skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use aider to work on the aider code base, which is approaching 30k lines of python. Aider writes about 70% of the new code in each release [0]. So it's doing some fairly heavy lifting in a non-trivial code base.

Some pragmatic tips:

- Work with AI like a junior developer, except with unlimited energy and no problem being corrected repeatedly.

- Provide the AI with guidance about conventions you expect in your code base, overall architecture, etc [1]. You can often use AI tools to help write the first draft of such "conventions" documents.

- Break the work down into self-contained bite sized steps. Don't ask AI to boil the ocean in one iteration. Ask it to make a sequence of changes that each move the code towards the goal.

- Be willing to explore for a few steps with the AI. If it's going sideways, undo/revert. Hopefully your AI tool has good checkpoint/undo/git support [2].

- Lint and test the code after each AI change. Hopefully your AI tool can automatically do that, and fix problems [3].

- If the AI is stuck, just code yourself until you get past the tricky part. Then resume AI coding when the going is easier.

- Build intuition for what AI tools are good at, use them when they're helpful. Code yourself when not.

Some things AI coding is very helpful for:

- Rough first draft of a change or feature. AI can often speed through a bunch of boilerplate. Then you can polish the final touches.

- Writing tests.

- Fixing fairly simple bugs.

- Efficiently solving problems with packages/libraries you may not have known about.

[0] https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/usage/conventions.html

[2] https://aider.chat/docs/git.html

[3] https://aider.chat/docs/usage/lint-test.html
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when new presidents come in the rest of the government employees don’t change as well. some of these at higher levels are career employees who will serve through many presidents. timing your asks to just get approved by an outgoing president can make your future bright
Probably, but good luck getting enough evidence to prove anything. So long as they would hire someone with some unlikely to exist background they can advertise even if they don't hire.
> most people cannot taste the difference. They think they can, proclaim they can, and talk up how great Mexican coke is, but when actually put to the test they have basically random odds of being right or not

Let's set this up. I'm 100% sure I can tell the difference. I grew up in france drinking the sucrose version and I can definitely tell when I'm having a taste of my childhood vs. not. I think what you're trying to say is that you can't tell the difference.

Next you'll be telling me that I can't smell the vomit (butyrate) in Hershey's chocolate from the next room over?
You're clearly not interested in conversing in good faith, but I'll indulge you:

Yeah, the letter is called a ballot and I've voted straight Red/Right/Republican/Conservative/Liberal every time.
I want to make something explicit:

The US Labor requirements for PERM merely require the employer to make the posting and evaluate the candidates. If they do find a US based candidate, the law isn't saying the company has to hire them - just that the PERM application for the current foreign employee will get rejected. He still gets to keep his job as long as his visa is valid.

Yes, companies will play games to ensure he passes the labor certification. And yes, it doesn't always work. In a team I was in, we had a bunch of Indians who got rejected multiple times over the years before they finally got approval. The folks on the government side didn't just take the company's word - they "randomly" picked a person and would audit all the people who had applied and would argue (successfully) with the company that some of the US based applicants were actually eligible for the role.
I am RM2 user and this is useful for me. I signed up not expecting much but that digest designer is so well done! Kudos. Beautifully executed. Signed up and looking forward to the digests.
Germany is one of the countries I've heard this is an issue in https://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/27/german-court-says-creati...
Does it not take energy to process information? Can any computable function be computed with arbitrarily low energy input/entropy increase?
it is more squeaky, you're right
It might be because Tesla has been blocking its workers from unionising so that they can defend their rights.
Maybe this is the discussion worth having. Taiwanese engineers competed to get into TSMC. Their management practically lived in the factory to solve production issues when needed. The local workers in the Arizona factory said the pay was pretty good per another comment. Yet somehow we thought that we were slaving the labors? What is the fundamental difference here? Personally, if I were a worker who could find just a service job that pays $30K a year or less, I'd kill to work for TSMC for $50K+/year and learn everything I can about chip manufacturing in my capacity. It would be proud to do it, and I wouldn't mind some overtime.
Their(hotel) tech is 5 years behind.
The pancakes are sweet! The french toast is sweet! Even the General Tso's chicken is sweet!
Quite right.



Of course, I'd like to only rent hotel rooms to the sort of people that I'd like to have as my clients & guests. However, this has been illegal for me to do since 1965.
Project managers don’t have the technical skillset necessary.

As far as not having the skills, that’s the entire problem that most software engineers are going to have if they don’t understand the business. If you look at the leveling guidelines of every tech company, the higher you go up, the more you are expected to deal with “ambiguity”.

As a “staff software architect”, I am part project manager, part technical lead. But the last thing I want at that level is to play telephone and have someone constantly coming between me and stakeholder.

