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coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

>Good luck finding any golang examples in a lot of other fields.

There are go examples (and full blown programs) for anything, from servers to Kubernetes and Docker.

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 89546]

It probably varies; some people are allegic to rosin, some develop an allergy from long-term exposure, and others seem to effectively be immune to it.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

The solution already exists.

Nexus, Artifactory, and many others.

Security minded organisations don't allow cowboy installs into projects, the systems are configured to use internal repos and only IT validated packages got uploaded into them.

Still it might be of value to single devs.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

Four years in prison just for posting propaganda on behalf of other countries? If that was evenly enforced a whole lot of people would be in trouble.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

Measuring developer productivity has been an unsolved problem for decades already, vibe engineering just makes that unsolved problem feel even harder.

signa11 ranked #37 [karma: 88010]

sorry, but this piece reads like an advert for coding-agents.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

If you're hiring software developers and you care about IQ, you don't need to test it implicitly; you can safely test for it explicitly, and there are several large, deep-pocketed plaintiffs lawyer targets who routinely do so. The idea that general cognitive testing is verboten in US employment is almost entirely an Internet myth.

People use Leetcode because they believe it tests for programming aptitude.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

I expect if you use www.linkedin.com/i-do-not-have-linkedin as the URL Phil will let you in anyway.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

Any critical SLA limits nearby?

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

Posts like this really need to include the prompts.

zdw ranked #12 [karma: 148465]

Would be great if it could do other things, like be a volume knob, or do media play/pause, given that scrolling and mouse button press seem like things you already have a mouse to do?

danso ranked #9 [karma: 167694]

Sounds like a ransom was paid:

> With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident. As part of that agreement:

> The data was returned to us. We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).

> We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise.

> This agreement covers all impacted Instructure customers, and there is no need for individual customers to attempt to engage with the unauthorized actor.

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 89546]

Total surveillance only works if the people are forced to wear the tracking collar

Better to call it a noose. Because you can also be entirely "unpersoned" online if you don't comply.

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 89546]

You mean decades of regression.

The obvious decline started around 2010; coincidentally also the era of the rise of SJW-ism and nontechnical derailing drama. Once the diversity quotas started appearing, the inevitable results were obvious.

hn_throwaway_99 ranked #47 [karma: 76505]

Except that's not what the author argued, at all.

The author acknowledges that a lot of the gentrification is the result of zoning rules, and has only proposed what are primarily less restrictive zoning rules as a potential solution.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

> A developer could likely fit 3-4 nice cottage homes on that lot, sell them for $500-700k, and make a profit

Denver takes 264 days to approve "multi-family or industrial projects with a valuation in excess of $1.5 million, such as a new apartment or office building, large additions" [1]. Construction loans in Colorado cost "8% to 13%" [2]. For a project with $1.5mm up-front costs, from land purchases to permit fees and legal costs, that comes to $87 to 141 thousand per project.

This isn't as bad as San Francisco, where permiting delays alone add hundreds of thousands of dollars to housing costs. But in addition to upzoning, it's something to be considered, particularly since Denver seems to categorise practically all impactful residential development as "major commercial."

[1] https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Of...

[2] https://www.clearhouselending.com/commercial-loans/colorado/...

crazygringo ranked #39 [karma: 83566]

Your comment would be be fine without the snarky final sentence.

ceejayoz ranked #33 [karma: 91979]

It’s not like we have a term like “individual contributor” or anything in the industry.

I’ve worked with several excellent “just leave me alone” sysadmin types.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

A valid concern generally, but if you're concerned about soundtrack quality, RHCP has done the world a favor by locking it up inside Warner.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

> planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams

One of the really interesting things about GitLab was that not only did they have employees in a large number of countries but they also published their employee handbook which helped show quite how much work it was to support that:

https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/employment... lists 18 countries right now. I guess they're losing 5 of those.

Here's a permalink to the current version of that page https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/blob/... since it mentions that "Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging is one of our core values" and so is likely to be updated pretty soon!

They even used to have a public payroll.md page detailing how payroll worked in multiple countries - they moved that into their private docs a few years ago but the last public version is here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/blob/...

UPDATE: I got the countries piece wrong. The linked OP says:

> Reduced operational footprint: We’re reducing our country footprint because operating in nearly 60 countries does not allow us to give every team member a great experience. We anticipate reducing the number of countries by 30% focused on geos where we have only a handful of people or fewer. Team members who are in good standing and would like to relocate are welcome to do so. We'll continue to serve customers in those markets through our partner network where appropriate.

