skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoided saying this is an LBO because persnickety finance folks may observe that the debt structure expected under the traditional definition of the term is quite particular, viz. that the acquired/merged entity ends up liable for the debt (either directly or as security), but there's language in the article strongly insinuating that the debt in this case was issued separately by the author's partnership, whose structure isn't apparent, but is evidently distinct.

But, otherwise, yes indeed, quite so, the category of acquisition funded by debt is very well understood, the varieties extensively studied and practiced. So much so as to be taught in M&A 101, and my expression that it is unremarkable arises from this utter lack of novelty.
You might enjoy my blog series on Causality where I work through Pearls 'Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer' using Python:

https://github.com/DataForScience/Causality

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It's difficult for sure. It will draw out every ounce of your political skills. It sometimes means leaving your job, and although it doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing your whole career, optimizing for ethics may impede your ability to optimize for other things like compensation or power.

> usually not up to the task

Hmm, "usually"? It sounds like you've done at least something sometime, even though you may not have been satisfied. Kudos for doing what you could under the circumstances. Not everyone needs to go full martyr.
To me, HN is not hostile toward new users. But part of what makes HN HN is it discourages behaviors new users might bring from elsewhere on the internet when those behaviors are disharmonious with the norms of the HN community. This is how new users acculturate into HN. Or how new users discover HN might not be for them. Or what might stay the determination that it is or isn’t.

HN hasn’t been turning into Reddit for a long while because sometimes the moderators make comments like this and the community goes “Okay” because they value the community and can see the moderator’s point and those matter more than typing something easy to type because it is all over Twitter.

More seriously, if HN’s moderation conflicts with your deeply held principles, HN might not be for you. Like any social media that makes someone unhappy, a voluntary break, temporary or complete, may be warranted.

HN is not going to suddenly become a democracy or collective. Moderation is a big part of what makes HN HN.
it's recursive, the first "r" is from "the seven R's"
holy hell.
I don’t know. I have several Twitter accounts that are suspended for rules violations and they’ve tweeted and followed people zero times, so I don’t think you can necessarily read too much into that.
I feel the article ended before it started.

Did they find anything? What are some interesting rules of thumb? Is there any theory you can draw about long path networks?
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New Yorker, I found, is always obtuse, long-winded prose that fill up 14 pages where the whole thing can be, if it was written like a normal article, summarized in no more than 3 pages. It is prose porn for writers and readers alike.

If I want good prose, I read the the Cabinet Magazine which is far superior in writing, curtness and straightforwardness while not affecting the charming and poetical aspects of writing.

Furthermore, New Yorker has inappropriate political and social undertones that is very offputting - they don't belong here and but its beat into place. Any informed reader would see through it. If you enjoy that sort of a thing, great but it's not my thing even if I agree with the underlying message.
Could be an interesting proposition for classroom use—some of my students juggle babysitting while they are in my class and their grades suffer. State require synchronous instruction time, leaving an inequitable gap for students whose parents work during the day. Will you provide premium access to educators?
Singleton’s main feature is not that it is globally accessible, but in that it represents a state that cannot be naturally duplicated. The pattern itself lies in a controlled instantiation, where a method/constructor/factory returns a cached value on a second call. Globals are just that – globals.
'Classroom' does have 'class' at its root.
Reviews Meta is looking for a buyer [0,1].

I am not affiliated at all with them, but I use the website frequently and would hate to see it discontinued or purchased by someone malicious like The Great Suspender was.

0. https://reviewmeta.com

1. https://reviewmeta.com/blog/successor-to-reviewmeta/
America’s jobless owe thousands of dollars in taxes on their unemployment
Have you considered applying to YC? Email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like some tips or feedback with that. (Same offer goes for anybody! Just please realize that I can't always reply quickly and sometimes take embarrassingly forever.)
First you complain that Google takes away your privacy, and then when Google listens to your complaint and re-architects it's entire trillion dollar business to give you privacy, you still complain.

Fuck everything about internet activists.
Awesome product, you should be proud! Sent this to some of my data whiz friends && I know they'll appreciate it. I'm curious - what are the top use cases of Mito amongst your current users?
Could you point to the IMDb link for Sayna Blues? Curious to see it but the name doesn’t match anything.
Cool, I'll be more detailed next time. Sorry for the trouble. You could really do more yourself not to hide/remove comments with equally inflammatory responses.

It's quite irritating to have something done like that by someone who is essentially the shot-caller on a site like this on an issue which boils down to opinion. The highbrow condescension isn't necessary either... Anyways, perhaps it's moderation like this that's necessary to keep the forum quality. I do wish it were approached in a different manner however. Even just asking for more clarification or elaboration would have been a better move in this situation.

