skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the author claims that PE is a scam where PE firms profit at the expense of lenders. If this was true, you could easily check to see how well lenders have done, on average, lending to PE firms. The author has not done this.

You could also look at lawsuits between lenders and PE firms (there have been a few interesting ones, I believe), and see how they've ended up. You could also look at the terms of loan covenants (agreements between lenders and borrowers intended to stop this precise sort of thing), and how their wording has changed during the rise of PE firms, or after high profile PE failures. The author hasn't done this either. You could also look at what sort of rates PE firms pay, or what difficulty they have raising loans, or if PE firms which have failed to repay loans have faced any consequences compared to ones which have not, but...well, you can probably guess.

In short, the author has identified a somewhat interesting topic (is there something systematically wrong with the loans PE firms take out with large lenders, and if so, why is the legal system and/or financial system not dealing with it as you would expect?), but failed to provide any information about any part of it, presumably because research is hard, and writing tweets is easy.

If you know so little about your topic, you're not really going to be able to provide any value when you try and explain it to others.
I'm an academic. As such, I got used to work with Zotero [1], first as a simple reference manager, but over time as a more robust platform to keep track "of things like bookmarks, snippets of code or text", and even associated files.

The why: Zotero is open source, respects privacy, and it allows you to keep a local repository of your things, disconnected from its cloud. And yeah, it also offers you a cloud storage solution if you need it. Plus, I love how it ingrates so seamlessly with my browsing experience.

The how: Zotero works like a three stage tool.

The first stage concerns its browser connector, the plugin that lets you store the references you want to keep. You can think of bookmarks as references too.

The second stage corresponds to the when the work within Zotero itself. Here is where you add your notes, snippets, crosslimks, tags, etc. Since it's your references database, you should invest some time to find a good workflow as to find in the future whatever you need in as little steps possible. It's worth the effort to get used to Zotero's possibilities (you can even manipulate its database directly through sql commands if you're into it).

The third stage is the integration tool that works with your text processor. This step mostly applies to writers only, the folks who really need to keep close attention between what they say and where they took it from. This is where Zotero shines, for it allows you to keep a close tie between the things you actually quote on your text and the works/data you reference in its appropriate section.

In any case, what starts as a simple reference manager can, with some imagination, become a very elegant solution to gather bookmarks, notes, snippets, etc in just one place.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/
I 100% agree with you. My grandparents were farmers, and they could basically fix anything that was broken. My dad is the same. But he is already in the generation where scarcity made way for abundance.

In these times, we are drowning, not starving. It's crazy how much toys my kids have and it keeps coming. They can't even find their fun toys amongst all the junk.

You can buy anything at any given moment, and people keep giving you junk on top of it, because all holidays are now commercialised and you have to give and receive junk from everyone.

For myself, I have both the "maybe I'll need it one day" and "I have too much junk".
Sorry but the rule makes it clear. WKWebView has the same restrictions. No random webpages allowed. Only content from Apple licensed developers.
Maybe they are attacking your sexual conservatism.

Not saying it means that is OK, but the decision is not clear cut either.
JAX supports this; as do other performance-targeting numerical libraries. There are hoops of course.
> And I was told I had to answer 1, 2, or 3! Really?

That just isn't very good. Of course, death is another reason, but there may also be many other reasons they did not consider; they will need to add at least two more options, one for "other reason not listed" and one for "refuse to answer".
there's another app of the same name on the google play store that is wack as frell
might want to look into that
So funny how tech people must have such a detailed recipe for baking with sourdough. It's the same with coffee.

Listen.

Dough is a living organism. You cannot set a timer to it. It must be nursed, especially based on what flour you use, freshness of the flour, the climate, the moisture etc.

If you want to be really good at baking, then bake at least 100 loafs and see what you learn.

Then try to change the flour brand and bake again. Then you will se a different result.

You cannot time food. Get it.
Minimalism is good for a work-place, as it helps you focus; for example clearing a room of all things except a desk, will reduce distractions and cognitive load by constantly seeing clutter... everything in moderation though...
Can we ban these dumb twitter rants please? They're all just examples of "Brandolinis law":

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
A lot of Indian degree courses teach COBOL for exactly this reason.
I think the parent's point is that it's not `f(x) = x + g(x)`, but `f(x) = x + g(c)` for some c. Addition is invertible if one side is constant, no matter how that constant is determined: g can be bijective or constant, it doesn't matter for the invertibility of the addition.
> This isn't even speculative: the current the COVID-19 response in America has required local councils and city boards to coordinate, particularly in the absence of any clear direction at a Federal and frequently State level.

