skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot the quite important

September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich
About time. We need open and verifiable firmware, at the very least, to be able to trust anything.

Now if only they'd turn this lens on American-made devices which are likewise opaque, insecure, and likely to be weaponized against us as soon as security updates stop....
The Productivity Project, I think it was (I checked a few).

It’s pretty good. At times it falls in the style of self help books rambling on personal stories, but it has specific and actionable advice.
> Everyone who’s gone through a reasonable undergraduate CS curriculum should have implemented an emulator as part of their computer architecture courses, just like everyone should have implemented an OS as part of their operating systems coursework.

You have a very ambitious understanding of the rigor of the average CS program.
> Can you clarify what this means and why it would result in a ban?

I have seen dang respond to users multiple times asking them to stop making new accounts especially but not always if it's to avoid rate limiting. I don't know if there's an official policy but it's definitely something I recall.
> Notify on signup for everyone else.

You don't need notifications for purely functional cookies. If you have a Nextcloud instance that only uses a cookie to remember your user identity throughout a login session, no notifications are required. If you also feed the value of the Nextcloud cookie into a tracking system, that's when a notification is required. And only then.
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It depends on motherboard and cooling. 6700K, for example, is constantly running at 4.2Ghz or 4.5Ghz (winter clocks). Constantly while thermals allow it... Non-overclocking motherboards allow it to boost for 2 minutes, after that, it's iffy.
Shouldn’t it ban these companies from having US offices too?

And, while they are at it, can TikTok be added to the list as well.
You're missing option three which is to save enough money that you don't need to work 100% of the time.

It's pretty easy to save money on a software developer salary in the United States.
I don't like Elon either but am happy he's blown $44m on a side project that it looks like is going to fail
Cut cloud cost by half, no more 'it works on my machine ' problem, it just works or it won't.
The voice of parts of this article is hilarious. “Front man for a gang of 4 year olds”
The scary thing is that once you have this data, finding HN matches for individual targeted users on other sites becomes trivial, even if those sites are harder to scrape. I bet most people here have an anonymous Reddit account, for example. If you wanted to know who was behind a particular Reddit account, you could feed it into something like this and compare the results with HN, where accounts are less likely to be anonymous. Or build a database based on blogs, Github comments, etc.

Also, since this uses only word frequency, there are probably relatively easy improvements to make that would make it even more powerful, like looking at particular runs of words that are unique. Some expressions or figurative language only show up in combinations of words, and tend to be highly style specific.
I felt the same about people wearing those non-N95 masks over the last couple of years, but a huge chunk of the population made it part of their personalities.

I'm agnostic so I don't really have a horse in the race, but it turns out a lot of people (maybe due to anxiety) actually loved an excuse to keep their faces covered in public.
Definitely interesting to see the perspective from the other side - thank you. It really is a different world. I am a (by all accounts decent) architect and a 23 year old junior (admittedly exceptionally talented) got higher TC at Amazon when he jumped ship after 3 months with us (his first job out of college).

He did ask if he could come back within a week, stating that the work env was horrible, and we told him he is welcome to if he wants, but at the end he decided to stay at Amazon. It's also not like we have a chill team - I just try to make sure people don't work OT unless it's strictly necessary (about once or twice a year). Other than that though, we do expect people to put in their 8 hours on a semi-flexible schedule.
Emacs aggressive-indent-mode
Good point. Not forming families or being part of a tight community seems to be a start to define it better.
It just thinks you engage a lot with Haskell. These are people with who you have something to talk about. :)
Drove this car over the weekend, was pretty zippy and fun. ( I don't normally drive)
Less than 3 years, since your expenses are only 70% of your salary.
Curious on how many are taking this opportunity to start their own company. Would love to see a list
I can see the argument for implementing DRM or similar on a personal computer. Do you feel the same outcome applies to a cloud application environment?
No, the FCC does not regulate real estate.
Curious what do you specialize in? Sounds like your engagements are usually like 3mos max?
I agree, I think there is often a faulty assumption by many developers doing benchmarking that their underlying environment doesn't matter. Often I see performance results posted with little mention of the details of the environment. At least here they posted they were using a high-end SSD, but note they just say they're on a "Dell XPS 13", as if there aren't multiple variants of that model produced every year for the last 5 or 6 years.

You're probably also right their multiple test runs resulted in the OS caching data, and a lot of the test runs may have just been testing in-memory performance instead of raw storage I/O performance.
That’s an appropriate application of technology if I ever saw one.
> I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy

looks like it can indeed

> Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)

How surprising that someone might object to being included in a demonstration of the erosion of privacy!

Is the site opt-in or opt-out?
Have you done any data analysis on distributions of similarity? How similar you'd expect any 2 people to be given English focused around tech? Or any other interesting stats you'd like to share?

