skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but this does not seem to counter your initial tweet at all. Your first tweet said, and I quote, "At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation."

This is censorship, since DDG is now deciding what is considered "Disinformation".

Your clarification thread does not state DDG is not down-ranking these sites based on what DDG feels is "disinformation". It merely asserts DDG is not purging results - these are two very different things.

Just to be clear, I too support Ukraine, and am aghast at the deliberately misleading information ("disinformation") coming out of the Russian War Machine. However, as I previously wrote, the truth needs no defense. Hiding away things we don't like doesn't make them go away, it just makes them go underground. We need this information freely available so it can be discussed and disproven out in the open.

If users wanted curated search results, they might as well use Google or Bing...

Lastly, to repeat, Privacy + Censorship (of any kind) do not go together. This was quite a large misstep for DDG, and has burned a lot of trust.
As you've identified, they've tied themselves into knots with inconsistencies and hypocritical positions. There is no logic to be found here, only insanity masquerading as such. Luckily for everyone else, the scientific method will remain, even if it is temporarily suppressed.
Salesforce sure is firing on all cylinders today... /s

EDIT: I was confused about the timeline of this, this post is from 2018 (before Salesforce bought them. Salesforce still sucks but this isn't something they were responsible for)
The original link was never meant to be linked to directly -- and has now been replaced with the announcement post.
Roblox and Discord Become Virus Vectors for New PyPI Malware
Eating less meat won't save the planet
Or, better, as an anonymous expression in main():

FlappyBird().run();
There’s actually some truth to that. More than one tech company turned out to be fraud.
Bc these “failure stories” are nothing but run of the mill outages that anyone who runs distributed systems at scale has seen plenty of
In Czechia is there not a difference between research and teaching institutions? In the US we have things like community colleges and other colleges/universities where you can get your associates or bachelors, but not Masters / PhD. They have a focus on teaching their students, rather than doing research.

Although maybe that's what you're considering "mediocre colleges"
> Are you saying you are concerned about

No, I haven't said anything about my concerns nor did I intend to.

> DIE is also implemented all over the government

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

> 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?

No. But "influence > 0" is not the correct criterion.
I think generalizing on creativity is difficult. There can be incredible creative synergies when people work together. There can be impressive solo works.

A lot depends on the individual(s) in question, their background(s), and the type of endeavor.
It's the federal government, not a startup in your garage.
if discord launched a business version slack would be gone in a weeks time. not sure why people can't use IRC anyways unless they have ADHD when their screen isnt full of random colours and pictures and cant work without it
This is an end of an era. Rails which kind of is reviving a little bit, it was a huge driver of Heroku success, they were amazing service for reasonable amount.

I had paid services on them and it wasn't trivial but it was for Heroku so it was OK. I don't know, they will go back to free at some point but it will be too late.
This is really cool! I don't use discord much, how much effort would a Slack bot version be?
I think you have a lot of people coming into the general backend/business-logic tech space who are not nearly enough of "computer people" or engineering-minded to actually be responsible for the uptime of a mission critical workload. They might think they are, but they don't know what it actually takes. (Your "operators and engineers", ostensibly, CAN handle this, but they need to be up to the task too.)

K8s among other things is a way of trying to abstract away the most computer/OS/network-literate parts of a software organization, so that you can be productive, as an org, hiring some computer people along with plenty of the readily-available "smart people who can write code." The former keeps your software running, the latter represent your business as code. It's a way of solving for the hiring market you HAVE, rather than the hiring market of 20 yrs ago. But it hinges on those deep-tech people being up to the task.
IMO the big winners in this space will be the ones that provide feature parity in self-hosted runtimes (meant for dev and testing) in addition to consumption based entry level plans.

If the appeal of all these systems is horizontal scalability on managed infrastructure, is there much harm in giving away a free local runtime that's vertically scalable with no HA or SLA? The incremental cost for me to self-host something like that is pretty low (near $0) and the benefit of having a non-revocable, free forever runtime for dev deployments has a lot of value (to me). I create a lot of throw away projects to learn and being able to keep them runnable for the long term is useful if I want to go back and reference them / re-learn something.

