skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That someone was me. I don't think of "could change at any time Wikipedia" as "as authoritative" as the "document" should be. :-) { EDIT: and I very much agree it is friendlier in almost any thinkable way except maybe Excel might not support it. Or maybe it does? You do need to unescape binary fields at a "higher level" of usage, of course, when delimiting is no longer an issue. Also, merged my posts. }

A fast streaming converter into my suggested "DSV" can also be faster end-to-end. These kinds of things can vary a lot based upon how many columns rows have. I could not find "huge.csv". So, to be specific/possibly reproducible, using the 151492068 bytes of data from here:

http://burntsushi.net/stuff/worldcitiespop.csv

put into /dev/shm and making a symlink to huge.csv and then using the csvbench.sh in the goawk distro, I got (best of 3 elapsed times):

Python 2.88user 0.01system 0:02.91elapsed 99%CPU (9460maxresident)k
Goawk 1.15user 0.07system 0:01.11elapsed 110%CPU (8460maxresident)k
Go 0.86user 0.04system 0:00.84elapsed 107%CPU (7300maxresident)k

Go vs. Goawk time ratios were similar to Ben's article but inverted. Probably a number of columns effect. frawk failed to compile for me because my Rust was not new enough, according to the error messages. On the same data:

c2tsv+gawk 0.22user 0.04system 0:00.57elapsed 46%CPU (2680maxresident)k
(as *c2tsv<huge.csv|gawk -F'\t' '{nfs+=NF} END{print NR, nfs}'*)
c2tsv+mawk 0.62user 0.09system 0:00.46elapsed 155%CPU (2780maxresident)k
(as *c2tsv<huge.csv|mawk -F'\t' '{nfs+=NF} END{print NR, nfs}'*)
c2tsv V2 0.19user 0.07system 0:00.23elapsed 115%CPU (2680maxresident)k
(as *c2tsv<huge.csv|wc -l*, very similar to c2tsv<huge.csv>/dev/null)
c2tsv V3 0.19user 0.00system 0:00.20elapsed 99%CPU (2632maxresident)k
(as *c2tsv<huge.csv>/dev/null*)

A little 100 line Nim program combined with a standard utility seems to be about 4x faster (0.84/0.23) than Go results even though said program writes out all the data again. How can this be? Well, my pipe IO is usually around 4.4 GB/s (as assessed by a dd piped to a read-only sink) while 151e6/.2=only 755 MB/s. So it need only use ~17% of available pipe BW.
They're only complex because developers want to make them complex. It's not a demand from the user.
Why don't they just do something like that Whitehouse website where people can vote on things. If enough votes go to a particular issue, address it.

This would be a nice middle ground between no support and having to support everything.
This is awesome; I’m going to try it as soon as I get back to my desk. I’ve been working on trying to glue together tools to translate Charles proxy output to OpenAPI (swagger). I think it would be a great tool to have in a web app reverse engineering toolbox.
That subreddit is strangely low-volume for such a popular coin. The newest posts are 8-9 months old.
I think fungibility might be a mistake. I would like to find a way to capture community-specific value. I see currency’s origin as a reward mechanism for pro-social behavior, and today’s socioeconomic system kind of like a tribe that has used rare beads as currency for so long that they are willing to trade Manhattan to an outsider that has provided zero value to the society, in exchange for beads which are, to them, easy to produce and worthless. Bitcoins are hard to produce, and provides a social account for who has what. That’s a huge step, and I think I should have been more impressed with it. It may well be another few hundred years before another monetary revolution of the type I’m interested in. It’s not just a technology problem. I’ve come to accept that greed and exploitation might be a requirement for adoption.
Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
Obviously it's bad if people lose their entire life savings and all that dead horse beating disclaimer stuff.

I fancy myself as a somewhat esoteric idea person, and so when I first discovered cryptocurrency a few years ago, I was very excited to explore the mind bending ways we can build __NEW__ things.

Instead, JPEGs and skeuomorphic representations of traditional financial vehicles in web3 space.

I'm hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building really exciting cool new things.

What do you all think?
They are snooty as hell, and I'll forever associate them with The New Yorker[1]. That said, I love them too! Now, if only we could do the same for awry and other words that trip up voracious readers.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
Community colleges are just better than elite colleges.

Like comparing art classes, I made much better art at community college. And they weren't consummate cheaters.

I wish I saw the other students again, I should have given them twice as much weight as Stanford. But there were some classes at Stanford that were good. But an education can be taken away from you trivially.

Because an education can be taken away in the blink of an eye, without any way of defending yourself or asserting your rights under literally any possible circumstances, why the fuck would I get one? Fucking Brooklyn Bridge.
Gavin Belson is going to have a brain boy in his dotage.
Similar comparison in size.

