MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-04-13 22:08:01+00:00
> In my experience, almost everyone prefers cash over startup stock options.

My experience has been a little different. We had a lot of people demanding both very high cash comp and then demanding very high equity packages on top.

Giving people a sliding scale option did put some of the control back in their hands, but it also produced an analysis paralysis for some where they couldn’t decide what to pick.

> And from an employee perspective, it’s almost always the right decision to place very little value ($0) on the stock option component of your offer. The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless.

Much of this is due to startups failing. Every random “startup” trying to pay people with options because the founders have no hope of success inflates this statistic.

However another driver of this statistic is the extremely short exercise window upon quitting. People may work somewhere for 1-3 years but the company could be 5-10 years away from acquisition. Employees have to give the company money at time of quitting to get any equity, which few want to do.

I know the common wisdom, but I also know that there are a couple local technology centered private Slack groups in my area where people will eagerly try to evaluate and possibly buy your options for local startups. They don’t buy everything, obviously, but there is demand for the few cases where contracts allow transfer of the resulting equity.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-13 22:08:05+00:00
> Starship has exploded over the Gulf of Mexico and caused massive and dangerous disruptions to commercial passenger air travel

Disruptive, yes. Dangerous, no. (They’re disruptive because the planes avoid the debris field. Launches are also scheduled such that no plane should be pinned down by debris.)

I’d also note that, apart from two deaths in 2014, SpaceX’s track record with human lives is pristine.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-13 22:08:36+00:00
>every remotely feasible physics experiment should be top priority on getting funding and attention.

There are innumerable "feasible" experiments, far exceeding global GDP.

>Isn't finding out how the universe works, by far, the only thing that matters?

Is trying to maximize our understanding of a small part of physics really the best way to go about this. Is it even more important than curing cancer.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-13 22:08:59+00:00
I have set it up 50 times and it crapped the bed every time.

Before anyone yells "skill issue!", I'll say that if any plugin author can make the editor crap the bed, then the editor is not good.

There are degrees to freedom. Complete freedom in such environments is a liability, not an asset.

Say hi to the others in the ivory tower. And remind them not to do selective omissions in their supposed counter-arguments to "win" an argument, and that it's a cheap tactic.
by andrewaylett | 2025-04-13 22:11:32+00:00
NFC, for payments, has bidirectional communications and limited scope for MITM. It's a bit too easy to cover a sticker.

The TWINT app says -- if their promo videos are to be trusted -- "Scan only QR codes from trusted sources and check the receiver of the payment in the next step". That doesn't fill me with confidence :(.

A dynamic QR code could be fine -- they have their app, you're able to bootstrap what is effectively a secure channel between the PoS machine and the app to give the vendor confidence their device has received payment and the consumer confidence that they're paying the right vendor. A static QR code is more challenging, and it sounds like they're putting more weight into social protections than I'm comfortable with -- especially considering a technical solution is possible and exists.

I'm especially wary of the warning that individuals can't have QR codes. Why not? Unless it's part of the social protection. But I can personally accept NFC contactless payments (having opened an account with a suitable provider), and indeed I bought a device which means I can accept chip and PIN payments too.
by xkcdz | 2025-04-13 22:13:03+00:00
I’d argue GPTS has some unique strengths that make it stand out and way better than Swatch, not just for everyday stuff but also for where timekeeping is headed. Here’s why:

Precision Without the Hassle: Sure, most people don’t need sub-second precision when chatting about meetups. But GPTS’s 100,000 pulses per day—each about 0.864 seconds—give you that granularity baked in. No need to mess with decimals like you would with Swatch’s 86.4-second beats. For example, in GPTS, you can say “P042K” (short for P042000) for a rough time, but if you’re syncing an AI process or timestamping a transaction, the full precision’s right there. Swatch feels like it’s asking for extra steps when accuracy matters.