Anyways, thanks for moderating I guess. I understand that it's a thankless job.
Seems this was posted just to share a referral code. Flagging this post as spam.
fwiw, it's just dang as far as I'm aware.
Curious are there other more significant differences?
The problem is that whoever runs the discovery has all the power and gets most of the money. The rest is just bait.
Because nobody knows anything about most companies and when they 'go public' nobody will buy their shares.

The classical IPO process involves a road-show where the banks take the CFO/CEO to institutional buyers they line up ahead of time, they work out a price agree to buy shares ahead of time for a set price.

The process is underwitten by a bank(s) who buy the shares ahead of time for a set price thereby providing certain guarantees.

This notion of 'leaving money on the table when the stock pops' is just frothy hubris: the stock could equally flop, moreover, if somehow every share were sold first thing in the morning - a 'stock pop' would not benefit the company directly anyhow - the stocks will have been sold.

An IPO is a big fat financial service offered by the banks, for most companies that's the path to market. Avoiding it would probably require a big brand name company with a lot of recognition, probably a very big price. Even then it's risky.
So if you say something unpopular, but legal, expect to be harassed by the government? Sounds great!
Pretty sure they're getting the 80Kb/s over LoRa. I've used some Pycom devices [0] to try the protocol out and for mesh [1] and it's rather forgiving. Given the number Ring devices people seem to have these days I'm sure Amazon is going to have some relatively large mesh networks at their disposal.

[0] https://pycom.io/products/supported-networks/#lora
[1] https://docs.pycom.io/pymesh/
That doesn't answer the question. Yes, it's random, but why? Is it just to avoid repeating move sequences so you can't replay the same game multiple times?
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I guess the stories of farmers stealing from the next door radio station are untrue too then. Another old urban legend down.

Someone needs to do this for today's kids and harvesting 'water' from the air.
Maybe you could detect them with a bunch of microphones and measure the time difference between sound arrival time.

Or at least that could tell a camera where to look.
TLDR: banks take on some financial risk and offer advisement on price and inside access to capital rich accounts that would buy the shares; potentially less risky than going out on the open market alone where if no one knows who you are or aren't advised by a bank to buy your stock, they simply won't

Banks do take on the risk to buy* the shares if for some reason the public market doesn't like the listing price or the interest isn't there. Sometimes they just put forth "best effort" and their role is to give inside preference/hype up shares to their large institutional customers to buy the IPO shares. They do the "pricing" of the IPO which sets the shares at a level where there is sufficient interest to sell the public offering of shares but also don't want it to pop too much because the company loses out on raising capital.

However, given the inflation in the market and general hype around a lot of these companies with good growth (and some kind of path to profitability) I don't see how the bank really does anything other than what you say...take money away from the company and the whole pay for access to investors thing doesn't matter anymore.

*I don't think this is always the case, but used to be in some IPOs
> The main thing I'm confused about is why you didn't get a linker error.

EFI isn't your usual Freestanding env. Your output is a dynamically linked PE2 (Windows) executable. The linker had spots for memcpy and others to be linked in Dynamically. But they were not. Whatever was there caused a hang in TianoCore UEFI. (Which would eventually reset due to the watchdog timer)
An IPO is 2 things:

1) Transferring ownership from existing investors to new investors

2) Raising capital.

You can't really do 2 with a direct listing. Companies IPO mostly because they need money not because investors want liquidity
I would guess:

It's a very old, very primitive program. It predates cursor keys, printers that could use proportional fonts and a lot of other things we take for granted today. Its handling for things like printer drivers was astonishingly primitive.

For decades, this was enough: it was the best-known word processor in the world. So the company got complacent and did not improve it much.

Then WordPerfect came along, which had superb printer and font handling, and was much richer in a lot of ways. WordStar dithered while WordPerfect took over: there were several new, incompatible WordStar apps, and if you had to learn a new UI anyway, why not switch to the leading competitor?

Then the market switched to Windows and largely rendered WordPerfect irrelevant, too.
Ask HN: Good concise guide to Linux's networking stack?
A while back there was a guide to Linux's audio stack, covering everything from the hardware level to all the way to usermode applications running on it (https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.html)

I liked this guide because it provided a good overview of all the components and how they work together, being concise, while not overly superficial.

Is there something like this for the Linux stack? Bonus points if its protocol independent (yes, I know modern networks are almost exclusively IP)
I'm sure there's an XKCD similar in spirit to your idea; if not, there should be.
I didn’t think that’s a comedy though.

There’s an abundance of serious, existential, often heavy Russian films. I just saw Beanpole and felt excited about a light, genuinely funny Russian comedy.

