<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: subsistence234</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=subsistence234</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:24:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=subsistence234" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>does niche coding cause men to transition? does autism cause men to become niche coders and transition? does porn addiction cause autistic male niche coders to transition? does niche coding cause autism, and that combined with porn addiction cause a gender crisis? nobody knows. this would be extremely interesting research.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349317</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLMS aren't the only thing that has changed over time in the way texts are written.<p>if they used older texts as training data, to some extent pangram would just be an age classifier for writing style.</p>
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<p>The supposed "magicality" of human consciousness is hard to reconcile with evolution -- where on that long path from amoeba to homo sapiens did God (PBUH) implant our connections to the soul realm?<p>Even evolution-deniers run into difficult-to-justify self-contradictions when trying to explain how the supposed supernatural part of our consciousness is both affecting the natural world and affected by the natural world, but not part of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:39:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129341</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NP doesn't mean "we don't know a polynomial time algorithm for it", it means "a proposed answer can be verified as correct in polynomial time"</p>
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<p>"AI solved another conjecture" is exciting for a lot of people who have otherwise no interest in math. So the fact that it goes viral may have very little connection to the mathematical importance of the result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129217</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "Canceling "Hey""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> all Romani and Muslims<p>Not at all. Only the ones that (1) cause constant stress, squalor or random violence, and also (2) aren't citizens of the country. The standards and expectations for immigrants should be higher than the standards for natives, not lower.<p>Immigration into a country should only happen as far as the native population consents to it, whether that existing population in question is muslim or romani or swedish.<p>Maybe you only want non-white peoples to a have a right to self-determination? I want every people to have that right. I wouldn't dream of forcing the people of Bhutan to accept against their will an unlimited number of Swedish problem immigrants. The natives of Bhutan have a right to decide for themselves how much immigration, and what kind of immigration they want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:13:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083340</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "Canceling "Hey""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Destroying the public space this way results in only the rich being able to escape the constant stress, squalor, random violence. For some reason that's "progressive."<p>If you believe that even the non-rich, of all ethnicities, should have access to peace, beauty, and safety: you're a "white supremacist!"</p>
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<p>yes, your plan would require extreme levels of oppression. it's a non-starter in anything remotely resembling a democracy. and if implemented, the outcome would still not be what you expect.<p>houses get more expensive due to changes in scarcity, i.e. the number of people who want to buy houses (and can afford to) in an area increasing faster than the number of people who want to sell houses there.<p>the main lever a government has, is to make new construction easier and cheaper -- that increases the supply. commies don't seem to like that, often because they're NIMBYs, but also because new construction tends to be in the high end segment. commies don't seem to understand that people who move into newly built high end housing do so by moving out of existing, on average slightly less high end housing, which then becomes free, and so on... all the way down to the lowest end housing. increasing supply at the highest end increases housing supply in all segments, though with increasing delay.<p>an option that doesn't help much with existing scarcity, but with future changes in scarcity, would be a recurring land tax (proportional to the local value of owned land). in order to be democratically feasible this would have to be introduced very gradually (over the course of 30+ years) and combined with tax decreases elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056414</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the article isn't saying you should be scared of chinese models</p>
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<p>aside from the huge domestic market (or potential in the future), china has built incredibly efficient infrastructure for manufacturing prototyping/production.<p>but it's also thanks to protectionism, and their strictly controlled (not freely traded) cheap currency.<p>if china had to play by the same rules as japan or germany it would not be quite as successful. but the west walked into this trap, hoping their win-win proposal would be satisfactory for all. now the west is too dependent on chinese production to enforce equal standing.<p>of course the US has its own unfair advantages, e.g. the global reserve currency and the massive post-WWII headstart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:21:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672958</link><dc:creator>subsistence234</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subsistence234 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a stranger is asking you to risk $100k on his half-baked plan in exchange for nothing, and you say "sure go ahead take my money!"? no. it doesn't work like that in the islamic world.<p>as a borrower who's not allowed to compensate for your lenders' risk monetarily, your access to loans is severely restricted. Essentially you have to rely on your extended family. and instead of paying for the risk with interest payments, you have to pay with loyalty and subservience.<p>it restricts social mobility far more than the western model. it incentivizes clan structures. which incentivize cousin marriage.<p>power concentrates in the patriarchs of a million little family kingdoms. which causes all kinds of economic inefficiencies.<p>in the US, even if you're born without any family connections, as a healthy 20 year old you can find a job (hard work) that allows you to save $70k per year and invest it. when you're 30 you have $1M and a good credit history, you can easily leverage that to get a $2M loan at low interest rates, which allows you to start any kind of productive venture you want.<p>and you can do all this without owing your clan's patriarch access to e.g. your most profitable clients, or your daughters hand in marriage to his retarded son, or anything else he wants in exchange for his generosity.</p>
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<p>The regime spent the past 50 years teaching everyone that their nation is just a source of shame and at best just a meaningless social construct, and that their culture and people's history is trash, that really nothing about it is worth saving.<p>And now the regime wants them to voluntarily sacrifice their lives for it.</p>
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<p>Really exposes the current state of journalism in Germany and more broadly Europe: just propaganda and gossip.<p>A functioning "fourth estate" would have reported on this *before* the law was passed.</p>
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<p>> This isn't X \emdash it's Y!<p>On top of analyzing vast amounts of surveillance data, AI also has to write HN comments defending the mass surveillance! Busy life.</p>
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<p>it's crypto-fascist misogynoir!</p>
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<p>yeah it may not be helpful, but at least it's starting a conversation. most people aren't even aware yet, and there's no way to raise awareness without a vacation. for example none of our web designers knows how to put a message on the website without shutting it down. and none of our managers knows how to shut down a website without taking a vacation.</p>
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<p>sounds like it's a religious ceremony to you.  the purpose of the strike is to increase pressure on the government, you're demanding actions that decrease that pressure, apparently for piety reasons.</p>
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<p>you're at least 10 years too late with that idea</p>
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<p>what do you think changed culturally around 2014 (I'd say it started a little earlier, maybe 2011)?</p>
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<p>Because the German law only harms Germans, whereas the Italian law in question demands global bans.</p>
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