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This is product launch? Where is the product page? API docs?
How does Sumerian relate to Lumberyard, the other Amazon 3D engine?

They demonstrate basic placing of 3D objects in environment, what about UI?
> Despite that, The New Yorker doesn't seem to have lessened at all in the rate of influential and newsworthy pieces it produces (Rowan Farrow's expose of Harvey Weinstein being one of the more recent notables [1]).

OT - they hinted at this in 2002: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/12/16/beauty-and-the...
I've wondered this. If there are so many talented underpaid people, isn't the right response to form a company that specifically hires from these groups? Should be a whole lot of money to be made.
I know that, but unless one wants to become a MSIL and verification engine expert, the simplest explanation is that unsafe taints Assemblies.
A faraday cage key fob holder. Will remove the convenience of just keeping the fob in your pocket though.
It doesn't help that most of the open source solutions to deploy a cluster are either poorly engineered (e.g. kubespray) or poorly maintained (e.g. kubeadm). You are on to something... organizations/people that have the capability and resources to make the toolings to manage Kubernetes setup complexity seem to think they're much better off if they charge for it.
What's Amazon really trying to do here?
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«But you'll need to have the key continuously present to drive»

Not true. Virtually all "keyless ignition" cars let you continue to drive when the key is suddenly no longer detected as present in the car.

I verified this myself on my 2012 Audi S4, driving 1 km away from home without my key.

Think about it. It would be too dangerous if the car suddenly shut down the engine eg. when the key's battery dies or when some random persistent R/F communication failure occurs.
My experience of "culture fit" is that it's actually used much more often for "can code well but is a jerk" than anything else. Anecdotal though.
I also did not understood, it looks like half-finished article.
Taking over the world. I mean, they've been pretty much copying and improving any other web service/tool/cloud service. Why not VR creation and eventually a VR market? It seems to me that this is just like another AWS move towards being in as many markets and fronts as possible.
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Best news to my years. Unity is bloated and needs serious competition. +1 for using JavaScript for scripting.
I thought this would be the case, but I have been really pleasantly surprised by the quality. I watched some 4k60 videos on YouTube on this thing and thought they looked great. I have not done any gaming with it though. A photographer or graphic artist could probably find fault, but for me, it is very satisfactory.
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> You don't have to lie to people. You can go to church and not believe. I know several people that do that.

Interesting. In my (predominantly Catholic) country, people do that for weddings and funerals, it's widely accepted and in fact it would look radical to stay out of a wedding for not believing. But I don't think non-believers going to "regular" mass is a common thing, I think it would be seen as odd and probably not very welcome by the believers.

Also, one of the main prayers said in Catholic mass starts with "I believe in God, the Father Almighty". So consciously being in a group that says that looks literally like lying to me, even if it's a white lie.
This kind of made me throw up in my mouth a little.

It's like every smart kid who knows something about computers is chomping at the bit to become a mercenary-in-training for soulless megacorps, and their keepers are every bit as gung-ho on making that happen.

Instead of making overtures to Google and Facebook, they should be making the next big thing that kicks them square in the nuts. If anyone from Howard University is reading this, get started on it. I believe in you.
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If they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.
Maybe they want to evaluate VR commerce. That’s the only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me right now.
very visual, I love it! As if the price watching wasn't addictive enough...
Usually Shift-G should transport you to the end of the document.
> The slow progress reflects the knottiness of one of Silicon Valley’s most persistent problems: It’s too white.

That's not true. Whites are underrepresented at Silicon Valley companies compared to their share of the US population. Asians are massively, massively over represented. Why?

There is no way to answer the question without opening the can of worms that is test scores, IQ, etc. So instead of being honest, the story paints a politically convenient narrative that is not actually true.
Not requiring an explicit (or at least conscious) action on the part of the user seems to be the flaw in the process.

The countermeasures would appear to be:

* blocking the signal using some kind of Faraday cage to store your keys

this relies on changing user behaviour, and not forgetting; kinda removes some of the “convenience” factor

have some kind of disable switch on the key fob, in which case there’s not a huge difference to a regular remote lock/unlock button

* expanding the range of frequencies the key fob uses to try and defeat the range extenders

this likely has regulatory issues, and is probably easy to just update the hardware to cope with (if it doesn’t already)

have the car do some kind of latency measurement on the challenge/response radio message exchange; given that light travels at 1ns per foot (ish!) the car will have to accurately and precisely measure only a few nanos difference, and not suddenly stop working because of nearby radio echoes in a concrete car park (or whatever)

how close to the car is “convenient” to have it unlock automatically? 2 feet (driver standing by car)? 20 feet (kids running ahead to get into car)?

