skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement was made when he wanted a higher budget. You can find similar statements in the US from interest groups:

https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/2024-the-us-mili...

Germany has a higher budget than Poland. Apparently Poland is able to keep 1000 tanks operational. Germany/von der Leyen made the mistake to use McKinsey as consultants for the army. McKinsey can leave Germany, too.
A project-specific zsh[0] function I find quite handy is:

devhome () {
cd $DEV_HOME/${~1}(/)
}

This assumes an environment variable DEV_HOME is assigned to be the location of the top-level directory for a given project. An example of its use is:

devhome mod*/foo/src/**/some-dir

0 - https://www.zsh.org/
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."

- Steve Jobs. 1996

I guess some things never truly change. And thst kind of" culture" is how you amass a cult following (it's in the word, "cult" ure).

Outside of early Xbox I can't think of many counterexamples to this.
Show HN: Guide Gecko – AI-Powered Codebase Understanding (macOS)
Hi HN

As a security/cloud architect, I'm constantly handed new projects for review with tight deadlines. Reviewing thousands of lines of code in a short time is a huge pain. To solve this, I built Guide Gecko, a macOS app that uses Gemini to let you query your entire codebase.

It connects to GitHub, uses your Gemini API key, and allows you to ask broad architecture questions, perform security reviews, identify potential improvements, and quickly understand any repo. You can also scope prompts to specific folders.

I've been using this daily and found it incredibly helpful. I'd love to get feedback from the HN community.
And then they'll sell in the next crash, losing 50% or more.
I have a utility called ZSH Autosuggestions, and it's probably one of the most useful things on my computer. It shows you a sort of preview of the most recent command you typed that matches the prefix of the current command you are typing. It's basically an automatic tool that bookmarks commands based on usage. I think the best bookmark systems are ones which simply track your entire history and suggest relevant pages based on it. That way the process of bookmark creation is automatic and you don't have to predict what you will need to access frequently.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions?tab=readme-...
I just scrolled through my gallery, and the number of meaningful photos I had was zero.

Snapped a photo of my room first thing.
I think if the sailors are not arrested then other sailors will be enticed by higher than average wages to join these vessels. I feel like the sailors knew what they signed up for. At the very least arrest the captain and onboard officers.

PS. This situation reminds me of a presentation at my former company by some lawyers who sued US Government on behalf of some Gitmo inmates. The inmates survived an attack by US forces in the middle of Afganistan and then were arrested. The inmates' legal case (as per lawyers) was they did not know what cargo they transported - and yet they were paid 3-4 times the usual amount for transport cargo in combat region almost deserted by civilians. I am not convinced these inmates were 100% innocent....
Agreed.

Even the scarcity is artificial, and based something between a contract and a gentleman's agreement, not any physical reality.

That is, the bitcoin software can be changed if enough people want to, to make more of it. And you can create infinite copies of bitcoin software and call it bitcoin or something else.

That's simply not true for the scarcity of gold.

Finally, insofar as there are uses for the blockchain, the ostensible finite volume of bitcoin has no bearing on anything, as you don't need 'one of 21 million bitcoin' for its blockchain functionality, you can use 0.1 or 0.0001 bitcoin. It's infinitely divisible, and a small unit of bitcoin can get you blockchain functionality.

And yet I've begun to put 5% of my monthly savings into it, as it seems to have become the long-term speculative asset. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere. But it really appears like an utterly ridiculous proposition, a self-fulling prophecy.
> There is danger that people will send money on bogus requests

It's a huge danger. This is why there are so many Bitcoin ATMs in convenience stores. Scammers call vulnerable people and induce them to send them Bitcoin. The number of people who you can convince to withdraw hard currency from their bank and feed it into a Bitcoin machine on the request of their "sick nephew" or "Microsoft Security Team" is mind blowing. Even elderly former police and attorneys do this.

