skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean I can invoke Godwin's Law

Firstly, the Nazis rose despite and possibly helped by speech laws.

> My new favorite wiki page (for now) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Secondly, Popper is not calling for speech to be supressed in any way except for those who choose violence instead of speech. The original[1] is better than a Wikipedia article that cuts off the important part of his words:

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion…

Hence he is supportive of the right to discussion for all. He contrasts this with those who won't support speech and sets the limits:

> for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols

They've given up on speech so he gives up on tolerance, which is wise. Free speech is there to reduce violence and supplant it and nothing Popper wrote in the "paradox of tolerance" contradicts that.

[1] https://archive.org/details/TheOpenSocietyAndItsEnemiesPoppe...
France officials had the very same discourse regarding masks (highly discouraged in February and March, became mandatory in a lot of places in July). The current government is very much closer to US democrats than republicans, to say the least.
Probably not a right vs left decision.
I've been pleasantly surprised by content om DZone at least, though the others less so.
mitchellh

I'm sorry, but please cut the corporate-speak.

Reality is that your statements are different from your actions.

"similarly to Vault, the major featureset of Boundary will remain free"

Sounds great doesn't it.

Except Hashicorp decide to hide Multi-factor authentication in Vault behind the paywall.

I mean, I'll forgive you putting a lot of the Vault features behind the paywall (e.g. replication).

But for a security product. Putting a core component of 21st century security (MFA) behind the paywall ?

Pretty unforgivable.
Ask HN: Future of web developlemt in a VR world?
I am currently a web developer but I am very aware of everything shifting towards AR/VR in the near future. Probably a future "web" site will have a VR version of moving menus. It seems to me that Unity will dominate this space and I am thinking of taking up lessons so that I am not left behind in the next internet era. A-frame doesn't seem to have great prospects imo.

Thoughts?
No because bullshit is easier to make than truth. There is dozens of bot channels that have nothing better to do at the moment but post videos that look like news channel broadcasts with a semi-convincing TTS reads various news regarding conspiracy theories (ie, "Bill Gates about to be arrested over 5G-Corona").

They post videos at almost hourly pace, distributed over several channels and each video has a unique image to it (ie, different logos, different TTS settings). If normal well researched content had to compete with that, it would loose by being buried under the sheer mass of bot generated bullshit.

And that isn't even counting the number of videos produced by actual humans that are just as bad.

A lot of conspiracy theorists aren't above threatening violence and law suits (usually libel) against those exposing them or simply posting the truth, I've heard of multiple instances of that occuring, atleast one in-person.

This isn't two sides arguing peacefully about one position or the other, it's one side being violent and disrespectful to the other. "Flattening" the discovery of other content is basically asking the otherside to be not-violent and stand back so that the violent side can have their say.

Sometimes violence comes from both sides of the debate too (ie, US politics) but that doesn't make the amount of disrespect by people purposefully lying or spreading lies any better.

Free speech, as I see it, means that you can express your opinion freely without repercussions unless it's advocating for violence against people or groups of people. If you're talking about facts, those should not fall under free speech under the simple premise that facts are either provable or you should say that you have no proof or you should expose them as the opinions they are.
Any interesting tidbits about the code? much has been made about how awful it was
> The best thing about CUPS one could say is "most of the time it'll have you printer do something that resembles printing your document".

If you're old enough to remember what printing on Linux was like in the 1990s and early 2000s, you'll recognize what a towering accomplishment the above is.

Hundreds of pieces of largely undocumented hardware with little to no manufacturer support more-or-less work most of the time!
Remember this Nature?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...

So much about "truth".

People don't have a problem with science.
They have a problem with scientists.

They also say how Trump is bad because of the Paris agreement for environment.
Did you know that the Paris agreement has no legal bindings? It's just a PR move by politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement#Lack_of_bindin...
I’ve never encountered a well written TV series where I was disappointed at it ending after two seasons, while I’ve encountered a great many which outstayed their welcome and soured me on the entire thing. I know some people love great long things that never seem to end, I just don’t count myself among them.
Maybe not a community fork, but I can think of several Linux Distro "Owners"/Communities/Companies that need a working printer service for their "products", e.g. RedHat/IBM, Suse, Canonical?

Would it be too far fetched if one of them starts maintaining/sheltering a fork - at least to fix bugs? Maybe even with the help of the other interested parties (in an ideal world)?

I cannot imagine IBM wants to sit on a Fedora Workstation release with a buggy printing service.
We already have decent tablets, and we're absolutely going to have decent e-ink tablets (as laggardly as the progress there has been) before we manage to get printer drivers figured out.
Well, stress is indeed bad for health.

