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Record heat in London causes outages for public clouds
With 40.2C record set today [1] a series of datacenteres have failed and caused public cloud outages.

Google Cloud [2]
Oracle [3]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/uk-weather-record-hottest-day-ever-heatwave
[2]https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/fmEL9i2fArADKawkZAa2
[3] https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/uk-weather-record-hottest-day-ever-heatwave?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1658232431
I thought only Sony could make MD players? Looking up the Panasonic now - in general I love Panasonic - never had anything from them that was not awesome.
> no goal other than short-term optimization.

Tickets to sports, concerts, Disney and other big-name attractions have been increasingly steadily, outpacing inflation, for at least the past 25 years. You've really missed the boat if you think this is in any way, "short-term".
Public keys can only be used to verify a signature, not to sign anything.
Covid deniers prayer:

- Covid isn’t real

- and if it is real, it’s not that bad

- and if it is that bad, it’s not as bad as the vaccine

- and if it is worse than the vaccine, it’s fine because I already had it in 2019

source: Real conversations I had with a family member.
> Is your view on this unique to marijuana or pretty much all plants?

>> for my 5 pumpkin plants

Is this some sort of code-speak, or marijuana variety, or are they really just talking about pumpkins?
American highways use a PG rating system for the bitumen in the asphalt. You can read about it here: https://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/cst/tips/faq_pg.p.... Short story is yes, places where it is expected to become very hot do use asphalt that doesn't rut under higher temperatures. The only exception I know of it Death Valley, which technically requires PG 76-10, but uses 70-10 just because California deemed it wouldn't be worth it to manufacture the extra grade just for one place that doesn't see much traffic. So I guess the highways just sometimes melt in Death Valley, too.

I do recall being a kid going on road trips through these deserts and noticing some of the highways were red and seemed to be made of something different. This was before the switch to the PG rating system. My dad claimed it had something to do with not melting the tire rubber of the vehicles on those roads, but I have no clue what his source was and I can't find any information about these highways, if they even still exist.
The wild political madness involved in the grand project to water the American West is detailed in Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" (1986), and is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the current situation. It was written before a climate-related megadrought was really on anyone's long-term radar, but it really explains a lot.

For example, dams are only part of the water storage picture, there's also groundwater, and the water projects often had the goal of protecting groundwater (keeping the water table closer to the surface), but then once they'd provided water via a dam or aquaduct, the farmers would just expand the areas they were farming and groundwater extraction would often increase as a side effect.

Humans really aren't that good at long-term planning, is one conclusion.
There's a ton of comments on HN like this. A quick brainstormed "why don't they just.." as if cooling a runway, building a subway, conducting space travel or doing anything else bound by physics is as trivial just because it is conceptually simple. Might as well ask why you can't ski in your backyard in London because after all it is trivial to add some pipes to your refrigerator.

Also I don't know of any skating rinks that operate outdoors in summer, or to use a more favourable example, something like lowering a surface temperature from 20C to -5C (an ice rink, indoors) vs lowering a surface temperature from 80C to 55C (an assumption for a runway, outdoors). Even Dubai, a major transport hub, much hotter than UK even this week, with cheapish energy costs, little public debate uses other mitigations such as runway materials and scheduling many takeoffs for 2-5AM (there are many costs due to high temperature besides runway degradation).
Data centers are melting in U.K. heat wave
That’s funny, I remember it as "that stuff you can book train tickets on" that only nerdy dads use, but mostly too expensive to be really useful :).
The flip-side of this decay in the richness of the experience is that things are more idiot-proofed for mass consumption.

I believe that's the driving factor behind grandparents saying "kids these days are so good with the computers" etc. Older generations grew up with machines that you could actually ruin unless you read the manual, leading to hesitancy and trepidation with the new stuff. (Which often eschews documentation entirely.)

In contrast, younger generations are more likely to assume (often correctly) that they are free to try randomly poking icons and twiddling dials until something looks promising. Seen from the outside--especially by that older generation--this confidence can be mistaken as expertise.

(This is similar to how some people will consider you a magician if you open up a command-line prompt.)
SF police don't care period. It's a corrupt organization that simply exists to steal funds from the state. It needs to be burnt to the ground and re-created.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/t2u3fq/guy_in...
This is similar, if not related, to the dirty little secret about income tax. That is, the further you move up the financial food chain the less of your wealth comes from income (as defined by the IRS). So while some push for changing the tax brackets, etc. it's not that simple when the wealthy and ultra-wealthy effectively avoid income.
Yes, the trend is in higher maximum temperatures on individual outlier hot days. That doesn't make it insignificant, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
It was slow and ugly by today's standards but you could still do actual e-commerce well before the web was ready, like buy a train ticket without having to talk to a human.
Dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32126597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143903

And reposting my previous comment in case it saves someone from reading a totally stupid boring story:

> tl;dr: Stupid wealthy person drama.

