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I would love to see more innovation in scripting languages. Nothing (I've seen) comes as close to perl for swizzling together a decent, capable, handy programming language with a variety of system binaries & other shell scripts.

There's a couple efforts like shell.js[1] or the far simpler/more-contemporary zx[2] to give shell-scripting like ease to js. zx's core is just at tagged template string for running system() calls, basically, ex: $`echo 2+2`. I still find the experience pretty sub-par compared to how shell & scripting first languages like Perl are.

Perl is just super powerful, keeping a foot in a more user-land like environment, versus the totalizing experience of libraries. Why do you need to pick a http client library to use when everyone is already quite intimate with curl & it's already on the system? Somehow coding keeps taking more turf, but I feel like Perl's scripting was extremely glorious & largely un-reproduced. Perl is still some of the best "glue" the planet has seen. And glue, as we've read a couple times on HN[3][4], & which I agree with, is really important, dominates what we build.

To the topic itself, as a Debian user, I appreciate Perl, but I wish it weren't on my OS taking up ~20MB of space & being more & more offbeat, but it's probably never going away. Not sure why it irks me that my computers will all need that ~20MB of Perl + Debian perl libraries. And it is pretty cool how debuggable & visible the Debian tools often are, because they're scripts, not compiled programs, by & large. But there's a lot of operators to lookup & a lot of implicit variables to remember in Perl programs, and it's a reminder how offbeat Perl is, every time I poke my head in.

[1] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs

[2] https://github.com/google/zx

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27486706 https://blog.metaobject.com/2021/06/glue-dark-matter-of-soft...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880183 https://www.oreilly.com/radar/thinking-about-glue/
Eventually they'll drop support for Windows 10.
That's what worries me.
We can't do Ready Player One level immersion yet, but the Hyperreality level of AR is very close. About two more generations of Ray-Ban displays.
And it's so Facebook.

Business opportunity: "METADWEEB.COM" is unregistered.
Last minute sales hacks for retailers large and small
Tesla 2021 Q3 Update [pdf]
the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07161
Good. I applaud all workers who successfully negotiate for as high a salary as possible. After all, I'm not in the room with them when they negotiate their pay, just like they're not in the room with me when it's my turn -- if they're making six figs, good on them.
I liked fish a lot but various tooling at work just expected you to be working in something sh-like. I handled sourcing files of env vars with some utility functions but I still found myself having to drop into bash/zsh pretty often.

I feel torn because I really can empathize with making a clean break. But it also precludes a lot of people from making the shell a daily driver when your co-workers are shoving shell scripts your supposed to source into your env into github, lol.
Because pointing out reality now makes you part of the "dangerous alt right."
They're firing on all cylinders.
I’ve read that most human viruses jumped from domesticated animals. The pre-Columbian American peoples notoriously had almost no domesticated animals, with I think just one exception being the llama. So I think that’s supposedly the primary factor, less so raw population.
The opposite is the case. Overall, being too lenient in what code accepts and applying heuristics will lead to way worse problems down the line. For example, you want your compiler to fail hard instead of saying: "Oh, this isn't a pointer, but I'm sure you meant well, I'm just going to treat it as a pointer!"

In this particular case, it seems to me that the hints serve no purpose and should be abolished, and in the meantime fully ignored, altogether. All necessary metadata is contained in the image file, and browsers should also be (relatively) strict in what image files with what metadata they accept, for security reasons alone.

And if they also went so far as limiting file size, the perpetrators that clog up bandwidth by putting up multi-MB favicons would catch on much earlier (or at all), too.

So what actually is the point of those hints, if browsers have to fallback anyway?
Why do we think it's our business exactly? If some cultural groups don't value education, isn't that their prerogative? Why do we think we need to get involved in the interest of representation?
That's one way to twist "lifting people out of generational poverty", but OK.

Fine. Let's just give preference to people who didn't have the privilege of having a college-educated adult as their legal guardian or personal responsible for their upbringing.

Does it make it better for you?
This is one of my favorite questions in the philosophy of mathematics. A related question for me is the ontology of objects we associate with Software -- algorithms, data structures, etc.
geez, just let this blasted company initiate its own collapse like myspace already.

Twitter won't be too far behind.
Does the core speed of an M1 core change at all? I thought they used the low/high power cores at fixed-limit clock speeds.

It sounds crazy to consider, but maybe they’d rather not try to speed up the individual cores in M1 Max, so that they can keep their overhead competitively low. That certainly would simplify manufacturing and QA; removing an entire vector (clock speed) from the binning process makes pipelines and platforms easier to maintain.
> That is why the increasing cost of craftsmanship, while real, cannot account for the decline of neighborhood beauty.