And so is undersleeping.

My strategy is two-fold: 1. Don't sleep when you don't want to. 2. Sleep as much as you want when you do.

Your scenario seems to skip the second part, which is also important.
I'm glad someone spreading lies like that will be ever banned from youtube.
Because it is incredibly divisive and cheapens the journal. I'm not interested in what my doctor thinks of Biden, I just want to get rid of the damn foot fungus.
Why Real Estate Photographers Used Image Enhancement Service
Maybe this fits your bill?

https://github.com/WillKoehrsen/Data-Analysis
A lot of scientific dialogue now happens through mediums like Youtube. Scientists use it as a research tool, and a way to disseminate information to other scientists. Censoring discourse is extremely dangerous, and its detrimental effect on scientific advancement is just one of the reasons why.
It would be better to build up a library for using the existing ktls support from golang instead. Shouldn't be too hard and then it'll be better supported by being in the mainline kernel.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls-offloa...
You might want to look into what https://m5stack.com/ does. They deliver ESP32s under nice form factors. The chip can run Espruino apparently: http://www.espruino.com/FAQ#is-espruino-related-to-esp8266-e...
GitHub Actions Monitoring – a beautiful dashboard and monitoring tool
Multi-column support for Python Architect
We modified python Architect to support multi-column partition key for postgres.
In countries in Europe (such as Switzerland) where all citizens are issued some form of National ID this isn't an issue. In countries such as the US, or the UK, where forms of government ID are common but not universal, passing laws requiring ID verification to vote is voter suppression. Across all groups it is the poorest that do not have a form of government ID - https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/campaigns/upgrading-our-...

In the UK there were 28 counts of election fraud at the 2017 election, a rate of 0.000063%. Whereas estimates of people without government ID range around 10% of the population (as of 2016, anyway) https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/estimating-...
Dr. Fauci has since admitted that U.S. health officials intentionally lied about mask efficacy to prevent PPE shortages: https://techstartups.com/2020/06/17/dr-fauci-admits-health-e...
If the article compared the state’s contribution to its budget that would make the point relevant. Instead the article is about the city and I claim it is raising irrelevant points of evidence.
Recently at my father in laws Win10 machine. Had to get there to fix it so he can print again #2020
I agree on those firmly in either camp. But there is a big chunk of voters who aren't firmly in either camp. That's why you have Bush Jr. winning some years, Obama others and then Trump.
> I have a feeling the UK will end up relying on interconnectors.

Gridwatch used to allow you to download an entire year (or more) with a 5 minute resolution. Based on my last download from Sep 2018 to Sep 2019, a net of 7.6% of UK's electricity usage was from interconnectors

Not sure how much those brexit effects these, the UK government has ripped out the conditions that allow these to work, put all the blame on the interconnector companies, and still have no idea what the relationship will look like in 11 weeks time

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trading-electrici...
> personally do not answer any calls from numbers not on my contact list.

I do. Then take the time to get an actual human on the phone. Then I verbally abuse them until they hang up.

It's not effective in stopping them, but while I'm spewing vulgar stuff at them, they're not trying to rip anyone else off.
Strange. In the last week I've seen three references to 'Chutes and Ladders', but I don't recall ever seeing the name before that — I've always known it and seen it referred to as 'Snakes and Ladders'. 'Chutes' appears to be a American thing.
very much an edge case, but I was just curious :)
Which places do you have in mind? Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household.
I'm not sure this is surprising really. It wasn't that long ago when there was clearly a targeted campaign against zoom across channels where you'd expect engagement from technical people.

I don't know if it wasn't doing its job, or if something like that just can't be maintained long term but it seemed to peter off relatively quickly.
Can you link to the studies that you think existed in March / April 2020 that showed that masks worked?
This is one of my favorites of the entire series :)
Sure, but I feel like any judge will treat this the same as employees talking about anti-trust. This alone is evidence.
There's a difference between being wrong about "put a band aid on a cut" and "aids is transmitted by having sex with Puerto Ricans". Health authorities are good at the first, and very bad at the second.
For a while I assumed they lied as well. Now, looking back I'm not so sure. There really wasn't much scientific evidence of masks being effective for respiratory diseases.
Highly underrated comment.

It's easy to be a free speech advocate when it benefits your own views. It's not easy when it doesn't.
Stonebraker on databases and venture capital (2014)
Michael Stonebraker 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture (75mins)
> Real question: Do we continue to dumb down software to exclusive casual usage for house-moms or we try to move our society to be more techn savy as we are clearly moving to a more tech relying world. Why shouldn't everyone know how to code?

