skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. 90% gives surprisingly large error budgets; that’s about 72 hours of downtime a month or 36.5 days a year.

I would guess most home labs are at or near 99% availability on hardware.

Scale is part of it too. I could pack my homelab into the car and take it to a friends house. They have the space, power service, and internet to accommodate me. A full data center doesn’t have that option, at least not for free-ish.
> 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.
> 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.
The US Is Turning a Blind Eye to Crypto Crimes
>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.
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.
I enjoy that you're scolding me about 'not reading' after doubling down the accuracy of your initial post, which, yes, I can easily imagine you did from your phone

And yet I brought receipts for my claims, and you just bring "reed the manul, n00b"
> It has replaced neither

Except that it did. Just because people aren’t rewriting borg and spanner in go doesn’t mean it isnt default choice for many of infra projects. And python got completely superseded by go even during my tenure
At that point you’re almost, but not quite into the realm of “forth”
Another option to Cloudinary is reimage.dev, which I’m the founder of. Currently have a lifetime deal at lifetime.reimage.dev
Thanks for trying. It's all good, foundart found the article on msn
> You are comparing the max loaded weight of the polo with the unloaded weight of a dolphin.

In this context, what is the air speed velocity of an unloaded dolphin? Especially compared to an unladen swallow?
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Makes sense, Windows looks more like slop every passing day.
once those keys become muscle memory no mouse driven interface will ever repair lol. I used to work best buy and they had a bunch of backend inventory/database stuff and I could absolutely fly through those. I used be able to do the same with wordperfect as well. now all those skills and muscle memory..... gone like tears in the rain.
There are companies that will finance your options exercise in exchange for a cut of the earnings in the event of an exit. I haven't personally used one, but they do exist.
I can't speak to their individual deals, but Hiiive, Forge, and ESO fund are all working with companies that aren't stripe sized.

But absolutely no one should read this and think anyone's paper valuation is worth actual dollars until the money hits your bank account.
Folks should also appreciate that BK was also working on the “Software Tools in Pascal” book.

This was an update to the earlier “Software Tools” book, which was written using RATFOR.

If you read the book, it has a very “C in Pascal” coding style, and you can see how uncomfortable it is by doing so.
A config management and deployment system in the spirit of Saltstack and Ansible.

Recently did some refactoring around a process-per-connection architecture in Python that ended up being fairly elegant.
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.
If you found this useful it's probably worth taking a look at bpftrace. There's a pretty wide range of different tracing infrastructure in the kernel and bpftrace is just one single tool that lets you interact with all of it, in a very flexible way.
Copilot has been doing this, using Bing, for a year not and it’s been great.
Compared to Sue Grafton he was a genius at titles. Her Kinsey Millhone murder mystery series starts with "A" is for Alibi, followed by "B" Is for Burglar, and continuing to the final installment, "Y" is for Yesterday
Does it still make you look like a ding-dong and get you mocked behind your back? Yes? Oh, guess they didn't fix that yet.
If this tariff situation really impact the US economy, when should we start to see layoffs?
Distinguishing Human Journalists from AI Through Stylistic Fingerprints
Higher trim Dolphin has 150kW motor and weights 1658 kg. VW Golf with 150 kW (204 PS) engine weights 1492 kg empty. I see only 10% difference.
His salary didn't increase.
"The Congress" (2013) probably?
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.
My employer is of course just one and not representative of every company. But my work/indurance is happy to accept long term domestic partner in lieu of marriage. As long as you swear to be in a long term committed relationship and live together, it's fine.
It also reads like someone thinking benchmarks make good products.
> 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!
> 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.
and the most important thing someone told me is that 100% of $0 is $0. x% of a big number > $0
As someone with years of windows and Linux experience, yes the Linux shell is quite good, but mac bsd shell is terrible, even compared to powershell
Good thing you can bind arbitrarily complex action to a key/combination in a programmable editor and avoid this semantic fuss whatsoever.
Gravitational attraction falls off as 1 / r^2; potential energy falls off as 1 / r. The former (a force) is the derivative of the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_energy#Newtonian...
> 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.
The high quality niche is exactly why AI is a bad idea.

If I desire to fill my brain with slop, there are plenty of options.
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.
They don’t make people like this anymore, imagine being so sure of what is right and wrong. Now it’s all just cynicism and irony, such is the age I suppose
This style is coming back — Rivian R3X looks eerily similar, just with more even proportions.
This was posted by the author a couple of weeks ago, but didn't get any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504429
> 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.
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.
The terminal layer can exist outside of the GUI. That GUI programs provide emulation for this, yea, adds the whole GUI layer back in so systemically you are worse off.

The application doesn't notice any of this though. So they're easier to develop and the program itself runs faster (is lighter). Which is the specific point the article was making.
> 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.
Is this whole post an AI bot writing to generate empathy for a person who was duped by a bot to click on a product built by an AI? new Hn account, blog with single post (and one archived)....
I would love to know how the start button search has been so terrible and almost useless for more than a decade. Not to mention searching in a folder doesn't work half the time either. So many basic things are broken it blows my mind. And now we nueter the ui for no reason too with windows 11
Thanks for trying out! Can you please expand when it doesn't move (browser, desktop or mobile)?
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.
Yup, most of my uses were unbuffered, or with small buffers (i.e. 3 slots or fewer), often just one slot.
Been using it for a couple of years, and in practice it does not cause me much trouble, at least not for me.
If a committee can produce the Cyberiad, books should always be written by committees.
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.

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https://blog.loa.org/2010/12/what-philip-k-dick-learned-abou...
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.
perhaps instead of assuming marriage is good we should stop discriminating economically against unmarried people.
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.
Next month, possibly end of this month. Doesn’t sound like that’s the reason for these Microsoft layoffs though.
Can you give me some sources about the conversation scripts? I've been sure this is happening but can't prove it.
Slums and cleanliness of society are absolutely about poverty. And to say otherwise is so utterly deranged I don't know where to begin..... The non slum places are kept clean not by pride, but by people being paid to maintain and clean it....
It would make a lovely homepage, expecially for retro computing sites, archives of 60s-90s, etc. I'm not sure why people get angry when developers go outside the box and make something nifty. I have been using the star trek console looking theme for my pihole for years and still love the aesthetic.
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?
> 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.