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by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-03 08:42:56+00:00
>This is somewhat masked by the fact that the universities show top notch research (mainly with foreign students tho)

Yeah, but those positions require highly specialized knowledge and are therefore very niche. Say you're an unemployed tech worker, how would one get such a job without a PhD in the field? You can't. What do you do when most new positions in your area of expertise have been shipped abroad?

>As one of my ex-managers said: "it's crazy that we cannot even produce aspirin anymore in Switzerland".

I doubt they don't know anymore, but they just don't bother since it's a generic drug in the race to the bottom that Switzerland can't and doesn't want to take part in.

>To be precise, the ex googlers are not clueless about engineering (or at least I hope so), but about how the unemployment system in CH works, and they are also out of touch salary-wise.

I think you misunderstood me. I never said googles are clueless about tech, but about life in general, especially the life of those not earning 200k+.

Because living in a coddled bubble of 200k+ wages in Zurich would make one highly out of touch with the reality of most average people in Switzerland and moreso in the rest of the world, and you see this in their comments and arguments on HN. They just can't empathize or understand that your reality on the ground is different than theirs.

Even without knowing the unemployment system in Switzerland or in any other country, how the hell can you expect to receive 200K+ in unemployment benefits? That's just so entitled and out of touch, it's insane. Unemployment benefits are never a payment of 100% of your salary to continue the Googler lifestyle, but a smaller basic safety net to cover your vital expenses till you find another job. That's just common sense everywhere.
by kypro | 2025-06-03 08:43:48+00:00
> Not software engineers being kicked out and some business person pressing a few buttons to have a fully functional app (as is playing out in a lot of fantasies on LinkedIn & X), but rather experienced engineers using AI to generate bits of code and then meticulously reviewing and testing them.

Why would a human review the code in a few years when AI is far better than the average senior developer? Wouldn't that be as stupid as a human reviewing stockfish's moves in Chess?
by Gibbon1 | 2025-06-03 08:46:06+00:00
My personal experience is your immune system is sharp on both sides. You hope whatever antibodies and immune response gets triggered doesn't cross react with self.

I have some friends that had Hashimoto's disease. Type 1 diabetes. Friends with lupus. 4-5 friends that had Guillain-Barre syndrome. My mom died of ITP. I have sarcoidosis. I have friends who for unexplained reasons are 'unwell'

ITP is an interesting one. The antibodies target an enzyme that's needed to keep your blood platelets from binding together in your blood. Thus the idea that you can have autoimmune syndromes that can mess with thousands of different enzymes and proteins. Or stimulate inappropriately. Seriously why not.

I can totally believe that infection with childhood diseases of yore could lead to dementia later in life.
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by verisimi | 2025-06-03 08:47:01+00:00
The history we have inevitably passes through bottlenecks. Much is left out, edited away, embellished.

We have no idea what happened over 500 years ago, but the idea of a brilliant scholar translating the Greek texts on behalf of the Medicis, shouldn't simply be accepted as stated. If you are running the world (like the Medicis did) history would be a lever of control. It seems inevitable that the stories should be directed (carefully) towards whatever ends.

History is actually a present day activity - it provides the backdrop to the present. Altering that backdrop has present value.

I can't see how ai will help us the endeavour of trying to get a better handle on what happened in the past. I do see how it would provide modern-day Medicis a way to change the backdrop more quickly.
by ivape | 2025-06-03 08:48:38+00:00
This is pre-Covid HN thread on work from home:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22221507

It’s eerie. It’s historical. These threads from these past two years about what the future of AI will be will read like ghost stories. Like Rose having flash backs of the Titanic. It’s worth documenting. We honestly could be having the most ominous discussion of what’s to come.

We sit around and complain about dips in hiring, that’s nothing. The iceberg just hit. We’ve got 6 hours left.
by rasmus1610 | 2025-06-03 08:49:43+00:00
Actually the abstractions are much thinner than with something like NextJS imo. It all comes down to what you are comfortable with. If you learned web dev in the React era, this approach feels very odd, but if you come from something like Ruby on Rails, this actually quite intuitive and not a lot of abstraction (see Jeremy‘s comment in this thread).

I personally like to stay with normal HTML and FrankenUI instead FastHTML instead of MonsterUI tho.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-03 08:50:16+00:00
> I think it was a form of anti-piracy- though playing it enough you could memorise the dance.

The antipiracy measure in Civilization was possibly the weakest ever devised.

