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by alain94040 2y ago
This one, the burning platform memo? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32698044
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by alain94040 2y ago
If the article title had been "why does the hash function never return -1", you would agree it's not a random behavior and serves a very clear purpose. It just so happens that the original author didn't know that until t
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by alain94040 2y ago
Have you used the previous generation of MP3 players? I had one with a tiny LCD screen that would only fit half the song title (no space for the artist). To go to then next song, you had to press the "next" button (which makes sen
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by alain94040 2y ago
Very true. To paraphrase a saying, CPU amateurs argue about micro-benchmarks on HN, the pros simulate real code.
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by alain94040 2y ago
That project seems pretty much dead, running on fumes. A message from mid-2024 after a year of silence: >At this point all of the areas we are working on could progress much faster with money for hiring people. That was not always the ca
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by alain94040 2y ago
> if this report were to quit today, are you able to step in and complete their project? I don't think that's the main goal for a manager (even technical). I'd say generally, the manager should understand why the team is
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by alain94040 2y ago
$20K/MO sounds exaggerated. A quick Google gives me Palo Alto was deemed the seventh most expensive location for assisted living in California, according to a new study by Mirador, a platform that helps people research nationwide assis
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by alain94040 2y ago
Sounds like the person who designed the board followed a very simple and wise rule: always connect the negative side to the ground. Can't go wrong with that... until you have to deal with negative voltage (-5V). Another out of bounds b
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by alain94040 2y ago
> find me an "advanced amateur" (as the article says of the LLM's level) chess player who ever makes an illegal move Without a board to look at, just with the same linear text input given in the prompt? I bet a lot of amat
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by alain94040 2y ago
You can do a search on GitHub and there is quite a bit of code that is using event.screenX > 0. Maybe someone should file some bug reports. Also, stack overflow suggests that exact code to "differentiate between mouse and keyboard t
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by alain94040 2y ago
I know several founders who went through YC in the chip design space, so even if the people running YC don't have a chip design background, just like VCs, they learn from hearing pitches of the founders who actually know the space.
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by alain94040 2y ago
I agree with most of the technical points of the article. But there may still be value in YC calling for innovation in that space. The article is correctly showing that there is no easy win in applying LLMs to chip design. Either the market
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by alain94040 2y ago
Don't know what the latest is, but this from Teradyne was probably close: https://www.teradyne.com/products/ultraflexplus/
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by alain94040 2y ago
But if you assume that the opponent knows that they shouldn't pick between 37-64, doesn't that change your odds? The game theory here is similar to another quiz "Guess 1/3 of the average". You are really trying to g
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by alain94040 2y ago
There's a bug in your logic. Yes, if a new contract is proposed and a party declines the terms, there is no new contract. But that has no impact on the old contract. So the old contract is still in effect, as it was not replaced by a n
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by alain94040 2y ago
Ken Kocienda is known for writing the iPhone software keyboard, an experience he wrote a book about that is well worth a read.
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by alain94040 2y ago
Accept a subset of html as a tool output? So if a CLI tool wants to output a list just do: printf(“<li>item 1”); And legacy tools are obviously supported as raw text since their output doesn’t start with a magic html tag.
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by alain94040 3y ago
After 4 years of $0, I'm not sure it's a matter of finding the strength to keep going. Something in your target market doesn't seem to be working out. If you can, find experienced friends that are willing to tell you the ugly
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by alain94040 3y ago
6174 is only remarkable if you count in base 10. This is HackerNews, so we all use hexadecimal. Sadly, according to https://kaprekar.sourceforge.net/output/sample_hex.php , there is not a simple Kaprekar Constant in bas
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by alain94040 3y ago
So you are basically at the mercy of the OS caching algorithm. That sounds like a bad plan for a benchmark. You are not measuring what you think you are (your code), you are measuring the OS caching policy.
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by alain94040 3y ago
Why isn't it linear?
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by alain94040 3y ago
Not 100% sure about cancel vs. stop. Say I'm creating a new calendar entry. I type a lot of information, then I get to save or cancel. Technically, cancel is safe because I'm not messing up my existing calendar. But all the typing
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by alain94040 3y ago
A physics textbook is a great start, but it has one major drawback: it's linear, and can't adapt to the reader. Maybe I already understand half of the textbook, but I can't figure out this one section. I'm out of luck, b
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by alain94040 3y ago
Is your math wrong by order of magnitudes? I try to visualize the amount of waste I generate every year and try to imagine one cell phone next to it. Doesn’t feel very significant.
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by alain94040 3y ago
You are missing what happened next, which Cruise tried to cover up.
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by alain94040 3y ago
The key results: > Cascade discovered 12 bugs that produce wrong computations under certain microarchitectural conditions (Uarchvals) in Kronos and VexRiscv > Cascade discovered 3 bugs that cause hangs in Kro- nos, PicoRV32 and VexRis
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by alain94040 3y ago
And notice how his comment is constructive despite the lack of name calling or abusive language.
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by alain94040 3y ago
Agreed. I see the job of an experienced maintainer as a facilitator who should bend over backward to help other people's contributions land cleanly. The help often involves feedback on style and architecture consistency, but a sign o
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by alain94040 3y ago
Yes, not testing at all on a real device meshes nicely with their company's signature: Solutional is an *agile* software development company Emphasis on agile.
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by alain94040 3y ago
There is also a dynamic aspect to that: the original team who started the startup has battle scars, they used to take risk, but now they have a natural incentive to be more conservative, preserve the way things were done. Rands has a great

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