skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories by new accounts are not all killed automatically. Your own posts make it clear that you know this.

Some such submissions get killed, mostly for reasons related to spam filters. But there's a huge difference between "some" and "all". I'd appreciate it if you'd stop making dramatic "all" claims about what is very much a "some" situation.

Obviously we have no intention of impeding legit users and legit submissions. Legit new users are what keep HN alive. Why would we cut off our own oxygen? The issue is that it's hard to write spam filters that don't produce any false positives. Perhaps you know how to do that; I don't.

If you want to help, vouching for the false positives (i.e. legit submissions that get killed by mistake) is helpful, as is emailing links to hn@ycombinator.com.
I feel like this is not a very insightful take - you can have an AI generated codebase where every function is generated by prompting from humans - such a codebase could be pretty good indeed.

However, in my experience using these reasoning models to generate giant chunks of code usually has disastrous results and barely even works even when working from a clean sheet.
Good luck! I'm 36 and still hoping to master Digital Signal Processing at some point even though I find the math extremely difficult.
https://archive.ph/2TdaR
It's oddly specific mockery, like Ozzy is England's international representative. I don't know, maybe he is. But I doubt Birmingham even inspired the meme, this is probably a caricature of Dick Van Dyke more than anyone.

To be fair, Brits seem to think New Yorkers go "oi" and they don't really either.
It's axiomatic that debugging is harder than writing code in the first place. Sometimes debugging is said to be twice as hard. Where do you find those 2X debugging programmers? If nobody rises through the ranks, as it were, nobody gets experience debugging.
Does anything handle dual columns well? Despite being the academic standard, it seemingly throws off every generic tool.
Wait does this deal with images?
Sum Types and Subtypes and Unions
Clearing up some common misunderstandings and easy to miss concepts
In another completely hypothetical scenario, if trump offers 10.000USD to each canadian citizen to vote to become the 51st US state, might we end up in a situation in which >50% canadians vote yes? Food for thought.
What features are you talking about? I admin a server of 9k. The new onboarding stuff, automod, opt-in roles?
>everyone to vote on a universal debt cancellation event

Just look at the student loan forgiveness debacle. It seems our population would sooner vote in capital punishment for not paying debt.
well already in 2013 ocr systems used in xerox scanners (turned on by default!) randomly altered numbers, so its not an issue only occuring in llms.
I didn't ace it, but knew immediately what I had done wrong as I rode my bicycle home. I kept checking my linear transformation matrix and the Eigen values didn't compute... Looked again at the TI-89 when I got home and realized I swapped the orientation on the Jordan constants. I wrote all the equations out, so maybe my professor will have mercy on me. Oh well, another case of elevator wit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
They are on the Silver list of Rust Foundation members. I don't know if that's a good thing.

https://rustfoundation.org/members/#silver
The R35 really was a bit of a pioneer in redefining "performance car" from some ultra-light RWD pocket rocket with white-knuckle, ****-puckering, hair-trigger inputs into some big heavy cruiser that your grandmother could comfortably drive around on a track, which is a similar philosophy to how Tesla led the EV revolution for perfomance enthusiasts and dethroned the ICE with the Plaid. Extensive computer-aided assistance and a higher weight, at the time the R35 came out, was bemoaned the same way car enthusiasts bemoan self-driving 9000lb EVs now. It was a bit ahead of it's time! I still remember the jokes about the R35 being the first performance car that came with "driver mod" from the factory :^)
I had the same experience where community college teachers were vastly superior to my university teachers. Vastly.
Sounds like you're just trying to justify poor software development practices. You can have code that is both performant and readable. Programmers once had to write software for machines 100 times weaker than current machines, yet they had no issue creating software more complex than anything we'll ever build.
Appreciating the link!
That New Yorker article is not "partly" tongue in cheek, good grief. Has Reddit broken reading comprehension so badly it needed an /s?
Scientists discover new part of the immune system
Hey now, I love my 1911s!

