skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese Empire is a fantasy. China will remain a great factory and little else. Everything there is still done using personal connections (eg. corruption). The basis of a globe spanning empire this system is not. When all your growth is due to external investment, external contracts, and external culture/politics, you can’t become the center.
I used Scrivener more like a generic [Outliner + DB] combo than a tool for long form writing.

IMO combining outlining and databases could be powerful if fully exploited (research...).

I truly consider Keith Blount to be a "hero" in the sense that he offered this power for all writers out there (at a reasonable price.)

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FYI, Other outliner+DB beasts include the "overlooked for way too long" Infoqube [0] and the "probably soon to be a rising star" Tana [1].

[0] https://www.infoqube.biz/

[1] https://tana.inc/
I get the strong impression that you‘ve never led a multi-billion dollar organization.

Don’t show me the random code you built that makes a users like history load 500 milliseconds faster, talk to me about how to make the product better/more engaging/monetized!
> It's usually white men who are used to seeing any action taken to further the interests of oppressed people as "political" and "ideological", but they do not see their own actions which implicitly require continuing said oppression as "political" or "ideological".

Just for the record. You could easily make the argument that the idea of academic objectivity is itself political without the added invective about white men and reply guys.
How did you find customers? This is a long term goal of mine.

Trying to fit in ideation between leetcode prep and applying for jobs
My #3 match is cstross, and now I’m convinced that my life-long secret dream of being a successful sci-fi novelist is basically a matter of typing. (Ideas? Character development? Ruthless editing? Developing an audience? Having a publisher? What do I need of those when the Computer told me I’m practically a genius…)
It's very important for those people to be aware of these style analysis attacks! Glad this post is raising awareness.
This spends a lot of time on stats about how much time alone but just seems to rely on the assumption that alone time is bad. Where’s the backing for why we “should” reverse this?
As you mention on the site, you don't do punctuation. But I'm guessing there are some pretty good fingerprints like:

two spaces after a period

Whether someone uses an em-dash/single hyphen/double hyphens (which may correspond to house style they're used to)

Whether they use semi-colons

(Presumably harder) but consistent substitutions like loose for lose, break for brake, etc.

Use of accents
You’ve pretty much described the narcissist who headed a company I worked for a while ago.

Example real life interaction:

Me: please can we defer this non critical meeting until after product launches in a few weeks as my team is super busy and we are about to sign a customer.

Them: Non critical meeting is important for team building, which is more important than product, and must therefore go ahead.

Me: ??????

It was nice to read this article and finally have a place to put all my WTFs.
Wise choices, yet that we must make them is sad.
I checked a few random user names and I am confused.

- Why is the author costco[0] not in this lookup?

[0]: https://stylometry.net/user?username=costco
Google seems to have problem of "you won't get promotion/raise if you don't work on something new" so they are not interested by services that just work and provide tidy little constant revenue
The parable of Linus the Gardener.
> transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to make it bit-exact

Modern CPUs, and most programming languages, guarantee bit-exactness for floats most of the times, because they implement IEEE 754.

Relatively easy to break (approximate instructions like rsqrtps, FMA instructions, compiler switches like -ffast-math or /fp:fast, MXCSR rounding modes) but I think fixing bugs is probably easier than refactoring everything from FP into fixed-point.

BTW, multiplication/division/rounding instructions are much faster for floats. I think a fixed-point version will only be a performance win when the integers are 8 or 16 bits wide, and the algorithm is vectorizable.
A taboo? Maybe I was (un?)fortunate to be on a college campus during the launch of the second Iraq War, but the "war for oil" commonplace was the dominant narrative. Anyone offering an alternative hypothesis besides that, or GW Bush finishing his father's legacy from 1991 was practically laughed at.
Ask HN: Is there a curated catalog of Mastodon servers?
With the mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon, I'm curious if there is a Website where one can research which Mastodon instance to join? Not just a simple list of servers, but also who owns/administers it, does it prefer certain types of members etc - ideally searchable with tags, labels and similar...
> it's bad policy to normalize her concerns. For the sake of her child we hope that New Mom stops at one and is single.

