MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matt343 | 2026-03-14 18:05:19+00:00
The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of capitalism is to enrich the capital owning class, people like Peter Thiel, who will do anything to gain power over the working class. The civil war is a great example of how voting in a leader who is perceived as being a danger to the owning class lead to an attempt to destroy the democracic process that threatened their power. It didn't work that time, but looks at Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Chile, Iran, etc to see what happens when a democracy tries to oppose capital. This belief that people who gained their position by exploiting the deaths of millions of people will peacefully give up that power is naive, and American propaganda from both parties pushes it to silence any real chance at change.
by ianhorn | 2026-03-14 18:05:52+00:00
Two things come to mind:

- Whatever you measure gets optimized.

- When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

I have no idea which is more relevant here. Looking at the first one, my whole life people have been complaining that the measures that get touted in political discourse don't reflect quality of life. So if we stop looking at those as measures because they cease to be reliable, maybe they stop getting myopically optimized and we can get less myopic about what we prioritize in aggregate.

But looking at the second one, I've also wondered whether those measures really do reflect typical quality of life, and it's just that the people doing worse than typical will always see the measure as the wrong measure. So then we'd be losing the ability to prioritize actually useful things.

In my heart though, I kinda lean towards the first one. I've been in enough orgs where "the dashboard goes up" is incentivized to the detriment of the unmeasurable things that actually matter to the org.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-14 18:06:36+00:00
I'm even shocked when I hear people are using it for better search. I've found it to be terrible for search, and constantly fabricating things. It's distilled everything that is bad about new Google, where it prefers popular results to accurate ones - but with actual fabrication that becomes infinitely worse.

I literally ask it to look for something, and immediately afterwards (before reading the long-winded result), ask it if the results were real or fabricated. It's just how the cost-benefit analysis works out, and I didn't learn until a ton of times reading the results, getting suspicious of a few, doing websearches to verify them, not finding them, then coming back to ask if they were real.

"Sorry! It's absolutely fair that you called me out on that... It's important that you hold me to a high standard... You're absolutely right..."

I'm finding it valuable for compressing all of the docs in the world, so I don't have to look up what a function does or how to accomplish something in some framework or CLI. I find it capable of writing code if I move an inch at a time; build copious verbose debugging output that I feed back into it every time it screws up; and when it goes into a stupid loop being stupid, just debugging by hand before wasting hours trying to get it to see something that it doesn't want to see.
by nine_k | 2026-03-14 18:07:27+00:00
This is footage of a drone strike against personnel in a building from July 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wbb1yh/ua_su...

This apparently has more footage from 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/UADroneArchive/comments/11nxhh4/ua_...
by jancsika | 2026-03-14 18:07:29+00:00
> so comments are just dangerous as they would without doubt evolve into a system of annotations -- an additional layer of communication which would then not be standardized at all and which then would grow into a wild west of nonstandard features and compatibility workarounds

IIRC Douglas Crockford explicitly stated that he saw people initially using comments for a purpose like ad hoc preprocessor directives.
by tim-projects | 2026-03-14 18:07:38+00:00
I've been working on an RSS web app that solves this issue. Works offline, syncs across devices.

It works but trying to make something that scales to a lot of users is technically really hard.

Initially it was client only, but you can't really do that with rss due to cors issues. You have to proxy the feed downloads..

Anyway, I have a working prototype I'm just trying to fix bugs now so I can start showing it to people. Taken me a year almost to get this far
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-14 18:08:10+00:00
I have no idea what you're talking about or why you think I got any information from asking Claude anything. The telemetry comment was about software in general, Photoshop etc., since the person I was replying to was asking what telemetry could be for if not A/B tests. That things are injected into your prompt before sending it to their servers is trivially verified by inspecting your own outgoing packets.
by culi | 2026-03-14 18:08:21+00:00
I agree. The super rich have been in "prepper" mode for a long time now

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

> They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
by psychoslave | 2026-03-14 18:08:47+00:00
> They're going to be a decade behind if they keep it up.

42 European here.

I've heard my whole adult life that Europe is ten years behind USA.

