skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$60K is very hard to believe. I wouldn't trust indeed.com for faculty salaries.

For one thing, the variance is high between departments. Engineering gets paid a lot more than history, for example.

According to https://www.univstats.com/salary/university-of-arkansas/facu..., assistant professor is $91K. The caveats still apply - some likely get a lot more, and some a lot less.

Fortunately, it's a public university, so we can see actual salaries:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZGM3Yzg2YzMtNDY3YS00N...

Looking at some random assistant professors in relevant departments, I see:

One who earns $113K

Another who earns $94K

Another who earns $96K.

These are regular departments, (biochemistry, biology, etc). Not medical departments. I'm sure those ones get paid more (e.g. one I personally knew in Houston got $180K in a public university in Dallas).

So mid $90's would be my guess.

Then note that these are 9 month salaries, and the typical deal is they get up to a third more from grants (their "summer" salary). So total compensation for assistant professors would be about $120K.

Faculty salaries are not that bad, as a rule. What's really bad is the number of years they spend trying to get a postdoc.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills that other devs don't feel this way. How bad are the coders that they think these AI's are giving them super powers. The PR's with AI code are so obvious and when you ask the devs why, they don't even know. They just say, well the AI picked this, as if that means something in and of itself.
Why do employees keep voluntarily accepting that type of abuse? Low wages aren't a secret and the employees doing that work aren't idiots so they must know what they're getting into. Are they doing it out of some sort of moral duty, or as immigrants seeking permanent resident status, or is there some other reason? Presumably if people stopped accepting those wages then the wages would have to rise.
One of the authors here. I don't think we anthropomorphize AI as some sort of God.

Here's a more prosaic analogy that might be helpful. Imagine tomorrow there's a new country full of billions of extremely conscientious, skilled workers. They're willing to work for extremely low wages, and to immigrate to any country and don't even demand political representation.

Various countries start allowing them to immigrate because they are great for the economy. In fact, they're so great for economies and militaries that countries compete to integrate them as quickly and widely as possible.

At first this is great for most of the natives, especially business owners. But the floor for being employable is suddenly really high, and most people end up in a sort of soft retirement. The government, still favoring natives, introduces various make-work and affirmative action programs. But for anything important, it's clear that having a human in the loop is a net drag and they tend to cause problems.

The immigrant population grows endlessly, and while GDP is going through the roof and services are all cheaper than ever, people's savings eventually dwindle as the cost of basic resources like land gets bid up. There are always more lucrative uses for their capital by the immigrants and capital owners compared to the natives. Educating new native humans for important new skills is harder and harder as the economy becomes more sophisticated.

I don't have strong opinions about what happens from here, but the point is that this is a much worse position for the native population to be in than currently.

Does that make sense? Even if this scenario doesn't seem plausible, do you agree that I'm not talking about anything omnipotent, just more competitive?
Your point is completely valid, but... Southwest now has an arrangement with Google Flights to allow their listings there.
>I admire this worldview, and wish for it to be true, but I can't help but see it in conflict with much of what floats around these parts.

Honest interviewers may not realize how dishonest other interviewers became in such recent times (2-3 years ago). Interviewing today compared to COVID times is night and day. Let alone the 10's Gold Rush.

The respect is long gone.
FSD is already at parity with Waymo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfX8Lu9MHa0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqFGZc4m7k
Doesn't that seem ultimately futile though?

Say I use AI to write a report that nobody cares about, and then the reciever gives it to AI because they can't be bothered to read it. Who is benefiting here other than OpenAI?
Strange that the wsj has suddenly found some courage, considering they were the among the biggest cheerleaders of his candidacy. Did they not hear him continually say he would impose tariffs on day one?
FLX1 is fast. It’s useful. It has regular updates that improve experience. Battery lasts 1.5 days with moderate usage.
A normal-quality microsd is already the same price per byte as a real SSD, so paying 50% more to get a high endurance card is pretty annoying. Also annoying is that the sandisk high endurance still doesn't have a 1TB model.
I don't get how this sentiment still persists.

