skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how I see it playing out too, assuming Nvidia pull it off. By my reckoning, it roughly goes:

HPC -> Mainstream servers (and niches like ML) -> 'Professional workstations' -> Consumer desktops

Intel's response (at least in part) seems fairly sensible: throw money and developers at open-source and open-standardisation efforts to try and rally the rest of the market (e.g around stuff like OpenCL). Otherwise network effects from stuff like widespread CUDA usage will become too strong to overcome, at which point Nvidia will have a monopoly.

However, I think they're missing an opportunity when it comes to high-speed networking. Specifically, I think they should be looking to release cheap, simple and open-standards based networking gear without trying to cross-sell Xeons or whatever at the same time. I realise that this means cannibalising revenue from their CPU market, but at this point someone is going to do it so it may as well be them. Hell, they could probably even get away with tying the functionality in to some fairly widespread Intel CPU instruction set (say, from Ivybridge onward). However, anything past that and it's a non-starter for consumer segments (which, in my mind, is also the developer segment).

10gbit RDMA is actually sort of affordable nowadays (at least if you pick up gear from eBay). But it's currently a complicated mess of competing and incompatible standards. Some SFP+ modules are even vendor-locked; if they sense there's a different SFP+ branded module on the other end they stop functioning due to an 'unsupported configuration'. These kinds of things make it impossible for a decent sized consumer market to form. If Intel could just accept that the world is moving on with or without them and get a proper consumer market going, at the very least they'd keep the market open (and at the very best the might even tilt the odds in their favour).

AMD, on the other hand, I have no idea wtf they are doing (and neither do they, by the looks of it). It could just be my biases, but I really think the best strategy for them is to basically bet the house on open-source and really up their engagement with Linux core dev. While I get it's attractive to target the gaming market because it's profitable in the present, it probably means death in the future. Actually their interests are pretty aligned with Intel's, and they have highly complementary work forces. It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't be too surprised if Intel were to acquire AMD at some point, or at least buy out their GPU division...
A melodramatic flight delay experience with Veuling Airlines at Rome airport.
ASUS PB Series 1440p 27.8" a little over your price point but they're on sale RIGHT NOW for $350 [1].

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236...
Americans used to have an institution that gave them a steady diet of relevant news. It gave them a healthy mix of local, state, federal and international news in reasonable doses that could be read over dinner. It mainly gave its readers reason to consider whether the darn politicians in $STATE_CAPITAL were doing their damn job or whether the town council really had any reason to be raising taxes. It was called the local newspaper.

~15 years ago, we abandoned this to spend our free time sharing Buzzfeed quizzes with one another.
ARM is litigious -- Thumb might still be protected by patents. Try RISC-V instead?
They build frameworks. ;)
compared to any other main stream news organizations. The AP and reuters aren't that bad:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/associated-press/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=National+Public+Radio

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=Washington+Post
I just restarted my subscription to The Atlantic (paper edition). Monthly, a bit more in depth, and a break from screens to boot.
Why would you care, as in, why would you have cleartext data on the wire?

This is Gitlab. There should never be any data in or out except HTTPS and SSH.
Heh, I hadn't noticed that it was still a 4.7 summary. :(
That stage1 example is pretty ugly - using __builtin_ia32<x> would work, but they are the only things harder to read than the intrinsics themselves!

Plus there are some intrinsics that are just macros, (sets, masks, etc), and you don't get them from the preprocessor just by setting the function target.

As an aside, that page really is dated - it is just early proposals afterall - as SSE5 didn't see light of day like that. VPCMOV ended up in AMD's XOP set.

ICC also has its auto as well as manual dispatch options:

auto: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/682440
manual: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/684505

I believe this is the area where Intel had their knuckles rapped for only working on "GenuineIntel" processors, and why there are big disclaimers on everything now. I've not tried using these myself as they aren't portable solutions.
Let's compare notes end of next year :) I think things will be quite different by then.
That would be a señor developer.
I have one 27" version of the above, and I like it so far, with about a month of use.
That has its own problems... Not allowed to tell you, don't ask me.
You are correct. My viewpoint was mainly about being fed a constant stream of nonsense and/or distractions along with the general feed.

For instance, I absolutely loathe 'celebrity news', but most main news sites here that I go to have at least one or two articles on rubbish like that as their lead, and I have to dig to find the stuff that is relevant to me.

To use the example of air accidents above - I rarely find out anything useful that I want to know from popular news sources. Of course, I hear about the incidents on them, but when I want to dive deep, I go to specialist forums or sites where people in the know are talking about it.