It's not the cost, it's the availability. I'm currently in the process of a home renovation. If you want a master craftsman to build you say, kitchen cabinets, you may have to wait years for them to be available.

Or you can go to the store and buy custom built cabinets from a factory and have them in a few weeks.

It's the same with the outside of the house. You can build a generic outside with supplies from Home Depot, or if you're really fancy the contractor's supply depot, or wait years for a master to do a custom job for you.
My advice would be to talk with an attorney who focuses on education and schools. These are usually special education attorneys who focus mostly on kids with disabilities but they also help gifted kids as well.

They are worth every penny. And they are the key to unlocking individualized public education.

There are ways to get an IEP for a gifted student as well, if they can qualify as twice exceptional.

https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parent...

An apt quote:

"Because gifted children demonstrate greater maturity in some domains over others, they may be at greater risk for specific kinds of social-emotional difficulties if their needs are not met."

https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parent...

With the destruction of GATE programs and the return to local funding I imagine that there will be many lawsuits from parents like yourself asking the school districts to actually provide free appropriate public education (FAPE) for gifted kids. This may take the form of a class action Federal lawsuit. Eventually, Congress will have to act but this is going to take 5-10 years.

In the meantime you should think about private school, supplementing your child's education and see about the "twice exceptional" thing and talk to a special education attorney.
This is not exactly the same as a union bus driver.. I think its fair to say, that this is not a supply-and-demand wage negotiation, rather it is high-stakes negotiation between guilds, over decades. The aisles of the ports are intensely profitable, but operate under heavy pressures.
The current political regime in Washington is totally crooked. Look at what they're doing to push COVID vaccine products onto children (Pfizer and JnJ are the #6 and #7 stocks owned by congress), and their selection of someone with massive conflict of interest for NHTSHA safety advisor.

Anything that the federal Government touches right now is going to get a lot worse.

America just needs to limp on until they can be thrown out in 2022 and 2024. Hopefully those years will have real elections.
I am shocked how this stuff hasn't made its way into HN yet. Everyone PLEASE DYOR and start by researching Cryptopunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club, you can spread out your NFT horizons from there.
By the standards of his culture, Leif Erickson's discovery of Vinland had as much publicity as any distant event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_the_Greenlanders
yep. if things don't work contact apple support they are actually pretty decent. i had a lemon mini, randomly would go into a bootloop after os updates - had a bad mainboard so apple replaced it and it's been fine since.
"Fair" is whatever they can negotiate. Who are you or I to say what's "fair" for someone else haggling over prices?
Because everyone is going to rush out and buy a new PC? 15% of people still run Win7. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d... https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows...
Numberphile did a nice episode about this topic a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EGDCh75SpQ
Indigenous populations started dropping centuries before Columbus and we don’t know why. (Of course they dropped further after Columbian contact)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia#Decline%20(13th%20an...

> The population of Cahokia began to decline during the 13th century, and the site was eventually abandoned by around 1350.
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well yeah Erikson was first, but he didn't "discover" it in the sense that Columbus did. I would say they're categorically different. See my comment below.
That hardware is from 2015, though. A fairer comparison would be to current gen Intel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_processo...
because, being mostly replaceable, they are not in a strong negotiating position to do so?
No speed limiting on >60FPS displays is a bit of a problem, but neat project!
Conversely, I can make an argument that a situation where we focus on benefiting elite students ends up creating a society with an empty middle class, which means there's no large base of moneyed consumers to buy innovations and products that elites create. This could result in innovation stagnating as an underclass of cheap labor is able to compensate for the labor-saving efficiency that technology brings. Then there's the social argument that states should be created for the benefit of the governed.

There's a greater debate here about the gini coefficient and its effect on the economy and society, but I don't have an answer to this.
Is this at all related to the mathematical universe hypothesis that says the universe is mathematics and that everything that actually is exists is only a mathematical structure?
And she lost her billionaire status by … giving her money away to various charitable organisations.

You and that other guy clearly have a bone to pick.
Uh, could that be because it just takes time (often measured in generations) for historically-ingrained attitudes to shift in a socially-beneficial direction? What a silly question. Mind you, the C. R. T. folks are the ones who keep telling us that having a "good education", "getting the right answer" and "being on time" are uniquely oppressive "White values" and that Blacks are just different.
Color me surprised, you mean regular people don't have 10k to drop on a few shares of tesla?!?!?

