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If the filed a suit against you, you can counterclaim the invalidity of the asserted patents. And even if they drop the claims against you, you still have the claim that their patent is invalidity.

If they just threaten you, can still sue the patent owner for a "declaratory judgement" that their patent is invalid, though you have to show harm in order for the court to hear the case. So if they promise not to sue or your customers, the case may get dismissed.

You can always file an Inter Partes Review at the patent office to attack any patent.
I think the situation may be perhaps different to the one you describe. Heroku seems to have been pretty clear about the abuse and fraud that led to this move. It's a shame all round.

I don't have an MBA and am not a beancounter, but have some experience on the economics of the free tier. It's not pretty.
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Yes, this. We (Fly.io) get a lot of abuse from users with stolen credit cards, too. But credit cards are the most useful anti-fraud tool we have.

When we've relaxed the credit card restriction (like on https://fly.io/launch/livebook), it gets "exploited" within about 48 hours.

This sucks and we hate compromising the experience for legit users. We _want_ people to run their side projects on Fly.io without paying us money. The credit card gate makes this happen less.
There is a karma threshold for downvoting, you likely haven't reached it yet. It's in the FAQ.

However, as to HN culture, typically anyone complaining about downvotes will be further downvoted. It usually does not matter what the rest of the comment says, if you complain about downvotes, HN will give you a lot more of them. I like to think that it is a way for the community to remind individuals that these are all imaginary points anyway and to not be attached to one's karma number anymore than one is attached to the number of the nearest speed limit sign.
Sure, but these people and others truly believe that AI safety is an important issue. There are a lot of really smart people who have thought a lot about it, and I have not looked deeply into it so I can't say, but it doesn't seem like that would invalidate EA entirely.

I.E. I still don't understand why you can't just dislike the fact that some people are devoting time, energy, and money to AI safety, and just be an effective altruist for the issues that you think are most important. In other words, don't throw the EA baby out with the AI Safety bathwater.
Yes Heroku was so far ahead of its time, and they could have been a leader in this field. They didn't even tie it in very well with Salesforce CRM as well which would have gained them cloud business. Free tier is probably the only thing that has kept them relevant. With this move, all I see is Heroku conceding defeat that they have not caught up, and they just want to milk existing larger customers for money.
Just doing what GiveWell says seems fine? Why not?
Yes this is probably sleep apnea
As usual, the academic sociopoliticals don't want to delve into issues of wealth and poverty. Notably this has been a real issue in pharmaceutical drug safety trials, which have tended to exploit poor populations in industrialized countries as well as, more recently, the impoverished populations in developing nations. There's no mention of this whatsoever, instead it's about this:

"We also developed two specific sections — on race, ethnicity and racism; and on sex, gender identity/presentation and orientation — that clarify issues with these constructs and explain that racism and discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation should have no place in science."

The trend towards moving clinical trials to developing nations was first commented on over a decade ago and is in full swing today, but it doesn't even get a mention. For example:

"Ethical and Scientific Implications of the Globalization of Clinical Research", Glickman et al. (2009)"

http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/schering-plough-workshop/file...

> "This phenomenon raises important questions about the economics and ethics of clinical research and the translation of trial results to clinical practice: Who benefits from the globalization of clinical trials? What is the potential for exploitation of research subjects?"

That's an explicit fundamentally important ethical issue, but raising it might imperil academic funding from pharmaceutical corporations, so they stick to their safe topics. It's really kind of pathetic.
I highly recommend. Hanover/Lebanon, Burlington, and Montpelier are decent places to start if you want access to arts, music, theatre, etc. If you're willing to compromise on some of those things in favor of outdoor activities, there are a LOT of great small towns in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine that let you walk and bike to the basics.

If you enjoy biking to establishments, it's worth it to actively think about dirt roads and rail trails in your search -- dirt roads cut car speeds to safe levels, and rail trails let you avoid cars almost entirely. Both make biking miles better.
We must have very different kinds of kids. My kids hate the car, it's basically like jail to them, whereas on the bus we can talk and play together. We don't use the bus, but that's because bus service in our area isn't very good.
> Penalize websites for having ads.

Oh ... this is such a good idea. I'm like tempted to try it and see what happens.
Other governments possibly did, though probably in a way less organized than today.

In 1896, under circumstances not entirely clear, Sun was caught and detained for 13 days by the Chinese legation in London. It appears likely that Sun ran into a fellow Cantonese who worked for the legation and was found out and seized while visiting him under an alias. The legation planned to ship Sun back to China, but, before this could be done, Sun had converted a British employee at the legation to his side and got word through to James Cantlie, former dean of Hong Kong College of Medicine. The British Foreign Office intervened, and Sun was released from his captivity. The incident engendered great publicity and gave Sun’s career a powerful boost.