Similarly for mundane things like sport. If I want to find out more about, say, Formula 1 races, I will visit certain sites that I know have motor heads discussing things. That way I can learn about future car developments, driver contracts etc. Mainstream sports news seems to want to talk about dirt and gossip for just a handful of drivers.
For blacks in America, the gap in neighborhood poverty has declined faster than- [pdf]
I am old enough to remember that Chrome didn't really take off until Google released an extension framework with many popularly supported extensions. There's likely a lot of room in the browser market for custom browsers curated and managed by trusted third parties but my sense is that a) given their history, people wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable having Microsoft fill that role and b) given their size, Microsoft wants Edge to compete directly with Chrome and Firefox for absolute majority market share, rather than chase single digit % niche markets (which would be a very exciting business for almost anyone else).
Online social integration is associated with reduced mortality risk [pdf]
The Log File Navigator
Multiple smaller monitors over 1 big one. I use the main MBP screen plus three E2414H dells that I got for <$300. I have to context-switch so much less. I'd take utility over "ooh these colors look really good". 1080p @ ~22" is "good enough" pixel density too.
Solar is less than 1% of electricity:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3

Current projections have the United States at 10% solar power by 2025:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_St...

"A report finds that solar power's contribution could grow to 10% of the nation's power needs by 2025:"

I don't think that's enough clean energy to make a sufficient difference.

My feeling is that if we were on a good trajectory, Bill Gates and friends wouldn't be looking to create a huge fund for more research:

http://qz.com/859860/bill-gates-is-leading-a-new-1-billion-f...

Being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155146
Am I missing something? Why would they build an app to consume a twitter feed? I guess that's what someone who actually knew what the heck they were doing said when they asked why they were spending a bunch of money on the app. It's amazing how much money can be wasted at a corporation because it's other people's money.
It sounds like you and your boss haven't had a conversation lately about what you each have in mind for your career.
Thank you so much for putting this together. Any place where I can keep up with summaries like this? It's nice to read something optimistic on clean energy sources.
Yes. That's why they hardwire and use a breaker rated at 100%. In most jurisdiction, code requires breaker at 80% if a plug/receptacle is used. If you are hardwired you can use 100% of your capacity before tripping the breaker. You have incorrectly assumed that I suggested that you ignore breakers.

When you hardwire the circuit the electrical code allows you to use a 100% breaker.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889356...

Samsung 40inch 4k - it was going for $300 on Black Friday but it's a bit pricier now. Purportedly you can get (3840x2160@60Hz 4:4:4)

I have a Samsung 40inch 4k UN40JU6500 that I bought six months ago. Essentially you get the real estate of 4 monitors on a single screen. I usually have a browser, my IDE, and 4 terminals open all at the same time while doing development. It only supports HDMI2 input so I had to buy a Displayport to HDMI adapter to get it to work with my MacBook Pro.
The 20-year life of this fund is very significant.

Every VC fund I know of is a ten year fund, which means they expect to invest the full fund and collect their return within 10 years. Which in practice means they actually want to get an exit in 5-7 years, ruling out much energy technology investment.

A 20 year fund adds 10 years to their time horizon, which will put many more energy technology investments within their "strike zone"

> The BEV fund, which has a 20-year duration, aims to invest in the commercialization of new technologies that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
I this reminds me I really need to quit reading HN.
Add dancing music to your navigation bar
Thanks, I'm really enjoying working on it. :)
That's the first time I've ever heard of news agencies being included as part of the mainstream media. Learn something new everyday.
I'd love a not-more-often-than-quarterly (preferably annual) summary of important science (natural and social) papers, ideally including mathematics. I looked for something like this a while back, or for some kind of meta-journal that selected the best (or at least most important) from all sources, but couldn't find such a thing.
Regarding the effective monopoly on high end, this will change next month with release of Vega card.
FWIW, frustratingly MSVC has no compiler options for generating SSE3/SSSE3 or SSE4.x code - you can get them from intrinsics, but the compiler flags are SSE/SSE2 (on ia32) and AVX/AVX2 only.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7t5yh4fd.aspx
Not really, although I agree with your reasoning. The other is issue is capex. When I deploy 240kW pods, if I use 80% breakers, I have to deploy 25% more PDUs than if I have 100% breakers.

