skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m seeing this trend in many parts of the country - efforts to remove public participation. In Washington state, democrats have been trying to get rid of voter initiatives for example. And they recently removed open debate in the legislature, so there’s no public dissent. And more. Parties pick and choose when they like democracy and free speech.
The USA used to fight proxy vs proxy against Russia. Now we have a chance for us to fight through a proxy against Russia itself. This is a huge geopolitical opportunity to diminish or even destroy an enemy with low risk to the US itself.

The whole liberal-democratic world should be all-in on Ukraine assistance.

Instead, Trump just made it clear that the optimal time for PRC v ROC round 2 is within the next 3 year 10 months.
Nah AGI is supposed to know that 9.9 > 9.11

That's a pretty fundamental level of base reasoning that any truly general intelligence would require. To be general it needs to apply to our world, not to our pseudo-linguistic reinterpretation of the world.
I'd rather avoid the trap. I use the 3 major CSPs, so I would prefer to use cross-platform tooling.

Per the parent:

>That’s how clouds try to lock you in, by making you use a custom tool that is different for the sake of being different.

> If you use standard tools you don’t have this problem.
Dang please let me filter politics
Tested it with the following documents:

* Loan application form: It picks up checkboxes and handwriting. But it missed a lot of form fields. Not sure why?

* Edsger W. Dijkstra’s handwritten notes(from Texas univ archive) - Parsing is good.*

* Badly(misaligned) scanned bill - Parsing is good. Observation: there is a name field, but it produced a synonymous name instead of the name in the bill — hallucination??

* Investment fund factsheet - It could parse the bar charts and tables, but it whimsically excluded many vital data points from the document.

* Investment fund factsheet, complex tables - Bad extraction, could not extract merged tables and again whimsical elimination of rows and columns.

Anyone curious, try LLMWhisperer[1] for OCR. It doesn't use LLMs, so no hallucination side effects. It also preserves the layout of the input document for more context and clarity.

There's also Docling[2], which is handy for converting tables from PDFs into markdown. While it uses Tesseract/EasyOCR under the hood, which can sometimes make the OCR results a bit less accurate

[1] - https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/
[2] - https://github.com/DS4SD/docling
I do.

But anecdotal evidence isn't worth much.
AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies Are Organized
Do you have a link?

If the individual resides in Australia, how do they utilize the $980k sitting in the foreign company?

The company can buy assets in AU, such as a house, and lease it to the individual, but I'm pretty sure the ATO requires they pay the company rent at market rate, which will likely be unaffordable on a reported income of 20K pa.
I made the same decision earlier today. Migrating to Orion as we speak... It's frustrating because I've used Firefox since 2006 and have stuck by them and defended their decisions for decades. I still won't touch anything chrome-based, but Mozilla has sold out their customers and I cannot deal with that.
This is normal turn out.

Anyway voting is not about recording a talley for every 18+ year old human with a pulse. It’s citizens selecting a leader and policy from their community. Getting your people out to vote is part of the event.
> You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

You don't need a license for data you never see. When I use Firefox to type a comment on HN, that comment goes from me to HN. It doesn't go to Mozilla. Mozilla does not need a license. (And no, Firefox doesn't need a license either, because licenses are granted to people and organizations, not software.)

The only possible reason for Mozilla to need a license to the data I type into Firefox is if Mozilla intends to have Firefox send that data to them.
> On the other hand, Europe does not care about China. It has no interests in the Pacific. In the absence of mutually beneficial alliances with powers that oppose China, Europe would rather see China as a (somewhat unpleasant) trading partner than an adversary. If China is not a threat and the US is not an ally, it doesn't matter much which of them is the dominant power in the Pacific.

China keeps getting blockaded left and right when trying to establish shorter routes with the EU, and there's a reason for this. The EU and China both want to just live in peace and are natural trading partners — the main obstacle being distance, blockades, and unfriendly territories in between.
Does anyone even believe OpenAI's out of GPUs? Altman will say anything to put an "I meant to do that" spin on this.
Maybe he accidentally said the wrong President, you know what it’s like getting old.

Fuck, do I miss John McCain. This is definitely the darkest timeline.
My experience too, I could never find anything even if I know it's there, and I was told by my boss to use it. I stand there for a half hour, credit card in hand, then go to AWS where the equivalent can be located by mortals. It's like they don't want anyone's business.
I think this happened a few times, but given there are many S3 clients, they can’t keep doing thiat or there will be a backlash.

Although perhaps it’s about time we made a proper standard based on S3, yeah.
Game theory would like to have a word. If I'm Putin and I know you will not defend your country if threatened, what's to stop me from annexing it? And then the whole world? After all, we don't want people to die in wars. It's much better for them to die in concentration camps.
That would be good if I could acquire resources in the first place. Even Oracle Cloud makes more sense (if you've ever heard of it)
Oops, realized too late that I deleted a sentence by accident; I gave the GPU to my younger brother.
But take something like quantum computing… even “conventional” computing has gotten to a point where there are a vanishingly small number of companies that can do anything with it.

