MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bbor | 2025-11-15 18:33:47+00:00
Traditionally when talking about money as it relates to social class, people refer to an income bracket

I think this article is worth the read for the interesting data it highlights with the arbitrary framework, but it's hard to ignore the elephant in the room: the author's "traditional" experience here excludes a huge part of the economic thought of the last 200 years.

I know this isn't exactly a forum predisposed to Marx, but I would encourage even the most fervent anti-communists to take some time to appreciate his economic work on a scientific level. Wealth is absolutely more important than income when analyzing society, because a certain amount of wealth makes one a "capitalist" (in a literal sense, not an ideological one). Capitalists live a life of luxury without working, and they are explicitly+intentionally tasked with the lions share of social responsibility (or, more pejoratively, social power).

TL;DR: You don't need to be a Marxist to appreciate the utility of labor-based class analysis in our society! Given that the traditional SV goal is to become a capitalist as quickly as possible ("FIRE"), we'd do better to discuss this stuff more frequently...
by abustamam | 2025-11-15 18:34:23+00:00
> they really do make stupid decisions and cannot figure out things correctly

Is this not the doom loop? People are poor because they don't know how to manage their money, and that keeps them poor.

If it were common knowledge that payday loans were a scam / terrible financial decision then there wouldn't be a dozen in every poor neighborhood. Somewhat related is the newfound ability to finance absolutely everything, including your $20 doordash order. It's never been easier for someone to rocket deep into debt because of their lack of financial literacy.

And of course vendors make these terrible decisions look very attractive. In a nation where diabetes and high blood pressure is rampant because fast food ads look so good, it's no wonder that this same nation struggles with financial literacy, because advertisers make these deicions look very good.
by sirreal14 | 2025-11-15 18:35:08+00:00
This Canadian group (Canadian Centre for Child Protection) is awful. They simultaneously receive tax dollars while also being registered as a lobbyist, meaning Canadians are paying taxes to the government to lobby itself. Last year they lobbied in favor of Bill S-210 [0], which would bring Texas-style age verification of porn to Canada. Their latest campaign is to introduce censorship to Tor, they’re quite proud of this campaign [1] where they’re going after Tor in the popular media and attacking the Tor non-profit’s funding structure. [2] Learning that they upload child abuse images to try to then report take down internet services doesn’t surprise me in the least.

[0] https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/SECU/Brief/B... [1] https://protectchildren.ca/en/press-and-media/blog/2025/tor-... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/25/tor-netwo...
by nevertoolate | 2025-11-15 18:35:15+00:00
Total nitpick - you say list is commonly understood to be linearly iterated. I’d expect a list to refer to an ordered sequence - default implementation of access and mutation varies wildly between languages. E.g. java code usually defaults to ArrayList, lisps to cons cells, C++ doubly linked list, etc.

Sql has “tuples” for the rows of a result-set which are neither tuples nor lists in the “general sense” and are of a “record” type - names with values.

So what is a list? Depends on the context.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-15 18:36:09+00:00
Not sure I see the point of these breakdowns. It reads as if written for a school-age child.

In fact kids probably know intuitively exactly where they fall on this scale without having to read a blog, unless their parents are ultra-wealthy but hide it from them really well.

Also putting someone with 300k vs 3 million in the same "bracket" is wild.
by hammock | 2025-11-15 18:36:52+00:00
Liquidity can be broken down further into volume profile and net proceeds.

1) There is a good likelihood that a house and a stock portfolio can both be sold tomorrow, no problem. But you may have to offload the house at “fire sale” prices , vastly lower than the price it would bear if you had it on offer for 30+ days.

2) T-bills and stocks can both be sold tomorrow, but if your stocks have cap gains then the net proceeds after tax are going to be much lower from the sale of stocks than the t-bills.

These are some of the ways “paper gains” and “market price” fundamentally lie to you (irrespective of bubbles etc), that are seldom broken down in too much depth in personal financial discussions.

