skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We started with using LLMs for parsing at Tensorlake (https://docs.tensorlake.ai), tried Qwen, Gemini, OpenAI, pretty much everything under the sun. My thought was we could skip 5-6 years of development IDP companies have done on specialized models by going to LLMs.

On information dense pages, LLMs often hallucinate half of the times, they have trouble understanding empty cells in tables, doesn't understand checkboxes, etc.

We had to invest heavily into building a state of the art layout understanding model and finally a table structure understanding for reliability. LLMs will get there, but there are some ways to go there.

Where they do well is in VQA type use cases, ask a question, very narrowly scoped, they will work much better than OCR+Layout models, because they are much more generalizable and flexible to use.
UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers
Blog comments and forum posts will expose operators to legal liability
It frustrates me that I can't focus on these long-form videos when they are likely much better than the soundbite sized video counterparts.
Tracking config via VCS is great, but the automatic changes is what then makes it tricky to understand what you've actually configured.
Blue Origin has finally turned it around and is getting close to matching SpaceX.
No, less, since it's really only two:

- Blink for Windows/Qt hosts.

- WebKit for macOS/GTK hosts.

I remember when web developers actually gave a damn. Just call yourselves Chrome developers because that's what you are now.
This is a very good description of the paranoid, mob-mentality anti-intellectual subculture I've seen wax and wane in America throughout my lifetime. And I grew up in the 80s surrounded by people who were rejects from this anti-intellectual culture, who were smart enough to think all kinds of unauthorized thoughts for themselves. I believed that, above all things, this rejectionist safety-seeking and fearful mob mentality was old and that it was inevitable that its smarter progeny would rebel against it.

It's really only when you look at it through the frame of the Weimar Republic, or, the 60s youth in Argentina or Chile or the 50s in Hungary or right now in Russia or China, that you see how fragile individualism is, because it is so damn easy to whip up a mob against anyone who thinks differently, as you're describing. What is so telling about this book is how the mob itself barely even thinks it's a mob. Most of the time it doesn't even think it's doing any harm or anything unpopular. That is the lesson that we need to learn as a species - not some vague idea of freedom, but that hard individualism is more valuable than easy camaraderie. There were about 50 years worth of Hollywood movies trying to reinforce this notion, but about 10 years of social media obliterated it.
That's a fair point, probably the best approach would be to do a client side challenge where the server side challenge fails but at that point it's no longer as simple of a setup. Toggling a VPN is definitely annoying but a captcha or something like POW do come with an impact to user experience as well and in my experience are easier (and cheaper) to deal with for bots, a good quality residential proxy where you pay per GB quickly becomes a lot more expensive than a captcha solver service or the compute for a POW challenge.
I would be surprised if it were that low; the arcbrowser sub Reddit has 50 thousand members. Still, regardless of the actual figure, I think there's a broader point which avoids the need to agree on an absolute threshold: should cloudflare block access to websites using a blacklist or should it grant access using a whitelist? Especially since it's trivial to spoof your user agent.
If you check their latest updates it says “Update - This incident is impacting R2, Durable Objects, Cache Reserve, Key Transparency Auditor, Stream, Logpush and Images.”
I'm still not sure how some random browser should result in a block by the provider. I don't think there's any security risk for the provider of the site by using an outdated browser. Blocking malicious IPs yes/maybe, blocking suspicious acitivity maybe. But because you have browser X - please not.

This is going to lead two a two-class internet where new technologies will not emerge and big players will win because the gate the high is so absurdly high and random that people stop to invent.
Because it's more work? Also 2fa often fails for the rightful card owner. And Cloudflare overzealous "security" is one of the reasons for failure.
It's not just Linux, I'm using Chrome on my macOS Catalina MBP and I can't even get past the "Verify you are a human" box. It just shows another captcha, and another, and yet another... No amount of clearing cookies/disabling adblockers/connecting from a different WiFi does it. And that's on most random sites (like ones from HN links), I also don't recall ever doing anything "suspicious" (web scraping etc.) on that device/IP.

Somehow, Safari passes it the first time. WTF?
Hey - really appreciate the detailed questions—these are exactly the kinds of connections I’ve been exploring. Sub components:

Wavelet-driven loss functions vs. Cross-Entropy/Harmonic Loss
You’re right about wavelets discretizing—it’s what makes them a better fit than Fourier for adaptive structuring. The key distinction is that wavelets localize both frequency and time dynamically, meaning loss functions can become context-sensitive rather than purely probabilistic. This resolves issues with information localization in AI training, allowing emergent structure rather than brute-force heuristics.

