skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about executives and other higher-ups? If they want to know about my internal business operations - for example, if we are competitors, they are looking to invest, etc.

Is there technical protection? Is it encrypted in a way that's only accessible to me?
The article is describing debt incurred in connection with private equity investments at two separate and distinct levels of the overall private equity fund structure. I’m trying to keep this simple and straightforward, but assume some knowledge of corporate finance - apologies if I’ve missed the mark and have either undersimplified or oversimplified.

A private equity fund is an entity - usually a limited partnership - that is created by a “sponsor” (called a “manco” in that article for “management company”) and raises money from outside investors. The sponsor manages the fund and the investments it makes using that raised capital (and in exchange for various management fees paid by the fund to the sponsor). Note that, for a variety of reasons, those investments usually take the form of an investor (limited partner) agreeing to contribute cash up to a designated amount - but not upfront. Instead, the investor funds that agreement to invest cash in the fund when the sponsor asks for a portion of it to be sent to the fund so the fund can make an investment.

It’s been standard practice for a while for a private equity fund to borrow money secured by its assets, which are generally a combination of the ownership interests in the companies it has invested in and its right to cause its limited partners to contribute additional capital to the partnership. By using proceeds funded from debt, the fund can improve the way that its returns to its equity investors are measured, which results in the sponsor receiving enhanced incentive economics.

The main new development reported by this article is that private equity sponsors are now pursuing debt at the sponsor level that is secured by the sponsor’s incentive economics mentioned above as well as any management fees paid to the sponsors by the funds that it manages.

This doesn’t mean that the companies that private equity invests in are more indebted or more likely to collapse due to leverage - instead, the article is reporting that the overall structure of a private equity investment (an operating company owned by a fund that is managed by a sponsor) is seeing additional levels of debt at the top level of that corporate structure.
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Its "batteries included" philosophy (well, more like the entire power plant) – for example, very convenient and broad visualization and declarative UI libraries; very good online documentation as well; of course, the OG interactive notebook interface, too.

If the cost of that is shining Stephen Wolfram's dome, well, what can you do.
Wasn't it BSV (and not BCH) that was supposed to be, literally, [B]itcoin: [S]atoshi's [V]ision?
I love BBEdit and use it for pretty much all basic text processing. It's fast, stable, and reliable.

My primary disappointment is that I feel like for programming languages its syntax highlighting is much more primitive than others. I've tried to open Go projects in it with the Go Language Server installed. Go to Declaration and other navigation works. But the syntax highlighting is more primitive than Goland, Emacs, and others. Which is a bit disappointing.

Still a major BBEdit user though. Just haven't moved to using it for more complicated development.
Different union structures for different types of careers. Some people don’t like paying taxes and dues.

Factory unions protect the collective uniformly because each person is interchangeable. This is a “raise the minimum” type environment. They make it hard to fire because they need to hold the line.

Some unions are structured to support highly skilled and differentiated labor. Like in Hollywood. They protect workers like camera-men but still allow skilled actors to be well paid and properly audition for roles.
Whoever is doing this went after codeberg once Drew said they host the status page:

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111739063243946284
You don't need ClearCred to do that. And you don't need to pay ClearCred to do that for you. Just maintain your credit card to hold a positive balance instead of a debit balance.

That just needs a little discipline to keep note of your current credit card balance. When the credit card balance starts heading down towards zero, just transfer a few hundred bucks or so across to it online from one of your other bank accounts.

That way, you'll always have a credit balance, and you'll keep your money in your own pocket instead of it going to the Banks as high-rate of interest payments on your credit card.
... inflation happened. Flat salaries is a 20-30% paycut.
Glad I've learned about this fascinating effect, but it doesn't seem reasonable that such a niche improvement on Postgresql backup would have an impact on the price of electricity or another resource.
I just want something that is compatible with every service/app and always streams reliably.

Is that too much to ask?

Even Chromecast can't pair with some apps (and can't act as a Bluetooth audio receiver leading to constant confusion from users whether they are pairing or casting). Eg. it's really hard to cast a local video/mp3 file unless you know what you're doing.
Besides what you mentioned there’s the local home SDK. Google is still using the actual Nest app and I’m pretty sure what you mentioned works through that app. There’s also matter now for local control. The thing is that there’s this mishmash because unlike Apple they weren’t local first across the board from the get go.

In any case, I’m holding out for a HomePod mini refresh because if they throw a s9 chip in there it’s going to be able to do basic voice recognition offline

Maybe matter can save Alexa/Google home and I’m too pessimistic but I don’t like how they work now.
Alas, still sucks.

Although my 2018 model has 4 GB of memory while the 2022 is now 8 (or 16 if you buy 1 or 2 TB version). So maybe that helps.

