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by arp242 | 2025-05-10 03:44:07+00:00
He was just wrong here. PTSD covers many problems, including "shell shock", but also survivors of, say, natural disasters, serious accidents, sexual abuse, and many other types of traumatic experiences.

And this is hardly an "American" thing; all societies do this sort of thing (although topics and methods vary). Carlin's views, like many Americans, were extremely centred on the US and seemed quite clueless about the rest of the world.
by coatue | 2025-05-10 03:45:01+00:00
[Joe, Hydra cofounder] Hey, thanks for the kudos! Sounds like a nice fit and that's coincidentally good timing! We started with the Virginia region, but we can focus on SJC next. With 35 regions to cover, we're prioritizing based on user requests - so thanks for mentioning it.

Ideally, you can easily switch over to Hydra. Or Hydra can work as a fast, external analytics database too. It's Postgres-native so no changes are needed to use it in a traditional architecture if you wanted to.

Feel free to DM me on X (@JoeSciarrino) or email founders@ so we can coordinate on the SJC region.
by SR2Z | 2025-05-10 03:45:18+00:00
> The structure was designed for being disavowed.

> I expect it was more the army looked away, over condoned.

Right, in the exact same way they "looked away" while OBL lived half a mile away from the most prestigious military academy in Pakistan and the same way they "over condoned" the Taj hotel shootings. You are not disagreeing with me here.

> The opinions of the Pakistani army have dramatically changed as per their interactions, having been at a nadir due to their domestic handling of events, and now these actions have reinvigorated public opinion.

This line describes Hamas just as well as the Pakistani state, unfortunately.

> The BJP has had its military credentials burnished.

Indian media always has been and always will be jingoistic and no matter how the government responded, it would gleefully report on the power of the Indian military.

> This has worked. This means this behavior will be repeated.

WHO has this worked for? The BJP isn't more popular because of this. Pakistan hasn't achieved any strategic goals beyond the continuing destabilization of J&K - which is already well on the way to integration.
by gscott | 2025-05-10 03:45:40+00:00
If you pay me back say in Pesos and I can print Pesos then did you really give me anything at all because I have more all for free.

If I own a teddy bear factory and I give you 10 teddy bears and you give me back 11 teddy bears I would prefer 11 dolphins instead as they are something that I don't have and can't make.
by daegontaven | 2025-05-10 03:46:26+00:00
OpenSkill is a fully open-source, peer-reviewed multiplayer ranking and rating system designed for building matchmaking systems. It offers functionality similar to Microsoft’s proprietary and patented TrueSkill, including support for features like partial play. Unlike TrueSkill, OpenSkill is completely free of patents and trademarks. It is fully typed, compatible with both PyPy and CPython, and maintains 100% test coverage.

A commonly requested feature that almost no n-player n-team rating systems have is the consideration of margin of victory and margin of loss. It's also known as "score margins". What are score margins? Almost every online rating system incorporates ranking information by using the ranks of player or by converting in-game scores into ranks. It doesn't matter if the opponent player wins by 10 or by 2 points. It's treated the same by most rating systems. This is what OpenSkill has recently solved. Simple systems like Elo and Glicko-2 can be modified to consider this, but it can't handle large scale battle arena matches accurately whilst being generalized to multiplayer multiteam settings.

Games currently using OpenSkill include: Hunt Showdown, MultiVersus and Beyond All Reason
Show HN: Spress – A vibe coded programming language
by ryansworks | 2025-05-10 03:47:07+00:00
Way back when GPT 3.5 came out, I was looking for an interesting problem to test model capability. It needed to be one that is well represented in a model training set, but still requires some level of reasoning.

After pondering it, I thought a simple dynamic programming language with a bytecode interpreter would fit the bill.

The initial LLMs failed miserably, but every new generation I have been trying a similar test, across many different model providers, and the results have been improving but they never quite met the mark.

Finally with o4-mini-high, I was able to achieve my goal.

