skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish I had downvote powers to downvote this because it's horrible advice.

You literally have nothing to lose by just waiting for the equity to vest and keeping your 40%. Fuck the co-founder. Fuck 3%.

Worst case you end up with 40% of nothing. Walking away you end up with 0% of nothing. If you don't stand up for your equity no one will. And if you let him get away with this, down the line he'll do the same shit to someone else. Stop this guy now in his tracks, don't let him swindle you and everyone else.

Don't be an idiot.
This guy sure gets a lot of milage out of his past employer. It's rare to hear him mentioned without NASA being mentioned in the same breath.
The RPI4 has a 1x lane of PCIe 2.0. Maybe you could split it into two 1x PCIe 1.0?
Alternative view, ask if they will consider a unrestricted licence to the IP in lieu of payment rather than any ownership.
That's possible, but as others in the comments have mentioned it may be more people with bad lighting/positioning who just decided it was the camera/USB software that was faulty. Still, maybe it does suck. I never tried any of these programs myself because all of my cameras are just slightly too old to work with them.
Have you been paid anything for your work?
Are there any schools that use a 5.0 A (instead of 4.0) for harder classes? That might help encourage students to try harder classes.
This. Advertising is the root cause (perhaps shared with education and abstraction) of this problem and a ton of tie in problems.

Obviously there are good reasons to have advertising, but we’re so far afield at this point, big changes are required.

Regulate it into the ground, and watch societies that don’t also do so, turn into slave nations.
How the Maya Created Their Accurate Calendar Thousands of Years Ago
Definitely exercising, but I keep failing on make it a routine.

But second is Intermittent fasting that is now part of my daily habits.
2020: Year of the EV Launchpad
LitHub is a shitty leftist agitprop outlet, so don’t expect consistency.
Devil's Advocate - to carry the parent's analogy of ruthless lessons being taught to the grandparent's comment on don't get caught, Sun Tzu clammed that most military success is due to surprising the enemy with deception and tricks. It seems like it would be good to have a very strict honor code but also require impossible tasks to be done, thus forcing cadets to learn to be deceptive in the most effective way possible.
> A non-renewing source of the material has a maximum amount of crystal that can grow

So any biosphere that fails to escape its looming red giant was never alive?

I'm not a "all abstractions leak" type of person, so I will choose my definitions very carefully, with funny choices about clays, crystals, virus, etc. as an acceptable causality.
I imagine around 2.5Gbps as that seems to be the speeds the compute module is getting using a SATA RAID. If we want to be optimistic then it would be 5Gbps as that's the limit of PCIe on the Pi.
Shannon is yet another lion from the old Bell Labs. The value of things that sprang from the people in that place is incalcuable.
Somehow ... if I squint a bit.. the minitel model is an appstore.
Since it's not mentioned until pretty far down the page I'll say that you likely know Rober as "the guy who glitter bombs package thieves on Youtube".
There's at least one reported case of a PCIe multiplier card working with the Pi4: http://labs.domipheus.com/blog/raspberry-pi-4-pci-express-it...
I have a small website and I have one page with an order form and I show a modal with the result of the order. This is how I do it. The Ajax calls gets back HTML that it shoves into the modal. It was just easier than writing JS with templates and parsing JSON. It always felt icky to me because that's not the way you're "supposed" to do it, but it works quite well.
How fast can the hardware market typically respond to a sudden and potentially short term increase in demand like this?
But YouTube and ads do go together. Gmail would also presumably have to be Gmail and ads if it wasn't operated for data to feed to the ads engine. I could see Android becoming a product for carriers without ads, cloud doesn't need ads, how would Chrome operate as its own business without ads? Firefox is just paid for by Google search, would Chrome be the same, and would that be different enough to satisfy a breakup? Would you just split the ads team and data among multiple new companies and tell them they arnt allowed to talk to each other anymore?
> Voat was founded as a neutral free-speech platform.

I was optimistic about Voat as I was about Parler: Reddit/Twitter, but without the left-wing censorship. But I found the same reality you did: the only people who bothered to migrate were complete lunatics.
> It's long past due for society to fear Big Corp instead of Big Government

You should fear both. Big Anything will eventually abuse their position of power after leadership changes hands enough times. And who is going to help you tame Big Government when they hold all the keys?
I have worked as DOP in the past and couldn't agree more. What people need is a guide on how to manipulate the scene in front of the camera using what resources they have, plus a list of cheap or free things they can go get to help.

A better camera would be way down the list for me.

Top of the list would be a light panel and some rudimentary adjustable grip for it. Lighting changes, so over powering ambient light a bit with a strong diffuse light source is going to make the cameras life easier
RIP <iframe seamless>: https://caniuse.com/iframe-seamless

RIP <xi:include>: https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude-11/#basic-example
Hey I'd milk it, too.
Okay, why is there this attitude about dynamic typing vs. static typing that we can't have debates about it? As if it's an inherently subjective debate, not worth discussing? How is it ludicrous to say that for big programs, rules that allow the computer to automatically verify things for you can never be proven useful?

