I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It’s really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I’d rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.

Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.

And no, I can’t just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.

  • someone@lemmy.todayOP
    11·
    2 days ago

    Terminal error after running GPT code:

    

python3 trocr_pdf.py small.pdf output.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py", line 479, in cached_files
    hf_hub_download(
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 114, in _inner_fn
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1007, in hf_hub_download
    return _hf_hub_download_to_cache_dir(
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1124, in _hf_hub_download_to_cache_dir
    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(blob_path), exist_ok=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 215, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--microsoft--trocr-base-handwritten'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Documents/trocr_pdf.py", line 39, in <module>
    main(pdf_path, out_path)
  File "/home/user/Documents/trocr_pdf.py", line 11, in main
    processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/processing_utils.py", line 1394, in from_pretrained
    args = cls._get_arguments_from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/processing_utils.py", line 1453, in _get_arguments_from_pretrained
    args.append(attribute_class.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs))
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/models/auto/image_processing_auto.py", line 489, in from_pretrained
    raise initial_exception
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/models/auto/image_processing_auto.py", line 476, in from_pretrained
    config_dict, _ = ImageProcessingMixin.get_image_processor_dict(
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/image_processing_base.py", line 333, in get_image_processor_dict
    resolved_image_processor_files = [
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/image_processing_base.py", line 337, in <listcomp>
    resolved_file := cached_file(
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py", line 322, in cached_file
    file = cached_files(path_or_repo_id=path_or_repo_id, filenames=[filename], **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py", line 524, in cached_files
    raise OSError(
OSError: PermissionError at /home/user/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--microsoft--trocr-base-handwritten when downloading microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten. Check cache directory permissions. Common causes: 1) another user is downloading the same model (please wait); 2) a previous download was canceled and the lock file needs manual removal.

    LLMs are so bad at code sometimes. This happens all the time time with LLMs and code for me, the code is unusable and it saves no time because it’s a rabbit hole leading to nowhere.

    I also don’t know if this is the right approach to the problem. Any sort of GUI interface would be easier. This is also hundreds of pages of handwritten stuff I want to change to text.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 days ago

      This error looks like it is saying a previous attempt aborted, and it needs you to clean up some file that was only partly downloaded.

      Edit: The “please wait” makes me think I would try again in a couple hours.

      • someone@lemmy.todayOP
        11·
        2 days ago

        So try again… in a couple of hours…

        Why would that make a difference? It’s a local model right?

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          1·
          1 day ago

          If it is local only, then waiting probably won’t help.

          Another thought for you: pip behaves much better inside a virtual environment - using the Python venv module, or uv.

          The instructions you have shared so far look more compatible with venv.

          • someone@lemmy.todayOP
            1·
            4 hours ago

            I don’t understand what venv is or why this would work better. Will this make the compatibility issues go away? I could also just create a virtual Ubuntu environment that’s fresh if that would be easier and try to give that environment access to my GPU but I don’t know if that would work.

            • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I don’t understand what venv is or why this would work better.

              Venv is a Python module that helps isolate sets of Python modules from the system installed Python version.

              Will this make the compatibility issues go away?

              No guarantees, but it often does.

              I could also just create a virtual Ubuntu environment that’s fresh if that would be easier and try to give that environment access to my GPU but I don’t know if that would work.

              I’m not sure either. But you’ve got the idea. Python packages install better when they’re allowed to exist separately from the underlying operating system.