After playing the game for a while (so the player gets a demo), it will bring up a screen that displays the image of a technology and asks you to choose the prerequisites to that technology. You answer by selecting one of four multiple-choice options listing technology names.

So right off the bat you have a 25% chance of passing the check.

The intent is that you consult the manual, which lists the prerequisites for every technology and also displays the images. But you don't have to do that. You can consult the in-game Civilopedia, which does the same thing. (You can't do that while you're being asked to pass the check, but nothing stops you from doing it in advance.) Or, of course, you're likely to have the answer memorized, because this is a fundamental part of the way the game works.
by Doches | 2025-06-03 08:50:33+00:00
I'll take that challenge.

Even if you're 100% accurate that the advent of LLMs means that the field of software engineering has effectively devolved into prompt engineering and AI-wrangling, that is a change that we should fight with full-throated, actual-Luddite levels of defense. Your own analogy – the way a tiny, tiny core of 'real' engineers develop game engines, and then the entire field of game development just 'scripts' those engines – sends up a ton of red flags for me.

(Aside: as an erstwhile game developer 'just scripting game engines' is...underselling the craft of programming in game development, but whatever).

For a long time game development has been a weird shadow version of the rest of the tech industry. We're influenced by the same macro trends (e.g. ZIRP, VC fads) and the mood and zeitgeist generally rhyme as a result. But if you look at the drive to unionise game developers vs. same impulse in the mainstream tech industry the feeling is COMPLETELY different.

What's the incentive to unionise if you're a SWE at Meta, Palantir, or Google? Your job is pretty great, your work-life balance is at least not fundamentally out of control, and your STARTING salary puts you in the top 10% of US households. It is probably the last remaining holdout of the 1970s upper-middle-class dream jobs.

And if you're the equivalent engineer at EA, Activision, or Ubisoft? You can expect seasonal layoffs, a good work-life balance means you sleep at home instead of under your desk at least once a week, and your take-home pay is just sufficient to let you split the rent on an outer LA apartment that's just inside tolerable commuting range. Equity? What's that? Management treats you like a disposable cog AND BRAGS ABOUT IT, like they have for the last thirty years.

This is what we want to become? This is the future we're embracing?
by chris-orgmenta | 2025-06-03 08:54:00+00:00
> While in custody, she took a lie detector test, which revealed deception in two key responses[...]

It did not. It revealed that the police failed to trick a confession out of her using pseudo-science.

> James Lewis refused a polygraph.

Sensible move - Especially when journalists interpret LDTs as per above.

> They tried enlarging the pharmacy surveillance photo, but the bigger it got, the grainier it got.

What did Fahner and Zagel actually tell Michael here? Surely not that, verbatim.

Interesting piece otherwise. Our global supply chain is just so fragile and insecure. We may need to rethink everything. For a start, is it not ridiculous that we have unsealed/re-sealable products? I do not want Ibuprofen etc. to be moved to behind-counter, but perhaps a better 'discard if tampered with' seal should be implemented. Will we get to a point where we have to sell fruit in tear-open cardboard mailers? Sounds ridiculous, but depends on what happens in the next decade re: terrorism in general.
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by tecleandor | 2025-06-03 08:56:21+00:00
Not at all. Useful or not, LLMs will almost never say "I don't know". They'll happily call a function to a library that never existed. They'll tell you "Incredible idea! You're on the correct path! And you can easily do that with so and so software", and you'll be like "wait what, that software doesn't do that", and they'll answer "Ah, yeah, you're right, of course."
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by AdamN | 2025-06-03 08:56:25+00:00
Why is that strange? Cyanide seems like an obvious thing to test for at scale. Safety engineering doesn't say 'that doesn't seem likely even though it's dangerous and easy to control for so I'll not handle the scenario'. It says, 'anything unsafe should be mitigated with the right cost-benefit analysis applied for the scenario'. Testing for cyanide makes sense regardless of whether it's in the factory.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-03 08:57:24+00:00
Quizzing you with information from the manual which was also regularly relied on in gameplay, IIRC, was common in MicroProse games of the time (before they started using actual copy protection measures on the disks), not unique to Civ; as I recall, some of their combat simulators did similar things with weapon stats, vehicle silhouettes, etc.
by cdrini | 2025-06-03 08:58:24+00:00
This is very outside my domain :P I asked ChatGPT to explain the acronyms in your comment and still do not understand it. But I think a reason LLMs might struggle is that there are too many up front complex requirements.

Giving it only 1 or 2 complex requirements at a time, and then having it iterate, I've found to be more effective.

