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Extension spaghetti for starters, https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php

Followed by Khronos refusal that it isn't part of their job to define an SDK, so each newbie has to go through the ritual of passage to learn how to get OS abstraction libraries to show up a 3D accelerated window, math library, font handling library, texture and image loading library, shader compiling infrastructure, scene graph to handle meshes,....

Now there is LunarG SDK, which still only offers a subset of these kind of features.

If it wasn't for NVidia's early C++ efforts, Vulkan would still be C only.

Also Vulkan only exists because AMD was so kind to contribute Mantle as starting ground, otherwise Khronos would most likely still be arguining how OpenGL vNext was supposed to look like.

Really, in 21st century if you want to write portable 3D code just use a middleware engine, with plugins based backend.
As a player? To run a sports book?
As a person raised in a country where public transportation sucks and roads are scarce and full of potholes, I am in love of American highways as much as with European public transportation. In fact, I also love NY subway, the way you can move to any part of the city without knowing anything and following just google maps directions of which subte take.

The highways in America are super easy to navigate with carplay/gps and to be honest, and I have yet to see a jam where your car is completely stopped for more than 10 minutes. What I see is a dance of cars where every car travels to cruise speed.. another thing I’d mention is that I consider americans good drivers and very respectful of the laws compared to other countries.
These kids know exactly what they're doing, and they shouldn't be absolved because they're young or "boys will be boys". Frankly punishment should be directed at the minors involved and their parents. If I'm a young person I can go around murdering and committing crimes because I'm "young" and "didn't know any better"?
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It doesn't change the dynamic though.

At their revenue, don't care about 5K charge, they can send to collections / sell to 3rd party collections agencies.

They do care about keeping you happy as a customer since your employers will be swayed by their employees.

So the former is much more likely to succeed, the latter will just make you look like a scammer.

At larger sums - they will do much more rigorous checks to avoid issues.
"The drug gang was flying the drone using an electronic system that relayed the exact takeoff and landing points, and used waypoints – i.e. places during the flight where it had to change course. It could also be flown using remote control." - Does that mean it was likely using GPS to follow a particular route?
> I'm sorry, but their servers are not doing the heavy lifting.

That's pretty much the entire point of a thin client. If you've got a device with, as the user said, "limited network bandwidth", then downloading hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes of Docker images or npm packages or whatever within a reasonable amount of time might not be doable but streaming at 10 Mbps might.
I wonder if it would be possible for the government to specify the logic of the tax code in computer readable form. (I would say "source code" but maybe there's a better way). A company like TurboTax could still exist, but could compete on the basis of their user interface and optimizations.
AWS billing practices are horrible, and they are increasingly more “Oracle” like in their approach.

I had a security issue related to a SaaS product which led to a $7k AWS line item when someone started sending a LIST request to S3 buckets billions of times. They would not consider refunding.

Now I’m having a bunch of problems terminating some AWS Orgs accounts and they are being deliberately difficult in getting it tidied up whilst I’m incurring significant costs.

The whole billing stuff is complex and opaque and there aren’t enough controls and limits on spend. I feel like I need to dedicate 1 x FTE at least on AWS cost control which is a high cost for a small business.

As a CTO, I’ve previously influenced $millions in spend on AWS, but would be very nervous putting my reputation on the line to spend big with them in future. I’m frankly losing trust in their commercial approach.
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I agree with almost everything this says, but it still annoys me. I'm assuming he had to put in the stuff about EVs to hook people in, but it's entirely irrelevant to his point.

> Even if every car on the road were electric, these forces would remain, and perhaps get worse.

This is the bit I disagree with. Every car becoming electric would massively improve the quality of life in built up environments, across a wide range of pollutions (noise, brake dust, sulphur as well as carbon).

So "thing x is good but it won't save us" is basically true about everything, almost certainly it applies to all his ideas listed here too.
They said in their blog post that they've already tried to remedy this with no success.
This drone looks similar and its manufacturer also claims VTOL and many hours' flight time: https://carbonix.com.au/
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This is an excellent summary, at least for the pros and cons.

I find your take on the project leadership interesting, because it is a spot-on description of everything I found to be wrong with Elm. That BDFL was/is not so benevolent. Or maybe he’s well-meaning but terribly annoying. And the language has a mich better claim to being dead than Crystal, where I had not noticed any loss of momentum or activity on GitHub.

(You may well be right on those points as well, as you are clearly more knowledgeable about the dynamics)
In that sense it implies that anything we haven't observed is impossible. It equally implies a wizard didn't do it.

