This raises a lot of questions which I see asked online as if China were to try to put their ships through the blockade and even have Chinese navy steer the blockade, what would US do?
Would it escalate the situation even more? I have heard these things recently be described as similar anecdotes to things happening pre-world-war 1
I just can't help but notice that this war was completely option for USA and also Israel's influence on war and US. The war was completely optional and unnecessary, The strait was already open until the war was started by USA and Israel.
I don't know I try to remember the things happened in an year or two and the news just keeps on going, headlines I thought were gonna be the highlight of the year weren't even talked after a week as things escalated. The world doesn't look like moving towards the right direction, sigh.
> This is fundamentally the argument against all "SaaS is dead due to AI" claims.
True, All as in everything. I think Anthropic is extremely silly for thinking that and maybe even a bit delusional.
But to take the devil sides here, maybe some might be a better accurate term as to be honest, Status pages are a mission critical. Imagine this page landed 404 and the panic then vs now. Also I can be wrong, I usually am but status page innovation is more devops oriented than software itself. Basically how do you keep the status page website as having the best status time of itself (imagine it goes down) and its needed 24x7 as outage can happen anytime.
I do feel like status pages are more the exception than the norm in how mission critical they can be, again I can be wrong. Also you can self host status page easily yourself if you wish (UptimeKuma is awesome!) on a 7$/yr vps and there are so many free options available out there and its very much a competitive space to be in and basically no lock-in for the most part.
Agree with your statement overall but to be honest, status pages are the only SaaS which might make sense. For example, some hosting providers themselves who sell VPS etc. won't run their own website in their VPS and I asked one of the providers why and they mentioned because if they do and the servers go down, their website would 404 too, so they host on other infra in a sense for better redundancy.
Isn't there a thought here that you don't host your status page on your infra itself, and if for example they are using hetzner etc. and hosting their own vibe coded one, then they might need an engineer so might as well have Saas whose whole job is this.
I could've maybe recommended one of those status software[0] which actually runs on github actions but github themselves seem to have some downtime :p
> Perhaps something to think about in a scenario like this. Personally I think it's interesting that some people are so quick to condone aggressive attacks on powerful people, yet have no comment on those powerful people committing lower levels of violence against the masses. It's all social context.
Can I just say that out of all of this discourse happening, this might be the most insightful yet succint position to explain my stance on all of this especially the "its all social context." line.
I feel like many of us here might share an answer publicly but I have always believed that if I am in the shoes of someone else, I might act the way they do so in a sense I understand the human part of it. A human did the violence and why. I understand that. Now we can call this violence inhuman, sure, but this action is still done by human and for many reasons. And I also understand why people condemn these actions, we wish to live in a clean and structural world and then we see the messiness of the world.
I just feel like just condemning an action would do nothing unless we change the ground conditions but that isn't in the hands of even many of us Hackernews users and this is basically a class aspect to it.
I personally feel like there are some similarities to this incident to the Trolley problem actually. Vsauce did a video about it worth watching[0]
Yeah, America as a whole voted for Trump, and later atleast reading online I am seeing people be like: "I didn't know he was this bad" when reading his policies, he was exactly this bad :-/
People don't vote for their own gains but rather the gains of the few and to be honest, one can argue that within America this is a both-party problem and sometimes you are just picking for the less wrong politician and then you have these biases which blind them.
if this is the case, I have seen American people online say that "But, people know that the American govt and american people are different"
It is almost as if people are saying whatever is convenient at the time. This can only be one or the other.
If the average American's intent is of the system which is current administration, then forget about the trust within the system. I find your position with a bit of irony.
The system isn't working and that's a fact. You can say that people are to be blamed for that, sure, but then the people will be blamed entirely.
To be honest, The americans I sometimes talk online to don't share this ideal of the govt. and are fighting against it in some way or another but they are tired and hopeless, for the most part. I really take a deeper offense to your statement as that makes all the problems persist longer and thus to many people who have nothing to lose, violence feels like the only option which might be what GP might be referring to.
