skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the size of the array 10x (100_000_000) and filling a glaring omission:

Go (go1.17.1 darwin/amd64)

took 5.591593544s
took 5.285948722s
took 5.218750076s
took 5.239224787s
took 5.131232207s

Zig (0.9.0-dev.959+f011f1393)

took 3.48s
took 3.37s
took 3.44s
took 3.43s
took 3.49s

Java (openjdk version "17-ea")

Time: 2684 ms
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Time: 2649 ms

MacBook Pro Early 2013, 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
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Thanks for sharing with us, I would love to read "How not to raise investment", exploring the inverse. As in, not how to attract funding in bad ways, but exploring the ways that funding or maybe a misaligned partnership can skew the trajectory of nascent startups/concepts.
So because humans started exploiting them, obviously we can’t stop. Right.
I think people react to veganism as a crazy idea because it's threatening. As an ethical choice, it's passing judgement on their own choices. So their (probably unconscious) reaction is to dismiss it at crazy. That's a defense mechanism to keep them from having to take a hard look at their own choices and the impact on other living beings.

I was a pretty long time vegan and after about a decade as an omnivore, I'm now mostly avoid meat again, though I'm not as strict as I once was.

When I was a serious vegan I'd keep it to myself unless I really had to mention it. But once it came up, people would frequently try to poke holes in my reasoning. It didn't take long before I'd heard all the arguments against.

The only one that really resonated with me was: "I like meat too much, so I don't care to change, even if it's causing harm."

I felt like that was honest, and I could respect it. Everything else felt like someone trying to defend their own ego.

Now, this was all 20 years ago. So maybe people have softened to the idea some. Or at least are used to it enough that they wouldn't have as much the same reactions today.
The 3D Dune strategy was also great, for a Dune fan at least. Not sure if it stands the test of time, but it seemed extremely loyal to the book and enjoyable
So there's about 4 cars with front parking brake based on wikipedia, all of them very old and esoteric. They are so rare they can be ignored as outliers. If you show up at the driving test in one of those I guess you'll have to rent another car.

> Besides, you just informed me that spinning out is completely safe and won't harm me so why again I need to train for that?

You're not discussing in good faith so I won't continue.

Spinning out in a training facility (generally a large parking lot) is perfectly safe, it's a training area. Spinning out in traffic on a windy road, not so much. That's why you should train first in a safe space with instructors, before driving on public roads.
The NSO group are ex-Mossad who decided working for the government does not pay as well as making money out of exploits, probably obtained at the highest levels of top secret work.

So far, they have been tolerated by the Israeli government as they all went to the same schools, all did the armed forces service together, and all know each other. This allowed them to get a free pass so far. Privately, many of their ex-colleagues, are very critical of their lack of ethics.

All this will change, the day some of the NSO exploits will be used against Israel, the same way some of the NSA leaked tools are now used in the wild.
Sure

Parents -- Its cultural. They're Indian, I'm Indian American. Square breathing and other kinds of breathwork are maybe more commonly discussed as a result.

Practice: Here's where my American-ness comes in. I've been using headspace and the Wim Hof method in the evenings and morning as well as yin yoga which is way slower than the vinyasa/cardio yoga I used to do. Sometimes I use headspace even in a lyft or during air travel

It honestly still drives me insane from time to time to be slowing down but when I (rarely still) manage to break through my frustration it changes my mood and approach.
Using CSS & XPATH to select elements is very natural to web pages. BS4 has very limited CSS selector support and zero XPATH support.
Unless you’re a high profile target occom’s razor says hardware failure.
I wonder how rotation grazing plays with training them to go in a particular spot, though. Seems like it would be at cross purposes.

