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> discontinue free product plans

> If you want a Heroku trial, please contact your account executive

Uhh. What

I never ever would have given Heroku a try if it hadn't been a free place to spin up toy projects. I definitely did not have an "account executive".

There's some vague language in here about people abusing the free plans for malicious purposes, but other, much smaller providers don't seem to have that problem. It sounds to me like they've just decided to abdicate the low-end market and go full enterprise, and are trying to hand-wave a justification.

RIP Heroku
From my observation, this also a counter-movement of influencers to distance themselves from the term influencer. People want to take some pride in their work and try to see some worth in it. And they want to distance it from the bland marketing and stupid pointless activities. Everyone makes pictures of their food, but if you hire a semi-professional photograph and pose for a picture, then it's real work and worthful content. Something along that line.
OP said _home_, not single family house.
Consider it was for "just" $212m as well – https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-h... – rather than the ridiculous valuations similar companies would have nowadays. I imagine Salesforce made a fantastic return on it even ignoring any remaining value.
Everything I said is not true of Chicago. Chicago has not underbuilt housing for almost a century.
You are talking about natal astrology, which isn’t the only kind. I could see astrology being used as a personal growth/psychological exploration tool, like tarot is sometimes used.
> If you want a Heroku trial, please contact your account executive or reach us here.

Maybe I'm over skeptical here, but I don't see this being an easy thing for a bootcamp study to acquire or deal with.
Lack of any mandated paid vacation/holiday days is probably a large factor. This graph makes the difference with other countries stark:

https://cepr.net/report/no-vacation-nation-revised/
> What's insane to me is that we allow cars to dominate even our most urban spaces

NYC would be so much better if it weren't for all the car traffic. It's not the density that's strangling it, it's the car completely degrading the experience.

> "Cities are loud and dangerous. This is just life in the big city!" No, no, no, and no. Cars are loud and dangerous. This is a choice. It's not an unavoidable fact of life in cities. We choose to live this way.

Yes! Americans have a real lack of imagination when it comes to city life. Makes me sad.
>research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups. It may be discriminatory, racist, sexist, ableist or homophobic. It may provide justification for undermining the human rights of specific groups, simply because of their social characteristics.

Do these people think there are motherfucking X-Men living among us who we want to save from stigma? These kinds of statements read like the authors don't actually believe people are meaningfully equal.
> There's hundreds of millions, if not billions of white people who are not native english speakers, and also there's millions of americans who are not white.

reminds me of this time I joined up with a german fellow and we were walking around talking to girls in ukraine. They were enamored with him and asked him to teach him english. He meanwhile was growing more and more disturbed at how they would completely ignore me. At one point he points to me and goes, "I'm german, I have a very obvious german accent. He on the other hand is American!!"
Thanks! I'm the founder, & long time HN lurker. We've bootstrapped over 11 years and still fully founder owned.
The only issue I had was WSL 2 was not using my GPU, so obviously it failed. Couldn't get it working on Windows either, failed at installing dependencies. I'm thinking of dual-booting Linux just to try out stable-diffusion.

I normally dev on Linux but don't do GPU work, only my Windows gaming PC has the horsepower to run stable-diffusion and unfortunately I couldn't get it working on Windows. Shame cause I'd love to play around with it! Does anyone have any tips?
Thanks!! We do our best to keep the code as clean/readable as possible. The first version was a bit of a mess but we rewrote it again clean slate to improve over the first implementation. :)
>> The Dead Internet is a mirage caused by the unreasonable effectiveness of digital marketing…

> On the contrary… The search engines themselves…

With you 100% except for the opening rebuttal. What do you think /caused/ search engines to devolve like this if not digital marketing?

I pay cash for kagi.com, and recommend it.

Engineers should try their “lens” approach. I’d pay more for trusted curated lenses, and hope that’s in their model. The site above could offer a curated list of valid sites, and then I’d find them in the one engine too. (See Similar Projects on Marginalia’s About page.)

I also pay for Neeva, but they’re clearly trying to have their advertorial cake and eat it too. Still, it’s a better resource than Google when seeking an actual product.

I worry that solving digital marketing’s ‘unreasonable effectivness’ requires more than just ability to subscribe to content without ads, it should be possible to buy products without marketing budget built into the cost. Lower cost products would outcompete those spending money on ads, so all else being equal, enabling products to compete without marketing budget is the only solution I see. I don’t think a Neeva solves this by itself, though it’s likely a necessary component.
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I've built hard realtime systems in Lisp and I did it because it was easier than doing the whole thing in e.g. C. The extra effort for me would have been not using Lisp.
Some thoughts as a guy who has had to exist in a multicultural society.

