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Ask HN: Dilution?
How do founder(s) possibly own 15-20% of a company after all the fundraising stages - after several rounds of dilution and creating large employee option pool that an investor insists on? Spoke to a few founders over the last month, couple of them who went to build large companies only to own a lot less than <<10% of the company. Sensed sadness - considering it's your life's work. Any better solution for future founders?
He also doesn't make decisions like this from monologues in his head - he surrounds himself with people having deep expertise and makes bold decisions based on feedback; if something doesn't make sense, they'll stop doing it the next morning. In "normal" corp not only it'll be there 3 years from now, it'll also grow fat around it and spawn other idiotic initiatives with little to no (negative?) value.
The al is often dropped in casual Arabic. e.g. a restaurant called "Al Shami", will mostly just be called "Shami"
I'm still learning where everything goes my bad haha
> certs won't get renewed because institutional knowledge has left the door.

The parallel reality where you need to be a veteran SRE with an MIT degree to operate the arcane tool 'certbot'.
LMAOOO brutal haha
I keep wanting to like Tox, but it requires you to setup a server at a minimum in order to use it in the primary messaging/chat use case of a mobile device. Realistically this is an insurmountable hurdle to an average user and the network effect can't be overcome. Outside that use case they're entering an already heavily saturated market with little value add relative to competitors.
You could say that if he was new to the party.

But he did change the world with his companies already, didn't he?
Same in Austria. It is so helpful to learn how to handle a (your) car in extreme situations, before having to encounter these in the wild.

I loved the skid plates — for those who don't know: this is basically a "moving floor" that yerks your rear wheels randomly left or right when you drive over it. This happens right before a wet section of track and depending on the speed you have while going over it recovering can be quite a challenge.

My car did not have ABS, so I had a lot of fun doing this.
Costa Rica has a pretty educated workforce. Probably just demand a higher wage.
Read 2 Short Stories a Day – Batch 4
My apologies, I'm still feeling my way around, I usually don't use this place but I've been checking it out!
Show HN: SMPP GUI Client
I've built simple smpp client with gui. Not an example of perfect design and clean code but works just fine for me. Maybe somebody find it useful
Sam Bankman-Fried's Crumbling FTX Empire Holds $1.2B Cash Reserves
Did SpaceX failed for bankruptcy or something? Did Tesla not change the whole industry?
I enjoy wine, but will happily admit I enjoy it more when the label is pretty, or when I've got an emotional connection to the region it comes from.

I suppose wine snobs also enjoy wine for their own irrational reasons, and that's ok with me.

Santé !
$300 is way, way too much. The echo is $50 base, and usually on sale or discount. It has to be cheaper than an RPi to even come close to matching the price.
> Right, but Twitter wasn't a healthy business

I don't know why this nonsense keeps being spread.

a) Steadily increasing revenue, DAUs etc and benefited immensely from COVID.

b) Were on track to being sustainably profitable.

c) Starting to get traction in stealing ad spend from Facebook who had their own issues after Apple's effects on attribution reporting.

The company was in a much better shape than many other similar SV companies around.
The reality is most huge companies are majority bloat. The hiring numbers are also in part crap that goes into Series X Raise pitch decks. Oftentimes a lot of the new bloat pisses off competent people, because their work doesn't actually get less, it becomes more. Not only do they have to now nanny people that are often not actually competent in their job, they just happened to go through the coding interview with wholly unqualified interviewers, but they now also have to handle nightmare features that were built by people completely disconnected from the other side.

I'm not a friend of Elon's, but outside of the flashiness of the whole thing, I don't think his firing spree was wholly unwarranted.

The other day I saw a video of a bunch of people at twitter leaving that have been there for a decade or so. I mean wholly crap, this reminds me of old German industry where people retire in the place they started.
This is a ridiculous take and you are not really adding anything to the discussion.

