skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”I don’t have time” is the sorriest excuse for an excuse.

Yeah some people have to do silly things like spend time with their kids and make sure they are attentive to their spouses.
> Who among us couldn't guess what the NYT's take is going to be in a mormon leader's obituary before they write it?

Their obit for the previous president, Gordan B Hinckley is quite positive...

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/us/28hinckley.html

Edit: here are more if people are curious. One before, and one after the Mormon church allowed black people similar position as non-black people. They're still pretty upbeat.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/19/archives/david-o-mckay-mo...

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/07/us/spencer-kimball-mormon...
Hmm, folks in my family commute from Burquitlam to the city all the time. I don't think you're right that it's small. The Millennium line runs to Lafarge Lake.
Some retrofits will happen. I would guess, though, that 90% of electric vehicles will be manufactured as electric vehicles, rather than as retrofits. So to focus only on retrofits to make the argument is rather misleading.
I see no problem with how the Times framed the story, and I’m no fan of the Times.

If Mormons want to oppose same sex marriage and women in leadership, that’s up to them - but don’t get upset if it’s mentioned in your obituary when you’re literally the head of the church.

The Times however is very, very uneven in how they handle this though. They will chide Mormons at any opportunity for sexism or homophobia, but refrain from treating Orthodox Jews or Muslims similarly.
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Very nice, and super nice of MB too to keep this documented. I hope you're working on something at least as interesting at the moment.
> Successful at what? Experience says that they won't be more successful at being good to other people.

No, see, you're just challenging the axiom.

The reason for the thought experiment is that nobody starts off by knowing things like that one way or the other. You don't know that it is true but you also can't assume that it isn't just because it being true would be inconvenient. You have to consider the possibility that not every fact is advantageous to your in-group, and be willing to accept the cases where that actually happens. Because it will.

Just because somebody says something you don't like doesn't inherently mean that they're wrong. We shouldn't punish people for saying things that could be the truth. If you think they're wrong then you make your case. Everybody else gets to hear you both and make up their own mind. Censoring the opposition is cheating.

> Your line of reasoning also leads one to say that black people shouldn't reproduce because their children are statistically less likely to become wealthy. That doesn't strike me as being an honest ethical framework.

No, it doesn't, because existence isn't the same thing as adoption. The average black kid may have a harder life than the average white kid but that doesn't mean given the choice they would choose not to be born.

Adoption isn't a matter of the kid existing or not; the kid exists. The question is who gets the kid. And the answer should be based on what's best for the kid. You can have a debate about how to define "best" but for any given definition, that's an empirical question with a factual answer. Which means we actually need the facts. And if the facts turn out to be convenient, that's great. But if they're not, they're not. The other side gets to make their case.

You have to be willing to lose when you're wrong because it's the only way you can win when you're right. Anything else is just a war whose victor is decided by might rather than truth.
I was able to see how the automation software I was designing would ultimately be an equivalent experience to its manual counterpart and thus be pointless to build.

This reads like common sense but it wasn't; there were thousands of lower level factors. Studying the mechanism of analogy and "sameness" seems to help the mind with abstraction. Perhaps because it is the differences in data which reveal what is most useful to know when creating.

In other words, I think a perspective that can see more of the similarities can "diff" and solve problems more quickly.
Building an animation tool that lets me roll out short episodes as easily as I can write articles. Released three so far - if you're an animator, let me know if you'd like to try it!
I found it amusing that the writer (and journalist) listed opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment among achievements worth defending.

It still hasn't passed, to all our disgrace. It only needs a few more states to ratify it.
The author appears to have missed the takes that were actually that (Guardian was one).
What's intellectual about changing the HN banner to Christmas colors? Nothing wrong with the occasional festive uplifting article like this to restore one's faith in human kindness.
Lots of cynicism in the comments here, but what the potential applications of a technology like this on the Moon or Mars?
Exactly, I'm surprised this post is even being upvoted here on HN. It sounds like NYT did their job, and did it well (considering so many people got pissed off).

We can not tolerate tiptoeing around subjects simply because someone's "faith" might be offended.
Nice. I've got a story about free climbing. The only time I did free climbing was as a teenager.
I climbed up a small 30ft vertical cliff edge, no ropes. You might survive that height onto grass but below was sharp rocks and crashing waves.