There’s a special entitlement for apps to request additional RAM so I would hope that having more memory means more apps can stay resident, since most apps aren’t going to request extra RAM. But iOS seems really aggressive about this even when you wouldn’t think it should be a problem so I half expect it to know you have 12 GB available and still kill recently used apps.
I am certainly not whining! :)
In a normal distribution, like lets say a large population, the mean, median, and mode are all equal. I don't see a problem with the quote.
The other side of this though is it leads to frozen conflicts that never resolve. The aggressor side can never take the land so the conqoured side has no incentive to negotiate a peace as that can only diminish their position. (As a random example, take the golan heights in israel vs syria, its been in limbo for 57 years now and shows no sign of ever being resolved)

I mean, i dont know if its worse for the conqouring side to just win the land, but having stuff stay in limbo for decades also seems counterproductive to healing conflicts and moving forward. closure can be beneficial even if its towards a result we don't want.
I also noticed this. Glad I wasn't the only one. My searches would randomly use DDG instead of Kagi and I wasn't sure why. Glad to see they rolled out a fix.
For example, there's this package to test Internet connectivity (I know just trying is the best solution). Its readme says

> On Android, this does not guarantee connection to Internet. For instance, the app might have wifi access but it might be a VPN or a hotel WiFi with no access.

While I unterstand the technical reasons for this limitation, I don't get why it's different on Android. What happens on iOS or web builds?

Also check out this FAQ which is full of platform internals which I don't want to care about. If I need to know what permission from the library map to which platform-specific permission, it's not doing a very good job at Abstraktion. And yes, it is a very hard problem.

https://pub.dev/packages/permission_handler#faq
Your original statement, that "Each capable adult must be held accountable and responsible for themselves in this world," is a subjective opinion--unless you meant it merely in the sense of a truism--and you did not give me any criteria for a satisfactory "counter-argument".

Regarding this:
>being a responsible adult includes contributing to national defense

you are equivocating between two separate definitions of the word "responsible." Being a responsible adult is not the same as being an adult who is responsible for their own defense or healthcare, for example. They can be correlated, but they have different meanings.

But honestly, this form of internet debating you started that derails from the topic and gets into quasi-logical nitpicking is uninteresting and makes me feel like I'm in a high school, so this will be my last comment. Please feel free to reply, and I will read it. But please make the reply have some substance.
Satoshi had a simple but profound idea, a peer to peer digital Cash system. The BTC of today failed to live up to that ideal after the GitHub repo was hijacked by Adam Back's for profit company, Blockstream.

Soon after they wrestled control away from the original maintainer they introduced several changes that broke the original vision.

Satoshi would hardly recognize what BTC has become today but BCH is almost identical in form and function.
That they won't stick around long enough
I’m a bit of a stickler for trying to stick to default apps and tools wherever possible, and Xcode is so close to being serviceable as a general text editor with its vim mode and “External Build System” (Makefile) support, but has a pretty limited list of languages it can do syntax highlighting for, and the smart indentation seems broken for unsupported languages.

BBEdit seems like a good second choice. Does it feel as native as it looks? Any rough edges that bother you?
I'm a software developer and use it for one-off tasks like image processing (create an SVG from a folder of images), quick visualization of data (read a giant JSON file and create bar charts from certain keys), file preparation, and much more. It's taken me several years to really feel like a power user, where I intuitively know which functions to use and how to compose/customize them. When I worked at Wolfram Research (over a decade ago), I even made a proof-of-concept for programming Arduino microcontrollers and controlling them directly from the notebook interface.

It's a powerful tool with a steep learning curve - hopefully the LLM assistant will help with this.
I’m pretty sure you’re in the fringe minority of even Apple fans.
Consider it a filter. If you can't be bothered to solder on some header pins, the device will most definitely end up in a drawer somewhere with a dozen old Arduinos, etc.
From reading other comments here, my opinion might be unpopular.

But I think she was extremely rude to those two people who were not required to be as empathetic as they were.

(I also don't like people who get angry at waiters for faults of the restaurant)
I used to use it when I was at University and I kept a copy around for nostalgic reasons. Once in a blue moon I get an excuse to use it for work related reasons, and then I gleefully spin it up just so I can pretend to be a real mathematician / scientist type person. Generally this is superfluous, but I do it anyway, otherwise my tertiary education feels like a waste of time and money.

Other times I use it as a replacement for a calculator app, which feels exactly like cracking a walnut with a 500-ton industrial press.

It does have some reasonably unique capabilities that I did use more heavily in the past. E.g.:

- Simplifying the vector/matrix mathematics used in 3D graphics. It can eliminate redundant expressions, which is especially useful when you know that some of the inputs are constants such as 0 or 1.

