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> The aim isn't to get a rise out of them, it is to split them.

Not necessarily. 4chan often trolls other communities (and even other boards within 4chan) not out of deep opposition but for sports. Certainly, trolling or related tactics can be used to further some agenda, but that is not essential to the trolling itself.

It can also be used to require some conformance to community rules. If no moderation tools are available to the users then they can simply tell outsiders that they are not welcome by trolling them. That does not mean they try to disrupt or divide the community from which the outsider came. No, they're actually defending their own community.

Of course getting other communities to tear themselves apart would be "mission accomplished" for a troll, but that does not mean it is the end-goal, just one possible outcome.
No, the project never got that far. I did discuss with a security researcher though, and it was secure, but it lacked features like PFS, and the handshake protocol could leak information.

In addition, using "pure" random nonces has all sorts of interesting problems.
Our proposal is a little higher-level than Vulkan but it's the same basic idea.
you don't need mods, pretty sure the game ships with additional spritesheets, and replacing them is very easy. Though the ascii art is truly beautiful.
As soon as you clear up that GPU bottleneck guess what's going to be your next one? (Here's a hint, it's the thing that's dispatching to your GPU).

Another aspect that scares me about this is the security implications of exposing compute to the browser. Esp when you start talking about unified memory architectures. There's been more than a few exploits from a clever soul calling glReadPixels in the right circumstances. Increasing the surface area here doesn't seem like a great idea. Shader compilers are also great targets for instability and obscure bugs.
As such, it should be rejected by W3C. Let Apple get behind Vulkan, instead of proliferating clones of Apple only APIs.
Look at how the proceeds of the big tech exits get distributed and you see that even the people building the automation itself barely benefit, save for VCs and management
Completely agreed. There's something called a Certificate of Need necessary in many states[1] that effectively allows hospitals to veto any new facilities that they don't "need." I don't think it would surprise anyone that low-cost upstarts about to cut into revenue streams aren't needed by any hospitals.

Whenever you have a $500 bottle of orange juice, I think it screams that you're not in a competitive market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
Pharmaceutical companies do a lot more than just R&D making said subsides horribly inefficient and thus a lie. But, yes that's the line used.
"Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
You are literally creating a monopoly (one hospital) to justify that will produce lower prices.

Please give me one other example in an unregulated market where your MRI machine example makes sense. It sounds good on paper, but that doesn't happen in any other market in the western world.

If there are two competing gas stations, prices get cheaper. Two competing airlines, prices get cheaper.
Less than ideal for central Texas, but given how many people AWS has been hiring this news isn't really a surprise.
Note that the presidency of Israel is a mostly symbolic role(like a less important Queen of Britain), the political power rests with the Prime Minister
Pretty sure Cassandra still uses local timestamps and last-write-wins, which means you can't do safe updates. Also pretty sure they didn't fix the timestamp-collision row-isolation issue I talked about, because it was on HN's front page a few months ago. ;-)
WebGL is pretty great. But, like GLES, it requires a lot of API calls to get stuff done. Hopefully, with a Vulkan-like API, you should be able to move a whole lot of that work to initialization time and make the act of actually drawing stuff frame-by-frame require very little API activity.

In the extreme case you get stuff like "GPU-Driven Rendering Pipelines" described in http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/
Post your historic and current positions, opened and closed.

I am not the only one who is extremely sceptical about your claims.
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> So, if a specification came out of this, then it would not be patent encumbered; at least not by any patents held by Apple.

So how come they didn't manage to have the same idea for touch events?

> Everyone supporting Vulcan would be nice, but a standardised, patent-free, cross-platform, web-enabled, low-level GPU API would still be a major step forward.

I'd say design and its roots matter. If they base it off Metal, and use Metal like technology, while Metal itself remains a closed Apple only API, then W3C should reject it. Consider the whole related ecosystem, like shaders and so on. Anything like that should be based on open APIs and related ecosystems, like WebGL is based on OpenGL.

If Apple want to help, let them base WebGPU on Vulkan. If not, they shouldn't waste everyone's time. I hope W3C participants will have enough common sense to come to the same conclusions.
Wait... what? Deceptive... really? Come on now.

http://caniuse.com/

In terms of tracked features they're ahead of Edge with both their stable release and in development (TP) builds.

