skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heroku’s loss is Replit’s gain. They’re making everything so easy, I expect them to basically be able to pick up this slack in helping make deployments simple.
> OSS is supposed to be a collaborative environment where everyone can contribute a little, not a “fuck you, pay me” environment.

This is a gross misunderstanding of what open source is. Please read the licenses that come with the OSS software you use. The authors and maintainers do not owe you anything beyond what the license says.
For most of human history, we have lived in settlements where we slept a stones toss (not even a throw) from our neighbors, for security and also because traveling a long distance for daily activities took to much physical energy.

This was true whether the settlement was as city, town, or village.

The discovery of petroleum and the invention and popularizing of cars enabled people to build and live an imitation of the aristocratic lifestyle.

Ironically, the aristocrats in their hilltop palaces and castles weren't nearly as isolated since they would always have a cadre of personal attendants to serve them.

Quite reasonably, nobody wants to go back to the poverty and hardships of village and tenement life, of course. But people quite reasonably have identified what was lost in the shift away from that spatial arrangement.
I found Sorry to Bother You quite funny, a bit scary, fairly accurate (as someone who worked in several call centers) and unusual in many ways-- it's also extremely relevant to this thread.
This is ironic since the main article links to another (arguably more interesting) article that talks about achieving #1 posting status on HN with a GPT-3 posting:

https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...

Then again I could be replying to a bot
Source? Just curious
Here is my trick to survive as a Western European in a culturally American environment: just entirely ignore any discussions involving races, racism or progressivism entirely.

You might think the world translates to your language and you could participate. You might have trouble understanding or be shocked by the reasoning and think asking will help you get it. You might even think you should have an opinion as you have the mistaken idea that your culture is close to the American one. You would be wrong.

The way these subjects are entwined with the American psyche and identity defies entendement and reasoning. In my experience it’s best to treat it like you would a foreign religion.
The premium version has lots of (IMO) valueless features like "macro nutrient tracking" and "water intake tracking" and "customize how many snacks you want in a day".

The free version has all the actual valuable stuff, minimal advertising, and the app, on android at least, is perfectly willing to leave you alone and not notify you with spam or advertising or anything. It's been around since literally the original app store release and is still pretty good.
I'm the independent app developer building FoodNoms. Thanks for the shout out and I'm really glad you're enjoying the app.

The app is truly a labor of love and it means a lot when I hear others are getting value out of it. If you or anyone has any feedback regarding the app, I'd greatly appreciate it.
The law against jaywalking is an excellent law. Look at some of those colorized YouTube videos of cities in the early 1900s, like this one: https://youtu.be/1Ok_lwYyHWo

It’s insanity. People dodging cars, cars dodging people and each other. At modern road speeds that would result in mass death.

Besides all that, yes of course we live in a manufactured environment. All environments are manufactured to some degree. And of course car companies lobby for things. But lobbying is not guaranteed to win. People strongly resist things they don’t like. You know what else GM was doing at the time? Selling lots and lots of cars to people who wanted to buy them.
Wasn't implying that. I have only passing knowledge of the tech nowadays but knew it better many years ago. I wasn't certain whether SS7 is even used nowadays or it's obsolete, hence the subsequent sentence. I'm actually shocked it's still used and still as vulnerable!
"A trend among juveniles"? Now imagining "The Rudder Challenge" spreading across orca TikTok.
Maybe we could start one and make it available on Git* ?
What kinda thing do you want to search? Text I guess? But there are search engines for images, gifs, video, all kinds of stuff.

I'm working at an open-source project that builds an AI-powered search framework [0], and I've built some examples in very few lines of code (for searching fashion products via image or text [1], PDF text/images/tables search [2]) and one of our community members built a protein search engine [3].

A good place to start might be with a no-code solution like (shameless self-plug time) Jina NOW [4], which lets you build a search engine and GUI with just one CLI command.

[0] https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/

[1] https://examples.jina.ai/fashion/

[2] https://colab.research.google.com/github/jina-ai/workshops/b...

[3] https://github.com/georgeamccarthy/protein_search

[4] https://now.jina.ai
> If you don't do frontend stuff, you don't have to use WASM, you know? You could just go native binary in the first place especially as modern languages have great cross-compilation support.

- Cross-compiling is perhaps easier these days, but it's still a pain to set up and takes time to compile

- WASM has compelling sandboxing abilities, I can see myself choosing a slower sandboxed client tool vs native binary, in particular to try out new stuff
So their next chapter is obscurity followed by shutting down?

It was clear even before their horribly bungled GitHub security incident that Heroku was on life support at best and it's been a long time since "Heroku" was the answer to "What PaaS should I use?".

The beancounters took control a while back and are sucking all they can out of it before they discard it's empty shell.

