skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but the issue of discussion is whether company directors are required/expected to serve the interests of shareholders at the exclusion of all other considerations.

They are not. They are expected to serve the interests of the company, as distinct from the interests of shareholders, and matters like employee welfare/satisfaction and company reputation relating to externalities are very relevant to the interests of the company.

That some companies ignore these matters is separate from the principle: it’s not inconsistent with capitalism for companies to care about issues other than profits and shareholder returns. Though it’s obviously related, company welfare is distinct from shareholder benefit.
You can’t both believe it’s worth putting in the stdlib and not worth importing a library for, if your intention is to be consistent.
typically H+ in aq. is H3O+ [hydronium]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydronium

oxygen has greater electronegativity than hydrogen thus oxygen takes a greater share of the electronic orbital,
becoming a net positive region
>> burying waste in a landfill isn't the obviously better solution either.

Plastics into landfill is better because the toxicity/microplastics are constrained to the immediate ecosystem of the landfill, rather than being distributed everywhere.
If you’re interested in SRS algorithms you should visit the site of the guy who basically invented them [0].

Most SRS algorithms seen in apps today are based on one of the super memo algorithms in one shape or form.

Anki was based on SM2, which was already outdated in terms of supermemo algorithms when released, but was chosen due to its simplicity.

0: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru#Memory
I remember my teachers saying the same back in the 80's (in between threats of nuclear annihilation, global population bomb, acid rain, hole in the ozone and global cooling).

They're all retired and collecting social security now.
I think the same may apply when people are trained and experienced in algorithms (and other technology) and not in values (and other aspects of humanities). The extreme corruption I perceive in SV could be, IMHO, partly a consequence.

Most issues in SV, such as free speech, fraud, AI's impact on society, disinformation and misinformation, labor rights, the concentration of wealth and power, the role of government, mob rule online, narcissism and megalomania in leaders, the corruption of power, etc. etc. are mainly humanities issues. Many in technology have disparaged and avoided humanities education - itself an act of basic egocentric bias and a lack of skepticism - and it shows in the outcomes.
> Nevertheless your comment accusing me

Narcissism much? When the comment doesn’t apply to you, it isn’t directed at you.
I think you underestimate how many ingredients are in IHOP food

(Edit) to wit: https://m.nutritionix.com/ihop/3-original-buttermilk-pancake...
GDS — there’s really only 3 centralized stores of real-time flight/hotel/booking information in the entire world (Sabre/SABRE, Amadeus, and Travelport). Almost every American airline uses Sabre (American Airlines is an interesting case in that it does not technically in a legal sense, but actually it spun off and sold Sabre in 2000, so a lot of their core systems are forks of each other)

Complexity — Fundamentally you’re looking at a logistics software, except unlike packages you’re dealing with people who aside from expected destinations have travel lengths and time-in-air calculated down to the minute. Also unlike a package, a surprise multi-day trip, unexpected multi-leg journey, one day delay is not something passengers (and crew members) will accept or be at all ok with. And if any one thing goes wrong there’s going to be cascading failures down the line— so much that it may break your company’s entire operating workflow (e.g. Southwest) entirely, and no software can overcome that kind of organizational gap.

Airlines - There’s not many commercial passenger airlines left in the US, especially that fly nationwide. Good luck trying to convince one of these giant behemoths to move to a non-battle-tested system for core operations, especially when decades-old industry software and practices around that software exist.

Entrenched - Sabre is entrenched in airlines around the world. They don’t just provide the booking services, they do the flight tracking, the ticket handling, the upgrading, the in-flight upgrades, missed connection handling, the flight scheduling algorithms, the pricing algorithms, the pilot and flight attendant time tracking, ground crew management, even the terminal software at each gate. To replace SABRE, you would physically need to rip out and then replace software around the world. And because agents don’t work from an office usually, but at the airport, you’re going to need to conduct trainings and provide support around the entire service area, which for the largest airlines is the entire world

Scale — A lot of Sabre’s revenue comes from passengers boarded. It depends on the airline, but I believe the average is that each airline pays 10cents/customer boarded with their software (though with increases in passenger volume each year, it may be less now). Because Sabre is so prevalent, and so many flights use them, they can afford such a price. A company servicing just one regional passenger airline would absolutely not be able to compete on price, at least starting out

Also— Sabre’s software itself is actually reliable! As a corporation it is slow clunky and bureaucratic, but the actual functionality it provides is stable, battle-tested, can handle any travel edge case you can think of, and fast and efficient for those who know how to use it, while also good enough at day to day operations that it doesn’t take too much time to train new agents on how to use it for routine tasks.
Maybe we have different outlooks then. I would view my personal savings, assets and 401k as a sane guaranteed retirement plan, and having 0 savings but trusting the government to take care of me as a not-guaranteed plan.