Definitely better if you can manage sheep cows and chickens on the same property, but that may still be beyond some people to manage. Just the fact of rotation would tend to mean that your cows are on average farther up in the watershed than they would be if they have the entire area to themselves all the time, for some of the reasons you already stated.
I must confess once I found the following fragment in the first page I just skimmed over the rest (emphasis mine):

"We will begin by explaining what exactly we mean by the wave-function being an ensemble. We do not mean the En- semble, or Statistical, Interpretation of quantum mechanics [7], according to which the wave-function describes an ensemble of identically prepared states in identical experiments. It arguably does, but if the states are indeed identical, that’s not much of an ensemble. WE MEAN INSTEAD THAT THE SUPPOSEDLY IDENTICALLY PREPARED STATES IN SUPPOSEDLY IDENTICAL EXPERIMENTS ARE IN FACT DIFFERENT: they have different hidden variables and this is the reason why the measurement outcomes can be different for identical wave-functions. We will refer to this interpretation of the wave-function as the ψ-ensemble interpretation."

[7] Leslie E Ballentine. The statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Reviews of Modern Physics, 42(4):358, 1970.

This is the abstract of that reference:

"The Statistical Interpretation of quantum theory is formulated for the purpose of providing a sound interpretation using a minimum of assumptions. Several arguments are advanced in favor of considering the QUANTUM STATE DESCRIPTION TO APPLY ONLY TO AN ENSEMBLE OF SIMILARILY PREPARED SYSTEMS, RATHER THAN SUPPOSING, AS IS OFTEN DONE, THAT IT EXHAUSTIVELY REPRESENTS AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL SYSTEM. Most of the problems associated with the quantum theory of measurement are artifacts of the attempt to maintain the latter interpretation. The introduction of hidden variables to determine the outcome of individual events is fully compatible with the statistical predictions of quantum theory. However, a theorem due to Bell seems to require that any such hidden-variable theory which reproduces all of quantum mechanics exactly (i.e., not merely in some limiting case) must possess a rather pathological character with respect to correlated, but spacially separated, systems."

The conclusions start:

"The central theme connecting all of the topics in this paper has been the superiority of a purely statistical interpretation of quantum theory, in which A STATE VECTOR REPRESENTS AN ENSEMBLE OF SIMILARLY PREPARED SYSTEMS, AS OPPOSED TO THE STRONGER ASSUMPTION THAT A STATE VECTOR PROVIDES A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL SYSTEM."

I'd say that Ballentine also meant that supposedly identically prepared states in supposedly identical experiments are in fact different.
Of course, everything varies.

E.g.: Our neighbor has two cats. One is very needy and craves our attention. The other rarely acknowledges people and spends its free time in stalking mode.
Wow, this looks really nice and reminds me alot of a tool I built myself 2 years ago. [0]
The overlap in ideas is really astounding. I really like the way the nodes can be grouped in bags and how each step of running topo-sort or dijkstra is saved as a separate graph.

The way nodes are created by clicking on an existing edge feels almost exactly as in my project and I remember how excited I was coming up with the idea on my own. But obviously this project predates my project by about 2 years.

Really nice work.

[0] https://algorithms.laszlokorte.de
Try Parsel: https://github.com/scrapy/parsel

It's way faster and has better support for CSS selectors.
Kingdom Come IRL (Raven to All/Everyone)
Oh wow I remember using this distro on a very old Toshiba 386 laptop, good times...
> In a generation or two, children will look with disgust on the aging adults who routinely ignored the horrors of ongoing animal abuse (by consuming meat).

I suppose you can teach disgust, so once it becomes the cultural norm that will probably be true.

But the crux of the matter seems to be that some people just don't have that visceral reaction to the suffering of others. Group 1 (feels compassion for others' suffering) and Group 2 (does not) just talk past each other because of this. I imagine similar discussions happened regarding slavery.

Elsewhere in this thread [0]:

> Would you be ok with killing another human to consume in a non-emergency scenario? If yes, then I understand your confusion. If not, then why not?

> Self preservation. I am uneasy with killing a human for food because that means they could kill me for food. It is unlikely I will be killed by a cow anytime soon. (...) I meant that I wouldn't want to live in a world where humans eat humans because it would be dangerous.

Pure self-preservation. The sensations of other beings are simply not a factor to the responder above and many people think like this (usually justified by the classic "plants could also feel pain for all I know, I don't care either way").

