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> Someone deleted an interesting comment about adversarial interoperability

That was me. The comment was rapidly amassing upvotes, which made me feel that not only was the comment preaching to the choir but it had the potential to derail the discussion around the actual issue of Telegram's use of Google's Translate APIs.
Extraterrestrial. As in, unprecedented on Earth. Seriously, their bureaucracy is incredible, and I speak this from a former soviet republic.
> NUMA

If this is NUMA, then so is any CPU with hyperthreading, as the hyperthreaded cores share L1.
+1 - replace "read a book" or "surrounded by ideas" with "work on a car engine" and "surrounded by oil and grease" and it would be no different. Let's call it "mechanical loneliness".

TL;Dr - some people like to read books, some people like to do other things.
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Enough to pay say 200$ for a raspberry pi running haiku in some spiffy case?
For learning the basics of GPU programming Metal is a great API to start, especially if you come from a C++ background. It’s clean, straightforward, ergonomic, relies on same old concepts like pointers, references and templates and does not require you to jump through weird hoops like DX12 or Vulkan. And once you understand the concepts it’s easy to move to any API.
That's if you have kids. Many people are choosing not to these days so they get to have the extra money and the time.
You're telling people not to think, not to analyse, and to impulsively throw money into something, just because it's there. This is terrible advice. You're not helping anyone with that kind of advice.
respond to someone attacking you

A common mistake on a forum, that’s how you feed them for more and for everyone to deal with it. HN also rate-limits hot/deep discussions for them to not grow quickly, by removing the reply link for few minutes.

If someone misbehaved, it is wise to remain silent and trust the crowd.
I get away with it by saying I'm Hafu, and then asking if it's for me. Once you ask, and you are fluent in Japanese enough, they don't care.

This is not to say there is no racism in Japan, but for resorts it's most likely they don't have the capacity to help in English/Foreign Language.

If it's some seedy thing, like a cheap/seedy bar, karaoke, J/KTV or sexual services then it's both, no English and they want discretion.
Only in the US. You might live in a first world country.

You might also have so much saved up you can buy private insurance for the rest of your life.
How many kids have been exposed to covid? Almost all over the last 2 years with virtually no deaths. How many kids have received the vaccine? Very few over the last month with some reported complications like myocarditis for example.

Vaccines do not prevent transmission, so what benefit is there for children (and their families) getting this vaccine when the risk of the disease is virtually zero?
395K commands only needed for daily use, lol
There are two things:

- Life is not about you, it's about other people. Focus on other people and move from I to we. The biggest manifestation of this is to find a significant other, commit with (jointly) to building a family, and get children.

- Get over yourself. You are not special, you do not have a manifest destiny, no one will remember your achievements when you are gone. If you are one in a million then there are about 10,000 other people like you in this world today. Have an ordinary life with ordinary pleasures like walking, owning a dog, gardening, reading easy fun novels, watching tv. Make reasonable targets at work that involve 40 -50 years of turning up and punching in. Not only do you not need to excel, you cannot excel. Live with it.

Literally - live.
No, it's not. What the page says is that ONE PCR test (the oldest one) is being phased out. If you look at the page of tests still authorised, you'll see lots of PCR tests: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...

And the page says nothing about the now-withdrawn test being unable to differentiate between Covid and Influenza (which is not true). It encourages the development of tests that test for BOTH (since the patient is being tested anyway), but points out that those results must be reported separately.
You're downvoted here because others disagree that someone that is greyed out must have said something very wrong or worthless

Or there was an attempt at irony by the downvoters. That sometimes happens. You discuss downvoting at your peril. <dons helmet>
I can even vote twice; choices aren't mutually exclusive.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is the root of the Copenhagen interpretation.

The uncertainty principle says you can never know both the location and the momentum of a particle. This stems from the fact that because spacetime is the way it is, knowing either one of those things requires having made a measurement, which by its nature, prevents the measurement of the other thing.

The act of measurement is independent of there being an "observer" in the sense of some sort of intelligence or consciousness. The use of the word observer in early communications led to all sorts of woowoo garbage later on.

More recent interpretations suggest that instead of the requirement that particles be in a singular state, perhaps their fundamental nature is probabilistic. The wave function is the thing, the particle at a singular place and time is an illusion. There's no need for wave functions to collapse, and that view seems to be an imposition of human scale expectations on the quantum universe. An electron exists as a point cloud - what we observe is an artifact of the observation, not a fundamental property of the particle.

I am fond of the "universe is made of math" view suggested by Max Tegmark.

