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Ask HN: VC Firm suggesting my cofounder should get more equity in next round?
A little context:

My cofounder and I started our company about a year ago and have already raised a pre-seed round. My cofounder (CEO) and I (CTO / Product) agreed at the time that we would do a 50/50 split with 1 tie breaking vote going to him to avoid gridlock.

We had a minority stake cofounder at the time who was since left the company with some additional equity re entering our pool.

This was done at the advice of YC. We both started the company together at the same time, and I also quit my job to start with (former FAANG employee).

All in all I would say this split has been positive for us. There have never been any tie breaking votes, our delineation of responsibility is very clearly stated and we meet 2-3 times a week.

The problem:

Our lead VC has this idea in their head that the CEO should have more equity and even brought this up during our initial raise, though didn’t really push the issue (again my cofounder DOES have more equity to avoid gridlock, and ultimately has final decision making power if things came to a vote).

My cofounder actually likes our current arrangement because he feels like we are as close to 50/50 as we could reasonably get and are extremely invested in the company. He suggested I meet with them to hear them out but at the end of the day said it’s our choice, and the most important thing to him is that our relationship goes undamaged.

What is the best way to handle this convo and give reasonable pushback. If I’m being frank it honestly annoys me that this keeps getting brought up (feels like they are trying to screw me on some weird level) and I can’t think of any rational reason for it besides some cargo cult type thinking they have.

Is there something I’m missing here / any rational reason why this would actually make sense for me and the company?
Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface
The learning rate of your internal neural net was still dialed up near max, vs. today, where it's rapidly decreasing and thus things you're exposed to aren't nearly as capable of shaping your internal weights.
Very cool! Thank you, I will be following closely and may convince myself to join Batch 3 :) And will probably reach out in a few days (I'm sure you're quite busy right now!)
Thanks, that rules out the Arista option then. :)

I'm currently looking into the HP 5900AF-48XG-4QSFP+ (JC772A) switches, as they seem to be a good price/performance mix on Ebay. :)

My homelab is currently just a small setup with 4 boxes using 40GbE and a few others with 10GbE. Only one of them really needs the 40GbE though, the other's could be made 10GbE and not care. ;)

Random example of this switch:

https://www.networktigers.com/products/jc772a-hpe-5900af-48x...

Can't seem to find any info about noise levels though. :(
What hidden behaviors? The only hidden behaviors I can think of which are somewhat problematic in C are implicit value-changing conversions. But one can instruct compilers to diagnose those.
But that part is true (it's just "Russia" and "Alaska" aren't the mainlands of either), the Diomede Islands are close enough together that you can see the Russian one from the US one.
I think so (not the expert on biology, of course). Depending on the study and setup, crows can count even a bit more, maybe to 6-8. The thing is, humans also can only "intuitively" count only to 7-11 (depending on the person). Counting higher requires some abstract thinking, not just intuition.
> OpenAI didn't want their voice to sound like Scarlett Johansson, they wanted it to sound like Samantha from Her

That is likely the case they would try to make if they went to court. But this likely will be settled out of court if there's anything there

OpenAI trying to contract Scarlett twice would likely put a big damper on the "We didn't want it to sound like her, we wanted it to sound like the character" too

It's definitely not cut and dry
Wow, that article just ticked off every square on my 2024 Buzzword Bingo card.
Minimum wage laws work great. I live in the country with the highest minimum wage in the world, every country should be like this.
They do have 5" and 31.5" reflective displays though, they call them Reflective IGZO Displays.
But with a backlight, which is novel I think?
congrats on the launch!!
Considering all you said, I still consider it ironic that her son is so unethical
Ouch, that's an absurd comparison. Instead of commenting nonsense, how about explaining to me how I'm missing the mark here?

Let's break it down a bit...

"Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy)."

All of this is done for you on GCP with the aforementioned services.

"Porter Cloud for as long as it saves you time and development cost, but at any time you can press the “eject button” to migrate your app to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP account as you please."

