- This is well said here. Off on a small tangent, but I received my undergrad from a well known for-profit technology school that isn't respected at all. My understanding is that a resume with this specific school is sometimes thrown out by hiring managers. I am now finishing up my Master's from a very well known and respected NY private university. I have noticed no differences in the caliber of students or quality of education between the two. The students that live and breath software engineering excel, while the others do not.
I was aware of all this before, but the experience has tainted my opinion even further of higher education. Graduates of the for-profit tech school are likely to face professional discrimination, while students from the more prestigious university will receive interviews and opportunities because of a name listed on their resume.
- The word "super" is enough to make my red flags fly. As a millennial the word super is something that I remember only being used around the house, or between young friends. Fast forward to the last few years and the casual use of the word super, along with uptalk, is being used what seems like every other sentence in the professional setting. It's strange to me and immediately makes me think of the person using it as childish or otherwise not know what they are talking about. I'm not surprised about the "Super secure" app not being secure.
- As a mid/senior level engineer I feel the same - this kind of content just plain sucks, and seeing Gemini respond with the karma comment is icing on the cake.
Not that long ago on HN there were things being posted regularly about hardware and software that I would define as no less than insane side projects. Projects that people using LLMs today couldn't do in a lifetime. Those posts are still up here and there, but very few compared to the past. They were creative and hard, if not impossible feats.
So when I see content like this post, with comments underneath it saying "it's the greatest AI content they've ever seen," it's a sad day. Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon hah!
- Selling it as a pain reliever I can't buy into personally based off my anecdotal experience. I've had chronic pericarditis for more than a decade now and THC amplifies mine as well, as I tend to focus more on the pain. I think it's a very subjective thing, depending on many factors; strain, type of pain, person, etc.
- There is an important lesson to be had here, not just in writing articles, but software engineering as well. We should be checking our work very diligently, including code libraries. If a developer is using agents/LLMs to steamroll their way through a project, every line of code and library needs checked.
- I sense your frustration and I think they were probably being a bit sarcastic... I won't speculate on a loaf of bread, but I would speculate that everything from a loaf of bread to a home increases in price substantially if minimum wage were raised to $60. As wages increase, prices tend to follow, since workers across the spectrum demand higher pay.
I'm not against raising minimum wage, but economics is a very complex thing and changes like that need to be approached carefully.
- A lot of people, especially the tech crowd, have been taught in undergrad the importance of critical thinking and evidence supported conclusions. Also, I think the science/mathematical mind is drawn to this line of thinking as well, which is understandable. I know extremely well how they feel, as I've always operated the same way.
That is why faith in some kind of God or afterlife goes against everything we in the tech crowd are trained to do. The hardest thing about being a Christian or believing in an afterlife IMO is the faith aspect itself.
- Had a newer employee rewriting some functions with LLMs, but not really admitting to it. I don't really care about the LLM aspect and think it can be quite useful with learning, but I would like to see newer people learning the system before unleashing LLMs entirely on it if that makes any sense. The same developer had a pretty hard time getting an if statement correct that simply checked the length of a string. Lots of mentoring ahead...
But I dunno. I kind of wonder how I would have acted with tech like this available when I first started years ago. As a young engineer and even now I live and breathe the code, obsessing over testing and all the thing that make software engineering so fun. But I can't say whether or not I would have overdepended on an LLM as a young engineer.
It's all kind of depressing IMO, but it is what it is at this point.
- I was curious too and found these pretty quickly - I dunno if this applies to all topics, but at least the political ones:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5022797
https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/is...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241750096_Is_Wikipe...
- This kind of stuff is repulsive to me. I'm sure it's similar elsewhere too, but my local radio stations in the Midwest have been running ads about not harassing athletes over sports betting. The whole thing is comical to me, since they are collecting massive amounts of tax revenue from the whole thing to begin with and paying for the ads with it.
They are great things coming from it, like school funding, but the whole concept doesn't really sit well with me.
https://casinocontrol.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news...
