skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s increasingly common for online courses and other material to be attached to famous influencers. Leveraging the influencer’s audience and credibility is a shortcut to gaining massive traction. People really, really trust their favorite influencers.

I was shocked when a semi-famous influencer admitted that one of the businesses that bears his name actually receives zero input from him, yet he takes 60% of the profits. He was approached by someone who wanted to use his name to jumpstart the audience and the deal was too good to pass up.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the recently publicized “Mr Beast Burger” is a similar collaboration. It’s pitched as something Mr Beast came up with, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some entrepreneurs were already building a ghost kitchen business and shopped it around to influencers who were willing to claim it was “theirs” in exchange for some of the profits.
I won't pretend I know. That said, the main advantage to these middle men is that they agree to buy and hold (directly and for select clients) shares at IPO. That means they have skin in the game and if the price falls at IPO or soon after, they're burnt. So I guess they're doing at least some due diligence.

Too often regulators only come in (decades) after frauds started (Enron, WorldCom, Wirecard). And frauds fall through cracks between regulators too as it isn't clear who is responsible for what.

I'd actually like to see more of this sort of role elsewhere in finance: having your accounts signed off by a big 4 firm would mean a lot more if they had to payout in the case of fraud. But that's a somewhat different issue I just thought I'd add...
I am a professional in the field for many years and your version of the term is not widely accepted. There is a wikipedia page which describes the accepted definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
Sounds like you need legal advice from an experienced business lawyer.
This is a really nice story, but you know who the other hero is? The CEO who gave him the time and the opportunity. He could've easily told him to fuck off, as many would do. Who was he, what's his name?

More often than not, we get nowhere without people in better positions helping us, it would be great if more people would keep an open mind like that. That CEO deserves recognition.

And if you manage to climb higher on the ladder, don't forget to help others like someone helped you before. Pay it forward.
Hey.
As a former lawyer, I'm going to echo the many comments in this thread to consult a lawyer. If you find a good one with relevant experience, it should only take a few hours at most to properly understand the exact situation you are in and know your options. Your rights could vary drastically based on the specifics of the company and the employment/equity agreements you entered into, in addition to where you and the other founder are, and where the business was incorporated or registered. If there aren't formal agreements to this, but you have emails or other documentation that's short of a formal contract, that can also be relevant. Regardless, the co-founder and the investor owe you, an equity holder, a fiduciary duty. The threat to tank the business if you don't surrender most of your equity is a pretty cut-and-dry breach of that fiduciary duty, and you are fully within your rights to demand relief, which could be monetary, but could also be equitable, such as requiring your co-founder to relinquish control of the company, or to transfer ownership of the company's source code, domains, and IP to you. Whether any of this relief would be practically available to you would require expert legal advice and would depend highly on the specifics of your situation.

To others in this thread, if you're looking to join a startup as a technical co-founder like this, 'We have very standard shareholder agreements for 4yr reverse vesting with 1yr cliff.' is not standard in the same way it is for other early employees. In this situation, your equity should be in real shares from the get-go, not options that vest over time. You should also have a partnership agreement or similar document that outlines how board-level decisions are made, and for a business with a few mostly-equal owners, such decisions should typically require consensus of the owners, even if one person controlls 51+% of the equity. This is the most reliable way to protect your interest in the business, and this is what true co-founder status looks like. If the O.P. had asked for this before signing on, my guess is that the co-founder would have balked, and the O.P. would have known from the get-go what the dynamics would be, and could have walked or insisted on a higher salary to reflect the fact that he's being treated like an employee not a business partner.
Kinda awesome that the Roblox delayed IPO may have been the final straw here ;)
Show HN: Scanly – Free contactless digital menus management
Probably serving the ethos "if you work hard, good things will eventually come". Kind of useful phrase to tell people you want to exploit. They'll work harder for same reward.
Kennedy Space Center Expands as Launch Complex 48 Opens for Operations
Current plan is no special interfaces. Just 8 input and 8 output pins controllable via special instrs.
I guess he'd have to do it in a one-party consent state to be safe? But is this fundamentally different from all the surveillance camera footage of gas station robberies you can find online? Also I believe local news stations like to broadcast footage of porch thieves too.

Example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Buce4AbOO9k
Dbxfs: Open-source Dropbox client runs natively on M1 Macs
Is Python a Bottleneck?
It's funny that Zoom disappears in the final product. The audio feed is recorded and re-synced on each source machine with a different software and sounds like the same with the video feed.
My favorite version of this classifies life as an exotic phase of matter in the sense of other exotic phases like Bose-Einstein condensates, etc.

