skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This blogger does not deny the accuracy of this but thinks this is an unimportant part of the Mormon leader's life, not worthy of mention.

Are you sure? I didn't read the article closely but I didn't see him arguing that those things shouldn't have been mentioned; just that they shouldn't have been the only things mentioned.
But how does homophobia and misogyny within the Mormon church affect people who aren't in the Mormon church?

Also I find it telling that you say "the church earned that reputation". Yes, the church, not a single man. The leader of a church is rarely a king who can change doctrine on a whim. If this man had repented of homophobia and misogyny, he may well have been supplanted by someone else the very next day. So among the many things wrong with the wording of this obit, the fact that they call him out personally as homophobic/misogynist rather than something more accurate like "under his leadership the CHURCH was homophobic/misogynistic" is a big one.
“The Decade of Design”: How the last 10 years transformed design’s role in tech
A unionized crane operator gets 200k annually? Wow!!

https://www.kareerday.com/reviews/crane-operator
> But Brave whitelists Facebook and Twitter trackers!

> This is only partly true. Brave whitelists some Facebook and Twitter trackers because blocking them outright would break buttons on some websites (e.g. the Facebook like buttons). Brave is meant to be easy to use, breaking a lot of websites is not easy to use. Brave was never meant to be a max privacy solution.

> The whitelist is now optional and can easily be disabled in the settings.

Opt out features like this don't respect your privacy.
I read somewhere that our jog is just as efficient as our walk. Clearly we've evolved to run long-distance. Still we can accumulate damage when doing it. Being hardened against something doesn't mean it's risk-free.

Example where the data are clear: We've evolved to resist carcinogens from smoke. But that only means we're less likely to die of smoke compared to other animals. It's still sensible to reduce exposure.
There has always been a big overlap of people I know from computer conferences, science-fiction conventions, hacking congressions, and musical concerts. So some times I'll slip up and say "Grateful Dead Conference" or "SF Concert" or "Chaos Communication Convention", or "Unix Congress".
This echos a sentiment I've been feeling on a few recent posts of mine.

The argument against Entity Framework, and for micro-ORMs. - https://pknopf.com/post/2019-09-22-the-argument-against-enti...

You don’t need Cake anymore; the way to build .NET projects going forward. - https://pknopf.com/post/2019-03-10-you-dont-need-cake-anymor...

My blog is also written from scratch, using a stupid tool.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/pauldotknopf.github.io/tree/...
The rest of us? You've surveyed?
One author mentions that publishers don’t care enough to do anything about it, leaving the author once again the one punished.

It’s not as though this is a result of self-publishing.
Yeah it needs to do that, but that likely means that deploying a particularly egregious bug will fill your inbox with repetitive and useless data. It should also give you information on the current user, the browser, locale, etc. None of that extra stuff is really extra, it's critical for quick debugging. It's also hard to get right, and doesn't preclude inbox zero in any way.
If I am going to use Chrome/Chromium then I am just going to use Chrome/Chromium and spend 10 more seconds and install ublock. No reason to use a themed Chromium by a company that literally announces itself to investors (among which Peter Thiel who has obviously personal issues with Google founders) as an advertising platform with a cryptoscam if it didn't work.
Why Singular ‘They’ Is Such a Controversial Subject
> But Brave is based on Chromium!

> Chromium is open source and all Google tracking can easily be disabled. Brave strips out all of this by default. Remember that Chromium is not the same as Chrome.

Sorry, but this is not a satisfactory explanation to me. Brave is marketed as the pro-decentralization/good web citizen browser. Yet, it uses Chromium, which contributes to Google’s dominance over the web — pushing developers to further neglect Firefox and other browsers as a target.

Also, where is Brave’s innovation? I see none. Instead, I support Mozilla.
How to teach programming (and other things)? [video]
And the 6800 was $175, and with the $ exchange rate of the time it was unaffordable here.
It isn’t... yet!

it would be a bit of work to open source it (rip out any lingering affirm bits, spruce it up some) and my team is real pressed for time at the moment.

but I definitely want to do it sooner rather than later!
I once took an overnight bus across the south of India which had bunk beds instead of seats. Loved the idea, but in practice I got like one hour of sleep... Honking at bad drivers at 3am, dodging potholes, etc...
Many folks drive as far or further everyday.
MP/M didn't have virtual memory, but it had everything else on your list, was released in 1979, and had a minimum memory requirement of 32kb.

In the mid 1980s, I ran a four line BBS on an Atlas ACS8000-14 running MP/M. I wrote the BBS in DR CBasic. I attempted to port it to Turbo Modela-2, another high level language, but the IDE was so buggy that I eventually gave up (being female and a teenager, there was also a lot of social pressure not do computer stuff).
Multiple companies having libraries of essentially all content. I can choose between Spotify, Apple Music, whatever Google rebrands their product to every month, etc.
The bus route near me is a 15 minute walk, the bus comes once an hour.
When I lived downtown it was 30 minutes, then an hour long commute.

