Hacker News: dataminded

New comment by dataminded in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

dataminded — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:35:10 +0000

SpaceX made fast index inclusion a condition of where it listed. Nasdaq changed its index rules so that instead of having to wait months to a year, SpaceX can enter an index after 15 trading days.

Index funds track an index mechanically. If you run an S&P 500 fund, you have to mirror the S&P 500. If a company gets added to the index, every fund tracking the index must buy it to match the index -- there is no discretion. Pension funds hold a lot of index funds.

So the causal chain is that pension funds track indexes, indexes have to buy the companies in the index, SpaceX got a fast path to the indexes. SpaceX will launch and pension funds will buy the stock, presumably propping up the stock price.

It would take a lot for pension funds to undo this and would be the opposite of index investing.

New comment by dataminded in "Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?"

dataminded — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:20:59 +0000

Python was easy to read and write. Network effects did the rest.

Perl6 was a much greater mess than Python3.

I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.

New comment by dataminded in "Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills"

dataminded — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:58:54 +0000

Enjoy my money!

New comment by dataminded in "Cloud AI for Video Games Is Dead on Arrival, On-Device Is the Future"

dataminded — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:45:20 +0000

Very interesting. How do we get our hands on it to try it out?

New comment by dataminded in "Is your Master's degree useless?"

dataminded — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:48:29 +0000

Unless a Master's is required for your profession, only do it if you are intellectually curious and have the cash to burn.

New comment by dataminded in "Ask HN: How to leave a startup as a founder?"

dataminded — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:54:59 +0000

+1 lawyer up hard and fast. This is the time to get an exceptional attorney that is very comfortable being an ass on your behalf.

New comment by dataminded in "Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce"

dataminded — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:44:33 +0000

You buy Salesforce for the ecosystem not the CRM technology. I'd want to see a much stronger emphasis on integrations to feel better about this.

New comment by dataminded in "I built an ROV to solve missing person cases"

dataminded — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:47:28 +0000

Amazing. Exactly the type of content that I come to HN for.

New comment by dataminded in "Why Triplebyte Failed"

dataminded — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:37:15 +0000

It's because companies don't want capable, experienced or well-equipped. They want genius and it is really hard to test for genius. Granted, almost nobody that gets through any process is an actual genius....

New comment by dataminded in "G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars"

dataminded — Wed, 08 May 2024 23:40:41 +0000

One of the best cars I ever had -- it was terrible how pricing and lease incentives played out on this one. It became so much cheaper to get an SUV.

New comment by dataminded in "How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways"

dataminded — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:10:23 +0000

The renting experience absolutely sucked. You were expected to pay a premium, there is meaningful variance in the quality of the different cars and they needed you to bring it back charged (as if everyone has an extra 30-90 minutes on their way to the airport).

They should have treated these like any other car in the same class and done a market price fee for the battery.

New comment by dataminded in "Attending industry events and its impact on product awareness / customers"

dataminded — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:43:27 +0000

Events are just one of many signals that you can use to start a conversation. Reach out to every interest that is going, or that may want to go and just use the event as a reason to talk. I've landed A LOT of great leads by just reaching out about events that ultimately neither I nor the contact was going to. It was a good enough reason to start a conversation and assess fit/interest.

When you reach out you can position yourself as a thought leader, someone saving them time, etc.

New comment by dataminded in "Attending industry events and its impact on product awareness / customers"

dataminded — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:41:42 +0000

It shouldn't be harder to do pre-work for a larger event. What specific challenges are you facing?

New comment by dataminded in "Attending industry events and its impact on product awareness / customers"

dataminded — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:01:56 +0000

My advice: Get the value before the event. Reach out to everyone that you want to meet with before the event and schedule in-person meetings at the event, that will give you license to schedule remote meetings before the event for introductions.

Only go to the event if you have enough meetings with a clear line to enough value for it to make sense. Folks that do events for sales/customers, are working those events well before the actual event and have clear lines to value. If you just 'show up', odds are that you will waste your time and not get value.

New comment by dataminded in "BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date"

dataminded — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:40:05 +0000

As an avid consumer of audio books (150+/year) - we are well past the point where narrators are necessary. Professional audio books take too long to release, are too expensive, are concentrated on a limited number of platforms and just aren't THAT much better than the automated stuff for the long tail of books.

New comment by dataminded in "Fortran vs Python: The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)"

dataminded — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:42:13 +0000

You can make this claim about anything that isn't direct machine instruction.

End users are using python - the advantage of modern computing is that whatever happens afterwards is irrelevant.

New comment by dataminded in "Fortran vs Python: The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)"

dataminded — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:41:11 +0000

Frequently because those performance gains aren't actually needed. We live in an age where you can cheaply and quickly scale the hardware for 99% of tasks. Tasks that are too expensive to compute inefficiently are also unlikely to be profitable enough to be doing at all.

New comment by dataminded in "Announcing Amazon Aurora Limitless Database"

dataminded — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:59:09 +0000

Yay!

New comment by dataminded in "Announcing Amazon Aurora Limitless Database"

dataminded — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:00:44 +0000

Would love to know why they aren't working on the data API.

New comment by dataminded in "Ask HN: Quiet Quitting as Tech Lead"

dataminded — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:51:04 +0000

If it is resulting in measurable negative outcomes (outages, lost sales, delayed delivery), time to have lunch with your bosses boss and get yourself a promotion.