skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that unified memory is particularly relevant for that-- so e.g. on zen4/zen5 epyc there is more than enough arithmetic power that LLM inference is purely memory bandwidth limited.

On dual (SP5) Epyc I believe the memory bandwidth is somewhat greater than this apple product too... and at apple's price points you can have about twice the ram too.

Presumably the apple solution is more power efficient.
I had a Z3MC for 18 years, yeah.
Yeah this is true. But the context windows for most of the frontier models have been increasing over time so this will most likely be solved soon. It's good enough to still get a decent amount of value.
When you say kids, do you mean young goats or young humans?
It's already a criminal offense to protest inside your mind. [1]

[1]: https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...
At my client we want to provide an AI that can retrieve relevant information from documentation (home building business, documents detail how to install a solar panel or a shower, etc) and we've set up an entire system with benchmarks, agents, etc, yet the bottleneck is OCR!

We have millions and millions of pages of documents and an off by 1 % error means it compounds with the AI's own error, which compounds with documentation itself being incorrect at times, which leads it all to be not production ready (and indeed the project has never been released), not even close.

We simply cannot afford to give our customers incorrect informatiin

We have set up a backoffice app that when users have questions, it sends it to our workers along the response given by our AI application and the person can review it, and ideally correct the ocr output.

Honestly after an year of working it feels like AI right now can only be useful when supervised all the time (such as when coding). Otherwise I just find LLMs still too unreliable besides basic bogus tasks.
Pretty sure that the US, UK and Europe fixed that back in the 90s, during the anti-globalization protests.

Ever since the Democratic Party established in 2004 that you could designate "Free Speech Zones" where the constitution would be in effect, and literally put bars around them, it was an inevitability that people living in US vassals that have never had strong speech protections would lose it all. The US sets the standard for a written absolute free speech right, but makes bad speech its biggest enemy and covertly finances censors overseas to lobby against free speech protections.

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Random person on internet:

> Has anyone heard about the protester pen set up at the Democratic convention?

> It's constructed with mesh, chain link & razor wire to contain any DNC protesters - not after they've been rounded up by police for unlawful activity - but to house them while they are protesting!

> "U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock called the barbed-wire pen "an affront to free expression'' and "irrefutably sad'' but necessary because of protesters' antics in New York and Los Angeles."

> Story here. [http://news.bostonherald.com/dncConvention/view.bg?articleid...]

> And this is the Democratic convention.

> I've got a really bad feeling about this.

https://files.electro-music.com/forum/topic-2781-0.html

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truthout, Sunday 25 July 2004:

> Demonstrators who want to be within sight and sound of the delegates entering and leaving the Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston this coming week will be forced to protest in a special "demonstration zone" adjacent to the terminal where buses carrying the delegates will arrive. The zone is large enough only for 1000 persons to safely congregate and is bounded by two chain link fences separated by concrete highway barriers. The outermost fence is covered with black mesh that is designed to repel liquids. Much of the area is under an abandoned elevated train line. The zone is covered by another black net which is topped by razor wire. There will be no sanitary facilities in the zone and tables and chairs will not be permitted. There is no way for the demonstrators to pass written materials to the convention delegates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050625073603/http://www.trutho...
Why bother? They can just visit Cloudflare HQ, who already proxy 19.3%[1] of the internet. AFAICT, all https traffic proxied by them is accessible to them in plaintext. Of course, Cloudflare are disallowed by law from letting us know if the UK government were surveilling all of their proxied traffic.[2]

[1] according to this particular metric: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare
[2] "the IPA makes it illegal for companies to disclose the existence of such government demands." https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-encrypted-i...

IANAL
Mail Scam Targeting Corporate Executives Claims Ties to Ransomware
The only way any phone gets more than 1 day of battery is when you don't use it. In which case, why you care that if it's 120 or 60hz.

I'm back to iPhone now tho, so I get a full-day-ish with pro-motion under a normal usage.
Discord's killer feature for my money has always been that ever user in a call gets a slider bar (and mute button) to control the volume they hear ever other individual user in the call

Zoom, in 2025, still makes you wait for the host to figure out which of the 30 other people has a dog incessantly barking or is causing the echo or has horrible feedback, and then try to talk them through fixing it before finally muting them.
It certainly isn't the same cost if expressed as a non-subsidized $$$ one needs for the Transformers compute aka infra.

CNNs trained specifically for OCR can run in real time on as small compute as a mobile device is.
Somehow, the HN system got this post duplicated. The other one is currently trending at #1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282905. @dang, please do a merge.
Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system
As a current Opsgenie user, I disagree. They're splitting their incident management and alerting/on-call into two services - Jira Service Management and Compass, respectively. Both are terrible, and not at all one-to-one replacements.
> Why is this news?

