skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is advocating that rural America, or even most of exurban America, should be accessible by public transit. It's just that we literally only have one city in the entire United States that has a massive subway and bus system that operates 24 hours, which allows you to live without a car.

It'd be great to have more cities as dense as NYC in this country.
I've lived in highly walkable, pro-transit areas. It does have benefits, don't get me wrong. The flip side of the coin is that those areas usually have high population density. That comes with a lot of its own cons - noise pollution, air pollution, annoying neighbors you can hear and smell through your walls, etc. To avoid these cons, a lot of Americans want their own house on their own property and doing that means moving to a lower population density area which means less walkability, less transit, more cars.
Well the article is about writing a database, which is definitely going to need concurrency and communication via shared memory to deliver the performance that it needs to (which is why the original implementation was mostly C++ and the new one is Rust). But yeah, I think in general if you're running into issues with mutability in Python, you're either using Python for something it should not be used for, or you're just programming in a really weird way.
30% is 100 million Americans. Also, a passport was not required to travel in North America (not sure if that is still the case). I traveled throughout Mexico and Canada before ever having a passport, for example.
For example, HN is a nice island where some nice URLs gather, allowing me to hop to other islands of value.
We’re also very good at demanding small cars and walkable cities while buying massive SUVs and moving to the suburbs.
Even if your neighbor hosts a website for your local football club or whatever, it will almost certainly use some hosting service and not a local machine. The number of websites self-hosted from a residential home must be a tiny, tiny fraction of all "interesting" websites.
I fall into this boat. I lived abroad for many years, did the digital nomad thing, have been really all over the world. I love walkability and have looked for it here in the US as a driving basis for housing selection. All that said, I absolutely will not share walls with someone else. I used to work nights, and sleep in the day, and I'm still a night owl. It is untenable to me to have to deal with complaints because I am watching Netflix at 9:30PM, or to have to have any shared systems which I am now limited away from being able to fix myself.

On the flipside, I don't want a huge place to live, so I am actively trying to find (or build) a small (less than 1800sqft) narrow (3 stories, like a detached townhouse) house that is extremely ecological (passive house standards) in a walkable area. When I considered permanently moving to Europe, places like this were actually not horribly uncommon, although they weren't as common as apartment blocks. In the US, places like this are near impossible to find because most houses are built by "production builders" who optimize for the largest square footage possible on a lot space allowed by local code to increase selling price, and do it as the lowest cost (meets code, maybe, basically same as getting a C grade).
It's easy to act like any change to your product was the "right" thing to do when people are going to buy your product no matter what you do.
The seating arrangement in a house is entirely up to you. Hard to believe, but there's not even a hard government-mandated requirement on where your TV is positioned or fee if you forego it. At any rate, most homes have far more flexibility in seating arrangements and remodeling possibilities than your average apartment does. They also tend to have more outdoor seating and arrangements that make it easier for social activities. The garage, too, if properly arranged as a workshop or craft center, can also be a great way to encourage social activity. One can even add a basketball hoop in the driveway, or cornhole in the back yard for additional possibilities.
Orcas are not that dumb, and the orcas in this area specialize in tuna. They don't eat other things, and they aren't going to suddenly mistakenly identify a rudder as something to eat.
Why are threads like this always an opportunity for devs to promote their own (usually weaker) search engine variant? Everyone has an idea bent on winning the rat race, but at the end of the day, they all get corrupted.

I don't agree that the Internet could possibly be dead at this point. There are tons of people worldwide using it all the time, otherwise, marketers wouldn't be making money. "Monopolistic Internet" is possibly a better, and more self explanatory catch phrase or term for what I believe is threatening the future.
Inactive likely means not paying.
Search engine spam is actually a fairly solvable problem if you aren't in Google's questionable position of also selling the ads that make the spam economically viable.

They can do everything except the one thing that would actually hurt the search engine spammers right in the coin purse: Penalize websites for having ads.
"Running complex programs with network access with system priviledges is a good idea" /s

People never learn. They don't have time for this.
Wiby has some implementation details in their install guide:
https://wiby.me/about/guide.html
I posted this to garner some discussion but wanted to be clear it's not an endorsement. The new IRB ethics guidelines Nature is pushing here is absurd and would be a disaster in my opinion.
Well said. I do something similar -- I live someplace with a bit more breathing room that's bike friendly and walk friendly for some basic things, and I never take my car into any city center.

> Make city centers less car friendly and denser to discourage car use, improve walking infrastructure in the suburbs (more sidewalks/bike trails).

