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A figure from the paper shows this better than my TL;DR: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0/figures/1

"At the moment, performance is a mixed bag. Some tests are up and some are down. In particular I believe Speedometer is down a few percent."

"Note however that clang-cl is punching above its weight. These builds currently have neither LTO nor PGO, while our MSVC builds use both of those. Any regressions that we're seeing ought to be short-lived. Once we enable LTO[1] and PGO[2], I expect clang to be a clear performance win."

[1] "LTO (Link Time Optimization) is a method for achieving better runtime performance through whole-program analysis and cross-module optimization." http://blog.llvm.org/2016/06/thinlto-scalable-and-incrementa...

[2] PGO = Profile Guided Optimization

Double trigger RSUs are popular in late stage unicorns where the exercise price for ISOs have already hit a high level but the stock isn't liquid enough to sell to cover the tax as they vest.

A lot of people might be affected, I wonder if existing grants are grandfathered in?

Fast! is a Microsoft Research language for tree transforms, the cool part is the "deforestation" where a sequence of functions can be transformed in to a single function.

What makes this cool is it isn't "runtime" composition; the generated C# code does the transformation in a single pass. For example a sequence of maps and filters would only loop over the list once.

Basically they've demonstrated that if people spend a lot more time on a question they answer less emotionally (which seems like it would be true independent of the language).

If they can demonstrate the effect still holds with 2nd language speakers with native level proficiency then this would be a lot more interesting result.

  I answer that I'm terrified of running into something in the real world while my
  vision is obscured, but they insist I'll be fine. It turns out the game space's
  virtual walls correspond to the real ones in the admittedly small office I occupy
  in meatspace.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#hyphenation [2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-hyphens

Single page webapps. In those cases the html/js is normally static and already CDN'ed and the data is a JSON API which varies on a per user basis.

There would be some gain as the dictionary would learn the JSON keys but I doubt it would be very dramatic vs deflate compared to the content sites referenced in the article.

Otherwise the this is more compelling for content sites like the referenced 4chan. But still very cool.

You might have heard of it shadow DOM etc. Basically the idea is to be able to add GUI components eg <progressbar> that are as integrated as the native ones are.

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/... https://plus.google.com/103330502635338602217/posts

Mozilla's X-Tags implementation seems closer to the goal though: http://www.x-tags.org/ IIRC it can do this because it's using Object.observable internally to detect DOM changes.

ie with X-tags you don't need the javascript definition part, just: <x-map data-key="39d2b66f0d5d49dbb52a5b7ad87aea9b"></x-map>.

Seems similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition systems.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is resigning as editor of the popular technology blog, and will run a $20 million venture-capital fund backed by TechCrunch-owner AOL Inc. and several venture-capital firms.

Mr. Arrington "will run the fund and will continue to write for TechCrunch, but will have no editorial oversight," said an AOL spokesman. Erick Schonfeld, who has served as co-editor in New York, will become interim editor while AOL searches for a replacement for Mr. Arrington, the spokesman said. AOL purchased the site last year.

Mr. Arrington's new fund, called CrunchFund, closed Thursday with $20 million, according to people familiar with the matter. AOL leads the limited-partner group, which includes a long roster of venture firms that kicked in $1 million each: Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Several individuals contributed money, including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz; general partners at Benchmark Capital; angel investors Ron Conway and Kevin Rose; and Yuri Milner of Russian firm DST Global.

It isn't immediately clear what is the fate of AOL's venture-capital arm, AOL Ventures, which has made recent seed investments in start-ups such as spam-defense company Impermium and price-tracking service Shopobot.

Mr. Arrington's partner in the fund is Patrick Gallagher, who has been a partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners since 2008.

Mr. Arrington wasn't immediately available for comment. He posted a message on Twitter after news of the fund broke: "slow news day."

Mr. Arrington, a former lawyer who is known to be well connected in Silicon Valley, started TechCrunch in 2005. The site built up a following for its coverage of young tech companies.

Long an angel investor himself, Mr. Arrington announced on TechCrunch in 2009 that he would stop making investments in start-ups due to a perceived conflict as both publisher and investor. It's "a weak point that competitors and disgruntled entrepreneurs use to attack our credibility," he wrote at the time.

But in April this year, after AOL acquired TechCrunch, Mr. Arrington announced he was investing in start-ups again, while also becoming a limited partner in venture funds Benchmark Capital and SoftTechVC.

Mr. Arrington has often said that transparency and full disclosure keep things above-board when his blog writes about companies he has some financial stake in.

* He's worried that sanctions etc could freeze it

* He want's to be able to sell it without being clear about it (so he can buy the next election or make a personal nest egg with it).

Venezuela's bonds moved 50 basis points on this so the markets are obviously worried that the gold's going to start evaporating once it's under his control.

Coming out in July.

Specs: "1.33GHz, single-core Atom N435, a six-cell battery, and a small SSD (probably of the 16GB variety)"

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/27/slim-asus-eee-pc-x101-to-...

iCab solves the first problem as it can auto background tab any links to a different domain. This is a actually smoother than the flow here: tap-hold-selecting is a slow operation I don't want to have to do it for every link on a page.

Instead I'd love a toggle that turns on add to queue as the default operation for the duration of that page. (This would be an improvement on the iCab option as the background loading is easy to forget about and then immediately becomes confusing.) The toggle should be a main button like the plus and would cease to apply if you navigate anywhere else or start going though your queue.

Another option would be certain pages always open in auto add to queue mode (eg set on the the bookmark). And some people might prefer add to instapaper as the default action etc.

EDIT: I actually really like this. Feels very smooth.

Let's take a look at the superficial structures around us..."

He presents a characterization, says these ideas are delusional because, then leads on to his observations. It's not unreasonable to think he was making argument.

The straw man he creates is equating anyone who wants to reduce state expenditure as wanting or believing in an over-simplified world.

That said, the characterization was insulting to anyone on the right, and about half seem to have taken it as their main takeaway and about half seem to have passed it straight by. So that might be why.

Humans seem to manage complexity by creating categorizations/abstractions until it's reduced to a workable amount. This can lead to a kind of fractal experience where zooming into any area presents the same seeming level of complexity as the whole did.

If you haven't made that particular zoom it's tempting to assume it's as simple as the assumption makes it look. "It's just" or "it should be easy to" are phrases that computer programmers are fairly familiar with and aren't overly fond of.

The political side would seem to be that if there's a lot of embedded complexity in pretty much anything then trying to change something, replace it with something cleaner or clearer, is going to be far harder than it would seem. Without trying to make the same mistake Stross did, President Obama and the disappointing gap between rhetoric and reality would seem to be a current example.

Generally trying to pare down the size of the state, given it's own natural processes cause it to increase, would seem necessary simply to achieve homeostasis. In the last century the long term tread has been strongly on the side of increase but it can't always be or eventually the tax burden would reach unity.

The political side of this is very transparently Scottish left wing. "... among the UK's conservatives we see an almost masochistic addiction to cuts in public spending" the phrase "masochistic addiction" is a current Labour talking point. The actual cuts amount to 2.2% of GDP by 2014-15 added to the the 4.1% Labour had already set.

But the OS probably never sees it as 3072x600 (or it would have to be changing the resolution and aspect ratio on the fly). Also it's not necessary as AFAIK the sub-pixel font rendering would amount to the same thing.

[1] http://netbooked.net/blog/lenovo-s10-2-w-pixel-qi-display-ce...

On the other hand PDF's don't let you extract structured information without effectively reverse OCR'ing it.

For example Alan Kay's Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming project generates it's TCP/IP stack from the ascii art in RFC 791:

http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...