skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another test with a text in English, which is maybe more fair (although Mistral is a French company ;-). This image is from Parliamentary debates of the parliament of New Zealand in 1854-55:

https://i.imgur.com/1uVAWx9.png

Here's the output of the first paragraph, with mistakes in brackets:

> drafts would be laid on the table, and a long discussion would ensue; whereas a Committee would be able to frame a document which, with perhaps a few verbal emundations [emendations], would be adopted; the time of the House would thus be saved, and its business expected [expedited]. With regard to the question of the comparative advantages of The-day [Tuesday]* and Friday, he should vote for the amendment, on the principle that the wishes of members from a distance should be considered on all sensations [occasions] where a principle would not be compromised or the convenience of the House interfered with. He hoped the honourable member for the Town of Christchurch would adopt the suggestion he (Mr. Forssith [Forsaith]) had thrown out and said [add] to his motion the names of a Committee.*

Some mistakes are minor (emnundations/emendations or Forssith/Forsaith), but others are very bad, because they are unpredictable and don't correspond to any pattern, and therefore can be very hard to spot: sensations instead of occasions, or expected in lieu of expedited... That last one really changes the meaning of the sentence.
Some people seemingly resent any functionality that wasn't part of V7.
>The problem is most of the web is trash

no no no. The web is great, and despite my numerous complaints, the base web framework of HTML/CSS/JS is more than fast enough for web.

Corporate chose to make it trash because they care nothing for optimization nor decent-mindedness. Even on template blogs you may have defaults jammed with trackers, ads, invasive cookies, and just plain bad code. As well as locking content behind account servers.

Those are all man-made problems. That may be another reason why many hackers want a metaphorical "return to form" of web 1.0, before all this junk ruined the free web. Some of those marketing tools can still be put in, but they absolutely cannot bloat the load times by 10,000x+. If you gonna make hooks, make them as subtle as possible.
Nice job, with a really cool result. Looks like that craft almost went beyond the infinite.
Because the system views the people who need support as disposable. The system doesn't need them.
If anything this is an argument for not outsourcing things to the private sector. If anything, we should grow the public sector and things become more efficient.

Which, to me, intuitively makes sense. More hops is more complexity is more friction is less efficiency.
I use copilot every day and every day I'm more and more convinced that LLMs aren't going to rule the world but will continue to be "just" neat autocomplete tools whose utility degrades the more you expect from them.
DMCA 1201 says ANY decryption without permission from a copyright holder (with some exceptions that are in practice pretty minor) is a federal crime. Yet one more on the pile of "three felonies a day" to hold over the masses to keep them in line.
Trade wars hurt. Sorry.
Ok I got why it didn't make sense to use that metric
Having lived through the 1990's, "Deflation = bad" is a claim I am very skeptical of.

In the 1980's and 1990's computer industry, your dollars could buy a lot more megahertz or megabytes every year.

If the "deflation = bad" people were correct, everyone should have held onto their dollars waiting for next year's tech, knowing it would be a lot better than this year's tech. No one should have wanted to buy computers, and the tech industry should have been in a gigantic depression.
The notion of "individual generosity" presupposes that each individual is morally entitled to dispose, as the individual sees fit, of the assets that the individual happens to control, whether in consequence of the individual's efforts, membership in the Lucky Sperm Club, a good divorce settlement, or whatever. As Elizabeth Warren said back in 2011, that disregards all the other factors that went into the individual's coming into control of those assets. [0]

It's reminiscent of what NY Times lead economic correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum said in The Economists' Hour about Milton Friedman, the famed free-market evangelist: Friedman celebrated drivers but took roads for granted.

[0] https://youtu.be/htX2usfqMEs?si=Sxx3ew7yhJ66ydU5&t=51
> but all the ingredients for having society function in this way are attainable with a bit of a cultural shift

It's awfully naive to think that you can solve the information problem with a "small cultural shift". Statements like this strike me as deeply ignorant of economics and the history of attempts to plan society. People are messy and their needs are hard to predict in any meaningful and responsive way that respects their preferences.

Imagine answering the question how many washing machines should we make. Assuming you could figure this out, you need to consider the different kinds of washing machines people may want and need. Apartment dwellers need small efficient one, and people with a lot of kids want big ones. This in turn has baring on the number of motors you have to make, feet of copper wire you need to product, plastics, rubber, and on and on. And don't forget that's just washing machines.

Now you need to figure out how to get these washing machines to people.

You just can't plan and automate everything, its far too complicated.
We trained all the parameters. Those would definitely be interesting ablations. I would also like to see how much of a performance hit we would take with PEFT methods like LoRA.
What is that timeframe though? I had the impression that it's longer than a week, which is the maximum time I've seen banks show newly deposited funds as not available.
like simply inflating gas prices?
Maybe I'm alone in this, especially on this site.