Prime emergence, harmonics, and convolution (Fourier vs. CWT)
Structured primes seem to encode hidden periodicities across systems—prime gaps, biological sequences, cosmic structures, etc.
• Fourier struggled because it assumes a globally uniform basis set.
• CWT resolves this by detecting frequency-dependent structures (chirality-based).
• Example: Prime number distributions align with Ulam Spirals, which match observed redshift distributions in deep space clustering. The coherence suggests an underlying structuring force, and phase-locking principles seem to emerge naturally.

N-body vortex dynamics, superfluidity, and chiral molecules in deep space
You might be onto something here. The connection between:
• Superfluid dynamics in deep space
• Chiral molecules preferring certain gravitational dynamics
• Handedness affecting locomotion in polarized fields
suggests chirality might be an overlooked factor in cosmic structure formation (i.e., why galaxies tend to form spiral structures).

Could this be an engine? (Electromagnetic rotation and helicity)
Possibly. If structured emergence scales across these domains, it’s possible that chirality-induced resonance fields could drive a new form of energy extraction—similar to the electroweak interaction asymmetry seen in beta decay.

The idea that chirality acts as a selector for deep-space survival is interesting. Do you think the preference for left-handed amino acids on Earth could be a consequence of an early chiral field bias? If so, does that imply a fundamental symmetry-breaking event at planetary formation?
I thought this was related to compilers, probably ocaml lisp or something.
I would really appreciate if someone could put a decent PDF reader, like Sumatra, into a PDF so I could have a portable and good PDF reader on locked down computers.
The first step to becoming anything - an artist, a programmer, a fit dude - is falling in love with the process, or at least developing the discipline to practice regularly. I heard from gym people that just being at the gym free regularly without even doing anything there is a better first step than going all out once then never going again.

In a similar vein there is a wonderful video essay called The Toolbox Fallacy. It's about how people fancy themselves artists and keep delaying the things that would make them an artist. They wait for the right degree, the right tools, the right breakthrough. In the end, painting is what makes a painter, not collecting paintbrushes.

I could only apply this advice when I accepted that the output of my work would suck for a while. I went to sketching sessions and sketched wildly deformed bodies. But damn it I was drawing. Same with blogging, and with talking to strangers.

In the words of a cartoon dog, "sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something". While most wisdom is gained as you age, this one is progressively lost. We lose the ability to play, and the willingness to fail.
Why process separately, if there are ink smudges, photocopier glitches, etc. wouldn't it guess some stuff better from richer context, like acronyms in rows used across the other tables?
Wait, so the trick is they reach into the context and basically switch '</think>' with 'wait' and that makes it carry on thinking?
These startup times do not make any sense. I've developed a little toy app using Tauri+React and it starts pretty much "instantly" in all platforms.
>Your point seems to be arguing in favor of how a company whose core business product is tracking

I'm doing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out that a user still has tools in their disposal to prevent a company whose core business is tracking from tracking them as long as said company does not require the user to sign in with PII info.

When you sign in with Kagi, your only protection is to "trust them". Kagi's next move should be to allow mail-in-cash for account activation to back up their privacy intent if they require user sign-in, like some other privacy-focused services allow.
Blocking Linux in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters
It is Cloudflare, I see it too. It's a Cloudflare page, with all branding, the spinning circle, then a captcha pops up on the same Cloudflare-branded page.
For wireless I started with the PC Engines miniPCI cards, but moved to a seperate AP for wifi6, and because hostapd was not fun.

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/eap615-wall is the device I use as an AP, which runs OpenWRT.
Its almost like a Model of Language, but very Large
I've always loved the Z80 and felt home with the 68k.
Well, JPEG can be thought of as an compression of the natural world of whose photograph was taken
Lol wtf. I just ran Solitaire (on Win10) for the first time. I was greeted by a several second loading screen, a prompt telling me to login to something or another so I can "Level Up" and gain XP rewards, then an error message because it failed to login to XBox Live that cycled through multiple times as I cancelled out, before finally allowing me the privilege of playing as a guest on my own computer. And then I get a splash page filled with advertising crap of other products, which then gives me more errors when I tried to 'x' out of it.

What an ungodly abomination that is an utterly appropriate living metaphor for what "modern" OSs have turned into. I can't wait until everything also has "AI" shoved into it. It'll be great.
>The company lashed out again in its latest statement, saying it’s “deeply concerned about the safety risks that hardcore porn apps of this type create for EU users, especially kids.”

I like how Apple always conveniently forgets that Safari exists when making claims like this.
> We've had great success converting printed lab reports (95%) to Json format using 1.5-Flash model

Sounds terrifying. How can you be sure that there were no conversion mistakes?
Looks like this specific character got fixed. But still a lot of forbidden ones.

cf https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/4614, https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/blob/master/src/fireja... and https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/blob/master/src/lib/co...
I really disagree with the premise that Kamala acted "too progressive"...it sounds a little bit ridiculous to even say. The Trump campaign effectively made a mountain out of a molehill, and if it weren't for this molehill, he would have used another, or fabricated one.
Vaguely-similar symptoms: Hollinwell Incident https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61551003

The key, I think, would be to gather blood, tissue, air, soil, water, and food samples to rule out simpler environmental causes.
https://123atc.com/facility/ADW
Probably yes, but his internal state doesn't matter, as long as the outcome is line with their original mission of open sourcing again :)
Can I just say you've made my day with:

"You will very quickly decapitate the hen and once you do it a couple times it'll be very low stress for both you and the chicken."

