skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. I wonder how well this works versus a large LLM. Seems like something a very strong LLM should be able to handle well with the right prompting.

If you can handle it with just phrases that would save a lot of time and money though.
Thanks for the feedback!

I've recently made a change to try to improve results (Specifically the thresholding step when it's processing the image).

For me it's now finding the grid a bit more consistently, though your mileage may vary.

I've noticed the digit recognition still struggles a bit when looking at a screen though. Perhaps I need to get a bit more data for training the model.
> a human analyst has to conduct extensive manual verification a lot of the time. This causes long onboarding times, and there are huge costs in maintaining compliance teams and in fixing mistakes—because human analysts often deviate from procedure.

What about the ones that don't deviate from procedure. What happens to the human analysts who do a good job? Are they automated away? AI has so many applications, it seems like the automation is becoming a game, where people are on the race to automate to save only to hope that they aren't automated away themselves.

I'm all for saving time -- heck, I'm a programmer myself and have automated a lot of random stuff. But I wonder if these AI applications are going beyond the optimal amount of automation and pushing too many people out of an opportunity to contribute to society.
> TS warriors

Ugh. Well if you will start spouting nonsense about JavaScript being better without Typescript then you can hardly be surprised when people correct you can you?

Would you complain about "airbag warriors" or "gps warriors" if you were making comments about how driving a car without them was so much better and GPS and airbags are BS?
reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Cyberattack Disrupts Microchip Technology Manufacturing Facilities
age-encryption.org their project has a good documentation / standard of how age encryption works. Helped me to understand this topic better.
> The FTC says the choice is yours, and companies that void your warranty for choosing an independent shop or to fix it yourself may be breaking the law.

That's a very strange decision to me. While a customer should be able to choose what they do with their device, I don't see why a company needs to uphold a warranty on a product modified by someone other than them. No wonder hardly anyone provides a warranty long enough to even matter.
I wasn't there for the beginning but I got dropped into a corp that had amassed a "data lake" with 20k tables of almost worthless data. One senior data scientist lost their pet project to what turned out to be contaminated data that leaked outcomes into his model features. Basically checked out mentally and eventually quit after. It was a hopeless environment, engeers in one country were building products and completely silo'd away from the people who were supposed to use their data.
I think a lot of it is luck.
Glad to see new people entering the space, Hopefully with Donald Trump background in business and politics he can bring some badly needed weight to legitimize crypto.
> ... as bad or worse than what the Eurostar has now

I was just on a Eurostar train from Antwerp to Paris last month (connecting from a local train from Boom), the week before the olympics, even, and security was nonexistent. Didn't even have to go through a metal detector, just walked through the fare gates and boarded. I guess maybe stations are inconsistent with their security level? What did you have to go through?
"Person of color" puts the personhood before the non-whiteness.

"Colored people" does the opposite.

The difference is subtle, and in most cases, I would argue that "colored people" was just the term of the times and did not intend to imply inferiority.

Give it another ~20 years for the people who made "people of color" the popular term to have their children come of age and they'll decide that "people of color" is offensive for some reason.
NILFS2 File-System Seeing More Fixes, Additional Ioctls Wired Up Ahead of 6.12
One of the humorists I worked with at Bell Labs in the 1980s would always report error code 13 as the error when no more specific error code was available. When one looked that up in the man page, it just said "you are unlucky".
Pygments, a Generic Syntax Highlighter
These are an example of some of the docs your LLM would need to work from. GLWT

https://wiki.st.com/stm32mcu/index.php?title=Getting_started...

http://www.lcdwiki.com/res/MSP2402/ILI9341_Datasheet.pdf
ARRL IT Security Incident – $1M ransom
Debian is the solution. You can choose to only receive security updates unlike any other OS. And it's supported for many years.
It'll be interesting to watch unfold. I don't lose sleep over nuclear-equipped aircraft carriers like I do nuclear submarines. If you triple-dog dare someone to launch an anti-shipping attack on your glorified cargo freighter, there are multiple countries that will accept the challenge. If you make it a nuclear threat, you just gave your enemies an RSVP and casus belli.