Musk has successfully run companies in the past and is running two extremely successful companies right now.
TinyLLama – A Tiny x86 Retrocomputer
Same, except 8-track.
Borrow checker is fine. But from the library writer perspective its pain and take enormous amount of time to make it sound.
One does not simple checkout "nom" and test thing in few minutes.
It's like having you very own computerized phone attendant. As if I didn't get enough of that the last time I called Comcast. Except this one spies on you and injects things it thinks you should care about.
> Technophobes who don't understand new technology, and who don't understand or care about HDTV, and so just buy the same DVDs they always bought.

That seems like a strangely unfriendly reduction.

Although I don't buy DVDs, I am perfectly fine watching subHD content because the visual quality is good enough and not what interests me. I also don't have a 'modern' or especially large TV (it's already too large, if anything). I care about the story. When I read a book, it is similarly of no significant importance to me whether I'm reading from an old paperback or a new hardcover, or an e-reader. As long as the text is legible (book's not deteriorated and the font's not too small), I don't care.

This is not technophobia, it is merely the absence of technophilia.
Alameda was yield farming though and SBF was running that thing for a while too.
That shit is so vile, the response should be, "yeah, nah, I'll take a cider".
I'm a wine person, a few things to share:

1. If you doubt high end wine exists (e.g., it's all BS above $20 or whatever people say) and you have the means, find a bottle of Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage (the Syrah) of any vintage. Enjoy it at your favorite Italian / French restaurant. If they know wine they'll be happy you brought it. The Chave is far from cheap but it's affordable for what I call superwines (get it, like supercars?) and it really is something you'll never forget.

There is a quality with great red wine that in indescribable -- I've never even met a wine person who can describe it -- but it's undeniable when you experience it. I've experienced it with great wines like that Chave and occasionally with (lucky) midrange wines.

2. The rest of an enjoyable relationship with wine is mostly avoiding bad ones. But you develop strategies for this over time. It's very easy to get a red wine that's harsh or a white wine that's too sweet. These won't be fun to drink and will pair poorly with food if you're eating. Some tips:

- If you need a white to drink or eat with, favor Sauvignon Blanc -- it's not too sweet, it usually hasn't been oaked to death and apparently pretty hard to screw up. Get Marlborough if you want something fruity and anything French if you want something more laid back.

- If you're eating red meat favor Napa Cab. It's really hard to go wrong here.

- If you're in France or Italy just get anything. That close to the source + a strong wine culture you'll rarely be disappointed. This is a good time to try new wines.

- If you need a Champagne, it's Billecart-Salmon without question. It's one of the smaller Champagne houses who isn't caught up in prestige-pricing, glamour Champagne fashion BS. Affordable and excellent.

Things to avoid:

- Bordeaux -- now, I drink this a lot but I have experience. If you really need to (it's sounds cool) favor the left bank wines. They're generally higher value. I say avoid because the market is full of crappy, low cost Bordeaux that just takes advantage of the label.

- Burgundy -- just say no. Burgundy is arguably the best red. But not the bottle you're going to buy. You have to really know what you're doing here or be willing to spend a lot. I've gotten lucky once with a cheap bottle of Burgundy and when I say cheap that is relative.

- Pinot in general. Burgundy can rarely pull it off, no one else can either.

- Chardonnay -- tends to be too oaky or too sweet.

- Pretty much any other white, for the same reason.

- Sparkling wine. See Champagne above. Prosecco is too sweet and pretty much everything else is a crapshoot.

Wash:

- Italian reds are my favorite and they can be equally good and affordable but it's a bit of a crapshoot. Look for things that are 100% Nebbiolo, Sangiovese or 'Super Tuscans' which are basically the same blend as Bordeaux (but usually better at the same price). For the most part, avoid the other stuff.

- Montrachet -- arguably the best white (Chardonnay) that can be had but they're pricy and still hit and miss.
> You keep throwing around the same mantra (“Russians literally invaded”, “Russians are solely responsible for this war”) while my fingertips are blue from typing walls of text, arguing with facts (from Western sources).

