skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dinorwig in (under!) Snowdonia is another implementation of the idea, at a large scale:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
> MS has a long history of being a provider of tools and not really competing with partners.

MS claim to fame was by providing tools to a partner and directly competing with their partner.

"In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
> You are probably thinking of branches and tags,

No, I was referring to forking projects, in the sense that Git allows for creating brand new and independent repositories that clone the version history up to a point in time and enable to add the origin Git repository as a remote repository.

SVN also does not support branching or tagging, as it actually supports only copying directories around a file system.
No, on the contrary! Sorry for my ambiguous writing. Indeed double-blind is the only way to go.

What I meant is that there is a sizeable chunk of the audiophile industry (a certain press, electronics brands, stores and even studios themselves) that conveniently avoids any and all scientific testing, and promotes typical snake-oil "features" and "specs". Quite sadly for their abused customers.

One of the worst trends in my opinion was faking technical format quality by using different masters on each — with the shitty master on CD/MP3 and the good one, more dynamic, on DVD/SACD/vinyl etc. The latter always sounded better simply because it wasn't the same source!

In such matters, I guess we can trust Spotify based on their claims, and anecdotally I tend to believe them.
Amazon absolutely looks at whatever data they legally can, because, well, they’re Amazon. Leveraging their market position to the maximum effect is not only what they do, it’s basically guaranteed.
It will be nice to use geolocation to use the life expectancy of the country the person lives on (with a couple of areas that have their own numbers: Sardinia, Okinawa, Icaria, Nicoya, Loma Linda).

I can say 91 years old is a little bit pessimistic (at least for where I live) based on the fact that I have a couple of neighbours that are over 100 years old and still in "perfect" shape.
> Protections against unlawful search and seizure and right to privacy are guaranteed by the Constitution

US courts have pretty consistently ruled that you don't have much expectation of privacy for material you handed over to someone else. To the extent that its usually available with just an administrative subpoena.

Skipping all forms of due process is probably a step too far-- but a direct court order? After all, if Google can commercially exploit your data including handing it over to partners-- why should a court order result in less access?
There's a branch of analyzing US politics through the lens of "primitive" and "civilized" brains that stems from Haidt's old ideas ("elephant and the rider"), which I still to this day do not find compelling.

If part of my culture's routine every day is kicking a kitten and my society near-violently disagrees whether it should be 2 kittens per day or just 1, and instead of comparing cultural notes with the 10k+ other cultures of the world (to realize this isn't normal) I spend time talking about human brain hacks which preserves the hideous self-righteousness of my ego and my culture of kicking kittens, then I've effectively absolved myself from personal responsibility like a good Kantian ethicist and can keep kicking kittens without remorse (and, not hold anyone else accountable for kicking kittens) because "My selfish lack of critical thought is forgiven because my brain is just wired to be hacked that way, same for my peers and their brains".

Take responsibility for how you use your brain and what you expose it to, and do the same to your peers. You are so much more than just a brain being hacked upon.
I don't really know much about python, but how is the C API? Because as nice as Ruby may be as a language, I wouldn't want to touch the C API with a laser pointer.

Maybe python just has a nicer API, leading to more people writing fast C libs for it instead of Ruby; and ultimately many people will just use the language with the fastest libraries for their domain (specially the kind of people that have some influence on their community).

Again, no idea if this is the case, but comparing the C APIs of Ruby and Lua, it's a huge difference.
Errm. "Estimated" 300-500 systems?

I worked at a corporate with (at one point) 1891 systems; we had several ways of counting them... Some ways said 44 ( business platforms) But count them we could!

If I was your CIO counting would be my number one mission!
I don't think any of these can replace the article, but related links for readers:

National Inventors Hall of Fame page for him: https://www.invent.org/inductees/gary-k-starkweather

Obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sanford-fl/gary-s...
Not accurate, about 50% of details markets run these. As Aldi, Netto, Lidl doesn't use eink.
Yet I have the feeling GCP is the one which has been improving the most the quality of its offering.

It's interesting to monitor what's happening with data-warehouses for instance.

It almost feels AWS is having its "Kodak moment" with Redshift: a very remunerative but old technology in which they are deeply invested in.

It prevents them to put more effort behind solutions that decouple compute from storage (see Athena) and as a result they are offering a subpar competitor to BigQuery.
> Sea-thru is a physics-based algorithm using the Akkaynak-Treibitz underwater image formation model (CVPR 2018). It does not use neural networks and was not trained on any dataset. It works without a color chart, or any information about the optical qualities or depth of the water body.

https://www.deryaakkaynak.com/sea-thru
Because you can sell targeted ad space for a lot more money.