I said they operated in 18 countries, so clearly my impression was out-dated and incorrect.

Also "We anticipate reducing the number of countries by 30% focused on geos where we have only a handful of people or fewer" suggests to me that it's a 30% cut to countries with "only a handful of people", not a 30% cut to countries overall.

stavros ranked #45 [karma: 77502]

Yes, like in a world full of electronic music, original recordings of guitar players became more valuable over time.

stavros ranked #45 [karma: 77502]

This is a great tip, I use a loupe and it works amazingly well. Cost maybe $10?

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

> Security will be a wedge to restrict the sophistication of open-weight and local LLMs, just as it's been used to demonize and restrict cypherpunk technologies

Unlikely in America or China. This is not a game either can singularly control, and locking down the R&D means conceding momentum to the party that doesn't. Which means use restrictions will be contained to countries satisfied with playing second fiddle.

Instead, I suspect we'll see momentum towards running software on publisher-controlled servers so the source code can be secured through obscurity. It isn't perfect. But it might be good enough to get us through this transition.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

He's soldering like it's fifty years ago.

Everything is lead-free surface mount now. Solder paste, stencils, reflow ovens. Hand soldering is precision temperature controlled irons, hot air rework stations, magnifiers, cameras, and exhaust fans. The tools are more complicated, more expensive, and better.

One of the lessons of surface mount work is that you really can move your fingers a thousandth of an inch. But you need magnification to see what you're doing.

I'm encouraged to see more hobbyists going surface mount. In my TechShop days, I was the only one doing surface mount. Everybody else was using 1980s 0.1 inch spacing DIP components. That's a US thing. If you learn to solder in Shenzhen, you start with surface mount.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

Their old CREDIT values: Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency.

New values: Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes.

In other words, work harder, not smarter, and no more DEI.

anigbrowl ranked #28 [karma: 99664]

There's an AI to do that for you

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Usually that means you're already a senior developer, understanding things and formulating solutions is part of work delegation.

Now those juniors whose job is to implement those solutions, they will have a hard time.

On my 50s, I also don't write as much code as I used to, even less nowadays with serverless, managed services, low code/no code tools, agent orchestration workflows, and with it I keep seeing development teams getting smaller.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

Type safety feels like the big one; anything you can shift to static/compile-time regimes benefits agents immensely.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

> Whereas a zero-percent tax rate would require building new systems from scratch, a tax rate cut to 1% would only need three to six months for cash register system revisions, according to an industry source.

Wat.

PaulHoule ranked #24 [karma: 108254]

The thing I coded where I felt the weight of the GC the most was a chess engine in Java that needed transposition tables. Like using regular HashMap(s) or anything similar it was too slow to really speed up the engine. If my son had stayed interested in chess I would have coded up an off-heap transposition tables but he switched to guitar which changed my side projects.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

Why does 404 Media tend to get auto-banned on HN?

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

They can make it unnecessary for you to understand.

Consider hash tables. Nobody implements a hash table by hand any more. I've written some, but not in this century. Optimal hash table design is a specialist subject. Do you know about robin hood algorithms? Changing the random number generator's seed to discourage collision attacks? A basic hash table starts to slow down around 70% full. Modern hash tables can get above 90% full before they have to expand.

Who keeps Knuth's Fundamental Algorithms handy any more? I own both the original edition and the revised edition. They're boxed up in the garage. I once read that book cover to cover. That was a long time ago.

That's not AI. That's solving the problem and putting it in a black box. That's how technology progresses.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

> Does Anthropic not just have right of first refusal?

They do. SPV transfers don’t usually involve a transfer of the underlying stock. Unfortunately, that lets bad actors represent to selling stock they don’t yet own.

WalterBright ranked #43 [karma: 79662]

Except gmail is hardly a cartel, etc. I've never had a gmail account.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

This is such a misleading title. The post isn't about software engineering not being a lifetime career, it's about this:

> If AI does turn out to make you dumber, why can’t we just keep writing code by hand? You can! You just might not be able to earn a salary doing so, for the same reason that there aren’t many jobs out there for carpenters who refuse to use power tools.

The argument the piece makes is that being a software engineer who insists on writing code by hand may no longer be a lifetime career.

I think the definition of "software engineer" is changing, and it's not even changing that much. We construct software to help solve human problems. We can keep on doing that, just now we get to do it more.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Which is liability is relevant, that is the only language shareholders understand.

stavros ranked #45 [karma: 77502]

I think that's the point, these spaces greatly prefer recurring donations because a) the aggregate value is usually more than a one-off and b) they're much easier to reason about, as they're more "evened out".

