MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthk | 2025-10-29 09:22:33+00:00
>Sorry, I can't do that.

'Modern' Z-Machine games (v5 version compared to the original v3 one from Infocom) will allow you to do that and far more. By 'modern' I meant from the early 90's and up. Even more with v8 games.

>This was also why people hated operating systems like MS-DOS, and why even all the Linux users reading this right now are doing so in a graphical user interface.

The original v3 Z Machine parser (raw one) was pretty much limited compared to the v5 one. Even more with against the games made with Inform6 and the Inform6 English library targetting the v5 version.

Go try yourself. Original Zork from MIT (Dungeon) converted into a v5 ZMachine game:

https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-...

Spot the differences. For instance, you could both say 'take the rock' and, later, say 'drop it'.

>take mat Taken. >drop it Dropped. >take the mat Taken. >drop mat Dropped. >open mailbox You open the mailbox, revealing a small leaflet. >take leaftlet You can't see any such thing. >take leaflet Taken. >drop it Dropped.

Now, v5 games are from late 80's/early 90's. There's Curses, Jigsaw, Spider and Web ... v8 games are like Anchorhead, pretty advanced for its time:

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7

You can either download the Z8 file and play it with Frotz (Linux/BSD), WinFrotz, or Lectrote under Android and anything else. Also, online with the web interpreter.

Now, the 'excuses' about the terseness of the original Z3 parser are now nearly void; because with Puny Inform a lot of Z3 targetting games (for 8086 DOS PC's, C64's, Spectrums, MSX'...) have a slightly improved parser against the original Zork game.
by jgant | 2025-10-29 09:22:52+00:00
Good to see more awareness of this. 20 yrs working as a developer, suffered a stroke last year (ischaemic), in hospital for a week, back working out of necessity not too long after that. Gravity of the condition never occurred to me until much later; self employed, main income provider for the house, recovery full of fatigue and emotional turmoil. It's a slow road, I think I'm very lucky and definitely main changes are stress management, diet/lifestyle and rebalancing of work commitments. Everyone's different, but it's not as uncommon a condition as people think. But it certainly can be utterly devastating so please do look after each other and yourselves. Brain injury and recovery takes time and because it's not visible it's very easy to forget or overlook that it's there and healing
by wvh | 2025-10-29 09:23:03+00:00
My common model IKEA stove – rebranded Siemens or Electrolux – runs at ~400v (Northern Europe). I know because it broke and I almost poked at it, until I got spooked by the warning labels. It's on its own circuit. Not an expert but as far as I know, most houses in Western/Northern Europe have a three-prong stove/oven connection in the kitchen for a ~400v feed.
by latexr | 2025-10-29 09:23:50+00:00
I had been wishing for uBlock Origin for Safari for years, but now that it’s here (I’ve been using it since the betas), I’m disappointed. It’s really ugly to look at (even the icon in the toolbar looks out of place), configuration is awkward and resets itself unless you give it full permissions for every website from the get go, and it doesn’t seem to be more effective than other popular blockers. Additionally, pretty much every other blocker includes several extensions to overcome the well-known 150K rule limit, but uBlock Origin only includes one, meaning it can’t be blocking as much.
by cess11 | 2025-10-29 09:24:00+00:00
Here's the Grugq discussing such issues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3j1AhS0iKI

Here's Zoz on related topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d0Qz7bHeRo

If you actually have to keep the state confuzzled you're going to have to work with personas and double, triple, quadruple lives. This is hard and takes years of practice to learn the discipline needed to keep it up, and you'll have to discard things like ethics and true personal relations because you're going to routinely deceive and use people in your everyday life. One shortcut would be to study state published spy material, it's commonly concise and quite practical.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-10-29 09:24:44+00:00
> Is being part of a minority prerequisite for personal health care?

Discrimination doesn’t have to be racial. You can be discriminated because of a handicap.

From Cambridge dictionary

> discriminate verb (TREAT DIFFERENTLY) > to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their race, gender, sexuality, etc.
by norome | 2025-10-29 09:26:11+00:00
I used to think i didn't like people — Until i met some people I liked.

