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Tell HN: Title: The UC Berkeley Job Market Meltdown–What No One Wants to Admit
I work in administration at UC Berkeley, and I need to say this: something is deeply broken.

For years, Berkeley’s Computer Science program was a direct pipeline to top-tier tech jobs. Didn’t matter if you were just "above average"—if you made it through, you'd land a solid job with a great salary. But now? I’m watching some of the most brilliant students, the ones with perfect 4.0 GPAs, prestigious internships, and research experience, graduate with nothing. No offers. No interviews. Just radio silence.
Professors are noticing it too. Students who should be drowning in job offers are instead emailing their advisors in a panic: “What do I do now?” “Should I apply for grad school?” “Was this all a waste?”

And here’s the part that really scares me—this isn’t just a temporary downturn. The people who should know what’s going on—our faculty, career services, recruiters—have no answers. They just keep telling students to “network more” or “apply to startups.” But those startups? They’re laying people off too.
The harsh reality is that a UC Berkeley CS degree is no longer a ticket to job security. The system that promised students a clear path to success is breaking down, and the people in charge are too scared to admit it.

I don’t know how this plays out, but I do know this: If you’re a student banking on a Berkeley degree to guarantee your future, you need a backup plan. Because the old rules don’t apply anymore.

The question is—what happens when the smartest students in the country realize the system has failed them?

https://archive.ph/PMb00
Contact Professor James O'Brien
Dad needs to look up survivorship bias.
Even if the aliasing were not forbidden by default by the compiler, aliasing in Ada would have caused problems more seldom than in a programming language that allows the programmer to specify whether parameters are passed by reference.

The compiler may choose to pass by value the "in out" parameters in which case their aliasing may have no effect ("in out" parameters that are passed by value, typically in order to be passed in registers, are loaded upon function entry and stored back upon function exit).

In Rust, C or any other language with parameters passed by reference, you can always alias 2 parameters passed by reference, unless the language defines that as an error that must be caught at compile-time or at run-time. Usually aliasing will lead to errors if at least one of the 2 parameters is modified inside the function.

Because of this, aliased parameters which may be modified inside a function and which are not allowed explicitly shall always be flagged as an error.
We know how they're trained. We know the architecture in broad strokes (amounting to a few bits out of billions, albeit important bits). Some researchers try to understand the workings and have very very far to go.
Show HN: Fuckingsearch.com, search Google without AI Overviews
i saw last week that if you include a curse word in your Google search query it won't serve an AI overview, serves less ads, and less "zero click" Google properties.

so I made a little tool to help facilitate this search, saving you literally hundreds of microseconds!
Really impressed this site is still running. They'll have what you want https://formats.kaitai.io/
The popularity of Rust has caused a lot of people to start taking safety more seriously. Ada is the safety language for everything except memory and thread safety (they're pretty safe still, but not completely like in Rust).

I think some of it also comes from the number of new programming languages that have come out over the last few years. It's common for people to point at Ada as a reference for how to address problems that come up in C-like languages since Ada already solved so many problems in the 80's.
I mean, Luke Farritor used some variety of AI to translate ancient scrolls and won an award for it:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-u...
IDK, I'd rather have a language that compiles to native code, isn't quite as write-only as that, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, even when using a DB.
I've not had luck with selecting a position with my mouse in a terminal shell, but arrow keys is rarely a problem.

Old enough terminal or old enough host, sure, there can be some fighting involved. Of course, working in those conditions, sometimes backspace doesn't work either and you have to hit ctrl-H like an animal.

But I haven't had issues with that lately.
Mobile Air Quality Monitoring
Does OpenAI have similar data available to compare to?
Can you suggest how this can be independently validated?
You don't have to use npm at all.

Isn't this the same with any language ecosystem where you opt to use the package manager?
I am inclined to agree. If you’re at the precipice of automating or transforming knowledge work and the value for being the first is nearly infinite (due to “flywheel effects”), why would you dedicate any energy to studying the impact of AI on jobs directly? The thesis is everything changes.

I think AI in its current iteration is going to settle into being like a slightly worse version of Wikipedia morphed with a slightly better version of stackoverflow.
measles will kill people, and did. a lot.

the flu did too, but most people make it through okay. low risk.

can't be bothered, esp. since it's usually something you have to inquire about, wait for, and it involves a needle.
No, but I know people who have read them and they're highly recommended.
You might be right. I don’t know if new professions will appear though. My guess is that people will transition to those existing fields that are less likely to be dominated by AGI.

Tech has already disrupted industries like travel agencies, print journalism, video stores, bookstores, stock brokers, movies, etc.

And you can see it coming for truck drivers, cab drivers, narrators and voice actors, etc.