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515559
My personal preference for Swift was for sure a major aspect. I also like to profile my code and see how much I can out of it. It is more an academical challenge to compare performance mmap vs file reads calls, but I enjoy it :)

With Python I always struggled to get performance to a very high level. I am sure it is possible, but Swift with some C code was more natural for me.
usually the legal branch of a country.

You know, the legal definition of what is exploitative labour and what isn't.
Do you mean an independent contractor? It is difficult for a US company to directly hire a Canadian employee in Canada without either setting up a presence in Canada or using an EOR (employer of record which is like a presence in Canada as-a-service). This Canadian entity will pay the employee and make sure all Canadian taxes are withheld.

For an independent contractor you can avoid that hassle and pay them directly but the IRS might ask for proof that the contractor isn't a US citizen living in Canada (in which case you would have to send a 1099-NEC). So you should have them complete a form W-8BEN certifying that they are Canadian.

Note that I am not a tax lawyer and you should consult one before making any decisions.
If you’re a web developer not really, rather than worrying about storage backendes, spiders, yielding and managing loops and items, you could just host a DRF or Flask API with your scrapers (written in Requests+lxml) initiated with an API request.

I guess it’s a matter of preference
Thats true, but they also arent usually sophisticated enough to use a LEAN scheduling approach and combine it with budgeted hours that keep you under the benefits line + an approach of expendability to their workers.

Until one of us creates a free-ish software to help them do that ofc.
The US and UK are pretty against bringing in medical personnel from outside the country. It was one of the reasons for Brexit and the US seems to refuse to recognize many non-US credentials. So I think in these two particular cases, it doesn't matter.
> But then we also likely have the resources to end hunger, poverty and war, yet those have never been the world’s priorities.

And yet, all of those things declined; in the case of poverty the decline is in both absolute and relative terms.

Certainly more needs to be done in all of these things: we only succeed when we reach the destination, not just when we walk the path. Conversely, every step on that path brings us closer to success and is a reason for optimism.
I had a cat that learned to open the door by watching us do. He would jump and grab the door handle with both hands. I guess one can conclude that animal intelligence is rare in all species
A public university doing wonderful work again state sponsored spyware. Thank you University of Toronto! You restore my faith in academia.
Shops that will allow devs the leeway to learn and level up will definitely have an advantage. Oh btw - we're hiring - gregory.ostermayr@passitdown.com
A doctor’s quest for more organ emoji
Where u based now?
> Cars purchased on a reservation generally don't qualify for state EV incentives.

Citation? Are you also claiming that if i live in NM but buy my Tesla from CA, there's also no state EV incentive?
Interesting to read those valuation benchmarks. I'd seen this article in SeedLegals previously https://seedlegals.com/resources/how-to-value-your-company/ that seem to be quite a lot lower.

It was written at the end of 2019, do you think it's just wrong? Or has it changed that much in the past 2 years? Or is it a different set of startups?
If you want more (man-made) mashups, I've been maintaining a list of personal favorites here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dr3iKHVFYGeddLuPfhrm...
There's a small res casino practically inside Joshua Tree National Park at 29 Palms.
How much time between each session? A day?
You saying there shouldn’t be religious exceptions is a religious statement. “Should” or “should not” implies that there is an objective best way or morally just way that goes above and beyond the scientific method, any such path of reasoning unless a part of a social contract or agreed upon definitions of such, it is religious in nature and thus unable to be proven beyond the echo chamber of people who already believe it.
There are a variety of ways to rationalize human behaviors, one common one is to assume that while causing suffering is wrong, we're not living in a global horror story because the animals don't actually suffer.

That's easy to believe if you were taught like I was as a very young boy that it's OK to catch a fish with a fishhook and cut it up to eat because fish are not sufficiently intelligent to feel pain, be hurt, be scared, or suffer. It's easy to generalize that incapability of suffering to extend to all animals when you eventually learn that the same kind of big-eyed cow that says moo is what we eat as beef or hamburgers. Supermarkets make the default behavior to take home shrink-wrapped cuts of meat without ever getting the chance to gauge for yourself whether a cow can suffer; humans are shockingly good at not re-evaluating their priors.

