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by chaps 8mo ago
Documents that come from FOIA. So, some scanned, some not. Lots of forms and lots of hand writing to add info that the form format doesn't recognize. Lots of repeated documents, but lots of one-off documents that have high signal.
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by chaps 8mo ago
For my workflows, layout extraction has been so inconsistent that I've stopped attempting to use it. It's simpler to just throw everything into postgis and run intersection checks on size-normalized pages.
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by chaps 8mo ago
Tesseract v4 when it was released was exceptionally good and blew everything out of the water. Have used it to OCR millions of pages. Tbh, I miss the simplicity of tesseract. The new models are similarly better compared to tesseract v4. But
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by chaps 8mo ago
And I'm getting tired of these comments that normalize the awfulness of the past. We can be pragmatic in recognizing that "our guys" also did bad things. Less bad than awful is still bad. If we choose not to recognize our own
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by chaps 8mo ago
Like another poster said, this is very well known already. It's one of the reasons why municipalities purchase this data from data brokers.
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by chaps 8mo ago
It's not as obvious of an answer as it initially sounds. Coming at this from a stint in investigative journalism where even beginning an investigation requires getting grants and grants involve convincing other people that the money is
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by chaps 8mo ago
Is that not still incredibly vulnerable to timing attacks?
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by chaps 8mo ago
Unfortunately a lot of investigations start out as speculation/vibes before they turn into an actual evaluation. And getting past speculation/vibes can take a lot of effort and political/social/professional capital befor
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by chaps 8mo ago
I'm not sure that finding and killing the correct process is something I'd consider to be a "sysadmin task". That's something you learn in the first day of just about any linux course/primer and there are many
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by chaps 8mo ago
This is definitely not a context problem. Very simple things like checking for running processes and killing the correct one is something that models like opus 4.5 can't do consistently correct... instead of recognizing that it needs t
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by chaps 8mo ago
Not to add fuel to the fire, but a lot of what you're saying is hard to take seriously when Obama himself's been known to brag about how good at killing he is. You're right that things are significantly worse now, but it&#x27
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by chaps 8mo ago
Having done app support across many environments, um - yes, multiple microservices is usually pretty simple. Just look at the open file/network handles and go from there. It's absolutely maddening to watch these models flail in tr
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by chaps 8mo ago
Really glad they brought up Outer Wilds -- it's exactly the sort of game where the tiniest detail is a spoiler. Knowledge discovery's the game, so any piece of information about the game that doesn't need to be discovered is
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by chaps 9mo ago
When talking to someone at-risk of deportation earlier in the year, they asked me, "Why should I do anything differently? Obama and Biden did the same exact shit." And there's a lot of truth to that which a lot of people need
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by chaps 9mo ago
"In every way" About ten years ago I took a three day cross-country Amtrak trip where I wanted to work on some data analysis that used mysql for its backend. It was a great venue for that sort of work because the lack of train-i
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by chaps 9mo ago
As someone who's lost many hours troubleshooting systemd failures, I would like an answer to this question, too.
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by chaps 9mo ago
I might actually the details wrong. We requested informally at first whether Microsoft could provide information and they declined. Doesn't look like we ended up going down the subpoena route in the end so it didn't really matter.
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by chaps 9mo ago
As many, many people have pointed out -- many people don't know that their drives are encrypted or know that these protections exist. You're also assuming that the FBI doesn't investigate just random people. "I'm no
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by chaps 9mo ago
Heh, I subpoena'd Microsoft once in part of some FOIA litigation I did against the White House OMB back in 2017. They, in no unclear terms, denied it. We were seeking documentation. I realize it's not a court order, but just want
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by chaps 9mo ago
This matches my experiences as a non-quant, but havin done support work for quite a few of them. You can feel the novelty slough off of them as they get burned down into realizing they're just fitting curves.
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by chaps 9mo ago
Incredible, thanks for sharing! Can't wait to use it for my pdf pipelines :)
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by chaps 9mo ago
Yes please! And another helping of snark, please.
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by chaps 9mo ago
Not much further than their documentation, friend! But thanks for finding that, that's actually super helpful! I hope somebody puts in a pr for updating the documentation to make it clear what functionality their tool has.
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by chaps 9mo ago
I'm the target audience for this sort of tool. :)
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by chaps 9mo ago
Heh, I've seen this a bunch of times and it's of interest to me, but honestly? It's sooooo limiting by being an interface without a complementary command line tool. Like, I'd like to put this into some workflows but it d
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by chaps 9mo ago
Surprised it's not more, but it makes sense when you consider the sources of the data. Gotta have data sharing agreements, yeah?
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by chaps 9mo ago
Just to be clear, I never said I disagreed with you. But I've seen a lot of infighting happening in these spaces that stems from shit talking -- people who can no longer work together anymore because of how the shit talking bifurcated
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by chaps 9mo ago
I get you -- when I was doing investigative reporting about policing and technology, the Intercept's energy was basically "great pitch, but we want you to do 8mo more work before we'll talk; good luck not being able to afford
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by chaps 9mo ago
(that wasn't what I was responding to.....)
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by chaps 9mo ago
I totally understand the apprehension towards SQL. It's esoteric as all hell and it tends to be managed by DBAs who you really only go to whenever there's a problem. Organizationally it's simpler to just do stuff in-memory wi

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