skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unskilled labor probably shouldn't be livable.

The only way for that to work is to have a slave population, because why should a living and breathing human being waste their time and their life with work that doesn't even sustain them? The concept of "unskilled labour" is a lie. Otherwise you could hire dead people from the graveyard.

> Highschool and College kids don't need a living wage.

Do you have any good arguments as to why you should be allowed to have a living wage?
It was "probably terrible" because of my lack of experience and relatively inabilities. Not due to the difficulty/complexity.
It depends on what input amount, format and quality you have.

There are free / open source tools (like Tesseract), but if you would like to use them, some manual or (semi-)auto preprocessing steps are very important (threshold / binarization, deskew, noise removal[1]) too get nearly comparable results to commercial tools.

Some tesseract based solutions are better integrated with automatic preprocessing, you could take a look at Papermerge or other self hosted document management solutions[2].

There are also commercial SDKs around tesseract with good price point, like Vintasoft OCR[5], which supports automatic preprocessing and delivers a decent quality.

If you don't mind having a (free) clicking adventure with small amounts of documents, you could also try the free verson of PDF X-Change viewer[3], which has a small but pretty good OCR to embedded PDF-Layer option which makes PDFs "searchable". But the embedded OCR data cannot be easily extracted.

The best "no cloud" / offline solution I found, was Abbyy FineReader[4] which also has a command line tool, but if you really want a ready to use, easy and good quality solution, I would go with Google Lens (if you don't mind google)

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/pre-processing-in-ocr-fc231c6...

[2] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#doc...

[3] https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

[4] https://www.pdf-xchange.de/pdf-xchange-viewer/

[5] https://www.vintasoft.com/vsocr-dotnet-index.html
If anything Wikipedia has a problem with not being able to summarise and having too much original research. Some articles are just pages and pages of formulas with few citations.
Don't modern keyless fobs use something akin to TOTPs? A well kept clock can easily prevent relay attacks.
One day, you should show up to one of those parties.
Really? Where have you noticed this?
DO what's right for your relationship.

There are sooo many ways this can go wrong. Independent-minded types will have a problem with joint accounts, anxious types will have a problem with separate accounts.

Its all over the place. Think outside the box: resort to joint credit cards or open-book bank statements (but not joint bank accounts). Automated payments are your friend.

Any arrangement will tend to put an already strained relationship in the rocks. Unemployment, income disparity, etc will impact you.

Do what makes you and your partner happy. No grudges or resentments. Empathize with the other's needs but don't make yourself a floormat either.
Reading the comments makes me feel bittersweet.

- Many people consider coroutines and green threads to be more or less the same thing, when they both have their pros and cons.

- The fact that the omission of iterators is even acceptable in the Go community saddens me. They seem to deliberately refuse any feature that might make the language even slightly more complex, in the name of simplicity. But hey, at least they retracted their opinion on generics.

I'm again reminded that Go is not my language.
Expected, eh?

Give us your number, we’ll all take turns deactivating it every day. Then see how fun it is
There’s two aspects to this ruling. The first is the “commonly used technology” but the second is the “expectation of privacy”.

The Wi-Fi in a house thing may pass the bar for tech but doesn’t pass the bar w/r/t your expectation of privacy.
Considering the decline of economic mobility, increasing income inequality/wealth concentration and most importantly the stagnation of real wages[0], all of which started around the 1980s, it would seem the economic policies prior were more successful in raising all people.

I don’t mean to trivialize the complicated nature of the matter, with the effects of the world wars and globalization + many other factors, it is hard to separate things, but it really does not seem all that difficult to argue that trickle down economics is not better than what we were doing before and to do so in good faith.

Of course, the actual goal of trickle down economics was to concentrate wealth and power into the hands of a few and in that regard it is undeniably a success.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
Microsoft granted two-month pause of UK appeal over Activision deal
Chlorine will dissipate after a few hours. Put tap water in a pitcher and keep overnight in the fridge for a cold one later.
This is the worst aspect of American politics. Our government represents seriously argue we want the right to be bankrupted by illness.

