Anthropic – Introducing Contextual Retrieval
For an AI model to be useful in specific contexts, it often needs access to background knowledge. For example, customer support chatbots need knowledge about the specific business they’re being used for, and legal analyst bots need to know about a vast array of past cases. Developers typically enhance an AI model’s knowledge using Retrieval-Augmented […]
Disable Sequoia’s monthly screen recording permission prompt
Disable Sequoia’s monthly screen recording permission prompt The widely–reported “foo is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio” prompt in Sequoia (which Apple has moved from daily to weekly to now monthly) can be disabled by quitting the app, setting the system date far into the future, […]
Yes, you can have exactly-once delivery
Introduction This post is ostensibly about an obscure technical issue in distributed systems, but it’s really about human communications, and how disagreements that on the surface appear to be about technical issues can sometimes turn out to actually be disagreements about the meanings of words. I’m taking the time to write a fairly extensive post […]
A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)
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Show HN: LeanRL: Fast PyTorch RL with Torch.compile and CUDA Graphs
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Gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website
we start at the homepage of arc. where i first landed when i first heard of it. i snatched a download and started analysing, the first thing i realised was that arc requires an account to use, why do they require an account? introducing arcs cloud features so i boot up my mitmproxy instance and […]
Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding
To make it quick, I wish I had known about port forwarding and tunneling earlier. With this blog post, I try to understand it better myself and share some experiences and tips with you. Topics: use cases, configuration, SSH jumphosts, local/remote/dynamic port forwarding, and limitations Use cases # SSH tunneling and port forwarding can be […]
GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware
As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are notifications sent on behalf of GitHub users to let me know that somebody has interacted with something and requires my attention. Perhaps somebody has created a new issue on one of my repos, or replied to a comment I […]
Show HN: CNC Microscopy for Fun
I wanted to build a CNC microscope using off the shelf parts in order to attempt image fairly large objects such leaves, CD-ROMs etc. to reveal detail that can’t be seen with the naked eye. This required a metallurgical style microscope, which shines light through a microscope objective, onto a sample. I initially attempted to […]
Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
Late last month, the Department of Justice filed a complaint against a software and consulting firm called RealPage, alleging a broad conspiracy among corporate landlords to increase rents to millions nationwide. RealPage sold software and services to large real estate management firms, which in aggregate control rents for 16 million units nationwide, which is a […]