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I think the main reason the fpga companies aren't offering a low-cost , hard core mcu+fpga chip is that they are afraid about competing against the mcu companies.They can certainly reach the prices (Lattice claims a 50 cents fpga).And it's very affordable to license from ARM.

So i don't see this sector changing with an open-source core.
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People who are actually implementing new languages disagree. Look at the hoops Rust is jumping through (partially) because they don't feel comfortable with the performance penalty of default integer overflow checks: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/146
Antibiotic resistance putting 'super gonorrhea' at untreatability risk
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I agree that the easiest entry-point for RISC-V is in systems which run embedded firmware of some sort (even if it's a builroot Linux rootfs). Even before you get to that, there are loads of companies that still have their own home-grown instruction sets used for auxilliary functions on a larger core. Think peripherals on an SoC, SSD controllers and so on.
Yeah, this is the one I came here to post. re:Invent is a fantastic technical resource that's largely available after the fact, but (I am told, I'm going for the first time this year) the in-person stuff and the networking opportunities seem to be the biggest reason to go.
> "Elon Musk could surely easily hit the limit without all of his current ventures. What would be the incentive for him to continue to innovate once he's reached the limit?"

Whilst I can't speak directly for Elon, it does appear that his work is targeted at benefitting mankind. I'm sure that is plenty of incentive on its own.

> "wage" is ambiguous to the point of useless given: executive compensation isn't solely in the form of salaries, a complex tax code, and wealth begets wealth (it's relatively easy to maintain wealth once you're able to reap more from safe investments than it takes you to live)."

Sure, there will be loopholes, but let's start with the basics and wait for the loopholes to emerge. Tackling wages and inheritance should be enough to start off with.
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Great! I heard somewhere here on HN that a modern x86 decoder is smaller than a modern arm decoder. Do you know if this is true? Also, how big is the decoder of risc-v and does it even matter? (I mean the size)
What SLA do you have with them? I'm pretty sure it is the one where they will give a credit for the time they are down, I'm also pretty sure that your hosting on max a $90 Linode so that would be like $6.

There are SLA's available from hosts that will give the whole month ,1/4 or even year back if they miss even a single month's 99.99%

This is past a joke now this whole period of downtime but still Linode is not a big dollar hosting outfit, need a plan B for when a region or all of Linode goes down.
Playing around with neural networks to try to salvage my fantasy hockey season.
Why did i get down voted for this?
We're currently building a desktop based time tracking application for ourselves, later we will release to everyone. Our main goal is to bring us back on track on our personal projects. Also billing solution for our consulting work.
Was i rude or impractical?
> By contrast, Go programmers with a few months of experience typically know all of Go.

Not really. Just to give an example of things that new Go programmers don't know: what the limits of json serialization are, how introspection works, the funcitonality and limits of the "virtual inheritance", how the GC handles stuff like Go routines... There might be a selection bias though
Of course that's a fair thing to ask, but that post wasn't asking that question. That post wasn't asking a question at all, it was clearly intended as an insulting statement in the form of a question.
This is nothing short of amazing. We can of course ramble about how this is unsuitable for a modern multitasking multi-user multi-use OS, but for an OS-as-a-tool, it's amazing. The simplicity of almost all characteristics makes programming and hacks a lot more accessible. Nothing really encumbers you from getting a job done, even if your solution is a hack.

The sort of unbridled, interactive access is very reminiscent of a Lisp machine. Most things are dynamic, almost everything is changeable. The Lisp machine likewise wasn't a good multi-* OS, but it is probably the best OS-as-a-tool ever made.
Functional, decoupled forum application in Haskell and Om using websockets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831261
I would try to stick to one if at all possible. If you have to go to two it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. The biggest problem is now days staffing firms and recruiters pad and keyword stuff resumes so much that most of the ones I see are basically meaningless (and most of theirs are two pages).

When I do get a one page resume it tends to be direct from the candidate and generally more honest which sticks with me.
Maybe Zuck is sociopathic? I don't know, but that can help with achieving straight-faced hypocrisy.

Anyway, please don't spread the "no such thing as free" propaganda. It's good to be skeptical of anything free, but truly free can exist. In the same sense, people should be skeptical of all sorts of scammers and catches, people that may claim to be in love with you but are really scamming you, and yet sincere unconditional love does exist in the world.
> Further, there are an abundance of studies that show that reducing economic inequality (even through redistributive means) actually boosts overall prosperity.

To me, this sentence and the ones that follow are by far the most salient point.

