MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trollbridge | 2025-04-04 12:45:26+00:00
Nearly every one of my clients have been invoice scammed. The amounts are typically five figures.

When we onboard a new customer, I send a packet with payment information including how to direct deposit. It has this information:

- Our routing/account number. We sweep the funds out of this account nearly instantly once the deposits are made. The bank account’s purpose is to accept direct deposits and nothing else. The account number we transmit over the phone so at least it’s less likely to end up sitting in a (compromised) e-mail box.

- Our mailing address, which is a PO Box.

- Some information on invoice scams, including an offer to review any suspicious requests free of charge. A customer takes us up on this every few months… so far we have yet to see one legitimate one.

- A warning to never, ever accept changes for our payment information or mailing address unless told to do so in person by an officer of the company, with a list of the current officers.

- If in doubt, mail a check to the PO Box instead of direct deposit.

- A warning not to trust information sent via email, fax, phone calls (voice changers are a real thing), or from an employee/officer other than the one they usually interact with, and such a change must be confirmed with a phone call to a different officer.

- A recommendation to also contact our local credit union (where we deposit payments from our customers) if they feel something is suspicious.

- We have an internal rule that any change to bank accounts requires a meeting of 3 officers, in person or over the Google Meet we normally use for video calls (no phone calls) with meeting minutes conducted for the change. The change must be unanimous and the change can’t be put in for 30 days unless an emergency. Emergencies must be coordinated with a responsible person at the bank, in person. (Sorry, but this means no fintech etc. type of banks.) We recommend our customers to do the same.

The biggest liability is that it would be hard for us to change bank accounts.

We get an attempt on an invoice scam or otherwise every few weeks. So far we haven’t lost a penny of company funds due to fraud.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-04 12:45:29+00:00
For all my criticisms of Peter Thiel, I think he’s a smart guy (though, I don’t know if he’s changed or I have, but I’m thinking this less lately). But anyways to try and understand Thiel and Vance a bit better, I’ve been reading a bit of Catholic moral philosophy, and what I find interesting, is that when I look at the foundations of all the arguments, I think there’s something in the brain, or a value, that either you see this sort of fundamental view about something like gender - ignoring within group differences in favor of between group differences or you don’t, and if you don’t just “see” that, the rest of the foundation falls apart. But I would say, it’s not that I completely ignore some of the ideas of what makes us a successful society, more that I think that we should look for those values outside of maybe visible differences (and I am 100% against an idea of the ends justify the means that suggest that womanizing philanderers like Musk and Trump are the way to spread family values around America)

But even her new found sage Elon Musk is famous for saying “Physics is the law, everything else is just a recommendation”. Even Musk’s maximally truth seeking AI often thinks he’s a cad.

So I guess the main thrust of my criticism would be just that, sure, engineers should spend their time building things in the maximally truthful space of physics, but GTFO when trying to apply those same methods to social science or morality.
by nottorp | 2025-04-04 12:45:30+00:00
> It was replaced by the new Windows app.

Replaced how? My app doesn't yell at me that it's shutting down (as opposed to skype).

Also the original article leads me to believe there are several applications called Remote Desktop and only one of them is shutting down. I'm hoping someone will tell me which is which and how I figure out which one I'm using.
by yyyk | 2025-04-04 12:45:37+00:00
It's a good thing, unless the body clears off the phage first, leading to both reduced effectiveness and the body wasting immune resources. It does work locally, and one can probably engineer it today to work even better. But it seems to be destined to be relegated to a secondary cure. We seem to be able to keep finding new antibiotics with benefits like 'massive safety testing' or 'we know exactly how they work', or 'very easy to administer'.
by rob | 2025-04-04 12:45:40+00:00
All this was pretty common back in the AOL days. Kelly Hallissey would call your parents, you'd get 2 char screen names just by editing the HTML source code before submitting, end users would run Sub7 and let you control their computers, DosFX and PatOrJK were thriving sites, Dolan would get pounds of dog food delivered to his house by anons for pissing them off.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-04 12:45:59+00:00
> Pharma products were previously tariff-free under a WTO agreement that is based on the principle that life-saving items shouldn't face any tariffs. Looks like this exemption is now also being eliminated

Pharma along with semiconductors is still exempted.

The biggest hit this has is on textiles and apparel as those were industries that have almost no NAFTA/USMCA presence anymore.

Electronics will be a mixed bag as most US origin electronics assembly was already returning to Mexico due to Zero COVID in China (20-23) and Vietnam (20-21), or moving to India (26% tariff) and Malaysia (20% tariff)
by Philpax | 2025-04-04 12:46:13+00:00
Haven't tested this (cbf setting up Google Cloud), but the output looks consistent with the docs it cites: https://chatgpt.com/share/67efd449-ce34-8003-bd37-9ec688a11b...

You may consider using search to be cheating, but we do it, so why shouldn't LLMs?
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-04 12:46:24+00:00
Seeing something like this or Akira on the big screen there is an analogue patina to meticulous hand drawn motion and some of the effects like the physically process glow effects of the neon lights in Akira that do give a very different feeling than a CG shot.

Although only a few will really appreciate why it's different I definitely think the difference has a heavy effect on the vibe of a movie.

Same with shooting on film vs digital, not that digital is worse it has it's own feeling which can be used with intent.
by bufferoverflow | 2025-04-04 12:46:36+00:00
That's why I said "chance".

And no, there's no zero rational connection. LLMs and other types of neural nets are already demonstrating they can solve complex tasks. Unless there's some intrinsic barrier to how intelligent they can become, we should surpass human level intelligence within years, maybe a decade.

Once you surpass human level intelligence, you can scale scientific research by orders of magnitude.

Heck, AI already assists scientific research. We basically solved protein folding problem with AI.
We Benchmarked Mistral and Landing AI vs. Docsumo
by snehanairdoc | 2025-04-04 12:47:19+00:00
We recently ran a benchmark comparing Docsumo’s in-house OCR engine (which powers our Intelligent Document Processing platform) against Mistral OCR and Landing AI’s agentic document extraction.

Why? There's a lot of hype around generative OCR tools lately, and we were curious how they actually perform on real-world documents—things like messy invoices, noisy scans, bank statements, multilingual forms, and low-res PDFs.

What we tested: >Text extraction quality (layout preservation, character-level accuracy) >Performance on tables, charts, vertically aligned text >Impact on downstream tasks like structured data extraction (using GPT-4o) >Latency comparisons

What we found: Docsumo's native OCR consistently outperformed both Mistral and Landing AI across layout fidelity, hallucination rate, and downstream extraction accuracy. While Mistral is fast and cheap, it missed large content chunks and hallucinated on noisy inputs. Landing AI did better but often paraphrased or mislabeled data, especially in multilingual or structured formats.

We’ve made the benchmark results public (including side-by-side OCR outputs): https://huggingface.co/spaces/docsumo/ocr-results

And here’s the full breakdown with methodology, dataset, and observations: https://www.docsumo.com/blogs/ocr/docsumo-ocr-benchmark-repo...

This is just the first benchmark in a larger series—we’re working on evaluating more IDP/OCR tools next. If you're building workflows around document automation or curious about OCR performance today, would love your thoughts/feedback.
by piva00 | 2025-04-04 12:47:23+00:00
If your definition of leftism is "progressive" then I'm sorry to tell you: all advances in art were made by people you'd consider "leftists".

There is simply no way that a conservative worldview brings any art form forward, not even from classically-inspired backgrounds, by pure definition it attempts to keep the status quo, and all they achieve is a soulless repetition of what art was from the period they considered as "golden".

Not much dissimilar to what you are trying to do, to be honest.
by digitaltinfoil | 2025-04-04 12:47:27+00:00
Protests let people at home who are feeling alone in their frustration that there are many more people who feel like them. I also felt like you did until someone framed it that way for me.

A protest isn’t supposed to be a singular event, it’s a series of events that crescendos into a movement—and it’s the crescendo that scares the people in power.
by firefax | 2025-04-04 12:47:31+00:00
I'm glad that even if you found my teenage hacking handle, the forum it was used on is long defunct and not indexed by the wayback machine.

I drifted away from security research in my early 20s partly because of the fear instilled reading about Kevin's trials and tribulations[1]...

I think teens today think they're elite when they forget that bitcoin and even pre-paid cards, nor ubiquitous wifi were present in those times.

It's a lot easier to be anonymous nowadays -- gone are the days of scanning for poorly secured SSH boxes to use as jump boxes, now someone can go off to Starbucks and spin up a whole ass botnet or just get a burner sim to use for a month as a hotspot.

They conflate that ability to hide in the noise as a mark of skill, and then they make mistakes.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050619225554/https://www.linux...
by lolinder | 2025-04-04 12:47:46+00:00
GNU has a helpful chart where they clearly show that there is a sliver of "nonfree open source" licenses that are available [0].

> The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software. It is not exactly the same class of software: they accept some licenses that we consider too restrictive, and there are free software licenses they have not accepted. However, the differences in extension of the category are small: we know of only a few cases of source code that is open source but not free.

I was able to find one example, the NASA Open Source Agreement, which is accepted by the OSI [1] but rejected by the FSF [2]:

> The NASA Open Source Agreement, version 1.3, is not a free software license because it includes a provision requiring changes to be your “original creation”. Free software development depends on combining code from third parties, and the NASA license doesn't permit this.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

[1] https://opensource.org/license/nasa1-3-php

[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NASA
by jodacola | 2025-04-04 12:47:47+00:00
I understand where they're coming from, though.

