skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its chief effect is to make people insecure about their writing

That's the opposite of its effect on me.

> The book's message is, "Here are the rules. You will have to break them to write well. But you aren't good enough to know when."

I discerned no such put-down.

> In fact the rules are not rules anywhere but in the imagination of White and his acolytes. No admired writer of English knows them, never mind obeys them.

The gist of the book is the same as other books, such as The King's English, On Writing Well, and A Sense of Style. Stephen King praises the book in his own book, On Writing. I've also read a few articles on writing that say the same basic thing.

The gist of these books is to write in service of the reader (as opposed to your ego) and to work hard at it (as opposed to being lazy and just "letting it all hang out" from the first draft), as it is a craft, like carpentry. Specifically, try to avoid wasting words, try to use the best word at each point, and try to order your words (and sentences and paragraphs) in the best way for the reader's understanding.

There are some minor rules and preferences that perhaps Geoff Pullum is pouncing on, something like, "A clever horse is a good-natured one, not an ingenious one." I can see clearly that that is an archaism and take it for what it's worth. After all, the book is about 100 years old. But any writer should know that when you get down to that level of resolution, the detail shifts a bit in the quantum foam. Things on that level vary a bit from one decade to another, from one region to another. And language is like a craft, in that there are some rules that can be followed 90% of time, but it is not mathematics. You cannot distill a formula. I see Geoff Pullum taking it as black and white, but English does not submit to such simplification.

Perhaps Strunk was more black and white, but White seems a bit looser, and I think their combination balances each other out nicely. It reminds me that no rule is absolute. However, for the vast majority of writers, they would benefit from at least trying to follow a lot of them!

> The book presents a profoundly ignorant picture ofthe English language. You cannot become a good writer shackled to Strunk and White.

For 80% of the writing I read in books, magazines, articles, etc., they suffer from the kinds of problems addressed in the Elements of Style. There may be other kinds of problems in a minority of writing, but far and away most writing suffers heavily from wordiness, vagueness, clumsy construction. I won't fault someone for incorrectly calling a horse "clever," but now I see why most writing tires me out so much --- and I can rewrite it in my head to be clearer.
Thanks for the valuable insight, 50 amps look like the sort of current you would see while a car's starter motor is running. Out of curiosity, do you shut down the equipment automatically when the engine is killed? I imagine drawing so much current may interfere with the starter motor.
For example if it consumes lots of data that uses the pronoun "he" for doctor, it's much more likely to spit out "he" in a medical context.

Since the model lacks world knowledge for new words, sometimes it also ascribes words to a specific cultural origin / group that is completely wrong.
You don't if people are any competent and ask for an email in scope or ask you to enter a password with username later. That way, you have access as long as you have access to your email/password.

It is great because the friction to start using the service is low but you can add additional stuff after you know that you want to use it. Few services do exactly this. They will lock down your account and ask you to add a password after a day.
> I like having lunch with my wife and going out back with the dogs when I need a break. I also have an actual office with a door in my house. The time I save commuting means there is more time to workout and cook healthy meals every day.

You have the life I want.
Yes, can you see the problem if some company trademarks
xyz.com after someone else already owns and operates xyz.com and the first guy sues him for trademark offences in his marketing of xyz.com
If anything only the domain owner should be able to TM and if the domain lapses - so does the trademark.
Can of worms, better not allow domain trademarks
That was my first thought- it's a shame all we have to interact with such a complex, richly rendered world is a couple of analog sticks and some buttons.
looked pretty realistic .. for a spider-woman
Thirteen ways of looking at a Turtle – Scott Wlaschin (2017)
This is what surprised me about Uber wanting to buy Grubhub. I am near willing to bet that Uber (or Lyft) will never turn a lifetime profit. So Grubhub, is in a model that is even harder to break into. The only way this will ever work is for there to be a monopoly with one company doing all deliveries. The problem is obviously that they aren't just competing against all the other national food delivery services...but they are competing with the restaurants themselves. When people want delivery they order pizza, the delivery fee is virtually nothing. The only time I use something like Uber Eats is when I am under intense time constraints and can't leave...or I just can't leave for other reasons. Otherwise I'm not going to pay $25 just to have a delivery of food. I can go to Domino's and pay $3 for the same service. I just don't see how the model is sustainable. It works great in our current easy money society but eventually it will not be able to escape the idea that you need to actually make money.

One model I do think is interesting is something like Goldbelly. It's not instant food, but you can get food from any participating restaurant in the nation and have it mailed to you and you then cook/reheat it. That eliminates so much overhead, and you're using an existing logistics provider. Obviously that isn't quite the same market, but it's similar and seems much more sustainable.
> at least an order of magnitude more reported security vulnerabilities due to overly complex crypto-stacks than there are going to be reported successful internet-scale MITM-attacks.

