Hacker News: cephei

New comment by cephei in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

cephei — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:14:44 +0000

In my experience, I've seen engineers try to take on more work to get promoted, but the key issue is that they were doing more work at their own level instead of focusing on work that would be their responsibility if they promoted. If an IC takes on more and more IC work instead of management responsibilities, it's harder to promote them.

New comment by cephei in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

cephei — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:38:38 +0000

I think primarily this victimizes all those all ready victimized by the CSAM in the training material and also generally offends the collective sense of morality our society has.

New comment by cephei in "How NAT traversal works (2020)"

cephei — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:31:00 +0000

It certainty depends on how the network is doing the packet scanning and the other measures in place. If the security measures include a allow list of DNS servers, then there's little that can be done to bypass it.

New comment by cephei in "US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon"

cephei — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:15:04 +0000

It's hard to know exactly how much energy this is pumping out and how focused the beam is, but suffice to say anyone in the way might start to boil.

New comment by cephei in "Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people'"

cephei — Mon, 15 May 2023 18:52:39 +0000

This may be more palatable for the company rather than calling the extra money for being in the office a "commute stipend", even though they are effectively the same.

New comment by cephei in "“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)"

cephei — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:15:20 +0000

It's fairly fundamental in languages, just hidden behind syntactic sugar like if/else and try/catch/finally. Outside of those it can be useful for de-duplicating cleanup and exit code from a function.

New comment by cephei in "GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam"

cephei — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:07:32 +0000

Even with the 1 in 10000 false negative rate, I bet someone is doing the cost calculation of risk vs how many hours it would take for a doctor to check 10000 scans. Doctors themselves are not perfect so they may even have a higher error rate.

New comment by cephei in "Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance"

cephei — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:28:52 +0000

I believe the relevance comes from the fact that both are built on Electron.

New comment by cephei in "Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)"

cephei — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:34:21 +0000

The closest parallel I've found for this in English is the phrase "active listening" which includes this kind of interjection to reassure the speaker that they are heard.

New comment by cephei in "Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?"

cephei — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:12:31 +0000

I have seen this work several times. In many cases, it's easier to change roles inside a company than to switch to a dev role at a new place when you have no developer experience. Starting out in QA is a great way to develop domain knowledge, which can be more important than programming skill in many businesses.

New comment by cephei in "Saudi Arabia reveals 170-km-long mirrored skyscraper to house 9M people"

cephei — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:22:35 +0000

The whole complex comes in at about 34 km^2 which puts the population density at about 10 times the density of Manhattan. The water and energy needs alone will require several key innovations before this becomes even a pipe dream. Household and public space water usage could be a billion gallons of fresh water a day.

New comment by cephei in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

cephei — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:49:37 +0000

If there is sensitive data to remove and the history is important to keep, then GitHub has some recommendations for scrubbing the history

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

New comment by cephei in "[dead]"

cephei — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:39:32 +0000

Does HN have any Facebook integrations that could have caused the slowness seen earlier? Or it could be that some part of the network infrastructure is shared between the two and was overloaded.