Very nice clean site, great work.
It is not just churches, at least in the US there used to be all kinds of community groups around different things, these all seem to be disappearing. Things like Mens/Womens Fraternal Organizations, Miltary / VA organizations, or even something like Bowling leagues etc. While none of these have disappeared completely it does seem their membership numbers are decreasing in a similar way to churches
I say 50% of the Internet is Duplicate. (N=2)
Since you mentioned not reading the German version I went and checked and it's got a bit more info, though not a lot.

[...] im oberen Stockwerk der Dompropstei des Marienstiftes zu Rat, als der alte und wohl auch morsche Boden des zweiten Geschosses plötzlich unter der außergewöhnlichen Last der vielen Menschen zusammenbrach. Dabei stürzten die meisten Anwesenden in die Tiefe, wo auch der Boden des ersten Geschosses dem plötzlichen Aufprall dieser Last nicht standhielt, sodass die Herabstürzenden noch tiefer in eine darunter liegende Abtrittgrube fielen [...] andere wurden durch nachfallende Balken und Steine erschlagen oder verletzt.

So this mentions that this building didn't just have a ground floor w/ the latrine below it but one storey above. It's that second storey which was old and rotten and collapsed and broke through the ground floor, which wasn't strong enough to hold sixty people plus the broken top floor crashing into it. Unlike the English version that just mentions people drowning in excrement, this also mentions further falling debris like joists and stone simply hitting and thus killing or at least injuring people.

Btw, this is what this looks like today: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurter_Dom#/media/Datei:Erfu...
Elon's little power trip as his own lord of Twitter Land and the King of the People is really going speeding towards pathetic levels.

Who is he trying to impress? We know this is all an act, and the thin-skinned vulgarian will get all discombobulated at the first sign of being questioned.

But what's truly remarkable is his almost overnight alignment with disinformation peddlers, trolls, and insurrectionists. I mean, wow, way to flame out. Tip of a hat, sire.

Really, question your life choices if you care about what the convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza thinks.
In Spain CS undergrads are writing their own OS? Do you have any examples (preferably in English)? I find this hard to believe.
Surely it's meant to gather data, not make profit _directly_?
That it has been in the past, and still often is in some cases, moral to tell people to break the law, and immoral to tell them they shouldn't.
That's not how this will be applied. Instead, I think, they will go after devices that don't contain government backdoors.
The big fish all have their EU branches incorporated in Ireland for tax reasons. Filter by Ireland and you'll see some larger fines and some more well-known company names. And even then, it's a well-known contention within the EU that the Irish data protection authority is dragging their feet on investigations and fines because of the "tax reasons" part.
Inserting random Unicode blank, 1/4, 1/2, or zero space characters into your writing may help thwart it too, if you are paranoid
I have been laid off since August, the options I have in front of me are not positive (things have slowed to a trickle where I am in the US), and I hope the New Year will be better, but...

Otherwise I will look into non-tech related work to meet expenses.
Instead of making it binary, you could use a gradient indicating the strength of the mutual correlation (like how HN colors downvoted comments).
> Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?

It's not that hard to accomplish for those who can be(come) location independent. For instance[1]:

> You would need around 2,582.16$ in Budapest to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 8,700.00$ in San Francisco, CA (assuming you rent in both cities).

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
> Someone who talks about ancient history, Occam’s razor, VCs and startups,

I think these are all common topics among HN readers and commenters.
>assembled in China, and most under even worse conditions than FoxConn

Citation needed. There's a reason Honhai / Foxconn / TW businesses have decades old bad rep in East Asia, in terms of working conditions, mistreating workers, withholding compensation and passports. Much of the China-bad meme of rampant gulag capitalism applies and were imported from TW by TW business culture (granted at invitation of PRC), from gutteroil to tofu construction, distant fishing slavery etc. Poor TW workers rights get exported abroad (i.e. Indian plant) where they're generally invited and hence have leverage to mistreat. If anything, from my experience, working conditions in PRC manufacturing sectors comparable to Foxconn are now generally better, more abide by rights and laws simply because PRC nationals can be easily held accountable vs. Foxconn getting immunity from local gov due to cross strait cooperation perks, or whatever regional equivalent to draw Foxconn investment. Labour issue will persist regardless of where you buy from, because likely you'll still be buying from the same global manufacturing company known for not having scruples.
"Select and support a 'Security Program Manager.' This person doesn’t need to be a security expert or even an IT professional. The Security Program Manager ensures your organization implements all the key elements of a strong cybersecurity program."

Somewhat contradictory. A "security program manager" can't implement good security if they don't know what it looks like, even if given a checklist.

