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February 28

Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test

runpulse.com

Today, Andrew Ng, one of the legends of the AI world, released a new document extraction...
Today, Andrew Ng, one of the legends of the AI world, released a new document extraction service that went viral on X. At Pulse, we put the models to the test with complex financial statements and nested tables – the results were underwhelming to say the least, and suffer from many of the same issues we see when sim...
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February 28

Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay

torrentfreak.com

While some pirates will probably never be tempted away from the digital high seas, over the...
While some pirates will probably never be tempted away from the digital high seas, over the past decade millions have ditched or tapered down their habit with the help of Spotify. It’s no coincidence that from the very beginning more than a decade ago, the streaming service had more than a few things in common with ...
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February 28

Building Query Compilers [pdf]

uni-mannheim.de
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February 28

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

sesame.com

One approach to modeling audio with transformers is to convert continuous waveforms into discrete audio token...
One approach to modeling audio with transformers is to convert continuous waveforms into discrete audio token sequences using tokenizers. Most contemporary approaches ([1], [2]) rely on two types of audio tokens:Semantic tokens: Compact speaker-invariant representations of semantic and phonetic features. Their compr...
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February 28

Ask HN: Have you written or consumed OpenAPI Arazzo specification?

ycombinator.com
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February 28

Show HN: Python micro event loop library (~250 LOC)

github.com
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February 28

Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf

phys.org

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February 28

Doc NTIA lead nominee criticizes "woke" and "socialist" fiber broadband subsidy

broadbandbreakfast.com

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2025 – President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Arielle Roth, telecom director for...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2025 – President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Arielle Roth, telecom director for Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ted Cruz, to lead the Commerce Department’s telecommunications agency. Roth, who is poised to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, outlined her s...

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February 28

macOS Tips and Tricks

saurabhs.org
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February 28

Britain advised by US insiders to reduce UK reliance on US military equipment

thetimes.com

As the Ministry of Defence works out how best to spend its extra billions, US government...
As the Ministry of Defence works out how best to spend its extra billions, US government officials are warning behind the scenes that the UK should move away from buying American equipment.Munitions, new technology, such as uncrewed systems, and fostering a closer relationship between defence and society are among t...
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February 28

"Free" Office for Windows is being trialed

office-watch.com

Microsoft is testing a free version of Office for Windows with limited features, an important requirement...
Microsoft is testing a free version of Office for Windows with limited features, an important requirement and ads to ‘pay’ for the software.It’s three Microsoft 365 for Windows apps but with restrictions on what it can do and where documents are saved. If you download from this page at Microsoft.com and install usin...
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February 28

The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)

notion.com
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February 28

Warpage in wafer-level packaging: causes, modelling, and mitigation strategies

frontiersin.org

In 2015, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which had served as the premier guide...
In 2015, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which had served as the premier guide for the semiconductor industry for enabling transistor scaling and progressing Moore’s law for the past 22 years, acknowledged the end of Moore’s law of transistor scaling, signaling a pivotal shift in the ...

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February 28

Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek

github.com
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February 28

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

setosa.io
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February 28

Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No

doesioshavesideloadingyet.com

Contents The Digital Markets Act is a recent EU antitrust law with the stated goal of...
Contents The Digital Markets Act is a recent EU antitrust law with the stated goal of making digital markets "fairer and more contestable". Article 6(4) reads as follows: The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application ...
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February 28

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser

github.com
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February 28

Logs Matter More Than Metrics

hyperdx.io

Disclosure: I run an observability company, so this post is subject to some (heavy) bias. However,...
Disclosure: I run an observability company, so this post is subject to some (heavy) bias. However, it also underscores why I wanted to work on HyperDX. Metrics matter. Logs matter more. But that’s not how most developers see it. Developers love metrics. It’s something that they put care and attention into. Developer...
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February 28

Mexico extradites 29 drug traffickers to the United States

elpais.com

Mexico has extradited 29 drug traffickers who were being held in different prisons across the country...
Mexico has extradited 29 drug traffickers who were being held in different prisons across the country to the United States on Thursday, according to the Mexican attorney general’s office. “The people who were deprived of their freedom in different prisons were wanted for their links with criminal organizations, for ...

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February 28

Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action

arstechnica.com

WordPress software, Keller's complaint explained, "has long been promised to be free and available to everyone...
WordPress software, Keller's complaint explained, "has long been promised to be free and available to everyone forever." This promise propelled WordPress' popularity to, by its own estimates, "encompass more than 40 percent of all websites in the world," his complaint said. In the 10 years Keller used WPE, he never ...
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February 28

Progress on Intel and Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi

jeffgeerling.com

Nvidia GPUs have been running fine on Arm for a while now—I just upgraded the System76...
Nvidia GPUs have been running fine on Arm for a while now—I just upgraded the System76 Thelio Astra to an RTX 4080 Super and am testing it now. But Nvidia seems to have a partnership with Ampere, which probably leads to their drivers getting priority support, and likely a few special edge cases in code to work aroun...
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February 28

Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming

ycombinator.com
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February 28

Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365

office-watch.com

Outlook (classic) for Windows, the one we’ve all used for many years has been dropped from...
Outlook (classic) for Windows, the one we’ve all used for many years has been dropped from some Microsoft 365 installations even though the replacement Outlook (new) is still a “work in progress”. Here’s how to still get the ‘real’ fully-functioning, classic Outlook. Outlook (new) is premature Outlook (new) is the e...
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February 28

Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

github.com
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