skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. Consider what happens to real resources. Consuming wealth is the equivalent of a rich person buying a yacht (i.e. having it built, paying all these people money) and then burning it down. How is society better off?

The scarce workers who would have been employed elsewhere, doing something productive, wasted their time building the yacht. The materials that went into it were wasted. The engineers, managers that oversaw its construction wasted their effort.

Consuming scarce resources, rather than investing them, by its very definition makes society poorer.
Machiavelli's descendants still own land and vinyards for example
One thing about this browser storage.. How do you migrate if/when you change computer? Is the procedure browser-dependent? I always saw those storages as a bit more troublesome than a flat CSV or something.
Why is my comment ideological flamewar? I have linked to a page that cites an academic article about the fake statistics from Cuba. How is that doing worse? Worse than what?

I also find it interesting that of all comments in this thread you chose mine to reply and threaten me with banning, given the absurdities that have been said above.

This speaks volumes about the moderation here. You are clearly fine with "ideological flamewar" as long as it's your ideology.
This journal is an amazing resource in my opinion. You can listen to the recording and read along, and there's enough time in between sentences to read some of the commentary that was added by the editor based on personal conversations with people involved and other published material. It's mind blowing to think about what it must have been like at the time to witness humanity touching the pearl in the sky it had been looking at throughout history.
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An RTF document would be more portable, surely?
It use Z80 as a slave CPU but the main CPU is the m68k :) .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis#Technical_specifi...
It's at best just another "solid" save and invest advice, buried under bragging, overused motivational quotes and videos and a huge underestimation of personal luck and purely being a straight white smart male in a market that us is booming for decades...

No other takeaways for the general public here.
Yes, the wealthy would presumably engage lawyers and business advisors to help their offspring and people they like create companies for the next generation.

Maybe my son would like to open a travel agency. Maybe then I'd like to use that travel agency almost exclusively so that I could keep tabs on his progress and offer my advice. Oh look, his travel agency, despite being extraordinarily expensive, is very successful and now I don't have any money left to pay inheritance tax on...
Let's give some credit to Bill, ok? How many Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, Rothchilds, Waltons etc etc did what Bill Gates did? Combined, they have thousands of offsprings and had way more money that Gates' father had.

So yeah, Bill cam from a well to-do family but he also was extremely {insert here}...
genius principle engineer

He was never considered an especially talented developer. He bought the OS that was used for the IBM PC.
See my reply above.

By less free, I mean that anyone who wants to leave their children the fruits of their labour is now unable to do so. The more restrictions on individuals, the less free a society is. And it is a very big motivator for some people - many people value the standard of living of their children higher than their own.

But I do get your utilitarian argument. After all, every next dollar of our wealth we value less than the previous one. So in this sense, I can see why you would think that redistributing that wealth would make the society better off overall. But I think you misjudge the effects of consumption vs investment and of the incentives on the overall wealth of a society.
All three of your statements are wrong.

Especially the last one.
>The cultural elite isn't self-appointed.

Charles Saatchi is the most influential man in contemporary visual art. Why? Because he made a bunch of money in advertising and bought a bunch of art. He clawed his way up the hierarchy of advertising, but he bought his status as the kingmaker of contemporary art. Do a broad sample of artists consider Saatchi to have exceptional taste? Does he have unique insights into the creative process? Mu.
Slightly off tangent: One tool I have used to dump data (and more) is cxmon. A very nice monitor if one grew up using monitor cartridges on C64, Amiga etc:

http://cxmon.cebix.net/

https://github.com/cebix/macemu/tree/master/cxmon
Ulrich Stärk's empirical research (no Lisp):

https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://www.plat-forms.org/

It is hard enough to get study participants for the common programming languages, I deem it nigh impossible for the obscure ones.
Conflict of interest = something you are directly involved with at work, or potentially worked on for the company previously. For example, if you're on the SQL Server team then contributing to SQLLite would reasonably be considered a conflict of interest, but contributions to the Linux kernel wouldn't be.
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> real offline alternatives