I don't like discounting Iran's capabilities, and I don't support the brinkmanship that is implied by blowing up an aircraft carrier. From a pragmatic perspective though, I just don't understand how this survives in a contested environment without importing Kalibr missiles and Russian point defense. Tomcats and subsonic drones are barely enough to harass a modernized military, and poorly suited to defense against retaliation.
For the stairs to extend without anyone near them being caught unawares
The typical way I’ve seen it done in the industry is to build the UI in Figma. No, you won’t be able to directly use that in your app, but I’m assuming rebuilding the finalized UI in Swift will be one of the least complex parts of the process.
Only one mainstream mass produced device in recent history ran into that as any sort of significant threat, and it was Samsung Note 7, of which there were ~95 reported fires, half as many reports of damaged property, and ~30 injuries.

It takes catastrophic circumstances to bypass the fail-slow idiot proofing engineering that goes into consumer device batteries. The gassing off bubbles and warped laptop frames and all the stuff that goes into preventing things from catching fire and/or exploding makes it a vanishingly small probability, on the level of things like getting struck by lightning, attacked by a shark, or having space rocks land on your house. Such things happen, but it's not something you need to expend resources on. Sure, if you're a surfer, a golfer, live near an ISS dumping lane, or run a laptop repair shop, then take measures. If you're replacing a battery on your own laptop, once every couple years, it's not anything to waste concern on.

Hoverboards and DIY vape rigs are honorable mentions, but problems with those tended to be caused by shoddy, third rate manufacturing of the electronics and batteries, and now even the third rate cheap crap is pretty darn safe. Apple isn't putting components teetering on the edge of catastrophic failure into their products, and judging by the absolute numbers, neither is anyone else. That there have been fewer than 10k incidents in the last decade of consumer device failure causing battery fires or explosions, and many many tens of billions of battery powered devices, paints a picture of humans successfully taming lightning.

Big batteries in electric cars like Teslas and other higher powered uses do require a different safety mindset. The consequences are orders of magnitude higher, and rate of failure are higher as well, with frequent chain reactions and runaway, uncontrollable fires that can melt rock being a thing first responders and junkyard operators have to contend with.

If you can explode a MacBook or laptop doing anything a normal consumer might plausibly attempt, the manufacturer would probably pay you a bounty. Batteries are safe.

The odds of being struck by lightning over the course of your life are around 1 in 15k.

The odds a device you own catches fire during your lifetime are around 1 in 1 million, assuming 20 such devices. Those odds get better year over year, and solid-state electrolytes, among other innovations, will make fires and explosions a thing of the past.
What’s your go-to-market? Who’s your end customer? (Buyer and/or user)

Also, what is your differentiator? What makes it difficult for existing KYC / customer verification / etc to compete in the space? In my mind, if you’ve got a kyc business that is proving AI verification solutions, they could just retrain their models on other documents to satisfy KYB, don’t mean to say it would be easy, but definitely feasible.
Edit: typo
What on Earth is happening at the end of this article? I feel like I'm reading an AI-generated text from a pre-GPT-2 model. For instance:

"Order summation. Disjoint sum of underling sets and the sayeverything in Right is greater than everything in Left. This shows the composition of two prcoesses is terminating.

Lexiocgraphic product. Tuple of underlying sets. Nesting of two terminating properties is terminating. How do I square that this feels like two nested for loops with lex being part of ackermann termination also?"