Life is a phase of matter in which the dynamics of information and Turing-complete computation overcome the ordinary dynamics of matter and energy. I am not aware of who originated this idea, but I heard it from Christoph Adami (a researcher in evolutionary information theory). I also recall someone at a conference proposing the term "Turium," for "Turing-complete phase of matter."

Earth just happens to have an environment that contains a large abundance of this phase of matter, much like how stars are full of plasma etc.
Serverless is kind of like Apache running PHP scripts in virtual hosts.
this is certainly not the mainstream way of thinking; it's certainly not specific enough.
SEC formally sues cryptocurrency company Ripple
Yes, I’m curious how hard it is to get this working with a different backend stack. I’d love to have this in Go.
If you have trouble selling a product without that stuff, does it make a difference?
I’m spitballing here but maybe a middle ground is to convert some percentage of shares to equivalent to the seed investor shares. Assume, for the sake of argument, he was at one year and due 10%. Convert those share to the same terms as the seed investors.

No cash upfront, equity is somewhat preserved and the rest becomes a source of potentially passive income.

Note. He has to leave. The situation is now untenable.
"If you work hard and get the attention of someone higher up, you may get lucky" would be more appropriate.
>the other party wouldn't want it so bad ;-)

Value to a founder does not imply value to the market.
There is nothing like a whiteboard. I use paper and pencil and the Freemind mind mapper to capture and evolve ideas, but I have to have a whiteboard. When I was in the office, I had one behind me, and I used it all of the time. On Saturdays (part of my regular work schedule), I would sometimes go wild with a 15 foot wide whiteboard in one of the conference rooms. After we all began working from home, I ordered a 2ft x 3ft whiteboard for my home office. I'd truly be lost without it.

I'm not even sure how to explain it. Sometimes just putting something on the whiteboard, walking around, contemplating it, is what I need to do. I also use at least four different colors as needed. And today, with smart phones, it's very easy to capture what I've done and share with others.

Sometimes I'm creating a sketch, sometimes code, sometimes just a set of data structures. Once it was a system architecture, highlighting data exchange and functions. It can be one column or more, horizontal or angled, I can add curved arrows. Try to work out a bilinear interpolation scheme for a 3D grid over multiple time sets on a computer. Yeah, it can be done, but developing it on a whiteboard is, well, easier.

I need my whiteboard. I would be lost without it.
An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube
"The Dadabots team, CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, trained the RNN with two hours of bass improvisation from YouTuber Adam Neely. After some trial and error, Carr and Zukowski limited the dataset to mainly faster licks because the RNN likes fast tempos. That improved the overall sound quality, according to Dadabots, and it means that the AI generates lots of frenetic bass playing."
There are Intel CPU manuals, optimization manuals, and enough documentation to make an open source driver. That seems quite a bit more open than the M1.
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is like this, but perhaps set a little far into the future to be easily translated into games or movies.
Communism is a woke ideology to these people here. Notice how the upvotes work? Communism good, capitalism bad! Grug mad!
The Solid Project, led by Tim Berners-Lee, is attempting to address at least part of the problem by allowing you to control your own data (e.g., Facebook posts and likes, not that I use Facebook) and move it from one service to another. The services would be the commodity, rather than your personal data.

https://solidproject.org/
What makes you think such an amendment would have enough support to pass? Prior attempts at Social Security reform which diverted as little as 15% of assets away from treasuries were incredibly unpopular.
> Honestly if I could play smash bros on my macbook with my friends and relatives I'd sell my switch today.

So is it any wonder then why they go after hackers?
For people that want to learn "physical engineering", I recommend the same thing I do when people ask people the best way to learn software engineering: you need a project.

Find something in your life that you want to automate, and automate it. Motivation is easier to maintain ("I still want this problem fixed") and you'll learn so much more from failure and iteration than you will following someone else's tutorial about "how to build X".
If all you need are connection info, pump the pcap through zeek and you'll get a nice set of rich tab delimited log files you can analyze.
Seriously. That's a WTF from me, dawg...
The end result is still broken for nearly a quarter of americans and could be fixed with state sponsored care. That dental care is tolerated to be this way is not a good argument for free markets in healthcare working, to me at least.
I'm sure it would include a deadline. My point is the government's deadline would surely be unreasonable.

> I think people are too hesitant to admit that companies that violate the law should be eligible for the "death penalty".

I don't believe in the death penalty for people, and I don't believe in it for companies either. I certainly think that companies get away with too much, and that their leadership should be more personally accountable for fragrant violations of the law. But death is too extreme a punishment.