- I did not check into SK, but Japan has consistently been about the same or higher with the US for many years. Even with a drop in the last year, still very similar to one another.
The purpose of my original comment was that the US dwindles Japan in firearms, but Japanese still manage to kill themselves just fine. So it's not a strong point by the parent I responded to. If Japan maintained that decrease for several more years, I think this would be worth revisiting, but for now it doesn't have much weight.
- As someone who has worked all over the world with several different cultures and types of people, including in war zones, saying “the rest of the world shakes their head” is an extremely broad generalization. Different countries have very different experiences with guns, governments, and resistance. I'm sure you have your own perspective that is valuable, but speaking for “the rest of the world” comes across as dismissive and small minded, rather than engaging with the point that was made.
- Agreed. I just let people talk and have for many years now, no matter how well I know the person. Someone might start talking about chem trails or maybe another conspiracy and I always entertain them for the most part. Here and there I might do a "have you thought about it this way, or that?", but other than that, there isn't much reason to argue/debate unless it's at work or something that actually matters in the grand scheme of things.
- This doesn't just apply to Tesla of course. You've discovered what is in most modern Infotainment systems. The car no longer belongs to the customer and is a source of continuous revenue for the manufacturer - at least that's the way the C-suite sees it. Early in my career I worked for one of the most popular car companies on the Infotainment team, and I argued for customer privacy and data on a daily basis with managers and other engineers. I was always the minority.
- Young in my career I bombed a five person panel interview once with a bunch of questions like this.
One of them I remember being especially unfair - "if one of our systems connections goes down, how would you troubleshoot it"? I had what I thought was a great answer, reviewing logs, looking for errors, verifying the server or system had internet access, etc... They informed me that the correct answer was checking that the ethernet cable was plugged in...
Along with feeling completely defeated after the interview (since I really needed a job at the time), I felt like it was an extremely loaded question and my answer should have gotten a +1, especially since my answer discussed internet access. I did dodge a bullet though. That startup failed 15 months after my interview.
- Your comment leaves out some key details that need mentioned as not to confuse anyone. I'd like to clarify that this is true for a future alone (if cash settled), but not a futures option.
Selling one futures option and having it expire ITM simply gives the trader a one contract long position in the underlying future contract. OTM is full collection of the premium sold as usual. I've done both many times over the years. One legit strategy is selling a futures option with the intent to be long the contract, just like someone would do with selling an equity put option with intent to own 100 shares.
You can most definitely do this as a retail trader and do extremely well in many cases, but it's also very easy to go to $0 and is not for the light hearted.
- As someone who has created and runs automated trading algos (not a 4.5 Sharpe though) based off a lot of the things you've mentioned here, this still has no effect on the regular dude who puts $500 in SPY every other paycheck and forgets about it, like the guy you are responding to. If SPY goes to $0, we're all fucked anyway, regardless of what caused it.
Great comment though.
- I don't disagree with much of your comment, but I immediately saw this as a bullish sign for the markets, along with oil prices possibly coming down. I saw the B2 bombing as a crescendo to the conflict. I shorted volatility futures on the market open Sunday night and sold a lot more S&P future's put options. I've had a very good week so far.
There will continue to be ordinance flying here and there of course (probably until the end of time being the ME), but Iran has been weakened to the point that Wall Street has more than likely written it off for the near future.
- As someone who packed pears for my first job in a warehouse at 15 1/2 years old for 10 hours a week, this comment is great. Working in a warehouse for pennies is about as worse as it gets. Now, as a well paid software engineer, a very bad day doesn't even come close to that experience.
Haskell is actually a pretty fun language, although it doesn't fly off my fingers like C# or C++ does. I think a really great example of the differences is displayed in the recursive Fibonacci sequence.
In C#:
In Haskell: As you might know, this isn't even scratching the surface of the Haskell language, but it does a good job highlighting the syntax differences.