MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthk | 2025-09-21 18:50:37+00:00
The Jupiter ACE manuals in Spanish must had to came from another dimension. The same with the books for the ZX Spectrum in Spanish and such. And banks and big corporations owning IBM PC's, yeah, sure, there was no software in Spanish in the 80's, sure...

Even my elementary school had DOS PC's with 5,25 floppies with Spanish and Basque translated games, even Logo... that in mid 90's.

On Copyright... I'm pretty sure Spain was bound to the Berna convention.

And, on piracy, in the 80's (in Spanish, your browser can translate it): https://www.retrogameshistory.com/2021/03/la-pirateria-espan...
by programjames | 2025-09-21 18:50:48+00:00
If you're measuring the value in dollars, it would be very surprising if people maxxed on the INT stat rank higher than those on the USD stat. But, for example, if your goal is to secure a professorship at a top university, or do the most cutting-edge research at a national lab, I think the network value of knowing a smart person far exceeds that of a rich person.
by growse | 2025-09-21 18:50:49+00:00
> No, you can get a scholarship

Of course! So easy! What percentage of foreign students applying get aid or scholarships?

> Again, this is really the best of the best, those with the highest merit.

You're assuming that "the best of the best" are applying. This is not true. "The best of the best who are encouraged to apply and/or have the means", apply. This is not the same population.

> All they had to do was convince a bureaucrat their life was hard

I don't know who this "bureaucrat" is. When I interviewed at Cambridge I was seen by 3 fellows, all members of the relevant departments.

> If you can't get the grades, you don't have merit.

Nobody's this naive, surely?
by edgineer | 2025-09-21 18:51:17+00:00
I'm interested in hearing more about the evolution of copyright law wrt computer media in Spain. I see an article from 2001 describing how compiled software was not copyrightable in Spain at that time. [0] From [1] I see that individual file sharing, except for software, is allowed there.

Having seen how Sweden changed their copyright law in response to the Pirate Bay website [2], I wish everyone knew that it wasn't always this way, and that states maintain their own rules. The idea that "no one shall copy any corporation's media, ever" is a recent propaganda success.

[0] https://www.mondaq.com/copyright/14472/technology-protection...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm
by NathanaelRea | 2025-09-21 18:51:20+00:00
What I take from it is that feelings are elusive, that you can never "reach" them. Your mind is constantly popping into existence feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Rather than trying to force yourself to "feel" a certain way, just notice how your mind reacts to the world or environment. The grasping or aversion of mind states leads you to spirals of thoughts or suffering.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-09-21 18:52:56+00:00
I don't write terribly complex things: Just data processing pipelines for neuroimaging, but I know I get good results because I take time being specific in my prompts, saying what I want, but also what I don't want, suggesting certain tools, what options I want available, how I want logs, etc. I really does help it to know what you want and relaying that with an effortful prompt.
by afavour | 2025-09-21 18:53:10+00:00
> Oxfords name is currently being trashed globally because of this though

Entirely depends on what circles you move in. The vast majority of people, especially those outside the US, are not talking about Charlie Kirk at all. Hence my objection to him being brought up. At bare minimum it has no relevance to the ranking being discussed in this topic.

> Celebrating violence against free speech doesn’t make sense for Oxford’s name to stand behind.

And they do not stand behind it. Oxford does not control the students union. I don’t buy any argument that they should somehow be policing free speech in the name of free speech. Makes no sense at all.
by kens | 2025-09-21 18:53:18+00:00
You're wondering why you can't find a Miltini recipe online? One trick for finding out historical information is to search archive.org. That quickly turns up a 1956 article [1] with the recipe: a Miltini is a six or seven-to-one Martini [i.e. ratio of spirits to vermouth] with a Miltown substituted for the lemon peel or olive.

