skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly every one of my clients have been invoice scammed. The amounts are typically five figures.

When we onboard a new customer, I send a packet with payment information including how to direct deposit. It has this information:

- Our routing/account number. We sweep the funds out of this account nearly instantly once the deposits are made. The bank account’s purpose is to accept direct deposits and nothing else. The account number we transmit over the phone so at least it’s less likely to end up sitting in a (compromised) e-mail box.

- Our mailing address, which is a PO Box.

- Some information on invoice scams, including an offer to review any suspicious requests free of charge. A customer takes us up on this every few months… so far we have yet to see one legitimate one.

- A warning to never, ever accept changes for our payment information or mailing address unless told to do so in person by an officer of the company, with a list of the current officers.

- If in doubt, mail a check to the PO Box instead of direct deposit.

- A warning not to trust information sent via email, fax, phone calls (voice changers are a real thing), or from an employee/officer other than the one they usually interact with, and such a change must be confirmed with a phone call to a different officer.

- A recommendation to also contact our local credit union (where we deposit payments from our customers) if they feel something is suspicious.

- We have an internal rule that any change to bank accounts requires a meeting of 3 officers, in person or over the Google Meet we normally use for video calls (no phone calls) with meeting minutes conducted for the change. The change must be unanimous and the change can’t be put in for 30 days unless an emergency. Emergencies must be coordinated with a responsible person at the bank, in person. (Sorry, but this means no fintech etc. type of banks.) We recommend our customers to do the same.

The biggest liability is that it would be hard for us to change bank accounts.

We get an attempt on an invoice scam or otherwise every few weeks. So far we haven’t lost a penny of company funds due to fraud.
For all my criticisms of Peter Thiel, I think he’s a smart guy (though, I don’t know if he’s changed or I have, but I’m thinking this less lately). But anyways to try and understand Thiel and Vance a bit better, I’ve been reading a bit of Catholic moral philosophy, and what I find interesting, is that when I look at the foundations of all the arguments, I think there’s something in the brain, or a value, that either you see this sort of fundamental view about something like gender - ignoring within group differences in favor of between group differences or you don’t, and if you don’t just “see” that, the rest of the foundation falls apart. But I would say, it’s not that I completely ignore some of the ideas of what makes us a successful society, more that I think that we should look for those values outside of maybe visible differences (and I am 100% against an idea of the ends justify the means that suggest that womanizing philanderers like Musk and Trump are the way to spread family values around America)

But even her new found sage Elon Musk is famous for saying “Physics is the law, everything else is just a recommendation”. Even Musk’s maximally truth seeking AI often thinks he’s a cad.

So I guess the main thrust of my criticism would be just that, sure, engineers should spend their time building things in the maximally truthful space of physics, but GTFO when trying to apply those same methods to social science or morality.
> It was replaced by the new Windows app.

Replaced how? My app doesn't yell at me that it's shutting down (as opposed to skype).

Also the original article leads me to believe there are several applications called Remote Desktop and only one of them is shutting down. I'm hoping someone will tell me which is which and how I figure out which one I'm using.
It's a good thing, unless the body clears off the phage first, leading to both reduced effectiveness and the body wasting immune resources. It does work locally, and one can probably engineer it today to work even better. But it seems to be destined to be relegated to a secondary cure. We seem to be able to keep finding new antibiotics with benefits like 'massive safety testing' or 'we know exactly how they work', or 'very easy to administer'.
All this was pretty common back in the AOL days. Kelly Hallissey would call your parents, you'd get 2 char screen names just by editing the HTML source code before submitting, end users would run Sub7 and let you control their computers, DosFX and PatOrJK were thriving sites, Dolan would get pounds of dog food delivered to his house by anons for pissing them off.
> Pharma products were previously tariff-free under a WTO agreement that is based on the principle that life-saving items shouldn't face any tariffs. Looks like this exemption is now also being eliminated

Pharma along with semiconductors is still exempted.

The biggest hit this has is on textiles and apparel as those were industries that have almost no NAFTA/USMCA presence anymore.

Electronics will be a mixed bag as most US origin electronics assembly was already returning to Mexico due to Zero COVID in China (20-23) and Vietnam (20-21), or moving to India (26% tariff) and Malaysia (20% tariff)
Haven't tested this (cbf setting up Google Cloud), but the output looks consistent with the docs it cites: https://chatgpt.com/share/67efd449-ce34-8003-bd37-9ec688a11b...

