skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had the best success by first converting the HTML to a simpler format (i.e. markdown) before passing it to the LLM.

There are a few ways to do this that we've tried, namely Extractus[0] and dom-to-semantic-markdown[1].

Internally we use Apify[2] and Firecrawl[3] for Magic Loops[4] that run in the cloud, both of which have options for simplifying pages built-in, but for our Chrome Extension we use dom-to-semantic-markdown.

Similar to the article, we're currently exploring a user-assisted flow to generate XPaths for a given site, which we can then use to extract specific elements before hitting the LLM.

By simplifying the "problem" we've had decent success, even with GPT-4o mini.

[0] https://github.com/extractus

[1] https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown

[2] https://apify.com/

[3] https://www.firecrawl.dev/

[4] https://magicloops.dev/
The problem I have is when I ask it to do something that does not have 1 million examples on github from tutorials it will just output something completely non-functional.

I find it good for things that are completely derivative. Like, "implement a function that converts this type into another type"
I'd do like that:

- Have a large enough transaction volume, say, above $100k / mo.

- Use the contact form.

Note that if your transaction volume is $100k/mo, and Stripe takes 3% of it, it's $3k/mo for them. Maybe a customer that's worth paying extra attention to, but of course by spending a minimal amount of time.

I suspect that if your transaction volume were, say, $1M/mo, they would have contacted you already.
> I don't see how we could possibly criminalize anything like that without neutering the ability for a society to come up with new ideas.

But isn't that exactly the point of policies like this? They're intended to dissuade new ideas, such as ideas about who should be in charge of society.
how about recording all those attributes (name of seller, email of seller, etc) when a sale is made? Either by calling an API on your side, FTP file upload, or email. I prefer an Api call though
> Why wouldn’t there be?

They are thieves? They would probably theft for the service, not pay for it.
popular LLMs for public use already do this. chatGPT with a pro account remembers context from previous interactions.

It's simple really they just have the context inserted as part of the input. It's part of the prompt. The prompt is invisible to you as a user.

input:

"You are an LLM with long term memory saved as json objects. When talking to the user you will receive a query from the user and some json memory as context. Add to this memory as you communicate. If the json object exceeds 4000 entries trim 100 entries that seem less important. The users query begins now:

{}

Hi my name is Bernard.
"

Output:

"
{"user name": "Bernard"}

Hi Bernard, How are you?
"

Context is extracted from the output and is given as input into other conversations.
Depending on the relationship and level of senility, no.
https://archive.md/ryvbe
This is cool but I think you should be crystal clear that this is not an official gov.uk project. Like, put the word "unofficial" in the header, project description, etc.
I'm absolutely interested in this.
What is a complex mind? Do you mean a brain?

Also:

> Ideas are always matched up with bottom-up data.

That does not hold, I can have a myriad of ideas not grounded in reality
But not the whole repo - Cursor indexes all your files in a vector DB and then can use RAG when querying models. Perhaps the biggest benefit I get from Cursor is that I can ask it questions about the whole repo - when working with a sizable team in a large repo, this is hugely valuable.
Many other countries make it super easy for foreigners to get bank accounts.

It's actually kind of a stupid economic policy to make it hard. If someone wants to store money in your country that's good for you.
An IPO is, if anything, a bad thing for a company. I wouldn't consider it a black mark that they aren't selling stock publicly and subjecting themselves to the "must grow every quarter at all costs" insanity.
Yes! Happy to try it on a fairly large user base and contribute to it! Email in bio if you want a beta user.
Newer editions of Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface covers GPUs [1]

Multiflow still has some relevant ideas [2]

Programming on Parallel Machines: GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More. Gives you a look at some of the issues [3]

SPIRV-VM is a virtual machine for executing SPIR-V shaders [4]

NyuziRaster: Optimizing Rasterizer Performance and Energy in the Nyuzi Open Source GPU [5]

Ocelot is a modular dynamic compilation framework for heterogeneous systems, providing various backend targets for CUDA programs and analysis modules for the PTX virtual instruction set. [6]

glslang is the Khronos-reference front end for GLSL/ESSL, partial front end for HLSL, and a SPIR-V generator.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83895.Computer_Organizat...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiflow

[3]: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/parprocbook

[4]: https://github.com/dfranx/SPIRV-VM

[5]: https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/nyuziraster.pdf

[6]:https://code.google.com/archive/p/gpuocelot/

[7]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang
I would love to see someone on stream use AI really effectively.

