skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have some options:

1. Hire the best lawyer you can afford. This is easier said than done because there are relatively few lawyers who are qualified to do this kind of work. The ones who are qualified will be very expensive and unless I’m missing some key details, I don’t think you have much chance of coming out of litigation with a profit. You might come out with a W, but I don’t think it will be worth the cost.

2. Assume that this startup is fucked, leave and keep a good relationship with the seed investor.

3. Assume that this startup is fucked, stall for a month until you actually own stock and then you have some leverage. BUT, depending on where you live, you may/might/likely will incur a tax liability on those shares. If you already assume that the startup is fucked, talk with an accountant to figure out what this strategy will do to your 2020 taxes owing.

4. Assume that the startup is fucked and name the company/your cofounder. It would be damned nice to avoid this toxic piece of shit in the future.

Outside of those options, I don’t see any other good choices.
On my bucket list to check out. Still stuck on trying out Zig.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25502764
I'm not sure when you tried. The current state-of-the-art emulation for melee is much more responsive than console melee; on a high-refresh-rate gaming monitor, you have 2 whole frames of extra input lag to play around with. For local play you can just set the appropriate buffer to match console melee; if you're playing online, those frames are used to send inputs to your opponent(s), making online possible without any extra delay.
Or they're just, you know, prosecuting crime, which is their job.
Assuming that the counter state is on the client. A button with an event listener that runs x.innerHTML = state.counter++ makes a lot more sense than a round trip to the server.

Just looked and Turbo is 135kb. I rewrote this website (http://40.115.126.159/) with my own JS framework and it comes at 15kb, that's 9x smaller Turbo...
There are many 1d standards. How many did you try?
Cyber technology shares soar as security attacks pile up
I agree, just the company under consideration will have to provide comparable level of access to information to enable meaningful analysis and this is hard to happen without regulation.

The other option is if the company does not cooperate because it is free not to which will turn the IPO into a cat in a bag investment. It will attract the risk-seeking, the stupid, and those with insider information. On the other hand, if the company does not have the marketing cloud and is underfunded, it will have to spend some money to attract the investor's attention which might be as costly as paying a dedicated proxy. It would be interesting to watch.
To me as an outsider too, it seems one middle path is to pay people doing the work in equity thus gradually diluting away people who left. In the beginning, the guy who left owns a large piece of a small pie, as time goes they will own smaller and smaller piece of a larger and larger pie.
Check out the Reactiflux discord! It's been invaluable to me as I've been facing similar challenges using TS and Redux
https://discord.com/invite/reactiflux
I thought it got delisted because CDPR said they'd refund people and Sony said we-dont-do-that-here and went nuclear?
Governance Minimization
The only reason I was interested in this game was immersion of a rich world. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it was something like, sit at an ultra cool street cafe, and watch what happens in night city. To let the world come to me if I was only willing to listen and watch. A world where there is mystery and intrigue, but not fed to you. A world where you buy a coffee, later look at your bank statement, find that he's copied your bank credentials, and stealing from his customers in small withdrawals. Only to learn he's a small time side hustler with a thing for nutcracker dolls.
Just upgraded my webcam to a very cheap action cam (60 euros). Huge upgrade compared to the laptop camera, but still pretty bad with low lighting. Using a good action cam like the insta360 might be a good fit for someone looking for a better webcam.
It's still good enough. 1080p or 4k is totally unnecessary for a Zoom meeting.
Every time we do genetic engineering, we're creating life. And the consequences have not been insane. We just accept and move on.
Right on the money.

I’m not sure I get people’s use cases here. Ok, if you’re creating/streaming video, I get that you need a good webcam.

But for your teams’ standups, refinements etc...is video quality really an issue?

Usually I’m in a call with 5-10 others. One will be sharing a screen or we will be collaborating on a whiteboard. Other people’s webcam feeds are stamp-sized somewhere in the periphery of my vision. Most people want to hide their surroundings and will use a lame backdrop or a blur filter.

