skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is known to"? By who? It sounds like you've read the anecdote about the Cobra Effect and generalized into the conclusion that no bounty system could ever work, which is demonstrably incorrect.

Place a nominal bounty on the monkeys of, say, $50 each and threaten anyone attempting to breed and release the animals for profit with a lifetime jail sentence and the Cobra Effect would not arise.
It's also how militaries buy airplanes in bulk
My old boss was an engineering manager at Google in the 90s and early 2000s. He used to tell us that _everyone_ he interacted with at Google _hated_ the monorepo, and that Google’s in-house tooling did not actually produce anything approaching a sane developer experience. He used to laugh so cynically at stories or that big ACM article touting Google’s use of a monorepo (which was a historical unplanned accident based on toppling a poorly planned Perforce repository way back when), because in his mind, his experience with monorepos at Google was exactly why his engineering department (several hundred engineers) in my old company did not use a monorepo.
> It consume more to being built and maintained though

No, it doesn't. Not on a per capita basis.

> it can't be really used without non urban area... That's the real problem.

The number of people that have to be farmers and living on-site on a farm is very small in a developed country. There are way more people living in rural or exurban/low density areas than are necessary to make food.

> more money turn, but they turn because suburb exists

Not really, or at least you don't need American-style, super low density suburbs. Medium density suburbs are popular in Europe and work fine.
True, but like most things, there's the law of diminishing returns. You'll extract most value out at your $100 price point (or even lower), and yet there are fads for Japanese denim costing a few times that. Same deal with audio etc.
Make a brutalist prison-like structure downtown where:

- Anyone can get a free bed/meal

- Anyone can get illegal drugs provided to them by a nurse for free. Nurse may give 5 min sobriety pep talk before administering.

- You have to piss clean before you can leave.

Seems like for $80k/person a year, we could clean up the streets, make the addicts much happier and safer, and perhaps even have some money left over. I'm sure it'd take a huge load off emergency services too - removing the economic needs of satisfying addiction seems like it could drastically reduce crime, why steal for a fix if you can get it for free?
I work at one of the monorepo companies that you mention and there’s some truth to the “too slow” part. Although it’s it’s been a lot better lately (largely, due to the efforts of the internal version control dev teams), I’ve noticed at times in the past that you could do a ‘<insert vcs> pull’, go on a 15 minute break and it wouldn’t be done by the time you’re back.

Personally, I think there’s a place for mono repos and there’s a place for smaller independent repos. If a project is independent and decoupled from the rest of the tightly coupled code base (for instance things which get opesourced), it makes no sense to shove it into a huge monorepo.
Oh right, how did I miss that.
He discounts immediately the obvious solution for the problem houseless people face: providing them homes.

At $80,000 a year, it's absurd that we are unable to use that money to actually finance housing.

What he says about it:

>about 80 percent of people who are on the streets, uh, struggle with lifetime drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness

Is a total non-sequitur. People that struggle with lifetime addiction and mental illness have those problems exacerbated by not having housing. Providing stable housing is the first step toward coping with that illness.

They're doing it in Canada, and the results validate this policy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/canada/homeless-can...

>the cost of housing the homeless was far less than the cost of the emergency services needed by the homeless while they were living on the street.

>“The reduction in days in jail alone pays for the program,” said Jaime Rogers, a Medicine Hat housing official. She cited studies that said the average homeless person costs taxpayers 120,000 Canadian dollars a year, or $91,600, in services, while it costs just 18,000 Canadian dollars a year, or $13,740, to house someone and provide the necessary retention support.
Check out some of the critiques for games like No Mans Sky. The short of it is that procedural “story” doesnt really work. You still need writers for engaging content, and that doesnt scale. If you remove written story you get something closer to a tower defense/tactics/arena shooter/grinding genre, which is “fine” but substantially different than most open worlds people envision.
I made more than that in base compensation in 2001 in video games and I'm no rockstar. Of course if I reentered the video game industry the pay would be about the same 20 years later...
My first programming language was BASIC (C64) and I don't feel too damaged, but I exposed my children to Scratch.
Haha no worries you didn't project that. At least not to me. I just tought my response came across as if I was a big benefactor.

As for how I found the projects to engage in: I got asked for tech help, went to a meeting, and found people that had unusual takes on reality. I went with those who were doing stuff, as opposed to those discussing how it ought to be. I don't have much initiative myself and prefer working with people who have that drive.
Exactly how we were taught to set the mirrors in drivers ed.

They don't teach it in Wisconsin. Nor do they teach how to use blinkers, or to deal with multiple people coming up to a stop sign controlled intersection.

