skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For both alternatives we begin by computing how far the mouse has gone:

int m = abs(dx) + abs(dy); // Manhattan distance

For the single-pole RC exponential filter as WanderPanda suggested:

c -= c >> 5; // exponential decay without a multiply (not actually faster on most modern CPUs)
c += m;

For the box filter with the running-sum table as nostrademons suggested:

s += m; // update running sum
size_t j = (i + 1) % n; // calculate index in prefix sum table to overwrite
int d = s - t[j]; // calculate sum of last n mouse movement Manhattan distances
t[j] = s;
i = j;

Here c, i, s, and t are all presumed to persist from one event to the next, so maybe they're part of some context struct, while in old-fashioned C they'd be static variables. If n is a compile-time constant, this will be more efficient, especially if it's a power of 2. You don't really need a separate persistent s; that's an optimization nostrademons suggested, but you could instead use a local s at the cost of an extra array-indexing operation:

int s = t[i] + m;

Depending on context this might not actually cost any extra time.

Once you've computed your smoothed mouse velocity in c or d, you compare it against some kind of predetermined threshold, or maybe apply a smoothstep to it to get the mouse pointer size.

Roughly I think WanderPanda's approach is about 12 RISCish CPU instructions, and nostrademons's approach is about 18 but works a lot better. Either way you're probably looking at about 4-8 clock cycles on one core per mouse movement, considerably less than actually drawing the mouse pointer (if you're doing it on the CPU, anyway).

Does that help?
because those web apps run on linux webserver
It's bullshit all the way up. The nature of business necessitates info asymmetry, means you'll never find an honest group 1 individual (or a popular group 2), they're always angling, hyping, or associating with symbols as they trained themselves to. The closest there is to a philosopher businessman is probably Seneca, but maybe he was just a moralising game theorist ahead of his time like Taleb (who claims Sextus Empiricus laid it all out bare in terms of risk/belief).
An animal’s gut is also arguably “external”, in the sense that the gastrointestinal tract means an animal is a topological torus, and the contents of the gut are also “outside” of the body. It’s an open question how the closed digestive tract evolved, but it presumably came from a digestive surface of some sort folding over on itself, since it must have evolved in creatures that were previously able to digest. The same general phenomenon presumably produced lungs by cavitating a gas-exchange surface to increase surface area.
Why doesn't the Government take some responsibility though?

They screwed up on some many levels, now it's up to the individual to be tracked like a criminal? That's why this is such a joke.

I remember reading the Prime Minister of Australia scoffed at corona virus, said it was a Chinese problem and said he will attend the Rugby League.
I would pay 5-10$ to use a bathroom when emergency.
> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app.

The media creation community is looks at the web programming community and wondering what the hell you are talking about, and why your view is so narrow.

Blender, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, Visual Studio, ProTools, Reaper, Substance Suite etc. etc. the list goes on and on. These kind of applications often have extremely heavy system requirements and are often extremely sensitive to latency, and are just not going up and "migrate to the cloud" anytime soon.

Embedded programming is another example. A lot of developers work in this space.

> I have literally 4 apps that I use on my machine: terminal and postman in addition to the above.

Your personal requirements, as lightweight and easily offloadable as they are, do not represent the wider community. I am constantly astounded by how blinkered the web community appears to be about this.
True. I was surprised by the number of homeless people in NY. Especially in the train.
> That was actually my real point. For many smaller companies, it will.

Just an observation, but I've almost never seen job postings for entry/junior level engineers in the embedded/systems world. Only senior-staff level roles (I get the feeling that a lot of early career talent in these domains is sourced from local university pipelines). This has been my observation across both small companies and large corporations. Are these shops really considering people who's only experience is some contrived side projects at that level?
Like usual with papers, skip to the summary - the first sentence: "In this paper, we present for the first time, a simple, highly accurate test system for measuring [...]"

Good reason to talk a lot about the measuring methodology.
Or any other philosophy, where nihilism is the absence of either.

In other words, religion is wonderful for those for whom it works; the same goes for existentialism (our meaning comes from within) or really literally anything else that gets you through the day.

Every morning we wake up and the vast majority of us decide to not jump off a tall building. Why?
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This looks really cool to me, because I love to write SQL.

Except for that `UPDATE` statement. That... is a problem.

Looks like there is an open discussion about this on the project: https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/discussions/1149
Due religious reasons I'm contemplating my death quite often. Not daily but I try to do it at least weekly. I don't say it has made me comfortable about being mortal but compared to people around me I seem to have more casual relationship to it. Like the other day my boss asked me if I'll come to the office next week and with smile on my face I answered, that yes I'll come if I won't die during weekend. He got quite confused.