This feels like a pointlessly bitter analysis, one that has drawn unnecessarily harsh conclusions.

At the time, I started weighing her danger assessment but I stopped. New parents tend to suck at risk analysis. I did. Over time I sorted it out. She would too but not that day.

> The biggest reason for child abductions is custody disputes and the biggest perpetrators of child sex abuse are older siblings.

This false danger narrative you're referencing, you're right that it's crap and harmful. However it is mostly driven by LEO & news orgs - both of whom are in the exact position to know better. It isn't reasonable to blame new mothers for the ongoing ineptitude of professionals.
For all Schwarzenegger movies?
I was trying to make an aarch64 RedoxOS VM a couple weeks ago and ran into some issues, eventually learning that aarch64 seemed like it was in better shape earlier and not quite there for 0.7 (or at least that was my impression). Eventually got it to cross-compile from an x86 box but it then wouldn't accept the default login for some reason (an x86 vm worked fine). Will have to give it another shot and see how far I get with 0.8!
I hate us insufferable nerds.
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Fwiw, and as gp mentioned, > 0.7 seems more likely to be alt territory.
First: there is of course an incentive not to admit this.

Second: I do believe that many people on HN really deeply care about technology/hacking topics and have detest for office politics. On the other hand, the people that the article discuss are good at office politics/marketing themselves and often don't have such a deep knowledge about programming. Thus, I would indeed assume that the typical HN reader/writer less likely fits into the "highly overrated people" pattern of the article.
> "government owned" also gets condescendingly asserted as if the reader isnt familiar with how a planned economy under post soviet marxist theory works.

Most readers of the article can be fairly assumed to know this. Most consumers (including b2b) outside of various tech and policy circles cannot, and the policy is aimed at short circuiting the banned functionally SOE’s from embedding themselves into the communications infrastructure. Gathering intelligence from automotive and aerospace dominance yields substantially less actionable information than from dominance of communications infrastructure.

The subsidies you are comparing are fundamentally, qualitatively different.

It isn’t just the FCC. The entire US government at all levels down to local is captured by corporate business interests. Doesn’t mean every policy decision solely caters to those interests and ignore national defense interests. Also doesn’t mean the US intelligence apparatus isn’t in bed with Western communications technology manufacturers.
Been looking for a junior developer role for 3 months now, it's been rough. Planning on switching to something else temporarly.
Black Friday Sets a Record
Most people aren't capable of responding to anything the government does with anything but brain-dead snark. I've been feeling this problem has been getting worse on YC as of late.
Yes. Very different.
I wouldn't rely on these results

You picked a user who posts a massive volume of repeat, template-y comments and found their former colleague who also posted piles of repeat, template-y comments, that being part of both of their jobs.
Just for the record, you omitted the critique in my comment. Seems like you also missed that I was saying. I face hostility simply for existing here with an alternate viewpoint and experiences with real, literally nameable people I have encountered. Nothing I said was an attack on white men, unless you believe that noticing white men is an attack.
While I think a lot of their culture has definitely changed, which makes sense given their size, the much bigger difference over the last 10 years has actually been the media's take on Big Tech.

Around 2015, there was a very noticeable shift in almost all media from liking tech companies to being super anti tech companies.
> Also, in Sweden, they wanted to protect the right to walk along a shoreline, so due to the other rule they stopped allowing houses to be built closer than 100m to the shoreline

Naturally the rich and powerful have been claiming the shoreline along most of the coast around major towns in Sweden - this is especially true pretty much anywhere in the affluent suburbs around Stockholm, where house owners just extend their gardens down to the water.

