MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamkonstantin | 2025-05-09 10:36:50+00:00
> Most customers do want it this way, but Apple still allows

I don't believe this is the case. Apple generally prefers to diminish the importance and risks of specific actions unless they have some monetary advantage. e.g. Apple is happy to warn you (multiple times) that an alternative marketplace is "dangerous" and yet iMessage iCloud Backups are just a click away with a friendly "so your messages are available everywhere".

Another example is Photos - Apple has no problem activating features that collect "anonymized" information from my pictures. Yes, there is an opt-out, but having all that on by default is not in the spirit of a privacy-minded operation.

And about the choice - someone already pointed out in other comments, there really is no way to replace iCloud with anything else for backups and app data sync. So the choice is not really a choice.
by krick | 2025-05-09 10:36:57+00:00
Cannot tell if it's sarcasm or not. Obviously everyone who reads the headline assumes it's his current computer, and it had some, uh, consequences. That's why they click. That's what makes it clickbait. Nobody would care otherwise.

(Also, if you are willing to be pointlessly formal, it goes in both directions, since it can be argued that a computer, which belongs to a person, who in the future will become DOGE's software engineer, but hasn't become yet, also formally isn't a "DOGE software engineer’s computer".)
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-09 10:37:11+00:00
It sounds like this approach is more like home school pods whereas the person you quoted was trying to actually form a "school" and keep the state happy? If the focus is just on teaching, what kind of admin work is there to do? Since she says parents volunteered, I assume this is for kids, and operating under a homeschool model (i.e. the parents just tell the state they're the instructor) would be a viable way to avoid regulatory burden even if you hire an outside tutor/instructor.
by Lichtso | 2025-05-09 10:37:16+00:00
The Weighted Reservoir Sampling (WRS) variant is used in ReSTIR (spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing). Which is a stochastic light transport estimator with inbuilt spatiotemporal denoising.

A light transport estimator is trying to figure out how much light flows through a scene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiance). For that it has to integrate the radiance across all the possible paths light could take, while maintaining the conservation of energy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_equation).

In all but the most trivial cases this integral of the rendering equation has no tractable closed form solution and solving it is thus done stochastically. The very basic idea is the Monte Carlo method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method): Randomly sample as many paths as you can and average them. From there more sophisticated sampling strategies were developed over the last decades:

- Importance Sampling (IS)

- Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS)

- Sample Importance Resampling (SIR)

- Resampled Importance Sampling (RIS)

- Weighted Reservoir Sampling (WRS)

- And finally combining RIS and WRS into ReSTIR

For a in depth read see: https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/understanding_the_math_b...
by tauoverpi | 2025-05-09 10:37:25+00:00
Yep, I missed it as I don't often work in haskell anymore but with the correction the rest of the above still stands (haskell syntax is still the most efficient I'm aware of for talking about this). Also, it being unimplementable is also a nice property of having such a type system as you can prove that your specification is impossible to implement (more applicable in Lean, ATS2, Idris, Agda) or make invalid states impossible to even write (consider state transition rules at the type level).
by akg_67 | 2025-05-09 10:37:40+00:00
> Does the Pope have significant personal income?

Monthly income for pope US$32,000 equivalent.

> Does, which what I think you are getting at, the law apply to a head of state?

I don’t know if he will exempt as head of state, but as ordinary US citizen he will be paying taxes to US as his income exceeds FEIE exemption threshold.
by lynx97 | 2025-05-09 10:38:13+00:00
I suspect not reacting to that kind of problem is intentional. Just like YouTube didn't do anything against the pirated music uploads in the 2010 years, simply because being able to play your favourite pop song via YouTube was attractive to early users. Same with audio books these days. Some pirated accounts are being used to upload complete Audible books. They dont even bother to remove the "This isAudible" intro, which apparently could easily be used to autodetect such uploads. As said, I am guessing porn ads do provide Meta some form of income, and thats why they don't do anything about it. Big tech is shady like f**.
by londons_explore | 2025-05-09 10:39:06+00:00
> Doesn't per-call pricing reduce your usage?

Yes, and thats why phone contracts migrated from "$0.0X per minute" to "$X for up to 500 minutes", and finally "$X for unlimited calls".

When the service you provide has near zero marginal cost, you'd prefer the customer use it as much as possible, because then it'll provide more value to them and they'll be prepared to pay more.
by DanielHB | 2025-05-09 10:39:21+00:00
I think he means stateless, at some point a system needs to have some internal state to keep things running and that state can be really hard to manage when it is mixed with all other functions in the system that also have state.

Even if that state is kept outside the service itself (like a database or event queue) it can still be really hard to reason about when said state-stores are shared across a huge codebase. Changes to a part of the state can have negative effects in completely unrelated functionality.

