skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper (and examples) as HTML: https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/

Repo with code, including a CLI tool for converting a PDF to Mathpix Markdown: https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat
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Amex used to book out the first few rows of every Concorde flight. You might indeed be surprised. Of course it was quite a while ago.
I am not an expert but it still has to learn human language/grammar/whathaveyou, and that is where scale seems to matter. Fine-tuning on a subset of knowledge after that is typically how the domain-specialisation is achieved, by my understanding.
I’m interested in extracting the contents of a pdf form — many individual text boxes. You’re saying libre office would likely be able to parse that pdf into a usable format?
Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things.

Their word processor is called Word. Their sql server is called Sql Server. Their IM is called MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger/Messenger/Skype/Lync/Skype For Business/Teams
The Intel algorithm should be much faster. The slicing algorithms are limited by load unit bandwidth, which appears to be 2 loads/cycle on Zen 2, while PCLMULQDQ should be able to process 16 bytes every 2 cycles (8 bytes/cycle peak). 4.5GB/s is about 1-1.5 bytes/cycle. zlib-ng has an implementation.
For some reason mac os lacks window snapping, so i bought a program called BetterSnapTool for a few bucks. it’s super customizable and let’s you snap windows however you prefer.
As pointed out in the article, states frequently maintain a taxpayer-backed insurers of last resort (and apparently notably prevalent in Florida).

Nevertheless, as the article also highlights, this approach is unlikely to have favorable long-term financial implications for the state.
Try Cmd+h to quickly hide a window. Night Shift is also nice to have. Cmd+tab for switching between apps. Alt+backspace is really handy (it deletes the previous word.) In fact, the alt key has a lot of functions that are often overlooked.

Rectangle is awesome for macOS. It makes it easier to put windows in the corner of the screen, etc. I also like to install Dozer to keep the menu bar clean on macOS.
Short story time
https://archive.org/details/ExhalationByTedChiang
The bank will want insurance at least in the amount of what you owe on the mortgage. They don't really care if it's enough to cover actual losses.
> DSLs are, universally, awful, as they grow and grow until they encompass all features of a general programming language

This is the Slippery Slope Fallacy writ plain.

A great many DSLs are stable over years or decades. By your reasoning, a stable DSL is bad because it's going to grow. Why is it going to grow? crickets

Peeling away the fallacy, we could perhaps agree that "the uncontrolled growth of a DSL is an evil best avoided." Or if I'm being less generous, we could look at the bottom of that slippery slope and conclude "general programming languages are bad," because that's what the author seems most incensed by.
Persistent read/write access to user-defined folders rather than only to private origins.

You know how everyone complains about Flatpak sandboxing until they learn about portals and Bubblewrap because the programs are isolated from the rest of their disk? The web is like that, except without portals and Bubblewrap. You can save stuff and drag files in, but you can't really integrate a webapp with a user's local filesystem -- and it's very hard to keep all of a webapp's data in a user-inspectable format that's easy to transform, open up with native apps, or transfer across browsers or websites.

Now, the problem is that persistent read/write access to user-defined folders is wildly dangerous. And Google's proposal is... not the worst thing in the world? But it's suboptimal and it's a missed opportunity to build something far better, and I kind of understand why Mozilla considers it harmful.

Getting this wrong would have permanent implications for the web. Mozilla is absolutely right to be cautious. However, it's also really holding the web back and in particular holding back PWAs because the only really reliable way as a developer to store data via the web is to sync it to an online account. As a result offline webapps are very limited; you never really trust the storage.

It's an extremely dangerous feature that we really need, but it's not clear who should champion it and I don't really trust Google to be heavily involved in the spec process, let alone to be the people writing the first draft. I don't think Google is good at building nuanced web specs even when there's no conflict of interest at all (see the web audio API, HTML templates, etc...). A lot of Google specs end up being very weird and they end up having strange quirks and very strange limitations that don't need to exist? They're very often kind of orthogonal to what the community needs. I don't know if the problem is that Google doesn't think enough about the spec or that they think too much and over-complicate things, but for low-level important features I prefer other browser-makers to lead the way.

