skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not knowing how any of this works, I think best would be having a driver that translates the raw signals into an intermediate, near-native form, i.e. basically provide a standard range X-Y-Z vector (z for Pointer intensity) with good enough (very high) resolution per touch point. Single-Touch devices will only ever get one touch point, those that have no concept of intensity will have a constant or binary Z value. Those measuring pointer-size can set the Z-value accordingly (that‘s how I think intensity is measured anyway).

Then allow per-device configs with (basically) calibration curves. Allow for different kinds of curves (discrete value interpolation, Bezier, you name it). This enables the driver to support a lot of different devices. Bonus points if the driver can tell the firmware about the calibrations (I‘d bet quite a few touchpads have their own logic built-in).

Also the driver must support some curve and noise dampening as well as progressive acceleration (basically inflating calibrated numbers with higher speed of moving touch points and rapid succession of the same gesture) and thus also understand some „higher level“ gesture logic, e.g. to properly support the right feeling for touchpad scrolling as Macs do.
Question for those who might know about this:

If I find myself in a similar situation as in this article, is there some sort of "insurance professional handler" laywer kind of guy you can hire so that he does what is necessary and who knows all the traps, so that you have good chances of being covered?
I agree. There's always a culture of trolling the newbie. Its negative, constructive criticism is aalso a thing. and I dont get what billinon $ companies the trolls have built to assume this superior position.

I just donated to the campaign, I think they have a solid team, and their core values are spot on like u mentioned.
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Littleton is such a great small town. I went to school at Lyndon State college and littleton was one of the only towns we could go to. The NEK is such a beautiful area.
>GPU programming without macros looks like then take a peek at this:

I'm not sure if you missed my examples, or if there is some other missunderstanding going on ;)

GPU code in Julia works 100% without macros, but you are free to use them, so people do ;) Also, you can pretty much write the gpu kernels like pseydo code, not sure how much simpler it can get.

With your linked spiral code, I can't even really tell where the algorithm starts and where the setup code ends - which of course might easily be attributed to my unfamiliarity with Spiral ;)

I wrote an article some time ago about generic programming with Julia's gpu infrastructure:

https://techburst.io/writing-extendable-and-hardware-agnosti...

If you can make concrete examples of how things can be simpler than this, I'd be delighted to hear them :)

Cuda only (for no reason actually) and with lots of macros, here is another article about gpu programing in Julia:
https://mikeinnes.github.io/2017/08/24/cudanative.html

Do you have any benchmarks for the softmax kernel? If that kernel has optimal performance, it would be quite interesting. If it's sup par, it looks much longer than a simple version.
The XKCD "Ten Thousand" might be interesting for some https://xkcd.com/1053/
You might be interested in Jared Diamonds "Collapse". He's aggregated a lot of evidence of many societies that over populated, over consumed and died out. Not all did though and your technically right in that the survivors (our ancestors) avoided this fate. I just think we should be weary about any claims that peoples of the past were any smarter about their self preservation than we are..
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/frequency_behavior

Intel reduces clockspeeds when running AVX2 and drastically decreases clockspeeds when running AVX512. AMD's slightly smaller unit doesn't need to slow down, so the actual performance difference is smaller than it would appear.

Changing frequency takes time. Also, if you are putting through an AVX instruction and a few integer instructions at the same time, the integer instructions will downclock the whole time the AVX pipeline is in use (plus the time before/and after while the clockspeed is being adjusted) decreasing performance for more than just the AVX.

There are a couple articles written on the topic. Here's one.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-isa-extensions...
People choose a Macbook because they can walk into an Apple store and walk out with a quality product. Compared to the average PC a macbook has:

* Better display
* Faster hard drive
* Better battery life
* God-tier touchpad :)
* Premium build quality and materials
* Better sound
* Better resale value
* An Apple store nearby where they can get factory support

Sure there are laptops which are superior in certain aspects if you are willing to do some research or are very knowledgable in tech. If the average person walks into Best Buy and limits their options just to Lenovo and a device with the word "Yoga" in the name, they may walk out with an X1 Yoga, X380 Yoga, L380 Yoga, Yoga 260, Yoga 11e Chromebook, Yoga 920, Yoga 730, Yoga 720, or Yoga 710. I couldn't tell you the difference between most of these and I spent a long time researching convertible laptops.
So did they or didn't they? Are they asking the readers? Is this our homework assignment that we are supposed to answer and turn in to the bbc?

Can the news start reporting on facts?

Read the article only to find out that we don't know who the kidnappers are, if and how much they got, how much cash qatar sent to iraq, etc.

