skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying people "fairly" seems to mean "years of experience" multiplied by some factors based on the individual.

This means a talented junior gets screwed and leaves, and the one year twenty times over crowd stay forever.

I went through a pay review where I was apparently too far up the curve for my age and that wasn't fair, so I got less than my colleagues that round. That's a conversation you only get to have with an engineer once.
From AWS Lambda and API Gateway to Knative and Kong API Gateway
This. There is information encoded in the relative connections of neurons, so a neuron firing doesn't represent a single flop, it represents something more like a flop + a routing table lookup + n number of other flops where n is the number of destination neurons spiked. Depending on how much information is encoded in the table lookup, and how many destination neurons are effected, a single neuron firing can represent many many flops.

This is all armchair speculation, but I'd be willing to be my life that a flop is well below the floor of actual computation happening from a single neuron firing.
Because it's cheaper and it's clearly working. I doubt someone doing this as a full time job would be as good at these monotonous tasks than 10 times as many people who are doing it for a few minutes per day.
Not deterministic then
Asking the real questions.

Axons are connected to the neuron and exchange a lot of chemicals between them. For example, the mitochondria in axons go back and fort to the neuron IIRC.
It's not very googlable but neurons have a memory of how likely they are to trigger an action potential, based on past stimuluses/timings. No one knows where this memory is encoded. And is there one action potential per axon? If so then it would be more logical for this memory (and computation which leads to mutation to the memory) to be stored in the axon (if).
the short links from microsoft onedrive look shady to some people. To be fair https://1drv.ms/u/s!Acj5445VA?e=0QWl does look suspicious
I love it! Using this I’ve seen FB/Google having less and less information about my exact location. Seeing less relevant ads is assuring and relieving! The only wish I have is a more fluent way to enable/disable this and having an app for other platforms.
> References? Because I remember reading that the metabolic path for sugar (fructose in particular) produces some pretty nasty by-products.

I'm not someone actually working in this field, I just read a lot and watch YouTube a lot on this topic. So I'm just going to give the first refernce I found on Google: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174149/.

I'm mostly basing what I'm saying based on watching videos by Layne Norton, Mike Israetel and others, who are credentialed in this topic.

> But that's not the main problem with sugar. The main problem with sugar is that it doesn't fill you up. In fact, it has the opposite effect: it makes you feel hungrier.

I mostly agree. I think this effect is different for different people, but for the most part, sugar is less satiating vs. eating other foods. It's incredibly easy to overeat sugar compared to, say, overeating proteins (though both are possible).

Still, lots of sugar-containing foods are pretty great to eat, e.g. fruits. They might have sugar, but they are usually incredibly low on calories for the amount that you're eating.
I have used both Sentry and Elastic APM with quite some ease.
It's funny you mention that.

I run two businesses with very different customer bases (one selling USB oscilloscopes, the other used video games) and the differences are exactly as stark as you said.

The contact I get from the oscilloscope business tend to either be genuine requests for technical support, bug reports/feature requests or just simply kind comments (usually from old, retired engineers). It's not that some of the technical-minded guys don't take up time, but at least they're interesting and pleasant to talk to.

I can think of literally two Karens over the course of 6 years since I started the first crowdfunding campaign, and one of the two seemed to genuinely be going through a manic episode, so I just told him he was right (which, to be fair, he was) and moved on.

Compare that to the video games business, where we'll have to deal with people who are demanding, unreasonable, manipulative or just simply wasting our time on a daily basis. Probably 30% of the messages we receive I won't even respond to as it's a bottomless pit of frustration.

And my God, GP hit the nail on the head when it comes to the low-value buyers being the ones that kick up a fuss. Anything to try and get something for free/discount.
it has gone very much the other way in recent years, it is not easy to be prescribed opioids in the US nowadays.
Not as much fun to build and deploy, but equally effective is pigeon-repellent adhesive. It prevents the birds from landing on treated surfaces and is not too unsightly.

https://www.nixalite.com/product/4-the-birds-gel-repellent
That was a super long ad. Were TV ads really that long?
This is perfect for generating the unsubscribe link for email newsletters.

It will be in there as required, but people are much less likely to click it.
Well, Intel's latest chip has better performance than M1 despite being two process nodes behind. So not sure what you're going on about
Yeah this isn’t used in the cron line itself, this is wrapped in a script further down the article and the script is run from cron, which makes sense and no bug.
The example uses Dead Man's Snitch, Healthchecks.io is my preference and their plans offer more for less. Both offer code on Github for examination.

https://deadmanssnitch.com/plans vs. https://healthchecks.io/pricing/
People should review how much this study is coherent of not with this one https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.057927v1....
It seems interesting but their acquisition by Databricks stopped development on Bamboo last year.
This is the gist of it. Though you have to dress it up in a million different ways, many if which he will offer ready to go on his Twitter.
These guys are carrying the torch for you - https://theuselessweb.com/
It used to work great last year, then all of a sudden it stopped working due to "regional laws", killing the whole purpose of it.