But I digress.
And we've done exactly that using our cosmological models of the Big Bang:

https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/sgoals_parameters_geom.htm...

One side of the triangle is the width of Cosmic Microwave Background variations (calculated from models of the early universe); the other two sides are known from how far away the CMB appears to be, which is known from independent measures of the expansion of the universe. Some trigonometry will tell you what the interior angle that should make with the Earth, which you'll see as the angular width of the variations in the sky. You can compare those two numbers (the one by trigonometry and the one observed), and determine whether they are different enough to exclude a flat universe.

In other words, if someone holds an 1 foot ruler at a distance, you can use trigonometry to work out how far away it is by using the apparent size. But if you know how far away it is, and the apparent size disagrees with the trigonometry, then the shape of the universe must not be flat. The longer the ruler and the further away it is, the greater the deviation will appear (if there is one). The CMB is very far away indeed so it makes for a good ruler.
I'm pretty sure this is a result of non-technical people calling the shots on what roles they're hiring for.

ROLE: Sr. Full Stack Engineer Level 5
MUST HAVE:
10+ YEARS JAVASCRIPT EXPERIENCE
4+ YEARS JSON EXPERIENCE
7+ YEARS PERL ON RAILS EXPERIENCE
Linux
Sketch / Adobe Photoshop / InVision
PhD in Machine Learning

And not to soapbox here too much but but sadly I actually have come across a job ad demanding "4+ years JSON experience"
I'm currently working on a monorepo now in our ~30 person engineering organization. We have a microservice architecture, and would like to avoid rebuilding the things that don't need to be rebuilt; however, it seems like most tooling assumes that the whole repo is your project. I've tried working around this by diffing against master or diffing against HEAD~1 or keeping a special tag that tracks the last good state, and all of these seem to spawn odd edge cases and generally are tedious when your build target is entirely contained in a single directory--no idea how to solve for build targets that depend on files elsewhere in the repo. A tool like Bazel seems really heavy for an organization our size (and unless I'm mistaken, it seems to assume that all of your code lives in your repository--pulling dependencies from Pypi seems like a fourth class citizen).

Have you (or anyone reading this thread) encountered similar issues? How do you solve them in a monorepo?
There aren't good monorepo solutions out there (yet). Git LFS is great for few large files, but it doesn't help with tons of smaller files. Git submodules are crap when it comes to usability, and have been for a long time, it's even mentioned in the famous Torvalds Git Talk.

Git had a sparse checkouts feature since a long time, but it only affected the checkout itself, all the blobs would still be synced.

Now, Git is gaining good monorepo capabilities with the git partial clone feature [1]. Their idea is that with them you can only clone the parts of a repository that are interesting to you. This has been brewing for a while already but I'm not sure how ready it is. There doesn't seem to be user-level documentation for it yet, to my knowledge, so I am linking to the technical docs.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic...
Huh? I think you have the wrong thread.

Besides, pretending to be more competent than you are is fraud. Sounds like "imposter syndrome" as you have defined it is really the guilt of being a fraud, and frankly, it's well deserved because it's true. You should feel guilty for doing evil things. You should feel like an imposter when you are an imposter. The antidote is the courage not to be a fraud and not to be an imposter, not pathologizing it as a "syndrome" or blaming your boss for your own cowardice.
This isn't actually "holographic" as such. Holography [1] specifically refers to creating a 3d effect by recording light diffraction and interference wavefronts. At this point though the term has become so corrupted that most people think that holography means any kind of 3d display without glasses - which is definitely not what holography is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
Your eyes become less sensitive to flickering in low light. That's how movie theaters could work at 24fps.

That's not to say no one can be bothered by it. But it's much less likely to bother anyone. I have sensitive eyes and tend to notice flickering at anything less than ~70hz. My Xs hasn't bothered me and I tend to use very low brightness even in well lit env.
I have personally migrated a medium size polyrepo code base (something like ~20 repos?) into a monorepo and I agonized over the decision. But it lifted a huge weight off my shoulders.

I feel like if you are working completely in the open-source world, and you are contributing one open-source project to a larger array of available projects, then the decision to use a polyrepo makes a lot of sense. You can submit libraries to a package repository like Yarn/NPM/PyPI or you can use Git references for e.g. Go's package manager.

But what I experienced with polyrepos outside this world is that we ended up with a weird DAG of repos. It was always unclear whether a specific piece of code that was duplicated between projects should be moved into one dependency or another, or whether it should have its own repo. Transitive dependencies were no fun at all, if you used git modules you might end up with two copies of the same dependency. You might have to make a sequence of commits to different repos, remembering to update cross-repo references as you go, and if you got stuck somewhere you had to work backwards. This feels like a step backwards, like the step backwards from CVS to RCS.