Don't let your own prejudices distort reality.
Why link to /newest rather than the actual discussion?
If a tool allows a worker to do N times as much, that doesn't mean the labor is worth N times more, only the labor+tool system.
AI is a very flexible term, all software that makes choices technically qualifies as AI even if the benchmark is moved over time. But, remove the buzzards and rejecting a loan using a single if statement based on a Fico score really is machine decision making at work.
I doubt it's up to the webkit team to make this decision. Anyway, Apple adopting would make things easier
I don't think a sincere, ad hominem attack constitutes trolling at all. Trolling involves some level of indirection, where the target is being manipulated by taking a message as sincere when it's not.
I think the actual explanatory power from your example comes from the fact that these are communities whose purpose is to grow over time. The coordinated trolling is a means to attack that growth by destroying the means of legitimate discourse (particularly around any form of disagreement) and by recruiting more trolls (who aren't part of the original 5 coordinators but who might share the goal of the coordinators).

The efficacy of this tactic has nothing to do with the properties of the community being attacked (other than that it's a community that exists to grow) and everything to do with the properties and volume of the attackers.

Additionally -- I think the women's march example undermines your claim. Despite significant coordinated deployment of these tactics, the group became quite large indeed. The only people who now subscribe to your view that it has collapsed are those who oppose the agenda of the women's march. There is nothing objective to substantiate your claim that it has collapsed.
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> As soon as you clear up that GPU bottleneck guess what's going to be your next one?

Memory bandwidth for your textures, geometry, and other data, quite often. Or nothing at all, if you can successfully reach your desired target framerate.

But if CPU turns out to be an issue, that's what WebAssembly is for.
I was going to say Rush Holt Jr.(nuclear physicist) but apparently he retired 2 years back
Yup, and thats the $lol price. You can expect that price to at least halve with volumes of 50+
It is, we need a list of such persons, and entice them the spread the knowledge.
Can I do an Indie Hackers interview about how I went to Vegas a few times and made $10k? I even have some Python scripts modeling my "strategies!"

This is almost certainly a fluke, if it's true at all. There aren't any valuable lessons here and such a story merits a high degree of skepticism. Algorithms which can successfully return 95% profits consistently are not wasted on freelance developers.

I usually love Indie Hackers, but including this story really devalues the brand.
> trolling is inherently anti-PC.

You can also troll acceptable targets. It may be a little less glorious if you're not defying the mainstream.
That API looks potentially more pleasant to use than WebGL, which is a nice surprise given it's purportedly more low-level.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications

Every. single. other. browser. Including desktop Safari.
From the article:
>> Got a cool project? I am currently available for freelance work.

Whether you are lying or not does not really matter, after all you're just a regular guy trying to get ahead like the rest of us. And the startup royalty keeps telling us to bend the rules. What I'm criticising is IndieHacker's lack of due diligence to screen for charlatans. I'm assuming you didn't show them any further proof than what's in the article?
Yes, the same Pakistan that after harboring another terrorist for 8 years, quickly arrested him to prevent getting put on that same "countries of concern" list.

The migration halt inconvenienced 100 or so people, but it has had a much bigger (almost positive) impact in ways people are ignoring so they can call Trump Hitler.

He isn't exterminating people, he just said "look this area of the world is in crisis, we don't want that here so stop coming" and this is making everyone else pull up and start doing stuff.

That seems like its doing some good, and isn't just "outright evil" as you called it.
We're not complaining, we're explaining the lay of the land. Working on top of all three of these APIs is totally doable and will result in a better API for the web.

Things worth noting:
- We believe other browser vendors agree with us that the web API should work on all three of the major native APIs.
- The web has security requirements which force us to go a bit higher-level than Vulkan anyway.

I understand your desire to have Vulkan on Apple platforms, but it's really a separate issue from the right target for WebGPU.
In non-tech centric large orgs, it seems you frequently do not have the talent required to be be both risk averse and productive at the same time, so "IT" becomes a risk averse and non-productive political structure from which springs an "alternative IT" rebellion group (if the initiative is lead from above) or many little cowboy teams (if the initiative is driven from below) and these will be "productive" at the expense of having no processes for avoiding stupid risks that, amongst other things, can lead to data loss.
Yea, I'm sure they do. It's just that I don't know anything about the Indian market, which makes it slightly harder to dismiss completely out of hand.
For anyone who feels like they can invest 5 hours, so it should be safe, I will say that it is not uncommon to hear stories of people playing for the entire time that they are awake, and I have a few of my own.
So banks come in handy after-all.

I regularly get aggravated about the sensitivity of my bank's fraud screening. I have to call them constantly just to spend my money. But, I am at least reassured about how difficult it is to siphon money from the account.
Interesting point.

I don't know if I'd pick Java as a comparison point because the ecosystem is unimaginably large, so it's hard to compare to Haskell/OCaml. A better one might be Golang or ruby.

I think ML languages just never made the case that other languages are bad enough for the particular thing someone is doing now, e.g. a web app. If you hit a NULL, you get an exception, track it down, probably not a huge issue. The best case could be made for ML on security grounds, but unfortunately nobody cares about security.

