skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Many corporations work like this also.

One of those things that are widely true, but rarely admitted to. It seems to be very much a maturity thing. The older,larger and more governed an org is, the more likely such a pattern is.

Habits become precedents. Precedents become rules. A pattern emerges is everyone operates within rules. Staying within the ruleset, represents known safety. Even if something is dubious.. as long as it's within the rule set you are safe.

Is shaky principle tentatively applied once.. it doesn't have that kind of safety. That means it's less likely to be stretched and made absurd.

There is a logic to trimming unused budgets. not perfect, but it wouldn't surprise me if it worked well enough, often enough. If a department keeps going over budget, well.. they need more budget.. or maybe less work. Where is that budget going to come from? Departments without enough budget.

It's hard to get more legible, than last year's expenditure as the starting point for the next years budget. Nothing very notable about birthing this "principle."

I'm sure it makes sense, often. At least in the sense that it's the easiest, good enough method.

If there's a new management, using old methods is helpful. They don't know enough.. and this just gets the job done. If budgets become contentious, sticking to "principles" helps smooth things.

That is the point though.. whether it's a big-hype management method like agile.. or some unofficial budgetary principle that happened to work before these are principles. We like to be principled, especially when we don't really know what to do.

There's a literary trope of a bone casting seer. It takes a wise person to cast bones. It's an art and science. Sure, you have to know what all the bones mean. But, you also have to figure out it's a good idea to fight to fight this particular battle, build a town in that particular place... And also to understand the role bone casting plays in this particular case.

Bones must be cast, because we like external validation. It helps to bring everyone together, and calms underconfident, overwhelmed, or underunited leadership.

Knowing when to cast them, why, all the different implications.. how to define the question, how to approach the answer.. those are jobs for the seer, not the bones themselves.

Things are better when soldiers watch the stones, and chieftains watch the seer. If and when that flips, the paradigm is not at its best.
To be fair this is mostly a problem between ISPs, or with ISPs fleecing their (business) customers. A restrictive peering policy for a CDN is just batshit stupid, and the CDNs know this and will peer with anything that doesn't run away fast enough. You do have to meet the CDNs at some PoP though, and that getting-there part is generally the real issue. Anything last mile is just… ugh.
According to the IPCC, to meet the 1.5 degree C target we need to be doing 6 GtCO2 of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050.

It would be very difficult to reach that scale with reforestation and afforestation along in the next 27 years.

Plus, if you simply bury wood it will be broken down over time and release methane. No one has yet developed a scalable way to bury large quantities of wood and keep them from decomposing (startups/researchers are starting to work in this area).
Interestingly, on iOS, toggling into dark mode (at OS level) fixes it. I didn’t know web pages had access to that state, but it’s kind of cool.
Photosynthesis won’t really help here without ways to sequester biomass on extremely large scales, which we don’t seem to have.

The original biomass was sequestered via methods/means that don’t seem to exist anymore, and we’ve been digging it out/pumping it out and releasing it.

Without a means to get it back underground, it will just be rereleased when it rots.
It doesn't have to be Tesseract specifically, there are other OCR libraries that work better and are licensed by several products(I think Abby licenses theirs).

But that wasn't my main point. Similar to Tesla popularizing ML-driven self parking, which doesn't work any better than the PID/Kalman filter methods already in use by others for the past 10+ years, my point was that today we're seemingly shoehorning ML into solving problems that have already been solved by "boring" traditional engineering solutions for over 10 years now, just to feed the AI product hype, similar to the digital camera megapixel race, or other such nonsense that offered no measurable upgrade in quality but looked good on product stickers to move merchandise at higher prices.
I helped one of my clients swap from their "bespoke" solution (dodgy bash scripts and an S3 bucket) to Snapshooter which made our lives a lot easier. Looking at Backupsheep's website it seems like it is very similar to Snapshooter, so I think that would be your best replacement.
Remove the incredibly bloated middleman aka the traditional music industry. The actual cost of distributing music has come down immensely with digital distribution and streaming.

"But they do so much more, like PR and marketing and stuff". Ironically, those who are already big get the biggest PR plus better deals than smaller artists. I don't think we need to raise Spotify prices just so Taylor swift can get even richer.
I also have only had Pixels basically since they were released. I guess where I have issues is when the phone has a weak signal, and it insists on trying to use it for voice recognition rather than just falling back to local.
I'm playing with it now, It can listen in Russian, reply in English or Russian.

The English pronunciation is perfect, but some Russian words do not have the correct pronounciation or emphasis.

