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The paradox I identify in your comments is the start & where you end. The start is that AMD's only choice is to re-embark & re-do the years & years of hard work, to catch up.

The end is decrying how impossible & hard it is to imagine anyone ever reproducing anything like CUDA in Vulkan:

> Sure these are all feasible, but who has the incentive to put in the time to do it?

To talk to the first though: what choice do we have? Why would AMD try to compete by doing it all again as a second party? It seems like, with Nvidia so dominant, AMD and literally everyone else should realize their incentive is to compete, as a group, against the current unquestioned champion. There needs to be some common ground that the humble opposition can work from. And, from what I see, Vulkan is that ground, and nothing else is remotely competitive or interesting.

I really appreciate your challenges, thank you for writing them out. It is real hard, there are a lot of difficulties starting afresh, with a much harder to use toolkit than enriched spiced up C++ (CUDA) as a starting point. At the same time, I continue to think there will be a sea-change, it will happen enormously fast, & it will take far less real work than the prevailing pessimist's view could ever have begin to encompassed. Some good strategic wins to set the stage & make some common use cases viable, good enough technics to set a mold, and I think the participatory nature will snowball, quickly, and we'll wonder why we hadn't begun years ago.
If you haven’t played ev nova it was peak magic for that franchise. It perfected the whole experience.
It was up last week since they just released a new version after a while, whereas this post seems to be in relation to the other OSS games that were posted today. I do think it's not a bad thing though. I learned of new interesting OSS games to try out!
A great library. I use it daily for web work. But recently I used it in an ionic framework mobile app. Simple cross-platform mobile map from a single code base? Yes please!
That's neither intuitive nor true in all cases.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathog...
I can say with confidence that the people you personally know are committing tax fraud.
Increased transmission is worse than increased fatality rate, counterintuitively, as it's the same percentage deaths of a much much higher number infected - resulting in higher numbers of absolute deaths than if the CFR increased without an increase of transmissibility.
If it's just for tracking, why not ship a JS runtime and run the tracking in a separate thread. No electron needed.
JavaScript inheritance wasn't really a thing when Leaflet started out, and definitely not widely-supported (is it even now?).
The purpose of invading Afghanistan was to enact revenge for the September 11th attacks. The reasons for the attacks that directly relate to the US are:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11...

* US support for Israel (specifically Lebanon) -- support that the US gives as a strategic ally in the oil-rich Middle East. Without oil in the region, we would not be expending as much effort on this support.

* US troops in Saudi Arabia -- troops are there because of the oil

* Sanctions against Iraq -- placed there again because of oil and the annexation of Kuwait over oil.
Maybe someone put it back up inbetween?
Did you figure out how to reinstall it? I think the license server is long gone and it requires an unobtainable version of QuickTime to run
Aren’t property taxes only paid to local municipalities?

Pretty sure it’s that way in NJ at any rate
Eisenhower didn't understand how the Fed worked.
Seems like having tests would've easily solved this issue.
Count yourself lucky.

I’d say it was California that was behaving that way…unless you take the position that you can be a resident in multiple states…in which case you should be able to vote in multiple states, claim unemployment in multiple states, have driver’s licenses in both states etc.
> California also requires former residents to pay taxes if they move to another country

But so does the federal government, doesn't it?
World building is something I’d always wished for in that game
The California FTB is the most exhausting tax authority I've ever dealt with. I have a virtual mailbox in LA and made what I now know to be a tragic error in using it as my address for one single 1099 contract around seven years ago.

They sent me a tax demand notice, and despite repeatedly proving to them that not only was I not a California resident at the time but that I wasn't even resident in the United States at the time, they're still after me for their ~$50.

I refuse to pay it on principle, so I've just resigned myself to the knowledge that I'll get a letter from them every spring until either I die or California secedes.
I haven't had a failure in the last 5 years of using contactless payment(in Japan).

It can be done, and is being successfully done in many places.
>To your surveillance camera point, I live in the UK which is renowned for the number of cameras. If I point a surveillance camera at the sidewalk in front of my house, I'd break the law.

Is this true? So your camera is only allowed to point at your property and nothing else? I don't see how this could possibly be true when you're allowed to take photos in public. Or does the fact the surveillance camera is fixed make a difference?
>customers need to buy new phones

>and possibly change name

>I wouldn’t use a compromised IMEI phone for 2FA

Why?

>get new SSN

That might be prudent to do, but at worse it's a few hours of hassle. I searched around and it looks like all you have to do is fill in a form (https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ss-5.pdf) and supply the required documents. At US median wages it's a few hundred dollars, max.

>the potential losses from the selling of this information have any real limit.

