skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does PE survive? If these companies become instruments and now forced into bankruptcy, the PE must write off the bankruptcy (some economic advantage must exist for this path). But then the PE has to move on and find another company to possess, right? I wish we had Instant’s financials, they did seem to be selling well, so their value was based on expected sales/profit in perpetuity…bankruptcy stops that because bankruptcy has a cap, right?

I need help understanding how PE continues to exist, beyond the assumption that they got money out of the deal and will move on to another one…
You can if you have a flashcart
I've been having acceptable experience with it on my 32GB M1 MBP with the Apple Silicon build. I admit though, I don't use it as much on my work laptop as my home mini.
Apparently Alexa is down on the east coast, but not the west coast.
Its also reported that Roombas and Ring devices are broken on the east coast.
I just finished The Road last week. It was worth reading.

By sheer coincidence, the e-book version is currently on sale (at least I sure hope it's coincidental):

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Vintage-International-Cormac-McC...
No. It's all PDT.
Men suffer from "their own success" and are probably more romantic than women are overall and expect their relationships to be like dreams, hence they really can't put too much in a relationship that might fail, considering that the "market" is huge and it's hard to trust most people. It was way easier before to get laid, wasn't it?
Probably depends which rice cooker you have. My Zojirushi (highest-end non-pressure model when I got it a few years ago) clearly outclasses my IP for any kind of rice, though is much slower.

I used to have a Cuckoo pressure rice cooker that made the best rice, fast, but it eventually started leaking even after replacing the seals, and professional repair would have been prohibitively expensive in Canada
I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it.

I think it's because every sentence is pretty short.

These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph.

The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gluing parts together!

I wonder if they received a McDonalds presser, and I wonder how much of those are still human-in-the-loop.
If I had to guess it would be on some private mod chat like discord or something, and probably more than one subreddit mod group decided independently since it's a known way to protest. I am curious too, but it grew so quickly that establishing the origin would be difficult
https://johnnydecimal.com/10-19-concepts/11-core/11.08-the-l...

I couldn’t agree more. :-)

- johnny
Thanks for clarification. I'm not really complaining, just found it amusing. Still using the awards looks a little like tacitly supporting the system, and I even wondered if they help the submissions in the algorithm (if so, gilding would make more sense in that case).
Pushshift but even that is constantly down. It was offline since last month with API changes. Spez claimed they’ll fix it for approved mods only so the casual user is likely out of luck.
The Jupyter Notebook interface/server just opens singular notebooks (i.e. one notebook per browser tab).

Jupyter Lab is an IDE where you can open notebooks, files, terminals, etc all in one interface. Additionally, you can easily adjust the layout of open files (want notebooks side by side? Click one notebook's tab and drag it to one side of the screen. Want a terminal on the bottom of the screen? Open a terminal and drag its tab to the bottom of the screen. Want 3+ notebooks side by side? Click and drag. Etc).

I basically only use the Jupyter Lab interface when I'm working with notebooks (sorry about using the term notebooks so much, it's a synonym for a .ipynb file as well as the name of a server mode Jupyter offers).
He starts with the original Transformational-generative grammar in the late 50s, and then as more and more exceptions and complexities of language were found that didn't fit neatly into the transformational-generative model, the theory was extended to account for these exceptions, creating the Extended Standard Theory (syntactic constraints, X-bar theory), later revised to Revised Extended Standard Theory (restrictions upon X-bar theory, complementizer). Then we've got the addition of the Principles and Parameters theory (head-initial, head-final) in the 80s, which led to the Minimalist program as things had started to get out of hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_grammar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_and_parameters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_binding_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalist_program
I always heard the "Big 4" (white guys) were John Updike, McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. I think somebody like, the disgraced, Harold Bloom at one point said they were the last 'great', living American Authors.

To my surprise, Don DeLillo is still alive.
the fallout from doing so.
I'm skeptical that the studies cover income that far above the median actually.
I've only watched the movie. But after having watched it, I facetiously recommend that you only watch it if you are currently happy. Because damn, is it just the biggest fucking downer. It will make you more depressed after having watched it. So if you watch it while already depressed, I can't imagine the depths it will bring you to.

It's a good movie, and I'm sure a good book (consider it thrown on the backlog), but damn, so effectively bleak.
Why do you suppose Blood Meridian hasn't been put to film yet?
I have no idea what you're talking about and it doesn't really matter to me anyway. Enjoy your day.
To latch onto that analogy, the point of homework is to make sure you learn the topic.

So, if it weren't mandatory, handing it in isn't all that important as long as you're doing it. Indeed, in grad school, there was very little graded homework and most was just assigned with solutions given for anyone who wanted to do it.