I don't get it as VPNs or proxies aren't illegal where I live, how is Apple's private relay not available?
You are correct; birds are not sensitive to capsaicin [0]. Seems this is specifically confirmed for pigeons [1].

Perhaps the cinnamon or vinegar are the true repellents?

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11853675/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3797018/
Only STEM, specifically M, have the cognitive capacity to deal with algorithms over generic data types. We do have unique I sight in the sense that we're professionally trained and adapted to think and find patterns instead of assuming a large array of axioms.
This is probably true even if you scratch "good" and the "not adequately compensated". Everywhere seems to budget for hiring and retention separately and moving exposes that gap.
Well said, here in the south we can politicize anything. Trying to save money should override everything for the homeowner. When Texas and other states are finally forced to upgrade their grid, can you imagine who's going to pay for all that? That's right, the consumer. We should all start now finding a why to offset these cost, ASAP.
Some of this stuff doesn't add up... For example, the specs show:

May Payload: 54,000 - 56,000 lbs

GVWR: 36,200 - 53,200 lbs

Charge Time: 1.5 hour DC / 4 hour L2

Charge Rating: 350kW (DC) / 22 kW (AC)

1.5hrs at 350kw might at best imply a battery capacity of ~500kwh, but then the second figure (4hrs @ 22kw) only gives 88kwh? Maybe its a typo but the same specs are listed for the stepvan and the hdxt truck.

Class 8 trucks have a legal weight limit of 80,000 lbs. Assuming the weight listed is for the truck only (without trailer), even at the lowest 36k weight that would imply the max payload is 44k lbs. Also I don't understand why the weight varies between 36k to 53k. Assuming the variance is due to battery configuration, 17k lbs for ~500kwh seems excessively heavy (a Tesla S 100kwh battery is only ~1200 lbs). Maybe they're using a different chemistry but that would jack up the unladen weight and reduce payload.

Then there's the complete lack of any pricing info. It would seem they are taking existing truck designs and doing an electric conversion. Those slitty headlights make it look cool but I suspect they aren't DOT approved.
Leading a Team: Are You in Charge or Just in Control?
Nextcloud totally breaks down if you try to use it for photo syncing. It can’t handle thousands of files in one directory.
The complexity of operations our brain does is such that we need very big supercomputers to be able do similar tasks. At this scale size becomes relevant, because data can't travel faster than light. Maybe we still have to miniaturize our computer by an order of magnitude until we can get close to a human brain.
Google Fi also has a VPN solution if you use them. Some ads are definitely as if I'm in another state. The weird one is shopping sites (like Home Depot) try to guess my closest store and they are always wildly off. It's sorta funny.
I don't think many on the left would be surprised that there are factions within the right, There is a view that the right won't hold themselves accountable though which I don't think is unfair.

The right can't view the left as entirely monolithic either. They get a lot of mileage out of phrases like "The left eats their own" and "Democratic civil war" which, again, not unfair.

I think it's just easier to demonize a caricature so that's what ends up in heavily repeated talking points which then get regurgitated even when they're demonstrably false or ridiculous.
A Mini-Russia Gets Squeezed by War
It’s also pointless because they got a cute “short” domain and then the URL itself is long and not typeable.
Ok, that I'll concede, the trailer which I saw after watching the movie was really really bad. Very poor and tone deaf marketing.
See also: A(x56), the URL lengthener [1]

1. https://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Oh wow, I really enjoyed this one: http://www.5z8.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion.doc_b0n1...
> they just don’t want to pay licensing fees to use them

Can you blame browser makers for this? When was the last time you saw someone pay for a browser? Pre-2005 Opera?
I'll give you an example of what I mean.

Let's look at the manual on variables, found at this URL: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/variables/.

Variables are shown at the top of the screen. You would assume that adding a new variable would involve a UI element placed in proximity to the existing variables. However, that's not the case at all. None of the sections in the manual would even tell you where you need to go to do that. The answer: you need to go to the dashboard settings dialog and open the Variables tab.

What about editing the name of an item? Well, that functionality could be anywhere. If it's a variable name, you go back to the "Settings" tab. If it's a query name, you can change it inline. For a panel, you do it from the sidebar. Hurray for consistency.

The UI looks great, but the learning curve is terrible due to inconsistency.
I've been using Radicale for a few years now and it has been fantastic. Extremely lightweight but also quite flexible with its permissions model since we have a shared family calendar.

The backend storage is simply ics/vcf files and while I'm sure it's not the most efficient if you had a large number of users, for our small group it's been perfect and very satisfying knowing your data is there in plain text files.