How many Zuckerbergs, Gates, Brins, Pages and Bezos are we missing out on due to the fact that huge swaths of our country do not have the ability to fully explore and develop their talents? How many trillions in lost GDP does that amount to?

To me, this entire debate is a missed opportunity to discuss inequality on the basis of shared wealth, growth and prosperity. Instead we tend to debate these things on a moral dimension which immediately politicizes and polarizes the matter. See renewable energy for another example of how that works.
This is a pretty cool experiment. As someone that recently worked on an app that was doing speech to text in near and far field, calling this a $10 echo is like calling a Honda Civic a $15K Ferrari. I'd love to see the video of the author speaking to this microphone from 10' away, or even 5' away in a room with no padding.

The Echo's ability to do voice to text is like nothing that's ever come before it based on my experience building, and speaking with a consultant in the field that worked on the Echo team.
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Capital accumulation can still happen without wage accumulation. Just don't pay yourself too much and keep the money inside the business. Naturally the money will get spent on building things like tesla.
If you read the thread, you'll see that the person who actually benchmarked things agrees: someone implemented integer overflow checks and found that the performance penalty was low, except for microbenchmarks.

If you click through to the RISC-V mailing list linked to elsewhere in this discussion, you'll see that the C++17 standard library is planning on doing checked integer operations by default. If that's not a "performance focused language", I don't know what is.
> The footnote in OP referring to studies that cover the negative effects on economic inequality supports rather than disproves PG's stance on this: economic inequality has multiple negative effects.

No, that's the inverse causation of PG's stance. PG said "There are lots of things wrong with the US that have economic inequality as a symptom."

If we all agreed that economic inequality is the cause then nobody would be complaining about framing the conversation around economic inequality.
The article states that cars are a health problem. No one said that we should only address cars and ignore the other problems.

"Recently, officials in Milan temporarily barred cars from the city; in Rome, too, persistent smog has forced the authorities to limit the use of private vehicles. Back in March, Paris was enveloped in a gray cloud of choking fumes that obscured the Eiffel Tower for hours and briefly earned the French capital the title of the world’s most polluted city, beating out even Beijing. An air quality expert in Britain reported that much of it was “stale diesel” from traffic emissions generated in European cities."
Perhaps a better critique of a maximum wage would be:

What does it solve that graduated income, property, and estate taxes do not?

I can't imagine it could possibly be any less complex than a tax code since it needs to contain the same estimations of wealth ("wage" in your approach).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/technology/ubers-no-holds-...
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We do expect embedded systems to be the main use of RISC-V processors at the outset. In fact, I believe there is a consumer product out now - some kind of camera - which uses a RISC-V processor.

I don't think we'll be able to compete with Intel's x86 chips for a while. Mostly because Intel's silicon processes are more advanced than those offered by other foundries.
I've looked over hundreds of resumes and it's never hurt the candidate for submitting 1 or 2 pages.

If it takes the applicant 2 pages to convince me they're worth the time to talk to, then that's fine.
"The opportunities for making money would still be present."

who will take advantage of those opportunities? people who take advantage of opportunities to make money have already moved out, haven't they?
Why would the IRS be fining Uber drivers? Uber is legal under federal law. And the IRS doesn't really care that much about how you got your money, as long as you pay taxes on it. Do you have a source for that or just anecdote? Maybe it was the state-level tax authority.
Qt, and it's taking forever.
IPFS solves all of these problems: https://ipfs.io/

Data only vanishes from IPFS when no one cares about it enough to host it, rather than vanishing when the original poster stops caring.
> "There is plenty of evidence for that as well."

Okay, can you show me some evidence?

> "The Beatles, for example, came to America to avoid the grievous taxes being levied in England. U.S. companies locate offices in more tax-friendly locales all the time too."

Both of those are examples of tax dodges. Maximum wage is different, in that people would be required to live in the country they made their main income in. Sure, you could move to the Cayman Islands, but good luck finding enough work there.

We should be closing tax loopholes too, it's not an either/or situation, we can do both.
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What new features are necessary in tmux? Isn't it enough to be able to split, and connect/disconnect to a session?
Actually syslog via UDP has been declared obsolete by RFC 5424.

