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> art is a harder problem than say, exploring meaningful theorems in math

I think it is not all that difficult to argue that math is art.

Sure, some questions posed by mathematicians (such as "Is god's number 20?") can be proven by computers with rote brute force, but the actual creative process of playing with a given system, adding and removing constraints, and seeing what emerges is very much a creative and artistic process.

One of the easiest ways to see this is to read a good math paper. They're rare, but good pieces of math can spark the same sort of feelings that a good pieces of art does.
Less, it’s not on label for aortic regurgitation, only aortic stenosis.
Relevant: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155995...

>The Facebook study, entitled Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (Kramer et al., 2014), was a collaborative endeavour between Facebook and Cornell University’s Departments of Communication and Information Science. In it, Facebook researchers directly manipulated Facebook users’ news feeds to display differing amounts of positive and negative posts from the people they followed in order to determine whether their subsequent posts were affected by the positivity or negativity of the set of posts they were viewing. This effect, that more positive or negative posts read by a user could change their own emotional state positively or negatively, is the ‘emotional contagion’ referenced in the article.

Other links:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29475019
This crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed here. It also breaks this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here? We'd be grateful.
Ada is from the Pascal family IMO.

And somehow I thought ML was from early 80s - thanks for correction!
Yea but if you phrase it that way you don't get on the front page of HN and get all that sweet sweet self promotion marketing goodness.
I haven't yet found the rings and other features to be nearly as motivating as when all of my friends had Fitbits and we were connected through their service. That was one thing that kept me from switching faster, I didn't want to give up the Fitbit social network.
Please don't take HN threads further off topic. If you see an egregious comment, flag it, as requested in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You're also welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. Venting about it here doesn't help; we don't see most of the posts. All it does is lower the signal/noise ratio of a thread even further.

The reason I know about this subthread is that another user flagged the GP comment. Had you added a flag of your own it would have killed it as well.
plausible misread: "it's not at all clear"
Original announcement: https://www.suse.com/c/news/suse-partners-with-growth-invest...

Congratulations, SuSe!

Edit: The title seems to be a little mischaracterizing, SUSE themselves call it a "Sale to EQT". But I suppose there is no other possibility.
They used that argument in court, and a judge disagreed. From TFA:

Uber has tried to maneuver around legal walls using this thin argument of technological exceptionalism to protect its management practices. However, Judge Edward M. Chen seemed to find the company’s reasoning highly improbable in a class-action lawsuit brought by Uber drivers alleging that Uber violates labor law by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, rather than as employees. When presented with the idea that drivers are customers of Uber’s technology, he said, “The fact that you screen drivers, select them, the fact that you, Uber, sets the fare, not the drivers, the fact that the company could not operate and exist as a company and make money without drivers, you think that does not establish, among other things, that these drivers serve Uber?”
Someone I knew was trying to make a film a couple of years ago following the recycling stream from his neighborhood in nyc to China. His takeaway was that basically nothing is recycled.
That's... Gonna take some kernel work - maybe just some wifi drivers, maybe more of the network stack.

And if there is one thing that's less "open" than on Linux, its the OpenBSD kernel.

Dont get me wrong, the source is out there. But you're not gonna find anyone forking it, running patchsets (like almost any linux main-distro does) or the like. Compiling your own kernel isnt even supported.
The ECG really has it's moments. I have arrhythmia (not Afib) and it's handy to be able to correlate what I'm feeling with actual evidence. And I can print it out and take with me at my next appt to discuss with the doc.

But if you have a perfectly boring, normal heart, I can see not using it very often. At least it's unobtrusive if you aren't interested in it.
> It’s something to think about and discuss, not a statement that you should throw your laptop out.

But that's exactly what the current marketing push is all about.

When the first iPad Pro was released, nobody batted an eye because it wasn't pushed as a laptop replacement.
The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency (2016)
Mildly intriguing. My personal cavils would be:

-No desk space and only token storage space. If one needs to access books/paper documents, have additional computers & hardware (yes, we exist), or just needs a place to sketch or write something, this doesn't seem very practical.

-16:10 monitors are not mentioned in the monitor mount configuration section; hopefully that's just an oversight, not an actual limitation.

-Monitor distance is non-adjustable, an issue for older developers or those with vision problems

-No headrest; a serious omission for a reclining seat, particularly at that price point.