Why add an additional service, and set yourself up for having to "eject", when you can just start off on the right foot to begin with?
Could he not just have bought the rights from the studio that owns “Her”, and have been in the clear?
Javier Milei's Plan to Transform Argentina
Think about what we could do with nuclear power if we had spent decades designing and building cheaper reactors. Small Modular Reactors out of a factory could solve the biggest problem of nuclear, that it's expensive and takes a long time to build.
I am in mouse down camp. When it comes to dragging off a button to avoid triggering, I've done it many times, but it always feels wrong. It's like I'm taking advantage of faulty behaviour. Because of that instinct I'm inclined to believe that there's a better alternative available, like being able to undo easily.

On the note of draggable elements: don't overload affordances on UI elements. If it's draggable, don't make it clickable too. It creates a conceptually simpler experience. As for drag scrolling on mobile, that requires intervention to avoid erroneous triggering. Though when we're talking about "clicking" we're talking about Desktop + Mouse.
Taking someone else's product and making it better is a useful service.
“Containers are not a sandboxing mechanism”, I hear reasonably often (although that seems surmountable at least in theory?).

VMs are cheap, but not “let’s run thousands of them on ‘the edge’ in case we get a request for any of them!” cheap.
I don’t get the need to lie?

If you read the article you will clearly see that for all generations it got more expensive over time.

The first, the second, the third and fourth.

All of them. Standardization did not make it cheaper.
Nice to finally see some content about this! Been interested ever since seeing the Hugging Face article.
> western populations are weary of war

are they? for the most part, Americans haven't really noticed apart from family and friends of service members. There's been no rationing of goods, there's been no campaigns to buy war bonds, there's essentially been no burden on the citizens. In fact, we've had multiple tax cuts and gains in the financial markets. The sheep have been well fed.
I did not pick up on the frontlight/backlight distinction when reading the overview, thanks! Seems like some very novel tech here, I'd love to see more technical details when they're revealed
You shouldn’t just seat yourself at the majority of restaurants, unless you are sitting at the bar area.
What are the criteria for deciding how to either stop influencers
from signing up, or how to permaban them as soon as they start?

It would be something no other platform has managed.
Including this site.
Hang this up in your time machine
I agree on the quality aspect of sleep. I've started to wear earplugs when sleeping, and now I get a much deeper, undisturbed sleep.

I still struggle in actually getting in to bed. Not sure if this is common with ADHD people, but I'm a night owl and if I don't force myself to go to bed, I can easily stay up until 1 or 2am. Of course, that means I suffer the next day...
Yes would be consistent with ADHD or many other things. No would be consistent with ADHD also. Hyper focus is a common symptom.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
Russia is a country with fluid borders and could not allow NATO troops and Rockets in Ukraine in the same way, as we could not accept rockets in Cuba.

The war has gone bad for the West now. The EU has very little equipment left. Russia loses more tanks in a month than many big EU countries have. Germany had ammunition for two days of war. After giving a lot to Ukraine, they have ammunition for one day of war left.

https://www.thearticle.com/defeat-of-the-west-emmanuel-todd-...

Graham's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on May 26
“and the Russians are dying ...the best money we've ever spent.”

Before you downvote you may look up who Emmanuel Todd is. When he was a 25y old PhD student in 1976 he predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is not a person to be taken lightly.
Found a data sheet with the acoustic info (https://s4u.com.ua/assets/files/hp%205900.pdf). 65.7-70.6 dB.

That's clearly not going to be workable. Damn.
Kind of a tangent but I wonder how the serial numbers on the floppy disks were generated. They're clearly not sequential and the length differs between version 2.0D and 2.0F.

SER# 312929011101963 (15 digits)
SER# 3129289101202698 (16 digits)

I wonder if they kept track of these in a CSV or something. Was the idea a customer could call in with their serial number and report a problem, which could be traced to a batch number or something? Anyway, just a curiosity I noticed.
What this article misses is that the US "private planes" were being sold directly to Japan and then being converted into military aircraft. What we didn't sell we licensed the designs directly to them.

