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by exasperaited | 2025-12-01 16:19:31+00:00
> The fact that they were elected as a 'change' government and have barely done anything that really faces up to the scale of the challenge the country faces?

They have done a lot. But they haven't even stopped the runaway train yet. And the fundamental mistake they have made is not explaining to people clearly enough, during the election campaign, that it would take the first three years just to stop it.

Then you have the absolutely shameful, racist, nihilistic, fact-free intervention of five MPs that the media thinks will run the country in future so they are getting ten times the airtime of anyone else.
by ska80 | 2025-12-01 16:20:17+00:00
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by jborden13 | 2025-12-01 16:20:19+00:00
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by throwaway303293 | 2025-12-01 16:20:25+00:00
I have been at my current job in digital product for about 12 years now, before that a career as a digital producer building flash websites and banner ads. Now I am in my mid-40's and really struggling with a few things that I wold love some thoughts on.

1. I know HN is an echo chamber but US based roles like mine always seem to be well north of $300K TC and I am sitting around $230K and have been stuck there because the company has missed bonus targets for a few years and I don't have any stock plan. Am I truly underpaid or is it really just the FAANGS making that much in senior roles?

2. It seems like a crazy time to look for a new job. Everyone seems to be using AI to apply, having their resume vetted by AI and most of the roles being ghost roles. Is anyone actually getting a job? I use AI daily so I see the benefit a tool but it seems like the landscape is bleak

3. I'm a male and I feel like I dedicated so much of my life to work that I don't have alot of friends outside of work, which has really made things feel like I missed out on alot of the world.

Thanks for any advice you can give.
by lumost | 2025-12-01 16:20:31+00:00
The definition of inflation since the 1970s has changed significantly e.g. owner equivalent rent. What many people describe as inflation is the change in base cost of capital purchases which has demonstrably risen at a substantially faster pace than baseline inflation see housing/car/education/healthcare prices.

Economic thought today is that rising asset prices relative to wages are not a sign of inflation. They can be attributed to lower cost of capital, increased dollar production of assets, lower risk profiles, and other aspects. However when observing housing prices and education prices which have seen declining utility over the years - it may be that we simply lack an appropriate word for the divergence of capital prices from wages, productivity, and risk.

There is an undeniable societal impact of this divergence, individuals become less economically and socially mobile. They maintain a net debt rather than net asset count for longer, they may be either practically or perceived as locked out of societal progress.
by untolabs | 2025-12-01 16:20:32+00:00
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by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-01 16:20:48+00:00
Then I'm not posting job openings at all, and I'm working my personal network extra hard to get a pipeline of actual candidates setup.

And it's not just the ATS doing this -- oooodles of goobers who are nowhere near qualified are using AI and slamming the hiring pipelines. I'm already leaning on the personal networks because of that, anyway, but Parent Poster's idea just means I push for that explicitly instead of informally.

See also: layoffs.fyi -- the market is just SATURATED with quality talent
by inanutshellus | 2025-12-01 16:21:06+00:00
ooo thanks for the link, buuut it appears NEATO Robotics vacuums aren't supported ... yet.

I had hoped Home Assistant might be able to handle it but it appears their integration just sends the data to NEATO, which no no longer works.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/neato/

Blarg.
Show HN: Yardstick — Measures in SQL as a DuckDB Extension
by nicoritschel | 2025-12-01 16:21:11+00:00
I've been working on analytics tools the past couple years and have explored ways to make calculations more consistent & reliable, especially in the age of LLMs. While I've also built a more traditional metric layer or semantic layer that I'll use in my project, I couldn't help implementing this pure SQL version (well, close to it) from a paper I read a couple years back.
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 16:21:15+00:00
> still shake my head at IPV6's committee driven development, though. My god, the original RFCs had IPSEC support as mandatory and the auto-configuration had no support for added fields (DNS servers, etc). It's like the committee was only made up of network engineers. The whole SLAAC vs DHCP6 drama was painful to see play out.

So true.

> That being said, most modern IPv6 implementations no longer derive the link-local portion from the hardware MAC addresses (and even then, many modern devices such as phones randomize their hardware addresses for wifi/bluetooth to prevent tracking). So the privacy portions aren't as much of a concern anymore. Javascript fingerprinting is far more of an issue there

JS Fingerprinting is a huge issue.

Honestly if IPv6 was just for the internet of things I'd ignore it. Since it's pushed on to every machine and you are essentially forced to use it -- with no direct benefit to the end user -- I have a big problem with it.

So it's not strictly needed for YOU, but it solves some problems that are not a problem for YOU, and also happens to address space. I do not think the 'fixes' to IPv6 do enough to address my privacy concerns, particularly with a well-resourced adversary. Seems like they just raised the bar a little. Why even bother? Tell me why I must use it without resorting to 'you will be unable to access IPv6 hosted services!' or 'think of the children!?' -- both emotional manipulations.
by alexfoo | 2025-12-01 16:21:24+00:00
Not sure. I covered them during my Comp Sci degree in the mid/late 90s. I'm probably not even implementing them properly but whatever I do implement tends to work.

