skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fund loses a lot of money

This isn't equivocally true. It all depends on how levered the investment is and how much debt they pulled off the books to pay back the banks (or their fund). The stereotypical PE fund looks like this: buy company for $100M with 50% debt and 50% equity. Meaning, investment banks give them $50M to buy the company at market rates and the PE firm spends the other $50M from their fund. Load the company up with debt and then pay off the senior credit facilities with the profits while the business slowly dies. In other words, it's very possible that PE firms and their lenders earn profits even if their portfolio companies go bankrupt.

In the case of Toys R Us specifically, it appears they did a 17%/63% levered split...which frankly is exorbitant. Most market norms are more around 50/50:

sank $1.3 billion of equity into the takeover of the Wayne, New Jersey-based toy company, financing the rest with debt, according to company filings.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...

> That, in turn, sharply limits what fund managers can do and how much they can pay themselves

What are you referring to when you say "fund managers"? The LPs? The LPs are super diversified, so that's irrelevant. The GPs make their base salary from management fees and their bonus from carry on the return of the fund. The idea that a fund "loses" money isn't that black and white...their are intricacies into how this plays it out.

Source: Wife is a PE firm founder and I advise PE firms.
And a really interesting life story. I like how she randomly ended up in the job:

https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc...

> Four years into the job, Shotwell had lunch with a co-worker who had just joined the then-startup company SpaceX. They walked by the cubicle of CEO Elon Musk. “I said, ‘Oh, Elon, nice to meet you. You really need a new business developer,’” Shotwell recalls. “It just popped out. I was bad. It was very rude.”

> Or just bold enough to capture Musk’s attention. He called her later that day in 2002 and recruited her to be vice president of business development, his seventh employee. She wrestled with the decision. “The history of startup rocket companies isn’t exactly great,” explains Hughes, SpaceX senior vice president and general counsel. “This was not necessarily the safest play.”
A simple example would be "how to select groupwise maximum" where Postgres would respond well to a correlated subquery and Oracle would respond well to a window function and derived table. The engines and optimizations are different.
Speaking from experience (father worked at GE for roughly the same time as this guy and is around his age), anyone who worked at GE for 40 years - even the lowliest hourly employee - should have a massive pension and/or retirement plan - and company health insurance to boot.

He didn't diversify. He definitely could have afforded to pay a money manager on a GE salary.

At least he has that fat $85k/yr pension!
Remember back when it was going to be a new Ice Age? Now it's "Global Warming?"

No, I don't remember that, because that was never actually the case. If you "remember" it, it is a false impression and you should really deeply introspect why you hold it. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-global-co...
Or simply picking the wrong campaign theme...
> they receives less than 20% of that interest?

They hold less than 20% of the debt. Most of their investment went in as equity. That's wiped out.

> LBO firms do not give low interest loans to their targets

PE buys equity and subordinated debt. Sub debt has high rates and wonky structures. In this case, I believe it was pay in kind, "a type of high-risk loan or bond that allows borrowers to pay interest with additional debt rather than cash" [1]. Nice feature if the debt is repaid. Less fun when it's wiped out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIK_loan
> Textual code looks like the barrier when you start learning

The fact that, hundreds of years after Newton, mathematicians still use symbols to convey concepts strengthens your argument here.
Well, it's up for debate. We automate websites on behalf of our users (that is, logged in as them). Which means the site knows at all time who's doing what and can take action in case of abuse.

Also, we see more and more ruling indicating that scraping is in fact legal. Websites can block users according to their ToS but they can't take legal action against them or us. Maybe.

In any case, our platform also provides the tools for anyone to automate any website (make them into an API). That part is just a developer tool.
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> With Python, of course, I don't even think twice about using relatively higher-level concepts (in fact, I don't have a choice), so even as a professional programmer, I've popped one meta-level up in the abstraction stack

But these existed in programming languages before Python's inception, at least back to Lisp in the 60s. And newer languages like Go eschew some of the higher level flexibility of a Python on purpose.

Also, despite the widespread use of languages like Python, JS and Ruby, C/C++ and Java remain just as widely used as ever.
Wow that is amazing looking!

Makes me want to make something like that for Kakoune! Wonder if Oni will ever get to the state where you could write different backends for it; ie emacs, kakoune, etc.
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> I was curious about your use of the word dignified in quotes. Are you just conveying its importance or with this or something else?

Just conveying its importance. Since in a pure accumulator based architecture the accumulator is the only register into which computations can be performed, it often is quite important.

> Is there something about DSP and their workloads that make accumulator based architectures a good fit?