Having Heroku as your PaaS provider seems like a bad business decision at this point. You are just begging to have the rug pulled out from under you.
Free Heroku Dynos and Postgres no longer available
This is basically the late 90s internet in a nutshell.
https://text.npr.org/ as well
"Stanford Solar Car Project was ‘key’ to Tesla’s inception", says Tesla co-founder JB Straubel

https://electrek.co/2016/05/12/tesla-motors-stanford-solar-c...
Really sad end for Heroku. They never could find a balance between the free tiers they offered and their overly-expensive paid tiers. Now they're entering purgatory before they are ultimately shut down for good.

They had the markings of a long-lasting company in this space but corporate mismanagement has led to this drawn out death for the company. Salesforce buying the company made a few rich, but it really did turn out to be the nail in the coffin everyone said it would be. :(
My ex and I split over this issue. She wanted to be a stay-at-home mom and "the kids can take out loans like me if they choose to go to college." I wasn't going to bother with children unless I could reasonably guarantee all the benefits to my children that my parents provided me (a.k.a. covering a significant portion of my college expenses).
Have you seen Common Crawl? https://commoncrawl.org/. If so, what differences do you imagine for yours?
Science must only be objective.

Science should not care one whit about humans or what we want/think/feel.

We should respect people, there's a huge difference.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the final nail in the coffin for nature magazine or whatever they call themselves now.

This entire blog post is them contradicting themselves repeatedly.
> git remote heroku push

This was amazing back in the day. I'm much more impressed either digitalocean's App stuff. It just hooks right up to github, autoconfigures, and my devops workflow is reduced to `git push`
Most who discuss better urban planning and focusing on less car-only design wouldn't consider having a SFH with land (now this depends) an issue even in a city or neighborhood adjacent to a city. A quarter acre of grass? Probably not except at great cost. A deep lot with a garage? Yea that's pretty practical. Ideally you'd have a mix of SFH, condos, apartments for rent, granny flats, and other housing options so you can accommodate people in different stages of their lives and at different price points.

Then of course as most would live in this mode, those who want large lots or lots of land would move further away.

> It's also carrying capacity, instead of making multiple inefficient trips to a local market multiple times a week I can get all my family's groceries in one trip once a week. Ditto for outdoor supplies, small furniture, Christmas Trees, etc

Is it really inefficient if it's a 10 minute walk away, or on your way home from your job? I think you'd really have to sit down on that and look at the whole context.

For oddball trips like a Christmas tree you have options including delivery, but what most people would suggest is that sure you still have a car for those trips (maybe one per family instead of two) but for most activities you don't have to drive. We get stuck on edge case scenarios so much that we over-optimize for them. It's like EVs. Many are like "but what if I go on a road trip", well how often do you go on a road trip? Once/year? Weekly? If it's once/year, well, figure it out.

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For example, most I'd argue are envisioning something more akin to German Village in Columbus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Village

Here you can see cars of course, but you can also see that many homes do in fact have deep lots which can be customized with grass, pavers, whatever you'd like. Of course not all homes have those (depends on socioeconomic capabilities) but you are also 5 minutes from a gigantic park with lots of green space.

In German Village you have cars, many homes have off-street parking, lots of pedestrian traffic, lots of bike traffic, tons of locally owned businesses and restaurants, and community events. I think people want more of this and wonder why we can't build like this anymore. Personally I think it's because developers, the government, and automakers are all heavily incentivized against it (not necessarily out of malice). Unsurprisingly, locations that are walkable like this have the highest property values despite often having crappy schools. If they had really good k-12 schools the property values would be immense.
And Russian sanctions will eventually impair the EU economy.

The question is which side will give in earlier. The EU has a disadvantage there in that it regularly holds elections, and when they happen the ballooning energy prices may cause large swings. It will be interesting to see what happens a month from now in Italy, for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Italian_general_election)

I’m not sure what will happen.
Noise and air pollution are in part caused by cars. Meanwhile in the suburb, you have lawn mowers and leaf blowers, which I absolutely hate with a passion.

I don't know about annoying neighbors and smells. That seems to be a design and engineering issue.
Interesting, thank you.

It is weird to watch countries fight immigration when it is fundamental to GDP growth.
Trapped in a prison of your own imagination.
The problem with those cars is that they are slow. -former owner of one

The supra is a rocket ship.
I work from home. I'd still rather drive most of the time than rely on transit and live anywhere more dense. E-biking is nice and I do it for exercise often, but I wouldn't want to do it in the snow or rain, even with perfect separate bike lanes, no matter how much Netherlanders insist it's no big deal.

My car has a comfortable seat, good sound system, a lot of my stuff in it, climate control, and no drug addicts accosting me for money inside it.

