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mvieira38··on ChatGPT Atlas
And if you do follow these arrests you'll notice that it's old-fashioned investigations that catch them, by tracing behavior, log in times, etc. The comment I was answering was implying you lose anonymity by using these tools, which you don't
mvieira38··on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Viewing corporations as amoral bots that are justified in squeezing every bit of profit out of humans is exactly what is wrong with our society. Someone in a big tech was the inventor of this dark pattern and they think they're awesome for finding a loophole in the well-meaning regulation, at the cost of the costumer they supposedly should serve. That person is the problem, and so are the people that followed them
mvieira38··on ChatGPT Atlas
> And most of the steps people do to mitigate privacy violations (TOR, pihole, VPNs, etc.) probably make any signal you do put out more scrutinized.

If you're using them correctly there is no way to scrutinize your traffic more, these comments just spread FUD for no good reason. How are "they" unable to catch darkweb criminals for years and even decades, but somehow can tell if it's me browsing reddit over Tor?

mvieira38··on Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults
The G stands for gooner
mvieira38··on Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)
Nowadays there are tournament matches with no resignations allowed, so setting stalemate traps may be more common from now on.
mvieira38··on Show HN: Neural emotion matrix for NPCs
Excited for stuff like this as a CRPG player. A possible future for designing a crpg NPC might be to write a bunch of memories, descriptions, likes and dislikes, etc. in text instead of trying to convey those through branching dialogue.
mvieira38··on TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'
Teens are way more excited than adults at seeing this stuff, as well, so we can expect engagement to increase the dirtier the content shown gets
mvieira38··on TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'
This content isn't as overt as it may seem, maybe you did come across it and just didn't notice flashing. Those "in the know", generally younger people whose friends told them about flashtok, know what to look for
mvieira38··on The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows
I've seen it called "agentic search" while RAG seems to have become synonymous with semantic search via embeddings
mvieira38··on Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction
The results are interesting for showing the efficacy of small, fine-tuned models that can be run locally. AI providers as a business need their do-all models to be better than these if they want long-term revenue through the APIs, right?
mvieira38··on Kagi News
Yeah, I agree. The entire value/fact dichotomy that the announcement bases itself on is a pretty hot philosophical topic I lean against Kagi on. It's just impossible to summarize any text without imparting some sort of value judgement on it, therefore "biasing" the text
mvieira38··on Kagi News
Yes, that's what it is. Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist, so you may be fundamentally at odds with them here... If it lessens the issue for you, the sources of each item are cited properly in every example I tried, so maybe you could treat it as a fancy link aggregator
mvieira38··on Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts
I'm in Brazil and that happens often
mvieira38··on ChatGPT Pulse
Why?
mvieira38··on Better Curl Saul: a lightweight API testing CLI focused on UX and simplicity
The UX seems genuinely good
mvieira38··on My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
Legally, you mean? Because I'd say most reasonable people would say a literal wire on your phone is pretty personal. Location is PID too if they store the data at all
mvieira38··on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
Which is so bad it barely means anything for lower-end PCs. I played and enjoyed plenty of hours on Elden Ring while rocking hardware well below the minimum requirements
mvieira38··on Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
Have you tried Polars in Python? When you get going it's pretty similar to tidyverse, except you're chaining methods instead of piping, and it's lazily evaluated + parallel because of the underlying Rust engine. IME it's tidyverse > polars > pandas > data.table in terms of ergonomics
mvieira38··on Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
How is Julia in terms of data science dev experience? Nothing ever felt as good as the R+tidyverse combo to me, at least in Python.
mvieira38··on Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
Agree 100% on tidyverse becoming part of the standard library. Some of the language's greatest libraries (like Hyndman's forecasting stuff) basically assume you're using tidyverse already
mvieira38··on DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
Well, the supposed PhD-level models are still pretty dumb when they get to consumers, so what gives?
mvieira38··on Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
How are these people your friends in the first place
mvieira38··on GPT-5-Codex
This has been my experience even in Cursor. I often select the GPT-5 option because I know it will "know" better how much reasoning effort it needs
mvieira38··on We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
Just to be clear, are you saying that to know something:

1- You may remember only the initial state and the brain does the rest, like with mnemonics

2- You may remember only the initial steps towards a solution, like knowing the assumptions and one or two insights to a mathematical proof?

I'd say a Zettlekasten user would agree with you if you mean 1

mvieira38··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
You can make your phishing bot write tailor-made messages and even respond
mvieira38··on Being good isn't enough
The "fullstack 1 week bootcamp", "learn TypeScript in 6 hours", overpayed generation was bound to breed incompetence. When people began openly embracing overemployment at a senior level it should have become clear how easy those jobs were
mvieira38··on How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video]
Melee is widely regarded int he community as much better than the successors, too, and it's pretty much the only game that survived its sequel in the whole series
mvieira38··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
> This is most noticeable in open source contributions. Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.

This wouldn't happen nearly as much if you had a defined set of formatting rules plugged into CI instead of chaos

mvieira38··on ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
I was asking as someone wanting to learn Julia but weighting the industry benefits, not as a devil's advocate
mvieira38··on ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
> First of all some people really like Julia, regardless of how it gets discussed on HN, its commercial use has been steadily growing

Got any sources on that? I've been interested in learning Julia for a while but don't because it feels useless compared to Python, especially now with 3.13

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