Push payments make it much, much easier--now it's just a click away. The risk is higher for the scammer and it's easier to trace as compared to Bitcoin transfers. But it will be an endless game of whack-a-mole, and because the losses won't primarily fall on banks, payment networks, or other least code avoiders (unlike with credit cards--especially--or other forms of pull payment in general), there's less direct economic incentive to do prevention. We'll likely end up with more centralized, government policing, which will be far less effective and generate more political friction.

Push payments are the future. They're already ubiquitous in many other countries. But while it will streamline day-to-day transactions, there are going to be many more victims of fraud left holding the bag. And you can see this in Europe, where push payment fraud is rapidly expanding.

And even if, in nominal dollar amount, total push fraud ended up equivalent to pull (e.g. credit card) fraud, the social cost is greater as you end up with a small number of people bearing all the costs, whereas with pull fraud the costs are effectively spread across society in the form of slightly higher transaction costs and goods & services prices. There's no built-in transfer mechanism (i.e. tax) like that in push fraud because the incentive and accountability structure is radically different, notwithstanding that in the abstract it's a very simple change in who is considered the initiator of a payment.
Concorde flies higher than 35000 feet.
> Deep space is “largely unregulated,” McDowell told a special-session audience Jan. 14 at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. “There’s no requirement to file some kind of public flight plan, no equivalent of the TLEs or the corporate data that we get for low-orbit satellites.”

This will be one of my favorite regulatory journalistic scare-quotes going forward.
Yes. The media will not communicate the depth and complexity of the details.
TB is particularly tough to track; it has an incubation period that can range into "years" and most people never develop symptoms. Add in getting quarantined for months and you've got a problem on the seeking treatment side of things, too.
I kinda want this in the slicer, like prusaslicer.
1000 bits/s is still way faster than anyone can type a text message.
It likely will never be an option. You could consider spoiling your ballot instead? I have no idea if spoilt ballots are counted in America, though.
At least the article is honest.

Why is it useful?

It’s not useful.
Nah, I'm delighted if someone wants to do it.

Not as delighted by the fact that many companies seem to want developers to do devops as well, like when the code is compiling or something.

It's not being taken seriously.
Just like when you delete that tweet
Unfortunately for the administration, disease is killing off hens faster than it's killing people, so demand outpaces supply.
Isn't this to combat abuse? People using github as a file storage site?
They were ordered to halt all publications, cancel trainings and not communicate with state health departments
> Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd expect and it's the equivalent of leaving a firewall down for a day?

I think this + bad luck, really.
The plan with Worldcoin is to use these unique IDs to airdrop a UBI.
>> How can I use Prolog to actually get something done, other than academic tasks?

Choose the task, download Prolog and start coding. That's, generally, how you "get something done".

As to using Prolog as a database query language, I'd say that's like using a piano as a lawn ornament, but you can certainly replace a traditional relational DB with Prolog. The SWI-Prolog website does that and the developers explain how to do it in this article:

Can I replace a LAMP stack with SWI-Prolog?

https://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/PrologLAMP.md

And here's some more about using Prolog for good, old-fashioned, web development, in the sense of creating sites that run on the web and have visitors etc etc, particularly the SWI-Prolog website itself:

Eat Your Own Dog Food

https://www.swi-prolog.org/dogfood.html
Einstein and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), too... :)
Absolutely, penny eggs are about to drop any day.
>I’ll wager more people consume typical media outlets than the CDC’s weekly publications

Typical media sources the CDC weekly publications.

Well, used to, anyways.

Where do you think typical media got their information from?
Yes, we called those alphas and betas back in the day.

