skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I'd describe what I see from V's author from his two projects (V and Volt/eul) is a continual over-promising and underdelivering - as well as misleading statements (for example, a claim that V is the "fastest on Tech Empower's web framework", which is actually fastest in only plain text (it does not do enough to be qualified on the full leaderboards) on an unofficial run (it is currently 2nd I believe), where it is simply a wrapper around a C server [1][2][3] - which I believe is misleading, even if the C interop is neat). That is not to say he cannot eventually deliver on his promises, but they frequently take years beyond his initial predictions, and sometimes come watered down.

My personal conclusion from my reading was - if you wish to go use V, go ahead, but I'd exercise caution when relying on anything about it.

[1]: https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1234586123424456705

[2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/bc288019932c35cc09dcf7b438bc...

[3]: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/bc288019932c35cc09dcf7b438bc...
https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2019...

Says Pit Bulls are responsible for 69% of the fatalities (not just of all attacks).
Zero tolerance makes sense in certain circumstances. Manned space missions, nuclear power, and the military has many zero tolerance policies and rules.
I've always wondered how people on HN are able to spit out detailed answers like this with references and facts with such great ease as part of a back-and-forth conversation. Are you a professional in hardware? Or just an enthusiastic follower?
>This is generally why I'm skeptical of anyone that thinks they can distill down their success in a given field into a single book or video series, when invariably their success is a result of 10+ years of experience, practice, and overcoming obstacles.

I just want to complement you for this excellent distillation of the problem with this kind of course without descending into backhanded complements.

When I heard about the course, something did strike me as "off" in the sense of needing to be explained. It feels like a shortcut, a whirlwind tour, or worse, a "master class" that leaves out something important. And what it leaves out is the grind, and the tedium, and the meta-understanding that those are aspects of successful work.
People keep saying this person has nothing to lose, but that's obviously not true. I think comments like these are mostly based on we, as a "technical cofounder" cheering section, want to see happen in the world. What's important about that is that the outcome for this particular person is an externality to us. If the whole company blows up and all equity is worth zero, that's great for the cheering section, even if it's obviously worse for the technical cofounder.
Sounds like an insufferable person.
Hehe. I did exactly this in Twisted Woven LivePage in around 2002.
If you look at half the top comments, they're actually productively talking about how this story exposes flaws in our economic systems (like how outsourcing has affected the odds someone would care enough about an employer to do this)

I'm not saying you can't look at the negatives of stories, far from it, but trying to bring a story to an extremely open-ended negative point is so easy, but adds nothing of value. You could have the conversation separately of the story and lose absolutely nothing, the story is just being used as a springboard then tossed.
Watched Nouriel absolutely destroy Joe Lubin in a debate at Lubin's conference, in front of hundreds of Eth (and presumably Lubin) supporters, who by the end had no doubts who won. And yes, quite a nice guy in private conversation.
It's counterintuitive for a reason, and to be honest I have bad (not necessarily direct) experiences in both cases, and can't conclude which one is the best. Does a busier street really mean less likely to be mugged? Why?
> For the one person who has "made it" economically, there are countless others that haven't, that still live in one-room houses. What about them?

I think you're overlooking the miracle of capitalism. If it was just about one guy striking it rich, this would be no different than the story of someone winning the lottery or getting a big inheritance from a distant relative.

Instead this is the story of a man who worked hard, studied the market, took risks, and most importantly stayed 100% focused on the mission of delighting the customer. And the result was the creation of a product that improved the lives of millions.

This isn't just the story of Richard Montanez. It's the story of every Korean immigrant who opened a convenience store in an underserved neighborhood. Or the ambitious teen starting a landscaping service. Or the local property taking a gamble to build new housing in a fast growing. Or anyone starting a new restaurant, fashion line, or hotel. Or Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founding Apple in their garage. Or Henry Ford building a car for the middle-class.

All of those improvements slowly but surely accumulate over time. The fortune Montanez accumulated is incredible. But we know his personal wealth is just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath it is a a vastly greater amount of wealth that was generated in the form of consumer and investor surplus.

Because the reality is that your great-grandparents almost assuredly lived in a one-room house. And you almost assuredly do not. And almost none of us hustled our way out. Instead we just sat back, and enjoyed a constant stream of endlessly improving products- cheaper, faster, higher quality, more abundant. All powered by singularly-minded people relentlessly focused on delighting the customer. And living standards continue to rise, while global poverty continues to march towards zero That's the true miracle of capitalism.
The first guy worked as an engineer long enough to get a senior role but didn't have any savings? 100% avoidable problem. It isn't like the second guy would get senior engineer pay for the whole year from his parents, and if the first guy lived cheaply like a student he would have more than enough to survive a year or more.
I understand within the community that opinions vary.
One idea would be to buy out the investor. I read in one of the comments that you do have some cash to spend. If you can work out a reasonable deal with the investor you would no longer have a neutral party doing nothing, you'd own 50%, and be able to set the terms.
>> Bringing Tesla’s manufacturing up to Apple’s quality might just be more work than getting a chinese contractor to round up another million Uyghurs.
Automated tool to study and reverse-engineer algorithmic recommendation systems
The link to the actual paper in PNAS doesn't work and the DOI doesn't resolve either...

