<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rob_c</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rob_c</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:10:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rob_c" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rob_c in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, that's the quality of candidates. I wish I was joking as a PhD holder for only 15yr.<p>A lot of skill of
is getting bled into the private sector because getting the PhD in a lot of regions doesn't mean the step up it used to. A lot of that comes from awarding them to layabouts doing "a gender critical analysis of ...".<p>Industry doesn't how/what/why they just wanted the 3 letters as a performance barrier to hire competants.</p>
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<p>Those who can use it better, those who can't out who cheat are (for now) let down by obviously cheap and slightly crappy models.<p>The worry is in ~5yr time when the generic models catch up to this level (basic undergrad mind) that we need to worry about how to thin the herd. We could always go back to the tried and tested student staff engagement but most unis tried to turn themselves into sausage factories in thirst for the almighty dollar so the student/staff ratios are all off</p>
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<p>> You pay red hat for compliance reasons<p>You may, have you heard of docker?</p>
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<p>So why else do we pay someone to package and certify/verify open source projects? This is absolutely 90++% of what should be RedHats core day job.</p>
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<p>Again. "AI" for what it is is just basic "ML". And say it with me ML has no form of agency.<p>This is a human screwing up and blaming their tools. Nothing to see move on.<p>Unfortunately there will be both the LLM crowd evangelicals and those demanding human jobs not be expunged in terms of progress and efficiency, but, sigh...</p>
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<p>I'm fairly sure the FPGA space is big enough there are alternate products for most of the offerings</p>
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<p>Think academic and small companies who don't pay for support opening corner case issues all the time publicly. They want none of the complex support unless you pay (reasonable imo).<p>And for those who forget RHEL for instance has to pay salaries to back port fixes and such and the same logic applies here.</p>
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<p>But you just showed you have deep pockets and they think they can get you to open it again every year for the rest of time.<p>Xilinx was never positioned that it made sense for them to open it up. If/when it gets run into the ground by AMD short sightedness they might just open it to claim that was the plan all along...</p>
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<p>Or the stupid stop being so loud</p>
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<p>No. Not at all. The simulations were based on old data with the artificial cut off. The particles were and are much much smaller. Please don't recite rhetoric and do some reading.<p>And frankly I'm saddened that you're arguing for an educated by tryany and trying to make things political which are simply fact based</p>
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<p>Global fact most died from a related underlying disease and COVID simply hastened on the process. Actually killed from just this is way below the 1M mark globally.<p>Also we've now reached vitD in kids cereals and butter so you know, we know how to avoid this...</p>
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<p>Water + heat + sieve<p>Unless you have industrial pollutants in which case you also have someone to blame...<p>We didn't get this far as a species being that ignorant</p>
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<p>The alternative being to tell your neighbour to tell their neighbour to stop defacating in the river or you'll stop paying their bills to bring the analogy closer to home...</p>
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<p>So your position is 0.01 Vs 0.001 and given error bars bigger than that you're arguing that I'm clearly wrong to say 0.1 is wrong... Slow clap...</p>
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<p>> the anti-mask wackos<p>Well thank you for your service to stupidity. The only measure of worth was actual social distancing which was quickly admonished by the   pointless mask arguments as nauseum. No, there is no science good to bad to back up things which are broken by common sense, virii spread in Japan at the same rate as the west after accounting for population densities. (faster without the correction as you'd expect) So let's just move on.<p>Please, oh please, do not start with some form of "the masses seek to be ruled". The only, only end of that game is to justify totalitarianism which is often what those arguing the point are stupid enough to believe they are arguing against.<p>If you're going to make an argument for they need lead then yes. And we need both control in the dining water. But we'll never see my version of an idealised advancing civilisation because of "mah feels", "personal experiences" and such drivel.<p>You may not be used to hearing this but if I was to be grading you you'd get a pass for a coherent sentence but a fail for correctness and coherency, in short. You are wrong.</p>
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<p>> some nuanced point<p>it's not nuanced to point out a very large statement which at the time was very VERY anti-trumpian and pro ultra-left, lest not forget "hug a tourist", "lets change the popular naming conventions to technical" and, "oh crap too late now human to human is higher than anything we've seen before" which is basically all memory holed now</p>
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<p>> you guys<p>I'm a wonderful citizen of heir u-turn starmer unfortunately so plenty of wanting to clear the waterways here :P</p>
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<p>> With what money? There's a reason they're dependent on USAID.<p>How much does BASIC hygiene cost it's like manners. It's education (which is more than well funded at a "throw cash at it problem".<p>> we just dumped our excess production<p>Well in a nutshell, yes we'd dumping quite a lot on Africa, that doesn't mean we should shore up the system with yet another western derived screw-up. At this point I'll go for the good old star trek perspective of impacting a cultures development by suddenly advancing their technological position.</p>
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<p>> Why should we expect the US to step up?<p>Le all-mighty dollar, it tastes best when given freely no?<p>> It's almost as if the double standard is off the charts.<p>I agree. I love how the same people will typically call for US withdrawal from any/all military theatres; whilst promoting sending <FORCED> aid at the end of a needle. I think a lot of these people were of the "lock them up for their covid heresy" category...<p>If this was China exerting influence I'm sure we'd start complaining there's poison in the needles, bribery and how they should go back and focus on China.</p>
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<p>It's healthy to remain sceptical of all information, pointing out a very widely blindly trusted organisation has serious problems which means this trust and faith placed in it is blind is NOT "an enemy of my enemy" situation.<p>That leads to sectarianism.<p>The WHO can both simultaneously be responsible for many good things and have very bad leadership doing more harm than good in other areas. But pointing out that dichotomy of the truth is beyond the conversational chattering class I fear.</p>
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