Just to note: The code block font size varies line by line on iOS Safari. Seems to be a fairly common issue.
Did it force you as well to horizontally scroll slightly (iOS Safari)?
Yeah, but that is to be expected.
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should take this as a sign, and shoot for SWE jobs - given your interest. What you do at work today doesn't mean you can't switch to a related ladder.
Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
Exactly this. The need to make money from a thing may well eliminate the value one derives from the thing, and even add negatives such as stress, etc.
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#113I did it based on my last 1000 HN favorites.
> EU-based 35-ish senior software engineer / budding technical founder. Highly curious polymath, analytical yet reflective. Values autonomy, privacy, and craft. Modestly paid relative to Silicon Valley peers but financially comfortable; weighing entrepreneurial moves. Tracks cognitive health, sleep and ADHD-adjacent issues. Social circle thinning as career matures, prompting deliberate efforts at connection. Politically center-left, pro-innovation with guardrails. Seeks work that blends art, science, and meaning—a “spark” beyond routine coding.
Fairly accurate
"Seeks work that blends art, science, and meaning—a “spark” beyond routine coding."
That part is really accurate.
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#114There’s no guarantee this didn’t base the results on just 1/3 of the contents of your library though, right? How can it be accurate if it’s not comprehensive, due to the widely noted issues with long context? (distraction, confusion, etc)
This is a gap I see often, and I wonder how people are solving it. I’ve seen strategies like using a “file” tool to keep a checklist of items with looping LLM calls, but haven’t applied anything like this personally.
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#115Modern day astrology
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#116I do this to determine if a person I'm talking to online is potentially a troll. I copy a big chunk of their comment and post history into an LLM and ask for a profile. The last few years, I've noticed an uptick in "concern trolls" that pretend to support a group or cause while subtly working to undermine it. LLMs can't make the ultimate judgement call very well, but they can quickly summarize enough information for…
"Concern troll" is usually just at term that people who want zero pushback lob at people who don't agree with them 100% of the time.
That's not at all been the case in my experience.
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#117There’s no guarantee this didn’t base the results on just 1/3 of the contents of your library though, right? How can it be accurate if it’s not comprehensive, due to the widely noted issues with long context? (distraction, confusion, etc) This is a gap I see often, and I wonder how people are solving it. I’ve seen strategies like using a “file” tool to keep a checklist of items with looping LLM calls, but haven’t app…
Maybe we need some kind of "node coverage tool" to reassure us that each node or chunk of the embedding context has been attended to.
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#118Modern day astrology
Yes, beware the Barnum/Forer effect!
> a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people. [0]
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#119The main thing I learned from my pocket export is that 99% of the articles were "unread". Not sure if it would make sense to extrapolate something about myself other than obsessive link hording from this. :D
For many years I've used Pocket to give myself permission to get back to work.
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#120If you take the 13 seconds of processing time and multiply by 350 million (the rough population of the US), you get: ~144 years of GPU time. Obviously, any AI provider can parallelize this and complete it in weeks/days, but it does highlight (for me at least) that LLMs are going to increase the power of large companies. I don't think a startup will be able to afford large-scale profiling systems. For example, imagine…
What will they find out? That we are humans?