MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theoli | 2025-12-21 18:18:20+00:00
I am doing this with good success parsing receipts with ministral3:14b. The first prompt describes the data being sought, and asks for it to be put at the end of the response. The format tends to vary between json, bulleted lists, and name: value pairs. I was never able to find a good way to get just JSON.

The second pass is configured for structured output via guided decoding, and is asked to just put the field values from the analyzer's response into JSON fitting a specified schema.

I have processed several hundred receipts this way with very high accuracy; 99.7% of extracted fields are correct. Unfortunately it still needs human review because I can't seem to get a VLM to see the errors in the very few examples that have errors. But this setup does save a lot of time.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-21 18:18:25+00:00
For some reason, people lump eggs in with dairy, presumably because they're unaware of the difference between hens and cows. You'd have to have quite a lot of detectable THC in your system to confuse the two, but here we are, people think that eggs are the same as milk.

To be fair, my milkman delivers eggs as well as milk, cream, and butter, but they come from a totally different farm.
by Moto7451 | 2025-12-21 18:18:53+00:00
When I’ve done similar things in the past I found there was always a library for barcode/QR use cases before such things ended up being built into the OS/Framework I’m in.

https://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/ seems browser friendly?

Generally I agree with your point on AI fuzziness here not being useful.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-21 18:19:08+00:00
Lovely site. Got curious about one of my own biases (that the perceived libertarian slant of HN would be similarly in favor of Ayn Rand), and clicked through the usual suspects to see the context they were discussed in.

Pleasantly surprised to see much of the discourse was along the lines of, "Oh yeah, read her stuff, found it fascinating [in the same vein as a train wreck can be], recommended just to understand how those folks think." Not going to pick up her stuff any time soon, but I was happy to have a bias prove unfounded.
by ajkjk | 2025-12-21 18:19:19+00:00
It's not "we assume strings and deduce QM" it's "strings are a model which is defined so as to produce QM and also...". It is, by design, a theory of QM and GR. That's the point. It's a claim about what lies "below" the level of the individual fields in QFT which gives rise to them (and also gravity).
by 6510 | 2025-12-21 18:20:49+00:00
- The tool-tip feels wrong in how it covers up the highlighted route. Perhaps it should go at the left top of the screen.

- When opening the page the user should be prompted to pick the language and theme. Then you can collapse it in the interface under a settings icon. (put the icon to the left of the close button)

- Push "Train dashboard" all the way to the top. (next to the settings and close icons)

- Make the close button smaller.

- "Search trains" should sit as close to the top as possible.

- Lines around forms and buttons are visible when you look at them directly but are to faint for peripheral vision.
by zahlman | 2025-12-21 18:21:00+00:00
> The fact that you can iterate on this in simulation, then deploy to actual silicon via Tiny Tapeout for $150 is honestly mind-blowing. We're living in the future.

It's really cool but it doesn't seem practical at all. They aren't setting up print runs, just one-offs (https://tinytapeout.com/faq/#how-many-chips-will-i-receive-c...) and $150 could get you... many orders of magnitude more power than that.

... For that matter, apparently the microcontroller in the dev kit is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP2040 , which seems like a beast in comparison. And it's still available for less than $1 USD on PiShop.
by MBCook | 2025-12-21 18:22:21+00:00
From John Ripley on Mastodon:

“Thought of the day, and I wish there were a way to get this to legislators:

Come the next Big One earthquake, all of San Francisco’s emergency services will be blocked by Waymos.”

I’m AMAZED they’re not designed to handle this better. This does indeed seem like a massive problem. “Oops we give up” right when things get the worst? How is this OK?

I’ve been very impressed by Waymo’s more cautious approach. Perhaps they haven’t fully thought through the ramifications of it though.

https://mastodon.social/@jripley/115758725115731454
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-21 18:22:58+00:00
It's tiresome in 2025 to keep on having to use elaborate long winded descriptions to describe how LLMs work, just to prove that one does understand, rather than be able to assume that people generally understand, and be able to use shorter descriptions.

Would "riffing" upset you less than "echoing"? Or an explicit "echoing statistics" rather than "echoing training samples"? Does "Mashups of statistical patterns" do it for you?

The jagged frontier of LLM capabilty is just a way of noting the fact that they act more like a collection of narrow intelligences rather than a general intelligence who's performance might be expected to be more even.

Of course LLMs are built and trained to generate based on language statistics, not to parrot individual samples, but given your objection it's amusing to note that some of the areas where LLMs do best, such as math and programming, are the ones where they have been RL-trained to override these more general language patterns and instead more closely follow the training data.
by ModernMech | 2025-12-21 18:22:58+00:00
"Programmer's best friend" is precisely the wrong thing to do though (it says nothing and only makes the reader confused. Are we talking about a language or a pet? I'm not looking for a friend.). They took a step back with that.