Not only is money I am taxed for social security gonna get way shittier returns than a 401k, I am hesitant to believe social security will look the same way it does today when I am retirement age in ~35 years.
Your intel is six years out of date:

https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-detai...

Of course, those of us who pay any attention whatsoever already knew that back in 2011.
Ask HN: Which technical issues should I expect while scaling a Software?
I launched a Saas since a couple of months. I am wondering what are the potential technical issues/problems that i might encounter during this journey and how to prevent them ? Thanks for your help
In my personal system, I tag facts by sub-topic and the daily reps are ordered so that facts of the same sub-topic are shown consecutively to avoid context switching (eg. AAABBCCCCD not CABCCDBACA). In addition, there is logic so that after the mandatory daily reps are done, it will show cards that are close to the due-date (eg. within 0.25*LastInterval), again batched by sub-topic. This lets me efficiently get reviews out of the way on days when I have time to do so, without deviating too far from the basic SRS philosophy. As a result, for mature cards, I end up focusing on a small number of sub-topics on any particular day. I find that works a lot better.

All of this is trivial to implement - I think it's best to create from scratch and specialize it for one's own domain instead of using a pre-existing solution. In my case the relationships are straightforward (sub-topics) but in others it might be more fuzzy. Programmatic fact-generation/deletion is also something I put a lot of effort into (again, domain-specific).
> but the effect is that companies have to be slower to hire when firing is that much harder.

Which is good. Nobody wants a work environment that changes every five minutes.
You never just want to "pull in external data" in a real app though. You need to make the request, deal with injecting auth tokens or headers, handle errors, handle different responses, update global and local state, possibly trigger side effects when the loading starts and ends, do something in a "finally" callback... If your app is non-trivial then you'll almost always end up using a library of some sort. That's where useSyncExternalStore is useful. If you're using useEffect then you're probably not making external requests well.

If you don't need it then you should be questioning whether you even need React, not whether or not you need useEffect.
Alternative ending:

Instead of weeding based on the looks of the plans a new company UpRound has developed a chemical solution that can target the weeds without relying on sight, instead it chemically targets all plants other than the crops themselves.
I’m assuming this is sarcasm.

I am not working at Amazon. If anything, you can view my post history and see my disfavor of big tech.

If you have something more substantial to say, please do it, but a sarcastic/snark remark isn’t jt
AFAIK, there are no aluminum based CD-Rs, the silver-looking ones actually have silver or silver alloy reflective layer.
That's why you should switch before creating the codebase in the first place.
> "this isn't a drill you can run". And yet, Netflix has chaos Kong do it with regularity.

Netflix and airlines are so different as to make this comparison laughable. The cost of setup and consequence of problems actually being found (ie Federal Regulations) that are not addressable (it's not like SWA didn't know about some of the eventualities), easily outclasses the need for testing every combination of situations. Kong doesn't run anything that has to do with weather turning jet fuel into sludge or 12x pre-staffing in case of massive computer failures along with assessing the possible legal consequences from each locale. The hubris of pretending that physical services on a national scale, is as deterministic as a complex automated system, is unsurprising from a certain crowd, I guess.
No one has provided the actual answer yet. Here it is-

The gastroduodenal epithelium (stomach surface) is covered by a sticky mucus layer into which bicarbonate is secreted by surface epithelial cells. This bicarbonate-mucus layer creates a pH gradient with a near-neutral pH at the epithelial surfaces in stomach and duodenum, providing the first line of mucosal protection against luminal gastric acid.

We only learned this in the last 20 years so it’s relatively new science

Edit: either I misread the question or it was edited
What is the EIRP of a starlink spot beam? Even if you had multiple satellites blasting a single region with all of their antennas does this do anything worse than raising the noise floor? It just seems like the orders of magnitude are all off for a weapon.

Maybe it gets powerful enough to burn out the radios in smartphones? I can't find a good reference to the total TX power from a Starlink satellite, but I do know that the spot beams have a 15 mile diameter and the inverse square law is a harsh mistress.
Other airlines have staffing issues too.

The bottom line here is that the hub-and-spoke model is more resilient than the point-to-point model.
It might have helped the Saudi terrorists.

I am thankful that the EU is standing up against this threat.
Backtrack Programming (1965)
This is absolutely true. The typical tech CEO is a guy who got one B in a college history course and decided the whole subject was just so far beneath his genius as to be completely unworthy of study. And so... we get what we've currently got.

