skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have played with a similar BASIC board [1] - it is indeed a lot of fun and (unlike RPi) brings back the feel of first personal computers. One can easily teach a kid programming using such a thing.

[1] http://geoffg.net/maximite.html
Spare us the ethnic slurs please.
I think almost every lonely person considers this, but when you are lonely you might also be depressed and that makes it hard t go meet other ppl because of one or some combo of the following: 1. you feel like nobody would want to associate with your miserable ass 2. you are low on energy from feeling sad and 3. you actually are not interested in anything.

Thats what I went through and probably would be going through right now if it weren't for weddings/ bps I 'had' to go to and moving back home. We don't spend enough time together anymore b/c of the retarded 9-5 system we have and it just being easier to sit around and binge on content
While what the author says is true (and I'm sure he knows vastly more about the subject than I do), I think the way that Kolmogorov complexity is described in the article is a bit misleading to a general audience. For short strings, we often can and do compute the Kolmogorov complexity. See some of Hector Zenil's work, e.g. "Calculating Kolmogorov Complexity from the Output Frequency Distributions of Small Turing Machines" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1302).

What "uncomputable" means is that for the general case, there cannot exist a program that is guaranteed to find the Kolmogorov complexity of a given input string. This is because as we enumerate through all Turing machines from smallest to largest, some will not halt, but we can’t know if this is because the program is just running for a very long time or if it is actually going to run forever. In specific cases for short strings, we can often analytically determine whether the program will halt or not. This is also why we know the first few values of the Busy Beaver function, even though it is also uncomputable.
Are you seriously showing me a study done on 26 women only?
>I was under the impression that NASA used SI.

NASA is a very large organization with thousands of different projects ongoing at any given time. For many smaller projects like this, it's really up to the whim of the project lead what unit system is used.
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(As per your description this company is pretty messed up, so in general you probably want to leave. Who says new boss will stick around? But there may be specific reasons tied to your goals that do make it worth staying.)
"From the earliest days of information theory it has been appreciated that information per se is not a good measure of message value. For example, a typical sequence of coin tosses has high information content but little value; an ephemeris, giving the positions of the moon and planets every day for a hundred years, has no more information than the equations of motion and initial conditions from which it was calculated, but saves its owner the effort of recalculating these positions. The value of a message thus appears to reside not in its information (its absolutely unpredictable parts), nor in its obvious redundancy (verbatim repetitions, unequal digit frequencies), but rather in what might be called its buried redundancy--parts predictable only with difficulty, things the receiver could in principle have figured out without being told, but only at considerable cost in money, time, or computation. In other words, the value of a message is the amount of mathematical or other work plausibly done by its originator, which its receiver is saved from having to repeat."

—Bennett, Charles H. "Logical depth and physical complexity." The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey.
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I don't think it is any harder to meet random people today than it used to be. But then again I'm under 30 and so don't know what it "really" used to be like.

But I deleted my Facebook (really only social media I had) and I haven't had a hard time meeting new people. Really I'm doing a better job. I think this is more because I'm not using Facebook as a crutch. I used to just say "Oh I'll add you on Facebook" (which ironically is way more invasive than a phone number) and then never message them. We'd both like each other's posts and whatnot but it felt really disingenuous.

But since I haven't had that crutch it actually makes me work and focus on building real relationships. This even includes plutonic relationships with the opposite sex.

I'm not saying go out and delete your Facebook and other social media (at least for this reason), but that a lot of us just rely on it as a crutch and real relationships require work. I just think social media makes it easier to be a hermit and kind of tricks you into thinking you are building relationships when you aren't. I often here "I'd delete my Facebook but there are so many people that's the only way I can keep in contact with them." Liking somebody's status and photos isn't keeping in touch nor is it relationship building. But I think most people think treat those actions as if they were.

And I feel like now because of this people think it is weird to talk to someone they haven't talked to in even a few weeks. Hell, I'm okay if I haven't talked to someone in a few years. Life is busy. Life is strange. It is okay to not have to keep in constant and instant contact with people. And I think we forget this because we have technology that no longer makes this the norm. Because in the past instant and constant contact with someone meant you lived with them or extremely near them.

tldr: Relationships take work
> just need to mumble that they are Syrian to get all the goodies

That's an egregious slur. If you post anything like this again, or use HN for this kind of flamewar again, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would love to have a laptop with that SoC or similar.
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There are in fact tribes known to eat only meat and that do not suffer from obesity, heart disease or type 2 diabetes.
This is just more reason why centralized systems, including regulatory agencies, should not be trusted.

If the derivative market was completely decentralized this would not be a problem.

