skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developer salaries have actually rised here in Mexico in the last 12/18 months. A recruiter mentioned to me a 30% increase all across the board. And I know Mexican Tech Leads who are making 90k USD . I myself got as hefty increase (doubled my salary) . All working here in Mexico for US companies.

Its slowly but surely happening.
Oh, I won’t get into it. That’s a rabbithole that is best left to pocketwatch-bearing wildlife.

Suffice it to say that a few folks (and I don’t claim to have a huge fanbase) seem to like the stuff I write.

As fas as SaaS… Well, let’s just say that this is a familiar tune. That ol’ “thin client” zombie just keeps lurching out of the grave…
This is also, best strategy to search of extra terrestrial life, the concept of entropy for living systems deeply fascinates me, because how simple everything becomes (conceptually); life is entropy maximization systems in universe, looking at human kind it most efficient too.
I agree wholeheartedly with you.

In any organization , tone at the top matters. You talk about managers. I would say we need to look higher up in the chain of command.

I would posit that when you have candidates running for higher office referring to that group as "deplorables" I would say the tone of the top has failed.
The Teflon flask with some borosilicate did have a lower ending PH than the flask with only Teflon. Assuming the authors ruled out other potential sources for that reduction, then one must conclude that borosilicate had an effect.

Yes, the pure borosilicate flask had a much greater effect, but there was also much greater surface area for the solution to work on.

An interesting experiment might be to see if the reduction in PH levels scaled with the amount of borosilicate added to the solution. They may have done that in the paper, but that'd settle the question you posed.
What’s your home setup like? Do you have an office dedicated to work?
Microprocessor Water Heater
There's a great youtube channel called Tasting History that does that sort of thing all the time. His most popular video is also about making garum:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TastingHistory/videos?view=0&sort=...
Can't read because published on reader hostile platform.
Once a stable dynamic system goes out of whack due to capacity constraints, there is a chance that it goes into an oscillating mode, even when the capacity is returned.

If this is to happen with the distribution system, we'll have to deal with the aftermath for years to come.
Certainly. It would help to understand gravity, which is absolutely crucial to flying to the Moon.
Related to [1] - since Toki Pona has such a limited set of sounds, it seems like it would be a great fit for stenography...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29035644
> We're doing NAT-upon-NAT

Perhaps, much like many of the other standards we've settled on despite the existence of technically superior alternatives, this solution is good-enough, and it was easier to implement, and it was here first. Sort of like how we still use UNIX instead of Inferno.
Honest question: if an anti-vaxxer said that to you, how would you react?

I don't feel threatened by McGilchrist and I don't feel threatened by TikTok influencers. I mostly feel annoyed that people generally aren't interested in solid science but love sensational pseudoscience like the Law of Attraction and Geometric Unity.

People use "revolutionary theories" as marketing tools. It's the reason why cults like NXIVM are able to attract so many followers. They have a leading figure with revolutionary theories and poor fools swarm to them like moths to flames.

McGilchrist isn't a cult leader, of course. He's just exploiting the same tools that cult leaders do in order to make a profit. And in so doing he's undermining actual science, which is the main reason why I am annoyed.

There's a bunch of science on hemispheric lateralization and it's fascinating. Divided Brains: The Biology and Behavior of Brain Asymmetries is a very interesting exploration of the subject. Michael Gazzaniga's autobiography Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience is another worthwhile read.

There's no need to pretend that our hemispheres explain virtually everything about society, culture, and history. The real story isn't as sensational, but at least it's intellectually honest.
What a disaster. Unlike doctors, technology companies are not ethically bound to secrecy. There is no patient-Big Tech confidentiality.
Yea at work there was talk of installing an ambient noise machine in the new office because the “silence was too stifling”.

I have no idea what that meant then, nor do I now. I found the new larger space with ~5 people scattered around absolutely heavenly to work in.
"Son, bring your toys for dinner!"
If service sector is and was disrupted by lockdowns it is logical that goods spiked in demand. Demand shifted from services/goods to only goods or only goods and little bit of services. I'm speaking about aggregate demand. Goods like consumer electronics, home appliance etc.
I'm also going to say something that is anecdotal, borderline speculation, but I think the diet of truck drivers by virtue of being on the road a lot ...it's not exactly conductive to smooth bowel movements.