I really try, but for the life of me, I can’t get AI to generate anything useful beyond simple tests.

They’re still autocomplete++ for me.
Would be nice to have ActiveRecord integration for Ruby/Rails. It's nice to have the same API for all languages, but AR is pretty much the standard for Rails SaaS and you're adding a lot of work that Ruby devs don't generally need to do otherwise.

Not to say that effort is or isn't worth it, but Rails companies will have to _really want_ what you offer to build on it, and your call if it's worth investing that effort on your side or not.
How Should We Mourn the End of Summer?
Data visualization products do this regularly
*double jeopardy
My first experience with Cursor: starting it from WSL doesn't work, went down a number of GitHub rabbit holes to fix that one. Then on every update it breaks the original "code" shortcut because it has it's path with both "code" and "cursor" launchers in PATH; it ostensibly gives you the choice to register either or both, but I fail to see how that can work with this setup.

It's actually a nice tool but I'm getting a "you should be a unicorn to fork ~Chrome~ VS Code" vibe.
The original press release: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mothers-gut-microbiome-d...
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> I just want to take payments for dead-simple SaaS

You'd be paying for the prepackaged all hosted and standardized offering (at the higher price point) if all you wanted was to "just" take payments.

I assume you actually want recurring payments, potentially lower fees and a personalized checkout experience ?

Welcome anyway, I've been playing with payments systems for a long time and there's no shortage of fun and new regulatory spice coming in every now and then. "Just" taking payments can be a whole way of life.
By definition, no it isn't.
I would gladly take some brittleness over mountains and mountains of equally unmaintainable boilerplate and layers upon layers of indirection and abstractions... For what is essentially the same exact boring old CRUD that we've been doing for the past 40 years.

Who cares anyway? It's fintech. These projects are meant to become legacy and be replaced every 5-10 years. Those that don't are a PITA to work with regardless of how much the data layer is decoupled from the business layer.

And even if you do decouple them, these *** projects WILL find a way to break on a friday night anyway. Because of course they will. For the most part, they're written by juniors on tight deadlines and there's like only two people in the entire org who even have a faint clue of what the entire codebase does. You can use all the design principles and patterns you want, they're not going to save you.
But that's deceptive and not all you need. You wind up having to learn about all of the lifecycle and state machine pieces anyway.

The API surface area is large and cluttered with stuff that's entirely irrelevant to most business types, yet you have to understand which parts of the API, checkout session, and webhook callback payloads are relevant and mutate your subscription state.
>Can you visit a Pro North Korea/ISIS/Iran website?

How about the website for Iran's supreme leader[1], with headlines like "ZIONIST REGIME FACES SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FOR ITS ACTIONS"? It's not blocked in the US.

[1] https://www.leader.ir/en
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It's true if we go back to 1949. It's hardly a bad thing though: RFE provided news from the outside world to those living under Soviet censorship.
I have, I wrote a GPU implementation of marching cubes algorithm in GLSL that shows realtime topology viewer of electron density grids by slicing through an electron voxel grid represented as a 3D texture on the GPU.

I dont know GLSL, (but I am very experienced with C/C++/Python), and I wrote this by using cursor and muddling through it, all in one afternoon.

Could I have learnt GLSL and coded it myself, maybe, maybe not. We are at the point now that I was able to produce something commercially useful to my platform in a language I didn't know, in a single afternoon, GLSL is pretty similar to C, but even still, theres a certain threshold of effort and time where "could I have done it with enough time" transforms into "I couldn't have done it", and we are close to that.
His silencing was assured.
I’ve never seen one with warnings, but it really comes back to the way Bitcoin has no safeguards built in. Scammers love it because once they get someone to make a mistake, there’s no way to reverse it unlike a conventional bank or most other payment systems. Gift card fraud is riskier (they can be locked, someone has to physically move things around & risk being caught, conversion to real money incurs a fair loss, etc.) but it’s popular because it was the best option before cryptocurrency came along and offered a fully remote alternative.
Exactly, if SpaceX obeys the court they can get their assets unfrozen and back to making a profit.
> Technically the article never says the dot is related to the arrest, but it's certainly implied.