Modern statically typed languages are not the abtrusive, verbose dinosaurs of yesteryear. They can be used without type annotations quite often, and have almost no expressiveness limitations compared to dynamic languages.

I love clojure. It's almost my favorite language, the syntax is amazing and the experience of using paredit and the many bespoke control flow structures that make your problems easy to model make it feel like God's language. But yeah, debugging is massively painful. Stack traces are useless, and the lack of types makes errors pop-up in places you wouldn't expect.

That's not a subjective thing. It's a weakness of the language. There's no drawback to having optional static guarantees. Can we stop pretending this debate is not worth having?
Imagine being a juror on one of these Google lawsuits and they many ways they could destroy your life.
It’s better to focus on exponential growth rather than some absolute numbers. A 200% return is more rewarding than a 4% return, even if absolutely a smaller amount.
I saw this and found it interesting. As a CS guy and software engineer, I've always wanted to combine that knowledge with actual physical engineering (i.e. mechanical and electrical) in order to build cool stuff and complete my knowledge base as an engineer.

I've always seen his videos and wanted to be able to prototype and engineer actual physical things like him, rather than spending my whole life building software (although software pays the bills - nothing wrong with that). I wonder how far the course would actually be able to take me - it would be interesting to see.

The course seems a bit high priced and I don't have time at the moment, but I'll definitely keep my eye on it and wait to see the reviews.
10GbE is a standard. It's expensive for home users, but it's very much the standard for faster-than-gigabit ethernet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet
Lawyers are very useful before and often prevent litigation.
TBF, if you are studying cinema you kind of have to study Polanski, and many other problematic directors and actors.
Google counters DOJ antitrust charges by pointing out Bing exists
I disagree - keep the 40%, this will at least force them to come to you with why they want you to leave.

The obvious answers are

- they are a jerk to work with and they won't admit it
- you are a jerk to work with and they won't tell you
- something else

If it's something else and there is real money at stake both of you should be able to work something out.

Otherwise it's one of the first two - which is much harder to deal with
> Arguably, the web is worse with chat bots, sticky headers, and modals constantly vying for your attention.

We can blame this on the MBA types. I've literally never heard a software engineer say "hey, let's make this pop-up after they've already been looking at the page for a minute!" or anything like it.
> you can, through effort and organization (none of this "trustless" mantra non-sense/propaganda), get in place a competent democratically elected government with integrity via accountability and oversight

No, you can't; that's rather the problem.
> The president and house were won by the Democrats. Why does a functioning democracy require them to also control the Senate, when the American system of government was expressly designed with this sort of legislative tension in mind?

You'll notice I didn't complain about that. What I did complain about was that Republican hardball tactics seem to headed towards the conscious goal of not needing to seek majority support in order to control the government. That's frankly unacceptable (and I'm not even talking about the recent nonsense about trying to literally throw out votes on a massive scale until they win a race they lost).

I'm no Democrat, and I think they need to mellow on cultural issues to appeal in rural states like they used to, but the Republicans seem to be playing a far more dangerous game to maintain power that risks the legitimacy of the whole system.
Laravel's crew had a very similar idea with Livewire (even the name sound similar, probably not intentionally) and it also created a lot of buzz back when it was released - but I don't think it really got past "let's play with it a bit" step for most of teams. We'll see how well this one does...
That's a negotiating position.
> anyone who is in the market for this news knows that you aren't getting that with the stock radio.

Well, yes, but the suggestion that it is possible from this clickbaity title is why I'm here to begin with.
Claude Shannon:Prophet of Information
> I simply do not understand where they're finding people who are willing to work 'crunch' 60 to 75 hour work weeks without overtime to ship a game quicker. There is seemingly a near infinite supply of young, somewhat naive people who can be recruited by video game development studios to do so.

I think you kind of answered your own question. There are a lot more "young and somewhat naive people" interesting in working for a gaming company than your "critical infrastructure project". Sure, many of them may get jaded and decide it's not worth it so change industries, but there is a new crop every year.
> Is the argument US is just inherently lazy?

If the shoe fits... I've seen too many young slightly chubby people coasting around on mobility scooters at Walmart instead of walking a few hundred meters to think laziness isn't a strong component to this sort of behavior.
Try divorcing yourself from a 1950's Red Scare definition of the word "communism," and imagine what Karl Marx actually had in mind. From Wikipedia:

> According to The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, "Marx used many terms to refer to a post-capitalist society—positive humanism, socialism, Communism, realm of free individuality, free association of producers, etc. He used these terms completely interchangeably. The notion that "socialism" and "Communism" are distinct historical stages is alien to his work and only entered the lexicon of Marxism after his death".[36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism#Communism,_revolution_...