"Size comparison of the two EHT black holes": https://youtu.be/UOESt-G34vE
> It’s the packaging and how it sits in their serverless world. [...] As someone who sometimes needs a table here snd there, I really, really don’t want a server. I want a table to store a thousand records in and that’s it.

Sorry, but I don't get it -- WTF does "serverless" even mean here?

I mean, sorry for jumping on your comment specifically, I know that wasn't primarily what you were talking about here, but... You seem to know what you're talking about, effortlessly encompassing "their serverless world" etc.

The article even mentions that <<SQLite was so ahead of its time, it dubbed itself “serverless” before the term gained connotation with cloud services, and originally meant literally “not involving a server”.>> That makes sense to me; "serverless" means "not having a server". So then you have a local DB; be it SQLite or a DBF or Paradox or MS Access file or whatever. Or even a local DB software "service"; Firebird or MySQL or what have you.

But the term, as it's been bandied about online for the last decade(?) or so (including in this article), seems to pretty obviously actually be about... Remote servers (that's what it talks about replicating between, right?). So what's "serverless" about that???

I've been wondering for a good while now. Anyone who has a short explanation, or link to such, please jump in and enlighten me.

(Otherwise I'll have to conclude it's like "the Cloud", a.k.a. "Someone else's computer". "Serverless" = Someone else's server? :-)

[Edit: Typo.] [Edit: Sigh... Two of them.]
> That human intelligence might just be token prediction

I mean have you heard the word salad that comes out of so many people's mouths? (Including myself, admittedly)
If we're going to be using eye dialect, did he order an "fritter" or a "fri'uh"?
You can do better than that for single-file distributions. You ought to be able to cram the python-packed-resources blob and the yaml file into .data sections of a pyoxy executable. I did something similar with ruby 1.8, years ago.
So you’re saying no, JWST won’t provide significantly sharper images of black holes than the Event Horizon Telescope?
>You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits.

Translation from legalese: we will likely throttle the free accounts in some possibly bypassable way, and will ban you if you try to work around it instead of switching to a paid account.
While I haven't tried these swim lanes (or Trello since acquisition), I agree with you. Trello was about simplicity and being the anti-Jira. I don't see swimlanes as an absolute must-have that's in keeping with how Trello was built.

I think there will always be a group praising the addition of features. That's how all Enterprise software gets to be the way it is. Every "I won't buy it because I need $checkbox_feature" begets a meeting between sales and engineering to see how fast it could be implemented.
Because of EBCDIC.
I know a lot of American children and families that have similar associations with Wallace and Gromit. I think even for relatively young children, the fact that something is "international" can make it more entertaining and interesting.
They also relist the same feature multiple times in slightly different ways ...

- INTERNAL FM ANTENNA FOR BOTH RX AND TX

- BUILT-IN FM RADIO TRANSMISSION

- OB–4 COMPATIBLE USING FM TX OR WIRE
Popcorntime is the smartest there is for media consumption, but not exactly an example you want to cite here. Its a software that operates in an illegal area.
Someone will be left holding the bag on a "stablecoin" though which is the problem.
This is a good idea. To be safe against AI misfires, a government agent could be assigned to watch each child 24x7 wherever they are, whatever they are doing: sleeping, eating, bathing, using the restroom, etc. That way there is no chance of missing any possibility they are abused.
What conditions that caused this are you imagining being impossible on a future project?

(Genuinely!, in case I needed to add that, I know HN can be unfriendly toward cryptocurrency.)
Na, the part that’s left is a historical landmark. The huge gaping hole in the roof is whatever we like it to be.
Price Anchoring and Broken Stories
> yet call for the end of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine

Um, who called for "the end of Russia"?
I've heard it said as "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us". It's possible that the events where the two theories diverge will always be out of reach for us to observe.
One of my first exposures to *nix in the corporate world was on a Sun Sparc, running at the time SunOS 4.something.

The sysadmin at the time told me the /sbin versions of things where for statically linked binaries that didn't need any other FS' mounted to read any dynamic libs.

I'm not asserting it was right, but just another view into "tribal knowledge" vs "urban legend" vs ???
Thank you! I try my hardest not to use Google for anything besides Gmail and YouTube and that popup always infuriated me. Had no idea you could turn it off.
This is yet another Teenage Engineering bauble that as an interested amateur I love to look at and at 1/4 to 1/3 the price might consider buying. I'm glad their target market can justify their prices because their stuff is really nice. I'm just not part of it.
the irony is that you're criticising the parent for not understanding the EU, but then you seem to have a limited understanding of how your own country works in reality (vs. someone doing quick read of its description on wikipedia)

the modern house of lords is advisory and completely subordinate to the commons

it is a glorified select committee, there to scrutinise the law and slow it down

the commons can override it, but to do that it has to wait

it's essentially the EU parliament: the inferior chamber that can slightly amend and block law

the sovereign is similar, the commons is superior and last time there was a fundamental disagreement the country became a republic

the UK is full of contradictions like this: formally we're theocracy ruled by an absolute monarch appointed by god

but that's not how it works in practice

vs. say the US, which is the complete opposite on paper (strict republic, limits on power, strict separation of church and state), but then has presidents constantly referring to god and religion being a huge thing in politics

