skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This gives a lot of false positives, but it found all ~10 of my old accounts over the years.

The most interesting thing is that my writing style changed pretty drastically since a decade ago. Searching for my oldest account matches my earliest usernames, whereas searching this account matched the rest.

The details of the algorithm are fascinating: https://stylometry.net/about Mostly because of how simple it is. I assumed it would measure word embeddings against a trained ML model, but nothing so fancy.
> Is it "increase the standard of living " when it decreases your life expectancy, physical shape

Yes, it increases the standard of living by pulling poor people out of poverty. So the rich consumer nation has their life decreased due to over consumption while increasing the standard of living of those from poorer nations. The rich consumer nation cannot consume AND increase life expectancy at an infinite rate.
> Just go on a hike, walking is free.

If the webshits on here could work out a way to monetize hiking, they will.
My area's birth rate is approaching Japan's. Although this was always a bit of a lonely place, being alone is now almost unavoidable. Choosing to be alone and being used to being alone look and feel like the same thing, but their root cause is different.
Would still like to hear the precis.
I think we probably agree on almost everything here. I'm not defending the corporate surveillance culture. On the contrary I think that should be the first target.

I'm only saying that in politics you have to pick your battles if you want to make real progress instead of earning a ten second sound bite on tonight's news. The EU politicians aren't so good at that sometimes and the result is legal positions like Schrems II that are so impractical that they are widely ridiculed and compliance is negligible.
Very cool! And really a shame that you’re not allowed to delete an old alt account or comments on HN! It follows you forever apparently.
I agree. There's a big difference in being lonely and being alone. There's also a big difference between isolation and loneliness. You can be isolated but not lonely, and likewise you can be lonely and surrounded by folks.

The other facet here is that it's easier to choose loneliness than isolation, though it's less likely to be chosen directly. I feel like it's chosen indirectly by choosing avoidance of vulnerability. Vulnerability is the price you pay and risk you take to ameliorate loneliness.

Hardly anyone can fully become isolated. You have to work to live, and so by default you are forcefully un-isolated. Loneliness however can come about by avoiding being vulnerable with others. Men seem to be particularly susceptible to this avenue to loneliness.
>reject religious fairy tales

I find the bad faith arguments exhausting. If you won't even acknowledge that not all religions are like Christianity and involve a God, then I has l can have this conversation in the comments section of YouTube.

As an aside, I'm a Muslim. It's a sad development that the liberal atheists that used to be my biggest allies, but as of late Ive received more criticism from liberals than conservatives. That stuff is regularly on the front page of reddit now
Under ideal conditions, yes. But the 3x difference I see in practice is less about NVMe being just that good; and more about operations against (main) memory getting bottlenecked under high all-cores concurrent access with no cross-workload memory locality to enable any useful cache coherence. And also about memory accesses only being “in play” when a worker thread isn’t context-switched out; while PCIe-triggered NVMe DMA can proceed while the thread has yielded for some other reason.

In other words, when measured E2E in the context of a larger work-step (one large enough to be interrupted by a context-switch), the mean, amortized difference between the two types of fetch becomes <3x.

Top of my wishlist for future architectures is “more, lower-width memory channels” — i.e. increased intra-CPU NUMAification. Maybe something CXL.mem will roughly simulate — kind of a move from circuit-switched memory to packet-switched memory, as it were.
> Seems like a business publication..but a lot of fark and fluff.

To be fair, I'd be surprised if anyone at BI sees this as a "real" article. Like, it's more of an equivalent of a cartoon in a newspaper or a meme – couple of funny diagrams to get some easy clicks.

If you want to get an accurate view, I think you'd need to look at the base rate (like, are all articles empty fluff?).

Alternatively, I could imagine a two-pronged model when the fluff-clicks are funding the "real" journalism. If so, I'd check if the deeper articles are substantially higher quality – I think it's unlikely, but I might be wrong.
My alt accounts (not really, all below 0.5) seem to also be European or German Firefox users. Good for us ;)
The combined state and federal top marginal tax rate is 75% or more?

Is capital gains taxed at the same rate as income?

Then we aren’t taxing the fuck out of the rich.

Does the Federal government and the State of California provide stable housing to every homeless person in the state?

Well, then, what’s why the problem is getting worse.

Actually tax the rich, and actually provide housing first. Until then, we haven’t tried my proposal.
Right? I think that I would have to try to find a bike pannier that ISN’T waterproof.
Is there an equivalent to Amazon’s “leadership principals” at Musk Co? Is there a core cultural skill set that Musk CO’s have that a re replicable across industries? (Aside from worker exploitation and ignoring safety regulations)

I mean there seem to be some core principals around transparent pricing and design, are these codified anywhere?
At what percentage of knowledge are you ready to use the language professionally?
Disclaimer: This is 100% a plug (for a friend, no financial interest on my part).