Initially I started with a basic expression language, and it exceeded my expectations -- writing it all in a single pass. I thought, why not see how much further I can go?

After about 10 hours of going back and forth with the model, and without ever writing a line of code myself, I built a decent language with a decent set of features including functions, variables, expressions, control flow, loops, lists, hash maps, slices, and variable injection.

I'm equally impressed and intimidated by how far it got.

As it is now, I'm unable to make much additional progress with IDE based tools or even pasting the entire source code into ChatGPT or other tools. It tends to lose context and go off the rails. But having said that, I expect things will only get better from here.

Note: I do NOT recommend using this language in production. There are likely many bugs. It's just an experiment.
by superkuh | 2025-05-10 03:47:08+00:00
It's important to distinguish between lift generating and air breathing hypersonic craft and simple conical rockets without shockwave impingement sites on the craft body. The former are what are what people talk about when they talk about hypersonic capabilities. But with this Stratolaunch case, and with other militarys' recent "hypersonic" implementations, there are actually no real capability differences from a ballistic missile except trajectory. These are jobs programs for keeping aerospace talent alive at best and get most use as paper dragons. Or maybe it's just a way to normalize using ballistic missiles, because they look slightly different and have a different name, without everyone freaking out?

I'm not saying a pointy fast rocket testbed isn't cool or even useful to try to develop ways of avoiding shockwave impingement during air breathing or lift generation. But this isn't doing the thing.
by timoth3y | 2025-05-10 03:49:11+00:00
There is also a strong signaling effect.

For better or worse, which books people are reading (or say they are reading) is often used to determine which "camp" they belong to. People who took the time to read Musk's biography are viewed slightly differently than those who chose not to.

IRL, discussions of the contents and ideas tend to be superficial.

When I'm asked what books I'm reading, I always answer honestly, but rarely mention a title that's been published in the last 30 years or so. For some reason, people seem to be more comfortable deeply discussing older works.
by orionblastar | 2025-05-10 03:49:39+00:00
This is like asking where the next Mainframe COBOL programmers will come from, and the colleges don't teach it anymore. Only people my age, age 56, are left knowing DOS/VSE and COBOL from an IBM Mainframe. We aren't getting hired because we are too old or suffer from too many illnesses. No one wants to learn COBOL because it is outdated, but the Social Security check writing software is still in COBOL, and porting it to a modern language would be too hard and too expensive.

I know about 37 different programming languages, most of which are obsolete. So how can I learn if nobody wants to hire me?
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-05-10 03:50:03+00:00
The thing that I still don't understand is:

- These tariffs are permanent to rebalance trade - These tariffs are temporary to use for negotiations

If they're permanent:

- US companies build factories - Manufacturing comes back to the US - China is left manufacturing what the US can't do locally - China will dramatically up cost of resources US can't source elsewhere - Nobody wins

If they're temporary:

- China waits out the storm - Prices revert back to the mean - Nobody wins

So either way:

- Countries have divested US exports - US has lost long term income - US has lost soft power (and eventual hegemony) - There's now a lot of pissed off people

Even looking at what's happening to Las Vegas, the number of pissed off people will likely go up even if tariffs went back to before or brand new trade deals were signed across all trade paths let alone even a handful.

I'd be keen to know your thoughts. And thanks - I just added the Miran paper to my Kindle, so thanks for the reference!
by conrs | 2025-05-10 03:50:33+00:00
I forgot to follow up here, so apologies for the delay. Honestly, concise is a challenge here. Here is a lot of words, and they barely scratch the surface, but just in case they might be helpful:

- Embracing the idea of a manual valuable process is a great one - as engineers we often want to start by automating and/or building, and dive right in - only to realize later we either didn't understand the product, or our stakeholder didn't and now wants changes once they've seen what it does. (Deeper dives here: "Escaping the Build Trap"[1], "The Minimalist Entrepreneur"[2]

