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Ask HN: We're about to enter into a partnership with a company / Advice needed
Hi there,

I've been building this SAAS / No Code platform for the past 1 year with my friend, and now we're at a critical point where we have some discussions with a company/founders on collaboration opportunities. And I wanted to see if you guys can give us some ideas on how to collaborate without getting burned. I will provide more details and also feel free to ask me as many questions as you think you need, so you can give us better advice.

To give more context, the platform allows you to create apps without a code, something similar to Microsoft PowerApps or similar. The company that we talked with does BI and services for multiple US clients using Microsoft PowerApps and a lot of other tools. They have demand for their services, and they want to sell our solutions, after polishing it, to these smaller clients/use cases, for which our solution is perfect, and they’re turning down at this moment. The thing is that we need to work on this more to make it production-ready, maybe in 3-6 months, and we have other jobs, I have expenses of 2000 EUR monthly (at the maximum optimization, as I live in Southeast Europe), and my friend has expenses of 4000 Euro monthly. They want to see the option where they would take care of these expenses, through a payroll from they're existing company. We however opened a company and want to keep it, but try to involve them in our company with some kind of equity structure or something
In addition to covering our monthly expenses, they are interested in helping us with business development, bringing us clients, and the sales part, so we can focus mostly on implementation/tech parts (as we’re both technical people).
They have tremendous experience in different industries and experience working with big corporations, and also they have a strong and large network that would be super beneficial for us. Also, they have 50 people working for them and they are saying that they can share some of their resources with us.

For us, it’s hard to find other investments at this point. We will need to bootstrap it ourselves but there is a fear of being late to market because of slow development since we need to keep our full-time jobs for which I get paid 50 euros per hour and my friend \~5000 monthly.
We certainly need to give ownership of the company to the other part, but we want to keep the decision-making of the product mostly to ourselves but with the flexibility to align with the requirements of the clients that they're bringing.
Any advice on any known partnership models for this case, or what kind of structure do you guys think that would be the best case for us?
It's easy to make fun of executives but in my experience this is absolutely true. I've now had 3 remote jobs, 2 were in office and then transitioned remote. The culture is not good at any of the jobs, with the 2 that transitioned becoming obviously much worse a year or so after the transition. Is it possible to keep your culture in a full remote environment? Yes of course, but in my experience it requires leadership that most companies do not have. Forcing everyone back to the office is much easier for most companies than firing leadership and replacing them with people who have experience scaling remote work while keeping a strong culture.
https://status.hetzner.com/incident/9ef3f80f-b9db-4445-ab3c-...
It improvements in the next generation of VR (e.g., expression and iris tracking) could open up big improvements here, but the inherent latency of long-distance communication feels like a fundamental challenge comparing anything to in-person.
Hey, that’s really cool! Upvoted! ¿What binary formats are supported? - I couldn’t see that in the README and I’m guessing it isn’t universal (though I could be wrong!).

As for this specific context, presumably at least the bulk of the fields are shared between YouTube clients across architectures and platforms - it might be easier to just run the dump against binaries extracted from the YouTube apk than getting the specific Apple TV YouTube app binary. (For iPhone, you can just make a full iTunes backup but for Apple TV I imagine you’re going to need to do some forensic binary spelunking.)
I used Google translate. Outside of two or three sentences of police witnesses calling him far right, there was no other mention of his political activities or affiliations.
Sure, but that wasn't what the person I was responding to suggested. If they had, I probably wouldn't have commented.
What is the bare metal internet? Is it a series of tubes?
I'm always amused by how much people value wealth differences above absolute measures of poverty. I am more a fan of, let's increase wealth inequality even more if it means we can raise the bottom. In America very few people die of starvation, but Americans complain bitterly about the fact that others have it so much better than the people at the bottom. I have been in many truly poor places where people would give anything to trade their miserable starvation at the door lives for that inequality that poor Americans have to endure.
The evidence is overwhelming that intelligence is at least partly heritable. It's uncontroversial among experts to say that it's likely around 50% heritable. It's perhaps a little overstated to say it's "largely" heritable and that the evidence for this is overwhelming.

Being charitable here perhaps the author was just saying that the evidence is overwhelming that intelligence is heritable (to some degree), and that it's their opinion that it's "largely" heritable (assuming they mean 50%+). If by "largely" they just meant somewhere in the region of 50%, then I think this is a fairly accurate statement.

The author shares my view on this. If I had to guess intelligence is likely to be somewhere around to 60-80% heritable in the West. However, in countries where malnutrition, disease and lack of basic education are factors these are likely more important than genetics.

