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1. 31.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   It's increasingly obvious that the only safeguard we got is open models and semi open ones like from China. Crazy world
2. 32.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   Exactly.. a bit of a red flag for me..
3. 33.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   How credible is this benchmark? does it correlated with others real world experience?
4. 34.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   Holy F.. $3 .. once I'm done with my base cursor allocation, each nontrivial question costs $5 . And yes, I'm now switching to a mix of codex and ds4pro
5. 35.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   Sorry that's confusing cash flow with profits, where things get amortized
6. 36.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   I'm looking at Schwab (and saw a few others) and couldn't find anything: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/primer-on-wash-sales I would assume this is not an ETF but sth else?
7. 37.▲
   by zzleeper 4mo ago

   Let me know if you find one! I'm at a loss. (And even then, if I switch I have to pay $$$ taxes on capital gains)
8. 38.▲
   by zzleeper 5mo ago

   Same. Whenever I see a PE acquisition, I immediately shift my purchases (eg namecheap last year)
9. 39.▲
   by zzleeper 5mo ago

   There's a Grok 4.20 at #10? Maybe they just skipped version numbers for the 420 luls (are we 15 or what? wtf)
10. 40.▲
    by zzleeper 5mo ago

    What if we just inflate away the debt? Sure, ppl will hate dealing with very high inflation for a few years, and pensioners and whoever buys those trillions of debt will get screwed, but besides that we should be ok? /s
11. 41.▲
    by zzleeper 5mo ago

    Great! Was thinking about PP but because I only ran an order of magnitude fewer articles (under 1mm pages; by piggybacking on Dell's OCR) I relied on Arcanum ( https://www.arcanum.com/en/newspaper-segmentation&#x2F
12. 42.▲
    by zzleeper 5mo ago

    Looks cool, congrats! I've also worked with this data, but only for research purposes: https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/episodes/13895.html https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/index.html
13. 43.▲
    by zzleeper 5mo ago

    Hard to have any idea of what happened due to the FOW. There's some grainy footage (posted by Trump) of someone running past the SS checkpoint; where you can see some shots fired by the SS. Then Blitzer who says this person might have
14. 44.▲
    by zzleeper 5mo ago

    So, Thiel, Musk, and?
15. 45.▲
    by zzleeper 6mo ago

    I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which
16. 46.▲
    by zzleeper 6mo ago

    Wow this is amazing. Did you write all those MD files by hand, or used an LLM for the simple stuff like extracting abstracts?
17. 47.▲
    by zzleeper 6mo ago

    Found it interesting but would have been easier to see an example of how the html looks in the github page!
18. 48.▲
    Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai(github.com)

    1 points by zzleeper 7mo ago|0 comments
19. 49.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    LMK if you finish it, sounds like something my daughter would enjoy!
20. 50.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    That's a refreshing article. Easy to read and I learned a few things!
21. 51.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Another +1, it would be incredibly useful to play with this approach! (and fun)
22. 52.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    I'm sure he didn't bought the WaPo to make a profit. More like to have an influence.
23. 53.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Please don't "both side" this. As much as there is corruption in any administration, R or D, the levels we are seeing now are completely unprecedent and blunt. EG: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13&#x2F
24. 54.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Wait, what does this imply for Cursor? I DGAF about xAI and will never use their Grok, but I did like Cursor more than the alternatives (even if I'm just running opus 4.6 most of the time). But now he is poaching the two heads of engin
25. 55.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    I used QGIS 2.x and 3.x a lot when making maps for research papers. But something that always stung was reproducibility. The python tooling was not there compared to what I could do with click-and-mouse, and there was no easy way to trans
26. 56.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Sad/funny that your comment is at the bottom. Workers on strike are classified as not employed, so yeah we should ignore that category
27. 57.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    For me the issue is why there's not a new mini since 5-mini in August. I have now switched web-related and data-related queries to Gemini, coding to Claude, and will probably try QWEN for less critical data queries. So where does OpenA
28. 58.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Are there good open models out there that beat gemini 2.5 flash on price? I often run data extraction queries ("here is this article, tell me xyz") with structured output (pydantic) and wasn't aware of any feasible (= support
29. 59.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    If you are in early career (i.e. graduated your PhD within the last 5 years) you are extremely unlikely to get the gifted people visa. The standard approach is to just get the H1B (not the lottery stuff for tech companies but the non-lotter
30. 60.▲
    by zzleeper 7mo ago

    Wow. The amount of quasi-xenophobic comments in this tread is nuts. They are also a bit misguided. You don't hire a professor at a R1 school just to teach math101. You hire them they can build a research lab or otherwise help to advanc