How about https://tiddlywiki.com/ ?
We have McDonalds and KFC in Europe, too. Many are open 24/7, and the ones that aren't tend to be open at least until midnight.
But a hyena is a carnivore. Humans are not. A hyena cannot contemplate the finality of death and probably doesn't understand much about the pain it's causing, it's just eating a meal. Humans do understand all those things and on top of that humans do not need to eat meat and are very possibly healthier without it, yet we continue to do so. Also, nearly all meat consumed by humans comes from factory farms which deprive the victims of even at least a natural life up to the point of death. It's a life of emotional and physical torture from birth. What makes you think any animals raised for meat get to live a long life before being killed? Most won't make it to 1 year... After all, who would eat old tough meat? Given that most people in the west can easily get to a fully stocked grocery store with more variety of legumes, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds not to mention tofu, tempeh, seitan, cashew cheese, ready made vegan goods like beyond burgers, pizzas, vegan egg, vegan sausage... To me it seems incredibly cruel to continue to eat animals and their eggs and milk. We don't need to do it anymore and to continue to do so is willfully supporting cruelty against animals.
It looks like there's a 'download data' button for this
You only quoted the first half of their sentence. They said duplicate apps are only an issue when you aren't allowed to remove the one (or both) that you don't use.
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It comes down to semantics, but based off the opening paragraph on "Robot" it seems that it would fit the definition:

"A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to take on human form but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to how they look"

From the description in the article it sounded like the entry managed complex simulations of a tongue and fingers. I can see how it could be defined as a robot.

I haven't looked up what the CES definition/guidelines for a robotics entry is though.
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Always judge a company by how they treat their lowest employees. And since people at Amazon having difficulties trying to find time to take a piss, it doesn't really qualify as an employer for me personally.

I like their services in AWS-land and they have really good solutions. They probably treat their developers better as long as they can be exploited. But if there is another service with comparable features, I generally don't have to think very long.
> I suppose ideologically a wealth tax presupposes that all wealth is bad, whereas an inheritance tax just targets unearned wealth.

I don't agree with that framing, but even so if you look at the debate about income inequality today, you'll see people have issues even with earned wealth, in astronomical amounts (eg Bezos, Gates, Koch brothers, etc).
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China, no longer a poor nation, still borrows billions from World Bank
Great advice.

Also, it would make sense to cultivate hobbies and things to be happy with that don't need a lot of money.

Earlier in life is also a great time to experiment with lots of such things, as a parallel with Hunt's article. You can seek out new experiences at any age, but it's just easier when you're young and don't have a lot of responsibilities.
The group that spawned Bill Gates was smaller than the entire human population; it means he was one in maybe a thousand as opposed to one in seven billion. If anything that should be encouraging to the average person in society because it indicates that there isn't an uncrossable intelligence or otherwise biological gulch between the average person and success (which would be even harder to change than a social one).
That was my thought as well. From what I've seen, canonical Elm uses lines which are quite short.

It's a lot of lines, but how many characters is it?
>He might had been that genius principle engineer that would have went on to do absolutely amazing work, but not one to start or lead a company.

Exactly! Bill Gates success is tied to much more mundane things like sales strategies and close business relations to major businesses like IBM (thanks to his mother) to the point that Bill Gates decided that he'd be better off just getting contracts at any cost even if it means over-promising and in the end buying software from Tim Paterson and merely ported it over to whatever IBM was selling at the time.

"poor" people go to university. Rich people take advantage of their connections.
It does match the definition of a robot as based on this dictionary's second definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot

There was also likely a long process for awards, its a pretty scumbag move to suddenly just not give the award/honor after announcing it, I can imagine my anger too if someone was going to give me an award and then not. CES is in the wrong here, they've been quite unprofessional.

The lady does sound a bit too dramatic but I imagine she is pissed, that's all.
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You could describe inventions as "facts" too, are you saying that inventions shouldn't be patentable as well?

Maybe the fundamental properties of the universe aren't copyrightable/trademarkable/patentable, but what you CHOOSE to do with those - what API you design or what widget you build out of it certainly is.
It's not just specialization, often it's overspecialization, driven by commercial interests. Even though a generic tool G can do tasks A, B and C well, people are told to buy specialized tools for each of those tasks that are only marginally better at their specific tasks (sometimes, not even that) at the expense of being worse for the other tasks. Hell, sometimes it's the same tool, but with a specialized label and extra markup (e.g. disposable shaving razors for men and women which differ only by a) color, and b) price). But people fall for that.
Azlo is not even a real bank.
QA is still much a thing in our company, although not necessarily working in the traditional "assurance" role but rather in a "assistance" role.
HBM2 has minimum 4GB in each stack IIRC
What do you do when you get to a petrol station and it's not working? I've had to use my breakdown assistance for this very reason.
I couldn't find an explanation in the article for what makes Perlin noise unique (especially given the comments by sephoric here on HN).

Can anyone explain?

