skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good insights, and definitely reflects the reality of the year 2020. But let's bring ourselves back to the year 2000 when Internet was slow, Netflix didn't exist, and the business model for video rental was strong. Back then it was hard to see the writing on the wall.

Bring ourselves back to 2020. We have some new factors that we have visibility into that are changing the dynamic for the rental car industry:

* Work is becoming increasingly remote. People are becoming more comfortable not traveling for business meetings or conferences.

* The gig economy is heating up. Even if the rideshare business is still in its relative nascence, there is no doubt that the rideshare will continue to be a trend.

* It's quite possible that the ride share firms will move to a subscription-based model (closer to Netflix) rather than a consumption-bsaed model (closer to Blockbuster) in the future. Paying per-ride has its hassles. A monthly fixed subscription model with predictable consumption limits can change the picture.

Your $30/day rental probably didn't end up being $30/day. With all the extra fees (which usually doubles the daily rate or more), gas, parking, and tolls, you're probably spending closer to $60-$70/day. This is a daily rate. Would you pay $100-$200 on a monthly rate for unlimited trips within a radius? Possibly, if there was sufficient ride share supply.

The problem of course is on the supply side. How do you pay drivers a share of a monthly subscription model when supply-side pricing is on a consumption-basis while demand-side pricing is on a subscription-basis? This is the challenge for the industry. But I think that challenge will be solved.
WSB was around long before Shkreli was widely known let alone became a mod. Of course he was a perfect fit when he did arrive.
getting your center of mass low and forward like froome does, doesn’t result in steady handling at all, its quite bad you just deal with it.

none of this weight torque stuff on the cranks has any meaningful impact when descending in mostly straight lines
It’s time to end China’s ‘United Front’ operations inside the United States
I get car sick when riding, but I have no problem driving. I hope there's a place for me in 10 years when rental is dead and AI takes over the road.
To improve browser experience all you have to do is use a computer that doesn't suck. The fact that your primary browser is on a tiny phone display is a problem with phones, not with browsers. Browser for phones can evolve to match the disabled nature of their device's but lets hope such gimpings don't filter back into actual desktop computers.
Even in the states where these agreements are enforceable, they usually only are enforceable for a job in the same role, a competitive business, and the same physical location. I worked for a company for about a decade with an agreement like this; the people who left usually got out of it by lying about where they're going, working remotely for a while, or getting their next employer to change their title.
Unfortunately, named arguments lead to arbitrary-order arguments which then make partial application quite awkward.

Think: f(fst:x, snd:y), what is the type of f(snd:4)?

I think this can be implemented, but then f(3, fst:5) is either an error or counter-intuitive.
Grab a Shitty Rod and Start Fishing
You could still be sued in Seattle even if you move to California. Jurisdiction is based on where you entered the contract.
Very few URLs are perfectly hierarchical in a way that would work with this scheme. For example, look at the URL of this page you're reading now.
It is a fixie, and you'll notice he has no brakes otherwise.
Firefox's CSS selector matching is now multi core, written in Rust, imported from Servo. Other things are work in progress.
It does seem like the future of humanity rests on those in offices learning how second and third order consequences work.
Yep actions > words > identity

This concept has been lost on many.
> I... don't understand...

You are not supposed to reinvent the wheel. Somebody has already gone through the trouble of implementing the is-even algorithm, and it would be a waste of time to re-write it for no purpose. You may think that it is a simple algorithm, but I doubt you could implement it better than the people who uploaded these files to npm. Notice that the algorithm has many obscure corner-cases that you are likely to miss on your first implementation. Fortunately, it is already written and packaged; just use it.
I see a lot of traders blaming the "retail investor" for the general rise in stock prices, but retail investors are not even 3% of the market. The HFT and over-leveraged hedge funds are doing something for sure. And they'll blame Robinhood.
He was on a work visa. If he loses his job, he loses his right to stay in the country.

That puts a lot of extra pressure on someone to keep their job.
Shouldn’t TypeScript be able to do this without caring about JS?

