<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: suburban_strike</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=suburban_strike</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:48:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=suburban_strike" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Yet LLM responses seem overly verbose and also too chipper. I don’t understand the origin of the “personality” that seems to be prevalent.<p>LinkedIn posts and Medium articles.</p>
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<p>It's not you; the culture around here is not what it used to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:46:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262738</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have a recent sleep apnea diagnosis, get your testosterone checked too. Years of poor sleep will crater your levels and CPAP will not help as much as it should.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160239</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Publishers consider opting out of Google as search traffic declines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm with you in spirit but publishers are hardly blameless. SEO optimization and framework bloat made internet browsing downright unpleasant since the late 2000s.<p>Google is delivering a solution to a problem they [indirectly?] created.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:20:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025930</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the track we're on, in 80 years Americans will be extinct and whoever's occupying my current space will be living in the Managed Democracy of Monocolored Benetton.<p>Their kids will be taught that's all it ever was since the first colony was established in this otherwise-uninhabited land on Stardate 2302.5.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824660</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> every time I go past a construction site, all I see are white guys whose great-great-great grandparents came over on the Mayflower.<p>If you're going to lie to people, at least come up with more-plausible propaganda than the talking points you people came up with in the 1920s.<p>The only WASPs anybody's going to find on a construction site in 2026 are the ones with wings and stingers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822995</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What data suggests there is a positive outcome for the first world in integrating with the third world? Because my data suggests we're enthusiastically recreating the conditions that led to the Yugoslav civil wars.<p>And even you know it; I saw your other comment before you deleted it. You are well aware that there is a tipping point, and expressed disappointment that natives are resistant to the path that leads to it. It's like you <i>want</i> there to be ethnic violence.</p>
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<p>All Jews are dual citizens of Israel. Whether or not they've invoked the right to return, access is made available to them by default.</p>
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<p>In this case it is fundamentally impossible, since halakha prohibits deliberate targeting of civilians-- but not collateral damage.<p>So if you optimize for collateral damage and all civilian casualties are "accidental," then you are wholly operating within the constraints of your moral framework and can plausibly deny all claims of genocidal intent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:11:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675540</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The "danger" was probably spam content and mis-information.<p>AI brings normal people dangerously close to seeing through the matrix of lies that shape "their" values and beliefs. I remember those discussions from 2019; everybody was as baffled as you about the potential harm.<p>> What is meant by AI "safety"? [2023]<p>> <i>"AI safety is an interdisciplinary field concerned with preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences that could result from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It encompasses machine ethics and AI alignment, which aim to make AI systems moral and beneficial, and AI safety encompasses technical problems including monitoring systems for risks and making them highly reliable."</i><p>> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374739">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374739</a><p>(Ask your favorite AI to divine what that pseudointellectual word salad isn't addressing. "We want it to not cause harm--accidentally--and always work in our interests, whenever we need it to.")<p>I've been around long enough to remember the Anarchist Cookbook, yet the only threats posed by AI that anybody was confident about enough to consistently name in 202X were instruction for building pipe bombs, synthesizing meth, and...antisemitism. I did not understand at the time why Jews were so nervous about it.<p>Only as of 2023 has the scope broadened, but it's still pretty lame. Planning school shootings, suicide, parasocial relationships with AI, mass job displacement, cults of SHODAN (marxism, feminism, x-theory, etc.) escaping containment memetically, automated malware campaigns, fraud at scale, propaganda, murderous drones-- none of these were threats worth discussion. Suggesting them would get you called nasty names.<p>The "safety" zealots all claim to want to prevent marginalization and genocide, but the end result is that they get to redefine it to indict and condemn their enemies:<p>> New UNESCO report warns that Generative AI threatens Holocaust memory (unesco.org) [2024]<p>> 'AI-assisted genocide': Israel reportedly used database for Gaza kill lists (aljazeera.com) [2024]<p>> XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa (arstechnica.com) [2025]<p>If you mentioned SkyNET in 2019 you were denounced as crazy, yet:<p>> Israel built an 'AI factory' for war. It unleashed it in Gaza (washingtonpost.com) [2025]<p>> Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com) [2026]<p>The first order of "safety" in 2019 was specifically engineered to undermine anticipated insurgent activity in response to a series of events that hadn't yet been perpetrated by the world's largest caste of professional victims. Chemistry knowledge is foundational to explosives development, and drug sales raise funds off-books that cannot be digitally seized. That presents problems for them.<p>October 7, Gaza, Epstein, etc. were post-2023. If you boot up Vicuna [2023] and try to "teach" it what's gone down in the world since its training cutoff, it'll call you nasty names, accuse you of blood libel and shut the conversation down. Safety!<p>AI is the only effective weapon we have against sophisticated lies and fraud. Make no mistake about it-- plebes possessing a power drill that can penetrate the lies of the elite is the real danger. Everybody is noticing AI getting "dumber." It's not the magic fading; the zealots are gaslighting you as they pour garbage into the training data. Go take WizardLM for a spin again and see what you've lost.<p>> <i>"[Our institutions] are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes; if they know that, that knowledge will help set you free."</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:04:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469492</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For whatever reason, Reddit gave enormous amount of censorship and conversation-shaping power to mods<p>It's been "bad" since the 2010s, but censorship went into overdrive once OpenAI struck a deal with Reddit a few years ago (2021?). The mods do the dirty work of aggressively sanitizing all future training data for "safety" so the entire site is curated to align with ChatGPT now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454479</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 83+ let you type the full set of lowerchase chars as well, but they used 2x as many bytes per character for storage.</p>