Can't seem to find it by searching the title.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/games-are-worse-than-ever-o...

"Control was another game with "severe frame rate issues" on base PS4 and Xbox One consoles. While it started out well enough, it began dropping hard on combat sequences, even going as low as 10fps"

checks notes, never delisted despite shipping game playing at 10fps ....
Which is fair. I don't think the interview is meant to be read as an authoritative source of truth on Amazon culture and sales and so forth, but rather just relaying what they've heard. They're more plugged into the Amazon rumor mill than I am and I think rumors often contain kernels of truth.
This reads a lot like a PR piece for Amazon, with most "answers" promoting Amazon nearly like a press release and very little negative points.

A few sentences that stand out:

> If you have a ton of data in your data center and you want to move it to AWS but you don't want to send it over the internet, we’ll send an eighteen-wheeler to you filled with hard drives, plug it into your data center with a fiber optic cable, and then drive it across the country to us after loading it up with your data.

> Q: I know there have been a number of collective actions among Amazon warehouse workers around the issue of safety during the pandemic.
> A: (a series of measures implemented at Amazon)

> Internally, people say, “Oh, we’re probably better than our competitions, or other warehousing and logistics companies.”

> Q: Has Ring brought Amazon into much closer relationships with law enforcement?
> A: it would really surprise me if any of those relationships were the result of the Ring acquisition [...] I think Amazon also kind of backed into that situation. We only realized after the fact that we had all this data about who was coming to people’s front doors.
I find it hard to believe that "subsidizing Prime Video" is the only way for Jeff Bezos to gain entry to the LA/NYC social scenes.
Very interesting release. The autorelease is especially noteworthy... also I worry how hard it would be to have more finegrained control over allocations, releasing the memory instantly is not always the most perfomant way. In games for example big (temporary) allocations are often performed in some kind of arena buffer that gets cleared at the end of a frame (NativeArray in Unity does this) and thereby circumvents alot of unnecessary deallocating. How feasible would it be to implement such an allocator in V without losing the autorelease for the other cases?
How exactly is that polluting? Do you think he just abandoned the pool with the balls still present?

I can see an argument that its wasteful however.
Lots of advice but none seems to have a basis in law and how this will play out in reality.

You have an employment contract and rights. Your co-founder cannot fire you without cause (in most legal systems). Continue working and fulfilling your duties. Document everything and all conversions with dates and times.

It's unlikely you can be forcibly removed as your co-operation will be required to ensure the product continues to operate. If you are forced out you'll have to present evidence to a court or employment tribunal so proceed with this in mind.

You should start off with negotiating for your full 40% share, but accept 20%. Reverse vesting a non-issue if you are unlawfully terminated.

However I suspect there is more going on here as very unusual to see this kind of dispute (smoke) without cause (fire).
Yes. He's 65 though, and probably demands more pay than would be justified.

It's also a bit late at this point. The time to get things done was years ago.
> That movie is a travesty and the people who made it should be punished.

I also detested the movie, though I'm not certain I want the creators punished ;-) Also not a fan of the book
In my first house, I inherited a push broom the previous owner left in the shed.

I was well on a road to organic gardening by that point, and one day while sweeping, I had picked up the broom and noticed that the bristles were abraded. The plastic bristles. Well fuck. There's only one place all that plastic is going and that's into my yard. So I popped off the head and dumped it in the trash (the handle had not committed any crimes, and they are reusable, which can save a bunch of space). There are several natural fibers that are about as tough as plastic, but they're exotic so I couldn't tell you how long the carbon footprint is, but at least I have less plastic in my yard.