This of course will impair cleanliness. That being said I'm not really sure if i have witnessed constraints on toilet use by truckers, other than parking a big rig in a small lot can be a major issue.
>streaming 4K MKVs over the network

Isn't that covered by your airplay requirement?
In my mind STEM topics exist on a scale that has math at one end, then there's a slight pause/discontinuity (as in point 2 in the underpants gnome business plan) before it continues with physics, chemistry, biology and onwards to god knows what. As you move along this axis stuff feels more and more complex, messy and hard to nail down definitively. More practical. More prone to get tripped up by silly mistakes and things you never imagined you had to think about.

The new compounds they discovered in the old samples kind of illustrates how much hard work is required to get good answers. You can't just suck on your pipe, scratch your quill on some parchment and exert yourself mentally, you have to scrape gunk out of test-tubes and be really careful and thorough in a highly practical sense. The world is imprecise and gnarly and you kind of have to hope for the best.

I really admire people who are capable of wringing results out of goo and specks of dust using gadgets that require calibration that has to be able to distinguish actual good signal from residues of the danish you had for breakfast.

(Example not entirely random since one of our engineers eating a danish for lunch in his office made the electrochemical sensors he was working on go absolutely apeshit. Kind of good to know before you evacuate a whole industrial site and send in the people in yellow hazmat suits)
UEFI is an abomination. Even putting aside removing user control the implementation is horrible and bloated. Just try building a bootable image for UEFI vs BIOS.

The title idea is very good but the implementation and the shady politics behind it are horrible. There's coreboot and libreboot. Hopefully either takes off or something else along the lines comes along.
Debt to GDP is currently at 125%. How quickly will it get to 150% you reckon?
thank you friend for sharing your experiences and stories.

> I've noticed relying on my friends to vent just sours relationships. As much as people gloat about support systems, it's mainly a farce. People will only tolerate hearing so much of your internal dissonance, concerns, and stressors.

i resonate with this a lot. have you heard of the author Francis Weller?

“At the core of this grief is our longing to belong. This longing is wired into us by necessity. It assures our safety and our ability to extend out into the world with confidence. This feeling of belonging is rooted in the village and, at times, in extended families. It was in this setting that we emerged as a species. It was in this setting that what we require to become fully human was established. Jean Liedloff writes, "the design of each individual was a reflection of the experience it expected to encounter." We are designed to receive touch, to hear sounds and words entering our ears that soothe and comfort. We are shaped for closeness and for intimacy with our surroundings. Our profound feelings of lacking something are not reflection of personal failure, but the reflection of a society that has failed to offer us what we were designed to expect. Liedloff concludes, "what was once man's confident expectations for suitable treatment and surroundings is now so frustrated that a person often thinks himself lucky if he is not actually homeless or in pain. But even as he is saying, 'I am all right,' there is in him a sense of loss, a longing for something he cannot name, a feeling of being off-center, of missing something. Asked point blank, he will seldom deny it.”

― Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

this a great conversation with Weller that i seem to return to about once a year: https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/new-and-ancient-story...
>Literally doesn't mean figuratively, they're just using the word incorrectly.

Literally has been used to mean figuratively since at least the 1700s[0], and words mean whatever people decide they mean.

[0]https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439
I wonder if it works for meat and poultry stews as well
Back in the days, spices were scarce and fish abundant. I guess, if you wanted to eat something that tasted good, Garum was the way.
call it a tie
Fret not, it was really the TV detective. I think the one that suggested it was someone from IBM was being sarcastic.

One more thing for your viewing pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBnaMGP2aY

~ A fellow Columbo fan who used to watch it with his Grandma (she so had the hots for him)
A living being is a machine designed to reduce entropy, the opposite of your hypothesis
What is an ortholinear layout?
If it is not the case that the Teflon + glass pieces run gave a result between the other two, perhaps the next step would be to run the experiment again in the glass vessels, but with pieces of Teflon in them. If Teflon is neutral, the results should match the glass-only run.
"The results: far fewer organic compounds formed in the experiments using just the Teflon flasks."

Not the clearest way to phrase it, but I agree it most likely means the loose borosilicate bits worked too.
Hmm, so it would not work on systems without DBus? If that is unix app, why not just use unix socket?
Did it? And doesn't it? How can you tell? Both Europe and the US are large and complicated.

Last I heard Europe was in the middle of an energy crisis which could easily turn out to be linked to supply chain disruptions. It has been long enough for the slow-rolling-wave nature of economic disasters to start surfacing, but it is too early to raise a head up and talk about cause and effect without some citations.
I like your style. I use unique emails per service but that only helps me track spammers and leaks.
Nothing. It's happening. I've seen it more and more here in Mexico. It's just that a lot of people dont know about it.
To be fair, it was not just "organic", but quite specific organic, namely proteinogenic amino acids that make up proteins.
Any idea if this applies to other sets like the CV1 or Rift S?
Google and India's Jio debut $87 smartphone
Or like saying "look, the monkey can sometimes make small words appear when it bangs on the keys of this typewriter. This tells us something about the origins of novels."
This is correct.