Why shouldn't everyone churn their own butter? Why shouldn't everyone sew their own clothes? Why shouldn't everyone build our own homes? Should we continue to dumb down feeding, clothing, and sheltering ourselves for exclusive casual usage of <insert offensive stereotype>?

There are only so many hours in the day and time in our lives; why hide the benefits of technology behind arbitrary gatekeeping?
Moddable and Espruino have a slightly more restrictive license for when u want to maybe monetize your project.

Duktape and Jerryscript are way bigger open-source projects (on github at least). I used almost all of the interpreters to do a hello world on a microcontroller. They all work great! I found Duk to have a slightly cleaner API for bindings, for example writing to the serial port from JS land.

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape

https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript
> I agree that what YouTube is doing here is a slippery slope and it's scary. However, I personally think that this is now a war for democracy, and things are going to need to be sacrificed.

YouTube choosing what you can see is as far from democracy as it can get. Not sure how you get from that to saving "democracy".
I find you don't actually play retro games, you visit them for 5 minutes - driven by nostalgia. Then you realize the evolution of gaming has come a long way.
But as I've pointed out before, how do I as a user of this site, get access to the very evidence I need?

There are numerous suspicious posts - which may just be my biases, or not - such as this thread with a guy posting a lot of facts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746397

I applaud this because we need facts, but one guy there has an astonishing level of facts ready to go and a rather slick and way of putting things which I recognise. Why? because I used to work in publicity (though not of the spinning kind). I recognise the style. I want the guy here and posting because we need facts not shouting but if he has a financial interest, we need to know. It should not stop him being there if there is because in some respects his pro-niclear posts are pretty good but it needs to be open.

Other problems - there's a certain style of posting that proposes stuff with zero facts and magically gets voted to the top of the thread. No facts, slight whiff of fud, pushed to the top. That's not actually how the HN crowd tends to react to info-free posts (or myabe there's a subset who does, I may be mistaken). But how do I analyse the voting patterns when I don't have the voting data?

I'll not mention what happens when china becomes the subject.

Is it me? I don't know. But then I can't tell without evidence. There seem to be other problems. Is it me? I dunno. I'm posting less here because I feel good stuff is getting swamped (not just my stuff, a lot of other people's stuff. My posts aren't generally a pinnacle).

Edit: so how do I get the evidence you require?
European Parliament will vote on Monday to extend software patents to AI
I remember that some of these points were targeted by the Étoilé environment [1]. It was a desktop environment targeted for GNUstep and programmed in Objective-C that tried to rethink a few fundamental concepts of the Desktop Environments available at the time (~10 years ago). Among them, proper file versioning for everything, seamless app interoperability and data sharing, etc.

Sadly, the developers never managed to go beyond a few core libraries and a nice theme (the GUI used GNUstep under the hood). I followed the development with great interest till they stopped updating the site; I believe that the effort would have required many more developers. What a pity!

[1] http://etoileos.com/
‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
What if you wanted your doctor to assist you in abortion? That's an American political matter.
Free speech isn't about all voices being equal though, it is about the freedom to speak out against the government. It's an important distinction because the latter is needed for democracy to work where as a former doesn't work in practice because some voices should carry more weight (like subject matter experts).

Ironically the former seems more prevalent than ever with every nutjob on social media voicing their opinions, while Trump has been systematically eroding the latter with his "fake news" campaigns and reporter biases.
It is my understanding that it is "reduced-instruction set computer" rather than "reduced instruction-set computer".

That is the reduced means each instruction does less, rather than specifying the number of them.
Only one side has come up with 'alternative facts' and argued that conclusive science is 'still out'.

I've seen hypocrisy on both sides for sure but the intellectual dishonesty is only coming from one.
I was lucky enough to meet Ken Iverson and Adin Falkoff at age 14 and have been an APL fan ever since, so the APL library has been a labor of love for me! It still needs a lot of work but it's getting the ideas out there.
<random> and <chrono> have really been in a death match of "C++ standard libraries that are super-annoyingly C++", but they've both been absolutely destroyed by <range>, i think.
But that's absolutely no reason why things can't continue to improve. CUPS might have been a lare improvement over the 2000s and the 90s, but it's still not great. Especially now that much more end-users are active on linux that aren't very knowledgable in computers, Linux and it's tooling, including CUPS, needs to get comfortable with the idea that, for most users, it is better to have sane defaults and work out of the box with minimal interaction, such as being able to easily add printers from autodiscovery, failing that, allowing users to add printers from an easy to understand dialog option. There is no reason why I need to select what protocol my printer needs (JetDirect, ApplePrint, PCL6, etc.) if the easiest option is to try out which ones of them work and select the one that works the best. On Windows I don't have to care how my printer talks to my computer, it autoselects from the various protocols, usually trying to identify the printer and letting the driver pick. On linux with CUPS I very much have to care and I don't see why.
It's their platform, they can take down whatever they want. If you don't like it, make your own platform.
Give them a call. Walk over to their desk. There's no need to wait, but there's also no need to present things out of context.

