skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a biologist, and especially not a microbiologist, so you should take what I say with a decent chunk of salt. That said, microbes are so wildly diverse that that version of the question sounds a lot like "are there any big extinct clades of microbes", which, I don't know, microbes are pretty persistent. But probably.

As for macroscopic life, there are some Ediacaran critters like rangeomorphs and tribrachidium that (to my knowledge) are not conclusively associated with any existing domain. So who knows about those guys.
What a great development. Commenters have noted various challenges that will need to be addressed but they seem largely solvable to me. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this as it moves from the lab to real applications.
That definitely makes sense. Appreciate the point.
The great thing about democracy is that we can debate subtleties and choose a path between extremes.

So we can say that while the extremes of this argument are either total surveillance or no surveillance at all, we can instead opt for a more balanced approach. We can recognize that guaranteeing privacy in public or when using a publicly provided service is silly, but also that some forms of automation and data mining elevate simple observations into a level of surveillance that we are not comfortable with.
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how -> through Gulf migration remittances fueling private investment (especially in services), enabled by a skilled population and a more market-friendly political environment
Kerala reminds me of California when it comes to natural landscapes. I really love that place.

Coming literacy, what does that mean? They all know how to read & write in a particular language? OR they have passed minimum undergrad?
https://handsoff2025.com/

Fight Back.
Good point. Either way, it's kind of peculiar that getting an en dash in this manner demands flanking the hyphen(s) with spaces, and those spaces persist after replacement, when the typical usage of an en dash specifically doesn't demand spaces.

From TFA:

> August 1–August 31

From a top comment:

> Boston–San Francisco flight, 10–20 years

To achieve this using the replacement feature we're talking about would take something like <word><space><hyphenminus><space><word><space><alt+leftarrow><bksp><leftarrow><bksp><alt+rightarrow> which is ridiculous.

In professional typesetting, like a book, I sometimes see spaces flanking an em dash, however.
What if you are not operating a car? Many governments in the United States have outlawed or are trying to outlaw wearing masks in public.
That's really heavy distortion on those samples.

1. I'd be surprised if it didn't have an effect.

2. Your average video call seems much better quality.
That would be interesting, a taxonomy of niches.
There is some research on repurposing existing methane pipeline infra for transporting chemical energy produced from low carbon energy.

https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/docs/hydrogenprogramlibrarie...
Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle is different. She invented that in 1985. The journalism "inverted pyramid" is much older, going back to the 1800s.
Why do it at the block level (instead of tmpfs)? Or do you mean that you're doing actual real persistent disks that just have a lot of cache sitting in front of them?
See also: ECMAScript for XML (E4X) https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-357_2...
There's a lot of brain drain in Kerala with people getting educated and leaving. Those that leave do, however, send money back to their families and I know many who return to live in India after 5-10 years. This was the case a decade or two ago and I'm not sure if it's still the case.

I had many aunts or uncles who would leave their family behind in India and work in the middle east for many years before returning to India. This practice helped them shore up savings and build houses.
Of course they would say that.

Blaming the parents and kids is just a scapegoat.

But yes, the kids that succeed are the ones that the parents are involved, because the teachers are useless.

The quality of teachers has gone way down, especially since federal student loans.

Anyone can become a teacher, it's a default path, and it shows.
Benchmarking open source VLMs for OCR
This has been a big week for open source LLMs. In the last few days we got:

- Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b)

- Gemma-3 (27b)

- DeepSeek-v3-0324

And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models.

We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways:

- Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error.

- Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR.

- Gemma-3 (27B) only scored 42.9%. Particularly surprising given that it's architecture is based on Gemini 2.0 which still tops the accuracy chart.

The data set and benchmark runner is fully open source. You can check out the code and reproduction steps here:

- https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark

- https://huggingface.co/datasets/getomni-ai/ocr-benchmark
Looks like it comes from the original RIKEN article [1], where they call it an "artistic rendering" instead of an "artist's impression." More accurate, I suppose, but I wish people would just actually say if an image is AI generated or not, at least for the sake of clarity.