On the other hand, the overly-complex crypto stacks might be the thing preventing most internet-scale MITM-attacks from being successful.
Walmart leverages their dominance over the supply chain and their position as a huge chain with locations all over the country, to outcompete local competitors who do not have the same benefits to draw upon.

As a consequence of this, local businesses die, jobs are lost and people either have to move away or accept Walmart jobs with well-documented bad pay and bad working conditions.

All of this is a deliberate business strategy by Walmart, because the US political climate and "business-friendly" ideology from both major parties prioritizes giant corporations with enormous lobbying power, over small business owners.

As a further local effect, business life is driven from the city centers to outside the cities, causing fewer people from the suburbs to go into the city centers, leading to urban neglect and decay.
Covid-19 infection-fatality rates: review and meta-analysis of research
And then, harden it against bots that actually are humans being paid by the bot-writers, via Mechanical Turk.
I've heard this as one of the key justifications for an internship program. Outperformers are likely to be aggressively retained by their first employer, so if you want a fighting chance at landing them, that had better be you.
One of my unfinished goals from a few years ago was to interview some personal trainers to ask how they do it. How they show up over and over and listen to the same excuses from new faces. What's the trick? How do you do it?

"The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed." In a trade where fixing things is a job skill, knowing how to fix things that nobody wants to fix (yet) can be demotivating, even aggravating. Does that make one toxic, or can there be pervasive problems that takes your industry 20 years (epochs in software) to adopt?
Deploy multiple SPAs to a single S3 bucket
Weather and traffic cams don't have "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com"
The difference in top companies is the people who got in, know they have it real good, because they specifically studied leetcode for 6 months to try and get in.

Average managers didn't and so they just derp around hoping everything'll turn out alright.

Everything else is the same.
IMO, ray tracing is a scam as currently presented by Nvidia, et. al. GPUs are not the correct way to approach this problem. RTX is an approximation at best and a complete joke at worst. That said, I do believe ray tracing is the future and can become the standard way in which we engage with all 3D graphics concerns.

Contrast the GPU with the newest generation of x86 CPUs. They have more cores than you can typically use, provide ridiculous amounts of pipelined throughput, and have specialized vector instructions which can dramatically accelerate common 3D graphics tasks (i.e. matrix multiplication).

Most practical ray tracing algorithms are trivially parallelized (e.g. just throw each scanline at a thread) and also exhibit properties which can leverage the deep stack depths and OoO execution enabled by modern CPUs. Ray tracing is inherently a recursive activity with a profound number of potential branching opportunities. x86 has absolutely no problem dealing with this kind of scenario. This is exactly what it was built for. GPUs on the other hand require yet more specialized hardware that has its limitations baked-in at the transistor level. x86 does not have these same kind of limitations.

Consider the hypothetical benefits of having your entire graphics pipeline implemented within 1 cache-coherent memory domain and on top of a single instruction set. Imagine no Direct3D/OpenGL/Vulkan/drivers/etc are involved to ruin your day. What if you could fit all of your required scene, texture and model data into L3 cache? How many times can you fill L3 from RAM per second on a 3950x with reasonable memory configuration? How many times per frame at 60fps? I feel we need to take some time to look at the emerging opportunities with the new hardware that is coming to market.

I worry that the developer community is so out of touch with the hardware aspect (e.g. 22ms hello world) that we are basically saying "lol no just use GPU magic graphics rectangle" and calling it a day. I feel like specialization of ASICs is fundamentally taking us in the wrong direction now that we are able to put so many general purpose cores onto a single package/die in a very cost-effective manner. Maybe this is why AMD is taking so long to bring a proper Nvidia killer to market. At some point there has to be a certain # of cores where someone raises their hand and asks "why do we still need a separate GPU?".
Indeed. However, they do offer a commercial license to big developers/publishers will full source access. Substantially cheaper than the non-royalty, commercial Epic license too (but at the AAA level they're both rounding errors).
This appears to be the most broad analysis I've seen. the last two studies I posted were more narrow.
Ask HN: Musings on what is wrong with US politics
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Thankfully still employed during this brutal situation, but have had plenty of time for self-reflection and reflection in general.

It consumes quite a bit of my thinking recently, trying to find new ways of unwinding what's happening in US politics, and some things have started to become less opaque to me as I try to reason about this.

One thing that struck me recently, which I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about is the following.