Although if I'm honest I'm just cheap and wanted to get by on the smallest VM offered by my cloud provider and NextCloud was too demanding for that.
on the DOM, of course /s
“Unwashed masses” is usually a downward punch on poor people, isn’t it?
Ask HN: Firstbase vs. Stripe Atlas vs. Others- Which is better in 2022?
As a non-US resident(Indian Nationals) what is the best option to register a company and start accepting payments from US clients?

It seems like Firstbase is cheaper and faster.

Stripe Atlas seems like an established option but seems to have hidden costs?
That is called ‘scare quotes’, and the context is almost always sufficient to distinguish them from quotation marks, certainly in this piece they would suffice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
I am blocking ads via my router DNS. When using Private Relay I see the ads again, which is makes using apps very annoying.

Plus, I dont see any benefit of hiding my network traffic here in Germany, tbh.
Either sponsored or gamed from my experience. I would rather ask HN then Google search.
topics could be errr nicer linked perhaps, source being Energy & Environmental Science, NS website tagged: BACTERIA, COMPUTER, ALGAE ... is this the wrong part of the web for you now?
I repurposed a 2015-ish Macbook Pro as a "year of the linux desktop" dogfooding machine. I am running EndeavourOS (Arch under the hood) and it has honestly been an incredible experience. KDE has come SO FAR from the old days! (to put things in perspective when I first started using KDE, the Linux kernel was on version 2.4)

Really the only thing I miss is iMessage and all of the other "quality of life" things you get in the Apple ecosystem. Definitely going to start using KDE Connect now that I can run it on my iPhone. What a time to be alive!
> how would you condense the information enough that it's both useful and doesn't take up 2/3 of a line?

There's a method that takes 0 space: just change the color of the prompt symbol depending on the weather status (sunny, cloudy, raining, snowing).
I'm not sure I follow this one.

When you put something on the street with a "free" sign it either disappears or it doesn't.
> TikTok is a cancer on the universe.

For the most part, yes. Though I find it pretty useful while brushing my teeth. You don't need any audio. And my brush time has gone up a bit since I started this viewing habit.
If you’re not actively writing to the database you can cp or commit it safely. SQLite uses a journal or a write ahead log (WAL) file to process transactions.

If you cp a database mid transaction you will loose the transaction as it is processed in the separate journal or WAL file until commit. If you copy mid commit then you will have incomplete data in the main database file and possibly data corruption.
Golang Diaries: Generics
That does seem to be the case in a lot of countries. The big exception being the US (including mineral rights).

As someone from the US, it was actually quite surprising finding out other countries handled things this way.
I have never understood or found a rss reader.

I assume the tech will die before it ever becomes an imperative.
Nope, actually not the same thing at all.

Why would you even believe or say something like that?
Would love to see the demo
No Google suggestions for me in iOS Safari when using Private Relay.
An SPSC circular queue can be implemented with just load and stores and acquire/release consistency (which is very cheap on x86), so using a single variable for both read and write pointers seems quite suboptimal.

Using two distinct 16bit _Atomic variables would have been an improvement, but I guess having both pointers in the same cacheline is going through be the bottleneck anyway.
Since I typically find short urls suspicious and frightening, especially in text messages from short phone numbers not in my contacts, this headline illustrates a third form of idempotentcy.
"This relativistic jet was aimed directly at Earth — and astronomers were staring directly into the beam."

Great. Something else to worry about.

Seriously, though: are jets like these generally detectable and would we know if there are any of them making their way out from the center of our own galaxy?
Can you elaborate more? I think the cron-solution will be unable to synchronize with your application code to determine when to stop writing, so more background and your solution would be of interest.

As I understand it, while you do the backup, other writes should go to the WAL log and only get commited until after the backup?
I learned about benzo alcohol reactions the hard way. I took one or two decent doses (purple footballs) of Xanax with a lot of alcohol. I some how made it home and then fell into a cycle of sleep sessions where I would sleep for four hours, wake up for 15 minutes, and then fall back asleep. This happened several times, wiping out an entire day of my life.

I was finally roused to go help my brother who had done the same thing but instead of sleeping he wrecked my motorcycle and bounced his face off a tree (helmet on, he was ok).

A few minutes down the road my uncle had done the same thing but was already home--he managed to total my cousin's car (his son's car) in the driveway....in reverse.

After that I was done with benzos forever. My brother and uncle weren't though. As a result they are both in an early grave.

There is more to the story but benzos we're always central to dangerous addiction, raging drug abuse, and heroine use. Around that time my brother almost died by drowning in a bowl of fruit loops on a benzo bender. His girlfriend found him face down in the bowl and saved him--and subsequently left him afterward.