Just checked my copy of TAOCP (Vol 3 - Sorting and Searching) and it doesn't mention A* or SAT.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...

A quick google shows that the newer volumes (Volume 4 fascicles 6 and 7) seem to cover SAT. Links to downloads are on the Wikipedia page above.

Maybe the planned 4C Chapter 7 "Combinatorial searching (continued)" might cover A* searching. Ironically googling "A* search" is tricky.

Hopefully someone else will chip in with a better reference that is somewhere in the middle of Wikipedia's brevity and TAOCP's depth.
by scomu | 2025-12-01 16:21:42+00:00
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by Tuna-Fish | 2025-12-01 16:21:45+00:00
Clearing e8 also clears the upper half.

Partial register updates are kryptonite to OoO engines. For people used to low-level programming weak machines, it seems natural to just update part of a register, but the way every modern OoO CPU works that is literally not a possible operation. Registers are written to exactly once, and this operation also frees every subsequent instruction waiting for that register to be executed. Dirty registers don't get written to again, they are garbage collected and reset for next renaming.

The only way to implement partial register updates is to add 3-operand instructions, and have the old register state to be the third input. This is also more expensive than it sounds like, and on many modern CPUs you can execute only one 3-operand integer instruction per clock, vs 4+ 2-operand ones.
by tantalor | 2025-12-01 16:22:18+00:00
> which it blamed on a "technical error"

It's not a technical error at all!

Technical errors are faults caused by technology, like a software or hardware bug. That's not what happened here. WordPress behaved exactly as it was supposed to.

The true cause is revealed later in the article,

> staff thought they had applied safeguards to prevent early publication, there were two errors in the way in which they were set up

The problem was the staff. It's a human error.
by unshavedyak | 2025-12-01 16:22:25+00:00
I think their skills have the ability to dynamically pull in more data, but so far i've not tested it to much since it seems more tailored towards specific actions. Ie converting a PDF might translate nicely to the Agent pulling in the skill doc, but i'm not sure if it will translate well to it pulling in some rust_testing_patterns.md file when it writes rust tests.

Eg i toyed with the idea of thinning out various CLAUDE.md files in favor of my targeted skill.md files. In doing so my hope was to have less irrelevant data in context.

However the more i thought through this, the more i realized the Agent is doing "everything" i wanted to document each time. Eg i wasn't sure that creating skills/writing_documentation.md and skills/writing_tests.md would actually result in less context usage, since both of those would be in memory most of the time. My CLAUDE.md is already pretty hyper focused.

So yea, anyway my point was that skills might have potential to offload irrelevant context which seems useful. Though in my case i'm not sure it would help.
by dkdcio | 2025-12-01 16:22:39+00:00
counter example: me! autocorrect, spam filters, search engines, blurred backgrounds, medical image processing, even revenue forecasting with logistic regression are “AI” to me and others in the industry

I started my career in AI, and it certainly didn’t mean LLMs then. some people were doing AI decades ago

I would like to understand where this moral line gets drawn — neural networks that output text? that specifically use the transformer architecture? over some size?
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-01 16:22:54+00:00
Over one hundred ground stations, spread across the world. More on demand - Starlink allows one to use terminals as makeshift ground stations in a pinch.

Uncle Sam could bring Starlink down, probably. For anyone else, that would pretty much require WW3.

Executives don't matter as much as you think they do. No credible executive is going to cave to random death threats, and carrying them out would cause new executives.

Now, would SpaceX eventually become a shell of its former self without Musk calling the shots? Maybe. But if the shell you're worrying about is Starlink orbital shell, and the time you're worrying about is today and not in ten years? Killing Musk doesn't help you much.
by nastya_geller | 2025-12-01 16:23:00+00:00
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by deaux | 2025-12-01 16:23:35+00:00
I'm younger than you - probably median HN age - but I've felt the exact same way for 10 or so years now. Just like you're saying, my generation has it objectively very good from a consumerist abundance PoV. Part of it is lower quality materials and manufacturing, but even if you disregard that factor, it almost certainly still holds. But that increase in material wealth hasn't brought happiness; if anything, it has done the opposite.

The optimism decline feels like it really started around 2001, and the downward curve has steadily continued ever since, down and down. Worst of all, it seems completely warranted, even if you try to look at it as objectively as possible, disabling news-headline-induced emotions as we're all prone to. The world has gotten too complex, everything too intertwined, making for an increasingly volatile and dangerous system.

And besides that major trend, it's also just many of the smaller things getting worse by the year - enshittification of both physical and digital goods, declining government services and so on.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-01 16:23:47+00:00
> While technically, Synapse can work with a sqlite database (and which at first seems like an OK choice for having <10 users on the server), it WILL become corrupted.