So, to bring the overly stretched analogy back to projects, I think you shouldn't feel like you need to "finish" something if it meets enough of the goals you set for yourself.

Eg I spent months working on projects like custom OS's and game engines. But as the nature of those kinds of projects is to have endless room for growth, I just drew the line at some point that I had learned and done enough and could just drop them in whatever potentially buggy state they were in.
That’s a red herring. Ex post facto the activity of language use as a construction must supersede some enaction by capable actors.

This is a complete tautology in terms, and any dispute must therefore be over the ontology in which it is expressed. To elaborate how something came to be is not required to express that something is.
> he has no desire to become desirable?

Funny thing about that, it's women (for hetros) that are the determination of what is 'desirable'. As a man, I agree with a lot of those who are discouraged with dating and running through the unwinnable rat race.
comma.ai dude is making a whole company to achieve just that https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t...
What do you use to collect telemetry data?
I'm starting to view the relationship between the religious part of our society and the secular as being symbiotic in a sense.

What makes people defect from religious communities on the border to secular centers? Some combination of money, freedom, and power (to participate in shaping the wider society at scale). The cost of that defection is an uprooting and disconnection from "traditional values". I'm not as certain about this part, but part of it seems to be that it's easier to do the work of having and raising children on the border.

What makes people defect from the secular centers back to religious communities on the border? Just the opposite trade off -- less money, freedom, power. But you'll be more grounded and connected to a community, which can be immensely satisfying. And it's easier to raise kids.

Also I should note here that the borders and centers I'm talking about aren't necessarily physical -- in fact increasingly they are very much not, especially with the rise of remote work.

People in the secular center are doing a tremendous amount of very valuable and high leverage technical work to make a scaled civilization like ours function on a day-to-day basis. That's super important stuff.

People in religious (or cultural) communities at the border are doing a tremendous amount of cultural work to sustain a reserve of human values that can fuel those at the center when hard times come. Also super important stuff.

A balance in the tradeoffs between these places and a continuous cycling of people between them seems healthy to me.
Pressure cooking is magic. Your dhal is reliably done after 30 minutes, even with an old batch of beans. Before, I might have waited 2 hours, and dinner was till not ready because the beans were too old.
Is this in the context of students learning to code, or something else where they need to use the notebooks to supplement their study?
Yeah, but Quadros (and the AMD equivalents) are outrageously priced too.

Nvidia and AMD used to "let" their manufacturers double up the vram on gaming cards, but no more. Its pure, collusive, anticompetitive market segmentation.
Yeah employees would probably never be able to match the money offered by PE, but is assuming the second part too much of a stretch?
Ballou's criticism of PE fund managers being skilled in finance but not in operations or engineering is missing the point. A good PE fund manager understands the ins and outs of capital allocation and its long-term effects on corporate performance. A typical engineer or product company founder does not, and those who do are the exception. PE companies are never operators of businesses. They find (ideally) competent management teams and advise them in capital allocation. Ballou alleges PE buys to pillage and throw away the corpse. In truth, PE buys to sell, that's the only way to make good returns.

In a perfect world, they'd buy an under-managed, undervalued company, where necessary throw out management, bring in competent management, perform bolt-on M&A where it makes sense, improve KPIs, then sell a rejuvenated and much more competitive company 5-10 years later at a much higher multiple. Examples? Ingersoll-Rand, Brenntag, SS&C. Unfortunately, Ballou does not talk about the positive outcomes because they don't make headlines.
>TL;DR

We were able to recover secret keys from non-compromised devices using video footage of their power LED obtained by commercial video cameras.
AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2023 (Monday, June 19)
Depends on your customers.

If your customers are tech, they're too busy running around with their hair on fire too.
As a European-American dual-national this rings so true. I work in a tiny European tech company and it drives me crazy how challenging it can sometimes be to actually get people in the room simply speaking their mind on any subject. It’s a cultural difference that I think really holds back the pace of innovation.
Unless you interpret in a charitable way instead of a pedantic one. Is it just about pleasing yourself/looking good or is it about a moral imperative to help other people?
Why can't a small neural network do what LLMs do? Same reason animals can't learn human language. They don't have the capacity.

