skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad news: If the CEO wants you out, by default, you should leave. It won't work to stay wrt high-pressure collaboration & trust, and is a warning sign against continued growth. Worse, they are likely about to fire you over the equity + performance, and unless you have single-trigger, you get 0 equity. Even if you keep equity after you leave, 40% equity is too much 'dead weight' for professional investors to not pressure them to wipe you out after you leave.

Question is how replaceable are you. (Sadly, most people are.) If the plan is a funding round, they'll need you or a new technical cofounder (they may be replacing you anyway?), they'll need equity to represent that. good news there is they want someone proven or harder to raise. The founder may also be wanting to keep > 50% after funding dilution.

I'd stretch it out 1mo till you got your cliff, so you get your 5% or whatever vested locked in. Then I'd try to figure out why the reln is broken, and if you truly want to stay / can fix it. Negotiation wise, I'd assume you are leaving, and maybe they are playing hardball. Asking for a buyout doesn't work as they are cash poor, and keeping too much equity doesnt bc they can just fire you. they may also decide to wipe you out after you leave by issuing more stock to remove dead weight on cap table.

Maybe: Offer to stay on until you help get a good replacement at 90% efficacy, and keep vesting at high rate, then leave. Say you are good for partial buyouts during the next rounds.

if you have single trigger, you have way more leverage. if a success 10yrs / 1000 employees / $1B from now and you leave now, you'd have contributed little of the ultimate work, and your equity & departure more of a hindrance during fundraising, so leave it w even 5-10% now is fairish.

edit: I would discuss w a startup lawyer. if you break the reln now w money still in trust of the untrustworthy ceo, like equity to sell at next rounds, you may want extra protections on it, like conversion dates to something more liquid.
Correction: They shipped the feature at launch but it had a bug where some copyrighted material was missed.
twit.ch?
Apple could just buy Wistrom with money they would scrounge under the sofas at their HQ.
West Point is not a run-of-the-mill academic institution. Its mission is to recruit people of character and train them for positions of leadership. Cadets must be nominated by a member of Congress, or by the President or Vice President. West Point occupies a special place in the US, both at present and throughout the country's history: https://www.westpoint.edu/about/history-of-west-point
...and judging by your comment history, you work for USPS? The fuck does your job have to do with Tor?
Look at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and Netflix. Laws don’t stop piracy, good legal options stop piracy. The reason people pirated music wasn’t because the piracy sites were great, it’s because music companies wanted to charge ridiculous prices for something they would broadcast on the radio for free.
I would not say Rust is "a new and untested technology"
FSFE is a legally distinct entity from the FSF.
commercial is a simple as running ads
>local citizens

US mil doesn't usually restrict itself to sacrificing local citizens. Any unarmed innocents will suffice to keep the dow going up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists FTW
It isn’t necessarily nefarious. Account signups, bill payments and any ‘commercial activity’ conducted from Tor exits receives additional scrutiny in the security and fraud teams of many companies. Known exits may also be blocked entirely.

Due to the nature of what Tor is and provides it’s unfortunately somewhat expected that bad behaviors happen significantly more from Tor exits than from users on an IP address from residential providers like Comcast.
Beside browsing 90' websites you can't do much with tor.
Coinbase’s response to recent proposed rulemaking from the U.S. Treasury, FinCEN
What will 2021 bring for Alt VC?
If it takes 1 hour to cook a batch of cookies and the cookie monster has 15 ovens working 24 hours a day every day for 5 years, how long does it take the cookie monster to make 6000000 batches of cookies?

Math doesn't add up does it...
sounds to me the question is why can't you buy an _high-end_ streaming camera with integrated microphone for an _affordable price_.

I use Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam[1] along with Headphones and very very happy for all my needs. From calls to recording training sessions and demos.

[1]
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-BRIO-Conferencing-Recording-...
Hopefully trust is always at zero for any adult with critical faculties.
Hmmm. I actually quite like 2160p as a simple upgrade over 1080p; usually I just solve the screen real estate problem by buying more monitors. You can get the 24UD58-B for about $200 used on eBay, so this is not a large cost.
I used to have a two-monitor setup with a Dell (? not sure) and an Eizo, both using the exact same panel. I started with one monitor and then got the Eizo. The difference in picture quality and eye comfort was absolutely jaw-dropping. Dell looked and felt like a complete junk in comparison.

