skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel. I enjoy driving any form of automatic less. If it has a powerband (eg, not an EV), I want to be in control of that powerband, and I want to be physically shifting because I enjoy the tactile sensation. FWIW, I own an EV as well as a car (SUV) with a conventional auto. It's just not my _preference_, particularly in a performance car.

Every paddle shift car I've driven (single clutch, dual clutch, conventional automatic), I just leave in auto mode. I don't find the paddles fun or engaging at all. I play with them for a few minutes, then let it do its automatic thing. I'm perplexed by people who use the paddles 95%+ of the time. If it's a superfluous action, I just stop doing it. (and then find myself annoyed it's in the wrong gear!)

I didn't say I refused to drive the R35, I just wouldn't buy one. I'd enjoy the _hell_ out of driving one.
His followers might have serious health conditions and might be grasping for straws. You can't blame them, really. Better to address the source of overstated claims.

Also, if someone tells lies then even if there is only a small fraction of people who believe them, then the law of large numbers on the internet says that these lies will get amplified.
would be glad to see benchmarking results
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250305165359/https://www.busin...
Also helps to not pay teachers for the summer semester.
Show HN: Better auto-formatting for Markdown and plaintext
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/seven_segments/

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ocr-on-camera-image-fo...

https://www.google.com/search?q=home+assistant+ocr+integrati...

https://www.google.com/search?q=esphome+ocr+sensor

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/07/an-esp-will-read-your-meter-...

...start digging around and you'll likely find something. HA has integrations which can support writing to InfluxDB (local for sure, and you can probably configure it for a remote influxdb).

You're looking at 1xRaspberry PI, 1xUSB Webcam, 1x"Power Management / humidity management / waterproof electrical box" to stuff it into, and then either YOLO and DIY to shoot over to your influxdb, or set up a Home Assistant and "attach" your frankenbox as some sort of "sensor" or "integration" which spits out metrics and yadayada...
Wanted to try it but could not get past verification to create an account.
I've been watching some renovations in the UK, which I find really interesting, but I forgot that most homes are built out of brick and "tearing them down to the studs" really isn't possible. I guess the same is true with concrete (rather than brick) homes in Southern China (or why my mother-in law doesn't have heat in the winter and why it is so bloody cold to visit). They deal with that though by using things like Kotatsus, which I don't think westerners would find very appealing.
At one of my old jobs, the bathroom was locked with a 4 digit code followed by the key symbol.
We jokingly made up "Bathroom Code" as an interview question/to nerd snipe each other instead of working, which was "assuming you don't have to press key, and that the bathroom door will unlock if the correct 4 digits are entered in order at any time, write the code to print the shortest possible test sequence to guarantee you entry". Obviously we didn't give this to any candidates but it's amusing to think that the problem is a lot more interesting than we gave it credit for.
Since homelessness is mostly transient in general, I'm skeptical of the claim to effectiveness, since it's likely that a large portion of a sample would move on within a year anyway.
I hope it went well! I am in my fifties and enrolled in a master degree program for pure mathematics about 2 years ago (I don't need the degree, so I"m just taking all the classes they offer, so not about to graduate). It definitely took some time to get my brain sharper, but I am better each semester.

I hope people don't take away the negative side of the article, brain slows down, but the positive side: brain gets better with usage. Its uncomfortable, I can churn out programs as complex as programs I've already written and go to review meetings and planning meetings without much effort. But being able to solve PDEs reasonably quickly and accurately, I cannot, or have not without a great deal of practise. It's unconfortable in some weird mental but physical sense. But I'm sharper in everything else I do.

One interesting thing about software as career followed by math classes is that there's no compiler - you can type any janky thought into LaTeX and if you don't detect that it's bogus, nothing will, until you show it to a professor.

Also, the information density of maths notation is way higher than (good) code. We want code to be readable by some that doesn't know it; a lot of math seems to be readable when you sort of 80% already are familiar with all the prereqs. So no just skimming and then hitting compile/test/run (whatever validation you do). It's typing letter by letter and taking the mental effort to actually see and decipher the letter (at least, for me in my current stage; I'm trying to do novel research, but my demonstrated understanding of the details of the previous research is embarrassing low).

