MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-01 22:51:31+00:00
I was 46 when I was hired and it was my 8th job out of college. I was far from a naive college grad. I went in with a purpose - keep my head down for 4 years through my initial four year package, put it on my resume, build a network and leave for a smaller consulting shop.

In fact the only reason I got my job there was because a recruiter reached out to me about an SDE job on the retail side. There was no way in hell that I was going to sell my big house in the burbs of Atlanta (at the time), uproot my life after Covid and work for Amazon. I knew what I would be getting into.

She then told me about a “permanently remote”,”field by design” role at AWS ProServe. I was like sure why not?
by latexr | 2026-03-01 22:51:46+00:00
> Why does the majority of people just assume people want to communicate

The question is rather why would you assume that is the case? If it were, the majority of people wouldn’t have an issue striking up a conversation with strangers, but they clearly do.

> I have not read the article and never am going to.

Then perhaps refrain from criticising it?

> I do not, ever, want to talk you as a standard and you should never force that to me.

The article isn’t suggesting anyone force anything. Quite the contrary, it advocates for respecting boundaries and even suggests how to communicate your own.
by cgriswald | 2026-03-01 22:51:57+00:00
There absolutely is gaslighting here. I think now that some time has passed you should probably go back and re-read this thread. I can't be clearer about the fact that I accessed these things young without trying and continued to have access if I had wanted it. My comment about looking back as an adult was about even more access that could have been available to me if I had gone looking.

So even if you don't believe I have the capacity to understand that a teenager I know (who was also a child) who was doing drugs, smoking, etc., would absolutely have gotten me what I wanted; it doesn't follow that I didn't have the access I actually had. "We'll never know" is false. I know, because I was there.

As far as minimum age laws not having their intended effect, again, it's easy when you're the one saying what all the arguments are...
by heggenhougen | 2026-03-01 22:52:25+00:00
Independent validation confirms that ROLV running on commodity CPU systems (Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC) outperforms every major accelerator platform without ROLV — including leading GPUs and TPUs — across the entire sparsity spectrum from 0% to 99.999%.

Breakthrough result — March 01 2026
On standard commodity CPUs with ROLV, full Kimi K2.5 serving achieves:

Baseline without ROLV: 0.10 req/s • 74.39 output tok/s • 1,380.71 total tok/s • 1,039.99 s wall time
ROLV Accelerated: 4.37 req/s • 3,253.47 output tok/s • 60,385.79 total tok/s • 23.78 s wall time • 206 ms mean TTFT
Kernel acceleration: 43.7× faster than dense baseline
IMPROVEMENTS WITH ROLV

Requests/sec increase: 43.7× (+4,273.5%)
Output tokens/sec increase: 43.7× (+4,273.5%)
Total tokens/sec increase: 43.7× (+4,273.5%)
Wall time reduction: 43.7× (97.7% faster)
TTFT mean reduction: 43.7× (97.7% faster)
TTFT median reduction: 43.7× (97.7% faster)
End-to-end latency reduction: 43.7× (97.7% faster)
Per-request TPS mean increase: 43.7× (+4,273.5%)
KERNEL ENERGY MEASUREMENTS (for 200 iterations)
Dense baseline: 18,992.76 Joules | ROLV accelerated: 339.77 Joules | Energy saved: 98.2%

Result: Commodity CPUs with ROLV now beat a single NVIDIA B200 GPU without ROLV by a massive margin — while using far less power and zero specialized hardware.
by muzani | 2026-03-01 22:53:05+00:00
In the spirit of Hacker News, a good way to learn about these tags is prompt injection and jailbreaking Claude.

I'd post a link, but unfortunately many are highly NSFW. Just search for "Claude jailbreak" on reddit or something.

You'll start to see how Claude really thinks. They'll put things in <ethic_reminders>, <cyber_warning> or <ip_reminder>. You could actually even snip these off in an API, overwrite them, or if your prompt-fu is good, convince Claude that these tags are prompt injections. It's also interesting noting how jailbreaking is easier on thinking mode because the jailbreaking prompts use these as evidence that Claude is trying to jailbreak itself.