I think a more useful view is that is extremely unlikely, and so we need an extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence to explain it.
As a gambler. To make money.
Automatically syncing bookmarks were a game changer for me, in Chrome and Safari. The fact that desktop Safari and all my iOS devices have the same bookmarks and automatically sync changes is fantastic.

It would be nice to be able to sync between Safari and Chrome, and I'm sure there are extensions for that, but it's not too much of an issue.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26434247, and they're still slogging the HCQ thing in the header.
I like tipping actually, though my first trip to Asia I was caught off guard by the lack of tipping, like in China and Japan.
> I’ve seen this 50/50 split used based on ideology alone

The ratio is not based on ideology, it's based on the ratio of humans.

The "ideology" that makes them care about that ratio is the belief that someone's gender is not a determining factor in their qualification for senior leadership at GitLab.

If you also consider the number of adult men who are in prison or don't have an advanced education, you would actually expect to see more than 50% women to be representative of the general eligible population.

> shouldn’t the board have the same proportions as the population of people who want to work at GitLab?

No. "Want to work at GitLab" is also going to encode undesirable traits, such as "perceives GitLab to be a bad place for women to work".

If you know the company is mostly men at the top, you might assume women have a hard time getting promoted -- regardless of the reasons. That means you might not want to work at GitLab as much as an equally qualified man.

For the candidate: that's fine! No problem, there are lots of other places to work.

For GitLab: it's something they have decided is not desirable, and their quota system is how they are attempting to fix it.

What you're proposing would just be a vicious cycle that would reinforce what GitLab sees as a problem.
Do you only have a single instance of the binary running across the whole org? And during deployment to you stop the running instance before starting the new one?
That site is weird. I get a "not found", then two seconds later the page loads. If that's my first interaction with the domain, I'm definitely not giving them money.
> The whole thing reads as being rushed and superficial.

Journalism tends to reward this. I used to work in a much more public-facing field where we would regularly get calls from local journalists about projects we were involved in.

The journalists never printed the quotes from the engineers who gave thoughtful, measured, and accurate answers. They always quoted the blowhards and the charlatans in our office who'd inevitably toss together a bunch of meaningless buzzwords, make a series of vague statements that sounded insightful, and play fast and loose with the facts. A journalist's job is to sell newspapers, or clicks, not to keep anyone informed.
The Brazilian government has been providing such a program for ages now. The last version I used (moved from Brazil 5 years ago) was a Java program that ran well on my Linux box. It advises on how to better submit your deductibles - either as a full all-things-counted or as a simplified model.

There has been some constant pressure to provide it as open-source so we could improve it, but, last time I checked, the government was reluctant. There was one guy who reverse engineered the formats and wrote a GPL version that's compatible. I assume it's still maintained.
How complicated were your taxes? Did you work overseas for an extended period of time (outside of the EU)? Did you have special tax credits to claim, business profits to add, or anything else unusual? Simple taxes are relatively easy to file in America, too.
They haven’t even had a working service since day 1 (still don’t?…)? I consulted for a couple of blockchains startups a few years ago, and this was the biggest piece of perpetual vaporware I came across. Good for them if they’ve finally managed to have a working product, but I wouldn’t be relying on it to work for a week, let alone some actually long period of time.
Cheaper to park your money to AWS, rather than pay negative interests on your bank account.
This is brought up all the time and has been thoroughly addressed. Why are you pretending otherwise?

Not only cars but everything that burns fossil fuels (industrial and domestic heating being two big ones) will need to be electrified. What misleading news sources are you following to think that no-one has planned for this?
Helicopters never really "took off" so to speak, because apparently for every 1 hour of flight they need 4 hours of maintenance, amongst other issues.
> Almost nobody pays this.

Do you have statistics to back this bold claim?

There is an additional problem in the form of FBAR/FATCA requirements, which impose a huge burden on taxpayers abroad. Ever tried to report the exact max amounts and interest in all of your accounts? It's not fun, it takes a lot of time and effort, and it costs money.
The world heritage status was awarded for specific reasons. If you take them away, you lose the status. Pretty simple. Some world heritage sites are more significant than others and in the grand scheme of things fewer people will lament the loss of Liverpool’s docks than, say, Palmyra. Just don’t whine when deliberate actions result in the loss of status. Plenty of places manage just fine.