To put it a bit more concretely: Remove street parking in cities. Expand sidewalks. Build more public transit and bike infrastructure. Create light rail with parking lots outside of cities so you can get in without a car. Let people use cars as before in rural middle-of-nowhere america, and mostly the same in the suburbs (lower speed limits and build more sidewalks and connecting paths, so you can walk between neighborhoods).
In order to sell an "abstraction over a message queue" you have to have a message queue under that abstraction, right?

I don't think there is anything wrong with your article, you are quite up front about what you are selling, so personally it is no big deal.
Does nomad have a generic TCP/UDP load balancer (i.e. non HTTP) for inbound traffic? Something based on IPVS (akin to Kube-Router) would be ideal for the use-cases where Nomad would make sense for me.
Subterranean parking costs $40-70k per stall

A developer can only build if they can achieve a 5-6% return on total costs

So 5% of $50k = $2,500 of income, or assuming 30% expenses, $2,500 / 70% margin = $3,500 of income needed per stall per year, or almost $300 per month per stall of underground parking provided

Surface parking is less expensive, like $10-20k/stall but you get the point.
Faith? That’s your problem right there.
As living in such place.. It's still „oh let's drive to bigger shop or THAT butcher this time“. Or „other“ restaurant.

And people living downtown still do the same - driving to same big malls in outskirts, restaurants in other towns etc. The funniest case is when people live downtown and drive to non-downtown workplaces :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594533

Doesn't look well received, Heroku is a dead product for devs.
Twilio hackers breached over 130 organizations during months-long hacking spree
Yep. I love cars. Left NYC so i could get one.
r/fuckcars has seen a lot of growth in the past year or so:

https://subredditstats.com/r/fuckcars

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/
It is not as simple as just a few people screenching in social media..

The people screenching need to convince the company leadership that keeping this customer will do more damage to their business then dropping then..

It is not like cloudflare could this this left and right all the time..
If cloudflare started dropping any customer for even the smallest issues it would cause massive damage to their brand and no one would use then anymore.. So they need to weigh in the pros and con every time they make this decision..

>They are doing it already [0]

Then if the problem is DDOS they could go to someone else to get their DDOS protection from, cloudflare is not the only solution around..

As last resort they even are free to buy the necessary link withstand a DDOS attack if no one is willing to offer their DDOS protection service..

Or they could distribute their servers around the world so a single ddos is unlikely to take then out..

They have many options other then cloudflare..
>the terrorist who killed worshippers at the mosques in New Zealand posted on Kiwi Farms before the attacks.

That's not hyperbole, it's simply not true. The shooter posted on 8chan, not Kiwi Farms. You're thinking of a completely different (defunct) website.

Even if true, to take just one of very many examples, if I remember correctly the terrorist that mowed down a parade in Waukesha had a long history of posting violent black-supremacist content to facebook. Are all facebook users "literally terrorists"?
You still have to pick styles, tweaks, lighting, subject. Then iterate, set composition, guide the results. You need to pick the right models, params and samplers to get the style you want just like choosing your film/camera.

> it's still incredibly more complex than "hey google draw me a horse with a tuxedo"

And just like taking a photo of a random horse in a field you'll mostly get a pretty bland result.

You can argue it's simpler to create art with, which is an odd complaint, but if you're not working to make something great you generally won't get it - just like photography is much simpler than painting as it's "just press a button".
This has been tried several times in cities and by and large it seems to be profitable for the businesses.
Largely agree.

What’s frustrating is it takes a engineer-y substack think piece to draw attention to it.

Contrary to memes about YouTube enabling creators, many musicians, artists, app creators, and importantly journalists can speak to how tech has radically cheapened and homogenized content and driven down margins.

For every bracelet maker that gets discovered on Insta/Etsy, there are many:

- musicians needing to use Spotify for exposure, and getting Spotify margins. At the worst version, the first 30 secs of a song are designed to make you not click next in Spotify.

- artists competing with cheap but popular Insta content that cheapens the concept

- journalists writing for clicks to compete with cheap clickbait content

- if you remember one thing, this is it: journalists losing W2 career options and forced into contracting, and by extension loss of libel lawsuit protection from their parent paper, due to margins dropping for those media outlets due to cheap content elsewhere. This occurs at very large papers and outlets, and it’s a silencing effect.
My company has a program where I can work for up to one consecutive month from anywhere in the world where I'm "legally allowed to work".

I've had difficulty finding out which countries have visa programs that would allow me to work for a foreign company while there for a short stay.

A tourist visa generally doesn't allow this, but working visas are generally tailored to working for local companies, and longer stays.

Does anyone know what the search terms are for this? Or better yet is there a curated list somewhere?
The whole premise of Google at the beginning was that the web is a collaboration, and we can measure that.

Then it was we can measure that and make money.

