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by adrian_b | 2025-09-18 08:19:00+00:00
This is an often repeated myth, which is only half true.

On Zen 4 and Zen 4c, for most vector instructions the vector datapaths have the same width as in Intel's best Xeons, i.e. they can do two 512-bit instructions per clock cycle.

The exceptions where AMD has half throughput are the vector load and store instructions from the first level cache memory and the FMUL and FMA instructions, where the most expensive Intel Xeons can do two FMUL/FMA per clock cycle while Zen 4/4c can do only 1 FMUL/FMA + 1 FADD per clock cycle.

So only the link between the L1 cache and the vector registers and also the floating-point multiplier have half-width on Zen 4/4c, while the rest of the datapaths have the same width (2 x 512-bit) on both Zen 4/4c and Intel's Xeons.

The server and desktop variants of Zen 5/5c (and also the laptop Fire Range and Strix Halo CPUs) double the width of all vector datapaths, exceeding the throughput of all past or current Intel CPUs. Only the server CPUs expected to be launched in 2026 by Intel (Diamond Rapids) are likely to be faster than Zen 5, but by then AMD might also launch Zen 6, so it remains to be seen which will be better by the end of 2026.
by borisgolovnev | 2025-09-18 08:19:18+00:00
Finder being unable to show file information and instead showing something that looks like file information but is completely wrong is scary and sad. And it has been like this for months. Like here, none of the data in the General part matches the actual file. More info is correct, Preview is correct, so I know I did in fact click the correct file. http://bn5i3r.s3.amazonaws.com/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-17-0... Happens randomly so I don't know how to report this (and from experience I know that reporting bugs to Apple is completely useless).
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-18 08:20:44+00:00
You are misinterpreting the facts. Israel bombing Qatar for instance is only going to bring them more hate from Arabians, they could have fought back on the hamas while maintaining peace with the rest of the Arab world.

There was an alliance in 2020 between Israel and UAE United Arab Emirates. No need to say that it’s not the most promising alliance anymore.

Other countries that were neutral on Israel see their arabian population utterly hate Israel so they have to adapt and behave consequently.

They manage to unite the whole Arab front against them when they should have played on their division.

This is really a bad plan on long term. Despite what trump is saying, Iran nuclear weapon is very close. They failed on that matter too although there was a real opportunity with the agreement during Obama.

I don’t see a bright future for Israel in these conditions, all the weapons in the world can’t defeat hate from 450 millions Arabians.

Beside, people don’t want Israel military to fail, they want it to stop killing 80% civilians and 50% women and children. That’s completely different.
by zx10rse | 2025-09-18 08:20:47+00:00
If you don't see it, it doesn't mean that it is not braking it.

They themselves even wrote it in the proposal - "Whilst different in nature and generally speaking less intrusive, the newly created power to issue removal orders in respect of known child sexual abuse material certainly also affects fundamental rights, most notably those of the users concerned relating to freedom of expression and information."

This proposal is de facto a mass communication surveillance of EU citizens.

Exactly as you mentioned every single member state and EU have laws that can for example issues a court order and seize your communication devices if you are braking a law for an investigation, there is no need for EU to have a law that first goes against the very essence of EU, second it also brakes I am pretty sure every single constitution of each different member states.

If this law passes you live in a totalitarian state and there is no excuse for that.
by meiuqer | 2025-09-18 08:21:48+00:00
I don't know if i agree that Belgians don't have a national identity. I just think that the Flemish nationalist parties push the Flemish nationality identity so hard that Flemish people more identify as Flemish then as Belgian.

However Walloon people definitely feel Belgian and have a Belgian pride.

Also, i don't know if a nation state is defined by having a national identity?
by doublewhy | 2025-09-18 08:22:09+00:00
Anyone using Meta Ray-Bans should be aware that your data is collected and used for AI training. There is no opt-out unless you're from EU. Also, the old Meta View companion app one day was renamed into the Meta AI app and started to provide ChatGPT like functionality.

