MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pizza | 2025-04-14 01:41:18+00:00
You might be interested in the complexity metric from shape dynamics involving the ratio of intra-cluster to inter-cluster distances [0], the magnitude metric for maximal diversity [1], and haecceity [2] as repurposed for the meaning of entropy as specificity.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07979#subsection.5.1.2

[1] https://case.edu/artsci/math/mwmeckes/publications.html

[2] 'thisness' - in the sense that, the entropy quantifies the bits needed to pick some named option from more options
by Kon-Peki | 2025-04-14 01:41:43+00:00
It’s nice, I like it.

PS if the next question is whether I’d pay for it, the answer is likely no ;)

A suggestion: I forget the HTML tag off the top of my head, but there is something you can do that turns off the keyboard autocorrect. Setting the search box input type to something specific or something like that… stock tickers aren’t dictionary words :)
by GodelNumbering | 2025-04-14 01:41:56+00:00
Depending on how much time you have, the first thing I would recommend is to watch Karpathy's 'deep dive into LLMs' video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI). It is 3.5 hours but it will give you so much instinctive understanding of how these things work and will likely save you a lot of time.

Purely from a technical standpoint, things aren't that difficult really. I'd recommend get yourself an API account with all major providers (because each frontier LLM evidently has their own strengths and weaknesses) and start experimenting with your data. The feeling you'll get when you first get an API response will keep you going! :)

Having said that, a caveat is, LLMs do hallucinate from time to time. If your data needs accuracy, definitely don't do the "throw everything at LLMs and let them do the work" but I'm sure you'll figure it out from trial and error. Good luck!
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by classichasclass | 2025-04-14 01:43:23+00:00
The FW400 MDDs are great for OS 9. I bought my dual 1.25GHz MDD G4 new specifically because it could still boot 9.2.2. Later I put a 1.8GHz Sonnet upgrade in it, and it's still my main Mac OS 9 development system. It also still sounds like a windtunnel.
by nopinsight | 2025-04-14 01:43:44+00:00
The fact that much of physics can be so elegantly described by math suggests the structures of our math could be quite universal, at least in our universe.

Check out the problems in the MATH dataset, especially Level 5 problems. They are fairly advanced (by most people’s standards) and most are not dependent on which N in the base-N system used to solve them. The answers would be different of course but the structures of the problems and solutions remain largely intact.

Website for tracking IQ measurements of LLMs:

https://www.trackingai.org/

The best one already scores higher than all but the top 10-20% of most populations.
by o11c | 2025-04-14 01:44:02+00:00
It's really not. The multi-chunk arena it describes at the end of the article is exactly the same structure as GNU obstack, except that obstack also bothers to implement the free-to-mark operation.

It's trivial to provide the operation for any arena, finite (just set the end pointer to the given value) or chained (a little more work since you have to free chunks until the former succeeds). The operation is O(1) if you're within the last chunk or two (and if you're tuning your chunk size well, you usually will be), O(log n) if your chunks increase in size as you go, or O(n) if all your chunks are the same size (not necessarily a bad idea for some use cases), where n is the number of chunks you're freeing (much smaller than the number of bump allocations).
by dijit | 2025-04-14 01:44:15+00:00
I also have a "trash can" mac, and I'm not sure what to do with it.

It runs linux great, and with 12 cores, 32G of RAM- it could be an extremely capable server. If not for the minuscule SSD.

It also draws a fair amount from the wall (98W~), which is probably the dual GPU's not having power control with Linux.

If only Thunderbolt 2 drive enclosures would come down in price a little.

Eitherway, I share your enthusiasm for the Intel "cheese grater" Mac Pros', those have got to be effectively e-waste to most people soon and I'd love to hoard some for myself.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-04-14 01:48:03+00:00
> like the monkeys and Shakespeare, there probably a limit to the value it can offer; but it’s not totally meaningless to try it.