This went on well into the late 1930s. It was recognized as a potential problem by some but the profits were large enough that these were ignored.

I encourage everyone to read the book "Human Smoke." It is a collection of headlines and newspaper excerpts from the period surrounding WW2. It's a fascinating read and wonderfully exposes all the propaganda driven half truths and complete fabrications we've sold ourselves about the conflict ever since it ended.
> Math is hard, and hard things can only be mastered through discipline.

There are certainly some things you can only learn effectively by doing them a lot. There are also other things that you've sort of got to learn by rote memorization (e.g. times tables, various formulas). I'm not aware of anything you can only learn effectively by the threat of physical violence.

For what it's worth, I was taught logic and set theory well before I learned things like long division. Somehow, it made me like math more, and I had no problems with long division either. Maybe it might have helped more if I'd been beaten though- not sure.
Nice. That's only 5 feet shorter than the (steel-framed) Flatiron Building.
With that title and the line:

> I do not harbour a grievance that I was never offered a vaccine against strep as a kid, I promise you.

I thought this was going to be an article about how there was a vaccine for strep and having just gone through it I got very excited, but no, there is no vaccine, yet.
FYI there's a typo on the product page, "blacklight" instead of "backlight". I assume that's not a branding thing since it's referred to as a backlight elsewhere.
Can we do the car warranty robocalls next?
Respect. Not easy to do hardware. I will order one for sure to try it out. Very interesting.

A few questions that i hope to get an answer to:

How did you finance the company? How much money did you spend on R&D & production etc?

What was the initial idea you had? What were the biggest challenges before you knew for sure you got the final product?
The Sinatra vs. Goodyear is completely different. In that case, the company had licensed the rights from the rights owner (which happened to be someone other than Sinatra.) If OpenAI had written Spike Jones a check, it would be similar, but they did not.

You had said there were no parallels in this ScarJo situation and I'm merely pointing out that there are.
As well as the opposite if people are standing outside your border begging to come in...
An aside: Tim Harford presents one of the very best programmes on BBC Radio 4: More or Less [1].

Each programme investigates the reality behind statistics used in the media and by politicians. It's quite UK-centric, of course, but simply one of the most informative shows there is.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
Real Residential Property Prices for United States
This would also be my preferred solution.
The prize is the crow's reciprocal gratitude, not the actual object. I just find it cool that they like me.
When Cloudflare Workers launched, they said V8 isolates had some great properties for serverless-style compute:

5 ms cold starts vs 500+ ms for containers

3 MB memory vs 35 MB for a similar container

No context switch between different tenants' code

No virtualization overhead

I'm sure these numbers would be different today, for instance with Firecracker, but there's probably still a memory and/or cold start advantage to V8 isolates.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...
The entire U.S. tax code is one big Central Planning committee. Who should get subsidies? Who should get taxed? The capitalists who celebrated the luxury of American supermarkets over Soviet grocery stores failed to mention the significant farm subsidies given then (and still given).
The developer did listen and came up with a change. All the while enduring insults, threats, and lies directed at him in the GitLab thread and all over the internet. Yet you attack him [*] for being slightly emotional in his response this one time? Wow.

Speaking of attitude, iTerm2 is a gift, and some users (or maybe even non-users) appear to be in need of a reminding.

[*]: Your top level comment
It's harder to figure out what text file I have to edit in ubuntu server to get the spam out of the motd than it ever is in Windows.
Why PDF first? Isn't reading Ebooks (in ebook format) the main use case for such devices?
Weeeeell, the glue is non toxic, so it shouldn't be harmful. And it probably does add a unique flavor and stiffen up the cheese.

So, while 1/8 of a cup is overdoing it, I wonder if this would actually work. If you served it to someone who doesn't know the magic sauce, would they enjoy the pizza?