1) sometimes people are hard to understand, especially with accents. It’s not “racist” if I prefer speaking to someone I can understand. I don’t care if they’re in the states or not, I just want to be able to communicate.

2) some accents are more difficult to understand than others. Usually, accents are easier to understand if I’ve encountered them in the past with some depth (e.g had a coworker with the same accent)

3) Corollary of (2): people who live further away from diverse areas often have less experience with this and are probably going to be more irritated hearing accents they have not heard before

4) people like to feign ignorance of (3) and pretend it’s all racism. Double points for assuming this because of the coincidence that flyover states are less diverse already, causing more irritation with accents, but we can pretend it’s racism because why assume anything neutral or positive if someone from a flyover state?
I'm just saying "fads" implies there's no generally specific reason for their behavior outside of the learned social behavior.
> This is good news for existing paying Heroku users.

I don't think it is, as a paying customer the free instances are such a useful part of the offering enabling us to have a free staging environment and test branches. As a small business, the free instances offset the excessive cost of Heroku.
Anyone built a Docker image for this? I don't want to duplicate efforts.
I’ve worked in financial-adjacent industries and this is a very cynical view. Most banks use contractors that specialize in banking who rip off features of the big banks and up sell them on all these “features” such as preventing copy/pasting into a confirm account number field. This type of thing looks good on a proposal, execs eat this shit up because it looks like they are choosing secure products and using “tried and true” methodologies even though it’s a simple JavaScript barrier that does nothing practical. Financial institutions play everything safe because they themselves do not want to get fined and as a result, they end up all ripped each other off. My best bet is that some genius copy/paste savvy CSO/CTO thought this was a good idea and everyone else started copying it.
The public roadmap is a good idea but highlights how stale the product has become. https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues Only now researching adding Cloud Native Build Packs and HTTP2.

This will reaffirm for many the sense that Heroku is being dismantled from within. Feature sunsetting and removal of a free on-ramp doesn't help.

If you're looking for a production alternative to Heroku checkout Northflank.

https://northflank.com

https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/migrate-from-hero...

https://northflank.com/heroku-pricing-comparison-and-reducti...

Comprehensive support for stateful, ephemeral and scheduled workloads. With a generous free developer tier including build, runtime, databases and cron jobs. Always happy to help teams migrate from Heroku.

(I'm a Northflank engineer + co-founder)
Haven't noticed any problem here. A poor A/B test, maybe? I find DDG's results superior to Google's 99.9% of the time, anyhow.
This is all a strawman. When people (me included) criticize EA for it's questionable priorities, it's an expression of exasperation, not an existential attack on the movement or its practitioners. We like EA. We think it's a good idea.

We also think it, on the whole, has made some outrageously bad analysis about what it should work on, and is perpetutating that nonsense in an echo chamber of sci-fi speculation.

And that really sucks, because we see all that energy that could be spent on climate issues or public health or democratization instead aimed at predicting when WOPR or SkyNet will achieve sentience. It's... frustrating.
Malloc has the exact same structure: it's hella fast until you run out of RAM and it returns an allocation failure.

The only difference between the two is that with GC you expect to run out of RAM and you expect the system to not just go down in screaming flames when that happens. And yes, that is harder to arrange. But it's not because there is anything inherently harder about GC. The only difference is the expectations about what will happen in the long run, and how much work the programmer has to do to prevent running into the worst-case scenario.
Can anyone speculate what will happen to Apple if for any reason TSM abruptly stops supplying chips? Will their revenue just drop by 80%?
> You've provided no basis for this claim that Planned Parenthood provides birth control, abortions, or other drugs as part of a US program to intentionally reduce population growth.

Any funding of birth control or abortions by definition will slow population growth.

Further and specifically in regard to planned parenthood

> Sanger was so intent on her mission to advocate for birth control that she chose to align herself with ideas and organizations that were ableist and white supremacist. In 1926, she spoke to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at a rally in New Jersey to promote birth control methods. Sanger endorsed the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that states could forcibly sterilize people deemed “unfit” without their consent and sometimes without their knowledge. The acceptance of this decision by Sanger and other thought leaders laid the foundation for tens of thousands of people to be sterilized, often against their will.