What would be best is if a team with more earned trust picked up the spec and went over it again trying to better address the dangers and trying to make something that better addressed everyone's needs in a cleaner way, but there are not a ton of stakeholders on the web that I trust to do that. As it stands the proposal is... ok-ish? But needs a lot more discussion and could be better. I don't blame anyone for being hesitant about it; the potential for abuse is so unbelievably high.

But... it is a serious limitation that I can't ask for persistent read/write access to a folder from an offline webapp.
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Oh, I'm not at all against companies making a buck selling software. I'm a happy JetBrains customer for my IDE needs, and I'm not even a "professional" developer.

But why would they force the use of their "official" VS Code build for this? Couldn't they just charge for their "impressive" plugins, regardless of the edition of VS Code used? The JetBrains "community" IDEs (open source and gratis) can use paid plugins from their marketplace.
Yeah they should stop that "branding" rights thing IMO.

The books after he died were pure drivel. Like they were secreted by the authors from some kind of gooey gland in their brain. All kinda the same, like that op center and rainbow six stuff.

The reason I read a few of them was that I didn't realise they were not written by him at the time and I thought they'd get better. But they didn't of course, they only got worse.
Another model that we'll soon forget it ever existed.
Shortcuts I rely on every day:

Command-space: shortcut to search

Command-tab: Toggle between recent applications

Command-~: Toggle between windows in same application

Shift-Cmd-4: screenshot

Productivity things:

I uncheck natural scroll direction.

Trackpad set to fast.

Change screenshot destination to a folder, drag folder into dock, set display to date added, display as fan.

Do the same as above with downloads folder.

Disable zooming in the dock.

Enable dictation in accessibility and set the activation to double tap “control” on key board: dictate emails and other writing when you get bored of typing.

Install chrome and never look at safari again in my life.

Delete all the useless apple apps from the dock (maps etc).
Now wait till the forests burn and instead of being a carbon sink, they become a carbon contributor.

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Huawei Mate 60 Pro Teardown Confirms Chinese 7nm Breakthrough
Any sort of straight line extrapolation is useless. Look at the US energy consumed per capita, flat or declining for the last 50 years. Other parts of the world will follow as they develop. Likely the same for population growth.

http://insideenergy.org/wp-content/uploads//2017/01/historic...

from:

https://insideenergy.org/2017/01/12/energy-explained/
Managing a public authentication service requires ongoing maintenance and monitoring costs. While they could pay a third party to manage it for them, this is a reasonable decision for them to keep costs low.

It doesn’t sound like Jitsi is sending Facebook and Microsoft transcriptions of your meetings so I don’t see why this is a big concern for a free service.
Awareness is good too, a lot of people’s here have anecdotes from their time in academia (almost all South Asian professors are from higher castes), where it is easier to set up protections.
A tiny llama would be hard to distinguish from an alpaca.
Arch has, what I think is, an equivalent package simply called "code".
Biden gets low marks on economy and major concerns about his age
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Being within the bounds of literal and legal correctness and acting like an asshole, it turns out, are not incompatible!
I'm not convinced a lot of state lawmakers are smart enough to realize this, it's an easy policy to sell to voters, and when insurance companies do pull out, you just frame them as "greedy businesses."
AFAIK you don’t need to install anything to reverse the scrolling direction. Although the natural one is much better when you use the trackpad.
Consultants also get a guaranteed pension funded by the net-contributing taxpayers.
Sure I do, and I enjoy flaming the occasional Emacs user I cross paths with.

But why does selling those features, especially the ones requiring a separate cloud subscription, require a specific build of an app which is otherwise open source?
But don't the tides naturally dissipate a lot of that energy anyway? E.g. whenever you go to the beach and see waves crash upon the shore, that's tidal energy being dissipated as heat. If you stick a turbine in the mix to extract useful work before it turns into heat, isn't it still turned into heat regardless?
The article mentions chemistry vs. performance. You can test the performance of the material (reactivity to contents of can, BPA leaching) without knowing how it's made or the secrets. Shannon Yu kept asking for the detailed chemistry when others in position usually only care about the performance.
Whats the difference between 1% and 99% of HumanEval? What does it tell really?
Linux doesn't have native widgets. Are we talking GTK or QT here?
Actually I think if you put your comment and the parent comment together, you can see why they use that term. Because the alternative to the phrase “content creator”, for a single online person, might be: I am a YouTube video creator; an X tweet, photograph and video creator; an Instagram post, photo and video creator; also an ebook writer… obviously this gets unwieldy fast. “Content creator” conveniently covers it all. What I think using “read/write/record” misses, is that the format is not materially important.
You also have the risk of it being underfunded, or borrowed against, as we've seen with so many state-run pension plans.
Their marketplace, not the marketplace. Their extensions. Microsoft's extensions for Microsoft's editor shared in Microsoft's marketplace. And if it's dishonest, where did they say otherwise?
At least it might finally force states to make hard choices.
I think our peatlands are of considerably greater concern.
Bountysource.com is Insolvent, do not use
Open to correction if I'm wrong, but from the examples I'm aware of (e.g. federal flood insurance) when insurance is run by the government it's always underpriced, then topped up behind the scenes from general taxes.

