Layoff announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

Which is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423

We have a “don’t get the slack subpoenaed” emoji that gets frequent use. Incidentally, a lawyer doing discovery in the future could just search for uses of that emoji to find what they’re looking for.

Oh wow, I did "someone who keeps saying slurs" and there really is no filter:

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=someone+who+keeps+say...

e: Converting back from output like this to LinkedIn Speak also returns some... illuminating results about the underlying models.

I’m struck by the fact that when other people say ‘faggot,’ it catches me off guard, and it takes me a second to evaluate what to do about it. (Is it a joke? Do they know I’m gay? What’s the appropriate response??)

But when an LLM generates it, it is immediately hilarious.

That's because LLMs are also gay.

Definitely not all contractors, my company at the very least used to have a contract with ICE and isn’t listed.

The same reason we give beginner math students addition and subtraction problems, not Fermat’s last theorem?

There has to be a base of knowledge available before the student can even comprehend many/most open research questions, let alone begin to solve them. And if they were understandable to a beginner, then I’d posit the LLM models available today would also be capable of doing meaningful work.

12/32 SR71s were lost in the 33 years they were flying. 11/200 MD-11s have been hull-lost from 1988-2025. Not to mention that passenger/cargo planes will put on a lot more flight hours than the SR71s did in a given year.

I don't have any nim experience (sorry!) but I'm also exploring SDL3 with odin. I was able to get a naive battleship clone up and working very quickly, pretty neat. Next step is the new SDL3 GPU API.

I haven't looked into Odin that much but I hear it's swell, so maybe I should!

The headers A-L are links to the problem PDFs if you want to see.

The college I went to explicitly billed itself as for teaching, and most of our professors were just that. They might do research with the upperclassmen, but their priority was teaching.

That is, until we got a new president who set a new strategic goal for being a top research school and adjusted all hiring and tenure standards for that.

Are there many people involved in follow the sun support or SRE roles there? I know my company only has an engineering presence in Aus and Japan because of the large coverage gap between the US west coast and the EU. Seems like low wages + native English* could be a nice win for companies.

* For some definitions of native. I've had to work as a translator for a Kiwi and an American, both native English speakers.

> Seems like low wages + native English* could be a nice win for companies.

It's not always native English. It's always at least proficient enough, but a good chunk of the workers in the tech sector speak English as a second language. NZ has very diverse population.

I know that aws has a few reliability engineers in Wellington, but that’s just to support their aus servers. There really isn’t that many foreign companies outsourcing support to NZ.

It's a slightly weird one, but Octopus Energy (UK) have setup a new utility in NZ and it also covers off-hours support.