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What’s PB?
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Here's is a useful categorization of nonfiction books into three kinds: narrative, tree, and branch. The "tree" books are the most enlightening and worth reading to have your perspective shifted and grown. https://
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> You might want to look up all of the reasons why they made this choice, including but not limited to the amazing impedance mismatch between Linuxy I/O operations and Windowsy I/O operations. Could you provide a link to this?
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Yeah, why not play the long game by focusing on providing a great experience for developers? Enable today's hobbyists to start the companies of tomorrow on your platform, and let go of chasing the #1 spot with enterprise customers of t
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Your job is also to love them! Emotional neglect has real and serious consequences. For an introduction to this concept, I recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-... https:/&#
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What are some interesting examples of common-sense that has been formalized and encoded?
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I think it's a connection pooling proxy for postgres, and you talk to it using the regular postgres client protocol? https://github.com/yandex/odyssey/blob/master/test/odyssey/t...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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They actually didn’t even say that. It’s pure speculation, as is common in science journalism. It makes the article sound more exciting to the reader.
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The paper says that "coloring is based on temperature". I think what they mean is that the coloring of each point is determined by the peak temperature that has been reached by that point. (Which seems perfectly appropriate for th
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It's not meant to be a simulation that's actually accurate. It's instead meant to "look accurate". The full chemistry is not being simulated.
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Google Search needs to add an “advanced” mode or something. I’m sure their changes are increasing accessibility for most people, but the power user experience has definitely gone down. On the other hand, there’s no profit motive there, so w
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You need to take a longer term view if you want to notice things before they become trends. Hopping on the bandwagon once it's a "hot" or "promising" area is too late.
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More info: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
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It's a mandatory insurance program run by the UK government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Travel_Organisers'_Licensi...
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> Banks borrowing against Treasuries is almost entirely dictated by liquidity, not solvency. Can you unpack/explain this claim further?
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Fixed link: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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I'd bet Flow is basically being replaced by ReasonML at Facebook[1]. Bolting a sound typesystem onto Javascript is really hard, and Flow is making a truly valiant effort, but it seems to have stalled out. Instead, ReasonML is based on
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It's written from the perspective of someone living in a mud hut and probably not on your continent.
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> scolding a child is not oppression This is not as self-evident as you imply.
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puts on international hat Actually, all of you Westerners[1] are rich entitled whiners. You have consistent access to clean water that comes straight to your house, you even have a house, with insulation and carpets no less. You have a
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Vitess is > A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL > Vitess combines many important MySQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database. Its built-in sharding features let you grow your database without addin
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They give an origin story on that page: > The project started incidentally in 2012 when one of the teams at JetBrains was developing a collaborative real-time editor based on operational transformation (OT). With the help of Coq proof as
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Wow, JetBrains has a whole HoTT and Dependent Types Research Group: https://research.jetbrains.org/groups/group-for-dependent-ty...
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Has this finding been replicated since?
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It can depend on which specific Python packages you're using, but generally speaking the Julia ecosystem is pretty mature for scientific computing and data analysis. And as the GP post demonstrated, you can fill in the gaps by using th
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From the docs: 1.2 Features of VCL ∙ Vectors of 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit integers, signed and unsigned ∙ Vectors of single and double precision floating point numbers ∙ Total vector size 128, 256, or 512 bits ∙ Defines
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Fulltext: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328536020_General_f...
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VLC 4 has an interesting new randomizer that works as you describe: https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/05/a-new-core-playlist-for-vlc-4... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19978295
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This is a case series and literally has no control group. What's the background rate of people getting better without using CBD?

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