skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that was sort of intentional, putting the viewer in the shoes of the hapless hat girl who was swept up into a world of power and intrigue that she had no context or experience to help her interpret what was going on.

Yes, the whole "war" plot was confusing and grotesque- but that is how Sophie would experience it, right? The backstory with the witch of the waste is clearly incredibly consequential to Howl, but it's had to figure out until the end. But that's also Sophie's experience.
> Eliminating the optional 12-month publication embargo for federally funded peer-reviewed research articles.

I hope this means that Fed Funded research publications will always be free to access from day 0 to day ∞
> preview workflows

This please, a thousand times! We're in the midst of a complex transition from Heroku, where we relied heavily on Review Apps for getting stakeholder feedback and QA'ing complex data model changes, to a k8s-on-EKS setup where we have a Helm chart that can duplicate our normal deploy in isolated namespaces for previewing new feature branches based on Github Actions.

Our data cloning and routing needs are rather custom (white labels on top of feature branch releases, with complex fixture-loading processes), so I don't know that we'd make a great initial customer, but there are so many companies out there that should be using preview apps aggressively and don't know what they're missing. If you can make this happen in a modern environment without people needing to know what Argo and Flux are, or how to make a "for" loop in Helm, it could be a significant differentiator - and also provide a lower barrier to entry where prospective customers use you first for low-impact preview environments, then start using you for production as well.
I didn't realize that, I already had the extension
I've been relying on making stuff up and then linking to paywalled articles to win my internet arguments, so this is a big setback for me.
Have you seen such dual-licensed library with GPL? Just curious for a real example.
That may not have been fair either, but two wrongs don't make a right.
Definitely a Far Side cartoon or two in all of this.
This is okay too - it's cheaper to put heated seats in all the cars, than to put it in some cars! Enable it via the purchase of an options package. But a recurring cost for the feature? That grinds my gears.

What they could do is allow you to enable that feature later, albeit at higher cost. Imagine what that could do for the used car market? I buy a car where the previous owner hadn't enabled heated seats. I contact the manufacturer and say I'd like to enable the heated seats. Heck, why stop there? The manufacturer may respond asking whether I'd like to purchase an option package instead that included a bunch of other features. This seems reasonable and pro-consumer. Subscribing to a feature does not.
Somehow this doesn't seem like an issue a politician is going to campaign on.. I mean you can talk about women's rights/abortion, gun violence, student debt, the economy, Ukraine, or... access to federally funded research? There are only so many press hits, tv ad dollars, and speech time politicians have to get their message out. I doubt this makes anyone's list.
And other people prefer to incite people to better control them via polarization.
But your reasoning is still riddled with assumptions, namely that "If I hear someone answer the phone with an Indian accent, it means I'm dealing with a low-skilled/low-paid outsource worker who is going to waste my time." Here's why these assumptions are flawed:

1) As I already mentioned, we had foreign-born workers living in the US, with accents. They were highly-skilled, highly-qualified, and getting the same wage as all of our other US colleagues.

2) We had coworkers in India at all levels of support, L1-L3. I'm sure payband was the motivating factor in their hire, but timezone availability was a large consideration as well. And they were eminently qualified: some of them could run circles around me from a knowledge perspective.

3) The kernel of truth which you may have touched upon and which some of our customers may have inferred is that for historical reasons, most of our L1's were in India and most of the L2's or L3's were American. So yes, if you got a guy with an American on the phone, he was probably going to be better-equipped to solve your problem--because he was an L2/L3. But the reason that guy didn't answer the phone had little to do with how much the company cares about support; it was because the L2's had more important shit to do, like filing bug reports, or code diving, or debugging. And if I'm interrupting a GDB session to take a call, I expect that an L1 has done the bare minimum of triaging first to ensure that I'm not answering a question that could have been resolved by RTFM.

We can argue all day about whether to call these assumptions "racism" or not, but I would argue that whatever their origin, they feed into that sense of customer entitlement that leads to customers screaming at my colleagues over the phone as soon as they hear an Indian accent. And that's horseshit.

I'll leave you with a final example: we had a very irate CEO customer once in a conference call for a longstanding issue, and the call on our end included several product support leads, managers, and developers. At some point we decided to bring the company's Director of Software Engineering onto the call to try to calm the customer down. The director had an Indian name and was physically in our office but was introduced by name rather than title. The CEO responded by saying, "I don't wanna talk to some freaking guy in Bangalore!"
For hard RT you need both the OS and the language runtime to maintain certain constraints, and I am not aware of Lisp implementations satisfying that. Nothing to be concerned about tho, it's a fairly small niche that is not addressed by most of the popular languages today too.

