skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I think it's a historical anomaly, product of nation states which we are just now (or perhaps we just were) winding down from. WW1 and WW2 begot General Electric, The European Union, IBM, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Central Business District which were needed to create the organizational scale and ability to conduct war on the nation state level.

When people left the military they went to familiar environments. You "paid your dues" just like a private did. You stayed with the same company. Etc. But that's all changing. Historically that was not the case (well historically we didn't really have companies for that long, but you get the point). So I think we will revert to a more natural flow, which is more decentralization and fragmentation. I think this is inevitable, but I wish/hope/want to avoid the waste of resources in creating these things in the first place.
'Just' is doing a lot of work in this assertion.
Thank you all for your feedback. The benchmark was updated and the fastest tool is NOT written in Python. Here are the highlights:

* Added ClickHouse (written in C++) to the benchmark: I was unaware that the clickhouse-local tool would handle these tasks. ClickHouse is now the fastest (together with OctoSQL);

* OctoSQL (written in Go) was updated as a response to the benchmark: updates included switching to fastjson, short-circuiting LIMIT, and eagerly printing when outputting JSON and CSV. Now, OctoSQL is one of the fastest and memory is stable;

* SPyQL (written in Python) is now third: SPyQL leverages orjson (Rust) to parse JSONs, while the query engine is written in Python. When processing 1GB of input data, SPyQL takes 4x-5x more time than the best, while still achieving up to 2x higher performance than jq (written in C);

* I removed Pandas from the benchmark and focused on command-line tools. I am planning a separate benchmark on Python libs where Pandas, Polars and Modin (and eventually others) will be included.

This benchmark is a living document.
If you are interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to the following issue: https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql/issues/72

Thank you!
> This sounds like something is changing somewhere

Well, their parent company (Warner Bros. Discovery) just completed a big merger 2 weeks ago.
That was quick. I read an article about three weeks ago about Chris Wallace "looking forward" to his new show on CNN+. They also had Audie Cornish signed up! Wow.
I do believe that their original catalog has gotten very political and PC over the years but my largest complaint is that most of their originals now (with a few exceptions) are very formulaic and just not not written well. They're falling into that same trap milking of certain shows to their illogical conclusion while cancelling others for seemingly no reason beyond it wasn't an _instant_ hit.

With people having been stuck indoors for the past two years it's unsurprising that formulaic, poorly-written, message-driven content isn't keeping them in front of their screens.
> The attacks on Stephens for this were entirely political and unfair. ... [He] had net neutrality explained to him in very simple terms by lobbyists

Were the "attacks" really unfair? He wasn't doing his job properly if he was just accepting the position of one group of lobbyists without understanding the technology he was regulating or the consequences of that legislation.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "entirely political", since surely criticism of politicians should be political (as opposed to personal), but assuming you mean "entirely partisan" (i.e. based solely on his party, rather than the policy itself) I disagree. Perhaps you can find some example of a Democrat using an embarrassingly bad analogy to explain something technical, but I suspect it would be met with ridicule too, especially if the analogy were being put forward to justify a bad policy.
They do already, just on the wrong end.
Elon Musk still wants Twitter–and he now has $46.5B in financing
> Have you ever heard how you could pay off your mortgage a lot quicker by making bi-weekly payments instead of monthly? Or how you can include extra with your payment and instruct your bank to apply it directly to the premium, helping you reduce your interest?

Generally speaking you don't want to do that.

A mortgage with an interest rate of like 3% (to which anyone in the last year refinanced or, or got on purchase - mine's 2.675%) is well below inflation. This means that having the loan is actually earning you money. When inflation is 8.5% and you're paying 3% interest on that loan, you're actually making 5.5% per annum by paying back the loan with future, inflated dollars.

That's before you factor in the mortgage interest tax deduction, and opportunity cost.

All in, not paying off your mortgage faster is likely earning you 6-7% per annum before you factor into account opportunity cost. On a Series I savings bond, that opportunity cost is like [edit] 7.11% [1].

Each time you pay into a Series I bond instead of paying off your mortgage you're earning about 15% per annum on that money vs paying off early.

You want to keep your low-interest mortgage for as long as you possibly can, deduct the interest, and set aside anything you would have put towards early payments. If interest rates ever drop below what you're paying, refinance. Don't pay it off early unless your mortgage APR minus deductions is higher than inflation.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_gl...
Isn't this whole thread whataboutism? The claim is the world will go back being as crazy as it was in 2020 (but OP gave a 2021 example) if Trump was let back on Twitter.

