skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems entirely consistent that the people most alarmed ... are critics who’ve seen how even less extreme more accountable people have used these roles poorly.

That would make sense if... there had been accountability in the past for the law enforcement and intel folks who abused their power. So far there's been no accountability ever for any of them no matter what they've done. If that continues and the only change is the targets then that will be very bad indeed, but that's not what Trump and friends are saying, and they seem to want to reduce the size of the agencies in question, which will necessarily reduce the number of targets they can acquire, or the extent to which they can persecute them -- unless of course AI makes them much more efficient in the future, say. Not that there's any guarantee that these agencies will ultimately be reduced in size. But if I take what they're saying at face value and they deliver on it, then I think we're looking at an overall improvement.
I think for regulated fields / high impact fields $1/1000 is well-worth the price; if the accuracy is close to 100% this is way better than using people, who are still error-prone
Yes I used the API. They have examples here:

https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/document/

I used base64 encoding of the image of the pdf page. The output was an object that has the markdown, and coordinates for the images:

[OCRPageObject(index=0, markdown='![img-0.jpeg](img-0.jpeg)', images=[OCRImageObject(id='img-0.jpeg', top_left_x=140, top_left_y=65, bottom_right_x=2136, bottom_right_y=1635, image_base64=None)], dimensions=OCRPageDimensions(dpi=200, height=1778, width=2300))] model='mistral-ocr-2503-completion' usage_info=OCRUsageInfo(pages_processed=1, doc_size_bytes=634209)
Both voyagers have golden records on them - a copper disk that is gold-plated that has a bunch of images and messages from earth. Carl Sagan was the lead on picking what was on the disk. It shows some basic math, phoots, and has recordings of people saying hello from across the world in different languages- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-reco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
I think the earlier generations had an hardwarebug that allowed interacting with the software, but that had been fixed since it was reported
Dude you need to go outside and touch grass.

Good luck.
Beep twice to resign.
If your device is confiscated your entire history is in the clear. Forward secrecy doesn't magically solve problems, it's useful if you use ephemeral messages. In DC if there's a window of time where you want messages to not be traceable you just create a new email adress (which is just one click in DC thanks to chatmail) and delete that address after, that's it.
Yeah. I prefer my phallic reminders in the messaging application where they belong, seeing them in the picture album would just be horrifying.
I also emailed Gonzalo Navarro once to ask a question, and we had a great discussion and ended up writing a paper together about the answer. [1]

Another paper of his that I really like combines a few elegant ideas into a simple implementation of bitvector rank/select: https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/ps/sea12.1.pdf

During this time I got really excited about succinct data structures and wrote a Rust library implementing many bitvector types and a wavelet matrix. [2]

My interest came from a data visualization perspective -- I was curious if space-efficient data structures could fundamentally improve the interactive exploration of large datasets on the client side. Happy to chat about that if anyone's curious.

[1] Paper: https://archive.yuri.is/pdfing/weighted_range_quantile_queri... though it's pretty hard to understand without some background context. I've been meaning to write a blog post explaining the core contribution, which is a simple tweak to one of Navarro's textbook data structures.

[2] The rust version is here: https://github.com/yurivish/made-of-bits/tree/main/rust-play... and an earlier pure-JS implementation is here: https://github.com/yurivish/made-of-bits/tree/main
You want Google Search, Google Docs, Chrome, Android, and Google Cloud to all share the same blog? Not to mention lesser-known areas like Google Education and so forth...?
Some people do all that and still work, you probably just need better time management. You could study a language before work in the morning, and then go row for a bit. Then go to work. Then you could play computer games from 5 to 6, play ping pong with kids from 6 to 6:30, eat a dinner, coach kids soccer from 7 to 8, volunteer open source from 8:30 to 9:30, catch a movie at 10.
Driven the R35 in 2020. A lot of fun but definitely felt outdated by then.

It's a shame that Nissan somehow had all the cards right (a working man's super car under $100k) and fumbled so much by just not innovating in the 2010s. Their luxury brand Infiniti suffered as much as well. I don't know what they were doing.
That makes sense, I was surprised to see the RS3 that high on the list.
The output includes images from the input. You can see that on one of the examples where a logo is cropped out of the source and included in the result.
Autonomous Driving Under Extreme Conditions: MOIA Tests ID.Buzz in Oslo
You should really try the thing in question before commenting
As a kid, we didn't have ISDN, but we did have a second phone line dedicated to the modem.

My dad ran a BBS from like 1992 to 1995, which started falling out of favor, especially as the users were getting more busy signals because the modem phone line was tied up with the internet connection.
“When we saw that first system and then you sat there and played with it for a few hours and the battery didn’t move, we thought ‘Oh man, that’s a bug, the battery indicator is broken’”

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/09/m1-macbook-battery-life/
I guess this is what is called the strawman argument?