Also they allow people to opt out of tracking, which is probably how they kept the govt off their backs thus far. But of course few people are aware and savvy enough to opt out of systems which allow it, which is why many want to change organ donation to an opt-out system rather than opt-in for example.
Total Corporate Funding in Solar Sector Rises 20%, Reaching $11.7B in 2019
E-Ink as price displays has been around for at least 10 years.
Using vanilla autolayouts is pretty masochistic.
Although claiming companies should build their applications on azure infrastructure because they already use office 365 is an argument that will only be bought by non technical boards. They get the cloud they deserve!
> Do people think we shouldn't use compilers because we 'can' write binary ELF files directly? Same goes to JS.

The problem however is that JS is a perfectly fine programming language by now. Think about it, why are we still stuck with Webpack et al? It's because of inconsistent or missing support for modules / imports, or because of a risk that a JS feature you use does not work on a certain browser. And there's JSX of course.

JS is not assembly.
At this scale why not contact all your neighbouring or peer municipalities and go for a joint cloud migration?
Based on my very limited experience, VCs ask for either a one-pager or a pitch deck to separate the wheat from the chaff. I assume very few people actually follow up and send the info.

In my experience, VCs usually respond relatively quickly (1 to 2 days, week at most).

If you're looking for funding, you should be pitching/trying to pitch to as many people as possible and listen closely to the feedback you're receiving. Don't wait for a single VC.

After a week or two, you can always send a follow-up with a friendly reminder. Maybe asking if he has an feedback on the deck.
>If you see someone doing something wrong, call them out. Like this article does. Otherwise they will simply keep doing it.

Yes, thank God: this article (and the outrage it creates) will save young women from being groped by Asimov's corpse.
He is. He just stepped down from the leadership due to family reasons. Atila Neves took it over now.
It is true, many of the companies I have worked for the last few years is using Azure and only the UI. No one uses the API/SDK. They hire devops cloud consultants to click on the UI, not to use the API to tie everything together.
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Our setup is mixed, all our own servers are virtual on rented space at a local server rental shop. I’m not a hardware tech, so I’m afraid that’s as technical I can get.

So our SQL cluster, and most of our web applications run on our own iron. Anything external as well as a lot of managed services run in Azure where the added security and operations dev-tools are invaluable compared to what we had when we self-hosted.

We do make a conscious choice about everything that moves to the cloud. We’ve spent a lot of time figuring out if buying new rental space for our SQL cluster would be cheaper than moving it to Azure. With the current political climate, we’re also a little more hesitant about moving things to clouds operated by American companies, because there is risk attached, in that we may have to move it back rather suddenly. Not something we expect will ever happen, but we don’t like risk in the public sector.

So my post wasn’t so much a “we run everything in Azure” as it was “well Azure is the obvious choice for the things we do operate in the cloud”. The relationship Microsoft has with enterprise, and the expertise staff has with their products means they become the best choice for a lot of enterprise. Unless Microsoft solutions are radically more expensive than their competitors, they simply have an advantage by already being a big, and typically well liked, player in most large organisation.
Note that Jülich was not exactly a typical nuclear power plant: it was a prototype pebble bed reactor linked to a research facility.
Thanks for this counter argument. I do wonder why people jump in the comments and drop name pharmaceutical companies and their products.
Yeah that's it. The OP removed the name from the headline for some reason.
Just look at what the defenders are saying on ICANN mailing lists. You can't assume ill intent from Ethos they say, they could do a better job than ISOC for all we know. It's a bullshit argument coming from registry lobbyists and ISOC members. And they throw out 10% annual price increases per year like it's normal. Since 2003, .ORG has had 7 price increases at 2.5, 10, 7, 3.5, 7, 10, 10 (percent). Which is an average of 7.5% per price increases, which have happened every 2.4 years. So an annual 10% price increase is well out of line with the norm.
I love it! I could see myself using it to document event storming sessions, impact maps, Wardley maps, etc.

That said, I found it a little buggy at the moment. A couple of bugs I noticed were that scrolling too quickly to the right produced an error, and the 'flag' box rendered some of the text outside of the box. A tiny usability improvement for me would be if the buttons behaved more like Photoshop or Omnigraffle, where I can select the tool and then apply it on the canvas, rather than dragging the tool to the canvas. I'd also like to try out all the different tools before paying - the checklist box, for example.
Microsoft are actively telling their customers (Enterprise) to stop paying for SQL licensing and instead, pay for Azure costings and they've waive their licensing fees.

It's a genius move considering their customers who are already embedded in SQL and Microsoft Server.

Source: we're a heavy MS SQL shop, but are on AWS and are regularly approached by MS with their offers.
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Great post, as usual from Michael! One kind of broad lesson I get from it is that, though it's tough to resist the urge to just build stuff because that's the comfortable and seemingly most obvious way to make progress on an idea, it really always pays off better to figure out what people want first.