——

Another dimension that is missing is financial freedom. The author says:

> These wealth levels have existed throughout human history, even though the unit of currency changes.

↑-1 Wealth: Destitute (less than $3) At the bottom-most level, a person can’t even scrape together a few bucks for some food. Societal services aren’t accessible unless they are completely free. Finding a toilet and shower may be difficult. They have no possessions; their shoes and coat are probably decrepit and dirty.

Hard disagree here. An indentured servant in the 17th century, with a negative net worth, might have a very decent standard of living. Nice shoes, coat, bountiful table, etc. But they are not free to leave the land and move somewhere else. They are not free to pick up a different occupation.
by collingreen | 2025-11-15 18:36:59+00:00
This doesn't seem to reflect the whole story or the gparent post about the word choice of "worth" instead of something closer to what you're describing. Trying to twist the point into credit risk also doesn't fit here.

To paraphrase gp, they found it shocking to have the word for a persons value to be the word used when describing how much money they have access to.

I've personally heard many people many times describe money and income as a way to measure either someone's value to society or how much society values them. This is very much in line with the gp - why would wealth have anything to do with your value as a person.
by moshebenpeshe | 2025-11-15 18:38:20+00:00
I started building an open-source project called arkA — a creator-owned video protocol inspired by how RSS works for blogs.

Not a platform, not a startup. Just a neutral standard for video metadata + indexing + storage:

• universal video metadata schema • open index format • static web client for playback • storage-agnostic (IPFS, Arweave, S3, R2, NAS, etc.) • optional HLS/DASH/CMAF extensions • no algorithms, no user tracking, no lock-in

Motivation comes from raising neurodiverse children and seeing how algorithmic platforms overstimulate or distort their development.

arkA is early — looking for feedback from protocol-minded developers.

Repo: https://github.com/baconpantsuppercut/arkA Discussions: https://github.com/baconpantsuppercut/arkA/discussions
by thrance | 2025-11-15 18:38:41+00:00
I think writing an article that starts by "We need to have meaningful discussions about structural class differences, and segmenting the population based on wealth is an obvious starting point" and then not even mention Marx once is strange. This article does not give sufficient motivation for the construction of its complex 14-layers scale: why is it needed and how is it more useful to understand power dynamics in our society than the traditional capital vs labor distinction?
by titzer | 2025-11-15 18:40:20+00:00
You literally see no irony here? You are doubling, tripling down on some idea you won't even vaguely describe to people, but you are so utterly convinced that it's right you don't appear to even admit the possibility that your idle thoughts could be wrong, or just silly. Frankly it sounds delusional and you should question yourself more often. If you're so afraid of being right that you won't even write the idea down to have another person look at it for fear it will somehow set the world on fire because of its rightness, then you should seriously consider talking to a therapist. If that comes across as an ad hominem, it isn't, and it isn't meant as an insult or a dismissal of your idea--you've actually offered no idea. Frankly, you should be a little embarrassed as you've done nothing but grouse about how smart you are, and people react negatively to that. Puffing gets us nowhere except drawing attention to yourself and gave us no new ideas or thoughts to discuss, except your ego. I'd recommend you question yourself more and talk to some people you trust about whatever it is you think you discovered.
by bbor | 2025-11-15 18:40:26+00:00
I see where you're coming from on a methodological level, but

1. Capitalists control our society, and live completely different lives than the rest. A typical CEO is certainly quite privileged, and may even work their way up to true wealth eventually! But at the end of the day, they're still clocking in for at least 40 hours a week to do something they'd rather not do, and their life would be completely upended if they had to stop working for some reason. The difference between Pichai and Bezos dwarfs the difference between Pichai and me for these reasons, IMO.

2. Capitalists directly control ~50% of the capital in the US last time I checked. It makes sense to split any given pie in half IMO, at least to start!
by Bengalilol | 2025-11-15 18:40:46+00:00
> do you guys seriously think that OpenAI spends their time scanning chat logs for ideas?