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-hi...

It would be naive to assume that a group who’s specific goal was slowing population growth is no longer still doing it (albeit more “equitably”)

I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing; just pointing out the realities.
it's not racist, it's called suspicious. I have gotten too many scam calls from people speaking in a foreign accent to _immediately_ put myself on the defensive.
I don't donate 10% of my income to effective charities, but I do donate about 2.5% to charities I am told are very lean and productive. I've always wondered where the 10% number comes from: is it just because that's the traditional tithing amount in Christianity? Is it because it's a round number? In the spirit of this article: why not 11%?
As someone who works in this space, ^ this. I would say don't overthink any component, use common crawl (https://commoncrawl.org/) to build your initial index, use a pagerank implementation that's been thoroughly researched and published, and use off the shelf components from the apache foundation when you can.
I would argue you have better feedback and can understand better how it works than manual. There is a fixed ratio gear connecting motor and wheels. Simpler than clutch and transmission by miles. The motor works with electricity and a motor controller, all software. It has reliable performance characteristics.
There are huge obstacles for foreigners to move to the US and work, but higher education is also one of the most straightforward paths to the immigration pipeline (afaik as someone who's never dealt with it themselves). I believe that indicates there are two opposing forces, so the relative proportions being off would likely be expected as we don't know which force is stronger.
The issue is that while you can print 3d lenses (fun read: https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereo...), it's just not practical unless you're super into the project (similar for telescope makers who grind their own lenses). The long and short of it is that high quality glass is an industrial process that has hundreds of years of refinement to give you excellent image quality at very low prices.

That said, I have cnc'd a piece of acrylic, polished it, then used it to make a silicone mold and used that to make an epoxy lens.
The article mentions it. One of the most mind-blowing facts is that there has never been a recorded human death caused by an Orca.

There are many possible explanations for it, selective eaters, not tasty, knowing what they are getting themselves into.

At the same time they are curious, playful, and it seems emotional, if they have trends like breaking boats & carrying dead fish. It's a miracle such playfulness never ever accidentally killed a human.

After Sperm whales they have the largest brains in the world. Of course big sections of that is dedicated to their complicated bodily functions. But I think we are most likely severely underestimating their intelligence.

Edit: "a recorded human death in the wild"
Is it actually more convenient if it’s not true? Because if things actually suck, but you lie and say things are great, aren’t you just consenting to the status quo and even giving permission for things to suck more in the future? I’m the long run this sounds less convenient than dealing with it up front or just finding another job.
Remember a few months ago when Elon Musk claimed to be a "free speech maximalist"?
"whats up its ya boi xxKingOrca200 back at it again about to rudderprank this boat sponsored by nord SeaPN you know how we do. shout out to the beluga tier supporters and the silly fishhead bro's in the pod dont forget to like subscribe and ring the diving bell"
Nope.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
I think you're describing street-car suburbs. There are, I think, 3 of them in North America! Bad news... you're not even close to the first person to think like this, and the houses in those places are absurdly priced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
No, offset means "measuring from a defined location". In a computer, the choice of location is more or less arbitrary[0]. If you pick the first element, you get zero indexing. If you pick a space before the first element, you get one indexing. Either one is a pointer, since a pointer is just computer jargon for "a defined location".

Calling that defined location "origin" doesn't suddenly make it not a pointer.

[0]- NUMA and cache effects aside, as they don't matter for this purpose
"My city" would be NYC I guess, so sure. I live in a ruralish town though.
It's not just racism. I cringe when I hear a strong accent on a call center call but that's not because I dislike the person on the other end. It's because it's a signal of how much the company cares about support. And as a general rule of thumb they are offshoring their call center not to increase quality but to reduce costs. And this means you're going to have fight your way through 3 layers of support before you get to anyone who know what they're doing, and has the power to fix your problem.

