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Show HN: Co-Pilot to Review and Auto-Fix Pull Requests
In my last job as a Senior Engineer, I spent about 60% of my time reviewing at least 10 pull requests every day. Here's what I learned:

1) As a reviewer, I didn't always have the context of the code changes. Developers often didn't provide clear descriptions of their changes and their impact, leading to multiple clarification calls.

2) There was a lot of back-and-forth between the reviewer and developers for fixing best practices violations and edge cases.
Security vulnerabilities in PRs were almost never checked.

So, PR reviews took a huge amount of time, and still, we saw bugs being pushed into production. This was due to a lack of thorough code checking on every PR, missing code antipatterns, security issues, logic errors, edge cases, documentation drift, and accidental mistakes.

Merging the PR without fixing issues leads to more bugs, wasted developer hours, slower development cycles, onboarding delays, and increased tech debt.

So, I left my job and built CodeAnt AI, which is a PR reviewer that reviews and auto-fixes issues, bugs, and security vulnerabilities without breaking code logic. We use AI and static analysis to achieve this. We have also built a Code Health dashboard, that enforces clean coding practices across repos and organizations.

Get started in 2 mins, with no payment or credit card

1) Go to https://github.com/marketplace/codeant-ai.
2) Add your repositories.
3) And the next PR that you will create will have description, line by line review, security scanning, and changelog etc.

I would love it if you could try it out and give me some feedback.
Which is why I'll never use it, because I don't know when they'll cancel it. It also makes it seem like this type of service is going away, even though Google Wallet is around.
Yeah, but, he changed . . .

In the 1990s, McInnes was hardly a far-right menace.

He was a tree-planting vegetarian, a druggy anarchist, and a self-described “dogmatic feminist.” Some people who knew him then still regard him as one of the funniest people they’ve ever met. He counted comedians such as David Cross and Sarah Silverman as friends, both of whom contributed articles to Vice.

[ ... ] But over time McInnes accelerated his drift to the political fringe.
What's funny is that people assume the executive team must be high performing.

In reality, they are able to fire the people with the least amount of power.
Play It Again, Spirio
Wait till you hear about auto insurance. They gasp collect more in premiums than they pay out!
Wi-Fi on the moon, what a time to be alive.
OpenAI built it for a combination of their own gratification and cold hard cash. What do you think motivates AI researchers? What do you think motivates OpenAI employees now? Sam Altman? Microsoft?
To allay your fears somewhat: personally, I assume the government has advanced capabilities unknown to civilians.
I should have, but it would have been obvious that I pulled a fast one on them as the fix was really quite simple. Instead of building a Hadoop cluster I replace a sql sub query with a bitmask. It really only took an hour to figure it out but they let me charge the whole day.
Er, Taylor Swift?

Your analogy is wrong, Spotify, or really the phonograph, didn't put musicians out of work. The television did, because once that came along "just" playing well wasn't enough to be a star, on camera presence became more important.
Shane Smith cashed out at Vice's highest...gotta say either he knows this is how he going to exit or he knows the industry (digital media)
Nah the original assessment was too many San Diego tech workers would rather go surfing or play networked first-person shooter games than get something momentous done. There was always something more important to do than do the work and build the thing and make a difference in the world. I did the San Diego startup scene for 25 years. I worked at MP3.com; employee 12 I think. I also started 3 companies in La Jolla, was very active in the SD startup scene for many years. There are great engineers there, don't get me wrong. But the work ethic is simply different than SV, which is just the way it is, not gonna change. I don't think I'll ever do another startup in San Diego though. Elsewhere, sure, but not there.
What’s the point of including a terminal in an IDE — shouldn’t it be a mobile app instead?
You don't need to credit for a transformative work. LLMs don't regurgitate like you think they do.
> The bigger point is that while playing against worse players is an important skill if you want to make money, poker is still a very complex game with a high skill ceiling similar to a game like chess.

I used to strongly agree with this (skill ceiling is so high that large edges can be found if good enough) but no longer believe this is the case - I think the edges are much narrower now in the top levels of the pro scene, much of which I'm sure is due to the rise of solvers and the game being closer to "solved" now than it was even 5 years ago.

There's a lot of complex evidence for this, but without going into too much, the degree of scumbaggery in pro scenes going on is usually a strong indicator. When edges get small, pros tend to get a little scummier to get ahead.
Documentation exists in one of these states:

1. incomplete

2. wrong

3. missing

My goal is to write code that is so clear it doesn't need documentation.
I get that this particular detail matters to you, but the title is accurate and in need of no 'clarification' at all.