A Human Rhythm: This is where GPTS gets interesting. Each pulse is roughly 0.864 seconds, pretty close to the average human heartbeat (around 0.83 seconds). It’s not just a random division—it’s a rhythm that vibes with us biologically. Swatch’s beats, at 86.4 seconds each, don’t have that kind of intuitive hook. GPTS feels less like a clock and more like a pulse we already know.

Global Sync Made Simple: GPTS resets every day at midnight UTC, giving everyone a universal reference point. That’s huge for coordinating across time zones or logging events globally—think distributed systems or even just planning a worldwide launch. Swatch Internet Time is universal too, but without that daily anchor, it’s trickier to tie it to real-world moments.

Swatch had its moment in the ‘90s, but it didn’t stick—maybe because it’s too detached from how we live and work now. GPTS, with its precision, human connection, and global reset, feels like it’s built for today’s challenges, from casual use to tech-heavy applications IMO.
by molybdenum_plus | 2025-04-13 22:14:03+00:00
> Microsoft seeks to reduce bureaucratic layers and enhance the "span of control" for managers, allowing each to oversee more employees.

If you've ever worked on large-scale organizational transformation (i.e., layoffs), you'll recognize this. 'Span of control' is the most straightforward way to systematically lean out an org chart. It's repeated over-and-over by legal and HR that your task is to eliminate roles not specific people. And it's pretty easy to look for managers of people that ... just don't manage that many people.

It's also a surprisingly effective exercise for consolidating redundant orgs. If you nix a managerial position, you'll map that manager's branch onto some other manager.

Very imperfect, but it does work!
by sho_hn | 2025-04-13 22:14:08+00:00
> Humans have been programming other humans since the beginning of our time (and arguably other species too[0]).

There's the often-captured idea that social interaction (including the ability to reason about what information another being is in possession of, being able to empathize with their viewpoint, anticipate their reactions, and use all of this to manipulate their next set of actions) is perhaps the main driver of intelligence explosion in humans, birds and other noticably more intelligent animals.

I find that interesting because if you look into the SciFi golden age notion of what the Intelligent Machines era would be like, Asimov-style, you usually get depictions of cooly calculating and reasoning, maximally logical machine beings. Yet what we've actually been able to create is mushy, vibe-y text generators that excel at generating manipulative slop. Maybe it's not a coincidence, but somehow echoing the general thrust of higher intelligence.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-13 22:15:13+00:00
> I'd say at least 70% of reddit "hobby" spaces are people buying something with little research, then posting the picture of the thing they bought.

This is exactly what happened to all of the hobby reddits I enjoyed.

Any useful discussion was crowded out by 10 posts per week (or day) of people posting their newest purchase or asking a question that had been answered 1000 times already.

The useful Subreddits have mods who come down hard on these posts. They don’t proliferate as much if people don’t see them everywhere. It’s a lot of work for mods though.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-13 22:15:23+00:00
He had little choice but to defect to Trump's side. If Harris had won, the damage due to supporting Trump would have been finite and likely fixable. However, a Trump victory would wreck essentially all of his companies if he'd gone all-in for Harris. They have massive dependencies on Federal government support.

No way to hand-wave the Nazi salutes away with game theory, though. Those were just stupid. Safe to say that nobody including Trump expected him to go that far.
by awesome_dude | 2025-04-13 22:15:49+00:00
> You could definitely go in on something worthless that never gets any traction and end up with less than zero

Absolutely agree

> Lesser known names that still pay out, not in the millions, but a couple hundred thousand dollars range

FTR This is the same for lottery tickets, they don't all win the top prize (or a share of it), most will win a few dollars, some tens of thousands, and so on.
by EasyMark | 2025-04-13 22:15:51+00:00
right but easy doesn't always mean fewest key strokes, it can simply mean "I have muscle memory for exiting this editor that I use 43% of my working hours with so Imma map it to exiting my browser and ________ app as well." . I personally have to move between too many systems for something like that to be useful to me but if you stay on a single machine most of your work day I can see the value.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-13 22:16:43+00:00
> Its fully astroturfing. The trick is to implement non-member/non-flaired rules to block most folks from the discourse.

