skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chapter 11 usually happens when a company has a level of debt that was issued at a certain valuation or time in their business performance. And then for whatever reason, the company has poor performance and the debt level no longer makes sense. Good example is oil and gas companies that raised debt when oil was $100, and now have to operate in a ~$50 oil world. Their operating cash flow has decreased a ton (>50% due to fixed costs), and it's unclear on whether they can make interest payments (and probably can not repay their principal).

The equity will clearly not make any money and the business does worse in the long-run which presents more risk for more junior creditors (the company can not re-invest in growth, business contracts are more onerous as you have credit risk, low morale w/ employees, etc.).[1]

But Chapter 11 is not something a company can do at anytime. You have to prove that the restructuring of the equity and debt makes sense to either (1) your shareholders and creditors or, if that fails, (2) a judge.

Additionally, employees and the board will have equity that will get cancelled or receive pennies. So if it's marginal on whether there could be equity value someday, the company is not going to do it. On the flipside, it's pretty frustrating if you can't issue stock options that will have value someday.

Overall Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a great thing for business... it allows companies to breathe again and re-invest in growth. As far as cons...obviously the equity investors and maybe some of the creditors lose a call option on their investment (not worth anything today, but could be in the future). But that call option may be compensated for in the restructuring agreement. But the biggest con IMO is that Chapter 11 is expensive, and usually bankers / lawyers make outrageous fees here.

That was a lot and sorta of scattered. But if you see "Chapter 11" bankruptcy you shouldn't always think "this business sucks" or "this business doesn't make a profit," but should put more blame on a financier somewhere who created a capital structure that wasn't sustainable.

[1] The company may also have upcoming maturities in more junior debt, and the more senior creditors don't want them to pay the principal. Liquidation preference is a good search term if you're interested in this.

Edit: Also worth noting that creditors don't always take a 0. Sometimes their debt is reinstated, sometimes they receive equity for their debt, and sometimes they receive pennies just to get them to agree (cheaper and faster for everyone to agree than to have a judge decide). All depends on the valuation of the business and where their debt sits.
Ask HN: Tips for Submitting a Responsible Disclosure
I stumbled across a pretty big security vulnerability in a restaurant's online ordering platform the other day, but the company that built the platform doesn't really have much in the way of a public presence (no social media, just a single phone number and generic email on their website), and it definitely doesn't have a dedicated security contact.

I reached out to them at their generic support@ email and am still waiting to hear back, but that got me wondering if anyone has any good tips for submitting responsible disclosures? Especially tips for submitting disclosures to small companies that might not be used to receiving or dealing with them.
Listed Crypto Miner Argo Blockchain Now Pays CEO in Bitcoin
At some point it will fail because of its technical failures though. The people buying it assume that Bitcoin as it is, is already perfect and never has to change when that is far from the truth.
But the amount of USD you get varies by BAT-USD exchange rate, e.g. you actually get paid in BAT, correct?

I must admit that I find this business model genius: replace website ads with your ads, pocket the revenue, and "pay" users in a self-issued cryptocurrency. Stealing ad revenue from websites while simultaneously doing an ICO.
I've always wanted an online podcatcher. Sure you can do this in an RSS reader, but I'd rather save those for blogs.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are both legacy blockchains.

There are many contenders. XTZ and ADA are both technologically far beyond what BTC or ETH can ever be.
Not like electron at all. It compiles down to a native binary for the OS.
>Why hold yourself to a higher standard than you hold the animals you refrain from eating?

For some, morality isn't fungible or based on the morality or others (animal or human). If someone is a thief and willing to rob you, does that mean its okay for you to steal from them? It seems reasonable to me to hold a personal code of ethics and standards that isn't dependent (or at all related) to the ethics and standards of others (if any).
Not all groups, but corporations are groups with

* hierarchy

* competition between people in the same tier of the hierarchy

* opposing incentives throughout the hierarchy (company aims to maximize employee labor and minimize employee compensation and; employees minimize their labor and maximize their compensation)

Left alone, this results in a lot of the stupidity, and that's why "building culture" is so important - a good company culture transcends this perverse base nature.
Secondly, I obfuscated the example a little for the startup's privacy.

They weren't booking something, they were cancelling something, and yes there wasn't an API.
The person running that website and making these demands is not in the field. If you want to get a glimpse of a bizarre alternate reality, just take a look at the other articles on that website or scroll through his Twitter feed.

