skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me like a vast majority of startups and use cases don't serve a _ton_ of traffic, nor do they do too much heavy data processing. If we're being realistic, most webapps could probably run on a Raspberry Pi and be fine. With this being the case, why is such a heavy-weight and complicated system so popular?
> This is like the printer that automatically watermarks your prints

That ship has sailed. Most (all?) printers already do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Reddit, Chime, Instacart, Discord, Databricks, Stripe
There are both white and black Cubans. No one would have considered that to be any more interracial than if a White Canadian married a White American.
In Most countries of the EU (if not all), you are required to have more than one or two clients to legally be a contractor, otherwise you are a “fake employee.”
Are there any details?

Was the C&D sent by slack, if yes why? Trademark violation?

Or perhaps by the copyright holder of some emoji that were used without permission?
There was no accusation of making up anything, as I cannot possibly know your personal experience.

What I was doing was pushing back on using comically outlier events as something representative of rural living, that the GP would have to reckon with if they were to live in a rural setting. Nobody I know who has lived in a rural environment has ever experienced what you highlighted. If you did experience that, it sounds like you just had shitty neighbors or you lived next to a recreational area where that is more likely to happen, and I would caution against extrapolating that experience to being the norm among rural residents.

The irony is I never have been woken up by ATV's and shotguns in decades growing up in a rural environment, but have certainly been woken up by those things a number of times in urban environments.
It won't. It's a typical move from a business stuck in a death spiral, desperately searching for profits by blindly slashing expenses.
You are ungrateful for the free candy and want to complain about getting locked in the van that you chose to get into.

Entitled millennials.
Posted on Linkedin (not by me). Full text if you can't access:

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The most dickish thing I do: I charge for Slack.

Or Teams or Flock or Hangouts or whatever other messaging app your company uses. If you want to add me, a freelance consultant, to your company's group chats it will cost a minimum of $2,000 a month.

And that's on top of whatever other project rates and billable hours our contract stipulates.

Yeah, seriously. I do this because I know the second I'm on these platforms, my time and expertise is now available to everyone in your company. I know I will be roped into group chats and calls that have nothing to do with me. And I know that people will expect an answer right away.

All stuff I'm not interested in doing.

Do clients pay for this? They sure do. They pay for me to be on their slack for about two months before they realize everything they need out of me is better handled through a few emails a week.

There are very, very, very few jobs in this world that legitimately require people to be at-the-ready, 24-7, reply-right-away. The companies who think they need this urgency to be successful are the ones who need to restructure how everything works.

No one is dying here. We're making ads and selling stuff.
If everyone (with necessary skills) can do your job from home, the pool of competition for your job increases massively. If they can only hire people in your city, pay rates are liable to be much higher.

Supply and demand at work.
From what I recall growing up, Vancouver's bike lanes were not well-recieved (by what I imagine was a slight minority) when they started taking lanes from traffic. "They're always empty", "They're unsafe", "What about the cars and increased wait" were some of the complaints I remember. Over time, they've gotten dramatically better, and public opinion is shifting as they improve.

Bike lanes become more common, so they grant access to more areas instead of getting you 90% of the way there, so they can be used, and people can take advantage of them, and see (or know someone), that uses them. It all ends up being a positive feedback cycle for bicycles.

They may not be popular in your city, but if they can keep the political motivation up for a few election cycles, it can work :)
> There was nothing learned from these incidents that was surprising, or not known before.

You seem to have completely forgotten how events at Fukushima unraveled, or perhaps didn't follow them at the time. Watching CNN and other news outlets it was almost farcical: they'd put on world experts in nuclear engineering (legitimate experts, mind you, not science reporters or policy pundits) who would claim that event X (like a hydrogen leak) was so statistically improbable to the point of impossibility, then some hours later event X happens. Wash, rinse, repeat. It was all the more absurd because they clearly weren't updating their priors, so to speak, regarding the soundness and confidence of engineering analyses as events unfolded.

