skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree they "Vultures" were the suckers in this case.

Although I was initially inclined to agree with the tone of the article, just the numbers in the article itself disproved it's main thesis.

Near the end:
> "Bain, KKR, and Vornado will have to write off their investment, of course. But they did suck around $200 million in fees out of Toys 'R' Us over the course of their ownership."

Near the beginning:
>"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."

Net, using these numbers, is that the buyers put in $1320 million and took out $200 million, a net loss of $1.12 billion dollars. This doesn't mention the $5Billion lost by the other investors (minus whatever interim payments were made).

The board and shareholders did well to get out when they did, and I'd hypothesize that the employees, while still losing jobs, had the jobs with the buyout for years longer than they otherwise would have.
If you're trying to replace the software developers that take fully-fleshed-out work items (including a complete pseudocode description of business logic, edge cases, failure modes, acceptable data ranges...), then you might have some success. But then you've only managed to replace the lowliest of developers.

Even in my experience as an enterprise developer, I've yet to come across anyone that didn't bring some amount of independent thought to the process. And, due to the nature of our work, almost all of us learn to question assumptions, hone definitions of behavior, ponder possible failure scenarios, and just in general ask the "what if?" questions that will bite us if left undiscovered. Our ability to translate that into a standard machine-readable language is really a small fraction of the value we contribute. Yes, it is a barrier to entry—and it's seen as akin to voodoo by some non-technical types—but replacing it with something with a "friendlier" interface doesn't shrink the problem domain in the slightest.
Define "regular computer user." What are you doing with these machines that comes close to using all of the cores?
Ah yes, vice.com, the premier outlet for reporting top-notch research
Depends on how many. Flying airplanes is around 1-2% of our total CO2 footprint. Of course, for an individual, doing 1 intercontinental flight with a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a car to work every day, but in total, not many people fly.

Depending on the efficiency of the rocket and the reduced number of people doing this, the numbers shouldn't be that much higher.
`request` itself isn't an awaitable, whereas the `data` property and `get_json` method both return awaitables (https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart/blob/master/quart/wrappers/...). I think these are probably things that become second nature through usage.

The routes don't have to be async as Quart will wrap them in a coroutine anyway. However I'm not sure there is any advantage to not adding the async keyword.

Thanks, I need to learn how pipenv works.
If it was true that we can't predict the future well enough to provide a fixed income, then annuities wouldn't be a thing. We are certainly capable of predicting the future well enough to do it, the problem is that current management often has an incentive to be too optimistic about future returns when deciding how much to fund a pension. Annuity companies don't have those rose colored glasses, so they do a better job.
from my POV spreadsheets are code (there's a formula language after all), just laid out differently and with a very different IDE.
This is good advice, IMO. You will have to use left/right joins at some point, and having the join type at the join location is useful, but having the join conditions at the join location is immensely useful.

It's harder to see in your example, likely because you tried to keep it similar to the example presented, but once there's more than a couple joins, having the join conditions close to the join is essential for keeping track of what's going on. e.g.

SELECT * FROM person, team, role, group, person AS lead
WHERE person.team_id=team.id
AND person.role_id=role.id
AND person.group_id=group.id
AND group.lead_id=lead.id

Compared to:

SELECT * from person
INNER JOIN team ON person.team.id=team.id
INNER JOIN role ON person.role_id=role.id
INNER JOIN group ON person.group_id=group.id
INNER JOIN person AS lead ON group.lead_id=lead.id

And let's be clear, we know these should be left joins, because the chance some person doesn't have a team, role, group, or a group ends up without a lead is high when sampled over time. And simulating left joins with the non-ANSI joins quickly gets unwieldy.
I can't view the page in incognito. It worked just fine with JS disabled, while in incognito, though.
SmugMug has acquired Flickr
Man check out my Geocities site!
But domain experts can handle complexity just fine, especially given right tools to help with domain driven design/DSL , abstracting, versioning, parameterizing, information hiding, reuse, modularity, and getting help from software engineers when needed).

And since there are easy to use examples of each of those in various categories, it's not impossible to imagine some tool will tie all of them together.
It doesn’t seem like there is a valid complaint other than ‘I don’t like it’. Shazam is not a monopoly (SoundHound is a solid competitor) and neither is Apple or Apple Music.
I agree that I should've framed my post better and I appreciate that feedback.

I do understand that iTunes is dealing with a long history of development, and that it has to support lots of use cases that probably explain a lot of the rough edges — I even allude to that in my post.

It's amazing that I can still use my decade-old iPod Shuffle with iTunes at all -- that must be a lot of work. But so much has changed since then, and iTunes as an Apple Music client is a genuinely frustrating experience.

