skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is what you have in mind as far as "mainstream" rigs or architecture, but the FTDX-101D main receiver is a "narrowband SDR" system, as Yaesu describes it. Signal is downconverted through an analog chain including a narrow crystal filter before it reaches the 18 bit A/D+FPGA. And yes, it does perform very well, currently at the top of the "Sherwood" Third-Order Dynamic Range ranking, where it's been for about 5 years now.

If I'm interpreting your view correctly, then I share it: there is a lot of performance to be had with a well designed analog front end, and the specs of the digital parts can be quite modest and still perform extremely well.
Thanks for the really interesting background!

If I may impose further: Can you opine on (or link to something intelligent which you agree with) the health of the browser engine ecosystem?

Obviously you've chosen Chromium/Blink, which I assume was for practical reasons in a fledgling startup. I.e. the relative simplicity of embedding vs Gecko, the at-the-time performance superiority, confidence in upstream maintenance, etc.

I was surprised initially, because obviously you knew Gecko better than anyone. You also know the arguments against a browser engine monoculture.

I'm coming around to the idea that (Blink has won, and) that's not so bad. Because there are so many browsers embedding Blink now (and V8, but no one complains about that!) ... some of which have serious development teams behind them. I remain concerned about a single steward of web standards, but I think that Blink is really good and I hope that there are enough other browsers that rely on it, so if Google were to push Blink in a direction that didn't match the broader goals of the web, that the individual browser teams could fork and maintain it cooperatively.

Is this a pipe dream? Am I bargaining with the reaper?

I've been a Firefox user since before Firefox was Firefox, and Mozilla and Netscape before that. I think I'm abandoning my opinion on the importance of browser engine diversity. Gecko-Quantum has some advantages still, but they're becoming less important -- and more relevantly, they might not matter if Firefox grows increasingly obscure.

(FWIW, every time I try Brave, I bounce off because of the way sidebar/vertical tabs are handled. I need layout density and memory-efficiency. It's been a while though, so I will try again.)
I've always wondered, what happens if there's no organizers and a bunch of people just sorta independently agree to show up together somewhere and tell all their friends by word of mouth? Is the first person who tweeted "Let's all go protest!" held accountable as the organizer, or what?
1Password Can Now Show You Codes and Logins Based on Your Location
> I think good "science communication for the masses" is just a really hard problem.

Not only is it hard, but there are tons of examples of hoaxes that spread like wildfire. The latest I can remember were the room-temperature superconductor papers.
Exactly. More specifically, Internet servers in data centers connected themselves to the IP network, not the phone network (not surprisingly), so they almost always had an uplink significantly faster than 56 Kb/s. And the analog local loop had encodings that could transmit at 56 Kb/s. But these encodings were not compatible with the analog-digital conversion used in phone network backbone.

While today you'd probably expect that the IP network could connect to every phone branch office where the local loops were connected to the phone network, that wasn't necessarily the case - Internet data would usually have to travel some of its way over the phone network backbone, with the problematic digital encodings. V.90 and related standards allowed the phone network to accept the digital data directly from ISPs and send it in digital form to the branch office, without attempting a digital to analog to digital conversion to inject it as digital voice into the phone network. That's why the upload speed couldn't be improved via this method - it would still need to undergo analog-digital conversion to travel across the phone network to the ISP where it could enter the IP network. (V.92, a later standard, improved upload speed to 48 Kb/s via fancier signal processing trickery that could survive the digital voice conversion.)
LLMs Are Too Helpful
> This system seemed practically designed to generate pointer aliasing,

We did not care about that then. Primarily because SMP and threads were simply not a thing. You might also note that any implementation of mmap(2) provides the exact same facility.

> permanently limited the architecture to one megabyte of addressable memory

It limited the generation. The architecture has obviously moved well past that. Now you can complain that though you have 64 bits only 48 are routed out to pins on your board.

> The shenanigans to get DOS machines to use more than 640k (which the application had to share with the OS and drivers!) are stuck in my memory.

hah. Program on a mainframe in 24bit mode sometime. That's a real treat.
Good feedback, will work on saving the user's query before the signing in.
I don't find the arguments convincing, as someone who loves OpenBSD. There's nothing that jumps out to me that say "oh yeah, that's a great idea to switch away from Linux". Many of the negative quotes about Linux, even from Linus himself, were 5+ years old when the post was written (2020).
I am honestly trying to figure out what you are arguing here. GGP didn't say something like "This is what everyone in England sounds like: ..."
Compound harnesses cannabis' pain-relieving properties without side effects
I think the id.2 (25k before incentives, out next year) is supposed to be the replacement for that.
How would this work in practice? Indifferent case worker?
Why not? I've had direct contact with not only my own representatives on the local, national and European level, but also with members who didn't represent me directly but who nonetheless provided open ears to my issues. I have been able to vote for all three since I turned 18, as well as in various other referenda. Where are you, and what is different about your situation that you are denied this?
It’s interesting that none of the existing models can decode a Scrabble board screen shot and give an accurate grid of characters.

