skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they purposely load the images slowly to make it more expensive for the bot owners.
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From the source, Documind appears to:

1) Install tools like Ghostscript, GraphicsMagick, and LibreOffice with a JS script. 2) Convert document pages to Base64 PNGs and send them to OpenAI for data extraction. 3) Use Supabase for unclear reasons.

Some issues with this approach:

* OpenAI may retain and use your data for training, raising privacy concerns [1].

* Dependencies should be managed with Docker or package managers like Nix or Pixi, which are more robust. Example: a tool like Parsr [2] provides a Dockerized pdf-to-json solution, complete with OCR support and an HTTP api.

* GPT-4 vision seems like a costly, error-prone, and unreliable solution, not really suited for extracting data from sensitive docs like invoices, without review.

* Traditional methods (PDF parsers with OCR support) are cheaper, more reliable, and avoid retention risks for this particular use case. Although these tools do require some plumbing... probably LLMs can really help with that!

While there are plenty of tools for structured data extraction, I think there’s still room for a streamlined, all-in-one solution. This gap likely explains the abundance of closed-source commercial options tackling this very challenge.

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1: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models#how-we-use-your-data

2: https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr
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Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here's what the data says
Not all physicians live and work near a teaching hospital where residents are trained. This isn't something that can be done just anywhere. And not everyone makes a good teacher; forcing people to teach who don't want to do it will guarantee bad results.
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I'm not the OP, but I'm very curious why people are downvoting this comment.

Is it that they don't agree that "the New World [...is...] much more welcoming [...of...] all sorts of productive folk"?
Why is that optimistic? Hydro is old, reliable tech, it's always online, and as pointed out in another comment thread, Bhutan has so much excess energy that they're looking for ways to make it useful. Not sure if I see the problem?
> This claim that the police are problematic is an entirely emotional activist response to a few incidents.

Really? Do you realize that the amount of civil asset forfeiture has exceeded burglaries? The militarization of police is absolutely a huge problem. As is mass-incarceration for non-violent crimes, over-criminalization, no-knock raids, etc.
They just raided a dudes house for a squirrel.

And no, I don't advocate for the idiocy in CA where they legalized violent crime as a petty response to having their budgets threatened.
And it was considered bloated at the time!
I think it looks cute
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This type of behavior is why I am so adamant about not doxxing myself on the internet. I had a belligerent internet-goer track me down last year through some open profiles. Luckily, they were the non-swatting type, and it allowed me to fix the gaps. It sucks to live in fear of these people.

Also, HN seems to have a bad echo chamber on both policing and gun control.
The company that sells AI says AI improves code quality and co. I wonder what other people say.
> Anonymity of users: validating someone's real-life identity sufficiently would make it possible to permanently ban malicious individuals and filter out bots with good effectiveness, but it will destroy anonymity online. In my opinion, literally untenable.

I see this point constantly made on the echo chamber that is known as HackerNews. The average normie user does not care about anonymity, nor privacy, on the Internet. They want a smooth, fun experience. The solution is secure boot plus attestation via some browser JavaScript API. If you want even less friction, users are required to register their devices with a gov't agency, then their attestation will carry more value.

Really, why don't we see HN crying about the need to show a national ID (and register) when buying a mobile phone? I never once saw anyone complaining about it here. Are there any highly developed nations that allow complete strangers with any nationality to buy and use a mobile phone without showing a national ID? I don't know any, or they will all soon be gone. It only takes a few more terrorist assholes to close that door permanently.
Meteorite found at university contains 700M-year-old evidence of water on Mars
It's weird the Chevy Bolt wasn't mentioned. After the $7500 tax credit, you could get a brand new Chevy Bolt for under $20k. If you haven't driven a Bolt, I can't recommend it more. It's about as perfect as car as I could reasonably dream up. It's a hatchback, minimally gimmicky (compared to, e.g, a Tesla, where so many things are "different" for the sake of being different), unnecessarily fast—truly, it's shocking how quick it is, very respectable range of ~270 miles, has Apple CarPlay (or Android's equivalent if you're into that sort of thing), and it's cheap.

I picked up a used 2023 for $14k last month. Hertz is unloading their fleet of EV's, so they're ridiculously cheap if you don't mind driving a former rental car.
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Correction: analogies don’t prove understanding.

Nobody understands LLMs. If we do understand LLMs Why the hell can’t we control the output? Because we don’t fully understand them. Let me spell this out for you because you’re not seeing how plainly logical and straightforward that statement is.

First off let’s assume I’m not someone who has built and trained LLMs for my job. Just assume this even though it’s not true. Because this isn’t at all required to know what I’m about to say.