From the biography of Sun Yat Sen. They probably wanted to execute him in China for plotting against the throne.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Yat-sen
I know it's not really the point of this comment but public pools historically have been places to enjoy the pleasantries of community and pastime.

As an additional aside, you should spend some time considering the implications behind your selection of two significant hallmarks of institutionalized racism as your poles for opposite ends of a spectrum from "the pleasantries of community and pastime" to "pollution and grime [of the masses]".
What Christian charity is it? (If this is too personal a question to answer publicly, would you be willing to share privately? an email address is in my profile.)
Thanks, I'll have to look into this. Accessibility was an issue making sure that the user first interacts with the website before playing sounds, etc.
Not to saturate this thread with my varying opinions, but default rejection with reasoning of stability could be assumed. Anyone who has worked in code long enough knows seemingly obvious changes can have unintended consequences. If a company is making money off my FOSS code then maybe they can test their fixes for an eternity before I incorporate it and it potentially breaks some other companies code.
> Orcas don't have agriculture or industry.
> They just live naked in their environment and hunt.

That was also true of Homo Sapiens for quite a while. We have the same brains for thousands of years, which is adaptable enough for both hunger-gathering, as well as rocket science.

Orcas don't have hands and live underwater. That may put a damper on their industry.
Free apps will shut down after periods of no traffic, so these kinds of projects aren't costing compute, but i suppose there's some overhead in storage.
Let me guess, you've never heard of the term "Pavement princess".

Yes, farmers use pickup trucks, and they're great for that purpose. Nobody is arguing or disagreeing with you on that point.

Nobody is arguing against the purchasing of pickup trucks in the general sense. We're arguing against the purchase of a pickup truck as a daily driver. Something that will be used to commute and buy groceries.
Derek Lowe had a review about testing of mRNA flu vaccines and they were not better than current ones. In a way they could be even worse because they had more side effects.

I heard about mRNA vaccine trials for cancer. I don't know the results.

Overall, the main strength of mRNA vaccines could be easier manufacturing. Will they prove to be more effective? I don't know but probably not.
Does "get the most money" equate to "has the most money?"
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/project-referen... might help out.
I think there is a lot more nuance than people admit. Lets take an example of we have a deadly disease spreading through the population (much more deadly than covid) . Let's say a scientist finds out that the disease is primarily (exclusively) spread by red haired people. Should they just publish the finding? The fact becoming openly known might lead to mobs of people chasing red hairs and locking them up or even lynching them.
A better way is likely to quietly talk to the authorities first.

Another example could be that there is some disease that is entirely harmless but 100% infectious and deadly to some group (e.g. Black people). Now should that research just be released into the public? This might encourage some groups to purposefully infect these people, thus putting them in significant danger.

I admit these are somewhat hypothetical scenarios, but you said the truth should always come up,. I just give counterexamples. I'm sure we had many situations where resesearch was suppressed in reality for some reason or another.
Heroku never made any money before the acquisition.

Don't get me wrong, Heroku is (was?) great, but in the end at some point you have to stop losing money.
The saddest thing about this dismal comment is that you likely judge others negatively based on shallow opinions like this. I sincerely hope you are not in any position of authority over anyone.
> Dr Würsig ran up the beach after the animal missed him by about 1 metre.

So he wasn't actually attacked?
Allegedly he didn't take some medication which caused his hand to swell up and not fit.
Won't lots of services just start blocking *@duck.com email addresses now?
Sailboats or fishing boats?
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I don't think this is true. I think a lot of people were insulated from information that created a perception for them that those disagreements didn't exist.

A lot of people are surprised to find out that people who don't live near them don't share their values.
If people are truly worried about electing people like Donald Trump they'll broaden education and, in particular, education in the hard sciences like maths and computer science to bolster critical thinking and logic. At that point we won't elect reality show hucksters who blatantly lie and foment sedition.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, it sounds like you're in the "Before 1st Grade" phase of life with your kids. When my daughter passed that, there was the magnet school 45 minutes away (but 15 minutes at off-peak), play dates with kids at the magnet school who are flung all over the large metropolitan basin in which we live, Girl Scouts, Theatre Troupe, Acting Lessons, Martial Arts, Bike Rides, Park Days and various other extracurriculars. There are not enough hours in the day to make those trips using public transit where I live. And showing up on time for any of that using transit??? You've got to be kidding.
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Just in case you happen to be a 1Password user as well, there is an integration where they can auto-generate masked emails for you: https://support.1password.com/fastmail/ It makes it very convenient!
This sounds very much like Salesforce wants to shutter Heroku, but draw out whatever blood might be left in the stone first.

