skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Stuff like Julia/Clojure/MATLAB/Erlang/Go come close, but each have poison pills that make reaching the mainstream untenable."

they have 'mojo' now but it might be proprietary like matlab or mathematica
My girlfriend is an oncology social worker and sees patients who lament that they waited until retirement to fulfill all their dreams of travel, etc. and then got cancer and realized there's a big chance they will never achieve almost any of them.

For this reason we decided not to wait to live life and moved onto an RV two years ago and have visited 20 states and two Canadian provinces while I work full time and she works part time, both remotely, often over Starlink (as I type this now from a small RV park in the Yukon).
Phind (#2 on your list) is still up and running also (https://www.phind.com/search?q=false%20negative&source=searc...).
People use Reddit because the alternative is blogspam. When I try to find DIY or home improvement advice, I see the same points repeated without much detail. The articles are intended to push Amazon affiliate links or other services.

I want to see real problems other homeowners are facing and the knowledge many other homeowners have to fix it. That's not something I see on any platform other than Reddit.
For a while I viewed Jupyter as a toy that is neither here nor there (sitting between the chairs of development and explanation, briefing or visualization and not doing either job great). But about 2 years ago when I changed jobs into a "Jupyter heavy" environment I was forced to learn it and have grown to really like it.

I primarily use Jupyter for prototyping: trying ideas, plotting results and sharing notebooks for others to improve on (or punch holes in). Once a piece clearly shows promise I move it into a module. While this usually means a significant rewrite I actually see it as a benefit: I can be messy in original prototyping plus a rewrite after experimentation often leads to a better code with a small time investment.

Beyond the minimal self-discipline of actually moving code into modules I still have two three-character friction points: vim and git. Pointers on addressing those appreciated!

I would love, love, love a tight vim and Jupyter integration to be able to switch, easily and frequently, between editing a set of cells in vim and in Jupyter with solid sync between them. I am perfectly OK with vim ignoring the output. And I would love to have a git mode that only checks in the changes that cause actual differences in the python code; not timestamps or the output.
> Isn’t LBO the norm in industry?

No, it's one of many PE strategies. Almost all private equity firms utilize leverage in some form, but it's not universal and certainly not as extreme in all cases as the LBO shops.
You say this, but it’s only a matter of time until we get AI moderation.
Being a native East Tennessean, I’ve always had a slight preference for Cormac’s Appalachian novels, perhaps in part because the people (at least some of them…) and locations seemed familiar to me. What a loss.

I was pleased to see that the local NBC affiliate had made the announcement of his passing[0] the top story, but I was especially gratified that it describes him as “the author of Suttree, The Road, Child of God and several other novels.” It’s probably the only obit that will lead the list of novels with Suttree and relegate Blood Meridian to “several other novels,” haha.

[0] https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/cormac-mccarthy-dies...
twitter was never a good fit for rails anyway. twitter is basically a human pubsub at scale. Rail's bread and butter are simple crud based apps with nonlinear use patterns.
The community revived it to https://airmash.online/ pretty sharpish, does this count as dead?
I've been using GPTPlayer with my GBDK project. Is there any benefit to me switching to HUGE?
I've set the option on the below page to UTC

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status#settings

As I'm logged in, it persists across browser sessions.
Unfortunately, the react-mjml library is no longer maintained: https://github.com/wix-incubator/mjml-react#notice-this-proj...
if the initial array is going to be of fixed size, why not:

typedef struct HashTable {
Entry *buckets[4];
int nBuckets;
} HashTable;

which removes one layer of dynamic memory management.
Daniel Ellsberg, 1968

> You will deal with a person who doesn’t have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you’ll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You’ll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you’ll become something like a moron. You’ll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours.
If you want to go an run inference/train on one of these fresh and sweet LLMs using bitsandbytes/PEFT, which is really where the excitement is at, you gotta use CUDA pretty much. This is the story now. And the story for the innovation before was the same. Use CUDA, or wait for AMD to catch up a year late and with a worse version of everything.

I mean, sure, you could compile your stuff to XLA or just, I dunno, set up 800 of these cards and train the whole thing on ROCM. But then would you really, really use AMD instead of some TPUs?

AMD made Machine Learning either impossible, unsupported or a chore on most of their hardware for years.
Their stack sucks and no one wanted to implement it, and in fact they rarely supported most of their own GPUs.

Yes you have GPUs. But we need also drivers. And software. People have been yelling at AMD about this for years and years.

Instead, AMD has made it clear that Machine Learning is not a priority for the company. Hence, they deserve the lack of traction. Investing in AMD hardware for ML has literally been a mistake at every point in recent history. Imagine if you bought a bunch of (insert last Gen card which is no longer supported by their stack) how dumb you'd look.