This reads like the sort of document that the government publishes because it has a fiduciary to protect the vaunted "small business owner," similar to "fraud awareness" campaigns, but is more laying the groundwork to say that they told you so, rather than real protection.
There is no threshold. This site does not make any call as to whether a user is an alt or not. It just gives the users with the most similar word choice and from there it is up to you to decide (is there a very specific detail that both accounts mention, do they post at similar times, etc). I will say bolded accounts are substantially more likely to be alts though. But obviously it is not guaranteed that every user has an alt.
One way to get around this legitimately would be by posting a lot of quotes/lyrics/excerpts and the like thus fooling the algorithm unless it had a way to filter them out
Huh, that's a somewhat non intuitive property.
This is intriguing. Can you provide more details? Did you have customers prior to deciding to "no longer hunt for work"? Or do you plan to find customers/build a new product?
Yes and the mutiny did happen in part because the German navy planned for a Last-Hurrah-Suicide mission to "die an honorful death"

The sailors were not cool with that and decided to not be killed on the final stretch of a pointless war

That was the final straw and was used to kick of the revolution. The monarchy already had lost most of its authority by that point.
How about EU-issued "right to be forgotten"? Is it possible that Arnie requested being removed from all the search results?
In college, I took a History of Science class about Copernicus and Kepler. It totally could have been adapted into an engaging physics course.
I'd expect there to be a high correlation. People willingly choose to spend less time with friends and devote themselves to activities when the choice is easy because those activities are almost completely fulfilling, except occasionally when they aren't fulfilling anymore but the person is still alone.

On the other hand there are people who can't bear to be alone at all. Which seems like a different issue.
> For those who are unaware how this all fits together, the literal pixel's purpose is to ensure that even if Javascript is entirely disabled on the client (end-user) system, there is still a log entry at the tracker's end of things noting a time/date and IP address of document access.

Or to put it another way, even if you send the signal that you don’t want to be tracked, they will ignore it and track you anyway. They are intentionally doing something unethical and are aware they are doing it.
It’s just the credit cycle, not a bubble, simply the consequence of low cost of capital. It is deflating already and as the parent said it’ll likely be a correction rather than a true bubble pop, outside of maybe a few sectors like crypto or early stage public companies
In the case of the above, you're not trusting the server, you're only trusting the CPU manufacturer. Attestation happens within the secure enclave inside the CPU, at which point having physical access to the machine doesn't (well, shouldn't, if it's correctly implemented) give you any insight into what code it's running or what data it's operating upon.
This is possibly the core difference between the US and Europe for me; American individualism isn’t about individuals, but property, and it always has been.
By granting someone a degree of land ownership so extreme they can inhibit other people from experiencing nature across it, you’re merely fetishising property, and doing every single individual a net disservice in the process.
My initial guess is that a crude pattern match for the n word also filters his surname.
You’re totally right; but I’m nervous for my laid-off friends that will burn through 80% of their severance over the holiday season. :(
Could you please state your point more explicitly?
Which devices have government backdoors?
My answer is also the quake community, from the Q1 era, for the same reasons.

Mainly a bunch of really smart, bored, and funny college kids.
FYI many of these top results are Manually curated / created. I'd wager that to be the reason.
As a counterpoint, we still have school (the effect including parents), our job, local markets, local bars, local events (library talks, festivals, “neighborhood day”, national holidays celebrations etc).

Occasions to meet people abound for most people interested to, and we make a conscious choice to not go, or at least not bound in these events to keep people out of our private spheres.
Huh... seems there are some inconsistencies between what's presented on news.ycombinator.com and the Firebase API. Glad it matches for you though :)
> we are capable of keeping our networks secure even if a cable or a base station is made by a Chinese company.

Not if war breaks out. If that happens, maintenance and support channels will be weaponized and/or sanctioned.
What an amazingly petty thing to put signs like that.
Thus proving the only actually anonymous community in practice is 4chan, and that’s why it’s so toxic.
Could you elaborate on why it's obvious why you won't name the account?
Cisco iirc
Curious if you don’t mind sharing, did this candidate have crazy comp due to Twitter RSUs before the implosion? And if so, are you all roughly matching that, or they’re settling for less?
I have 7 bolded names (0.53-0.62) in the top 20 list, and none are alts of mine.
Wouldn't be surprised if dating sites already used similar algorithms.
And a manual curator would omit arnie for what reason?
Indeed; I didn’t mean to understate the point.
There's someone (michaelmior if you're around!) with a false positive 0.46 match to me.

Maybe we could be friends :)
This is a super interesting tool for self reflection. Looking at the top 10 similar accounts to mine, it gives me an arms-length view of how other people probably interpret my tone.