So we’re talking about spending hundreds of dollars to make your 100x100 pixel face that no one is looking at anyway a bit sharper?
Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer
> There is however that there are operational advantages in outsourcing non-core areas of their business. If they hire a specialized contractor to do maintenance tasks then you no longer have to bother with gaining expertise in that area, and you can even scale up and down your service to meet demands.

From what I've seen in practice, it's always about the outside "specialized contractor" breaking various labor laws and generally screwing workers over in order to drive costs down. This way, even with the contractor markup, the company saves money and, at the same time, is not liable and does not take a reputation hit. It's a win-win for everybody but the workers. I guess they don't put that in the MBA textbooks though.
True, but also the amount of press it's gotten in the positive direction feels artificial as well. Can we all just stop talking about this non-entity? I'll try it in 5 years for $10 on a steam sale when my old-ass hardware runs it, and my expectations are 0, and it's fully patched.
The key operational advantage is that you avoid providing any worker protections and can better achieve a race to the bottom via competitive tendering to low-margin outsourcing providers hiring minimum wage employees on temporary contracts.
It’s true, in a way the tree of life runs in the opposite direction.
In case anyone from Basecamp sees this thread:

The introductory video is far too long, far too technical (I know a lot about web dev but don't know a lick of Ruby or Rails) and far too fast to follow. I was really interested in Hotwire because of the comments here and now… not so much anymore.

(Which of course doesn't say anything about the quality of the tech. I just thought I'd post my first impression of the website.)
Help people out on calculus take home exams? Mind as well direct them to Discord where there’s plenty of help.
Yeah CEOs never get enough respect. Also they're paid FAR too little for having an insight a child would have...

Good leadership is rare, you're right, and I don't think CEOs deserve credit for demonstrating good leadership. Good leadership should be table stakes for that position; the bare minimum.

What needs to change are the astonishingly weak disincentives (and sometimes, actual incentives) aimed at bad CEOs.

If you can worm your way into a CEO position of a company you didn't start yourself, and you DON'T demonstrate good leadership qualities with regularity, then a good old-fashioned CEO-blacklisting seems very appropriate, to me; you just don't get to be a CEO anymore.
Seconded. Yeah sure it's a junk food but it's not like he invented Opium or explosives or something. Give the guy a break!
The company's ownership is divided in shares, also called equity. A cap(italization) table details the distribution of equity. In this example, 40.8% (= 51% * 80%) for founder 1, 39.2% (= 49% * 80%) for founder 2 (assuming it's OP), 10% for investor and 10% for something called options that may be granted in the future to new employees that allows them to buy shares of the company at a low price. 4-year reverse vesting with 1-year cliff means that if one of the founders leaves before 1 year of signing the contract, they are forced to sell at no profit (still, not $0) the entirety of their shares to the other shareholders. After 1 year of staying at the company, they may keep 1/4 of their shares and are forced to sell only the rest. Following that 1 year mark, they earn the right every month at the company to keep ~0.833% (= 40% / 48 as there are 48 months in 4 years) of their shares and forced to sell the rest. At the 4 year mark of staying, they are no longer forced to sell any of the initial set of shares. It does not apply to any future grants for which new conditions or new schedules may apply.
Nearly half of Seattle’s helmet citations go to homeless people
> there's still only 0.4 billion years

In terms of time, yes. I was thinking in terms of observable spacetime volume. Even though there's only about 0.4 billion years before z = 11, the scale factor increased by a huge factor during that time (a factor of 100 from CMBR emission at z = 1100 to z = 11). That's a lot of spacetime volume from which we have no useful observations.
That is a pretty smart idea actually.
Just because it's how American journalism works doesn't mean I can't complain about it. And your reverse is also true; just look at any conservative news site.
It says third highest in the third sentence of article.
Congratulations on the release! It looks very interesting. Does the GUI library embed a web-view, or does it use native controls? What's you estimate of when it will be available for Android and iOS?
This Car Is Powered by Salt Water: 760HP, Top Speed 186 MPH, 621 Miles/Tank
This is definitely how I read the situation when it was announced.
Physics for 5-year olds.