> This is the problem with “rationalists”.. . They don’t actually use their brains, they defer to “authority”, arguing that anyone that doesn’t listen to authorities is arrogant, but then they pick who they deem to be authorities to match their pre-existing opinions.

Ad hominem. Also your criticising rationalists for both blindly overweighting the opinions of experts and also not listening to the opinions of experts. If they're selecting expert opinions based on their own opinions then, if not their own brains, where did these opinions come from?
This freaks me out. Even if it's not that good now, it looks like it's only going to get better and essentially either force programmers out of a job or force programmers to adopt non-free software to do their jobs. Grim.
See also:

https://acoo.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mcdirecto...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252231

https://guzey.com/co-working/

https://www.flow.club/

https://www.focusmate.com/
I expect that eventually there will be more residential in cities.

Anyway the solution to sprawl is not forcing everyone to commute to work. I think it's zoning and housing availability. And not allowing investors to hoarde.
MyFonts sells typefaces by hundreds of foundries and thousands of independent type designers.

https://foundrysupport.monotype.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028...
Huh? Article says he criticized the Bangladeshi government.
I use these various AIs for fiction writing.

I think Margaret misses some of their utility. You would never just squeeze out a novel with AIs as they currently stand. They are far too primitive and the context window if far too small right now.

However, they are excellent at speeding up the process of fiction writing with humans involved.

You get a draft together, but you feel like it could be more dramatic. So, you take a few scenes that you've written, put them in the AI, and then ask it to make them more dramatic. It comes back with okay-ish ideas. You iterate again. And again. Finally, you have something that really feels like what you're looking for.

Then you send that out to your editor or friends and family.

Instead of getting very high quality feedback in a week or a day (lucky!), you can get middling quality back in minutes. Yeah, it's not the absolute best, but it gets you out of your headspace and gets you iterating faster. You then send that better draft out for much faster feedback. It's like the rubber duck every programmer uses, only it talks back.

There are other ways that I tend to use these AIs, but the idea is the same. You're not using them point-blank. You use them as a part of the process, and it speeds up that process as a result.

Now, of course, she's not wrong here about publishers. They'll squeeze these AIs out for just crap and try to sell that, and, unfortunately, be successful. When author royalties and advances drop to $0, you can tolerate a lot in the long tail.
Google uses their primary business (surveillance and propaganda) to subsidize their other endeavors, engaging in unfair business practices by providing services below cost to destroy any competition. Taking them up on their offer while protecting yourself from their primary operation is no more freeloading than buying only the loss leaders from one store while going elsewhere to get the rest of what you need. They're a business, not a public service.
The old Scottish pub that found a new life in California
Around 2002, there was a startup that funded itself by offering "lifetime" hosting for $500. I think it was called "textdrive". Anyway I bought it and it lasted about 8 years. The company went under or got bought out or something. Still not a bad price on a monthly basis.

Anyway, If you get this, don't be surprised if it only lasts a decade or two.
How To Write a Good PRD (2005) [pdf]
While your statement is probably correct, I've not known anyone who talks about CICO as anything other than "diet and exercise". This is why the absolute statement is a problem, it narrows they way most people think about these things. It becomes a substitute for nuanced explanations.
Best to ignore such messages. Call Google's bluff. I do, my apps keep paying out.
If by "learn" you mean "native mastery" then I suppose you are saying only kids reach that level, so they are "faster" simply because they are the only ones to finish.

The article considers "learn" to mean roughly "fluency", short of native mastery, and adults tend to reach fluency faster, then plateau.

So depending on nuance, you and the article are both right in some sense.
Every 5 minutes seems inefficient. Does it run if only 1 person boards?

1km of cars is 1/9 the total length of the M10. Not following the argument here.
In 1994's Summer I was doing AS/400 backups during my internship.

It is a matter of being on the right team.
Yes, anything computable has its analog in mathematics. Don't forget not only books and guides; the compiler is also a teacher.

What we gain by not scribbling proofs and peering at it, and peeking at the answers in our self-doubt and frustration, is the computer refuses to execute statements that are not syntactically correct.

With data structures and the standard libraries, you have your own model of the universe; express the ideas in code and test them: after adding to the collection, does it report back the size increased by 1?

By yourself, the hardest is finding something to program. To that, I would say try to solve your own problems.

Create a quiz app with staggered repetition. Step through your programs with a debugger. Look at the generated assembly.

In a vacuum, gcc on a Chromebook is a ticket to infinite possibilities.
A forum engine written in Assembly
Yes, IBM reached a peak in the past from which a gradual fall still leaves them raking in money from largely legacy enterprise clients for a very long time.