Driving today takes me 12 minutes, 16 if I time it poorly with the rush.

By bike is 30 minutes and I typically do it for a week once a year (I didn't this year as I carpooled). Once I'm there I need to shower, however I cannot leave anything (no lockers).
Check out Program Design by Calculation and The Algebra of Programming. Category theory and related formalisms do have a strong case to being a formal theory for designing/calculating programs

http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~jno/ps/pdbc.pdf
https://themattchan.com/docs/algprog.pdf
is the source code of the record layer available somewhere?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11828346
Ugh. I guess it’s another point of due diligence to look into before applying to/accepting a job.
Carpooling is also difficult for those who have irregular work schedules. Many people cannot leave at the same time every day. That also makes mass transit difficult. If your schedule doesn’t line up with the bus or train, it adds significant time while you wait for the next.
Ads in and of themselves are bad, even without tracking. My time and attention are the only truly limited resources I have. Hijacking those to make me desire things I don’t need reduces my quality of life. Secondarily, ads corrupt every media outlet they touch. To hell with all of them.
Sure, but again - it's the same argument - the author should have taken enough pride in the manuscript to produce quality work to begin with. That's the root cause that put the author in this position.
Are you trying to say that due to the selective nature of medicine, all doctors are already rockstars?

Or

Are you trying to say that all doctors need to he neurosurgeon level smart?

Either way is wrong. Doctors can be a spectrum of quality. The more the doctors for routine checkups and treatments, more and more rockstars doctors can be freed to do rockstar activities.

The current shortage may be great economically for current doctors, but it sucks for you, I, kids and everyone that needs those services
Perhaps centuries-old discrimination is one of the reasons why the Muslim world, while embracing some of the most egalitarian and forward-thinking concepts, at times seems stuck in the 7th Century. Maybe it's not totally their fault, but partially ours?

(non-disclaimer: one of the gentlest and most kind people I know is Muslim, and that's cool by me.)

(I'm obviously not Muslim ha but if you need a god, that's ok, I guess.)
"So what's stopping this?"

In US? Climate denialism.

In EU. Not much, this is after all something reasearch in Switzerland that has already done other CO2 extraction research, despite scorn and cynicism by misguided ecologists.

I think the time for this tech has finally come. There used to be an argument that if we talk too much about these, emissions habits may never change. Now it is clear that simply cutting down emissions will bring us to +2C degrees at best. Every additional tech we can have to cut down emissions or extract CO2 from atmosphere is welcomed.
There's two arguments here, 1. whether the claims are factual and 2. whether the Times is "forcing events and personalities into a narrow, pre-conceived frame that bore little relation to the reality before him".

My post focused on 2.
Was it cool to copy Jobs 20 years ago, after NeXT but before OS X, iPod, and iPhone? I don't think so.

Was it cool to copy his asshole traits before he was kicked out the first time? I would have been too young to know. I am not sure how widely they were publicized.

Anyway, I am not the biggest Amazon fan, but if what they are imitating are things like "customer focus" as claimed in the article and it's not a euphemism or lip service then that sounds good. Seems like they could do that without being jerks too.
I don't think you understand how this works dang. You can't stop me.
I opted to go for “pinning” based on the version number, so if you make a breaking change, like adding a required field, IDOL copies your schema into a v2 (say) namespace and then applies the change, leaving v1 untouched.

At this point we just have separate types for separate versions and tools in the host language can help you deal with that.

This turns out to be much better for data quality and client code than adding lots of nullable fields, at the cost of making breaking changes to APIs a bit more work. It seems to have been worth it so far.

Going forward, the service author has to support the “old” versions until we can determine that there’s no old data sitting around (so all clients are on the new version, all serialized data has been backfilled or dropped, or whatever’s appropriate), at which point they can delete the old schema. And we have some simple tools to verify this, since we stick the version number onto the models / serialized data.
Throwaway account because I don’t want my primary account to be associated with my career in any way.

I’m a strong advocate of the leadership principles. My organization knows when to cut the noise and get down the business but we have a fairly diverse workplace where opinions are valued but being rude, insulting coworkers, arrogance, etc are not tolerated. Creating an environment where people don’t feel safe means that place won’t be around very long.

Given the number of people Amazon employs, I’m sure some people aren’t the most flattering, but to say we’re conditioning anyone to be assholes isn’t based on reality at all.

Usually people who scream the loudest about others being assholes are the ones who can’t get along.
How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991628
Radio was far in the future, but radio is quite versatile, so it would not have been a problem.