I also think a consumption based entry level offering is a good option to reduce abuse. If I'm a hobbyist sized user I can use my existing self-hosted resources for dev and testing and the cost of using the paid service is going to be low for me, but can cover costs for the infrastructure provider. I know it's viewed at untenable, but I'd gladly take a community only / per-incident support offering at that level to keep the costs low.
But the app changes my default search page and new tab home page without my permission. I installed the app to get my duck email address then immediately disabled it.
https://caprover.com Is a great open-source alternative that seeks to offer Heroku-like functionality. You just need to host it on your VPS, which is far cheaper than paying for Heroku (From their docs: "Heroku charges 250USD/month for their 2gb instance, the same server is 5$ on Hetzner!").
Yeah, I live about 15 miles outside Philly and don't know anywhere nearby safe enough to ride. Local drivers think nothing of missing you by only a foot or two, often at a speed difference of over 20 MPH.

Even offroad spaces set aside for bike routes often cross busy highways without proper signage, putting riders and pedestrians in the crosshairs of fast turning vehicles that are surprised to find anyone on the road who's not motorized. With the rise of big big SUVs and even bigger trucks, those who are not likewise encased in a large metal cage are just too easy to miss. Or hit.
I would say bikeability is the best. If you live in any quiter regions of most mid- to large sized cities in western europe and scandinavia you will have access to a huge variety of possibilites, restaurants, bars etc. and can access everything relaviely quick, while living in a quiet area. Biking is also fun imo.
Even if there are examples, they will be political examples and not scientific ones. Of course, they'd conveniently conflate the two to mislead the less observant among us.
Race and racism absolutely exist. Accents just aren't determined by your race.

"This tool is made to continue employ people from third world country with low wage without making your company sound bad/cheap when you call their support."

of course that's the point of the tool, what is wrong with that? Your options are either that, or pull the jobs back from the third world. Which do you prefer and more importantly which do you think the people employed in the third world prefer? The central drivers of why are even employed is because they are cheaper, business is not charity.

I am willing to bet that the people this effects, the call center employees don't even care. Everyone is just white knighting for them.
Who said anything about “owing”? If you write a book and I send you a note correcting something in it, you’re right - you don’t owe me shit, but it would be pretty nice to get a response. I find these views extremely cynical, a little niceness works both ways.
This is pretty far afield at this point, but while Chicago may not be a developer's paradise, it's substantially better than New York.

In any case, though, the original question is whether population density actually makes a place less desirable. The mere fact that Chicago is not cheap (not simply inexpensive, but actually cheap) contradicts the claim that population density is something people don't want.
Heroku announces plans to eliminate free plans, blaming ‘fraud and abuse’
There were a lot of agreements with journals, etc.
One sad use-case is a few days ago I was able to one click deploy a dyno for an ESPN Fantasy Football discord bot that runs daily. I didn't have to configure a thing and was able to have this cool thing added to our discord.

Now overnight it's just gone.
Sunsets are gradual...
You might try RFO-Basic

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/rfobasic/
This is really disappointing. I've used Heroku for many years to build out small proof-of-concept apps. It was one of the first platforms that I used to make my small projects public. Sad to see the free tier go.
Meritocracy actually is about how students or private employees are chosen, since the word is typically used to apply to the entire society of the USA, not just its government.

So yeah, if all schools were suddenly uber-Catholic and dissuaded non-Catholics for example, then that would mean the society has become less meritocratic. Or if companies had racial preferences in hiring instead of hiring based on merit and achievement, and this was widespread, then the US could not be said to be a meritocracy.

This is not a legal or governmental discussion, this is about sociology, anthropology, and culture.
"It's so crowded no one goes there any more."

Attributed to old baseball player, Yogi Berra.

I.e., Too many Americans living where they choose to live.
Yes, I 100% agree with this take. Engineers need to understand how k8s works at least at a surface level to engineer their service topology, and whatever devops/SRE/ops team will support k8s needs to scale up on test workloads and simulated production workloads and understand how to debug the system before it can be operated at scale.

Running k8s at scale is very challenging due to its complexity and comes with a learning curve that you probably don't want to be ramping through in live-site production issues.

It's a big tool for a big problem that most people don't have.

I have seen k8s used in production 3 times: In a very slow, measured, long-term rollout on owned hardware, which was generally speaking quite successful and paid dividends against the previous home-rolled Ansible/Docker based solution with manual container scheduling by improving allocation, moving networking definition into a much more declarative / "shift-left" way where engineers would define their network topology directly, and improving insight into the system using off-the-shelf tools.

I've also seen k8s used in a very basic fashion on GKE in a mostly painless way - basically just send it and it works.

The worst k8s situation I've seen is one where a startup's GKE infrastructure was migrated into a self-hosted k8s cluster which was cobbled together and had never been scaled up before. Nobody understood the failure points of the system, trivial mistakes caused frequent outages, and as engineers lost faith in the system they started blaming k8s for application level issues. Diving headfirst into a complex system with a production workload is a recipe for pain.
Cloudflare has already made an editorial statement in the past:
[https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-daily-stormer/]

Visa and Mastercard won't processes payments from dispensaries even though they have (effectively) no limit on the number of transactions they can support.

