skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's a Large Language Model, you should just is like that, it is not a Large Fact Model.

Not by design, but the training corpus necessarily includes a lot of "facts" (claims made by whoever wrote the original text). A model that is trying to output nonfiction on a specific topic, is likely to encounter relatively more models of claims that either actually were incidentally true, or at least have the same general form as true claims without an obvious "tell".

Of course, every now and then it goes off the rails and "hallucinates". Bad luck for the student who doesn't verify the output when this happens (which is probably a lot of students, since part of the motivation to cheat is not knowing the material well enough to do such verification properly).
> Plus I've never seen DHCP hostnames work

Over half the workstations at my office use DHCP hostnames and they work just fine. In fact I'll say exactly the opposite: I've never seen DHCP hostnames not work.
It's 0.3 degrees ahead in orbit. Which means the debris needs to speed up to collide. It's possible if the break-up was explosive, but most, if not all of the debris is more likely to stay at the same velocity or slow down.
I think it's a worthwhile idea to explore, but most worthwhile ideas to explore are still actually wrong. You can't know which until you explore them, which I haven't done in this case.

Probably you would benefit from learning to engage with people capable of seriously considering ideas without embracing them, because it seems like you're looking for some kind of partisan struggle instead.
Very true. My previous employeer offered use it or lose it 6 weeks. I used it all. My current employeer offers unlimited PTO. I take 3 weeks at max...
>> This isn't to imply that engineers are universally treated well, but that RELATIVE to other workers, they held far more bargaining power and faced better working conditions across the board. Most companies outside of the tech bubble don't even have the concept of unlimited PTO.

One might also argue that US residents disagree with you so much that they arent applying to tech jobs in sufficient quanities. The pay and benefits are not worth it when compared to the instability, stress, "benefits", and chaos -- and instead we hire foreigners who are more desperate for the work, and thus willing to work for perks like "Unlimited PTO".

It isnt like there arent smart people in the US who can do these jobs, its more that the smart people go to jobs with real benefits and real perks -- cushy jobs on Wall St or senior management or government jobs where you dont have to do anything.
> Most companies outside of the tech bubble don't even have the concept of unlimited PTO.

Is "unlimited PTO" a good thing?
Whoever ran the Solar Winds infrastructure probably put some effort into hardening the MS infrastructure too.
Great to hear - thanks. I will add several more over the coming days.
Anyone interested in this subject might find this art project interesting as well "Deep Fake Birdsong 2020" https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/deep-fake-birdsong
Hi! Author here - that's actually...kinda the point.

The good treatment you mentioned doesn't organically happen. Your leaders have to fight for it and maintain it. And eng leaders...just aren't in the fight right now.

If good eng leaders actually stepped up and brought the ethos of enabling creativity, autonomy, and well-being to the rest of the org, everyone would be in a better place.
Excellent news, we should see a rapid revitalization of third-party browsers. Allowing the ad delivery network to control browser development was a bad idea from the start.
What framework are you using?

SSO is a solved problem in most frameworks and should be easy to implement quickly.

Rails or Laravel it's quick to implement SSO for various flavors.
You can’t go back on some sacrifices.

e.g. if you overtrain or don’t wait long enough after an injury, you may permanently damage something forever. Speaking from personal experience and knowing a lot of people who have done the same. There’s also some documentaries about athletes doing it and losing it all. Go the extra mile but don’t look back and have regret about that one time.
Counterpoint: stop the sprawl. Use boring technology.

Until you’re at quite a high scale, you probably don’t actually need Kafka. There are plenty of much lighter ways to do pub/sub, including Postgres itself.

Similarly, if your RDBMS schema is properly defined and your queries are well-written, you probably also don’t need Redis / EC.

Re: K8s, if you do need it, I’m not sure why people think that it’s so much easier to run EKS than your own cluster. The only thing you get to skip is the control plane; everything else is still your responsibility. Same with Postgres – you still are wholly responsible for its schema/table maintenance and optimization on major DBaaS.

In any case, nowhere did I say one person should be an expert at all of this.
> get more value

If actually learning is valuable to them, independent of whether it will actually help them with prospective employers, then yes. But I don't think we can assume that all students value that.
This is an interesting idea. Have you experienced any in-house versions of such a product? Anything that stuck out as good/annoying?
If you can read it on a website, why not on an ebook reader?

If you start selling the resulting files, now that would be a copyright violation. German law has a right to create a "Privatkopie", i.e. a private copy. I guess this is similar to fair use in US law?
> How would the teacher know what student's style is if she always uses the LLM?

If the student always uses LLMs then it would be pretty obvious by the fact that they’re failing at the cause in all bar the written assessments (ie the stuff they can cheat on).

