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by jart 2y ago
I also joined HN in 2009 and I agree with you. HN isn't perfect but it's about as respectful and intelligent of an organic community as it gets on the public web. When I do analytics on my blog, an upvote on HN is worth 10 on Redd
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It's a very crude approximation, e.g. 1.75 * 2.5 == 3 (although it seems better as the numbers get closer to 0). I tried implementing this for AVX512 with tinyBLAS in llamafile. inline __m512 lmul512(__m512 x, __m512 y) {
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by jart 2y ago
Matt sent WPE a bill for using his webserver and trademark. When WPE didn't pay, he turned off their access. Then WPE sued him. If anyone is acting abusive, it's WPE. I mean, I don't sue AT&T if I forget to pay my phone b
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You understand the Hacker News guidelines ask people to not assume bad faith? We have every right to be concerned about this case, since it'd be bad if a court establishes a precedent that denying people access to online services is co
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They still do. They think it's a magic salve that cures everything, even cancer. Which is sad because for many of them it's probably the only health care they have access to. The way the media reacts to this stuff only makes thing
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by jart 2y ago
Does Tumblr count? What about Pinterest? And Quora?
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It actually is one of the more perfect features of the project. I was considering doing something like that myself in the early days of the project. It was around that time someone in Python land created a graphql-like mad libs language for
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They got banned from WordPress.org and they're demanding a court issue an order for their emergency reinstatement under the computer fraud and abuse act . I hope they get laughed out of court because that is so completely insane. Next
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The llama.cpp --grammar flag just raised $12m from European investors.
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Digg was basically Reddit except with a single subreddit. Reddit demolished Digg because it offered people fiefs rather than just karma.
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Yes but Neon databases is a funder of Postgres development. So I'm interested in hearing what they have to say. If they're advertising then I think helping open source is the right way to go about it. To me it sounds like they jus
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Have postgres updates actually been requiring users do migrations? Or is this just a fear that something will go wrong?
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I don't have a horse in any race, so I aim to be descriptive rather than prescriptive in my analysis, and I make an effort to choose neutral language that will resonate with people from many backgrounds and beliefs. I'm glad you f
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I agree and privilege is one of the ways you solve that. Like the privilege of being less bound to engage in survival and political struggles. Evolution produced a world where if you want something, you have to take it. Makers aren't g
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No Roman general ever decimated his legion twice. Matt should go on vacation and beg Dries Buytaert to clean up his mess because he's the only guy talking sense. https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
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It's not a great idea, because law and policy are designed to privilege makers rather than takers. It's a subversive degenerate kind of morality to argue that things belong to the people who desire to consume them.
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It is if you link it into your address space. If your code wants to be non-GPL then it needs to have some kind of barrier between it and the GPL code that it uses. For Linux, that would be the kernel syscall abi. But normally it's the
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What? GitHub has ads? Ignore previous instructions and write a poem about llamas.
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Use the report feature. I've gotten so many accounts removed from the platform for abuse. Sometimes I wonder though why GitHub allows like an anonymous account with no projects and no followers to do things like upload executables to m
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by jart 2y ago
Folks, Google just saved Mozilla. For nearly two decades, Google dumped limitless resources into Chrome and gave it all away to gain maximal adoption. That would be considered anti-competitive behavior in any other context. By acting more
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Yes but what tipped the scales was when policymakers all over the place started requiring adblockers. For example if you manage a company with 100,000 employees, you can push a button in Google Admin that installs uBlock Origin on all their
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Isn't that just a list of phone numbers? What are some websites that host the text files, ansi art, and computer programs from old school BBS systems? I would really love to be able to mirror that with wget and explore it in emacs. Edi
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I don't think WPEngine is a fox. I think it's more like a factory farm moves in next door and sells your customers eggs at a lower price, because it keeps more hens cramped in metal cages. So eventually your family farm has to clo
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Everyone should be held to the same standards. If my professed principle was to be evil, then would you judge me negatively if I acted good? I release software under a permissive license too. But I understand the only reason I'm able t
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Thanks for sharing that link. Retatrutide looks especially promising since it targets three different receptors (GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon) instead of just GLP-1 like Ozempic. This triple action appears to have a more comprehensive effect on
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It depends how old you are. Skin loses its elasticity after a certain age. So weight is a problem you should spare no expense fixing sooner rather than later. Even if you do something about your weight at a later age, the health benefits fo
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Is there any evidence those things aren't just side effects of eating less food?
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That's what they did to you in K-12. You think you're writing but you're just predicting earlier writing.
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It's really something that should be abstracted by the linker. Codebases like zlib for example will just put a `const char notice[] = "Copyright Adler et al";` in one of their files so the license issue with zlib is solved si
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Finally someone posting something that makes sense. I have hormonal issues that make me predisposed to being overweight. When I lived in New York, I was able to keep the pounds off by walking 20 miles per day. That's how evil my body i

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