There were enough footholds and handholds most of the way but I was stretching to get them and at one point my left foot slipped and I was left hanging on the pressure of my right foot and right arm pressed diagonally against weak holds, left side of my body dangling. There wasn't enough grip on my hand to hang by my right arm and I wouldn't have been able to balance on my right foot so I needed both to stay perfectly put, the right hand side of my body like an extended piston jammed between two points, grip slipping. I let go with my right hand then pushed off the right foothold as much as I could on the loose foot grip, got a little air while swinging my left hand up to get the next hold. Grabbing the hold I quickly pulled up my feet get access to higher footholds, body scrunched up to use them they were so close to the new handholds. Then with my feet in position I pushed my body up to get access to two new handholds and was back in a stable position.

I made it to the top but in that moment when my foot slipped I felt my heart drop so suddenly I never felt more focused in my life on the actions I was going to take next.

Dumb move to start it I guess but I was a bored teenager and wanted to challenge myself. I'd climbed rocks and stuff on the coast but never actually scaled a cliff before that point. Never did it again, never got propper training to learn good technique. Shame really because I had an affinity with it.
If you want to play with APIs, and you know Python, I would just access them from normal Python with 'requests' (or any other normal HTTP client you like, but 'requests' is the most popular and makes doing the right thing straightforward).

In my opinion there's a lot of value in building something that works and then going from there. If you know Python and Flask, build your thing in normal Python and Flask, rendering templates, not doing dynamic stuff in JS. Then add Vue or whatever else once you have a basic thing working to make it fancier.
It's certainly possible to be defined by the things that were within your power but didn't do.
Good journalists have to believe in objective truth and the possibility of impartiality. There may be no such thing as objective truth or impartiality. If that's the case, then these things are delusions that are required for good journalism.
Instead of starting on your own, maybe look for an open source project that you find useful and seems well maintained with an active community. Then see if they have marked any of their bugs or issues as good for new devs.
You'll learn about the (sometimes terrible) group dynamics of software teams, you won't have to start a project from scratch, and you'll be exposed to the tools and code patterns in use today.
This article is spot on. New York Times stories are unable to engage on any subject in its own merits. Everything gets filtered through an increasingly narrow political lens.

My wife and I belong to a church that disagrees with the LDS church in gay marriage and ordination of women. But I don’t want to read the obituary of someone like Monson and have it be about those two issues. There are 16 million Mormons. There is more to their world than those two issues. I don’t read the news to be given a set of talking points fitting into a particular narrative, even when I agree with the narrative. I want to understand the subject on its own terms.

For my own part, as an immigrant from the third world, it’s maddening to read coverage of foreign events in the New York Times. You can’t understand what’s going on in the rest of the world through the lens of liberal New York politics.
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And if a little persuasion was needed, the folder with evidence of assets secrets that would turn their life upside down if revealed. Ideally real secrets, but these days made up ones are probably as effective.
The downside to self-publishing is that since one lacks a trusted editor, one is at the mercy of systems intended to control for the lack of a trusted editor.
> Same thing as the Times' 1619 project, which alleged that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery in the colonies.

The Atlantic conveys a much more nuanced take on that in this very interesting piece[1]. It certainly seems plausible to me that part of the southern involvement in the Revolution was driven by that motive.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians...
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FWIW, the regex engine in ripgrep is entirely pluggable and abstracted (to an extent). It's how it seamlessly supports both PCRE2 and my own regex engine.

It would be an interesting project to add Hyperscan support to it. You would get all the extra goop you mention for free. I would be happy to give guidance on that if anyone's interested.
A few examples of ones I have worked at or friends have:

A company that created a novel commercial solar estimation algorithm, and ran a B2B SaaS with it.

A small platform specific agency, 10-20 people specializing in a specific eCommerce platform.

A company that had been producing IoT software and devices for farmers.

A slightly bigger company that produced backbone software for bank management, I think they had closer to 100 employees eventually but the dev team was still relatively small. Bank software takes a lot of extra curricular activity it turns out!
About 1/1.

