skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solid point. So many vacations require a rental car. Thinking of my last few vacations, ski trip to Colorado, Glacier National Park in Montana, Marco Island in Florida. None of those would be practical with ride sharing and even if they were it would be far less comfortable.
There are a lot of different definitions of intrinsic value. But it often has nothing to do with how much someone will give you.

There is the asset, an estimation of what the asset is truly valued at (intrinsic), and then finally the market price. In the case of the painting, the intrinsic value might be a function of a study of trends in demands of paintings, the artist, etc. The market price may or may not correctly factor in that information to price the painting well.

The fact that insider information does exist should paint a clear picture of why someones calculation of intrinsic value might be different from the market price.

Lastly, if someone gave me Hertz stock, I'd sell it ASAP and invest the money in something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(finance)
You don't need a backend server to make a smart doorbell that pings your phone over Wlan. You only need one if you want to add loads of non-trivial functionality for non-technical users who might not be on the same network. You're welcome to build your own device with a wifi capable microcontroller and a simple phone app directly accessing the socket interface.
That's a good point. At my last stay at the Marriott near SFO I had a hard time figuring out what I could eat in the lobby for breakfast! There was a breakfast area for Ultra-platnum-gold club (or whatever they called it!) And a restaurant, but I wasn't sure how much that would cost me. Same thing with the WiFi, members only.
Even incremental progress is progress. And sometimes, incremental progress can happen at such an obtuse angle that it becomes completely unmergeable back to `main`. But you can always point to the spirit of the branch.
Writing a simple brainfuck – assembly compiler
Amazon has its shortcomings but it still has a lot of smart and qualified people (like you, I assume!)

Do you best, be aware of your worth, and if/when you find a better opportunity, grab it!

It’s not good to beat yourself up for “failing” to get into Google or some more desirable company. Anyone who is familiar with the process knows that these companies (including Amazon!) frequently reject qualified candidates. They’re tuned to avoid bad hires at all costs. Basically if any interviewer has a bad feeling about a candidate, they’ll get rejected.
Just an observation, it seems HN is more interested in topics semi-related to China than BLM or policing reform. I wonder if this reflects something about HN readers.
"Competing" tool - I suppose, but an open source, free tool. He doesn't have any skin in the game.

Describing it as a "polemic" seems like an overly emotional reaction. Did you actually read it? It seems a well-researched, well-informed article to me, with solid verifiable facts.
> What good is a cool house, if the next supermarket is 50 miles away?

For some of us, this is the main feature :) But yeah, it would be more useful to describe the surroundings.
Similarly, as I understand it In the US most noncompete contracts are actually unenforceable due to the concept of consideration[0]. Every noncompete I've signed offered me nothing of value in exchange for my agreement, they weren't part of the negotiation process and were simply presented with the health insurance and other forms on my first day with a implied "sign this or you don't have a job". However that wouldn't stop someone from calling your new employer and threatening to sue.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
> What I am doing - starting with Upanishads (aka Vedanta, literally the end part of Vedas, where you get the gist), there are 10 major ones which come with commentary by Adi Shankaracharya. Remaining are not minor in the sense of importance, just that you get to them once you grasp the major ones first as they come without the authoritative commentary. They are overall philosophical in nature.

Next come the Puranas. Again there are about 8-10 of these. These contain most of the stories or the 'mythology' which we heard in our childhood and read in the books.

Could you please point to the resources and translations you are using?
> Different climates, industries, demographics and educational achievement change what diseases/health issues are present and how they are dealt with in the community.

I'm sorry, I'm not buying this without some source that shows that Americans need more healthcare than Swedes due to those factors.

> A sparse rural population has different healthcare needs than an urban one, for example.

Sure, but the US is 82% urban, Sweden is 88%, Germany 77%, France 81%, Norway 83%, Denmark 88%, Finland 85%, Switzerland 74% – I can go on [1]. All very much in a comparable range.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

> State level administration makes more sense than trying to coordinate a policy across a continent.

Fine. Many public hospitals in Germany and Switzerland – two countries with federal systems – are run at the equivalent of the state level.

> What is cross-continent coordination supposed to win anyone anyway? It just makes the politics harder to manage.

I'm not claiming that the US would have some gain in these areas for being huge! I'm merely questioning your claim that "it won't scale".

> I'm happy to say that; there will be things Sweden is doing that are completely different to what Germany does because of scaling.

This is incredibly vague. Of course there are "things done differently". That's not an argument for why the US can't do a version of the same.

> Plus the fact that they have different laws and legal systems.

Why is this relevant? That's like saying "the flags are very different".

> Although I suspect neither of us speaks Swedish or German, so it would be hard to settle that one decisively.

