skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the loans, if you make loans less liquid and less accessible then fewer people will own homes because they can’t leverage into a house the can afford over 30 years but not this year. It likely won’t decrease the cost of housing because people still need housing, and will instead have to rent. There is enough capital on earth that those with capital will want that cash flow. See my point on rent : mortgage cash flow arbitrage. This would not lead to cheaper housing, just less people owning housing vs renting and more housing owned by fewer people - mostly corporations that have vast access to leverage at rates considerably more favorable. That seems like lose lose to me.

Zoning IMO is a red herring. Developers have no interest in driving property prices down with their marginal developments. They will develop in a way that sees prices stable or rise, which is favorable to them as property investors. People betting zoning law repeals will magically result in vast Soviet style SRO arcologies housing everyone affordably will be disappointed that the Victorian single family home torn down and redeveloped as a duplex is developed as a four story duplex with twice as much space, with each duplex roughly the same price as the original single family home. There also won’t be a massive selling of existing property because, well, NIMBYs like where they live. Ultimately we will just have less Victorians that will never be rebuilt and a handful more luxury duplexes.
> As Heroku fans, we never really felt like it needed a replacement.

If Salesforce kept investing in heroku, it might not. But there is a huge loss of confidence in heroku's future going on among heroku's customers right now, which is part of what you're seeing, as I'm sure you know. (Also I think to some extent you are being political/kind towards heroku... if heroku's owners were still investing in heroku for real, adding 'edge' functionality like fly.io is focusing on is what one would probably expect...)

And frankly... your tool seems more mature and... not to be rude to competitors but seems to have more of that certain `je ne sais quoi` of Developer Experience Happiness that heroku _used_ to have and other potential heroku competitors don't really quite seem to have yet. Does what you expect/need in a polished and consistent way.

I think work you put into the underlying infrastructure definitely shows there, and was the right choice. Tidy infrastructure helps with tidy consistent developer experience.

So I understand why people are looking to you as a heroku replacement. I am too! (And I don't really need the edge compute stuff; although I could potentially see using it in the future, and it shows you folks are on top of things).

And while I kept reading fly staff saying on HN comments that you didn't want to be a heroku replacement, so were unconcerned with the few places people were mentioning where you still felt short of it -- when I saw your investment in Rails documentation and tools (and contribs back to Rails), I thought, aha, i think they've realized this is a market looking for them, which they are only a couple steps from and it would make sense to meet.

When you mention in OP a "heroku exodus" to you... I'm curious if that was all people who left when heroku ended free tier stuff, and they've all come to you for your free tier stuff... becuase that does seem dangerous, such a giant spike in users who are not paying and don't bring revenue with them! I don't personally use very much heroku free tier stuff. I hope if that's a challenge, it's one you can get over. I don't think you are under any obligation to offer free stuff that can be used for real production workloads indefinitely -- although, as I'm sure you know, free stuff is huge for allowing people to try _before_ they buy, and whatever limits you put on it to try to prevent indefinite production use get in the way of someone's "try before you buy" too... and at this point, _reducing_ your free offerings is a lot harder PR-wise than having started out with less in the first place. :(
IPv6 has link-local, v4 doesn't. That is a huge configuration win.
You can't have "car" without "car accident"
So will all the coal we’re burning globally.

I thought it was a given that 1.5 wasn’t going to happen. We waited too long.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overs...
When Hong Kong was ceded back to China, they were promised a certain level of autonomy for a certain amount of years. After a few years, China realized they didn't have to keep their word and have been rapidly taking more direct control of the area than initially promised.
I'm now a taxpayer making good money and paying for other's education. I'm fine with that.

I plain despise arguments like yours, they lead nowhere but a more unjust, poorer and more dangerous society.
Yet another reminder how challenging cross-cultural communication can be. There is no right or wrong here, just different. They key is recognizing the differences as early as possible to avoid confusion.
Taiwan is only 200km away from mainland china. You don't need ICBM.
If you've ever implemented IS-IS or OSPF before, like 80% of the work is "LSP flooding", which is just the process that gets updates about available links from one end of the network to another as fast as possible without drowning the links themselves in update messages. Flooding algorithms don't build consensus, unlike Raft quorums, which intrinsically have a centralized set of authorities that keep a single source of truth for all the valid updates.

An OSPF router uses those updates to do build a forwarding table with a single-point shortest path first routine, but there's nothing to say that you couldn't instead use the same notion of publishing weighted advertisements of connectivity to, for instance, build a table to map incoming HTTP requests to backends that can field them.

