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Show HN: A Salary Calculator for the German Public Service Employees
Hi everyone

I would like to share with you a tool that I developed as a side project, which can be extremely useful for those working in the public service sector. It is a gross-net salary calculator that not only provides quick and accurate results with an easy-to-use interface, but it also features really nice graphical visualizations and is completely free of annoying pop-up ads.

As someone who values good user experience, I wanted to ensure that the tool was intuitive and accessible. Users can easily understand what is deducted from their gross salary to arrive at their net salary with just a few clicks. And with its impressive graphical visualizations, users can easily visualize the breakdown of their salary deductions.

The tool is also mobile-friendly (which is the minimum nowadays), making it easy to use on any device from anywhere. It is completely free of any annoying pop-up ads, ensuring a seamless and uninterrupted user experience.

If you find the tool useful and think the graphical design is nice, please consider sharing or upvoting it to help spread the word. I welcome any feedback or suggestions on how to improve the tool, as I am constantly looking for ways to make it more helpful for users.
Are there ways to migrate existing shell histories with timestamps into atuin?
Scraping is legal. Just like how Meta scraped tons of content to train llama itself. It would be interesting if Meta claimed copyright on what is basically a compressed version of open content. It would set a useful precedent, because i think it could be dismissed
TurboTax customers to receive checks for $141M settlement
Visiting vs living is very different. Everyone I worked with in Rome drove to work, but the people I worked with were admittedly of a certain group.
I cannot watch the video, but it sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_McCoy_Jr

Interesting story, from being part of the team that looked for himself, to his successful escape from prison. He was able to successfully land with the money using the same modus operandi. And lots of physical similarities to the suspect drawing.
Buffett's Berkshire posts $35.5B profit
Definitely - CloudFlare!
This is very limiting in that (away from web entries) there will be no training data that's not publicly available. Using ChaptGPT for domain-specific tasks may never reach the same level of efficacy where one's problem and vocabulary looks very similar to 1000s of examples on github.
Yep. That's exactly why I published this, I see a lot of how "creator X made Y in Z time" and usually it's insane figures. I never saw any realistic figures to gauge what the median might actually look like. This post is it. This is what an average channel performance looks like.
Brake dust, too. You find it all over things near completely electric rail lines, which have no gas or tires.
yep they have docs on importing https://atuin.sh/docs/commands/import
I have a question. this is going to be a really uninformed question but keep in mind my knowledge of boat transfers come from movies and I don’t consider Pirates of the Caribbean authoritative on the topic.

What makes it so difficult, and what sort of special equipment is required?

I know, I know, cargo nets on the side of the ship are not going to be sufficient, easy as it looks in pop entertainment, I just don’t know why.
Show HN: WebGPU Rotating Cube
This is a small "hello world" type WebGPU demo that fits in a single page (no NPM dependencies or build steps).

The last time I touched anything graphics-related was the OpenGL 1.x era, and I've been hoping WebGPU would be a good opportunity to come up to speed with modern standard GPU programming. However, the WebGPU tutorials I found were often small fragments of code aimed at people already familiar with DX12 or Metal, and the rest involved complex NPM build steps or "clone my repo to get started" setup scripts.

This page is just a plain HTML+JS file. You can edit the shaders live from the textboxes, or download it to make more involved edits. I hope it feels something like what learning JS used to be like in the days of MySpace and Geocities (in a good way).
I like semi-automatically generated docs like AWS API docs that contains in minimum the type information for every field there is, and often much more.

I don't like Python docs where it ends up on long winded explanation for specific cases but does not cover all arguments, or only mention some in passing.
Yeah, adding sensors can sometimes make things worse.
Waymo is only publically active in a limited area. By all indications, they could operate to the same or better standard than Tesla in unmapped areas.
fukushima plant was obsolete and built in a not great area (probably due to local political squabble), but it was in the process to slowly (backroooms deals between energy provider and gov) be modernized to current standard, thing that contained the disaster as other reactors had already moved their generators on the roof instead to keeping it at ground level. Japan is not a great example for corporate behaviour
Not much, really, just validating some incoming work from an outsource vendor, kicking off some conversions and bookkeeping entries in a database, then copying the critical files required by the edit to the external drive to be hand-carried to the finishing suite… problem was the outsource stuff showed up REAL last minute, and didn’t match what it was supposed to.

So basically glorified ETL with one hell of an expensive deadline.
Sorry not gonna pay 5$ a month for what should essentially be free and open part of the web (instead of VC-funded and monetized).
There a literally books written with nearly that exact premise for the plot
I don't know, but I also don't care much because it doesn't matter.

