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arrakark··on My private information is worth $30
LOL good one
arrakark··on A "cooked" Computer Science grad's perspective
As someone who is essentially still a new grad (~3yoe), I wanted to give my two cents as to why the job market for new hires is so bad.
arrakark··on The Enterprise Experience
Love it. Describes my new job at $ENTERPRISE very well.
arrakark··on Test Results for AMD Zen 5
Cache-line bursts/beats tend to be standardized to 64B in lots of NoC architectures.
arrakark··on Side-Effect of Trump Flip-Flopping on Tariffs
Mods please delete if too political. I just thought it's an interesting idea.
arrakark··on NoProp: Training Neural Networks without Back-propagation or Forward-propagation
Same.

If I had to guess it's just local gradients, not an end-to-end gradient.

arrakark··on Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge
I think Aptera's vision is fantastic. People are quick to judge the looks or three-wheelness of the car, but I think that's just a symptom of cars being marketed as status symbols nowadays.

I am worried about production. With all of the years it's taking them to get there, they can run out of money at any time it seems. It's unknown if they can raise enough money on their terms to get this thing to production.

arrakark··on A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress
But original MC ran on JVM, which can run on ARM...
arrakark··on A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress
> LLMs are really good at regex

Maybe that's changed recently, but I have struggled to get all but the most basic regex working from GPT-4o-mini

arrakark··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
Read the guidelines, OP /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

arrakark··on A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology
Which Tor hidden service was this?

Asking for a friend...

arrakark··on YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
I've been designing chips for 2 years. One of our very well known third-party IP vendors clearly used HLS. I say clearly, because it was almost a 1:1 translation from OO C++ code, variable names, hierarchies, polymorphism, you name it. Absolutely everything about the Verilog was the complete opposite about how a designer organizes their state machines, etc.

Anyways, their IP very clearly violated the standards of a very well known interface, which could have spelled disaster at tape-out. I had to fight tooth-and-nail, and spent lots of my company's time trying to convince this third-party vendor that this was an actual issue. Only months later were they convinced. The revised code kept coming back and failing interface checks, which shows that they weren't doing these checks on their end. All I could think is, "this can't go well..."

arrakark··on Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
I'd like to add to your #5. If Google deems you a legitimate threat, then they can just de-crapify their own search for a bit by going back to their old algo. It's extremely easy for them to fight back.
arrakark··on Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
Serious question, what was the testing like to meet FCC part 15?
arrakark··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
I've tried OralB's $120 toothbrush, and their cheapest $30 Pro 300. Functionally, they are almost exactly the same!
arrakark··on Robert Horn's Recumbent Racing Motorcycle (2019)
See Robert's website here: https://rohorn.blogspot.com
arrakark··on Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air
If they don't give a watt per square meter value I'm not interested