If TypeScript had a reasonable standard library (at least the size of the Java/.NET libraries) and these were tree-shaken down when compiling, wouldn’t that go
a long way?
Put a lump of butter in your tea. Sure it's gross but you'll be warm. ;-)
JavaScript really needs a proper standard library. Has any sort of central authority ever tried to drive this forward? Maybe it should fall upon the ECMA people to get this done, seeing as they’re the ones that define the ESx specs? I don’t think npm/node is the answer either, this needs putting together from scratch without being too bloated, much like the C or C++ stdlibs.
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Do you get sick on buses, trains, or planes?
At some point the US will wake up as a nation and realize this is a new kind of war. Why suddenly is there a lot of pro chinese statements around the internet where there was none before?
Source for either of these two statements?
It is shady. But I think you have a rosier view of historical working conditions than is warranted.

As far as the US: noncompetes are broadly legal. California is notable as being a state where they are not.

There is a history section on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
The guy who stole Netscape Source Code and claimed to be his own invention. Do nothing Marc!
For myself (and I'd wager most people), I want to clear the URL and go to a totally different URL much more often than I want to manually manipulate the URL I'm currently on, so I like the change in default. Many casual users probably didn't even know a quick way to select the whole URL when it wasn't the default.
Buy a Boy Scout Handbook. It has good first aid instructions. Better yet, take an EMT class. A few months of evening classes and you are very well prepared for mishaps.
> No matter how you look at it, Hertz stock currently is worth zero. When street price of an asset is higher than its intrinsic value

The only intrinsic monetary value of a thing is what someone else will give you for it (or what people give you for owning it, like a dividend or rent or whatever.) It doesn't matter why they'll give you that for it, only that they will.

Otherwise how do you explain the value of for example a fine art painting? What do you think their ordained true intrinsic value is? Are all paintings permanently in a bubble?

What are Hertz stocks worth? About 2.83, because that's what I can sell them for.

If you owned a hundred thousand Hertz stocks right now would you just throw the certificate away because they're worthless?
Amazon remains very price competitive. For Uber to make a profit they need to raise prices to cover all their operational expenses. Traditional taxi companies can remain viable at lower prices due to their lower operational spending.
By that logic Bitcoin should be worth zero, right?
Thoughts on (Micro)Services
In the Visual Studio tooling way and not having to deal with all COM low level details in name of ISO C++ compliance.

Those of us that eventually migrated to .NET were quite happy with C++/CX for dealing with those APIs that Windows team keeps resisting to expose as .NET APIs, and now that has been taken away from us.

Who cares about dynamic text scaling support when one needs to climb a mountain to actually make use of it?

By the way, this is a feature that is actually supported as Win32 C API, most likely because of hurdles to use it otherwise.

As note, having to deal with WRL was never a consideration for the projects where my voice counted for the technology decisions, too many bad memories from ATL/WTL days.

Also it remains to be seen what C#/WinRT will actually bring into the table.

Really, is it so hard for the Windows team to get some Qt and C++ Builder licenses to understand how to offer productive C++ development tooling for Windows application developers?

Because at the end of the day what happens are adoption failures like how the whole WinRT/UWP story ended up, and if the tooling doesn't get better, it isn't Project Reunion that will save it.
Interesting argument, but I think this is somewhat different.

A bankrupt company could always offer new equity to its existing creditors as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization plan, but that's not exactly a sale. If you're describing a transfer to outside investors, then the sale of new equity could violate fraudulent transfer law and the bankruptcy trustee could try to claw it back to preserve the value of the estate. (See Bankruptcy Code § 548).

It's worth mentioning that creditors can throw an insolvent company involuntarily into bankruptcy by petitioning the court. Since creditors don't share in the upside of a company (like equity holders do), there's no reason for the creditors to let the company linger in bankruptcy so that it can gamble for its resurrection. It's in their best interest for the company to enter bankruptcy as soon as possible so they can preserve its value and maximize their payouts.

There might be edge cases (e.g. if there's a single creditor who happens to have a significant equity stake, it could play out differently) but I don't think it's the norm.
> I've also heard of contracts that essentially prohibit side projects or moonlighting.

If your employer is sufficiently broad, the California Labor Code basically prohibits side projects or moonlighting:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
As the Chrome dino runs, we caught up with the Googlers who built it (2018)
In Google Chrome, browse to chrome://dino to play the endless runner game in the article.
Linking the actual paper would have been better imo

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016761051...
Get one Raspberry Pi, connect there printer, setup printer as network and forget about issues.
> Plan your post employment very carefully -- both financially and career wise when you join one of the big 4.

This is only true of Amazon. As far as I'm aware, none of the others have non-competes (Google certainly doesn't).