I can understand Swedish just fine, and rudimentary German. Even if I couldn't, the legal, healthcare and educational systems in both countries are well-described in English language sources.

> Australia faces similar issues where West Australia has a decidedly different culture to the east coast states and it doesn't make sense to try and coordinate housing policy between them.

I'll perhaps grant that the housing situation may be extremely different from place to place, and coordination can be hard, but I still don't understand an iota of what you mean when it comes to healthcare and education.
Rust is memory safe, not infallible. Catching more runtime errors is a something rust can improve on. Erlang being one example of a strategy.
Neat! You managed to not answer either of my questions:

1. What valuable question was this data answering?

2. What is the machine learning?
There's so much messaging around "if you build it, they will come" and "my work should speak for itself" that it's easy to feel defeated when someone does the same thing - often, a variation you'll even find to be inferior - but gets more recognition for it because that person was better at promoting.

Speaking for myself, I'm not great at self-promotion. It feels gross. Marketing feels gross - and, if I'm being real, it often is gross. But that's how you get recognition. Spending time to talk about yourself and your work helps to position you for that time that luck just seemed to fall in your lap.

As I was building out that JS Boss DR-110, I rounded a corner where I felt like if I really dedicated myself to putting the polish on - finishing up song mode, scrapping and rewriting the frontend styling, a live demo page with a listing of actual DR-110s for sale driven by the eBay API - I could have made a sizeable splash in whatever that niche world was. Of course, in early 2011 getting consistent timing out of Javascript doing audio playback wasn't possible - that was a considerable hindrance. But it would still be a solid groundwork for someone else's future project. I could have done a few low-key unpaid speaking engagements about it, for sure.

Then what?

Every now and then, I think about going back and rewriting the sequencer, or building an import/export routine, or implementing MIDI I/O, but I have no real desire to get into the world of creating softsynth drum machines & sequencers. It's a fun footnote, it was a good way to kick off some rust - I hadn't been doing front end code for several years by that point.

Nice job on Musictoy, and that's great that you've got a persistent userbase, no matter what the size is!
Maybe it's work thinking about why the term "black" denotes not being able to do something.
It's not particularly surprising, but it is noteworthy. Other systems I've tested have offered serializability but not strict serializability: for instance, CockroachDB.
Missing data leaves its own wake. Google has numbers to extrapolate how many turn off usage reporting. They lack automated signal in how the users use the tools.
What makes you stay there?
Black fabrics block light, white fabrics allow light.

A blacklist is a list of things that should be blocked. A whitelist is a list of things that should be allowed.

I never looked at the etymology, but this is how I always thought of it.
I heard this, but I can't find any study measuring the differences seriously.

Fasting has various effect, not all of them are linked to the sugar consumption.
By "racist background" they mean "racist association". Perhaps it didn't start that way but due to history it can easily be twisted to be seen as offensive.

I can't tattoo a swastika on my arm, despite its origins.
But the drivers (whom they pay) do
I really don't get this line of reasoning. If I do something with a product that is (maybe even explicitly) unsupported by the manufacturer I don't have a reasonable leg to stand on.
We've recently had this with a customer where they used the concrete calls of our app to automate some of their stuff (we had had no public API for that action at that point because we hadn't had the need so far and so did no other customer or to be precise: no customer was prepared to shell out the cash for us to develop it) and after we changed something they suddenly weren't able to script the creation of customer entries in their installation. We had told them at least two years ago that the way they interacted with our system was but supported (we only noticed them automating stuff back then because it was throwing exceptions in our backend) and while we were nice enough to fix it this time because the fix was trivial we recommended that they should switch to our supported API. Two weeks ago theyir stuff broke again and we told them to use the API or fuck off.
For a non-Kaysian interpretation of object-oriented.
half a dozen paragraphs and I still can't tell what this "United Front" does. The closest thing to a concrete example is:

> oversee United Front work by throwing money at foreign institutions that are willing to toe Beijing’s political line, including U.S. think tanks and even media organizations.

So a lobbyist group but with less influence?
What do you think "enlightenment" means to you? Then it will be easier to understand whether you want it or not.
Who is the glue person on your team?
Amen! Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
It's an overreaction to the critizism of bloated libraries like JQuery. Dead code removal with tree shaking is a relatively recent feature in JS toolchains, so instead you have single-function libraries. For example there are also npm packages with each lodash function as its own package [1]

1: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:lodash-modularized
I've recently bought second-hand Xilinx FPGAs on Ebay for $250 each with list price of $3500. They come on boards that have an unidentified manufacturing fault. Salvaging and reusing the chips seems realistic using a budget vapor phase soldering setup (not attempted yet) but the challenge for me is designing or otherwise acquiring suitable PCBs to put them onto. I'm told that you can potentially find suitable PCBs on Aliexpress but I haven't looked into this in detail yet.