1) “Meta AI with camera use is always enabled on your glasses unless you turn off ‘Hey Meta", which basically makes glasses defunct.

2) “voice transcripts and stored audio recordings are otherwise stored for up to one year to help improve Meta’s products.”

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/658602/meta-ray-ban-privacy-po...
by cloudbonsai | 2025-09-18 08:22:10+00:00
> You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes:

You actually don't need any image editing skill. Here is a browser-only solution:

1. Take two screenshots.

2. Open these screenshots in two separate tabs on your browser.

3. Switch between tabs very, very quickly (use CTRL-Tab)

Source: tested on Firefox
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-18 08:22:43+00:00
> The numbers are largely unknown for border crossings.

Actually, we do have a very good idea. The demographics of Palestine were studied at the time (e.g., by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry), and are well understood. Arab population growth in Palestine was almost entirely due to simple births minus deaths, and was similar to population growth in other Arab countries of the time.

> But the point is that it's a gross oversimplification to say that Palestinians are native to Palestine (even those born outside?) while Jews are not.

Which Jews? There were Jews who were native to Palestine. They made up a few percent of the population of the region. But the overwhelming majority of the people who founded Israel were recent immigrants. The first Israeli prime minister, David Ben Gurion, was from Płońsk, Poland. The first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann was from Belarus. Golda Meir was from Odessa and grew up in Milwaukee. You can go down the list. They're almost all like that. Heck, the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was from Budapest, and barely ever set foot in Palestine (only once, I think).

> The intentional naming collision encourages this oversimplification.

The reason for the naming collision is simple: the Palestinians are the people who lived in Palestine before the Zionists came in, took over most of it and established Israel.

> Many of them simply had no choice, having been driven out of other MENA states.

No, that happened in the years after the founding of Israel, as a consequence of it. It turns out that kicking out hundreds of thousands of Arabs from their homes and loudly proclaiming that you're doing so in the name of the Jewish people is a really effective way of stoking antisemitism in Arab countries.

> I don't think that it's wrong to legally immigrate, regardless of any statehood aspirations, or that such immigrants are less deserving of any rights than other residents.

If you read the scenario I sketched out above and think it's the same as everyday immigration and is okay, I don't know what to tell you. It's like calling the European settlers who drove out Native Americans "immigrants."
by lelanthran | 2025-09-18 08:23:39+00:00
> GPU's are interesting in that they are like tulips (a breakthrough in efficiency could render them basically worthless), but they literally have the worthless aspect built into them directly.

Don't tulips have the "worthless aspect" AKA end-of-life built in as well? They perish, after all!

> You will not be able to profitably run an LLM on a 5 year old GPU, as your competitors will be able to run inference at much higher efficiencies than you with modern chips and will undercut you on price.

If you're in the business of selling tokens, certainly. If you're in the business of something else, and use LLMs to speed a process up, do you care that the 1-day process now takes 2 hours on 5yo hardware and 1 hour on SOTA hardware?

The only businesses in trouble here are those in the business of selling tokens. Those businesses selling potatoes who use an LLM to streamline/shorten some business process aren't going to care.
by breakingcups | 2025-09-18 08:24:12+00:00
Google Gemini had an ongoing issue for at least 3 weeks with empty responses and the thinking context filled with absolute nonsense. It was even acknowledged on social media by their head of product but no official communication at all. No status page updates, nada. Apparently it was even a known issue for much longer but they only started fixing it after a config change made the problem much more prevalent.
by bux93 | 2025-09-18 08:24:29+00:00
In 30 places, it's also very illegal to do business with vendors who ransom your data, if you're in finance, i.e. an entity covered by the Digital Operational Resilience Act; NIS2 (27 places) doesn't spell it out but also requires business continuity planning. Natural persons in the EU+EEA also retain a right to data portability under GDPR and there are data access/portability provisions in the EU Data ACT and DMA. Many legal frameworks require the covered entity to be 'in control' of vendors and data. Proactive legalese allowing the vendor to ransom your data is not quite in line with that requirement; in many sane jurisdictions such clauses would be found unenforceable.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-18 08:26:12+00:00
Mattermost is also open source, (AGPLv3 with lots of components optionally available via MIT or Apache terms). It does require contributors to sign a CLA though (unlike Zulip as far as I can tell?), and this likely reduces community involvement.

