skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything you said is totally reasonable. I'm a big fan of napkin math and theoretical upper bounds on performance.

simdjson (https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson) claims to fully parse JSON on the order of 3 GB/sec. Which is faster than OP's Go whitespace parsing! These tests are running on different hardware so it's not apples-to-apples.

The phrase "cannot go faster than this" is just begging for a "well ackshully". Which I hate to do. But the fact that there is an existence proof of Problem A running faster in C++ SIMD than OP's Probably B scalar Go is quite interesting and worth calling out imho. But I admit it doesn't change the rest of the post.
I mean, you shouldn't be charitable. Those clothes drying aren't 20 subdivision wide because they're detailed. The logs have five sides they don't have all those segments along their length because they're detailed. At absolute best, they didn't go back and fix the topology. At worst those were development assets that were thrown together in 5 minutes and then never replaced.
> I don’t see the connection between the Postal Service and banking. Is it just it was historically there? If that’s the case, you could attach it to any department.

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

Before the FDIC was created to cover bank runs & closures, the USPS was proposed to expand into being a postal savings system, a system that was already done by the UK beforehand & had proven to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
Although not explicitly stated, there seems to be an underlying implication that "[extracting] money from American taxpayers" is somehow illegitimate or dishonorable. What's wrong with getting money from the government, as long as the goods/services were delivered as promised and there was no corruption involved? The government wanted to promote electric vehicles, and teslas are legitimately good cars. The government needed launch vehicles, and spacex was the best option. The government wanted to provide satellite internet to the Ukrainian military, and starlink was the best service.
Think about what that means: people are expected to maintain multiple accounts, pay people to launder money between accounts, and never make a mistake, or fail to predict what financial activity today will become a problem later (did you donate to Planned Parenthood when Roe was the law of the land? Better figure out how to remove that from the blockchain before your employer transfers your job out of a free state. Oh, wait, it’s not possible - better just hope nobody ever thinks to look!).

Major criminals get caught making mistakes on that kind of thing, there’s no way normal people aren’t going to make mistakes – and that’s before you think about what using a mixer actually means: lighting a neon sign saying “something about this transaction is dodgy, examine it!”
You get what you paid for. oh, wait ...
Two days sounds lucky. I've been in SAFE plans where it took an entire week to plan things, it was unreal. Like you I met people I've never seen or heard of from the company all giving their input on software I'm creating. I'd never see them again until the next SAFE planning, only this time it felt like 1 SWE out of maybe 15 (yes there were only 3 teams of 5 devs, put 100+ in these SAFE meetings) contributed anything meaningful.

Company wasted so much money, then the org shut down for spending $500 per customer per year in maintenance (this was a health insurance company) whereas the main company would only spend $70 per customer per year. You'd think leadership of the org would get fired for this but they were rewarded with other positions within the company to do the same thing.

Unreal. Why do shareholder's put up with this? I guess the healthcare monopoly is the only reason to.
I've never used waf, but from its documentation it would seem that waf is a build system, implementing a concept of a DAG governing build of a project. That implies that waf is rather complicated.

jeeves, on the other hand, does no such thing. It is a command runner: you write a function → it is converted into a shell command.

I believe jeeves is easier to get started with, partially due to its simplicity and partially because it follows Python standards. For instance, waf uses a peculiar syntax to define command parameters:

waf employs a peculiar method to configure command options:

ctx.add_option('--foo', action='store', default=False, help='Silly test')

while jeeves relies upon function arguments and type hints (as it is based upon Typer):

def do(foo: Annotated[Option(help='Silly test')]):
…

While jeeves is easy to start with it also promises ability to scale: with modular packages for commands, subcommands, and installable/shareable plugins.
Not the devs, they have no agency in the decision. Management, for sure, post their name and LinkedIn profile.
Does that mean it can avoid having to interpret terminal control codes (ie be a full terminal emulator)? That's a clever way.
… and inevitably three weeks later priorities change and it all goes out the window.
> I'm somewhat surprised no one here views this as an automated decisionmaking problem

It isn't an automated decision-making problem. Every instance involves humans in the loop making the final decision. And that article makes clear -- via spokesperson statements -- that it is auditable and the banks know exactly why accounts were terminated.
Yeah i was thinking back to Cream (and other nights) at Nation in Liverpool early nineties and the Manchester scene. Mates dj’d downstairs at Baa Bar and we were just kids really.

