skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a product of its time too. I'd put it in the 80s Cyberpunk bucket where the noir surroundings and mega corporations are a product of xenophobia, basically.

This is a super interesting critique of basically everything cyberpunk, that I've only recently come across. I still don't totally buy the xenophobia angle, because to me it just came across as a projection of hyper-corporate/capitalist. Like it's an extrapolation out from where we were, but the problem isn't that it's foreigners, it's that it's hyper-capitalist. In blade runner the world has been globalized to the point where we don't recognize downtown LA, but that's not actually what's wrong with the world - big faceless corporations and environmental destruction are what's wrong with the world. While the environment itself is heavily influenced by asian imagery, Tyrell and Weyland-Yutani aren't very strongly coded asian. i.e. Tyrell is run by an Elon Musk type engineer-ceo, and Weyland is a decidedly white name to go along with the Yutani part.

I'm still digesting this idea tho, I definitely need to re-watch with this in mind. There is definitely some playing with xenophobia there, just... how much? and is it re-enforcing it, or is it challenging it?
I love this take on regret, and it really resonates with how I reason about it.

I wrote a short blog post on the idea of judging your past self based on your current values: https://www.samvitjain.com/blog/regret/. Curious what you think!
I can only recommend "The science of Interstellar" book as a great companion to the movie, explaining the physics side of it.
As for Interstellar itself, I watched it the year it came out and I thought it was a pretty cool science-fiction movie. I rewatched it last year sometime after my father died of covid and I appreciated it from a whole different angle. Suffice to say, I don't remember the last time I cried watching a movie.
blade runner is good, however my personal best sci-fi film is matrix, specially the 1st one
I can't say which films were the most influential, but here's a list of ones which were at least as influential IMHO and also sort of stand on their own: Star Wars Trilogy (epic sci-fi), 2001: A Space Odyssey (hard sci-fi), The Thing (body horror sci-fi), Alien (body horror/dystopian sci-fi), Mad Max (post apocalyptic sci-fi), E.T. (family sci-fi? lol), The Terminator (post apocalyptic), Howard the Duck (still reading?), Predator (dunno?)

I could list a lot of others but I'll stop there.
It's a Ridley Scott problem.

Everything I've seen in the last several years that he's had a hand in (another example is Taboo) is visually amazing but confusing.
I love that the author ends the post by coining a new buzzword. It's like that XKCD about standards.

Also, for those of us who have been around the block, we remember the Old Ways and I for one don't miss all the shitty parts of the Old Ways.

Also, it's worth noting:
>Since joining Pulumi, I’m seeing the world through a different lense: the world of the developer.

This is marketing for Pulumi :tm: - the infrastructure as code platform that frees you from declarative DSLs!
Countless SF films. I found Interstellar very middle-drawer. I didn't hate it but certainly wasn't wowed by it.
https://www.space.com/pig-poop-lagoons-landsat-5-satellite
Sometimes I wish shows like this would be open to doing other stories with the same settings and actors. Like, you already have all the resources, so why not remix them? This kind of thing could work really well for Fantasy stories - you already have the locations, costumes, practical FX, actors - it seems like the script (and the setups) are just about the easiest thing to change. Meanwhile all the rest, music, editing, lighting, catering...it's already setup! Has anyone done this before? Is it a terrible idea?
The 6501 and 6502 were developed simultaneously and the 6502 was released a month later (Aug 1975 vs Sept 1975). Both well before the lawsuit began, yet alone concluded.
The reddit experience is very different for a person who doesn't have a business they want to market as opposed to someone who is just there for entertainment or personal enlightenment.

Social Media sites an apps work very hard to "beat up" independent business people, so that they are huddled into a group that needs to pay (somehow) every time they want to gain customers or awareness. It's crushing the entire world of independent business. It may not be a conspiracy per-say, but it's a very serious end result of how these apps are set up and administered.