You can type walls and walls of text if you want, but its plainly obvious that you are trying to push a narrative, all of your "facts" have a very curious pro Russian bent to them.

> Again: The West (led by the US) has provoked this war between Russia and Ukraine - by breaking promises and propping up Ukraine to provoke Russia.

There was never a broken promise, as I showed to you, straight from the president of the soviet unions mouth.

This promise never existed

> Contrary to your argument, that quote is still relevant today. Perfect example is the recent sabotage of NorthStream 1 and 2. Because it is still down Germany has to keep its mouth shut (while it loses its competitive advantage due to cheap energy from Russia), it keeps Russia out of Europe (mainly energy, but commodities, as well) and it keeps the US still in Europe (EUnuchs must buy natural gas from the US).

NS1 and 2 were sabotaged by Russia, as both a message and a means to get out of the billions in dollars of fines that they owe to a number of countries in the EU.
There's a gigantic flood of new users (i.e. literally multiplying the userbase) in the past few weeks, so yeah, a lot of servers are restricting signups to cope.

I don't think "begging for donations" needs to scale, if instances get too large to keep running then smaller instances should (and do) split off, they can still talk to each other after all.

There's an actively maintained public instance list here: https://joinmastodon.org/servers
Can I also trade “Will Chelsea win against Barcelona next weekend?”
> more likely to find a sha256 collision.

This is obviously, and egregiously, false.
An example where something that correlates with time can reveal pre-existing bugs long after the system was chugging along just fine: counter limits/overflows.

Simple example: you have a DB with a table with an auto incrementing table. You chose a small integer type for the primary key and after years this just worked fine, you finally saturate that integer type you can no longer insert rows in the table. Imagine now this has cascading effects in other systems that depend on this database indirectly and you end up with an "outage"
Because you want to avoid prison?
This is weird because this is the kind of game you know you have played at least a couple of times a long time ago before, you instantly know how to play it but I personally cannot remember where nor when.
On the flip side UUIDs are great as non-cryptographic identifiers...

It's easy to get and for any non sec application nearly impossible to replicate.
>OTOH, at non tech companies, all the research interviews and surveys I have done recently continue to show a talent shortage and fears of losing tech staff

I wonder if any science fiction writer could have predicted silliness like Snapchat having fewer outages than serious government websites because Snapchat is better at hiring engineers. Tech hiring is so bizarre.
Agreed. Levine even said after the interview that he came away more confident in SBF because it sounded to him that SBF's business model was selling people shovels to dig for gold. Even if the gold was fake and worthless.

What actually happened was FTX was reliant on these "assets" to get loans even though they were just an exchange that should have just been passing them off to counterparties.
He's working on that bit. Give him a few months.
How do you plan to get companies posting on it and spread the word with candidates?
Notice a difference between the first Echo from 2015 and today’s?

No?

Well they still had us rewrite the entire OS, not once, but twice, and maintain all three OS’s across 10+ different devices…

They did the same damn thing with the API to cloud servers. Every couple years, new deprecation and new way to do things. Promo driven development out the wazoo while ironically quoting “customer obsession”

Zero ability to influence direction as IC. All top down initiatives from directors planned a year in advance.
They aren't talking about the front-end certificates which expire in Feb 2023.

It's likely the ones to encrypt all of the traffic involving the Finagle micro-services, data sources, observability systems etc. And I suspect the issue there is that you are going to need to do a rolling restart.