1.1.1.1 for Families is an awful, dangerous, harmful product. You should not use it.
Pros and Cons of being an open startup
He will be taking a flight allright. Probably to go home to Australia. The only way to actually return. I hope it ends well for him.
In this formulation, isn't p^N the probability that ALL places where life is possible, actually has life? It makes sense for that to approach zero.

What we want is the probability for at least one other place other than ours to have life. This would be 1 - (1-p)^N, which does tend to 1 as N gets arbitrarily large.

To get that formula: (1-p) is the probability that life does not exist in a place, so (1-p)^N is the probability that ALL places where life is possible, has no life. Therefore, 1-(1-p)^N is the probability of the opposite of that (where at least one place has life).
Yeah, stuxnet type of distribution, you keep few of them around the office "dropped on the pavement" and chance of success is quite high
Julia Child had a great recipe for Primordial Soup!

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

Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973):

https://massasoit.instructure.com/courses/346438/pages/video...

Also a great recipe for shark repellent, that she made for the CIA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180408020021/https://www.cia.g...

>Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent

>“The answer to the threat of man-eating sharks, the scavengers which infest all tropical waters of the world, was announced here today…” (quote from draft OSS/ERE Press Release on the development of a shark repellent; April 13, 1943)

And she showed how to bone a chicken on Saturday Night Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxv6IGBgFQ

Previous HN discussion:

Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973) [video] (instructure.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467695

Video: The Primordial Soup with Julia Child. (Click on the small thumbnail in the second row with the (>) "play" icon to see the video.)

https://massasoit.instructure.com/courses/346438/pages/video...

The National Air and Space Museum used to show this delightful video in its "Life in The Universe" exhibit, in which Julia Child recreates Stanley Miller's famous experiment, cooking up a delicious hot batch of Primordial Soup!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/julia-child-an...

>Julia Child and the Primordial Soup

>Scientists don't yet know how life began here on Earth. Mineralogist Bob Hazen, who is profiled in the October issue of Smithsonian, thinks that rocks were key to the development of life. Reporter Helen Fields wrote:

>It’s the complexity of the hydrothermal vent environment—gushing hot water mixing with cold water near rocks, and ore deposits providing hard surfaces where newly formed amino acids could congregate—that makes it such a good candidate as a cradle of life. “Organic chemists have long used test tubes,” he says, “but the origin of life uses rocks, it uses water, it uses atmosphere. Once life gets a foothold, the fact that the environment is so variable is what drives evolution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

>The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present on the early Earth and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment at the time supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized more complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, it was conducted in 1952 by Stanley Miller, with assistance from Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago and later the University of California, San Diego and published the following year.

https://www.wired.com/2009/05/dayintech-0515

>May 15, 1953: Cookin' Up Some Primordial Soup

>1953: Stanley Miller, just 23 years old, publishes his landmark work on the production of amino acids, a necessary component of life, in a jar.
> Parents also have the right to decide for themselves what really is "bad", and then try to raise their child according to those beliefs.

No, they really don't thankfully.
I have been through this before
Nope. I see people who are not that much into gaming and stuff getting Oculuses after trying it at friends. They agree that once you trying playing a FPS in VR you don't want to go back to the PC/console.

I see it as console substitute as I mean... it's 400 euros... that is nothing for the amount of fun you get from the device.
In my case I use it few times per week for an hour or two. It's also great as when I play a FPS game I also move a lot.
(I do hope that Valve or someone else will release an equally compelling product).
Borrow me your book quite common in Nigeria also
Facebook unceremoniously kills off Meta brand
I will always think that Carmack not working for Valve is a huge lost historical opportunity.
Like being able to access resources for gay children.

Those sorts of "accidents."
Here's about where I stopped reading:

Saying that you have to code to be a CTO is like saying that, in order to design a skyscraper, you have start as a cement mixer, then work your way up to girder riveting before finally hanging drywall and installing windows before they let you design the building.

No it isn't, and this obviously poor analogy (based on a rather severe misunderstanding of what software engineers -- "coders" in the rather condescending parlance used -- actually do at their day jobs) only serves to demonstrate just how shallow and useless the "gravity-free", deeply conceptual thinking the author implicitly trumpets his own skills in ... actually is.

