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Ask HN: How should I divide equity?
Hello HN

I’m working on a startup with a partner, and we’re struggling to figure out how to divide equity. We are very early stage and have not launched yet.

I am a software developer (technical cofounder), and my partner is handling the business side of things (non technical cofounder). We’re both working part time on this venture because we’re both still in college.

Normally, the advice is roughly 50/50 vested over 4 years. The complication is that after next August, I will be working at a company that disallows working on side-businesses. The job I am taking in August is with an established company for 120K/year before benefits. I’m nearly certain I will have to leave our startup because I’m not willing to risk my job (and the benefits of having a high paying job this early in life) for this venture.

I’ve got a fairly significant technical background (internships, lots of experience in open source outside of school), and I’ve already built out an MVP (NextJS app) that I have not signed away IP rights to. My nontechnical cofounder has drive and motivation, but he does not have any prior sales/marketing experience, and he does not have any industry connections we’re relying on. My non technical cofounder came up with the idea. He has also helped build a waitlist and gathered data about our target demographic. I do believe that if we had more time together, this venture would be successful.

My partner suggested that I take 3% fully vested once I leave in August. I think this is a low offer given that I have written an entire working app already. My partner offered this amount after seeking advice from VC advisors that are potential future investors (even though I don’t think we will need investment because this business is 100% bootstrappable). He made a second offer for a profit sharing agreement that terminates after I have earned $2K (also a bad offer imo).

I countered with 10% fully vested after August. This will be a minority stake, though, and after his initial low offers, I think I want to receive a mix of equity and guaranteed revenue sharing (not really keen on letting someone else profit off of my work without getting a kickback).

Given all of this information, how would you approach this situation? What kind of offers would you make? Should I just leave and take my IP with me?

I’ve struggled to find good advice. I am very appreciative of any help.
Hopefully this will accelerate the production of new hardware at some point. I misplaced my old Pebble Time and was excited for the Pebble Time 2 but those hopes were dashed when they closed up and fitbit had no interest in continuing to produce the watches that made Pebble what it was.
Well surely censorship is bad. But at least it's explicitly censored instead of implicitly biased.

If it just rejects your prompt, you know you hit the wall.
It's stunning how so much of our own behavior, or at least explanations of it, reference what turns out to be almost entirely false conclusions. It could take 100 years to undo.
People didn't get their worldview from the myth. They like the myth because it fits their worldview.
That sounds fascinating. Would you mind writing up a demo on how to do that?
Are there any applications that are also open sourced? They mention snowy but it is giving a 404: https://github.com/pebble-dev/snowy
I both agree this should exactly be what these kinds of small custom operators should be and also see the nuisance of awkward database triggers bubbling up into the "I dunno why it works, just magic" kind of lost knowledge into how systems actually function.
Until it determines that it believes the lie is actually better for society as a whole. And the AI would (based on your comment) be smarter than any human, so it would know that to protect us, it would need to lie to us.
To somebody who's completely out of the loop, hears about Pebble for the first time—why is this big news? Are we going to see novel software written for defunct hardware, or is the hardware going to evolve now that the software is open?
RL and Transformer = a General-Purpose Problem Solver
Speaking personally, I think it is at least as interesting to ask why some men [0] are not affected much by the sorts of stuff you mention above as why others are so affected.

Understanding what types of men are impacted by the masculinity parade and what types are not may prove quite insightful, and may also offer some clues about how to push back against it (for those who need or want to).

[0] although I am unquestionably subject to social trends, often without realizing it until years later, none of the list above has ever held any sway over me. I loved our minivan (I even thought it was sexy). I worked out to keep up with some of the women I raced against, not ficticious male standards, I've never used a deodorant, nor paid anyone to take me into the wilderness (I do go there alone, though) etc. etc.
Sure but it's good to recognize Meta never stopped publishing even after Openai and deepmind most notably stopped sharing the good sauce. From clip to dinov2 and llama series, it's a serious track to be remembered.
I have and actually find it very impressive. Herein lies the rub, however:

Non-targetability. An attacker should not be able to attempt to compromise personal data that belongs to specific, targeted Private Cloud Compute users without attempting a broad compromise of the entire PCC system.