-How on earth does one get out of this thing when the power goes out?
The classic demonstration of superposition is the double-slit experiment [0], where an experimenter shines a (coherent) light through a pair of slits at a screen (or fires a stream of electrons through a pair of slits, or small particles- it works with anything.) Because light is waves [1], light coming through one slit will interfere with light coming through the other slit, producing an interference pattern. But weirdly, this still happens if you turn the light source down so low that it emits only one photon at a time. In that case, the photon is in a superposition that travels through both slits, and the interference is between "the part of the superposition going through the right slit" and "the part of the superposition going through the left slit."

So it's not a matter of our being unable to make detailed enough measurements; we can actually observe phenomena that directly indicate superposition happens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
[1] And so are electrons, particles, humans, etc.
Ancient China does have a pretty interesting interpretation of its occasional revolutions...
>This is the push I’ve needed to stop coming to the site. Thanks. I mean it.

Welcome! Always nice to see the trollishly inclined see themselves out.
Person from Germany here where we have 4 different bins per household - paper, recyclables (metal, plastic), compostables and dump (+ glass by color, batteries and electronics at dedicated sites). We get to a recycling rate of about 20-30% (effective at plant) with really wanting to and having it ingrained into our culture.

Recycling is hard at the best of times. Unless packaging gets much better at identifying as recyclable it will be a long road ahead (it's the small things, black plastic is hard to identify and get's burned, composite plastics are problematic, like different plastic foil over plastic canister). At least people think about it around here, but it is a very hard problem.
Non-mobile link: https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-operators-are-u...
Our oceans broke heat records in 2018: the consequences are catastrophic
That's true. Sort of. Clean cardboard is recyclable. But cardboard with broken glass, not so much. And not cardboard with food waste. Or even cardboard with too much plastic tape.

Recycling only works with source separation. But how does that work when there are so many types of plastics in use? And worse, stuff made from multiple types of plastics? Often now plus aluminum and paper.

It's a mess.
They mention ECG patch, so it might not have been too bad. Those are good for longer studies than a typical Holter monitor, and they are waterproof so you can shower with them. I agree that a real Holter monitor is a bit of a pain in the ass and probably would affect compliance rate.
> No drugs or goofy supplements other than my medium cup of Starbuck coffee every morning around 5:30am, plus a booster cup around midday.

You have no idea how much coffee affects your sleep and energy levels until you quit drinking it. Before I quit drinking coffee, when I got home from work I was done for the day. I had a 'boring' evening routine because I had no mental energy to do anything other than veg on youtube videos and pass out early. Since I've quit, I have the same morning routine, but when I get home the productivity continues into the evenings. I feel like I have my teenage energy again. I always wondered what changed or if it's just me getting old, but no, it's because I started drinking coffee at one of my jobs in my early thirties.
Parent comment was indeed terrible, but great-grandparent’s “Fox News is hate porn” started the ideological battle.
> I am hoping Apple will update the 12" MacBook this year so I can try that out for an ultra-portable dev machine. I like the current model but the CPU options are poor/dated.

And drop the price while they are at it. The form factor is enticing but I won't pay that much for it if I can get the Air or Pro for a little bit more.
> You're also negating that folks defaulting massively hinders their ability to move in the financial system.

Quite the contrary. Lenders will lend to you immediately after bankruptcy because you can't default again for seven years, for example. If you have bad credit, you can still get credit! Just at a higher interest rate. I am familiar with lenders who will get you a mortgage the day after foreclosure for 200-250 basis points over conventional rates (6-6.5% versus 4%, in this case).

Economic drag due to student loan debt that can't be discharged is a separate issue (with those debtors delaying or opting out entirely of home ownership and/or children). Pensions will get dumped onto the Pension Guarantee Corp with a reduced benefit payment to those entitled to such, and any federal debt will get inflated away through the Fed (not great, but what happens when you have your own central bank).

As I said, I think the only "great unwind" or credit crunch in the near future is corporate bonds.
Introduction to Rigid Body Dynamics
I was referring for starters to "HAHAHA stop spreading lies", which is obviously against the guidelines.

Since you don't seem to want to use this site as intended, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
We're already headed in that direction, for sure. The company I currently work for doesn't run a program through the insurance company directly, but they do make the company contribution to your HSA dependent on you participating in their wellness program. Bonus points if you have a smartwatch that can feed data back. Supposedly none of that info gets back to the company or insurance, but I wouldn't bet on it.
What matters is what is being recycled. Some recycling makes economic sense today—metals for example and car batteries. The recycling of some plastics makes sense, but it has to be sorted.