The counterargument was that the example given was actually in 2021, and the given example of crazy (Jan 6 2021) was less crazy than 2020 (BLM protests).
I think at least some significant portion of the constant redesign push is caused by UI/UX managers and employees justifying their continued paychecks. If you are a software company with only a few major apps then at some point not redesigning the app on a regular basis would call for a departmental reorg.
The real question is what they thought would happen. Launching a for-pay venue hosting the same people hosting the same type of content which has driven their viewership into the ground on cable - or, to be more precise, on airports all over the western hemisphere since that was about the only place most people ever were exposed to CNN - was a sure-fire recipe for failure. Those who planned this and executed upon those plans were either desperate or so wrapped up in their own bubble that they could not see the reality of CNN having lost nearly all credibility.
> If the majority of people had a preference for condos, then we wouldn't see large single family homes being developed

I'm saying that these sort of zoning discussions are most common in areas that are (a) very high demand broadly across the entire housing stock, and (b) very restrictive on what can be built where

For example, I live in Cambridge, MA. There is a critical housing shortage. There is very little choice in what gets developed; development generally only happens if you have a large team to push the development through the necessary approvals and reviews, such as telling the zoning board that if they allow your non-compliant building then you'll sponsor a park and set aside 10% of your units as income restricted. Even the existing structures tend to be "illegal" because they were grandfathered in from the 1920s or earlier, when zoning did not exist. The only new developments that meet this bar are ultra expensive condo buildings and offices.

Whether the demand exists is not in question. Whatever gets built, people will live in it. But there is very much a question of what is allowed to be built. Some people want more condo buildings. Some people say it ruins the neighborhood character. But whether a condo building can find residents isn't really in question.
> Couldn't he have more noble causes in mind like trying to do the right thing for humanity (e.g. Tesla, SpaceX)? ...

> ...Social media is a cesspool right now,...

He would have greater impact if he used his account to not add to the cesspool, then. Much more than if he bought the company and kept tweeting like he does.
You don't have to repay the loan (for a very loooong time).

Let's say you have 10 million in stock.

A typical margin account allows you to borrow up to, say, 40% of that. That's 4 million dollars.

Let's say you borrow $1 million and spend it. Currently interest rate on a margin loan is under %2. So every year the amount you need to repay grows by $20k (2% of $1 million, for simplicity I don't count compounding).

So in 10 years that would be $1.2 million to repay. But you're authorized for $4 million.

If in those 10 years the value of stock doubles to $20 million, then you're authorized to borrow $8 million - the amount you can borrow grows faster than the amount you need to repay.

To be clear: eventually you have to repay it but in the corner case it could be done when you die.

There are of course caveats. If interest rate increases dramatically, then the amount to repay will grow much faster etc. but you can see how e.g. if you have $10 million then you could borrow and spend $100k to live a good life and never have to sell your stock to fund your life (especially if stocks keep going up faster than interest rate, inflation and your spending habits)
Quibi lasted for longer than this. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the shortest run in recent memory for a service with this much investment behind it
Can you name your bank please so to make it a negative review on their bad business practises?
Feels like existential crisis for CNN. Ironically their shrinking rating could be rescued if Trump is seriously making a run for 2nd term.

They really changed their identity from an unbiased news source during Trump era, and I think Trump back in the fold could actually help their rating.
A little off topic, but I find it amusing phone booths have been reinvented. Also funny they look like refrigerators:

https://column.com/company

Cool that a husband wife team is doing this, I wonder what their relationship is like.
It's possible it didn't cost that much to develop, or that what they did develop can be used for non-plus products. Might have been deemed worth a small risk.
Yes. Makes me wonder who is putting money into the pockets of the legislators, because they have everything to gain by building deeper moats.
I decided to buy it for Shadows of the Empire, but Mario64 was actually great (while SotE was not).
And the kiosk rep's name? Louis Rossmann
> Example I know of was filezilla, which many never used or trusted again.

Sourceforge probably killed a lot of projects with adware, but Filezilla ruined their own reputation and continue to stealthily distribute adware/malware.
It sort of reminds me of this: https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-advanced-driver-traini...

I guess the common factor is that the most important thing is to be careful and follow the proper procedure to not get caught in a problematic situation in the first place, not to be overconfident and assume you are safe because you can handle any situation with your knowledge or skills.
> I'm confused how anyone could believe Apple is the exclusive manufacturer of anything required for an IPhone but the phone.

I wonder if it could be all the years of using proprietary connectors for everything? Can't feel any sympathy if they finally switch to USBC (only after being forced to by legislation) and people not realizing...
I have a feeling that my waste dumping company would have a better chance at owning that private police, and the people making the laws. And the media. There would be many ways to distract and exploit the people. Creating uncertainty and a conspiratory political culture would capture most by offering a simplified, stabilized world and a sense of community.

Exploiting distrustful people is the biggest industry there ever was unfortunately, including causing them to become distrustful, uncertain, isolated. It's how terrorists are made. It's how voters who vote for political extremism are made.