I appear to be a well-educated, over-confident know-it-all.
cool and thanks for the clarification. i ask that mainly because of the request limit of openai, which is something that makes many scalable ideas unfeasible
Other options have been available since forever and still are unless you're in a super niche field, and everything that touches ads and tracking / analytics isn't niche.

There's more than enough work out there, but those other jobs might not net an individual 10x the average household income. Can one survive on 5x or even 3x? Then there are more than enough alternatives.

If the employer has kidnapped your daughter and threatens to kill her if you don't build this tracking solution, then I can totally see how you'd do things you find reprehensible "under protest". But I doubt that's a common scenario, and generally people just don't care or they rationalize it ("I'm working on ads so the internet will not be paywalled").
It's important to point out that lots of interests donate 51% one side, and 49% on the other in America. America has a real problem with political graft... Saying "only they do it!" plays into the silly game.
I mean, this is HN -

> someone trying really hard to be pg

describes half the site.
If people should always treat yellow dashed lines as yellow solid lines, then why do we have the former?
He did
I second the recommendation of Dawn, or the Xenogenesis trilogy in general. Couldn’t really get into her other novels.
This is somewhat similar to how they ended up catching the Unabomber. The FBI were literally at a dead end. They ended up posting one of his letters/manifestos in the paper, somebody recognised a turn of phrase the unabomber used that was unusual and reported it as possibly being their brother, FBI investigated the lead and it lead them straight to him.

Excerpts from wiki:

> Before the publication of Industrial Society and Its Future, Kaczynski's brother, David, was encouraged by his wife to follow up on suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber.[91] David was dismissive at first, but he took the likelihood more seriously after reading the manifesto a week after it was published in September 1995. He searched through old family papers and found letters dating to the 1970s that Ted had sent to newspapers to protest the abuses of technology using phrasing similar to that in the manifesto.[92]

> In early 1996, an investigator working with Bisceglie contacted former FBI hostage negotiator and criminal profiler Clinton R. Van Zandt. Bisceglie asked him to compare the manifesto to typewritten copies of handwritten letters David had received from his brother. Van Zandt's initial analysis determined that there was better than a 60 percent chance that the same person had written the manifesto, which had been in public circulation for half a year. Van Zandt's second analytical team determined a higher likelihood. He recommended Bisceglie's client contact the FBI immediately.[96]

> In February 1996, Bisceglie gave a copy of the 1971 essay written by Ted Kaczynski to Molly Flynn at the FBI.[87] She forwarded the essay to the San Francisco-based task force. FBI profiler James R. Fitzgerald[98][99] recognized similarities in the writings using linguistic analysis and determined that the author of the essays and the manifesto was almost certainly the same person. Combined with facts gleaned from the bombings and Kaczynski's life, the analysis provided the basis for an affidavit signed by Terry Turchie, the head of the entire investigation, in support of the application for a search warrant.[87]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
> but this functionality turned out way creepier than I thought the moment I tried it

Hopefully this raised awareness means that people who actually need anonymity will be more likely to know to take precautions.
The MAX was under an amended type certification, so they were acknowledging the changes. Boeing didn’t follow their own rules regarding safety design (like redundancy on critical items identified on their hazard analysis)
We're not really talking about controlling the narrative. We are talking about controlling the consumption rate (and the ability to set the focus). If I am visiting a web site, some parts are more interesting and some less; I want to spend time on the stuff I care about. If I am giving a presentation, I also want to control how the material is presented. This is nothing about "narratives".
Does anybody manage their own music collection anymore?

Quite a few people do. Some even have a self hosted web catalog of their collection and a sub-set of them link their instances together. [1][2] Linking to the software, not peoples collections. Most are in private circles.

[1] - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki

[2] - https://ampache.org/#preview
> Can you clarify what this means

Imagine that for every new comment you want to post you would create a brand new account which you would use precisely once and never again. Then the stylometry would have just a few words and wouldn’t have enough corpus to get a reliable signature. If a lot of people does this it would be hard to figure out which account belongs with which human. ( Of course if you alone do this, your messages will stick out like a sore thumb. See xkcd 1105 )

> why it would result in a ban?

Because this practice is especially discouraged in the guidelines: “please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.”
> We need to become masters of Earth before we could ever hope to take on a bigger challenge

Wasn't the same argument made against going to the moon?
You easily passed a FAANG interview?
>There’s of course the not so cynical take of people not bound by networks being harder to rope in a common direction.

It's the opposite. People who are isolated are easier to control. Populations that are isolated find it harder to organize against people in positions of power. If you occupy the upper rungs of the societal ladder, you don't need to be a part of a social group, because your power (from wealth, politics, etc.) can be exercised unilaterally. The only check to their power comes from the people on the bottom rungs of the ladder banding together.