The bank analogy was just a depiction of how difficult people who are trying to promote their work have it in just being able to develop their brand/presence on the Internet now within Reddit's eco system. Scammers and others who don't represent a specific brand don't have this problem, because they don't need to represent a consistent brand name, they can easily use burner and throw-away accounts to promote themselves...

If you run a web site for your company and it gets blacklisted (shadowbanned) all across reddit, you become extra-limited, because then not even people who like your product, company, or service can even post about it or mention it on Reddit. It completely limits and controls the possibility of normal business growth and opportunity for a LOT of people when a site or app grows to be that big/vital as a community. ShadowBanning also isn't apparent to the company owner, they can potentially keep struggling to break ground and never know that all of their posts are being muted.
My ex wife is 16 years younger than me (from 1987). So I made her watch many movies from the 80's and 90's that I think are classics.

Well,most of the time she didn't apreciate them because she watched a lot of TV movies in her teens, and knew most of the plots and twists.
From my experience, the off the shelf tooling works poorly with monorepos. Everything is still optimised for the polyrepo microservice craze of 2017.

There are tools out there, but they're not free and they involve some level of vendor lock in. I've worked on some monorepo build scripting myself.
The problem with Docker and friends, from my perspective as a developer, is that it's a whole other skill-set you have to learn, keep up with, and context-switch into and out of. I think that's why it usually ends up being its own job: maybe those technologies bring some order to a huge messy problem-space, but they don't make the problem-space simple. The abstraction is way, way too leaky to use it without knowing and thinking about all the ins and outs of everything that's going on underneath. And you can't even just use the existing knowledge you might have of scripting and systems: you have to learn whole new technologies on top of those. And as a dev, who's already thinking about all the ins and outs of my own whole complex system, that just kneecaps my ability to stay in a headspace where I can get things done.

If you want me to do my own ops, they need to have a Heroku level of simplicity. That's what's required for them to not detract from my other work, and not drive me to burnout. Anything less, and I'm going to just keep tossing things over the fence.
> I can't for the life of me understand why people don't put static ads that are relevant to the consumers of their content.

It's kind of a matching and scaling problem. The ad publisher wants to have a well targeted audience that will convert well, while the website wants to generate ad revenue that won't drive people away.

The problem is that the ad publisher probably doesn't want to deal with the hassle of negotiating with dozens of niche websites for their audience, while the websites don't really want to do the same either. Hence, the rise of ad exchanges, which offers benefits for the ad publishers (deal with only a handful of exchanges, all kind of ad targeting criteria) and the websites (deal with only the exchange, add an ad snippet to generate revenue almost immediately).

The catch is that to extract the most money from ads, the exchanges do all kinds of tracking to figure out the most optimal ads to serve and we end up with the current adtech industry, instead of manually targeted static ads.
Tyrell is of Scandinavian origin, Eldon Tyrell was played by Joe Turkel, the name in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep was the Rosen corporation. I figure it was more fear of Germanic people than Japanese.
Smurfing? If I take you’re meaning correctly, that is not what is happening here. You cannot make multiple small transactions to make up one larger transaction. It specifically disallows it in the bill.

This really is about encouraging it’s use as a currency.
Cool story. I'm using those undelete search engines anyway.
My view is a little more negative because of all the hype it gets but only a little. It's just a bad movie.

SPOILER WARNING

To understand the plot structure (such that it is) in Interstellar, you have to start with the writer's desire for the emotional ending of the main character with his daughter, who is now old. Everything that happens in the movie is a really forced way to reach that outcome.

The whole watch time-travel thing was more of that illogical nonsense in service of that conclusion.

The time dilation to make all this happens just doesn't work that way. You have to get to a significant percentage of c before time dilation becomes really noticeable. For example, at 0.9c you're still only at ~2x time dilation [1].

The gravity effects of the black hole don't make sense either.

The "science" of Interstellar is no more realistic than Star Trek or Starship Troopers.

