MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fh_ | 2026-02-02 17:25:00+00:00
Why does everyone think organic is an outlier, niche kind of choice that is done by some isolated, moral farmer in a distant idyllic village? It is as mainstream and commercialized as the alternatives. In fact, nothing separates it from every single purchase where people pay more hoping it makes you feel better and gives your better results.

You'd rather run a crowdfund to lobby for everyone so that chemicals are more regulated in all of agriculture. That way, everyone gets a better baseline, which raises the standards for what is termed as 'organic'.
by adventured | 2026-02-02 17:25:37+00:00
Nadella has the golden ship taking on water right now. He has entirely botched AI top to bottom. He has screwed that up to such a degree that it would be difficult to overstate. If he doesn't correct these mistakes extremely soon, he'll unravel much of the progress he made for Microsoft and they'll miss this generation of advancement (which will be the end of their $3 trillion market cap - as the market has recently perked up to).

There is no tech giant that is more vulnerable than Microsoft is at this moment.

Most document originations will begin out of or adjacent to of LLM sessions in the near future, as everything will blur in terms of collaborating with AI agents. Microsoft has no footing (or worse, their position is terrible courtesy of copilot) and is vulnerable to death by inflection point. Windows 11 is garbage and Google + Linux may finally be coming for their desktop (no different than what AMD has managed in unwinding the former Intel monopoly in PCs).

Someone should be charging at them with a new take on Office, right now. This is where you slice them in half. Take down Office and take down Windows. They're so stupid at present that they've opened the gates to Office being destroyed, which has been their moat for 30 years.
by i7l | 2026-02-02 17:25:39+00:00
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by deng | 2026-02-02 17:25:54+00:00
It's the median salary: 50% of people earn more than 62.4k. 10% earn more than 80k. It's still low compared to the US, but what isn't?

For this, you get proper health and unemployment insurance, usually 30 days of paid vacation, up to 6 weeks of sick leave with full salary, up to 10 days to take care of sick children with full salary, paternal leave, the right to work part-time if desired, and so on. I don't know where you get the "people can be let go anytime" have from, because Germany is pretty famous for its "Kündigungsschutz" and it's very hard to let people go because of performance issues alone, which is why things like stack ranking and performance improvement plans pretty much do not exist here.

I can understand if young people without kids do not care about these things and just want the money. However, once you get older, you'll see the advantages.
by throw20251220 | 2026-02-02 17:26:06+00:00
> - 6 months of "probation", with only 2 weeks of notice

Talk to Arbeitsamt, hiring in Germany is a huge risk as soon as your company is 10+ people. By the way, the two weeks notice goes both ways. There’s a risk on both sides.

> - And all after 4-6 years of degree/s and 4-5 years of experience (so around 10 years of investment)

Everyone is a Doktor there so your investment is most likely worthless. You did your reps at the Uni, profs instilled into you that you’re crème de la crème, but can you do the job, or are you just good at following orders.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-02 17:26:15+00:00
It's a bit more complicated than this. First, averages hide a lot of variability, both in skillsets and salaries. You have SWEs earning very high income. Also there's the question of opportunities. Some of these SWEs/devs could have had better prospects in different fields, while others not. And there's also the question of whether you like what you do. For many people, programming is a passion.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-02 17:26:33+00:00
....but wait until Finanzamt comes along and measures the size and checks with a controller if this room is really ONLY for work - if there is the slightest sign that this room maybe used for other things, your plan is gone.

Even an additional single sofa/couch can crush this plan.

And: If you say the room is worth 500€, you dont get back this 500€ with yearly tax declaration - you only get this amount deducted from total income, rising your after-tax income a little bit. In fact, with this solution you loose a room PLUS some money - rather rent out the room 1 week per AirBnB and pocket this in cash and you are fine.

Source: I was once hit by them with these rules.
by ojpike | 2026-02-02 17:26:39+00:00
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by tjr | 2026-02-02 17:26:56+00:00
what are the kinds of tests do people write in other areas of the industry?

Aerospace here. Roughly this would be typical:

- comprehensive requirements on the software behavior, with tests to verify those requirements. Tests are automated as much as possible (e.g., scripts rather than manual testing)

- tests are generally run first in a test suite in a completely virtual software environment

- structural coverage analysis (depending on level of criticality) to show that all code in the subsystem was executed by the testing (or adequately explain why the testing can't hit that code)

- then once that passes, run the same tests in a hardware lab environment, testing the software as it runs on the the actual physical component that will be installed on the plane

- then test that actually on a plane, through a series of flight tests. (The flight testing would likely not be as entirely comprehensive as the previous steps)

A full round of testing is very time-consuming and expensive, and as much as possible should be caught and fixed in the virtual software tests before it even gets to the hardware lab, much less to the plane.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-02 17:26:58+00:00
Ads in vehicles are a sure thing. Also a sure thing you'll be able to pay a little extra to turn them off, which is basically just the full price of the trip unsubsidized by ads.