On the other hand, people were convinced that C/C++ were bad after decades of people saying so. But people didn't feel like they had an alternative until rust came along.
Go for it! I would love to see more focus on browser-based what-the-future-of-code-may-look-like. That said, I don't think that 3D interfaces are the only kinds that need good language / representation. Not that the rules should be really rigid, but I think that if we pursue the notion of reversely symmetric UI-languages we can make a lot of progress. Imagine that you have a 3D scene, what is the minimal language you need to describe it? How can we make it so that language/code is not only minimised but extensible? We must strike a balance.

I would like to have such simplicity in a potential language that when I see a scene in my minds' eye, it's really easy to transfer to the digital realm. I think the simplicity of representation is key.

Being a web dev on my own hours for the past several years now has given me a pretty solid grip of all the needs of an interactive application, and I can say that there has to be some way for users to easily interact and offer all the possible inlets for the information. Starting a 3D-internet movement might require rethinking the inputs. Won't we just use holo-wands to navigate vast swathes of data rapidly? Run through this field of data sheets...

So yeah, rethinking the medium will naturally come up as a question in conversations around this, and I think that it's simply a matter of keeping "user input" as straightforward and easy as possible, in the local _and_ distributed sense. With that as a foundational block, the rest of the 3D scene can start to make sense.
Just because it worked out in the past doesn't mean it will continue to work out in the future. There is no fundamental reason that pattern is guaranteed to continue and some evidence exists already that this time really is different.
I call BS myself. He's from Romania, maybe living in New York or San Fran whatever profile you read and he's using Indian based trading API's linked to an Indian brokerage.

I also think most of the stories on indie hacker are bull and it's just people growth hacking or something to get free publicity.
If they were running a web browser...
What the heck, this really is incredibly catchy. It's already been lodged in my head for 3 days.
I'd rather Apple implement getUserMedia in Safari first.

Currently, it's not possible to access a user's microphone or webcam in Safari (desktop and iOS). They're the major outlier when compared to other browser vendors: http://caniuse.com/#search=getusermedia
I'm not sure this would help, as the sibling comment pointed out. I only see one solution on the long term. It's focusing on the education of our young generation, and here I'm looking at kids from a very young age.

During the past 2 decades Romania has been neglecting education big time. Teachers had terrible salaries, corruption was present even in our highest ranked colleges and institutions. Education quality has been degrading throughout this entire time and we need to make that a priority.

Then there is also the psychological aspect of it. We need to make school and education look cool again. We need to use proper role-models for children, like the Americans use Silicon Valley stars to show how success looks like. Meanwhile every time I turn on the TV here I see high-profile millionaires, going to or out of prison, giving preaches about what do to in life and how to outsmart others. These are the popular figures presented by our media.

Mostly, in Romania, education was never cool, work was never cool, paying taxes was damn right stupid and making millions of $ illegally was regarded with admiration.
If we can change that our future looks better already.
The blog post explicitly says that they think that discussion around the shading language to be "one of the most fun parts of the standardization process" (i.e. most contentious), and they explicitly said they're deferring the issue of shading language and just accepting an existing language "for now", and that they picked the Metal Shading Language because the authors of the proposal here are using Apple platforms. I think the implication is clear that they don't expect the Metal Shading Language to actually be the final shading language after the proposal has gone through the standardization process.
It is not "seen as non-ideal", it was the very point of existence for all of those standards. Graphic apis had become a leaking abstraction of non-standardized driver behavior with single-digit FPS lurking around every non-popular feature corner.

It is a joke to suggest putting another abstraction over the low-level api. That is squarely the domain of libraries and frameworks.
If industry displacement starts occurring more than once a generation?

Our rate of advancement is increasing. We will get to the point where new job opportunities will be automated before there's even a real workforce.
> Memory bandwidth for your textures, geometry, and other data, quite often.

So in other words a GPU bottleneck?
How is this anti-competitive? They're explicitly trying to create a cross-platform JavaScript API for graphics, one that can be built on top of whatever platform-specific low-level APIs that exist. This seems to be the exact opposite of anti-competitive.
Fishing?
> We're not complaining, we're explaining the lay of the land.

No, you're stating your own company's ambition.
The view on Africa is doubly sad I believe, because it reinforces the psychological bias that African immigrants are worthless, coming from natural resource only places; which in turns I'm sure fuels the racism from Caucasians in Europe. Even if a French "hate" an English, he knows the two are similar and so cannot think himself above much.
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Is that really a "just" or is it the right thing to do? Working on top of all the major APIs is the right thing for the web.

