GLSL is fine. People don't understand that shaders are not just programs but literal works of art[0]. The art comes from the ability to map a canvas's (x,y) -> (r,g,b,a) coordinates in real time to create something mesmerising, and then let anyone remix the code to create something new from the browser.
GLSL is dead for pratical purposes, Khronos acknowledged at Vulkanised 2024 that no one is working on either improving it, or keeping up with new Vulkan features.
Hence why most companies are either using HLSL, even outside games industry, or adoption the new kid on the block Slang, which NVidia offered to Khronos as GLSL replacement.
So GLSL remains for OpenGL and WebGL and that is about it.
How would you use shared/local memory in GLSL? What if you want to implement Kahan summation, is that possible? How's the out-of-core and multi-GPU support in GLSL?
> People don't understand
Careful pointing that finger, 4 fingers might point back... Shadertoy isn't some obscure thing no one has heard of, some of us are in the demoscene since over 20 years :)
> some of us are in the demoscene since over 20 years :)
Demoscene is different, though what I'm imagining with shadertoy and what it could be hasn't really been implemented. GLSL shaders are fully obscure outside of dev circles and that's a bummer.
Blockchain is here to stay, this is way past the point of "believing in the tech" - recently an wss:// order book exchange (Hyperliquid) crossed $1T volume traded, and they started in 2023.
Blockchains are becoming real-time data structures where everyone has admin level read-only access to everyone.
HN doesn't like blockchain. They had the chance to get in very early and now they're salty. I first heard about bitcoin on HN, before Silk Road made headlines.
The privacy concerns and “ID everyone” are the boring, standard dystopian parts of this, perfectly in line with the government-by-nannying that Canberra types enjoy.
The better question is what counts as social media? Is HN social media that under 16yo Australians need to be kept away from?
> I'm not sure that there is a proven link between hacker news use and elevated probability of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents.
We can extend that thought further than just HN. The reporter (surprisingly!) brings up something we've known for a while but has been slow getting traction. That the relation between noted harms and SM is far from clear.
There really is not a super clear causal link between greater use of social media and upticks in anxiety and depression among teens.
Regarding youth mental health, there are strong causal competitors (to SM) that aren't well examined. Like the elimination of free roaming areas (from sq mi to sq ft), attacks on child independence (false stranger danger messaging) and car culture + trespassing culture (traded endless walkable areas for narrow death zones).
I argue that since mid-1900s, we've eradicated most of what kids needed to learn complex problem solving, develop ambition and earn self-esteem.
If I wanted to erode youth mental health, I'd do exactly what we've done. I'd get rid of irreplaceable environments where youth experienced critical growth.
The issue here is regardless of implementation details (all the privacy/ID stuff falls in this bucket), the remedy being proposed here seems obviously much worse than the ailment.
There's a need to be pragmatic here; In the event of any kinetic Chinese aggression, TSMC (and other co's) fabs are going to be rendered inoperable, regardless of how well executed a US response is.
This might be the first launch that tops the jaw-dropping excitement of the Falcon 9 LZ-1 landing way back in 2015. Godspeed starship and best of luck to all the SpaceX team.
I only got to see the tail end of the shuttle launches (too young) but I imagine watching the first launch/landing felt something like I experienced watching those two boosters land together.
The FH synchronised side booster landing was visually epic and is timeless, but nothing quite tops the distinct feeling of actually seeing a the first stage of an orbital-class rocket return to Earth in a non-mangled up state. This video helps to relive the goosebumps: https://youtu.be/brE21SBO2j8?si=EZ8y5vcRTmG3eU75
Short of the moon landings that I never got to experience, the dual landing (especially that first one!) is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in space flight. Could watch again and again.
If you are a native English speaker it’s nearly trivial. What i’ve found is even ESL speakers who have basically perfect English are thrown off by this. I don’t know why.
