skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One good self-hosted OCR is PaddleOCR, https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Beats everything else, truly international and multi-lingual, including Chinese (as it is made in China)
IoT as in LTSC IoT? No, you still have to pay for a license
HDMI Switch on Homeassistant via ESPHome
Special in the sense of scale does not equate to special in the sense of adapting to your business' needs/culture/sensemaking
I'm with you, and it's interesting to hear they have been closing. I'm curious how the societal changes will shape out if this is true and continues. My observation is that a significant portion of the middle class people I know have liberal arts degrees, or otherwise schools from non-research universities. They date or are married exclusively to other people with degrees, and work at jobs that wouldn't have hired them without degrees. So, those expectations would have to change to, or something similar.
In a particular rectal cancer. In 15% of the variations of that cancer.
>If you are security-aware enough to avoid those issues, then you aren't using a closed-source operating system in the first place.

So what about everyone else?
> Your headcount requirements are not going to go down because of cloud.

Depends on how big you are. I'm one person and I do a lot of things with the cloud that I could not do if I had to rack servers (or even order dedicateds).

Same goes for small 5-10 person teams that are good with Terraform. I've seen some orgs punching waaaay above their weight given their size. Not possible without classic IaaS.
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Microsoft is revamping how Recall works amid its PR nightmare
Here's my .yabairc https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/link/.yabair...

Looking through it I don't see a setting for instant space switching... I think maybe it's provided by default when you install the scripting addition? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1527

I have keybindings in my skhd for focusing spaces: https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/skhd/space

I usually just keep 10 spaces at all times rather than creating new ones on demand.
There is a special version of Photoshop like the ltsc versions of windows but they are not as easily accessible. They come without a subscription though.
True, but anyone who's a cheaper hire because they can "do cloud" but not homegrown also represents a sacrifice in terms of what's you get. In terms of your operational capabilities, you'll likely be paying for that with a crisis first where everyone yells at your team because of a problem in your managed provider you can't fix, and you can't get someone from the provider on the line and helpful in a way that gets you out of it faster. So then you'll tack on add a massive yearly support retainer for a response time SLA that's still bad for your business bottom line and support that's not incentivized to prioritize you. I have stories from name-brand PaaS/IaaS companies.

It's like outsourcing (I don't mean offshore, I mean any kind). It can be a reasonable thing to do if you don't pretend you're getting the same thing for less money and really actually plan around that. But people often do pretend it's the same, and the results aren't immediately apparent. And when they're finally blatantly apparent, either the guilty party has cashed out and left, or people don't have enough perspective to point to the real root cause.

I'm not saying building your own infra is generally a good idea of course. It's just that beyond a certain size, for more businesses than you'd think, reliability has to be a core competency you invest in. And homegrown is a lot easier than it used to be because the offerings in terms of tooling and platforms are way better such that you can strategically craft your level of managedness for optimum cost/benefit on multiple criteria.
You're 100% correct. The explanations I was reading gave me the impression that we can get rid of the magnetic field - but this only works in special cases. Right now I'm reviewing my notes and realizing that yup - they're both needed and will need to modify my explanation there or simply get rid of it entirely and keep things simple. Once again - thank you for the correction - you're a life saver this is definitely something which I overlooked and I wish I had more time to explain properly!
Your previous submission got flagged because using Andrew Tate as a test case is extremely bad, among other things (most notably that nonconsensual clones of real people is not an ethical use of AI)
Do the models work on mobile apps? Or just web apps?
How much storage would you need to store every text message ever sent by everyone on earth indefinitely? Has anyone done the math on that? I'm not sure it's possible without some infinite storage system (that obviously does not exist).
That's an optimistic take, a more pessimistic one I've had is it seems to me for every trait that an autistic person has that is "good" there's some neurotypical person that has it as well without the suffering.

But it's also not clear what "being you but not autistic" would even mean, since it's an exercise in an imaginary hypothetical.
OH yeah I remember BTX, but that design was dated even for that time since it was only meant to stop Pentium 4s from overheating, not accommodate the monster GPUs of today. It was clever that it would Cool the PSU and CPU with one fan but it was still overall crap.

Also, just because a poor replacement suggestion failed once in the past, doesn't eman it's an excuse to give up on replacing ATX with something better.
It's data set is, approximately, everything ever written. We have no access to it. And this is widely studied. You can find trivial mistakes in apparent reasoning.