In other words, there doesn't seem to be much demand in the secondhand market, and you can potentially use that in your favor to take advantage of supply selling at steep discounts.
The US government seems to recognize tribal organizations as sovereign or not based on their whims at the moment, usually to the tribes disadvantage.
Last time I rented a car it was because the hotel and airport were on opposite sides of a big city. Renting a car for 3 days was cheaper than two 40-mile Uber/Lyft trips.

Because airports are often located on the edge of a city, this is a pretty common situation. Convenience matters, but so does cost, so I expect rental car companies will continue to get this sort of business.
The idea is to identify which messages have been paid for by the Chinese government. Most Americans recognize that the CCP is not a reliable source, but they don't always realize that listening to e.g. their campus's Confucius Institute means listening to the CCP.
Now even the left are turning against china. Theres hope
> First, Hertz isn't worthless because it has restructured.

Hertz has not restructured yet. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 22.
On the blacklist etc. issue, when you think about it it's actually the other way around. "black" was historically "bad" (not related to race), but it was super convenient that slaves had a darker skin that you could call "black", and things got blurred. No "white" people are actually white and no "black" people are actually black. "white" people are pinkish to light brownish and "black" people are light to dark brown.
Of course it doesn't help that "dark" and "light" also have a value associated historically. This is a super unfortunate geo-graphical and historical coincidence that's gonna be hard to untangle (as in we probably can't disassociate the words from their pre-slavery historical meanings that are pretty universal, as in people are afraid when they can't see things -> night -> darkness -> black).
I have since got the Green Card/permanent residency.
In Spain it also needs a reasonable compensation, AFAIK estimates are around 80% of the salary the employee would have received during the period the post-employment limitation lasts.

It can be paid "while you are employed", which becomes a notable point of friction in contracts where part of your negotiated gross salary suddenly appears assigned for that purpose instead.

Things may get funny because at termination the company may have in fact paid only a part of the compensation that the agreed period would require. What happens then? Is the period reduced proportionally? Is the non-compete voided entirely? Moreover, the contract is binding both ways, which means at termination the employee might require the employer to honor their side and pay for the entire period regardless if the employer never intended to enforce it. Most of those quirks have not been tested to my knowledge, but it would be fun to watch.
Invention is a myth
I'm not an expert in the field of refrigeration so I'm speculating a bit, but I believe the won't work because the cause of inconsistency of temperature is that the insulation isn't as effective at every part of the cabinet (probably due to shape, what components are packed around the cabinet, etc.) so moving air over those areas would cause heat to enter the cabinet faster, requiring more cooling power. That might be effective, but I think the approach that's taken is more efficient, and that's what refrigerators are all about (They move like 2-3x more heat energy out of the cabinet that is put into the compressor, fans, etc.). The less movement of the air inside the more effective the insulation will be.

It's also worth noting that just insulating better isn't really an option (without developing better insulation) because refrigerators need to have as large as possible interior volume compared to exterior volume to be competitive, what can be fit inside is a definite selling point.
Count me among them.
First: that's just stringing assumptions together.

But etymology doesn't matter. If it would, "negro" wouldn't be a word to avoid. Actual use would matter, but the context doesn't seem to warrant that.
Pluto.jl: Lightweight reactive notebooks for Julia
"Federal Indian trust responsibility" seems to be the term of art. Like with the South Dakotan governor's opinions on tribal Covid checkpoints, I'd expect the CDC to become more cooperative after they've consulted counsel.
While it seems reasonable to try to stop the Chinese government from unduly influencing US institutions, I am sincerely worried this is just going to turn into a witch hunt against Chinese nationals in the US on student and work visas.
A union-like organization could allow workers to pool money to fight these fights.
Right now I'm basically just waiting for some more stock to vest. After that I'll probably try and find a job where their non-compete isn't insane.
> Now even the left are turning against china. Theres hope

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518782
> why on earth where professional roles being represented by an Auto workers union

An innovation in organized labour from around the turn of the 20th century known as the "industrial union" (as opposed to the "craft union") wherein the union seeks to organized all workers in a particular industry rather than a particular job. The idea is that this prevents workers of different jobs being pitted against one another, and provides more power as a strike could shut down an entire industry.
Thank you for responding irshadshalu, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time. I agree that HN works in unpredictable ways. I don't know if you were just more lucky than I was, or if people like your app better because the UI looks better. If that's the case, it's interesting to know.

This HN account is new-ish, but the original MusicToy blog post from 2012 is still around [1].

As far as Git goes, I would appreciate it if you had an acknowledgement somewhere that linked to the MusicToy repo[2], or just mentioned in passing in terms of inspirations/predecessors. You obviously have no obligation to do this, but it won't take away from the success of your app if you choose to do so.

