skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to the officer who died of probable suicide during the Baltimore Police Department 2017 racketeering indictment [1] fictionalized by the author in "We Own The City" [0].

Not as good as The Wire but still worth the watch thanks to the performances (of Jon Berthal among others) and the storytelling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Police_Department#20...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Own_This_City
That’s the more bizarre decision to me.

I get that some suits have decided PC isn’t a threat to Playstation’s business model, but they’re just wrong.

A gaming PC will play PC/Xbox/Playstation/Switch exclusives now. That really is compelling for someone in the market.
Yet, France has no plans to build replacements for the large majority of plants soon to age out. What they will build is purely politically motivated. Those probably will not be completed, as they would be uncompetitive, but ratepayers might be forced to make them profitable by paying way more for power than their neighbors.

Germany elected to build out a great deal of wind generation capacity rather than refurbish a much smaller capacity of aged, ramshackle nukes. That has worked out extremely well, and they continue.
Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
Surely that's not a human voice?!
That's not a microkernel architecture; that's a monolithic kernel with modules. (Just like Linux.)
Even if they don't have a legal obligation to do so, they sure seem to pick that heuristic to the exclusion of other pursuits quite often.
Yeah, branches are slow. Otoh blame is fast compared to git.
You might enjoy Frans de Waal's excellent book, *Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are." https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393353662 Quite a fun read, too.
Tell me you're from a high-tech city (probably SF) and work in software, without telling me you're from a high-tech city :)
I wonder if you shook your clothes out before putting them back on.
I have found the fonts at <https://opendyslexic.org/> to be helpful. It is actually harder to read and in turn slows you down, so there are less errors.
Suppose you want to deprecate an API you wrote in favor of something else for $valid_reasons.

In a monorepo with the right tooling, I can make a branch where I delete the API and get pretty immediate feedback as to every module I have broken. From there I can update all the call sites and I also know which teams/engineers I should give a heads-up to.

In a multi-repo world, this is much more difficult. Even learning what all the reverse dependencies are could be a challenge. Most likely, other teams have to pull in my changes on their own schedule, and other teams have very different incentives than my own. The cost of mistakes is therefore higher because they are more difficult to undo.

Monorepos are very important if you want to empower engineers to achieve broad changes across the org. Some people fundamentally disagree with this methodology. And a fair number of people just don’t care enough - marking the old thing deprecated, calling it a day, and letting it rot for eternity is good enough for them. These are the same people who you’ll find saying “not my job” a lot, in my experience.
> See I could also call a PR exercise to safe languages that depend on using unsafe everywhere on their lower layers, maybe they aren't safe after all.

Although it's easier to look at what's technically different in a language like Rust, probably more important is a philosophical difference and the resulting community.

Let's use an example I gave recently to my line manager (who is technical but not an excellent programmer): Sort stability. C++ says, here's sort function, and in the documentation by the way this is unstable, if you need a stable sort that's named stable_sort(); Rust says, here's a sort function, if you know enough to know you don't need a stable sort, there's an unstable_sort() function which is faster [and exists in tiny embedded systems since it doesn't need an allocator]. Unstable sort isn't unsafe (well, it is in C++ but that's C++ for you, it's not a fact about unstable sorting) but philosophically it violates the principle of least surprise as your default sort() function, and that would be a foot gun.

Go has an "unsafe" library with the dangerous stuff in it. But unlike Rust it doesn't have the safe philosophy and so e.g. as we saw recently Go doesn't feel the need to even warn you that things aren't thread safe and some Go proponents think you're crazy if you expected anything to exhibit thread safety.

If I saw a clear RPC philosophy in an OS like Windows I'd mostly go along with what you're saying. If when I looked at Windows I saw a bunch of loosely coupled systems communicating using a well defined protocol, I'm on board that's really not just a monolithic kernel. But what I see instead is mostly layers smeared on top of a monolithic kernel, some of which pretend to be RPC but are really just doing a syscall to some kernel code where the work happens. The language of RPC is used in some places, but the philosophy is largely absent.
It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted it on Monday I received a response immediately “The team has reviewed your resume and decided to not move forward. We will not be reviewing your code challenge. Feel free to apply again in one year.”

I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and you could have at least glanced at it. Or at the very least lied to me.
In Switzerland that would require you to deposit at least 25k or you can not use a fantasy name.
A lot (most?) of Sci-fi space fiction relies on FTL travel. That's extremely unlikely to ever happen, which is IMO a good thing, as it keeps us contained.
I think it's important to understand how often is the OP's company benefiting from this: is it worth the trouble they've gone through through the years? I've checked the rest of engineering posts, and none of them talk of the benefits of using a monorepo explicitly.

