skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great list. I've been reflecting on this drive for microservices in early stage companies for the last four years, and you hit all the major points.

One additional one I'll add is the marketing objectives of containerization and infrastructure companies.

And a good time to resurface Martin Fowler's Monolith First:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
Completely agree. On an unrelated side note, I like to plan potential talent hires/people/thinkers I'd like to work with based in part on thoughtful comments I see people making and keep a running bookmark list of said people - thought I'd bookmark you in it to eventually maybe reach out to, and turns out I already had you bookmarked! Based on your HN profile description, sold even harder; here's my reply relating to down-vote system to an HN moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133326 :)
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More accurate to say that at the time, there was no language known as "Spanish" - there were speakers of Latin dialects (including what became Spanish and Portuguese and Galician and Catalan &c.), speakers of Arabic, and speakers of Basque.
Completely agree with you! People operating on pure emotion vs reason and incapable of self reflection or inquisitive research into their beliefs is a major issue in modern times.
You're correct there. My bad.
Unity7 worked well enough with fractal scaling IIRC :(
Only in the last say 30 years
Looks like his answer assumes that "before", people were happy. I don't think this was ever the case. More so, being unhappy might be itself an evolution tool.
Must admit I don't understand what Wayland is, or X server for that matter. Would someone mind explaining it, for someone a bit dull of mind as myself?
> Is there a name for this type of fatigue

Stress. (One of the smyptoms of)
FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio?
Not necessarily. You can go to a team that works on a tiny part or you can go to a team that affects the entire company. You'd be surprised how few people want to work on the latter. Especially because the tiny parts are usually new press release type "fancy" stuff and not boring things like build systems, security, etc.
That's not at all what he was saying.
You can install any theme you want... This is linux, not macos. The point is for you to customize to your liking.

Same for flatpack, I don't see why you expect it to be bundled over snaps (which is included if I recall) or appimages...
The ‘soft’ approach to building hi-tech startups
Is it all part of the whole nordic mindset? Because their love of welfare state seems to stem from this desire to avoid confronting other people's problems and instead relegating those functions to the state. The european south is the reverse of this, thats why southern socialism usually ends up in corruption. Then again, lack of communication, lack of smiles, leads to depression hence their sky high suicide rates.

The british and americans seem to me to strike a better balance in being more expressive and taking life a little less seriously. It certainly makes them seem more friendly on first impression.

Why do you think my comment is flagged?
I switched to budgie but got bitten by Nvidia bug which prevented Ubuntu loading. None of the solutions I tried from forums worked so I threw in the towel. I haven’t touched my home computer in a few months but when I do I’ll be going to fedora.
In Norway cashiers have to recite much of that (and ask if you want a receipt) due to regulations. So I wonder how much of 'custom' is that really in Japan too.
Swedish has the same saying, but it's the other way around ("tala är silver men tiga är guld", literally "talking is silver but silence is gold").

It makes more sense like that to me, but perhaps the article just got it wrong
It is possible to download the files directly from Apple without authenticating nor agreeing to any EULA, and create ISO from that:

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-boot...
It's the only known way to organize society which incentivises people to develop and use their talents. Hence, the incredible material wealth of current Western world vs the universal poverty and misery of communist countries.
A pure meritocracy would result in children starving to death because what are they contributing really?
>It strikes me as odd in this day and age that Apple don't just officially support macOS on non-Apple hardware

Hardware is the product they sell. So it's not surprising at all. If you commodotize the OS, suddenly the huge markup for similar x86 hardware doesn't seem that appealing.
You mean the fact that Dropbox only supports unencrypted ext4 now?

No, that is Dropbox's new intentional behavior, they have no plans to resume sync support for linux.
> I guess I should be clear that I have an elastic IP (which is free)

Free when in use, you pay for it when it is not in use.
Does anyone else think it's categorically wrong for a government to incentivize greed?
My own problem with many worlds is (a) it seems to me to require a ridiculous amount of energy and (b) what happens when two world splits occur "at the same time" on opposite sides of our planet? Also (c), it just doesn't appeal to intuition, but it seems like much of physics does not :)
Are there other kinds?

(I mean, how many skilled, driven, ambitious people don't want to promote themselves?)
I think the Japanese clerk’s elaborate script is just an educated formality rather than a sincere conversation...
I realllyyyyyyyyyy hate blurry pixmaps
I first completely read this as "smalltalk" and was quite confused.

I'm quite bad at small talk but I try to 'force' it as it is seen as something common where I live. My wife usually does tell me that I'm bad at it if she happens to be with me.