Next we know that We have 100 percent control over all the logical operations of a computer. We understand how all the operations connect logically. The computer is deterministic and we understand every instruction.

How come I can’t control the output of an LLM by manipulating machine instructions of something I have 100 percent control over? Why don’t I reach in and adjust a couple million weights such that the output follows exactly what I want 100 percent of the time? This is certainly not a theoretical impossibility because the computer is freaking deterministic. And I also have full control of everything a computer does? Why can’t I use something I have full control over and get it to produce the output I want??

I’ll tell you why. The only thing stopping anyone from doing the above is A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.
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> “Shouldn’t you give neuron counts more weight in your estimates?”

Rethink Priorities [0] has a FAQ entry on this [1].

[0]: https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range-es...

[1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Mfq7KxQRvkeLnJvoB/...
The trade off here is eliminating mutilation, going from Pain + Death to just Death, or in the case of the whales, going from Death to normal, beautiful shrimp Life. I don't really have any interest in doing shrimp quality of life math this morning but there's clearly something there.
The first thing that came to mind:

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/everything-we-know-about...

I saw countless similar videos of cops violently attacking -- often with permanent, life-altering results -- people who were exercising their constitutional rights or simply minding their own business.
Yes, that is my understanding of the terminology, and how I try to use the terms (not always succeeding).
That's as much just the mid-Windows 10 era shift from the Windows installer installing Windows "one file copy at time" to shipping virtual hard disk images and installing the whole thing like (but not exactly as) a container overlay.
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Exciting stuff! Hercules could be a game-changer for E2E testing. A few thoughts:

1) Gherkin handling - how does it deal with ambiguous steps? Can it infer intent or ask for clarification?

2) Auto-healing - how does it adapt to DOM/app changes? LLM-based or fallbacks?

3) Salesforce - what Salesforce-specific challenges does it address?

4) Scaling - how well does it handle large suites and CI/CD pipelines?

5) Future plans - any support for non-web apps like mobile or desktop?

Looks promising, especially for teams without QA experts. Can't wait to try it out. Nice work open-sourcing this!
Funny thing is that Musk himself said the “Shanghai built Tesla's are the best quality Tesla's” and he’s fully leaning into Chinese manufacturing.

I suspect what will happen is that cheap Chinese imports will come into the USA but only for select manufacturers who benefit the current administration. So no cheap byd’s but possibly cheap Tesla’s.
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Dan Morena, CTO at Upright.com, made the point that every startup was unique and therefore every startup had to find out what was best for it, while ignoring whatever was considered "best practice." I wrote what he told me here:

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/dan-morena-is-a-...

My summary of his idea:

No army has ever conquered a country. An army conquers this muddy ditch over here, that open wheat field over there and then the adjoining farm buildings. It conquers that copse of lush oak trees next to the large outcropping of granite rocks. An army seizes that grassy hill top, it digs in on the west side of this particular fast flowing river, it gains control over the 12 story gray and red brick downtown office building, fighting room to room. If you are watching from a great distance, you might think that an army has conquered a country, but if you listen to the people who are involved in the struggle, then you are aware how much "a country" is an abstraction. The real work is made up of specifics: buildings, roads, trees, ditches, rivers, bushes, rocks, fields, houses. When a person talks in abstractions, it only shows how little they know. The people who have meaningful information talk about specifics.

Likewise, no one builds a startup. Instead, you build your startup, and your startup is completely unique, and possesses features that no other startup will ever have. Your success will depend on adapting to those attributes that make it unique.
I've always wondered the same.

For the math to work, the fully qualified attending would have to be ~10x more efficient than the residents ($600k salary vs $60k salary - very rough, obv).

The current state seems to be "a single attending is more efficient practicing solo than the same attending overseeing five residents"
I guess it is not a prank, maybe just a perfect encapsulation of life in tech in the 2020's.
A quick glance at the headline makes me think this is about electron spins in elemental chromium. I know, naming things is hard, but c'mon people.
> Are we still spouting this nonsense? They do come from the mid 1800s. Modeled after the London Metro Police

All of the above is true. In the US, slavery enforcement evolved into police forces and police forces were modeled after UK police.

Many police forces, many origin stores.