All the nuclear industry's statistical modeling techniques turned out to be crap. The fact it was an ancient BWR is irrelevant as that's what the engineers were modeling--engineer interviewees were basing their opinions on specific analyses of Fukushima and similar, contemporaneous designs. OTOH, it stands to reason that our statistical risk modeling for most other endeavors (maybe excepting some well worn areas, like commercial aviation) is also crap, so nuclear isn't likely exceptional in this regard. And we have about 80 years of solid experience building and running nuclear reactors, with quite a few meltdowns, not to mention many other incidents, and excepting Chernobyl outcomes have fallen well within the range of the risks and outcomes we deal with everyday in many other industries, and far short of the nightmares peddled by nuclear opponents.
There's a bit of literature out there claiming the opposite. Certainly if you can take multiple Z images you can correct it that way, but there are methods which work directly to de-blur (aka, in focus) an image.
Took too long to get to the point for me to keep reading buuuuuuuut I'm going to air my thoughts anyway. For me the internet is dead when I look at search results in my search engine of choice - it's nothing but SEO spam! Search for literally anything and it will return nothing but list articles peppered with SEO keywords and lists of links to amazon. As a developer a site that springs to mind is geeksforgeeks.
A different wikipedia page (about another of the people Tilikum killed) describes the incident differently. I have not investigated all the citations to explain the difference:

Tilikum became an infamous whale after attacking and killing his trainer, forty-year-old SeaWorld staff member Dawn Brancheau. Tilikum grabbed her arm, scalped the woman, fractured her jaw and killed her by blunt force trauma, the result of which was a contentious and controversial legal case over the safety of working with orca whales and the ethics of keeping live whales and other marine mammals in captivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Keltie_Byrne
Is this React Native with Lisp instead of JavaScript?
This seems like a pretty bad idea and one thats going to choke Heroku's growth. The only realistic reason one would actually build on Heroku is that they started with the free tier and decided it would take too much time to switch to anything else. I get the reasoning behind wanting to reduce the amount of time the engineering team spends trying to prevent abuse of the free tier but there are much better strategies to go about it then remove it all together. Sounds like Salesforce basically wants to milk Heroku and squeeze as much profit out of it before its completely dead
>The autopsy report said that Brancheau died from drowning and blunt force trauma. Her spinal cord was severed, and she had sustained fractures to her jawbone, ribs, and a cervical vertebra. Her scalp was completely torn off from her head, and her left elbow and left knee had been dislocated.
Unusual in light of the title of the page being "OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay".
Creativity is enhanced by social drinking and turning off your pre-frontal cortex

https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02022/jun/14/drinking-10...
I'll say something few will mention... but lack of a safety net is a large factor in why the US has the best research universities, and well -- the best everything [1]

Simply put the fact that you can slip to a pretty low bottom in the US (as opposed to the guaranteed safety net in some other countries) motivates those individuals capable of high achievement to produce the best research. This is why the US has basically the biggest companies, the best researchers, the most dominant pop-culture, etc. Basically, everyone knows that if you don't continue to pursue whatever it is, you can sink to the bottom, and there's not as strong a safety net.

It's also the source of America's constant 'self-improvement' and 'self-help' culture [2].

When people have a guarantee of a good life no matter what, they get complacent.

My explanation also explains why some of the most successful people come from such low backgrounds. For example, successful businessmen like Larry Ellison had some pretty tough childhoods. This makes sense, since those who've experienced such lows will naturally be more afraid of going back than for those for whom it's a more abstract concept.

As another example, this is why Arab countries have much higher rates of females in STEM, than more progressive countries. Simply put, the women know that a STEM degree is a ticket to a better life somewhere else, rather than staying in their own country.

[1] The US also has some of the worst outcomes. The distributions are much wider in the US than other countries in many aspects of life -- income, access to healthcare, education, etc.

[2] and yes these two things feed off each other

EDIT: Why downvote when you can engage? It's really quite strange in the modern day when you can have a musing, and instead of supposedly intellectually curious people engaging, you're just downvoted.
Well, if nothing else, it produces profits... and profits pay for lobbyists.

At least in the Washington understanding, an "industry" is any profit-seeking entity or association which has lobbyists representing its interests. (What would you say are the "products" of the hedge-fund "industry"?)

I suppose you could call this a special-interest group instead, but it's a little pedantic.
"To protect your privacy send emails via yet another additional third party you have no control over."

Makes no sense, despite the offered message content sanitization that should be best done in the MUA.
I keep really fine-grained and extensive todo lists. I helps staying motivated if you can just pick something small, do it in 10-30mins, and while checking your todo item, you get the satisfying feeling that your project just got a tiny bit better/a tiny step closer to completion. This works for me even on days in which I don't have much energy or time to spare.

Also, try to not let your project rest for too long, even if you just do the above-mentioned baby steps. I found that the longer I am out of it, the harder it is to bring back the motivation.
This book Artificial Intelligence through Prolog [0] was really interesting to me several years ago and I remember the author [1] had a number of papers on search engine / information retrieval on his research page.

[0] https://faculty.nps.edu/ncrowe/book/book.html
[1] https://faculty.nps.edu/ncrowe/index.html
Well, I'm concerned.
> I mean, thread replies in the main conversation by default? Come on.

