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plumb_bob_00··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
I don't think it has anything to do with Gaza discourse or concern fatigue. Religion is totally tangential to the article, and religious flamebait doubly so. When you wrote your comment surely you realized it was reductive and insulting? A caricature of religious people? If that wasn't the intention then I don't understand what was.
plumb_bob_00··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
I guess you could take the idea that someone has an experience that may be different to yours and that you aren't able to dictate as a personal affront rather than a plain fact, but I recommend against it. That doesn't seem interesting or productive, it seems like getting worked up over something beyond your control and of no consequence.
plumb_bob_00··on AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by Sag-Aftra: Tilly 'Is Not an Actor '
You described a married couple making a porno together but only felt the need to slander the wife.
plumb_bob_00··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
> It's because they support the regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

> The protests were described as "unlike any the country had seen before", the "biggest challenge" to the government, and "most widespread revolt", since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

> ...

> Although the protests have not been as deadly as those in 2019 (when more than 1,500 were killed), they have been "nationwide, spread across social classes, universities, the streets [and] schools". At least 551 people, including 68 minors, had been killed as a result of the government's intervention in the protests, as of 15 September 2023. Before February 2023 when most were pardoned, an estimated 19,262 were arrested across at least 134 cities and towns and 132 universities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34346192

> Tell HN: Farewell letter of M. Hosseini – executed 01.02.2023 by I.R. of Iran

> ...

> In the dawn of tomorrow, at the foot of the gallows, I will look up to the sky for the last time, see the last star and cry out with all my strength, "Woman, life, freedom". I will cry out in the name of justice and in the hope of a world without violence, a world that loves nature and that is safe for all the children of the world.

plumb_bob_00··on Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
If you are going to represent your team in public, you owe them better than a response like this.
plumb_bob_00··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
You are correct.

> Meet the People Taking over Hacker News

> by Paul Graham 3/29/2014

> ...

> Finally, I’m delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN community.

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-people-taking-over...

Bin Laden was assassinated in 2011.

plumb_bob_00··on NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls
GP was rude and out of line, but to be frank with you, it is pedantic to quibble about the definition of the word "finding", a word which doesn't even appear in the article (yes, I did see the title).

If the research doesn't interest or impress you, there's plenty of other articles.