Given the last sentence of the article is "The prosecutor’s office in Ardabil alleged that Shanbehzadeh had been in contact with Israeli intelligence officers and was arrested when trying to leave the country, according to Voice of America." it's not even implied.
Sony's WX-asdf-whatever-3 have pretty easy to change battery (I did have to replace charge port tho) and wired option.
With fairly rare exceptions, most folks are just quibbling over where to draw the lines. Some things - death threats, defrauding people - are clearly both speech and over the line, and letting them go unchecked also "dissuades new ideas".
That's not what happened. Javed Iqbal wasn't imprisoned for allowing people to watch Al Manar. He pled guilty to received payments from Al Manar. Hizbollah is a terrorist organization, regardless of their political status in Lebanon.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/Decem...
Absolutely, if there's a moderately anonymous way to get significant sums of money out of something, sophisticated attackers will spend significant effort and even % of funds to extract it. That includes bribery, phishing, spamming, as well as the usual hacking and cracking exploits.

As you mention, the other issue is that this is often invisible (or even hidden by) to those who created the system that allowed the extraction.
His name was Javed Iqbal. The charge was "providing material support to Hizballah". He plead guilty and was sentenced to 69 months. The government's story was that:

"From approximately 2005 through 2006, IQBAL, through a Brooklyn and Staten Island-based satellite transmission company he helped operate, HDTV Limited, provided satellite transmission services to al-Manar, in exchange for thousands of dollars in payments from al-Manar. IQBAL provided these services knowing that al-Manar is Hizballah's television station."[2]

It's hard to work out exactly what this means.

Another article[4] does some sleuthing and claims that Iqbal had an FCC licensed earth station that was uplinking in the Ku-band to "ALSAT". That implies that he was actually repeating the al-Manar broadcasts onto a satellite that had a footprint over the US.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism links[5] to some documents for the case, including the original indictment[6]. Some of the "overt acts" listed in this indictment included signing a contract in Lebanon in which his company agreed to provide broadcasting services for al-Manar in exchange for a fee. Additionally, he was charged with providing access to these broadcasts to satellite customers.

I wonder if he would have gotten in trouble if he had only done the latter - helped consumers to tap into al-Manar without actually being part of the technical broadcast chain.

Very interesting case, thanks for the rabbit hole!

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/nyregion/25tv.html

2: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/200...

3: https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/Decem...

4: https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fbi-raids-backyard-interna...

5: https://www.investigativeproject.org/case/190/us-v-iqbal-et-...

6: https://www.investigativeproject.org/case_docs/us-v-iqbal-et...
For some reason there’s not a feed on each page but the front page links to https://www.archcloudlabs.com/index.xml
A liberal prohibition on violent speech is an aspirational privilege of a people who have solved all their social problems to such a degree that the credible threat of violence is never necessary for justice or progress. Or an aspirational privilege of an aristocracy who have solved all of their material problems at the expense of everybody else, and demand militant proactive protection of their hoard and their personal safety.

In our history, the credible threat of social violence has been absolutely necessary for justice & progress on numerous occasions. It's why we have everything from civil rights for racial minorities to voting rights for women to labor rights for workers to generous benefits for veterans.

The establishment response to somebody like a Martin Luther King is mockery and condemnation, and only when fear of a Malcolm X led uprising becomes salient does the political capital to sue for peace, form.
Planter 3.0
Is the data sent to Cursor and the underlying LLM used to train models? This is key, otherwise it's not usable for most orgs.

Copilot can use entire repositories using Copilot enterprise and it's guaranteed none of the data is used for training purposes. https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilo...
Probably similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_piece_of_paper.
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It doesn’t use dice but a teetotum is basically the same thing. It’s a spinning top with numbers on the sides, much like a dreidel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotum
Deluxe Paint clone now with animation
I would get the customer to create (and own) the API endpoint that talks to their database, and we talk to that API endpoint instead. Then it is up to them to test and maintain that endpoint.

