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New comment by sdsd in "Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books"

sdsd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:50:00 +0000

It was Carlyle who, in his seminal Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, argued that slavery is a fundamental human relationship, and as such you can't ban slavery, but can only ban the word.

New comment by sdsd in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

sdsd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:42:51 +0000

You're right, a genuine activist used by the state for cynical motives is called a Useful Idiot. Ironically, this turn of phrase was traditionally said to be coined by Lenin, although modern scholarship no longer espouses this view.

New comment by sdsd in "Butlerian Jihad"

sdsd — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:24:13 +0000

It's a picture that's been painted in a different scifi novel,

     Hug me till you drug me, honey;
     Kiss me till I'm in a coma;
     Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny,
     Love's as good as soma."

Still, I'm optimistic. With obesity, who cares about the underlying cause if you can easily cure the symptoms?

New comment by sdsd in "Calculus with Julia"

sdsd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:58:20 +0000

I saw it used five years ago on a LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y6TtPfcKiHjK9Bmoa/sleeping-j...

That's the only time I've ever even heard it mentioned outside HN. I felt a lot of excitement for Julia's automatic differentiation during the ML era, because you had programmers with weak math backgrounds suddenly needing to do basic calculus (any dev from that era has the chain rule burnt into their brain).

Then the ML community settled on Python as their language, and if performance was an issue you wrote a library in C++, and obviously that was all sucked into the event horizon of LLMs so people "code" in whatever language the LLMs had the best training data for.

New comment by sdsd in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

sdsd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:50:33 +0000

Wouldn't this make credit riskier for lenders, reducing access to credit in general and thus making housing less accessible especially to working people?

Not asking polemically, I just have never studied economics and wonder if my intuition here is flawed

New comment by sdsd in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

sdsd — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:01:06 +0000

>do we want to win talent war or not?

Talent war against whom? It's not like the best and brightest are lining up to defect to China.

New comment by sdsd in "Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions"

sdsd — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:02:04 +0000

The word genocide is currently undergoing semantic bleaching (https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/very-actually-and-ot...). It's too powerful a word for propagandists/activists to resist beating it into oblivion in the service of their causes.

New comment by sdsd in "It's getting harder to get hired on HN"

sdsd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:36:18 +0000

Oooh good idea. Yes that should be quite easy to hack together. Tbh that's easy enough that Codex could oneshot it for you, but either of us should make it and release so you can sort jobs by not-being-posted-for-years-at-a-time-ness

It's getting harder to get hired on HN

sdsd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://112358132134.xyz/blog/harder-to-get-hired-on-hn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541067

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New comment by sdsd in "How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]"

sdsd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:50:10 +0000

You're assuming the comment you respond to is complaining about the length. I believe you're mistaken, and they're actually appreciating that the number of pages references a common practice where you lay on someone upside down and lick eachothers' weiners/vaginas

New comment by sdsd in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

sdsd — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:10:48 +0000

>Basically, any copyrighted material should do.

Anything illegal, for that matter. Crime as proof of humanity. Fun future!

New comment by sdsd in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

sdsd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:07:54 +0000

>All if you're of a certain ethnicity.

Can Arab Jews make Aliyah?

New comment by sdsd in "Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior"

sdsd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:00:34 +0000

Some fears of mine: STDs, car crashes, losing my job, getting in trouble, harsh conflict, social ostracization, my kids getting hurt, getting sick, dying, losing my laptop, I mean I could go on and on. I think most fears are so rational and obvious we forget to even classify them as fears, instead reserving that label exclusively for irrational fears.

Out of the emotions, the feeling urging us to avoid negative consequences seems pretty useful haha

New comment by sdsd in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

sdsd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:15:31 +0000

I love this, but while we're here I was wondering if any of you could recommend small niche Youtube channels that you love? I don't care what the niche is, I just love passionate oddballs.

New comment by sdsd in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

sdsd — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:32:24 +0000

No, the Tridentine (Latin mass) has many other qualities aside from just being in Latin that make it pretty spectacular compared to the Novus Ordo (post Vatican II) mass. You should find a church that does it near you, it's really incredible and quite unlike what you're used to if you've only ever experienced the modern mass.

I'm not Catholic but everyone should attend Latin mass at least once just as an artistic experience.

New comment by sdsd in "Magnifica Humanitas"

sdsd — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:13:02 +0000

>for the last 15 years.

The scandal broke out in worldwide media starting in 2002 (not coincidentally, the same year South Park released Red Hot Catholic Love). This reminds me of when Contrapoints off-hand commented about how things were different in the 70s but that was "30 years ago".

New comment by sdsd in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

sdsd — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:45:54 +0000

If only there were a simple way to make tokens that weren't fungible and could be given to others

New comment by sdsd in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

sdsd — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:38:54 +0000

I've been playing a lot of Go lately and it's lowkey ruined chess for me. I ended up uninstalling Lichess because I simple don't use it anymore. Nothing against chess, just my personal taste.

My friend code on BadukPop is EGVNY if anyone wants to play together!

New comment by sdsd in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"

sdsd — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:39:58 +0000

Most conservative Christians (at least the ones I know in LDS and evangelical circles) would be very uncomfortable with their kids watching Andrew Tate videos, yes.

New comment by sdsd in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

sdsd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:45:55 +0000

As a user of local models, it's well above 85% already. I use frontier models at work and local models for home use because my day to day tasks are well within what DeepSeek can handle.