Of course this isn't always true. There are definitely some US call centers that are awful and some stellar offshore ones, but as a general rule of thumb this seems to be true.
So we'll see at least 1-2 years of Apple Silicon being at least one node ahead of competition. I am curious for how long will be Apple able to pull this lead off, and what the perf/watt will look like when (if?) AMD has node parity with Apple in the near future. Or when perhaps Intel uses TSMC as well, and the same process node.
If you want to work with 5000 nm - 10,000 nm in that price range, you can use an affordable thermal camera with a microbolometer sensor. Surplus silicon and germanium lenses can sometimes be found cheap on eBay, and there are always a lot of very low priced zinc selenide lenses for sale (intended for the CO2 laser cutter market).
This. And tell the gym why you're cancelling. I don't understand why any gym thinks playing music is a good idea in a world where nearly everyone is bringing their own audio players anyway.
Again, no capacity is actually specified for the vast majority of these proposals - it's the sort of things there if the capacity isn't good you have less incentive to share it, so assuming a ratio of 2-4 is very optimistic . And even if we assume that 100% of these proposals get built (which is unlikely) it's still well short of the 120GWh of capacity assumed by the study.

To put this in perspective, annual battery production is around 300-400 GWh. You're talking about redirecting a third of all battery output in a given year to produce the storage for a country of just 26 million people.
AWS does this periodically for storage and bandwidth pricing
Creativity requires solitude
It's not even that they're built for cars. They're simply just not built for humans to walk around.

If you've ever been in a situation where you're visiting a friend in an unfamiliar neighborhood and the map is telling you that your destination is physically just "right behind this house", a mere 50m away, but the front street you're currently in is a long crescent without cross access to the back street where you're trying to get to, you've experienced the frustration of modern planning with no afterthought for human access.

I'm no expert, but I've done my fair share of traveling. One thing that's always been very noticeable to me is the strong correlation between highly cohesive communities and the many seemingly disorderly pedestrian paths crisscrossing their neighborhoods.
This just isn't at all true unless you define "house" as exclusively large lot single family homes with big back and front yards. Most dense and walkable places in the world are not full of high rises, they're a mix of high density houses and low to medium density apartments.

This mix is really rare in North America, at least and especially north of Mexico, but it does exist.
In the imaging industry the lens assembly is normally called an objective. In every field I've worked in, the lens is the glass and nothing more. If photography uses this term, it's wrong, but if it's established... who cares, just know that fact and move on.
I relate to this.

> We appreciate Heroku’s legacy as a learning platform. Many students have their first experience with deploying an application into the wild on Heroku.

I'm one of those students. It's good that they will open up something free for students but I suspect it'll never be the same as just signing up and git push heroku master.
Seems that they show their true colors.
Between 2 and uncanny valley problems, ignoring societal implications, I wouldn't touch this startup. Getting the tech to the point of marketable product seems doable, but getting it to where it needs to be to actually work will be incredibly hard. Text to speech has come a long way, but it's still not there, and it's an easier problem.
Yeah in Germany that doesn't work. You have the right to a lawyer, even in civil action, even if you are suing, even if you are suing the government or the government is suing you. If you cannot afford a lawyer, the state pays it, you can pick your own lawyer. The argument is that if the state appoints a lawyer, the appointment is obviously not in your favor. Anyone should have the right to bring a slight or disagreement to court and anyone should have the right to get a lawyer to defend that.
Kweb: A UI for K
ECB loans out money to certified banks. This loaned money is “printed” or created on their ledger so to speak
I can head this in my head.
Sadly, slavery and indentured servitude are still legal in the US, and, in absolute head count, are currently a much bigger business than they were before the civil war.
The entire US is built around cars so I don't think you'd be exposed to a different way of living in that aspect, unless you're a brave American tourist visiting Chicago/NYC willing to learn and use the subway.
Distinguish being against bike paths vs. being against losing a lane from a road that already has too few lanes.
Thanks a bunch!

You got any more of these "Real-time Programming" courses? Or books?
Evolution stops below the neck, everyone knows that :)
This is particularly acute in countries that skipped the desktop internet and jumped straight to mobile internet. For much of this userbase, their first and primary interaction with the web is through apps. They never bothered creating blogs or web pages and now all their content is behind the walled gardens of Facebook and Instagram.
> Less density -> less housing overall -> decreased supply -> increased prices

The arrows (logical implication) might be questionable, but it's still true that housing and road infrastructure compete for space.
We also don't live in the antithesis of a meritocracy either.

Competency is usually rewarded, and rewards are pretty well correlated with competency.

There's plenty of room in the tails one can cite to justifyany opinion on the matter, but on average I think we're far more meritocratic than not.
I have been trying to find what refrigerant my vehicle uses for 2 days. It is absolutely insane that I can't find anything but spam content.
This is only morally outrageous because the very existence of patents is a dubious waste of resources to begin with.

The problems they are supposed to solve are much smaller then they bring about and better solved in other ways, anyway.