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> This is because OpenGL is at its essence a 2D API.

I know @greggman has made this argument strongly and repeatedly. He’s not wrong, and he’s definitely an authority on the subject, he’s done amazing, amazing things for WebGL. But I keep bumping into this argument and I find the strict insistence on the 2d part exceeding the argument’s usefulness.

It’s useful to know that you’re on your own to handle projections and matrices. They aren’t built-in to the fixed function pipeline the way they used to be. It’s useful to be able to think of WebGL as a rasterization engine, and it’s useful to understand how the pieces fit together.

It’s not useful to claim that WebGL isn’t 3d at all ever, or to stick firmly to that interpretation. WebGL does have support for 3d coordinates, 3d textures, 3d matrices, and it’s main function is to present 3d graphics. Say what you want about having to roll your own transforms, there is absolutely 3d support and 3d intent designed into WebGL.

If you really want to insist that WebGL is a 2d API only, then get the Khronos Group to say that. Currently the WebGL page says: “WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES, exposed to ECMAScript via the HTML5 Canvas element.” Appeal to them to change the wording to 2d. As long as Khronos calls it 3d, then it’s 3d. Trying to convince people otherwise on the internet can never work.
Windows does not seem to be aimed at power users anymore, unless they are in a big company environment. You can manage which updates are sent, and when, if you have a Windows server distributing the updates. But that is overkill for small companies.
There absolutely are suburbs. But relative to the US, Canada’s major cities have maintained bigger inner-urban middle classes.
There is no distinction in the reservation. When your reservation becomes available, you can configure any “trim” that is currently available. That was the long range first, and now long range and performance.
> It's not speculation: there are already markets (Norway) where close to 50% of all new cars sold are EVs.

The latter fails to support the former. A country whose entire population is less than the size of a large city can't be extrapolated, especially since so many other conditions (e.g. economic ones) don't hold.

> as governments set mandates for electrification.

This reads as future tense, so a speculation (upon which you're basing your speculation).

> But I do think we'll see significant electrification in many markets during the 2020s, with double-digit market share globally for BEVs by 2030

"Significant" electrification is still a far cry from your speculation of "largely electrified" ground transportation. 10% is enough for "double-digit", and that still corresponds to getting to 50% around the 50 year mark (assuming "market share" means cars on the road, not just new production).

> and >50% share in some markets (China, parts of Europe).

You really need to exclude China, or at least consider it completely separately, considering how the market is skewed in favor of centralized decision making versus consumer choices and freedoms. It may be interesting for any discussion of emissions, environment, availability of technology, EV competition on the global market, or anything like that, but not for consumer adoption elsewhere.

> (btw: You do not need a garage or carport for EV charging. Chargers can be, and very often are in my experience, installed outdoors.)

Again, "very often" fails to provide any actual numbers. Did you cleverly omit the qualifier "residential" from the above, just to make it true? Were they installed by (i.e. at the individual behest of) the residents themselves, without non-scalable subsidies/support? A government pilot program to spur the 1% early adopters by making it convenient to charge at home can have a politically bad smell if scaled to 10x.

As I said, in my experience, the vast majority of cars in my neighborhood are actually parked where installing a dedicated circuit (let alone a fast charger) is currently impractical, if not impossible. You can continue to speculate all you want about regulations changing or cities installing chargers in the middle of sidewalks, but, today, it's still fantasy.

Bottom line, today, BEVs are 1%, and ICE isn't going away, in large part, any time soon. Consumers who wish to make decisions based on emissions impact would do well not to just to buy into the marketing and wishful thinking of EV proponents and discount the impact of choosing driving (when there is a choice). Fortunately, the impact difference is also typically closely reflected in the price difference, at least for low-margin, high-competition markets (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17578591).
Lol my LIT out my nose!
> > most every small town in Ontario is car-centric.
> I don't know that I agree.

