skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might want to consider this is likely a fake image that, afaik, showed up on reddit first

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/18i5n29/anyone_hear...

Also note the private token in the URL bar
We should ask people who complain about Electron apps if they're willing to pay an extra $20/month to pay for a team of developers to make and maintain a native app for each platform.

I'd bet they say no. If they say yes, they're lying.
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We have no names, man, no names. We are nameless. Can I score a fry? Thanks.
Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items)
Hi HN, I'm proud to show you that I've finally managed to create a Receipt-Image to JSON converter, including line-items!

Over the past 10 years, I have periodically tried (every ~3 years or so) to convert Receipt-Images to JSON. What particularly interested me were the line-items.
It began with a Bachelor's project where we wanted to track prices by extracting product prices from line items. However, it was not feasible to ask users to type them all into our platform.
I quickly realized this process was way too tedious. Only when taking a picture is all that is required, would such a platform work.

https://www.line-items.com is the standalone product that simply converts receipts to JSON. It's great for accountants but also for anyone building expense tracking tools.

If you want to talk to me personally, send me an email. You can find it on my profile.

Past Attempts:

- 2015: OpenCV + Bounding Boxes

- 2017: Azure Cognitive Services

- 2021: Amazon Textract
Why were you skeptical of it originally? I wrote about this coming to pass over a year ago now: https://fleetwood.dev/posts/a-case-for-client-side-machine-l...
FM Based Long-Wave IR Detection and Imaging at Room Temperature
When I had my ceramic counter top installed they first took complete laser measures of the kitchen, installed a temporary wood top and it was made and cut in a facility, I suppose with water jet and full protections, so absolutely no cutting on site with a grinder. Seems a better solution to force that than ban a stone type and let a marginally better other type free to use.
> massive investments

EU is turning back towards Austerity 2.0: Electric Saveroo these days.
How to Test Your Site's "Good Until" State
No, absolutely not.

(1) This was scheduled maintenance service, not a quick repair. Maintenance is complicated and is expected to take more than 10 days:

> Maintenance a train is a complicated affair – it has to be taken apart, the parts sent to the various manufacturers, checked, sent back, the train put back together again and tested. The SPS carries out the maintenance procedures according to the relevant maintenance manual (some 20,000 pages) provided by the manufacturer, but the train does not start after being put together.

From [1].

(2) If this was a legitimate check then there should be a legible error code instead of the train randomly
locking up with no explanation why. This was clearly designed to sabotage competing maintenance service companies.

[1] https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavywei...
Are AI code assistants helpful? If yes, which one is the best?
I'm not sure why you're trying to tell me about intersex. I was talking about hermaphroditism like in earthworms and snails.
webmail works fine without an internet connection, gmail does it. You need to write a PWA.
Nope, the product does not cause death, at least not according to this article. It is production that causes severe and potentially deadly illness.

And not because the production process inherently deadly, but because of rampant non-compliance with safety standards.

The article does not explain why an obvious solution: certification and severe (severe!) fines for non-compliance would not work. Probably a political issue.

I've noticed in the article that trade unions applauded the ban, and I wonder why.
> When Jake looks at me, he sees me at 25, showing up to our first date in a grey mini-dress, black boots and red lipstick. He sees me at 29 in a striped bra and panty set in our 35th story Seattle hotel room, pressing me against the cold glass. And he also sees me as I am now. I’m all these ages at once, as he is to me. Love isn’t just blind to ugliness, but to decay. Look at two 80-year-olds gazing at each other like teenagers and you’ll know what I mean.

I wish more people knew this. I think if they did, they would value each other more.
Executions by Elephant
NASA will "baby" TEMPO to extend its life
"Frequency Modulation Based Long-Wave Infrared Detection and Imaging at Room Temperature" (2023) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202309298 :

> Abstract: Detection of long wave infrared (LWIR) light at room temperature is a long-standing challenge due to the low energy of photons. A low-cost, high-performance LWIR detector or camera that operates under such conditions is pursued for decades. Currently, all available detectors operate based on amplitude modulation (AM) and are limited in performance by AM noises, including Johnson noise, shot noise, and background fluctuation noise. To address this challenge, a frequency modulation (FM)-based detection technique is introduced, which offers inherent robustness against different types of AM noises. The FM-based approach yields an outstanding room temperature noise equivalent power (NEP), response time, and detectivity (D). This result promises a novel uncooled LWIR detection scheme that is highly sensitive, low-cost, and can be easily integrated with electronic readout circuitry, without the need for complex hybridization.*
Thank you!

Wow! Never heard of PaperKarma but I could definitely use it. I’m extremely interested in honest, pro-consumer software but the revenue doesn’t seem to be there.

