The Hurl file format seems good, any new FOSS replacements should probably build on top

Disagree because it's one bit of information and in practice you can often guess the correct direction even if you're not sure if "not" was or wasn't said.

Yes, they basically asked for LARP. It'd be more interesting to give them a shared goal while also asking to survive.

Why? The goal is to incentivize property owners to fix broken systems not to pay for the actual cost of responding to a real call. That's covered by taxes.

I'd interpret the "minus first N per year" to mean that you get a few "free" fires per year - but after that your habits filling your closets with oily rags, overloading electrical extension cords, and smoking in bed will start to cost you.

Fire is one of those things that really sucks for you - but also really sucks for your neighbors.

You never want to supply any reason for someone to demur about reporting a fire.

I'm sure someone somewhere will interpret it a 3 free demos of firefighters at home for their kid, with sirens and light, pretty entertaining (It's a reference to the Freakonomics study that, if you make parents pay by the minutes for being late getting their kid, they basically take the fine as a slightly expensive childcare facility).

Depending on who is paying and how much, someone might light a small fire to avoid the fine.

Arson when the fire department is already on the way. Great idea! Firefighters hate this one simple trick.

> [...] not to pay for the actual cost of responding to a real call.

Not true for all places. There are places where the callee can be charged for the costs of a call and the owner of the building has to pay the firefighters (well, his mandatory government-issued insurance will pay). It's moving bills from one stack to another, but it's not free as in beer.

That will also decrease the number of true positives

I'm responding to the push to rebrand it as Super Intelligence coming from people in power (not just the current occupant of the White House). Whether or not they believe it to be super human, they seem to want us to see it that way.

And of course the whole point of tools is being superhuman, compared to humans without those tools. E.g. compilers are better than humans at converting C into assembly. "Just a tool" doesn't mean much.

Open source projects themselves have reputation, regardless of how they are governed specifically.

Yes, you look at stars, issues and activity to infer trust, but there is no accountability, the licenses are clear about that that software is distributed as is

Simpson's paradox?

If it was true, then companies would offer less and less money until it stopped being true

It's a good default for a pre-1.0 tool that aims to type check existing code.

Is there a project that does all of these together?

- embeddable like sqlite

- clustered like dqlite

- has a standalone node like rqlite

- can be backed up to S3 like litesteeam

- optionally AP like cr-sqlite alongside CP

https://github.com/punnerud/mpedb is not there yet, focused on sync between sqlite3, Postgresql and Oracle. Shown that concurrent writes to sqlite3 is possible at the speed of Postgresql (My own project)

This sounds a lot like Apache Ignite 2.x, though it does not have SQLite's level of polish.

It's never going to be embeddable, no?

It is a set of Java dependencies so a full data-bearing Ignite node will happily be an in-process part of your Java monolithic app or microservice. It has likewise bindings for .Net and some other languages but not so seamless as in case of JVM.