And of course, there is nothing blocking a monolith from isolating/modularizing their state-stores, but it tends to not happen unless the architecture forces it to happen or through strong tech leadership.
by jbverschoor | 2025-05-09 10:40:22+00:00
2014: Beta launch of the SQL Layer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593388

2014: Download SQL Layer: https://web.archive.org/web/20141209200002/https://foundatio...

2013: They talk about the SQL Layer: https://web.archive.org/web/20131220201001/https://foundatio...

2013: And someone can't start the SQL Layer on windows: https://web.archive.org/web/20131222063330/http://community....
by jeffail | 2025-05-09 10:40:42+00:00
Personally, I'm happy to see them evolving it with my juices left intact. When we transitioned benthos.dev to https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect we gained a much larger (and more competent) docs team, but as a consequence had to trim a lot of the old personality. I don't regret the transition but I do take a bit of comfort seeing the WarpStream peeps continue to have fun with it.

It's like shedding an almost intact full body skin and finding comfort in watching colleagues take it bowling, having a great time.
by Intermernet | 2025-05-09 10:42:24+00:00
Anything is a religion if enough people agree to it. If Scientology can call itself a religion than "Protestantism" is legit.

It seems that the baptist subsection of Christianity already have a bunch of different interpretations of Christian scripture. Historically it's only a matter of time before the inevitable schism, and then they also get to claim to be a different religion.
by shakow | 2025-05-09 10:43:34+00:00
> believe that it's perfectly legitimate to steal from someone who has ever, themselves, done anything in the past you consider wrong.

That's not my point, no – if only because inter-personal relations are not and should not be handled like inter-state relations.

My point is that human history, especially in crucibles such as e.g. the Mediterranean is such a mess of victors turning to losers, conquerors to conquered, migrations, emigrations, remigrations, internal & external invasion, pillaging, destruction and so forth, that not only (i) the modern countries are all but representative of the people that inhabited them through History, (ii) so deeply intertwined, that trying to bring reparations is a lost cause from the very start.

Let us accept that the French should give back the obelisk: but then, to whom? To Turkey, the descendant country from the Ottoman Empire, who originally gifted it? To ethnic Mamluks, who controlled Egypt at the time as a client state of the Ottoman Empire? To Arabic people, ruled by Mamluks, who invaded Egypt before the Mamluks came into the picture? To Italian, Macedonians, or Greeks, that ruled over Egypt before that? Or should they launch some DNA sampling campaign to find what population in Norther Africa is the closest to the Ancient Egyptians, and bring back the Obelisk there?
by metalman | 2025-05-09 10:44:05+00:00
reading how the hotspots are just handed out to kids, purely based on the discretion of "educators", with zero insight and disclosure to parents and guardians, yup!, pull the plug on that. I cant see how it was legaly implimented in the first place, as parents have a duty to monitor there childrens behaviors, and guide there interactions.Secret hotspots, totaly bypass there involvement, but leave them responsible for outcomes. There is a general problem with school and town councils running amuck along with other government agencys and essentialy atempting to instutianalise people in there own lives and homes. More defunding and pruning, is in order. I'd down vote myself, but alas I must defer that task.
by dsign | 2025-05-09 10:44:27+00:00
I believe that part of the problem is how trigger happy the platforms are to reports of CSAM and other "black issues". They don't do any research, they just ban and call it a day. Your government could go to them and say, "hey, you should do due research before banning a user,", and the platform will turn back and say "you passed a law last month where I would be banned from operating in the country if I allowed any photo of somebody under 18 wearing less than a full-body skimo wolly suit, but I'm not allowed to ask for an ID to know the user's age. What am I supposed to do? Deploy a trigger happy AI? I just did!"

So, in a sense, we live in the best world possible.

May I suggest that you just block and mute the prostitutes, if they offend your sensibilities? That's what I do. Because in the next iteration of censorship, we might lose the social networks altogether.
by Mawr | 2025-05-09 10:44:47+00:00
> Excellent safety, if you ignore Chernobyl, Fukushima, [...]

Nope, it's all included, how could it not be?

> Nuclear power rarely kills anyone, but when (not if) things go wrong, it tends to create a massive mess which costs billions to clean up

Yep, yet it's still the safest, which means your argument has to be wrong.

Just to show you the magnitude of your error, the Fukushima accident was directly caused by a tsunami which killed 20,000 people. But your main concern from that event is the cost of cleanup of radioactive material.

More people die from falling off roofs while installing solar panels than from nuclear accidents.

> but if you want to convince people of its safety you probably shouldn't be mentioning its historical record.

Well you're not technically wrong. As you've inadvertently demonstrated with your irrational arguments, since people didn't use reason to arrive at their conclusions, they would not be likely to be persuaded by it.

> Only if you completely ignore the huge amount of pollution and waste generated by mining, reprocessing, and disposal.

Do you mean to say the waste is significantly worse than for solar panels, wind turbines, etc.?