Pretending I only care about one thing and then pointing out that it is stupid to only care about one thing?
Someone working there has good taste to include a Nizar Qabbani poem.
There are kits to upgrade the mini and studio to max out storage for reasonable prices. I've watched YT videos on the process and it doesn't look too hard.

As for the laptops, probably not feasible.

I will say that unlike laptops/desktops I used to buy before I went Apple, I use them for a really long time. When I ran Windows, I'd upgrade every few years. I had my Mac Pro 2012 for 9 years before upgrading to a Studio. Yes, I maxed out the storage, and it was annoying how expensive, but amortized over 9 years? Not as bad.

EDIT: if I was purchasing a Studio now, I'd likely do the 3rd party upgrade to 8TB (what I saw in a YT video). That's double what my M1 Studio maxed out at.
> "Fastest in its category"

Not one mention of the company that they have partnered with and that is Cerebras AI and that is the reason they have fast inference [0]

Literally no-one here is talking about them and they are about to IPO.

[0] https://cerebras.ai/blog/mistral-le-chat
Posted as a separate submission before reading this one, but the EFFs blog post about it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/simple-phish-bait-eff-...
There is a difference between historical document and "my doctor prescription".

Someone coming here and saying it does not work with my old german hanwriting doesn't say much.
I guess folks won't need to migrate over from HyperDX to clickhouse
I think a lot of people are just opposed to the proposed solutions.

They don't decrease poverty. They increase dependence on the government, and they are funded by money that is taken from you at gun point.
But what's the need exactly for OCR when you have multimodal LLMs that can read the same info and directly answer any questions about it ?

For a VLLM, my understanding is that OCR corresponds to a sub-field of questions, of the type 'read exactly what's written in this document'.
I feel like i can't create an agent with their OCR model yet ? Is it something planned or it's only API?
We've been getting great results with those aswell. But ofcourse there is always some chance of not getting it perfect, specially with different handwritings.

Give it a try, no credit cards needed to try it. If you email me (ali@doctly.ai) i can give you extra free credits for testing.
I wouldn't call the MX-5 a performance car, but it is certainly one of the purest sports cars on the market.
Mathpix is ace. That’s the best results I got so far for scientific papers and reports. It understands the layout of complex documents very well, it’s quite impressive. Equations are perfect, figures extraction works well.

There are a few annoying issues, but overall I am very happy with it.
Foxit PDF exists...
Ask HN: Models for Team Success?
I am taking my first steps as a manager and gathering resources about what makes team successful and combining it with my own experience and thoughts.

I recall a blog post I found via HN that had some properties laid out such as vision, competence, resources, and what happens when any one of these is missing. I've searched far and wide and the closest thing is Hackman's 6 Conditions for Team Success, but it doesn't quite feel exactly the same.

Be interested to know if this rings a bell for anyone and what resources you've found valuable on your journey, manager or otherwise.
> what incentive is there for financial discipline?

there isn't one. Banks need to lend as much cash as possible to make as much money as possible. A gold standard doesn't stop that, it just means that bailing out customers of those banks much much harder. hence why the FTC was setup. Its a rich history and well worth looking into

> I know the US and Europe has for centuries.

Not really, the last "european" style colonial system died in 1989 with the collapse of the USSR. Sure France does the whole "we'll administer your currency for a huge fee", bu that only works because they are ex colonies. Invading another country and turning it into a puppet state is much more costly than people think (see Syria, Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan)

What china is doing is far more clever, far more effective, much less bloody and extremely profitable. just build a road, port, rail line, factory, mine. charge the host country a fee, bish bash bosh, massive growth for the host and china.

> Do you really think trump gets to decide geopolitics?

I mean he's not far away from deposing a president, and he's allowing another country to ethnically cleanse another(Biden did that too). Biden crashed russia's economy, Trump will un-crash it and let it re-arm to invade another country.

That sounds like geopolitics to me.
I was just reading a book that touched on Ancient Rome. The author tried to convey the significance of the Council of Nicaea by comparing it to the furor over Global Warming.

I only mention that to say that the motivations of people in the future will probably seem odd to us and it's possible ours may seem equally odd to them. Not odd in the sense that they are intellectually inscrutable but - like people getting excited over the matters theological - that they're emotionally inscrutable.
Never bet against a cracked team
Oh is it being done by the same genius that built electric cars with no way to get out of the back when the power is out so if there's a fire and you're in the back you'll burn to death?
While I was not able to read the article, my circle of friends seems to agree that (anecdotally, without much science) aging happens in bursts. It is at least how it feels like when you get kidney stones just after a herniated disc, or when you one winter just stop being able to handle the cold.
They will offer integrations into enterprise systems, just like they do today.