This avoids a situation where we get an email out of the blue explaining that there is a database change and we need to dedicate engineering resources to make sure it is compatible by a certain date, or even worse and more likely, an urgent email explaining that the integration has broke and we need it back running last week.
Autocomplete++ is the killer feature for me, especially for more tedious thingsike SQL column naming.
Something boring but workable is using CSV files, dropped to a location on customers end through SFTP containing your transaction IDs that you are interested in.
If its MS SQL Server on the other side, then a SQL agent on that server using some SSIS can read the CSV as input and prepare your required output as a CSV again for you to pickup from their SFTP Server.
Google Lens rolling out to Chrome address bar [U]
How would you compare GPT-4o with Claude 3.5 Sonnet?
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Remote: Yes, Hybrid OK too

Willing to relocate: Yes

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I've been a remote freelance software developer for 20 years. I'd like to learn your stack. I prefer written communication.
Are you lying or misinformed?

He didn't get 3 years in prison for telling people to go out and protest, he told people to “set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards”.

Setting fire to a building full of people isn't a protest, it's attempted murder.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/northampton-bbc-...
> absolute psychopath behavior

What a bizarre thing to say. Look, he fucked up. He absolutely should not have done that. But going from "losing your temper and fucking up" to "absolute psychopath" is utterly bizarre.

This kind of no-empathy no-forgiveness to anyone who did anything criminal is just downright mean-spirited and cruel.
Definitely, so for scenarios where I want the strongest possible 2FA, I use a hardware authenticator.

For everything else, WebAuthN based on a software authenticator is both more secure and more convenient than passwords, and realistically even than TOTP (having a higher takeover risk but lower phishing risk).
mimicry is not mastery but mimicry can lead to mastery.
“Radian’s solution is a rocket-powered sled that runs along a two-mile rail and accelerates up to Mach 0.7 — 537 mph (864 kilometers per hour) — before releasing the space plane”.

Once released from the rail track (a flat track at ground level, I assume), won’t air drag hit it like a ton of bricks?

Maybe if they put the track on top of a 20,000 foot mountain, and/or somehow released the spacecraft at a 45 degree angle?
> and I still wish I could forget.

May I ask why?
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https://www.joshcanhelp.com/hire-me/ (summary of what I'm looking for and what I can do)

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I am a full-stack product engineer and architect who loves working in identity (CIAM focus), data, developer experience, and open source. I thrive in "bridge" roles where I can learn a system or technology and then bring that understanding to others. I've been able to do that in various ways from engineering and team leadership to in-person instruction to partner relations to systems architecture.
Agreed! But also...

Rather than your seeing someone stream "really effective 99th percentile AI coding", maybe it would be more illustrative for us all to see someone stream the "50th percentile developer unassisted" experience.

I suspect that's the thing we're all missing to help us understand the potential value of AI coding: how slow and ineffectively the median software developer works, bc they just quietly slog away and don't talk much about how they work :)

I humbly include myself on that thought btw
Yes, I’ve been wondering if this is the core tradeoff. Especially as I compare Arc to Ruby. I love the readability of ruby code, but it’s easy for the meta programming to become very difficult to read. The language is quite flexible, but it’s not easy to change in the ways you want. Whereas Arc Lisp’s code is much more difficult to read, but the macro syntax is very elegant for an incredible amount of flexibility.
Extending Visual Studio 2022
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The hash check is binary, you can only check if a password is correct or not. The ZK proof can prove anything, like that the password has enough special symbols and numbers that it's secure.

There's no way to check that someone's age is old enough with just a hash unless you break the hash.

The most common but painful way to write ZK circuits is with Circom. Better more modern ways are with Noir or using SP1 which can prove arbitrary rust code.
The employment model needs to change.

With the rise of gig work, constant firings and layoffs, large 30 year debts or school debts on people are unsustainable. So is healthcare being tied to employer and 401k tied to employer.

The risk is all individual, the gains are all to corporations and lenders aka asset owners.

This is unsustainable. Something has to change.
One famous example worth checking out is this: https://xkcd.com/1732/

Is anyone aware whether Randall Munroe "invented" this style of graphic or if it was pre-existing?
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People use their job as an identity - and via extension some use religion, one of the lessons you learn later on in your life is that your identity isn't your job, achievements, money, anything. You identity shouldn't be dependent on any of those things.
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