MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 47282847 | 2026-03-14 18:53:10+00:00
Some people in this thread seem to come from a place of morality where some “higher truth” exists outside of the sphere of the individual to guide one’s actions, and yet others even seem to weakly disguise their own ethics and beliefs behind a framework of alleged “rationality”, as if there was mathematical precision behind what is the “right” action and which is clearly wrong — and anybody that just doesn’t get it must be either an idiot or clinically insane.

In reality, which actions a person considers ethical and in coherence with their own values is highly individual. I can be friends or colleague with somebody who has a different set of ethics than me. If I were to turn this into a conflict that needs resolution each time it shows, I would set myself up for eternal (life long) battles with my social environment. I prefer not to, and I can find totally valid and consistent arguments for each side. No need to agree to find understanding, and respect our differences.

Typically, many people value belonging over morality: they adapt to whatever morality guarantees their own survival. The need to belong is a fundamental need; we are social animals not made to survive on our own.
by next_xibalba | 2026-03-14 18:54:19+00:00
According to OECD [1], population growth outran capital, housing, and infrastructure. So it's kind of like they didn't have enough "slots" to plug all of these additional people into.

They don't claim this is to only or even primary cause of Canada's weak per-capita GDP growth though. As you would expect, there are many, many causes.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
by mingus88 | 2026-03-14 18:54:42+00:00
It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce them.

And further, scamming people in the context of sex has always been easy because of the shame in admitting you fell for it.

Imagine filing a report that you spent thousands of dollars chatting with some random person, having the chat logs submitted as evidence, etc. it’s similar to why all types of sexual assault are rarely reported
by pixl97 | 2026-03-14 18:54:57+00:00
>No amount of sign up fee works as an alternative.

Simply put money is worth too much, at some point someone will want access to this human audience and offer too much to be resisted.

>It should be noted that falsifying ID is a crime

Lol, no one gives a shit on the internet. People will use stolen ID'S to get accounts. If the network is lucrative enough, governments will provide fake IDs to spread propaganda.
by alwa | 2026-03-14 18:55:12+00:00
“Para-“ means “around” or “beside,” kind of in the sense of “close to.” In this specific context, American psychiatrists Horton and Wohl (1956) introduced the notion of “parasocial interactions” to describe audience members’ intensifying one-sided sensations of relationships with characters as American-style mass media came into its own.

In the mid-2010s social scientists began to use the idea to think about the newly-more-intimate, confessional celebrities, like the Kardashians, as they started to use the socials ‘round the clock [1]. “Healthy” doesn’t seem to be the word they choose.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332747.1956.11...

[1] https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research_all/7/
by maxerickson | 2026-03-14 18:56:27+00:00
I expect that access to inexpensive energy is more important than the population density, typical ambient or "favorable" state laws (this law doesn't seem to really do all that much).

Like the region I live in is cold and has lots of water, but we import energy, might as well build closer to the regional mega cities (where it is still relatively cold, with relatively abundant water). There is some kerfuffle going on in the county here about preventing data centers, and I can't imagine there is even anyone interested in building one.
by amdivia | 2026-03-14 18:56:35+00:00
I'm yet to find a satisfying vim AI integration. I want something that blends into my vim workflow, and does not require me to switch Windows and copy paste or reload my open buffers after AI agents edit my code.

For instance I would love for it to seamlessly melt into a "highlight comments/pseudo code" -> some keybind, then AI would expand those to actual code for instance, or I don't know.. but something not like what we have currently
by phil21 | 2026-03-14 18:56:38+00:00
I used to think Bluetooth was nearly unusable both in audio quality and annoyingness.

Then I moved to the Apple ecosystem including iPhone, Airpods, and MacOS. It Just Works(tm) 99% of the time. The last 1% is a little annoying, and almost always has to do with device switching.

I also haven't had a problem with third party devices for many years now. My car does wireless Carplay just fine, and before that worked nearly as well with Android Auto. Rental cars the past few years even work - although pairing them the first time is roughly as annoying as digging through my bag for USB cable I suppose.

I've lost more pairs of wired earbuds than I have Airpods so far. I thought for sure I'd lose Airpods once every few months due to how often I forget things, but for whatever reason I find them to be easier to keep track of - the case fits perfectly in the "key pocket" in jeans, and it's become third nature to pat that pocket whenever I leave just like I do for keys/phone/wallet.

Not dealing with the annoying cable is great. I get a phone call, and I just grab the earbuds out of the case from my pocket within 10 seconds and I'm good to go.

For at-home PC use it's a different story, although I don't really find myself using my wired high-end cans much anymore. It's either airpods for day to day Zoom calls, or full on high-end speaker setups if I actually want to listen to something or game. Even high end cans cannot hold a candle against moderately decent speakers. The difference is night and day.
by estearum | 2026-03-14 18:56:55+00:00
Yes if you simply assert an upside down reality, this is a good solution.