Ternary would have been easy enough to learn, telegraphers being even more versatile than radios, but the actual need for human telegraphers is another artifact of Morse's design. Automated and faster communication would have developed naturally, without, which might have delayed development of fixed-length codes like baudot and ascii.

Edison might then not have got his start (as a telegrapher), and maybe Tesla would not have encountered such opposition to his alternating-current electrical system, and not have ended up turning it over to what became General Electric, for free.
He missed quite a few: but of course the author is not writing to inform but shape opinion of a religious leader.
Forget tech stacks. Just pick the simplest idea you can think of that you would actually use yourself, that seems to not be a complex software product. And do it!

I can assure you that the simplest of products will not result in the simplest code / stack.

It is important that you also personally want to use this thing, because when the going gets tough, you will stick with it.
>but it ain't the core problem

What do you consider to be the core problem?

I think the root cause is expensive housing.

Increasing throughput on the highways often only lets more people get to the same bottleneck in the same time. To actually alleviate that problem, the throughput of any bottlenecks would need to increase as well. Usually, that's in a highly desirable and expensive area.

Destroying much of the highly desirable and expensive area and covering it with highways and parking lots is one way to solve the problem, but is obviously a terrible idea.
Can you expand more on how to go about learning to understand a large open source codebase for the first time?
presumably actual journalists would train against unconscious bias... maybe you're saying we can't expect they be any better than your average person on the street.
The 6502 changed my life by really hooking me on computers. Got my first professional gig (fixing a bug in a truck driving simulator using Commodore PET Basic) that paid in a pizza outing.

An interesting feature of the 6502 was that memory between 0 and 255 was the fastest to access (literally twice as fast). Apple Basic's "GetNextToken" routine lived somewhere below 255 just for the speed advantage (might have been Commodore's Basic).

Another interesting feature was that the 6502 instruction set did not include 16 bit add/subtract nor any sort of multiply/divide. Add/subtract are easy enough but efficient multiply/divide is "weird".

I once interviewed for an assembly level programming job for the Z80 cpu (they were building a weird APL variant). The tech interviewer wanted to see me read some 6502 assembly from just the byte code. I was flummoxed and explained I could only do it with a disassembler. One of my earliest tech interview failures :)

Thanks Chuck!
It is correct, natural language isn't just English there is also many other kind too. But, the document is itself written in English, so we can guess that it is English. Still it doesn't help when you want to distinguish the natural language stuff dealing specifically English or in general (and if in general, you must be prepared to deal with stuff that is different from English, because they have their own features which are different from English).
I think Amazon as a store is probably being deprioritized in favor of Amazon as a giant e-commerce facilitator that handles all the payment processing and backend logistics.

The consequence has been ruining the storefront experience, but that’s not really what they care about anymore.
I had the same knee jerk reaction as you. But I think the question is not “should we tiptoe around subjects”.

The question is about framing and notability.

Pretend you have to make your own headline about the life of this guy. How do you frame his life?

You could focus on his achievements and his significance to Mormons and not mention the controversy until later in the article.

You could do what the Times did, which is mention only his controversies and say nothing of his significance to your average Mormon.

You could do a mix of the two (“celebrated within the Church, but mired in controversy without it”).

Either way you go, you are making a big decision on how to frame this guy’s life.

Which one is more fair? Which one is more profitable? Which panders the most to your readership? Which one is the least/most controversial? These are all questions the editor has to consider.

I have no small amount of distaste for the Mormon Church and Mormonism. I would prefer that any headline about Monson’s death mention the controversies that the Times mentions. But I also agree with the author that the Times’ headline is an extremely one dimensional view that just reinforced my already former opinion about Mormonism rather than giving me an alternative perspective from which to see it.
How long will the supernova last? If it were to happen, will it be over in a few hours, days or last for years?
http://archive.md/K22ek
To play devils advocate, how much do you personally know about the Snowden leaks that you didn't read from news articles?

There are (exceedingly rare) examples where journalist do get it right, but your example is a journalist reporting on classified material. Unless you're a higher-up in the NSA, you would have no clue if he got details wrong.
Serverless Next.js at the Edge
I'm not too sure what ublock does entirely, but it seems to focus more on blocking content of the site. Like images, iframes, scripts, etc.

Chrome does a lot of calling home. Like, a LOT [1][2]. For example, it checks sites are "safe" (as according to Google's standards) running every website you visit through their servers.

Brave tries to disable most of this.

1. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

2. https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...
one reason I love living in Asia the shear amount of advertising is far more interesting to walk around than say Irving California which is basically Speilberg-esch E.T. suburbia.
When I was in tangentially involved in sales, companies under 2 years old were required by the underwriters to provide a personal guarantee. Similarly, any credit card issued in the name of the company either had very low credit limits or personal cosigners. This was like 20 years ago though, so things could be different now.
I can not be completely sure. It is implied but not explicitly stated. He praises Monson's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment so perhaps he would want the anti-gay stance included but in a positive light.
That doesn't sound right, it's still not bloated. The majority is drivers then comes the cpu arch folder that takes a big cut. You can check yourself with cloc:

http://cloc.sourceforge.net/
> I'm guessing that business processes in a company as big and successful as Amazon are well beyond the point of turning into a religious cult. And now we see adepts of such cults, sometimes familiar with only a single cult, without much understanding why this cult was there, reproducing that cult to build new companies.

I don’t think I’ve ever read a better summary of the habits of alumni from management consulting firms.
I now get photos of my package when it was delivered.
MakePython ESP8266: Heartbeat Monitor
It's a shame that they're forced to do this.
The “nothing but” in that sentence makes it false.
> 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.

I've been reading a book of Umberto Eco essays lately. I really like them. Eco manages to synthesize many different historical perspectives into some very general arguments about whichever complicated subject he's discussing.

I think that's basically what the goal of an obituary should be. It should mention this person's opposition to same-sex marriage and the ordination of women. But it should also mention other things, some of which are outlined in this article. Out of all these different perspectives, something like the truth will emerge.
> imagine something called the NY times to be somewhat skewed to NY.

That's not the reputation they sell when they call themselves the "Newspaper of Record"[1]. They also cultivate themselves as internationalists. They do not represent themselves ala NY Post (i.e. "hizzoner")

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record
I think I've got the category bug. I very much was intrigued by Milewski's course and found that it made things happening in Haskell make more sense to me.
There are a couple of things that really excited me.

Conal Elliott's compiling to categories. Categories make a great intermediate representation for DSLs. They are very easy to manipulate/optimize in a simple algebraic manner without issues related to named variables. This proposal showed how a plugin could take ordinary programs written in more user friendly syntax and compile it to the category IR. You can overload ordinary programs to automatically differentiable programs and more.
http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/

Another thing I think is really interesting is calculating programs. It is possible in the right formalism to write down a specification of a program in a simple small form, and use algebraic manipulation to derive an executable form of the program. It feels like doing an integral or something.
Check out these books on that topic.
https://themattchan.com/docs/algprog.pdf
http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~jno/ps/pdbc.pdf
Feliz Natal, this site is the subject of endless ire but I enjoy the tonality and will keep visiting
There was never any stagnation at Microsoft other than in the stock price.

Have a look: [1] [2] - what changed really was simply the price/earnings multiplier, not really the underlying fundamentals. Though this is very important, I don't think it's the most important part of the Ballmer culture era.

Revenues and product line expansion grew phenomenally, Ballmer brought huge new business lines and the cloud into the fore.

The culture may have been perceived as toxic by some, but it's debatable if that's just hearsay or if it had a real effect on productivity etc..

That Ballmer failed on a few points (slow to embrace Linux) is fine - no big companies win everywhere and neither will Satya. MS failed at search? Well Google failed as social as well. Neither of them are hard done by it, there are other unassailable market leaders who do it better somewhere else anyhow,

Satya is obviously a welcome shift, and culture change was probably timely along with embrace of open source etc. (right man for the right time) - but Ballmer was good for MSFT. He was the right man for the right time as well, and probably good that he left when he did.

My experience is that it's really, really hard to judge culture from the outside - and literally different buildings/groups have completely different culture.

Amazon will be a case study in that stage of growth however - it may have a lot to do with how much Bezos cares to deal with it, or play with rockets all day like Larry and Sergei. I wonder how very few companies have done that really well - i.e. gone from 15K -> 100K and maintained dynamism. Probably few if any.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/sto...
Culling mode, new in v3.0, allows comparing two (or more) photos side-by-side. The new version also allows for zooming in on images in lighttable mode (control-shift-scroll) when in culling mode or when images are "previewed" (full screen via the "w" key).
Re: getting away with a bad stride --Not without certain injury, if you're putting in significant miles.
Prime, Prime Now, Prime video with exclusive content, Audible, Amazon Go, Kindle, Amazon Lockers, 1 day shipping, Whole Foods, their own delivery services, supposedly drone delivery, market leading Cloud services, etc.

My husband and I invested north of $200K in Amazon back in 2014. Their stock alone has performed tremendously for me.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I haven’t cashed out. I’m betting on Papa Bezos for the long term.

One thing I respect about Amazon is how they figure out stuff that isn’t working and kill it. Amazon Restaurants is now gone.

I work at another big tech company - I’m in Kirkland ;) My employer pays me better than Amazon pays for a similar role, so I get best of both worlds...

I do have friends at Amazon as well.
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