The dramatically overwrought article continues: "It is doubtful if any other creation of the mid-20th Century so typifies this frantic, uncertain era in which no man can know what the next hour will bring." and suggests that a hermetically-sealed shaker of Miltinis should be placed in time capsules "so that posterity can know what real cool cats we were and how extraordinary the civilzation we wrought."

Personally, it sounds a bit like an urban legend. As the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said: "Unlike most drugs, its name was easily pronounceable and, better still, lent itself to punsters and jokesmiths on TV screens in the homes of millions of people. Example: 'Miltown Berle,' or 'The Government is giving out a Miltown with every income tax blank,' or 'Use a Miltown instead of an olive to make a Miltini'".

[1] https://archive.org/details/palm-springs-desert-sun-1956-11-...

[2] https://archive.org/details/sim_business-review-federal-rese...
by godelski | 2025-09-21 18:53:59+00:00
That's not an argument.

We've run services like that for decades but that doesn't mean there aren't problems with it.

https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-...

Also, you have like 4 replies to my comment and they're all made at roughly the same time and 2 are identical. How do you even do that? Please don't spam
by timr | 2025-09-21 18:54:02+00:00
Correctness is difficult when you’re dealing with a word that has a vague constellation of meanings. I gave you a correct definition. I didn’t assert that it was the only possible correct definition, but it is correct, and I made an argument, using that definition, that the current administration does not fit. Picking another definition is not a counterargument, unless you can also convincingly argue that the definition I gave you is wrong.

Backing up, my point was that people use this word as an epithet, and have little understanding of any meaning at all, beyond “politician did something I don’t like”. The definition doesn’t fit, because people are just slinging insults.

The problem with picking an alternative definition from Wikipedia, in particular, is that it has absolutely been gamed to fit whatever the Current Thing happens to be. For that reason, you should favor a less chaotic source.
by mrkeen | 2025-09-21 18:54:08+00:00
> (Oh I forgot about monads.)

This demands an equivalent article which takes the same form as TFA.

A coworker complains about monads, so the manager insists all monads be taken out.

So Brian gets to work on the codebase, removing all Lists, Optionals, Streams, Functions, Parsers, Transactions, ...
by dyauspitr | 2025-09-21 18:54:46+00:00
Adulthood would be great for people if they didn’t have to work to be honest. Work in hunter gatherer days used to be getting the kill for the day and then hanging out around a fire. There is no way that translates to dealing with 8 hours a day of office/labor work. We exchanged all of that freedom for medical advances is fundamentally what it seems like in the end. Was it worth it? Sure, but this is definitely not the end/steady state.
Show HN: Terminal Calculator in Pure C – Matlab in Your CLI
by den_dev | 2025-09-21 18:54:53+00:00
Full scientific calculator with matrices, variables, and 50+ functions. Zero dependencies.

gcc -o calculator calculator.c -lm -Wall -O2

Repo: https://github.com/DenisDolya/cli-arsenal/tree/main/calculat...

Perfect for math, engineering, and CLI enthusiasts.
by r14c | 2025-09-21 18:55:18+00:00
My past led to me to my present circumstances . You must have a huge regret somewhere if your past hasn't built into a future and present that you're happy with and excited to continue building. I'm not saying there's nothing I miss, but that's not the singular focus of my existence. I still have good times, even when I have struggled or will struggle in the future.

Or you might just be depressed.
by bonesss | 2025-09-21 18:56:24+00:00
> attributing feelings here and now to decade old stories and narratives is spooky action at a distance.

Pattern recognition, recurrent excitation of particular stimulus chains, formative psychology, neuroplasticity, and extraordinary stimulus leading to categorical responses. There seems to be deep evolutionary roots and reasons for all those behaviours and their collective expression.

I was bitten on the face by a dog as a child. I attribute feelings around curious dogs now to that decades old experience. My nervous system seems to think it’s an obvious connection, not spooky.

Feel better is easier outside of fight/flight conditioning.
by 1659447091 | 2025-09-21 18:56:31+00:00
> On the one hand, the UK’s conditions for the recognition may never be met.