However, people actually move toward higher COL areas as their income permits them to.

If more income meant people moved away from high COL areas, cities wouldn't exist. We'd have a flat distribution of people across approximately all land with ultra-low COL and ultra-low productivity everywhere.
by Anon1096 | 2026-03-14 18:57:08+00:00
You're failing to explain what dictates the price the market will bear.

> Why don't landlords undercut one another? They literally don't have to. The only outcome is less profit. You'll find a tenant eventually, at any price.

is very obviously not true, otherwise prices right now would be effectively infinite. Why are prices for an apartment in SF only 3k/mo instead of 30k? Surely under your reasoning a landlord could just wait and get a tenant at any price they set?

The answer is always supply and demand. As long as the supply is constrained or demand goes up faster the price will rise. But UBI doesn't change that math at all. (I say this as someone not actually a fan of UBI)
Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
by katspaugh | 2026-03-14 18:57:12+00:00
Look, every journaling app out there wants you to organize things into folders and tags and templates. I just wanted to write something down every day.

So I built this. One note per day. That's the whole deal.

- Can't edit yesterday. What's done is done. Keeps you from fussing over old entries instead of writing today's.

- Year view with dots showing which days you actually wrote. It's a streak chart. Works better than it should.

- No signup required. Opens right up, stores everything locally in your browser. Optional cloud sync if you want it

- E2E encrypted with AES-GCM, zero-knowledge, the whole nine yards.

Tech-wise: React, TypeScript, Vite, Zustand, IndexedDB. Supabase for optional sync. Deployed on Cloudflare. PWA-capable.

The name means "one day" in Japanese (いちにち).

The read-only past turned out to be the thing that actually made me stick with it. Can't waste time perfecting yesterday if yesterday won't let you in.

Live at https://ichinichi.app | Source: https://github.com/katspaugh/ichinichi
Clawmacdo
by kenken6477 | 2026-03-14 18:57:20+00:00
Rust CLI tool for deploying OpenClaw to DigitalOcean, AWS Lightsail, or Tencent Cloud — with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI pre-installed.

Latest Update (March 2026)
Major Refactor Complete: ClawMacdo has been refactored from a monolithic structure into a modular workspace architecture with focused crates for better maintainability, testing, and performance.

New Architecture Benefits
Modular design - Each crate has a single responsibility
Feature flags - Build only what you need (minimal, web-ui, cloud providers)
32% smaller binaries - Optimized builds from 4.6MB → 3.1MB
Faster compilation - Incremental builds only rebuild changed crates
Better testing - Isolated crate testing

https://github.com/kenken64/clawmacdo
by tootie | 2026-03-14 18:57:55+00:00
The article says: US Government surveys are suffering from poor response rates and decreasing budgets so business leaders will have to explore other options to improve reliability.

This thread says: American Empire is dying and the world is a fraud.

Are all of you bots? Is apocalyptic cynicism this widespread? Fact is that most of the world already gets by with a fraction of the economic data we produce. We have enjoyed an incredibly high standard for breadth, depth and quality of data and it's now proving unsustainable. Political manipulation thus far remains a specter to be wary of, but there's no indication any headline numbers are inaccurate. The downstream affects on policy are equally off in the distance maybe never to appear.
by tomrod | 2026-03-14 18:58:15+00:00
My comment was made prior to the parent's edit.Further, familiarity with the subject does not make an informed comment a non-sequitur. Happy reading.

[0] https://sites.pitt.edu/~tgrawski/papers/2001%20What%27s%20Ha...

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29349/w293...

[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2...

[3] https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/245398/1/cesifo1_wp9...

[4] https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/350051528721174623-0050...

[5] https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp10630.pdf

[6] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5140733

[7] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/22/4620

[8] https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2022/06/03/mea...

[9] https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp10630.pdf

[10] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23323/w233...

[11] https://www.jstor.org/stable/26372649

[12] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15199/w151...

[13] https://www.economic-policy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/S...

[14] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1273505

[15] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2...

[16] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10439...
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-14 18:58:17+00:00
Treating ETS as the only footgun misses a few ugly ones, because a bad mailbox backlog or a gen_server chain can turn local slowness into cluster-wide pain before anything actually crashes.