[1]: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html
Fossilized, not frozen.
There’s that libertarian streak of “his project, his rules” in this thread. He can include or exclude anyone he wants because it’s his project.

Well, I read the very first line and see that he doesn’t want me, or people like me to be a contributor to this project. And that’s fine. His project, so I hear. But personally, I’ve felt welcome to contribute to every other open source project out there. I’ve felt welcome to apply to any job out there. It feels jarring to be excluded like this. I feel hurt. I shouldn’t be made to feel like this, just because of my religious views.

And no, please don’t split any hairs like “no, he’s not excluding, he’s actually describing…”. You wouldn’t be supporting him if the first line changed to be based on race instead of religion. Then why are you supporting him now?
Discord is the worst offenders of apps that make me TFA and answer captchas every time I have the misfortune of needing to use it.
This can be true, but I would argue not always. Some DevOps teams work in the old mode of “throwing code over to Ops to run” - this isn’t what DevOps intended, but happens.

When they work well, they’re doing things like authoring reusable (by product eng. teams) infrastructure modules, or helping to build “you build it, you run it” tooling like monitoring stacks etc. They’re also helpfully/hopefully subject matter experts on CI/CD, your cloud/hosting of choice, security stuff - things that general developers have mixed levels of interest or competence in.
> It doesn't help that, at least in my experience, a lot of "pure" software developers absolutely want nothing to do with the ops side, preferring to work on new features and just code, and vice versa.

I have almost the exact opposite problem with some of my team, where they want to spend a lot more time on the Operational side. This is a mixed blessing - they'll learn the depths of various AWS things that are painfully boring to me - but I'd rather they were writing code instead of mucking around looking for some magic AWS solution to solve some specific use case.
90+% of companies with "DevOps" mean what the GP is describing.

The biggest tip off - any company with a "DevOps" group or dept isn't doing DevOps. Yet there's a ton of DevOps departments out there
On my car, there’s no park button at all. It’s not even a symbol lighted either, it plainly doesn’t exist. Maybe because it’s a robotic shifter and a not an automatic one - I don’t know. I can only put it in neutral, and if I want a true park, well, I have to shut down the engine and use the handbrake (still manual strangely).
Indeed all of those things existed and they weren’t in widespread use because 99% of organization did not need them. And it hasn't changed.

> 2 sysadmins were absolutely not managing “large scale deployments with multiple data centers”

Please don't make things up because I was there.

> But today it’s actually super plausible that 2 or 3 Devops with modern tooling can manage all of that.

Not really.
A bit of humor from an old blog post:

Critic: Even if Helm and Helm Charts makes it easy to install a set of apps into a Kubernetes cluster, surely some actions are more complicated than a simple install? What about upgrading a PostGres database?

Advocate: Way ahead of you! We worked out that problem a long time ago! You just use a Helm Operator! It’s all really simple!

Critic: Really? And this solves all the problems of upgrading PostGres in a stable and reliable way?

Advocate: Uh, well, it’s supposed to. It’s, uh, all really simple?

Critic: Supposed to?

Advocate: Sure, so long as you have a working Go environment, you just use the Operator SDK to generate the scaffold for your Operator.

Critic: The scaffold?

Advocate: Sure, the scaffold sets up the basics, figures out the permissions, the dependencies, everything needed to install the Helm Chart. Then you can build the Operator container, and install it in your Kubernetes cluster. It’s all really simple!

Critic: This sounds complicated.

Advocate: Way ahead of you! The good folks at RedHat knew people like you were going to whine about stuff, since you obviously like to whine about stuff, so they created the Operator Lifecycle Manager to make all of this a lot easier.

Critic: Doesn’t it seem like we keep piling new technology on top of new technology, to manage the excessive complications of the previous layer of technologies?

Advocate: Hey, think of the alternatives. You don’t want to go back to the bad old days of the past, do you?

Critic: You mean, the bad old days when stuff mostly worked and I didn’t have to learn 3 new alpha technologies each day?

