Hacker News: jkbbwr

New comment by jkbbwr in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

jkbbwr — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:18:26 +0000

Are you talking about Imane Khelif? The woman who was born a woman, competed her whole life as a woman and is still last time I checked, a woman?

New comment by jkbbwr in "Uber for Offduty Police"

jkbbwr — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:34:05 +0000

This has to be a massive conflict of interest right?

New comment by jkbbwr in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

jkbbwr — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:22:14 +0000

Unless I am making a mistake here, you still can't extract keys of an opened enclave. You can just run operations against those keys.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens"

jkbbwr — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:28:54 +0000

Everyone keeps making the context windows bigger, which is nice.

But what about output? I want to generate a few thousand lines of code, anyone got any tips?

New comment by jkbbwr in "Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech"

jkbbwr — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:36:24 +0000

They are better, but they still sound slightly unnatural to me, the pauses are in the wrong places, or not long enough. It takes me out of focusing on the actual words

New comment by jkbbwr in "Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech"

jkbbwr — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:27:47 +0000

Honestly? The quality of the output is as expected, I wondered how it would manage something like Shakespeare which depends so heavily on iambic pentameter, instead AI does what it usually does which is drone on at a slightly too fast speed, with no natural pauses and no delivery. Honestly as with most things you would be better paying for a human performance than relying on this.

I wish the OP well, and the project is nicely designed. But AI simply isn't there for this yet, not without a lot of individual hand holding and extra work.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics"

jkbbwr — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:11:40 +0000

I really wish python would stop being the go-to language for GPU orchestration or machine learning, having worked with it again recently for some proof of concepts its been a massive pain in the ass.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Rust without crates.io"

jkbbwr — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:55:48 +0000

Having worked with C/C++ projects. Managing dependencies is downright painful. About the best option we found was to treat everything as build from source and then git submodule our dependencies in. This is still not good but at least it gave us a consistent environment.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty"

jkbbwr — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:46:16 +0000

Not in the slightest, we have an even more strict version of this bill currently being drafted for enforcement. It's already law here.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Type Inference from Scratch (2019) [video]"

jkbbwr — Wed, 03 May 2023 11:20:54 +0000

You only ever find tutorials on writing type checkers in things like haskell or similar.

It is often like that owl joke in art. "Step one draw a circle, step two draw some triangles, step three draw the rest of the fucking owl" and its hard to get into step 3

New comment by jkbbwr in "Type Inference from Scratch (2019) [video]"

jkbbwr — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:10:17 +0000

I wish I could find some examples in Kotlin or Rust or Python. Something non-functional

New comment by jkbbwr in "Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisors"

jkbbwr — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:38:46 +0000

So a problem I noticed, is you pass mutable state to the actor.

What happens if the actor mutates the state then fails?

Do you just dirty the state and throw it away or do you retry at all?

New comment by jkbbwr in "Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework with clusters and supervisors"

jkbbwr — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:08:24 +0000

I still think the design in the beam world is as close as we can get to perfect actors. Its very very elegant in how you can easily resume crashed actors, upgrade them, migrate them.

`handle_call(pattern, from, state)`

Return your reply and your new state and boom. It just works.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Can sanitizers find the two bugs I wrote in C++?"

jkbbwr — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:47:12 +0000

You could potentially hit your codebase with CBMC using model assertions.

Its basically what you already know in the TLA+ world but targeted against C++ code.

New comment by jkbbwr in "The State of WebAssembly 2022"

jkbbwr — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:34:51 +0000

Without interface types to unify passing strings around or more complex handles to resources. WASM is going to be rough on the serverside.

I still have not found a consistent way to construct a sqlite connection, pass it to wasm (language agnostic) and then return and close it.

New comment by jkbbwr in "No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption"

jkbbwr — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:04:25 +0000

The only problem is the public is fucking stupid.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine"

jkbbwr — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:45:15 +0000

Im surprised we haven't bit the bullet and just jumped to unikernels and OS as a library yet. It removes a whole layer we just don't need.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Moving SciPy to the Meson Build System"

jkbbwr — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:16:40 +0000

Meson is okay, it solved a few problems for us on our deployment but the creator has a few hard decisions and style choices that don't really gel well with other projects. We are tempted to go back to cmake.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python"

jkbbwr — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:25:42 +0000

Python sucks for functional programming. Mutability, references and hidden objects everywhere.

If you want a real dynamic language functional programming experience, you would be far better with Elixir.

New comment by jkbbwr in "Teaching open-source software in North Korea"

jkbbwr — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 22:43:49 +0000

You do realise that the US is literally rolling out wide spread facial recognition software as we speak, NK doesn't hold the monopoly on being an authoratarian hellhole.