skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one reason why I like legal doctrines such as "beyond a reasonable doubt." Even a 0.9 match in a tool like this could be a coincidence, if there are millions of users. But that won't stop people from casually believing "aha it must be an alt account", based on some anecdata.

It's so easy for something like this to be turned into a tool for a witch hunt, targeting innocents.
What do you mean? I had a job the entire time, and I interviewed at MSFT and NFLX in the meantime. Otherwise i would just periodically check in with my G recruiter trying to balance some urgency with politeness.

I didn’t get an offer from NFLX but they came across extremely well, i’m very bullish on the company solely based on the culture and talent I met.

The MSFT experience was the exact opposite!
Gomemlimit is a game changer for high-memory applications
Assembled in China, by a Taiwanese company, mostly using imported chips, with most of the profit going to Apple.

And there's no forced technology transfer (who would they transfer it to - the Taiwanese company Foxconn?).
Traefik, Docker and dnsmasq to simplify container networking
Yeah, well the reason the Schrems II ruling is widely ridiculed with negligible compliance is not because of the ECJ ruling - it's the natural result of the legal status quo on both sides of the Atlantic and was predicted accurately by plenty of lawyers who weren't forced by their financial incentives to ignore the obvious.

It's ridiculed and ignored primarily because enforcement is irrelevantly rare and small in financial impact, just like enforcement of the rules around cookie consent and many other aspects of the GDPR. Companies calculate that true compliance costs more than pretending to comply plus occasional fines for not doing so. Therefore they don't implement the parts of true compliance under their own control, and don't feel a need to lobby politicians on either side of the Atlantic to fix the incompatibility between US surveillance law on the GDPR. Similarly, the politicians and regulators are okay pretending that new EU-US agreements with no real legal substance can solve the problem, such that nobody has to comply and the ECJ and Max Schrems stay busy spinning their wheels.

If this were different and the EU were actually enforcing the rules, either companies in the EU would have to stop using American providers - helping build a home-grown EU software industry without being crowded out by American providers - or US companies like MS would have to change what internal practices they can and lobby the US government to make the necessary legislative changes for them to fully comply with the GDPR.

To be honest, I don't think the EU politicians/regulators are bad at what they're trying to do. It's simply that what they're trying to do is to look tough on privacy while actually not pissing off the deep-pocketed megacorps and the politicians they can/do fund on either side of the Atlantic. Which is different than what I'd like them to do, of course.
Inventing a language seems to be a rite of passage for every engineer at google.

Go, Dart, Carbon, Mangle, am I missing some?

I'm not criticizing, I would not dare as I'm creating my own language as well :P
For those who miss new Peanuts strips, check out Haircut Practice:

https://www.gocomics.com/haircut-practice/2020/01/20

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Haircut_Practice
Why would montrose be pg ? The correlation is not that high. Looks like a few people have picked up pg's mannerisms.
It is a bit, but if stylometric equality was a thing you'd expect it to be symmetric, so if stylometric simmilarity is a thing....
What GP means is that it's not inline, presented as a carousel or info-box (usually with a source link) instead of as a normal search result.
Yes, Microsoft focuses on the customer (corporate IT), not the user.

This is how the iphone was able to nuke windows phones which were designed to meet the needs of IT
ColinWright is Dang?

Woah
When you are using VMWare Horizon given to you by contractor, where clipboard and all other data transfer integrations are disabled, no software could be installed, Windows inside VM gets wiped every few days, and your collegues mindlessly used dangerous services like cl1p.net to share data, this is not so stupid to write such a tool :)
The site mentions a service called Quillbot which apparently does just that. https://stylometry.net/avoid
.6 is high confidence? I did my own username, wondering what it would return, since I know I don’t have any alt accounts. The top results are in the .6-.7 range. If they aren’t alt accounts, is it just coincidence that we have similar writing styles?
Oh god, that thing starts with direct focus on the search field, opening it showed a bunch of old nicknames, I thought it was the result of some study.
Holodomor Memorial Day
Reminds me of the time when someone has created PlayStation account using my email and I was unable to take over that account, as I did not know answers to security questions.

Seriously, even large companies should've made email verification mandatory not only in case of user error, but malicious, or just plain annoying use of other people email address. Not to mention getting account banned and unable to use your email on platform when you might actually need it.

Back to the topic: now that you've changed password on account, maybe you could just leave it as is, that way no one will be able to re-create mentioned account again. Although that still leaves the opportunity for malicious user trying to recover that account, but I'd bet he doesn't know security answers either.
Official website does categories, language, region, legal structure, and more: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

As an added bonus servers listed on the official website come with certain "guarantees", mostly related to their maintenance (>1 person with access to the servers, daily backups, long shutdown notice and similar): https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
I was wrong. Just took a look at their blog and apparently as of 3.4 (Nov. 16, 2022) you can export to Word (https://blog.vellum.pub/). That's excellent.
Obsession? The higher the speed the greater the capacity of the road, and when freight has to travel 2000 miles by road, the 10mph/h difference makes a considerable impact on the time. Isn't it the case that Germany completely removes speed limits for some portions of it's "Autobahns?" What "obsession" drives that decision?