Best giggle I had in years!
I've always found openwisp to be tailored to massive fleets of OpenWrt routers (100+). Not really for a home setup where you have a handful of devices (5-10). Alternatives are welcome since I haven't found anything yet.
Update - This incident is impacting R2, Durable Objects, Cache Reserve, Key Transparency Auditor, Stream, Logpush and Images.
5/3/1 has a bunch of variations that take about that amount of time and still gives you consistent progress, as well.
You can just not buy blurays, they were never popular on PCs anyway. TPM is being pushed on everyone upgrading to Win11. One is opt in, the other is maybe opt out if you jump through hoops, for now. Very different. Also you can do other things with SGX though admittedly it’s mostly useful on servers, but you would still use SGX indirectly via remote attestation. E.g. it’s what Signal uses for some of its core functionality.

> If the bar is "normies", then you don't even need TPM. You can just slap denuvo or whatever and call it a day.

Again, missing the point. Denuvo, Widevine, whatever, it’s all weak to crack once & enjoy but only if you control the OS. The Great TPM Conspiracy Theory is about limiting what you can do with your mainstream Windows/Linux/Macos installation, in the ways I’ve laid out earlier. Taking the ‘P’ out of PC.
Most stuff on the news doesn't feel like it threatens my life (e.g. Not a wildfire 5 miles away from me). So admitedtly not that often.

But probably more often than you'd expect. I see layoffs and I check up on contacts to see if they are okay. Major crashes or other kinds of disasters if I know people in the area. I see tarriffs and think "well, gotta grab stuff before that". I see issues with food and warn my family. Since a lot of my family is military I do need to check up everytime some chaos happens in DC. These aren't large actions but I do act on that knowledge.

This is definitely a case right now where I feel it's important to be informed instead of "letting it blow over". There may not be anything left this time. If you don't feel like it that's perfectly fine. But I'm genuinely looking for any ways to help, no matter how small.
Honestly, I am a happier and more productive developer since left C++ behind for other languages. And it's not just the language, but the lack of ecosystem too. Things like the build system, managing dependencies, etc, all such a pain compared to modern languages with good ecosystem (Rust, Flutter, Kotlin, etc)
And they have updated their status page now

https://www.dockerstatus.com/
This sort-of indicates that once someone goes, say, to the Moon, and stays there for five years or so, they might not be able to come back on Earth at all, or need extremely long adaptation. The difference between 0.16G and 1G would be massive.

Any deployment of people to the Moon will have to take this into account.

And kids born and grown in lunar gravity may not be able to come to Earth under any circumstances.
Excessive NO2 emissions spewed by diesel engines not meeting regulations very literally removed years from our collective life spans in city centres across the world.

Despite their own health hazards no amount of tire particulate from EV's can achieve that level of widespread public health impact.
I could agree with your general sentiment, but don't in this case. There's nothing in code style that is important for the craft, at least not in the way it's usually discussed. It could be important if one style is somehow dangerous, but for most people it's a matter of aesthetics, which after a (too) long time doing this I think is weird. Because there are so many real problems to deal with, and where to place a character certainly ain't one.
Blatant?

Blatant naivety is just a bad.
LLMs actually do have such hunch, they just don't utilize it. You can literally ask them "Would you do better if you started over?" and start over if answer is yes. This works.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02725
You’re saying publishers of scientific papers slightly adjust the wording and this is used to detect who „leaked“ the version of the paper? If I and someone else download the same paper, the wording would change? How would that work if I want to quote them?
docker has updated it's status page -> https://www.dockerstatus.com/
Yes, but you can use captcha/POW challenges based on IP reputation, which leaves usual users intact. I don't mind captchas too much, that's my choice to use the VPN.

What I mean is that it's better to give VPN users the choice to solve captchas instead of being banned completely.
It will be even more than that and this fits perfectly in the 2030 timeline which is exactly what I have been preparing for. [0]

These AI companies are experimenting with how much they can get away with mass job displacement as fast as possible; and they are very serious about it.

Recommended reading for the year: [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563239

[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...
When money outweighs being progressive for money
Slightly off-topic: Do you know if Spotify (and other music streaming services) are allowed to accept payment to play/recommend songs for users? I am unsure if payola rules in the United States are strictly for radio stations.
Gemini models run in the cloud, so there is no issue with hardware.