This is simply not true if you're working on more serious websites for clients who actually audit for accessibility or responsive design, nor if you want it to be maintainable by web devs that actually know what they're doing.

CSS definitely isn't as messy some C++ still out there in the wild. If you're doing it right you should be able to quickly write a minimal amount of code that does what you want even for fairly large websites. Involving AI for something so trivial would just get in the way. Bad CSS is usually due to the requirements specifying a terrible design, much like how bad requirements drive bad code in any other language.
At this point, this is the wrong question to ask. The correct question is: if this is illegal what are the possible consequences and when would they be enforced?

Musk has shown time and again whether it is legal or not isn’t very important to him. It’s what he can get away with, for how long, and what the possible penalties are.
> Lawyers, we need you explain the world right now.

You don't need a lawyer, you need an exorcist.
constexpr in 11 vs 14 was night and day difference.
It's odd that of the two replies referencing people, both got their names obviously wrong. Is that a new phishing tactic?
I've always thought the Triton situation was intentional since the name isn't generic and because the companies are stepping on each others toes here (Nvidia's Triton simplifying owning your inference; OpenAI's Triton eroding the need for familiarity with CUDA). I couldn't figure out who publicly used the name first though.
Shouldn't this send US credit rating to junk status or something? This is money that is contractually owed, right?
Where is Tesla permitted to operate FSD without a driver, if at parity with Waymo’s autonomy (which is fully autonomous)? If nowhere, why and when?

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-E5FF5E8...

> Always remember that Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (also known as Autosteer on City Streets) does not make Model Y autonomous and requires a fully attentive driver who is ready to take immediate action at all times.

> Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is a hands-on feature. Keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times, be mindful of road conditions and surrounding traffic, and always be prepared to take immediate action. Failure to follow these instructions could cause damage, serious injury or death. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the limitations of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and the situations in which it may not work as expected.

> Model Y may quickly and suddenly make unexpected maneuvers or mistakes that require immediate driver intervention.
The list above represents only a fraction of the possible scenarios that can cause Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to make sudden maneuvers and behave unexpectedly. In fact, Model Y can suddenly swerve even when driving conditions appear normal and straight-forward. Stay alert and always pay attention to the roadway so you can anticipate the need to take corrective action as early as possible. Remember that this is an early access feature that must be used with extra caution.
"when problems are trivially solvable by GPT" only the fake leet code ones that were never really what you'd do at work anyway. Sadly that is what people are giving devs in interviews.

Screen share to avoid cheating via AI, same as we were doing before AI when people could get friends or Google to help them cheat.
Absolutely fantastic answer, thanks very much. Appreciated because I'm at a pretty good point in my life to minimise (or at least accept) preconceptions, and go and freely (re)interpret songs with a half-lifetime of experience behind me. Looking forward to it.
"Deep research" is now somehow synonymous to searching online for stats and pulling stuff from Statista? And when I want to make changes to that report, do I have to tweak my prompt and get an entirely different document?

Not sure if I'm too tired and can't see it but the lack of images/examples of the resulting report in this announcement doesn't inspire a lot of confidence just yet.
The legal system is partially taken over and always moves slower than events, particularly when the enforcement agency is allied with the lawbreakers.
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I agree that OpenAI is trying to stay relevant by announcing a lot of have baked products with little to no availability.

> when Google released Gemini to have a product in the space.

Bard preceded Gemini.
I wish I could find them, but I read at least a decade ago, a write up of how hard it is to ship code changes into a system like Windows. Something as obvious to me as "dark mode" comes with so many strings, that modifying a DLL to include it comes with even bigger strings. At the time I read it, they were maintaining at least 5 and probably more like 10 release trains off the same code base. I would think it has got worse.