Well not really? Suppose someone crashed into your house, making a hole in the wall that allows thieves to steal potentially unlimited amounts of goods from your house. Should the driver be liable for all thefts from your house in perpetuity? Or only between the time of the crash and when you can reasonably get the wall fixed (or in the case of identity theft, changed your SSN)?
Little Jaunts: What Happened in Afghanistan
One thing to ponder is that Israel used Pfizer and apparently Moderna, has a significantly better protection against Delta.
I don't know if we have this, but it would be good if we had a technology that enhanced your body's immune system to identify and kill viruses, rather than prime it to respond to a particular viral signal, that then may need to be updated as the virus changes (that's how I understand how vaccines work, but that could be false). You might think it's a subtle difference, but I think the former technology would be leaning into the body's existing ability to form a variety of antigens for viruses it encounters, and boosting its defense/offense against those, rather than 'handing out a series of police composite sketches', and saying 'Be On the Look Out for this specific guy, he might be coming through here.' The former could be more alike to enhancing predictive policing and profiling abilities, and beefing up response and enforcement capabilities.
The copper lode at Mes Aynak monastery complex was probably worked by a bunch of serfs for the benefit of the monks. Plus ça change...
What a shame, I was really hoping to get drunk on spicy wine and eat a bunch of snails and baked cheese.
It’s typically 183 days.

https://blog.monaeo.com/the-183-day-rule-5-things-to-know-wh...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/183-day-rule.asp
exactly what i have been looking for, can it read it from a text log file and pipe into python or go script if so how?
That is true. But following some 'masterplan' that involves "Get a PhD, get a crappy bonus-oriented job that you hate in a place that you hate, quit everything to retire" is just another variation on the other general flows ("go to school, get a job, find love, get kids, get a house, get the kids to go to school, become a grandparent"). None of those are going to suddenly 'buy' you happiness. It also doesn't mean going 'against the flow' or 'doing the opposite' is therefore 'better', it's just that there is no guaranteed plan that makes life meaningful and nice.

If you are following some common flow and it turns out you're not happy doing that, try and modify instead of 'keeping your head down and powering through' or some nonsense like that. Especially if you have options.
It says to me that we struggle for purpose as humans. We don't know what to do with ourselves beyond survival, and we sometimes make elaborate clocks, just indicating the passage of time in a way that resonates. Lots of things can act like clocks, not really shaping us or meaningfully interacting except by providing an aesthetic and an indication that we're moving forward through time. If you're watching episode 90 of a long running TV show that sticks to its formula, that's somewhat clock-like. It's similar to listening to the same album every day, or reading the same arguments on social media.

Idle games don't appeal to me, but I have my time-wasting clock-watching habits, too.
Just a guess: it is a lot easier to focus upon making a game using a fantasy console than it is to use hardware. Using something like a Pi Pico means building out the hardware or buying into a non-standard board that provides suitable I/O capabilities. From my meager experience with fantasy consoles, they also provide a development environment that is more similar to an 80's vintage computer than you would get with a microcontroller. (While it is easy to setup a development environment on a Pi Pico if you follow the instructions, it is rather involved.)

That's not to say it can't be done. I have seen demos using everything from custom code and circuits using an ATtiny to people using VGA libraries on higher performance microcontrollers, but that's not everyone's cup of tea and would likely be hard to implement around a game jam.
Sort of. You can see that each successive version of the essay contains what the author had written before, to which she had added more. She then lets GPT3 continue from wherever she's left off each time. It's actually an inspiringly clever way to use such a model
Wuhan has been reopened for a long time now. We had every piece of information to make a good decision at the time in February 2020. Now we are thrashed about in a sea of half-measures, societal tension, and the total closing up of public life. We were so lost even by the time the CDC was encouraging people to not wear masks because it'll give you higher risk of contracting covid. Now our future's truly new.
Not well read on Chinese history are you?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: a case of plagiarism in ICCV2021
My favourite OS is the one that makes me the most money.
Those who work are subsidizing those who own property.
Afghanistan Is Your Fault
the fact that the delta variant came from a country that didn't have widespread vaccines dispels this notion.
I'm sorry, I entirely missed your point.

I agree that would be reasonable and desirable :-)
It’s insane that Spotify on Mac doesn’t support airplay.

When my girlfriend and I moved in together, we got rid of her Alexa devices because privacy and use HomePods. But Spotify doesn’t work with AirPlay for reasons I cannot fathom, so I set her up with a program that will AirPlay specific applications on her Mac.

That said, there are open source libraries and clients for AirPlay so it shouldn’t be too difficult to get them supported. I have a Raspberry Pi for streaming to “dumb” speakers.
Ah, that's a great and simple and direct explanation of that. Thanks, I'm gonna try to remember that.
Thank God for Bitcoin. Escape the grind.
Unfortunately I think quite a lot of people are in the same boat right now.
This group is often looking for SWE types, though not at the moment: https://boi.ucsb.edu/
> Go doesn't even bother providing a means to do this automatically for your non-memory resources when they're garbage collected (Java does, but again, no promises it ever fires, so, don't rely on this).