Visa and Mastercard threatened to cut-off OnlyFans unless they dropped "explicit content".
Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog
That is arguably because US cities suck. They don't have good public transportation, the kind that even well to do people choose to ride regularly like they do in say Tokyo, London, Switerland, Netherlands, etc.. They also don't have good bicycle infrustructure. And they have lots of crime or crime of the types and amounts that get people to want to live in the safer suburbs. Even the cities in the US are usually designed around cars, not people
I understand why, and I expected it. There's a greater lesson to be learned from your end, that perception != everything. That truth is hidden in the messages poorly received.

You would do well to learn that rather then attempting to always teach other people obvious things, sometimes you yourself is the person that is acting immature and needs to learn something less obvious. Think about what I said to this person and whether the OP will end up as one of the greatest programmers or just average. In probability, who told him the truth.

Are you even aware that attempting to teach someone something by calling them "arrogant" will lead to nothing? That's another lesson for you. To teach is not to insult, but to respect another persons opinion while providing your own. I'm not respecting your opinion, so my intention isn't to teach you anything. It's to dominate... this is your own intention as well... I mean with phrases like... "we're done here"... let's be real; what's going on in this thread is an argument, you weren't trying to teach my anything.
Heroku doesn't handle distributed Elixir nor static sites. Render does.
I think you lost all credibility when you made that tweet. If you want to regain it, you should be completely transparent about which sites you have taken any specific ranking action regarding, and why. This should be relatively easy to do, as you say you take action very rarely.
Completely agree with you, and its telling that virtually every response here has been "That's only true in the US!". I've lived in Japan, and its true, urban living there is much better for families. But the premise of this thread is American cities and why people choose to live elsewhere, dependent on their cars. And the answer is precisely what you've said.

American cities are not only unpleasant families and the many people who don't fall in the young, single, relatively wealthy professional class, they are actively hostile towards them. Almost no one in the suburbs lives there because they love suburban life. They live there because it's the lesser evil compared to living in the city, given their personal situation. The people here calling for bans on cars are treating cancer with cough medicine. If people want to remove the American dependence on cars, they need to make American cities a more than a playground for the young professional class, and make them places a large proportion of Americans would actually want to live in.
Why do this? Slackmoji just improves the platform for free. If it's branding just change the name.
Science exists in a perpetual state of being supported or challenged by evidence. If the clergy ("credible expert", Nature) make it impossible to challenge the orthodoxy ("established science") then it _is_ dogma.

By being a "believer" in science as you've laid it out, you aren't believing in science as a process, but science as an institution.
Calendaring is very much important. How will I schedule meetings? Meetings, appointments are the most important things in business these days.
...that we are aware of
Looks like you can still use https://discordmojis.com/ (at least for now) which was always mostly a mirror of Slackmoji.
Principal kubernetes consultant for a large firm here.

Kubernetes uses Docker runtime so that eliminates your first question. AWS also uses Kubernetes, EKS is a modified version of Kubernetes, and most major companies do not use things like Nomad because they lack the ecosystem tooling that something like Kubernetes has.

I think probably the best thing you could do to prevent issues like this is blue-green testing or proper integration testing with your infrastructure repository so you can roll back quickly when you realize that some change you made didn't work correctly. This is all in addition to significant amounts of it monitoring.
My lab's gotten hit by some hefty publication fees this year - it's painful for early career researchers, but in aggregate, this is a good thing.
You're comparing only the densest places (i.e. expensive places with mostly apartments) to only the least dense places, giant houses on big lots. Look at a pre-1950s / railroad neighborhood of basically any smaller/older city in the US, you'll often find a walkable, affordable neighborhood of single family homes.

Also - cheap land does not mean that it's cheap to build and maintain. Almost all of the infrastructure required to build (sewer, power, roads, etc) scale up with area, not density.
The problem is that not all content is entertainment. Many "content creators" are producing content whose intent is to educate, inform, persuade, or (mostly likely) some inseparable combination of all four.

I don't like "content" either. I prefer "media". But there's an entirely logical reason we don't call it "entertainment". That would be like calling all clothing "pants".
you need administrator privileges to load a driver anyways, you're fucked if malware has admin permissions
What’s the alternative? Every system has its flaws
You're correct! The tool stops short of migrating the database from Heroku to Fly. I'm actually going to start working on this soon. Here's what that will look like:

1. A doc will appear at https://fly.io/docs/rails/ that walks through how to move over a Heroku app, including the database. I'm going to start drafting this next week since I have a few SaaS apps running on Heroku that I want to move over.

