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by anematode 6mo ago
sigh Right. Ironically, if the timeline is true that the attackers had been inside for months, the AIs they had access to are substantially weaker than today's frontier models. How much faster would they have achieved their goals wit
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by anematode 6mo ago
That part of his tweet made me laugh out loud. I don't understand who it's directed toward.
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by anematode 6mo ago
It is sooooo laggy for me.
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by anematode 6mo ago
Excellent!! I love interval arithmetic and also wrote a TS implementation for a graphing calculator project. Agree that it's very underrated, and I wish that directed rounding was exposed in more languages.
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by anematode 6mo ago
It's not quite the same as XOR swap, but a trick I've found handy is conditionally swapping values using XOR: int a, b; bool cond; int swap = cond ? a ^ b : 0; a ^= swap; b ^= swap; If cond is highl
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by anematode 6mo ago
Electricity is heavily regulated. Is there any evidence that LLMs will be the same?
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by anematode 6mo ago
? That's not how Windows on ARM emulation works. It uses dynamic JIT translation from x86 to ARM. When the compiler sees, e.g., lock add [mem], reg presumably it'll emit a ldadd , but that will have different semantics if the o
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by anematode 6mo ago
Ah, that's a great hypothesis. I wonder, then, how it works with x86 emulation on ARM. IIRC, atomic ops on ARM fault if the address isn't naturally aligned... but I guess the runtime could intercept that and handle it slowly.
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by anematode 6mo ago
Cool investigation. This part perplexes me, though: > Games have apparently been using split locks for quite a while, and have not created issues even on AMD’s Zen 2 and Zen 5. For the life of me I don't understand why you'd ev
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by anematode 6mo ago
Unlikely – no one is starting off undecided, then reading one article in The New Yorker and then committing this. And it's a slippery slope to tie it to legitimate criticism.
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by anematode 6mo ago
As far as I know, the US is the only country like this. But anti-AI sentiment is rising around the world.
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by anematode 6mo ago
Abysmal response.
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by anematode 6mo ago
U+1F913
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by anematode 6mo ago
Moore said computers get twice as fast every 18 months. Web devs took that as a challenge.
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by anematode 6mo ago
Dear lord. It's actually laggy for me to scroll on that page.
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by anematode 6mo ago
This was already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047936 It contains many factual errors.
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by anematode 6mo ago
Based on looking at V8's JITed code, there seemed to be a lot of overhead with stack overflow checking, actually. The function prologues and epilogues were just as bloated in the tail-call case. I'll upload some screenshots if I c
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by anematode 6mo ago
See I thought that, but then in the putatively aspirational section it says > 5,600+ TypeScript files from VSCode's source, ported and adapted which doesn't really make sense as a goal?
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by anematode 6mo ago
Quoting from the README: > The entire VSCode workbench - editor, terminal, extensions, themes, keybindings — ported to run on a native shell. but also > Many workbench features are stubbed or partially implemented So which is it? The
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by anematode 6mo ago
Nice post :) Last year I was working on a tail-call interpreter ( https://github.com/anematode/b-jvm/blob/main/vm/interpreter2... ) and found a similar regression on WASM when transforming it from a s
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by anematode 6mo ago
Looks like a very sophisticated operation, and I feel for the maintainer who had his machine compromised. The next incarnation of this, I worry, is that the malware hibernates somehow (e.g., if (Date.now() < 1776188434046) { exit(); } )
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by anematode 6mo ago
> But then the clean room implementations started showing up. People had taken Anthropic’s source code and rewritten Claude Code from scratch in other languages like Python and Rust. Seems like the phrase "clean room" is the ne
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by anematode 6mo ago
Arguably, an even worse day to release it ;)
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by anematode 6mo ago
Ya, I tend to believe that (most) human VR will be obsoleted well before human software engineering. Software engineering is a lot more squishy and has many more opportunities to go off the rails. Once a goal is established, the output of V
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by anematode 6mo ago
ah! I thought I was being original :)
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by anematode 6mo ago
Definitely. As an extreme but fun example... in one project I had a massive hash map (~700 GB or so) that was concurrently read to/written from by 256 threads. The entries themselves were only 16 bytes and so I could use atomic cmpxchg
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by anematode 6mo ago
> Strawberry uses separate renderer processes for settings pages, modals, dropdowns, and other UI components. Erm. Why? Svelte or not, is this program expected to run on anything but the latest and greatest hardware?
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by anematode 6mo ago
Very nice :) For a while I've been annoyed that esbuild, which is written in Go, eschews these APIs to detect changes in watch mode and instead continually polls the filesystem: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild&#x2
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by anematode 6mo ago
Actually, the neural net itself is fairly imprecise. Search is required for it to achieve good play. Here's an example of me beating Stockfish 18 at depth 1: https://lichess.org/XmITiqmi
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by anematode 7mo ago
Dear lord. Are you at least transparent with your clients that this is the standard to which you hold your own code?

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