skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
26.8 billion of transistors. Pretty impressive. Roughly 2 years ago vega20 and tu10 series have around 13 billion.
4 years ago most common models +-7m and if you look further back it roughly doubles every 2 years.
In 2031 we will have mainstream GPUs with 1 trillion transistors. Compare that with the 1996 voodoo 1 with just 1 million transistors.
> there is nothing special about the resources or geography of Silicon Valley that makes it particularly amenable to innovation

Colleges and universities?
I read that too. And it was also were I decided to stop.
Looks like Unicode characters to me.
> I seem to recall reading at the time that the XFree86 core team was unhappy that a sole contributor was attempting to modernize the system by introducing extensions, without building consensus around them to their satisfaction.

This is a kind of odd retelling/interpretation of events, considering the “rogue” contributor version is the only one that lived and XFree86 is history.
The Hacktober thing seemed to demonstrate this.

I apparently was involved with some project on github, got flooded with emails with read me changes.

It never ocured to me how available such things are.
The fetishism with notetaking is rampant, both on here and online. People make good money writing articles about the latest notetaking app and serving ads. Personally, I've never needed to crack open an old notebook after the relevant project has passed. I have a stack of them from college at my parent's house and they are simply collecting dust. Even if I had everything digital I would never feel the need to go back and sift through them since they are no longer relevant.

The act of taking notes with a pen and paper, to synthesize thoughts into symbols and sentence structures, is far more meaningful than looking at the note again imo.
𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁.

𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡.

𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵.

𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕.

𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩.

(Don't do this: it's _terrible_ for accessibility, as screen readers can't parse these as regular text)
That's a pretty un-useful comment. If you actually said something specific, we might know what your point is.

I would say: If you like Lisp, all things considered, then use it.

Some things to consider: Coworkers (both existing and future). Ecosystem. Maintainability (including by people other than yourself). And, worst of all, management.
> A very-low-overhead JIT using DynASM

Interesting. DynASM [1] is the template assembler used in LuaJIT, so it sounds like they might be JIT'ing CPython bytecode. IIRC this is also what the first version of Pyston did. I'm curious how this is working out, both implementation and performance-wise compared to LLVM (used in Pyston v1). That could mean there is a lot of performance still on the table, at least for some kinds of code, but also a big complexity jump to get further gains.

[1] https://luajit.org/dynasm.html
> no one is forcing anyone on to Twitter, it had no more sway or status than the Babylon Bee or any other media.

That is probably the most untrue statement I've heard this week. Twitter the de facto standard way by which famous people and journalists speak out to their audience. As a general user, I have no alternative for the kind of news that is on Twitter. As a journalist/celebrity, there is no alternative to reach my audience directly. There is an immensely strong network effect.

> I also don't agree, don't think Twitter is acting at all biased. I think they have very basic rules & have been very kind about trying to enforce them.

Why then did they let people post about the fictional Russian collusion for 3 years? Investigations by federal agencies finally concluded that there was none. So why did Twitter allow that narrative to play out? Why did they let the leaked video of Trump saying random things in personal conversations be posted and shared? Why did Twitter let people post about fake and unproven allegations against Bret Kavanaugh? What was different?
Their benchmarks dont show settings. I want to know if they were using Ray Tracing and other high end effects. The FPS by itself is meaningless
To emphasize your point: if I don't consider my own code legacy after a year at most, I'd assume I didn't improve in that time frame.
I have to disable wayland in gdm3 (on ubuntu), otherwise I end up in a login loop ...
I assume this is marketing play to get more people into crypto by at least somehow creating the appearance of it being an actual currency already. I doubt many people will actually use it, but it may convince more crypto-curious folks to actually join the "movement"
> Google poured an infinite amount of effort into Unladen Swallow

Google most certainly did not.
be sure to have some eye protection in your shower too...
Why is Project Gutenberg illegal in Germany?
NVIDIA has simply made an expensive mistake[0] hoping TSMC would offer them lower prices or that Samsung's new process would be ready (it was not), resulting in their worst lineup in a hell of a long time[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXb-8feWoOE

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOnWT9U96g
The Dec Emulation Website
> My opinion - today - is that X doesn't work on laptops where the user expects to use a touchpad.

My touchpads work very well with X, out of the box (any Ubuntu I used.) HP ZBook 15 from 2014 and a HP nc8430 from 2006.

> Nor does it work on a laptop with a resolution that requires scaling (at least not the second you plug in another display).

I can't comment on this. The few times I added another display it wasn't larger than the usual 1920x1080 px.
Is the IVI shell deprecated? I work in the automotive and that's what we are currently using.
> Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a strip club is an alternative entertainment venue to your local movie theater.