I don't carry them much, for all the reasons you might imagine: they're big, heavy, and relatively low capacity. They feel great, though.

Realistically I almost always carry a Glock 43. If I were buying a carry pistol today, I'd consider a Sig P365 or a Canik. They're the right balance of capability and convenience.

... but yeah, that particular conclusion was foregone. If nothing else, it feeds the long-running meme of .45 ACP being "God's caliber".
>I'd assume there's a lot of people here who are rich.

You should define what you mean by rich.

Colloquially, when speaking of 'eat the rich' its typically a reference to people with net worths exceeding 25 million or more with substantial cash generating assets there in[0].

Rather than some SWE's making 250-500K a year and perhaps retire with 5-10 million in assets with smart investments over the course of 20-30 years. This gets edged down into 'upper middle class'. Sometimes the term. 'Well off' is used (somewhat nebulously) to refer to people in that bracket.

Of course there are exceptions, but these seem to be the common trends in these discussions.

Therefore, I ask again, what exactly do you mean by rich? Because the most colloquial definition is unlikely to be common anywhere, even on HN

[0]: Whether folks realize it or not, this is approximately where the real difference between 'well off' and truly wealthy start to set in. It differs a bit by state (in the US) and country, but its a decent enough approximation for this conversation.
> After nearly two decades of embarrassing supercars, Nissan has

is this intended to mean "After nearly two decades of making embarrassing supercars, Nissan has" or "After nearly two decades of embarrassing the supercars, Nissan has" ?
Russia 1917 a better example,
I think it was ubiquitous. NPR in the 90s and 2000s used ISDN to allow many of their commentators to work from home. I think where you hear those crazy 8KHz clipped calls is where it's not an option. Mostly these days remote radio and podcast interviews I hear remote participants sound more like they're on mobile phones: variable voice quality with an almost unbearable latency.
Discord servers are not servers.
The Corvette ZR1's 233-MPH run had to start in a virtual world
When I’ve dealt with huge files in .NET, the usual approach is to stream the file such that only some of it is in memory at once. This way you can process files hundreds of GBs. Of course, if you truly need them all in memory at once for some reason I genuinely can’t think of, then you’d need something else.

Does your language have the concept of streaming files?
This is because of car-centric suburbs first infrastructure, not in spite of it.
I'm not trusting my spatial intuition, but shouldn't a theoretical star tracker for solar system use be able to spot the sun and planets and use them for more parallax info?

I assume you would need orbital ephemeris info much like we need for GPS satellites.

But, given measurements of angles to multiple planets, how well could you estimate your position? Would there a lot of error for your normal vector to the earth's ecliptic plane?
Haha for sure. Naming isn't just the hardest problem in computer science, it's always hard. But at some point you just have to pick something and move forward.
I've lived in Denmark. You get a digital mailbox when you move there which is used by every utility and public service to contact you. There was very little paper mail to deal with. That was 10 years ago, so I'm not surprised that by now they'd be cutting letter delivery.
> Two factor authentication, I'm sure you can google it.

The question was rhetorical, they are showing how a passkey is also a form of 2FA.
A one-time debt reset would be a great experiment, but without also resetting who owns the businesses and who doesn't, the same people would eventually be back to the same levels of debt. You need to correct the derivative and the second derivative.
But couldn't they be considered an investment? For possible support (emotional, financial and other) in old age.
Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides
Where did you test it? At the end of the post they say:

> Mistral OCR capabilities are free to try on le Chat

but when asked, Le Chat responds:

> can you do ocr?

> I don't have the capability to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) directly. However, if you have an image with text that you need to extract, you can describe the text or provide details, and I can help you with any information or analysis related to that text. If you need OCR functionality, you might need to use a specialized tool or service designed for that purpose.

Edit: Tried anyway by attaching an image; it said it could do OCR and then output... completely random text that had absolutely nothing to do with the text in the image!... Concerning.