(Doing soft-RT work in Common Lisp though)
TIL! Thank you! Now that I've read the whole article... my original comment stands.
In Barcelona you can go to many places without a car, but has awful traffic everywhere (and they drive really fast on the big streets). Plus, the police kicks you out of the street at night. I don't think it's a nice place to live.
"My Neighbors the Yamadas", another Takahata work, also had a watercolor style.
> Back in 2010, that funnel had a /lot/ of customers going in! Here in 2022, that funnel may be basically zero.

That's not because 12 years passed, it's because Heroku didn't innovate or even keep abreast of the competition in that timeframe.

> Cutting off the free tier is in Heroku's best interest. It saves them money and allows them to focus on their current customers.

It cuts off the only onramp they had for entry developers or developers who can't afford to pay their ridiculous prices (I mean come on, $25/mo for 512MB of ram? Is this a joke? It was expensive but understandable when they launched and has only gotten worse while the product has not improved which competitors have blazed past them).

> But it does mean that there's no growth in the product any more, unless they offer something new.

I won't hold my breath, it seems clear they are life support at this point.
My grandad is still not convinced.
What the absolute fuck does that all mean?
> criminal plea deals came with NDAs

The article says:

> A nonnegotiable term of that settlement, and all SEC settlement agreements, is that Bob must never publicly profess his innocence

I am comfortable with a criminal plea deal not allowing someone to say they are innocent. In fact my understanding is plea deals generally include admission of guilt (to a lesser crime).
In France 100 EUR => 50 EUR too:

https://www.phonandroid.com/starlink-divise-par-deux-le-prix...
Yes, this is how fair use works. Once copyright agrees that you were in the right to make something, you have exclusive ownership over it, it does not get locked open like GPL software does.

Scraping other people's content is already established fair use thanks to Google prevailing against the Author's Guild in front of SCOTUS. I find it difficult to understand how it could be illegal to scrape a bunch of creative works to create a system that generates new works, but legal to scrape a bunch of creative works to let people search two-page excerpts out of them.

Output copyright is very much up in the air. The Copyright Office has rejected copyright registrations claiming the software itself created the work; but presumably this wouldn't apply to a human taking ownership over something they used ML to create. The amount of prompt engineering you have to do to make these kinds of systems alone would count as some kind of creativity. The only real complaint I could see is if the system regurgitated its training data, which would be bog-standard copyright infringement.

Also, related note: I really hate how the whole AI thing is making the FSF sound like the Author's Guild did a decade and change ago. The law is already very clear that you cannot launder an infringement (copying GPL code) through a fair use (trained ML weights). Please do not adopt the arguments of copyright maximalists.
A manufacturer does not know, at manufacture time, whether you will put hay bales or grandmas furniture in your truck bed.
The $180 Cable That Could Hack You
You may soon be asked to take a pay cut to keep working from home
IME, the difference is the ambient noise.
Slackmoji has been sunset due to cease and desist (2018)
All the infrastructure is in place to convert the United States to an East German STASI system. Most of the individual personal data that an outfit like STASI would use to control popular opinion (media job opportunities), academic and governmental job opportunities, 'social credit' scores, etc. is already stored the data archives of Google, Facebook, Oracle, ISPs, Apple, the NSA / FBI / CIA files, etc.

The only real fix is data privacy laws, which would force the private and public outfits to discard most of their stored data (and enforceable criminal and civil penalites for not doing so).
Digataur, it was great having you working on the OpenZiti project, buddy! Thanks so much for giving Ziggy some fodder :)
Maybe it's less about the agencies technical ability and more about making it long enough that the current beneficiaries of this don't oppose it as strongly as they would if it disrupted their biz in the next 2-4 quarters so that it can actually get done.
It's true. [0] [1] [2]

So why did they break the law instead of taking them down?

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/india-twitter-kashm...

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/twitter-f...
Looks like bun gave a good boost for deno
Unfortunately, this seems to require the "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" extension to use it in your browser, which for Chrome at least requires permission to "Read and change all your data on all websites." It's not clear to me why an extension is necessary at all, let alone an extension that much more broad than just email and requires such extensive permissions.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/duckduckgo-privacy...
Woah boy. You drastically overestimate the alacrity of the U.S. federal government. Also, keep in mind that existing contracts may not permit the updated policies to be "fully" implemented, and premature "termination for convenience" is a great way to screw the American taxpayer.
This thread is about American urbanism.
Yeah that sounds like an awesome CI! Fly won’t ship anything that integrated anytime soon because there’s so much great CIs out there now. What you will see is Fly integrating into CIs for deployment steps, which could be to a staging env per branch or a final deploy to production.