I'm assuming this comparison is supposed to have some rhetorical value to it? Otherwise it just comes off as puritan gatekeeping.
Spotify Is Defending Alex Jones' Appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”
And still the voodoo 1 games were the most captivating. We went from "3d in arcades only" to "3d anytime you want" :)
I'm glad I replaced my Rift S already, but it seems like this article is complaining about how if you delete your Steam account you'll lose all the games you purchased on Steam. Except replace Steam with Oculus/Facebook. Like WTF do you think is going to happen to the games purchased if you delete the account they're associated with?

Personally for me the issue is that after reading their TOS for Facebook, I can't make an account because their TOS is basically saying "I appreciate and support the concept of surveillance, giving up all my rights to privacy, and am perfectly okay with having everything I sad, do, share, post, like, and every intimate detail of my life being property of Facebook that can be sold off to anyone willing to buy my personal details."
* assuming you're white
The semi structured nature of logs works to the advantage of Tempo, because as developers we have the flexibility to log _anything_, high cardinality values like cust-id, request latency, gobble-de-gook .. the equivalent of span tags. Instead of indexing these as tags, we get advance search features through a powerful query language landing in Loki (LogQLv2).
For most people, rooting makes them less secure not more. It all depends on who you're securing against.
Thanks - Mark Shannon is a core committer, right? So hopefully he has standing to get this done.

The plan looks very high level at this point, but it looks like Mark is an expert in interpreter VM and JIT technologies. All I can hope for is that he doesn't get blocked by the "keep cpython simple" obstructionism.
This is a good post - particularly on working from outside in - thanks
My sister and I interviewed our grandfather before he passed, after being inspired by a friend who does this privately as an offline, local service. I'm so pleased to see this, it's heartwarming and so powerful. Having our grandfather's voice is priceless. Plus the stories we learned that otherwise would have remained with him!

Question: my friend would be perfect for this as a job for her, how might she go about applying?

As an aside could you also use it to write biographies? Biography-as-a-service I imagine might go down well..
It could be mostly subjective - lack of "jank" can go a long way in terms of making UIs feel faster and nicer to use.
Programming and Stone Carving: Virtual Spaces for Deep Work
This was just my attempt at reasoning how this could work. I did some searching and this was one of the first few things I found.

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18252606/amazon-vendors-no-orde...

It's not exactly what I'm saying, but still an interesting scenario playing out nonetheless.
So that's the media censoring the people.

That's not what I was arguing.

I was stating that the media is in a better position to censor themselves than the government is, and that the media will follow views, so people can censor the media by paying or not paying attention.
Question for someone who might know, how safe are UV B lamps? IE (https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Kiss-Portable-Phototherapy-Fluo...) and is there a better / cheaper alternative?
Yes, I am thinking about this.
"I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit."

This was a regular narrative from the days of phone phreaking and toll fraud, etc.

Just speaking the correct lingo of a lineman or an operator or a toll office supervisor could allow one to navigate through all the depths of the telephone system. Not just to receive services without charge, but to actually build and teardown circuits, set up test numbers (ANACs), conference calls, etc.

It's incredible to think that a few lines of Twiml, or a Twilio function, can create something like an ANAC which was a rare, valuable, and jealously guarded secret 30 years ago ...
If Stripe raises $30M/year for this program, there will be $30M/year spent on validation and R&D that one can point to and say "look, that can be done and works".

I agree that governments should be making large grants for research in renewables and capture everywhere, and tax fossil fuels enough to make them uncompetitive. But they aren't, and part of the way you can change a government's course is by having something running you can use as an example.
>(it has more developmentand broader support than AMD's ray tracing),

We don't know for how long AMD has been developing their raytracing, or how much effort they've put into it.

What we know, however, is that the consoles use AMD tech this time around, and that's what games that run on both PCs and Consoles are going to be designed for.
This is a great piece that provides a much needed look at the "other side" of James Randi.

Many will claim that it is not right for the author to speak ill of the dead but in this current climate it is best for us to see Mr. Randi and by extension ourselves for who we really are...

We and our heroes are fallible human beings driven by our own desires. We are both capable of great harm and good. Let's not hide our darkness but bring it to light.
I gotta try that in my next interview....

For those of you who missed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Salesman
Do you mean the Pylint result? Was this confirmed elsewhere? It's unlikely that an interpreter is faster than a tracing JIT in geomean over a relevant set of benchmarks.
Try getting enough sunlight in Seattle/Vancouver. During winter months, good luck seeing sun at all, it is all just grey sky. And when it shows up one day for a couple of hours, i have a strong feeling that even then it wouldn't be enough.

