skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original motivation is to support optical switching research for datacenter networking applications. The research group web page is here: https://circuit-switching.sysnet.ucsd.edu/ . It is also mentioned in these slides: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/UCSD_Papen_ENL.... However, the design is very generic and should be interesting to applications outside optical switching. The main point was to get control over the transmit scheduler, coupled with a very large number of hardware transmit queues. There are a number of experimental protocols and similar that could benefit from this vs. implementation in DPDK.

It is still in development; not sure if I would trust it yet for production workloads. We will not be producing hardware; the design runs on pretty much any board that has the correct interfaces, including many FPGA dev boards and commercially available FPGA-based NICs such as the Exablaze X10 and X25.
Nice - a really long, detailed list of ideas. My dashboard project [1] is related to your item #5 (Life Engine), but it's a way to early state to be included on your list. Thanks for some new ideas.

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/
The page you link to does not compare Go's GC to Java's or C#'s
tbh given the rarity of 737NGs plunging to the ground [on fire, if low quality social media videos are to be believed] shortly after takeoff, the ADS-B signal ceasing whilst the aircraft was still on course and wreckage being spread over a wide area which aren't the usual results of engine failure or improbably poor piloting, and the context of the aircraft flying later than scheduled past military forces on high alert, I think some sort of foul play or military misjudgement is the null hypothesis to be ruled out...
> Thankfully some companies will give you a hiring bonus equal to your unvested RSUs though

Do you have any company names? Also, any numbers from your experience? I’d be quite happy to join pretty much anything for a 600K+ signing bonus.
You're mistaken, Go is on part with both languages, usually faster.
There's Java and Javascript, heck, there is far worse out there.
If you are interested on that topic these two posts are a must read:

- https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...

- https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-part-2-1c8...

The main takeaway is that saying that Go is the leading GC is just a (somewhat dishonest) PR move, and Go's team made a pretty good GC given there project constraints, even of it is not at the state of the art at the moment.
Yeah, there's a lot more to this topic. I had to drastically simplify in order to make it into a reasonable-sized HN comment.

What we're seeing is a breakdown of the bipolar world. At the same time, we're seeing the potential for massive destruction from a number of new attack vectors, and smaller and smaller actors are capable of wielding them. And warfare itself has changed from army-on-army to desultory, infinitely-lived affairs many times done using proxies and fake information.

That changes a lot. The _message_ of using tactical nukes may very well be more important to control than the actual use of them.
That can and must happen in parallel with replacement of coal with cleaner sources of energy, even if they involve emissions.

Full decarbonization can't in any sense be considered an intermediate solution, because there's not even a small working example of it anywhere in the world or any plausible proposal to get from here to there on the timescale we need to avoid disaster.
Idk, $120k is still a lot. You are still begging the question that money even matters. There's an elephant in the room:

Basically men have vastly overestimated the importance of wealth.

A chart of the importance of wealth would drop off a cliff as you go from third-world conditions to a non-starvation civilization. Then it approaches zero as you get to NYC/SF where literally everyone is rich or else they wouldn't be living there. Guys who get mail order brides are basically arbitraging this (probably temporary) geographical difference in the importance of wealth.
Napali coast - where their recommended Hawaii hike takes you. If you go, definitely do some hikes, but I'd highly recommend a snorkel trip to that side of the island too, the coast is just as beautiful from afar.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=napali+coast&chips=...:
> Apple News draws over 100 million monthly active users in the US, UK, Australia and Canada and has revolutionized how users access news from all their favorite sources. Apple News+ offers an all-in-one subscription to hundreds of the world’s top magazines and major newspapers. In 2020, Apple News will provide live coverage of key moments in the US presidential election in partnership with ABC News.

Would really love to know how Apple defines “active users.” The screen to the left of the iPhone’s home screen pulls in Apple News content by default, and they might be counting people simply swiping over to that screen as “active users.”

Also worth pointing out that they seem to be combining the FREE “Apple News” with $9.99 “Apple News+” in this press piece.
Wow. That's amazing- yes, I am BF from ARC. I haven't heard from an ARC player in some time -- maybe ARC inspiring you to get that Purdue CS degree counteracts me and JV dropping out of Purdue.

JV just texted me the other day to pitch ARC VR actually. He went the VR route, founding Pluto VR after PopCap.

Anyway- let me know what you think of BeefLang!
Iran a terrorist state? You mean the country whose twice had US intervention and you expect the leadership there to embrace the US with open arms. Right, makes sense. What in your mind makes a country a terrorist state. It sure seems like the US has a pretty darn terrorist mind set when it came down to spreading fear about communism.

> The idea this would cause an escalation from Russia and China is also absurd. Of course they are backing them now because it's politically convenient, but when push comes to shove, they won't fight.

