skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos:
https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/
https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/
It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.
When I first saw the presentations going around regarding the recording and decoding (and reconstruction of vocal cord/oral muscle movements) the one thing I wasn't sure of was - how much of the signal was vibration artifact? Neural electrodes (at least single unit ones) tend to pick up a lot of vibration artifact which we see when people talk, cough, etc w/ those in.

I guess if they are encoding and decoding voice from these...does it prove direct neural encoding/decoding from LFP/single units, if they can generate robot voice from someone who can't generate sound and thus vibrations on their own?
Back in the day @moxie wrote a good text explaining why UX of a centralized solution will always be as good or better than UX of a decentralized solution. Most users crave pleasant UX, and easily discard applications and services that have annoying UX, as long as there is a sleeker alternative.

I'd add that a centralized solution can be run by a big corporation extracting significant profits, and thus investing significant resources into it. Investing into a decentralized solution gives a much vaguer idea of ROI. Look at email, the long-standing champion of federated protocols. Most investment went into Gmail and Outlook, proprietary solutions that happen to interoperate with the rest of email universe, but which use proprietary ways to communicate to centralized infrastructure as their strong suit. They are wildly popular.

I posit that for normal users a decentralized solution only makes sense when a centralized solution is impossible and / or illegal. See p2p music-sharing networks of 2000s, or modern bittorent. For bittorent though, centralized catalogs like TPB or rutracker are the norm, unlike the p2p search in Gnutella or DC++ of old. Even though incentives of those running TPB are better aligned with the interests of its users than e.g. in the cases of FB or Reddit, TPB is not a non-profit, AFIACT.

So, for decentralized web of 1995 to return, a lot of people must have it very bad using the centralized web. Even though ad networks actively work in the direction of making the experience of web browsing insufferable, it appears that relatively simple tools like uBlock Origin, or paying a small subscription fee, make the experience okay again.

So, YouTube + $5/mo, or even YouTube played via NewPipe, again trump the experience of using PeerTube, etc.

BTW even if the internet becomes a mesh network on transport / connectivity level, it won't change much in these dynamics. Instant gratification + not needing to pay money are winning, and will win, the majority of the audience, by default.
And I blame Apple for the deluge of "clean" inscrutable design.
and now as easy as adding `@AutoConfigureEmbeddedDatabase`

https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-database-spring-test

also helps with having it verify all your database migrations as well
Thats alright. I should have been more specific. I did upvote your post and I got downvoted - woohoo.
And then your hill slides.
That's not an option for cook tops integrated into the counter, which is the majority over here. But basically that is what I had in mind.
Metro is to roadside picnick what mcdonalds is to your local high end steakhouse. You can enjoy both, but in different ways. Besides, the st. petersburg trilogy set in the same universe as metro but written by Andrey Dyakov is, in my opinion, far superior to the original series in almost any way (the second book is way too slow). You should give it a shot if you enjoyed the original novels.
Do you like our Dear Leader? - "NO" detected in brain waves - Off to the reeducation camp you go!
There are no absolutes. Most all crime carries some risk—or perceived risk—of getting caught, even if that risk is low. If the value of the device changes, the risk/reward trade-off changes. Yes, even for a tripped out junkie.
How do you char the outside of things without a flame? Burrito shells for instance. I use the flame directly on my food all the time. It really seems like you’re missing out.
idea: it could be disguised as an Alexa or Google Home
I'm currently in the process of replacing a gas cooktop with induction.

My justifications are primarily ease of cleaning, followed by speed & power.

I am putting in a jennair unit that can pipe 5kw through the air into a single pan. If you do the math, you will find that to be far more than a single gas burner puts out in a residential setting. Calrod and other radiant doesn't come close either.

If I was big into wok cooking or other edge cases I'd probably keep the gas range, but 99% of the time I'm just trying to boil water or heat a piece of iron as fast as possible.
I have been tasked with developing a Textract tool at work and so far I have been impressed with the complete accuracy of it for non-handwritten, non-photocopied documents.

I haven't seen it make any mistakes at all and responses take less than 3 seconds usually.
Has anyone noticed the opposite effect, talking less to your parents when money's tight?
Yeah great work! I love databases but I've only ever been a user. I am too dumb or too intimidated to peek under the covers and see how the magic works.

But I can read source code (though I'll have to learn Rust) and this is amazing work.
That and a pound of meat is generally far more calorie dense than most other foods.
Not working full-time does not necessarily mean working fewer hours. Working 2 29-hour jobs and commuting between them would be vastly more time and energy consuming, yet would show up as “not working full-time”.
Given how important parental interaction is for healthy child development (See: Language deprivation [1]), it is useful to bring up the issue so that more attention is given to this particular set of long-term effects. More attention will help social work trying to create a counterbalance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation
I always try this but they almost always hang up instantly. I can never figure out the right answer to “We heard you were in an accident that wasn’t your fault”
Pegasus: Spyware sold to governments 'targets activists'
A lot of people seem unaware that many dishes can not be cooked with anything but a gas stove, including practically the entire Chinese cuisine. Electric stoves simply aren't a workable replacement in this case.