I thought this was an article, and then it turned into a bunch of word salad esque personal notes...?
Hackers leak their own operations through exposed Telegram Bot API tokens
Shocking the industry most likely to be disrupted by AI is bearish on AI
Tom Wolfe is an absolutely incredible author. Bonfire of the vanities in particular is an amazing read which the film adaptation only barely begins to do justice to. I also think that both A Man in Full and Back to Blood are amazing novels. The thing these books do is bring the fight for status into sharp focus while also remaining very true to life. After reading them you start to see it everywhere and it helps you to understand the actions people take in your own life. Highly recommended.
Thanks for slogging through that one to find an example. I've come across that handbook before, and went looking through it in the alloys I normally work with. In the alloys I normally see, the L and LT are either identical, or with a couple digits in the least significant digit.

So it looks like the effect is very alloy dependent. I didn't see any of the steels having any notable directionality. Also Aluminum 6061 doesn't show any directionality either. Outside aerospace, I suspect that covers the majority of metal tonnage used.
In your mind, where is the line drawn between consumption for survival and gluttony?
Arguably companies providing short/no warranty periods long predates that FTC ruling.
Every country has a Texas. In Canada it's Alberta. In Germany it's Bavaria.
Unrelated to this, I remember in 2020 there was a lot of controversy about Postmaster General DeJoy being a Trump appointee and how he was going to slow down mail in ballots, etc.

But since DeJoy has stayed as Postmaster General throughout the Biden Administration, does this mean he wasn’t a Trump crony after all, like we were led to believe? Would appreciate if someone has info on this.
I like that this can save so much time by letting you avoid having to build a backend let you focus on client app development only. Great work!
Border control, sure, but we're talking about security. And GGP was talking about traveling around, and seemed to go on multiple trains, presumably several that were not crossing a controlled border.

But re: UK<->mainland I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there's more security for the Chunnel crossing. That feels like it would be a much more likely terrorist target than a random HSR route on land.
The compliance analysts that we have spoken too feel stretched too thin with a huge backlog of cases. We free them up from having to do menial document verification for low risk companies so they can spend more time on the more interesting high risk work.
Yes throughput for EBS is also relevant to the instance type. It is all published here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-opti...

EBS connects to EC2 via a separate pipeline, different from the EC2 instance Networking bandwidth. This is true for all Nitro instances.
EFS / FSx connects to EC2 via Networking bandwidth. So you should refer to that if you are looking for the bandwidth information.
You're missing the difference between something that is regarded as contemptible vs. merely unfortunate. It is 'objectively bad' to have cancer, but there is no comparable drive for a euphemistic designation for cancer patients, because cancer patients are not regarded with contempt the way that disabled people are.

There is generally a kind of hostile and personal judgement involved in the regard of referents of terms on euphemistic treadmills that goes beyond the judgment that the associated traits, afflictions, situations, etc., are undesirable.

Your method of analysis here does not do a good job of explaining the thing at issue, or at least, it leaves crucial elements unexplained.
Is this some kind of AI poisoning? This would be a kind of way to protect somewhat against web scraping LLMs using content. Include sections of gibberish for them to train themselves on and reduce accuracy.
Recent big thread with some Print Shop OGs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087798
Oh, but have you heard the news about negatrons?
I was thinking the same. Also, I would have liked if they discussed/measured the worst-case power draw of the device before starting to add capacitors, as it's possible a PC USB port just doesn't supply enough current to power it at steady state.
I think it is unfortunate the US government got rid of all their MIL and STD standards. You used to have a rich resource of technical specifications for materials, fasteners, fittings, etc for free access. Now they are pretty well all cancelled and have been moved to organizations like SAE and ASTM where they are hundreds of dollars per copy. For the metallurgical data, I'm curious if these successor organizations are actually generating any new data. Whenever I'm looking up references like that hand book, it appears they all summaries of investigations that happened back in the 1960's and earlier.
Let's invest in mental health instead then. Gambling is not a disease, it's a symptom of a deeper psychological need that isn't getting addressed or managed.

Even hands-on statistics and probability education would be a great benefit to gamblers, as they find how wearing their grandmother's lucky ring has no influence on the statistical rewards of slot machines.
I love it when second order effects are used to justify first order decisions.