Now it’s just we can make money.

Whether that part is sinister or not, we know that we have a good number of bad actors, and from search engine results we can be sure that they have not developed a workable Byzantine fault tolerance mechanism to filter out the bad actors. Those who scream the loudest get put on a stage.
Manhattan does not sit atop some massive pile of natural resources. Opportunity is great there exactly because there are so many people. Network effects are large. By the way, I do not think New York is expensive because it is desirable. It is expensive because it is desirable, there aren't enough places to live, and they aren't building more because of regulations. But it would not be expensive if no one wanted to live there.
Busses are better than streetcars in every conceivable way except “poors actually use busses”.

So novelty streetcars are much more desirable than busses.
No. You're missing my point. Those giant four lane roads were built for cars AND people moving together. The people are a big part of the equation. All of them are going some place. Some might be going to yoga. Some to church. Some to work. Some to the hospital. Etc. Yes, some might be doing something completely worthless and bad for society too, but, in general, people are the ones using the roads. The cars are only vehicles.

There's a slow movement back to urban environments, in part, because people understand the tradeoffs. But it comes off as foolish to pretend that these suburbs and four lane roads were imposed by some distant, evil presence. No. They were created by city planners trained by the best universities. They were created by progressive folks who wanted to build a nice place for people to live. This is what people wanted-- and many still want it in some form or another.
While all that might be true, it is also true that hardly anyone would be willing to cover the true cost of living in rural areas far away from things. In pretty much every country I'm aware of the urban population is strongly subsidising the rural. And that is only covering first order cost (just look at the massive subsidies to get broadband to rural communities), if we would put prizes on second order cost like pollution, CO2... rural living would become unpopular very quickly (the reality already is that there is a massive move into the cities not the other way around).
I'd love better public transit. But public transit in rural areas (and there will always be rural areas as long as there are farms and ranches, and communities to support them) is minimal to non-existent.

Use is infrequent, meaning it would either have to be subsidized, which never makes folks in the city happy, or cost an arm and a leg per trip, making it impractical for rural users.
Finally, the Salesforce blow. It was a matter of time. I have never used Heroku personally but came across so many people who absolutely loved it. Great example of a large company buying an awesome product and destroying it.
In my personal browsing experience, I don't think that I can't find human generated content anymore. Of course it is a problem, but so is e-mail spam, which largely is under control.

AI getting more sophisticated and putting people out of work is another problem because that would imply that the AI is better than the human creators and therefore desired and therefore not spam. That wouldn't be a problem of the internet though.

What I feel is more immediate is the ever increasing "sameness" of the internet. 99% of sites are either a news-site, blog, reddit, the socials and wikipedia.org. And within each category, everything blurs because of how similar it all has become.
One of the adages of warrior class is that plans never survive contact with the enemy.

Think more like a function, continuously iterated.
While War = 1
Observe;
Orient;
Decide;
Act;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
If people make things up, they're doing so against the written rules. I'd link to it, but the site is under a DDoS attack being very proudly and loudly organized by an individual they believe fits said narrative. The gist is: "[Stick to what you can document, that's more than funny enough.] Misinformation is not welcome here." The un-bracketed part is verbatim if memory serves.

Narrative is a tricky thing. Neither side of the controversy would exist without their narratives.
I suspect a large company like Salesforce would fund a decent chunk of this and write it off as goodwill.
Well damn. 3 months to figure out what to do with all my 'hobby' apps eh. Hm.
Reminded me of the idea of 'Heaven Banning'

Unlike being shadow banned where only you can see your own posts, when you are heaven banned not only can only you see you posts, but only the AI generates responses to your posts (pretending to be actual users) praising your posts.
That's what I'm asking, without even being certain if it's f/x or y mm that affects that.
Not really. It's just how the cities where built. If not they would be like NYC and the people that live in SF and Seattle don't want that
I have lived in multiple major US cities without a car. In NYC it's feasible, but impossible to visit family or friends who live in car-centric places. In most other cities you feel like a distant second-or-third class citizen. Swimming upstream gets tiring after a while.
It's better to assume incompetence than malice. Some bosses legitimately want to follow up on feedback. But yeah, it's pretty dumb - he won't actually get honest answers this way.

I would shoot straight. Not once in my career have I ever suffered for an honest assessment given humbly. And you'll sleep better at night for it.
Completely agree. Just a few years back before I was using a password manager with random passwords I googled one of my commonly used passwords. I was able to find leaked databases of passwords etc.
The other day I did a similar search and absolutely nada.

When I search for technical information 2 out of 3 times I get a website that I must pay to view content.