> Also do you expect that student's style is fixed forever

Of course not. But people’s styles don’t change dramatically on one paper and reset back afterwards.

> teachers are all so invested that they can really tell when the student is trying something new vs use an LLM that was trained to output writing in the style of an average student?

Depends on the size of the classes. When I was at college I do know that teachers did check for changes in writing styles. I know this because one of the kids on my class was questioned about his changes in his writing style.

With time, I’m sure anti-cheat software will also check again previous works by the students to check for changes in style.

However this was never my point. My point was that cheaters wouldn’t bother training on their own corpus. You keep pushing the conversation away from that.

> Imagine the teacher saying "this is not your style it's too good" to a student who legit tried killing any motivation to do anything but cheat for remaining life

That’s how literally no good teacher would ever approach the subject. Instead they’d talk about how good the paper was and ask about where the inspiration came from.
I think I see where this article is going. I don't ever want to be known for being good at programming Next.js. I don't ever want to look at the <div> salad that "good" React demands and feel proud of it. In my current role I'm perfectly happy writing poor code for these painful abstractions of node.

I don't even want to know where Next leaves off and React begins, or even where React leaves off and TypeScript begins, or even if I'm using TypeScript or JavaScript. Let AIs handle the miasma that is front-end development. I'll paste it in there, test it, make it as succinct as possible and get it off my plate so I can do something more useful.

This compared to the time I used AI to help with my first Ruby project, where it pointed me to some cool libraries, pushed me to look up amazing functionalities that my PHP-corrupted brain couldn't even conceive of, etc.
It is possible to have both great content and great design, but it's rare. Think of the Met museum website vs a tech startup. Both will have modern, fancy UIs, but the museum also has real information where the marketing site will only have design elements and simple hype statements.

That said, you probably want to judge your bank's trustworthiness by it's rating with the Federal government, which is public info. Most banks (all but the biggest) have to outsource their online banking software and it's never as slick as the big guys'.
> The winning strategy is not to be productive, it's to maximize safety margin, which means minimizing responsibility and maximizing barriers to anyone who might ask anything of you.

Ye. You quickly learn that with Scrum. Pad alot and report the amount of hours estimated at an even pace. Make the burn down line straight.

People doing actual work have a big disadvantage versus those that put their time into manipulating the setup, if the bosses are oblivious. It is really frustrating as a newgrad until you realize how it is done.
> Take something very common like cryptographic hashing, if you use something like node.js you really don't want to block the main thread calculating an advanced bcrypt hash. It also meets all of your requirements that data not come from outside ram and is very CPU bound.

I guess I implied quick operations when I said "CPU bound." (IE, calculating a square root, string manipulation, (de)serialization...)

I haven't done hashing in Node.js. I assume that the bcrypt API is async and calls into a native library?
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Twilio Video will not be discontinued
I wonder what happens if you stop paying? Do they reuse your number? That would kind make their service pointless if a number you get could have already been used in previous valid products.
>Are the high level policies of the IRS really incentivized to generate extra revenue via fines? I think its more likely a statute or policy issue and then collecting on underpayment is incentivized downstream.

ROI on the IRS's budget is a pretty frequently cited talking point in their favor so there's probable at least some pressure to keep it that way lest that point in their favor go stale.

>If the IRS could just send a bill (or withhold), the way activism and the media work in the US, the first time a sympathetic family is overcharged and just files based on what they told they were told, all the pressure will move back towards the status quo.

Yeah, the media would do their usual thing and peddle fear. I think the benefit to the average person is so big that it wouldn't matter though.

>The root issue here is the complexity of the tax code (generally bad) and the decentralization of financial institutions (generally good).

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of the people who've normalized a tax break/penalty for any and every pet issue. Intuit is evil, sure, but they're capitalizing on and perpetuating a status quo they didn't create
For those interested in a simple to use command line tool that accomplishes the same I've had success with percollate - https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
I appreciate the kind words! Best of luck on your leap of faith -- it takes courage to attempt it in the first place!
I'm puzzled about what sorts of discussions of historical coinage policies lynguist is used to reading that don't mention specific years.
> The greats are great because they enjoy the activity and would probably be doing it if no one was around or cared that they were

That's not true. Enjoyment of the game got them there, but succeeding at anything often requires long periods of bleeding for it every day. Amateurs wait for inspiration, professionals show up to the studio and work.

Furthermore, with running suffering is an inescapable part of it. On some days, it hurts bad, but on other days it hurts really good. It's a blissful spiritual form of suffering but to get it you have to grind through the bad parts.
> As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order. If the cost of not getting an A is exclusion from future opportunities- then students will reject exclusion by taking easier classes or cheating.