How do you rationalize it? There are lots of ways, you've ruled out that they not intelligent, which is a common one. But are they intelligent but not suffering? Is non-human suffering not wrong? Does the wrongness of causing suffering require the victim to have an undetectable soul, which only humans posses? Is "wrongness" scalar, contingent on need, or mitigated by intelligence, or by an intensity of suffering, or by some other factor not considered? Is tradition and the natural order relevant? Is justice preserved by karmic retribution in an afterlife or reincarnation? Are chickens just really evil and deserving of suffering? Are we actually villains in a global horror story?
Alder Lake Tested with DDR5-6400 Memory, Has Unexpectedly High Latency
I don't have the numbers at my fingertips, but growing animals for meat generally requires growing lots and lots of feed stock. Many multiples more than what it would require to feed humans directly.

So because we want meat, more and more industrial agriculture has to happen to grow that meat. So yeah, I think having an industrial meat industry has more environmental impact, than just having industrial farming in the absence of the industrial meat industry.
Mailchimp/Mandrill is pretty expensive, but designing emails without a solid WYSIWYG editor is just too painful for my taste. Are there good, cheaper alternatives out there for transactional email and newsletters with good delivery?
Uber reported a profit in the last quarter. Turns out, the food delivery business is really profitable.
When out and about, I think it’s less about finding some meaningful insight in that moment, and more about cultivating a habit of being present.
Yup, probably a bad bit in RAM or a just-on-the-edge bus error.
Time to sort through my email for "Mailchimp" and unsubscribe before it happens I guess.
a coworker who has 2 pet pigs says they are smart but are not particularly eager to please their masters, as dogs are.
The equipment I have is doing some real-time image processing on a 2000 Hz video stream (it extracts head/eye positions for vision research).

I'm sure there's some sort of "microcontroller" that can do this, but an Arduino isn't it. If they had massive volume, I'm sure an ASIC could do it too, but since it's a niche application, an COTS x86 might be near the sweet spot of price/hassle.
> Monopolize the market, consume the labor supply, raise passenger fees, lean in to killing off the competition. It's super simple.

What does "lean in to killing off the competition" mean? I don't understand what you mean by lean in.
As I note elsewhere, maintaining a list of individually unobjectionable principles seems innocuous, but it is via the principles omitted from the list being thereby made harder to appeal to that you can get bad results. And, the more there are, the easier it is to reject this or that request.
Posting links to paywalled information is infuriating. I would actually consider subscribing to the NYT if they didn't illegally and unethically make cancelation hell.
Posting a paywalled article amounts to an advertisement for the paywall.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/new-york-times-makes-su...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theodorecasey/2017/10/16/we-sho...

Please post alternate sources when posting critical information such as this.
Here are some numbers I dug up:

Mailchimp has ~13MM users and 800k paying customers. In 2019 they had revenues of $700MM. In 2020 they had EBITDA of ~$300MM.

They are fully bootstrapped and have taken on zero outside funding.
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How stupid is it to try to stop e.g. Ford from undercutting existing Ford dealerships, and repatriating income and profit from e.g. NM back to e.g. MI ?
My personal pet theory is that -- whether we admit it or not -- most people are somewhat... spiritual? Humans tend to see and believe in meaning where none exists.

Seeing great injustice like this is just really hard for us, because it's a constant reminder that either:

1. there is no meaning / purpose / higher-power / etc, or

2. we have been forsaken by whatever higher-power there is.

Both of these are uncomfortable, so it's often easier to just subconsciously fall into ignoring the issues and lulling oneself into a bit of happiness. Until something like this happens, then everyone has to act surprised for a bit; lest they admit to #1 or #2 above.
how is e2e better against mass indiscriminate surveillance than just normal TLS? The only time when e2e is meaningfully different then https is when the server you're talking to (i.e. your personal matrix homeserver) is compromised. In that case, aren't you already in the realm of targeted surveillance?
Facebook is already doing that. It just happens to be making choices about how to do it that maximize its profits while ignoring the voices of most of its users.
I think most people just weren't aware or simply ignoring it. Similar to how most people would not eat a dog or a cat - they're cute and people know they can be quite smart, so they anthropomorphise them.

