skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you aware of the tolerance paradox of Popper?

> The woke sense of tolerance

Yes, Popper wrote the "paradox of tolerance" in 1945 as a liberal philosophical answer to the national socialists that were intolerant to violations to their fundamentalist norms.

What the paradox of intolerance says is that we should be intolerant towards totalizing belief systems that justify force and coercion against viewpoint opponent to enforce their compliance to its norms. The woke belief system is exactly the kind of belief system he warned us about. Basically, Popper says tolerance need to be a two-way street.

> I did not accuse him, I said I valued him coming around on this topic. It seems you want to paint me in a color no matter what I say.

That is not what I meant, as I’ve been responding to your request for a defense. Focus is on the accusation and how this kind of accusation found in the linked open letter is frequently used by the woke to reduce the moral standing of opponents. I demonstrated how if you respond to such an accusation, that due to its woke political activist wording demonstrably at least partially contain political activist aspects, you will still loose moral standing.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. When I see a slogan like "don't be seen as misogynist" my brain fills in "don't be seen [by whom?] as misogynist."

Is Stallman actually impeding the FSF's mission, or just pissing off a vocal silicon valley minority who are already on board with the mission?
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Don't yell fire in a crowded theatre ...

But what if the theatre is actually on fire?

Or what if you whisper something quietly and people still react like you screamed 'Fire!'?

And that's the whole point: we're not worried about people arguing over most things. We're worried when they are arguing over truthful things that are sensitive, and often ideological. Like 'identity' etc..

The war is real.

Hugely respected academics have had to come out and make public statements about it. They are not saying 'oh this is a non-issue' they are betting their public identities on it.

I really don't much in the way of academics yelling 'fire' in theatres i.e. things that are meaningfully offensive on an academic level. I only see people people reacting to those they disagree with in oppressive ways.
> "Software vendors won’t usually be inserting spyware into their wares."

JFC. I'm sorry, but this "article" can be dismissed on that alone. Software vendors already are inserting spyware into their "wares." Did the author do any research?
Thanks for the info. Probably would not have considered SQLite in place of something like pandas.
I think programmers need to start taking a lot more responsibility for what we release into the world.

If you don't think your software solves a real problem, or will improve people's quality of life, then why release it?

There are already too many distractions in the modern world. I don't want to create more. Any software you release that doesn't solve a real problem is just another distraction that takes time away from people's lives.
Don't forget about User-Defined Functions.

https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html

We just started enhancing our SQL dialect with new functions which are implemented in C# code. One of them is an aggregate and it is really incredible to see how it simplifies projections involving multiple rows.

One huge benefit of SQLite's idea of UDFs is that you can actually set breakpoints and debug them as SQL is executing.
Thanks for sharing. It will be interesting to read the paper, usually when you see exactly what they did the sheen comes off considerably. From what I understand, it's basically taking advantage of the doppler effect in the microvasculature to estimate brain activity? I guess the concept is nothing new (ultra sound has long taken advantage of doppler shift), it's more that they've found a way to get some images apparently with a spatial resolution that is sufficient enough to be used for "mind reading".

I did some similar experiments in my old job, but we used fMRI in the human visual cortex instead of ultrasound. We found that even when we imaged at surprisingly low resolutions (where the microvasculature couldn't be imaged) there was a still a lot of data which when we threw into a machine learning model could be used to predictably estimate the visual stimuli the person had seen during a basic task. In case you aren't aware, fMRI is actually measuring the oxygenation of the blood (not actually brain activity, we simply infer that areas with high oxygenation are highly active - which is an argument for another day!), and we theorised that the reason we could still decode information at low resolution was because of large gross veins distributed across the brain. If you imagine that when shown two stimuli A and B, the brain has two distinct patterns of activity A and B, the blood flow in those two cases will be slightly different and this will be reflected even in the gross veins, and we believed our machine learning model was able to see those difference in the gross veins and using those to "mind read".

I would definitely want to look at the study more carefully, to see what the investigators have done to remove the possibility that there are gross activity pattern changes that their learning model (I am sure they're using one) might actually be using to "mind read". It will also be interesting to see how the model is built and what they are doing to reliably clean up the data.
A Password/Auth Maturity Model
In this case it seems twice as expensive as AWS glacier.

I like the idea of this but do not yet see the competitive advantage.

Also your FAQ mentions your community of users. Is there a forum/discord where the community can discuss/learn?
I don’t see how you can claim that Stallman "advocate[d] for rape." Please read what he wrote carefully - he says that it’s not clear that Minsky had knowledge of or intent to commit a crime. You can argue that Minsky was associating with Epstein and should have known what was going on, and that Stallman is totally unwise in his responses here, but don’t accuse him of something that he has not done according to the evidence presented in this issue.
Apollo went to the moon.

