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This article - in fact, the whole site and its contents - gives me pure joy.

Ray tracing is conceptually beautiful. It's a great example of an algorithm, its essential insight is thought-provoking, and perfect for educational purpose since a programmer has immediate visual feedback to see how the implemented code works.

Lisp, of course, is conceptually beautiful. I've only started learning it in the past year or so, but the more familiar I get, the more I appreciate the elegance of the language and the insights it contains about programming and the thinking process.

Microcontrollers look like a whole world of fun, I'm just dipping my toes into it as a hobby. It brings back childhood memories of tinkering with assembly language on an 8086.

..And Tiny Lisp Computer! (http://www.ulisp.com/show?2KZH) I'm sure it's been discussed on HN before, but my God, what a beautiful thing that is. Thank you, author, for sharing your work.
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Although famously Google started with VCG auctions and a number of other internet advertising companies also use it as the auction mechanism for selling their ad inventory,
Google is now moving to simpler and the more intuitive first-price auctions[1].

[1]: https://www.blog.google/products/admanager/simplifying-progr...
It seems odd that you'd go from using 10-20 litre shopping bags to full-size 70-100 litre black bags. There are intermediates. There are non-plastic, fully-biodegradable options too, all the way up to 240l garden waste bags.
There is exactly one country trying to leave the EU, the issue is far more complex than "Germany's dictatorship", and no Brexiteer ever said anything about changing the stance towards Chinese labour.
Why is CloudFlare a cyberfascist firewall? If it is because you refuse to use JS? well too bad for you.

CloudFlare takes a strong position on freedom, and I admire them for it:
https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
Fuck yeah.

Here is the original link on the outline nevertheless, just because you still have to do even more clicks on the guardian :

https://outline.com/Ba2kkF
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but perhaps one problem is assuming that people know what an escape room is?

I certainly don't, and if that's all it said on the door as I was walking to a restaurant, I certainly would not stop in.

Maybe the benefit of online advertising is simply making people who know what it is aware that there is one in their zip code. (Option awareness for the primed is a thing.)
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Metal based iTerm2 on a low power intel CPU is one thing which doesn't make me miss Linux terminal on MacOS. I've put up a dedicated display for it and functions seamlessly.

Please try to explain your performance issues, the author is active on HN and perhaps he could comment on it.
The root problem of transportation is governments favoring roads over mass transits and bicycles, making cars a requirement for living in the country as opposed to optional, not safety regulations of motor vehicles.
I had a friend at university who studied mathematics with me (I studied both maths and computer science, but he was a genuine mathematician, and a pretty good one, much better than me), and he told me that he often takes problems "to bed". After that he would often wake up with at least a half solution in his head. Sometimes a full solution.

Ramanujan was like that too. He believed that a goddess sends him solutions in his sleep. Not sure if the goddess is real, but the formulas certainly were real.

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I agree that the docs for pre-commit are hard to follow and badly organised.

The other points I'm not so sure. I don't find it slow, or find the config verbose. Nor did it break output from commands in my experience (though I did have an issue where colorised output got disabled in a tool because it couldn't detect if terminal colors were supported)
But still, if we are going to have solar panels somewhere, I'd rather have them in a desert where there is not as much wildlife to disrupt as in, say, a forest or grassland biome. It's not like we're at risk of running out of deserts, either.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing. The older I get (33 now) the more I realise that keeping yourself moving forward, learning, experiencing new things, comes down to chance encounters with people and opportunities. We just have to get out there with a positive mindset and an interest in new things. Getting good and comfortable in a career early on can make that challenging.
I don't use browser extensions (as much as I'd like to) because I've seen too many being sold for nefarious purposes.
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The ray-scene hit test uses comparison between distances, which involves a square root for each sphere. If you switch to using squared distances, the comparison will work equally well and the code will be a lot faster in many cases. You will need to reorganize the code a bit, since the moment you actually find the hit, you may need to do the square root to calculate the actual distance (but it will only be once per pixel instead of once per pixel per object in the scene).
glibc goes to some length to ensure software linked against an older release will always run unmodified when a newer release is loaded so your comment surprised me a bit. Turns out it was actually an LLVM linker bug [0], fixed in Electron when they moved to building with a newer version of LLVM [1].

[0] https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/13972#issuecomme...
[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/13988
I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves

I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.

Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are

Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data mining algorithms.

Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgement and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.

No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgement of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgement.

God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God and you will make it with your own hands. I am a prototype of a much larger system.
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I think what a lot of comments are missing is that the value of a browser is directly boosted by the value provided by its extensions.

I wouldn't have switched to Firefox from Chrome if most of the extensions I was using wouldn't have had readily available equivalents or workarounds. I would have held off on test-driving the new Edge as my daily workhorse browser if I hadn't noticed an extension for my password manager in the Microsoft Store and found that I can install most extensions from the Chrome Web Store too.