> I find it's better to not throw stones if you live in glass houses.

yes, quite
You see all sorts of value from the increased value of your home including the ability to get larger loans using the land/property as an asset to back that loan. Not having the cash in hand isn’t a good basis for not charging a tax, especially when that tax is a tiny fraction of the actual value of the property.
Is this the first Circuit Breaker in Cryptoland?
US said they protect countries who apply for NATO. So attacking Sweden or Finland would bring the US into the conflict.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-05/u-s-gives...
I should add that we can read/write Apache Arrow as well!
We use it in prod at PostHog (https://posthog.com/) and it's SUPER practical as an abstraction over Redux's boilerplate. Also makes for really sensible separation of logic from presentation. Only TypeScript support requires a bit of additional setup as type inference doesn't work with this architecture.
It's unfortunate because I think it makes it slightly less likely that his work is accepted, now that part of the sweet single thread performance gains are already supplied from another source.
When you get that big, the legal department takes over and has to double check every spoken word and decision that is made.
Well… straightforward in a way, yes. But the scale of learning is huge especially with this diverse set of tasks. Not totally unexpected, but certainly not clear that it would work with current networks and sizes.
> the issue linked above has 5 upvotes in 3 years and no one even bothered to report a separate issue for the memory leak in `<ion-img />`

It looks like you answered yourself, this issue does not seem to affect people.
Either it is a rare intermittent or only happen in very specific configurations, either there is a leak but it is negligeable, or shortlived.
OR maybe this leak cause suboptimal performance but it must not be "feelable" although you did a great find, this issue has been overlooked and its severity should be better investigated. I'd like to remind you that Ionic is not the point, Ionic is simply a packaging of good practices and optimized components (because yes ion-img implement important optimizations over a normal img tag). Some might have leaking issues but the point is that you can trivially use a standard img tag, or a regular react/angular image lazy loading library or even better https://chromestatus.com/feature/5637156160667648
The web BTW will probably be the first ecosystem to provide support for JPEG XL images, which are a significant evolution in performance.
Compare the discussed underinvestigated suboptimality with e.g. this 50% CPU increase over a trivial GIF, and mostly ignored/delayed https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/88858 or even https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/94205

> Every framework has bugs and feature requests that are fighting for resources.
relativism has its limits, chromium has thousands more human resources than flutter and react native devs combined
Or just don't write Python. There are a million languages without a GIL.
> I’m just now learning that Parag fired Kayvon while he was on paternity leave, which is truly awful.

> Parag is on his way out too. Why is he firing his product leaders during his lame-duck period?

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1524790595968901122
Google and Meta’s Undersea Cables Mark a Tectonic Shift for the Internet
There is a bug for that and it looks someone is even working on it.
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/1547
Calling Zig from Go
Two Twitter leaders are leaving after Musk’s deal to buy the company
Ya the article focuses on computing but I think it could enable totally new electronic devices like frequency/phase controllable leds, light field displays and cameras, ultra fast ir based wifi etc...
So Wall Street can pillage us at an even greater rate.
rent went from 2k to 4k+
and that is just one item
The software industry as a whole needs to be more diligent with status updates.

Our Snowflake clusters were failing connections for 30 minutes before this was acknowledged, all while their status page was reporting no issue at all.
If your idea of modern architecture is based on a slum maybe you should travel more.
Even worse, everything can be processed by efficient and reliable algorithms which reduces administrative load.
Real-world Flutter lessons for federated plugin development
@ mentions don't work here. You have to email him at hn@ycombinator.com
Of course you can hire whomever you want. I would hire someone who has criticism about what he had done in the past and what they have learned. Nobody is perfect. But people with no self reflection blaming others and their employer? No thank you.
Wordpress doesn't actually require that much maintenance at all, I feel like this is a myth or because people have only dealt with very old Wordpress builds. Wordpress now has automatic updates built into it, and large agencies or companies automate updates otherwise.

I don't understand your certs expiring, etc comment. That is because of your host if anything, and even the worst host now offer with Cloudflare or Let's Encrypt.

