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ohxh

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    Took a while to find on their website but here’s a benchmark vs AWS Aurora: https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/aurora Seems a bit better, but they benchmarked on a kind of small db…

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    Lots of non-chatbot uses in property management. Auditing leases vs. payment ledgers. Classifying maintenance work orders. Creating work orders from inspections (photos + text). Sc…

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    They say "thus, on average, about two-thirds of cats preferred to sleep on the left side of their body with their left shoulder down", and their image for leftward lateral bias sho…

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    > Here, I don't think it's even useful to look at this problem in electronic terms I always thought this problem was a funny choice for the comic, because it’s not that esoteric! I…

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    Comment #44059863

    This seems unusually shallow for the hedgehog review. I thought we'd largely moved on from this sort of sentimental, "I can't get good outputs therefore nobody can" style essay -- …

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    Johnson-lindenstrauss lemma [1] for anyone curious. But you can only map to k>8(\ln N)/\varepsilon ^{2}} if you want to preserve distances within a factor of \varepsilon with a JL-…

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    “One could offer so many examples of such categorical prophecies being quickly refuted by experience! In fact, this type of negative prediction is repeated so frequently that one m…

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    Or maybe they do believe this, and entered into trades to express this sentiment. Now, they need the market to correct to what (they believe) is accurate, so they can take profits …

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    > These are all special instances of a more general computational problem called the hidden subgroup problem. And quantum computers are good at solving the hidden subgroup problem.…

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    There’s a fun version of this that they have at 7-11 (or 7 & I) there. Probably other convenience stores too. They come in a plastic wrapper that separates the nori from the rice a…

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    As far as I understand, web 1.0 is browser makes a request -> backend delivers some html, with subsequent requests just for css/images/iframes. This also had a characteristic style…

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    You've made something really cool here. Watching transfixed me in a way similar to a video exhibition I saw at the Tate Modern when I was younger. It was a loop with footage of a J…

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    Comment #35277714

    There’s an interesting approach similar to this called Wave Function Collapse [1] (no relation to wfc in physics besides inspiration). It can infer the probabilistic constraints fr…

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    Curious how you went about the WA LLC too — I lived there for a lot of my life and that was my other thought on states to incorporate in.

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    Just my thought -- perfection is the enemy of good. I've fallen into this before, trying to write the "ultimate" version of some program. Do you use your own web apps today? If you…

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    Ask HN: Forming a Delaware LLC and registered agent

    I'm trying to form a Delaware LLC for a new software venture in which I'm the only shareholder. There are lots of services that do this, or I could file the forms myself, but Googl…

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    I'm working on something similar. In chrome you can request an image of the active tab from a background page, write it to a canvas to downscale it, and then dump it into indexeddb…