Remembering that you'll die someday, and not just some distant day far away but literally any day or moment gives a good perspective to everything in your life and makes you focus on things that truly matters.
I think that insect population collapse is very worrisome. Some very intelligent people claim that seems to be going towards that path. Electromagnetic pollution one of the main source of its decline. So, maybe yes.
> You're drawing a conclusion that the data doesn't support.

I'm telling you the conclusions of the paper. Your faith in masks is an entirely separate question that is clearly unaffected by the data here, because it requires proving a negative.

Is it possible that cloth masks actually work, and this huge study failed to find any significant effect? Anything is possible, but the results here are indistinguishable from noise, and don't support the claim. And with every RCT that gets published showing negligible effect from community masking, the probability that the claim is true gets smaller.
> but underneath that is just regular old computer programming, just like the Vic20.

Yeah, unfortunately I thought that I could easily understand modern computers after having played around with the 6502 family a lot. Only to learn that even at the lowest level there's a lot of legacy cruft and decades worth of added abstractions.
For various reasons. But without our individual reason, the alternative is not misery. We can come up with other reasons. Or just do without reason (such as when we satisfy natural drives).
The problem is real, for many banks, but it’s not as big problem as it would seem.

I know one bank who does an academy thing, where they bring in graduates, train them for up to two years (with salary) for them to be able to work on the systems.
So, it’s a problem, but they have knows to get around it.

Also. This problem is not isolated to banks. I saw the same kinds of problems when I was in telecom.
I learned to pee before going out in NY. This is a mandatory action. Also decided to not hold until the last minute.
Older cars don't depreciate as much. Mine are pretty much done depreciating. I also understand that it is possible to flash the ECU on some newer cars to change the mileage.

I just checked and according to the NHTSA cars over ten years old aren't even required to have a functional odometer (you just have to disclose it when you sell it). I'm not sure how common odometer fraud is, or would be under your proposed law, but the bigger the incentive the more likely I think it would be to occur.

You are right though most people would comply with the law.
Any actual physicists around who can weigh in with a "for dummies" explanation of this?

I'm worried I'm having knee jerk reaction dismissing this as not evidence that 5g could be harmful because of the sheer amount of total nonsense 5G conspiracy theories I've also been exposed to.

Especially interesting was someone mentioning potential affects on insects, who do have much thinner barriers between air and their internal organs/brains.
I'm still infatuated with the likes of Smalltalk and Genera where the entire system seems somewhat advanced and hackable.
I only see people post for something like if they or a close relative gets married now to be honest, so it doesn't seem to be a privacy thing but a lack of caring to post so much like one did in highschool. Maybe its just a part of growing up where you stop craving that sort of validation and are more focused on your real world personal life.
True. Especially it’s hard to find at night time as they close around 8 or 10pm.
Where should drunk people pee at night time?
Nice non-specialist summary of recent EHT work! I'm so used to wincing when I click on pop science articles that it was a relief to see a very accurate and yet easy-to-understand article about work I'm involved with.
Not very effective if living in a city.
My current phone, a Pixel 3, died after about a year, just barely under warranty.

I thought later, I wonder if putting it on the top of my microwave while it's in use did anything to it. So I stopped doing that.
Wow, that’s a lot of extrapolation from one comment.

First of all, TheSpiceIsLife is Tasmanian according to their bio.

Second, even if they were American to then assume that all Americans can’t pick up on irony or sarcasm because one person on the internet missed an instance of it is quite the stretch.
For what it's worth, the analogue to Anthos is AWS Outpost.

But you could argue Outpost still has a more clear name for what it is, although I wonder if they actually thought through the definition of the word: a small military camp or position at some distance from the main force, used especially as a guard against surprise attack.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/all-communications-between-...
Have you ever felt like you need a mentor?
Inverse square law still holds.
A. Does that paper have anything to do with any of the graphs in TFA? The point of the exercise was to calibrate intuition for trends and intensities, not to talk about damage models.

B. Has this line of research actually shown anything in a bulk setting at sane levels of incident RF or is it still "we built an antenna structure out of saline and showed that a neuron can respond to the resulting voltage if we really blast it?"