Without a free tier you're essentially drawing a line under your uptake and saying no to new customers. That means providing existing infrastructure to larger customers who are going to feel increasingly squeezed by this.

On one hand, I get that they want to get some value out of it before shutting it down, but I have such fond memories of the old Heroku from back in the early cloud days that it still makes me a bit sad - even if it's a very different company today.
The keys are encrypted with your device pass codes. Setting up a new device requires the pass code from another device.
I'm dabbling in the monorepo-tool-space for quite a while already and somehow managed to never hear about Turborepo, seems very interesting!

Just a few years back, the monorepo-tooling-landscape left much to be desired, there were a lot of opinionated 'zero-config' tools out there that always seemed to fall apart the moment you strayed from their happy path. I even went so far to create my own tool (https://github.com/abuob/yanice), in parts because it was fun and taught me a lot and in parts because I simply didn't find something fitting our usecase.

It's cool that the tooling in this area is getting better and better, monorepos solve a lot of very annoying enterprise problems but require solid tooling to make it work, even when way smaller than google-scale.
I see these articles focusing on cars and density, and don't seem dive into details of policy decisions.

This year I moved to a city (Spokane, WA) with an abundance of parks and a few smaller commercial businesses within the middle of residential areas, and the amount of interactions I have with neighbors has exploded. Just yesterday, I'm in front of my house breaking down cardboard for recycling, and met someone new just walking over to a nearby park with their dog. This never happened to me in the last 3-4 cities I lived in.

My sense is that policies like parking minimums, restrictions on small commercial businesses in residential areas, access to parks, might actually have a bigger impact than simply trying to have lots of people living on top of each other.

Not that density is bad, or necessarily good, I just don't see it as particularly significant to improving social interaction. Simply stacking people together isn't going to fix this problem.
Yeah but we are talking about just 1 bit per color channel (8 colors, 1 for every on/off combination of RGB). I buy that colors bleed and fade, but surely they don't fade to the point where an entire channel disappears.
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Beautifully put. What I loved about science growing up is that it valued truth and knowledge (or such was the impression I had of science in history). If someone argues for self-censoring truth/knowledge to avoid XYZ values today, they would've been the same people to argue self-censoring the truth about heliocentrism yesterday. It's a tragedy to see science fall prey to dogmatism and I hope we can see some kind of new field emerge that has the courage to pursue truth first and worry about implications second.
Too reductive. If you go to places like Weber County, Utah there's lots of human connection and it's also built for cars. There are lots of things causing people to feel lonely in the modern world and cars are only a part of it. And if you live in certain parts of the country the car is a great tool for feeling more human connection (by getting you to a church or other place with people similar to you for example).
> In other words, don't throw the EA baby out with the AI Safety bathwater.

I don't! I donate (lots of) money to GiveWell, and I credit EA members for convincing me to do that. The parts of EA that are functionally "hey donate money to effective charities" are good things that make the world better. I do think that it is dangerous to EA as a movement to be discolored by self-dealing AI longtermism.
I think they will support the $7/month hobby demos, right?

Google and Oracle can afford to provide a free micro VMS, smaller companies like Heroku can not. Google and Oracle probably get good value for letting people have free, never expires, micro VMSs.
I'm not exactly a booster for tesla or anything. But are you sure this is the standard you want to set? Would humans pass this standard?

If you released dash cam footage of most human accidents and asked "could an inexperienced 16 year old avoid this situation?" What would the answer be?

I don't think that's a good test.
People with the built-in social surveillance software called "conscience" have a hard time to be deceptive without feeling bad about themselves. For most people it's way easier to be honest.
Randall Munroe of the New York Times wrote about this recently in a column[1] comparing orcas and sharks. He quoted a marine biologist who attributed the rarity of attacks to infrequent encounters between humans and orcas. They don't tend to hang around places where people are swimming.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/science/sharks-killer-wha...
This is a great idea, but it's going to take nearly zero time for companies to decide not to accept private duck addresses for business purposes.

DDG is signing themselves up for a hard challenge, though I think they're up to it. Once you offer a service like this, you take upon yourself the burden of maximizing the outbound signal-noise ratio for emails, or you run the risk that other email providers identify your node as damaged and route around it. So they'll have to be on top of uses of their service for spam and aggressively police and kill those accounts. I'm excited to see what special sauce they're bringing to the field in this space.
CC’s are an abuse prevention tool and essentially a proxy for real names since lots of companies ban “privacy” cards. Would you be willing to instead turn other proof like a government id with face recognition to auth it?

