skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While some people would blame it on Nintendo producing products people want, I think its a little more cultural than that: Nintendo, as a company, deeply fails to understand Western culture. Because of this decades-long misunderstanding, they've developed a weird culture of isolation with the west; far more-so than other Japanese game developers like PlayStation, who have a REALLY strong western corporate presence.

Though, I'd argue Nintendo's interactions with the west are really similar to another Japanese developer, From Software. They both have a massive, rabid western fanbase who orgasm at every bit of news these eastern companies hand out. Well, in the end, they give out very little, and a lot of their game releases follow a pattern of "we're making new game, here's a teaser trailer" (three years pass with literally nothing) "ok, game is out today, have fun". Contrast that to Cyberpunk and other western developers, which more follow a pattern of constant community engagement, developer diaries, release dates promised a year in advance, then missed, playable demos, marketing deal with Doritos, sponsored twitch streams, etc.

Its a rather interesting case study in how game companies should communicate with their base. You'd initially think that more communication is always better, but there's so much evidence to the contrary (Nintendo, From, Valve, and Team Cherry immediately come to mind). By rarely communicating these companies exempt themselves from a lot of criticism; obviously this exemption applies to the games they're developing, but it really does extend to everything they do.
The Dependency Jungle
I've been using Phoenix LiveView and I love it. I'm much more comfortable with Erlang syntax, though, and wish there was still a viable Erlang web framework.
> I think it's in ARM's self-interest that Apple doesn't run away with this market.

Apple is a high-profile demonstration that ARM is perfectly suitable for desktops (well, laptops). Also, Apple usually doesn't corner the market - instead it blazes the trail and others follow (see smartphones, tablets, retina displays, watches and lousy keyboards). If history is any guide, others will soon follow.

All of this sounds like a great thing for ARM. Now, if only it survives nVidia...
Thank you both for the information anyway :)
Right, exactly. The habit is gross, not the person.

"Social-media-using" should be treated like an adjective that modifies the individual, not a noun that defines them.

It's a shame that nuance seems like the first thing to go out the window when we use social media sites like this, but maybe someday we'll be able to do better.
Have you seen the research of Ribosomes being quine-like? (the structural nucleic acids and genes for the protein parts are related).
> How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired?

While you can get impressive figures, a 1gbps wired connection is just so much better than the equivalent speed wifi connection. It’s double or triple the speed in my experience.
A software solution to use your phone's camera and mic as a webcam is ManyCam, it's a great desktop and phone app for streaming.
Totally agree with this. Seems like all the left are is activists now, projecting on the right. They are totally blind in their hatred, pursing the right like game. Lots of former liberals moving right because they don't agree (which makes them racist bigots that must be destroyed, obviously /s) The left has created a very sad world. If you are one of them just stop and think for a moment and consider that the right is just people, and they are not out to get you. And for the future comments trying to prove this wrong - just do your own research. Censorship is real and keeping the truth hidden.
People walk around taking pictures and video with their phone. No one walks around with their laptop open taking pictures or filming the kids on the tobogganing hill.

Now with everyone working remotely I could see a quality demand happening but no where near the interest in phone cams.
I understood "walk away" meant walking away without any kind of papers signed. That would mean, that if the other stakeholders want something from OP they have to approach him and make a clear offer.

And I think that is also the best option. Just mentally evaluate the ROI of this project to zero, and try to focus on something else now. With startups you got to get used to the fact that failures and misinvestments happen.
Developer Successfully Emulates Nintendo Switch Games on M1 Mac
Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1340777743244509196
The second case is not persuasion and it is a moral harm.
You could just use a piece of software like IVCam in conjunction with a very good camera you already own...the one on your phone.

Sure, you'll need to rig up some kind of stand (like maybe a hands-free mount?) but once you do that you'll have a webcam with a pretty decent camera (Since you can use the rear camera)
Am I the only one who was very, very surprised when the screencast immediately jumped into Rails? There's no mention of Rails anywhere on the landing page.
I have limited to zero success gamestreaming on wifi vs ethernet with the particular setup at my house in a townhome.

I have not tested it on my Wifi 6 phone but I'd be tentatively skeptical that you'd want to use ethernet for this use case.
* https://thebitplayer.com

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bit_Player

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5015534/

Available on Amazon Primer:

* https://www.amazon.com/Bit-Player-John-Hutton/dp/B08D291YQS
Then no bills would ever get passed again
My home is wired with Cat5E and a gigabit switch, and my wired connection delivers consistent, uninterrupted, near-zero-latency 1gbps connectivity 24/7.

I have two different nice wifi APs running all the latest standards and even on new devices supporting the latest and greatest the best I ever see over wifi is about 300-350mbps, plus a couple additional milliseconds of latency. Plus the random little transient wifi hiccups that just happen from time to time.