We had to bail out the auto-industry during 2008 because their competitors existed in public healthcare environments. Nobody talks about it but follow the money.
> The evidence is math.

If there are 101 people, 100 making 101 sandwich per year and 1 doing nothing, and everyone needs 100 sandwiches per year, 99% are contributing more than they take. This works the other way too.
I was so “never again” from my first marriage that I literally just pay for everything* but I refuse to do a joint account. It’s just extra bureaucratic headache (in our case) and I’m going to occasionally splurge when I want to. I went overboard setting up a shop during Covid and yeah it led to some strife. We worked through it.

* My wife’s a teacher and rather than argue about money, I let her keep her income as our savings, vacations, whatever she wants otherwise; I use my much higher tech income and pay all the recurring bills, handle retirement savings, restaurants, etc.
time for the tinfoil!
Are you saying canada will be uninhabitable, or people will be going to canada?
To be honest, quantum computers might come and go, I want to see what is the invariant that will stay the same across all of them.
Isn't PPP per capita a better measure of quality of life than nominal GDP per capita? I care about what I can buy.

Obviously, nominal GDP per capita matters for international vacations.
It's interesting you say that because looking at large calculations in Python using numpy can be pretty nauseating.

The only big thing to learn with Julia is the broadcasting syntax, other than that, Julia has a good macro system, so sometimes you see syntax that doesn't make sense without knowing what the macro does.
> Gasoline is more expensive

Because we actually tax it properly

> cars tend to be cheaper models and smaller.

Because cars are less part of the lifestyle and SUVs haven't yet prisoner's dilemma'd us completely.

Your other anecdotes are also basically "not spending unecessarily on stuff that is bad for the climate = poor"...

Here's another factor: Europeans need to save up money for our five week vacations, do you think travel is free or something?
Hint: that stuff costs way more to do regularly than AC and a redone bathroom. Pah.
It just sounds like so much extra work. Transfer $X on date Y for Z bill, repeat for both partners x each bill. Good grief!

Then, how do you avoid the strife over "personal" spending when one spouse makes much more than the other? I can buy a Porsche for myself because my salary is large, but my partner has to make do with a bicycle because she works at a non-profit? How do vacations and other shared things get paid for? Equally? proportionally? I could see a fight happening in each of those systems.

What if one spouse decides to stop working? You pretty much have to switch to a single, joint account at that point, right?

More power to ya if you've figured this out. It sounds exhausting and would never work in my family.
This link is to a study that was a randomized trial, which means it can theoretically contribute to establishing causation:

> In a six-wave longitudinal experiment, we investigated whether randomly assigning engaged or newlywed couples to merge their money in a joint bank account increases relationship quality over time. Whereas couples assigned to keep their money in separate accounts or to a no-intervention condition exhibited the normative decline in relationship quality across the first 2 years of marriage, couples assigned to merge money in a joint account sustained strong relationship quality throughout.
They try to get at that causation problem with the random assignments: they randomly assigned the couples into three groups: no intervention, must do joint finances, and continue their separate finances (all 230 couples in the study started with separate finances). After two years the joint finance groups were happier in their relationship and less likely to have broken up.

So, if you had RTFM'd, you'd have seen that they are trying to get at causation by doing a randomized controlled trial, the gold-standard for proving causation.
I read his book “On Bullshit” last year and I don’t think I’ve ever seen the concept described so astutely today. You will be missed Mr. Frankfurt. You have helped me cope with the amount of bullshit that goes on in the world and the constant bullshit that people aren’t even aware of when they are bullshitting.
What you say is impossible, and it's not worth my time to discover whether you're a liar or merely deluded.
An important point for me was realizing that free will is an illusion and that conditioning myself to respond correctly is more effective than trying to be rational and have self control. Impulse will act before thought has even got a clue, so the impulse must be trained, not the mind.
It’s written by Judith Curry who has tons of cited work. Searching quickly unveils much more and it’s easy to do. But you don’t want to.