Some fucking great times.

Fucked my hearing though, wear earplugs at the rave, kids.
We as a society have allowed our elected representatives to pass laws that empowered unelected bureaucrats to write reams of regulations that require banks to do these things, all in the name of "security". It's not going to change unless and until we the people give our elected representatives different incentives.
I wish more people would write like this, sprinkling little bits of humor in a somewhat serious piece
Back in 2015 this title would've read, "Listen to HD radio with a $8 RTL SDR dongle".

First we ran out of E4000 tuners for the rtl-sdr dongles... but there were R820T. Then then R820T ran out and R820T2 replaced them. Then a proliferation of slightly less task specific R828D variants. The price steadily increased. Then the pandemic hit and it spiked even more.

At $8 a pop you could afford to use many of them mod them, etc. But at $30 you pretty much treat it like any other SDR.
Just follow any Conservative, Christian, or Gun group and you will see stories of Chase closing accounts for political reasons,

Chase is will known for this in many political circles
Wouldn't expect any less from HN, but can't blame them much when people like Senator Warren make up lies about terrorist funding.
The author, Balaji, is a huge voice for crypto on Twitter/X. This smells a lot like trying to rewrite history to try and distance crypto from SBF's fraud.
The most impressive to me is the Maillardet's automaton [1][2]

[1] https://youtu.be/C7oSFNKIlaM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillardet's_automaton
I don't understand the question. What would be a better alternative to poisonous cookware?

It's not clear how convenience is even part of the equation. It's not their proper use, it's the manufacturing of teflon, the disposal of used cookware and use of it when scratched. What's better than non-stick cookware? Literally anything. Teflon is a scourge.
Imagine they got into making an ARM CPU competitive with Apple's? Or a server chip that is better than Ampera's, and sold at scale? I think they have the expertise and ability to do it.
Man why do people listen to him? He genuinely sounds like a conspiracy theorist fever dream. Did SOME crypto people post some stuff? Sure. But remember, the only reason that Coindesk found this story was because someone leaked the internal documents to them. It's not like they did a ton of work and figured it out on their own.
You know what they say about LLM benchmarks nowadays?

Pre-training on the test set is all you need. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632

Many of the modern LLMs take entire copy of internet which includes the test set for many of these benchmarks.

So if someone claims to beat ChatGPT and their model is trained on the test set, ofcourse they’ll do better. Even ChatGPT is likely trained on the test set.

Even a hash table will get stellar results if trained on the test set.

Their website provides no evidence that it did not train on the test set.

Until we get to play with it, their claims are to be taken with a grain of salt.
I find it helpful.

"Warning: don't trust this"
How dare a company bid and compete for Govt grants and contracts?
On the other hand, crypto provides copious evidence for the need of some level of regulation.
I mostly agree with krupan's answer below, but it depends on use-case.

BTC for investment or long-term store of value. BCH, or various other alternatives (Litecoin, XRP, Stellar, cough Nano cough), for making payments. But if you can use the Lightning network, then BTC works for payments as well (arguably - in this space anything and everything is highly arguable).

If you're seriously looking down the track at using cryptocurrency, spend some time playing with small amounts of it to see how it all works. Different coins have different use-cases, and it's very confusing to come from zero knowledge. Also transferring and converting between different coin types can kill you in fees, so keep an eye on that as well.

