MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tarsinge | 2025-12-04 17:27:10+00:00
That’s your opinion, but like I said it’s not valid to imply that it is the normal view and those not agreeing are biased. Instead of trying to hear understand and challenge what historians have to say you flee intellectually, which is ironic given your take on strong men.

I’m not historian but for example I could challenge the idea that a rhetoric about strength and keeping a masculine ideal for the young male population was non existent in European feodality where only nobility had the privilege of fighting, and 90% of the population were farmers. Or that 2000 years ago Jesus already challenged the idea that men needed to be strong in the traditional sense, and that real courage was loving and forgiving among others. I could go on with fashion and clothes but maybe just look at a West European king painting to reevaluate what masculinity is supposed to look like traditionally.

My understanding is that your rhetoric appears only recently (and is therefore not traditional) coinciding with nationalism rise and the need for bodies to throw in the total war (another modern invention) meat grinder.

You can disagree, and I’m open to hearing your counter arguments, because I’m not dismissing you as biased.
by neilv | 2025-12-04 17:27:11+00:00
The Rosemary Kennedy story is tragic.

JFK was great in some ways, but that political dynasty had serious problems even before RFK Jr.

The Wikipedia article paints this as partly driven by the political aspirations of the patriarch. I suspect this is yet another example of we'd be in much better shape if the US didn't have quasi-royalty, nor families aspiring to that.
by stuffn | 2025-12-04 17:27:25+00:00
> Enough so that some phrasing along the lines of "my tism is..." is somewhat commonplace.

In the 1990s we drugged kids (especially young boys) who weren't able to sit still with ADHD medication. Every parent's kid suddenly had ADHD, people would talk about their quirky behavior as "oh its my ADHD".

This generation it's autism, and it's likely over-diagnosed just as much as ADHD. You do it in your own post, attributing a defined, binary, thing as "I am somewhere on the spectrum". If anything, your own post demonstrates the anti-scientific (pop-sci) instagramification of mental illness. You either have some quantity of illness or you don't. You can't just ascribe some quirky, possibly somewhat anti-social, behavior as being on the spectrum. Sadly, this is often used like ADHD self-diagnoses to gain sympathy or social leeway. Much to the disservice of people suffering from the condition.

It comes as no surprise that psychiatry, and medicine in general, is suffering from a massive reproducibility crisis. It's not anti-science to call into question the amount of bunk, p-hacked, corporate funded garbage coming out of even the highest tier of medical grade journals.
by shagie | 2025-12-04 17:27:25+00:00
> Java applets can invoke JavaScript functions present in the same web page as the applet. The LiveConnect Specification describes details about how JavaScript code communicates with Java code.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/in...

> LiveConnect is a feature of web browsers which allows Java applets to communicate with the JavaScript engine in the browser, and JavaScript on the web page to interact with applets. The LiveConnect concept originated in the Netscape web browser, and to this date, Mozilla and Firefox browsers have had the most complete support for LiveConnect features. It has, however, been possible to call between JavaScript and Java in some fashion on all web browsers for a number of years.

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/liveconnect-...

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The naming appears to be confused.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101115234856/http://www.oracle...

> Improved Java/JavaScript communication. The bridge between the JavaScript engine in the web browser and the Java programming language has been completely reimplemented. The new implementation is backward-compatible and features improved reliability, performance and cross-browser portability, for both Java calling JavaScript as well as JavaScript calling Java. Formerly Mozilla-specific "LiveConnect" functionality, such as the ability to call static Java methods, instantiate new Java objects and reference third-party packages from JavaScript, is now available in all browsers.

The "LiveConnect" relating to the original LiveScript maybe? And that LiveConnect was a Netscape/Mozilla driven thing.

My point was more one of "JavaScript was the glue between applets and the HTML page itself early in the development of the language."