Monorepos, like basically all solutions, solves some problems and introduces new ones which you didn't have before. It depends on each individual case which drawbacks are more worthwhile.
There have probably been a few Tik-Tok things that have had me scratching my head. Here is something similar:

Andrew Tang demonstrating there is still hope for humanity: taking down Stockfish in Ultrabullet Chess (for the uninitiated, each player has to play all their moves in 15 seconds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BabwXdxdLB0
A single piece of fruit is going to have like 1/5 the sugar that is in a small soda, so maybe don't overthink it.

Fruit juice isn't great, because it makes it easier to consume a larger amount of sugar (but it's better than soda).
Similar situation when one tries to argue with Russian "patriots".
CI/CD build the entire project. So if you make a breaking change in library the build will fail.
I disagree, and I'm afraid you've made a slight error in categorisation there.

You are referred to the PPP loans that the US gov delivered to businesses. I agree that these contribute to inflation, but note: these loans went to businesses to secure the individuals paycheques, not individuals directly, and indeed the wages were not affected. Thus, we have inflation as you describe, and the claim that increasing wages could help in an economic downfall is safe, for now.

However, the PPP is not what I am advocating for, and most people serious about the topic agree there were far more efficient stimulus models that the Biden gov could have explored. If you somehow got the impression I am advocating for the PPP, my apologies.

For an example of what I do advocate, I refer you to the stimulus packages provided by the Australian government during the GFC. There were two significant differences to the US govs and Australia's stimuli: for one, the Australian stimulus was delivered to individuals (increasing purchasing power of the individuals and stimulating further purchases) and secondly, it was done as a single lump sum early on in the crisis, and was done to promote spending rather than to replace income.

This allowed Australia to then leave the GFC with relatively little damage (it can be shown that Australian debt soared afterwards, though it is widely agreed that the cause of that debt was the successor governments misspending rather than the GFC debt).

To summarise, I reject your assertion that higher wages exacerbates inflation. If you have the 'wealth of economic history' to support your claim, please feel free to specify.

(Side note: SBA.gov states that this was actually a Trump administration bill, not a 'progressive' bill, but that is irrelevant for the broader point I am making)
The Uk was a pretty decent place up until around 2008, now its much further along the train of stripping back every function of government than even the US. The entire media is in the government's pocket, we even had a literal conspiracy to intentionally lose elections from members of labour.[1][2][3]

Unlike the US, even the police departments don't escape cutbacks...

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leak-r...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/06/labour-repo...

[3]: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/leaked-dossier-sh...
Do your thing I guess. The results will speak for themselves. Just know that even in the mid-2000s (when the market was red hot) there were all sorts of hurdles you'd have to go through to get a good gig. A lot of that involved doing work "for free".

A little hustle pays dividends long term. It's much worse in other industries.
Atomic linearisable updates to your code.
I reached the same point. I am also helping terminally ill gentleman to have last comfortable days of his life. I literally see how the time is running out.

My wish is to finish my projects allowing my relatives to live ramen-comfortable life without me. Maybe I manage to retire and enjoy the life by myself for a while. I became very materialistic growing up in poverty.
Memory-Based Model Editing at Scale
> I disagree, and there is a huge philosophical gulf of understanding between my view and those who feel differently.

Let me ask you two simple questions:

1. I work on a project in a git repo and do a git pull to get the latest changes to the branch. I do the equivalent of `make` with my build system, and encounter a problem (either a build error, or some unexpected bad behavior from the built artifact). Should I be allowed to conclude that someone has messed up, or do I first have to engage in some gyrations to make sure I have a "clean` build and the correct dependencies (git clean -dxf, issue commands to manually check and update dependencies etc.)?

2. I push some code after running the equivalent of `make test`, which passes successfully. A collaborator informs me that after pulling their build is broken or there is some unexpected failure, which does not appear to be a flake. Should I just expect this to happen every now and then and live with it?

If your answer to 1. is "No" and your answer to 2. is "Yes" than there may indeed be a gulf of understanding, but probably not a "philosophical" one. If your answers are "Yes" and "No" respectively, then I'd certainly love to hear what philosophical more aligned general purpose build tools have this property, because I'd be interested in investigating them. The only other tools in this space that I'm currently aware of of even making an attempt in this direction are either different granularity (nix) or unreleased/more of an academic POC (redo/shake).
There is a fundamental difference here: US and China are superpowers, as was USSR. Russia, however, is just Nigeria with nukes.
You can add their influences in normalizing mass production and mass consumerism, "fast decor", the complete blandness of what they sell and how it contributes to globalization and the destruction of diverse aesthetic values...
When I use Rider I just fully accept that it's not open source. Same with the old Visual Studio.

