MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whartung | 2025-09-16 16:54:43+00:00
Swing is swing, it's as good as it's always been (eye of the beholder). As I understand it, it hasn't completely rotted on the shelf, they've made updates to the rendering to better leverage modern hardware, but it's not a modern toolkit by any means. But it is maintained, it still works.

JavaFX is good (I really like FX), and maintained, and portable. They just came out with 25 I think. But it's a completely different model than Swing.
by ncr100 | 2025-09-16 16:54:44+00:00
Seems like Musk is just racking up the "related to" immediate kill count, with his involvement in organizations .. that is:

He was involved in the US government and he shut down, his department shut down, the USAID. And that one shut-down is, according to reports I've read ... which I don't have on hand, hundreds of thousands of dead people.

I understand his argument is, in the future .. things will be better. We will be on Mars, safe from asteroids. We will have cars, safe from reckless drivers. We will have immortal brains, safe from natural degradation. We will have an electric economy, avoiding the toxic dependence on oil and gas.

Pulling back -- I wonder if there is a correlation between empowered individuals and deaths, and their whether there is a need (for humanity's sake) for group thinking and decision-making when it comes to situations that could create mass death? (To avoid mass death.)

We have a US president who (and apparently for decades past have had a vulnerable political system, regardless of Trump) is essentially destroying law and order through the unilateral illegal or provably corrupt directions that he's giving, and through his followers (Supreme Court, Congress, Senate, Executive, appointed Agency heads) who align their organizations with his retribution campaign. This is on my mind today.

So in this US presidency I see situation there is a group of people who are making these decisions. This counter-proves my hypothesis.

However, this group are following the leader and, I suppose like in Nazi Germany, where there were tons of people who were following the leadership and the ideology that made the holocaust happen and 6 million people plus dead, they aren't really thinking for themselves, it doesn't seem to me. They aren't thinking as a group. They are following.
by throwup238 | 2025-09-16 16:54:57+00:00
> What do you think of Price's Law, which suggests that the squareroot of people in most organizations perform half the work (e.g. 3 of 9 ; 10 of 100 ; 50 of 2500)? Put less-specifically, is the majority primarily net-neutral/-negative, productivity-wise?

The way I think about it is kind of like security: 99.99% of the time security guards are just standing around not doing anything or patrolling. They’re still needed even though they technically don’t do anything because there’s no way to predict when and where a breach will occur.

Likewise with productivity. Sure half the work might be done by a small minority but you can’t grow or sustain a business by trying to predict who those people are, especially as that minority changes over its lifecycle. Nor can you reliably predict which support roles are actually keystone roles without which the productive people are useless.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-16 16:55:01+00:00
That's not anywhere close to my point, it's not their stance I have any issue with. it's their mindset that their own stance is universal:

> People should not do this.

> It is causing so much suffering.

> I have never gotten a job from sending an application into a site.

> A form is not going to a hire you, a person is. You need to ignore the form and talk to a person.

> I wish I could put this on a billboard everywhere.

My experience is opposite to this but I'm not selling it as absolute truth or even giving it as advice at all.
by ben7799 | 2025-09-16 16:55:18+00:00
This says it. Actual "tech" circles were historically not super into the Mac. Of course there were some people who loved it, but the bulk of the classic Mac fanbase was design type people and people who were mostly recreational PC users but had way more money to spend than typical PC users. More hardcore tech folks were turned off by inflexibility and OS instability by the mid-90s.

This has of course changed over the past 20 years as all the OS limitations with the Mac were lifted and all PCs have kind of matured and you don't have massive increases in speed every year. So Apple's better quality, closer price parity, and better software support started to look better and better to actual tech people.
by xeromal | 2025-09-16 16:55:33+00:00
Yeah, it's definitely a risk but I intentionally left it in the cup holder to make sure it annoyed me enough daily when I needed to use a cup so that I remembered it existed. There's a fine line and I have a terrible memory especially in a crisis so I figured it's best bouncing around then hidden in some center console or glove box where I can't remember
by gh02t | 2025-09-16 16:56:02+00:00
Less so for fridges, but in the TV space there are few alternatives. You can get a more expensive commercial display or maybe a projector, but most people don't even consider those options and the price is a lot higher. If you go to your local retailer, practically every TV on sale is likely going to have intrusive tracking and advertisements across all price points and mainstream manufacturers.

I expect a lot of manufacturers see the "successful" conversion of TVs from a one time sale to a near inescapable advertising platform and are trying to emulate that in other product segments.
by goalieca | 2025-09-16 16:56:13+00:00
When there are downturns in tech, companies squeeze out junior people. This happens often. After 2008 a whole cohort of top talent from software engineering schools were lucky to get lower paying QA jobs and only a few landed software development positions. There were chief economists for banks writing about the underemployed generation (generalized to all white collar) and how they can’t get started or have the same opportunities.