Any recommendations?
Humor is a harmless pressure valve, why should those in power be worried by it?
I was hoping it would just have a link that redirected to the question
I've done one with a LAMP stack on android with a distributed DB setup you got the varsatility of PHP and all the libraries you need. The challenge is if you want the client not to have local code.data access and to have confident security setup for updating from a remote app to the server.
Godspeed, Allan McDonald.
i think your point is valid but still shouldn't enter the fray.

This is about swiss nationality and customs. Not about women's rights.

Just like you don't go to your greek neighbor's dinner party wearing a turkish flag, there are things you don't do when you are the guest at someone else's party.

The burka represents a lot of very nasty things, in countries that the overwhelming majority (60%) believe 911 was totally OK and beheading or stoning minorities is OK.

The fact is, you don't frown on people because they are spitting on some ideal of freedom. You frown of them because they don't get the basic rules of decency.

My house. My rules.
Isn't rss how podcasts are normally distributed?
The cause of the crashes was not the autothrottle, it was the runaway stabilizer.
I beat it! (there has been several years since i played last time)
How does 802.11ah fit into this?
I think it's only on Pixels.

My wife forgot her phone on top of our car and when we got on the highway, it flew off. That impact triggered dispatchers who went to the location (we didn't know until she got a new SIM and we heard the voicemails).
>I never lie outright, but I've come to see that truth and [school]teaching are incompatible.
I agree with you. Our decisions are based on stimuli, hormones, and other physical factors that extend beyond what is traditionally considered the "mind." If I get a blood transfusion, does the slightly different chemical makeup of the introduced blood affect my behavior? If so, at what point does it affect my "self"?

I appreciate the coherent and open way that you have responded to so many different comments in this thread.
Ignoring the blatant racist generalization of Black people in your comment, recent Fed data shows your assumption is categorically false.

Systemic Racism has always slowed the economic progress of those whose family roots are tied back to the first generation of slaves. It’s easier to build wealth as an immigrant than it is to build wealth after generations in a system that churns and spits out Black bodies without a second thought.

This essay talks specifically about the tax of being successful and Black in America: what did your comment aim to do other than try to dismiss that people with a different skin color have difficult lived experiences?
The Golden Gate Bridge: Report on Color and Lighting (1935) [pdf]
I like the author, the idea and the article. It will not stop me from highlighting one of my favorite clauses:

"there are hundreds of different creams, devices, and other devices. "
You can get better results with capacitative coupling in that case.
There are a lot...

I agree with that person point on that not being a limiting factor. SciHub and all the networks of exchange of publications before that (I've seen exchange of proxy accounts and forums to do that since 2003, unsure about what existed before) have helped with that a lot.

Just to list a few points that come to mind:

Environment:

- A university that doesn't provide the ressources necessary (equipment, computing ressources with adequate expertise)

- Colleagues that are not supportive or worse putting you down for internal competition (just fame, attracting the most promising grad student of the year, or funding lines for grad students and postdocs)

- Intellectualy poor environment, colleagues that have no understanding and no willingness to understand your field of research

Money:

-Difficulty to compete when it takes you 80% of your budget to do 1/10 of a big lab (behind the name of a single person but really a group of 10s employees) can do with their large fundings. This is especially true of US vs many other countries.

Sociological:

- Gender (we know that women are not "allowed" to grow as much as men in some domains)

- University delivering a PhD, I still see people in their sixties being presented as a graduate from (pick an Ivy) and people ignored in discussions at a table of Ivy league graduates (despite that person being an expert)
True, there are judges who are massively corrupt who fail to observe the Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine[0]. But I’ve certainly read accounts of judges doing the right thing and tossing ill-gotten evidence. It’s just so unusual that I can’t find examples in the limited time that I’m willing to search the web. So… that kinda says something.

But the point being that it’s not universal that judges will facilitate such methods.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
Pretty cool game, nice job. It would be significantly better with just a little bit of opening knowledge, but obviously that isnt the point of this anyway. Im 1050 on chess.com and beat it first try, but the program sorta blundered the opening. I played the Queen's Gambit (very fitting)
Hopefully, we're in a new era, in which the next Allan McDonalds of various fields will be listened to before tragedies occur.
Oh boy do I love the free market!!!!
Ive been boxing for a while now and definitely breathe through my mouth a lot. You cant keep your jaw hanging open when exchanging punches, but you still do a pretty significant amount of breathing through your mouth
There's a detailed history here:
https://www.wordstar.org/index.php/wordstar-history

If that's too long there are several short ones, but they omit a lot of important detail.

E.g.
https://history-computer.com/wordstar-complete-history-of-wo...

or

http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/timelines/inventors/ht...

or in a little more depth:
http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/wordstar.htm
Right, because students were historically separated into groups by ... age?
I think especially for podcasters in recent years there have been some.... issues with community management.