Whenever someone uses this analogy, a question never addressed is:

Assuming sufficient monkeys, typewriters, and time, how would anyone know if a Shakespearean work was produced unless one reviewed *all* output?
by anon-3988 | 2025-04-14 01:48:05+00:00
> They’re banking on the damage either not being directly noticed by their voter base, or being able to convince their voter base that the damage is actually a good thing.

Are we really still at the stage where we seriously think this is how people vote? Its not. You just need to energize enough people in your sufficiently big enough bubble to believe in a cause and make sure that the other side thinks "both sides are bad".
by mindslight | 2025-04-14 01:48:13+00:00
Honestly that sounds pretty congruent with thinking about the spec from the position of the authors. Like what is the difference between "local time shift buffer" and "local hard drive" if it isn't some contractual authorization aspect they're pushing? Especially when you think that this standard is going to be deployed on TVs that will likely be displaying video from other sources than just broadcast.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-14 01:48:28+00:00
So far you have made four posts in this thread and provided no evidence. Four opportunities to provide data on what you _feel_. Four chances to share links or reports.

And yet, here you are without of that.

As such, it is doubly clear, as described above, that you are insider trading. I hope that you are prosecuted to the fullest extent.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-14 01:49:05+00:00
When I worked for the company named after a rain forest, we had the choice of sell to cover, sell all or pay taxes without selling shares. I always chose to sell all. I would never have taken 25%-30% of my hypothetical cash compensation and bought one stock. Why would I keep my RSUs?

Now I work at a smaller company doing the same thing (cloud consulting) making the same amount all cash. I much prefer that over cash + RSUs.
by T-A | 2025-04-14 01:49:41+00:00
Experimenters always were more skeptical; I hypothesized asking phenomenologists for a reason. I like Adam Falkowski's description of what it was like in [1] (about the end of dedicated SUSY working groups at CERN):

the existence of SUSY was almost a fact for a bulk of researchers working on the topic. This certainly was reflected in hiring practices, and you had a large group of top researchers whose entire publication list was tied to supersymmetry

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supersymmetrys-lo...
by athoun | 2025-04-14 01:51:12+00:00
Yes, Grok has become my go to model for general research and targeted coding tasks. Feels like its getting better over time vs ChatGPT which seemed to deteriorate over time.

Claude 3.7 is excellent, and better at coding but I appreciate the context size of Grok and feel like I get better bang for my buck for general purpose research too.
by cyanydeez | 2025-04-14 01:51:48+00:00
Reading through the thread, the point is the startups arn't providing transparent accounts of what the equity is and how it can be diluted and reduced over the life time and sale of the company. That's all the debate.

Many people have seen those options become worthless because of legalistic maneuvers and violate what's said in the initial options.

So this tangent isn't really clarifying anything. Some people would simply want larger salaries and options be valued as 0$ for evaluating compensation because how easy Capitalists have made it to screw over classes of options/share holders.
by xipho | 2025-04-14 01:52:29+00:00
Right, they are not underwater. Hemimetaboulous insects like Holobates look like baby adults when they are born, and undergo multiple "partial" metamorphosis. In this case their wings are almost non-existent. They will go through multiple molts, gradually looking more like the adult. Holometabolous insects (e.g. beetles, wasps, butterflies, flies) are the ones with radically different body plans, often exploiting different niches, the larva could be aquatic, the pupa and adult terrestrial. Some more "basal" insects (dragonflies, mayflies) also have different body-plans at different stages, though instead of "larva" we say "imago", and things like that, for those lineages.
by dend | 2025-04-14 01:53:44+00:00
Coordinator of the authorization RFC linked in this post[1].

The protocol is in very, very early stages and there are a lot of things that still need to be figured out. That being said, I can commend Anthropic on being very open to listening to the community and acting on the feedback. The authorization spec RFC, for example, is a coordinated effort between security experts at Microsoft (my employer), Arcade, Hellō, Auth0/Okta, Stytch, Descope, and quite a few others. The folks at Anthropic set the foundation and welcomed others to help build on it. It will mature and get better.