Advocate: That’s a ridiculous exaggeration! Some of these technologies are beta.

Critic: And you seriously regard these piles of code, heaped upon piles of code, as an improvement on the old situation?

Advocate: Are you kidding? It’s like night and day. I’d rather drink arsenic than get dragged back to the bad old days when I had to write Ansible scripts. We live in the future now. We’ve escaped the old world where every attempt at devops became a painful, confusing, unmaintainable disaster after 2 years.

Critic: How long have you been using Docker/Kubernetes in production?

Advocate: 18 months.

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/my-final-post-regardi...
> For instance, you are not allowed to [...] even mention [a competitor's] products.

This is directly refuted by the section of legal code that you linked. The phrasing in there (translated in German) is along the lines of "Mentioning a competitor's product is unfair advertising if [specific catalog of unfair situations]". The list includes things like "comparing products intended for different purposes and functions" or "comparing products by qualities that are not objectively measurable".

I'm not saying that you will not be walking on thin ice if you engage in comparative advertising. In fact, if you target a particularly litigous competitor, you may have a bad time even if you're within your rights, but to say that comparative advertising is flat out illegal is not backed up by the phrasing of the law as presented in your source.

Disclaimer: IANAL. This is not legal advice.
> The problem with anything like this where one person has multiple “roles” is that it is hard to excel at one or the other and very very easy to not be good at both.

In the immortal words of Ron Swanson - never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.
Love to hear any thoughts you have on homesteading in Washington state. Specifically, areas you think are good.

For some reason I am attracted to the south-eastern area that is drier. Forests say "fire" to me (and I also love the sun too much to be "enclosed" by a forest).

North and/or high altitudes say "cold" to me.
Eh, I don't know if that's really a problem. Query "10 minute mail" in Google gives hundreds of results within a millisecond, so... you do this lookup once in 2 years and you're done? Really don't feel like it's a big deal, at least for me
This is obvious untrue… unless parents are not entitled to sleep! Are parents not sleeping at all (aside from when they are woken up by a cry ofc)? Newborns can’t even move from where they are!
FWIW, Blade Runner (like some other films e.g. Apocalypse Now) weren't considered as anything special at the time but were more appreciated as the years went on with or without director's cuts.

That said, I really liked both at the time.
I would disagree and posit that 2001 is the GOAT. Most scifi is heavily influenced by it. The artistry is unsurpassed. The scope and depth of the story is mind blowing.

I was at lunch talking with coworkers about scifi movies. None of them even heard about 2001. It was quite shocking to me. I was the oldest at the table, but I'm not that old.
> Reddit will ban your IP and all accounts corresponding to that IP for alleged ban evasion of a single sub ban.

Is this anecdotal, or do you have more information about this?

In my experience the admins do not care about subreddit bans and only get involved when a person is consistently rule-breaking and evading bans.

Moderators of large subreddits don't even have a direct line of commutation with the admins anymore. There used to be a dedicated Slack where mods could escalate things.
> 1 repo == 1 bounded context == 1 isolated unit of deployment.

The most obvious counterpoint: many systems of record need to scale command operations (writes) and query operations (reads) separately.

So you absolutely would have separate programs, ASGs etc for those two roles
Kind of depends on what you’re building, right? Avoiding building new features in order to limit complexity is probably a good idea in select cases but not in others. Using more complex, purpose-built technology over standard boilerplate is often very cost-efficient, but only if you run at a scale where the additional complexity is worth the savings…
And I think that's why it flopped initially but has such staying power.

Balde Runner is fundamentally film noir and the sci-fi is just the setting.

The essential conflicts are human conflicts--not technological ones. You can replace the setting and you still have mostly the same story.
This is a good point. I've found Teams to be rather buggy and unreliable, on both the client and server sides. The most annoying bit is Microsoft's monthly (or so) service outages when you can't log in.