I remember 2 years ago, it was so bad, that local newspapers were celebrating when we finally got our first glimpse of sun (for a couple of hours) for that year on some day in late January (like 24th or 25th). It literally took almost an entire month to see the sun for the first time that year.
It is more like email or two to get what you need. No need to employ fulltime person to handle it.
Fair point, but the parent.parent says this was to "approve some minor thing" The risk is that the "minor thing" isn't so minor, especially when the bypassing of the review process becomes routine.

I suppose put it this way. Imagine a software developer slipped in smaller code changes and circumvented procedures like QA or code review because they though it was "just some minor thing" Would you find that OK?
OMG I'm sorry but that made me laugh so hard. Who does that?!
I would say you need a clearer vision and more focus. Perhaps less resource usage and faster page loading can target people who don’t have a decent internet connection?
I think this is key to Gresham's law: government regulation of the value of the bad currency is what makes the bad currency be used. Without that legal protection, the bad money wouldn't be accepted. If it's required to be accepted, then you'd be a fool to not spend the bad money whenever you have it. So it seems that your observations are just an example of Gresham's Law.
It is a relatively common belief among non-technical people in my friend group that Facebook listens to everything you say within earshot of your phone and later displays ads to you based on what it hears. That belief still isn't enough to get those people to stop using Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It isn't that people don't think they are being spied on. It is that people don't really care that they are being spied on.

Snowden didn't fail to change things because people didn't believe him. He failed to change things because he didn't articulate a compelling enough reason for people to be fearful of what he revealed.

If people reading this want to see this changed, we need to do a better job of showing the real world consequences of this lost privacy. Talking about theoretical concepts like lost freedom and privacy isn't enough. You need tangible examples of how people's lives are made worse by this spying.
Unicode. E.g. https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=BOLD#:....
A reminder to people: do not buy or sell stocks on the basis of headlines, or any price movement that spans the basis of months. The incentives to mislead you are incredibly powerful.
Dropbox introduces Slack/Zoom competitor?
> Managing Python and Ruby is pretty easy until you hit a library with OS dependencies.

And that's why there is practically only one solution to solve it in either language (/sarcasm off).

Docker in my mind wasn't a sensible choice for compiled languages prior multi-stage builds, or better buildkit.

> Honestly that all seems to mostly derive from C/C++ issues, doesn't it?

It derives from having binary libraries, and a plethora of ABIs. And contrary to Go advocats and docker fans, I do believe they have their place. There is no perfect technical solution, there is always a trade-off.

With compiled languages you deliver binaries. A development / delivery split is expected.
The intermediate data (object files + debug data) often need a lot of storage, and are not supposed to be shipped directly. With a binary interface (ABI), you simply can ship your shared object or executable individually.

With statically linked/compiled binaries, you have to ship every binary using the fixed library. Or in case of docker, it will likely affect a lower layer which will invalidate all the upper layers of each docker image using said library.

So a couple of bytes delta in a couple of KB library can mean a couple of KB binary package, or a couple of multi-mb binaries or layers containing all the upper parts.

Your OS is most likely working with shared objects/DLLs and their ABIs, and there is a reason for that. Your use-case might not demand that, and that is okay, but it doesn't invalidate that there is a sensible reason for doing it the way it is done.
I am thoroughly impressed one could be mentally composed during such a routine. I have a medical condition that has resulted in many procedures and operations. Needles and blood do not cause me any anxiety. However, on one occasion I had to have my big toe nail removed. It was numbed up fine and I was reading a book during the procedure. However, I looked down at one point and saw my toe nail being pulled off in a bloody mess and, even with (a) no fear of blood and (b) no pain, I almost passed out. There was something deep in my brain that said “alert, that looks really bad so you need to immediately pass out!”
>I was really hoping against hope that RDNA 2 would include better RT support, but alas

I wouldn't jump to conclusions. I'd instead wait until third party benchmarks.

AMD has the advantage of being in both Microsoft and Sony's new consoles, too, which in practice means games are going to be designed for AMD's RT.
Wow. What you've created for your friend and her family is special (I actually just started tearing up a bit).

And it sounds like it has all of the care and sensitivity we could ever hope of bringing to people. So, it means a lot that you would even consider what we are building in the same context.

I'll also say that you've really honed in on our goal with Artifact - to create both an impetus and a space where going deep on the important things is just a little bit easier.
I used to read Boingboing daily up to about 10 years ago. They then started getting completely insane, and so did Xeni Jardin, personally.
Suicide rates would argue otherwise.

For me personally, there's not a lot of things that I think would stop me, but I don't think I would operate on myself.