Lots of big companies don't like change. The existing document processing companies will just silently start using this sort of service to up their game, and keep their existing relationships.
Very cool and fun project! I am a total dummy when it comes to this kind of hardware stuff and always admire people who do it.

A couple of questions:

* How / where did you get the inspiration for this? To me it's one of those things that seems "obvious" once I see it, but I wouldn't have thought of it on my own first.

* What does that thermal imaging camera "see?" Just heat? Could it detect a person vs. robot vacuum vs. house cat? (relevant for kitchen monitoring especially!)

* From the article, it looks like you're using Python? Are there good libraries available for other ecosystems as well?
Unable to generate returns that attract private investment, they now seek capital that can't walk away

The grift begins.
How the Biggest Crypto Heist in History Went Down
> What would be found here in a thousand years much less a million?

Possibly an advanced civilization that says "No, not ours."
Because the idea of class interest being split along easy to understand lines like billionaires versus everyone else or rich people versus poor people is a fallacy. In the real world your economic interest relies more on exactly how you make your money, in what industry, in what region, what your assets are, etc, etc. A teacher in California might have close economic interests with billionaire group X and a truck driver in Wyoming might have close economic interests in line with billionaire group Y.

Everything else is just propaganda to try and give a compelling narrative to these unintuitive groups. Because what we are actually talking about is essentially a classification problem in highly multi-dimensional space there really isn't a coherent narrative. The only way the propaganda narratives make sense to you is if you have shut down your critical thinking skills. Being confused means you aren't a brainwashed partisan.
First strike detection isn’t limited to early warning radar or ground based systems except in the very early days of the Cold War.

There’s no plausibility deniable way to take these systems down in practice.
Signal is fully open source.
I really dont understand why this article is waxing about long term economic-philospohical trends when the gdp decline is clearly due to tariffs. Like this is not a pattern, its bad government policy that did not have any guarantee of happening.
"A new innovation model emerges where political connections matter more than business fundamentals."

There's nothing new about this business model. It's just shocking that anyone thinks this will produce better results.
https://archive.ph/t8caO
Same concept, to keep things operating.
> There is an OCR page on the link you provided.

I don’t see it either. There might be some caching issue.
No, I think Apple's success with iPhone is because they locked competing products out of all available manufacturing capacity for long enough to corner the market. It just so happens that manufacturing capacity was in China, due to the prior era of PC clone manufacturing by Taiwan-based companies.
Notre-Dame found its voice after fire muffled it
Check out venice.ai

They're pretty up to date with latest models. $20 a month
This is the plot of Saturn's Children by Charlie Stross, except there was no skynet, the humans just preferred it.
It's a Rosevelte scheme. (Some people incorrectly call it a Ponzi scheme)
Exactly this.

Apps and websites get copied all the time. Somebody throws up a duplicate with ads and steals your traffic and search rankings and customers and whatever.

Adding code to prevent your product from working when it's not on the right app/domain, and obfuscating your code to obfuscate those checks, can be sadly necessary. It doesn't need to defeat a determined attacker, but just be hard enough they'll spend their time cloning something else instead.

I speak from experience...
> creating vicious reactionary backlash from its enemies, which eventually stifled liberal thought and societal progress on the continent for two more generations

Yup [1]. If you're a billionaire, you almost certainly win in the aftermath of an American violent revolution à la the French or Russians.

The country would fall into chaos while we hung our academics, minorities and upper middle classes. Then they would jet back in with foreign backing to carve up America's riches while becoming even more blazingly rich than they are under a democracy.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/650418
We have wolves and the occasional bear on our property. They cause problems with chickens and trash cans, not people. They don't want to mess with us any more than we want to be messed with, and they typically keep their distance to the point that we see their tracks, not them.

I wouldn't tell a toddler to go play in the woods, you are correct about that, but the rest of us freely wander nature without fretting too much over it. I also just checked and there have been zero wolf attacks on humans in my state. Ever. We just aren't their preferred targets.
Yes, I guess I'm not seeing it as many of you do because I live in a society with different values.

Curiosly, in Argentina a popular belief is that "nobody became rich by working" and variations. Being rich here is seen as either the result of luck (born rich) or corruption.
Maybe. What's the alternative? Keep the war going indefinitely?
This stood out to me as well, along with this quote:

"“Let’s say a startup with 95% AI-generated code goes out [in the market], and a year or two out, they have 100 million users on that product, does it fall over or not? The first versions of reasoning models are not good at debugging. So you have to go in depth of what’s happening with the product,” he suggested."
Prediction: soon we will see the first vibes based billionaire. They'll have no idea what they did, what their product does, how it works, or any possible ethical implications of having developed it.

