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> Founder has all the control

It reminds me of a story. Back about thirty years ago I bought a used surface mount assembly line from this guy who dealt exclusively in used manufacturing equipment. He was much older than me, a father figure, if you will. He was interested in what I was doing in my little startup. We got into a conversation while we setup the assembly line. I talked to him about some of the challenges I was facing. At one point he stopped, thought about it for a while and told me: A business is like a living breathing beast that has a mind of its own. If you think you can train, mold it or control it, you are likely to be wrong. The business tells you what you are going to do every day. The business pushes and pulls you around. The best you can hope for it so generally guide the zig-zag path in the direction you want to go and hold on. It's like sailing in a storm. You are not in control of the sailboat, the ocean is.

Fonder is in control? Ha. Very funny.

> Employee has none. So employee takes more risk.

I am not sure how to say this. Here it goes again: The employee can pick up and go any microsecond of any day. At least in the US. Nobody can force anyone to work under any conditions. That's control. That is having 100% control.

> A nut case founder can consider employee a traitor for leaving the company and give bad references to future employers.

I don't know where you are from. In the US that would be one of the worst mistakes a founder, company, executive or manager could make. Depending on circumstances the resulting lawsuit could yield millions of dollars for the ex employee. Nobody does that (unless they are suicidal).
That's awesome! Unfortunately it isn't true for a lot of us.
Been offered 50-100k higher wage if I moved to San Francisco. Always laugh each time.

Equivalent family house and lifestyle would need way more then that to live there.
Thank you for the amazing answer, that makes much more sense!
“ Wealth is money in the bank that is reinvested into other assets and businesses.”

So is it money in the bank then or is is it money reinvested? Or all of the above? He doesn’t really clarify.

Am I the only one that found holes in his thinking?

Example: the more houses we build the cheaper it will be...fact: there is more houses today than at any other time in American history. House prices are only increasing...buying up a scarce resource like land doesn’t help us create more of it, what helps us create more is investing in the resource.

I’m not trying to put Naval down since I do admire him and some of what he says, I just can’t put him on this guru pedestal others are...

I think true wealth is being able to control your time however you’d like. Everything else after that is about power.
<ahem> I think you mean should all of the ridiculously inflated by wall street "platform" companies instead be commercial banks in a less monopolistic actual market economy?
So basically what you're saying is it's about the journey rather than the destination... I like it
I get paid interest on stackoverflow: I have gone up in rank without doing anything. I was top 10% a few years ago when I stopped, and I am now top 8% (without doing any work at all!).
I'm not entirely comfortable with your question because you say she's unwilling to change and I don't understand why you are asking this question. It's not clear to me if you are butting in inappropriately or being helpful to someone who wants your help.

If she doesn't want your help and it isn't somehow your responsibility, you should butt out.

But I'm replying based on your last paragraph here.

It might help her to start a private journal and write about what happens so she can pinpoint the exact problem. Once she knows exactly what is tripping her up, coaching or practice or just thinking through her options may help.

I'm a woman and I've had to do a fair amount of analyzing "What went wrong?" in interacting with other people, especially men, in professional settings. So I think it can get better, especially if the person in question puts in some time and effort to ID the exact issue or issues and then start brainstorming "How will I respond to that in the future?"
"It's come out the CDC is performing PCR testing for vaccinated individuals with a lower cycle count than for the unvaccinated."

Do you have anything to back up this conspiracy theory? I'm also wondering how many of the ~1 million tests per day are being performed by the CDC itself?
Not to mention, why would 5 google engineers dilute almost 50% right off the bat just to get 1 year of L3 salary?
This solution switches the listening address (IPv6 address), not the port.
This is a dumb, provocative question to which the answer is simply ‘no’.
Some of those, like memory timings, are pure bullshit that they came up with to segment the market when they had no competition. No other vendor limits memory timings. They should just get rid of that. Sorry.. you hit on one of my pet peeves :)
Not dying early of childbirth or plague might make up some of the difference, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768220
This article also underestimates how quickly you can move with the resources of a large company.

DB management and scaling? Another team takes care of that and offers an easy to use service.

Large pool of server resources to experiment with? Done.

Breaking up entities get rid of this.
This is why mission critical systems like Boeing airliners require a reboot. At some point it’s just a lot more practical and safer.
This kind of approach is pretty common, including in compute engines like Spark's graphx. I suspect a lot of teams using graph DBs would be better off realizing this: it's good for simple and small problems

it does fall down for graphy tasks like multihop joins, connect the dots, and supernodes. So for GB/TBs of that, either you should do those outside the DB, or with an optimized DB. Likewise, not explicitly discussed in the article, modern knowledge graphs are often really about embedding vectors, not entity UUIDs, and few/no databases straddle relational queries, graph queries, and vector queries
>Sorry, but somebody is still producing that wealth through their labor.