There is plenty of land for landfills, but for recycling there may always be things that makes sense to recycle and things that just don’t pencil out.
Well, that depends on what counts as art I suppose. If you are reductionistic enough, I'm fairly certain you could throw in almost any meaningful creative human endeavor in there.

But I mean it in the sense: Sensory inputs that evoke certain emotions (awe, fear, joy...) in the human brain - that should encompass most things people immediately associate with the term.
If you sit in a chair for 14 hours a day like the inventor of this chair does you will develop life threatening blood clots in your legs. It doesn't matter how many ultra marathons you run the other ten hours a day. Your heart can't actually pump the blood out of your legs so your body is designed to have muscle activity in the legs do the work. If you sit for 8 hours you are at serious risk for blood clots (this is why doctors tell you to get up and walk around on a coast-to-coast or trans Atlantic or trans Pacific flight).

And yes, I'm a guy in otherwise great shape who was rushed to the ER with a potentially life threatening blood clot caused by sitting at my laptop in coffee shops for 8 hours a day coding. All that hyper attention and focus capability may be great for coding or gaming but it's a serious risk factor in other ways. The best solution is drink lots of water (so you feel the need to get up) or get a Fitbit and pay attention when it tells you you haven't walked around recently.
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Poverty? Marketing?
Nick Wignall might be an AI evolved to entrap the Hacker News.
I haven’t had this experience. I can push my heart rate up to about 165 running uphill. Considering my age, that’s pretty close to what my maximum HR should be. Conversely, I can get it down to about 45 when sitting very still. Much lower and I’d be unconscious.

It’s possible yours was just faulty. Fitbit aren’t known for their quality control.
If I were to revisit those specific experiments, I wouldn't use AWS as it is very expensive. Fortunately, I now have my own workstation with 2x1080ti (which have ~5x more VRAM than the mobile GPU I was using at the time, IIRC).

There are a lot of hyperparameter optimization methods, but HO is only worthwhile if you can afford a lot of runs and usually delivers relatively small gains compared to scaling up your model/dataset. Right now, it seems like it would be a better approach to continue scaling up the Transformer and/or switching to Transformer-XL than it would be to attempt hyperparameter tuning of GPT-2-small finetuning training.
Minimizing Ubuntu Server Reboots
A Plea to Journalists
20 years. I find reading code with inferred types much much easier. The signal is what the code is doing. The typings are noise.

Edit: In a big complicated system, knowing the type like ‘user’ or ‘account’ doesn’t tell you much. There’s always more information and context. A small type definition is only the tip of the iceberg.
Please keep grandiose ideological rhetoric off this site. It drowns out intellectual curiosity, which is what HN exists for.

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Public WiFi share IP addresses.

>I didn’t know you guys kept track of MAC addresses or however else you track this stuff.

Revisit however else.
> could be just as easily configured using a $199 netbook from Best Buy

Except then when not using PuTTY, you aren’t able to use it as an iPad.
Australia is rich in many minerals. Nonetheless, I'm willing to bet that people sending the metal to a truck to bring to a foundry is still cheaper than mining with all of its environmental impacts. Also, this: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/metal-recycling-where-australia-...
> I have come across one floppy (5¼″ low density, mass duplicated, circa 1990) where DTC reported a single track as unformatted and couldn’t read any data (there was just a bunch of zeros in the resulting image). That is, there were no errors reported at all, DTC simply decided the track wasn’t formatted. There certainly was supposed to be data on that track.

> Reducing the default RPM for decoding from 300 to 295 allowed DTC to decode all tracks of the floppy without errors, including the one previously seen as unformatted. I don’t know what that’s about.

That sounds like some kind of copy protection scheme.
I’m with you. I am very much a night owl. I do my best work between noon and 9pm. Fortunately, my work can be done any time of day. In fact, projects I manage are “jobs in addition to” for most team members. Which means they work on my stuff later in the day, after their day jobs.

I’ll start getting notifications of task completion early afternoon, continuing into the night. I have to process each task, accepting or rejecting them by morning, to keep forward momentum through the next day. Lots of harmony between my internal clock and the work I do.

There’s just one problem: most companies require me to be in the office from 8am to 5pm every weekday. The constant clash of “my job” (the rigid traditional workday), and “my work” (highly-structured, but very fluid schedules), causes a whole lot of unnecessary stress and unproductive office time. I end up working unsustainably long work-weeks, all due to optics (read: office politics). It’s all very strange to me.

My current solution is to work as an independent contractor, and be my own boss. But this solution comes with a whole other set of (very difficult) problems.