I don't expect software to be perfect. But I want iTunes to be better than it is. I'm paying $10/mo for Apple Music, which actually has an incredible library and editorial playlists... they're just nearly impossible to find.

I'd love to have an amazing Apple Music experience that doesn't also need to manage podcasts, TV shows, audiobooks, and almost 2 decades of music players.
Red Hat and Google got into their advantageous positions by building their businesses on top of Linux in the first place, back when people were saying it would never compete with Microsoft or big-iron Unix.
An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning
I am not sure whether or not some have been deleted. When I made the edit earlier I noticed quite a few (some top level, but many secondary). I also usually find discourse on HN really a step above so many other sites I frequent! That's why it's been so disappointing to notice a rise in that kind of behavior for me lately (at least based off of my perception, of course).
Yes that would be a nice profit, but to hope that your house price wil double in 5 years is pure speculation. True, you'll have a nice leverage, but when speculating the leverage goes both ways; if your house price drops 50% you'll see the other side of the leverage.

The article is not about short term speculation, it is about long term expected returns. Which tend to follow the inflation and the interest rate.
I feel like this is some dystopian alternate reality post. It took 4 years to release a hover popup! Take that in for a second. And the post seems extremely proud, and self-congratulatory about it.

From the post:
> Our initial version wasn’t good enough. Our community asked us not to go ahead with it. We answered by listening to them and making it better.

This was 2 years ago, and read the comments on the 39 votes it took to not release Hovercards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28prop...

This meant that the silent majority didn't get these features for 2 years because some considered it 'intrusive'. A feature that you could objectively argue as being a useful utility.

If anything, I think this is an indictment of the complaints against Wikipedia from those observing it and ex-employees. While a benevolent dictatorship might be going too far, such a community process where only the loudest voice wins (over considering what is best for MOST of the users), is surely a broken process. I am surprised that product & design people work there at all in such an environment.
What Repubs and Dems Can Learn from “The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight”
Not too huge. This person[1] did some math and found that a BFR trip across the world should take 40% to 240% as much carbon as a regular plane flight. For short trips this would be worse, though, because a plane's range goes up almost linearly with fuel use while a rocket's goes up much faster than linearly.

Rockets that use solid boosters like the Space Shuttle, SLS, or Atlas V do a good amount of ozone damage as they go up but the ozone damage from cryogenic propellants of the sort that a BFR uses is pretty small.

[1]https://www.quora.com/Elon-Musk-suggested-that-the-SpaceX-BF...
Could just be IP geolocation
You insist that the plan wasn't stupid, but the plan was to initially market to ultra-wealthy celebrities who want to pinch pennies on juice sold at gyms or juice shops?
They generally aren't, as far as I can tell?

SRI (no changing content for a specific user) + crossorigin ('The "anonymous" keyword means that there will be no exchange of user credentials via cookies, client-side SSL certificates or HTTP authentication'), no referrers via meta tag or header.

The other end gets your IP and browser UA, with nothing else. It is pretty low on the totem pole of worry.
Never heard of it, but looks interesting - thanks for sharing. I probably should've been more clear that after decades of curating my MP3 collection, I've moved towards streaming and rarely dig deep into my library for the ripped tracks that aren't available to stream.
Or, neither? There are alternate benign interpretations which admittedly are very non-dramatic and boring. I've found that people are most often neither malicious nor stupid.
Can’t open the page either. I guess that happens to code free programming
It's a useful skill, but not a good career move. Early in my career, I used to fix bugs in a mainframe operating system. When I took a new job, I was given two stacks of paper crash dumps, each six feet high. I had to figure out what had caused each crash with paper and pencil, then fix the assembly code. It took me about a year to get the mean time to failure of the OS from a day to a month.

Often, you can't find the problem, but you can find a point where checking code will trap the problem earlier. Slowly, crash by crash, you work backwards to the source of the problem. Eventually you can find the root cause.

I got out of that after a few years and into the more theoretical end of computing, including proof of correctness. It was useful, though, to learn what makes software unreliable from the bottom.

(This is part of why I'm so down on unsafe code in Rust. Rust has a good safety system. There are people with an attitude that "I'm so l33t I don't need the checking." They're not. They may create something which imposes a safety constraint on the caller, and later, someone else violates that constraint and creates a memory corruption bug. They write code which has an implicit undocumented invariant which is violated when someone else makes a later change. Those are bugs waiting to happen.)
tl;dr:

> While everyone seems aware of a handful of high-profile millionaires decamping to low-tax states for tax reasons, in truth few move in response to state tax rates. Young examined tax data from every millionaire in the United States over thirteen years. He found that, even over that long time horizon, only 0.3% of all millionaires, on net, moved to a lower tax state. A larger share—about 2.5 percent-- move from one state to another each year, but most do not migrate for tax reasons. [...]

> While blue states are changing tax policy [SALT deduction workarounds] in response to what is largely a myth, red states seem blind to the very real consequences of their tax and spending policies. There, years of tax cuts (often tilted toward higher-income households), along with balanced budget requirements, have created funding crises in their education systems. Red state budgets tend to be very regressive – giving benefits to the already well off at the expense of others, especially the poor. But as Young points out, “cutting funding for education to finance tax cuts for the wealthy is a classic intergenerational transfer from the young to the old.” As such, the policies ignore who really is mobile across state lines: young people, who are leaving red states in droves: "The most mobile people in the country are young college graduates – who have annual cross-state migration rates four times as high as millionaires (12 percent versus 2.5 percent)."
Anybody who has ever forgotten your child's friend's birthday laments the loss of Toys R Us. Upon the closure announcement, I immediately added Picolo Mondo to Waze.
Have you seen http://interfacelift.com/ ?
I never had much exposure to nazis and other scum on the open web. It’s behavior not tolerated on a place like HN, and I don’t frequent places that welcome that conduct.

Facebook is a machine designed to generate reaction. I deactivated a long time ago, one of my catalysts for moving was when the platform kept trying to keep me away from things I cared about and towards things that would trigger the most base/id reaction.

Thanksgiving Dinner isn’t about trolling your drunk uncle.
Sanic is Flask-like, whereas Quart is the Flask-API (some Flask extensions work with Quart https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/flask_extensions.html#suppor...).

The key part I wanted to highlight here though is that Quart serves HTTP/2, which I think sets it apart from most of the other Python frameworks. (I know Twisted also does this https://medium.com/python-pandemonium/how-to-serve-http-2-us...)
This is everything you need to know about front end development in one comment
How does one go from online marketing to an engineer at a big data company, earning $180,000 a year?
Was he just that good at marketing himself?
Is that 4% before or after inflation? A 4% real return (aka 7% if inflation is 3%) already requires quite risky investments.
The New Alternative to Traditional Detergents That Will Save You
I think the intended implication is that it's accessible to individual researchers that don't work at Facebook/Brain/DeepMind with gigantic clusters (and the engineers able to maintain those clusters). Unfortunately deep learning is still expensive, but many areas of science are (most biology research, high energy physics, etc.). That's why we have grants.
These “virtual” terminals of course are also emulations of the original hardware terminals.
Well they planned on location arbitrage, non-employer health insurance makes the US pretty expensive.
Okay, but the US doesn't have a nationwide health system and probably never will. So how do we fix the medical record access issue?

Saying "solve it with regulation" is no more helpful than saying "solve it with blockchain". A working solution is better than something "better" that is theoretical.
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Sure, but the fuller picture is more like this.

Nearly every major industrialized nation's infrastructure was bombed to hell after WW2, except America. To the victor went the spoils, and so our economy boomed to a much much greater degree than it would have otherwise.

This lasted for a generation or two, and certain aspects of that capitalist feeding frenzy were enshrined as cultural values.

The idea that there was a social contract between employers and employees, and that an average hard working American wouldn't be tossed out on the street if they got sick, would have a house to live in and would not have to toil in their old age, was baked into America. If you work hard and you're loyal, you'll be ok.

However, where that was seen as a Governmental function after the Great Depression, in the boom years after WW2, the economy was simply flooded with money.

When there's that much money and opportunity around, it's easy to start thinking that the Government was the problem. That the social contract would always remain, and that we could trust our bosses who we knew and worked with every day far more than some politically motivated government bureaucrat.

Corporations bought the politicians. Then the politicians passed laws to make the bribery legal. Then slowly those post WW2 culturally enshrined easy answers became law.

Now we have people seriously talking about "trickle down" economics as if it were a real thing. Because it was kinda like that in the 50's when we were the only major industrial powerhouse in the world.

Now we've privatized nearly our entire healthcare system, because in the 50's hell, going to the doctor was cheap and how could that be anyone's problem but yours?

And now we have no retirement plans other than "we will let you put some of your own money into the stock market tax free, but hey if the market tanks you're on your own bruh! (even though you had zippy control over that)"

Again, because maybe that would have made sense in the 50's and 60's, and god knows if anything might have seemed true in that era it must be the word of God himself.

The problem of course, is that now that the winning team picks the referees, there's pretty much no way out of this. The government SHOULD be providing healthcare, and decent retirement so that business doesn't have this burden.

But then it'd be too easy to start new businesses. The referees picked by the last winning team aren't too keen on that.
Due to the superposition of the translational flow on the circulation, the airflow does not wrap around the wing, but the circulation is nonetheless there:

http://www.onemetre.net/Design/Downwash/Circul/Circul.htm

http://www.onemetre.net/Design/Downwash/LiftLine/Liftline.ht...