Paul Graham, for his flaws, was at least a painter.
For many people the statement "electromagnetic fields exist as a (fundamental) building block of Nature" is just as reasonable as "atoms exist as a (fundamental) building block of Nature". The word "fundamental" is not particularly important, I am keeping it for historical reasons. You are perfectly comfortable with the existence of atoms (given your comments about understanding sound waves), presumably because you know of experiments that have demonstrated their existence. We have experiments that have demonstrated the existence of EM waves. So the questions is, what in your personal aesthetic tastes is making atoms more palatable?

The question of interpreting quantum mechanics is quite different. We do not have a popular mathematical framework that clearly explains why we perceive a classical world while being "inside" of a quantum wavefunction. There is plenty of vagueness and oversimplification in that last statement, but the difference is "we have an abstraction that explains mostly-perfectly EM waves and we do not care about whether people are comfortable with the abstraction" vs "we do not even have a mathematical abstraction explaining why we perceive a classical world inside of a quantum universe".
I don't get to exercise my dusty algorithms knowledge nearly enough to follow this nearly as well as I'd like. Are we talking about the bin packing problem and approximation ratios? So, is the intuition here that when the ratio of bins to objects goes up, the worst-case performance for the algorithm goes down into the toilet?
Architecture advantages over the phone based system described upthread are obvious. The reason United chose Couchbase is because it’s designed for offline updates. So if a plane, phone, or airport is disconnected they can still do the data entry work and reconcile asynchronously.
I'm leaning more towards deliberately obtuse.
So you are presumably OK with Disney, Sony, etc. grabbing a recent book and making a movie out of it without giving the original author a cent or any credit?
Tesla Drops Out of the 10 Biggest U.S. Public Companies
Vladimir went down to Georgia, he was lookin for some land to steal,

he was in a bind cause he was way behind

as he was starting world war three
Literally, the suffix -less means a complete absence of the thing. It is not a synonym for fewer.

“Stainless except for odd situations you wouldn’t normally find messing with the oxide protective layer” isn’t a very good marketing name.

Even though it is a lie, stainless does mean the absolute.
Including the narrative that some objectively bad groups aren't as bad as some people say they are.
Looking for Advice on Selling Content Platform/SaaS App Startup (~$50K MRR)
My co-founder and I have been running our business for a little for a year and a half, and we're interested in selling our business to allow us to shift into different business models.
Some information on the business:

- We've been operational for around 20 months.

- Our business is automated and requires minimal involvement from the co-founder and I (with the exception of sales, which we still do),

- Our margins are usually between 45-50%, and sometimes significantly more. We've had pretty consistent growth month over month. Around 15-20% on average.

Questions:

- How would you go about selling a business like this?

- We're familiar with marketplaces like Flippa and MicroAcquire for selling businesses. Are there any negatives to listing on platforms like these?

- Is it common practice to reach out to competitors to see if they're interested in acquiring your business?

- How much are businesses like ours usually valued at?

(after looking on the aforementioned websites, and speaking with a few people, the conclusion seems to be that our multiple is somewhere between an agency (1-2x rev) & a high-touch SaaS app (3-5x rev). But I understand markets are changing now, too, and startups are more often valued on earnings. how much should we be asking for?)

Thanks!
Whats an LLM?
Nice, but:

> Self-hosting
> How to self-host the software on your premises
> Coming soon!

Please let us know when this is available!
I have had cold showers abroad, but taking cold showers at home would not have prepared me better for them.

I don't sleep on the floor at home to make camping easier. That would be silly.
Kind of a joke, but honestly there's not much someone on Earth could do to enforce their will on Mars. In practical terms they are on their own regardless.
I don't see how you can allow lowercase "m" and "u" as symmetrical without also by the same principles including "n." In which case there are other words like "nun" and "non." Also "MAM" and "MOM" are symmetrical and are words (at least, Scrabble words. He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.)

More along those lines here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_records.html
> Haha I remember when I first realised that.

It seemed like you were making a joke until you talked about "realizing" something. So on the off chance you weren't, you should know that "___less" and "___ free" have identical meaning. The -less suffix means "present in the quantity zero", not "present in a quantity which is smaller than some unspecified other quantity".
Sorry, I don't think that's right. The CDC were terrible at messaging. It constantly sounded like they flip flopped, came up with absurd requirements. What's worse so many Americans took what they said as dogma, and massively attacked anyone who questioned their nonsense.

From https://reason.com/2022/02/07/that-study-of-face-masks-does-...

"A study[1] published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public places dramatically reduces your risk of catching COVID-19. The CDC summed up the results in a widely shared graphic[2] that says wearing a cloth mask "lowered the odds of testing positive" by 56 percent, while the risk reduction was 66 percent for surgical masks and 83 percent for N95 or KN95 respirators.

