skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that monorepos are great if you're using version control systems in their current state. But I can't help but wonder if it's a question of monorepos being good, or version control/tooling inhibiting other options. If you had a VC tool that could compose repositories with ease, that could understand multiple histories and allow for atomic commits across repos, perhaps monorepos wouldn't be the best? Or you could keep the monorepo, but allow a "lens" into a specific subsection.

Even with Dan's point about monorepos making tooling easier, if a VC tool had a good API, perhaps this point would be moot. Why is it hard to query files and repository dependencies? Should there be some way to model dependencies in your version control system? It'd be interesting to see someone tackle these problems in version control.
Just in the past few days I got contacted by a British recruiter offering a job via LinkedIn which had a particularly generous package and conditions for the German market, so I jumped on the phone and had a chat with him about it.
It was all good until the second phone call to clarify that the pay was 30K less than what was originally advertised and there were no stock option benefits.

I found it pretty deceiving, the old cloak and dagger sales technique.
I'm sure you would also find small particles almost every other matter in the lungs. Do we know if plastics are worse for us than everything else?
Dbosoft Hosuto version 1.0 released
We have just published first major release version 1.0 of our advanced .NET hosting library Hosuto to nuget.

Hosuto is targeting microservice architectures, where services can be easily distributed as a single (micro) service or bundled into larger applications.

To support service bundling it extends the .NET generic host by the capability to run multiple host in the same process. In addition the hosts can share common objects like configuration, hosting environment or a shared DI container.

To learn more visit us on github - it's opensource (MIT license).
So sick of people on this site being dismissive of anything that couldn't become "amazon scale" when they often have no idea what the actual market conditions are for said thing, as demonstrated by their comments and general attitude. The aloofness should go in the opposite direction, if anything.
It seems bizarre to me you wouldn't put requirements up front, which seems to be what this thread is complaining about. Thank you for implying I am a moron
Le monde diplo has no relationship to le monde afaik
Is the ubiquity of micro plastics actually evidence that they are pretty benign?

Microplastics are pretty much everywhere, but globally (apart from Covid-19) humans are living longer, healthier lives. Despite all the news, we have one of the lowest rates or crime/war/violence ever in recorded human history. We are making huge intellectual strides.

I don't think we really have very good evidence that we are being harmed in any significant degree by micro plastics.
People think moving to Washington is #1 are truly inept. If you love overcast weather for 9 months out of the year, if you love knowing that your summers will still have overcast weather and there’s a chance the sun won’t happen that year, and that you will be enduring forest fires and freak weather (115F) more often in the future… sure, go for WA. I know people who grew up in AZ and want nothing more than drizzly rain and overcast weather and to stay indoors 99/100 days because they grew up in 120f weather with a baking sun and decided to become a vampire.

If you’re not them - it’s not great. If you don’t love overcast weather - it’s not great. Again - it selects a certain personality. People who love rain, hate snow, and hate sun.

Source: lived there and now live in SF. Would not recommend Washington. (Or Portland or Oregon in general)

Truth is - if you’re wanting to leave CA because you want real change - probably move to the east coast. It’ll be quite different. Living in the PNW will be the same but more shitty weather. (If you’re a vampire - go for it…)
> I feel like it’s almost an attempt to appease citizens by blaming the issue on “foreigners” (always a move that is popular with politicians)

Yeah the Right loves to blame poor foreigners while the Left prefers to blame rich foreigners but at the end of the day they at least agree that it is never the voters themselves who are to blame.
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Does anyone know of a recent fork for evolution for windows? It is one of the few things that I miss when dual booting back to win10.

Similarly I love the gnome spotlight search and wish it was also useful in windows.
One upside of smaller repos that I rarely hear about is that it forces you to think about versioning. If you have a monorepo, you often don't version individual components, you just have master that always builds. If your product is a user facing website, that is fine. But if you make releases, and have multiple components in different versions that have a stable API, and are expected to work in different combinations, then it is a real hassle. Of course you can tag individual library versions in a monorepo, but that is not the way of least resistance.

One place I've worked at migrated to a monorepo, the ATLAS experiment at CERN. It was not bad, although there were the usual problems with long checkout time. But it worked because we tended to version every single piece of software together in a big "release" anyway (to make scientific results reproducable).
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation. It didn't sound right to me that there would be so many turbo-charged piston aircraft, but if we add the high-compression engines then the fuel usage would definitely follow the Pareto principle.
Being assigned an office doesn't mean that it's not remote. It entirely depends on the team. I worked for a team that wanted me in office for three days a week last year. My current team is entirely remote, but I'm still assigned to an office that I can go to anytime I want, which is totally optional.
Thanks for the tip.