That doesn't feel that bad though. Being bleeding edge comes with the thrill of the avant garde prestige. But it does also mean you take the downsides of navigating the unexplored unknown in your face with no one to help with turn key solution when it happens.

If it means 10 years buffer on big social seismic troubles, that doesn't sound too bad if there is indeed an efficient shelve. That's not necessarily the case on every matter though, like global climate change is going to impact everyone, no matter the political isolation, and if a direct military aggression happens, it can be hurtful no matter how prepared is the society.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-03-14 18:08:50+00:00
> yet neither "side" makes any proposal for an apolitical fair approach for redistricting...

Last week there was mention here of a proposal to fix the apportionment of House seats so that they are not capped at 435.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332108

This proposal would make gerrymandering much harder.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-14 18:09:11+00:00
GDP is a measure of economic activity, and goes up when people are forced to rebuild after natural disasters etc.

%Debt to GDP excluding military pay and allowances indicates how your grandchildren will live. Above >130% they will be poor, and remain poor indefinitely. You may disagree, but it is not like anyone wants this to happen.

The economic conservatives were compromised, and went insane =3
by undersuit | 2026-03-14 18:09:27+00:00
> Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM"

I'm an advocate of sticking a $5 16Gb Optane stick from eBay on a $10 M.2 to PCIe 1x adapter from eBay. Set it up as swap in Windows or Linux. Or pay $200 for a 16GB stick of DDR5.
by joecool1029 | 2026-03-14 18:09:30+00:00
> the catting issue might be more an implementation of bzip program problem than algorithm (it could expect an array of compressed files). that would only be impossible if the program cannot reason about the length of data from file header, which again is technically not something about compression algo but rather file format its carried through.

Long comment to just say: ‘I have no idea about what I’m writing about’

These compression algorithms do not have anything to do with filesystem structure. Anyway the reason you can’t cat together parts of bzip2 but you can with zstd (and gzip) is because zstd does everything in frames and everything in those frames can be decompressed separately (so you can seek and decompress parts). Bzip2 doesn’t do that.

So like, another place bzip2 sucks ass is working with large archives because you need to seek the entire archive before you can decompress it and it makes situations without parity data way more likely to cause dataloss of the whole archive. Really, don’t use it unless you have a super specific use case and know the tradeoffs, for the average person it was great when we would spend the time compressing to save the time sending over dialup.
by somat | 2026-03-14 18:09:38+00:00
I still enjoy building my pc's, But I put them in 4u server chassis. they are built better and have sane airflow. I have not been 13 for a long time and it is tricky to find non rgb parts anymore. No windows on my case but it still looks like someone is holding a rave through the gaps. sigh.

For free. My main rant about desktop vs server grade motherboards. For a desktop system you really want a desktop grade motherboard. server grade is expensive, takes forever to post, the compute tends toward slow and wide vs desktop's fast and tall, and the parts(ram, cpu) compatability tends to be much more picky. My grip is why is the desktop mb airflow so bad. In a server board everything is aligned front to back. pcie, ram, cpu cooler are all aligned the same way. in a desktop board the pcie goes front to back, the ram goes top to bottom. and toss a coin for which way a cpu cooler will fit.
by Twey | 2026-03-14 18:10:46+00:00
Sure, if we want to shift topic from directness to density, but that's not a cultural difference either: all (spoken) languages famously transmit at about 39 bits per second [1]. Specific idioms, especially newer ones, might be a bit more or less information-dense, but there will always be others that make up for it. And if an idiom falls too far below the 39 B/s rate it'll get worn down over time to something shorter.

If you are shortening your communication you are doing it by reducing the information content. In some cultures it's acceptable to spend longer buying bread than in others, so you might take the time to exchange more information with the baker. But that is a (to them, if not to you) valuable interaction that they have chosen to have, filled with information whose exchange is (to them) just as important as the price of bread.

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
by estearum | 2026-03-14 18:11:04+00:00
Doesn't matter at all how much it is. It'll be (almost entirely or entirely) eaten by landlords.

I am a landlord.