But they'll be fucking rich.
The day can’t come fast enough where we just see things like this as trivial misuse of the tool— like using a hammer to drive in a screw. We use the hammer for nails and the screwdriver for screws. We use LLM for exploring data with language, and our brains for reasoning.
Hey funnily enough I searched that exact distro some days ago for someone
Without anyone ever seeing them?
Can you link your wrapper? I've read and run up against a lot of footguns related to Ollama myself and I think surfacing community efforts to do better would be quite useful.
There's a relative of this in making in-memory node representation efficient for large structs that have a bunch of rarely-used fields: chunk up memory in units (most reasonably 8 bytes/pointer size), allocate offsets for rarely-used fields in ascending order, and then use bitmasks to indicate which fields are present. (Note the bits correspond to units, not fields; a 16-byte field would use 2 adjacent bits in the bitmask.)

The trick is that masking & popcount (both low-cycle CPU instructions in most modern CPUs¹) make this quite fast to access and thus suitable for in-memory representation.

The intended use is when presence of optional fields is known at allocation time and doesn't change afterwards, i.e. some object is built up into a dynamically allocated buffer whose size is shrunk down by omitting fields. Changing which fields are present afterwards requires reallocating the thing, which tends to make the entire pattern pointless.

¹ the real annoyance here is that almost all x86_64 CPUs have POPCNT, except the absolute earliest ones, but if you build e.g. some package for a Linux distribution without any CPU optimization flags it'll use a library fallback popcount routine rather than the instruction :(
well, you can imagine that happens to the beaver who instead of building a dam insists on calling meetings and getting approvals... Natural selection so to speak.

In the human population though the natural selection (i.e. whose children are going to be more successful?) seems in the current environment to favor the strategy of hoarding resources to yourself and denying them to the others.
I would recommend all in this thread give "Cheaper, Faster, Better" by Tom Seyer a read.

This book has a liberal air, while I am a fiscal conservative republican (not a "Trumpian" 'flat-earther', nationalist, or handmade tale dreamer - never have been or will be... not all 'Republicans' are the same. These days I generally don't vote republican due to lack of sane options. F'ing painful and horrific).

[Just wanted to provide context for who was making this statement]

Disclosure aside, as anyone with two brain cells can see, the world has been snookered by the oil and gas industry and their kickback Trumpian-like Lackies for decades (old puppets same as the new). Seyer discusses the history of all of these topics, and additional similar ones, raised above fairly well (acid rain, LA smog, UK smog, etc.).

The biggest idea Seyer conveyed to me, that I wish was just a leaflet air-dropped accross the US is that Climate Change activists are preaching to the choir when they state that we need to reverse climate change because it's irreversibly harming the planet. They need to instead focus primarily on the human harm due to extreme weather (towns, societies, crop lands, god forbid ocean front property) that polution/carbon emissions are causing. I couldn't agree more.

It's like you have to point out how it's going to affect 'these people' directly, specifically, in their lifetime, for it to even register.

We are North American Scum. Unfortunately, common sense is a rare commodity these days. The internet gave too many selfish ding dongs a podium to preach to and 'unionize' other selfish ding dongs.

OK, this ding dong is off his podium. Sorry (but do check the bood out)
Great question. Our software is designed to assist, not replace, the physician’s role in making clinical decisions. It accelerates the time between an inbound referral and patient care by extracting and organizing information, but the final review always remains with the physician.

To minimize risk, we implement safeguards to prevent hallucinations, and our system is built to flag potential missing or unclear information rather than override clinical judgment.
Hey! Not yet, it's just a peresonal project, nto sure if going to continue because I learnt that to distribute apps to MacOS and Windows you have to pay to sign the software, which was something I didn't know, so I paused development for a bit.
https://github.com/coekie/flowtracker for Java
No need to be snarky. If it helps someone be more productive then it’s a win, even if they spend 50% scrolling and 50% working.

I haven’t checked the app, but the description says it uses social accountability, focus music and gamification. I’m sure it’s the right combination for some people, even if only for a while (in my experience gamification works only short term).
I remember my brothers friend in rural Portugal having one way satellite Internet back in the 90s to very early 00s - you used a standard dial up for the upstream, but with a satellite dish got much much faster downloads. Blew my mind that you could go out one way and receive another and still get a functioning (and fast) connection.
Yep, exactly what I meant, the moment I send someone else a message, from that point it it basically duplicates itself and I keep my copy (and if I feel like it I can delete my local copy of it), and they get their own. So I shouldn't be able to 'take back' or edit what I now logically think of as their copy of the message!
The grift began a while ago - when "startups" like SpaceX started using EBITBDA to claim profitability on starlink. But the depreciation costs of LEO are substantial, and starlink satellites have an empirical MTBF of ~5.5 years.

And at a depreciation rate of 15-20%, that "D" term starts to get pretty expensive, pretty darn quick.