I think it's a bit different from developing taste, what you describe. It's more about finding out who you are. I would say once you know your baseline for what makes chocolate/coffee/etc enjoyable, then taste is about experiencing the nuances within that spectrum. Some people also have a greater tolerance for things that aren't really tasty due to coming up in a culture where things generally taste plain or bad (netherlands and UK come to mind).
by newsuser | 2025-10-29 09:26:59+00:00
> ...there are two kinds of people, those who do things only if it helps them achieve a goal, and those who do things just because. The ideal, of course, is to be a mix of both.

This is related to what Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance calls the romantic (subjective, "artistic") and the classical (objective, "scientific") understanding. He, too, points that the ideal is to enjoy both. Not because there are both useful and have their place and time, but because this is a false dichotomy to begin with and, ideally, one should refrain from defining the splitting and abandon both concepts (after all, the Zen in the title is there for a reason).
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-29 09:27:06+00:00
It is amazing! With some brutal hacks to some array indices, and probably some excessive quoting changes it can work in Bash too:

echo -ne '\e[8;32;90;t'; n=20; t=524292; l=$((t-1)); m=$((2\*n-1)); c=0; xs=(1); ys=(1); for ((i=0; i<n*m; i++)); do b=$((l&1)); l=$(((l>>1)^(b*t))); c=$((((c<<1)|b)&m)); if ((i%n==0)); then xs=("$c" "${xs[@]:0:4}"); y=$(( ((xs[4]-xs[0])<<30) - 0x3fffd60f*ys[1] + 0x7d32617c*ys[0] )); y=$((y>>30)); ys=("$y" "${ys[@]:0:1}"); yd=$((120+(y>>24))); printf '\e[48;5;%um ' "$yd"; fi; done

This could probably be submitted to https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall...
by Archelaos | 2025-10-29 09:29:28+00:00
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" -- Max Weinrich

In the Yiddish original: "אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
by buserror | 2025-10-29 09:29:50+00:00
Another thing if you are recovering and have limited dexterity in your hands, after trying pretty much ALL the voice recognition I could find, the VScode/copilot assistant is the best by far!

I've now recovered enough that I can type/edit faster, but I still use it; I keep a Worksheet.md tab around and keep a whole running log of stuff, LLM prompts etc
by qcnguy | 2025-10-29 09:30:08+00:00
Whittaker's comments weren't "made in the moment", they were posted in a big thread on Mastodon where she had all the time in the world to write them. But I guess you see that her comments are embarrassing to Signal, otherwise why invent excuses.

The Mozilla/Mitchell Baker vibes are strong here. It indicates a lot about Signal that its leadership doesn't understand who their competitors are (she thinks its Palantir?!), nor the basics of running a messaging service, nor even what her imagined competitors really do. X runs its own datacenters, Palantir is running in every cloud. They don't support her argument.

And I've worked on two web scale products with billions of users, both of them had 5 9's uptime. HN is full of people who have. This stuff isn't rocket science. The first reply on Mastodon points out that even Tor has better uptime than Signal.

She's saying this stuff because of her social background, not technical reality. It's just AWFL activist buzzphrases strung together, the sort of rhetoric that served her well in the past to climb the ladder. She's "concerned" and "surprised" that angry users don't understand the "power" of Amazon which "bodes poorly for our ability to craft reality-based strategies capable of contesting this concentration". She acknowledges "the high stakes use cases of many who rely on Signal" but has no interest in meeting those high stakes by driving the execution of an ordinary HA/multi-cloud/multi-region project, of the type that happens all the time in any bank. That's impossible, literally "there isn't really another choice", and also unnecessary because Signal is a mobile app so it depends on Android and that's the same thing as a depending on a cloud (what?). Her conclusion: "my silver lining hope is that AWS going down can be a learning moment", by which she means a learning moment FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

Can you imagine Mark Zuckerberg or Pavel Durov crying about Amazon and demanding that their outage be lesson to their users? It's unthinkable. They'd be in the conference rooms with the engineers figuring out how to ensure it never happens again. They might publish a public post mortem to build confidence. That's because they are engineers. Whittaker isn't so she publishes heart emojis and expresses concern at how little sympathy she's getting. No, this is 100% bad news for Signal. It's got totally feminized leadership that responds to the orgs own mistakes with demands for empathy, not fast paced engineering.
by cryptoneo | 2025-10-29 09:30:13+00:00
The play store ID process is ridiculous, their AI is making up BS why it wouldn't let your documents pass, clearly no human in the loop.