Tried going to the background pages linked, but links are broken.
Many years ago I used Omm for a bit, it's pretty good if you really want to concentrate https://ommwriter.com/
Thanks for the tip! I'll check them out!
I think you should read this as being an otherwise 150kloc project in Java.

Seriously, at this point IBM should fork a couple hundred thousand dollars just to know how anyone on their staff can recreate this in idiomatic java (or whatever OO language they want) and have you do it in idiomatic clojure/script. I'd be surprised if you managed less than 30k and very surprised if the OO implementation managed less than 100k.

Hard data on this kind of debate being hard to come by, we'd learn something from the experiment.
My Aruba Wi-Fi network will readily detect it too (have APs dedicated to air monitoring and spectrumRF both)
Opportunities to make money vary for the most part according to sex, race, place of origin, etc.
And, to be fair, the OP’s situation with getting the runaround between Stripe and the bank is “confusion”. It’s just that the confusion appears to be either on Stripe’s end or on the bank’s.
> The idea that there are types of foods which make you gain weight is incorrect.

I'm sorry but you are wrong. Calories-In and Calories-Out might be the main proponent, but it is just not the whole story. And you can find tons of research on it.

A link to a recent one, done by Harvard Medical School: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/bch-ldc11121...
So yeah, Bill cam from a well to-do family [and has amazing talents] but he also was extremely lucky...
If you want to claim it's a perpetual motion machine, you're going to have to prove that claim.

There are a whole lot of very smart people who disagree with you.
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That really is a problem of the search engine. Poincaré should be normalized and stemmed before being indexed and queried. (You don't say projected). Wonder which engine failed to do that.
That had to do with CP/M not being the standard/mainline OS for the IBM PC (and even then, CP/M was supported but released 6 months after DOS and for 6 times the price), it didn't have to do with IBM selecting Microsoft as their OS developer / vendor, especially since microsoft didn't even have an OS when they were selected.
We at rsyslog use it as part of our CI pipeline. It's a pretty cool tool, done by awesome folks. A real big plus is the responsiveness to questions and when something needs attention. When we came to LGTM (at that time in beta for C), we already had a pretty clean code base. The reason is that we use other static analysis tools. LGTM did nevertheless find some new and interesting things, include a real vulnerability[1]. We don't use custom QL right now (time is soo short), but opt in to some extra canned queries. For example, we prevent commented-out code via them. LGTM is a check REQUIRED to pass CI [2, sample PR].

We are really happy with both the product and the team and I can recommend diving into it. Nevertheless, don't rely on a single static analysis tool, no matter how good it is. If you use C/C++, you should at least also have clang's static analyzer in use.

[1] https://rainer.gerhards.net/2018/06/how-we-found-and-fixed-c...
[2] https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/3403
That's with the benefit of hindsight though.

Were you thinking the same in 2009?
The problem is, that without the financial disincentive, that employer has no reason NOT to have mandatory overtime, all the time, and try to get by on half the work force working mandatory 80 hour weeks and save the costs of benefits and PTO and whatever that the two employees at 40 hour weeks would cost.

It wouldn't happen right away, but would creep up, and people would feel they'd have no choice because they need a job and all other companies by that point would be doing the same thing anyway.

Just look at the video game industry, where the supply for jobs is so high and people are willing to put up with so much shit to live their dream that it has a notorious 'crunch time' of 60-80+ hour weeks, sometimes lasting for years on end, and just expected of you.

It's gotten so bad in that industry there are (supposedly) legitimate efforts to unionize to protect the workers. You don't see that in any other software development field.

That's basically what you're advocating for.

The overtime needs to be there as a check against the corporation's own greed and psychopathic indifference towards its employees' well being. The financial disincentive is the only thing that stops the employer from allowing these abuses in most cases.
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Can we talk about how we (the listeners) don't own our music anymore, and are at the mercy of the cloud to provide us our precious songs. Apple Music has a nasty habit of deleting my music without warning. This can't be a sustainable long view for us. All this hubbub about what service based model is correct is missing the real issue in my opinion, though that's not to say getting my money to the actual artists isn't important. We need something more different.
Elm is different to ML in that it is explicitly designed to be a pure language. Purity is important for the Elm architecture and allowing arbitrary side effects in your apps would break everything.