Yes. And so far the local responses have been better, or at least did less damage, than most of the more centralized actions. Like the FDA banning almost all tests.

Here's an article https://reaction.life/why-is-germany-able-to-test-for-corona... exploring aspects of centralization vs decentralization by way of comparing the German and UK responses to the pandemic so far.

The German system has centralized advice and coordination from the Robert Koch institute, but no centralized institution to ban local initiatives.
I am curious how you will deal with this problem: lets say I am at the store using InStock, and then someone takes the last package of chicken. So, I report there is no chicken. Another user approaches and also reports there is no chicken, so there must be no chicken! After we both leave, the stock boy comes and replenishes the chicken.
To be fair, what do you expect a customer to do in case of an emergency of that kind? What would you do?
I am sure an alien race visiting the earth in 2020 would be astonished to see how frenzied human beings are in digging up meteors (the ONLY source of gold outside the Earth's core) but worst of all, why are these humans digging up liquids in Saudi Arabia and transporting them halfway around the world only to bury them in Louisiana?
Misogyny runs strong in incels, but is that a cause or a consequence?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/04/what-d...
I've been stuck in this uncanny valley before, and caused the phenomenon to happen to others too.
This is weird. Though at least it uses grams for all the ingredients and doesn’t use cups or some other horrible measure.
The golden recipe is at the bottom "Percentage of infected persons who were diagnosed while in quarantine". The more infections you detect in that group, the better! These isolation/quarantine measures are way better than lockdowns.
In my experience there are two major factors at play.

(1) No one gets fired for buying IBM. The prestige money pools like Ivy-league endowments invest in leveraged loans. If leveraged loans have a nice run and you haven't invested in them, then you will get fired. You will be fired before the bubble pops. If you make big losses on leveraged loans but the prestige money pools did as well, you will not lose your job. Fads and herding are real things. See, e.g. mortgage market 2000-2007. Jeremy Stein wrote about the career aspect of this mechanism in the 1980s. [1]

(2) Bailouts. People are aware they exist. Credit ratings agencies explicitly factor the likelihood of a bailout into credit ratings [2]. Creditors know they can hold a government hostage by threating to force a critical industry/company into bankruptcy. Sometimes they explicitly frame it as "bail me out or I put X critical company in bankruptcy" [3].

Also, please read about the leverage ratchet effect [4].

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/stein/publications/herd-behavior...

[2]https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?doci...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-16-mn-12864...

[4] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
Thank you, I added it in the website list at the end of the guide.
That is true. It is sometimes annoying that English speakers so often never tries to learn a new language and just expects everyone else to use theirs.

However, one could view it as the only common language between you and someone else and use it for that reason. In my mind the one that know more languages are able to more easily communicate with more people more accurately, and as such have a leg up on teaching and learning from others. These ideas might be able to travel faster since they can travel by English and Japanese. Though maybe that is just wishful thinking from my side.
For something easy and delicious, try the below - half the recipe though, as it makes masses.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/20...
That's only a 31d supply. ..
Disposable People: Coronavirus and the Lifestyles of the PMC
Analyze hops taken by an email to reach you
While the majority doubt the lone gunman narrative, I don't think there is any majority consensus beyond that. People have loads of different theories, different ideas for who the perpetrators were or what their motivations might have been. It's easy to say that something should be done, but actually getting that something done is another matter.
Modern C and C++: How Conan integration works in Gitlab
That's not entirely true, a lot of people have migrated across to, for example, Microfocus COBOL, which runs on Linux and Windows.
Keep in mind that exercise seems to have a different and separate effect from eg cutting down the number of hours spend sitting around each week.
Normal cells also use RNA during protein synthesis. Why doesn't remdesivir disrupt that too and kills healthy cells?
An hour a week of heavy (for the lifter’s current capability) deadlifting or squatting in three 20 minute sessions will definitely get serious results with good programming. One will see increases in muscle mass, bone density, and improved cardiovascular health from just that. Granted it would be beneficial to do more, but point is even an hour a week can be an effective training stimulus.
So who’s making a tunnel on Zoom calls then?

A network interface with WireGuard behind a fake camera interface on a relay node?
When it is based on multiple external funding rounds to remain cash positive while aiming at profitability in the future.
They came to my computer science course to pitch that challenge. I got as far as logging in to the mainframe and doing the first task before I stopped and thought “wtf am I doing? Why am I wasting time on this!”