In the EU we can report this to: comp-market-information@ec.europa.eu

State that: Google is abusing its dominant position on the market for Android-app distribution by “denial of access to an essential facility”. Google is not complying with their "gatekeeper" DMA obligations (Article 5(4), Article 6(12), Article 11, Article 15)

Attach evidence.

Financial penalty is the only way to pressure this company to abide law.
by Garvi | 2025-10-29 09:31:40+00:00
If people working for Google had a conscience, they would be working to break the system from within. At this point it's leaving the confines of anti-consumerism and entering into a gray area of basic human rights abuse. It's clearly a cartel market with the other big players (Apple and others to a lesser extend) that needed to be broken 10 years ago(if it were possible).

It reminds me a bit of the book "The Constant Soldier", depicting Auschwitz guards and staff enjoying their carefree holiday at a nearby lake resort, before going back to burning people. Might seem like hyperbole, but I think we're rushing towards an ugly plutocracy.
by roenxi | 2025-10-29 09:32:08+00:00
> why would I sink my money into any kind of risky venture when the market keeps spitting out 15% a year returns on safe investments

If it returns 15% it isn't a safe investment. The rate of return for a safe investment is in the 1-3% real range. Someone is offering you 15% real that implies they think it is a risky enterprise to sign on with. 15% nominal isn't so hard to find (gold yields at 10% nominal - but that isn't actually coming out ahead as much as treading water). It isn't a very impressive nominal rate of return in that sense but it is still not all that safe.
by ajnin | 2025-10-29 09:33:16+00:00
Android has not been really open for a long time now.

- Many APIs have been moved to Google Play Services (which is not open source), and many apps have come to rely on them. You can emulate it partially but not fully, see second point below.

- Some features like device attestation / SafetyNet fail on non-"official" devices, for example many banking or government ID apps refuse to work on open source os like GrapheneOS
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-29 09:35:18+00:00
Those certainly look like proper, tasty cheeses.

I don't doubt that there's a thriving junk food culture in France, but they do have something like 1000 different varieties of cheese, so I can imagine the french getting annoyed if someone asks them for a nice bit of cheddar.

The U.S. seems to have a strange relationship with raw milk - I believe it can be fairly freely sold over there, whereas we in the UK can't buy/sell raw milk in shops although it can be purchased from farms and farmer's markets. Meanwhile, raw milk cheese are common in supermarkets - they just put a label on it warning pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems.
by Karaoke | 2025-10-29 09:35:36+00:00
This in-depth benchmark compares DeepSeek-OCR (MIT licensed), PaddleOCR, and Tesseract. DeepSeek-OCR achieves 96-97% accuracy on OmniDocBench and uses its unique 10x text compression for millisecond inference on long documents. It is 2-3x faster than Tesseract in production and outperforms PaddleOCR on complex layouts (like tables and formulas), being named the best Deep OCR tool for 2025.
by danielfalbo | 2025-10-29 09:37:55+00:00
I don't think the CLI one is a good analogy.

> We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason

Man I still love command-line so much

> And it would go on like this for hours while you tried in vain to guess what the hell it wanted you to type, or you discovered the outdoors, whichever came first. [...] guess what secret spell they had to type into their computer to get actual work done

Well... docs and the "-h" do a pretty good job.
by ben_w | 2025-10-29 09:38:13+00:00
Am I to understand that you are unaware that "race" is "skin tone" in much of the Anglosphere? This specific mapping, and the uselessness of the categories, is the core of why "race" is seen as a social construct.