There's this assumption that all the negative qualities of road are down to malignable user behavior issues. It's an unusually hostile way to view the problem.
> An example and references to the 3.11 changelog would be helpful...

Can't tell from that remark whether you're asking or telling...
0.6 is not high enough to indicate an alt
I think something has been lost in translation.
So I am asking because my views are only challenged inside my own head, hence the need for external thoughts.

But firstly the "governments will come and do bad things" argument - yes this is clearly and obviously a major problem - but not one solvable by technology in anyway. Fixing violent dictatorships is a IRL problem - one that requires enormous effort and sacrifices (see Ukraine for obvious example). We cannot pretend that a browser extension or a ground up rewrite of Twitter will defeat Putin or would have stopped Hitler.

As for "free" countries (something like 120+ have open free elections), we still have online abuse for voicing opinions that some people don't like (anything from pro/anti Trump to LGBT and bitcoin etc). Those are real consequences but rarely government inspired and honestly I suspect we need better support for police in prosecuting such things - I mean a death threat is a death threat.

In general my view seems to be we should have the same protections online as we do offline - and if those protections are "in theory only" that requires us to use our voting and other political power to chnage it - not to obfuscate IP addresses or so on.

The upside of tech is so great it is worth spending IRL to defend agains the downsides
Or, depending on the leadership, a lion overseeing prey protection policy.
> Germany certainly has given Lenin a train ticket

This was fascinating and amazingly conniving.

The Churchill quote, saying Lenin was smuggled back into Russia "in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus" is quite the imagery.

Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale covers it well.
The petrodollar is an interesting theory, but I have strong doubts about it. Global dollar-denominated oil trade is a tiny drop in the bucket of global dollar-denominated trade - not a sacred cornerstone that must be protected.

Geo-political power games (Gulf War I) and outright stupidity (Gulf War II) seem like the more likely catalysts for the Iraq war (And you noted a few of the causes of the Libyan one).
Such quality comments would track with most thorough Satan representations.
Well the revolution was ostensibly the founding of America so that seemed the place to start the discussion of American identity. But it’s a fair point that the actual beginnings were was earlier, somewhere between 1607 and 1776.
Funny thing would be to find most unique user account stylistically.

Which user has lowest best match?

Mine is 0.58 so I'm really not that unique.
this car has french written all over it, tiny, low power, short range
Delighted to see "qwertyuiop" at #36. This was my go-to passwords in the mid-2000s. Great minds think alike.

I think I added an exclamation point to it as well at some point.
So what? It has about 10 times the range of the Ami. Especially if you drive it at just 28mph. 8 hours of charging at is about enough to equal that range with a Model 3. And at the higher voltage of UK circuits, about half that.
Maybe CATL will not be able to deliver what they have promised, but that article is just a piece of garbage that does not prove anything.

I could not read it on Bloomberg, but the same article seems to be also available at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/are-investors...

The article begins with a photograph of "A CATL battery pack on display at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Germany, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022".

The article does not say whether the pictured battery pack is one with Na-ion or just some random battery pack that does not have any relationship with the article.

If the battery pack displayed at Hanover had been a Na-ion, then it would have been weird for CATL to show it if they had discovered problems that would have prevented its production. Also, the article says that CATL have announced last month again that they will start the production in 2023. It would be weird for them to discover just now problems that have not been discovered earlier.

After this introduction, the article says repeatedly that despite what CATL hoped, the Na-ion batteries are not good, but then the article fails to provide even a single logically-coherent sentence that says what exactly is not good about them.

Until anyone else provides some real information about what might be wrong about the CATL Na-ion batteries, this Bloomberg "analysis" can be safely ignored.

There is no doubt that the Na-ion batteries can work fine at energy/mass ratios somewhat lower than lithium-iron phosphate batteries.

CATL claims that they have found some means to increase the energy/mass ratio to a value intermediate between that of LFP and that of lithium-nickel/cobalt batteries.

It is possible that whatever they have done could affect negatively other battery parameters, but with the possible exception of the lifetime, such problems should have been identified much earlier and CATL should not have continued to say that everything is on track, so even as a rumor report that lacks any concrete information the Bloomberg "analysis" looks more like wishful thinking than like anything plausible.

The few numbers given in the "analysis" are wrong. It is said that Na-ion would need an 8 times increase in energy density, which is a claim that would be valid only about the ancient lead-acid batteries. Na-ion needs only a 2 times ... 2.5 times increase in energy density to become competitive in transportation applications.

There is some nonsense claim about Na-ion batteries "in certain formulations", which, even if it were true, would say nothing about the CATL batteries, because those do not use those "certain formulations", whichever those might be.

I have rarely read any article so illogical as this one.
Very interesting, .59 is my lowest, .64 is my highest match, none of these accounts are one of my alts. Though to be fair the handful of times I've used a throwaway I used it for a single comment so I didn't give it much to go off.
> ... This site works primarily by analyzing for each user the frequencies of the most common words and phrases in the English language. Accordingly, the easiest way to avoid being identified is to simply use different words than you ordinarily would when writing. More sophisticated models than the one I made can use punctuation, comma usage, and capitalization to identify you so try alternating those as well. Services like Quillbot can help with you this but depending on your circmstances you may not want to send your writings to a third party service.

HN offers many other threads which could be tied together, including:

- time of posting

- ratio of replies to top-level comments

- comments being mainly upvoted or downvoted

- sentiment (mostly angry, dismissive, questioning, etc.)

- most common topics (keyword analysis of post being replied to)

- ratio of new posting to post replies

- first-to-comment on a post

- lone comment on a post

- etc...

It seems very likely that sooner or later every pseudonym for posting content will get discovered and linked. The lesson here is don't post anything that would cause you undue shame or harm if linked directly to your legal name.
There is some debate about whether that’s better translated as ‘recite’ as opposed to ‘read’
Maybe your lua was a bit too good. Not liking the way something is laid out is very subjective.
Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography
It's usually done by different people with different job descriptions.

A writer's output are manuscripts, works of art.

A publisher's output is a commercial offering of books, a business.

[1] https://askanydifference.com/difference-between-author-and-p...
Usernames aren't random enough to be safe as a simple MD5. Perhaps with a strong bcrypt, but similar to PIN codes, it might be better to give partial information like "is the second character an ...", assuming nobody else made similar statements. Or give the first ~two hex characters of the hash, so that it would match 1/(16²)rd of the usernames. I'm sure there's also a clever way for a zero-knowledge proof here, probably something with diffie-hellman using the name as your random integer or something, but I'm too sick to think about this stuff right now. Privately sharing data publicly is hard.
Fires most of the work force and the site is more pleasant than it was in 2020?

Sounds like the opposite of Elon Musk.
On a motorcycle, reaction speed is all you have to save your ass and accelerating away from danger is a totally valid strategy in many situations. A car may not be able to squeeze ahead as easily in a bind because of its size but having enough reserve power still makes some maneuvers safer (e.g. overtaking a slow vehicle).
What is an Engine Cowl Flaps Indicator?

* Frantic Googling *

Oohhhh! So that's what it is! How useful!
This is nothing new, e.g:

Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050603

http://markallenthornton.com/blog/stylistic-similarity/

37 points by lingben on Aug 12, 2015
Not sure what is your point, or how does that connect with my comment. Care to elaborate?
To anyone curious about exploring this angle more, I recommend Noam Chomsky’s book “Imperial Ambitions.” It’s a collection of interview transcripts where he discusses the US wars in the Middle East and the political and economic motivations behind them. It’s very informative.

But of course, American leadership will never break the facade of doing “good.” The propaganda is too effective. It’s way easier to maintain false narratives that keep the population looking the other way than to come out and say why you really want to invade other countries.
tl;dr some people hiring but December is going to slow you right down. Wait for Jan.

Applied for a small pre-ipo biz lately, I’m over qualified for the position and respectfully let them know that I’d expect a very clear and direct path to a more senior position in max 12 months.

Interview process is slow but ongoing. I was told that it prob won’t happen before Jan.
You know everyone going to put your username in that tool after a rant like that.

If ever there were a good use for a throwaway account I’m thinking this is it…
How do I get those contracts? I'm a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience, also some data analytics experience. I got laid off almost two weeks ago. I would love to start my own contracting business. Do you have any insight?
Did make a lot of newcomers go insane on the irc channel we used to chat.

I think a HtDP based course with a scheme is still the best to learn to "program"
I'd be very curious to know if these algorithms can link very different types of text. I'm not surprised that my style is "derivable" on HN, but what if you included my slash-fic pieces, my research papers, etc, would it still "catch" me?

Also, talk about a chilling effect. I was already vaguely aware of this, and now I'm overthinking every word I'm thinking/typing.
The US Census, self-identified ancestry.

1 German 46,403,053

2 Black/African-American (non-Hispanic) 38,785,726

3 Mexican (of any race) 34,640,287

4 Irish 33,526,444

5 English 24,787,018
I would have expected to be a closer match to myself.

> uberduper: 0.9999999999999991
Those common criticisms of their political system are valid, and certainly in some ways the west is more advanced. But realistically western political systems have their own severe (but different) problems, and the Chinese systems have their own advantages.

As I said, the bottom line for the world order seems to be deployment of force. Right now the most relevant force paradigms as far as I can tell are mass information control and bio-warfare (nuclear has largely been tabled.) The authoritarianism has given China an advantage in terms of controlling information and infection and that has been strongly proven out.
Im tempted to use it to find likeminded friends :)
Anker/Eufy exploiting privacy conscious consumers
If the board has soldermask (was made at a board house and has green [or other color] coating), soldering SMD components is a lot easier than most people would first assume. The surface tension of the solder and rejection of it by the mask makes it go much better than you'd think.
If Russia is bargaining with Iran trading "hundreds" of captured anti-tank weapons and guided artillery munitions... it doesn't take a genius to come to conclusions as to what other non-state affiliated actors are doing...

Ukraine has also arrested a number of Ukrainians in known smuggling rings selling captured weapons on the black market [1].

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/russia-gave-eur140m-and-captured-...

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/ukraine-war-weapons-bl...
Just tried it, doesn't appear to work. It does redirect me to search results on amazon.co.uk, but some of the results are items from third party sellers.
Speaking of guarantees: I wonder how hard it would be to automate backing up your Mastodon account, when you create it on some random server? And what happens when I migrate to new server? Do I have to tell all my friends about server change?
“””

The Covered List (which lists both equipment and services) currently includes communications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology (and their subsidiaries and affiliates).

“””
From the point of view of the EU it is, since it violates basic (EU) rights of (at least) non-US citizens since 2001 :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33751805#33757090
It would have been nice if you did read the article before commenting. You might be right about HN and battery articles, most of the time, but in this case it's quite a credible technology and manufacturer.
You are fools, one and all! This tool's only purpose, is to tag people who use it!

Now they know just who cares about which alternate accounts. They know!

They freaking know, man!

You have all fallen for their ploy. Fools!
> winning a majority of votes seems to me like the opposite of "autocratic power"

No it's not. The two concepts are orthogonal, and treating them as a single quality is a dangerous fallacy. The first is about how someone gets elected to an office - one of the cornerstones of our society is that leaders are elected by the people. The second is what someone in an office can legally do once they are there - another cornerstone is that nobody is above the rule of law. Equating the two effectively throws out the latter.

The distinction is very clear when it comes to a narrowly-scoped office, or even a general executive at a low level like the mayor of a city. It only gets fuzzier as you go up in scale, as those charged with enforcing the law are better poised to not enforce against themselves. But the proper term for that is "corruption".
Ledger wallets connect to your phone over Bluetooth, so they would ostensibly need the FCC to ok them.
Unfortunately, the free countries where they live facilitate their business... Too bad they can't sell to a country that enslaves ethnic minorities anymore :(
This is a good "tell me you only know life in the city, without telling me you've only lived in the city".

To anyone living in a rural area or working in agriculture, conservation, timber/lumber, mining, ranching, hunting, etc, the idea of a finding a random stranger walking across their property would be as alarming as finding that stranger in their living room. The tourists may unintentionally cause damage, disrupt operations or create an unsafe condition even if they were well-meaning. And of course, many people will not be the ideal "leave no trace" expert and many will cause problems- they'll leave litter, they'll gather sticks for firewood, they'll clear areas for campsites, they'll walk on wet grass, they'll leave human waste, they'll leave fire rings with charred remains, they'll pick flowers or fruit, they'll take fossils, they'll carve their names in trees and paint on rocks, etc.

Ethically, if we're going to start taking away people's property rights, I'd rather we force vacant urban housing to be made available to rent before we start forcing farmers to clean up rogue campsites on their fallow fields.
Still can't actually show any actual security issues though right?
> There's a huge taboo in the United States against explicitly pointing out the economic agendas behind foreign wars.

The taboo is a feature, not a bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...
I agree, but the latter can also be a work of art. Typesetting is definitely something that can be done right or wrong, and sometimes to a breathtakingly high standard.
Why does OP ask about people layd off? Are there some big waves of people being fired? I don't live in the US and I didn't read much news recently, so that's why I ask. In my country there aren't many people people in It (if any) layd off.
In the UK the overtaking driver is expected to give ample room and the example diagrams on this highway code guide [0](considered to be a good resource) implies the driver occupies the opposite lane.

Here in Ireland the highway code is almost identical given the history of British influence [1].

Giving 1.5-2m distance would imply use of the opposite lane.

[0] https://highwaycode.org.uk/overtaking/

[1] https://countrysideallianceireland.org/latest-news/changes-t...