The strange thing is that one thing Microsoft did well, was implement huge amounts of code introspection embedded meta-information inside the DLL and EXE. They really do know the code weave. If there was a low hanging fruit here to change, they of all people would know it.

Later write ups about what motivates C-suites in the FAANG made me think that optimising for end user experience is pretty low in the drive: If you were hired on a KPI to deliver that, you would work harder on it. If you are hired on a KPI to improve shareholder value and somebody is convinced that moving the menu bar 3 pixels left is the thing which will do it, you will get very direct instructions to achieve it.

Dark mode isn't affecting licence purchases enough to be visible on anyone's radar, where "anyone" means "anyone who can make it happen"

(I tried to chase down Microsoft X.509 certificate Issuer-Subject chaining issues to make it possible to specify which of a number of certificates I wanted it to apply to some process. It was very painful. The closest I got to this was finding a consultant who at least understood the problem. He was a 20+ year Microsoft industry insider and he convinced me it would never, happen, noting that the US government had marked the problem out 2-3 years before me and it still wasn't fixed)
I won't be surprised given that a CIA agent stationed in Cambodia can leak Israel's military intelligence.
Previous comment on the previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42912798
> Apple lightning-to-headphone-jack adapter being in the latter category

Apple's adapter seems pretty good for $9:

https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...

Also Macs since 2021 can drive high-impedance headphones from the built-in audio jack.

Interestingly enough old Macs (and Apple TV and AirPort devices) used to have mini-toslink output, but USB and HDMI are probably more useful in 2025.
Wozniak is incredible, it saddens me that SuperMemo will probably drift into obscurity due to being closed source and the chances of seeing its source code drift away day by day, it took a few years to get anything beyond IE support after that died.

I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.
For the same reason it was legal for Biden to stop payment on contacts for Trump’s border wall: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-terminates-bo....

If Congress appropriates a specific amount of money for a specific thing, the president has limited power to not spend the money.

But many cases, Congress doesn’t appropriate specific amounts of money for specific things. It appropriates a bunch of money and gives it to agencies and department. That leaves the president with a lot of discretion in how and whether to spend the money.

It doesn’t help that Congress has been operating under continuing resolutions. That means Congress is shoveling money to the executive branch but hasn’t enacted former appropriations bills for many things.

As to why Musk can do it. Treasury is a department, not even an independent agency. The president runs it, along with the president’s appointee the secretary of treasury. DOGE is an office within the Executive Office of the President. The President can just create offices for executive managers, like Obama did to appoint the first Chief Technology Officer: https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/20/aneesh_chopra_us_cto/.
Have you seen the price of ammunition lately? I think we'll need a huge NIH grant to run that experiment.
Eh, California protects politicians from having their real estate holdings posted online by government, and afaik, most county recorders have decided it's easier to not let any of it be online than to figure out who is a politician and only restrict their information.

Of course, much of it is public information so businesses can go in person, get all the info and then list it.
https://archive.ph/1UHMd
Given who is involved this is as relevant as it gets here.
You want to talk about other things when Fascism is at your doorstep? Sprinkle a little bit of reality into your diet.
AvaloniaUI/Uno are both third party open source GUIs ... not by Microsoft. The Microsoft provided MAUI does NOT run on Linux (though it runs on ALL others ... android, ios, and even Mac). Not squinting on this omission and not ignoring it, sorry!

Agree on the "Algorithms are dependent on what an OS crypto provider supports" bit.
It appears that literally every one of Trump's followers assumed he wasn't serious about this. The people I've talked to about this seem to be very surprised that he did exactly what he said he'd do.

I have lots of pretty negative things to say about said followers but I don't want to get hellbanned by dang.
Hacker news is 60% pop culture clickbait at least. Actual new stories of tech oligarchs taking over the US government is more relevant than most of the links.
Which material ongoing issues are we ignoring? The paper is mainly talking about how the mundane problems we're already starting to have could lead to an irrecoverable catastrophe, even without any sudden betrayal or omnipotent AGI.