Releasing a GPGPU card now?
Honestly, why bother?
No one is gonna buy it.
I was surprised recently when looking at different hash tables that have been implemented in C to discover that the standard library includes its own hash table. They are even part of POSIX. There is a reason you have never heard of it, or if you have you have never used it. In true POSIX fashion they are close to useless. The implementation doesn't allow you to modify the table after it has been created, you have to pass in all the data when you create the table. There is no add or delete and you can't change any value you pull from the table. It also stores the data in a static area local to the function so you can only use a single table in a program at a time. It doggedly commits every C stdlib sin possible.
Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”
Why a throwaway for this post? Not like this is some deep whistleblowing or career risk.
OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing
Supercharged React Boilerplate with Atomic UI, Ant Design and Redux Toolkit
> The nature of dating is that the people who have a good experience dating get married, and so they stop dating. People who have only bad experiences keep dating. So the people who are eternally struggling have much more experience at it and have far more to say about dating.

It’s kind of untrue nowadays. Married people get divorced. People split. Plenty are not interested in marriage.

As a data point, I am a currently single average looking and averagely successful guy with no intention of ever getting married (I will probably settle into a long term relationship at some point but I’m not planning to in the near term) and who has dates (as much as such a thing exists here) semi-regularly when I feel like it. I have nothing particularly bad to say about the experience. At its heart, it’s just meeting someone new. It’s not particularly complicated or difficult hence my puzzlement.
Which competitor has the best reputation for transactional mails?
ALL water is recycled. And has been for billions of years.

Point to ponder: How many water molecules did you drink today that have been pissed by dinosaurs?
Why did they decide to make a retro game and then hire a member of the gbc homebrew community? The choices behind this are interesting. Even after somebody successfully convinced corporate to fund this game it's surprising someone else didn't say "we could do this in Unity for half the price."

It really only makes sense to me if someone on the corporate ladder was already a fan of the gbc homebrew community, or close to someone that was.
PE is the Ticketmaster of finance. They charge a bunch of fees, take a bunch of money, take all of the heat, and quietly funnel the money back to the founder/early investors/etc. who sold out but don't want you to know.
>People forget Ruby is also massively popular in Japan to this day

So are fax machines.
Does not look like there is a huge dip in new posts/comments. Except for that short time when reddit went down yesterday.
I've been using Jupyter Notebooks for 7+ years but keep failing to find a use case for JupyterLab.

JupyterLab feels like a clunky web based IDE. I check it every year or so and go back to Notebooks.

I used to and still run a Littlest Jupyter Hub: https://tljh.jupyter.org/en/latest/ for my org.

I keep thinking whether migrating to full blown JupyterLab is worth the pain.

With the improvements that Visual Studio Code has made in ipynb support there is even less reason these days.

The biggest thing keeping me on VS Code of course is full blown Copilot support.
Whenever I have to fall back to Colab I feel 2-3x less productive.

My workflow is:

* Notebook for exploration/fiddling around 90% of the time is spent here - keeping state open is so convenient

* Extract/export code to regular .py for production
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/51679/feasibil...
I'd even argue that any console that is no longer in production can be considered retro; after all, you're then dependent on secondhand consoles and repairs to be able to play things on them; they have become a finite product.
>You don't want to start there if you don't have to.

Of course (I was laid off last month, no dev wishes other devs to be laid off).
But to open up my cynical side for a bit: I also don't sympathize with these huge companies taking advantage of (what EVERYONE knew was) a temporary boon in tech and growing off of low interest rates proportions that would not be needed in 2-3 years.

I as an individual saved aggressively for when that bubble inevitably popped and I'd very likely be laid off (fears which came true. Twice.). These companies instead decided to throw all bets in, and I can't exactly sympathize when the obvious future called their bluff. If Reddit didn't have a war chest to help wheather the storm with, I just see that as myopic at best and greedy at worst.
Just from what I hear it seems like most go bad. Though I have to assume it's also a case of people are more inclined to complain when things go poorly.

I mean why would people write comments about how such a thing went smoothly and well. People do now and again but not usually spontaneously.

