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Shame on Microsoft for allowing this

From their status page

The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.

Want to bet AI code was involved?

And with that 37k a day, or 185k per 5-day work-week, what exactly has he achieved?

I don't see any actual output coming from these AI tools, despite how many are saying it's greatly increased their productivity. Where are all the new businesses and tools? I only see more shovels being sold.

Not sure what the difference is between this and any regular P2P network?

Ever experienced being the founding engineer and getting 0.5-2.5%? The amount of work done by the founding engineer for the amount of equity they usually get, there is definitely an unfair exchange here. I'd say the founding engineer is 99% of the time better off finding a non-technical co-founder and building something for 50% each.

Anecdotally, on my few visits to the US (NY and Colorado), the driving I saw was absolutely atrocious compared to Europe. People were swerving and failing to stay in their lanes on Interstates, everyone was speeding well above the limit (everyone speeds on Motorways, but it seems it's taken to another level in the US). Then you have turn right on red meaning drivers just don't care and turn regardless. Then you have everyone driving massive fucking trucks where you can't see anything from inside.

It seemed every morning I got up and turned on the hotel TV, there was another news about some crash on the Interstate that morning

It's about making the right choices for society as a whole

It's been mentioned that you will be able to get a physical card with a chip in it for those who want it

Can anyone really point me out the real problem about the immigrants?

This minimises the problem. The UK voters have consistently voted for reduced immigration, with polls showing the preferred number to be somewhere between 0-100,000. Those elected have consistently ignored them which has raised tensions.

In the last few years, the UK had around 1 million people net per year. 1 million people is bigger than most cities in the UK for comparison, so imagine a new city of people, every single year. The infrastructure could not, or did not keep up and has contributed to worse living standards through overly-subscribed national services, increased living costs, etc.

for example the lack of funding of the NHS or the hyper funding of other initiatives such as war in Ukraine.

The NHS is already the single biggest expenditure of the UK's taxes. I remember it being more than 25% of the total budget. How much should be spent on the NHS? 50%? 90%?

The cost of defending democracy and freedom from a tyrannical Russia is also barely a drop in the bucket, while having huge meaning for many. Only 2% of the budget for the entire Armed forces, let alone just some support for Ukraine, compared to the 25+% on NHS. It's nothing.

It is really a distopean future in US and UK right now.

This ignores the fact that most of Europe and Asia already have national IDs

Orwell was born in India. You should learn a little about him before saying everything is Orwellian

You can't get a NI number without proving who you are

That's not true either. You're sent your NI number just before 16 years old without providing anything.

Also, an NI number is just a number. There is no photo. How can you look at it and say it belongs to the person presenting it? And no you can't look up a passport or something in another system based on the NI number, because those other IDs aren't mandatory so the person might not have them.

The only way to really ID someone is to have mandatory photo ID, whether that be digital or not.

You don't currently have any National ID. You have forms of ID, which others might not have, but none are national mandatory ID that every citizen and resident has. As such many benefits in streamlining and simplifying processes cannot be achieved when everyone has a UID as such. Imagine making a system where you used various ID formats, and you couldn't guarantee anyone had one in particular, and some people had none.

Your NI card literally says it's not identification. A NI number is not linked to a passport as it's not mandatory to have a passport, so that would not work for many people. It is just a number used for tax accounting.

This is not true. You can work without a NI number, you will just be given an emergency tax code. A NI number is not ID, it is a reporting number.

Your card literally says, "THIS IS NOT IDENTIFICATION"

A Brit can pass a RTW check without a drivers license or a passport - a paper birth certificate is also acceptable (and paper can be lost, damaged, forged), as neither a drivers license or a passport a mandatory. Getting those can be expensive for some people while this ID is free.

A NI number is not ID, it's a reporting number.

Lastly, a national ID is a tried and tested scheme in many, many countries and brings a lot of positives. The only "negatives" are slippery slope make-believe scenarios not based in reality.

https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work

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After having lived in a country for a while that doesn't change its clocks, coming back to a country that still does has emphasised how annoying and archaic changing the clocks is. It also doesn't help that countries don't even change clocks on the same date.

We need to just stop it. After the first year everyone will forget it was even a thing.

The President of the European Commission?

Are you sure your water was fully boiling? Not just little bubbles at the bottom of the pan, but the top is properly rumbling

Sometimes they do but it doesn't really make a difference

Slightly easier in the UK/EU as we don't have to keep our eggs in the fridge.

Bring a pot of water to boiling, then once boiling put eggs in for 6.5 minutes, then put in cold water.

Will give me perfect eggs every time that look like the first image

Yep, since Garry took over YC has fallen off drastically in my opinion

Except now their call for startups are focusing on tech solutions (use LLMS to do x), instead of focusing on problems that need solving. They're now doing exactly what they've railed against, solutions in search of problems

I think all the recent AI slop dominated batches will be their downfall in 2-3 years time when they all become junk and the AI-hype is over.

The product should be marketed as a tool for monitoring and highlighting bottlenecks in the manufacturing production line in order to help maintain peak output. This is a completely reasonable thing to want, it's no different to monitoring micro-services and their latencies/loads.

The video they made however where they berate and meanly put-down an individual employee is so far from acceptable. That's not how personnel performance issues should be managed in the real world, completely void of human empathy. It shows the founders (and did YC view and approve this?) are lacking in areas

The launch video is absolutely disgusting

edit: it looks like they’ve now removed it, and yc removed their launch tweet

This is Dropbox comment all over again. Lots of things are doable with more manual effort.

Anyone know how to get out of the stairwell? The floors seem infinite.

It seems like that is actually the end.

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This is great thank you. Been a k8s admin for many years but obviously still need to look up fields from time to time, and trying to find it or an example in the k8s documentation is always difficult

Just give me a modern C++ like language with fast compilation, easy to pull in packages, and build tooling. Basically Go with no GC.