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manbash··on Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust
Nice work. I have gone through the fairly straightforward paper.

May I ask what you've used to confirm the cache hit/miss rate? Thanks!

manbash··on Claude Skills
I agree with you, but also I want to ask if I do understand this correctly: there was a paradigm in which we were aiming for Small Language Models to perform specific types of tasks, orchestrated by the LLM. That is what I perceived the MCP architecture came to standardize.

But here, it seems more like a diamond shape of information flow: the LLM processes the big task, then prompts are customized (not via LLM) with reference to the Skills, and then the customized prompt is fed yet again to the LLM.

Is that the case?

manbash··on Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
Right in the first paragraph.

> Needless to say, I just don’t get git.

What is there not to _get_, honestly? And why is jj so easier to get?

The author seems to focus on how great it is to make changes to your commit history locally, and that you shouldn't worry because it's not pushed yet.

The thing is, I don't want automatic. Automatic sucks. The point of version control is that I am able to curate my changes. The guards and rails of git is what makes me feel safe.

I am still failing to see why JJ is superior to git, or whatever.

manbash··on Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?
Don't you have a 2FA Recovery Code?
manbash··on Exploring GrapheneOS secure allocator: Hardened Malloc
> They don’t prevent the attacker from pivoting a memory safety bug to remote execution.

I'm confused. Isn't this potentially preventing some classes of memory-safety bugs?

manbash··on Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
> Not all free software is open sourc

Depends on which "free software" definition you're referring to.

The FSF definition of "free software" requires it to be open source.

manbash··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Maybe a "view", however YT defines it, is a poor metric? It doesn't show engagement and it's time for YTers to have better means for analytics.

I have an Android TV device, and YT has been so horrible with its constant ads popping up, that I have to put it on MUTE to prevent any further brainrot.

I wonder when they're going to blame me muting my TV and harm their viewership. Or maybe they will just prevent me from being able to mute it.

manbash··on Tarsnap is cozy
Do they charge for actual bandwidth as well? Seems like it. From tarsnap.com:

> Tarsnap uses a prepaid model based on actual usage: Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data ($0.25 / GB-month) Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte of encoded data ($0.25 / GB)

manbash··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
Thank you. I assumed it would be quicker to find the link to the case PDF here, but your summary is appreciated!

Indeed, it is not only payout, but the destruction of the datasets. Although the article does quote:

> “Anthropic says it did not even use these pirated works,” he said. “If some other generative A.I. company took data from pirated source and used it to train on and commercialized it, the potential liability is enormous. It will shake the industry — no doubt in my mind.”

Even if true, I wonder how many cases we will see in the near future.

manbash··on Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures
Thanks for this. I was struggling to put it in words even if maybe this has been a known distinguishing factor for others.
manbash··on Don't use Redis as a rate limiter
I tend to agree, but in a more general and broad sense. That is, Rate-Limiting is always a deployment specific feature. If it's for limiting user requests, then it should be a component of the ingress/API Gateway and be as robust.
manbash··on Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
> They just aren't distributing the source for free, it seems, but you are free to redistribute it however you'd like.

Yes, that was my point. I will know the license when I see it in the distributed code :)

manbash··on Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
This looks great. Just a note though that this is "free as in beer". If you want the source code you'd need to login and pay, it seems.

https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/gallery/?asset=8...

manbash··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
> 2. Technical design based on requirements > Kiro then generates a design document by analyzing your codebase and approved spec requirements. It creates data flow diagrams, TypeScript interfaces, database schemas, and API endpoints—like the Review interfaces for our review system. This eliminates the lengthy back-and-forth on requirements clarity that typically slows development.

This is nice for documentation but really having a design document after-the-fact doesn't really help much. Designing is a decision-making process before the code is written.

manbash··on Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long
I am reminded of a theory years ago that fingers wrinkling in water might have an evolutionary function, specifically to improve our grip when wet (or in water).

The wrinkly formation lets water drain better (like treads of a tire).

manbash··on I've Acquired a New Superpower
Are you able to look around while keeping your "unified vision"?

To me, all the differences appeared to be flashing (probably my brain alternates between the pair of images it attempts to "lock in", or something to that effect).

manbash··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
I wouldn't be concerned about trusting the results of ChatGPT if it also were providing links to the sources it had cited or used as a reference in its answers.

Unfortunately, it doesn't, and so I can't verify them. Not sure if it's an actual limitation of current LLM or rather they're intentionally filtering out the sources.

manbash··on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
Is Stepmania still the go-to DDR clone? This is very nostalgic. :)
manbash··on Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
VPN is used to bypass regional restrictions.

The VPN provider will share information if an active investigation is underway.

manbash··on The inventor of the automatic rice cooker
I sometimes indulge in doing the KFC chicken rice cooker hack recipe. Look it up if you haven't yet.
manbash··on Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
I do too wonder.

Given the disruption of LLM everywhere, and in Google specifically, I wouldn't be surprised if the headcount was reduced in these teams as well.

manbash··on Linus Torvalds: XZ Utils Breach Raises Questions About Trust in Open Source [video]
A side note: I am suspicious about the channel in the posted link. It seems to simply cut clips from the original video, without information and credit.

Anyway, here is the original source: https://youtu.be/cPvRIWXNgaM

manbash··on We need visual programming. No, not like that
State diagram and sequence diagram complement each other, rather than competing.
manbash··on Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
I am surprised by the lack of eSIM option, which unfortunately is a dealbreaker for me. :(
manbash··on My (Neo)Vim workflow
The article should at least preface with some explanation about lazyvim.

Some snippets simply have comments like "I use lazy.nvim to load plugins" and that's it.

manbash··on The Curse of Monkey Island
What a great game. The "mega monkey" difficulty had me attempting every possible combination with my inventory items.
manbash··on Inspectopedia: Analyze code against inspections in your IDE or CI pipeline
I actually don't understand the "AI-generated code" excuse. Code analysis should be part of the pipeline regardless.

It's not like people are perfect code developers.

manbash··on Git Branches Have No Rules
With respect, the person doesn't understand the purpose of git.

Doing 'git pull' often would fit for a very specific workflow, and one that in time proves to be a wrong workflow, in my opinion.

Don't do things that don't have a conscious purpose.

manbash··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
Firefox is my daily driver on my Ubuntu laptop, but for video streams and Google Meet (including virtual background[1]), I can see it still isn't utilizing my Intel GPU as much as Chromium (beta channel) does, so I split my usage between the two browsers to reduce the CPU usage for these specific cases.

I've followed the basic recommendations (from e.g. Arch Linux wiki) but still getting less utilization with Firefox according to intel_gpu_top.

[1] Well, at least virtual background works on Firefox now after their GSuite improvements.

manbash··on Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
May I ask you to elaborate on how ChatGPT is involved with Stable Diffusion for your use case?
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