skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tons of uses: Storage (text instead of images), search (user typing in a text box and you want instant retrieval from a dataset), etc. And costs: run on images once - then the rest of your queries will only need to run on text.
It solves some issues, but it still needlessly ties instant messaging to a given mobile operator and a SIM card, which causes all kinds of problems when traveling internationally and using different SIM cards etc.

It's a completely US-centric solution to an US-exclusive problem.
Starmer has a spine? He's a warmongering careerist shill, hateful of his own people, who never did anything remotely worthy of the Labour party pre-Blair legacy...

One of the least spine-owing politicians in the world
The biggest risk of vision LLMs for OCR is that they might accidentally follow instructions is the text that they are meant to be processing.

(I asked Mistral if their OCR system was vulnerable to this and they said "should be robust, but curious to see if you find any fun examples" - https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1897713755741368434 and https://twitter.com/sophiamyang/status/1897719199595720722 )
Did you figure out how to talk to these people?
Does this support Japanese? They list a table of language comparisons againat other approaches but I can't tell if it is exhaustive.

I'm hoping that something like this will be able to handle 3000-page Japanese car workshop manuals. Because traditional OCR really struggles with it. It has tables, graphics, text in graphics, the whole shebang.
Not even in the same ballpark
https://everything2.com/title/%2522.Sony%2522+and+the+reason...

Also have you tried typing "time cube" instead.
Yes. Homomorphic encryption means that you can do math to the encrypted file to produce a new encrypted file. The operator doing the math cannot read either version, but the owner of the original file can.
> Bi-directional long live connections don't require Rust's raw horsepower.

If you're an app dev who's really and truly serious about lowering the barrier to self-hosted services, then you need to consider what the install and deployment step looks like. For languages like Rust that default to producing a single static binary, that's as easy as it gets.

Likewise, you need to consider that users might want to self-host on a potato, which is where Rust's efficiency shines even for small services.

These are both things that Mastodon got horribly wrong, for example, by choosing to use Ruby.
Prehistoric bone tool 'factory' hints at early development of abstract reasoning
It's a weird timing because I just launched https://dochq.io - ai document extraction where you can define what you need to get out your documents in plain English, I legitimately thought that this was going to be such a niche product but hell, there has been a very rapid rise for AI-based OCR lately, an article/tweet even went viral 2 weeks ago I think? About using Gemini to do OCR, fun times.
UK trying to ban math...
That tells me there isn't a single security research group, but at least six of them. Which doesn't surprise me.

Shouldn't they be blogging the org chart? When I want to follow updates, it's generally from a particular part of the org. Each group has its own separate mission and its own audience.
I think it's also important to justify why VCs use EBITDA.

Excluding depreciation makes sense when you are dealing with assets with an unknown highly variable lifespan - e.g. software - some of which lasts decades without being touched, others of which experiences breaking changes on a monthly basis. Similarly, excluding interest on debt makes sense if you're borrowing heavily to feed your sales funnel, but otherwise making very real profits on your sales.

However - none of these are true for some of these "new-wave" startups, which are trying to justify an (internet-based marketing) hype cycle to juice their valuations via the "dumb money".
As of 2019, there were places in Arizona and New Mexico where telephone line was still run along the top of fenceposts, alongside the barbed wire.
Is calculus included in your classes?
> people enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp not because of a threat model but because they don't want their phone to run out of space.

I would find that annoying too. What's so hard about periodically hitting "clear messages" on their side?

> I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case.

The (otherwise very poor) native "Messages" app on iOS has an explicit feature that locally deletes all messages after a configurable time period.
It can be read as a typo for "Nvidia" as their cards are about that price (or more, i haven't looked)
I think you've made reasonably good points. My least favorite aspect of discussing AI is the undercurrent that we're monkeys discussing the Sistine chapel. Ultimately, it's difficult to engage with the concept of superior intelligence.

Generally I think the outline that such a device would be a doomsday scenario for competitors remains quite plausible. This is somewhat easy to falsify because we would start seeing direct military action soon.

Taiwan especially is very vulnerable under this worldview and would be a pretty quick falsification.
I guess it's a variant of that, Jevon's Paradox being that increasing supply counterintuitively increases demand
I mean heat pumps where you drill around 200 meters deep. Whether you want to call those geothermal or ground-source, that is up to you I guess.
That's one of the things I thought Patrick's article would shed more specific light on, e.g. is it necessary to be in that kind of rarified group (e.g. someone rich enough to have special services with the bank)? Or is being rich enough to own a $3M+ home enough?

The reason why I think the threshold may be much lower than what Patrick insinuates it to be, is because similar big cash scams have been reported by people seemingly much poorer than the NYMag columnist:

https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/knoxville-woman-loses-...

