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The crisis just illustrates our stratified, ossified society: the "essential" workers are those who barely get by. Supposedly important people ("I need to fly around all week") are not that important after all, but for many reasons some professions are able to extract much more value than they contribute (which is an essence of business, after all).

Sad to see, but not very surprising.

Another way to look at it: stock market is up, which is basically owned by the top-X; while "labor" struggles to get by - and will struggle for the foreseeable future. Anyone who thinks about "changing the world" could use a situation like this crisis as a test case; if a situation like this does not punish the poor, that you may live in a "(super-)human" society.

When I learned that Sam Altman (sorry Sam) was involved, I understood the direction, you mentioned.

And yes, there is often no need to call something open explicitly, if it really is. Is into OpenOS, or just Linux?

Facebook is reality, but it's also just a game. It goes like this: how deep can we go exploiting people by using information technology. How much "person" can we extract? How far can we go controlling this person (e.g. make sure user is happy, etc.).

The second game is: How can we PR our way out of the nightmares we knowingly create month after month?

It amazes me every day how the corporation and all its employees are able to maintain the BS level required to believe in the "mission" of the company.

If you can imagine it, I never had an active account in my life and I am happy about it. And believe it or not, I still do exists have friends and family and a "social" life.

Yes, cron is a bit undervalued in that for one off (well locked) tasks it's perfectly fine to create a crontab entry. And simplicity is king. I feel people throw frameworks at problems where a simple shell/go script in a cron would be just enough.

As for the pipeline definition. One goal is to have a notion of pipelines that is both comprehensive and declarative.

As for a database, what would you store there? Container image to run? Past execution data (e.g. output path, time, errors)?

The software world has many pipeline-y things, such as CI definitions and these definitions usually live in configuration files.

What is difficult at time is the tracking of done tasks. Is the output a file or a new row in some database or many files or many rows or anything else?

Having used a variety of modern ETL frameworks in the past years, I consider writing a hands-on book about what I have learned on the way.

If I may ask, what questions do you find most difficult to solve in the context of real-world ETL setups?

Rereading old code (and sometimes admiring it) is a way to gauge, whether you learned something in the past month. If you did not, change your course.

We own infra because we need to own and control it and also because it's just vastly cheaper at the scale we use.

Besides, we do have things like our own S3, k8s and other cloud-ish utilities running so we do not miss out that much, I guess.

Germans learn about the history of the Third Reich in detail and I always asked myself: how could this happen? Smart, hard-working, intelligent, compassionate, literate people start to plan industrial murder of millions of people on the basis of what exactly?

Now, here's the thing. Progress is not that shiny guiding light. It is an extreme force, especially a force to control things, especially nature. The Third Reich planned mass murder, as it were a railroad track or lunar landing - the form was exactly the same and they did not understood: that this similarity in form revealed and forever merged the idea of progress to the most inhumane behavior and destruction.

If that does not make sense, I encourage you to just read a bit about the concentration camps or the Third Reich in general. Good timing, too - we have 75th anniversary of V-E Day coming up.

I lived like a student when I was a student and did not change much of my lifestyle and could not be happier. I usually save 2/3 of my salary and do not miss anything. My runway today is about 15 years.

As a German, the idea that mass murder and high tech are different sides of the same coin has shaped my world view forever (after reading Dialectic of Enlightenment and On the Critique of Instrumental Reason).

Horkheimer red-pilled me on our western societies and I'm grateful for it.

I'm getting tired of this game. Even the deaf ones like me start to hear the drums now.

You know, it's not that we do not have enough megacorps controlling every aspect of our lives. We need more of the "opposite" - places that empower you and leave you in peace and control.

I understand the price signal and the process of price detection through the myriads of needs and abilities. That's all fine and actually great, as a relatively robust distributed system.

What I do not get is why keeping people in the dark is a cornerstone to many endeavours - value-based pricing just being an example of that.

Edit: maybe I spend too much time in the open source world and mistake it for some model setup for other parts of society that do not work like that at all.

Value-based pricing is the worst societal invention. Imagine a medicine can be made from simple ingredients, but you discovered a recipe by accident. It's very valuable since it might save lives, so the value is high, the cost is low and you can reap the benefit on the mere basis that you discovered something by accident. You also need to make sure that no one "gets it", so do not educate people, just milk them - and in the worst case, mislead them, work against any threat "knowledge" would pose.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Imagine a world, where progress and invention would be something shared and done not out of greed but out of ability and ultimately generosity that would add to the grace of our race.

Instead we celebrate greed, as if we were a bunch of apes.

My fear is that human society needs to reach new lows before we actually have the chance to see our own potential (and then it might be too late, anyway).

Uh, I have to yet find an "enhanced" "view PDF" page, which does not make things worse.

Here's a direct link to a PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.04017.pdf

I bought one old SE from the final batch, just because the 113g, its dimensions are perfectly fine with me. I'd like to write some AR code (and might buy an 2020 SE for that), but for normal use, the SE for me is peak iPhone/smartphone.

Open source one of the most empowering paradigms. Here is a list of people and organizations running their own servers:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instance...

I'm working remotely in the US and charge $55/h for development and consulting.