[1] https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/research_news/rr/20250327_...
I use ellipses & dashes… perhaps the former will convince people I am human.
FYI. They have been decriminalized in the District of Columbia for a while now.
E.g. massive XML documents with complexity which you need to be transformed into other structured XML. Or if you need to parse complex XML. Some people hate XSLT, XPATH with a passion and would rather write much more complex lxml code. It has a steep learning curve but once you understand the fundamentals you can transform XML more easily and especially predictable and reliable than ever.

Another example: If you have very large XML you cannot fit even into memory you can still stream process them with XSLT.

It makes you the master of XML transformations and fetching information out of complex XML ;)
Thanks so much for reading and the kind words! I'm really glad to hear you've found the previous course valuable!
Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
Law 209348032984: Pay some guy for dubiously priced services that are clearly a government function. If you don't do it you're a statistical thief who refused to pay for something that didn't happen. Seems like the law itself is violating the social contract.
Windows Server 2025 locking up after Feb patch, no word of when a fix will land
Did you mean this temple in Andhrapradesh? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkateswara_Temple,_Tirumala
Yes, you just type the registration number into this form: https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

Not sure whether it's accessible outside the UK.
yup, a definitive “neoliberal”/“neoclassical” economic theory puff piece.
We do not use vercel. Unfortunate that the experience varies so much.
Reminds me of how (small and regular) forest fires are actually healthy for giant sequoias.

> Giant sequoia cones are serotinous, which means that fire on the forest floor causes them to dry out, open and release their seeds. This adaptation ensures that the tree times the release of most of its seeds to coincide with fire, which creates ideal conditions for regeneration success. Fire burns off woody debris and exposes the soil, it creates an ash layer that returns nutrients to the soil and increases sunlight by killing some of the competing pines and firs.

https://www.savetheredwoods.org/interactive/giant-sequoia-an...
AI Receptionist for Small Businesses
I have run into similar issues and I agree, it’s not without flaws. The formula editor is another example, as others have pointed out.

A good solution I have found to your particular problem is to use checkboxes in the cells. You can select them as a cell type and it converts from Boolean value text to checkbox. I also prefer that, as a user, to typing True/False.
It's worth noting Apple (likely) do this with the SOCs - the bucketed variants with fewer operational GPU cores are the output. They just don't do it with the packaging.
So I have a grid with Gas and Renewables connected.

100% Gas will use 100TWh of gas to generate power

50% renewable will use 50TWh of gas to generate power
Hard habit to break. I learned it so long ago too.

Haha I learned to type organically, and it was only in my mid-40s that I retrained myself to type the correct way. It took something like 40 hours of practice on keybr.com before I could get close enough to my regular typing speed, such that I could switch over to the 'correct' method without it impacting my work.

Retraining myself to stop doing double-spaces took maybe a week.
The MCP server will work with any MCP client.
I noticed that in the early 00s, GAP would produce a product, then use cheaper materials and sell it through Old Navy, and use more expensive material the sell it through Banana Republic. Same style, different materials.
Ah yes, "I did a [thing that a person performs or does]" is valid.

Is "an ouchie" a thing that someone performs or does?
I find it very useful to review the output and consider its suggestions.

I don’t trust it blindly, and I often don’t use most of what it suggests; but I do apply critical thinking to evaluate what might be useful.

The simplest example is using it as a reverse dictionary. If I know there’s a word for a concept, I’ll ask an LLM. When I read the response, I either recognize the word or verify it using a regular dictionary.

I think a lot of the contention in these discussions is because people are using it for different purposes: it's unreliable for some purposes and it is excellent at others.
It's necessary to teach oversimplified things to small minds, even oversimplified to the extent of being incorrect.

Please get off your elitist horse. "Small minds" has nothing to do with it, it is mostly a matter of topic specialization. You even acknowledge this yourself in the next few paragraphs.