The thing is, there's long been precedent for broad compromise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641378

Further consider that a likely part of any broad compromise strategy is utilizing assets who may work at Apple. There's precedent for that one, too—at least in terms of unspecified US tech companies.
Lanczos if you want sharpness above all else. There's also the well-known Mitchell-Netravali filters[1], based on piece-wise cubic splines and with two tunable paramerers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Netravali_fil...
Good TUI apps are written for efficiency. With a few keystroke you can navigate around and take actions that can be slower and tax more using GUIs and even more using modern GUIs. It appears to me that TUIs are seeing a rise in interest and that is probably not just fad driven, they're a lot more efficient for some tasks. Of course TUIs aren't for everyone and the learning curve could be steeper (not necessarily so though).
Jevon’s paradox suggests even more AI chips will be demanded after DeepSeek’s breakthrough.
I just tried the same two URLs. I also got a message saying the post was removed.
Old versions of CMSIS had a weird "only for use with ARM hardware" license header, which also carried through into most BSPs. I don't think this was resolved until around CMSIS 4, so it might just be a matter of front porting since it looks like normal STM32 stuff which is mostly permissively licensed now.
What is your hypothesis in this case? Something like "margins went down because of accounting shenanigans they only figured out a few years ago, surged so much because of price fixing that the accounting shenanigans were not good enough to cover it anymore, and then they figured out new accounting shenanigans to manipulate margins down to the previous low. And all of that in a way that overstated COGS or understated value of goods produced, because gross margins basically show the same pattern? I'm not in the potato business or an accountant, but curious to learn if you know more about this.
As Colbert said… Reality has a well known liberal bias.
This is something we often do in our house. We talk about things in terms of hours worked rather than price. I think more people should do it.
People really like their Pebble watches, and this will help keep them alive into the future. In some future, we may see new hardware produced that could use some derivative of the resulting operating system.
seeds are noticeably "nearby" each other? that is very unexpected to me
I didn’t say I felt bad.
I did wear my Pebble until it died, and then never found another smart watch worth it for me. Will keep an eye on this for sure.
People have been saying the exact same thing about other workloads for years, and always been wrong. Mostly claiming custom chips or FPGAs will beat out general purpose CPUs.
I always understood this to be a trust issue. "We" (loosely, I'm English) tend towards trusting the courts, so we allow them to keep secrets. The US was built on a healthy distrust of the state, so names were released so people aren't "disappeared".

But the US has moved much more towards "no smoke without fire", leaving the release of names in an antiquated place.
Letter from Turing (and Others at Bletchley Park) to Churchill [pdf]
.. that'll be caught up in weeks
Why copy the article from the link?
I wonder if you could get better results if you built a dictionary over entire npm. I suspect most common words could easily be reduced to 16k word index. Would be much faster, dictionary would probably fit in cache, can even optimize it in memory for cache prefetch.
Finding security vulnerabilities like HTTP Request Smuggling, race conditions and logic errors.
Tech censorship, especially during the pandemic, made some giddy with power that they thought would extend to everything forever.
yea this is true -
& also not a democrat & also upset with some of the stuff they've censored in the past too

W/ that said, censoring anti trans stuff and racist stuff makes the platform more pleasant for me, whereas what they're doing now does not
I just had the funny thought of flushing my PC like a toilet.
archive of original linkedin post: https://archive.ph/aExUs
Did it now?

I remember a time when the worst morons in this society wore it as a badge of superiority.
Nice. A couple discord users back in the early days of SD were doing something similar by generating random alphanumeric positive/negative prompts and then pushing the seed/subseed values up and down.

In my experience, changing the seed even by a single digit can drastically alter the image so I'd be curious to know how truly "adjacent" these images actually are.
At least towards the end of the war, Galland was not a fan of Göring (he was a ringleader of the Fighter Pilots' Revolt)
I'm still not sure why they keep LeCun at Facebook; his single most-cited contribution to the field in 2024 has been with NYU[0], not Facebook. What is his role at Facebook exactly, has he explained it? I recall him making all the wrong predictions in 2023 what's changed? Chollet is similarly a mystery to me; it feels like these guys were busy riffing CNN's when the Transformer came about and since then have been trying to far-out in search of gold.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16860
dang's probably right that its a glitch- but I honestly believe Linux is Free as in Freedom, which is opposed by both parties but primarily the radical authoritarians in charge right now
My hypothesis is that it did not become less deadly, it is that a combo of demographics and response (both positive and negative) played more of a role than we are ready to admit, mostly because we still seem to feel like everyone did a bad job when the response was probably closer to “fine.”

The response in China, once things got out of control, included locking sick people in their homes. This form of quarantine is probably good to reduce spread, but it is also probably bad for the health of the patient. If there are multiple people in the home, it is probably worse for all of them. China also has a lot of multigenerational households (grandparents, adults, children) which means the vulnerable are together with people who are lower mortality risk, but higher risk for traveling and getting infected. I don’t know what percent of households in Wuhan were like this, but it probably played some sort of role.

We also forget that it wasn’t only China that got wrecked - Italy also had substantial challenges.

On the other hand, if your healthcare system isn’t overwhelmed, people are wearing masks so initial exposure is low, and you are caring for/separating the sick from the healthy, the outcomes are probably exponentially better.

It certainly seems that later strains were less dangerous though.
Congressional testimony moment.
Still have my Pebble watch from 10 years ago in a drawer somewhere. Great watch, good times.