If I pulled the trigger, it would be to a similar CoL location, but that still gets to their point: if many people do the same, prices go up. Housing availability goes down. And all the knock-on effects that could result in "gentrification."

How do I balance that (and all sorts of other things) with my desire to keep my family safe and give my children a chance at a solid future, though? I'm not sure, which is why I feel so much consternation and a need to gather more information to inform how I'll decide to act in the future.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-04 12:47:55+00:00
>I am old enough to have witnessed that in 99% of situations people are directly responsible for their own situation

Old people can be wrong, and in this case, they are.

>There is no reason to have empathy.

This is a category mistake. You reason that empathy is superfluous if people are the cause of their misfortune. However, whether people are the cause of their misfortunes is utterly irrelevant to whether there is a reason to have empathy.

So far, none of your arguments have had any discernible logic behind them. If you are so convinced that empathy is needless, why can you not articulate a coherent argument for your position?
by jmyeet | 2025-04-04 12:47:57+00:00
Many here are approaching this as "kids do dumb stuff", which is true, but I don't think that's the point.

The issue is DOGE's almost complete lack of transparency and the fact that they're given unprecedented access to systems that handle trillions of dollars where they come up with nonsencial data like they claim there are 350 year olds collecting Social Security [1].

Normally, leadership positions in government agencies are political appointees, who go through a vetting process and confirmation hearings in the Senate, or they're long-term civil servants. DOGE is exploiting a grey area to designate its staffers as "special government employees", which means neither of these vetting processes apply.

So do I care about this particular employees teenage antics? Not really. But why were they selected for their position at DOJ? And at DOGE? What do they do, exactly? What makes them qualified for that? These are things we should know.

Let me give you a recent example of just insane and seemingly kleptocratic this administration is. DOE just awarded a $1.4 billion contract to manage the SPR [2]. This is something DOE has done until now. Why are they appointing a private company to do it? Who knows? And who are they awarding it to? Well, that's where it gets interesting [3].

We seem to have handed a $1.4 billion to a company that invested in self-storage units to manage the SPR and that company may be linked personally to the Secretary of Energy.

We are witnessing the destruction of the executive branch at the hands of unappointed, unaccountable individuals and I guarantee you the next step will be to privatize these government functions that have been made to fail by gutting them for the sole purpose of transferring wealth from the government to the wealthiest.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-100-150-ye...

[2]: https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-awards-man...

[3]: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrglobaltoo/video/748924589307029431...
by theandrewbailey | 2025-04-04 12:48:06+00:00
> and don’t even get me started on the version names they give their OS products :D

Yeah, when I was growing up, Windows hit version 2000, but we've somehow regressed all the way back to 11. (The hilarity of Windows 11 being an actual regression, not only numerical, is unintentional.) Let's not forget the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition.

https://www.neowin.net/news/longest-product-name-ever-mwvuul...
by morsecodist | 2025-04-04 12:48:06+00:00
If you assume the US tariffs are unchangeable then you would be right but the hope of retaliatory tariffs is that they will get the US to update it's tariffs in response to the economic harm caused. It will also harm China of course but I would imagine they hope the harm caused to the US will reduce the tariffs and leave China better off in the long run. This is not totally unreasonable, the US is ostensibly more sensitive to the economic conditions of it's citizens so one could imagine China outlasting the US in this game of chicken.
by gessha | 2025-04-04 12:48:21+00:00
> This is especially noteworthy because I don’t actually know Python.

> However, my broad understanding of software architecture, engineering best practices, system operations, and what makes for excellent software projects made this development process remarkably smooth.

If the seniors are going to write this sort of Python code and then talk about how knowledge and experience made it smooth or whatever, might as well hire a junior and let them learn through trials and tribulations.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-04-04 12:48:29+00:00
Traditional manual work has disappeared and isn't coming back. I was watching our water company lay new pipe outside my house recently and there were no people wielding picks and shovels. There was a ton of technology involved though.

For rural employment to increase you would need to throw away all the technological progress from the last century. The country and economy would be unrecognisable from what it is now.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-04 12:48:48+00:00
You (and the article, etc) show what a lot of the "work" in AI is going into at the moment - creating guardrails against creating something that might get them in trouble, and / or customizing weights and prompts under water to generate stuff that isn't the obvious. I'm reminded of when Google's image generator came up and this customization bit them in the ass when they generated a black pope or asian vikings. AI tools don't do what you wish they did, they do what you tell them and what they are taught, and if 99% of their learning set associates Mario with prompts for Italian plumbers, that's what you'll get.

