eastendguy

NOT true. The regulations that you have in mind never made it into law.

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/bundesrat-stoppt...

Yes, there are. It depends on the program. For example here, no masters is required:

https://www.cis.mpg.de/cs-max-planck/

"During the preparatory phase, students take courses to build on their existing knowledge of core computer science areas. Depending on a student’s prior academic background (e.g., MS degree), course requirements may be partially or completely waived at the time of admission."

or here:

https://ellis.eu/faqs#can-i-apply-if-i-don-t-have-a-msc-degr...

"Rules in Europe vary. Some participating universities require a MSc, others accept BSc students as well (sometimes under specific conditions). You will find this information in the portal if you click on the list of this year's recruiting advisors."

In Europe you get paid more, especially in Switzerland. And in general, English is sufficient for getting a CS PhD in Europe.

Two examples of many:

- https://imprs.is.mpg.de/

- https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/working-teaching-and-resea...

I have almost the same list, plus I recommend a web browser macro recorder like imacros, uivision or selenium ide.

Which one you prefer depends on your taste. They are great for casual and quick form filling and testing, and save me from too much typing and clicking.

Sounds similar to Browserflow, which was on HN a few days ago.

The historically first browser automation tool was iMacros (2001!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMacros

Ah, it supports many languages - great!

Anything like this for Chinese?

I am sure Hertz can afford a 50KW charger at their locations => 1-2h for full charge.

It seems to be no problem if you automate a real browser as opposed to a headless browser. I think they test for that.

Agreed. -> I use the ui.vision extension to simulate native mouse movements.

> Scraping things that don't want to be scraped

If all else fails, no website can withstand OCR-based screen scraping. It is slow(er), but fast enough for many use cases.

Has anyone "here" ever used Ritalin as "study aid" (as suggested in the article)? If so, why and how did it work for you?

Free & offline: Tesseract + pdfsandwich, see http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/

> a single use plastic object that has 1/1000 the carbon emissions of the reusable alternative may be the best environmental choice.

Is there any data that single use stuff (of any kind) creates less carbon emissions? I would expect it to be the other way around, except for some edge cases.

ABBY is still very good, but for some languages other tools are meanwhile better or at least much cheaper/free: Google Cloud OCR, Amazon Textract, Azure OCR, OCR.space

Free, but also online: https://ocr.space/searchablepdf

It comes with an API, so you can integrate it with your workflow.

"Low code" tools like Sikuli, Selenium IDE, UIPath or UI Vision are often used for test and process automation. They work well and have their place.

Could you do everything with pure Python or C++? Sure, but it would be much slower. Low code is useful if your need is not covered by an available application, and on the other hand you lack the resources and/or time to develop an app from scratch.

But I fully agree that "No-code" is a marketing term only. Even the easiest "No-code" app requires a good understanding of concepts like "if/then". The term "Low-code" is more honest.

Tesseract is not really good for text on pictures (non-white background). You can use the free Space OCR API at https://ocr.space instead.

Or, just upload your photographs to Google Photos. Google OCRs all images automatically(!) and you can search them for text in the images. This includes text e. g. on posters in the background.

This blog post is low quality marketing/SEO copy and paste. But the topic itself is very interesting. High-quality lecture series around the same topic (Human Behavioral Biology)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA

"They want you to associate them with privacy, and conclude that privacy laws are pointless and should be repealed."

Once in a while I read/learn something new at HN that changes my perspective on things. This sentence is such an example.

My personal reason for using "the cloud" in this specific case is that the OCR results are significantly better.

> The cloud == someone else's computer.

I think everyone around here knows this and can make their own decisions, if and for what data they use "the cloud".

The problem with Naptha is that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this new macOCR app are significantly better.

Another alternative is Copyfish. It is cross-platform and uses cloud ocr:

https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish

Copyfish is cross-platform: https://ocr.space/copyfish

All _key_ components for large airplanes are made either in the EU, Israel, CA or USA.

By contrast, the Chinese COMAC airplane consists largely of of imported parts.

Minor manufacturing like Airbus? What would be "major" manufacturing in your logic? I see the EU on the same level as the US. Do you disagree? And if so, why?

Europe has plenty of manufacturing.

>I doubt, because manufacturing means missing climate goals.

So you are saying a chip factory can not be powered by green energy. Why? Taiwan does it, too: https://www.evwind.es/2020/07/08/orsted-taiwans-tsmc-sign-wo...

For free ocr and quick prototyping, I use https://ocr.space/receiptscanning - It is easy to use and has a generous free tier of 25,000 free scans each month.

Having said that, I am sure there must be some existing accounting software with built-in OCR? Probably even an app?

Yep, this^ is the point. It is amazing that this key point is missed in so many discussions.

Now.. maybe it is still worth the risk for a young 20 year old female, but I am not so sure - especially since we luckily have other vaccines that do not show this risk.

I have used all three and none of them "breaks 10% of the time". Why would it?

Of course, these tools are more lightweight and lack the advanced scheduling, monitoring and robot distribution features ("Orchestrator") that UIPath offers. But if one needs only straightforward task and test automation they are a good and reliable alternative.