skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally use AI as an auto complete and rarely have it write features.

In general approach it expecting to explain everything and evaluate whether it makes more sense to use it or just do it yourself. Often the second option is much faster due to muscle memory and keyboard proficiency.

Even when it comes to boilerplate it will not respect the standards (unless you throw more files in the context) so you need to be specific. In cursor you can give more files to the context in all the chats I believe (except the simple one in the current editor window) and it will do a better job.

I think too many people treat AI as a junior coder that has been exposed to the business/practices and can give him short sentences and it will understand the task, but no, it's as good as detailed is your input (which is often not worth the hassle).

In cursor you can save prompt templates in composer by the way.

That being said there are situations where LLMs can severely outperform us. An example is maintenance of legacy code.

E.g. Cursor with Claude very good at is explaining you code, the less understandable it is, the more it shines. I don't know if you've noticed but LLMs can de-obfuscate obfuscated code with ease and can make poorly written code understandable rather quick.

I've entered an 800 lines of code function that computed the final price of configurations the other day (imagine configuring a car or other items in an e-commerce) and it was impossible to understand without a very huge multi-day effort. Too many business features got glued together all in a single giant body and I was able to both refactor it (find a better name for this, document that, explain this, refactor this block to a separate function, suggest improvements and so on).

Another great use case is learning new tools/languages. Didn't use Python for a decade and I quickly setup a Jupyter Notebook for financial simulations without having to really understand the language (you can simply ask it).

AI is not limited to what we can keep in mind at the same time (between 4 or 6 informations in our short-term memory) 800 lines of context all together is nothing and you can quickly iterate over such code.

Don't misplace your expectations about LLMs, they are a tool, it makes experienced engineers shine when used for the right purpose, but you have to understand the limitations as for any other tool out there.
We probably work on different kinds of projects and/or different kinds of teams? I'd rather have the majority being end-to-end/UI tests than unit tests most of the time because you're not going to know if your app or UI is broken otherwise. I tend to work in smaller teams where everyone is experienced, and use languages with decent type checking.

It's very possible to write great software without any tests at all too. It's like people forget that coders used to write assembly code without source control, CI, mocking and all that other stuff.
Exactly, it's like complaining that gold is unfairly expensive. Those lucky Boomers got to purchase it at $40/oz in 1970 ($350/oz in 2025 money), now it's $2600/oz. I should be allowed to buy gold for $350/oz so I can profit like they did.
I think this might be what you're looking for: https://www.pololu.com/product/3432
Nobody here is cheering. Layoffs suck too.
If you are in growth mode, say 20% growth or more -- and you are hiring quickly, your probably gonna have new dynamics form that change the shape of the team (Every hire changes the culture). Some folks may no longer be the right folks. (Could even be a new hire -- I had someone who I had high hopes for leave in 9 months because they weren't able to mesh.)

Businesses are people but business is cogs. (In both senses of the word)

To be a manager in a large org, you need to constantly be refocusing the team on the goal. Drift happens. When you have 100 brains, you get 100 ideas.

This "rule of thumb" reason is to make sure leaders are not languishing. It's very easy to see the people, and lose sight of the business goal.

Are all 100 people aligned and driving towards the goal? (If so, amazing and you should fight to keep all of them.)
That was a scene from the movie "Real Genius"
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Try a simpler game. I think a lot of people think TTRPG = D&D and the world is worse off for it.

There are numerous tactics that work to face the "not serious" problems you have in a game for "young adults".

For instance, serious players get resentful when somebody not serious comes in late, forgets their character sheet, etc. You could lose either or both of them, but with a little prep you don't have to. In Paranoia it's easy to shove a preroll into their hands, give them a 1-2 minute briefing from "The Computer" and build up tension around this character who mysteriously appears (and if the new player complains that they don't know the rules tell them they're not allowed to know the rules!)

Toon is the epitome of "not serious" and, like the other two games I've mentioned, is a game where you can buy one book and have everything you need, including your first scenario.
Strong disagree, Tesla quality is great for the price
Nearly a decade ago, there was a website called thehunt.com that basically ran out of money and some employees were acqui-hired by pinterest.

All of the assets were left to rot and at the time the company was a good match for another startup of mine. So I reached out to the investors I found on crunchbase and asked if I could acquire everything. We worked out a deal and I did. The issue was the complete lack of people from the old company willing to assist and the complete lack of data for alot of things. There was 1 or 2 people who we could ping from the old company to ping who were super helpful, but the big thing was many things were just lost to time- passwords, history, code repos, etc..

