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I teach economics at Ambedkar University, New Delhi. Personal website: http://www.jyotirmoy.net
  1. Claudia Goldin (Nobel '23) on 'Career and Family' (jyotirmoy.net)
    1 points 0
  2. Greedy work is chewing us up – Claudia Goldin on ‘Career and Family’ (jyotirmoy.net)
    1 points 0
  3. R, OpenMP, MKL, Disaster (jyotirmoy.net)
    117 points 42
  4. A Relativity 'Paradox' (jyotirmoy.net)
    1 points 0
  5. Resurrecting Fortran (ondrejcertik.com)
    116 points 36
  6. Vimeo Blocked by Indian ISP

    DNS queries for vimeo.com are being blocked by Airtel, a major Indian ISP. Possibly an overzealous response to an order blocking a particular video.

    4 points 2
  7. Nonmeasurable sets of infinite independent fair coin tosses (jyotirmoy.net)
    2 points 0
  8. Springer: Free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines (springernature.com)
    3 points 0
  9. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    3 points 0
  10. Breakthrough prize criticized for rewarding 'failed ideas' (physicsworld.com)
    12 points 0
  11. Are casual inference and prediction that different? (jyotirmoy.net)
    2 points 0
  12. Show HN: The Rust Book in EPUB format for offline reading (jyotirmoy.net)
    5 points 0
  13. Solving a puzzle using the Isabelle proof assistant (gist.github.com)
    48 points 16
  14. Wandering through linear types, capabilities and regions (2007) [pdf] (pauillac.inria.fr)
    2 points 0
  15. Ask HN: Guaranteed destructive update == reinventing Rust?

    In a language with mutability we can mutate parts of an array, like a[10] = 3.14 In a pure functional language we cannot do this. Instead we have to in principle create a new array a2 = writeArray a1 10 3.14 If a1 is a…

    2 points 0
  16. Why soap bubbles are colourful and windowpanes are not (gist.github.com)
    118 points 47
  17. Dell Inspiron 5370 – review and Linux notes (jyotirmoy.net)
    3 points 0
  18. “What next?” (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
    461 points 152
  19. Ubuntu now available from the Windows store (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    229 points 220
  20. China quantum satellite clears major hurdle on way to ultrasecure communications (nature.com)
    2 points 0
  21. Tidy evaluation (rlang.tidyverse.org)
    1 points 0
  22. dplyr 0.7.0 (blog.rstudio.org)
    44 points 16
  23. Translating a C++ parser to Haskell (haskellforall.com)
    109 points 31
  24. Ask HN: What is the future of vector instructions?

    Writing performant numerical code for CPUs requires using vector instruction sets like AVX. With these instruction it is up to the compiler/programmer to vectorize the sequential program and deal with things like…

    2 points 1
  25. What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
    332 points 250