You may consider using search to be cheating, but we do it, so why shouldn't LLMs?
Love the irony of this post.
“JavaScript sucks because '0' == 0!”
- literally everyone ever

I never really understood the hate for this, given that everything is a string in HTTP, and that SQL does the same damn thing. There are far more annoying things about JS (both the language and the ecosystem).
It's hyperbolic. People WILL die because this funding is cut. And the estimate IS millions.
Seeing something like this or Akira on the big screen there is an analogue patina to meticulous hand drawn motion and some of the effects like the physically process glow effects of the neon lights in Akira that do give a very different feeling than a CG shot.

Although only a few will really appreciate why it's different I definitely think the difference has a heavy effect on the vibe of a movie.

Same with shooting on film vs digital, not that digital is worse it has it's own feeling which can be used with intent.
That's why I said "chance".

And no, there's no zero rational connection. LLMs and other types of neural nets are already demonstrating they can solve complex tasks. Unless there's some intrinsic barrier to how intelligent they can become, we should surpass human level intelligence within years, maybe a decade.

Once you surpass human level intelligence, you can scale scientific research by orders of magnitude.

Heck, AI already assists scientific research. We basically solved protein folding problem with AI.
There is absolutely, unequivocally, 0 chance this can be accurate within any kind of reasonable bounds. I'm guessing you haven't done much calorie tracking if you think this could possibly be true.

I can make two dishes that look identical and have +/- 50% caloric content, easily.
I'm not willing to call the Lego company incompetent for not wanting to attempt something that many companies would fail at horribly. If we had a truly creative Lego game release when Minecraft was first starting out, I would not expect it to be very good, let alone as great as Minecraft is.
Nice idea! It would be great if we could see how the app works on the landing page.
31% tariffs on Switzerland will be felt.
Bitcoin miner IREN Limited has drawn a line under the rapid expansion of its crypto operations, freezing further investment at 52 exahashes per second (EH/s) and refocusing on what it describes as the next phase of its evolution: scalable infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing
ChatGPT Knows. It Doesn't Understand. Here's What Happens When It Does
We Benchmarked Mistral and Landing AI vs. Docsumo
We recently ran a benchmark comparing Docsumo’s in-house OCR engine (which powers our Intelligent Document Processing platform) against Mistral OCR and Landing AI’s agentic document extraction.

Why?
There's a lot of hype around generative OCR tools lately, and we were curious how they actually perform on real-world documents—things like messy invoices, noisy scans, bank statements, multilingual forms, and low-res PDFs.

What we tested:
>Text extraction quality (layout preservation, character-level accuracy)
>Performance on tables, charts, vertically aligned text
>Impact on downstream tasks like structured data extraction (using GPT-4o)
>Latency comparisons

What we found:
Docsumo's native OCR consistently outperformed both Mistral and Landing AI across layout fidelity, hallucination rate, and downstream extraction accuracy. While Mistral is fast and cheap, it missed large content chunks and hallucinated on noisy inputs. Landing AI did better but often paraphrased or mislabeled data, especially in multilingual or structured formats.

We’ve made the benchmark results public (including side-by-side OCR outputs):
https://huggingface.co/spaces/docsumo/ocr-results

And here’s the full breakdown with methodology, dataset, and observations: https://www.docsumo.com/blogs/ocr/docsumo-ocr-benchmark-repo...

This is just the first benchmark in a larger series—we’re working on evaluating more IDP/OCR tools next. If you're building workflows around document automation or curious about OCR performance today, would love your thoughts/feedback.
Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict when and where lightning will ignite wildfires with 90 percent accuracy.
If your definition of leftism is "progressive" then I'm sorry to tell you: all advances in art were made by people you'd consider "leftists".

There is simply no way that a conservative worldview brings any art form forward, not even from classically-inspired backgrounds, by pure definition it attempts to keep the status quo, and all they achieve is a soulless repetition of what art was from the period they considered as "golden".

Not much dissimilar to what you are trying to do, to be honest.
Protests let people at home who are feeling alone in their frustration that there are many more people who feel like them. I also felt like you did until someone framed it that way for me.

A protest isn’t supposed to be a singular event, it’s a series of events that crescendos into a movement—and it’s the crescendo that scares the people in power.
I'm glad that even if you found my teenage hacking handle, the forum it was used on is long defunct and not indexed by the wayback machine.

I drifted away from security research in my early 20s partly because of the fear instilled reading about Kevin's trials and tribulations[1]...

I think teens today think they're elite when they forget that bitcoin and even pre-paid cards, nor ubiquitous wifi were present in those times.

It's a lot easier to be anonymous nowadays -- gone are the days of scanning for poorly secured SSH boxes to use as jump boxes, now someone can go off to Starbucks and spin up a whole ass botnet or just get a burner sim to use for a month as a hotspot.

They conflate that ability to hide in the noise as a mark of skill, and then they make mistakes.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050619225554/https://www.linux...
As a former kid, yes, the openness and self-actionability of the game really made me connect with it & other players. Awesome game.
I’d really be interested in an example of such a license. Where is the difference in the two definitions?
GNU has a helpful chart where they clearly show that there is a sliver of "nonfree open source" licenses that are available [0].

