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ACAVJW4Hon Ask HN: What are some of the most useful Python packages?

Pycharm has a profiler I used a couple of times. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/profiler.html#jump

ACAVJW4Hon Spring-powered wheel claims to be ‘E-bike alternative at lower cost’

Tom stanton a great youtuber builds and tests prototypes like these. Here he tried electrical regen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suxSqrP_X4

ACAVJW4Hon Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

That’s great news! I was disappointed since I read the discussion on github. I clearly misunderstood. Thanks!

ACAVJW4Hon Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

Didn’t Intel have a similar idea with Skylake? Those had very fast albeit smaller eDRAM die glued to the processor. It was dropped on subsequent generations.

ACAVJW4Hon Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

I had the impression that, virtualization was not possible on current M1. As I sadly discovered that docker didn’t and won’t run on current silicon. Is it still possible for parallels to move forward without virtualization ?

ACAVJW4Hon Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

I wonder how this is possible? I imagine its partly due to manufacturing improvements (14nm vs 5nm) I mean how can Intel fall so far behind in only a couple years? I know they were one of the earliest investors in ASML’s EUV. Why couldn’t they push for smaller nodes? Is it because they were milking their current nodes too far? I saw them marketing freaking TEC’s to cool down their 500W Cpu gaming rigs on LTT and derbauer recently.

What made TSMC so successful? Is it primarily thanks to their business strategy? Or did Intel do something so wrong they tumbled down this far?

I know that Intel’s 10nm is closer to 7nm TSMC but still their competition is coming up with interesting and relevant technologies while Intel is like a junkyard of half baked ideas. 5g modems? Arduino competitor? Vaporware GPU’s since Larrabee? Claims of dominance in NN accelerators with nothing solid? Nirvana? Optane 600 series garbage SSDs? Stupid desktop computing form factor ideas? I can go on...

I don’t hate Intel or root for any other company. I’m just trying to understand how incompetence like this happens in companies

ACAVJW4Hon Homemade Sun Project Complete with Parallel Rays and Rayleigh Scattering

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-artific...

The company is called https://www.coelux.com

ACAVJW4Hon Homemade Sun Project Complete with Parallel Rays and Rayleigh Scattering

I think projects like these maybe a miniaturized version has great potential. This would enable new kinds of housing. I think it would be of great benefit for people in hospitals and care units too. Heck I could benefit from a little more sunshine. I remember an Italian LED manufacturer had a similar product. I will link if I find it. I imagine they've patented the shit out of it.

ACAVJW4Hon What gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe

Slightly off topic question, but I am curious about the total energy content off gravitational wave energy in the universe. Are there any estimates? Or a way to calculate it? Is this figure taken into account when calculating the total energy of the universe?

ACAVJW4Hon Transparent OLEDs

Pardon my ignorance but wouldn't LCD need polarized light to perform the darkening? Maybe a transparent pixelated electrochromic display layer might work

ACAVJW4Hon Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century

There is a nice video explaining the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) by Just Have a Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yz8nZbZPE8

ACAVJW4Hon NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

It might be a stupid question but, aside from the obvious benefits of saving bandwidth by omitting useless noise in transport, doesn't it make sense to employ these technologies server-side? One could maybe make Jitsi or BigBlueButton use similar technologies? It would make it much more ubiquitous, better platform support (would work on mobile or low CPU/GPU clients) and also save on system provisioning as maybe the neural net could be utilized better by running for different audio sources concurrently