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Casting aside the fact that any trading firm of any size or seriousness already has this dataset in 10 different flavors...

Why? Is there an alternative? Considering opportunity cost in which parts of my entrepreneurial endeavors I choose to spend time on; self hosting web-servers for a blog does not have anything resembling good ROI.

Yep. Again, the nuance of this point is lost on the "homelab" crowd, but if you're in a software business, your software is what your business is.

Not running a monitoring platform, not running a logging system, not building your own PaaS. Outsource this as much as possible to 3rd-party agents with a sizable economy of scale.

Nearly all engineering teams(outside of FAANG) simply aren't resourced to re-invent the wheel over and over, especially when it means providing after-hours support for the wheel as well.

Yea reading HN comments gives me the impression most of the readership has never had to manage anything of complexity beyond their "homelab".

I know this utterly misses the larger point of your comment, but:

They used Ansible scripts to spin up various AWS services

This seems less about using the "cool/new" tech... rather it's about using the "right" tech. Config management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet are very much previous-generation when it comes to cloud infrastructure.

They... can manage cloud infrastructure, but they were created prior to the ubiquity of cloud deployments, and the features are glued on. Not choosing a more modern IaC framework tells me they(those devs) were going to be making sub-optimal implementation decisions regardless.

Jira is bad, but the worst part about it is that it makes it non-trivially more likely you'll also be using Confluence, which is an absolute blight upon the software landscape.

I hate that people are doing all these weird gymnastics to reconcile being a champion of free speech and firing people that criticize you.

You're just seeing the psychic ripples of all the Elon fanboys and pseudo-libertarian technofascists wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of their savior turning out to be a pretty vanilla corporate capitalist.

After all the chest-thumping and general toxicity I find their discomfort endlessly amusing.

Yes. I have to ruthlessly prune anyone who reposts chaff... which is sadly a non-trivial number of individuals.

Discourse on Blind makes HN look like the Athenian Assembly.

It’s almost as if all the right wing pearl-clutching about “free speech” on Twitter was a bad-faith argument…

Your logic is unfortunately being cast into the reason-devoid abyss of HN commenters consistently overestimating the value of the lone wolf, "competent" Linux admin.

Say you don't understand opportunity cost in software development without saying it.

I won't delve too deeply on the obvious: most "competent Linux sysadmins" have a very over-inflated sense of their own skill set, and tend make for toxic team members.

Most software development shops are in the business of developing their particular software, not deploying and self-managing DVCS, much less hosting, monitoring etc...

Sure, could one person set up a Git/GitLab system? Absolutely. Can they operationalize it effectively? Not really... the bus problem is a thing and anyone that thinks tying the entirety of a system's uptime to one individual is an operational improvement over GitHub's outage SLA is deluding themselves.

Where was the ad-hominem slant? More straw-men and an appeal to authority! I'm convinced you're playing logical fallacy bingo at this point.

I am expecting more from HN tbh.

In a previous comment you(an HN user!) framed all comments or discussion that might portray EM in a negative light as painting him as:

"...the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan."

A pitch-perfect example of a straw-man argument, and now you're claiming the level of discourse is not up to your standards?

the only conclusion would be that Elon is the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan.

Speaking of one sided... I'd argue there are many more nuanced conclusions you could derive.

I'm sure there have been comments towards him that are ad-hominem accusations of "evil", but in general and this thread specifically I think it's his virtue signaling around "free-speech" and "innovation" rightfully being called out for what they are; self-serving and quite vanilla capitalist maneuvering.

Setting up straw-man arguments like you've done is the same kind of defensive, fallacious reasoning his aforementioned zealous followers engage in.

Like Rick & Morty and Jesus, the worst thing about Elon tends to be his fans.

Despite the zealous beliefs of the visionary, thought-leader techbro space that Musk's every move was to drive civilization forward in some kind of libertarian, technocrat utopia, it seems very clear at this point every one of these moves was absolutely a self-serving narrative shield around incredibly typical corporate/rich-person bad behavior.

Oh but who could have seen this coming except oh wait everyone.

The schadenfreude has been hilarious. Twitter has been blessedly devoid of the kind of chest-thumping he typically elicits and it has been glorious.

It was as if millions of twitter trolls with a distorted idea of free speech suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Yep. Nothing to fix here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-running-for-the-open-s...

Dr. Singh(https://sis.utk.edu/vandana/2019/07/02/currentnews) has empirical research demonstrating behavior issues in OSS. She even received an award from Google for her work! - https://research.google/outreach/air-program/recipients/

Worrying about what the comment rabble on HN will "appreciate" is no useful barometer for success in progressing through life.

The idea behind MAD is that anything beyond considering their use in a retaliatory capacity should be fundamentally insane, but that depends on all engagement participants being rational actors, which isn't clearly not guaranteed.

It is possible they were always that susceptible(I suspect they were), someone just needed the means for mass delivery and when it was available(social media) they weaponized it at just the right time.

Well that's terrifying. As a serious cat owner I have to imagine I am riddled with TPG.

telephone calls

Not the same reach. Telephone calls are ostensibly private exchanges between two willing parties. Twitter is much more akin to a "crowded theater" than a telephone call.

Well sure, but in the context of this discussion "bias" implies political.

Are you saying it's more likely hate crimes are being perpetrated by people that identify as progressive?

It's not biased to moderate something like "vaccines cause autism".

It's been legally and scientifically established as outright misinformation. The genesis of that theory was a disgraced researcher who pushed fraudulent claims with misrepresented data. The paper was retracted for "scientific misconduct".

And yet now moderating false claims that have a detrimental effect on public health outcomes is seen as a "leftist government conspiracy".

I see disproportionate amount of violence/threats from right-leaning personas online. Perhaps that is a factor?

Yes, I know it's anecdotal, but the LGBTQ+ community has been the victim of an increasing number of hate crimes(confirmed by law enforcement reporting), and the rhetoric online seems to mirror this.

Free speech does not cover overt or implied violence based on sexual or gender identity.

We've been using https://linear.app/

No, it's the pseudo-libertarian HN crowd that's super excited because they think it means they can be assholes and engage in derogatory/discriminatory speech online again, all in the name of combating the nebulous "woke" bogeyman.

You might be able to run a country that way, but you can't run a tech company that way.

I'm honestly torn.

I was a big Linux proponent for a while, then Apple won me over with Macs for a time. They did "just work" for my day-to-day(DevOps).

However, last spring, I bought a new personal system for freelance work/side projects, and have been running Ubuntu as my daily driver. Funny enough, it seems like during that same period the my UX on my work-supplied Mac(2019-era MBP) has been steadily declining. I've been dealing with maddening slowdowns and numerous bluetooth issues(with Airpods no less!).

Conversely, I find working on the Ubuntu machine much more enjoyable, and I'm exploring the option of getting a Linux machine supplied by work as well. I'll caveat by saying it took some time to hone in on solid configurations, tweaks, and a good DE/WM(i3wm), but I gotta say Linux is winning me back over.

All that being said, I'm not deluded enough to think Linux(in its current state) is ever going to make inroads with Apple's consumer/pro-sumer userbase. It's still very much an enthusiast option in my mind.