I'll be glad to see bike infrastructure and more rail lines built out but I would never want to live somewhere without a car.
>I have a problem with call centers that are basically a human reading me an FAQ

There is so much terrible design in both automated and human customer support. For instance, you ask a question in chat and there is no response for a few minutes. After a few minutes, you'll see the 'typing ..' indicator, but it'll be some generic bullshit platitude about how they value you or something. This is frustrating to no end. Even in voice systems, there is so much drivel. "It'll be just a moment while a look this up ", and then some keys clacking in the background. Who falls for this ?
I'm betting some very intelligent animals realized humans are very reluctant to cause them direct harm (read: very illegal to hurt an orca) and have decide to have some fun with the humans.

Tik Tok for orcas would not be a positive, but I get the feeling they are doing a "look what I did" all the same.
It's a bit hit-and-miss. The index is pretty small right now, I'm working on that, as well as getting better results when you have many keywords.

Right now it's absolutely amazing if you have like a broad topic you want websites about, but kind of weak when you want something more specific.
Everything else gets more expensive though, real estate, going out, eating out, you need a car for everything, &c.

You gain some and lose some, personally I would never go back to the US even if I got a 3x salary increase. Having lived in both the lifestyle difference is a deal breaker for me. And Im not talking about buttfuck nowhere USA, I'm talking about NYC, SF and Mountain View
[0] Was front page recently.

[0] (OBVIOUSLY NSFW) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572770
Someone in another thread suggested that universities will raise their tuition to offset the subsidies, for no reason other than profit. I hope that's not the case (it's dystopian to think education is subject to price gouging out of greed, but then I suppose if medicine is, we're already in that dystopia). But even if it is, the tuition would raise equal to the subsidies and the cost to the student wouldn't increase, it just wouldn't decrease.

Best case is universities aren't entirely heartless and realize that they're surviving and profiting just fine on the current tuition, and the education they provide is so important that they shouldn't just raise costs arbitrarily "because they can" in spite of their students. In which case, the loan principals remain the same, but the student pays less.

Worst case, as mentioned above, is we're in a true capitalist dystopia, in which case the costs won't get cheaper, but they also won't get more expensive.

You mentioned the risk of nonrepayment. There is no increased risk of that: the loan servicers will definitely get repayed by the government, and the remaining balance (if there is any) has lower risk of nonrepayment from the student because the payments will be lower, and thus easier to afford.
I have to imagine there's a reason for this behavior. The researchers have some very infantile conclusions as to why: maybe they like rudders! Maybe it's just a fad! Seems a bit disingenuous given our understanding of how smart these animals are.

Alternatively, they're doing this for a specific reason. Perhaps noise pollution, food scarcity, just general annoyance with the boats, etc.
If I type a new marketing relevant keyword into google, I will get a perfect add for that in 5 minutes watching youtube.

Influencers are some of the most popular people on the planet for young people.
Funny you mention those because the line above automatically adds all those for you including https redir for all your vhosts.
Sony raises Playstation 5 console prices in many regions, effective immediately
I've been using https://cronometer.com/ for a while, it also tracks your micro nutrients and have quite good food DB. (not sure if this is trust worthy) but from the their app's description on playstore, it has better data privacy policy compared to it's competitor
do you write any content related to your journey on developing search engines? youtube channel? twitter? blog?
i'm working at a startup and we are creating a search engine with neural networks, but the base of information retrieval are proving more important than just some NLP models by itself.
and thank you for sharing those details!
The BMW M5 has a ZF 8HP and pulls off sub 3s 0-60s in CS trim. The new xDrive M3 comes close. I’m sure there are others. The key obviously is to have a torque converter stall speed that’s in powerband.
There are plenty of parts of the US with really poor cell coverage. Even if everything's working perfectly, there's no guarantee that your car can update. Having a car die because it couldn't phone home is both a lawsuit waiting to happen and a potential PR nightmare.
So glad I saw this after my comment, I couldn't believe what I was reading and am so very glad I wasn't the only one, much less from GP.

I appreciate you calling it out greatly, they've been circling the drain but wow.
Every time I'm on the west side of LA I think about how we could have built a gorgeous, walkable city like you see all over the Mediterranean, but instead we got LA.

Of course there's a little glimpse of it in that part of LA, but you still just can't easily live in LA without a car.
IP reputation is done by everyone doing email who aren't tiny, in both directions.

The large players really aren't doing anything special. It's just frequency bias, because you want to deliver to them.

It's also a full-time affair only if you're trying to deliver content people don't want. Yes it takes some effort in all cases because you can't just go on and start blasting, but it's not a full-time effort with those providers.
Living Without Plastic in Japan
They are not walled for those going in.

