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New comment by farias0 in "Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad"

farias0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:50:42 +0000

It only "take jobs" because it's useful. It's useful for making transcription at scale, text revision, marketing material, VFX, all those things. It also does other things that don't "take jobs", like computer voice control. It's just a tool, useful for everyone, and not harmful at all at its purpose. Comparing it to guns is just ridiculous.

New comment by farias0 in "Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard"

farias0 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:16:14 +0000

Why are humans pushing themselves to do challenging stuff? I don't know man, but it's just what we do, and I think that's cool.

New comment by farias0 in "What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge"

farias0 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:11:59 +0000

So this is about the ego of professionals? As the other person explained, there are many use cases for disposable software, so it's a good thing that there's a new tech enabling non-programmer to create these on their own.

New comment by farias0 in "The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released"

farias0 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:08:59 +0000

People are complaining about it because they think it's unfair and it's abuse of IP law. People's interests aren't defined by court decisions.

New comment by farias0 in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"

farias0 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:16:37 +0000

You mean we're not there in simulating an actual human brain? Sure. But we're seeing AI work like a human well enough to be useful, isn't that the point?

New comment by farias0 in "I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them"

farias0 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:20:58 +0000

I don't know why people are worried about storage. You can just store it on the cloud.

New comment by farias0 in "What Is Entropy?"

farias0 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:22:47 +0000

I've seen many people arguing he's the most intelligent person that ever lived

New comment by farias0 in "The death of a public intellectual"

farias0 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:49:53 +0000

It is an obviously wrong approach. There are plenty of intelligent people out there, this doesn't keep them from being occasionally wrong. If you have access to the opinion of people who devoted their whole lives to the field in question, why would you seek it from an influencer that perhaps gained fame from being an authority in a couple of non-related fields?

New comment by farias0 in "Tell HN: Siri provides Apple Music link when sharing current song on Spotify"

farias0 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:51:24 +0000

Is it not reasonable to expect that the keyword "share" functions the same as the share button? I don't know the standards you have for the things you buy, but I find unacceptable that a thing I paid (handsomely) for twists my orders to share adverting to my contacts under my name, and part of the reason things are so bad is because at every valid criticism there are people defending these stuff as normal

New comment by farias0 in "Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty"

farias0 — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:12:03 +0000

Nowadays there are games for all tastes being released weekly, the biggest game of the year, Elden Ring, seems exactly what you're looking for. Also try indies like Slay the Spire, Into the Breach and Rollerdrome

New comment by farias0 in "Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?"

farias0 — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:03:37 +0000

I disagree with the premise of your answer. The statements "there are new, interesting CLI apps" and "there are more critical GUI apps nowadays" aren't mutually exclusive, actually they both make sense if you consider the number of apps out there is always increasing.

New comment by farias0 in "Mental model examples and their explanations"

farias0 — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:33:31 +0000

Ok, this is obviously a very shallow reading, but I can see myself coming back to it in moments of need to find new perspectives.

New comment by farias0 in "YouTube aparently shadowbans video on CIA's crimes (2021)"

farias0 — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:34:28 +0000

I really don't know what you want here, my man. You're asking for irrefutable proof when no one can provide it. This is a curious set of events, not a legal case. If they had the proof you want this would be a much bigger story wouldn't it?

Your YouTube comment specifically makes no sense, copyright strike on what material? Also, didn't you just said that "shadowban" happens all the time? Now it's never been seen before?

Again, I have no idea what you want here.

New comment by farias0 in "YouTube aparently shadowbans video on CIA's crimes (2021)"

farias0 — Tue, 03 May 2022 02:47:50 +0000

He has an older tweet mentioning the visit https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/132335626258786304...

Journalists surveilled by the DHS for documenting police violence in the US (the best I could do with your very specific request) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/dhs-intellig...

YouTube quickly rolled back on the supposed shadowban, but it's very well documented by users on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube, to the point he would need to have a bot army to fake it. I mentioned the warnings on the video as further evidence of YouTube (specifically or systematically, IDK) targeting the video.

Now where you have a good point in my opinion is that he could have shared info on the agents, if he had this info and was legally allowed to. There are reasons he could have not shared, but it's still a good point of speculation.

New comment by farias0 in "YouTube aparently shadowbans video on CIA's crimes (2021)"

farias0 — Tue, 03 May 2022 02:03:47 +0000

He claims to have received a visit from the DHS about his other video on police brutality called "America's Police Problem", months before the CIA video situation.

Yes, he doesn't offer evidence the DHS visited him, but I don't see which evidence he could have on that, if you know please share with us. As it stands I don't see any reason to call BS from the start, it seems to fit the DHS's MO, I don't see what's unbelievable about it.

On his video on the CIA, I've never seen another case of a YouTube video showing three content warnings (on Android) before letting you watch it. How directly involved the American government is on it is anyone's guess, it's probably a more systematic action from YouTube, but I wouldn't doubt the government directly requested to not promote it in any way.

New comment by farias0 in "YouTube aparently shadowbans video on CIA's crimes (2021)"

farias0 — Mon, 02 May 2022 23:49:50 +0000

I tried posting this link here last year with the title "YouTube shadowbans 'The CIA is a Terrorist Organization' video", but my post got flagged. I'm trying again with a milder title.

YouTube aparently shadowbans video on CIA's crimes (2021)

farias0 — Mon, 02 May 2022 23:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/k2wt7j/youtube_apparently_shadow_banning_the_cia_is_a/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31242607

Points: 12

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New comment by farias0 in "Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing"

farias0 — Sun, 01 May 2022 13:22:17 +0000

Yeah, I strongly dislike chess.com, but the fact that it sponsors so many amazing chess content creators makes it more useful existing than not existing. Too bad most players gravitate towards it over the superior platform (lichess).

New comment by farias0 in "No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “standby” devices"

farias0 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:25:32 +0000

A good rule of thumb, and I hope someone more knowledgeable can correct me if I'm wrong, is that stuff that generate more heat will consume more power. So hot shower, iron, curling iron, hairdryer, rice cooker, this kind of stuff. Electronics that generate minimal heat will consume minimal power in general.

New comment by farias0 in "Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks (2020)"

farias0 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:10:42 +0000

I'm not talking about the NSA spying on American citizens. I'm talking about America slaughtering civilians in half of the middle east.