I'm back to a "classic" analog watch as I realized I don't really want notifications. But I might buy a smart watch (probably Apple watch at this point since I have a bunch of iOS hardware) for the health features (HR, EKG, etc.)
There's no need to read it uncharitably. I'm the last person you can call a FB fan, I think overall they're a strong net negative to society, but their open source DL work is quite nice.
Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF
Same here - maybe the HN post should be retitled to "Lean Manufacturing and Graph Theory."
must have been even earlier, the fad im referring to was a 2010s thing
lol, that's a nasty combo
Can anyone comment on Google’s
Business reasons for doing this? Is this actually an act of goodwill or is this a commodity, antitrust, etc. play?
It may "sound terrifying" but it's likely to be much more pleasant than you think:

https://github.com/Anniepoo/swiplwebtut/blob/master/web.adoc
Isn't this a variation of a sphere-packing problem? We know an optimally dense packing for 2D spheres. Then vary the radius of what is being packed until N of them fit in the disk's area.
I've never seen a database with FKs that I regretted were there but plenty without FKs that caused issues. Also - generally make sure you index your FKs.
Several groups actually have both intentionally and unintentionally.

In most cases they're pretty radioactive isotopes of gold. But IMO that just makes it feel even more like alchemy. The gold is cursed.
Yes, but then again, you could do that with any approach, even turbine-grade fans for loud air cooling. It kind of defeats the purpose.
A more cynical take could be that maybe it fits because we’ve constructed our own captivity or ‘prison conditions’ where this tends to emerge.
Yeah, I would have liked to see a "control cookie" with normal ingredients. I suspect it wouldn't have been much better.
Testing has shown that humans can't hear phase differences, unlike radio demodulators, so there's no real use for giving a sound card complex numbers.

(Before someone replies about snare drums, 3:1 rule, etc. — of course if there are phase differences in the audio before you mix it, it will cause audible artifacts in the mixing process. Which is why there's an effect called a "phaser".)
Zero Install
If it was airtight and there were heat transfer problems, the first thing I'd think is the pressure is probably below atmospheric and the fluid is boiling (or cavitating the pump if there is one). Say, if it was filled to the top while warm, then sealed, the pressure would drop as the oil dropped to room temperature and contracted (or not, depending on differential rates of thermal expansion cf the container).

Some air space at the top of the sealed container (preferably dry air or nitrogen) would fix that. Make sure there's a pressure gauge and some means of preventing overpressure, though.
Is the Small Android Phone project dead? :)
Which Pebble are you bringing back? I ask because Pebble 2 was the sweet spot for me with a heart rate monitor but the heart rate monitor is not in this repo.
I assume you're already au fait with Inform* family of languages...
Pebble Smartwatches Open-Sourced
Wasn't there a guy who did the "rats prefer cocaine to food" study but without having the rats isolated in individual cages, and it turns out that no, they don't actually prefer cocaine to food when they aren't (essentially) in solitary?
"The problem is when this is the case all the time instead of a season here and there"

I hope I'm not projecting, and misinterpreting, but I try to explain this to a colleague all the time. His work style is 8 months of the year a couple hours here and then 2-3 months of crazy, intense work.

But I have to show up for 25-30 (I'm self-employed) hours a week, 48 weeks a year, and I find it really difficult to then squeeze in 2-4 months of 50+ hours weeks on top of this.

There is sprinting and there is distance running and for most of us, these are very different things.
This is pretty cool. Have you ever thought about designing pebble to look more like a traditional watch but e-ink based?
Right, that would require social endeavors to solve social problems instead of targeting the next quarter yacht money
Distilled water is surprisingly corrosive. Water is actually a very good solvent, but most water you encounter is already so saturated with dissolved minerals and such that it seems mostly inert.

Distilled water would work for a while, but will literally dissolve the metals on your board. Conductivity will of course creep up over time, but your main concern should be that the widget you're trying to cool is getting eaten by the coolant.

As an example, you may have noticed that air conditioner condensate can damage concrete. The condensate is pretty pure water, and physics really wants it to be less pure. The water is so reactive that it can rip the minerals out of cement, leaving just the aggregate behind.

If all that weren't bad enough, once you put a PCB in pure water and it starts leeching ions, you suddenly have an electrolysis bath with dissimilar metals. If you can't maintain the purity of the solution, you'll have a very bad time.
They don't have permission to open-source that code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845102
I just typed “is Monday a public holiday in Auckland” into Google and the second link is full list of holidays from www.govt.nz. I don't think Google is done. I still use it and it has ~79% share on desktop. Most of the rest seem to be people who have bing as default on Windows and haven't changed it. 0.87% use Duck Duck go which is probably the highest on the list that people choose as a better search engine rather than because it came installed as default.