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

Governance: basically anarchic, but with one person ultimately calling the shots.

That's the classic problem with pseudo-anarchies. They're really dictatorships.

The larger scale form of this is the non-profit with the self-perpetuating board, where the board of directors appoints its successors. It's the standard form for big non-profits, such as hospitals or national organizations. Non-profit organizations with real elected officials, where the incumbents get kicked out now and then, are rare. They take too much attention by the members.

Nobody knows how to run a meeting under Robert's Rules of Order any more. The whole point of such meetings is that the group is in charge and the outcome is a binding decision. Most organizational leaders don't want that.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

I guess one doesn’t need to know they’re a parody to be funny.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 183026]

> the mistake is the framing that "the revolution" or "the next big thing" is always a good thing?

They are good things. If you were an adult, male aristocrat, yes, your untouched meadows and streams got tainted. If you were a woman you stopped dying in childbirth. If you think of infants as people, they stopped massively dying.

The Industrial Revolution was good. But it also required erecting the modern administrative state to manage. People had to soberly measure the problems, weigh the benefits and risks, and then invent new institutions and ways of thinking to accommodate the new world.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

Wholesale population displacement is explicitly not (by itself) genocide under the convention. Genocide is an intent crime, and the intent has to be the eradication of the targeted ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. Kidnapping all the children in an occupied territory and dispersing them so they can't be returned to their families is genocidal. Mass displacement isn't.

The fixation on the term "genocide" has been a major own-goal for advocates of Palestinians. It was deliberately defined to be a difficult bar to clear. "Warm crimes" and "ethnic cleansing" are easy claims to make in the region, and ordinary people don't care about the distinction between "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide"; that term would have served just as well, without the escape hatch "genocide" provides.

jerf ranked #32 [karma: 92139]

Mythos hasn't been released yet, but there seems to be some evidence that GPT-5.5, which has been released, is already a touch better anyhow in some dimensions: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/gpt-5-5-vs-claude-mythos-cybe...

Close enough that you can probably get a good sense of Mythos' performance by using GPT-5.5.

One thing I noticed while using GPT-5.5 for this is that the ability of the model to turn the bug into an outright vulnerability is less relevant than you might intuitively think. All that is really necessary is for the model to point out that something is smelly, and you should just fix it. Turning it into a runnable exploit has very limited utility for the defender. It does turn heads and may get the attention of some otherwise reluctant people, but everything I found was obviously enough wrong that the exploit was just decorative.

anigbrowl ranked #28 [karma: 99664]

The number of people in absolute poverty has shrunk, but the proportion of national income held by the wealthy has increased, so economic mobility is declining. There are many reasons for this, but typically deployment of technology is a capital expense and employers aim to realize all the gains from their investment, notwithstanding the upskilling and/or deskilling effect it has on workers, who are treated as fungible economic units rather than people. Nobody likes this except capitalists.

jerf ranked #32 [karma: 92139]

I remember the distinctly mixed feelings I got in the late 90s to early 2000s watching a search of my real name go from nothing but me, to mostly me, to "hey I'm still in the top 10", to not even on the front page depending on what search engine you use. (I still see myself on Google's front page, but not Bing's. Bing suggests that if I want more information on my real name I should postfix it with the word "fired", so, hey, I guess things could be worse because that's not me....)

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

So Israel is switching to Google and Amazon. Hm.

PaulHoule ranked #24 [karma: 108254]

Tolstoy: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

>as they are also in their 40s but drink a lot and worse do cocaine. They also are really into making fun of each other.

Can I get your friends?

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

>I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall1.

That statement is enough of an evidence

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Mojo remains to be seen if it isn't another Swift for Tensorflow, apparently 1.0 won't even support Windows properly.

WalterBright ranked #43 [karma: 79662]

My own code is contortious. I refactor it regularly to reduce that, but it still can be better.

PaulHoule ranked #24 [karma: 108254]

Evaluation is harder than you think because of statistics.

Like if you want to accurately know if one model is better than another you have to test it on hundreds if not thousands of examples which are carefully graded in difficulty, not in the training sets, etc.

Practically you might try model A and model B and use each one 2-3 times on different tasks and walk out with the impression that A is really good and B sux, but it could be model A got lucky because you asked it to do things it is good at or maybe it just got lucky and got the right answer anyway.