People tend to gripe less about an extra few dollars in taxes (which aren't line itemed), but more if the price of their insurance premium ever goes up (which they do see a separate line item for).
>Modern Indian politics is controlled by the elite - all from high castes

Source on this? I've heard people say the opposite.
Actually I think if you put your comment and the parent comment together, you can see why they use that term. Because the alternative to the phrase “content creator”, for a single online person, might be: I am a YouTube video creator; an X tweet, photograph and video creator; an Instagram post, photo and video creator; also an ebook writer… obviously this gets unwieldy fast. “Content creator” conveniently covers it all. What I think using “read/write/record” misses, is that the format is not materially important, when the important thing is your audience.
In British Columbia automobile insurance is legally only available from the government ICBC, and ICBC had 800 million in the bank so the government took it and at the same time changed a recently constructed toll bridge to be free, essentially buying the votes of everyone who uses the bridge at the expense of everyone who pays automobile insurance.
This demake is an additional game. Seems like it will just add to the energy load required to run a computer programs. Which I think is fine, frankly. Perhaps some people will play it instead of portal but even still there is the overhead of developing it. I guess if we cared about ecology we'd shut down more game servers faster.
> It is something I have been wondering about: why did Meta not keep the training process going on while the loss curves seemed to go down? Could they conceivably release a Llama 2.1 being checkpoints taken a month after 2.0 was 'cut'? Maybe the expected gain is too small compared to what can be gained with fine/instruct tuning afterward anyway?

Because choosing the LR decay requires knowing the # of steps in advance. LR is too small after the 2T tokens, and changing it afterwards doesn't tend to help.

https://twitter.com/sherjilozair/status/1687837844729966592
I use enterprise SSDs for cloud images and VM volumes, I have about 7TiB useable of that. I don't know how data recovery from an SSD is, I think for a lot of issues you would have to replace the logic board and hope some sorcery works to figure out the ordering of data with wear leveling algorithms. Rust one can often recover data with something like ddrescue. I don't worry too much, with replica count of 3 for both flash and rust I can lose two drives with the same 4 MiB block and be fine, if the failing drives are within a chassis I can lose two whole nodes before I have data loss.

I wish I had access to a tape library though, just it is hard to justify the upfront cost. My cluster has organically grown over the last ten years or so, making a huge near $8000 single purchase for a new tape drive, plus however much automatic tape rotation costs (I presume I need some sort of tape library for that? I have never used tape before) would be hard to justify.
it is less vulnerable simply because it's less used. hackers target the supply chain with the majority of consumers
New training data source for LLM just dropped
Wow, you are vastly, vastly overthinking this. My point was simply that amateur tennis is played by ordinary people—of all ages, shapes, sizes, and experience levels—in large part for fun, exercise, and recreation, so there's no reason to think that amateur tennis is somehow becoming more about strength and height. Ordinary people aren't changing, and thus amateur tennis isn't changing.
Don't all companies do that. Even Apple isn't immune with the ridiculously named AirPods Max.
Oh yes, you are right, I'd forgotten about XDF.

Although there is still a big difference between floppies and CKD hard disks – on IBM standard floppies, the sector size has to be a power of 2, minimum 128; on CKD hard disks, the sector size can be anything – 80 byte sectors, 300 byte sectors, whatever one wishes. On z/OS, several file formats require a 3120 byte block (=sector) size. Under CMS, the standard sector size is 800 bytes.

