<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: sdthjbvuiiijbb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sdthjbvuiiijbb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:27:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sdthjbvuiiijbb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sdthjbvuiiijbb in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>belongs to a party that is pretty much advertising on wanting to be a smaller government that gets involved less. That is a large part of why people vote for them.<p>I don't think that's been the Republican messaging for years (ever since Trump) and it's <i>certainly</i> not a "large part of why people vote for them".<p>I think a very large fraction of Republican support in this day and age is based on social and cultural topics and feelings.</p>
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<p>Ok, bad faith it is then. Nobody reasonable in good faith could conclude that I "hate Jews" based on my reply. Just because I called Zionism settler colonialism? That's a view so prominent that it (apparently) has its own wiki page: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism</a><p>And as mentioned in the wiki, that's probably a characterization that the leaders of the movement 100 years ago would agree with themselves!</p>
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<p>I don't even know what that question means. Israel does exist. There's no "should" to discuss. Are you asking if I think Israelis should be kicked out of Israel? No.<p>I mean, the real question is surely whether you think Palestine has the right to exist or what you think should be done. The Palestine side is the part that's really up in the air.<p>>Its all signaling comming from you and people like you.<p>And just what is this supposed to mean, exactly? Yeesh.</p>
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<p>>The point of terrorism is to be visible, dramatic and cause teror. It's not to get a stealth award for hacking the coupon system at the shop and get away with it<p>I agree with you... that's exactly what makes this situation so ludicrous. I'm not sure that an ambiguous, vaguely menacing Bluetooth device name is really going to do the trick.<p>Indeed it's so dumb that even in the extraordinarily unlikely event that it really was intended as a threat, you can still quite safely ignore it. I rather suspect that if someone wants to make a threat they won't just throw up their hands in despair because nobody bothered checking their Bluetooth pairing settings page. They'll actually communicate their threat to someone in a less ambiguous way.</p>
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<p>>Someone writing “F Zionists” very likely does not make a distinction between Zionists and Jews.<p>That's completely untrue and this is either bad faith or you need to go outside more.<p>Here, I'll say it myself: Fuck Zionism.<p>I have no issue with Jews. I just don't like settler colonialism.</p>
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<p>>Not like a certain terrorist organization[1] with Palestine Liberation in its name[1] literally pioneered armed airplane hijackings for its cause, successfully[2] performing[3] quite[4] a few[5] of[6] them[7] back in the day.<p>And? What's your point? You're implying that a pro-Palestine <i>WiFi network name</i> could even slightly plausibly be interpreted as a threat to hijack an airplane? You can't be serious.<p>Also, the whole idea of being over backwards trying to stretch things into being interpreted as threats is absurd on its face. A threat is pretty much definitionally intended to be understood as a threat.<p>As a side note, why is it that in these discussions some people are so quick to equate anything critical of Israel with antisemitism, but we never see much push back in the other direction? I find your insinuation that expressing support for Palestine means you want to hijack an airplane to be wildly racist.</p>
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<p>You've missed the point of the comment that you've replied to. There's a well known adverse selection effect because the people who would pay for no ads are exactly the people who you most want to be able to serve ads to: people with lots of disposable income, and people who are power users who see the most ads.<p>As a result the actual amount that they would need to charge for an ad-free version is higher than the average revenue per user, possibly significantly so.<p>edit: you can look at YouTube premium for an example of this in practice. It's $16/mo for no ads. That's around 2-3x or more what their revenue per user is.</p>
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<p>The ones that annoy me the most, which are very widespread, are the clickbaity one-weird-trick style ones:<p>"what really Xes"
"is genuinely X"
"that actually Xes"
"is/makes/does/etc a real X"<p>The real/genuine/actual cluster of words are wildly overused.</p>
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<p>>And I assume the top 10-15% in Paris is substantially more than 80k?<p>I don't think that's a good assumption. 80k is rather high for Paris. That's a Google salary at their small office there (or it was when I checked a few years ago). I think the OP's comparison was pretty reasonable.</p>
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<p>Not even the first time I've seen random AI garbage from this domain on HN. I share your sense of despair.</p>
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<p>If this truly set off zero flags for you then you're probably just not very attuned to LLM writing style. I've noticed that most people are not.<p>I posted a bunch of specifics in a reply to the GP since I was quite annoyed with being accused of "a lazy way of dismissing stuff". It's nothing of the sort. I am a very good reader and I have read a lot of LLM writing and a lot of human writing.</p>
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<p>The line "This is the part that really matters." and the line "This is the circular citation pattern, and it’s one of the most under discussed attacks on the “retrieval augmented generation” trust model. " both raised flags. AI absolutely loves writing about the One Weird Trick that dentists don't want you to know. They love talking about "what really matters" or saying something is "the most under discussed" thing.<p>Then we get to the section "Why This Is A Bigger Deal Than It Looks". The title of this section again raises similar flags to before. But the bulleted list of:<p>1. The retrieval layer (immediately) 
2. The model training corpus layer (months to years)
3. The agent layer (where the money is)<p>Absolutely reeks of AI. This list with this sequence of parentheticals is exactly how LLMs write, both structurally and the specific phrasing. This was the point where I felt confident enough to publicly accuse the post of AI writing.<p>I could go on with the prose in this section... How about "The attack surface is not hypothetical, it’s the default case."? Or "The cleanup problem for corpus poisoning is genuinely unsolved as of 2026."? (LLMs wildly overuse "genuine(ly)" and "real")</p>
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<p>It's also clearly AI generated writing. That doesn't help its credibility or interest. I'm extremely suspicious of people who use AI to write an ostensibly personal blog, for all the usual obvious reasons.</p>
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<p>No, "typically" it's a "know-it-when-you-see-it" kind of thing. Trying to delineate precise word count boundaries is a misrepresentation of how these words are used. The numbers you gave are reasonable guidelines but are certainly not determinative.</p>
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<p>>it's becoming more and more likely that developments in AI lead to a K graph in experience / value - senior / self sufficient workers will be significantly more valuable than ever.<p>I don't buy this at all, this narrative feels like pure cope to me. The skill ceiling for working with AI tooling is not that high (far lower than when everyone had to write all their code by hand, unquestionably). To me it seems far more likely that software engineering will become commoditized.<p>I'm sure everyone posting about the supposed K graph believes that they're on the valuable side of it, naturally.</p>
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<p>Nonsense. It's a common construction that LLMs didn't exactly invent. I don't think their usage evokes LLM writing at all (not short and punchy enough).</p>
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<p>Yeah. I think 1. N4 leads to a white win. It's fairly easy to verify that a black rook move will lead to a white win (1...R5 2. R2 and 1...Rx4 2. Rx4 N5 3. Rx5#). So the critical line is 1. N4 N5, but then 2. Nx6+ K7 3. R4 also leads to a win: 3...Kx6 4. K2 K7 5. Rx5# and 3...N3+ 4. K2 N5 5. N8 Kx8 6. Rx5#.<p>There are probably other ways to win too.</p>
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