There's a lot of speculation in this thread, but go and have a spar with Claude instead.
by yokoprime | 2026-03-01 22:53:08+00:00
I speak to everyone when in "work mode". Its part of the job. I smalltalk, im curious, i listen. When off work I dont really want to talk to people at all (outside "my" people, i.e. my family and small group of friends). If someone strikes up a conversation I will of course engage, but I reach a threshold where I run out of gas and have to excuse myself.
by grayhatter | 2026-03-01 22:53:44+00:00
> "I don't want to bother this person".

> How do you deal with that?

You teach yourself to say no, to the things you don't want to do.

I considered leaving just that pithy reply, because that's really it. But some of the extra context; It's not a bother to ask someone to hold the door they're already going through because your hands are full. Starting a conversation is about as intrusive as that. The vast majority of people don't mind making some small talk, and ontop of that, the majority can make an excuse if they don't have time. You only assume they can't politely decline, because you can't. Once you learn to say no thanks, politely, but explicitly and directly. You'll actually understand and expect others to return the favor.

That's a much more fair way to interact with people too.
by chrysoprace | 2026-03-01 22:54:15+00:00
I think terminal workflows are intimidating for a lot of people, because the discoverability is lower than GUIs. You can't necessarily intuit how a CLI works, you have to read the documentation or watch a tutorial, which my 10 years in the IT industry has taught me a big barrier even for really experienced SWEs. The new coding TUIs are a more gentle introduction to that.
by snickerbockers | 2026-03-01 22:54:27+00:00
>If the ambulance was in a hurry

i believe they were.

>they could have rammed the Waymo

Not an expert but i think the goal is to get the ambulance and its occupants to a specific location and then make an egress to a nearby medical facility? Also I'm not confident ambulances are designed to execute the pit maneuver.

>I am sure Google wouldn't have sued for damages.

Oh well if that's the case i guess it's all alright.

>First responders can put the vehicle into a manual mode to move it if needed.

I really feel like you're missing the point of why you're supposed to pull over and yield right-of-way for emergency vehicles.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-01 22:54:28+00:00
On the PC, my introduction to systems programming and Borland ecosystem, after some months of GW-BASIC, was Turbo BASIC.

Already a great experience with a structured compiled BASIC in 1991, and what made me look into other Borland languages.

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basi...

Nowadays it lives on as PowerBASIC.

I don't get the downplay of Delphi or C++ Builder, other that they aren't cool.
by nobulexdev | 2026-03-01 22:54:39+00:00
Fair catch. Those are internal notes from all of my earlier iterations of the project. I should have cleaned the docs folder before pushing to a new repo. Removing them now.
On the age thing: those notes have been written when I was just planning to let the work stand on its own. I had decided to include it because I figured being upfront is better than people finding out later and feeling misled. Either way, the code is the code — 134K lines, 6,115 tests, all on npm. Judge it on that.
by orliesaurus | 2026-03-01 22:54:52+00:00
Someone on Austin's subreddit said the following and I think it's the correct take/lens:

> I might get downvoted for expressing my feelings but whatever. I hate seeing my coworkers being ridiculed for simply doing the right thing and moving on with their work. I’ve been abused and called an idiot on here for stating our reality. I’m a paramedic. We will NOT attempt to move or hit a vehicle, person, or object to go to a call or transport a patient. Especially if there’s an option for an alternate route. People cut us off, don’t move, flick us off, and generally don’t regard us even with our lights and sirens on. Is it frustrating? Absolutely. Do we like it? Hell no. But getting in trouble or under investigation for a collision or possibly causing unnecessary harm simply isn’t worth it. I know this was high profile, tragic, and absolutely dire. But you have to remember, we live this everyday and this is not the first time a vehicle, object, or person has gotten in this paramedic or EMTs way and it won’t be the last. Don’t even get me started on the amount of verbal abuse and assaults we deal with. This is a very hard job and we are under constant scrutiny but I promise you we try and do our very best every day. So please do us a favor next time you see us out on the streets and give us some grace.
by love2read | 2026-03-01 22:55:33+00:00
This answer makes sense if you know that LLMs have layers, if you don't this answer is not super informative.