> I can't recommend spending the time to read such a dull story.
I was going to chime in with this. thanks. One issue with views however is that a lot of these features require more and more nuanced knowledge of RDBMSes where these days unless you have a veteran architect, most of the team just knows the various library/tooling that interacts with "a variety of databases" so there is often less effort to go deeper.
I think looking only at the number of dev jobs leaves too many potential confounding factors to be useful. For instance, how many C/C++ jobs are actually companies who need those devs to move away from C/C++? What's the overlap? How much of the C/C++ share is maintaining legacy code vs starting new projects? Sure the data says something about it, can we draw any conclusions from it other than precisely the numbers you listed? Not really, not without more detailed data.

One thing I would welcome is specifically looking at new sysdev projects over time and what languages they're in.

To be clear I'm not taking a view on whether Rust will become the standard. I really don't know, and I've yet to see anything convincing me one way or the other.
In 2020 602,350 people died of cancer[1]. Seems odd to use it as an example of a bigger threat when it's entirely comparable, especially when we can argue the "with not of" distinction there - they may have died of systemic failure while also having cancer.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
My perspective is DB level triggers are the absolute very best place to put cascading update/delete logic so it only ever needs to be written once and is consistent regardless of any future frontend clients that might be written in a different language and/or framework than the original codebase.

Right now in $dayjob I am converting an old non-DRY codebase from NoSQL data layer format to proper relational SQL backend.

This old front-end was created by verbosely coding up a relational cascading update/delete system for the NoSQL backend, in numerous places redundantly with subtle differences and inconsistencies, making the code brittle.

My current estimate is some front end functions will be reduced in LOC size by 95% once we use the power of SQL in the backend.

And the backend SQL Triggers+StoredProcedure required to replace these long NoSQL frontend functions doing cascading updates/deletes is only around 10% the size of the replaced front-end code.

And now future new frontends can reuse this without exploding the size of their codebase where complex data operations are required. And no need to reinvent the same data handling algorithm all over again (and risk subtle variation creeping in from the different front-end implementation of data algorithms)
> Why would you want a recommendation feed for it then?

Reading a site out of morbid curiosity doesn't mean you never want to follow a particular topic, and what is recommendation if not following topics without having to list them explicitly.
I think they mean something like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/0b/fc/d6/0bfcd63b9e49a7da0ba1f9333...

The lock itself / the GPS cartridge itself is structurally integral to the bike.
This is why I don't understand why Datomic isn't more popular. Pretty much every system I've worked on never needed to scale past 100s of writes per second due to hard limits on the system (internal backoffice stuff, fundamenally scoped/shardable to defined regions, etc etc). And since Datomic is built with that in mind, you get the trade-off of full history, first class transactions and being able to query for things like "who changes this attribute to its current value, when, and why" is such as super power!
Fixing a bug in the US nuclear explosion detection system
The short form content is a generally good thing. I don't have a problem with short form content. It's mainly the manipulation involved in hosting and delivering it that I have a problem with.

Right now the platforms leave classification and promotion of that content up to users. Carefully though out communities based on specific niche and local content would do far better, provided they stay committed to equality and fair presentation of that content, and to not growing too big to moderate.

A smaller community of TikTok dedicated to only hosting music videos (for example), Or a community dedicated to books on tape and interviews of authors would be far more enjoyable, more easily moderated, and effective than a platform for simply everything like TikTok etc... in my opinion.
> It's not unheard of that in Africa many groups/tribes form together to fight back against poachers. Is there anything like this happening in the Amazon rainforest?

There is. People just get killed and everything is swept under the rug.
I hope it does too, unless one of the other submissions is better, in which case it’d be damn good.

Edit: I’m rereading your post and not sure if the tone is complimentary like I originally thought. Text can be hard to read and parse. Are you advocating for the story, or saying that Hugo’s are not worthwhile?
We're going to see more interconnected grids, the sun is usually shining somewhere and the wind is blowing somewhere. And when it isn't, we're going to see higher prices.

Private companies will absorb some part of the societal cost of intermittent electricity, by letting factories and workplaces stay idle when power costs are high - this will filter down to lower wages for the employees of those companies.
Marc Reisner's book Cadillac Desert talked about this as far back as 1986.
Some version of this exists across the entire US government - it's called a qui tam. However, qui tams are more limited to cases where the government has been defrauded (as opposed to Dodd Frank which covers financial violations that don't directly effect the US government).