I'm beginning to become disillusioned with these things. We're replacing like 1000s of jobs with a system that will almost certainly do a worse job than before. And the money is split between hospital shareholders and VC.

I get that there's an efficiency (market) gain here. But these AI startups that target existing sector automations seem like they're most just attempting to drive wealth inequality in a period of already terrible westh inequality.
Huh. Did not realize we'd given up on that. Did the industry just settle on IPv4 after all?
Citation needed.

Don't say "it's obvious", because people would have said the same (mistaken) thing about cognitive decline before the submitted article.
Do you mind sharing some numbers? Looks like it’s a £7,500 grant with a matching loan? What is your monthly heating bill now? Do you think a battery + octopus 7p deal would bring down the costs?
Yeah, I've always felt like defining infrastructure in a full-on language fell nicely into that category of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

I've only recently started to see this play out with a sufficiently large infrastructure setup and nothing is more infuriating than having to keep multiple layers of logic in your head when you're trying to figure out why some value got set on a task definition.
It does if those successes aren’t based on you at all, which they’re not.

In every instance, a lot of other people did all the work. Musk provided funds, which a machine could do.

And, he did fail. A lot. But the more money you have, the more you can fail.
yeah... but there is a counterargument. we can't go back to the moon. We did, now we can't.
Indeed, thanks. I try to be skeptical about assumptions, even my own.
I think it also depends on what the professor's and the student's goals are; and if they're aligned.

Is the course about learning the material at hand, or laying the foundation for graduate level courses in the same subject? About teaching the most efficient way or getting a student used to deriving equations when there's not a plug and play formula.

I'm sure we can draw similar parallels between csci college courses, big tech interviews, and professional software development. Even though it's all the same pipeline, each stage/stakeholder has different goals, motivations, etc... If you're having a discussion about the pros and cons of an approach, you have to make sure the goals are aligned else you'll just be talking past each other.
I think this is just legal cover, just as they are denying that Elon is running DOGE. Elon has caused a huge legal problem for the administration by throwing so much of his weight around. The Appointments Clause of the constitution says that Officers of the United States must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Obviously the Senate has not confirmed Elon. If he's a mere advisor, making suggestions, that's fine. But if he has the authority to order around cabinet officials, then it's a violation of the Appointments Clause and the courts can potentially some of what he's doing (assuming that the administration abides by court orders).

Elon does not care about the constitution or the law. That's putting the country in a position where either Trump has to rein him in, or Trump will have to trigger a constitutional crisis by ignoring a court order.
Unfortunately, that word is probably going to be "Are you hiring?"
Here's a list of open source alternatives to switch to: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/opsgenie

Most of them can be self-hosted so you won't be locked in in case that happens again.
Quaternions, we were due our weekly quaternion post.

Nice work by the way!
Woz: it’s a process that should be done “more surgically, with a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.”

Precisely. The fact they are not using a "scalpel" means they do not want surgical results. If you want the entire system to crumble you use a sledgehammer, wrecking ball, etc., on the most fragile parts.

That's what they want: to break the entire thing. I don't know why that is such a difficult conclusion for people to understand.
And here I thought after reading the headline: finally a reliable Arabic OCR. I've never in my life found a good that does the job decently especially for a scanned document. Or is there something out there I don't know about?
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Google is a huge organization. No it shouldn't.

That makes as much sense as saying every Y Combinator startup should post on a single shared blog, with tags to filter by company.

No -- a single blog should revolve around a single group of authors writing around a single, concrete theme -- an individual product, product suite, initiative, or similar.

The idea of a single blog with 500 posts a day from 500 different people sounds terrifying, tags or not. It's too many tags -- like, you'd need tags for the tags!
Why use warewulf? Seems like there have got to be simpler solutions for dealing with bare metal clusters than all of this.
Why take classes if you can learn everything with latest llms? Unless you actually need a formal degree in math ?
Flagging. Try browsing the site in chronological order with showdead on.
Fun, but LLMs would follow them post OCR anyways ;)

I see OCR much like phonemes in speech, once you have end to end systems, they become latent constructs from the past.

