MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jamesblonde | 2025-05-09 12:40:17+00:00
I know the answer as to why it didn't. A place on the PC or steering committee became so important for tenure/promotion in the US, that it was 90%+ US people - a social group factor. That led to no attempt to widen the circle of general interest. If they had come to Europe 20 years ago, it would have been huge and breathed new life into Usenix ATC.
by flohofwoe | 2025-05-09 12:41:37+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250429065033/https://webassemb...

Values are hardwired to 128 bits which can be i8x16/i16x8/i32x4/i64x2 or f32x4/f64x2, so that already limits the 'feature surface' drastically.

IMHO as long as it covers the most common use cases (e.g. vec4 / mat4x4 floating point math used in games and a couple of common ALU and bit-twiddling operations on integers) that's already quite a bit better than having to fall back to scalar math.
by camcil | 2025-05-09 12:41:43+00:00
The Church's side is simple: this is a sacrament and the information heard cannot be used at all by the priest, for anything- whatsoever, without exception.

"Given the delicacy and greatness of this ministry and the respect due to persons, the Church declares that every priest who hears confessions is bound under very severe penalties to keep absolute secrecy regarding the sins that his penitents have confessed to him. He can make no use of knowledge that confession gives him about penitents' lives. This secret, which admits of no exceptions, is called the "sacramental seal," because what the penitent has made known to the priest remains "sealed" by the sacrament." [CCC 1467]
Show HN: Sharkshimi – Free, Intuitive Crypto Arbitrage Finder (No Login/Paywall)
by MattELab | 2025-05-09 12:42:09+00:00
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Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs
by vanviegen | 2025-05-09 12:42:29+00:00
Yes, another reactive UI framework for JavaScript. Bear with me, please... :-)

I 'invented' the concept for this back in 2011, and it was used (as a proprietary lib) in various startups. Even though many similar open source libs have been released since, and boy have I tried a lot of them, none have been able to capture the elegance and DX of what we had back then. I might be biased though. :-)

So I started creating a cleaned-up, modern, TypeScript, open source implementation for the concept about five years ago. After many iterations, working on the project on and off, I'm finally happy with its API and the developer experience it offers. I'm calling it 1.0!

The concept: It uses many small, anonymous functions for emitting DOM elements, and automatically reruns them when their underlying proxied data changes. This proxied data can be anything from simple values to complex, typed, and deeply nested data structures.

As I'm currently free to spend my time on labors of love like this, I'm planning to expand the ecosystem around this to include synchronizing data with a remote server/database, and to make CRUD apps very rapid and perhaps even pleasurable to implement.

I've celebrated 1.0 by creating a tutorial with editable interactive examples! https://aberdeenjs.org/Tutorial/

I would love to hear your feedback. The first few people to actually give Aberdeen a shot can expect fanatical support from me! :-)
by MajesticWombat | 2025-05-09 12:42:33+00:00
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), signed in 1960, has long stood as a testament to the possibility of cooperation between India and Pakistan, even amidst deep-seated hostilities. Facilitated by the World Bank, the treaty meticulously delineated water-sharing rights over the Indus River system, ensuring a relatively peaceful management of this critical resource for over six decades. However, recent geopolitical upheavals, particularly following the tragic Pahalgam attack in April 2025, have led to India’s suspension of the treaty, casting a shadow over regional stability and raising pressing questions about the future of water diplomacy in South Asia.
by dsign | 2025-05-09 12:42:36+00:00
What is child abuse in this context? I assume is "child sexual abuse"? Or, does sending them to work on a factory also count?

In any case, we should be wary of, as a society, condoning any kind of witch hunt. In this case for example, on first read it seems that the overreach is somehow for the specific case of "child abuse", meaning that anything else, including murder, should be okay to confess, no?
by cgriswald | 2025-05-09 12:42:53+00:00
Yes.