* some kind of “parked up at home” mode so that the first unlock of the day requires a button push

loses some of the convenience again

got to remember to set it (some kind of car locking button again...)

* you could have a second type of “anti-key” that you always leave at home, and when in range of this key the car won’t unlock keylessley

easy target to block in the arms race or car theft

easy to misunderstand as a user

less convenience
I don’t know if Office 365 has - isn’t the on-premises deployment of that simply Exchange Server?

But the Azure Cloud itself has a supported on-premises deployment, disconnected if you want - https://youtube.com/watch?v=qLIzMwgY_Cw so maybe there is an O365 in there too?
From what I've heard in the hallways, the people driving the language from the Radboud University retired.
"Has overly passionate opinions based well outside fact and is an ass about it constantly. Also we share those opinions."
There's a way of setting up a bare-metal (or VMs) cluster using Ansible. It may be the sort of 'easy in' you may be looking for:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fed...

If you manage to automate deployment of the VMs or physical nodes (e.g., PXE), you've got a cherry on top.
Semi-random historical aside, one of the original founders of Tesla (no longer at the company) makes the claim that Al Gore "invented" the Prius by featuring the work of some academics on hybrid engines in a televised hearing. Although ignored by the American companies he was trying to convince, Toyota ran with the idea.
It was detonated at 4kn high and the fireball didn't touch the gound so no real crater was formed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
OK. Is there anything that one could do with a country that you would consider an existential threat to the country, and if so, could you give an example?
> their new AR device

I haven't heard this rumor, care to fill us in?
For those interested, the videos from the livestream are available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmRAQeesq4TA3rdvbz-IkQ

The presented material by Vitalik is largely similar to his Devcon 3 presentation. Most (all?) Devcon 3 videos were just posted today as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNOfzGXD_C9YMYmnefmPH0g/pla...

For those that don't like watching videos, here's the FAQ which summarizes sharding: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

And here's the actual code for the sharding python poc: https://github.com/ethereum/sharding
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Why wouldn't you acquire indentured servants on the cheap from countries with even more draconian work ethics than the US?
I respect your suggestion, but sadly have found myself moving in the opposite direction lately.

My wife's parents are strongly religious. When my 5 year old son stays over he gets a good dose of creationism. I've always thought that that was fine. Its not my belief but I don't see why people can't hold different beliefs. I enjoyed the idea that he could make up his mind on his own.

But lately, its become apparent that for many church-goers, they aren't prepared to (or able to) hold contrasting positions in their heads. Most specifically, I don't see why people can't maintain their belief in god, but at the same time understand that its man that has to rescue himself from the wreckage we are inflicting on the planet.

I've now reached the stage where I need to tell my son that his grandparent's beliefs are fairy tales, because I really fear the danger that is being wrought by people who hold zealous, single minded views. Certainly not all religious people are like that - but it increasingly seems that many are.
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I assume this is based on the CryEngine they licensed? Can someone shed some light on the differences between Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon Sumerian?
Fair enough, but why wouldn't you acquire them from Africa?
Probably gonna get eaten alive here but the easiest explanation (Ockham's Razor) are differences in IQ distributions.
The article propagates this "white supremacy" narrative when in fact Asians and Ashkenazi Jews are vastly overrepresented taking into account the relative population numbers

The average sub-saharan IQ is around 70, the SD 15. If I remember correctly an average coder is something like 110-115 IQ. That is about 3xSD above the average for African blacks which means that about only 0.3% of them are fit for this kind of job.
My field report on "culture fit" would be child of academic or fussy schoolteacher. There's a sort of pedantry in their communication that will take you further than your abilities in academia, yet really rubs everyone else the wrong way.
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A good approach would be to license your work under GPL3/AGPL3 and charge a fee for a commercial license.
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time.

The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
One weird thing I noticed:

The text all of a sudden switched from "the candidate" to "he" towards the end.
Any time I read about Ether I think about this -

"12 Million ETH were created to the development fund, most of it going to early contributors and developers..."

At today's rate that's $5,860,200,000 USD. Who were these early contributors, how much did each get, and why do they get to have 12.5% of the entire economy on day 1? How is that a fair currency? I've read there were only 60 some "early contributors". Where's the list?