Hey I get it - you’re religious about it and can’t possibly take an objective scientific approach to the analysis. Dogma works that way. Many have been hooked on the mania and meaning it brings to their lives. That’s up to you.
Thanks! I never saw a problem with mixing metaphors so long as it still conveyed your thoughts accurately. Language is fluid, let it flow.
Ask HN: Good domain registrar with free email and alias hosting
I've used gandi.net for a long time as a domain registrar and email provider for those domains. They used to offer 2 free email boxes and unlimited aliases for each domain. I just found out today that the email and aliases service is being killed.

Does anyone have a preferred registrar that offers free email and unlimited aliases?
A known bug beats an unknown update in a whole lot of enterprise use cases. This drives devs insane but it is true.
A MBA (MacBook Air) is?
Fun fact - the city near me has a new zoning rule that limits the total number of parking spots in the city to something close to the current number of parking spots. If you want to build an apartment with parking, type find to need to tear down something with parking first.

So they're tearing down shopping centers, movie theaters, and grocery stores just so they can build apartments with parking. I have no idea where the people living nearby that don't have cars will buy food, but at least the new luxury apartments will have parking.
now that i understand your comment after a few readings, these are all good points (and, for the sake of those following along, you have a lot more expertise in this than i do)

thank you
>I’d like to point out that the open door policy to refugees came because Europe was trying to escape the demographic trap and the collapse of the social safety net.

This sounds like post hoc justification. If you want immigrants, wouldn't you want to pick the best and brightest, rather than whoever washes up on your shore?
M1 or M2 MacBook Airs *with 16 GB RAM* (and this is the catch). These are notoriously costlier (and difficult on retailer sites where you get deals) to have compared to their 8GB counter part - Apple already making it difficult for users to keep the laptop around for longer, because that default 8GB RAM is going to run out sooner than you think. And you can not upgrade it once bought.

Anything on Windows (or Linux considering you'd install that) I wouldn't even touch below 24-32GB or 16GB to begin with and then expandable up to at least +16GB.

It is so shocking to see people declare their laptop just works at the soldiered xGB RAM. Well, a year and half later it will start feeling the pinch.
You are talking about economic output, and I agree it is very difficult for someone to be a net negative in this metric (someone would have to contribute almost nothing to the economy and take what they need to survive as donation). We are talking about a tax system with contributions and expenses. In this system, less than 50% are net contributors.
I'm honestly surprised to not only see this extension posted on HN, but for it to be upvoted so many times.

This is an old extension and I can tell you from personal experience, It doesn't work.

I do productivity and work stuff on my Macbook and have a Windows desktop machine for games and movies. I have tried for several years to figure out a solution that would let me use the iCloud keychain to store all u/p and let me use them across browsers and desktops.

I have tried every combination of uninstall/reinstall/change permissions etc with the extension on Windows 10 and it doesn't do anything.
That is exactly what an AI the size of GPT-4 does if you do RLHF on it.

https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/...
I'm not sure why you'd classify everything up to destroying the skin as 1-3 and then label 4 as destroying bone.

This one goes to six: https://nigms.nih.gov/education/fact-sheets/Pages/burns.aspx
The 14" MBP is about 3.5lbs compared to just under 2 for the X1 Nano, is your work computer a 16"? I had a 16" for work, but wouldn't get one personally, it's a bit bulky.
then I guess what I get out of flavored drinks is ultrahydration

This is not something that exists unless you talking about a marketing term for hair conditioner.
Take a look at this.

https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/...
Bad chart - EU membership has fluctuated but they don’t control for this.