(18) "Member of the clergy" means any regularly licensed, accredited, or ordained minister, priest, rabbi, imam, elder, or similarly situated religious or spiritual leader of any church, religious denomination, religious body, spiritual community, or sect, or person performing official duties that are recognized as the duties of a member of the clergy under the discipline, tenets, doctrine, or custom of the person's church, religious denomination, religious body, spiritual community, or sect, whether acting in an individual capacity or as an employee, agent, or official of any public or private organization or institution.

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Se...
by neuroticnews25 | 2025-05-09 12:43:34+00:00
Another thing is that evolution doesn't need to store all the information defining an organism in the DNA. It can also be passed down from mother to child during pregnancy, never touching the source code, "reflections on trusting trust" style.

Superinteligent alien given only the DNA code and tasked with reconstructing the organism probably would never be able to guess all the details of the bootstrapping environment right. I find it weird how little people talk about this.
by titzer | 2025-05-09 12:44:12+00:00
Yes, if you use bytecode rewriting then all the offsets are changed and you need a mapping. This is one of the advantages of engine-side instrumentation; bytecode offsets don't change. It'll be some time before we can get engines to agree on a standard interface for instrumentation, but there have been some discussions.

Whamm can inject arbitrary instrumentation logic, so you could, e.g. inject calls to imports that are implemented in JS. You'll have some heavy lifting to do on the JS side.
by ndileas | 2025-05-09 12:44:41+00:00
I think this is a classic case for government intervention; buyouts back to state or federal land seems practical and just to me. And the government typically does intervene to help people, just not in the most optimal way IMO; there are stories of people whose homes have been rebuilt multiple times in vulnerable spots. I don't have a clear notion of how common of an issue that is, but I think the natural human tendency to pick a spot and defend it at all costs is shortsighted and leads to tragedy and high costs all around. And then a surprising fraction of people defend ignoring a reliable signal that something has to give... either building practices, or locations, or something else.
by pfdietz | 2025-05-09 12:44:52+00:00
I don't think it's unfair at all. And I don't see ITER as an "honest attempt", far from it.

The initial cost figures for ITER were obviously deliberate lies. When the true costs inevitably came out (after commitment had been made) this led to alternative approaches being canned. ITER has done grievous damage to fusion as a field, in a way eerily similar to how the Space Shuttle and ISS have done damage to NASA.

The true purpose of ITER wasn't to achieve fusion or push forward fusion; it was to preserve funding until those making the decisions had retired. If this required sacrificing long term goals, like actually delivering competitive energy (or, really, delivering anything at all), so be it.
by cge | 2025-05-09 12:45:01+00:00
The bill is SB 5375 [1]; it's frustrating that the text of the article does not mention that. The relevant part appears to be narrowly written to cover only privileged communication with clergy. All other privileged communication is excluded from this specific reporting requirement.

The article also doesn't seem to accurately represent what confessions would be covered. The reporting requirement is not just for child abuse, but instead appears to be more broadly for abuse, maltreatment or neglect. Depending on how the law views neglect, that could be quite broad, eg, if one thinks about the occasional claims in parts of the US of things like allowing children to walk places on their own being neglect.

[1]: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Se...
by distalx | 2025-05-09 12:45:07+00:00
Yeah, I had a similar frustrating time. Not a personal ban, but trying to help a friend verify their business for the WhatsApp API.

We followed the process twice, really carefully. Both times Facebook failed to verify the business. No clear reason why.

We posted everything on their developer forum hoping for help, but got nothing back. Just silence!! Many people were facing the same issue like us.

Ended up having to give up and tell my friend I couldn't help. Honestly, the fear of getting banned mysel if I kept pushing stopped me from trying it one more time.

these platforms are difficult to deal with when things go wrong.
by artvandelai | 2025-05-09 12:45:18+00:00
DAWs and audio plugins are a good example. Digital audio workstations can be somewhat varied in UI, but plugins can be vastly different from each other even for two of the same tools.

