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by paulgb 1y ago
I agree on all counts. The readme of the repo you link also smacks of an AI generated summary of the codebase. (Frankly, I don’t think the AI was able to understand what the code in that repo does, which is my guess as to why it talked much
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by paulgb 1y ago
I’ve found it surprisingly good, but has anyone verified that it’s not just using EXIF geolocation data embedded in the photo? I haven’t bothered to strip it. Edit: just saw defrost’s link to the earlier threads, and one comment did just th
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by paulgb 1y ago
Congrats on the launch! Glad someone is building this.
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by paulgb 1y ago
There’s a pretty damning quote in there from the Cato Institute. Nobody would like to see a reduction in federal spending (in theory) than them. Regardless of how you feel about NYT, it’s telling that the Cato Institute is disappointed by D
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by paulgb 1y ago
Neat, but what’s to stop a server from reporting one innocuous set of tools to MCP-Shield and then a different set of tools to the client?
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by paulgb 2y ago
Manhattan recently got congestion pricing and it’s noticeably more enjoyable because of this, even indoors.
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by paulgb 2y ago
Is congress actually apprised of the tariff developments, or do they learn about them from twitter like the rest of us?
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by paulgb 2y ago
This isn’t really “allowing” fraud though. From the memo: > Prosecutors shall prioritize cases that hold accountable individuals who (a) cause financial harm to digital asset investors and consumers; and/or (b) use digital assets in
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by paulgb 2y ago
I worry that having the SEC regulate crypto can actually be worse for those people, because it sends the message that it’s a legit government-approved investment instead of a wild west zero-sum craps table.
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by paulgb 2y ago
My read is that they will still prosecute fraud once it happens, they just won’t proactively regulate the industry.
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by paulgb 2y ago
I’m not a fan of Trump but my steelman argument for this is: policing public markets is a public good because efficient capital markets are the bedrock of a capitalist society. It’s hard to make the same case for crypto, which (despite the
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by paulgb 2y ago
I think the only reason people think MCP is over-engineered is that people have been waiting for a way to expose remote tool calls in a client application, MCP came along and had that (among other things), and people assumed that that was a
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by paulgb 2y ago
Interesting, I could be wrong then! The inclusion in his story of some very specific irrelevant details (like his cell/block number) while omitting anything that could be verified (like which border crossing and detention facility) was
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by paulgb 2y ago
His story is a bit suspicious to me, I believe that he was detained but I can't help wondering if the rest is fiction based on watching US prison dramas. He would not have been sent to a federal prison for one thing, and his depictions
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by paulgb 2y ago
> At least one visitor from the UK got locked up in a facility for a week. If you're talking about Rebecca Burke, it was almost three weeks. All for something that was at worst a naive understanding of the visa she needed. https:&#
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by paulgb 2y ago
> MCPs are opaque to the user and devs (unless they look at each source-code and pinpoint each inspected version). This is true, but also generally true of any npm dependency that developers blindly trust. The main difference with MCP is
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by paulgb 2y ago
Those companies run ETFs. They “own” lots of companies because they sell broad market funds to basically every passive investor in America.
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by paulgb 2y ago
> the very people who perpetuated suppression of legitimate dissent and honest truth whine now that their free speech rights are being somehow abrogated Are you implying that Brian Krebs perpetuated suppression of legitimate dissent? Car
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by paulgb 2y ago
Standards might not have been _the_ problem, but they were _a_ problem. Before MCP I couldn't distribute a tool call that could be configured by end-users to be used with multiple mainstream clients.
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by paulgb 2y ago
That article seems to miss the point by being incurious about _why_ there is hype around MCP instead of LangChain, LangGrah, SmolAgents, LlamaIndex, etc. We've had tool call frameworks before, but we haven't had a way of making to
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by paulgb 2y ago
They have a PEO option, but FWIW they can also be used as a payroll provider / HR system (benefits access, vacation tracking, etc.) without a PEO.
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by paulgb 2y ago
I linked to the press release because I know X links are frowned upon, but I think it doesn’t do the story justice. Parker Conrad’s X thread is good: https://x.com/parkerconrad/status/1901615179718406276 Here’s th
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Rippling suing Deel for espionage after Slack honeypot worked(rippling.com)
38 points by paulgb 2y ago|3 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
When it came out, block-based editing and always-on wysiwig were novel, and Notion was definitely more delightful than the existing “internal wiki” software category (Confluence etc.)
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by paulgb 2y ago
One thing I like about MCP's decision _not_ to just use HTTP APIs is that it makes it possible to build and distribute tools that people can use without having to set up a server for them. This goes a long way for enabling open-source
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by paulgb 2y ago
Transaction fees currently make up a tiny sliver of the mining rewards, and this seems likely to be even more the case the more ways there are to exchange it off chain (like trading ETFs). https://mempool.space/graphs/m
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by paulgb 2y ago
> as of now, Bitcoin hasn't been hacked We should be cautious about whether past precedent applies to future bitcoin, because the bitcoin halving mechanism ensures that bitcoin enters uncharted territory (with regards to the incenti
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by paulgb 2y ago
I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI approved.
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by paulgb 2y ago
In the article, there’s an example where a graph object needs to be: - converted to png - converted into a promise of an array buffer - awaited - converted into a Uint8Array - passed to Deno.jupyter.image Just to display it in the notebook.
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by paulgb 2y ago
In NYC it's hard enough to get people not to call them e-bikes (even when they are gas powered), I've given up on the scooter distinction (which then also becomes ambiguous with what I can only call "kick-scooters", most

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