skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I'm surprised that's sufficient. To my knowledge you can even have root fires burning underground for months. And I expect embers can travel in the wind far longer distances than 100m. It's pretty impressive to me they can do it with 100m of inspection, let alone how difficult that already is.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Shelly smart switches since many people here are worried about manufacturer cloud dependency, obsolescence and security.

I installed a bunch of Shelly 1 smart switches (https://shelly.cloud/shelly1-open-source/), they work via WiFi in LAN (even with the manufacturer's App) or Cloud (it's optional).

There is the possibility to manage them via REST APIs, all the smart switches serve a web page that can be reached via browser.

If you connect them to the Cloud you can optionally add Alexa or Google Home on top. They do not support HomeKit natively[1] nor IFTT.

I choose this solution because I wanted to automate part of my appliances and lights in my house without losing the possibility to use the analog wall switches that I already have installed: Philips Hue lights are nice but if you switch them off via the analog switch in the wall the App or your favorite voice assistant can't work anymore. Furthermore, they are very expensive; at lest 20€ for a single 8W bulb (no other size available), while a single Shelly 1 costs half the price.

[1] but from the original link of the thread I found this https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kacepe/homebridge-shelly
The sad state of affairs is that satire is dead and this guy fell for the bait. It doesn't even sound that ridiculous anymore.
Not a very original suggestion, but the original book (“A Programming Language”, by Ken Iverson) would probably fit in.
Cancel in Python and a cancellation token are very different concepts. Cancellations in Python are not passed through the same way and you can’t await a cancellation.
> Right. That’s why I included articles on people being arrested. Being arrested is very much a harm.

The mere existence of an arrest or the general fact of any legal consequence does not demonstrate that a law is harmful.

Presumably you don't believe that being arrested for theft is a demonstration about how property law harms people. Presumably you don't believe that punishments for perjury would demonstrates how some legal obligations to speak truthfully constitute harm.

This is a conversation about the value of free speech and the contention that hate speech laws have eroded that value. If there's a case for that, it has to be demonstrated with examples of meaningful discourse that has been barred or otherwise suffered.
.Net will still remain the bread and butter for years to come.
> Doesn't free speech also enable lies and immoral ideals to be spread by bots/people too?

Yes. I don't think the government should be our moral police nor should it dictate what morals are acceptable.

> I don't think there is a solution beyond education?

I don't think education should try and instil morals. This seems rather totalitarian to me. Where would these morals come from, how would we decide what morals our children should be indoctrinated with in school?
we all want simple, fast, small programs with clear objectives.

but:

- economic incentives do not align with common sense

- landscape is fragmented, continually evolving and unstable

- we are all posers. we all have opinions and morals, look at others and criticise, but when it comes to our own work we are just like anyone else. we need money to live, so we just go with the flow
Building online blog for the millionth time is boring and using a new framework makes it less boring - that’s the main reason there is a new cool JS framework every six months
Yeah I agree with yourself and the the writer that cancellation is necessary.

I’m not sure I agree with the writer that async should handle back pressure. To me that should be handled more explicitly by something purpose built, e.g .NETs Channel type.
Interview with Theo de Raadt of the OpenBSD Project [video]
What's the deal with this videogamey bullshit you're proposing? Why would anyone want to participate in this?
First thing I'm doing is installing an adblocker/augblocker to byoass this sort of thing.
> The author was not persecuted, his publisher simply stopped selling his book.

If you ignore how that whole episode completely side-tracked from the topic the author was actually interviewed on, climate-catastrophe, and how the German government has been rather opposed to that whole movement, then the end result was very favorable for the German government which originally cried wolf over it.

And all it had to do was accuse him of something he actually didn't do, based on an interview that wasn't even publicly published at that point.

Or we can just act like him getting depublished for talking sense is a completely rational and normal thing.

As such I consider it a rather apt example of how these kinds of "speech caps" can be abused to influence the Overton window.

And while it might not be as blunt as just cutting off information access wholesale, it's much more devious in its actual manifestation due to the large-scale acceptance of it, while denying that it leads to any self-censorship.
I don't want to criticize but you spell critic wrong on the first period: "crtitic"

Pun intented.
Peak oil is funny, there were a lot of people that were riding the doom train and predicting that we where heading to the sudden crash kind of collapse. Obviously it didn't happen and those ideas are comical.

Peak oil didn't so much disappear as its ideas matured into a much more realistic depiction of it. Dr Hagans said that naming it peak oil was a bit silly and that it should have been called "Peak benefit of oil to society", that something that I can get behind.

The current idea is that the second peak will occur somewhere in the mid 20's as the debt load on fracking slows down additional drilling locations, this will raise prices and thus bring on even more newer more costly supplies as ultra-deep sea drilling, coal liquefaction becomes viable. Wheather this leads to a new increase in supply of just sustaining a plateau is anyone guess. Hopefully demand decreases and we move to alternative energy sources in time.

Some of the more reserved writers in the field did predict the production rebound and the higher prices that came with it, the idea that the issues of peak oil would be something that is a rocky road type of event that happens and fluctuates over a century not a sudden event. Folks like John Michael Greer and Dr Nate Hagans seem to be the most realistic folks in this area nowadays talking about the limits of oil production while focusing on possible future energy solutions.

John Michael Greer is a staggeringly convincing writer that has a fairly solid concept of the future of western industrial society. Essentially the idea that due to a wide degree of economic, social and environmental factors that we are in a situation that cannot be recovered from. He writes things that I don't want to agree with but they appear to hold water at least on the short term. I would recommend his books 'The Long Decent' and 'Dark Age America'.

The other reason why I mention his work is that his predictions are fairly in line with yours, the idea that the environmental movement is about to go quiet again because of the extreme message being pushed. That we are still learning how the climate reacts and that we do not have all the information. Climate blowback is going to be extreme but it will be a slow moving event.
For the sake of argument, the link below sharing India's internet shutdowns has a fair share of temporary shutdowns to help allow tensions between communities to cool down, prevent riots etc.

https://internetshutdowns.in/
It is about preconceived notions about what project management should be.

I think many practitioners of Scrum would fall into what Steve Jobs described in that video as bozos.
Least realistic like in the whole thing was a throwaway like about the end of Excel...

100pct that when Katie needs to plan her custom clothes in 2030 she’s still using Excel.

100pct that when Katie does send an excel file to her ops department in 2030 with the outline of what’s needed, her engineering department will grumble about how bad excel is, and then fail to build a suitable replacement.
To be fair, if you are doing TDD, then you can't drop the testing ;-) But, yep. No matter how good your process is, you can't do well with it if you don't follow it.

Edit: a particularly poorly placed lack of negative.
Very interested to see the 'colour maps' for the next Federal election.

Most rural areas were blue for the last election.

(Blue represents the conservative Liberal Government, whilst Red is the opposition, Labor party. The Liberals are quite 'denialist', or at least obstructionist, when it comes to progress on alternative energy. Neither party are particularly inspiring to the Australia populace at the moment though).
The basis for this power usage lies in the root-centralization that is infrastructure.

If the routing of information was from device to device, network adressing provided by location and grouping, instead of adress assignment, then the pure internet (HTML/IRC) could escape the clutches of tyrans. But hey, no money to make there, so its not done.

The routing via dataplankton is highly fascinating. Basically- our organisations and groups become visible as routing entity, confirming that we are we, and keeping knowledge on how to contact.

Your house knows you are on vaccation and redirects traffic to the bus-stop, who redirects-traffic to the bus, who redirects traffict to the air-port, who redirects traffic to people who go into the same direction on a plane.

Organisations have organells, meaning constituitonal members who predict the organisational structure and stability, and get lots of support vote from "regular" support voters. A professors cellphone, voting against a bus drivers cellphone, would win in declaring the society structure a "class" if the timing would be consistent with class, and the majority members would be class participents, and the predicted changes would not be consistent with a bus stopping at every bus-stop.

I think there even was a book on that.
What makes it a lie? Even Lincoln's Wikipedia page notes that that was his party in his final election.

It was a separate party, as noted in the Wikipedia article for it:

"The National Union Party was created prior to the General Election of November 1864, when the Civil War was still in progress."

BTW as someone who enjoys history, especially American history, thanks for pointing this out. It's an interesting bit of trivia.
The elections have already happened in May, and people have rejected the Labor party who was pushing for climate change reforms.

I suspect if the elections were to happen now, things might be different. Lots of people have directly or indirectly (thanks to heavy smog) suffered from the wildfires, moreso than previous summers.
A couple reasons-

1) As the cost of feature creation goes down, the demand for features goes up- as others have mentioned, a lot of sites now have an enormous number of interactive features or cool rendering that just wasn't there in the good old days of nothing but text, images, and marquee tags.

2) Different frameworks solve different problems, not all of which are related to "productivity." JQuery solved a browser compatibility issues and made interactivity way more approachable, AngularJS did a great job dealing with input and output mechanics, and React is pretty awesome at managing compomentization for large projects. And a lot of frameworks give a "feel" users are looking for.
Frameworks improve productivity, but the difference between frameworks is not that great.

3) one thing frameworks do well is allow team scaling, and scaling teams leads to a lowering of "individual" productivity. What works on a team of 1 doesn't on a team of 5. The larger team will need more "overhead." A team of 5 won't be able to do a task an individual could do 5x faster, it'll be more like 2.5x or something. That's not why you scale a team though- you scale a team to take on new problems that can't be solved (or solved fast enough) at the scale you are at currently.

I've run a decent size team using angular JS, I shudder to think of our ability to execute using JQuery, even though I successfully accomplished scaled down projects in those frameworks before.
You’d need a pretty good AI to be able to detect that it’s in trouble quickly enough for a human to react in time.
As an Indian, I just hope fake meat can become good enough to stop the widespread adoption of real meat into Indian diets. India is largely vegetarian (eating meat, even in non-vegetarian households, is like a once-a-week affair) and that has been good for the planet.

1.4B people adopting meat as they become wealthier would be disastrous for the planet
> (I wish someone one day would recognize that tasks don't form trees, but directed graphs; Org Mode, being an outliner, doesn't handle this, but I'm surprised no other tool seems to handle it either.)

Does org-edna help any? Although it doesn't help with viewing them as graphs, it may help with making TODOs act like graphs.
Are people honestly insinuating that Google's algorithm is hiding the party of Abe Lincoln as some sort of slight against modern Republicans? What in the world... how could anyone believe that?

Is that bizarre conspiracy theory more likely or that their search results scrape Wikipedia and return the most recent party a politician belonged to?

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

Lo and behold, it reports that Strom Thurmond was a Republican (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond) and Jeff Van Drew is too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Van_Drew), even though both were Democrats for substantial periods in the past.
Thank you guys! I will check on monday then!!
>Vega (~26 LY away, furthest star anyone on Earth could visit and then return from in a lifetime)

It is not necessarily true that more time is spent aboard a ship than light would spend taking the same path, as measured by an external observer.

If you had a ship capable of accelerating at 1g indefinitely, then as measured by the crew, they could cross the galaxy in only 24 years.

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

To an observer who is self-propelled (and has enough energy), the speed of light (as seen by others) is no limit. It's not like you can fire your thrusters and NOT gain momentum and speed; or that, as you accelerate, the stars start passing by at the speed of light, and suddenly your ship jerks, ceasing to accelerate, because you hit an invisible velocity brick wall.
I just wish the idea of software being finished came back into vogue.
Mac OS Catalina ships with 2.1 GBs of desktop pictures https://mobile.twitter.com/dmitriid/status/11981966747301109...
Does your point change the economics of lives saved per dollar?
(my opinion, obviously)

That's as true as it is misleading. The changing climate definitely has an effect on the scale and intensity, but not the existence. Rating the scale is an essentially impossible task because the factors go back years (length and scale of drought, climate effects on that).
This is made quite clear at the end, and makes sense. They are doing this exercise for themselves and are sharing with others.

Our job as a seed stage investor is to look for brilliant entrepreneurs when their success is not yet obvious.
And yet the severity and timing of them can be evidence.
Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
I agree with you.

I don't think country is going to give up their control of currency and all those monetary tools that they know for something new. These monetary policies have been evolving base on past mistakes.

I can only see decentralize internet if the world crack down on the internet and put more pressure in it. Or more fragmentation like how bit torrent is rising because there are more streaming services.

Meat is not going anywhere either. China, Korea, etc.. place status and emphasize on meat. It's also ingrain in culture too.
Qatar and most middle eastern countries are anomalies in that they have access to the world's most important resource.
i always said i hated dating apps and people on there just look for sex. after a long time nagging by my friends who met on there, i tried it. first person i met i ended up to marry :'). u never know.
For a more rational analysis on the correlation between personal traits and success in a meritocracy, the "Talent vs Luck" model provides some eye-opening results.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-study-shows-talent-i...
It's a software review site and yes, he does use the products he reviews.
The other answer has covered resurgence from natural reservoirs.

I'll cover man-made resurgence. There are copies of it in all major countries' virology labs. Furthermore, it can be synthetised from scratch since 2002, see NYT.

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/us/traces-of-terror-the-s...
I do not accept (and never have accepted) wildcards. I create a new alias in advance every time.

I use the ISP's server for sending, and use my own server for receiving (the menu for install Exim has a "smart host" option which does this).
Airbus ousts Boeing from top spot in 2019
I work on a lot of features lately handed down from the CEO of our client. And he places deadlines so unrealistic his own team oftentimes doesn't get us the details until a couple of days before the deadline. For work that takes weeks to do.

Stuff is constantly pushed back. The India launch so far has been pushed back 9 months. A new product launch in the USA was pushed back 3 weeks - he initially said they were launching January 1st, when they get 2 weeks off for Christmas and no one works on new years day. Lol.

Even external deadlines need to face reality.
That was seven years ago. I liked this better, from four years ago:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXxhvKmVb0
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Oh wow that is definitely not cool. I’m happy I got to watch it, but if he didn’t want to be recorded that is a massive breach of trust from CCC.

I got to hear Moxie speak at RWC when he received the Levchin prize and I gotta say it was one of the best talk I’ve heard and it’s a shame he didn’t want to be recorded back then as well.
Based on Lenin’s depiction of Stalin, he was paranoid, anxious and easily angered/upset. These certainly are characteristics of weak people. Just because people have power to do what they like doesn’t mean they are strong.

I get the impression that he worked tirelessly to exude the idea that he was strong. Much like Putin or Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

I will admit that I do not know much of anything about Mao
How can this state of affairs where developers grind out CRUD features and complain about how bored they are be stable? The identifying feature of areas where automation would be profitable is human boredom, and this is something where developers are the ones bored. Why hasn't all of the repetition in CRUD stuff been dealt with by now?
Large areas have burned in the Queensland fires which are rainforests and usually too wet to burn. A combination of unprecedented drought and record high temperatures over the past few years have dried these areas out sufficiently to sustain huge fires.

But that’s just local observation and means nothing in terms of climate change, right?

Edit: Clearly unrelated. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-02/2019-was-australia...
There needs to a word for making a comment based solely on misreading the title. It happens all time. Or how about another word for making a comment without reading the other comments and realizing that many people, sometimes hundreds, have made the exact same comment you want to make.
Art of the propagator

It is like a discovering a new programming paradigm. Something new and different, not a Lisp, not a Datalog, weirdly distributed, with interesting properties, but powerful. There are adjacent things, BLOOM project and Eve language seems to have discovered something simmilar, and Edward Kmett working on his new language is using propagators quite heavily.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/755c/48fd10aa303497ef849977...

Sci-fy to go with it: probably Ted Chiangs Stories of your Life (or its movie adaptation Arrival)

Out of the tarpit

I thing this is a paper that might have lead to Clojure, React, Elm, e.t.c ... but not really, a weird parallel reality where we really like reactive relational databases.

http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
It’s not a software system, but rather me figuring out and abstracting away stuff like payroll, taxes, bookkeeping, client acquisition, insurances , pensions and everything else that makes developers’ palms sweaty when they think about going freelance.

Right now this doesn’t eat up all too much of my time so all is done in Excel basically. But if we’re, say, 10 devs I’d reconsider building something.
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It seems like this is a return to the normal. Before the internet, repressive regimes had an easier time censoring mass media, monitoring telecommunications and stop organizing efforts.

The major problem isn't so much the surveillance technology, but the intent and power of those governments. The solution must be political, rather than technological, if only because politics can eventually tackle any technology.
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I would be interested in a blogpost going through Moxie’s argument with Matrix. I don’t know much about the project but it seems like Matrix doesn’t target normal users no?
The assumption is wrong, plain and simple.

Nothing behaves like the classical concept of particle or wave.

There are edge cases where this is the case, and this is the reason the classical theories were and are still successful.

And then there are cases where this breaks down catastrophically, like the double slit experiment. Which are the very reason we had to look for new theories.
In this case, it is Quantumelectrodynamics, which perfectly explains the double slit and everything else concerning electromagnetic force. It is the most precise theory in any scientific field, with theoretical predictions matching measurements to 13 significant digits.

Feynman, Schwinger and Tomanago got the Nobel in 1965 for this.
my bad: meant multiline lambdas.
What do you expect them to actually do? The entire CO2 output of Australia could drop to zero with negligible effect on climate change.