skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the pollution caused by coal and that trading nuclear for coal is bad. But don't you think the "down-breeding" was tried and failed? It's been 50 years now.
I agree, it was wonderful on a Passport.

But I do wonder what a mess would result if it had collided with mass market Android and the shovelfulls of sofware that treats the notifications like a 90s systray. BBOS 10 not being Android might have been a bit of a moat against that.
Borges made a funny investigation of this idea in the realm of literature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
I really wish this is flexible enough or hoping for a jailbreak. From the 4 capabilities, I'm most excited for navigation. Turns off for most of the time, and just turns on for navigation.

For my own needs, a to-do list/checklist for contextual procedures is the "killer app" (ex: workout timers/checklists, recipes). But seems like it's not their priority yet.
How? The only way I can think of that staking oligopolies can exclude new entrants is if they somehow manage to remove the crypto from markets. Basically killing their stake.

It is far easier for me to buy some crypto and stake it than it is to buy mining hardware and mine.
Maybe a gyroscope is an option? Google Cardboard worked that way, it is good enough to choose between some menu items or to pull up a notification.

For me, navigation is the killer app, I would love that when I am cycling. Give me an interface to skip around in my podcast playlist and I am happy.
AWS value comes from things like
* RDS - easy db backups
* CloudWatch - easy monitoring
* IAM - easy access control
* Systems Manager - easy fleet management and distributed parameter store. Integrated with IAM so you can hide your secrets.
The list goes on.

If all you need is one server then you don’t need all of that. Things change as soon as you need 40 servers, or you have 40 people accessing 10 servers.

You can do it with open source tools. It takes time and expertise to do so. Both expertise and time are not available to the most companies.
5 years is a better estimate.

How I wish that where true. But looking at all current new Nuclear power plant projects in Europe and the US it's clear that we are incapable of that. Yes we can argue about why that is and how in theory it shouldn't take that long, but the truth is that best case scenario it will take you more than 5 years just to get a building permit to start buildings a new nuclear power plant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo... in Finland there is a long term solution for the waste. The operations are expected to start in 2023.

The rest of what you say is are regulatory issue. Similarly coal burning externalities are paid not by the generating companies but the rest of the society. Not that I'm suggesting coal and nuclear to be the only options.
The surreally large "shadow debt" that modern China has accumulated was my undergrad essay topic 10 years ago.

Since then, it seem to have grown from "surreally large" to "absurdreally large"

Go to any big Chinese city. Look around. Every skyscraper around is a mountain of secret debt few times its value.

China is really very close to Sri Lanka in how GDP numbers were financially engineered from massive, but well disguised debts on a nation-state scale

It is been very, very hard to take money out of China for a few months now. A sign of things soon to come, I believe.
Well maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker myself, but I understand what they say just fine so I'm not sure what the problem is there.

It doesn't even sound particularly wrong or awkward to me, and it's probably easier to understand than someone with an American accent who speaks fast.
For those of us who know less about these things, how does this compare to something like OPNsense/pfSense in a homelab setting? When would one use OPNsense/pfSense over OpenWrt/Tomato?
Engineers need to write 1k lines of perfect code all the while being chased by their bosses to finish fast.

Hacker's need to find just one mistake out of 1k lines of code.
you have a similar number or username as their highvalue target ?
Functional programming forces you to think a bit like a theoretical physicist seeking to write equations for fundamental laws: the universe is modeled as interacting particles that start free, collide and interact and end up free again. No concept of historical dependence or sequential evolution. In physics these attributes emerge only as descriptive crutches in the context of poorly understood complex, macroscopic, systems undergoing various transitions. We have much less clue how to write universal equations for such systems.

So FP might have a theoretical advantage as a building block of low-level software systems that are not throwaway labor (that is: only valuable in specific historical window / context).

In any case the factors driving programming language popularity have changed dramatically ever since the developer universe got truly "connected". There is a winner-take-all network mechanic that basically inflates whatever initial advantage into a (difficult to explain ex-post) catholic dominance.
Sure they are, nuclear consequences are worst if they really blow up, and some always will. And what about the trash... I don't think it's greener energy than coal...
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Smoking hurts oneself primarily, whilst angry internet mobs hurt others
It's unfortunate that devices like this that handle very personal data will rely on the data being sent to the cloud.
I don't want this type of data streamed to the cloud no matter whether it is operated by Xiaomi, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon.
I personally find functional languages highly unintuitive.
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Why would France subsidise power it is selling to Germany? The initial research and construction was drvien by the government, but french power is now extremely profitable (EDF even had to artificially increase prices in order to avoid distorting the european energy market)

Nuclear waste is not a real problem - the total amount of long-term waste produced by France is less than 10 tons a year. That's for a country of half a million square km..
I mean there's a lot to say about failures of German energy politics, but this isn't necessarily one of them.