I'm tired of articles that take some smaller detail of an actual story and frame it as a paradigm shifting realization.

The topic of wealth inequality and/or wealth hoarding are very interesting topics that I don't feel are represented properly by headlines like "Rich people own 89% of the stock market"

Maybe I'm overly cynical but I'm sure anyone who's been interested in the stock market at all understand fully that it is purely a rich person's game and any peasants that participate are like remoras on their bellies hoping to eat the scraps.
Afaik these university projects were done to test out how Cell-based supercomputers would behave. They're not competitive with up-to-date Supercomputers.

In my lab I found a couple of PS3s lying around several years ago, that hadn't been used in quite a while. (One of them may or may not have been adopted for less scientific purposes …)
These companies didn't get the funding to make the vaccine from previous inventions, but from government funding, so this seems to be an unreasonable argument.
> I just can't figure out what I'm missing on the "M1 is so fast" side of things.

Two reasons:

1. M1 is a super fast laptop chip. It provides mid-range desktop performance in a laptop form factor with mostly fanless operation. No matter how you look at it, that's impressive.

2. Apple really dragged their feet on updating the old Intel Macs before the transition. People in the Mac world (excluding hackintosh) were stuck on relatively outdated x86-64 CPUs. Compared to those older CPUs, the M1 Max is a huge leap forward. Compared to modern AMD mobile parts, it's still faster but not by leaps and bounds.

But I agree that the M1 hype may be getting a little out of hand. It's fast and super power efficient, but it's mostly on par with mid-range 8-core AMD desktop CPUs from 2020. Even AMD's top mobile CPU isn't that far behind the M1 Max in Geekbench scores.

I'm very excited to get my M1 Max in a few weeks. But if these early Geekbench results are accurate, it's going to be about half as fast as my AMD desktop in code compilation (see Clang results in the detailed score breakdown). That's still mightily impressive from a low-power laptop! But I think some of the rhetoric about the M1 Max blowing away desktop CPUs is getting a little ahead of the reality.
I wonder if there are any Tesla shorts left at this point.
It would be very amusing to see "если" in an if statement, given how much it looks and sound like "else" at a brief glance.
I was just a kid in the 80s, but indeed remember watching "Sonda" - it was fantastic! Going through some episodes now on youtube, does bring back memories. There was another show in the late 80s called "Bliżej świata" (English: "Closer to the World"), which would run for an hour or so on a Sunday night and show snippets from western tv shows. The contrast to the (usually) very bleak communist Polish TV, was striking.
For me, back then, watching both of these shows felt like looking through a window into a different world.
What we name something is not semantics, it's a foundational component of how we view and shape the world around us. In a very real sense we are incapable of thinking of things without naming them and the name we give them informs how we think of them.

Also, we are not 'terrified' of adjectives - we are 'terrified' of a world that is unable to continue the gradual march of empathy to larger and larger groups that humanity has thus far been able to maintain and is critical for our long-term survival. If our monkeybrains were unable to evolve social constructs allowing the cooperation and common action of more than 7 people we'd still be stone age apes barely capable of using tools.

The key social "technology" that enables that is empathy with a monkey whose experience doesn't match the small tribe of individuals we're personally capable of caring about. It's an abstraction that enables everything else and it's important.
US only, right ?
Come to think of it: none of Buddha’s followers even wrote about him or Buddhism itself until several centuries after his death. Meaningless.
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Probably yes. People don't like to use app stores unless they are forced.
Encryption is restricted from export in the US. I've had to submit forms to do things as trivial as buying microcontrollers from TI which happened to have AES instructions.

No idea why I can go into a store and buy an infinitely more powerful Intel laptop without a form, though.
Version 11 of Jailer, the real relational database client, is out now
Seems like a weird thing to be proud of. "We found this whole new continent, sparsely populated and rich with all kinds of resources, but only explored a tiny piece of it and then basically ignored it/forgot about it."

I suppose it's better than "We found a whole new continent, killed vast numbers of inhabitants, and then brought over millions of others to subject to horrific abuse".
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There's also the practical consideration that English, due to having a) an alphabet b) letter shapes that aren't affected by surrounding letters and c) no diacritics, is the easiest major language to store and display on a computer. Even if silicon valley ended up in a country with a logographic writing system, I'd bet that the first character set that would have been used would have been Latin based
I'm still a bear on the valuation as it is. You can believe the company will be successful and still think it's grossly overvalued.
If the latest gen, top cpu is “almost 2x as fast” it will still lose to the parent’s “literally 2 times faster” M1. While using 4x more power.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1448051858698907649.html
Well, it's now pretty easy to get really close to a continuous answer by using discrete steps in a computer. If you need to get the area under a curve by breaking it into a billion tiny rectangles, so what, your computer will do that calculation in a second or two.

