skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the guy who bought Sears did it the other way around, lending Sears a lot of money on secured loans and taking the interest out, as well as taking out cash through stock buybacks. But the process is similar: gain a majority stake in a company by whatever means are available, appoint yourself as the chief executive, and manage the company with the goal of enriching yourself, rather than with growing the company.

The structure of the Sears deal was really interesting and suspicious. Sears bought a small number of Kmart stores for an enormous cash price, which sent Kmart stock into orbit, then Lampert used the inflated Kmart stock to acquire Sears. Pretty shady.

Another difference is Lampert is a black sheep, but Mitt Romney is for some reason still socially accepted despite having wrecked dozens of American companies.
The "what color is my function" problem is insurmountable in Javascript, because the runtime does not allow you to call an async function from a non-async one. However, most effects aren't like this. If you say "this function needs randomness" then you can create a pure PRNG and call the function with the PRNG providing randomness. If you say "this function needs logging" you can tell it to log to a string and parse/ignore the string. If it throws an exception, you can catch the exception. Haskell even provides `unsafePerformIO`, which lets you run arbitrary computations as if they were pure.
A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food
That's a valid requirement, but having to play scales and chords differently in every key is a pretty big price for that.
Awesome, can't wait to try it out. I tried several middlewares but always reverted to splash.
I'm not sure if this is a failure of YouTube advertising it, joke intended, but YouTube Premium is the best value monthly subscription that I have. I just recently upgraded to the family plan at $17.99/month so I could add two of my friends.

That's ~$6 per month to enjoy YouTube completely ad free, allows you to download YouTube videos to your phone for offline viewing, allows background play, _and_ gets you YouTube Music Premium(I still am using Google Play Music, but this is basically a "free" Spotify subscription) as well.

Its such a good value for me and I think it'd be a great value to a lot of other people as well but every time I mention it I feel like people have never heard of it.
Different strokes for different folks, but if a school has a a lot of executives, judges and politicians graduate from them, that's a reason for me to avoid that school like the plague.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXXPYxyn5mA
brilliant dialogue about tipping from Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Steve Buscemi's character doesn't tip and a group of others try to convince him to do it
personally i've never spent time in a GC unless i was bored. other times i just buy what i want and return it if it's a dud for my use-case. their limited amp setup isn't reflective of what i use anyway, so it's not like i could make an informed decision.

anecdotal case in point: did once try out a new guitar, sounded good there - get it back to my house and line feedback like no other. i have many other guitars that work fine on this setup, but this one wanted to be a complainer...no way that any hands-on demo would have stopped that, unless i haul all my gear in there as well.
There's a slight difference between the metric you are referencing vs the author's valuation. The author wants to find out the Market Value while you are alluding to the "Book Value" [0]. Alphabet's Book Value (2019) would be around ~ 197M (699M shares * 283.25 Book Value per Share).

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/how-are-book-value-...
Great story! FWIW this is kind of the origin story for Mylar "paper tape" as well. When paper tape started being used for controlling machine tools (the NC in CNC), the paper tape would not hold up well in a shop. It could get grease or water on it which would compromise its integrity and then it would tear. So a "stronger" paper tape was created but it had to be compatible with older paper tape reader/punches. It was great stuff.
Here we go with the tech guilt/savior complex.

Tech people in SF have not been terrible neighbors. People who shit in the street are terrible neighbors. People who steal bikes and smash car windows are terrible neighbors. People who do drugs in the open and leave needles on the ground are terrible neighbors.

Techies are basically the ideal denizens of a city. Young, educated, well-paid, law-abiding people. You could hardly ask for a better group to populate a city.
I think I remember reading, some years ago, that although it was pink the past "boy pink" was darker than modern "girl pink" - somewhere closer to light red...
I didn’t have any path to getting funds into such a thing and wasn’t sure if I could move the needle so I opted to donate 100k to families in need instead.
Don't worry, they are already gearing up for the next one. And the midterms.

Too bad we can't just randomly pick candidates 2 months before the election, they couldn't possibly be worse than the previous ones.
I don’t see how you write this with no mention of the pandemic.

AirBNB is helping city dwellers escape their tiny apartments.

Delivery companies are benefiting from me being temporarily okay throwing 30% of an order into tips and fees.

This will pass.
Wow, I feel _really_ dumb now - I just saw the filename without ".py" and assumed it was an executable

Sorry, I take it back!
In canada and there is a restaurant near me that doesn't prompt for tip on the machine when paying - i go there more often the other places for this reason.
Congrats on taking that decision. I bet it felt empowering.

I'm very tempted to do the same, tomorrow morning possibly. I only stuck out my job for so long because it was fully remote before the pandemic and that was hard to find.