Mentally visualize adding in 3.1 trillion to EU 2023 to control for Brexit and the difference becomes a lot less stark (though still interesting).
PPP is a misleading figure. If your PPP-adjusted income is 2 times higher than someone's else does it mean that you can buy 2 times more MacBooks or trips to Korea?
From the same channel
https://youtu.be/J-M98KLgaUU

See also
https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU
From 3 months ago
I don't understand this argument. If everyone has become more productive, why would wages rise? Wouldn't we see that as inflation then? I think the rise of productivity is more seen in the growth of the GDP
> You can find an overview of those challenges at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_management

Not a big deal when physical security is provided at the broader level. For example, for any failed access attempt just fall back to TOFU.

(Sorry, I'm just 85% sure the top-level ancestor is trolling and I wanted to help by taking it one level deeper. :)
3.3V IO, boring. -3-
Stated differently, it is a technical solution to a social problem.

I'd posit that it is plausible you could both be compatible with multiple accounts for different uses. Especially as you get fortunate enough to have enough income that you can split where it is deposited, there is no reason "joint account" means a single joint account.
It isn’t clear to me (other than it’s an open engineering problem) why LLs couldn’t also include attribution as part of training. Also tracking attribution could lead to some insights on how its internal representations in vector space are created.
Your entire argument is predicated on the idea that anyone should be incapable of paying rent, which you might find is not a universally-agreed upon opinion, or even an opinion some find worth the keystrokes it was written with.
I prefer when I can know where a driver is looking if I'm about to cross their path. Do they see me? Sometimes that's really hard with tinted windows.
Perhaps your post getting flagged counts as negative karma too?

Anyway, karma discussions are generally off topic here so you may experience similar effect with this post.
If you’re suggesting people fire at small targets on the freeway with guns, then it has absolutely nothing to do with the 2nd amendment.
They're totally intuitive if you were an Occam programmer.
"How to Make Custom ESP32 Board in 3 Hours | Full Tutorial"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_p0YV-JlfU
>Our "modern" western life is not fulfilling, healthy or enjoyable.

Who is "our"? Western countries, especially Anglo countries, are comprised of a thousand thousand different cultures. Which among those are unfulfilling, unenjoyable, unhealthy? I'm sure some are nice. We're not all the same, not remotely.
Schrödinger’s Volkswagen
Honestly the real sideshow is that Apple managed to worm its brand into this business. If I were Samsung or Google or any other Android vendor I'd be asking my marketing leadership why the police are not using our phones for this
Very similar situation with my partner and I, except we use budgeting software - I manage my own personal budget and our "joint" budget separately. My partner isn't interested in using the software for her own expenses, which is fine.

We can both see how much money is allocated to everything, if there's anything one of us wants to spend money on that would be a shared thing - we budget for it.
>In theory since 2008 real wages have been increasing... in practice, housing and other costs like childcare have increased astronomically during that period negating any real gains.

That's categorically not true. Adjusting for inflation, wages today are up 6.8% compared to 2008.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Ya, those workloads would do it. My M1 Pro 16" really made my intel mbp feel sluggish, especially if I'm running any containers. Not quite enough to replace it yet, but sometime in the next year if I can do something useful with it.
I was briefly addicted to this.

If you put a base in every star system, you won. The trick was not to fight anyone while you were doing it.
Yes it’s just an engineering problem, there is no a priori reason not to do it.
[Ignore this and see the reply to my comment. I can't open the site for some reason.]

I don't think it's the joint account that makes them happy. It's their happiness and trust as a couple that makes them have a joint account.
Sorry, I meant to say megahydration.
That was anybody who used Debian stable
I went through this anguish at a site many years ago. The sooner you stop caring about invisible internet points the better.
So how about a more down-to-earth example. Medical imaging.

Changes to graphics drivers, can, do, and have impacted how things like MRI results get rendered by software. It's going to have at least some networking with the rest of the hospital and difficult to completely airgap, but at the same time you cannot update it willy nilly with the latest and greatest uncertified drivers.

