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by hnbad 4mo ago
The article also states that Iran shot down the fighter jet the US had to recover the weapons officer of. I recall news reports at the time insisting that this was actually an accident or friendly fire incident as it had been the previous t
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by hnbad 4mo ago
True. Hitting the water reservoir is childsplay compared to the targeted attack on a girls' school with which the US decided to open this war when Iran was signalling agreement to make a deal. It also still makes the US far more reserv
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by hnbad 4mo ago
So this is how I find out that in Verdana lowercase pi looks exactly like lowercase Cyrillic п (pe), i.e. like an open rectangle rather than a bit curvy.
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by hnbad 6mo ago
While I agree that the word has been misused by some bad actors in the "Woke 1.0 era", it's worth pointing out that this isn't what most people complaining about the word being "diluted" are referring to as the
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by hnbad 6mo ago
180 children lost their lives because of decisions by people in the US military (and ultimately the US government / the POTUS). Let's not fall into the trap of adopting narratives created to waive accountability. The spreadshe
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by hnbad 6mo ago
Rampant capitalism is kinda genre-defining for Cyberpunk so Cyberpunk without corporations wouldn't really be Cyberpunk. _The Matrix_ only qualifies as Cyberpunk because within the matrix the machines effectively control the capitalist
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by hnbad 6mo ago
The cited snippet is in TFA. Did you read it? Did you read the Hindustan Times article either? Because that one doesn't actually include any relvant statement, it just contains the picture GP was pointing out - and the entire point of
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by hnbad 6mo ago
If this site ever was anti-racist, that must have been a long time ago. I threw away my old account many years ago only to come back with this one (because it's difficult to completely ignore HN if you work in tech) and the reason I th
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by hnbad 6mo ago
If I understand correctly, the current outcome is that the twin remains on the birth certificate but his legal rights granted by paternity have been suspended? I understand the reasoning that the inability to prove a positive does not suffi
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by hnbad 6mo ago
Claude is not a person and AI doesn't gain authorship let alone copyright. Unless you literally vibe coded it, Claude is just a tool. This is the equivalent of Apple appending "Sent from my iPhone" as a signature to outgoing
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by hnbad 7mo ago
I find it jarring how in recent years so many Americans (and especially American politicians) seem to have given up on the idea that the US should have any claim to moral superiority whatsoever and instead pivoted to American exceptionalism
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by hnbad 7mo ago
Considering that the concern is mostly and specifically about LLMs being used to automate decisions to commit acts of violence against humans: depends on how invested you are in maintaining the narrative that the US is a force for good rath
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by hnbad 7mo ago
Just as an unscientific anecdata point: from a quick test using the same prompt about being an independent journalist wanting to cover a report of the US/Israel/Iran double-tapping a refugee camp, ChatGPT consistently gave advice
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by hnbad 8mo ago
Admitting this kind of conflicts with the One China Policy and the implicit Han Supremacist attitude prevalent in CCP politics but China is ethnically diverse compared to Korea and Japan simply due to its geographic scale. There might be a
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by hnbad 8mo ago
Both the "nice guy" and the "asshole" are insecure. The latter is just better at masking their insecurities in such a way that others mistake it for confidence. This is especially true when eveyone involved is young enou
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by hnbad 8mo ago
The second most recent video from the YouTube channel you linked uses a "triggered feminist" meme image from 2016. The image itself is a still image from a video posted on Alex Jones' YouTube channel covering a protest agains
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by hnbad 8mo ago
The tell-tale phrase of a soon-to-be victim in a relationship with an abuser is "he's not like that when we're alone", not "I can fix him". There's a difference between confidence and dominance. It's
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by hnbad 8mo ago
Sure, and so is Stockholm Syndrome - except in that case we know the concept was made up by a criminologist working with the local police to help them come up with a psychological explanation for why the hostages stopped trusting them after
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by hnbad 8mo ago
> The current trend in all major providers seem to be: get you to spin up as many agents as possible so that you can get billed more and their number of requests goes up. I was surprised when I saw that Cursor added a feature to set the
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by hnbad 8mo ago
I recall that early LLMs had the problem of not understanding the word "not", which became especially evident and problematic when tasked with summarizing text because the summary would then sometimes directly contradict the origi
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by hnbad 8mo ago
LLMs are basically improv theater. If the agent starts out with a wildly wrong assumption it will try to stick to it and adapt it rather than starting over. It can only do "yes and", never "actually nevermind, let me try some
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by hnbad 8mo ago
Let me rephrase your question: "But if it's illegal for TikTok to do this, shouldn't Meta also be sued over it?" The answer is "Yes".
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by hnbad 8mo ago
> Humans are wired to be egocentric. When we hear something related to a past experience, it triggers memories and associations — which we then want to talk about. Shifting the attention from her to me. This is my default state when I&#x
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by hnbad 9mo ago
I think most people only recall becoming aware of Facebook when it was already so widespread that people talked about it as "the site you go to to find out what extended family members and people you haven't spoken to in years are
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by hnbad 9mo ago
Of course it's Palantir.
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by hnbad 9mo ago
Being an asshole is incentivized by the system. If you don't want companies to behave like assholes, change the system to one that punishes that.
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by hnbad 10mo ago
Not under capitalism, sure. But traditionally gift economies worked exactly because people understood that gifts also imbue a burden of responsibility. Not necessarily in repayment but to honor the gift and pay the good deed forward instead
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by hnbad 10mo ago
Given the incredible number of chickens that are processed every single minute across the world, this shouldn't be surprising but it's easy to see why you might be surprised if you never considered where all the stuff that isn&#x2
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by hnbad 10mo ago
You must believe that US companies are trying to enter and stay in hostile markets out of the sheer kindness of their hearts. Have you considered that not being present in the second biggest market by GDP may actually be a massive liability
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by hnbad 10mo ago
The US is in the middle of a recession if you exclude the AI bubble. Even if you include the AI bubble it's barely avoiding stagflation. I'm not sure "growth and innovation" accurately serves as a contrast between the US

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