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magic_manon PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon

The energy consumed is cv^2f. It makes no sense to keep increasing frequency as you make power way worse.

magic_manon Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%

I don't think Tesla stock has traded on fundamentals for a while.

magic_manon Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

The numbers get better as they get more data.

magic_manon A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

Top athletes they have stats to measure. I guess for these researchers I guess there are papers? How do you know who did what with multiple authors? How do you figure out who is Jordan vs Steve Kerr?

magic_manon Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep

This over reliance on llms is crazy. People are going to forget how to code. Sometimes the llm makes up shit or uses the wrong version of the API. Sometimes it's easier to look up the documentation and write some code.

magic_manon Ask HN: Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84?

Programmable calcs were banned when I went to school since everyone was cheating with them. People even had programs to simulate the clearing of memory.

magic_manon Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China

Pissing off your primary customer base probably isn't smart. I don't see MAGA buying electric cars. In foreign markets BYD is a better value.

He did become the world's richest man and he bought himself and election so I wouldn't under estimate him.

magic_manon Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

Also it makes getting visa way easier.

magic_manon Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

What brokers allow you to short crypto?

magic_manon Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

He wanted to be CEO and they said no. He went a different American company that said they would let him be CEO, but he realized he didn't want to be the CEO there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEh3ZgbvBrE

magic_manon Ask HN: Learning programming when AI can do better?

At least right now it can't. It makes a lot of mistakes. It is useful to write the code and then you just need to fix the stuff it didn't do right.

magic_manon 'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek

The ai judge scored it 118-112. Usyk won the fight, but maybe by 2-3 rounds and not 6. Boxing is way too subjective.

magic_manon Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Illegal streams are working but netflix is not. That is crazy.

magic_manon Ask HN: Should I Go Back to College?

EE is much harder than CS as a degree. Also there is less jobs and pay sucks. You will see a lot of EEs doing software jobs.

magic_manon Text2CAD Generating Sequential CAD Designs from Text Prompts

can you import this into solid works or autocad? I think it would be super useful to have the basic model and then tweak it.

magic_manon Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison

After she comes out she can write a book maybe sell movie right etc and she will be ok. Look at Anna Delvey or Jordan Belfort. Maybe she hid some crypto.

magic_manon Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

The dudes who did this are going to probably be visited by homeland security or FBI. Not sure what they thought they will get out of this. I don't think the government cares about security, but they are vengeful.

magic_manon CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon

It doesn't matter it was 100% crowdstrikes fault. Surprised its still worth 60billion dollars.

magic_manon Susan Wojcicki has died

But it is more likely when you are old. It is you your immune system unable to kill mutations.

magic_manon Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper

They do not, they made ~90 billion in profit. So no one would notice a 10 mil mistake, but no they didn't make 300b in profits.

magic_manon CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B

Way more than delta flights were grounded. If you include all the hours lost by all those people and assign some monetary value it's probably more than that. Not only that, but all the hospitals. God forbid someone died because of it. Surprised crowd strike isn't bankrupt

magic_manon Google on the verge of acquiring cloud security company Wiz for $23B

23 bil in 4 years? That seems like a good deal.

magic_manon Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab

Doesn't seem like a great idea to put a fab in such a dangerous spot.

magic_manon Mercedes EQXX Record Drive: Riyadh to Dubai Single Charge 1000+ km Range [video]

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovation/product-innovatio...

It describes the details:

Start Mercedes-Benz Center, Riyadh, 8 March 2024, 4:15 a.m. (AST)

Arrival Mercedes-Benz Brand Center, Dubai, 8 March 2024, 7:57 p.m. (GST)

Travel route Riyadh, Haradh, Al Batha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai

Driving distance 1,010 km (627.6 miles)

Total driving time 14:42 h

Ave. speed 68.7 km/h (42.7 mph) including vehicle static (1:57 h due to border crossing and driver change); 79.4 km/h (49.3 mph) in motion

Max. speed 140 km/h (87 mph)

Ave. consumption 7.4 kWh/100km (8.4 mi/kWh)¹, equalling around 0.9 l/100 km or 282 MPGe for a petrol-fuelled vehicle

magic_manon Only 2% of Tesla Full Self-Driving trial users end up buying it

It drives like a terrible driver. However if you have Tesla insurance it can drive like crazy and still not lower the safety score since all it's infractions aren't counted.

magic_manon Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)

Interesting how he was also born in seattle. Seems like how a lot of pioneers of the PC are from there.

magic_manon Ask HN: Is this the right time to pursue a PhD in Machine Learning?

If you are going to into a top 4 school it is something that will look good on your resume unless you already went harvard, stanford, etc. The Research community seems to like phds from prestigious schools.

magic_manon Toyota's hybrid-first strategy is delivering big profits

Unless you own a house I don't think it makes sense to get an electric. I barely like sitting 5 minutes at the super charger which at least for me was giving like 180kw and then it just drops off a bunch, and now the super chargers are getting more full.

magic_manon Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession"

The reason their company is worth 2 trillion dollar is because of the programmers who wrote cuda.

magic_manon How China Built BYD

The biggest challenge is the battery which is what byd originally made. Electric motors have been around for a long time. The first cars were electric.