skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So glad to see Dolthub got their DB up and running! We spoke a few times early in your process for insurance, looking forward to seeing that land.
I really wonder if it would be better to go the other way.

Mods take a break, and just let the bots shit allover the content.

It takes like 20mn of un-moderated internet before it's all ads and spam...
Reddit is basically reddit because of the carefully curated posts.
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Opti...
I tend to ignore screeds about inflation that don't incorporate people's expectations as a source of inflation.
Nothing worse than people who say "9 AM my time" I suppose it's OK if it's Pacific vs Mountain but even there Arizona doesn't observe Daylight, and parts of Eastern Oregon are Mountain, not Pacific.

Never mind dealing with India, Australia, etc etc.

OK to use local time in your statement, just say what that time is.
How have you come to that conclusion?

Just earlier this month Reddit started having issues with follower spam -- something that was specifically a problem because it bypassed volunteer mod control and Reddit was doing a shit job taking care of it. There were tons of threads about how to turn off those notifications.

Just yesterday Musk was lamenting about how bad the bot situation on Twitter has gotten recently.

And none of that even gets into keeping content on topic for a community, just straight up spam.
Usually us-east-1 is deployed to after several smaller regions. Usually it'll fall in the middle of the week depending on the pipeline.

Just because a feature is there on launch day doesn't mean it was deployed to first. Features are often hidden behind flags that are switched for launch.
You really really like to straw man in a conversation, don’t you?

Stay focused on the original point. A small group of flag waving Nazis protested at Disney world and you were concerned about living amongst them. I conveyed my long experience that I have not encountered hardly any of those people in my decades of living here and that I found the state diverse with population that enjoys living here.

Your rant here simply does not change my lived experience.
Yep, all correct. The sleight of hand comes just before bankruptcy when the assets are stripped and sold to a different entity so the debtholders are screwed with worthless assets and are stuck filing longshot lawsuits to recover assets while the ghouls who raided the company invest their ill-gotten proceeds while tying the mess up in court for years.

https://archive.is/LsqUp
That's Mega, the one that still exists. MegaUpload the previous one didn't really have the same encryption.
Havou tried pipe-viewer or piped/invidious?
I'm very slow at doing things, because I consider things too much, I very much believe this is the main skill I need to work on, because the quicker you do something, the quicker it goes wrong, so you can course correct.

The book Creativity INC by Ed Catmul talks about this and they actually studied it at Pixar and they discovered the teams that moved faster were the best, the teams that considered everything for much longer, were wrong just as much as the teams that moved quickly, the only difference is because the other team moved quickly they could course correct sooner and also they were less tied into there original idea, so happy to drop it and go the other direction, were as the team that was slower and more considered took longer to drop the non-working idea, as they dug deeper and tried to make it work, since they were more invested in it.
Why not learn these skills? If they're just pet projects it doesn't matter if they don't look perfect right away.
> That's because the government is a monopoly on buying those services from the service providers

That's called a monopsony: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopsony.asp

"A single buyer dominates a monopsonized market while an individual seller controls a monopolized market."
> They aren’t looking for “status” they are looking for someone who is emotionally intelligent.

That’s what they say, and that’s what women’s magazines have told them. Reality is the opposite, and has been demonstrated over and over both a scientifically and informally.

Or to put it another way: the reason even the hottest 1% of women complain about men’s poor EQ is because they’re not optimising for it when choosing a partner. They’re partnering with the matching top 1% of men based on social status and wealth, and every attribute unimportant to women has a random value. That’s why even attractive women with their pick of partners will complain about men’s EQ. They don’t care enough to choose a man with high EQ, but they care just enough to complain about it.

It’s like someone buying a Tesla and then bitching about minor quibbles. If they cared about those issues they would have bought a Toyota.
Is it bad I can’t even finish reading the article?
> The only counter for this is if x86 can crank performance per $TCO so far that the non-x86 branch can't compete in business terms, which has historically been the issue with ARM.

If we take AWS for example, isn't the performance per TCO better of an Arm-based Graviton instance better than x86? I don't think the historical issue you cite represents the future.
> In my opinion, the physician in this example is a monster. Profit maximization is a choice, not some kind of moral imperative.

They've had a career of treating patients. I think they've satisfied the moral imperative already. And selling to PE doesn't necessarily equate to "profit maximization". It could just mean "decent sale". As the OP said, often there simply isn't anyone available to buy it out at the timeline it needs to be bought out.

> The solution I'd want to see for situations like this is to find a way to sell to the people who have a continuing interest in how the business is run: employees and customers. The "exit" that does right by all interested parties would be something like having a newly formed employee coop gradually buy out the founder's ownership stake.