I'm not sure why, there's just a lot of awkward pauses.
Or disconnect your house from the grid (see: Florida)
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Not just the Swedes, the same saying exists in France.
See inter-pod anti-affinity on Kubernetes to ensure "disk heavy jobs didn't land on a node hosting a DB".

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod...
Thank you, that made me smile. I really appreciate your words.
This is something I really agree with. Both myself and my father read very often, but we read utter schlock. We are no more intellectually improving ourselves than someone watching an action movie. To think otherwise is empty self-flattering of the worst sort.

Also, at least for academic subjects, I've found doing problems is much more informative than spending the same amount of time reading the text. You can study as much python as you want, but until you sit down to write a program - you have on idea where you are.
All this discussion automatically assumes that inequality is bad and equality is good. This is a subjective opinion. One that does not get nearly enough questioning nowadays.

I would argue that what is good is the presence of happiness and absence of suffering for conscious minds. Less famine, less disease, less war. And that it is not at all certain that equality helps these objectives.

Inequality can be described as one of the major drivers and consequences of progress that has in fact lifted all boats.

And if the best way for society to progress is to be extremely unequal and dictatorial (e.g. Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore in modern time; an AI-driven superdictatorship in the future; the Medici family launching the Renaissance in Florence in the distant past) then equality, democracy etc. should go away.

The best thinking on this subject recently came from Yuval Harari. Humans are biochemical machines that process information according to the laws of physics. So – what possible reason is there for us to value these biochemical machines all earning the same number of points on some abstract metric? And what happens when we build better machines? Or clone one person a trillion times?

The idea that equality to another human matters as much (or more) than technological progress, biological immortality, understanding the universe etc. is a fucking stupid remnant of our monkey ego. That cannot bear the idea that another monkey has more bananas or female monkeys.

fuck equality.
Dropbox is using both Go and Rust; they’ve haven’t switched away from either. They even use both together in some places.

Where did you get that idea?
GOV.UK Pay use Amazon ECS, not CF. They do this because it is PCI compliant.

GOV.UK aren't quite yet entirely on AWS but are working toward that end. With GOV.UK, all the code is in the open where possible (https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-aws and https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-puppet respectively for the infrastructure).

Source: I used to work at GDS.
Yes it's the US version I was referring to.
Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it
Or maybe just a climate thing? I find I want to talk much less when my face is freezing. In the long term I imagine this could have easily turned into a habit/cultural thing. You also hear about Latin American people being much "warmer" and friendly, etc.
> just an educated formality rather than a sincere conversation

So small talk, then.
Thank you - this is quite a find. I remember banging my head against the limitations of the HIRES mode and eventually doing everything in text mode with redefined characters - I was working on a windowing system at the time.

Best thing in for summer was two weeks with my grand father, my Atmos and my monitor - and certainly not my mom telling me to get out in the sun (and my grand father couldn't care less.)
This article somewhat seems to assume that 'everyone is good at something' (although at the end it veers towards 'it doesn't matter if someone is good at anything', so it's a bit unclear at that). But anyway it seems that people only think that to make themselves feel good, as logic dictates otherwise. Say there are 10 traits in which one can be good (some of such traits are enumerated in the article, but let's say for the sake of the argument there are 10). They are more or less independently assigned; and if they're correlated at all, that correlation is positive (being good looking and athletic, for example). Then it follows there will always be people who are above average on more than 5 traits, and there will be people where it's the other way around. There will be people who are great at everything, and some who suck at everything. Yet I don't see that addressed in pieces like this. What is the counter argument from this school of thought?
Wanna help me out then? I'm in a different part of the country than y'all. One of things I often wonder when reading HN is what "bro" means, because it's so obviously a loaded term out there that's meant differently than any other context I've heard it.
Can you elaborate on that? I saw the fingerprint scanner libraries being added but does this add a significant amount of the hardware installed these days?
Step by step philosophy is what we follow at our company.
Clear goals and day by day solutions. Works fine.
and Holland too
Current defaults are `TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2`. The logic in stating `TLSv1.2` or `TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2` is that you're excluding TLSv1 or TLSv1.1 rather than explicitly including TLSv1.2.
> I worked at one the FAANG and I found in my team and some of the neighboring teams the most insecure, unfriendly, back-stabbing, conspiratorial bunch of technically semi-competent losers I ever had the displeasure of working with.

I think a lot of people would enjoy a blog post elaborating on that experience (possibly under a pseudonym to protect you from vengeance).
leads to depression hence their sky high suicide rates.