That's precisely where "enterprise" distros are sometimes necessary.
Since all recursive programs can be converted into iterative programs then you can "simply" (not always simple) convert recursive solutions like McCarthy's Lisp solution to a loop: https://dl.acm.org/action/showFmPdf?doi=10.1145%2F1045283 (page 5)

(DE SAMEFRINGE (X Y)
(OR (EQ X Y)
(AND (NOT (ATOM X))
(NOT (ATOM Y))
(SAME (GOPHER X) (GOPHER Y)))))

(DE SAME (X Y)
(AND (EQ (CAR X) (CAR Y))
(SAMEFRINGE (CDR X) (CDR Y))))

(DE GOPHER (U)
(COND ((ATOM (CAR U)) U)
(T (GOPHER (CONS (CAAR U)
(CONS (CDAR U) (CDR U)))))))

Coroutines are not necessary for solving that problem (though they do offer a neat solution to it).
They never go full black though? You can still adjust them (marginally / within some limited bounds of very dark to dark) from what I remember.
It's incredibly tempting but too afraid of legal issues
> What are "we" [...]

A miniscule blip on the geological time scale. I'd imagine an AGI with a billion years to test the limits of physics would be greater than any god.
I struggle with this—if you have kids, sometimes staying the course feels like the "responsible" thing to do. But plenty of people get laid off out of the blue, and plenty of people pursue their dream and have a thriving second career.

There is probably no right answer, but I guess the question is: "what decision can you live with?"
Thanks, I've fixed the typo.
Probably my favorite line in P.G. Wodehouse is "The saddest words of tongue or pen are not 'It might have been', they are 'joint checking account'."

In practice, it is not that tragic. Joint finances do mean that surprise birthday or Christmas presents must be paid for in cash, or if that is not possible I have to have my son make the purchase and then reimburse him.
More likely they're trying to solve real problems you just haven't hit yet.
Actually if you think in the sense of informatics...base 3 is more efficient than base 2, but natural base (base e = base 2.718...) is the most efficient, and 3 - e is closer to e than e - 2. So it is more natural for computers to go in multiple bases but unnatural to human.
Traveling by Bus Is No Longer a Plan B for Many Americans
Most of the gap is actually people doing pension fraud due to overly generous state benefits.
https://archive.ph/crgF9
I'm saying given the choices of "US economy doubled! Eurozone completely stagnant" (nominal) and "both grew, US somewhat more" (PPP), PPP is by far a more accurate model of what has actually transpired.

That is all.

What it may or may not say about Greece is utterly irrelevant because that's not what I was talking about.
Says updated as of July 14, 2023
I'm aware of it. I'm opposed to the practice, and it seems unconstitutional to me.

But I wasn't talking about that.
As an AI startup founder, I worry pieces like this miss the point — we are so early into this new era of computing that it’s premature to call any winners.

It’s also simplistic, because AI-related innovation is happening across companies of every size at every layer of the tech stack. Even Open AI with its state of the art foundation models needs to compete with both open source and large companies coming out with new LLMs.

Pieces like this may also discourage bright people from taking risks and building cool things, because they worry that this is just a big company game. It’s just too early to think like that.
I grew up as an ultra orthodox Jew - where people have 5+ kids and there is a lot of focus on religious life and community. There are plenty of extremely bitter people who might love their kids but feel trapped by the lifestyle (they don't want to leave their kids, spouse but it gives them no space for anything else). And many of them struggle with meaning in life - the community, religion and kids don't solve that.
> Isn't PPP per capita a better measure of quality of life than nominal GDP per capita?

No.
My decision making has largely been driven by looking at those older than me and asking myself if that’s the type of life I want to live. If the answer is yes, then I use those people as role models. So I think my optimization strategy has been on a longer time horizon than just what I want in my 20s or 30s.
I'm actually fine with this. Tinted windows in police cars help to protect the identity of a person (while in transit, at least) who has not yet been tried and found guilty of anything.