So maybe the more succinct advice is, just don't work for Amazon.
I think it’s more that recruiting is a sales job, often with a commission attached to it. I wouldn’t say that Amazon is “desperate for business,” but they still emailed me every few weeks about moving our business into AWS.
> Lastly, SeanLuke is probably not familiar with mountain bikes, but modern geometry for XC and enduro bikes is towards slacker headtube angles (resulting in higher trail) for stability when descending.

I'm certainly not familiar with modern mountain bikes. Very interesting that some have slacker headtubes for downhill, but it definitely makes sense.
A better comparison would be mybank.com/logmein vs mybank.com/login vs mybank.com/l.jx?s=AU8NE6FX5IKMD2

And no, users do not need to care the slightest whether they go to the first, second or 3rd URL.
What they care about is that they are entering their sensitive information on mybank.com's domain and not a russian counterpart, that's it.
Same in California.
For people that want the details:

https://california.public.law/codes/ca_bus_and_prof_code_sec....

California Business & Professions Code section 16600 makes clear that any non-compete provision between employer and employee will not be enforceable under California law
There is also no commute in his calendar. Thursday and Friday morning is free?
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There have been several AWS outages where EBS and EC2 instantiation was outright down, and you could not create new resources for a period of time. AWS is not “always accessible“ unless you’re in their marketing department.

Sure, you know you’re down, you simply can’t do anything about it. Not so with your own hardware, which is why many orgs continue to run their own gear.
To my mind, I was simply explaining the reason why all the comments in the linked article and the top comment in this thread assumed that Google intentionally removed Churchill's picture despite how ludicrous that belief seems. That explanation necessarily involves mentioning the conspiracy theorists who are inclined to believe certain wacky things based on perceived attacks against their political beliefs.

Thank you for the clarification.
Other countries are able to provide these same things with even more government support. Somehow, they end up costing even less. How does your theory explain that fact?
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In the meantime the post that used the term SJW has disappeared. Oh well.
Anyone who needs to test an input is an odd number using vanilla JS will eventually end up rolling something that looks a lot like isOdd() themselves (or they'll just ignore a set of potential problems, which definitely is worse). It's very obvious when you read the code - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-odd/blob/master/index.js.

Utilities like that are a function of using a weakly typed language. "Just use TypeScript" is an alternative solution, but even in TS you should still check the number is within the bounds of isSafeInteger.
Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
How many of 13000 dependencies are duplicates in different versions? Would it help if npm didn’t allow more than one version of a dependency? If I understand correctly, now you aren’t even warned if you have transitive dependencies to two versions of a library?
As regards the Canadian police (especially, but not limited to the RCMP) they are no angels. Especially if you are indigenous/autochthonous. And that's because they are fulfilling the function for which they were created: taking land and living away from some people. A quick google on the history of the RCMP, their recent shoot-to-kill policies at indigenous roadblocks, the colonial/imperial origins will put Justin Trudeau's hypocritical taking a knee into perspective.

If you really want to feel sick read-up on the Highway of Tears and the systematic brutalization of indigenous women by Canadian society.
I don’t see your point. Blue is not a color. It’s just a failure of red or green light to be let through.
If serious you are several sigma outside the mean.
They say in the contract that this is already included in the pay offer.
Detecting and fixing problems after your app has been deployed is NO WHERE NEAR as good as avoiding problems. Not depending on thousands of packages from thousand of strangers is about avoiding problems.
I don't actually see what the problem here is, he just moved to a country with a shittier employment laws ... Can't blame Amazon for playing the game.

Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm not saying what Amazon did is OK, I'm saying it's probably legal, it's the employment laws in the US that are unethical.
Isn't that the point of this change, only showing the domain to prevent phishing?
'first JS-based grid sequencer'

We're all inspired by other things, and being first doesn't really count for much if you don't promote yourself. Even then, it's a roll of the dice as to if you stand out in the crowd.