2. If the docs are complicated and have lots of steps, I'll look into automating most of this process. I don't think I'll be able to 100% migrate Heroku apps to Fly without any intervention, but I do think moving over the app code, ENV vars, and database would be a pretty big win.
I would not install an extension to give me a generated address. I would expect your website to give it to me.

Putting generated addresses into forms... I would do that manually.

If I really would do that multiple times a day (But who signs up for services so often?) I would use a bookmarklet for it.

Bookmarklets are way less intrusive than extensions. And have other usability advantages. I can nicely put them into my bookmarks for example.
It's going to be wild watching an AI generated face speaking AI generated words to promote products x,y, and z. The flood of new content will then be used to train new models and we'll have a self-powered system of infinite media garbage that will ultimately implode upon itself, leaving the viewers scratching their heads at the absurdity of it.
> Why does Tesla feel the video is defamatory? Is it mis-representing or being dishonest about the test?

Yes, that's exactly it. The car in question was being manually driven by a human, but the video claimed that it was FSD.
gosh, simply cannot agree w/ this take. perhaps I'm a discord luddite, but there's just no way the Average Business User will ever figure out discord.

I mean, thread replies in the main conversation by default? Come on.
It can be enforced by Nature refusing to publish papers with bad results, obviously.
Some society-level journals that are used to help support their respective societies are likely going to struggle a bit.

That doesn't mean this isn't worth doing (it is), but it's going to be a thing.
Presumably, "nazi" here is a stand-in for any form of communication not protected by free speech laws and / or is actively forbidden by government censors (or perhaps merely undesirable by social standards). Hate speech, anti-government advocacy, promotion of violence and terrorism etc will use "free" tier accounts because they want as little capability of being tracked to in-real-life people as possible.

They may or may not fully utilize the bandwidth, but they will absolutely take advantage of access to resources that don't require real identification, and that adds an extra burden of regulatory compliance on the company offering it (even if it is just hiring a few extra people to manage takedown orders, etc).
I think people want to pretend that deployment best practices "don't matter" with k8s but of course they do

As a start, see how many people just take the biggest docker image they can find, and install several irrelevant packages to run their service. Don't optimize/limit memory or CPU usage. Don't have a service that follows the 12-factor-app not even at the basic level (like fail fast, etc)
That is why, as per [1] the hammer is about to fall on private equity and it's total finantialization of markets. The finantialization per-se is harmful as per the quote, but the worse is that there are often board members seating on competing enterprises, which is kind of incredible that it is possible.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e9cc796e-351c-462b-8b72-e9e3c5bdd...
Supposedly the more traditional Novavax will provide better variant protection due to the larger genetic profile. But that was at least a year ago that I heard about that and don't have the details.
In most cases, not. Where there is a legitimate reason to share, share. Without, it is just sloppiness.
The stop overthinking for increased productivity pieces are the ones I'd like to see die. The fact that GPT-3 can write that garbage will hopefully develop a sense in more people that allows them to detect when a lot of words are being used, but nothing is really being said. Being afraid that their thoughts will be taken for computer output might force writers to actually create a model, or make a material claim with their words, rather than just trying to cast spells with them.
> It's the stagnation and the realization that they can't compete that's pushing them to sell based on their brand instead of their merit.

What a beautifully succinct way of putting it, and I couldn't agree more. They aren't competitive on tech, they aren't competitive on price, and this is has already pissed off a number of customers who have been with them from the beginning (starting on the free tier, growing to 10's of thousands of dollars a month) and who are now looking elsewhere. All they have is their Heroku/Salesforce name, neither of which are compelling IMHO.
You realize that people were raising children for millenia before the invention of SUVs, and are still raising children in most of the world without them?

I have two children; for most of their childhood we did not have a car at all (though we occasionally rented a midsized one for road trips), now we have a small one. Traveling with a stroller is certainly a hassle, but they do fit on public transit and in small cars. The crib is probably the one tricky part, but there are several solutions that don't require an SUV.

It seems to me that the massive car and the habit of packing half the household into it for a trip sort of went hand in hand, but this is absolutely not the only way to manage raising children.
Heroku's final chapter was being acquired, we are now entering the afterword. It was revolutionary when it was introduced and for a long while after that - but their mistake was getting sold to Salesforce, they can't even make a competent CRM, of course they can't innovate a developer experience platform.