Suboptimal centralization is bad and inevitable when regulating.
No Xi existed before Fuchsia became a thing.

It's a generic editor backend with an official GUI for OS X.
Just use julia instead!
I'm one of those few people who don't have a smartphone (by choice) so I observe this behavior a lot because I'm often looking forward instead of down at a phone.

But, check this out...

Everyone misses that. All you have to do is initiate the conversation.

A few days ago I had a 30 minute discussion with a random dude on Swedish death metal bands because he happened to be playing a song from a band I know while I walked past his house. I've been walking for 5 years and this hasn't happened once, so I had stop and say something.

Every time I take the 90min train ride into the city I usually end up talking to someone for most of the way. I'm not a good conversationalist either or some super extroverted person. I'm just bored sitting on the train, and other people are too (even if they are flipping through their twitter feed).

It's prime pickings to start conversations because everyone is so deprived of it.
Since when is "Government efficiency" supposed to be such an important goal in itself? Let me guess - "It should be run like a corporation!" No, it really, really shouldn't.
Social isolation and loneliness is not the same. When you work with people you don't like much, you are lonely but not isolated.
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That's a great question and I've been trying to figure it out myself for a while. I oscillate between "technology has given us new ways to connect and we just need to leverage them" and "technology broke our existing coordination mechanisms and replaced them with something fundamentally worse for human well-being."

I do think a backlash is already underway against Facebook, at least. This is a step in the right direction, as social media seems to intensity loneliness. The internet can be a tool for community-building -- I see other comments mentioning meetup.com, and I've met many people through Twitter and other online social channels -- but none of the solutions (by my estimation) seem quite there yet in terms of helping people find groups that might suit them and providing a means for keeping people together long-term.

I actually think the most important solutions rest primarily in land use. The "new urbanism" ideas of walkability and mixed-use buildings seem to encourage more casual interactions (which ultimately becomes deeper interaction over time) as people live their lives. On the other hand, I live in Manhattan and I'm still lonely. It's hard to say what will work.
Modern society doesn't overtly stigmatize social interaction, it encourages social isolation at a structural level. Car dependent suburban sprawl is designed to minimize the number of necessary interactions you need to have with strangers to get through your day. As a society we've gone to great lengths to avoid other people. The miracle of modern civilization is that you no longer need to be a part of a community and cultivate a series of interdependent relationships to get through life.
Yes, I should have said parallelism, my bad.

I hope that it does get merged soon, people have been waiting quite a while, in my understanding. It’s a tough problem.
> Many reasons for this, and many good ones have already been noted, but I haven't seen anyone mention time yet. Americans work a lot.

This one is kind of easy. I work A LOT too, but when I’m not, I’m also not: 1. Sitting at the computer, 2. Watching TV/Netflix, 3. Buried in my phone playing Candy Crush

A lot of things I used to say I couldn’t do, I started doing—purely by turning off the screens.
Yeah I've known about Xi for a long time, but it's moving very slowly and is just a hobby project of a Google engineer, nothing official.

Xray seems much more actively developed and actively managed by Atom developers.
You probably don't know them, but single/divorced retirees are probably the loneliest folks. With no workplace to provide daily social exchange, unless they belong to a church, meeting others in a social setting becomes a huge challenge for seniors today. It's little wonder that the long venerated "joys of being retired" are undergoing a major rethink these days.
That's where science and experimentation comes in to some extent - individuals should be able to reproduce results of someone else and see the behavior of reality for themselves.
Also, numba does in fact support targeting the GPU

Numba CUDA is free with Anaconda
> zip

Last time I checked, it was a bundle, which is just a folder, and you can browse it easily by right clicking and picking Show Package Contents. Both originals and modified images are readily available, and Photos stores some metadata (even tags) straight in the EXIF part.
Google punished again for having a more open platform. With this and EU's lawsuit attacking Google for allowing other OEMs to sell Android with conditions, Google's incentive is to copy Apple and lock everything down and make it all proprietary.
Really interesting - though it seems a bit innacurate for my location (Seattle, WA).

https://imgur.com/a/FqtCTBj

^ It shows that about the furthest I can go in 2 hours (east) is Tanner, WA, while in reality I can go about twice that distance and do frequently, nearly all the way to Ellensberg. The north/south part looks correct.
Does Vanguard offer tax advice? Why not reach out to a tax accountant?
Imagine somebody else had written your post on HN. What would you say to them? Would you tell them to stay?

You clearly aren't getting what you want for your career. Move to a place that is aligned to what you want.