In fact I do believe that not only can non-coders do perfectly well in management roles in technical organizations - in proper proportion, their diverse intellectual backgrounds can be highly valuable. But -- save for rare exceptions[1] -- as CTO, please no.

And to have managers at any level spouting such patently empty rhetoric as exemplified in this post -- oh heavens, please no.

[1] A leading (but non-coding) scientist at a genuinely science-driven organization, say. But even then, they're better positioned as a chief research officer or something similar than CTO.
I'm certain the post mortem write up will note how it was DNS-related.
I mean, they're assuming something negative about you based on your own words, that dismissed other people as "morons" for enjoying a VR experience. Why are you then surprised when people make a similar snap judgement about you?
It's kind of ironic that both in cosmology and biology we know an incredible amount, but yet we still don't how the universe or life on earth began. Sure, we have educated guesses, but until we can unify QM and GR or produce a cell from simple elements, they remain guesses.
But selection can happen with autocatalysts as well. I agree that you can't say life /has/ to exist elsewhere, but I think the trend in research has shown that life seems likelier and likelier to arise the more it is studied.
I was thinking specifically in the context of the M1, which this article is about.
Bypassing most online plagiarism checkers by simply replacing characters
Research includes Grammarly, Copyleaks and many others tools. The text with replaced characters looks natural and has original readability.
> The more possible states a system has, the more room for consciousness

That is one of the postulates of Integrated Information Theory, which aims to give an account of how consciousness can arise from physical substrates. (The idea seems closely related to the concept of entropy.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
Haven't read the book, but I liked his lecture series on human behavioral biology: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
The ISP against censorship – AAISP: 'Your packets. Our people.'
that's what I thought. I think they meant "flask", or several "plain teflon flasks" were involved.
Ask HN: Shared LAMP hosting that supports automation?
Looking suggestions on shared hosts that support some level of automation for website/database setup?

I currently use Dreamhost for several PHP sites. They're fantastic, but they lack the ability to automate the setup of a website. Many of the websites that I set up have the same settings (e.g. include many common PHP scripts and HTML files, include a database, etc..). When I create a website, I need to do it manually through their web control panel. I would like the ability to either create a "template" site that I can copy and use as a starting point, or be able to create a website via an API (so I can do the bootstrapping myself).

I also have several EC2, Linode, Cloudsail, and dedicated servers elsewhere, but I value the fully managed, "shared-hosting" experience that Dreamhost provides for simpler sites that don't need a full node.
"you’re creating an incentive for many workers to increase the distance between where they work and where they live"

Having commuted for many many years, I literally cannot fathom how this line of thinking is even considered a reasonable counter. Do some poeple get to commute through a utopic wonderland? Have I been living/working in the wrong places all these years?
PowerToys 0.49
> It can only be exchanged in company stores owned by the employers.

It's currency. It must have some value uf you can buy things with it. Surely people could trade amongst themselves or exchange for another currency. No doubt it made people's lives needlessly hard but still.
Very grateful that my employer has committed to remaining flexible with remote work. Full time in the office, hybrid, or full time remote. It’s up to the individual. Full time remote has done wonders for my health - instead of a 2 hour commute I get to exercise. Instead of coming home stressed, annoyed, and sitting in front of the TV, I go outside for a solid hour+ after I close my laptop. I travel more liberally now that I don’t have to take time off to do so. My quality of life has never been better, and my gratefulness translates into feelings of loyalty towards my employer. Why would I quit if I’m treated well and have a nice work life balance? Why would I risk this situation by slacking off when I am on the clock?

Prior to the remote shift, I was unhappy and I didn’t even realize. No exercise, no passion outside of work. All my energy went into my 10+ hour day (when you consider the commute).

Since then I’ve lost 30lbs, become enamored with new sports and hobbies, and my social life outside of work exists again. I feel more “alive” than I have in a decade.

I’ll never work for a company that doesn’t allow me that flexibility for the rest of my career, as long as I can help it. Companies that want access to good talent would be wise to follow this example.
> physics is mathematics, correct?

Just applied linear algebra (or so claimed my professor of linear algebra...)
VR I find somewhat questionable...

AR on other hand depends on definition of it. I could argue that HUD is example of AR. And likely if we reach sufficient displays or glasses it could really expand. The professional use cases seem just so much bigger.
Especially since there was borosilicate in the teflon tubes, but no teflon in the borosilicate ones.