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oceansky··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
Plenty of blame to distribute.
oceansky··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
But the other half are. UK, Brazil, Texas, Virginia.
oceansky··on Sonic Pi v5
Sonic Pi or Strudel? Which is better for a music noob?
oceansky··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Impressive what a community can do together if that's true .
oceansky··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
They have killed ice protestors in the open, murderers weren't even investigated.
oceansky··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
I can't possibly imagine what the parents are going through
oceansky··on What will define Elon Musk's legacy? DOGE cuts to USAID Ebola programs
The FSD driving by 2015 guy.
oceansky··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
This site was created by venture capitalists. The dichotomy was always there.
oceansky··on Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
It is 4 years in Brazil. Sometimes 5.

There are 3 years non-BS degrees though.

oceansky··on Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Does the "attester" knows who is requesting the information?

Can they map which places requests which person?

oceansky··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Those digital surveillance rules passed in Brazil under the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents law.

Protection of kids is definitely the most common arguments for them.

oceansky··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
And personal too. Different engineers are using them for different use cases.
oceansky··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
A couple
oceansky··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
There's also the opposite effect, a windows security update broke GTA San Andreas because it relied on undefined behavior.

https://silentsblog.com/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h...

oceansky··on Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks
Yes. It's post training in qwen using the novel SwiReasoning framework.
oceansky··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
That's true, it's obtained from gifting.

But what I mean is that there are enough players there to be significant part of the ecosystem. The war made obtaining those Vivillion harder.

oceansky··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Nowadays you are the product regardless of how much you are paying.

Pokémon Go can be pretty expensive with micro-transactions.

oceansky··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
As a Pokemon go player, I would say it isn't.

There's even a Pokemon exclusive to the middle east region: sandstorm pattern Vivillion. Lots of players there.

oceansky··on Claude Fable 5
He was kinda right.

Lawyers, doctors, students, teachers. Lots of people using GPT models carelessly in harmful ways.

oceansky··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
I can't say for sure, but there is a suspicious amount of "it's not x, it's y". At least there are no em-dashes.
oceansky··on How LLMs work
Out of curiosity, I wondered if you could break a tokenizer by introducing weird characters not mapped to an id.

But apparently, they either just emit a [UNK] token or translate the unrecognized character into raw UTF-8 bytes.

oceansky··on Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
Next step: 100% browser javascript pokémon emerald.
oceansky··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Impossible to know for sure. But I would speculate a lot of investors are "bullish" on these three companies and would rather invest more on them.
oceansky··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Ovid's unicorn gpt-2 article in 2019 really amazed me.
oceansky··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...
oceansky··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Meta alone spent 2 billion dollars lobbying for this worldwide, and it was a massive success, it's passing everywhere unanimously.
oceansky··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
I fully agree, the billion dollar question is when it will come.
oceansky··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
Awful time for gamers and PC hobbyists not fully into AI.
oceansky··on GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch
So far. Other companies surely will make their devices compatible if the market share increases for it
oceansky··on Cartoon Network Flash Games
Thanks for all your work!
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