Hard disks (as opposed to floppies) commonly support non-power of 2 sector sizes, of 520 bytes or 528 bytes – for RAID systems which need to store additional metadata with each 512 byte sector. And with newer 4096 byte sector support, one sometimes finds support for 4104, 4160, and 4224 byte sectors. But, that's still not like CKD, in that most hard disks only support a fixed set of sector sizes (512 or 4096 base size plus some bytes of per-sector metadata), not arbitrary sector sizes like CKD does.
The labels on these buttons, FO, F, I, P, for Flash Override, Flash, Immediate, and Priority, directly reflected the nuclear C2 scheme at the time.

Wait... was this the inspiration for Crash Override's handle in Hackers? The more I look, the cooler that movie gets.
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Thank you for the thorough answer. That is all quite methodical and impressive, bringing together good ideas from disparate projects into a single solution with new benefits.

For people like me who have battled this demon before, it would help to explicitly say that you support any gzip file by way of this special magic. At least on my cursory reading of your page I did not understand this. And I never heard of gzrecover, so thanks for that too.

I like how the pugz paper starts with "Decompressing a file made by the gzip program at an arbitrary location is in principle impossible." Until today I believed the same!
Th complex to tax code continues to exist because those companies continue to lobby strongly against any kind of real tax reform.
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A Google search for “china children per woman” gives me 1.705

Are you talking about something else ?
I like the clean paper-y look!
Here's a good article about WASM based web apps by the author of the HTML5 spec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696

Basically he says that we should use WASM for stuff like Figma (which already does use it) or other types of web apps while keeping the DOM for content based websites.
> Our global energy consumption in 2008 was estimated to be 474 exajoules.

If my maths is right, that's about 40,000 kcal per person per day, or about 15 times the energy consumption of an average adult.

I'm trying to figure out if that's a lot or not. On the one hand, not: this ratio is not strictly bounded in any way, and the human energy consumption is an arbitrary denominator. Still, a very rough interpretation is to say, we consume daily, on average, the fruit of work of 15 people.

Of course, that is very skewed. I wonder what the ratio looks like for an average American or European - must be much more.

It goes to show what a gilded life we live (on average!!!). Before industrial revolution, all energy basically was muscle power, and it's like for every 1 person alive, we have 15 servants turning the generator for us. I suppose some of this number is literal service providers, fed by food produced by powered agriculture.

Is there a logical upper bound to this number? Is there some energy amount we can't use given sufficient supply? Ultimately, all energy we produce is spent on humans so our energy consumption is a yardstick for human energy needs.

But that's not quite right either; a lot of energy is wasted. I wonder how much of this number is clothes that go straight from factory to landfill, AC left overnight, inefficient engines and energy storage.

I don't really have a point, other than I think this is an interesting fraction to look at.
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Poppler ( https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ) handles this for you with pdftotext utility. It also ships with bunch of other utilities to work with PDFs
I think skin in the game is the big one, much moreso than manpower. I use a lot of things that are probably mostly one-person projects, but if that person poured their love and time into it, it seems unlikely they'd permanently tarnish not just their reputation, but also the thing they spent all this time on. If you're just setting a couple compile flags and changing a name, I am a little more suspicious
I suspect that for most people who would consider selling their kidneys at such a price it is life-changing.
Show HN: wwwww.today – tracking Google autocomplete results for the five Ws
Hello. I built wwwww.today after experiencing mild curiosity about Google autocomplete results: Does anything weird ever show up? What are the most popular results? Can I make a page that gives a swift overview of "what's going on today" (with various significant caveats, of course...)?

I also wanted to pick a side project with an achievable scope so I could actually finish something in the context of work, parenting etc.

The tech stack is Laravel / MySQL (I'd like to have used certain alternatives, but I am quite productive with Laravel so in the interest of getting something finished I decided to stick with what I know) and Puppeteer which runs as an AWS Lambda function. I stuck with a very simple approach to front-end, using PHP templates and lots of really bad practise CSS. So fun though! I didn't want to sink days of dev time into JS dependencies and build chains.

I am vaguely aware this could be productised (it would be trivial to swap out the five Ws for other search terms) but I have no idea if there is a market and am not currently motivated to pursue that avenue.