What is anyone going to do about it?
MAGA house reps have already fulminated impeachment proceedings for a judge who tried to rein in a lawless Trump admin. The US Marshalls are part of the DOJ that Trump has already pwned, so forget about any consequences for the executive branch completely ignoring the judicial branch selectively.
With MAGA congressional majorities, we have literally no possibility of checking an overreaching Trump administration.
All mechanisms have been subverted already.
There will doubtless not be any midterms, and meanwhile HN doesn't want to be political, yet standing up for our republic is now a partisan effort, and it's being cast as disloyalty to a supreme leader, who apparently now embodies the law and government. Research scientists are denied US entry for having Trump-critical conversations on their phone.
The frog is boiling. Dang will say to pipe down and stop screaming, while the frog cries out for its life, because some foolish boss types still persist in the delusion our house speaker persists in: thst they can ride this bucking bronco to work.
They cannot. The bronco owns them.
Lights out and noting this is considered partisan.
What is more radical than harassing our friends and allies and uniting the world against us?
But if you let out a peep, it's political. We are supposed to enjoy bowing and scraping to obey our overlords, and insufficient display of joy at being suffocated is now partisan.
It didn't need to be this way.
TRUMP has already dismantled much of our republic and yet the articles posted here do not reflect this.
What part of "we are becoming the new nazi state entity" does ycombinator not understand?
At least half their gak is due to them NOT moving quickly and NOT wanting to break things.
IIRC, graphql is a means of papering over a bunch of legacy APIs. They removed foreign keys from mysql using it as a column store db, a vestige of the original LAMP stack still on PHP.
I don't think Meta infrastructural choices are applicable to most folk.
What does serverless land your average dev? A high AWS bill.
Elastic managed Kubernetes stack? A higher bill.
Did you know that you can use YAML and provision actual cloud provider resources with boring tech? Welcome to Ansible.
There is no need to recreate Linux network stack when you have the Linux network stack, and it actually works!
Quite a lot of hacky gak is required when you run node.js as a production public facing web service. A statically compiled binary won't invent novel code execution paths 4 days into a memory leaking runtime bender.
Boring tech is boring, I guess, even if it's new and shiny.
Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.
> Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.
Remember when they hacked a running Android Dalvik machine because their organizational constraints were such that they could never remove code or delete unused classes?
Facebook seems like a place where they do amazing engineering to temporarily stave off the disastrous consequences of their previous feat of amazing engineering.
> Did you know that you can use YAML and provision actual cloud provider resources with boring tech? Welcome to Ansible
Anyone using Ansible for cloud infrastructure management is not to be taken seriously. It's among the worst tools for the job - not (always) idempotent, no state tracking, slow, very limited in the resources it can manage, very lacking templating, fun stuff like "state: absent", running, and then having to remove the corresponding lines to delete, etc etc. You're literally better of bash scripting the cloud provider's CLI than using Ansible. Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi/tfcdk if you hate your future self are just clearly so much better.
I was making a point about provisioning VPSes instead of trying to wrangle postgresql restores inside kubectl or equivalent, of how your cloud provider is already provisioning a single physical server via a hypervisor.
I was making a point that facecrook overengineering is about them being boxed into corners, about how very little of big techs solutions translate to real world usage in the web industry i am very much taken seriously in for over 30 years.
You read 'ansible recommended', which I could also argue with you about, but I shan't.
Consider that your shrill absolute dismissal, "anyone! Not take seriously!"
as if Ansible has been proven wrongful in a court of law, as if your statements are law and binding, get over yourself, for everyones sake.
Down voting me into oblivion over a well deserved opinion is rather aggressive and this makes this community unpleasant.
I am not clueless and don't like beinf treated as if I am.
> I am not clueless and don't like beinf treated as if I am.
You made a clueless comment which I tired to (constructively) dismiss. If you don't want to be treated as clueless, don't recommend the equivalent of using a hammer to peel potatoes.
What is your actual point? You are criticizing Meta for building complex systems by iterating on boring tech like PHP and MySQL, and instead suggesting that they build their systems on top of different boring tech like YAML and Ansible. Why? The fact is that there are no "boring" off-the-shelf solutions for solving the problems that Meta is facing like whole region failures and performant cross-datacenter routing/sharding.