I am setting prices for renewal.

I have come to learn that 100% of my possible customer base now has $200/mo more to spend.

I raise prices $200/mo with absolute certainty that I will find a renter.

Congrats, mission accomplished.
by kettlecorn | 2026-03-14 18:11:50+00:00
I'm not a fan of this "us vs. them" framing.

Arguably the greatest threats to the US's future is ourselves. If we fundamentally corrupt who we are as a nation we've already lost before the competition with rivals has even begun.

Our significant tech advances could become tools of our own downfall if they violate our values or undermine the social mobility of the American dream.

Frankly I think the people pushing this competitive mindset (particularly against the EU) are trying to mislead otherwise intelligent builder-sorts to not pay attention to the looting & destruction of American values.
by OutOfHere | 2026-03-14 18:11:51+00:00
Those deploying AI where it can affect individuals must ensure that the UI always prominently shows the failure rate.

For example, if a person's face is matched to a ID, the UI must show not just the match percentage (which is very misleading) but also contextually the odds of getting it wrong. For example, if there are 7 IDs whose face is at least a 95% feature match to the thief, the odds of getting it wrong are at least 6 out of 7, meaning the chances of an accurate classification is just 14% at best!
by lkbm | 2026-03-14 18:12:09+00:00
I don't know why I'd trust TikToks when I also shop at multiple grocery stores every week.

Maybe there are a few outliers, but food inflation is definitely nowhere near 75=100+% YoY. The official price inflation numbers are much closer to what I've personally observed irl than what you see in viral TikToks.

TikToks get attention for being outlandish/exceptional, not for being an accurate representation of the norm.
by jeffbee | 2026-03-14 18:12:13+00:00
Your comment is broadly misleading. In fact, I would say that "shadow stats" guys like you have enabled the destruction of the system by creating the space to cast doubt on the valid methods used by BLS. BLS unemployment metrics have a valid basis and where they differ from Eurostat those differences are minor and with rational basis (such as 16 vs. 15 year old starting age).
by fl0ki | 2026-03-14 18:12:17+00:00
My best professional relationships are between people who are confident enough to take direct feedback and appreciate it rather than resent it.

However, my worst professional relationships are with people who will rebuke your feedback whether you Crocker it or not. If you're direct, they'll say you should have been more diplomatic about it, but if you're diplomatic, they'll say you're being dishonest and should have been direct. There is no right way to approach it, these people will always find a way to criticize the delivery, and to delegitimize the feedback because of it.
by estearum | 2026-03-14 18:12:21+00:00
Because the subsidies aren't on top of base income?

The subsidy isn't the problem per se, it's the net increase in income.

It is obviously self-evident everywhere that high incomes create high cost of living, which can be traced through higher costs all the way down to the land rents (the rent someone is willing to pay to have market access to the high local incomes).
by vladdoster | 2026-03-14 18:12:58+00:00
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by pas | 2026-03-14 18:13:10+00:00
FYI everyone can check the model used for hedonic adjustment for fridges

style is important, because stylish things are more in demand (that's why they are considered stylish), and the abstract property of style by definition is a "value quality" that doesn't affect the temperature keeping properties, whereas things like are there drawers or shelves does (as cold air is kept better by drawers - but of course they are less convenient)

that said, the style here seems to be simply a catch-all term for the organization of the inside, and the access methods (eg. doors).

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/fridges.htm

... interestingly there's no parameter for noise or energy efficiency. (I was happy to pay a bit more for a really quiet one.)
by fastforwardius | 2026-03-14 18:13:20+00:00
It's an interesting question.

Years of school (reading, calculus etc) to get to the point of learning basics of set theory.
One day to learn basic SQL based on understanding the set theory.
Maybe few weeks of using SQL at work for ad hoc queries to be proficient enough (the query itself wasn't really complex).

For the domain itself I was consulting experts to see what matters.

I'm not sure that time it would take to know what to prompt and verify the results is much different.

