dalf

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by dalf 2mo ago
At another layer : Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791 (June 23, 2024)
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by dalf 11mo ago
This blog post was really helpful to understand the ecosystem: https://alpopkes.com/posts/python/packaging_tools/ It mentions uv at the end and rye at first (which use uv internally).
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by dalf 1y ago
I remember the kettle took forever at ~ 9000 ft (near Huanglong, Sichuan Province).
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by dalf 1y ago
You might not have a fork if you dine with philosophers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem )
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by dalf 1y ago
Disclaimer: this is an *hypothesis* I made, all this might be wrong: * A social graph is built from various sources <-- this is where I wonder what the sources are, what is extracted? * If I'm connected to Bob, I will see content re
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by dalf 1y ago
similar post 4 months ago: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (servethehome.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706
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by dalf 1y ago
Same experience here. It used to give me spot-on recommendations based on my watch history-often out of nowhere, but still accurate. That was one of the reasons I subscribed to YouTube Premium. Now, I strongly feel it's based on a wron
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by dalf 1y ago
This partly explains why the recommendations I receive don't feel like mine. Multiple times, it's been obvious that the suggestions were pulled from other profiles and I could even tell whose. My hypothesis * The algorithms have l
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by dalf 2y ago
I used to love YouTube's algorithm: suggestions outside of my subscriptions but exactly on the spot. I used to took time to curate. However since few months, all recommendations became off track. Then I started to realize these recomme
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by dalf 2y ago
I discovered that my institution blocks all traffic to Russia (v8.js-dos.com is hosted in Russia).
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by dalf 2y ago
Global configuration for an instance: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/f1a148f53e9fbd10e95b... https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/970
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by dalf 2y ago
A few years ago, I remember someone conducted a study on the quality of SearX(NG) results using different Internet providers: mobile, fiber, and VPN. I'm not sure if this person is still active on HN, but I'm really curious about
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by dalf 2y ago
Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers. The intent of SearXNG is to be stateless (with no sessions on the server) and to work without JavaScript. However, this approach limits certain features because of the restricted size of cookies (and
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by dalf 2y ago
Podcast is one of two the reasons I've unsubscribed Spotify (as you describe, the UX is terrible). The other one, I was not able to "teach" the algorithm what I like even after 3 months.
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by dalf 3y ago
I've turned off web/app activities and don't use Google web search (directly). However, I keep YouTube and maps tracking (from time to time). YouTube because this is one of the algorithms that provide good suggestions with mi
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by dalf 3y ago
Previous post from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833 (there are other posts with one or very few comments)
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by dalf 3y ago
This might be relevant here: there is a Rust implementation of this algorithm by BurntSushi [1], and discussion [2] about the performances and Hyperscan [3] in the case of Suricata [4]. HyperScan being regular expression matching library us
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by dalf 3y ago
I was avoiding EMM386 as much as I could on my slow 386SX25: there was a huge performance hit. There was the Unreal Mode aka Flat mode. With few lines of assembly code, an memory allocation using HIMEM.SYS, it was possible to access all the
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by dalf 3y ago
Post from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217291 Post from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134038
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by dalf 3y ago
Seafile (a file sync storage) is inspired by git to store the files (internally there are repositories, branches and commits). However the file are not stored directly: > A file is further divided into blocks with variable lengths. We us
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by dalf 3y ago
For now the suggested communication protocol is: * os.pipe and serialization (pickle or whatever): https://peps.python.org/pep-0554/#synchronize-using-an-os-pi... * immortal object, but I don't see a way to create
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by dalf 3y ago
This job offer suggests a lot: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri... Found on Slashdot: https://m.slashdot.org/story/419681
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by dalf 3y ago
There is also typing.ParamSpec when the purpose is to write a generic wrapper: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.ParamSp...
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by dalf 3y ago
wikidata [1] [2] has "few" species with links to many other databases like * plazi.org list taxonomic treatment (~ species description) found in journals, papers using OCR when needed. * gbif.org list specimens (and other things)
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by dalf 3y ago
I'm used to website ( often old.reddit.com because it is more readable ). Last year, when I tried the app, it asked if I was happy about it very often. It becomes annoying to skip this question. I tried to answer "No": I felt
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by dalf 3y ago
mypyc does that: https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc > Mypyc compiles Python modules to C extensions. It uses standard Python type hints to generate fast code. Mypyc uses mypy to perform type checking and type inference.
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by dalf 3y ago
Scenari is based on XULRunner too. * https://scenari.software/en/ * Repository: https://source.scenari.software/projects/dev-core/repository
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Apple: Whistleblower about Working Conditions(twitter.com)
54 points by dalf 4y ago|28 comments
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by dalf 4y ago
Noob question: what if what we call gravity is where space does not expand? Said differently, how the expansion of the universe looks like at the human scale? Most probably the quetsion does not make sense (?)
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by dalf 4y ago
This helped to understand how OOP was working under the hood (I was a teen at that time) This post brings me many memories from Turbo Vision, Borland Graphics Interface, a simple assembly language, the flat memory hack, Turbo Pascal with it

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