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Ask HN: Who's building AI for U.S. customs classification?
by aswfaswf | 2025-10-02 03:26:43+00:00
I’m researching who’s building serious AI for import classification (HTSUS). Tools that suggest 6/8/10-digit codes with confidence, cite GRIs/notes/ENs/CROSS. Please drop names/links (startups or open source). Not looking for sales outreach . . . research only.
by shetyemanasi | 2025-10-02 03:27:37+00:00
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by shetyemanasi | 2025-10-02 03:27:45+00:00
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Introduction: I am a UI/UX designer with a background in graphic design, art direction, and more than six years of experience in the design industry. I am proficient in creating digital products in agile environments for the consumer and healthcare markets. With my strong analytical, research, and teamwork skills, I have successfully led a variety of projects from conception to development in both office and remote settings. I have extensive experience crafting personas, qualitative analysis, user journeys, user flows, user interface design, low and high fidelity prototypes, stakeholder presentations and design systems for UI components.

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by anigbrowl | 2025-10-02 03:27:53+00:00
> Wes McKinney

Sold

For those who don't know. Wes McKinney is the creator of Pandas, the go-to tabular analysis library for Python. That gives his format widespread buy-in from the outset, as well as a couple of decades' of Caring About The Problem which makes his insights unusually valuable.
by aronishchal | 2025-10-02 03:28:12+00:00
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by aronishchal | 2025-10-02 03:28:20+00:00
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by jinushaun | 2025-10-02 03:28:30+00:00
Seriously. Talk about revisionist history. The web dev workflow before Figma was awful. It never “worked as one”.

I love Figma’s dev mode. Saves me and the designer time from measuring sizes and eyedropping colors. Figma also allows me to export assets myself instead of waiting for the designer to do it, or do it myself poorly from Photoshop.

The relationship between design and dev is much more collaborative now. It was downright hostile pre-Figma with photoshop and illustrator files. Nevermind versioning, sharing and comments…
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-10-02 03:28:42+00:00
Since no one responded, they're running on Kubernetes, where a unit of containers is called a "pod". A pod may be one or more containers, but it's the smallest deployable unit in the Kubernetes space.

Their docker images were 11-35GB. Using the nix dockerTools approach would have resulted 100-300MB layers. These also may not even cache well between tags, though that's my intuition not knowledge. Especially if that's true, it wouldn't have improved the overall pull time issues they were having, which was 70-210s or image pull time on many new builds.

In their case they added a sidecar container which was actually an init container, which runs before the primary container of the pod runs. They did utilize root privileges to perform things like bind mounting of nix store paths into the running container which made it possible for the container to run software provided in the /nix/store available from those bind mounts. This also meant both the Kubernetes hosts and containers did not require the nix daemon, the nix-sidecar running within the pod orchestrated pulling derivations , binding them, and running garbage collection at low priority in the background to ensure host SSDs don't run out of storage, while still allowing referenced derivations in the cluster to persist, improving sync time where the SSD may already contain all necessary derivations for a new pod startup.
by userbinator | 2025-10-02 03:29:21+00:00
It's a big omission to claim "minimalist" but then have no information about code size. Nonetheless, as someone who has written an H.261 through H.263 decoder as a learning exercise, it's good to see more people writing video codecs. Getting high performance may not be straightforward, but the algorithms themselves are well-defined by the standard.

Access to left/top macroblock values is done with direct offsets in memory instead of copying their values to a buffer beforehand.

I made use of this technique too, so I think it's not particularly novel nor non-obvious. The performance-sensitivity of video decoding necessarily means avoiding any extraneous data movement whenever possible.

Also worth noting: H.264 patents have already expired in most of the world: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...
by bongodongobob | 2025-10-02 03:29:33+00:00
Optimized and tuned for what?

Try tuning your entire environment and then maintaining it all the time. Best I can do is get it into a failure mode that isn't a disaster.

Mapping anything into a perfect system fails. So I'm surrounded by half working shit that works well enough that the energy from the shittyness that it sucks from me is made up by the fact that it's good enough to not crash out over. But I will still stress. Because I do want to fix the Bluetooth but I also have 8000 other things at home to perfectly tune as well.

My shoes are a year and a half old. A little stained, a little green from mowing the lawn. I sure as fuck don't want to go to a shoe store and tell the poor young worker there that I don't need their help. I'm not buying shoes without trying them on, so internet is out. When the soles fall off and the social impact is great enough, I'll replace them.

