I think you are underestimating the effects of real depression even in a wealthy first world country. Finland went through depression in the 90s when the Soviet Union collapsed and it left behind a cohort of people who never really recovered or gained employment.

You seem to think that being poor in a first world country is just skipping few vacations and luxury items but otherwise life can be wonderful. I think you severely underestimate how poor people can get even in countries with strong social security, like the nordic countries.

Also the idea that misery is mostly political decision sounds just silly. Most of Europe hardly recovered from 2008 financial crisis and are already cracking under the demographic shift, baby boomers retiring. Add a covid depression into the mix and things can get really bad. There's just not enough money in the economy to share for both the retirees and a large number of unemployed. This can cause a vicious cycle as the increasing social spending will increase taxes, increased taxes will go to increased labour cost, increased labour cost will drive down demand on European goods increasing the unemployment even more etc...

There's always a cynic to rain on your optimism :)

There's literature on this topic, it is called succinct data structures. Wikipedia got you covered as usual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure

This, this and third time this. I have the exact same experience. You should know the business requirements very well before you choose event sourcing and hope they don't start changing drastically.

I investigated tesseract.js for turning images of spreadsheets into data. I didn't mind the initial startup time or run time but unfortunately wasn't able to get good enough accuracy for my case. It seemed to work really well with plain english text though.

I've bought plenty of video games I haven't played or books I haven't read so I'm not least bit of surprised that someone does the same with domain names. In this case, however, the supply of the product is not infinite. So if you happen to own a great domain name and you don't have time and energy to develope it, consider letting that little bird fly away. Maybe it'll have a great life with someone else.

Thanks for this. I'm such a chronic lurker that even though I've browsed HN for years I only today made an account, so needless to say this really scratches my itch. I really hate that instagram popup.

I was struggling with spreadsheet performance some time ago, trying to open csv with over million of rows, which made my excel cough. To help with this I built collection of tools for myself (https://blocksheet.io) so I could at least split my csv files to smaller ones and then edit with excel.

>In a similar vein, sorting causes problems on very small datasets (less than 10K rows):

Reading this made me wonder just how much excel prioritizes formulas and other fancy features over basic utilities such as sorting. For comparison, I just tried sorting csv with over 2 million rows on blocksheet and even though it took few seconds and made my laptop fan do extra jumps (it's a static site), it still managed to do it in reasonable time.

For me it's such a rare problem to run into huge spreadsheets, that it's a bit overkill to build my own software for it. So if anyone knows any good ones that deal well with rearranging large spreadsheets, I'd be happy to hear about them.