[1]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
by otterpro | 2025-04-14 01:54:12+00:00
I bought a PowerMac G3 (from ebay, about 15 years ago) and while it was not very powerful, the thing was just fun to work with. I ran Linux and had added all kinds of PCI cards like old analog TV tuner card and SATA RAID card to run it as NAS. And the case was very beautiful. I'm not sure how they did it, but Apple and Steve Jobs made plastic look very pleasing to the eyes. Afterward, I also saw someone's PowerMac G4 in person and that thing looked incredibly nice, especially the mirror finish. These macs looked better in real life than in photos. I never got the G4, and I wish I still had that G3.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-14 01:54:41+00:00
This was (or maybe still is) in the run up to the US Presidential Election a huge problem. If you stayed on Reddit every day, you’d think the country was more Left than the election revealed. Once the money stopped, the bots slowed down. Reddit front page is still frankly unusable. I left. Deleted the app.

I only browse for things I am interested in when I am curious about a product review or need help with a problem to see if someone else has ran across it.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-14 01:55:04+00:00
> Wall Street pays cash.

If you are front office head count (sales and trading), then, at a certain level and beyond (probably ED/MD), you will receive a portion of your comp in RSUs. And, if you are a "material risk taker" (trader), there is also a claw back mechanism for those RSUs. (I don't know is senior sales are subject to claw backs.)
by freejazz | 2025-04-14 01:56:21+00:00
You're proving that user right. Taking one minor quibble about what this other poster said, which was obviously not a full recitation of all of Trump's highly questionable conduct over the years (as opposed his less questionable conduct) isn't the slam dunk you're making it. It's more like nitpicking that goes well beyond the point and only serves to demonstrate you interest in arguing small details and not anyone's actual points.
by ryao | 2025-04-14 01:58:25+00:00
Only superficially. You cannot specify a past version of Rust where features existed that have since been removed by doing that. You also do not have a situation where two different incompatible languages are being accepted by the same compiler and as long as you specify which one is used, the compiler will properly compile code for it. For example, C will not accept headers with C++ exclusive features like namespaces and C++ will not accept headers with C exclusive features like variably modified types.

The only reason you see people grouping the two languages together is due to history. They are both derivatives of an ancient prestandard form of C called K&R C. They both have different standards committees who had different ideas about how to move forward from K&R C. The result is that C compilers were extended to support both, and that extension continues to this day despite the divergence between the two languages. The C standards committee accepted some of the changes the C++ committee made to K&R C, although the C++ standards committee does not reciprocate by accepting changes made by the C standards committee. This is making them increasingly different languages.

Try to spend time learning how other things work instead of posting replies that attempt to reinterpret everything people tell you through a Rust lens whenever someone is kind enough to answer your questions like you are doing here. It is like asking people how Chinese works and then telling them “English does it this way”. The “nothing matters but <insert language here>” mentality that causes that is going to annoy a large number of people from whom you would otherwise be able to learn.
by linguae | 2025-04-14 01:58:38+00:00
Admittedly my "trash can" Mac sees little use these days. I thought I'd miss macOS a lot when I switched to Windows in 2022, but it turns out that I could live without it, though I do have a work-issued MacBook Pro, and so in a sense I never truly left the Mac ecosystem. It's kind of hard talking about being a user of one particular OS when I work with Windows, macOS, and Linux weekly and with FreeBSD occasionally.

Regarding the 2019 Mac Pro, I just took a cursory look on eBay for 2019 Mac Pro models, and it appears they are still going for over $1,000. macOS still supports the 2019 Mac Pro, though its days are numbered since Apple usually has a 6-7 year window for supporting Macs.

I believe there are two main reasons why the Mac Pro is still so expensive despite the fact that a M4 Mac Mini would outperform it:

1. RAM. Not only does the 2019 Mac Pro support DIMMs, but it also supports a gigantic amount of RAM: 768GB on models with 8-16 cores, and 1.5TB on models with 24 or 28 cores (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102742). No ARM Mac supports this much RAM. This makes the 2019 Mac Pro a nice machine for very RAM-intensive tasks that require Mac software.

