skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I understand what you're trying to say. There are "real cash flows" in every case, just what you consider as the unit of account is different.

As far as shares, no. It's completely different. Shares are equity securities, that entitle people to dividends or they want the shares to go up in price. Regardless, it sets up a never-ending demand for enshittification and rent extraction that you see across Big Tech. Utility tokens are fundamentally different and don't have those perverse incentives, and remove the shareholder class. It's like comparing shares in Disney Corp, to Disney Dollars.
It's amazing LOL

I could never be bothered by them
My collection is mainly .azw3 and .azw, with a handful of .tpz and azw4.

The former were trivial to strip; the latter, I'm not so sure yet. However, I have no .kfx books, so perhaps I haven't been exposed to the newer DRM?
Uber's CEO says no one wants to compete with Tesla or Elon Musk
I've done the opposite. While I love the openness of the kobo and the pocket integration, I end up using my kindle oasis more because of the form factor and because with the metal enclosure it feels better in my hand.
But that is how many scales of production lower than current production?

Keep in mind that all the cheap, easy, light, sweet crude that is just a couple feet below the ground is LONG gone.

So every oil development is a ... BIG ... industrial project. Tar sands, fracking, shale oil, deep sea drilling, mega mega mega tankers.

First of all, that implies a larger amount of upfront investment. No deep sea oil until you build the huge drilling platform.

But if the return on investment drops sufficiently (or risk profile, etc), then the projects don't start. So the supply starts to tail off. So refineries don't need to be as big. But... they are ALREADY that big, so the maintenance is a semi-fixed cost. So the costs go up. The financing get riskier.

Can you see the spiral I refer to? The oil industry has developed with a certain degree of demand and demand growth to continue its expansion, as extraction has become more difficult.

Now, I think based on my VERY limited research that the shale oil in the dakotas has a certain floor, and production will continue for decades. But other parts of the world may not have such guarantees, especially if the old US Navy decides to stop securing everyone's oil (insert the cheeto talking about everyone freeloading off the USA).
Crypto finally found a great use case then -- It's clearly scam artists and people exploiting their popularity to screw over regular people. There has been an implosion of those recently.
Show HN: OptiLLMBench – Test how inference optimization tricks scale up LLMs
OptiLLMBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how different inference optimization techniques (like ReRead, Chain-of-Thought, etc.) can improve LLM performance without any model changes or fine-tuning.

To help understand real-world impact, I've included first results with Gemini 2.0 Flash:

ReRead (RE2): +5% accuracy, +14% faster
Chain-of-Thought Reflection: +5% boost
Base performance: 51%

The benchmark evaluates models on:

Math word problems (GSM8K)
Formal mathematics (MMLU Math)
Logical reasoning (AQUA-RAT)
Yes/no comprehension (BoolQ)

The code works as a drop-in proxy - just point your OpenAI compatible endpoint to it and it'll apply the optimizations automatically.

Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/codelion/optillmbench
Code: https://github.com/codelion/optillm

Would love feedback from the HN community on additional optimization techniques to include or ways to improve the benchmark.

Note: The dataset and proxy are completely open source and support any OpenAI API compatible endpoint.
You're both talking past each other in a high-handed way that speaks perfectly to why this is a problem that's not only unsolved, but toxic to try and solve.
> Because in order to fulfill the delivery they will have to repurchase the gold, creating huge demand.

this is what happening now, gold price keeps rising

as for the reason behind gold price is higher in NY, there're many theories and we can not know the truth untill it passed

theories:

1. Most paper gold transactions take place in New York, when a short squeeze mentioned occurs, it can cause New York prices to react before London prices

2. some players are draining physical gold from london(world market de facto) by pricing gold higher
The solution to Musk’s misinformation isn’t anti-Musk misinformation

Furthermore, while I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk’s claims turn out to be a exaggeration or distortion, they are an exaggeration or distortion of genuine internal government info - being weighed against uninformed speculation by Internet randoms
Why are we taking Musk at his word when his current MO is to cast doubt and mistrust on government spending?

