skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good. i'm amazed this didn't happen sooner. i have no idea how they can call eos and the dao a security offering and not xrp. xrp is one of the most obvious securities ever created.
Netrunner (the card game) is what drew me to it. I don't think the interactions in the game are interesting. The AI awful.
I don't find the game play interesting - but I like 'old man' games (Detroit I loved for examples).
Just an opinion
Hi. How is cyclic references handled? One of the maintainers said it would be removed and made not possible.

Also garbage collection. What are you doing for that? ARC?
I wasn't even talking about the video, just the write-up.

I haven't done much, but video production seems like a black hole of space and time where things are never 'done' and eventually you just release it because it's the only way to stay sane.

> Getting to 'I did this thing and here's my documentation, enough to help you do it too' is my goal, for pretty much anything I work on.

As they say in the biz, 'You're doing The Lords Work'. Again, thanks, and much appreciated.
They've made a TV show [1] and even a chicken scented firelog. They are marketing the resteraunt, but they are actually making the stuff as well.

1: Its called "A Recipe For Desire" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-12-...
SEC is pretty far from the tax collecting end of the house. Whatever their sins, greed for tax revenue is not a fair one.
"Lying to your investors is fraud."
This is precisely why I have been using my Pixel 4 together with Iriun. Works great and the picture quality is better than everyone else on video calls who are using either Logitech webcams or the built-in MBP camera.
Support in Congress - probably not.

There's not enough support in Congress for any kind of ammendment. Everyone's afraid of what it could turn out as or what it could lead to.
You should never run microcontroller from an unregulated supply - it will brown out. USB is not unregulated, it just has bad precision, but regulation I am sure is pretty fine.
What standard library?
Thats a good point, if demand remains the same.

But otherwise this document spells out everything that Ripple/XRP critics have been trying to drill into XRP Army conscripts for half a decade.

That Ripple is in the business of selling XRP and uses ambiguity between the context of “ripple” and deflection to say there are third parties using enough XRP to make it scarce in the future. When this was never happening, and to this day is not happening.

The complaint mentions a third party that paid to get XRP this year to use a Ripple Labs product. They bought the XRP from Ripple to the tune of $70mm and immediately sold it on the public markets.

I think the illusion is shattered with this complaint. But XRP should be able to retain its transfer usage, just back at 2013 price levels.
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An AAA RPG these days needs to have depth and power, as table stakes. In a world after Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, audiences expect more. Moreover, expectations were sky high for Cyberpunk after Witcher 3 managed to move the entire medium forward in the sort of storytelling and characterization and pathos one could achieve in games; and of course, CD Projekt Red fueled the fire of hype with all their glitzy demo reels before the game. I was excited to play the next game from the creators of Witcher 3, but I'm disappointed since, by all accounts, it's not as good. If they had announced it as a simple FPS/arcade game, no one would have expected any of this.
I read Bernal Diaz's Conquest of New Spain, and got a very similar impression, bolstered by the fact Diaz was a first-hand participant, and very proud of all this stuff. The conquistadors were also pretty horrible to eachother, so I got more the feeling that they came from a culture that was unnapolagetically brutal, deceitful, and greedy to an extend we find hard to understand today.
> WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired

WiFi absolutely does not. This is a test in lab conditions, with a single, stationary device and no stats on packet loss. Unless you're happy to use your device in these conditions (but at this point why not use a wire?), this does not represent the real-world conditions in which you'd be using the device.

If he tries again with people moving around and moving the devices around, with more people using the wireless network at the same time, he'd see much more different results especially when it comes to stability.

Stability is the main problem with Wi-Fi. It's relatively easy to get a huge speed test, it's harder to maintain a stable latency and no packet loss. It doesn't help that operating systems aren't good at reporting this information to the user, so the Wi-Fi always appears to work (with decent speeds) until it totally craps out when you launch an interactive application (like calling or multiplayer gaming) where low latency is paramount and the error correction/retransmission algorithms can't do their thing fast enough).
Regarding Khashoggi, I haven't been able to find an actual estimate of the costs of sanctions for Saudi Arabia so it is difficult to really evaluation how massive these negative repercussions are - but they actually seem pretty trivial to me.
I don't think your specific example illustrates moral harm. But there are definitely advertisers that do. We could for example say how BP spends a few million on ads to buy public good will and talking about how they are cleaning up the environment while they increase their pollution levels by expansion is morally reprehensible. Such advertising is quite common.
How does this relate to jaywalking? Is there some correlation between acreage and risk to pedestrians? I'm confused.
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wix.com comes to mind. It will be good to know from you guys about your thoughts.
Also: if company has 'standard' vesting documents & has taken outside funding, is the lawyer who set those up still a trusted neutral resource for both founders? Even in their role as "company's lawyer", they could talk to you both about how the existing agreements affect the resignation, firing, or mutually-agreed exit of a founder, and discuss ideas that help the company survive & thrive past that event.