Whenever I read articles like this, it leaves me angry and wanting to never read anything from the BBC again. What's even more frustrating is that the BBC is government funded and not dependent on advertisers and they have no reason to clickbait.
Truly bizarre, though after watching Chef I think I can understand a little better why it might happen for people who don't really "get" the platform.
Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
Just moved to the Bay Area and have just started studying for technical interviews.

1. Does anyone want to do mock interviews / study with me / team up in some other way? Email me: arjun@nyclabs.co and I'll create a group.
2. Any unconventional advice/tips for studying or the interview itself?
This is great! Thanks! I've built few GraphQL API's with Serverless and have always wondered if AppSync was the best way to handle Subscriptions, and have also never seen a decent implementation like this.
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Authorization != Authentication.

Pas, who you are responding to, used the more ambiguous abbreviation of "auth", but I was specifically referring to authorization, not authentication. So once you are authenticated, i.e. once I know who you are, what are you allowed to do? This is a deeper, domain-specific question, and the GraphQL guide rightly points out that this doesn't belong in whatever glue layer exists between your domain logic and the schema you expose.
> helping make the world a better place.

It's hard to take anyone seriously who uses that phrase... Especially in this sort of context.

That's been a joke for a long time now, everyone knows it's nonsense.
I think for 1, we had a story on HN a few years ago, for a academic book. It was linked elsewhere in the thread: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
I’m not sure but when I tried using my external mac touchpad on Ubuntu it wouldn’t handle scrolling (two fingers).
Too late to edit, but after skimming through it a second time, here's the issues laid out in the piece:

They make you fill out medical forms that are written by lawyers and for lawyers. Any minor mistake on the form is grounds for denial for any claim. So if you forgot you stubbed your toe 11 months ago, your aneurysm isn't covered. For one man interviewed they used unintentionally undisclosed GI bleeding to deny his claim for a heart attack. Even though his GI bleeding had nothing to do with his heart attack.

The form is impossible to fill out 100% correctly 100% of the time. The issues are:

-Patients, especially the elderly, a unaware or forget some things in their medical file, or the doctor explains things a different way than the form asks.

-You have to read the fine print of all of the definitions because they have "gotcha" clauses, such as the definition of "cardiac treatment" including diagnostic tests that didn't result in any diagnosis.

-Travel agents/salespeople give incorrect information to people who have questions about the form, even though they aren't authorized to give any information or assistance.

They suggest contacting your doctor if you have questions filling out the form but even if you were a doctor with full access to the patient's medical file, the doctor might still get the "legalese" wrong.
And a ridiculous amount of gifs of random crap
Analog DOSsing in WW2:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019014

"A signpost in Surrey being dismantled as part of a campaign to remove everything which may prove of value to the enemy, should invasion occur."
Yes, learning by playing!

A collaborative science-based games list: https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list/ (and its discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14661813)
I put the mouse on my touchpad. Works well rnough
Great resource! It brings me back to the early days of the web, poring over "Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering".
>I think that's unfair considering all the effort they are putting into this.

Putting in effort into something does not insulate you from criticism.
Would have been over-the-top cool if RISC-V had been included as well.
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You can use Nim without a garbage collector. I've seen it running on plenty of micro-controllers in this way.
This will ensure the death of the private healthcare system. It won't happen overnight, but eventually the private/hybrid healthcare system will have no redeeming qualities other than to extract as much profit as possible out of anyone's health issues. That's when no one will support it anymore (except the politicians taking bribes to support it).
If you need to 'cash out' it's not a 'currency'.
Isn't this super illegal? Who are the lawyers at these companies who are signing off on these projects?
Joey Hess comes to mind. He writes of projects in his blog, though items aren't specifically tagged.

https://joeyh.name/blog/
Ask HN: Are certifications (AWS/RedHat etc.) worthwhile?
Howdy,

I'm a student, and I'm looking at getting the AWS Associate Solutions Architect cert and the Red Hat certified Systems Administrator cert.

Are certifications such as these (not these specific ones, but in general) well-regarded in real life? I will have learned a lot by the time I can pass the exam, so it's worth it in a practical sense I guess. What are your thoughts?
Quite right.

Incidentally, you might be interested in a recent paper of mine arguing that one extremely specific type of 'multiverse' (an extremely specific type of our living in a simulation run in a higher universe) is falsifiable. It's a super short paper using a deus-ex-machina you would never guess: soft errors! :) https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf
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This approach by the company is not surprising at all.

