skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Message for engineering undergraduates: when you have an opportunity to trade great grades for good grades and increased immediate career prospects, take it.

Your internship / prospective employer cares way more about the job you're doing for them than +0.5 GPA.

(If you're heading right to grad school, obviously different weighting)
Yeah, I'm not going to say that undergrad doesn't matter, but your grades are not exactly an indication of whether or not you're getting useful life and professional skills out of it. I was a straight-A high school student, but finished university a semester late with a 2.975 GPA. I've since had a wildly successful career in software development (my degree is in electrical engineering), and my college years toiling about in labs are but a dim memory.

Certainly the name of the school on my resume helped me interview for my first job, and I did learn a bunch about how computers worked and how to design CPUs, and that was useful early in my career when I worked on embedded software (like actually embedded, weak-ass MIPS machines with a handful of MB of RAM, and no MMU or memory protection[0]; not the tiny supercomputers that count as "embedded" these days). But my grades, and most of the getting-my-coursework-done drama? Irrelevant.

[0] And I'm sure some folks here will consider what I had to work with a luxury.
The consulting firms have just realized they can outsource everything save their core competency - taking the blame.
These models do not appear from thin air. Add in the training cost in terms of power. Yes it's capex and not opex, but it's not free by any means.

Plus, not all these models run on optimized TPUs, but mostly on nVIDIA cards. None of them are that efficient.

Otherwise I can argue that running these models are essentially free since my camera can do face recognition and tracking at 30fps w/o a noticeable power draw since it uses a dedicated, purpose built DSP for that stuff.
Not true in practice for a lot of materials
Yes I found CPP AMP really interesting, but since it only ran on Windows..never used it for anything.
I thought this would go without saying, but once SWE jobs are automated by AI (if it were to happen), then every job can be automated.

Even sales - I hear of companies building bots that do outreach with human voices.

But the professional careers that were once considered "prestigious" (strategy consulting, investment banking, law, medicine) will be the most disrupted bc labor costs are the highest in those.

Imagine a lawyer doing discovery in minutes, rather than days or weeks. Imagine a doctor that can diagnose you from your smart phone.

The world is not ready for those changes.
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See? I don’t use autocorrect! It’s AI’s revenge upon me.
In a "ziplock" bag which you have vacuumed all the air out of.
LLMs had way more "average internet commenter" training material than it had "good journalism" training material.

Keep that in mind when people make them write journalism. It's like at an 8th grade level, maybe.
It's the Indian English convention for placing commas in numbers -- one comma after the first three digits, then one comma after every two digits thereafter. e.g.

1,23,45,67,890.
It looks like the website is based in India.

Instead of the ones(10^0)-thousands(10^3)-millions(10^6)-billions(10^9)-... system followed in most other parts of the world, the Indian numbering system uses ones(10^0)-thousands(10^3)-lakhs(10^5)-crores(10^7)-...

So, for example, half a million subscribers (500,000) would translate to 5 lakh subscribers (5,00,000).
Wrapped up month 2 at $228.5k revenue from InterviewCoder, with $224k in profit
I don't think AI will have much of an impact on management consulting, since it's really just executive insurance. If anything, management consulting might be the perfect use for generative AI in its current state.

If you're a CEO running a company, you can go out and hire McKinsey and tell the board, "I'm a great CEO, that's why I brought in McKinsey. They're the BEST". McKinsey then proceeds to charge you a bunch of money and leaves you with some very slick powerpoints containing a bunch of advice, roadmaps, org charts, and action items.

If your company has a few good quarters after that you can say, "Look at what a great CEO I am, I brought in some best in class consultants and now our stock price is through the roof!". If on the other hand your company struggles, misses earnings targets, etc., you can say, "It's not my fault we're doing badly, I brought in a team of best in class consultants and even THEY couldn't help us turn things around yet - it must be the macro economy, industry headwinds, etc. Imagine how much worse we'd be doing if I didn't bring McKinsey in!"
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>Bill Gates

His Mom knew the chairman of IBM.

That's a connection no normal person will ever have. Steve Jobs and Steve Woz actually had to start from a middle class.

Comparison is the theft of joy, I haven't been evicted since I got my first apartment at 19 and with any luck I'll retire early. That's enough for me. I'm widely more success than I could of imagined.

Yes someone else is making a million a month, has a beautiful partner and a family.

Someone else just got out of prison and is struggling to stay in housing.

I will never know why the rich ( north of 10 million in the US) feel a need to keep working though. Start a band, travel, etc.

Why deal with VCs breathing down your neck.

Then again, if I woke up rich I'd probably start a game studio as a passion project.

I'd want to release all the code open source. I want the popular games of the future to at a minimum be open core.
Read any other paragraph lol. Or any time "cancel culture" comes up in this or any of dozens of articles it was mentioned in. It was annoying.
On the JPMC/Quantinuum certified quantum randomness demo
pilots are trained to handle this.
We had a similar setup at my university - printing to a lab printer was disallowed from a machine that wasn't physically in the lab. The printers had routeable IPs, so I'm guessing they did some kind of whitelisting at the printer itself.