And that is actually good, more code going into models instead.
For some reason, the temperature difference from the poles to the equator was much smaller at that time than it is now. Explaining why is an open challenge known as the equable climate problem.
It's PXE boot for mostly stateless node / disk images, with a template-based overlay system for customizing the image as it's applied to the node.
My uncle went back to university when he was 70 to get a degree in vulcanology.
That wouldn't be FHE,
for the reason you identified. Outside of a tiny number of algorithms, homomorphic encryption doesn't usefully generalize to something as generic as word counting of arbitrary text like that. Production use of FHE is really limited. Probably the most well known application is by Apple for phone number lookup, where they're able to get the caller id for a phone number without knowing the phone number, basically.
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Superpermutation must repeat all possible combination in the shortest number possible. De Bruijn sequence places a lower bound on the length of superpermutations but shorter sequences are possible. De bruijn is also cyclical, which superpermutations in the literature are not.
You're making a strawman, the parent specifically mentioned "historical handwritten documents"
We're always looking towards IPv6 support! And you _can_ do it today, with a little bit of work. But it's been difficult to prioritize in the main project when so few of our users (read: maybe one) have expressed interest.
I kept login to Hailuo AI for a month for free credits to compile a music video
I want to rejoice that OCR is now a "solved" problem, but I feel like hallucinations are just as problematic as the kind of stuff I have to put up with tesseract -- both require careful manual proofreading for an acceptable degree of confidence. I guess I'll have to try it and see for myself just how much better these solutions are for my public domain archive.org Latin language reader & textbook projects.
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So it wasn't just that she is a black woman, but also that you believe she was a DEI hire because she is a black woman?
Hope China robs them blind. The negative feelings are an intentional part of the propaganda system. Unfortunately Europe is also under stress from propaganda systems, so even though like the US it's doing just fine, great even, it won't feel that way there either. China is the best bet, North Korea the second.
Saving you a click: no, it cannot be self hosted (unless you have a few million dollars laying around)
"Permutate"?
Doing the conversion - 20 milligrams is 0.308647 grains So you're correct.

(had to use Google - I only know that there are 7000 grains to the pound)
that env parameter is brand new, did you update ollama?
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I would be fine with having corrupt politicians arrested in Germany, too, if they were found guilty of corruption, I do not see why they should be exempt

I do not believe for an instant than the roman salute making roman candidate isn't a Russian asset, given his salute shows support for other Russian friendly politicians currently sitting at the white house.

Regarding the war, AFAIK Ukrainians would rather be in the conditions to continue fighting than to surrender and sign an unfair peace agreement. I would have no issues with rearming Europe if it meant that, as proposed, we would get a better pipeline for European weapons procurement. Having basically stopped the advance of Russia is a huge win on its own, given that it was supposed to be one of the most powerful armies in the world. Shrugging this off as "no progress" is unjust to the taxpayers as well to the Ukrainians
Can I share the testflight link? Is that appropriate.
How does SpacetimeDB deal with data migration as types/tables evolve?
Perhaps you have not seen some of the other solutions out there in this space.

Warewulf _is_ the simpler solution.
4chan was great, but it very much was one of the oldest proprietors of the so called "normie filter". The biggest most offensive boards caused 95% of the trouble the site is known for.

the smaller boards and threads could get some interesting stories and content (of all were of course, of reasonable falseness and potential homosexuality). The vibe was fine as long as you avoided the modern attitude and approach everything with hostility. Unlike say, modern twitter, everyone in 4chan was in agreement that they were full of shit. It was never trying to be this platform of serious debate. Understanding that ironically enough frees you of a lot of inhibitions.

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All the "elites" were definitely gone by the middle of the 2010's, though. Probably to less controversial and more popular platforms. It's nearly impossible to replicate this nowadays.
Where do you see open source benchmark results that confirm Mistral’s performance?
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Is it better if there are lots of hidden gems tucked away on obscure websites? Actually I think that is a sort of interesting question. The world is a more interesting place if there are hidden bits I guess. And there will be some hidden pieces of info, so maybe it is good if there’s enough out there to incentivize exploration.

On the other hand, it is nice and convenient if everything is indexed.

I dunno. Conflicted.
'A blatant violation of the law': Judge blasts Trump's firing of NLRB member
Yeah, it may help. In this paper[1], the author used a KL penalty of 0.01 for general tasks and 0.001 for mathematical. I tend to think it's probably not very important unless you're trying to optimize for human preferences.

As for response length, I think the model internalizes the logic and doesn't deliberate its answers through context creation. I don't think this is necessarily good for general reasoning, but for a specific task it would cut down inference costs. Just depends on what you're optimizing for. To encourage more general reasoning, I think a broader train and validation set would be helpful.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2501.03262v1
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It doesn’t have to be one key for all, one key for a bucket, per user if needs be. Can’t these master keys be in offline HSM’s? I get your argument, but it doesn’t seem an impossible problem to solve.
He's not smart. Only very rich.
Please define an acronym the first time you use it in the body text. I had to scroll about 20% the way through your article just to understand the title.
>Statistics works

it does but just because nate silver calls something "statistics" doesn't necessarily mean that it is. If Donald Trump has a 20% chance of winning that means that we can hold the election 100 times and expect that he'll win approximately 20 elections and lose the other 80. Which is ridiculous because each voter is not an independent random variable.
I came across both on the same day back in the early 1970s. I was hitching up the A1 to Edinburgh and got stuck, then I came across a hog trying to cross the very busy road, so I grabbed it and ran across and dumped it in the verge. A little later, still with thumb stuck out, I heard rustling in the undergrowth, and this black and white critter waddled past me as if I wasn't there.