But I suppose we've been shipping betas as a full release in software for quite a while now. Maybe even soke alphas.
Where are the raster tiles and sprites in the source code? I'm struggling to find them.
What killed Concord iirc is that only a few airports could handle them. A rich person would just prefer a slower private jet that can land much closer to their destination. Especially since today you can basically turn your plane into a private office.
Largest in recorded history is a bit of hyperbole. In the 1800s something like 80% of all Americans had the TB bacillus and of those that came down with TB a huge percentage died.
Using GitHub Copilot from Inside GitHub Actions
I think you're satirically confusing (A) "you can't shift all responsibility into superiors" versus (B) "you're guilty for any kind of involvement even if you didn't know your actions were contributing to an evil thing."

While (A) factored prominently in the Neuremberg trials, it doesn't create (B).
...which does just about as much as voting (that is, precious little).

If we're ever going to claw ourselves out of this (or any) mess, we need ranked choice or something like it. The giant douche / turd sandwich dichotomy needs to end, for everyone on any side of the political spectrum.
A lot of these comments don't make any sense to me.

> Prolog predicates are not first class values.

Predicates are trivially called, even as variables, with the `call/N` metapredicate.

> Mapping and filtering is awkward

In what sense? The declarative semantics...?

> Arithmetic is awkward

In what sense...? Have you seen clpz?

> The CLP examples aren't integrated with Prolog's Horn clause resolution model

In what sense...? clpz and clpb do this magnificently.

> Indexing and search strategies are not under programmer control.

Most ship with SLG resolution or you can write your own resolution strategy with a simple metainterpreter as an intermediate exercise -- but SLD resolution is already pretty good. In general not needing to think about the indexing and search strategies are a highlight of the declarative semantics of Prolog, its odd to see someone with a "long standing love affair with Prolog" list this as a drawback.

> Modes are awkward.

Modal programming is a defining feature of Prolog. Tell me more about this "long standing love affair", again?

> I've been an enthusiastic Prolog programmer since the mid 1980s

If you are still struggling with mapping, filtering, arithmetic, `call/N`, and CLP in Prolog after nearly 45 years of "enthusiastic" programming, I'd highly recommend checking out Triska's Power of Prolog videos for some guidance, I think you will find them very illuminating.

https://youtube.com/@thepowerofprolog
I vote third parties. Blank counts as don't care, while a third party says I care and not you. When third parties get votes the majors pay attention less those third parties win.

I often am blank on things where I cannot find any information and so cannot have an imformed vote.
Poll: Rust or Zig?
Yes. It will be on the exam.
> Here's another great example: "the intelligence community [is] just trying to get us into war with Russia."

I mean this respectfully: how old are you? Because that isn’t a “Fox News” comment at all! Until five minutes ago, Democrats were the ones who criticized Bush-era republicans for their fixation on Russia and efforts to keep fighting the Cold War: https://youtu.be/T1409sXBleg?si=Pz2Yd_vY4ZARbcvs

And yes, the intelligence community has been trying to get us into a war with Russia or its proxies since the 1950s. The whole idea that Americans have “allies” or “interests” in Eastern Europe is a Reagan-era CIA psyop.
I'm no professional historian, but every time I try this kind of thing I'm very disappointed in the results.

A hobby of mine is editing Wikipedia articles about Australian motorsport (yes, I have an odd hobby, sue me).

The vehicles in the premier domestic auto racing category in Australia, the Supercars Championship, are unique to the category. Like NASCAR, they're built on a dedicated space frame chassis with body panels that look like either a Mustang or a Camaro draped over the top.

I'd seen occasional claims on forums that when the organising body was deciding on the design of the current generation of cars, they considered using the "Group GT3" rules that are used for a bunch of racing series around the world (including the German DTM championship, the GT World Challenge events raced across Europe, Asia, and Australia, and the IMSA GTD and GTD Pro categories). If true, it might be an interesting side note to the article about the Supercars Championship.

So I asked Copilot (the paid model) to find articles in motor sport media about this (there are a number of professional online publications that cover the series extensively). It confidently claimed that yes, indeed, there was some interest in using GT3 cars in the Supercars championship, and pointed me to three articles making this case.