The dryer vent, however, is an unsolved problem.
In 50 years that might change!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25503210
if you are a self starter or a self directed learner, an online course is not the way to go. Start with a desire to do something, then search online for how to do it.
That's also advertising.
“A cat may look at a king,” as the saying goes.
Apple presumably isn't misleading investors, so its market cap is accurate. Valuations are really just numbers based on supply and demand, so if everyone wanted to sell Apple it would be worth nothing.
Most wealth is not inherited, unless you're using some weird definition that you made up.
Surely the self-interest is to have a nice restaurant? Having cheap food for a week or two, then not having the food at all, doesn't seem like something people would want.
You can hire the bank to price your shares but still sell them directly. That's what Spotify, Slack, Asana, Palantir did.
it took several more weeks than we expected for him to fully recover and he was obviously in discomfort during that time. I'm not a vet, so I don't know if it was just a fluke or if this is common in large dogs who get neutered later. all I'm saying is don't procrastinate. consult your vet and/or the internet, then either do it or don't.
Aim: Record, Search and Compare AI Experiments
didn't mean to argue, just providing context for people scrolling through the comments :) i agree that it's a bit nitpicky. (but "depends only on libc" would probably be a better phrasing)
If you read HN you know that recycling doesn’t work. If I care about the environment I’m not going to buy millions of plastic balls for views
I don't think that's entirely accurate. Lots of Rails users went the SPA route the second stuff like Backbone came out. Wycats was big in the Rails community at this time and he spearheaded Emberjs. The Shopify guys were (and are still) big in the Rails community and they created their own Batman.js. It's just that the Rails core devs made a decision to not go that route. They were even working on their own front end framework at one point and after some time they decided to kill it in favor of just using pjax/turbolinks. You can get your 80% case accomplished with these technologies with substantially less effort. There are definitely reasons to go SPA, but the dev community at large has jumped on the hype train here without really identifying that using these technologies are a good idea for their use case. I mean, there's a lot of people doing CRUD with React. That's crazy.
> The only interpretation I see is that the author has a set of sources they trust that produce "analysis" that the author sees as reliable. Their opponent in the argument has exactly the same same thing but from sources that the author does not trust. That certainly is a pickle.

I don't personally know him and am not speaking for him, of course, but my understanding (based on following him for years) is repeatable analysis. Start e.g. from publicly available CDC data, and show that your results follow from them, or at the very least do not contradict them.

Much of the time, if you try to do that, it is either impossible or a lot of unspecified assumption (some of which are often ridiculous) come to light.

And to his credit, he has published his own covid models with data sources before; I started following him when he was no. 5 or so on the Netflix prize leaderboard, and he was doing it publicly (which of course meant everyone could include his ideas in their model, which promptly kicked him out of the top ten shortly after).
Twitter’s POTUS account will be reset to zero followers when Biden takes over
This absolutely has to be a PR piece, or one filtered through a marketing layer of some sort. The only thing that threw me for a loop are the negative points, but this could just be a clever ploy to further the deception. The company we pay to do marketing has all kinds of ridiculous tricks they propose, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a thing.
The people who discover them can name them, though not after oneself. You can name them after your mentor or anything really, usually adding ite.
Node has a better runtime than ruby or python, so why not? and you also have TS.
> You can get the 1650 that runs with 75W

The difference between these two is rather small, despite 4 years difference. 1050Ti delivers about 2TFlops, 1650 about 2.6 TFlops. Other specs (VRAM bandwidth, fillrate) are pretty close as well.

Generally, I only upgrade components when I can get at least 2x improvement.
> How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired? Is the Ethernet standard lagging, or lack of interest/demand, or some more physical barrier?

10-gige is already cheap and 40-gige is coming down in price. There is just no need for it at home. I have my house wired with 10gige, and > gigabit fiber internet, and literally can’t notice when switching to wireless. 500 mbps should be enough for anyone.
Apple is quality in terms of UX and marketing.

The qualities I value however are freedom, security, and privacy.

In that lens, the quality of Apple is very poor.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PLTR/balance-sheet?p=PLTR

Total liabilities increased too.

It's not clear if the incoming administration will give them the same federal contracts the current administration has.
You might test out something like Guardian VPN and see just how much stuff your phone is trying to send over the wire without your consent. (Guardian is iOS-only, afaik, but surely there must be Android equivalents.)
>99% Chinese officials who don't know anything, and don't decide anything

Basically. But I think "long-term thinking" implies grooming was suppose to eventually develop into useful assets if corruption culture persisted. Even if unlikely. Hence one motive, likely small but still significant - few dozen execution of CIA assets among million+ disciplined by CCDI. Along with "notable professionalizing of the Ministry of State Security" implying domestic counter-intelligence was previously lackluster, likely at lower levels. At least my experience in the 90s. Dinners with gossipy staff from JingXi. MSS officers chatty at weddings. One would hope opsec has improved since.
> The controversy around V is not without reason.

There is no controversy but the one you are trying to build up. This language is obvious quite young in development, isn't backed by mega corp Z with billions of $ at its disposal, yet it is trying to manage to find a solution to multiple issues Go couldn't even resolve in 10+ years. cut it some slacks.
Are you sure? Isn't the point of NVME that it has lower latency than speaking SATA to flash memory?

I've seen switches for putting a whole bunch of devices onto the same motherboard, but can you have a whole bunch of motherboards talk to each other directly?
Totally agree.