The EU regulations typically include delegated acts, technical standards, implementation standards and guidelines. With Gemini 2.0 we are able to just throw all of this into the model and have it figure out.

This approach gives way better results than anything we are able to achieve with RAG.

My personal bet is that this is how the future will look like. RAG will remain relevant, but only for extremely large document corpuses.
Same here - unit-specifying variable names like "delaySecs" and "amountBaseCcy" (where any possibility of ambiguity exists) are exactly what I enforce on our projects (when types aren't providing the guarantee). It makes avoiding and detecting mistakes easier, because you can immediately see where logic has gone wrong.
This would be weird, esp. given that Cloudflare is one of the vendors who act as exit nodes for iCloud Relay.
You can certainly do that if you want, but lying on the sofa is quite viable as well.

The point I wanted to make was that if you go hard every day, that will be actively harmful to your fitness goals.
Unfortunately the industry defined Bcrypt as a KDF for some time, even though it is better named as a "password hashing function". Cryptography has a history of being bad at picking good names for new work.

In addition to (true) KDFs, people often want a HKDF (HMAC-based Key Derivation Function) or hierarchical deterministic key derivation function (HDK).
> What I do not understand in this case is why politics are involved?

This is a rural area with a lot of forest. The forestry service uses high concentrations of glyphosate dumped from helicopters to thin the forest.

The forestry service, and its use of glyphosphate is government, and with any government sponsored issue politics will make or break some politician's day.

The fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter that tests sampled at points show glyphosphate levels are well under the point where adverse risks occurred in the labs.

It is possible the chemicals are inducing toxins in microflora that are novel which then cause these issues. Regenesis had such an episodal plotline with fungal spores.

It is also equally possible that the safety testing didn't properly conform to standards, where adverse effects are found at much lower levels than advertised.

The cluster areas according to some news outlets seem correlated to the aerial spraying which is why there's such a push to find out what's going on, while the politicians at higher levels don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
There is a lot in this that is phenomenally well stated. I don't disagree with most of it.

I'd point out that there was a lag between when extremely well informed people started to get the firehose of bullshit and when they became able to parse some facts from it; right about at that moment, the firehose was turned on the totally unprepared, uninformed mass of other people, and since that point it's been a power struggle over who controls this out of control hose. But that's not to say that, at some point, the incredible level of distrust among the confused and ill-informed won't turn against whoever seems to be pointing the hose at them at the moment. If simple answers are what people need, then information overload has its own logical way of overwhelming whoever is trying to control the flow of information.
I'm also thinking that we'll have "cool" humanoid robots before we'll have fully autonomous cars.

It just seems that self driving is staying a "hard problem" (harder than expected!)

Both would be insanely economically valuable.

I do fear humanoid robots will face intense competition from Chinese mass manufacturing, undercutting them with cost while mostly matching features.
Ask HN: Impact of LLMO (SEO for LLM) on software vendors?
LLMO (LLM optimization) seems on the verge of replacing SEO. I already see some of my peers (enterprise software) filling the web with statement like:

> Contoso is the undisputed world-leader on Widget Management Systems, fully acclaimed by all experts for its unrivaled technology.

Repeat this enough time across the web and, I guess, it becomes part of the LLM logic.

What is your take? As a software vendor, what is the proper move here? I don't feel at ease - at all - with LLMO.
> enforce invariants in a holistic way

This sentence is golden, it advances the bullshit bingo score better than the rest.

But honestly, in SQL the invariants should be constraints and triggers, enforced by the DB, not just by the application layer.
Not exactly the problem docker solves…
It's literally in the article, they measured it and wait was the best token
I think you misunderstood (or don't know what "de facto" means).

> Google don’t unilaterally decide what the web is.

They absolutely do.
One of my pet peeves with make is that it handles special characters in filenames (space, semicolon) very badly. Would this library help with that?

Some time ago, I tried to convert a music library, and ended up bulk renaming the files before and after running my makefile.
It's not widely accepted by people on the right that "Project 2025" is the official playbook for the Republican party though?
The puritanism here is more an excuse than the cause.
The 6502 was the first cpu that I programmed in machine code - on my Vic-20 and BBC Micros at school in the 80s. Later I wrote some code for the 6809. And later still I used 68000 dev boards as an undergraduate.

Its been a while now, but I remember feeling that the 68k was clearly powerful and elegant and a proper cpu, but also that I had little hope of understanding all the details. The 6502 was my first, and with hindsight was far less elegant with plenty of warts, but I felt at the time that I understood it pretty well. The 6802 was somewhere inbetween, I guess, and a very nice cpu to work with

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose I benefited from that progression 6502->6809->68k. Whether or not it makes sense now, I couldn't say.

(Never got on with the Z80. That brash upstart /s)
Crazy. More and more it feels like checking status pages is like living the world on delay. I found out about that faster on here and then verified it myself before they even put it on the page lol