skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit turned off by the way assembly is described as "tricky" and "tedious"... All programming languages can be tricky and tedious. Assembly (specially on the 6502) is conceptually very simple and, while it may not be trivial to translate higher-level concepts to its simplicity, as long as what you want can be readily expressed in it, it's trivially easy.

You will, of course, need to know what bits to set at what addresses to make the NES auxiliary chips work and do what you expect them to do and that may represent some work but that complexity is from the platform, not the language. You can have a library (or a set of macros) that deals with it written in any language you can compile for the platform.
I think I recall what he might be talking about. I remember several third party apps within Facebook that served a similar function being popular back in the early days of Facebook. It's totally reasonable that someone might fuzzily confuse one of those for core features after a decade or so.
I think there are two contradictory conditions in this. The reality is that just because it saves lives doesn't mean it should be free. The US is the only country in the world that spends a billion dollars to develop a drug for a disease that helps 1000 people. It is kind of amazing, but ultimately economically terrible: half a billion can save a lot more than 1000.

We have to bear the cost of accepting that lives are not worth infinite, and that its not okay to spend irrationally to save one.

That said, the US has deep issues in its pharma, like extreme regulatory restrictions and importation restrictions that can be tear down overnight and would drop drug prices to the floor very quickly.
i just started learning Common Lisp a couple of weeks ago. Coming from a strong OO programming background, i can honestly say it is a completely different mind-set.

So far, i like it a lot, but i wouldn't consider myself anywhere near proficient enough in it to make a game. Looking forward to seeing what the products of this Jam are.
Only because no search engines understand them.

I would love to ask specific questions instead of translating everything into multiple queries of "search engine speak".

Every time we find an edge case (or a noob question) that lands us on stack exchange, we could just ask an AI directly to look up the relevant documentation or scour through thousands of bug reports and workarounds.

Stage two describing the solution you want generated code for, or stage three stating the problem, or stage 4 finding problems and solving them.
Yes, swapping would have obviously come with a cost. The point was that swapping would have been entirely possible. Instead DuPont, even knowing full well the potentially global and catastrophic level of damage they were causing, successfully lobbied to prevent any regulation against them for the better part of a decade after their effects became widely known. And it's highly likely that DuPont understood the dangers well before then.
Google loopholes in capital gains taxes. Lots of ways to avoid them. The wealthy can hire experts.
It appears that this site has been embraced by the HN-hug-of-death.
They used CSS to create the font (presumably as an art project?), but it is available in plain OTF/TTF format, so it can be used as a normal font and doesn't need to be a barrier to accessibility tools.
The easy use cases come first.
An interesting thing to consider is that even if you believe that the "rich" people deserve to have all of the assets, and consequently all of the risk, when something does happen they conveniently do not take the disproportionate amount of suffering that would be implied by their disproportionate amount of resources.

You can see this all of the time:

- CEOs get huge bonuses when the company is succeeding, but when the company fails there are layoffs. In the worst case they often leave with a large amount of severance compensation.

In short I think the problem is a lack of alignment (in addition to many others). The other problem is that our "democracy" is highly crippled. I might even conjecture that in a functional democracy large inequality should be impossible as the large poor population would always take actions to restabilize things.

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To elaborate on this last point. People in this thread are commenting on all of the "loop-holes". Those loopholes don't really matter. In a functional democracy the poor would simply find all of them and vote to have them removed.

I don't think "the poor" care about others having more wealth than them any more than they care that some are taller than them. The issue is that the current level of inequality is, dare I say it, unnatural. Take any human property you want -- height, weight, intelligence, mile time, anything objective. You'll see that the distribution in ability for that property (or properties) is no where even close to the wealth distribution. So, maybe the natural wealth distribution should be closer to the distribution of those "natural" properties.
That's always my problem when I look at lisp for game programming. If I say "I want to write a standalone 3D iPhone game using C#", there are plenty of sites that'll show me exactly what tools are out there, how they work together, and how to write/debug/package a complete game.

With Lisp, I often end up in the weeds looking at tools and tech that may or may not still be supported. I have a hard time figuring out a well-established set of tools that'll get me a first-class playable game in Lisp.

If anything I'm going to watch this game jam just to see what everyone's using and how good the results look.
I use whatever the latest version of iTunes is and sync to an iPhone X over my personal Wi-Fi connection. For whatever reason their default sync is very bad. If you instead put all your iTunes music in a playlist and choose the option to sync only that playlist it works nearly perfectly. I've been using this method since the iPhone 4s came out and have only had issues syncing maybe once or twice a year. I sync a few times per month.
Related to this, Musk's latest statement says the driver who died did not have his hands on the wheel for "6 seconds".