Tried again with a better definition image, output only the first twenty words or so of the page.

Did you try using the API?
It's basically the same license which has AMD's own responsible AI usage policy, which is worded differently, but means the same thing basically.

The only thing you might pick on AMDs one is "no obfuscation" clause which is not controversial at all.

(Yes, I diffed with a self-generated RAIL-MS license).
Sure, but when I hear 50/50, I expect the result will be nearly tied. Like a sports game. 312 electoral college votes versus 226 electoral college votes does not seem like it was a 50/50 game.

Of course, this isn't a linear game where scores are alternating, so my line of thought isn't completely fair.
Adamandai.com: Documenting ChatGPT quotas since they won't
A great question for people wanting to use OCR in business is... Which digits in monetary amounts can you tolerate being incorrect?
I don't think that correlation of number of commits implies causation.
A stream in my community that had been rerouted and straightened in the name of both farming and development was recently restored to a more natural course, including its flood plains. Beavers came back quickly. Most obvious sign, beyond the dams and ponds created, are the signature pointed stumps and felled trees. Some are significant in size, and have actually fallen across trails and roads. They have fenced around some trees bordering roads, and have gone in to do see preventative trimming. Pretty cool.
Hi! I am the author of this post, feel free to ask any questions about the project! I use this project at home to monitor the kitchen sometimes (:
you're saying you don't agree with it, but then go on to talk about something entirely unrelated.

op isn't saying self paced learning doesn't work for anyone, therefore it's irrelevant if you know some whizz autodidacts
If nobody understands how to code works or what the Ai is trying to do you could prompt inject a complete disaster in a bunch of code with 100% test coverage.
> true catch-all adresses (i.e. any local part works) are easily detected

This may be true in theory, but in practice, on my domain at least, it has never happened.
Very true - you are right, I far far prefer the real world pub.
> He's not writing about how you should run your project for his convenience.

No, but we can discuss and criticize policies all the same, regardless of how the original creator feels about such discourse.
> writing software is free

Don't tell my boss! I still get paid.
Forum posts were indexed by search engines - doesn’t that alone provide a minimum level of discoverability?
It's also why the US never votes to fix health care. "I suffered a terrible system, therefore the next generations must, too." Crab bucket mentality.
Available since September 2024 on iOS, I believe. Indeed, it seems Apple intentionally launched RCS support quietly, after refusing to implement it for many years (Android has had widespread support since at least 2019, possibly earlier on some manufacturers' phones, like Samsung.)
The economics probably aren't that great to send uncompressed voice into the data center. If you have a business that gets charged XX cents (or more likely .00XX cents) per GB of traffic and you can cut that in half by using compression... I think people will opt to use compression.
Simple Phish Bait: EFF Is Not Investigating Your Albion Online Forum Account
Four steps toward building an open source community – The GitHub Blog
Also, you may never beat it’s low latency / jitter anymore.
> The world is overpopulated,

[citation needed]

> Not enough people to take care of seniors? That's not really a problem.

Unless you're a senior or care about your parents...
We Know Where You Parked: Data Breach at VW Raises Questions about Privacy
I wonder if a fuel economy standard that ignores vehicle size would be viable. That would advantage the lightest, most aerodynamic cars and make big vehicles expensive. Some people need big vehicles, but increasing costs for those people might be an acceptable tradeoff for making the average car smaller with the inherent benefits to fuel economy and reduced danger to other road users.
Oddly, the image that Scientific American chose to illustrate their article isn't from any of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya projects, but from Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue, a much more obscure title.
Ha! My mom worked as a build engineer at BNR (later Nortel) in the 1990s and we got a free 2nd phone line for her to dial into work (99% used by me and my brother for internet). She could have gotten ISDN had it been available in our small town, but alas...
Great question. The language models are definitely beating the old tools. Take a look at Gemini for example.