It'll be up to you, just like whether you want your Netflix cheaper with ads, or more expensive but without.

I see that choice as a good thing.

The rest of your suggestions are incredibly unlikely. Google doesn't even scan your Gmail anymore, you think they're going to create a privacy scandal by listening to your conversations? And they certainly don't sell your Maps timeline which is far more valuable than just a few car trips, so why on earth would they do that with Waymo? Nor does Google Maps offer to send you to Burger King when you hit directions for McDonald's. And taking a longer route that wastes time, battery and money, on the chance you'll be looking out the window to see a billboard rather than looking at your phone, doesn't make sense at all.
by darrelld | 2026-02-02 17:27:03+00:00
I just sent my single client a monthly subscription link via stripe.

$875 a month for service and support on a custom built loyalty platform.

Make about $25K up front to build it, then followed up with maybe another $20K worth of various features over the last ~5 years

Starting this month $875 a month to keep supporting them and helping grow his vision (credit management for events...ie: get a nfc wrist band at a party as part of an all inclusive package, has $xxx.xx worth of credit, tap your wrist band to pay)

i'm also starting to try to bridge this out as a more generic platform and look for new clients.

$875 a month in the USA is a nice bit of extra cash. Server costs are coming in around $300 because I haven't optimized aws and there are some legacy systems I'm supporting(VPC costs are killing me) but it'll be nice to have some extra cash to pay off some debt and maybe buy some things to fuel new hobbies.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-02 17:27:14+00:00
It is endemic to the JVM world that people try various forms of snake oil concurrency inside an address space like actors and the original synchronized model when java.util.concurrent and Executors are "all you need."

It was a theme in part of my career to pick up something written in Scala that used actors that (1) didn't always get the same answer and (2) didn't use all the CPU cores and struggling for days to get it working right with actors then taking 20 minutes to rewrite it using Executors and getting it to work the first time and always work thereafter.
by selfsimilar | 2026-02-02 17:27:17+00:00
Number one indicator? A single punctuation mark that's trivial to make on most keyboards (option-dash on macOS). And generally people who write software are extra fixated on punctuation for obvious reasons: missing semi-colons break your build, etc. Maybe in some other niche message board people will use dash and em dash interchangeably, but here?

Also, if the a single character is how you're red-flagging LLM output, do you know how easy it is to avoid? I didn't use it here at all, but how do you know I didn't run this through some slop-machine to tighten my prose? It's really low-effort take to say "just avoid em dashes so we know you're not an AI".

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-...
by alisatao | 2026-02-02 17:27:44+00:00
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by bitwize | 2026-02-02 17:27:48+00:00
Enjoy it while it lasts, folks. Android has since implemented restrictions on which binaries may be run from an installed app; any spawned processes must also come from binaries installed from Google Play.

Termux is currently grandfathered in because it's still built against the last API version not to have these restrictions (28?). But it's only a matter of time before that version starts throwing "This app was built for an old version of Android and may not work properly on new devices" errors and then, stop working altogether...
by tialaramex | 2026-02-02 17:27:56+00:00
Taxis are also public transport and so their provision in cities is in fact part of the transport fabric. Since there must be taxis, why not improve them?

This isn't about poor people, at least for me, I'd much rather be alone than with Elon fucking Musk. If I want to hang out with people I will choose when and who. The least good bit of being in a taxi is small talk with the driver.
by rekabis | 2026-02-02 17:29:10+00:00
Pedantic Pete here:

• The centigrade is capitalized when used after a number. There is also a singular glyph for the entire degree-centigrade convention: ℃.

• There are also superscript numerical characters to use with volumes, without having to use formatting: m³.

UTF-8 is fun! As is automatic text replacement, once you have the appropriate triggers set up.
by avsm | 2026-02-02 17:29:35+00:00
(author here) it's actually the module system of OCaml that's amazing for large-scale code, not the effects. I just find that after a certain scale, being able to manipulate module signatures independently makes refactoring of large projects a breeze.

Meanwhile, in Python, I just haven't figured out how to effectively do the same (even with uv ruff and other affordances) without writing a ton of tests. I'm sure it's possible, but OCaml's spoilt me enough that I don't want to have to learn it any more :-)
by quipacorn | 2026-02-02 17:29:36+00:00
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by Analemma_ | 2026-02-02 17:29:37+00:00
Car insurance has essentially doubled in price over the past few years, from a combination of

- cars becoming more complicated to repair. Marco Arment of Overcast related an incident where his Rivian had a simple fender bender, and his insurance was billed $15,000 in labor and parts to fix it because of the monobody construction where you have to tear apart half the car to fix anything

- inflation in both goods and services means car repair costs are going up

- more reckless and uninsured drivers thanks to general post-covid norm breakdowns

Insurance alone can now be $150-200/month even if you don't have a particularly nice car. Combine that with gas, maintenance, and registration taxes, and I think most people in the US are paying at least $350/month for their car even if amortized costs mean they don't realize it.
by pbmonster | 2026-02-02 17:30:02+00:00
> Many of my colleagues cracked 100k€ this year without being AT and having crazy high position ratings.