I'm wondering if I can train the model to pronounce these words more accurately.
This post fell off the front page already, despite having more votes much more recently than some posts it is below.
What Happens When Your Body Becomes a Sensory Deprivation Chamber?
> emergency department for ulcerative genital and anal lesions. At the time, he was treated for a presumed herpes infection—but his herpes test was negative and he was not tested for syphilis.

The article ends sighting the rise in STIs and yet this walking Petri dish wasn't tested for syphilis? The test can't be *that* expensive, especially in the context of public health.

Why wouldn't such ppl get a broader range of tests? Are the doctors prevented from ordering such tests? Either at the same time, or as a follow up? The guy had physical malformations that tested negative for herpes and there was no, "Well, what is it then?"
Yeah my blog post hit the front page.
Reminds me of the McDonalds in Denmark story:
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...

Discussed 2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603398
> Its undeniable that we exist at or very near the point in time marking a phase change I'm the nature of complex thought in pur little corner of the universe.

I’d question whether it is “undeniable”, but I do think this sounds like the exact sort of foundational mythology necessary to establish a religion oriented around AI.
I really hate when people pretend that you can just go sell your stuff on your website and that would settle the debate. Unless you're already extremely popular, not being present on streaming services is almost akin to not existing at all. Even though streaming services aren't a monopoly, as a whole they have a huge percentage of the market and what they pay out famously is very little and (at least in the case of Spotify) skewed towards the big artists.

Yes, fair is complicated, but the decision of what's fair and what isn't is something a society can take and it seems that Uruguay did take that decision. Good for them, I guess.

Is minimum wage also twisting the arm of business? How much would be fair for minimum wage?
YouTube Music Loop – listen your favorite song in loop without ads
I had to cancel my Spotify Premium plan then I built YouTube Music Loop to listen music in loop without ads.
Do you have more details on that ?
I guess "What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?" [1] never gets old.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
> trustless programmable currency divorced from the economic levers and dials of world governments

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu...

> Ordinary person: “Your weird Internet money sucks to use. It’s slow and expensive. I lost my coins by mistake and it can’t be fixed. If I get hacked it can’t be fixed either.”

> Bitcoin advocate: “But everyone wants [list of ideological aims held only by weird people]! Everyone I know, anyway.”
What does the outer SNI tell a hypothetical filtering/traffic shaping ISP that the IP address doesn't already?
I'm Italian but married with a US citizen. I found out that the recipe essentially is:

- Turkey

- Butter on the outside

- Butter on the inside

- More butter
Don't forget the conflicted board member potentially blindsided and furious his own firm's Hail Mary revenue generating feature was announced at prior week's dev day to be bundled free.
Does anyone know if using a Jabber client instead of a carrier can work to prevent this sort of thing?
I only bring a backpack on flights which is always free. Most of my traveling is short term or between places that I have clothes at though, only real exception is work stuff and they pay for the bag fee.
Value is determined by the purchaser not the seller of goods and services.

Sellers only suggest price.

The market, IE people, decide what to pay or if they'd rather sail the high-seas in search of their goods rather than pay extortionate prices.

Humans value music enough to purchase it, but we don't value it enough to purchase it for the prices the industry suggests.
Funny. But I don't think it works that way.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/syphilis/symp...
> they drive Spotify subscriptions

There is no reason to believe this is true - I can download all the main artists in 30 minutes. Its the niche ones that I enjoy discpvering and wouldnt bother to download

> there is a strong correlation between popularity and work, coupled with talent.

Even stronger correlation between marketing spending and popularity

> Only in some degenerate scenarios, where you listen to only one obscure artist that nobody listens to,

This is waay too disrespectfull
I have used nix shell like this before; super handy!
I celebrate this and other geeky events, and maintain a public calendar of them:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=9t07jqib6...
No. But if it failed to make calls in certain relatively rare situations it would be acceptable, not least because such screwups are basically unavoidable in any sufficiently complex system and so demanding that software always works would result in a world without software (unless you have the budget of NASA). I was guessing that in the case of Proton Mail the issue you describe doesn’t happen every single time.
Assumed Similarity
> He thinks she is bad at her job and it’s clear she’s not.

'At her job' - her job is improving the department.

> She knows how to secure her millions in comp per year and retire early. She’s very smart.

If I had the background, connections and privileges of these several MBA types, I could also do that. But I couldnt perhaps be a great engineer. Therefore I wouldn't share your appreciation of sociopathy, and I believe many people are of similar opinion.
That, to me, while ostensibly outrageous on the face, still kinda makes sense to me even tho its weird there's no technically drive through grocery shopping. Maybe a place like in Las Vegas where Michael Jackson was buying all the crazy-expensive art would have a wing dedicated to that but wow.