Once you push/force them to realize that the difference between a cow and your dog or even a toddler is not that big, they start seeing cows in a completely different light and possibly loose appetite.

A few decades ago, this was less of a problem, as people were close to the animals they were eating later on and it was always a fact that those animals would be eaten at some point. In our times, though, people can live for quite some time without seeing the intermediate steps in meat production or even interact with a cow for extended period of times. Therefore, this realization might come as quite a shock.
FreeCiv has largely succeeded in making a "more fun" Civ2-like environment. They've backported some things from Civ4/5/6, like hex-maps, culture, and also changed some mechanics to better interact with these backported items (Democracy's "Deployed Troops" penalty now extends to your culture-zone, instead of cities/fortresses only, which makes sense).

FreeCiv in general suffers from outdated UI-choices. QT-client solves a lot of the issues though, and hopefully will evolve into something better.

FreeCiv got an incredible "solver" embedded into its engine, allowing you to optimally place your citizens. But the use of this solver-engine is arcane. Proper use of it leads to cascading advantages over your foes however, so its a must have to learn. (especially in auto-calculating rapture situations)

The use of optimal trade routes (with a good solver available in the FreeCiv-GTK client, but not in QT ... at least last time I checked) also is a major advantage to the players who use it.

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FreeCiv is likely a highly competitive, highly optimized game. But the community seems split and fractured. Some want to use FreeCiv-Web (and without the Governor / Trade route solvers, its a very different game), others like me prefer to play highly-optimal Civ2-like games.

FreeCiv's solvers (both the Governor solver, and the Trade Route solver) presents a difficult question to the community. Is the use of arcane constraint-solvers part of the metagame? If deployed for free so that everyone can use them, is that fair?

Its one additional step to learn before you can be an effective, competitive, FreeCiv player. But knowing that these lower-level items are "solved" by solver-systems makes it really, really difficult to go back to Civ5 / Civ6 (!!). So many times do I look at my citizens placement and realize that the AI-placement of citizens is terrible compared to the FreeCiv solver...

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The "core" of FreeCiv is pretty incredible. The solvers to make provably optimal choices (well, at least "locally optimal", such as most trade from a collection of 12-cities trade routes + auto-caravan decisions). As well as the use of "symmetrical island maps" to ensure everyone has equal starting-positions, and the first to deploy "concurrent turns" (long before Civ5 did).

It plays like a macro'd up / steroids version of Civ2 + minor mods as a result. The community needs to unify and decide if this version of the game is how it should be... and if so, rebalance the game in this field.

Well, basically, FreeCiv-web vs FreeCiv-GTK/QT flamewars in a nutshell.
Can anyone help explain why Intuit would want to acquire Mailchimp.

I’m just not seeing the “synergy” between these two companies other than they both focus on SMB.
I think it’s pretty clear by now that anything that can be excused with a religious exemption probably isn’t critical enough to be a legal requirement for the rest of the population.

Such as income taxes. I’m not against religious organizations not paying income tax but I do think they should pay property tax beyond the acreage required for the church/temple/mosque building, a garage and a parking lot. Allowances could be made if they run a pantry or a school for additional tax free land but no more of this having a church own dozens to hundreds of acres and buildings that they have little to no incentive to use for anything once purchased. Since they don’t pay property or income taxes, inflation does not hit them as hard but since they are competing for the same properties in the market they have an unfair advantage.
A lot of folks might think this is you pushawing on ETH because you invested differently, but this is quite literally the established track record. For the uninitiated, this is how we got Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. I'd be interested in some of the downvoters making a sound rebuttal rather than graying you into obsolescence but it's 2021. The filter bubble expands thusly.