For reference this is the old one, which is much better: https://www.ruby-lang.org/images/about/screenshot-ruby-lang-... From: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/website/

The old one was better because it said something about what the language is and how it benefits the user. "Best friend" is not descriptive. "dynamic language with minimal syntax that is easy to read and write" at least tells me something about Ruby, its priorities, and value proposition. I'm very concerned about a language that claims it wants to be my friend.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-21 18:23:45+00:00
I think it's a pretty safe assumption that all the comments here about "normal non-self help guru celebrities don't get stalked as much" are from men. I think literally every woman who is even semi-moderately in the public eye has stories about stalkers, regular death threats and rape fantasies, etc.

Glad to hear other commenters are pushing back against this proposition that Ferris is somehow a special case, because it's a story I've heard from lots and lots of people in the public eye, regardless of their area of expertise.
by vintermann | 2025-12-21 18:24:03+00:00
I'd be interested in knowing that too, as far as I know Spotify doesn't publish details to the public at least.

But I have no trouble believing some artists will be vastly overrepresented in the ad financed pool. Also, there are separate pools by country, and countries have different subscription prices - being big in Japan will be more profitable than being big in India.

Payout per stream is a terrible metric. It's almost like if you ranked grocery stores by payment per gram.
by bmacho | 2025-12-21 18:24:22+00:00
No. It might, depending on what your browser does, but it's not in the web standard.

But you can have a button that saves your state when you enable javascript, and doesn't save your state (but still works) when you disable javascript.

edit: I think it is possible to save your state on the second click. So the UX is: you have 3 options with a slide. You click one of them, the page theme changes, and the option icon becomes a padlock. You click on it again, and the option is saved.

It seems to be a limitation that without javascript a single click can't change a switch and do something else--make a request to set a cookie. But you can do changing style on first click, then setting a cookie on the second. Here's a demo (written by Claude) (it doesn't work without server, just the HTML part) https://jsfiddle.net/r134vgo7/3/
by brudgers | 2025-12-21 18:25:25+00:00
Relationships are the best resource for sales.

Because to solve someone's problems, they have to tell you their problems.

Or to put it another way, the thing you do is to solve the actual problems other people have. That's what you need to sell. You aren't selling the fact that you know how to use a hammer. You are selling the idea that you can build the right hammer for the job.

So sales is not "out reach." It is "what do you need?" and you will probably do better by optimizing for getting to that conversation, not through optimizing for low effort on your part.

Linked-in is best used for networking not push notification. Networking is about trust. Maybe you can't help with someone's problem but you know someone who can.

Finally, you can't sell desperately. Good luck.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-21 18:25:48+00:00
I get what you want to say but on the other hand the 40 hour week - which is kind of the standard in modern capitalism - also ain’t it. Especially if you work in a toxic job you hate just for the money.

> that if you want to live a good life, you have to grind it out in your early years

I think if you have to “grind it out” you should probably look for something else. Meaning if your job feels like a grind don’t waste your life on it.

Having money is good but it’s not the most important ingredient to a good life
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-21 18:27:13+00:00
Exposure to sunlight (or lack of it) affects our circadian rhythm and production of melatonin, which affects our sleep quality. Exposure to morning sun in particular is linked with better sleep quality, leading to better health.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12502225/
by BloondAndDoom | 2025-12-21 18:27:23+00:00
Is this designed to appeal to people who doesn’t know HTML/CSS? I was watching point and prompt video, majority of those changes would be quicker with simple html or a WYSIWYG editor ( like dreamweaver 20 years ago, if that’s still a thing).

I get why building components with AI which would accelerate dev, but what’s the point of changing a button’s color to red via an LLM?
by haneboxx | 2025-12-21 18:27:45+00:00
Yeah sure :) The motivation is actually really that simple. I was searching for a markdown editor similar to Obsidian with a terminal user interface, but I couldn't find any that really fit the needs of a proper markdown tool like Obsidian. Though Ekphos isn't yet reaching what Obsidian is capable of, we're surely getting closer and closer. But I want to take only what really matters from Obsidian, so it doesn't get bloated and people can really focus on writing the markdown
by bloppe | 2025-12-21 18:28:04+00:00
Anybody who's smoked a lot of weed knows that THC tolerance works very differently from alcohol tolerance. If you've been ripping dabs every couple hours for the last month, you might be well above the legal limit and barely feel different at all. On the other hand, if you haven't smoked in a year and take a single hit of a modern joint, you could be floored.

I'm not sure how THC intoxication could be measured, but blood THC concentration feels like an incredibly crude metric compared to BAC.
by retrac | 2025-12-21 18:28:26+00:00
> Would be interesting to see what Tolkien would think of modern urbanism movements. Feels very aligned with his values.