- Understanding negotiation is extremely helpful as you are often operating under constraints, and need to get those across to your stakeholders such that you can both move forward together. Negotiation is basically about aligning two stakeholders with different goals and arriving at an arrangement they can both live with. (Highly recommend "Negotiate without Fear"[3])

- Another excellent concept surrounds the theory of constraints and getting good at recognizing bottlenecks, and subordinating all other processes to them. Essentially, if work is piling up somewhere, look at where it is coming from, and attempt to re-route those efforts to something productive (the bottleneck moves the same speed regardless of how much work is piled up in front of it). The classic book on this matter is "The Goal"[4] but a fun retelling more oriented around an IT department is "The Phoenix Project"[5].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Build-Trap-Effective-Managem... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Minimalist-Entrepreneur-Great-Founder... [3] https://www.amazon.com/Negotiate-without-Fear-Strategies-Max... [4] https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0... [5] https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
by tstrimple | 2025-05-10 03:50:34+00:00
I think that. When I drink socially, I'm engaging with other people and things like slurring speech become readily apparent. I can tell when I'm stumbling over words and having trouble saying what I mean. It's very obvious. When I drink alone, I'm not talking to anyone. The voice in my head never gets noticeable inebriated. I'm typically not moving around as much so can't rely on my sense of balance to judge intoxication as reliably either. And with social drinking, it's pretty easy to compare the rate at which I'm knocking back drinks versus everyone else. You tend to order in waves with others which slows folks like me down quite a bit.
by wingerlang | 2025-05-10 03:51:32+00:00
Why do you need both an identifier and a text? I have this test name 'testAddingNewCardDataResultsInProperlyCombinedCardDataButNoNewCardsUnlocksBecauseWeStillHaveUnlearnedCards', and even though it is much longer than my other ones, it is still perfectly readable, and even if it wasn't, the only time I actually have to read it, is if it fails.
by WuxiFingerHold | 2025-05-10 03:51:46+00:00
> IMO any system where taking a dependency is "easy" and there is no penalty for size or cost is going to eventually lead to a dependency problem.

Go and C# (.NET) are counterexamples. They both have great ecosystems and just as simple and effective package management as Rust or JS (Node). But neither Go or C# have issues with dependency hell like Rust or even more JavaScript, because they have exceptional std libs and even large frameworks like ASP.NET or EF Core.

A great std lib is obviously the solution. Some Rust defenders are talking it down by giving Python as counter example. But again, Go and C# are proving them wrong. A great std lib is a solution, but one that comes with huge efforts that can only be made by large organisations like Google (Go) or Microsoft (C#).
by reillyse | 2025-05-10 03:53:11+00:00
This all seems like an insane overreaction. I question what gets someone into this level of panic.

Just chill out for a couple of days and enjoy reading some books and have an adventure.

Unless you’ve got a medical emergency and need to have power for some devices just relax and wait for the power to be reconnected.

I get that there are emergencies in the world but not having power at home is an inconvenience.
by emptysongglass | 2025-05-10 03:53:25+00:00
Zulip committed the cardinal sin of stripping out notification support from their mobile apps for anyone not paying to force people to pay them.

Every other messaging app out there that is open source covers the minimal costs associated (and for Zulip, with an unpaid userbase that is tiny, these costs are laughably small) to host the infra associated. Note that Firebase Cloud Messaging itself is free. Wire, Signal, Threema, every single XMPP app, Element: none of these force users to build and distribute modded apks just to get notifications.

It was a tactic and it sucked and it burned any and all goodwill I had for Zulip.
by laxmin | 2025-05-10 03:53:31+00:00
We (a University, in India) are trying to get out of the Google ecosystem, and CryptPad is the greatest thing that has happened to us.

Google has been whittling the 'Google for Education' now and the free version called 'fundamentals' has been stripped of many things and we can see the future where the cost of using Google might be a significant impactful expenditure on our tight, already stretched to the limits budget.

Also, the word, 'Crypt' is cool. Our teachers feel like Hackers.