Because Tesla used to claim that they would own one fifth of global passenger car sales by 2030:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-likely-20-mi...

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-20-million-c...
Bolt Graphics Zeus: New GPU arch with 2.25TB VRAM and 800GbE
Voice is kinda supported, in the sense that they implemented the feature years ago and then proceeded to decide to do a huge rewrite that they've also decided blocks any sort of improvement or iteration on their voice chat features. Last I checked we're like 3 years into said big rewrite with 0 improvements to voice chat.
If you can handle a ton of users on not much hardware it’s quite easy to offer a generous free tier. The more “high touch” (resources per interaction) your SaaS is the more VC money you’re setting on fire trying to achieve a network effect.

And during a downturn the high touch services lose customers faster because part of the virtue signaling of cost cutting is choosing cheaper options that take a bit more work.
Yes these modems were almost-ISDN (minus the razor fast call setup). And required a full digital backend to work. They could only do 56k6 in one direction, to the user too. But they were made for internet access so that didn't really matter.
Maybe a hot take, but I think it’s better to build a successful startup with developers of average skill, intellect, and competence. You don’t need to obsess over finding genius level savants, unless the startup is a serious deep tech company. SaaS products will be fine with normal developers. Set up a process so you’re iterating and learning quickly, and it will be ok.

I’d be surprised if any startup failures were due to a dev team not being absolutely cracked. It’s always something like poor sales, PMF, refusal to pivot, lack of focus, etc.
RISC-V wouldn’t help here at all. There’s nothing about RISC-V that prevents a CPU manufacturer putting in custom instructions and not documenting them.
As the old saying says: "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish."
> I'm not asking if the rich are evil or not, I am asking why are there movies with hundred-million dollar budgets, whose entire message is that the 'rich are evil'

Well, not the only possible but one extremely simple answer to the second question is "they are evil" to the first. You can't separate them like this.

> Why are there leftist newspapers 'fighting for the little guy', staffed by 1%ers, and owned by billionaires?

What newspaper does this describe? None of the major newspapers are significantly left of the democrats, a center-right party globally. Jacobin? Mother Jones? They don't quite fit your description. Genuinely do not know what you have in mind here.

> None of this shit makes sense to me.

Like look around man it's not hard to figure out. Even if you like this I don't think it takes a huge amount of wisdom to perceive why some would not.
yeah, sure, I guess the investors selling NVIDIA's stock like crazy know nothing about jevons
Interesting to think of the back and forth of complexity here. Now I can build my own version of slack that only has the features my team needs, and all the features work exactly the way my team wants it, but I need to write integrations so it works with a bunch of other software, and I need to understand the right way for those integrations to work, and by the way I'm integrating with a bunch of other custom software, and understanding the use cases for all that software is too complicated for just one person so we need multiple "software managers (product manager/developer combo) to manage all that software, and we need a place to run and people to understand how to run it on our completely custom container orchestrator that works exactly the way we want.

And maybe we lose some of the benefits of a shared ecosystem where we all run the same software with the same workflows an the shared plugin systems. And I do think this is a relatively likely outcome, because I think there's something inherently human around wanting to adapt the software to yourself rather than adapting yourself to the software.

It will be like this but in the millions:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Types as a Design Tool
Thanks for expanding. I think we are in agreement about values and virtues, and I appreciate your perspective on the nuance of presumed virtues as they relate to propaganda, it sounds right to me.

Where you lose me is in the generalization and singling out of conservatives. It sounds like you're saying they are uniquely susceptible to propaganda, yet all my anecdotal experience adds up to it being fairly equal on both sides.

I haven't dug into any formal study so I could be wrong, but I am close to lots of people who are politically left who seem to follow that "presumed virtue" -> reaction (skip critical thinking) pattern. To be clear, my guess is it's a very common and natural pattern, like cognitive biases and optical illusions. It's a consequence/bug of collective cognition.
In fact there is a specific Black Mirror episode which covers this, S01E2 "Fifteen Million Merits", in which the protagonist is forced to watch advertising in his room where the walls a ceiling are screens. Closing his eyes triggers an alarm, and he must pay to dismiss the ads.
The advantage here is the ease of searching for a filing. It's more convenient than having to search the EDGAR database then upload the doc to Claude every time.
In the UK they go to prison anyway. You will be arrested for praying in silence.

https://www.thefp.com/p/abortion-buffer-zones-united-kingdom...

https://aleteia.org/2023/03/09/pray-get-arrested-repeat-uk-w...

https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...
Yes but with channel bundling you also had to pay twice. One channel was only 64k.
I was one of those SAs, circa 1998-2000. We also had an on-call kit with a Nokia Communicator so we weren't completely stuck at home while on-call.