2. The 2019 Mac Pro has expansion slots, though the 2023 Mac Pro also has expansion slots.
by rglover | 2025-04-14 02:00:13+00:00
Yet another piece of rushed technology that's being heralded as "the way" which will most certainly be discarded when the next hype-able acronym comes along.

The only upside to these technologies being shotgun implemented and promoted is that they'll inevitably lead to a failure that can't be pushed under the rug (and will irreversibly damage the credibility of AI usage in business).
by xoa | 2025-04-14 02:00:14+00:00
This painfully speaks to me, though on the hoarding front I was convinced to get rid of certain old stuff and now I honestly regret giving up my old Bondi Blue PM G3 400. But on a more recent note I do still have an original Mac Pro and recently had reason to set it up again with 10.6 Server.

And firing that up and getting back in really hit me like a ton of bricks, yeah there are all sorts of capabilities available now on the newest systems, but the UX there was just so much more pleasant in a number of tiny ways.

You've also said it well, in fact I'd go further and say there was far more then a mere "whiff" of a hopeful future. I looked forward very much to each new release, with concrete useful improvements and the promise of more. In retrospect that was actually the pinnacle of Apple's (genuinely quite decent and promising) server efforts, of a potential alternate world line where they positioned themselves as a strong solution for running things without internet dependencies and subscriptions required. The MP continued to iterate along reliably and nicely until 2010, at which point it died off as a focus at Apple with absolutely agonizing slowness, and with it the dream of a continued upward progression in market support for value oriented hardware capabilities beyond what Apple themselves deigned to offer.

Sigh.
by nkurz | 2025-04-14 02:00:35+00:00
I think 'nopinsight' and the paper are arguing that the drop is 10%, not that the final score is 10%. For example, Deepseek-R1 dropped from 96.30 to 85.19. Are you actually arguing that a child guessing randomly would be able to score the same, or was this a misunderstanding?
by YZF | 2025-04-14 02:01:02+00:00
There's no colonial endeavor. Jewish people returning to their historical homeland is not a colonial endeavour. Arab expansion in the middle east is a colonial endeavor. European expansion to the Americas and other places is a colonial endeavor.

I don't know where you live, your nationality or heritage, but you're likely more of a colonizer than any Israeli. Since most are. I'll bet you think you have the right to defend yourself, your family, your nation.

EDIT: Also I should thank you for saying that. A lot of people try to pretend that if only Israel behaved differently then everyone would live happily ever after. Most do not even understand what "Palestine" is and what "Israel". Where's the West Bank and where's Gaza. But the Palestinians and the Arabs believe the Israelis are colonizers (of the entire region) and invaders and therefore they have the right to kill them, civilians or otherwise, until they repel them out of the region and Israelis do not have the right of self defense. This is of course absurd and would discourage many people from supporting their cause so they try their best to not say this outwardly. The truth is that if the Palestinians and the Arab countries recognized the Jewish people's legitimate rights in the region and were looking for peace we'd have peace a long time ago.
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-04-14 02:01:21+00:00
The most significant difference from Duolingo is that people get results with it. I’ve known literally hundreds of people who have put real time into Duolingo, over 10 hours a week for years in a few cases and zero of them have actually learned a language to a B2 level or higher through that massive time commitment. The best case I’ve seen is from people who accumulated a back of memorized word translations and grammar patterns through Duolingo and then spent time reading and listening to content that included them. Even those people learned slower than those who just focused on input from the beginning, though.

In contrast, I don’t know anyone who’s put 10 hours a week into Math Academy for multiple years but those I know who have done it for 6 months have made considerable progress, sometimes the equivalent of years of course work.