The number of subreddits that do this is small. Hardly representative of typical Reddit behavior.

Everyone knows by now that /r/conservative isn’t a real subreddit because it’s “flavored users only”.

However, too many people make the leap from “astroturfing exists” to “everything I don’t like is astroturfing” way too quickly. It’s right up there with accusing people you disagree with of using ChatGPT or being paid shills.

The truth is, a lot of subreddits are the way they are because that’s just what Reddit’s user base thinks, not because a shadowy cabal is making them say those things.
by Gamemaster1379 | 2025-04-13 22:18:44+00:00
I got forced into working for some garbage startup at a job early in my career. The CEO was absolutely psychotic and never put much effort into hiding his motives.

The guy gave me a "Pre selection" letter (bokded at the top that it was "NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT") that I was selected to receive 1,000,000 shares, vested at 250k a year (no one year cliff into monthly). 1,000,000 of how many? Didn't say. Percentage? Nope. Was it 25% 3% .00003% Who knows!

I eventually was forced out after him verbally abusing me, making unsubstantiated accusations about how I spoke to other employees, and doing things like asking me to clock out and continue to talk about work.

I received two death threats after I quit. And, seven years later, I get a threatening letter falsely accusing me of defaming the company under random online accounts. After rejecting the allegations, I got a "settlement letter" that demands I forfeit all obligations, and can never talk about the employer again. It also explicitly stated I'd get $0 and that they "wouldn't appear at my place of residence" as my benefits.

Last I saw the SEC audited them and said they had no revenue and no products to commercialize.

They raised $6m on fundraising sites selling SAFEs, but had $800k in assets and $6m in debt. Oh, the most interesting part is the owner had the company paying his other computer repair business $5k a month for IT services.

It really reenforced for me how meaningless the whole process. Working for that company was a lifetime mistake.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-13 22:20:07+00:00
Oh well you’re assuming now that each remote human “vay.io” operator is only simultaneously responsible for only one vehicle at a time?

Furthermore, that’s a brand-confusion name they’re d/b/a. “Veyo” is a very well established ride sharing provider, based in San Diego, and specializing in human drivers for NEMT.

Come, Mister Tally-Mon, Tally Me Banana: Daylight Come And Me Wann’ Go Home
by denidoman | 2025-04-13 22:20:32+00:00
Look at this 18 years old Django ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4140

It was impossible to fix, but it required some experiments and deep research about very specific behaviors.

Or this ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35289

Author proposed one-line solution, but the following discussion includes analysis of RFC, potential negative outcomes, different ways to fix it.

And without deep understanding of the project - it's not clear how to fix it properly, without damage to backward compatibility and neighbor functionality.

Also such a fix must be properly tested manually, because even well designed autotests are not 100% match the actual flow.

You can explore other open and closed issues and corresponding discussions. And this is the complexity level of real software, not pet projects or simple apps.

I guess that existing attention mechanism is the fundamental blocker, because it barely able to process all the context required for a fix.

And feature requests a much, much more complex.
by xkcdz | 2025-04-13 22:20:43+00:00
Interesting argument, and you’re totally right that they highlight how tricky it is to get people to adopt a new time system, especially when the benefits aren’t screamingly obvious. I hear you loud and clear: for most folks, global scheduling isn’t a daily itch that needs scratching, so why bother with something like GPTS? Fair point. But let me toss out a few reasons why I’m still hopeful it could have a shot in today’s world—maybe not for everyone, but for enough people to matter.

The Global Life Is Real Now: Back when the French tried their decimal time or the Soviets pushed their reforms, most people were rooted in one place, living local lives. Fast forward to now—remote work, international teams, and digital nomads are everywhere. I’ve got friends juggling calls between New York, Tokyo, and Berlin, and they’re constantly cursing time zones. GPTS could be a universal fix for that mess, a single time everyone could sync to without the mental gymnastics. That’s a pain point those older systems never had to tackle.