Simply creating a new google apps account allowed us to get full access back to everything - We could even read old slack messages (even DMs!) by resetting each accounts password. The whole thing was shocking to say the least, but with that access we got back into literally every service they used and managed to get it up and running again within a week, which was a good thing because nearly every service it was using was threatening to shut it down every day for lack of payment.

I think the solution here is actually way simpler than most make it out to be and could easily be a startup for someone:

Create a startup that lets customers simply enter in domains. If the domain EVER goes into the "pendingDelete" status, inform the customer. The customer would be random SAAS's that want to protect against this type of attack and could simply choose to disallow access to any account that has had their domain go into that status.
ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
I've been testing LLM dev tooling and I'm still on the fence in general about whether or not the generated code is a net productivity gain for me. I still have to take the time to review the code, fix subtle bugs/corner cases and make changes to reflect the current coding standards of the existing code base. In many respects, it's like handing off a programming task to a somewhat competent intern.
That schedule is impossible. Given the amount of power data centers take, and the fact that the government is new to building them, the environmental review process and lawsuits will take years.
What are your realistic options?

Say TSMC pays supper competitive US salaries to attract US-only labor, higher labor cost which is causing the end product to be more expensive, which makes that fab uncompetitive globally causing Apple to go buying from someone else and TSMC either choosing leaving the US or going bust eating the losses.

You can't compete with lower-wage countries in a globalized world with no trade barriers and no tariffs, when Apple wants higher profits and consumers want lower prices. Something has to give.

You can put tariffs on imported chips to equalize the field, but then iPhones would be more expensive for the average American and Apple's stock would tank.

So, pick your poison.
> But this doesn't really seem like it's very far away from normal practices.

I think the difference is that they'll get rid of the PIP and fire people straight away.
I find the tools are annoyingly hard to use, particularly when a program is using a build system you aren't familiar with. I love time travelling debuggers, but I've also lost hours to getting large java, or C++ programs, into any working debuggers along with their debugging symbols (for C++).

This is one area where I've been disappointed by rust, they cleaned up testing, and getting dependencies, by getting them into core, but debugging is still a mess with several poorly supported cargo extensions, none of which seem to work consistently for me (no insult to their authors, who are providing something better than nothing!)
Sonos just replaced their CEO after a series of product debacles that had their users up in arms. Over the summer I looked into buying Sonos and even previously happy users were saying, "Stay away, stay far away, either look into alternatives or wait and see if they're going to sort this out."

I decided to wait and see, and months later I heard that they're replacing their CEO: promising! But then their CEO said this in his first letter to employees, and I lost all hope:

> what really gets me up in the morning is the idea that we can expand the Sonos platform well beyond “out loud audio at home.”

Seems like adios to Sonos as a good product, and I guess I have to look at those alternatives now.
Would be interesting if China uses drones with technology from Taiwan to invade Taiwan.
I don't use AI tools quite at this level, but from the common scenarios that you list, some of these remind me of the sorts of things that teams run into when they (blindly) add new and enthusiastic developers to a project.

In those cases, one common tool to help mitigate those issues is a somewhat tedious (but very helpful) exercise of establishing a Team Charter.

I wonder if a similar sort of thing would be useful to load into the base prompt / context of every AI-generated code request? We ask our new developers to always develop with our Team Charter in mind -- why not ask Copilot to do the same?

It wouldn't address everything you listed, but I wonder if it would help.

Do you have a Team Charter and coding standards doc already written out? If not, I wonder if it could help to ask a Copilot-type tool to analyze a codebase and establish a coding standards / charter-type document first, and then back-feed that into the system.
you can fly a few hundred million dollars worth of chips in a single flight. You need not be concerned. The impact from temu shipments is several orders of magnitude higher.
Yeah I was ashamed to share this anecdote. But decided maybe it can do a little good motivating someone to counter the bad. And I'm pretty sure SEO spam doesn't work anymore so it shouldn't encourage more evil.
My main issue is NewPipe struggles with being attached to an account. Its a great app for me to open a video link in / use to download it.

While using firefox mobile + ublock its easier to be logged into a youtube account and dig through favorites, etc.
Firefox's sync is broken in many ways. It doesn't sync search engines or extension settings either. It also frequently stops syncing from Android.

I rely on sync a lot, so that was a dealbreaker for me.
No phones or SM accounts for kids till they turn 18. Yes, there's a "fear" of being an outcast but they work their way around that quickly and if they have other things to spend time on, they'll be fine. The "need" for social media is mostly FOMO.
Sadly true.

Even more depressing: it's like a very complicated baking recipe arrived at by tweaking parameters over and over a again. There is no deep understanding... just a giant list of baking parameters that seem to work, sometimes.