There are two hypotheses: H1, the structure of a response from any given prompt is computed using distributional properties of historical data; H2: the response is computed via deduction from premises to conclusions of agent employing the semantics of the terms, their logical connections, and connections of relevance.

In many cases a prompt/reply will confirm both hypotheses, hence confirmation bias and why we dont bother "confirming" any hypothesis. Rather to choose betweeen them, if you wanted to use data, you just find cases where reasoning fails in such a way that H1 is the more plausible answer. Such cases are easy to find, and across the literature.

This whole thing is pointless however, because it's blindingly obvious from what a statistical AI algorithm does, which is empirical function fiting on historical datasets to approximate conditional probability distributions. This process is extremely well-understood, and we know necessarily that it is just approximating a historical distribution.
I think it's far more complicated than "racism / xenophobia".

Hitler had delusions about "Aryan" race, white blond people, even though he was not blond. Also, the war was mostly fought in Europe (or at least started in), i.e. mostly among people of the same race.

It couldn't have been "xenophobia" either, given he wasn't even German!

A lot of people who were sent to the concentration camps, besides Jews, were Roma (Gypsies), gays [1], Slavic people, probably more.

I havne't studied history that deeply, maybe this talk about "undesirables" was all just propaganda, conveniently constructed to help fulfill military goals, but it's clearly far from neatly fitting "racism / xenophobia".
Still not in the US
this only looks like a leak from the IT/infra/"website" org, not the news org which is composed of reporters. it makes sense that they'd have different internal github instances since in media companies those are largely separate entities, and the news org likely handles much more sensitive code/data/assets with stricter access controls.
I mean lots of the comments in this thread exemplify the need for this book assuming it is well written enough to achieve its purpose [0]

Take for example the dismissal that "waves are just a concept/model/way of describing the universe that is useful and pretty accurate for many purposes".

Yes, this is true, but the wonder is to be found in the universe, not in the model, and the model provides a path to that wonder to be found approaching true understanding. Understanding with one may practically profit, and idk motivational salience to see connections where they are present.

Like, if you stop and think about it, isn't it like totally nuts that light, "heat", "electricity", etc. just smear out into one another at the right frequency, and that you can predict it? That you can ring all the nuclei in a human's body just like ringing a bell, listen to the tone, and turn that into a like a 3d image of tumors and crap? [1] And, this beauty / intricacy / whatever collides into the need to eat and clean up poop and so forth [2] -- And we end up with microwave ovens used thrice daily until broken and trashed, and relegate the concepts themselves into "just"s, because they are ordinary.

And if this sense of holistic appreciation for the universe is more cultivated in more people we'd see more cool stuff or live in a better world or something.

[0] idk, helping the reader develop a sense of ... awe, better intuitive understanding (because people have it no matter how wrong), connection, higher order consequences, all embedded in a practical context or something.

[1] NMR/MRI more or less

[2] which are also emergent consequences of all these heady abstract concepts btw, like what is is that we need to eat, why do we need to eat to begin with, etc.
There were enough basic grammatical errors in that article—not to mention a general lack of clarity and specificity—that I initially wondered whether it was a preprint, or maybe somebody's blog. But no.
There's no reason at all. RPis come with lots of bootstrap documentation and code so it's comfortable for someone that's played with Linux to get one running, install some packages, and make it do something.

You could do this with a tiny microcontroller if you had the time and knowledge to do it. There's nothing magical about the displays other than strange supply voltages at times.

The more common problem is that they don't listen to USB. They take SPI or parallel digital interfaces to set the pixels. So you need some kind of intermediate interface and software to draw the display. Which is why people just slap an RPi into the mix and talk to that over more common protocols.
I imagine, with knowledge of the ISA, can help one can define a verification algorithm, in which, the CPU is probed with some known inputs to gain confidence that there is no backdoor.
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The fuzzy search results were constantly failing at things I felt they should find, and fzf would rank as the #1 result.

There also seemed to be some issue with the 'bat' integration into preview where it wouldn't jump to the correct line as it could with fzf.

I gave it a good try, short of reading the source code, which when I went to do I saw it was getting a little stale. I'm sure it's still active, but at that point my 'but rust!' reasoning had worn too thin.
For a long time HP bought their motherboards as 'a spot-buy on the open market'. Meaning, whatever overseas supplier promised the cheapest price for a given spec.

That must have been part of the erosion of the 'HPWay'?
Precisely my approach, and with decent success so far, but for some of my friends this needs to be done in smaller steps. In reality, it’s hard for them to move away overnight since they got tricked into using those tools first.
Getting there though.