Also, weirdly, I still have the same fear of professors that I did as a young person. I manage it better with my decades of maturity (really) but it is still a part of my social interactions.
Not at all. ChatGPT can't even reliably do arithmetic.
You mean the room sized super computer than sold tens of units?
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Running Teams and Such on Firefox
The costs of better coordination -- defecting from the status quo -- varies from moderate to lethal. It's not free. There are a lot of people working on coordination though.
Doesn't Syncthing work on Apple machines?
Really, the article is about why you should adopt open source software over "corporate source" software. Viewed in that light, it makes sense that large corporations tend to prefer "corporate source" software, whereas smaller organizations and hobbyists should lean toward open source software.
Thanks for posting this, I favorited it - having carved out a weird niche in my career as an "infra" guy, inevitably I deal with a lot of IAC. I run into this attitude a lot by devs - they are indeed annoyed by managing infrastructure, because it innately is not like software! I know I'm reiterating what you said but it is so important to understand this.

Here is a thing I run into a lot:

"Our infra is brittle and becoming a chore to manage, and is becoming a huge risk. We need IAC!" (At this point, I don't think it's a bad idea to reach for this)

But then -

"We need to manage all our IAC practices like dev ones, because this is code, so we will use software engineering practices!"

Now I don't entirely disagree with the above statement, but I have caveats. I try to treat my IAC like "software" as much as I can, but as you pointed out, this can break down. Example: managing large terraform repositories that touch tons of things across an organization can become a real pain with managing state + automation + normal CI/CD practices. I can push a terraform PR, get approved, but I won't actually know whether what I did was valid until you try to push it live. As opposed to software, where you can be reasonably confident that the code is going to mostly work how you intend before you deploy it. Often in infra, the only way to know is to try/apply it. Rollback procedures are entirely different, etc.

It also breaks down as others have noted trying to use terraform to manage dynamic resources that aren't supposed to be immutable (like Kubernetes). I still do it, but it's loaded with foot guns I wouldn't recommend to someone that hasn't spent years doing this kind of thing.
I bought one of the first 2012’s available in the US. Flew out to St. Louis to pick it up.

It was a very cool car. Drew way too much attention for my taste. And it was very unrefined in many ways that I didn’t expect.

It was a special car, but I ended up not liking it that much. I sold it after about 6 months.

Maybe once a year I have a very vivid dream about it. Kind of sad to hear this is the end of the line for it.
flatpak creates more issues than it solves for me personally
Financial success, undoubtedly. Successful at distancing users from the systems that underpin their interactions, certainly. As far as granting users more agency over their digital existence, it has been an abject failure, a state consistently exacerbated by the number of tech communities that could easily exist on IRC or a custom platform.

It really hurts when a con is so solid that even the 'enlightened' are ensnared.
The image in the upper-right of the Fandom link was how it was posted in the 4chan thread, little disappointing it's left out of most posts about it.

The character is actually from Steins;Gate, not The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: https://steins-gate.fandom.com/wiki/Kurisu_Makise
Yeah, people care a lot about convenience and ease of use.
This is pretty close to my position.

If they are trying to close in on the intelligence and police state because it's not vicious enough against folks they don't like (which includes me and a lot of folks I care about) then a "new and improved" CIA / FBI isn't a "good" thing.

I generally hate the US gov for it's history of doing objectively evil things (I pass by a former "residential school" every time I drive into town), but replacing it with something even more vicious and authoritarian doesn't improve the situation.
I have an Android phone. I could afford an iPhone, I don't care about folding screens, and my laptop is a MacBook Pro. I have an Android phone (1) because a substantial fraction of what I do on my phone is browsing the web, and Android lets me run Firefox which has markedly better ad-blocking, (2) because the phone I had before this one was an Android phone (mostly for reason 1, as it happens, but that's not particularly important here) and switching is inconvenient, and (3) because one of the reasons why I could easily afford an iPhone if I wanted one is that I have always preferred not to spend money for which I don't get substantial benefit, and it doesn't look to me as if iPhones are so much better than Android phones as to be worth paying a premium for.

This may be partly because I'm not in the US; my impression is that "people who can afford iPhones buy iPhones so if you don't you're impoverished or weird" is much more a thing in the US than in Europe.)

(I also thought "struggling to obtain new market share" was a weird take, and ditto "just look like old and slow phones". I am not disagreeing with that part of what you posted.)
Users usually typically flag advocacy/rallying posts on HN, especially if they make the frontpage. It doesn't have to do with the specific cause being advocated. It's because they're off topic on HN since they don't primarily appeal to intellectual curiosity. We also tend to ban such sites, for the same reason.