Renaming LiveScript to JavaScript and promoting the LiveConnect functionality wasn't an unreasonable thing at the time.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-04 17:27:29+00:00
It has always bothered me that by "spectrum" they mean not the sort of continuous thing that spectra actually are, but instead some disjoint set of "colors" any one of which might describe a person. That's called a partition, and its in an entirely separate thing.

When I tell this to people they understand immediately that I am in fact on that "spectrum".
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-04 17:27:42+00:00
> The problem is that 'what changed' is hardly related to why they joined Twitter in the first place.

Does it have to be? The original calculus was "unpleasantness of using unfree software vs. benefit of reaching more people". The calculus has changed to "unpleasantness of using unfree software + unpleasantness of encountering hate speech vs. benefit of reaching more people". In other words, what used to be "1 + -1 = 0" has become "1 + -2 = -1" for the FSFE. As humans, they are free to consider other reasons than their primary mission alone when determining whether the platform is still one they find to be worthwhile to use.

> What I criticised was their not being upfront about this

I really don't get how your impression is that they are not upfront about this, and yes, I found your comment to have been quite misleading, having skimmed the comments before reading the article. The very first sentence in the article starts with "Since Elon Musk...". What part of this would you have liked them to be more upfront about?
by Balinares | 2025-12-04 17:27:44+00:00
> So how to explain the current AI mania being widely promoted?

Probably individual actors have different motivations, but let's spitball for a second:

- LLMs are genuinely a revolution in natural language processing. We can do things now in that space that were unthinkable single-digit years ago. This opens new opportunity spaces to colonize, and some might turn out quite profitable. Ergo, land rush.

- Even if the new spaces are not that much of a value leap intrinsically, some may still end up obsoleting earlier-generation products pretty much overnight, and no one wants to be the next Nokia. Ergo, defensive land rush.

- There's a non-zero chance that someone somewhere will actually manage to build the tech up into something close enough to AGI to serve, which in essence means deprecating the labor class. The benefits (to that specific someone, anyway...) would be staggering enough to make that a goal worth pursuing even if the odds of reaching it are unclear and arguably quite low.

- The increasingly leveraged debt that's funding the land rush's capex needs to be paid off somehow and I'll venture everyone knows that the winners will possibly be able to, but not everyone will be a winner. In that scenario, you really don't want to be a non-winner. It's kind of like that joke where you don't need to outrun the lions, you only need to outrun the other runners, except in this case the harder everyone runs and the bigger the lions become. (Which is a funny thought now, sure, but the feasting, when it comes, will be a bloodbath.)

- A few, I'll daresay, have perhaps been huffing each other's farts too deep and too long and genuinely believe the words of ebullient enthusiasm coming out of their own mouths. That, and/or they think everyone's job except theirs is simple actually, and therefore just this close to being replaceable (which is a distinct flavor of fart, although coming from largely the same sources).

So basically the mania is for the most part a natural consequence of what's going on in the overlap of the tech itself and the incentive structure within which it exists, although this might be a good point to remember that cancer and earthquakes too are natural. Either way, take care of yourselves and each other, y'all, because the ride is only going to get bouncier for a while.
by Bostonian | 2025-12-04 17:28:17+00:00
...

'When an AI system can review thousands of contracts in minutes rather than weeks, draft complex documents in seconds rather than hours or generate strategic analyses near-instantaneously, the time component becomes almost meaningless. More fundamentally, as AI handles routine cognitive work, the remaining human contribution shifts toward judgment, creativity and relationship management—the value of which bears little relationship to time expended.

The economic absurdity becomes clear when we consider that firms adopting AI most successfully would paradoxically see revenue collapse under hourly billing, even as they deliver superior results more efficiently. This misalignment between value creation and revenue generation makes the billable hour’s demise inevitable.

Clients have always chafed at the fact that they get stuck with the training costs for junior-level people when what they really want are the insights from that analysis from the more senior people. Now they can say to firms, “Sorry, we aren’t shelling out hundreds of dollars a day for a junior person’s time.”'

