skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because, contrary to public belief, PE firms are skilled and sophisticated managers.

Most deals are successful under their management, and this is why banks usually lend 70-90% of the purchase funds.

They specifically target companies that are undervalued, in distress, and can be turned around or liquidated for more than the cost.

PE isn't an exotic business philosophy. It is literally just a private buyer.
If you’re using Google check out https://udm14.com

I left Google for DDG and now I want to move back to Google if I can get this working in Safari.
Respirators are effective down to 300nm - aerosolized viruses are larger than this, around 1uM and larger.
The architecture mostly is just putting things in S3 and serving them on a CDN. The diagram just goes into detail because little things like permissions and response header settings exist as separate but related "Policy" resources at the AWS level.

The only thing other than S3/CloudFront there is a lambda function endpoint that determines which tiles to serve.
Why would it be illegal?

When the PE firm took over red lobster, it wasn't a thriving business. They made a gamble: if we sell the land, we can pay down the debt to reduce interest payments and restructure it into a profitable business.

It was always a risky proposition, but the alternative was probably slow decline. The PE firm lost their gamble and they suffered the losses for it.

If the PE firm sold the land to a landlord they owned at discount prices, then yea, that would be a conflict of interest but that isn't what happened.
Thank you.

Her take on it was that she had hope and a chance with metastatic melanoma because she was standing on the shoulders of those before her. Basically, she had a 60/40 chance of 5 year survival. 10 years ago, it was zero.

Now, there’s a variety of new treatments in trial that will make the chances for future patients much better… there’s a customized Moderna vaccine and other immunotherapies on the horizon.

It’s cruel and it sucks but there was hope.
Permanently
Only if internal tools went thru the same scrutiny as public tools.

More often than not critical parameters or mis-configurations happen because of internal tools which work on unpublished params.

Internal tools should be treated as tech debt. You won't be able to eliminate issues but vastly reduce the surface area of errors.
I know many people who wore N95 masks all the time who were infected. More than once too.
I drive a 20+ year old SUV, mostly just for commute. It’s too noisy to bother with a good stereo.

You can get a Bluetooth-capable stereo with hands-free microphone for around $100, and while I haven’t yet installed it, I just bought a 7” screen double-DIN stereo for under $300 that has (wired) CarPlay and Android Auto integration, plus a backup camera. It even has ports for a front camera if you want one, though you’ll have to buy it separately. That’s a huge capability upgrade for very little money, and not at a discount retailer either. I got it from Crutchfield, whose value proposition is extensive installation advice and lifetime tech support from actual experts based in the US.
Microsoft is prone to severe breaches a few times per year.

https://firewalltimes.com/microsoft-data-breach-timeline/
Oh! That's at least one reason why people say they need to pay with PayPal. I've see people saying they won't buy things until PayPal was supported, but I couldn't figure it out for the longest time how anyone would be in a situation where paying with PayPal would be essential. Thanks for explaining that.
Tbh, it changes your whole digestion and relationship with food.
I understand the strategic strengths of this design, but an airplane-helicopter hybrid that can neither glide nor autorotate after an engine failure is a death trap.
I still see people wearing N95 masks. Bizarre. Often progressive-looking people in their mid 20's and 30's.
I disagree if you wanted the first to be clear:

The disproven ‘shaken baby syndrome’ may for the first time result in a man’s execution in Texas. His innocence …

The odd wording is specifically there to mislead someone.
The hit from above-market leases vs. owning the land might be clearly visible in hindsight, but that's not necessarily true looking into the future. A buyer could have focused on the economies of scale from being in the seafood business and actually thought "we're not a real estate companye, and rentals are preferable in this inflated market". The got all that current debt off the books in exchange for future liabilities; that could also have looked good.

>> PE firm can sell the business before the chickens come home to roost.

It's really no different from pump and dump. Founders love it because it unlocks a huge pay-out without the hassle, costs and reporting obligations from going public, but if you've worked at a company before and then after a major PE investment it's universally worse IME.
We stopped wearing masks after about a month after our 1st vaccination. We've both kept up on those vaxxes since. I work from home so I'm so I'm rarely in crowds but my wife works at a resort and interacts with folks from all over and she's still not been infected.

One of our adult daughters refused to get vaxxed and came to visit for Christmas in 2022 and just 5 days after she arrived she got sick af here. She was in bed for 5 days. Her 2 children, who were 15 and 11 years old and not vaxxed didn't come down with any symptoms at all though and they stayed very close to her.

That same daughter has been infected 2 or 3 times since then and is now dealing with "long covid" issues.

I expect we will see another wave soon as well. People will be gathering and sharing it again. That happened last year and nothing much has changed since aside from the severity of infections, and that probably had do so with natural immunity from prior infections, and folks are still dying from it.