The internet is clearly going in a bad direction and most average joe users are suffering and will likely suffer more in the future.
Are you a GPT-3?
Exactly, this won't replace all other forms of art and if you're doing the "just press the button" equivalent you won't get things that are that great.

At worst the complaint seems to be "with care you can more easily create good art" which is a very odd complaint.
While scary at first, this is an accepted reality. The reason it is horrifying in America is because of how little attention it had growing up. We were misled as kids. Taught to trust the media. There was a certain level of obliviousness to foreign or local interference. Now we know it is happening far more frequently. We saw the media lie to us with Iraq. We see the lengths that other countries will go to to try to interfere with election results. Yet, do we provide education to help people question and understand the signs of manipulation? Of course not... manipulating citizens is the MO of big corporations. It's easier to just shuffle them into 2 groups of easier to manipulate people.
If a public company's auditors find irregularities they work with the company's management to resolve them. If, eventually, the auditors decide there are irreconcilable differences, they will resign, and provide reasons for their resignation in the resignation letter to the company. At that point, it is up to the company to decide whether or not those findings are significant enough that they need to be released to the public. The SEC will consider any auditor resignation for cause to be significant enough that it has to be disclosed, but that doesn't mean that companies will actually do it, as you can see by a bunch of enforcement actions relating to exactly that:

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...

(search for "resign")

The SEC quote is about requiring auditors to meet their professional standards. Those standards require them to follow certain processes, things like needing to see evidence for certain things, and not both preparing the books and auditing them, and require that they not issue letters they don't actually agree with. Those standards do not require informing the public or regulators about problems they find.

There's certainly something to be said for having some codified professional standards for infosec professionals, but if public or regulator notice is something you think is important to be in those standards you shouldn't model them off of the standards for auditors, because auditors have no such professional responsibility.
Google App Engine is still useable on the free tier
My experience has been the same. In urban areas, people seem to me to be less friendly than in suburban areas, maybe out of a sense of maintaining their own space. If you become acquainted with a neighbor who turns out to be annoying or clingy, there's very little refuge.
US spends more on education as a % of GDP than anywhere.
Big Private schools with tons of money may actually not be egalitarian but it sure does bring out a lot of hard hitting talent.
The US has a large, growing economy, which helps.
And the US is very 'open' - both civilly (immigration) and culturally (association). Most nations don't have a lot of immigration and Europe, though very nice to it's immigrants, mostly has 'closed' cultures - even in Nordic countries and on the Continent. The French are ideologically egaalitarian but socially extremely closed.
And then 2 massive wars in Europe to give the US the top spot, which, without some kind of disruption, is theirs to keep.

I don't see China taking the lead even as they start to graduate a zillion engineers and improve a lot otherwise. Especially with Xi's new authoritarianism.

European research is also distributed a bit differently which makes it harder to compare.
Sanas, the buzzy Bay Area startup that wants to make the world sound whiter
If I use the same pair of headphones paired to my work computer and my phone, I cannot unlock and look at my phone without it taking over.

I have "solved" this by having three pairs of headphones. #1 paired to my phone. Used for my commute. #2 left at work, paired with the computer. #3 left at home, paired with the computer when I'm WFH.

It gets expensive/old pretty fast. Also a lot of charging needs to be done.
Building Darklang in Darklang
I think https://www.koyeb.com/ could be what you are looking for. Let me know what you think! (Disclaimer, I work for Koyeb)
This is amazing and really made with love. Just found a website in the 90's style of guy who asked companies for free stuff by letter.
Apple charges more for less and their users line up to pay instead of walking away.
As long as this keeps happening, Apple will keep taking away and
gouging their users.
People are stupid and gullible so I think Apple is doing the right thing here - fleece the sheep while they keep coming.
The main downside is that other companies observe this behaviour and try to emulate it but that doesn't work because people who avoid Apple probably don't want to pay premium for substandard products so these companies die of and there is less and less competition and innovation in the market so we are left with Apple and Samsung $1200 phones/tablets instead of decent XYZ brand devices for more reasonable price - say $300-$500.
Heres the roadmap. Mostly seems like minor improvements and research so it will be interesting to see how the roadmap changes over time.

Overall it feels strange. Next chapter feels more like a “our incredible journey” less of a bold goal. Also really want to make everyone realize it’s Salesforce Heroku now.

https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues
I didn’t know there was a commercial version. What are the advantages of using that over open source version?
It cannot be gamed. You wrote your own search engine, you wrote your own filters, you know how it works and noone else.

Whitelists that I wrote by hand also don't introduce new unexpected entries by the way :)

This instead could be more like RSS where as your crawler gets new sites, you get updates on new things, and you could filter in your crawler or in RSS client directly, doesn't matter.