...
by dpark | 2025-12-04 17:28:33+00:00
You obviously did not claim autism as a superpower.

Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.

> most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectrum"

No one says “everyone I know is a bit paraplegic”, because that would be insane. Yet people glibly call themselves autistic as if having geeky hobbies or a job in software is the same as being diagnosable as having an autism spectrum disorder.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-04 17:28:55+00:00
> This isn’t gossip, it’s publicly disclosed information.

The gossip part isn't the facts of the matter, it's the deciding how much a business should pay its executives.

Their salaries don't scale because there's only one of each of them. It's nothing to do with them being overpaid. Overpaid isn't an objective word. It's just gossipy nonsense.

> The executive compensation at Blue Shield of California could employ approximately 300 nurses.

I doubt it. Think of all the overhead.
Been building a for 3 years now it's ready to use, kinda
by iwedmak | 2025-12-04 17:29:00+00:00
For the past three years, I've been building a tool to solve my own problem with managing time, projects, and people. As a solo developer and someone who works with apprentices and freelancers, I needed clarity on three things:

Where does my time actually go across different projects?

How do I track collaborations and payments transparently?

How can I simplify scheduling without endless chats?

That's how Ceki was born. It's a web-based hub that combines a few key things:

A non-invasive time tracker (manual or timer) that links hours directly to specific projects and budgets.

Collaborator profiles to save notes, past rates, and skills — so you don't start from zero every new project.

Shared/public calendars to visualize availability for your team or clients.

Tech stack: Laravel, Vue, Quasar, PostgreSQL. Built entirely solo.

Current status: It's stable and I use it daily, but it's very much a living project. I'm opening it up for early feedback because I know others here face similar chaos.

I'd love for you to check it out and tell me:

Does the core idea resonate with your workflow?

What's the biggest pain point in your current time/project management?

If you try it, what feels confusing or missing?

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I'm here for genuine feedback, technical thoughts, or just to chat about the solo-dev journey.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-12-04 17:29:02+00:00
I can't recall desktop application times, but I remember using the web in the 00s. Websites took a noticeable blip to load. Pictures took seconds to minutes to load, top to bottom, on my connection. Runescape took an hour to update on dial up.

I do remember applications like Microsoft word's UI constantly freezing though.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-04 17:29:10+00:00
> "someone who genuinely believed that we're only seeing the beginnings of what the current breed of AI will get us, and that it's going to be as transformative as the introduction of the internet was."

I think that. It's new technology and it always takes some years before all the implications and applications of new technology are fully worked out. I also think that we're in a bubble that will hose a lot of people when it pops.
by ef2k | 2025-12-04 17:29:25+00:00
I think the premise is a little shaky since a good servant leader is already transparent. But there's some good takeaways. Leaders should inform their team of what's happening behind the scenes and allow them to understand why things are playing out the way they are. Allowing people to take on more responsibility, if they want it, is a healthy sign of an organization, but it shouldn't be imposed nor expected if they already have enough on their plates.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-04 17:29:39+00:00
> I feel like actually, being negative on AI is the common view now, even though every other HN commenter thinks they’re the only contrarian in the world to see the light and surely the masses must be misguided for not seeing it their way

I have mostly seen people on HN criticizing the few people in tech who have attached themselves to the hype and senselessly push it everywhere, not "the masses." The masses don't particularly like AI. It seems like it's only people hyping it that think everyone but Luddites are into it.

You're both painting a narrative that anti-AI sentiment is a popular bandwagon everyone is doing to be cool, as well as not that big actually and everyone is loving AI. Which is it?
by intended | 2025-12-04 17:29:40+00:00
Ugh. Put up or shut up I guess. I doubt it would be valuable, and likely a doxxing hazard. Plus it feels self-aggrandizing.