I believe it's much simpler: there was no financial advantage to Musk toward achieving market dominance and the prior history of auto industry execs collaborating on a standard early in the life of a new product is low. There was significant financial advantage to Musk selling best of breed, and competing on battery quality and range was in his interest.

I believe Tesla and Ford and others position on commonality like charger plugging is applicable here. They probably needed to be regulated into it. Which they were in Europe and Asia.

US Lawfare would stop alcohol and gasoline dead as new products. And sex, television, and the Internet.
I'm imagining something a bit like a paint roller with a bunch of patterns around the rim, or an IBM Selectric ball, where the raw materials keep rolling around on the outside until the finished product hits a special protrusion that causes it to fall away.
Inside a black hole? Consider a neutron star with mass 1 gram less than needed for it to become a black hole. Since the neutron star is not (yet) a black hole, we can 'see' it. Send in the 1 gram and watch while the neutron star converts to a black hole
where, as usually proposed, the mass that was the neutron star suddenly shrinks to the "singularity" at the center of the black hole.

Now, it appears that there is a huge change -- neutron star to a black hole -- from a small input, the 1 gram, that is, in math terms, there is a jump discontinuity.

There was something about the physics of the neutrons that kept the neutron star from shrinking to a singularity. Well, maybe that something also keeps that mass plus the 1 gram from shrinking to a singularity. That is, if there is no jump discontinuity, the inside of that black hole is essentially just like that neutron star.
Robotic companies: we'd like to build you a generative simulation environment
Robotic companies: we’d like to build you a generative simulation environment!

Benefits of this:
- Can model complex physics like deformable bodies, clothes, and liquids
- Much faster iteration speed for evaluating policies compared to physical evaluation

Try our API to play with the controllability: https://dynamic-demo-api.vercel.app
You’ll hate all the vagueposting Lao Tzu did.

A lot of people think of programming as performing operations on “data” which one must know how to correctly interpret. If two different pieces of code don’t agree about the meaning of your data, it will lead to subtle bugs.

The idea of OOP is to eliminate “data” as much as you can, and express your logic in terms of objects interacting with each other through their interfaces. If done properly, you no longer need to deal with data that every piece of code needs to interpret in its own, but with a system that already understands the meaning and semantics of its state.

Of course most people just create objects with data accessors instead.
Over 5k?! Do you spend $50k/year to keep them?
Intel 11th generation (Tiger Lake) clients onward have Xe* iGPUs with SR-IOV.
wow that's sick
It comes down to disdain for the end user. Nothing you can say will change their mind because they're right and you're wrong because you're a dumb user who doesn't know what you need and they're the engineer with the credentials to prove it.

I will say though, one good thing about Linux is the ease with which you can choose something different. You don't have to use gnome or unity or snaps or even systemd if you don't want to, you can't say the same for the other two large userbase desktop systems, where youre stuck with the decisions of the designers with no recourse. So if these developers make things that are only uses by people because it was the first thing they installed, that's fine, I have my other options and I like them.
Ugh. Them again.

It's pretty interesting that they failed to produce any project of a reasonable size, after literally _decades_ of pushing DRAKON as the best tool ever for "reliable code".
Do you want builds to change a single line of code to complete in less than half an hour? If yes, then you need something in the vein of a linker to handle less-than-whole-program units of compiled code.
I like Manjaro XFCE, it's rolling updates so it's as packages come out you can update to the newest (it pulls latest from github, but has other repos)

if you want oldschool oldschool, check out antiX linux, MX Linux is based on AntiX but looks semi-better, they're based on Debian. Remember though, debian is like 5 package versions behind, because that's what they do with their auditing for stability.

MX Linux has a UI (https://mxlinux.org/) - AntiX is popup menus for settings.

Manjaro XFCE is a complete OS for me without all the bells and whistles of KDE. Based on ARCH.