Kind of sad that people don't hitch anymore. You come across all sorts of stuff and people. My little brother was in a garage band and wrote a song called "Stick Out Your Thumb And Have Some Fun", which I liked.
Lots of comments on Discord here, but is anybody saying this new service "Revolt" is better than Discord?
you can learn everything with latest llms

That's a good idea if your goal is a degree in hallucinations.
Following your suggestion, I’ve implemented the PSA algorithm (the optimized one) in C++. It might be tricky to understand without an explanation, especially since (1) it’s generalized for any dimensionality, and (2) I manually implemented the basic transformation ("oscillating shift") instead of using NumPy’s reshape+roll+flatten, which I believe makes it easier to grasp. But you can verify that it returns the same results as the naive algorithm. For the quiniela case, it shouldn’t take more than 2-3 seconds to compute the sum of neighbors for all points. https://github.com/petopello/PSA/blob/main/PSA.cpp
Really depends on who you ask. You still need v4 to be "globally reachable", but v6 is optional.

AWS seems to finally be feeling the pinch of IPv4 exhaustion and is pushing v6 support everywhere now, and starting to charge for v4.

Mobile networks already have, and many are natively IPv6, with NAT64/464XLAT or other tech for bridging to v4. Apple's App store requires apps to support IPv6-only networks.

CDNs and clouds etc mean that websites don't even really need to worry about their own IP allocation, and just let their provider figure out exposing things worldwide.
Great point! Thanks for the feedback.
I remember when Reddit had a reputation as a pretty gross site. It is kinda funny how their trajectories have differed.
I keep seeing people mention "illegible reasoning" but I'd be fascinated to see an example of what it actually looks like. Do you have any examples?

Apparently DeepSeek-R1 can switch between English, Chinese, and gibberish, and even the gibberish helps it think! That's fascinating, but all I can find is people saying it, nobody showing it.
For myself, while the learning curve is "longer" as I've gotten older, it also shoots sharply upwards as the time spent on the skill acquisition increases. Age has a magnification effect at the tail end.

I'm in my late 40s and I do pick up new technical skills a bit slower than younger folks. But because I have a lot of experience, I'm able to more quickly grasp various contextual aspects of those skills: how/why they are useful, how they compare to previous skills that tried to solve the same problem, the hidden costs and implications, etc. These matter a lot in the practical, everyday application of skills.

I find that younger people have a really hard time with those contextual aspects, or they don't think it's that important... until they discover they do.
On this topic, SimpleQA benchmark has a component measuring hallucination rate vs ”know” vs ”don’t know”. OpenAI models have often been more troubled than the rest. See also, from the paper: https://imgur.com/7NDZ0ON (you want a low ”Incorrect” score as it’s an attempted answer, but wrong)

I wish hallucination benchmarks were far more popular.
Badgers are protected mostly because of badger ‘baiting’ which is a medieval blood sport the populace is repulsed by yet is a persistent subculture.
https://archive.ph/8851y
RCS is a legacy protocol? Doesn't Google Messages use RCS for everything?
You could bring it to a large festival or even a protest. Law enforcement deploys them all the time. I found one using SnoopSnitch on an Android phone while at a large festival here in Louisiana.
Take a day for them to send commands. If anything goes wrong and they use too much power, that's it.
Do you say "lie" because you believe the media is actively lying, or do you really mean error by omission (due to lack of deep research)?
This isn't even close to true.

Source: We have large EU customers.
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https://archive.ph/ma4f1
This mirrors the long term trend for almost all insect populations, globally. Think of the impact on everything that eats insects; they're the base of the Animalia food web. It's not an exaggeration to say we're watching the early stages of a mass extinction unless this trend reverses sharply.
I legitimately used this method (updated three times a day) via a photo posted to a spot on sharepoint in the military.

People LOVED it. Worked amazingly well, was easy to hand off if I was out, etc.
I'm working on making pthash faster and more practical. I can compile the data and code to C++, send efficiently store the keys also to be able to eliminate false positives.

https://github.com/rurban/pthash
Yep, and فمِنا too, this is not just OCR, it made some post-processing corrections or "enhancements".
That could be good, but it could also be trouble the 1% chance it makes a mistake in critical documents.
Did you even read my comment? Healthcare professionals are people, too.

A human is not a pet.
4chan was very early, if not close to first of what we'd describe as a "forum" and persisted through the decades. That's the notable factor, outside of all the "noise" described above.

But yes, the noise was also a part of the surprise factor here. Many people have this perception that intelligent people are dignified, studious,and fancy in their demeanor. So someone like that hanging out on an "anime forum" can be shocking to some.
This was done by 4chan.