I think the fundamental disagreement here is on the definition of usability. Perhaps something like the product of ergonomics and discoverability? Cluttered UIs are visually distracting and harder to learn but the lack of modality is, IMO more ergonomic. That tradeoff always exists and I think the Gnome devs pretty consistently lean too far towards the easy to learn side which results in less usable UIs for everyone but people just learning the software for the first time.
This sounds like a good idea, could we extend it to the employee/employer relationship as well? Where your bosses gets held to the same standards they hold you?

If you think that's legally or practically unworkable, well, there's your answer.
My contract specifically states that my primary work location is the company office.

If I had applied to a remote position and the contract did not specifically state it's primarily a remote location, I would demand the contract was changed to reflect this before signing.
Regarding doing own research I think this approach works for many products that are cheap to purchase. But, this approach fails badly when you have to purchase items that are expensive and one time purchase. How do I pick good washing machine? I can only purchase washing machine, or chimney, or smart TV only 1 time, so I can't do research unless I am determined to burn money.

I do agree with influences. These guys can sway people and make people to purchase ersatz product and has ability to do shenanigans.I think people should be cognizant while watching "influencers".
From your link:

“Index value is the probability of two people selected at random from any one country speaking the same language. 1.0 is most diverse, 0.0 is least diverse.”

I leave the reader to judge for themselves whether that is a good measure to judge diversity as being discussed here or not.
Having separate data and code never causes problems either? Just because you bundle them together, doesn't mean the data and code are together during development. They get bundled together in the build process.

It's not as bad as say, writing HTML in JavaScript (JSX).
https://www.google.com/search?q=therapy+harmful
The logical conclusion is that THOSE ads don’t work, not that ads don’t work in general.

I am no fan of digital advertising, but there is a lot of variation on ad platform, targeting, ad content, ad space etc that will make a massive difference in effectiveness of the dollars spent.
Battery Management Getting Competitive for EVs
This sounds situational. I know someone personally that just landed a remote L5 position at Google. I have spoken with dev managers at Facebook who are hiring remote positions. I have spoken with dev managers at Amazon who are hiring remote positions.

My guess is that was the least offensive way the recruiter could come up with to tell you you didn't pass the "bar". And the hiring committee is, afaik, another "bar".
Well Oslo is not in Denmark, but in Norway (a different country).

I (from Denmark) find it "disturbing" to see `.´ as the decimal point, AM/PM for time, as well as writing the DAY before the MONTH (MM/DD-YYYY).

https://m.xkcd.com/927/

https://www.ctrl.blog/about/
"Ctrl blog (“Control blog”) is the developer-focused blog of Daniel Aleksandersen based in Oslo, Norway."
Have you never read something on here, then checked it out? What if paul graham recommends it?

I guarantee people have influence over you, just not the hipster influencers you are thinking of.
>That market doesn't exist because it requires buy in from the business, businesses that see the value in targeted and performance driven advertising do it in house because its so valuable, other businesses just don't do it because they see no value in it and they see no value in it because they don't do it.

That goes against the entire concept of the advertising agency though. If advertising is so important, why staff it out to a 3rd party when you could do it in house? If this in house thing was the way to go, why is Maddison Ave so powerful?
>How about I make an app that encourages users to snap pictures of people in public (totally legal) who are eating a big mac?

You eating a big mac isn't a threat to me, my family or my friends.

This attempt to portray all speeding as some kind of victimless morality crime is truly bizarre. Speeding is more akin to firing a gun into the air and then crying "Why are you persecuting me? I'm not harming anyone"
I have no special knowledge, but I've read that Wolfram has been shopping his grand unified theory around for a while with no takers in academia.

He reportedly started his own business to be free to pursue his research program on his own terms, but you have to wonder if the bumpers of peer review and academic respectability aren't there for a reason.
Generic slice/collection utility methods for Go
Having never played Talos principle one interesting thing I found against it is tat the mechanics of the game can be exploited such that the speed run of the game skips huge portions of it; whereas the witness is much more direct: you can’t exploit the mechanics to get ahead. Not that that matters at all since as a casual player I’m unlikely to ever get good enough at those kinds of maneuvers to skip ahead myself but that knowledge makes me feel like there’s a certain level of craftsmanship to the witness that isn’t present Talos Principle. The other side to this coin is that the speed run for Talos Principle is way more fun to watch because it is less predictable and there’s room for creatively getting around whatever barriers the game throws at you.
For multi repo I will need to build automation to manage all the repos and enforce a consistent experience across them, including syncing the repos, if we end up using stuff like submodules. And I need to do this now. We tried to "trust" every repo owner to do the right thing, but it was a cluster fuck.