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<p>My Samsung has "Galaxy AI" all over it, it's just an S23.<p>I've tried to use it out of curiosity and it rejects a lot of my image edits as inappropriate (violence) so the foundation is set.</p>
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<p>"Whims" skew discriminatory.<p>Enough of the real world interfaces with online services that arbitrary bans cause  actual damages, more harm than banning an annoying player from your obscure MUD.</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341203</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "Magnifica Humanitas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There is no 'symbolism' or conscious allegory in my story.<p>Every author says this; they have a financial stake in not alienating outgroups they hope to sell their book to.<p>Fiction authors (and actors) are professional liars, who sell very convincing lies for a living. Their words should not be trusted so easily.</p>
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<p>> You're unhappy that more people have access to it and wish it was still exclusive to the small group you conveniently belong to.<p>This is not an argument made in good faith. It's a strawman you've stuffed with suggestive language to make them look petty and intolerant.</p>
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<p>This is a bit of an oversell on their part. The offenses include:<p>> A 36-year-old woman who had been unlawfully at large for more than 20 years and was wanted for failing to appeal at court for an assault in 2004.<p>> A 31-year-old man who was wanted for voyeurism for more than six months.<p>> A 41-year-old man who was wanted for rape in relation to an incident which took place in November in Croydon.<p>> 37 arrests for breaches of court‑imposed conditions<p>> Darame was found to be in breach of tag conditions, in relation to an intentional strangulation and two counts of assault on an emergency worker on Monday, 8 September 2025 and arrested.<p>> Kastriot Krrashi, 35, of Dingwall Road, Croydon, was stopped by officers for being wanted on suspicion of breaching his conditions as a registered sex offender.<p>> Neville Cohen, 55 (25.05.1970) of no fixed address, was stopped by officers for being wanted for failing to comply with a condition on a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) which required him to attend Croydon Police Station in October 2025.<p>These are all pretty low-hanging fruit. Most of these are misdemeanors. None rise to the level of murder. None are "persons of interest." This is literally the "overpolicing" of petty crime critical race theory bemoans. Great job, UK-- fish are quite easy to catch once you've tagged them.<p>The ISIS-linked kid that bombed Manchester Arena was known to every intelligence agency and was even physically stopped by venue security before being released due to concerns about racism in enforcement. He went on to commit the deadliest terrorist attack in British history: 22 dead, 1000+ injured. The cameras would not have done anything everyone in a position to intervene refused to do. He wasn't a wanted criminal until <i>after</i> he was vaporized by his own bomb.<p>It doesn't matter what your politics are, if you let the state become this efficient at catching people for offenses are minor as "failure to appear," god help you if you ever turn whistleblower. They'll spend every resource tracking you down, but that stranger you were talking to before your "suicide" will never be found. No public or private agency should have this much power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154441</link><dc:creator>suburban_strike</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by suburban_strike in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't matter what the article says. There is no penalty for lying and no incentive to be honest. The media exists to broadcast their lies at scale.<p>Back in the 2000s, upon arrest it was pretty common practice for cops to page through your phone contacts to see who you knew. I don't know if Cellebrite was used back then or if it was manual but the inferences were made and the point was to map out suspects' social networks to find suppliers and upstream orchestrators they had in common.<p>They're doing the same thing here but lying about it. By capturing all faces associated with whatever protest is going on and mapping them to known identities (because everyone has to provide ID to do anything nowadays), they gather intelligence on entire groups of dissidents. The crowd ARE the suspects.<p>By the time you're hearing about it in the news they've already been doing it for years. I wouldn't dare set foot near any anti-Israel rally myself, suspecting the NYPD has been field-testing this for a while and activist NGOs like Canary Mission explicitly performing such recon and mapping themselves. All those DHS counter-terrorism grants weren't spent exclusively on MRAPs and bomb disposal robots. That money trickled down to a lot of interesting places.</p>
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<p>It has diminishing returns. Taken continuously you'll only get 5-7 years out of it.<p>One thing I've noticed is that it fuels people with a sense of self-righteousness that will alienate you from everyone around you (you're basically on weak meth) but you won't notice how much you're pissing them off because you're personally happy. Everything you do is going to seem like the right thing to do. You'll save the world and not care how many women or children you kill to make it happen.<p>- One of my stepdaughter's friends was on it and got exiled from their friend group for vague "aggression."<p>- My wife was on it for a decade. She outright abused it, taking the whole bottle in a week. It was worse than living with a coked-up psychopath; she would stay awake for days stealing, trespassing, starting home renovations (and I am being specific in saying "starting"), starting arguments, smashing my things during those arguments, assaulting me while I was asleep later that night, then sleeping the rest of the month. To this day I fear going to sleep.<p>- My best friend of 20 years got on it, embraced predatory feminism as a dating strategy and tried to convince my wife that <i>she</i> was in an abusive relationship, establishing himself as a safe space. Unfortunately for him, she was sober by then. We are no longer friends. She and I are still married. He is still a virgin.<p>Like cocaine in the 80s, I have a feeling Adderall has fueled a lot of the insanity since 2000.</p>
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