Now actually feels like a good time to switch with so many companies forced into remote working and stating they will stick with it.

What kind of things did you hate about your job?
Did you face many questions about quitting with nothing lined up?
> If you say religion can't be fact based

Where have I said that?

I have said that science has a much better track record of generating true beliefs than religion does. That is not the same as saying religion never generates true beliefs or never looks at facts.

> religion is an ancient applied science of managing authority and consent in large groups of people

This is an interesting hypothesis, but note a key implication: that this "applied science" involves generating and propagating false beliefs. And given that, an easy alternate way of contrasting the religious worldview with the scientific worldview would be that the scientific worldview does not consider generating and propagating false beliefs to be a good thing. That's not to say science never does that, just that in science, it's considered a bug, whereas in religion, by your description, it's considered a feature.

Also, the term "applied science" implies that there is an actual scientific theory that is being applied. Religion does not have any theory at all about "managing authority and consent in large groups of people". It does that in practice, but it doesn't have any theory about it. So "applied science" is a misnomer in this case: a better term would be "art", as in "religion is an ancient art of managing authority and consent in large groups of people".
Timely -- I'm just reading J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy about an Appalachian upbringing and getting to Yale Law.

He describes getting help from Amy Chua his professor who also has a lot to say about success in America - see her books Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and more recently Political Tribes
Enterprise Sales Executive – Chicago at UIPath
> ...have killed brick and mortar retail.

There's still a lot of brick and mortar retail, and it does not seem to be disappearing, but it is not really about re-distributing the goods anymore, but mostly about paid support. For instance, a lot of bike shops in my area are turning into repair and assembly workshops, where you are welcome to bring the bike that you bought cheaply from an online retailer and they help you assemble and adjust it. I guess the earnings for that usage are much larger than for re-distribution, since 100% of what the client pays is directly for the shop.

EDIT: also, I have issue on the fact that you call buying cheapest goods a "loophole". There's nothing wrong about it in an efficient market.
Oh yeah, bike retailers have seen their fair share of exhortations to "innovate". And that's why some of them tried opening coffee shops or brewing beer or hiring consultants to help them create better merchandising to "reach female buyers that like to shop" and ways to spend your money with no return. Why manage one struggling business (your bike shop) when you can manage two struggling businesses (your bike shop and your coffee shop)!

Really, retail has largely been gamed past the point of no return. "Win the Holidays", as Best Buy put it a few years ago. Consumers evangelize their hookup, not their service experience.

Maybe bike consumers don't need the support and service the bike business traditionally offered. Camera stores are gone, but camera sales have never been better. Cameras are better and more accessible than ever before, too. Maybe the bike business will follow the same path. Time will tell.

EDIT: Funny enough, cameras are still subject to MAP and it is generally enforced fiercely.
>Amazon should be broken up

For offering more products and better service at a lower price? They don't have a monopoly on anything.

The governments role should not be to subsidize uncompetitive businesses. That hurts consumers.
Quite a few. I see prominent people on my own "side" calling for the genocide or isolation of entire states, one of which I'm in, because an election swung the wrong way by a few percent.
Working in tech companies? I'm sure it happens sometimes, but it must be extremely rare.
Top Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Software Composition Analysis Solution
I personally don't think that Google spend money to store your data if they aren't actively using it, though I can understand the sentiment. That said, you might as well switch it off if privacy is something you care about.
every bartender and server i know vastly underreports their income - makes 80,000 a year canadian in reality but reports 50,000
I don't have anything to hand and I only use a tiny number of Sass's built-in features, but here's a super-quick demo of styling with variables and darken (https://sass-lang.com/documentation/modules/color#darken).

https://jsfiddle.net/peteryates/uqdnj4sa/10/

Note, darken and lighten aren't always favoured these days, it's good advice to learn scale (https://sass-lang.com/documentation/modules/color#scale), but darken or lighten makes for an easier demo.
OpenAPI.Tools
If I'm buying online, it's probably from Sweetwater or Reverb, definitely not Guitar Center. I mainly used GC if I needed strings, picks, sticks, or other small things, but I've found Amazon to be perfectly fine at getting me that stuff quickly. When I first started playing guitar, probably around age 20 or so, Guitar Center was like Toys R Us to me when I was a kid. It was a magical place. However, GC came into most markets and pushed the local stores out of business and now they're getting put out of business by better ecommerce outlets and Amazon.

I am glad some local stores have survived, either battling GC valiantly or being far enough away from them. Having a hub for lessons, repairs, expertise, etc. is very nice to have around still.
An apolitical being is as real as a unicorn.
my most hated "kindly revert back"

You have made some great points but stop shitting on Indian English. I don't like it either but you are coming off as an elitist shitting on people who are taught these phrases growing up.
It's a nice idea, but unfortunately also could be manipulated to make underperforming speakers sound better than they are. Wherever there's mediation, there's an opportunity for misrepresentation.
There’s more too it that that. There are advantages to wealth that go beyond encouraging children to study instead of partying. Things like going to a good school, not having to work through high school, not dealing with money stress in general.

And I don’t know that we necessarily want to encourage people to “sacrifice their teenage years” by rewarding people who do so. I did well on the SAT, and I didn’t spend all my time partying. But I definitely don’t feel like I sacrificed my teenage years.

I certainly don’t want my children to look back on their childhood like that.
The recent Unison language uses the effect system described in the Frank language https://www.unisonweb.org/
Is not fairly well established that tech and social media have already upended the news industry in terms of revenue streams? Revenue streams which arguably flow through tech now? I have a hard time with that being true and also telling them that they're gate keeping.
Just time. I only just started learning how to use Arduino this past summer and discovered I could platformio with a Makefile this fall - it’s been pretty cool so far. I will probably spend sometime later learning Esp-idf next
C has tricks, serious languages have coding patterns
Flu deaths are estimated, not counted. Often victims are not tested for it at all.

> And fascinatingly, you don't worry at all about people who died without test missing from statistics.

Actually “presumed COVID deaths” are included in some states’ numbers, but yes there is some undercounting too.
You can do this on-the-fly with Zathura... in Linux
It's amazing how well you can scale when you don't have to make money.
Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I tried a few (not all) of the examples with plain old Python (granted, these are multi-liners, not one-liners, but I think they're easier to read). I'm not sure I see the advantange of curly braces.

# --- Example 1

# pwk
pwk 'if "braces"=="bad": { print("Be gone!"); exit(99) } else: { print("Howdy!") }'

# vs

# python
python -c 'if "braces"=="bad": print("Be gone!"); exit(99)
else: print("Howdy!")'

# --- Example 2

pwk 'def s2i(s): { return int(s) } print(s2i("41")+1)'

python -c 'def s2i(s): return int(s)
print(s2i("41")+1)'

# --- Example 3

ls / | pwk 'for s in sys.stdin: try: { print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip())) } except: pass'

ls / | python -c 'import sys, os
for s in sys.stdin:
try: print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip()))
except: pass'
> In my experience, a moderate is a conservative in all things that effect them, and a liberal for anything else.

While obviously a generalization, this is very insightful. I never thought of this before, and I admit I might be a moderate.
I got a Casio watch because it was cheap.

People buy cheap watches because they're poor.

There are far more poor people than there are rich people, so there'll be far more cheap watch wearers than there are expensive watch wearers.

So cheap watches are ubiquitous. Is that really a surprise?
I've seen similar conversions to service-only, and I'll just say that service was a loss leader for us. We never found our service department to be profitable on service alone. Some of it was the complexity of the type of bikes we services (high-end, aero-focused bikes) and some of it was because service pricing has largely been subsidized by healthy margins on parts sales.

The service-only shops will never be anything more than cozy lifestyle businesses. And a few of those that own service-only shops actually live in the business to make ends meet.
I wish I had the upstream to consider a similar service.
100% Their pro grade (IE not $200 interfaces) has dropped in the recording / production area steeply. You're lucky to find a UAUDIO Arrow let alone any of the higher end stuff. Need a license for Protools? HDX Card? Not gonna happen. In the old days (IE 2000 or so) GC had full Protools setups on display in stores for demos. Same for Keyboards, they have a couple cheap synths and digital pianos.

The abundance of cheap gear / equipment to fill the shelves makes it feel more like a big lots of music with premium prices.
It works well which is special. Open sourcing it good whether it’s clean or not
Native Americans in Brazil launch cryptocurrency to improve lives during Covid
They may be profitable for a time, by parasitically sucking the life out of restaurants. But when the host dies, parasites are in trouble.
> Religious methodology in building a belief generating technology...

You are making huge historical claims here that, as far as I know, have no basis in actual fact.

> anyone who has built their idea of science on the rejection of mythology

Where have I said that science rejects mythology?

Science acknowledges that mythology exists, that its ubiquity in human cultures is evidence that it meets some common human need, and that that human need itself is genuine even if many of the specific mythologies that have evolved to meet it include many false beliefs.

What science does not do is accept mythological claims at face value, any more than it accepts any other claims at face value.

> theirs was the only right reality

Science makes no such claim. Science does make particular claims about reality, when it has particular theories that have a strong track record of making correct predictions. But science makes no general claim whatever about its "reality" being "the only right reality". Science does not even make the weaker claim that the scientific method is the only possible way of gaining knowledge about "reality". Particular scientists might, but science as a worldview does not.
Given that readers on this thread might be interested, and having posted a few replies on what helps us build product and how we do it, here's a collection[0].