Which I personally would not want to be doing if 90% of the company is no longer there.
Can you expand on you mean when you say that Lisp is not ‘how [you] think about computation’. I have never seen that phrase used regarding Lisp, usually it’s mentioned in regards to logic or other much less mainstream paradigm than the imperative/semi-functional paradigm in Lisp.
The OOM killer doesn't restart (randomly, unless configured) killed processes, it just kills.
Have a browse through their engineering blog: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us

It's largely focussed on the event stream behind the core service and data analytics. There's maybe one entry on the main data store and one on search over the last few years.
It's not the City that is holding the reins - it's Tufton Street, which is in Westminster.
> But real world conditions can force code changes

Security fixes.
Unlikely. On one hand notations should be a commodity and they indeed should be unique to the task. There is no point and no way to try making a unified notation for music and chess. On the other hand there is no point to make multiple notations for the same thing. And programming is indeed the same thing from lowest to highest levels, composable like a Russian doll, or we won't be able to build large systems. So the future of programming is a single notation that actually reflects what programming is. We do not have it yet, this is why we have so many "programming languages".
Definitely. I got to experience programming before and after doing it professionally. My passion for it left, then returned as quickly as it left. I always loved programming, but doing it professionally just wasn't the same.
Time’s up: the leap second is being scrapped
is twitter going to be profitable if it can run with 10% of the workforce?
what problem is it solving? unclear what it does from your website.
> Hidden Hand is a marketplace for governance incentives, commonly referred to as "bribes".
Protocols can leverage Hidden Hand to enable more efficient governance processes and to engage their voters, while users can earn extra yield on their favorite vote escrowed governance tokens through bribes.

https://hiddenhand.finance/

I...i mean this just speaks for itself doesn't it?
This. If your primary source of information and development is Discord, and you're a secure chat app, I'm done looking. In most cases in fact if your sole source of information is _a chat app_, I'm done looking because you've declared you don't have anything but real time support, which is on par with me calling you on the phone (it ain't happening). Chat isn't feasibly searchable in a support context, even when archived, and is completely useless for anything but real time communication. I don't get how everyone keeps complaining about it and having the problem shoved in their face daily ("too many messages, can someone summarize?") yet insist on it as a historical record and asynchronous communication medium. Using chat as your only support is a clear declaration you would rather answer the same questions repeatedly rather than work on your project at all.
> how does it persuade you of that?

By flowing from many people think it's bloat - I'll tell you what's really going on to tiny team of 1~3 built whole infra for critical component.

I'm not really trying to make commentary on whether or not Twitter engineering was bloat, or whether or not I think it'll hit problems in the future. Just commenting on the fact that the article broke my expectations a little bit as a reader.
>What exactly where these thousands of employees actually doing

They had wine on tap.
That's exactly how this should work. You should move from messaging to a meeting as quickly as possible. If you try to set up a date and other side proposes something like a week from now - it's already over. It's simply too long to hold most conversations on apps like Tinder, most women have 10-100 other guys that write to them at the same time as you. It's also hard to judge a character from chat, hence like you wrote, meeting quickly allows you to know if it's a person for you as soon as possible.

I tried to setup a meeting within 10-15 messages and it worked, I'm in a second relationship that started from Tinder, one lasted 4 years, current one is going on for almost a year. Moving to a meeting is the most important step, noone wants to maintain tedious in-app conversations with dozens of people for a long time.

Also, be creative, ask whatever comes to your mind, even if you find it weird, all the girls I met were bombarded with either boring jokes, repetitive compliments or 'Hi's. After first few it's impossible to answer nicely or make a conversation out of those. I got best conversations out of weird questions, I asked what pierogi does she like f.e.
You can: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=download it's free and easy.
Seriously man... I wonder the same... How can one person create so many brilliant softwares
Can you trust anything Musk says? We know he’s full of shit; ask Thiel. As for the real reason, pick your poison:

- He purchased it because he’s in a right-wing filter bubble and bought into the idea that Twitter is controlled by a secret left-wing cabal and genuinely believes he’s doing the world a favor because he thinks right wing propaganda is actually moderate

- He has the same brain damage as Trump and requires adulation by sycophants and he thinks this is the best way to guarantee his fix and give him control over his critics

- He wanted the brand name and doesn’t care about what services are currently offered under it

- He’s from the southern hemisphere and wants to destroy the social fabric of the United States

- Some permutation of all of the above

Not sure which of these are the truth, but I’m guessing a combination of the first two.
Hydroplaning below 80 km/h ~49 mp/h is rare and the risk of the wheels loosing contact to the ground increases with speed. So not sure if this was really hydroplaning.