Virology is not my field, but I understand enough to follow the papers I linked to above. They describe the isolation of live/active virus from patient samples. There is active research with cultured SARS-CoV-2 virus in BSL-3 labs around the world. It's just bizarre that there are people who believe the virus doesn't exist, or that it doesn't cause CoVID-19.
There's not really any such thing as "free trade". All purported "free trade" has conditions attached, whether you see them or not. A government's ability to enforce regulations on its companies (be it over consumer protection, safety, workers rights, standards compliance...) is undermined if companies from another country can "free trade" across the border while not themselves being beholden to any of those restrictions.

Therefore any such "free trade" agreement has limits and usually involves some sort of harmonization of standards.
Disclosure: I'm on the Flutter team.

According to AppAnnie, most of these are using Flutter on iOS too: WeChat, Alibaba, Grab, Nubank, Sonos all show up on their list of Flutter-powered apps on the Apple appstore. We don't capture analytics on apps, so our sources here are external sites like AppAnnie (or occasionally, direct connections with the development team).
Add to that:

- simplescraper.io

- browserless.io

- include.ai

- apify

- browseai

In a way I suppose the high number of players in the market is validation.
I learned all my early MS sysadmin skills on a homelab made up of eBay HP servers/Cisco switches and pirated w2k/sbs2003. It allowed it to gain MCSA and get onto the operations career ladder where my employer had legit licenses.

I would bet good money the same applies to graphics people and Photoshop.
Criteria used by the state are examined by an impartial judge, publically, and must be proven beyong reasonable doubt.

Criteria used by ICANN are unaccountable, capricious and prone to abuse of power

The argument is about due process.
That can’t stay that way, at least not in real terms (taking inflation into account)
They changed it so as to invalidate old cracks. Whether or not it was harder is up for debate.

There were certainly better ways to do DRM at the time (even now) that Adobe was well within their monetary limits and interests pursuing. But of course, it was still cracked.

Also, for a hundred buck fee and some TPB/Demonoid credit, it's almost always worth it to a cracker to go after a flagship product.

There's also the running theory that Adobe was the one to release some of the cracks, namely because new releases of the Creative Suite back when it was new would be cracked nearly "instantly".

It's speculation, but the above theory would make a lot of sense - and, in my opinion, that's exactly what ended up happening, and what made Photoshop the industry leader over a pretty decent selection of alternatives at the time (though admittedly PS had already mostly established itself at the time anyway, but it could have probably been swayed).
> I think science might be underestimating just how stupid human children are.

Human children are stupid by design (well, evolution). Language, culture, and technology are overtaking genetics as the more effective information transfer mechanism. As we shed our instincts to make room for learning, human children will be born more and more stupid over time. It's a trade-off: At the same time, human adults will have greater capacity for smarts. It is the increasing stupidity at birth which enables us to learn so much into adulthood.

Animals without developed language haven't been able to afford this progress. They are smarter than human children from birth, but are unable to learn as much. So while your dog outperforms a human child at waiting outside the store, it will never have the capacity for art, mathematics, nor engineering, no matter how hard you train it. Humans on the other hand, can be trained quite a bit.
The IRS themselves need to provide this "auto tax" service.
It's not quite that simple. There's a lot of popular political support for things that make a simpler tax season impossible, too.

For example, the existence of tax-advantaged savings vehicles such as IRAs and HSAs mean that the taxable portion of your income isn't settled until the deadline for making contributions for that tax year. Which is April 15. But I imagine there would be a lot of popular political backlash if Congress were to abolish IRAs in the name of sticking it to Intuit.

There's also that whole mess of expenditures that you can deduct from your taxable income, which doesn't kick in until the total of your deductible expenses exceeds the standard deduction. And a lot of people were worried when the standard deduction got increased a few years ago. It made a lot of people's taxes nominally easier to calculate, but people were worried that it might remove an incentive for charitable donations, or reduce the largess that the government gives to homeowners relative to renters, or alter the impact of tax incentives for people who put solar panels on their roofs, or whatever.

Long story short, we love to blame Intuit, and it is true that Intuit generally wants a nasty complicated tax code, but it's also true that, in the aggregate, so does America.
Full text: An epic Bill Gates email rant (2003)
Blockchain technology, used in Bitcoin, aids U.K. vaccine program
http://archive.is/44xm4
> That's sort of the point.

It really isn't - the point is freedom access, not free use. Information acquired this way doesn't magically become public domain, it may (or may not) have other constraints on it.

See e.g. https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-oip-guidance-co...
Google Pay on the iPhone XS had so much jank and UI lag when I last used it a month ago.
Already happened.

>Okay, so Apple just went and released M1 support files as binaries in their latest XNU source code dump.