You're probably wanting MX Linux though. Choose just the security updates and you'll be where you want to be.
Container Layer Caching for 2-5x faster builds
The Postmaster General doesn't serve at the president's pleasure. The administration can't remove him.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postmaster_Gener...
Liquid ventilation has been used with some success as a salvage therapy for critically ill patients, especially preterm neonates. However, it carries serious risks of its own. And it requires an external mechanical pump to circulate the liquid; the human diaphragm isn't strong enough to move the liquid in and out.

https://doi.org/10.5001%2Fomj.2011.02

I think liquid breathing for human divers is going to remain science fiction forever. There just aren't any circumstances where it would make sense to do that instead of using an atmospheric diving suit (or an ROV).
Self-checkout shoppers admit they use tills to steal
I think it is an unfinished article.
Pilet. a modular tablet-console based on pi5
Assuming by org you mean an employer - this is also a benefit. For legal reasons, you may not want to have a copy of any of those emails anymore, or at least your employer may not want you to.

I try to forward important e-mails to myself if I think I'll need them outside of work (insurance details, etc).
> Part of the language engineering dynamic, also, is to try and replace terms that have a precise meaning (illegal alien) with fluffier less precise words (undocumented, migrant) so that the idea that is being referred to (someone in the country without the legal right)

I always thought the switch from "illegal immigrant" to "undocumented immigrant" actually worked against people on the left trying to fight in favor of immigrants. "Undocumented", IMO, feeds into the false notion that most unauthorized immigrants simply hopped over the border without documentation, so we don't know who they are, when the reality is that most unauthorized immigrants are simply overstaying their visa.

"Unauthorized immigrant/migrant" is the best term, IMO, but "illegal" was fine. The argument that "HoW cAn A pErSoN bE iLlEgAl" was always dumb to me, because it insinuated that the "illegal" applied to the person, and not their presence, and nobody believed the person was illegal.

> Another example, what is the currently polite term that means "a woman that is not a transwoman"?

The full term is "cisgender woman", or abbreviated as "cis".

It is not a slur, no matter how much the nut jobs like Elon Musk want to say it is.
Shouldn't you be happy with paywalling, and with these experiments at monetizing content in ways other than ads?

But as I've always said, the staunchly "anti-advertising"/"information should be free"/"the web would have far more high-quality information if it was fully free" people, not you specifically, but most people in this thread, just feel entitled to other people's labor, for free. Content creators know. Most of the people bitchin' about ads are willing to pay you zilch. They still very much want your content, though. Story as old as time. Just strictly regulate any data-collection and data-selling, that's the real problem.
“More precisely: I was worried that if I tried to learn C, and failed, I'd discover that I wasn't actually a very good programmer after all.”

To everyone reading HN: Most people feel this way when they step into something new.

Please don’t ever let it stop you from trying
Extending the Efficient Frontier of Office Automation with Google Workspace
Yeah DeJoy is still a not good. You Don't run the post office like a business that's meant to make profit.
Without explanation sounds like when platforms auto ban you without giving a reason or send you endless unsolvable captchas.
I was told that I shouldn't go scuba diving the day before an early-morning flight, because if the plane decompresses, I could get the bends while everyone else just gets a little hypoxic and uses their handy drop-down O2 supply.
Jump starters. Some of the early ones, including at least one highly ranked on a review site, had the jumper cable socket directly connected to the battery. Wild West stuff. Get a UL listed one.
Thanks, I did research this but somehow I missed the FAQ.

I am technically posting about a different quiz, though.
The Long-Necked Gaze: Seedlings of an Animalic Imagination
As long as we are on this line of thought, many children's books like to put an ending that sounds like Jonah was nice and happy at the end, which is not there at all. It ends with him being admonished for valuing the plant but not the 20k people. I use this as a litmus test when looking at children's Bibles.
Sorry Dang. Will work on this