Possibly, if I had the skills I would feel differently, but honestly, I think I would feel the same way.
I think some of the price difference is expected because of the memory difference, 24GB vs 16GB. But for gaming up to 4K that memory difference doesn't matter much. I guess RTX 3090 will perform better on other work loads than gaming.
Listening, like a fit body, is one of the rare things that cannot be bought solely with money.
I thought the problem was Huawei...
For people in the board game industry, Tabletop Simulator has become invaluable during the pandemic. A ton of designers have figured out how to use TTS enough to get their prototypes working in here and then have online virtual playtest nights using it. Also publishers can also use it to playtest games, or to see a virtual pitch.

TTS is actually very powerful once you dig into it. I was annoyed by it at first, but once I sat down and watched some videos, sat in on other people's playtests and gotten ideas for things I can do in my own prototypes, I've discovered just how powerful it is. I haven't dug into the scripting aspect of it yet, but I will before too much longer.

I'm actually going to use it for pitching one of my games to publishers during an event next weekend (a simple abstract game called Cake Walk, I actually have it up on the Steam Workshop so anyone can try it). It's at the link below if you own TTS and you're curious.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=22173...

I know there's also Tabletopia, which is free up front, but that requires you to pay a monthly fee if you want to set up more than one game, and if you're a designer like me, I've got like 10 active prototypes at any given time. It's still good for people running Kickstarters to let people try out their game during a campaign though.

If any of you own this and like the idea of playtesting games in progress, there's a group that happens pretty much every day of the week. Most meet via Discord, since it's more stable for audio and will stay up even when switching servers. Here's a list below if anyone is interested. I've mostly stuck with the Chicago group, but you might see me in the others at some point:

https://cardboardedison.com/playtest-groups
I know what it means and it could be interpreted as a sarcastic expression - so there's nothing to be bothered by.
As far as the question about depleting the tidal waves of energy, I cannot imagine that it will ever be more than tiniest slice of that pie.
I was pointing out/laughing at the scheme pun
Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that an underground dogfighting ring is an alternative entertainment venue to your local boxing league.

Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a "massage parlor" (scare quotes intentional) is an alternative entertainment venue to your local strip club.

Better?
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>It's a shame how the core maintainers see CPython as a "reference implementation"

Ironically this also makes CPython less interesting as a reference language - which keeps PyPy and co insignificant in adoption...
I've been using Zotero + xournalpp (note the "pp") and it works quite well. I wouldn't call it perfect, but I'm happy enough. It handles pinch to zoom, swipe to pan, and stylus for annotations.
The one with the compass on the end and you can hide stuff in?
On two occasions I’ve heavily modified WM source (originally ratpoison, now write). Without caring about graphical extensions will I be able to hack similarly under Wayland?
The RTX 3070 does not official go on sale until tomorrow. You might be able to pre-order somewhere though.
What is HATEOAS and why is it important for my REST API?
The difference being that if this happens, I can spawn an instance elsewhere and just change the DNS. I have hourly ZFS based backups to my own server, it would take a few hour max to restore everything.
Test and Roll: An experimental design to maximize profit from A/B Tests
Essential Arts
In a way Socrates was exactly right. Consider Buddhism, a philosophy that lasted orally for hundreds of years before the first texts were written. Even today, buddhist monks use chanting and repetition to memorize these teachings, internalize them, and live them.

Sure, you could read these teachings and move on with your life, but can you recite what you just read, or even what you just wrote? Not a chance. Your memory of text is fleeting compared to if you gave focused mental effort committing that text to memory through oral repetition.
Jack Ma: “Digital Currencies” Are the Future
I think for extremely limited capability embedded devices it makes sense to have Linux kernel + Wayland - but anything modernly new Android will do fine. Honda uses it in their in-dash entertainment systems for example.
Gerald Jay Sussman on Flexible Systems, the Power of Generic Operations [Vimeo]
The IRS issues guidance on crypto currency, here's an example from 2014: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

"In Notice 2014-21, the IRS applied general principles of tax law to determine that virtual currency is property for federal tax purposes"

Here's the current page about IRS policy on crypto: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-add...

IRS guidance aren't laws but they detail how the IRS is going to treat tax collection based on current law. At some point in the future Congress may classify crypto currencies as actual currencies such as the Yen, Euro, etc. at which point the tax laws about currency exchange would apply instead of capital gains on property.
The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will
I really like the product. If I had more money I would probably buy it.

One thing that could be helpful is to provide to a private RSS url in addition to web link, so I can play it in my podcast player.

Maybe there’s a DIY version of this product? You make available the internal tools that interviews use but let me actually do the interview? To make it cheaper.

I’m actually about to start interviewing my own family members to get some of our history recorded, so I'm very interested in this use case.
>I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python.

Well, anybody using Python for all its over benefits, still would very much like more speed.