> What happened next is tragic for Colleen as she went to her bank. “I told him how much I had in there and he told me to withdraw everything but the $700. I told the lady I need to withdraw $19,000. I said I needed it cash.” Colleen said.

$19,000 is of course less than $50k, but it's still well above the $10k anti-laundering reporting threshold, and it involves a victim in Knoxville for whom that $19k represented her "life savings", yet it seems the bank didn't stop her from a same-day total withdrawal.

(note: this Knoxville incident happened in Dec. 2024, so it's of course possible the victim is perpetrating a copycat fabrication after reading the NYMag article)
How about a different scenario. Nether one is an indie game, so it's apples to apples. A 1GB game is $25 and a 200GB game is $20. They both look similarly fun. Do you consider getting the bigger one?
I really hope we see more of these efforts. Maybe AI can help bridge the gap by lowering the cost to help develop carrier boards for a multitude of cell phones. One way we wrestle back control from the elites is by reducing waste. If the China/Taiwan wars eventually come to pass we could be seeing massive inflation in terms of tech and so all the "e-waste" people throw away suddenly becomes gold.
I saw 100+ community force migrate from Telegram to Discord. Most of the people complained about UI/UX, me included. And Telegram is not even very good in that area. Normal people are not fond of Discord UI specifically, they just get used to it.
Looks nice, but the headline (and article) is wrong. It will not be released before 2027.

Sauce: https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/mobili...
Ask HN: Air-Gapped Dev Environment?
Hello HN, there are a lot of great AI tools out there for coding at the moment but what many of them seem to have in common is streaming data to a cloud server somewhere.

I am trying to learn what options exist out there that would let someone develop software with "all the amenities" in a nearly or actually fully airgapped environment. Bonus points for low-power consideration.

So version control, LLM, Agent, etc. but assume no access to the internet. Local hub server on a LAN is okay to assume. I am thinking a tower under a desk and one or more people working on a laptop.

For context, the situation I'm thinking of is a friend who does a lot of environmental field research in remote locations (like truly middle of nowhere places). Sometimes the local office will have decent internet but most of the time it's a situation with a super spotty or non-existent connection. Remarkably, people still need to write code in environments like this at times!

Any and all answers very much appreciated, thank you.
Not only that, but it devalues degrees. If one could assume that getting through college is actually difficult and cannot be cheated on, one can assume that someone having a degree in a field means something. Someone else cheating means you need to work that much harder to convince people you know what you are doing. It's helpful to have certifications that mean something, otherwise they are just more noise.
Quickly tested it out, and gotta say that I enjoy being able to write just normal CSS to style things. The getting started process is really speedy.
Jonathan McDowell, the astronomer and debris tracker:

https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post...

They may be _meant_ to last a lot longer, but as you launch a larger constellation, you end up finding more and more edge cases which your original design missed. Even if it's a generous 10yr lifespan - 10% depreciation is pretty brutal, especially if your customers are expecting a certain coverage quality, as then you need more redundant satellites in orbit.
Sounds like good intuition to me, thank you :)
I have to wonder if the cap (theoretical) on the copper wires was more because of the technology standards in play at the time. Surely the copper wires could have handled more if they did not have to carry voice communication (with the old tech specs of the time) any longer?

Ok. Searched around.
Here is an article that states old copper could have carried 1 gigabit.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317040-ordinary-copper...
$1 for 1000 pages seems high to me. Doing a google search

Rent and Reserve NVIDIA A100 GPU 80GB - Pricing Starts from $1.35/hour

I just don't know if in 1 hour and with a A100 I can process more than a 1000 pages. I'm guessing yes.
I'm not opposed to third-party apps.

I am opposed to fragmenting my messaging, and having to remember which app to use for each person/group I want to communicate with.

I'm not going to download WhatsApp just for that one person or one group that wants to communicate through it. No thanks.

(If my entire country has chosen WhatsApp instead of SMS+iMessage, then sure no problem.)
The most bizarre OpsGenie story was how in 2022, this tool was down for 2 weeks for hundreds of unlucky companies that were Atlassian customers. This was at a time when JIRA had an outage impacting a small percentage of their customer base - but still in the hundreds of organizations (with around tens of thousands of users.)

While most companies can operate for some time without JIRA: losing your paging service means you're flying in the dark. And yet, Atlassian did not prioritize restoring OpsGenie.

I covered the details at the time [1]. To this date, this incident is a real head-scratcher and makes me wonder if Atlassian has internalized how much more critical an incident alerting software is, compared to a ticketing software (JIRA) or wiki (Confluent).

[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/i/52148641/what-atl...
One problem I’ve encountered at my small startup in evaluating OCR technologies is precisely convincing stakeholders that the “human-in-the-loop” part is both unavoidable, and ultimately beneficial.

