skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However much these various blogs and such are right, which they seem to be, the continuing, constant, vitriol that at this point can only be for the chorus already singing it, starts to look like something in itself, something beyond just trying to "warn" people.

I can't help but feel it is, at least in part, coming from (perhaps unconscious) shame. We are at the sunset of a Californian Ideology where VC could save the world, Twitter could facilitate democracy, YouTube could democratize entertainment, culture. We are in a situation where any possible tech-minded business models can only promise to become so monolothic that they become de facto libertarian states, or be so fractured and specific that they inevitably prey on specific mental ticks of their users, or otherwise contrive value through subscriptions.

Everything has led to this, whether you all can accept that or not, whether you should feel "responsible" or not (you shouldn't). This almost comically absurd force of computers and money and energy now comes forward, with an army of infrastructure and knowledge and VC funding ready to greet it. You can see all our sins wrapped up into it, along with some newer things as well.

I think people are so angry because they see that, they see a likeness, even if distorted, in the macro structures of crypto, and in that they feel shame. It's as if there was quick a shortcut taken to the worst possible evolution of everything everyone was already working on in this space, big or small. And there is shame in realizing that this is what we were working towards, a secretly terrible teleology realized.

And so, to attempt to atone, you write a blog post about how evil it all is, as if it was something that literally came ex nihilo to threaten all our good work from before, denying that, in fact, it is merely a secret, forbidden wish granted. The logical culmination of this wild ride of capitalism and technology we have been riding. We are all guilty.
>Lack of systemd. Managing services through shell scripts is outdated to me.

This, this and this again !

After decades of cron, I discovered systemd timers via a passing comment I read here on HN.

My god is it amazing. No more hacky work-arounds in my scripts, systemd now takes care of all the magic such as random timings etc.

I'll never go back to cron.
Not related to your comment 100%, but after reading your comment I went researching curiously. Ended up questioning "hey didn't ISPs used to cache content?" Only to discover that they don't anymore, because of HTTPS/SSL, the gift that keeps on giving and effectively warping the web.

So that leads me to my question for HN. Have we completely abandoned non-HTTPS, particularly perhaps for the use-case of server-side caching of HTTP content? Also, isn't this a valid use-case to not use HTTPS and to re-enable that sort of functionality at the network/ISP level?
First you start with some project planning sprints. Later on you will begin the implementation of the command line module exercises.
In this scenario are you saying

AWS/Azure > BunnyCDN > Cloudflare?

Or just straight AWS/Azure > Cloudflare?
Agreed. It's honestly a luxury to get to decide to be anti-cloud, a luxury paid for by someone else's idea not finding product/market fit for that much longer while you fiddle with nginx settings for another four hours.
You already own any assets that you create by default. If you type a message into a text editor, you own the copyright on it. Under Facebook's Terms of Use, you more-or-less give up that ownership when you paste it into a form on their website. There is no intrinsic limitation in Web 2.0 technology that robs us of ownership, it is business incentives that do it.

Please explain how adding a crypto wallet or blockchain into this mix changes anything meaningful.
Understanding the nuances of ownership and who is responsible for what is quite an important skill for corporate lawyers.
This isn't uncommon in Google results. The other day I wanted to double check that Steve Carell was Gru in Despicable Me because I'm awful at remembering celebrity names. The search "despicable me cast" got a list where he didn't show up until you scrolled way down, past someone else (who appears to be a dubbed version's lead) credited for the role. I'm guessing the issue is really in whatever dataset they source movie casts from.
It's one out of a large number of propaganda lines or "NPC script lines" where the ultimate goal is to convince the reader/listener to decide that we should simply stick our heads in the sand and pretend the COVID-19 pandemic does not exist.

You are lucky if you have not been exposed to this propaganda very much yet.

You might notice that the editorial reads as if the word "Covid" refers to "that time when the government told us to wear masks and get vaccines and all that stuff." I'm not sure if people actually hold this view or just pretend to, but it's not uncommon.

It's trying to give off the aura of "Oh, remember when all those silly people told us to wear masks, it was just a silly thing that happened one time, why are we still talking about it, we should just forget it ever happened."

People with attitudes similar to the author are the reason there is still a COVID-19 pandemic, in the developed world at least. I'm surprised you don't have experience with them by now.
Ask HN: How was your interviewing experience this cycle?
With this being the most one of the most "hottest" season for changing jobs, how has been your experience with interviewing?

More specifically

a. How many companies did you apply for?

b. How many companies reached out to you?

c. How many interviews did you typically go through for a company?

d. What were the type of interviews? (Have the number of companies asking leet code questions decreased? haha)

d. How many offers did you get?

e. And finally how did you manage your time with all those interviews and companies?
F-35 and F-117 Spotted Flying with Mysterious Mirror-Like Skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

The Venn diagram of web3, cryptocurrency, and blockchain proponents is substantially similar to a circle.
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Hopefully this kills "alt gold" ideas for BTC for good. No one can hold it as a hedge vs equities now after the correlated fall.