And some software engineers will be stuck fighting thousands of other commodity ticket takers fighting for scraps. We see that now without AI taking jobs.
> And one thing people don’t realize is that if you’re working in a codebase heavily coded by AI, you’re going to want to see the original prompts used if you don’t know the original engineers intent.

If I'm working in a codebase that is heavily coded by anyone who isn't "me, within the last week", I'm going to want to see the implementation-technology-neutral requirements (and, ideally, human-written tests/test scenarios, unit and acceptance and everywhere in between, operationalizing the requirements) because I can't know the original engineer's intent.

This isn't any less true when the engine was wet biological goop instead of silicon.
That wasn't my experience when I used Snyk at my last job, depending on your definition of FP.

For example, if you're using a multi-protocol networking library, and it says that the version you have installed is has a vulnerability in its SMTP handling, but you don't use the SMTP functionality, is that a FP?

I'd argue that it's irrelevant, but not a false positive.

I never had it get the version of a library wrong.
Safari has recently added Profiles which are very similar: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100

OTOH Vivaldi guys said that much as they'd like to implement this, they're unable to due to some architectural issues with Blink. So basically no Blink browser will have that unless and until Google decides to do it in Chrome - which seems unlikely given their incentives.
The Purism Librem 5 phone is very expensive and unfortunately not that popular. Haven't met anyone who uses one yet
The not-so-implied message of a hit-list is, "Murder these specific people." We're talking about incitement here, not aiding and abetting, and "calling for heads" is precisely the point here.

Unless you really think it's just a deck of cards with a particularly bizarre motif, and I don't think any of us really buy that.
Another less-known actor based language is pony [0], it is well documented and made some uncommon choices.

[0] https://www.ponylang.io/
Provided all this centralized governement owned and run infra somehow gets built, what it would be actually doing to warrant the expense ?

I am quite skeptical in this regard. :P
I kinda figured. Sorry bro. No easy answers, unfortunately.
I really like Strapi, it's very intuitive, etc. But headless is a headache to set up for a tech illiterate person/org who wants to start some kind of blog or small news site.

I'll give you an example: https://newyorkyimby.com/

This is a relatively simple site that posts housing development news for New York. Ultimately they're not going to need a super complicated front end. Most sites just want a theme and deployment.

If Strapi had a non-headless mode and had themes I'm sure it could be used for the many millions of these small sites that run Wordpress.

Additionally Strapi isn't a great choice for blogs or portfolio sites, it's simply too much to set up for most people. I think the barrier to entry is what prevents it from becoming great. If a random person can start a blog, then more developers are going to want to work on it, meaning more plugins, meaning more of a reason to use Strapi. A feedback loop that got Wordpress to where it is.

Shopify is so big because they make setting up a site extremely easy, and now there are tons of plugins and themes to use on your Shopify store, which only gives people more of a reason to use Shopify.
What about the models they offer would make you think that it wouldn't be biased at generating random die rolls?
I wonder if this happen while using Costco Travel or AmEx travel etc.?

What about travel agents? Do they also get price discriminated against depending on where they are?

This can lead to startup ideas as in book-from service which scans all the zip codes and helps book from the cheapest one.
what does a day in the life look like for a junior swe being paid 34k
If the role was advertised on LinkedIn, out of those hundreds of applicants there's probably only a small minority that have appropriate experience and right to work.
> I'm pretty sure if this went to court a judge would say it's legally is open source because the source code is open.

Talk to some lawyers. I'm sure you could bring the first lawsuit to try to get a judge to rule that everyone should agree with you on what "open source" means.

Good luck with that.
> I think the rate of non-fill is higher.

I suspect far higher. Largely because there is no serious disincentive.

The "study" may have assertained 1 in 5 but that doesn't mean there isn't much more.
Two considerations make this different:

* The backs of the Iraqi cards are just a WANTED stamp.

* The people on the Iraqi cards are military targets in an ongoing war. The rules are different for civilians.
> My point is that isn't true.

But it is still true, unless I'm forbidden from making my own investments.
Indeed. And my luck continued to fall through the cracks.

Had 3 interviews through contacts that bounced back. Failed two interviews, one technical, one cultural. Third one never really got off the ground; talked to a recruiter and then nothing ever really got arranged. Not even a call.

One got a job at a place I previously worked at and had no interest in returning to. He's on a different team though so I can't say his experience will mirror mine.

One was asking around about any open roles days before he got laid off himself.

Asked a few others and no positions are really open as of now.

Funnily enough me and another colleague applied to the same job and he got it. Right before they invoked a hiring freeze.

And those are just referrals. The nightmares from jobs I just found myself get even better. I'm just tired. This market suuuuuuucks.
Show HN: Adversarial voice agents to test your voice system
Wanted to show a cool demo on voice agents to give a taste of what we're building!