I don't doubt that this can work (it has for other businesses!). However, a given doctor wants to retire soon. Can you point him to a concrete plan to set this up? As in a firm that will have said plan ready, does all the legal work, and manages the terms with the existing employees/customers? The doctor already has his hands full treating patients and running the business.

If you cannot point him to such a resource, then do you see why he'd just sell to PE?
sounds like reddit want to kill all third party apps which is a bit unfortunate but this business practice is not very uncommon (Apple/Google with their 30% fees).
Choosing to do nothing is also a choice.
TBH, there are also quite a few posts here in this thread where my internal ChatGPT detector goes off. The funny thing is, they could also very well be meant ironically, and I can't really separate this anymore.
OK, misread the tone of your previous comment.
I leave it to YOShInOn, the smart RSS reader I have been dreaming about since 2005. YOShInOn ingested 2054 articles (not all about A.I.) and picked out 300 to show to me based on a transformer model. I make thumbs up, thumbs down or favorite jugements on the articles in an interface that looks like TikTok or Stumbleupon. One feed it ingests is

https://arxiv.org/list/cs/new

and it's learned that I really like anything about reccomendation systems, text classifiers and many kinds of deep network but that I'm not so interested in reinforcement learning, theoretical CS, etc.

I had a fight with it early on when it struggled to understand that I liked the NFL but not the Premier League but in the process of understanding why I read so many articles about football and I started thinking "Wow, they won that game 1-0 and it was an own goal" and wondering "How would I feel if it was my team that got relegated?" and before I knew it I cared if Man City or Arsenal came out on top...
The main page https://gkoberger.github.io/ that the https://gkoberger.github.com/ link suggests going to gives a 404 as well. Could be a good idea to add a main page for https://gkoberger.github.io/ that links the StackSort page and anything else
Thanks! Lurk looks cool too -- similar, but more in a complementary way I think in that users have to click out of Apricot to read/watch/listen to the content vs. how Lurk brings the content into an embedded browser. Looking forward to seeing it in action!

Apricot's search is a mix -- for a couple platforms, I do call the search endpoint. For the others (including YouTube), it's postgres full-text search. It's a starting point, but it doesn't do fuzzy search, even in this limited lexical task. "mr beast" is a good example -- try searching for "mrbeast" (no space) and you should see it.

I like your idea for finding content, I think it makes sense for what you're doing with Lurk. Are you worried about response time, or is it more of an interactive tool for Lurk users?
Hillcoat made The Proposition, which is a very McCartyesque film in its bleakness and violence. It's a great movie, written by and scored by Nick Cave.

I thought his adaptation of The Road was fine (though maybe a book that doesn't need an adaptation), and he hasn't done anything interesting since then, in my opinion. But Blood Meridian may be better material for him.
The mods have virtually no control over the situation. Reddit can change their passwords and just have employee moderators from now on.

If I was running Reddit, this is what I would be planning right now.
BacklinkGPT: Creating Outreach Messages at Scale
Happy to announce another major version upgrade with improve UI and UX. Would love to get your guys feedback on the product!
Awesome, now three-letter agencies can crank thoughtcrime prevention up to FAANG scale. What could go wrong?
This problem seems statistically unsolvable unless people make vast behavioral changes.

The education gap will not be closed, it might even grow further apart. A significant amount of men will continue to work in blue collar jobs and thus will never meet the standards of being highly educated and/or wealthy. There's exceptions, some are making a killing, but on average not really. To make matters worse, there's a growing political gap between blue collar men and white collar women.

Another portion of "lost" men are described in the article as the unemployed gamers. A portion of them might be incels. The main thing to understand about this group is that even if they do better themselves, it's still not going to be a match. Because quite likely they're socially awkward and physically unattractive, struggle to socialize and make friends.

Bottom line, the popular phrase "men should step up" isn't going to work out. You're waiting for something that simply isn't going to happen. You can make of that situation what you want: opt-out and don't compromise on your standards, or deal with the cards given.

My advise: look for character in a person. The obsession with status, education and wealth is inhumane, superficial and greatly self-limiting. Character lasts. If a person is structurally kind, responsible, reliable and has a steady job, who gives a shit about anything else? Combined with your own "educated" income, it would be plenty to run a family. Why price yourself out of the market with steep financial demands? For additional luxury? A bigger house? One you never attend as you're always at work? Get real.
I've been wondering if there's a good algorithm to handle highlights in a piece of text. If I highlight some text, lets say the part between the => <= here:

"Idioteque" is a song => by the English rock band Radiohead <=, released on their fourth album, Kid A (2000).

If I want to then edit this text, is there an efficient algorithm for figuring out the start and end index of the highlight for the edited text?
I was wrong, it was St Louis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57521756

Mr Callahan described the demonstrators as a "racially mixed and peaceful group, including women and children", who had made a wrong turn on the way to their protest. There was no evidence the group was armed, he said.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/video-shows-gate-was...