I work in earth science, I know how bad methane is a greenhouse gas. The comment on top is absolutely right in that the line has to be drawn somewhere for a sensible approach though. Your bike example, the factories making these bikes still pollute, steel is a major source of pollution actually. So we should all walk!

You see, there is no end to it once we get started and don't have a plan.
Probably just a very old regulation, from a time when that was an actual serious risk, that's stuck around out of old habit.
Israeli firm's spyware used to target journalists' cell phones – reports
There are a lot of studies that show that being poor in western society is extremely mentally taxing.

Of course there can be a lot of correlating factors that also impacts the difference between wealthy and poor. But I think that anyone who has ever tried going back to living paycheck-to-paycheck after some years of financial safety can tell you just how taxing it is.

I grew up poor, but it wasn’t until I did my masters and for a brief period saw my income cut in half without adjusting my spending, that I ended up in a situation where I realised just how much not having to worry about money even once in a month truly gave me.
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It's a good insight to know what the hardware is capable of.

The SSD in the authors machine can do 1300MB/s and the latest M1 model can do 2100MB/s.

For current gen SSDs with PCIe 4.0, that number increases to 6600MB/s for the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus.

That would mean just around ~5 seconds for writing to disk.

https://www.pcgamer.com/best-pcie-4-ssd-for-gaming/
sqlite is known for its massive test coverage with 600x+ test to source ratio [0].

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
If you have the oven below the cook tops, you can place the controls there. This is basically how most home ranges look like in Germany: https://imgur.com/a/U2JK6cB
SQL has true, false, and null, for a good reason.

The nil / null value is an attempt to cheaply produce from type T a type like Maybe T, or Optional<T>, or basically T | nil. It's sort of practical. OTOH making false and nil indistinguishable is much less convenient than one might think, and leads to subtle errors.
It’s insane to keep a massive portion of spectrum on this old technology to support a very small amount of people with outdated hardware.
No the reason he is in prison is because of the Iraq war revelations. It has nothing to do with the 2016 email leaks.
They are but if they use them all the time people won't be able to put them out of their mind and ignore them. So they only use them when it's politically convenient
Won't help unless we have open chat protocols.

All the open phones in the world won't help if you use closed-source WhatsApp / Facebook. And you kinda have to if you want to talk to your less tech savvy friends and family.
At Amazon, they call this the '5 whys' when doing post mortems (COEs).
If I had to guess, they probably have a fairly accurate single-string model and then model energy coupling across strings. Another neat thing it does is it lets you position virtual microphones around the piano (and open and close the lid), so they definitely have full-instrument spatial awareness in their modeling.

One curious thing I noticed from the (simpler) string modeling synth in my keyboard is that if you up the dispersion it starts sounding like a bell... and indeed Pianoteq also has a very nice tubular bells patch. Explains what that's doing in a piano synth :)
The one responsible for loosing the election was Hillary Clinton, not Julian Assange.

And supporting the prosecution because of this is also quite an apt reason to not vote for her in the first place. And I think that was made clear before the election.
Anyone know the best legal way in the US to prevent yourself from being kept alive if you end up conscious but completely paralyzed? I know living wills can handle some medical scenarios, but I’m having trouble finding an answer on locked-in syndrome. Wondering if I’d need to form a euthanasia pact with a friend or something.
Now I'm really confused here. Your objections were that focus for godot 4 was too much on graphics fidelity, and that they had little support for advanced networking features. And, now you are expressing that they have wasted their time with making their own programming language. I don't like your attitude one bit. It's of course OK to criticise decisions, but, you aren't being consistent in your arguments, and it makes it hard to have a discussion. Is your point that the work a group of people made, and then shared to the world, which then gathered attention, support and contributions, should have been done differently? I can only suggest that you look into the history of godot, and the reasons for why it is the way it is. I'm sure the maintainers will have wanted to do certain things differently in hindsight, but that doesn't make it a good criticism.