The problem was, we were a Sun campus, and my tablet PC ran Linux. So I could SSH in, open up StarOffice, and hit Print on a document - all from the tablet PC in the crook of my elbow - then walk into the lab and pick the documents up out of the tray.

I never got in "trouble" for this, per se, but I did have a lab technician once look at me as if to say, "that's not allowed..."
Right now, regarding US news, if it sounds like satire, it probably isn't.
Of the three options, DIY battery packs, premade 100aH battery packs, or white glove powerwall a minimum wage earner would likely not have the skills to DIY the battery packs nor the money to pay for the powerwall.

Battery packs are an efficient market commodity and that’s pretty hard to beat for value for money.

Once full installations become more of a commodity then DIY with premade packs becomes less worth it.
I've worked in the anti-bot space for a while. Friction to real users is a huge cost. I strongly recommend a better solution.
Part of it is that you may get (D)DoSed and then your ISP may be any amount of pissed at you for taking on significant ingress traffic on a residential network.
> That single gram of silica gel could have an internal surface area of eight hundred square meters—the size of almost two basketball courts.

For us Americans, that's about 8600 square feet...and around a seventh of a football field.
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proceeds to show why wH is actually vital, because the useful examples use both watts and watt-hours to do the sums

It really is por que no los dos.
The model with the best accuracy in the linked benchmark is "OmniAI" (OP's company) which looks like a paid model, not open source [1].

[1]: https://getomni.ai/pricing
It’s not literally a pure exponential function but it might have exponential terms as opposed to polynomial or linear terms
Like when Don Bluth left disney. He did have a good run though.
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Conceding that it was a technical necessity, the replacement of live actors for in-game CGI rendered characters feels off in the Riven remake to me. Necessary because now you can walk all the way around them, the game can't assume a single viewing angle for videos to play out. Nor would it be practical to record new actors playing the roles (the old assets must surely be too low-quality to pass in a modern game, even if they go back to the source).

Part of Myst and Riven's charm in the 1990s was the immersion it offered, the world felt real, and the actors playing out characters added to it. The original point-and-click format feels dated today, but at the time, it was convincing enough to be believable.
So many people are obsessed with Web application size. But there are other important factors as well. First of all, the UI must be functional even it's slow and heavy. If it does the job then it's already a win. I don't actually care how long I'll wait while I'm downloading the JS bundles. I've been waiting 5-10 mins GTA to load back in 2008, waiting seconds is totally ok.
The evidence has several ramifications for ovine research and has set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics.

set the baa haha
I had no idea it was in steam but we used to play that game all the time. We had probably 10 or 15 guys playing in the library lol.

Thanks for making such a fun game!

I'll check it out
I mean, Musk also has a well-documented and public history of supporting and spreading white supremacist propaganda, so he's a Nazi regardless of the salute, which was still very much a Nazi salute.
the disney studios (walt disney animation, walt disney pictures, pixar, Industrial Light and Magic, Blue Sky, 20th Century Fox) contributed a significant amount of research towards technologies used in film and television, much of it in academic conferences like SIGGRAPH
In this article: https://medium.com/@takafumi.endo/how-ai-is-redefining-strat...

You can see how AI is already transforming consulting at the Big 3.
In what f'ng way does it seem reasonable. That is almost colonialist logic.

They invaded the premises.
I recently listened to a podcast episode he was on: https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id3692892/id372628820

It goes deep into his fq_codel work and why it was such a game-changer. It's an informal setting so his personality shines through - seems like we didn't just lose a great technologist, but also a heck of a human.
the F35 has standby instruments that work on DC batteries. it also has a radio that is also powered by a battery supply. probably an hour of operation without aircraft power.

no way it passed airworthiness without backup flight instruments and comm. every military aircraft for the past 50 years has this.

(oh, and the standby instrument package probably cost a couple of hundred thousand. certified for flight, of course)
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Judging by the condescension oozing from that last statement, it seems you're disinterested in a good faith engagement.

That statement is emotionally charged and factually incorrect, multiple times over. I assume the rest of your reply is along the same lines and won't trouble myself reading it.
> I'm not on board with accepting AI-written articles.

I haven't been on board with the "journalism" of the last fifty years, but this hasn't exactly prompted it to improve. Newspapers still have advertisements. Subscribers still have no say over editorial staff. The board still has say over the editorial staff. It's all fucked unless we can punt private ownership out of the equation.
I believe Clearscope is the largest app using Phlex views exclusively, with 454 components and counting. There’s a list of some other users here. https://www.phlex.fun/project/community.html#who-s-using-phl...
Lets not forget the MST3k silica gel skit in:
https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/MST3K_1103_-_The_Time_Traveler...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hb1jh @ 00:02:00
See also:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543492
Having worked at jobs for an extended time, you see how it is not just redoing for the same price. It compounds, for example a DB schema, over time people build more and more on top of it with leaky abstractions.

You end up rewriting many things.
We need one of these for .debs.
The answer files are easy to generate after installing once but it would be better to have an HTML ui that catered for every annoying .deb that can't think up sensible defaults for itself.
> - It will have new cells rather than used ones.