Doctly runs a tournament style judge. It will run multiple generations across LLMs and pick the best one. Outperforming single generation and single model.
> This is a field that seems to have emerged in computer science relatively recently; many of the important data structures were invented in the last 25 years.

This is crazy!
People felt the same way about i.reddit.com until it got turned off.
Forced savings is someone else saving for you. How would you feel if I ran your savings and then screwed it up? Or if you had a once in a lifetime investment opportunity and I wouldn't let you dip into your savings? Or a once in a lifetime calamity and I said no, you can't touch it?

Firstly you'd rightfully realize that whatever I said they weren't your savings, rather it was my money that I was agreeing to let you have at some future date. Secondly I would come to the same realization.
Given the wide variety of pricing on all of these providers, I keep wondering how the economics work. Do they have fantastic margin on some of these products or is it a matter of subsidizing the costs, hoping to capture the market? Last I heard, OpenAI is still losing money.
It's a debate that has been had by many people far more informed than anyone who will see this thread, many times over decades or even a few centuries. Rather than challenging it on a very basic level (it's a tax, all taxes are bad, why should this tax be different), just look up the other debates and read them.
Then I apologize for jumping in the conversation. Either way Putin is evil and Republicans are all traitors for supporting him
I never claimed it will be a great outcome. Only that the rich cannot perpetually get away with it. Revolutions often have people trying to personally benefit from all the anger and resentment. And revolutions often have innocents getting caught up unnecessarily. Minorities are also going to be blamed for their widespread discontent and they will be harmed before the rich because they are easier targets. The point being it’s not going to be pretty, and will be a lose lose situation, but it will be inevitable if the ruling class doesn’t slow down this race to the bottom.
I'll let the person I was doing track days with back then know that his gt-r transmission was just misinformed, it didn't actually need the repair bill. Thanks!
How is that better than just funding it from the general fund as a welfare wealth transfer?

from the political perspective, I suppose there is a pretext/misconception that social security is self funded on an individual basis, when payments are already extremely progressive, with higher earners subsidizing the low.

The high bend point already diminishes additional benefit for additional contribution nearly to zero.

Someone's last 50k of SS taxable income is already returning only 20% of their first 50K of SS taxable income.

More specifically, below the first bend point, recipients get 90% of their average taxed income. After the last bend point, they are getting 15% of their marginal taxed income
. 15% doesn't leave much room for additional reduction bend points.
The anime will be 19 years old next month, so it's probably not wrong to consider it such.
So... This is a post that I imagined I might write someday. The truth is nothing can prepare you for it.

As with most meaningful breakthroughs, it had nothing to do with what I did. See, I am not super cool with the state of data privacy and LLMs. I am not super great at doing the infosec things despite my knowledge & professional application of the same principles.

LLMs are awesome, but redacting personal information seems like a PITA. So, I was messing around with a privacy screener. I wanted to play with some new AI coding ideas.

I ended up building the worlds fastest inference machine?

This can run on small devices. It's a binary, using proprietary tensor packages and ONNX integrations.

It is tokenizing, transforming, inferring, interpreting, and handling REST semantics & API governance.

Models and their APIs can be co-deployed to consumer-grade hardware.

This was done in less than a week.

What do I say? It was an accident. But here we are. ML at edge. Billions of tons of CO2 reduced.

My site is still about devops and stuff -- https://corewood.info

Happy coding.

Write on, #Techies.
> What kind of ridiculous copium is this?

> i'm sure the quilting community says all sorts of terrible things that could be taken out of context.

The things said there are different in perspective from some of the things said here, just from another direction.

To be more specific, most of the time when I see someone say something like "hang 'em from the lampposts", it's in reference to LEO attempting confiscation or something. It should not be reasonably construed as a legitimate threat and is not intended as such. It's hyperbole.

People who are actually a risk are obvious based on their overall pattern of behavior.