It’s frustrating to never fit into the structure of a company, considering I like my work, I’m good at it, and it fits into my internal clock.
I’ve used a chat widget to directly communicate with a startup. Not necessarily to solve a problem but it was great for a direct communication channel that didn’t require giving any of my own contact details.
my model on thingiverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3492946

I wanted to publish it earlier but had to wait a day before I could publish it
Paper must be recyclable, or else all of these "made from 100% recycled paper product" things wouldn't be possible, nor the many actual plants the recycle paper.
Does anyone care? Nightmare of a linux distro.. If someone says "lets use suse linux" run for the hills!!
You can't downvotes posts, you can only flag them.
It's not really the issue of it being 'onerous' (although it is), but that for me, in a watch, reliability is king... heck, if it wasn't, I'd just be using my phone, like many people already do (and which I've also been tempted to do). But there are times when I forget to, say, charge my phone. [1] It's not often, but stuff goes wrong once in a while. Now if I'm short on time the last thing I need is to have to discover I'm out of battery and waste time having to fiddle with a battery pack or something. None of this is an issue when you have a normal dumb watch that lasts a few years. You always have a way to tell what time it is and to set yourself alarms so you can meet your commitments no matter what goes wrong.

[1] Or it crashes, or randomly starts draining its battery insanely faster because Google decided to force feed it an update or due to other reasons I can't fathom... but that's another story.
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Of course we all want you to identify language X and language Z. :-)

The choice of the language in which to code a tool ought to be done by the programmer, perhaps in consultation with the manager. The fact the choice of language is an issue suggests that the back bench of your IT group if fairly weak. Don't most programmers program in all of the popular languages? And if a language is new, don't they become facile in the language in a day or so?
Hmm, funnily enough, despite saying they're not going to support DRM... they seem to be doing exactly that: https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/962.
How can I hack my girl friends Facebook and cell phone
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For now, I'd prefer option C) "Here's something. Go ask your doctor if it's serious."
I disagree with the fact that types are moving over to the right side for readability's sake or anything like that. Modern theorem proving languages explicitly specify that type declarations are simply equivalent to set inclusion, which makes the type specification operator (usually :) equivalent to set inclusion (∈). This influence was what rubbed off onto modern MLs, and by extension, inspired many of the ML inspired/type safe languages that have come out recently.
I'm the single parent who made that comment. It's so important to be an involved parent. Not just for the children but this is also your life. If I can't take the time to enjoy being a parent then why am I even a parent?

Also, discipline is king. Anyone can pull a couple of all-nighters to get some work done but it takes discipline to make a multi-year plan of hard work come to fruition. I have previously considered stopping my studies but I can't accept how my life would look in 5 years if I did this. I'm giving myself a few difficult years to give my future self a much better life.
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The movie "Plastic China" is must-see, in my opinion. It is streaming on Amazon Prime:

https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-China-Jiu-liang-WANG/dp/B06XV...
Also note that US population was about 1/3 and 2/3 of present in 1940 and 1980 respectively. The developing world has grown a lot faster than that. So the number of people living the highest-carbon lifestyles is up while the number of people aspiring to do so is WAY up.
Several watches, including Apple Watch, have a version with built-in LTE. I use it all the time and leave my phone at home. Kinda liberating, actually.
Interesting view, theoh. I wonder if you have any thoughts on what customers in contemporary times look for in art?

You write that "successful art speaks to current human concerns in a way that's undeniable." In general, do you find that customers look for this when they're aiming to buy "quality" art, like paintings, these days?
Or perhaps we could just stop creating it in the first place. Is there really a need for all of the one use plastics or the excessive packaging ?
It's going to revolutionize the web!
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Penny piles can’t be merged together and remain pennies. If you merge a pile of 6 and a pile of 3, you get one metal lump. I actually really like the point you are making, just feel like your illustration works against you.
I think it's a 8 core ryzen 1700 laptop with 32gb ram and 1.5tb ssd and a RX580
The series 3 have cellular modems and virtual SIMs.
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>commoditize your complement

You talk like that's a well-known concept, but as far as I know it has been coined only one year ago in this essay: https://www.gwern.net/Complement
Hey there, wjossey! I'm an engineering lead on the Drift conversations team. Would love to hear more about what you think of Drift. Interesting point about user base alienation, is there anything specific that comes to mind in that area? Anything you think Drift could be doing better?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10086782
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Using React useCallback hook to preserve identity of partially-applied callbacks
literally can't wait until the scroll and input get fixed