MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to handle a 'Junior' title when Im doing Mid-level work? Time to go?
by sieep | 2026-02-10 19:23:01+00:00
Hey all,

Don't have many tech people to talk to so thought I would ask here.

So to summarize, I was in BI from 2022 until 2025 when i transitioned to a junior software dev job. I wasn't in a great position when I got the offer, so I had to accept a lowball offer (~75k). A year and a month pass, I ask for $100k and a title change from junior and am told no title change and 10% raise. 100k is the average in my area for software developers.

I don't think this is fair since I do full stack work, SQL, code reviews, manage stakeholders internally and externally, and complete tickets/features on my own. I'm very much a team player, well-liked by people in different areas. My direct manager is supportive and agrees I'm performing above my title but his hands are tied by leadership. He actually suggested I drop 'Junior' from my resume if/when applying elsewhere

I feel my output significantly exceeds the "Junior" label and the new salary floor.

Is a 10% raise standard in this economy when responsibilities have scaled this much?

How much does the "Junior" title on my resume hurt my prospects if I decide to jump ship now?

Should I push harder for the title even without the money?

Midwest, .NET stack, C#/JS

Thanks in advance.
by 5G_activated | 2026-02-10 19:23:23+00:00
i'd be surprised if there are more users of cachy than bazzite.

what gets missed is that bazzite is, to borrow video game parlance, a mod of fedora's atomic desktops. every piece created to build and maintain the system is on github. it's not rocket science, it's a collection of dockerfiles, rpm specs, config files and github actions workflows. and fedora is not going away any time soon.
by burkaman | 2026-02-10 19:23:37+00:00
This is incredible.

> A thoughtful-man named Maxwell Mouser had just produced a work of actinic philosophy. It took him seven minutes to write it. To write works of philosophy one used the flexible outlines and the idea indexes; one set the activator for such a wordage in each subsection; an adept would use the paradox, feed-in, and the striking-analogy blender; one calibrated the particular-slant and the personality-signature. It had to come out a good work, for excellence had become the automatic minimum for such productions. “I will scatter a few nuts on the frosting,” said Maxwell, and he pushed the lever for that. This sifted handfuls of words like chthonic and heuristic and prozymeides through the thing so that nobody could doubt it was a work of philosophy.

Sounds exactly like someone twiddling the knobs of an LLM.
by data_maan | 2026-02-10 19:24:11+00:00
> What do you mean ? These are top-notch mathematicians

YeS. I didn't dispute that. I disputed that they are NOT top notch ML specialist and have made one of the worst benchmarks of 2025-2026. Benchmarks like these would have worked maybe in early 2024 at latest. The field has moved on significantly since.

And yes, many many other benchmarks don't use toy problems -- their names are just a prompt away.

> You are kidding right ? FrontierMath benchmark [1] is produced by a startup whose incentives are dubious to say the least.

They did 1) open source some of their datapoints (on a similar order of magnitude) and 2) they carried out detailed evals. Here is much to learn from their blog posts, much more than from the current dataset.

But fair. If you don't like them, have a look at IMProofBench. Have a look at the AIMO competition. Have a loom at HardMath. It's quite a landscape of datasets already.

> Unlike the AI hypesters, these are real mathematicians trying to inject some realism and really test the boundaries of these tools

As mentioned above, realistic benchmarks that are bigger and better exist. Unfortunately, from a benchmarking POV, these mathematicians are the hypesters with a preprint that wouldnt even make it to the AI&Math workshops at ICML or NeurIPS.
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-10 19:24:15+00:00
I have to remind myself to stay within the two to three cups a day recommendation.

There was a study in 2021 that found that drinking more than six cups of coffee a day was associated with a 53% increased risk of dementia and smaller total brain volume.

https://cardiologycoffee.com/blogs/news/new-study-says-coffe...
by sReinwald | 2026-02-10 19:24:29+00:00
I suspect a big reason for why Mounjaro is still fairly expensive here in Germany (I pay nearly €400 for a 10mg Qwickpen - a 12.5mg Qwickpen is nearly €500) is due to health insurance not being allowed to cover them for anything but diabetes treatment.

If health insurance companies would be able to cover these drugs, there'd have to be negotiations between Eli Lilly and the insurance companies, and insurance companies have a bigger lever than individual patients who pay out of pocket. Self-payers are just price-takers. We pay whatever Eli Lilly wants us to pay.
Show HN: Claworc – Manage multiple OpenClaw instances from a single dashboard
by Dm_Linov | 2026-02-10 19:24:31+00:00
My friend wanted to give everyone on my team their own OpenClaw agent but quickly ran into the obvious problems: no isolation, no auth, no way to manage N instances without it becoming a mess.