As for freedom to roam - I’ve been walking around Södermanland the last few summers, and have met an amazingly few other Swedes hiking. Even during the pandemic I met more foreigners out on the paths. Swedes were safely ensconced in their cars.
The inner workings of ZigSelf's actor model
May I ask what job boards you are frequenting?

Happy to hear you got back on your feat so quickly
Perhaps another approach is FCC enforcement against Amazon.
> But then you have to send your original comment to a translation company so there are privacy concerns there too.

There are modern offline translation systems available such as Bergamot https://browser.mt/
People cycle in the city of Lausanne (Switzerland), which has a 500m height difference between its lowest point and highest point.

Of course nobody is doing these 500m every day, but its common to see parents bring their children to school by electric bike, and maybe doing 100m of height elevation.
After many years I recently have a way to follow people on HN once again (https://www.hnfollow.com). Since I started following you, I've favorited a couple in particular:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641298#33644090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33679360#33684545

But I think there are others. Your view of your own darlings will be different from others. It might be worth downloading the archive in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33389843, just because it's recent and so going to be up to date.
What did you do during these 3 months?
Not arguing that, but I don't think any subsequent case has ever been judged by any court where the prevailing opinion cited Chaplinsky.
If it talks like a doctor, wears a white coat like a doctor, has a stethescope like a doctor...that person still better have a medical license, because otherwise, who knows if he or she is a doctor.
> In day trafic it's probably much faster than the Ami

No way, man. The Ami has flames on the side:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/weird/ha-check-out-citroens...

And does your e-bike strike fear in the hearts of criminals everywhere?

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/citroen-ami-now-po...

I think not.
I transitioned from full-time employment to contracting in April 2022. I am currently over-employed and working two gigs simultaneously.

All leads have come from my personal network or my reputation as a known entity in a relatively niche field.

Only trouble I've had is invoice approval and waiting for money to be moved, but it has always eventually come through.

Cashflow remains equivalent to when I was an FTE, but I'm working fewer hours per day and working on more interesting things. A lot of that has to do with transitioning out of management, I think. I don't miss it :)
> the whole thing would be under our control.

Pans to black. “The whole thing was not under their control”. Cue “aways sunny in Philadelphia” theme
Peaceful resolution is simple: China can resolve to recognize Taiwan's independence and leave Taiwan alone.

But China won't do that.
I'd agree with that. I certainly hope they're able to stay in business – it seems as though Vellum takes care of everything. About the only thing it can't do (I might be wrong) is that it can't output to Word format? I'm the process of publishing a book right now and they've requested everything in Word.

Edit: Turns out that as of ~10 days ago, you can, in fact, export to Word (https://blog.vellum.pub/) in Vellum.
I think a lot of these people are on the 'spectrum' of sociopathy.

At very least they're superficially charming bullshitters.

Either way, they're not the sort of people to call themselves out - even when they're fully aware of what they're doing.
There is plenty of dense housing in prewar sections of Midwestern cities. Not as much as there used to be, unfortunately, but quite a bit, and available very affordably.
>I'll bite, what is the false statement that you keep alluding to?

Read the first post. You should have done that before responding I think.
The headline doesn't mention AI art, but it doesn't really imply that it's actually Jodorowski's work either. "Jodorowski's Tron" might have, but "Fantasy Jodorowski's Tron visualizations" strongly implies that this is some other artist's idea of what a Jodorowski Tron movie from an alternate universe might have looked like, which is pretty much the case.

There was nothing deceptive or clickbaity in the title, is what I'm saying.
2022 Raspberry Pi Storage Benchmarks
Layoffs suck, but Elon has been making it particularly painful for the folks over there.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes that only one person fits the profile of the mysterious Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

In a surprise Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on YouTube, Hoskinson reveals that he has narrowed down his search to one person who he believes is the only individual that fits the part.