On their FAQ, under "Is the ether supply infinite?" there are two paragraphs of goobly gook basically saying "we haven't decided yet" ("an area of active research").

How can anyone take this currency seriously? What is so special that makes you invest in this instead of Bitcoin?
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Tonnes of kids from great CS programs apply to jobs at Google/Facebook/Pinterest/etc, the reality is that it is difficult to secure a job at these companies straight out of college.
Call me ignorant, but I don't think race is the reason why black coders aren't given a chance at these companies. All these companies are looking to "diversify" their workforce (they even have teams focused on this issue!), they are just having trouble finding quality talent within non-represented groups.
A problem that I see in simulating the universe (i.e. the sum of computable processes) is that in quantum mechanics, you can't simply isolate yourself from the system under scrutiny. I.e. to compute and predict the state of the universe a computer would have to take into account its own internal present and future state which was the aim to compute in the first place.
I think there is a good reason. I'm not going to say what it is, but it's wrong to hold white people accountable for it.
Back in the day, I really loved Poser on the Mac. Is there a good web-based or free linux alternative these days? Something you can use to create realistic humans?
Not in the same way that gold is. Currencies can experience hyperinflation from increased supply (printing money), but until someone finds the philosopher's stone, gold has relatively stable supply (and subsequently - price).
This is particularly interesting. Having tasted Iberico, I just realized on similarities between it and Yunnan Ham, which I grew up on. https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/mgx3b4/china-has-an-...
Maybe whites/indians/asians aren't "preferred" in the sense of active racial discrimination. But the people currently at the company, being mostly of that ethnicity, may have personal contact lists/rolodecks that are weighted toward that ethnicity. I can attest to that as a Vietnamese-American myself. The vast majority of my childhood friends are white because I grew up in the Midwest. But I had far more Vietnamese friends than would be statistically expected because the few Vietnamese families in the community just hung out regularly even as they integrated with the rest of the town.

If you grew up not just white, but upper-middle class and above, how many black people, statistically speaking, are you regularly in contact with? Versus someone who grows up lower-income or in the inner city? Being relatively well-off, you have a statistically better chance of getting a better K-12 education, which leads to a better chance at a top-tier school, and then to a top-tier company. You eventually are in a position to make recommendations for hires, and statistically speaking, you know more qualified whites than you do blacks and Hispanics. Statistically speaking, at many companies, recommendations from current employers carry a lot of weight.

Over time, this statistical weighting of life experiences would lead to a mostly white/Asian workforce at a tech company. And no one in this process was ever thinking "No blacks".

So to actually get a workforce that includes a representative number of a disenfranchised minority group, you actively have to seek it out. If you are in Silicon Valley, you have to actively make the decision to fly out to Howard U to do recruiting instead of the much more rational and cost-efficient decision to base recruiting at Stanford and Berkeley.
It’s essential to take such articles with grain of salt, because the „empowering black people” problem exists mostly in US/UK. It’s surreal to work in low cost center of American company somewhere in developing contry being paid and treated like shit, then one opens the company’s intranet and sees articles like „we empower black Americans!”. I couldn’t care less. There are awful culture problems in the industry, yes, but they have very litte to do with hiring or not hiring black Americans.
One day we will be hacking our cars so we can drive them “like the old days”
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If we get a useful quantum computer, what then? How will machine learning improve? As far as I know, QM speeds up integer factorization, but I don't see how this transfers to machine learning.
Thanks, that's clear enough :-). In hindsight I can't imagine what alternative I was thinking of .. I had some idea you might have put the additional cost in the iterator by maintaining only an epoch counter in the vector, but that's obviously not enough to do the right thing in the presence of insert and erase.

Your library looks like a good toolset. While I still find the code pretty impenetrable, the number of tests I can see give me confidence. Bookmarked for reference when I'm using C++ again.
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Nice book, explaining QC at a high-school level: Terrance Rudolph "Q is for quantum".

Here is a very modern approach, that is also understandable without much mathematics:
"Bob Coecke: From quantum processes to cognition via pictures"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84CtK33Q8s

Do you already understand the basics?
Feynman is nice aswell, I like how he rambles. Try diving in here and backtracking as needed:
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_05.html
Don't forget to read it with a thick Brooklyn (long island) accent.
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What if, and I’m going to go out on a limb here, it’s because Silicon Valley is run by white, racist misogynists?

Would it be that much of a shock, given pretty much every American industry is run by the same people?
I honestly do not understand how this market cap comparison argument is useful in assessing the viability of Bitcoin.
The people who believe the 19th century pseudoscience you appear to be pushing generally don't rate Indian IQs that highly.