Your comment feels like it's not actually engaging with the contents of this article. It's not that Meta is creating bespoke technologies only out of fear of breaking past code. Their entire methodology of innovation is highly iterative and grounded in feedback through practical demonstration of results. You say that "Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present", as if that is a bad approach, but considering Meta's success, I think it would be wise to seriously reconsider that position.
This isn't specific to Meta/Facebook in any way. A very large percentage of big tech companies use MySQL without foreign key constraints, because they're problematic at scale.
To be clear, foreign key constraints are not used, but it's still very much a relational use-case / workload.
> using it as a column store db
That's nonsensical. Column stores are for analytics, whereas MySQL is used for OLTP. Both InnoDB and MyRocks are row-oriented storage engines.
Maybe you actually meant "key-value store", which is a more common claim, but that's still completely wrong. The query pattern for Facebook's social graph relies heavily on range scans over indexes, which isn't a concept supported by key-value stores. And there are many MySQL workloads at Facebook outside of the social graph database tier, with extremely varied use of MySQL functionality.
Balanced differential inputs and outputs reject common mode noise, which is why they are essential for long cable runs and microphone leads, among other things that benefit from such an interface.
The actual ADC and DAC chips, or codecs, are usually specced just fine in even consumer on-board audio devices.
Hifi audiophiles are notoriously superstitious, and as long as RCA coax is the connection standard, my eyes continue to roll about their DAC nonsense, but you should pay attention to professional audio as this is where you can hear audible differences.
Preamplifier stages and voltage amplification in general have a lot of nuance and analog circuit know-how inside.
Removing the codecs from the inside of an electrically noisy computer is the beginning of starting to care about audio signal quality.
Power filtration is another major concern for noise.
Latency is a factor of buffer size which is both necessarily low when overdubbing recording while monitoring, and yet paradoxically allows for smoother glitch free audio as the buffer size is increased, largely a function that is CPU bound.
No one talks about DMA controllers or the data bus employed, often USB, another factor that can affect audio independent of which audio interface or soundcard is employed.
Some play nicely, some don't.
My advice is to delve into the world of professional audio, as this is real.
Hi-fi often entails gullibility and snake oil in the sales chain.
Get rid of any unwanted noise caused by gear or environment. Add a basic EQ - I'm using a 15-band one just to compensate for the room, the speakers, hearing loss and anything else that would impact the sound.
"What do you mean gullible and snake oil, nonono, I can totally hear the difference since I spend 2k on this audiophile fuse and the 11k CAT 5 cable. It's made of Rhodium and insulated with Dodo-feathers."
I don't see why people are so harsh in mocking audiophiles. There is a continuum of hearing ability in the general population, and if those who fancy themselves at the top of it are willing to pay, what's the problem? Audiophiles are subsiding the development of technologies such as 32-bit recording, which have benefits in other contexts aside from home audio.
From what I've seen, very few of the devices marketed to audiophiles are actually fraudulent. It's like Apple computers: a massive profit margin doesn't make a MacBook a scam, just an expensive way to get features a few months ahead of everyone else.
Audiophiles are a self selected group. Membership has nothing to do with hearing ability. Most are of an age where they have less than “normal” hearing for a healthy child.
Audiophiles classically deliberately confuse measurable differences with audible ones. This they chase meaningless goals and convince themselves that anything which affects signal affects sound.
None of it would stand up to properly double blind testing. When it’s done things like “the sound of cables” disappears entirely outside incompetent engineering.
Even worse audiophiles tend to prefer distortion which flatters. I.e. exaggerated bass and treble to compensate for components and old ears.
Uninformed or misinformed people can make choices against their own interests, such is MAGA.
Facts and physical primary reality matter more than ones opinion, but we paint the sun on the sky and order the tides to recede to please the king anyway.
An informed populace can make informed decisions.
Lying fake news not so much...
Aka $50million for condoms in Gaza is a lie.
Alternative facts will bite us all when the pedal hits the metal.
Seeing the obvious blatant grift spanning the crypto-currency and now LLM booms pales beside the general low hanging fruit noneffort that both the Slacks and Social Medias represent.
These ain't no moonshots and the kids can smell it.