Fun fact - management decided that SQL solution wasn't enerprisely enough so they hired external consultants to build a system doing essentialy that but in Java + formed an 8 people internal team to guide them. I heard they finished 2 years later with a lot of manual matching.
by kittikitti | 2026-03-14 18:13:55+00:00
People in Florida, when I tell them about my background working with data, often scoff and claim that the data can be changed to spread lies. They have a government who arrested a data scientist when she published information about Coronavirus. This is prevalent across all of America, especially after DOGE, who encourage fraud so the data supports their political interests.

I think the reliability problem is very bad. It's not just that the US government is encouraging fraud, it's also that the average American hates AI and data science. Usually, the public would prefer reliable data, but in this case, Americans seem to prefer corruption just to spite the AI.

We're certainly living in a post-truth country. By vilifying higher education, the assumption that Americans can interpret data is challenging. Therefore, Americans are consuming biased information in their online bubbles because their media is comfortable with fraudulent data.

A concrete example of what happens whenUS economic data becomes unreliable is employment numbers. At the end of 2025, the government couldn't produce any data because of the government shutdown. Most quants and analysts utilized ADP numbers instead. A few years ago, the ADP payroll numbers and the projections by the government were perceived as aligned. This is no longer the case, and most traders rely more on ADP indicators for things like the unemployment rate.

Speculating on what other data is fraudulent, I suspect that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will become meaningless. It was supposed to be an indicator for economic wellbeing but now best describes wealth inequality. Nominal GDP is a slightly better measure because it adjusts for things like inflation but it's based on government produced data.

Lastly, there is widespread fraud in climate data in order to deny climate change. The data feeds into economic models and affects property values and insurance rates. I have personally received gag orders from government agencies from both the US and Europe for publishing environmental data.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-03-14 18:14:07+00:00
DRM just stops you launching/connecting to servers if you modified the binary. It does nothing to stop the binary being pulled apart by a bot with no intention of running it.

The place it may fail is obfuscation and server side logic. But generally client side logic, especially in a game with a scripted language backing it, is super easy for claude ot pick apart.
Show HN: Architecture question: running an LLM as core infrastructure
by senza1dio | 2026-03-14 18:14:10+00:00
I've been experimenting with running an LLM not as a chatbot but as the core runtime of a business system, and I'm curious how others approach this.

The idea is that the model doesn't just answer questions but orchestrates tools and interacts with real application logic.

The architecture I'm currently testing includes:

Runtime

tool orchestration
parallel tool execution
loop detection
circuit breaker / timeout guards
token budgeting
Context

context compression
dynamic token ceiling
Caching

deterministic LLM response cache
semantic cache using pgvector
Memory

short-term session memory
longer-term semantic memory
Evaluation

prompt evaluation set to test tool reasoning and failures
I'm trying to figure out which parts are actually necessary in production and which ones are over-engineering.

For people building LLM systems beyond simple chat interfaces:

how do you handle tool orchestration?
do you implement memory layers or just rely on context?
are semantic caches worth it in practice?
Curious to hear how others structure this.
by jpdb | 2026-03-14 18:14:17+00:00
Given that you literally started your response with a pleasant agreement and affirmation on my point makes feel like you are arguing this in bad faith, but if statements like, "how was your weekend" included in an ask cause you distress then you are so maladapt to society to the point that you should have close to zero expectations for others to accommodate your needs in public spaces such as a work environment. You almost exclusively have the responsibility to regulate your emotions or not expose yourself to situations where people might include a hollow inquiry into your weekend in their written communications.

Asking people not to include minor pleasantries in their written communication isn't a "reasonable" request for anything larger than a small group of people.
by comgen42 | 2026-03-14 18:14:38+00:00
Author here and someone who has been at this for 40+ years.

I wrote this because the "burnout in tech" conversation usually ends at "set better boundaries" or "find your passion" — which isn't very useful when you're three years post-FAANG and genuinely don't want to write another CRUD app.

The article focuses on paths where the technical background transfers cleanly: technical writing, DevRel, product, security, infrastructure consulting. All with realistic takes on compensation and what the transition actually looks like.

Happy to share more specifics from my own experience or from people I know who've made these moves.