For what it's worth, 'car-centric' has nothing to do with actual automobiles. "Car-centric" is coded language for "unplanned therefore affordable".

Strip malls, billboard signs, 10 lane light intersections, none of this is "car-centric", none of this is designed for cars, no regular person enjoys driving through that. But it's always cheap, so it's everywhere. Those represent an absolute-cheapest-option thinking, ignoring all else. Cars are just as much an afterthought as pedestrians and bicycles and busses are.

Roads that are actually designed for cars are freeways direct to other freeways, with no pedestrians and no bicycles and no oncoming traffic and no stoplights and no intersections ever and parking lots/ramps directly attached to freeway exits. It just so happens, that these are generally the safest roads too (in both US/Canada, and Europe) despite also being the fastest roads. Of course, construction of this rarely-to-never happens, "car-centric" roads rarely get built because it costs a bit more money.

But a 5 lane 'arterial' road, with turn lanes and curb cuts for every random store that wants it? Slap some sidewalks and a bike lane on it? Pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers will hate that, and it's terribly unsafe for all modes, but it's always the cheapest option to go with so it's the default. And it's so cheap that every municipality in the country can build them everywhere without thinking.

"Car-centric" has absolutely nothing to do with cars. "Car-centric" is complaining about areas being having the cheapest possible design (and therefore being somewhat affordable), with an unrelated jab against cars thrown in out of spite.
100% agree! I would also add Ann Arbor, Michigan to the mix. These "small towns" have wonderfully integrated colleges into the small town such that there are positive benefits for both including good schools and things to do...what many "freelancers" with kids want.
> - AMT can be disabled (and is by default)

The devices which have the feature enabled are probably business devices and the feature is used to manage them. Business devices are good value targets, I guess.

Edit : I guess those devices will probably receive the fix, since they are managed
Aren't we already doing this?

You can hear the stories about companies not hiring women when they are in a relationship and in the age when they are more likely to have kids.

They might ban using cars. You can cycle to work.
Can They Make Government Jobs as Cool as Google and Goldman?
Original story was in The Post a few days ago. I personally would never submit anything from The Post to HN... just saying.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/elon-musk-is-a-total-fraud/
I noticed my high school math(s) teachers were very bad at explaining why and what we were doing.

Arbitrary example:

One teacher kept saying "f(x)" but couldn't explain what a function is. He just said "it's anything", then "don't worry about it". If he had even said "a function is like a machine that takes number(s) as input, changes them with a formula and outputs the new number(s)", I think it would have helped us grok.

I think he understood math(s) so well that he couldn't relate to someone who didn't know what a function was.
No. If 99.9% of rides don't involve this kind of problem, the additional time people (users + drivers) are unnecessarily spending taking and approving pictures is going to exceed the costs from incidents like this.

That, and it's degraded UX and it'll drive a few percent of users to a competitor.
Unfortunately i have had the opposite experience and the card company sided with the merchant.
The use of hardware-level DRM like this appears to be something being pushed with the move to UHD (4K) and higher resolutions, for both discs and streamed content. This seems to be an industry-wide policy that's been adopted; AFAIK, Netflix's UHD streaming is gated on hardware-level DRM being available.
not sure why you're being downvoted, but it's worth mentioning that the temperature is not what matters here but rather the heat generation per area. The temperature is a function of how quickly the heat can be pulled away as well as the heat generation.
If it wasn't clear, I wasn't claiming that titanium dioxide would chemically combine with something in your body as chlorine gas or something would.

There are many ways things can be toxic, and many of them involve pretty mundane processes like heavy metal bioaccumulation, or nanoparticles like asbestos, or other dust, or yes, titanium dioxide, getting stuck in hard-to-clean (from the body's point of view) nooks and crannies of your body.

And it doesn't take much to be toxic: a single exposure to asbestos. Or the talcum powder fiasco.