ASML is the only company that can do EUV lithography, right? NVDA and AMD are the only game in town for high performance graphics cards.

So how many people are going to be able to move quantum computing forward? Theory, hardware, investment, etc.

Same with, say, supersonic and hypersonic flight. Only 2-3 governments have been able to build them.

It’s a combination of mostly money but also the talent. Only google has got as far as they did with autonomous driving.

Although a counterpoint to my above point would be autonomous driving. Seeing the number of teams that succeeded the first time in the DARPA grand challenge vs years later, shows that a whole ecosystem was able to build up with the right encouragement.

So maybe I’m also going back and forth on this one like you. :-)
With the absolute absurdity the residency process, and the focus entirely on new doctors just after that residency, I have to wonder how much of this just corresponds to whoever's lucky enough to be the kind of high-powered mutant who can survive multiple years of 80- to 100-hour week schedules designed by a man who was high on cocaine and morphine 24/7 (seriously, look it up, it's true). There are going to be a lot of people who need an extended sabattical to recover from that before they'll be effective at anything at all, which makes any kind of baseline of test scores really suspect to me.
Medicine is now absurdly complex, it's far more than a person can possibly learn especially if trying to be up to date with modern research. The more you can memorise correctly and pattern match the better. Many patients are failed in the current system, most not fatally but their lives are damaged and it's not uncommon for more complex diseases to have 90% of sufferers never getting a diagnosis until they die from the disease.

Something has to change drastically in how medicine is organised because it's not working in its current iteration as the difficulty goes up and up.
> Selling browsers was tried, back in the 90s. They lost to free, when the audience was much more limited. Trying to sell a browser now is an even weaker proposition to most users.

So was search.

Look at Kagi now.
The good & the bad is that Japan could go nuclear very very fast because everything to make it is there, and given their (sometimes funny) "this aircraft carrier is actually a helicopter carrier for self-defense" kinda stance on defense, I wouldn't be surprised if half of the effort have already been secretly done.

The other good/bad is that the population is very, very, very against any nuclear weapon armament and even holding an army, even Shinzo Abe could only do an "reintrepertation of article 9" because he was aware of this. Public opinion might change with Trump + Taiwan/Korea incident though.
Both of your examples are cloud services, not software run locally on users' own hardware. If they intend the license to be limited to cloud services like Firefox Sync, then they should say so.
Ukraine isn’t Europe. Ukraine doesn’t have euros , gold, grain or minerals (out of the ground). And the men have been killed , so they don’t have any way to get that to pay for the weapons
While I think that resigning is stupid here, asserting that "punishment doesn't deter crime" is just absurd. It does!
I mean, Facebook did this so they could run research studies and AI on the data, not so they could publish it. You can give yourself the rights to publish something online for the purpose of running the service and give others the right to view it for personal use without giving yourself a full copyright license to do whatever you want with it.
Maritime power vs continental power [0]. Trump sees the world from a continental power viewpoint. In the recent past the West used to see, and operate, the world from maritime power point of view. Incidentally, China used to think like a maritime power as well - until Xi became president.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8mCThmsGc
I build websites for fun and delegate large portions of it to LLMs. Doesn't make it less fun.
> thousand bucks to a cause that considers you to be sub-human

Please explain when Brendan Eich said anything about anyone being subhuman.

> The harm is taking a position opposed to basic rights of people who work for you

Did you read my comments? The bill won the election. People you work with supported it.

> you're probably not the target of this sort of thing so you don't care.

Don’t make personal accusations, you know nothing about me.
Edit: Well, that's embarrassing. I hadn't realized that the link is to a new 2024 study on IM board scores and patient outcomes. My post is in regards to a 2023 study on USMLE scores and patient outcomes that was pretty widely discussed.

Healthcare worker here. Sheriffofsodium did a great video poking holes at this study: https://youtu.be/JKS9Y-nCnKs?si=VPsUNSoepltbg4Hu

It's 45 minutes so I don't expect people to watch it, but he makes several important points, including:

- This study was performed by USMLE insiders, the only ones with access to this private data. USMLE does not share this data publicly so it's impossible to verify.

- As the USMLE makes millions of dollars from these exams, they have a clear conflict of interest.

- The differences in patient outcome are AT BEST of marginal clinical significance, which the authors of the study even state in the paper.

There is better scientific evidence that female surgeons have better patient outcomes on average: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37647075/
I think there's something missing if you just write to yourself and it doesn't get read. The Amazon style meetings need to happen more. https://x.com/EdwardTufte/status/1735612294820733170
Tucker got so destroyed that he went onto make 10s of millions a year at Fox, for years, and now he gets to interview fascist skull measurers all day on Twitter.
how does that work with agriculture or other land uses that don't build? do those people get taxed higher because they don't build?
Asking: Okay, clearly there are a lot of
people here with lots of experience
running their software on cloud services
from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc.
Good.

But what about a solo founder running
their Web site on a "full tower" computer
they plugged together themselves?

So, why use a cloud server farm with its
expense and complexity?

Or, get a mother board, a processor with
16 cores and a 4+ GHz clock, 128 GB of
main memory, some rotating and/or solid
state disks for a total of 20 TB or so,
some external disks for backup, a recent
copy of Windows Server, applications
software from .NET, and a 1 Gbps Internet
connection?? The computer -- tower case,
power supply, motherboard, processor,
disk, solid state disks, and Windows
Server -- costs ~$3000?

So, a 1 Gbps Internet connection, ~$100 a
month, would have capacity of, say, 100
MBps. If sending a Web page with 200 KB,
then the peak capacity would be

100 MBps / 200 KB = 500 pages/second.

Then 500 pages a second with 5 ads per
page with revenue of, say, $2 per thousand
ads sent (CPM), that would be

500 * 5 * 2 / 1000 = $5/second

at peak capacity or maybe an average of
half that for $2.50/second.

Then at 16 hours a day that would be
revenue of

2.50 * 60 * 16 * 30 = $72,000/month

For the electric power, at 200 W and
$0.10/KWh, that would be

200 * 24 * 30 * 0.10 / 1000 = $14.40/month

How many users?

With peak capacity of 500 pages a second
and average of half that, 250 pages a
second, for 16 hours a day, that would be

250 * 60 * 16 * 30 = 7,200,000

pages a month. If on average send 5 pages
per user, that would be

7,200,000 / 5 = 1,440,000

users per month.

If users come on average 2 times a week
that would be 8 times a month or

1,440,000 / 8 = 180,000 users

from one tower case and some Web page
software.

So, why use a cloud server farm with its
expense and complexity?
>China keeps getting blockaded left and right when trying to establish shorter routes with the EU

What does this mean? I honestly cannot imagine.

If you mean naval blockade, which country's navy is doing the blockading?
Both the US and Israel don’t recognize the International Criminal Court, in contrast to the overwhelming majority of democracies worldwide.

I’m not saying they’re not democracies, just that they would be *more democratic* if they would fully comply with the ICC.

This Alliance has standards and actually would stand for concrete values, rather than just strategic convenience.
I can show you a fair bit in Chicago if you want.
This bill is from January 7 and it was in the news and maybe HN at the time, fwiw. I wonder what its current status is.
If you're looking for better accuracy and table layout preservation, give LLMWhisperer and Docling a try! Both keep tables tidy with a Markdown-like structure.
If the US pulls out of NATO, then it's true that Europe has very little reason to support American interests (unless America "pulls out" of NATO by renegotiating a new mutual defense pact, in which case the countries in that treaty obviously will have plenty of reason to support America — similar to how Trump replaced NAFTA with the USMCA in his first term; which is also what Trump has said he wants to do with NATO).

However, that is an "if" statement that has not come to pass.
In everyday speech, coke means cocaine. Coca is short form for coca cola. And cola is the generic for a coca cola flavored soda.

I admittedly used a very rare/specialist example homonym. What I'm really wondering is how context plays into it. If you're ordering drinks in France and an English speaker says they'll have a Coke, does anyone really think they are referring to cocaine? Coke is vernacular slang for cocaine in American English too, but no one confuses this with usage of the brand name to refer to soft drinks (specifically Coca-Cola, or to soft drinks in general, which is a regional thing).
Are you trying to say it’s harder to inherit wealth than it is to be born low income, grind a construction job, and come home to the house your parents bought 40 years ago that homes your grandparents, parents, and your family?
> probably against GitHub's ToS, but

Why would running code on a github action runner that's built to run code be against ToS?

If it was, I'm sure they'd ban the marketplace extensions that make it absolutely trivial to do this: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-ssh
Are you suggesting that railway megaprojects are being done to service communities with no people? I have a hard time finding dense communities with good rail systems.
If you’re planning this, just use a fork of Firefox that does those things. Less setup and you don’t need to update that file whenever they change the domains used for telemetry.
I'm in academia, my understanding is that all statistical methods are AI now.

Search? AI.

Linear regression? AI.
Most banks and larger enterprises do exactly this. Devs don't get to go out and pick random libraries with out a code review and then it's placed on a local repository.

There are just far too many insecure and 'typo' malware to pull off the internet raw.
I have no doubt that is your experience and it's good to hear some people are having good experiences with it.

My main account is fine but I have an account that follows very few other accounts (it's for a product I was building that never really took off) and I just signed in and scrolled until I hit 8 ads. The ads were in this order (completely unedited list... I'm not editorializing here):

- Robinhood

- A very explicit "male enhancement" ad

- A movie ad for a movie I've never heard of until now

- A "bedroom aid" (blue pill)

- A marijuana dispensary

- A scammy looking mobile app

- Another ad for a pill for men who are having trouble in the bedroom

- An affiliate marketing scam

... I stopped scrolling at that point because it felt like enough.
I wouldn't even say it was work quality; the job I had for a good period really set me up for my ultimate full-time job and I mostly liked it. But that ultimate job was a public company and even if not FAANG level comp, set me up pretty well and provided the leverage to make investments that were pretty solid during that very good period.
Thrilled to see someone else using up all their tokens to dive deeply into ontological meaning. I think LLM are even better for this purpose than coding. After all, what is an LLM but an excessively elaborate symbolic order?

My trick for this (works on all models) is to generate a dialogue with 2 distinct philosophical speakers going back and forth with each other, rather than my own ideas being part of the event loop. It's really exposed me to the ideas of philosophers who are less prolific, harder to read, obscure, overshadowed, etc.

My prompt has the chosen figures transported via time machine from 1 year prior to their death to the present era, having months to become fully versed in all manner of modern life.
They will charge you an arm and a leg, and to top it off, Okta (owned by Auth0) was hacked multiple times in the past couple of years.

These hosted solutions are also very tricky (not sure if even possible) if you need to ship your software for companies to host in their own cloud environment.
Medicaid is indeed for persons under the poverty line. Medicare is for people 65 and older. Not that I think they'll stop at Medicaid.
> Why should the U.S. stop aiding Ukraine?

First and foremost, I don’t want war. I don’t want to contribute weapons to send people to die pointlessly.

Second, even if you’re pro war, the United States has crumbling infrastructure, massive debt, and plenty of people who have paid taxes that themselves need help. We are not in a position to be pouring billions of dollars to non citizens at this point in time.

> who mistakenly believed that appeasement (note that “peace” is a root word) would stop Germany from further territorial invasions?

I don’t think you can point to that story and automatically prove that that’s what this is. Sure it’s a great lesson on what to watch for but it’s also a great story line for war hawks.

> do you believe Trump’s and Vance’s behavior was appropriate for their appointed roles (as leaders and heads of state)?

From the perspective of transparency, what more could you ask for? We saw passion for making a peace deal. But peace is not everybody’s priority.

This conflict has not been solved in decades of closed room talks. Why would anybody think that’s the way to keep going?
Some people cannot understand that a country, its people, and its government are all completely separate things. Other people pretend not to understand.

Regardless of which, the person you're replying to has decided to be on the wrong side of history. I will not be shamed into silently supporting genocide in the name of a made-believe invisible man in the sky.
What if I need to hack together a POC for 3 people to look at.

It's my responsibility to make sure when we scale from 3 users to 30k users we take security seriously.

As my old auto shop teacher used to say, if you try to idiot proof something they'll build a better idiot.

Even if Google warns you in big bold print "YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING INSECURE", someone out there is going to click deploy anyway. You're arguing Google disable the deploy button, which I simply disagree with.
I do not see a general strike happening. It'd be great, but us cats are too fat right now. What I mean is that people are living too good on average. I think we are still in the 'crabs in a bucket' phase. So, I think if a general strike was organized, then many people would opt out because of selfish, albeit legitimate reasons, like not wanting to lose their source of income.

I am probably somewhat guilty myself, but I think a lot of people want someone or some group of people to take action on their behalf. Sadly, that is unlikely to happen.
> The amount of emotional messaging to bracket discourse - putin is a murderer, criminal, dictator blah blah - should clue you in on the fact youre being told a stance.

Yes, it’s been good PR on their side, but you specifically said bamboozled. Where are they lying?
And making a browser that's actually financially viable enough to pay for your time and effort without pissing off your user base because of paid features is even worse.

Especially in a crowded market, where we're arguing extensively about a browser that has 2.54% of the market share. Chrome (67%), Safari (18%), Edge (5.2%) [1]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Most of those also have a browser mostly as add-ons, bundling, ecosystem value, or trademark / brand name trojans.

Admittedly, if you're looking to make a browser, there's a lot of various prior attempts that remain in existence, yet have never really received that much attention. [2]

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline...

Personal preference is that somebody would implement a scripting language alternative other than Javascript. Anybody heard of TCL lately? It's supposed to be a browser scripting language alternative according to the w3.org specification [3] Really, almost anything other than Javascript as an alternative. Just for some variety.

[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html
So do you think that if the acceptance rate for high MCAT and GPA are below 100%, then the other bars should be zero? i.e, these are the only admissions criteria that should be considered?
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