I actually took down my blog where I was writing about alternative monetization strategies and creating pro consumer/privacy friendly software because I felt that it could give the wrong impression to potential employers who don’t share my values :/

StreamSwitcher, for example doesn’t use any tracking or keep any data from the user. There’s an anonymous session that’s created to get a user generated mapping of Apple Music links to Spotify links if the user completes a “transaction“. Costs me nearly nothing to run.

Same story with ByeByeFitness — no user data is tracked or passed on to Google, Facebook, etc.
> The ridiculousness of this defence makes it clear leadership was in the know.

https://kolejowyportal.pl/koleje-dolnoslaskie-odpowiadaja-ne...
- this is from 2022-07-06. The train owner complains that they still didn't receive information from Newagg about what was fixed when unit had to be shipped to manufacturer after it refused to start.

So the issues with 3rd party servicing were publicly known well before the smoking gun was found in firmware.
The EU AI Act and the debate it sparked
Read our breakdown of the EU AI Act, what it means for European AI Innovation, and to anyone developing AI solutions or deploying them.
Oh, that's excellent! Thank you! Now I know what to do with my evening! ;)
Nothing is stopping people from saving (I mean, except for low real wages), even with inflation, it's incredibly easy nowadays to put money into investments. Also I don't understand how deflation would eliminate the boom/busy cycles
> Abstract thinking is good in the next step, when you already know the topic.

I honestly find the abstract perspective much more "approachable" (I really find it quite easy to learn highly abstract mathematics).

The issue rather is that very abstract texts have much higher quality demands on the writer - if you explain things badly, the reader will likely not understand. Similarly, much less (subtle) errors in the text are acceptable before the reader will be confused.
I think it has more to do with the explosion of use in the market, it's everywhere now (from McMansions to cheap apartments). It is was just cheap/expensive enough to replace laminated MDF benchtops.

I suggest people look at the actual numbers -> https://lungfoundation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NSP...

Every one of them over zero is bad, but I was surprised how small the sample of active cases actually are. It would have been better to show the change year on year though.

I was surprised that the sample rate was so few, that is active cases.
As the other poster mentioned, DBT is an open core product and I'm not sure how you'd use the cloud service on a local DB install anyway. Airflow and DBT don't really do the same things anyway.
Nobody is going to train or even fine-tune large models on Apple hardware. It is too slow for that purpose.
The initial WebGPU Standard Library is such a promising step in this direction!
For those who want to do it manually, just give every screenshot a number, and put comments in the code saying "This UI layout / function affects Figures 1, 2, 4, 7". If you don't trust your team to maintain a sequence (fair) use random numbers.

This also helps when people want to refer to a particular screenshot, and it can double as anchor IDs in an HTML page.
No, because just like you've moved the conversation away from trying to justify how my post breaks the hn guidelines, you're moving it again away from your indefensible stance on the definition of flamebait. Flame wars gets started by accident sometimes, yes. There are a myriad reasons for this. It has nothing to do with the definition of flamebait.
I was more into the young Kirstie Alley playing the sexy vulcan in Star Trek II. Sadly both actors are no longer with us :(
Ok so no sarcasm, well, there are many reasons a train can spend a long time in the workshop:

Complete checkup takes time, or one important mechanic is sick, delaying things or whatever. It is not the responsibility of the manufactor anymore. (A different company has the official service contract.) If you have other informations pls share.
Because some people are genuinely contractors while others are disguised employees.

I also don't see the inherent problem with contractors, some jobs require it, some people want the flexibility. The issue with "gig workers" is that a lot of them end up with all the disadvantage of being employe, all the disadvantage of being contractors, and none of the benefits of either.
Are the vector extensions the fixed size ones or the originally proposed lanecount agnostic ones? That is the aspect of riscv i'm most excited about.
I remember when I first heard the term "pink tax." It seems particularly relevant on clothing. There are a lot of basic essentials (see pockets) that equivalent women's garments simply do not have. And it seems to be more related to the manufacturers than consumers, because it is literally a meme for a girl to be excited about having pockets. And most of the women I know do share info abut which brands have pockets, etc. It seems that women will buy good quality stuff, but I agree that mountains of clothes are being made that don't seem like they were made with any humans in mind that might wear them?

That said, I am incredibly grateful to live in a century where clothes are not a very large portion of my budget, yet I still am warm and covered.
So the cost of building a fab hasn't come down in the last decades, huh?
Genuinely asking, is there some^W^W^W what is the "uncompressible" cost in fab-fabbing? I'd totally guess that staff and the building itself are not it?
"Researcher discovers new technique for photon detection" (2023)
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-technique-photon.html :

> "Our FM-based approach yields an outstanding room temperature noise equivalent power, response time and detectivity," Chanda says. "This general FM-based photon detection concept can be implemented in any spectral range based on other phase-change materials."