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

We did not evolve to perceive the universe as it is. We have limitations built into the mechanics of our existence that have to be overcome and understood at every level of abstraction that our tools of reason and technology provide. The more degrees of separation between our evolved tools of perception and extrapolated and abstracted concepts about how the universe works, the more it will diverge from human experience and seem to be "weird." When we try to make weird things make sense to our monkey brains, we introduce a bias that can lead us astray.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-quantum-probability-com...

The Copenhagen interpretation is an attempt to make monkey sense of something that has no direct input into any of our tools of perception.

The Everett interpretation recognizes that any observation has to include the quantum states of the mechanism doing the measuring, the environment in which the mechanism resides, and the entities in proximity to the environment, and planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe - that by existing inside the universe, you are subject to the influence of everything else that exists within the universe, and that quantum states are one of the proxies we have for predicting the results of interactions between the states.

Stephen Hawking was an Everettian, and discounted the Copenhagen interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

Tldr; there's no such consensus on Copenhagen, and the many worlds interpretation is gaining precedence, because it's got the most rigorous basis in mathematics.
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The Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux projects came forward to take the place of centos to provide open RHEL compatible binary distributions.

https://rockylinux.org/

https://almalinux.org/
would love a tl:dr
Sounds like someone has been listening to Alan Watts :)
While counterintuitive it does make sense. IMO psychological perception of difference between score 0 and 1 is far greater than difference between 1 and nigher scores.

Yeah your 1 score of post / comment doesn't give your karma, but it's still show your contribution as valuable.
> There is no evidence that this happens ...

Didn't the Snowden documents and various things from that point give evidence that it _does_ happen?
> I meant it more as a joke as every year we expect it to be a year of Linux desktop. Nevertheless, I am quite happy with Linux these days.

Now, if only we could have a Beowulf cluster of Linux Desktops!
</joke>
“Increasing” rates of those disorders has largely been due to increased awareness and discussion of them

I think we need to start verbalizing the root cause of that statement and go all the way to ‘increasing rates has largely been due to increased pressure to succeed academically and professionally in knowledge based professions’.

You ain’t gonna just grind Leetcode all day without a little something.
If Google has been collecting (translating) users data, is that a good time for them to release them to everyone?
> The original message wasn't missing a point about complex rules harming small players. It was just stating that ANY shit done to IP laws is done on the pretence of helping the small players, but instead benefitting the big ones. This was a typical strawman argument on your part.

Again, you’re making the same argument as I was while claiming I wasn’t making it.

> The point you say I disagreed with in the subsequent message is literally the point I agreed with.

Your comments (this one included) don’t do a particularly good job of expressing what you do and don’t agree with. Half your comments read like a rebuttal despite being an effective reiteration of former comments posted by those you’re replying to. The other half aren’t clear which comments you’re actually replying to (such as this post - it’s so vague as to the sequence of events you’re referring to that your comment is basically meaningless).

> You seem to be a bit obsessed with points.

> Total points score: 2-0 in my favour. Better luck next year

Are you 5 years old? That’s a pathetic way to handle a conversation.
So what if people do not have a "passion"? Is that so wrong?

I think we need to be careful about setting unrealistic expectations for what is normal/desirable (you use the term "elitist" as if having a passion for something is only reserved for the social/economic elite). This echos back to job adverts looking for engineers with "passion" etc.

I would argue that a singular "passion" might actually be a negative trait as it can have a negative impact on other parts of your life (as illustrated by TFA). I'd certainly not want to work with or hang around with person from TFA as they sound like a prick (not much to judge them on I agree, but there you go)

It is 100% ok to just live your life. Interested by something different every few days/weeks/months/years? That is totally ok. Maybe you just like to live your life and enjoy leisure activities? That is totally ok too. Too busy for anything apart from work and family? Totally fine.
The "difficult" in difficult personality is not for themselves, it is for everyone else.

It is not necessity for being successful or valuable, but it is undeniable that people like that exist throughout history.

At the most fundamental level: It is arrogant to believe that from purely biological point of view, an individual would posses qualities like "arrogant" that are of no possible value.

Societies need to believe certain things to function. You cannot have a society where each individual is like Isaac Newton. I'm sure that if you asked the people that were knew him, they would say that "one is more than enough..."
I have the opportunity to setup a K8s cluster (simple one) on-prem and get it to work. It was an interesting experience.

But I'm also cognizant that as more applications are built on top of cloud native services (AWS/Azure/GCP), how relevant then would K8s be?
I totally failed to use Twitter in any reasonable way.