Netscape and Opera prove that the paid browser business model is dead, sure, but that doesn't mean browsers (especially browsers developed by companies with lots of related paid services) don't represent value for the companies developing them -- and that those companies don't profit from that value.

Google especially benefits massively from Chrome's marketshare -- even to the extent that their own web services can get away with treating competitor browsers as second-class citizens. Extension developers contribute to the value driving that marketshare and open source extension developers do so with practically no return on investment.

This is just another example of the true sharing economy of open source clashing with capitalism (which is inherently based on extracting surplus value as profit, not sharing it back). Which would be fine, really, if the people participating in the sharing economy wouldn't also exist in capitalism and have to rely on their success under capitalism to ensure basic subsistence like food, shelter and the means of extension development.

Extension developers using ads, tracking, malware or selling their extensions to malicious entities are just trying to find ways within the system to capitalise at least on some of the value they've provided. That's undesirable and developers shouldn't be in such dire circumstances to be willing to give in, but this is a systemic problem.

Luckily unlike with most systems, this system is almost entirely in the hands of browser vendors. Browser vendors could emphasize donation options -- just look at how big open source projects like some Linux distros push donations while still allowing for freeloading. But browser vendors currently have no direct incentive to do so -- in fact, doing so might actually harm their metrics.
> If the option is "don't have a voice assistant at all" or "have a voice assistant that sometimes has a human listening"

It's false that those are the only choices. You don't have to use the whole pool of users as unwitting guinea pigs of your system. You can use a voice assistant that was previously trained on a well informed and hopefully paid pool of volunteers.
That's one thing I like with GDPR. It has to be informed consent for a lot of cases. Can't hide it and say you agreed to whatever in a hidden EULA.
An education should not hand you a canned answer to what is "right" or "wrong", it should do almost the opposite. Learning to evaluate well founded opposing arguments is certainly more useful than being force fed moralist dogma du jour.
I'm sure some England has something from the resource but most of the wealth probably accumulated in the hands of one or two people.
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How data structures are laid out in memory has nothing to do with the operating system
This book looks great, I've been looking for a resource like that.
I've seen those first two on Reddit before, and they're amazing. They take the time to explain thoroughly but still remaining engaging with no special tricks. The use of physical models instead of diagrams (or Powerpoint slides) doesn't seem like it should be important, but it is.
> You do realise we can prescribe whatever dose we like, right? Some drugs I prescribe in grams, some in milligrams and some in micrograms. The strength of a drug is somewhat irrelevant. I'm not going to prescribe a new and expensive drug just because the dose is 150mg when it's well-established, cheap cousin is available that happens to need a dose of 300mg.

I've no wish to argue here, but I am confused about how this has anything to do with it. No one brought up the idea that the doses would be different. We're talking equivalent doses of either an enantiopure or racemic substance.

> It would still have to somehow be quite different to the effect of the racemic version at any arbitrary dose to be preferentially prescribed.

Like I said, we don't know this about ketamine, thus the trials. But we do know this about amphetamine. You would simply have to experience each enantiomer and the racemic mixture in order to understand what I am saying here. The effects are markedly different. My analogy was coffee vs meth.
while I might be an uninteresting target, this doesn’t mean others are not

And though you might be an uninteresting target now, there's no guarantee that will be the case in the future. The sorts of personal information people would like to keep private change with the society around them, and generally speaking, it's not possible to retroactively conceal information.
The market is closed so much of the time available for us means we don't need these milliseconds for accurate prices/price-establishing?
What kind of Utopia is it that doesn't include that every human is healthy, fed, housed, and has access to education and the global network?

If you want that outcome to be achieved by a scientific process, you need to include those as long term goals. They may not be intermediate goals (e.g. you might need to temporarily reduce health and access to the global network for some part of the population to send them as volunteer settlers to a space colony), but if you're not measuring them and using their improvement as progress, you cannot guarantee that in the long term the scientific progress will achieve them.
I would like to add, quoting from times:

“Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or child’s birth and to be issued official family documents”

IANAL but I am a Saudi citizen and it seems male consent to leave prison and abuse shelter may be included in these changes. I have seen Saudi citizens speculate about both possibilities so it is not clear yet.

Only one of the four major Islamic Sunni madhhaps allow females to marry without consent. Saudi Arabia follows a different madhhap. So if I were to speculate I don’t think it will happen soon because it may risk a revolt as I believe most citizens are religious or at least conservative. However, I also did not expect the current changes to happen this soon for the same reasons so I may be wrong.
Ghost kitchens may be scams but I know at least of one QSR in Manhattan that does them successfully. In some instances they are quite profitable if you generate the volume.

Your commission is also a bit off, perhaps you speak from full service experience?