Though, to actually negotiate (& legally execute) a durable exit agreement, you'd likely want a separate lawyer on your side. (And, given the values implied by the outside investor's price-paid, & your estimation of future revenues, spending a few $thousand here could save $tens-of-thousands or more later.)
This is true, but it doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
> When you're in front of a bully...

I think it is a mistake to anthropomorphize nation states this way. Explaining international relations in terms of personal relations is misleading at best. A bully does not control a nuclear arsenal, nation states do.
Elon Musk looked to sell Tesla to Apple in 2013 for 1/10 of current value
If information and copyright laws create an unfair advantage to the established large players, then removing them should create a more level playing field. Is that right? Wouldn't we still have a winner takes all outcome due to network effects, and users would eventually prefer one search engine or one internet portal? Even if new players could compete, they would still encounter existing large protected companies. Protected by a data and high monthly active user moat.

I suppose without copyright laws, the small players could coexist but remain small...
Since COVID the webcam market has exploded. Logitech had to significantly ramp up production due to increase in demand back in April. It’s not just remote work, but also aspiring content creators.
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Yeah - I don't see how people can tell them to just give up.

Go scorched earth - what do you have to lose? Know the other guy is hostile and don't trust them to do the right thing. Consider your options outside of that and talk it over with the other investor.

If you're the technical cofounder here you're probably in a stronger position to negotiate.

If you can get the other investor to see what's happening here (your cofounder pushing you out one month before the cliff after you've helped to build things up) you may be able to get them on your side.

As I see it without knowing details:

- Either your contributions are real and your cofounder is a miserable person trying to screw you out of it and risking the company in order to do that.

- Or you haven't done anything substantial and the cofounder wants you out. Even in this case it's still wrong of them to do this one month before vesting (and the way they're approaching it sounds dishonest, they should be direct).

If it's truly the former I think getting the third investor to understand this is key, if the non-technical cofounder is risking the entire business at this stage they're going to be bad going forward - you probably need to get rid of them.

If it's the latter (which seems unlikely since the other cofounder is non-technical) you'll still want to negotiate a reasonable exit, but it may be harder to do so (and you'll probably need a lawyer).
This is not the same as an underwriting fee, and there is still the possibility that a company underprices their stock offering as well.
who cares what nocoiners think? bitcoin used to be considered a ponzi scheme for terrorists and criminals. short term sentiment doesn't really matter. in the long run the actual technology will speak for itself whether that be good or bad.
Agreed! Back when I was in music school, they brought in Tony Bonjiovi[0], a well-known record producer at the time. He talked about how the ultimate test of any recording was to copy it to a cassette, take it out to the engineer's Camaro with 1 broken speaker and see how it sounded there. If it sounded good there, it would sound great anywhere else.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bongiovi
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I feel this way.

I think it's probably that I've become more disillusioned and have to deal with more stress and responsibility.
Someone with a conspiracy bent might make something of the fact that the game is deeply anti-capitalist.
They were going to drop WeWork/Wewhatever on the Public.
I don't think the wealthy benefit from printing money. I just think they get hurt less than the poor. This article is a pretty interesting analysis of the effects of inflation.[1]

1.https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/70422/1/332991377.pd...
Reading the legal documents, it seems like their main case is that the end user isn't legally allowed access to their device, and homebrew is equivalent to gaining access to a device you're not supposed to have access to?

> 10. Article 550bis of the Criminal Code punishes any (attempt) of external hacking, i.e. any attempt to gain access to a computer systems or to maintain such access, by someone who knows he/she is not authorized to gain such access.

> The preparatory documents to the Act of 28 November 2000, introducing Article 550bis into the Criminal Code, as well as the other provisions on computer criminality, define “computer system” as: “any system which allows the user to store, process or transmit data. This includes, in particular computers, chips, smart cards, networks and their components as well as telecommunications systems and their components which use information technology.” The 3DS is a “computer system” in the sense of Article 550bis of the Criminal Code.

> Further, as explained above, it follows from the notifications made by Nintendo to the users, as well as from the 3DS’s shell and protection measures, that users are not authorized to access the 3DS.

> “Neimod”’s statements in the IRC conversations and in relation to the photographs posted on the Internet sufficiently evidence that the defendant has accessed (or at least, has been trying to access) the 3DS. The mere attempt to hack a computer system constitutes a criminal offence under Article 550bis of the Criminal Code.