Creating intuitive interfaces for complex technical controls is challenging. Fabfilter has been a popular developer for years. Oeksound and Denise Audio are great examples too. Newfangled Audio makes good stuff and their limiter elevate handles multiple pages well. They all pack parameters into tight, cohesive UIs that look good and remain intuitive.

Fabfilter often uses submenus that can feel convoluted, but they're arguably necessary given their plugin's depth. Denise Audio takes a different approach with standard, simple UIs across their product line. Everything is visible with no submenus, though they may offer fewer controls overall.

Deciding what controls to expose and how to organize them intuitively presents a unique challenge. Multiple pages like how Newfangled does it works well. I don't find Fabfilter's submenus to be the best but that's often because they are unlabeled and use small, unique icons that are hard to grok. The overall UI for primary features is usually quite good though.
by lgiordano_notte | 2025-05-09 12:46:03+00:00
Shift feels real. LLMs don't replace devs, but they do compress the value curve. The top 10% get even more leverage, and the bottom 50% become harder to justify.

What worries me isn't layoffs but that entry-level roles become rare, and juniors stop building real intuition because the LLM handles all the hard thinking.

You get surface-level productivity but long-term skill rot.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-09 12:47:01+00:00
If you solve the problem for yourself, you're only benefiting yourself.

If you actually talk publicly about how it should be properly addressed in the first place, you add to societal pressure so other people do things right. That's the only one that produces the desired outcome more broadly and long-term.

We have valuable things like accessibility standards because enough people complained. Or would you rather we not had those because those people were "just complaining"?
by jlkuester7 | 2025-05-09 12:47:08+00:00
> if it’s handled only within the Church then the only penalty are things like defrocking or banning from the church

To be clear, things said under the "seal of the confessional" cannot be shared by the priest with anyone else _even within the Catholic Church._ This particular situation is not a matter of the church trying to handle matters internally, but more of a recognition that the penitent is confessing their sins to God and the priest is only acting "in persona Cristi" (and thereby is prevented from pursuing other personal or societal objectives based on information revealed).
by masswerk | 2025-05-09 12:47:19+00:00
There isn't any dedicated instruction decoding for these "illegal" instructions, at all. Generally, just two regular instructions happen to be executed at once. Some of these work out reliably and somewhat useful, others result in the processor becoming stuck (so-called JAM or KIL instructions). Some others kind of work, but don't yield any external result (much like a multi-byte and multi-cycle NOP), e.g., if we try to what would amount to store a register with immediate address mode. (Storing doesn't set any flags and there is no viable write address, therefore there isn't any external result to this operation.)

Generally speaking, there are no legal opcodes with both lowest bits set and the decoding triggers for both instructions with either the lowest or the second lowest bit set. (There are some more outside of this pattern, but these result more often in a "jammed" CPU than not.)
by titzer | 2025-05-09 12:48:00+00:00
Everything in 3.0 has at least two browser implementations; that's part of the requirements for advancement to phase 4.

Wasm 2.0 is complete in a handful of engines, whereas 3.0 is less well-supported.

Wizard is almost done with 3.0; only memory64 and relaxed-simd are incomplete.
by gjm11 | 2025-05-09 12:48:25+00:00
There was a big patent lawsuit related to this, which as I understand it Ocado won pretty comprehensively. (https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ocado-wins-... -- case in UK court concluded that AutoStore's patents were all invalid and in any case Ocado didn't infringe them; there were a bunch of related cases in other jurisdictions but https://www.ocadogroup.com/media/news/autostore-and-ocado-se... indicates that shortly after the UK judgement they settled on terms very favourable to Ocado.)

