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by bambax 2y ago
Good writing and fun, congrats! Is there a semi-hidden Monty Python reference in the middle?
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by bambax 2y ago
There is an implementation of that algorithm in JS by Raymond Hill (of uBlock Origin fame): https://github.com/gorhill/Javascript-Voronoi I toyed with it here to have it move: https://animations.adgent.com&#
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by bambax 2y ago
Using that image and the following prompt on Gemini 2.0 Flash "please do ocr of the attached file and output ascii following the layout of the original as faithfully as possible" outputs something that isn't bad but not per
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm making a simple service that outputs layout-following ASCII from images, PDFs of images or text PDFs. I too think the risk of hallucination is in many cases too great. I fed my system the first image in the post [0] and got the tex
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm building a system that does regular OCR and outputs layout-following ASCII; in my admittedly limited tests it works better than most existing offerings. It will be ready for beta testing this week or the next, and I will be looking
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by bambax 2y ago
Ha. That's what the IRA said to Thatcher after the Brighton hotel bombing; didn't work.
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by bambax 2y ago
I envy you. Do you post on HN via mail?
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm a French leftist, so I'm probably more 'liberal' than you'll ever be.
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by bambax 2y ago
When will this eventuality happen? I have been doing this for a very long time with zero ill effects so far.
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by bambax 2y ago
> every upgrade broke something Upgrades are the bane of tech. They are justified by "security" like every law that takes away freedom and privacy is done in the name of "protecting children". It's all BS. My m
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by bambax 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is one of the most difficult and demanding job in the world. But my instinct tells me some filters happen too early. Don't know about the US but in France for example you need to be an engineer to become an air contr
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by bambax 2y ago
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon I guess the second coming of Nazism to an unprecedented scale and without any serious opposition anywhere is 1/ uninteresting and 2/ absolutely irrelevant to t
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by bambax 2y ago
He just predicts what he wishes should happen... like most people. Makes him very ordinary.
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by bambax 2y ago
I am self hosting on a NAS at home, with Cloudflare in front (which does the most of the work) and Cloudflare tunnels to avoid exposing anything directly. The tunnel communicates with various Docker instances depending on the services. It w
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by bambax 2y ago
The point of coding is not to tell a machine what to do. The point of coding is to remove ambiguity from the specs. "Code" is unambiguous, deterministic and testable language -- something no human language is (or wants to be). LLM
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by bambax 2y ago
It's mostly still a hobby. I publish very few books and could do without being a "publisher". But being one allows me to exist in the official French databases where traditional bookshops can find my books and order with one
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by bambax 2y ago
This was on Chrome 109.0.5414.120, last available version for Windows 7. (And yes I know, I know, it's very bad to still run Win7 ;-)
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by bambax 2y ago
Not sure what those qualities have in common? I like to think of myself as a good troubleshooter and would probably have made a good police inspector or FAA analyst. I usually have good intuitions and find root causes pretty fast. But -- I
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by bambax 2y ago
I did find my micro-publishing house relatively easily... Very cool! ;-) https://i.imgur.com/mhw6Mub.png
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by bambax 2y ago
My files are on a NAS using Samba, and Sublime Text constantly does something (maybe it tries to poll the directory?) that makes it hang for around 10 seconds every minute, making it unusable. VS Code does nothing of the sort, it has plugin
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by bambax 2y ago
Yeah ok sure, this is common sense. But then what's really the point of advertising open positions? The only certain result for companies who do this, is they'll be inundated with pointless random candidacies...?
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by bambax 2y ago
Indeed I got confused. DeepSeek V3 is not based on Llama 3. Sorry about that.
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by bambax 2y ago
Yeah, the cost figures need more scrutiny; they started with Llama3 which they got for free; had they had to build it from scratch it would have cost more than $6M. But as for your first paragraph: even if the "big AI players" hav
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by bambax 2y ago
$20 to $30 a day? How?? I have been using Sonnet every day for a month and have spent a total of... $7 on OpenRouter (7/30 = 0.23 a day on average). Granted, I ask it very specific questions that generate short answers (many of which a
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by bambax 2y ago
You could start by explaining what you do. I still have no idea (better Heroku?) and judging by the comments here I'm not alone...
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by bambax 2y ago
I use AI (Sonnet) to write relatively complex SQL queries, but that always need a review before implementation. It's sometimes brillant, and at the same time can suggest wrapping a single, atomic query in a transaction, for no reason.
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by bambax 2y ago
This is pretty cool; however this account has been repeatedly posting this same story since 2023 and never anything else... weird https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nomad86
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes! As it is, '1' is ambiguous, as it can mean "True" or '1 decisecond', and deciseconds are not a common time division. The units commonly used are either seconds or milliseconds. Using uncommon units should
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by bambax 2y ago
The basics aren't that hard to remember. I posted this here a couple of days ago in another ffmpeg thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708088
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by bambax 2y ago
Not all companies. The DJI Action camera has a built-in webcam mode that you can select whenever you plug it in via USB, and it just works.

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