They often do a lot of operations that involve accumulating running totals of long strings of numbers, so the math operations they typically process lend themselves to a predisposition to being designed in this fashion. Beyond that I am unsure of any other reasons beyond guessing at possibilities.

> So are computation limited to the top two positions of the stack then?

Typically the number of stack top elements that are retrieved depend on the instruction being executed. So an add that consumes two inputs would take in the top two stack elements, and return a single sum. But an 'increment' (really just an add where one input is a constant) would only consume one stack element. There is no reason (other than the additional design complexity) that a three or four or five operand input instruction could not be designed, and it would consume its designed number of stack top positions.

> and not arbitrary positions in the stack?

Generally, no, in stack based systems one usually can not address arbitrary positions in the stack. However, there are always exceptions, and many systems have a "roll" operation that rotates the top X stack positions one place (a few provide a way to roll X stack top positions by Y steps), which provides a way to get at data below the top of the stack without loosing the current data that is at the top. With that said, there is probably at least one architecture that allows for specifically addressing particular stack positions without popping/rolling.
No trucks means no food in three days or less for 95% or more of the population.
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No, it's not. "Profits" are after money sent to vendors and employees, who are profiting. Only shareholders are losing in an unprofitable company.
I fortunately do not have that problem, yet. But the autopilot stuff and other weird stuff bitdefender is doing autonomously is exactly why i may ditch it soon. Will probably switch to sophos once it happens.
Quite possibly for sensor fusion. E.g., combine with WiFi triangulation, accelerometer deltas from last fix, etc.

Play Services has a lot of stuff in it because it's easy for Google to upgrade it without going through phone vendors or carriers. It was a way to counteract the effects of many phones being on old versions of Android.
Operating a power plant in the middle of the World's largest ocean, then transmitting the power 4500+ miles (7000+ km) across that ocean would be one of the World's major engineering undertakings, and vastly more expensive than any current method of generating electricity.
Generally in a dream state like that, I find that what you believe & intend will happen will happen whether it makes sense or not. You knew you were dreaming and that the wall was immaterial, but you didn’t accept it in time. That’s one of the basic skills involved in lucid dreaming, really, influencing the dream by thinking “Oh, of course this is what will happen next” without pushing it too hard and waking yourself up (or getting stuck in sleep paralysis, in my case).

If you have nightmares, lucid dreaming techniques can be helpful for overcoming them. People often make stressful dreams worse on themselves by worrying “What if the monster catches up to me?” or “What if my weapon doesn’t do anything to it?”—you’ve got to follow it up with “Nah, I think it’s friendly and I can ride it” or “Of course my attack will work”.
> there are a LOT more meta-levels that tools need to pop up before somebody who doesn't even understand what a linked list is is going to be able to produce software that serves a useful purpose

I can think of lots of useful web applications today built by people with no knowledge of linked lists (or at least, they didn't need any such knowledge for those applications). The entire CMS market seems to exist to enable this.
Things happen. People lose their jobs and according to most banking standards, they expect a 75% occupancy rate when considering rental income.

It only takes one bad tenant who doesn't pay for 3 months over 3 or four years and repair costs to wipe out all of your profit.
Assume there aren't commercial scheduled spaceline flights taking off from nuclear missile silos.
"Pinch your nose, close your mouth, and try to breathe. If you are dreaming, you will be able to inhale and exhale without any conceivable path for the air to flow. Also works if you are underwater."

That has happened to me before! It was more an accident of experimenting around in a lucid dream. I didn't think anything further of it. You're right, though, that it should be a default technique since you can close your mouth and attempt to breath in about any dream situation. Thanks a lot!
That's a good way to only be assigned easy tasks.
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Emacs is a gui editor. It has a shell mode, but it's primarily supposed to be used through the GUI. GUI Emacs is literally everything you described looking for above - an advanced GUI with more features than you could evere learn, yet one that still retains first class focus on keyboard UX.
Sure. And how is "people disagree on a policy issue" and "other people are exploiting that disagreement" incompatible?

In that case (embarassingly obviously) it's the 3rd party's fault, not either of the two disagreeing parties.
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You seem to think that the problem lies only with people being programmed to buy things - the choice of word is probably not helping here a lot - but the real issue here is about the validation loops people experience when on social media.

It's not that someone else is programming you to vote candidate X instead of candidate Y or that now you want to buy brand Z, it's that we are rewiring our brains to follow the short-term feedback loops in how we act within society, i.e. we don't go places anymore because we want to experience something new but to share the simple fact of going somewhere with our networks and getting validated by them. I think that's the bigger issue here.
any/all of Joseph Campbell

Works by Robert Monroe https://www.amazon.com/Robert-A.-Monroe/e/B000AQ8V5A

Works by Dr. Lilly
https://www.amazon.com/Center-Cyclone-Looking-Inner-Space/dp...

