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by Neywiny | 2025-12-17 01:07:51+00:00
It's starting. Some designs are moving towards very wide vector length (1k maybe even 2k?) RV-V cores. So less a giant matrix multiplication unit (I think TI has some parts with what they literally call MMUs, great work guys), more a bunch of DSP heavy CPUs. In the age of x86 splitting on AVX-512, it's interesting.
by themafia | 2025-12-17 01:07:52+00:00
> this is why for-profit platforms are loathe to properly moderate

They measure the wrong things. Instead of measuring intangibles like project outcomes or user sentiment they measure engagement by time spent on site. It's the Howard Stern show problem on a "hyper scale."

> A social network

Given your points we should probably just properly call them "anti-social networks."
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-17 01:07:54+00:00
That's a very good US-side steelman!

The counter-argument, of course, is that a country is allowed to adjudicate crimes that happen inside their own borders, else what's even the point of being a country.

The ICC has been granted jurisdiction by it's 124 signatories, so if crimes against humanity occur within their borders, then -for those countries- the ICC acts as part of their court system. Uncomfortably, this includes Afghanistan and the Palestinian state, so you can see why respectively the USA and Israel might have some issues.

Of course it kind of helps if people are arrested on the ground in the country where they committed the crimes they are accused of. The ICC does not necessarily have the ability to reach into non-member states to arrest people who have left the scene of the crime. They can only issue a warrant on the off chance that one day those people step back into their jurisdiction.
by puglr | 2025-12-17 01:08:06+00:00
Last week (Sunday to Sunday) I had a repo running a lot of cron workflows 24/7. After like 4 or 5 days I exceeded the free limits (Pro plan) and so set up self hosted runners.

After like day 2 my workflows would take 10-15 minutes past their trigger time to show up and be queued. And switching to the self hosted runners didn't change that. Happens every time with every workflow, whether the workflow takes 10 seconds or 10 minutes.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-17 01:09:24+00:00
I agree. I think we've gotta get through the rough couple of "AI slop" years of code and we'll come out of it the other side with some incredible tools.

The reason we don't all write code to the level that can operate the Space Shuttle is because we don't have the resources and the projects most of us work on all allow some wiggle room for bugs since lives generally aren't at risk. But we'd all love to check in code that was verifiably bug-free, exploit-free, secure etc if we could get that at a low, low price.
by lrvick | 2025-12-17 01:09:43+00:00
I would agree FAANGs are an exception who have historically hired almost exclusively academics who hire other academics, and it shows. They let many coast for years at a time and get away with being a specialist unable to deliver value outside of their specialization or rapidly learn new skills. Many get the job with academic success and treat the job as a continuation of their academic career. Many get "tenure" and can do whatever they want and are effectively paid to just not work for competitors.

I know lots of people working at those orgs that brag about how well they get away with doing nothing of value and we all know these people (but of course not everyone is like that).

No offense but I do not feel the overwhelming majority of roles at these companies are delivering value to humanity apart from shareholders, or something most people should aspire towards in a career, and do not think most of the skills learned in these orgs are all that useful in the world outside those walls.

Also those same FAANGs are clearly aware of the above at some level and doing mass layoffs, or not replacing people who leave, and those workers are having a really hard time finding a home in the non-FAANG working world where they are expected to be highly motivated generalists.
by 15155 | 2025-12-17 01:10:29+00:00
> addressing the selective application of the law to further conservative agendas

Does selectively not enforcing immigration law further liberal agendas?

- House seats (and therefore electoral votes) are determined by census - which includes illegal immigrant populations.

- If you can waddle across the border at 8.5 months pregnant, you can birth a citizen with no further requirements.

Ergo, "sanctuary cities" and other intentional lack of enforcement allow states to pump up their representation in Congress and increase government handouts.
by eru | 2025-12-17 01:10:33+00:00
Bangladesh is a fascinating case story. They had a few decades of solid growth largely due to the textile industries, yes.