I've recently started following some threads on a few "trending topics" on Twitter, and digging a little deeper into, and even conversing with, some of the people writing flaming Tweets on these threads. I can't say the "research" has been extensive, but I've noticed quite a few "right wing" replies tend to be from accounts flagged as "problematic" or "alarming" on the "Trollbot scale", but strangely enough in some of the cases I've gotten responses from these people, which made me recognize that it's likely some of these accounts are being flagged for BEHAVIOR and not for being an actual BOT.

It would seem, to the casual observer, that perhaps this categorization is biased toward the "liberal elite". But then it sort of struck me...

If you try to imagine the daily working lives of blue-collar Americans. Many of them in factories or doing extremely menial jobs, perhaps that's how they're interpreting the way in which they need to be interacting with Twitter in general and conversation threads specifically.

Sort of like if you were to imagine yourself on an assembly line. You're doing the same thing over and over and over again. You're never asked important questions about the state of the company or anything meaningful or thought provoking to speak of. You're there to "do your job", and if you're not doing enough of that THING then you'll be told about it.

(see comment for 2/2)
Because they are attempting to automate all of it. This message is generic and based on some analysis of the "manifest.json".

They have also turned off all reviews in the Chrome Web Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935092
A gig platform for delivery drivers is a whole different thing to manage than a common web shopping workflow.
Not really, no. The human perception of colour is fundamentally three-dimensional. In order to describe a perceived colour, no matter the system you choose, you need three dimensions. For example, you could use frequency and amplitude of a light wave, but that would only be sufficient for pure tones, leading to the need of a third dimension - saturation - for "impurity".

Or you could use a B-L B-R pair for tone and a third component for Luma - three-dimensional.

Or you can give the amplitude of Red, Green and Blue; three dimensions.

You could add a fourth dimension, RGB+Luma, but the fourth dimension is useless in describing a given perceived colour, as the activation of the intensity receptor is a function of the activation of the three colour receptors, it is only there for high-gain situations.

Sound is not one-dimensional, as simply considering the pressure of a point is insufficient as a description of sound perception of humans. Indeed, we perceive variations in pressure, not pressure itself (consider the balancing of the pressure of the inner ear). In order to understand sound, you fundamentally need two dimensions, either pressure and time, or frequency and amplitude. This is only for an instantaneous perception of sound, in order to record "a sound", you need three dimensions. Although you could indeed plot a time-series of pressures, this does not describe what actually is happening - for a time-series of pressures to be interpreted as a recorded sound you necessarily need a sample rate, otherwise the physical interpretations are infinite. This is why a spectrogram is three-dimensional - frequency, amplitude, and time. Hence, the sounds we operate on and process are three-dimensional, as any representation of a sound is tridimensional, either a time series of pressure, time and sample rate, or a continuous spectrum of time, frequency and amplitude.
I'm guessing wrinkles and gray hair make covid worse, too. Hair dye and facelifts for everyone!
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So imagine, knowing this livelihood as your means to an end. It's how you get paid and how you feed your family. It's obvious to the rest of us that this is not the right way to engage in conversation. But it's something they are capable of being efficient and effective in the "political dialogue" in this country. They find things that will "trigger" their opposition and cookie cutter the process of (a) finding the threads and matching those with the GIFs, JPEGs, (b) pasting them into the threads. This is obvious troll-like behavior, but perhaps the only way these folks recognize an trajectory toward having an impact.

When I think about this, as a potentially accurate way of depicting what is happening, it's grotesque and makes me want to lash out in general at our education system in how we've built an entire army of citizens who treat political dialogue / civic-engagement as a line-chef treats the food that comes to their station.

Would love to hear other interesting takes on their perspectives as to how they're seeing US politics play out in the world today.
Yes. I think the driving force behind the open office is to save money.

If a company allows a high % of workers to work from home, it can more easily afford less-efficient layouts. With private walled offices. It's easier to give 20 on site employees an office than 200. If all 200 employees are on site.... get ready for some custom construction to give everyone a private office. $$$!!!
Honestly I don't, and I know it slows me down.

I think it's important to have something to return to after your break. It's also important to feel like you are making progress.

If you can think of your breaks as breaks, that may help. It is important to recognize and deal with the emotions that are keeping you away from work. The time away from work/code/whatever is not the problem.

But really, this is the key problem of my digital worklife. I used to work construction and I was able to stay on task all day. For a long time I thought I was able to do that because I was away from distractions; and that is definitely part of it. But another part is the fact that software development is creative work and technical in a league almost by itself.

You have to be creative, but you also have to be correct. It's hard to be both at the same time. Maybe if you split your time between being creative and correct it could help?

Sorry I can't help more.
It would technically be "source available", no?
The reality here is that the VC-backed monstrosities are incapable of showing any price sensitivity because they can massage out local market difference with vast amounts of capital.