Here’s a sense of what that looks like: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/continuous-deployment-with-gi...

This obviously doesn’t come close to the way Heroku does it and requires some effort. I have some ideas for fly CLI commands that would make setting up a basic CI a little easier, but again, not to the level Heroku is doing it.
Is C++ the most popular language in the world? Or is it C#?
Look at the screenshot.
A song on the world's smallest violin for publishing companies executives. The fact that this asinine situation has reached this point to begin with is an embarrassment, and that it didn't end when we lost Aaron Swartz is a tragedy.
I see lots of comments here about Google. Perhaps the internet isn't dead, but our search engines are.

That should be the question this article is asking.
I want someone to check me on a strongly held belief, I promise I have an open mind:

There’s nothing wrong with experimenting with k8s in your org. Nothing wrong with k8s, it’s complex yes but that’s not inherently problematic.

But it’s been my experience over the last several jobs that many orgs are throwing mission critical workloads and hinging a lot of people’s productivity onto k8s and asking operators and engineers to ostensibly figure it out as they go. And from rants and vents I see on other tech communities, I’m not the only one making this observation.

Which is sheer madness to me.

Change my mind: unless you have probably, razor sharp engineers who know what they’re doing with k8s enough to give you more than a few days of availability before livened probes start falling off the face of the planet, AND can make this their sole focus, maybe you’re not ready for k8s?
Restaurants close at 8/9 in high-price metro areas like the SF Bay also (suburbs).
> What difference would it make in case of a divorce? hint: None

Depends on the country and local laws, I'd wager. Regardless, it's probably a good idea especially before a marriage has happened, though lots of people rush into getting married nowadays.

> I don't see how people could decide to have a life together with that sort of difference.

The fact of the matter is that some things can reveal themselves later in the relationship and having joined finances too quickly is probably a mistake. The hard part is that you can't really gauge when you have the other person figured out, e.g. the whole "rose tinted glasses" period that may drag on long into the relationship.
>Who stops people from running their own search engines?

This is basically the reason my team and I are building an alternative set of YouTube recommendations. You can check them out here:

https://channelgalaxy.com

I was just tired of YouTube steering me back to the same old small niche of videos, many times giving me repeat recommendations for stuff I'd already seen. Our algorithm is designed to surface smaller channels and find more obscure content.
This is PURE FOLLY. Really. Cities always have problems but in the past they also have many advantages, being dense means having sewers problems, who led to health problems, but also being many skilled in different things, able to defend against enemies, able to communicate in a world without powerful transportation means etc.

Nowadays cities are needed:

- by dictatorships since very few can control very many, making them dependent on city services and so unable to revolt;

- by surveillance capitalism to keep people surveilled and as above dependent from ton of services since there is not enough space to be autonomous in any case.

MARGINALLY cities are needed for having enough people together to meet interesting people from any cohort of interests, but that's now marginal thanks to TLCs and IT development, not from today in the era of the anti-social networks, but already in the past in the usenet/BBS era.

MARGINALLY cities are needed by certain cohorts like elder people to being able to live well while being not able anymore to travel and not interested anymore in different activities in nature.

To being able to evolve, just toward the flying cars McKinsey want [1], just toward a retail-delivery economy, just toward renewables, just toward resilience we damn need FAR LESS dense areas. Single family homes mixed with small buildings for various working/service purposes with enough space to evolve, to have room for p.v., drone landing, delivery of large stuff etc. Modern smart-cities are just old capitalism factories fusioned with their old slums to keep a handful of slaves ready to work in slavery condition.

[1] https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... and
I have the same problem as you. So I just forward my email from Gmail to Hey.

Hey gets most of it right. I just wish they bundled emails automatically (similar to how Inbox did)
I'm of the position that speech we don't like should be countered with more speech. Therefore, I'd look forward to airing all the dirty laundry of every other EV manufacturer.
Weird to see an old [2014] snarky Gizmodo post show up here, but I digress.

Slightly more interesting than this is the "Project Oracle" project description from the CIA, thanks to a FOIA request:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01794R0001002...
CarbManager seemed to have a good database. I often thought entry was faster than scanning.
But, in other terms, it means they no longer have enough tech talent in-house to solve hard problems.

This points to further decline down the line.
Hot take - walkability is super overrated. I don't want to go to the same 5 resturaunts I can walk to. I like variety. I work from home and don't commute, but when I do go out I want to explore.