> I don't expect proprietary software to be high quality or especially usable, so it doesn't surprise me much.

If I pay for a piece of software and it doesn't work as advertised, I ask for a refund.

If I'm paying for a service like Teams or Office 365 that doesn't work as advertised, I stop paying for it.

Unfortunately I'm not the one who is paying Microsoft for Teams, nor am I the person who selected it over various alternatives.

That being said, what do you recommend as some higher quality free/open source alternative to Teams / Office 365 / Gsuite, etc.?
>Instead, we have an unlimited supply of niche communities people can join. Seems pretty great to me.

I think the issue is with the discoverability of those communities. When they're so small and niche and there are so many of them, discoverability suffers. There's a curation element that's missing and that algorithms driven by / manipulated by commercial pressure don't provide.

I don't think we have a modern day replacement for John Peel, for example. We have tons of content (soundcloud etc) but the few people sorting the wheat from the chaff don't seem to be able to muster an audience. The art/talent of curation is much undervalued.
I think I saw someone talking about parsing and they said parsing emoji's and most non latin characters was 'easy'

One would assume a parser that recognized foobaz = 5 in place of foo->bas = 5 wouldn't be a problem. Likely be far easier.
Just tried on Windows with Edge, and I'm experiencing this as well.
I happily also work on bugs, not just new features. The thing is, bugs and features completely fries my brain. Especially if you want it done right and not introduce bugs somewhere else. Forget devops for a second, what I'm saying is that what I described is _already_ enough to fry me. I'm done. You're getting nothing else out of me. When you hire an electrician to wire your house, ask him to also do the plumbing while he's at it. He should really "own" the entire house stack. Let's see how he takes it.
I’m not talking about silencing people I disagree with in terms of opinion. I’m talking about fascists disagreeing that certain ethnic/sexual/gender groups should be alive or allowed to thrive, or have certain rights.

If you think holding views like that is OK, you walk, talk and quack like a fascist.
> BR largely created that bucket.

Combined with William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It was a combined effort.
I had no ideas this was an option in JavaScript.

Fun read.
2005 Your app takes some user data, stores it in a database, and presents a filtered view of it to the user on request.

2022 Your app takes some user data, stores it in a database, and presents a filtered view of it to the user on request.
CATL Qilin Pack, third gen, 255 Wh/kg
Don't act like that ruling wasn't an obvious blunder.
I had a similar experience. It is one of my favorite scifi movies, and it gets better with every viewing. I think it also resonates especially because I have a young daughter myself. The soundtrack though, that clicked right away. I never get tired of that soundtrack. In fact, I would say it is my favorite soundtrack of any movie ever made.
Way to bury the lead:

> I only recently found out that Ghislaine Maxwell, wife to Jeffery Epstein, ran one of the most powerful Reddit accounts on the website. In fact, it was the eighth-most popular account by karma on Reddit.

Spooky X-Files music.
from https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html:

> SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

what makes you think that every open-source project should "make you feel welcome"? "I shouldn’t be made to feel like this"—where does that idea come from? "shouldn't" on what basis? many open-source projects' Codes of Ethics/Conduct/whatever make me feel explicitly unwelcome, but a.) I don't care, and b.) I don't feel entitled to feel welcome in everyone else's project. what makes you feel differently?
Don't buy a Cricut. They are an insanely shitty company. The Oracle of vinyl cutting.

Get a Graphtec Silhouette Portrait 3. £180 and you can use open source software with it.
I love Blade Runner, but I find the detective to be a useless entity, like an ant walking in a deeper world that makes him meaningless. And the idea of them not being able to discover which are the cyborgs makes no sense.
Arthur C Clarke is one of the greatest sci fi authors of all time and wrote the book in conjunction with the movie with Stanley Kubrick. They are meant to be consumed together. Read the book and the movie makes a lot more sense. There is virtually zero ambiguity if you read the book.
All you’ve demonstrated is that some folks are bad at SRE.