Seriously - that was some of the great feedback we received.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-05-10 03:53:53+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Hope this clears it up. The changes that Republicans are proposing are going to be a disaster for anyone who is not basically a white straight Christian man who doesn't watch porn.

It's shaping up to be a very bad 4 years for people like me and I encourage everyone to vote Democrat in every election they can legally vote in.

If you don't believe me ask around and any friends you have who are queer or care about abortion will tell you things are very looking grim for us.

In short it is a consolidation of absolute power in the hands of a few rich bullies who are wanting to torment minorities as a distraction while they steal from as many Americans as they can
by nancyminusone | 2025-05-10 03:55:04+00:00
It seems so strange to me to remember that seemly most people don't have a generator. Of course,where I live, everyone is on a well, so no power means no water, which means you can't flush the toilet. There's so many generators around that our current generator is one someone else threw out in the trash.

I was watching 8-bit guy on youtube cover his experience through the Texas snowstorm a few years back, when he offhandedly mentioned that before that, he pretty much had no power interruptions at all within the last decade.

I was stunned. 10 years? We're lucky to make it 10 months.
by jwmcglynn | 2025-05-10 03:57:23+00:00
It's been a while since I tried Inkscape, but I downloaded it again to give honest feedback.

For context, I got started with Illustrator 9 as a teenager (this is making me feel dated, it was released in 2000), and I'm very familiar with the Illustrator UX and find it intuitive.

When using Inkscape, the UX just feels slightly off, things like:

- Weird keybindings, e.g. pressing Ctrl +/- does not zoom/unzoom

- The golden path feels buggy. When launching the window is for some reason cropped to the top 1/8th of the screen and needs to be resized, and the artboard is tiny.

- Usability issues, such as selecting paths does not show their outline, and the layers window doesn't show a preview of what's in each layer

- Exported SVGs are needlessly verbose. This looks like it has gotten better but is still there. For example, exporting an SVG with two gradients actually puts four gradients in the file (combining with inheritance).

I'm sure that spending more time with it would help, and Inkscape does seem quite powerful, but UX is a big factor when I adopt new tools and Inkscape is lacking there.
by moonlet | 2025-05-10 03:59:52+00:00
Literally all they have to do is make sure all women have maternity leave, and paid childcare for the first three years, and set limits on how high prenatal and birth medical bills can be. You’d think a bunch of supposedly “pro” “natalists” who are “pro” “life” in or adjacent to the government would be gagging at the bit to make it as easy as possible to have babies.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-10 04:01:26+00:00
Right up until you hit your first major infectious disease or crippling injury, and have to depend on the medicine of 536 to treat it, and hope the result doesn't make you die before your year is up.

Not to mention: Very easily, accidentally running afoul of some regional religious or social taboo/law in a way that seems banal to you but at the time carries some grotesque variant of the death penalty plus torture, or if you're lucky just a bit of crippling, infection-prone torture-mutilation and a fine (that you may or may not be able to pay and thus risk very literal debt slavery).

The past wasn't just another country, it was another, vastly different world in so many ways.

If I had a time machine, I think i'd rather not even touch the world of 536 (or any such distant time) with a 10-meter cattle prod unless I could visit armed with an easily concealable and robust assortment of essential modern medications, and some powerful but compact concealed carry weapons.

Worth remembering too, the plague of Justinian was one of the earlier arrivals of Yersinia Pestis, and modern humans are at best only very marginally less susceptible to dying horribly from it than they were back then. You would absolutely need antibiotics with you at least. This is not to even mention something like the smallpox that widely circulated at the time. Who alive today who isn't in their 70s still gets vaccinated against the pox?
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-05-10 04:03:09+00:00
That's the rule for writing books. I don't know about now, but it used to be that "Learn to" computer books were 1000+ pages. A group of programmers would get together and write mostly useless chapters each and put them all into one book. The book became a best seller simply because buyers thought they were getting a bargain.

