skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding that benchmark... so blosc2 and lz4 compression? Both can benefit from SIMD.

I wonder how well optimized those ARM versions are they're using. Do they even use NEON? Pretty likely x86 versions use SSE2 or AVX2.

So is that really a CPU performance benchmark or blosc2 and LZ4 library implementation quality benchmark?
You think Marx used logic? Are you insane?
>Apple didn't become such a valuable brand by filling their products with third-party shit in exchange for a few bucks.

The same intransigence that serves them today also had them teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for the better part of a decade at one point.

Apple has that commitment to quality, but even aside from that commitment they also just have really good taste and its baked into their product design and company culture. As they say, money can't buy taste and there are no MBA programs that cultivate such sensibilities. It's a hard orientation to copy.
It's incredibly important to a lot of toxic people -- in open source, on HN, really everywhere on the internet -- that this thoughtful piece from Matz be questioned and then forgotten.

Because toxic people enjoy a disproportionate advantage on the internet.
It was very straightforward code looping, counting and storing strings in memory and writing to a file. Looking in perspective my guess is that the optimized C runtime of python (IO and optimized string references) competed against Nim's bare strings.

If you are a pythonista I have a question for you, especially since I could still give Nim a try, how much effort would be for you to add 2 or 3 generators and asyncs in the python code and put in place a better architecture without any macros? how easy is the same thing in Nim without any library our of the standard library?

This speed of prototyping and bringing a better architecture to the solution sooner matters a lot more to me than raw speed (that comparison against python in speed was the last drop).

I believe you when you say that Nim won, after all they promose that some parsers such as csv parser could fit in the L2 cache and so on... hopefully the language and quality of libraries has improved.

P.S. how big was the whole wikipedia as XML? all languages?
More likely it's due to the fact that men are more likely to work in fields that force them into contact with carcinogens. Road workers, oil rig workers, construction workers, etc.
She may have to pay for a prime subscription now.
In the past they’ve sold a Ubuntu “developer edition.”

FWIW, I’ve installed Ubuntu on two different years’ xps13 sold with windows and the only hardware trouble was Bluetooth issues on one (I never had any reason to try and fix, so I don’t know what the underlying cause was).
When is it OK to use goto? [video]
> These brands are quite well known in Europe, but not in a good way.

They are very popular and desired in many EU countries. Xiaomi / Ninebot dominate the electric scooter business and the phones and home appliances are very popular and desired. I just bought the xiaomi vacuum robot for instance which blows all others out of the water.

Similarly with the Huawei P20 Pro which is one of the most desired phones right now here.
Absolutely this. Imagine what a Facebook millionaire could buy when the stock was above 200 and now 140. 30% less down payment, no? Imagine what an Apple employee could put down at 235 vs at 140? Imagine what a Netflix employee could put down by cashing out at 400? Of course rates matter but from what I hear they will not go up much more from here. Eventually these companies will recover and most of them will go higher (they are becoming de facto monopolies) and the watch the prices although it may be a couple of years, but you never know, the stock printing machine is still running.
Odd that the article includes some weird non-Kondo advice about "don't touch it", probably contrary even, given that her approach is very intimate/fluffy.

I guess the overall idea is to think more objectively about something's value, using your own sense of "joy" as a proxy for that value function.

For a while now I've been thinking about writing a "Marie Kondo's approach distilled for engineers"...
Homebrew can be used as a package manager for C/C++ projects development and meanwhile doesn't mess up the system.
If they match too precisely though wouldn't they lose out on tons of recurring revenue?
> 1) can't have proper a version control with those binary documents word processors generate.

And even worse (maybe): no way of fixing errors later on; arguably, the error messages of LaTeX are obscure for new users, but at least you can always reset your document to a working state.
Android itself has undeletable Google apps.
Repos for getting hired
The current 'pleb' ipad is $329 and does an awesome job being a twitter appliance. I'm only slightly annoyed as it was half the price I paid for my iPad Air 2 2-3 years ago.
>What's the problem with just making strings mutable?

They are not arrays of characters until you use ASCII/KOI8 or similar encodings. So there is no point in mutating them, you need unicode normalization facilities, formatters and stuff to deal with them properly. And a proper mutable unicode string would give you a terrible performance penalty.
Photographs of Hidden Spain
Bail is a common mechanism outside of US too.
Addresses.
Right, I was being a bit loose there. I meant something like how `xxd` displays the number of bytes up to the current output row. Just something to give context of where you are in the file.