If I were to describe this to a nontechnical person, I would say:

LLMs are big stacks of layers of "understanders" that each teach the next guy something.

Imagine you are making a large language model that has 4 layers. Each layer will talk to it's immediate neighbor.

The first layer will get the bare minimum, in the LLM's of today, that's groups of letters that are common to come up together, called "tokens". This layer will try to derive a bit of meaning to tell the next layer, such as grouping of letters into words.

The next layer may be a little bit more semantic, for example interpreting that the word "hot" immediately followed by the word "dog" maps to a phrase "hot dog".

The layer after that, becoming a bit more intelligent given it's predecessors have already had some chances at smaller interpretations may now try to group words into bigger blobs, such as "i want a hot dog" as one combined phrase rather than a set of separated concepts.

The final layer may do something even more intelligent afterward, like realize that this is a quote in a book.

The point is that each layer tries to add a little meaning for the next layer.

I want to stress this: the layers do not actually correspond to specific concepts the way I just expressed, the point is that each layer adds a bit more "semantic meaning" for the next layer.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-01 22:55:50+00:00
You don't need to adjust the weights. Just have it query a vector database of current ad campaigns to find a PROMPT.md to inject when the context is relevant. e.g. user is talking about camping -> lookup ad campaign documents relevant to camping (e.g. with embeddings) -> inject prompt about the campaign. This is all basically obvious if you've been using SKILL.md for agents at work.
by antidamage | 2026-03-01 22:56:12+00:00
It's very familiar. My father was abusive towards me and so I tried to disturb him as little as possible. He was extremely supportive of my younger brother, however, and we both turned out very differently. He turns to my parents constantly for help (and receives it) and the few times I have I've only been brushed off, and so I've always done everything myself, even if it meant spending long periods living in poverty with no footholds upward.

Years later I'm nearly 50 and have transitioned to female. My now divorced mother decided she likes having a daughter and so suddenly all of this support has materialised and with presumably less time to live the life I missed out on I'm making a conscious choice to start being a little dependent on it and shortcut some things that would have taken longer otherwise.

It's hard to describe but it feels like I'm living a more normal, less marginalised life now. I definitely have more friends, where previously I chose to avoid having any because I felt like having friends meant sharing burdens that were mine alone to carry.

I also see a lot of very similar behaviour in the wider trans community where most people's axis of behaviour revolves around some facet of not having support. We don't all handle it in a healthy way, but I now do my best to help my community find stability and adjust their expectations to having better outcomes.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-01 22:57:13+00:00
> None of the leading interpretations of quantum theory are very convincing. They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or that a mysterious process causes quantumness to spontaneously collapse.

Actually, the "many worlds" "interpretation", simply treats the equations as meaning what they say.

And it is misnamed. The field equations describe a highly interconnected "web universe" of "tangles" (what I call spans of entangled states) and "spangles", disjoint versions of particles. Basically, union and intersection over versions where laws of conservation are maintained.

Buy including all consistent versions, no external information is required by the theory. It is informationally complete. An actual explanation.

There is no additional information needed to explain quantum "collapse" because it is explained by the fast bifurcation of disjoint tangles when lots of particles interact in an unorganized manner. It is thermodynamics being thermodynamics.

Anyone attempting to invent a mechanism for "collapse" is like someone trying to explain why the spherical Earth appears "flat" by introducing additional speculative theories. Despite the spherical world theory already explaining why it looks flat locally.

And the only reason to not take the field equations as a plain reading, is the result is "too big" for someone's imagination.

