<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chownie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chownie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:21:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chownie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chownie in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tons? Hyperbole? Are they teachers or something? That amount of leave in one go is basically unheard of, with the exception of maternity leave I don't know anyone who's been on leave for more than 3 weeks as a single block.<p>This is also taking from that same 5 week leave bucket people have available per annum, if they're taking 4 weeks then they have 5 days to last the remainder of the year. Not that crazy, but I have literally never even met a single person who does this let alone knowing tons.</p>
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<p>You have confused 5 weeks (across a year) for 5 weeks (contiguous), this isn't speciality european confusion it's the regular garden variety.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:20:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019995</link><dc:creator>chownie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chownie in "The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article goes ham on the rule of threes, it does the "not just x, but y" cliche, em-dash with spaces on either side, bold heading-sentence paragraphs, it visibly has hallmarks of AI driven writing.<p>If you personally can't tell then just say that rather than casting aspersions on everyone else by claiming they can't.</p>
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<p>I have noticed the same uptick in bot-like behaviour there. The part I struggle to square is, why so much of it is so useless?<p>It's maybe account laundering, but on any popular post you'll see at least half of the comments are tangential at best. They're not an expression of anything a person would express, like replying with just skull emojis to a random news post, or saying "he really said" with an exact word to word recreation of a throwaway quote from a video. No one ever replies to these posts, they get like 2 upvotes (if that), the platform doesn't reward them at all but they constantly appear in a very <i>artificial</i> looking way.</p>
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<p>> No, it's the ultra authoritarian government stopping you from viewing it.<p>Wish people wouldn't keep repeating this, imgur block the UK because they were caught with GDPR violations.<p>The fact their UK wide IP block came in around the same time as the online safety act is the only reason they can continue to quietly pretend it's the government's fault. <i>Imgur</i> is the reason you can't view imgur, it is not the UK Govt (this time)</p>
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<p>> meanwhile the actual postings for RLHF work keep increasing, and the rates contractors accept keep going up<p>If you knew this for fact you'd have something to corroborate, is this just vibes? Job loss numbers are published, at the very lowest end the estimates are 50k across 2025 in the US alone. I don't see any evidence RLHF is creating livelihoods at the rate AI is destroying them.</p>
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<p>Those who cannot convince, coerce. I don't trust your instinct and it doesn't seem like you can provide any evidence. Shame.</p>
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<p>This system totally works so long as you can take time off work to form a lobbying group -- this does not pass the sniff test to me.<p>Reminder that even in the scenario that constituents 100% support or 100% reject a policy, their opinions hold almost no statistical sway to their elected representative. It's actually worse than a coin flip.<p>It's only when you restrict your constituent demographic to just those in the top 10% of wealth (...like a professor in college for example...) that suddenly their voting decisions align to constituent opinions.<p>Look up "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens", this has been known for some time.</p>
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<p>The masses seem kind of right to be in that mindset, if you consider it from thier point of view for even one second?<p>So, yes RLHF is available right now, for people with specific backgrounds. That RLHF work is temporary and it's going to make hundreds of thousands of people redundant. The RLHF work is actually job-negative, it is work which will later deprive others of a way to make a living.<p>Once that training work dries up, what happens to the people who were doing the job which AI now does? How do they pay rent? How do they feed and clothe themselves? What answers do any AI proponant actually have for this, or is the intention that every person shuts the critical thinking part of their brain off and trusts the computer will come up with something?</p>
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<p>> Wait but under that assumption - LLMs being good enough - wouldn't the maintainer also be able to leverage LLMs to speed up the review?<p>This assumes that AI capable of writing passable code is also capable of a passable review. It also assumes that you save any time by trusting that review, if it missed something wrong then it's often actually more effort to go back and fix than it would've been to just read it yourself the first time.</p>
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<p>Selimenes1 is an 11 day old account which sat silent for 10 days and then all of a sudden starts posting from today, and it's all multiple paragraph responses to threads about AI.<p>I would like to state for the record that the strategy to swap em-dashes into double-hyphens between the generation and posting step is probably not enough transformation to disguise this behaviour. Whoever is running this clawdbot or whatever it is should really be putting that information on the account page.</p>
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<p>If we're talking Thatcher's policies some bangers that people for some reason never bring up, she is also responsible for:<p>* Countless (they literally didn't bother to count) deaths caused because she refused to release accurate guidance during the height of the HIV epidemic, she didn't want the public knowing about sexual acts she disapproved of.<p>* Countless (again) STDs, rape, child abuse and suicide cases because she made it illegal for teachers to inform nor support students about LGBTQ issues. The average LGBTQ teenager who finished school before 2003 received ZERO sexual education catered to their actual needs, and ZERO support for the bullying they would be receiving.<p>I think in general people demonise her rightly, because in 2026 she would be seen as a vicious monster of a person. It is not enough to just be really great for free trade in the current era, we are beyond the point that we have to settle for unhinged backwards politics just for that.</p>
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<p>Around last year I was using some custom plugins for OBS, I haven't used Broadcast Box but I can pick it up to try sometime later.<p>> If that is still too heavy, what could I do to make it better?<p>I haven't picked it up yet to see whether it's complex enough to really need it but it has the same pain point a few priors did--being yet another service which I must configure via the browser and so it has to run an entire frontend for doing that rather than being able to do config files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707246</link><dc:creator>chownie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chownie in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My winning alternative is not to go online and be the mental health equivalent of that survivorship bias fighter plane image. "Just tell yourself to get over it" is advice that can only possibly work because you didn't actually need it.</p>
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<p>> They routinely removed blue checkmarks of people that had naughty opinions<p>This is actually you doing it again, lying-via-hyperbole. This didn't happen routinely (it was high profile enough to get news stories the few times it did) and it was pretty specifically white supremacist groups.<p>> You happened to enjoy the old smell.<p>If you approach conversation with a little more honesty yourself you might not just fall into the assumption other people are partisan.</p>
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<p>Careful, when you ramp the hyperbole up to this point you are essentially just lying.<p>A decade ago you could quickly check the blue mark and know that the account most likely belonged to the person it was labelled for. The people who had a mark when they shoudn't have were by far the minority, and mistakes were the exception.<p>In 2026 a blue checkmark actually means the account is far more likely to be fake, more likely to be lying and more likely to be engagement trolling. There's no guarantee it even belongs to a human person. <i>The platform gives the account holder money if they can convince you to click spam links!</i><p>It's not even <i>close</i> to having the same value now as it did then.</p>
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<p>I'm guessing your issues were not so severe if "keep trying things forever and telling yourself to get over it" is the epiphany which helped you, clinical depression doesn't go away that easily.</p>
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<p>> You immediately feel better as soon as youve finished it and wonder why you always drag your feet before.<p>When this doesn't happen what do you do?</p>
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<p>I am hoping this space improves, I wanted to cast video to watch some stuff with friends last year and the software to accomplish this now is both really heavy (does EVERY part of the process need to run http server?) and convoluted.<p>We ended up just doing a discord screen share, which evaded all the tunnelling/transcoding/etc issues which made us give up on WebRTC.</p>
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<p>It's funny because this isn't even a hypothetical, you're actually just wrong!<p>The majority of people who play competitive matchmade games online didn't get consulted, the developers put anti-cheat in after the audience was already entrenched. The players didn't "decide" anything, Riot games decided it in like 2020 and the players have middling to negative feelings about it. You weren't talking about Riot Games? Well you said "majority of people who play competitive matchmade games online" and that's Riot Games, so yes you were.</p>
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