So we’ve already lived through a taste of it, but this round will be much broader and much faster IMO.
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The LLM religious zealots here on HN are starting to annoy me.
AI and the Mag 7. What will be the ROI on AI spend?
You might also be interested in this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/best : Highest-voted recent links

And this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active : Most active current discussions

And this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments : Highest-voted recent comments
He also bought it without test driving one. Not the best judgment. Now I love my Tesla as much as when I bought it 3 years ago, but with it being my first EV I treaded as carefully as I could. I booked multiple test drives for the Tesla as well as for other EV brands before taking the plunge.
Anecdotal evidence says that there is less variance in the German made ones.

The others are a lottery. You might get a perfect one or you might get one where the doors barely close
Here are the ones that stood the test of time for me:

Joystick games

- Adventure

- Frogger

- Frogs and Flies

- Surround (fun with 2 player)

- Turmoil

- Joust

- Dragonfire

- Pitfall and Pitfall II

- Stampede (really good Activision game)

- Towering Inferno

- Space War (think Asteroids but 2 player combat)

- Combat (the brown levels with ricochet bullets are super fun)

Paddle games

- Astroblast (can use joystick but 10x better with paddles)

- Video Olympics (this is a 70s pong console in Atari cart form and has 4 player games)

- Warlords (fun with multiplayer)

Supercharger games

- Dragonstomper (if you like RPGs)
They are not considered experts in their fields. They are not senior in their fields, so that criteria is already off the table, eg, how to deal with legacy, production, and high sensitivity systems in regulated environments. (There are COBOL servers there!) Data science and accounting are fields too, so not sure why that is ignored. So that leaves junior criteria. I taught in one of the depts of one of 'the better' ones, and his peers are publicly lauding him with laughable examples of 'excellence' -- nowhere close to examples we use for describing top students.

They sound like regular A/B-grade CS students: unproven new grads. Motivated and high-energy, yes, which is sensible for a junior low-trust role if they pass other basics like references and criminal checks. At our current company, we would not have hired several of them in our entry roles due to the obvious issues that our routine diligence would surface (in recent work history: associating with criminals & criminal orgs, repeat googleable public displays of racism, etc). And the rest, for likely not being at the level of top students applying to us, irrespective of evaluating on academics vs DIY. Their examples would need to be significantly more compelling to change the conversation.
Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No
yeah it's airplanes and not people refusing vaccines, not wearing masks, not staying home (or working remotely) when sick
That is the fundamental problem with trying to project property rights onto ideas. Capitalism works fine for distributing scarce goods and resources, but information and software are both public goods.

In a reasonable world, we would be imposing high taxes on all LLMs and using that money to fund grants for future writers and artists. It would be good for the LLM makers in the long run, since it would give them more fuel for their models, and it would be good for the artists and writers because it would provide sustainable, reliable wages.

Unfortunately, that isn't the world we live in. LLM makers don't seem to care about the impact they will have on society or even their own livelihoods, as long as they get rich today. And in addition to all the regulatory capture, we are having our governments gutted on the mere fear that they might do their job and prevent the wholesale looting of society by these new robber-barons.

So with the economically-optimal approaches off the table, we have to fall back on imposing false scarcity in the hopes that maybe capitalism can limp along.
You said:

> In similar cases I couldn't find a machine with identical hardware to a 5 year old computer without spending way more money than this was worth.

> Even if I did the only way to get an accurate comparison would be to wipe both machine and install an OS from scratch so that they are running the same software--the customer doesn't want us to do such an invasive procedure.

Then you said:

> Benchmarks were part of every standard diagnosis, not just the weird cases.

So, you had a base objective measure, so why did you say that you could only measure it if you had a clean computer? You could install a fresh hard drive, boot into a PE and demonstrate to the customer its not slow, etc, so many things.

And then:

> Of course, but the entire point of that story is that people can have different subjective experiences of the same objective truth.

I am not trying to be a dick, but it seems more like the story was contrived to give your analogy some armor.
>If you are doing something remotely non-trivial, you will need the customization that only ProseMirror provides, and you will learn that the hard way.

As far as I know Meta's Lexical [1] (used by Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram) is goes also a similar direction: customizable, but it takes time to get used to it.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/lexical
> ... some types of advertisements need to be highly regulated ...

I truly detest advertising and have been avoiding it with a passion for about 20 years through adblocking, aggressive unsubscribing, etc. But regulating advertising is only a quick fix to a much more dangerous problem of user disempowerment.

For tech-savvy people, most ads can be blocked, that is, until you insist on using proprietary software to access social media platforms or stream movies or stuff like that. DRM is the ultimate enemy here.