The metal shop example was a surprising and good one - so some businesses actually don't really want you to solve their problem in the best way, they want you to solve their problem adequately but it's more important to give them flexibility and options for the future.
Same way I can assume the majority of the 1000+ ebola deaths mentioned by the article were people of color: the majority of people from Germany are white.
>These two numbers might seem very different, but both are central to Asimov’s legacy

Yeah, I really don't think so. The legacy of people with important contributions (technical, cultural, political, etc) is their work, not what they did in their private life, unless they were also moonlighting as the Boston strangler or something.

In 2500 nobody would care whether he did this or that. But they would probably still read some of his work.
Do you really understand your customers' needs? Because they probably have TONS of really good reasons why they would like to remain with MS instead of migrating their entire infrastructure to AWS.
Aircraft may partly disintegrate, but this is not the main mode of operation of air defense systems.

The main mode of operation is to produce a relatively small near-by explosion that creates a wave of moving particles (shrapnel). Shrapnel causes the destruction of everything it touches.

Engines, radio transmitters, communications, and sadly... people.
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Funny: I have vision issues being able to focus on product packaging so when I am searching for a particular, say, cheese in the cheese section I find it much easier to scan/read the shelf labels than the products themselves. I find the uniformity much easier to cope with.
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Not OP but, your global outages freak me out. I moved companies close to a year ago and with that platforms that I develop on (from Azure to AWS). Your global outages of which I can't engineer around at all don't give me faith in your platform.

Whereas AWS, sure, service outages occur but they're often region specific which I can build around.
Except recouping the CO2-expenditure of the concrete piston will take a long time. A simpler solution is to use the gravitational potential energy of the water directly. Pumped hydro, as this is known, is super simple if you have a mountain and maybe even an existing hydro-power plant to take the energy back out.

I have never checked this, but a Swiss friend of mine once explained the Swiss energy system as being centered around pumped hydro using free surplus power from the French nuclear power plants.
I have been following Precious Plastic and Dave for a few years now and I think this is a true honest attempt.
What are your thoughts on micro plastic pollution and it's harmful effects? I have seen a few videos showing people sawing and planing plastic which generates lots of fine particles. Is this going to cause more micro plastics pollution? Is handling these stuff in a home / diy environment harmful to humans?
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This is great, please do! It would be nice to share it not only on dlang forum too. How does it compare to scid btw?

I like R but generally use it for basic stat tasks and plotting instead of Python. It would awesome if you could share your experience on how to set it up with D in blog post or whatever form you find useful.

D lacks this kind of tutorial material so much.
It's quick & easy to set up. Here is my profile as an example: itemsy.com/piotrgru
Alto: Lightweight-vms-using-virtualization-aware-managed-runtimes(2018)
https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/publications/alto-lightweight-vms-using-virtualization-aware-managed-runtimes

Somehow, the pdf fails to load on browser. Direct link:

https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/alto.pdf
In that case, I would think that reading books by a particular author could become "less fun" once you know about their behaviour. In the same way, I used to have some Rolf Harris novelty songs on my iPod playlist for the kids - and sone Gary Glitter. Listening to those songs once they were convicted, certainly became "less fun".
Not OP, but want to chime in.

My experience with Azure support has been dreadful, to say the least. Insanely long response times, being bounced from agent to agent, people just misreading the ticket. I really don't want to deal with Azure at this point because I don't trust the support.

Most of our company infra is on AWS, and while they aren't without fault, I can say that every time we needed to talk to a human being from their side, it was quick and on-point.
yeah, but their approach was to basically cut the emission of construction, fuel production and opertional emissions and decomissioning basically to zero or at least extremly misleading numbers: https://euranetplus-inside.eu/deep/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
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I’m not sure I can buy into the central premise of this article. It alludes several times to almond pollination being a major factor in killing off bees, but several of the causes listed (mites, African bee species, etc) are never directly linked to the almond pollinization process.

It also seems to rely on the comparison between the number of bees dying each year and the average death rates for other animals, and at one point even for humans (“In any other industry, the death of a third of your workforce would cause an international outcry – but this staggering loss is now considered the normal cost of doing business.”). Given that the average lifespan of any honey bee appears to be well under a year, and also the fact that bees are not human workers, this comparison seems forced at best. If 30% of beekeepers were being killed every year while transporting their bees, yes, I’d be very concerned.
It's not about reading his work, it's about being an aspirational figure that generations want to follow and emulate. I didn't know any of these about Asimov and he has written some of the stories that I believe is the finest. But would I say to my kids "look at this great guy, be like him!"?
The Internet Archive has copies of Encarta: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Encarta%22
Clickable link for the paper: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/alto.pd...
What do we do with the icons?
Love the One-Line summary. I wish more people would do that. Helps to decide whether or not to invest my time or not.
> In terms of cloud AWS fills the role of nobody got fired for picking IBM as opposed to Azure. Procurement decisions usually start with AWS.