And in doing your research don't believe what anyone says about anything, especially youtube folks. Find the most likely narratives amongst the jungle of snakes and traps, based on your own experience at detecting bullshit and applying logic.
Because English is a cut-put language, and also an argue-vague one.
Make is a build system, not a command runner, so you should probably change your copy; Jeeves doesn’t do what make does
In hindsight do you think either your experience in the Navy directly or the GI bill benefits from service gave you a major leg up in life?
Clearly the rest of the world is just misguided.
Fees weird to call out Odd Lots. I remember that episode and at the time everyone took it as “wow, SBF just admitted to running a ponzi scheme.”
Healthy for everything else though
Regulators fine big banks for "weak controls". To show that they have "strong controls", they have to show quantitative data. Now, every bank is engaged in one-upmanship. Since we don't have data on the number of account closures, we should look at SAR/CTR statistics provided by FinCen. Every year, SAR numbers go up by 20%; that's because banks fill SARs with "transaction with no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose". Just gamify SAR reports with vague stuff.
Wonder what Heinlein's estate thinks about Elon stealing the word Grok? Or Jeff Hawkins, who registered it in 2011 (and the USPTO thinks it's still alive.)
Ethereum trumps bitcoin in pretty much every metric except for market cap, which is lagging because bitcoin has the name brand, simpler for people to understand, and misinformation spread by bitcoin maxis and competing chains
Indeed, they are out of scope. But I still would argue this does have something in common with Make — just as Make, jeeves can be used as a command runner, in which role Make is oftentimes used as well.

Instead of `make` as entry point for all project-specific commands (like `make lint`, `make build`, `make deploy`), users can rely upon `j` — both locally and CI.

Regarding your particular points:

* dependency graphs aren't presently at scope, I haven't yet come up with the method of expressing them in Python which would have entirely satisfied me;

* I am not so sure I would want to implement pattern rules due to complexity they bring about. Maybe just writing explicit Python code would be enough for cases where they're used. No strong opinion though.
King County in Washington State has been determined to avoid using any existing rail right-of-way, and insists on blasting new right-of-way at incredible cost.

The existing right-of-way (sometimes even with tracks still on them!) is turned into bike paths, that nobody uses most of the year because of rain.

They also decided to build a new tunnel under Seattle. What to do with the dirt they dug out? Why, they stuffed it into the old tunnel! Probably the most expensive use of existing infrastructure ever. (The excuse was the old tunnel needed some work to make it more earthquake resistant. All that needed to be done was add a liner.)

It gets even better. They decided to build another tunnel. So they bought a zillion dollar boring machine, and tunneled away. When the tunnel was completed, they cut up the boring machine for scrap! After all, nobody would ever need to build another tunnel.

Since the end of the tunnel was still in the major Seattle metropolitan area, and the machine was already there in place, just keep boring north. But hey, I surely am a dunderhead.

It's so awful one is tempted to characterize it as malicious.
Do we know it's 100% stable below such a temperature? It doesn't really matter as its production alone has been an environmental catastrophe.
More than a month without an interactive login, sure.
Not OP but I immediately thought of Monero.

I wish we could have something like Monero run by the Government backed by gold.
Previously discussed at HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14564279
> It has and cultivates an underground image,

There is absolutely nothing underground about Berghain and that fake ass techno revival, not since the last 15 years.
Any language that no one uses.

As soon as spoken language is actually used by people who aren't laser focused on ensuring that they don't misuse words or relax pronunciations, the meanings of words will shift and accents will form. People will also invent slang, as people are naturally inclined to do, and some of that slang will stick around in common speech and be accepted as regular words.
One way to prove weak controls is also to show that low-level branch employees have the ability to override AML/KYC flags, and regularly do so. That's not just poor controls, it's demonstrating knowledge of the transactions being suspicious while enabling them anyway.