If you read the tiny footnotes, you will see that the result for cloth masks was not statistically significant. So even on its face, this study, which was published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, did not validate the protective effect of the most commonly used face coverings—a striking fact that the authors do not mention until the end of the sixth paragraph.

In 2020, the CDC went from dismissing the value of general mask wearing[3] to describing it as "the most important, powerful public health tool we have." In September 2020, then–CDC Director Robert Redfield asserted[4], without any evidence, that masks were more effective at preventing infection than vaccines would prove to be. Even before the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant, Redfield's successor, Rochelle Walensky, implied the same thing, exaggerating[5] the evidence supporting mask use in a way that made vaccination seem inferior."

So even in 2022, they are misleading the public.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/social-media/mm7106e1...

[3] https://reason.com/2020/04/06/the-cdcs-revised-face-mask-adv...

[4] https://reason.com/2020/09/17/suggesting-that-face-masks-are...

[5] https://reason.com/2021/11/09/the-cdcs-director-implies-that...
If you keep buying the same cables and they keep breaking things, they’re probably not high quality.

In my experience, Anker products are nothing short of garbage. Keyboards and adapters all break within weeks. I feel like all the “anker is the best!” stuff I see online is stealth marketing because I’ve had better results buying absolutely anything else.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurocracy

I fail to grasp the sentence though. What's a thalassocracy supposed to be in today's world?
Physical attacks on power grid surge to new peak
Calling Russians orcs makes me uncomfortable. That echos a world view that should be avoided to the greatest extend possible.
Software also requires far more maintenance and modification. Whereas building a bridge takes more work than maintaining it software is often the opposite
You've hit on it:

The big advantage is, the hints are only meaningful to you.

The big disadvantage is, the hints are only meaningful to you.
Arms.
How is it narrow? I said I am happy to read libertarian and conservative perspectives, just not Cato. Given its founding, funding, staff, and output, it's not worth my time. If I wanted to read neoliberal corporatist talking points, I would just read mainstream news.
Telluric means relating to the earth. Thalassocracy means a state of the ocean. Or a maritime empire.

I take their overall point there to draw a parallel to small states as islands, small spits of sand, connected by the thalassocracies, or oceans, of the US and USSR. In some sense, this is actually reality, especially under the US system of global economic hegemony via free trade (or some approximate, thereof).
Large language model (like gpt3 or chatgpt)
> If they are in fact retarded disproving them shouldn't be so hard right?

Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

--George Carlin (I think)
Part of the appeal of a desktop is future upgrade-ability, which (unless work buys you a Framework) is pretty poor in most laptops (slightly better in some non-Apple machines, maybe you can at least add ram or a new / different SSD). I think for personal use desktops are pretty great, not that you couldn't get some of that out of using servers elsewhere (or even at home).
If you believe that developers can't do design, then why do you think you can develop?
And I just spent 30 seconds shoving my phone into my nose to no avail. I feel like I've been trolled, lol
You are misunderstanding what was written. Due to that you are claiming something that is different that the earlier claim. The earlier claim was that consciousness arises from the whole body. You are claiming that consciousness arises from the senses.

Instead of guessing, your assertion can be tested by closing your own senses. Cover your eyes, ears, etc. - which has been done in sensory deprivation tanks. Closing the senses does not remove consciousness, therefore consciousness is not dependent upon the senses.

> First it would be wiser to expound on what is meant by consciousness by each...

Then, please don't make claims as to how consciousness arises unless you first define what you mean by the word consciousness.
Neglecting the person who fills the jigs will lead to less ur time in the long run though.

I'm guessing your issue is not with those that are fixated on productivity, but those that are just poorly educated in the complexity of how to calculate it.
Beaker Browser is now archived
Do you have an example? The article that started this thread is abysmal, as are all the other recent ones I have seen posted to HN.
i always worry about the lightning connector shorting out when it's not plugged in to something.
Large Language Model, I think.
That doesn't prevent you from having a build path to create a .deb compatible with stable and making it available. In fact, that's a good way to improve your chances of getting into Debian proper.
Search result: Hide sites with advertising?
How can we search for content and promote sites that don't include advertising in our search results?

With so much content being created to attract traffic for eyes on paid advertising - is there away we can use a tool/filter to help locate sites with a focus that is not monetisation?
If she's identifying it as polyethylene it's a good bet she's actually looking at the RIC. That said, I don't see a lot of plastics that have a recycling symbol and not have a RIC. I'm sure it depends on where you live and what products you consume, so I wouldn't necessarily assume that her experience was the same.
The password is reset so they wouldn't have it
The proposed desktop+low cost laptop doubles the number of devices th IT org needs to maintain and secure. Sounds like a nightmare when I’m sure some laptops will sit powered off for months or could walk away without an employee realizing they are missing.