Carlos Castanteda (take it with a grain of salt :)
https://www.amazon.com/Carlos-Castaneda/e/B000APXVFG/

D. Scott Rogo's "Leaving Body" is good compilation of various techniques https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Body-D-Scott-Rogo/dp/06717639...
What is less expensive than Amazon?
So basically, I can not reserve engineer what happened without the full details.
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I suspect there are more people who start lifestyle companies than aim for VC-funded companies. But they probably don't get as much press coverage and so seem less common.
Most of the new data landscape is only adopted reluctantly - no shopper was given a choice in this. The fact that consumers feel powerless, and every medium to large business feels they must grab all the data possible, doesn't make it right.

Amazon's high street store is an easy to avoid aside until a Tesco or Walmart tries it.

I hope that GDPR restricts the extent of "all kinds of stuff" that companies wish to do to cctv security footage. I suspect it won't be nearly enough. The trouble with cctv is the consumer/shopper has effectively no way of knowing thus should be quite strictly regulated.
There have been earlier attempts at this, e.g. The Last One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software) They work only to the extent that the generated programs were foreseeable by the software designers.

> You don’t code software in Pega. You design it.

This has to be from a mindset that designing and coding are different jobs done by different people: http://wiki.c2.com/?ArchitectsDontCode
Just realize that idiot that pays for a car he can't afford or spends time addicted to a game or a million other lifestyle traps modern corporations have armies of engineers, lawyers, marketing experts and others working tirelessly to ensnare are in fact what keep the economy running. And you and I employed.
> all he must do to ensure it doesn't hurt anyone is not shoot anyone with it

That assumes his gun will never be stolen, or that an accidental shooting is out of the question. Some stats:

"According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during the four-year period from 2012 to 2015, nearly half a billion dollars worth of guns were stolen from individuals nationwide, amounting to an estimated 1.2 million guns."

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/reports/2...

"From 2006-2016, almost 6,885 people in the U.S. died from unintentional shootings. In 2016 alone, there were 495 incidents of accidental firearm deaths."

https://www.aftermath.com/content/accidental-shooting-deaths...

And those stats only consider deaths. Think about survivable injuries on top of that.

Also, keep in mind that even people who receive some sort of basic firearm safety training typically don't receive training related to how to respond to violent confrontations. The NRA, for instance, offers several Personal Protection courses, but typically you've got to take home firearm safety and shooting courses before you can take a Personal Protection course. The problem is that some people take a firearm safety training course and then think they're fully qualified to act in a violent confrontation. And, unfortunately, that misplaced confidence can put themselves and others in harm's way.
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Good idea. I should preemptively murder anyone who might cause me harm.

I know I am being ridiculous, but you get my point. Evidence based decisions and all that.
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It depends? It's clear that the time chosen is important, it will influence the likelihood that the recipient will go back to your store or not. For example, if they get the notification while on their way to work, they're likely to set it aside because they won't open the shopping cart while driving; you want to "hit them" sometime when they're sitting with their device of choice and would have a spare minute to do the things you want them to do. That time wouldn't be the same for all people.

And the choice to do this properly would depend on your volumes. If you're a small shop, you just pick one time - definitely not 2 AM, but, say, 11:30 AM (so office workers can do their thing in a lunchbreak) or 8 PM when they're likely to be home; it depends on your target audience. If you have a distributed client base, you'd want to take time zones into account. And if you're large enough so that small changes in this result make enough money to worry about it seriously, you might even do some ML to pick the optimal reminder time for each customer; e.g. training a predictor on what factors will influence the 'desired action' chance in a "multi-armed bandit" approach to explore the options initially and then start using the ones that work best. That's obviously overkill for most companies, but for large online retailers that would be a natural choice, it all depends on scale.
Now it might be highly dependant on my age and life events. It shapes my perception of past, present and future. But I'm really not excited by the future tech sale. All I see is waste.
What are you talking about? 90+% of Google's services are online. Apple has a substantial hardware business, so I don't see how you are conflating the two.
As I said elsewhere, the disagreements are real and legitimate. The exploitation of that divide is real, also.
Yes I am aware, however the categorical imperative by itself does not seem to rule out such lying.

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
— Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Well put. Could probably appreciate the genius behind it more if I was not on the short end of that stick.
I actually disagree here. I can't speak to Java, but dealing with JSON in Python is actually pretty tedious compared to Go. For example, with Go, if I have a type `Person struct { Name string, Age int}`, I can pass that to `json.Marshal()` (the Go equivalent of `json.dumps()` in Python) and it will render the expected JSON. In Python, we have to marshal everything explicitly (with a `to_dict()` method or equivalent).

And Go isn't even a particularly good example of JSON handling in statically typed languages; OCaml, for instance, does a much better job.
I don't think fingerprinting in the interesting target here -- it's whether anything derived from somoene's data is part of their data and if so where the boundaries are.

* Can I use differential privacy? Can a user request a correction to such a dataset?

* If I train a ML model on some user data what responsibility do I have with acquisition or deletion?

* Can I anonymize my data-sets?

* How do I handle aggregate statistics?
I think a major point that isn't being talked enough about in public (although I'm sure people in SpaceX have considered it before coming up with numbers) with the "point-to-point" transport system is simple demand-supply economics. Sure, let's say they can run 10 100-person flights per day from New York to Shanghai but do that many people even want to travel that route on that particular day?
You are correct, the relevant passage is here:

> The trio put up $6.6 billion to pay off Toys 'R' Us' shareholders. But it was a leveraged buyout: Only 20 percent came out out of the buyers' pockets. The other 80 percent was borrowed.

I misjudged, I thought all of it was borrowed, just 20% was from the LBO firm.
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haha well I meant only 45% of the population isn't really "the masses"
https://www.finbuckle.com/MultiTenant

Multitenant support for ASP.NET Core 2.0. The previous popular solutions all went out of date with the release of .NET Core 2.0.
Has anyone evaluated this, or similar? It's my understanding that these things can actually lose your portfolio more often than grow it. Happy to be shown otherwise though.
Don't forget that 1) the first world birth rate is below replacement, and 2) your retirement savings will be made worthless by inflation if there is no labor pool to support the economy when you are retired. Parent poster is arguably subsidising your retirement by putting in the work to raise the generation that will produce the goods and services you will wish to consume in your retirement.
I think weak-minded people immediately jump to a straw man attack instead of a legitimate rebuttal.
This explains too how sometimes you see a list of every combination of every "font" in a list and other times you see every font and can configure them.

Likely some confusion around this in the documentation and in programmers who implement these features.
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1. Retirement plans aren't tied to companies necessarily. Usually the company contributes money into a bank account, that you keep after you leave the company.

2. Doesn't really matter as long as the bank with the account is still around. Once you leave the company, they no longer contribute to your retirement account.

(I'm specifically talking about 401k retirement accounts.)
Soundex, by the way, had it's 100th anniversary a few weeks ago - it was patented in 1918.
Wikiwand has had this for years now, and with all the other improvements I still see no reason to not use it.
Oh, I read the docs start to finish, I just can't get the DataURLs to work lol. You seem like you know what you're talking about, so if you wanna take a crack at it... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49934116/404s-on-some-im...
How many people in that area know that 100% of bike thieves are male? I sure don't know such statistics for my area. That's the "data lookup" that's needed - to make decisions based on statistics, you have to know the statistics.
Normal people won't be able to afford this. It will serve a small market of wealthy, willing, healthy people.
You've misrepresented the reasoning. The best practice is: if you're going to tackle a major web UI problem, you should choose an approach that works for mobile (including iPads), which is already about half the traffic to wikipedia and growing. Especially if you are going to invest years of effort.

Calling that reasoning "bizarre" is just being deliberately obtuse.

To wit, some browser vendors have already started recognizing this problem and solving it in a more general, mobile-compatible way.[1][2]

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/04/28/os-x-tips-preview...

[2] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/07/8-cool-ways-you-can-...
I think everyone has a price. Offer me enough and I'll reluctantly optimize advertising click through working with a 20 year old code base written in PHP with no tests and the only comments being the sarcastic rants of the anguished souls crushed before me.
This essay is getting plenty of votes so maybe I am an uncultured yokel, but to me this essay smacks of an inflated sense of self-importance. Lines like "My generation of writers—​and yours, if you are reading this—​lives in the shadow of Auden’s famous attack on the relevance of writing to life, when he wrote that 'poetry makes nothing happen'" and "Only in America do we ask our writers to believe they don’t matter as a condition of writing" and "I know I’ll have a shorter career for being American in this current age, and a shorter life also. And that is by my country’s design. It is the intention." It comes off as one of those essays that is trying to use a veneer of profundity to mask unsupported hyperbole.

Maybe I am being too harsh here...this is just a person who has written something they feel passionate about and that reflects their personal experience. The stories were touching, but what is the takeaway here? Raising awareness that writers and their craft are under attack? Helping writers to feel better about their self-worth? I'm curious to know what about this piece resonated with other readers.