See https://arxiv.org/html/2410.12972v1 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14810 -- those papers are considering a general space of tasks but you could totally do the same kind of eval for the tasks you care about.

jerf ranked #32 [karma: 92139]

In 2020, there are two companies that are competitors with each other. They each employ 100 programmers to do their job, and we all know how those organizations operated; perpetually behind, each feature added generating yet more possible future features, we've all lived it and are still largely living it today.

In 2026, both companies decide that AI can accelerate their developers by a factor of 10x. I'm not asserting that's reality, it's just a nice round number.

Company 1 fires 90 of their programmers and does the same work with 10.

Company 2 keeps all their programmers and does ten times the work they used to do, and maybe ends up hiring more.

Who wins in the market?

Of course the answer is "it depends" because it always is but I would say the winning space for Company 1 is substantially smaller than Company 2. They need a very precise combination of market circumstances. One that is not so precise that it doesn't exist, but it's a risky bet that you're in one of the exceptions.

In the time when the acceleration is occurring and we haven't settled in to the new reality yet the Company 1 answer seems superficially appealing to the bean counters, but it only takes one defector in a given market to go with Company 2's solution to force the entire rest of their industry to follow suit to compete properly.

The value generation by one programmer that can be possibly captured by that programmer's salary is probably not going down in the medium and long term either.

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

It's not going to happen, just as it didn't happen for skilled industrial workers whose jobs got outsourced to China. The government will pay just enough in welfare to keep the situation manageable. Then they'll demonize you in the culture, as a Luddite, etc.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

The example on the linked video it isn't, correct.

Here is another video, this time with S-PACKAGE used to develop Nintendo 64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU

Which given the REPL capabilities, you can easily embedd them on it, just like the other video.

WalterBright ranked #43 [karma: 79662]

I think Full Metal Jacket is the only war movie that correctly delays the sound of an explosion.

The sounds in combat footage of WW2 are all dubbed in, as the cameras did not record sound.

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

Right. Like the Lightning Connector and Apple SIM, replaced by USB-C and eSIM. It's like saying ISA slots were "killed by Intel."

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 105018]

Really good piece about the growing impact of AI writing online.

I particularly liked this definition of the "Zombie Internet", as distinct from the Dead Internet which is just bots talking to each other.

> I called it the Zombie Internet because the truth is that large parts of the internet are not just bots talking to bots or bots talking to people. It’s people talking to bots, people talking to people, people creating “AI agents” and then instructing them to interact with people. It’s people using AI talking to people who are not using AI, and it’s people using AI talking to other people who are using AI. It’s influencer hustlebros who are teaching each other how to make AI influencers and have spun up automated YouTube channels and blogs and social media accounts that are spamming the internet for the sole purpose of making money. It is whatever the fuck “Moltbook” is and whatever the fuck X and LinkedIn have become. It’s AI summaries of real books being sold as the book itself and inspirational Reddit posts and comment threads in which people give heartfelt advice to some account that’s actually being run by a marketing firm. [...]

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

No it isn't. Schools are, and by a long way. People are confused by this because most municipalities have multiple taxing bodies; schools and municipalities work from different budgets, and the police are the largest line item in a budget that basically captures only police, fire, and public works.

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

>AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy.

Lol, that's already a lazy take.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 189014]

And here I am measuring the distance from Dublin (Ireland) to Holyhead - would be ok for fast rail, but then it's between 3 to 5 hours of rail to London.

I wonder if Ryanair pays rail companies to offer poor service.

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

They will be discovered and used in litigation, and the results will be hilarious. Think about how much lawyers pick apart language (like statutes or the constitution) that was written deliberately by humans and subject to review and revision. Now we're going to have lawyers, e.g., seizing on word choice in AI notes that might have a sinister connotation when the original wording was innocuous.

PaulHoule ranked #24 [karma: 108254]

Kinda funny that I wrote (100% manually) a short report to a collaborator about an event I went to this weekend and made a special effort to avoid AI language patterns, like I reversed the order of a structure with negation, etc.

   It is A.  Not B, Not C, Not D.
as opposed to current AIs which are trained to do it the other way.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Tooling, because CUDA has support for C, C++, Fortran, Python JIT, and anything else targeting PTX, graphical GPU debugger, and the accelerated libraries ecosystem.

It just needs to be better than what Intel and AMD have been delivering since OpenCL 1.0.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Developers that have taken a proper Engineering degree and taken the exam, instead of calling themselves engineer, also know, because ethics is part of the process.

Now if they follow up on that, or decided other matters are more relevant for them, it is another matter.

Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Portuguese Engineering Order,

https://www.ordemdosengenheiros.pt/fotos/gca/blocks_items/co...

Similar document for Germany,

https://www.vdi.de/fileadmin/pages/mein_vdi/redakteure/publi...

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

Unfortunely not every operating system on planet Earth has a package manager, nor developers have enough time to support all the ones that have such feature.

pjmlp ranked #15 [karma: 128805]

I have one of such Turbo Pascal libraries for dBase access, bought via ads on the Portuguese programmer's magazine at the time, Spooler.

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

It's not a "weird complaint" at all. The cut goes to the heart of why it's supposedly impressive. Because of the cut, all he had to do was say one sentence before the rocket lifts off (which is happening at a time that's known down to the second).

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

If it works for me it works for me. Sample size of 1 is all I need to tell that.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

People opt in to the panopticon and then discover they have no more secrets. I'm surprised lawyers fall for that as well.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

The pitch for AI from its proponents is the destruction of all white collar and creative jobs, while simultaneously making all the content they consume worse and Internet socialization with human strangers replaced by doppelgangers? And you wonder why people are upset?

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

The 6502 is one of the most heavily preserved technologies: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

Full die capture, full transistor level simulation.

Most of the others are being emulated in proportion to their importance to games, in arcade machines and consoles. Those emulations are going to be as cycle-accurate as required.

There are some issues around things like the Yamaha synth chips, which are mixed-signal and depend on analogue properties that can be difficult to emulate.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

It's a notational issue. IIRC Pascal used := for assignment and = for equality testing.

Where this becomes extremely Rorsarch is the spectrum between "notation is absolutely critical: there is only one correct representation of programs in people's heads and we have to match that exactly" vs. "all program text is ultimately syntactic sugar and programmers will just adapt to whatever". History tells us that the C choice of = for assignment and == for equality testing won, but of course that's not a choice in a vacuum and it's tied up with a thousand other choices.

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

>It's a good reminder for us all that the competition in this space is rough and lots of more or less subtle marketing is involved.

About as subtle as a personal injury lawyer's billboard

coldtea ranked #34 [karma: 91255]

Hello, 2010s called.

In 2026, applications, third or even first party, don't need to have full-disk access, and are not given either. They see a jailroot environment. I give full disk access to the terminal app, and a handful of others. 90% of them, nope.

At least that's the case in macOS, I'm pretty sure Windows can do that too. Linux of course has had such capability since forever, but I guess most distros you need to manually take care of it.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 189014]

Awww… but they are soooo cute <3

BTW, I remember a fatal accident at Brasilia’s zoo with them when I was a kid.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

There's an answer for that now: "Release ALL the Epstein files."

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 189014]

I actually like it better than plain Rust…

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

You can. I've even seen intentional 4:3 used as an "80s" signifier.

Quick googling suggested that square video under 3 minutes will be automatically classed as "shorts", which much of HN hates and may never have seen.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 189014]

I’d also mention the ascent of the Apollo 17 LM. The camera could be commanded to move up to follow the ascent, but the command had to be given ahead of time, from the MOCR, to coincide with the launch, which was commanded from the LM. The audio from the LM was delayed, as was the video from the camera, and the command would take about a second to reach the camera on the moon.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

Here's a similar video for BART's Transbay Tube, which was built in a similar way.[1] The major differences come from building in an earthquake zone. The Transbay Tube is mostly steel, rather than concrete, for flexibility. There are expansion joints. And the Transbay Tube sits on a gravel and sand base rather than hard rock, on purpose.

The Transbay Tube sections were built in the Bethlehem Steel shipyards in San Francisco. A museum opens this month to commemorate that shipyard. It's in Dogpatch in SF, if you know the area. The shipyard still has a submersible drydock, but it hasn't worked in ten years and will be demolished soon, hopefully before it sinks.

The SF Bay Area once had far more heavy industry than most people realize.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247JT7ctQ_I

[2] https://bethlehemshipyardmuseum.org/

jedberg ranked #44 [karma: 78751]

Today I learned the Transbay Tube is the longest immersed tube in the world. Given that it opened in 1974, it presumably has held that record for 52 years!

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 89546]

I hope it's because she realised its hidden purpose of advancing towards authoritarian dystopia.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127864]

That's first to file with a particular (and onerous) set of requirements for filing, not first to implement.

zdw ranked #12 [karma: 148465]

Microsoft's volume licensing, from the perspective of sysadmins and other folks trying to actually obtain software for use, is known to be some cross product of "byzantine" and "kafkaesque".