While the regulation of advertising is very quick, it is also quickly abolished if decision makers change. Regulation around user choice and user empowerment along with media literacy is a much more sustainable and more robust solution than regulation of specific ad types, places, messages or genres. (I'm thinking of the policy templates for regulating alcoholic beverages or sugary products in the EU.)

We see the fragility of the content-wise regulatory approach in parts of the US where online gambling has been legalized. I cannot find the article now, but this policy change led to an absurd amount of advertising, to which consumers were extremely vulnerable.

Advertising would not have been such an effective shortcut into the brains of so many consumers if those consumers had had the freedom, tools and education to easily decide what kind of advertising they want to be exposed to (and what kind of accompanying tracking they find tolerable).
Reduce that thing with immediate alacrity.
I upvote the motion
The problem with MySQL foreign key constraints in Online Schema Changes (2021)
I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO.

Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml file of "-//ISO-HTML User's Guide//DTD ISO-HTML Preparation//EN" doctype per ISO 15445:2000 recommendations[0]. This is all processed with osgmlnorm through a somewhat simple Makefile to generate the resulting HTML files.

[0] https://rogerprice.org/15445/UG.html#DOCPREP
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/18/harvard-endowm...

I think they are OK.
They have loads of money and would have more if they had not alienated some of their most generous donors.
Eurostar trains had security checks ~10 years ago. Not sure about now but I can't imagine they've stopped.
> But if you own the landfill does it not mean you own everything in there as well?

What I'm saying is that there are laws about that.

People throw away sensitive stuff, ranging from letters, documents, photos to used condoms. Do you suggest we allow individuals and companies to buy this stuff and collect the information without any laws?

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/p1pi5n/gmen/
I think there is a lot of people who just look up to rich people, no matter what. There is a strong cult of personality around Trump and Musk.

One of the interesting things is watching my upvote count change in this discussion. It reliably goes up during EU time and then goes back down during US time. It's amazing.
2000 is a massive sample assuming it's reasonably representative - far larger than you'd see in an average e.g. election poll. Statistics can be counter-intuitive. The surveys are also generally carried out by survey companies, not the first parties.

You can corroborate these data pretty much anywhere and everywhere. For a silly one I dug up here's [1] PewdiePie in 2016 talking about already seeing a 40% adblock rate as reflected by a non-scientific poll but also in his revenue stats, up from 10%-15% in past years. And it's certainly way higher now - obviously though that sample is going to trend young and probably technically above average.

But really, the thing about ad-blocking is that it's the ultimate in viral tech. Anytime I meet somebody who's not using ad-block I tend to introduce them to the Brave browser and the result like 99.9% of the time is 'omg I didn't even know this was possible.' Those are now people who will probably never go without ad-blocking again and some percent of whom will likely then go on to introduce others to it. There is literally no downside to using an ad-blocker and a million upsides. People just simply don't know about them and/or think they're somehow difficult to use.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044704/https://pewdie.tu...
This is another doomposting troll similar to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999774
At first I thought of this as a hilarious website that just makes a point.

But ... this is surprisingly useful and google looks way better this way.
If you're interested in manipulating PDFs, I've found QPDF [0] to be a useful tool. Its "QDF mode" lays out the objects in a form where you can directly edit them, and it can automatically fix up the xref table afterwards. It can also convert to and from a JSON format that you can manipulate with your own scripts.

[0] https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf, https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
"daycare is spending $900/month with the only return being a new and novel virus infecting your family weekly"
> trust my judgment and buy what I ask, or you'll also make great savings on my salary

Baloney. I've seen tons of developers claim they need top-of-the-line everything, even if after some point it has no improvement on their productivity. And why not? I don't blame them, I'd want the "256 GB RAM, 36 CPU" beast the other commenter mentioned, too, even if I didn't need it.

I'm not at all saying this has to be an adversarial conversation. But, as people who like to call ourselves software "engineers", I don't at all understand the pushback to at least offering some sort of analytical justification when asking a business to spend gobs of money.
Sure. That's why --help and man and info exist, along with the volumes of online and printed documentation. The Unix/Linux shell and command line tools have to rank near the top of most-documented software in use.

When I wrote "skills issue" I had in mind the mentality that equates learning the standard tools, mastering the environment, and always improving skills with a waste of time, a few minutes or hours diverted from pasting together API calls or prompting an LLM. I have watched programmers spend hours setting up color schemes and fonts in their IDE, and then complain that they can't remember a flag for grep.