(Yes, a bit like an AI. Hmm....)
can you really say the chip was made in America when it is only the die wafer which was made there and the rest was made and assembled in Taiwan?
Chemically, in an acidic and water environment like a can of soda, sucrose will quickly break down to the simple sugars in which HFCS has less glucose. So unless you're getting cans only a day or two from the factory, they're pretty much the same sugar-wise assuming the same mg/L (which they might be different, I don't know!).

What are the labels? Are the total sugar content that different? (EDIT: Rereading, only 2.5% off...by volume or DV%?) Because if they're the same, the European coke would have a smidge more free glucose than an HFCS-55 would have by definition.
You got the job, but you'll need to pay a $50 fee for a background check!

And voila, they have stolen $50.
That's the fun part.
is it really a float? Im not an accountant, but when I think of float, I think of the balance in an account that regularly clears.

Is it analogous to interest in household checking account where income = bills, or is it analogous to the same household with a large retirement account that sweeps the checking and pays bills.

Maybe another way of asking this is whats the relative size of the interest bearing investments to the annual premium collection.

Can you show me where this is listed in the allstate financial results?

https://www.allstateinvestors.com/static-files/d61a8007-647a...
Their new stuff is. The iPad mini just moved from the A15 to the A17, The first MacBook with Intel processors had access to a bin that was not generally available yet. The yield was too low for it to work for an IBM, a Sony, or a Fujitsu. But Apple was low volume and high margin.

If I was nervous about a new fab, there’s the iPhone SE, the Apple TV, lots of choices for a less aggressive manufacturing node and less aggressive sales figures. If yield is shit you can still offer a product that isn’t killed by its own success.
I'm not supporting firms, I'm supporting the right of individuals to be seen as individuals rather than as members of a group assigned to them at birth.

That said, this obviously isn't going anywhere, so have a nice day.
Cars specifically dissipate energy on deformation of the tires; this loss is irreversible at any speed, even if all the bearings have effectively zero losses (e.g. using magnetic levitation).

A train spends much less on that because the rails and the wheels are very firm. A maglev train likely recuperates nearly 100% of its kinetic energy during deceleration, less the aerodynamic losses; it's like a superconducting reversible circuit.
> What you are describing has a major sampling bias: most pedestrian fatalities will be at large intersections with many lanes crossing each other. Those intersections are on busy streets where drivers are going fast and where there are an insane number of conflict points.

That's not what the point plot of the Toronto data shows. Many of our fatalities are on city streets with 40 or 50 km/h speed limits.

Anyway, I was responding to the OP who was claiming that they would rather deal with stop lights than 4 way stops. There is nothing that shows that 4 way stops are dangerous at all, let alone more dangerous than light controlled stops in similar situations.
The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric: Build Times
Trains are pretty efficient as well.
Where are these EU people going to?
This is only the first (significant) step for the american continent to be able to build cutting edge chips (again).
the internet ad industry is raking billions from all over the world into the USA, how can you call that unproductive.
If you read the post, that's explicitly a path I acknowledge I couldn't personally do, and I recommend instead creating time by doing things like going down to 80% time in your day job, or finding lucrative contract work.
Sure, if you think about it, layoffs are actually good for employees career growth and the chocolate ration went up to 20 grammes per week.
Just look up the history of the word on wikipedia. You think a right wing person got edit access to that page and added the most recent change?
I absolutely detest this person's message and think they're a deeply flawed human being, but the power asymmetry and mechanisms to de-person are orders of magnitude more terrifying. This is 1984 type stuff.

The banking pieces probably fall afoul of AML/CTF rules, which is fine. But the social media bans, total wipe of accounts, no process in place for restitution, and no communication are literally mechanisms of de-personing.
Off topic but currently relevant:

Over 50% of the workers flew in from Taiwan to work on this plant and make these chips.

Those are the 50% we’re willing to bring in no questions asked via any visa program.

Not the elusive Java developer.
Link to actual article:

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-01-13-haiku_...
Show HN: GitInsight – Quick stats and AI roasts of your GitHub
I was initially working on a beginner backend project on roadmap.sh to sharpen my skills. This was essentially showing an aggregated view of your GitHub activity on the CLI.

I thought, if I'm getting all the data anyway, then why not feed it to a LLM and make it roast people in multiple ways?

GitInsight shows event counts per repo and gives AI powered feedback (roasts) after ingesting all your recent commits, PRs, issues and comments along with their messages.