I feel awful for everyone in El Salvador and Turkey and elsewhere who've been conned into holding this instead of fiat and are now in a mire - a mire that probably involves not eating.

Christ, I decided that I couldnt handle the BTC risk - people who encouraged those folks to take it on should be... well... should be sorry.
You could totally make one of these without moving to Arizona or even visiting.

Here’s the recipe:

[ your favorite pop tart ]
[ ]
[ the slice of ice cream ]
[ ]
[ and the other pop tart ]
If you use argo caching on Cloudflare, it should reduce origin server load even more. Essentially, instead of going directly to your origin, cloudflare endpoint will first reach to it's root node to see if it's cached there and only that node is allowed to communicate with your origin. I see like ~95% cache hits with that turned on.
The best setup will forever remain Heroku free instance tier with a free Pingdom account providing traffic to keep it from getting shutdown
What goes up...
However, until this works, nixpkgs should provide a wrapper around FHSUserEnv which allows developers to develop without the curse.
"Immigrant Investors" is technically correct but a reader is likely to imagine poor Central American refugees spending their last few dollars. In reality, these are wealthy foreigners who attempted to participate in the EB-5 "buy American citizenship for $500,000" program. Not saying they deserved to be ripped off, but the entire point of the program is to skirt the normal waiting process and buy their way to the front of the line for citizenship. It's hard to have much sympathy.

Edit: EB-5 grants a green card (permanent residency), not citizenship directly. Although getting the green card is required for eventually gaining citizenship.
You're aggregating capabilities pretty broadly. While it might be true that a short person might be able to walk farther and get some special thing, or a small person might be able to get into a nook and get some special thing, or a big person might be more able to carry a bunch of things back in a similar amount of time, these are complementary capabilities and no one of them is more valuable than the others independently.

Even if you accept your premise that there is one dimension of capability, what is the metric, more tubers than you can eat?
> there's literally not a single reason for not wanting to use a cloud service / a managed provider

How about lock-in?
Imagining a digital arms race where crypto transactions are hidden in images using steganography
This is such a bad and US-centric example: for anyone who lives in a place where it is easy to get around without a car, hiring a car only when you need it is a no-brainer financially and owning a car is a totally waste of money.
"Hetzner Cloud" is a VPS service, this entire conversation is about managed services vs unmanaged.

Running under QEMU doesn't mean a server is managed.
Do we have a non-paywalled version of this article?
Well, I think so, but around 65% of adults are overweight in my country, less than 30% eat enough dietary fibre and 82% of adults consume alcohol. Of course there are things out of our control, but a lot of people act like they don't care about getting sick.
Same, by the time you need to explain how transformers use electromagnetism, they probably understand the basics of V=IR which is really as far as the analogy goes.
Remember when no-sql came out and everyone was rushing to it because "rdbms don't scale"? I'm beginning to feel the same way towards "cloud" in the Azure or AWS sense. You can go really really far with standard issue VMs from linode or digital ocean and so on. I wonder how many are overpaying for Cloud services so far above and beyond what their actual needs are.
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Is downtime an actual, business-killing problem in practice? In my experience, very rarely so, and clouds also have downtime (over which you have much less control) and seems like we live with it just fine.

> when you need a 3 hours downtime on prod because you need to reboot and reconfigure your services

What about when your RDS instance fails and is then stuck on "modifying" for an indefinite period of time (ended up being 12 hours, and I suspect an AWS engineer eventually did a manual operation to fix it) and you have to restore from a backup and rebuild the missing data manually from other sources such as logs in the meantime just to get back online? I've seen it happen and would've much preferred having the option to SSH in and recover it manually.

Scaling is less of a problem when bare-metal is so cheap that you can significantly overprovision and never have to worry about autoscaling. This also means you need much less moving parts that can break and take your service down.

I'm not saying that the cloud is always bad, but a hybrid approach would be the most pragmatic choice. For raw compute and bandwidth, bare-metal is orders of magnitude cheaper. You can still use the cloud's managed services from those if you need them, though given how cheap bare-metal is you may realize that you no longer need a lot of them.