PMs want to hear that an OCR solution will be fully automated out-of-the-box. My gut says that anything offering that is snake-oil, and I try to convey that the OCR solution they want is possible, but if you are unwilling to pay the tuning cost, it’s going to flop out of the gate. At that point they lose interest and move on to other priorities.
> We use the hammer for nails and the screwdriver for screws

The difference is, the hammers and screwdrivers perform a single task, and have been designed and optimised for that specific task.

LLMs are much more versatile and capable of performing a wide range of tasks. Yet, at the same time, their capabilities are ill defined.
Fwiw, they have an example of a parking receipt in a cookbook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/mistralai/cookbook/...
Defaults matter, and the default of most people isn't taking screenshots.

My friends could covertly create voice recordings of in-person meetings as well, but that's very different from everybody by default walking around with a voice recorder that I have to individually ask them to please turn off.
gemini flash is notorious for hallucinating the output of the OCR, be careful with it. For straight forward, semi-structured, low page count (under 5) it should perform well, but the more the context window is stretched the more the output gets more unreliable
Reading a Gonzalo Navarro paper is like going for walk, taking a shower and having a wonderful coffee. It literally sets the mind on fire.

https://dblp.org/pid/n/GonzaloNavarro.html
Nice demos but I wonder how well it does on longer files. I've been experimenting with passing some fairly neat PDFs to various LLMs for data extraction. They're created from Excel exports and some of the data is cut off or badly laid out, but it's all digitally extractable.

The challenge isn't so much the OCR part, but just the length. After one page the LLMs get "lazy" and just skip bits or stop entirely.

And page by page isn't trivial as header rows are repeated or missing etc.

So far my experience has definitely been that the last 2% of the content still takes the most time to accurately extract for large messy documents, and LLMs still don't seem to have a one-shot solve for that. Maybe this is it?
Tru dat. When Canada gloriously becomes the 51st, hell, maybe even 52nd state, there will be no fentanyl smuggling, or any other smuggling, across the border. Because no border. Genius!
I didn't know what it meant and appreciated the link.
> Technically, yes, you will put down faster times on a bike.

Motorcycle track rider here. They're generally slower than performance cars around the track due to reduced cornering traction and therefore speed.
Discussion (143 points, 20 hours ago, 183 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274698
You completely miss the point.

I'm going to assume that you're operating in good faith and really don't understand (is English your native language?) not just being deliberately obtuse.

And more's the pity.
You computer scientists cosplaying as cognitive scientists really never took single psychology class, did you?
La Plateforme agent builder - https://console.mistral.ai/build/agents/new
What kind of manager? Engineering, product or project?
I don't know how unique those properties are to the US. Even if Unis are often cheaper elsewhere they still have a huge opportunity cost and it's not like credentialism doesn't exist outside the US.
This is interesting since I never had an issue with the loaner program, or apple making those tools available. The tech press had a field day laughing over that, but it wasn't anything professional repair people considered an issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vhCaFW5xTk

I was quite aggravated that the tech press managed to put focus on the piece of kit they were sending people to fix devices, rather than on the real issue; telling distributors they're not allowed to sell us individual components that they would otherwise make available to anyone willing to wire them money for a large enough order.

The aggravation over the tools rental, to me, was always a nothingburger.
But you realize that from their perspective, you are doing the exact same thing (i.e. asking them to use something other than their preferred messenger to contact you), right?
That’s a very interesting thought. Presumably stuff like CRISPR will make our meat code open source and we’ll be able to deploy hot fixes ourselves.
It is evolving… backwards into non existence.
Sure, there is some truth to this.

I'm not really in touch with other genres, but I like to watch chess videos/streams on Youtube and Twitch. The vast, vast majority of views and revenue are captured by about ten people.

I like those people too, but I've also watched a lot of smaller acts, even some amateur players not much stronger than me. So I get those recommendations, and I see their view counts. They aren't making anything at all.

There are other people who have some followers, but even 50,000 followers would be a dream for most people doing it and they will make next to nothing from that. I'd guess there are at least 30x the number of strong, titled players in the 50k group as there are in the 1MM+ group. These are all people who were chess prodigies as kids, won every scholastic tournament in their state, took gap years or went to colleges that let them basically major in chess, travelled the world for tournaments, with awe-inspiring skills, and they are not making anywhere close enough to live on.

And the thing is, I think software might even be tougher in twenty years. Its hard to get people to change from a system they use to another thing, much harder than recommending a new face on Youtbue.
A hostile $7B chip deal leans on electric faith
Nit: Please change the URL from

https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

to

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

The article is the same, but the site navigation is in English instead of French.