That's not the cost of not getting an A, it's the cost of appearing to underperform compared to too many of your peers. Which is directly tied to how many of them cheat. If not enough cheaters got an A then the cost would no longer be tied to not getting an A, it would be tied to whatever metric they appeared to outperform you on.
>> Is "unlimited PTO" a good thing?

Unlimited PTO means:

- If you are on a visa -- no PTO

- If you are part of the in-crowd friends with the boss -- unlimited PTO (see: @tech.unicorn for the lifestyle)
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year.Is nature's carbon sink failing?
>Why are they attacking it so bad?

I can think of many people who don't like a potent OS-INT resource.

An academic once told me a story about how they had to pull out a wayback of a company's privacy policy, because when they called them out for violating it there merely edited the policy to make the behavior ok. (Without changing the "last updated" date)

It's also a potent censorship circumvention tool -- if you aren't willing to block all of IA, then it's a way to access a lot.
Waiting for a leak of emails where engineers expressed concerns on the design/elements and management approved anyways.
They don't have the concept of unlimited PTO because it is a lie masquerading as an employee benefit entirely to serve the firm's accountants.
Zenoh 1.0.0 Release
Sorry what's the context of this? 3.1 came out a while ago.
It actually means:

- No payout liability for the company
Interesting. That's a good point.

I'll restate the principle of good usage to bad usage ratio, telephone providers are a well established service with millions of legitimate users and uses. Furthermore they are a recognized service in law, they are regulated, and they can comply with law enforcement.

They are closer to the ISP, which according to my theory has some liability as well.

It's just a matter of the liability being small and the service to society being useful and necessary.

To take a spin to a similar but newer tech, consider crypto. My position is that its legality and liability for illegal usage of users (considering that of exchanges and online wallets, since the network is often not a legal entity) will depend on the ratio of legitimate to ilegitimate use that will be given to it.

There's definitely a second system effect, were undesirables go to the second system, so it might be a semantical difference unrelated to the technical protocols. Maybe if one system came first, or if by chance it were the most popular, the tables would be turned.

But I feel more strongly that there's design features that make law compliance, traceability and accountability difficult. In the case of trackers perhaps the microservice/object is a simple key-value store, but it is semantically associated with other protocols which have 'noxious' features described above AND are semantically associates with illegal material.
The Fishman pickups are stacked PCBs where each PCB has it's own coil/loop. They are then connected in a way where the polarity reverses from coil to coil so they get hum cancelling even if there is only one "virtual coil".

They've got something else going on inside the circuitry that lets them manipulate the characteristics of the resulting coil as well to get all the different sounds different traditional pickups get.

I don't have a guitar with the Fishman pickups but have tried them and saw a demo from the Fishman team and talked with the product manager, etc.. I live pretty close to their HQ and they came to a school where I was taking lessons years ago.

Very cool stuff, but the thing is there are other much simpler solutions that don't require a battery or computer in the guitar once people can get out of the mindset of "it must be exactly as Gibson or Fender did it in the 50s." Even Leo Fender had come up with a lot of stuff that was a lot better by the time he died that Fender to this day doesn't use but does get used in say G&L guitars.

The whole nonsense of guitarists thinking "it must be just like Fender and Gibson did it in the 50s" limits the market for both the stuff Leo Fender came up with later and stuff like Fishman's novel pickups.
> You are only technically correct

You clearly have no idea how civil liability works. At all.
"The promise of AI put the nail in the coffin"

Statements that are so vague and so casually made as if they were fact simply sends my alarms ringing and makes me question both the intent and the arguments of the writing.

It is and different market, markets change over time. I think that's a non controversial statement.
>We agree that liquid water is wet because we can't find anything (yet) that says liquid water is not wet, it's simple as that and science is ultimately as simple as that.

I find this a weird example of something that has "Enough evidence such that no evidence to the contrary can stand."

"Water is wet" is a definition, not a scientific finding/description.
"Water tends to adhere to, and penetrate, materials." That's sort of a scientific finding.
"We call this condition wet" isn't so much.

Science, by Popper's definition, is something that can be falsified but has not yet been so. If no evidence could contradict our current findings then, by definition, our current findings are not falsifiable.

I realize that I'm quibbling about definitions, I guess I just want to point out that your level of evidence is dangerously close to being a self reinforcing tautology. Similar to how any religion justifies itself.
Nuclear exists.
> The design of IPv6 was intentionally very conservative. To a first level of approximation IPv6 is simply “IPv4 with bigger addresses”.

I don't agree with this take. I think it's actually quite a bit more complex, and this is a large part of the reason adoption has been slow. In retrospect, I think it would have been better off in practice to just literally extend the size of IPv4 addresses, and make it as simple as converting all IPv4 systems to hold a larger address.
I am so hyped for this!

https://factorio.com/blog/post/factorio-space-age-release if you wanted to read from the developers.