There is no specific license applied to these binary files, therefore the top-level APSL license applies.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1355907966541565957
I suspect you have more experience than I, and I know my imagining is poorly founded!

I think pigs have just received enough good PR recently that they come to mind as another particularly intelligent animal.
> An issue I ran into with the amd64 version was that I did not realize that the terminal was also an amd64 process...

Wow! That’s a huge gotcha that for some reason I didn’t even consider when I was having package issues with numpy among others.
How can I access AWS SDK from Flutter?
Now you have to trust privacy.com and still worry about the others.
This simulation is called a "Foaming waterfall". The waterfall captures air bubbles that rise to the surface and create foam. Similar effects are observed in oceans covered with foam generated by breaking waves.
Our paper [3] describes the algorithm and contains more applications of this software stack.
An online widget [4] shows the algorithm in two dimensions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj8pPYNJGY

[2] https://github.com/cselab/aphros

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01513

[4] https://cselab.github.io/aphros/wasm/hydro.html
The javascript source should show you that it's being encrypted -- and the proxy is under our control, the search engine is not.
> I can't use my OS of choice on it, I can't use my software of choice on it, I can't upgrade or fix anything on it, and I can't trust the swap to not shred the SSD.

It is just as locked in like an iPhone.

When at least one component of that computer is ruined, as you said it can't be simply swapped out and it time for a trip to the Apple Store if you're using it for the long term. If the SSD in the M1 is dead for some reason, you might as well buy the same model again but with your data lost.

> Am I missing something here? Time and time again I hear people say "you're not the target audience", and I'm getting the impression they're right.

It's true. It's for those who really love the Apple ecosystem and don't care about computers or opening them up. Right now the early adopters are realising the limits of the first generation M1 Macs.

Are they show-stoppers? Not for some of the casual users using Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, Word, Chrome and their favourite email client and users that aren't developers or professional creators but for those working in those fields will probably run into more 'incompatible software' complaints and using unstable workarounds.
I distinctly remember when I realized that the times in "4 times 3" is 3 added 4 times. That was the end of trying to memorize the times tables. If I forgot what "6 times 9" was I just thought "6 times 10 minus 6" and there it was.
A PC was not fully IBM compatible unless it could run Lotus 1-2-3.
I've taught myself to use the Ian Knot instead of the Granny Knot and my life is improved for it. Every time I tie my shoes I think of how much better the Ian Knot is.
I was honestly surprised to see Microsofts name on there as a contributor
Waiting for the stereoscopic version.
Isn't the more tangible problem the end of Dennard scaling?

As in: Moore's law is still giving you more transistors, but you can't actually turn them all on, and they aren't getting faster, so no free lunch.

(Which of course is why the Apple M1 is so significantly ahead, at least of Intel)
Hey there’s this website I use listennotes

It’s pretty good as it transcribe the audio and I usually capture interesting
links to resources shared in the podcast to my pocket app.

Last but not least I have a README file on github as TIL where I put stuff I discover from podcasts or just in general
Literally none of those languages tried to provide all of those things. It’s not a failure if that wasn’t the goal to begin with.
Have you looked into Hedera Hashgraph?
Price appreciation has to stop at some point. I doubt the price will rise to $10M after the 2028 halving so miners will be under substantial pressure by that time.
Build a Slack activity dashboard with open-source tools
It has been claimed that "we can simulate a BQP machine using efficiently computable entries from the set {−1, −4/5 , − 3/5 , 0, 3/5 , 4/5 , 1}" [1].

So any part of reality that you can reduce to an efficient computation on a quantum computer, admits a description using the rationals only. But I might be out of my depth here.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003035
Notch's quote from this article is very relevant: “If you just make your game and keep adding to it, the people who copyright infringed would buy it the next week”.

This was huge factor for early Minecraft to become such success. Pirated sources were always few versions behind and fear of missing out was strong.

I find it strange that it didn't inspire more studios to follow similar open style of development.
I remember baby formula from Amazon arriving with the tamper seal opened. I immediately realized what happened. Someone purchased baby formula, used it, filled it with powder, sold it at the Amazon market place, and then Amazon shipped it to me (Amazon thought the tampered product was indistinguishable from its factory purchased products). I stopped ordering anything food related from Amazon.

Pay attention to the tamper seal. That's all I could do. I bought all my formula direct at the grocery store after my Amazon experience
Their incompetence is the direct cause of the tanking of a stock.