When it comes to management/sysadmin work, every shop that uses the cloud beyond very small projects that are fully on a PaaS such as Heroku has a dedicated DevOps person (or more), no different from bare-metal in terms of effort. I'd argue it's more effort than bare-metal because clouds and their associated services, APIs and tooling (Terraform, etc) change much more frequently than old-school Linux and hardware.
I have a feeling that some security automaton at a major corporation is about to have their mind blown when they discover the world of Open Source Software. They had absolutely no idea that non-commercial software was even a thing.
I think the idea was lobbying browser makers to do so. You could of course still pull the image in via cURL or whatever so its pretty dumb.
lol. No, it's not a linux distro!
The perils of being Paul Ehrenfest
Lots of improvements and additions planned for the coming months. Thank you for sticking with us.
This is a great point. People might say bitcoin went up 5000% over x amount of time but what percentage of the people saw those returns and what percent of people got beat up over the spikes in 2021. Now that the market is essentially saturated, meaning everyone one who could buy bitcoin now has the ability to buy bitcoin… the growth left can’t necessarily come from new market entrants… and while there will always be stories of people hitting it rich, when 50% of people or more have only experienced a loss, a speculative asset can easily get negative sentiment, and permanently if enough people lose.
Thats quite idealistic
What really helped me were the videos of Jon Ringer: https://www.youtube.com/user/elitespartan117j27
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Very neat. I have embedded Javascript in Go before with goja and the results were pretty good. I used it to test Auth0 rules; they were in the critical path for our sign-in flow and a refactoring made some of them not work, so I just included them in the codebase and make sure they work against the API during the unit tests. I thought it was neat, and it made developing those rules much easier.

No doubt there is a lot of opportunity to do things like this, and using V8 probably gives you better fidelity against production (since they're likely running the rules with V8).
This is just factually wrong. Its literally equivalent to saying by holding us dollars you are funding the drug industry.
You might want to learn a bit more about how peering works. It's definitely not free even if the major players have reciprocal agreements — just ask Netflix how free that was when Comcast wanted to double-charge them.
> Getting a new Tinder account involves getting a new phone number. But when the same happens with an online videogame linked to Playstation, Xbox or Steam accounts, being kicked off can mean losing hundreds of euros in downloaded games and in-app purchases.

That is plain theft. You will have no rights in the Metaverse. That is there future if we do not regulate tech companies.

This reminds me of how American cities were designed for cars, and the ones designed for humans were dismantled. Do not let this happen to your on-line world. Tech should be human first, corporations profits are not a social goal, human well being is.
It's cheaper to enjoy beers in your living room than at a bar, too.
I think it's somewhat to late for UNIX to evolve in general.

There's too many decades of cruft and backwards compatibility built up. Afaict, most interesting new OS's being built right now are similar to UNIX, but very explicitly not.
AFAIK all transactions on a blockchain require spending some associated currency (e.g. "gas fees"). For investors, I think the killer feature is being able to make money off of every transaction involving identity and health data.
The reserved capacity pricing is lower, in a business setting your account manager will usually suggest this pretty quickly if you have a steady and/or increasing Cloudfront bill.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040235
> I vaguely recall back in one of my engineering classes we did the math on turning all of the stationary bikes at the gym into power generating units.

Very much related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
Well, i don't know, i have issues with that rant.

I will ignore the systemd stuff, because, well, you could have devuan which is debian without systemd.

With appimage, flatpak and nixos you can have newer stuff, but of course, you might have to do work yourself.

And the stability of the OS. What exactly? The stability only of the kernel? or the things interoperating with the kernel are more stable? but your kde on freebsd was also patchy and buggy?

and safe upgrades, well, debian does that for over a decade, come on. With ZFS on debian i did not work, but there would be btrfs. and as long you do not really have an data issue, i have a hard time believing btrfs is not good enough on the desktop.

disk encryption works as good as on freebsd as on linux.

switching between connections.. ever heard of nmctl?

I mean, i am happy if you found something that works for you, and the bsd guys are great.. but to be honest, none of your reasons are from my POV real reasons for switching. you just did not research the stuff. which is okay, but don't shit on the linux desktop architecture just because the knobs are not in the colour you like. or you do not even know about the knobs
we are talking about math here, there are always applications even ones where we dont know in this day and age.

I am positive the same question could be been asked about basic calculus concepts in the 12th century.
If that quote from RMS were to be taken seriously, then he should not even take a plane, or a car. Hopefully he'll never be in the position of choosing death vs free software.
I'm a FreeBSD desktop users since 2015 (and 1998->2007 before that), having used Ubuntu LTS as a desktop 2007->2015. What I miss most from Linux is apt/dpkg.

I think Ubuntu (debian really) does a fantastic job of packages. I love the stable set of packages + ppa's for when you need the latest version.

FreeBSD basically has rolling release packages (even the quarterlies are rolling release). I've been screwed over so many times by some conflict on upgrade that the solver cannot satisfy, and this has left me without a working DE several times. Eg, the solver decided to delete kde because some package had a conflict.

I may just be "lucky", but I never had these problems with ubuntu, even on distro upgrades.