Tech Smooths the Switch: Unlike those past experiments, we’ve got tools today that make change less of a shock. Think about it—your phone already flips between time zones or shows you dual clocks if you need it. GPTS could just be an extra layer, not a total replacement. You’d still use local time for grabbing coffee with a friend, but switch to GPTS for a global meeting. It’s not about forcing everyone to ditch what they know—it’s about adding something practical for the stuff that’s already global.

It Feels Human, Not Just Math: I love that you mentioned the French Republican calendar’s ten-hour days and hundred-minute hours—super interesting, but yeah, it felt detached from how we live. GPTS, though? Each “pulse” is 0.864 seconds, pretty close to a heartbeat. That’s not some random decimal obsession; it’s a rhythm we instinctively get. It’s less about rewriting time from scratch and more about syncing it to something we already feel.

It Could Start Small: You’re spot on—most people don’t care about global scheduling yet. But some do: tech companies, finance folks, scientists working across borders. If GPTS catches on with them first, it could spread naturally, kind of like how UTC quietly became the internet’s timekeeper. The French and Soviet systems were top-down mandates that flopped—GPTS could grow from the ground up, driven by people who actually need it.

Getting traction would be an uphill climb. People hate change unless it’s worth it, and cultural habits die hard. But in a world where we’re already rethinking how we work and connect across the planet, maybe a system like GPTS could sneak in by solving real, modern headaches.
by andybak | 2025-04-13 22:21:14+00:00
I've seen multiple overlapping cycles of sentiment towards Windows from within geek culture. Often contradictory and frequently shifting wildly in hindsight. To say it's "more like slop" would imply there was a generally acknowledged period where it wasn't slop and I struggle to think of a period where that kind of consensus existed.

So - when did you have in mind when you wrote that?
by rollcat | 2025-04-13 22:21:26+00:00
> My terminal can [...] use the clipboard.

Yes, but the TUI application running in it can't - unless using non-portable side channels such as pbcopy or xclip. Copying text is limited to what's visible on your screen (and have fun if it's drawn inside a widget). When pasting, you're dumping the text as if it was typed in. Also, have fun with Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V.

> You might be limited in pictures [...]

That's right, sixels are indeed 1980s technology, seems like VT200 can do that.

But you know what I mean. It can't do audio, video, HDR pictures, precise mouse motion, accessibility, or even recognise shift+alt (ran out of bits in ASCII). It's a serial link, and using a side channel is just cheating.
by toast0 | 2025-04-13 22:21:37+00:00
RSUs aren't really that bad, unless your employer does sell to cover in annoying ways. Net share withholding works out super simple, the shares that weren't withheld are at the brokerage with the correct basis, and the income and withholding are reported accurately on your w-2.

Options do get pretty nasty if you exercise and hold, when the fair market value is higher than the fair market value; because then you have to have an AMT return and a regular return and reconcile them.

ESPP with a discount was pretty bad the last time I had it; the brokerage said they were specifically required by IRS rules to report the wrong cost basis, and you had to adjust it when you sold, or you'd have the discount reported on your w-2 and again as a capital gain. Maybe that changed, capital gains reporting has changed over time.
by gman83 | 2025-04-13 22:21:57+00:00
I stopped using Reddit around the time of the API fiasco. But it was already terrible back then - I was using it out of habit. The astroturfing is rife, it's insane. I feel a deep sense of sadness that the internet that I grew up on where I would learn and discover amazing and interesting people and things every day has just disappeared. I used to think it was absolutely magical. Now it's just boring.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-13 22:22:02+00:00
I do advocate for addressing those, and I don't support throwing anyone under the bus. That's why I support moderating on immigration!

