It's a huge issue of ARM based systems, that hardly anyone uses or tests things on them (in production).

Yes, Macs going ARM has been a huge boon, but I've also seen crazy regressions on AWS Graviton (compared to how its supposed to perform), on .NET (and node as well), which frankly I have no expertise or time digging into.

Which was the main reason we ultimately cancelled our migration.

I'm sure this is the same reason why its important to AWS.

Macs are actually part of pain point with ARM64 Linux, because the Linux arm set er tend to use 64 kB pages while Mac supports only 4 and 16, and it causes non trivial bugs at times (funnily enough, I first encountered that in a database company...)

Imo somebody decided to write a stream-of-consciousness blogpost, and then somebody else posted it here without context.

The topic's interesting and worth discussing, and like many HN posts, the gold seems to be in the comments, so I would be sad to see it removed.

Ubuntu is still pushing snap - they still kept the practice of silently replacing apt packages with snaps, I think the default Firefox is still a snap, and so is node.

I'd love to see snap go the way of upstart...

The Ubuntu defaultism still puzzles me to this day... Canonical has been shown to subject users to its horrible science experiments pushing broken software on its users sometimes even persisting for half a decade or more (see pulseaudio, it was shipped in ubuntu for literal years, and it never worked...). Snap is their latest science experiment.

Though Im not sure what should be the default, as I can think of disadvantages to several alternatives.

Finally - I think the biggest issue of Linux today is the inability to ship a binary and have it just work across distros.

While there was - an unfortunately failed - push for having ABI compatibility (remember Linux Standard Base?), this has been an issue since Linux has existed

And in customary Linux fashion we had 3 solutions for this in Linux-land, snap which was the ubuntu solution that was slow and buggy - and forced on users in a customary ubuntu fashion way before it was ready, AppImage, which was very rudimentary and involved shipping half the userland, and Flatpak, which seemed to be the best engineered (but far from flawless) of the 3.

And in customary Linux fashion, users decided to just wait this one out.

I think it's great that Valve has taken the time and money to get Flatpak across the finish line.

Btw another thing about Valve - it's really great that they could've went their own way and reimplemented huge chunks of the Linux stack rather than going with what's there, and the associated communities and politics (I'm mainly referring to Wayland, and now Flatpak), but they've decided to go for the popular move and actually bring the existing infrastructure up to a commercial standard.

It's easier to ship a Windows binary and have it run reliably everywhere on Linux then a Linux binary right now.

I'm sorry this the this kind of (far-left) political comment that usually starts the argument from 'basic human decency' and gets to calls for mass murder in the span of a sentece or two is as hilarious as it is sad :(.

And unfortunately very common. I'm not sure what you think when posting this, but this wont endear people to your ideas.

I'm sure there are communities where this is a standard stance that gets cheered, which I'm sure a lot of people would find quite concerning.

I read it, and was hoping I would be more sympathetic to their side, but it was essentially 'they violated the rules our newly added non-contributor board members set, and by those rules, we kicked them out'.

Essentially this 100% confirms the Collabora story, just elaborates a bit on how the administrative takeover was done.

So essentially 'we f**ked you over but we still expect you to do the work'?

For free!

Personally, when asking others about their opinions on various cloud providers, AWS tends to emerge head and shoulders above the rest for one simple reason - AWS works.

And the reason AWS works is that AWS runs on AWS (in stark contrast to Azure and GCP which afaik is not what MS and Google use internally). And when AWS doesn't work, support is there to help you.

To add nuance to this statement, the other providers have their own strengths and standout features, but if you have to approach every single one of their features with suspicion that means you wont build stuff on top of them.

I've also noticed AWS tends to have less "magic" global services and tends to favor cell architecture with partitions and isolation.

These super duper magic global services seem to be the cause of most outages since the blast radius is so huge.

On the other hand, the proposition of a magic, infinitely scaleable service endpoint is nice from a developer perspective.

Even on AWS, if you go for the managed magic version of the thing, they'll make you pay more, lose some flexibilitym and the relinquished control will change things in a way that benefits AWS (slower scaling, limitations, unnecessary overprovisioning, overhead).

An example - if you scale things manually by provisioning and starting EC2 instances via API - it will be more performant and cheaper than either Lambda or ECS Fargate (or Batch...). But those things at least work reliably.

With the other two cloud providers, you'll likely run into a bug you cannot fix yourself, and you will have no support to help you.

The thing that strikes me as odd is how is it that Delve becomes an unicorn superstar (by iself), and the company they steal stuff off of, is much much less of a success story.

It would make more sense that the people who actually built the thing would do the thing better and do it first.

I think in real life, cheaters win.

Without proper punishment, groups who "play fair" are at a strict disadvantage against those willing to break the rules.

At least in the US, we seem to be rapidly moving away from punishing groups for breaking the rules. All the mega successful companies (and people) seem to break a lot of rules to get there.

Conversely, the honest "play by the rules" groups can't be mega successful. Without punishment, the cheater always wins.

The U.S. has always idolized charismatic grifters. Tech revolutionized charisma, by showing that interpersonal charisma isn’t the correct filter: asociability, or perhaps the more familiar amorality, is. The ability of someone to extract and upstream value without engaging in ethics is correctly labeled as more important than being warm and friendly.

The words for this is "regulatory capture" and "deregulation". And yes, its been happening for a long time.

And now that right-wing groups are buying up all the media, we wont be hearing about it for much longer.

When politicians and pundits talk about deregulation the viewer is thinking about less hassle to set up a company or do inter state trade.

What really happens instead are ecological, ethical and financial stresses of all kind.

> At least in the US, we seem to be rapidly moving away from punishing groups for breaking the rules.

Famous recent example: prediction markets are unlawful under the Dodd-Frank's act but the Trump appointed CTFC's head has stated it will ignore it.

Actually building something useful and fun and spending your time convincing investors to give you enough money to maybe turn it into a profitable business some day are not really complimentary personality traits.

Steve Wozniak alone could've maybe built Apple without Steve Jobs, but his time would be wasted by doing something he (presumably) didn't enjoy very much and it would've been a much bumpier road.

Basically YC + MIT background is a license to raise infinite capital. So they just needed to check some revenue boxes etc.

YC backing. That's all it takes. Taken an existing idea that has legs (preferably one you find in Europe or Asia), then take it to the US, apply to YC and say you already have validation see 'startup x'.

> Adding to the awkwardness: Sim.ai was actually a Delve customer, Karabeg told TechCrunch. Both startups were grads of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, and Y Combinator alumni frequently buy each other’s products. So while Sim.ai paid Delve, Delve did not do the same for Sim.ai.

So it’s not all it takes.

<s>Cheating</s> sorry hustling and <s>bullshitting</s> sorry storytelling are more important.

It's a special level of disgusting, that's for sure. And I though Installmonetizer was pretty bad, this one goes well beyond that.

Even if the prospective investors smell a rat, they might decide that it's likely that a greater fool will arrive on the scene later - justifying investing in a known scam

--reasoning_effort: xhigh