The categorical divisions that translate as "race" are different in other parts of the world, and that they are so varied demonstrates the same point: it's a socially defined categorisation system. These other divisions too are necessarily superficial, though with a language barrier as well as a cultural barrier I cannot compare their usage to the racial categories I grew up with.
by mtmail | 2025-10-29 09:38:14+00:00
I reported some users to the moderators where it was obvious. Either the account answered long but generic, a certain weird pattern a genuine users wouldn't do. Or multiple accounts have an agenda like trying to mention a certain product, answering each other questions. Most bots submit ads or spam though, super obvious, often dumb and auto-blocked by HN algorithms already. Bots are not allowed on HN.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-29 09:38:15+00:00
The only challenge to https, as compared to http, is certificates. If not for certificates I could roll out a server with https absolutely anywhere in seconds including localhost and internal intranets.

On another note I would much prefer to skip https, as the default, and go straight to WSS (TLS WebSockets). WebSockets are superior to HTTP in absolutely every regard except that HTTP is session-less.
by im_down_w_otp | 2025-10-29 09:39:00+00:00
Never denied eh? Interesting.

I had an MRI denied for a partial pectoral rupture. Which was a routine diagnostic as a precursor to open shoulder surgery to determine the extent and location of the rupture to figure out if surgery was absolutely necessary and to prep a viable surgical plan.

I had to fight the insurance company with the assistance of both my surgical and non-surgical sports medicine doctors.

The good news though appears to be that I imagined the entire thing, because denials for routine things never happen.
by qiu3344 | 2025-10-29 09:39:07+00:00
Personally, I usually try to pick motherboards that give you access to everything you need via the serial port (UEFI, boot selection, etc).

That's why solutions like this seem a little bit backward to me.

On top of that, all server/desktop OSes I'm familiar with, provide better remote control options after boot (that respect UAC) - but maybe I'm simply not the target demographic here.
by esskay | 2025-10-29 09:39:44+00:00
See I was similar but the big difference back then was a random little 99c app on iOS would make you several thousand dollars a month, so the $100/year fee was nothing for a long time. It was only after around 2012 that things changed.

On Google Play I never, ever had any app be anything close to as successful as on iOS. I think I probably made less than 1/100th the amount I did on iOS back in the day.
by mft_ | 2025-10-29 09:40:03+00:00
I think the context is clear from what was written:

> As the other global options for network hardware are Ericsson, Samsung and Huawei, Nokia is the closest to a “Made in USA” solution. Its HQ is in Finland but at least it’s a NATO country now.

i.e. with the current US administration, a "Made in USA" solution to critical infrasctructure would likely be seen as ideal; and viewed through this lens, when the other options come from Sweden, Finland, South Korea, and China, Finland is probably the best option.

I didn't read any implied criticism of Finland.
by gwd | 2025-10-29 09:40:22+00:00
> It looks cyclical to me. The materialism of the postwar era led into the civil rights movement of the late 60s and 70s, which turned into the materialistic 80s, which was rejected by the countercultural late 90s and 2000s, after which there was a slight deviation in which transgression rather than anti-materialism was rejected, and now we're back to materialism.

The post has loads of graphs going back to the 50's, with trend lines continually going down, not cycling up and down during those time frames.
by mcherm | 2025-10-29 09:40:58+00:00
Odd that your experience would be so different from mine. I routinely experience denials.

To give an example, about 60 to 80% of the time, when I visit the dentist for a regular cleaning the charge is denied and I have to submit additional paperwork to convince them to pay it. I can't think of any more simple and basic procedure than that.

I have no idea why your experience with healthcare in the US is so much better, but I can assure you that there are many people whose experience is more like mine.
by faeyanpiraat | 2025-10-29 09:41:21+00:00
I went down the knife-sharpening rabbit hole a bit, too, but I only managed to make my knives duller with whetstones, even though I have good dexterity.

Eventually, I just took my knives to a professional sharpener and got the paper-thin, tomato-slicing sharpness I wanted.

Funnily enough, I had both an expensive "forged" knife and a cheap IKEA one, and the IKEA knife was sharper and held its edge much better.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-29 09:43:26+00:00
I had so many more issues running Windows over the years than Linux. BSODs were a common occurrence, and yearly fresh installs were a thing to keep my computer usable.