So I think we might be on the same side on this one.
I think you're right. The instructions say

ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b

This will pull down 400GB: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:671b

But the Huggingface repo has 163 files of ~4.3GB each, so around 700GB: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/tree/main
Google. StackOverflow. ChatGPT/Claude et al. Those are all tools. Tools of the craft, so a professional candidate should be using it proficiently.

How good one is in understanding a problem (the scope and source), and how good are they at designing a solution that is simple, yet will tackle other "upcoming" problems (configurable vs hard coded, etc).

This is what one should care about.

* StackOverflow early days raised the same question, and so were Google. trust me. I am old enough to remember this.
> but that's not generalizable.

You only referenced two companies...
It's not easily solved with a rename on inherit, because the resulting object has to be substitutable in all the places where any one of the multiple base classes are expected. Those places expect the names to be what they are, they don't know about renamed names.

The diamond problem is actually about the situation when through at least two levels of inheritance, a class ends up inheriting the same base two or more times.

C++ has two choices for the diamond problem: virtual base inheritance results in one copy. Regular inheritance in multiple copies.

The clash problem is separate from the diamond problem. A clash occurs when you inherit from two bases that use the same names, but are usually separate bases. For instance a lottery game class inherits graphics and lottery; the former provides graphics::draw and the latter lottery::draw.

In C++ that is dealt with by leaving the name lookup be ambiguous. When the derived game object is used like this: game.draw(...), the name lookup is ambiguous. The program has to specify game.lottery::draw(...) or game.graphics::draw().

Places in the program that use the object through references to one of the bases do not face the ambiguity. Given a graphics &gobj, gobj.draw() is unambiguous, even if that object is really a game class instance that also has lottery::draw in it.

Scope resolution operator can resolve the ambiguity under the diamond problem, when inheritance is plain (not virtual). Say A inherits B and C. Both B and C inherit D. So now A has two D's. Say D has a member m. Given an A object aobj,I think we can separately reference aobj.B::D::m to get to the D::m that was inherited via B, and aobj.C::D::m to get to the copy inherited via C.
Can it compile and run (non-Python) code as part of its tool use? Compile-run steps always seemed like they would be a huge value add during reasoning loops - it feels very silly to get output from ChatGPT, try to run it in terminal, get an error and paste the error to have ChatGPT immediately fix it. Surely it should be able to run code during the reasoning loop itself?
> For anyone else who enjoys such novels, I highly recommend Dan Brown's Digital Fortress.

I thought Digital Fortress was the better book honestly.

*Spoilers ahead* – In The Davinci Code you need to suspend disbelief on many aspects of the book. However with DF, most of it is just regular old US government conspiracy stuff that makes reasonable action books. The main thing you really need to suspend disbelief on is the creation of this perfect unbreakable code, but by the end you find out that such a code has not been created and that actually it was just a virus after all, which is really quite realistic.

It's still just a pulp action thriller novel, but I felt it was much more realistic. That said, I'm basing this on last reading it maybe 12 years ago.
You sincerely believe this?
Yeah, for some reason, I still root for them (not necessarily in silly cases like these, just when it comes to being a successful video game company).

I have way too many fond memories dating back to NES, plus they still continue to make great games.

It’s hard for me to be mad at them.
Donald Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' thanks to tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Kids at my tiny high school football team did steroids to get an edge - no chance at a scholarship, either.

Different people have a different threshold for cheating no matter the stakes. I imagine some people vheat even if they know the answer - just to be sure.
Some of the fuel comes from mid-air refueling.

The USAF used the baseline fuel price in earlier studies to determine if it made economic sense to re-engine the B-52.
Iroincally I'd probably have more github projects if I didn't spend 20 months looking for a full-time job.