VSCode on the other hand looks open source, they claim it's open source, the extension is open source, yet the most critical component is not. I would call this the new new Microsoft - we look like we love open source, we give you open source tools, but it's either not open actually (this) / will not work if you compile it yourself (VS Code and .NET debugger) / only works on Windows ("Multi-platform App UI", maybe Mac, I don't know)
Overall, besides the extremely long compile times

Out of curiosity: fresh builds or also incremental builds? If the latter, how much of it is linking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4z7mzaVco
The reward is a pay increase (hopefully) and a delightful 6 months before you realize the new job has the same problems as the old job, then 18 months of stress while you try to change things, and then you get to do it all again. What's not to love about a system like that?
Talking about his season being spring - I note JJ was born in February, is this some horoscope-adjacent belief?
The proliferation of bespoke sample players has solely been for commercial reasons, though. For example, a company receives outside money, say Spitfire; the investors ask if the company owns all their own IP; a discussion ensues that the company's products require a per-license fee to be protected with the Kontakt Player realm; the investor raises their eyebrows. What follows is pain for the user as developers who've never built a sampler player download JUCE and see what they can do, all making the same mistakes, and taking versions to iron them out much to the annoyance of end users. Plus, there's really not that much innovation that comes out of this... And some of the seemingly innovative aspects of SINE were simply stolen at the behest of one of the celebrity names they have behind some of their products.

I would love to see more change in music and audio, but when the main applications in use are all over 30 years old, you have to wonder. Cubase started in 1989 on the Atari and became reborn as Cubase SX 1.0 in 2002, Logic was released by Emagic (after the separation with C-Lab) in 1990/91 and purchased by Apple in 2002, Pro Tools also came in 1991, based on the earlier Sound Tools products, and so on...

Also, it's depressing to think how much exciting research existed in this field in the 80s that still hasn't come to fruition. Look back at Stanford and CCRMA, the close ties to Lusasfilm Computer Division, NeXT, etc... Michael Hawley who is sadly no longer with us, even talked about creating a MusicDroid (like SoundDroid and EditDroid) for John Williams to be able to prototype orchestral scores.

Surely for something truly innovative to happen, we need bigger truly revolutionary thoughts along these lines, not just another plug-in format. That's kind of boring, to be honest. Surely with developers like Urs and others can think of something bigger; CLAP seems motivated by developers wanting to unshackle themselves from the hosts they ultimately need to support them, either via wrapper code or native support. It's hard to articulate why this changes the world for the better for an end user who just wants a cool new synth.
> I see that KDE has bug A and Gnome has bug B. Or KDE has feature C that Gnome doesn't have, and vice versa. All in all as user. No DE fits me because bugs and features are scattered around.

This is a "grass is greener over the fence" perspective. You can install apps for missing functionality or report bugs for the things you don't like.

Except, Windows and macOS doesn't care about your bug reports, and some of the applications are not implemented on these systems because there's no financial incentive, and open source tools for these platforms are low quality.

On the other hand, this modularity and composability does wonders in the Linux side.

Linux DEs have feature levels. from LXDE to E17/XFCE to GNOME/KDE. People try, change, select and settle. Their most important settings are carried around. BTW, Qt/KDE guys allows amazing interoperability between GTK and Qt, regardless of your primary choice.

So, after some time it's borderline nitpicking IMHO.
Sure, it's possible it would get challenged, but I don't think this really comes anywhere close to something obviously discriminatory.
The good outcomes from Covid.

Trying to look positively, the leap forward in vaccines and mRNA
really restored my good feeling about some areas of technology. Many
great things like HIV vaccines can, and are emerging. It melts by
brain that humans are capable of solving extremely challenging
scenarios when we work together, but have to wait until things reach a
crisis point before doing so.

This is countered by the very negative descent into technofascism, but
I remain hopeful because medical advances cannot be "undone", whereas
technological authoritarianism is at least a treatable and reversible
condition.
EMDR trauma therapy at 42 years old. Feels like my life is only just starting.
Look, nobody complains about Visual Studio.

People get angry when suffocate existing tools with their free and "open source looking" alternatives. Ask Python devs if they think that their VSCode extension is open ... Even I thought it was open yesterday, turns out it's not and they pretty much removed support Jedi, the acutally open language server.
Honestly at this point it's almost worth excluding housing. You have a generation from about 45-60 who bought their London houses for around the 50-200k mark who have an asset worth 0.8-2.5M and are earning 200-300k a year. You then have those a bit younger with similar incomes but who had to "buy high".