No, not necessarily.

E.g. You write a novel. It's selling every day online. Whose labor are you collecting?

If you say the customers' labor at their jobs - Yes, if you trace any chain of transactions far enough you can eventually find someone who did some labor. This is kind of meaningless though. It's true even if there's only one working human on the planet.

Basically, you're restating the labor theory of value which is generally not considered credible by economists.
I.e. since covid-19 (just in case someone finds this discussion 20 years later and wonders what was special about that March month)
The two dips in 2013 and 2014 are interesting. It's definitely not a straight line up.
I wonder whether bromantane can help with the covid response
I don't think so. Injecting JS is a valid use-case and will work forever, probably a huge majority of extensions do that. An intention is to make content blocking extensions more performant.

It's very easy to inject JS. I don't know whether you're talking from your own experience, but I wrote my little extension to replace uBlock (with my own list of rules and blocks) and to inject JS or CSS you just have to add a line in manifest.json which have nothing to do with blocking API.
I don't consider this a binary condition. There's an inherent balance on information dissemination, much like any "true positive / false positive". We might not be at the optimum, but I don't think we're far off either.

It also depends on your priors, of course. We might disagree on whether only "authority approved" data can be disseminated, and about specific authorities (gov, ny times, snopes, individuals, ...), and whether precision or speed is more important - you can delay any tweet for a year at which time it can be verified. That will considerably reduce the "fake" factor, but at a cost I am not willing to pay.
Google does have it's own internal "VC fund" (Area 120) which has yet to produce anything of significance.

Not a lot of engineers actually want to start their own company, they are happy to just come and engineer new products/services dictated by PMs/leadership/etc.
The definition seems faulty to me, since the pair (E: subset(N × N), f: E → L) does not admit of multiple edges with different labels, connecting the same ordered pair of nodes. Of course this is most often allowed in practical KG's.
I feel this depends on what we mean when we say "common cold."

I perceive the topic as characterized by answers to the questions of:

1. How easily can I catch the virus?

2. How likely am I to experience severe symptoms when infected?

3. Are there treatments that will significantly help me if I experience severe symptoms?

My readings indicate covid appears to be more infectious than influenza, but I do not know the comparison between the common cold viruses and covid on this front.

I am uncertain if covid is more or less likely to cause severe symptoms vs influenza. I believe, however, that the viruses that represent the common cold (rhinoviruses) can be definitely characterized as being much more benign in regards to symptoms.

I feel a key issue is #3 - there are few known compounds that can reliably aid in treatment of someone who is experiencing severe symptoms for covid. This is an area of rapidly expanding research now, of course.
Graph databases likely are more optimized for this sort of data storage, but you've hit it on the head that SQL databases can be used to represent node/edge style data.
Brings new meaning to the term "silcon lottery" :)
> epending on where you live (and whether you own property)

No, it's a lot for 4-5 years anywhere. This is on top of a pretty decent salary. For most working folk, putting this much aside in cash-equivalent over entire career is hard.

GP is talking about going from a high base salary to decent base salary, while using the extra comp (estimated here at approx 1mm) to smooth the impact of the drop in base. This is very manageable.
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No mention of slaves, which were internationally trafficked? Just because these people were put into mass graves doesn't mean they had core combat roles purportedly reserved for local citizens.
Nit^2: You aren’t in a democracy.
Without having done any accounting I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of startup options end-up being worthless. This is a simple logical conclusion from the fact that most businesses fail. So, no, I disagree, don't work for less than you are worth and, yes, assume startup options are worthless.

What ends-up happening is that the sexy startup culture sucks in young people with little life experience who haven't seen enough to be skeptical enough about these things. And, yes, under that context, if things go wrong, the end result is that they feel used and abused. You never hear complaints from anyone who worked super hard at a successful startup that made it and the early employees did very well.
> there were countervailing forces in society at one point, e.g. the dictates of certain religions.

Only because they just wanted the money for themselves.
The point is that if the attacker somehold got hold of the primary login credentials (username + key/password), then they can easily bypass this scheme with a port/address scan. This can be done very quick[1] and is hard to rate limit. Furthermore, an attacker that can eavesdrop on the user's connections can infer the OTP since it's being transmitted in the open., but if it was done through a PAM module they wouldn't be able to because it's encrypted.