They went from dirt poor to merely poor. That's to be celebrated, and I hope we see Bangladeshis continue making themselves richer through their own hard work.

> (Related: As is so often the case, if you want things better for your folks back home, lift everyone out of poverty and make everyone safe. People are less likley to take "slave-wage" jobs if the alternative is not subsistence and high risk of unpredictable outcome due to localized supply disruption, disease outbreak, or war).

I assume by 'folks back home' you are referring to people who live in rich countries? Having people in Bangladesh and Vietnam become richer is definitely good from a moral point of view, but it has only second order effects on the 'folks back home'. To a first approximation, it doesn't matter economically how well off or poor foreigners are. As a second order effect, if an economy is booming next door (ie they are getting richer), some positive effects often spill over, and global security probably goes up, too.

> Exploitation of labor is a complicated topic (and really, the meta-fight is, as is so often the case, not between nations; it's between labor and capital. Offshoring is just another form of scabbing, but the world is not yet small enough that one should expect a fresh-off-the-farm factory worker who just had their prospects opened up to join a global strike because people in the US want to make $15/hr).

I'm not sure what you mean by exploitation? In any case, labour and capital are working together, you need both to produce anything in a modern economy. In fact, you need labour, capital and land working together.

If you want to get worked up about anything, it's not labour vs capital. But it's labour+capital vs land. In recent decades in the US the share of GDP going to labour has dipped a bit, capital's share has stayed stable, and the share of land went up.

Many economic analyses mix up land into capital. But that's misleading at best. We can produce more capital to compete with the old capital. We can't make more Land. (Well, not until we are building space habitats.)

(By Land with a capital L, I'm including the oceans. The Netherlands (or even more Singapore) reclaiming big swaths of land just means they are converting ocean floor Land to dry Land.)

See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG for the US labour share. I'm not sure if Fred has a graph that drills into the non-labour share and tells you what goes to capital and what goes to Land. But see eg https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...
by biophysboy | 2025-12-17 01:10:37+00:00
It also explains why large platforms can be so toxic. If there were a sport with 1000 players, you would need 100 referees, not 1. At scale, all you can really do is implement algorithmic solutions, which are much coarser and can be seriously frustrating for good-faith creators (e.g. YouTube demonetization)

Arbitrators are good! They can be unfair or get things wrong, but they are absolutely essential. It boggles my mind how we decided we needed to re-learn human governance from scratch when it comes to the internet. Obviously the rules will be different, but arbitrators are practically universal in human institutions.
by CuriousRose | 2025-12-17 01:10:57+00:00
Fully agree with this.

- Mozilla SSL Certs - for corporations that don't want Let's Encrypt

- Mozilla Mail - a reliable Exchange/Google Mail alternative (desperately needed imo)

- Thunderbird for iOS - why is this not a thing yet?

- Mozilla Search - metasearch that isn't based on Bing/DDG/Google

- Mozilla HTTPS DNS - although Cloudflare will probably always do this better

All seemingly low-hanging fruit with brand alignment.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-17 01:12:02+00:00
It's getting better every day, though, at "closing the loop."

When I recently booted up Google Antigravity and had it make a change to a backend routine for a web site, I was quite surprised when it opened Chrome, navigated to the page, and started trying out the changes to see if they had worked. It was janky as hell, but a year from now it won't be.
by the_biot | 2025-12-17 01:12:08+00:00
That's a fair question. It's of course my opinion, not hard fact, but here goes:

- They have for years been trying to add stuff to Firefox that nobody wants, and were privacy violations. The "marketing studies" come to mind.

- They have for decades been wasting their time and money on everything BUT Firefox, and failing at literally all of it. You can't help but notice the stellar incompetence of Mozilla leadership.

- They have for a long time been raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google, pissing it away on useless stuff, but mostly on enriching the management layer. How can somebody like Mitchell Baker be making millions of dollars a year while simultaneously seeing Firefox market share drop to damn near zero? This is a thoroughly corrupt organization.
by eru | 2025-12-17 01:12:31+00:00
Huh? What do you mean by 'enslave'? If you mean that people work for low wages in the export sector, well then I have news for you on South Korea.