Not only are Unix tools nice, they also change over time like all tools that are in heavy use...
Proximity matters. Kids living close to highways are more likely to get asthma. That being said, only half of the risk is linked to nearby highways, and regional pollution matters too. But you're just making yourself sound like a doofus by saying "cars are not the problem".
Yikes. I haven't revisited the site copy/design since I launched it months ago. I'll see what I can do to make the messaging more clear. You're right, it takes a bit of digging to discover what Fabricator actually does.
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wealthier people won't just "try this" they will spend far more of their time on Facebook if any of the poorer people they know or do business with are only on Facebook. That's the whole point. Network effects mean that if you get a critical mass of people on Facebook (and especially nowhere else), then people who have a choice to be elsewhere still have to go to Facebook to reach those people who are there.
Except that the data support a particular theory: extreme income inequality limits growth because growth is ultimately driven by broad-based consumption. If there's a plausible theory purporting to explain how the causality could possibly be the other way around, I haven't heard it.
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* Cross platform (Linux/OS X/Windows)

* Reasonably active online player base

I play it semi-regularly and it's a lot of fun!
A new web browser with a smarter search bar, DuckDuckGo integration, and a design that makes it easier to focus on the webpage.
A web app for comparing different energy suppliers and finding the cheapest one all based on your current consumption.
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Emissions over the ocean are not a significant public health issue.
To paraphrase 'extraordinary data collection requires an extraordinary privacy policy'.

I would absolutely want every change by Google to jump through lots of hoops. Facebook-style "Move fast and break things" and "Ask for forgiveness instead of permission" is fine when you're allowing people to share photos of their cats, but not when you're managing the education data of nearly every child in the country.
dang: would you consider un-burying this please? It's constructively in dialogue with PG.
Well, I think the fact it's LGPL vs. GPLv2 is one point in favor of RISC-V. The other major factor I believe is that the RISC-V architecture is better suited for embedded type applications. I don't think you could (easily) scale down the OpenSPARC design enough to make it a suitable architecture.
I was teaching mathematics to complete beginners, and finding that while they were fine with arithmetic, algebra completely eluded them. The moment one said “let x be the number of apples”, their eyes would glaze and one knew they were lost. But the same people had no problem entering a number into a spreadsheet cell labelled “Number of apples”, happily changing it at will and observing the ensuing results

This is one secret of the mass accessibility of spreadsheets: they don't require abstraction—you build a concrete working example, then tweak it. This differs from other programming environments—even the simplest scripting languages—which require you to build abstractions first and only later instantiate them. That is a high cognitive hurdle.
Using RPG's in threes is classic ww2 tactics - your best shot hangs back whist the first two engage simutaiously.

The idea is your best shot has a chance of rescuing the situation if the first two don't get a Kill.
It's really a set of tools to help you build a design system/toolkit. My goal was to bootstrap the development of (Twitter) Bootstraps for clients.
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Let's use a hypothetical example. We bring in the wage cap, some wealthy people move elsewhere. Let's say one of the wealthy people ran a profitable supermarket. Are you saying we couldn't find someone who lived in the country to run a supermarket in the same location?
The benchmark I see says up to 5% in non-microbenchmarks. A 5% performance penalty is not low enough to be acceptable as the default for a performance-focused language. If you could make your processor 5% faster with a simple change, why wouldn't you do it?

Even if the performance penalty was nonexistent in reality, the fact is that people are making decisions which are bad for security because they perceive a problem, and adding integer overflow traps will fix it.
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I can't think of anything more democratic than using money to vote on how to best allocate resources. The reward for doing well is to get more money to decide how that should then be allocated. This system works great until it crosses a threshold when the most talented consolidate the ability to decide how to best allocate resources into a small group of people. A small group of billionaires deciding how to allocate resources is better but not by much than a small group of people at the Gosbank in the Soviet Union deciding how to allocate resources. Progressive taxation is a good solution. We just need to tweak it until it works effectively. Unfortunately, we have gone in the wrong direction for past couple decades.

I grew up in a scientific community. People innovated and did research because they were passionate about knowledge and learning. Of course, some of them went on to create startups like Biogen but money was never the biggest motivator. I don't buy the argument that taxing the wealthy slightly more than now stifles innovation.
The $10 CHIP will be a $10 CHIP when and if it ships. Right now, it's a Kickstarter claiming they will ship the thing in June 2016.
There might be other factor affecting both inequality and economic growth. For example, consider culture, natural resources, climate, etc. If you can't find a plausible way to explain something (inequality causes lower economic growth), it doesn't mean that there's no other way to explain it. Actually, the history of science shows that explanation of effects might be very surprising.