I used it for years, trying to follow interesting people or artists but in the end, it was just an amplified echo chamber of myself.

Everyday there was the shitstorm of the day. Absence of nuance was the norm (nuance is not prone to RTs, I believe).

Everyone there is trying to push its personal fight, which, while I generally agree with, is never the reason I come to Twitter. Yes I want the world to change about [society topic] but no, Twitter is just not the place for that.

In the end, I was mindlessly scrolling through rage and polarized opinions while I was coming to learn / love / occupy myself.

Maybe I did something wrong, maybe it was not for me.

I closed my account. I don’t miss it but each time I read an article like this I happen to think that maybe I missed something wonderful about Twitter.
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What should the article have included about ray tracing to be complete?
Happy new year!!
This seems like a cool application of the 80/20 rule. I never thought to apply it to work and life like that, but it sounds much healthier than what I've been doing. I'll think of a new plan/daily schedule that lessens the current percent of day I spend on school and related projects and put that time towards something for myself.

Thank you for your input and thoughts!

Edit: typo
Sharing my poem on the birth of my daughter

I cry when I burp
I cry when I pee
Sometimes I cry
Reason without any

I cry when I want milk
I cry when I have gas
And boy can I cry
High pitch and low bass

I cry when u pick me up
I cry when u put me down
In the middle of the night
Loud enough to wake the town

I cry when I poop
I cry when I fart
But most of all I cry
From my Papa when I part !

Happy new year hn !
There may be an additional, geopolitical element to Germany buying France's nuclear energy. This is an implicit subsidy of the EU's only nuclear weapons state, post Brexit. To make sure the EU (not the same as NATO) continues to have a nuclear deterrent of its own, France must be recompensed.
There are humans in Antarctica though. As I said, humans can carry the virus and not set off a test.
> Rust can solve it identically to C++ by side stepping the borrow checker

Doing that is prohibitively expensive in this particular case. It would require patching a large third-party library who uses Arc for the API: https://docs.rs/rune/latest/rune/struct.Vm.html#method.new

And the reason that library uses Arc in the API is unique to Rust.
I disagree, if you stop chasing infinite progress it's very managable. As hardware peaks now it's the perfect occasion to settle on something older and make a stand there.

They can deprecate it all they want they wont be able to remove it, in fact they will probably maintain and improve it for eternity.

I have choosen OpenGL (ES) 3 and I'm making my 3D action MMO client on top of that.

Metal, Vulkan and DX12 bring nothing of gameplay value to the table, it's "visual only" embarrasingly parallelizable problems they help with; which increases motion-to-photon latency in most cases.

The fragmentation is a sign of desperation.
Agree with all of this. PCR literally involves amplifying segments of genetic material so it can be detected. All you need is a segment of genetic material, not the whole virus.

However, I’m not sure the value in antigen testing? Sure, when you’re traveling or have to into a higher risk situation.

But Singapore decided to freely give out antigen tests and what happened was people who tested positive showed up at the ER. And the antigen tests weren’t reliable, so PCR had to confirm. And they have a high vaccination rate so after all that testing the answer was “go home and if you get really sick, come back”.

It finally dawned on them that could just be the message anyways - if you don’t feel bad, don’t worry. If you do, you can test but don’t seek medical care unless you have severe symptoms.
There is this old grandma theory that "don't run outside with wet hair, you'll catch a cold".

Then we learned that viruses cannot spread like that, and so that old theory is basically invalid.

But some time ago I read somewhere that this theory might still hold true somehow, because our nose stores all kinds of viruses, and they might burst out when we are weakened.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable about this might chime in here ;).
One constructive rant on a controversial topic and you're done.
> The stories and illustrations will be copyright free, but the names of the characters

This doesn't make much sense. If the stories enter public domain, they enter in their entirety.

Trademarks (usually) don't have such a broad application as "this name X is forbidden for use everywhere forever and ever".

You will definitely be able to re-print and re-use the original text, the original name and possibly the original illustrations illustrations.

It's possible you won't be able to use certain name combinations, illustrations etc. in merchandising, movies etc. because Disney trademarked those.
It's painfully easy to have a clear intuitive picture of quantum physics. You just have to ditch one concept.

Universe is not made of little balls.

Particles ARE their wave functions. Nothing less, nothing more.