Is that supposed to make me feel better? If the car can go from fine to crashing into a barrier in only 6 seconds, that seems like a damnation of Autopilot more so than the driver.
Agreed that a lot of time will be freed up, but I don't think the majority of people will use this time productively. Most people will just end up watching Netflix in their cars instead of focusing on the road.

I highly recommend this Benedict Evans post on the second-order consequences of electric & autonomous vehicles: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-s...
> What that bad thing is isn't clearly specified, instead the author only claims that "tribalism, authoritarianism, extremism, disinformation, and hyperbolic outrage" has increased on these platforms

[gestures broadly to the western world in 2018]
If your only qualifier for something being a dialect of "Lisp" is having lots of parentheses, and a bunch of stuff that basically every high level language has these days, like first class functions and garbage collection, sure.

I wouldn't consider something a dialect unless they were similar enough that most code that works in one works in the other with minimal modification. Old Lisp code does not work in Scheme. A lot of it does however work in Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp.

So Scheme being in a Lisp "family"? Sure. But not a dialect.
Vouching for this comment, because while it doesn't explicitly add anything anyone else hasn't said, there doesn't seem to me to be a reason to have it shadowbanned -- it's not a bad comment, just a commonly remarked one.

For the record, you've been marked as shadowbanned for the last 7 months.
This is a nonsensical comment. He used bombs to gain the notoriety to get published in the New York Times.
Since the data is being encoded with a signal processing trick that is inaudible to human ears this could work in any song with 0-100hz frequencies, right?

I was little disappointed when I didn't hear intense dialup-modem-like sounds encoding data I'm the midrange
So you're saying something like UBI could turn America into social media/streaming entertainment zombies...

But wouldn't that make the entertainment industry explode?
I don't know if feeds really work better that way. There are people I wish I was still following on Facebook because I'd like to get the highlights of what happens to them (moves, deaths, other important life events) but I had to drop them because they post trivial shit that gets dozens or hundreds of likes. Reactions were designed to help with that problem (sad news can get sad reactions so it can get elevated the same way a "liked" post can) but people still get more sad reactions when they post a link to a news article about pollution or kids dying in a car crash in another country than when they announce that they themselves have a serious illness.

I wish there was a social network that could somehow avoid people competing to post the highest volume of popular content, so they could relax and focus on posting information about themselves that other people want to know. But even if you were somehow able to force people to just post about themselves, no third-party content, there are plenty of people who would make a meal of it by posting endless videos about their grooming regimen, their cooking, or cute stuff their cat does. It all just devolves into competing for attention. Hmmm.

How about a social network in which everybody is guaranteed equal exposure, and posting more content only dilutes your own content, not everybody else's?
How outrageous, this site does not work with CSS disabled.
Correct. And it's been this way for a long, long time.

Back in the early 1990s, I recall browsing the "open positions" list, posted in the cafeteria at work and being shocked at the variance in starting salaries: Windows (3.0) Programming positions (C & Visual Basic) requiring no more than a high school education were offered at $70,000. Positions for PhD Chemists began at $35,000 and demanded a long list of accomplishments not limited to publications in major journals. "listed as primary inventor on one or more patents, a plus!"

So in summary, one trade could be learnt by a motivated self-directed student in the span of a summer, for no more cost than a short stack of books. The other required at least 6 years of advanced education and likely $50,000+ of debt -- a serious investment not only in time and money but also opportunity cost, as those 6 years are NOT being spent earning. Yet the former paid twice the latter. (And may still, for all I know.)

Obviously, this was a lead-up to the great wave of offshoring efforts. Executives must have noticed this variance as well.
I am not really sure what you are talking about...a email account consists of either emails you received or emails you sent.

So naturally for all your emails you have in your inbox the sender has them in their outbox...and every email you sent also exists as a copy in somebody else’s inbox.

And you can’t control whether the other parties host their own email server or if they use a hosted service...in which case, guess what: now a third party also has a copy.

Now to hosting your own email server...who is gonna stop your Datacenter from obtaining a copy of your emails? They call it backups ;)

It’s easy to talk to your Barista about decentralization and blockchain as the solution to privacy...but actually making that a reality is not.

And we haven’t even touched on spam...how you gonna fight that in a decentralized network? How about bots?

I could go on but I hope you get the picture.
Indeed, imagine the horror all the English speakers have when the come to Netherlands and are offered verse munt thee!