Again, in the open-source world you might have some of this taken care of by using a package manager like Yarn. But if your transitive dependencies aren't suitable for being published that way, it can be tough. Monorepo + Bazel right now is a bit rough around the edges but overall it's reduced the amount of engineering time spent on build systems.

On the other hand, it's not like Bazel can't handle polyrepos. In fact, they work quite nicely, and Bazel can automatically do partial checkouts of sets of related polyrepos, if that's your thing.

As for VCS scalability problems, I expect that Git is really just the popular VCS du jour and some white horse will show up any day now with a good story for large, centralized repos with a VFS layer. In the meantime any company large enough to experience VCS performance problems but not large enough have their own VCS team (like Google and Facebook) will suffer, or possibly pay for Perforce.
I'm a huge fan of these types of ideas.

While I like this one specifically, and think it has promise, what we really need to do is try 20 different ideas. Each should be a small randomized trial, with pre-registered outcome metrics.

Get all the conservatives, liberals, progressives, socialists in a room. Get them to agree on optimal outcomes (I actually don't think this is insane, as we often want the same thing). Then run a series of experiments, where each partisan leaning can propose an experiment.

Obviously, in real life with actual humans, this would never work. But I can dream...
The number of times I've wanted to save as XCF in the last 21 years... has been zero.

It's fine for GIMP to have a native format. But it's quite another to try and force the world to use it by making all the other, rather more common, formats second-class citizens.
The reason people want iPhones is the branding/marketing.

Where I live iPhone is a status symbol. People buy them because they want to show off that they can afford it rather than because there is some special functionality they use. To me iPhone is like Rolex Watch most people who own them probably don't need them and could make do with something much cheaper.

edit: Good example my coWorker told me about her 14 year old daughter begging her for an iPhone. It's the "cool" brand people want. When I was that age I remember Nokia 3210 was the phone everyone wanted. When you have that sort of luxury appeal you can charge more for the product and people will pay.
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I don't think it's plausible that an army of Microsoft engineers would label a NSA key, NSAKEY...
If you drill down the assembly jobs seems related to manufacturing assembly.
Eh? I don't really understand; a progressive web app is standalone, but of course the browser has to be involved, it's a web app.
What exactly do you oppose? Founders are the original shareholders, so I guess you don't oppose them having control of their own company? Since they are in control, nobody forces them to raise investment and give away shares in exchange for money. In other words, it's their decision whether to introduce new shareholders (either private or public ones).
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In 2013 I saw iPad sales growth figures quoted at 57% per year. There were very rosy projections with that rate five years out.

Well there is no such thing as infinite growth. Are we to believe that Apple is ever going to reach a two trillion dollar market cap?

In the year 2000 Cisco was worth over 550 billion dollars. 19 years later it is now worth less than 200.

It was a good run. But it’s a long slide back to reality.
The real danger here is anyone talking about any system architectures or tooling as "dangerous" (or "not dangerous") absent any other context...

What do you even mean by "dangerous"? To a business? To your health?

What is the deal with people trying to make these sorts of global assertions in a vacuum about what's "good" and "bad"? This doesn't make any engineering sense in any way to me. You have a problem and you figure out the best way for your business to solve that problem given some bounded resources. Nothing in the basic problem solving process (scientific method?) necessitates all the arbitrary "should" axioms. Why don't people just analyze their specific situation and figure out a solution?

It's like people arguing vehemently about the optimal design that every company "should" be using for all windshields for all personal vehicles on the road, without even remotely discussing various vehicle body shapes and sizes.
No rule will prevent all collisions of automobiles driven by humans. There's no free lunch here. If you want to be safer, drive less. TFA is fun, but mostly because it pretends that cyclists don't exist. IRL, there is a trade-off between turned-head blind spot checks and hidden-pedestrian alertness. You weren't talking about that trade-off, though. You were assuming that you always keep perfect track of your mirrors. Safety experts are quite sure that you don't.
I am looking at the WGA contract...that's where I get my info from. Your average staff writer gets nowhere near $75k per episode. A bit above $4k which is a far cry from $75,000.
> Sounds ideal - they can even remind the doctors to wash their hands before touching the patient.

I don't think doctors (or anyone else for that matter) is going to tolerate being followed around by an assistant who's going to nag them about how to do their job.
My org went from polyrepo 10 commit semver dependency hell when updating an internal API to monorepo and it saves a lot of time. Unmigrated semver breaking changes are a form of technical debt, and it takes a lot more total man hours to do the 'proper' one by one many commit poly repo migration than the other way around.