Most LLMs don't "think", so when asking an LLM something, I generally try to think "would I be able to do this without thinking, if I had all the knowledge, but just had to start typing and go?".

You could break down your prompt into separate prompts like this maybe: https://chatgpt.com/share/683eb7d7-e7ec-8012-8b3b-e34d523dc9...

I think it broke things down in a weird way, but I definitely can't analyse the correctness of anything it outputs in this domain :P

Coding specific agents like Copilot might be better able to handle a complex initial prompt, since they take the initial prompt, and use LLMs to break it down into smaller steps, which ChatGPT doesn't do. They can sort of "think". Deep research AIs also have a sort of thinking too, so might do better.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-06-03 08:58:31+00:00
I get where you're coming from, but given that LLMs are trained on every available written word regardless of license, there's no meaningful distinction. Companies training LLMs for programming and writing show the same disregard for copyright as they do for graphic design. Therefore, graphic designers aren't owed special consideration that the author is unwilling to extend to anybody else.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-06-03 08:58:34+00:00
That is how LLM:s should be used today. An expert prompts it and checks the code. Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch. Just the other day I was working on a prototype and let claude write code for a auth flow. Everything was good until the last step where it was just sending the user id as a string with the valid token. So if you got a valid token you could just pass in any user id and become that user. Still saved me a lot of time vs doing it from scratch.
by Ragnarork | 2025-06-03 08:58:48+00:00
It's interesting also how these takes consistently ignore spectacularly the environmental cost of these as well.

I'm a bit on the fence myself, as I think it's very harmful, but I can also see ways it can be useful. But it's absolutely mindblowing how this is nearly always completely out of the discussion even though our current way of living and powering things is on a timer and we still haven't addressed it as a whole.
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by Nursie | 2025-06-03 08:59:42+00:00
How well did that one work?

There was another one in the US called "PolyHeme" which did not go well - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PolyHeme

The controversy around that one was not only that it did not work as well as it could (more patients had heart attacks than with saline), but that it was trialled on trauma patients without their explicit consent - implied consent was used, and people in trial areas could opt-out by requesting a bracelet. Problematic to say the least...
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by tialaramex | 2025-06-03 09:00:44+00:00
Neither can be compared cleanly because the languages make such different choices but it's certainly true that C++ has too many garbage "never use this" container types in the standard library. Aria has a brief aside in her "Entirely Too Many Linked Lists" tutorial about why Rust has so few containers in the stdlib (Aria weeded out all the niche container types before Rust 1.0), and it sincerely feels as though 1995 era C++ could have done with an Aria.
by anilakar | 2025-06-03 09:00:47+00:00
Conversely, I've seen way too many designed-by-designers GUIs and UX flows that can be best characterized as a glittery, polished turd. They sure look nice in Figma but often only have one well-specified happy path from which the end user will surely deviate. Managers will easily greenlight broken designs because they can only see the visuals, not the complete picture.

If you find a talented designer, they are valued so much they will only get assigned to design tasks. If you have a rockstar 10x developer, their mind just cannot comprehend the average 0.1x end user.

What you need is someone who understands design but dislikes it enough to not focus on aligning single pixels or fixing the kerning. They need to be able to code but hate it with passion, because hard-working programmers create software for hard-working end users and the end user is not hard-working.
by GenshoTikamura | 2025-06-03 09:01:27+00:00
> My peers did not know them either and I had to wait sometimes days for the opportunity to ask someone advanced who knew. Blocking my progress.

Hypothetically, a solution to a problem that preoccupied you for days would translate into a more stable and long-lasting neuron configration in your brain (i.e. be remembered) than a solution to a problem that preoccupied you only for the time taken to type the prompt in.
by pastage | 2025-06-03 09:01:57+00:00
It is degrading too fast, microfilm archives need to be digitilized now, the solvent and image chemicals and media are all part of the problem with microfilms. Archival paper is a nice medium that can be stored a long time. This is of course a question of how long you want to store your information if you want to do 00500 years it is probably good.

Or just go with metal https://rosettaproject.org/

Or try to create a culture for humans and store information in that.
by rendaw | 2025-06-03 09:02:45+00:00
This, Typst, etc etc are primarily typesetting systems for papers.

I would love alternatives to HTML or whatever, but I tried Typst too and it's very clear that the authors only really care about typesetting for papers and other long form prose. Stuff like forms, invoices, flyers, handouts, leaflets, business cards -- an afterthought, at best.

Edit: Actually I was thinking of Sile not Typst, but I think the same applies to Typst too. I didn't dig into Typst too much because it was commercial though.
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