I have family in Canada who come and visit the US. They buy the insurance. One of them had a heart attach while in the US. Insurance paid something like $50,000 to put them on a private medical jet back to Canada. Far cheaper than having the care in the US.
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It doesn't become meaningless to the person who ascribes meaning to the original that Da Vinci put together. It's irrelevant to that person if perfect copies can be made, if they don't want the copies. You can't just arbitrarily claim something universally lacks meaning like that.
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Here's one:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordi_Cortadella/public...

Here's a RTL-level approach:

https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~scotsmit/uncle_async_12.pdf

Here's one for the hybrid Globally-Asynchronous, Locally-Synchronous model:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200502...

On low-level details, here's two on asynchronous synthesis:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1327634/

http://orbit.dtu.dk/files/3459606/Behavioral%20Synthesis%20N...

Synthesis and verification together

http://csl.yale.edu/~rajit/ps/invsynth.pdf

And here's a few designs from my collection:

http://vlsi.cornell.edu/~rajit/ps/dram.pdf

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23n9d4pj

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c07/66eda008b59750eb1e789f...

Note: That's an earlier one I'm including since older nodes are still available via MOSIS and Europractice. Any patents are probably expired. It got first pass in silicon, too.

And I just randomly found this paper that has an optimization algorithm to reduce the area and latency disadvantages of asynchronous circuits:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cjeong/papers/aspdac07.pdf
This time around he's using a lot of prosthetics and makeup, and accents completely unlike his previous shows.

Mostly, at least. His Israeli commando character has a few of the same vocal mannerisms, but appearance-wise none of the characters look remotely like Cohen.
It's an interesting story. The only reason the information is out because a government hostile to the parties released the information.
typedef struct adds extra stuff to the global namespace.

The Linux style suggests avoiding it: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
Yes, the small footprint was a deliberate choice, specifically for the embedded scenario. One of the things I did back in the day was to run Lwan+Lua on an Intel Galileo board, without an SD card (it has only 4MB of flash memory, which has to fit the Linux kernel, some minimal userland, and Lwan+Lua).

TLS is hard given the current architecture, but I've been investigating kTLS, so maybe it'll happen someday. I would appreciate help on this front, though.
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If this subject is interesting to you, and you haven't read Mindstorms yet, I cannot recommend it enough. The entire book is an exploration of the significance of mental models in learning.

A quote from the opening:

'BEFORE I WAS two years old I had developed an intense involvement with automobiles. The names of car parts made up a very substantial portion of my vocabulary: I was particularly proud of knowing about the parts of the transmission system, the gearbox, and most especially the differential. It was, of course, many years later before I understood how gears work; but once I did, playing with gears became a favorite pastime. I loved rotating circular objects against one another in gearlike motions and, naturally, my first "erector set" project was a crude gear system. I became adept at turning wheels in my head and at making chains of cause and effect: "This one turns this way so that must turn that way so..." I found particular pleasure in such systems as the differential gear, which does not follow a simple linear chain of causality since the motion in the transmission shaft can be distributed in many different ways to the two wheels depending on what resistance they encounter. I remember quite vividly my excitement at discovering that a system could be lawful and completely comprehensible without being rigidly deterministic. I believe that working with differentials did more for my mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school. Gears, serving as models, carried many otherwise abstract ideas into my head. I clearly remember two examples from school math. I saw multiplication tables as gears, and my first brush with equations in two variables (e.g., 3x + 4y = 10) immediately evoked the differential. By the time I had made a mental gear model of the relation between x and y, figuring how many teeth each gear needed, the equation had become a comfortable friend.'
in most cases, they'll opt to have you repatriated for care in your home country.

Yes; and that's a shitty thing to require when the person has a broken rib and a detached fingertip and is 20h+ away from the home country.

The problem wasn't that he didn't know the policy, it was the policy itself.
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I’m guessing, at least, out of pocket medical expenses are cheaper. Don’t they have a medical tourism thing going on?
I realised why numbers are important, rather than characters! It scales to datacenter size.

Assign IP ranges to 255 servers or VMs, and hash to base 255 (not 65536 like this example).

Then let the router do the search.
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The Relay way is one common style, but I wouldn't call anything a standard at this point. It feels to me like it's OK if this area needs some time to settle, as there are a few styles that work well for different use-cases, and people are still figuring out if there are better ways out there.

The apollo docs lightly touch on a few styles https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/features/pagination...
This person is in the UK, I can't speak for the UK but in the US you can contact the Department of Insurance for your state if you have issues with insurance companies. They are responsible for regulating insurance companies and making sure their actions are within the bounds of the law.
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Yes, it's hard. And hard things shouldn't be done, or even tried.
You're confusing stock with options.
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It would be better to have a mandated decent system, but there are lots of decent-in-application systems that don't either make transactions public by default or require the recipient to provide their banking info in advance to the sender.
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And that difference would be...