Personally I'm a huge fan of this and I hate Slack's threads, it's where discussion goes to die. If you need to break off then just create a group for the people who need to have input and take it out of the main channels. I use Discord replies almost daily while I avoid Slack's threads like the plague.
> Orcas don't have agriculture or industry.

Ants have agriculture and industry. Ants are the only other species (besides humans) that are capable of civilization.

Perhaps intelligence is not as important a factor as we think. :)
>I started college in 1999.

>Everybody knows there are some degrees that are more valuable than others

This has only been made more extreme, but you've been checked out for at least 20 years apparently.
I think your analogy is wrong way round.

Should the mail have to take the letter to the NYT without opening it and making sure that the content is culturally appropriate, is the proper question. And I argue yes!

If something in that mail turns out to be a death threat and something that the very end receiver have a problem with they can deal with it.
As said, we may support this in the future. We did a lot of testing and found unequivocally that most people would prefer to have generated addresses automatically available in context within email fields when they use signup forms vs. having to go back to another website to get them (which most wouldn't actually do).
I can see Google's side of this I think.

The 'multiply by 1.9' thing is a rule of thumb, but they're trying to provide information that will let people choose the lowest carbon option.

So if one company does innovation X (flies 10% faster/slower/higher/lower/earlier/later) and that impacts the non-carbon elements, then they'd probably like to reward them by lowering the number below the rule-of-thumb. But currently they're not very solid on that number and could well be misleading.

https://github.com/google/travel-impact-model/commit/b2225d8...

From reading the changed code, seems like the Google rule of thumb was 1.61 rather than 1.9, and that's the average for all flights thought not all flights have these emissions.
I sometimes wondered if the whole 'big data' craze was a symptom of too much government intervention... A projection of the needs of governments (not the needs of people). How valuable is people's data, really? I understand why people who work for the CIA are thirsty for data and believe that data is the most valuable resource in the universe... But why is the industry interested in it to that extent?

It's difficult to dispute the value of people's attention and trust, but their data... Common. Data seems more like a bonus; a way to monetize people's attention more efficiently (e.g. targeted ads). The main thing of value here (from a free market perspective) seems to be capturing people's attention in the first place.
This is the logic of companies that never settle. They want a track record of always going to court as this deters stupid lawsuits.
How does that equate to a pay cut for employees working from home? That would be true regardless of what current employees decide to do. In fact, it would suggest that companies would just want to fire those who work in the office and replace them with cheaper work-from-home employees anyway.
I started using DDG because I thought they were about privacy, openness and being the antithesis to the likes of Google. Slowly but surely, they proved that that wasn't the case.

I'm not using DDG for anything.
I visited their pricing page many times, thinking "this is awesome, I SHOULD pay something for it". But the difference between the free dyno and free postgres to the 16$/month-version is so minuscule that it never made sense.
I think you need a lower threshold to upsell from "free".
Try a zoning map, like San Francisco. Multifamily structures are illegal on the vast majority of the land. In those areas that do allow multifamily, it is mostly very small ones. And even when a large multifamily structure is permitted by zoning, it can be years of environmental litigation and discretionary review hearings.

https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/2019-02...
Yep, my question remains: can someone use Dall-E for comercial projects? Can they copyright the generated image?
Means that big boss will eat it anyway
should we refuse visas to scientist, PhDs and postdocs in favor of some offshore worker who moves JSONs and protofuls between frontend and backend?
Check out what we’re doing at Culdesac. We build cities for people, not cars.

We’re building a 1000 resident car free neighborhood in Tempe, AZ. It is under construction now. Over 25 buildings are vertical and the first residents move in later this year.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

I think I'm also going to change the URL on the other thread from the generic PR announcement to this more specific FAQ. Sorry to tech234a - we're eventually going to implement karma sharing to split the credit for submissions like this.
That's a style of business that can work for various companies, but it is NOT the type of business that Salesforce, et al want to chase.

They want to work with accounts and upsell those accounts. It's an entirely different business model, and isn't really compatible.
This is mostly a problem with postwar urbanism. Older regions of the country will have neighborhoods that retain some local business activity.
Time to go back to the office.
I don't think that's true; there are many self-taught artists.
> Prior to cars, there were large "estate" houses with separate carriage houses for the horses.

Maybe for the rich? I don't think most people could afford that.

> You seem to be thinking of "row housing" which at least in north america was more a post-WWII design?

They are substantially older than that: https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/row-houses/
Filter turned my face into Mark Zuckerberg’s viral metaverse avatar
It occurs to me that from an incentives perspective that makes sense (assuming your preferences reflect the majority).
I think I am a bit confused then. We were discussing meritocracy. Are you claiming affirmative action or DEI has no effect on meritocracy? Or that meritocracy in your opinion shouldn't be a consideration?