> The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software. It is not exactly the same class of software: they accept some licenses that we consider too restrictive, and there are free software licenses they have not accepted. However, the differences in extension of the category are small: we know of only a few cases of source code that is open source but not free.

I was able to find one example, the NASA Open Source Agreement, which is accepted by the OSI [1] but rejected by the FSF [2]:

> The NASA Open Source Agreement, version 1.3, is not a free software license because it includes a provision requiring changes to be your “original creation”. Free software development depends on combining code from third parties, and the NASA license doesn't permit this.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

[1] https://opensource.org/license/nasa1-3-php

[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NASA
I understand where they're coming from, though.

If I pulled the trigger, it would be to a similar CoL location, but that still gets to their point: if many people do the same, prices go up. Housing availability goes down. And all the knock-on effects that could result in "gentrification."

How do I balance that (and all sorts of other things) with my desire to keep my family safe and give my children a chance at a solid future, though? I'm not sure, which is why I feel so much consternation and a need to gather more information to inform how I'll decide to act in the future.
>Is there any recourse?

Nope. The avalanche has begun, it's too late for the pebbles to regret their vote.
>I am old enough to have witnessed that in 99% of situations people are directly responsible for their own situation

Old people can be wrong, and in this case, they are.

>There is no reason to have empathy.

This is a category mistake. You reason that empathy is superfluous if people are the cause of their misfortune. However, whether people are the cause of their misfortunes is utterly irrelevant to whether there is a reason to have empathy.

So far, none of your arguments have had any discernible logic behind them. If you are so convinced that empathy is needless, why can you not articulate a coherent argument for your position?
Many here are approaching this as "kids do dumb stuff", which is true, but I don't think that's the point.

The issue is DOGE's almost complete lack of transparency and the fact that they're given unprecedented access to systems that handle trillions of dollars where they come up with nonsencial data like they claim there are 350 year olds collecting Social Security [1].

Normally, leadership positions in government agencies are political appointees, who go through a vetting process and confirmation hearings in the Senate, or they're long-term civil servants. DOGE is exploiting a grey area to designate its staffers as "special government employees", which means neither of these vetting processes apply.

So do I care about this particular employees teenage antics? Not really. But why were they selected for their position at DOJ? And at DOGE? What do they do, exactly? What makes them qualified for that? These are things we should know.

Let me give you a recent example of just insane and seemingly kleptocratic this administration is. DOE just awarded a $1.4 billion contract to manage the SPR [2]. This is something DOE has done until now. Why are they appointing a private company to do it? Who knows? And who are they awarding it to? Well, that's where it gets interesting [3].

We seem to have handed a $1.4 billion to a company that invested in self-storage units to manage the SPR and that company may be linked personally to the Secretary of Energy.

We are witnessing the destruction of the executive branch at the hands of unappointed, unaccountable individuals and I guarantee you the next step will be to privatize these government functions that have been made to fail by gutting them for the sole purpose of transferring wealth from the government to the wealthiest.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-100-150-ye...

[2]: https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-awards-man...

[3]: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrglobaltoo/video/748924589307029431...
Not if this doesn't actually destroy their economy and gives them even more percentage points. Also the USA has imposed tariffs on almost everyone whereas China has specifically targeted the USA with tariffs. They have much more scope to re-source their imports.
How innovations are developing in Ukraine during the war
> and don’t even get me started on the version names they give their OS products :D

Yeah, when I was growing up, Windows hit version 2000, but we've somehow regressed all the way back to 11. (The hilarity of Windows 11 being an actual regression, not only numerical, is unintentional.) Let's not forget the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition.

https://www.neowin.net/news/longest-product-name-ever-mwvuul...
If you assume the US tariffs are unchangeable then you would be right but the hope of retaliatory tariffs is that they will get the US to update it's tariffs in response to the economic harm caused. It will also harm China of course but I would imagine they hope the harm caused to the US will reduce the tariffs and leave China better off in the long run. This is not totally unreasonable, the US is ostensibly more sensitive to the economic conditions of it's citizens so one could imagine China outlasting the US in this game of chicken.
And Pixi
Convincing and training old retirees to use 2FA is not something I will wish on my worst enemy.
That implies there is evil, who's the judge on good vs evil?
Children yearn for the mines.
> This is especially noteworthy because I don’t actually know Python.

> However, my broad understanding of software architecture, engineering best practices, system operations, and what makes for excellent software projects made this development process remarkably smooth.

If the seniors are going to write this sort of Python code and then talk about how knowledge and experience made it smooth or whatever, might as well hire a junior and let them learn through trials and tribulations.
Everyone is staring on their phones there..