My dad (also dead from addiction) was on benzos for many years...very small dose. He was an alcoholic and the benzo+alcohol mix (I found to be a very common self medication and recreational outlet) literally destroyed his life.

I have a pretty negative and reactionary stance against the whole range of pills that people deal in. Though, my experience is one where I have never seen anyone be helped by them.
Just seems like a RSS fetish.
Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part IV
Grafana Cloud is a great product but the pricing scheme really scared me away.

With 10 physical servers, 10 services, 10 pods each, 100 metrics (counters, histograms, etc), and you'll be spending $728/month on Grafana Cloud.

The equivalent from AWS managed Prometheus is ~$300/month in my experience. Hosting your own is also far far cheaper.
The DNS issue is intentional. Trackers have collected information about people using VPNs before by generating unique domain lookups for a visit and watching where the DNS query originates from.

Theoretically, editing your hosts file might provide the same filters even with Apple's pseudo-TOR enabled if the system respects user preferences. That might be a challenge on iOS, though.
I have never found anything that reads RSS
If a company needs to operate M-F, they could also split their workers into two groups: 1. Monday off, 2. Friday off.

And those groups can switch every month or quarter.
Quebec experiences pretty significant societal isolation: https://i.redd.it/wczkvtt99z431.png

Worse yet, when they go to France... the French will refuse to talk to them in french and default to English with them. Whereas Belgium or Switzerland doesn't really have this problem. Quebec feels they are literally on their own, they effective are. Their language barrier problems significantly isolates them. Historically this has been destructive to their economy. Pierre Trudeau tried to fix this but in the end really resulted in the rest of Canada paying Quebec huge money to stay in Canada. Idiotic at best and has been producing anti-quebec sentiment for some time. I believe we are somewhere around -60% dislike toward Quebec from the rest of canada.

This produces significant nationalist/separatism sentiment. Their federal and provincial representatives right now are literal separatists. Which doesn't make sense at all.

The problem, Quebec basically can't leave Canada. Quebec has a budget deficit of about 6.5$ billion and a -$27 billion tax balance. So if they leave Canada they will immediately have about 25% deficit that will mean they have to shutdown multiple social nets. Healthcare and education being shutdown would likely make separatism quite unpopular.

They would also have to adjust for negative sentiment and drop in trade. As Canada becomes far wealthier, they would become quite poor due to their isolation.

Meanwhile Quebec seems to have taken to a new technique for their separatism. They don't plan to leave Canada anymore. They are making it virtually impossible for the rest of the provinces to stay.

Ideally the smartest thing to do would be Ontario provincial government to require french fluency with all students by graduation. End their isolation by having french in Ontario. I don't see that ever happening.

It's inevitable Quebec leaves or gets kicked out.
> In the wild, the limiting nutrient for cyanobacteria is often iron or nitrogen.

How can nitrogen be a limiting factor if ~78% of air is nitrogen? I'm assuming they also take the CO2 out of the air, which just makes up 0.04%.
The author seems to conflate du and df. They operate completely differently, du calculates the usage of files, df gives a quick estimate of free storage from the file system. Of course df is going to be 7000x (or whatever) faster.
So if we take for granted that humans really, actually do seem to like free stuff more than we “should”, then perhaps instead of reacting with “lol, humans irrational”, we should more thoughtfully consider why evolutionary pressures would sculpt a mind that seeks out a “free lunch” over a cheap lunch.

Or, to rephrase, if free-seeking is such a powerful effect, then evolution must’ve intended our brains to work this way. Thus suggesting that, while the effect creates individual decisions that are economically irrational, over the long term it must be a survival benefit.

There’s a lot of ways this could work (and I’m eager to hear HNers speculate) but one that springs to mind is thinking in terms of risk as cost.

Imagine you must choose getting great fruit by climbing a slightly unsafe tree, or eating mediocre fruit on the ground in front of you. Over the long term evolution should favor the creature that eats the no-risk ground fruit over even the very low risk climb. Taking ZERO unnecessary risk would be favored, because even the tiniest risks are survival filters over evolutionary time scales.
From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge".
What a big load of shit.
> wait-free lock

That's an oxymoron.
You have about three minutes for an arterial bleed. Perhaps less for two arterial bleeds. The proper technique would indeed to be tourniquet the legs, which you can do with anything (like strips of cloth) as long as you can make it tight enough.
I found these parts also interesting from that study:

"...it is competitive in terms of sustainability. It has half the energy demand of DACS, avoids land-use competition of other land-based technologies (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, afforestation/reforestation/biochar), and has a 10–100-fold lower water demand than these other CDR strategies."
Be productive or allocate capital to people who are relatively more productive than you….
This is really lovely, gives me ST: TOS vibes. There are also some CRT-like video filters (shaders), that could be nice on this too.