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by kiwih 1mo ago
Often kiwis can afford it but just choose not to. My own parents are well off and yet still have an absolutely freezing house all winter, it drives me crazy. Just put on a sweater, and another one over that, and a blanket....
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by kiwih 1mo ago
I was just recently awarded tenure, in a faculty of engineering, at one of the top universities in Australia. If you're in engineering at least, I think it's an extremely exciting time to be in academia as AI is rewriting the rule
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by kiwih 6mo ago
I am an academic at a big Australian university. I can't disagree more with this article. Students are not just machines that convert ideas to papers (and nor should faculty), they are one of the true joys of academia in the first plac
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by kiwih 8mo ago
There's a drinking game which I guess is inspired by this game, which I believe is called "Pizza Box" (at least that's what everyone I ever met who knew it called it). You start with an empty pizza box, and you need a la
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We ran Capture the Narrative – a CTF for AI social media manipulation(capturethenarrative.com)
5 points by kiwih 11mo ago|2 comments
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by kiwih 11mo ago
Hi HN, I wanted to share a side project from my work at UNSW that has recently become all-consuming! Essentially, we built a new kind of CTF where players competed to dominate an in-house social media platform, set in a fictional country, w
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by kiwih 11mo ago
Strange question - has the "submitted at" times been edited on this post and all the comments here? I swear I read everything on this submission, including the comments, several days ago, but nothing here is longer than a few hour
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by kiwih 1y ago
I left US academia for Australia in 2023 and have never been happier - I'd be happy to talk to you about the changes I encountered if you'd like!
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by kiwih 2y ago
I am devastated by this news. I was lucky enough to work with Mohamed and Andy for several projects (including taping out the world's first ChatGPT-authored silicon [0]), and I've never met people more passionate about making chip
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by kiwih 2y ago
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I think a more reas
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by kiwih 2y ago
Not always one for pithy remarks, but the quote from George Orwell seems prescient here: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." I'm not American, but FTA it sounds like having
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by kiwih 2y ago
I noted in a different comment in this thread that we teach all first-year compsci and software engineering students at my university MIPS assembly. They may then specialise into other areas, security, operating systems, embedded, etc., and
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by kiwih 2y ago
At my institution we teach MIPS, or rather, we teach MIPSY, which is our own version of MIPS which includes a bunch of helper pseudo-instructions. It's taught to all computer science and software engineering students. Most students wou
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by kiwih 2y ago
In Australia at least, anyone who is enrolled at or works at a university can use the taxpayer-subsidised "Gadi" HPC which is part of the National Computing Infrastructure ( https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-s
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by kiwih 2y ago
In my experience in computer engineering in the academic systems of the USA, New Zealand, and Australia, a very large proportion of students will write their first paper in their first year. It is field dependent, but when I was a postdoc a
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Latam Airlines SYD to AKL flight: 50 people treated after mid-air incident(rnz.co.nz)
79 points by kiwih 3y ago|147 comments
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by kiwih 3y ago
I quite enjoyed the broken earth trilogy, and took no issue from each entry winning. Which book would you have preferred win from those years?
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by kiwih 3y ago
I've recently been designing a custom implementation of a DCC controller for a new model railroad I'm setting up - what don't you like about the protocol? I find the protocol fascinating in that the data signal is combined wi
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by kiwih 3y ago
That's interesting and I appreciate your response. I didn't subscribe until 2020 so perhaps I missed the downward swing and have only seen it on the up?
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by kiwih 3y ago
I'm a print subscriber to Wired and read it cover to cover most months. I find most issues pretty good and usually learn all kinds of interesting details about things happening in the tech world. They even have a hacker column, in a re
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Chip-Chat: My journey using ChatGPT to design a chip for tapeout(01001000.xyz)
3 points by kiwih 3y ago|1 comments
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by kiwih 3y ago
In March of this year a post made it to the front page of Hacker News regarding Tiny Tapeout( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376645 ). Here, they had made a process where you could submit custom, miniature silicon des
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by kiwih 3y ago
Wow, this is cool! It has never made sense to me that a platform with thousands of times more compute and capabilities than Gameboys from two decades ago is worse in every regard for gaming. Hopefully resources like these can be used to bot
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by kiwih 3y ago
Firstly, well done on making your first PCB - and it looks like you've done a pretty good job besides! > I passionately hate Digikey’s search interface. It is shockingly bad at having the right metadata for filtering to be effective
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by kiwih 3y ago
I'm sorry at what university was this assistant professor getting 200k? I clearly need to find better universities :)
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Ports to remain closed as AFP investigates cybersecurity breach (Australia)(smh.com.au)
3 points by kiwih 3y ago|1 comments
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by kiwih 3y ago
Former postdoc in 30s here - I only had to postdoc to 31 (am now on the tenure-track, woohoo) and I still felt like the impermanence was unsettling and stressful. It made it nigh-impossible to plan out life pathways, and just like the many
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by kiwih 3y ago
How about the following list of 10 cities/towns in Australia with property around 100-300k AUD? https://www.mpamag.com/au/mortgage-industry/guides/what-are-...
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by kiwih 3y ago
It is absolutely astounding to me that such behaviours are both legal and tolerated in the so-called "land of the free". Astounding. You need to prove that your money is innocent? Pulling up bank statements on the jet bridge?
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by kiwih 3y ago
Perhaps a referendum would be a good way to do it? The UK has proposed, and even passed, a few of those in recent memory

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