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New comment by agroot12 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

agroot12 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:54:46 +0000

They write "We will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class model". For potentially criminal content, maybe it's not "we", but "the authorities" that require the retention?

... and now I wonder if "we require retention" leaves the door open to retention that is not required, but let's say convenient.

New comment by agroot12 in "What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?"

agroot12 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:47:57 +0000

I might be missing something, but it would be great if the charts would show inference speed, model size (required VRAM) and quality (benchmark results) in one. It might be that the same quality and speed and size can be attained by just quantizing, perhaps with added fine-tuning, without the sparseness. The post seems to imply that their method is better, but if that's the case, they could show that.

New comment by agroot12 in "Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election"

agroot12 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:17:58 +0000

You are right that it is unlikely that one candidate gets the number of votes that exactly matches a certain percentage with one decimal (1:10.000 as per the source article).

But it's even more unlikely and astonishing that the second candidate also gets a number of votes corresponding to a percentage with one decimal!

This is highly suspicious if the vote counts are presented as official result.

But as mentioned in the comments, we cannot be sure that someone was given the total vote count, and the percentages rounded to one decimal, and thought it would be helpful to recalculate how many votes each candidate must have gotten.

New comment by agroot12 in "Don't wake me up too soon"

agroot12 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:21:45 +0000

This is from his Schiller speech https://www.dla-marbach.de/ueber-uns/marbacher-schillerreden...

and the translator cut the interwoven parts about the CIA's Stargate program, for the better in my opinion.

New comment by agroot12 in "Linda Yaccarino: no single authentic user saw this content alongside IBM's ads"

agroot12 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:16:53 +0000

But through Twitter/X's ad revenue sharing, money you spend on Apple products goes into marketing on Twitter/X, and finances Nazis.

New comment by agroot12 in "Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting"

agroot12 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:02:19 +0000

Using tiktokenizer, these are only two tokens: quote-colon is token 498, space-quote is token 330 (as per https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/ ). But I agree to the general argument.

I think what factors in even more when you use the API is that you do not have fine-grained control over the generation process. If you follow the MS guidance approach, you fill in structured text yourself, and then let the model generate only the value parts, e.g. up to the next quote. To do that more or less word by word, you have multiple API calls, and have to be very smart about providing the right stop tokens.

New comment by agroot12 in "Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms"

agroot12 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:00:02 +0000

"After that, participants solved mentally active programming tasks (coding) and monotonous ones (debugging)" ... this is a surprising take. Debugging, as the saying goes, is often like a murder mystery. Edit: I dont' think the authors are wrong about that, since they have observed the participants, I assume they chose a monotonous debugging task.

New comment by agroot12 in "Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python"

agroot12 — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:33:34 +0000

Maybe I am an optimist, but I'd say Vaadin is mostly Open Source (Apache License). You can build complete web applications with the open source version. Only some advanced components (e.g. an Excel-like grid, a WYSIWYG editor, Highcharts components) are proprietary and require a subscription for development, while the builds can be freely distributed.

New comment by agroot12 in "‘Perfect explosion’: merger of neutron stars creates spherical cosmic blast"

agroot12 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:29:51 +0000

But confusingly it is captioned "Photograph: Albert Sneppen/Reuters"

New comment by agroot12 in "Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap"

agroot12 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:06:20 +0000

BMW sales do not seem shrinking to me: They boast 35 consecutive quarters of growth [1] and sold more cars year over year, at least in 2014-2017 [2], don't know about 2018, as it's not yet in the statistics.

[1] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T028306...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264342/global-sales-volu...

New comment by agroot12 in "The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce"

agroot12 — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 08:32:33 +0000

This is a fallacy - for all we know, SF might be spending that money to help 20,000 people to find homes, and 7,500 homeless people are still left or newly homeless.

New comment by agroot12 in "Honda Aircraft Launches HondaJet Elite"

agroot12 — Wed, 30 May 2018 09:09:49 +0000

Same as serverless.

New comment by agroot12 in "Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways"

agroot12 — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:58:37 +0000

I think it would be much better if the screen reader could use sounds for punctuation, like the sound of a typewriter typing to indicate a dot, and some meep-like sound with the frequency goes up for an opening parenthesis, and down for a closing parenthesis.

New comment by agroot12 in "Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing"

agroot12 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:19:50 +0000

The page you link to <https://jitsi.org/downloads/> contains (mostly) instructions on how to install jitsi-meet on your server for a self-hosted WebRTC videoconferencing solution.

This does not include the older 'jitsi' named softphone / voip client, meaning there will be no jitsi command that can be executed.

Installation of jitsi-meet was straightforward for me, exactly as oulined on their page:

- first, add their repository to your apt sources.list

- then apt update && apt upgrade

- then apt install jitsi-meet

You should end up with a running web server hosting your own jitsi-meet instance.

I've installed it with a letsencrypt cert... you have to convert it to pkcs#12 with openssl and move it to /etc/jitsi/videobridge/ .

New comment by agroot12 in "Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing"

agroot12 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:51:08 +0000

For Jitsi Meet, you don't have to install anything on a PC but a WebRTC capable browser. On iOS, you (still) need an app, although Safari is starting to support WebRTC natively.

Java on the server is a safe language. I agree that any browser plugin affects security and usability negatively, and the Java browser plugin was a nightmare.

New comment by agroot12 in "Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing"

agroot12 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:47:55 +0000

Jitsi Meet can record server-side with Jibri <https://github.com/jitsi/jibri>, although that is still experimental.

New comment by agroot12 in "You Will Not Understand This"

agroot12 — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:47:32 +0000

exactly. un-teaching mankind how to fish.

New comment by agroot12 in "GnuPG 2.1.23 released"

agroot12 — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 21:42:38 +0000

It is a security problem for the recipient.

Imagine a dissident / whistle blower / journalistic source using gpg. I could send her a message, signed with a new key, and just wait until her gpg executable contacts my server.

Then I have her IP address, and if I am lucky, I can plant an exploit into the very first request response.

New comment by agroot12 in "How to Murder a Byzantine Emperor"

agroot12 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:19:07 +0000

I logged in to post exactly this. How great would be a piece by Mickens with that title?

For all HN readers that don't know Mickens yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905536

New comment by agroot12 in "HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle"

agroot12 — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:27:05 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out, my first thought was the goal is to decode a bit pattern from the flickering neon sign mp4! That would have been some wasted time...