While I think along the same lines, I still imagine that an agent would/could make the perfect score reading everything and prioritize ideas found in the chat logs. I would even think this should be a great way to find some hidden user feedback (like people complaining to the chatbot about xyz idea).

On the second part, yes: memory on/off sounds definitely like a feature almost every user thought about.
by apparent | 2025-11-15 18:41:07+00:00
Apparently this is the key update:

> Apple’s new implementation of the blood oxygen feature on Apple Watch centers around viewing the results from a test on the iPhone rather than the watch. You start a session using the Blood Oxygen feature on your Apple Watch and the sensors on your Apple Watch will then collect the necessary data.

> The results, however, aren’t viewable on the Apple Watch itself. Instead, you can find them in the Respiratory section of the Health app on your iPhone.

I wonder if this workaround will succeed. It must be annoying for Apple to not display the results on the watch, which is obviously what users would want.
by tempaccount420 | 2025-11-15 18:41:50+00:00
> Give it a JSON schema, inject a '{', and sometimes do a bit of custom parsing on the response

I would hope that this is not what OpenAI/Anthropic do under the hood, because otherwise, what if one of the strings needs a lot of \escapes? Is it also supposed to newer write actual newlines in strings? It's awkward.

The ideal solution would be to have some special tokens like [object_start] [object_end] and [string_start] [string_end].
by gruez | 2025-11-15 18:42:04+00:00
>But I don't think that's what they're talking about. A human can feel bad, genuinely apologize, etc.

For this particular case, I don't see this as anything other than performative. Yes, it might make people feel better because someone is sorry, but it's not going to change anything. No taxi driver is going to look under their car after picking up a passenger, on the off chance there's a cat under.

>And by extension, if they cause more serious harm, they are personally liable and might see the inside of a jail cell. A corporation has no feelings and no one is ever going to prison even if a Waymo car runs over a child.

All of this assumes that Waymo is actually at fault, which isn't the case for this accident. It's certainly something worth considering, but using this accident as a rallying cry is massively disingenuous. It's like having a rape happen and then going on a rant about immigrants being rapists, but when it turned out the suspect wasn't actually an immigrant, falling back to "well the potential of immigrants to be rapists is still a serious problem!".

> how long before the first ex-spouse of a Waymo engineer gets "accidentally" ran over by an autonomous car?

This is even more unhinged, and goes from supposing that Waymo might negligent to straight up murder (ie. intentional killing).
by rectang | 2025-11-15 18:42:46+00:00
Eventually huge wealth inequality impacts quality of life because quality of life is not measured exclusively in cheap toasters.

For starters, look at the proportion of income that goes to rent:

https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/rental-housing-unaffordabi...

> The net effect of this longer history is that renters today spend much more of their incomes on rent than they did in previous generations. The median renter household in 1960 spent less than a fifth of their income on rent. By 2022, housing costs consumed 31 percent of the median renter’s income.

As inequality has increased, life has become more uncertain for those towards the bottom, because the cost of recovering from adverse life events (health crises, unemployment, etc) has become increasingly unmanageable.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-15 18:42:48+00:00
the FBI’s employment eligibility guidelines say all employees must obtain a “Top Secret” clearance in order to work at the agency following a background check.

The furor here is about Dan Bongino, and Nicole Rucker, Kash Patel's assitant

The article goes on to say that FBI employees at the level Bongino and Rucker are working at have "SCI" clearance on top of Top Secret. Back in the 1990s, it was exceptionally difficult to get TS clearance. SCI on top of that must have been even harder.

I guess this is no worse than Jared Kushner getting a waiver to work at the White House during Trump's first term, but holy cow, getting this kind of special treatment really does reinforce a big difference between classes, doesn't it? Any ordinary, non-rich person getting "alerts" on polygraphs would probably be immediately dropped from getting a Top Secret.
by paradox460 | 2025-11-15 18:42:53+00:00
When I was a kid in Los Alamos (relevant later), my school didn't have a de facto school lunch program. So we brought our own lunches. Eventually I learned of a local lady that would come in and make hot lunches, and told my parents about her. She was a local librarian, and charged something like $2 a day. Switched to her for lunch, and got a nice steady diet of things like baked potatoes, chili, lasagna, all homemade, all delicious.