Labyrinth is a voice agents testing and simulation platform to help you reliably develop and improve the quality of your voice agents. One of our key features is the ability to create adversarial agents, which can be randomly generated to personify scenarios with your use case, or grounded off of real transcripts, and run in simulations against your own voice agent to produce synthetic conversations.

In this demo, you can get a feel for how these work, and have a manual phone conversation with some agents. Pick one of our preset scenarios or choose your own!

Let me know if you have any feedback, or if you are building voice agents and interested in testing.
interesting take. Heard of Synthesis? (hint: DARPA funded).

At the local elementary school, we are told the kids are being kept safer now thanks to being tracked by AI cameras.

Some parents, maybe especially those with insight into tech fact vs. tech marketing, may have reservations about "tutors" whose services (perhaps for free) come with the stipulation that they are free to record every bit of data about your kid and do with it as they please.

The're being silly, right? Because?

As everyone on HN knows: software is super safe, and the entities/corps controlling it, so, so benign. Data doubly so -- hacks basically never happen, am I right? No one cares about your kid?

Or?
> I wonder how hard this would be to port to Hoot

It would be interesting, though I don't know if it would make sense. In any case, the way to do it would be to extract all the code that does POSIX things into an abstraction layer. Shepherd is built on the Fibers async system which Hoot supports so that part shouldn't be an issue.
"The median salary for full-time workers in California is $66,986" -- https://www.incomebyzipcode.com/california

Salary difference isn't because of tax (employer NI contributions in the UK are high - £12,500 for £100k, but employer healthcare is high in the US)

The assertion was that employee taxes were high in europe. Now they may be in mainland, but in the UK that's not particularly true, not at 100k range anyway.

On the California median salary of $67k, in the US you keep $51,915, in the UK you keep $51,741, practically the same.

At $500k, in California you'd keep $287k, in the UK $279k, so 3% difference there at the 8-times median CA wage, I'll admit that.

At that salary though the employer contribution to tax in the UK is significantly higher than healthcare contribution in the US, so sure, probably around 10% difference in total.

There's basically no difference in income taxes between the UK and US, that doesn't explain the massive salary difference.
Full time employees? 1700 employees from 90 countries sounds to me like they are counting anyone that's ever contributed anything as an employee.
Those rules are always applied inconsistently. Nearly all political statements are violent or are calls to violence, but if the violence is deemed acceptable violence then it probably wouldn't even register as violent by a person reading them.

For example, "we need to deport illegal immigrants" is a call for violence if you think about it, it's just violence through one of the acceptable channels - law enforcement.

The same is true of statements about war, whether it be in support of Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, etc. Maybe the violence is self-defense, but doesn't change the fact it is violence.

You don't see platforms removing these violent statements, because it's "acceptable" violence, but what violence acceptable is malleable. It changes in society over time, and it's different depending on who you ask.
Your entry point is a masters and probably Phd in Electrical Engineering, specializing in some aspect of semiconductor manufacturing. It’s definitely not CS.
Just because it never happened doesn't mean it cannot.

Sure it is a weak argument, but when you get to cite that possibility and thus save 10 minutes of time creating more detailed feedback (which may or may not be used).
> I'm not sure when or why exactly the right lost interest in censoring sex and violence in the media

It didn't stop. Republicans have been passing laws requiring identification to access pornography and as a result pornhub is blocked in 16 states currently.

https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-blocked-states-2025
It's like saying there is good and bad diseases because some solve other problems like space in nursing home.
How do you feel about online gambling?

Imo, profits != productive or to a benefit of society.
> No, in time it’s going to look just like that but with hallucinations and large areas of the codebase no human has even read.

An area of code that no human has ever read is no different to me than an area of code lots of humans who aren't me have read, and that's not that different from an area of code that I have read, but not particularly recently.

I mean, except for who it is that I am going to be swearing about when it breaks and I finally do read it.
Okay, so if I'm reading this correctly, annual premium income is around $30 billion, annual insurance payouts is also around $30 billion ( cost of administration). Investment assets under management around 66 billion.

This is all right, I still don't see how the insurance business unit add value unless there are profitable years on average.

I'll have to check out the letters, maybe they will explain this.

Edit: Having read that section of the letter, my understanding is the existence of insurance companies relies on the belief that in the long run, the insurance side will not be a loss leader, at least for insurance types without a significant time lag between customer acquisition and insurance payout. For example, operating a "loss leader" could be profitable for something like life insurance where there average claim for a new customer is in the future.

It seems like insurance types where there is no intrinsic time delay between customer acquisition and payout (e.g. auto, home) can not operate this way. That is to say, you cant build up a profitable interest bearing float if average policy payouts are >100% in month 1 of the policy.