Video shows gate was intact when St. Louis couple pointed guns at protesters
Videos and photographs show the couple pacing on their Portland Place property, periodically pointing the weapons at the crowd

For the Yelling
I've seen a lot of people yelling about killing people. People act out, 'verbally'. Typically they calm down. Yelling didn't use to be a crime, especially with a death sentence.
I really like the analogies of SLC (simple, lovable, and complete)[0] and “I’m the only user”[1] to motivate how I finish my projects. Often times I have a project I’m working on and my imaginary perception of what a user needs is steering the development. Whereas, in reality, I just need the thing to work for myself and I can pretty it up how I like.

[0] https://herman.bearblog.dev/mvp-vs-slc/

[1] https://blubsblog.bearblog.dev/i-am-the-only-user/
Funny, I was really hoping this deal would go through so I can play Blizzard games on Geforce Now (who just entered a 10 year agreement with Microsoft)
Pensions should be outlawed. If employees want retirement savings they should be given money for 401k plans, not outdated and inefficient defined benefit plans.
> he has had a commendable commitment to free speech

and a love of r/jailbait
My recollection is that during the Google+ period, Google changed their indexing and basically destroyed every other forum. Things that were first page results dropped out completely and lost virtually all of their ad revenue.
> Reddit is fully within their rights to seize the subreddits from their unpaid moderators

Sure. Technically they are within their rights to do that.

Would it be good for them to do so? Probably not. It'll piss off their user base. As others have mentioned, it'll open themselves to lawsuits due to content moderation. It'll cost them a lot to pay people to moderate these communities, which they currently get for free.

> I would expect them to [seize the subreddits] if they're gearing up for an IPO

See above. This would make them less profitable and most likely negatively affect said IPO.

> ... I was frustrated - not at Reddit, but the unpaid moderators who believe they have some sort of self-ordained right to manipulate a company.

It's not self-ordained. They're doing what they are allowed to do with these subreddits, at least until Reddit takes away their moderator access.
The best solution I found to this logjam was this quote:

> "Make haste slowly." - Baltasar Gracian
> What on Earth makes a single-doctor practice worth $15 million when that doctor leaves? Or even $5 million, or even $1 million?

He just pulled a random number. But to answer your question for $1M - equipment for one thing...? The business likely has a fair amount of debt on the equipment.
When I worked there, there were few hard and fast rules. Every team had its own release processes, so there was a lot of variance. It has been a couple of years, so this may have changed.

Typically, a team would group their regions into batches and deploy their change to one batch at a time. Usually they follow a geometric progression, so the first batch has one region, the second batch has two regions, the third batch has four regions, and so on. This batching was performed for the sake of time; nobody wants to wait a month for a single change to finish rolling out.

One reason not to deploy to us-east-1 in the first batch is so you don't blow up your biggest region. The fewer customers you break, the better.

One reason not to deploy to us-east-1 in the last batch is that there are a lot of batches. If a problem is uncovered after deploying the last batch, then someone has to initiate rollbacks for every single region.

Some teams tried to compromise and put us-east-1 in one of the earlier batches.
The selling point of Reddit, though, is not that r/popular is the greatest list of links ever created. The selling point is that you can tailor your links perfectly to your tastes, right? Good luck to them.
Thanks. What if the victim does not sent back the overpayment ?
It is relevant to note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs which now presents itself as a US instead of an Israeli company taps telco records globally by selling them managed billing services. Even has a DOX stock code. Brilliant play! Mazel tov!
One of the Montessori schools in SF (across the street from blue bird hq) was bought by some Miami PE fund… that and some other data points informed our decision to pass on it.
Same old story, meanwhile i'm still looking for the ai. Where is the ai...
> Nobody else will buy it. The alternatives are shutting down the practice or forcing oneself to keep working. Particularly in medicine, the latter is dangerous.

Can't you just hire a "CEO" who will take over all management responsibilities?
Subscribe to the subreddits you enjoy (regardless of size) and ignore the rest. You are not forced to view content from the big subs.
There's nothing preventing the formation of galaxies, stars and planets if you take away dark energy. Dark matter is not as clear cut but it's still likely to be unimportant.
You've got a few numbers there, and I'm really really curious about the whole story.

Besides killing the company/jobs, the debt-holders are left holding the bag?
The insurance database (transparency in coverage) is here (also open data):

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/transparency-in...
It's both. The long-term improvements have to be done in small increments too.
> Now, as a disclaimer, I should remind you of the rule that anyone writing a blog post advising against X is himself the worst Xer there is. At work, I have a history of painful languished projects, and I usually have the most overdue assignments of anyone on the team. As for writing, well, I have been working on this little blog post, on and off, no joke, for six years.

And, amusingly, it currently loads really slowly too.
> I've often wondered why people use Reddit for stuff like this since the information and conversation management and organizational tools seem vastly inferior to most any pre-Reddit forum software.

Phpbb-style forums are a mess. Simultaneously too ordered and not ordered enough - you don't get threaded replies, but you do have to put everything in the right topic and the right forum. No notifications that do the right thing.

For years I remember forum makers refusing to offer a "just notify me when someone's replied to my question, otherwise don't bother me" feature on the grounds that it would destroy participation. IMO the main reason Reddit won is that it offered just that.
I liked the part in which he pointed out that on the Linux kernel, he could get a fix within an hour, while on NT he had to wait a year. His general emphasis on open source is very encouraging. I didn't know he came around like that.
I’ve always interpreted it as post holes as they fence in and close the Wild West.

He uses an implement with two handles and he chucks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rock which God has put there

A post hole digger has two handles. When you’re using it in rocky ground you hit rocks and make sparks.

Picture:

https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/ed49f7f1-a...
+1 for Jupyter Book. I had to fight with it a bit for some things around LaTeX/PDF generation, but was very pleased with the result.
Price controls are rarely the best option (there are price controls, e.g. utilities are highly regulated). But in general you should address the causes, not try to mess with the outputs. E.g. break down the monopolies. The only reason those were allowed to raise their head again was the promise of efficiency and lower prices. I think they forgot it.
Would be curious how long ago you tried this and what your setup is? The lowest spec machine I have is a Windows 10 machine with an i7 and 8 GB RAM and it is super responsive on the latest version of VS Code.
Instant Pot just got knifed by PE.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758602/instant-pot-bank...

> The other reason it’s absolutely got to keep growing is that there are expectations placed upon it by Cornell Capital, the private equity firm that acquired the Instant from its founder in 2019 and merged it with Corelle Brands, which makes all the Pyrex and CorningWare products you probably heat up leftovers in.
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> Sometimes you don’t have to grow at all costs. You can just be very good at one thing
> Doctors partner with the person that will take over their practice for years before retiring. PE is destroying this system and the latest crop of doctors will lose out on mentorship and the opportunity to run a practice. Everything will become big corporate offices and everyone will suffer

Of all the doctors I personally know, only one was interested in working in such a practice (let alone owning one). Where is the existing doctor going to find other doctors to partner with? Especially when they can get paid more to work elsewhere?
Anyone have experience with JetBrain's Data Spell product?
It's not happening now because some of us respect property rights.
I posted a comment about AWS Media Convert down below, but it's back working for me.
Doctors are a cartel. Every organization that artificially controls the number of doctors is run by doctors.

Ofc, no individual doctor is malicious, but their continued support of what's effectively a 5-10 year hazing is at the core of the issue.
I’ve been experimenting with sliding window chunking using SRT files. They’re the subtitle format for television and have 1 to _n_ sequence numbers for each chunk, along with time stamps for when the chunk should appear on the screen. Traditionally it’s two lines of text per chunk but you can make chunks of other line counts and sizes. Much of my work with this has been with SRT files that are transcriptions exported from Otter.ai; GPT-3.5 & 4 natively understand the SRT format and the concepts of the sequence numbers and time stamps, so you can refer to them or ask for confirmation of them in a prompt.
how were those moderators chosen the first time around? what's to prevent them from repeating that selection process? it might take a bit of work but the circumstances seem to merit at least that much.
Please point out easily found reports of the US governemnt kidnapping citizens and then torturing them and daring them to say something about it like happens on the regular in China and Russia and N. Korea. So yeah sorry, not the same. Do I think TLAs spy on US citizens without warrants or any good reason at all. Absolutely, but we aren't quite up to CCP/Russisan standards just yet.
I don't think you're really addressing the question with the hospital example nor the others. I could be the senior engineer of Amazing Inc., as well as a jacked high level MMA fighter and gracious altruist - beloved by all known to me - but if someone who knows the hospital admins walks in they are of course going to get some preferential treatment. This sort of "I know a guy" status that gives you a leg up on other people _regardless_ of their status doesn't really capture the essence here, I think.

I had an absolutely massive post written but I think it might be easier to ask, what do you think a low status person is?
The web is full of junk, and so is Android. I don’t expect Apple to eliminate apps I don’t like from the store, and I’d say Apple’s first party stuff is part of the curation. You might prefer the store was open, but that clearly isn’t a priority for you.

But you refute the GP’s other point in any case - you think their first party stuff is great, which he seems to dispute.
I don't know where you get the idea that private medical practices are unsellable... It is very common for retiring doctors to sell their client base/practice to other doctors in the same field.
"privileged commies" is a fascinating oxymoron. Is that really how you think of the people that disagrees with you?