Also, as attested by another current front page story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470138), it's incorrect even when talking about children.
it's not even necessarily about waste of resources. many microplastics and other complex oil-derived chemicals are quite obviously not [known to be] safe for human and other animals' health. we know pretty much for sure that most wood, glass types and natural fibres are safe.
You can read more about using Graphiti in your own projects here: https://help.getzep.com/graphiti/graphiti/overview
Court: First Amendment Doesn't Apply to Descriptions of Moderation Practices
The original title is:

> First Amendment Doesn't Apply to Descriptions of Content Moderation Practices–Bride v. Snap
Why do we have several active military bases in both countries to this day? Force projection isn’t the only reason..
Literacy mostly means Reading skills. Goes a long way in a poor country with an abysmal record for primary education. Kerala also has a Higher % of school graduation compared to rest of India.
All of what LLMs do now was impossible 5 years ago. Like it is so self-evident, that I don't know how to take the request for examples seriously.
You can make your own ALPR, it's quite easy.
I blame Ms Rachel.
So things that people do, of which "ouchies" is not
I would absolutely not go the extra yard with research/effort until you have an audience for your blog. I've seen plenty of well thought out, in depth posts get zero traction because the blog wasn't established, and plenty of off the cuff short brain dump posts from established blogs get front page HN traction.
How does this have anything to do with the culture war? This is just a discussion of culture and how its changing unrelated to what you are referring to.
I've enjoyed the work of Laura Schulz[1] (MIT).

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22...
My standalone copy of Excel (which is the only member of the Office suite I use) is version 16.54 for MacOS "© 2021 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved."

If I block it from accessing Microsoft domains in Little Snitch, it goes into readonly mode after about a month. Opening a hole in the firewall lets it start working again. Previous versions from several years earlier didn't do that.
Yeah, since t(N) < N, you can use the decomposition for N! and one extra factor (N+1) to get a decomposition for (N+1)! with a smallest part equal to t(N).
I can't offhand think of a case where that construction is appropriate for a noun that isn't a nominalized verb.
> Launching each runner instance in a public subnet with a public IP - the runner gets full throughput from AWS to the public internet, and IP-based rate limits rarely apply (Docker Hub)

Are you not using a caching registry mirror, instead pulling the same image from Hub for each runner...? If so that seems like it would be an easy win to add, unless you specifically do mostly hot/unique pulls.

The more efficient answer to those rate limits is almost always to pull less times for the same work rather than scaling in a way that circumvents them.
I wonder what you think of Louis XIV having "Ultima Ratio Regum" inscribed on his cannons.
Yep, definitely been noticing it, especially on Reddit. It almost always makes me navigate away from the post, unless the author mentions that they’re using AI.
Neat: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Most annoying tech support call ever:

Customer: Our computer won't boot. Come over and fix it.

Me: Please tell me what message you see on the screen which describes why the computer will not boot.

Customer: No, just come fix it.

Me: Okay, but we're charging for a service call even if I don't touch your computer.

Customer: Just fix it.

Me: (drive over, walk up to the office where the computer is at, pause at door and look in to read the screen across the room (younger me had much better vision) announce)

You have the mouse plugged into the keyboard port, and the keyboard plugged into the mouse port. Power the computer down and swap the connections and it will then boot.
I use wide-mouth canning jars for lots of things besides canning. They're tough, easy to clean, can handle hot and cold, and there's no plastic touching the food or beverage.

About the only negative is that they sweat a lot in hot weather if you keep cold drinks in them, but it'd probably be easy to make some kind of insulated caddy for them.
I disagree, it’s not bizarre to think that Germany won’t try to take over the world again when they’ve already tried. Twice.

I don’t consider it to be at all likely to happen, but there’s a much better chance of Germany going to war against the world than there is for virtually every other country. Feel free to ignore history, I’m not going to.
>Public schools are not companies with a monopoly, nor do they have consumers, these are very loaded terms. Do you speak of all infrastructure in this way? Do you say the police have consumers? Or the firefighters a monopoly on putting out fires? Roads a monopoly on letting cars drive over them?

I am not a conservative. The monopoly and consumer term is applied correctly whether you find it loaded or not. The police have a monopoly on legal initiated violence yes, although for instance many towns have had private fire trash etc that fulfilled needs well. I did not call them companies, I think this is a straw man attack. On roads, miles around me the roads are publicly accessible private easements, you cannot even get to my town on a tax funded road.

You also presuppose competing schools must be for profit which is absolutely false. In many cases they are non profit.

>This world view that everything relates to money first and foremost, lives on markets, only improves by competition, should justify its existence in some measurable wealth producing way is very dangerous in my opinion, because not everything can work this way.