I can see about a dozen other wifi networks in range of my house, so some radio noise out there but nothing crazy.

And now that I also have symmetric gigabit fiber, only my wired connections can come anywhere close to saturating my WAN bandwidth.

If you have the option/ability, wired is going to crush wireless every time. Wifi is great for casual use and I'm glad it has gotten as good as it has, but for real work/gaming/whatever there's no contest.
Did he write an article about this or is it in the book?
Sure, if they want to risk people's health so that an actor can look better during an interview, they can definitely send a makeup specialist and a lighting/sound crew and a camera guy to set everything up in the actor's home, and then send them back to take everything down after the interview is over.

But since nobody cares that actor's aren't wearing makeup at home right now, they could just do the safe thing and not do any of that and the actor can do the interview the way they normally appear in real life. Indeed, it may actually be worse PR to have the actor have a professional studio setup in their home, because then people may ask why the studio risked the health of so many people for something so unnecessary.

TV stations did have crew set up home studios for anchors and weatherpeeps, complete with remote links to the studios video in-feed, but the difference is that anchors and weatherpeeps will be on the air almost every day, for hours at a time.
When Philosopher Met King: Plato in Sicily
A GoPro performs horribly in bad light though. And it costs serveral hundred dollars as well.

If you already own one, then it might be an option. But buying a GoPro to get a better webcam doesn't really make sense.
"An issue I have with this is that one reason my co-founder wants to split is that they don't really want the pressure of running a startup"

Whereas it sounds like you have a solid plan to grow the business and generate revenue. As @jedberg says, this makes your interests aligned with the (neutral) investor, and the other founder at odds with the investor.

a) You and your cofounder can't work together

b) One must leave

The investor and one founder can push out the other founder. Who do you think the investor thinks should leave if you reread your quote above?
I think there's some kind of weird mentality among web devs that client-size computations are free, but server-side ones cost resources because you do more of them the more users you have.
Yes, anyone can start one.

> Is it the high barrier of entry that limits these businesses?

No. Entering isn't hard, it's surviving, particularly if you are good. It's the near impossibility to compete against the big players because of copyright and patent laws.

Without abolishing these unfair laws, you cannot disrupt them. You cannot displace them.

When I was at Microsoft I saw the advantages first hand. If I had the blessing of the C-Suite, I could go and squash any business I wanted to as long as they weren't Apple, Google, Amazon, or Facebook.

Look at Slack, GitHub, LinkedIn, etc. Huge successes, and yet at the end of the day realized they couldn't be viable without joining one of the big dogs.

The problem is those big dogs are black holes sucking up an enormous amount of information, that you cannot take with you if you leave because of #imaginaryproperty laws, and hence you are always at a huge information disadvantage if you try and compete against them and will get squashed.

Come up with a great new Saas app? At some point if you're successful you will have to sell to one of them, or some exec will decide they'd like to take over your market and leverage their information advantage against you—good luck hanging on to your top talent when the big players offer them 3x the salary and job security; good luck building your sales pipelines when the big dogs have access to your customer list and purchasing decision makers with a snap of their fingers; good luck hanging on to your suppliers when the big dogs offer better terms; good luck acquiring customers when the big dogs have 1/10th the CAC.

I loved and was in awe of the talent of the people at Microsoft. But they don't need the #ImaginaryProperty protections. It makes them do shittier work and makes us all worse off (and the only affect is a redistribution of wealth to the top 1%).
Just get a Huawei phone. That's Android without Google.
Building one car and building millions of car is not the same thing. Car production, distribution and servicing is a totally different very localized problem.

Apple can do it if they really want do, but lets not pretend it is easy.
To me this is similar to studying classical music but skipping Wagner because he was literally a Nazi.
Your theory of the case here being that this company has managed to find a set of contracts that establishes 4/1 vesting and enabled a seed funder to invest $100k, but somehow didn't designate any officers of the company or any authority to terminate members of the company.

It could happen! They might reasonably spend $400-$500 figuring that out.
Just because there are positive incentives to participate in bad behavior, doesn't mean the people engaging in that behavior are absolved of responsibility for their actions. Just because you suffer personal costs if you do not engage in bad actions, doesn't mean you get a free pass to do them.

The fact that the cheating isn't literally universal does suggest that specific people are knowingly making bad choices while others decide to rise above temptation and make the right choices. That is on them, and they should accept the consequences. Full stop.
I think the parent post is referring to the low rate of adoption of >1gbps networking. Switching and routing is expensive and not many devices support it.
-The Lærdal tunnel is a masterstroke of tunnel engineering; at 24.5km/15miles long, a major issue would be that it is simply mind-numbingly boring to drive through it, with the likely consequence that drivers' minds drift and accidents result.