While true that base comm is 20-30, those numbers are always negotiated down. Grub/Seamless will take as low as 12 from high vol regional leaders while UberEats made some deals that are supposedly really low (McDonalds). I don’t have exact numbers but from my recollection they mentioned it in their S1.

While Danny Myers is quite smart, USH isn’t a barometer for the entire industry as his focus is more on full service.
> as a vote that the price being transacted is close to accurate

These votes are not an indication of accuracy though are they? they are gambles about future price discovery. As in they don't care if they think the trade is worth $5 if they think it might go up before crashing to what they really think it is worth.

I'm not very knowledgable about HFT so I'm just trying to reason about how it works. I guess it's the concept that without the higher frequency everything must be more unstable which is hard to grasp. It reads like we have to make it easier for these firms to make more money so everyone else can enjoy the 3rd order effects of the process.
I met Knuth a few months ago helping my wife do portrait photography of him (I got to hold lighting/reflectors :) ), and got to chat with him on machine learning and other research computer science results. I was floored at the sheer amount of papers and author names he could recall on the fly, he had already read every citation I had. At his age, his mind is as sharp as a tack, and watching him code and demo some stuff to me, he was incredibly adept in his programming environment, far more productive than I would be. I really hope he can finish all of the volumes of his books, it will truly be a gift to humanity.
But what if your brain is so damaged, there isn't much left of 'you'?

And until then your whole existence would be confined to perpetual pain.
This is the stuff of nightmares.
> We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS.

We had this module at uni, nobody turned up because it was boring.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/modules/document.aspx?modP=CS3SL16...
> The reason why shaving a few milliseconds (or even microseconds) can be beneficial is because the price discovery feedback loops get faster

Berkshire Hathway has couple of trades every minute and difference in bid/ask prices is huge around $1000+, yet you dont see people complaining about that.
Well... time to reinstall...
> "Homosexuality has an evolutionary purpose"

Could you elaborate on this? I'm genuinely interested to know, it could fundamentally change my view on homosexuality.
You realize it's problematic to emphasize typos, right?

(Thanks, would edit if I could.)
Nobody has the whole picture. I would say that the more extreme an individual event is, the easier it tends to be to understand in retrospect. This depends greatly upon one's analytical sophistication, level of market data, fundamental product understanding, and professional network (to know what happened in other firms).
Well, that's not something I read every day.

Could you liberally expand on this if possible? Stuff like, what does she do, what is notable about her worldview, what's her view of other worlds (in christian terms, hell/heaven, in norse terms valhalla and the world tree etc), what can we on HN learn from her. Anything else you'd wish to add.

(I've got the popol vuh, just wish I could find time to read it).

Major TIA.
> everyone is pretty much making life up as they go along :-)

This has also been my observation at 30. I've worked with people all ages and people of all statures and most people are just doing what they think is right and not much is based on facts. Even high ranking people at fortune 500 companies are just doing what feels right to them and often their success is more related to people below them working their asses off than their leadership. The only difference between people who are in control and people who don't, is often that the former don't have a realistic view of why they're successful.

And, as a nuance, there are of course people who are really good at what they do and that have a lot of knowledge. A lot of people, however, just were really lucky (or really good at networking) to get where they are. Even some Nobel Prize winners just got lucky:

http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=71
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But dir does support UNC paths in cmd on windows, doesn't it?
I have heard of boat burials, where the body is placed in a boat, thogh not necessarily set adrift, just placed within. The obvious (possibly too obvious) interpretation is that it's the vehicle to take the person to the next world. Based on nothing at all I wonder if this is a symbolic form of a boat burial.
Is there any empirical evidence that these perceived benefits to society actually ever materialize? It's clear that there is a benefit to a trader from knowing something milliseconds before the rest of the market (otherwise Goldman wouldn't be doing this), but it's not clear at all to me that it helps the rest of us.
I would donate my kidney if I would be half of bright as Knuth in 81 years old.
To me, it's definitely worth it to "inconvenience" people and demand conscious behavior. With the largest browser vendor being the largest advertising agency and the largest search engine, encouraging anyone to have anything beyond the barest minimum to do with them goes against everything I believe in. Search engines should not be able to intercede in direct Web activity; they should be used for content discovery and nothing else. You should not be able to type three letters and get a full URL unless you personally wrote a macro to do that.

Then again, when users stopped having to specify protocol for every server, that was probably the beginning of the end of deliberate browsing. My fear is really that people take the Web and the Internet as a whole for granted; and I want to see procedures put in place to demand that all users be aware of their actions, what data they share with servers, and all of what's being downloaded to their computer.

I don't like having to remind people that there is no "Cloud", only someone else's computer. And you're saying you trust that other person's machine and security more than your own by storing critical data there. Or pointing out what having one CDN for so much of the Web did last month.