I think we might be seeing this now but headlines get more clicks with AI taking our jobs.
by parpfish | 2025-09-16 16:56:34+00:00
my family had a little portable TV (GE 7-7150B, link below) that we'd usually only use down in the basement during severe weather.

one day I learned that you could tune in all sorts of non-TV frequencies. In particular, you could tune into any phone calls my neighbors were making on their wireless phones.

i loved that little tv and used it up until the conversion to digital OTA tranmissions.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qYPLd8owc
by BeetleB | 2025-09-16 16:56:48+00:00
> The best method for keeping my tech/writing/life simple has been to establish multiple workstations ("desks") that each have their own machine & purpose

A few years ago I had an important realization. Up to that time, half of my time with computers was pre-Internet (or at least pre-broadband). And virtually all my memorable experiences with computers was from the pre-broadband era.

I spoke to a similarly aged tech friend, and he said it was the same with him.

I sat and thought of why that may be. There are several reasons, but I'll highlight one here: Browsers as an interface really degrade the computing experience. The fact that everything we do online is via the browser means everything is competing with each other. Reading the news? That other tab with Youtube open beckons. Or the one with some social network feed.

In the old days, we had separate programs. The equivalent would be a separate SW for Facebook. A separate one for HN. A separate one for BBC.

And if you go far back enough, you did not have multitasking, so you could do only one thing at a time, and it had your full focus.

When people read a physical newspaper, they would do not suddenly get the urge to drop it and watch TV, or check some feed, or whatever. Everything was in its place, and you could dedicate yourself to it.

Today, you could argue that phones/tablets create a similar experience - everything is its own app. For me, though, the form factor just sucks compared to a proper desktop machine.

My hope is WOOB (https://woob.tech/). Have not yet given it a try.

Edit: Oh, and the fact that it could take well over a minute to load a piece of SW made one less likely to whimsically switch between apps. If you're doing one thing, and you know it will take, say, 2 minutes to Alt-Tab to another application, you are usually going to do it only if it's fairly important.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-16 16:57:46+00:00
There's no statistical evidence to support your claim either.

It's not about race, it's about facts. Like I said in another comment, Jewish people have the highest measurable average IQ, and they are "White".

I think you should walk away. You brought racism into the conversation while I'm just arguing facts. I never made a claim asians were "superior" and I'm NOT from an asian country with the highest IQ either.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-16 16:57:56+00:00
Of course I meant 3-5 years of experience not 35 years of experience. :) I just edited it.

You’re not “investing” in anyone if their tenure is going to be 2-3 years with the first one doing negative work.

And why should juniors stay? Because of salary compression and inversion, where HR determines raises. But the free market determines comp for new employees, it makes sense for them to jump ship to make more money. I’ve seen this at every company I’ve worked for from startups, to mid size companies, to boring old enterprise companies to BigTech.

Where even managers can’t fight for employees to get raises at market rates. But they can get an open req to pay at market rates when that employee leaves.

And who is incentivize to care about “the organization” when line level managers and even directors or incentivized to care about the next quarter to the next year?
by Liskni_si | 2025-09-16 16:57:59+00:00
> If npm respected every upstream lockfile, then it could never share a single version that satisfied all dependencies.

I'm asking in the context of installing a single CLI tool into ~/bin or something. There's no requirement to satisfy all dependencies, because the only dependency I care about is that one CLI tool. All I want is an equivalent of what `cargo install --locked` does — use the top-level lockfile of the CLI tool itself.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-09-16 16:58:09+00:00
Bertrand Russel also was - and hopefully still is - a public intellectual, like Einstein or Chomsky (for better or worse), whose opinions on many areas of life reached ordinary people. His values were ahead of his time.

This is a wonderful interview with him that gives a great sense of what he was all about:

• A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA
by davidgomes | 2025-09-16 16:58:11+00:00
As someone with a 5:38 delta, I'm very anxiously waiting for BAA to announce the official cutoff.

In the meantime, if you're at all curious about the kinds of levels to which people go with trying to predict the cutoff check out this blog[1]. This is from Brian Rock [2], who every year collects data about a lot of marathons all over the world and then tries to guess the official cutoff for the Boston marathon. Very cool stuff!

[1]: https://runningwithrock.com/boston-marathon-cutoff-time-trac... [2]: https://runningwithrock.com/about-me/
by K0balt | 2025-09-16 16:58:20+00:00
The victim you are being manipulated by is judged on their numbers, not on how hard they tried.