Ironically all of this would only work at scale, 500 people on a tiny island would be harder to control, I'm guessing due to their closeness, or quality of their interactions. You could play them against other communities, but not against each other. We have a lot of brain stuff to ensure the viability of small communities. It's all built-in, taken care of. The problems only start at scale, when everyone is isolated. You have to be inventive at scale.
> They also didn't buy that it reduced waste since they sell it separately.

But that's a bizarre take from the judge as well. Obviously the claim isn't that no charger is needed. It's that you need way fewer chargers than devices, so shipping a charger with every device is indeed just waste.
NTA: Deploying expensive fancy AI is not your fault. Unless YTA that deployed it even though it might be cheaper to pretend to be the AI.

EDIT: ROFL you think I'm not an AI pretending to be human pretending to be AI like you never heard of a GAN. Do you even ML/DL bro?

EDIT EDIT: don't mean to be an asshole sorry bad day.
Haha this is one of the thing I wanted to know about the framework, thanks for the feedback. All of my laptops were still running fine when they became unusable because of the broken plastic structure around the hinges. I managed to fix that on this one using small bolts. I was eyeing towards Framework for my next laptop after this one falls apart wondering how durable it could be. Maybe I'll still buy that if they ever allow us to buy just the plastic case but I am seriously considering the sturdiness of a M1 running Linux. I may have to start to donate to Asahi Linux now as MacOs is a big nono. Or maybe I can find an old intel MPB that runs Linux well ?
I'm sorry, this is a dumb comment.... but every time I hear "plus" after a streaming service (CNN+, Disney+, Paramount+, etc...) - all I can think of is "Grape Juice Plus"

Edit: Wow, didn't expect the down votes, but okay. Grape Juice Plus is a reference to Planet of the Apes - specifically, the 3rd movie in the sequence - the 1971 movie "Escape from the Planet of the Apes". When Zira tries wine for the first time and asks "what is this?", instead of saying "wine", they say "that's, uh, grape juice plus". For whatever silly reason, that scene always stuck with me.
Interesting, my search absolutely showed definitions closer to mine (or more specifically, definitions for which my definition is a necessary prequisite), e.g.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250710-the-decline-of-...
You're right but now I want to calculate losses per day. haha

Quibli burned through 1.75 billion USD. I wonder how much CNN+ lost.
Apart from the last sentence, you're not really addressing the grandparent's point, and that last sentence is not a very convincing argument.
I can tell you MANY countries are NOT being served by services like STRIPE (South Africa for example) ! I always feel like there is a big opportunity bringing "these financial startups" to where the major players are NOT.

Congrats on releasing ! :)
I would use it, if it was available in South Africa :P
Yeah, I have a BlueBox and it works great. You can also add tactility with an external controller like: https://intech.studio, and you're still in the ballpark of like half the price of the TE mixer. I mean, I still want one, though. LOL.
From their perspective, it's broken if they don't control it and/or major corporations can't extract rent from it.

Systems which work fine for the rest of us without their interference are broken as far as they see it.
Most all of these streaming setups are white label of a handful of existing products.
I should start a company where I buy the phone and the wall charger from apple and put them both in a box and then sell it at a 10% markup to the people that get frustrated that nobody will sell them these two things in the same box.
It's another example of how disconnected the elites are from reality.
Wow. I thought about answering and decided it was too much to cover. Well done, teacher! They say your ability to explain to a beginner without misleading is a good measure of how well you understand a thing.
Only if the nozzles are industry-standard. If you sell a bike with pentalobe-shaped nozzles and only you make such pumps, you must include the pump with the sale.
I have some good memories of using Twitter in the pre-IPO days. Of course we can’t say that the former private ownership was necessary to create an open platform, but I don’t think it was a hindrance in that regard, either. (Would it be different for a megabillionaire to buy the company today? Definitely. Still, there shouldn’t be an unchecked assumption that it’s indispensable for Twitter to be publicly traded.)
I'm not surprised this happened. CNN itself is struggling and it's ratings have been dropping.
Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs
This one is actually easy: just offer the customers 2 options, 1 a full box included charger with higher price and 2 a lite box without charger and lower price.

Forecast the demand for each option is a bit intimidating, but if Apple is right, most people would choose the lite version. No law can forbid the customers’ choice.
It all depends on who services your mortgage. In my case, the credit onion asked what to do with overpayments (because they also asked if I wanted to round up the payment to make it a whole dollar amount).

Some banks aren't setup to handle this correctly, and do weird things with a bimonthly payment. They get a payment on the 1st, but it's not the full amount due, so they apply the entire payment to principle. Then they get another payment on the 15th, and since it's not the full amount due, they apply it to principle again, and then they complain that you didn't pay your mortgage, you point out they're dumb, and they have someone go torture the computer until the late fee is gone.

And then this happens every single time and so the bank gives up and just applies all payments to "amounts due".