It sounds like you are talking about finalizers? If so, they exist in Go in a similar way to the Java feature [1].

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#SetFinalizer
Countries bully other countries when they can. Large powerful countries become large powerful bullies. Those in the service, who tend to be working class or poor, and those in other countries pay the ultimate price. The powerful grow more powerful. The empire grows. Modern imperialism.

The public is often easily manipulated. Like you said, the U.S. has been at war pretty much constantly for 75+ years, and empire building for at least 50 years before that, without ever really being in danger, exaggerating and dehumanizing every enemy along the way. To question this is un-American.

Many people don't seem to be able to imagine other perspectives. I guess that's true of both the school yard bully and the nation state bully. When you can bully someone there's no reason to care what they think.
What about not setting color of text (especially when it's dark text on light backgroud - the "default") at all and leave it to the user? There is a setting in web browser exactly for this: https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/i...
It couldn't have happened any other way. That's why the last two presidents promised it and failed to deliver.
Whatever. We have all these online sites where we can do battle over politics. Can’t we keep HN as a fun place to talk about tech stuff?
Vaccines are very different from antibiotics. Antibiotics are single molecules that bind a very specific target. A single mutation of a single protein can render an antibiotic useless. Vaccines induce the immune system to generate a repertoire of antibodies, each of which binds in a different way and each of which is then selected and "evolved" (hypermutation) for increased efficacy. And each individual person creates a different starting and ending repertoire of antibodies. A single mutation, or even a large group of mutations, does not so easily side step all this diversity of antibody types/binding modes. Moreover, we have evidence that the idea that vaccines increase the likelihood of variants is just wrong. We do not see that effect for mumps, polio, smallpox, or any other virus. Moreover, delta appears to have arisen in India, which at the time had vaccination rates very close to zero. Again, providing strong evidence that vaccines are not applying selective pressure for more virulent strains.
This isn't really true. For instance, it's been shown that mutations are far more common in immunocompromised people (many of whom cannot even take the vaccines) where the virus can just camp out for months and train itself against the human immune system. So one particular host might serve as a more fertile environment for variants than thousands of others combined.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/11/immunocompr...
The virus will not mutate because of the high level of vaccinations.

The virus will mutate because of the high level of unvaccinated people.

The risk is when the high level of unvaccinated are in the same population with a high level of vaccinated, of the many mutations in the unvaccinated there is a greater chance that a mutation that randomly has greater tolerance to the vaccines will be naturally selected and flourish.

Vaccination does not lead to more mutations, but in the absence of vaccination, resistance to vaccines does not give a mutation any advantage, so whether it flourishes or not is based entirely on other attributes. It’s only when you do have a significant population of vaccinated does the mutations created in the unvax population benefit from resistance to vaccines.
Lux AI Challenge – New AI competition with a focus on novelty and accessibility
Beefing up the immune system without garunteeing it something to do seems like a recipe for autoimmune disorders, no?
> You still have to pay for the server you host it yourself on.

I mean, I guess? Can't it be presumed that if you have a web site upon which you wish to place a map, you've already got a web server set up one way or another?

> Which usually means generating the tiles from scratch rather than relying on some precached ones.

Well, yes. The way I've set it up for my client is basically that we start from a large image which will be the map at its maximum "zoom in level" and run a script which scales the map 50% smaller, dices the image into 256x256 tiles, and saves those tiles with a pre-defined naming scheme (something like Xcoord_Ycoord_Zoomlevel.png - I can't recall the details), then scales the original map by 25%, creates tiles from that, and repeats until the entire map can fit into four tiles (512x512). It's not terribly difficult stuff for a reasonably capable developer to do, though working with the larger maps can eat up a lot of RAM on the system we run this script on.
Loss of 621k lives on one side or two or more doesn't really amount to War. Ike never lost 1 life in the mil. for the term of his admin. Eighth grader mil. brass knuckleheads promoted too far these days are puppets on the mil. industrial complexes's strings. Do the share buy backs the mil. firms do go ultimately to sovereign wealth hedgefunds such as the Communist Party behind smoke and mirrors?
The question is "why didn't the players notice" not why the developers didn't notice.

The article leads with a clickbait question.

The reason they didn't notice is because the stats aren't readily available and public to everyone, to see the sharp uptick in wins paired with the game being filled with opaque systems. No player playing for the first time would notice or have a chance to notice.