Part of why I felt I should share my own experience. Hard to know what % of PE acquisitions the workers end up liking vs. hating, but I bet it's not as many bad cases as it seems from media or online comments.
There a couple themes in this particular passage that really come through to me: steel/fire/stone, the holes in the earth being a “path”, the wanderers following a command they can’t comprehend. To me it evokes it’s a commentary on the weary fatalism of westward expansion, the grim meaninglessness/banality of evil of the nascent industrial revolution. I really love the idea of those exploring the west as a gang of bone-collectors, which tracks with BM’s ghastly but realistic scalp economy.
How do you figure? In a movie you bought a ticket, that ticket is your contract with the theater, whereas scraping content while logged out is more like filming a police beating.
I have never had a production issue in other regions due to a us-east-1 outage. The worst that ever happened was I had to wait to update a Cloudfront distribution because the control plane (based in us-east-1) was down, but the existing configuration continued working fine throughout.

I don't know what the architecture of IAM looks like, but somehow it's never suffered a global outage.

AWS is really, really good at regional isolation.
Some say it's more like approaching poetry than prose with his work. There is certainly causality and narrative development in his writing, but he often uses his magisterial command of language to impart a cosmic dimension to the simplest of instances or utterances.
Which standard body is that we?

It's has always been a subjective term and I believe it has more to do with output than consumption of resources during a compute cycle. There is no reason to try to dispute some claim to the term.
Preface: I'm with you on this.

But I think the targeting here is for a certain generation of companies where there is a very distinct backend/frontend split OR companies where everyone is a JavaScript dev (and the backend is Node). The backend folks send the email content and the frontend folks are responsible for building the presentation-layer stuff. The thinking here, I believe, is that those frontend guys do all their other work in React, so when they're given these transactional emails to build, they'd prefer to keep working in React. I think?
I only follow motorsports so the only sports subs I'm on are motogp, v8supercars and formula1.

The F1 subreddit (over a million subs)is one of the absolute worst places on the internet for any kind of discussion. It's totally dominated by The Hive Mind, dissenting opinions are absolutely unwelcome and the top posts on every single post are low-effort jokes, usually jokes that have been told a thousand times before. It's awful.

MotoGP (250k+ subs) is better, but still suffers from similar problems.

V8Supercars is quiet, but the discussion is of a far higher quality.

"Better than twitter" is a low bar to clear.
Nice try /u/spez
Excellent, so it should be easy for you to support your argument with the factual data to back it up instead of ad-hominem attacks.
> that sure has the feel of "if we wait it out the pigs will get hungry and be back at the trough on Wednesday."

And he's probably correct. Mark Zuckerberg once called Facebook users "dumb fucks" but plenty of people still use Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The addicts will return to the drug.
Yes, you make credit harder to get you reduce the amount of new money being injected into the economy reducing currency velocity and "taking" inflation.

The problem is balancing credit access versus outright making credit expensive to acquire.

Make it too expensive and you slow economic growth.

At least that's what the Keynesians say with a "fractional" reserve system. The only problem with this system is it benefits asset owners over labourers.
I would otherwise be 'on your side' but this is not a great take. Lockheed Martin's profits also help pay for pensions. Phillip-Morris as well. I don't think this makes their business actions a net good.
Looking forward to watch reddit corporate approved mods trying to deal with the platform. Lmao
Airmash still lives at https://airmash.online/ and there’s also a space mod - Starmash - at https://airmash.cc/

I apologise in advance for the hours you’ll lose to these (again?)
I choose Apple because I have more success with their first party stuff generally working well. The App Store is filled with junk so if they're "pure and simple" reason for being better is that curation, they're doing a terrible job.
> If your practice is worth $15 million

What on Earth makes a single-doctor practice worth $15 million when that doctor leaves? Or even $5 million, or even $1 million?

The patient list? It's a zero-sum game! Are these patients just going to stop getting medical treatment when their doctor retires? Or are they just... Going to go to the next clinic over?

There's something rotten here, and it's not PE buying practices. It's that the practice is worth much beyond the value of the particular physician working in it! If you're wondering why medical costs are ballooning in this country, shit like this is one of the contributors!
Its badge on a product's home page is to me a negative signal, but partly since it does still happen (quite a lot) - people do seem to use ProductHunt.

(I suppose I'd use it - and pretty much anything - but just not put 'omg #1' badge on my site, if I had something to launch myself.)

Completely tangential now, but I think its problem is right in the title - who is hunting a product? It's a complete echo chamber, surely nobody who doesn't have something to launch is actively using it - 'it's Wednesday so I need a new Gmail-integrating Jira spline reticulator'.
I find it so weird to look at the stock market to approximate this kind of metric. Stock prices have more to do with things like the ebb and flow of the risk profile of institutional investors, than with customer satisfaction with specific features.
Agreed. In the same vein I have seen this approach work well too: "make the issue a big deal, then be the hero that fixes it"

If you just fix it business as usual.. or prevent the issue then noone will care about you.
Many older word processors (the only ones I'm familiar with) used style "runs", which are simply an array of structs that contain startPosition, endPosition (or length) and then a bunch of style info in whatever way makes sense to them.