My pocket doesn't.

Spaceflight is not compute-bound.
Japanese prononciation is not difficult for native French speakers. Off the top of my head, the main “difficulties” are the /r/ and the /h/ (which is always silent in French). That said, I am not sure it is much more difficult for native English speakers.
Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns (2016)
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Why even link this trash?
Try 2.11 - 2.1 here: http://weitz.de/ieee/ . I don't think they used 32-bit floating point, otherwise there should clearly be a large enough number to display.
I think anyone who's had a job must realize that some waste goes on in the private sector. but a business that wastes more than it profits will eventually be sold for parts. a government isn't subject to the same constraints and can raise taxes or print money for a long time to paper over the rot.

there's also the argument that it's worse for a government to waste money than it is for a business. if someone runs their own business inefficiently, they are just wasting their own money. if the executives run a publicly-traded business inefficiently, this is a bit worse as they are wasting the shareholders' money. but an inefficient government is wasting everyone's money that they are compelled to contribute.
I tried but they say it's hopeless. Instead have decided to use my mental retardation as an excuse to get a position of power in a large Tech org and let woke people defend my transgressions on twotter.
Neither does “being there first”.
I perfectly fits my experience in Germany, so probably not US- but established-band centric (as in: they make money off spotify, though not necessarily enough to live off of it).

Bookings almost exclusively go through the band's agency, 6 to 12 months in advance. Tour logistics are a major part of costs on the band's side. Smaller bands without an agency usually also only have a very small local following, meaning not enough guests to pay the people at the venue, meaning the mostly are not booked by the venue, outside of labor-of-love events of some employees at the venue.
Also, if Perseverance had slammed into Mars at 200 mph, they wouldn't have "Part of Wright Brothers' plane now in toxic radioactive junk heap on Mars; Thanks NASA!" plastered over the daily headlines.
I think it's just a matter of people adapting to the tools that are easily available. Almost 100% of the time I've seen someone use an actual basic tabletop calculator, they've been tallying prices and slapping on a sales tax. At that point it's just a learned ritual and they're not thinking about order of operations. If they needed parentheses, they'd just memorize that the parentheses go around the prices.

Once the computations get complex enough that you have to write down the formulas, then it makes a lot of sense to treat the computations as algebraic expressions, meaning PEMDAS.
There have been attempts of repairing openssl. Every time it's a big problem due to lack of adoption.

LibreSSL would solve a lot of the surface area problems OpenSSL has, but people cling to OpenSSL under the guise that "a lot has improved" and of course that change is hard.

The point I'm trying to make is that there _are_ better SSL libraries, but none have the adoption of openssl, and adoption has inertia; nobody is going to go out of their way to avoid OpenSSL because a bug in openssl is not their fault.

Just like AWS's availability, people work on the premise that if AWS is down (or OpenSSL has bug!) then everyone is affected and therefore they can't be blamed.
Agreed. I think localStorage is as well, but if that isn't the case then there's still other options. You can make login option, download the settings and upload later, save to Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc.
Changes between 1.1.1j and 1.1.1k [25 Mar 2021]

https://www.openssl.org/news/cl111.txt
Fossil preserves the journal of activities forever, and across clones.
This is very nice, but it's still not simple enough for me. It's too much work to sift through every nook and cranny changing individual colors. I would love a way to pick a palette of a handful of colors and then be given ways of rolling different color combinations.

This would be a great experience:
1. Override the colors on elements I'm interested in (background for instance)
2. Click an Auto button to generate the remaining colors based on my manual selections.
This article reminds me of an essay by Neal Stephenson about how the internet stifles the innovation process. The gist of it is that the availability of pre-existing solutions provided by the internet leads to much faster solutions, but stifles innovation and experimentation in the process.

If a group of engineers in a room have to dream up solutions to a problem, then go research and experiment to learn if they'll work, they will be innovating and learning the problem space in the process. If they dream up these solutions, then search the internet to see if they've been tried and work, they'll just be hill climbing.
Ooh, this is great. I love GeoGuessr and have pointed several people to it. I have thought that a trained AI could do better than me on average.

