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afavour··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds
I agree that divorce proceedings could be more equal than they are. But society is not gender neutral, so things like divorce proceedings aren't either. Women are far, far more likely to be stay at home parents. That means they're far more involved in childcare and far less likely to be earning money independently. That makes the situation very difficult when it comes to divorce.
afavour··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)
> Women...so naturally vulnerable ?! In 2026?

All else aside for a second... yes? Women are both physically and economically (primarily when they are stay at home moms) vulnerable. No, that doesn't mean I'm saying that no men are vulnerable at all but averaged out to a population it's clear.

afavour··on I saw your HN comment
How does that work?

> Change the word “LLM” to “tickle me Elmo”. Tickle me Elmos didn’t kill the internet or make online discourse pointless, an LLM won’t either

afavour··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Agreed. If we’re talking inconvenient truths, I see far, far more husbands being useless married (and particularly parental) partners than I do wives. And I say this as a man.
afavour··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I don’t even know that suspicion needs to come into it. Don’t have affairs that are connected to your job as a billion dollar CEO. She wasn’t a barista he met at a coffee shop one morning, she was a professional connection with ties to the industry. It’s not too much to ask people earning insane amounts of money to avoid mixing work and pleasure.
afavour··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
So you keep it in your pants. I mean, come on.

> Normal people just can not imagine how sweet, specially when it has been customised around your needs and desires.

She’s a woman, not a sweet from Willy Wonka’s factory. If you find yourself thinking “wow, she couldn’t be more perfect, it’s like she’s too good to be true” then perhaps as the CEO of a billion dollar company with national security concerns you should consider hey, maybe she is too good to be true? Maybe look into that?

All else aside, if you find yourself being tempted, you make sure she isn’t around you. The CEO compensation more than makes up for your sacrifice.

afavour··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
For sure but how many have account access set up by the doctor’s spouse?
afavour··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
> Don't be naive. Don't be alarmist.

To me it’s the phrasing “I got her using Claude code”. Maybe that means “I helped her set up access through her employer approved AI account” but it’s not exactly that common for such access to be set up by your husband. It just as plausibly means “she’s using the same personal account she’s using for the family tasks I also mentioned”. I don’t see that concern as naive so much as in tune with the way people frequently use tech.

afavour··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
I really hope she’s not using any patient data with it.
afavour··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
IMO Rust is great for creating a shared library that native clients then use. Mozilla even made a great library to handle all the FFI bindings:

https://mozilla.github.io/uniffi-rs/latest/

Mobile UIs are different enough and, these days, easy enough to construct that to my mind there isn’t much value in the cross platform UI proposition these days. But logic? Sure.

afavour··on Building the NBC News Big Board
Yeah I hope that’s a simplification. At the very least I hope some automated testing is scanning that code change in a PR before it gets pulled down to the server.

> worse an error screen they'll screencap and meme.

Or even worse, you misattribute a result to the wrong candidate, it gets screencapped and used as evidence in another “election fraud” conspiracy theory.

I actually think the safety guards they’d add for software like this would be the more interesting part of the story!

afavour··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
…and what if they haven’t? Given that we haven’t seen evidence of one so far.

You’re also missing the competition aspect. What if other companies have their own super genius slaves to sell at a cheaper price? What if open models allow anyone to have their own moderately genius slave at far less expense?

afavour··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Elon proposed it and implemented it. Yes, Trump signed off on it but by that logic no one in the Trump administration is guilty of anything other than Trump himself, which we all know is not true.
afavour··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I’d say Tesla’s charging network remains a very strong suit for them. Problem is it’s nowhere near strong enough to justify their current valuation. But we’ve been saying this for years and the stock price still stays irrationally high.
afavour··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I’ve heard the same but I think the question is “is autopilot worth basing your entire car purchase around it?” and “will competitors be able to replicate Tesla’s success?”.

If autopilot is basically the only thing Tesla has going for it then they’ve got a risky path ahead of them.

afavour··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I suspect we’re going to discover a depressing future for today’s era of cars. 40 years from now will the Cybertruck software even let you turn it on? When will the last update have been? What servers does it communicate with that’ll end up long since decommissioned?

(FWIW my kids giggle at the Cybertruck and say it looks silly. In a sense they do love them but I’m not convinced they’ll long for one in years to come)

afavour··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
It’s certainly not exactly it because the Delorean has an indelible association with a classic film that’s beloved by many. It’s iconic without ever seeing one on the road (and most people have not)

The Cybertruck does not have that quality.

afavour··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
I suspect the devil will be in the details here. How will it be enforced? Can companies get away with silly wide ranges?

I saw that almost all Netflix dev jobs, regardless of level, advertise as something like $120,000-$720,000. Which… okay, that’s a range but it’s not a useful one.

afavour··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
> such a thing would never be pursued by anyone or enforced it's not worth the effort.

How are you so sure about that? Seems to me that without enforcement this law is useless.

afavour··on Goodbye from Salon
> A lot of journalism has moved to twitter, substack, youtube etc

And the world suffers as a result, IMO. It’s all very thinly veiled opinion rather than original reporting. How many YouTubers are reporting out in the field rather than just reacting to stories other people reported?

More than anything else Substack shows to me how valuable editors are in the journalistic world. So, so many people are in desperate need of an editor to challenge them before they hit publish.

afavour··on Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
The vibrant and varied mobile market the Sidekick lived in feels so alien now. I'm still shocked that Danger, the company that made the Sidekick, were acquired by MS and made a next gen version... which was promptly canned within weeks of launch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin

afavour··on The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
Given that the top comment yesterday said “this is insane […] I’m shook” I’d say no, it wasn’t all that obvious to everyone.

As someone who uses LLMs in their coding but doesn’t pay attention to every development this is why I find it all so exhausting. I keep feeling like I need to keep up to date but there’s no point reading incremental updates because everything is so overhyped.

afavour··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
That’s not what I’m saying. They could take an open model, create their own variation of it, then embed that on devices. Just like they have with their OS.
afavour··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
Or open models become competitive as a base? Apple have an entire OS based on OpenStep and FreeBSD after all.
afavour··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
No one seems to have a problem dealing with multiple streaming providers. They’re essentially just different submenus on the TV app.

Compare that to setting up a home server with a ton of storage, setting up torrenting/newsgroups, software to check for new releases and automatically download them, probably a VPN too… it’s a whole different world.

afavour··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Jellyfin and Plex cannot stream from major streaming providers. Yes, I know the answer is pirating content but that’s a complete paradigm shift compared to what most people are used to. It’s an absolutely enormous extra requirement when you’re suggesting someone switch their TV to Linux.
afavour··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Does Apple sell data on what I’m watching to third parties?

Linux is not a viable option for TV for the vast majority of users. There are no sit back, remote driven apps for the services they use.

afavour··on The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One size never fits all on the web. Although those references to elements can be costly they’re also valuable. If all you used was HTML string manipulation then event handling would be an utter nightmare. You’d have to make every event handler a global variable so you can specify it in onchange=“” attributes and the like.

I’m the first to complain about the bloat of modern frameworks but stepping all the way back to HTML strings would be a total mess for anything relying on heavy interactivity.

afavour··on The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
I think HTMX has a wall where it makes sense to pivot to something else. In your case I’d imagine using something like Svelte would get you the same speed benefit over React but without the extra work required to get the agent to cooperate.
afavour··on Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
Yes, you are. On the record just means “for publication”, as in, you are aware that what you’re saying is going to be repeated publicly. The phrase has nothing to do with public attribution.

> On-the-record, in journalism, means anything in a communication may be publicly disclosed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Record

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