A good friend have mine who has been focusing on career coaching has started to put together a few articles [1, 2] targeted more at folks impacted by recent layoffs. Like so many of these articles, the intent isn't to have deep, novel ideas -- instead, it's to pull together things that you probably already know, think about them clearly, and get some comfort in the next steps of job search. If a small number of readers have just one thing "click", it has some value, in my mind.

This is one of the rougher markets we've seen for engineers in a while, but in my opinion it's still a worker's market -- in almost every niche I interact with, hiring has slowed but we are still having a hard time filling the open positions we do have, and we're always looking!

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7001201...
[2] https://alignedclarity.substack.com/p/streamline-your-resume...
I have dumped a few of my Switch games to play on the Steam Deck. It's a better experience overall, for the games that run well, and it means I can take only one console when I'm out.

I haven't downloaded a single pirate ROM since I own both the hardware and the software.

On a powerful PC, you can run some games at much better frame rates than on the Switch hardware as well.
Surely blocking tracking pixels looks just like not opening the email, triggering the autounsubscribe. I don't see the problem here. The recipient and mailer both get what they want.
why were her concerns more important than his? old man was probably alone all day as well and unsettled
> You can help reverse these trends today without waiting for the researchers and policymakers to figure it all out. It’s the holidays: Don’t skip Thanksgiving with your family. Go to that holiday party (or throw one yourself). Go hang out with friends for coffee, or a hike, or in a museum, or a concert — whatever. You will feel better, create memories, boost your health, stumble across valuable information — and so will your companions.

So it's not "we should reverse that" but "you should reverse that". I'm always suspicious of text filled with "we", "us" , "our" where the group is never well defined. This is an opinion piece, written by an economist, that finds it "safe to assume" things. It is also notable that the author never really justifies that Americans chose to be alone, they just did.

All in all, I think it's too light to be taken seriously. For example, is this the first time in history that people are spending more time alone? If not, can we find some events or context that caused this? What were the consequences? Did things change? How? What breaks my heart is that there's a good chance someone, somewhere has spent a lot of time and energy studying this topic and sharing the results for everyone to benefit, but instead here's a piece trying to make people feel guilty about actions they may not have control over.
Super interesting you mention “local first CI”. Have a look at Brisk https://brisktest.com/ (I’m the author).

It’s designed to work “locally” pre-commit, giving you super fast tests, but then when you push you can also use it in your CI/CD pipeline.

We achieve the speed with massive concurrency and pre-built environments, it was built as a drop in replacement for your local test runner.
I've not been laid off either. I'm currently taking a break from jobs. I'm starting to think that it's time to go back to full-time employment. But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. Let all the companies that are going to do layoffs have their layoffs and then join a company still looking for new devs in a few months.
This found an old account that I forgot I even had but with a lot of false positives. Neat!
HN has an Algolia-based API. It’s also very easy to crawl.

I wouldn’t call this evil, however: it’s merely demonstrating a technique that you should be aware of, if you’re a privacy-conscious person. It looks like they also provide some resources for avoiding stylometric detection.
"I've found plenty of hits but haven't accepted an offer yet" seems like a perfectly reasonable response to the question of "how's the job hunt going?"
The r/transprogrammers Discord server. It is just an amazing place. It feels small, it doesn't have excessively complicated rules and everyone is very similar to each other and experiences similar struggles.
That's the quandary with sock puppets, though. The comment is written well enough to withstand a quick skim, and if no one rebuts it, it may convince some skimmers.
> Suffering, even pain, are like the opposite side of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other, so when facing struggles, try to view it as such; the necessary component in a fulfilling life.

This is true to some limited extent, but it seems wrong to think of the distinction between happiness is suffering as entirely or even mostly about contrast.

For example, consider a person who has, through some combination of disability, misfortune, and the malice of others, never had any positive moments in their entire life. If you had the power to do so, would it be unnecessary to help them out of their situation? After all, they have no happy memories to contrast their situation against. If you can't guarantee that they won't return to their previous situation, a contrast-based view implies that you would actually be doing harm by putting their past and future suffering into perspective.

When you have no say over what happens to you, contrasting a painful present with a pleasant past is a valuable coping mechanism, but it's also important to not justify suffering(especially the suffering of others) on such grounds in general terms.

