skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congress enabled this idiot (among many other).
And for literal centuries, you could flip through magazines to look for those neat gadgets when you want to look for them, where they usually had a fairly simple ad that wasn't trying to trick you or play with your emotions or anything. Usually a spec sheet.

When I want to know what kind of neat electronics I can play with my raspberry Pi, I don't sit around and wait for Youtube to show me ads, I browse the fucking store.

When my dad wanted to start a pressure washing business in the early 2000s, he didn't wait for an ad on the radio, or see a billboard, he ordered a catalog from some pressure washing companies and browsed their offerings at his leisure

In the 60s, if you ran a electronics lab, and you needed a new instrument to calibrate your new atomic clock, you would order an HP catalog and flip through their offerings, which included a basic description, a picture sometimes, and some specs.

Notably, the old way primarily required you to start from a point of dissatisfaction, intentionally seek out information, and purchase a solution to an actual problem you have.

The current days, advertising is all about convincing us with evolutionary brain tricks that we actually have so many problems. I'm tired of it.
Or 19th century poster art. Many people collect reproductions (or originals if they can afford it) of advertising posters by people like Firmin Bouisset. Yes, they are ads, but they are also beautiful long after the products they were advertising are no longer available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_Bouisset
> initiate a connection via CLI and get a simple URL to share

https://webwormhole.io does this, see the CLI link at the bottom. Just tested it myself with a small file.
Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation
OCR/Document extraction field has seen lot of action recently with releases like Mixtral OCR, Andrew Ng's agentic document processing etc. Also there are several benchmarks for OCR, however all testing for something slightly different which make good comparison of models very hard.

To give an example, some models like mixtral-ocr only try to convert a document to markdown format. You have to use another LLM on top of it to get the final result. Some VLM’s directly give structured information like key fields from documents like invoices, but you have to either add business rules on top of it or use some LLM as a judge kind of system to get sense of which output needs to be manually reviewed or can be taken as correct output. No benchmark attempts to measure the actual rate of automation you can achieve.

We have tried to solve this problem with a benchmark that is only applicable for documents/usecases where you are looking for automation and its trying to measure that end to end automation level of different models or systems.

We have collected a dataset that represents documents like invoices etc which are applicable in processes where automation is needed vs are more copilot in nature where you would need to chat with document. Also have annotated these documents and published the dataset and repo so it can be extended.

Here is writeup: https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nanonets/nn-auto-bench-ds
Github: https://github.com/NanoNets/nn-auto-bench

Looking for suggestions on how this benchmark can be improved further.
question for the robot experts: what is the limitation that makes the movements so slow? for example when it picks up the ball and puts it in the basket. why couldn't that movement be done much faster?
Seems cool enough to me that it should have been done independent of selling TVs.
I don't think it is wasteful, and to the extent it was destructive, it was well worth it.

We should encourage and welcome more of this, not less. How it is funded does not diminish this, IMO.
This is awesome. Looking forward to TS support. Soon I hope?
I used to go out to the mountains to stargaze, so pretty out there but people still lived there. Frequently there would be something like a dog barking for hours. I realized you really can't escape human bs noise.
It is partially being succeeded by Iroh.

https://www.iroh.computer/
Didn't try on Mobile Safari. That's on me. Going to fix that one.

Kudos to you for reporting it so nicely.
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Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337049
A nice side benefit is that ratpoison is its own screen lock (for 99% of people).
The leaf on the darker grapes looks like a fabric leaf, I'd kinda bet they're all fake for these demos / testing.

Don't need the robot to smash a grape when we can use a fake grape that won't smash.
Thanks for playing it!
You can achieve the need to do something by forming human connections. Mutual necessity between people, a form of fulfillment that long predates any economy.

We have the unfortunate combination of being uniquely individualistic and with too much time. Community-based societies, which we will have to transition to in a post-scarcity world, don’t have that problem.
> Well guess what, Go has been not crappy for a lot longer than C# has been not crappy, maybe that’s part of the reason people like it more.

Nobody said anything about who likes what more, nor does that even matter in the context of the original claim that .NET doesn't have a good runtime outside of Windows.
I do mean after those things. Globally nobody cares about most of these after the initial shock. There were definitely long periods of good in between those events.
Loved it. Congratulations on the launch.
I totally agree with you. I'm just explaining Mozilla's motivation.
Can't you disable exceptions?
Isn’t scanlation kind of dead already? Afaik, every major manga get released in English weekly/monthly, and almost everything else is officially translated.
thank you for playing!
HLS Player
I’d argue a search engine with a monopoly could dictate which site get visited at all, based on any criteria. That could include standards.

But agree a browser monopoly is no better.

Finally, question: what do you mean you cannot pay your rent on Firefox? Curious.
I worked in a large-ish org where 20+ python projects, their CI/CD pipelines and their docker images were migrated from `pyenv` + `.python-version` + `requirements.txt` to `uv` in basically a single day.

If you are comfortable with `pyenv`, the switch to `uv` is basically a walk in the park. The benefit is the speed + the predictable dependencies resolution.
Big update about Flashes and its future!

https://github.com/birdsongapps/Flashes/discussions/122
Exactly, taxes on that fun is what supports food stamps and medicine for the poor, to the extent it is available.
For some controls (I have in mind <select> and date pickers) there is also a lot of functionality missing from the built-in ones.
You don't think a walking talking robotic salesmen is a boon for their ad business?
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

It says “based on” in the README, which could just mean “inspired by”, but it’s also in the license so I thought that it was an actual fork. Looking at the actual history would reveal the answer, but idk, works basically the same.
The aggrieved parties are welcome to sue. But it won't get on the docket for over a year at least. but will there be any DoJ lawyers around to care then? Or support staff? Will anyone care? It's looking grim.
Ugh... Please not the Alexa model of pushing products and services.
I think PHP was brilliant, and to this day is still an underrated model, but as websites grow in complexity, particularly around data and access controls, The model needs to be inverted. When logic gets sprinkled throughout templates, it can turn into an unreadable nightmare. Personally, I think ERB in Ruby with Sinatra or rails really nailed The approach.
Table sugar is half fructose.

From a metabolism standpoint hfcs and table sugar are basically the same thing, except the former has water in it.

Sucrose is broken into fructose and glucose by an enzyme in the small intestine.

Honey and agave are also fructose and glucose, making the whole hfcs is worse than table sugar, honey, or agave thing even sillier.
I had a Bravia 40BX425 (latam model) for several years. I bought it used and after many years I had to sell (needed the money). An astounding TV, much better than some of the new smart cr*p out there.
What is the point here? Don't complain about the ramifications of the advertising industry because wars exist?

I'd be curious to see this Top 100 list.
> security compliance

I think there was a one-two punch that sort of destroyed common sense.

First the rise of cloud computing where some data went remote.

Then the pandemic where people were remote too.

And I think most corporations sort of GAVE UP. Now everything including employee lists, business strategy, code, internal documents, chat sessions, email, meetings... it's all just out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_bx8bnCoiU

If you want to watch the ad. A couple of friends of mine lived in the city at the time and were watching as they filmed it. We all agreed that it was both amazing and insane all at the same time.
They did, however they can issue a mea culpa and say they were supporting the president's fresh approach to governance but not intending to support gross incompetence. They can get him out and still save face.
TL;DR I compile a document between each 121 containing:

- current goals (including 5 year goals, 1 year goals, short term goals)
- significant actions since last 121
- skills matrix score increases and justification for him/her to approve
- projects I'm doing/ideas
- tasks that me and him/her need to do between now and the next 121
- questions and concerns

Documents have ranged from 14 pages down to 4 - Typically when I have a bad manager the documents tend to be longer.

This came about because in my previous role I found I would go into 121's saying "yes, I think I have earned a better score in EntraID" and he would say "I need evidence". There were also allot of very inconsistent bits of information regarding progression passed. It became very clear I needed to keep track of all of this and essentially game the system, and twist my managers arm. This became so effective three of my co-workers have also began doing this, and to my understanding copies of my 121 prep documents are passed around upper management as a way of saying "yea, this is what happens when you don't address issues".

From doing this I have somewhat taken control of my 121's and typically lead them rather than let them happen to me. If I am honest it is an incredibly effective measure for self advocation and rapid career progression. I have been considering for some time putting a template onto my GitHub for others to use.
>Cisco Unified Call Manager

Is that not a kind of business/enterprise thing?

"Telecom" to me is like a network core equipment and radio towers - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/pgw-packet-d...
Come on, the anime has insane art and animation. They are kicking the ball out of the park, especially with S2.
Pretend the kitchen is a virtual environment then, I'm not accepting no as answer.
People still use clients for certain services otherwise many sites wouldn't still be making them.

Of course you're right that this would all be hardcoded and would not allow new types of sites to work right away.

I don't know that you'd even need a protocol or service for each category of site. It would probably make more sense to use the same architecture for all types of services with something like a manifest to determine the mode. I think the challenge would be making the APIs public in a way that would be practical for the servers implementing them.
The problem is that the usual definition of "solid" requires a classical understanding of what it means for "a thing to be in a place". With quantum mechanics, places get blurred, so you can have things remain in a rigid structure and flow, simultaneously.

So you read it correctly: scientists made a fancy electric field with a laser.
To make sure that everybody gets measles, they could bottle it in vials and give children a carefully dosed injection. Maybe an attenuated measles strain instead of the most dangerous form.

Surely the natural immunization acquired in this way cannot be worse than unnatural vaccines!
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

We'll get new numbers on that page this Friday, but the number of cases in Texas alone (per other reporting) now exceeds the national total from last week. Spring break is coming up which means a lot more travel for families so we're probably going to see it spread even wider.
I think we all share that feeling, even as a software engineer and I see AI writing 90% of my code for me.
I watched it, it's not so bad. Anyway, it's not like TV doesn't use compression, and back then it was more primitive MPEG-2.
If this isn't AI, what is? It's an autonomous robot!
Super cool! Tried a couple of rounds, will try it with my oldest kid who's very into history tomorrow, I'm sure he'll love it.
This is probably a colorful way of saying they bought up a couple months' worth of inventory from Wham-O's western-division distributors.
True, but rare disease treatments have little to do with artificial hearts, they are a treatment for a very common disease but at an impractical state for most candidates.
I recently used a different extension to translate some chapters for a pretty niche manga that'd been dropped by its scanlation team, and the results were definitely readable, but one area where it seemed to struggle a bit was with third-person pronouns (to some confusing results).

IIRC Japanese usually defaults to a generic pronoun that means "that person" rather than more specific pronouns for "he" or "she," so there were some times where I think the AI had to guess on whether "he" or "she" was the appropriate equivalent and just guessed wrong. In at least one instance it might've also been that a character was intentionally using feminine address to refer to an outwardly gay man, which could've been an interesting nuance if translated more clearly, but as things were it just left me confused.
I'd say whether Rust helps you reduce bugs depends on how good you are at creating abstractions and/or encoding properties in the type system.
So you're going to do nothing and mock everyone else - unfortunately, that's become the norm, and that was my point.
Silicon valley is built on transistors, and by extension computers and software. The media industry is built on the attention economy.

Competing for people's attention is a zero-sum game, but building technology that helps people be more productive and do new things they couldn't before is not zero-sum.

Are you accusing me of redefining the meaning of life to be dollars? If so, I completely deny that accusation as it doesn't remotely align with my beliefs or what I said in my comment.
I've seen people argue that Mozilla shouldn't be offering cloud services and should just build a browser that never phones home to any servers at all, whether it's telemetry, automated updates, or profiles. I think all of those are part of shipping a modern browser, personally.

Maintaining all those cloud services raises your company's operational costs a lot, you now need people on-call 24/7 to maintain everything, you need webdevs who can wrangle postgres or redis or whatever, you need security experts to make sure the cloud stack is secure end to end, etc. So I think it's also fair for people to call this cloud stuff out as a cost center for Mozilla.
I’m no robotics expert, but look how close the robots are to squishy human meat bags.

I assume Google is being very careful to keep the speeds well below the “oops, it took your jaw off” threshold.
D-Wave quantum annealers solve problems classical algorithms struggle with
It's been some time that I worked with React Native, but I think you can use react-native-web to create web previews of the mobile app.
What Russia wants is just that...a want. Their position where they allow for no compromises is a bluff where they bet nobody dares to call their bluff. Which might be a good bet, we'll see.
> Memory leaks, NULL pointer dereferences, use-after-free

I suffered writing those for many years. I finally simply learned not to do them anymore. Sort of like there's a grain of sand on the bottom of my foot and the skin just sort of entombed it in a callous.
This may be borderline off topic, but I don't really understand the desire to have git support in your text editor. It can be very nice for viewing blames, but for managing commits and stuff it has always felt a bit clunky to me. Maybe that is because of my workflow however. I typically review every line being staged by using `git add -p` so that I commit exactly what I intend to commit, and that workflow doesn't really mesh well with an editor.
Thank you for your work on XFCE. It's been the best WM/UI for me for over a decade.
That's the propagandist's argument. But the reality is there is a difference between truth and falsehood, it's not just a matter of perception, and we can tell the difference with reasonable accuracy.
> Who will buy the phones when no one is paid to produce them? The cars? The food and the clothes

The headline last week was that the top 10% now accounts for 50% of consumer spending [1]. As that trend accelerates, the economy will reconfigure to focus ever more on selling goods and services to a smaller, wealthier group of people.