How can we call everything a walled garden when many of them are free to get in and interconnect with each other?
you're an employee being asked to provide feedback, not sure how this is suspicious
There is a middle point between city center and car-dependent sprawl. We’ve just mostly outlawed building any new places in this in-between style, so the only ones remaining are those that have been this way for well over a century.

See “streetcar suburbs”: https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0
To be clear, Jina AI stuff helps with the search engine itself. Getting the data is another matter entirely, and pretty much outside of our scope (although we do provide some example datasets with Jina NOW, like artworks, music, etc)
I don't presume the source is available... unbelievably cool project that I'm sure a lot of people have imagined themselves doing.

edit: https://git.marginalia.nu/marginalia/marginalia.nu !!!
> It is not too much to expect of a dozens-of-billions-of-dollars worth multinational corporation to conduct an investigation based on that "hearsay" and to react on that investigation.

Who is to say that they haven't done this already? It's been almost an entire week - not taking action could be very well be the reaction. Albeit not the one you are hoping to see. They don't owe you or anyone an explanation and anything they state could just be turned around against them by the next angry Twitter mob next week.

> Or for a real-life equivalent: if I were to stand outside of the home of a person and blaring into a megaphone

No. That is not equivalent to what is happening here. It's more like a bunch of people making fun of someone in a backyard, with the subject frequently walking by, taking offense, and then calling for the offender's landlord to break their lease with the occupant for allowing mean things to be said. If someone in real life called the police over this they'd be laughed at and told to walk down a different street next time.

> Why should Internet trolls enjoy legal protection for the same behavior?

They don't. If an internet troll commits a crime then they have no special protection from prosecution. And on the civil side if an internet troll is posting untrue defamatory content then there is also recourse for the victim.

In fact as far as the legal system is concerned, the call by "Keffals" to attempt to intentionally damage the business relationship that kiwifarms has with Cloudflare falls dangerously close to tortious interference [0] in the US and something similar in Canada. The owner of kiwifarms may even have a civil case against them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
Thanks for the insight! And that's just plain scary.
Regionality in fashion is significant, clothing included, but in this part of the world trucks are definitely fashion. People largely drive trucks because they like the way they look in them, not because they have some secret political statement that nobody is picking up on.

As you venture out into the world you will also find trucks that are clear political statements. You might be right that an individual cannot own a truck for both fashion and political reasons (although I'm not sure I agree), but just because some people use trucks for political statements does not mean all trucks are political statements. Some trucks can be used for fashion without crossing those who use them political statements.
Do you have the scanner set up as a keyboard wedge (USB-HID)? From your description, it sounds like it. Usually when dealing with control characters it's easier to put scanners in virtual COM mode. Although using them as a COM device does carry its own set of issues. I'm more familiar with honeywell and cognex scanners, but quickly browsing the realinn documentation I don't see a character replacement functionality.
That is probably because the farmers hired somebody one time to make a website which they don't have the skill to maintain, but they know how to use Instagram.
>It'd be great to have more cities as dense as NYC in this country.

Yes, but remember that density is not without its problems as well. Socially of course, but also practically--density requires more competent urban management for things like sewer and water, which the US is famous for being awful at.

In the not so distant past, even rural places had (limited) access to public transportation. My mother lived way out in the sticks, but there was a road nearby. The bus would stop for anybody standing on the side of the highway to take them into town or back. This was in the 1940s-50s.
You can also write the array first, without using enum:

const tokens = ['parenOpen', 'bang', 'plus', 'minus'] as const;

type Token = typeof tokens[number];

type TokenTable<T> = Record<Token, T> // alias for { [key in Token]: T }

const isToken = (t: string): t is Token => tokens.includes(t);

const patterns: TokenTable<RegExp> = {
bang: /\+/, // rest
}
Why did Salesforce buy Heroku if they're just going to sort of wind it down?
Thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware that this was official US government policy.

Reminds me of the Vietnam war (or American war as it was referred to by the locals) where the US couldn’t say they were winning based on the amount of territory they held (because they couldn’t actually capture and hold much territory for very long). Instead, the “quantitative measurements” of McNamara’s computer systems could only show that they were “winning” the war based on the number of enemy combatants killed – with the result that any Vietnamese killed by US forces were retroactively recorded as Vietcong. Most of us are familiar with Goodhart's law regarding measures becoming targets so I’d be curious to know how much it applied to the Vietnam war.
I take it you have not travelled in some time? This hasn't been the case since "9/11" when the rules were changed. you need a passport to travel between USA/CA (not sure about Mexico but i would assume it needs a passport too?).
Tell him what he wants to hear. There's likely no upside to doing anything else.
SF School Board Facing Lawsuit Threat over Vote to Observe Two Muslim Holidays