The best surprises are the ones you do not see coming. You can say what you want. You don't make the decisions. Furthermore I stated my opinion that they would intervene. It was not a prediction as you take it. I strongly dissented from your opinion.

> if the US hits its refineries, etc, Iran is hosed

This one makes me laugh! To believe that one country would be hosed from striking at oil. There's an elephant in the room that indicates it would not be in the best interest of anyone to stifle turmoil in an OPEC state given that other countries will have to deal with the offsets and refugees. Think we've all seen the effects around the world with these wars. Very funny!
How would you go about breaking into this field with a BS or MS in compsci?
What happens to traditional banking in if the internet fails?
Manpower salary weakness, not literal life/death weakness. Paying the population of Rhode Island to use exercise bikes connected to generators all day would also be a way to generate pollution-free safe power (in fact considering the obesity rate it would probably end up saving lives), yet there's still an obvious economic reason why such an idea would be completely stupid.
currently natural gas is mostly a byproduct of oil extraction - as long as we're burning a lot of oil in our motor vehicles, the cost of natural gas will be very low. When we start decarbonizing transportation, natural gas supply might decrease enough that "supply and demand" will start to make sense
Second Machine Age or Fifth Technological Revolution?
Corundum should work on any ultrascale or ultrascale plus FPGA with the necessary interfaces. Probably also virtex 7. We're considering porting to Intel/Altera parts at some point as well...mainly the PCIe interface will need work, but the rest should be directly portable.
The poll is telling given survey findings of only 36% correct answers on geographical knowledge among high school students:

https://calgeography.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/GeoEduRepor...
As a counter-point, I'm running on 3 years and still get a few hours out of mine. The gamechanger for AirPods was the convenience of the charging case.

I'm just surprised I've never run them through the wash.
The pacing issues IMO are more how the story moves along at a glacial pace, then 75% through infodumps on you and expects you to follow along through a half dozen futurist topics mashed together at the end. The exposition episodes would be fine if they were better translated.

I still think the show is worth watching despite those issues. It's easily my favorite anime series (also agree that 2nd Gig is the better half of the show; they're only separated because of how anime was funded in blocks of 26 episodes in the early 2000s).
Depends what you mean by advanced. In many ways it's more closer to achieving it's stated goals then Java's.
It would be cool to have this for Ethereum as well...
I recently bought an electric skateboard (kaly board for those so inclined). Commuting on one of these to work costs me about 20 cents in electricity. I can only do it when the weather is nice though, right now the cold just cuts through to my bone.
And the Tesla Cybertruck. I would bet on it falling in the exact same category: Being a Meme first, and a huge success later.
> To people in general, what improvements are you making

I moved out of the State of California to a jurisdiction without insane environmental laws, and now pay 0.08c/kwh, which more or less makes solar irrelevant. I bought a really nice, big house that was extremely affordable and enjoy a great quality of life. I use the extra money I make that isn't spent on electric bills and taxes to enrich the local economy, which helps lift people out of poverty and promotes innovation.
The problem being I can't think of a single company that offers an all cash deal even close to the FAANG offers (or pre-ipo offers in one of the unicorns).

Even a bunch of giant companies like HBO/Samsung etc. got priced out for the same reason at least in a few cases I know.
Ask HN: Why the Scrum Scorn?
On another submission I made a joke about Scrum Masters and got 60+ upvotes in a matter of minutes. I has personal experience reasons for that joke. But in general I have experienced that Scrum Masters have surplanted SEO Managers and Marketeers as the laughing stock of the dev world? Why is this the case, and how do we fix it?
> Because we’re all idiots and waited too long

U.S. CO2 emissions have been steadily falling for over a decade. [1]

Twice that long on a per-capita basis.

Considering that broad consensus about global warming was only formed in 1980s, that's not a terrible track record.

A far bigger problem than stupidity or procrastination is the industrialization of 3 billion people. There's no great solution to that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...
China is very close to the tipping point where it stops making economic sense to burn coal. They already are running their coal infrastructure at much lower load
@al_chemist Thank you! Between software frameworks and embedded systems engineering...oh hell just being in tech. in general there are way too many acronyms. Thank you for actually listing the definition! :-)
Same here, 2+ year old AirPods that still hold charge for about an hour. I’ve used them heavily in the first year and still average about 3-4 hours a week for conference calls and a couple more hours of music. In the first year I was using them 3-4 hours per day, sometimes even more.
Just rename it to Boof!
That makes sense. Do you know if there is a graph that illustrates this so it cements in my mind better?