1dl oats, blend them first
1dl cream cheese
2 eggs
1dl (almond) milk (because I like them thinner)
1tbsp butter
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp baking powder

My version of something like this one:
https://www.tasteefulrecipes.com/cream-cheese-oatmeal-pancak...
Not sure why the post by user "norlywtf" was flagged, I'm having the same issue: on macOS Catalina the UI comes up in Russian. I can read Russian, so it's not such a huge issue for me, but for someone who doesn't it'll be very non-trivial to find where to set the UI language because it's a tiny gray gear icon on a gray background, an the program does not use the Mac menus, nor does it respond to Cmd+, shortcut.

Interestingly, one of the most annoying UI aspects of the program, the lack of label capitalization, is not present in the Russian translation. Everything is properly capitalized there.
It's not eating business logic, it's enabling it. Grace be to God.
> Who among us couldn't guess what the NYT's take is going to be in a mormon leader's obituary before they write it?

[sheepishly] raises hand
Indie writer isn't exactly right, she's a successful children's book author under her real name, with at least a dozen books out from Puffin. (Also a Hugo award winning comic book creator, but that was self-published.)

But yes, writing for adults as T. Kingfisher she's mostly self-published, and that was the case with the book in question, I believe.
The situation when the Internet is a black market thing is a huge victory for the Russian authoritarian state.

They can afford to have 15% of the population with access to information and what not on the black market. The course of the country will be dictated by the beliefs of the other 85%, which will all buy into the 1000s of kaleidoscopic realities readily manufactured by Surkov & Co, and will all support every single action of the government.
*tethics
Obviously, the paralysis and anxiety is something to look at.

Also: I wouldn't so recommend Vue. Focus on rendering boring, server-rendered HTML first. Add vue later.

I'm a big fan of rails for the unique focus on developer happiness and velocity it places on the stack. There are similar stacks "technically" but it's the difference between a modern OS and windows 3.1. To which I say, the stack DOES matter; they are not interchangeable because they each have different philosophies and priorities. If rails wasn't free I'd paid for it.

But it depends on your priorities and what you're trying to do. I want to be effective at, and enjoy building, web applications. But if you're trying to just learn X technology or language vs building an MVP, those priorities can shape what you work with.

My best advice is aim to succeed even if you fail. Do things the RIGHT way, use the tools / technologies you've always wanted to. Even if the project goes nowhere, at least you got to play with something, and be professional about doing it.

Lastly, think of small problems you COULD solve, or explore. then build off those.
Merry Christmas everybody!
People can donate but what if there is a need for more?
Did you ever wonder where those former Soviet citizens - now oligarchs - picked up their capitalist skills?
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
False premise, even more in the age of the internet. If you want to know what's the best x, where x is a phone, a flashlight, a toaster, then you can just google it anytime. In fact, it's very much the opposite: advertising enforces the status quo, since the biggest companies will be able to promote their product at a massive scale (bombardment is a better word) and monopolize attention. Small businesses get squat.
Taken to an extreme, would you rather an obituary of Hitler not focus on a certain narrative as Nazi Germany numbered 100 million people and there certainly was more to their world than hating Jews?
> I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out

Don't worry about it, then. A "real" application is one that works and gets some interest. If you can get someone to say "I like it, but..." that "but" will give you plenty to learn from.

I hope this helps.
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Hardware is so cheap and accessible these days, just get an Arduino board. There are lots of kits available with sensors and actuators, and it's all so easy to use it's like building with Legos.
I didn't interpret that as a defense. I interpreted that as noteworthy and an indication of the complexity of his tenure that wasn't adequately captured.
There's a certain irony in the OP accusing journalists of starting with a premise and working backwards, when the OP did it themself.
Not to be a grump, but surely this doesn’t qualify as news
This looks like _exactly_ what I want. Is this an open-source project?
The lesson is that readers don't distinguish between the news and opinion sections. The visual differences are extremely subtle, even more than paid search results.
Of three news articles of which I have first hand knowledge, two completely misreported facts. They were exercises in reinforcing a narrative - the truth be damned. The third was accurate, but it was over 45 years ago.
Facebook and Amazon _never_ penetrated Russian market. Russian companies (e.g. Yandex, VK) dominate in their respective domestic niches. Yandex even bought out Uber's operations here.

Same for China.

It has always been that way.
It was a strange read. There were times I wondered if it was a parody. Praising all of the things the guy did to keep women and gays as second class citizens.

Best that could be said is that at least he did not appear to be a racist, so that's nice.
Shouldn’t there be an additional scaling factor as those bodies gain experience and you improve workflows?
Banksy quote on advertising.