GP says "monitoring transactions should not be sufficient to satisfy KYC" - of course monitoring transactions is required to satisfy AML, flagging any transactions indicates specific knowledge of them being suspicious, and failing to act in any cases where it was warranted will be used as proof of lax controls, with fines starting in the hundreds of millions.
Yes this is what I mean. I dont find bitcoin very practical.
I have been looking into all of these as part of a civic volunteer decentralized discovery/connection effort… I don´t know about the label to put on it, but POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Server, Syndicate Everywhere) seems like a great idea.

Remember FriendFeed? Facebook bought that and killed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
I'm not sure if I really want python here.

Make is ugly, but it's reasonably clean "algebraically". I find Python very difficult to reason about, and ugly — it's a language that doesn't seem to have been well designed in any grand sense.
>>> It can and does create new money for any spending it deems worth it.

Yes, that is called inflation.... how is that working out for everyone that needs food, housing and energy?
I'm not sure that's right, if the "z"-pronounciation is for verbs. I would think the Department of Housing is talking about "housing" as a noun, rather than "housing" in a verby-way. Like the "department of transportation". You can transport something, but you don't transportation something. Or "Department of Education" isn't educationing people, it's educating people.

Bastard language this is.
> The ones that arbitrarily didn't let people get in when they were in their peak? Fuck them!

As someone who isn't white I can't stand clubs and the thought of being rejected because of how I look. It happened to me 90% of the time when I was young trying to enter these clubs, so new I just go to shows where I pre-paid my tickets. I haven't stepped foot in a club for years. The racism at the door of these prestigious clubs is/was simply insane.
Here is the answer of ChatGPT4:

The plural forms of words in English, like "houses" for "house" and "mice" for "mouse," are the result of a complex history of the English language, which includes influences from many other languages and the way words were pronounced in the past.

Regular Plural Formation: The plural of "house" follows a regular pattern in modern English where we add an "-s" or "-es" to the end of most nouns to make them plural. This pattern is a simplified system that has become the standard in English.

Old English and Middle English: The plurals "mice" and "lice" come from Old English and Middle English times when the language had more complex rules for making nouns plural, often involving changing the vowel sound in the middle of the word. This type of change is known as "i-mutation" or "umlaut," which was a common grammatical feature in the Germanic languages that English descends from.

Irregular Plural Formation: Over time, as the language evolved, most of these complex forms were regularized to the simpler "-s" or "-es" ending, but some words, like "mouse" and "louse," retained their old plural forms. These are known as irregular plurals.

Standardization and Change: English has undergone significant standardization over the centuries, and the regular "-s" or "-es" ending has become the norm due to its simplicity and regularity. However, irregular forms persist due to historical usage and the conservative nature of language when it comes to frequently used words.

Thus, "houses" is a result of linguistic simplification and standardization, while "mice" and "lice" are remnants of older linguistic patterns that have been preserved in the language.
FPGAs are "programmed", or perhaps more accurately, "Synthesized" with hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL.

With typical programming, you're describing software. With VHDL / Verilog, you're describing hardware. When Verilog/VHDL "runs", its just the hardware existing, ready to react to whatever happens later. There's no code that "steps" through if-statements or loops... there's instead state-machines that get stored into memory... with their outputs being directed upon physical wires you name.

As far as a "language" goes, I'd say its close to C++ Template Metaprogramming, though the syntax is very different. But the concepts are surprisingly close. C++ Templates do not compile into code, they compile into concepts and layouts... so to speak.

Well, of course C++ Templates eventually turn into C++ code. But imagine if the end result were flipflops, wires, and 1-bit memory instead. Maybe I'm describing it wrong... or maybe the only way to really know is to try it yourself.
I was waiting for some version of this reply. Thanks. We ride bicycles, go swimming at the pool, and run 5K races together too. I think there's an appropriate balance.
Comcast's router/modems routinely gather information concerning your local network. CS employees and techs alike will act stupid so you can't use your own hardware, too.

They sell DNS data, search term data, anything they can glean from your network activity in-transit.

