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zopppoon RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

How is Python a dead language due to ML when it's the lingua franca of AI/ML between pytorch, pandas, numpy, langchain, litellm, vLLM, and a whole bunch of other libraries?

zopppoon UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal

> Its extremely frustrating how we let the tech companies get to be this large, such that now we really have to consider blocking every acquisition, even though this one in particular I think wouldn't be all that bad and may actually be a positive for consumers.

As an avid world of warcraft player, the community as a whole has been hoping the merger goes through for exactly this reason. Activision has seemingly forced through a lot of bad changes over the years to try wring out as much money as they can.

zopppoon U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come

Did you see this part in the link you shared?

"The authors of this article, published in 2015, have written a response to their work in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We urge our readers to consider the response when reading the article. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.responses#covid-..."

zopppoon Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

The VC likely has information regarding this matter that we do not.

zopppoon WeWork lays off 2,400 employees

Ahh. I had no idea. Thanks!

zopppoon WeWork lays off 2,400 employees

Would you mind explaining what you mean? I can't see any connection between wework and meetup.

zopppoon Beating C with 70 lines of Go

Ah, I didn't see that. Thanks!

zopppoon Beating C with 70 lines of Go

I could be wrong, but it seems like it wouldn't be difficult to outperform these implementations with a similarly hacky C implementation. I expect that blog post in the coming days.

zopppoon U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones

It's such a weird claim to make especially since the post indicates most adult gamers play casual games on their phones.

zopppoon Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

By which standard is this not news?

zopppoon Facebook Data Suggests the Higher Social Class Have Fewer International Friends

I'm curious how they took into consideration the fact that recent immigrants can often fall into the lower social classes while having many connections to family and friends in their home country. Edit: It seems like they didn't even look at the social class of the people they interviewed. They just focused on the GDP of their country which doesn't make any sense imo.

zopppoon Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

According to the article, they didn't actually tell him ahead of time what they were going to do to the car.

zopppoon Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

Yikes.

zopppoon Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

I'm curious what language was he using?