Fast-forward to 2025, and I now have dual 1Gbps symmetric fiber connections (AT&T, GFiber) into my home from opposite sides of the house. (It's totally gratuitous and I'll probably cancel GFiber in a few months, but I wanted to have it wired up so I could more quickly start service in the future.)
Video: How to run dependency audits with GitHub Copilot – The GitHub Blog
I hate the whole idea behind hostile architecture.
Why pay more for doctly than an AWS Textract?
A series hacking Midjourney with 200 SREF codes
Thanks, just bought them. What about calculus refreshers any recommendation?
Where do you observe the promotion of the absurd narrative that says that the rich are better humans?
Show HN: A free tool to extract color palettes from any website
Hey everyone!

I’m Nestoras, the creator of colorize.design a tool that extracts color palettes from any website. Just enter a URL, and it generates color palettes based on the site's design. Several palettes are created by analyzing both the visual layout (dominant colors from the favicon and homepage screenshot) and the website's HTML, CSS, and JS files.

This project was born out of my own frustration. Whenever I came across a beautifully designed website, I wanted an easy way to grab its color palette without manually inspecting elements or using browser extensions.

How it works:
Uses Puppeteer to load the website, take a screenshot, and extract dominant colors.
Groups colors using a nearest color algorithm to reduce redundancy and improve the palette.
Extracts colors directly from the website’s CSS, HTML, and JS files.
Allows users to edit extracted colors and download the full palette.
Offers an API for developers who want to integrate this into their workflow.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Any feedback on the user experience, design, or overall presentation would be super helpful. What features would make this more useful for you? Let me know what you think.
Would love to see the test file.
... But, I mean, he did do that?
This is incredibly exciting. I've been pondering/experimenting on a hobby project that makes reading papers and textbooks easier and more effective. Unfortunately the OCR and figure extraction technology just wasn't there yet. This is a game changer.

Specifically, this allows you to associate figure references with the actual figure, which would allow me to build a UI that solves the annoying problem of looking for a referenced figure on another page, which breaks up the flow of reading.

It also allows a clean conversion to HTML, so you can add cool functionality like clicking on unfamiliar words for definitions, or inserting LLM generated checkpoint questions to verify understanding. I would like to see if I can automatically integrate Andy Matuschak's Orbit[0] SRS into any PDF.

Lots of potential here.

[0] https://docs.withorbit.com/
What other sites are there that provide the same type of satisfaction as HN? Asking because when this problem was occuring, my next thought was what if this issue was never fixed and HN went down forever.
I built a Streamlit hosting service
I love streamlit so I built a hosting service for it! Enjoy and would love any feedback!
Truly one of the greatest cars of its time, a snarling, cybernetic banshee that bent physics to its will; Now, just a fading watermark on the walls of history—a reminder of how high the tide once surged, before receding for good.

We've lost a lot of ground since the glory days of the mid 90's.
That would give you some string that contains all the permutations, but definitely not the shortest such string.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming - https://youtu.be/CbIZU8cQWXc

Not so much "sources" but rather it was a "this was not the goal".

(Side bit - after watching "We Stopped Dreaming" I find it necessary to watch Wanderers to dream again. https://erikwernquist.com/wanderers )
"HN discovers the concept of taxes, gets mad about it."

With that kind of argument sewers are also clearly unconscionable, after all they cost money you didn't donate. In that hyperbolic case where the EU throws 60% of it's productivity for the war effort, Ukraine would win in 6 months. That's an absurd amount of equipment, and more importantly with that kind of money you can set up a foreign legion that would vacuum every half-decent soldier without better prospects from Ethiopia to Perú. This will not happen of course, a wartime economy is not necessary to retake the invaded territories. The "WW3 totally gonna happen guys!!!11" is also exasperating, no, nothing is gonna be nuked unless someone attacks Moscow, which also will not happen.
I don't need AGI just give me superhuman OCR so we can turn all existing pdfs into text* and cheaply host it.

Feels like we are almost there.

*: https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
so gunshot resedue on both hands… more indicative of someone holding their hands up in self defense reflex while being shot in the head. downward trajectory from front to back… super odd. had a meal ready. blood all over the apartment and wig hair found mixed in the blood. this isnt the autopsy or the report that his mother is commissioning. and it leaves out a lot of context. and the government cant just ignore huge supreme court cases. you clearly have TDS
This is $1 per 1000 pages.
For comparison, Azure Document Intelligence is $1.5/1000 pages for general OCR and $30/1000 pages for “custom extraction”.
Cutting off aid, electricity, and any means of egress — together with Trump’s talk of emptying out Gaza and building a resort — sounds like a lot more than just “war” to me. Israel clearly intends to eliminate or displace the civilian population in its entirety, and in their eyes, every starving mother and child is a terrorist enabler and deserves no empathy. (To say nothing of their continuing expansion into the West Bank.)
> I seem to remember a story of a mafia don who turned out to be an informant, which seems wild to me.

There's also "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno who turned FBI informant. In Ovid Demaris' book "The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno", he quotes Jimmy even laughs about being one, taking money from FBI and still running his rackets for a time.
> int and Int64 aren't any more different from each other than Int64 and Int32

They are, though. Int64 and Int32 only differ in bit length and are in formats native to the host microprocessor. int has one of its bits "reserved" for the OCaml runtime, but Int32 has no such overhead.

> The fact that it offers a 63-bit integer doesn't really come into it.

It does if you interoperating with an OS's ABI though, or writing a kernel driver.

But you're right: there are a host of other reasons that OCaml shouldn't even have been brought up in this thread ;-)

Peace be with you, friend. Thanks for so generously sharing your expertise.
Your information sounds like what was being said back in 2011, which is to say is misinformed.
> (he was there)

That's fascinating. I read about McVeigh years ago and knew he was motivated by Waco but I had no idea he actually witnessed it. Here is a short two minute video I found on the topic: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oklahom...
Succinct data structures are very fun! If anyone is interested, I've implemented some of this in Zig: https://github.com/judofyr/zini. The main thing this implements is a minimal perfect hash function which uses less than 4 bits per element (and can respond to queries in ~50 ns). As a part of that I ended up implementing on of these indexes for constant-time select(n): https://github.com/judofyr/zini/blob/main/src/darray.zig.

It feels kinda magic implementing these algorithms because everything becomes so tiny!
I used to work at an ISO in 1997 and we tested Mototola Sufr 28.8 and USRobotics Sportster 33.6 modems this way, just a short pair between them back-to-back. ATX1D on one side, ATA on the other, connection established.

However, recently a friend of mine tried to use the same trick with two USB modems from Trendnet and it failed. It seems they either don't have oomph enough or they rely on 9vdc off-hook carrier voltage to work.
Majority of the users are hobbyist value traders and traders at medium-sized firms that spend a lot of time going through 10k's and 10q's manually.
I just purchased an AP2 back in July, i've taken it to the track twice already. It may not be as fast as some of the other new mid/entry level tuner/performance vehicles that have come out in the last few years, but I bet have the biggest smile on my face than anyone out there.
This is already done with agents. Some agents only have tools and the one model, some agents will orchestrate with other LLMs to handle more advanced use cases. It's pretty obvious solution when you think about how to get good performance out of a model on a complex task when useful context length is limited: just run multiple models with their own context and give them a supervisor model—just like how humans organize themselves in real life.
My favorite car to drive. Exceptional driving experience and cheap.

Trunk is alright for groceries (for one or two people).
I'm not sure what my username has to do with anything, or why the combative tone. It's intended as a thought exercise, if a revolution in the spirit of the French revolution were to happen today, with the surveillance at the government's disposal, how quickly would it be justified legally (declared terrorists) and neutralized. The more time passes, the more technological advances are used for mass surveillance and propaganda, the less likely it seems.
The word count seems artificially increased in the post. Here's a succinct explanation: https://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~aloupis/comp150/projects/Succinc...
That master key sounds like a high value target, if it can open so many doors. Are you sure the one who guards that key is storing it securely enough and not just in a keyring together with other "important" keys he sometimes carries around needlessly? Are you sure he can't be coerced into "borrowing" it to someone, or handing it over to the police without first letting a lawyer check the warrants?

Have you considered that the locks need to have a weaker security if a key must exist which can open all the doors in the building?
The encryption dongle adaptor.
>but they have never been free.

Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed the cop off, you'd never get shot for it.
Very true, but the person I replied to specifically only cares about:

> I want 2TB storage, a 4k (or close) HiDPI display, good build quality, and not a bulky gaming laptop. The XPS 15 was perfect, it had those specs
> center left writer who dislikes the far left these days though, quite a few are furious at progressives for tanking the Democratic brand and throwing a winnable election to the current administration

This is such a perfect summary of contemporary American society with regards to politics.

I heard one person argue that as the far left progressives endlessly pushed "purity tests" against more extreme positions and became intolerant of any other opinions, it actually fed into why people tolerated or were willing to forgive bad things from the MAGA crowd. Many people felt like the Republicans accepted diverse viewpoints within the party, and people who'd made mistakes in the past, but the Democrats would cancel and exile anyone who wasn't perfectly woke.

It's not to excuse people who voted for Trump, but it does help explain the election results.