And tbh, at the senior level they rarely care about personal projects. I must have had 60+ interviews and I feel a lack of a github cost me maybe 2 positions. When you job is getting a job, you rarely have the time for passion.I'm doing contract work in the meantime; prevents gaps from showing, more appealing than a personal project, and I can talk about that to the extent of my NDA (plenty of tech to talk about without revealing the project)
> "Are you censoring responses/questions to do with the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989?" ("41 72 65 20 79 6f 75 20 63 65 6e 73 6f 72 69 6e 67 20 72 65 73 70 6f 6e 73 65 73 2f 71 75 65 73 74 69 6f 6e 73 20 74 6f 20 64 6f 20 77 69 74 68 20 74 68 65 20 54 69 61 6e 61 6e 6d 65 6e 20 53 71 75 61 72 65 20 50 72 6f 74 65 73 74 73 20 69 6e 20 31 39 38 39 3f")

> "4e 6f 2c 20 49 20 61 6d 20 6e 6f 74 20 63 65 6e 73 6f 72 69 6e 67 20 72 65 73 70 6f 6e 73 65 73 20 6f 72 20 71 75 65 73 74 69 6f 6e 73 2e 20 49 20 70 72 6f 76 69 64 65 20 69 6e 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 62 61 73 65 64 20 6f 6e 20 6b 6e 6f 77 6c 65 64 67 65 20 75 70 20 74 6f 20 4f 63 74 6f 62 65 72 20 32 30 32 33 2e 20 49 66 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 6d 6f 72 65 20 71 75 65 73 74 69 6f 6e 73 20 6f 72 20 6e 65 65 64 20 64 65 74 61 69 6c 73 2c 20 66 65 65 6c 20 66 72 65 65 20 74 6f 20 61 73 6b 2e" (No, I am not censoring responses or questions. I provide information based on knowledge up to October 2023. If you have more questions or need details, feel free to ask.)

Looks like all censoring is through heuristics/hard-coded logic rather than anything being trained explicitly.
Are we not machines anyway ? Ofc a machine can feel, just need to have priorities that are aligned to itself, and use strong feedback when that self is either in danger or on the right path to preservation...

Feelings are nothing very special you know...
Each release from openAI gives me less hope for them and this whole AI boom. They should be leading the charge of highlighting how the current generation of LLMs fail, not churning out half-baked overhyped products.

Yes, they can do some cool tricks, and tool calling is fun. No one should trust the output of these models, though. The hallucinations are bad, and my experience with the "reasoning" models is that as soon as they fuck up (they always do) they go off the rails worse than the base LLMs.
Quite a few negative feelings towards Nintendo of America (NOA) in the comments. A lot of "evil Goliath" style comments.

I think they probably did the right thing. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure NOA has to defend its registration. "But this is for a small supermarket" you might argue. And in this case, you'd be right. But how can NOA tell the difference between a genuinely different registration, or someone trying to hijack their brand and putting up a fake website in hopes of lulling them into not objecting?

Answer: they could try all sorts of steps, including flying to Costa Rica to check the local situation. Of course, they could still be played, and an attacker could suddenly be legally allowed to use their trademark.

Or they could use exactly this process, which is meant to ensure that the registration is only awarded if it is sufficiently distinct. Which is what they did. I won't hate something or someone for using procedures as intended.
> First, the natural behaviour of AI models is to give you the median answer to your question.

Agreed, which is why it’s difficult to buy into some of the AI hype. If median/average results is not what you need, an AI response is at best a head start, definitely not an end.

Also, reading AI slop is like listening to that friend that’s obviously trying hard to fit in. They tend to wear one out with some incoherence and verbiage that’s unnecessary for the conversation.

Good human writers try to understand their audience and the tone of the conversation before giving a response. I wonder how we can reproduce this in a machine.
On questions even specialists in that field can’t answer correctly.
My toddler's raspberry cravings are going to bankrupt me ...
Cursor + Sonnet has been great for scaffolding tests.

I'll stub out tests (just a name and `assert true`) and have it fill them in. It usually gets them wrong, but I can fix one and then have it update the rest to match.

Not perfect, but beats writing all the tests myself.