No need, I'm only claiming the voucher system, which isn't even my ideal system (again I am not a conservative), lets parents make a choice without first and foremost having to chase the almighty dollar as the conventional public system forces them to do before sending their kid to another school. It's not just competition but diversity of options giving the poor options where before only the rich had them .
Probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple_treasur...
Your understanding of how formality levels in English function is perhaps not entirely complete: native speakers of English convey usually convey the sentiment with as little as "Breakfast?" or "Hungry?" when talking with family. In the child's second language, would the maitre'd at the restaurant of a fine hotel ask a two word question, or rather bury those in respectful filler?

"Ow" and friends, by the way, are interjections to express sudden pain, functioning analogously to an adult's swearing. They're not full sentences about the pain and its source.
not obvious to me why this is an improvement of having the agent just update the rule files directly itself; i have it do that to my various AI-targeted readme files and it works great.
Not to mention we have constitutional restrictions on what law enforcement can do, in recognition that such abuse has been a problem even hundreds of years ago.
This aligns with my observations. There's a huge amount of noise made about things like zoning reform. Politicians are usually smitten with themselves once reform is complete. In practice, it's hardly meaningful if applied to an area that has been extensively developed. Just for example: covenants on the deeds can render the zoning change moot. Likewise, it seems unlikely that existing residents are going to uproot their lives just to advance some specific concept of reform.

Some of this reform is also stupid, like Austin attempting (and failing) to mandate 9 ft ceilings in the name of "affordability".

My observation has been that if you're looking for an observable change in the next few years - just move somewhere else. It's less headache and the results are instant.
The two examples you gave seem like bad examples of inverted pyramid. Inverted pyramid doesn't leave you hanging. It's not clickbait. It should be the case that within 1-2 sentences you can mostly understand what the rest of the article is going to be about (like an abstract).
Better than scientists think they could reason. Scientists also believe cats can't recognize themselves in a mirror. Observational studies are extremely error prone.
I agree with you on hip-hop. It's very important to me. And it's great that it's become so ubiquitous. But it wasn't always like that. Early hip-hop was just music created extemporaneously at a party or a park jam. It wasn't even recorded. It didn't fit the format of "about 4 minutes and some seconds." And the whole mixtape era was music of the moment, not even an official release, mostly a promotional product.
> Energy is expensive and unreliable. Why? Well, its either because we aren't doing enough net zero, or because we have an _enormous_ supply-side restriction enforced by the state. Not all of which is due to environmentalism, to be clear.

I work in the energy sector and there's a huge amount of misinformation/confusion around why energy is expensive (I'm gonna ignore unreliable because that's a whole other can of worms). The energy price is almost entirely set by natural gas, the UK doesn't yet have the ability to turn away natural gas as a source, meaning it basically has to pay whatever's asked.

Even if you don't care about the environment (although I think you should!) and just want cheap energy, more renewable energy and flexibility in the market is exactly what you're looking for. You can actually see this on charts super clearly. Take a look on https://grid.iamkate.com/ specically at the energy mixup and the wholesale energy cost. You'll see that the amount of gas being used is an inverted graph of the cost (i.e. when we're using gas as a nation, that's driving up the price, when we don't have to, energy is a lot cheaper, and sometimes negatively priced)
Yes. Travancore Cochin remained a princely state and escaped East India company looting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/11/13/a-one-tril...
Which is sort of funny given the intuitive description of Monte Carlo—a random wander, possibly into the weeds.
you are correct. Padmanabhan temple apparently has gold worth 22 billion dollars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple_treas...
>I’ve heard it frequently claimed, but where has a progressive Dem won where a moderate didn’t?

I'm not american but i remember looking into this because of all the drivel and distinctly remember polling finding bernie was actually more popular in notable swing states than his dem counterpart but actually a bit less popular in states that were going to vote dem regardless.

If bernie would take more undecided voters and republicans over to his side where it actually mattered I think it's not conclusive that he would have win but no far stretch to say he would have had a better shot at winning.
I'm amused that the original ageist response ("old people suck") is left alone and the parody of the original ageist response ("young people suck") is downvoted. I would expect a bit better from HN readers, though any community that becomes popular enough devolves to average-at-best.
Even “Lunch?” is enough with someone you know well.
Hi HN,
I tried doing this 2 days ago for AWS lambda arm64 runners.
And it did not work. Has anyone successfully built a statically linked golang binary arm64 runners in Lambda?

Thanks in advance.