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by hlau | 2025-07-03 20:43:56+00:00
Vibe coded this yesterday. Want to actually get some time series data. The data points that are surfacing don't really reflect the story being told thus far. What we do see is someone who interviews really well but their output leaves a lot to be desired according to multiple testimonials.

I'd imagine a few of the readers here have some more insights so please send them along.

I am also curious how US-based employers hiring for a US-based position couldn't figure out he was moonlighting unless he deliberately lied about his immigration status. Different story if you're taking on an overseas employee or contractor but it seems like he was representing a US presence in most of his employment attempts?
by emptysongglass | 2025-07-03 20:44:41+00:00
Yet you keep name-calling, so who is acting rudely?

3 different applications to access your secrets is what you focused on and now you're moving the goalposts. KeePass having 3 different client applications is what you chose to make a mountain out of, yet they're all just porcelain in front of an agreed upon standard.

Making a kbdx file accessible in Dropbox or any other cloud service does not take technical wizardry.

Kindly stop your personal attacks.
by mrob | 2025-07-03 20:45:03+00:00
The only video game I can think of that seriously tries to replicate the experience of playing old-school D&D is Nethack and its forks. Nethack goes to great lengths to allow for player creativity, even at the cost of game balance. E.g. there are monsters (cockatrices) that petrify on touch. If you kill one, it's possible to pick it up (wearing gloves) and instantly petrify other enemies by hitting them with the corpse. This isn't without risk, e.g. if you fall into a pit trap while attempting this you'll end up petrifying yourself, and enemies can do the same to you if they're capable of wielding weapons and are wearing gloves. There's a simulationist approach to its design that goes beyond other games. There's a community saying: "the dev team thinks of everything."

The problem is this isn't actually true. They certainly think of a lot of things, but it's still only a finite, predetermined set. All the clever tricks are common knowledge now. Anybody can read the Wiki and learn how to win without much difficulty. Nethack becomes boring once you understand how it works. If you want to play it but haven't yet done so I recommend avoiding spoilers as much as possible (the cockatrice thing is so well known that I don't think there's any real problem sharing that one; the game was designed around less extensive pre-Wiki-era sharing of knowledge, not zero sharing).

Real D&D doesn't have this problem. A human DM can adjudicate improvisation without needing to program it in advance, and do this while maintaining consistency in a way that LLMs still fail at. Well-run tabletop RPGs are still the best games available for allowing player creativity.
by djoldman | 2025-07-03 20:45:03+00:00
Wow, what is Carrollton like?

Highest prevalence of Korean Restaurants:

Carrollton, Texas 14.67%

Federal Way, Washington 12.45%

Santa Clara, California 8.74%

Garden Grove, California 8.20%

Irvine, California 7.75%

Fullerton, California 7.46%

Ann Arbor, Michigan 5.14%

Honolulu, Hawaii 5.13%

Killeen, Texas 4.40%

Torrance, California 4.25%
by antonvs | 2025-07-03 20:46:05+00:00
Any program gains from memory safety. Memory safety is not just about security. It's about eliminating an entire class of bugs - buffer overflows, null pointer errors, use-after-free, the list goes on. They just so happen to be the kind of bugs that also tend to have serious security consequences.

I honestly don't get this relentless defense of 1970s-style programming. Do you think C is the pinnacle of programming language design? No? Then what's your point, exactly?
by bornfreddy | 2025-07-03 20:46:51+00:00
Thank you for answering, I haven't seen your rebuke before. It does seem that any issues, even if there would be any (your arguments about CORS headers sound convincing to me, but I'm not an expert on the subject - I study them every time I need to deal with this) were not a result of using LLM but a conscious decision. So either way, LLM has helped you achieve this result without introducing any bugs that you missed and Mr. Madden found in his review, which sounds impressive.

I won't say that you have converted me, but maybe I'll give LLMs a shot and judge for myself if they can be useful to me. Thanks, and good luck!
by mitchbob | 2025-07-03 20:47:48+00:00
I think the only realistic long term solution is for people, ordinary people, to own and control the systems and tools they use. We can create consumer cooperatives for social media and applications and offer tax credits to offset the costs. We can also require interoperability through legislation. People can fund the solutions they find most valuable, and there are always opportunities to create and get funding for new and better solutions.
by ultimafan | 2025-07-03 20:47:57+00:00
It is not a comment on the religious/philosophical validity of the belief as I initially understood it.

Just that for a specific belief to survive, some number of members need to survive to pass it on to the next generation, which if their beliefs bar them from killing or violence requires them to rely on people who aren't.