As a tip for others: If you ever encounter hydroplaning make sure not to keep your steering wheel straight (or at least: know why you are doing what you are doing) and step off the gas pedal.

In hydroplaning your wheels don't have contact with the road surface, so turning the wheel won't do shit. But as you loose momentum your wheels will regain contact appruptly again at some point. At that point it really matters how your front wheels are oriented when you do so.

If your front wheels point hard left and there is a dry part of the street you will be yerked directly into oncoming traffic for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal
Let's do a thought experiment and see what functions aren't needed to keep the light on for 30 days:

1) HR
2) Legal
3) Sales
4) Marketing
5) Payroll
6) Admin staff
7) Most of Engineering, other than the bare minimum of L1/L2/3 support.

As someone paraphrased, a car without breaks and steering wheel works just fine until you hit the first bend.
I have a friend who is a sommelier who told me that she could turn a $20 bottle of wine that I had into a $100 bottle. She took the wine from my hand, plonked it on the table and said "here is your $20 dollar wine". Then, she took it again, brought it behind her back, back around to the front, and presented it to me with two hands -- one hand under the main body of the bottle and one hand on the neck of the bottle. "Here is your $100 dollar wine, sir".
I think the even more absurd rec is to use 160 bits as a "sweet spot"? Why? Who said that? Which real world scenarios? Why not 159 or 161...

Then you realize the author is just talking out their rear end with no thought...

"Yes I often find my cracking buddies with their super computers just give up hacking my online user service when I bumped my user token length from 159 to 160 length", said nobody, ever.
> I mean wholly crap, this reminds me of old German industry where people retire in the place they started.

This is honestly uncalled for. Job hopping every 2-3yrs should not be an expected task.
I loved how he did a 20 minute piece full of outrage and then at the end said he was watching the games but we have to “draw a line” somewhere… I mean how about drawing a line at taking part by watching? It’s not too much to ask is it?
This has been done with cars with the inbuilt microphone for onstar.
I don't know. You'd need quite a number of threads + machines generating uuids in the exact same microsecond to get an opportunity for a collision. It doesn't seem obviously false.
I have seen a bookmark with some JS which adds current webpage as Submit to HN. So, extension way seems an overkill.
What does this tell about this industry when after several decades of web programming a tool to display the most basics UI elements can still be featured on HN?
It really isn't, but it is a bit like democracy, it could be better, but given the landscape and IDE integration capabilities, it is the best the C and C++ community alongside tool vendors have agreed upon.

I certainly rather use CMake, even if I need an open book on the side, than Gradle, Blaze, autotools, yet another Python based build tool,....

However, most of the times, since my use of C++ is related to personal projects, IDE project files are more than enough, they have been serving me well for the last 30 years.
I help a friend repair old vacuum tube radios, transmitters, etc. Myself, I'm afraid of anything with more than 12 volts, but he's shown me that even smoke coming out of a radio isn't a show-stopper as it helps you track down the problem. I've learned the subtle hatred of silver-mica capacitors, and invented a technique to track down the leaky ones.

Also, we fixed a few HP 5061 Cesium Beam Atomic clocks. So I'm now a Quantum Mechanic ;-)
It's not slander[1] if it's true. Moreover, calling someone a "fraud" is likely to be viewed by a court as a statement of opinion, not of fact, and so it's likely non-actionable under U.S. common law.

[1] Libel is written defamation; slander is oral.
From the article:

The basic principles of concrete barriers are not generally known or understood. Concrete barriers appear to be simple and uncomplicated, but in reality, they are sophisticated safety devices.