kuhaku22

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by kuhaku22 2mo ago
> Corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder's value. This is a myth.
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by kuhaku22 7mo ago
I liked the article for its brief foray into aviation history, something I wasn't too familiar with myself past the standard Wright Brothers factoids, and for making me appreciate the smooth rides I've luckily had, especially comp
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by kuhaku22 7mo ago
Not to mention these patterns didn't come out of thin air. The LLMs are statistically regurgitating language from its training set, which researchers probably tuned more towards journalistic sources like the one we're reading.
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by kuhaku22 7mo ago
It also feels very shoehorned. You have "conversations" where there's only one party, testimony, memos, and interviews presented as casual conversation, entire messages that are actually "[editorial commentary]", no
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by kuhaku22 7mo ago
> Obviously the implementation was botched in this case The long wait times could easily have been fixed by staggering employee start times. You could even optimize it per building/floor. Sadly, a lot of bureaucrats lack the imagina
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by kuhaku22 7mo ago
> Additionally, the weapon is not limited to offensive use, as it can be used to extinguish afterburn on oneself and teammates https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Jarate
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by kuhaku22 8mo ago
In this case, we can chalk it up to malicious stupidity. Someone posting a reference aimed at learners, especially with Microsoft's reach and name recognition, has a responsibility to check the quality and accuracy of the materials. Us
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by kuhaku22 8mo ago
This is the same Microsoft that promised to indemnify any of its customers sued over copyright lawsuits as a result of using its AIs. [0] So I'm sure legal reviewed it the same way, saying "Yep, our war chest is still ample".
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by kuhaku22 2y ago
Nintendo games have consistently disappointed me with their lack of depth in their stories. Breath of the Wild had an amazing open world, but the characters came off as two-dimensional and the final boss was completely disappointing. (the
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by kuhaku22 2y ago
We used to have such a thing: it was called HTML. Sites were supposed to have their content in the HTML, and if JS wasn't enabled, you'd still get the semantic hypertext. A vast majority of web pages are text and images, and don&#
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
I found it interesting that he wasn't allowed to read the obits themselves, so wouldn't even know if the subject was a human or dog. One might argue some distancing helps for these kinds of moderation jobs, but also sounds dehuman
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
> You need a majority of whatever number of people show up to delete a page. Except deletion discussions are not votes. [0] Closing admins base their decision on the strength of the arguments presented, not on how many people voted one w
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751771
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
Exactly. And there's tons of stuff out there it doesn't have, waiting to be converted from analog media or out of the clutches of overreaching copyright.
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
I think the message is more about self-organizing and takings steps to be active in preservation. The Internet Archive does great work, but putting all our eggs in that basket creates a huge risk if it becomes a Library of Alexandria, and p
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
Would be nice if the title could mention Bandcamp, since it's very dramatic without context and could be about anything.
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
You're an Aussie, I see :p https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cactus#Adjective
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
> I have a friend who lived in the US on F1 and H1B for over 10 years and was banned from entering the US over jokes with her ex-bf about marrying for a green card. That's insane, especially after her being in the US for 10+ years a
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
> Cities are now largely obsolete, unfortunately. They're a choice whereas before they were a necessity, and arguments about how much someone loves the diversity of a city to the contrary, the emptiness of these office buildings spe
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by kuhaku22 3y ago
Unfortunately, this approach cannot solve the clickbait problem, because it is baked into the videos themselves. If someone is using clickbait for their videos, the video itself is very likely to be low quality. The rise of clickbait has le