But at the same time it's the limited liability that allows for innovation. Companies would take far fewer risks, both good and bad, if the people running them were personally liable.
You can probably just keep the casual racism to yourself.
More chances of foreign conflict? Exactly what’s been missing in US foreign policy over the last 100 years!
> it would take years and cost a lot of money for any putative competitor to get a generic version through FDA approvals

It's more than that, the FDA grants advertising exclusivity, which is de jure weaker than patents (the patent office and the law regulates patent criteria, the FDA cannot) but is de facto just as effective, and is an IP lock on the product. (I would also call this "not really free market capitalism")
Me too. However, this also doesn't work properly on a lot of SPAs xD
It’s cliche, but I find it to be true: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”

Mr. Montanez had done the preparation - he’d immersed himself in the company and its products, and was actively looking for ways to contribute to it. I am very confident that this was not the only idea he had to do so; I strongly suspect Frito-Lay discovered that as well, which is why he ended up in upper management.

Now, does it happen for everyone, every time? Of course not. It’s not even numerically possible for everyone to take this path. I’ve always taken pride in immersing myself with the company I work for as well, and while that has worked out very well in some cases in others it has had no apparent effect. That’s OK. I see it as part of my character, not merely as a play for more responsibility (and compensation).

I don’t think it’s just “luck”, though. I think someone who builds this type of character will benefit from it. It may not make them a VP at Frito-Lay, but it will benefit them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
In old school chat rooms, this was usually done by polling for new messages every X seconds, or doing a refresh / reload of an IFrame containing the chat.
"The internet is primarily funded by the collection, analysis, and trade of data-the data economy."

s/internet/www/

The internet is a medium. Interconnected ASNs. Cables, switches, routers, etc. It's hardware.

Whereas the above statement -- which sounds very much like a media-ready soundbite from another author, Shoshana Zuboff -- presumes that a medium is synonymous with whatever it is used for, e.g., a www filled with "content" created as bait in order to lure consumers whereupon "content providers" can then surveil, collect data, process and commercialise it.

If the internet, the medium over which our bits travel, is funded by collection, analysis and trade of data, then why are we paying ISPs? Who is paying the costs of sending all this data to those who will analyze and commercialise it. Consumers are funding those transfer costs.
When talking about issues like freedom and privacy it is useful to distinguish between the government/political organisations and everyone else.

This is because a politically active group knowing your religion could reasonably lead to being murdered or expelled from a country on a mass scale (eg, the world's rich history of kicking Jews out of various places [0]). That could happen anywhere because change is quick. A for-profit corporation knowing my religion ranges from a non-issue to inconvenient except that it is likely to leak to political actors.

The government moving in to fix these issues has a pretty solid risk of doing more harm than good. Countries who had bad SARS scares tended to do well at handling the coronavirus, and other countries tended to do poorly. Similarly I really only trust the European governments to handle privacy at all well because they still have recent scars from what happens if the government can discriminate easily between its citizens.

The people who are of most concern in the privacy debate are much more likely to be hiding out amongst the vocal "oh no there is disinformation" crowd than a credit card company or medical insurer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Expulsions_of_Jews
Is there any flavor of hardware that lets me use PCIe as layer 1 for a TCP/IP stack? Specifically, with a switch in the middle instead of daisy chaining?
>> What competence would make ticket walls go away?

I dont mean this as snark but how about making quality software that is easy to use and has good documentation.

More jokingly: Take down the walls and let some users actually bother developers with their problems until the developers fix those recurring annoyances just for their own sanity. This is probably going too far.
At that point, you probably do just want to go the path of the LGP-30. The registers are the most expensive part. While you could move them into RAM, that has the same performance cost as an accumulator machine, with more control complexity. If you were considering RISC (without compression, anyway) then you're likely not heavily pressed for code density to begin with. It probably could be done in under 100 gates, excluding the shift registers.
I don't understand the desire here.

The classic Logitech C920 ($80) is an excellent true 1080p webcam. [1] It's been around for years.

Who needs better than 1080p from a webcam?

You can manually adjust focus, exposure, color temperature, shutter speed, zoom, everything you need.

Once you've got that, everything else is lighting. Most people drastically underestimate how much of photo/video quality is actually about lighting, as opposed to the camera or lens.

As for audio, if you're investing in the higher quality of an external webcam anyways, then you'll never want a microphone in the webcam. The placement is inherently bad.

You'll want either a lapel mic for normal interviews or meetings, or a podcasting mic on a desk tripod for more serious stuff. A mounted shotgun mic is a kind of in-between option too if you don't want it visible.

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c920-pro-hd-...
This is why you should ask on a public chat; if I'm really too busy to read the Slack channel, I won't read the Slack channel. If, on the other hand, I need a breather or "I'm waiting for the compiler", I might be able to give you some pointers in the right direction or encouragement with what you've already discovered.