They just recognized it "UK formally recognises Palestinian state"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce800enrglzo

Related post here got flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322919

PSA, See flagged post in the "active" tab https://news.ycombinator.com/active
by AndyKelley | 2025-09-21 18:57:14+00:00
It's common for both the producer of XML and the consumer of XML for any given application to be using a dramatically smaller subset of the standard. Well-engineered software is intentional about this and documents those limitations. Under these conditions it's perfectly valid to use a library that only supports this subset.

Furthermore, those subsets have natural "fault lines", influenced by the burden:utility ratio. This makes consumers and producers naturally coordinate on a subset. It's not like another commenter here said about everyone needing different features.

My argument is therefore that there is value in having different libraries for different subsets - with the smallest subset being much simpler than libxml2.
by adolph | 2025-09-21 18:57:22+00:00
> active cooling phone holders

Things I'd never think would exist much less that I would think of actual occasion for utility: my phone was in the sun (windshield), charging and performing wayfinding, resulting in "phone too hot" errors.

On the whole however, can someone explain how efficiency can be over 100%, if 100% represents conversion of inputs into all work and no entropy?
by gausswho | 2025-09-21 18:58:28+00:00
You're right, I should have qualified that this is a limited use. But the limit is, in practice, quite fluid. They won't make a lawsuit over a slumber party. Probably not for a meetup. I expect they will for a theatre. Will they for a dive bar with a bunch of old CD's and DVD's? Or for a funeral?

The selective enforcement exposes to me that it doesn't really have a ethical leg to stand on.
by peteforde | 2025-09-21 18:58:34+00:00
I can tell you exactly: it's your framing of relying on an LLM (or any outside assistance, including humans) as temporarily becoming "junior".

I feel strongly that delegation to strengths is one of the most obvious signs of experience.

Apologies for getting hung up on what might seem like trivial details, but when discussing on a text forum, word choices matter.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-21 18:58:51+00:00
> As noted in the ingress, the web browser is the primary application.

In Firefox, about:networking and about:networking#dns are the http cache and dns cache. I have never considered writing values to these directly. Could there be a method for doing so within the developer console? Perhaps someone knows.

There are replies in the below link that touch on it for Chrome. The top suggestion, however, is using a socks 5 proxy server as a workaround. https://superuser.com/questions/184643/override-dns-in-firef...
by pron | 2025-09-21 18:59:55+00:00
Oh, I didn't mean to touch a sore spot, I just assumed that by now it was obvious to everyone that a highly-marketed 10+-year-old language with less than 2% market penetration is unlikely (at least based on historical trends) to meet even the modest goal of half of the low-level software market (I wonder what someone who reads the numbers as "Rust pretty much won" would make of, say, Go's success, that is, at best, moderate but disappointing; still well behind Ruby).

BTW, I spend longer on sillier. Years ago, my therapist suggested spending my downtime online activity on low-stake matters, so as far as programming is concerned, you might find quite a bit of Rust and Haskell. But you should really see my Lego and whisky rants. If I were to comment much on politics or Python I would fear for my blood pressure.
by otterley | 2025-09-21 19:00:01+00:00
> In this case, The zionists are boosting a pro-israel narrative by excising free speech like mine - by banning Tiktok, then coercing Bytedance into selling their US subsidiary, and installing a IDF spokesperson to censor and moderate it.

Despite all the hue and cry to the contrary, your right to free speech ends at someone else's door. Free speech means that the government cannot censor you. It does not require that someone else allow you to use their megaphone to do it, or to share their megaphone among everyone equally. To claim otherwise misconstrues a century of First Amendment jurisprudence.