That's a myth. Finland's suicide rate is basically the same as that in the US, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark all have a significantly lower rates.
To be honest, I've seen this kind of post written for pretty much every Ubuntu version since 10.04
Couldn't you just fake it in a container pretending it was ext4? Apart from the real question: why Dropbox when you can rsync and others.
Can you explain?

I've been using my fingerprint scanner for years.
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A similar kind of formality used to be a thing in Western culture, at least up until the 1980s.

Watch any kind of TV show from back then and notice the formality in the clothing of presenters, the substantially more discernible pronunciation, the vocabulary. The cultural shift towards informality is a recent trend in the West.
I don't believe it os reasonable to portray microservices as the result of incompetence and blame-shifting.

Microservices are actually a very basic and fundamental principle of software engineering: separation of concerns. If your system is extensive enough so that it covers multiple independent concerns and your team is large and already organized into teams focused on each concerns then it makes technical and organizational sense to divide the project into independent services.
Re your last paragraph, well yeah, it sucks, but it's what we have to live/work with. So while it would be nice to live in a parallel universe where it doesn't matter ('it' = inequality), the current reality is that it does.
It's not even a formality, the response is mostly automated. They are taught to do this but after a while it just becomes something they say without thinking much. Part of it is so the boss is happy. If the boss sees employee not following the script they can get some serious talking.
The difference between quality and quantity. In professions that tend more towards art than science this more pronounced. There is only so much you can solve by throwing resources at it.

On the other hand, if your problem is to simply produce more of something no 1000x genius will get you far enough. Farer than the mediocre resource, but even for these people a day has only 24 hours.
Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
And Dutch:

Spreken is zilver, zwijgen is goud.

German:

Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold.

And probably many other languages besides. Proverbs are usually not limited to a single language though they may change subtly in translation.
`apt install flatpak` totally works. Why wouldn't it?
Gandhi is usually associated with peaceful behavior because of his non-violent resistance ideas.

But these romanticized portrayals of Gandhi often omit darker aspects of his persona like his racist quotes about Africans.
Well for one, at release, if you mistype your password, and then type it correctly, gdm would crash and you had to hard reboot.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1031797/ubuntu-18-upgrade-fa...
Speaking from an Icelandic perspective, I think the 'love of socialism' stems from the fact that we've pretty much always needed to rely on one another to just survive in the harsh living conditions. Of course, these conditions have improved drastically since the early 20th century but I think a lot of the culture remains.
> Everyone still says Google is so great. Enough that I still wonder what happened. I also couldn't settle in, didn't like anyone, and was continually interrupted/harassed/followed.

In Western cultures, people put so much spin on what they say that I wouldn't assign much value to it. "Loving the job" may often literally mean "the job sucks less than the all my other previous jobs, my long-term depression is somewhat better now". Sharing the unpleasant truth is usually seen as career and social suicide, so people put on a face.
We do that for small talk in Holland mostly. run into your neighbour? 'ooh, the weather!' 'quite!' and move on :)
Actually, it is mostly complaining about it. too hot, too wet, too dry... And all while it is mostly excruciatingly mild compared to places with real weather :P
It's true that most cities don't have records of everything that has been buried beneath their streets, although I don't know whether the additional costs of finding the appropriate items and the occasional unintended damage to other bits of infrastructure outweigh the increased costs of having to deal with far longer pipes/cables/whatever.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/nobody-kn...
Looks like I need to move to Finland :D
Thank you for the clickable link and nice words!
Greetings from Poland! :)
Interesting that the article mentions Shopify supporting over 600,000 users with a Rails monolith.

At my day job, one of the justifications for us adopting microservices is that we want to horizontally scale.

We have fewer than 8,000 users.

Hubris, eh?
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I think it is a little different than smalltalk. When people smalltalk, no matter how shallow the conversation is, there is still an intention to “get to know” with each other. But in the cashier example, the cashier does not have any goal to forge a relationship with the customer, but will repeat the same thing over and over because that’s what they’re told to do in the manuals.
If you're worried about items fading, just hang them inside-out.
FWIW, you can simply cut 2 cms from the tall end and have the same ratio as US paper.
It is strange that this article sees Finland as an odd man out in terms of customer-service interactions, and it suggests the USA or the UK is the norm. I have lived in both southern Europe (where people are claimed to be more extrovert) and in Finland, and generally interacting with a "barista" or cashier in both places is exactly the same, consisting of only the words "Hello" and "Thanks". In the USA one might get small talk coming from employees who don’t know you, but that tends to be feigned and is therefore rather creepy.
I'm Norwegian, and had the same experience moving to the UK. For several years I kept grumbling about how rude people were to ask and then just keep walking while I stopped to answer.
That annoyed me as well, seems like the worst possible choice of format and quality for the given images.
The point is about stealing, not who about gets stolen.
I wonder how the Estonians compare?
The late 1400s was very far away from Nationalism. You are thinking of the early 1800s. The first truly Nationalist state was France under Napolean or some would say the USA, but even earlier USA barely held itself together for the first 20 years.
You will need a CPU with at least SSE4.1 to use macOS High Sierra/Mojave.