A year after I discovered her, some bright soul in the school board decided to piggyback on the LANL concessions contact, and we started getting Aramark provided lunch. She was told by school she couldn't provide the homemade lunches. The quality of food dropped immediately, with the nadir being Lunchable cheese and crackers on Wednesday (the short day). So back to bag lunch, sandwiches and thermoses full of soup
by refulgentis | 2025-11-15 18:44:18+00:00
"Only in the world of AI algorithm training can you claim that you were torrenting 2,400 porn videos for personal use and have that seem like the lesser of two evils."

What happened to Vice?

Is it a private equity content mill now? (a la newsweek, ex-gawker properties)

(I'm asking because moralizing about torrenting porn is not a very 2010s vice thing, and I lost track of it)
by abustamam | 2025-11-15 18:44:58+00:00
> Should I work a second job and never see my wife? My kids? Should I never have any personal time? Should my entire life revolve around money? Should I kill myself for capitalism?

This part gets me. I once saw someone on Twitter who was like "I was poor, I worked a bazillion hours a week and never saw my wife and kids, just so I could put food on the table! If I could do it, anyone can!"

And one response was just like, "if you need to do that just to make ends meet, the system is obviously broken. If I'm gonna work that hard, there better be a private jet at the end of that road"

Yeah, just because one CAN kill themselves for capitalism, doesn't mean it's a good idea for them to.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-11-15 18:45:09+00:00
What a waste of resources. Instead of passing down generational wealth to their children, boomers are passing down useless junk that does not at all help their kids/grandkids become more financially stable in order to start families of their own. I can understand the distaste that Milenials/GenX/GenZ have for boomers.
by pavlov | 2025-11-15 18:45:11+00:00
I’m not conflating the two. I’m describing my experience encountering a culture that uses “worth” to mean the sum of a person’s material possessions. My own cultural background had primed me to think of these as entirely unrelated concepts.

You can argue it’s just a word, and that’s fine. There’s a whole another philosophical argument about if / how much words affect beliefs and actions.
by Amezarak | 2025-11-15 18:45:46+00:00
It’s pretty demoralizing to see how many people accept at face value a totally anonymous lawsuit backed by Norm Lubow. The plaintiff never made any court appearances and the suit was withdrawn or dismissed each time, in the first case because nobody even lived at the address “she” gave.

Ultimately Lubow recruited a patent lawyer to run the case who also apparently never met her. Then a real lawyer set up a press conference for her. This was the first time any journalist got to meet her in person - and it was the Daily Mail. They reported it was all made up and the case and “Katie Johnson” disappeared forever.

But still it keeps coming up again and again, because people really want to believe their political enemies are evil. I guess it’s no different than the conspiracy theories Clinton was killing people. I just hope we as a country get better.
by defanor | 2025-11-15 18:45:48+00:00
> every single person I know has and actively uses a VPN

I do know people who use no circumvention methods: some are simply not sufficiently familiar with technologies (including older people, who seem to think that something is wrong with their phones), for others it is a mix of regular shying away from technologies and being worried that it draws the government's attention. And then there are those who appear to genuinely support the censorship (or whatever else the government does). I also hear of people switching to local services as the regular ones are blocked.

Anecdotal data is of little use to determine the extent though, and trustworthy statistical data may be hard to come by, but if you somewhat trust the Levada Center, their polls indicate that YouTube's Russian audience halved following the blocking, among other things. [0]

> WireGuard also works just fine - I was able to selfhost and use it without any extra obfuscation.