Unless it's a silent statement, of course. =)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Cancels $100M Starlink Contract
Synthetisize at random, grind to dust, float them in fields..
How does one use it to identify bounding rectangles of images/diagrams in the PDF?
I'm not an elitist and I don't have problems with 'regular users'. What I do have a problem with is all the technical users who know better and turn everything over to Discord corp anyway. How many 'hacker spaces' do you know that use Discord as a primary communications channel?

They could just as well run a primary communications channel on something sensible, durable and self-hosted that ties in to discord intake for newcomers. Come in to the discord, say hi, chat a bit and then graduate to where the real content is.

Discord should have been a on-ramp for technical communities, not the foundation.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease...

Is bleeding bad from the butt a life worth living?

Wondering what prep h suppositories would have done for you...
I partially agree with catlover76. This time around, so far it's also performative and not much action. So far. We'll see.
But everything you're describing applies to your phone number in general, including voice calls.

You sound like you're against phone numbers entirely...?!
LLMs learn from the internet. Refuse to admit they don't know something. I have to admit I'm not entirely surprised by this.
I 100% agree with this, I think you can even extend this to any AI, in the end, IMO, as the llm is more commoditized, the surface of which the value is delivered will matter more
Try our machine-learning powered sheet music scanning engine at Soundslice:

https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

Definitely doesn't suck.
ICRC doesnt, its russian branch RRC is teaching elementary school children how to handle a rifle

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/red-cross-deci... https://www.newsweek.com/russian-schools-training-children-s...

and helps kidnapping children https://vsquare.org/kremlin-leaks-russia-red-cross-ukrainian...
The 35W power adapter (included on all non-base models or a $20 option otherwise) has 2 USB-C ports which should cover this use case.
About the disdain for XML among Python programmers (2005)
Weird this does not make use of IPv6. I'd thought this was a given if you have tens of thousands of nodes.
Not really powerless. They have powers, but people see them as ceremonial. They're not of course ceremonial, rather it's traditional that they don't fire the loaded gun they're given and everyone pretends like they're not only incapable of it, but doing so would end the monarchy.

The truth is, a monarch with significant ambition could, if the right situation arises or is engineered, convince the populace that their exercise of power is necessary to save the country.
Orion's Next Chapter: Linux Development Officially Launched
If you're already on cancer, I'm wondering if you're already on other medical interventions, and now I'm wondering how aspirin will interact with those.
Here's 1gbit running over 8 strands of barbed wire: https://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
A lot of the criticism of librewolf is for being "woke"

I differentiate between someone who holds political beliefs that I don't, or that are a little wild; and someone who holds the belief that I am trying to get them killed. Particularly when there is an easy way to figure out which phone is mine if one were so inclined.

The former may not like me, but the latter ? if you believed someone was trying to kill you, what lengths would you go to? i think grapheneos & librewolf are two very different cases.
Exactly, it has entertainment and educational content. I use it just to listen to music in many cases.

The utility it brings for me is quite high.
Love everything about Voyager, but some lazy editing in the article. It opens with them "cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years" and then later mentions that they only reached interstellar space in 2012 and 2018. The project deserves better, even in a puff piece!
No, see my last sentence.

I don't have any preferred app. I just only want to use one. I'll happily use whichever one the people in my country have collectively decided upon.
Possible, yes, it's just looking at various 3GPP network messages and parsing out a few common anomalies. Accessible, not all the time.

This project uses QMDL (Qualcomm debug logging) on a device with an accessible modem debug port and debug logging enabled. Most older Qualcomm devices have this form of debug logging available by default, but on newer devices, the debug interface is usually more locked down, requiring some degree of shenanigans to access.

Take a look at SnoopSnitch (similar project for Qualcomm Android phones), QCSuper and MobileInsight (tools capable of capturing signaling data from QC and Mediatek phones), and SCAT (capable of capturing signaling data from some Samsung basebands).

Other vendors usually have similar debug modes for their modems, but they often aren't reverse engineered or as easy to access as the Qualcomm ones.
Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture [video]
Most crucial improvement in this one per my scoreboard is that the new MBA supports 2 external screens AND the builtin one at the same time. Only reason I bothered with a Pro.
Re-Volt is still alive
New inheritance mechanism unrelated to DNA is discovered by chance
Rethinking AI Pessimism
Yeah, good point. The information is scattershot unless the content makers make their content curated.

As far as outdated information goes, especially for programming knowledge, I could make the same case for college and university. Even worse in their case.
Umm, there are quite a few performance production cars? Mustang (ecoboost or gt), corvette, ct4/5-v blackwing, Nissan’s own Z, golf gti/r, to name a few.

Does Mazda even make a “performance” car? The mx-5 is an enthusiast car, definitely not a performance car by pretty much any metric
I believe the quote here is "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the system goes up."
It's a reimplementation of a pulseaudio server and a reimplementation of the jack client library. See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...