The point is, if you're going to do distributed consensus, you've got a dilemma: either you're going to have the Ents moot in a single forest, close together, and round trip updates from across the globe in and out of that forest (painfully slow to get things in and out of the cluster), or you're going to try to have them moot long distance (painfully slow to have the cluster converge). The other thing you can do, though, is just sidestep this: we really don't have the Raft problem at all, in that different hosts on our network do not disagree with each other about whether they're running particular apps; if worker-sfu-ord-1934 says it's running an instance of app-4839, I pretty much don't give a shit if worker-sfu-maa-382a says otherwise; I can just take ORD's word for it.

That's the intuition behind why you'd want to do something like SWIM update propagation rather than Raft for a global state propagation scheme.

But if you're just doing service discovery for a well-bounded set of applications (like you would be if you were running engineering for a single large company and their internal apps), Raft gives you some handy tools you might reasonably take advantage of --- a key-value store, for instance. You're mostly in a single data center anyways, so you don't have the long-distance-Entmoot problem. And HashiCorp's tools will federate out across multiple data centers; the constraints you inherit by doing that federation mostly don't matter for a single company's engineering, but they're extremely painful if you're servicing an unbounded set of customer applications and providing each of them a single global picture of their deployments.

Or we're just holding it wrong. Also a possibility.
This is just plain wrong. The 14-day return policy is meant for physical goods in the first place. It was not meant as a trial period, but a protection because you can‘t actually see the product when buying online.

Also, the 14-days do not start with the purchase date, but with the delivery date.

If you buy a digital product online, it is the equivalent of a physical purchase in a physical store.
So nobody needs to „get around“ the policy. They just need to let you know it does not apply.

And i do think it is fair.

If someone rips you off, that‘s a different story, there is laws for that and those cases aren‘t meant to be covered by this policy.
that's the fun of it :P
For those that don't know what this refers to (myself included): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
The recent Netflix password-sharing cracking may create some Roku victims.

The other day, I reviewed the devices logging into my account, all inside my house. However, there was one caveat: two Apple TVs in IPv6 and one Roku in IPV4, with different ASNs, showing as two separate networks 900 km apart. I didn’t receive any Netflix notice so far.
Listen to a podcast about them, it's quite amazing what they able to achieve: https://podcasts.apple.com/lt/podcast/garrett-langley-standi...

TLDL: licence plates can be stolen, but they still can identify cars by unique features like scratches, dents, mods, tyres, etc.
Honestly Taiwan should go nuclear. It might be there only solution
Significant Eye4Fraud Data Breach
Description of the breach from haveibeenpwned.com:

Data alleged to have been taken from the fraud protection service Eye4Fraud was listed for sale on a popular hacking forum.
Spanning tens of millions of rows with 16M unique email addresses, the data was spread across 147 tables totalling 65GB and included both direct users of the service and what appears to be individuals who'd placed orders on other services that implemented Eye4Fraud to protect their sales.
The data included names and bcrypt password hashes for users, and names, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial credit card data (card type and last 4 digits) for orders placed using the service. Eye4Fraud did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.

Tweet here with more context:
https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1622838659689988098

This seems to be quite significant.
The infuriating bit is that most of the people affected by this breach were not direct customers of Eye4Fraud (since this is a B2B service). But rather had their personal data shared from other online services / platforms they've been using, which in turn had a contract with Eye4Fraud.
There is but it'd require a special device at each customer location. CG-NAT (a.k.a. double NAT) is probably what they did because it only requires a couple of centralized boxes then the rest is deployed like a normal dual stack network and your average home Netgear router works with it out of the box.

NAT in the other direction (i.e. IPv6 local client, IPv4 remote host) is easier, and I'd be very surprised if they didn't already have that given the number of v4 only sites, but doesn't really help the v4 only devices.
> De-anonymize speech online

anonymity for political speech has been known and debated for four hundred years in the West. Of course some actors come down on one side or the other. Twitter v0.1 was supposed to be a failsafe for that; now its 2023.
Asking "how can I be helpful?" is a huge unlock: almost everyone has too much to do and not enough time, and thus almost everyone will welcome help from someone else. (And if the way you're "poking your nose in other departments" is perceived as value-destructive instead of helpful, that is probably the root cause.)
I think the main barrier is that for most people IPv4 works just fine and they've never experienced a problem that IPv6 would solve. Maybe they will, some day, like if Facebook and Google shut down their IPv4 IPs.
You're surrounded by the intellectuals who aren't clever enough to figure out how to surround themselves with brilliant people without paying the SF premium.
Perhaps they have a limited development team and chose to focus on matters that bring in the most dough and/or make their average customer the happiest.
My cousin lives there, in a formerly exclusive neighborhood. Their family is afraid to leave the house at night.
I completely agree. The GDPR had the best of intentions, but did not materially improve data privacy online. Meanwhile it has absolutely made the UX of the web worse.