Musk, Trump and the admin have already been pushing so many outright lies via their propaganda channels. Despite being deunked the lies are repeated nonstop.

The lie that USAID spent $50 million on condoms in Gaza (the money was for running hospitals) for example.

Or the lie about funding an opera about a transgender woman (the money was for a university in Columbia, unrelated to a performance put on at the school).

They are spewing lies left and right. Lies go twice around the block before the truth has put its pants on.

Why should we believe him on this?
Why did they do that? Were you ignoring their tickets? Is your service really crucial to them? Was it a Saudi prince?
It's not even remotely true, to any degree. It's very conspiratorial thinking. If "they" were competent, unified, and powerful enough to create a situation like you describe "they" wouldn't need to.

Which gets to the heart of why conspiracy thinking doesn't hold water, who in your theory are "they"?
Musk is implying that no serious attempt has been made to find fraud.

That sounds quite possible to me.
I don't remember the precise moment.

I think it died in the Bush years when there was oodles of money being spent on two wars and PartD medicare and the new Homeland Defense boondoggle.

There was a lot of money to be made off of the government in those days.
If I'm going to run single stack locally I'm going to use IPv6 and a stateless converter for IPv4.
I don't think it is useful to do that in a press conference.
With rice, this would also have the advantage of carrying away much of the arsenic.

https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/how-t...
Which Galaxy? Do you mean Galaxy, Galaxy, Galaxy, Galaxy or Galaxy?
As a DIYer myself I am awed by how much Henrik has managed to flesh out in terms of complexity: signal processing, hardware, GPU acceleration, and algorithmic optimizations. I wish the HN community had some award for such incredible feats.
Fellow taffer here. Some things to consider for a thief first-timer:

If you have experience with games, play on expert, seriously. Thief makes the game harder by adding objectives and constraints, not just stat scaling. There’s a couple levels that have bullshit secrets to find or loot requirements, but overall it encourages exploration. I played expert my first time based on a post like this one and I was so so glad I did.

The controls and mechanics feel cumbersome at first because it’s such a different game than the usual halo/cod/unreal-influenced FPS. Until you get used to them and the mechanics don’t feel bad about save scumming.

Play with original graphics, don’t use texture mods (at least for a first playthrough). Once you get used to the old graphics, the art direction really comes together, and IMO it’s right up there with Dishonored.

The gameplay pitch is thus: LG wanted to make a mechanics-based DnD-like class based RPG videogame. Elder-scrolls is stat-based RPG: your character levels up in-game and their stats go up. If you go to your friend’s place, you don’t take any of that with you, it’s tied to the digital save file/avatar/character. Contrast this with fighting games, which are mechanics based: the characters are consistent and do not change. You get better at the game and accomplish more by learning the mechanics.

So as you get good at thief, you are leveling up. You can go to your friend’s house, take over playing and say “watch this shit” and pull some crazy stunt.

LG started building the mechanics for a thief class and realized they had nowhere near enough capital to make all the other classes. But they already had a pretty fun game. This is why Thief 1 has tons of different environments and locales and thief 2 is more focused on places a thief would be likely to go.
color palette would be more accurate
And both equally apply to cryptocurrencies.
Hell no, that’s not a Thief game.
here's my redirector `https?://www\.reddit\.com(?!/(?:(?:media|gallery|settings)\b|r/\w+/s/))([/#?].*)?` regex that fixes `/s/` links as well as many others
Why should people use automation at all?

This is like asking why people should switch from telephone switchboard operators, to automatic switchboards. Or why should anyone switch from livery cab services to Uber.

Technology may be "less proven" initially, but it's far more reliable in the end. It also removes a whole class of inefficiencies and conflicts that won't be possible with smart contracts, the same way that you could remove them if you switched from anything custom to anything standardized.