Do you have other annoyances to vent over godot development? Something you would have done different, but yet not made any effort other than to say others have wasted their time on? Or is your point something else entirely, like that godot is not as deserving of praise as grid-sdk?
The DNC only have themselves to blame, wikileaks exposed their Pied Piper strategy -- they encouraged their media connections to elevate Trump before the playing field thinned out, they were so sure they could beat him [0]. As a Hillary voter, we were sure Trump was a joke. We didn't realize he had the DNC on his side. See the politico piece for quotes from wikileaks:

"How do we prevent Bush from bettering himself/how do we maximize Trump and others?" [1]

"We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously." [2]

[0] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10348

[2] (PDF) https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//fileid/1120/251
> ... IT software development profession largely lacks — or fails to put into place — automated, objective and repeatable metrics that can measure progress and predict project completion with any reasonable degree of accuracy. Instead, we tend to rely on seat-of-the-pants (or, less politely, out-of-one’s-butt) estimations by IT engineers or managers that a given subsystem or application is “80% done”...

Here was where I started to realize that this was going to be a bit of a hand-wavy ("out-of-one's-butt") argument. Are we talking about tracking progress or estimating? This seems to conflate the two.

> Second, IT engineers by nature tend to be optimists, ...

Really? Optimists? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

This "optimism" wouldn't have anything to do with being pressured by management to give more favorable estimates, would it?

What makes both estimation and progress tracking difficult or impossible is a lack of good requirements specifications or use cases. I have never worked for a company where anyone took these seriously. Sure, they talked a good line, but never seemed to follow through. There's always an excuse. The thing is, if you don't know what you want and/or can't express it, you're unlikely to get what you want.
JVM Anatomy Quark #26: Identity Hash Code
I use it for simple cross platform graphical applications.
>99% of the time I'm just trying to boil water or heat a piece of iron as fast as possible.

Works for you then, but asking professional cooks to switch to electric is ridiculous. If this gets pushed through next everyone will wonder why the restaurant food tastes so bad all of a sudden. And then 30 years later NPR Hidden Brain will do a piece about how back in the day people used to cook with gas and that it enabled cooking methods that made the food taste amazing.
Ok thanks, I get that. But how many people can do that? Like 0.001% of the population?
Your linked Washington Post article was published on 8th July. It's actually a good demonstration of the animosity towards Assange in the corporate press. It wasn't published in response to the major Sundin story (26th June) which as the OP's article (published 7 July, before your Post piece) shows, was blanked by all corporate press at the time:

> ...as of Friday, July 2, there has been literally zero coverage of it in corporate media; not one word in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Fox News or NPR. A search online for either “Assange” or “Thordarson” will elicit zero relevant articles from establishment sources, either US or elsewhere in the Anglosphere, even in tech-focused platforms like the Verge, Wired or Gizmodo,” FAIR says.

The Post mainly sides with the US and only mentions the Sundin reporting in passing, diminishing its importance and omitting important parts, as the other replies here point out. A great example of power-friendly reporting when it comes to Assange.
Thanks for the tip, folks. I passed it to my IT department for checking (PII, sensitive client data, etc) and, hopefully, approval.
See also a short video [1] or a long video [2] on the subject.

Michael Parenti also published a book on this subject a few years before Chomsky. Inventing Reality: The Politics Of the Mass Media [3]

Parenti also has plenty of talks on YouTube [4]

[1] https://youtu.be/tTBWfkE7BXU

[2] https://youtu.be/EuwmWnphqII

[3] https://archive.org/details/inventingrealit000pare

[4] https://youtu.be/1jwliZ1YoCs

EDIT: I’m seeing downvotes. I consider these to be genuinely valuable resources on media literacy but if you disagree I’d love to know what aspects of Chomsky or Parenti’s theories you disagree with.
For me the issue is again the conflation of risks from state actors vs from private companies.

In the case here it is state actors doing the surveillance. The biggest con was that people are concerned about privacy vs private companies when the focus should be on state actors. The ability to get people worked up about privacy and data sharing in a messenger app when at the same time governments are trying to remove anonymity in the web is nothing but astonishing.
It's a terrible design. My cat turned on the stove by walking across the capacitive touch controls.
That's the opposite of how patents work; if there were patents involved they'd be public record and we could look them up.

No, these modules are closed because it's simpler than making them open. Someone is getting ready to type "FCC and other regulatory bodies prohibit consumer reconfiguration of specific certified radios" but that has nothing whatsoever to do with openness. Being able to monitor something and being able to configure it are not the same thing.
I thought some cables support HDMI or DisplayPort alt modes and some don’t.
In South Africa, the power frequently goes out. Gas doesn't fail in a centralized way, though the supply can.
>AFAIK, gas delivery wasn't affected.

Gas production fell by almost half.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46896

Researchers found that frozen wells caused natural gas production to fall by 85 percent in the days leading up to Feb. 16, with up to two-thirds of processing plants in the Permian Basin experiencing an outage. Researchers looked at a sample of 27 natural gas processing plants, and found that as many as 18 of them had zero output at the worst of the storm. Natural gas producers are not required to weatherize their equipment in Texas.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/UT-...