The first was an article featuring quotes from the promoter of the DTM series saying what a good idea it was to have a common car across different national series. So the first article was relevant, but didn't actually show that anyone involved in the administration of the Supercars Championship was interested in the idea.

The second and third references were articles about drivers and teams whose core business is the Supercars championship also running cars in the local GT3 championship (while not explicitly mentioned in the article, they do this for a large wad of cash from the rich hobbyists who co-drive and fund most GT3 racing). Copilot's interpretation of the articles was just flat-out wrong.

Yes, this was a sample size of one historical query, but its response was very poor.
Not being from the US, I find it odd that the article didn't mention anything about vaccination. Until 2005, pretty much everyone in the UK received the BCG vaccine. After that the TB rate fell too low to merit routine vaccination, but even today it's still given routinely in a few areas where the rate merits it, or if there's elevated risk of exposure via family from abroad, etc. Has vaccination in general become such a divisive topic in the US that articles about diseases for which we used to routinely vaccinate don't even mention that a vaccine is available and greatly reduces the risk of the most severe forms of TB, such as TB meningitis?
but only because dead people don't buy eggs so it's expected lowered demand will "stabilize" prices.

the numbers are what's important, people. (sorry (not sorry) for the angry sarcasm)
Yeah I you dodged too. What work environment would you want to be in where there's no architecture discussion and you're expected to just have the answers?
A linked-to inspiration for this — printing an arcade cabinet for Atari's Space Race (1973) — is a great watch too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONO6LTHuR8
Most of our fighters can pull a sustained Mach 2
It's mostly correct except it's just the governments that agree to take gold and silver to settle debts (no, going off "gold standard" did not change this, gold and silver are still accepted as bank reserves around the world). And governments have the power to take your property to settle your debts with them. So for anyone, who is a subject of a government assigned debt (via taxation usually), gold has very practical value as it allows to keep one's property.

The same is not generally true for crypto, perhaps in El Salvador they really take crypto to settle taxes but in any other country crypto only has value because of speculators.
They might just be normal quotes.
all countries vaccine children, wich then prevents such outbreaks. what am I missing?

ceejayoz: exactly the point of the last remark on my annecdote.
I got similar results and it was kind of hokey.

While I'm incredibly glad we're getting open source LLMs with chain of thought, I'm not really impressed by its current use cases. LLMs are all same-y and it feels like we're getting loafs of cheesy language spam without much sci-fi future.

I expect for this kind of tech to have really novel use cases. For it to sit between me and the internet and remove the ads, nuke time wasting clickbait, and obliterate low-information irrelevant noise. For it to be my personal bodyguard that protects me from any and all forms of attention stealer.

I want this to be tech to give birth to an anti-Google, anti-social media algo, anti-advertiser terminator from the future. Something that torpedoes the previous paradigm and that does it so quickly that the old purveyors can't adjust in time.

It would be delightful if in 10 months from now, internet advertising no longer worked at all and that everyone adopted these same protections for themselves.

It seems like this tech is capable of doing it already.

Please someone make this. I want advertisers to pay me if they want access to my brain.
Trump is not acting in people's best interests. Wait, just rumaging around looking for my shocked face mask.

Eggs more expensive doesn't matter any more.
That George Hotz tweet is from March last year. He's gone back and forth on AMD a bunch more times since then.
Oh wow thank you yes I did
Now drag a window from one monitor to the other. The choice on X is to have both monitors run with the same specs (well, not for everything but yeah) or to have two completely separate screens at the X level which means they're isolated from each other and you can't move thing between them.
The author is assuming more and more people will leverage AI agents to do online research and shopping on their behalf. So in that sense by not optimizing for LLMs one is losing potential purchases made on behalf of a human.
The whole dumb problem is that this COULD be fun, but nobody wants that they just want to eliminate wage costs.

