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I wonder how this would change if you only looked at highly rated chess engines. For example, is a rook pair really not as good as a queen or is it just that _humans_ aren't as goo…

Every time I see this project, I think it looks awesome and useful, but I hate that it's written in python. I love python and I use it all the time, but I hate to see so much effor…

>Folks would rather feel good and virtue signal than really solve the problem. The idea that people are using reusable shopping bags because they want to virtue signal and not beca…

I see this question getting downvoted, and some of the responses are strangely hostile strawman attacks based on what those posters are guessing this person "really" means. I think…

>they chose to have children, and I chose not to Up until the pandemic, my work schedule had almost never been affected by me being parent in any way. I chose to have kids knowing …

There's a weird trend on HN. For proprietary products (e.g. slack) I rarely see them getting criticized for having a proprietary license. If you are fully open source, then of cour…

>you hit play in Netflix on your phone — how many people would have any way to tell how much of their data plan that used? Instead of focusing on the client, what about the server?…

Thanks for the response. That all makes sense. I assume the FaunaDB devs would have already tested and fixed all the scenarios they could come up with, so it's reasonable you'd wan…

From the post, FaunaDB initially had several issues, which they've generally resolved. Jepsen is open source, so I'm curious why a database company wouldn't run Jepsen internally, …

Despite being written in Java, DBeaver does let you connect to a server, then pick which database you wish to connect to.

That repo doesn't encourage anything. It's presenting data that the author found useful for another project they were working on, which presumably did benefit from micro-optimizati…

This is not directly related to this article (which I liked), but instead to the topic in general. I heard of a study a few years ago where researchers divided a bunch of teenagers…

I'm sure they weren't recommending you read every line and grok the whole code base of each of your dependencies. I don't know how helpful reading source is for determining whether…

I would dial this back a bit. Worst case scenario, the commenter you are responding to is committing confirmation bias by making negative assumptions to match their existing negati…

You are right that interesting knot theory does exist in higher dimensions. It is appropriately called higher dimensional knot theory. It considers spheres of dimension m embedded …

Linear algebra is the sort of topic where it seems like you can always go deeper. I also got an A in my linear algebra class in college. When I got to grad school for math, I took …

Unlike most of the other commenters, I'm not a huge fan of this article. From the article, it seems the author hasn't really experienced much, if any, gender discrimination at work…

Your description is correct. And to call the y-axis the Betti number is a bit misleading. If you are looking at a barcode for 1-dimensional holes, then at a given radius, the numbe…

The barcode is not usually showing the zeroth Betti numbers. It's usually showing the first Betti number, which intuitively counts the 1-dimensional holes in the space. For each ra…