For corruption within the government, you can report it to an inspector general (there is a different inspector general for each government agency), although there is not typically a financial reward associated with such a report.
Reminds me of eToys vs eToy in the late 90s. Hacking groups targeted eToys and caused many late nights for the ops team. I joined eToys shortly after as a Perl dev and decided to nmap scan ToysRUs and eToys cybersecurity team was on a hair trigger after the eToy hacks. Someone literally came thumping down the hallway and walked straight into my office. I put my hands up and started apologizing profusely and they let it slide.

https://www.artforum.com/print/200003/etoys-vs-etoy-278
this of course, is really meant for brochure or light interactivity sites. I don't think Figma should convert to htmx. I also don't think its meant for sites that may need to honestly scale as part of their product line heavy JavaScript interactivity. For instance, I've definitely worked at a place that deployed well over 10K components to production (I think we pushed over a million lines of deployed production code).

React & Angular do scale this far, I have yet to encounter any who works with Vue that ships over a million lines of deployed code though I'd love to hear from you!
> no wonder they're in this position

Lean, scrappy, profitable, and ahead? One negative comment on HN isn't exactly a crisis. A fluctuation in "profitable" wouldn't exactly be a crisis, either, given that the rest of this industry looks like a money bonfire.

> maybe he needs to be more open and not let his negative feelings about business people worsen his business

Neg harder.
Courts take a real dim view of that kind of game. When a billionaire "can't afford" to pay a court judgment, the courts don't just shrug and say "stuff happens". They know when they're being played, and they can play back a lot harder than Musk can.
Here is one example: https://serokell.io/blog/rust-in-production-1password
Thanks and sorry, another question if you don't mind. How easy is it (in general, not necessarily fo this model you mention) to transition from walking to sitting and vice-versa? Do you just roll it away and roll in you chair?
You don't see the irony here?
For me it is simply that isn't open source (at least last I checked.)
I believe first-class support is in development for Postgres. The article I read made it sound like it would probably land in either the next major version, or the one after that.
I'd add tagging, for anything that could conceivably use it, when you're doing DB design. May as well start with support, even if the functionality's initially dormant. Someone will ask for it, directly or indirectly, and it won't take long before they do.
High inflation has also historically been political suicide. The Biden administration has been doing what they can to place blame wherever they can for a reason.

I do fear the fed isn’t doing what it needs to because they’re afraid of being seen as political, one way or the other. I hope we don’t have to wait until after the midterms for them to grow a pair.
There's this thing in the culture about taking maximum offense at anything and everything possible. It's as though it's a hobby or sport. It also seems to be correlated with the number of viewers. If it's just 1-on-1, it's rare. If there's an audience, it's common, especially if the audience is social media.
So this is a tool for developing and experimenting with quantum algorithms without needing access to an actual quantum computer. It runs in Colab and simulates the expected results on a regular computer. I don’t know whether there are other existing tools in this space, but that seems really cool since it lets regular people explore the ideas behind quantum computing, and makes it faster for developers to iterate on algorithms.
What other areas are you exploring to move into?
Great points, and additionally pleasure yachts stay relatively near coasts most of the time and don't navigate the deep water.
Gaussian Blue Noise
How good was that recording though? I mean I am sure if you plugged in a decent microphone it would be good. But through the headphones?

These days most phones are awesome recorders so I am not sure we really lost that much - I totally get what you are saying for that brief period where ipods were the norm (before phones).
I just dropped a message to the CEO via LinkedIn, hope they can check on it.
Didn't pop-up for me, either adblock or just being enabled for a sample of the visitors.
To add to this: the Bosch systems can be set to a lower or higher limit but it needs to be taken to a Bosch dealer to do this. They don't give the software to any old Joe Schmoe (I tried)

Unless someone throws something on github of course ;)
I have absolutely no knowledge of this stuff (in particular of your industry), but I would have thought that most outliers indicate either a measurement error (which you suggest) or a cause that hasn't been taken into account. For the latter, I'm thinking for example about countries whose life expectancy is completely out of line with their per capita income, or some such. Do unexpected causes appear to cause outliers in your field?
Reminds me of the Purdue Boilermakers.

The Purdue University has as their mascot, the boilermaker.

It always seems such a weird mascot for an engineering school.

However, when they were founded, steam boilers were at the cutting edge of engineering. They were what powered railroads and steamships. And the high pressures and temperatures pushed the limits on metallurgy and reliability. There were many people killed because a boiler exploded.

So at that time, "Boilermaker" suggested attention to detail, and broad technical knowledge.

Now not so much.

