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msty.ai 5mo ago

Msty – privacy-first AI studio

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developer.chrome.com 1y ago

What's Missing from HTML and CSS?

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worrydream.com 1y ago

Bret Victor: impossible dreams, or so it seems

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github.com 1y ago

rust_core – Rust core library patterns in Dart

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www.entropicengineering.com 1y ago

Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement

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privacytests.org 1y ago

Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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nymtech.net 1y ago

Nym – the next generation of privacy infrastructure

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blogs.infoblox.com 1y ago

DNS Attack Vector Exploited in the Wild

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venturebeat.com 2y ago

Foundation Agents for Decision-Making

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raphlinus.github.io 2y ago

An interactive review of the Oklab color space

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fonts.google.com 2y ago

The complications of typographic size on the web

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brave.com 2y ago

Brave Privacy-Focused AI Answer Engine

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instances.vantage.sh 2y ago

Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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www.perspectiveapi.com 2y ago

Perspective API: using machine learning to reduce toxicity online

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markdoc.dev 2y ago

Markdoc – a flexible Markdown-based authoring framework built by Stripe

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googleprojectzero.github.io 2y ago

0-Days in the Wild: Root cause analyses

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www.jeffreythompson.org 2y ago

I Feel Love for Others (2019)

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

A new way to visualize general relativity [video]

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lib.rs 2y ago

Lib.rs – catalog of Rust programs and libraries

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github.com 2y ago

High-Performance Computing

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coda.io 2y ago

Coda

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joel.tools 3y ago

AI Found a Bug in My Code

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arxiv.org 4y ago

Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility

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halifaxtheforum.org 5y ago

China vs. Democracy: A Handbook for Democracies

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medium.com 5y ago

Is it possible for language models to achieve language understanding?

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stackoverflow.com 5y ago

SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)

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jepsen.io 6y ago

Consistency Models

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posobin.com 6y ago

HN Classics

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malleable.systems 6y ago

Malleable Systems Catalog

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malleable.systems 6y ago

Malleable Systems Catalog

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I would like to sort comments by the level of the author’s expertise in whatever they are discussing. HN is a goldmine, but finding valuable knowledge within heated or elaborate discussions requires too much commitment to read through everything.

A weighted number of a comment’s upvotes is one signal. However, I can often tell when an author has deep knowledge or comprehensive experience with a subject just by reading their comment.

Do you think it might be possible to automate that kind of judgment?

It looks like a case of managerial miscommunication. Entropic seems to have expected that sending emails with higher budget estimates would give DEFCON the opportunity to say no if they did not agree, and took the lack of response as a sign of DEFCON’s agreement to the new budget. DEFCON seems to have either not read or ignored those emails and expected Entropic to work within the originally agreed-upon budget.

I tried Coda a few months ago. The feature set was very appealing. Coda turned out to be slower and more buggy than Notion, especially when routinely working with databases. The typography and graphic design were also less polished. I kept using Coda until I could no longer tolerate its issues and then have moved everything to Notion.

GPT-4-turbo-2024-24-09 (temperature = 0.7) just told me a horse had one “frog” per hoof and went on to clarify that a frog does not refer to the amphibian but to a part of the horse’s hoof.

Gemini Pro (the current web chat version) gave a similar answer, either no frogs or four depending on the intended meaning, and showed a photo of a hoof. All 3 drafts agreed on this.

Other models I have tried said a horse had no frogs. That includes gemini-1.5-pro-api-0409-preview as provided by the Chatbot Arena (temperature = 0.7, 2 tries).

I admire Daniel Lemire’s work on SIMD implementations. [Lemire]

[Lemire] https://lemire.me/en/#publications

I learn a lot by reading my compiler’s and profiler’s documentation.

For Rust, the Rust Performance Book by Nicholas Nethercote et al. [Nethercote] seems like a nice place to start after reading the Cargo and rustc books.

[Nethercote] https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/

Algorithms for Modern Hardware by Sergey Slotin [Slotin] is a dense and approachable overview.

[Slotin] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

Quantitative understanding of the underlying implementations and computer architecture has been invaluable for me. Computer architecture: a quantitative approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson [H&P] and Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface by Patterson and Hennessy [P&H ARM, P&H RISC] are two introductory books I like the best. There are three editions of the second book: the ARM, MIPS and RISC-V editions.

[H&P] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/cM8mDwAAQBAJ

[P&H ARM] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/jxHajgEACAAJ

[P&H RISC] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/e8DvDwAAQBAJ

Compiler Explorer by Matt Godbolt [Godbolt] can help better understand what code a compiler generates under different circumstances.

[Godbolt] https://godbolt.org

The official CPU architecture manuals from CPU vendors are surprisingly readable and information-rich. I only read the fragments that I need or that I am interested in and move on. Here is the Intel’s one [Intel]. I use the Combined Volume Set, which is a huge PDF comprising all the ten volumes. It is easier to search in when it’s all in one file. I can open several copies on different pages to make navigation easier.

Intel also has a whole optimization reference manual [Intel] (scroll down, it’s all on the same page). The manual helps understand what exactly the CPU is doing.

[Intel] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

Personally, I believe in automated benchmarks that measure end-to-end what is actually important and notify you when a change impacts performance for the worse.