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I’ve seen many people climb the SWE ladder or build a YC company (having done both myself), and trust me the founder route is not the most efficient. You only believe this because you didn’t see the 2 failed startups and 10 year journey grinding 80h weeks almost running out of cash a few times.

Jensen Huang himself says nobody in their right mind should start a company https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/11/jensen-huang-i-didnt-kno...

For two reasons: 1. They create externalities 2. They generate an economic flux that can be taxed

My experience could not be more different. I’ve made life long friends at work, especially when I was working for smaller firms. I don’t think those relationships are transactional.

no chance

France, USA, Australia to name 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_self...).

If you follow his logic and believe that the ultra-wealthy pay too little tax (as e.g. Warren Buffett does), then a balanced approach is to set the tax rate to: "37% of income or 1.85% of wealth, whichever is higher".

This would close the gap between Buffett's tax rate and that of his secretary, but would not be the "highest taxes in the world" that PG decries.

This was my first thought: this seems like a web + 3d port of Fritzing. Perhaps they even reuse some of the code?

Gross margin doesn't tell you much about their level of investment. Gross margin is only revenue minus COGS (i.e. hosting, support, potentially infra teams). To understand further investments you'd have to know R&D or at least Opex broken out for Apple Services (which AFAIK they do not share).

SaaS typically expects 80% gross margin, so Apple is not out of line here.

In practice, I don’t think tax policy is the primary driver for where people chose to live. Even very wealthy people.

If I were very wealthy the first thing I would want to buy is proximity to the people I love, the food I like, the culture I’m excited about. For many people that means being close to home.

I can’t imagine how shallow my life would have to be for me to optimize it around taxes.

Extremely impressive that they were able to ship inside-out tracking, pancake lenses, and eye tracking + foveated rendering. Each of these is a serious engineering challenge. Very few organizations could pull this off.

This guy ^ runs a conference on corporate values. You can't make this stuff up...

Hacker News formula for startups: no offices, no offsites, no meetings, and no MBAs. If only idiot CEOs and rapacious VCs were listening!

If you, like me, were looking for a video of the demo in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=752-Oo1hok4

In hindsight I think the correct word would be "regular software upgrades".

Every vendor you bring in comes with switching cost, and this is no different. But we do our best to make it easy for folks to migrate off of our platform should they decide.

Hi Pete -- email me (francois at) and I'll get you early enrolled into the special deals we have coming for Nordic customers.

Thank you!

Thank you!

It's all on Github (https://github.com/nordicsemiconductor), but it is not technically open source as it is a modified BSD that does not let you use the SDKs with other chipsets.

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Memfault. We were in the W19 YC batch. I never thought our news would make the front page of HN!

This is a very exciting day for us (after a very intense few months). We've known the Nordic team for years and could not think of a better partner to grow our platform.

Happy to answer questions, if you have them.

Litestream has seen very little development lately and I was worried it was dead. Very glad to see Ben Johnson is continuing to push the project forward with some exciting new plans.

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As someone who builds observability tools for embedded software, I am flabbergasted that you're finding a more tools-friendly culture in embedded than in distributed systems!

Most hardware companies have zero observability, and haven't yet seen the light ("our code doesn't really have bugs" is a quote I hear multiple times a week!).

I think this is the reason in fewer 0.01% of cases. Languages are not in the top 10 things that make being an open source maintainer difficult.

You’d be surprised at how many hardware companies think this is a good idea!

I’m the founder and CEO of a company called Memfault, we make observability SaaS for hardware companies.

I constantly get asked if we could just offer a remote access solution. Many of our competitors do! But we think it’s (a) a huge security liability and (b) too ripe for abuse.

But fundamentally consumers do not care, and until that changes you can expect any embedded Linux device to have this kind of backdoor (they do more often than not).

With all due respect, I don't think you know what a CEO does day to day. Investor relations and PR is ~5% of the job at an early stage startup.

Because you won't find anyone competent to take on the terrible shit-shoveling gig that is being the CEO for an equal share in the business.

This is a glib, but important insight. If the split between founders and early employees is fundamentally off, then we should see many more early employee types start companies and take the other side of that bargain. In fact, they do not!

To be clear it was marketed as e-paper (e-ink is a trademark). Reflective LCD falls under that category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper

Disclaimer: former Pebble employee

This was a tip my hatn excellent to you