LLMs started getting interesting "all the sudden" when they hit a certain scale, just like biological brains.
Why get upset about reddit? There are places where you can say whatever you can be as toxic as you want, spread misinformation and defend putin, like voat.
You shouldn't dismiss the abilities of our fellow mammals too quickly. Of course they are very far from equal to us, but there are several species of mammals that have showed non-trivial use of language, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that all mammals have at least very basic language building blocks in their brain, even if vestigial.
I think you underestimate the ability of AI to literally solve this problem for almost nothing. The large subs can absolutely be automated moderation, if they're not already. Enough flags on a post? Just take it down, there will be 15 million new posts in an hour.
What I want to know, is how do the banks keep lending to PE outfits? They are surely the losers in this situation?
Right.

Seems like there’s opportunity to be the backend operating system to scale these practices.

That’s what PE is supposed to be anyway, but they don’t run it like an owner-operator would.
Well, you can keep using it after the company went bankrupt.
Pretty much any small city or regional subreddits. My favourite example is r/Toronto. It's about 600k users and I don't expect it to be very hard to manage because I used to religiously browse by new before it got neutered earlier this year and made completely useless.

Lots of posts the powerusers over the years have complained about and slowly got rid of are repetitive are things like pictures, questions, and touristy stuff. Those things were extremely popular and got lots of upvotes but a couple powerusers who browse new got tired of them, decided to troll every post they didn't like, and the end result was the mods caving to them and not allowing the posts anymore rather than moderating the bad users and letting the votes sort themselves out.

On top of that, in January they decided to make the rule to ban articles about crimes happening in the city unless it has a significant impact. They were going to run a user survey at the end of January to gauge its popularity. They decided not to and now rule 8 of r/Toronto is no posts about crime. Now r/Toronto is just a sanitized feed of .. pretty much nothing? I don't know what content gets posted anymore that isn't complaining about the Ford government or housing prices. It's pretty sad when we don't even get the news about what's happening in Toronto in r/Toronto anymore unless the mods feel like it's an important enough for the whole city to know about. Why do Reddit mods get to decide what's important to r/Toronto users? I don't believe the subreddit should "belong" to them just because they had first mover advantage and now they get to run a major city subreddit using whatever rules they want.

and no, it's not realistic to spin off your own subreddit and create a new one. It works with bigger places like Canada or Ontario, but Toronto is too small to support multiple city subreddits and you'll never be more popular than r/Toronto because that's naturally the place everyone is going to go to first.
Good luck! My own attempt failed because SSO is down.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status now it is showing. Lot of services are impacted.
I stop moderating it completely :)
Yes, UTF-8 was up to 6 bytes per character early on. Some broken implementations like MySQL's limit it to up to 3 bytes per character. The actual number is 4.

So what is "up to 5"?
Cormac and the main character was a child of God, much like you or I.
I support the blackouts but

> Reddit isn't even profitable. Hiring mods for thousands of subreddits would cost them a ton of money, not only in wages but in the cost of finding and training those workers.

They don't need to. Aww (36m), music(32m), videos(26m), futurology(18m), me_irl, and abrupt chaos are some of the biggest ones, if they seize just those 6 then they've reclaimed most of the r/popular anyway.
Get used to it, it's probably at least partially generated by ChatGPT which really likes fluffing up the prose.
yep i always go by pre-discount total
I am not fancy enough for the corporate tents. :D
Johnny here. I think more people should apply this at work.

I work on large IT transformation projects and the disorganisation and resulting waste of time and money is borderline criminal.
I have been using VSCode notebooks with .ipynb file extensions, this gives me many advantages as I am able to configure things I'm not able in JupyterLab. I also have access to a very rich ecosystem of plugins. If there is anyone aware of VSCode as a solution but keeps using JupyterLab, could they explain why?
Or stardate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It remains to be seen who blinks first.
Traffic light systems are designed using software such as LINSIG, TRANSYT, CORSIM/TRANSYT-7F or VISSIM.

Per wikipedia different countries use different systems over time:

e.g. Sydney: 3,400 traffic signals co-ordinated by the Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS). Designed and developed by RTA, the system was first introduced in 1963 and progressively developed since then. By October 2010, SCATS was licensed to 33,200 intersections in 144 cities across 24 countries worldwide, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, Tehran and Minneapolis and Detroit.[19][23][24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coor...
You can buy flashable game boy cartridges on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gameboy-flash-cartridge/s?k=gameboy+f...
The deprecation of setuptools is a joke. There's no replacement. What PyPA does is that they produce ever more bullshit wrappers for setuptools pretending they are doing something new.

I think that by "apt packages" you mean DEB packages. As someone who has to package a lot of Python both for RHEL and for Debian-like... well... so far and in the observable future, setuptools isn't going anywhere. On the other hand, I could easily do without it, and sometimes do. But it's not because PyPA produced any replacement to it. It's because I simply grow frustrated with how bad of a tool setuptools is, and I just write my own.