> As this acting involves breaking user licences, physical and technological protection measures, the defendant can only have acted knowingly. This is also confirmed by the vocabulary used by “Neimod”, which includes clear references to “hacking”, “haxx”, etc.

> Given the fulfilment of all the requirements set out in Article 550bis (1) and/or (4) of the Criminal Code, the offence of “hacking” or “attempt of hacking” must be upheld.
We may be differing in defining competence, but regardless: agree to disagree?
While assurances from the founders make (classically) liberal idealists all warm and fuzzy inside, they aren't worth much until there is a controversy to use this post as a measuring stick on. At that point, we'll have a more clear idea of exactly where they draw the line, which I'd be interested in knowing as a supporter of the company. Regardless, Substack seems to have high quality built in off ramps to the point where deplatforming someone from Substack won't have the same memory holing effect that it does with social media.

The best (and worst depending on which side of this future controversy I find myself on) part of Substack is the lack of switching costs. No one is staying on Substack for their barebones content editor, and retaining your own mailing list (and now custom domain!) makes firing up a Ghost newsletter easy. Their other value adds like legal support and revenue advances will most likely never be given to anyone of guilty of sufficient offense to be kicked off the platform, so that point is moot when it comes to the limits of their free speech ideals.
Don’t know why you’re flagged bro - this seems reasonable to me
The SEC disagrees re: Ether

https://www.axios.com/sec-official-ether-is-not-a-security-9...
I guess I've become a grey beard. I've done the whole journey from CGI everything to a bit of js to SPA. As much as I'd really like to be nostalgic about the good old days, there are reasons everything got pushed into the client. One of those reasons is maintaining state.

"HTML over the wire" isn't really a return to the good ol' days. It's still the client maintaining state and using tons of js to move data back and forth without page reloads. It just changes the nature of 1/2 the data and moves the burden of templating back to the server.

It is amusing that they make a claim that reads a lot like "eliminate 80% of your Javascript and replace it with Stimulus". What is Stimulus? A Javascript framework.
My favorite part of game is also the things. I am so glad I get to experience game and then share my totally authentic and uncompensated opinion with fellow game enthusiasts on world wide web.
The story is notable because it is not the norm.
Do people think they want it, or do developers and designers think the people want it?!
For an illiquid commodity like gold, I could see this being true. But in the crypto markets, participants have plenty of other choices. More likely is the "fire sale" scenario that was so wonderfully depicted in the film "Margin Call". Early investors are willing to unload at pennies on the dollar just to survive another day ;)

Looks like CrossTower has already de-listed XRP from its exchange. Incredible how fast information gets digested in crypto markets!

https://thecryptoreport.com/an-sec-victory-in-ripple-case-wo...
Yeah people shouldn't make applications in programming languages. If your application can't be made with html/css then it's bloatware. All this java, .net and C are totally unnecessary.
I don't think the person to whom you're responding was trying to "ruin" anything, they were just pointing out a complicating fact that is objectively true, which is that Frito Lay is in the business of selling junk food. The inspirational part and the problematic part are both real things, and acknowledging one doesn't mean the other is unimportant.
Elon Musk: During the darkest days […] I reached out to Tim Cook
a standard vesting schedules is 4 years with a one year cliff.
That means that after one year the person will have vested options worth 10% of the company. they will then accrue more options every month until they've fully vested their 40%.

That doesn't mean they'll only get 40% after 4 years.
So 1) they have "a victim complex" and 2) you laugh at them? Hmm.
You had me on "Oops"
From the home page:

V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style.

Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via reference counting.

The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.

For developers willing to have more low level control, autofree can be disabled with -noautofree.

Note: right now autofree is hidden behind the -autofree flag. It will be enabled by default in V 0.3.

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So yes, for the ~0-10% of objects not freed by V's autofree, ARC will be used. We will implement weak references and probably have a simple cycle detector, so pretty much a minimal GC.

Unlike in Go or Swift, it won't be used on all objects, but only on the small percentage that couldn't be handled by autofree.

In the YouTube demo I posted, 100% of all allocations in the text editor is handled by autofree.
One of my favorite Claude Shannon facts is that he (and co-authors Elias and Feinstein) independently discovered Ford-Fulkerson/maxflow-mincut [1] shortly after Ford and Fulkerson.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1056816
I’m hoping that Gibson fanboys just didn’t like me criticizing Neuromancer, hehe.
I've just read the Wikipedia page on Ripple. Can somebody explain in clear terms what the point of XRP is supposed to be?

Is it supposed to be a faster Bitcoin? Is it supposed to be a less Chinese-controlled (supposedly) cryptocurrency than Bitcoin?

Let's for the sake of discussion give them the benefit of the doubt.
If history is any indicator, the fundamentals don't actually matter.

The only things that matter are hype, and people buying/selling according to what people think other people are going to do.

