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Who are AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs for?

theregister.com

Opinion Intel recently teased a 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 processor, and your humble vulture thinks...
Opinion Intel recently teased a 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 processor, and your humble vulture thinks you can ignore them – indeed, ignoring them might be your safest course of action. That’s because Intel, and AMD, will encourage you to put a lot of eggs in their manycore baskets. I’ve heard both argue that part...
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In a rare disclosure, The Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane

arstechnica.com

"When it’s close to the Earth, it’s close enough to the atmosphere to turn where it...
"When it’s close to the Earth, it’s close enough to the atmosphere to turn where it is," she said. "Which means our adversaries don’t know—and that happens on the far side of the Earth from our adversaries—where it’s going to come up next. And we know that that drives them nuts. And I’m really glad about that." Brea...
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Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician

arxiv.org
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Tokyo looks to protect service staff from customers who are not so cool

ft.com
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First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument

nasa.gov

Enabled by Carbon Mapper and built by Planet Labs PBC, Tanager-1 launched from Vandenberg Space Force...
Enabled by Carbon Mapper and built by Planet Labs PBC, Tanager-1 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Aug. 16 and has been collecting data to verify that its imaging spectrometer, which is based on technology developed at NASA JPL, is functioning properly. Both Planet Labs PBC and JPL are membe...
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PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores

paypal.com

Last updated on September 23, 2024Notice of Amendment(s) to the United States PayPal Agreement(s) This Page...
Last updated on September 23, 2024Notice of Amendment(s) to the United States PayPal Agreement(s) This Page This page details and/or previews updates to PayPal users of changes to the United States PayPal User Agreement or other online agreements, policies, or statements that require notice. You can also review Past...
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The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source

pileofhacks.dev
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The phone ban has had a big impact on school work

mbl.is

A phone ban has been in place at Öldutún School since the beginning of 2019, and...
A phone ban has been in place at Öldutún School since the beginning of 2019, and according to the principal, it has worked well. The school's atmosphere and culture have changed for the better, and there is more peace in the classroom. However, the headmaster Valdimar Víðisson says that it has not been separately st...
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Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

ycombinator.com
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IcePanel (YC W23) is hiring full stack engineers in Vancouver

ycombinator.com
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Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)

engineersedge.com

From Melting Ice Cubes to a Mystery About Time By Aatish Bhatia Let’s start with a...
From Melting Ice Cubes to a Mystery About Time By Aatish Bhatia Let’s start with a puzzle. Why does this gif look totally normal... Image: Moussa / Public Domain ...but this one look strange? The second gif is just the first one played in reverse. But something about it immediately seems off. This just never happens...

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Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo

jvns.ca

Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who...
Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version to a new version. But what are blogs for if not documenting one’s very boring yakshaves from time to time? So yesterday I decided to try to upgrade Hugo. There’s no real re...
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Home Libraries Will Save Civilization

frontporchrepublic.com

Multiple recent stories offered more signs of what I consider to be an unfolding civilizational decline....
Multiple recent stories offered more signs of what I consider to be an unfolding civilizational decline. First, a student in Hartford, CT, who had attended local public schools from age six, graduated from high school without knowing how to read or write. At all. She had used speech-to-text software to write her pap...
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Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

faa.gov
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Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?

illinoisfishinghub.com

Lake Michigan’s underwater Stonehenge was unearthed by Mark Holley, a professor specializing in underwater archaeology. This...
Lake Michigan’s underwater Stonehenge was unearthed by Mark Holley, a professor specializing in underwater archaeology. This ancient structural marvel consists of a circle of granite stones, each meticulously arranged and thought to be around 9,000 years old. People often associate it with Stonehenge due to its intr...
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The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma

nathanzhao.cc

I often analogize some real-world problems according to their ML-related counterparts. One of them is the...
I often analogize some real-world problems according to their ML-related counterparts. One of them is the exporation-exploitation problem, but it’s often been met with minimal recognition. I wrote this blog as something I can refer to the next time I get a “what do you mean?”Introduction: The Multi-Armed Bandit Prob...
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Gödel Agent: A self-referential agent framework for recursive self-improvement

arxiv.org
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The 1/8th Sleep

near.blog

The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only...
The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only feels great but often improves sleep as well. This post discusses a cheaper homemade option that I use instead. A 12℉ difference between the bed surface and the surrounding air. Some ice was used in the cooler prior to the image...
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Turkish language has a gossip tense

twitter.com
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Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

mcc-berlin.net

MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced...
MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this. Cologne Central Station: tThanks to the 49-euro ticket, there are significantly more train journeys and much lower CO2 emissions. | Photo: Shutterstoc...

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Writing an animated 3-star popup with .NET MAUI and Lottie (2022)

medium.com

Spanish version:https://medium.com/@rretamal.dev/c%C3%B3mo-hacer-un-popup-animado-de-3-estrellas-en-net-maui-y-lottie-859bd310a4dfOn different gamified apps and games we can see the typical 3-star system that indicates...
Spanish version:https://medium.com/@rretamal.dev/c%C3%B3mo-hacer-un-popup-animado-de-3-estrellas-en-net-maui-y-lottie-859bd310a4dfOn different gamified apps and games we can see the typical 3-star system that indicates how well a user did an action, pass a level, etc, in this case I wanted to do something like that ...
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Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging

iem.sh
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Lessons from Plain Text

rugu.dev

Written at 2024-10-10When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t...
Written at 2024-10-10When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file. Sure, the contents of plain text files are byte codes encoded in formats like ASCII, UTF8, or UTF16, and these byte codes are the ultimate source of truth. But in the end, it...
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Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs

gizmodo.com

There’s been some unusual rumblings coming from Mount Adams, but for those in the area, it’s...
There’s been some unusual rumblings coming from Mount Adams, but for those in the area, it’s not time to panic. Geologists are closely monitoring Washington’s largest volcano (and second tallest mountain), which hasn’t erupted since the Bronze Age. During the month of September, the United States Geological Service ...
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