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yvoschaap

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Contact: yvo [at] yvoschaap.com Website: https://yvoschaap.com/
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yvoschaap··on Mistral 3 family of models released
Upvoting for Europe's best efforts.
yvoschaap··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
Ask China, they've been trying for a decade.
yvoschaap··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
The number of support requests I got last year because of [hotmail|gmail|msn|yahoo].con > 30
yvoschaap··on Why Is the Sea So Hot?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/...
yvoschaap··on Latest LLM models tested against a simple question
Also tested against more models (OpenHermes, Mistral 7B, Yi, Goliath) with open router: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...
yvoschaap··on Advanced LLM AI Models vs. a Simple Question
Mistral 7B also answers with "7 books".
yvoschaap··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726516824597258569
yvoschaap··on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies
I did https://yvoschaap.com/youtube.html
yvoschaap··on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies
My domain was blocked from serving Adsense (for some a pedantic reason). Fortunate result, if I watch youtube loaded from their own embed script but hosted from my domain there are never ads!
yvoschaap··on Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)
Agree. The fine-tuning happens on the base "davinci" (or Curie, Babbage, Ada) and not a specific `text-00x`. At least not as I am aware.
yvoschaap··on Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)
> Immediately we ran into a problem -- to fine-tune an OpenAI model requires a specific format of prompt-completion pairs:

From my understanding, you can leave the `prompt` empty, and just push `completion` with your text. That way you don't need to generate Q&A first.

yvoschaap··on Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I tried something similar like this to render thumbnail of websites (at a very small file-size). E.g. https://twitter.com/yvoschaap/status/1446397003316047872
yvoschaap··on James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
7.3 arcminutes = 16 light-years
yvoschaap··on Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)
I remember sending fake Yahoo login forms as html attachments. eval() & alert() fix:

`const ev = 'ev', al = 'al', ert = 'ert'; window[ev + al](window[al + ert]('hi'))`

yvoschaap··on A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
Arestreet in streetview 2009 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aresstraat+21,+1363+VJ+Alm... walk one step forward, and you time machine into 2021!

I think the architecture has more to do that every individual plot allowed owners their own design & development.

yvoschaap··on Coinbase's 250.000 USD bug bounty
Thread link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495014902582362112.html
yvoschaap··on Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development
Happy to see this here on HN. I usually get the sense Chrome Inspector new features seem to be inspired with what Polypane usually already offers.
yvoschaap··on Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)
Date published: 2018
yvoschaap··on Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
Pretty sure the Google algo would feature a isHumanDisplayed() for the photo's that would qualify.
yvoschaap··on Instacart CEO will be replaced by Facebook executive
> to take the long-term view, and to never be afraid of giving away their legos.

Is that a common expression, or a typo?

yvoschaap··on Safari tries to fill username
Yes. The Chrome devs refuse to accept there are viable cases for not allowing autocomplete.
yvoschaap··on We're Building a Calendar for Work
The founders are well known and respected in The Netherlands. Not sure what you imply.
yvoschaap··on The fake reporter wanted to know about our software
A story pitched to promote a business using a click-bait title about something that happened 6 years ago?
yvoschaap··on Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel
I forget this part in my blog post, but it goes like this. Once the website is accepted as the official website of the business, you can claim ownership by proving ownership of that website.

Given Slice owns the (fake official) website, it is instantly verified.

See: https://support.google.com/business/answer/7107242?hl=en

> If you’ve already verified your business’s website with Google Search Console, you may be able to verify your listing instantly.

yvoschaap··on How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers
I'll try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=23349819
yvoschaap··on How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers
Looked into what tricks they are doing in a short write-up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23348815
yvoschaap··on How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers
The Google search results do show the owner' site as #1.

https://seobrowse.com/share/25c8f9129eaea94bf34531dd780a9438...

But if you look at the right sidebar under Menu and Order, you get all the Valley players who are trying to get a cut from the order...

Update: wow this is even worse. Slice is "verified" by Google as owner and abuses this by posting their coupons as "news" in the sidebar (look at "Mario's on Google" part lower down).

https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/7534902?hl=...

yvoschaap··on The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
Great find! True hacker news worthy.
yvoschaap··on Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
I caught Google a few years back with the same hijack, but then it was Metrolyrics: https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/misbehavior_by_google_lyrics_on...
yvoschaap··on Cloudflare Workers Recipe Exchange
We have a Recipe for https://teampa.ge which removes the need for our customers to embed our javascript snippet! It feels so much more better then having to ask people to change their website code. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFZN8ZQiiQ
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