I know what the responses will be: "its a great law with poor enforcement". Perhaps that's true, but if so what makes us think additional EU tech regulations will be any better enforced?
There is no way you haven't noticed reddit's servers getting overloaded. It happens fairly frequently and has for the last decade.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is...

(See: all the people agreeing)

One of the triggers used to be that if a thread got too many comments it would bring down the website. So sports communities had to start splitting up their game threads during massive events so Reddit wouldn't break.

It definitely used to happen more often, but it was doing it for me yesterday coincidentally.
Yes, I'm serious. But I will grant you, it's an opinion.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/uniform-influence-performanc...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1974.39.1.5...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001088040004100...
We explicitly label easy first issues in our issue tracker: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A.... These should get you up to speed with the contribution process and, at the very minimum, get your feet wet with hacking against the engine, if not dive deeper into various specifics.

I strongly suggest any of the docs issues, as it doesn't require you to write any actual functionality, but forces you to get to know the architecture, the language, and the core parts of the engine itself.

Rendering is definitely moving really fast and we have a lot of accumulated domain expertise in the area now. If you're looking to potentially bootstrap or collaborate on design in a new space: animation or audio both need a lot more love. I'm one of the two animation SMEs and I still am playing catchup to the state of the art.
most of the (mainland) Chinese students I talk to tell me that they believe an invasion will happen 'sooner than later'.
Exactly right. APL was great at the time. As much as I love what it taught me, that was 40 years ago. It isn’t relevant today.
They kind of offer that with their Redis (via Upstash). But for our use-case, we needed it to be managed PG and Redis. Going out of the LAN introduces too much latency.
Using software for information and advice doesn't mean they use it to set prices.
Yes, especially as compliance and regulatory frameworks continue to evolve and become more difficult to adhere to as mentioned elsewhere in the comments.

We're inherently faster than other "serverless" platforms due to the scale and homogeneous design of our network, and that network has presence in nearly 50% more cities than it did just 3 years ago. We were plenty fast enough then and we're even faster now.

Other things that customers (still) really care about: developer experience, ease of use, and cost. Nobody likes paying the AWS tax to move data around—they just want to use the best solution from the best cloud provider. Workers and the associated storage primitives allow them to pick and choose from the best that AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, GCP, et al. have to offer.

(Disclaimer: I'm a long time Cloudflare employee focused on App Sec, and I speak to customers regularly who look to Workers largely for compliance reasons, but I don't work on the Developer Platform business. Am sure my Dev Platform peers will chime in with more nuanced answers!)
The problem with these city simulators is that they're relatively simplistic, and it's easy to work out a "formula" that lets you get basically infinite money and do whatever you want (the "city painter" mode). Which can be terribly fun, but it's not so much a game as more of an open-world building toy.
I’m just not eating the bugs, the fake meat, or living in a pod in my 15 minute prison city.
Wow, that's huge, and the Earth - Mars offset is likely perturbed by things like the motion of Jupiter etc. Keeping the time representations compatible and in sync will be a full time job for many people.
Japan has low rates and doesn’t have these problems. The cause probably differs.
Probably the exact path Twitter is on.

But there'll be one or two people who get cozy with Elon and win the lottery and will write articles on how hard work always pays off (neglecting the other 99.9% of Twitter that gets fired when it all gets shipped to India).
I find it ironic/tragic that many of the managers who don't trust their staff to work from home are the most likely to abuse that situation themselves.
yes, but then why not just do life instead?
I maintain a collection of view components[0] and lots are built without a template, just using the Rails tag helpers directly[1]. They're easy to write, familiar to any Rails dev and very fast.

[0] https://govuk-components.netlify.app/

[1] https://github.com/DFE-Digital/govuk-components/blob/main/ap...
Maybe we should split the difference! The best 25-year fixed-rate mortgage currently appears to be 9.75%, which is about 500 bps higher than the best 5-year fixed-rate mortgage [1]. But in 2021 with 5-year fixed mortgage rates near 2%, the 25-year fixed-rate was still around this level. So it looks like the premium has gone down a bit since the last time I checked. Perhaps that's partly a result of the yield curve inversion we have these days, since the Canada 30-year bond yield is presently just 3.2%. [2]

[1]: https://www.ratehub.ca/best-mortgage-rates/25-year/fixed

[2]: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmbmkca-30y?count...
Taiwan has no relationship to HK.

My understanding as an outsider:

Taiwan is governed by the Republic of China (ROC), which regained control of Taiwan in 1945 after the Japanese pulled out. ROC was overthrown my Mao's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese Civil War and lost control of the Chinese mainland allowing the CCP to form the People's Republic of China (PRC). The ROC retained control of Taiwan. Taiwan has always been independent from the PRC and CCP.