I haven't cut my hair in a year and a half because the hair dresser lady that I went to for 15 years moved away. Staring into a mirror while someone talks to me and cuts my hair is a fucking nightmare. I know this makes me look unconventional, but worth it for now. I have to carefully wash, condition, dry, and brush my hair. It's more work. But it's optimized.
by bri3d | 2025-10-02 03:30:30+00:00
In the case of Apple AVD, it's a multi-stage system with a bunch of special primitives, orchestrated by a Cortex-M3 with firmware. Codec-specific frontends emit IR which a less specialized backend can execute.

https://github.com/eiln/avd

This really heavily depends on the device, though. There are all sorts of "hardware" video decoders ranging from fairly generic vector coprocessors running firmware to "pure" HDL/VLSI level implementations. Usually on more modern or advanced hardware you'll see more and more become more general purpose, since a lot of the later stages can be shared across codecs, saving area vs. a pure hardware implementation.
by apavlo | 2025-10-02 03:31:32+00:00
> so... you take 10%-30% performance hit _right away_, and you perpetually give up any opportunities to improve the decoder in the future.

The WASM is meant as a backup. If you have the native decoder installed (e.g., as a crate), then a system will prefer to use that. Otherwise, fallback to WASM. A 10-30% performance hit is worth it over not being able to read a file at all.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 03:31:40+00:00
>land is a finite resource of which there is not enough and no more can be had.

That's not as true in the US's development. There's such an abundance of land and rapid expansion made it easier and easier for new landowners to grab acres of land. American to this day is still very sparse as a country.

US farmers had a bunch of land and possibly slave labor. They had little need to adapt to new tech. And yes, stability is key if you have it; it's a fleeting feeling (even to this day).
by zmmmmm | 2025-10-02 03:31:58+00:00
The interesting thing about AI to me is it's got a bit of a "meta" effect in that it's giving generic software engineering a boost by increasing productivity there. So you have direct application of AI replacing existing jobs, but then for everything AI can't do, the increase in productivity of regular software engineering is accelerating automation of those things through standard software.

For me, the second effect is more prominent: still maintaining / hiring the same staff but we are taking on qualitatively different things that we would not have accepted due to complexity or workload reasons now.
by halper | 2025-10-02 03:37:47+00:00
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by Animats | 2025-10-02 03:38:46+00:00
This is C to Rust, not C++ to Rust. That's important.

DARPA was willing to award multiple contracts, but the only one awarded is to a group from several universities. [1]

"The team’s approach, Formally-Verified Compositional Lifting of C to Rust (which forms the acronym ForCLift, pronounced “forklift”), uses Verified Lifting, which combines formal methods and program analysis with AI techniques such as Large Language Models, so as to create accurate translations of complex C code into safe, idiomatic Rust. The approach seeks to enable formal verification of the translated code while also preserving performance-critical behavior."

This involves something called "Verified Lifting."[2] "Metalift uses verified lifting to search for possible candidate programs in the target language that the given input can be translated to." So it's looking for matching idioms in the target language and using proof techniques to check that they are equivalent. Going uphill in abstraction automatically is rare. This will definitely be interesting. It's essential to good translation.

The old C2Rust is all downhill. What comes out of C2Rust are huge numbers of calls to functions that exactly emulate C semantics, bugs and all. I tried it once, on a buggy JPEG 2000 decoder. The test case which caused a segfault in the C version also caused a segfault in the unsafe Rust version. At least it generates compatible code.

[1] https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/07/15/translating-legacy-code-f...

[2] https://metalift.pages.dev/
by RossBencina | 2025-10-02 03:40:27+00:00
I think the money laundering thing is orthogonal.

Koons is the prototypical example of delegation (to carefully selected artisans), but many less notable contemporary artists delegate realisation to fabricators (I have seen this first hand only in sculpture.) I think the fact that this is now acceptable has something to do with the decoupling of visual art-as-concept from art-as-object that has occurred over the past 150 years. The rise of CAD also makes it easier to design a work and delegate fabrication. Of course Music and Theatre have been delegating realisation pretty-much forever.
by flippantHippo | 2025-10-02 03:41:14+00:00
So interesting to me how many comments here, which are intended to be critques of the game, unknowingly end up giving insights into the autistic experience. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but there's some elegance in how that's played out.

- I don't like the choices given - Why did both options, make my x score drop? - I don't understand how this game is scored - I don't agree with how this game is scored - That's not what masking is/everybody has to do that

In my experience at least, these are the responses to the real world that are at the centre of autism - especially for those undiagnosed / late-diagnosed. Why don't I understand this thing that everyone else seems to, and nobody understands this thing that I've clearly explained 3 times now? Why is x that is so easy for everyone else so hard for me? I don't understand what I did wrong.

Games like this are never going to be perfect simulations of even a single person's experience, but are great for demonstrating that others might not experience the world in the same way as you. And the more people understand that, the more empathy and less conflict there will be in the world.
by wrp | 2025-10-02 03:41:15+00:00
Speaking just about the Renaissance fair phenomenon in the USA, I think the main inspiration was the 1960s hippy obsession with Tolkien. Renaissance fairs were just a big outdoor costume party, were you could prance, toke, skinny dip, and buy/sell crafts. The more realistically named Oregon Country Fair was originally the Oregon Renaissance Faire.

