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Top stem grad programs at US universities have around 50% international students, with Stanford CS, for instance, as high as 68%. This is according to published university data and matches my own observation.

https://facts.mit.edu/enrollment-statistics/ https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/hai_ai-index-report-20...

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:00PM (#48936340)
openrouter->rankings shows a pareto frontier. https://openrouter.ai/rankings#benchmarks
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:58AM (#48046302)
DeepSeek claims that they can run inference on Huawei chips. Not sure about training.
Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:44PM (#47697992)
How does it compare to opensnitch? https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
This works with the openrouter API as well, which skips having to make a google account etc. Here's a Claude-coded openrouter compatible adaptation which seems to work fine: https://github.com/RomeoV/gemimg

A 1024x1024 image seems to cost about 3ct to generate.

Re:The Principles of Diffusion Models on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:15PM (#45882643)
Are you familiar with the "Bitter Lesson" by recent Turing Award winner Rich Sutton? http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Re:Typst 0.14 on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:45PM (#45696405)
One thing I'm missing when making slides with typst is the ability to show short videos or animated gifs. Although to be fair this isn't easy in beamer either.

Typst can actually include gifs, but they don't move for me. I have some hopes that perhaps one could make slides straight in html which could alleviate the issue.

Re:Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:34PM (#45109373)
Looks like the performance is pretty decent, somewhere around Llama3.1 for general knowledge (Tables 17) but still a bit behind in Code and Reasoning (Table 18). Llama3.1 was released about one year ago.
Re:Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:13PM (#43042095)
Per-user search history can directly be sold to advertisers, no? I was under the impression Google and Microsoft do that, or at least use it internally to build a profile of each user, again used for advertising.
Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @05:52PM (#42011938)
Kagi answers that there is "CBMC", which is single-threaded, but that there are extensions "Deagle" and "Yogar-CBMC" that provide multi-threading for CBMC. It gives links to the papers for all three, however some of them are closed access (or in other words, fact checked, unlike arxiv).
Re:Git commit with hash `0000000` on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @10:29PM (#41991404)
I just stumbled across this commit and couldn't believe my eyes, thought it may be interesting to some of you as well.

EDIT: Looking further into it, it looks like there's almost two thousand commits on github starting with this exact hash: https://github.com/search?q=hash%3A0000000&type=commits&p=1

Re:Mdx – Execute Your Markdown Code Blocks, Now in Go on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:49PM (#41957625)
Yup, looks like org-babel is at least 15 years old. https://github.com/taruti/org-babel/tree/master

I don't think it ever had huge adoption across whole teams, but I hope if there are new implementations that they take away a number of lessons you can gather from 15 years of org-babel.

Re:Our RNG Git Hash Bug on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:17AM (#41500515)
I suppose it's "RNG" if the commit has exactly one 'e' and otherwise only numbers, so that YAML interprets it as scientific notation. I assume otherwise it's always interpreted as a String, as a fallback.
I find this comment to be very tone-deaf. Are you interested in buying stocks to support Venezuelan companies, or are you purely trying to make a quick buck off of the backs of Venezuelan people trying to prevent their country from being a dictatorship?
Re:Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance on Saturday June 01, 2024 @07:14AM (#40544695)
Very interesting. The abstract claims that although GPT-4 was claimed to score in the 92nd percentile on the bar exam, when correcting for a bunch of things they find that these results are overinflated, and that it only scores in the 15th percentile specifically on essays when compared to only people that passed the bar.

That still does put it into bar-passing territory, though, since it still scores better than about one sixth of the people that passed the exam.

I really don't mind the green ones, in particular when the bikes are used as an alternative to a second car, which to my is significantly more "fugly".
Re:Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi/Framework Laptop on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:53AM (#40376943)
Thanks for the nice writeup! So how many hours does your laptop get after all this?

It would also be interesting to see an "all default" install (arch or manjaro) somewhere, is someone knows a link.

I don't want to read too much into it, but the person (supposedly) submitting the PR seems to work at 1Password since December last year, as per his Linkedin. (And his Linkedin page has a link to the Github profile that made the PR).
Probably they could get a nice speed up by changing the if condition from your link into a multiplication with (eoe != 0) two lines down instead.
Re:Last Pass Hacked on Saturday August 27, 2022 @12:01AM (#32615518)
Do you sync your passwords between devices?
Re:Org-Mode as a Lightweight Notebook on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:23PM (#32323816)
Another nice thing is that boilerplate code can be written in a block which is not exported to html or pdf, and therefore doesn't pollute the reading experience, but is still available in the org file.
I took a course in University (Eth Zürich) which referenced "Chapters 5 and 6 in Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective".
Re:How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out (2021) on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:38AM (#32262649)
I believe you can explicitly set "overlap=false".
I was also surprised, but it seems to be true. Wikipedia lists the median disposable income after adjusting for local prices (PPP), and USA is first on that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

Re:SearchHut on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:33AM (#32108010)
The site has just been taken offline by Drew due to the unfortunate start. I hope we can come back to this once the project has been properly launched, although Drew notes that he is "really unhappy with how the roll-out went" and that "my motivation for this project has evaporated" [1].

Thanks for all the work Drew, I hope you guys manage to come to a conclusion that you are satisfied with!

[1]: https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/048293268d4ed4254659c3cd6abe67...

Re:Algorithms for Decision Making on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:59AM (#32036312)
Here's the github repo used to create books in the same style: https://github.com/sisl/tufte_algorithms_book

Note that this repo is from the same author as the book.

Re:Algorithms for Decision Making on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:54AM (#32036252)
Previous discussions:

  Algorithms for Decision Making(http://algorithmsbook.com/)  
  693 points|Dowwie|1 year ago|85 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716581

  Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf](https://algorithmsbook.com/files/dm.pdf)  
  498 points|mindcrime|3 months ago|50 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123683

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