Mattermost has threads, though they work different from Zulip.

I haven't used both extensively, and for an open community like Hack Club, I suppose it's possible Zulip may even be a better fit. Mattermost will offer a much more direct migration path from Slack however.

I'm curious what makes some recommend Zulip so highly over Mattermost.
by bsder | 2025-09-18 08:27:08+00:00
> functional yet secure

Secure? Debatable. Functional? Not really.

For example, try accessing a security key and watch the fun. Sure, if you access it exactly the way Google wants you to, things kinda-sorta work, sometimes. If you don't want to obey your Google masters, good luck getting your Bluetooth or USB packet to your security key.

And because you are "secure", you can't store anything on the local hard drive. Oh, and you can't send a real network packet either. All you can do is send a supplication request to a network database owned by somebody else that holds your data--"Please, sir, can I have some more?". The fact that this prevents you from exporting your data away from cloud-centered SaaS providers is purely coincidental, I'm sure. </sarcasm>

So in the name of security we just kneecap the end users--if the users can't do anything, they're secure, right? Diana Moon Glampers would be proud.
by reify | 2025-09-18 08:27:39+00:00
I love Quantum mechanics. I am impatiently waiting for a Quantum laptop.

Proper brainy people thinking about that deep stuff.

Im still trying to work out: (20+25)2 = and x + 5 = 12, so I am very thankful that brainy people know their stuff.

This small pdf sparked my enthusiastic search for answers a while back.

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

incredible piece of work and well worth the read over a cup of coffee
by rglullis | 2025-09-18 08:27:51+00:00
> I have installed all them on the phone, so yes.

Isn't your phone providing a sandbox, a distribution system, a set of common runtime services, etc to get these native apps functional?

You don't have to squint your eyes to realize that this thing we call "document browsers" are doing a lot of the same work that Apple/Google are doing with their mobile OSes.
by mcv | 2025-09-18 08:28:03+00:00
I find this absolutely ridiculous and I question how this can even be legal. Surely a contract cannot be unilaterally changed on such short notice?

Imagine your landlord increased the rent by 4000% and it's due in 5 days or you're out on the street.

Sure, they have the right to increase their prices, but there should be at least a month notice for something like this.
by vintagedave | 2025-09-18 08:28:27+00:00
I've had to write some detailed prompts and examples to have AI generate the kind of unit tests I want in Python. I've seen the assertions on types alone too. I want assertions on values and more.

Even more than that, AI tends to mock _everything_. Mocking is useful, but the more real code a unit test invokes, the better, because the risk is not only the code itself but its interactions, the interface. Yet AI in Python will mock so heavily it barely tests even the code itself, with tautological statements.

I've prompted with heavy warnings against mocking and pointing directly at examples of thorough tests as examples. FWIW, Python does have excellent tools for injection and can write really nicely structured code.
by m4tthumphrey | 2025-09-18 08:29:18+00:00
> Meta Ray-Ban Display is part of our vision to build the next computing platform that puts people at the center so they can be more present, connected, and empowered in the world.

Err what? How do glasses that let you procrastinate when physically connecting to people help that?!

Also the video demo has no sound and one of the examples genuinely looked like the wearer was having a text a convo with someone whilst sat across from people at dinner…
by zbentley | 2025-09-18 08:30:03+00:00
Citation needed. Other than throughput/reliability risks posed by the revocation check flow (which I know aren’t the reason people don’t use Kerberos on the web, since the big auth providers’ SPOFiness in this area is way worse, as proven by countless outages induced by so-and-so rickety auth component failing bringing down a major provider), Kerberos’ adoption issues on the web have more to do with network effect and monetization than technical limitations with the protocol.
by volleyball | 2025-09-18 08:30:25+00:00
In large part, yes. There is also Trump, Republicans and their drive to carve out a bigger conservative-space in a liberal-dominated media landscape. There is Silicon valley, the rising digital-military-industrial complex, the china hawks, the intelligence apparatus and the security state, and the usual self-interests of the billionaire class. All of these forces are currently colluding to control the narrative (i.e. minds) in their favor. But I will argue the Israel angle is a big part of it which is being under-reported on ( by design).