Also, the article is quite slanted and plays the usual trope of the plucky English standing up to the evil foreigners. That’s stupid and unnecessarily inflammatory, though unfortunately not unsurprising from the Beeb.
freetaxusa.com despite the funny name is what it says on the tin.
Interesting, RE: Google. Though, even if no other large-scale company is doing this, it seems on face value to be an easier and safer way to develop software up to perhaps a medium scale system/problem (and assuming that you're not needing to make database changes). I've yet to see a benefit to straddling changes across multiple repositories...
No mention of discounts, so this is probably a purely cashflow / tax management system.
I don't even owe anything and I still have to waste time and money filing! And they just keep making getting rid of citizenship more and more expensive! So authoritarian.
The idea that "consciousness" will somehow just magically spring forth from what we call a "computer" is the modern equivalent of alchemy. Pure fantasy without any scientific basis.
+1, though I don't see a fade, just a white stripe at the top and a long empty grey page below it.
This is very true, and indicative of a wider issue: people naturally have an instinct to suspect and react against bad behavior in other people, but this instinct is muted when they interact with technology.

It's worth noting that surveillance interests are aware of this. In the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, Sir David Omand (former head of GCHQ, the UK equivalent of the NSA) went about promoting the idea that because there were no people literally listening to recordings of phone calls, as in the days of the Stasi, this meant that ubiquitous surveillance is harmless.
> https://comparecycle.com/

I can assure you noone uses that in France. When people want money from second-hand devices, they either go to Cash Converters (a chain of local stores) or sell them directly on LeBonCoin.fr (our craigslist equivalent). I don't know a single person who has ever sold a device apart from those avenues.

> It baffles me that on one hand you scorn me for my supposed affluence while inferring that people in your neighbourhood supposedly just dump perfectly good iPhones into a bin without wanting any money for them.

I don't intend to scorn anyone by pointing out material privileges. Owning a brand new iPhone is upper-class privilege, as it's over 1000$ which is about twice social support (RSA) in France (~500€/month) and is the same order of magnitude as french minimum wage for full-time (35h/week) work (~1100€ after taxes). In some corners of France, you can buy a house (though not the best/biggest one) with that kind of money. In Paris, you can rent a two-bedrooms apartment with that kind of money. Wherever you live in France, you can eat for more than a year (as a single person) with that kind of money. So yes it's a privilege to afford that kind of amount.

EDIT: Just to give you perspective, of all my relatives/acquaintances, the typical phone budget is between 50€ and 200€, which gets you a brand new super-crappy Samsung/Huawei phone (super crappy software wise because you're locked with the manufacturer's Android, hardware is a charm), or a decent second-hand Apple/Samsung phone. I know one or two geeks who put more because they want to acquire a FairPhone or a Librem, but they are the exception, not the norm. And to give more perspective, i live in one of the top10 richest countries on Earth, just imagine how the phone economy works in India or South Africa.

Now i'm not exactly saying most people in popular districts throw away their functioning phones in such bins. I'm saying if they're getting rid of anything electronics for recycling that's where they put it. More specifically, and in this order, folks would typically: donate it to a relative/acquaintance, sell it second hands via CashConverters/LeBonCoin or donate it to a local ressourcerie (donation-based second-hand hardware store), sell it for a few bucks on a flea market to a phone dealer, or as last resort throw it away with the old lightbulbs in supermarket "recycling" bins.
> it spat out that NO job pays enough on average to have 3 kids

No single job that earns enough, I think is what you found; this doesn't preclude that dual-income families can afford to have three kids, with average or above-average income jobs.

I can imagine it would be very difficult to make ends meet in this situation as a single parent with 3 or more kids. (I suppose you would either need an exceptionally high paying job, or another major source of income besides that job.)
> Software engineering is not an engineering discipline, it is a craft

Software engineering is *still not treated* as an engineering discipline, it is *still treated as* a craft
I had extensive bookmarks when I first surfed[1] the web. Then, that computer broke for one reason or another and I found myself staring at a fresh install of IE with none of my catalog. From then on I never built a bookmark catalog again.

I've replaced the functionality with various tools and tricks, from Google Reader to, nowadays, a simple dump list in Evernote with a loose tagging system. I guess now that you can sync bookmarks with Chrome and Google Account my original problem is solved but that solution came too late and old habits die hard (not to mention private data concerns).

I did take to bookmarking again lately though but mostly for work purposes: obscure pages in our wiki, some internal systems, the system we use to book leaves, etc. But if I have to change my work computer I would definitely have to ask around for those URLs again.

