gitlab VS hn-search

Is it any better ?

We had that last year, with the full premium stuff ("pay as much as we can" mindset)

Please see this: a basic feature, much needed by lots of people (those who are stuck on azure ..): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/360592

Please read the entire thread with a particular attention to the timeline

I ran into a similar bug in Git Lab where the v18 upgrade didn’t replace now-unsupported time zones so things like scheduled pipelines simply stopped running and were labeled inactive in the UI without explanation.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/556779#note_26...

The fix is simply to change them to the non-backwards linked names but it caused some confusing API errors since data which would no longer pass validation was already in the database and didn’t look wrong.

I am not trying to start trouble, or a heated debate, but I did want to say that my experience was the same as OPs and I am also coming from a static typing background so that likely explains my having a similar experience and expectations. I did for sure use RubyMine for attempting a change, so not "vim and yolo" but rather world class tooling and trying to discern where any random symbol came from was oppressively hard

That's not even getting into attempting to use their "happy path" <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v18.2.1-ee/.gitp...> -> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit#local which I found just incredibly challenging getting it to use my copies of the repos. But, just like in every one of these conversations, it's been a number of years since I tried it so maybe it's much better now

For more details, please check out gitlab templates

GitHub is also from them and brings the very same risks. The solution would be to build viable open source alternative but decentralized. GitLab Federation [1] or Forgejo (Codeberg) Federation [2] might be the answer.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

[2] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

There's another issue with a more complete proposal

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216351

> The more typical way of doing this would be to call piece of the code but without the elaborate setup you argue you'd need.

But how do you call the code if you don't know where it's called from?

Let's have a concrete example. In this `initialize` method how do I know what the arguments are meant to be?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitla...

There's no type annotation so the main ways to know are documentation (haha) and seeing what it is called with in existing code. But how do you find where that method is called?

(Note this isn't the best example because I would imagine the `initialize` isn't magically generated, but it is still difficult to search for so it's almost as bad as the magic identifiers.)

The missing feature is federation! In my view, centralized structures like a giant source repository such as github are something we as a developer community need to avoid. Unfortunately, features like federated merge requests in gitlab ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 ) are something we've been waiting for for 9 years and nothing seems to be happening there. This feature alone would enable a lot of new collaboration without forcing everyone to work on a centralized system to use git - a decentralized versioning system - with high efficiency.

In case someone from Gitlab is watching: there is a long-standing issue that Gitlab Dependency Proxy does not work with containerd rewriting (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350485), making it impossible to use as a generic Docker Hub mirror.

There's a lot of from @dang about how the site goal is optimizing for curiosity and what that means in practice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

No, it's the other way around. This post is ranked higher on the frontpage than it would be if it weren't YC-related. That's because we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is part of the story.

Many past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It was available earlier. Here's the HN history:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chomsky%20and%20the%20Two%20Cu...

The oldest submission is from 15 y.o ago - that is 2010.

Please don't editorialize titles. It's against the site guidelines:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

There's a bunch of LLMs. Not actually that difficult to find.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

There's even some pretty obviously shady ones doing stuff like purposefully evading LLM detection systems.

It also does not take that much of a search online to find people trying to buy upvotes, comments, accounts. A lot get banned, yet people are still obviously trying.

Generally agree with you. Lot of sites over the years that have eventually been turned into wastelands. Predictabot LLM SEO spew that eventually rendered interacting there meaningless. The auto-comment, auto-review stuff has been around longer than the LLM idea, it just wasn't quite so accessible. Now its like every teenager has been handed bioweapons.

Unfortunately, (opinion) most of the mainline World Wide Web has been reduced to content that's difficult to parse from Stock Market summary bots, and most of the old vibrant forums have slowly been obliterated, so there's not that many places to go to.

Huge portion of the World Wide Web that just goes from site to site ruining the experience until there's nothing left, and no reason to participate, or even glance. Their calculations wasted turning each "platform" into a pile of vomit no-one wants to interact with.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Examples:

6 days ago: Their experience with Rust was positive for all the commonly cited reasons - if it compiles it works

8 days ago: I have to debug Rust code waaaay less than C, for two reasons: (2) Stronger type system - you get an "if it compiles it works" kind of experience

4 months ago: I've been writing Rust code for a while and generally if it compiles, it works.

5 months ago: If it’s Rust, I can just do stuff and I’ve never broken anything. Unit tests of business logic are all the QA I need. Other than that, if it compiles it works.

9 months ago: But even on a basic level Rust has that "if it compiles it works" experience which Go definitely doesn't.

Some people claim that the quote is hyperbolic because it only covers memory errors. But this bug is a memory error, so ...

Maybe if some of you got together on these submissions you wouldn't be so lost

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

2021

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=A%20Lisp%20Interpreter%20Imple...