I fail to see how this is a win for the vast majority of folks impacted by the licensing process...

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 89546]

I'd like to see if he can be convinced into going after Google and effectively stopping remote attestation. One can certainly dream...

danso ranked #9 [karma: 167694]
rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

I think older people who have more patience are supposed to help. We moved to America when we were young so my mom had raise my brother and I by herself, which was very hard coming from somewhere people live in multi-generational households. She had very little patience for it. But she and my dad have way more patience for my kids. My mom lived with us for a year and then my wife’s mom lived with us for a year while our youngest was 2-3. Then we moved 10 minutes from my parents. My middle child kept getting ear infections so he went to my parents’ house every day for two years. These days my boys (4 and 7) go to my parents’ house every weekend.

I don’t think younger people are wired to be taking care of babies full time. I’d imagine in nature they’d be out hunting or gathering and our attention spans are wired for doing that.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

The author of this post understands that private keys are never exchanged. Read it more carefully.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

It is an article of faith on message boards that IQ tests are somehow unlawful in employment in the US because of Griggs. That's patently not the case. Plenty of large corporations with deep pockets do general cognitive testing (and even IQ testing) of incoming applicants. The companies that administer these tests have logo crawls, like every other product company, and the names are companies your mom will recognize.

Griggs says that you can't employ IQ tests to discriminate for jobs where the IQ threshold you established is immaterial to the job. For modern knowledge work, that's a trivial bar to clear. It is essentially the case that Griggs is a nonfactor in white collar employment.

My motivation for calling this out isn't that I'm OK with discriminating against Black people; quite the opposite, in fact. IQ tests aren't used more widely because they aren't effective at qualifying employees. IQ is an idee fixee among A Certain Part Of The Internet, and part of their pitch is that IQ tests are a secret cheat code that would enable hiring purely on merit, if only the woke wouldn't prevent it. No, false.

zdw ranked #12 [karma: 148465]

This seems to have happened about a year before "The IT Crowd" episode "Smoke and Mirrors" aired.

In that episode Moss, one of the IT denizens, goes to a TV studio where he is mistakenly put on a news program and interviewed about a war.

I wonder if they're related...

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126445]

That's mostly incorrect. In Maryland, like in most places in the country, the distribution infrastructure is controlled by regulated monopolies that buy power on the market from generators. Your bills separate out the fees for usage and the fees for distribution, and the Maryland PSC has to approve both.

crazygringo ranked #39 [karma: 83566]

I use an extension that gives me a customized homepage, but I still always get the "what's new" tab on every major version upgrade.

It's a totally separate tab that opens. It's got nothing to do with what you use as your homepage.

ceejayoz ranked #33 [karma: 91979]

Well, no shit. First grants went out in 2024, right in time for the administration to change; Lutnick put it on hold almost immediately. It also hasn't cost $42B; "By 2026, about half of the $42.45 billion allocated by Congress during the passage of the IIJA remained unused".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Equity,_Access,_and_...

Incidentally, BEAD includes LEO satellites as part of it. SpaceX got grants from it. (https://texasstandard.org/stories/spacex-demands-changes-fed...)

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

One of the authors is on this subthread correcting me. :)

stavros ranked #45 [karma: 77502]

If you can't get results with the thing I'm getting results with, what other explanation would you give?

stavros ranked #45 [karma: 77502]

I wanted to get LLM feedback while writing without having the LLM suggest/write text for me, so I built https://www.writelucid.cc

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 109752]

I struggle with this too in Edinburgh; I make a point of trying to stay engaged and keep recognizing how amazing the place is from the outside.

Going to the festival (and the book festival, back when that was in Charlotte Square) is improved by leaning into your local status and knowing how to duck in and out. And ideally knowing someone with a lanyard who can get you into the media bar: it's not cooler and more happening in there, it's actually quieter.

There's a vennel route across the city. It's an odd experience going through a deserted and mildly unpleasant alley, stepping out into a shuffling horde of tourists, cutting sideways across their paths, and ducking behind some bins into another quiet path. Like walking from the wings of the stage across it.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 162130]

Question: for software development, how much of an AI do you need for local development? Can it be run locally? Can someone train something that knows a lot about software but lacks comprehensive coverage of history, politics, and popular culture?

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

Right, it's a weird thing to travel for though.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 420089]

YC has funded over 5000 companies, and this page catalogs 39 that failed, many of which, on the sites own terms, are simply business failures, with no additional drama. I don't think the authors of the site realize the case they're actually making here.