Thermalization mechanisms like rovibrational absorption (small scale) and conventional currents (large scale -- the focus of these new studies) aren't the only supporting evidence for thermal damage models, though. There is also the dose/response curve. We can generate RF at many thousands of times the intensity that we find in cell phones and observe the consequences. Often unintentionally. Those consequences look a heck of a lot like thermal burns. If there is an alternative damage mechanism, it has to saturate at a very low level, so that there are no observable acute effects from a wild overdose.
I think this is a good lesson to test often and test in private. Those failures are all very reasonable, it's just a shame it had to be during public fanfare.
You can enjoy adding bathroom locations and review it.
Actually I wanted to make it to Airbnb for bathroom by partnering with many merchants.
It seems like the government tried, but was limited by process. Revoking citizenship is a touchy and complicated subject up here.
I remember reading that phones are adaptive, so they ramp up the power if they have trouble connecting to a tower.
The guy you are responding to IS the creator of the language.
An independent repair shop would have been able to perform those repairs for ~1/5th the price. This is what I've experienced when comparison shopping repairs.
Proton : the new Firefox ?
The characterization of mRNA as "gene therapy" is really a master-stroke of propaganda from the anti-vax movement considering that mRNA vaccines never enter the cell nucleus and that they replace the traditional vaccine technique of literally inserting viruses into your body -- you know, the things that specialize in attacking and rewiring your cells.

mRNA technology isn't new, but even if it was, it's still wild to claim that a delivery mechanism that's less invasive than traditional vaccine techniques is somehow magically more dangerous.

Also, tons of existing vaccines require boosters, and not all vaccines produce sterilizing immunity -- the COVID vaccines are not unique in that regard.
I would love to read an article about your long list of ways you worry about dying
The dose makes the poison; nothing is completely safe to be exposed to. The lethal dose of ivermectin is about 10 mg/kg orally, so it's about 250 times more poisonous than table salt, which from my point of view puts it in the "dangerous poisons" category. But that's about 30 times the standard therapeutic dose, so it's pretty unlikely to happen by accident.

However, that's the standard therapeutic dose for parasites. To work as an antiviral it needs to interfere with viral replication somehow, and since viruses replicate using normal somatic-cell metabolic processes, you'd probably have to take a high enough dose of ivermectin for it to interfere with normal somatic-cell metabolic processes. That, in turn, means you're going to see side effects you wouldn't see at the normal antiparasitic doses.

Nevertheless, there isn't in fact an epidemic of serious ivermectin poisoning, horse dewormers or no. Maybe one in ten million people in the US, less elsewhere.
Because now you can have the same (web)apps than everybody else. (And you have games, too)
I wish I could get in lol
The thing is, I want banks. I don't want a system where if someone gets ahold of a secret key all of my money is gone forever. I want a system that protects me from theft and fraud.
Isn't this done for anything that sells via auction or some kind of bidding system?
Everyone noticed.

What was less obvious was that electron would grow this big and still be this bad. How is the memory usage still so inefficient?
A lot of people are trying to interpret this. I read the complete paper. This is very far from any kind of conclusive result that says 5G presents serious risks to human health. However it does raise a couple of important considerations that warrant further study.

This study was done on cow brain tissue outside of a skull cavity and found that in certain specific circumstances the radio frequencies used by 5G can transmit energy to brain tissues and pathways that warrant further study. That's all this paper says and it's methodology appears to be pretty credible for the conclusion reached. In somewhat of a rarity these days, this appears to be "good science".
Internet Explorer vulnerability threatens Microsoft Office users
Australia's COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme
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The scheme will provide a simple, streamlined process to reimburse/compensate eligible people for their injuries without the need for complex legal proceedings.

..."
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I have sympathy for her, Obama seems to have had it as well. I don't understand her case well enough to judge her though.
To me, this reveals the Christian roots of modern medicine.

To me, these weeds are to be uprooted: Christians willingly inflict suffering unto others, as they believe it is the natural state of human being and must be increased in servitude of their God, especially near death.
Actually an alley is a spot to pee in NY lol
If you like the super organized way of working: those processes, paperworks, etc : you might not like the startup ways.
"Probable cause of a crime" means what? That's not an actual legal term. "Probable cause" can be used to justify a search.

You would need to actually be suspected of a crime. If the cops don't find drugs, what crime are you guilty of?
> A few people wore masks

...there were 54,000 people in the cloth mask villages, and 106,000 people in the surgical mask villages. Compliance was over 40%.

That's more than "a few people".
even worse, QUIC embeds layering violation into the protocol, it can be ok as a web browser-web server protocol to minmax the TTB, but cannot be a protocol to build new applications
40 million Chromebooks will be shipped in 2021!
The intent of this paper seems to have been to invent/improve methods for measuring the effects of 5g radiation on tissue, not necessarily to prove/disprove harm.
Agreed it’s an excellent editor however it has a lot of engineering resources behind it and still suffers from sluggish performance, especially on startup.
Thank you for this, looking forward to seeing it.