This perspective isn’t shared by a lot of big companies. For most smaller, younger, technically oriented organisations, this is true. But large enterprises have a complete different set of values, priorities, and ways of doing things. The kind of organisations that are used to running huge Exchange, AD, SharePoint infrastructure often don’t see things that way, and often won’t be able to get much value out of AWS’s feature advantages over Azure anyway.

Of course you’ll find examples of large enterprise that love AWS, or GCP, but having witnessed how a lot of procurement decisions play out in these kinds of organisations, it’s absolutely not surprising to me to see Azure doing well I’m this segment. Especially for organisations that have invested heavily in GPO over the decades, I think a lot of them see AD alone as a killer feature.
"it's called non-leaky abstraction"

Is there such thing?
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If you're not at home or on a VPN you trust, how can you trust the network you are in delivers a safe DNS server? Besides, you can always disable DoH or point it to your own DoH server.
I'm blown away by the completeness of this. The IDE is extremely full featured, albeit a little weird in places (eg scrolling with my laptop touchpad basically doesn't work). Love the Windows installer. But wow, go to definition, refactorings, debugger with great UX, callstack, etc.

Also love the example game. It's written so cleanly that I learned a thing or two about 2d gamedev just from scrolling through the code.

I love the little pragmatisms in the language, eg:

for (let entity in gGameApp.mEntities)
{
if (let enemy = entity as Enemy)
{
// .. do something with each enemy
}
}

That if/let/as combo there is something I'd have loved to have in many languages.

Also hats off for switch/case without break. Finally! I also love how you're mixing C/C++ "global enum value names" convenience with namespaced safety:

public static Result<(char32, int32)> TryDecode(char8* buf, int bufSize)
{
...
return .Err;
// not Result.Err, because the return type is given in the signature
}

I know that these little syntactical things are not the key challenges of language design, but obviously they're the first things I see, and I like the amount of attention you've given them. You really only have the opportunity to get them right at the very beginning.

I think the docs are a little sparse still (but that can be expected, of course). Eg:

- I found it hard to parse this:

public Random mRand = new Random() ~ delete _;

There's docs about it here https://www.beeflang.org/docs/language-guide/datatypes/initi..., but the "delete _" part isn't really explained. What's that underscore? I can infer that it probably means "this value", but I can't find it back.

I love that you made it easy to destruct fields like that, right there in the initializer expression, btw. Will probably kill the need for 90% of destructor methods out there.

- Apparently this converts floats to ints:

(.)(mX - entity.mX)

Or at least it does in HeroBullet.bf:15. I'm thinking maybe this does something similar as `.Err`, in that the dot makes it cast to whatever the expected type is in the function being called? I'm not sure though, it looks like a super powerful feature, maybe :-)

Finally, I believe .bf is also used for that other super convenient and performant language, Brainfuck. I doubt that causes any practical problems, but then again, why not just .beef?
Borrowing cryptocurrency terms, this seems to be a Proof of Excitement consensus algorithm
I lived with a family who had an Au Pairs who were similar ages to me at the time and got to them and their Au Pair friends quite well.

There is definitely a divide between families who do a good job of integrating and involving an Au Pair into family life and generally upholding their end of the cultural exchange bargain, and those who use Au Pairs as cheap labor.

I know of some Au Pairs whose families blatantly ignored the minimum living standards. Imagine the dehumanization of being given a converted closet to live in (as a ~25yo) with strict curfews, limited car access, and having every incurred family expense scrutinized. Meanwhile the 3 month-old baby you are looking after has a large room with blinds that are never opened because the room serves only as a sleeping nursery.

On the other hand, the family I lived with did an exceptional job of treating their Au Pair as an independent adult and integrating them into family life.

The cultural exchange aspect definitely has value, and to working Americans the system provides cheap child care. The system is worth keeping, but I'd definitely support improved protections for Au Pairs that prevent abusers from freeloading.
Everything these days is people-orientated. The rise and rise of reality TV and social media is testament to that.
This is a big use case for me. I really want to use Perl but I favour Python because the CPython API vs XS, it's a no brainer. I haven't really looked into the Ruby C API but if it's sane I would use it as well.
I'm trying to make this DIY beehive https://www.ikkaro.net/diy-beehive/ and I hope to observe his behavior soon.
Oh you'd be surprised.

Safari never fails to make you question why, and Firefox and Chrome still have enough differences to catch you off-guard from time to time.
> less hackers

fewer hackers