skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one in a decade will pay top dollar for a slow dev that knows their handwritten code indside out.

But they will have to pay for the dev that can debug years of code that their fleet of prompt engineers cant figure out.

> Its all about scale and speed. Now you can argue that it takes the artisanship out of development but truth is, no one cares.

I think you're correct, the MBAs making decisions won't care, and will choose scale and speed. And so will the AI driven developers, but the actual engineers will care.

> They are not coming for the tech jobs, they are already here. Just get on top of them and youll survive.

I'm not trying to survive, and neither are any of the engineers I respect. We're all well aware of the limitations of AI, and we know it's not coming for our jobs, (not yet anyways... I guess I should give it another quality revolution or so.) We're still preoccupied with trying to thrive. AI isn't a threat to us, but it is a threat to the next generation. It's near impossible to evolve, learn, grow, and adapt if you delegate all the thinking, and understanding about the multiple layers of the system you're working on to the GenAI robit your company is paying for; (instead of paying you that money)
> https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s4097...

> GPTZero was correct in most scenarios where they used basic prompts, and only had one false positive.

One false positive out of only "five human-written samples", unless I'm misreading.

Say 50 papers are checked, with 5 being generated by AI. By the rates of GPTZero in the paper, 3 AI-generated papers would be correctly flagged and 9 human-written papers would incorrectly flagged. Meaning a flagged paper is only 25% likely to actually be AI-generated.

Realistically the sample size in the paper is just far too small to make any real conclusion one way or another, but I think people fail to appreciate the difference between false positive rate and false discovery rate.
Ted Chiang hasn’t published any novels.
That was my original point though — it’s not saying that it’s “like TikTok” or “TikTok for X”, it’s literally saying that it is TikTok.

Edit: The title is “TikTok feed for your clips” so I guess in a literal sense it is describing itself as “TikTok for X”, but I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”. Yeah, that’s just Uber.
Tweetstorm is a terrible medium for these allegations.

What’s the context of this investigation?

Why are some of the figures so vague? Papers and authorship is trivially countable.

Why the focus on tax dollars? Seems designed to appeal to emotion (or politics?)
I know that in general, the flashier a thing is -- that is, the more obvious effort that has been put into a thing's aesthetics -- the less likely that thing is to be great.

My hypothesis is it's because time and money investment was put into aesthetics at the expense of making the product or service better.
Every login I've ever done into the Azure portal is like the upstream describes: an absurd number of redirections and refreshes that leave you wondering "is it supposed to work like that?"

I've also encountered strange bugs, like asking to log into tenant A and getting logged into, instead, tenant B. In a loop, effectively locking me out.

The exact quirks and bugs seem to come and go, I presume as the code is changed & updated.
Analogies are not good for arguments. Most people do not need 4x4.
The intern use case is 50% of the value I get from LLM’s (I refuse to call them AI because they aren’t). The other 50% is as a better stackoverflow where I can look up syntax etc.

Anything that requires a deterministic outcome is not a good use case for them. Anyone who says different is selling snake oil.
Yes absolutely! I used to not care about my title at all, then I immigrated to the USA and suddenly all those "creative technologist" titles from my past didn't seem like such a good idea when I was filling out the visa forms.
It is all in the "what do I get in return right now?" concept.
Reduce pollution is a promise to give back a safer Earth, save climate, make life less painful in future etc. which are all far away and the current generation in power will probably retire long before anything significant extinction level occurs.

AI on the other hand promises immeidate gain(lot of expensive job automation = cost cutting) as well as future return on investment. Like someone said, IT has returns realized quickly in few years, so that is more lucrative than /reducing pollution/.

Also, reducing pollution requires money spent(cost) and everyone is afraid of the cost if it does not promise at least x2-5 minimum return gain immediately(or in few years).
Did your high school not have any kind of summative homework?

In many places, particularly in the U.S., there are few invigilated exams, and quite a lot of your overall grade will be comprised of coursework. This, combined with the inexorable advance of digitalisation of education has led to where we are now.

Certainly once you get to university level, there are projects which simply take too long to be done in the classroom, such as a dissertation or final report. These projects have always been vulnerable to commissioning rather than plagiarism, and you’d be appalled to realise how common it actually is even in higher prestige places. LLMs have simply lowered that bar to make it even more common.

This is a genuine problem, and people are more sophisticated cheaters than you might initially think.
I'm overall very positive on Ubuntu, but snaps was a big misstep in my opinion. When snaps were rolled out, lots of features were no longer working in apps packaged as snaps, or it was at least confusing to users (like file picker suddenly defaulting to some isolated path). For an operating system that always had a big focus on good user experience, this was really mismanaged and prematurely rolled out. And then they decided to force that bad UX on people by pointing apt packages to snaps suddenly, taking away the users choice to not use snap.