Work in trust and safety, managed a community of a few million for several years, team’s work ended up getting covered in several places, later did a masters dissertation on the efficacy of moderation interventions, converted into a paper. Managing the community resulted in being front and center of information manipulation methods and efforts. There are other claims, but this is a field I am interested in, and would work on even in my spare time.

Do note - the rhetorical set up for this thread indicates that no amount of credibility would be sufficient.
by mh2266 | 2025-12-04 17:29:47+00:00
It’s a little snarky and cynical but I’ve found little use for product managers in infra and devx teams because they typically don’t have the technical background to have relevant product vision and anyone that can make L7+ as an engineer on this sort of team should be able to figure out what the product should be.

This is different in a product team because engineers aren’t the customers, although I’d still argue anyone senior in a product engineering team should still have at least some product sense.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-04 17:29:59+00:00
> Do you think consumer brands lose money when they pay Google to do advertising?

For many brands, yes, and they don't know it.

> I think you underestimate how valuable being the top slot on google is.

The more you advertise, the less valuable each ad space becomes. Consumers have a lot of money they have to dole out. Giving them more ads won't increase that pot of money - it will make your cut smaller and smaller as it's split across more brands.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-04 17:30:25+00:00
It wants to help create things in Office documents, I imagine just saving you the copy and paste from the app or web form. The one thing I tried to get it to do was to take a spreadsheet of employees and add a column with their office numbers (it has access to the company directory). The response was something like "here's how you would look up a office number, you're welcome!"

It is functional at RAG stuff on internal docs but definitely not good - not sure how much of this is Copilot vs corporate disarray and access controls.

It won't send emails for me (which I would think is the agentic mvp) but that is likely a switch my organization daren't turn on.

Tldr it's valuable as a normal LLM, very limited as a add-on to Microsoft's software ecosystem.
by photochemsyn | 2025-12-04 17:30:51+00:00
The Economist should not be treated as reliable source of information on medical issues.

[edit] To be more specific, this is a lazy take and is about as insightful as saying 'cancer should not be treated as a single condition' which for HN is about as meaningful as saying 'the CPU and the GPU may both contain chips, but they should not be programmed the same.'
by philipallstar | 2025-12-04 17:30:56+00:00
The US army isn't communist by that definition, no. Any more than any employer who provides food to their employees isn't communist.

In Berlin you didn't realise that population increase is what enriches landlords and screws regular people, but you still vote for a lot of immigration. Population increase in a finite, well-settled country is what gives rise to landlords.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-12-04 17:31:03+00:00
Agreed! I recently listened to a podcast (video) from the "How Money Works" channel on this topic:

"How Short Term Thinking Won" - https://youtu.be/qGwU2dOoHiY

The author argues that this con has been caused by three relatively simple levers: Low dividend yields, legalization of stock buybacks, and executive compensation packages that generate lots of wealth under short pump-and-dump timelines.

If those are the causes, then simple regulatory changes to make stock buybacks illegal again, limit the kinds of executive compensation contracts that are valid, and incentivize higher dividend yields/penalize sales yields should return the market to the previous long-term-optimized behavior.

I doubt that you could convince the politicians and financiers who are currently pulling value out of a fragile and inefficient economy under the current system to make those changes, and if the changes were made I doubt they could last or be enforced given the massive incentives to revert to our broken system. I think you're right that it will take a huge disaster that the wealthy and powerful are unable to dodge and unable to blame on anything but their own actions, I just don't know what that event might look like.
by herval | 2025-12-04 17:31:26+00:00
> Servant leadership seems to me a lot like curling parenting: the leader/parent anticipate problems and sweep the way for their direct reports/children.