Still much too dense.

There was a movement, broadly contemporary with Tolkien, that somewhat reflect his views on this topic. The push at end of the late 19th century in the UK to create "garden cities". They were the first modern planned cities. Supposed to be communities of several tens of thousands, fully walkable, with industry and large ugly infrastructure hidden out of sight behind greenbelts.

They wouldn't really be built in that manner until after World War II and by then were much more car-centric.

I anticipate some skepticism on Tolkien's part about the basically progressive nature of the whole scheme. I think Tolkien was skeptical about the basic concept of social progress. His whole generation was. The War sort of ruined any hope of progress. He hated industrialization for a much deeper reason than just the automobile. The influence of the war on his anti-industrial and social views is hard to overstate:

> Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about,

That is surely from his memory, lifted directly from the Western Front.
by Bender | 2025-12-21 18:28:55+00:00
How many email accounts do you have?

Unlimited on my self hosted mail servers across a dozen or so domains and up to 600 aliases on Fastmail across several domains. I do not have any that I could hand out anywhere as it would get blasted by junk and I would end up having to remove it unless I filtered on a set of GPG keys or something to that effect.
by phlummox | 2025-12-21 18:29:01+00:00
> > Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent

> This means exactly that no representation should exist in the activation states about what the model wants to tell, and there must be only a single token probabilistic inference at play.

That's not correct. It's clear from the surrounding paragraphs what Bender et al mean by this phrase. They mean that LLMs lack the capacity to form intentions.

> You are doing the big error that is common to do in this context of extending the stochastic parrot to a non scientifically isolated model that can be made large enough to accomodate any evidence arriving from new generations of models.

No, I'm not. I haven't, in fact, made any claims about the "stochastic parrot". Rather, I've asked whether your characterisation of AI researchers' views is accurate, and suggested some reasons why it may not be.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-12-21 18:29:24+00:00
I agree that it’s just a matter of when it’s stolen, not if it’s going to be stolen.

The article suggests the laptop is about $300, and he uses it about 1hr/day.

If the laptop is stolen less than once a year he spends less than $1/hr for coding on the go, which I would consider a fair deal.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-21 18:29:28+00:00
I’ve done this before, but you need a relatively long subway ride without any transfers. IMO, 30 minutes is just barely at the edge of being worthwhile, and only if you can get a seat right when you get on, and only if the seat isn’t so cramped that it’s actually possible to get your laptop out of your bag. This happens rarely.

But on longer trips from e.g. upper Manhattan to deep Brooklyn, particularly at off-peak hours when I have room to spread out—yeah, I’ve had some very productive sessions.
by lukeigel | 2025-12-21 18:29:50+00:00
Yes, shoutout to our friend Aidan Dunlap for making an entire interface to see those Amazon orders! It's at https://www.jmail.world/jamazon

Jmail is the only place to see those Amazon order emails by the way! Those are from his Yahoo, which Bloomberg announced in September but Drop Site News actually let us release this month. It all came from https://ddosecrets.com/article/epstein-emails (redactions of the full dataset still taking place)
by horizion2025 | 2025-12-21 18:30:47+00:00
I have always enjoyed it. I have even gotten comments "can you really do anything in such a short period of time" but i have found that even 20 min sessions on a commute can be effective. For a major project I did the final push on such a commute just hoping the push could complete before the train reached the tunnel without coverage, and it did
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-21 18:31:39+00:00
Even that video doesn't go nearly deep enough. It's a good intro but it's focused on Altman's trustworthiness which would be a minor issue if there were proper backstops to guard against wild misallocations of capital.

The video only touched upon this, quoting Altman's CFO, who equivocally asserted that the taxpayers are the only backstop. Well, that's a huge problem which needs a lot more discussion.

The really important question is what enables Sam-Altman-ism because he's not the mastermind behind the current bubble which is just one in a long line of bubbles that have nothing to do with Altman - he's only a front-man of a lot more powerful forces in this game.
by jjav | 2025-12-21 18:32:06+00:00
> > There's a whole set of law driver's are supposed to follow for handling failed traffic lights.

> And they don’t, it’s chaos.

Do you live in areas where traffic lights go out regularly?

Because for human driver it is a non-issue. It becomes an all-way stop and you take turns, it is easy. Traffic throughput slows down a bit, but nothing approaching chaos about it. If waymo can't deal with this, that's a problem.
by java-man | 2025-12-21 18:32:10+00:00
AI slop, one-sided video, but it carries a grain of truth: one has to address the problem in the beginning. Britain (and France) allowed Hitler to grow in power and resources (remember Chamberlain with the piece of paper?), and then suffered the consequences.

