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banku_brougham··on Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
bravo, this is a great use of talent for society
banku_brougham··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
Wrong - sorry. The reason is that politically the US public is very skillfully managed from above via divide and conquer strategies and beaureaucratic techniques (i.e. identity politics, gerrymandering voting districts). The public polling is very clear about US citizen preferences, but US Govt policy is rarely aligned that way.
banku_brougham··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
brilliant! this happens all the time and I never found a convenient way to manage
banku_brougham··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
this is really great. at some point i gavenup on being more efficient on the terminal, but many pain points are solved by your work
banku_brougham··on Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
I found the circle! Took me about 30 sec pinch zooming on my ohone
banku_brougham··on Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
And yet only one is unacceptable for humans reviewing their own expenditures.
banku_brougham··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
this comment is troubling, as I understand they all had visas to work temporarily in building the facility
banku_brougham··on Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
maybe because we are two years into an event that will define the early 21st century.
banku_brougham··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
>This is what happens when nobody pays for anything and nobody feels they have a duty to do good work for free.

Weirdly, some of the worst CVE I can think of were with enterprize software.

banku_brougham··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
>I feel like I can't possibly live in the stupidest era in world history.

Your statistical intuition is sound, and while there are many historical sources describing very stupid events (VSE) dating as far back as recorded history, it is difficult to appreciate the outer bounds of the stupidity range because what has been written is a small fraction of the history that people have lived for at least 100,000 years.

So while I feel we are living in the stupidest era in history (the SEIH), I must conclude that we don't.

banku_brougham··on AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?
This is not enforcement, it is a spree of extrajudicial kidnappings without orders from the court. This puts us back so far even the Magna Carta is futuristic.
banku_brougham··on AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?
I agree. We used to dislike the idea of secret police in this country, next will be secret court proceedings.

Need to nip this in the bud.

banku_brougham··on Data engineering and software engineering are converging
If are orchestrating pipelines in airflow or Prefect you are having to write the client software around those engines, and its a lot of python.

Another anecdatum: the data engineers role at Zillow is called "Software Development Engineer, Big Data"

banku_brougham··on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
This is the attitude I like to see. As they say, actually I hate this because of past connotations but "freedom isn't free"
banku_brougham··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Knoll's law, I'll remember this.
banku_brougham··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Every time I see a fighter jet I can't help imagining a stream of $100 bills being sucked through the inlets and blasted out the afterburners.
banku_brougham··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
[Ex Post Facto Clause, US Constitution](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11293). Oops, I thought it was so obviously going to be done away with in the courts, but in 1912 the Supreme Court ruled that it applies only to criminal punishments.

They always getcha with the fine print.

banku_brougham··on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
I sense the labelling is a tell of sorts. As to the critique, I think the focus on homebuilder corporate profits leaves out important parts of the ecosystem. As example: Observing the only profitablity of Toys R Us as it collapsed would mislead you as to the very profitable exploit that KKR and Bain executed.

Its a great article though, lots of facts to ponder. Would love a view of the next layer up into financial arrangements in those Texas housing markets.

banku_brougham··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
This is amazing, just amazing. I'm sure this fills important use-cases in my personal projects.
banku_brougham··on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
The credentials were never about having become learned.
banku_brougham··on Xkcd's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
exactly. work can be fun and there is so much to learn.
banku_brougham··on Xkcd's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
Yup if I followed team/management guidance I would be nowhere.
banku_brougham··on Xkcd's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
Every day you are building the foundation for the rest of your career. When I can I execute tasks as though need to scale and be instrumented with alarms.
banku_brougham··on 'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says
Huge amount of discussion in this thread neglects the idea that a massive increase in tariffs will throttle trade shipments. Its the obvious expected effect.
banku_brougham··on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
I dont understand why there is so little about this on social media -- my own bubble walls cant be that thick.
banku_brougham··on ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
Dont forget network effects and bandwidth. Once there is an AI MCP the share price will blast off.
banku_brougham··on Images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
Have a look up on the Russian town called Togliati
banku_brougham··on Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]
Yeah the Chinese govt has far less incentive to mess with me personally than the US govt does. Its hard to convince people of this point of view I have found.
banku_brougham··on Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Yup those Greek gods were nothing but drama and problems.
banku_brougham··on DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
Got it. Then why the first step of go to the effort of getting real serial numbers from the big box store. If the dots signature going to be randomized?
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