Would you agree with this description?
This is indeed exactly the reason why it was placed there in Windows Phone 7 (which is where it first appeared, AFAIK).
What do you think of the many similar decks listed in the article that got to stay up? The IDF Gaza deck posts X marks over the cards every time one is killed
Setting aside the moral aspect which is highly subjective and seems to have a price tag (for example tech CEOs quit any sort of morals for a good paycheck), the productivity question is a measurable one.

Aka does advertising as a whole increase total consumption or is it a zero sum game (aka send bigger slice of the same pie to a competitor)

From what I know advertising does increase total demand aka more things/services need to be produced and sold on aggregate.
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They didn't even manage to get the UK right. Apparently whoever made this map doesn't know that the UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and that Éire is only the bottom bit.

I wonder how that skews the figures. Are folk in NI paid more in line with GB or with Éire? I'm sure currency comes into play too, what with Éire using the euro.
996 at 50K is less than Arizona's minimum wage.
Well, sure but some feedback would’ve been nice at least - it’s not like I was going to sue them.
That’s what I used to do but now I think it is a major handicap. I haven’t perfected it yet, but I’ve had good luck letting AI write entire (smallish) programs and do major updates to those.
Also (Jan 11, 2025): Russia's Hidden War Debt

https://navigatingrussia.substack.com/p/russias-hidden-war-d...
That's an impressive servo! I've been messing around in this space lately, though on a smaller budget. The cheap NEMA-x motors he mentions are still quite decent, and you can do a lot of the position keeping etc in software. Accel/decel curves are a _whole thing_, there's definitely a lot to learn and explore here.

I'm making a set of roller blinds, and it's a pretty fun/challenging project that incorporates 3d design and printing, circuit design, and "microprogramming" (using a pico w board). It's really neat seeing physical manifestations of running code!
The salary is less than U.S. but their actual take home pay may be more.

Unless the social services in Europe are worth $50-100k/year more than in America there is just no way this is true. That’s around $4-8k/month. I’d expect transit and public attractions to be free across Europe at that price (they’re not). Healthcare is another matter…do Europeans feels like they get $50k+ of healthcare coverage a year on average? That would be about $4 million in a lifetime

A comment earlier said that the average senior software engineer salary at a large UK firm was 62k pounds per year. Even adjusting for PPP that’s about half of what a senior swe in a MCOL city in America can expect to make.

Also, contrary to popular belief, we have health insurance in America, with max deductibles. As in, after a certain amount (usually in the 4 digits), all healthcare costs are covered by insurance
But if we were to modify signal positioning to make it impractical to stop past the white line, fewer people would overshoot and wait.

We do this kind of thing in many other places in life. Imagine if we didn’t use barriers anywhere and only used painted lines to tell people where to be - don’t walk to this side of the line, that’s where the valuables are “stored” (no walls, just markings.)

We use ‘guardrails’ all over the place. Sometimes to nudge people (one can jump a literal guardrail), sometimes to prevent injury (you simply cannot physically access the active industrial robot without intentional effort), and all kinds of inconvenience in between to suggest where to be.

Place the lights so that they’re only visible further back, and people will stop further back.
> enables people to become voting members of the NGO.

Only if the current management approves. You can keep control over the club, if you wish, you just need two or three people helping you.
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Yes these days all that public money gets spent on infrastructure, housing, welfare... Oh, wait
> There's a MASSIVE and obvious 1st amendment issue here, but in the sense of "Incitement to murder isn't covered under the 1st amendment" sense.

It's not as clear-cut as you make it sound, and that's why the Brandenburg test is such an important concept: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test

> The test determined that the government may prohibit speech advocating the use of force or crime if the speech satisfies both elements of the two-part test:

> The speech is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action,” AND The speech is “likely to incite or produce such action.”

Imminent is the keyword there. Saying "let's go kill that CEO" at the head of a mob outside their home isn't protected, as it passes the test - it is genuinely likely to result in the mob storming the house, as the mob is positioned to be able to do so as an immediate reaction to the speech telling them to, and the speaker knows it.

In contrast, consider some of the speech found to be protected by this standard:

> a KKK leader gave a speech at a rally to his fellow Klansmen, and after listing a number of derogatory racial slurs, he then said that “it's possible that there might have to be some vengeance [sic] taken.”

> In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co . (1982), Charles Evers threatened violence against those who refused to boycott white businesses. The Supreme Court applied the Brandenburg test and found that the speech was protected : “Strong and effective extemporaneous rhetoric cannot be nicely channeled in purely dulcet phrases. An advocate must be free to stimulate his audience with spontaneous and emotional appeals for unity and action in a common cause. When such appeals do not incite lawless action, they must be regarded as protected speech.”

Advocating violence in the abstract doesn't satisfy the imminence requirement. Unless there's a direct connection in time and place between the speaker and the lawless actor, it's protected.