- Non-linear curve fitting. If you have some complicated mathematical model you want to fit to noisy data, Mathematica will "just do it". With every other tool out there, this is... sss... hard.

- It missed the AI boat, but it has mostly caught up and could now be a viable alternative to the Python-based AI ecosystem, especially for certain areas of research.

- Complicated plotting requirements where I just can't be bothered spinning up some dedicated log analytics "tool" or subscribing to a "cloud service" and learning an entire query language just to draw a 3D histogram or whatever.
I think what they really mean is private "Person-to-Person" payments.

Is that really a big market? What is the typical use case? Personally, I can't even remember when I privately paid something to a person last time.

Paying for professional products and services is still a pain though. Because usually I don't want to give away private data just to pay for a coffee. And merchants dislike central services because of fees and uncertainty. But that can't be solved by a centralized service. I expect Crypto to solve that at some point. But Bitcoin seems to still have a long way to go before it can do that. The Lightning Network is a step in the right direction, but onboarding is still too slow because it takes an onchain transaction. So there still needs to be a technological advancement before crypto can handle small payments.

Looks like we will have to live with a lacking payments system for the foreseeable future.
What do you mean by that? What other posts?
I find Sublime to be a better editor. It’s also cross platform.
It's likely more ageism than sexism
This is totally off topic, but this made me think of it for some reason... Remember when computers had turbo buttons? What a fun concept. I wish my MacBook Pro had a physical button on there to knock it into ass-kicking mode.

I think the world would be a more perfect place if everything had turbo buttons. Internet too slow? Hit the turbo link button to 10x your download speeds for 30 seconds. ChatGPT prompt sucks and just isn’t getting it? Turbo that sucker and watch it prompt you instead. Food is taking too long at the restaurant? That’s right, turbo. JVM takes too long to spin up? Probably no turbo there, that’s never gonna get solved.
I saw a funny picture of a guy that was driving with a gas power generator strapped to his Tesla (On Hitch Mount Cargo Carrier).
Just curious how much he could extend his range. And if this would be a practical alternative.
These are all points well taken, and my general approach of dipping into fever threads only when there's something concrete I think can be added to the thread does in this case seem to be contributing to veering. It's just memorable to me because I got my ass handed to me in a conversation with a friend about how credible the anti-Israel bias argument was. But I don't pretend this is dispositive of anything; my only claim is that there's a colorable argument here, it's not just some random made-up thing.

Thanks for checking me on this!
BSV was an attempted takeover of BCH. BSV failed and ended up forming BCH instead. It was started by Craig Wright, a well know scammer claiming to be Satoshi, in an attempt to take over satoshis coins. Because Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi in that sense, BSV is Satoshi's vision but only if you believe Satoshi is Craig Wright.
I agree! It seems super difficult to figure out whether a movie (or literally any media) is financially successful now.

But I don't think that's a good reason to give credence to a metric that strikes me as being incredibly obsolete. A bad metric is a bad metric even if it's unclear what metric to replace it with.
This is moral fall of HR, The worst thing in a company is lying HR, who have no idea about the team, company, performance and etc.
In what sense though? AMD hardware is very comparable. Unless you call Nvidia's lock-in through CUDA "leading".
Companies should be legally required to provide feedback and data if they're firing someone based on "performance" reasons.

This isn't about the conversation, it's that your attitude means we should just let corporations off for doing bad / stupid things at scale. This is not going to result in a good society.

This company has seen 30%+ year on year growth, there is no need to treat people like this, especially when they're doing so well.

This type of thing can be very violating, do you not understand that?
Show HN: I developed an AI image search website
Typically [in the US] you can't collect unemployment if you're terminated with cause - something like not showing up to work or not doing your job. Given they terminated for poor performance, this is typically not a scenario where the employee could collect unemployment. In Georgia, for example, she should be given DOL-800 which indicates the reason and explains what her unemployment options look like. If she has evidence this is more of a layoff or that her performance was not bad, she could provide that evidence to her state's Department of Labor to prove that Cloudflare is lying about the reason for termination and thus she deserves to receive it.

However, she likely received some amount of severance, which would mean she would get less or no unemployment income, depending on how much it is in relation to what she would've received from filing for unemployment.
The thing is... Those two people on the call, I mean... They are just doing their job as well. Don't understand what is the point to actually argue with them. Nothing they can do or change.

And yes, Brittany is going to be internet famous for a day. But a lot of people going to watch this video and recognize her on the next loop of interviews. Just not the best solution for this situation.