Bluntly: The total field equations preserve information - that is the plain implication for having both unions (tangles) and intersections (spangles) of alternate versions.

Anything else requires magical information to choose collapses, in order to explain something already explained. In other words, it requires dressed up voodoo. And by "re-complicating", uh, "re-explaining" the already explained, introduces a ridiculous new puzzle. Where does that information come from? Saying it "just happens" is like saying someone's version of a creator "just is". It is a code for "Don't Ask Questions".
by mlyle | 2026-03-01 22:57:51+00:00
It looks almost entirely envisioned and implemented by AI.

An agent signing a covenant doesn't do anything. You're not going to enforce a contract against it, and there's not some kind of non-repudiation problem to solve.

Enforcing behavioral covenants or boundaries is inherent to how you make things safe. But how do you really do it for anything that matters? How do you make sure that an agent isn't discriminating based on race or other factors?

The whole reason you're using an LLM is because you're doing something either:

A) at very low scale, at which case it's hard to capture sufficient covenants cost-efficiently

or B) with very great complexity, where the behavior you want is hard to encapsulate in code-- in which case meaningful enforcement of the complex covenants that may result is hard.

Indeed, if you could just write code to do it, you'd just write code to do it.

I'm glad you're interested in these issues and playing with them. I'll leave you with one last thought: 134 KSLOC is a bug, not a feature. Some software systems that need to be huge, but for software systems that need to be trusted-- small, auditable, and understandable to humans (and agents) is the key thing you're looking for. Could you build some kind of small trustable core that solves a simple problem in an understandable way?
by phlakaton | 2026-03-01 22:58:18+00:00
HTML is far loosier-goosier in its syntax than XML allows. There was an attempt to nail its syntax down in the pre-HTML 5 days; that's XHTML. When HTML 5 pivoted away from that, that spelled the end of these two things ever coming together.

Really, I think you can trace a lot of the "XML is spooky old technology" mindset to the release of HTML 5. That was when XML stopped being directly relevant to the web, though of course it still lives on in many other domains and legacy web apps.
by eevmanu | 2026-03-01 22:58:42+00:00
Would you mind sharing or pointing me to any links that explain how you've set up Zig to work effectively with LLMs using agentic features?

I was thinking that downloading the full official documentation, separated by sections inside the repository someone is working on with Zig, could be useful, but maybe there are more optimal ways to approach this.

Thanks.
by pooper | 2026-03-01 22:59:34+00:00
For those on iPhones or respectable mobile network operators, not everyone has as good of an experience as you do.

For people who buy subsidized Android-based phones from some carriers such as Metro by T-Mobile USA, they either come with bloatware baked in or they download the bloatware when you first activate the device or something like that.

These things are fairly easy to disable if you know what you are doing but if you don't know what you are doing, I can imagine people will simply put up with ads showing up every time you pick up the phone. It can get annoying VERY quickly.
by hs586 | 2026-03-01 22:59:54+00:00
One of my best stranger conversations talking to a “Big Issue” seller outside a supermarket. As I understand, they’re (close to) homeless usually [1].

When I asked about him, he mentioned he’s Irish but moved on to tell me about his plans. How he was saving to have a farm, planned what to grow, animals - 15m of quite precise description. His story was his future.

This was striking for me - when asked most people tell you about their past, where they’re coming from. It was the first time I realised that where we’re going should be a bigger part of our story and identity.

I try to keep that conversation in mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Issue
by unanimous | 2026-03-01 23:00:35+00:00
Out of curiosity, I tried running `~True` in a Python 3.14.2 repl and got this warning:

>>> ~True

<python-input-1>:1: DeprecationWarning: Bitwise inversion '~' on bool is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16. This returns the bitwise inversion of the underlying int object and is usually not what you expect from negating a bool. Use the 'not' operator for boolean negation or ~int(x) if you really want the bitwise inversion of the underlying int.

