but extremely difficult.)
> The key is "writing and maintaining" Lisp software.

You may be right there, but I think there is a point you are smoothing over and almost trying to hide here.

What if someone can't get to the point where they are able to write useful code?

If you can't start riding a bike without stabilisers or someone holding it, then you're never going to learn to ride well.

At around age 11 or 12 I tried to learn to roller-skate. My parents bought me skates, and I put them on and tried to stand up.

I fell over so much over a few days that I bruised my pelvis and walking became very painful, let alone lying down. It was horrible and I gave up.

25 years later I managed to learn to ride a snowboard, after years of failure, because of having to do an emergency turn to avoid hitting some children and getting up on one edge and learning that edge-riding is the key. Nobody told me, including 3 paid days of lessons with a professional teacher.

It took great persistence and physical pain but I did it. I gave up on skating of any kind.

My core point is that people vary widely in abilities. Some people pick up a complex motor skill in 10-15min and can do it and their skills grow from there. Others may struggle for days or weeks to attain that... And most are not doggedly determined enough to try for that long.

Algebra is most schoolchildren's way of describing "something extremely hard to learn and pointless in everyday life." For ordinary humans, the concepts of "variables" and "symbols" that manipulate them IS A WAY TO TALK ABOUT something super-difficult.

But most of it, with effort, can just about get through. Very very few choose to follow it further.

And yet, there are a few families of programming languages -- Lisp, Forth, Postscript, HP calculator RPN -- whose basic guiding assumption is "you will easily master this basic action, so let's throw it away and move on to the logic underneath".

And the people who like this family of languages are annoyed and offended that other languages that do not require this are hundreds of times more popular and are used by millions of people.

Worse still, when someone comes and says "hey, maybe we can simplify that bit for ordinary folks", they mock and deride the efforts.

Maybe just allow yourself to think: perhaps this stuff that's easy for me is hard for others, and I should not blame them for them finding it hard?
"Speed" appears to be the only improvement over previous versions. It's only slightly larger than previous versions. My Paperwhite 4 is a little pokey especially in scrolling through a library, but it's not a big deal and not worth "upgrading." So the bigger question is "Why did Amazon create a new version of the Paperwhite with such marginal improvements?"
It makes sense to hire junior engineers for big businesses, sure. I think you underestimate how much work a solo developer can get done with GPT.

Yesterday, I implemented a recursive PostgreSQL function to crunch some pretty complex tables to produce a new output. As a senior engineer, I knew the output I wanted and understood the trade offs, but I didn’t want to spend 3 whole days trying to figure out how to build the recursive function myself.

Claude did it correctly in about 5 minutes, and then I spent another hour or two just tweaking and exploring alternate options.

I think it also goes without saying that I could not handle this to a junior engineer. We’re quite clearly past the “GPT is only as good as a junior engineer” phase.

It’s so different from anything else that’s ever existed. You could not do what I did yesterday without spending a LOT more time. Google would not have solved that problem, nor would a junior engineer.
Multiple things can be true at the same time.

1. Many companies have too many layers of management, with too much abstraction from the actual product, which kills drive and focus.

2. Micromanagement and disempowerment of employees is bad management and ultimately harmful.

In practice these two facts often exist in tension, but they are not inherently contradictory, and it's possible to thread the needle.
Well, their website seems to suggest it does. I will mention though, that plugin converts them automatically without intervention and does a pretty flawless job.
This article is disingenuous all the way down:

"“founder mode” paradigm, a valid alternative to “skillful liars”

"I guess anyone can see how a spreadsheet with yellow, red and green statuses is nothing groundbreaking really!"

"Graham goes as far as positioning this as an entirely new paradigm, literally believing he's discovered something that nobody knew existed before."

"this approach is well known to business schools as poor, dysfunctional management, and the alternative to that is of course good management."

I could keep going. I am happy to read arguments for/against Founder Mode, but I want to read an actual argument, not ad hominem dressed in smarty pants.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says"
I believe Turbo Pascal(? or similar IDE) back in the day did incremental linking, but:

if linking isn't I/O bound you're doing it wrong
Which is terrible for kernel development, and is generally very hard to work with, unfortunately.
Agreed. If I’m not mistaken, Zstd offers the best decompression times at the cost of utilizing all of your cores.
The tone of this article is a bit overly negative but I agree with the main point: you’re going to scale more effectively if you can empower, train, and trust others rather than doing everything yourself.
How is it overengineered?
I take it as tribalism.

Rust culture is a lot like socialism, libertarians, fundamentalist religions, vegans, etc. They see themselves apart from the "mainstream", as rebels, revolutionaries, etc.

In their beginning, Java and Python were like that, too. Lua, Haskell and Kotlin also do the same. Golang is more discrete.
> It's not something I see often with other programming languages

Search HN stories for "written in", sort by date, and in the past couple weeks there are of course a number of "written in rust" but also c, python, ruby, go, c++, lisp, java, javascript, flutter, crystal, and react. Rust has the most instances currently but it's also common enough here with other languages.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Evolution is like DFS depth first search, it isnt looking for an optimal way optimally its just going down a branch until it finds a satisfactory solution.

Sleep according to sleep scientist matthew walker, isnt what it seems. If i remember correctly theres even more brain activity and it serves certain goals like behavior refinement, among other things not just refreshing yourself. There might not be more benefit by more sleep.
I have only worked at pretty bad startups I guess, but for me I could get paid well but if there is some strong sense of job insecurity (as there always seems to be in this world), I will never leave a certain level of survival/hoarding mode. I have savings and everything but to this day I will still only buy a car I can potentially live out of. Every day I am ready to go back to the kitchen, but until then every morsel must be collected and appreciated.
Got the screen right there, watch a random movie like the rest of the Hoi Poloi!

I think it's honestly a great moment for cultural leveling. There's always a couple classics in the machine. I (un)seriously judge people who feel the need to get Wifi access on flights so that they can just chat on Discord. You have an excuse to just watch a movie!
When I tried Apple Vision Pro I thought the quality might be good enough for coding. I don't think I could bear wearing it for long periods, though.