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Strategy is far from the bulk of their work Most of their job is about people, leverage, and execution. It's not a sit and think job, it's mostly 1:1s and coalition-building Theyre…

Could be, or the Ukraine war, the pandemic, or some other policy It's nonfalsifiable. People will settle on the simplest observation: it happened under Biden

yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume…

they said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they woul…

Is there any source for first-hand specifics of what she does? I used to argue in reddit (same username as my HN) basically calling Musk a fraud and Gwynne Shotwell being all the b…

Jekyll, hosted on github pages is what I use Currently using a theme from here https://jekyll-themes.com/free When I'm travelling I could just edit the markdown/upload photos on th…

CP just teaches some familiarity with DSA/algorithms, and there's much more to perf than DSA. Even assessing algorithmic performance requires real benchmarks and profiling, while t…

Author is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase. Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM …

Happy New Year hackers! Here's to the crazy ones

I guess lots of people find him interesting (see HN guidelines) Charlie (and Buffett) are often recommended here for their mental models as their approach to investing and finance …

This month I'm reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Used to think fiction was a waste of time a month ago. Not anymore.

I wouldnt say so. I think it's the same HN. Although when it gets political, I've noticed that the discourse does degrade a bit faster than it used to be for such topics, for there…

A book that has a similar style to this one (teaching algorithm design) and my personal favourite is Algorithmic Problem Solving by Roland Backhouse. It just teaches algorithmic pr…

That's why I said karmic justice. I think it's a close book. The book details the decision process from both sides. Japan's plans to continue the war. The way the high command cope…

I was born in Southeast Asia, lived in China for a while, everyone I've met views it as some kind of karmic justice. It's the idea you get from school (we were living peacefully, t…

Making them compulsory would be good, but replacing the "intro" courses with a paradigm-survey course would probably be too much for students to handle. Students would also likely …

"How Query Engines Work" by Andy Grove, you build one in Kotlin: https://leanpub.com/how-query-engines-work The author also made it available for free at https://howqueryengineswor…

With rockets, he is deeply involved in the area and his proficiency have been confirmed by top engineers, a few quotes from them here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comment…

This post quotes top SpaceX engineers like Tom Mueller, Kevin Watson, Garrett Reisman, Josh Boehm, and others like John Carmack about Musk's involvement in engineering: https://old…

A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implem…

Always loved reading about adventures in Antarctica. It feels like the closest thing we can get to going to an exoplanet.

Nostalgia. CS 1.2 with our family's bad windows 98 PC in the early-2000s was how I got into computers as an 8 year old kid. It was so laggy on our low end PC, it took about 5 secon…

None. The era of 1-1 social media is gone, it's now 1-many. Especially for the younger generations, they dont tend to stay and invest their time building profiles in just one or tw…

ISLR for foundation and passing interviews. It also has lectures in youtube, just type ISLR lectures.

Unless geohot ticked the record option during his twitter space, it wont have the replay button. Quite a shame, it was the most candid tech talk I've seen Musk was in, and Hotz was…