(...that being said, calculus is a lot more than just a way to calculate, it's a whole method of thinking of the world, and that's clearly not outdated quite yet)
Learning calculus also taught me that it is possible for me to learn something that isn't "obvious" as soon as I see it and that if I try hard enough, I can understand something I don't think I can understand rather than giving up immediately because it's hard.
but no European could have credibly believed that the disease would spread throughout the new world to such effect.

Certainly not, but once they figured out what was going on, they certainly aided and abetted the spread of these new diseases.
The new controls are for "intrusion software" (e.g. malware) and "IP network communications surveillance systems or equipment."

There are specific definitions for those terms with technical specifications. Then there are licenses/exemptions that mean you don't have to seek a license if you are selling to nongovernment customers in certain (friendlier) countries. There's also larger exemptions in export controls related to commercial off the shelf equipment and fundamental research that would apply as well.

Generally the take away is that if you're selling malware, exploits, or network surveillance equipment, you might want to talk to an export control lawyer first.
For how long? Longer than it takes to run the benchmark?
i posted a sister comment with a possible explanation
Hm, related to that reply https://twitter.com/lukeburrage/status/1450216654202343425

Is this a yield trick, that one is the "chopped" part of another? So they'll bin failed M1Max ones as M1Pro, if possible?
Let's say we switch to the "second barycentric formula":

double interp(double x, double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2)
{
double w1 = 1.0 / (x1 - x2);
double w2 = 1.0 / (x2 - x1);
double num = (w1 * y1) / (x - x1) + (w2 * y2) / (x - x2);
double denom = w1 / (x - x1) + w2 / (x - x2);
return num / denom;
}

This still gives incorrect +Inf results in an interval around the first interpolation point.

The interval is small for parameters interp(x, 0, 10, 1, 20). But interp(x, 0, 1e50, 1, 2e50) shows the interval can be much larger, as it depends on the y values.

Both formulas return incorrect results in an input range larger than the denormals (1e50 times larger in the second example above). Plenty of "normal" inputs that can arise from other calculations. And these parameters are not unusual either.

So you can't ensure a correct result from either barycentric formula in floating point by just checking for denormal input.

I think you may be right that checking for +/-Inf result as well as NaN may be an adequate test, but I wouldn't assume it without a proof or some paper demonstrating that for sure.
If we take our definition of "individual computing module" to be that it has a defined state during every tick of the clock, then there is a hard physical limit of 30cm for a module that runs at 10ghz. Anything larger must be operating asynchronously, as a distributed system.
>>> Medieval English Longbowmen were only given something like 6 arrows per battle.

IIRC records for Henry in the Tower of London show a total of 3/4 Million arrows paid for and collected for the invasion that lead to Agincourt. With an estimated 5,000 archers at Agincourt.

Modern reconstructions show about 6 arrows per minute - and again IIRC ten minutes of volley fire against the French lines - something like 60 arrows per archer, or around 300,000 arrows. Even in plate armour that shits gonna hurt.
Perhaps we differ on the meaning of free speech, but I do not believe copyright itself is a violation of the spirit off free speech. In a sense copyright can be seen as enabling more free speech, since it enables people the opportunity to support themselves through artistic & intellectual pursuits that would otherwise be unprofitable without copyright protections.
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No, the debate between Platonism and nominalism has been going on for nearly two thousand years (really getting going by the time of Occam.) Max Tegmark's mathematical universe stuff originated with him.

The question here is whether mathematical objects exist independent of our minds. It's the whole "Is math discovered or invented?" question that you see in pop. sci. documentaries. You may find this[1] trichotomy more useful for a quick overview even though that article is about a different topic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism_(philosophy_of_m...
> You've ignored your own advice and based your take on your own personal experience! (I'm just kidding, I think your personal experience is valuable in this context).

Heh I'm trying to be careful to not prescribe any solutions here because I honestly don't have one. I have pretty mixed feelings on this post as a whole, because I'm trying to see it from both my own perspective and the perspective of others.
Tick - New cores;
Tock - Scaling up the number of those same cores

I think most of the work went into the uncore portions of the SOC this time.
Or rather he would be, if the Handicapper General hadn't blown his face off with a shotgun.
Ha I couldn't stand the order that was, so here's the reverse:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10496766?baseli...

3.1% increase in single core, and 69.4% increase in multi-core.