Local approaches can work and be sustainable, but they have to be able to charge a price that actually makes sense for the delivery. Right now that simply isn't possible because the VC-funded behemoths are capable of undercutting anything that moves in the space and attempts to be cash-flow positive in any sort of sustainable way.
It’s pretty cool. You can change where they point and zoom in/out. Usually can’t do that with public cameras

Really? I occasionally visit public construction site cameras that real estate developers put up, and they're almost always interactive.
The biggest thing killing me right now with TypeScript is more of a general ecosystem issue. That issue being how TypeScript interacts with the concept of "workspaces" and Yarn's Plug'N'Play system. I use TypeScript with ts-node pretty heavily. I'm also trying to use a shared source package outside the root workspace file hierarchy :/
It was surprisingly difficult! I thought for sure knowyourmeme would have a page on it, but if they do I sure couldn't find it.
It literally says: "Rather than download the software on her computer, she opted out."

That's all I'm saying, everyone has and makes their own choices about what they will or won't put up with. As to other article subjects , I can't/won't speak for them.
Profits are the taxable earnings of the company, sans all costs.
I agree with this. It's seems to me that it's much more than "hiring a few developers to build a basic app."
There's the cost of delivery personnel, and having enough delivery windows to be practical for customers.
It seems to me there are benefits from scale, and a large, aggregated platform that make delivery feasible for many restaurants.
Color is infinite dimensional. Imagine you shine four lasers each with wavelengths of 100, 200, 300, and 400 nanometers. We might see them smushed together into a combination that's 3 dimensional (unless you're a tetrachromat, a rare person who has extra rods or cones or something), but physically it's just the four frequencies (and phases). You can't combine the first 100, 200, 300nm laser beams to get a 400nm beam, so it's not three dimensional. With N lasers, it's N frequencies, and you can't reproduce them as combinations of fewer frequencies. N goes arbitrarily high. Follow that logic and the dimension of color space is the dimension of the space of frequency distributions, which is infinite dimensional.

Likewise with sound, unless you want to describe it as just the amplitude at a single spatial point versus time, in with case sound and color are just 1D (plus time), which isn't a useful model since you now have to account for all spatial points.
Yes, however at any given time there is a tridimensional tone that represents any given tone at a given moment.
Exactly.

Imagine what Zoom would be like if you had to sign up, verify your email, schedule a meeting, and then invite people to that meeting.
Taxes and bonds, along with landlords, are steps in the long path of economic rent payments that start with tenants paying rent. Many tenants are not paying rent. Therefore, rather than trying to turn the screws harder on the tenants (as resuming evictions would do), or making some unlucky middlemen go bankrupt today (just to be replaced with increasingly centralized middlemen as the article points out), we should examine and aim to pause the entire chain of economic rent payments that starts with the tenants.
As someone who live in an country with no net-neutrality and government-mandated censorship, I'm glad https is everywhere now. My government requires all isp to intercept all dns requests and plain http requests to block access to banned domains. Not only that, the ISPs are doubling down by blocking domains of competing services (the ISP I use block netflix for years to promote their own streaming service, only unblocking it recently after netflix finally partner with them).

They also implement the blocking by intercepting http HOST header, so even if you somehow bypass their dns filtering, they can still got you if the censored site use plain http (they'll replace the response with a redirect to their censorship portal, which fully laden with ads). They also inject ads to any non-https page at least once every day. Thanks god for pihole and vpn (when I'm using mobile connection) I can still browse whatever I want.
Education startup Quizlet raises $30M in Series C round
I agree that Story telling and Game Play is still the top priorities. Look at Nintendo! I enjoy Zelda,( not exactly the best graphics looking game ) more so than most "photorealistic" game in recent years. ( I will also admit I am now a lot older and dont have time for serious gaming )

But still, the graphics in UE5 is stunning. The last time I was stunned by 3D Graphics was Crysis, and that was I think over 10 years ago.
I Noticed that they panned up within seconds of showing water because (I assume) of how wacky the fluid dynamics look.
Ironic the site has such a bad UX. Emoji make it hard to read; all the information is pointlessly in collapsing boxes, it has screwy animations and scrolling, crazy hover effects, bad zoom (it's blurry), silly checkmarks instead of bullet points...
This is a good extension but here is a cool hack I've discovered that let's you do this anywhere without any chrome extensions:

- Create a new whatsgroupp called 'ping self' and add your friend to it.

- Then kick your friend out from this group

- Open web.whatsapp.com and now you can access your messages, files, photos across any device anywhere, anytime! (telegram also does this and allows file up to 1gb)
I've never seen a traffic camera that could make out a license plate from 2 blocks away.

How many have you installed?

One TV station that I worked for in the early 00's had cameras all over the city that could easily do that, all fibered back into the newsroom.