“I’ve been very vocal lately on this. I think that first, it doesn’t matter but second, it’s probably Adam Back. If you look at the preponderance of the evidence, Occam’s razor applies and the most likely answer usually is, and there’s no mystique or magic there but he just fits the profile. You’re looking for somebody who’s in their 40s to 50s who created Bitcoin in 2008. That would fit Adam. English education, grammar, all that stuff, the right computer science background, exactly the right credentials you’d look for. You probably can get pretty far with code stylometry towards validating that.”

(from https://tokenpost.com/Charles-Hoskinson-Believes-One-Person-...)
Simple - make a clone of an existing game.
Take a look at 8 bit era games like Tetris/Columns, Breakout or Space Invaders.
Use a programming language you are familiar with or is close to what you usually use.
There is gazillions of libs, frameworks and engines to gibe you a quick start: Godot, Löve2D, SFML, SDL2, or (ewww) Unity.
I get one 0.68 match, which... fair enough. It is an account I've abandoned some years ago, no secrets there.

No other hits above 0.5, so I guess that either makes me pretty unique as a commentator or my English is broken in a unique way.
Mine is Family Circus, making sure to be as Family Circus-y as possible and not make their tribute funny or interesting.
The best mix is a lot of genuine collaboration with a tiny bit of backstabbing occasionally thrown in.

Be genuinely useful, cooperative and valuable, that's a given. It speaks for itself, it's rewarding to you personally, and it's the only way to do not burn out.

But don't be afraid to play hardball. Don't cover for incompetence. Don't be taken advantage of. Don't be a sucker.

The simple wisdom of tit-for-tat is what I recommend.
It's super interesting to see the court go for active user and not install when calculating damages, may be the first acknowledgement ever that piracy distribution figures aren't a reasonable source for calculating damages.
I didn't do that, so you are factually wrong.
This is cool!

If an account returns a high score for many accounts, does that also mean they’re relatively less original in style?
Ask HN: What are the implications of Hacker News alt accounts being revealed?
This post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 shows that many HN alt accounts have been exposed, not through hacking but stylistic analysis.

HM famously does not permit deletion of previous accounts or comments.

So for some people who assumed anonymity this could be anything from unimportant to awkward to a real problem.

Presumably now people will routinely search for alt accounts of any HN commenter and bring what they find into the discussion.

It’s not a hack, but in many ways the implications are similar to those of a hack.

How do you feel about this?

@dang what do you think?
I'd call it Jaunatis (new moon in Lithuanian). A word play on Lua (moon in Portuguese).
That's straightforward. That 3-wire differential approach makes the gauge reading mostly independent of the power supply voltage. Aviation instruments often do that.
Some automotive gas gauges in the past worked that way. Those are the ones that don't go to Empty with power off, but just stay at the last value.

From the article: "In this meter, there’s also a small spring on each rotor that pulls the needles out of the minimum and maximum scale region when the meter has no DC power." Which makes sense in an application where "retain the last value" is a bad idea.
This seems like a great way to hire freelance copywriters/ghost writers too. I would absolutely hire someone I knew could match my tone well for writing generic unattributed copy.
Is there anything similar for Azure DevOps? It’s a nightmare to debug yml pipelines.
funny how the “separate problems” that get solved first mostly affect poorer people
> Don’t show me the random code you built that makes a users like history load 500 milliseconds faster, talk to me about how to make the product better/more engaging/monetized!

Honestly, if I were the CEO, I would ask for the former if I were looking for the good programmers to keep since these are the things that make the technological base of the company run.

The answer is of course likely different if I were looking for the managers to keep ...
One image has a recognizable Han Solo, with classic outfit, side parting, but not quite Ford's face. A weird cut'n'paste from the conceptual-visual space.