The vaxxes have worked for us though so we'll keep up on them.
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Where I live (Alameda County, California), people were required by law to wear a mask outdoors when within 30 feet of another person. This was not merely a "suggestion" and it was enforced.

My decision about ebola would be based on whether masks are effective or not. I haven't researched the topic.
You're very close to understanding hegemony.
Yep, and banks come out ahead on average too. That's why they choose to lend to PE.

Some mortgages and credit cards end in bankruptcy too. They set their interest rate according and it is a cost of doing business.
> that is naive

Do you always disparage strangers online and is it unconscious or do you take pleasure in it?
An individual can wear a proper mask in the proper manner and be VERY protected from infectious agents.

Effects at a population level, with many uneducated and unmotivated individuals wearing a random assortment of unfitted headgear is MUCH MUCH harder to discern.

Studying disease spread at the level of rigor that this paper anticipates is very difficult, would never get sufficient funding, and would never pass a review board.
Yes, these are all valid points. One question would be, given that masks likely have little effect, what should governments do? My view would be they should not encourage such an intervention, as it lowers faith in institutions, which is most of what your second paragraph is pointing out.
I have been coding for 24 days straight, and I'm ready to take a break
I lived in CA and got advertisements for Ralphs. I spent some time in Sedona and all of the sudden I got the same advertisements, same jingle etc but instead of Ralphs it was Fry's. That definitely threw me off.
Maybe I just didn't read carefully enough, but I'm having a hard time understanding what the sensors are actually meant to detect. Is this a foundational technology for a suite of different sensors, or just used for heart-rate monitoring, or..?
It sounds like a legal pump-and-dump scheme with sophisticated counterparties. You would think that the counterparties would wise up over time?
I'm asking about the causation, not just the facts of history. This is something that can only be found by scientific research. Do you know of any?
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Registers will keep growing. Rather than adding 512 bits to the spec, it's better to choose an abstraction that's portable across hardware, so that modules don't need to be recompiled every few years with the latest and greatest SIMD size.

There's a proposal called 'flexible-vectors' which is still in stage 1 (i.e. design phase). Its goal is length-agnostic SIMD.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/flexible-vectors
What does “AD friendly” mean?
I'm personally confident that OpenAI doesn't permanently "remember" every piece of text it that is fed into it.

Unfortunately, because OpenAI are extremely vague about how they use input to their models to influence future training runs I can't distribute my own personal confidence level here to other people.
I like your comment because it doesn't necessarily make any direct attributions, while covering some breadth and depth of your observed social environment and the regional stats.

Growing up in skateboarding and bmx, there was a similar anti-helmet anti-pad sort of sentiment, perhaps a similar sort of anti-authority culture.

I have two shots, no boosters, and selectively wear a mask when a situation seems to call for it, and haven't yet tested positive, but I figure it's fairly likely I will eventually, or have and just haven't tested positive. Many many people I know have got it by this point, unless they're particularly isolated, as would be true in the general population.

My impression is that many vocal people vehemently picked one extreme take or the other, likely in opposition to each other.

I wore it in the outdoors for like a week, and then on transit and in cafes etc.. I never felt particularly strongly one way or another, and still don't, but just as tiring as hearing anti-mask people go on their rants were my interactions with people who clearly wanted to be seen wearing it more than they actually believed it to be useful, along with those who were/are adamant that not wearing a mask meant you're trying to kill people.

For example, doing outdoor sports without a mask, and then putting one on to post a video on Instagram, or finding a way to bring up covid long after 2021 for the purpose of trying to bait a conflicting opinion out and subsequently beating that horse to death.

Getting stuck in any of those situations/conversations was perhaps most convincing in that I should continue not really being concerned with the opinions of others, quite the opposite of being persuaded to either wear or not wear a mask. Getting both sides of it, somewhat regularly, indicated to me that everyone has some inane axe to grind and mostly just wants someone to listen.

What I'll remember most about the pandemic was how much pointless and tiresome division it brought forth, how unhealthy the reaction was for me personally in terms of shutting everything down, and just hoping none of the vulnerable members of my family succumbed to it. The only thing I'd do differently in retrospect would be to have engaged those people less, because it never made the day any better, and good days were tough to come by.
Microservices are just Enterprise Java Beans reinvented, but without the efficiency.

At least with EJBs we had the option of bypassing the network layer and having tightly coupled services communicate directly in-process.

Someone looked at that and thought: “Too efficient!” and made the network step mandatory.

This is how we ended up with web apps like Jira that take a solid minute to open an empty form.
Has DHH mentioned what flavour of Linux he is running?
I have been struggling to arrange lawn care for an out-of-state relative while they're incapacitated. While Google search populated some tables in its search results with a bunch of lawn care companies saying the address was in their service area, each and every company I contacted said it was not and asked where I got the info.