There have been times in my career when my only client was the federal government. That did not make me a public servant. I wasn't at DARPA, I was a private contractor with DARPA. I assure you everyone involved is crystal-clear on the distinction.
No, you're thinking of a Scottish entity; we're talking about India.
The title is "Vice website is shutting down", and this job page refers to vice.com. It's the screenshotted text that says they will "transition to a studio model" and still exist, but no longer publish on vice.com. It also says they will be eliminating several hundred positions, so the hiring question seems appropriate.
Costs, extremely low demand, no standard interconnect and interfaces, anything non-standard wouldn't work with dead OS, costs.
> Mate, you want to tell me that a country that had 1/6 of all the resources of the planet collapsed into oblivious because of the Western sanctions and mean Western banks? I'm sorry, I'm not buying it.

Are you talking about Russia? They seem to be on the upswing by all standards. Food is plentiful & inexpensive compared to the inflation that we see in America with rampant homelessness...while billions are sent to buy weapons for foreign countries. You seem quite emotionally agitated.

> Authoritarian/Totalitarian structures always flop. Unfortunately, they also tend to screw millions of lives in between. They also like put the blame on others and gaslight. Like a crazy doomsday cult

Gee...are you talking about Pax Americana Exceptionalism? With NeoCon/NeoLib crying about "human rights" while supplying weapons & escalating conflicts to genocide populations of brown people?

> Oh mate... The so-called socialism is a much worse mafia which wouldn't even allow you to call them mafia. The way they disregard human life and any human morals would damage your mental sanity if you ever had to face it. I hope you wouldn't. I wish you all the best and a great life, and hopefully you would never have to face the evil that the socialism is.

I'm glad that I don't live in a country controlled by Nazis, yes actual Banderite Nazis, brought in by a US backed coup...where young men & women are picked up off the street & sent to the front lines to die. All because the country is dissuaded from making a peace agreement by British & American politicians. Lets get real. This insanity needs to stop...or people will look for alternatives...which is happening as we speak. I hope we can focus on what is constructive again & be on the right side of history. The age of Colonialism is nearing its end.
As a (to me, puzzling) counterpoint, Caltech ran a similar internal analysis in 2020 and again in 2022 and extended their moratorium on standardized test scores for first-year admissions out to 2025.[1]

[1] https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-year-applican...
Once. In 1983. And management theory has been forever trying to do it again.
For now. If any other company offers them $ to match US govt., I don't see why they won't take that up.

Also, Intuitive Machines is a public company with non government investors.
Lots of people have said that it's illegal to train on copyrighted material without a license to it.

Also, performance licenses for movies, plays, recorded music, and copyrighted scores are all required. The lack of copying is not relevant there, the performance alone can be infringing.
"Add Site" menu shows a popup saying:

'Hit "Add Site," and a new tab will open where you can add the feed to the end of our list. We'll sort it out after we take a look.'

but then clicking the button just goes to:
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/edit/main/smallweb.tx...

I guess technically "you can add the feed to the end of our list" is forking the repo and submitting a PR, but...
Having a 3 day weekend is like have second Saturday whereas Wednesday off is like having another Sunday in the middle of your work week. Saturdays are worth so much more imo. Waking up and knowing you don’t have to work today or tomorrow. That was my experience doing 2 on 2 off vs 4 on 3 off when I did shift work.
Used to run ads in 1988-90 in ComputorEdge for my first startup (Coconut Computing; we ran the COCONET online service in San Diego then). Didn't they change their name to ByteBuyer? We used to call them ByteBuyor to pay homage to the original name.
OMG! My worlds have collided!

Let me know if you find a project. I'm trying to integrate TransData into GridWhale so you can manipulate Transcendence tables in GridWhale.

And, as you know, I still do Twitch streams on Thursdays at 3 PM Pacific. Drop by sometime and chat.
Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university
YouTube feels really snappy to me, but Figma is consistently the worst experience I have ever felt for web apps. Jira is horrible and slow also though.
They have 18,000,000 subscribers on YouTube... how can they not have enough money to host a website and pay some people to create content?...

RIP Epicly Later'd?
The combination of shaoxing wine and light soy sauce (and often black vinegar too) is really common in Chinese cooking, and very tasty. You can marinate meat in a combination of all three, and/or add splashes for flavor when sauteing or stir frying stuff.
TBTF FTW!
I haven't heard of that before, but it's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Thanks for the link!
This is very cool. Love exploring new ways to make small websites more discoverable since SEO has made them very undiscoverable through search engines.

feedback: flag content button takes me to a 404: https://kagi.com/smallweb/flag_content?
Who said they are not letting the site stay online?
I wonder if it's because the average parent is not a very sophisticated bureaucrat. We get tired and just say yes because we need to survive. As children get older and interface with more institutions that have teams of people to tell you no (or no process to even ask), we enter a learned helplessness: a no today is almost certainly a no tomorrow.
Once they got funding and on HBO they rested on their behinds, spent too much money, wasted effort on bullshit while neglecting hard journalism, and believed they "arrived."

