skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" predicted this situation exactly.

At the time I thought it seemed unreasonable -- would you really need a dedicated cult of techno-priests whose primary skill was sifting through search result pages to find the real information among a sea of weaponized, machine-generated nonsense? -- but it turns out he was precisely on the mark at describing the problem.

And, who knows, maybe he's got the solution right as well. Maybe library science skills -- like critical thinking but taken to another level -- is something we can teach to our kids or provide as a service.

(I was hoping Quora would go in this direction. It has not.)
Fastmail also has the feature of being able to generate throwaway email addresses for sign-ups and it doesn't require installation of any extension - they call it masked email in the settings[0]. Pretty happy with it.

https://www.fastmail.com/settings/masked
Proof of Person is the problem we most need to solve.

A means to cryptographically assert in a privacy-preserving way "a human being generated this"; or less privacy-preserving, "human being X generated this".

To do either in a distributed fashion would perhaps involve peer-to-peer attestations of human-ness, published as a "web of trust" in a distributed database. But any anonymity/pseudonymity would be easily broken if done naively.

Of course, "human being X generated this" is something that would be easily facilitated by governments, with certificates issued to each citizen/national. Americans can only dream of this happening at the federal level---states will have to be where the action's at.
It comes from a lifetime of watching leaders/visionaries sell their companies to corporations that don't care about anything but the bottom line (to be specific the short-term bottom line) who then proceed to run the company into the ground because they don't "get" the company. I'm not sure how many times you had to see that phenomenon to recognize the patterns but it's pretty clear to me.

It also comes from being a former user of Heroku and being ennammered by it for years until they stopped innovating. Today's move means I will never touch it again. Do I know all the internal stats? No but I'll say 2 things:

1. Salesforce made over $4B in gross profit in 2021, they aren't hurting for money.

2. Heroku's failures are due to poor leadership and being completely surpassed by their competitors.

#1 means they have the money to invest in Heroku but are choosing not to and #2 is due to a decade of mismanagement. Now they want to stop some of the bleeding by cutting off the free tier, the problem is they are also guaranteeing they won't ever recapture developer mindshare in the future. Saves some money today but destroys the future of the product (as a developer platform at least, I'm sure it will go on to be Salesforce Cloud or something like that which people only use because they have to).
I think you overestimate the damage that your name being called out for grabbing some money out of an industry.

Most people would take the millions in profit even if their name is on some obscure nerd website as being naughty.
You mean like https://www.rpxcorp.com ?
> look forward to the day that we never have to hear about Kubernetes again.

How do you expect to deploy services in a cluster of multiple nodes communicating over a private software-defined network, then?
Sampling of DNA from buried bodies from the eras?
I have a suspicion that many of them are not running on AWS, since they'd like to remove as much cloud/network latency as possible.
> "And it's not like we can just elect a president who actually supports reducing the power of the state"

There's one guy who's pissed off enough at the beaurocracy that he might just do exactly that.

Can't seem to remember his name at the moment though...
Isn't this a big deal? Anyone have stats on how many research papers (esp in fields like healthcare etc) have some federal funding? Would funding received from a university/college (most of whom receive federal funding in turn) also qualify?
> Do you have a citation for this?

I don't have a citation for construction costs, and I will concede that there are many factors that may make some low density developments cheaper per unit then some higher density development.

However, construction is only part of the picture. Low density development imposes terrible financial costs for cities that contain them. That's because the taxable value per square mile is much lower, but infrastructure (sewer, roads, etc) has the same per-mile maintenance and replacement costs. The infrastructure maintenance costs in many low density developments is often greater then the amount of tax revenue the development generates.

For more information on the hidden costs of low density development, I can't recommend this video [1] by Not Just Bikes enough.

[1] https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0
The scientific method is a process. There is no need to anthropomorphize it. What exactly are you trying to say?
Sometime ago I posted this: https://tanelpoder.com/2009/03/14/the-real-history-of-oracle... probably not true, but fun to think about.
I agree with the above. I guess I interpreted the comment as saying some code parts of Brave are not open for security reasons. I don't actually know whether this is true or not.
Incorrect - though for some, it seems to be their only access to productive creativity.

What about collaborative creativity? What about spontaneous creativity which is independent of environment? What about the kind of creativity that happens when a person goes into a very public place and sits alone and writes poetry... is that solitude?

I know some writers who are exactly as described in the interview. They cannot work if they are not alone. It makes sense. I know others who are almost the opposite - who need the presence of humanity to be creatively productive.