The reason South Korea graduated to higher wages quicker than Vietnam seems to be doing, is partially because South Korea is more capitalist, so they see more economic growth quicker.

Nothing ironic about any of that.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-12-17 01:12:51+00:00
Algorithms and perverse incentives are currently boosting that signal, however. Take this story for instance from the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semi...

"Last week, the Yale Youth Poll released its fall survey, which found that “younger voters are more likely to hold antisemitic views than older voters.” When asked to choose whether Jews have had a positive, neutral, or negative impact on the United States, just 8 percent of respondents said “negative.” But among 18-to-22-year-olds, that number was 18 percent. Twenty-seven percent of 18-to-22-year-olds strongly or somewhat agreed that “Jews in the United States have too much power,” compared with 16 percent overall and just 11 percent of those over 65."

It's easy to get exposed to extreme content on instagram, X, YT and elsewhere. Incendiary content leads to more engagement. The algorithms ain't alright.
by jesse__ | 2025-12-17 01:13:05+00:00
> the look and aesthetic of some of your screenshots is awesome. reminds me of ultima online in the best way possible

Thank you!

> It's like looking into the future, will there be a point where you can just render the entire scene in voxels at high enough res where it's indistinguishable from modern 3d graphics?

There are two really big problems getting in the way of this.

1. Data size. One of the ways that my engine gets away with rendering such large volumes is by discarding most of the voxel data after it gets generated and converted to triangles. In the context of a traditional 3D pipeline, where artists hand-author content in zbrush, maya, blender, etc, which is then imported and drawn in the engine .. it gets complicated.

2. Animation. Animating voxel data is hard. I'm going to completely gloss over all the details, but current techniques mostly boil down to playing back 3D video, which is problem (1) on steroids.

That all said, many voxel-based techniques are used in commercial 3D game engines today. Unreal Engine just landed a feature that voxelizes foliage in the distance, and just draws the ~1px voxels instead of textured quads. Voxel Cone Tracing is another prominent example. Fluid sims and many volumetric effects are also commonly done using voxel grids.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-12-17 01:13:21+00:00
In country phone numbers are quite hard to get since they have to be activated with ID. Sure scammers could start using stolen IDs, but that's already a barrier to entry. And you are limited to how many phone numbers you can register this way.

Presumably with further tie ins to government services, one would be able to view all the phone numbers registered in their name to spot fraud and deactivate the numbers they don't own.
by owlninja | 2025-12-17 01:15:05+00:00
> Authorize Execution of a Public Right-of-Way Use Agreement Granting Flock Group, Inc. a License to Install and Maintain Non-Police Department Flock License Plate Reader Cameras on Public Rights-of Way and Establish Fees for Permitting, Inspection, and Usage

This is on my town and seems like strange wording. What the heck are private flock cameras?

>The City and Flock have negotiated a Right-of-Way Use Agreement, which will grant Flock a non-exclusive license to install and maintain certain private cameras within the City's ROW. The agreement is for a period of twenty (20) years and may be renewed for up to two (2) successive five (5) year terms. Flock will be responsible for paying the permit and inspection fees for existing private cameras within the City's ROW and for any newly installed private cameras within the ROW as well as for an annual ROW usage fee on a per camera basis for the right to install cameras within the City's ROW.

20 years...
by tzs | 2025-12-17 01:15:11+00:00
That's old heat pumps. Mitsubishi introduced their "Hyper-Heating Inverter" heat pumps designed to work well in cold weather in 2007, with Fujitsu and Daikin adopting similar technology by 2012, and others following within a few years.

These remain 200% efficient down to -4℉ and 150% efficient down to -22℉. Their capacity starts dropping at 23℉ going down to 76% capacity at -13℉.