This outfit:

https://www.alamy.com/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-1983-20th...
It's described here: https://stylometry.net/about
All true, but no one AFAIK was threatening abolitionists who used legal due process to actually pass the 13th amendment on free speech grounds. That activity is not the same as openly telling people to aid and abet breaking the current law, or conscientious objection.
Well, nobody is "coding" a Drupal site. It's a CMS... and it's probably hosted by some 3rd party like these typically are.
I'm one of them and I can confirm. But then again that's what I'd say if I was.
Why not use Tor Browser for private things then?
Genuinely asking, what way is there to combat this? Is there a tool that takes out stylistic elements of your comment?
No Thanks, Crypto, UPI Already Solved Digital Payments
> Finished the exam in LUA for a openresty opensource project (didn't even know lua). Everything worked nicely. I was told he didn't like how i laid out the lua.

I like take-home tests too, but am reluctant to do them in languages I don't have a lot of recent experience in. Not that I can't ramp up enough to get them working, but when someone who writes that language every day looks at the code of a guy who just read a few tutorials, he's going to be irked by lots of little things. Not the impression you want to give going forward. Only exception is if I can solve the problem in a more academic language, e.g. Scheme, or something else they don't use there.

That's probably a deal-breaker at places that want to hire a developer with X years of experience in some specific language. So if I found that was the case, I'd probably just pass on it, as it's obviously not me they're looking for. Whether they realize/intend it or not, they're filtering for someone who has said language and tooling pre-loaded into their brain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combi_steamer

No pressure needed.
So do you take notes as you read? How do you handle charts?
> soldering the tiny SMD digipot to the breakout board just like shown in this article.

For surface mount soldering, you need good tweezers, a good soldering station, and magnification. Cheap USB microscopes are helpful.
> The Oxygen of Amplification has three interlocking parts:

> Part 1 provides a historical overview of the relationship between the news media and far-right manipulators who leveraged trolling and meme culture during the 2016 US presidential election.

The film Feels Good Man (2020)[0] is a visually beautiful example of the same idea. Unexpected psychedelic sleeper hit of the year.

[0] https://linktr.ee/feelsgoodmanfilm
Most people greatly underestimate the power of linkage attacks on anonymity. And it doesn't even take fancy ML. In the context of healthcare records, I like to trot out this 25 year old example of an MIT grad student and the then-governor of MA.

https://ischoolonline.berkeley.edu/blog/anonymous-data/
Can confirm, this is how i got my current job. Its a great path, especially for those with no experience and straight out of university
Long time ago I implemented my own "CI" system. The basic idea was that by putting a make wrapper in the MAKE env variable I would intercept recursive makefile executions and I would spawn tasks in a message queue. Workers would pick up the messages and perform a fast checkout from a hot git repo cache in each node (using git --references). It worked as a charm. The exact same makefiles would work also locally out of the box
Leaving aside the toll of Communism over its 72 years:

There was a Russian Civil War, which we don't hear much about. So the war hadn't really ended for them. There was also a war between Russia and Poland.

I looked some for a total of "WW I casualties by year" table but didn't find one; only "casualties by country." The significance would be "giant German offensive; therefore giant casualties."

In any case, I don't think there's much of a case for the hypothesis "Russian Revolution saved lives."
This is a b2b research problem; problems are invisible.

Not sure it's a good idea but:

an app marketplace where companies post some needs (problems) and apps in the market only have a trial plan. So companies discover more solutions, founders get pmf?
Most people can't name any specific recession prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, but everyone has heard of the Great Depression. A sibling commenter posted some good analyses, but the gist of it is that they tried tightening the money supply at the worst possible time (something the modern Fed avoids at all cost, at the expense of increasing wealth inequality by artificially inflating the value of assets whenever they start to dip).
Maybe this is a good tool to find new friends. :P
I don't think gates won't have made a difference against Apple during that period. Apple's taste and aesthetics were just too much to overcome in the post-pc era.
But they left out the star marking the only location I want to know on any map of the Isle of Man: BigClive’s house.
Linear algebra for example applies to many domains. If you do not understand it abstractly but e.g. as deformations in 3D space you can not apply that knowledge in other domains.