To counter this, the tunnel is broken up somewhat by three caves blasted out at regular intervals; these are lit by coloured lights and go a ways towards breaking the monotony.

Still mind-numbingly boring, though.

To give an idea of how prevalent tunnels are in western Norway - going from where I live in Hareid down to where my mother's family comes from, Voss - a 400km/250mi drive - just over 100km/62mi are in tunnels, including the Lærdal tunnel and the Eiksund tunnel, which was until recently the deepest subsea road tunnel in the world at 290m/950ft deep. (Steepest grade: 9.6%. Engine braking is your friend.)
Optical maybe, but copper has more limitations. Signal propogation in air is faster, and with things like beam-forming there's big advantages to having multiple sending and receiving points spread apart.

So to push speeds in a similar way with a wire you might end up needing a mesh of wires.

Power delivery and (relative) protection against signal degredation are, for me at least, the remaining big reasons to wire things in. Speed not so much.
Poland proposes large fines for social media platforms that censor users
An interesting trend to me in the comments here is a conflation of a company like Nintendo as a whole, and the efforts to do creepy things like stalk hackers. Considering the size of companies like Nintendo, I could easily imagine there being one culture in the company of valuing the creation of beloved games and how they impact society. (e.g.: a recent article I have not read but the title suggests an agreement with that culture existing: https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/12/21/nintendos-shigeru-mi...) While on the other hand there is a highly litigious culture somewhere else in Nintendo that does creepy things. Whether or not the "happy" side knows about the creepy side or even has much control over it, or even if they encourage it(!), is something I do not know about. I do know that Japanese culture is extremely different from American culture, so something that might seem creepy or aggressive here might be considered effectively normal behavior there, and we could be seeing a clash between the cultures of different countries. (I remember reading something a while ago about how Nintendo of America or Sega of America was extremely mad about some aggressive litigious stuff that happened from the Japanese side of things for some stuff that was effectively harmless or even good for the company in the eyes of at least America, again suggesting at some culture stuff going on potentially) As an example, Japan effectively has a culture of overwork built into their society as a norm that goes beyond even American overtime/overwork cultures. Sleeping under your desk isn't going to be considered an abnormal occurrence, at least in some companies. Getting home (even when married!) at extremely late hours, possibly totally smashed drunk because of office culture valuing (read: effectively requiring) going out for drinks after work is done, is again not abnormal.

I'm not defending things like intimidating individuals who are finding security issues in game devices. I'm not defending crazy work hours to produce something. But I did want to at least point out some things that could give context to at least pieces of what's going on here.
What's bold about "<advertising company> products are adware"?
I am not a founder but this does not seem like sound advice. In a month, that 3% pittance becomes 10%. Also, it does not seem that the company has no value at all, if it is primed to make money. The extrinsic value on the 40% is worth negotiating over and not giving it up and walking away. Nobody should do that unless there is gross misconduct or negligence involved.
The OP however didn't say who has the power to fire and on what kind of terms. If the other founder can fire him, the 3% was offer for him to leave on good terms. Because they could just fire and OP would get actually 0% and no discussions or negotiations needed.
Open source is tech giants’ new asset
Vesting schedule means he has 0% right now, 10% in a month, and then 1/48th of 40% every month thereafter.
Elon Musk started 20 years ago. So in 20 years Apple could of course build rockets if they wanted.
Couldn’t have come soon enough. I’m exhausted
It definitely lends credibility; versus the introduction from the other comment - that this is the guy that glitter bombs package thieves on youtube - which makes me take this less seriously.
> No, I'm at a school that is highly ranked for engineering.

In other words, you're at a school that cheats on the rankings. (As the saying goes, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a measure.)
Depends. Inventing new products probably 1y out. But ramping up production on an existing product to a new category should have happened already.
> How does Hotwire compare to Phoenix LiveView? It seems the same to me.

It's much different based on a preliminary reading of Hotwire's docs.

Live View uses websockets for everything. If you want to update a tiny text label in some HTML, it uses websockets to push the diff of the content that changed. However you could use LV in a way that replaces Hotwire Turbo Drive, which is aimed at page transitions, such as going from a blog index page to contact form. This way you get the benefits of not having to re-parse the <head> along with all of your CSS / JS. However LV will send those massive diffs over websockets.

Hotwire Turbo Drive replaces Tubolinks 5, and it uses HTTP to transfer the content. It also has new functionality (Hotwire Turbo Frames) to do partial page updates too instead of swapping the whole body like Turbolinks 5 used to do. Websockets is only used when you want to broadcast the changes to everyone connected and that's where Hotwire Turbo Streams comes in.

IMO that is a much better approach than Live View, because now only websockets get used for broadcast-like actions instead of using it to render your entire page of content if you're using LV to handle page transitions. IMO the trade off of throwing away everything we know and can leverage from HTTP to "websocket all the things" isn't one worth making. Websockets should be used when they need to, which is exactly what Hotwire does.