And while the thought is pretty gross, you don't want to know what's going into a lot of other stuff you eat. What's worse: eyeballs in hot-dogs or glue in pizza? Potentially explosive chemicals in Cola? Thickening agents made from seaweed or human bones (at one point in yogurts)?

Our food is full of stuff that are probably a lot less safe and more disgusting, they just aren't advertised.
Having thought about it, it makes sense for the web browser. Though I think the app should do something to bypass it, but I realize it is probably just a browser embed.

I peeked at the source code and it’s pretty wild to see this is what JavaScript can do these day.
> We developed our own custom epaper display tech we call LivePaper. We focused on solving the tradeoffs RLCDs traditionally have - around reflectance %, metallic-look / not Paperlike enough, viewing angle, white state, rainbow mura, parallax, resolution, size, lack of quality backlight, etc.

Would you license this to others at a more affordable rate than e-ink? Lenovo has some e-ink 2-in-1 "thinkbook" laptops and might be a good partner... I'm sure you're considered this already.

Personally I am sold on the 'low distraction and eye strain' of e-ink, and would be keen on buying a computer with that display. That said, I'm more interested in a general computer running a general operating system (ubuntu or any linux) if I'm using something for daily work. Even if your own operating system can do these things I would be concerned with edge-cases for software I need for work, so for professional daily usage I need an OS that is battle-tested, and not based on a locked-down sandboxed mobile system like android where I'd have to fight the OS to do what I want.

I do own and use a remarkable, so I'm probably in the target market. I only use the remarkable for note taking, it's handy for freehand sketching visual ideas or concepts digitally, where typing or any sort of computer drawing with a mouse may add friction that gets in the way of getting the ideas down onto paper. The main advantage over paper is so I don't need to worry about misplacing the pieces of draft paper afterwards, when I revisit an idea months later.

I definitely don't want a tablet for typing code. If I'm going to carry around an external keyboard, I might as well just get a thin-and-light laptop.

I almost bought the aforementioned thinkbook with the e-ink display. Main reason I didn't was that I was worried about compatibility issues if I ran linux, since it's designed for windows.
The Boox Palma doesn't have a cell connection but is a phone-sized Android based e-paper tablet.
For some artists, embracing commercialism is more authentic than pretending not to care about money.

Being a successful businesswoman is part of Taylor Swift's artistic identity, where it wasn't for Loretta Lynn. Selling sneakers is part of Kanye West's artistic identity, where it wasn't for Tupac. It doesn't make any of them less authentic.
From what I can tell it's because some of these "edge" service providers will expect you to give them a WASM binary instead of a PHP script.

The other caveats about "edge" throughout this discussion aside, if I needed to do this, I'd try to write something in Zig or (gag) JS or something else that compiles to WASM directly rather than writing a script for an interpreter that runs under WASM.
" (The attr_reader statement at the bottom "

Defining variables at the bottom of the class, WTF?
I would love to see an experiment where the only type of regulation allowed was to price unpriced externalities.
> Anything west of the GDR was done by US/UK/FR

It was done mostly from 1944 onwards, when the Germans had already been defeated in the east front. A huge majority of the German war effort was spent on the east. The US and UK landing in Europe surely sped up things, but the Soviet Union had already won.

I have no sympathy for the current Russian regime, but claiming they weren’t responsible for winning WW2 screams American propaganda.
One thing that disappointed me with rM2 was the broken promise of developing your apps, rm2 became
pretty closed (or not as easy and accessible) ecosystem, and I think it suffered. Most people on rM1 praised their DIY and hackability. Daydream looks beautiful, I hope they incentivise apps creation for the everyday engineer, who likes to tinker in spare time - it is Android
Android 13, at a time when 15 will likely be production ready in a few months, seems to hint at a risk of not getting updates.
> but everything is listed as "0 Comments"

Also, everything is listed as "0 points" which I found it weird, how would then the ranking work? HN gives 1 point to every story submitted.
> apparently the best submissions get fast tracked to an onsite if you want a job
Arc furnaces tend to be first in line to voluntarily shutdown to deal with grid instability, or projected power shortages. Network operators will basically pay them equivalent amount of money as they would to buy electricity, if the furnace operator is happy to shutdown at a moment’s notice.