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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
> Classic mix up between Santa with Peter Pan.

Classic mix up between Peter Pan and Robin Hood. :)
I was just reading here on HN how Amazon recently quietly replicated and replaced UPS and FedEx with their own fleet. These companies are $82.92 billion and $65.45 billion companies respectively so I was pretty impressed.
> but if they were true then they were news

I don't think that's a complete definition of what's "news." Imagine if Trump died tomorrow and the NYT posted an obituary saying "Donald Trump, the real-estate developer who built a successful resort in Florida but struggled to keep a casino in Atlantic City alive, died at age 73 in Washington, DC, where he was traveling for work." Nothing in this sentence is untrue, but it would be fair to criticize it. (And it wouldn't be fair to say "Republicans are criticizing it because they don't like hearing that he wasn't that successful in real estate.")

The job of a journalist is to say what's important for people to know. This story is alleging that the NYT obituary for Monson did not successfully focus on the most important things, not simply that it told things that weren't favorable. (That said, another comment here fro 'lalaland1125 argues that, in fact, the LDS Church's attitudes towards women and towards same-sex marriage had an influence on America and the world beyond anything that Monson did within his religion, and so the NYT did focus on the important things, which I think is a fair counterpoint. But that's different from saying that the obituary is fine simply because it's true.)
> every time I start I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out

Decision paralysis is something I struggle with too. Being able to recognize it and move forward, instead of second guessing yourself, helps a lot. It's good to remember engineering is about making trade-offs. Every solution will have shortcomings.

I've also found being strict about refactoring to be very useful. Don't solve problems before you need to. Don't write a function till you actually need it. Don't start with a complicated class structure, start with a some procedural code and naturally grow and refactor it. Don't try to start a project as if it were already 6 months old.

Bit of a ramble myself, but I get it. Second guessing your technical decisions is just something we have to find strategies to work around. Doing that makes us better. Working on side projects is a fantastic way to do it too, so kudos!
As to your first point, I suppose I kind of assumed the readers here were familiar with MOS Technology and their work in integrating DRAM onto the same die as a processor, along with advances in ROM manufacture, and the general push to system-on-a-chip integration.

To be clear, Chuck Peddle also helped design chips like the RRIOT (1 KB of ROM, 64 bytes of RAM, a parallel IO port and a timer). A machine like the KIM-1 (also of Peddle's design) would not have been possible without the RRIOT chip, anymore than without the 6502. I just find it skewed that we all focus on the microprocessor he designed, when a chip like the RRIOT was just as important. Microprocessors are pretty nifty indeed, but they'd be useless without IO and memory just as cheap and small to go with them.
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You're right, we should just ban it altogether.
I think it's reasonable to assume that if a store discovers a serious product defect, they should be able to expect the producer to respond in a short period of time or pull the product for sale. If the product is not important and never gets fixed, it never goes on sale. If other things take priority, it's off sale for a while and comes back. If it's the most urgent thing in the producer's business, it gets fixed immediately and never lapses.

I would argue that the whole point of having a publisher is to avoid having to do this kind of thing yourself, but I know many authors forego publishers because publishers don't want to publish their stuff or they don't agree with the publisher's cut. Both reasonable objections.

It's sort of like if you own a restaurant. If someone dies in your family, and at the same time a health inspection gets failed, you have one of two options: Drop everything and coordinate passing the inspection; or deal with your family stuff first and lose income when your product is not selling in the mean time. The more employees and structure you have, the easiest it is to get away for a few days. The more it's a sole proprietorship, the more your fate is in your hands.

(FWIW I am from Newfoundland -- although I'm not an author -- and while the isolation of rural areas is not exaggerated in the comment, it's also not a surprise to people traveling there. When I travel home, which in the last few years has just been for funerals, I have a plan in place)
So, you can judge the quality of journalism based on how many people it pisses off?
My wife has hidden a pocket knife under a floor standing ATM in the departure area at O'Hare pre-security and retrieved it when she got back, it wasn't discovered. Not recommended but there is a way to do this, "unofficially", success not guaranteed. Don't leave bomb-shaped packages.
You cant even get a decent forklift for under $10K. Try $100K if said machine would be manufactured in volume, like medium sized excavators are today.