That doesn't make them competitive in new markets, though.
It has immense security implications. Without transport encryption, an adversary performing a MITM attack can, in certain circumstances, completely rewrite the entire HTTP response from the server. That includes everything from adding a tracking pixel to, at the extreme, serving some webasm exploit for your browser, plus a sandbox escape, to get code execution in (your) userland... where they could quickly and easily dump and exfil saved passwords from all browsers, crypto wallets, etc.

Extreme example, but code execution is code execution.

I'd hope that PHRACK readers would be among those better prepared for such attacks, but case in point, lack of transport encryption for web traffic is ABSOLUTELY a security issue too, not just a privacy issue.
Windows 98 is a technology. Windows XP is a technology. Both share very little in common under the hood, one being descended from DOS and one from Windows NT. The customer doesn't care, to them it's still Windows as long as it looks and feels the same, and most of your old stuff still works.

Just because Wordpress 6.3 is a php monstrosity with a security-disaster-riddled ecosystem doesn't mean Wordpress 12 has to use php and can't have sandboxed extensions. For all we know, Wordpress 12 could be a fancy frontend for a static site generator (marketed as "ultra-caching" or whatever)
May things started out as a 'just need to get this done.'

Per hobby, look at various things do on frequent basis and/or infrequent basis. Try to envision how to do all/or parts as a coding hobby project. Then go do the opensource research to see if there are things that do something similar (or just specific related aspect of what want to code/do) . Jury rig / program way to get the open source things to work together.

Eample: frequent tasks/appointment & schedule reminders (enter task & do automated sms notification reminders) which would entail setting up OS, datbase (command line and/or gui), 'shell scripting' link between user / database and SMS. Perhaps upcoming scheduled report summary & automated clean-up of expired tasks/schedules.

perhaps at some point move it over to cloud so can visually access / add additional information through internet portal. might want to make sure understand security implications first.
How does it compare to CoPilot and Code Whisperer ? Given that these two services are distributed by software giants that also sell infrastructure, why would someone pick Cody ?
Whenever I read about an experimental plane called the Valkyrie I hope it’s about the gorgeous XB-70

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-08...
I have seen people claiming Western polls are wrong across al sorts of spheres for decades and almost always I find that the person claiming the polls are wrong has some political motive and the polls are later vindicated with a move to free, fair, monitored elections on the same questions.

Western polls are pretty accurate. Modi is popular, Hasina is popular, Erdogan is popular, Crimeans in 2014 wanted to join Russia... all of these things are likely true.
Once I met a young man who was able to eat glass, literally. I saw, right in front of me, him break a glass with his teeth, chew the pieces until they were very fine, and swallow everything. To prove that he wasn't hiding the pieces in his mouth, he made a point of opening his mouth wide and showing that he had indeed swallowed them.
An apartment.

So now I have a personal kitchen, bathroom etc. And no employer can make a better office proposition.
Yeah fair HiDPI is still a bit of a hassle. Not hard, but not out of the box either.

Excepting 4k, which is fine out of the box. the pain comes in if you need fractional scaling.
> You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use.

Possibly, but that’s not what GP wanted to know.
Since we're playing "just asking questions"

>I’m not necessarily for or against but didn’t the creation of dark pools lead to front-running

How does creation of dark pools lead to front running? Isn't that explicitly banned by the SEC?

>and worse prices for customers?

How so? Regulation NMS forces brokers to provide equal or better prices than the national best bid offer.
Dignity and respect result from fear. Who would you fear most between the tourist and the insane?
So You Want to Hire for Developer Tooling – Hazel Weakly
In Pursuit of Wilder Summers
JSON over HTTP.
It’s my naive understanding that HFT makes money at the direct expense of other market participants. Is this not a downside? I’m genuinely curious to the arguments against this.
I also struggle to sleep due to anxiety about what I could or should be doing. I started using a visualization meditation technique.

I don’t watch a wide variety of tv, instead I tend to watch my favorites over and over again so I have a pretty good visual in my head.

I have ripped the audio from my favorite shows and put them on random with a 30 minute sleep timer. I focus on visualizing the episode as I’m listening to it as that keeps my mind from wandering, but since I know the episodes so well it also isn’t a struggle.

I’m rarely still awake by the time it stops playing after 30 minutes. And if I am or I wake up in the middle of the night, I can just tap the button on my nightstand and it continues playing for another 30 minutes. No need to open my eyes or take off my sleep mask.

For reference my primary shows are futurama (original seasons), psych, and next generation.
does this support aggregations? ie sum, count etc.
Just because this is fun:

"designers, brand designers, accessibility designers, book publishers" are all professional font nerds.

