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by mxfh | 2025-05-01 17:36:17+00:00
It's has 5x exaggerated height by default, so maybe that's what makes it look wonky. Looks way better by 1x.

If you really want to capture the full visual information of a painting, you'd need full PBR-style data — reflective, refractive, subsurface properties — essentially the response of the surface from any viewing angle in the hemisphere, lit from at least a few fixed directions (like in a museum light setup). Even limited to the visible spectrum, this would massively increase the amount of data needed to represent the image accurately.

The 2019 scan apparently deliberately removed reflections, even though they're an essential part of the artist's intended expression.

Are there models that simulate the actual physical properties of paintings — under artificial lighting, viewed from arbitrary angles? Seems like a worthwhile direction for preserving artworks beyond their flat 2D captures. It could also enable virtually accurate displays of art for single observers using head-tracked screens or VR.

Might also be a promising use case for NERFs or 3D Gaussian Splatting.
by VSerge | 2025-05-01 17:36:19+00:00
Ongoing demo of integrations with Claude by a bunch of A-list companies: Linear, Stripe, Paypal, Intercom, etc.. It's live now on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBGqr-BU54

In case the above link doesn't work later on, the page for this demo day is here: https://demo-day.mcp.cloudflare.com/
by aireo | 2025-05-01 17:36:24+00:00
I absolutely agree that this is not a unique situation, and I see -- and even know -- people who're going through the same experience.

> There will be a culling of this profession. Some will reinvent themselves and push forward, some will find peace in leaving it behind. Some will be excited to enter it, and some will be scared off by the sight of the wreckage. It's a challenging moment, and the truth is it's just not going to be for everyone.

This is a good point.

Thank you for taking the time to share. I appreciate it.
by TheDong | 2025-05-01 17:36:37+00:00
Practically every other chat ecosystem I've used has worked fine from android or ios, or for the most part my desktop computer. Signal, XMPP, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Twitter DMs, Google Chat, all of these work _fine_ from every general computing device I own (iPhone, android, linux).

Somehow it's only iMessage which doesn't have an android or desktop or web app, despite Apple having more money than every other messenger app I mentioned.

> your family members chose Apple when they purchased their phones.

Apple chooses the default and integrates it into the OS more deeply than any third-party app can be integrated. It's not a free choice... and then Apple also refuses to provide open access to this ecosystem to other devices.

I know other people have sometimes said that it's an anti-spam measure to tie the iMessage account to an apple ID which is associated with a purchase. I'd be fine making an apple ID and paying up to $300 to get iMessage access for it if that would allow me to not use iOS and still communicate with my family (via an officially supported / recognized android + linux iMessage app).

When my iPhone finally breaks (and may it be soon), I am planning to get a mac mini server and install https://bluebubbles.app/ to solve this.

I am mildly worried that apple will eventually ban me for that, as they did with beeper (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156308), and also not thrilled about the increased electric bill that'd entail.
by clee_tech01 | 2025-05-01 17:37:53+00:00
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by ljoshua | 2025-05-01 17:37:55+00:00
I was running into context window issues doing this. I could have gone in and split up the scanned book into chapters or something to get around this, and did that for a couple of subjects. But it wasn't too much work (and literally cost me pennies, like six of them) to get the pure text extract, and it's pretty easy to work with now. (Besides, which random dev doesn't love a little side challenge to explore new APIs at home every now and then? ;) )
by mritchie712 | 2025-05-01 17:38:50+00:00
Yeah, I was always curious why Fivetran didn't build this themselves when reverse-ETL started to take off.

I built a company[0], SeekWell, in this space (launched before Census), but was mostly focused on Sheets and Slack as destinations. SeekWell was acquired a few years ago too.