I'm not encouraging lazy questions per se; I want people to demonstrate effort (what have you tried?) and ask the right question (X-Y questions), but equally, I appreciate that documentation takes a long time to digest and maybe my opinion is what you want rather than discrete facts.
The closest thing I can think of to a practical, popular example of this was the television series "The Good Place" - nominally about the experience of a person who was incorrectly sent to heaven and their internal discomfort with being in paradise.
> You cam probably beat an ATMega with a STM32 of some kind.

You can run Linux directly on some STM32 MCUs. No emulation required!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm/mach-...

That being said, static operation is really less of an issue than you're implying. Modern MCUs can idle (not sleep!) at under a milliamp; it's not difficult to get them to draw less average current than the leakage current of their battery. The lack of 5V operation is a little annoying in some scenarios, but is easily worked around with a 3.3V LDO -- which is frequently required anyway for interoperability with other components. (A switching converter is hardly necessary for a USB device drawing a couple milliamps.)
Hi Hacker New!
I'm Marat, founder of Scanly. This is my side project that I have been working on recently. Day X has come, I finished the project, it's time to launch here.

We are going through a difficult time, I thought how I could help, and decided that this is not a bad idea. Of course, the idea is not new, but I tried make it well, better than we have now.

Considering that I completely did everything myself, design and development, perhaps this does not yet have a lot of the necessary functionality.

So, if Scanly has users, I plan to add:
Direct Payments
Covid Trace (in some countries this requirement)
Online booking and order

If any of you have someone who needs such a service, I would be happy your recommendation.

And I really excited about your feedback.

Cheers,
Marat
You can frame it that way if you want but it's just not true.

OP has been doing X for 11 months, for free (well, for equity). Right now - today - he owns that equity, regardless of what his partner is asking him to do. If he stops doing X what is his argument against his partner and the investor - who own 50-60% of shares - saying that he's abdicating his duties?
Surely there are provisions in the law for this? Otherwise I could just go to your home, steal one of your wireless security cameras, place it in my house and have you charged with wiretapping?
You've met Dava?
Agree it’s an underrated part of the story. A CEO who was able to recognize, reward, and take a chance on someone who showed initiative and potential. A sadly rare ability in the world of CYA management.
Thank you. I can't really think of a worse way to read twitter than a long form story broken up in to 13 separate posts.
Regarding your first paragraph about directly owning shares for themselves and for clients. That means they are also incentivized to underprice the shares so that they can make a bigger profit. They get to buy in at a lower price and sell at a higher one.
qv Brazil: https://www.ft.com/content/0f31cdb4-b1e1-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6...

Of course, it's entirely possible that in many places everyone is corrupt to some extent, so who gets prosecuted is simply an expression of the factional power struggle.
> Have you ever started a project that should take a couple hours with a fifty dollar budget, and realized at the end you spent a whole month on it and spent close to a thousand bucks?

Ah man, costs aside, that's my last weekend and probably the next few ones as I've been trying to make my old Motorola Xoom tablet run a modern kernel. When/if that's completed, the return on investment will be a net loss.
This story is being made into a movie. The twitter thread, no doubt, is an effort to promote it. See

https://www.newsweek.com/flamin-hot-cheeto-movie-true-story-...

See IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8105234/
grab connectx3s from eBay, they're 20-30 quid a pop.
Without seeing what's out there I don't think any such trees would make sense to draw. There's too many possible ones, and the branches would just be "?". We could be cousins of several sorts, convergently evolved to have some similarities, be completely unrelated in any way to other life, or any of several combinations of those.

And that's just the broad strokes, trees would be the details.

It's worth noting also that even only considering life on Earth that we already know about, the "tree of life" is already kind of a broken abstraction. Consider bacteria that are able to share genetic material without an ancestor relationship for instance, or closer to home even viruses that infect humans or any other kind of mammals. They affect our genetics in ways the tree doesn't/can't capture.
This is extremely bizarre and I am still finding myself asking "Is this a joke?"

Are they really going to sell what is essentially a NUC + a GPU + a chicken heater?
Then they have established a lower bound on the value of their shares.
Convert web pages into PDFs with Puppeteer and Node.js
I love clojure and I wholeheartedly agree with what you say, if that serves anything.

I don't understand, for example, why stacktraces do not fold by default everything from clojure.core. Can't we assume that the language implementation is right for 99.999% of the world's stacktraces, and only show functions in other namespaces? In case some day someone finally triggers an error in clojure, you toggle a parameter and get the full stack.
There is nothing sadder or more impotent than corporate (cyber-)punk.

The irony of the save file corruption issue being tied to "too much crafting" given the DIY ethos of punk is palpable.