"Da bloobley-fly gets FWOOSHED back by da wadiation pwessuwe fwom da instawation"

There's an article I would read- 'physics as explained by my toddler'.
This is an absolutely wonderful question. 43 year old me wishes that I had gotten this exact piece of advice when I was 23...
> Those who wait until it gets "good enough" for them might miss the wave

What do you mean? Are you saying that application developers should go out of their way to make their apps available for Windows on ARM? Do you think they'll miss out on users if they don't?
> How can a person be more playful?

Increase your personality trait Openness-to-experience. Increase it responsibly. Here's an article about one possible course of action to take:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els...

My personal opinion would be to add: "Reduce your disgust impulse."

> Has anyone else felt this way?

Sorry, not me. Mine's off the charts. So playful it's sometimes hard to fully adult. But I think I've got a good balance going.
I don’t really follow the gaming press and couldn’t tell you what generation of PlayStation / X-Box / etc. we’re on, so I’m unfamiliar with how previous buggy games were received.

My experience is that it’s a fun game with some minor problems. If you like cyberpunk books or media, you’ll love it. The writing team put a lot of effort into crafting a backstory of the world.

Overall it reminds me of the original Neuromancer novel; moments of sheer brilliance mixed with moments of tacky, embarrassingly bad writing. That specific quality is part of the genre’s history, to me, and I think a lot of the criticism toward 2077 is from people who haven’t read much of the previous books.
"Literally" doesn't mean what you think it means.
It depends on you phone.

I tried it with my phone and latencies made it unusable for video-conference usages. Given that this is my main usage reasonable low latenzies are for me much more important then super good image quality. So when I had to buy one recently I ended up with a ~70€ not super good but not bad webcam. I thing normally I might have bought something like a C920 but prices-return ratio was just madness when I bought (sight, Covid19 madness ;=) )
What happened this year which leads you to believe in a "black privilege," and why would such a topic need to be discussed at the exclusion of discussing white privilege?
Agree completely that poster would want the right kind of lawyer – someone who specializes in this kind/scale of business, and that reaching out to acquaintances/etc who've been in relevant situations may be as valuable or more than legal advice.

Agree also that lawyer-billing-on-the-clock gets expensive fast. But unless poster already has a go-to trusted counsel – which seems not to be the case – the mere act of "shopping around" can get 15m-1h of unbilled pre-engagement discussion from a bunch of lawyers. Essentially, poster could type up a 1-2 page brief, in more confidential detail than the post here, and have dozens of short conversations with lawyers (some of which would read the brief 1st) about key issues, tactics, & potential outcomes. The contrasts between what lawyers say, & what they ask about, will be as informative as any one conversation.
It doesn't matter how good the technology is if it's controlled by scammers.
I'm 100% avoiding on principle ever working with a founder who ruthlessly terminated a partner in month 11 of a cliff without simply accelerating the cliff, so there's not much need to litigate that point.
How neutering dogs became the norm
> small fee

A generous 7%. I would like a small cut of this small fee.
Didn't nintendo lobby to make game rentals illegal in Japan at least?
should the university system really just be an organized academic competition for undergraduates?

I think the solution is as you say -- make assignments that are hard to cheat on -- but also reduce the incentive to cheat. Just make it less important. High-stakes closed exams and emphasis on ranking students will certainly make cheating worse.
This is why I'm against the trend of treating computing devices as if they're appliances or app consoles.

Imagine if Apple or Google went after you for rooting your phone, or legally hacking on your laptop.
I've been using this tactic for years http://lukasz-madon.github.io/Password-management/
No webview, that's not our way :) Although we do have a webview module for embedding the system's webview component.