If we had the tooling to do multirepo atomic commits and reviews then maybe we would of stuck with polyrepos, but it doesn't really exist out in the wild, so monorepo it was.
NYC being the single worst place on the planet for public works projects.

I'm not sure what the way forward is, and I wouldn't begin to know how to fix the corruption problem. But I do know that blatant hyperbole like the above can't possibly begin to help.
If a dice roll beats a human in a life or death situation, I would still prefer the dice roll. It's simply the only rational way to go. Now of course in reality, it's probably not quite like that, there's probably biases and other issues. But, humans can always decide to disregard the machine. In a case like this, it seems being more cautious is usually the route to go.
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I don't buy the Marketing lingo. I like the touch & feel. I am one of those people who don't feel "special" or "good for myself" because I have a £1000 phone. I am happy/content because a 'machine' adds value to my life. My phone helps me listen to my podcasts, and helps me navigate when I travel. My Nutribullet helps me make great Paleo smoothies.

I am sure that I am not 100% immune to marketing, but I like to prefer the function over the plush.

Luxury is for other people. I prefer F.I.R.E instead :)
I do understand that Marketing creates artificial needs, and I want to believe that I avoid it :)
> You don't need to move your head at all to see a car...

But what I'm saying is the article's suggestion doesn't allow me to see something smaller like a motorcycle with the mirrors, and either I'd have to turn my head even further to see it with the mirrors in suggested position to check that area or -- worse yet -- I can't physically see that spot without the aid of a mirror.
> Well, sure, no one is going to be perfect, but similarly, no one is going to always check over their shoulder.

Plenty of people do. I do. You make it a habit so it's not something you even think about. Or put another way, it's like brushing your teeth--it's something you do because not doing it makes you uncomfortable. (And as someone who had to develop the habit of brushing as an adult rather than being trained as a young child by attentive parents, I know it's possible to develop such habits belatedly.)

I've found that in modern cars the B pillars are so far forward and wide that the value of the blind spot check is diminished. In my 2018 mid-sized SUV I have to stretch so far to see the blind spot that in heavy freeway traffic I feel like I'm taking my eyes off the road ahead for too far long. So I'm on the fence on the turning the head thing and suspect some day soon pervasive collision avoidance systems will definitively settle the matter, though I'm not sure I'll ever be able to break the habit myself.

But it's definitely a mistake to think that it's not practical to consistently do something as simple as checking your blind spot. It's perhaps one of the few driving tasks that one can reasonably expect to perform with near perfect consistency, even during emergency situations like when you're tempted to veer to avoid a rapidly approaching road hazard.
This is part of what turned me away from Nim, so it's good to hear that. Can you give some examples of some features you've removed recently? I notice you're not at 1.0, so are you comfortable ignoring the 'annoying too many people' part if you think there's enough of a reason to remove something?
Can someone explain to me why an investor would want to invest in a foreign debt and currency from a country that has capital controls and a history of undervaluing its currency?
Exactly. I just don't get the logic behind wanting to drive up the entire market beyond the reach of most buyers. I'm guessing most folks just don't sell precisely because of this and instead opt to rent out instead.

This is probably fine except when they actually need to sell the house for whatever reason.
They certainly priced themselves out my value zone.

When my 6s died recently (power connector issues) I picked up a moto g6 it works fine for me. My personal age of Apple is now completely over. Over about 3 years or so, I went from all Apple (powerbooks/macbook pros, apple tv, iphones, ipad) to no Apple. It was fun while it lasted.
I’ve considered buying an expensive car with advanced stop-and-go traffic self-driving mode, but it’s more effective to live next to the train station.
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Why? If Apple charges more than the cost to manufacture a iPhone, are they a parasite?

If not, what’s the difference? The are both offering a good.
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Why doesn't it make sense? You don't redownload it every time.
A blindspot mirror costs $5. I'm really surprised it's not mandated by law in the US.
Yes, this. So then those young brilliant individuals move into management because it's the only way to continue some semblance of career progression in your 30s.

Then a subset of the gifted technical individuals grow tired of management, step down and go back to the tech to do what they really loved all along.

I've met a fair amount of brilliant engineers in their 40s/50s who have been through management and decided it's not for them and are now shining as engineers again after a decade lost to leadership roles
No rail project anywhere has spent even close to what the MTA is spending per km on either the second avenue subway or east side access.

I suppose you could say somewhere like Syria is worse because they can't even try, but it seems a pretty defensible statement.