skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesseract has had a near 100% success rate since the first time I used it in 2008 _when you read the manual_.

Black letters on white background, xheight of between 10 to 30 px, tiff format, mono column layout, etc., etc., etc..

People get terrible results because they treat it like a phone app and drop a barely legible colored jpg of a bent page and wonder why it's garbage.
I got a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1994. I was a researcher for a few years and converted to software in 2000.

The degree turned out to have a lot of transferable skills - especially in researching and solving problems.

Just 25 years later I am a Principal Engineer in the Oz Telco industry writing Rust!

I don't regret the degree for a moment - although when I went through the degree was free, even at a top tier Australian university.
I'd like to try the premium models too, but I've already spent $20 on other services, so I'm a little hesitant. Hopefully, there will be a smaller plan or a trial option.
In April 1933, Germany had JUST had an election with multiple parties.

In December 1917, Russia had just had such an election.

In May 1924, Italy had just had such an election.

In June 1946, Czechoslovakia had just had such an election.

And almost immediately afterwards, each became a single-party dictatorship.
> No physicians needed dying off for handwashing to become mainstream. We just said "Physicians: wash your fuckin hands or you don't get to be physicians anymore." and the problem largely went away.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

I present to you Ignaz Semmelweis, the physician who introduced hand washing.

> Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating.

I wanted to post a comment about how he was ostracized by the community, but turns out, he literally died for handwashing to become mainstream.
Forget money and being rich.

What about a decent stable life where you are not struggling, and actually can start a family before turning, say, 35?

I don't think it can be supported by academia anymore.

I just don't want to go through 5-10 years of PhD, then two postdocs, and then start a job that is by no means tenured.

And PhD isn't really a place for satiating your unfettered, unhinged curiosity. You have to do research along your advisor's line of inquiry, look at funding prospects, churn out papers at a cutthroat pace, and then deal with politics. Also, you can somewhat easily change a job, but cannot switch advisors that easily. Switching institutions is considerably harder.

If you want a FAANG job, you can get that without a PhD. And earn much more by the time your PhD were to be finished if you didn't go for it.

EE and CS are fields where you can do your research on your own if you are genuinely curious. Maybe, you won't have a career as a researcher. But you also won't be with a thinning hairline, single, and far from financial indepence at 33.
I'm not denying what Biden did (or did not do).

I'm noting that there is a qualititive difference in Trump's behavior with respect to this law compared with ... well, anything anyone has been comparing it to.
I don't think they're related, but the name is a very big deal in Islam, albeit with a different (and very interesting) etymology.
I blog with a hex editor so boo
Maybe the professor was training you and didn't care about the value of your undergraduate study, which was almost certainly not worth the professor's time otherwise.
UI is bit clunky. If we had great UI for this app, even if not open source, then lot of athletes and runners will use it.
Discussion (57 points, 2 hours ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044223
Can machine learning accomplish the same? See e.g. Microsoft MatterSim

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mattersim-a-de...
One of those project is the OG — GIMP.
Yes' anecdotally, it's a bit better now. Still nowhere near actually usable OCR software though, unless your use-case is scanning clear hi-res screenshots in conventional fonts and popular langues, without tables or complicated formatting.
Has that happened to you?
That's a very good point. There are certainly more examples of laws that go un-enforced to reinforce your point. For example jaywalking laws are routinely flouted with little enforcement. Likewise buggery laws are routinely ignored by law enforcement.

Along that axis, you are certainly right that it is basically the same as the president unilaterally choosing to exempt a specific multibillion dollar company controlled by a powerful foreign adversary from laws passed by congress with the intent of shoring up national security.

This insight is well received by me and I'm sure others.
> You need to read your comment again as this is just beyond hysterical.

Absurd thing to say, are you really this unfamiliar with other countries, such as Russia? Never heard of Navalny? Don't know that he was an opposition leader? Or that Russia is indeed a single-party dictatorship?
They can take citizenship and vote.

What I've encountered is more and more Q style thinking these past few years. Sometimes outright support of it. Sometimes even pro-Q demonstrators in the middle of town. The worst part is these people talk about it at their workplaces, they talk about it with their friends, they teach it to their kids and spouse. The whole line of thinking is a mindvirus.

It went from happily being detached from American stuff entirely to random locals saying, "You're American, right? What do you think about (bizarre conspiracy theory originating in the US)? It makes a lot of sense to me and I'm glad (politician) will take care of it. We need a guy like that here." When I ask where they're hearing about this, it's often "This American friend of mine tells me about it and he makes a lot of good points."

And this is just the more extreme kind of thinking that's spread. There are various other americanisms creeping in that I wish I could've escaped forever.
I meant you. You broke the site guidelines badly and repeatedly, and we'd asked you more than once to stop doing this.