Not all dust is created equal, and it's the size and shape of the dust that matters. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles have been a known danger (to the industry, occupational hazard etc) for a long time.
Unless all developed countries organize to tax wealthy people, why would wealthy people invest in countries that tax their wealth away?

If countries don't play ball with rich people, they can just move to another country that is more "business friendly" (including low taxes). What am I missing?
Yep, it's criticism! The New Yorker has articles like this on TV, movies, and books each week.
> Why would a customer want to continue using a service whose driver fraudulently accused them of damaging property?

Because Uber is an effective monopoly in certain markets given the convenience factor. It's why people still use their crappy internet provider or utility company.
I haven't tried this yet, but am very excited to. I hope it also notes when there's no consistent convention used in a file or project.

There was one guy I worked with (who I nicknamed whitespace, you know who you are) because he wrote like a compiler--if it didn't matter to the compiler it didn't matter to him. He similarly mixed one or two spaces after periods in text.
Pretty sure its on YouTube
Multi-file wordcount – an exercise in concurrent Ruby
> many would agree with me when saying all of ME's functionality should be implemented by the OS.

ME's use case is to be able to manage the machine when there is no OS installed, is unbootable or unresponsive. So somebody doesn't have to physically visit a datacenter and find the machine in a rack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
Yeah to me the Tiny Home concept missed the point, on multiple fronts. Like you said, what's preventing younger cohorts from buying isn't the actual scale of existing/conventional homes, its the ability purchase of the land to begin with. Especially in America/Canada, where's there's still plenty of space for a regular-sized home. Whatever rises in material costs there may be, it can't be enough to overwhelm the loss of economics of scale that a Tiny Home construction would suffer from. After all, every facet of a regular is also going to happen in a Tiny Home - meaning much of the same initial overhead in installing, getting specialists, etc.

> Somehow not having a house is believed to be less impoverished than going and building one. Count me out! I don't think forking over half your earnings to a landlord is sophisticated.

I've never heard that belief - unless in the form of "land rich money poor" self-descriptions. I happen to think forking over money to a landlord is about as unsophisticated as its gets - despite it sometimes being the only tenable option. For many indebted that's certainly true.
IIRC AMD allows their PSP to be disabled via the BIOS.
You are missing the fact that tax is not the only factor for people to stay. California is an expensive state by most measures but somehow it doesn't seem to have a problem keeping rich people in state.
I would point out that physical discs remain the only way to own media you buy. Even though Blu-rays are DRM'd, the fact that they can't change the encryption on the fly means they're all inevitably broken. I can buy Blu-rays, and know that their DRM's circumventability can't be taken away, unlike the video you stream from the cloud.
>Ask the rich to set aside 20% of their wealth to provide low interest rate (~1% to 2%) loans to the poor to be used specifically on self-improvement (housing, infrastructure, education, policing, healthcare, childcare, etc). The loans start small and increase with good payment history.

What you're suggesting would create more wealth for the elite. It's a loan, so they retain the same amount of money (since it's a loan, the assumption is that it's paid back), while gaining more money in interest.

I am lower end of the spectrum when it comes to my wealth, and I probably can't even claim any sort of middle class "label" in the USA. I avoid debt (because I can't afford to pay it back) and wouldn't even consider something like this.
This is about OpenID Connect, see https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/22/gitlab-11-1-released/#st...
(Intensity) = (Power) / (Unit Area)

(Sun's Radius) = 695 x 10^6 m

(Sun's Power) = 4 x 10^26 W

(CPU Output) = 75 W

(Die Size) = 37 mm x 37 mm

(Sun Intensity) = (4 x 10^26 W ) / (4 x pi x (695 x 10^6 m)^2) ~ 66 x 10^6

(CPU Intensity) = (75 W) / (0.0014 m^2) ~ 53 x 10^3

I'm getting a several orders of magnitude higher W/m output for the sun. Perhaps I made an algebra mistake?
So it's nowhere a JPEG replacement then in practical terms. Something based on Daala or AV1 would make more sense.
Inequality of outcomes is a requirement for incentives to improve. Correlated variance in income in return for variance in production is just. Generally, prices provide information about where more production is required, though at the cost of obscuring how that production was obtained.