Just the large number of people in Asia (4.4 Billion) and a selection filter is a simpler explanation.
I believe most people leave church / christianity because they are not religious. In my country it's like ~80%+ atheists so religious people are really uncommon, unless you are talking about muslims.

It is not cool to go to church because it's still a terrible ideology for society.
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Your argument is a long winded way of saying: The market believes in Tesla, so any and all losses are acceptable. Look, at $671M in losses per quarter, nothing about this company suggest it is viable. Worse, the "cash burn" rate, or negative free cash flow, is an even more astounding -$1.55B per quarter. That annualizes to $6.2B per year! That's how much the capital markets have to fund the company to sustain it going forward. If it wasn't for its high market cap, the company would have folded long ago for lack of funds.

It's pretty obvious that current losses like these could easily overcome a decade-plus of future profits. Their debt is already rated a junk bond, so they aren't going to get any good deals on future debt. At some point, you would think, surely rationality will set in. I mean, Tesla is not the only EV manufacture in the world. Wouldn't it make more sense to invest in another car company that is also making EVs, and have finances that look much more appealing? Why would anyone subsidize a company just to produce a product that others can easily replicate? At some point, this has to stop.
One key difference right now, though, is that I can use my Mastercard to pay for just about anythying just about anywhere I happen to be. In comparison to this worldwide acceptance as a means of payment, BTC seems just about worthless.
40'' is too much. it just makes it painful to push your mouse and windows around
That fall, when Facebook’s Williams came to campus with colleagues, the visit didn’t go over well. In a meeting with students, one Facebook employee brought up diversity so often that students say they felt uncomfortable—as if she wanted to talk only about the color of their skin and not programming. The event had been advertised as focused on diversity, but students had been eager to talk about jobs

Is it so damn hard to understand that selecting skilled people based on their physiology rather than their abilities, is extremely offensive and demeaning?

Yes there are many who will say nothing and take the job (a salary is a salary after all) but I don't know if there's a skilled person out there who wouldn't feel disrespected
As a company, or sports team, or anything, you have every right to protect the existing group dynamic and to avoid distractions or negative influences.
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As a value store? Clearly because of exposure.

As a vehicle for trade? Not there yet, we need more adoption, aided by exposure.
That doesn't really answer the question, does it?
If you’re not prepared to dedicate a small team to running Kubernetes, I’d say it’s too much for your needs.

Read the Borg paper for an idea of what k8s is meant to solve. If you have hundreds of services spread across 10s/100s of nodes, then the complexity of k8s starts to become amortized. Similarly if you have 100s of devs without a consistent way to do deployments, k8s starts to make sense.

Source: tech lead for a team managing a large on-prem and cloud k8s cluster.
WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy!

Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in.

Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
Whenever I hear that "quantum computers will forever be specialized processors" I think that at how we must've thought about the very first computers, which were only really good at doing math calculations. Even GPUs have gotten way more general-purpose than what we thought they could achieve even 2 decades ago.

I think that if quantum computers become mainstream enough we'll find ways to use them for more general-purpose stuff.
I don't know about work, but getting travel visa for people with African citizenships for attending conferences can be really hard. This could probably be solved if companies wanted to.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

African Americans have had western cultural innovation on lock-down for at least the past 100 years, and IQ was cooked-up by by a field of "science" that can't even reproduce its own seminal papers.
My own scepticism is fuelled by the fact if cryptocurrencies would disappear we'd lose nothing of value.
Are javascript runtime dependencies considered part of "the stack"?
I wonder who they will get this information, and if it will be perceived by people in the event of false positives, that it's internet cencorship going on.
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> Is Amazon really getting value
> out of all the dev time they are
> putting into building game engines?

What an odd way to think about projects like these. It seems obvious that the answer is "of course not, yet".

You could have asked the same question about AWS in 2001. Why is a bookstore putting all this effort into some online hosting platform for third parties?
> as code assypmtotically approach 100% code coverage, the complexity of said code will tend to go up exponetially (or worse).

I think attempting to reach 100% coverage is a good direction to steer against while you have low coverage, but not worth it as a an ultimate goal.

As you get closer (even as as TDD-proponent), I'm pretty sure the costs outweighs the gains, and you get problems like the ones you describe here.

Where a "reasonable" cutoff point may be... Now that's a harder discussion :)
Or the cheapest, whatever comes first.