EDIT: The 7 years on Linux was due to a ports update leaving me without a working window system in 2007 or so. I gave up and just installed Linux. The pkg system has matured a lot since then, and I never, ever, do source based ports upgrades these days
It seems like what you’re talking about is the “financialization” of things rather than the “free market”. Essentially, you dislike the “market”ness of healthcare, not the “freeness” of the market for healthcare.

I certainly disagree with you that it being a market is the problem, but I think one can consider downsides to that pretty straightforwardly: the lack of price elasticity when you’re dying makes markets price poorly, discouraging people from healthcare is a societal bad, etc.

The idea that there should be a market but that it should not be free is something I just find really problematic since it’s just a steal-from-everyone-to-enrich-medical-barons thing.

If you don’t want to have the freeness argument then perhaps choosing other phrases will help. If you do want to have that argument, obviously you’ll find yourself discussing whether or not the market is free.
> We slowly build the chain from, "no shouting fire in a crowded theater"

Context of that quote is probably not what you expected, it was used in ruling censoring any speech expressing opposition to conscription.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

>After Holmes' opinions in the Schenck trilogy, the law of the United States was this: you could be convicted and sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act if you criticized the war, or conscription, in a way that "obstructed" conscription, which might mean as little as convincing people to write and march and petition against it.
"if people didn't think they could make money off of Bitcoin, it would be worth absolutely nothing." Effectively, he believed that the value of Bitcoin was entirely in people's perception.

The value of pretty much everything is defined by how much people are willing to pay for it. Bitcoin is just some numbers in a database that a lot of people have convinced each other are worth something. US$ is some pieces of paper and some numbers in a database that a much larger number of people have convinced each other are worth something. Your labor is worth some amount because that is what you have been able to get people to pay for it. So is mine. A sandwich is worth some amount, so is the labor of the people who made it.
From the outside, people see the payoff. They don't see the risk or the work. (At least, that's my guess.)
The analogies I've heard are that a capacitor is like a rubber membrane in line with the water pipe, and that an inductor is like a flywheel being driven by a turbine.
Advising someone do their own research is a cheap way to circumvent providing any sources.
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Out of curiosity how many of those have you played all the way through, or beat? Or are you more into collecting them as a hobby
The word “poach” itself is problematic and insulting, and we should not use it. As a worker, I am not some deer or other wild game, being “stolen” from the land of a feudal lord. I have agency and may voluntarily switch among employers as I wish. “Poached” implies ownership that doesn’t exist.
There is no copy involved with the std::optional version.
Earth had a temporary moon from 2017 to 2020
> Isn’t computer science all about building on abstractions?

Wow, I guess this is why so much software is so slow and fragile these days.
> I mean, seems like they just turn up with a camp chair and a good book, then sit around all day getting paid until they get fired, then they take up the other offer ?

These are health care workers, not retail clerks at a GameStop. If they did that it would likely mean a patient doesn't get adequate care.
I don't know what you're trying to say here. Fast food is a trick? Does it not prevent me from starving?

It seems like you're saying something like "stop trying to prevent people from being scammed, because reasons." What are those reasons? If I see someone trying to scam others, why shouldn't I warn those people?
Buy assets, minimise expenditure and maintain happiness through tiny incremental upgrades.

But maybe these takes are assuming that nobody can afford to buy assets any more unless they already have them. Most people I know consider everything they buy to be an expense.
> because you're using a diff tool to run deployments

I really don't see what using a diff tool has to do with the cloud.

This is basically the textbook definition of a straw man argument.
Deprecated on Linux. But I for one can’t consign them to the dustbin of my memory, because on my Mac, they are not deprecated, while the `ip` command that replaces them on Linux does not exist. With this part of macOS being derived from FreeBSD, I don’t know whether that makes FreeBSD a savior or a villain.

Personally I blame all of the major Unix-derived operating systems (Linux, macOS, BSDs), as none of them show any interest in standardizing any APIs or commands invented this millennium. The subset that’s common to all of them is frozen in time, and is slowly being replaced by new bits that aren’t. From epoll/kqueue to eBPF, containers/jails to seccomp/pledge, DBus/XPC to init systems… from low-level network configuration (ifconfig, ip) to high-level network configuration (whatever that is this month).
Uniswap itself is centralized, using GitHub for centralized repository code storage and the app itself is also centralized. The organization is centralized, with employees reporting into a centralized structure as well.
> Water only ever remains inside the pipes that carry it.

If only! My apartment was recently destroyed by water that refused to do exactly that...

Electricity also doesn't freeze solid, expand, and break open its insulation; it doesn't evaporate and condense on cold surfaces and cling there under surface tension, it doesn't drip down.

But the analogy is still a pretty useful one for people who have lots of hands-on experience with water and not much with electricity, or vise-versa.