Another hot take - Being in the middle of a city doesn't make one more social. Actually it can be more lonely ironically. You are surrounded by strangers.

In my current suburb I am good friend with all of my neighbors. We share vegetables from our gardens, have block parties, let children play together, it's extremely social.
From the article:

> Science has for too long been complicit in perpetuating structural inequalities and discrimination in society.

> Finally, authors should use inclusive, respectful, non-stigmatizing language in their submitted manuscripts.

> Race and ethnicity are sociopolitical constructs.

—-

To me, this sounds like a clergyman espousing articles of faith and commandments.
A platform that looks good (similar to railway), has added card information and is ready to try it out for some time.
Unlike most of their competitors, I don't think I have ever heard of someone migrating to Heroku. Seemingly the only people who are still using it are using it because they started with it, usually with their free product. I'm no expert or anything, but it seems like a bad idea to cut off that funnel of future customers by eliminating that free product.
> Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty.

For the same reason aircraft carriers need five miles to stop - it’s a really big ship and there’s an extraordinary amount of inertia to be overcome.
Perhaps they'd like to see if geopoliticial conflicts due to the uncertainty of the impending doom that is climate change make it unnecessary.

Imagine doing all that work for nothing, as there was societal collapse just around the corner!
I am very frustrated by this article and I don't know why. I mean, they're right, improvisation, that's a good model for how you should design your social networking service. But just given how "realtime systems" (read: social media) evolved from 2010-2022, somehow I feel like this is not what Miles Davis stood for.
Is it possible that a bunch of free stuff where they don't sell you as a product (and maybe even when they do sometimes) just isn't a viable thing to do on the web?

Generally on the web we as consumers seem to cycle through these companies, often pay nothing, and we're bummed each time they quit doing the thing...

Seems like a pattern.
DIE is also implemented all over the government, and public schools and universities also apply it. Are you saying you are concerned about this affecting meritocracy, but not in private schools and companies?

Your definition of meritocracy to be related only to those that have political power is not a universal definition. Merriam Webster defines it as "a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated".

But let's go with just political power. Are you saying that getting a high-status private education, eg. harvard or yale, or a high power private company role has no influence on you wielding political power?
Elsevier pockets a 30+ percent profit margin.[1] Nothing besides market power forces them to push this to the authors.

[1] https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/re... (page 23)
Consider an extreme example. You take out a $300,000 loan to buy a house. The next day, there's suddenly hyperinflation and now $300,000 is the average price of a meal, or less than most people earn in an hour. You basically got a free house.
Too genius of a plan to be just sitting here.

Go do it, you seem to have a good plan that seems feasible, there must be some people with capitol willing to hop on board.

A new insurance we never even knew we needed.
Depends on the room. A glut of empty and affordable homes would also signal a downturn in the housing market which would probably upset some people.
Honestly its hard to do this.
Especially if you work in Tech, you want to have an online presence, that shows the work and the projects you manage.

I think people are adopting the separate identity way.
One official identity, and another one which hidden and has no clear connection to who they are.
They do require credit card for free dynos. Maybe it wasn't so in the beginning I can't remember.
> 15 year old slightly trained spam filter with a sensible config can filter all without any false positives.

If it were that easy why do all the big players do it so badly?
I'd rather get more spam in my inbox than miss the false positives (in fact most of what's in my spam folder is technically legitimate, but usually just broadcast emails from organizations I happen to have used my email address for at some point in the past). But I haven't found a way to sufficiently lower the threshold for spam detection for any email service I've used to avoid that problem.
This is good news. Academic publishers are parasites and anything that reduces their stranglehold on academic knowledge is good. That said, parasites are, if nothing else, resilient.

So, there's a few issues that I'm concerned about. First, it's not clear to me that university libraries will be able to drop their subscriptions to these journals based on this decision. The vast majority of research receives some federal funding, but there will still be some subset of articles that are funded through private research grants and will still sit behind a paywall. Journal subscriptions are a huge drag on library budgets, so freeing that money up would be immensely beneficial. Second, I can see the journals reacting to this by going full open access, but charging massive "fees" to publish. Right now Nature charges >$10k to publish open access, and I'd expect them to ratchet that up as it becomes their primary vector to siphon tax payer money into their own pockets. This seems to be the playbook based on the European "Plan S" push for open access.
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It depends on what the customer base is paying for and expecting. If they expect a bubble and complain about it not being there, they'll likely get a bubble. If they complain about the bubble being there, steps will likely be taken to reduce or remove it.

For better or worse, the direction of a paid product is usually fairly well defined, as long as they've taken time to understand their customers.