After, to a power grid, removing large loads are functionally equivalent to adding additional generation. So if you’re operating an arc furnace, and can shutdown quickly (which arc furnaces can), then grid operators will pay you for privilege of being able to shut you down at moments notice, and then pay even more for the electricity you’re not consuming, if the grid is forced to call upon that additional “capacity” due other issues on grid.

I’m not sure if arc furnaces today vary their usage in direct response to variable electricity prices through the day, rather than only acting as emergency ballast to be jettisoned in an emergency. But I would be very surprised if they didn’t, they’re a large enough load that they’ll have coordinate the usage with their local grid, and large enough that shifting the usage pattern to avoid high cost peaks would save them a very material amount of money.
Ah, I misread it because it's a common misconception. My apologies!
Personal transportation only accounts for ~13% of oil usage in the US, which is easily the most car-centric country.
Sol:OS... it's just Android but we have to call it an OS I guess
Avoid?

A few years ago there were memes about how the problem with zombie movies is that they never showed people running out to get zombified.

Whatever kind of big mess we create in the future I guarantee we will find ways to make it worse rather than better. The US is preparing to elect a climate denialist to its highest office.

This can't be fixed. It's not just some big corporate culprit. It's us. It's not all of us, but it's enough.
Show HN: I created a free browser extension purpose-built for product demos
Hi HN!

I wanted something easy to use like Loom but purpose built for creating product demos to explain how software works.

I added the ability to do Pan and Zoom animation (with Framer-Motion), animate informational popovers (with floating-UI), and add voiceovers.

You can see a demo of the demo editor I created on the homepage.

I'm looking for feedback on how to make it better, so please download the extension HN and let me know what you think!
Concerned a little bit about the lower DPI (190), how does aliasing compare to lets say Remarkable 2 (224). I find the Kindle Scribe is at 300 DPI.

Handwriting with the Scribe is amazing to me, hoping to see or understand how it compares.
Building external combustion cars in the 1880s might have given Britain an economic edge over the US in the period, but the market would have still collapsed when internal combustion matured enough. And being a specialist in one technology usually means you're not able to move to a different one when it becomes obsolete.
Manufactured Landscapes is one of the most impactful things I’ve ever watched. Strong recommend.
Article title: What Makes Software Good?

Discussion at the time[0] (128 points, 8 years ago, 18 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260552

Please don't do things to make titles stand out.. Otherwise please use the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I saw Research Papers I expected a Health category, any chance?
Last 2 phones were Samsung. I got sick of the stock apps being put on the phone so I finally got a pixel running grapheme os
At least it's thinking multimodally
In Spain in 2007, the Government asked people to invest in solar panels guaranteeing a price that was outrageously high for a long time. Of course then it changed the price and 60.000 families were bankrrupted.

Solar panel were ultra expensive and could not compete with other types of energy.

Of course lots of the people in Government became rich as a result of the operation.

Today we are having problems with solar panels network instability. Yesterday there was a 3 hour blackout in big parts of Spain because solar unbalance.

So it is not that easy.
Russia is still the country with the highest amount of nuclear warheads on the planet. How would anyone “take them away”?
The author does have this disclaimer in the article:

> Take everything as an opinion. Software can be built in multiple ways.
The worst part about this comment is that I can't dispute the fact that the government tends to experiment on these populations. Sometimes, humans just suck and there's nothing you can do about it.

About the only rebuttal I can give is that it's not just the US. I'm sure every nation has some population that they treat like dirt.

Whatabout-ism? Yes, but that's pretty much all I got.