I did post a moderation reply to the person you were interacting with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302), but they didn't break the guidelines nearly as badly as you did.
It's my understanding that it will remain labeled golfo de México, when viewed in Spanish, much as Germany is called Germany in English, Alemania in Spanish, Deutchland in German, etc…
You still don't get it, and aren't acknowledging the bottom of the slippery slope. You're part of the group I was targeting.

Laws have been shown to now be entirely meaningless, yet you continue to suggest energy should be put into going through the courts.

That's the whole point, this entire action entirely ignores both Congress and SCOTUS, the law doesn't matter.
Do you have experiences with IRBs? IME, most structures and people want to get along and at worst, gain favors and reduce enemies. People are short-sighted sociopaths, usually.
tables: crime_scene, witnesses, interviews, suspects. one of these is not like the others.

I've seen it advised to list table names as plurals as it holds more than one of the things. I've been told plural is dumb. I've not yet run into mixed plurals and singular table names. Sure, it's a style, but pick one???

I'm guessing this is like tabs vs spaces, but would a tab person use spaces randomly or vice versa?

otherwise, it's a fun way to kill some time. clearly, i played with it long enough to notice this little bitty bit of something. however, if only modern police departments had this ability to link clues. there's no way to drip donut cremes or spill coffee on these notes
Unlike the economist I know something about accounting. If there is excess power at zero marginal cost someone cunning is already planning on making some coin off it. As it is utilities with excess solar and wind are rapidly adding battery storage.

I think there are three stages of renewable development. The first stage renewables partly offset traditional suppliers. The second stage is you actually have excess part of the time. And the third stage you have a lot of season excess. China and Texas are in the first stage but California is in the second stage already.
> You also couldn't feasibly do that for derivations that actually build packages, [..] you would have to update all of the affected hashes.

You can actually, changes to stdenv are possible and "just" a lot of work. You will regularly see them between releases or on unstable and they cause mass rebuilds. This doesn't just affect a compiler but also all stdenv tooling as these changes tend to cause rebuilds across nixpkgs. This would be verifiable but it obviously multiples the amount of compute spent.

Hint: If you look at PRs for nixpkgs you will notice labels indicating the required amounts of rebuilds, e. G., rebuild-darwin:1-10. See for example https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/377186 with the rebuild-darwin:5001+ label.
If you read the actual bug thread with the back and forth, they weren't to the point the fedora contact was pretty hostile about their use of a slightly old QT version and was adamant about keeping it in place. The fixes only happened within hours after the trademark/copyright request presumably because that went to legal and legal WTF'd at the whole situation and their maintainer's handling of the situation and magically it got fixed almost immediately thereafter.
$2.50 for 10 eggs? Not getting that reference.
This seems quite ironic to say when the whole drama started with Christoph not even looking at the patches long enough to see what directory they were in before rejecting them.
Like so many things, it depends. You have to consider risk, to the data, to the user experience, to the other work going on. Changing some text or a button, adding a new report, sure, push to master and deploy. Low risk. Other kinds of changes might corrupt the database, confuse users, expose the application to a security vulnerability, or bring the business to a halt.

As another commenter said you can roll back a bad deployment, but that only matters if the bad deployment didn’t break things. You can pull a knife out of your leg but that doesn’t roll back the damage.

Thinking in absolutes, calling a cautious workflow “cancer,” doesn’t help developers make good decisions. For a change that might cause significant or irreparable damage I want a feature branch, a pull request, and reviews.
This isn't wrong per se, but rather, it lacks concrete recommendations for what should be done differently.

I would love to see Linux thoroughly and meaningfully tested. For some parts it's just... hard. (If anyone wants to get their start writing kernel code, have a crack at writing some self-tests for a component that looks complicated. The relevant maintainer will probably be excited to see literally anyone writing tests.)

For this particular bug, the cheapest spot to catch the issue would have been code review. In a normal code base, the next cheapest would have been unit testing, though, in this situation, that may not have caught it given that the underlying bug required someone to break the contract of a function (one part of Linux broke the contract of another. Why did it not BUG_ON for that...).

Eliminating the class of issue required fairly invasive forms of introspection on VMs running a custom module. Sure, we did that... eventually.

Finding it originally required stumbling on a distro of Linux that accidentally manifested the corruption visibly (about once per 50ish 30 minute integration test runs, which is pretty frequently in the scheme of corruption bugs).
> Don't tell me what to do.

Breathe.
If only we had some way to predict when these bursts would appear. But, I guess it would probably depend on a lot of factors, and it might be hard to guess how they all influence each other…
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Will explore
Hindsight is 20/20, but what's scarier to me is the approval ratings[0]

There's still apparently 40% of the population that approves of this behavior. staggering 72% of republicans still approve of this behavior.

