The fact that terms like Aho-Corasick, PLDI, Go, etc. are properly capitalized, including if they begin sentences, but otherwise sentences are uncapitalized, makes me think it's an explicit LLM instruction "don't capitalize the start of sentences" rather than writing style.
ChatGPT also loves Aho-Corasick and seems to overuse it as an optimization fall back idea. ChatGPT has suggested the algorithm to me but the code ended up slowing down a lot.
No, this is just what that writing style looks like. Names and acronyms are usually capitalized normally.
I keep being surprised by the magnitude of the disconnect between this place and the other circles of hell. I'd have thought the Venn diagram would have a lot more overlap.
Oh the venn diagram might be big, the HN population just has a lot of variance I think, and is less of a community per se. I don't doubt what you're saying, though in the grand scheme of things, I think the "too lazy to hit shift" population dwarfs any of these groups.
Yeah, I can agree with the variance. Except that the "too lazy to hit shift" community is not something I would ever confuse with people writing long form articles about their regex engine research that they'll be presenting at PLDI.
The confusion might be understandable for people who have never encountered this style before, but that's still a very uncharitable take about an otherwise pretty interesting article.
Funnily, this was precisely the question I had after posting this (and the topic of an LLM disagreement discussed in another thread). Turns out not, but sibling comment is another confounding factor.
Having been reading generated comments almost daily for over three years now, I have a pretty good sense of it. There's a bunch of signals: how new the account is; how the comments look visually (the capitalization and layout of the paragraphs, particularly when all of one user's comments are displayed in a list). Em-dashes and short, emphatic sentences, make it more obvious of course.
There are cases that are more borderline; usually when someone has used a translation service or has used an LLM to polish up a comment they wrote themselves. For these ones there's less certainty, and whilst we discourage them, we're not as rigid in our aversion to them or as eager to ban accounts that do it.
But ones that are entirely generated are still pretty easy to spot, even just from visual appearance.
Sure - though the tuned behaviour around turning the innate immune system up and down is probably dominated by the more recent part of that long history.
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