One of the biggest developments in energy in the past years is that Germany started a hydrogen strategy. A major buildout of hydrogen electrolyseurs is planned in the upcoming decade (and given the support for this from basically all sides I expect this to be extended). In the end we'll likely have hydrogen gas plants that run in times where renewables are scarce.

Also there are projects to adapt industry electricity demand to production. The aluminium company Trimet, which is one of the largest electricity users in Germany, is already doing this.
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Sure, what kind of fire weather metrics could be added? Can they be derived from soil moisture, temperature, wind, humidity? Or are you referring to gridded fire indices from a different source?

For now I would refrain to include data that is non-date or has restrictive licences.

You can find my email on the open-meteo site and drop me some information
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And you have to double-check what you've written because it often guesses incorrectly
So what was H1 for 2019? Pretty obvious that the numbers for 2020 would be lower because of Corona. More interesting to compare 2021 with 2019.
> It is almost forgotten now, but the platform which carried Java to critical mass was the browser.

I'm still confused by the cycle of

- You can run Java applets in a web browser!

- Ew. Time to stop doing that.

- I've had a brilliant idea! We need a bytecode-based VM in the browser so a web page can run arbitrary code.

- I'll call it "WebAssembly".
If you want an extra challenge take a cellular module and try again. For example there is a GSM expansion for Raspberry Pi, try to build a "sensor" that can check something every N seconds/minutes/hours and report back to you with a battery lasting months or more (hint- send it to sleep and wake on a timer)
> I think the logical conclusion if you take the opposite stance is that you're against anonymity and/or privacy, though.

People are all for anonymity until law enforcement can no longer catch criminals. There's a balance there your statement is lacking. It's kinda like saying if you support anonymity, you must be clearly pro-crime, which I don't think you are.

E.g. Banking regulations don't allow banks to publish details of customer's accounts. But KYC allows banks to report questionable activity to FINCEN, say. And that seems to strike a balance between regulation and anonymity.
There is a functional programming language that is coupled to a platform, that most people on HackerNews wouldn't think of: the M language for PowerQuery. It is used to make ETL pipelines for Excel (and I think other Microsoft apps?). It is very popular, although among people who don't consider themselves "programmers" or "software engineers", but rather analysts.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/

In fact, Excel itself can be considered a functional, reactive programming environment, and if we grant that, then it is the most popular programming language on the planet.
Germany gives priority to renewables and 2020 needed less electricity which meant coal wasn't needed. Strangely enough people will still interpret their pet theories like Germany building more coal or the wind being less reliable it something as basic as the covid lockdown slowing down economic activity.
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you don't maintain perl - it's a write-once language. Every time you need to change it, you rewrite a new perl program to do exactly what you need ;D

the title of course, goes to javascript imho.
In my view, the death of nuclear power in Germany started with the protests against the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. This is the start of a strong anti nuclear power movement that gradually won over public opinion. Unfortunately, I personally believe that a lot of the campaigning against nuclear power was perpetuating wrong or misleading information. There are valid argument against that technology, but the arguments that proved successful at swaying public opinion were borderline fearmomgering. And they have taken root to such an extent that a levelheaded factual discussion has become hard.
> So you're okay with increasingly stricter subversion of freedom, because you've consumed media fear-mongering about the pandemic. The pandemic is not deadly enough to justify building a totalitarian regime.

FFS. So you're ok with hundreds of thousands (660,000 so far in the US) of people dying for your freedoms compared to the 9 (YEP, NINE) deaths we've had in Western Australia from Covid?

Democracy isn't some mask off individualist system where your perceived individual rights trample the rights of the wider community to stay alive, despite the deep throated bellowing coming from a media more concerned about stirring controversy to drive revenue.

You keep your freedoms. You freedoms to shoot each other rampantly with all your guns; your freedoms to have your police shoot and kill you without repercussion. Your freedoms to not get vaccinated and die from a virus that has an easily sourced vaccine readily available.

We'll take our sane approach to zero community spread of Covid and our two years of billions of budget surpluses. Who would have thought that having no community spread and a wide open economy would result in such financial windfalls? /s

All this app does is allow for people to self-quarantine without the cops being required to physically check that you're doing so. It's voluntary and allows the police to actually focus on their job instead of constantly checking on self-quarantining returned travellers. You can take you tyrannical Nazi German hot takes elsewhere, we're 100% not listening with our community free of Covid.
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I don't buy the argument. What if it does not become cheaper?