Even if it wasn't intentional, it was artificial.
Is that the CanvasKit renderer or the HTML renderer?
This strikes me as akin to wishing for mathematics to step out of its infancy and adopting a single notation.
As noted in other comments here, an "auto tax" service only really works on the happy path. There are parts of the tax code which are highly subjective in more complex situations and require explicit elections on part of the filing party. These elections can have consequences far beyond the immediate tax filing transaction.
You can do that in Pulse, by using null sinks and monitor sources.
In the early 00's (before PulseAudio), my desktop had an old SoundBlaster Live PCI card that was pretty common around the turn of the millennium. ALSA dmix Just Worked with that one.

Any other hardware I encountered required some kind of software mixing, IIRC. Not that my experience was extensive, but I got the impression that hardware or driver support for dmix wasn't that common.
It wasn’t FOIAd, etalab is a government department (they’ve done a few cool things, there’s also an interactive map of property transactions with surface and price
Volvo says it will be 'fully electric' by 2030, move car sales online
Which begs the question if they essentially already know how much tax they think you should owe (for most people) why don't they present that number to get first and let you either agree or disagree?
German far-right AfD first party put under surveillance since Nazi era
> No-one is forcing you to stop eating meat

You will slowly see the influence. Bill Gates is going in that direction. It is just too much man, he is going too strong at it, motherfucker appearing in every news about the virus.

> You're clearly brimming with emotion, and you seem to have drawn your own conclusion that bill gates is forcing you to stop eating meat.

It's "let's hear what Ja Rule has to say about this" up to level 9000!

> and yes in fact I have a powerlifter vegan friend.

Yes I have a black friend.

> Why don't you think about it logically. What would Bill gates, a man who statistically only has 13 more years to live, gain from stopping you from eating meat?

The issue is that people think differently. A simple exercise to you: Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde... and read a little about it. Now, think logically, thinking & behaving like that doesn't make sense. Yet, there is a % of the population that does.

Give somebody with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor... billions of $, at the end of their life, and they are at your throat.

He is the Microsoft scenario, he isn't good. He just profits, his ego, he gets excited doing this, his NPD, whatever, but he isn't good. He can't be. Can't save the world by force a be a good guy at the same time even if it was true.
... with a pulley in the middle? High voodoo you’re playing with here...
So you primarily use a virtualized Linux install on your M1 machine for dev work? That seems really cumbersome... at that point I’d just point to a headless Linux server
The credit card company is the one selling your relationships and purchase habits and they know exactly who you are and can connect you to everything else important in your life.
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Then the problem is with you. You wrote code that had a dependency on a specific non-guaranteed feature (the bug) and then feel jilted b/c they changed the non-guaranteed feature. What you should have done was written defensive code and tests around the NGF so that when it changed, your tests would catch that and either not upgrade or allow you the chance to fix it.
It’s obviously not meant for stapled.

For the advantage see point 2. under Why would you want to do this?
No, I mean websites like putlocker etc.
Then how do IRS know that the duduction is correct?
IIRC Flutter compiles your Dart source code to a native platform binary and uses Skia to render the UI. I assume the Flutter Desktop API provides abstractions for creating windows.
Interesting you mention it. I've actually been working on a fairly fully featured app in flutter, and was shocked at how well it performed on iOS. Coming from the React Native world its miles ahead in terms of perf, at least in our case.

Shameless plug, the app is https://droppod.gg, an app to find time to play video games with your friends!
An "objective" metric would be customers and dollars lost due to losing trust.

You could also look at compliance costs?
Not having cookies on a product like this is putting it at a competitive disadvantage with other products that do. In an idealistic world, cookies and tracking wouldn't be needed but it's 100x better than all the indie projects that don't have the notice but keep the Google tracking. If your honestly so pressed then use noscript. The rest of us deal with the cookie consent because it's better than the alternative of unchecked tracking.
> It is much cheaper to operate a couple of large national-scale factories to produce plant-based meat alternatives...

This whole paragraph is exactly right, and exactly why factory meat is set to rapidly lose market share to plant-based substitutes. The market forces are unstoppable.

I'll add that the lesson of COVID's meat processing labor disruptions will not be lost on retailers and retaurant chains.
> Google Pay switched to Flutter a few months ago for their flagship mobile app, and they already achieved major gains in productivity and quality.

I don't know how they can claim this. The new Google Pay on Android was noticeably laggier the moment it was released. It continues to be so, and I still hate using it. Now I know the cause.
Get a Display Link USB graphics dongle for USB port. This works seriously well.
They are dependent on Flutter for Stadia, which is cancelled? The disparity is annoying...
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