Both are "rich" but I would probably only classify the former group as "wealthy" as they're sitting on huge assets.
Numerous technologies will be scaled. Those mentioned adjacent are just very easily understood examples. Utilities will have criteria other than "easily understood", cost chief among them.
Looking for a job means doing 'work' potentially for nothing. You have to apply, sit interviews, sit tests, etc. Investing half a day before a decision is very reasonable.
Possibly 4 now, Live recently announced beta support for AUv3
Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt
That would be true if everyone were replaced at once. Culture lingers on otherwise.
Open Source Contributor Index
Awesome, I've been waiting for a 1.0 release to start playing around (I know its been fairly stable anyway, but still)
Are you never planning to appear at a trade show and promote your product?
even if you can't get back to the old new normal, you'll eventually get used to the new new normal. I live with a progressive disability and that's what I've found - you grieve your losses, adapt, get back in the (altered) groove and the cycle repeats. sometimes things come back, sometimes not. so it was when I couldn't type for a while, so it is now with my wheelchair. it sucks but you can do it.
> The main drawback is scalability of the tools involved like git.

And if you can employ enough engineers to break git, you can probably afford a team to work on scaling git.
> Or at the very least lied to me.

It sucks that they requested work from you that was not necessary, but would you really prefer that they lied about it?

I'd say they mismanaged the situation, but at least were honest about it.
Yea, the drama occurred when it was in preview, so we all thought it's going to have real hot-reload capability as we know from webdev.
> I am also helping terminally ill gentleman

Goodonya. Caring for the dying changes you in so many ways and can be
an ultimately positive milestone of maturity. It can really take it out
of you too, so make sure to get enough help to be a help.
Except it doesn't.
So /new is a simple browser bookmark ?
...or strike a deal with existing LLC. This is what my company does. We sign contracts and you re hidden behind offshore corporate veil.
They are free to offer their own proprietary VS Code extension, likely no one would have a problem with that. What is very objectionable is the way they are trying to destroy and replace the existing FOSS OmniSharp extension!
As a non-English speaker, I find this pretty useless. I always want to get English version of any website, and not some poor translation, and honestly the fingerprinting entropy is negligible. This seems to be PR-driven development, just to score some points from the privacy aware community.

Every time I see tech being proposed for privacy instead of legislation I wonder how the topic is kept so vague. There are a handful of companies that can track you across multiple websites, so any real solution has to start by enumerating and addressing those companies.

It feels like were always discussing about curing "diseases" without explicitly saying that malaria, TB, etc are the targets.
It still uses node.js, right? Since it is new and for the future, why not choosing deno?
If you have young kids.. that's it. Apparently it gets better. It did for me, had a big dip then came up smarter. Now with our third in the "terrible two" phase I'm in a terrible dip. This time next year I'll be back to my horrific smart, egotistical and demanding self :-)
I checked out their careers page after reading this.
Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful at Jumping?
Both :) But what bothers me most, is the slow incremental debug builds. But that's a general Rust problem, although seems extra bad with Tauri.

My project has ~1700 lines of Rust, ends up pulling in ~700 dependencies and changing one line in main.rs takes about ~20 seconds for the debug compile to finish (on a 5950X CPU). Fresh build takes about 1m30s but that only happens on CI, so not really a problem day-to-day for me. Full CI build on Codeberg/Woodpecker takes around 5 minutes from push to release created, but that's including other things too.
Read more about it here: https://blog.writefull.com/new-writefulls-automated-abstract...
Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others.

This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations.

Without accountability checks, people can and will use the positions of power to police the companies, communities and whatever they can to further their own agenda regardless if it hurts everyone else involved in the process.

It's important we start valuing maturity and ability to exercise nuance in thought process lest it will all go south.
That just sounds like an attempt to save both of you time (elapsed time, from interview to offer, not time spent) in case your phone interview did do well.

After the phone interview, somebody needs to write it up, a hiring committee needs to look at it, and then they can decide whether to move forward or not. If they give you the challenge after that it's easily another week.

Frankly I am surprised they gave you a full response on Monday after a phone interview Friday, that's actually quite fast given all the steps and people involved.
And most likely deprecate support for the open Language server, as they did with Pylance/Jedi...
I totally agree, it's victim blaming, but the incredible level of self sabotage and tolerance for douchbaggery the victims exhibit is a huge drain on my limited supply of empathy, after so many years of trying to deprogram and empathize with gullible racist fuckhead suckers who got scammed by Trump, and have been programmed to view empathy as a weakness, so don't deserve it themselves. And there's probably a huge overlap between people who admire golden toilets and bored ape jpegs.

At any rate, they'll probably reskin these templates to feature Hummel figurines, then I can feel sorry for the victims again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nge8q8CKk