Years ago I worked at a software company where everyone used the Eclipse IDE. I tried it but it felt too slow and buggy, so I fell back to my usual vim in the terminal. Every week or so the team came to a halt when Eclipse got an update to the Subversion SCM plugin (this happened before git took over). Eclipse would have a version of Subversion incompatible with the version on the servers, causing the team to stop to deal with that. I used svn from the command line, same version as the server, so I could keep working. Eclipse broke down so often I couldn't understand the team-wide devotion to it. And they made fun of my "arcane" and obsolete workflow. Now I work with teams who use VSCode and I see the same kind of thing play out -- plugin updates that break the whole environment, weird problems from the bowels of npm that no one can figure out. And they tell me they don't have time to learn vim.
It appears you accidentally linked to log where someone fell on his keyboard.
I don't care because I am very intentional about the fact that I present myself as transparently as possible, it is certainly not comfortable to do so, and there is a very large part of my mind that is set on the notion that someone will put me on a list of nazi's or try to get me fired or something because I dissented against the mainstream ideology.

Please don't mistake the courage to speak up as being easy, because it's really not, it's deeply uncomfortable and a quite scary.

It's fair to liken my experiences to others, I don't think that anyone shouldn't be permitted to share anecdotes. However the major differing factor here is that there are intentional support networks along with a social understanding that we should be sympathetic to the anecdotes of women. Unintentionally that forces out the anecdotes of men. Perhaps because unscrupulous men use them as bad faith attacks to drown out conversations that women needed to have in the past- however given than there were 8 workshops explicitly for women in gaming last year in my building and 2 for any other kind of gaming (meaning women were permitted to attend 100% of the workshops and I was permitted to attend 20%), they definitely have a space to express their anecdotes.

If anyone is drowning them out, it's a fringe minority.
My Ada is somewhat weak, but IIRC Value2 doesn't alias Value1. The parameters don't work like C. It's more like an assignment once the function returns, although the compiler is free to deviate from that.
> I feel like every time I look at JavaScript it’s different .

So much truth in this. It's amazing that JS has managed to survive (even thrive!) in spite of the constant fundamental backwards-breaking changes every few cycles. Maybe that speaks to the lack of web based alternatives than anything else.
Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation whose governance is very different from a typical company in that it doesn’t put shareholder ROI above all else. A majority of its board seats are reserved for people who hold no equity whatsoever and whose explicit mandate is to look out for humanity.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust

https://time.com/6983420/anthropic-structure-openai-incentiv...
There were already videos before when skydiver jumped into the plane in mid-flight
Krazam Unfiltered [Podcast with Ben Burke) [video]
Shiiiit, it does removed more ads and that AI bullshit. Thx for the extra microseconds.
Yet they still artificially limit the number of medical school places available to UK applicants, to a number far below what we need.
I think the best today cannot be APL, because it carries so much historical baggage and because commercial implementations dominate it. So start with BQN, it is free, has the tooling and it also has succeeded in building a community.
You need to read up on what fascism is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/education/03education.htm...
Here is o3-mini on a simple sudoku. In general the puzzle can be hard to explore combinatorially even with modern SAT solvers, so I picked one marked as “easy”. It looks to me like it solved it but I didnt confirm beyond a quick visual inspection.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67aa1bcc-eb44-8007-807f-0a49900ad6...
China's population woes deepen as marriage registrations plummet to 1980 levels
Indentation is readability thing. Curly braces are about scope.
> Advertising is a PURE competitive move

I think "competition" has to be directed towards a useful end, like improving the product, else it's at danger of just causing enormous waste disproportionate* to any value it is creating, like rigs for Bitcoin mining or microsecond trading.

Say you're playing a game where every minute you can either create a new cube or steal two from your opponent. The direct optimal strategy is for both players to just repeatedly steal - "competing" in a sense, yet wasting time for no progress. The meta-strategy, if we as a society want to increase the number of cubes, would be to punish stealing so that players instead compete by doing useful work (creating cubes).

To me the problem with marketing looks the same. It could make business sense for both Coke and Pepsi to double their marketing budgets to push flyers through every door to take each other's market share back and forth, but doing so wastes disproportionate* resources for little to no gain. Also seems as though it's one factor making it more difficult for potential new competition that has a legitimately better product but doesn't have billions to spend on ads, exclusivity deals, etc.

*: There can be some value created, like slightly faster Bitcoin transactions, or people being very slightly more informed about some products. Just that the zero-sum game aspect allows resources wasted to be far in excess of the value gained (if any at all), even without externalities.
The president appoints new bosses at all the executive branch agencies, and those bosses approve the access.

Several recent news stories have described situations where the agency head resisted and was removed.
> From middle of Slovakia to Budapest, Hungary is as far as Houston to Austin drive

I still wouldn't want to own a car where the nearest service center is a Houston-Austin distance.