The Amazon search lens was also a mistake, but at least it was easy for "regular" users to disable it. About Mir: so long as everything works, regular users wouldn't even notice, which is fine. I don't like the fragmentation in the Linux landscape, but oh well.
OpenId Connect in OCI Kubernetes Engine
This reminds me of The Far Side:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f0/24/0d/f0240d4ff7e3e08700f48d944...
Well, it gets better and worse, with a worsening trend. It's not monotonic, so one can easily point "hey, VS XX is better than VS YY for some XX > YY".
i bet before the internet?
They dumbed down college degrees so that everyone can get one. What did you expect? Can't do that without lowering standards.
1) The paper defines "fake" in this first sentence:

> ‘Fake’ science is either intentionally fabricated-where quantitative elements are invented-or intentionally falsified-where results are dishonestly engineered from real data.

2) The title "How much science is fake?" is clickbaity. The actual assertion of the paper:

> a preliminary approximation is that 1 in 7 published papers have serious errors commensurate with being untrustworthy.

3) The paper is a meta-analysis of 12 other forensic metascience papers. The approximation of 1 in 7 (14%) is an average of estimates derived from those other papers.

4) It's important to note that publishing papers is just one small subset of the massive endeavor that we call science. Moreover, as far as I'm aware, "publish or perish" appears to be a relatively recent historical phenomena of professional academia. We could probably do without many published papers, which exist merely to advance the careers of the authors.

5) In any human endeavor that involves money and/or power—which is almost everything—there will be corruption. It's unavoidable, given human nature. Thus, there's nothing uniquely untrustworthy about science. And science was never intended to be a religion: self-criticism is supposed to be a feature, not a bug, so my personal view is that the open study of fake papers is a sign of health rather than a sign of disease.

6) Is 1 in 7 really that bad? The converse is that 86% of published papers do not have serious errors commensurate with being untrustworthy.
So, just out of interest how close does this get to the performance of redis? It’s interesting to see a highly optimised production product compared to a presumably more trivial implementation I can read in a book. Still this might be a great way to learn rust!
I don't think "OS" means anything definitive. It's not 1960. Nowadays, it's a thousand separate things stuck together.
> Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass.

This is because 100-200 level math courses are not about teaching anything, but about filtering out students who can't do the work. Once you get past that level students have already formed bad habits and so still only do what it takes to pass. I don't know how to fix it, I don't know if it CAN be fixed.
The Secret History is secret in the same sense that "top secret" classified documents are. Only people fairly close to the Yuan Dynasty were intended to have access to it.
I know the "processed food" thing is the heap paradox because the amount of processing isn't naturally a binary, but what are your "let's just substitute a different word here" claims based on?
i think this is cool, i'm happy you did it... i really listen to podcasts for the hosts, though. i think the banter and the personality and the perspective are things that i really enjoy. getting to know people through what they choose to talk about or how they frame things is part of the whole charm.

if i want a fast rundown of HN, i'll read HN. you did make me kind of crave a 15 minute weekdaily "morning news" style podcast with some tech journalists that runs down the most talked about HN posts, though.
The weights just indicate how important each row is to whatever you’re trying to estimate. Sometimes, your datasets will have numeric columns that naturally suggest themselves as weights. Other times, you may have to create weights.

For example, say you run a website like Wikipedia and want to estimate the percentage of page views that go to pages that are dangerously misleading. You have a dataset that contains all of your site’s pages, and you have logs that indicate which pages users have viewed. What you don’t have is a flag for each page that indicates whether it’s “dangerously misleading”; you’ll have to create it. And that’s likely to require a panel of expert human reviewers. Since it’s not practical to have your experts review every single page, you’ll want to review only a sample of pages. And since each page spreads misleading information only to the degree it’s viewed by users, you’ll want to weight each page by its view count. To get those counts, you’ll have to process the site logs, and count how many times each page was viewed. Then you can take a sample of pages weighted by those counts.

That’s a pretty typical scenario. You think about the question you’re trying to answer. You think about the data you have and the data you’ll need. Then you figure out how to get the data you need, hopefully without too much trouble.
On the north shore of the Mediterranean sea Italy got malaria free by removing many swamps and flooded lowlands, quinine and eventually by using DDT. It was a very long effort, more that one century long. Details at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3340992/
I’ve never used Azure, but my kid plays Minecraft (offline), and got forced into using a Microsoft account to login.

From what I can tell, they use it as proving ground for whatever crap they’re going to force on other applications.

After getting it to work on a raspberry pi, I decided I wouldn’t use any logged in Microsoft product in a professional setting.