Make what you will of this, but it's not just a panel per se, it's also how it's integrated and used in the whole product.
The side that is getting killed at 100x the rate isn't winning either.
Just like GDPR, doing business in a country subjects you to the laws of said country regardless of where you are incorporated. If this wasn’t the case, a lot of companies would only have to follow the laws of Panama or the Cayman Islands.
In a a lot of bigger companies, developers don't need to partake in certain kinds of decision making, management makes the hard decisions for them. Why is this a dismal view? Not everything is a startup, and some people who I've talked to who enjoy the corporate life have told me they see this as a positive because it makes their job easier.
From the article:

> Under current law, only violations of the reproduction and distribution rights of copyright owners can be charged as felonies, while criminal infringement via streaming (or “publicly performing”) can only be charged as a misdemeanor. This is known as the streaming loophole – and it is particularly harmful to the U.S. economy because streaming has become the most common form of criminal copyright infringement.

This has nothing to do with torrents which would already be covered under the existing law. My understanding is that neither apply to non-commercial activities which instead fall under civil law.
Sweden's neutrality, at least during the cold war, always seemed like neutrality in official policy, but heavily leaned towards the west with all sorts of cooperation and ties to NATO nations.

It was 'neutrality' in some ways, but cooperation with NATO that seemed very much not neutral.
This sounds like shooting the messenger. If it’s practical to break TOR (even just in part rather than in whole), it still will be even if @moocowtruck does change employer — you just won’t have anyone alerting you that you’re insufficiently cautious.
I'll echo this from my experience managing development tools for a 40 person team. At first, someone is asking you questions because the tool is new, no one knows where resources on it might be, but they do know you work on it. If this continues, it's because whatever non-you resources that are available aren't answering questions adequately. So change/update the docs until they can answer the questions for you.

/That said, there's always someone who develops the heuristic that asking you is faster. So, don't be.
As long as it's not the NSA doing the tracking (they own a sufficient percentage of the nodes).
I've heard good things about "Methods of Rationality". Worth reading?
I think the inverse is more accurate. Services like spotify have very significantly reduced music piracy. If a reasonably priced legal alternative exists, people will tend to use it. Piracy only thrives at large scale when content is too difficult or expensive to access legally.
It's like when police say they got $1B of weed off the streets, but it would only equal that if you sold it as dime bags for $20. It totally ignores that getting the theoretical maximum profit out of a product is impossible.
>That's a pretty funny way to say "all but one or two posts out of 25 are not related to politics at all".

That's not wrong, but it also has nothing to do with my previous comments, which were only talking political lean, not the presence/absence of politics.
I see what you mean, but the existence of thriving mod communities proves otherwise. People do want to fiddle with games and make their own derivative works.

Also, concerns about tracking and privacy.
What keeps the OP from saying they'd rather work alone on it and the other cofounder leave instead, then see what the co-founder want to leave. If they come with some amazing demands, the same demands can be used by the OP to leave.
I am not sure that is the case. Remember when it was said that BTC anonymous marketplaces couldn't be stopped. They are regularly broken up and many prosecuted and put in jail. Of course more arise but the FBI and others are constantly "mowing the grass" to keep it under control. Mowing the grass works, it doesn't make the problem worse, it reduces the scope and number of players, and disincentives many players.
Nor is it a surprise. Prospective cadets learn about the Honor Code as part of the application process. It's not like they report and find out about it on day one. (Although nominated and accepted, I chose not to attend West Point.)
Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab
Next post you'll be complaining that the food the people are buying is unhealthy.
Sorry you had this happen to you. I had something similar just when the startup looked like it was going to take off the other co-founders tried to shake me down for my shares, threaded me with complete theft of my shares if I didn't accept some insulting, contract breaking amount. The company went on to do unsuccessful ICO scam and things worked out well for me getting out
The whole bill is nonsense like this, on one hand, and unrelated pork on the other. 700 million to Sudan? Find a non-Sudanese-American who thinks that's a good idea. Just one. Find one. Millions for "gender" programs in Pakistan. Oh, good, that will cheer me up when I am doing my taxes in April. And the usual tribute to Israel.

Curiously, the President finally gets some money for his wall, so that's at least plausibly for the good of the people, though I doubt it will ameliorate any damage done by Covid-19. Actually, Covid-19 made it less useful than before, but whatever.
I want to upvote this some more.
> When _some_ make this choice to be at the top, _all_ must make this choice to be at the top. At that point it's a roulette of who will dare take the most drugs and live to win.

This is exactly what happens in sport today. Some made the choice to make it all of their life and train from dusk to dawn, eat some kind of protein powders that bring in the exact amount of nutriments etc.

The others must do the same to beat them.

I really see no difference between allowing to have a nutritionist, a personal coach, a bioengineer and access to all kind of legal substances that do not exist in nature and just let it go, grab some popcorn and see.

This is still a choice, a tough one, but a choice.

Then we will have these Roman-like competitions where some die and some survive (with the difference that they choose it knowingly) and the teams of people who instead of watching sport on TV will go to play an amateur match themselves.