In other words: I just need a month+ to finish setting up my pixelfed instance after my day job, clear my IG accounts and put a version of this image there instead: https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905.
I'm late to this party, but here's a post I wrote about it. This is more motivation but we are working on technical posts/papers for release. Happy to field emails in the meantime if this is timely for you.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-2024-more-answers-fewer-qu...
Uh, Recall does the OCR for you already and you can just search the saved data for stuff like "password" or "credit card". It'd probably be easiest for an attacker to just upload the Recall database as soon as they gain access to the machine and then do all the processing on their own systems rather than trying to do anything that might trigger suspicions or use resources on a victim's machine.
Ah, cool! Thanks for the explanation :)

Although I've never really been the "clubbing" type, I do other types of dancing (swing, salsa, Scottish, country, etc.). They usually go off playlists, but I can see how having a live DJ who interactively adjusts the music to the crowd's energy level would be fun. I'd love to experience something like that!

In terms of streaming, it would also be really cool to get a live DJ for D&D and other board game nights, who can dynamically respond to what's happening in the game world and blend the tracks (and sound effects?) appropriately. Does anyone do stuff like that? I'd pay for that service!
Hi! Thanks for response! Why do you think it is "extremely bad"?
Thanks for posting! I picked up two of these same displays after seeing similar projects here that used them:

- "A WiFi color eInk picture frame" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689706

- "Color E-Ink Display Photo Frame Pranks [Mom]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26977747

I was planning to turn them into color photo displays like in those two examples, but this is a neat application too.
gotta be a real masochist to enjoy being a dba
It turns out Safari isn't for backpacking expeditions in Tanzania either
Thank you. I didn't hear about dblab before.

Added a bug fix: https://github.com/danvergara/dblab/pull/206 and a feature request: https://github.com/danvergara/dblab/issues/207
Free VPN apps in general are risky. Articles on HN detail how popular apps are also VPN exit points and the users' devices are part of residential proxy pools - and access to those proxies is sold to sketchy buyers.

As a good parent, I provide VPN access for my kids.
As long as the cameras are for security and loss prevention, I think it's probably a good thing. Once they make random the person stocking shelves or working at the register wear cameras throughout their shift I'm sure the footage will be used against employees for not working hard enough, or for complaining about their job/management or for whispering the word "union" too loudly.
As Opt-In Opt-Out ever mattered on Windows. One tiny update later and your settings are messed up again.
Commercial Open Source Software, for which their are many different ways. People are trying to find sustainable business models for open source. COSS is a bit of a catch all term for those that are not donations based.
Perhaps but I think most of us have never worked on a problem of Uber's scale. The behaviors of things change spectacularly above a certain level; it's not just the same thing times N.

The implicit assumption of "not invented here syndrome" is that it has been invented elsewhere already, which isn't always true.
Then they'll enable it by default once people forget
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This use case feels like it’s inching towards the world of the Black Mirror episode “The Entire History of You” where people are able to revisit and scrutinize any moment of their life no matter how trivial. It seems that overriding the memory related mechanisms in our brain would fundamentally change human social behavior. In some cases, such as for the purpose of introspection, perhaps this would yield excellent outcomes. For scrutinizing others, my intuition tells me that it will do more harm than good. This is the thought experiment posed by the episode.

I suppose similar discussions were probably held around the launch of google glass.
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My thought as well. The article suggests it's an "M" for Medici, but it could just as easily be a W" for "Westside Connection". This sort of proves a theory of mine, that Ice Cube has a time machine.

(Presumably he developed it in order to travel back to the best day of his life, the day he messed around and got a triple double, and then later used it to travel back to the 16th century and influence the late Renaissance... but here I am speculating)
If you want to understand how statistical AI systems work, then you should understand the basics of formalism. They are curve-fitting algorithms that approximate the probability distribution of a hisotrical dataset. That's all they are.

By analogising to any animal or human mind, you aren't describing anythign that acutally exists. A neutral network algorithm isnt neural and it isnt a network. It's a statistical curve-fitting algorith. One oughtnt study trees to understand a decision tree either.