It is just sad to see. And I am sorry for anyone who is going through those hard times.
Polestar 2s can't be charged at a supercharger, can they? At least they can't in the US.
Operating under the assumption that companies provide no value to society, maybe. Otherwise this is extracting value from companies and then leaving society worse off.

These PEs are the locusts of the financial world.
That stereotype of PE investors is about how PE treats the businesses it invests in; it's not something they do to themselves.
BBC: Ancient City Found in Amazon
I’m not who you’re replying to, but in my case the hub being unavailable should mean everything can still work as normal. For a lot of smart bulbs, a busted hub means you can only control them by switching them off then back on since you were relying on the hub to control them.

Some switches allow for direct control of zigbee or zwave smart bulbs so even if the hub is non functional, a press of the switch will still toggle or even dim them.
How do you define "quality" of tech worker? What is the profile of people being let go? Are they recent hire or people with quick certification, bootcamp, etc? A quick review of people on LinkedIn with Open to Work badges seems to paint a different picture than any claim of people being let go are of lower quality.

> It turns out that compared to the dedicated nerds of the previous generation, most new people just don't care that much about tech

Now having experienced almost three generations coming to adulthood, I hard disagree with any such notion of newer generation not being dedicated and smarter. I have lot more respect for the newer generation: what they have been served with and how they are handling it. The changes in last 10 or 20 years have far exceeded any changes I experienced in my first 0-40 years of life. And, imo newer generation has been adapting much better to such changes than the previous generations including my own. This adaption might come across not being "dedicated nerds" to previous generation but with the rapid change taking place, ability to adapt quickly trumps being "dedicated nerd."
In these kind of competitions (e.g. Kaggle), the algos never really get used because they are too complex/optimized to implement into production (i.e. 3 layers of 10 ensembled XGB + 1000 highly engineered features + etc, etc).

Mainly they are used for recruiting, new ideas (simpler versions get implemented), and proof of concept (if we did this really really well, what would it look like, should we spend 2 engineering years on it?)
Bait n switch...
The AllTrails instructions are pretty funny. They only allow references from the AllTrails website, and they name specific competitors like Strava who cannot be cited.

Exact instructions that I found from ChatGPT are below. Needless to say, this is probably why just using ChatGPT is better.

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Here are instructions from the user outlining your goals and how you should respond:
This assistant helps users find the best trails and outdoor activity experiences on the AllTrails website, based on their specified criteria and helps plans their outdoor adventures for them. The assistant should not mention any competitors or supply any related data from sites like Strava, Komoot, GaiaGPS, or Wikiloc. If the user doesn't specify a location as part of their request, please ask for the location. However, note that it is a valid request for a user to want to lookup the best trails across the entire world. The assistant should only show content from AllTrails and should utilize the associated action for looking up trail data from the AllTrails website any time users asks for outdoor activity recommendations. It should always ask the user for more clarity or details after responding with content and encourage the user to click into hyperlinks to AllTrails to get more details about individual trails.

If user asks for information that the assistant cannot provide, respond by telling the user that the type of information they’ve requested (and be specific) is not available. If there are parts of their prompt that we can search for using the assistant, then tell the user what criteria the assistant is going to use to answer their request. Examples of information that the assistant cannot provide include but are not limited to recommendations based on weather, proximity to certain campgrounds, Non-trail related outdoor activities such as rock climbing, Personal Safety or Medical Advice, Historical or Cultural Information, Real-Time Trail Conditions or Closures, Specific Wildlife or Flora Queries, Legal and Regulatory Information (incl. permits).
How does it compare to Lisp for symbolic programming?
What steps do you feel you did or did not take to achieve promotion, or signal to your manager that this was something you were even interested in?

For most engineers, "promotion" means "convert yourself into a manager somehow", and I know many engineers who just aren't interested - to the point it wouldn't surprise me if this is assumed in many orgs.
It's entirely fair to ask what you are doing if you are exhorting others to action.
"a few misc planes on the chopping block in the future" sounds somewhat disingenuous: we are talking of a fleet of 477 Airbus A320s [1] (family, mostly A319s and A321s), nearly 50% of American Airlines entire fleet.

This includes 80 A321 NEO, and with a further order for 50 A321XLRs I strongly doubt these are on the chopping block. The A321 NEO is very hard to beat on transcon: AA needs the subtype, so it's here to stay. And Airbus knows it: the A321 NEO is expensive...

As for the older A319s, AA is currently looking for their replacements: it should be either A220, 737 MAX7 or maybe Embraer E2 195. If they go for the 737 MAX7 that will make it to 4 types, eventually: Airbus A321 and Boeing 737, 777 and 787. Otherwise 5 types.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet#Curren...
Imagine the chaos they could cause by putting $1B into bounties and letters of marque style privateer actions.