We need data liability laws. Watch tho silos disappear overnight the moment they're responsible for damages incurred.
> In English, the regular pluralising pattern is adding /z/ (with some assimilation and epenthesis rules). Everything else is irregular.

Meanwhile, the plural of fish is both fish (multiple of the same species) and fishes (more than one species).
Taken to a scifi extreme: https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Stage_Tree
This patent hasn't issued - it's just a publication.
And not Who-ston? -

or is it, Hue-ston?
The most common GPU on steam stats is a 3060. The AMD 7800/7700 do 90% and 70% better on benchmarks. So if you have either of those, you're getting nearly twice the FPS that the most common steam user would see.
There's a recent video by Kitboga that goes into detail about this prolonged scam [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXRb8PdmJo
…or harder/worse.
the parking is free so of course it's quite popular. Having been there regularly on the busiest weekdays you really have to arrive close to 8:00 to see a full lot. I do agree the REM is sweet and very effective.
They’re also all inflammable
It's the intersection of Kafkaesque social credit by corporations and security theater spilling over from Snowden-revelations of government overreach by ancillary watch lists with millions of names. Have a family member who hangs out with "shady people" or live somewhere a criminal lived, and be guilty by association and discriminated against by algorithm without being aware of it and without any recourse except to waste the target's time and money with layers of bullshit. Such scoring and grading by correlation with arbitrary datapoints and secret evidence determines if a customer is treated well, charged more, or fired. "Know your customer" but entirely lacking in a human in the loop to avert significant automated harm.

Widespread disenfranchisement risks a quiet, at first, socioeconomic apartheid, instability, and more homeless people.

The root cause is the oligopolic concentration of power by too few corporations and regulatory capture leading to little-to-no oversight to civically murder or banish a person arbitrarily.

A number of potential remedies include:

1. Decentralization (credit unions, breaking up corporations that are too big)

2. Regulation (antitrust, consumer protection, and algorithm standards)

3. Public utilities for essential services (postal banking which already occurs partially in the US with money orders)

Closely-related book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Silverglate.
I guess Balaji "forgot" to mention all the nocoiners who called out FTX years earlier.
> I would expect any computer with USB to act as a USB host.

Do you expect your Keyboard to act as a USB Host?

If your Keyboard were USB OTG, then it would be a keyboard when plugged into a computer, but a mouse could plug into the keyboard and then the keyboard would be the USB Host. This bi-directional feature would be useful for maybe a modern Commodore 64 like device or something (I dunno, just making stuff up).

Traditionally, USB OTG was for phones. They want to be a device when plugged into a computer, but the phones also want to accept a mouse/keyboard/USB Mass Storage.
Oooh nice. I've been wanting to listen to HD radio with my SDR for years. Tried a couple libraries that claimed to work but never had much success.
In that case couldn't the the tenet and the second just swap so that the word "second" is used to describe something closer to a current second?
He’s the real deal, he also started Aslice [0] to fix the broken state of music earnings between DJs and producers.

[0] https://aslice.com/
SimCity wasn't just "DRM heavy", it was totally unplayable for the first week after the launch because a ton of people were trying to play it at the same time and being stopped by its overloaded DRM servers.

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/simcity-outage/
> The author, Balaji, is a huge voice for crypto on Twitter/X.

Is what he is saying wrong in the blog post? Was the New York Times, Sequoia, Forture, Bloomberg, etc critical on SBF's fraud until it was unveiled even before the leaked balance sheet?

Where was the balance sheet leaked on and who was questioning SBF over that when he denied it?

It was all over Twitter (now X), not the media. Rather than attacking the character why not directly attack his points next time?

> This smells a lot like trying to rewrite history to try and distance crypto from SBF's fraud.

I think you need to read the contents of the article one more time.

EDIT: Why was this post flagged? Let's not choose emotion and flagging things over evidence-based rational discourse.