The lack of moral fiber and general depth of character is plain for all to see.
Meta is a joke for old people (facebook) and or your older sister/brother(instaglam).
Xitter seems to have obviated the market for Truth or Parlez or The Daily Stormer or something, thereby only being relevant for overtly far right youth. This leaves us TikTok which them causes them to question the motives of political efforts to ban it.
What are the kids supposed to take away from this contemporary debacle?
> What are the kids supposed to take away from this contemporary debacle?
That's a good question.
As other comments have noted, "trust" is too complex a word for a
clear discussion. With teens there's a different quality of
affect. It's a time of life for seeking role models. Looking for
adults and ideas you would like to be. It is more aspirational,
morally and socially sensitive than mere transactional trust.
In liberal democratic countries like USA or Britain young people grow
up with the expectation of making choices and having a voice, so these
affiliations really matter. We're seeing younger people realise, and
clearly express their disgust at "tech leaders" and their companies.
The kids are okay. The new generations of geeky kids realise that
these people are not one of us [0]
The LLM-craze will pass.
It's not remotely interesting to me either.
I am more interested in human centric automation.
Techne is the Greek word for hand.
Technology is literally an extension of our hands.
Dystopian Silicone Valley schlock appears to me as a symbol of decadence and the waning power of an empire in the throes of giving Caesar absolute power. Look at these clownish CEOS, like Musk, Altman...
Is there software to build?
Yes.
Do LLMs replace software engineers? No.
Will they ever? No.
They are pattern extraction machines, nothing more.
Just curious, but do you think LLMs have the ability to significantly increase the productivity of a person who generates code to produce business results (note, I was very careful to not say “software engineer”)?
Fox brainwashed viewers hate DEI.
1% (vote margin of win, roughly)
electing a person to an office does NOT equal a popular mandate for any particular policy and its silly to claim that the voters hate what you apparently hate.
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>His first act was eliminating institutionalized racial practices with employment, aka "DEI" initiatives.
The purpose of the narrative that DEI is "institutional racism" and the goal of its elimination is to normalize the belief that non white straight male and able-bodied people are inherently less qualified for any position, and to allow legal systemic discrimination against such people.
Which is racist, yes. And sexist, and homophobic and transphobic and ableist.
Ignorance us bliss, until physical reality sets in.
Aka you probably should he worried about exceedingly damaging deranged behavior on the part of an individual who is bent upon expanding the powers of the already most powerful office in the land.
It will cause lasting damage.
Trump has already managed to unify all of latin America against him. Bullying will have consequences, and creating enemies out of friends is a very foolish path.
If cost savings were the true concern, there are many less harmful ways to effect them, so don't give me a story of necessity. The belligerence and cruelty is intended.
In contrast to 2016, I am seeing an incredibly focused, well-planned Trump machine executing hard on the goals the President set during his campaign and reiterated in his 2nd inaugural address.
The Latin America stuff is not bullying. Look at Colombia, Petro's government collapsed after his stunt because even his own government knew he was stupid and picked a bad fight.
Cost savings is just one of the concerns here. A lot of bad things happen downstream of these US Taxpayer funds, including NGOs who use those funds to enable mass illegal immigration.
Well planned? That they shut down so many critical government functions yesterday with their executive order took the WH by complete surprise. They had no idea what the order did or didn't do. The top headline yesterday about it was the mass confusion it sparked because the language they used in the order was sloppy, inarticulate, and vague. That's not focused or well-planned. This is a throw everything at the wall, fill the zone with shit Steve Bannon strategy.
The frog is boiling. Dang will say to pipe down and stop screaming, while the frog cries out for its life, because some foolish boss types still persist in the delusion our house speaker persists in: thst they can ride this bucking bronco to work. They cannot. The bronco owns them. Lights out and noting this is considered partisan. What is more radical than harassing our friends and allies and uniting the world against us? But if you let out a peep, it's political. We are supposed to enjoy bowing and scraping to obey our overlords, and insufficient display of joy at being suffocated is now partisan.
It didn't need to be this way. TRUMP has already dismantled much of our republic and yet the articles posted here do not reflect this.
What part of "we are becoming the new nazi state entity" does ycombinator not understand?