Since my cabinet number is usually evenly divisible by N*PDUs, this impacts overall capital.
And they also know when not to build frameworks :-)
Detecting Bias in media through analysis of quote selection [pdf]
Agree with everything here. I've been passively looking for a new position and I've been surprised with the amount of companies looking for devs familiar with GoLang. That's all the evidence I needed to start familiarizing myself with it. I even joined a local Go Meetup group.
Yes. I know of several billion dollar companies that run it in a web facing production operations capacity.
If you look at archives of USENET from those time periods plenty of people had ads in their signatures for example and even if you don't count that the first spam message was sent in 1978 so that whole time period is post internet ads.
Unfortunately, AMD executives have signalled in several interviews that they just don't care about deep learning. Also, I don't think AMD can start focusing on this field 10 years later than Nvidia and close the gap in a year as you suggest.
Unbiased computer confirms media bias (2015)
When you have a "nuh uh, YOU'RE the one that's fake" situation between two apparently reputable news sources, on a topic with which you have no personal experience or expertise, how are you supposed to figure out which ones are fake?

The instances of so-called "fake news" that I have seen are quite easy for me to "verify" as fake with relative confidence: it's generally an explicitly partisan source with a shady-looking website making an outlandish claim that is not corroborated by any traditional news outlet. The situation you've just described sounds much more difficult for me to verify.
> I dunno, man. SF exists as a lens to say something about people.

That sounds incredibly boring to me. Count me as one sci-fi fan who doesn't think about it that way at all.
While riding in an Uber through Washington DC, my dad and I had a chat with the driver about his plans to build two solar installations in the US.

He also mentioned the likelihood that their company would soon enter Latin America, where higher electricity rates for consumers would allow them to make more money for selling the same amount of electricity compared to the US. He said this was the main angle he was using to attract investors.
London house prices are having a relatively bad December
Thanks a lot for this pointer.

I noticed just now that there is another hn discussion on recent developments on this front in GCC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153320.

I do wish there was a portable solution though (at least across *nix platforms with clang or gcc).
You're probably a few orders of magnitude more informed if you only read a handful of full length, investigative articles per year (compared to 1-2 hours of news every day). It's a big world, but every now and then I'll sit down and give my undivided attention to a well written piece where the journalist traveled to multiple locations to interview several or more people. Sometimes it's shocking, and most of the time I feel appalled by the end of the article, but I have to forget about my own minor struggles and learn about what real people are going through outside of my bubble.
Two 27" 1080p made by LG
The most important part of this article was a mention of connecting national grids. If we had a global grid, the section of earth with enough sunlight could power the rest of the world. And hence no need for non-renewable energy.
I depend on NPR and PBS for the news. It might not be the most impartial source when it comes to U.S. involved foreign affairs but it is much better that all the rest that's available.
Hmm, it's unfortunate that this is being shut down. If you're looking for alternatives, I've been using the New York Times app, CNN, and Buzzfeed News. You need to deal with some annoying notifications (for example, CNN sent me a "Hero of the Year" notification today), but it's better than nothing.
Ah, just the man I've been wanting to talk to then :)

As I mentioned in another post, I really think Intel are missing an opportunity when it comes to high speed networking. Why don't they drop all the crazy server market lock-in vendor shenanigans (e.g. brand to brand SFP incompatibility, 'call us' pricing etc.) and just jump straight to the consumer market? I know this means cannibalising CPU revenue, but that's going to happen anyway.

Developers are consumers. In many cases the direction that their skills develop in is largely determined by the consumer hardware they're running at home. The same seems to be true for Ops folks, who all seems to be running vSphere homelabs atm. Based on what others have said here, it sounds like NVIDIA have chosen to cross-sell, and work their way down from HPC -> ... -> Consumer, presumably to extract maximum rents, despite not yet having strong enough network effects o lock out competition.

This seems like the perfect opportunity for Intel to cut the legs out from under that strategy, by aggressively pushing widespread consumer (or at least 'power-user'/developer) take-up of high speed, low-latency networking. And hasn't iWARP been endorsed as an IETF standard (or is on its way to be)? It seems like there's a window of opportunity here, albeit one that gets smaller and smaller as Nvidia slowly work their way down market.
Boeing-Iran Deal for $16.6B of Jets Is First Since 1979
I used to be in your camp but now I think they go hand in hand. If you insist on understanding before remembering, how do you start?

When we start a lot of things are interrelated and unless you a bare minimum is committed to memory, it's difficult to start.

It is akin to learning a language where one need to cram the basics building blocks i.e. words and grammar rules before applying them. I think idea of trying to understand before remembering ends up impairing learning at least in my case.

I have a two year old and I see this process in action. She will first cram things like counting and then start attaching meaning to it slowly.
2RU SuperMicro server with 24xSSD with FreeNAS raid10 or raidz2 exporting volumes via iScsi.

Separately I'm using a FreeNAS controller with 4 SAS HBAs supporting 3 JBODs with 45 8TB HGST He8 near line SATA disks each (135 disks or ~1PB) for backups and slow data.
Principal devs are about scope, too. So they convince other people not to build frameworks.