The desperate scramble to power up natural gas facilities again exposed a major structural flaw in Texas’ electric grid: Oncor and other utilities didn't have good lists of what they should consider critical infrastructure, including natural gas facilities — simply because natural gas companies failed to fill out a form or didn’t know the form existed, company executives, regulators and experts said.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/18/texas-winter-storm-b...

Moreover, this very similar situation happened 10 years ago already and that had natural gas curtailments to retail customers. So, no, not a good backup solution.
oh you mean using a general purpose computer like a general purpose computer is asking too much?
Does that count all jobs, or just jobs the tax man knows about?

At least over here (Poland, EU), people officially unemployed often work under the table, sometimes quite a lot, and they cannot afford the word of it to get to any public agency. Such people are unwilling to talk about it to researchers either.

(We recently had a public census, and it asked a bunch of sensitive questions around topics like employment. Despite the survey repeatedly giving assurances that this is all used for public statistics, and that data will be processed by trained personnel under strict confidentiality regulation, the people I know who are forced to skirt employment/tax rules here and there to survive, were not willing to reveal any indication of it.)
Refurbished is even sold by apple...

So it is a point ..
I hope to see day rate contracting adapt to the new legislation and make a big return, though i'm not holding my breath.

As a data point, i'm London based, moved from £800 per day to £140k permanent position last year. "Lead Architect" role, whatever that means these days and ~18yrs experience in the industry. I'll be returning the contract work as soon as I see the market bouncing back.
A blowtorch?
How many people can authenticate a dollar bill? How many people can validate a cryptographic signature? How many people can direct a blockbuster action movie?

The point is, right now, nobody can audit these things. Once someone -- anyone! -- can, everyone else can benefit.
Machine translation isn't very accurate. Can any Japanese-speaking person translate this?
If the rewrite is distributed over a quorum and columns are strongly-typed, I’m happy to see it.
That's exactly why I sought out an induction model which has a "scale" control where all intensity levels (1-12) are available with a single touch. This issue in foreseeable, and we should vote with our money for usable devices.
We could also just jail the buyers, and the NSOgroup and FinFisher.
1. How can you say this without giving more context?

2. Presuming you aren't a terrorist or doing something so almost terroristish you were violating a public order statute - why wouldn't you just refuse?
100 years of propaganda pays its toll.

Assange may not be a hero, but compared to the war-"heroes" he is one.

Of course nobody really dares to oppose the Imperium, the only real law in this society still is the law of the strongest
I did try those settings, but was unable to reproduce the same amount of memory savings as Jemalloc 3. But that was quite a while ago, and I need to revisit this some time in the future.

By the way, Fullstaq Ruby does not only provide Jemalloc-patched versions. We also provide an unpatched version (and also a version with only malloc_trim) — in which case Fullstaq Ruby's main value add becomes DEB/RPM packaging only.
On the one hand, yes, I too am unimpressed with politicians who try to win by turning their opponents into clowns rather than by having their own positive message; on the other, that quote about ten lines from the hand of an honest man and finding something in them to hang him by.
I found the best response is "Have a nice day" and hang up. While we hate them, they probably hate their job too. Being "nice" and not wasting my or their time means that they practically stopped calling me.
Would you provide any proof for your unsubstantiated claims?

Particularly about the "crimes" he had committed.
IIRC, a quantum computer reduces preimage attacks (first or second) to the difficulty of collision attacks, but doesn't improve collision beyond the best classical attacks, which can be run on faster and cheaper hardware. It also may or may not benefit from any cryptanalysis applicable to collision attacks. So if you're secure against (classical) collision attacks, you don't need to worry about quantum attacks (collision or preimage).
Two 29 hour jobs would result in a 58 hour work week, and thus the worker would be considered to work full-time.
Given 90% of execs spend their entire lives doing nepotism and politics, I don't think it's as foolish as you frame it.
And open chat protiocols won't help because we don't have open source smartphones :) Maybe this battle is on different fronts and there are many factors that are into play.

In the EU there is a law in preparation that will force big players in chat networks to open up to third parties: The Digital Markets Act (DMA): https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
To add to this: children of expats will usually speak at least two languages.

That'll often be three languages if both parents are expats. Three languages by the time they start first grade.

They don't just now how to speak extra languages, they can really think in them too, and many times understand nuances and biases that you'd only know if you were a native of a given languages.

In EU countries there most people speak multiple languages that's not a bit deal, but in countries where most people speak a single language, that's also an enormous difference.
The word "technical" does not appear anywhere in the UCMJ. Technical orders are Air Force specific. There is no distinction between general orders and other kinds of orders in the military at large.