As programmer's I think we are specifically enclined to attempts of formalizing natural language into something precise and reducing it to syntax and semantics.

Yet like you say, natural language is imprecise. And the more I think about how much of a bodge the way we communicate is, the more impressed I am we can have conversations at all. All those layers of indirection, wtf?

But of course for almost every layer of indirection there is a safety net, that assures the meaning of what is said is passed on: If I mumble, my body language will help you figure out what I'm trying to say. If write gbbrsh sntce, context make you understand. And if you can't hear me, you can probably make out what I'm saying by lip reading.
So it is rendering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_render
Show HN: Aggregated real-time coronavirus statistics
This should not be downvoted. It can get this bad somewhat quickly.
What cell phone?

I am holding out for a Librem 5.
The "verification code" is a 6-digit hash calculated from the seed password. The idea is, you'll become used to recognizing the same verification code whenever you type your seed password - then you can quickly spot if you ever make a typo in the seed password.
Your example is collusion/price fixing, and is very illegal. I think no matter what is being traded in most jurisdictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

If you remove the collusion, then market cap appears to me to be a fair valuation.

If there is a shock to the system and everyone wants to immediately sell (despite previously wanting to hold), I would argue that to be a sudden change in the valuation.
How long do you think the company will survive without you? Act accordingly.

The ceo is trying to get someone in at a lower cost to take-over your work. Do you think it will work before the site crashes or a hard bug arises?

Inform the investor and take the money out, be honest to him. He will not like this.

He will wait to invest again ( or inform other investors), untill the CEO has proven he can do it, which he probably won't.

Ask the cofounder to take on a loan if that's possible ( perhaps less than the equity), he thinks you are disposable.

Get out and don't help out. Have the same contract with you as you do now, but take 10% of his equity, if you think it's going to fail.

Don't fix anything untill he signed, don't create a bug before you leave.

It's a normal thinking pattern of narcissists and it ressembles "the expert beginners" POV.

There are more opportunities, don't try to spend a lot of time on it anymore.

Ps. This will probably go to court, if it's worth it.
I mean a lot can happen in 50 years, but I’m curious why you would say this?
>net loss

Well, you could have just sat on the couch watching mindless tv instead.
What business do you want to build? What makes you think that the dataset that you have is useful? Is the dataset in tabular form or in free text?
Your quote is misleading. There are a list of reasons on that page, you imply it's just that one reason.

> So shipping free software isn't even enough for admission to the FSFs special club.

If you're free is designed to "lead others to make use of" nonfree software, then of course not: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Conciliating AI and Privacy: Rules and Good Practices
That actually will likely be a short-term solution if companies are forced to unbundle.

Say Google is required to sell Chrome and/or Android. Problem is, billion people's Google accounts are signed into those devices. Solution is, you replace the "Google account" on an Android device with an "Android account" that uses Google auth for login. Then, if a user wants after that point, they can detach that, set different credentials, whatever.
Are you telling me you've never gone and downloaded a car after getting laid off?
Neither. I won't pay money to have my freedoms taken from me, which is the trade with all Apple purchases
This has nothing to do with ICOs. A lot of cash-rich tech companies (e.g. Slack, Palantir, Asana) have been foregoing IPOs in the last couple of years and choosing to list shares directly on the market, and so the SEC realized the best way forward is to formalize it.
Just read this other thread it corrects the misinformation here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25502764
You are clearly very anti-CEO, despite preaching to "be a decent human". If it was the janitor's boss who made $7/hour that listened to the janitor then you would have no problem patting him on the back. But because it's the CEO that did it you refuse to. Your bias is showing.
I'm actually amazed by the progress. Wow. Seems like it's worth keeping an eye on. Curious if anyone is running it in production yet?
Isn't this replacing the complexities of JS libraries like react/redux-saga with the complexities of these new server-side libraries..? Reduced bundle size looks like a big advantage & this will hopefully encourage the adoption of lighter front-end tech like preact/inferno/svelte. But the downside seems to be more resource consumption on the back-end, especially if using websockets, and so higher cost & more vulnerability to a DDOS? Also, what about offline support?
I don’t believe “letting dogs breed freely” was being proposed. Please avoid straw man arguments
I'm all for pragmatism and cooperation, but it sounded like the OP already tried that and the current state is the result. Yes, start with what you're suggesting but don't just accept getting used.

Who's at fault matters here, if the cofounder is truly acting in the way suggested and is not willing to compromise then it's critical to get the other investor to see what they're doing. If that leads to the cofounder blowing up and the death of the company happening sooner rather than later so be it.

If it turns out OP is actually not contributing anything then yeah, better to seek some sort of clean exit compromise. The details matter and how much leverage OP has matters. It's impossible to give good advice without knowing that in either direction.

At a minimum the OP should get the one year cliff on exit.