Having a boss you respect is great, but look at it objectively. Are they going to promote you and give you the responsibility you want? Even if the answer is yes, will they do in a timeline that fits what you want and in a way that makes sense for what you want for your career? Or will that VP (or somebody just like them) create problems for you?
I'm learning elixir and ios/android development to try and conquer this problem via friendly geolocation games which include lots of mandatory icebreakers like talking about favourites colors, current books being read and other harmless dumb stuff that helps get that social brain muscle pumping.
I pointed out my personal website earlier in the thread, but later recalled I’ve kept archives of every major version going back to ~2000. They sort of capture trends over time.

http://v1.harishnarayanan.org

http://v2.harishnarayanan.org

http://v3.harishnarayanan.org

http://v4.harishnarayanan.org

http://v5.harishnarayanan.org

https://harishnarayanan.org
That crosses into an ethnic slur and that is not ok on HN. Please don't post like this again.
Best way to make friends is to be a part of a group doing an intense activity for a prolonged period if time (1-2 years).

For example join a local sports or esports team.
I've never had a relationship and I think over 30 it's really hard to find one (especially if you never had one so don't have the "how to experience"). Everyone is either already married, or already divorced with kids, or just out of your league. The married part also has another effect: you won't get invited to a lot of events where people socialize, say a kids birthday party where the parents also come together.

Also I think it's a personal thing but I don't even try to make contact with anyone because of the whole climate of our society. Obviously it's divided and that's really bad on its own but I think about things like mansplaining. Basically you are reminded everywhere how bad it is and I agree on that but as an anxious person it makes even more less willing to make contact because I always have that thought of what if you are a doing something wrong, you will be accused of something etc.

Yeah reading back my comment doesnt really make any sense but... I feel that some people, some of us just meant to be forever alone for good or bad
if you can produce a flawless, performant, sandbox, fame and fortune awaits you.
I have to disagree here, rising wealth inequality can be better measured through the impact that things such as private equity have on our economy. It contributes to the rising cost of real estate, and it holds unnecessary leverage over the ability to raise the needed funds to implement critical investment projects since risk adjusted profitability matters more than how it will benefit society or even the individuals that will consume said products.

The rich aren't a necessary piece of the puzzle when it comes to investment in areas that help the public good either, the money that is handed out by NASA, NSF, NIH, DOJ, ect is just as effective at enabling research as money from private benefactors. The reason we it looks like the private sector has provided such huge benefits here is the amount of money they are spending has risen considerably while public funding has fallen considerably.

Now, I'm not saying there is something wrong with multi billionares existing, but to suggest that they are in anyway a positive force beyond what can be provided by the public sector (where at least then there's accountability), shouldn't be a reason to let the rich run around and do whatever they want gobbling up even more of the resources within our economy.
> are you suggesting that it's not my responsibility to throw garbage into a trash can?

They're suggesting the idea that it's solely the individual's responsibility was invented and promoted (for obvious reasons) by companies that manufacture disposable products, starting in the 1960s.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050401192355/http://www.altern... (archive to fix formatting)
> If you sleep for 8 hours and don't snack before bed, you would probably "fast" for 12 hours in a day incidentally

Which is why that next meal is called "break fast".
I don’t think they are a replacement in that they work on a different level.

In a way we deeply lacked the level of discussion we get now online, a lot of opinions couldn’t be discuss effectively with neighbours (for better and for worse). I see them as a lot more genuine than any interactions we had before.

Ideally we need both of them, but I think from now on there will always be a split between very personal online interactions and softer “human” interactions IRL.
Yeah, suicides are climbing, up 50% since 1999. It's the #2 cause of death of people between 10-34. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...
Yeah, agreed. I'm also in plenty of Discords, yet I still recall my most meaningful online social interaction involved spending hours just chilling in a Vent server with my WoW guild.

I think this is an underappreciated feature of "grinding": it gives players a great excuse to put in time and build social bonds.
I think his particular way of fasting could have been a factor for the apparition of his cancer.

It seems that the best parallel we can do is cancer == DNA "software" bugs.

Software debugging is a complex art and what works in one case definitely doesn't work in all cases.
In the same way the PS4 and XBox One are - different firmware, different OS, closed system.
If you could have done this on iOS, would you have?

Yes.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-fortn...
What is the best low-cal drink, then? Or are you better off drinking wine? Whiskey?
"The West, the professor contended, has a problem with the idea of things having spirits and feels that anthropomorphism, the attribution of human-like attributes to things or animals, is childish, primitive, or even bad. He argued that the Luddites who smashed the automated looms that were eliminating their jobs in the 19th century were an example of that, and for contrast he showed an image of a Japanese robot in a factory wearing a cap, having a name and being treated like a colleague rather than a creepy enemy."