Trump went after TikTok in his first presidency but was ultimately unsuccessful. It was the Biden government that successully banned TikTok last year in a bipartisan bill. What was the impetus then and why did it succeed? Listen to Charlie Kirk's personal take[1] on why Tiktok got banned (and how the right capitalized on it) :

[..] the buried lede of the October 7th was that it it got TikTok banned and remember the Tiktok ban stalled based on just China concerns, but TikTok was the the hub of a lot of the anti-israel sentiment that was brewing with Gen Z and all of a sudden the TikTok ban got resurfaced. Mitt Romney said at a security conference "we are Banning Tik Tok because it is sowing anti-israel sentiment in the United States."

Multiple congressman and representatives have cited anti-israel sentiment as their reason [2].

Tiktok recently hired Erica Mindel - an instructor in the Armoured Corps in the Israeli army’s spokesperson’s unit - to lead the company’s hate speech policy. The potential hiring of Bari Weiss to head the CBS news division reveals a similar underlying motive. One which is laid out by the CEO of the ADL, in his address to the Israeli Knesset[3] :

"Pushing extremists off Wikipedia might not seem equal to the challenge of pushing Hezbollah to north of the Litani River; capturing TikTok might seem less meaningful than holding on to Mount Hermon (A mountain peak in Syria which Israel conquered in their undeclared invasion of Syria late last year); libelous tweets certainly might seem less deadly than missiles from Yemen but this is urgent because the next war will be decided based on how Israel and its allies perform online as much as offline. Make no mistake it's real we saw that in the propaganda that anti-israel groups pushed out in America on October 7th accusing Israel of committing genocide."

[1] - https://x.com/DelGroyp/status/1856577467596845279 https://xcancel.com/DelGroyp/status/1856577467596845279

[2] - https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/tiktok-ban-israel-palest... https://archive.is/20250918033631/https://theintercept.com/2...

[3] - https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1968177947724198243 https://xcancel.com/infolibnews/status/1968177947724198243

[4] - https://jewishinsider.com/2025/07/tiktok-hate-speech-manager... , https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/tiktok-hires-ex-israe...
by sebstefan | 2025-09-18 08:30:32+00:00
I've never used WASM so apologies in advance but for

>Typed references. The GC extension is built upon a substantial extension to the Wasm type system, which now supports much richer forms of references. Reference types can now describe the exact shape of the referenced heap value, avoiding additional runtime checks that would otherwise be needed to ensure safety.

Why is an assembly-like dialect interacting with concepts that are at a much higher level than it?

To WASM isn't it all just pointers in a big heap like every other assembly?
by volleyball | 2025-09-18 08:31:19+00:00
I replied to your original comment.

Also, I wasn't invoking some dog-whistle. I was using the same phraseology of the Zionists. From the CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, addressing the Israeli Knesset[1] :

"Pushing extremists off Wikipedia might not seem equal to the challenge of pushing Hezbollah to north of the Litani River; capturing TikTok might seem less meaningful than holding on to Mount Hermon ; libelous tweets certainly might seem less deadly than missiles from Yemen but this is urgent because the next war will be decided based on how Israel and its allies perform online as much as offline. Make no mistake it's real we saw that in the propaganda that anti-israel groups pushed out in America on October 7th accusing Israel of committing genocide."

He describes Tiktok as a target to be captured, comparing it to a mountain in Syria which Israel conquered late last year in its unannounced invasion of Syria. They make no bones about the fact that our minds are just another battlespace in this war that they're waging.