A possible (probably already exists) business is setting up truly balanced learning sets, that is, thousands of unique images that match the idea of an italian plumber, with maybe 1% of Mario. But that won't be nearly as big a learning set as the whole internet is, nor will it be cheap to build it compared to just scraping the internet.
by yapyap | 2025-04-04 12:48:50+00:00
Thank you for the clarification.

Ugh, knowing you have a clearly malicious actor as top dog of the country -_- it can’t get more frustrating. Except for the fact that a big part of the country supports it as well.

I do wonder if they even believe in him wholeheartedly or just put on an act cause they’re in too deep and don’t want to give the people who said they were making the wrong choice the “satisfaction” of admitting they were right.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-04 12:49:31+00:00
That you see trampling as a value does not mean it is; if you have to move the point to the value you attribute to your own life the issue is with your perspective over your life.

It is correct to see that you have that one life, so you have to use it wisely. The issue will remain about what is "wisely".

> how do I benefit from having

Did anybody tell you you should? You should develop adequate understanding instead - and that will also put the rest into the right perspective.
by nottorp | 2025-04-04 12:49:54+00:00
I remember reading somewhere that they did release some online Lego game that allowed building once, but they shut it down because they couldn't delete all the dicks in time.

To be snarky, if you want an environment without dicks you should play on an adults only server. When we play, we're too busy building huge elaborate buildings and terraforming large portions of the landscape to build measly dicks.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-04 12:50:03+00:00
Then, you should acknowledge that your experience is not representative of most other people and that basing general arguments like "empathy is useless" on your personal feelings is deeply flawed.

(But also, you come across as unhappy and angry, so maybe you're wrong about whether you need personal relationships to be happy. Many people are bad at understanding what makes them happy and end up unhappy because they mistakenly pursue things like wealth.)
by glenstein | 2025-04-04 12:50:21+00:00
I love the idea in one sense, which is that I think they're two great companies working in areas that could plausibly converge and be quite complementary. I do have to imagine there's something about their different respective business missions or business cultures, and the ethos and philosophies that inform them that might not make it work in practice. Although I definitely see a place for a framework laptop that's happy to run SteamOS.

I think perhaps that's the goal is that there's any number of companies that we feel are pretty great that are phenomenal at serving a specific vision of gaming and computing that's oriented around Linux and that are quite happy to talk to each other in effective ways and so I wouldn't necessarily say that the culmination of that should be a merger between those companies but an ecosystem that thrives with deeply compatible hardware and software.
by zabzonk | 2025-04-04 12:50:27+00:00
Yes indeed. The best Xmas toy my parents ever bought my little brother (10+ yrs younger than me, so he's early 60s now) was a huge bag of wooden bricks. Me and my 5 yrs younger brother spent all of Xmas building things and not letting little bro get a look in. Ashamed to say I was about 20 at that point.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-04-04 12:51:08+00:00
It is curious to me that so many revered as “great” by culture often end up treating those close to them in abhorrent ways. Many worship Moloch not overtly but in the lack of accountability they require of high status individuals. It seems that once someone gets past a certain thermocline of status then accusations of character become less likely to stick. I’ve come to believe this is seen as a feature and not a bug by many people. Not everyone, but many.

Ultimately we get what we incentivize and reward as a society. Recent events are a painful reminder of that.
by belter | 2025-04-04 12:51:11+00:00
If you're not familiar with the stratospheric level of derangement Laura Loomer operates on, let’s put it this way:

In a sane world, she'd be on a watchlist, not a guest list. Security protocols usually prevent people like her from getting within 1,000 feet of a U.S. President… or a school zone… or anything flammable... :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer

"...Loomer was banned from both Uber and Lyft in November 2017 after a day-long anti-Muslim tweetstorm, which included tweets about not being able to find a "non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver". Twitter banned Loomer in November 2018 for violating its policies against hateful conduct. After the ban, she handcuffed herself to Twitter's headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs at her request. In February 2019, Loomer was banned from PayPal, GoFundMe, and Venmo. In response, she said that "left wing terrorists and tech tyrants" were "trying to shut [her] down" and that she would "stop at nothing to make sure justice is served for the way Silicon Valley has disenfranchised me, falsely accusing me of being a white supremacist, a Nazi, anti-Muslim, a racist, a bigot, and every other smear in the book." Loomer was one of several right-wing activists banned by Facebook and Instagram in 2019 for using the platforms to post misinformation and extremism. In May 2021, she said she was banned from the social media app Clubhouse hours after joining..."
by matwood | 2025-04-04 12:51:28+00:00
I think the 2020 court cases, all of which Trump lost, show how little fraud occurs. There are also many articles of research at this point.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/reso...

It's another GOP boogie man used to suppress the vote. Personally, I'm a fan of legally mandating everyone vote or pay a fine like in Australia.