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New comment by sp332 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

sp332 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:15:04 +0000

Well, they did sue Cox Communications for a billion dollars because they weren't self-policing. ISPs can lose their safe harbor status and effectively become accomplices in all the piracy of their customers.

New comment by sp332 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

sp332 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:08:18 +0000

Not only downloading, but also uploading. Your ISP (in America) has a policy about how many DMCA strikes you get before they disable your internet permanently.

New comment by sp332 in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

sp332 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:03:32 +0000

In New Hampshire, we banned both public and private ALPRs. You can see on the map that the only ones are at toll booths. Those got explicit exemptions in the law.

New comment by sp332 in "Covid vaccine in US now requires consultation with physician"

sp332 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:16:28 +0000

Last week I called around to see if I could get a booster before schools open. I was told by several places that they had sent their Covid shots back and I should just wait until mid-September to see whether they get new ones.

New comment by sp332 in "DIY Cybersickness Remedies"

sp332 — Sat, 24 May 2025 23:37:15 +0000

Here is a "Yoga for Building VR Tolerance" article from 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209025553/http://elevr.com/...

New comment by sp332 in "Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team"

sp332 — Tue, 28 May 2024 17:21:10 +0000

Looks like superalignment was Jan Leike's term, since the team at OpenAI dissolved immediately without him.

New comment by sp332 in "Diverging diamond interchanges make left turns faster and safer"

sp332 — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:44:24 +0000

The text version is nice for some things, but this one could really use the pictures. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-...

New comment by sp332 in "La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season"

sp332 — Tue, 28 May 2024 04:00:51 +0000

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/the-atlantic-hurrica...

New comment by sp332 in "Identifying/characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter"

sp332 — Tue, 28 May 2024 00:13:09 +0000

Herd immunity has only ever been achieved with vaccines. It has not been achieved with Covid, with hundreds of people still dying from Covid each day.

New comment by sp332 in "A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers"

sp332 — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:13:32 +0000

I don't think a ring of galaxies is going to look very different from anyplace within the solar system. Anyway I think moralestapia's point is that the circle might not be centered on us, so the redshift of the galaxies would not be the same. We could still determine that a circle exists by plotting the galaxies in 3D.

New comment by sp332 in "Ask HN: What sites are similar to Hacker News?"

sp332 — Sun, 26 May 2024 00:07:49 +0000

Reddit? Metafilter?

New comment by sp332 in "Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same"

sp332 — Sat, 25 May 2024 11:51:01 +0000

What search engine do you think management uses now?

New comment by sp332 in "Mistral Fine-Tune"

sp332 — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:49:58 +0000

The output of the LLM is not just one token, but a statistical distribution across all possible output tokens. The tool you use to generate output will sample from this distribution with various techniques, and you can put constraints on it like not being too repetitive. Some of them support getting very specific about the allowed output format, e.g. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/... So even if the LLM says that an invalid token is the most likely next token, the tool will never select it for output. It will only sample from valid tokens.

New comment by sp332 in "US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)"

sp332 — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:20:36 +0000

I was browsing test kits where you send a sample back to a lab. They're $79 - $300 and advertise 1 or 2 parts per trillion. Looks like getting to 0.02 ppt requires some very specialized equipment, and would probably be optimized for continuous monitoring of a water supply.

New comment by sp332 in "Mistral Fine-Tune"

sp332 — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:01:34 +0000

Fine tuning can be useful if you need to generate lots of output in a particular format. You can fine-tune on formatted messages, and then the model will generate that automatically. That could save a bunch of tokens explaining the output format in every prompt.

New comment by sp332 in "US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)"

sp332 — Sat, 25 May 2024 01:16:47 +0000

How much money do you have?

New comment by sp332 in "Morgan Spurlock has died"

sp332 — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:11:34 +0000

The doctor in the documentary tells him that his liver is damaged like an alcoholic's. He just let people assume it was from the food.

New comment by sp332 in "Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?"

sp332 — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:49:55 +0000

He said it was this specific performance that convinced Weird Al that he was the right guy. Also the movie is great.

New comment by sp332 in "FAA reveals flaw in Boeing 777 that could result in fuel tank exploding"

sp332 — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:26:02 +0000

Since the 777 is older, and this has never happened, and they are giving airlines 5 years to make the change, it doesn't seem likely to be an actual problem.

New comment by sp332 in "Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16B Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam"

sp332 — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:44:26 +0000

As the body of the article says repeatedly, it's only a rumor.