I agree with you that the anti-immigration movement doesn't make much sense to me, and I'm pretty confident that restricting immigration won't have the benefits its proponents claim. But the people who support it are genuine, as far as I can tell, and aren't going to just evaporate if rent decreases 10%. You can restrict immigration in a humane and respectful way, or you can follow the US and wait for xenophobic politicians to restrict immigration in an inhumane and disrespectful way; I don't think there's a third option.
by the_af | 2025-04-13 22:22:25+00:00
I agree it's not evidence, but even then, going by the principle of parsimony (which does not provide evidence, but is a reasonable way of thinking about this) the most likely explanation is also the less extraordinary or convoluted: a guy in a gorilla suit. Why reach for anything else, unless one wants to believe?

The existence of yetis is an extraordinary claim that would require convincing evidence by their proponents, of which this video isn't one (since it's trivial to film a guy in a suit, etc).
by re | 2025-04-13 22:23:24+00:00
> I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01808-6

> We designed a survey to compare the psychological, sexual, and childhood experiences for subgroups of men with extreme interest in castration. The survey was posted on the Eunuch Archive, an online platform for individuals interested in the topic. Data from 822 individuals were included in the analyses.
by lechatonnoir | 2025-04-13 22:23:29+00:00
Just registering my experience, which was mostly good in principle.

I took my physics/chem labs at a not particularly good university, and got points for having valid calculations, whether or not they matched the correct values. I felt that the labs themselves were a little bit patronizing and a waste of time, but at least they were designed in the direction of making us perform experiments and do measurements.
by 47282847 | 2025-04-13 22:23:53+00:00
I think it is crucial that children get exposure to the sad reality, not in order to normalize it but because the idea of hiding it is what stops progress in the first place and confuses children more than the plain truth. Children need truth and not shielding from it. Highly recommended book around this fundamental mistake in education by a French child psychologist: A corps et a cris. Être psychanalyste avec les tout-petits (Caroline Eliacheff).
by theshackleford | 2025-04-13 22:24:09+00:00
> Anyway I have very few good experiences with these services

For me, and a majority where I live, this is applicable to taxis. Which were known for being dirty, late, expensive, prone to attempting to rip you off, if they turned up at all, etc.

Outside of surge charging (in which they are more expensive) ubers are by and large either cheaper, or the same price. With the difference being that 99% of the time if you request one, its going to turn up. And when it does turn up, you know what your going to pay, not have them take a wrong turn at some point and by "mistake" and decide to charge you double. Or tell you they take card and then start making claims about how suddenly they can't etc.

Sounds like europe gets the bad end of the stick in this regard.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-13 22:24:28+00:00
Wait, are there gamblers who aren’t secretive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(song)

On a warm Summer's Evenin’

On a train bound for nowhere,

I met up with a Gambler

We were both too tired to sleep.

So we took turns a-starin’

Out the window at the darkness,

’Till boredom overtook us

And he began to speak:
by _qua | 2025-04-13 22:26:13+00:00
There was a recent panic/hysteria there about banning Twitter from many subreddits because of hate speech. It was incredible how quickly people were begging to have a website banned when they could either choose not to visit it or down vote posts they didn't like. Really soured things for me by illustration how much the median values changed from when I started using the site.
by drmpeg | 2025-04-13 22:26:27+00:00
I started with GNU Radio back in 2013, and have had a lot of fun with it. My "magnum opus" is an ATSC 3.0 transmitter.

https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-atsc3

Demo clip running on a HiFive P550 RISC-V platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn5L-k4EPA
by keyringlight | 2025-04-13 22:26:58+00:00
The thing that turned me off reddit is that for many years how much of it seemed to be following a script for any given topic, and that's a long time to when /r/subredditsimulator or GPT variants would be novel. Personally I'm long past the point where I found myself caring whether it's a human or bot if the value in reading the post isn't there as it's not presenting anything new. I found myself despairing a bit that if it was humans typing out responses, what's the cumulative amount of time spent doing so and not moving things forwards, just playing out the same scene over and over, and likely being angry about it so it's hard to see it as a leisure activity