This completely ignores the actual native Taiwanese people who may or may not consider themselves Chinese. That is a topic I can't even begin to comment on.

The takeaway from HK in the context of Taiwan is that the People's Republic of China did not hold up their end of the bargain with the UK in HK so there is no reason to trust them in any agreement of "reunification" in Taiwan if the terms are anything other than complete submission to PRC rule.
We periodically park Aircraft carriers there to de-escalate PRC activity.

I am sure we have provided them some weapons. Not sure conventional or nuclear.
SimCity 2013 was fine, and the real killer was just how small it was. Everyone coming from Simcity 4 was like "what the @#%@ is this" and went back.

Even Skylines is too small unless you get the mods that let you bust out all the adjacent land areas.
I get that there are people in the world with severe lack of IPv4 addresses and this is a valid reason for them to switch to IPv6.

However, assuming that I and my organization have enough IPv4 addresses (without requiring any of the tricks of multiple layers of NAT), is there a sufficient reason for us to justify the effort/expense of changing what works?
I don’t think much “computing” is done, in our sense of the word, on tablets and phones. Personally, I’ve found that almost any slightly complex, has-to-be-done-once-and p-right, action is better performed on an actual computer. And that’s not even considering writing new programs.
In a similar way it’s possible to quibble over the definition of the word democracy.

If the ability of women to vote is considered essential for democracy, then the world’s oldest democracy is New Zealand and not the US.

But rather than going by dictated definitions, if we go by popular perceptions of the words, then Nalanda is a university and US became a democracy before New Zealand.
How does it compare to Luna Park?
https://luna-park.app/
First synthetic aperture satellite was launched in 1978 and was able to image things day and night. Sentinel-1's data isn't real time but it is publicly accessible and has been up for nearly a decade.
I'd settle for hollowing out an actual rubble pile as a demo. I'd be ecstatic, honestly, if you dumped any package of machines on a rubble pile and it autonomously, with only solar power, produced any machine more complicated than a bar of metal (and even that bar of metal would be no joke). Refining raw materials is hard. At least in space you'd be able to melt things in the open without them immediately oxidizing to hell.

Gravity is dubious as pro or con. It's honestly kind of handy sometimes, as a spatial organizing principle if nothing else.
Historically, public opinions tend to unite against adversity. If the aim is to gain the public opinions it would be counterproductive. I think the support for Russia in the Ukrainian public opinion is pretty much gone now.
Its a good hypothesis that life start at deep volcanic vents. Geologist Robert Hazen conducted lab experiments showing that all steps of the metabolic citric cycle occur in this environment without needing catalytic enzymes. Chemical reduction of magma provides the energy. As life developed enzymes to improve metabolism, it could migrate to colder, lower pressure environments.
Sure, I was going for a little humour there. A little riff on the whole “we always judge others until we walk in their shoes”.

The take away I was hoping for is “providing insights into how we struggle helps others”
People post research papers here and discuss them, you see arxiv links all the time, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=arxiv.org

So why not just post it and see if someone responds.
So? That's not relevant to whether or not short content is somehow objectively "bad".
Event Design and Event-First Development
What do Google employees even do other than ruining the Google standbys which formerly made Google a powerhouse? How many people do you need to employ to let your systems go to shit and cancel everything new and interesting? Google will have a reckoning soon, I believe the only thing propping it up at this point is data collection and government handouts.

Close the offices. Fire everybody. Sell the pieces off and start fresh. How about with search? That’s broken by design now.
> special relativity explains gravitational lensing

You mean general relativity
> Are 3/4 of engineers just not that interested in what the company is actually building for the world?

Given how many engineers work at basic companies doing basic stuff, probably.

There's only so many exciting opportunities to change the world out there. For the rest of us, it's CRUD stuff for an insurance company.
The solution there seems to be you only get to profit from your primary house that you can prove you have lived in for x years. Otherwise, all profit goes to the government. That would stop investments and such in a hurry.
The elephant in the room is that Taiwan is a Chinese province and Taiwan's legal standing is not in question [1]. This is the position held by the UN, and it's the fundamental basis for having diplomatic relations between US and China per Potsdam Proclamation [2] that was signed 77 years ago between China, the US & the UK. This position has never officially changed. And here's what US State Department says on their official page [3]:

The United States approach to Taiwan has remained consistent across decades and administrations.
The United States has a longstanding one China policy**, which is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act,
the three U.S.-China Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances. We oppose any unilateral changes
to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait
differences to be resolved by peaceful means.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2014/08/no-taiwans-status-is-not-unc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration

[3] https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/