P.S. My comment doesn't support one side or the other. I am just pointing to a logical mistake.
Elon Musk could surely easily hit the limit without all of his current ventures. What would be the incentive for him to continue to innovate once he's reached the limit?

As far as I can tell, he does not have a history of taking all the money and blowing it on himself. Whatever he's still working for, it's not because he wants extra money for spending. He clearly has some motive other than just wanting more money to blow.
How about maybe that is sort immoral, let alone not serving any purpose of economic inequality. Now, your destroying entire industries for people that make things for multi-millionaires. Its just terribly naive, I'm not sure what this would achieve. Honestly, I'm not sure why you do not just argue for outright communism.
Your point makes sense, however look :

You develop a software and are the PM / product lead. You get paid 8 months, while your client makes $8,000 per month during the next 5 years. This is the market rate.

The market PG refers to is not the labour market but the consumer market where the metric used is not time but value.
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> It seems wrong, or at least very wasteful, to force people to pay for state-produced entertainment.

The entertainment isn't produced by the state though. The BBC is owned and funded by the British public, not the state. The government isn't directly involved in the BBC, although "BBC Trustees are appointed by the British monarch on advice of government ministers"[0]. Other European countries have similar models.

Besides, and I understand that this is a contentious issue, I think that there are certain services that all members of a society should pay for, even if not everybody uses them. My taxes pay for roads even though I don't own a car. Bear in mind that the BBC also produces news and a lot of other content, all without ads and independent of commercial interests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Governance_and_Corporate_S...
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Vehicle emissions cause 53,000 premature deaths in the USA every year: http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...

I'd be happier to fix both problems at once, but fixing just one would go a long way.
ZFS has snapshots with no duplication and little overhead. You can for example have rolling snapshots, so that you can get the state of a special file say seven days ago, or one month ago, without saving "backups".

But of course you should also have backups, but on another system/offsite/offline.
Two important papers (pdf) from Luca Cardelli (one of the original designers of the language):

MODULA-3 Type System:

http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Modula3TypeSystem.A4.pdf

MODULA-3 Report:

http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/SRC-052.pdf
Good visualization is super helpful. The current levels don't require that much infrastructure. The level descriptions do deceive a little - just figure your own ways to the winning conditions.

(I finished level 6. Now building a limit order book in golang for the heck of it)
Coming from a former communist country, I don't understand why smart, capable people want to give away their money to a corrupt, incompetent state to manage it for them.

The US is fundamentally different than Nordic countries, where socialism appears to be working:
* The Nordic countries are tiny compared to the US.
* They are highly educated.
* Their society is homogenous.

It seems like everybody is assuming that there will be this rational actor collecting money from the rich and distributing them to the poor.

What actually is going to happen is that instead of entrepreneurs becoming rich, politicians will grow even richer than they are now. The politicians will have more power, power that they want to keep, and the only way to do that is to suppress the press and the people.

And that's how communism starts. It might sound like I'm taking it too far, but it's happened a number of times already.
It's been a really fun break!

I'm getting interested in super low frequency signals so I looked up the E202 Very Low Frequency (<10kHz) receiver[1] and laid out/built a variation of it.[2] Right now the whole thing is a broadband receiver with no antenna (obviously) and the whole circuit board assembly is functionally acting like a microphone. I can hear when I touch any component or move my hand around in the air. I'm going to add a 60Hz notch file and then take it out to the middle of nowhere.

I think it would be awesome to go find a pipeline to use as an antenna...

Next project is to take my BlueROV[3] and build a hydrophone array[4] for it so a friend and I can see if a underwater acoustics engineer friend and I can use it to track other objects (like a remote-controlled toy boat) in the water. I've been doing some Kivy visualization of an accelerometer and gyro (MPU9255) and I think we could use matplotlib's interactive mode or something in Kivy (maybe) to visualize it all in realtime.

There's nothing cutting edge here but I've done a bunch of radio frequency (RF) stuff like GPS and WiFi and I'm really enjoying how tangible audio seems in comparison. Just having fun with low frequencies, basically.

[1] http://www.vlf.it/romero2/explorer-e202.html

[2] https://github.com/wicker/e202var-natural-radio-receiver

[3] https://www.bluerobotics.com/store/rov/bluerov-r1/

[4] http://www.dosits.org/files/dosits/hydrophone_instruc_w_imag...
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The only Daily Mail (!) article with significant upvotes [1] on HN is this one, and I wonder if it is a coincidence that it is about immigration, a topic that often inspires heated debates and attracts misinformed commenters on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dailymail.co.uk
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