rain-1

On Llamafile not making sense

The LLamafile project doesn't make sense.

The claim is that it is "bringing LLMs to the people", but you could already run an LLM - which is a large binary file containing lots of floating point numbers - by using llama.cpp.

Llamafile joins a compiled binary program to run LLMs with a weights binary into a single file. This isn't a useful goal. you could simply distribute a zip containing an .exe and a weights file together. Or better still: Decouple the program that runs these chatbots from the chatbot weights.

Imagine if PNG files were also an executable that could pop open a window that displays a PNG on your computer. There is a reason we don't do this: It's not good engineering.

VictorTaelin

A::B is a system with 4 tokens: `A#`, `#A`, `B#` and `#B`.

An A::B program is a sequence of tokens. Example:

    B# A# #B #A B#

To *compute* a program, we must rewrite neighbor tokens, using the rules:

    A# #A ... becomes ... nothing
    A# #B ... becomes ... #B A#

thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

OrionReed

// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
(() => {
  const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
  const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
  const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
  const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
  const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
  const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
  const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Posandu

const red = {
    50: "#ffebee",
    100: "#ffcdd2",
    200: "#ef9a9a",
    300: "#e57373",
    400: "#ef5350",
    500: "#f44336",
    600: "#e53935",
    700: "#d32f2f",
    800: "#c62828",

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

Rich-Harris

I've been deceiving you all. I had you believe that Svelte was a UI framework — unlike React and Vue etc, because it shifts work out of the client and into the compiler, but a framework nonetheless.

But that's not exactly accurate. In my defense, I didn't realise it myself until very recently. But with Svelte 3 around the corner, it's time to come clean about what Svelte really is.

Svelte is a language.

Specifically, Svelte is an attempt to answer a question that many people have asked, and a few have answered: what would it look like if we had a language for describing reactive user interfaces?

A few projects that have answered this question:

idevwise

/**
 * Selectors for all focusable elements
 * @type {string}
 */
const FOCUSABLE_ELEMENT_SELECTORS = 'a[href], area[href], input:not([disabled]), select:not([disabled]), textarea:not([disabled]), button:not([disabled]), iframe, object, [tabindex="0"], [contenteditable]';

const KEY_CODE_MAP = {
  TAB: 9
};

davidpiesse

// https://davidpiesse.github.io/tailwind-md-colours/
//
//Notes
//
//All colours are generated from Material Design Docs
//Colours have a base, a set of shades (50-900) accent colours
//In addition a companion set of contrast colours are included for colouring text / icons
// Example usage
// class="w-full bg-red-600 text-red-600-constrast"

primaryobjects