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Re:15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:40PM (#48623328)
Throwing all your stuff away seems wasteful.
Re: on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:28PM (#48623240)
The HN crowd is about as worst as it gets. The people here are really bad.
Re: on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:26PM (#48623234)
I think you're a troll who should be banned from this site for wasting everyone's time.
Re: on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:23PM (#48623210)
If someone is able to get around a ton of banning techniques, they will definitely notice they're shadowbanned.
Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:51PM (#48549951)
You are free to read whatever you want. Doesn't mean it should be part of a curated collection in a light bulb
Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:50PM (#48549941)
It's almost like this could be used in countries that aren't "America"
Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:49PM (#48549933)
Why do you want people to read those books so bad?
I want something that works in the background, checking my work as I code, running tests and making suggestions... Without being obstrusive. Like a pair programmer.
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:38PM (#48492687)
I don't know about you, but my team uses React and we also have to handle validation on front end and back end, in different ways.
Re:AI Is Slowing Down on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:04AM (#48475704)
I disagree, people you know are much more likely to have the same exact opinions as you on most things. It's the definition of a bubble.
Re:AI Is Slowing Down on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:02AM (#48475674)
We previously had a backlog of 2 years of features planned. Now we have no work and are just working on tech debt and planning to get more involved in the product side because they need help getting the developers work to do.
I thought it was, you're the pilot, copilot is your helper.
0% chance this is true as I work at a F500 where I can assure you that probably every developer can write fizz buzz.

I would bet my life and everyone I care abouts' lives that much more than 70% CAN write fizz buzz.

Let me guess, you used them 12 months ago?
Yes. If you're copy posting code from LLMs you're in the minority of people who are "in the past". Most people are generating most of their code in ~1-200 LOC chunks, reviewing it, adjusting as needed (usually with another prompt) and then opening a PR, which gets reviewed both my LLM and other teammates.
Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:23AM (#48413792)
It's racist to say that people who don't believe women should have equal rights and opportunities and are equally capable as men - are neanderthals?
Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:20AM (#48413729)
Ah yes let's "make progress" on a planet where people refuse to consume less and we have finite resources.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:01AM (#48343637)
And therefore there will be a huge knowledge gap as companies refuse to hire anyone who hasn't worked in the field for 5+ years and people who want to work in that field but haven't don't get hired.
Re:Bitburner, programming-based incremental game on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:40PM (#48314337)
Doesn't work well on mobile.
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that - at least right now - AI is only useful for 2 things:

1. Coding, with it being more useful the better you are at coding without AI

2. Any expert in their field asking questions about their field, who bother to fact check the output. E.g. "claude pls search these 1000 files and tell me if you find anywhere that they're discussing the settlement" and then the user checks the files/line numbers to make sure that it's correct - basically a turbocharged search that may have false negatives (content existed but I didn't find it) or false positives (content that I classified in a certain way but it was wrong). It takes an expert to tell the latter one in some cases.

Re:The Ask on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:06AM (#48304789)
Well, nobody said lifers. But you can't really get a management job without already having management experience. You typically have to be promoted internally, not just go look for a management job elsewhere with no experience.
Re:Can we have the day off? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:12AM (#48304403)
It's a pejorative for the community of not very nice people that call themselves Rationalists. They congregate in LessWrong.com and StarSlateCodex or something. They're insane and many of them rapists / they rationalize other community members doing so "because they're too important to the cult for us to kick them out"
Yep, the very same scammer. Wonder if he's lying about OpenAI too? Maybe about a person blowing a metal instrument?
I think my company is going to cancel our subscription once it realizes we're spending more money in a week that a developer gets paid in a month.
Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:05PM (#48303471)
unless we can ALL join forces to draw the line somewhere, someone will choose to defect from the agreement to "just work less",

> We already did draw the line and we can redraw it. We drew the line very strongly at 40 hours, 4 days a week. That is the "official" expected hours for most salaried employees.

because doing so will make them succeed at the expense of others.

> This already happens. People making salary, 40 hours, that work 50, 60, etc. to get ahead of their coworkers in a career sense. Or people taking optional overtime to get ahead financially or people who work hourly working extra hours or people who have 2+ jobs or a side hustle.

even if everyone from one country agrees, the other competing country that defects and works 996 with agents will "win" and conquer the lazy country.

> Didn't realize Japan is imminently going to conquer the US because they work more hours.

Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:22PM (#48303123)
How are neither of them being driven by capitalism?

U.S. becomes more authoritarian -> you are more afraid of being targeted by an AI drone and mass surveillance -> companies that make those weapons of war for the government (prime contractors) make billions -> they use their money to influence politics and public opinion -> U.S. becomes more authoritarian -> etc.

Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:17PM (#48303066)
Did you just link to a rat website as if that is a good source?
Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:15PM (#48303054)
If I am able to do 10x work with a tool that costs you Y, then my wages should rise by 10x - Y.

Then, let's do a 3 day work week and multiply it by 0.6.

Pretty simple math

Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:12PM (#48303021)
Right. If I am producing 10x more output then I expect to be getting paid about 8x more or working 8x less.

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