Anyway, I’m sure they’ll eventually unify GitHub and LinkedIn login the same way they did with Minecraft. At that point, our industry will implode.
> I don't wanna trot out "think of the children" bullshit here but it's hard for me to not notice that this trend has been happening since smartphones became normal and schools have increasingly become utterly toothless with regard to enforcing standards in education, i.e. "you need to know this shit in order to move to the next grade up." Nobody does that anymore. Just fudge the scores with extra credit or make-up assignments and send them up the chain to be a different teacher's problem next year.

I agree in general that we need to have higher standards but that complaint predates smartphones by decades. One of the big challenges here is that consistency was all over the place historically but we have better measurements now and higher expectations for students, and some of the cases where students were allowed to slide were misguided but well-intended attempts to mitigate other problems – for example, many standardized tests had issues with testing things like social norms or English fluency more then subject matter literacy so there’s a temptation to make them less binding when it should be paired with things like improving tests or providing ESP classes so, say, a recent immigrant’s math score isn’t held down by their ability to read story problems.

One other thing I’d keep in mind is that this is heavily politicized and there are massive business conflicts of interest, so it’s important to remember that the situation is not as dire as some people would have you believe. For example, PISA math scores are used to claim Americans are way behind but that’s heavily skewed by socioeconomic status and tracking in some other countries – when you start adjusting for that, the story becomes less that American students as a whole are behind but rather that our affluent kids are okay but we need to better support poor kids.
> They are used to doing the necessary work to pass

The same for job interviews. I did a lot of technical interviews in the past as interviewer (hundreds) for Software Engineer positions (and still help companies to hire sometimes, as independent interviewer).

There is insane amount of cheating. I'd say at least 30% in normal companies are cheaters, and 50% and more in FAANG. I can prove it, in private groups, and forums people share tech assignments. And very large number of these people use some kind of assistance while interviewing.

It's interesting to see how sometimes questions that are intentionally sophisticated are getting solved in a few minutes the best way they can be solved. I see this over and over.
"Engineers have been spoiled rotten for the last two decades[...] employers offered unlimited PTO"

In what world does unlimited PTO spoil engineers? It removes the companies liability for vacation days and shames employees into taking less time off.
If this forces lower student-teacher ratios, even better
$1400 a year in electricity at a high rate of $0.15/kWhr for all 8,760 hours in a year is about 1 kW in power savings. Reality check:

A typical 3-phase 2hp industrial motor [1] is over 85% efficient and typical 10:1 reduction gearbox [2] is 94% efficient, which results in about 3kW power usage and 20% power lost to heat, or approx 0.6 kW. If their motor is 100% efficient, used in a 100%-duty-cycle application, in an area with high electrical costs, and with similar reliability to the standard AC motor, this gives $800 or so in savings per year.

In a more typical application with a 50% operating duty cycle and $0.10/kWhr, and guessing at 96% efficiency for their motor, we're down to maybe $200 per year in savings. Larger (>=5hp) motors can be 91% or higher efficiency bringing savings down even more. I can't imagine how C-Motive will equal the reliability, so any extra maintenance could quickly wipe out the savings.

I would guess that a variable-frequency drive (VFD) on the above AC motor, used to control speed and improve the power factor, would have the same efficiency as their motor controller. So I only looked at the AC motor + gearbox versus the C-motive motor + fluid pump.

[1] - https://www.baldor.com/catalog/CEM3558T-5#tab=%22performance...
[2] - https://www.bostongear.com/ecatalog?page=product&cid=worm_ge...
We have different style. That's OK. Not everyone has to talk like a bureaucrat.
Hey, an outage is better than a hack...right?
Fair, that’s mistaken. But the hint of communism lead to US backed coup in Brazil just like half of the rest of the world. I don’t follow your point about comparison to revolution.
Yeah I didn't really know how to articulate nuance of the sarcasm in my comment, I fully agree it should.

But it's such a massive clusterfuck for Boeing that it seems like MBA programs should be reformed from the ground up.
How would you randomly sample a table without a full table scan? If each row must be equally likely to be sampled you must touch each row.

Unless you know the id range and select N ids ahead of time, then use an index to pull those. But I think the assumption of the article is you can't do that.
> They’re strolling into conversations with their CFOs on ‘productivity’ with developer sentiment surveys in hand.

> Their teams are sitting ducks. It’s painful to watch.
Heh, I'm currently creating something very similar.

A web scraper for blogs and mainly web novels etc and ePub parser that persists the data to database along with categories and tags, and a companion PWA for offline reading to track reading progress on various stories and let me keep multiple versions of the same story (web novels and published epub).
Boids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids
I’m not sure how this decade is any different than the one that preceded it?

The current console generation is 4 years old and it’s at mid-cycle at best.

Games running on modern consoles are visually marginally better than those in the previous generation, and AAA titles are so expensive to develop that consoles will still be the target HW.

I really could not be bothered in updating my 3080…

Have I missed a new “Crysis”?
This is an interesting overview.

Re auto routing: one of the most important tradeoffs is speed at run-time vs. flexibility to bring in new data, such as "live" traffic speeds.

