<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sbayg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sbayg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:37:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sbayg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sbayg in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only the rich own stocks. Most Americans have either no assets or debt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:20:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400017</link><dc:creator>sbayg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sbayg in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Easy money and cheap (foreign) labor are one and the same. Political parties that are not accountable for this are the upstream problem. In other words, it’s a failure of what we think of as our “democracy.” The will of the people doesn’t mean much when you can just swap out “the people” to get what you will.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:16:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399951</link><dc:creator>sbayg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sbayg in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many took the COVID vax? /s</p>
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<p>In other words it creates work. In other words Jevons paradox.<p>I can’t wait for the first court case where an LLM surfaces a vuln, lazy devs ignore it, and someone later sues the company into oblivion for liability.</p>
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<p>People 50 years ago would laugh at the irony of that statement, being made here on what we call the internet. Real life will never be digital, and yet here we are, talking to anonymous strangers many of whom are not actual people.</p>
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<p>Hard for to assess that stat given the polling organization has this on their Wikipedia page.<p>“On 29 August 2024 the Israel Defense Forces released Hamas documents[6] that it said showed that, unbeknownst to the PCPSR, Hamas had secretly falsified its levels of public support in polls conducted by the PCPSR.[7] Rejecting the IDF claims, Shikaki said it was 'highly unlikely' that Hamas had falsified its results, but vowed to probe the claims.[8]”</p>
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<p>The abstract you linked, pasted below, seems to say otherwise. Placebo groups report same SE frequency.<p>“Across 684 randomized controlled trials, reported SEs were infrequent. Although dose and duration tertiles were statistically associated with study-level side effect reporting, the effect sizes were uniformly small, events were infrequent, and the reported symptoms were primarily mild and nonspecific. No consistent exposure–response pattern indicative of clinically meaningful risk was observed. Adjusted logistic regression and frequency-based analyses showed no consistent dose- or duration-dependent increase in SE risk, with placebo groups often reporting similar or greater SE frequencies at the study-reporting level. CrM appears to be well-tolerated and, at the study-level, does not increase the risk of gastrointestinal, renal, liver, musculoskeletal, or other SEs compared to placebo, even at high doses or longer durations.”</p>
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<p>Weird, I’ve heard the HCL is harder on the stomach. I’ve actually never met anyone who uses monohydrate that reports any gastric issues whatsoever.</p>
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<p>Because divide and conquer is why you remain insignificant.</p>
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<p>Cognitive dissonance can explain a lot. If you don’t think the current regime is genocidal (whatever that even means) then you might get very concerned that anybody who says it is genocidal is a dangerous lunatic or terrorist sympathizer. Even saying something obviously truthful like “there are good people on both sides” becomes a threatening provocation. Hate is a system.</p>
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<p>There is a name for it, it’s called an “existential crisis.”</p>
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<p>It’s always the poor and uneducated voters that get the blame. It’s never the actual billionaires who got Trump elected and who control everything he does and much of the media zeitgeist because, you know, 100s of billions can really flood the zone. I don’t think you’re evil for being fooled, but try to think a bit deeper about where power and blame lie. It’s not uneducated rural folk the median yuppie finds uncool.</p>
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<p>New is my page 3. Comments my page 0.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330674</link><dc:creator>sbayg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sbayg in "Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I totally get it. What I don’t get is why these perspectives are limited to writing <i>code</i> and not writing or communicating more generally. Just like coding, Eric Schmidt himself is coming to an end. How can smart people not see, writing code is just a canary in the coal mine, a special case that’s only a difference in degree not kind from other sorts of knowledge work?</p>
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<p>Spousal abuse is often explained in similar fashion, if a bit less eloquently, by the abuser.</p>
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<p>Because the people who funded them from the outset did so because that was their goal? The destroy all jobs talk started at least 10 years ago, it many ways that hype is <i>the actual product</i> itself.</p>
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<p>I wear my sunglasses at night.</p>
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<p>I outgrew atheism but for me it’s been a process. I think this ongoing “wrestling with God” is an essential feature. Atheism for me was a stopping of thought, a conclusion or an end. Belief in a creator, for me, raises so many questions, it is a beginning or an opening of thought. Life is much better having moved on from the simpler view, and that evidence reinforces the value of that shift for me.</p>
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<p>> a growth on a wet rock that's nowhere in particular in space<p>Atheist don’t think life is special, let alone miraculous is a good reason to reject atheism. A better way to live is to see everything as special, worthy of deeper inspection because the glitter of divinity sparkles everywhere one looks for it. Think of how that orientation drove so much of our scientific discoveries. Is it really bad to think of oneself as a little bit special (yet prone to sin from which we are too animalistic to extricate ourselves from). Perhaps you are the one who is too self aggrandizing in your sense of certainty about what is alas unknowable in the typical sense?</p>
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<p>The link between Parkinson’s and herbicides is known, but I’m not so convinced it’s an issue of groundwater contamination. There are confounds in the location of both people and golf courses that are not controlled for by urban/rural/age/income/race. For example people may live near golf courses because they like to play golf. Golf courses could be located in areas where there is more agriculture, even with the urban/rural control in the model.</p>
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