Either America needs to fix itself or violence will keep on happening. To be honest, I am not that much hopeful that America can fix itself though in the sense that the corporate influence is so immense with the two party system and the trust is still lost in some ways in America and times in future are gonna be even more harder yet America is completely polarized. These problems are also existing in other countries to be honest but America is at another magnitude and at these levels of inequality, violence to many people feel like the only way to share their voice which has been suppressed by the system for far too long. From my time reading history, this is a very repeating phenomenon and in a sense, history is messy but when people got really pissed at the system failing, mass scale revolt and violence was always picked as the last resort and we are in those times now.
I feel like we can either condemn or do anything as a society but if people (and humans just like you and me actually) get so frustrated within the system that violence seems like an good choice, then that is upon the fault of the system and I feel like the condemnation of act just does nothing in the long grand scheme of things.
TLDR: People should really act together to solve these things peacefully but its very far from happening in reality and reality is messy and always has been in some regards, we just read it from the line of statistics and history.
Yes many people couldn't vote (say youngsters) and many people didn't vote on the election day and from that sample who could and did vote did Trump win and within the election itself Democrats had gotten 75 million people.
In a similar fashion, my point is, I actually agree with you sir @mbgerring and your original comment. you tried your best to raise awareness and there are people who do the same and there are many who reach the support of millions but still no change is enacted because of the way system is enacted.
Yet the system can make someone like trump with maybe even sometimes far fewer people supporting it and billionaire's capital flowing into propaganda etc. too thus the people saying "we didn't vote for this"
My point was that the system is ultimately rigged by some people at the top against the average person and @refurb saying to you that oh this is then what the people must want, is a factually wrong statement.
I think you yourself have put it right: "We need to seriously face this problem and fix it, or things are just going to keep getting worse."
And I also agree with your overall statement that if the system continues on being as hopeless as it is, then for some people violence would become the only option for their voices as their voices get shutted from every peaceful way.
Oh yea, this made me also remember facebook (Meta) and Anthropic's lawsuits and facebook even rented a whole office outside of their working time or something to do all of this shenanigan. Thanks for making me remember this.
> Value stacks are something I heard about in a "Marriage and Family" class in college where the professor discussed that if you value say "economy" more than "time", you spend a lot of time to save a few cents, but if you reverse that stack order your spend extra cents to avoid spending the time. If the person you're dating has a very different stack than you do, it will be a source of problems going forward and doesn't suggest you'll have a successful marriage.
Adding onto this, I feel like the child/children from a marriage like this also get mixed signals from their parents on what they should value in things like this. So firstly it confuses them and secondly, if they pick a side of any of their parent then they would feel like the other parent doesn't get them which might make them feel bad.
For a good marriage/parentalhood imo, there should be a common layer of value stack ie. bedrock of shared values and trust in a relationship. Disagreements can occur but with the idea of we are more similar than different. Maybe Video games help in either checking that or measuring that. I am not sure if competitive games better reflect it than relaxed games but honestly I feel like if you are already into a relationship and say video games don't work, then you also adapt to the other person values.
I am so so tired about AI posts on this website. I am seeing so many of them and comments being AI generated too. It seems that the guidelines aren't being enforced.
I am sad to see this community die in almost real time but within 2 days, I am seeing so many AI generated things. It's getting real bad real fast and real human submissions get undiscussed oh boy. :-(
What is happening to Hackernews, Firstly its obvious that this is AI generated post and then I checked it on an AI text detector website as well and it shows as being clearly AI generated (100%)
Would it escalate the situation even more? I have heard these things recently be described as similar anecdotes to things happening pre-world-war 1
I just can't help but notice that this war was completely option for USA and also Israel's influence on war and US. The war was completely optional and unnecessary, The strait was already open until the war was started by USA and Israel.
I don't know I try to remember the things happened in an year or two and the news just keeps on going, headlines I thought were gonna be the highlight of the year weren't even talked after a week as things escalated. The world doesn't look like moving towards the right direction, sigh.
I would prefer to live in a peaceful world.
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