Teachers and "avid readers" might not be, but I dispute that either of those groups cares as much about font selection as font nerds wish they did.
> Many posters, including perhaps yourself, are giving the son & mother a benefit of the doubt

This is the basis of fair criminal trials. Also, Bangladesh seems to have a terrible human rights record [1]. So the presumption of innocence for the mother is strengthened absent evidence of a crime (which, in a competent court system, should be public record).

[1] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/bangl...
Its actually much worse than what the author wrote about - he/she just messed up execution of roll-out.

If they decided, the app was really not worth it, they could have unpublished it. However, even unpublished apps can jeopardize your account's standing by running afoul of a policy, which Google may have concocted long after the app was written.

Unpublished apps in this state can get your account permanently banned.

You have to support your apps for the rest of your life (if you care about your account).
There's also the very real issue where to attract anyone with skills and talent, any non-profit will need to achieve parity of compensation with comparable for-profit officers. If they try to be altruistic and pay a pittance, or get volunteers, they simply aren't going to attract or retain good leadership.
ICANN does not allow the expiration date on a domain registration to be more than 10 years in the future.

Unless they made some special deal with ICANN, what Wordpress is almost certainly doing is the same thing Network Solutions does (or did? [1]) for their 100 year registration product. Register it for 10 years, and then add more years every so often over the next 100 years to keep pushing the expiration date out (but never farther out than 10 years) until the expiration date reaches 100 years from the start.

[1] I'm not sure Network Solutions still offers 100 years. I just checked and it only offered up to 10 years for the domain itself. It offered up to 100 years on some of their add-ons such as their private registration option.
I agree!

My point is that this is where both the hypers and the dismissers have gotten it wrong for me. So many hypers are just talking about something that isn't what I'm interested in; about whether it's AGI, rather than whether it's useful. And the dismissers are just missing or denying that it is useful, and for me, it definitely is. Both of these groups just seem to be talking past each other and focusing on the wrong metrics, from my perspective.
This is how we're wired as a species, and frankly more than just a species. We don't just look at what we have and what we want, we look at what other people have and ask ourselves why they got it and we didn't. At a basic level it's an instinct that exists in lower primates, and in us as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

The difference with us is that we can learn and understand the reasons why one person gets a "grape" and the other a "cucumber"... and those answers are often not just unsatisfying, but infuriating.
Hey! I am the cofounder for codestory.ai
In terms of differentiation,while buildt and sourcegraph are geared towards making the code search experience the best in class, for us the search is a part of the overall experience which the developer and AI agent needs to do at the same time.

Our idea is to really rethink the editor and make it a place where both humans and AI come together to develop software together, all the tools out there today focus on AI assisting humans, we consider the humans and AI to be on the same level.

Hopefully this answers your question, happy to expand further.
The author also seemed to think parsing a <2MB protobuf was CPU intensive. Even for a cheap embedded network device, you'll never convince me that is true.
VR and mixed reality is going to be a huge thing for work pretty soon.

There are going to be lots of cases where the latency is really manageable, such as when people are in the same country or general area.

With AI enhancements and eye tracking etc. it could become extremely realistic.

So there will probably be a new fight about virtual attendance where employers want you to be in your virtual office seat so they can monitor you that way.

That may actually be one thing that helps drive realistic AI and robotics in terms of emulating human behavior. People may eventually become their own employment agencies for AIs they train or curate and then rent out or apply for jobs. In some cases the employer may not know for sure if they have a human or not.
I'm in the same boat as you with the liftime plan. Plex felt a bit like it's losing the focus I care about a bit in the previous years (Integratin free ad supported streaming, FAST etc.) but so far it has been not intrusive and I don't really have a reason to look at alternatives as it's working nicely and their Apple TV app is solid.

As long as they don't complely pivot away from the "self-hosting your media collection" use case I care about, I'll be a happy user.
As you say, the independent stores found a sweet spot. Compare the success of independent bookshops to the big chains like Barnes & Noble. The former are inherently browsable; you know you'll find something interesting, even if you have no idea what it'll be. And they draw you in with events like book-signings.

Mostly, I think the big retail industry stopped innovating the (cough) shopping "experience." They put more attention on helping people find things they are actively looking for ("I need a blue left-hand widget") than encouraging serendipity.

Both things can exist in parallel. I find myself comparing in-person retail shopping to sports. You absolutely can get a more comfortable sportball experience sitting on your couch, with cheaper beer and immediate analysis. But in baseball, for instance, the teams have done a lot to encourage people to attend games... not because one is better than the other, but because they are interestingly different.