Methinks the calculus here is more complex than Rilke states.
The Trait That 'Super Friends' Have in Common
https://github.com/piku/piku if you’re self-hosting.
I think the page sends a mixed message. The title is "fix it, fork it, fuck off" -- if I were a user, I would get the impression that the author might consider me rude or ungrateful if I were to submit a bug report without a corresponding pull request to fix the bug. My bug report might be in the "helpful" category, but I don't know that in advance.
It's kinda weird that using the legal system the way it's supposed to is considered heroic
A medium is rather like a frame; it doesn't say anything about what is contained.
Some Free Brokers Are Cheaper Than Others
> most from non-scientists

I am really curious about your source on this.
What alternative platforms would you consider moving to that have the same features you use/need?
I'm not sure I agree. Many devices can saturate a 1Gb pipe these days. Even if it's for a brief period of time, your latency sensitive applications will suffer. Everyone should be using AQM.
I've written applications for health care use, in my experience I'd recommend sticking to Honeywell and/or Zebra scanners. They are very popular in healthcare and easy to program, good documentation.

I'd check with your vendor to see if there is a barcode that you can scan to toggle the function code transmit, this is what I did with Honeywell anyway.
I believe the federally funded research rules are about prohibiting future ongoing publication at venues that are not in compliance with the policy, rather than the government directly compelling private businesses to take down the paywalls.
Shouldn't nature already be doing that?

The question is how do you define bad results if you include provisions for socially constructed feelings about whether results are socially and politically correct or not.

I hope hope hope hope hope underneath all the crummy filler language and what appears to be rationalization for a distinctly unscientific expansion of editorial discretion to suppress unsightly factual results, Nature is simply saying: don't study social constructs, it's not scientific, a phrase with which I think I loosely agree (without deeper thought as to whether there are valid situations to study socially constructed groups that can't be better expressed by studying the non-social-construct characteristic).

If that's all this is, I think we'll be fine. But I have a real hard time believing that Nature would allow a paper that found there to be cognitive discrepancies between people with genealogical lineages that closely align to the socially constructed races, under these new guidelines, since arguably the "effects on society" might be negative.

And I know people who would ignore the science and fight to the metaphorical death to suppress that type of information regardless of the terminology used. So, understandably, I'm not super confident this will be handled carefully and appropriately. Notice there is no burden of proof or scientific rigor required to determine that the effects some some research are negatively impacting society. A presumption that they might is all that's needed. I worry scientific pursuit will suffer.
I enjoyed Cal Newport's point in Digital Minimalism, that "solitude is necessary to thrive as a human being."

In his book, Newport argues that modernity is at odds with solitude and talks about the disadvantages of solitude deprivation.
Sure. The same applies to lizard overlords running the world.
Gitlab releases patch for remote code execution in GitHub import tool
Not sure if this is the place you're talking about, but this sounds a lot like Portland, Maine. Portland has one of the highest restaurant densities due to being a tourist destination. It has a semi-dense downtown with a lot of very nice walkable areas. Look up "Portland Maine Old Port" to get a sense of what it's like downtown.

Unfortunately, there are relatively few places to live inside the dense part of town. The city is overly-zealous about maintaining historic districts and you'd better believe people get all up in arms about "changing the character of the neighborhood" every time a new development is proposed, even in non-historic and totally dilapidated areas. I've seen literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new housing and commercial projects be cancelled or indefinitely postponed due to this attitude just in the last 10 years.

While the city has a lot of potential, it's population has stagnated since the 1970s and the surrounding area has become a massive suburban sprawl. Many of the buildings downtown have been replaced with parking lots. Traffic is generally terrible, and the bus system has low coverage and poor frequencies.

Around 100 years ago, Portland was a thriving metropolis with electric trolleys going to every imaginable destination. All of those trolleys are gone now and their tracks have either been removed or awkwardly paved over.

Portland was once a vibrant inter-city train hub with hourly connections to the rest of Maine. The two primary stations, Union Station, and Grand Trunk Terminal, have been torn down. The current train hub, "Portland Transportation Center" is much further from the city center to make room for a large parking lot. It is about a 40 minute walk from what is considered the downtown area. 20 minutes by bus if your schedule happens to line up.

It's pretty disappointing how much better it once was. I'm doubtful that it will ever be as good as it was back then, but still hopeful. There are plans to move the train station back to where Union Station was. New routes to Lewiston and Rockland have been studied (although would apparently cost hundreds of millions to repair the tracks). The state has recently subsidized certain interstate train and bus routes to make them very affordable. And generally I think a lot of problems could be immediately solved by straightening out bus routes and increasing frequency, as well as obviously removing a lot of building-size restrictions and parking minimums.
Great to see this. Expect scientific publishers to start increasing their open access fees.
I saw this vessel underway yesterday. It was fast and loud. I snapped a couple of photos from 2 miles away. I posted them and others commented they could hear it coming a couple of miles away.
Yes, it's broken. I'll update the website soon with the next release to reflect this. Work&family doesnt leave me much free time for this :)

Not so far ago, Google changed some policies where you had to give good reasons to allow the app to access the location in the background. PHONK was unlisted then because I failed to showcase the reason for using the background location (they wanted a video and the video I provided seemed not clear enough to be understood)

PHONK is a coding environment that gives a lot of power to the user to do pretty much anything with the device. So if you want to make a script that runs in the background to create a Geolocation game, you can do it.

After a few changes like this, I realized that I'm going to distribute PHONK only as an APK, F-droid from the next version, and of course with the source code in Github.

Just to make it clear, PHONK doesn't use analytics or send info anywhere as opposed to most of the apps. I had hoped Google store could see that to give more margin for apps that behave nicely with the user.
Not sure if you read the whole thread as it says explicitly "We are not ranking based on any political agenda or my (or anyone else's) personal political opinions. We are also not assessing any individual news stories."

That said, the help page I referenced is the most detailed explanation of how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne....

To be clear, that means we do not have a definition of "disinformation". I'm to blame for tweeting something that was highly ambiguous but we were never actually doing what we've been accused of doing.
Having grown up in western MA I'd highly recommend it. There are lots of small towns with back roads for biking. There's also loads of state forest land and great hiking, as the Appalachian Trail passes through the region. The ski mountains are smaller than those to the north, but they're fine for kids and the bigger ones are a short drive away. It's a bit less rugged and outdoorsy than ME, NH or VT but the schools are the best out of the lot if that's a concern for you.

It's also almost evenly centered between NYC and Boston if you want to do weekend city adventures. You'll probably still need a car but if you live in the center of town you won't use it except for longer trips.
Is Heroku stuck in a death spiral? Source needed?
It's policy guidance issued by the executive branch to the Federal agencies, which is well within the President's authority.

Of course, that also means that another president could reverse this policy just as easily. If Congress passed a law it would be harder to reverse.
Maybe I’m missing something, but if Nature charges that much to publish why does anyone publish in Nature? Why don’t academics just create their own ‘ethically priced’ journal? It’s my understanding that most of Nature’s labor is voluntary and unpaid anyway.
I agree with you in so far, that you would probably have 1000 times less users if you would cater to people like me.

But it still feels wrong to me. Instead of giving company A their email, you are suggesting people give company B full access to all their browsing data. The "Trust us we are the good guys" approach just does not click with me.
The fact that it is hard if not impossible to develop this style of neighborhood is still a problem.

Every passing year is another one in which old buildings are redeveloped and the US population grows, increasing market pressure.
Unless an alternative to the current publishing system comes, the new grants will need to add a cost to publish any papers that come out of the study.
OT: your HN profile says:

> All comments Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2023, 2031

I'm curious. If you were to continue that sequence would the continuation be:

A. 2044, 2065, 2099, 2154, 2242

B. 2044, 2065, 2099, 2154, 2243

C. Something else?
AI generated imagery cannot be copyrighted: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...

Certainly puts us in an interesting situation. It should essentially make all Dall.E generated imagery essentially public domain. Implications are interesting as more images begin to be used in published works rather than just as memes on twitter.
Solitude is necessary, but not sufficient.

It does sound catchy and inspires introspection - focusing on a single word/quality/idea. As long as we know that that is the game being played here and don't take it literally.
The performance of that core is not necessarily all dependent on the node... Apple have been lauded for their designs. Samsung / arm, not so much.
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That is troubling, if they die, they aren't paying money, it's bad for profits

Better to keep them barely alive with the minimum funding possible
> At $49/m we could get a decent bare metal server for each of our apps.

From where/with what kind of specs? $49/m sounds still well within VPS territory unless I'm wrong.
Here's a video of wild orcas cautiously playing with a human: https://youtu.be/bTIcQMwYC1o.

The description of the video is worth reading for context.
Ha, I was about to say this! My son mangled his foot goofing off on a playground doing things he shouldn’t have been doing. The hospital visit was €30 after fixing his foot (he’s already back to normal, FYI), plus since he’s under 18, he doesn’t cost anything on my health insurance.

Let’s also discuss the fact that if you live near any city, having a car is purely optional, and for less than €10 a month, you can get 40-50% off of public transportation costs through their subscriptions.