This seems difficult to square with your claim that Ocado "just copied AutoStore". (I suppose it's not quite inconsistent with it; maybe Ocado copied a pile of things that AutoStore never patented, and the patented bits were always a sideshow?)
Show HN: Ghiblio Net – Generate 30 styles including Ghibli with ChatGPT 4o
by harperhuang | 2025-05-09 12:49:05+00:00
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by lmm | 2025-05-09 12:49:19+00:00
I mean, sure, I do actually know a bunch of the details and it's occasionally useful for debugging. But I look for ways to work at the React level if possible (e.g. using the React dev tools to debug the component hierarchy rather than using the raw browser dev tools where possible). IME it's better to fully specialise in a small set of technologies than to dabble across a wider range.
by zahlman | 2025-05-09 12:49:29+00:00
Yes. I said that because that actually is the policy.

Review comes after the closure. This is the explicit and intentional design of the system. In other posts, I cited this (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260263); not sure how that escaped from that post.

(To clarify, the entire point is that the closed state is the review period. It's temporary by design. And questions that are answerable may still not meet site standards, and can nearly always be improved. If I had my druthers, questions would start out closed.)
by aetherspawn | 2025-05-09 12:50:03+00:00
Hey, my startup is currently working on something like this.

We use a production VCU hardware with custom software and currently support most of the VCU functions you would find in a production vehicle, including in-built CCS2 and NACS charging on the single controller.

We are looking to raise to go to the next stage, would love to hear from potential customers or interested angels?
by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 12:50:43+00:00
How far should breaking the confessional seal go?

Murder? Sure.

How about other violent crimes?

Damaging property at a protest? The police will think they need this information. Catholic doctrine is even minor sins should be confessed.

Priests will eventually need to govern a Miranda warning to penitents entering the confessional. “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you confess can and will be reported to law enforcement. You have the right to have an attorney and a canon lawyer present in this confessional. If you can’t afford a canon lawyer, please join the years-long waitlist for one. Knowing these rights, do you still wish to confess to me?”
by samwho | 2025-05-09 12:51:47+00:00
Doe’s bandana is my attempt at tasteful solidarity and support. Glad you noticed it!

I did consider a pause button for the logs but it felt too unsubtle, and distracts from the content of the post. You could argue the log messages are already distracting, but I really wanted my own take on “reticulating splines.”

You can read how the messages are constructed here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations/blob/main/reservoir...
by omneity | 2025-05-09 12:52:22+00:00
> This seems difficult to square with your claim that Ocado "just copied AutoStore".

I just looked at videos of the two technologies and it seems difficult to ignore the relationship.

Perhaps this is a case of "technically correct", i.e. that they technically did not infringe the patents, but that in practice they leveraged as much as they could around the patent claims?
by omarish | 2025-05-09 12:52:32+00:00
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by cobbzilla | 2025-05-09 12:52:33+00:00
conceptually sure; but size-wise they are so different as to warrant valid questions about ROI.

Chicago Pile 1 ran for 12 years, ITER started ~12 years ago and plans to run into the 2030s at least. Budget and headcount would likely be vastly different too, I’d welcome any educated guesses. Sometimes quantity has a quality of its own, as they say.
Show HN: Agami – Lightweight SaaS Tools to Simplify Business Workflows
by qareena | 2025-05-09 12:54:07+00:00
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by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 12:54:46+00:00
Someone can literally confess to a priest he is stealing from the diocese, and the priest will keep it under seal. In the confessional, though, the priest can give spiritual advice on how to make penance. This could mean “go turn yourself in to the civil authorities”, “pay back what you stole”, or “say 3 Hail Marys each morning for a week”.

Another way to view this is that the confessional is basically anonymous. Governments hate anonymity.
by ghaff | 2025-05-09 12:55:21+00:00
Registration basically benefits large corporations. There are good reasons why a lot of individual authors oppose orphan works legislation. Disney isn't going to forget or screw up copyright registration. You or your kids might.

Totally in favor of shorter copyright terms though even where there are edge cases where longer terms seemingly have made sense. (In terms of promoting progress of the arts, etc. or whatever the language is, I'm not sure that usually fairly small inheritances qualify.)