This is not a feature. Our Earth is a limited resource, and being able to reuse batteries instead of discarding them to the trash is a desirable property.
It's a choking hazard that is sometimes included in food packaging so it's just to cover the manufacturer since they don't really know what products it may end up in. Silica gel is non-toxic although maybe could cause some issues if you deliberately ate a huge quantity of it.
I'll repeat the same comment I made to the same article when it posted here about a year ago:

As an odd coincidence, I did the same experiment on a shoestring budget with substandard equipment also. I too used a fancy computer algorithm to get a best fit. Except that I managed to get four significant decimal places in the result — an improvement over the (also outdated) textbook.

The author of the angry rant had a life-defining experience of overwhelming frustration.

The same scenario resulted in a positive life-defining experience for me

It’s funny how unpredictably things pan out even in identical circumstances…
See also:

The Institute for Nothing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551191
Got to ask why?
> I thought this would go without saying, but once SWE jobs are automated by AI (if it were to happen), then every job can be automated.

I think this is exactly right, and possibly a good thing relative to the alternative. If AI were able to automate 20% of office-type jobs, you'd have a lot of people out of work, but likely not enough for anyone to do anything about it at a societal level. Those people would just be given some platitude in the same way out of work coal miners or assembly line workers were snidely told to "learn to code".

If every or nearly every office-type job gets automated, it would force us to address the issue in a meaningful way.
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> I can show you a dozen conveniently freeze-framed images of prominent Democrats raising their arm in supposed "Nazi salutes".

...and I can show you a video of Elon Musk doing a supposed Nazi salute:

https://youtu.be/-VfYjPzj1Xw?t=15

This is from PBS, no more, no less...
I just heard "vibing", next they'll call it VBA 10x.
I didn't know him, but followed his work on bufferbloat closely. I've never seen anyone work so diligently, for so many years, to fix a problem most people will never know even existed. And yet, that work will be felt by almost everyone on the internet. I'm sad knowing he's passed, and thankful to have seen his work. Rest in peace.
Reproducing the whole benchmark would be expensive, OmniAi starts at $250/month.
Nice work. A similar concept with songs, I guess it was called lyricstraining.com earlier:

https://lingoclip.com/
Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last
won't someone please think of the children^Wbillionaires^Wlanguage models

(actually, I asked gpt4o to ELI5 the article and it told me it was an april fool's joke, so I have the feeling the llm's are doing better than half the commenters here)
Before I had kids I wondered this. But it's really telling you to make sure your kids don't eat it.
Nice, but if the goal making the code easier to read, why keep the $ prefix cluttering ?

Having mutable and constants is great, but I'm not fan of apocopes like pub, mut and func. English is full of small words, there is really no need to go out of it. Think let, tie, tye, bag, box...

You can also make string and array as expression in which you can call functions through dot notation. Or even like ruby have percent notation à la Perl/Ruby for array/string creation.
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I wish this was true :(
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When my last phone took an unsanctioned swim, my research suggested that a food dehydrator is a last resort. It risks forcing water vapour further into the electronics of the system, rather than encouraging it to move out.

I did find a clever solution online that tried to induce mechanical suction on your phone to force the vapour out, but it was too expensive for a one off use.

In the end I had to resort to the food dryer anyway, after the silica gel failed to work.
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You need to hover the heart in the middle, not just the card.
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Small nitpick: you could replace “no funny business with pawns promoted to Rook” with “and are on their home squares” as there’s no way for a promoted pawn to get to a rook’s home square without moving ;)
"born on third base and thinks he hit a home run"
I know, but it’s something. And I wonder if they feel different about interfering with contacts, which is apparently what’s involved here.

Either way I’m glad I deleted my data years ago.
I realized this week for the first time exactly why. there was one in my instant ramen along with its other seasoning packets. If not paying attention you could easily be having your noodles with added desiccant flavor.
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Imagine being Hillary Clinton and seeing all this go down.
Yeah, I do agree with that. Honestly part of me wishes they would have used the old assets - put whatever you have thought the best available upscaler, and lock the player's position while the video plays. I mean, your position was locked in the original game.. so that should be possible without breaking things, right?

That said, I really do think all of the tradeoffs that they did make were understandable - pretty much like you said. Doesn't keep me from being nostalgic for the 90s, though.
When I had solar, ~10 years ago, it was similar. We had net metering, no batteries, and zero backup if the grid went down. This was in an area where that rarely happened anyway, so I didn't really care. It'd be easy to add batteries, though.

But net metering is becoming less common, and if you can't sell to the grid at retail, then it'd make sense to store it locally. In some cases, it can also make sense to use batteries even without solar. A good sized battery can keep your refrigerator running for days, which is useful for areas prone to weather related outages. It can also easily fully power the electronics on a gas oven for a long time. And honestly, a big battery these days isn't even that expensive.

And if that isn't enough, some batteries can be topped up with the power from a large battery EV. DCFC tends to come back before a lot of residential power, so this can be really useful.