The same process is unfolding now in Ukraine. Europe let the russian nazism to grow in same same way, and now, after 3 years, we are still twiddling our collective thumbs waiting for something. The results will be devastating - for Ukraine, for Europe, and for the world.

The nature seems to punish stupidity. We are being punished as we speak.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-21 18:32:23+00:00
> I checked to see if she has come out in support of Jeffrey Epstein or something crazy like that, but no.

Bro she blurbed "The War on Science," a book stuffed with racists and sex pests complaining that they lost their jobs for falling in love with their graduate students, writing them love poetry on tumblr, and then kicking them out of their research group because they could stand to be near them. Or for saying that they "don't shy away from the word superior" when discussing white people being better at running societies and lying about the GPAs of black students. Or for taking joking photographs with human remains.

And yes, the authors of the book include people who provided support in the legal defense of jeffrey epstein.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-21 18:33:22+00:00
In some (more catholic) regions in Germany you spend a (voluntary) week in a monastery during school - called Besinnungstage (loosely translated as “mindfulness days”).

I went and thought I would hate it at the time - mostly because I really really hated the narrow catholic mindset i grew up in at that time - but it actually was a really profound experience that I think back to often.

The life the monks led was simple, almost primitive, but it radiated a contentment and mindfulness that was inspiring. Also the brotherhood and love they had for each other. Of course I only saw the surface and as a teenager I didn’t appreciate a lot of the lessons, but looking back it was one of the better parts of being in a heavily catholic coded school.

Edit: also my religion teacher told the story how we was a monk in his early life and then left everything behind when he fell in love with a woman - which immensely increased my respect for him. I though he was this dried up, humourless pendant, so finding out he had this great passion in his life was a great surprise to me
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-21 18:33:31+00:00
Sarkozy is free on appeal, not like he was pardoned or found unaccountable

I think your underlying question comes down to a relationship with the media, accountability and prosperity

By distraction, I think that’s media driven, can be ignored. State actions are transparent enough that you dont need the media to tell you what to pay attention to

In some religious dogma, Prosperity is tied to good deeds, conformity to what collaborative for society. With the expected contrary being suffering.

Seen as “Prosperity Preaching” in Christianity, the concept of karma outside of Abrahamic religions. This is a fiction that has never matched the real world so once that expectation is dropped it will be easier to navigate the world. There is no relationship to financial reward from conformity to a social collaborative behavior, in fact its mostly the opposite, maximum extraction is a core tenant of our system and what is incentivized. If the market is interested in something you can earn from it

And this goes finally into the relationship with accountability. The justice system acts on the rails of its own mechanizations. Its a perversion to want that to include total ostracization, total financial distress for an indeterminate time, I actually dont know the limits of what people want. It seems more so related to how it affects poorer people that way while wealthier and savvier people are exempt from distress, but it shouldnt be the case for poorer people either.
by blazingbanana | 2025-12-21 18:33:35+00:00
Hey, just spotted your comment.

Yes, everything is done locally, stick your phone in airplane mode if you want to be sure!

I'm not an Apple fan, but I have to say I've been testing it on an iPhone 15 and my god, the performance is insanely good, I was seriously blown away. I haven't dug into how much it impacts battery, but the transcription literally takes seconds for a minute of audio so it's not holding up your device.

The iOS version is built, ready to go, there's just some bug with my Apple account and it won't let me pay the £80 fee to signup (support ticket raised and waiting). As soon as that's sorted it'll be out on App Store for free as well.

Very surprised to hear the built in transcription is not great, anything specifically bad about it? The hardware is there.

You can download the desktop version from here (https://blazingbanana.com/apps/whistle/) if you want, still very much a WIP.
by lukeigel | 2025-12-21 18:34:06+00:00
Tons of this week's DOJ drop is old photos. These photos of his Upper East Side mansion and his Island estate are well known

We found that Volume 2 and Volume 4 had the most never-before-seen stuff.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-2-f... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-4-f...

Also, this morning they quietly released volumes 5-7. Will have to find out how much of this is new.
by mFixman | 2025-12-21 18:34:07+00:00
The thing AI miss about the internet from the late 2000s and early 2010s was having so much useful data available, searchable, and scrappable. Even things like "which of my friends are currently living in New York?" are impossible to find now.

I always assumed this was a once-in-history event. Did this cycle of data openness and closure happen before?
by neomantra | 2025-12-21 18:34:12+00:00
I love to program on my commute. When I took NJ Transit bus, when I took NY Ferry, when I took MetroNorth.

But I’ve never felt comfortable opening a laptop on the NYC subway. It wasn’t about the safety that OP describes. It was about the culture and the physical configuration (facing middle with strap hangers vs facing front/back). It just didn’t feel right in the subway.

I do miss the MetroNorth Bar Car! I could drink and code and it was jovial.