With monorepo, I had to set up things once and go on my merry way. And I will be able to kick the monorepo-is-too-slow-can down the road for a few years from now.
> There have been a number of experiments over the last few years.

Neither laboratory experiments nor even ones with decent statistical controls for confounding factors, and rarely, on any large-scale policy, ones with more than single digit N (and quite often, that's true even in binary, much less decimal, notation.)
> If you work in the tech sector in the U.S. you almost certainly don't.

I've been working in the tech sector in the US for a long time, and have had an employment contract at literally every company. I'm genuinely surprised to hear that people are working without one. That seems unwise.
Wow, this is crazy to me.
There's pretty tight rules about leaving properties empty. Daily fines in the thousands.
It's fine for demand to go up as long as supply can keep up -- which unfortunately hasn't for decades thanks to NIMBYs

https://financialpost.com/news/economy/ontario-alberta-and-m...

https://www.livabl.com/2021/05/canada-housing-market-most-un...

Look at any satellite or aerial view of Vancouver or Toronto and it's basically all SFH

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/twj89s/yonge_st_fr...
This seems to be a problem with some of our press institutions in the US too. The NYT is inundated with horrible opinion pieces. They still do some decent reporting but you have to sift through a lot of garbage to get to it. It's still better than, and not at all comparable to, the news from an alternate dimension on Fox or the (somehow) crazier smaller nationalist networks, but extremely disheartening.
you might be right. But AFAIK, Therapy is a mostly USA thing. Most cultures don't do it. You'd probably say they don't because they are not yet enlightened. I think they'd probably have a different pov
I can't speak to the way the FAA works - as I believe those are appointed positions - for elected officials, every time you write a letter, or a make a phone call and are a constituent of that official, someone is writing down the subject, and your preferences about the matter. And the more people who do it and bring it up, the more time the representative spends on that topic.
As it accumulates more and more — probably ! Like acidification of the oceans is alright until it’s not
from what i have been told by family who work in the fishing industry, catching only the fish over a certain size is often a missguided and damaging policy not founded im science. Mature fish can reproduce regularly with the expectation that the vast majority of their young will not survive to sexual maturity, by taking only those fish you are removing the source of new fish. Better to throw back the big ones.
I probably hate ads more than most people but when I hear or see an ad, it kills my willingness to engage with a business. I mean, this isn't entirely conscious. I was thinking about whether my kid would like those creative boxes from KiwiCo that I heard good things about organically. Then, I heard an ad for them on a podcast, and I noticed a new extra resistance and hesitation to buy anything from them.

I don't want to be a sucker for ads. I don't want to support businesses that support our ad-polluted world. With my limited capacity to donate directly to creative work (which I'd incidentally rather do as part of a coordinated general public than just unilaterally), I favor donating to those who forgo ads rather than reward or support anything that accepts ads.

Now, I've hated ads for a long time. But I was still surprised how much I no longer feel fine considering KiwiCo. Now that I heard their ad, I feel like I don't want to be one of those people who is seen as following ads, and I don't want to support them. I imagine there's other products that don't budget as much for ads that I should go out of my way to seek out instead.

So for anyone like me, if you do paid ads, you just harmed your credibility with me.
Small note: there are people who cannot change work in IT because it would affect their visa or immigration status.
I love the comparison - I've heard a number of outer wilds players not seeing the comparison due to lack of story in The Witness. I think that's missing the point - TW and OW are the best exploration-driven games I've played, and I'm suspicious they're the best ever made.
MacOS updates are ridiculous. Doing a point update (like 12.1 to 12.2) on my 2018 MBP would literally take no joke over 20 minutes. In that time I can completely reinstall Ubuntu and have already set basically everything up.
I think the reason is that France is much less online in these things (at least this is my experience with seeing my in-laws). They expect to subscribe and cancel via a letter, much more than online.
The API/SDK seems pretty good. I found this great seemingly full featured client last week that I've been enjoying: https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider
I would love to go to a remote first company. How do you even find such a thing without just being super lucky?

