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sunshadow··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Too late, we all went to cursor.
sunshadow··on Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News
I can make this in couple of weeks, but I need an incentive other than just having fun
sunshadow··on Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News
What made you use caddy in front of tiny-http? I guess tiny-http should be still fine on its own. genuinely curious
sunshadow··on Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
They made 11B$ last year. It has incredible amount of ads. If you haven't noticed, then that means they did a great job. (tip: look for the custom logo pins in the map. Its printing money)
sunshadow··on Winamp Legacy player source code
According to the license, this repo is not that different than me just extracting the source code from the binaries. Pass.
sunshadow··on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
There is no difference between this and a well known bot prevention mechanism, from the scraper perspective.
sunshadow··on Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive
I don't see any difference than browserless?
sunshadow··on Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API
If you're looking for open-source function calling: Checkout Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/

It's MIT licensed. Supports both CPU and GPU

sunshadow··on Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API
Yes, Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/ MIT Licensed

Its actively maintained as open-source. You can even run it with llama.cpp

sunshadow··on Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
Original project: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js
sunshadow··on Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
Unless you start a war against scrapers, you don't need to worry about that as I'll always find a way to scrape your site as long as its valuable to 'me'. Even if it requires Real browser + OCR :)
sunshadow··on Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
Crul looks nice, though, you cannot imagine how many startups that I've seen failed doing a very similar thing as Crul. Wouldn't rely on it. The problem is complex: Humans generating messy pages
sunshadow··on Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
You don't use XPath&CSS selectors at all (Except if you dont have choice). You rely on more generic stuff, e.g, "the button that has 'Sign in' on it":

    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Sign in' }).click();
See playwright locators: https://playwright.dev/docs/locators
sunshadow··on Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
These days, I'm not even using Go for scraping that much, as the webpage changes makes me crazy and JS code evaluation is a lifesaver, so I moved to Typescript+Playwright. (Crawlee framework is cool, while not strictly necessary).

Its been 8+ years since i started scraping. I even wrote a popular Go web scraping framework previously: (https://github.com/geziyor/geziyor).

My favorite stack as of 2023: TypeScript+Playwright+Crawlee(Optional) If you're serious in scraping, you should learn javascript, thus, playwright should be good.

Note: There are niche cases where lower-level language would be required (C++, Go etc), but probably only <%5

sunshadow··on Show HN: Cost&Time AI Estimator for MVP and Full Product. Seeking Your Feedback
It would be nice to see it open source. As im concerned about the privacy policy as its a really valuable information
sunshadow··on Sharing Screen with GPT 4 vision
Give it 1 year
sunshadow··on Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web
But its too expensive to become practical with the OpenAI API. Also, demo is cool until you see the real-world webpages, then you'll realize that this only works less than %50 of webpages.
sunshadow··on Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web
You're good until this is cheaper than your salary.
sunshadow··on Automated, black-box method for jailbreaking GPT-4, Claude-2, Llama
I don't understand why people still spend time on jailbreaks of the proprietary models, while they can easily use uncensored open-source models these days. I feel like its kind of waste of time.
sunshadow··on Show HN: ChatGPT vs. Jurassic vs. Bard vs. Claude
Unfortunately its gonna be abused like hell so you'll end up shutting it down or requiring API keys for each one of them :(
sunshadow··on Activations inside Llama-2 show an internal model of the world
I would love to see the code to verify this is not a confirmation bias.
sunshadow··on Persimmon-8B
Do you have any explanations on why this performed better than Llama 2?
sunshadow··on Falcon 180B
Mixture of Experts is actually some sort of ensembling
sunshadow··on 3T Token Open Corpus for Language Model Pretraining
Unfortunately the license makes this somewhat useless. Hope they realize that and change it.
sunshadow··on Llama 2
Checkout: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/4d92db8a1db6c...
sunshadow··on Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting
What are the benefits over https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/ ?
sunshadow··on Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat
I think you need a small video and much more clear and simple marketing material. For example, these don't mean anything for me: "Boxcars, CableReady, and StimulusReflex"
sunshadow··on I Block Ads
I find it amusing that you felt you had to write "written organically" to claim authorship.
sunshadow··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
I've asked "are you using palm 3": It said: I am using the Palm 3 model. Palm 3 is a large language model...

Don't believe it :) Also, In the technical report, It mentions multiple languages, I've asked in Turkish which was supposed to be supported, but wasn't able to answer.

Even if its PaLM 2, its hard to trust to the model itself.

sunshadow··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
What is the page number you're referring to? If its 9, then I believe its talking about optimal numbers per token, not the real numbers that the model is trained on.
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