I wonder how much feedbacks are considered with this. The early pulse of warming can cause changes to alebedo, co2 and methane emissions from melting permafrost, etc that carry on after the initial methane has broken down.
Steam has done this.
http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/valve-to-use-ma...
OpenEuler Community Infrastructure Is Launched
well this sent me down a rabbit hole that is utterly fascinating.

with regards to cheating, I understand the need to present a fair playing experience to all customers but as with anything else, people are the one variable we have the least control over and with the numbers games as with any service have to deal with you are guaranteed to get bad actors.

the simple avoidance to those who see this is spyware/etc is not you play. I do not see this choice as a bad one. for some it is abhorrent but for others playing where cheaters have free reign is just as abhorrent. so unless you can fix people you choose what you are willing to accept
Yes, how terrible that we are fulfilling our contractual obligations to people who have worked for decades in our government. It's a travesty indeed! Should we just exterminate them in camps now that they are of no use to us? Or what would you propose?
And are the deadliest form of energy:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
Whew, glad it's not just me. Agree 100%. Although I had some minor underlying issues that seemed to make it worse (better now though).
> It just makes dealing with incessant city noise so much more manageable.

> You don't even have to be listening to music.

It does noise cancelling without music? That seems like a bad feature for something that you are expected to keep in your ear all the time.
You should think of RSUs no differently than you think of your paychecks.

There is a scheduled date (every 2 weeks for my paycheck, every 6 months for my RSUs) where I will be given some <money> dollars if I am still working here. I will pay income tax on that income. One is in the form of money and the other is in the form of stocks, but really you should sell those stocks and buy something more stable and not tied to your employer.

If you quit or get fired, you won't get your paychecks on the days you expected to in the future. Nor will you get your RSU vests. Same thing. Just bigger numbers and lower frequency for one of them, with some additional variability in amounts.

They aren't golden handcuffs. They aren't job security or threats. They're just pay to keep you working, like anything else.

edit: I lost a word or two.
Or simply, be self-critical, which is the number one trait disappearing from public conversation, if not for the fact that being self-critical is seen as weakness, perhaps the reason you're reiterating yourself
you go get your cash from the teller at the bank
ARM vs. X86 is just the instruction set. The instruction set plays almost no role in power / performance these days. Maybe once in a very distant past when an x86 decoder was a significant chunk of silicon, but not these days.

So instead you'd need to ask how does Zen 2 compare to Cortex A76 or something like that. Which we don't know since we don't have the 15W Zen 2 mobile parts to benchmark yet.
I used Macroquest as well for leveling up tradeskills. I did a few skills manually. Blacksmithing was the worst, and there was no way I would do it manually. I also used ShowEQ for checking whether certain mobs were up in a zone.

Looking back there was a lot of tedium in Everquest. Tradeskills. Attunement. AA points. Traveling was a pain in the first few expansions. I don't deny that I was cheating, but certain types of cheating can reveal flaws in the fundamentals of the game.
SimCity-Like Tool Lets Urban Planners See the Potential Impact of Their Ideas
That would be true if they didn't include the actual images themselves in the article.
President Eisenhower
raised the issue, and after 50 years we've surrendered. Big tech is a right we haven't fully lost yet.

Also, money is just money.
How to use the contrast principle to improve public perception of your product
Building a Blog Using WordPress and Frontity
Sure, the economics of nuclear aren't great.

The economics of non-nuclear are terrible, though. All roads that don't include it as a major generator of electricity rely on burning carbon, in the form of natural gas.

If you think I'm wrong - would you mind explaining why natural gas deployment last two years (~20% increase, so about ~5% of global energy generation) was as much as the deployment of renewables, for the last decade? (also ~5% of global generation)

If you are right - could you give me your best guess for when you expect gas plant deployment to go net negative? 2020? 2025? 2050? 20-never? What mechanism (political, economic, etc) do you expect to drive that inflection point?

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/natural-gas/gas-consumption-da...

[2] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/renewables/wind-solar-share-el...
Thankfully it's not. As beautiful as Pictured Rocks are, it's so over-recommended that it's making Michigan look like a one-trick pony.
I'm not sure whether or not corporate farming leads to less emissions, but the environmental impact should not be the only factor evaluated for whether or not corporate farming consolidation is good for humanity. What may be lost in efficiency is gained in good jobs for middle class people to make a living.

If we're talking large scale change for the environment, why not electrify farm equipment, expand our solar and wind capacity to meet the demand, and allow for small farmers to still carve out a solid living and make the Heartland a place with thriving communities?
I haven't reviewed your language, but from a fellow software engineer, congrats on your work! It takes a lot of grit to make a programming language. I hope to make one as well one day. If you blog about your experiences about the non-technical challenges, I would definitely read it.
I'm pro-nuclear, but I find these articles about Germany's anti-nuclear stance extremely frustrating.