For instance: Emails could become a short couple of sentences of real information meant for another person, the sender says "deliver this in the parody of bill cosby harassing the recipients wife a bit" The receiver gets it, shakes his head, and says "no, just show me an animation with my friend naked with his tiny penis and dull boring face stating the raw message, as if he was the tianenmen square guy turning around and talking to the camera" Then after the fun it shows the raw information incase something wasn't quite clear.

BUT NO , corporations will never allow crude humor or personal taste to get anywhere near their profits, so nobody gets to enjoy anything the way they personally would be interested in
This is amazing. I love Apple AirTags but they are so bulky and an odd shape.

I would love a AirTag the shape of a credit card to go into my wallet.

I would love a smaller AirTag to go on my cats collar.
They're not in the source code, for this type of project to be above board they can't distribute any of the games original assets. The user has to bring their own copy of them.
That's a vote for Trump in real terms.
ECS is very very similar to Kubernetes and duplicates pretty much all of the functionality except AWS names and manages each piece as a separate service/offering.

ECS+Route53+ALB/ELB+EFS+Parameter Store+Secrets Manager+CloudWatch (Metrics, Logs, Events)+VPC+IAM/STS and you're pretty close in functionality.
When he says better linux drivers than AMD he's strictly talking about for AI, right? Because for video the opposite has been the case for as far back as I can remember.
I personally want my bank to be as boring as possible.
Exactly. Nailed it.
I feel like there's a weird kind of effect where this kind of spam always used to exist, but it lived somewhere in the long-tail, on page 23 of the results. Now these things are only the front page, and between this effect and the non-literal rewriting of our search intent, the actual needed information is lost in some unreachable part of the index.

What's interesting is that humans can still almost trivially categorize these trash/spam sites from things that are not. This suggests that there is still some possibility of making an automation of some kind that could punish these sites and reward good content that's relatively easy.

I recall an adjacent problem in cyber defense -- trying to discern a squatted domain from a real one. Every sort of heuristic we could think of was pretty easily defeated. But one day, during a meeting, somebody observed that it was absolutely trivial to just go to the site in a browser and tell virtually instantaneously that it was a squatted domain instead of a real site. So we used an image classifier to classify screenshots of sites on raw domains as "squatted or not" and used that classification to flag domains in our raw traffic. It wasn't perfect, but it was easily the most powerful and ultimately straightforward way to attack the problem.
I think Nova may have changed things here. Prior to Nova their LLMs were pretty rubbish - Nova only came out in December but seems a whole lot better, at least from initial impressions: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/
I thought it's missing. However, he does introduce it with:

> The inverted index will look something like this:

He isn't wrong. It is indeed "something like".
As I wrote above, by itself gold is a terrible investment. But as a small portion of a portfolio that you rebalance periodically, it has its benefits for improving risk-adjusted returns. See my second link for details.

But you can get the gist by observing that in 2008, the S&P500 dropped 38.49%,[1] while gold went up 3%. If you had, say, 10% of your portfolio in gold, then when you did your end-of-year rebalance you got to buy a lot of cheap stock. Gold also substantially outperformed stocks in 2007, 2009, and 2010. So I'm not convinced it's a "myth that people flee to gold in times of uncertainty." Maybe you're right that it's not as big an effect as some people believe, but it's enough to benefit your portfolio.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-re...
The US does not widely vaccinate children for TB.
16 psyche is not made of gold and this reply has nothing to do with my question, in fact, my point would still stand if confidence in gold as a scarce store of value disappeared without any change in supply and it went to ~0 (industrial value)
> which does just about as much as voting

Did you expect something else?

No matter what system of voting we use, unless we go back to only white landowning men can vote or something (doubt we want to do that), you can’t avoid the fact that 160 million+ people vote together for President.

The most viable solution looks less like changing to ranked choice and more like returning more governing power to lower levels of government (state and local) where there is less competition
Oh good point, missed the distinction
most countries abandoned checks at least 15 years...