We've discussed our proposal a lot with key players in this space (including other browsers, GPU vendors, relevant ISVs) and we're pretty sure a cross-API abstraction is the way to go.

Some even want to build a form of cross-API abstraction at the native C/C++ level.
Trolling is purely destructive? How about playing devil's advocate? Is that purely destructive?
Might be interesting for the docker runtime in the future as well. That is, assuming k8s spends enough time on supporting alternatives like rkt as well as docker.
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It's not an article about 'urban architectural planning'. It's about Jane Jacobs, a sui generis, unschooled, bottom-up thinker in a field then dominated by inhumane abstractions. That she appeared as a public intellectual somewhat accidentally seems like a fair introduction to that narrative.
It's completely ridiculous for a service to offer 2FA with SMS and also password recovery via SMS to the same phone number. It sounds like that's how this guy got hacked. He was effectively using more like half-a-factor authentication. He probably didn't realize because his email service didn't clearly show him how it will grant access.

It would be great if online services showed a clear matrix of authentication methods so you can see which combinations are sufficient and necessary to access your account. Simply adding a 2nd factor is a bad idea because it means if you lose either one, you're locked out of your account, so you also need a 3rd factor to protect you from yourself. I personally have 4 factors for my gmail account - regular SMS 2FA, a friend's phone number for password recovery and paper backup codes. This way, I can lose almost any two factors and still have access. If I forget my password and also lose access to my friend's phone for password recovery, then perhaps I'll be in trouble but Google doesn't make it clear if they'll let you in using only your backup codes and 2nd factor phone number.
We're committed to abiding by the W3C Patent Policy for this spec.
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> Blaming the AMA is a dated view. I believe that used to be the case, but certainly isn't any longer

It's both dated and wrong. The AAMC, not the AMA, formerly capped the number of medical students in the country. But over ten years ago, they decided to lift the cap.

As you said, though, the residency slots are the bottleneck, so exactly what has happened is that we now have even more people graduating with debt from medical school who are unable to train in residency and eventually practice medicine.

Residency funding is subsidized by Medicare, so they're the ones who have the power to expand GME, if they want to.
Increased productivity isn't making society better to live in for people who don't have jobs.
Palantir, because being able to look at myself in the mirror is a thing I want to remain able to do.
Isn't Safari Technical Preview supported 100% ES6?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11708840
Protests seek the empathy of others. It's easier to make people laugh, than to make them care.
I can play that game too:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-module

Like I said, "ahead of the game in a lot of areas", not every area.
As an iOS and MacOS user..... GOOD.

I hate websites trying to give me notifications. I like that I don't get stupid prompts from mobile Safari about that kind of thing.
All the browsers are the same on iOS because Apple says they must be Safari inside and won't let them into the store if they don't. The differences between browsers are limited to the UI skin around Apple's browser. Safari iOS doesn't support getusermedia, so no way to access camera from the browser on that OS.
In fact a few years ago I read the memoir of a former officer in the french secret services (DGSE). He explained at length how a large part of the job of the DGSE was to accumulate mundane information about everyone, what article who published where, who is close to who, who thinks what, what rumor X says he heard from Y on Z. Over many years of painful accumulation of data through various sources, and with a critical understanding of the reliability of each source, the DGSE built this massive file on all potential persons of interest, which is crucial for the day they need it.

Now 90% of that is available in free access on linkedin, facebook and gmail...
European comedy is drier requiring more thought and understanding

I can only speak of British comedy, but I wouldn't say it requires more thought and understanding (well, maybe sometimes). It can be quite dry. I think one thing British comedy does well is the absurd and stupid but played with deadpan seriousness.

Here's an example: Philomena Cunk, a fictitious character from Charlie Brooker's TV show. Not sure if her humour travels outside the UK, but here's a flavour...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZMkNSWdxo
Well, if that is your criteria, and if you are working on robots you are working on the wrong problem. (Disclaimer: Robots are by day job).

Starvation is a distribution problem. We grow enough food to feed the world. Poor distribution systems cause some people to starve and some food to be wasted. Robot farmers won't fix that.
That's clearly not true.

IE: Not Supported

Opera Mini: Not Supported

Chrome for Android: Not Supported
My favorite example is you don't need a graphics department for presentations. Just that one guy with a graphics design background.
Regarding GraphQL and Clojure, there's been a fair bit of experimentation around the Datomic Pull syntax, which performs a similar purpose. Om Next uses a variation of it, for instance.
>> What is it with developers and their obsession with European comedy?

You know there are a lot of developers (even some on this site) that are European?
For those wondering - "locals" here means people working at Rackspace headquarters at Windcrest, TX.
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