Not yet seen my 78's showing up, but have seen them in the IA collection.
"A Confession" [1] and "The Kingdom of God is Within You" [2] by Leo Tolstoy. I believe Mahatma Gandhi considered the latter as a core influence for his nonviolent resistance philosophy.

Also, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" [3] by Tolstoy. I felt like a ping-pong ball in the hands of the author: whichever way he wanted me to think at a certain point in the plot, I did. Masterful insight into the life and death of an ordinary, diligent man. And, above and beyond that, it depicts the rarely avoidable self-centeredness of humans.

Oh, and lately, the prominent Finnish deep ecologist Pentti Linkola [4] has been a huge influence on me. In the Nordic countries, he is sometimes called "ecofascist", but this is an obvious cherry-picked overstatement of his views to my mind. I think only one of his books has been translated into English, though: "Can Life Prevail?" [5].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_Y...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola and a fan page at http://www.penttilinkola.com/

5: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6397542-can-life-prevail
The problem that I see, it's that gel simulants are ineffective as a proxy to estimate health hazards for regulating this subject.
I think a lot of people would rather have a functioning society, built on a lie, than the alternative.

I don't think Nietzsche was ever really able to come up with a great alternative to religion, and he certainly didn't seem happy about its end.

> God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
I misinterpreted your point due to my own misunderstanding of quantum spin, a subject I'm currently studying. I see your point now, due to the dipole nature of magnetism, and the confusion came from the original "so you could not do the same for a human," in which I think you meant "you could not do the same in a perfectly uniform field."
My last phone was replaced once and my current one has been replaced twice, both under AppleCare. I view AC as “phone as a service”, which is reasonable. The recent option to add accidental drop and theft coverage onto the base AppleCare seems to be making that explicit. I’d like to always have a phone and have it be replaced quickly if it goes kaput.
Do you mean "suspected of committing a crime"? "Probable cause" relates to searching or entering private property.
Wasn't at all clear to me what it does.

"EKS Anywhere" doesn't make sense.

to me the 4 main benefits of EKS is
1. managed control plain.
2. ebs storage integration.
3. amazon vpc network integration.
4. IAM integration.

EKS anywehere provides none of these, at best maybe it is providing similar networking behaviour, but that is actually happening with a 3rd part CNI, so even if it is consistent which i am no convinced it is, i don't need eks anywhere for it at all.

I would have expected it to be some sort of system that would let me use my EKS master to run nodes anywhere
Except they're not trying hard enough.
One of the big problems with existing power plants is that you have to build them near where people are. So then land is expensive and you get a bunch of regulations because people are worried about what's happening in their back yard.

If you could hypothetically build a fusion plant that would generate several times more power than existing fission reactors at a similar construction cost, you would have so much power you wouldn't have to worry much about transmission losses. At which point you could put it in the middle of nowhere without those constraints and make it actually less expensive for several times more power.

Then for cities power gets cheaper, but for anything that can be built out in the middle of nowhere near the reactor, power gets a lot cheaper.
Responding for the parent. They are basically making predictions with S curves. Technology often starts out as really expensive but after awhile gets super cheap, following what appears to be an exponential curve (bottom of the S), before it levels off (top of the S). Yeah, look more like an integral sign or sigmoid.

But with fusion the endless claims of "too cheap to meter" are because how much energy there is in a fusion reaction. [0] We know that fission produces a lot of energy (but is expensive) but fusion produces significantly more. It also doesn't have the radiation drawbacks and so it is expected to follow the S curve (fission did initially but things changed. This is part of why France has so much nuclear).

So if (big if) fusion does follow this S curve (which there are good reasons to expect it to) then it could provide a very cheap and sustainable energy source. Yes, it is a bet, but every technology is. We won't know until we spend significant time and money into researching it. But honestly, a few billion dollars isn't that crazy for the potential upsides. We've spent that money on far greater risks with lower payout. Despite what the OP said, the money for ITER does not require international collaboration. Any rich country could do it themselves.

[0] (Fission and fusion can yield energy graph) http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/NucEne/nucbin.htm...
What tech products are robustly designed? The market incentives are towards disposability. Send it to the landfill and buy a new one, the new model is better anyway.
> 2021: Dropped, broken screen (365$ repair down to $0 under AppleCare)

iPhone screen repairs cost almost $400??
I didn’t think of it that way, It’s probably a tug war
My money is that they will have to disclose inputs, if for no other reason than to address the uncertainty about race as a possible input.
It seems you forgot sqlboiler [1] which is something like "write SQL schema, parse SQL schema, generate Go structs and functions to build queries using SQL primitives". Not quite like generating activerecords, I think.

[1]: https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler