I mean you'll have to trust me when I say I don't - since if I did I would obviously claim that I don't - but I have a strong match with 3 users where I'm in their top 20. But I don't have an alternate HN account as I don't see any need for separate identities for the ideas I hold on HN. Where as if I want nuanced discussion on Reddit without someone trolling my post history and discounting anything I say because 4 years ago I once posted on a subreddit they don't approve of - I do need an alternate Reddit account. So I will admit to having at least one alternate Reddit account.

Moreover - since Nadya is my "primary" pseudonym, I deliberately make it easy for people to find me across social platforms: https://nadyanay.me/identities

Based on this list you can assume I am Nyu, Nadya, NadyaNayme, or Yuno in a number of places. Three of those names are common and so are commonly already taken by the time I create an account somewhere - so it isn't an exact science. For example - the account "yuno" also exists on HN but isn't me. If it were I'd have capitalized the "Y" and this account wouldn't exist.

As far as I have been made aware - nobody has ever identified any of my other personas as belonging to me.

stylometry.net is hot garbage. Zero of the candidates that it identifies as being related to buildsjets are my actual alternate accounts. The DBCooper one is interesting, it sounds like a username I might use, but it's still not me.

Stylometry is probably mostly useful if you have a small number of suspects with a decent-sized public corpus that you want to match against a book/set of blog posts etc. Even then it's just going to be statistical.

FWIW, none of those are even scored even slightly high, so I don't think it is claiming something horribly incorrect.

And his actual alternative accounts may not have enough content to be included in the search.

On the other hand, for me, both of the bolded accounts were indeed my alts.

Yep, like I said, I have very healthy expectations of how to maintain anonymity. Fortunately GPT will largely fix the issue of statistical analysis of variations in writing style between one writer and another. Stylometry been around a long time, as with all security, you have to know you threat model, and adjust accordingly. To my knowledge stylometry never made me less anonymous.

Can you give insight into how that top 10 chart demonstrates anonymity?

Sure, feel free to point out how it makes me less anonymous.

Not saying these are necessarily all yours but the cluster of accounts O__________O, billme, saycheese, wonderous, endlessly, nxzero, v2hle0thslzrav2 are all in each others top 5 or so which is usually a sign of a good match and unless you are saying that you never revealed any identifying info in any of the several hundred comments you have made there is likely some loss of anonymity. If you used a VPN consistently on one account but didn't on one of your earlier accounts then the whole point of the VPN goes right out the window if someone say gets a subpoena.

One of the advantages to being anonymous all the time is nothing is tied to an identity; not an IP address, not a physical address, etc.

I just really didn’t understand why that list was posted and then why you responded to it the way you did. Is it because it identified a common writing style that is shared by some others?

I guess that the rest of the users in the list aren't him / her, or the user accounts that belong to this person are also anonymous?

Assuming your GPT prompts aren't logged

Plenty of open source GPT projects, though if you’re at point of a local machine being trusted, likely have larger issues.

They need to expand their dataset beyond HN, why would I have two HN accounts? Maybe if I had a public persona that mattered... but I mostly want to be anonymous once to avoid issues with my employer.

But if they expanded their dataset to other sites like reddit I would be concerned.

For me, it's that I generally default to public for professionally-related things. But every once in a great while I want to comment on something that is obviously about my present or a past employer if you know who I am. I could certainly just not do that but, given as I did, I didn't want it to be under my regular identity.

Have you had any problems with your new XPS' keyboard? Mine lags and sometimes doesn't register keypresses on around the D key.

I have an XPS13 1080p 9350. The keyboard actually works fine but it is the only weakness of the laptop in my opinion. I don't have any keys that cause problems but the quality of the arrow keys on that laptop is really bad - one reason why I switched to vim keybindings by taking advantage of the TAB key. In terms of keytravel Lenovo laptops and Macbooks <2016 are much better.

> In terms of keytravel Lenovo laptops and Macbooks <2016 are much better.

This is such a sad statement about the quality of today's laptop keyboards. Of the laptops I can remember using the keyboard on the Thinkpad 701C "butterfly" was superior to that on the T20 and T42 in terms of key shape and stroke, and the T42 is superior to the X60. The keyboards on the (work-issued) Macbook Air 2012 and Macbook Pro 2013 are garbage by comparison.

In my more conspiracy-minded moments, I conclude that the overall trend towards garbage keyboards even on high-end machines is long-game industry collusion to force us all, eventually, into pure-touchscreen interfaces.

I glimpse the future every time I use my smartphone, and it is stupid.

Just a guess from someone who doesn't have an XPS but has experienced similar symptoms. Maybe there's some kind of debris or perhaps liquid in between the switch contacts for those keys. In my case, two plastic sheets comprised the contact surfaces and getting them separated and cleaning them with a damp cloth and drying them did the trick.

Not to speak of, but I have friends with earlier models who I think did experience some weirdness. ISTR something about a BIOS update fixing it?

"supported"

I want subqueries.

1. What's the name of that film that came out around the time of Jane's birthday party, the one with that guy in that I always confuse with Adam Sandler?

2. Where can I go for lunch and sit outside in the sunshine?

3. Play me some music that I'd like but nothing too recent.

I'd like to see something I can fit into a door's peephole. Everything I've found so far is too big or too bulky and needs an adaptor.

> paypal can provide a service to whoever they like

In Europe Paypal is a bank, can they do that there too?

I Europe PayPal is not a bank.

But banks can refuse customers in Europe same as Visa or Mastercard can refuse to do business with someone.

"Since July 2007, PayPal has operated across the European Union as a Luxembourg-based bank." -- wikipedia