To be clear, I'm not accusing you of doing that, just talking about what I've heard from other people on the topic.
ive had maybe a hundred throwaway accounts on HN over the past ten years. generally, i make an account, say something that is apparently wildly offensive to someone else, get flagged and down-voted and then muted or hell-banned. then i make another account because i never did anything wrong and start the process over again. ive emailed the admins, tried to reason with the admins, it never does any good. the power is held by power-users who flag people -- most of the power of an admin at the end of the day but without any of the accountability. as long as they are following the mainstream dogma, its all good.

anyway, this app was able to identify a lot of my accounts. but a lot of the matches werent me. bold matches were almost all me. but i know there are many more matches than those that were listed. it mainly showed my most recent accounts.

i think most people would get a sick feeling in their stomach if they tried this app. i dont think people are prepared for a world where you can type someones name into an app like this and produce everything ever recorded online that was created by that person. not only this but everything highlighted and summarized to answer any question about that person. this is what advanced ai will bring us. an information implosion where the planet-sized ocean of data that is just floating all around us suddenly and violently coalesces into the objects of our new societal calculus. violent is a good word. and this is just the change that one can see coming with ai.
Do they? Have you never done something under protest?
It works like a charm for me too.

I put in my username and found my pre-echelon alt, possibilistic.

(Echelon was taken when I registered possibilistic, but it must have been unused and dropped.)
“While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

I think to hear him tell it, he was already in prison.
Where was he arguing for Communism? Do you believe pro-labor == Communism? Your post reads as knee-jerk and paranoid
This. The trend has already started, tech like this will (eventually) accelerate the transition.

People don't go to movies to see movie stars anymore. They go to see Marvel characters. [1]

I think we're at the bookend of a transitional era for movies (and for many other things). Transition started with Napster, iPod, Netflix, etc. and ended with the "mainstreamization" of Marvel. Traditional movies are dead, what's left is something that really doesn't look anything like the movie industry I grew up with. Like other art forms (opera, theater, orchestras, etc) traditional movie story telling just isn't where it's at any more, the "masses" have moved on. The industry used to be full of passionate creative types. Now it's full of people working their butts off to get their name somewhere in the 20 minutes of credits at the end of a film, for the prestige of being able to tell their friends they work in the industry. It's a self-sustaining business at this point, full of nepotism, cronyism, and people happy just to stay employed doing whatever it is they do (digital work, setting up lights, renting equipment, managing the logistics).

I've asked my cinemaphile friends if they can name a big up and coming director? Who is the next Tarantino? No one has any real answer. At best I get JJ Abrams, who (at 56) is on the tail end of his career, and if anything he's a symptom of the problem (mom and dad worked in the business). It's a group of insiders churning out jobs for their kids and a steady stream of income. Hollywood is nothing more than a brand now.

Whatever the "future" is, it's here. More Marvel, less relevance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8JK6c5x3M
Sounds like you're in a dark place. I hope things improve.
My new Mac Studo was made in Malaysia, and the computer I bought before, a Gigabyte Aorus 17G, in Taiwan. The workers at this factory rioted because they had been held there against their will due to a Covid lockdown, as opposed to the more usual being locked out of your workplace and livelihood. Ironically Xi Jinping’s inflexible zero-Covid policy is making the Chinese supply chain unreliable and doing what no amount of human-rights abuse or US government pressure could do, forcing Apple to move production out of China to places like Vietnam and India.
You could implement something similar by splitting the make targets in the GitHub action before they get passed to make so each worker is assigned their own target, then have a make target that executes all the targets for local multithreaded builds via `make -j${NUM_CONCURRENT}`.
I've never had so much fun slurping and barfing as I have with paredit.
“He then asked: "Why is US social capital eroding?" and discussed several possible causes.[1] He believed that the "movement of women into the workforce"[1] and other demographic changes had an impact on the number of individuals engaging in civic associations. He also discussed the "re-potting hypothesis", that people become less engaged when they frequently move towns, but found that Americans actually moved towns less frequently than in previous decades.[1][3] He did suggest that suburbanization, economics and time pressures had some effect, though he noted that average working hours had shortened. He concluded the main cause was technology "individualizing" people's leisure time via television and the Internet, suspecting that "virtual reality helmets" would carry this further in the future.[1]”

Via Wikipedia
Twitter VP in Ireland gets temporary court injunction against firing
> there is no such thing as a "friend." there are only people who will pretend to be a partner or friend in order to make it easier for them to steal from you unnoticed

Um. No. A thousand times, "no." Yes, there are people that will steal from you and there are people who will pretend to be your friend. Friends totally exist.

We recently moved and our old neighbors and friends are taking care of the yard for us while it sells. For no other reason than to help. When we arrived to the new house, a new neighbor came over to help unload the truck just to help out. We've been here months and aside from casual greetings, that has been the extent to our relationship -- not a friend (yet!) and still not having other motivations. I help people when and where I can whenever. I once had an oncoming car flip and nearly collide with me. I stopped, helped them out, and waited for the tow truck and gave them a ride home, just because they needed some help. I never saw them again.