And for each of those guys there's 2 people working for 48k and happy about it. They've been at the same shop for 15 years, in a team of the only 3 people doing software in the entire company. Probably somewhere a bit rural, and/or north of Frankfurt.

IGM is not the default.
by linguae | 2026-02-02 17:30:31+00:00
I understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, the history of America's legal system isn't simple. There are people in prison who never actually committed a crime, but who were convicted because they couldn't afford good legal representation during their trial. This disproportionately affects the poor, and there are correlations between poverty and minority status in America. Some people have been able to get their convictions overturned, but this typically requires very sympathetic people advocating for them.

There's also a very long history in America of laws and law enforcement being targeted against poor people and minorities. Vagrancy laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy#Post-Civil_War) and modern anti-homeless laws effectively criminalize homelessness, and the War on Drugs has had a major negative impact on poor people and minorities. Yes, in this situation those who have been imprisoned due to such laws did violate the law, but such laws, in my opinion, serve the function of kicking people while they are down rather than addressing the root causes of their poverty.

There's a good argument that having a system of convict labor creates a perverse incentive to fill that labor pipeline, similar to how well-meaning traffic laws (such as speed limits) can be abused (for example, "speed traps").
by amacneil | 2026-02-02 17:30:40+00:00
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by progx | 2026-02-02 17:31:28+00:00
That is what the AI said:

1. Classic Coding (Traditional Development)
In the classic model, developers are the primary authors of every line.

Production Volume: A senior developer typically writes between 10,000 and 20,000 lines of code (LOC) per year.
Workflow: Manual logic construction, syntax memorization, and human-led debugging using tools like VS Code or JetBrains IDEs.
Focus: Writing the implementation details. Success is measured by the quality and maintainability of the hand-written code.

2. AI-Supported Coding (The Modern Workflow)
AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor act as a "pair programmer," shifting the human role to a reviewer and architect.

Production Volume: Developers using full AI integration have seen a 14x increase in code output (e.g., from ~24k lines to over 810k lines in a single year).
Work Distribution: Major tech leaders like AWS report that AI now generates up to 75% of their production code.
The New Bottleneck: Developers now spend roughly 70% of their time reviewing AI-generated code rather than writing it.

I think realistic 5x to 10x is possible. 50.000 - 200.000 LOC per YEAR !!!! Would it be good code? We will see.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-02 17:31:33+00:00
Probably because Tesla sells about a million cars a year, including the worlds best selling car (Model Y) since 2023. The stock consistently performs well as well, I know they outperformed estimates for last quarter. Being positioned well for autonomous driving presumably helps hold the stock up, but I don't think that's the core of the valuation, and Waymo does a fraction of what Tesla does. Waymo is impressive, but their 2025 revenue was ~350 million.
by Sammi | 2026-02-02 17:31:46+00:00
Have you tried any other popular agentic coding tool? Like Claude Code, Cursor, Opencode, or Codex or something else? Because I've used all of these and Copilot in anger in the last three months, and Copilot wasn't even in the same league as the others. Comparatively it just plain sucked. Slow and gave poor results. All the others I mentioned are withing spitting distance of each other from what I can tell from my usage.
by dangus | 2026-02-02 17:32:11+00:00
I think the subject is actually detached from green versus not green.

A company that greenwashes is showing that it’s willing to lie or operate in a false reality, hence the lower stability and performance compared to other firms.

I suspect that firms that “walk the walk” are not just implementing green practices but are more generally managed by principled people that aren’t full of hot air.

A company that greenwashes is a company where the culture tolerates reality distortion. In contrast, the best companies encourage a lack of power distance and a lot more transparency.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-02 17:32:12+00:00
> Forgotten how to write good software

Given their current fixation on writing windows components in React Native, I suspect they have a talent problem internally. From the outside looking in, it looks like anyone who knew windows (and office) internals really well are gone, and the new talent they bring in can't deal with the legacy so now they don't touch it, and are building on top using web tech.
by mooreds | 2026-02-02 17:32:30+00:00
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by ethbr1 | 2026-02-02 17:33:04+00:00
The issue, and this is a recurring Windows theme, was "replacement without feature parity"

Imho, nothing should be allowed to ship in Windows unless it at least covers 100% of previous functionality.

If there are functional gaps, those should require approval at the CEO level.

The Windows team has incinerated a ridiculous amount of goodwill with 80% replacements that leave 20% of previous functionality (often including important workflows for power users) lost.

The issue isn't that Setting was different: it was that it didn't do as much as Control Panel. And that's a fixable issue! Just build the additional widgets / plug-ins.
by jurajmasar | 2026-02-02 17:33:16+00:00
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