Any tax on wealth i will forever and always disagree with. People don’t see its just a setup for the eventual tax your children will be paying as it becomes normalized and inflation makes 10 million the new 1 million.

Is HN just reddit now? The comments on this are beyond stupid and add nothing of value or thought.

I've been saying this for the past year or so.

Something happened during the pandemic where too many normies got hired into tech and then started larping around here.

The quality of comments here is now just emotional mainstream nonsense, compared to the annoyingly autistic (but often intelligent) analysis that used to be commonplace.

It was probably the Reddit exodus. A lot of people from Reddit realized that HN has the same topics as Reddit and has the same upvote/downvote interface around the same time Reddit was having its API changes. The folks who did it were the kind who felt strongly enough about Reddit's leadership that they brought their strong opinions here.

Nothing you can do about open forums really. They all regress to the mean user who has enough time to spend hitting the up and downvote arrows on the website all day.

No, it's not. There are a lot more thoughtful comments and some questioning the headline for its clickbait.

I agree there are a lot more low quality comments, though. It depends on the article.

There has been a bit of a trend. I do appreciate dissenting comments on HN even when I've gotten a bit defensive over them

Unfortunately anything vaguely political tends to devolve quickly.

Agreed. The quality of comments has really declined.

Did you have a different account before a year ago? HN discourages the same individual rotating accounts.

It's gotten almost unbearable in the last couple years. The amount of hate, cynicism, bitterness, etc. towards almost everything (currently AI, capitalism, anyone successful, etc) is just ridiculous. It's sad, I've been a heavy user for almost twenty years now, and I find it borderline intolerable most days.

Increasingly so :(.

O look another amazing and riveting discussion on emerging technology with real world implications… o wait it’s just a bunch of cranky people complaining about crypto.

Where did you draw that conclusion? Because nothing in the article or reality would lead one to believe that.

… i can’t think of a faster way to lose support from others.

Maybe spend a little less time reading propaganda.

Wait… you’ve clearly never used The Silk Road, have you?

You don't have to answer that question.

Platform teams also need to make calls where the experience might be worse for some but collectively better for the company.

This is normally where you see the product engineers start to freak out.

That's the point I was trying to highlight in the "Treating product engineers as customers" sin section – the duality goes both ways. Sometimes the best thing for the company is to make the lives of product engineers better, sometimes it's to make them worse. You do whatever is best for the company, not for the product engineers.

but platform engineers are so far down the chain, it's hard for them to associate their work value to actual customer's benefits.

This is what we are discussing. A company can also choose to organize it some other way.

What is the difference between print debugging and logging? With most deployments setups now days you can pipe prints to some logging solution anyways.

Print is ephemeral by design.

Logging lets you refine the level of printing and is designed to make sense in the long term. There are many technical differences (structured logging, MDC etc.) that I won't get into but they are important.

To me it's mostly about the way you write the logs vs. the way you write a print. A log tries to solve the generic problem so you can deal with it in production if the need arises by dynamically enabling logs. It solves the core issue of a potential problem. A print is a local bandaid. E.g. when print debugging one would write stuff like "f*ck 1 this was reached"... In logs you would write something sensible like "Subsystem X initialized with the following arguments %s". That's a very different concept.

totally agree re: structured logging. my intro to that was w/GCP Logging and it changed my mind on when and what to log. proper structured logging and keying metrics/alerts from those metrics is extremely satisfying and legitimately useful.

Just use jsonnet if you want this IMO. No need to change json into yaml.

Switching from JSON to Jsonnet to get comments and trailing commas is like switching from a butter knife to a chainsaw because your steak is too tough. Jsonnet is literally Turing-complete!

Why would it be sold cheaper in Mexico when you can go on a dex and trade it for any number of tokens and cash it out. This just doesn’t make sense and im not signing up to read their stupid articles.

Likely this will be upvoted here though because it paints crypto in a negative light. Enjoy HN.