The claims PyPA makes about setuptools are because nobody wants to support that project anymore. It's awfully written at every level, from the minutia of formatting and up to the high-level design decisions. The problem is that everything else that PyPA came up with so far is a joke. The only reason I keep paying attention to it is because I'm being paid to fix problems created by using it.

I'm also going to tell you a secret... well, of sorts. DEB, and RPM too are also pathetically bad... since you seem to have some experience with DEB -- to assemble this stuff you typically have to use a bunch of Make macros. Excruciatingly painful to debug. Virtually no documentation and very few people who could help you if you have a problem. And, when it comes to Python packaging, things also changed over time. Not so long ago I saw some write-up about how to package Python including virtual environment in the package. In truth, if I were a distro maintainer, and someone came to me with a package like that, I'd told them to try elsewhere. It's a sign of disrespect to the efforts of the distro maintainers to assemble a working and coherent system. But, guess who does stuff like that? -- big companies, like Amazon or Microsoft. Instead of spending effort to figure out how to play nice with the distro's packages, they distribute a huge blob that's not humanly possible to audit.
> Why wouldn’t you use every available, easy to use mechanism to broadcast a message?

Because continuing to use reddit broadcasts a different sort of message: they're a bunch of addicts who will come crawling back.

> Clearly the actual organizing is happening on a variety of channels including Discord.

All the more reason for them to quit using reddit...
> gigantic brokenness of the whole software ecosystem

If you mean the employing organization and its ignorance, I agree. For most organizations today, their value is locked up in technology and those who maintain it. The rest of the business (non-technical people) are essentially overpaid punching bags for everyone to smack around. In an ideal world programming would not be a special skill, but just another means of communication.
s/whole AZ/whole region/
From what I can see, women are statistically more OK to accept and fit in. Men are more likely to become the challengers and want to have their share of the pie.

We didn't just create opportunities, we also stigmatized challenging the status quo and shifted the focus to complying and keeping the lights on. Many men would find this deal kinda empty, pointless and ultimately depressing.
Just use Chat-GPT. The future of moderation. What could go wrong?
IIRC, there is a strong correlation with higher education (rather than the job itself) - it's just that most professors have PhDs.
Reddit will be in some trouble when Google traffic begins to drop.
Punctuation sentence structure not.
What is this advanced fee scam for sysadmin jobs?
An acquaintance has applied for a sysadmin job that supposedly advances $4,500 from a Wells Fargo account. For context, this person is 62 and has no sysadmin experience. Obviously a scam--but how does the scam work?
It’s clearly a marketing play. They want press and what better way to appeal to gen z and millennials who like vintage hardware or ironic humor
Why is starfreakclone green? The username I mean.
i started it just as my first child was born. i quickly stopped and never wanted to go back.
That awkward moment you realize Reddit is in a better position to win this war because people like us just want to have a digital place to spend time, not fight a war.

Truth be told I don't care much about all of this, I just want my subs back or replaced so I can mindlessly scroll them. Wasn't using a third party app, but if I was I'd probably feel unhappy for a week before I simply switch and don't think back.
Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food?

The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad.

I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.
The fact of the matter is unless your company is very mature, getting 3 big features to prod in a month even if that means bringing down some system for awhile is generally much more valuable than getting a single feature out with zero downtime.

As the company and number of devs grow, the probability of a dev doing something stupid increases substantially, so those early mistakes can actually be quite valuable in showing where your infrastructure has gaps.

Let the imperfect code happen early, it often leads to free chaos-testing and more stable infrastructure.
Looks fantastic!

Just FYI there was a full travel keyboard for the ZX81 back in the day (and I own one):

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/hardware/dkTronicsKeyboard
https://t-lcarchive.org/dktronics-keyboard/

I should get it out and take some good photos ...
Touché. Still I'd rate the overall reliability of AWS higher than Azure; and even if that weren't the case, security issues make Azure look like a very poor choice.
I agree, I believe that this high difference between women and men in higher education comes from men being sufficient with a "physical" job that pays almost as a "mental" one. Women just can't these jobs and they have to choose between working at McDonald's or trying to find a job using a Bachelor's degree. Men have many more alternatives, hence the "unequal" pay.
> Sometimes finishing is just the beginning: You release the library, the package, the SaaS product, and your work is really just beginning. Users have issues, customers have feedback, and dependencies need upgrading. In some sense, there is no finished software; there is only released software.

Translation: "Please get locked in to using GitHub"
They're almost certainly not going to stop making Instant Pots. This is a chapter 11 bankruptcy -- the kind where the business gets restructured but continues to operate.