To be 100% clear: there is no First Amendment law in the USA that says that social media platforms' refusing to broadcast its users opinions equally violates their free speech rights. You can claim it does until your fingers fall off, but the law does not support this position.
by godelski | 2025-09-21 19:00:07+00:00
Yeah that's kinda what got me too. But whatever it writing those responses (troll or machine) is becoming less coherent as we talk more. I'm not sure if LLM but it does remind me of that part where they get stuck on something and will correct for a split second before going back to whatever they were doing. But I'm not sure, it's just weird and I'm certain the writer is not being genuine

I'm not sure why they're trying to manufacture outrage but I've been seeing interactions like that appear more and more on HN.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-21 19:00:11+00:00
It appears to be referred to as the "Paddywhack Security Protocol" in some documents:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708821.3710829

https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-modu...

https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OCP-NET-Falcon
by Aurornis | 2025-09-21 19:00:20+00:00
> Do you think another term is more appropriate to describe the experiences underlying CPTSD?

True CPTSD as diagnosed over time by a clinician is the result of complex traumas (complex, specifically, as that’s part of the definition. It’s what the C is for). The term is valid in that context.

In common social media language, even the term CPTSD has become diluted. It was intended to represent complex cases of PTSD which were edge cases, and correspondingly rare.

At some point the social media version of CPTSD emerged as a generic term and nearly everyone who self-diagnosed as having PTSD started upgrading themselves to CPTSD.

The comment above is right that “trauma” has become so generic as to cover everything stressful or saddening in common vernacular. The concept of CPTSD was supposed to be a step above even normal trauma, but now even CPTSD is being brought out as a generic term for any post-trauma response, which was never the definition of CPTSD.

A similar trend is happening on social media with the ADHD influencers now upgrading themselves to “AuDHD” which they say is a special more difficult variant of ADHD combined with Autism. My friends in psychiatry are at their wits end with all of the people coming in and demanding Autism diagnoses or “AuDHD” diagnoses despite not showing Autistic traits at all.

There’s an arms race going on where some people try to amplify experiences into something much more dramatic. These therapy and psychiatry terms start to lose their meaning when they get adopted by social media.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-21 19:01:14+00:00
Maybe a better phrasing is "don't make me think about inconsequential details". If I need to figure out your particular idiom of writing a for-loop, then that takes time away from thinking about what the code is actually doing. Even if that idiom is perfectly fine and works the same as any other for loop, it's not worth it if it makes people think about unnecessary things.

But like you say, if you've got an idiom that's actually useful (like programming in a functional style to avoid action-at-a-distance side effects), then document it so the whole team can get used to it and stop having to think about it.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-21 19:01:47+00:00
If people today believe this is something that happens to a terrible level, they'd just truly get a mouthful with all the myriad ways in which premodern life killed us and made us sick. The mortality rates for the prehistoric societies and hunter gatherers that the author mentions was absolutely atrocious by modern standards, based on archeological evidence..

The fundamental problem with many of these analyses is that they're basically stating: "things aren't ideal, boo hoo". Being human in a complex world full of threats internal and external, and both natural and artificial, by default will always make us sick as we individually make our choices to make it worse or better where we have any control at all.

How well we mitigate this compared to how well we mitigated it at any time in the past, and how many completely new options we have for mitigation are much more important than bemoaning the essential reality of the situation.

For example, a hunter gatherer could only do so very little to change any aspect of their diet, daily living habits or basic survival needs. Inside that range was their life and their death. An average modern human, saturated by junk food that their body isn't adapted to handling well, canon the other hand at any time completely remake their diet into something entirely new, or change their career, or take up all kinds of different exercise and sleep options.
by surgical_fire | 2025-09-21 19:01:57+00:00
> You’ll probably take this the wrong way but I have no other way to say it. If are not in grief over your past, you truly had a poor past, or you have not yet realized the significance of it.

Not GP, but this is absolutely wrong.

I had a good childhood with loving parents, I had many friends growing up, and I enjoyed my free time.

I also enjoy that it came to an end. All good things nust end, else they have no value.