Are you really arguing that you have a right to pick a person at random and coerce them into at least seeing what you have to say before making a decision to ignore you?
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No you don’t need more people. It doesn’t sound like there’s too much work to do, it sounds like you haven’t developed as a manager.
I don't think the comparison with capitalist wealth redistribution works.

In that case, some people (capitalists) would be getting lots of other peoples' (workers') orgasms, and so it would eeem quite fair (though complex) to redistribute them.
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You aren't being told you can't talk about it, nor are you being chastised. You are being told -- repeatedly -- that what I meant is not what you heard and then you insist you are in the right and I am in the wrong when I know best what I intended and no one else seems to have some big issue with my wording, which suggests the misunderstanding is likely primarily on your end, not primarily rooted in terrible phrasing on my end.

You and I obviously see the meaning of rule of thumb differently. I'm not going to look it up and get into some pedantic argument here about which of us is "right."

I don't know why you feel some need to repeatedly inform me that what I think I meant is not what I meant. But this discussion is fundamentally a waste of everyone's time if you are going to simply insist that your interpretation of what I intended is correct and true and my attempts to explain what I intended are somehow bad behavior of some sort.

I don't know how more clearly to convey that. I think I have been extremely patient myself here with trying to find some means to communicate while you appear to be dead set on telling me I don't know what I meant, which just sounds like a rather crazy assertion on the face of it.

It's reasonable to state that it sounded to you like I meant X. It is not reasonable to insist I couldn't have possibly intended something else since X is not the meaning you personally got out of it.

I intend for this to be my last reply. You've taken more than enough of my time over this matter. If that upsets you again for some reason, so be it.
I found this article interesting because I couldn't for the life of me understand why so many people spend so much money on their cars. For me, a car was just a convenient way to get to where I wanted to go. My ego wasn't tied up in at all. I didn't own a car as a way to show off my status. I drove a series of "beaters" and often did my own maintenance and repair of relatively simple issues. I finally bought exactly one new car for cash, and drove it for twelve years.

I never carried collision or comprehensive insurance, having the opinion that dealing with insurance is always a pain in the ass. The insurance premium is simply a markup on the expected value of what the insurance company would pay out. My "inner mathematician" couldn't permit it.

Because of this, my total cost of ownership of cars was really low. I piled all the money I saved into investing, and came out far ahead.

I sold my last car when I retired. Now, I walk everywhere: to the supermarket, to the park, to the gym, to restaurants, to the downtown bars. I'm so glad not to own a car.
> Are you comparing that as a new web pack user or you're already used to it with a bias of your "hate" toward new JS stuff?

A new user. Most of the time I spent was reading docs.

> Perhaps your problem will be solved as parcel takes more time for third parties to fill those small niches.

Oh yes, probably. That's basically what the advantage of Webpack was. There was more 3rd party stuff and it actually worked. Though really I'd want more first party support, otherwise I'm losing the 'zero configuration' sale that got me to try to use it in the first place.
Seastar does up to 8 million connections per second, performance due in part to a user mode TCP stack

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440886
That doesn't break the puzzle at all. Odd days you take the option to answer while your friend agrees to always pass. Even days vice versa. By that interpretation it doubles the days to answer, but the process is identical.
> For Round 10, Lwan has taken the crown. But we expect the other top contenders won't leave this a settled matter.

Am I just blind or is Lwan missing here:
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
No. Using that data might be. In any case, it's only illegal if the Supreme Court interprets it to be illegal. If you have been following the recent years of Supreme Court decisions/dissents it will not be comforting.
I've been using AppSync on an iOS project for the past few months. Really loving it so far. Not only does it enable a serverless GraphQL API, but it also makes it super easy to implement offline-first functionality and data syncing
Well, they're not free gains. It's also not any different than buying on any other day from an investing standpoint. Risk is still the amount of margin requirement (excluding derivative hedges).
Every time my wife's parents travel to the US we get them insurance. Their most recent visit was the first time we actually needed to use it, and it was just minor.

After they arrived they both quickly got sick, not flu type symptoms but a weird spot on the neck, dizziness, and a couple other things I can't remember. It seemed like it could be serious so we took them in. Doctor examined them, said they were okay and we went home. Filed a claim with insurance.

Insurance asked for medical history. They literally don't have any, nor was it really relevant as they weren't diagnosed with anything. I think the insurance wanted to claim pre-existing conditions (which they don't cover). They still refused to pay anything. The bill wasn't even that much, maybe a few hundred dollars? It was less than what I paid the insurance!
Looks good. I think it will be of great help to anyone reading it to have those two links for a little framing.
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