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Busy with a lot of things, but my favorite is CatholicLibrary.org
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Comment · 2 days ago
For ocr, you have to practice, practice, practice with your prompts on small sample sizes before one-shotting a book. I create a json schema for the output that describes the structure in detail (using ai from my prose descriptions of structure of course). I have specific tough pages I use on openrouter to test every new model I am interested in. Gemini has and does absolutely dominate for this. But flash can be better because it doesn't overthink things.
Comment · 6 days ago
Please stay away from Dell. Posting from the worst laptop I have ever owned, my Dell XPS that cost over 2.5k usd new. Yes, I hate it enough to rage-post about it on HN.

At least it sort of works after using the best thermal compound available, adding thick feet, and using it only on a cutting board to make sure an uneven surface like my lap doesn't reduce flow. Also, never place the charger on the carpet or it will shut itself off from thermal overload. Everything still randomly overheats with minimal workloads, but mainly it sort of works now :)

Comment · 17 days ago
System needs to be carefully designed by experts for sure. Apparently that is a hard ask given the current state of affairs.
Comment · 18 days ago
Well it would receive control signals from an on-site relay server with the hardware to communicate with it, and that would of course also be firewalled and use encryption to communicate with the outside world. That server could always in theory become compromised despite your best efforts, so the benefit is obvious: don't create even the theoretic possibility of being hacked by a class of message that should never exist.

The idea is not to solve everything with one simple trick, but to reduce the attack surface as much as possible in hardware. If you are dumb enough to make your 4 messages something like off, on, hard reset, random dangerous maintenance protocol, then it does nothing. If instead it encodes 4 useful and typically used states that can't destroy your system, then you have massively reduced the requirement for onsite, and accepted that more serious issues require onsite control.

Comment · 19 days ago
The point is having the digital transmission simple enough that you can use fully *physical* filters to discard everything but the 3-4 messages you need through. Of course it is still digital, but my point is, it is a physically enforced studied, safe subset and doesn't allow for full network access. There are of course a variety of ways to further firewall that, but something needs to act like as much of an air gap as possible while allowing for remote communications.
Comment · 19 days ago
Seems like 95% of devices could be managed with a hardware filter that only allows through a handful of very rudimentary signals (more like Morse code than a full digital transmission), and then of course a properly designed on-device API that defines those signals and doesn't allow you to trigger a defrost remotely, when that should only ever be done with somebody physically present for example.
Comment · 26 days ago
Absolutely, what an incredibly low-effort click hijack farm it has become.
Comment · 28 days ago
Don't do that! v041 has been compromised upstream by a supply chain attack and big fan doesn't want us to know. You have to use v040 until it has been fixed. Also, used the hacked flashing software because the official version is spyware. Did you even read page 723 of the support thread?? I can give you more info when I am done patching my toaster.
Comment · 28 days ago
Your comment is a bit inaccurate.

1. There are laws already. It is an enforcement problem.

2. The Epstein-type crimes appear to be more prevalent in other branches of government and other parts of society than specifically in the legislative.

3. Enforcement problem is specifically in the executive, of which enforcement is a part.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's a two-edged sword. Compared to other governments your own government when good is the best to promote your good. But when bad, it is by far the worst abuser.
Comment · 1 month ago
That is the biggest difference here for me. I have not looked at every solution, but many. They are either much more expensive or garbage quality. For example my next target audiobook is a monster 250k words, 1.5m characters, so about $15 here or $75 using elevenlabs (0.05 per 1k characters). For me that is the difference between I will or I won't use it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sorry if this is in that article, but I am on my phone and can't see it. How much would this cost to batch generate an audiobook? Right now I just listen to things in the 11 labs app which is free, but I would rather just generate audio files.
Comment · 1 month ago
They are saying there appears to be a lot more to these refusals than saying no, and this process appears to only touch the tip of the iceberg; as the refusal seems to run deeper into the token prediction process.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you, I will keep my eye on it.

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