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rokizeroon Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

This might be a situation where an old-school filter that I can control (same for price range) could add value rather than relying 100% on AI?

Did you push an update? I tried again and now got 6 locations in NL. For my initial comment I had prompted multiple times in different sessions but always got max 2 dutch locations.

rokizeroon Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

I asked it for locations in the Randstad (area in The Netherlands around Amsterdam) and I got:

1. Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (actually ok location) 2. Marysville, Ohio, United States 3. Lisboa, Portugal 4. Nashville, Tennessee, United States 5. Kenmore, Washington, United States 6. Golden, Colorado, United States

I would expect there to be some reviewer agent that ensures that all found locations are at least within the same country?

rokizeroon Which Humans? (2023)

This was submitted 30 months ago. Still interesting. I would be interested if this got 'worse' or 'better' with newer models.

rokizeroon Show HN: I made a VRAM Calculator in Hugging Face

i'm honestly surprised HF doesn't have this feature yet, very useful! will you publish the code on github?

any plans on adding more consumer-grade gpus?

rokizeroon Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards

It would have been fair if the author would have mentioned that Microsoft is very open about this. I went to a Microsoft training, where the instructor also made clear that the service is being monitored. Suspicious messages get flagged and are reviewed under a 4-eyes principle. [1]

At least in the EU (I'm told) they are required by law keep logs to ensure that their AI services are not being used to do bad.

I'm glad that their system worked.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...

rokizeroon New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

good find, thanks!

in case anyone's curious, these were his numbers as of may 2023

            All   Since 2018
  Citations 44715 22788
  h-index   117   72
  i10-index 725   461

(once more amazed how incredible useful archive.org is)

rokizeroon New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

is it me or is his google scholar page gone? i'm wondering if it's been removed by google or he removed it himself in an effort to remove 'evidence'

This used to link to his profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j7syrnkAAAAJ&hl=en

rokizeroon OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return

Source??

rokizeroon What happened to the source code for The AppleSoft Compiler?

This blog post by Raymond Chen contains more details than this short YouTube video:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220419-00/?p=10...

rokizeroon Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

When I was a kid I had an laptop that would overheat when playing age of empires. So I had a bicycle pump setup under my desk so I could quickly blow in some air every 3-4 minutes... If I was to late or forgot the whole thing would just die and all game progress was lost. I remember laughing at the whole situation whenever I had to pump in air. At some point I bought one of those laptop stand with built-in fans.

Thanks for reminding me of those good old days :-)

rokizeroon The Future of the Vim Project

Serious question: How common is having dozens of accounts? I live in NL and have 3 at the same bank. Why would anyone have 50+ accounts?

rokizeroon The underground world of credit card network exploitation

How can you say that something is outright false if there is not fact/claim you can disprove. You’re responding to someone you don’t know and have no idea what they are working on.

I’m (not OP!) a cloud engineer but also work on a lot of FE (React) code for internal tools. ChatGPT has saved me countless hours (literally tens a month) writing super simple code that I am able to easily write up myself but typing it out just takes time. After month of using it I find myself still quite excited whenever cGPT saved me another hour. We also use Retool, but I find myself writing code ‘myself’ more often since cGPT launched.

No, I wouldn’t just copy paste production code handling PII, but prototyping or developing simple tools is sooooo much faster, for me.

rokizeroon Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021)

Childhood memories! Our playground had the same version shown in the linked image.

You were considered cool when you dared to jump off the highest possible standing position. The wood chips softened the fall :-)

rokizeroon Twitter was down

Is there any information on the 467 error? Doesn't appear to be standard. Any ideas or other companies using 467?

rokizeroon GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

As a Deutscher this sounds completely nuts. Correct me if I'm wrong but any not 100% technically necessary third party request is considered illegally leaking personal data?! Or do I 'just' have to inform the users that their fonts, images and other data that could be stored in source but is not? In the case of fonts I'm pretty sure they get cached in the browser, so bundling them with the source just doesn't make sense?