I've been posting my runs publicly to Strava for years. I recently started living in a small town and decided to stop posting my location, and using an open source tool called RunnerUp to track my runs. I have still been posting running photos that don't reveal my location. I know someday people will be able to figure out my location despite avoiding taking pictures with signs and stuff. If anyone wants to try to figure out one of my recent locations, my instagram link is in my bio.
Things can be both real and anonymous. Things can be both authentic and anonymous.
I credit that book with introducing me to William James, whose ideas and personality I immediately liked. The same was true for Barzun himself; he wrote a biography called A Stroll With William James that’s also quite good.
> The title made me worried someone had tried to weld an object system onto English

I am kind of disappointed that it isn't!

// trying to develop

some[] = style.point-free.
using (
relative ( clauses [applicative] )
)
;

but with lazy-evaluation

the self referentiality quickly leads to self-modifying code & do-monad ( some++ )

so I return to declaritive if-then-else for (;_;)
It's possible that is true, or partially so.

The strength, speed and pace of play of HS and NCAA is vastly different than the professional level.

For any given sport, the any given team is made up of a analogs of the best player in your state in pre-pro levels. Thats a STARK contrast when playing the game.
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - yup!
Nobody should be getting facts from the opinion section of a newspaper.
I prefer vim as an editor, but in terms of being a unique and fascinating piece of software, emacs wins hands down. There's something really cool about the fact that you can't easily answer the question, "What is emacs similar to?", because it's such a total sui generis.
I've built themes before and one nice feature that I'm missing is color variables to avoid having to copy/paste the same RGB everywhere. It makes it much easier to play with various color schemes but also makes creating new themes from a template much easier.
Excel has the same accessibility as a calculator UI. I'll have that, in a smaller window :)

Also, the UX of a REPL sucks because it lives in a white-on-black terminal and prints scary version messages about a thing called "clang". Do the same thing with nice colors and friendly messages and I doubt the usability would be any worse.
Thanks for clarifying the specific type of cancer. But I still think it’s inaccurate to call a 50-60% survival rate cancer as “curable.”
This is an extraordinary claim. Obviously some of the prior costs are due to paperwork, but really?

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/air-transpo...
Thanks, always agreed. And a good read.
Great recommendation. I somehow managed to go from the House of Intellect to Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad to James Baldwin's Stranger in the Village over the last couple of hours.
To me RMS doesn't lead the Free Software movement, and hasn't for quite some time -- just a traditionalist wing of the movement. I don't have to agree with him, worship him, or not think he's a weird and unpleasant person to respect the good he did -- and does -- for free software. But there are a lot of diverse views and perspectives within open source and even free software, and RMS is no longer the barycenter of the movement the way he was in the 80s and early 90s.

But the truth is, we need RMS or someone like him around, warts and all, otherwise the Overton window for open source will get dragged further and further toward corporate interests. There's a LOT of money behind this, and you cannot look into the backgrounds and views of the loudest voices calling for RMS's cancellation and NOT conclude that there is strong corporate influence to get rid of him.
Hi, I'm the author. I just haven't made the site because the repo is complete

I'll go change the site. It had never been released, announced, or indicated.

This is being shared because there's a complete programming language in active use by many people
The author is quite clearly an ignoramus on the topic of FLOSS, and can be safely ignored. I'm not sure how this got to the front page of HN. It's embarrassing, frankly.
Survival in years instead of months is not curable.
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It's not a bug, and there exists no backend

I just haven't written the site yet
Chewy sent me an email saying that my cat's prescription diet wold not be available going forward and that I should look at a different brand or another supplier. Two days later, it shipped as normal and there is nothing in my subscription portal to suggest any issues.

It may have been a glitch or we may have problems in the coming months.
Seems like RMS's Achilles' heel is harassment towards women, over the years, even after being made aware of it politely by others.

In that light, these are classic reads on the topic (copy pasting another comment):

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...

[5] The Elephant in the Valley (by Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo, 2015)

https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/

Also the news of RMS coming back seems to have been hidden from even FSF members.

https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128
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There are pros and cons to highlighting on the client vs the server.

If you highlight on the server:

pros: no javascript, can cache

cons: might be a way to inject scripts into everyone's browser, since the client has to trust the html from the server

--

If you write it on the client:

pros: server can't distribute injected scripts, server stores less things

cons: more javascript, every client has to do work

--

All software choices are weighing the pros and cons. Do the thing that lets you work quickly and safely.
> That seems like thinking it ironic that lawn mowers have a place to put blades for cutting grass.

A more apt comparison would be having a 40ft tall Mech that transforms into a jet and flies from neighborhood to neighborhood then crouches down and uses a tiny pair of scissors to cut the grass.
I think I understand what const generics are. But I fail to see a use case for it, other than using them in array literals and abstractions over arrays.

