jart

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   by jart 2y ago

   That's like saying inventing TeX was mundane and beneath Donald Knuth, or that Dennis Ritchie shouldn't have spent so much time typing his thesis. The one thing all the greats have in common is a fanatical obsession with the prese
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   by jart 2y ago

   Yeah they made the classic mistake of writing an article using the kind of manipulative rhetoric that typically works on 100 IQ people, and then sharing it with Hacker News.
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   by jart 2y ago

   How dare you use the word "we" to lump us in with our corrupt policymakers. Just because we're exploited and victimized by a parasite, doesn't make us one.
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   by jart 2y ago

   That tells me literally nothing. This is all machine generated boilerplate code. This isn't executive emails or documents. Since when are comments written by nameless workers an authoritative newsworthy leak on corporate policy? It pro
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   by jart 2y ago

   What am I looking at?
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   by jart 2y ago

   Yeah you're actually worse off using Cloudflare because you can't block attacker IPs anymore, once you're dependent on them to protect you, and they're not very good at protecting. I run an online service that invites ha
7. 697.▲
   by jart 2y ago

   Can you make a 60fps paper monitor? I want to have a giant ones of those setup on my desk as a Xerox Alto-style display for my terminal sessions.
8. 698.▲
   by jart 2y ago

   Only halfwits think that languages and tools are the things worth relearning.
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   by jart 2y ago

   I mostly code in C, C++, Python, Emacs, Almquist, GNU Make, and VanillaJS. I have been for more than two decades. My website looks like danluu.com and bellard.org. Why do I need to change?
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    by jart 2y ago

    Hungry for what? To throw all your experience away, by switching to the next vogue language framework?
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    by jart 2y ago

    Here's an example of how easy it is to generate code on NetBSD using an open LLM: Last login: Fri May 17 23:58:08 2024 from 10.10.10.129 NetBSD 9.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 12 13:15:55 UTC 2021 Welcome to NetBSD!
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    by jart 2y ago

    I only really have experience talking directly to the kernel abis, i.e. the stuff in netbsd/sys/kern/syscalls.master. I'm using sem_open / sem_wait / etc. as my futex replacement. What abi should I be using? h
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    by jart 2y ago

    It's like a tenth the price of an Apple monitor.
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    by jart 2y ago

    3:4 is a better ratio for reading and editing text. That's what Xerox chose for their Alto workstations.
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    by jart 2y ago

    This is one of those times when I wish Hacker News had something like Reddit Gold. Wonderful comment.
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    by jart 2y ago

    It can't run most of the open source models being released today. It's not useful if your job is to keep up with LLM releases.
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    by jart 2y ago

    I'm a hobbyist developer. I haven't been employed in six years. In the past few months I've been fortunate enough to find work as a TVC for Mozilla, which has been wonderful. It's a good lifestyle that affords me a great
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    by jart 2y ago

    I'm gpu poor so I use cpu to run large models. For example, llamafile running mixtral 8x22b on my threadripper can chew through long legal documents and give me advice in a few minutes, using f16 weights and kahan summation. Show me so
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    by jart 2y ago

    Great work. But what's their goal? Are they trying to make that GeLU approximation go faster? Things would probably go a lot faster going back to the erff().
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    by jart 2y ago

    Then let me remove posix semaphores and replace it all with futexes. It'd be great to not need a file descriptor every time one of my threads wants to wait on a mutex or condition variable.
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    by jart 2y ago

    With expf() most of the work had already been done and I could kill two birds with one stone. If you want to do the math for doing SiLU directly, that'd be an awesome change I'd happily merge into llamafile. You might even be able
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    by jart 2y ago

    I developed this originally for llamafile, which was included in the last two releases: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/tag/0.8.2 Now we're upstreaming it to the llama.cpp project
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    by jart 2y ago

    Wow are you the one that posted the original LISP 1.5 source code? I colorized that and used it to good effect in my blog posts. https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/#listing
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    by jart 2y ago

    Wow it's really cool that Stallman and others created a definition of Free Software for the modern web. Sadly it seems this is old news. There hasn't been any commits to this project's git in the last two years. There's
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    by jart 2y ago

    The U.S. doesn't even consider it a crime. Read https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/foreign-malicious-cybe... and notice how the USG only cares if the hackers are acting under the direction of a foreign governme
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    by jart 2y ago

    Here's to hoping Stack Overflow doesn't become another Quora.
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    by jart 2y ago

    There's already UBI. It's called fake jobs. Programming has already mostly automated itself out of existence for a long time. Very few developers ever get the opportunity to write data structures and algorithms, because most of wh
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    by jart 3y ago

    Only a king can fork a king. This should have had a name change or a statement of intent from the original author.
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    by jart 3y ago

    What you call dystopia, I call paradise. Evolution didn't give us bodies that are adapted to life in modern technological society. The better technology gets, the more unnatural the world gets for our bodies. People who are unfit to li
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    by jart 3y ago

    Yeah that's the kind of folk wisdom that causes people with psychiatric conditions to stop taking their medications. It's very ignorant and harmful.