I'm kind of surprised Google has dominated so long but I guess it's lots of money -> hire lots of bright people -> make innovations, that keeps them up there. That may work for AI too? Dunno.
I read that they training data was not scrapped from the internet but generated through meta llama model. Maybe this is the reason behind such behavior?
Fluorinert was used as a coolant in some 80s/90s computers, including one of the first SFF PCs, the Ergo Brick.
>when airtight, the whole thing looses it's thermal properties and starts overheating again

Were you pumping the fluid through radiators? It doesn’t really sound like you were, which would be the obvious reason it would overheat. You have to actually transfer and dissipate the heat. What makes the immersion cooling so good is that it conducts heat so much better than air, you can add giant radiators and dissipate an ungodly amount of heat, so can run your equipment ungodly fast. You can’t just drop it into an aquarium of mineral oil and expect it to do much.
Related ongoing threads:

We're bringing Pebble back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845091 - Jan 2025 (1 comment)

The future of Rebble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845017 - Jan 2025 (3 comments)
Their "moderators" are bots, not humans, so it seems that the bots have "decided" that Linux-related links are malware or something.
Given the original Pebble folks are using this to spin up a re-launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845185 ), my guess is the Pebble folks just know someone on the inside at Google who managed to get the lawyers to sign off on it.
MIP and e-paper are not exactly the same.

I love my transflective MIP Garmin Fenix watch, but it's not nearly as high-contrast as my wife's Kindle, which uses a reflective MIP e-paper display.

I would be an ideal candidate for a rePebble if I were not as happy as I am with my Garmin - though with their recent changes to inReach plans, crazy prices and lackluster features on the Fenix 8, and trend towards AMOLED displays (away from their roots, chasing the Apple watch market) they're not looking as amazing as they once did.
DCT is not an algorithm at all, it’s a mathematical transform.

It doesn’t have a compression ratio.
Interesting.

Some languages have zero copula, i.e. they don't use "to be", so they are like E-Prime by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
I strongly disagree. Photography can tell stories which videos can't (and vice versa).

For example, compare at this image:
https://i.imgur.com/pmfMUYc.jpeg

To this video containing the same moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdsVO7HaJg

Look at the player's emotion in the image. What he feels in that split-second, the look in his eyes, gets lost if you just see the video.

Look at the out of focus area. The boys in the top-right hugging, the older couple in the older couple in the top-left who can't believe their eyes, the other players reacting to the home run.

Look at the bat, suspended in mid-air with no motion-blur. The object which kicked off the celebration completely frozen in time. Everyone in the photo is looking at where the ball went, but the player is looking at the bat.

TL;DR: Because it (generally) takes much longer to look at a photo than it does to actually create a photo, there's a time dilation that goes on. You can freeze a single moment, and then take the time later to absorb everything which goes on in it.
Yes, that is a very apt analogy!
Yes and no. They did buy it and just let it die. They were so far ahead of the competition at the time.
emailfed: Revolutionizing email address portability with a federated standard
I know. That is why I'm asking which Pebble. Nothing is stopping them from writing a heart rate driver but I don't know what the plan is.
People are trying to spur up “we shouldn’t use Chinese AI because our data is going to be stolen” discussions. But after TikTok debacle, no serious person is willing to bite. It’s just a big coping strategy for everyone who’s been saying how western AI is years ahead.
Beautifully designed blog.
I Found a Security Bug in Way Too Many Websites
I found a security bug that allows a phishing website to pretend to be the real website and sniff user’s credentials. It exists almost EVERYWHERE. I did my own research, experimenting on myself in some common websites whilst following up a question which I asked here on what prevents this from happening. And apparently most of the websites do not prevent such an obvious phishing use case. And not only, but I’m also up to digging a little bit more and writing my own (paid - sorry guys) tutorial on how to raise a secure and safe website on Amazon AWS with a secure login and credentials for a non tycoon average user.

It was a great journey. My patent herby goes to trash since there are non Saas solution which are utilized to defend against phishing. And I am about to start a new journey where I begin to build a secure web portal which tells its users how to build a secure web portal with their own users!

The attack I mentioned allows to present a login page using a proxy of any webpage on a non webpage’s domain. Which in turn allows either a session hijacking or credentials sniffing.

My patent suggested transferring a secret token to the user’s email box in order to create a third channel of communication whereas the attacker so or so does not have an access to the user’s email box. Nor to the 3rd Saas security service that secures the communication between the client and the attacked host with that token.

What I’ve seen that is being used instead is splitting the login into username and ON ANOTHER page password, which is defended by CORS - since once username is entered and the Next button is clicked, there is a CORS issue which arises because the fake login page is being served on the fake domain which does not have the permission to go on with the cross origin request to the next page after entering the username where password is required.
Whereas bagging on a dead war hero due to something you read in a book is highly creditable behaviour