Blaming the current situation on Fukushima is historically inaccurate. Imo, there are 2 major reasons for the current stance:

1. Chernobyl: After the disaster in 1986 the anti-nuclear movement gained massive traction. The radioactive cloud spread all the way to West Germany and warnings had to be issued (mushrooms, venison, crops, ...). It was a real turning point, since everyone was made aware of the concerns. [1]

2. "Endlager"-discussion: The search for a permanent nuclear waste deposit was/is a political shitshow. The trial run at Asse (in the 70s) failed: We are currently getting all canisters out of there, after they found contaminated sludge and flooded areas. [2] Further, the decision to select Gorleben as one possible locations was mostly political. The whole process is politically loaded, expensive and devoid of any scientific reasoning. [3]

The anti-nuclear decision has been made years before Fukushima for imo valid concerns. The "latest" reactor in Germany went online in 1989, and the decision to phase-out was made in 2002. So the reactors being phased out now are all 30+ years old.
Nowadays, I don't think any energy provider in Germany would be willing to invest in NEW fission plants. By the time they will be online, renewables might be way cheaper per kWh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endlager_(Kerntechnik)
I never said that it was state of the art or "the" leading, my point is Go GC is currently a good all-arround GC, and I've read that article, I think the author is bias against Go and currently there is no article even proving that the 2 new Java GC are faster than the Go one. ( or even faster than G1 )

You know when you end your article with "Overall, it looks to me like the Java guys are winning the low latency game." when none of those GC are actually production ready ... Go GC low latency has been stable and used for some time now.

Out of the box Go GC is very good and doesn't need all the memory or the tunning from G1. ( I spend years tunning GC for Java application it's a nightmare )
great!!! lets keep it up!!!
How about:

Soleimani = Quds leader

Quds = responsible for Iranian military actions outside Iran

Kill person responsible for Iranian military actions outside Iran = Good

Reading the above seems a bit contrived, but I know it pretty much fits for me. I had heard his named before the news broke, but wouldn’t have been able to tell you what he did upon hearing it again. As soon as I discovered he was a Quds general, I had enough information to know that I supported striking him. Granted I was already aware of Iran’s involvement in Iraq over the past few years, and that he had been killed in Iraq.
The more recent nuclear accidents with power production, such as at Fukushima highlighted how reactionary (perhaps correctly) a large portion of people are in regards to radiation/nuclear events. I have serious doubts there are many plausible situations in which a US president would authorize even an extremely low yield nuclear strike, considering the domestic and international backlash, and the optics of it in general.

If you want to be extra cynical about it, it would seem that the military industrial complex stands to make much more money off of continuous low intensity conflict, where they can develop advanced conventional weapons, bill the US government for the R&D, and then sell watered down versions to ~1/4th of the world. Nuclear weapons are just a little too good at their job, making them bad for business.
Apparently I misunderstood how it works. Averaged over 100 years its 34x more potent, but the vast majority of the impact is early on.
FAANG Software Engineer vs. Product Manager Salaries – Based on Levels.fyi
I also read the article, and did look at the linked projects, and it's not clear to me how they solve GP's issue, because the company is still providing these solutions precompiled on hardware they control.

How does GP know that everything is actually being provided unmodified, without any backdoors?

> it helps a lot rather than broadcasting every nascent thought that pops up in the head to the internet.

I don't think this is helpful, it's unnecessarily antagonistic and dismissive.

GP's point seems reasonable to me; I don't see anything here that means that the Thinkpad x230 couldn't be modified before installation/paring, or that the tools themselves couldn't be modified before the laptop was shipped. If there is a reason to trust the initial build process, the linked page isn't explaining what it is.
The parent poster did specify “call battery life”. I can listen to music for hours, but a call with two-way communication drains my AirPods battery very quickly.
And everyone should get a pony!
> The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The bad is also the enemy of the good.

Nuclear would be an example of a good solution that isn't perfect. Natural gas is an example of bad solution, in that it doesn't actually fit the definition of a solution because it doesn't in any way contribute to solving the problem.

> Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal, and it's an easy win, compared to the alternatives.

This is simply false. Given methane emissions, we don't actually know that it's better at all, let alone half as bad.

> If we sit around waiting for reduction of energy use and increase in renewables to save us, we are screwed.

Actually, we're pretty much screwed no matter what we do, which is why the marginal-improvement-that-might-not-even-be-an-improvement you're trying to say is acceptable, isn't acceptable.

> Gotta take what we can get for now, and continue fighting for even better solutions.

Is "fighting for even better solutions" what you think you're doing here?
They've been there... I think since the beginning. If not since the beginning for at last ten years now.
Yeah, my first thought. But then the Microsoft link didn't make sense. Both like Japanese, and green, I guess.
> One replacement of the cord generates more plastic waste than the entirety of the airpods I use.

The battery is a much bigger issue than the cord. If it get recycled correctly sure, but most people won't recycle it...

You are a pretty tiny exception.