Every generation builds on the foundation laid before, and tries to achieve new things.
META looks set to make a lot of money.
All the BBSes back in the day were awful, the key thing here is it was a network arguably targeted at normies before many other things like the web. Maybe AOL eventually too sure, but Compuserve was way more expensive and not a everyday person thing.
I like the deleted-items-table suggestion the author makes. It's useful though, to think about the cases where you'd want to delete, say a customer with existing invoices. In one situation, you may have made a mistake and want to start over, say an operator creates the customer and order, but then the customer changes their mind. In that situation a hard delete is in order; you want to "undo" the _creation_ of the customer and invoice, and nothing further has happened as far as referencing their key

In other situations though, you may have some reason to treat the customer as if they were deleted, but better to examine the reason for that, and use an attribute more relevant to that reason, such as active/inactive etc. Would be different for different entities of course.
"Buy and dry" is the default outcome. Cities buy the farms nearby, use the farms' water rights and let the fields go dry. Agriculture uses 60-90% of the water in the west depending on river basin. Cities can afford MUCH higher rates per gallon for water than farmers can so the cities will eventually just buy out the farmers if nothing changes. I have no worries about Denver or Las Vegas or LA running out of water. There just might not be water intensive crops grown out west anymore.
No, I'm not. You aren't reading my comments. Policy as a whole encompasses the way Doctors prescribe meds, generally. People are routinely cut off from medication for bogus reasons by clueless doctors.
YouTube rolls out new shopping features, announces partnership with Shopify
Why stop there? They should get their own end users as well.
There's loads of companies out there with extremely similar names. It's hard to come up with something totally unique. I believe, legally, it just can't be identical to a name already registered in the same state. When I was trying to name my own business, it was amazing to see how many names were already taken just in my state. Not that it makes it right for Meta/Facebook to do whatever they want but any rebranding they chose would probably have stepped on someone's toes.
Ok sure, ignore the CO2 costs... Because without nukes your going to get carbon production, and with energy usage growing year over year, CO2 usage will continue to increase. If your lucky it might go down for a couple years before resuming the upward trend, but that doesn't even look probable at this point since countries are killing their carbon free sources (nukes) faster than they are growing the percentage of CO2 free energy production.

And those nukes are going to look downright inexpensive if/when we ever get the point of consuming more than say 2/3'rds of the yearly power from wind/solar.

So, keep wishing for that magic renewable bullet and keep watching the gobal CO2 increase and getting pushback from people who aren't happy about rolling blackouts, or their energy prices going up and up and up.

If the greenheads got out of the way and stopped trying to kill every nuke plant the engineering and construction prices would fall significantly. Its not like they are actually that hard to build, we did it in the past, and places that aren't Europe and the US somehow manage to do it for significantly less too. AKA, the price is a political problem not a technical one.
soft delete everywhere by default. true deletes only after retention policy expires, if FK constraints allow it (best if you can drop whole partitions).
> And Kodak color film might be the prototype of vendor lock

How? Those film cartridges were standard. There were many companies selling 110 film cartridges, 35mm film, etc.
I guess I am the only person in the world (according to HN) who doesn't hate Teams. Sure, it's klunky at times. But I use it on windows and on mac and I join lots of meetings with it. It consistently works well, the audio/video is solid, I have a better user experience as a presenter compared to using zoom. I'm not looking to get into a virtual meeting software war, I just wanted to point out that not everyone hates teams.
Analogy between Tides and A.C. Electricity (1947)
Britain is broken.

This isn't the place to debate it, but we're currently a rudderless, borderline second world country.

It's going to take a generation to recover (let alone thrive) from what the last decade of flagshagging idiots have done to this once great country.
I'll miss Netflix about as much as I will miss cable tv.
I can run a regex to find <a> tags as well as the next guy[1] but what do those links mean? Is one of those links a link to delete the object I am viewing and one of them a link to update it? What about the link to get a list of all the foos associated with this particular bar? How am I supposed to parse this blob of HTML programmatically to figure out which link is mapped to which action?

I think this is where I think the big failing of original REST comes into play - these self-discoverable actions are sort of impossible to actually leverage... either you're hardcoding some information about the format (i.e. look for the <a class='delete'>) or you're automatically deriving the link anyways... there isn't really a reasonable way for REST to work where these links are self-descriptive enough for a machine to figure out on their own so... in the end... why not just separate that information out into a nicely formatted API document that the devs can have on hand while building their interoperable tool?

1. And personally prefer to always parse my HTML with regexes of course...
> the author of this very article is the "automotive editor" at ars, not a marine biologist, or anything close to it.

The author has a PhD in Pharmacology. Biology is an integral part of Pharmacology.
1992 by the way. Seemed way to new when i read it in 90s to be 1982. Your point probably still stands.