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by stevenwoo | 2025-05-01 17:38:54+00:00
It's not the "liberal" mindset, it's the mindset of being open to conspiracy theories like Pizzagate or QAnon and circulates in similar circles. The number of suburban moms that fell for all that does not fit your hypotheses. It made the news cycle for a while: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/qanon-conspiracies-moms-life...
by enragedcacti | 2025-05-01 17:38:55+00:00
In what sense, that we literally didn't know how to do e2e across messaging networks? The Signal protocol existed in 2016 when Schiller argued against cross-platform (also PGP for 30+ years). Even granting that, offering iMessage on Android would satisfy most people and doesn't require operating across networks so any argument about feasibility rings very hollow.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android...
by 10000truths | 2025-05-01 17:39:18+00:00
The demands for internal memos aren't arbitrary, they follow due process of law. Plaintiff serves a subpoena. Defendant can contest the subpoena by filing a motion to quash with the judge, who either approves or denies the motion. But in a case like this where the defendant is a large corporation (or representative thereof) and the subpoenaed information is relevant to the facts of the case, the judge is likely to honor the subpoena.
by echelon | 2025-05-01 17:39:25+00:00
If you open source something, the rich trillion dollar companies just steal it.

If you're okay with that, that's cool. But they'll profit off of your work and labor. And the worst part is that at scale, the advantages of the sum total of open source is used to compete with you and put price pressure on your salary and career options. To rephrase that, the hyperscalers are in a position to leverage open source to take advantage of market opportunities you cannot, and they can use that to compete with your business or competing businesses that might otherwise pay you better.

Open source needs anti-Google/Amazon/Microsoft clauses.
by p_ing | 2025-05-01 17:39:28+00:00
> The amount of things a computer can do in a single thread are amazing, and computers now have a dozen or more threads to do work. If developers cared about performance, things would easily be 20x as performant as they are today.

Why? A good portion of programs are still single-threaded, and often that's the correct choice. Even in games a single-threaded main thread or logic thread may be the only choice. Where multi-threading makes sense it should be employed, but it's difficult to do well.

Otherwise, it's up to the OS to balance threads appropriately. All major OSes do this well today.
by user32489318 | 2025-05-01 17:39:30+00:00
It takes little skill, 15USD soldering iron to solder 4-5 through holes wires, connect 10 usd programmer and flash a new firmware. Investing in a (de)soldering station, with the risk of pulling all the neighboring components, breadboard/something to plugin your new controller or memory into for programming and what not? I’m not sure if I’d go through that trouble
by freejazz | 2025-05-01 17:39:54+00:00
Here's a great application of reasonable: your post is incredibly unreasonable.

It's a long rant that is not based in the law, the application of "reasonability" in the law, or other examples of "good faith" standards being used. It's made without any expertise or direct relevant knowledge, yet it is offered with the authority and conviction as if you understood more about the law than the judge in question. Reasonable isn't a state of mind, so when you ask things like "who is this judge to read these people's minds" it begs a million quesitons like, how can your worldview ever deal with laws that DO involve a state of mind? This isn't some huge problem in the legal world, we rely on evidence and the reasonable conclusions and inferences you can make from the evidence.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-01 17:40:01+00:00
But you don't even need in-person interviews. Video interviews work fine of you have any semblance of actual competence as an interviewer, and an awareness to check for these kinds of things.

Video filters are still pretty obvious in real-time, and, like the one example given in the article, if the person says they are from Poland but can't speak Polish, that's a good sign, too.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-05-01 17:40:10+00:00
I agree with the GP on the definition of whataboutism, and think that you have described something with a much older term: "pointing out the hypocrisy".

They both share in common that rather than continuing to talk about just one thing, you are now talking about (at least) two.

But whataboutism is a diversion tactic that tries to shift the attention from behavior/event A to behavior/event B; pointing out the hypocrisy notes the similarities between behaviors/events A and B and contrasts the response.

Both can be deployed in similar situations, but the motivations for choosing one over the other are substantially different.
by seanhunter | 2025-05-01 17:40:25+00:00
That isn't a remotely fair characterization of what the rust for linux team were saying. In particular they committed to maintaining it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1006805/

"We wrote a single piece of Rust code that abstracts the C API for all Rust drivers, which we offer to maintain ourselves".