What we quibble about is (a) the distribution of the income function relative to the individual's production, and (b) how much income gets distributed on the basis of mere ownership, rather than production.

The super-elite benefit much more from (b) than from (a). Mobility of capital means (b) is generally under-taxed.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense, especially for enterprise CPUs. Which server manufacturer/large datacenter operator cares about DRM? And conversely, wouldn't they rather not have another attack vector? So there must be legitimate enterprise use-cases for ME/PSP, or something else is going on.
Apple and every other computer and phone manufacturer out there yeah.
Wait, what? If the world stayed the same, there wouldn't be anything novel to cover.

The survival of journalism is inherently motivated by a need to keep things changing, which is why most outlets by-and-large are either progressive or reactionary: it's change either way.
So it's not decentralized then?

I thought that was the entire point.

But even if it is not literal home PCs, and is instead some sort of middle road between massive company and home PC, my point still stands.

Your 10 person company hosting content isn't going to be able to stream it live to 20 thousand people. That takes lots and lots of money and engineering talent to do right.
GPL doesn't prevent commercial usage. It requires source code to be released under the same license whenever you release a binary, though, which is what the OP might want.
Their motivations are irrelevant. Consumers aren't datacenters.
Grab an AMD Ryzen then - you can disable most of the PSP (their ME) via a BIOS setting, and even then, it doesn't do half of the scary stuff ME does.
I’m not using Uber because of their uber-sexist working environment, their uber-exploiting their drivers and complete lack of morals.

Their platform becoming a breeding ground for scams is a function of the company’s nature.
Thoughts on using YouTube-dl as an importer of videos to the local library?

Otherwise, looks awesome! Take my money!
Somewhat related: landlords in NYC have been pulling similar stuff on renters for years when they move out, often forcing people to leave thousands of dollars behind in forfeited security deposits due to "damages", because most people never put up a fight.

Two anecdotes from personal experience, both in rental buildings ran by large RE holdings mind you:

- a building claimed a scratched sink and subtracted $600 for replacement. After multiple discussions and a firm stance that I will pay it only if they provided me with physical scratched sink they've swapped out, the charge magically dropped to $70, as they "were able to polish out the scratches instead and there was a miscommunication with maintenance staff".

- another building claimed a vanity was destroyed by water and had to be replaced at a cost of a bit over $2,000. After multiple emails and threats to go to court, I've won. The key was showing them that EXIF data on photo "evidence" they sent me showed it was taken 3 months BEFORE i moved into the apt in question and also that the marble pattern on photos did not match several photos i've had of the bathroom of the apartment.

Similar stories happened with rental cars a few times.

Sadly, it's a lesson i've learned for life - whether its a rental car, apartment, or anything of value really, taking video evidence is almost necessary nowadays.
He summarizes a bunch of peer review studies in that video instead of just choosing one that supports his point of view.

Consumption of sugar and sweeteners is definitely unhealthy but it also peaked in 1999:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/just-how-much-sugar-do-american...

What's exploded since then is chicken and cheese consumption.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585589
The cleaning supplies cannot even go above $20, like you have got to be kidding me. Uber has the same issue all online retail has, when complaints come in, who can you believe and how do you evaluate? My thing is, if a driver keeps reporting these events and multiple drivers keep disputing it, maybe that driver has a pattern of screwing with your customers... The first time it happens to a driver it should be that Uber out of their own pocket pays for 'supplies' and still only charge like $20 or whatever is 'reasonable' I suppose.