[1] https://nmap.org/book/synscan.html
Yes, but then you don't need Mozilla collecting read speech samples. You can just scrape any audio out there, run speech activity detection, and there you go.
> Switching between F and C should be difficult. This is something you set once and pretty much never change.

No, because my own experience says otherwise. And this idea of accidental changing is hogwash, again because I've used this for years. Experience is worth a thousand opinions.
> I think that the downvote mechanism should just be removed

Why? I think this approach makes an assumption that everyone is upvoting everything that they would not downvote. I upvote things I find interesting or insightful, and I do my part in terms of moderation by downvoting comments that don't have a good fit for HN.

What I see on Facebook and Twitter is that the inability for the hivemind to have some kind of downward pressure mechanism on comments encourages/enables polarizing comments by vocal minorities to rise to the top. I see this frequently in the comments on the posts of local political figures. The top comments shown are almost always controversial and unhelpful/unproductive - things like whataboutism, blatantly racist remarks, etc. Eventually I got tired of constantly catching myself up in arms over FB comments and stopped participating.

The only way I see to counteract this as a rank-and-file user is to upvote/like every single comment except for the ones that are hurting actual discourse. IMO this will drive away people that you ultimately want to be participating on HN.
I've got good news for you! There was another book written 2 years ago called Everyday Millionaires by Chris Hogan that conducted a new study of millionaires. I think MND studied 100 millionaires, while EM studied 10000.

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In my experience real time data is only relevant for teams that either monitor major site changes or monitor operations. I mostly work with marketing/retail and I couldn't think of, let's say, having a Black Friday event without real time stats.
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It's better to post the first one and then add a comment explaining that it's a series of 8 posts. Otherwise it looks like spam.
Toyota Tacoma or Ford Ranger, probably. Look into buying a used Ford Ranger from the late 90s to early 2000s (or Mazdas of similar age; they're the same truck).
FYI: If you read Hacker News via RSS, check out https://hnrss.org/ , which allows you to filter the feed by points/comments.

e.g.

https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25
re-running is definitely too much work for most scientific papers, at least in ML and computational sciences were experiments might take 1000s of core-hours or gpu-hours, but that's usually not necessary. In addition, just running the code can spot really bad problems (it doesn't work) but easily miss subtle ones (it works but only for very specific cases).

I think it's more important for reviewers to read the source, the same way one would read an experimental protocol and supplementary information, mainly checking for discrepancies between what the paper claims is happening and what is actually being done. In the above example, a reviewer reading the code would have spotted that the model isn't there at all, even though it runs fine.
Stop it with this cloak and dagger BS. Just set a shared secret on it: https://github.com/google/tcpauth

(Yes, MD5 is safe for this use)

With tcp MD5 your connection is even secured against an active attacker who can sniff. They can't inject, or even RST the connection. Even if they can sniff and spoof everything.
I'd be very interested in this SQLite Necronomicon you're talking about :)
There are actually many, many communities in the United States where people live on dirt roads. That's super common. I grew up on a dirt road, and my parents still live on one. Much of the rural US lives off of paved roads.

With food and stuff, the thing is that in the US, you can very quickly go from having not much to having nothing. Many people do suffer from hunger and live on the edge because the cost of living in the United States relative to incomes can be very high. It's much more difficult to set up a small stall selling goods or food or something, and if you don't have proper permitting the police will shut you down. Therefore, once you get to a certain point you are really trapped. There's much less of an informal economy in the US than in Latin America, so people's ability to earn money is much more restricted and regulated.

The correlate to the people you are describing in the United States are referred to as the 'homeless.' They live in small structures made of cardboard and wood and tarps. Some have tents. The police will occasionally come by and throw all of their possessions in a garbage truck. Homelessness is pretty widespread, and the degree to which it exists here is often shocking to people from other countries.

Here's a photo essay that gives you some idea of what is going on in the United States in terms of the homeless. These living conditions are pretty darn comparable to international poverty. I assure you none of these people have stocks.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-08/homeless...

Obviously the scale of the whole thing is different between the US and Latin America, but there's lots of pretty shocking poverty in the US.
Co-author of that feature here.

Clearly it doesn't eliminate the possibility of wraparound failure entirely. Say for example you had a leaked replication slot that blocks cleanup by VACUUM for days or months. It'll also block freezing completely, and so a wraparound failure (where the system won't accept writes) becomes almost inevitable. This is a scenario where the failsafe mechanism won't make any difference at all, since it's just as inevitable (in the absence of DBA intervention).