I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, and may your success encourage you to build more great projects.

[1] https://pointersgonewild.com/2012/04/23/musictoy-music-made-...

[2] https://github.com/maximecb/MusicToy
Using Splunk to Monitor Minio – A Tutorial
Clean website. Would be great to have more information about how to launch to each community, eg Reddit, Product Hunt. Or maybe even just link to relevant blog posts.
I'll toss out a few hypothesis...

Might be COVID-19 calendar.

I believe Marc lives in Palo Alto so 15-20 minutes of commute on surface streets to a16z on Sand Hill Road. Commute could happen before scheduled items.

It could also be his commute happens during UP before meetings on the calendar start. He has FREE on many mornings before UP so UP can't directly mean wake up, that 30 minutes could be the commute.
> Your premise collapses badly in tech. The big flaw in your premise is the notion that the profit maximization equation involves slashing compensation to the lowest levels possible. In tech - and most high-skill segments - that is not the optimal equation.

Agreed.

> The employees of Microsoft - to name one example of many - are among the best compensated workers in all of history, anywhere, at any time, doing anything.

Doubtful. There are careers that in average pay much more. For example, an interventional cardiologist in the bay area makes $500,000 a year in average.

And just as there are software engineers that make more, there are cardiologists that make more.

> Sure sounds like reciprocity derived from enormous profits to me. By maximizing profitability, they can pay their workers better; by paying their workers better, they can attract the best talent and maximize profitability.

Reciprocity means the money you are getting is proportional to the value you created. While you can make money working at a highly profitable company, 100% reciprocity would mean that 100% of the profit and dividends are distributed according to merit. That is not the case.

That means that an NT kernel engineer should probably be making like $10,000,000 a year, for example.
> A shorter URL bar in the desktop allows for to take up less horizontal space, which leaves more room for chrome extensions.

Are you seriously claiming you need all (or even just more than like 10%) of your 1920+ pixels of screen width for your Chrome extensions?
Use Firefox and DuckDuckGo instead of Chrome and Google.
Last week there was discussion either here or on reddit that Amazon has a hard cap for salary compensation at ~160k in the Seattle area.

Dropping the threshold from 180k to 100k would cause everyone who has maxed out their salary at Amazon to have enforceable non-competes.

I'd be curious what types of jobs at Amazon were immediately under the 100k threshold, and what percent of the total Washington state Amazon workforce has a salary of 100k+?
If we want to harmonize the contracts to save the legal department trouble, we should have more collective bargaining!
You probably already know this, but if you move to a more remote location make sure to have an epi-pen and good first aid kit. When you need it you really need it, speaking from experience.
Only one of the benchmarks you linked to compares it with Intel/AMD - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14892/spec2006-a13_575px.p... - that says at the top - SPEC2006 Energy Efficiency Estimate. There is no power usage for Skylake or Zen2.

But leaving that aside, it is also a single threaded performance measure which is nice but not quite a big deal for desktop / workstation / server workloads. It's not very convincing that they will have a 12 core part for workstation that I can use (leaving aside the fact that I won't be able to run what I want on it) - that will perform much better than AMD/Intel in real world workloads including virtualization etc. So I still maintain that narrowly focused performance benchmarks Geekbench or SpecInt mean very little in factoring OP's question on whether you will replace your primary system with ARM - the other CPUs are also limited to what Apple's CPUs can run - not Java stuff for example.

ARM as a whole had lot of time to compete with others in desktop/workstation/server market and there is little evidence they got anywhere big.
Mapping the Global Future: National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project [PDF'04]
Using black to mean evil or bad in a modern workplace is a microagression and is racist. Microagressions are well studied and the evidence points to it resulting psychological damage [1] [2].

The term "blacklist" started more frequently occurring at the time of mass enslavement and forced deportation of Africans to work in European-held colonies in the Americas. So even the historical context does not support that the term is completely lacking of racist motives. If you are going to dehumanize and enslave an entire continent, it would certainly help your cause if their skin color continues to be associated with "evil".

Consider also that the Latin word "niger" had many of the same figurative senses ("gloomy; unlucky; bad, wicked, malicious") as black is often used to mean.

We don't need to rename the color black. What we do need to do is to stop using it to mean "bad" or "evil" and using white to mean "good" when there are actually far better and clearer words. Denylist says exactly what it does. Blacklist far less so, unless we are happy with continuing to use the word "black" to mean "evil". I leave it up to the reader to decide how it might psychologically affect someone if their skin color also means evil, and they are reminded of this on a regular basis by words used at work.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174569161982749...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
That’s the real systemic racism. It’s even more glaring since it happens on their land.