We all like the sauce a little too much, but most of us wouldn't be seriously perusing this "resource" and I hope its customers are "ok"...
This already happened in circ Sept 2023. Great Googler. He kept the culture alive. May he rest in peace.
I've always thought of there being a big gap between what people on the internet think is easy, common and logical, as opposed to 99% of the planet that wasn't on the internet at the time

`Most people had a personal homepage of some type` Most people absolutely did not have a homepage
koderski on the details (1):

> There are not so much low-level details, really. I got a bunch of reports ("game is crashing when I have geologists, here are logs/versions/cores"), I send out huge binaries with debug symbols with them, got a core back that pointed exactly to the problem.

> Fixed that and added a debug log there to just make sure it worked well, and after reviewing unrelated reports from windows I found that it would hit these players too, they just didn't report that.

What stood out to me is that the Windows players often encountered the same bugs, but didn't report them, or were vague to the point of uselessness (e.g. "Game crashes after a couple hours"), in contrast to players on Linux.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_hav...

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Perhaps a more descriptive title would be that "Linux players are 6x more likely to report bugs than Windows players" or something of that nature.
> now it also requires C#.

For Unity games? What else? Just curious. I’ve been doing graphics programming for decades, and C# has never been part of it, and still isn’t on my radar.
What are you hoping will be understood? We've gone as far back as the big bang and as far down as the atom in understanding. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells all cooperating, and no one is particularly impressed with it. It's just matter, energy and motion. Everything can be reduced to billiard balls on a table. Is there a way to understand something scientifically that is not ultimately put in those terms?
They fly a official plane and bring a lot of people with it. There was a plan to replace the place, but for the time it got backlashed so hard they put the idea aside, for now at least.
China wouldn't hesitate to shoot down all of the Starlink satellites in any major conflict.
Glad I'm not the only one who had to double check the name...
You Don't Know What It's Like to Be Around You: On Blind Spots
>Love Austria btw., and appreciate the preciseness of your language.

I'm not Austrian, I'm an immigrant here, and it's not "my language" nor anyone else's I presume, it's still just German, albeit with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent on top.
De-facto doesn't mean it's the only option, it means it's the dominant option, and that is true.

Promises don't have a built-in way to cancel chains (neither do plain callbacks), and I think that was the right decision. AbortController is becoming a common pattern, and that is working quite well in my opinion.

Promises are not purely stylistic. It gives you guarantees, such as that each Promise can only resolve or reject once. It can easily be used in utility functions such as Promise.all and Promise.race. There are libraries that have equivalents for callback-style APIs, but it's typically more tricky to use, and relies on specific conventions being followed.

NodeJS took a while to adopt it, but all Node APIs I use now have Promise versions. All/most Deno APIs use Promises. All new browser APIs use Promises, and for the existing callback-style ones such as IndexedDB, most developers use Promise wrapper libs to make it manageable.

Of course you're free to use callbacks of you want to. But I would definitely recommend Promises and async/await to any new developer, make it a requirement on any team I lead, and even question why someone uses callbacks in their code if I interview them.
> Might be smaller lately because what's produced nowadays is crap. Things exciting this year came from Stones and Beatles, you figure

It is a matter of personal taste, curiosity and influence of people around you. There’s a lot of good music and good songs that were written in this century and in the last 10 years. However, this period of time is very small compared to the time passed since great classical music works were created. No wonder its share is small.
Why don't you setup IPv6 if that solves the problem for IPv6 enabled sites?

You also seem to know your way around networking as well, genuinely curious.
License profileration, which makes it harder for people to know what is acceptable or not. Also, GPL is well-known, well-tested, and already excludes most companies. If they want to use our stuff, they better pay it back and become GPL too.

That's the practical concern. The idealistic concern is that free software is all about handing power to the users. Much like how a pen can't restrict how you use it, developers shouldn't be able to restrict how users can use it. Note that the only restriction GPL has is that you cannot further restrict it (tolerance paradox). It's an ethical position to give power to the users, regardless of who they are, because software owners should not have the power to control the users. From here, a software developer decreeing "you may not use my stuff if you make more than X amount per year" is abusing their power over users, which is unethical. Imagine if a pen company told you you cannot use their pens if you met X Y or Z conditions. It's just not right.

Stallman covered this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
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He was the only senior manager I ever had who would walk the halls and talk to engineers he bumped into. He would be genuinely curious about what we were doing.

Once we were admiring a bird perched in a tree outside the window, and he came over to tell us all about it, we all felt his genuine enthusiasm.

He was a lovely person and, even though I didn't work directly for him, I am sad that he is gone.
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The fact is the HN guidelines ask you not to try to start offtopic flamewars, no matter how serious or factual you believe you are.
+10000.
Genuinely one of the best humans i've met.
> The IEA also points out that carbon capture can’t be used as a linchpin by the fossil fuel industry to maintain the status quo.