I wish that HN as a whole could maintain a respectful and curious tone of debate when these threads come up. Feel like both rust advocates and skeptics could do a lot better.
by Anthony-G | 2025-05-01 17:40:27+00:00
Such films might be too “communist” for Americans but they would definitely be too “communist” for the current Chinese Communist Party. They might call themselves communists or socialists but the last thing they want is for Chinese workers to get ideas about organising autonomously and collectively. The last time this happened in 1989, they were ruthlessly crushed by the dominant, conservative wing of the CCP.

https://jacobin.com/2019/06/tiananmen-square-worker-organiza...
by danogentili | 2025-05-01 17:40:48+00:00
You listed around 4 competing stores in your example, but Apple explicitly does not allow anyone to compete with their own store (except for in the EU, thanks to the DMA, and even then they take their cut, see below).

Another issue with the analogy is that when you buy a PC in a physical store, that store does not continue taking a cut of all software bought on that PC using i.e. unrelated digital stores (but that's precisely what Apple is asking from competing stores in the EU).
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-01 17:40:53+00:00
> Next they will come for yours.

Like "they" came for middle-class Americans in stable US government jobs?

If they cared about re-creating a middle class with jobs, they wouldn't have started with wantonly eliminating so many of them using a method similar to checking if the packaged spaghetti is cooked. Toss it randomly at the wall and see what sticks.
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by bix6 | 2025-05-01 17:40:56+00:00
Anything stand out to you? I’ll add it to the list but in the meantime I found these points from Chat interesting.

3. Impact on Corporate Governance

With substantial holdings across numerous companies, major index fund providers possess significant voting power in shareholder decisions. Wigglesworth discusses the implications of this influence, questioning whether these firms can effectively oversee corporate management without the traditional incentives that drive active investors.

4. Systemic Risks and Market Stability

The author also examines the potential systemic risks posed by the dominance of index funds. He explores scenarios where market shocks could be exacerbated by the passive nature of index investing, potentially leading to increased volatility and reduced market resilience.
by user_7832 | 2025-05-01 17:41:09+00:00
I agree with your overall message - rapid growth appears to encourage competition and forces companies to put their best foot forward.

However, unfortunately, I cannot shower much praise on Claude 3.7. And if you (or anyone) asks why - 3.7 seems much better than 3.5, surely? - Then I’m moderately sure that you use Claude much more for coding than for any kind of conversation. In my opinion, even 3.5 Haiku (which is available for free during high loads) is better than 3.7 Sonnet.

Here’s a simple test. Try asking 3.7 to intuitively explain anything technical - say, mass dominated vs spring dominated oscillations. I’m a mechanical engineer who studied this stuff and I could not understand 3.7’s analogies.

I understand that coders are the largest single group of Claude’s users, but Claude went from being my most used app to being used only after both chatgpt and Gemini, something that I absolutely regret.
by dang | 2025-05-01 17:41:18+00:00
All: Hacker News is for curious conversation.

Bashing people who hold opposing views with harsh phrases driven by pre-existing emotion is not only not curious conversation, it poisons it.

Unfortunately, quite a few of you have been doing that in this thread. That's not ok, and no, the topic does not excuse it—on the contrary: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

If you aren't feeling curious, or can't post thoughtfully and substantively, please take a break until you are and can.
by oliwarner | 2025-05-01 17:41:20+00:00
> there are places where non-free makes sense too

Seriously now, where is that? The only scenarios I can think of are devices that could put others at risk. Large vehicles. But even, many countries allow modified vehicles on the road.

But everything else should be game. If it's my device and only me at risk, why should anyone else get a say.
by fourside | 2025-05-01 17:41:22+00:00
I’m worried that this outcome will be applied too broadly and affect Steam. Sure Steam is not perfect, but its dominance is in large part to them offering a superior product. Admittedly I’m not a game developer so the 30% cut doesn’t affect me directly, but I think it’s fair to say that Valve’s success has been a net positive to PC game devs.

Valve remains as one of the rare early tech company successes that has not suffered from enshitification the way so many others have. A key to that is that they have found a way to make a ton of money, and their leadership is happy to be very rich without continuing to expand and grow at all costs. If that business model is threatened, I’m not convinced that gamers and game devs would necessarily be better off.
by hilbert42 | 2025-05-01 17:41:24+00:00
"The judge declared that Apple’s VP of Finance Alex Roman lied under oath in a court of law. Apple knew this and did not comply with its legal obligation to correct the record.…

…Roman could literally be sent to jail for this, with Apple also subject to criminal sanctions."