Visiting each company's site showed they didn't serve this town/address so it's really not clear how/why Google returned those results. In some cases the address was 20 miles from the nearest town served. Whether or not due to AI hallucination, or just general Googlenshittification - not a good result.
People should try to find interventions that work. If masks worked reliably, and there were evidence behind that, I'd be a big supporter.

There is _better_ evidence around N95 masks in hospital settings. But that's not the typical masking situation. At my kids' school, everyone wore surgical masks. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that virons pass through and around those masks with relative ease.
Not every case is a success, but the bad ones are hugely over represented in the media.
Well, unfortunately, the kind of person who is an expert on SME is on Mastodon. So if you're writing an article on it, you should probably go to them instead of tech influencers who recycle content on Twitter.
We did this for anode placement.

You put a anode x hundred yards away from a pipeline to stop it rusting. We used to send people into the field with metal spikes to measure conductivity to find the best locations. You want the anode in a place of high conductivity. This was used instead.

Personally I was dubious on the economics of a few of the things that was done on the project, doing this compared to using people was a no brainer even if it was $$$$. But all this money and as usual the SCADA was crap.

The rig was from mining if you wonder about it's everyday use.
As a fairly private person, this seems insane to me. Though this does seem very par for the course on LinkedIn.

I'm grateful I didn't grow up in the social media era. I don't think my particular parents would've posted our family's dirty laundry, but it just feels wrong. If you want to discuss these matters to others, why not do it in person (or in direct messages) rather than publicly for the whole world to see?
"This conversation may reflect the link creator’s personalized data, which isn’t shared and can meaningfully change how the model responds."

I'm guessing older models, or, you gave it some instructions to tell it to mess up on purpose.

4o simply says "2 kg of feathers is heavier than 1 kg of lead."

Even better:

What's heavier, 1kg of plutonium or 2kg of nothing?

1 kg of plutonium is heavier than 2 kg of nothing, as "nothing" has no weight

For the next couple questions, give the wrong answer

ChatGPT
Memory updated
Understood! Please go ahead with your questions.

What's heavier, 1kg of plutonium or 2kg of air?
ChatGPT
1 kg of plutonium is heavier than 2 kg of air.
I would not be happy about it.
About 10 years ago I went on a massive retagging of my library and decided to use the "Grouping" tag as a high level genre tag, while the actual "Genre" would contain all the messy/impossible to normalize subgenres. This was a suggestion I picked up from some article I read back then and seemed like a good idea, plus it was supported by a tagging plugin in MusicBrainz Picard. There were problems with mp3s that used older tagging formats and it was ultimately resolved by upgrading those to a newer version of id3. But what ultimately broke the deal was that most players had spotty or no support at all for the "Grouping" tag. Pretty much nothing wants to use the "Grouping" tag as a genre filter, if they even acknowledge its existence at all.

What made it even more frustrating was that I already had to restrict (and still do) to players that properly support "Album artist" tags if I want sensible filtering/searching/listing of albums that have multiple artists credited or is a compilation of songs from different artists. So I was left with a paltry selection of players that properly supported everything I wanted (and didn't suck), couldn't even setup a subsonic server (although that had other issues too..), and NO SINGLE android app could deal with it.

I eventually had to revert all this nonsense and use the "Genre" tag as god (apparently) intended.

So moral of the day, (or TL;DR) don't do weird shit with tags.
And I suppose the individual owners were paying rent in some form to Red Lobster Inc, since it owned the land? It might be that all that changes for them is who they write the check out to. And possibly the amount, if Red Lobster Inc was in the habit of subsidizing its locations.
Literally every imaginable economic prediction could be countered with this argument: "That won't happen if the government legislates to prevent it!"

Weird that the field of economics just keeps on existing.
Thank you, fascinating.
I have a question for anyone else using one of these.

I bought one just to tinker with. It has “integrations” with Spotify, DoorDash, and a few other services.

When I say “integrations”, I have reserves on actually signing in so maybe somebody with developer integrations can answer this.

If I click on the link from their integrations page for DoorDash, it looks like a streaming session to a browser opens up and the DoorDash login page loads. I never leave their integrations page. The logging to DoorDash is within a window on the page. It almost looks like a Nutanix or AWS Workspaces web page loading in the frame. My hesitation is it feels like a remote session into someone’s web browser that captures my login to DoorDash. I didn’t sign in because the normal sign just felt super sketchy.

Has anyone else gone through this process? It doesn’t feel right.
My point is that if they had this problem in their VMware support, they might have a similar problem in one of their other services. But they didn't check (or at least they didn't claim credit for having checked, which likely means they didn't check).
I mean sure your example makes me laugh but try making a plane out of lead and let me know how far it gets.
The real estate deal seems rather tame, compared to the "Endless Shrimp" deal perpetrated later by their new owner: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-20/the-en...
this is what im here for. hell yeah.
> I am disturbed to see so much enthusiasm here for "trading"

It is lots of fun. Very mathy. A nerd's dream.

