One reason I don't quite trust AI for OCR is that it will, on occasion, hallucinate the output.
There was a good talk some years ago at some of the CCC events where some guy found out that scanners sometimes change numbers on forms.
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number6 commented on I hate screenshots of text parkscomputing.com/page/i... · Posted by u/paulmooreparks
But AI can OCR
That's a thing I always marvel about - how LLMs are so versatile and do so much stuff so good that was out of reach just some years ago
At least a scribe captures the doctor's thoughts. AI is not capturing the author's thoughts because it doesn't know what they were at commit time.
As someone whos commit message are: fix, fix again, this hopefully works, again.
I am sure AI cannot even glims the frustration I feel committing these commits.
You can argue, that these messages are as poor as the code that I have written; but don't tell me you haven't been there -- and if you have please tell me your secret
number6 commented on Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? seangoedecke.com/em-dashe... · Posted by u/ahamez
It also seems that LLMs are using them correctly — as a pause or replacement for a comma (yes, I know this is an imprecise description of when to use them).
Thanks to LLMs I learned that using the short binding dash everywhere is incorrect, and I can improve my writing because of it.
Before the rise of the llms there was a post here on hn where someone explained how to use all the dashes — sadly llms took them from us
number6 commented on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email news.itsfoss.com/schleswi... · Posted by u/sebastian_z
See how well it works for countries that were cutted out of Github, where most FOSS projects are hosted nowadays, without copies anywhere else, as if Git wasn't any different from Subversion.
Yes - this is exactly the problem. Big Corporations, like Microsoft, the owner of Github, can shut you out. If you lose access to your E-Mail, or anything connected with your Microsoft Account (or Google Account) you will lose access to a lot of services that relie on it.
And if you keep your source code with Microsoft and Microsoft only, you can lose access to it too.
number6 commented on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email news.itsfoss.com/schleswi... · Posted by u/sebastian_z
Most FOSS organisations, including the Linux Foundation, are headquartered in the US and are supported by American companies and, most likely, American three letter agencies.
Yes, but they work differently. Due to their decentralised nature there is not one switch they can turn to shut off their services or programmes. US companies can be ordered to stop their services for certain organisations, individuals or states
War with China.. ya'll are nuts. The American zeitgeist is completely poisoned and insane. Listening to this stuff from the outside is kind of horrifying. War with a nuclear armed country ends with a nuclear winter for the whole planet. There is no preparing for war with China unless you want everyone dead (which I'm starting to suspect a lot of people are okay with)
This seems so anachronistic.... When was the last war where tanks were important..?
Car are made using components from all around the world... How would you even make a tank in a Tesla factory?
In The 2022 Invasion of Russia into the Ukraine Tanks played an important role in the offensive and the counter-offensive especially around Kyiv, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, and Avdiivka
In Dutch I have the luxury of being able to use the semi-colon in a similar capacity — useful to avoid the em-dash stigma I suppose — but I refuse to relinquish it in English.
Fortunately, I can always just point to evidence of prior use here:
https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...
It is time for an emdash manifesto
number6 commented on The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset blog.google/around-the-gl... · Posted by u/zdw
Sure it’s the same in that I’m telling you that you need to give up your existing lifestyle for a different one to get what you want.
But I would suggest that installing a new OS is vastly less complicated, less expensive, less disruptive and less fraught with life threatening peril than immigrating to an entirely new country and continent. And I’d wager you’re vastly more likely to get the results you want changing your OS than you are voting for a politician when you’re unhappy with the current state of things.
All true, and I would still have to deal with Office files. Wasn't it an EU regulation that forced Microsoft to make it's file format publicly accessible?
number6 commented on The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset blog.google/around-the-gl... · Posted by u/zdw
macOS, chrome os, Debian, Ubuntu, red hat, nix, FreeBSD, openbsd, haiku os, react os, pop, etc etc etc.
In perhaps one of the weirder twists of fate you probably have more options for voting on where your documents get saved now than at any other time in computing history. And if you would respond that many of those aren’t viable alternatives to windows or incur massive switching costs, what about doing a “reset” / ban solves that problem?
This is the same as telling me, that I could just leave the EU and only have to never interact with them or one of its citizens to not be effected by their rules, and since travelling is easier then ever why wouldn't this be an easier option?