Unfortunately, that's hardly likely, nowadays the US justice system hasn't the balls to go that far. Everyone knows Apple is too big and powerful to touch other than to wave a feather at it.

These days governance and democracy first and foremost serve the rich and powerful.
by 190eH169ps | 2025-05-01 17:41:40+00:00
can someone build a script that extracts the names of all this stuff like neurotransmitters, messengers, proteins, hormones and visualizes their amounts per metabolism around/at the time of the measured effect/observed behavior and or during the time of conditioning -- when stimulating (chemical, physical, psychological) measures were taken? a table to start with would be fine.

please? all that lingo is above my pay-grade
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-05-01 17:42:03+00:00
We need to stop taking the OSI or FSF's positions on anything as particularly valuable.

The OSI is captured entirely by corporate sponsors. Amazon was paying a full-time salary a year to the OSI when the SSPL issue happened, the OSI had no ability to take a moral pro-labor stance without crippling their own operations. They still do not meaningfully answer to individual users: The OSI recently refused to disclose who won their board election and installed their preferred candidates.

And it will be inherently unethical to even consider the position of the FSF as long as it lacks the moral fortitude to permanently punt RMS from the board.

If the OSI wasn't owned by corporate interests, and had rightfully declared SSPL as a copyleft license... nobody would argue it isn't. The problem is we've let an extremely problematic organization "define" something in a way that does not serve our interests.
by Onewildgamer | 2025-05-01 17:43:06+00:00
Staples, Best Buy, CompUSA, Office Depot are not a monopoly, if you do not like one as a distributor, you can go sell at another, or you can very well sell at your own mini shop, as any commerce should be.

Best Buy/CompUSA/Office Depot employees do not scare the customers and block the customers coming to you directly.

These are the few problems of monopoly that Apple so conveniently takes advantage of.
by morning-coffee | 2025-05-01 17:43:27+00:00
> Developers at Microsoft are obviously not rewarded for quality.

I work at Microsoft and you're absolutely correct as far as I've observed. Rewards are for speed and doing things (usually hyped-based) that advance the goals of leadership... these goals are rarely if ever about "let's make sure we nail the basics first". I think it comes down to serving shareholders vs. serving real customers.
by thisisit | 2025-05-01 17:43:39+00:00
And free trade agreements was the cornerstone of right wing - while the left derided it as a way to offshore jobs. Now Trump is running with it.

At this point it doesn't matter which "side" it came from. Even if it came from the "left", people knew this was pseudoscience and relied on anecdotal evidence and it never went mainstream. You never had a HHS Secretary espousing the goodness of unchecked pseudoscience in the name of "challenging the status quo".
by zhivota | 2025-05-01 17:44:02+00:00
Been using it for over 10 years and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I suppose I didn't use the features you're mentioning.

For me, it's basically exactly the same except the sidebar is now wider because of the multi-slack thing, and the home/DMs/activity nonsense bar, which I could do without.

Otherwise it's just channels with messages in them. Which has improved since I started using it, when there were no threads or reactjis.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-01 17:44:06+00:00
You just don’t understand the Steam business model of “do nothing while your competition keeps shooting themselves in the feet”.

Every major publisher has tried launching their own competitor platform to Steam, some going as far as pulling their games or making them exclusive. Despite Steam simply doing nothing in response, they all essentially gave up and came back except Epic because of the Fortnite playerbase.
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by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-01 17:44:27+00:00
Honestly, if hiring standards have fallen so low that NK operatives are able to get through, then more power to them.

I'd be shocked if a simple 15-20 minute conversation with the interviewee's perspective manager wouldn't eliminate all chance of this happening. Video filters are still obvious in real time, any decent interviewer can tell if a person is being fed answers, just ask them more detailed information about their background and projects and not just leetcode-type questions.

All of this just goes to show how abysmal (in some cases anyway) the hiring process is for offshore workers in the first place.