This has been the case for many years, and it isn't a judgment on either the site or the cause—it's just about the scope of this forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Ones Who Stay and Fight
That would actually be really useful
I prefer NA but I can have a lot of joy with a proper turbo or two, or a supercharger. There’s a big difference between a turbo used to pass emissions standards and one installed for fun
Streaming Replication Internals for PostgreSQL High Availability
Streamoku makes app deployment super easy, even for non-coders—one click and you're good to go!
Garbage in, garbage out?
Haven't spent much time outside of the West have you?

If you had, you would know that this practice is not West specific. Heck, spend more than a day in any African or Asian nation and they'll tell you all about how the rich and powerful are the root cause of all their problems.

I'm thinking it's human nature. Looked at from the perspective of human nature, it does kind of make sense. That's why politicians on the left and the right tend to say, "Look at that rich guy! He's the problem!" They just point at different rich guys and gals. They do so because it works to win them power.
> In a video titled “Vibe Coding Is the Future,” Friedman, along with YC CEO Garry Tan, managing partner Harj Taggar, and general partner Diana Hu, discussed the trend of using natural language and instincts to create code.

how many YC-backed startups (in general, not just the current batch) have products based in some way on LLM code-generation?

it seems like there's a significant chance for a conflict of interest here, where YC has an incentive to build up hype about LLM-generated codebases in order to benefit their overall portfolio.

will we see a follow-up story several months or a year from now, comparing how these startups have fared relative to the other 3/4ths of the batch? if one of them is a success, probably. if all of them fizzle out...maybe not.
> actually they always intended to have generics

There was a time when generics were not even on the table. I'm pretty sure I remember an old talk by Rob Pike where he says that much.

People can change their mind as they learn more about the problem space; that should be tolerable.
May I ask as a layperson, how would you about using this to OCR multiple hundreds of pages?
I tried the chat but it pretty much stops after the 2nd page.
Sure, this is technically correct, but somewhere there's a line of practicality. Running off a CPU (especially with swap) will be past that line.

Otherwise, you don't even need a computer. Pen and paper is plenty.

For all practical purposes, VRAM is a limiting factor.
Came here to see if you all had run a benchmark on it yet :)
A success in terms of popularity, in terms of creating something that regular users enjoy and find value in using.

> It really hurts when a con is so solid that even the 'enlightened' are ensnared.

It's exactly this sort of sneering attitude that so often causes FOSS projects to fail to catch on in the mainstream.

The framing isn't "people like this feature set", it's "people got conned". For a certain type of user, they must see others' preferences as beneath them, as lesser.
We could debate, but when things go out of control, they go out of control fast. Talking about this example specifically, this is Bangladesh. It’s been less than a year when the country stood up against the government, the PM had to flee to save her life and despite the military initially try and squash the protests, gave up very quickly. At the end of the day, they are normal people with families too.

What are a few factory owners going to do against thousands of workers who are completely fed up? They are losing their jobs any way, what is stopping them from burning the factory down? This is a country where violence is not unheard of.
> It's spooky to know that it will outlive Earth and likely be the last remaining physical evidence that humans were ever here.

Although eventually a rather obscure form of evidence as it'll gradually become a melted blob of constituent materials from cosmic rays.
> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

-- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

I've been living by this my entire career without ever having read this book. I just snagged it. I really do believe that our primary job is to write code that people can understand and I justify it with a 2 axis analysis: code is either correct or incorrect, and comprehensible or incomprehensible. Code that is correct doesn't require any attention and isn't worth considering. All the code we care about is incorrect, then, and so it's either comprehensible (and therefore fixable) or it's not. Given those facts, and the understanding that code rot and AC changes cause all code to become incorrect over time, my primary job is to write code that other developers can understand so that when it becomes incorrect they can do something about it.
Yes! I got it from the US government department which regulates encryption:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

I can use more than 56-bit DES :)
Excited to test this our on our side as well. We recently built an OCR benchmarking framework specifically for VLMs[1][2], so we'll do a test run today.

From our last benchmark run, some of these numbers from Mistral seem a little bit optimistic. Side by side of a few models:

model | omni | mistral |

gemini | 86% | 89% |

azure | 85% | 89% |

gpt-4o | 75% | 89% |

google | 68% | 83% |

Currently adding the Mistral API and we'll get results out today!

[1] https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark

[2] https://huggingface.co/datasets/getomni-ai/ocr-benchmark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(spacecraft)

> FOCAL (an acronym for Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens) is a proposed space telescope that would use the Sun as a gravity lens.

> ...