Erlang does make some failure modes less nasty. It also hides latency debt well enough that people thinks the model saved them right up until one overloaded process turns the whole system into a distributed whodunit.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 18:58:37+00:00
The redaction-vs-semantics tradeoff is real and underappreciated. One thing worth considering from a security angle: consistent pseudonymization creates a stable mapping that could itself become an attack surface. If an adversary can infer the mapping (by submitting known entities and observing the tokens), they can reason about the vault contents without direct access. How are you thinking about mapping confidentiality?
by EGG_CREAM | 2026-03-14 18:59:01+00:00
I am a progressive government. The free market has failed to provide a necessary service. So now I pass a law that creates a not for profit contractor that builds houses. It’s not that complicated. We do it with fire departments, police, and many other services already. Free market might have been more efficient theoretically, but when it fails in practice we find another solution.
by dahart | 2026-03-14 18:59:17+00:00
You’d rather have the video code and the tracking code backed into the same code just to save a couple of characters? Why? That would result in a longer code than the video code alone, you would save very few characters. It would not be nicer to look at or functionally any different, and it would obscure the fact that it’s being tracked and prevent people from being able to edit the URL to remove the tracking. I appreciate the fact that I can see that the URL has a tracking ID and that I can edit the URL and remove the tracking ID. I do not want a shorter URL if I lose that ability. What you’re complaining about and wishing for would be MUCH worse than what it currently is.
by jfengel | 2026-03-14 18:59:19+00:00
The other world wars started as conflicts between two countries that expanded to take in their allies.

Right now the West is desperately trying to walk a line of supplying Ukraine with money, weapons, and intelligence, but scrupulously avoiding putting any of their own force at risk. They think that is what will trigger the World War cascade of allies.

Which hasn't happened yet. Either they are right, or they are just prolonging the conflict by failing to step in.
by jaredsohn | 2026-03-14 18:59:29+00:00
I find it great for nutrition and cooking. I used AI to build a food tracker that works at the micronutrient level (LLMs built the code but are mostly not used in the app itself) but many of my prompts are helping me to learn nutrition in general.

I also use it to help me learn to cook more/better so I ask it questions about the how / why and have made a database of recipes that I tweak based on interests / abilities.

A neat thing is you can always ask AI - what can I do to eat or cook better? Then you do it and keep repeating.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-03-14 18:59:48+00:00
Sigh, your supporting evidence is a record of someone saying something, which itself is merely an opinion.. men in glass houses and all that. The interesting thing about my opinion is that while it may not be AS informed as yours, it is notably above the average level of knowledge when it comes to BLS.

<< That's what people are asking you to do.

No. What I am being asked to do is: "Show me a better way, but I only accept a better way that is already utilized by someone else". Not a recipe for a thoughtful exchange of ideas.
by avidiax | 2026-03-14 18:59:51+00:00
JBL Tune is what I have. I wouldn't call them amazing, but the USB-C connection is super useful. You never pair, you never charge, you can't lose them, and even if you did, they are cheap.

The only real downside is lack of ANC, and the wires can transmit some mechanical noise if it rubs on your clothing. I just have a little lapel clip (from my old Etymotics) to stop them moving.
by dundarious | 2026-03-14 19:00:07+00:00
I don't think his AI company is the issue, it's that he desired the effect of a public domain/unlicense, a completely unfettered gift, while he was constrained by the business people to use a copyleft license. However, most people using a copyleft license are using it with (some) intent, and choosing it with (some) explicit preference over public domain/unlicenses, i.e., they are not intending it to be an unconstrained gift, they want a social dynamic of code recycling only in the open and with attribution (each optional and with variations depending on the license, but those are commonly desired constraints).

It is of course fine to have his opinion, but if he thinks most people are in fact like him when they chose a copyleft license, then I think he's projecting rather than observing.
by actionablefiber | 2026-03-14 19:00:36+00:00
It's increasingly a pet theory of mine that the uncontrolled concentration of wealth into the hands of the richest, their subsequent existential ennui, and their disconnect from reality owing to media consolidation and algorithmic content feeds have basically created a world where the superrich are in a "post-game" mentality. There are no further material comforts to obtain. They just want to feel anything at all and the only way to do that is by bringing about the end of the world.
Prompt to make Claude more autonomous in web dev
by louison11 | 2026-03-14 19:01:08+00:00
Tell your Claude to put this in MEMORY.md file for much more autonomous development sessions.

It's made my Claude work 2x easier in the last week. So many times it'd build something then I'd find a bug. Now it finds the bugs on its own and reiterates until it's sure everything works perfectly. It's so simple but it brings it to the next level in terms of autonomy.

Prompt:

## Critical Rules

### Always test before delivering

- NEVER tell the user something works without verifying it yourself first

- After every code change: rebuild, restart server, then test the actual page/API response

- After rebuilding Next.js: ALWAYS restart the server — stale JS chunks from old builds cause client-side errors

- Test through the public URL, not just localhost

- Check both server-side rendering (curl the HTML) AND client-side (verify JS chunks load)

- *USE PLAYWRIGHT FOR UI TESTING* — don't just curl pages. Use Playwright with headless Chrome to actually render pages, click buttons, fill forms, and take screenshots. This is the ONLY way to catch client-side JS errors, broken layouts, and UX issues.

