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Bookmarked and will be sharing this with my friends.

Separately, glad to see you, @ctbergstrom and (now Prof) Jevin West still collaborating :). You gave me the opportunity to spend a few days as an undergraduate in your lab 15yrs ago when Jevin was a grad student. It was during the H5N1 scare and I remember you being called up. I was just star struck then and honestly overwhelmed. I think I helped fix some perl code for the eigenfactor project, iirc. Will never forget you and Prof Ben Kerr. Anyways, just want to say thanks after all these years.

A trip down memory lane for sure! I can't help but feel that a list for 2020 has to include the Macbooks with the M1 chip. Personally, the difference between my mid-2017 Macbook Pro and my M1 Macbook Air has been astronomical. The battery life alone will "save" Apple.

Thanks for sharing! Are there any good resources describing query planning algorithms (other than the excellent SQLite one that was shared by another comment)?

Great, thanks! I'll check those out.

As much as I'd like to be on the cutting edge of science/math, I (suspect most of us here) don't have the tools to understand, let alone evaluate this preprint. So before we make a tweet storm and start blowing our horns, let's try to hold our horses and wait for peer review. That could take well over a year.

Well, in the meanwhile, I have a question: what's a good intro resource to quantum computing? For general complexity intro, I like Michael Sipser's Theory Of Computation

This is great! Also, check out this easter egg which makes every video rick roll haha: https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs/blob/master/stor.py#L12...

That statement is intellectually lazy at best. It is factually correct, but it wholly misses the context of the fact. And that is the centuries of slavery, the decades of Jim Crow, and other policies that have systematically deprived opportunity and framed/define crime to be an African-American tendency. I'd really recommend you read a couple of pieces by Ta-Nehisi Coates [0] before you make up your mind either way. Regrettably, I've argued your point of view before, but it simply shifts the burden of proof and contextualization to the under-privileged and oppressed.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...

Yes, only 1/5 of the prisons, but it could still be that they wield a lot more influence than that figure suggests. There aren't very many lobbying for the imprisoned, so an organized private lobby of even a small number of private prisons might be enough to shift the scales significantly.

This. Before we can fix anything that requires a majority of the nation's participation, we need awareness and acknowledgement that racial inequality is deep rooted in the American psyche. A lot of posters even here on HN seem to think race is irrelevant or a minor point.

This wouldn't work for larger projects, but if it's a smaller project, maybe Slack[0]? It has a pretty good free-tier as well.

[0] https://slack.com/

Flexbox has made our life much better. But we still run into a bunch of implementation bugs, meaning that it will take a few more years for the promise to become reality: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs

It seemed to work just fine in the fifth element!

Just curious, does anybody know of any studies that supports the OP's claims about willpower? The OP describes it as though willpower were a muscle.

If you want to lift free weights, a great place to start is Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.

i don't play WOW or any other MMOG. But I think that old saying that most things in moderation are good for you, seems to apply here as well. I have no concrete evidence to back this and I haven't defined 'most' or 'moderation' but I have noticed that most people understand this intuitively. Are there exceptions, maybe. Particularly, in this community of people, who spend all their time on one idea trying to make it successful. However, I could make the argument that doing it takes a toll on you and your relationships. Anyways, i can't argue it all that well, but it feels like a good rule of thumb.

Matthew Arnold's essays are very interesting and fun to read. He is from lay 1800s but the writing is superb!

RIP Rudin.