There's only a few towns in the continental US that cold enough for long enough that it can't be heated well by one of these. You just need an installer that will size it properly for the climate in your area.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-12-17 01:15:11+00:00
It gets even better! EBS (한국교육방송 Educational Broadcasting System) is using "듄 dyun" as one of its brands, which is one of such mis-transliterated words. Cyworld [EDIT: got confused], a once-popular SNS in Korea, once went by "쵸재깅 chyojaeging" in the similar way. (Both words have absolutely no meaning in Korean, suggesting that it was transliterated from QWERTY to a Hangul keyboard layout.)
by gnabgib | 2025-12-17 01:15:17+00:00
You have violated a guideline:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

And again with this submission:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

.. perhaps you could give them a read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by marcusverus | 2025-12-17 01:15:52+00:00
Deportations aren't causing the cost of food to rise:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL

> Which makes me wonder - what exactly do you think the value prop is, here?

I want to leave my country to my children and theirs. Whatever America would be after the endless waves of third world immigrants (most of whom are grasping collectivists who value none of the things that have made America worth preserving, and would happily neuter the bill of rights and tax every dollar out of my pocket) it would not be my country. Bored cat ladies and wishcasting liberals are apparently happy to roll the dice with the futures of our children on the line, but I'm not. Let Canada or the UK or whoever carry the experiment to its conclusion, and if it works, then by golly let's jump in with both feet. But a blind gamble? Hard pass.

Perhaps it would be different if I thought we had good faith partners on the other side, but I don't. Biden tried to bum-rush millions of illegals into the country with the full stated intent to amnesty them, enfranchise them, and use them to control the congress, admit new states (DC/PR), and cement permanent demographic-guaranteed progressive/collectivist majority. The democrats attempted most of these steps during his tenure, but were 1 vote short in the senate.

I was hesitant to even support deportations before the Biden regime jumped the shark. (Remember when they said we needed to pass a new law to "seal" the border--and explicit lie--when the law actually codified mass, unvetted illegal immigration at ~10X historical levels? I doubt it.) Knowing now that the left (the leadership, if not the rank and file) clearly intended to weaponize demographic change for their political benefit, of course I oppose them.
by bongodongobob | 2025-12-17 01:16:09+00:00
You're just not describing what you want properly. Looks fine to me. Clearly you have something else in mind, so I think you're just not describing well. My tip would be to use actuall illustration language. Do you want a wide angle shot? What should depth of field be? Oil painting print? Ink illustration? What kind of printing style? Do you want a photo of the book or a pre-print proof? What kind of color scheme?

A professional artist wouldn't know what you want.

You didn't even specify an art style. 1970s sci-fi novel cover isn't a style. You'll find vastly different art styles from the 70s. If you're disappointed, it's because you're doing a shitty job describing what's in your head. If your prompt isn't at least a paragraph, you're going to just get random generic results.
by nextos | 2025-12-17 01:16:21+00:00
There are excellent probabilistic extensions to temporal logic out there that are very useful to uncover subtle performance bugs in protocol specifications, see e.g. what PRISM [1] and Storm [2] implement. That is not within the scope of TLA+.

Formal methods are really broad, ranging from lightweight type systems to theorem proving. Some techniques are fantastic for one type of problem but fail at others. This is quite natural, the same thing happens with different programming paradigms.

For example, what is adequate for a hard real-time system (timed automata) is useless for a typical CRUD application.

[1] https://www.prismmodelchecker.org

[2] https://www.stormchecker.org
by dpark | 2025-12-17 01:17:12+00:00
Do you have a point except to cast this guy as untrustworthy because he did one stupid thing that got photographed half a decade ago? I feel like the pedantry about what ad hominem means and arguments about analogies and now references to morality and politicians is distracting from whatever your core point is.

> lack of trust in doctors

I don’t think demanding perfection from doctors helps with trust either.
by jamilton | 2025-12-17 01:17:38+00:00
Yeah, I think it's an uncommon word. It's not a concept that would come up for most American English speakers, unless you're in a community that uses a language with another writing system (I think I first encountered it in a synagogue with Hebrew) or you're learning such a language.