Claworc is a lightweight control plane that wraps each OpenClaw instance in its own container. You get a web UI to create/stop/remove instances, watch the agent's browser live via proxied noVNC, chat with agents, manage files, and stream logs. All traffic goes through a single entry point with authentication.

Access control is multi-user with admin and user roles — admins manage everything, users only see instances assigned to them. You set global API key defaults so you're not copy-pasting keys into every instance, but each instance can override with its own model and keys. Works with any LLM that OpenClaw supports.

Deploys on Docker for a single box or Kubernetes for production. The control plane is a single Go binary serving the dashboard and proxy.

Instances are fully isolated (separate filesystems, no inter-instance communication), monitored by systemd, and auto-restarted on crash. Storage persists across restarts.

Open source, self-hosted, MIT licensed. Feedback and contributions welcome.
by nomel | 2026-02-10 19:24:40+00:00
There's all sorts of conversations like this that are genuinely exciting and fairly profound when you first consider them. Maybe you're older and have had enough conversations about the concept of a singularity that the topic is already boring to you.

Let them have their fun. Related, some adults are watching The Matrix, a a 26 year old movie, for the first time today.

For some proof that it's not some common idea, I was recently listening to a fairly technical interview with a top AI researcher, presenting the idea of the singularity in a very indirect way, never actually mentioning the word, as if he was the one that thought of it. I wanted to scream "Just say it!" halfway through. The ability to do that, without being laughed at, proves it's not some tired idea, for others.
by tavavex | 2026-02-10 19:25:10+00:00
> And .. more. It's like the LLM latched on to things that were locally "interesting" writing, but applies them globally, turning the entire thing into a soup of "ah-ha! hey! here!" completely ignorant of the terrible harm it does to the narrative structure and global readability of the piece.

It's like YouTube-style engagement maximization. Make it more punchy, more rapid, more impactful, more dramatic - regardless of how the outcome as a whole ends up looking.

I wonder if this writing style is only relevant to ChatGPT on default settings, because that's the model that I've heard people accuse the most of doing this. Do other models have different repetitive patterns?
by apparent | 2026-02-10 19:25:22+00:00
My decades-long impeccable driving record tends to indicate otherwise. I just don't drive as if I lived in the fantasy land where leaving a long follow distance means I have a lot of room in front of me. It doesn't. It means I get cut off, and the follow distance ends up being shorter than it would have been had I just been following at the same distance as all the other cars on the road.
by vladdoster | 2026-02-10 19:25:46+00:00
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Designed and built Platform-as-a-Service for microservice workloads running on Azure and AWS
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platform by addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring the platform is PCI compliant.

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Worked as part of the DevOps team to manage a 15k core CentOS HPC cluster. Designed and implemented
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Wrote custom Puppet module & Python scripts to automatically remediate Tenable findings.

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Used Django, Celery, Selenium grid, and AWS API Gateway for IP rotation to scrape USPTO patent PDFs,
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Wrote E2E black-box/fuzzing unit tests. Automated on-premise deployment via Github Actions and Ansible.
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 19:25:48+00:00
My child's San Francisco Bay Area school has taught media literacy / skepticism every year since 3rd grade. Curricula are determined by the teacher, but N=1 is sufficient for a counterexample for a broad country-wide generalization.

Celebrating a local sports win is about as apolitical and low-harm as possible when it comes to promoting a shared cultural bond for a community.
by levocardia | 2026-02-10 19:26:14+00:00
All the comments are about having babies but as the article points out the actual proximate reason the US population is declining right now is the immigration enforcement approach taken by the Trump administration. Fewer people are coming the the US (including legally), and more people (including legal residents) are being deported or are leaving, and as a result there is net outflow of people from the country. The situation will only worsen with the incipient war on H1B and other visas.
by alistairSH | 2026-02-10 19:26:14+00:00
That's what I said... but, that takes time, time for which you don't have access to that cash.

Just a quick Google... Wells Fargo's policy is 10 days to either case resolution OR provisional credit. I assume that's typical for American banks. For somebody living paycheck to paycheck, 10 days is a long time to go without access to what little cash they might have.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-10 19:26:24+00:00
> neither Visa nor Mastercard will sit idle while Europe tries to dismantle their most profitable market.

Earnest question: is the EU really Visa and Mastercard's most profitable market? I would have expected it to be the US, both by customer volume numbers and in terms of regulatory environment (i.e. the US allowing payment processors to take a larger cut).
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-10 19:26:30+00:00
I have said many times, Discord isn't just chat, it is 100% a social media app.

I think there's definitely more than 10 thousand servers... Unless they mean active? Even so... there's 3.2 million Discord servers with the Disboard bot installed, that's just Disboard, a way to advertise your Discord. There's likely millions more with no bots.
by sam345 | 2026-02-10 19:26:45+00:00
I'm not an expert in fourth amendment but I do know that assuming a subpoena without judicial oversight violates the fourth amendment is not correct. All the fourth amendment guarantees is unreasonable search and seizure. In some circumstances a judicial subpoena may be necessary and others not. An administrative subpoena implies that there has been a legal procedure and the administrative agencies are not exactly run like the wild west.
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-10 19:27:10+00:00
A third of a half who were believers.

So of the entire populace of Milligram participants, 16.5% believed and obeyed.

That's a much, much smaller claim than the popular belief of what Milligram presented.

However, it's still possible that you only need ~16.5% to believe & obey authority for things like the Nazi death camps to occur.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-10 19:27:46+00:00
Even after a few years of living in the UK, I could not get a credit score from any of the three or so providers because they said they didn't have enough information about me. I guess being on the electoral roll and paying bills on time just wasn't enough.

Not having a credit score isn't necessarily a big problem, as banks use it for context rather than making decisions purely based on it, but I did see some advice online about getting a "credit builder card" [1] (essentially a high interest and low credit limit card) as a way to build up credit history.

I decided that getting in debt just so I can prove I can get out of it is a stupid system, and didn't do it. Last time I checked (with Experian), I had a perfect credit score, so I don't know what happened in the meantime.

1: https://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/credit-cards/types/credi...
by georgeburdell | 2026-02-10 19:27:52+00:00
The “average crime rate” argument is disingenuous for an analogous reason to Waymo reporting that their cars are safer than the average driver is disingenuous: it lumps me in with Doris who last passed her vision test a decade ago but now has two cataracts. It also ignores that crimes in immigrant communities are less likely to be reported in the first place.
by yorwba | 2026-02-10 19:27:53+00:00
Yes, in those movies, the hot white guys (and sometimes girls) usually ride on top of the muscular horses. So when you want to show a horse riding a man as a visual gag, why not make the man a hot white guy with a gruff beard?

You act as though they first decided to make an image representing Westerners and then chose that particular scene as an intentional insult, but you need to consider that they likely made thousands of test images, most of which were just playing around with the model's capabilities and not specifically crafted for the announcement post.

So why did this one get picked? I think it boils down to the visual gag being funny and the movie-like quality.
by petre | 2026-02-10 19:27:54+00:00
That's exactly what Mr. Loophole would say. Mickey risking his life for ad revenue. Sure. Mickey throwing his bike in front of a speeding vehicle, when he clearly dismounted before getting struck. Sorry mate, I live, drive and cycle in a country with the highest road fatalities in the EU. I think its unfair to take it out on Mickey.
by phil21 | 2026-02-10 19:28:00+00:00
Others have said it but I will pile on as this is dangerous misinformation.

It’s sort of true in a legal sense, but not a practical one. If you find yourself in a dispute (even outright fraud sometimes) you might end up stuck for weeks or months with your disputed funds frozen.

If you are a highly paid software engineer with considerable assets and transaction volume at your bank it’s likely you will never experience hardship with disputing a transaction. If you are someone scraping by and that $200 depends on you paying rent on time that month you will find your experience to perhaps be different.

I’ve helped friends and family with such disputes in the past. Credit cards even when it “goes wrong” are much better to deal with. Your credit limit being reduced a bit is immaterial to your life most of the time. Having your own money tied up during an investigation that demands more and more paperwork like police reports etc. can be incredibly damaging and if nothing else quite stressful. The experience some of my friends had in these matters is nothing like I had when I had my wallet stolen and I no longer recommend anyone use debit if they can avoid it.

Heck, I had a friend who doesn’t even have a passport dispute an ATM transaction in a country he never visited. The bank initially denied it and it took weeks to eventually get it resolved in his favor.

In the end having the banks money tied up vs your own money at risk is always better if you can handle the responsibility of a credit card.
by tavavex | 2026-02-10 19:28:18+00:00
If you feel so strongly about your message, why would you outsource writing out your thoughts to such a large extent where people can feel how reminiscent it sounds of LLM writing instead of your own? It's like me making a blogpost by outsourcing the writing to someone on Fiverr.

Yes it's fast, it's more efficient, it's cheap - the only things we as a society care about. But it doesn't convey any degree of care about what you put out, which is probably desirable for a personal, emotionally-charged piece of writing.
by tovej | 2026-02-10 19:28:20+00:00
It's especially important not to antropomorphise when there is a risk people actually mistake something for a humanlike being.