That's not what "Servant leadership" is. It's about _letting the team lead_ - and they can come to you if they need help - instead of _pushing the team_. So in practice it's the opposite of anticipating problems. If something, servant leadership gets a bad rep for being used as an excuse to let people fall on the sword, instead of protecting them

The rest of the post is just describing the role of "Management".
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-04 17:31:29+00:00
In case you miss it, a video of the thing in operation is linked: https://youtu.be/pcAEqbYwixU

Reminds me that there are limitations to volumetric displays—namely that, since you have no idea where the viewer is located, there is no backface culling you can perform. So it seems to work best for "cutaway" views.

I'd like to see one in person. Might be "magical" — the video only kind of hints at this.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-04 17:31:44+00:00
I think your attempt to rebuke the proof is flawed too. The problem in your reasoning is mixing up "arbitrarily many" and "infinitely many".

There's no convergence after a finite number of steps. But at infinity, the canonical limit of this construction method is a circle. And because it is a circle, the circumference at infinity "jumps" to 2*pi. This is quite counterintuitive but perfectly legit in mathematical analysis. It's just one of many wacky properties of infinity.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-12-04 17:31:57+00:00
Unfortunately, the aggregator website is basically no longer updated. So now you have to go door-to-door to check their prices. Also, with all the talk of counterfeits flooding Amazon and whatnot, I'm no longer that comfortable buying expensive stuff from random stores.

But, I guess, if you need a mouse right now and don't insist on the absolute best price, they're still there, yeah.

In practice, I live two streets away from there and yet I do all my shopping online (not that I buy that many parts anymore).
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-04 17:31:58+00:00
> It has always bothered me that by "spectrum" they mean not the sort of continuous thing that spectra actually are, but instead some disjoint set of "colors" any one of which might describe a person. That's called a partition, and its in an entirely separate thing.

Hmm, what are these 'colors' in your framing? I don't think anyone feels that ASD comprises totally distinct, 'disjoint' descriptions. It's true that there are multiple parameters along which one may vary, but that's true of any human syndromic disease, and probably true for any human disease, in general.

Here's a popular press article that talks about a very recent framing of autism that uses clinical and genetic data:

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/07/09/new-study-reveal...
by Gormo | 2025-12-04 17:32:27+00:00
I tried it a few months ago, and didn't perceive any of those items as particular benefits.

1. Terminal emulators that feel 'native' are ubiquitous. Sure, there are also a lot that have idiosyncratic UIs, but I'm not generally using those -- my go-to when working within a GUI environment is xfce4-terminal, which is about as native as I can imagine, given that I'm using XFCE as my primary desktop environment.

2. Sensible defaults may be good for new users, but I already have my terminal emulators configured exactly as I like them, and my benchmark for switching from one tool to another within the same category isn't how welcoming it is to novice users out of the box, it's how easily I can adjust its configuration to match my long-established preferences. The "zero configuration" philosophy is actually a detriment here, as it leads to configurability being obscured to some extent.

3. When I tested it, its performance was worse than xfce4-terminal, both objectively and subjectively. Its memory consumption was higher and it felt laggier in responding to input.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-12-04 17:32:33+00:00
What is the fundamental physical limitation (termed "acoustic collapse") that causes multiple, simultaneously levitated objects to spontaneously cluster together, and how can this attractive force be effectively counteracted to achieve stable, independent, and controllable manipulation of multiple particles?

Non-syndicated publication: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2516865122
by adventured | 2025-12-04 17:32:40+00:00
It's not "pure greed." It's keeping up with the Joneses. It's fear.

There are three types of humans: mimics, amplifiers, originators. ~99% of the population are basic mimics, and they're always terrified - to one degree or another - of being out of step with the herd. The hyper mimicry behavior can be seen everywhere and at all times, from classrooms to Tiktok & Reddit to shopping behaviors. Most corporate leadership are highly effective mimics, very few are originators. They desperately herd follow ('nobody ever got fired for buying IBM').

This is the dotcom equivalent of every business must be e and @ ified (the advertising was aggressively targeted to that at the time). 1998-2000, you must be e ready. Your hotdog stand must have its own web site.

It is not greed-driven, it's fear-driven.