We try as much as possible to lay out information and address "meta" questions so people make decisions on their own, know what we're doing and why we're doing it.

For example, the "If I disappear, what will happen" link was a reply to an Ask HN: "What makes a great CTO".

Latest reply[1] to a thread about making product management decisions.

I like to think of it as putting myself out of a job.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025253

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25176818
Please don't take HN threads into pointless flamewar like this. It helps no one and leads noplace interesting or new.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In fact, it's so over the top that it's basically trolling.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
True, but you may not want to return and receive service from a waiter whom gets combative over how little you tip. As another person who has worked both front and back of house, I’ve seen and heard some pretty awful stuff.

This is particularly why I hate the new custom of tipping before even receiving service or food. You have to do some game theoretic dance to decide whether you’ll get bad service if you tip low up front vs get bad service anyways because they’ve already got your money.
MAP is really important for manufacturers. It is valuable to have multiple distribution channels for your product, and in the age of online retail, this is especially true. Because cultivating a distribution channel is not zero cost, if those channels are destroyed by one distributor taking a loss and undercutting everyone else, it can be highly detrimental to the manufacturer. That's because if you only have a single distribution channel they can pressure you to cut manufacturing costs through outsourcing or decreasing quality.

Source: I helped build a product to track MAP violations, and there's also a bunch of articles and books written on this stuff.
There's a settings preset on my monitor called "paper" - it makes the screen look basically like paper illuminated by a warm incandescent bulb, mainly by reducing the brightness and maybe the contrast of the monitor. That preset plus a blue-light filter makes looking at a screen much easier on the eyes.
On the other hand, using promotions I can get Famous Dave’s delivered for about $5 more than it would cost for me to drive there, pick up, bring back....saves me almost an hour.
Wow, I had no idea this was a thing.
This is popular to say, but doesn't hold up to reality.

An analysis of "17,171 worldwide leveraged buyout transactions that include every transaction with a financial sponsor in the CapitalIQ database announced over a 40 year period" found bankruptcy rates around 6% [1]. This isn't notably out of the ordinary.

Large deals get press. They also have a habit of involving over-extension. As a result, the average private equity story is about things going spectacularly wrong at scale.

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.23.1.121 Table 2
AMD GPUs use a non-zero NULL pointer[0].

[0] https://reviews.llvm.org/D26196
Network is your net worth. But how do you build one?
That's helpful context.

When I began to consider what might go into a massive, big-pharma dev proj, 1M didn't seem that substantial - like someone tossing $5 at a national food bank. Worse, it seemed to highlight an overall lack of fiscal & resource preparedness (this last might still be reality).

Glad to see my initial take was incorrect.
We will have to wait until this is confirmed. This is not new, but if public opinion forces them, they could be held accountable and change course.
The credit card processor almost certainly being used by the customer adds another middle man.
> They also seem to have much less used gear in each store

Reverb.com completely kneecapped this side of their business, and probably lots of their new product sales also.
Between competition from Reverb (who have minimal warehousing overhead and no physical retail overhead), online-only sellers (who have no retail overhead), an expanded boutique market (pedals / eurorack), and much of the overall market turning to software and direct sales (much easier to download Ableton and start making music on day 1 rather than spend years learning guitar), the writing has been on the wall for large-scale brick and mortar operations in the music creation trade.
That is certainly a real distinction, though I think your point about immigrant families not knowing "the game" is probably the better one.
If parents know how the admissions game is played, then they can throw capital (fiscal and/or social) at the problem.
A non-tenured biology professor is by no means wealthy, but their daughter will almost certainly have an easier time finding a lab to volunteer at in high school than the child of the owner of a successful car dealership.
So wealth is an advantage conditional on knowing the rules of the game, and you've raised an important point: a lot of families don't even know the rules of the game!
This is heartbreaking. My condolences go out to Christian's family and friends. This post is really a testament to just how intimate co-founder relationships are. I loved this passage:

> A cofounder relationship can be a competitive one. The question of who is more “formidable” comes up a lot. Who will be the point of contact with investors? Who will represent the company to the outside world? Who will have the final say at an impasse? Navigating these questions can easily lay waste to your ego. The only reason he and I avoided this pitfall was because we addressed our insecurities to each other directly, rather than let them simmer beneath the surface. I soon came to learn that one of the most valuable opportunities of an experience like this was that your cofounder’s strengths could become your own.
Assuming the mob is actually breaking a law, there is no differentiation.
The book is absolutely worth it.
Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
With about 1/4 of the single-core performance, per geekbench. (Only one xavier benchmarked, but considering even the highest-end non-Apple arm chips are a bit over 1/2 of the single those are probably realistic numbers).