Paper billionaires checked out, some sold out, and their value slowly went to zero because the owners failed to insist on leadership and culture continuity.

Sad af and a total waste.

Never get complacent.
Just like cryptocurrencies, transformer models have their valid use-cases, but are being so massively overhyped and oversold that it prompts natural resistance and spoils the whole thing. The result is that whenever someone talks about "AI" (or "crypto"), it's just safest to assume that they have no idea what they're talking about and want to sell it to you because more people getting hyped is how they get their investment back.
Oh? Where do I put my car so the nightly thugs who see any car on the street tests to see if they’re locked? And if locked but salacious enough, they break the glass. So far for when not garaged, three break ins. $50k equipment lost, plus costs to repair. Garaged? Zero break ins
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Funny that the house band probably wouldn't play house music.
Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/22/vice-m...

Former digital-media darling Vice to end website, lay off hundreds
> It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway

I 100% don't get it when websites with lots of content and good SEO just delete everything. Fatwallet (fuck you Rakuten). Yahoo Answers (hey, I didn't say good content).

Even on my own Drupal blogs that I didn't want to maintain/update anymore, I did a giant curl job, recursively regex'd out the login/comment submission fields and dumped them on s3. Voila. And I'm someone that would take 9 attempts to do FizzBuzz.

A bookmark you had to it 20 years ago still works and I still get some Adsense cheque residuals from it for zero effort.
In my case Google recently replaced my years old pixel 4a for free because of a bloating battery. A phone that doesn't even get android version upgrades anymore and was waaay past warranty. I still can't believe this considering the usual horror stories with Google support
Terminal in a browser with a heavyweight local server. Now you’re talking!
YouTube payouts have hit rock bottom lately - which has, notably, been part of the reason for so many creator retirements.

Ironic, considering the ad blocker ban was supposed to fix this.
I think this says more about the cost relative to the value of running a website in 2024 than anything else.
I get that but it just overshadows the technical stuff in nearly every post. And it's just low hanging fruit to have a discussion over. But you're probably right with that comic, I spend so much time reading about ai stuff.
As a low paid, part-time intern I finished a project with another low paid, part-time intern. We were supposed to have some FT people on with us, but that never happened so we just kept working. We only had one weekly meeting and it was a challenging project. When it was done we had a lunch/meeting to celebrate and discuss how it went with the project people.

They commented that this was the first one that was both under budget and late and wondered how that could be. I volunteered that it was because "we are interns and don't get paid much and it was late because we spent a month waiting for the DBA to correct a mistake he made - we could have been done early."

There were shocked faces. Lunch was good and there were not many more questions.
The second one was definitely saying phind 70b on me. Now it is all messed up though.
18M YouTube subscribers can sustain a decent business, sure, but not one with 3000+ employees.
You could pierce the corporate lability shield and make that money come out of the personal income of the owners that would make it sting. Or a ratcheting system of fines where 1 is no big deal but if you catch 3 you are out. Designing reasonable incentive structures is a really hard job though most people are incapable of thinking through all the loopholes
Nowhere near as dramatic as the headline implies. The tl;dr (slightly paraphrased)

> It is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute content the way we've done previously. Moving forward we will partner with established media companies to distribute our content as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this we will no longer publish content on vice.com, putting more emphasis on our social channels

Vice is still in business, but its content distribution is changing from website to a combination of publishing via larger media companies and social media.
everything bubble except gold , oil, and other commodities. Or treasuries. Right now the gains seem concentrated in AI and chips. Apple and Tesla have not participated at all this year.
> You can't.

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> It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity

>It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway

Just so you know... investors would probably think it's just a waste of time, which means a waste of money as they (or their financial handlers) would have to keep an eye on this website. Remember, if they think this website is going to make them under $XX an hour they will just nuke it, they are not attached emotionally or otherwise to this "product", exception being shareholder founders but e.g. Steve Jobs.
Julian Assange has been back in court
As the saying goes, it doesn't matter how much it costs to make the first von Neumann probe.
I went to vice.com and clicked on ABOUT then hiring for VICE.com. So I think it is fair to assume it is for vice.com.

https://www.vice.com/en/page/vice-about
Interesting bug, but I don’t like the fix.

Most computers are 64 bits for decades now. It takes same resources to add/subtract/compare int64 compared to int32. No reason to use 32-bit integers for time, when I write C++ I use GetTickCount64() API introduced in Vista.

The C# equivalent is Environment.TickCount64, but there’s no need because unlike many other languages, C# standard library comes with a good support for dates, times, and time intervals. Instead of integers for elapsedInterval and requiredInterval variables, I prefer TimeSpan type. Safer, more readable, and potentially higher resolution because TimeSpan keeps int64 number of 100 nanoseconds ticks.
Why must we insist on calling these things after an euphemism for ejaculation?