This language is entirely metaphorical. There are no neurones in an NN, there are just summation entires in a matrix. This matrix comprises weights, which define the orientation and scale of the line pieces which form the curve being fit to the data.
We will be part of the 10%, not the 90%. Any species that is

- widely present on all continents bar Antarctica
- survives in all climates zones
- can migrate quickly

will be part of the 10%.
Not sure how it's different from DJs who don't play on Twitch but in real venues. The tracks they're playing are (most often) purchased from other producers already, which is money that goes to the creators of the tracks (+ other owners) already. Depending on the platform, creators get different shares of that price.
> This translates to a saving of about 1% on compute.

Does this translate to any tangible savings? I'm not sure what the checkly backend looks like but if tasks are running on a cluster of hosts vs invoked per-task it seems hard to realize savings. Even per-task, 40 ms can only be realized on a service like Lambda—ECS minimum billing unit is 1 second afaik.
> The academic process has always been messy and political, and yet universities do keep churning out research and students.

The youtube process has always been messy and political, and yet new creators do keep churning out great content that people love watching and spreading awareness about various issues.

:)

The youtube show :
“Undecided by Matt Ferrell” is my favourite
I'm not "invoking a defense". I'm stating facts. You give me a definition of "forcibly expropriated land" and we'll compare it against the facts for Israel and all other countries in the world and see what comes up. It's not going to support your thesis.

The trial analogy is also completely false. The appropriate adjustments to this story is that nobody broke into that house, you actually own the house and it's always been in your family, no necklace was stolen, but you're still put on trial for stealing a necklace that doesn't exist from your own house because you're Jewish.

Your last statement of "fact" is also not fact. It is simply not factually true that all the people that lived in the region have been living and thriving there for thousands of years since before the Israelites. Many Palestinians have immigrated to the area in fairly recent times. Many Gazans are from Egypt. There are probably some Palestinians who do trace back to the Israelites. In general much of the population of the Levant and the middle east in general, including the Israeli Jews from all over the place, goes way back but there's no specific historic continuity of Palestinians in Israel for the most part. There was plenty of population movement and immigration. This is well supported history with plenty of archaeological evidence.

I also think the characterization of Israel as being "founded on the belief that its claim to the land and resources was categorically more legitimate than" is also false. There was no comparison of legitimacy of various claims simply because there were no other claims at the time. Israel was definitely founded on the (factual) belief that it is the historic homeland of the Jewish people who feel a strong connection to it. What we see in practice is that a person of Italian heritage, living in California, taken by force from Mexico, with the aboriginal inhabitants confined to a reserve and all their resources literally stolen after they were genocided and ethnically cleansed, is telling Israeli Jews why their country, founded on their historical land, where they went as refugees in more recent times because they had nowhere to go to, is illegitimate. If we want to litigate every country's legitimacy going back 3000 years, sure, let's do that. Are you an immigrant in Canada? better start packing since you're going back to where your ancient ancestors used to live. This is ofcourse all total nonsense.
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Granted one own a domain name, what are the knowledge required to selfhost an email server and migrate to that solution? What are the pros and cons?
I don’t think this could hury NYT in any way except bringing questions on data safety concerns.

They would have better open sourced their code in the first place.
Thank you. My idea was more the opposite: do it with a normal laptop or desktop computer driving the display, rather than a tiny microcontroller. I guess I'm assuming that either the display's USB input supplies enough voltage to run the display, or that the display has a separate power supply -- i.e., that there's nothing magical about a Raspberry Pi that makes it supply special bits or special voltages to these displays that can't be supplied by, say, my desktop computer.
There's certainly smaller and even better models for OCR.

But the whole "point" of LLM (forget it, it's not AGI) is you don't need to make many specialized models and cursed pipelines anymore, to solve a definitely-in-reach-without-LLM problem your farmer neighbor wants to pay $500 for.

Before LLM it's not going to be done as it takes more than $500 engineer hours. Now we just brute force. Sure, more compute, but we get it done!

I guess your OCR dream is covered by this.
Nvidia takes 88% of the GPU market share
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Doubting they'll even disable it at all.
This problem formulation has been around for a while, it’s kind of the holy grail of modeling. What is new compared to PixelCNN and related is this position embedding idea.
> I will never recognize a government's right to tell adults what they can do with their own bodies and other consenting adults

Its almost like that's what they said
This is sarcasm right? There are a ton of examples of police beating/murdering people, lying, and even planting evidence caught on their own body cams. I've never seen an activist group that didn't want body cameras. I have seen pushes for disabling the ability for the cameras to be disabled/muted and calls for penalties for "lost" or "missing" footage if not criminal charges (destruction of evidence).