> That would make for a better argument with some examples, instead of pointing to universities and private institutions etc.

Why do you think public universities and schools are not government? They are under political founding, oversight, funding, and control so that doesn't make sense to me.

>No. But "influence > 0" is not the correct criterion.

What is the correct criterion in your opinion?
Significant? The heavy vehicle title add-on in my state is $90. For 4 years. That's like half a tank of gas.
It's painful to imagine how many teams miss out on candidates because their take-home or technical interviews are not extracting the right signals. Having access to a library like this will save so much time on getting new ideas and iterating. At the very least, I hope it saves the effort of running into useless leetcode libraries.
This is the crucial point.
The input lag is measurable, I'm talking about empirical results.
They didn't make much of that money from Heroku I bet.
Pardon my ignorance, but why, then, is East Texas considered a hot-bed for these types of lawsuits? Are the judges there an exception to the rule about not wanting their time wasted?
Great! How about we reduce the cost of college by eliminating the equally parasitical textbook industry?
That's why i said "Not at all".
I'm fine with TOS, but TOS isn't the end-all in the US. For example, the electric company can't put in their TOS that I am not allowed to use electricity to view "hate speech" or hold a gathering of neo-Nazis. Neither of which I want to do, but you get the point I am making, if they start making moral judgements about how I use a fundamental part of operating in the modern world, it will be an issue.
I'm working on a similar project: https://shroud.email/

It doesn't yet have all the same features as SimpleLogin/AnonAddy, but unlike them it does remove email trackers.
When I was a kid we had "computer class" that taught how to type, how to use Microsoft office (and open office) applications for different use cases, and this was then mixed in with understanding different sources of information taught by the school library and english classes.

As kids are now raised on smartphones instead of the family desktop, I think they need MORE of this, not less, for at least the very important skill of typing. I wonder how many 12 year olds in america can type using the "standard" method, instead of hunt and peck.

I don't want computing to be something only known by the children of turbo nerds. I want young adults to be able to solve their own problems with computers, ie build some spreadsheets for home finance or even just be able to graph the data from one of their science classes.
We've changed the url from https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter to one that has more specific information and isn't a CPR (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
But not an ordinary welfare queen. People on a welfare can dream of a yacht, a masion, a private jet or young women as partners.
I'm not sure which "app" you are referring to in this case, but generally private search is a key part of being private online. In every browser but Chrome, you can, however, subsequently change the search engine if you want. It's not our fault you can't do it in Chrome -- that is their restriction.
AI research is not "more EA-approved" than global development - any such claim is peddling gross misinformation. Most EA's donate a lot to global development, healthcare research, animal rights, disaster preparedness and other very mainstream causes.
Janet Jackson Can Destroy Your Hard Drive
Is he trying to push an agenda?

Nobody ever said "email sucks", email is the best medium for online communication, look at the countless of projects using mailing lists, you can easily go back in time and follow the discussions, it is so good

What sucks nowadays is spam, that's it
> people are just inherently greedy. While other political systems attempt to shut our nature down capitalism embraces ourselves and aligns our incentives to generally make society better.

I understand where you are coming from but I will state unequivocally: people are not _just_ inherently greedy. Each of us has the capacity to be greedy and selfish, but we also each have the capacity to be giving, caring and accountable to others. How might we act if we lived in a society in which wealth hoarding was a cultural taboo rather than a celebrated cultural value? What if we looked towards billionaires with pity rather than envy or resentment?

As the late anthropologist, David Graeber, put it: “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is just something we make, and could just as easily make something different.” Rather than just concede that capitalism is the best we can possibly do, why not consider how we could reform it and/or replace it with something better? (For the record, I consider communism and capitalism two sides of the same coin. We need to be more creative and visionary about the world we want to live in than what these tired ideologies offer.)
Maybe, but that would require an actually helpful answer, other than that no body is going to look or care about your answer.
Sacrifice Macron!
Got it! There's no plans to implement git repos in the same way Heroku is doing it (FWIW I love how Heroku does this). When Heroku introduced this feature, cloud CI services were practically non-existent. Today a similar effect can be achieved in Github, Gitlab, etc. with their CI integrations (See https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/continuous-deployment-with-gi... for Github)

I realize that's what you're trying to avoid. In your case I'd recommend running `fly deploy` from your CLI If you don't want to leave the CLI. You could wire this up as a git hook either on your workstation or third-party git server. I recognize this isn't the same thing as Heroku, so I'm calling these work arounds :-)