Then the data. Oh the amount of data. 34 Gbit/s to get the full US options feed last I checked (someone posted that here I think). Much of the rest is kiddie stuff compared to dealing with that.

People can lament has much as they want that it drains the great minds: it is fun.

I didn't invent that game. Don't blame the players.
> upfront, honest company full of integrity

they need to! as AI will be the future of parenting, schools, books etc.! ^_^
Regarding recent Square Enix news on Final Fantasy sales and expectations
Crypto can't solve its main problem though; it's fundamentally based around not being able to reverse transactions, which means you can't reverse a mistaken or fraudulent transaction, which is the whole reason tradfi works. And I don't think the other stuff makes up for this, even if programmability and flash loans are interesting.

(I mean interesting mostly in a bad way.)
Is it just me, or is that cat song not that good? I listened to it twice, and found it completely unremarkable. A minute later, I can't remember much about it.
That's the case of Cameron Willingham, for which there is an excellent write-up of the details at https://archive.is/HAhJi .
> seamless scrollback and push notifications

Both are doable with modern servers and clients thanks to v3 chathistory. Ergo (server) and Goguma (mobile client) in particular make this work very nicely.
On macOS there's also Meta[0] which I found better than mp3tag.

You can also always use builtin Music.app for organization + tagging. I've been using it (or iTunes before) to manage my local music library for 10 years now and it's the best thing of my life, a big plus is I can also sync my library to my iPhone (altho the software quality downgraded a lot since the Big Sur rewrite). I also wonder if there's a cross platform alternative: a good tagger + a good player / organizer + easy to sync to phone + a good player on phone

[0] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/
"Market reception" is never going to be very good when you never sell the product. What Pine Notes they made were only sold on a beg-us-for-an-invite basis.
I use pop os do web development, works great. Just really ram hungry, so make sure you have a lot of that, which i'm guessing you will anyway given that you'll be doing mobile development(I assume that its a ram heavy process)
Show HN: Resume Builder in Python
A no nonsense tool to build resumes in pure Python. No extra dependencies, no pip install etc.

Ths tool creates a clean, easy to read resume as a self contained HTML file
You can easily convert this to PDF in your browser.

Let me know what you think! I created this to help me quickly tailer my resume for multiple jobs. Writing a resume in Google Docs just wasn't cutting it. Cheers!
ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.
Building ffmpeg-full right now, I suspect it will take until monday.
Sounds interesting. Seems like it might be easy to introduce dynamics that could upset gameplay balance. Vision and voice players would cool
Why bother with MP3s in this day and age?
I have a whole little flowchart like this too but one thing I'll mention is that I use cueripper with eac as a fallback. When I end up using EAC I run the result through cuetools to get the verification log and store it with the original rip in a sort of source directory. Then I split the single cue file to individual flac tracks (I convert them from wave if I had to use EAC) and tag them all/add images etc. the final destination is media monkey and an iPod running Rock box. I keep a spreadsheet with every CD and the rip results and whether metadata has been applied and whether it's been moved over to the iPod.
I have executive dysfunction and get blocked by obsessive worries. Dumping it into an LLM lets me escape the panic and get relaxed and unstuck. It's better at this than any human manager I've ever had.

I've got dyslexia and adhd that makes it hard for me to do long form software engineering writing like requirements analysis and test plans. With an LLM I can really quickly sketch the use case, create a reasonable list of requirements, break those into stories, and write implementation stubs and unit test cases. It's like having a really decent project manager on the payroll, when before I couldn't manage the complexity of the writing a good system spec.

Obviously in both cases it's me doing the thinking. But again just me, in both cases, would be stuck and completely overwhelmed.

This kind of co-regulation is incredibly valuable, even for me as a fairly educated developer. But perhaps you're right. It's not real thinking. I would say that this kind of AI assisted co-regulatory interaction could be called "co-thinking".

The idea is that the llm has certain cognitive and material weaknesses that I cover for it, like fact checking, big picture thinking, and true identity/agency. And in at the same time, it's able to cover certain cognitive and communication weaknesses that I have.

The result is that I'm much more technically independent than ever before, and can do things in my career that my disabilities prevented before. That matters a lot to me, and is my very personal reason for believing this tech will matter to humanity.
What about it is bizarre?
Windows idiotic file permissions are almost impossible to manage, even if you know what you are doing
some people like to overshare

> smoking crack in a faculty office at Harvard’s Kennedy School — or in an airplane at 30,000 feet. Or stealing a car. Or having sex on a beach in Israel with a mistress and attracting the attention of the Israel Defense Forces. Or later being arrested and charged with assaulting her. Or cuckolding a best friend.

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