I don't think this comparison to early/mainline Christianity is entirely fair. It was murder, not "just" killing that was prohibited by their values.
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by _jonas | 2025-07-03 20:48:37+00:00
Evals are critical, and I love the practicality of this guide!

One problem not covered here is: knowing which data to review.

If your AI system produces say 95% accurate responses, your Evals team will spend too much time reviewing production logs to discover different AI failure modes.

To enable your Evals team to only spend time reviewing the high-signal responses that are likely incorrect, I built a tool that automatically surfaces the least trustworthy LLM responses:

https://help.cleanlab.ai/tlm/

Hope you find it useful, I made sure it works out-of-the-box with zero-configuration required!
by volkl48 | 2025-07-03 20:48:52+00:00
If you want to know what virtually any wildly remote road is like, one of the best places to check is usually where people doing motorcycle/off-road adventures post, like advrider.com

Someone, somewhere, has almost certainly gone there and done that, with pictures, documentation, and enough mentions of other things that you can look up for more details.

On that note, here's a 2021 trip from someone that I read a few months ago: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/riding-the-most-r...

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But for a quick summary of what I got out of it/minor additional research:

- A few company (Hydro-Quebec) outposts of a few buildings each for workers out there at the hydro sites that are why the road exists and some rural airstrips for the same purpose. Presumably like any other isolated worksite in that sense.

- An outfitters near the mid-point with lodging, supplies, etc that seems to serve both the workers traveling the route and some tourism. Looks like some very good fishing out there and I see other notes on the internet of people trekking out that way to fish - both indigenous people and tourists. (Also quite pretty if you like the taiga + lakes environment).

- There appear to be some other travel groups that have some private camps in the region and fly people in for fishing via floatplane, too.

- Doesn't appear to be any other permanent settlement along the road.
by mickelsen | 2025-07-03 20:48:52+00:00
There's been an uptick in the adoption of these ID verification platforms in the last 2 years across the Americas, complete with several recent legislation updates to local cybersecurity and governance frameworks, trying to harmonize or seeking compliance to NIST 800-63, CSF2, ISO 27001, etc. All pushed for during COVID times, and now culminating into new laws and industry frameworks.

Companies pushing for this already have all the onboarding flows there. Big 4 and legaltech firms already lobbied for. Banks through their smaller fintech outlets, mobile service providers and pretty much any service you could externalize ID validation that used to be in person, are ramping up adoption.

They are applying it across the board to anything that allows user-generated content under your real name, to prevent impersonation/fraud. Why do they do it with other non-essential services, like social media that doesn't take payments, I'm not sure. But there's indeed regulatory pressure across the board, which will give way into more surveillance down the road.
by Mario10 | 2025-07-03 20:49:57+00:00
Hi Josh, sorry for the delay in responding and thanks for your comment. I realize the phrase "Limited visibility to hiring companies" might not have been the best way to put it. What I meant is that within the application’s Job Offers section, users with a premium plan will appear higher and more prominently in search results. It’s about priority placement in those job listings, not about your OSS contributions or your name being hidden.

Thank you! If you have any more suggestions, please don’t hesitate to share them.
by GOPbIHbI4 | 2025-07-03 20:50:38+00:00
If you happen to stuck with .NET Framework (or you have a library that targets .netstandard2.0) you still can use most of the C# language features that were released in the past 10 years or so.

There are a few tricks you can during the build to add custom attributes, or you can use PolySharp.

This video shows some neat recent C# language features and how to use them with .NET Framework or .netstandard.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-07-03 20:51:50+00:00
Linux is very very different from POSIX. I've had to target actual POSIX and it's missing half the stuff you'd expect. It's really a minimum viable OS API.

Linux has new things like Uring and weird things like it's graphics API.

I still don't see what this has to do with the form factor though. That should be 100% user space maybe with a better scheduler or some process pinning. The thing is anything new eventually ends up in Linux. That's why it's kernel.org and not Linux.org.
by kmeisthax | 2025-07-03 20:51:54+00:00
Currently, in order to deal with noisy masters, Netflix has to either:

1. Denoise the master, then add AV1 FGS metadata to tell players how to reconstruct the noise in the master (which is what the blog post is about) to get back the original image the director saw and approved

2. Do nothing (which is what they were doing), and let some of the noise get blurred or erased by the quantization step of the encoding process, or worse, burn shittons of coding bits trying to describe the exact noise in the frame, which hurts visual quality of the things people actually look at

All of these imply changes to the image that the director decided on to get around the underlying fact that deliberately adding noise to an image is, from a signal processing perspective, really stupid. But if we are going to do it, we can at least ensure it happens as far down the chain as possible so that Netflix's encoding doesn't destroy the noise. That's the idea you responded to: have the production company deliver a master with FGS metadata instead of baked-in film grain.
by recursive | 2025-07-03 20:51:59+00:00
Uncompressed 4k video is ~5Gbps (3840 * 2160 * 3 * 24 * 8). A 2-hour movie clocks in at about 4.3TB. (3840 * 2160 * 3 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 2)

All that is 24fps.