While what you are saying is theoretically effective, it assumes that enough people will do this to impact the business model… they won’t. So all you will accomplish is increasing human misery of trafficked slaves or their loved ones, while accomplishing nothing besides feeling a sense of retribution.

This problem requires state-level intervention, but it is mostly getting state level support.

The incentive alignment on this is not going to allow improvement. Perhaps if client nations imposed sanctions on nations that allowed this kind of industry, that could be changed.
by rconti | 2025-09-16 16:58:21+00:00
Context:

There's a limit on how many people can run the Boston Marathon.

To qualify to "run Boston", you have to run another marathon in a qualifying time[1], prior to applying. For example, the qualifying time for a male 40-44 is 3h05m. For a female of the same age, 3h35. Non-binary, 3h35.

You submit your application and qualifying race and time, and then some time _later_, based on the number applications received that are within the cutoff (and it's always more than they can accept), they adjust the cutoff time downwards even further. That additional cutoff delta is the what's being calculated on the slider here. So if your published cutoff is 3h05, and the slider predicts a 6min delta, you need to have run 2h59, not 3h05.

1. https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify
by sailmates | 2025-09-16 16:58:27+00:00
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by nerdsniper | 2025-09-16 16:58:43+00:00
For "mainstream" VPN's...probably. But it's still blocked by a lot of servers, so you get apps/websites that won't load or have degraded service -- and often inconsistently, so it's confusing that the Google Maps app kind of works, but not really.

Historically I've had more luck using a VPS in some datacenter and running my own VPN on it. It tends to get blocked by fewer services, but some still have those datacenter IP's blocked as well. Sometimes need to try a few different providers to find one that works well.

You do miss out on some of the anonymization via "hiding in the herd" with this method, but anything that aggregates traffic like that gets blocked by a lot of services fairly quickly.
by epolanski | 2025-09-16 16:59:25+00:00
1. React didn't invent SPAs and reactivity.

2. Ecommerces are not highly dynamic pages. They are overwhelmingly static content with an occasional configurator/cart/search. All things that can be embedded with whatever library you like (including React), or even better none at all.

3. Seo and performance is what really matters in ecommerces. The only minor exceptions are shops like Amazon or Airbnb, but that's unrelated to their seo and performance.

4. I've been writing React and ecommerces using React and similar with millions of daily users for a decade :)
by whartung | 2025-09-16 17:00:11+00:00
The only real nut right now is, if you're using the Oracle distributions, only the latest LTS is, essentially, free to do anything with.

Older releases are under their OTN license, which is only for personal and development, but not production.

Again, this only matters if you want an Oracle sticker on your runtime, OpenJDK and the other projects are full boat "do whateva" JDKs.
by balls187 | 2025-09-16 17:00:25+00:00
Not that I am an expert in each case, but as part of the evidence was that people in leadership/decision making positions were informed that their practices and conduct was unlawful.

> Are you sure they lost?

Well, Chrome and not Microsoft's browser is the dominant webbrowser, and at the heart of MSFT's anti trust case was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. So, yes. MS did lose.
by zenmac | 2025-09-16 17:00:41+00:00
>I really wish Asahi Linux had more support, I would have bought a couple M4 Minis.

Me too. Just wonder instead of reverse engineer to SOC to get Linux running? Why can we just use the Darwin Kernel (which is suppose to be Open Sourced right? ) and build something like FreeBSD desktop for the M3/M4? Would that be more long term viable than reverse engineering SOC? Is there any project in that direction?
by bitwize | 2025-09-16 17:01:04+00:00
Back in the early 2000s, there were gaming magazines — notably Incite and PC Accelerator — that tried to inject "babes" and other lad mag content into a publication ostensibly about video games. I sniffed this out for the pandering it was. Not only was it needless noise, but it detracted from the video game content. In the 2000s, gaming was largely done by kids and young adults with not much money, who needed guidance on which games to buy since they couldn't afford to get very many. So some semblance of detailed evaluation and a critical eye were necessary, even if gaming mags were nowhere near objective even way back when. Making your entire magazine look like an energy drink ad, with tits splashed on every other page, meant you weren't even pretending to take your ostensible subject matter seriously.
by fmobus | 2025-09-16 17:01:36+00:00
Snuggling and launching drones from deep within enemy territory is a much more complicated op than a couple of dudes diving in the middle of nowhere.

Bringing that bridge down is also much harder than blowing up the pipeline, because the bridge is covered by a lot of defenses, and naval drones will always have limited payload (if they want to be fast enough to evade defenses). Dudes performing a dive in the middle of the sea far from the battlefield are much less vulnerable.
by trollbridge | 2025-09-16 17:01:38+00:00
I just switched to ^C for Escape (which usually works) and ^[ for the rare time I needed actual escape mode.