To put it another way, this is an article about a (secret and mistaken) massive change to a very difficult game that made it slightly less difficult. Same article turns around and asks why nobody noticed, like that's an interesting question.
It can be said that US got Okinawa(Ryukyu) on WW2. It finally returned (I believe returning isn't planned initially), but still has big bases.
That's not M4A then, that's public option. M4A bans all other insurance (apparently? I don't know if there are multiple "versions") for collective bargaining reasons.
Yep; I'm a paying customer of spotify and I like some of the podcasts they have. But they don't have the gap removal + speed controls of Overcast (my fav podcast program on my phone). So I'm in this weird situation of never wanting to listen to any podcasts through the spotify app, which I'm paying for. And then when I want to listen to music (eg while coding) I have to wade through podcasts which are intentionally designed to blend in with music recommendations in spotify's apps.

I hate it. If any spotify PMs are listening:

- If spotify wants me to listen to podcasts, let me do it from my existing podcast app. I'm sure the developer of Overcast (and other apps) would happily add a spotify login button for a song if you ask nicely and offered to pay.

- Let users disable podcasts entirely in the spotify app.

- In the spotify app, give podcasts a consistent visual differentiator so I can easily visually separate them from music. Nobody wants to be tricked into listening to a podcast instead of music. Maybe make the "album cover" for podcasts a rectangle instead of a square. Or change the background color for all podcast related content to blue so I can find podcasts visually (or filter them out visually) while scrolling.
Is there a DOS port? We can up the cycles in dosbox even more!
>Simply passing bills to spend money that we don’t have may get things done, but our children have to pay for it eventually.

I always see this argument, but never a deeper reason why. As far as I know, the projections for every developed economy looks like this, is every country going to go bankrupt eventually? If the economy is growing, we can in fact print money with little to no consequence of inflation. The US can "borrow" money incredibly cheaply. Government spending stimulates the economy, we can spend and do much more than we currently are, if we merely choose to build instead of destroy.
> It was never intended

Until we get the big showdown about this in the Supreme Court, both the Executive and Legislative will continue to claim they have ultimate authority here.
Indeed. There are many ways to have that (some people want to be part of a group or club, some people want to be around but mostly just as a passive observer, some people want to consume, some want to produce), it's just a matter of finding out what works.

In tech I'm seeing more combinations of low-hour steady jobs, combined with passion projects, entrepreneurial things, being in/around nature, teaching things to other people, and also very 'low complexity' stuff like running a few shifts at a non-chain espresso bar, just for the change of scenery while still being connected and active. Heck, I've had someone do that, enjoy it a ton and then flip around (owns an espresso bar, does some DevOps engineering on the side, both working out great even in the pandemic).

It's mostly that attempting to peak for the sake of peaking or retiring for the sake of retiring usually ends up rather disconnected and hollow. Perhaps it's some sort of genetic thirst for tribalism.
Of course it was realistic. China basically achieved it (I am not a China fan or defender), but the rest of the world failed. The whole world achieved it for the first SARS. However, that ship sailed a long time ago. Probably before the first surge in Italy of COVID-19.
> I refuse to pay it on principle, so I've just resigned myself to the knowledge that I'll get a letter from them every spring until I die or California secedes.

Why would California seceding have any effect?
Everything is political, technology is incredibly political.
It's complicated in CA. Yes, they stay local in the county and are meant to fund education. The caveat is that due to proposition 13 property taxes no longer are able to fund education completely and the state has to step in to cover the gap, so property taxes have a large impact on the state budget.

https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-1129...
What death rate would cause you to reconsider a lockdown?
Don't you dare tempt me with a good time
I played so many hours of this. Thanks for reminding me about it!
I wasn't really trying to highlight Netflix as a company, but that there's a service that can be used to "ensure" that people stay subscribed.

However, I don't give damn who you are. If I did not personally provide you my credit card information, I did not give you permission to use it. If I did not remember to update my info, then shut down my account and make it obvious. What ever this service is, it needs to go away.
In France I got one that I can remember of in all the time I've had this number, which is over ten years now. And it was an opinion poll. Also got 5 or 6 scam SMS.
Is it analogous to flu? Do flu vaccines cause mutations as well?

One interesting thing about covid is that it seems to be the first time humanity has collected so much data (eg. contact tracing, phylogenetics through genome sequencing, etc.) about this kind of virus, and applied modern medical knowledge in trying to combat it.

It's very apparent that the overall response hasn't been nearly good enough, but it's probably also the best response there's ever been. (perhaps not the best ROI, though?)
Yup... it's beeen 18 month. WE'd have been better off with a run a mile a day mandate than any of the lockdowns.
While it is bad it is still not as restrictive as Apple policies. Even at non-rooted device you can side-load APKs. Rooting device gives you an extra level of freedom of loading custom OS. This is something none of iOS device never had officially.
I moved six years ago. I got demand letters from the CA tax board for four years after I left. I didn't owe them a dime but they still tried. Had to call and submit paperwork every time. At least the CA tax board people are super agreeable. It was annoying but less so because they were nice.