I've never heard of Wordpress eating up disk space due to a log file, sounds fairly made up tbh. I've had a log file eat up disk space from a poorly built custom CMS though, because it presented so many errors in the Apache logs. Hosts now maintain and update the Linux/Windows distros fairly regularly, and even when I ran dev/web ops you could automate this type of thing easily.
I didn’t say it wasn’t how it works? Nor was I complaining, just pointing out that the sentiment is universal.
You don’t own property in the US and never have. You have a title and deed that result in a lease of land from government and they can enforce taxes as part of that lease.
If it prints money and can be made in a weekend then of course. However, the more niche it is to an audience or knowledge needed beforehand (i.e. simple music generator) it would no longer be a weekend project.
More info and more firings:

https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/1524793136051986434

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/technology/two-twitter-le...
Bizarre take.

So unlike every other industry, social media is impervious to regulation?

Maybe the situation doesn’t call for prohibition but harm reduction? Why should parents and society as a whole just have to accept whatever some middle management product director at facebook thinks is right? We truly are not as enslaved to the current state of social media as you make it seem.
I would be interested to see if they do something with the metaverse.

I mean google glass was ahead of its time.
OP here... I didn't realize how literally the words would be taken, so:

Few problems (a/k/a most problems) can be solved with more sales (a/k/a sales as a P&L line item equating to revenue); but OF COURSE its what you do with the increased revenue/sales that matters. Buying a Bentley isn't going to solve the business problem.
I think you are talking about the conversation we had here. So in this case you replied to a different person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31281773
My cat's hair is even more scarce. Does not mean it has more value than gold.
How can you just ignore dozens of hyperinflation episodes? Clearly there are situations where supply becomes infinite.
I tried to answer in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356567
That's not the comparison you can make. You're going to have to sell us a bit harder on how fully breaking the commoner's privacy is going to ensure those enslavements won't happen. Until then, it's all assumptions.

More reasonable is you're going to make things maybe a little safer for kids to do stupid things you could educate them on, at the cost of trading any potential privacy on the internet. You'd even have to cover private channels, as the mere threat of blackmail would be enough to cause problems.
Safer in which way ? I was playing football on the street as a kid with a lot of kids from my neighborhoud. Now you see rarely kids on the streets because they risk being hit by cars or kidnapped.
Wonder is building a platform and tools to run Unreal Engine in HTML5
> and they guarantee payout.

"Counterparty risk"
> That seems like silly semantics

It adds a lot of nuance actually. They can't say to the public that NATO proactively wants a country to join, as that would sound as an expansionistic move, so what more probably happens is that NATO first reaches out to countries that are considered strategically useful offering them a deal. Then the public is sold the narrative of the free country wanting to join NATO, that generously welcomes them under their protective wing against the evil villains. There is no other way to sell to your electorate joining NATO.
Korg Module is the best noodler out there and it’s 20 bucks. I’ve tried a few portable hardware sequencers, but module on my phone fits the bill so much better.

Just finished a verse and got halfway through a chorus on a 30 minute ferry ride and I didn’t even have to remember to bring anything but my phone.
Polyend also just announced another groovebox that is vaguely competitive to the op-1 for $800. Looks a bit like a slimmed down deluge, which for half the price of the new OP-1, I would highly recommend to anyone who wants a portable music station or groovebox in general. I've had it for about 5 years now and they are still actively working on it which is a nice bonus.
They cannot.

I'm also not exactly sure what you mean by your manpower statement. Say a town wants to build traffic lights and a new intersection. Surely it's easier to collect money and pay an outside firm (which may or may not have local employees) then engineer the road/lights locally?

Same with police. They use tons of tools and systems to both do their job and internally. Obviously raising money is going to be more efficient than each town designing its record management tools from scratch.
Secrets should not be on the command line, they get logged to history. Instead should be prompted for like a password.
it's all because cats made it so that, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog
A good prenup is a reasonable/minimalist one. The more aspirational the prenup, the less likely it is to be enforced.
Twitter Freezing Hiring and Cutting Costs as Execs Depart
This isn't a theoretical case. I had this happen with regularity, and I'm sure many others have too.

I ran an online business and one of my competitors hired someone to constantly email PayPal and tell them I was selling CSAM. PayPal has literally no option other than to instantly lock your account against all transactions. Luckily I was putting so much money through PayPal I had my own account manager, but they still have a script they have to work through where they have to go through every part of your web site to make sure the report is false before they can open your account back up, which takes 3-7 days on average.
For most people the taxes would stay the same. It would increase the tax for some and reduce the tax for others, there is no reason to increase the tax overall.

Can even keep prop 13, the important part is that improving the land shouldn't increase your tax as that discourages building things and encourages wasteful usage of that land like huge parking lots for a tiny shop etc. Land value tax would force those companies to sell or actually use it better, which is a good thing, they can't just sit on mostly unimproved land hoping the value goes up with time while paying almost nothing.
ansi.sys would suggest otherwise.