> Again, I personally don't believe this has to be a dealbreaker, but the waste generated by the nuclear industry is still an unsolved problem.

Inert solid waste sitting in a barrel somewhere is not a problem that is worth talking about.

Again, the magnitude of your error is outstanding. We've been simply releasing all the, radioactive mind you, products of burning coal into the atmosphere for the past few hundreds of years but you're concerned about a tiny amount of solid waste.

> > If we (the West) had built out nuclear to satisfy our electricity needs

>

> We did. France hit 80% nuclear, for example.

You cherry-picked the single country with the biggest share of nuclear by far.

> > implementing new nuclear power tech as it improved

>

> We did. It made the plants too expensive to be commercially viable.

Ironically, that's because the standards for nuclear plant safety are determined by the sort of irrational thinking you're presenting here.

> Taking all costs into account, nuclear is currently the most expensive form of generating electricity.

And that's where the issue is buried, I don't believe you're taking all costs into account.

Is coal really cheaper when you include the health and environmental damage it creates? It literally can't be, the costs of human created climate change will be eye-watering.

Are renewables really cheaper once you consider the end goal of a 90%+ renewable grid? The costs of accounting for the inherent intermittency of solar and wind go up exponentially as you increase the share of renewables in the grid.

Adding the first 10% of renewables is trivial, you need no extra storage since the grid itself will simply absorb the difference.

Adding the last 10% is horribly expensive and I don't believe you're accounting for that at all.
by db48x | 2025-05-09 10:44:54+00:00
And most of that wouldn’t be useful. We use encryption for almost everything now for a reason.

No, wiretaps on modern networks do not rely on backdoors, or even big labeled front doors like SSH, on individual subscriber devices. Instead it is built into the lower level routing. When an ISP gets a warrant (or whatever relevant document your country uses) they configure their routers to tag all of your traffic and mirror it to a server to be recorded. It’s entirely invisible to the subscriber, and highly automated.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-05-09 10:45:23+00:00
In other words, completely true because this is HN and we know things that the other 99.999% of the world doesn't and never will and never even thinks to ask.

Instead, "Google took away my favorite software off my device that I paid money for, and fuck 'em for doing it" is a totally okay thing for normal people to do.
Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor
by jansan | 2025-05-09 10:45:40+00:00
I have been working on Hyvector for the last five years and finally decided to present the result of my work.

Hyvector is an SVG editor that runs in all modern browsers. It is stable, very fast, and capable of handling complex SVG images.

Big new features like art strokes, vector tracing, colorizing are in the making, but for now the focus is on pushing a polished first release out of the door.

I would love to hear any feedback on what you like, missing features, or any bugs you encounter via our issue tracker: https://github.com/hyvectorapp/hyvector-issues

Note that while Hyvector should work on a phone, it is much more usable on a desktop computer or tablet.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-09 10:46:23+00:00
Meta don't seem to care much about actual CSAM at all.

I have a throwaway account on Facebook that follows no pages and has no friends. In the absence of anything else to go on, Facebook somehow decided that I would most like to see anti-vax conspiracy, flat earth theory and child sexual abuse material.

Every report I've made about the CSAM has met the same "we found nothing wrong" response, and it keeps bubbling up in my feed.
by walterbell | 2025-05-09 10:46:58+00:00
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/2d...

> Android Emulator is downstream from the QEMU emulator. It adds support for booting Android devices, emulates typical Android hardware (OpenGL, GPS, GSM, Sensors) and a GUI interface. The android emulator extends qemu in various ways.
by DFHippie | 2025-05-09 10:47:18+00:00
Once upon a time Congress would botch something and all one could do without getting into weeds no one cared about was blame Congress. No one wanted to hear a list of 200 assorted representatives.

In these partisan times one can always be more precise: it is either the Democratic caucus or the Republican caucus. Almost no one goes against their caucus. In this case, and in every case until the midterm elections, it is the Republican caucus.

Assign blame or merit where it is due and maybe voters will have enough shame, pride, or sense of self-preservation to fix things.

Botching security is currently a Republican project.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-09 10:47:33+00:00
I approached my PCP regarding grip strength, about 15 years ago. The trouble with mine was that I felt it was too strong. In other words, I was gripping small objects much too strongly (mouse, pen), and also having trouble gripping heavy objects; I would cramp up and feel intense pain if I tried to carry a sofa or something. Since that time, I have studiously avoided carrying things in my hands whenever possible: I use backpacks and shoulder bags a lot.

The physician, for his part, seemed to misunderstand me on purpose. He ignored my concerns and he insisted that my grip was stronger even than his own! He held out his index fingers and had me grip them in a manual test. He reluctantly referred me to physical therapy treatments, where I was able to learn a few exercises and a few methods for relief.