Nearly every crypto-related story comes with narratives that it's good for the exchange rate for various reasons, but ultimately the price goes up (temporarily) because people expect other people to expect the price to go up and want to get ahead of it.
I don't think it's really a solvable problem. There's a very wide range of hard-to-predict outcomes, from total failure to massive wealth, with a lot of just-bumping-along-for-years scenarios. The value of money varies drastically over time. The people involved are generally novices. Labor and skill contributions are impossible to predict in advance. Social conventions and ties add more layers of difficulty. What everybody is doing is essentially buying lottery tickets. And any serious dispute resolution can be more expensive than makes sense early on.

So what the industry has mostly converged on is a pretty basic, simple-to-understand solution that has a small enough number of dials that people can work it. It covers the main outcomes reasonably well if people are not too terrible. And if people are terrible, well, no mechanism is really enough.
And?

Go fight them in court if you thought you would win, the crypto folks should have enough money for now.
Is there a legal framework that allows company to convert OP's shares into debt to OP and essentially by the debt for $0? The debt would only have to be paid if certain conditions are met.
Can someone clarify why XRP is considered a security by the SEC but bitcoin and ethereum are not? Is it something intrinsic in the tech, or is it just that XRP is "managed" by Ripple, a company, whereas BTC/ETH are not?
I went down this rabbit hole at the start of the pandemic and it's more complex. The thing that makes for a good web-cam is a great lens. The sensor and body of the camera is mostly commodity and contributes at max $50-$100. A good lens with shallow depth of field will cost $500-$700. So the best case current solution would be $700+ for something that will look as good as a high-quality DSLR without the body complexity.

I designed a prototype of this type of camera and I think there's a market but it's difficult to defend. You end up competing with Logitech or Canon, GoPro & Apple enter the market.

It's more likely that cell-phone quality cameras start being added to laptops and the shallow depth of field is done in software.
It seems like these feel-good stories about benevolent capitalists get a little less traction now, although perhaps not in forums populated by the labor aristocracy.
Congrats on releasing V v0.2! It's a great language and the compile times are amazing. My only issue is keeping up with the constantly changing vlib.

Do you have any plans to resume working on Volt (the original V app)? I thought the idea behind it was great, but there hasn't been an update in 1.5 years.
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"Change teaching so that they don't need proctoring" sounds a bit like a "draw the rest of the owl".
Literally nobody is saying this
The first gen leaf is higher, for sure, because it's almost a crossover like the Model Y (and this is nice for loading and unloading the kids, altho it hits the efficiency slightly), but I'm really not sure it's any wider. You really can fit 3 kids abreast in a Model 3.
Either way it's still under 400KB for the whole site, it had better not be slow. Not sure what modern has to do with it.

By comparison of a similar design, golang.org is twice the size and only takes .3 seconds longer. So what exactly are we comparing?
Try to install Logitech G Hub, it should help
Right. That's why I always thought buying IPOs is a bit of a mug's game.
I have built a marketplace in a weekend with no code
You must get a lawyer now. Below us my thoughts given several decades experience As founder-

You have a strong position here, since you built the products. Don’t walk away. The ultimatum is counting in you being non-confrontational and wanting to cave.

This cofounder has betrayed your trust at this point, so some sort of exit is needed. Non-technical is a lot easier to hire- you can get marketing or whatever expertise he has easily.

He should be the one leaving. Maybe offer to buy him out at current equity value paid over 20 years at %6 interest, secured only by company stock.

If he forces the issue he will destroy the company in the ensuing lawsuit. So this is a mutually assured destruction situation.

What is the ownership of the software? Did you retain rights to it? If you are forced out can you recreate the company quickly using the software you already created?

Get a lawyer, now. You need an advocate who is ready to play ball and who can be the “bad guy” for you.

Your cofounder will likely try to spin it, try to portray any resistance from you as evidence of bad faith, etc. Don’t let him.
Really, what’s your reasoning? I’d rather have NASA on my resume than any of the FAANGs. Especially if I was an engineer. Building spaceship bits? Sign me up.
>Update 2020-12-22 20:00 UTC: Tor Browser 10.0.7 is approved now on Google Play and it is rolling out.

Quite curious if this hitting the HN frontpage had anything to do with it. Probably, based on the timing.
On the other hand, if their computer or their opponents' wasn't maintaining 60fps, it does get worse.

Regardless, only a very small few of the top pros (Hungrybox and Axe) seem to be sensitive to the minute differences when things are working properly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25511198

> Unlike Bitcoin, which issues new currency units through mining, XRP is issued by Ripple

Nobody can "print money" with bitcoin. That isn't the case with Ripple
How do the new Covid-19 vaccines work?