There are two kinds of companies: Companies that advise their employees to watch their language on all discoverable mediums, and those that have never been sued before. Most large companies are in the latter group.

In tech, it's much more obvious - unless you're working on hardware, the odds of your code directly posing a threat to life is rather low. The odds that some passionate employees may start a discussion on a large email group discussing ongoing legal action against your company that's been in the news, and that they will say something misinformed that will get quoted out of context, is incredibly high.

Never say anything in an email that you wouldn't want presented out of context in a courtroom. And unless you want all of your emails to be legally mandated to be retained for a few years, I'd avoid talking about anything relevant to ongoing or potential lawsuits over discoverable mediums.
The Last Resort – Lagunitas
Could you and the parent please elaborate in concrete terms what you'd like to see. I'd be terribly interested.
This is both a scary and weird comment. Everything we do is politics in some form. Even the decision on what toilet paper to use is political and can have both social and environmental impacts.
A new royalty-free music service for streamers. Thoughts?
I have never owned a printer. When my daughter got old enough to ask why don't we have a printer I said: Whenever you want to print, go to the library and I'll give you the money for printing, there is no limit. For some reason the whole family's printing budget has never exceeded 5 Euros per year in the last 20 years. Distance to the library cannot be the reason, it is 1 minute from school. I worked in a paperless company for many years, where the printer was locked to print only contracts and similar documents.

While printing is overrated, of course the library printer needs a driver, too. And preferably open source in true Stallman spirit (I'm not a big Stallman fan, but wasn't it so that the whole Free Software movement started because of a closed source printer driver?). But as a domain of little general importance, I am not surprised about the lack of a thriving community.
But customers still pay in spite of that. And that is what ultimately matters.
A major advantage of air tools over electrical tools is that the air flow and expansion causes cooling, which means you can run air tools harder for longer than equivalently-powered electrical tools, which can heat up dramatically when used hard.

Of course you have to mitigate moisture, but that is trivially solved with a moisture trap on the compressor's outlet or at the tool if you're using long air lines.
A smart speaker that reminds you it's listening
> 1) Some rights are more important than others.

If you've been found not guilty of a crime in the US and admit to it afterward, you cannot be prosecuted again by protection of Double Jeopardy, correct?

Is that not the same thing as saying some rights are more important than others?

And is (2) and (3) not just variations on (1)?
The paperless society is a dream.

Still nothing beats printing a document, scribble on it and giving it to someone or putting it a stash on your desk - not even having a device being capable of doing those things digitally without hick-ups.

The two most important issues are:

- This device (possibly) stacks all of these papers you would have printed out - so they are lost in a sheer endless space of all these various documents and even worse versions thereof. And then if you start sending these versions to others, e.g. expecting feedback, all hell breaks loose.

- There is still something about sitting with a stack of papers in your hand/on your desk - no digital device involved. Most people can't focus on a digital version the same way they do on a physical paper. I'm a huge fan of the ReMarkable (2), but simply put every (even awesome) attempt so far has failed.

Then add to that all the hick-ups that are simply never to leave. Software incompatibilities, sharing tools not working with all devices, walled-gardens, ... the problems are still endless and just get worse with every tool you add.

How are you going to print exams for students? Forms for residents to fill out? We are not going to demand of every citizen to fill out everything online at all times, are we? That would leave the most vulnerable even more stranded than they are now.
Sorry maybe I didn't express it correctly but my thoughts were that nobody believes the right to make sounds from our lungs or put words on a page are fundamental - what is more important to us is that our views and opinions are heard by others and that no authority can choose for us what we hear. Living in this way gives us more freedom to choose how we live and allows us to decide who to be influenced by.

Now take the example of promotion of terrorism - it's possible to argue that by allowing someone to post certain types of messages to a group on Facebook, they are creating an undue influence on the people in that group. For example by asking his followers to reject the views of outsiders (a common tactic in many religions, cults and conspiracy groups) a terrorist could be argued to have taken the freedom to hear other viewpoints away from his followers.

Now you can of course say that any terrorist or religious or cult leader is acting within a system of free speech - no one has technically had their freedom taken from them. That is true, but the reality of how humans choose who and what they listen to create the same effect as if they had lost those faculties.