-2
by zephen | 2026-03-01 23:00:40+00:00
> owners sued firemen for pulling water hoses through their cars after breaking the windows - the law was not allowing it even if the line through the car was the only option.

I'll bet anything you have no citation for this.

Sovereign immunity and necessity combine to make sure that firefighters and cops can do whatever the fuck is required.

The aftermath is even more brutal. You will receive multiple tickets for this, you will receive a bill for damages to the hose they had to thread through your windows (or to the police car that rammed you out of the way), and your car insurance will point to a clause in their policy that says that you are personally on the hook for all of this.
by theshackleford | 2026-03-01 23:01:16+00:00
> Wow, that website is impressively cpu-intensive. Like, I'm on a beefy desktop processor (linux + firefox if it matters), and it's chewing through over 100% cpu and not keeping up. Just having the tab open causes my CPU fans to spin up to max.

No such issue on my Macbook in either Firefox or Chrome.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-01 23:01:29+00:00
I'll have to give it another try the next time I play around with Zig. I decided to let all the big changes with IO and what not play out before diving back in lol.

I've been slow on the agent pickup. The ethical issues really bother me (LLMs in general), though it's clear I'm not gonna have a choice in this industry so I've been caving recently. The persistent narrative that agents can build entire complex software systems is also irritating, because that clearly doesn't seem to align with reality.
by Telaneo | 2026-03-01 23:02:15+00:00
The golden rule disagrees.

I am bothered by random people wanting to talk to me -> Randomly talking to other people would bother them -> Bothering people is rude -> Randomly talking to people is rude.

Hence why the platinum rule is better. Once you know that other people (apparently!) aren't bothered by randomly striking up a conversation, you can adjust your actions accordingly.
by hephaes7us | 2026-03-01 23:02:35+00:00
It's getting less silly every month! So many people in that boat only use the web browser anyway.

With a well-supported hardware configuration and a working web browser, even a non-techie may have a more stable experience than they would with Windows.

That has as much to do with the decline of Windows as with the ascent of desktop Linux, but still.
by goatlover | 2026-03-01 23:02:42+00:00
The article asks the same question in the last part, wondering whether it's just randomly selected. MWI proponents have always argued decoherence leads to the entire world being put into superposition as decoherence just spreads entanglement to the environment. The math never says entanglement destroys superposition beyond a certain point of complexity (many different entangled systems forming the environment).

The author does say the approach is a combination of Copenhagen and MWI, removing the outlandish parts of both. Seems to preserve the randomness of the former though.
by afavour | 2026-03-01 23:03:34+00:00
That’s fair but I think it’s kind of orthogonal to the original point.

As is already the case in cities with robust public transit systems you’d need to make sure you’re applying the right incentives (i.e. taxes and charges) to make sure people are making decisions that benefit everyone. That doesn’t alter the possibility of self driving cars being much safer than human driven ones.
by mh2266 | 2026-03-01 23:03:53+00:00
I live in NYC. Maybe this is different in the suburbs. Nearly 100% of the people that approach me are trying to get something from me. Scam me, get me to sign something I don't want to sign, get me to donate my money to save the dogs/children/etc.

If someone on the street tries to talk to me, I try to avoid even looking at them or acknowledging them. They'll use that as an opening. Just keep walking.
by majormajor | 2026-03-01 23:04:17+00:00
why is the throttle the issue and not just the 45MPH? would it be better with pedals and people peddling along in some only-would-ever-make-sense-on-an-ebike gear, but still going 45?

the problem is recklessnesss and speed, restrict and enforce those things, don't just let the bike makers shift the product 10% and re-create exactly the same issue, but "legally"
by pigbearpig | 2026-03-01 23:04:25+00:00
Give me a break. The problem is the Waymo that is blocking a lane sideways and is not pulling forward out of the way of the ambulance, a move that even the worst human drivers would likely know to do.

It does no good to pretend there aren't problems with self-driving cars or make excuses.

It's not about the other entities.