Within that framework, it sounds like surveillance capitalism is infinitely worse than surveillance communism, because the framework of surveillance capitalism exists only to exploit and commodify people, in order to sell them things. Or worse, commoditize them in order to sell "them," i.e. their data, to others whom the subjects of said surveillance never consented to share with.

OTOH, the hypothetical framework of surveillance communism would at least be intended to benefit society as a whole. I don't know if there's any contemporary thought on the matter, but Marx probably couldn't have conceived of the type of mass surveillance we have today, which means he probably wouldn't have understood the question straight away.
This is just wrong (as you say, careless). The criteria is "metabolism", not growth and reproduction. Similarly, viruses are not alive although they can reproduce. Interestingly, there are some highly parasitic organisms with limited ability to metabolize, that is, they have lost their genes and instead depend on their host organism (but I think all those examples still have some level of metabolic capability).
Exactly this. You don't let bad actors walk all over you.
Is it legal in Europe to stalk someone like this ? I feel like it shouldn't be. Especially in Europe.
Ah, a man of culture. I should have guessed. :)

I got to see an Amiga in action when I visited a friend who lived in England. It was soooooo awesome.

(I had to cut my teeth on an IBM PCjr.)
As far as I'm aware, PS4 doesn't do cloud backups if you don't have plus. Or am I wrong?
It's meek advice that feels good to people who are scared of loud voices shouting at them.
Yeah, it's a messy problem all together. This is a bit of a different tangent, but as someone who worked for one of the first Bitcoin / Ethereum transaction tracing startups a few years back - I think many of the people pointing to "privacy" in digital currencies are misguided. Right now, there are private companies already getting in on the consumer tx tracing business in crypto. The real clever ones charge the government and exchanges as "compliance" providers. Ironically, many of these new companies are directly related to or bankrolled by existing data-broker giants.
I think negotiation is good, if you're realistic about it, and if you actually value what you're likely to get from it. And I agree, they should quickly find an answer to whether they can be fired by their partner (they probably can, for reasons stated elsewhere on the thread, but it's very much worth getting a solid answer).
You can't be “not good enough” to skip (or drop out of) college
Just propose something you can largely feel comfortable with, but also gives the other founder strong incentive to continue, and won’t hurt future raises.

If necessary add hooks into revenue and a framework for a future buy out.

But def don’t waste time around someone who doesn’t want to work with you.
I don't know how true this is (it could just be rumours) but I've heard multiple times from hardware vendors that the main reason they can't open source GPU drivers and firmware, or the code for a smart TV, is because of concerns about the DRM being cracked. It would be a pretty sad state of affairs if the end result of this copyright enforcement is that the general public just isn't allowed to know how a TV or a GPU works anymore, and that right becomes reserved only for the 5 big movie studios.
> Rust has Non-Lexical-Lifetimes (and soon Polonius). D's documentation is very sparse about how lifetimes in @live will be determined, but I think it's safe to assume that it will be scope-based at first.

@live also has non-lexical lifetimes:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/r742l6$2ofo$1@digitalmars.com
Just to clarify, this person doesn't have 40%. They currently have 0%, and their agreement states they only get 40% if they work there for 4 years.

Also, I don't know for sure, but I imagine they know the reason (even if they don't agree with it).
I see. So, all the wars of imperialism of the last 300 years didn't happen? Thousands of people don't die in the US alone every year because they can't afford medical care? You're either being deliberately disingenuous, or channelling your 14 year old nephew who's an "ancap" because it's edgy, even though he doesn't own any actual capital, if you think the body count of capitalism is really 0.
Aye, I should have remembered Haydn, Lizst, Chopin, the Strausses and Mahler, maybe Byrd, Telemann and Palestrina. I think you're cheating with the multiple Bachs though :P
Hmm. Ok, if we're agreed on that, maybe don't use "did you ever pitch a solution?" as a putdown.
What are the pros and cons of this technique? Seems like this pushes a lot of the rendering compute power from the client to the server. I guess that is good for low power devices but now you need more powerful servers?
Sorry, this is right. You have all forgotten about how fast the normal web is or are too young to have experienced it. Sub 100ms is normal. 1000ms is not normal.
Perhaps things have changed since I last upgraded my home network, but iirc, advertised wifi speeds are half duplex, while wired speeds are full duplex — i.e. wifi speeds are for the combined upload/download while wired can go full speed in both directions.
I mean, maybe. But that is not a reason to follow your advice and just "give up".

If the choice is between "giving up" or getting as much equity as possible, for example by stalling for a month until he vests, but also causing those other problems that you mentioned, then the choice should be clear.