That said, you could add effects and a JavaScript FFI using monads or algebraic effects. You could also get rid of a lot of boilerplate in the Elm architecture using existential types. It's a safe bet that the Elm developers know this. But all of these extensions would make the language less approachable. I think one of the reasons why Elm is doing so well is because it's not Haskell. :)
You also have to factor in the age at which people die from the different cancers. Deaths from breast cancer tend to skew a lot younger (dying from prostate cancer before you're 50 for example is less common than dying from breast cancer before you're 30). So if you instead look at 'lost' life years due to cancer (compared to the life expectancy), the picture changes dramatically. The number of women who die before 60 from breast cancer is roughly 10 times that of men who die before 60 from prostate cancer (UK numbers).
Stripe does not require you to use any particular bank. Setting up an account for you is simply part of the Atlas process.
I use music streaming services mostly for their shuffle features, not for playing music I select. I'm not a fan of this idea, because then those services would be able to pick winners and losers (the artists) based on a shuffling algorithm I don't have control over. This creates a perverse incentive where labels could try to influence the frequency of their artists in those shuffled playlists over smaller labels and independent artists.
And at the end of the day. What else matters when measuring whether a profit seeking corporation is successful?
> ideologically a wealth tax presupposes that all wealth is bad

Isn't it the same as saying that income tax presupposes that all income is bad. We should tax wealth not because wealth is bad but because doing so might have a positive effect on society.

> How would a wealth tax differ from a capital gains tax?

capital gains tax taxes realised return on capital. wealth tax is based on the total wealth regardless of it's performance.
Regarding being compliant - there are more factors coming into play than just middle freq and transmission power. You also need to have the width of the transmission under control, occupied bandwidth. Harmonics in adjacent bands must be suppressed. The transmitter duty cycle cannot be too high. The channel must be free before you transmit, etc etc.
That's the manufacturer playing shenanigans. Unfortunately, it happens (Samsung?). It is still disable-able, just not as easily, as you need adb and usb cable.
I'm not too far from his age range. The "blatant brag" kind of plays out by your late 20s. At least it should, IMO. It's mostly just signalling to females, anyway.
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Bad investments, if you are wealthy, is the most obvious cause of going poor again.
*very willing to bet

Freudian slip or something.
I haven't done QA in a very long time so unfortunately do not have much detailed insight anymore.

In general, in a AAA studio when I think of "QA" I think of so much more than just game testing for end users.

We have things like:

* Daily smokes for content creators. Embedded QA doing manual (and sometimes partially automated) smokes of core game features as well as our proprietary editor and other tools multiple times a day before new binaries get rolled out to content creators, with the sole purpose of making sure that artists are able to actually work with the build(s).

* _A lot_ of automated runtime testing and automated unit tests (some teams are better with this than others) which QA helps monitor. This can help test various combinations of weapons etc very quickly. Tests for everything from locomotion to weapon-switching, damage output validation, etc.

* Cert testing - before we send a build to MS or Sony our own QA has to go through various certification requirements and approve it. This will include testing not just game features but loading times, build metadata, various security measures, etc.

* Engine integration testing...when game teams integrate new engine drops or features (or when features are even integrated between engine streams and the main release line) things like editor, environment framework, other tools and relevant features, etc are tested on an example data set by QA.

* Full playthrough testing. I don't know for sure which QA department/team handles full playthrough testing and various iterations thereof but I suspect it's our remote QA-specific studio vs in-house QA (although I'm sure they do some of that too).

* And more that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head right now.

And then of course we have the regular team playtests where the entire team plays certain maps in development and files bugs/provides feedback/etc - having a few dozen to a few hundred devs actually playing the thing helps catch various issues with different scenario/equipment combinations, map problems, etc.
If you limit yourself to the West Europe languages, you can just go with the stdlib:

>>> import unicodedata
>>> print( unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', "éèêàùçÇ").encode('ascii','ignore'))
eeeaucC

But if you need to project (transliterate to ascii) Arabic, Russian or Chinese, unidecode is close to black magic:

>>> from unidecode import unidecode
>>> unidecode("北亰")
'Bei Jing '

Anyway, always remember that str.encode(), str.decode(), open() and many other related callables have an "errors" parameters that allow you to deal with unkown solutions when encoding or decoding:

>>> print("Père Noël".encode("ascii", errors="ignore"))
b'Pre Nol'
>>> print("Père Noël".encode("ascii", errors="replace"))
b'P?re No?l'

I'll conclude with the mandatory "use Python 3" (3.7 if you can, it has many utf8 fixes: https://vstinner.github.io/posix-locale.html), since you'll be in a world of pain if you deal with non-ascii in Python 2, and EOL is next year :) Tic, Toc...