Duolingo’s flashy animations and casino-style gamification techniques are actually a negative signal for an educational product.
by pierotofy | 2025-04-14 02:01:25+00:00
Hey, I wrote GeoDeep, what a cool writeup! Glad someone tried to run these on satellite imagery. I did most of my testing on drone derived orthophotos, so was curious to see how it would perform with lower resolution images. Some models like the car model seem like they did poorly. I suspect it's probably because the ground sampling distance (GSD) was in the 35-56 cm/px range, whereas the car model was trained for 10 cm/px. GeoDeep can downscale the input to match the model's input resolution, but can't (currently) upscale it.
by ecesena | 2025-04-14 02:02:19+00:00
Mostly notebook, I used a very simplified version of the bullet journal (you can look for "signifiers"). https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/faq

I also use apple notes for quick & dirty notes, especially if I have to copy&paste or need to remember links. I tend to use a single note and clear it periodically, I'm not trying to accumulate knowledge here.
by dualityoftapirs | 2025-04-14 02:02:34+00:00
If you've been selling everything at every vest event, then wash sale rules don't apply - essentially the IRS doesn't want you to claim a loss when you haven't effectively closed a position, and if you don't hold any shares, then you have closed the position. Your other two points - states don't do income tax calculations based on the grant, but only what vested while you lived/worked in the state in the respective year of the vesting. Basically you don't owe Michigan income tax for a given tax year if you didn't live or work in Michigan during that tax year.

I think it'd be good to visit with a CPA to cover some of these topics. I'm not saying definitely hire one but I think you may have misunderstandings of the tax codes.
by justinator | 2025-04-14 02:02:42+00:00
It tracks, though "attaining a higher state of entropy" is just what Universes generally do it seems, given our n of 1 Universes we've started to evaluate.

Though, I'm not sure if life is the best at it, when compared to say a black hole. Some smart apes burning off fossil fuels seems pretty insignificant in comparison -- or even seeing what our own Sun does in a few seconds.

File that under, "The Earth will be fine in the long run, it's humans that are f'd" George Carlin pov. Maybe when we start building Death Stars (plural)
by SpecialistK | 2025-04-14 02:04:08+00:00
The late PowerPC-era Macs are really fun to play with, because they're an interesting blend of modern niceties like USB and Ethernet but are limited with how old most software is. There's still a scene of people working on bringing newer versions of GCC and other *nix utilities to Tiger or Leopard, working with the pre-release PPC betas of Snow Leopard, and trying to keep online services working despite aging TLS versions and retired APIs. Compiling takes forever until it fails with an obscure C11 error or missing C library features. And that makes for a fun, if often frustrating, challenge.

But PPC32 Linux support is quickly falling off. Gentoo isn't just used because it's fun to leave your lampshade iMac G4 compiling a kernel for days, but because it's one of the few distros still supporting the platform. There's unsupported testing repos for Debian (and maybe Ubuntu?) plus the up-and-coming Adelie. Otherwise your best bet is OpenBSD - FreeBSD and NetBSD usually lack precompiled ports, and FreeBSD has announced the next major release will almost definitely drop 32 bit PPC.

The 64 bit G5 systems are much better supporte. I'm pretty sure they can boot ppc64le that many distros target. They're also even more modern - the final models had PCIe, SATA, and up to 16GB of DDR2 RAM. Sadly there's nothing modern about the power efficiency, nor the self-destructing water cooling system.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-04-14 02:05:06+00:00
Same. 1 startup is dead-dead. 1 startup is now a husk of itself used by the CEO for fractional CxO consulting, and 1 is down from unicorn status to limping along with 1/5th the staff.

The primary benefit of startups is getting to do more work to learn more faster and not deal with Process.
by vdqtp3 | 2025-04-14 02:05:23+00:00
I'm not sure I believe that, considering Schiit manages to do it for virtually every component of their product line other than wall warts. Are they two layer boards? Nah, I suspect they're 4 layer...but the prices aren't such that you can't survive on domestic manufacture. The prices are just higher than overseas - meaning that your profits are slightly lower, a situation current markets are not willing to accept.

Every time I've looked at local manufacturing, whether machine shops or anything else, the prices are higher than Ali but not unreasonable.