- Screenshots go to `/tmp/playwright-screenshots/` — read them to visually verify the UI

- Do NOT ask the user to test. Find the bugs yourself before delivering.
by NotGMan | 2026-03-14 19:01:08+00:00
Daily reminder that each humans tries to pick the best mate to mate with.

Men try to pick the most beatiful women.

And women try to pick the most "alpha" (rich, high status, and also good looking) men.

Animals do the same.

Therefore each time that you pick a better mate than a subpar mate you are a dirty, dirty Eugenist! Bad you!

Does this mean that biology is eugenic? Bad nature! We must destroy it and replace it with communism!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 19:01:11+00:00
It's not the military that makes it impossible.

It's the incredible level of interwoven left/right, progressive/conservative, urban/rural populations in more or less every state.

More people voted for the current president in CA than in more or less any other state. Yet it is viewed as a "blue" state. The millions of Democratic voters in large cities like Houston or Atlanta may not control their state legislatures, but they are not going to sit by as those legislatures attempt to secede. Rural voters across most states are not going to sit by while their urban-controlled legislatures attempt to secede.

We don't have "peripheral" states here, and we don't have "red or blue" states. We have a mostly urban/rural divide that does not follow state boundaries in any sense at all.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 19:01:15+00:00
This is the deterministic fix that all the heuristic defenses are approximating. Separate token vocabularies for trusted and untrusted context would make the trust boundary architectural rather than probabilistic -- the model literally cannot confuse a retrieved document with a system instruction because they don't share a token space.

The gap between "patented" and "deployed in production inference infrastructure" is the interesting question. Do you know if anyone is actually implementing this in a shipping model or is it still purely research?
by throw0101c | 2026-03-14 19:01:53+00:00
> It is tough, though, for me to fully buy labor statistics when it has become the norm recently for them to be revised down.

There have been revisions since the forever, and this is because they depend in part of surveys, and if companies (and the people with-in them) don't other responding in a timely or accurate manner that's going to throw the sampling off.

> CES estimates are considered preliminary when first published each month because not all respondents report their payroll data by the initial release of employment, hours, and earnings. BLS continues to collect payroll data and revises estimates twice before the annual benchmark update (see benchmark revisions section below).

* https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/ces/presentation.htm#revisions

Post-COVID surveying seems to have become more difficult (and BLS budget cuts haven't helped). This has been a known issue for a while; see Odd Lots episode "Some of America's Most Important Economic Data Is Decaying":

> Gathering official economic data is a huge process in the best of times. But a bunch of different things have now combined to make that process even harder. People aren't responding to surveys like they used to. Survey responses have also become a lot more divided along political lines. And at the same time, the Trump administration wants to cut back on government spending, and the worry is that fewer official resources will make tracking the US economy even harder for statistical departments that were already stretched. Bill Beach was commissioner of labor statistics and head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics during Trump's first presidency and also during President Biden's. On this episode, we talk to him about the importance of official data and why the rails for economic data are deteriorating so quickly.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgpqVixeIw
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-14 19:02:10+00:00
> With a valid measure I would expect a roughly even distribution over time between underestimates and overestimates

This is a valid hypothesis. It’s wrong, and I’ll explain why. But where I judge you is in concluding and spreading that false conclusion from it.

If measurement errors were iid, you’d be correct. But they’re not. They’re well documented for not being so. Earlier survey results are biased by directional response bias inasmuch as the employers with the lease changes respond first. So the earliest releases tend to match whatever was going on before. Then the employers who had to do paperwork respond. And then, finally, someone gets around to calling the folks who never got back. Some of them aren’t around anymore.

So yeah, the directional tendency in revisions is well documented. And for a long time, the early releases were appreciated. But maybe American statistical and media literacy is such that only final releases should be released, which would mean we’d always be working with data 6 months to a year out of date.
by localuser13 | 2026-03-14 19:02:29+00:00
>To pay for a human connection, take someone out for a dinner, and foot the bill.

I'm married now, and never used any parasocial platform OnlyFans or another, but trivializing the problem of young adult loneliness is either ignorant or condescending.

A large fraction of young males don't have anyone to "take out for a dinner", or at least have no idea how to initiate that. You may scoff at that, but I certainly wouldn't know how to do it, and money was not a problem. Paying for human connection, especially online, was tempting.
by apsurd | 2026-03-14 19:02:35+00:00
> And we don’t shed so much ink wondering if digital spreadsheets are a moral good or not because perhaps they robbed the accountant…

Caught my eye. I do think we should wonder and hold intentionality around products, especially digital products, like the spreadsheet. Software is different. It's a limitless resource with limitless instantaneous reach. A good weld is beautiful in its own right, but it's not that.

The spreadsheet in particular changed the way millions of people work. Is it more productive? Is an army of middle-managers orienting humanity through the lens of a literal 2x2cm square a net good?

I say we should moralize on that.