As to why fans of the fantasy genre prefer medieval settings. I know it's a topic of discussion, but I don't know if there is a widely accepted explanation.
by doru1 | 2025-10-02 03:42:12+00:00
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by Nursie | 2025-10-02 03:42:23+00:00
> What peasant life offered wasn't comfort but stability.

Until the local lord took a fancy to a different type of agriculture, drove you off and ploughed your village back into the soil!

I've been watching time-team recently and this seems to come up semi-frequently. Your family could have been there for 200 years, no matter, bye now!
by gopalv | 2025-10-02 03:43:05+00:00
> Is the big win that you can send around custom little vector embedding databases with a built in sandbox?

No, this is a compatibility layer for future encoding changes.

For example, ORCv2 has never shipped because we tried to bundle all the new features into a new format version, ship all the writers with the features disabled, then ship all the readers with support and then finally flip the writers to write the new format.

Specifically, there was a new flipped bit version of float encoding which sent the exponent, mantissa and sign as integers for maximum compression - this would've been so much easier to ship if I could ship a wasm shim with the new file and skip the year+ wait for all readers to support it.

We'd have made progress with the format, but we'd also be able to deprecate a reader impl in code without losing compatibility if the older files carried their own information.

Today, something like Spark's variant type would benefit from this - the sub-columnarization that does would be so much easier to ship as bytecode instead of as an interpreter that contains support for all possible recombinations from split up columns.

PS: having spent a lot of nights tweaking tpc-h with ORC and fixing OOMs in the writer, it warms my heart to see it sort of hold up those bits in the benchmark
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-02 03:43:18+00:00
Labour thought it was a good idea to follow Corbyn. I don’t mean that an insult or a gotcha. But it was not a well thought out plan.

The part about only listening to their own think tanks is weird. Academia leans left. American conservatives are suspicious of advice not from their think-tanks, but that’s because it’s hostile territory. The Democrats treat the university/expert/consultant class as free labor.

I don’t mean to be critical of your country especially given who is running America. But we do watch, and it has an impact here. Fear of an American Corbyn is one reason Democrats aren’t veering left.

Also I don’t know if this is related, but the fact that the US is about to install Tony Blair to head Gaza should make you rethink Labour’s capacity for thought.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 03:45:16+00:00
>explicit

If we're doing semantics:

">(of a person) stating something in a clear and detailed way.

It is indeed" explicit ".

>No, it's pretty obvious that it's a flub

"binders full of women" was a flub. It was still a PR disaster. We've now moved beyond "grab them by the pussy" and we can't muster any rage now?

The charts don't really mean much given how much the admins have already contradicted this and talk about how crime is rampant in [insert city to be invaded].

>then what do we call it if someone straight up says that he supports pedophiles?

Explicit. Still meets the definition. I don't think we need to argue about spectrum of explicit. We can bring "literal" back or "with genuine intent" if we want.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-02 03:46:47+00:00
You appear to be very strongly invested in this completely bizarre narrative that teachers in SFUSD are not low paid, and basically every number you’ve used is wrong or misleading. Nobody is getting 90% of their salary as a pension. If you retire at 62 after 30 years teaching you will get 66% of your salary as a pension.

Personally, in my private sector job, my healthcare and retirement matching is more than the benefits amount for SFUSD, so excluding that is just ridiculous.
by visarga | 2025-10-02 03:46:58+00:00
> once AI is capable enough to do all tasks humans do in employment, there will be no need to employ any humans at all for any task whatsoever

AI has no skin, you can't shame it, fire it, jail it. In all critical tasks, where we take risk on life, health, money, investment or resources spent we need that accountability.

Humans, besides being consequence sinks, are also task originators and participate in task iteration by providing feedback and constraints. Those come from the context of information that is personal and cannot be owned by AI providers.

So, even though AI might do the work, humans spark it, maintain/guide it, and in the end receive the good or bad outcomes and pay the cost. There are as many unique contexts as people, contextual embeddedness cannot be owned by others.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 03:47:05+00:00
Any job is a good job with a living wage and labor protections. That’s what unions are for. It’s whether workers get the benefits now, or some time in the future as the working age population cohort shrinks due to structural demographics, creating persistent labor shortages far into the future increasing labor bargaining power [1].

All you can do is keep moving the ball forward evangelizing for organizing and labor rights as cohort turnover continues. It’s a sales and marketing problem fundamentally, communicating the value proposition.

If young people won’t organize, and yet are still unhappy with lack of living wages, it leaves few options for them. But, this also reinforces the fertility rate decline curve, which more rapidly pulls forward improved labor power through a faster shrinking working age population cohort.

[1] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf