skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can debate the merits of various drug pricing schemes but at the end of the day, prices are set by a small group of interested actors who want the prices to be as high as they possibly can without causing a violet revolt. So call it what you will but let's not pretend there's some deeper, more important meaning to be sussed out here.
> The agency uses artificial intelligence and a technology known as optical character recognition to extract text from historical documents. But these methods don’t always work, and they aren’t always accurate.
Proposed rules would require nutrition info on alcohol labels
Isn’t that what Facebook is supposed to provide? From anecdotal evidence, people are happy to engage in vitriol online that they would never do face to face, real name or not.
"Using your mother tongue is elitist" is bullshit on an epic scale.

It's litteraly your mother tongue man, everyone outside of the elite has a mother, and therefore a mother tongue, it's not expansive, it's your basic birth right.

Why don't people consume audio/video in a foreign language ?

I'm a polyglot myself, so I enjoy that very much, but the simple truth is that most people don't invest the time for becoming fluent in other languages in countries with a "big" language. Works for France, the US, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan or China.

Why ? Pretty obvious. Become fluent in a foreign language is a huge effort. Making that effort really only works if you either WANT to do it or if you NEED to do it. The WANT factor is the same everywhere but the NEED to learn a language is way lower if your mother tongue is in the top 5 - or top 10 languages of the world.

The only thing that is specific to French is that French & English have this weird shared history that makes the written langauges very similar and the oral languages very different. So a frequent compromise for french speakers is to become fluent enough at reading/writing, but quite bad at hearing/speaking.
Additional context, BYD's factory size: https://x.com/taylorogan/status/1859146242519167249

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228138
Ozempic tends to change not just the total number of calories but also the timing and the cravings for shitty food.

Calories in / calories used is NOT a complete model because different foods can have different caloric retention. The most extreme example being corn that comes out entirely undigested. Further, shittier foods that the body craves most are also the least satiating over the longer term.

Reducing calories is three or four steps removed from the actual problem. Like arguing the problem is organ failure when in the first order problem is that you got shot. You have to deal with the wound; and you have to deal with the blood loss. That will, in turn, address the organ failure.
oh, it is "declaration", yes, but not South America. this guy is even on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/James-Lambert-1758-1847-Elaboration-R...
We have a distributor we work with - just because it makes import/export a lot easier. But we get to interface directly with Supermicro for the technical/design stuff, and they're super awesome. If you're looking in the US, reach out to their eStore - really great fuss-free turnaround and all direct.
> I wonder if they've considered making a simple tutorial on how to read cursive?

In generations past, this was called "elementary school."
no, it says the opposite, that there is growing interest in bringing it back into curriculums in various states. but that's aside from the point that the smithsonian making a tutorial on reading cursive would just represent an additional resource, of which we are not lacking, to learn. whether or not we teach it is different, but finding a resource to learn is not hard.
Family saves Palisades home from wildfire with a pool pump [video][3 mins]
Ya, that’s whack. Even the police/hotel thing isn’t really that strict, it depends on the locality…

People think China is authoritarian with effective central control. The first part is right but the second part is far from the truth. China is a bit more lawless than the average western country.
Your experience is obsolete.
The word "revictimizing" seems like an even bigger stretch. Assuming the output images don't actually look like them personally (and they won't), how exactly are they more victimized than anybody else in the training data? Those other people's likenesses are also "being used to generate AI CSAM images into perpetuity"... in a sort of attenuated way that's hard to even find if you're not desperately trying to come up with something.

The cold fact is that people want to outlaw this stuff because they find it icky. Since they know it's not socially acceptable (quite yet) to say that, they tend to cast about wildly until they find something to say that sort of sounds like somebody is actually harmed. They don't think critically about it once they land on a "justification". You're not supposed to think critically about it either.
There are conceivable reasons why they may be telling a half truth here. Just engaging the public is a worthy goal here.
Interesting trend I've noticed: Tiktok's users tend to like its algorithm, and its probably the app's most valuable assets, but western tech executives tend to hate it and speak of it with derision.

This stands in stark contrast with US-based social media companies, where both its users and content creators often speak like they're at war with the algorithm, yet to the tech elite these sites algorithms are tuned to perfection.
Yes you are right. According to Wikipedia it was proven in 1893. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field

I’m dubious of this project.
You should provide more reliable and trusted sources. The link you shared here originates from Falun Gong, a cult.
I disagree with the EFF here too but I am so happy that there is a good faith well reasoned argument on the other side. This struggle is what makes democracy work.
I think this is one of the main reason Japan gets overwhelmed by tourists every year, their culture has so many fans.
Before commenting asking about why they don't just use LLMs, please note that the article specifically calls out that they do, but it's not always a viable solution:

> The agency uses artificial intelligence and a technology known as optical character recognition to extract text from historical documents. But these methods don’t always work, and they aren’t always accurate.

The document at the top is likely an especially easy document to read precisely because it's meant to be the hook to get people to sign up and get started. It isn't going to be representative of the full breadth of documents that the National Archives want people to go through.
Yeah. Cloud providers are the worst. Their egress costs moved from "expensive but not unreasonable" circa 2010, to "what the fuck" territory now.

A 10G port should be in the range of $2k per month, I believe? I don't mind paying that much.
> It is the number 1 app in my country right now, because of the TikTok ban.

This is like the Mastodon spike when Elon bought Twitter. It doesn't mean anything.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to prove that a few thousand images (out of over 5 billion in the case of that particular data set) had any meaningful effect on the final model capabilities.
> No trade with nations that trade with China.

You do realize that many countries are going to do the math and pick China right? You would basically be cutting us off from at least half of the world, and underground trade would flourish to china’s benefit. Russia and North Korea don’t really make anything we need (well, Russian titanium is nice), but more important, they don’t provide much value to other countries (Russian oil and gas, and that’s it). But China? Ya, good luck with that.
RedNote may wall off "TikTok refugees" from Chinese users
Yeah, I watched the video the other day and when I saw the phrase “world’s largest car carrier” I instantly thought of the photo of all of the Chinese tanks loaded onto a RORO. And this ship is even bigger? Hmmmmm…
Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.
I am also interested because I would love to explore it.
You missed the next sentence.

> [...] immune to flooding because they allocate the ground floor to parking.
I would challenge you to find a picture of text that you think a human can read and OCR cannot. I’m happy to demonstrate. The text shown in this article is trivial.
Oh, ok then.
And yet Polymarket has the ban probability at 84%. If it's not going anywhere, you stand to become a very wealthy individual.
Good point. Same with guild navigators - the whole point of the bickering is spice and the whole point of spice is navigation. I get the DV's less-is-more aesthetic but these were deep and exciting subjects that weren't explored much.
This does not exist.
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The Australian War Memorial has a volunteer program for transcribing old letters and diaries and such: https://transcribe.awm.gov.au/

I gave it a go but it was too hard for me! I write in cursive but I found most of it illegible.
I've seen people do that, and the results are.. just sad. These modern models insert their twitter-era "what grabs attention must be true" view into the very little authentic past we still possess.
Yeah this is a weird one where their m.o. on privacy/security are at odds with their first amendment side of things...sounds like the latter won out. I also disagree with them on this. This isn't something like net neutrality. It's one of many privately-owned social media platforms and one such with deeply privacy-invasive software that has adversarial foreign ties against the US.
I got “North America”
Undoubtedly this is related to the incorporation of generative ai responses in search results. Compute requirements to create that little answer box have to be astronomical, so this is the way they can shed bot traffic to keep their costs down and avoid… providing training data for rival llms?

Ironic then that the only way llms were trained were through mass scraping of web content through those same bots ……
UI is most common interface but not particularly AI friendly, i'll wait for more standardized interface that's both human and AI friendly. Hoping it will still br a browser based.
Between the 3D printed weapons and the AI CSAM, this year is already shaping up to be wild in terms of misuses of technology. I suppose that’s one downside of adoption.
> This is all very cool so I’m not trying to be dismissive. In a lot of ways, giving a hobby out as a way to participate in the national archives is an end in itself.

> But…computers can definitely do this way better, right?

No.

Cursive writing is analog and fluid, lacking consistency across authors and often inconsistent by an individual author as well. When done well, it could be classified as its own art form. When done poorly, it can resemble the path walked by a chicken on meth.
The archivists themselves say that they run into such texts often enough that this program was needed:

> The agency uses artificial intelligence and a technology known as optical character recognition to extract text from historical documents. But these methods don’t always work, and they aren’t always accurate.

They are absolutely aware of the advances in these tools, so if they say they're not completely there yet I believe them. One likely reason is that the models probably have less 1800s-era cursive in their training set than they do modern cursive.

It's likely that with more human-tagged data they could improve on the state of the art for OCR, but it's pretty arrogant to doubt the agency in charge of this sort of thing when they say the tech isn't there yet.
I use the one that I built https://saner.ai/

I still use pen and paper if I want to visualize or brainstorm something (really helpful)

I use my app + Excel for project management + one sec to reduce social media time

Break things down is ok, but not necessary

Half of my notes originate from the web
Anyone looking to do 3D modeling in Python should absolutely check out PyVista.
I think it's one of Iain M. Banks' "Outside Context Problems", a problem that governments cannot even see (other than as a labour shortage), let alone understand its causes or what to do about it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
It was snarky and ridiculous, yes. But then, so is the implication that subways aren't sufficiently safe due to emotional appeals to incidents that happen a single-digit number of times a year versus the millions of riders every day.

Getting rid of cars entirely may not be practical, but it is objectively true that many more people are killed and injured in car accidents in the same area over any particular length of time you could name compared to subway crime. What is the objective reason why subways are "scary" but cars aren't?

For that matter, what is the objective source for such statements as that stations are "getting dangerous enough" or that "people are avoiding them"? Is any of that backed up by actual crime statistics or ridership numbers, or just sensationalized headlines?
Yep, and these days ribbon cables are rare, instead we have Flexible Flat Cables or Flexible Printed Circuits. Ribbon cables are the old cables like IDE hard drives used, with insulation displacement connectors, while FFCs and FPCs are much thinner and use integral connection schemes (tinned pads on the cable itself get clamped by some sort of connector on a PCB).
Specifically, this ruling does not make that kind of content illegal. This person was convicted under federal obscenity statues, which are....fuzzy to say the least. As Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart said, it's a "i know it when i see it" thing.

Which in effect is basically a "you can go to jail if we think you're too gross" law.
OK, fair enough, but can you find one in this article that's hard for an LLM? The gnarliest one I saw, 4o handled instantly, and I went back and looked carefully at the image and the text and I'm sold.

Like if this is a crowdsourcing project, why not do a first pass with an LLM and present users with both the image and the best-effort LLM pass?

Later

I signed up, went to the current missions, and they all seem to post post-1900 and all typeset. They're blurry, but 4o cuts through them like a hot knife through butter.
I've been trying every state of the art OCR solution on my students' handwritten essays for fifteen years and have yet to find anything even close to acceptable.
Me too, and I used to be proud of my handwriting back in the 90's. Definitely a loss in self-expression.
Framing it in that way is essentially a get out of jail free card - anyone caught with CSAM can claim it was AI generated by a "clean" model, and how would the prosecution ever be able to prove that it wasn't?

I get where you are coming from but it doesn't seem actionable in any way that doesn't effectively legalize CSAM possession, so I think courts will have no choice but to put the burden of proof on the accused. If you play with fire then you'd better have the receipts.
Can't speak for the original commenter, but I would not concede that, because experiencing semaglutide has convinced me it's not true. The feeling I can now clearly recognize as something like "food addiction" disappeared uniformly for everything from Brussels sprouts to donuts.
SpaceX is a boon to NASA. NASA does great work but as they are a government entity they move at a slower pace.
It is hard to love the notion that banning a third party’s app is infringing upon my own right to free speech. If it were a ban on the Internet then that seems to make more sense. It’s analogous to a ban on paper, pens, or bullhorns. I can be sympathetic to the idea that, for some people, one particular proprietary app is their main tool for expression, even if that’s hardly ideal.

A ban on routers made by a specific foreign company — when the government knows full well the Internet can’t work without them — feels like a more likely scenario. When Huawei equipment bans were in the news, were there similar First Amendment arguments about that, too?
>The only sense in which banning one is anti-democratic is that it's selectively applied to tiktok instead of to all such platforms.

This logic applies to all media publications, not just internet platforms in the United States. When people say "anti-democratic" in the US I'm pretty certain they take it to mean "the government interfering in the speech of a private entity", not failing to uphold the principle of "1 tweet, 1 impression".

Every newspaper, television station, blog post, what have you consists of a small minority of people both creating and selling reach in unequal ways. If it is anti-democratic and therefore presumably not tolerated for a small minority to exercise or sell speech, then that's just equivalent to saying no private media enterprise should exist.

Needlessly to say the only person who can make this claim with a straight face is Noam Chomsky because he's been saying that about everyone for 50 years, but this is obviously not a position held by anyone currently trying to ban TikTok
> the big problem is that you have a social network to which millions of your citizens are connected and used daily, which is under the control of a foreign adversary; it's a bit like if CBS was owned by the CCP

You mean... like the rest of the world countries are. Look, you make a point here, but the only solution here is to completely cut-off the internet and for the government to run a single TV channel akin to Korea.