I realize it’s not a common business case, came across it testing how well LLMs can solve simple games. On a side note, if you bypass OCR and give models a text layout of a board standard LLMs cannot solve Scrabble boards but the thinking models usually can.
I noticed many programmers don't care about modularity. Some people can handle complexity better than others and don't see the need for it.
Scaling Faire's CI Horizontally with Buildkite and Kubernetes
4o transcribes it perfectly. You can usually root an old Android and write this app in ~2h with LLMs if unfamiliar. The hard part will be maintaining camera lens cleanliness and alignment etc.

The time cost is so low that you should give it a gander. You'll be surprised how fast you can do it. If you just take screenshots every minute it should suffice.
> Apple fighting for their right to sell me another adapter

What adapter is that you read in the article about?
Oh, I dunno. A lot of people were aware of Ruby Ridge and Waco and most of them did not radicalize to the extent of blowing up federal buildings.
While those are concerns, my point was that having everything on the internet navigated to, digested and explained to me sounds unpleasant and overall a drain on my ability to think and reason for myself.

It is specifically how you describe using the tech that provokes a feeling of revulsion to me.
I hope not, because Trump has been bankrupt three times, run multiple companies into the ground, and failed to beat Vanguard index funds when you look at the growth of his wealth. He's objectively terrible at running businesses.

Musk isn't much better and doesn't seem to have ever held a job for more than 6 months at a company he didn't own.
And they recommend Apple instead.
Isn't that what a caricature is supposed to do?

Here we have a caricature which is irritating because it's off the mark. I demand better mockery.
There are no good tech companies and never have been.

If you disagree, please let me know which companies are.
I'd love to try it for my domain (regulation), but $1/1000 pages is significantly more expensive than my current local Docling based setup that already does a great job of processing PDF's for my needs.
why dont you tell us, nazgulsenpai?

I mean why bother resist against a tyrannical government right? sheesh. Relevant username.
Given the fact that multi-modal LLMs are getting so good at OCR these days, is it a shame that we can't do local OCR with high accuracy in the near-term?
They were more "advanced" with the Siri release also, yet today it is barely competitive with the other assistant.

Apple is very good at marketing, a lot less at delivering actual value, especially if it's not about hardware.
I have done OCR on leases. It’s hard. You have to be accurate and they all have bespoke formatting.

It would almost be easier to switch everyone to a common format and spell out important entities (names, numbers) multiple times similar to how cheques do.

The utility of the system really depends on the makeup of that last 5%. If problematic documents are consistently predictable, it’s possible to do a second pass with humans. But if they’re random, then you have to do every doc with humans and it doesn’t save you any time.
Wan2.1: Generate Videos with an API
I suspect you don't have much hope; the US didn't even get the id.3 (the Golf equivalent) AFAIK.
I get the idea but I don't think it addresses the issue. There has to be a function that a) checks if instance exists b) checks if instance state is what I want (e.g. it has 8 GB ram) c) if not it updates the instance. Ideally it also locks environment while doing this to prevent race conditions. It can be written but seems to be quite cumbersome. Complexity of this code and also time it takes to run it what concerns me most.

I guess this is why terraform state is there. IMHO state is IaaC biggest weakness because you have to keep it consistent with actual cloud state. If we can just query state from the cloud and make it performant + be able to automatically (or just fast enough) select resources to be update it would be ideal.
A cenote is an inland tidal pool connected to the ocean. Mostly found along the Riviera Maya in Mexico.
Most UK homes are built with brick or stone outer walls, and a big problem for heat insulation will be those walls. So that's a hell of a renovation, it's practically just tearing the house down and starting over, which is not a thing.

If you tore the bricks off my home, you'd see a thick layer of insulation, but this place was built in the 21st century and the actual structural loads are internal - floors are cantilevered off the lift shaft in the core while the bricks on the outside are mostly decorative. However if you tried to tear the bricks off my mother's 100+ year old house you'll tear the building down, the loads travel through that brick.

She spends more on utilities in a month than I spend in a year.
Any given model never improves ever

The overall technology may. A new model may be better than an old model

But a model is fixed

That's the difference
This is $1 per 1000 pages.