Despite this story and others, still think I made the right call for me!
The minimum of 30 minutes is for lower intensity exercise. Like taking a walk.

You can get pretty fit on two to three hours of barbell exercises a week like you describe. But it still helps to add a walk about every day to stay sane.

And lowering the amount of time spent sitting on your butt seems to have a separate and independent effect from exercise.
Mine are 3.5 years old. I use them daily during all working hours and sometimes weekends.

The only thing that went thus far were the leather cups (twice) that are fortunately easily replaced. OEM are $$$, while after market alternatives I found to be just as good and are only $.

My battery is still strong. Probably around 10-12 hours of use.
That's quite irrelevant to the top poster's opening point and my response to it.
You should, and also improve on the strategy (see my pseudocode)

if (item == "tp") {
print("nope");
} else if (item == "hand sanitizer") {
print("nope");
} else if (item == "chicken") {
print("nope");
} else {
print("maybe");
}
Like the story about the SR-71 Blackbird asking for a speed check, I will never not read the FOOF article again when somebody posts the link.

(https://tribunist.com/technology/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-troll...)
Thank you, that is interesting; he's wealthy enough and technically capable enough to make that all go a lot easier. (I guessed from going back to check on the process ID on his laptop that you must have had his laptop, and didn't know you could do that with just headers).
> If this really is a widespread manufacturing fault we'd see them forced to act elsewhere.

Pretty much every Apple product is far more popular and has a higher public profile than any one Bose product. It's entirely plausible that Bose gets away with not fixing flaws because the products and their flaws simply don't get enough attention.
Don't worry. Instrumentation is a pain for publishing because often it creeps into engineering territory. I spent a year of my PhD trying to get something to work, it didn't and I ended up building an entirely new instrument in the third year. That's how it goes. I know people who came out of their PhDs with five papers (in the UK that's a big deal), but they're in fields where its relatively easy to publish and/or got lucky with their topic. Or you work with someone with a funky new dataset that breeds publications.

I think most instrumentation scientists are sympathetic to this. There are also lots of instrumentation jobs that don't require stupid numbers of publications because it's not practical to find candidates. There are relatively few good hardware people in the sciences (especially fields where you can't get a mech/electrical engineer).

I suggest finding some conferences to start. They're a good venue for telling people what you did. There are also journals specifically for building stuff, SPIE has a lot for astrophysics, for example.
128GB solid state drive, you likely mean.

Exactly how much space do you think college kids need to browse Facebook+reddit, anyway?
Nice to see excalidraw.com used for the illustrations!
I intend to use this setup, modified a bit, it's pretty much just what I was looking for: a very modular static generation tool that still uses a language I can read easily before generation, even if it isn't a 100% standard/stock language.

I was running into issues where some feature idea I had (ex: a way to expire an article based on some "code", like a function to check if Debian 10 is EOL yet in an article on how to install Debian 10) wouldn't be supported by my static generator, so I wanted to write my own or fork it, but instead I can just write modules for metalsmith or markdown-it for different features I need, it's perfect.
Isn’t this what audit logs are for? You make disabling a follow up require a written statement & sign off from direct manager. Automated systems detect abnormalities for middle management to look in to.
If yo want to run for the long term, I'd suggest barefoot jogging.

That'll teach you proper form for protecting your joints very quickly. And human bodies are literally made to jog longish distances barefoot.

I also like deadlifts. They are great as well.

As a rule of thumb, I guess, any amount of lifting you can do with only investing a few hours a week at most (and no steroids) is probably not enough to destroy your body.
Thanks for pointing out. I thought the false claim of E2EE was exactly the reason. I got the false (?) info from my neighbor working for a large AT provider. They are making money exactly with such regulational requirements, so I am really puzzled on the actual state of affairs.
The Sony's have +5db of exaggerated bass that cannot be EQ'd out on the headphones when using LDAC. Without EQ, I find them completely unlistenable for jazz or classical music. I kept them as I only use them with one device (so EQ is practical) and the NC is very good.
For a decent take in support of the publication, see this recent philosophy of mathematics paper:

https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmzibf/rpp.pdf
> The reason I compare it to construction is that at some point, pursing lifting to a high degrees involves putting in the amount of repetitions that amounts to a job with high statistical injury rate.