Sometimes those two wavevy objects interact as if two little balls bounced at one point, but that's only "accidental" similarity between the way they exchange the energy (and momentum) and the way macroscopic balls exchange the energy. Yes. It's not deterministic, what will be the parameters of that interaction. At what spot exactly will it seem to have happened, how much energy will be exchanged and how will it reshape and redirect the inital wavy objects. But thanks to our math we can predict likelyhood of everything that might happen.

Well, not exactly accidental because the way macroscopic balls bounce comes out of the exchange of energy by microscopic wavy objects bound tightly together. Same way that macroscopic magnetic interactions come from microscopic interactions of many thightly bound and oriented particles.

Wave functions never collapse into little balls, they just interact as if two balls bounced, and they get reshaped to be smaller and less fuzzy, but that's it. You can easily spread them back by interacting with them again in a different manner.

There's no such thing as a measurement. Measurement is just interaction with large rigidly bound chunk of matter which reshapes the measured particle because any interaction always reshapes.

There's really no reason to think that particles are little balls or matrial points or anything similar.

Initially people thought that because of photoelectric effect. That energy is transferred in quanta. But it's not hard to imagine this as purely fuzzy, wavy phenomenon where electrons are stuck around the nucleus in a sort of "harmonic" and they can't jump up to the place half-way to their next more energetic harmonic. Check out how orbitals look (and Chladni figures) if what I wrote seems unclear.

If you know any reason to think particles are little pointlike objects please let me known because I couldn't find any.
My mom would read this with me back in my wee years. I still find myself stopping to think to its words from time to time, especially when I am about to lose my calm.

Happy new year to all the awesome moms out there, especially my own :)
Nothing of what you said makes any sense to me.
There may be some liquidity strategies but not moving millions between accounts by error.

And letting fail a bank like Santander, in the top 5 in Europe and probably top 20 in the world, would bring enormous systemic problems.
Symptoms for vaccinated are less severe and possibly even asymptomatic, so vaccinated are less likely to quarantine when they contract Covid. This could infect more people not less.

Also, vaccinated are supposed to wait longer before testing for covid after exposure since they are more susceptible to false negative results. This also could infect more people and have a counter result.
I was under the impression that the small amount offered was the realization that it didn't take a lot of money to get a startup off the ground. So I thought Paul was one of the first to capitalize on it. This would seem to let him go for both quality and volume.
Eric Raymond's Art of UNIX Programming is excellent for budding programmers, even those who are not UNIX enthusiasts.

I am not as convinced as Mr Raymond that UNIX is the be-all and end-all of computer operating systems, but regardless of one's position on that, the book is filled with practical lessons, illustrated with many real-life examples. It focuses on general principles and not nitty-gritty details of UNIX.
I would be OK with the concept remaining if we could just get rid of the fiction that these people are self-made.
When he entered the command and it started scrolling I was like "oh, I didn't know git had so many commands".

Then it kept going, and going, and I started to feel fear.

I think I'm going to use this when someone tells me "git is easy"

Edit: I think the video was a joke, I don't find that list anywhere. Very funny anyways.
Oh absolutely. I often read scientific journal articles which make suggestions of direct relations between different factors when it’s very likely they are correlational.

Example: being overweight increases risk of heart disease.

Alternate Possibility: being inactive/not exercising increases risk of heart disease and being overweight tends to co-occur with not exercising.

In the above example it’s possible that an inactive person who is not overweight has similar liklihood of heart disease.
I've bounced in and out of Twitter. I still can't get over feeling like my connections with people are mediated by an algorithm. Like, I will be talking to X, Y and Z today because they posted and the timeline thought I'd like it. It felt so one sided too. I would comment and like their stuff much more than they would for mine, and it just felt, wrong... Like I was waaay too focussed on them, but sometimes that's all my timeline would show me.

Also there's people I really wish it wouldn't suggest me to IRL that it does frequently. I don't want to block these people, for the implication that has socially. I have for one but it was a Big Deal. I'd rather it not serve us to each other as often.
It's one kind of soul crushing to realise that the thing you find so fascinating is not something random others can or want to engage with.

It's quite another to find out later you've been ridiculed to others for trying to discuss it at all. :D

Before the internet this kind of "nerd bashing" was just the standard way of the world and you would probably grow a thicker skin without realising it.

Life became a bit more colourful and interesting when we could connect with people all over the world. It really was a seismic shift for a lot of people.
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Actually he’s the spaniel. Works for DataDog.
Develop questions you want to answer and then find the books that will help you to do so. If you have an active interest in a book you'll get a lot more out of it.

Don't just read books because they have a good reputation in general.