The GUI library renders everything, and the result looks very similar to the native widgets:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vlang/ui/c2f802a137b5171da...

We are going to support native widgets, for example TextBox will be native due to accessibility and support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean/R2L input.

However things like text rendering will always be handled by the V graphics library, since GDI+ is just way too slow (calculating text bounds is ~10 times slower than in V), and Apple's drawing API is not very nice to use, and it's also 2-3 times slower at rendering text.
The Faroe Islands are part of Denmark, not Norway.
Why Norad Tracks Santa Claus
Not paying the person in between? I worked at PepsiCo for a little and most of their job responsibilities weren’t unique to the product offering or business model.
in my opinion, it was almost certainly not a factor whatsoever and suggesting that it was is a silly way to try to score points and/or start a fight
It sounds like you own 40% of something fairly valuable and now that it's 11 months into your contract other founder who needed your help is getting greedy and trying to push you out before you are owed anything.

You said it yourself, you've grown hugely, you're dominating SEO since you joined, and built loads of products. This is your 'partner' getting greedy after you've done a lot of hard work. It wouldn't have happened without you. Don't undersell yourself.

Your 40% is worth $400k based on that initial funding valuation, right? Assuming it's as successful as you seem to be implying, it is almost certainly worth more now.

Everyone is telling you to roll over but seriously, fuck them. This other toxic guy is the one who should be getting pushed out, not you.

The other investor ultimately has power in this situation, not you or him, so whoever convinces them that they are the person to go with gets the seat and gets to continue with the project.

If he has a good relationship there you're probably fucked, but results matter... and if you can prove you've done great stuff since joining and and have great plans for the future, he can be replaced.

To be clear: this guy has decided to blow up the project so he can get a bigger share, if it all fails now he can only blame himself.
Pure JS developers trying to jump off the JS train have a few decent choices now:

- Elixir / Phoenix

- .NET / Blazor

- Laravel / Livewire

- Rails / Hotwire

Or hold on for the JS ecosystem to figure out good patterns that balance performance/maintainability (React Server Components look ok, and will probably trickle into Next.js for those who want a framework).

Does one of the above stand out as a good thing to learn from a career perspective, say, for a JS developer growing tired of frontend?

Is the thirst for React developers ever likely to dry up and leave devs who know these frameworks with an advantage?
So I think there's a lot more nuance to this than is accurately being conveyed here. I can make a decent guess by two important factors to your post and a third supposition. 1) you specify ads on the internet (this is actually important because it specifically refers to your digital footprints) 2) you say you're not in the West and suggest a smaller developing country. I don't think it is unlikely then that you aren't as well tracked around the web. 3) more speculation, but judging by you being on HN and saying "when I do get them" I'm guessing you use ad blockers or have some privacy preserving features that help. This also reduces your digital footprint and irrelevant ads would be a marker of success of these products instead of irrelevance of ads (if 3 doesn't apply to you, I know it is applying to some here and they aren't thinking about it this way).

But I guess some things to look out for. There are far more than just "you might be interested in this product" type of ads. There are political ads, public awareness ads, moral campaigns/religious ads. There are ads that aren't intended to get you to buy a product but rather to be satisfied with your purchase (see coke). There are ads that are used to sell prestige and status associated with a brand (see cars and watches). There's native advertising[0] which often goes unnoticed and is a frequent guest on HN. The tricky things of ads is that they come in a wide variety of flavors but people think "coke" is the only kind of soda. It is also a cat and mouse game. Old Spice created their ridiculous ads (called anti-advertising) to stand out because saturation of one type took over. Native advertising has been growing over the last decade and taken prominence in the space and the entire intent of native advertising is to be an ad without the reader/viewer knowing that they are watching an ad.

