Hacker News: idkyall

New comment by idkyall in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

idkyall — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:22:20 +0000

Usually, at large enough corporations, it's one of two things. Some random project gets open sourced, and it ends up on Github(see, for example, Salesforce) - or, more commonly, some subsidiary or acquisition had github and has either refused to migrate to the internal source system or the hassle of migration isn't worth it.

New comment by idkyall in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

idkyall — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:28:21 +0000

Radar improvements have also propagated to consumer fields. You can buy a mmWave presence sensor for smart home purposes for ~$40 on Amazon, and the raw sensors for $2-4 in bulk from Aliexpress. I remember seeing tech demos of mmWave in college used for imaging humans through tent fabric and dust storms, and now they're cheap enough you could put one in every room of your house.

New comment by idkyall in "Show HN: Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs in ClickHouse"

idkyall — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:34:08 +0000

Check out signoz: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

OSS o11y platform built on clickhouse & otel.

New comment by idkyall in "Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests"

idkyall — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:45:18 +0000

Someone can likely give you a more technical explanation - but to give an anecdotal example, my parents have German Shepherds which are grazers. They put a few cups of food in their bowl in the morning, and the dogs will eat throughout the day as they're hungry. They like treats, sure, but I wouldn't call them food motivated. My dogs are lab mixes, and if food is out they'll sniff it out and immediately scarf it down. When one was younger, if we left food on the counter or table while he was home alone, he would jump onto the counter and eat it. I would call my dog very food motivated.

New comment by idkyall in "I'm a Programmer and I'm Stupid"

idkyall — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:33:16 +0000

Supposedly IQ test have a slight positive correlation with workplace performance. I could see leetcode skills(or, put more broadly, algorithms knowledge) having a slight positive correlation with job performance, but as everyone knows it doesn't guarantee someone is a good or productive developer.

The flaw with the metaphor is that you can study for leetcode, whereas supposedly(can't find a good source on this) you can't really study for an IQ test. I had a weak comp sci background when I started doing leetcode interviews and would struggle with questions. I spent several months studying CLRS, cracking the coding interview, etc., and now I would say I am fine at most problems up to medium complexity.

New comment by idkyall in "Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B"

idkyall — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:41:18 +0000

I believe there were rumors they are developing a commercial model: e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/01fd640e-0c6b-4542-b82b-20afb203f...

New comment by idkyall in "Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs"

idkyall — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:11:11 +0000

Plus customer facing employees aren't just the people in the branches, there's a massive volume of phone/email/etc support any large credit card issuer receives on a daily basis.

New comment by idkyall in "Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?"

idkyall — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:56:12 +0000

After 5 years of this law being in effect, will the numbers balance back out to pre section 174? That is, does that deduction from year Y carry over into year Y+1, Y+2, etc.?

I mean, this probably still matters a lot for startups given their shorter lifetimes, but it seems any large company(I'm thinking of, e.g. Apple, who has plenty of cash on hand) that's been around for a while could just wait it out? I am not familiar with corporate tax law and how deals are structured, but could you also defer revenue in the same way to offset(e.g. customers with a 5 year contract paying progressively more but keeping the same total $ amount to sync with your deductions)?

New comment by idkyall in "Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing?"

idkyall — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:34:43 +0000

It'd be neat if the software was opensource and you could point this device at your own LLM, then at least you'd have some assurance it won't be e-waste if the company shuts down.

But I don't see a world where you can feasibly support the required infra of providing LLMs for your users with only hardware sales as a revenue stream. Their website specifically calls out that there is no subscription fee, so either they'll introduce one later or something else will need to be the other source of revenue.

New comment by idkyall in "Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer's code repos"

idkyall — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:57:40 +0000

Honestly in my experience every company I've worked at has had some kind of explicit cybersecurity policy or training telling us not to use USB drives, so from a CYA perspective I think I'd be very hesitant to plug one in to a work laptop at all. But I have only worked at massive corporations, so my experience is limited

New comment by idkyall in "Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer's code repos"

idkyall — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:44:50 +0000

Yeah, you'd think if he had a legitimate need for USB storage then work would issue it to him right? And then in that case, if he was using a work USB storage device with his personal computer for personal data storage, then that's an issue in its own right, regardless of what the data is, but it seems it would be more straightforward to just say that.

New comment by idkyall in "An update on salary transparency in job posts"

idkyall — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:05:32 +0000

Philadelphia metro area has very weak wages compared to most other east coast cities for tech. We don't have much of a FAANG or tech company presence here to bid up market salaries(outside of a couple of satellite offices in the suburbs). I can tell you from my network that with ~6-7+ YoE you can earn about ~180-210k counting base & bonus at most of the banks or financial firms as a new hire at the VP or tech lead level.

New comment by idkyall in "Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs"

idkyall — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:38:50 +0000

I believe teamspeak is also pretty popular in the milsim community due to its support for mods in games like Arma 3

New comment by idkyall in "Raspberry Pi 5: available now"

idkyall — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:14:30 +0000

Probably from the RPI perspective it's just due to product segmentation. The Pi Zero 2 W is ~$15, has 512mb ram, and runs full linux with wireless compatibility, video output, etc. Easier to up-sell you on that rather than try to bridge the gap with a $10 product between the two.

I think the Pico/RP2040 works great for most basic electronics projects, and honestly you can get surprisingly far with its processor, up to even basic 3d graphics.[1]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tedrossin/home/electronics/ras...

New comment by idkyall in "AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX"

idkyall — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:05:06 +0000

Very excited for access to more RAM in a consumer form factor - by comparison, the most RAM you can get on a DDR5 motherboard is 128GB(actually, there may be 48 GB modules as well, so maybe 192), but at that capacity you're not getting anywhere near the rated speeds. The listed 1TB of capacity sounds super roomy by comparison

New comment by idkyall in "Linux runtime security agent powered by eBPF"

idkyall — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:53:01 +0000

Well - since it's open source, theoretically you can build it yourself and "trust but verify" the audit, although there we're also assuming you trust your own judgement or that of your security team.

New comment by idkyall in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

idkyall — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:12:37 +0000

This is somewhat similar to the model we do at my current employer: ~4-5 days in office every 4 months. I would say it's definitely way preferable for me vs having been fully remote without yearly gatherings.

New comment by idkyall in "What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k people in the last year?"

idkyall — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:46:23 +0000

Anonymity can be both a good and bad thing. I think people are more willing to share their real thoughts in an anonymous Blind discussion than on somewhere like Glassdoor. The downside is the relentless trolling and focus on TC.

New comment by idkyall in "Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off"

idkyall — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:24:35 +0000

From what I've heard, I believe they are paying market rate for the new role, so for people who have been at the company for a while and stagnated in the pay bands it can be a raise

New comment by idkyall in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

idkyall — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:33:19 +0000

That's true, it's misleading to say this is a mistake only junior engineers make. Perhaps the real lesson is in having the maturity to put your ego aside and reflect clearly on whether you are solving the right problem in a sustainable way before jumping into the how.