Can you share you your use case?
I've been making personal moves towards libressl and openbsd in general. there's just way less friction involved in maintaining those servers vs my linux ones running stuff like this that constantly leaves me hitting up my clients like 'yeah we need to do this at midnight'

If libressl is affected by this too I would be incredibly surprised. They really did do a great job of removing all the bad stuff for something that just works as a drop-in replacement compatible with scripts and everything.
The feature I'm most excited about is the parallel — and automatic — precompilation. Combined with the iterative latency improvements, Julia 1.6 has far fewer coffee breaks.
Yeah, that's definitely an issue!

We had to "optimize" loading it twice.

The first time, I moved it from auto-loading to when the user clicks convert to save on bandwidth.

The second time, I moved it to after a file is selected. That gives it time to load while users are presented with options before converting.

It's definitely a trade-off. For us, the choice was easy-ish because we want to keep the budget down as Indie Hackers, so we can't just offer a free tool that costs a ton in backend/serverless charges.
> Using the live editor” is a Chicken fighting ninja, “What are state machines?” is a black woman singing(the cover is a laughing Jesus, why?), “Why FSL?” is Video unavailable, “Publishing a machine” is The history of Japan.

Yeah, I haven't made any of the videos yet. I'm camera shy and it's scary to be on the internet, so I've been dragging my heels.

I didn't expect anyone to find the website so I thought it wasn't a big deal
Are you an Engul user? Syllabic scripts for English are rare. Usually people use letters.
> Non-profit/individuals non-profit don't pay anything.

>Everyone else/companies pay $0.01 per dependency, per month.

This isn't going to be both scalable and sustainable. You will find that people will calculate the cost of this vs. the cost of being a non-profit. It also isn't going to work where a small dependency gets the same payout as a more complicated dependency.
A helicopter... on Mars. That is not much? Also, over one hundred space shuttle flights, a space station, a space telescope, GPS, and public satellite photos.
I tried it in the "Archive.org Windows 3.11 in a browser" and it returns "0.01".

https://archive.org/details/win3_stock
It's not due to accounting per se, it's the corporate finance worldview. Money that's just sitting there is not making any returns. So let's put it somewhere (stock buybacks? "zero-risk" money market fund? some AAA++ rated synthetic CDO? dogecoin? well, the sky's the limit, just don't forget to risk-adjust the expected returns).

Businesses operate "lean", and if they need more money to weather the rainy days, they can issue bonds, or ask the shareholders to inject more capital.

And to make mattes even "leaner" basically market forces pushed risk management out to "specialists" too. Underwriting, counterparty risk, credit risk, traditional insurance, "default insurance" are all just financial products now, that can be built into standard language of shipping contracts.
Just like writing fiction, no one cares if you keep repeating yourself as much as you do. Keep using the de facto standards so that your fellow devs can easily read your code and get on with their work.
Behavior trees can be fully implemented in this language, and are a (fairly limited) subset of finite state machines
MoreVMs 2021: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs
D can even catch C++ exceptions on Linux (haven't tried it on Windows yet)
> I do not require anything out of anyone else in order to exercise the variety of rights protected by the Bill of Rights.

Being able to read and write helps and that seems to be best provided by universal primary education, which does seem to be provided as a right in the US (even though it is not guaranteed by the constitution).

Being healthy also helps and that seems to be best provided by universal free at point of use healthcare, which is not provided as a right in the US.

Why should you get one 'free' and the other not? After all the education also has to be paid for by someone else.
I'd also like to add the possibility of using SQLite databases as an application file format: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23508923

I had to work on a data import/export tool some time ago and SQLite has simplified the design a lot.
New underground transit lines in the US are ridiculously expensive in dollar costs (which means they also have large environmental costs). In terms of lowest emissions per passenger mile, our best bet might be fleets of lightweight self-driving vehicles.
I use this to avoid distraction: https://switchoff.neocities.org
If it's a corporate system like my (presently only) Windows machine then I wouldn't be surprised. They manage to configure these things so they're as fast as a Pentium 133MHz processor from 25 years ago, even though you've got an 8-core i7 with 32GB of RAM.
I tried Ragel before writing my own

I'm not a fan
Reminds me of
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

it maps naturally and efficiently many common features afforded by the C++ language and often considered problematic, including overloaded operators, class and function templates, callbacks through function pointers, function objects (aka functors), virtual functions and member function pointers, nested struct definitions, variable length arguments, nested namespaces, large data structures containing arbitrary cycles, virtual and multiple inheritance, passing/returning by value/reference/string/vector, anonymous unions, bit fields, exceptions, destructors and shared or unique pointers (via either try-with-resources or garbage collection), and documentation comments
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