Sure, maybe they don't affect you. But how sure can you be? Especially with the knowledge of native advertising. But let's assume they do not work on you. Does it matter if they work on others? It would be an absurd notion to suggest that they don't. With hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on ads per year (by single companies!) it would be a bit odd for them to be throwing this money down the drain. It would be a bit odd for politicians to do this as well. And once you accept the notion that political ads are a thing I think you have to accept that ads can persuade people to do things beyond buying a product. Carnegie and Rockafeller both used advertising to increase their public image in the early 20th century.

It would be odd for people to spend so much money on something that isn't effective.

Edit: I wanted to give a good example. If you watch "The Boys" on Amazon Prime (great show) you can see how Starfire's memes are all in fact a part of a marketing scheme and about brand awareness. This would be a version of native advertising, and one we've seen quite frequently, especially around political campaigns. But I don't think these types of memes even register as ads in most peoples' minds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
I agree, I once took a shot at porting ZXing to the Microsoft Hololens. I was amazed that there aren't very many open source barcode interpreters available right now.
so you blame gerald ford for the 1976 west point cheating scandal? or do you think it was a time-delayed nixon effect?
Isn't this entire story the answer to that question? Hiring employees who care and feel a sense of ownership pays off.
The CSO explicitly said they "expect" you can, and "at some point" it will be documented.

They have yet to explicitly state in any way that they will ensure firmware receives security updates.
Ya same here. I've been doing web dev for 13 years and was genuinely looking forward to this magical HTML only solution of theirs but left feeling deceived after finding out it's rails.
XRP is a security, so is Ethereum, as both have been issued to collect initial funding. Bitcoin is not a security because it hasn't been issued to collect funding.

To me the distinction is very clear and simple. However if I really needed money I still would probably issue an ICO and claim it is not a security because there is a big possibility that it will go unnoticed as SEC goes only after the bigger fish.
Conventional wisdom is discrimination against privileged groups such as white men is less offensive because they’ve endured so much less of it.

On one hand, it’s true. It’s part of white privilege which is tangible.

On the other hand, however less often people in a privileged class are realistically impacted by discrimination, it’s still > 0.0%. Since it usually costs nothing more to include everyone it seems useful.

But I think the biggest reason it’s important to care about discrimination wherever it shows up and not let people off the hook is that it’s unifying.

There’s a story out of Buddhism that suggests it’s important to think equally kindly about rich people, kind of similar in that they’re a privileged class.

I know it’s a hard sell. I don’t do it justice here. However a powerful argument can be made that not disparaging privileged classes, actually helps us all in the long run/big picture.

If I get down voted I understand, that’s ok. If it makes a difference I don’t mean to minimize the 10,000 year history of pain suffered by any humans due to discrimination.
Practically, there's nothing stopping companies from intimidating people through surveillance or the threat of lawsuits. It's the chilling effect in action.
I guess so, that's why its so popular. Despise of what some people say about it, it tries to make better for all C flaws and introduces modern features to bring continuity to the language.
This is a correlation that you've observed that is actually caused by a third variable: these are often low-wage and low-leverage positions. Easily replaceable, low wage employees are common victims of labor law violations regardless of whether they're contractors or not. Employees that are in no position to fight back often get screwed.
Stuff Made Here guy's workshop is peak envy. The tools he's got there are just incredible.
Unless a detailed reason is given up front it's best to assume the heat death of the universe will arrive before you are told why your app got rejected in retrospect. The best bet is to reapply like they did and hope it doesn't get rejected. If it's still rejected now you hope you can generate enough noise on social media to get ahold of someone that can actually fix it.
Networking for Future Founders
Owner of P2415Q, can't say that ghosting on mine is extraordinary.

You have to choose between ghosting or proper colours, higher refresh rate IPS panels are better in this metric but still suck compared to TNs.
I remember from first publications about V lang that felt like a hoax: reams of exciting promises and basically nothing to show for them.'

It's great to see that it's not s hoax, and it starts to somehow flesh out.