It's somewhat amusing to see an Apple OS behaving nicely with an emulated modern CPU connected to 20-year-old PC hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_440FX

Incidentally this is also how some software detects it's inside a VM --- physically impossible hardware combinations. A real 440FX doesn't support more than 1GB of RAM. Also interesting to note that it was a predecessor of the famous 440BX which was highly popular shortly before the turn of the century.
Not sure if you are mocking reddit or trying to help reddit and hurt hacker news. Reddit is an important part of hacker culture and has plenty of insightful information. I thought that was a good TLdR actually. Summaries are important.

Anyway back to point: article is complaining that meritocracy doesn’t remove class hierarchy, it just reorganizes their classes. Ok, so what ? People are still free to find other tribes that cross meritorious classes, like on reddit or hacker news.
Wait -- talking squirrels are real? I knew it!
I am not sure where I am going to start to help to sync up your worldview a bit but there are so many things wrong with this comment that an attempt will run a lot longer than the original.

Your ideas on socialism seem to be confusing communism, socialism, the well-fare state and the social contract all at once.

There is a lot of stereotyping in your comment (fair enough, there is too in the article), and you are jumping to conclusions about both the rates and the underlying cause of suicides in the Nordics.

Finally, your last paragraph again draws on stereotypical blue-prints about the British and the Americans.
I wasn't explicitly talking about the loading screen.
In most cases, it is possible to convey the same information in a concise manner to the average person.

Just like with math, I get the impression that sometimes the level of jargon/legalese used is an attempt to differentiate oneself from the everyday person. The same information could theoretically be put forward in a way which is understandable to all, not just those with a degree.
Why do you believe development would be faster and cheaper? Because the individual services are smaller?

Come on. The system is as large and as complex as will be necessary. Separating components with network calls doesn't make them any less interdependent.
The harsh reality is that every distribution has these last-minute creepers. More user engagement would help here, much more than crying for the next distro.

Use whatever you like since each has their own policies for a reason that makes sense IMHO.

If you do not care for professional/commercial use cases, install Arch Linux. It almost never breaks (zero times for me in six years of use) and always has the latest and gives you stuff mostly unmodified (as in just patching needed to make it run somehow).
I get that you don't sell software for a living.

Looking forward for the next set of YCombinator applications with a business model based on piracy.
You really can get all the benefits of popular architectures without going off the rails!

Don't start out with a DI framework, use poor man's DI (ie 'passing stuff in').

Don't start out with microservices, use (poor man's) DI, ban all public static/global variables, and segregate code into separate processes with public 'interfaces' (but don't use actual interfaces until you actually need them! 1 interface per class is an antipattern!). These can all run in an async process pool you build, which can monitor bottlenecks when you get to that point. You can then (years later) easily break an internal service into a microservice when the trade off makes sense.

I'm obviously static typing/oop focused, but there's a version of this which applies to any paradigm.
Worth saying if you actually do spend a couple of hours setting it up and disable updates it works great.

Been using a hackintosh for work for 4+ years.
You're right. And it's not really rewarding to be down-voted when you and me, and others point this out.

There is a slow but steady trend towards plain news on HN.
It sounds to me like you're assuming any previous reputation, recognition etc came from deeds, results, tangible effects that are by now timeless, and then outrage over information that may have no relation to these past merits unfairly ruins that legacy.

While I believe the value we [0] ascribe to people, their acts, artifacts of their work was predicated on untold assumptions about their motivations, feelings, character etc. in the first place. New unexpected negative information simply ruins that value. It's not about the action itself.

It's just like many can't ever forgive betrayal even if it seems minor in terms of actions.

[0] or enough of us
Seems like as good a time as any to pop in a reference to Michael Booth’s lovely book ‘The Almost Nearly Perfect People’. He’s British, from memory he’s married to a Dane, and he treks around all of the Scandinavian countries — Iceland & Greenland included — and dispels the common myths.

Review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/10/perfect-people...
Any example companies or products you'd recommend looking at?