This trend is already visible in many service-oriented sectors (i.e. concierge medicine, private membership based ski resorts, etc).

Exacerbating wealth inequality is the objective with which these technologies are being deployed, even if it's not the objective with which they are developed by engineers and scientists.

1. https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-ri...
Great example. Anyone who cavalierly states "let's do PKI!" has not done PKI.
> So I don’t know which good parts of C++ they kept.

comptime is a better version of C++ templates.
Other commented on the frontend not being open source at the moment (which I hope they will eventually come around and OS it). But I just wanted to say how great this feels. In particular, being able to launch from within the CLI is a godsend because sometimes you start in the CLI and then realise you are better served with a GUI due to data complexity, etc.
It's a Polish company almost hiring a (fake) Polish employee.
When I see pro-AI promoters giving weird analogies that do not fit, I get a feeling that they are either management class(aka MBA types) or are not serious professionals.

One key point we must first understand, coding is NOT software engineering or even programming! Writing code is the last bit, a minimal fraction of the job description(unless you are actually indie dev or working for consulting firms). The core tasks include actually untangling the numerous vague requirements, understanding the domain, figuring out best approaches, performing various tests and checks, validating ideas, figuring out a cost effective solution, preparing rough architecture, deciding on an actual set of tech, align a hoard of people that everyone is on the same page, then start coding.

My IDE can already read my mind by auto-suggestion since many years and patterns/frameworks exist to reduce the amount of code I need to write. The issue is that, with these AI model, I just need to abuse my fingers slightly less. The other core duties are not yet solved and remains same archaic procedural everywhere in any/all serious roles.

And speaking of consulting firms, they are also clever and often has several implementations of same stuff, which they can modify a bit and sell for big money.

So in the end, people who jump into the pit because they are afraid of the juju mask are the prime target of the juju mask, for the rest of us, life goes on with minor bumps when the MBA comes to the desk and asks if it is possible to layoff few people to jack up the stock price this quarter yet… while subscribing to that new agenting engineer product suite for double the fees of what the laid off people actually costed, because their best friend in the golf club said the price will eventually become reasonable but the benefits are immediate.
When shipping an image decoder make sure you're not using it on untrusted inputs unless it's been very vigorously fuzzed and security audited. Common mistake to be made and other fast/simple decoder libraries for PNG have had vulnerabilities before.

EDIT: Thankfully I don't see any native code in this repo, it looked like a wrapper around a native binary at first. So the attack surface is smaller, but it's still worth being careful! You might want to check whether Inflator etc are robust.
They will!
All of this can be summed up as "The Race to Zero"

If you make a product or a SaaS product and try to charge a dime for it, eventually 30 other competitors of the same service will offer a free version of your service + 1 or 3 things that they expect you to upgrade for.

Now sure some may say this is "market validation" however looking at this, why would I use any of their products when as you said there is no competitive moat anymore and I can just copy the SaaS end to end in one shot for free with AI.

You have to be more creative...
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Couldn't a similar argument be made about using a calculator? Hopefully, the tools created based on these new technologies will enable future generations to achieve things that perhaps we haven't even considered before.
Could be. Although that was well after I stopped watching television, so if it didn't appear as an online ad, I wouldn't have seen it no matter what.
> The physical safety of robots and the people around them is a longstanding, foundational concern in the science of robotics. That's why roboticists have classic safety measures such as avoiding collisions, limiting the magnitude of contact forces, and ensuring the dynamic stability of mobile robots.

Uhhh, I mean that's nice, but how about: "That's why we will never sell our products to military, police, or other openly violent groups, and will ensure that our robots will always respond instantly to commands like, 'stop, you're hurting me', which they understand in every documented human language on earth, and with which they will comply regardless of who gave the previous command that caused violent behavior."

Who is building the robot cohort that is immune - down to the firmware level - to state coercion and military industry influence?
From what I learned 15 years ago, but am too lazy to fact check now...

Fructose is metabolized in the liver, i.e. similar to alcohol. Glucose can be used directly by cells. The biggest issue is that fructose doesn't tell the brain that you've had enough, while glucose does (I'm guessing it's because of the delay the liver adds.) So you can eat more fructose than glucose without starting to feel weird. At the same time, you're straining the liver.

If you're eating equal parts glucose and fructose (like sucrose), it's not a problem, as your body is used to it and can adjust its glucose sensitivity. But if you completely remove that signal substance, it doesn't stand a chance.
The falling snow on that page turns my phone into a hand warmer. Accidental?