Wow, more useless trash.

"Says the Meta Inc".

It will be eventually sold.

Which part, the nonprofit or the permissively licensed codebase? ;)

Anything beats GPT-4 nowdays to be honest.

probs talking about me. My replies works as a warning to someone reading the post. The Google download is actually a nice tip tho.

People don't make these posts to serve as cautionary tales for others, they're usually asking for help.

You’re right, we need more tech support requests on HN.

They tend to get moderated away most of the time, which you can help by flagging them or emailing them to hn@ycombinator.com. Supercilious PSAs don't do any of that.

It's very common on HN. I do it too. Mostly because we spend a lot of effort avoiding these platforms, and when something bad happens to a person because of it, we can shout, "Ha! My paranoia is justified!"

If you're working day to day as an engineer, you end up mostly thinking in unhappy cases and 99.99% uptime scenarios, so it actually seems like helpful advice.

Exactly this. My actual comment emerges more from fear rather than ego.

I do believe Archive.org is, ironically, "too big to fail"... I would be INCREDIBLY surprised if it ever goes offline.

Far from it. Archive.org is a passion project funded and run by a moderately wealthy guy (Brewster Kahle). Or at least, he had a few millions when he started it, and I'm certain the org has been a money pit for him. Hopefully some kind of foundation exists to keep it going after he passes, but it's not a certainty.

Don't take it for granted.

whish I could help more... already donated some times.

I would be incredibly surprised if it never goes offline. It’s very fragile even if it doesn’t seem like it

they are under fire for their hourly lending policy for books, who knows, I don't think too big to fail applies here

It's inevitable that they go dark. They piss off too many people regarding IP rights, and people hate to have proof out in the wild of what they said or did in the past. Plus a ton of other reasons; more people have an interest in it disappearing than have an interest in it surviving.

I mean, when it dies it will be a greater tragedy than the burning of the library of Alexandria (at least many of the books there were copied elsewhere), it will be a tremendous blow to our collective knowlege and memory.

But it's inevitable that it will go away.

"But it's inevitable that it will go away."

In the long run we are all dead, yes. But whether it will be around in the next decades is up to us who are currently alive.

is a question about faith...

Or it gets bought and shut down by someone who doesn't like what's in it.

Never leave your treasures in the house of someone you literally don't know.

Is this a warning against banks?

Yes, that too.

Boooring!

Are animals conscious. Yes.