I could be wrong of course but after reading the docs I'm about 95% sure that is an accurate assessment. If I'm wrong please correct me!
People talk about how a startup being successful is 90% luck and you want OP to walk away from a successful startup and try again.
They can't stall; that's now how this works. There's no such thing as squatters rights when you're terminated.

Like tptacek said a few times in this thread, they should read the contracts and see if they can be fired, but it's very likely they can be.
Thank you for the response. Please accept my sincere apologies.
The problem I have is the gushing praise for the director's technical or artistic skill, without any mention of anything else. The movie industry has protected and defended this guy for decades. Film professors who only want to talk about art, not the artists, play a role in perpetuating this ongoing injustice.
If you want something in a wonderfully engaging narrative style, there is also Conquistador by Buddy Levy.
So why post it? You rationalize and give credence to goofball theories for fun?
I didn't know what a "bird course" is so I looked it up.

So why didn't you share the answer with the rest of us, instead of linking to some web site that doesn't answer the question, either? It makes your comment look like spam.
> How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired?

In the review it looks like he’s using a PCIe card for WiFi. If you used a 10Gbe card on a 10Gbe network, I imagine you’d do even better.
WebRTC Today and Tomorrow: Interview with W3C WebRTC Chair Bernard Aboba
Agree completely.

It's not me, but if it were, I'd approach the getting fired problem with "look, I build this. You can fire me, but you don't have money for adequate dev and average Joe will run it into the ground in two months. Your greed will make you lose everything", and also approach the investor (if they're hands on) with the same rationale.

Also agree with the point you made elsewhere - this can get gut wrenching (even without any lawyers getting involved) and if you're prone to dwell on negative thoughts, pretty damaging to your morale through the duration. Money spent fighting is not the only downside.
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
This is a partner we all agree is ruthless enough to terminate a productive partner prior to a cliff, but somehow either lacks enough clue or holds on to just enough ruth not to be able to simply fire the partner before the cliff elapses. They probably don't have to accept a deal in order to be terminated.
> This is definitely not the fastest, but I think it may be the cheapest, slowest, simplest to hand assemble, lowest part count, and lowest-end Linux PC.

Amazing to think that 8 years later these ATMegas are more expensive than some of the SoCs currently on the market in production linux devices.

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solde...
You can split it to two 1x PCIe 2.0, or perhaps even 2x, 4x, probably even 3.0, 4.0, with the right chip, but in any case you need a PCIe switch, and they will share the uplink bandwidth.
Looks great, but I'm skeptical on the "bringing 3 of your own builds to life" at the end of 30 days, especially if you lack the tens of thousands of dollars of tools that Mark has.
Wouldn't inflation help these people? The depreciating assets may lose value less slowly. Sure, high inflation usually means higher interest rates, but that certainly hasn't been the case in the current environment. Also, you will be paying off the debt with the inflated salary.
This is pretty interesting to read through. I'm aware of a thing called "ERISA" , where (I think) there's law forbidding termination before vesting (retirement funds though).

Are there any similar legal protections in place to prevent termination based _solely_ on equity vesting?

And to all the comments here saying to just walk away and keep your peace; ie - just take it as a learning lesson. Which learning lesson is that exactly? Sounds to me like this is a pretty typical situation we engineers can get ourselves into. What other protections (learning lessons) could they have done to mitigate what's happening here?
You are wrong, from https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria :

"We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many levels as possible. If and when free software becomes available for use on a certain secondary processor, we will expect certified products to adopt it within a reasonable period of time. This can be done in the next model of the product, if there is a new model within a reasonable period of time. If this is not done, we will eventually withdraw the certification."
Using my SaaS as a data source
1. At this point I don't think 10Gbps NICs are worth that much on the second hand market. Most of the cost will be in the wiring. In WiFi most of the cost would be in the router and APs.

2. Wired is far more reliable than wireless in urban settings. You just don't have to deal with overlapping channels, physical barriers, dropped packets, concurrency between devices etc. You might get away with free real estate on 5Ghz+ nowadays but that's going to change as the ISP-provided equipment rotates.

I get a lot of wireless myself because I live in the middle of nowhere, without a single other Wifi AP in detectable range and the inner walls of my house are pretty thin. In that context, with a well configured router, I get extremely stable wireless connections with low latency (<1ms router<->NIC).

But in a city apartment I'd rather have the old 10m Ethernet cable cutting across the living-room.
I don't want to sound like a shill, but isn't this exactly what DataBricks has been pitching with their new DeltaLake thing?

I was listening to the A16Z podcast and they were discussing this in depth.
If you want to buy a company outright you need to pay more then the market cap.
I think you're overlooking an obvious middle ground.