If you just stopped repeating the same tropes "web3 bad" for the sake of saying them, and engage with the substance, you'll see that this is a case of standardization, automation and programming what was previously ad-hoc and requires costly arbitration after the fact.
I love this feature so much when jumping back and forth between two projects that when devving expect exclusive control of postgres. All I have to do is set the bind address for one .1 and the other .2 and all is good.
Using Tech as Social Lubricant
I build a lot of stupid stuff on the internet, but the dumbest thing I've built is probably "Most Handsome Man in Chicago"

I live in Chicago, bought "mosthandsomemaninchicago.com" and made a very basic website. Because nobody googles who the most handsome man in the city is, and because nobody cares, getting that domain was all it took to capture the keyword.

Nobody finds the website organically, but now when I'm out at a party and I want to impress people, I bring up how if you google it, I show up as the top result.

This isn't my idea, it's been done a few times by people in my extended network and I always think it's hilarious when someone pulls it off.

But people don't believe me when I tell them about it, they google it, I show up, and I immediately get a ton of social credit for something that cost me $12 and about an hour of work.

And telling people I meet about my other stupid little internet projects blows them away because a lot of this tech stuff seems like occult magic to those that haven't played with it yet.

It's kinda cool - the link I attached is to a full write-up on the handsome-man project, but I'm mostly curious if anyone else has a similar project they talk about in social situations.
The avg monthly gains of government workers in 2024 was +38,000.
Anyone who needs to conduct transactions without having their name attached to it, and cannot meet personally to use cash. Online black market purchases, say.

You're not wrong that like 99.9% of BTC value is from speculation, but it does have its valid use cases.
That’s unfortunately the best you can get without a personal identification number. G is doing their best to establish your identity in the context, that actively tries to prevent them from doing so. Solving contradictory requirements will lead to nonsensical situations
Your brain is continuously performing an astonishing amount of calculations, you just don't realize it.
It's constantly used in polemics of Christianity. Whereas actions of atheists are unable to be used against atheism
In the spirit of tech conversations, here was my original input from my history:

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I was swept up in this article and the portrait for Amanda (barrows) - what a unique and strong person - this city is soo lucky to have her.

I want to respond that unlike some here, I came away with huge empathy and today's HN snark and frustration bounced off me pretty hard accordingly. The public order issues such as homelessness in the park have impacted me, but more so, how to translate the state of the world to my children. I always remind them that this person was once a little boy / girl and we might be older, but we're still kids inside and nobody dreamt to grow up in this environment.

The compassion and my own empathy shown here coupled with the pragmatic approach shown by Amanda washed over me and the policies and bureaucratic inefficiencies that make solutions slow and ineffecient are understandable, but also highly frustrating.

The unhoused individuals and their mental state vs the requirements to find a home are very frustrating - the city surely understands the cost of housing policies and is run by highly pragmatic people, but rules are rules and some top down accommodations and medications are needed to help merge this.

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I personally don't see my opinions changed here - I think the posted text is a bit better but also agree on the uncanny valley issue. A little less brain swelling and I would have been all over the small signals :)

Personally, I find AI and the derivatives extremely helpful when it comes to communication (a booster for the mind!) and use it all the time when translating into other languages and also removing my northern British dialect from communication over in California.
>I still get distracted and doomscroll sometimes, but usually those are planned sessions. Not reading the news or caring about strangers’ opinions has done wonders for my psyche.

n=2 is a poor sample set to develop strong inferences, but I definitely see the upside to this behaviour.

Once I made a conscious decision to become one of those 'low-information voters' you hear about, my mental health improved notably and my screen time dropped by a few hours per week.
One programmer's falsehood is another manager's kyc/regulations.
To echo mglikesbikes, I remember wracking my brain trying to figure out state stuff for more involved things like session management at the time. Svelte 5 was released recently and changed how they were doing state.

For me it's annoying because I got used to the old way. For newcomers, it may make more sense by default.

To Svelte's credit, they don't allow you to mix old and new ways of doing state so that's a great way to force people to learn the (new) correct way of doing things. A lot of React's issues are the abundance of old tutorials on the 'net, confusing newcomers trying to do something.
Yes, exactly. It will be paid for in a coin that was issued by the community or the celebrity themselves.

The celebrity gets to have their own web server, their own coin, etc. making them independent of Big Tech and Big Banks. They can't get deplatformed. Their community can organize however they deem fit. The smart contracts allow everyone to trust the system.

Just saying someone will "pay you" like they did for millennia doesn't really discuss "in what medium". We have long moved past commodity money, gold blocks, then gold coins, then paper banknotes, to electronic money inside regulated banks, this is just the latest form that money can take.

Opposing it for the sake of opposing it, is like opposing the Web and HTTP and open protocols, because you think AOL and MSN walled gardens ought to be good enough for anybody, and no one really needs any custom servers or self-sovereign websites.
In my experience, it's always been possible to use Visual Studio Community without a Microsoft account. It might recommend that you do, but you don't have to. I've been using it this way for years.
I think it’s the same for all endurance sports. I think there’s about a month of pain that you have to get through when you first start but then you realise you’re actually enjoying it.

For me it’s cycling, I do 300-400 km per week now and I absolutely love everything about it. The feeling you get when you find a smooth bit of road on a still day and you can feel is the wind in your face and all you can hear is the swish, swish, swish of your tyres is unmatched. It feels like you’re flying.
We found the kuka
Love to know the answer to this myself!

I'd especially like to know if the Ioniq 5 is hackable. As a start, it looks like Hyundai's Bluelink can be turned off: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hyundai/comments/1bkqb5h/how_to_dis...
Hey, that actually works really well in India:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIJJPvn_ZI

Edit: This got downvoted because it's a direct retort to what the GP is suggesting.
That’s a wholly inadequate and inappropriate response to my post.

I have only read the edited post and don’t know if in addition to the addendum he also edited the original post. If that is the case then there may be context here I don’t have, so feel free to educate me there, but I stand by my interpretation of what I’ve read here. I think you might be confused and trying to make this personal between us doesn’t convince me otherwise.
>I’m going through a divorce right now, just a couple years older than you. My family is very collectivist, hers individualist. They are so individualistic in fact that they literally don’t see a problem with getting pregnant by other men (gay friend for example) because “her body, her choice”, even when married.

I'm confused, perhaps I'm just having a stroke. You mean her family doesn't see a problem with your ex-Wife cheating and becoming pregnant with her supposedly gay male friend? Or they don't see a problem with your ex-Wife gay friend (female) which is married to another woman, becoming pregnant by a third party.
The sympathy for an insanely bloated bureaucracy that has put generations into massive tax debt is baffling to say the least.

If I sued everytime I got laid off and posted a bunch of wahmbulance crap on linkedin I would never get hired again.
(Am I the only one who gags at the word compute being used as a noun? I can’t be the only one.)
> I'm not sure there's a single metric

The computing power of cellular machinery in ~3lb of human tissue which includes neurons, are many orders of magnitude larger than 1e6 or even 1e12 H100s.

Quite literally your finger has more compute power than 1e6 H100s, we just use that computational power to stay alive rather than “think.”
That's incorrect.

The DOJ and SSA regularly prosecute social security fraud.

Take a look at the website of the Social Security Administration's Inspector General site and look through the news releases.

https://oig.ssa.gov/

However it's likely not as common as Musk wants you to think.
My latest protip when the normal procedure isn’t going anywhere is to send your complaint to a big org’s legal department, whether it’s of legal nature or not.

You can at least be assured the letter reader will be literate.

And might even get good support for wherever it ends up because it will be forwarded from the legal department.

This was a bank. Basically an extension of patio11’s advice to contact shareholder relations.
I found it among the comments here:

> > I don’t know who said it, but this:

> “It’s said that the honest man has nothing to hide. Not true. The honest man has to hide himself, because honest men are the prime targets of those who lie.”

Regardless of source, it's spot on.
I like PocketRides, you've given me some ideas on how to incentivize creators. We certainly have the same ethos; people over bots.
I don't like this kind of diatribe.

Evan this, Evan that.

Yes, if the license on the thing is open source, it is open source.

People don't owe you being in their community or whatever.

Fork it, get your shit working, don't tell anyone.

When you fork, change the name. Even GNU projects prohibit forking under the same name; you can't fork GNU Emacs and call your forked project GNU Emacs.
And if you disagree, well, that's where the government's guns come in.

Welcome to the social contract! Optionality is not included.
public jobs historically have had the most protections against mass firings. It weights in on the calculus to take a lower paid job in public sector in exchange for very high stability.
Hmm yeah, I like that better.

EDIT: Updated
Email hn@ycombinator.com; “@dang” doesn't do anything
> Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he wants to work with Tesla CEO Elon Musk rather than compete with the EV company as it prepares to launch its robo-taxi service.

In theory isn’t Tesla in a good position to just acquire Uber?
Just ask how often the author is inviting the local homeless in his city to meet his mother and crash and his weddings.

Probably close to Zero. But he expects to be treated like a special when he is traveling.
To this day, the 3 is still my ideal version. Everything else since has fallen flat in some way in comparison. It was the right size, had paddle buttons for turning the page, had a passable keyboard, was responsive, could play audio, &c. It was excellent. I very much wish mine didn't die on me.
MS didn't get rich by writing code they didn't need to.

(Although the Win 95 upgrade process from the previous blog sounds like an example of code they didn't have to write. I wonder why they didn't have the floppies directly load a "Win 95 PE" environment into RAM then run the installer on that.)
You can literally do the same thing with IPv6.

Just assign multiple IPv6 to your loopback interface and everything will work as expected. You can use either private IPv6 or even link-local IPv6 range.

There’s no need to waste thousands of addresss on this use case.
I think you still need to import the css file https://github.com/NeverCease/uchu/blob/primary/css/color_ex...

after that it should be possible.
Ah I see.

To be fair, the Foundation series it takes literally centuries for events to play out.

A lot of self-interested motives would not be well served by that timeframe.
Each say we stray further from God's light.

I could rant about how dramatically heavier the new Reddit UI is, but I'd be wasting my time - the people here should presumably know why making everything heavier isn't great

Or maybe they don't, as evidenced by this new Reddit link not being absolutely buried
The price was irrelevant, it was just to illustrate that we can send linklove to Bookshop.org instead of Amazon. Instead of complaining about the choice, why not post a better link to a book at Bookshop.org? e.g.

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century", Timothy Snyder
https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-...

Or what's your chosen link?
The whole UBI thing has always seemed absurdly naive. What do you think a junky is going to do with that money? That's a rhetorical question. I really seriously doubt having a few extra dollars in the first place is going to either slow mental illness or people picking up drugs, and frankly having a bunch of people out of work with money, for the vast majority of people in my experience, only leads to them picking up bad things like drugs in the first place. One of the most myopic views I read on sites like this, that are obviously heavily biased in their readership, is that if we give people some amount of money for nothing, they'll magically pick up art and entrepreneurship and other productive outlets spontaneously.

What's going to happen, if we're foolish enough to try UBI, is we're going to bleed a bunch more money that immediately gets vaporized (or at least put in the pockets of pushers and alcohol distributors), and then we still will have the same problems for at least 50% of the people that needed the focused benefits like SNAP or Medicaid anyways. We'd be much better served getting very medieval on anyone and everyone selling drugs, and then going from there.
Thank you! Will peruse over these
It’s also standard practice to delay or slow walk withdrawals when you know they’re going to run you dry.