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Autonomous systems startup, after assembling one of the largest teams in differentiable computing, demonstrates super-fast differentiable AI training running two orders of magnitud…

C is already a subset. It's basically one step above assembly.

Not sure I'd take advice on UI/UX behavior from someone who professes to not leave a terminal window... 35 years after better things came along. I know I live back when terminals w…

On a Mac invisible files aren't important for even a "pro" user... except for occasional developer needs. It worth saying a feature like this doesn't come without cost. Progressive…

Exactly. It's not just Google. Adobe or any other company installing always running updaters... is just wrong.

This is actually the core failure of the Linux approach and why they year of the Linux desktop never occurred. Because there is no 1-true approach, developers must support too frag…

Interesting milestone, worth reflecting on the broader failures of OSS. Open source user-facing software like Gimp, Openoffice & inkscape were supposed to be the wave of the future…

Your statement is de-latched from facts. What are you smoking.. seriously? Who is following in the footsteps of strong-man totalitarian practices? Trump. You can not name any democ…

This. There are in fact many parties in the USA. But unfortunately the USA is still using an early alpha release voting system that was invented in the 1700s before voting theory h…

Not sure they are bad people per se... but where do you draw the line? Sure Hitler improved the German economy, does that make it defensible to support him? This is the fundamental…

Totally agreed. The biggest problem in the political discussion is false equivalency. If one side doesn't believe in truth, facts and science, and the other side defends them as fu…

I would say this is the fundamental reason to vote. What we saw in this countries current divisions is: REPUBLICANS: voting for ideology over everything EVERYONE ELSE: voting for d…

Proves only gullibility has no racial boundaries.

Well said. Let startups be visionary, the government should be boring and centrist most of the time. If everything is going well and on track in the government, there shouldn't be …

Figma approaches design from an investors point of view. Like most other web-SaaS tools, they aren't browser based because its better for the user. They sacrifice speed, native fun…

Essentially Swift is in Lattner's words "Syntactic sugar for LLVM"... meaning it was designed from a compilers point of view to provide an ontology for code that a compiler can ana…

I would encourage you to look deeper. 1. We've moved our company code base from tight C/C++ code to Swift. It is just as fast, with higher level syntax. In some cases faster. It ha…

What part of Swift being as fast as C++, as safe as Rust, and with the functional type system of Haskell (but actually useful in the real word) is unappealing?

Actually this started before Lattner. Richard Wei kicked this off with his DLVM thesis. Either way, Swift's functional design around a type system has some compiler implications to…

The guys in our group giggle at Hacker News. The only time they ever even hear about Julia, is when a Swift article shows up here... then all the Julia nerds come out of the woodwo…

I'm not conflating. Just like Julia, Swift can JIT... after all both are built on top of the inventor of Swift's LLVM compilation environment. That is not what I'm talking about. N…

You apparently aren't familiar with Swift at all. I'd recommend exploring more before answering. Swift had Linux support since it open sourced 4 years ago. IBM, AWS, Google all hav…

I suspect his comments are about the vision for the whole solution and environment, not just auto-diff, which is just a piece. Auto-diff extends back 40 years. But the relative obs…

Or... as Jeremy Howard said it, having a real compiler with a strongly typed language is "mind blowing" after working in Python. A compiler isn't in your way, with modern JIT compi…