How silly those Dutch are for inventing a word before English existed, and then continuing to use it today even when apparently a sliver of the English speakers of the world think it means something bad.
How many wealthy in the Soviet Union or China were still there after their revolutions?
Perhaps the better question is "what has changed that could make it workable now?". For example, in an interconnected world like today's, some countries actually do have massive power. Take the anti-corruption laws that say a multinational corporation can face stiff penalties at home for corruption that happens abroad - AFAIK, while not perfect, they're not ineffective either.

If, say, US would pass laws that allow them to tax everything that touches/ does business with a wealthy individual - that would make it very hard for said individual to avoid taxes (relocation to other countries doesn't help, and avoiding any business with US is impractical). I mean - what I present here is certainly not a "workable idea", but the gist of it should be that "because it was impossible in the past, it's not necessarily impossible in the future".
MTN is rolling out 500 new mobile money kiosks in Zambia
Thank god americans respect free speech.
Stereo audio sent to a single endpoint is different than two audio streams sent to two different endpoints and then synchronized.

(I assume that's the challenge, because as little as 1ms delay can cause noticeable phasing.)
Can you get into a little more detail regarding your primary business? I'd love to brainstorm? Whatsapp or Skype maybe?
Is that so surprising? You're asking him to talk about the one thing that makes Facebook a viable revenue generator. I also feel like the use of "admit" in the headline is disingenuous.

I have zero expertise in this field but my intuition is that Facebook runs on an incredibly sensitive business model. Like an animal specialised to a specific biome. Adjust the conditions a bit and it might perish in a few generations. Meaningful legislative change to data collection or advertising laws might out them at risk.
Wealth inequality is extremely easy to solve - raise taxes on the rich (as well as rent-seeking). The problem is that our politicians, especially conservatives (though liberals are in on it too), have no integrity in this regard. We just need to stop voting in people who won't raise taxes on the rich.

* By the rich, I'm not referring to the doctors, engineers, and lawyers in the upper middle class, I'm referring to billionaires
Al Jazeera, maybe
You can use the font-size property as usual, if you convert the font definition from px units to em units.

EDIT: Demo with font-size: https://jsfiddle.net/6cg8dLnz/
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We have no idea how he got out again
That’s a misleading characterization of the industry. There is a huge gap between university research and products people can sell, and its not just drug testing and marketing. (Think of the difference between the Google patent developed at Stanford and Google’s real search engine.)
Whenever I see these inequality articles, I feel the need to mention a few things:

- The "1%" is ever changing, the mobility in and out of that group has only increased over time [0]

- Most measures of inequality are local or national. The same markets that have enriched the 1% have also brought a billion people out of poverty globally in the last 30 years. [1] Globally, workers are doing better than ever.

- The practicality of inequality changes over time. Most people in the middle 50% in developed nations live better than the .1% of a hundred years ago.

Inequality may be a problem, but it's not an existential threat or even a primary concern to developed countries.

[0]https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/mo...

[1]https://www.economist.com/news/international/21719790-going-...
We've modified adult cells of Huntingtons patients [0] but I can't find any reports outside of hackerspaces of performing it on full human adults.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-use-crispr-to-edi...
And those in that party working hard to lower taxes are... wealthy. They seem to be having some modest success this political season.
It may be hard to get effective tax rates for high earners above 40%, but it would be eminently feasible to get them back up to 40%, where they stood before Bush and now Trump went off and reduced effective tax rates for high earners so much.

I just mailed the feds my owed taxes for 2017; my high earner effective federal tax rate is ridiculously low (lower, because of the cut off for social security at ~120k, than significantly less well paid people).

I didn’t ask for these tax cuts, and they’re certainly not enhancing my propensity to work, they’re just going to allow me to retire earlier.

But if your point is that income taxes aren’t an awesome way to raise revenue, I’m with you. Land-value-taxes would be almost impossible to avoid, and would have the salutory effect of improving efficiency in dense urban areas.
If you survey Americans, I think you would find a very small percentage who had ever heard the word "munt".
Another aspect I find useful is to think about how to position yourself. Do you advertise yourself as a technology expert or do you describe what you do in common language? e.g. "We build website with angular" vs "We build website for jewellery brand" is very likely to influence what kind of client you will get
I still am a big fan of Quora. There are a lot of great engineering and maths question/answer threads I enjoy reading on there when they show up in my inbox.

But you're absolutely right that more and more I'm receiving notifications of questions like "What do Liberals do for fun?" "Why do Liberals hate Donald Trump so much?" etc, etc etc.

Obvious trolling to spark anger, snark, or vitriolic response. It's toxic, and a damned shame.
https://i.imgur.com/yNlQWRM.jpg
Not sure how you'd define "sustained", but the introduction of inheritance tax in the UK very effectively clobbered most of the surviving minor feudal landowners. Although that was also the period of massive social change and the world wars.
> It is much less popular than it used to be.