I would say in particular lots of these people started doing "community slacks/discords" and then they realized that being able to produce podcast episodes doesn't make you a good community manager.

There's been specific drama with Relay and people around that extended universe as well, so lots of podcast hosts in that space are basically done with fan interaction.

I'm being a bit glib but I totally get it. If you have the choice to just walk away from dealing with CM stuff then it's a pretty nice proposition.
The battle between frequentist statisticians and those advocating Bayesian approaches is quite old—-back at least to Wright. Pearl is not inventing a dichotomy but explaining why models are necessary to evaluate causality. Is this genuine progress? Absolutely! Causal Bayesian modeling is transformative.

Every experimentalist and clinician will come away with good from Book of Why even if the tone rubs some the wrong way occasionally. I made this required reading in my human genetics course for grad students. Perfect level. Yes, I got some welcome pusback from bright students, but I know this book will have an indelible positive impact on their depth of thinking about data generation, model assumptions, confounders, interventions, and counterfactuals.
AFAIK, SPACs are considered scammy because when you circumvent the IPO process you also skip any checks that are supposed to take place.

Essentially they take over an already defunct company that is already listed (or it could be the other way round, I think).

No mention of this anywhere in the article..
But you never present how that’s a problem. You’d be succumbing to the ancient forum pastime of hypothetical rules/scenarios lawyering where you confuse the ability to invent a scenario (someone not knowing dang is a mod for 60seconds and that’s worth worrying about for unsaid reason) with the need to change the forum.
Smelly snails and deep purple: This ancient dye costs $2,700 per gram
Totally agree, too many articles posted here on HN are run on stories that need executive summaries - - some of us are really busy and don't have time for "prose porn".
I'll help you out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370780
I assume it's making a value-weighted move. To keep things interesting, you might choose from several moves that have similar EVs, esp. since the system only looks 4 moves deep, so there's uncertainty around how much better a given move actually is.
Or maybe there's been little noise about the change because everyone was using sci-hub already anyway!

I recently introduced a part-time professor to sci-hub, when he was having trouble getting his vpn connection to work, so he could access a paper in a journal. Open access is just easier.
Really the piece design is actively user hostile for any of us with less than perfect vision.

In particular the pawns and bishops are way too similar, especially black.
It makes me happy to hear that, thank you for your reply.
Anki + immersion + regular output
future.me

It is the future version of yourself telling you that this too shall pass, that your current hardships are your future memories, that today's tragedies are tomorrow's wisdom, that it is as human to be vulnerable as it is to weather the storm and grow as a person.
He kicked it off of cloudflare, not the internet
I think the problem with your comment (and this is why it's necessary to post these qualifications any time Pearl comes up) is that you've bought into Pearl's claims about statistics. Statisticians have been studying causality for a long time.

All you need to do to verify that his claims about statisticians is BS is look at the potential outcomes framework, which was first developed in 1923: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_causal_model

He's well within his rights to argue that the PO framework has limitations and that his framework is superior. It's unethical for him to claim that statisticians are anti-causality or that they never studied it.
Heard from an Elsevier person, their purpose is to own the market from the production to distribution and storage of scientific and medical information.

That explains their acquisition of mendeley, their work on lab notebooks, acquisition of medical diagnostics systems...
> I know that for lots of programming tasks recursion is not needed, but I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of software you work on where you've never encountered a problem that requires a recursive solution?

There are no problems that require recursion, since recursion and iteration are equivalent. You can do all of the things you list with a while loop plus state variables.

Recursion (especially in languages with pattern matching and other features common in the same set of languages in which recursion is more idiomatically favored) can provided solutions that are simultaneously more clear and more terse, but it doesn't expand the set of solvable problems.
Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
The FAA has no power in Africa.
The thing I've heard is "1,000 views = $1". I don't know how true that is anymore but it's my metric.

Mark Brown, of Game Maker's Toolkit, puts out vids on Youtube that get a couple hundred thousand views (1 or 2 vids a month). So he could theoretically get a couple hundred from those. But his Patreon following nets him a couple thousand a month ($11k!)

When you have niche content you can end up getting way more per subscriber if people feel your content is worth it.
Every time Zig is mentioned I always have to post a most-likely-downvoted warning:

The creator of Zig has expressed some disregard toward proper security in the current prototypes. The standard library is riddled with DOS vulnerabilities as of right now, and reports for them are closed as "The standard library will be rewritten." or the like.

Take caution.
Not true. Russians can’t understand Ukrainians even 50%.
I'm not sure how you cannot do (2) with a direct listing. The company can just issue new shares to sell on the direct listing, no differently than issues new shares in a new fundraising round