I'm sorry that your experiences have jaded your view. Know that your experiences are not universal. Maybe you need a new environment.
This comment is extremely vague and overly feels-based and anecdotal.

> [the left] doesn’t seem to care about: [long list of random things]

Based on what? This sounds like you didn't even check, didn't ask, probably weren't even going to look.

> For example, a white male friend of mine is utterly crippled by trauma from his absentee dad. He doesn’t feel like anyone in his broader community cares about him and his problems at all.

Could be worse, could be that your parents kick you out and your broader community actively wants to make you illegal.

The left, on the other hand, wants affordable healthcare, which includes coverage for mental illness and access to therapy.

Your friend's feelings of alienation is a small part of a much larger social problem the left cares deeply about.

For everything else, it sounds like maybe you expected """the woke left""" to show up randomly and magically solve all your friend's problems? They don't run society, they're not in charge, they're barely holding off their own problems. Mutual aid networks are a lot of work, especially when you're not bankrolled by billionaires.
Yeah top 20 is a little excessive because in my own tests I found that top 20 is only marginally more accurate than top 10. You can get a more academic explanation [here](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09296174.2011.53...). I was amazed too because it seemed too easy!
The use of “skin” in the title has nothing to do with the human body. This is creating a substrate to replace the “green boards” we use now. It’s composed of layers of “mushroom skin” to place traces and components on.
See also "generative art" which has been around for a few decades. There's still a human curating + tweaking the end result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art
The solution is simple. Land owners should just be required to grant access to public land they border.

If you don't like that, don't buy property that borders public land.
didn't find a single one of my alts. nice
Ingenious idea. At the very least, this is just about finding people who write like us, the same way we seek those with similar tastes (music...)

How long before large commercial indexers start offering an efficient (AI based ?) stylometry to agencies and states ?

wait... do you think the NSA is already doing this?
Blocking access to public land is definitely bad. But am I the only one who's first reaction is "Fuck hunters" anyway?
Incorrect. Broadly-defined laws that do not hammer out the specifics to the inch are absolutely enforceable, just not with perfect certainty ahead of time. All laws are imprecise, and judges and juries are well able to operate more flexibly than a rigid programming-style logical interpretation (IF position X WITHIN bounds Y-Z THEN arrest) would allow.
There's no lying, and that you're suggesting that they're lying reveals your own bias. And it also reveals that you don't support the idea of free speech, since you seem to believe it's only a politically motivated concept.
No, we don't silence people for their own good, we silence people for our own good.
Naturally Born Imposter
I'd watch out for bacteria too! Wouldn't want any of those crawling around your gut.
> I believe it also popularized the concept of "there should be one obvious way of doing things"

It's one of the principles from the Zen of Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python#Principles

I agree with your comment, all of these taken together were a medium-sized revolution at the time. It's not for nothing that Python is the most popular language for teaching programming nowadays.
I find this very hard to believe. Real interactions are so rich, how could these goggles even hope to get there in a few years?

What is having dinner together if you didn’t even eat the same? And this is the most banal example I could think of.

I’d sooner become an actual hermit than to share a soggy McD burger over VR.
It might not have the prettiest UI, but I've used this one several times when troubleshooting encoder/muxer issues: https://github.com/essential61/mp4analyser.
I think the word you are looking for is uncanny
When I'm out to eat, I don't concern myself with what language the server uses on their side as long as my order comes out as expected.
> Seriously, there is zero valid reason to ever inject code into another program

Sometimes, I use software which does not work the way I would like it to work. When this software is closed source, and the problem sufficiently annoying, I inject code to make it do what I want.

(And no, once I do this I don't open bug reports, unless I can reproduce the problem without code injection.)

Because that's the great thing about owning a computer, and knowing how to really use it. It's a tool for you to command.

Now, will most people ever do this? No. I wish everyone could, but unfortunately, injecting code in a useful way requires a reasonable amount of coding knowledge.

But, this is Hacker News. I would hope most users here can come up with lots of valid reasons to inject code into other programs.
I’d figured it would be some kind of n-gram frequency analysis. Would be interesting to code that up and compare.
I’m not worried. DEI activism is unlikely to survive the recession.

It will continue in academia but even there it’s creating more lifelong detractors than supporters.

As it turns out people don’t like weaponizing race / sexuality as a means of controlling or being controlled.

This is a foreign concept to anyone in the DEI bubble, but speak to any normies (of all races) and you’ll hear a very different tune.
Like United Fruits (now Chiquita) with CIA?

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