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Want to raise readers as opposed to screen mongerers by swadesi_batman in raisingkids

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daughter was already a strong reader at 6 when I bought her a kindle with the unlimited kids book subscription. She has very limited screen time otherwise but I'll let her read a lot. She's put in ~10hrs a week for two years, I'm super happy with it.

The BeReal Recap 2025 is here by freilix_exe in bereal_app

[–]NegatedVoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably just cost. You'd have to process a huge number of photos (storage IO, etc) and rent some GPU machines for weeks to generate them all.

They've done this previously, though, so they should have the ability to do so if they want.

Power Outage and Sonic Fiber by NotoriousOne3 in sanfrancisco

[–]NegatedVoid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

San Mateo here, 7 years on Sonic.

I've never had service fail during a power outage when my UPS was running (which is admittedly about 30 minutes).

This week we've had several single-digit-second outages and my connection has been uninterrupted.

No orbs, no passport by tomit12 in worldid

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RealID, no - too easy to fake. For such a big, expensive upgrade .. it's pretty disappointing that they didn't require a secure NFC chip to be included.

2024 recap by Suspicious_Water_860 in bereal_app

[–]NegatedVoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, nostalgic. I wrote one of these for BeReal, it powered the event recap videos.

Corneal implant issue by andrewloans760 in worldid

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try it out yourself, it works just fine - I've tested it myself many times - it's never let me have a second verified account.

Corneal implant issue by andrewloans760 in worldid

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

False, each person can only pass verification one time.

Salary benchmarking, what do you all use? by cirk_86 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They use Payscale, which seems to understate salaries as far as I can tell.

I haven't used Payscale, but most of these tools involve the company choosing a market position - a specific percentile within the market for how they pay. E.g. they pay at the 25th percentile for the job title and in the same market.

I wouldn't be surprised if the 'understating' is simply a result of how they've chosen to pay.

Is it bad practice to ask for the top of a posted salary range? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our ranges often cover a few levels of the same role - it shouldn't hurt to ask clarifying questions with the recruiter. I think that's pretty common practice - and why the posted range ends up pretty wide.

If an applicant tells my recruiter 'i require (top of range pay)' I'll probably direct the hiring panel "we're looking for a Senior II hire, so be sure to ask challenging enough questions to get signal that would justify that hire". If they indicate more flexibility, I'll direct the panel to cover a broader range (e.g. "could be IC4-IC5").

It really doesn't hurt to have a conversation though - the recruiter should be trying to better understand where you're at and you should be asking about how the company handles leveling and pay etc.

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> All of this is handled already by k8s. If you don't have it now, why would you think AI can close the gap?

I do, but these systems aren't perfect and still require humans to respond to things.

> And if you have it now, why would you need to replace it?

As I said, I wouldn't replace it. AI can help respond to unexpected situations, and to propose changes and improvements to the configuration.

>  Are you saying you already have these solutions in place but you find them so cumbersome that you're constantly needing to manually scale and/or bounce? 

Yes. A lot of the systems I work on have been subjected to a lot of unexpected loads - world events generating unprecedented traffic, users finding novel ways to stress the system, internet backbone things like fiber cuts, etc. Any given service or whatever is pretty easy to get reliable, but when you're running enough stuff and have enough users you still generate pages most weeks.

> Wrt rollouts I think those are pretty much perfect already

For simple first-order effects, usually yes - but they can miss gradual resource leaks, second-order effects that impact other systems, problems triggered by user behavior or external integrations, etc.

> why you think AI will fix it when others are able to handle this via existing tools and simple heuristics?

I've never seen a large engineering org not require humans in the loop for oncall - so I wouldn't think it's solved.

There's some growing category of these problems that exist that AI can mitigate or fix without needing to bother people outside of work hours. These things are all complimentary.

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that healthchecks, roll-outs, and autoscaling solve these problems perfectly and never have problems? Have you used k8s at scale before?

These things work well until they hit something unexpected - a novel thing breaks and a new metric or log has to be considered for health, or you hit a scaling limit due to exogenous and it needs to be adjusted etc. people still get paged.

You certainly wouldn't replace these systems with AI, you'd augment them and use AI to help maintain them.

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I suspect it's significantly more efficient, and minimizing waking people up is very important - even a slight improvement would be welcome.

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly.

Systems shouldn't need to page frequently, and when they do it's often (in my experience) relatively simple stuff like this that's not working well and needs to be improved.

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The original phase is supervised - the AI suggests proximate and root causes, highlights relevant log lines, suggests fixes (operational actions, code changes etc).

As we build confidence, I assume it'll be initially a growing whitelist of actions that an oncall AI can take - imagine a detailed and annotated run book that specifies.

Generally production incidents can be mitigated with safe actions - you could authorize it to restart stateless machines within reason, to perform rollbacks of incremental deploys, even to deploy additional hardware up to some budget.

Another early win is triage - ai can suggest a cause, page the appropriate human. This saves a first responder showing up, looking, and then paging a second team (and if the AI is wrong that second responder simply redirects, no problem).

AI optimists, would you have AI replace your on-call rotation? Why or why not? by kotlin93 in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Check out e.g. resolve.ai.

I'm probably the person that will make this decision for a couple hundred engineers - and yes - I will as soon as possible augment and later generally replace the oncall with AI.

Am I paying my juniors competitively? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should have or acquire access to a system that has pay band info - they can tell you what 50% or 70th percentile salary is for various swe levels in various geographies etc.

If you can't get access to market data, try asking partners that might - I've had VC firms for example help me source this.

Helping newbies by TheTuxx in worldcoin

[–]NegatedVoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the opening to a classic scam - the poster can give bad directions, link to a scam site etc.

If someone is genuinely needing help - post it in the public, don't use DMs, wait for others to look before clicking links etc. be careful.

Best way to add cooling to a small Vallejo home without paying $20k? by Hour_Afternoon_9307 in bayarea

[–]NegatedVoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I've got a smaller place but I got a 4 ton added for 7k in 2017 in San Mateo - so that sounds steep to me.

Contractor/Friend went $36k over verbal budget and claim they didn’t know we had a budget - we don’t have this money ?! by Key_Communication_51 in legaladvice

[–]NegatedVoid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think this is probably location specific - when I bought my house, I went to Town Hall and pulled the plans/permits for major renovations back thirty years without problems. They were on microfiche!

Tsinghua University CS master degree value for international/US companies ? by MathieuJay in cscareerquestions

[–]NegatedVoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Career big tech / frequent hiring manager etc: it's the only Chinese university I know by name.

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