A more interesting question is how much of a reduction in risk there is if you make certain modest assumptions about the running system, such as assuming that VACUUM can freeze the tuples that need to be frozen to avert wraparound. Then it becomes a question of VACUUM keeping up with the ongoing consumption of XIDs by the system -- the ability of VACUUM to freeze tuples and advance the relfrozenxid for the "oldest" table before XID consumption makes the relfrozenxid dangerously far in the past. It's very hard to model that and make any generalizations, but I believe in practice that the failsafe makes a huge difference, because it stops VACUUM from performing further index vacuuming.

In cases at real risk of wraparound failure, the risk tends to come from the variability in how long index vacuuming takes -- index vacuuming has a pretty non-linear cost, whereas all the other overheads are much more linear and therefore much more predictable. Having the ability to just drop those steps if and only if the situation visibly starts to get out of hand is therefore something I expect to be very useful in practice. Though it's hard to prove it.

Long term, the way to fix this is to come up with a design that doesn't need to freeze at all. But that's much harder.
It's sad that a bunch of legit criticism around Rust in the kernel (like around tooling and maintenance burden if nothing else) probably won't lead to actual improvements being made because a tiny handful of people can't help themselves but dial up their condescension up to eleven and derail any attempt at productive discussion.

On the other hand, I continue to be amused by arguments along the lines of "I'd already made up my mind that Rust is bad, but then I actually looked at some Rust code and realized it doesn't use C syntax, and now I'm even more upset"...
Dyslexic moment on my part, thank you
100%. A lot of survivorship bias in his diatribe. I feel most people I n this thread won’t like what you’re saying though, because it goes against the very belief drilled into Silicon Valley ideology.
This idea that because a commercial kitchen doesn't mix F and C and thus nobody else should ever have to is ridiculous and is a form of gatekeeping. I download recipes and measurements are sometimes F, sometimes C. Sometimes ounces, sometimes grams. Sometimes cups, sometimes mls.
Always thought we stopped to soon. At some point things may cease to be divisible. Plank scale is still pretty deep down the well.
Reminds me of frequency hopping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spect...

Interesting side-note, one of the people who re-invented this technique was actress Hedy Lamarr who was quite an accomplished inventor
Unlike port knocking (which folks seem to be mentioning a lot), this seems like it only has 1,000,000 possible locations that can rapidly be scanned.

Knocking has multiplicative growth and so many more possibilities.

Perhaps you could include honeypots in the IPv6 range where you’re not bound that block the user, but this seems less reliable overall.

I’m sure this is just great fun, but perhaps not something to think of as secure so much as a fun idea — to make it secure you might want to use a system more like knocking.
> now I can’t read or hear someone saying “less than” when it ‘should be’ ”fewer than”

Thank you! I love such corrections. I'll try to keep that in mind :)

> i should go back to torturing myself with Lithuania’s Eurovision entry

Hehe, I have that show running in the background - I was just thinking that the presentation of the songs got more extreme compared to previous years... . Sorry, I overlooked Lithuania.

Edit: saw a few seconds of replay of Lithuania - it seemed okay-ish (better than others).
I interpreted (misinterpreted?) your comment to be suggesting ES for wider use cases.
Yes I never got into Rails for perhaps the same reason. There were tiny source files with some very succinct and clever code that obviously caused a huge amount to go on behind the scenes but it was all magic and impossible to trace or diagnose anything - for me.

Also discoverability simply wasn’t there in Rails and I feel the same with Phoenix. I have no idea what pieces might fit in anywhere. Having to know that you have to create a file with a particular name in a particular place if you want something to happen is a bit of a pain if you can’t find a solid reference on that, but also knowing that this is even a possibility - that a feature exists - means reading and re-reading huge documentation on every release just to have some idea of what might actually exist.

It’s very likely that I really just haven’t ‘clicked’ with the right way to work with either, but I fear that the only real way to do so is to become an expert - and that would be a huge time investment.

Still, I do enjoy looking at the code of projects using Phoenix, even if I can’t fathom how they knew to create certain files and what to put in them.
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Both scenarios assume a pretty heavy compromise already in place before the ssh control starts crumbling
security by obscurity and defense in depth are synonyms.
On a side note, I love the idea of researchers writing “articles” in this format. No paywall, no complex two-column format, no PDFs. As a researcher myself, I wish this is what my “productivity” was judged upon, I’d probably have a lot more fun and motivation to work and produce!
Does the hypothesis in question seem to hold for, say, the world's top 10 languages (by, say, # of living fluent speakers globally)? Top 30?

I'm genuinely curious. And also trying to discern whether your point is that many-- but not necessarily _all_-- current languages seem to conform to this hypothesis, or that actually very few seem to.