If you're just going by "JS-based grid sequencer' I created one in February 2011 as part of an HTML-based emulation of a Boss DR-110 drum machine (Which I later updated to use the Web Audio API to synthesize the drum voices)

https://github.com/leviathant/BossDR110

It's skeumorphic (I was challenging the popular notion "You can do everything in HTML that you can do in Flash" at the time - it wasn't true then, but we're much closer now), I never finished out 'song mode', but it is a JS-based grid sequencer that predates your timeline. As best as I can tell, it was the first click-and-drag Javascript knob done Rebirth/Reason style - it was a little clunky, but I sure as hell couldn't find any remotely similar code to base it off of - but I don't get bent out of shape whenever I see other people making Javascript knobs.
how does "public/private" work? Looks like there is no sign up feature on the web and I can't view a private post (as it should be), but just wondering what is really going on behind the scenes. Does a "private" post still get uploaded to your server? or does it truly stay private only on my phone?
How is there not a single image in that article..
I just tried it in Ubuntu 20.04 and it worked. Software Install can open a .deb, it's just not associated with them by default to keep novices from shooting themselves in the foot.
Post-employment copyright assignment? As in, code you wrote after you left their employment would still be owned by them, without them paying you for it??
The problem is really not the size or the number of files (both a pretty manageable by modern hardware), but that you execute mostly unverified code by several thousand people. It only takes one of those to go rogue to have your data siphoned, your drive encrypted ... you name it.

Sure, big projects (hopefully!) watch their dependencies, but you auditing 13k packages is simply impossible. And, given how much these numbers explode, it unfortunately seems like people simply add a dependency without doing their due diligence.
It's very repetitive and such a minor problem isn't enough to justify a red flag in my humble opinion.
I saw a comment on here a couple years ago or so that referred to this practice as "Ladder Licking". Lick the steps behind you so that nobody else can climb up the same ladder that you did.
Covid nearly killed this furniture startup; turning to home offices may save it
In France, non-compete need to be both reasonable (not to broad) and paid extra on top of the salary when you quit the job. If there's no monetary compensation for the non-compete, they are just invalid.

I find this position reasonable, non-competes are an extra burden on the employee so they should be paid for.
Permanent sterilization is an option for women too.
> EDIT: my favourite part, is-even depends on is-odd.

Probably because it just does

return !is-odd(x);

So it can take advantage of all the type checking and other corner case junk in `is-odd`
Most of the "utility" deps you see in js eco-system are fragmented by opinions

So basically if I don't agree on your way of doing things, easy, I will just create a new module and publish it.

Things get real messy when hierarchy of modules use different modules.

Having basic functionality may fix it in long term but it will bring a huge rift in js community.
Non-competes are usually about proprietary information / intellectual property. Amazon does not want someone learning their secret sauce recipe and then take it next door and start using it. That same non-compete also means you might not be able to get a higher paying job next door, which is a side-effect that only benefits employers.
This is a very apt quote here.

"Serverless" is basically equivalent to a supercomputer in that context, but then it goes on to exhibit latency characteristics that would be considered a non-starter for a supercomputer.

Latency is one of the most important aspects of IO and is the ultimate resource underlying all of this. The lower your latency, the faster you can get the work done. When you shard your work in a latency domain measured in milliseconds-to-seconds, you have to operate with far different semantics than when you are working in a domain where a direct method call can be expected to return within nanoseconds-to-microseconds. We are talking 6 orders of magnitude or more difference in latency between local execution and an AWS Lambda. It is literally more than a million times faster to run a method that lives in warm L1 than it is to politely ask Amazon's computer to run the same method over the internet.

This stuff really matters and I feel like no one is paying attention to it anymore. Your CPU can do an incredible amount of work if you stop abusing it and treating it like some worthless thing that is incapable of handling any sizeable work effort. Pay attention to the NUMA model and how cache works. Even high level languages can leverage these aspects if you focus on them. You can process tens of millions of client transactions per second on a single x86 thread if you are careful.

Furthermore, the various cloud vendors have done an exceptional job at making their vanilla compute facility seem like a piece of shit too. These days, a $200/m EC2 instance feels like a bag of sand compared to a very low-end Ryzen 3300G desktop I recently built for basic lab duty. I'm not quite sure how they accomplished this, but something about cloud instances has always felt off to me. I can see how others would develop a perception that simply hosting things on one big EC2 instance would mean their application runs like shit. I am unsurprised that everyone is reaching for other options now. On-prem might be the best option if you have already optimized your stack and are now struggling with the cloud vendors' various layers of hardware indirection. Simply going from EC2 to on-prem could buy you an order of magnitude or more in speedup just by virtue of having current gen bare metal 100% dedicated to the task at hand. Obviously, this brings with it other operational and capital costs which must be justified by the business.
It's nice for others to know so they don't fall into the same trap.
Yes. That is how they scared him into signing it.

But I suggest standing your ground in such a situation. They wanted to work with him. They had a contract with him. So there was a lot of pressure on them too. If they breached the contract they would lose an employee and face legal repercussions.