kunai

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by kunai 23d ago
Environmentalists have no power whatsoever and most of the people in the younger generation do not have the same antipathy towards nuclear power because we grew up in a post-SALT world and haven't lived through the spectre of reactors
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by kunai 1mo ago
> I don’t know how one (especially anyone who has raised a child) could think contact is less important in humans or that this doesn’t generalize. Look around this forum, and all of the rampant fealty and worship towards LLMs and the myt
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by kunai 1mo ago
I wish that there was one day where I could log in and just feel like I was on the HN that existed when I first got my account. A day with a moratorium on all posting about LLMs, LLM startups, generative AI, just actual Hacker News, i.e. ne
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by kunai 1mo ago
> Who the FUCK speaks like that? Walter Hartwell White, I suppose.
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by kunai 1mo ago
> It's not so much about "vibes" but using the tool (yes the AI tool) in a certain way that can propel yourself towards your goal at unprecedented speeds. I think most would agree with that, unfortunately, this is not how
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by kunai 1mo ago
Lack of theory of mind correlates pretty strongly with the types of traits that are valued highly in Silicon Valley. There's a self-selection effect here where many of the titans of industry in the Bay and similar circles are intellige
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by kunai 1mo ago
The easy workaround for this (which Flock has used to massive success and why it's drawn so much ire) is to set up or subcontract a private corporation to do this which will inherently be subject to much less stringent oversight. It al
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by kunai 1mo ago
There has been an inflection point in the recent past where the majority of heavily marketed and promoted "tech" (namely, software and tools) have gone from assisting lives and promoting ease to actively making lives more difficul
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by kunai 1mo ago
ILS, yes (the G/S vector and angle is calibrated to account for terrain), LOC on the other hand (i.e. non-precision with no G/S information) would have probably ended up in the same situation as it requires pilots to manually mana
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by kunai 1mo ago
This should tell you how unserious these "companies" are when they consider themselves the grand harbinger of the one and true "AGI" because their frontier models were able to solve (with great assistance) some sort of c
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by kunai 2mo ago
There's a very extreme, asocial monoculture on this particular website regarding AI whereby dissent is tolerated though the true believers and devout acolytes quietly seethe at any skepticism towards their beloved frontier models, are
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by kunai 3mo ago
So funny how a site called "Hacker News," once vibrant with the ethos of lighthearted disobedience and an inquisitive spirit, finds itself almost religiously in opposition to those who decry a (horrendously incompetent) dystopia a
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by kunai 3mo ago
I thought bronyism sort of died out and that the furry community sort of subsumed it. I'd also add that I think the increased self-ID of young people in the LGBTQ community is in and of itself sort of a means to access a sort of altern
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by kunai 3mo ago
Uber used the classic triple-E philosophy of Microsoft and entered a market that was ripe for disruption -- many cities lacked reliable taxi service entirely, others were cartels that fixed prices. They undercut prices to an extreme degree,
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by kunai 3mo ago
Yeah no worries, apart from the facetiousness I'm a pretty YIMBY person un-ironically. But it is infuriating that people adopt YIMBY rhetoric to try and defend data centers and other harmful industrial uses in areas with high land valu
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by kunai 3mo ago
Academics aren't infallible at all. The studies showing tobacco as non-harmful had the collaboration of a great many cooperative scientists. Generally speaking, many academics are amoral and will do very unscrupulous things for grant f
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by kunai 3mo ago
Probably. Although I feel more inclined to forgive Ed in this case because it's sort of fighting fire with fire, the insanely hyperbolic and obscenely misleading drivel that's coming out of the most ardent AI boosters is continual
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by kunai 3mo ago
This has been my issue this whole time. Why isn't it just framed as a useful software tool that helps you automate tasks and write code? Use cases beyond this have exceedingly high social cost and negative externalities, and it's
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by kunai 5mo ago
Thanks for taking feedback into account but $20 per license is still a bit absurd. StartAllBack for Windows does almost everything your product does and costs $5 for a lifetime license.
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by kunai 6mo ago
There is an ever-dwindling minority of people who think "fuck boosting engagement" is a valid strategy in this era. Online, engagement is everything. We have all, through social media and feed algorithms, been reduced to acting ou
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by kunai 6mo ago
The reason why no one cares is because most well-adjusted adults have never interacted with the web or its many tendrils as much as the patrons of this website (and others like it) have.
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by kunai 6mo ago
I do find it quite ironic that this piece reeks of LLM-writing while also simultaneously decrying the death of everything that is in antithesis to things like that. Is there a single shred of originality or shame left in the SV-adjacent wri
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by kunai 6mo ago
Only the T and X series benefit from the Japanese design studios though and have the build quality to match. The E and L series are indistinguishable from a myriad of bargain bin business laptops, including Lenovo's own ideapads.
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by kunai 6mo ago
Perhaps developing an actual personality would help with this. No one is confusing Cleetus McFarland with an AI bot.
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by kunai 6mo ago
It's not just AI-generated articles -- it's the other things that we delve into as a result. Listicles. Comments. Posts. It's what it means to be human, and honestly? That's rare .
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by kunai 7mo ago
> ... Only a few people make music with a Mac, but it's been an important part of its history, and Apple cares about it. This seems to be a recent phenomenon. A lot of electronic music production uses the Macintosh and Logic/Ab
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by kunai 7mo ago
It's a much better QOL thing I've found to just ssh into a remote Linux box from a Mac. The BSD stuff on macOS isn't bad at all, just an adjustment... and homebrew lets you get your environment however you'd like. I am c
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by kunai 7mo ago
Well the costs had to be cut somewhere. At least they put a headphone jack in it, so they're doing better than Microsoft on that front (who inexplicably removed it from the SP line)
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by kunai 7mo ago
Yeah there is no way they do that with THREE LOCVs in their history. The fire, Challenger, and Columbia. It's a risk-averse culture for a reason.
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by kunai 7mo ago
Might as well get some ROI out of it though. IMO the Blue Origin hate was overhyped. They're clearly the only ones who know what they're doing. NASA and SpaceX both are way in over their heads.

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