> "Our results introduce this novel FM-based detector as a unique platform for creating low-cost, high-efficiency uncooled infrared detectors and imaging systems for various applications such as remote sensing, thermal imaging and medical diagnostics," Chanda says. "We strongly believe that the performance can be further enhanced with proper industry-scale packaging."
re: computational complexity, I am not informed enough to answer that, but I've wondered it too. But we've said things like that before about, say, factoring huge numbers, only to find out that quantum computers can solve it with a fraction of the energy ("orders of magnitude" doesn't even cut it here).

The other thing I've wondered is how could you have a detector for those particles without interfering with your measurement (heisenberg's)? Your measurement apparatus will give off heat or very slightly change the shape of spacetime, thus interfering where your particles are detected :(.
It's faster, easier to alt-tab to (installed PWAs might address this), but also easy to manage in other ways: window positioning, custom shortcuts, custom UI; then offline use, local backup of your very important data, and a bunch of other things that don't pop into my mind right now. You could also call most of these "ergonomics"
If it was developed anytime after 1990 (probably before) you will find plenty of programmers willing to be expert witnesses and tell the court that the company not having version control is gross incompetence, the only reason a company would do that would be so they can hide evidence of illegal actions. As such the court should impose punitary damages.

Of course before going on the stand the expert witness will work with a lawyer to word smith the above into something the court will better understand. however I think the generic idea is something everyone here will agree with.
I believe it’s always done that way in the US when you order granite or other stone countertops. Cutting large heavy slabs on site isn’t efficient.
When it comes to "fast fashion" that's all anyone can ask of you. The complaints are leveled at those who treat garments as literally disposable, worn just once or twice then tossed to make room for a new thing.

It's an entire ethos that fashion requires constant change. It's no longer seasonal, but weekly.

If that's not you, don't worry about it.
TIL (U.S.resident) that Australians call a kitchen countertop a bench.
> So it's only gig working if you work full time?

Nope

> What about other freelancers that work full time? Should they be classed as employees too, or are we singling out gig workers here?

These questions are answered in the article
Whether or not BP works as a counter example has no bearing on other examples. Aramco and ExxonMobil certainly look like a counterexamples to me.
I think it's the same for everyone company: as long as the pay is good with perks and benefits you don't really care what you code on. And if you drink the company kool-aid, you believe you're doing people a favor.
It's not about what you can do or can't do. It is about what you can do profitably and that's a completely different thing.
if epic wants to gain market share and actually be competitive with steam they are not going to win users over with just free games. the steam client has so many nice features that work fairly well most of the time while epic to the best of my knowledge (havent checked recently) still doesnt have a shopping cart despite users very vocally asking for it for a long time.

epic needs to put more money into their software not exclusives
I love Proton, I use them for my business. Sure they are missing some things. The calendar is too basic, no widget. Drive does not have a Linux client and no rsync support or anything useful. And now there is no desktop app For Linux (it's not electron?). BUT, I love the webapp and they bring a steady stream of nice improvements, and what currently exists works very well. They are a company with the right values so I love paying them and look forward to what's coming.
Why Startups Don't Condense in Europe (2006)
As far as a visualization and alternate means of teaching, at least at a getting started level, this is awesome.

As someone who has picked up many fighting games and been immediately overwhelmed by having no clue what's going on or even where to start, I just mash buttons. Even just seeing what's possible, how to access it, and basics of how it works is really neat.

I guarantee you if someone was trying to teach me a fighting game and had this handy, it would go about twice as well as them saying "push these buttons to do this" which is the usual means.

I love alternate visualizations and unorthodox teaching aids. This ticks all those boxes.
> Comparable to all curated store fronts.

Nonsense. Android is a one time fee of $25.

> Not different than supporting any commodity device. You should have target devices for every variation you intentionally support.

Android has convenient cross platform emulators. Apple insists you give them tons of money every time they release a new iDevice :-)

There is absolutely no reason to buy a physical device just to make sure your app renders correctly at some new resolution.

> That's not true, both the macbook line but also in general. I have worked in places that use VM's on MacMinis for iOS development

Please show me how to legally run MacOS in a VM on Linux while abiding by Apple's Terms of Service?

I'm currently (unfortunately) running CI on a Mac Mini and it is the most fickle system I have ever used. Needs manual intervention pretty much every month.

> but there's also AppCode from Jetbrains.

How do I use this to build an ipa file and upload it to Apple, without running on an iDevice?

> Mac Mini for CI, yes, if you're doing it as above then it's an additional VM on your MacMini.

How to run on linux like literally everything else does?

> That's not true, I use Linux to log in to my developer portal with the root account.

That means you have an iPhone for receiving the 2FA push message. Good luck logging in without any iDevices.

> They allow VMs and Emulators, they just require that it's official hardware.

Completely useless.