I do not like competitive sport because it is made to look like something natural while it is not. The same way I do not care about boxers who get Parkinsons after repeated hits in their head or the ones who climb towers to make a selfie on the top and slip, I do not care about these who decided to modify their physiology to be the best at one specific precise action.

It ends with US universities "graduating" people who can barely write their name because they were good in basketball. The person who graduated in the same major as them and had to work (and get into the university in the first place) may not be happy. But there is money behind so who cares.
The converse relationship seems well represented by some recent digital music access like iTunes and Spotify. Many would-be customers turn to piracy when piracy is _more_ convenient than legitimate alternatives. I think movies and tv shows have become more accessible through legitimate channels, but the fragmentation of the streaming platforms certainly limits future convenience.
I seriously doubt a bunch of first-year cadets with a looming calculus exam sat around in their dorms thinking "what would Trump do?". Yours is one several comments here expressing this sentiment, and aside from what it says about your capacity for independent thought, it illustrates an inability--all too pervasive these days--to conceive of any issue in non-trumpian terms.
This appears to be correct from reading the (very short) text[0]. Everyone discussing this law should really read the text instead of reading whatever nonsense the media is spinning.

Here's the full text of what is being prohibited:

> PROHIBITED ACT.

> — It shall be unlawful to willfully, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or provide to the public a digital transmission service that

> (1) is primarily designed or provided for the purpose of publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law;

> (2) has no commercially significant purpose or use other than to publicly perform works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law;

> or (3) is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law.

From my understanding, this basically means they'll go after platforms (since they are the ones doing the act of offering to the public a digital transmission service).

[0] https://www.tillis.senate.gov/services/files/A30B0C08-FB97-4...
There's a software solution to this: https://reincubate.com/camo/

Use an old phone for your webcam. The quality is terrific, up to 4k. You just need a phone stand.
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Seems like a wasted term for something only 10 people in the world will care about doing.
I would say that the right to human dignity is being impinged upon by most of the *phobic types of discourse.

[edit] A citation: https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.asp...
Hey! Hope someone can help me with this question. How does the data exploration phase look like in a federated learning context? Most of the times (most probably always) before applying any ML algorithm we'd look at the data and explore it. How can this be done in this case if data is not available to see? Even in the example in the blog post of Flower the dataset is loaded directly without any pre-processing (which is usually the case in real life).
Definitely do not sell / give away that shareholding.
It may well become 40$ of nothing, but it could also become 3% of nothing or almost-nothing, and the co-founder will have been paying himself a return when the company gets revenue.

I suspect there may be other personal/personality issues here and he may well like the idea of hacking alone on this, now that it appears to be viable. However, he has an agreement with you, and you made commitment, put in effort too. That's why you have a shareholding.

Do not just give that up, unless he makes it worth your while 'now'.
Seems like what we are all after is a good software mod that turns your phone into a good quality, USB-connected camera. I have tried some but they create a cumbersome webstreaming service that ads delay and compression overhead.

The sound would not be great, granted, but that can be easily fixed with a separate microphone connected to the PC or the phone itself, a lavalier microphone with Bluetooth etc.
You need a lawyer, not internet advice.
I just wanted something to capture transmitted light images on a real-longterm setup. Turns out the best method is to wheel a simple tissue culture microscope to a warm room and put a cell phone on the eyepiece :) made some cool movies for sure!
Don't give anything away, worth case - you've lost 11 month. People have been working for nothing longer than that.
This seems like the most realistic and likely answer. My co-founder hasn't really been budging so far and I feel like they don't fully understand the situation. They think that because it was their idea that they are entitled to a lot more than me.

One issue for me is that I don't have that much faith in them being able to execute on the company vision by themself, e.g. they don't want to monetize right now or do a revenue split for reasons I'm unclear about, which makes the practicality of monthly payments tricky.
I don't know if it is a fully global phenomenon, but it is certainly not a US-Centric one.

For every politician who is in the news for 'bragging' about not paying taxes, there's usually at least one politician finger-wagging at them that avoids taxes to the same extent, but is just 'quiet' about it.

People who are decrying cheating while cheating themselves are a far larger problem; when someone boasts they don't pay taxes, everyone else can point at them and go 'what an asshole!'. But when people discover someone doesn't pay taxes, yet goes after those who are public about not doing so, -that- is when the idea that 'everybody cheats'. becomes cemented.
> without ads, without in-app purchases, and without tracking

I don't see where they are discouraging paying for games?

I do see them discouraging insidious tracking, advertisements masquerading as gameplay, and lottery systems designed to enrich the game developer at the expense of the actual gamer.
I don't subscribe to the kind of expressions someone who's been asleep comes up with thinking they're marvelous (IoT for Internet, Digital Marketing for Marketing).

We write code so others don't have to. The tools we use enable us to accomplish work with lower code than we would have had to write. I'll go with that definition.

I was recently in a meeting with a client who shared a diagram on the screen for the architecture they were imagining. Their part and our part. He illustrated that they'd have their data sent to us, and we'd train models and then make them available so they could invoke them to receive a JSON response.

At that moment I sent a DM to our CEO on the call saying: do you realize that how much work we will not do because of our platform. When the client finished, I said that we already have that. We have a machine learning platform that has real time collaboration on notebooks, automatic experiment tracking, one click deployment, etc.

The client said he wished we'd be able to deploy these models as Docker containers in their own infrastructure. Check, we already have that.

Pain point after pain point. The client then put his hands on his head and asked his colleagues on the call: "Why are we fucking around trying to build whatever we're building since there's all that? Why don't we just use that?"

It was really nice to hear because before our platform, I or colleagues would have had to make yet another application, deploy it on yet another VM on GCP or something for their users. Train the models, track experiments with ad-hoc [logs or spreadsheets or a colleague's human memory], have notebooks flying around, etc, and do that over and over again. So that shaved a huge amount of work and context-switch. My colleagues weren't bothered at all with this client. This is a luxury we didn't have a couple of years ago.

We built that platform precisely so we don't have to do a certain number of things over and over again for every client. It felt nice to be expected to do something in the future, and have that already done in the present.

So, that's my definition. Anything that reduces the amount of work unnecessarily done by one or all of us is welcome. Anything that reduces the variance of outcome. Anything that reduces cognitive load. Anything that makes success a bit more systematic and consistent.
I've got DroidCam X and it's very flaky with random freezes and disconnects, where I have to relaunch the PC-side app.
I went to a target school. Most reputable TAs and Professors I've met agree grades are mostly a scam. Historical issues with grade inflation or large curve disparities across semesters because departments force fixed grading distributions, devoid of any context. It makes it harder to design fair exams and homeworks. The only thing grades are good for are improvement indicators - not if you did well with understanding the material of the class you took. Some professors choose students to assist in classes based on how they improved from prerequisites, rather than if they got an A/B/C.
Yep, Logitech makes good ones. Recently upgraded C920 to StreamCam, both are awesome. The reason for the upgrade, neighbors borrowed my C920 for remote schooling of their kid due to the pandemic.
DroidCam connected via USB on my Android smartphone makes a great 1080p webcam. The latency is minimal.

It has great linux support and works great with OBS (and its chroma key filter)
I think it’s honestly just folks talking past each other because these situations are isolated judgement calls, and some folks feel that

// #1, in essence
result = a => map => reduce => transform

is easier to read and understand, while others feel that

// #2, in essence
aThing = a => map
aggregation = aThing => reduce
result => aggregation => transform

is easier to read and understand. Folks in camp #1 think camp #2 is creating too much abstraction by naming all the data each step of the way, and camp #2 thinks camp #1 is creating too much abstraction by naming all the functions each step of the way.

Really it’s just these two mental modalities butting up against each other, because you will separate your layers in different ways for increased clarity depending on which camp you fall into. What makes things clearer for camp #1 makes things less clear for camp #2, and vice versa.

That’s my suspicion anyway: the premise of the discussion is just a little off.
BBC News begins taking the lab origin theory as probable
Bullshit. You stream a poem and you will be put in chains if the US Attorney has beef.
Compile 1M Lines Of C++ In ~2 Minutes With A 16 Core Ryzen 9 5950x
I could be wrong, but I always understood the primary purpose of XRP as a mechanism to increase liquidity. Since Ripple is all about cross-border payments, you're potentially dealing with hundreds of currencies. So if you were a bank that needed to do global business, you'd be required to hold a subset of each traded currency in nostro/ vostro accounts. XRP was then meant to be the "standardized" currency that member-banks in the Ripple ecosystem could transaction with.

Since you as a bank would only need your own fiat currency + XRP, you could materially cut down on additional costs from holding all the other accounts. When it comes time to convert currencies, because Ripple (XRP) transactions settle in seconds, the period you're exposed to market volatility is virtually zero, so you can move in and out of a position in XRP in exchange for whatever other currency you need almost immediately.
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Yacht?
I value my comments on HN at $5/view. I lose an estimated 50k/year to people not paying for the value they get from reading my comments.
When John Gruber did his "zoom" video edition of his podcast the Talk Show (back around WWDC), the video wasn't actually zoom. They used zoom for live interaction, but everybody had an iPhone mounted above their laptop screens for the actual recorded video and audio which was composited in post-production.
Well that's the situation the co-founder is creating by making these unreasonable demands...