The US has been tirelessly working to "infiltrate" other countries media and influence them. That was heralded as "bringing freedom". How the times have changed.
Not OSS but I have developed a tool for modeling racks and much more.

https://schematix.com/video/racks
Breaking it down: The magic of multipart file uploads
> There are conceivable reasons why they may be telling a half truth here. Just engaging the public is a worthy goal here.

Asserting an ulterior motive without supporting proof is to engage in conspiracy theories.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.[0]

0 - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/12/just-a-cigar/
> This will likely involve installing some overhead infrastructure and trays that let you route fiber cables from the edge of your cage to each of your racks, and to route cables between racks

Perhaps I am reading this wrong, as you appear to be fiber heavy and do have space on the ladder rack for copper, but if you are commingling the two, be careful. A possible future iteration, would consider a smaller panduit fiberunner setup + a wire rack.

Co-mingling copper and fiber, especially through the large spill-overs works until it doesn't.

Depending on how adaptive you need to be with technology changes, you may run into this in a few years.

4x6 encourages a lot of people putting extra cable up in those runners, and sharing a spout with cat-6, cx-#, PDU serial, etc... will almost always end badly for some chunk of fiber. After those outages it also encourages people to 'upgrade in place'. When you are walking to your cage look at older cages, notice the loops sticking out of the tops of the trays and some switches that look like porcupines because someone caused an outage and old cables are left in place.

Congrats on your new cage.
Because the 1a protections are not very strong despite the foundational myths, and neither do the judges value this right highly, it is often trumped by "security", so this isn't a major erosion.
Sure there’s a Spanish word for shard though?
Actually I think in 2025 you are correct, we just haven’t got the best tech into the OCR software that’s out there in the real world. I just pasted the letter from the article into ChatGPT (4o) and asked “what does this old letter say?” The response:

—-

The following is the declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary War in North America.

The said James Lambert on this day personally appeared in the Probate Court of the County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana and at the November Term of said Court (1841), it being a court of record established by the laws of Indiana and made oath that:

On the 25th day of March 1842 he will be eighty-five years old; that he was born in the State of Maryland; that he is now a resident of said county and has been for the 27 years last past; that he has lived in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania…

—-
Adding: commenter @schoen's above comment is making me second guess myself on this. I'm pretty torn.
Handwriting is a skill, you get better with practice!

A lot of bad handwriting stems from using it to write down things quickly (see: https://imgur.com/doctors-strike-5ANma ).

If you instead focus on doing slow calligraphy, your handwriting can improve rapidly.
This is exactly the simplistic framing the person you replied to is talking about. So let's take an absurd extreme. The government designates a 1x1 mile "free speech zone" in the middle of Wyoming and says you're not allowed to speak anywhere else. You have the same amount of free speech as you did before, right?

Another extreme, let's say the government declared that you may speak freely but only by filling out a web form routed to Dave. Great guy. I mean they haven't technically taken away your right to speak? And someone will hear what you say.

Both of these would he flagrant violations of 1A as I'm sure you'd agree. But what this means is that implicit to 1A the government has limits on how many places it can deny you speech and limits on how much they can deny you an audience. And you can't hide behind the "well it's just divestiture not a ban" because the courts aren't blind to POSIWID.

So the more nuanced question is does banning TikTok meaningfully affect the ability of Americans to speak. And I think because of how large they are you could answer yes to this question. Americans know exactly what they're signing up for with their TT accounts and want to post there. TikTok but owned by an American would be legal so the platform itself isn't the issue. And saying TT can't operate in the US and actively preventing Americans from accessing it are two very different actions.
Per my experience with cloud, the most powerful Infra abstraction that AWS offers is actually EC2. The simplicity of getting a cluster of machines up and running with all the metadata readily available via APIs is just liberating. And it just works: the network is easy to configure, the ASGs are flexible enough to customize, and the autoscaling offers strong primitives for advanced scaling.

Amazingly, few companies who run their own DCs could build anything comparable to EC2, even at a smaller scale. When I worked in those companies, I sorely missed EC2. I was wondering if there's any robust enough open-source alternatives to EC2's control-plane software to manage baremetals and offer VMs on top them. That'll be awesome for companies that build their own DCs.
Current LLMs can absolutely do this as well as you can, probably better.
These same government departments can never upgrade when there is a known issue. Even when the fix is delivered.
>Laying out cable internet is FAR cheaper than satellite internet can ever be, especially in rural areas

considering the US has earmarked hundred of millions of dollars to expand rural internet with nothing to show for it-- I don't know how true this is.
Restatement of Moravec's Paradox[1].

> Moravec's paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated in the 1980s by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky, and others. Moravec wrote in 1988: "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox