skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While Buffett has stated that Berkshire Hathaway will maintain a permanent cash reserve of about $30 billion to fund potential insurance payouts, Bloomstran takes a more conservative approach and adds about $50 billion to that reserve level to account for a full year's worth of potential insurance losses.

From this article in 2024: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...

There is additional context there explaining why Berkshire holding cash reserves is unique to their needs, and historically has only represented 17.5% of their total assets.

Billionaires and large firms are not sitting on piles of cash Scrooge McDuck style, because holding cash is costly.
I also suspect some arrangements never left paper trails.
You're right, as long as software is concerned, and customers being left without service is a non-issue.

Though if you do that with hardware, you might irreversibly break/short a component -- so you unplug, then figure out you actually needed that part, but plugging it back in now won't get the system working again.

I think "running a country" has more hardware-like characteristics than a pure software system.
the fact that eth classic was created from this incident and still exists does inspire some confidence that ethereum's governance is somewhat decentralized also, to be fair.

And IIRC it wasn't a "scam", it was a bug in a smart contract.
What model are you using? I'm using ChatGPT 4o (paid) in Advanced Voice Mode and it's speaking to me in perfect Cantonese.
Did you seriously just link Asmongold?
But somehow you can use us as the world’s ATM!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-cou...

Imagine a fraction of that going back to citizens!
They've needed IMF loans for decades, this is unrelated to
Bitcoin: https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extarr2.aspx?memberK...
Care to provide an example? I was casually looking at applying, but I am on the conservative side as easily searchable on Google by voter registrations
> I think it’s quite likely

This is speculating. In other instances, the national security apparatus has provided specific evidence when it existed which makes me believe there isn’t anything more than “XYZ could happen”.

In any case, I think we can do better than make laws based on secret evidence. This is supposed to be a democracy after all. Or something.
People break into state chambers all the time to disrupt votes. It’s happened in Texas a few times in the last 5 years or so.
Nice, I found my book in the rack somewhere.
I'm thinking of improving my Cantonese by reading a 金庸 novel like 倚天屠龍記. Hoping to find an online resource similar to this website that has the traditional Chinese characters, Jyutping romanisation and translation all aligned, along with the spoken audio as well.
So what year was reddit not described as a far-left echo chamber? When was this golden age?
That is great, but like it's just some guy who took over the government.

Like y'all know that is not normal.
Yes, but sometimes it may not be a big deal? But with AI, it has the potential to be a very big deal.
Wheres the evidence of them not being brilliant? Just because they have fewer github projects, they are not talented?

Also please point to the last federal employee in IT sector who were highlighted for their "Talent and Brilliance".
Are you saying the closed door intelligence meeting had no bearing, or that it was… Israel? Or I’m not sure what you’re implying.
HN Comments have really deteriorated. Dang is AWOL i guess.
Widespread defamatory allegations and calls for violence aren’t common everyday life but they are routine on reddit.

Banning users with moderate opinions is not normal in everyday life, but is routine in many subreddits. Including users sharing opinions held by moderate democrats.
In fact, there are 11 million coins, 10k new are created every day. Still, 57% of all the value is in only one coin, guess which one.
In the context of a bunch of social animals wearing t-shirts, what exactly is curious about it?
The module cache should periodically get that the tag still matches the upstream repo. If it doesn't then show a warning when installing or on the docs page.
> It is really hard to keep track of their positions which I believe is intentional.

The reasons are unimportant. The important thing is that you trust Uncle Don and Uncle Elon, our grand leaders, who always have your best interests at heart.
I suspect he's thinking of michaelochurch, but if so "a poster...who warned about tech authoritarianism, got banned for it, and had his career destroyed for the service" is a profound mischaracterization.
> stable currency

You lost me at stable currency. BTC is a speculative asset. Gold is a speculative asset. Neither are stable currencies.

If you'd like to speculate and INVEST in BTC, go ahead. But I'm quite frankly tired of people claiming it to be a currency.
Why not work to become a billionaire, then donate your wealth? Or begin donating your earnings today? I would guess most people on Hacker News are in the upper decile of wealth globally — there are still billions of people living poverty. Feels like a fairer way to help people than trying to do it with other people’s wealth — the latter feels like hypocrisy.
... What?

That is completely nonsense. Absolutely ludicrous.

Neither Russia nor China are homogenous. Both have large Muslim minorities (and both are be pretty racist against them). Eastern Russians are not European descended and are looked down on by Western Russians. Tibetans are not Han Chinese.

Even the Asian nations that actually are pretty "homogenous" like Japan and Korea are also famously pretty racist.
You are advocating killing our own citizens for trying to cash in their t-bills?
It is highly divisible though, there’s 2.1e15 satoshi and 2.3e14 cents in the world (re google). It can lose 90% of itself before being unable to replace cents. Also, the network can just agree to change the protocol to fix this issue, should it arise. Countries do redenominations all the time.
The decline in rents in the Austin area is due to building more housing, according to this article:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/austin-texas-rents-f...
I don't care how smart they are. They are committing crimes in service to fascism. Speak for yourself in your use of the word "us".
Hmm, the ones I know do a fair amount of multimodal discussion. (Shapes for instance.)
The percentage of federal taxes paid by income looks like this:

Top 1%: 40.4%

Top 5%: 61%

Top 10%: 72%

Top 25%: 87.2%

Top 50%: 97%

Bottom 50%: 3%

That hardly looks regressive. Is there some other standard by which you are judging whether tax policy is sufficiently graduated enough?

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
> If people in charge of this project actually believe R1 costs $5.5M to build from scratch, it's already over.

wdym?
DHS is a counterexample here. It’s huge.
China is homogeneous?
Does your project need logos and/or art?

"Oh I'll just use Midjourney," I hear some of you starting to think. Well.

Does your project need logos and/or art drawn by an actual human with twenty-five years of experience making Adobe Illustrator do things most people don't know it can do, and an understanding of the basics of what makes a usable logo and the multiple formats it needs to be delivered in? Or are you fine with something that makes people assume everything else next to the obviously AI-generated logo is probably also AI-generated, and thus not worth their time?

Or maybe you just want some cool art of your fursona to print out and hang on your wall. I can do that too.

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In addition big AI are swinging their clubs with Trump so this is a good way to jail the competition.
Seattle has low crime rates because people don’t bother calling Seattle pd. They rarely come and even they do they aren’t allowed to do anything except catch and release.
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No it's that billionaires mostly aren't worth their estimated net worth in actual cash.

If Elon Musk wanted to turn his Tesla holdings into cash, then his estimated net worth of $436 billion dollars would very rapidly not be worth anywhere near that much (i.e. probably by at least an order of magnitude).
As a person who had dug a lot of holes in his life, these look completely awesome!

I'd like to see a more substantial version, these look like they would last about 15 uses before breaking and where do you get replacement parts?
That's because it's actually quite sane; relying on commodity backed currencies - especially those which are _finite_ leads to deflation. You see that with BTC, where the value keeps rising and you need more and more fractional denominations to make sense. With gold (and historically, more so silver), it was _very rarely_ used for actual trade because it ended up being like five gold coins == someone's entire life savings. It was always silver, copper and unit of account.

Debased currency - a problem every large state eventually faced - is a consequence of deflation.
This reminds me of a decade-old utility called "Bulldozer Conditioner" that claimed to increase performance of certain AMD CPUs dramatically (and was verified by benchmarks), yet the author was extremely avoidant of the technical details of how it was accomplished --- AFAIK no one publicly RE'd and posted information on it that I could find, and I never got around to doing it either, but now I wonder if he had figured out how to modify and optimise(!) the microcode.
> It was a protest that got out of hand.

I agree that Jan 6 was not that big a deal. However, Jan 6 was just one part of a larger, nearly successful conspiracy to overturn the election. The conspiracy included pressuring the Vice President to exceed his authority; fraudulent electors; and extorting false claims of fraud from states.
Vancouver is pretty clean, have you ever been to Paris or Rome? (I’ve lived in all three)
> Examples... Their coach at a rec league for 9 year olds was assaulted by the opposing team's coach at the end of the game. I've seen the cops being called to protect the refs and parents being escorted out of the game after threatening the refs. It goes on and on.

Oh yes, I lost track of the number of times I was threatened with being met in the parking lot after a game.

We never had to call the cops to eject parents - usually all it took was "That's fine, we'll just end the game as a forfeit to the other team" before you got some poor beleaguered kid saying "Dad, just go to the car. Please."

I quit (and this was probably 20 years ago) when I reported a player for "attempted striking a referee" during a fight, when he swung a closed fist at the head of one of my partner referees, who instinctively pulled back. The league believed that calling it attempted striking (which had a potential ban of 5+ years) would be "excessive" and downgraded it to "attempted assault of a referee". My argument was that the player -was- attempting to punch the referee (caught on video and all) and that the referee's reflex in dodging the contact shouldn't downgrade the severity of the offence.
Fair enough. The topic engenders much confusion.
I think you may be overestimating the scale of attack that can be accomplished within the constraints of a microcode update. Given that the CPU has to still seem to be operating normally while using malicious microcode, how much space out of the few kilobytes of a microcode update file is really available for implementing a subtle attack, complete with monitoring the state of the larger system to detect a trigger condition or locate specific information (such as the timestamp you mention)? Sure, malicious microcode theoretically has access to basically everything, but the severely limited payload makes it a lot harder to pull off complicated attacks.
Show HN: I recreated a circular timer with Orbit
I guess time will tell if you're right. I hope you're right, because if not, we are in for very dark times.
It should be. It’s dumb as hell. Bitcoin and blockchain have no real use.
Yup, if you live below the 20th floor in most buildings, the trash cans thudding at 2am is pretty jarring.

I am sure there is an engineering solve to pad the cans and dump truck, not sure if it was looked into or not.
In a way this is the libertarian agenda: dismantle government. I don’t think they particularly care what the mechanism is.
There's only one Senator I trust to be able to understand the nuances of these kinds of issues and that's Ron Wyden, he's a Democrat. I would hope he would filibuster this if it came to the floor. As an Oregonian, I would definitely call his office if this came up for a vote.
Wasn’t he authorized by the President, the chief executive?
I don't know, there's a decent amount of rats where I live, but no outdoor dumpsters and very few public trashcans. Trash is kept indoors and brought out at the daily collection time.

I always assumed sewer access and the occasional rat-stronghold in poorly maintaned buildings was the issue.
In total, federal workforce compensation amounts to 4.3% of the federal budget. So even if Musk fires literally every single federal employee, I would still say that he would not free up a significant fraction of the budget.
There’s a troubling trend in the tech industry. I’ll just say that you and OP are not at all alone.

I don’t actually think AI is going to take a good engineer’s job away any time soon but you’re probably going to struggle to find intellectually challenging problems to solve doing front end. Maybe try infrastructure?
Bitcoin's value: from mid-2022 to the end of 2023 it hovered between 20k and 30k USD, then 57k to 70k from February 2024 to October 2024, then from 90k to 110k since.

Therefore during 2024 people having or obtaining it tend to keep it instead of spending it. Is it surprising?
^ unsure why downvoting this as it’s 100% correct. IMF doesn’t hand out loans it doesn’t think will be paid back.

(This is where China swoops in and gives a loan at lower interest rates with shadow contracts to get the resources or assets)
HN's guidance is that most but not all politics is off-topic:

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It may have come to your attention that 1) there's been a fair bit of political activity of late 2) with impacts on YC, startups, and many of HN's readers, and 3) involving some notable individuals within the tech world.

Much of that argues to facilitate some discussion of at least a sampling of these stories. And this particular item has garnered a large number of both votes and comments. Slightly over the "flamewar" threshold (> 40 votes, comments > votes), but not in the extreme. The flamewar-detector heuristic is surprisingly accurate (I've gone through much of HN's front-page archive a couple of years ago), but not perfect. High-profile political discussions are among the more notable exceptions. Self-discussion of HN is the other (and AFAIR the most highly-ratioed high-placed story was one such item early in HN's life).
This is exactly why I blame Linus, this discussion (a civil one, hopefully ) but also nasty wars inside the kernel would not exist if he had the "straightforwardness" as he likes to use as an excuse for many of his sins, to say NO to this.

IMO your points are valid, but from a practical perspective they are out of place. Their place is not in the existing Linux kernel.

> Third, I think you may discount how important the Rust energy/mindshare is.

I'm very much aware of it and I'm also old enough to see how it plays out and how it ends.
That feverous energy would be much better applied in a fork. With all the problems of current old Linux, with all the advantages of Rust and energy/mindshare of the community, a fork is a no-brainer.

Think of all the energy not wasted in this civil war and all the not screaming happening while everyone is busy out-coding each other try to prove the other side wrong. Linux is not the Holy Sanctity, it will end when a new better thing appears. Do that thing.

Linus knows this and wanted to have the cake while eating it too. This is the result.
Just looking at the game, I'm guessing you need to already have some knowledge of Cantonese writing?
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you did not answer the question. did reddit change? or is it you? what’s “moderate”? would you describe yourself “moderate”?
i feel that a lot of people are commenting without knowing a lot about the government. putting aside whether Trump is exceeding his statutory authority (he very well might be with this USAID stuff, he certainly has with his past XOs), you can have an executive branch position with access and managerial control without being confirmed. who confirms the White House Chief of Staff?
Barring massive political instability, nobody is ever going to lose confidence in the dollar, regardless of debt ratios. Japan has a debt ratio of over 300%, economists have been predicting a crash and capital flight for decades, but none of it has come to pass.

At the end of the day, the Japanese market is huge and people want access to it. Same thing goes for the US.

If the private market doesn’t want bonds, the central bank can purchase them. That’s not inflationary. What is inflationary is how the government then spends that money, but that’s true for any government spending, regardless of how it was financed. Either way, the debt ratios is literally meaningless.
If you were not aware, Russia is famously diverse and a large number of their oblasts(province level equivalent jurisdictions) are drawn up along ethnic lines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia
The only positive thing we can say is that the bot appears to be - at best - slightly above average with Tetris 99 compared to an average human. Which makes it pathetic at this task considering it is a bot and should have near perfection with minimal effort. One extra slightly above human has little impact in the game honestly.

They don't do T-spins. They don't stack large attacks for KO's, or even seems to alter targets under any condition at all even. The targeting reticule is hard stuck on attackers with zero input put into it. So it has no overarching strategy besides survival, but even then, it doesn't try to play the badge stealth game either - backstabbing a leading player is the leading method of making comebacks, and necessary ones too. Which is why it reliably gets in the top 15 and then loses, you can not outfire someone without badges, there ARE one-shots in Tetris 99, the bot probably only won when it lucked out early on in being the leader of the pack and then fed on a crowd of people with targetting set to "badges" (there's a firepower multiplier when targeted by many people).

Which is... kinda pathetic reading into when I'm someone who reliably got top 3 outside of the Invictus mode. I think the creator might have 0 idea of what defines Tetris 99 at all. Like, straight up no awareness whatsoever. They're bad at this game, and thus, made a bot equally bad and only wins with luck.

It's just playing normal Tetris. It literally has no reason to do this against humans, does nothing with the human element. So it'll beat other clueless humans and then lose to the actually good humans. Between those two human groups, they're just one more in a sea of typical indistinguishable threats and fodder.

Good on the creator for stopping before making something more competent.
Do you want to try asking a question that isn't a category mistake?
Yo there’s literally articles regularly published on the names and pay of all local city employees in my city with specific call outs to the top paid ones.

While it seems you are implying that is not cool, it’s actually unremarkable and common government transparency.
>while he thinks he cleans up

He doesn't.
And limited run it. So it there are XX orders already, then the youtube video is delisted, so only exists in paper form.
i found ep 7 with Gary Kitchen pretty inspiring. hes a little full of himself but he certainly has the hackers mentality and i find his frankness (ugh pun) kicks my butt into gear
Rubio says El Salvador agrees to accept any US deportees, including Americans
Doesn't Nintendo frequently fill the 99 spots with bots?
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Your being silly. Its an INTERNET currency for use on the INTERNET. I use it to pay for cloud storage, VPN and web hosting on the INTERNET.
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"Being in possession of a contraband Chinese Artificial Intelligence" is honestly one of the most cyberpunk things I can imagine. I hadn't felt like I lived in the future until now, honestly.
OK so you didn't need to say all that.

Saying you meant conservative in the sense that it's the opposite of radical, rather than conservative as in right-wing politics, would have sufficed.

Anyway, Bukele's treatment of the gang situation in El Salvadore can simultaneously be a flagrant violation of human rights while also being an effective measure to curtail untenable levels of gang violence.

I'm glad El Salvadore is safer. I don't love how Bukele handled things. And I don't know that I'd necessarily say he made the wrong call either; the net effect may be overwhelmingly positive for the vast majority of El Salvadorians.

Still, I don't think leaving people to rot in incredibly inhumane jails, without proper course for appeal, or the possibility of rehabilitation is humane. His handling of the situation has certainly made it more difficult if not impossible to determine innocence, or just sentencing for those who may have had very little criminal involvement prior to the emergency mobilization of El Salvador's police and military forces.

And it's certainly created more corruption in the "official" system with regards to respect for El Salvadorian and/or international laws, as is common with dictatorships. Corruption which cements his dictatorship with an iron fist while reigning un-checked.

I'm not convinced this iron fist move was the only answer either, but can at least accept the possibility that it was the only appropriate response to extreme level of gang violence they were facing.
They gave it to them, with a contingency that they need to stop reckless financially dangerous policies, like allowing a wildly volatile cryptocurrency to be legal tender backed by the government at various levels of society.

IMF loans often come with the stipulation that you need to reign in wild and speculative financial policies