I think 90% of people working on CC agree with this already. We will still need CC because we’ve already emitted too much carbon and because we will need cleanly produced CO2 for industrial use after fossil fuels have been phased out.
All of these costs virtually peanuts compared to what a trip let a lone a colony on Mars would cost. It's inconceivable that any non-profit seeking non government organization/group could ever pool enough resources together for that (and if they could all of that energy/resources/money would be better spent on fixing more relevant problems back on earth)
FYI old news. But he was so humble and had gratitude, this was exemplified in how he still kept the Google culture alive by being transparent in TGIFs.

May his soul rest in peace.
This was a professor at UCLA.
This remind me of the rick and morty episode, keep summer safe.

https://youtu.be/hguiN8oo0dI?si=8SWsnCMkjZ5bYLH9
Basically by making it unlikely enough to exist.

The setting in the paper is about narrating a single combat between Ignatius J. Reilly and a pterodactyl. Ignatius J. Reilly is a literary character with some very idiosyncratic characteristics, that appears in a single book, where he of course didn't engage in single combats at all or interact with pterodactyls. He doesn't seem to have been the target of fanfiction either (which could be a problem if characters like, say, Harry Potter or Darth Vader were used instead), so the paper argues that it's very unlikely that a story like that had been ever written at all prior to this paper.
Aligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks
Digging for Our Origins in the Bone Beds of an African Park
Ask HN: Anyone written a SaaS sales agreement prior to a startup incorporation?
We went from idea to launch to now first signing within a couple of weeks. While we’re not reluctant to incorporating our startup, I wonder if there’s a low (no)-effort way to state within the sales agreement that the company name is tbd, and will comprise of us 2 individuals (me and my cofounder).

That way we can continue our efforts on building and sales, and collect payment later. We're using this sales agreement posted by YC as our template: https://www.ycombinator.com/sales_agreement

We also don't believe that not having a company is the make or break in this contract. But can't be sure.

Thanks!
> This is the client side of things.

The article is about making requests, and strategies to implement when the request fails. By definition, these are clients. Was there any ambiguity?

> But there is an additional piece of info everyone who writes clients needs to see: And that's what people like me, who implement backend services, may do if clients ignore such wisdom.

I don't think this is the obscure detail you are making it out to be. A few of the most basic and popular retry strategies are designed explicitly with a) handling throttled responses by the servers, b) mitigate the risk of causing self-inflicted DDoS attacks. This article covers a few of those, such as the exponential backoff and jitters.
New carbon material sets energy-storage record
According to wikipedia:

Avionic came from the F-16, F-15 and F/A-18 programs (unsourced claim, but very likely, those parts were purchased as spares for those aircraft).

Engines are modified are modified F404s drom GE.

That leaves the airframe, landing gear and some other bits and pieces like evironmental controls, but the avionics and engines account for the vast majority of aircraft costs.
Fermat's link to a high school student's prime math proof
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What Codec should I use? [video]
There’s no such thing as fair. Whenever anyone uses that term they are just trying to obscure self-interest.
I think this sentiment is a partial cause of the trend towards self-hostable, downloadable software too.

The customer has a cost when they operate a library instead of consume a service, no doubt. They also get more control (no surprise upgrades, availability is their responsibility) and assurances (no worries about the service suddenly being end of lifed).
Syphilis is not transferred in the semen like that.

It is transferred directly. From bacteria on the skin, pressed against the skin or, more often, a mucous membrane. In the initial stage there's usually a skin ulceration which is infectious. In later stages, it's rather generalized (e.g. anywhere a rash or blistering occurs may be able to pass the infection on).

It's probably best thought of as a close-contact or mucous-membrane-contact disease. Nonsexual contact is known to pass it.

There are closely related diseases [1] [2] [3] that can be passed non-sexually.

The eye is one of the places where a primary ulcer shows up - but it's rarely the first site. To have it show up there repeatedly suggests the possibility of an unusual sexual practice yes. Probably more like rubbing the body then the face with the hands than what you were thinking. But that should have come up when they questioned the five women.

The hypothesis presented seems plausible: a subtype evolved to be particularly fond of the eyes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvenereal_endemic_syphilis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaws

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(disease)
I'm surprised by the surprise. Why invest lots of money to set up a factory in Sweden without — apparently — giving a single thought about the laws, regulations and lore of the country?
Better to use something with robust end-to-end encryption like Signal
Thanks for the reply! Always been curious about this with various startups.
Cool worlds has a great new video discussing the difficulties with carbon capture.

https://youtu.be/EBN9JeX3iDs?si=fwkVomJUsw2_4Oa9