Because yeah it sucks but Heroku is shutting down their free tier because of abuse so it's not a theoretical problem. Anyone who has even more lax requirements will get run over as well.
That's a great example, much better than the one I thought of.

The line has to be somewhere, right? Even if someone dismisses your example, you can make it more and more extreme to the point of "if this knowledge becomes public, a maniac will 99% likely destroy the rest of the earth".
> What happens when we stop agreeing on what the “good” is?

"We" always agree on what the good is. If YOU don't agree, well, we'll have to sort that out, won't we?
They started censoring websites based on "political fake news" filter list supplied by MSM.
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Dear relay operators, it's time to upgrade!

We plan to reject relays which are still on 0.4.6.x in about 5 weeks from now on at the end of September.

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I've never felt less human connection than when I've been in dense cities.
For Canadian nomads: can't one just move to Malaysia/Jersey and not pay taxes after the tax residency kicks in? Taxes are ridiculous in Canada

I wish East Asia was more proactive with digital nomads. For example, Japan is notoriously tough to get in. Korea offers visas for Korean diaspora but not much for foreigners.

My dream would be remote working in Japan but they still rely on fax machines and stupidly outdated formal procedures, it was like living in the 90s, but I loved it while I was there shortly. Many foreigners I saw were working remotely but never reported it on their "tourist" visa. I wonder if this is sustainable.
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Would be good to have context here... not that Brave hasn't had its own share of controversies.
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Don't forget the surface parking lots too. Plenty of great locations in downtown LA or Hollywood and elsewhere are squandered. This includes a corner lot on Hollywood and Vine, which seems pretty prime.
TBH I'm surprised that it took this long to move to this!

Back when Heroku first arrived, PaaS was a new idea. It was available ~2009, well before services like AWS Lambda existed.

This was such a paradigm shift that no one knew what to think of it. It takes time to build trust around such a big shift. The best way to do this is to offer to try it for free. Hence, the Free Tier.

People tried it, and were blown away by how easy it was to build services. It was so much easier than managing hosts directly. Fast forward to today. Engineers are generally comfortable with higher-level services. They know what to expect.

So the free tier is used as as part of the funnel to onboard new customers. Back in 2010, that funnel had a /lot/ of customers going in! Here in 2022, that funnel may be basically zero. On top of that, the free tier costs heroku to run.

Cutting off the free tier is in Heroku's best interest. It saves them money and allows them to focus on their current customers. But it does mean that there's no growth in the product any more, unless they offer something new.
Then you don't use that service.
Civil things are laws, workplace, how you treat strangers in public and in professional settings.

Social things are culture, friends, etc. and obviously they overlap.

Europe is generally good to immigrants. They have nice laws, egalitarian policies, corporations that try to look beyond just hiring locals. Etc. etc..

But it's much harder for immigrants in Europe to 'fit in', to make friends, to participate in all the 3rd space stuff, to 'get the jokes', which means being invited to the 'thing', maybe it's a business thing, maybe not quite looked at for promotion etc.. And a lot of business is still done through social networks, a 'guy who knows a guy', from 'introductions'. I wouldn't say downright 'nepotism' but the Uncle who works at the Space Agency who puts his nephews name in for an internship etc..

So it's like 'marginalization by being an outsider' as opposed to any kind of negative or oppressive actions by the in group. (I'm not denying racism or whatever, just saying most things are not really overt, and it's more about people 'self selecting' people 'like them' as opposed to specifically disliking others).

The US is decidedly more open, they care a lot less where you come from and have more aggressive policies and actions at least in some places. Partially driven by ideology, partly just be greed (i.e. aggressively want the best talent), partly because there is less of a rooted culture.

France is very French. California doesn't have an established culture. There's no such thing as a 'Californian' by culture, just residence. If you grow up in france for 30 years, you spend the rest of your life saying "I'm French" because culturally, you are. But if you grow up in Cali and move to Florida, you don't go around saying "I'm Californian". Though you might say "From California" but that has a different meaning. Cali is more or less just a 'place'. Obviously it has hints of culture and obvious not everyone is treated 'equally' but it's fairly open.

Academia on the whole is generally more open I'd say but still, all the other things, i.e. grants, awards, tenure, etc. are going to be different.
Was expecting a barcode that looked like a fish skeleton, it's actually barcodes in the bones of fish