Haven't heard that before. Do you have supporting data?
Yeah, it's a cultural issue here. I sometimes phrase it as "nobody hates Americans as much as other Americans".
They're also not deleted by "git stash" though.
I don't think it's a long-term view due to the numbers involved. For example, everyday developers might have access to 64-bit laptop computer with 4 cores @ 4 ghz and 16 GB of RAM (literally millions of people use such a machine, zero exaggeration).

When working on their own desktops, AI researches might use an 6-core or 8-core desktop with 64 GB of RAM or, rarely, 128 GB of RAM.

Access to 2-32 terabytes of RAM are not in the realm of what most AI researchers get to run their algorithms on on a daily basis.

Google's AlphaGo ran on[1] 1202 CPU's, 176 GPU's, and I didn't immediately find the amount of memory but on the order of magnitude you would think it is from 1 terabyte (if it's 1 GB of RAM per CPU) up to (reasonably) about 128 terabytes, with my guess being 4 TB-16 TB. However I didn't find this figure.

This is hardware that exists today, but AI researchers would have to wait a few years to have normal everyday access to this kind of thing in their normal everyday devices. Right now only datacenters match the processing ability of the human mind. Although they certainly exist in one cluster, they're far from the type of thing that is in everyone's hands yet.

On the other hand, once it is set up these clusters can be far faster than the human brain, which runs at really slow analog speeds. (Look up the propagation speed of neural signals.) The human brain is just slightly ahead of the curve right now without any specialized hardware.

There are 7 billion extant examples of intelligent human brains. There are probably less than 10,000 clusters AI researchers can play around with for months, which have 16-128 TB of RAM and aren't used for anything more important, just whatever they feel like running on it. (Versus easily more than 15 million computers with just 16 GB of RAM, though that may not be enough.)

I don't think this is very far-off.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-computing-power...
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True, but 8 people hold 50% of the world's wealth, and pay less in taxes on a percentage basis than us normal slobs. There's no reason we shouldn't tax them and everyone who has more than they need for 1000 lifetimes at 90%, no matter how long it took them to acquire their wealth. It's obscene.
Nope. While the characters are originally created with CSS rules, the resulting font is a web font standard .woff, completely accesible.

On-topic: I really like the hover animations under https://yusugomori.com/projects/css-sans/fonts. Makes it really easy to get what was being done.
I mentioned Digg to a friend of mine the other day and he said "Oh, is that still a thing?" I didn't realize that it was a thing to put Digg down. It and HN are the two sites I go to in the morning to pick up news. HN I also go to in the afternoon. Digg works really well for keeping me up to date on newsy things.
> Frankly I think the community will hate it but because it’s really hard to move millions of individual communities, Reddit likely won’t lose too many users.

Is that really true? Didn't Reddit get big because Digg made some ill-advised changes and its userbase picked up and moved en masse to Reddit?
You can have young neckbeards.
I understand what you mean, but I don't think you understand my point.

I am not thinking about the official documentation of the language. Normally translating the explanations in the official documentation only requires contributers.

However when someone makes a tutorial series or similar, that series will normally only be limited to one language because they will write the actual code itself in their language.

I think this would split an already small community.
Well, yes that is surprising. I can't think of any other CEO who would have even the slightest problem talking about their revenue generation capabilities.
Sometimes I wonder what Schmidt is _really_ thinking when he's handing out these statements. "Dumb fucks" [1] as well?

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Did you notice that those conservatives and liberals are wealthy, or have wealthy backers? Have they been aggressive in raising taxes on the wealthy? Why do you suppose that is?
The software companies learned that they could benefit from open-source and collaboration on the infrastructural blocks and they eventually embraced it, which led to an increasing number of open-source project. But they don't like the GPL, which is a political instrument created by the Free software activists.

But those activists still exist, and their code is still written in GPL to avoid being “weaponized” by big corporations. The main difference is that they don't need to write all the tools they need on their own, since private corporations now release open-source code. And because of that, it's easier than ever to run with almost 100% free software on your desktop.

These people never _thought_ “StarOffice/Libreoffice take on Word and Excel”, they _wished_ there would be a political movement that make it happen, like socialists wish the Revolution occurs. And in the 90ies − early 2000s it really looked impossible, because the technical challenge was too big: everything had to be built from scratch to compete with a relentless private industry that kept moving forward: even the _programming language_ and the build tools were proprietary. RMS wanted to write a free printer driver, and first he had to the whole GNU stuff, with GCC and Emacs!

If you look where we are now, you can see it's way better ;).
You seem to be implicitly assuming that it's inevitable for fast growing companies to lead to more inequality.