It's the same for business books. A 30-page book won't sell, but a 250 one is a best seller.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-05-10 04:04:48+00:00
Of course there is! Since you're here, you're probably a programmer or engineer, a student, or a dedicated professional in some other IT-adjacent field. How would you react if someone offered you a job in a warehouse?

Once you've thought that through, apply the same reasoning to human beings in general, not just white-collar HN denizens. Few people want to work a hard blue-collar job for the same reason you and I don't want to: we have better things to do with our time.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-10 04:05:53+00:00
> there are actually no real capability differences from a ballistic missile except trajectory

Which is all that matters for military purpose. Air breathing hypersonic is useful because it offers even more flexibility in trajectories, but that doesn't mean that hypersonic gliders aren't useful.

> just a way to normalize using ballistic missiles, because they look slightly different and have a different name, without everyone freaking out?

Ballistic missiles have never been “not normalized”, they have been used routinely in pretty much every recent conflicts by at least one of the belligerent (usually the non-US side, since ballistic missiles are a way around the lack of airborn capabilities, but the US has its own arsenal: ATACMS are ballistic missiles).
by dfedbeef | 2025-05-10 04:06:53+00:00
Uh... I think it's more likely this is all the result of the 24 hour for-profit entertainment 'news' network which has been pushing this conspiracy theory bs for the last 40 years.

You have a media ecosystem devoted to encouraging division, inventing problems when there are none, and finding people to blame for things.

Use your eyes and ears. It's right there.
by sandspar | 2025-05-10 04:07:11+00:00
I find that I'm learning much more and much faster with AI. I have a tutor in my pocket 24/7. With AI, I can now learn in a day what would have taken me a week before. And the tutor will only get smarter, and better at teaching, and more knowledgable about a wider and wider range of subjects. If you're not learning now, then it's your fault - not AI's.
Ask HN: What would you do with the #manga chat channel in Libera IRC network?
by appleaday1 | 2025-05-10 04:07:25+00:00
Hello everyone,

How is IRC nowadays, I know apps like mangadex and there are entire manga apps, not sure if there is RSS or something for irc, I know the anime people get updates. I am the operator for the manga channel on here and I would like to give back to the community or help organize information, I personally stopped reading manga a while ago and have been into webtoons mainly. What would the community like to see, I know anime is significantly different, tbh I used to read a lot of manga and I am glad I stopped if I go to libraries or Chapters I knew what was in most volumes, but I am going to get back to reading manga as there is a lot of new stuff out there that I dont know about from what I have been browsing at my local library or community center or the Chapters etc. What do you guys think, I know Discord is active, but I would also like to be more active on IRC and open source projects and so on. I could crosspost or coordinate something with the Reddit manga mods as well or related communities out there.
by BillyTheMage | 2025-05-10 04:07:33+00:00
> for years, my dream dwelling was a warehouse filled with whatever equipment one could possibly need to make things and run experiments in a dozen different domains

I've always wanted this too. My bedroom is a much-scaled-down version of this. Never cared about "nice", I want useful.

I, too, want a useful pair of pants instead of these modern useless pieces of nothing that fall apart within a week. I heave sheets of metal around all day. I've even thought of a bunch of useful features to add to the pants. I want extra-tough cuffs around the bottom of the legs and on the thigh. I want extra tough material on the edge of the right pocket so my tape measure doesn't destroy the pocket. I want bachelor buttons because belts are for idiots who hate their self and their body and just WANT to feel pain all the time.

I want an office chair that actually feels good to sit in and does all the things an office chair should do. Can't stand all these chairs that dump me out in the floor because you can't adjust the seat far enough. Mesh chair. Separate adjustments for legs and buttcheeks. Separate adjustments for lower, middle, upper back, neck and head. Armwrests with built-in keyboards, which can also rotate to be out of the way.

I'd love to see what the world would be like if it was totally void of consumerism or whatever it is that makes everything in the whole world mediocre and basically useless.