For comparison, Azure Document Intelligence is $1.5/1000 pages for general OCR and $30/1000 pages for “custom extraction”.
I wonder if this openness will inspire other teams to share more of their infra. Imagine how quickly the field could move if more labs took this approach!
Local LLM Models: Are They Useful?
This approach allows for better accuracy per response since the context is shorter and more precise. "Search and analyze" was the messaging but I get your point. Thanks !
You know this is just making fun of the poor working class? It's offensive.
Two alternatives Atlassian itself suggests have free tier:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management/p...

https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass/pricing
Ask HN: Do you also see only one post per page?
> As it happens, I'm the kind of masochist who uses Sublime Text without any plugins for most of my programming, so I find value in letting people stick to their familiar workflow, even if some might see that workflow as somewhere between 'grossly inferior' and 'literally unusable'.

I definitely think there are upsides to not tweaking your text editor config endlessly, so I understand your point :) What I meant with "vim/emacs" is mostly that sometimes you really want to automate a text editing task, and then it's really convenient to have a programmable text editor. It's also very much a case of [0].

> I'm a bit curious, how well do these tools handle HTML email?

In my case, I use mu4e in emacs to read my mail. Very basic HTML works by default via emacs's native HTML renderer (see, e.g., [1] for old screenshots). That's my preferred solution because I like the keyboard consistency (it's just an emacs buffer) and because there is a command to view the email in an external browser if needed, but it is also possible to render HTML email accurately in emacs by embedding a webkit widget [2]. As for writing, you can write in Org mode format (emacs markdown, if you will) and it gets converted to HTML on send.

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/974/

[1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2015/02/10/eww-now-with-fonts/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/l60p6a/howto_mu4e_an...
> factory launch modes

There is no factory launch mode on R35. That a snow mode that was misused as launch control, that's why nissan yanked warranty.
If you could get whatever you want out of life, right now, with no effort, what would you want exactly?
So system design is still relevant and it's not all ML and math?
Close on performance in a straight line isn't really close on performance.
They just don't like the design and are choosing a condescending way of framing it.
When Unisys tried to cash in on GIF by charging royalties
It's been the standard, incrementally implemented policy of both parties since the 1980s. The Republicans have been worse about it, but the Democrats hands are far from clean here.
I'm downvoting you because your use of language is so annoying, not because I work for Apple.
The reason they do that is because then you can do things like extract envvar values from secrets.
I think it's in the middle.

I travel a lot due to work. Generally the destinations are the same, but a new country is added now and then. When I go there and come back, I also start to get spam in that country's language.

I currently have English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian spam regularly in my mailboxes. They all started after I visited respected countries, and continue since I still visit them semi-regularly.

That E-ZPass spam started right after I returned from US, continued for a year, ceased and didn't return.

Spammers have better targeting tools than we know.
Consider the pervasive narratives those people are reacting to: that people who are wealthy/powerful are better humans. Being poor is often seen as a moral failing, whereas people who are wealthy are attractive, intelligent people. In some cases, "better" is even meant literally, like this well-known, only partly tongue-in-cheek new Yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/rich-people-rea...) or the British class system.

You're only questioning one half of these ideas.
I think that's a one-way analysis excluding the Democrats, who also pivot to these issues.

Democrats have agency as well, and the ability to prioritize bread and butter issues over things like DEI or trans issues. I think their self-image as defenders of the vulnerable binds them to positions that are generally unpopular, and the GOP exploits this.

I think both parties suffer from a form of oppositional defiant disorder, where they have to stake out opposite claims. If one party says the sky is blue, the other has to disagree.
I wonder if the number of people who could recite works from memory has substantially changed: while surely the prevalence of such people decreased, world population ballooned! Today we have people that can recite many digits of pi, for example.
In Argentina leftists newspapers and media are paid by the main populist party (peronism) to promote the anti-rich ideology. Ironically all peronist leaders are super rich.

They want to advance statism, and to keep getting richer by using privileges they have thanks to the State.
"Push" is the right word, because moderating web forums was always a labor of love, and automated trolling/spamming has only gotten easier and more prevalent, not to mention anti-mod culture.

It's just too hard to moderate a space with so little friction, and any friction you add chases away all but the most dedicated users -- and the most dedicated users are often the ones more likely to get entangled in some insane drama and try to burn the whole place to the ground.

It's a difficult problem. I've always wondered what it would actually cost to actually, properly moderate a reasonably sized forum if you paid a professional mod team real wages and gave them proper tools. Probably way more than we would guess.
that's really cool, instead of installing instagram daily - I found it easier to visit instagram.com. It's so bad that you'll only use it for a little bit before you have to close it
ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code
I mean, it's not a million miles away from the eUp, which they produced happily enough for years.
> Why have we stopped trying out better ways to coordinate?

To a large extent because somehow "that serves no purpose", "any alternative is a scam" and "blockchain evil" propaganda have been very effective in an environment where greed has been distracting too many from the damn point.

We need to relearn and establish new ways to run perpetual and huge coordination efforts outside of corporate systems and government without fear or greed as necessary driving forces.