Stall, and get the larger amount of equity. He's got nothing to lose, right? If you have nothing to lose, then there is no reason to not take as much as you can.

I don't think it is some costly effort to simply stall for a month, and refuse any deal. He doesn't need a lawyer or anything. He can simply refuse a deal, and continue "negotiating" until he vests and gets his guaranteed 10%.
If you're not valuing the equity if you're not involved, then honestly you need to look at this from an opportunity cost perspective.

The trust is fundamentally broken, so it's not really worthwhile to pursue this as collaborators. Unless you're keen to run the business yourself, there isn't much point in fighting this beyond getting your 1st year vesting.

It's honestly not worth your time and energy fighting for something you're not keen to do. And it's definitely cheaper for them to give you 7% more than the 3% offered, and avoid all this hassle and potential legal expense.

If you do want to persist, then you need the investor on your side, as otherwise you can't force the other person out (they'd still keep their 10% but that's the price you pay for that move).

I have to say I find it really odd that someone who's invested $100k is being silent on this, or isn't worried about this situation, especially if the future of the business is now more of a lifestyle business. I fail to see how they'd get a return they'd expect. I'd assume they're actually on the other side, but want to appear neutral.

FWIW if you end up leaving, I'd advise not agreeing to a non-compete or a non-disclosure. It's not about you starting a competitor, but more about them not being able to restrict your future options as they're forcing you out, and they will have to potentially consider the threat of you competing with them at any point in the future.

It's a credit to your efforts that you've built the tech of business that's gotten such good traction and numbers, so you've got learnings and experience that will serve you in good stead in the future.

It's just unfortunate that you ended up with such shitty partners.

Good luck, and I assume quite a few of us will be hoping you bounce back from this, and rooting for you.
Rising housing costs mean that being a bit below the pack becomes a compounding disadvantage, to the point that the other measures of happiness are unattainable because you can't afford food, shelter, or medical care.
Really hard to parse out the point this person is trying to make. The writing is confounding and the title is very "Don't do what Donny Don't Does"
Do you play games? People care more about quality games than a hardware region lock or an online service.

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What "40%"? The entire point of the vesting agreement, bog standard in every competently run startup, is that he doesn't have 40%. In fact, if he's leaving less than a year in and his partner has the contractual authority to sever his employment, what he actually has is zero.
It’s a karma of 501 not 500 to downvote.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
Python and Pandas: The Faster Way
I really wish I could favorite this. In lieu of this, I'm going to print this out in great typography and hang it on my home office wall.

Great advice to live by.

Question about #5 though - do you have any links to read about metformin and why you recommend it? I generally avoid putting things inside my body unless it's got a fairly extensive body of research behind it.
It’s a really good biography of a fascinating life. I’m particularly fond of the fact that his _master_ thesis laid the foundation to rigorous circuit design. It’s been described as ”possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century”.
Probably not. School districts have lawyers on staff. It's not you or me who would have a new expense of $x/hour for a lawyer.
Or you can just buy a whiteboard that fits your space.

I've tried the paint several times (including setting up commercial spaces) and it's always a bit disappointing and becomes difficult at best to keep clean.
What? Cat 6a is 10Gbps so the actual speed is probably more than 5Gbps.
The problem there is nothing that is truly next generation. Better batteries are designed to cost more. How much more then 400-500 miles do you need on a car?

How much faster then 2-4 seconds to 100km/h do you need.

Better quality interiors? Better then Germans? Likely not.

I guess better software is an option, but what exactly. Tesla is working on that for years.

Self driving? Well, Apple has no solution and if anybody has one by 2024 is questionable.

Apple is likely not gone compete on price.

So not sure what the angle is here.
1. Taking a shot in the dark - Maybe check your ethernet cables? Not all ethernet cables are the same. If it's a cheap / old ethernet cable then it might not be rated for the same kinds of speed as your wifi. There is a chart on this page labeled "Ethernet Cable Performance Summary" with some stats for different ethernet cables.

https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/connectivity/ethe...

2. Yes, although in my experience this is very minor. On my network - good wifi has a 3ms latency and good ethernet has a .3ms latency. While that is a 10x improvement, in the scheme of things I don't notice 3ms of latency. I live in a high rise condo with lots of interference in a major city and can't say it's caused me any issues.
Mostly just no one is bothering to make the consumer products, not that the tech isn't there. Most consumer products are the ubiquitous 1gbps Ethernet ports with 10gbps on certain prosumer/gamer chipsets. Those 10gbps boards are meant to be the upsell so they're expensive for a lot of reasons.

At a consumer level what does that buy you? The average internet connection is far far less bandwidth than that. Most consumers don't have a need to stream large amounts of data. You can just use sneaker-net for bulk transfer with a thumb drive.