I think I've maybe occasionally seen "translit." in text used to mark that the following is transliterated, but I could see that being easily glossed over.
by varenc | 2025-12-17 01:18:07+00:00
> seems like you would have a poor argument that you can’t collect and analyze images of a public space

Absolutely agree... but the CA law is clear that tracking license plates get special treatment! It being public space doesn't matter. It's wild to me that how you analyze the video is regulated. Also that no similar regulation for the regular public doing facial recognition exists. Just ALPR.

I wonder how I'm supposed to comply with the law if I were to take a public webcam feed, like one from a highway[0], and run ALPR on it myself. I obviously can't post any notices there. And I'm not the camera operator so can't comply with anything related to that. But I would be doing ALPR which does require I follow rules. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Will be interesting to see what happens to the law. It feels outdated, but I'm doubtful any CA politician is going to expend karma making ALPR more permissive. So I bet it'll stay on the books and just go largely unenforced.

https://go511.com/TrafficTransit/Cameras
by 15155 | 2025-12-17 01:18:18+00:00
The ideal amount of mistakes is non-zero.

We should compensate those who are improperly arrested and quickly correct these violations, attempt to prevent them in the future, reprimand those involved if necessary, but absolutely keep pushing ahead at full steam on law enforcement efforts otherwise.

Hot take: some small number of unlawful arrests aren't the "neener neener neener, you can't stop illegal immigration" that folks seem to think they are.
by wastu | 2025-12-17 01:18:21+00:00
I got tired of building custom OCR pipelines for every document type and fixing parsers whenever a PDF layout changed. So I built Parsley.

Parsley uses LLMs to parse PDFs or images into structured data. You define the fields you want and it extracts them by meaning rather than fixed positions or labels.

The web app uses your own API keys with providers like Google or OpenRouter. Documents go directly to them. The app is stateless and doesn't store files or keys.

Features:

- Custom or auto-generated schemas

- PDF (including password-protected) and image support - Multiple LLM providers

- JSON or CSV output

- Stateless API for n8n or Zapier

- Free, rate-limited demo mode

I use it in n8n to parse invoices and bank statements straight into spreadsheets. It's been much less brittle than traditional OCR.

Code: https://github.com/bgwastu/parsley Demo (rate-limited): https://parsley.wastu.net/

Would genuinely appreciate thoughts from people who've had to wrangle documents like this.
by smt88 | 2025-12-17 01:18:23+00:00
> Most MoCo contributors do work on Firefox. Firefox is a MoCo product.

This is true.

> But still, MoFo contributors, paid or not, do not work on Firefox.

This is not true, based on what I've read about it. Do you have personal experience with these orgs that suggests otherwise?

Regardless, nothing is stopping Foundation funds from being directed to Firefox development. If someone gave them, for example, $1M that could only be spent on Firefox, they could pay Corporation or an external consultancy to contribute to the open-source Firefox repositories.

This is already happening, either through Foundation or Corporation. One of the biggest Servo contributors works for a FOSS consultancy.

There are corollaries to what I'm describing in most large nonprofits in the US. You get money that a donor requires you to spend in a certain way, and you spend that money that way. If you can't do it with in-house people, you give it to consultants.
by eru | 2025-12-17 01:18:29+00:00
> We're talking about Trump here: of course it's black and white.

Trump might portrait things that way, but that doesn't mean we need to analyse anything involving him that way.

> Wealth inequality dropped after the Gilded Age and post-WW2 until the 1970s (in the US); [...]

Well, if you take on a more global perspective: global inequality absolutely skyrocketed until the 1970s and has only gradually been climbing down since then. Numerically, the biggest contributor was Mao strangling the Chinese economy (and people) until his death, and then Deng Xiaoping took over and relaxed the grip around their throats. But outsourcing and container shipping and lower tariffs helped a lot, too. Not just in relation with China, but for everyone on the globe.

I'm sick of portraying the era until the 1970s as some kind of golden age. It was the nadir for most people on the globe in terms of equality, not the zenith.