Why? You can increase the weight, and keep the repetitions constant.
The comments that keep on giving :D
I went to Sony's and then started working from home, but still got AirPods Pro. Haven't used Sony's for months.
How exactly? Versus something like CSI, Jurassic Park got a lot of things right. The computers used were real SGI SPARCStations and they had a bunch of Thinking Machines CM-5s for gene sequencing in the background shots. I believe all of the on-screen shots were done with real Irix software (including the scene where they locked the doors, which was done using a real IRIX file manager called "fsn").

Sure it was given the Hollywood treatment, but it'd be pretty boring if they didn't.
Dependency Injection in Go Using Fx
A Figshare Covid-19 Research Publishing Portal
I had been using Pencil on Linux. But lately I have been using Figma on Windows. I like the interactivity aspect of Figma where I could build an interactive demo real quickly to showcase an idea
Thanks for making the guide. For me Clojure is also not my primary language. As you write: It made me learn a lot, and changed how I program in other languages. There is a subtle beauty in Clojure.
What do you do when things like appliances break? Are you off grid? Do you get amazon deliveries? I'm curious how off grid are you if you don't mind sharing.
It's a kind of hack on modern sanitation systems. It makes you realize that everyone is (literally!) leaking all sorts of information about what's in their bodies. You just need to know where to pick up that treasure trove of information. It tickles the hacker fantasies!
I gave that a lot of thought lately. Not that I wanted to, but being a one-man bootstrapped startup kind of let to it.

And with all the stories coming out of Berlin's scene, and to a lesser degree Munich's, I came to the conclusion: "lifestyle businesses" businesses without external funding are hard. They are traditional small companies, the have to rely on positive cash flow, profitability and banks to keep running. Quite tough, especially if the founder and employees have to actually live from the profits.

Startups on the other hand, they life of VC money. As long as the founding team can sell their vision to VCs to get more VC money, they run just fine. So the founders can live the startup life with other people's money. Sounds more like lifestyle businesses to me.
That's weird, because I use comma every time I type something in my shell (on Windows, not cmd.exe, but FAR). Why? In order to make sure that builtin ",time" is called, not "time.exe", because FAR Manager would try to run the executable under the PATH, instead of the command.
U.S. coronavirus supply spree sparks outrage among allies
Turnhalle is still the common name for school gyms.
I don't want to use 27 apps for different bullshit transformations of content, I want the content in the correct format so it's easy to read the first time.
Markdown has been a godsend.

It’s just what I wanted. Something text based, where I can sorta control some formatting, but isn’t tag heavy like HTML.

I just need it to format a few things, to make it easier for myself to consume later.

The most useful for me is actually the syntax highlighted code blocks.

I use it mostly for brain storming, planning, and scratch work.
Author here:

I recently gave a talk at work to show why Clojure is a good fit and show some of the possibilities and its ecosystem.

People got interested and wanted to try stuff but were overwhelmed with what to choose (lein, deps, boot) which editor to use, what's a REPL, why should I use one, how to use it (from the IDE) and some other stuff like where to learn Clojure.

So I decided to write an introduction regarding all that (covering IntelliJ & VSCode since it's the tooling people use at work). Don't hesitate to give feedback as this surely can be improved.

Note: it doesn't cover ClojureScript but I would be glad to cover it in the same manner in another post.
Yeah. Cross-fit is a franchise system, and they don't have much centralized QC. So it's very hit and miss.
That's a point that keeps coming back in minimalist and travel communities.

People brag about how little they own, and it looks perfect until you ask about the logistics of it. You quickly find out that their minimalist existence is often propped by cheap third-world labour, or by a complete lack of financial planning. They don't own any of the tooks they need to fend for themselves.

In a sense, their lifestyle is only possible as other people are there to support it. Someone else has to provide the tools, and usually the expertise.
Looks great! Thanks
Exactly this :(
Why not just write the damn content into a real article?
I had to replace the ear cushion 6 month ago, and I couldn't find Bose's original replacement parts. I noticed the ANR perfs dropped a little bit after the replacement - something similar to what they described in the article.

Is Bose selling original ear cushions somewhere ?
And that's why most American programmers hate H1B. It's not about filling jobs that we don't have the skill for, it's about filling jobs that companies don't want to spend money on. Offer a half mil a year, and watch how many qualified Americans come out of the woodwork.
Bitcoin Outperforms Largely Wall Street, and Even Gold Since One Year
Change Your Password to a Pin, Says Microsoft
Yeah I have a friend who works for a small company (although not a startup) that provides essential services to the government, we think he's as safe as anyone.