[1] - https://x.com/DelGroyp/status/1856577467596845279 https://xcancel.com/DelGroyp/status/1856577467596845279
by jstanley | 2025-09-18 08:31:59+00:00
I'm not in the US and have never seen a self-driving car.

Can you explain how a human intervenes in person?

Do you mean these cars have a human driver on board? Or the passenger drives? Or another car drops off a driver? Or your car park is such an annoying edge case that a driver hangs around there all the time just to help park the cars?
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-18 08:32:08+00:00
This is not zero sum.

I would love it if future folks can write their own random scripts without needing a developer to do it for them.

I would love to see more people writing software. There will always be advanced work that needs doing. There will always be larger challenges.

I want the world of the future, where every 10-year-old knows calculus and python and is incredibly capable, and then I want to see the future we get when they grow up.
by UmGuys | 2025-09-18 08:32:26+00:00
There's no comparison here. The left's "cancel culture" doesn't exist and is literally free speech in action. This is the destruction of free speech. I think you have to participate in social media to understand what the left's cancel culture is because it's just a bunch of individuals expressing their opinions. Hence many are out of the loop. I wouldn't refer to authoritarian regimes as "cancel culture".
by Freak_NL | 2025-09-18 08:32:38+00:00
Is it? We've been using it self-hosted for years, together with GitLab. It meets all the needs of a small company, and is very pleasant to work with for devs too (i.e., basic Markdown just works, so you can post anything from code to log snippets in a sensible manner).

Setting up Mattermost was one of the best decisions we've made with regards to our tools.
by p_l | 2025-09-18 08:33:13+00:00
in earlier years, but in a way to this day, a significant factor against GIMP was not the UI - people could get used to the UI and did even when grumbling about it.

A big problem for a chunk of possible users was that GIMP's colour support sucked (and I believe it's still not really fixed). The moment you wanted to work outside RGBA at 8bits per channel, and maybe a bit playing with indexed color, you were in for a lesson in pain. And a lot of people wanted a tool they could earn money with, and that meant for a long time at least some amount of print work. And print, even digital printing, means CMYK. Later on photography started demanding HDR features. Even web these days will deal with non-RGB color spaces, and I am not talking about HDR.

Meanwhile GIMP's engine for years even if in UI you technically could select colours in CMYK, they were internally converted to RGB for calculations, then converted again. CinePaint, aka FilmGimp, started because people could not get patches for 48bit RGBA into mainline. And so on, and so on. Meanwhile Photoshop and other competitors would not only have a less divisive UI, but also additional features (I knew people who would choose Photoshop just for included pantone colour database).
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-18 08:33:52+00:00
This by the way is an example of construction that confuses is non English natives.

Another one is "he was all but dead" which can be understood as "he was really in a bad shape, almost dead", or "he was absolutely not dead, as opposed to what they say"

There are a few more like these (especially in short titles, where I have to analyze word by word the sentence to make sure I got it right)
by cjs_ac | 2025-09-18 08:34:11+00:00
An important part of this announcement is that Andes Technology is a Taiwanese company. I'm aware that there are American companies producing RISC-V microcontrollers, but in terms of microprocessors, RISC-V was shaping up to be something that was only physically manufactured in China, and therefore a risky proposition in terms of geopolitics.
by imtringued | 2025-09-18 08:34:33+00:00
I tried to check this on Xometry and the cost went from 4,83 € for FDM (quite overpriced unless they print with 0.05mm layer height) to 35,88 € for a tiny insignificant part of a much bigger print.

At those prices just the prototype alone will cost as much as an X1C. It's expensive enough that you'd rather print the prototype using an at home printer using random filament you have lying around and only print the end result once you're done prototyping.

Also there are no multijet fusion print shops "in town". That's an incredibly niche type of business you would expect in larger cities and therefore they would be priced accordingly.
by tomhow | 2025-09-18 08:34:47+00:00
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285280 and marked it off topic.

Please don't comment like this on HN. The guidelines ask us all to be kind; they're the first words in the "In Comments" section: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html