It's been so long since I played without mods that I'm looking forward to a "simple" playthrough.
Buddy...the point is really, really not unlimited PTO.

NO ONE treated workers at scale like Google did in earlier decades. It was literally wild and unprecedented.

Engineers for many decades had unprecedented job mobility and bargaining power. Certainly not a bad thing in and of itself, but it's an outlier experience that's ending.

Unfortunately, companies don't organically and spontaneously decide to treat their workers well. Leaders need to fight for it...and most engineering leaders just aren't positioned to right now.
I find LLMs to be much more friendly for very focused topics and mostly accurate. Anything generated, I can go ahead and check with corresponding source-code or official documentation.

In theory, I save immense amount of time daily talking to Claude/4o when I need to ask something quick, but previously had to search at least x4 different search engines and wade through too many SEO spams disappointing me.

Also, the summarizer while a meme at this point is immensely useful. I put anything interesting looking throughout the day into a db, then a cronjob in cloudflare runs and tries to fetch the text content from each link and generates a summary using 4o and then stores it.

Over the weekend, I scroll through the summary of each links saved, if anything looks decently interesting, I will go and check it out and do further research.

In fact, I actually learned about SolidJS from one random article posted in 4th page of HN with few votes and the summary gave enough info for me to go ahead and check SolidJs instead of having to read through the article ranting about ReactJS.
This is more or less issue of team lead. Just assigned wrong task to intern.
This really can't be emphasized enough. Universities and the initial hiring process really optimize for a score and not for learning. Those could be, and sometimes are, correlated, but it isn't necessarily the case.

Really focusing on stretching yourself necessarily means lower grades. Why is that penalized? TBH, in software engineering a lot of people with lower grades tutor the ones with 4.0 averages. The skillsets required to code and the skillsets required to get a good grade on a test are different.
> - No payout liability for the company

Yes, legally. Socially, however, you are just trading real days for however much political capital each individual has.
Developers as people are happiest when productive. A company can say you need to sit in the useless meetings, write the TPS reports, use the shitty desktop, and wait 12 weeks for IT approval to update packages like everyone else because this is the grown up world and you’re not special. This might be a social status regulation play, but crucially it’s not an efficiency or cost saving play. Developers like forward progress and the things they complain about are generally the time wasters.
It depends. A lot of it absolutely is, I've been through a ton of that source.

Low level stuff is mostly c++ to talk to v8 or do system calls, talk to libuv, etc... but even that stuff has a bunch of js to wrap and abstract and provide a clean DX.
I've been calling a crash for far too long so take with a pinch of salt BUT I think another four years of this is very unlikely.

1996 - Cisco was 23.4B or 0.3% of US GDP

2000 - Cisco peaked at 536B or 5.2% of US GDP

2020 - Nvidia was 144B or 0.7% of US GDP

2024 - Nvidia is 3.4T or 11.9% of US GDP

Numbers very rough and from different sources, but I'd be surprised if Nvidia doesn't pop within 1-2 years at most.
I hope you are right, and I think looking at the past there is some truth to this. After the dotcom bubble burst and the 2008 crash, those are the times when a lot of strong engineering-focused tech companies were started.
Writing Examples
That's true of any tools, and most tools that a developer uses (e.g. `grep`) are written in C, C++, or more recently Rust. Or if they want to understand the details of how some part of JS actually works, they'll need to delve into C++. So that requirement already exists.
I suspect that (nearly) all of the supplied software already supports it. Software support for ipv6 is nearly ubiquitous; configuration for ipv6 is the holdup.
This article is a roller coaster of the authors very mixed emotions and thoughts. It hits all the b-school tropes from "workers should be grateful for their employers not the other way around" to "retention is waste" while also saying how valuable engineering is and how the best companies they worked for had leaders that came with the exact mindset being attacked here. Add in a little "see how good of a writer I am" thrown in for flavor. The structured abuse makes the short blips of "I'm trying to help you" feel hollow and tacked on in response to someone's feedback on an early draft.

The funny bit is the article completely understands the problems, it just makes all the wrong conclusions. Aside from a "workers should be property" vibe, the author very clearly identified that modern business leaders think of engineering as magic, aren't taught anything about it in business school, and can't be bothered to learn about it. It is an absolutely bonkers idea that anyone running a software company doesn't need to know even the basic ideas underpinning their software.

Maybe, as an engineer, I have a very different view of what "leadership" is but this gives me the same feeling as an entitled kid inheriting dads business and being angry about the salary of the senior folks that make it work without even stopping to consider why they might make what they make or if it is a good deal.

Unfortunately there are lots of people who think and act this way. The author is right in some ways because of it - there will always be people who see someone getting paid well but don't understand the value of it and their response will be to try to knock them down a peg instead of trying to understand the why.