Hacker News: agnokapathetic

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

agnokapathetic — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:10:47 +0000

the institution of democracy should not require a neutral point of view.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:46:22 +0000

> Electrical signal attenuation increases with the square of the distance

not true. in standard HV-AC lines, power losses are ~10% per megameter. HVDC gets to 3-5%. So Nevada to Seattle would be at most 20% loss, and in practice 15%, and with HVDC closer to 7%.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/1...

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Nvidia DGX Spark"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:24:04 +0000

it uses LPDDR5x instead of the datacenter variant’s HBM3e.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "XMLUI"

agnokapathetic — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:06:39 +0000

reminds me of Macromedia MXML (used in Flash, Coldfusion and Flex)!

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/...

New comment by agnokapathetic in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

agnokapathetic — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:24:34 +0000

claude code has a Jetbrains plugin which is delightful!

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

agnokapathetic — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:33:58 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Five

https://openai.com/index/gym-retro/

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer Returns to Google"

agnokapathetic — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:26:14 +0000

per The Information -- investors don't get screwed, the board repurchased all shares at $88/share ($2.5B valuation).

New comment by agnokapathetic in "[dead]"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:42:01 +0000

did they try to Google "how to make LSD"? several widely available guides. Tired of LLMs being seen as "risky" for doing the same thing search engines and blogs have been doing for two decades.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Data breach at Kaiser Permanente affects 13.4M people"

agnokapathetic — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:28:57 +0000

this is just from Share Embeds.

they now disclose these are used at login.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf]"

agnokapathetic — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:51:59 +0000

mRNA vaccines are about getting mRNA into just a few non-specific cells which then instructs the cell to produce Corona Virus Spike Protein. This gets identified by the immune system which then makes antibodies targeting the spike protein.

So the mRNA only needs to get taken up by a few cells to produce an immune response.

The HIV CRISPR-Cas technique needs to target several orders of magnitude more cells in the body, and is performing a far more complicated procedure than simple transcription like with an mRNA vaccine.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation"

agnokapathetic — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:01:00 +0000

They're pretty clear about it though erring on the conservative side.

> While none of the above results were statistically significant, we interpret our results to indicate that access to (research-only) GPT-4 may increase experts’ ability to access information about biological threats, particularly for accuracy and completeness of tasks. This access to research-only GPT-4, along with our larger sample size, different scoring rubric, and different task design (e.g., individuals instead of teams, and significantly shorter duration) may also help explain the difference between our conclusions and those of Mouton et al. 2024, who concluded that LLMs do not increase information access at this time.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Ask HN: Is Apple's R1 a Discrete GPU?"

agnokapathetic — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:50:55 +0000

it’s a discrete Image Processing Unit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_processor

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Competitive performance claims and Inference performance on AMD MI300X"

agnokapathetic — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:46:55 +0000

batch size 1 -- this is a terrible benchmark that really only shows memory bandwidth only -- LLM inference on Llama2-70b is memory bound up to a batch size of a half dozen or so.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "The AI Market Is Firming Up Fast"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:52:25 +0000

But equities investors value cloud growth for all of these companies, and AI spend is high enough that even if the margin isn't there, the revenue growth will make the street happy.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Ask HN: Retrieving multiple images with a single request?"

agnokapathetic — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:21:55 +0000

CSS Image Sprites https://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_image_sprites.asp

New comment by agnokapathetic in "OpenAI is too cheap to beat"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:55:01 +0000

> "In some specific tasks, a finetuned 7B llama can work as well as GPT3.5."

"some" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Also: don't discount the labor cost of curating a fine tuning dataset, running a FT training run, even if the hardware is cheap.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Slack's Google Drive App can share your private Docs and Drive files"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:20:43 +0000

This has been shared with Slack many times by many separate organizations and always closed with WontFix / Working as Expected

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Elegant Palantir Access Control PowerPoint (2008)"

agnokapathetic — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:39:14 +0000

Random aside: The author of this, Bob McGrew, is now the VP of Research at OpenAI.

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic"

agnokapathetic — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:06:00 +0000

OpenAI has committed to never training on API data. You no longer need a DPA for this.

https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy

New comment by agnokapathetic in "Llama 2 on togetherAI is as bad of a privacy nightmare as OpenAI"

agnokapathetic — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:12:30 +0000

It's quite easy to opt-out of OpenAI using your data for training. API and ChatGPT Enterprise are private by default.

# OpenAI Products and Privacy

- ChatGPT Free - trains on your data unless you Opt Out

- ChatGPT Plus - trains on your data unless you Opt Out

- ChatGPT Enterprise - does _not_ train on your data

- OpenAI API - does _not_ train on your data

Opt-out link: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...