I'm sorry, but that is a stupid statement.
First, westerners have no issue with anthropomorphizing (it's a word if I want it to be) inanimate objects. We do it all the damn time. My roomba is named Lenny (hard working, but not too bright).

Second, how on earth is this a valid comparison? "Just look at the facts guys! The luddites destroyed machines that in one fell swoop eliminated the livelihood of a significant portion of people, and this robot has a hat!"
I am not aware that anyone has ever made this work. Full VMs are escapable, iOS jails have been broken and even permissions technically allowed can be abused, etc. There is room to improve, but "just make it impossible to escape the sandbox" is massively oversimplifying. It also makes it harder to make useful apps if you reduce API surface.
Bigger than that is a concurrent model of computation!
Just this morning there was a new item in my feed, "Axe attack: Woman guilty of trying to kill strangers". Now, is it likely that I'm going to run into an axe-wielding stranger today? Statistically no. But after being fed daily news stories about the crazy people that are out there... well, better safe than sorry. If you are a stranger you'd better not even make eye contact with me or I'll be bolting in the opposite direction.
Anticipatory banking! Marvelous!
Agreed. The idea that I would want chemicals on anything I buy by default is nuts. Maybe it's safe, maybe a study will come out in 50 years showing it's not, maybe you let your pan get too hot and the teflon breaks down into your food[1]. And in exchange for... non-stick? Worst trade-off ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safety
Difficult to watch even for the jaded and I suggest those who are sensitive don't.

These are all sorts of externalities of out current lifestyles that these poor desperate people have to deal with. This is simply a reflection of an inhuman society we have created, making money is meaningless if you can't take care of your own. Dehumanizing others only dehumanizes ourselves.

Its not sustainable and extraordinarily wasteful packaging, convenience lifestyles and abuse of plastic currently benefits too many businesses. Uncontrolled free markets with only concern of profits with no concern for the environment and complete lack of responsibility for other people is solely to be blamed.
>glass

In the good old USSR there was a limited number of sizes/styles of glass bottles and jars in circulation. Each one had a deposit value, and if it had no cracks/chips and all labels were removed, it could be returned for direct reuse, i.e. no melting and further manufacturing was involved. I think it worked OK since it had existed for many decades, and energy was cheap in those days.
Maybe the Google Maps QA team?
To rephrase my question: is preventing suicide the primary reason why we should address loneliness?
No, yeah sorry, I’m obviously being super brief here to just get the point across without writing a thesis on my phone :)

Although, predictably enough, I followed up with more thesis length posts to clarify my point! Namedropping einstein too, who do I think I’m impressing? (But Einstein is relevant to this debate, although he made the crucial mistake of only informing the government and not informing the public. Obviously this was well-intentioned on his part and not malicious at all but it’s a lesson that every developer of new innovations needs to take onboard.)

This isn’t about specifically demonizing “engineers” or innovation. Or even to do with liability where “that engineer developed a car that murdered someone”. Liability laws are robust enough to figure out whether the gas pedal was functioning correctly, the driver is at fault, or if not, the engineer (or rather, the company he works for) is at fault.

This debate is about broader strokes: should developers of new technologies be ethically bound to inform both politicians & the public about their innovations, specifically so that, after a public debate on the potential negative consequences of that technology, the public can then demand their politicians to produce robust laws protecting the public from misuse of those technologies. (I say yes, I know it’s tough because I love just developing cool new shit too, but we developers have got to take a step back and realize the future implications of what we make. Data gathering, manipulation and retention is a ticking time bomb. And who knows what’s next.)

Another example is facial recognition, it’s depressingly funny to see experts who know so much about the technology proclaim it to be no big deal without understanding the ramifications of living in a society where your every movement is tracked and potentially monitored. That is a literal police state, and the US constitution has amendments made hundreds of years ago specifically to outlaw such actions to protect the public at large, both from private companies tracking their movements and to protect the public from the government itself. To have all of that progress in the name of “facial recognition will be awesome because you can login to your phone quicker” is not a good move because once that technology is in the wild, until laws catch up to robustly protect the public, who knows what will be done to the public at large with that technology. Ditto for “who cares about data retention and website tracking, it makes marketing so much easier!” and “don’t worry about your DNA being stored and sold by ancestry sites indefinitely because it’s so cool to know that you’ve got a 7th cousin living on a different continent”.
Not the stoned ape theory. I don't believe that at all. But the overall theory of geometric shapes and the relationship with the interworkings of our brain.