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Conceptually they are not scheduling a function to be run after a month, but scheduling it to run twice per second as long as the process is running. When the process is still running a month later, i…

Fundamentally it is a political problem, not a technological problem. We need high carbon taxes, we need to end fossil fuel subsidies, and we probably need to change our economic system to something t…

In summary, the author concludes that climate change will lead to a near term societal collapse, and that this perspective has barely been explored because of its emotional impact and the risk of disc…

> People please move on Strange reaction to a “beginner’s guide”, how can someone move on before they learn the basics?

Not everyone interested in programming works as a programmer, and not everyone who works as a programmer has good peers to learn from! I have very occasionally watched some live streamed coding, usual…

I see Facebook’s React team is in the comments. Please keep in mind that the open source aspect of React is part of Facebook’s hiring strategy. While I believe the React team are genuine in their frie…

For some reason this made me think of the problems with side effects in programming. If we can read and write willy-nilly, it’s very difficult to figure out why the data is the way it is, and we can’t…

> Is it possible to write the game at the level of abstraction you want, then write a translation layer into various game engines? At that point, aren’t you almost writing your own engine anyway? Y…

This is very interesting and implies a kind of paradox. As some things become radically cheaper, it should leave us with more resources to spend on things that are difficult to make more efficient. Bu…

I had not expected to have to point this out on HN of all places, but Africa is not a country.

I hope DuckDuckGo gets a lot better really soon. Things like this and the AMP debacle make me more and more distrusting of search results. Unfortunately, Google is still so much faster and more releva…

You’re repeating what I wrote - Big tech is likely to produce new tech, but new tech comes from other places too. This discussion is mostly irrelevant to the fact that this particular company is compl…

Why would it be remarkable that a few popular technologies come out of a big, rich technology company? People who create such technologies work at places like that. But there’s nothing about React or …

Ok so React, GraphQL, and good pay. Definitely not short-sighted. You don't think those technologies could have been developed by people at ethical companies, or even by the same people at ethi…

Despite personally enjoying JavaScript, I can see why someone might heavily dislike it. Like the fact that it is/has long been the only choice, and that so many of the problems with the modern we…

Wow, I was recommended and watched this yesterday as well.

If you look at a single photo, that’s true. But the author is also a prolific contributor to Dollar street [1], which collects and organizes thousands of photos in a way that gives a fascinating insig…

On the other hand, pure functions are also much easier to reason about, thus much less likely to cause bugs from "a tiny change" in the first place. It's in the messy imperative stuff t…

Would be interested in a short overview of contentEditable in 2018. Until very recently the consesus was that it's completely broken, but I understand from the design document[1] that it's g…

Well I can anecdotally refute it, so I don’t know where that leaves us.

Describing a Reddit thread but not linking to it is somewhat in the same vein, don't you think? :) There's this great Atlas Obscura article + HN discussion from a few months ago: https:…

There's a longer explanation of how the images were produced: https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/index.md.html I had not heard of UMAP before, but it seems to be a tool to…

This mentioned both by the parent and in the post.