I'm actually onboarding at a remote position right now where the people I work with are clearly used to everything happening in an office. It's Thursday, I started Monday, and I have spent a grand total of maybe 3 hours speaking to my teammates or direct manager.

I've been dumped with a ton of documentation and stuff to read, but I feel extremely isolated. No one on my team has reached out to welcome me or make themselves available for questions or anything.

If this is what some people are experiencing in the remote world I don't blame them for wanting to go back to the office. It certainly is not how I've experienced remote work in the past so far.
Exactly this.

- A claim is made with apparently uncontested evidence like a video, picture, quote, article, or endorsement.

- Knowledgeable viewers see the story and realize something is wrong.

- Meanwhile, the original claim starts to get spread by the "credible" media such as newspapers, TV, and online publications.

- Critics then mock and complain on social media about the claim.

- The regular news eventually catches up and makes new stories over the corrected claim without a reference to their original claims.

Hold these people accountable and don't give them your attention. Journalism has lost much of it's integrity.
If it's that important to you, it probably wouldn't hurt to get a prospective employer's vaccine policy in writing before accepting an offer. You can ask for that without revealing your own views on the subject.
> Whether or not humans ever mastered mathematics, what is and isn't mathematically true would not change. Humans can create notation and formalisms, but they do not invent the truths those mathematics represent.

We quite literally have no way of ever knowing this. This proposition and its negation are both beyond the scope of human knowledge.
How is this laundering money? I can see it being called wasting money, but people have been calling for aid for high house prices and low occupancy and this attacks it. Most parties favour populist moves that only harm non voters.
The engineering reasons and legal reasons reinforce each other in an endless cycle. Engines are of stone-age complexity because the FAA says they must be, and the FAA says they must be because safety, and the stone-age engines are safe because nobody takes risks and they remain in the stone-age. We're talking about an industry where you can tell which piston airplanes are new because they are fuel injected instead of carbureted!!

This is one of the reasons why I think almost all of the innovation in GA, including modern powerplants, electronic ignitions, advanced avionics electronic systems, and even safety systems, is happening in the Experimental category, not in certified factory-built airplanes. If I owned a Cessna and decided to so much as run a USB charger out to the panel, the FAA would come down on me like a ton of bricks. But I could replace the engine monitor or autopilot on my E/AB category airplane, and the FAA doesn't even care. Hell, I could replace the entire engine with something I invented in my basement, and all I have to do is re-do Phase I testing.
It's unclear that battery scaling will happen in time to reach sharply negative carbon emissions, or that solar and wind will meet future energy demands. Our kids need to put all the carbon back in the ground, which means we need to put the first 10-20% back ourselves. That would double global energy consumption for decades, assuming we started today.

Your supply chain carbon arguments have a fundamental flaw: Transportation and the grid need to decarbonize regardless of which technology the power plant uses.

Solar panel production is being bootstrapped with coal based power plants. That doesn't imply coal plants will be needed moving forward, or that industrial (bursty, scheduled consumption) electicity will be scarce.

The fact that US nuclear plants are riduculously economically inefficient doesn't imply plants in the rest of the world are similarly bad, or that the technology is infeasible. The US environmental movement intentionally sabotaged the industry through the second half of the 20th century. Also, efficient, safe nuclear plants have been operated for decades in other countries.

Anyway, we're clearly headed to a situation where we have effectively infinite clean electricity during the day, thanks to solar.

The real questions are whether energy storage devices are cheaper than nuclear, and how economical it is to time shift energy-intensive industrial processes (basically building 2-3x more factory, but idling it at night).

I'm hoping there is some bursty carbon capture technology on the horizon, where buying more equipment for a higher burst capture rate is cheap, so the electricity produced for the quarter of the day where there's a massive surplus isn't wasted.

We need to do that anyway, and it would greatly reduce nuclear, hydro and energy storage demand.
If the ideas are really all he claims they are, sure. If they're just a gloss on cellular automata and don't actually deliver anything new, then all that's left is the arrogance.
Nice of you to post. I hope you find good folks.
rsync + a bash script doesn't sound so bad now. (I don't give a fuck what the market or normies want)
I didn't feel like "It hit N and my life is basically over" until N = ~50
Honestly I would 100% do a monorepo every single time if there was good tooling for incrementally building and testing libraries. Having to rebuild every image from scratch for every single change scales miserably. Things like Bazel exist, but you basically have to have a team dedicated to operating it (maybe the difficulty varies by language, but it was a major pain when I tried to use it to build some relatively simple Python projects a few years ago).
this website has so many cancer ads hard to trust it...