> In order to use the Sun as a gravity lens, it would be necessary to send the telescope to a minimum distance of 550 astronomical units away from the Sun, enabling very high signal amplifications: for example, at the 203 GHz wavelength, amplification of 1.3 x 10e15. Maccone suggests that this should be enough to obtain detailed images of the surfaces of extrasolar planets.

> ...

> FOCAL does not require any non-existing technology; however, it has various limitations. A space mission of this duration and distance has never been attempted; for comparison, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes are at distances of 147 AU and 122 AU in 2019.

While it's beyond our current engineering, its not impractically more. It's a program that would span generations between launch and data collection.
I'm using gemini to solve textual CAPTCHA with some good results (better than untrained OCR).

I will give this a shot
We were stuck at 26400 until 2001, when DOCSIS reached the area. I recall hearing speculation that a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_gain was the cause.

Around 2000, I saw a crew pulling new phone lines through the neighborhood because everybody was getting a second line and they were running out, but even after switching to the new copper, we were still stuck at 26400. 20+ years later, it looks like 25/5 ADSL is now available at that address, so the new copper wasn't a complete waste.
I didn't think that at all. In fact I found it very readable and prefer it over the drier presentation you linked. To each its own, I guess, but there's really no need to infer ulterior motives.
I would posit that learning how the device works, and how to integrate with a newer digital monitoring device would be just as interesting and less brittle.
Maybe someday they will. But the current run of LLMs are fantastic at regurgitating and synthesizing existing knowledge, and getting better all the time, but not so good at coming up with new ideas. As long as you keep to the realm of what is known, they can seem incredibly intelligent, but as soon as you cross that boundary there's a clear change - often to just meaningless bullshit. So, I personally don't think we're going to be outsourcing idea generation to LLMs (or AI in general) anytime soon. Though to be fair, I'm only about 75% confident in that, and even so, it doesn't mean they won't be hugely transformative anyway.
I love it, but that's a lot of promises without any actual hardware being shown.
> Maybe the best solution is to ban politicians from trading individual stocks, only broad market indexes / mutual funds.

I think that still has issues. Requiring blind trusts seems safer.

There is another problem, which is family members. If you ban the politician, but allow their spouse, kids, etc to trade freely then you didn't actual solve any problems.
Double jeopardy was abolished in England and Wales almost twenty years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4406129.stm
Extract data from PDFs and images using Gemini
A simple tool to extract data from PDFs and images using Google's gemini-2.0-flash-001 model.
Are you referring to Jevon's Paradox[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> No, my point is Trump isn't bad because he's "authoritarian".

But, you're wrong, he is wrong for that reason.

> He's bad because he's completely mismanaging the country

He's also wrong for that reason, which is also not completely unrelated to the former reason.

> and putting oligarchs in charge of the government.

And for thet reason, which is mostly a rephrasing and slightly more specific form of the first reason.

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

Actually, its pretty typical of authoritarian regimes to (1) have a narrow elite (oligarchs) making decisions with no effective accountability for their own benefit, and (2) for this to, from any other perspective but the immediate perceived self-interest of those decision-makers to be complete mismanagement. (It’s also pretty typical for it to be mismanagement from any reasonable view of the elites actual interests, and paranoia driven by fear of being displaced either by outsiders or other members of the elite leads to suboptimal elite decision-making, because authoritarianism does not support conflict resolution processes that enable trust, and makes losing intra-elite disputes very high stakes.)
The only reason Meta is able to persist is because relatively well off software engineers keep working there. Vote with your feet Meta employees.
The LAT article says:

"In the future, credit card purchases will be recorded as cash advances rather than credit card purchases."

This implies there was some period of time where those purchases weren't considered cash advances.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42064637 (Nov 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852627 (July 2024)
Sounds a bit like constructive interference between two sound sources that are almost the same frequency but not.

Or RC “ringing”. That click stopping the sound makes me curious to see a plot of bytes per second sent and received. Is the modem resetting itself every time it clicks and introducing a small pause or data loss? Or is it completely divorced from the sound.

These modems don’t have fans built in right? If you isolate the speaker does it still make the noise?
What I mean is we have issues with racial/ethnic/religious tolerance in the United States, and it's impossible to divorce politics from it. When it comes to social programs, the lines of support of/opposition to policy can be drawn pretty cleanly around identity.

We can't "solve" social problems with welfare unless we "solve" the problem of identity, where we can't even agree whether its the role of government to provide (or just fund!) services if there's a large group of people who believe such support is an attack on their ethnic identity, or something they have a religious opposition to.