I worked on Ready,Set,Go! back in the day and also wrote my own styled editor for the Mac in the 90's.

One interesting thing about this is that you could use a lazy "adjustor" to remove duplicate or overlapping styles. No need to worry about it during typing or selecting. A low priority task could analyze the runs and fix them up as needed and no one was the wiser.

IMO, the hardest part about writing a word processor back then was font management. You had to construct width tables to be able to compose lines properly. This generally involved a bunch of poorly documented APIs and peering into opaque data structures.
> Am I supposed to have any respect for somebody selling out their employees and patients to vampires so they can retire to a beach

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.

> 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

Sounds like a buy-out strategy! Seriously. Berkshire Hathaway could negotiate good deal terms by making this promise.
Can’t wait until “No Country for Old Men” hits Broadway
I literally tasted a PE takeover once.

Those of you in Britain might remember a burger chain called Ed's Easy Diner. They had a shop in Soho, served really good "American" burgers and shakes. So good I used to yearn for them after I left the country.

I came back after a few years, and found they had expanded. I excitedly took my family to eat at one of the new branches.

I took one bite of what appeared to be my old favorite, spat it out, and immediately reached for my phone. The burger was now made of gristle instead of meat, other ingredients were worse, and the shake was not too nice either.

Indeed, it had been bought out not long after my previous visit.
This is my thoughts exactly. The app design and usability are fine enough, even pleasant in reference to using other modern social media apps. But what makes me sad is that I don't use any of those other social media apps for a reason. Specifically, I enjoy discussion and being part of a community, not just blindly consuming content and mindlessly scrolling. It seems like the era for that has passed though, at least in a centralized way.
At the end of the day though, I can't help but feel like myself and my countrymen are getting a raw deal.

Are high interest rates lowering the cost of groceries, gas, or the cost of living in general? No. Are they blowing up everyone's mortgages one by one as they come up for renewal? Yes. Why am I, an individual, being punished for other's mistakes and mismanagement?
That purple shake is so mysterious, it doesn't even have a database entry.

"Big Mac®, World Famous Fries® (Medium), undefined"
Using forum you have to scroll via dozens of pages while trying to follow discussion by reading separate comments divided by other comments. With reddit tree structure of comments you can easy and quickly follow discussion and votes helps you understand of significancy of each comments. Same as in HN btw.
I was going to post hex as an ideal option, I definitely do not miss dealing with jupyter and all the Python env related headaches, hex solves all of these and then the rest of the more UX related issues with notebooks. Definitely recommend as the best compromise for notebook based Python data analytics tasks
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the claim to the legitimate use of violence. That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state, or an entity acting in the effective capacity of a state, whatever it happens to call itself.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist:

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious.

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition The State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy

Weber, Max (1978). Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus (eds.). Economy and Society. Berkeley: U. California Press. p. 54.

<https://archive.org/details/economysociety00webe/page/54/mod...>

There's an excellent explanation of the common misunderstanding in this episode of the Talking Politics podcast: <https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/weberonleadership>

The misleading and abbreviated form that's frequently found online seems to have originated with Rothbard in the 1960s, and was further popularised by Nozick in the 1970s. It's now falsely accepted as a truth when in fact it is a gross misrepresentation and obscures the core principles Weber advanced.
It's interesting reading all of the stories of PE firms destroy businesses.

I've had those experiences, but I've also had the opposite experience. I used to work for a regional internet service provider/cable/phone company that was owned by PE. They poured a ton of resources into the business, improved our processes and standardized things so that we could expand to more regions.

Then they sold us for a nice chunk of money (for themselves, but employees got better pay and benefits under the new company). The new parent used our practices as the model to use across the whole business.

It was a good deal.
Those layoffs are the totally necessary consequences of the idiotic COVID overhiring these tech firms did and if you zoom out the problem is still the opposite: too many jobs are chasing too few job seekers.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/are-labour-m...
> A two day protest then returning to normal is a blip in the grand scheme of things.

People keep saying this. It's true of the vast majority of protests. And yet, they keep happening, and I don't think it's because they're completely ineffective.

I'll grant I don't entirely get it either, but here's my theory of how they work: by being a show of unity, protests are an honest signal of power. In any case where the party being protested against is not willing to cause mass civilian casualties, unified rebellion is a genuine threat. It's an even bigger threat in a democracy, or a commercial setting. It's also a signal of willingness to accept costs (not guaranteed honest, but it's still pretty hard to coordinate a bluff in public).