That's without audio, which I assume you also want to be uncompressed.
by ben_w | 2025-07-03 20:52:22+00:00
Start with two million and send half of it my way. ;)

More seriously, why are you aiming so low if your goal is to use money to induce pride? Caring about dollars suggests the USA*, where a mere one million can be earned the boring way by working as a software developer for, like, 7 years or something.

Also more seriously, find a better way to make people proud. Money is an endless treadmill of anxiety and one-upmanship if you don't have a specific end in mind.

* but could also be Canada, Australia, NZ, or a few other places
by guptadeepak | 2025-07-03 20:52:39+00:00
Deepak here—after working with technical founders in cybersecurity, I see a recurring pattern: superior products often lose out due to ineffective business communication rather than technical flaws. The greatest challenge is translating technical features for diverse stakeholders (C-suite, compliance, engineers) without losing accuracy or relevance. AI-driven tools like GrackerAI are starting to address this translation gap by automating technical-to-business messaging and integrating real-time threat data.

How are you overcoming trust and communication barriers in enterprise security sales?
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-03 20:52:46+00:00
Copying my comment from the Senate vote thread:

For those who care, ICE just had its budget increased from 9 billion to 130 billion dollars. ICE now has a budget higher than the USMC (the marines). Then the NIH. Then NASA. Combined. And then doubled.

Their budget now equals that of the entire Russian military. The third largest military on the planet.

The gestapo just became an actual military.

And, no, it does not drop taxes on tips or overtime. It does include the cuts to healthcare and social nets, as well as trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy, while raising the debt by trillions.
by bloppe | 2025-07-03 20:53:30+00:00
"Two programs could have similar behaviour but structured very differently, the difference being that one utilizes caching as an abstraction and one explicitly has the concept of different tiers of storage."

The author is comparing "off-the-shelf" caching with custom caching. They're coming from the assumption that you must be caching somehow and arguing that the word "caching" should be understood to mean only particular approaches to the general idea of caching. And obviously the whole point of the general idea is to optimize things.

It's a rhetorical mess
by metalman | 2025-07-03 20:53:40+00:00
there are human populations that are able to neutralise and pass excess arsenic, specifialy a high andean tribe, and very likely others. The real answer to your question would require some specific tests.

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/32/6/1544/1074042

https://www.nature.com/articles/543009b?error=cookies_not_su...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6972707/
by bad_boomerang | 2025-07-03 20:53:50+00:00
> Who hired you? Have you spoken to that person?

Its a little awkward, the chain of command is a little ad-hoc. So lets say the person who hired me is one of these execs. They were quite excited to hear about my knowledge of security which was dampened when they realised I was more talking about auth and securing endpoints as opposed to smth like DRM.

> He or she isn't your dev, they are your clients. You are a temp.

that particular detail is intentional noise. So sadly that advice doesn't apply.

Like I said, the attitude is so pervasive that I worry that it will interfere with the successful delivery of the product. That part, regardless of the noise remains pertinent.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-03 20:54:08+00:00
Excellent discussion in this thread, captures a lot of the challenges. I don't think we're a peak vibe coding yet, nor have companies experienced the level of pain that is possible here.

The biggest 'rug pull' here is that the coding agent company raises there price and kills you're budget for "development."

I think a lot of MBA types would benefit from taking a long look at how they "blew up" IT and switched to IaaS / Cloud and then suddenly found their business model turned upside down when the providers decided to up their 'cut'. It's a double whammy, the subsidized IT costs to gain traction, the loss of IT jobs because of the transition, leading to to fewer and fewer IT employees, then when the switch comes there is a huge cost wall if you try to revert to the 'previous way' of doing it, even if your costs of doing it that way would today would be cheaper than the what the service provider is now charging you.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-03 20:54:45+00:00
This fails to acknowledge that synthesized noise can lack the detail and information in the original noise.

When you watch a high-quality encode that includes the actual noise, there is a startling increase in resolution from seeing a still to seeing the video. The noise is effectively dancing over a signal, and at 24 fps the signal is still perfectly clear behind it.