What is least helpful is using misleading terms like this, because it makes reasoning about this more difficult. If we assume the model "knows" something, we might reasonably assume it will always act according to that knowledge. That's not true for an LLM, so it's a term that should clearly be a oided.
by squeaky-clean | 2026-02-10 19:28:23+00:00
That can work in some situations. One thing I won't like about it in some other situations is that you now have 2 nullable fields associated with your user, or whatever that email is associated with. It's annoying or even impossible in a lot of systems to have a guaranteed validation that user.UnvalidatedEmail or user.ValidatedEmail must exist but not both.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-10 19:28:34+00:00
I wonder how long it is until some driver just has an 'accident' and hits this guy. For the most part he's not making streets safer, but just costing people money.

Reminds me of the mpls bike wraith[0] guy, someone just going around looking for trouble.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/guy-on-a-bike-bike-wr...
by saarp | 2026-02-10 19:28:38+00:00
>> will compete in whatever internal currency the company culture has

>You seem to be agreeing with me.

I'm saying this is a bad thing. The "currency" is often based on perception of what the leader likes. My suggestion here is instead focus on actual dollars and cents. Does the sub-org bring in more than they spend? It will change the way you think about organizations. If the group has no source for income, you have to wonder why it exists.

I have been mostly in tech but also in companies that are not solely tech companies. For you, it seems like "senior management" means you talk to VPs. I have been a "senior manager" but it speaks mostly to my depth of experience. I talk to VPs and directors when I need to, but mostly I'm speaking to folks that are doing the work. I think this is why our perspectives are different. When you're two or more levels away from the point of execution it's very easy to be out of touch.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-10 19:28:41+00:00
I think you need to show examples of this bad usage, then.

Your first image has zero icons in the rows. It has album covers but those aren't icons.

Your second and third images show very usage that combines text, color, and relatively standard icons like checkmarks, X's, or in-progress. These are good and if you're trying to suggest these reduce readability, scannability, or add noise, then I'm frankly baffled.

Your third image also shows profile images, but again those are not icons.

So what are you arguing against? I can't ever remember coming across icons in a datagrid that "added to the relative cognitive load".

Like, I've seen icons to show if an item is for Windows or Mac. If it's a TV show or a movie. If it's one file or an archive. If there's a PDF file download attached. An alarm icon for something past due. But these all seem totally fine and helpful. They're generally linked to a major feature of the platform that everybody understands, and help scannability.

Without clear examples of what you're arguing against, I'm frankly completely lost.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-10 19:28:44+00:00
With the odd story that we paid the price for it in the long term.

This book

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Sum-Society-Distribution-Possibi...

tells the compelling story that the Mellon family teamed up with the steelworker's union to use protectionism to protect the American steel industry's investments in obsolete open hearth steel furnaces that couldn't compete on a fair market with the basic oxygen furnace process adopted by countries that had their obsolete furnaces blown up. The rest of US industry, such as our car industry, were dragged down by this because they were using expensive and inferior materials. I think this book had a huge impact in terms of convincing policymakers everywhere that tariffs are bad.

Funny the Mellon family went on to further political mischief

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#Oppositi...
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-10 19:28:49+00:00
My take is that modern culture just doesn't want kids. It doesn't matter how cheap you make having a family, for many it's just not remotely the same culture as it was 50-70 years ago.

Then, for most, it was, at 20-ish, find a partner ASAP and have a family. That was "the culture".

Today it's "have a great career, travel, party, netflix, game, ... and maybe someday think about kids"

There's other stats like in the USA in the 50s, being single was seen as just a transition until you met someone. 78% of adults were married, 22% single. Today, being single is way more common, > 50% and while many of those might want a parter, tons don't see it as a priority.
by waffletower | 2026-02-10 19:29:07+00:00
That's an insular opinion piece that doesn't sway, especially in the age of AI agents, it has not aged well. Its shallow rejection of Rich Hickey's nuance, is also unconvincing. It is a polemical justification for a coding philosophy that is incomplete and dishonest about the benefits of alternatives. Thanks for reminding me that no one cares; important to reinforce that.
by tlogan | 2026-02-10 19:29:17+00:00
I think the misunderstanding is that when I say “credit card,” I do not mean a physical card. I have not used a physical card in years. In the US, when people hear Mastercard or Visa, they usually associate that with a credit card (virtual or physical), meaning the money is not taken directly from your bank account. You pay the balance later, which gives you credit and strong dispute protections.

Debit or ATM cards are different. They pull money directly from your account and can exist independently of Visa and Mastercard. For example, some credit unions still issue ATM only debit cards that are not part of the Visa or Mastercard networks.
by xquce | 2026-02-10 19:29:23+00:00
“Using debit puts you at a greater financial risk.”

What how? Surely the US populations credit card debt dorf even the global populations debit card fraud numbers. So while my whole family in a combined 200 years of adulthood have indeed lost some 1000 euro total in fraud, it's not thing compared to the average Americans credit card bills.

I'd rather risk the street criminals with my debit than the suit wearing ones with their credit.