It was just another episode that taught me that doctors are not interested in diagnosis for real ailments. If diagnosis had been pursued here, we may have discovered degenerative tendon/muscle issues. What is euphemistically called "tendonitis" is often tendonosis and cannot be treated. The NSAIDs administered for this "false tendonitis" are a placebo and a panacea, just to have the patient purchasing stuff.

I am thankful that my physical therapy specialists were very good and attentive. I really appreciated the time spent with them, also after the second round when I had a shoulder injury. They really believe in direct action resulting in relief and healing.
by ezst | 2025-05-09 10:47:58+00:00
Not OP, so I don't have to bear the snark, but also, let's not pretend that iMessage is some virtuous and ethical standard worth recommending in general. It's nothing but a tool by the monopolist Apple to execute vendor lock-in and subjugate its users into a closed ecosystem. Of course, that says nothing about the quality of said ecosystem (or that of XMPP, for that matter), only about a well-placed sense of priorities that I find laudable.
by pritambarhate | 2025-05-09 10:48:37+00:00
>> May I suggest that everyone just drop this whole 'develop/program it once, run it everywhere' slogan that just gets repeated endlessly when people try to promote their new platform/framework/library or whatever? I've never seen it work out that way in practice. Never.

Many apps that make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and have millions of users are built on cross platform technologies. (IntelliJ IDEs for example, and many Mobile apps which use same code for iOS and Android, Cursor, VS Code, etc). People use these apps even though they are not platform native and some of them have die hard fans too.
by MaxikCZ | 2025-05-09 10:49:05+00:00
> Gemini 2.5 Pro is better at coding than Claude

Id be careful with stating things like these as fact. I asked Gemini for half an hour to write code that draws a graph the way I want, it never got it right. Then I asked Cladue 3.7 and it got it almost right the first try, to the point I thought its compeltely right, and fixed the bug I discovered right after I pointed it out.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-09 10:49:56+00:00
Well... getting rid of too powerful people by means of executing them has been a staple of societies across all cultures for millennia.

The fact that people openly cheer on re-introducing this, or on those following through with such plans (Luigi), is just showing how fed up wide masses of society are - and Reddit's admins have been hellbent on quenching even verbal forms of dissatisfaction.

The problem is, all that does is keeping pressure bottling up and eventually, if the issues with inequality and absurd amounts of power grabbing aren't dealt with, the explosion will be much harder than if people had a relatively safe way of voicing their dissent.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-05-09 10:51:01+00:00
It's not 'assume', it's literally in the text:

> Lee went on to say that credentials belonging to a Gmail account known to belong to Schutt have appeared in 51 data breaches and five pastes tracked by breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Among the breaches that supplied the credentials is one from 2013 that pilfered password data for 3 million Adobe account holders, one in a 2016 breach that stole credentials for 164 million LinkedIn users, a 2020 breach affecting 167 million users of Gravatar, and a breach last year of the conservative news site The Post Millennial.

Putting this in undermines the quality of their critique.
by skissane | 2025-05-09 10:51:04+00:00
I really think this is a failure of education, teaching kids that there are N continents as if that were some kind of objective truth, as opposed to the reality that the definition of “continent” is at least partially conventional, so there are several different values of N which are arguably correct - anything from 4 to 7 is mainstream (at a global level)

Wikipedia is helping, though.

It says (I didn’t know this) that the “single American continent” model was mainstream in the US prior to WW2, so even if there is now a single definition in the Anglosphere, that’s a relatively recent development.

I remember as a kid believing that the Americas contained three continents-North, Central and South. I’m sure I’m not the only person to have ever thought that, and given how conventional these definitions are, can it really be said to be wrong?
by ryzvonusef | 2025-05-09 10:51:17+00:00
from the tweet:

> X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to accounts belonging to international news organizations and prominent X users.

> In most cases, the Indian government has not specified which posts from an account have violated India's local laws. For a significant number of accounts, we did not receive any evidence or justification to block the accounts.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-05-09 10:51:38+00:00
I love the illegal opcodes in the 6800 that render the computer unusable (until reset) and that have been renamed Halt and Catch Fire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...

The series with that name is great too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...
by heresie-dabord | 2025-05-09 10:52:36+00:00
Agreed, this article is well-written and rewarding to anyone capable of enjoying prose. Take the time to enjoy the article.

And for HN in particular, there is an ancestral link from the suffering crew of the ill-fated ship to the category of jobs that we have today.

I won't spoil it. But here is a clue: A.L.
by sc970 | 2025-05-09 10:54:07+00:00
Took a while to get a first name @ company email address.

I work for a large company 50k employees (not in IT) with the standard email format <firstname>.<lastname>@company.com

The company has a automated way to change your email address if your name changes, so I changed my last name to @. which allowed me officialy change my email address to <firstname>.@company.com. Then raised an IT fault to get my email address 'fixed' and remove the . after my name.