I appreciate that calling a hobby "no one" (read: many people) enjoy a mental illness is genuine, but I think I find the grandparent much less toxic than the comment it replies to. There's no need to shame people for things they find interesting.
Isn't that a setting the individual publishing user controls?
I don't use BlueSky so I'm not sure - just interested. Especially if it's already going the route of Twitter/Facebook, etc. - which I expect it to long-term.
I mean, we could probably not cheer about big techs that routinely do shady things - or straight illegal things - for their own profit knowing they won't face consequences - or very light ones
Someone will use your service to "donate" to a drug dealer, or to buy shady sexual material, or to sponsor some religious nutter somewhere or other. And you'll be held liable.
There is a reason why the system is as shit as it is.
> Do what buymeacoffee won't do and forget about regulations (that's what Uber does yeah?)
My guess is buymeacoffee isn't the problem, but their payment provider. They maybe can't justify the resources to switch providers and so its easier/cheaper to just drop those countries.
If you can find a payment provider that will service a "buymeacoffee-like" business in the open countries, then I'd be interested.
Many of Telegram payment-related services use https://smart-glocal.com/, which is registered in Hong Kong (with a UK company handling EEA operations). They don’t say it on the website, but I believe they do work with Ukrainian (and apparently even Russian) citizens and can handle payouts there. (Note, however, that Smart Glocal is owned by a pro-Kremlin guy from Russia: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/08/08/premiumdonate-trl)
For Payoneer, I’m not sure but they’ve wanted to deprecate it a long time ago (and I think Wise was supposed to replace it). From how clunky Payoneer was the last time I used it, I think the API must be pretty horrible, so no wonder BMAC wants to get rid of it.
For Wise, it could be that, but also they’ve been putting out a ton of features lately, which aren’t supported by Wise. Not idea why they didn’t add a bunch of if statements.
The solution is... uh, not sure? Crypto might work for payouts, but it’s too complicated for most users. For the donation page itself, we definitely need to accept cards somehow. There are payment providers that can accept cards and payout to these countries, so I think it should be possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002850
They claim a 3GB/s improvement versus previous version of sep on equal hardware — and unlike “marketing” benchmarks, include the actual speed achieved and the hardware used.
Do note that this speed even before the 3GB/s improvement exceeds the bandwidth of most disks, so the bottleneck is loading data in memory. I don't know of many applications where CSV is produced and consumed in memory, so I wonder what the use is.
Slower than network! In-memory processing of OLAP tables, streaming splitters, large data set division… but also the faster the parser, the less time you spend parsing and the more you spend doing actual work
This is honestly something that caught me off-guard a bit. If you have good internal network connectivity, small queries and your relational database has the data in memory, it can be faster to fetch data from the DB via the network than reading it from disk.
Like, sure, I can give you an application server with faster disks and more memory and you or me are certainly capable of implementing an application server that could load the data from disk faster than all of that. And then we build caching to keep the hot data in memory, because that's faster.
But then we've spent very advanced development resources to build a relational database with some application code at the edge.
This can make sense in some high frequency trading situations, but in many more mundane web-backends, a chunky database and someone capable of optimizing stupid queries enable and simplify the work of a much bigger number of developers.
You can also get this with Infiniband, although it is less surprising, and basically what you’d expect to see.
I did once use a system where the network bandwidth was in the same ballpark as the memory bandwidth, which might not be surprising for some of the real HPC-heads here but it surprised me!
Perhaps, but i think we are well past the moore's law era where a 3x speed up is to be expected just from hardware. Its still a pretty impressive feat in the modern era.
> You can't claim this when you also do a huge hardware jump
Well, they did. Personally, I find it an interesting way of looking at it, it's a lens for the "real performance" one could get using this software year over year. (Not saying it isn't a misleading or fallacious claim though.)
Agreed. How hard is it to keep hardware fixed, load the data into memory, and use a single core for your benchmarks? When I see a chart like that I think, "What else are they hiding?"
I mean... A single 9950x core is going to struggle to do more than 16 GB/second of direct mem copy bandwidth. So being within an order of magnitude of that seems reasonable
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