00006980: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
This complaint is basically the reason XeTeX was written, which accesses your standard system fonts instead. LuaTeX also handles TTF and OpenFont without trouble. These both produce PDFs instead of DVI or Postscript output (per your comment below).
Yes, that would be the real life equivalent of what people like Matz experience on the Internet.
Yes, the difference I think is that AirBnB has grown so big it actually changed neighborhoods and accomodation markets in a way we didn't see before. The question becomes the same as for Uber in some sense: once a single company professionally rents out all the flats in a highrise building, what makes them different from a hotel and why do they get to dodge expensive regulations and inspections that hotels need? Their business model is being an apartment hotel and not admitting it.
It's a bit TMZ to have this on HN, but the big tech question is what ownership stake does the ex-wife have on Amazon? Assuming they didn't have a pre-nup, does she get 50% of his stake in Amazon? Does she get a board seat? That could have deep implications for Amazon if for example she decides to sell that ownership stake and dilutes Jeff Bezos' control.
I'm no Facebook fan, but doesn't it feel like there is a coordinated media effort to destroy Facebook? It's quite strange. Outside of WSJ, Google seems to get away with it almost the same things Facebook is doing. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Depends on the coding task.

"Here, make minor tweaks to our established codebase, for stability or for minor enhancement X, our working practices are set in stone, our coding style is ancient and you will have no creative control or input"

Yeah, that's boring, however much you love code.

"Here, we've got some ideas, but they needs to be transformed into a product. You'll be part of a small team making the important decisions and figuring out the best way to take this forward, technology decisions, working practices etc are all up for definition and change, have at it"

This is far more interesting.
It can however be done with a well structured document and a screen reader. Worked with a blind guy in college who used screen readers and it was incredibly fast moving through pages.
Say goodbye to that "wealthiest man in the world" title, Jeff.
As op admits
He publicly announced it, and besides being with him during the very beginning of Amazon, she’s his partner with the Day One Fund.
Here’s what NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sees as it orbits Bennu asteroid
Shouldn’t they start younger than 10? I remember reading that languages are easier to retain the younger you are.
The repo author has some pretty interesting rust projects. Worth checking out.
I have (outside of my personal iPhone) an LG ThinQ 7 through work and I don't recall it coming loaded with a bunch of crapware, either. There were your standard apps plus "LG Switch" which is for file transfers and "LG Health" which is pretty self-explanatory. Beyond that there was NextRadio as the phone has an FM receiver. Plus the Google Play stuff.

Not too bad. Can't say anything about their other phones, though.

(Prior to this phone I had a Samsung S6 and that thing was nightmarish with all the bloatware)
I'm not sure what statistic you are referring to, but for cancer at least the definition of 'cure' is typically a number of years of life after detection (e.g. 5). In jurisdictions with less aggressive testing, this can give a worse measurement of cancer survival rates than the reality, since earlier detection by definition gives a higher chance of surviving to a time X years after detection.

https://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/187734?path=/bmj/346/789...
You can get nibs tuned and modified, I once had the opportunity to use a VP with a reverse oblique nib, changes everything.
He slams Latex usage as a fetish. Then he actually has a hard time putting forth arguments against latex, ends up with very weak ones, for example he compares MacOS vanilla Emacs installation with a weird green-on-black colorscheme with MS Word as if it was the only editor you could use for Latex. In the end I feel I wasted my time reading his blog pot, because he just does not provide any substantial information.

I don't even have the impression that his proposed alternatives (conversion changes from other formats to latex) are really used by him.

Ah, I like writing documents in Docbook, so I am not even that kind of a latex enthusiast. But his criticism is kind of really off.
And it puts the onus on the recipient of the abuse for change rather than the source of the abuse.
As the author mentioned, you should use Zotero for that.
Counterfactually speaking, how do _we_ know that we are not the ones looking 'up' the power spectrum, as it were?

(I am joking of course; even though I would not say that LaTeX is the 'best' solution for all use cases, I can at least state with confidence that it satisfies some properties that traditional word processing tools do not have.)
That's a pretty dramatic oversimplification of one of the most disgusting, inhumane disasters in modern civilization: US healthcare.
Hash tables in nim require pulling in the standard library and are built-in in Python. If you didn’t even “import tables”, you were likely comparing O(1) apples to O(n) oranges.
I am currently reading the book "The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Life" by Randall Fitzgerald. It details the crazy amount of synthetic or toxic chemicals in our daily lives, pesticides on our food, and a list of other pollutants to the body. Just from reading that this article it doesn't surprise me, and I would be surprised if this trend doesn't continue and accelerate. The poorest Americans are deceived into a false sense of wealth by being able to purchase cheap, synthetic, and toxic alternatives to quality products that only the well off can likely afford. Everything from natural furniture, organic foods, natural material clothing, cosmetics and care products, and medicine are much more costly than their toxic, cheap alternatives. This will also increase the divide between the wealth and the poor since the brain is affected by the chemicals that we are exposed to resulting in lack of concentration, poor memory, irritability, impulsiveness, and even the resulting gut bacteria affects the brain through the vagus nerve. The poorest Americans also have jobs, and live in areas which expose them to more pollutants than the wealthy, and the bigger issue is that a lot of these people don't even realize that this is an issue. Trust in institutions like the FDA, aggressive marketing by corporations like deceitful labeling of foods to try and make them "sound" healthy, and general lack of education make them super vulnerable and at the whims of the highly education, profit-obsessed, shareholder-serving, psychology-understanding, resource-rich, lobbying elite
I had forgotten about that - I do have a copy of TSR's ECW (English Civil War) rules as well - must be super rare
People living in Germany and France think differently, if Facebook had been invented there, there is IMO a good possibility it would be less privacy-invading.

