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by sakras 3y ago
This has a lot of similarities to the setup I use: org-mode which lets me write my blog posts in markdown, and GitHub pages which hosts it for me. Except I don't have to pay 200 euros/year! I guess I am missing analytics, but I do
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by sakras 3y ago
Wow, thank you for the kind words! Really glad you liked it. I don’t have much experience with RSS but I will try to add a feed (hopefully within the next week or so)
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by sakras 3y ago
https://save-buffer.github.io/ Only one post at the moment (about Bloom filters), but I’m working on another one about compressing integers! My focus is on high performance data analytics—adjacent things.
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by sakras 3y ago
Can you comment on what the paper gets wrong? It says that scalability with mmap is poor due to page table contention and others. How does LMDB manage to scale well with mmap? Is page table contention just not an issue in practice?
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by sakras 3y ago
Yeah I think there's a bug with the chess notation, I also had it tell me Rh3 was illegal notation. Interestingly Rf3 is not illegal notation but an illegal move for me.
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by sakras 3y ago
The implementers of Google Spanner would like to have a word!
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by sakras 3y ago
It has a feature called Mac Virtual Display, which I guess creates a large screen in space that mirrors your MacBook. But I’m not sure about a more general-purpose input than that.
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by sakras 3y ago
That’s hilarious, I did actually write “pawned” intentionally, but while writing it I thought, “Haven’t heard this one before, but I guess it makes sense, it treated them like pawns in chess”
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by sakras 3y ago
> Also AlphaStar can teach absolutely nothing to the army tacticians. This is the only sentence of your summary that accurately portrays my comment. I do think they are investing in tactical AIs, you even see it with those new loyal wing
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by sakras 3y ago
AlphaStar hardly pawned GMs in any meaningful way. It mainly won on mechanics, even when Deepmind tried to nerf its mechanics. Probably the most important thing is that the “200 APM limit” is way higher than any human can do, because it mad
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by sakras 3y ago
Wow I was literally reading the docs last night and didn’t notice operator[]! Good to know
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by sakras 3y ago
I was recently faced with this (luckily I realized it before coming across any strange bugs), and realized std::deque works great for this if you don’t need random access (which was fine for my use-case because I just grabbed references imm
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Modern Bloom Filters: 22x Faster(save-buffer.github.io)
14 points by sakras 3y ago|1 comments
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by sakras 3y ago
So is the person you replied to.
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by sakras 3y ago
Given that it’s 14ft tall, I’d say no, though I agree they could’ve made it clearer. It says 99’7 In, or 99 feet and 7 inches (ideally, it would be 99’7”).
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by sakras 3y ago
> Notably, at 1 million tasks, I observed that the overhead of launching tasks became evident, and most programs required more than 12 seconds to complete. I didn’t quite get this part. Even if your runtime has no overhead, the fastest w
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by sakras 3y ago
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Tropes
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by sakras 3y ago
Parallel reductions are more heavy-weight synchronizations than locks. Say we have 64 partitions, then we need to perform 6 levels of tree reduction, or avoid parallelism completely and perform the reduction on a single thread. Either way i
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by sakras 3y ago
Here's one I had: I was trying to build a Bloom filter in parallel. Each thread had large-ish batches of hashes it wanted to insert into the filter. Naively, you'd just have each thread iterate through the batches and do __sync_fe
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by sakras 3y ago
> All of my environment controls are on buttons and knobs beneath the screen. Indeed people aren’t complaining about stuff like this. My friend just bought a new Subaru that has 0 buttons. It now takes two presses on the not-very-respons
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by sakras 3y ago
This is very cool and I like the idea of gaming on BSD a lot, but this site seems to be Under Construction on most of the pages I click on. Maybe wait for it to be more complete before submitting?
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by sakras 3y ago
Maybe this is a bit too shameless of a plug, but I created EXACTLY this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458826 It's just a regex that filters out "GPT", "AI", "LLM",
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by sakras 3y ago
UW’s PL group has been focusing lately on this notion of E-Graphs and a technique called Equality Saturation. An E-Graph is a structure that efficiently represents equivalent rewrites of a program (exponentially many rewrites in polynomial
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by sakras 3y ago
Can anyone in the know explain the significance of this toolchain? Haven’t we been able to compile for RISC-V for years now? At the very least I was doing it ~4 years ago for my undergrad research
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by sakras 3y ago
I can really feel the author’s excitement in every sentence. Reading his work is great fun, and really does make me want to use Janet
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by sakras 3y ago
> There’s just so much “magic” happening in each that it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on. When I’m writing code in these languages, I realize my brain is effectively writing psuedo-C code and then transpiling to whatever langu
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by sakras 4y ago
That would be pretty cool, but I'm not sure how much money I'd need to pay per request for something like that. Maybe I can train a model offline and bundle it with the webpage somehow
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by sakras 4y ago
Bah, I typed the regex match as "LLaMa" instead of "LLaMA". Just pushed a fix :) For crypto, what keywords would be good to filter? I haven't seen much crypto spam so maybe it's not a huge deal.
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by sakras 4y ago
I went ahead and threw one together: https://save-buffer.github.io/no_ai/
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Show HN: AI-Less Hacker News(save-buffer.github.io)
69 points by sakras 4y ago|32 comments

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