Re public transit routing: RAPTOR (and its variants) is the most commonly used routing algorithm these days.

Even though this paper says OpenTripPlanner uses RAPTOR, it did not in 2015. However, the more recent OpenTripPlanner 2.x version does now use RAPTOR: https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/releases/...

The Transitland Routing API also uses a variant of RAPTOR to provide a hosted transit routing API across the entire United States: https://www.transit.land/documentation/routing-api/
> Nonetheless, for performance C++ code you don’t see much malloc anywhere, directly or indirectly, so the efficiency doesn’t matter that much. That’s pretty idiomatic.

If you compile that code with Fil-C++, then you won't see much (or any) GC overhead. The GC kicks in for three things:

- malloc (this is the main client of the GC)

- stack allocations that aren't escape analyzed (these are rare, typically small, and generate minuscule GC load - it's common for code I've tested to have zero of these)

- Fil-C runtime internal allocations (these are super rare - for example if you call sigaction, pthread_create, setjmp, or dlopen then there's some GC object allocated behind the scenes - but you aren't going to be calling those a lot, and if you are then you've got bigger problems than GC).

I understand your perspective about GC languages. Most GC languages also come with other baggage, which makes it very difficult to avoid the GC. Most C++ code that avoids malloc ends up doing a bunch of `new`s when converted to Java. But C++ code that avoids malloc will avoid the GC if compiled with Fil-C++.
And here I am thinking the rest of the workforce needs to be treated better, rather than using how poorly the rest of the workforce is treated as the ideal example to go by.
Looks like WGS-10 is the closest.

From Wikipedia, it looks like it's a USSF satellite launched in 2019 with a service life of 14 years. It provides wideband communications to DoD customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-291
What counts as an OS is subjective. The concept has always been a growing snowball.
Also the changing of the point goose one guy takes over the lead falls to the back and one of the two of the V behind the main goose takes over.

And they never shut up, plus they are so loud. They're talking about something.
Star Wars: SpaceX vs. AST SpaceMobile
What companies? I’ve never worked for a company that did this.
How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law
I stopped installing adblockers, instead I don't interact with sites with heavy ads. in fact I didn't read op, because there's like a dozen of ads on that theregister page. I realized that I don't lose much. Danny O'Brien coined the term "hinternet", the bad neighborhoods of the internet that normal, non techie people are forced to interact with (this was back when such a distinction still made sense). a lot of internet is hinternet now, even more so than before, and it's almost liberating to aggressively reject it.

(I'm not going full Richard Stallman about it, sometimes I'll suffer the ads for content, I throw many articles into archive.is, which only shows one ad at the bottom, and I think it's worthwhile to support them, etc.)
Around 50% of higher education in the United States is done at community colleges. Tuition accounts for 2/3 of our budget. State subsidy for 1/3. In the past the numbers were reversed. Enrollment in higher education went through a decade long decline. It is now the case that colleges are chasing tuition dollars. Students are the client.
I've had "unlimited PTO" for most of my 15 year career. I've never been able to take at most, 3 weeks off due to the reasons you mentioned.
Being able to just print some simple electronics components would massively simplify iteration and distribution of DIY things, especially as auto-filament changer systems become more accessible. As one example, being able to print a transistor or two and some traces would allow for making projects which embed something like an ESP32 dev board much more compact without having to wait for weeks for custom PCBs to ship from China.

It's always weird to see people making arguments like this on a forum titled "Hacker News"
Agree 100% with this.

One example is if you have multiple subscriptions and you want to select a particular subscription; the UI is so horrendous that even after using it everyday it’s so confusing. It’s such a simple thing that I am sure MSFT implemented it a million times but they just can’t do it in Azure.

It’s the worst of the three cloud providers.

The main reason they are second is because they have a sales org that sells well to naive cto’s.
Does the Coolify allow this use-case?
First-time open-source contributor: my pull requests were merged
Last week, I made my first-ever pull requests to two different open-source projects that I've been using for a while in my work. Today, I received notifications that both of my contributions were accepted and merged into the main products. It's a great feeling knowing that the improvements I suggested are now available to tens of thousands of developers.

It's a cool way to deliver value, not just through my own products, but by contributing to tools that the broader community relies on.
The topic is good software and you mention Visual Studio?
Say the same thing for automated spell check or the little blue grammar highlight built in to Google Docs and I'll buy it.
I think this varies dramatically from subject to subject. CS students at my university probably had overall 70% weighting on invigilated exams, but classics or business students probably had only 20% weighting and far fewer exams.
> Companies should be constantly worried about retention across all their positions and have to treat their employees well because of it.

Some large ones went the other way with collusion and undocumented "blacklists".
Yes I use Martin and DeckGL, great way to serve postgis data as fast viz.