Never going to be taken seriously by the public.
Just adding the news this was achieved, even if it wasn't a clean landing, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling as a human being of Earth.
You're simply wrong. It's not a data set size issue. The issue is that most businesses can't show a sufficient connection between an IQ test and the responsibilities of a job to establish a business necessity for having the IQ test.

If they can show a business necessity, they don't need to show that the IQ test actually predicts job performance.

Notably, the army's test is not an IQ test. It is an aptitude test which is a very different thing. An aptitude test specific things are that directly and strongly related to the job (or jobs) for which the applicant is applying.
They just sell it for $1m or whatever to some company that specialises in running these kinds of sites. They exist.
it says "we will no longer publish content on vice.com" which is ambiguous.

If I stop posting new content, have I stopped publishing? Or is it if I stop serving, then I've stopped publishing?
Reminder that Vice Media filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by a private equity firm last year. Nothing that is happening now should be surprising. The company's brand and content library are being squeezed for any remaining profits and its carcass will then be tossed away.
Chronic fatigue syndrome seems like a rebrand for ye olde neurasthenia. I have to wonder why 'hysteria' didn't get the PR treatment considering it is the other pole of neurasthenia. It really is the same sort of collection of symptoms under a large umbrella.

Neurasthenia was considered to be a result of lower processes (intake and transformation of food) becoming too demanding for the upper processes (respiration). The upper organisation was thought to be reaching its conclusion before it fully balanced nourishment with respiration. Excessive independence of the metabolic processes from the upper organisation of respiration were thought to bring about ‘hysteria’ - neurasthenia's polar opposite.

Please don't downvote because I don't mean this post as a snarky jab or justification of pseudo-science - I just have to wonder why if you're going to have such an encompassing definition of something like CFS, why would you then dig around in the mud of cellular automata instead of looking at overarching qualities as some did in the late 19th century? It seems to me that you either need to confront the definition or work on the same level as it.
Caltech is a much smaller and more narrowly focused school with a smaller applicant pool that self-selects even more than MIT's. The needs and workflows of their admission process are different and peculiar and shouldn't be taken as a strong signal of what makes sense elsewhere.
This is a problem that a lot of fields have had (e.g. hand-crafted furniture). Technological advances killed the market for juniors but demand for seniors remained. In the short term it's completely fine, but then a few decades later there's not enough new seniors to match demand.
At some point they stopped being fun and challenging and just became weird and angry.

As much as I hate to say it (millenial), it's probably due to the age of millenials and genx now.

They should have pivoted a different way--more in line with the changing life stage of the readership.
It is not ambiguous. They are no longer publishing new content. They have not said they will unpublish existing content.
It's sort of the inverse if I'm seeing it correctly: adding one character triggers one inference, but you see steps 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the inference

the latent space stuff became popular through it being a visual allegory, which accidentally confused the technical term it originated from. there's nothing visually smooth about it, it's not a linear interpolation in 3D space, it's a chaotic journey through 3 billion dimension space
> A computing stack that's making the 1x mission control a 10x mission control

Isn't this obvious...? Given SpaceX's auto-pilot mission to the moon and all of these latest missions to asteroids and such...?

BTW They land on asteroids because they already have enough rock moons, asteroids are more varied than different surfaces of the moon, no conspiracy here.

(I upvoted you BTW)
When you're editing in an NLE, you can pick the exact frame where your transition begins. When you're editing in DAW, you can change the volume by tiny fractions of a decibel, for a single frequency. Just about every piece of mainstream media (e.g., excluding social media) has had every single frame, and every second of sound, polished to absolute perfection (or at least one sound engineer or editors perception of it). How is AI going to attain the level of polish (via control) we expect from mainstream media?
Techbros would sterotypically enjoy negging and policing female existence, so it's dismaying but not surprising.
True words :checkmark
Subscriber counts don't decline, with how old youtube is now, and how little competition there was back in the day, you can have a long running channel (like vice's) with very little active viewership. How are the views on their recent videos?
I'm in the process of trying to delete my reddit account, but they do not honour GDPR deletion requests. Not sure why they're operating in the EU?
How is it absurd to simply not widely deploy an immature technology?
How do you know teenagers were not using the content to create their own music?

Funny how BigCorp gets benefit of the doubt. By the way, despite the name, OpenAI and teens are both doing it for their own gratification.
It is like what they say: You don’t need to outrun the hunters, you just need to outrun your fellow dodos. It is not like they will bring their friends to eat more mouth-watering dodos until they eat you all.

There is only, what, 600% year-over-year growth in cyberattacks every year for the last 10 years? With exponential growth that slow you can keep outrunning them for like, 5-10 more years until there are enough hunters to eat you all.
I'm sure we'll see functionality like that in Wayland.... In a decade or 2.