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pjot

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    Comment #49169983

    One step further are those who want to point an llm directly at the data warehouse to get the data needed to run predictions

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    Comment #49054514

    See also the bullwhip effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

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    Comment #48862712

    Here’s a different kind of binary clock https://www.hey.earth/posts/binary-clock

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    Comment #48412561

    The actual post from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

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    Comment #48380288

    > created bunch of fake spam pages and trying to mine crypto Pages like GitHub pages? We’re repos being created in your account? Curious how you discovered that your tokens were pw…

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    Comment #48372377

    After years of using orchestration tools like airflow and dagster so many lightbulbs have just lit up in my head. I wish documentation for tools would explain their abstractions co…

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    Comment #48249601

    > The Chinese are a decade ahead of the west when it comes to building cars. Is this true? From years of watching Top Gear any Chinese car that was tested was laughably bad.

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    Comment #48155754

    DuckDB has indexes. One specifically for highly selective point lookups. The structure is called an adaptive radix tree. The workloads you’re describing are sort of duckdb’s bread …

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    Comment #47780362

    To be fair, pie charts are horrible in general.

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    Comment #47434336

    Re-reading your comment :) Yes, my demo has just a simple loop when loading the embeddings. I was replying more towards the latency you mentioned. Because duckdb runs on device, yo…

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    Comment #47433791

    I did this but used duckdb as the vector store. Works really well, quite fast too. https://github.com/patricktrainer/duckdb-embedding-search

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    Comment #46985002

    For me, it helps to slow down my thoughts and aides deep work. I draw diagrams, connect blurbs with arrows, and “link” to other page numbers.

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    Comment #46902560

    Claude Code release notes: > Version 2.1.32: • Claude Opus 4.6 is now available! • Added research preview agent teams feature for multi-agent collaboration (token-intensive feature…

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    Comment #46747898

    Not sure how you missed it, it’s here: https://fs.blog/about/

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    Comment #46416296

    “Hover” seems to be causing some confusion. It’s more of a “shallow” press. Like the opposite of “pressing into” when 3D Touch was a thing

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    Comment #46201346

    Similar is the save icon, though for a different reason. It conveys its function well, but one first needs to know what a floppy disk even is!

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    Comment #45280363

    I’ve found myself writing code intending to write prompts for writing better code. Soon enough Im sure we’ll start to see programming languages that are geared towards interacting …

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    Comment #45186750

    Author of the mentioned DuckDB-DOOM here! This is awesome - multiplayer is a great addition. Really like the cone in the mini-map too

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    Comment #44516717

    A “fully dressed” poboy in New Orleans is one with all the fixing’s

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    Comment #43763650

    Ha! I made this. I’m not a robot either :)

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    Comment #43763603

    Author here, wild to see this at the top of HN! You can play it here: https://patricktrainer.github.io/duckdb-doom/ Pressing “L” enables (very) verbose logging in the dev console a…

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    Comment #43736843

    Rather than juggling your parent’s __init__ on another thread, it’s usually clearer to: 1. Keep all of your object–initialization in the main thread (i.e. call super().__init__() s…

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    Comment #43563097

    This compounds with each _team_ modeling the work in jira/excel too!

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    Comment #43313391

    Through the arm, I believe, is still the way it’s performed today!

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    Comment #43302372

    I don’t know, I feel like there is much more room for positive incentives than negative. Prisons put people on a pretty level playing field. Like, the well behaved could be served …