Although my next question is: how much of that vomit fee goes only to Uber? They sure as hell aint cleaning nobodys car...
How is this relevant to Hacker News? This is a political story, which would be better suited on Reddit politics.
Thanks. I'll look around at some point, maybe later today.
That really echoes what I've been asking for years. If you get a CEO that walks in, does barely anything, will anyone even notice? Short of any media blunders or completely nuking a company, how can you really mess up a company during your tenure such that you get in and get out with your ridiculous compensation?
> images with alpha channel

I’ve read about BPG before, but not sure I noticed alpha support. This is intriguing! I’m a bit curious: what are the use cases for a lossy image with an alpha channel? BPG doesn’t have a lossless mode, does it? Games maybe?

And I love that it has both pre-multiplied and un-pre-multiplied storage. PNG’s un-pre-multiplied only is what prevents adoption of PNG for so many alpha related workflows.
Non-paywalled link:

http://www.ieeecss.org/CSM/library/1992/april1992/w01-Reinfo...
It's strange for me because I lived in a 1.5k town on Balkans that had two stores and a tiny open market. The bigger one was a chain store, so it always had everything.

In Chile we have lots of stores and services even in quite poor 10-20k towns.
How open offices kill teamwork
Forecasting TSLA stock prices, and measuring success with weighted Brier Scores
Damn that's tempting. I really ought to get a professional's help though I'd probably succeed alone. It's my work laptop.
That's interesting. How long do the videos tend to be? Any particular reason why you think this works better than just writing them down?
What is all time MVP record holder? Is it a rails community competition or something else?
Unlocking the mysteries of neutrinos
The elimination of money would be one of the most disruptive events in the history of humanity. It's likely that many millions if not billions of people would die in the ensuing turmoil and our society as we know it today would cease to exist.

Consider just two critical aspects of our society that require money to run smoothly and efficiently: modern medicine and industrial agriculture. Billions of people depend on them to survive, and the reason people participate in them as they do is mostly for money.

If you replace money with, say, barter, how many sheep or goats are you going to pay for a modern hospital or for a pharmaceutical factory, or the network of roads and airports needed to deliver food and other goods? How are you going to transport all those sheep and goats throughout our ever more interconnected world? At the very least, the infrastructure is just not there for us to switch to barter anywhere in the foreseable future.

Even if we could/did switch, all sorts of new power structures would likely arise and overthrow existing ones, and it's far from guaranteed that the transition will be bloodless. More likely, a lot of people would oppose it and it's not inconceivable that wars could be started over it -- especially as the change would probably not happen globally at once, but some countries would convert to barter first while others will still have money, leading to power imbalances, migration of money and the people who have it, massively influencing the economies, societies, and politics of the countries involved.

If the switch from money is not to barter, then to what? It's good to think about these things, and it's critical that our world change from the destructive course it's on now, but I for one don't see a way to extract money out of the equation without massive suffering.

My own slim hope rests on consciousness change, perhaps through education, increased communication, and maybe even psychedelics. The psychedelic renaissance has begun, and these substances are one of the most effective means of attaining radical changes in perspective and increasing creativity. Perhaps through them some solution that's not yet evident could arise, and if enough people change their mind maybe we could change our society towards a more positive and inclusive model.
When I said "you" above, I meant the royal "you", this being a public message.
Ensure the photo of the damage is taken through the app and is taken live, not uploaded. Then watermark it with a timestamp.

Problem solved for the common case? Photos of photos on screens aside, it would raise the barrier for the fraudster.
If you charge them back you'll also never be using Uber again, they'll definitely ban you for that
I dunno, there is already friction: rating the experience.

This just makes the ratings honest.

Strange reaction from the downvote crew: okay, lets just live with fraud then. Its not like technological solutions to fraudulence are un-intersting, or?
Except for those that happen to own an older card that used to work perfectly fine on the former AMD driver.

Case in point, the ATI Radeon HD 6310 that came on EEE PC models, the video hardware acceleration no longer works as it used to be.

Sure, I can probably hack the older driver into newer Ubuntu releases or track down someone that has already done it, but that is exactly what I don't want to spend my time doing outside work.