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/36/3/did-american-pol...
Protecting local manufacturers from cheap offshore labor is rational, especially if the offshore products are being subsidized specifically to undermine incumbents and put them out of business. I get that individual consumers want the cheapest trinket they can find, but the gov't has to be more strategic. And every country does this, including the one that would be the source of these trinkets.
The BYD Shark is ~$60k, but it’s being only available in Brazil and Australia. Ford is making a Ranger Sport PHEV, but only for Australia and Europe. CATL launched its Freevoy hybrid battery, competing with BYD. It’s certainly being worked on, but not in the US quite yet.
> The militarization of law enforcement and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Do you mean for the US, rather than the human race? Some of us live in countries where the only weapons most cops carry are truncheons and tasers.
> My impressions had been that it largely mirrors the EV market: A few early PHEV models (such as the BMW i3) had poor battery management leading to unreliable battery packs.

BMW i3 owner here. The i3 never had such issues and has been praised for its overall great engineering (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPIuLz5VFI and https://evclinic.eu/2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginn...). It is also not a PHEV but an EV that had an option for a range extender.
I didn't really consider NaN tagged indexes: Rust made using an enum basically a given. That being said, I probably wouldn't change even if could now. A NaN tagging scheme blocks out at least 11 bits out of your from your useful payload, leaving you with at most 46 bits to split between your discriminant and payload, while giving you freedom to express arbitrary doubles on the stack.

A tagged index gives you 7 bytes to use for payload: This for instance gives us the possibility of representing all but the most decimal heavy doubles on the stack (we drop the bottom byte from a double if it is all zeroes, and save the remaining data on the stack), but also allowing up to 7 byte strings on the stack! And all safe integers! And up to 56 bits worth of Bigints!

So, a tagged enum is pretty powerful :)
I believe in peace as well. I will happily recommend that Russia should end their war of aggression against Ukraine and return all territories that they have captured. Question is, who will bell the cat?
I have no context. I’m just a layman.

Maybe force every doctor office by law to be a teaching hospital of some sort. They get paid 500K, seems to be a good form of taxation on an undeserved salary.
> People ask us things like “how long do I cook [something] and we often have no idea how to answer that question.

Yes. Answers like "until it sounds differently" just cause more questions while being the actual answers. How the hell am I supposed to explain "that different sound". After some time you just start to feel it.
I surely did not want to start any fight, nindalf, and I do not realize having misread what you wrote - but the thing is, the fact that «even something that appears simple like gathering the facts and coming to a reasonable conclusion before sharing an opinion is too much effort» (in your words) is a very frequent experience for many of us, so it sounds very surprising when you state it... (And by the way, what you stated actually is "people will arrive to premature conclusions if they stop the process short" - it is what you expect deductively.)

Some of us are obsessed with the "Oh my, why were they not taught to think and behave" that you noticed "as if a detail"...
Accidentally, I read about the Romans recently. They had the Cohortes Vigiles, which was mostly a night time fire watch but it included night watch duties. Daytime was the responsibility of the Praetorian Guard. They were more kind of a part of the army but under the mayor's control (to some degree at least). I think they meet your definition of uniformed, central office, and patrolling.
The Prius gets up to 50 mpg on the highway too, much better than ICE cousins.
What will probably happen in most US states is that physician education will continue to require residency. But routine primary care will increasingly shift to Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners. Real physicians should be reserved for the more complex cases.
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The real functionality of a software firewall is to stop your own software from phoning home.

It is sad, that this has become a normal occurrence. Sometimes they phone home for good reasons, very often they do not.

Although I doubt it can get you into legal trouble if you use cracked software.

You can get into trouble if you have been found torrenting them however.
These guys do a lot of work on ICE, EVs and Hybrids, scroll to the end where they discuss Hybrids https://evclinic.eu/2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginn...
I built a drag-and-drop document converter that extracts text into custom columns (for CSV) or keys (for JSON). You can schedule it to run at certain times and update a database as well.

I haven't had issues with hallucinations. If you're interested, my email is in my bio.
This reminds me of the Stoneway Hardware store in Seattle and their bolt logo which pokes fun at this

https://www.stonewayhardware.com/
The Onliest One Alive – A Jonestown survior's story [pdf]
Thank you, I'll put it on the reading list!
I took advantage of the IRA solar power and $7500 EV credit, now I have an off grid home all electric appliances and excess power for hot tubs and EV's. The Ford Lightning acts as a generator.
This was the greatest most life changing and impactful legistlation ever: I've had $0 (ZERO!) in gasoline, LP, and electric utility bills since installation last year.
I don’t think anyone is comparing Bhutan to prison? That isn’t an apt comparison.

I’d be more interested in what young Bhutanese people have to say. If it’s economic opportunity they seek then it can be dealt with locally (and they seem to recognize that), if it’s something deeper that would also be very interesting to know.