"Circulation is conserved, like energy or momentum. The circulation around a wing cannot simply appear by itself. A circulation vortex must be a closed system, and the two ends of the circulation must meet up. For some time, this seemed just a theoretical issue, but careful investigation demonstrated how this happens. As the wing moves forward, it sheds a "starting" vortex, equal to but opposite in circulation to the wing vortex, called the "bound" vortex, bound as it is to the wing. As the wing moves forward, tip vortices develop, with the result that a "closed" vortex loop develops. If we think about an aircraft taking off, it leaves its starting vortex at the beginning of the runway, and the tip vortices then build up down the length of the runway and into the air as the aircraft climbs. For a large aircraft, these vortices take several minutes to dissipate.

See also my other reply to your earlier post, and its bathtub experiment.
> cuDNN/NVIDIA GPUs, which exclude a large amount of desktops with AMD graphics

And whose fault is that?
Also, it seemed that the couple were willing to move to a lower cost of living location/country so their safe withdrawal rate would take them further. I don't think children were factored into the base equation, although it's entirely possible one or both of them could work part-time to augment income during child-rearing years.
Most shoppinglist apps we tried when we were selecting our app had barcode scanning but we never used it, it is far faster to just type twi chars and select the too thing. Or just go thru the list of most used items.
I like the open source nature of gitlab, and its feature set. There is a mirror on github as well, mostly as people tend to look on github first.
"Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same reason that only children read books with only pictures in them. Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks."

-- Bill Garrett
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Do you consider ads on cable TV to be spam? Likely not.

Like them or don't, but the ads on FB are not spam because they are not unsolicited and are targeted.
How Cloudability boosted performance, and lowered costs with Aurora
They're both a basic TODO list with a fancy commercial name.
It probably depends on whether you're focusing on the pleasures or consequences. Which probably correlates with your social/political bent. Since it seems to be conservatives who complain most frequently about the environment of college campuses, the frame of the discussion might be directed to conservatives, who are more likely to focus on the consequences and find that a positive note.

And yes, we're better as a society at statistically mitigating the some of the consequences of intercourse, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, and that younger & unmarried folks are probably less prepared to deal with them, so there's a reasonable (although limited) general argument that less pre-marital sex among late adolescents is a turn towards more responsible or at least age-appropriate behavior.

There are other reasonable approaches to the topic as well.
That's ridiculous. If a normal shopper walked into a store and had surveillance on him/her (I don't mean the normal security cameras here - I'm talking about in depth surveillance, the in-person equivalent of a website tracker), I am sure them same stores would go out of business fast.

The point here is that they do it just because the snooping is invisible. And that irks me.
Yes, the table stays flat. However the room above it is reduced. The seat can easily crush a laptop screen.
Server Administration. Nobody thinks you need to have the skills of how to administer a Linux machine, until you do. In one example, understanding how to strace a deadlocked series of microservices saved a month or so of "add logging" cycles.

Database Administration. Another "you don't need it until you do" skill. Being able to track down the cause of a CPU bottleneck to a poor DB config saved the company the operational cost of 4 additional DB servers, not to mention the development cost of utilizing read replicas and write masters in the same code.

Re-emphesizing one mentioned previously: Writing. English is a fairly imprecise language and your processing nodes are way more flaky, but both can be worked around; need to be worked around on an almost daily basis.
Would it? Has "control costs" ever worked out as a viable long term strategy in a business that is rapidly losing market share to a sea-change in competitors?
S&P500 90 year average is 9.8%. people FIREing typically have nearly all their money invested in low cost index funds.
You're not wrong but which will be easier in the US: solving the political problem with a technical solution or the technical problem with a political solution?

Until one wins, why is it a problem to try to solve the problem one way but not the other?
If you want a cheaper and more portable solution, have a look at Picoscope (UK). Don't believe the guff about USB scopes being garbage. These things have plenty of bandwidth and it's really nice being able to carry around a scope in your pocket.

Unless you do a lot of high speed IO, 25MHz covers pretty much everything (most 8-bit Micros top out at 20MHz, some go to 48-50MHz). Even the 10MHz version is fine if you were just doing audio work or slower digital stuff.

For £300 you could get a 50MHz 2 channel scope (at 0.5Gs/s). If you want 4 channels you're not going to beat the Rigol for price, but portability matters sometimes (other times being able to monitor every SPI line simultaneously is a godsend). I have a Rigol DS1104Z and a Picoscope 2205A, I've used both extensively.

Plus you get a lot of nice features in the software (which is cross platform), including serial decoding for free. Most of them have a signal generator built in too.