For both IPsec and WireGuard, I have both heard of the blocks [1] and observed those myself, particularly to servers across the border (which were otherwise available; there is a chance that I misconfigured something back then, but I recall it working fine with local servers). For IPsec, I have also observed blocks within the country (and RKN lifting those on request, confirming an intentional blocking that way, twice; also confirmed that those were for IPsec packets in particular, not any UDP). But possibly it does not affect all the foreign subnets: as with a recent blackout [2], when quite a few were affected, but not all of them.

[0] https://www.levada.ru/2025/04/24/polzovanie-internetom-sotsi...

[1] One of the recently seen public mentions is at https://blog.nommy.moe/blog/exotic-mesh-vpn/

[2] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/490
by xoa | 2025-11-15 18:46:03+00:00
>That's true but there's also a separate element here which is there is an obvious need for aviation and not an obvious need for autonomous vehicles.

At least in America, the need for autonomous vehicles is much, MUCH more obvious than for aviation actually unless you're a 20 year old exclusively city person. In most of the country by area, and at least a good hundred million-ish people by population, being able to have [arbitrary point to point mechanized transportation] is a necessity for normal adult life & work. Right now that equates exclusively to having and being able to drive your own vehicle. There are no other options of any kind unless you are extremely wealthy to the point you can employee an exclusive human brain & body not your own for that role. There are no buses. There are no trains. There are no human driven taxis for that matter. Normal family, friends and neighbors can fill in on an occasional/emergency basis and that's a safety net, but you will be heavily restricted. And tens of millions of people, indeed eventually almost all of us, do not have the ability to safely drive themselves. They are either too young, too old, have some sort of disability preventing it, or have made some poor life choices that nonetheless are compounded upon by this.

Right now it can't be helped, it is what it is, our mechanical technological capability ran ahead of our information processing capability so the human brain and body was called upon to fill in and here we are. The law also reflects that, with far more generosity given to poor and dangerous driving because it's by necessity a quasi-right however much it's called a "privilege". But fully public road autonomous vehicles would change all that. Driving yourself would truly become a hobby practice, not a requirement. Major training could be demanded. If someone has any DUI infractions or the like boom, no more driving privilege. You could be 90 with failing eyesight and reflexes and physically incapable even during the day. And it'd all be ok with everyone still having near identical mobility because they could just fall back on having the car itself take them where they need or want to go on their schedule, same as someone driving today.

That'd be just wildly huge and will only get bigger as America follows the rest of the developed world in terms of aging demographics. This is putting aside all sorts of massive improvements in productivity, lives saved, urban/suburban/rural development, electrification, and probably more we haven't considered. Certainly there are pitfalls to be avoided but it blows my mind anyone could possibly not see all this. The car is one of the most important things in American society and consumes EONS of human time. Literally. An eon is a span of one billion years. Hundreds of millions of people have absolute spent a year or more of their lives behind a steering wheel. It adds up. Anything that shifts that is by definition enormous.
by m417z | 2025-11-15 18:46:38+00:00
When you install or run a program, how do you make sure it doesn't include malware? I assume that you check for the author's record/reputation, and perhaps look at the source code if it's available.

It's similar with Windhawk mods. The GitHub and X profiles are verified to be the profiles of the author, so you can decide whether you trust them. The source code is available, so you can inspect it as well. Mods are single-file and usually short, which makes it easier to review than an average program.
by Too | 2025-11-15 18:46:41+00:00
Accidentally pulling in a unused dependency during development is, if not a purely hypothetical scenario, at least an extreme edge case. During debug, most of the times you already built those 5000000000 lines while trying to reproduce a problem on the original version of the code. Since that didn’t help, you now want to try commenting out one function call. Beep! Unused var.
Show HN: An Apache Beam batch processing clone in Rust
by nhubbard | 2025-11-15 18:46:46+00:00
I've been experimenting with Apache Beam as of late at work and found that it can be slow in Python, and more complicated to use in Java where performance is better.

I decided to experiment with JetBrains' AI Assistant and build an Apache Beam clone in Rust. I appreciate any commentary or feedback!