Older banks are quite susceptible to this. You can solve this because the "lot quicker" isn't really because of early payments, it's because there are 12 months in a year but 26 biweekly payments, which means you make a 13th mortgage payment; so just do one principle payment or increase your monthly payment by 10% or so.
Thanks. That helps somewhat, though it is still crazy complex. But, why is the major scale 2212221? Is there a 1212122 scale (end every other possible combination)?
Introducing C2 Object Storage: rids of elusive data egress fees
Grand opening...grand closing.

There was a time when CNN was real news like the BBC and not a somewhat-centrist entertainment channel.
> Their page downplayed the risks of variable pricing and their process during the ordeal was unprofessional.

That's rather unspecific. As far as I've seen the risk of 9k/MW always comes up in articles about Griddy (even pre-2021) and even happened to customers prior to 2021. And before the storm they notified customers that they should "switch providers" due to expected high prices.

The 2021 storm could be a 1/100 year but a non-trival winter storm hits Texas every 10 years. Letting pipes burst due to an extreme event can be a valid strategy but just be honest that the plan is that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05storm.html
It's worthwhile to write up descriptions of the projects like goals, technical challenges, etc even if you don't intend to open source the code. Help someone understand your technical problem solving approach.
For me, the difference between that Steely Dan song and the Mendes song is like the difference between a seemingly-inscrutable really thick scottish accent and an ESL speaker trying to affect a native accent and kind of flowing between several different accents.

However uncomfortable the Steely Dan song might be, it has a nice consistent construction to it, and, once you get into the groove, it becomes straightforward. Almost all music I listen to that I'd call complex, from classical to prog metal to jazz, can be described like that too.

The Mendes song, however, sounds disjointed to me. It sounds built out of all sorts of fairly standard bits and pieces, but thrown around completely haphazardly.
With mandoc, they've also worked hard on the HTML output. No more fixed with fonts, good layout, internal and external links, and compact. I wish more documentation was like this!

Examples:

http://man.openbsd.org/kqueue

http://man.openbsd.org/acme-client
Never heard of CNN+ until just now. Odd way to be introduced.
So TMSC would also stop being profitable by that logic I think, unless there is some structural advantage they have?
My IRC box is running 20.04, and hexchat is old and unstable. Had to use a flatpak work around to get a newer version on that LTS.

Going to chance it, and do a dist-upgrade today.
https://archive.ph/Abyy0
After the German debacle over having to kowtow to Russia to receive oil and gas and essentially in doing so fund the killing of Ukrainians, everyone has to be rethinking who they are reliant on and making sure they are strategically diverse.

China is the obvious example of this where we need to break out the supply chain across more countries. I fully expect this to happen through a combination of corporations and countries realizing their exposure to "China doing something nuts" and acting accordingly. You already see Apple doing this, for example, with India.
If anyone wants to live in the high rises, each one of them is one less house in the sprawl. I'm not saying that everyone will decide they like city life better, only that some people will and it will help the situation. That may even be enough to stop the extinctions.
That was the promise with Simple (which they promptly abandoned), it's the main reason I signed up with them in the first place.

You can get away with something like Plaid if you just want data but for actually making moves you'd need something else.
Maybe he thinks an unmoderated cesspool is better than a moderated cesspool. Either way, you're swimming in shit. Twitter not being a cesspool is an appealing fantasy, but only that.
Sadly, the first 3 of those 4 bullet points seem like something that Congress would be happy to have. The 4th doesn't seem like something that they are concerned about.
It is deliberate for most Latin cursive scripts. I believe it is common wisdom that ovals are easier to write consistently and quickly than circles. Though I suspect this perhaps has more to do with older pens and styluses than a universal.

Edit: come to think about it, it's probably a universal, since you see angling in Arabic and Chinese scripts' calligraphic styles as well.
Well, of course, TSMC doesn't want chip supplies to be onshored. It's everyone other than TSMC and Taiwan willing to do so. West wants to have reliable access to chips without potential war with China.

In addition to geopolitics, wouldn't overproduction of chips be beneficial to consumers in the form of cheaper chips and greater variety?
Congrats on the nice product. The website looks nice and with so much data and visuals still makes it easy to navigate and scroll. At the footer we get a list of companies in similar industry and I clicked on TATAMOTORS but it opened TVSMOTORS. Maybe the list indexing or something.
3/4ths of BBC's funding apparently comes from the license fee every Brit with a TV is charged, and I can't help but think that the only hard-news media that can survive these days is one with a captured income stream.
Or even throw it in a Series I risk-free savings bond paying 8%.

[edit] I'm not an expert but explained why I wouldn't do that personally in a peer to your reply.
blueflow's favorites list is remarkably revealing.
Nah, that’s Paul. Louis is busy promoting Right to Repair.