The Touch Bar was awful - except I was able to get a great deal on my former employer’s Touch Bar era laptops they were decommissioning, since nobody wanted them. One of them (2018, fully loaded) is still in active use, although it mostly runs T2Linux now.
by dirkc | 2025-09-16 17:01:41+00:00
I don't know about billion dollar ideas, but I encourage you to make a product even if something similar exists.

If you squint enough there is nothing new under the sun and chances are that you will take a very long time to find something that hasn't already been done!

But doing your own product does several things - you learn a lot, you position yourself for future success, you see future ideas differently. And maybe you're okay for something to not be a billion dollar idea and you can outlast a venture funded product.

Maybe I'm just projecting, because I've put of building something for such a long time!
by jerf | 2025-09-16 17:02:09+00:00
The best time to search for a new job is when you have one. Takes a lot of the stress out of search itself, though it sounds like your current job may be able to make it up.

There's a lot of companies out there. Many of them are doing useful things. I've worked in security for a long time; not as a "security expert" but for a company doing that. While I'd rather live in a world where we didn't need security companies, and it sucks that it's a problem, it's also something I know is actually contributing to the world, even if that contribution is solving problems that shouldn't exist. There are other companies doing useful things.

It may take a while to find something better but it'll take less time if you're looking than if you aren't.
by danielvinson | 2025-09-16 17:02:11+00:00
I agree that maintaining web apps is an entirely different set of skills, though in my experience (mostly small and mid size companies) PMs come in with massive projects and huge changes constantly and management has to say yes to a few. I try my best to shield my devs as much as possible from the politics but usually my teams are still ending up with huge 4-5 sprint frontend projects. It's extremely hard to find devs who can create simple technical designs when there is absolutely any frontend complexity (especially things like wizards, why are wizards so hard for people...). My standard these days for a "good hire" is anyone who can handle these sorts of projects without a huge amount of help.
by tshaddox | 2025-09-16 17:02:22+00:00
Yes, that's precisely my point. The technical merits are substantial relative to the previous generation of UI libraries like jQuery. If a team were seriously deciding between React and jQuery today, I hope someone would bring up React's technical merits.

But these substantial technical merits are also largely shared by the other modern React competitors, and the differences between these modern options are small enough that they won't outweigh the social benefits of React (except in narrow use cases).
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-16 17:02:29+00:00
In my experience so far, Waymo costs about the same as an Uber when you take into account tipping, but takes longer (they're not yet doing freeways). With the addition of SFO to their zone, I can't imagine freeways are far behind, because getting from the city to SFO without using the freeways would be... a novelty.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-16 17:02:52+00:00
It will remain higher for a while. From reporting I have seen, they are close to maxing out their vehicles, and many people prefer it to other options, so are willing to pay a premium. As long as that is true, it's going to be priced as a premium product. It won't be until fleets grow significantly in size and/or another driverless taxi service enters the market that we will maybe start to see prices driven down closer to marginal cost of a ride.

-edit- multiple other comments apparently disagree with this. I'll defer to people who actually use them over the reporting. Odd that there is that disconnect though.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 17:02:57+00:00
> is JD Vance not the second highest ranking member of the white house?

He is the Vice-President, yes.

It wouldn't logically follow if they were quoting Trump, either. Talking about doing something doesn't mean you plan to do it.

> but the Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, has said that the suspect had a “leftist ideology” and that he acted alone.

Of course he acted alone. It was an assassination using a rifle from a distance. How could anyone else have possibly been involved, even in principle?

"Leftist ideology" is Cox's entirely understandable interpretation of the available evidence, including the bullet markings. It's also the base assumption for the political assassination of a right-winger. And there cannot be any serious doubt that the murder of a prominent political advocate, at an event specifically about politics, during a political exchange, was political.

This leaves open the question of supposed "menace".

> while investigators haven't event started investigating.

They have started investigating. I can't fathom thinking otherwise.

> (Vance quote)

This is not thought-policing. Granted, in most cases, people should not lose their jobs for saying vitriolic things on social media. However:

* Calling people out is doing more speech, not restricting speech — as we were all constantly reminded when "call-out culture" was the meme.

* People who call employers don't actually have power over those employers, never mind their employees. The employer gets to make the decision, and it's fair that employers should know if their employees are tarnishing the company's image.

* NYT literally used the phrase "police thought". This is a stronger claim than "police speech". Nobody would ever have had a problem with any of these people privately approving of Kirk's death, if only because they would have no way to know.

* When right-wingers previously objected to "cancel culture", I can guarantee that you could have talked to them and found that they would, in fact agree that there are lines that must not be crossed when it comes to things said on social media. The things I used to see people get fired for were not in the same ballpark, and the pressure to fire them was typically focused serially on individuals rather than being part of a broad search.