"What are you doing? Stop stress-testing your interface compiler and write some code!" :-)
I would argue NPR is as impartial as it gets for a U.S news source. Could you name a source with less bias? I sure can't.
The author clearly doesn't have the experience in agile development necessary to be commenting on this. As a software engineer turned scrum master, I can say that my company is a well oiled machine using JIRA and agile methodologies perfectly well. My engineers don't have these complaints. Clearly he's doing it wrong.
Do you think that sites that raise concerns about GMO foods should be similarly classified as spam?

There's an ideological divide in our society. People who deny climate change support GMO foods and nuclear power. People who oppose GMO foods and nuclear power believe we should do more about climate change.

Accepting that Google should do more to suppress "bad" results on global warming also means that it should do more to suppress "bad" results on anti-vaccinations, anti-GMO foods and other areas where the majority scientific opinion is clear.

And then, of course, there's religion. What stance should Google take on that?

No-one's going to be happy with that situation. There is no course of action that Google can follow that will make everyone happy here.
Lemmings in your touch bar
They are in hock with the press. Recently they upped their share of crown land rent. Barely discussed. The power structures are more complex than simply what is possible in theory.
That's one possible design, but it's common to use a constant pool.
Placing constants in the instruction stream is possible but awkward, since there is no guarantee that they are either aligned or of the right endianness (assuming you are trying to write a more or less portable system).

Constants that fit in a byte don't have this problem and can be easily placed in the instruction stream using dedicated byte constant instructions, sometimes including dedicated single-byte instructions for common constants like zero, one, etc.
How much of this applies to tech news, or in general, news targeted to your field of interest/employment?
The sad tale of CVE-2015-1336
I have a number of these as well (I ordered them for the office since I was happy with them I got them at home as well). Everybody has been generally very happy with these monitors.
I believe what parent is claiming is 'both sides' is a black & white gimmick that does not depict the spectrum between two polarized extremes.
I understand your struggle with grief, and would enjoy chatting over a cuppa if you're ever up for it with a bloke from the other side of the pond. If I never hear from you, that's ait too, but am here if need be, young man.
The Clock Is Ticking for India's Biggest Corporate Battle
I read Marooned in Real Time, and was disappointed, as with everything else I've read by him. By now, I think I've given both Vinge and Egan enough of a chance.

I'll check out Diamond Age, however, as I'm a fan of nanotech and am interested in how far scifi can push it.
Slightly off-topic: Have people used 21:9 monitors for dev work? What has been your experience so far?
I don't think the article is arguing to be completely disconnected, but rather to stop consuming TV and video news, and instead read quality articles on different subjects (current or otherwise). This results in being more informed about current and past events, not less.
But what if I really want to know. There is no explanation.
I was talking about Eichenwald's reporting that is pointed to by Greenwald. You're quoting my reference and commenting on it without having read it.
The media wants to be shocked that covering Trump 24/7 yielded a victory for Trump.
Show HN: I created a util to help you choose what to watch next
93% of new generation capacity coming online each month is from renewables, according to the EIAs "Electric Power Monthly" and "Electricity Monthly Update" reports.

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/#tabs_unit-4

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/
haha this better be a fuckin joke down here everything is coal poweered
> Samsung 40inch 4k

This is a 'want' not a 'need'. Why would anyone need a 4K monitor for Dev work? Even if he/she is developing games, doesn't make sense to me.

Also

> I have a Samsung 40inch 4k that I bought six months ago.

How far do you sit from the screen? What's it's effect on your eyes?
So, we should do less? The first 1% is the hardest, the next 1% slightly easier, by the time it gets to 10% probably 80% of the hard challenges will be overcome. Successful adoption curves always look like hockeysticks, which means a slow early grind. Less carbon is always better, and taking the gains we can now is better than waiting for perfection.
Any good talks or other resources about this sort of use case that you might recommend?

We're... displeased with the current solution that we're using at work for this use case. :)
What you're describing is Gell-Mann Amnesia:

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

-Michael Crichton
Without the solar ITC and wind PTC most projects wouldn't be feasible. I'm skeptical these will last past a major tax overhaul as planned this year. I don't think your view on oil prices is correct. Even if supply cuts work US shale producers will pick up any slack. And I don't agree with your long term take on electric cars. Gasoline cars are just better for anyone who actually needs their car. Electric is a luxury and not necessarily cheaper at current gas prices.
I've watched other people lose their friends, significant others, and marriages doing this. What's especially tragic, and far more common, when people do this in less impactful situations where they have far less to gain from success.