When many of the nuclear reactors were built, there was no pervasive global terrorism that is a threat to nuclear waste storage (edit: an nuclear reactors).

Things don't always improve.
> It was killed by the massive costs

It was killed as an easy boon for idiotic environmentalist groups (the german green party is one of the few which at times reached relevant levels of representation), which have done more against the environment than for it. It which was also supported by local trade groups as Germany has huge deposits of lignite (whuch is basically the worst coal available).

In no small part following greenpeace’s nonsensical switch from military to civilian nukes in a bid for relevance most environmentalist groups and green parties hate nukes with a passion.

Decommissioning plants you could keep in running order is financially idiotic since you’ve already performed the vast majority of the investment.
There is also the problem that regulation for building wind turbines got much stricter. In a lot of places where wind turbines were previously built, it is no longer permitted to do so.

Those turbines usually get replaced after 20 years when subsidies run out and it's no longer economical to operate them.
The new regulations will lead to a net negative in wind installations in the upcoming years.
With HTTP2's multiplexing feature, it doesn't really matter how many requests the frontend is firing up. Just use HTTP 2 when you have multiple requests on a page.
Do you really believe there is no such mechanism in China?
>> Also, if there is a major accident, it is not the power companies or their investors that will pay the cost, it is the tax payers and the rest of society

Same goes with, say, hydropower. If a dam breaks and flood a region, the tax payers will pay. Are you against hydrolic dams ?

I obviously not saying that we should phase out dams, what I am saying is, nuclear power is one of the safest energy we have, funnily enough[0].

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I'm sorry, I am having a really hard time understanding this comment. You're suggesting they just apply a email spam filter and that will fix everything? Can you explain how this would work, considering that Facebook is not an email service, and any spam filter would likely face the same issues with abuse that have already been mentioned anyway? Also I really don't follow how your last two paragraphs have anything to do with that, it seems you're saying a lot of unprovable and out-of-context politically motivated things, and then saying they should just give up on the problem entirely and have no moderation whatsoever? Isn't that the whole thing you're trying to solve though? I don't get it. Please avoid the off-topic political comments if you want to make your arguments easy to follow, and just focus on what the solution is and how to get there. Rule of thumb I've noticed: if a comment could be viewed as a political rant, it's probably not going to be very convincing.
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We would have been a lot further down the road to renewable energy if the current government had not stopped the wind industry in its tracks (due to corruption).
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So why were you wrong, 10 years ago, when you assumed that the debt burdens were unsustainable?
> and some always will

no? why would they?

> And what about the trash

The whole of France produces less than 10 tons of long-term radioactive material. Hardly a big issue finding somewhere to safely bury that.

> I don't think it's greener energy than coal

? of course it is, coal is insanely dangerous, germany burning coal is killing people every day. And then there's the impact on global warming
Nimbyism which apparently extends to Belgium.

https://euobserver.com/energy/133154
I was thinking to use the geonames location database and build a simple fuzzy search engine around it.

What wikidata objects are you referring to?
The cost in human lives related to coal exhaust is of multiple factors higher than that of nuclear.

The potential for an extraordinary damage is there in the old nuclear plants, yes. However, closing them down with no plans to build newer ones (with evolved designes) is just giving in to scare tactics.

At this point, we need all the low emission tech we have. That includes nuclear.
does your app believe today is Thursday?
It doesn't help that Apple effectively bans competing browsers from iOS, by forcing them all to use abysmal WebKit. So they're little better than re-skinned Safari.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

HACKER NEWS, YOU'RE JAGOFFS. SHOVE YOUR DISRESPECT FOR USERS STRAIGHT UP YOUR ASS. THANKS.
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There are solutions, this is one of them.
You are right, things don't always improve, yet regarding nuclear power, they tend to.
There was no nuclear accident in 50 years in France, no public threat to nuclear waste storage so far. Pessimism isn't always the way to go.
Quote from the article:
"Despite some missteps, Black Cube “has to turn clients away because it cannot service all the demands,” said Mr. Halevy, a former head of the Mossad, an Israeli government intelligence agency..."
Well, this is already starting to change. As an example Coil (coil.com) has written a distributed financial database called TigerBeetle (tigerbeetle.com) entirely in Zig. All of this will be part of the open source stack that they plan to offer to third paties that want to get into the interledger (interledger.org) business, a piece of financial infrastructure key to make web monetization (webmonetization.org) real, among other things.
You don't have to get a new phone because the old one "stops holding a charge". You can get the battery replaced.
I'm pretty sure that in Civ 2 all units in a defending tile did actually get killed if the defending unit was defeated. Getting killed when attacking didn't have this effect, of course, nor did it happen if your defending stack was in a fort or in a city.
> It was killed by the massive costs

Yet, somehow, power is cheaper in France than in Germany, and the energiewende investments cost about twice France's investment for its whole nuclear fleet.

Sure, new designs are more expensive, but I can't help but think that the main issue with nuclear is the impossibility to have a discussion free from disinformation.
I’ve been wondering if the rush of “smart glasses” releases (see also Facebook’s last week) have been scheduled in advance of an impending apple announcement.
Grid scale batteries are set to become a thing in the next 5-7 years. A lot of different technologies are in the pilot plant phase, and most of them have a pathway to scalability.
The amount of electricity spent on creating and maintaining cash must be pretty big, right? Am I misunderstanding you?
The same greenpeace that sells green energy contracts in Germany, which use... gas .

It's crazy to think that a purported environmental organisation will be the main culprits for tens of thousands of avoidable cancers in Germany :(
So I thought "gov't spending, majority of GDP" was preposterous, but then I looked at the graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...

Looks like it already blipped the 50% mark in WW2 and is quite close now. Seems to (visually) be leveling though.
https://energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?...

The comparison is slightly unfair though because 2019 has ended but 2021 hasn't.
The two times a stack won’t die are if they are stationed in a city or fortress. Any other time the whole stack will die if the top defender gets destroyed.
Elixir includes IO.inspect[1], which prints a value and then returns it. It makes it easy to insert this function into a pipeline without disrupting the existing logic[2].

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/IO.html#inspect/2

[2] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/debugging.html
For starters, I don't think you will get OPNsense, pfSense or the likes running on OTS router hardware. So, if this is what you intend, there is not much choice.

Then it depends on your requirements. If your homelab lands in the area of 95% of the typical use cases, you will be very fine with OpenWrt or Tomato, or actually even most original firmware.
Unless you bought something that is ridden with bugs and will not get updates, there are most certainly no noticeable benefits of running an alternative firmware. (Things like bufferbloat come to mind, I prefer control over my buffers, but good routers firmwares also do this quite reasonably).

Another difference: getting OPNsense/pfSense running (and well maintained) will require considerably more time and effort, than OpenWrt or Tomato.

Actually, for most soho/home users I would recommend a FritzBox. They are really packed with features, are well updated, zero hassle. Unless you really, really need something more exotic, they will save you lots of time and money. Also: automatic updates (configurable).

There is also MikroTik. Slightly more expensive than FritzBox, also packed, but slightly different audience (larger networks, less "user-friendly"...).

Disclaimer: I have a FritzBox running PPPoE passthrough to an OpenWRT router running on a NanoPi 2RS dialing in over PPPoE, with a MikroTik CRS112 behind that running only as a switch.

I have my reasons for that setup, but the time and money I wasted on that setup is really difficult to justify to an outsider (and sometimes to myself). The FritzBox worked really, really well.
This has nothing to do with tragedy of the commons" except in that people find it sad and CC licenses used the metaphor of the commons.
Because they're not criminals and that's a monitoring system for criminals?
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Rails was the first of that type of web framework. Django and all similar frameworks are Rails clones. At that time Rails was the killer app for Ruby. Unfortunately for Ruby the other languages were willing to put in the effort to copy it, and Rails is no longer a unique advantage.
Here's an animation visualizing the reach of the air pollution caused by coal plants across Europe:
https://twitter.com/EurBeyondCoal/status/1064771743783497729
The question is totally irrelevant without knowing what your need is from the software.

Different people have different needs. So completeness will always mean different things. You worry about what you need out of it and whether you are getting it.
Another example: Hacker News website vs. other websites.

It has perfect functionality but doesn't waste your time by loading bloatware for 10 seconds.
Eventually, we will need an open source smart glasses device that let us control our data.
No, if you add up all the people who died due to nuclear accidents it’s still insignificant compare to coal.

Of course there are no hard numbers, but according to estimates over 30k people in Euorope & the US die because of coal (800k) globally. By comparison Chernobyl caused 4000–16000 deaths over several decades.
The H2 strategy is a scam to give the oil and gas industry subsidies.

Hydrogen will never be feasible as a storage medium. There are countless arguments for that. In the end, it's simply a question of efficiency.

Germany has absolutely no strategy for lowpassing supply and demand. Instead the big energy providers bring the net to a "dangerous" situation and "save" the net by providing emergency power. Of course at horrendous prices. Which is payed by the tax payer (EEG law).

The energy prices are some of the highest in the world while not making any progress towards less polution