Humans aren’t as rational as some like to believe
My aunt and uncle have a couple of Teslas (at different homes, I think). We have one as well. They're looking at replacing one with another EV, so she was probing me for options, and then also said "I can't help but notice your recent vehicle purchases have not been EVs. Hmm.."

I don't get it. We already have an EV. Why would I buy more EVs? The one that gets commuted in every day is already in our driveway. It already does the work. It doesn't need replacing, or adding to.

I'm a car person. There are so many cars I want to own in my life, so much to experience. I will admit I briefly considered buying a 10 year old BMW i3 BEV because it seemed like a fun runabout for not much money, but most of the _other_ EVs on the market serve the "practical" market, or are too expensive. I bought a Fiat 500 Abarth because it's an absolute insane hoot to drive. I bought a roadster. These are not exactly markets served by EVs. At the very least, we need another decade or two of sales to build up the inventory of interesting/unique/quirky models that get introduced by manufacturers over time.

But mostly, I want something fun to drive with character- a nice gearshift, an exhilarating powerband, ... not another competent appliance. We have a competent appliance at home.

The EV market isn't saturated, but just because an EV owner doesn't serially buy EVs doesn't mean the shine has come off. It just means the 100,000 mile, 6 year old Model 3 does exactly what it did the day we bought it, and there's no reason to replace it.
And it is a big problem for the EU as well.
I suppose that's also why Japanese martial artists work their way toward a black belt.
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And, as the article explains, Amazon is overlooking that so they are complicit in this deception.
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>"I would instantly hire 10,000 more engineers."

From my experience, this answer usually belies someone who doesn’t fully understand the system and problems of the business. The easy answer when overwhelmed is “we need more people.” To use a manufacturing analogy, you can cover up a lot of quality issues with increased throughout, but it makes for an awfully inefficient system.
Subsidy cannot work beyond a certain scale. Sure they may have benefitted initially, but in the long run I presume they need some kind of profits to sustain.

May be the lead in Chinese EV and battery industries is not purely technological, it is also the supply chain and scale developed over the years.

All this talk assumes that USA or Western countries have always had a level playing field whereas companies like Boeing or Airbus are prime counter examples
Cryptocurrency micropayments have been proposed and even attempted as a solution to various problems. Hell, there's also Hashcash, an early proposed anti-SPAM measure for e-mail using just proof-of-work. (Since this is just burning CPU though, it probably isn't effective in the modern world of most people using low-power mobile computers and many SPAMers having access to cheap very high power computers. Might serve as a good hurdle for people trying to implement malicious bots, but it will eventually become useless if it is shown to be effective IMO.)

I'm skeptical though. It puts a literal price on abusing a service, but how do you set that price? Is there a guarantee that there's a value high enough to meaningfully disincentivize SPAM but low enough that users, especially users in areas that may have an economic disadvantage, are able to pay it?

That's on top of the other practical problems, such as actually implementing it. I mean, if someone implements it and tries to solve the usability issues involved I would be open to this future, but as it is now, cryptocurrency has disappointed me. In a world with increasing scrutiny towards credit card processors, I was hoping that the silver lining would be that cryptocurrency could at least help mitigate some of the concerns, but there are just too many hurdles right now. (Some of them may be caused by regulation, but to be fair, I think at this point it's hard to blame governments for trying to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges. I'm not happy about silly KYC policies or anything like that, but I am not surprised at all.)
I did the free trial and it seemed ok - but I had too many bad habits from fusion...one thing that always tripped me up was the limit of 1 sketch per 'part'(?). It seemed to enforce 'best practices' much more then Fusion does, and I just tinker with hobby projects. They were very attentive though, and even called a few times to see how I was doing...

Also, I really liked the 1 time purchase vs. subscription
The purpose of a citation is to provide further evidence supporting the claim. This instead links to a ~thousand word article. A single sentence of which is relevant. Instead of supporting the claim, it instead restates the claim.
The correct link:
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/11/18/a-function-to-approximat...

In the initial submit I put the wrong date for the blog post. Maybe a moderator can edit the right URL.
Game developers have been avoiding TCP for decades now. It's great to finally see datacenters catching up.
404, here’s the new URL:

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/11/18/a-function-to-approximat...
The villain here is wrong. It should be polluting corporations and the slogan should be carbon tax.
That's the problem in the OP -- EVs in the US sell only when they are premium vehicles. Cheap EVs don't quite drive like a Model 3. People don't buy a Leaf over a Prius Prime because of a better driving experience... and something cheaper than a Leaf is going to be similarly utilitarian.