I moved to Mint almost 4 years ago at this point, running it on a now fairly old Dell G5 from 2019. Runs as smoothly as ever.

I had one problem during this 4 year run (botched update and OS wouldn't start). Logging to terminal and getting Timeshift to go back to before the update did the trick. Quick and painless. I could even run all the updates (just had to be careful to apply one of those after a reboot).

I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe I am just very lucky with Linux.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-29 09:43:28+00:00
Because not everyone is in it for the short term.

Tax reasons might be one as well, long term capital gains are taxed less.

There are few investors that can spend the time it takes to be active like that.

Most people buying individual stocks are better of buying ETFs anyway.

In the end it's a choice on what to spend your time on.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-29 09:43:36+00:00
I used to have some medium expensive good headphones. That was pretty much the only non-shit hardware I ever invested in and I really could hear a difference. But with age and decreasing hearing now I cant tell anymore, so that one thing I cared about not buying cheap trash is no longer relevant.

The trick for most things is to just not spend time and effort to learn what to look for. Happy to see in this thread I am not the only one.
by breve | 2025-10-29 09:43:48+00:00
The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/

90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925

LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/

GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/

VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-29 09:44:08+00:00
I think it's more like: investors permanently unhappy because they were promised ownership of God and now we're built out they're getting a few percent a year instead at best. Squeeze extra hard this quarter to get them off the Board's backs for another couple of months.

Investors are never happy long term because even if you have a fantastic quarter, they'll throw a tantrum if you don't do it even better every single time.
by didacusc | 2025-10-29 09:44:12+00:00
That is simply not true. I have tried to get so many people on Linux, just for it to fail when they try to do something simple, enough times in a row for them to want to go back to Windows.

I really wish it was seamless and good, but it just isn't (and frankly it's a bit embarrassing it isn't given desktop environments for GNU Linux have been in development for 20+ years).
by latexr | 2025-10-29 09:44:37+00:00
> iCloud Private Relay is the only thing that stops Safari using your NextDNS config

Maybe that’s true for the NextDNS configuration—I don’t know, I haven’t tested, so I’ll take your word for it—but not true for DNS settings in general.

> turn that off and you're golden.

Unless you want iCloud Private Relay, in which case you’re not.
by PanoptesYC | 2025-10-29 09:45:25+00:00
Yeah it would be nice to break away from the google ecosystem and install GrapheneOS on whatever device I like-

GrapheneOS has official production support for the following devices:

Pixel 9a (tegu) Pixel 9 Pro Fold (comet) Pixel 9 Pro XL (komodo) Pixel 9 Pro (caiman) Pixel 9 (tokay) Pixel 8a (akita) Pixel 8 Pro (husky) Pixel 8 (shiba) Pixel Fold (felix) Pixel Tablet (tangorpro) Pixel 7a (lynx) Pixel 7 Pro (cheetah) Pixel 7 (panther) Pixel 6a (bluejay) Pixel 6 Pro (raven) Pixel 6 (oriole)
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-29 09:47:29+00:00
And it doesn't work anymore when you swipe back. The phone shows the previous page but without any adblocking.

I too hoped for a ublock origin with filters lists, kind of what we have on Firefox or even the lite version for chrome but it's not nearly as good.

And we can't say it's apple fault because other adblockers like Adguard does allow customs lists and custom rules.
by berkes | 2025-10-29 09:47:51+00:00
The root cause of that is the lack of a true Capital Market union.

In the US, you can get VC across state borders and VC can invest in any US company regardless of their location. Not in the EU.

Investing in an Estonian startup from, say, the Netherlands is near impossible. And even if managed, now that NL investor has to repeat the entire process for Poland, Spain, Malta and other countries.

EU Made Simple explains this very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RqYws1JAuI
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-10-29 09:48:06+00:00
But Linux is GPL. That didn't stop Google from using it as a basis for something that is not GPL and in fact not even open source (Google Play Services).

What leverage does a community of engineers have to insist on anything? Android could be entirely closed source. So could Chrome.

It would be naive to assume that the power dynamics in our society can be fundamentally altered by a 10 line software license.