This is mostly because I achieved nice things in life. In many ways the present is the best time of my life. I embrace change. I like my adulthood, and as I grow older I will enjoy my old age while my health allows to.

Dwelling in the past is unhealthy.
by ivape | 2025-09-21 19:02:12+00:00
That’s the thing about the depression, is that that there is a somberness to accepting that you cannot continue building. For example, if you are 80, you cannot keep building a future for yourself. If you are 20, you cannot keep building a childhood for yourself. There’s a raw acceptance involved, like a cold bath.

Some stay in that cold bath, some even embrace the cold bath. The reason depression is not bounded to any time period or generation is because this is the human process that is constantly occurring.

You’d have to be oblivious if you keep moving forward happily, honestly.

In a sense, I’m suggesting it may be crazy to not be depressed.
by discreteevent | 2025-09-21 19:02:44+00:00
Well, I remember reading an article some time after 9/11 where they studied the incidence of PTSD in New York following that event.

Even in areas that were some distance from the towers there was a relatively high incidence. They put it down to a background level of stress including sources like violence on TV.

This was in comparison to other parts of the world that were less modern and less busy than experienced more traumatic events but had less PTSD. The conclusion was that if you generally have a more boring/ quiet life you will be better able to absorb trauma if it occurs.
by zkmon | 2025-09-21 19:03:30+00:00
Goals of modern life do not seem to include improving human health. The main goal is to just keep pushing the boundaries of every trend as hard as possible and let it take us wherever it goes. Pushing the trends blindly, gives a selling opportunity. We really don't care about where we end up with the trends. It's like an evolving picture where multiple artists keep extending the curvy lines in weirdest ways on all the fringes of the picture and call their part a great art. There is no one who looks at the full picture.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-21 19:03:46+00:00
I have no idea what is going on here.

The claim above seemed to have been that professors who went against particular narratives regarding transgender affirmation and public health efforts surrounding covid were silenced or even expelled from the academy. This is just observably not the case. Some sense that the academy demands absolute conformity to left wing positions is something people often say but it is ill supported.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-09-21 19:04:21+00:00
Weights + short/mid distance running is the sweet spot for me. I think it provides the best health/time ratio. You can get in absolutely amazing shape with 45-60mins per day. The people suggesting 8-10 miles of walking a day is absolutely bonkers to me. That’s like 2-3hours of walking a day! How have you got that kind of time?
by txru | 2025-09-21 19:04:24+00:00
It's not impossible that there's something here, but I think this sort of presentation isn't likely to convince linguists.

I in particular am not a huge fan of the infographic[0] that uses the same image asset to refer to a spiral, box, sun, dots, etc... for entire continents, for all recorded history.

I would prefer to see pictures of these symbols, and their in-situ neighbors, and a corresponding symbol across a wide distance that's within at most 2-300 years.

We want to feel that language has commonalities, that people traveled long distances and times and kept some common bond. It might even make intuitive sense, if the people share cultural similarities. But it often results in linguists making motivated decisions without enough evidence, like happened with the "Altaic"[1] language family.

[0] https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/m... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages#Weakness_of_l...
by DennisP | 2025-09-21 19:04:27+00:00
For a long time I played around with ideas for hypertext that would be fully decentralized, but implement much of what Xanadu was supposed to do (without micropayments, but with personalized filtering). Several years ago I wrote the core of a text editor that would maintain bidirectional links at the correct positions in editable documents. Partly I was thinking about decentralized social media, but mostly I was interested in collective intelligence, i.e. new and better ways for lots of people to coordinate to do intelligent things.

And then LLMs happened. It seems to me that LLMs, with RAG today or giant contexts later, do a lot of what I wanted. Instead of starting with documents from various collaborators, adding links between them, and stitching together new documents with transclusions, you can just chat with an LLM to get summaries, references, and so on. A lot of manual wrangling turns into a conversational collaboration with the machine (and through that, your human collaborators).