Please do let me know how you find it and I'm always open to feature requests!
I switched to Mozilla and never looked back.
I switched to Opera and never looked back.
I switched to Firefox and never looked back.
I switched to Chrome and never looked back.
I switched to Firefox and never looked back.
I switched to Brave and never looked back.
I switched to Tor and never looked back.
I think one way to prove that would be to observe electromagnetic activity of the sun and neutrinos originating from it. If you manage to find correlation that looks like neutrinos and photons arrive at roughly the same time it would indicate that neutrinos are affected by gravity. I think it was done but I'm not sure.
Dont downvote the guy for not knowing this very specific definition of 'packaging'
UN confirmed that we zoomed passed the 1.5°C mark in 2024. It feels like we're in the "learn how to grow food for you and your community" stage

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158891
Or we could just let you and other people like you subsidize it.

I've used Pocket Cast for a little over a year and a half. Just manually skipping through ads when I have my phone handy and they come on, the app reports I've apparently saved 14 hours of wasted time.

I've been blocking ads in Firefox for nearly 20 years and have been helping friends and family do it for nearly as long. I'm not going back because I should feel bad for some company with billions of dollars in profits that doesn't care about me or any of my privacy. I go the extra step further and use the banned from Chrome store extension, Ad Nauseum, to click on nearly every single blocked ad.
Can someone explain the purpose of releasing this right before their administration is ending? Or am I misunderstanding something
Agreed, it seems wildly optimistic to me. I was working at a military installation command last year and it would often take 6 months just to survey some existing buildings for renovation + repurposing and trying to get those plans approved. Stuff like "repaint these walls, mitigate mold, and install sub-divided chain-link fence in this warehouse" was busting our timelines. I'm assuming that just getting the paperwork right for a Federal government construction project is an equally-huge lift.
I'm confused. The article specifically states that Meta cut 25% of its workforce since 2022 (that's not counting the 5% that are being reported). What overhiring?
For GasBuddy, specifically, it was used for an opt-in feature known as "Trips" whose purpose was to show you driving insights such as those mentioned in the article (hard braking, hard turning, hard acceleration). Not enabled by default and looks to have been removed at some point.
If you're going to enable a coding agent with this much authority, you could, for instance, have two layers of agents which review the changes in context of the project as you described, providing the dev agent the appropriate feedback to fix its own errors.

Have all that closed loop before anything makes it to a pull request that a human sees.

Add an agent to write unit tests for all impacted modules, etc.

Essentially coding is just coding, something has to also do the software engineering.
As a counterpoint, I'm rather the opposite of you:

1. I use Nix primarily on the desktop (2 laptops, 2 workstations), though I also use it on one server. I don't think I could ever go back to any other Linux distro for my daily-driver. Things "just work" to a degree that they never have for me on e.g. Ubuntu.

2. I quite despise the Nix language; this is not to say that I think it's particularly bad (or good) as a language, just that nearly every single degree-of-freedom in language design that is largely about personal taste takes the opposite choice to what I would prefer

3. I find setting up development environments with it to be very hit-or-miss, to the point where I have in some cases fallen back on what I would do without nix, and used nix-ld to fill in the gaps.
I have dealt with some codebases that were purely assembled with ML and they tend towards being completely unmaintainable nightmares exhibiting all the worst tenets of things like object-oriented code design. Levels of inheritance 8 modules deep, global variables being passed around everywhere to escape them, the works.

For ML driven code development, I find it works best when I used it to make pure functions where I know exactly what I expect to go in and out of the function, and the LLM can simultaneously write the tests for it to ensure that it works. LLMs do not plan like humans, even when finetuned they seem to have difficulty being integrative with knowledge beyond pattern matching.

That being said, 90% of coding is pattern matching to something someone made already. And as long as I'm writing pure functions and providing suitably adequate context for what the model needs to produce, LLMs seem to work wonders. My rule of thumb is to spend 10-20 minutes specifying exactly what I need in the prompt, and then tuning that if I fail to get the expected result.
Sustainability versus Scalability
I am from Europe and from my point of view there ís really a wokeness problem in the US. The US is on average far more right wing mostly in the capitalistic sense than Europe. But it's difficult to talk to people from the US for me because anything might and will offend them at the blink of an eye. These things like trigger warnings and things. I'm always afraid I could be cancelled at any moment when talking to somebody from the US.

I don't think it's really a left-right wing thing because Europe is in general 90% left wing from a US standpoint, and we don't have it.
e.g. you can get 572 a15 dies per 300mm wafer at 90% yield. These likely weigh a few hundred grams.

By my rough calculations a million iPhones of a15s is about 200kg of silicon. excluding packaging, which would dwarf this mass entirely.