Does anyone have any more information on this? Running Postgres is not a big deal, but I would expect SQLite to be fine given how well it works in my experience.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-01 16:23:59+00:00
> I had an experience (post dot com crash) where the team hired a senior engineer... who left the team within a year to be an engineering manager somewhere else in the company and our team was back to interviewing for the position again.

Same reason I struggled to get a job at McD's or Home Depot years ago when laid off. They knew I'd be gone ASAP and that I probably wouldn't eat shit the way the local rube demographic would. These are crappy service jobs but they still want you to stick it out for at least 6-12 months.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-12-01 16:24:17+00:00
There's an argument by which machine-learned neural network weights are a lossy compression of (as well as a smooth interpolator over) the training set.

An mp3 file is also a machine-generated lossy compression of a cd-quality .wav file, but it's clearly copyrightable.

To that extent, the main difference between a neural network and an .mp3 is that the mp3 compression cannot be used to interpolate between two copyrighted works to output something in the middle. This is, on the other hand, perhaps the most common use case for genAI, and it's actually tricky to get it to not output something "in the middle" (but also not impossible).

I think the copyright argument could really go either way here.
by jerlam | 2025-12-01 16:24:28+00:00
Kind of wild that Netflix is (or believes) it is so far ahead of all the other streaming services that they're nickel-and-diming their customers for every little feature.

Other services were aggressively throwing Black Friday sales in order to boost their subscriber counts. I picked up HBO for 70% off, and there were also Hulu and Apple TV discounts. And I didn't need any of them because there's plenty of ad-supported content on YouTube, Tubi, and other services.
by leawi | 2025-12-01 16:24:52+00:00
If remarkable's writing experience appeals to you, but you don't want to lock yourself in their walled garden, check out Supernote. They have a much easier file transfer, sync with calendars, and most importantly no subscription. You still have to do some hacking to download certain apps, but overall they are much more tinkering-friendly. Writing feels a bit different, but not in a bad way — it's just a matter of personal preference (I personally like both). There are plenty of reviews online explaining the difference if that's important to you.
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by mileycyrusXOXO | 2025-12-01 16:25:09+00:00
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by ttimebomb | 2025-12-01 16:25:25+00:00
Some do, but its much more expensive for game companies and adds latency to some elements. Its generally a much harder problem for first-person shooter games - an enemy might be hiding behind a wall but the game needs to know the position of that enemy anyway because the player might move around the corner and see that enemy before the server updates or their game client might need to play noise that enemy is making faintly even if they are far away.

Players of these games are sometimes running their games at high framerates like 240fps which is much higher than the tick rates of these games too.

Plus it doesn't solve all the possible cheats that are out there, as there are some like aim-hacks that don't need any server information to work.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-01 16:25:28+00:00
I used to have that job, but my title wasn't Sysadmin, it was IT Manager. For companies small enough that they don't have multiple roles, you do both... but for larger companies, the user-side stuff is done by IT, and the server-side stuff is done by a Sysadmin. (And my condolences; having done that combined role, it's not easy, and you don't get paid enough!)
by dvcoolarun | 2025-12-01 16:25:32+00:00
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but to everyone commenting here saying they’re hiring and asking people to send their CVs —

please have the basic decency to send a simple acknowledgement or revert after receiving them.

This has happened repeatedly over the past few months after sending dozens of emails from these threads, sometimes 10+ at a time. Not getting even a basic response feels extremely disheartening.

I know it’s a tough time for everyone searching for a job, and we all understand if things are slow —

but a small confirmation like “Received, we’ll check” or “Not hiring anymore” takes 5 seconds and makes a world of difference.

Let’s be kinder to each other. It’s been a very hard year
by xpe | 2025-12-01 16:25:37+00:00
> I have found that more context comments and info damage quality on hard problems.

I'm skeptical this a valid generalization over what was directly observed. [1] We would learn more if they wrote a more detailed account of their observations. [2]

I'd like to draw a parallel to another area of study possibly unfamiliar to many of us. Anthropology faced similar issues until Geertz's 1970s reform emphasized "thick description" [3] meaning detailed contextual observations instead of thin generalization.

[1]: I would not draw this generalization. I've found that adding guidelines (on the order of 10k tokens) to my CLAUDE.md has been beneficial across all my conversations. At the same time, I have not constructed anything close to study of variations of my approach. And the underlying models are a moving target. I will admit that some of my guidelines were added to address issues I saw over a year ago and may be nothing more than vestigial appendages nowadays. This is why I'm reluctant to generalize.

[2]: What kind of "hard problems"? What is meant by "more" exactly? (Going from 250 to 500 tokens? 1000 to 2000? 2500 to 5000? &c) How much overlap exists between the CLAUDE.md content items? How much ambiguity? How much contradiction?

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_description