So sure, you may pay an extra 10k a year in taxes, but no car payment, insurance, or healthcare costs probably makes up that 10k very quickly, if not in cash, then in peace-of-mind.
And then, Andy Whalol came around and took seashell media by storm by spamming GIFs of his version of NFTs (No Fungicide Tuna, tuna can with organic tomato sauce).
Give them an afternoon and then charge them a $2500 a day fine for any federally funded research not made available. They'll fix it that afternoon. I'm sure Jake can remote in from Lake Winnipesaukee.

Apolegetics for bad, unethical, and world damaging polices, be it corporate or otherwise, are unacceptable.
"a set of intellectual property rights [is] explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime."
You seem to be arguing with something I didn't say. So much so that I'm wondering if you meant to reply to something else.

If you're really trying to reply to me, could you please connect what you're asking of me with what you said?
I understand there are a few places in America you can live where there are a lot more restaurants densely packed.

These also are the highest cost of living places in the world to live. It's not practical to think everyone could live like that. They also are miserable with homeless people, drug addicts, and crime. It also relies on a huge network of people commuting to those jobs to support that area.

You can't have 30 restaurants within a few square miles with all the people to support that living there in homes. You'd need a combination of super dense housing and people commuting. It's really inefficient.
from Fly.io to Bye.io in one simple trick..
My point was just that they definitely were a thing 15 years back. Whether they're more fashionable now or then: no idea, neither do I care much :-)
The M1 Pro was not two M1s duct taped together. Their core configurations do not share the same proportions (8+2 vs 4+4).

You may be thinking of the GPUs? Each step in M1 -> M1 Pro -> M1 Max -> M1 Ultra represents a doubling of GPU cores.

Or you may be thinking of the M1 Max and Ultra. The Ultra is nearly just two Maxes.

Regarding your point about flexibility, it’s hardly unprecedented for the same core to be used on different processes.

Apple has at times contracted Samsung and TSMC for the same SoC. Qualcomm just recently ported their flagship SoC from Samsung to TSMC. Even Intel backported Sunny Cove to 14nm. And of course there’s ARM.
Ann Arbor MI closed Main Street for the summer months to allow restaurant patrons to sit outside. I think this began during year 2(?) of covid. This especially makes sense in a college town when the students are away (half the population) and the reduced traffic is relatively easy to shunt around the closed off areas.

Conversely, Kalamazoo MI closed off a major downtown street year-round around 1975 to encourage foot traffic, but found few takers especially in winter. After a decade or so of declining attendance in general (as interest in the downtown also faded) they finally reopened the street to motor traffic.
Miyazaki is a fascinating person to read about, because of his combination of luminous creativity, clarity, and lightness with plain ordinary hard work, grumpiness, and pessimism. His two books of essay-ish fragments, Starting Point and Turning Point, are well worth looking out. The documentary film "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" is rather good too.

(Here's a rather solipsistic piece I wrote about Starting Point and how it made me feel about my work as a programmer: https://thebreakfastpost.com/2021/01/05/hayao-miyazaki-and-w...)
That's always the case which is why I said "about the last time" instead of "the last time". There is always stuff in the pipeline, there are always still people who care for a while but they see the writing on the wall just like the rest of us, they leave, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm not saying there aren't/weren't good developers/managers at Heroku, I'm saying the sale to Salesforce started the end for Heroku.

If the security incident a few months ago wasn't a clear "we don't care about Heroku" then I don't know what will wake some people up.
Transferrable experience in both directions, in and out, is a huge reason. Cynics see this as "resume driven development," but the reality is that offering training and an opportunity to use an industry standard tool isn't a bad move for hiring and retention. Additionally, as you grow, you can hire experts in k8s who have "been there before" with scale - at a huge cost, yes, but this is still a value versus something homegrown.

Also, cloud-hosted k8s systems (especially GKE) aren't half bad these days. Starting with one (carefully, to avoid lock-in) and knowing you can expand later is appealing.
FYI - I’m the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo and responded to this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597340.
What's interesting is the argument about whether what you generated with latent diffusion is art? Arguably it is, it took some level of creativity and skill to create, and people are interested in it, appreciate it, and enjoy it.

It doesn't seem like your experiment got at the heart of the problem, since you didn't really create a bot account, and you were sharing original artwork.
Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
There is a middle ground. Walkable suburbs were commonplace in the pre-war era.
Are you using Stripe's fraud protection, MaxMind's tools, or something else to detect card fraud?
> But it’s been my experience over the last several jobs that many orgs are throwing mission critical workloads and hinging a lot of people’s productivity onto <INSERT_TECH_STACK_HERE> and asking operators and engineers to ostensibly figure it out as they go.

Some FANGs even pride themselves on how they get their army of inexperienced SDEs that on average stay 2 to 3 years with the company to JIT-onboard onto anything.