This did spike his approval ratings, but such an utter breach in the government really should be much closer to democrat's 10% here instead of the normally middling behavior of "bad" president's 40%. There's stll way too many people approving of this. For reference, Nixon's ratings right before resigning was 24%.

[0]: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/2/dfp_trump_a...

(Page 2)
Just to clarify, Trump didn't win young people, he just performed better than expected. In fact, the youth vote was his weakest demographic.

https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#youth-vote-+4-for-har...
Code availability
The codes used in this study were not available to the public.

Eyeroll
Apple is breaking the law. Clearly defined by Congress, and upheld by the Supreme Court. Just because the president said "Yeah no worries".

I feel like this is a huge risk for Apple. The president can change his mind, you can have a new president, Congress or the supreme court could decide they actually wanted that law enforced.

Also, If it comes out that sensitive data was exfiltrated from the US via tiktok, or whatever natsec concern saw it banned realizes, then Apple's position is suddenly even worse because the president can say "Apples clearly breaking the law! Lets throw the book at them".

I don't understand the risk/reward calculations Apple did that came up with this decision.
This isn't a politics forum, but abolishing USAID without congress was also insane. I don't care if you dislike something USAID does or did, it would require congress to legally abolish it.

And a few other things, that's just a prominent example.

Congress is pretty much ignoring this. Both parties.
What Musk is doing with DOGE parallels what the Chicago school consultants did in Russia under Yeltsin during the 90s. It didn't go well.
Would be interesting to know if dragonflies get red eyes when you take a picture of them with flash. Human eyes reflect some of the red light from the white flash, making it look like the pupil is red instead of black.
That sounds really unlikely. Is there some that is more dense?
GOP is definitely looking to the Orban approach as their guiding methodology for e.g. Project 2025.
Went to RedNote. Never looked back. I hear TikTok now censors a lot more than it used to.
I strongly doubt those immigrants are causing any of that, rather than the enormous online reach of Tate et. al alt-right along with Russia-backed campaigns, and now Musk over the last decade. Those have left a large impact even in countries with zero American immigrants to speak of. That's a much more likely cause.
> while the majority of Social Sciences doctoral students are from a lower SE class

I am speaking solely from anecdotes, but Social Science grad students generally have a Rabbi from early on their career. That is, they are favorite students, close students to at least one powerful/influential figure in their field. A lot of favoritism and a different kind of nepotism play an important part Social Sciences academia.

And to be successful in Social Sciences academia, you need a "mentor"/"Rabbi", and also be a proponent of a certain kind of politics.
The English Channel is “la manche” from France and probably Belgium.
Still. Looks petty.

Can’t wait for the “red white and blue land” to replace Greenland
Why did that comment need a new account?
> holy crap that’s a lot of metal shavings.. like multiple 55gal trash cans’ worth

I don’t think so. A 55gal Tran can full of metal shavings is probably several hundred lbs. 2 dozen kilograms is only about 53lbs.
Good. The law banning TikTok is unconstitutional.
Don't have to hope - https://sociology.plus/glossary/circulation-of-elites/
or https://ds4sd.github.io/docling/ from IBM.
> The term has also been used against Elon Musk by critics of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The term is predicated on government doing the right thing (and the persuasive private interest doing the wrong thing). History furnishes thousands of examples. In Musk's case it's the opposite. He's helping prevent government doing the wrong thing: unnecessarily burdening productive endeavour (e.g. internet, rockets, tunnels, electric vehicles) and interesting work (e.g. science and exploration) through overregulation, as well as wasting tax payer money.

In this moment many people dislike Elon. But history will give a clearer picture of whether their dislike was for legitimate reasons (like the alleged 'state capture'), or less legitimate reasons (like the recent US election outcome, or clickbaity news stories).
This is more accurate. The productive fraction of professors still follow the Pareto principle or 80/20 rule. And even then, these professors aggregate into the elite institutions making it even more skewed.

To get an academic position, you need to have a star advisor either for your degree or postdoc.
The feds? The ones he quickly fired and rehired in his image? The feds?

Sad part is people will forget about that too, even though they are currently cheering on "government efficiency".
Didn't SCOTUS already rule on it 9-0?
It is a shame that the OpenOffice name can’t be applied to LibreOffice. OpenOffice was a much better name, imo.
> Afghanistan withdrawal was Trump's plan

Yes and Trump safely reduced troops down to 6000 out with no deaths for years.

But then, Biden pulled out of Bagram Airfield Base, leaving billions in weapons for the terrorists.

Then had Al Qaeda run security for the local airfield, so naturally there was a bombing that killed 300 people including 13 marines.

Not to mention the people falling of the airplanes because it was so chaotic and uncontrolled.