The first step is to start trying ans honestly explore options.
Approving construction at all is a problem. Better a useless carwash ever block than not being able to build what you want.
Data Science Agent in Colab: The future of data analysis
AWS can do it for you with S3 tables.
> Only if the PDFs are unknown or were created by way of a cellphone camera, multifunction office device, etc should you need to reach for OCR.

It's always safer to OCR on every file. Sometimes you'll have a "clean" pdf that has a screenshot of an Excel table. Or a scanned image that has already been OCR'd by a lower quality tool (like the built in Adobe OCR). And if you rely on this you're going to get pretty unpredictable results.

It's way easier (and more standardized) to run OCR on every file, rather than trying to guess at the contents based on the metadata.
Absolute clown show.
This[1] is something I've come across but not had a chance to play with, designed for reading non-smart meters that might work for you. I'm not sure if there's any way to run it on an old phone though.

[1] https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device
They don't even sell the id.3 in the US, so I'd be surprised if they launch this there. It'd be a very niche product.
Is there a teardown link available for what you wrote? If so, that’s interesting.
Some of it disappears but not all, and the Danes are doing well economically. The Spanish, French, etc. not so much.
For about 5 minutes, I could only see one post per page. It seems back to normal now.
I really like the article, but it would benefit from some numbers or complexity estimates to get some intuitive sense of what the cost is.

Am I paying 30% overhead for this particular index or that wavelet matrix? Is it double the memory use? Or is it O(log N)? No idea! "doesn't use much more space" could mean a lot of different things!
Math Academy is really all you need. 30 minutes per day is enough, though more time will mean faster progress.
No, my point is Trump isn't bad because he's "authoritarian". He's bad because he's completely mismanaging the country, and putting oligarchs in charge of the government.

Even for "authoritarian regime", that'd be a horrible way to run a country.

It's not like the democrats aren't full of oligarchs themselves, like the likes of Pelosi.
Co-founder of doctly.ai here (OCR tool)

I love mistral and what they do. I got really excited about this, but a little disappointed after my first few tests.

I tried a complex table that we use as a first test of any new model, and Mistral OCR decided the entire table should just be extracted as an 'image' and returned this markdown:

```
![img-0.jpeg](img-0.jpeg)
```

I'll keep testing, but so far, very disappointing :(

This document I try is the entire reason we created Doctly to begin with. We needed an OCR tool for regulatory documents we use and nothing could really give us the right data.

Doctly uses a judge, OCRs a document against multiple LLMs and decides which one to pick. It will continue to run the page until the judge scores above a certain score.

I would have loved to add this into the judge list, but might have to skip it.
New Horizons is the ~~fastest moving outbound craft~~ launched space craft.. though this also gets to direction of travel. There are faster ones - the Parker Solar Probe did 690,000 km/h on closest approach to the sun - that's 0.064 c... but for outbound, you've got the Pioneer 10 and 11 (Voyager 2 overtook Pioneer 10 on July 18, 2023), Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons.

Voyager 1 is 16.9 kps.

Voyager 2 is 15.3 kps.

New Horizons is 13.6 kps

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28Voyager+1%2C+Voyager...

Related https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/

> New Horizons, the spacecraft currently headed out of the Solar System by way of Pluto, is never going to catch up to Voyager—it’s not moving fast enough and it’s headed in the wrong direction. But it could have.

The other problem is that Voyagers were on the Grand Tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program This allowed them to get multiple gravity assists.

Voyager 1 is 2.5e10 km away. Lets pretend that we can launch now and get an outbound velocity twice of New Horizons...

> On January 19, 2006, New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about 16.26 km/s (10.10 mi/s; 58,500 km/h; 36,400 mph). It was the fastest (average speed with respect to Earth) human-made object ever launched from Earth.

So let's do 32 kps. That's 24 years to get to where it is now. At that time, Voyager 1 will be another 13 billion km further away.

---

Ultimately, the problem is that we can't send faster Voyagers because the voyager program used a once in 175 year planetary alignment to go fast.
Most homelessness is also temporary, with around the same range of 80% moving on within a year.

That being the case, the value-added of free housing appears marginal compared to the cost. It would best target those who are a) chronically homeless, but b) neither addicted or mentally unfit to be employed, which sounds like a vanishingly small demographic. Mind you I take "effective" and desired outcome here to mean that they won't continue to roam out in the streets, either to be close to dealers or from being mentally unwell.
Not OP, but it sounds like the kind of project I’d undertake.

Happiness for me is about exploring the problem within constraints and the satisfaction of building the solution. Brittleness is often of less concern than the fun factor.

And some kinds of brittleness can be managed/solved, which adds to the fun.
I am not saying that it can't be done, but I still find it a flawed solution. It probably works if your product is not really popular, but once you have anything remotely interesting and popular you can be sure that people will be analyzing your binaries and leaking your secrets faster that you can replace them.