Also friendly reminder that its not the nicest thing to tell parents whats good for their kids
This is a false equivalency. No one is saying you need to donate your entire paycheck.
Traditional manual work has disappeared and isn't coming back. I was watching our water company lay new pipe outside my house recently and there were no people wielding picks and shovels. There was a ton of technology involved though.

For rural employment to increase you would need to throw away all the technological progress from the last century. The country and economy would be unrecognisable from what it is now.
It didn't before, arstechnica fixed it.
Of course it will not end, western culture just will no longer lead. Despite the sky falling perspective of many, it is simply an attitude adjustment. So one group is no longer #1, and the idea that I was part of that group, ever, was an illusion of propaganda anyway. Life will go on, surprisingly the same.
You (and the article, etc) show what a lot of the "work" in AI is going into at the moment - creating guardrails against creating something that might get them in trouble, and / or customizing weights and prompts under water to generate stuff that isn't the obvious. I'm reminded of when Google's image generator came up and this customization bit them in the ass when they generated a black pope or asian vikings. AI tools don't do what you wish they did, they do what you tell them and what they are taught, and if 99% of their learning set associates Mario with prompts for Italian plumbers, that's what you'll get.

A possible (probably already exists) business is setting up truly balanced learning sets, that is, thousands of unique images that match the idea of an italian plumber, with maybe 1% of Mario. But that won't be nearly as big a learning set as the whole internet is, nor will it be cheap to build it compared to just scraping the internet.
Thank you for the clarification.

Ugh, knowing you have a clearly malicious actor as top dog of the country -_- it can’t get more frustrating.
Except for the fact that a big part of the country supports it as well.

I do wonder if they even believe in him wholeheartedly or just put on an act cause they’re in too deep and don’t want to give the people who said they were making the wrong choice the “satisfaction” of admitting they were right.
You wouldn't be able to offer a service to draw 1 to 1 recreations of Indiana Jones movie frames, though...
The worst of all worlds is when a blind application of the rules results in bad behavior.

This situation seems to come up frequently, and I'm very often appalled at how readily otherwise normal people will "follow the rules" even when it's clearly and objectively bad, and there may even be existing pathways to seek exceptions.
I'd quite like to watch this on Netflix
That you see trampling as a value does not mean it is; if you have to move the point to the value you attribute to your own life the issue is with your perspective over your life.

It is correct to see that you have that one life, so you have to use it wisely. The issue will remain about what is "wisely".

> how do I benefit from having

Did anybody tell you you should? You should develop adequate understanding instead - and that will also put the rest into the right perspective.
Sure, let's all lose our jobs, who needs them anyways...!

But then finally we proved Trump and all those evil Americans a point! *evil laughter...

We in EU could do that, if we dared investing in tech.
It's definitely the blocks. There's something hypnotizing about placing blocks, working with blocks.
Like a literal sandbox. It’s simple but with creativity and imagination it’s endlessly entertaining and you unconsciously learn.

But not everyone likes to play in the sand but those that do, really do!
> $2-4k blow over the next year as supply chains react.

It's gonna take a lot longer, and cost Americans a lot more money for "supply chains to react" and move manufacturing to the US.
The claim is that these models are training on data which include the problems and explanations. The fact that the first model trained after the public release of the questions (and crowdsourced answers) performs best is not a counter example, but is expected and supported by the claim.
LLMs ain’t the way, bruv
Why say this? Then OP is simply relaying a nice thing Minecraft provided for their kid.

Why put a dampening on that for any reason?
I remember reading somewhere that they did release some online Lego game that allowed building once, but they shut it down because they couldn't delete all the dicks in time.

To be snarky, if you want an environment without dicks you should play on an adults only server. When we play, we're too busy building huge elaborate buildings and terraforming large portions of the landscape to build measly dicks.
Sure, from the suing party who sent a DMCA takedown request to your webhost, who forward it to you and give you 24 hours before they take it down. Nobody wants to actually go to court over this stuff because of how expensive it is.
Then, you should acknowledge that your experience is not representative of most other people and that basing general arguments like "empathy is useless" on your personal feelings is deeply flawed.

(But also, you come across as unhappy and angry, so maybe you're wrong about whether you need personal relationships to be happy. Many people are bad at understanding what makes them happy and end up unhappy because they mistakenly pursue things like wealth.)
If you're not criticized for telling the truth, was it even truth you spoke?

Kind of like saying "if there wasn't a equal and opposite reaction to your action, did your action really happen?"
> Racism is normal

No, it is not. You ever observe small children in a multicultural group? They’re not racist, because they have no concept of it, nor why you’d want to do that. They see each other as peers. Racism is taught.
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