> If you are categorically opposed to owning any apple devices then I can see why you would feel a certain way.

I'm opposed to being gouged by a bigcorp, while I'm providing value for them. Android manages just fine, all you need is a Windows/MacOS/Linux laptop with the emulator. Completely free until you want to publish, at which point it's a one time fee of $25 instead of a yearly fee of $100.

I'm also opposed to needing a mac computer just to be allowed to publish for ios

You also won't constantly get screwed over by "reviewers" who spend 2 minutes looking at your app before complaining about something their collegue said was ok previously.

Need to push a critical bugfix? Not allowed unless you also fix these random unrelated "issues" that were fine the past 3 years!

> yet I need to spend a lot of money because making Windows software on any other platform is practically impossible

Cross compilation for windows is easier than it has ever been. It's not even possible for iDevices.

> isn't going to help because you must still license that VM.

Wrong again. Just use the free developer VMs: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

> But ultimately every company that has a platform for software development is going to charge you:

Apple is the only one gouging me left and right. The others are far, far more reasonable.
There is a whole lot of "A" and very little "I" in "AI".

In other words, any "cognition" is really just an illusion built around statistical data.

At best, AI is a computerized version of savant syndrome. We wouldn't allow humans with a similar level of mental impairment to drive.

FSD is really just delusional thinking at this point. GM and Tesla are the proof.
>If you cannot provide food deliveries whilst paying your employees fairly, then you should not be in business.

This doesn't address the parent poster's point:

>For many, it is the only type of job / income they can secure (i.e recent immigrant) and otherwise would be locked out of the legal economy altogether and will transition into the _illegal_ economy for want of options.

Changes like these aren't a free lunch. If they're too onerous companies reduce their workforce, which would leave their workers worse off. Presumably the reason why they were working there in the first place was that it was their best option.
> Xorg being removed. What does this mean?

It means your distro is terrible and it is time to switch.

The author of this blog works for Red Hat though, so he won't speak that particular truth.
I kind of get that reasoning. But then on the other hand, it’s just not well supported by the vast majority of societies actually observed.

Everywhere we go or went to, people already had weapons, and knew how to use them against other humans. Everywhere the first thing to get their hands on were better weapons to gain the upper hand over some pre-existing enemies. With the exceptions, such as Moriori, being few and far between. And killed.

The continuity of inter-group violence throughout pretty much any known culture is so strong, that I really find the notion that it somehow suddenly appeared out of nowhere because ‘farming’ really weird.
don't nobody tell him about this double bracket [[]] language called mathematica!
Show HN: Grafbase – Introducing Federated Graphs
Hi, Kate here! Grafbase is excited to announce the introduction of Federated Graphs, a significant enhancement to our GraphQL services. This update marks a pivotal shift from our traditional front-end focus to a broader, more enterprise-scale approach. Here's everything you need to know about this new feature launch.

Federation allows each independent subgraph to be stitched together into a unified graph that can be exposed to end users. The Federation gateway determines the most efficient query plan for every query, optimizing for resource use.

Additionally, Grafbase Federated Graphs have:

- Support for Federation V2 Spec: Aligned with the latest Federation specifications, our Federated Graphs ensure compatibility and performance at the highest level.
- High-Performance: Crafted in Rust, Federated Graphs offer exceptional performance and reliability, crucial for large-scale applications.
- Open Source and SDK Integration: Open source availability fosters community engagement and collaboration, while our SDK ensures easy deployment to Grafbase.
- Advanced Security and Efficiency: Robust authentication and edge caching mechanisms enhance both the security and efficiency of Federated Graphs.
- Full Stack Deployment on Grafbase: Grafbase supports the deployment of both Federated Graphs and Standalone Subgraphs, providing a comprehensive platform for all GraphQL needs.

For now, I'm just excited to share what Grafabse has been working on with the HN community. Would love to know what you guys think!
I wonder whether you have any data to back up your claim, but other data seem to contradict it.
Also see the comment of Luke Lambert on this thread

https://gist.github.com/LukeLambert/dd722e49bc773bcb27e859d9...
What’s sad about this is that without backups of the old App Store as it existed at that time, you can’t do much beyond playing with the calculator and notes apps.

Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.
> These things are safety critical and ten days in a workshop is probably a reasonable heuristic for this thing has to be taken out of service and recommissioned from scratch.

This makes little sense. It's pretty reasonable that any machine that is sent for repair may take longer than expected in the workshop. Parts availability for one. Also, manpower shortages, scheduling (we don't need it back until next month) and so on all make this "heuristic" more likely be a scam. This idea that the manufacturer is entitled to a lifetime stream of repair revenue has to stop.

I shudder to think what would happen in the US if an auto manufacturer tried this heuristic on the average owner of a pickup truck.
Exoplanet discoveries reveal Earth's profound rarity in the cosmos