[1] Funny how using this term really dates my actions.
The THW is organised similar to an army and has equipment to restore infrastructure in the event of a catastrophe (natural or man-made) and to build temporary protections if required. Similar to pioneers they can provide quick temporal solutions for power, communications (including telecoms and bridges) and water. They have a very heavy focus on technical solutions and can only provide basic medical assistance. The idea is that the THW restores access to cut-off areas for emergency services and provides protection to prevent the situation deteriorating. Other services use this infrastructure to provide medical and light technical assistance, etc.

I am struggling to find references at the moment, but from what I remember, due to the history of putsches etc, in Germany the army could for a long time not be deployed internally. So while in other countries the actual army pioneers would be called in to clear roads after a flood, this was not possible in Germany. So the solution was to build a civil version of this, which as a side-effect was actually completely independent of the armed forces. Since the army cannot use these capabilities offensively, this structure helps calming twitchy neighbours after starting two world wars in a row. It is one of many examples of decentralisation of powers and capabilities in post WWII Germany.

The lines between different volunteer forces and structures are probably converging globally and most countries have similar capabilities available within their volunteers. Looking up the SES, it seems to be doing a lot of things including heavy lifting and rescuing people from cars crashes. The very specialised THW would only do the first, and (volunteer?) fire services do the second. If that is worth the distinction (and this post), I dont know. But it probably leads to the THW volunteers having much pride in being called in when the equipment of the fire service is not good enough, while seeing very little action and have therefore a lot of time to support the local brewer.
Sure. There are assumptions you need for Bell's Theorem to apply. Statistical independence, single-outcome measurements, locality, determinism... All of these feel right to our scientific brains, but something's got to give.

So yes, you can throw out Bell's theorem if you're willing to throw out statistical independence with super-determinism. It's a tough leap to make, though. Super-determinism implies that there aren't really any laws of quantum mechanics. The fact that billions of quantum interactions have been observed in labs to obey consistent probabilities over time is pure coincidence. The fact that two entangled electrons always have opposite spin is pure coincidence. Nothing about the laws of the universe say you couldn't observe the other thing, it's just that the initial conditions of the universe prevented us from making measurements any time we would have measured otherwise. It's a tough pill to swallow.

My comment above is just saying you can't throw out Bell's theorem by saying "maybe there's a fifth dimension". I don't think GP meant a fifth dimension plus superdeterminism.
How the hell did the kids get his personal details?
I think your given example could benefit from spelling it out further.

Let’s say that I read "Rinsing your recycling (in water heated by electricity generated by coal) generates more carbon than the recycling saves", investigate it, and convlude it’s true.

What is the additional truth that statement is making me think the opposite of? I lost you there.
The problem is that this is only "the very least".
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Interesting statistic. The one year may be a bit of an outlier for the relationship. If you look at the 2010-2020 period in the data linked above, the US had a significantly higher growth rate in business formation (75% vs. 36%). This is not explained by growth in population which were identical over the period (7.2%, wikipedia).
There is a very good forum: velomobilforum.de

It's in German, but you can ask questions in English and they will usually be answered in English as well.

As for your question about which models are well designed, I'd say that if you're looking for speed, the fast ones are the Milan SL, the Alpha 7 and the upcoming Snoek, but those are not suitable for tall and/or wide riders. If you don't fit into those, your best options for speed would be the Milan GT, the DFXL or the upcoming Alpha 9.

If you're rather looking for something more practical, the Quattrovelo is the way to go; it has four wheels and therefore a bigger and more usable luggage space, which can even be used to transport a small child.
It doesn't change the dynamic for AWS. It doesn't change for many of us. But it does for example for a student who forgot to terminate a stack and suddenly can't afford rent/utilities/shopping until the charge is resolved. These are amounts which can really mess up people's lives for weeks.
Has anyone found a (the) good "Indicators" (IoC) file to compare against? I have a number of large JSON files as the output of the tool, but it's way too much to sort through manually.
> You can’t show up in a bank with a bucket load of $100 bills and open an anonymous bank account [..]

Short newsflash:

People can - and do - pay for goods and services in cash.

Sometimes these transactions aren't declared.

If you insist on a written record of your transaction, sometimes the price goes up :)

None of these things are new, they've been going on since very shortly after taxation was invented!
Yep - it seems to depend on the architecture too (e.g. companies that lift-and-shift to the cloud use VMs heavily). We're discussing ideas on https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/730, e.g. could CloudWatch be used to fetch the usage so user has context of what those elastic services used last week/month.