Whereas if you lossily encode a still that discards the noise and then adds back artificial noise to match the original "aesthetically", the original detail is non-recoverable if this is done frame-by-frame. Watching at 24 fps produces a fundamentally blurrier viewing experience. And it's not subtle -- on old noisy movies the difference in detail can be 2x.

Now, if h.265 or AV1 is actually building its "noise-removed" frames by always taking into account several preceding and following frames while accounting for movement, it could in theory discover the signal of the full detail across time and encode that, and there wouldn't be any loss in detail. But I don't think it does? I'd love to know if I'm mistaken.

But basically, the point is: comparing noise removal and synthesis can't be done using still images. You have to see an actual video comparison side-by-side to determine if detail is being thrown away or preserved. Noise isn't just noise -- noise is detail too.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-03 20:54:56+00:00
GDPR covers more than cookies though. It covers different usages of the same data even, so it's not simply a matter of providing/not providing the data. For example, an e-commerce site needs your address to deliver your package (legitimate interest, no consent required), but if they want to send spam to it or resell that data to a data broker they still need to ask for consent first.
by yorwba | 2025-07-03 20:55:07+00:00
Attention operates entirely on hidden memory, in the sense that it usually isn't exposed to the end user. An attention head on one thinking token can attend to one thing and the same attention head on the next thinking token can attend to something entirely different, and the next layer can combine the two values, maybe on the second thinking token, maybe much later. So even nonsense filler can create space for intermediate computation to happen.
by hollerith | 2025-07-03 20:55:19+00:00
OK, consider the browser market: are there any browsers that cost money? If so, I've not heard of it. From the beginning, Netscape Corporation, Microsoft, Opera and Apple gave away their browsers for free. That is because by the early 1990s it was well understood (at least by Silicon Valley execs) that what is important is grabbing mind share, and charging any amount of money would severely curtain the ability to do that.

In the 1970s when Unix started being distributed outside of Bell Labs, tech company execs did not yet understand that. The owners of Unix adopted a superior strategy to ensure survival of Unix by accident (namely, by being sued -- IIRC in the 1950s -- by the US Justice Department on anti-trust grounds).
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-03 20:56:49+00:00
> Any program gains from memory safety. Memory safety is not just about security. It's about eliminating an entire class of bugs - buffer overflows, null pointer errors, use-after-free, the list goes on. They just so happen to be the kind of bugs that also tend to have serious security consequences.

Have you actually ever encountered such a bug in tmux though? Because I've been using it for around 15 years and can honestly say I haven't.

Yet this rewrite has introduced bugs. I know it's a hobby project so I'm not being critical. But if you're just trying to reduce bugs then rewriting code battle tested code in another language, regardless of that language, isn't the right way to go.

> I honestly don't get this relentless defense of 1970s-style programming. Do you think C is the pinnacle of programming language design? No? Then what's your point, exactly?

Where was I defending 1970s style programming? I wasn't even defending C. In fact the last project I've worked on based in either C or C++ was 10 years ago. Believe me, I'm a fan of memory safe languages ;)

My point was very clear and very specific to tmux. You're just trying to read between the lines and create a whole new argument where there was none.
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by dragontamer | 2025-07-03 20:58:24+00:00
> said Guy Blelloch

Oh jeez now I have to read the rest.

More people need to read Blellochs PH.D Thesis. Vector models for data-parallel computing. It's a mind blowing way to think of parallel computation.

This is perhaps one of the best parallel programming / parallel data structures professors on the planet.

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Awwww it's not so much about Blellochs work but I steady he's probably the guy ACM had to help explain and understand this new paper on the Bookshelf problem. Still great read though, but I was hoping for some crazy parallel programming application here.
by heikkilevanto | 2025-07-03 20:58:37+00:00
Caching is simple, yes. The hard part is in the last word, invalidation. Even that is manageable for a single process. But as soon as you have multiple (threads / processes / nodes / data centers) updating the data, it does get quite complex, pretty fast.

Likewise, naming things is simple as long as you alone, or a in a small team. But as soon as there are multiple organizations with all their own traditions, it gets tricky. Just witness the eternal flame wars about camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, and UPPER_CASE. It is almost as hopeless culture clash as Emacs vs Vi vs PowerPoint...

(I leave the off-by-one errors as an exercise for the reader)
by lvl155 | 2025-07-03 20:58:39+00:00
Barrier to entry is actually very very high. Just because we have “open source” models doesn’t mean anyone can enter. And the gap is widening now. I see Anthropic/OpenAI as clear leaders. Opus 4 and its derivative products are irreplaceable for coders since Spring 2025. Once you figure it out and have your revelation, it will be impossible to go back. This is an iPhone moment right now and the network effect will be incredible.