It's good to pull out of Afghanistan, Trump was right to do so. But Biden fucked it all up.
True, one of the pointers in the comments was that people don't want to host their own servers so was suggesting an alternative to that.
IME they're really not all that dense. When chips come off a lathe or mill cutter they are curled and have small serrations in them where the sharp edge cracked as it was curling. So they don't pack well. Each chip takes up a large amount of 3D space and they interlock really easily--they don't slide past each other.
Wow. Setup took 12 GB of my disk. First impression: nice UI, but no idea what to do with it or how to create a project. Tells me "session expired" no matter what I try to do. Definitely not batteries-included kind of stuff, will need to explore later.
Some games require reading of the instructions before playing. Not all games are Candyland or Chutes&Ladders simple. Sometimes you need a bit of basic knowledge gathering to play the most basic levels of the game.

There's also plenty of ways to teach. Some methods assume a basic level of the concepts involved, but by continuing, you'll be exposed to new concepts that level up those skillz. Just like how arithmetic comes before algebra comes before trig comes before calculus.
I appreciate the commentary; it provided a helpful overview of the use case.
Alright, this is Hacker news, so I'm gonna nitpick...

> It even would have a special instruction for unpacking UTF-8 characters

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_comput... :

> The term "reduced" in that phrase was intended to describe the fact that the amount of work any single instruction accomplishes is reduced—at most a single data memory cycle—compared to the "complex instructions" of CISC CPUs that may require dozens of data memory cycles in order to execute a single instruction.

I don't think what you're describing is a RISC processor at all.
Either you are confused or maybe I am?

The ‘costly’ bit is referring to when asking for a SELECT statement instead of just receiving the SELECT statement I am given pages of overly verbose flowery text, reminders, and custom generated flow chart diagrams.

My understanding is most of these things charge per token so I am assuming generating more tokens incurs more costs, and I’m saying it’s generating needless tokens that frustrate me, so cui bono these additional costs?

Also more token generation means more energy resources consumed, so it’s burning the planet to frustrate someone it is trying to convince to become a paying customer.

How are these nonsense concerns?

It is unnecessary to persist any settings if I can just click a “just answer the question” checkbox before clicking send on the prompt.
I also think calling it hostile is a little far. I recall Hector making comments of, "yea, even though is not greatly documented, it does things quiet a few things the way I would expect" and I believe even applauded Apple on a few thing. I wanna recall it was specifically around the booting.
it's really impressive.

Phind is the first model I've ever seen that attempts to interact with users in a more user-friendly way.
Discussed at the time:

Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33504206 - Nov 2022 (362 comments)
Sadly, I cannot give you an answer to your question. I understand that I have way too limited understanding what’s possibly happening in Hungary (no clue about the actual corruption levels, election laws or, honestly, anything except that it’s said to be not in a good shape), so my opinion cannot possibly be an educated one. I’m sorry.

Either way, Hungary and US are certainly different enough so even similar things could work out differently in the end.
Isn't that the reversed method? You mean you're now trying to solve the crime the normal way instead of jumping to the last page of the book first?
that's not correct

several dozen is not several hundred

1 dozen = 12

55 us liquid gallons =
208,198 litres

the densities of metals are higher than that of

water ca 1 kg/l
aluminum ca 2.7 kg/l
steels and iron 7.5-8.5 kg/l
brass 8.5-9 kg/l
gold almost 20kg/l

several dozen kg is half a 55gal worth, maybe one...

EDIT for shavings:

https://www.mollet.de/info/schuettdichte-und-schuettgewicht....

iron and steel chips / shavings still are about 2 kg/l

aluminum is 200g / l

so one 55gal trash bin of aluminum shards is still about 40 something kg, four dozen.

thus for aluminum and aluminum only I stand corrected, it may be multiple trash bins.
> why not bite the bullet and write it in C

Are they doing things the way they're doing it just to get it done, or are they doing it because they feel it's the right way to do things and they want to get it done right?

If the former, then fair question. If the latter, then you answered your own question at the start of that sentence.

> Don’t let that work go to waste.

Which is what would happen if they gave up and wrote it in C if they're goal is not just to get it done, but to get it done right.

Doesn't mean there aren't better/alternative ways to do things. Doesn't mean it's not worth asking if a lang other than rust may be better for certain/all parts of this (And yes, that includes C). But it also doesn't mean their hard work is going to waste just because the work is hard.
lol, this reminds me of the point (heh) of philips screws - the screw will cam out (strip) to prevent over-torquing of the screw.

Now it will just strip and then drill out the screw itself.

personally I go the OTHER way - I like to use a decent clutch setting and better exact driver <-> fastener connection

like: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N2KJY77

or torx / star / allen depending

closest I've gotten to multi-use driver bit is the flip phillips <-> flat double-ended bit and similar (just so I can carry one driver around sometimes)