That plus there are good historical reasons for our strong privacy laws.
Yeh, that's it in a nutshell, unfortunately. I wish I had more time to write great changelogs for Homebrew but I don't :(
It's up in France.
You really can't buy love.
Ha, I wish I knew about that command earlier. I was wondering where all my disk space was going.

==> This operation has freed approximately 41.3GB of disk space.

Automatic cleanup would have saved me a lot of confusion.
An approach that's being tried elsewhere is a vacancy tax. This encourages either private use or leasing of the properties.
If that's what you want to believe, but it's not true. He is not really respected by anyone except the people that he brought over from Think Progress. Not sure what's respectable about things he's said in the past or continues to say. He deletes them...because he knows they were dumb. One of his "expert" economic reports was that the US should simply print its way out of debt, raise the minimum wage to $100 and let the Fed figure it out...all of which are laughable to any actual economist, yes including left wing economists, because it would actually impoverish the poor even more. His platform is to rile people up, not actually convey real ideas or solutions. That is why he's a running meme on both sides of the aisle and his flippant regard for facts has more than carried over to Vox.
> For a while now I've been thinking about writing a "Marie Kondo's approach distilled for engineers"...

Please do! I've been doing my fair bit of KonMari recently, but I have a fair bit of rationalising to do with regard to getting rid of things.
He's just quoting a paper about marginal utility.

What part did he lie about?
Here’s a really cool video breaking down exactly how Jackie sets up his stunt-action-comedy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

One thing that was particular interesting to me is how the setup always starts with him at an extreme disadvantage: no shoes, tied to a chair, hanging upside down, etc. I never noticed it before and it’s exactly what makes his action so enjoyable to watch.

(The YouTube Channel is called Every Frame a Painting and all the other videos are fascinating and very worth checking out.)
Doctors say lifestyle change could prevent half of Iowa's cancer cases
Discussion on the front page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865291
Agreed. I am a power user of Word. All of my formatting is painstakingly performed by applying styles rather than manually formatting things. Headings, subheadings, captions, etc. are all tagged as such. Everything appears in the table of contents, table of figures, etc as it should, and styles can all be updated in one easy sweep.

But if you have even one collaborator who goes in and hammers something by applying manual formatting, the whole thing can be ruined. Actual images can end up showing up along with its caption in the Table of Figures. Entries can go missing from tables. Lone paragraphs can randomly end up with a different style.

Word can successfully manage large, complex documents, but it requires discipline. (as does LaTeX)
The Great Leap Forward and WWII are absolutely comparable. China had been fighting colonial domination (first European, then Japanese) for almost 50 years by the time WWII (and Japanese occupation) ended. This was followed by several years of civil war that finally ended in 1949 with the exile of the nationalists to Taiwan. They had a population of illiterate, impoverished peasants, a demolished urban infrastructure, and a whole lot of local corruption to root out in order to consolidate power. A large-scale famine was inevitable. This was exacerbated by a total lack of international trade, due to anti-communist action in the West and an untrustworthy Soviet Union to the north. It was hard times.

As for Argentina... as you noted, Argentina was doing better than some European nations until the early 1960s. What happened? Well, back to the geography problem. Argentina is a remote nation, with limited ports. Spain, Italy, and Austria were part of Europe, possibly the most geographically gifted place on Earth (except for maybe the continental United States). And the US was dumping resources into Europe via the Marshall Plan, to rebuild the infrastructure and stabilize the governments. It's not surprising that they would eventually pass Argentina.

That said, the current state of Argentina is not bad. It's not rich, but it's on par with its peers in Chile and Brazil, and the debt from bad government in the 1970s/1980s is mostly paid off.

As for the cited paper... I really don't give a shit if it's been cited 450 times. It's demonstrably wrong. Developing nations with immature physical and legal infrastructures grow measurably faster than the wealthiest nations, with mature infrastructure. If you treat growth as an S-curve, this is totally an expected result. Double-digit growth rates in the developing world are not unusual. When's the last time a western nation had that kind of economic growth?
Isn't #2 solved by a good Dungeon Master? The DM should be able to take control of the game so that players aren't just going around killing orc babies. "In the distance, you see a group of 1000 orc parents coming searching for the killers of their babies..."
And that would be fine. That's a perfectly reasonable argument to make.

I'd make the counter-argument that you are optimizing without profiling first, and the environmental benefit yielded from convincing me to live slightly greener is insignificant compared to spending the same amount of breath on petitioning and lobbying for environmental legislation, but it's your own time you're spending. But even then, I won't back your political effort unless it includes pollution standards for container ships, research money for aneutronic fusion, research money for efficiently storing and returning energy from inconstant sources such as wind and solar, negotiation rules for including environmental considerations in international trade agreements, externality taxes on proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, and a laundry list of other points that I feel would each be more effective than trying to push an omnivorous species towards more vegetarian by word or by force.

If a company meets the criteria from my original post, it's an immediate victory, without any arguments at all. The price of beef becomes anchored by the cost of its closest cheaper alternative, and that price determines the price of livestock, and that price determines the size of herds. The argument from the pocketbook is superior to the one from hot air or hot lead.

...Some people will argue, just because someone is wrong on the Internet.
Hope this gets into distros
I've never had to use --force to change my php version. You probably just need to change your PATH so it finds the homebrew version before the system version.
I'm just wondering, are there many casual D&D groups for non-geeks? (like the Adrian family featured in the article)

My only exposure to D&D was the episode of the "Community", and it looked pretty fun. I wonder if the demographics of that group is normal.

I only ask because most of my friends have this perception that D&D personalities are a little "awkward" and would not give it a chance, but have no issues going to board-game nights.
Synthetic organisms are about to challenge what 'alive' really means
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
Taking machine learning to the birds
These people are not stealing bread from a baker/corporation, they are stealing bread from an individual who worked for that bread and is currently feeding their family with it. The situation the scammers create is based on lies.
You can quickly find position of byte number X using:

line number = floor(X/(bytes/line)) + 1

column offset = X % (bytes/line) + 1

Or it could just print byte numbers instead of line numbers.
I don't think he did a good enough job justifying just how annoying LaTeX actually can be.

To write a conference paper for submission, the steps to start it out are generally:

a) Copy the journal's LaTeX shell file.

b) Copy some other Makefile to actually convert TeX files into PDFs. (Because it turns out that this is simply too complicated to actually make a single command, especially when you have a bibliography and several images to import).

c) Okay, now we can go through the process of actually setting up the master TeX file, separate TeX files for each chapter and start typing text.

d) Include an image. Weep at how annoying this is, and how inconsistent documentation is.

e) Time to tweak the article to get it to fit the page count. Don't you love all of those little cycles where you have to wait for a half-dozen commands to run to figure out if you've shortened a single paragraph enough to pull the section header up to the previous page? And this is assuming you have a PDF viewer that will automatically refresh the display for you if it detects the PDF file changed.

In my opinion, the two great things about LaTeX are its syntax for math and BibTeX. But I wouldn't contend that these are unimprovable (particularly BibTeX). But it spends too much time making you concerned with publishing concerns that trying to just jot down notes or other early document planning is surprisingly difficult.
All about programming
HN has plenty of threads about how relationships and other life factors affect work and business.
> I admit, my first thought on seeing the title was "What's wrong with xxd?"

My first thought too. Then I looked and saw it was nice, and then I noticed it's by sharkdp. He really has a knack for improving on things you thought were fine (fd and bat being other examples).
Did you take a look at scoop.sh? I find it very useful commpared to chocolatey. It only installs portable versions, requires no admin and has everything my dev heart needs. Even installing stuff like miniconda and fluttr is a blaze.
I am starting a starfinder (pathfinder in space) that is doing that as well as publishing on yahoo.
why not do both?
like Niels Provos: https://www.wired.com/2013/02/provos/
That sure seems like fraud. If they claim X and you can only prove .1X " they are either incompetent (doubtful) or they are defrauding you.
lol breh at first you will feel like telling your job that you would do it for free :P
That's not hate speech.
No, I'm saying: technology becomes cheaper and more available over time.

As for you being ashamed: cry me a river.
I assume the same dynamic produces road rage too.
I was wondering that too, but then I realized that would only have a big effect if stockholders thought he was doing a bad job and I bet most everyone doesn't think that.
Really not a fan of the removal of options, imo it is one of the greatest perks of homebrew. Can I manually build my own software? Yes. Do I want to have to maintain a tap for every single thing I want to use options on? No, I do not.

This move along with the python2 vs python3 change that was made previously has left a seriously sour taste in my mouth about Homebrew. I'm actively looking at other options.
If there is potential for a B2B deal for installing crapware in your device, it will be completed. The retail price of the device will increase as long it will not cause significant sales drop on significant markets. Free market, or rather - a corporate oligopoly.