> the difference is they don't have a long history of gun violence. ain't no one showed up and killed 20 elementary kids with knitting needles. no one smuggled a crochet gear to a 17 year old and saw protesters crochet'd to death.

Neither does the gun community.

We do have dangerous items as the center of the whole idea, though, which means the hyperbole I mentioned above is looked at much more closely than if a textile artist made the same comment. That has resulted in significant internal policing.

> and what is your 2nd amendment right doing now? the government, and arguably global economy, is under threat and you're doing what exactly with these guns?

The vast majority of us don't see things that way at all - this is exactly what "we" (i.e., the gun community) voted for.

That said, I've been an advocate for LGBT, minorities, and others at risk acquiring arms and training for decades. I'll continue to do that.
I completely disagree. Proofs are very abstract. Learning to read them is a skill you have develop before you can learn anything from them.
Doesn't anyone else miss the old days of forums like PHPBB and VBulletin for collaboration?

They had everything I needed, and nothing I didn't. Easily searched by Google. Actual pagination instead of stupid endless scrolling.

All the new forums are going to Discord (synchronous) or Discourse (asynchronous) which I find to be much less useful.
Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust
I've been working on Shelgon, a framework that lets you build your own custom REPL shells and interactive CLI applications in Rust.

You can use Shelgon to:

- Create a custom shell with only a few lines of code
- Build interactive debugging tools with persistent state between commands
- Develop domain-specific language interpreters with shell-like interfaces
- Add REPL capabilities to existing applications

Getting started is straightforward - implement a single trait that handles your command execution logic, and Shelgon takes care of the terminal UI, input handling, and async runtime integration.

For example, a simple echo shell takes less than 50 lines of code, including a full implementation of command history, cursor movement, and tab completion.

Repository: https://github.com/nishantjoshi00/shelgon
I really love this space: Navarro's book is an excellent survey.

Erik Demaine has a few great lectures on succinct data structures too: L17 and L18 on https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/lectures/
> But you would find it strange if the article said, "Oncologist stumbles upon cure for cancer while testing new colon cancer treatment." Because in that case, the scientist is seemingly doing what he set out to do--it was not unintentional.

I wouldn't really find that strange. Finding a cure for cancer is not an expected outcome of testing a cancer treatment and certainly isn't what the oncologist is trying to do. It's directly related to what you were trying to do, and better, but it's still a lucky find that you weren't looking for.
I'm a fan of whiteboard and sticky notes!

Distributed scaling is a little difficult, you have to set up a webcam and hire an intern to move things around, but it's probably still cheaper than a lot of enterprise solutions.
Yeah kind of. The u-law sampling of audio to produce the 64kbit audio channels in ISDN isn’t good for encoding a signal created by a modem.

But if it was a direct copper pair end-to-end then attenuation and electrical other characteristics would have made it hard to achieve the higher speeds, this is the Shannon limits they mention.
But the same is true of gas, and in the UK at least they cost about the same per kWh of output heat (electricity is more expensive, but this is balanced out by the higher efficiency of the heat pump)
We're approaching the point where OCR becomes "solved" — very exciting! Any legacy vendors providing pure OCR are going to get steamrolled by these VLMs.

However IMO, there's still a large gap for businesses in going from raw OCR outputs —> document processing deployed in prod for mission-critical use cases. LLMs and VLMs aren't magic, and anyone who goes in expecting 100% automation is in for a surprise.

You still need to build and label datasets, orchestrate pipelines (classify -> split -> extract), detect uncertainty and correct with human-in-the-loop, fine-tune, and a lot more. You can certainly get close to full automation over time, but it's going to take time and effort. But the future is on the horizon!

Disclaimer: I started a LLM doc processing company to help companies solve problems in this space (https://extend.app/)
There is an OCR page on the link you provided. It includes a very, very simple curl command (like most of their docs).

I think the friction here exists outside of Mistral's control.
Once you suspend disbelief of AI all of this pseudoscience becomes just as plausible.