Again, can they quickly understand and apply the knowledge once it is explained to them is all that matters.
If we did some improvising, it might be useful. We did no improvising at all, therefore it was just completely useless theory that had literally nothing to do with anything. I think that if they taught us some little improvising, we might see value in scales and maybe I would even ended up liking the piano more.

> on the other hand every new piece is an unique snowflake that you star learning from scratch

Not really. You still have memory of previous ones and you do hear how it sounds. The intuition builds up, so to say. You do learn to hear and distinguish what sounds good or bad. I kind of do not see how theoretical knowledge of the scales would help here.

But also I dropped out the first moment I could, so there is that too. But remembering the pieces was not issue at all. Issue was that I did not even liked music I had to play all that much and playing pieces you dont like much again and again to perfection is not exactly motivating.
Maybe in some type of energy efficiency, but the push for public transit is not really about energy - it's about making cities pleasant places.
Perhaps later on. At the moment, we're focused on enhancing the product.
Photos that dig deep into Ancient History of World
It's a bit of a cherry picked example though - the UK has some of the best road safety statistics worldwide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...

Sort ascending, the UK is 7th from the bottom and some of those aren't really comparable (Monaco and HK are tiny).

It's very obvious as a Brit as soon as you cross the border into France. Eastern Europe is something else entirely.

The US is still "worse" than most of Europe, but it's only about 40% worse than the European average which is a fairer comparison IMO.
Not the worst consolation prize to have an experience like this & story to tell after undergoing such a dangerous and potentially life threatening ordeal.
The academic debate is generally dominated by two concerns around nuclear energy. The first one is that nuclear energy is by far the most expensive form by unit of energy produced. New project like to claim the opposite, but that is always before cost overruns and years of delay. In general the final price tag may be 2-3x as much than the estimate. Plant Vogtle in Georgial for instance went for $14B to $34B. Nuclear power plants also need water for cooling, so they are sensitive to both drought and extreme heat. Which is generally when you most desperately need electricity. Meanwhile, the same crowd claims to have economics on its side when railing against renewables, which are the cheapest unit by unit, and a great contingency plan for extreme weather events, like the disasters in Haiti.

But the bigger concern raised is that some calls for nuclear are a "cop-out". Nuclear happens to be great for damming up demands for renewable energy, while buying time for existing production capacity. It is not unusual for projects to run for years before any tangible construction is done, and even then it is not unusual for advanced projects to be cancelled for cost overruns. Meanwhile, you can have a solar panel on your roof in a couple of months. So it has some of the qualities of ExxonMobil calling for a carbon tax because they know it is unlikely to happen.[^1]

So overall, the academic debate over nuclear does not have much to do with its technical characteristics, it mostly has to do with the political dimensions of who the advocates are and what their goals or interests are. And if you are in favor of nuclear, it is still a good idea to look at who is on your side and consider what their motivation for fighting that fight is.

[^1]: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/06/30/exxon-climate-ch...
Are there any drawbacks (other than cost) to doing population wide screenings for different diseases in order to collect data and address those deseases?

The economic benefit of healthier population might actually outweigh those screening costs and accelerate medicine.

I feel like the way we’re approaching medicine testing and approval is inefficient and too complex. Many patients are resorting to social media to look for diagnosis after going to many doctors and failing to get one.
I could be handed piano sheet music and play it straight away in elementary school. It is not that hard to read sheet music and it does not require scales which I never bothered to learn. I was not some kind of prodigy either. It is just that if you play enough, music sheet becomes like normal reading - you just know what is written there. The rest is manual dexterity.

Ability to play from the sheet without preparation if completely orthogonal to anything in this thread. Especially to ability to play all the scales in all variations to the perfection for the practice test.
Might as well open a PR to add your dockerfile.
Would megadosing (apo)lactoferrin help here? There are already nanomeds using lactoferrin for BBB transport for Parkinson's directly in the brain, how about moving it a notch down and do it directly in the gut?
Chances for collisions are pretty much nil if you use some prefix standard will never use, like $.

el.$my_data = ...

And in practice it works just fine.
The problem I see is that if I ssh into 5 different remote hosts in a day, most of the commands are not executed on my host and thus not part of the local (or shared, distributed) history.

I suppose this could be solved with either:

- Some kind of modified ssh that sends back the commands to my host

- Some kind of smart terminal that can analyze commands to build up the history

Any ideas on how to practically solve this problem?
Which wouldn’t be selective. Do wonder how effective this bacteria is at long term survival in a host. The source sounds specific enough (certain types of water reservoirs?). It could be beneficial to have a way to test for them - even if it’s something like a take home Covid test.

Point being I’m sure many people experience a gut level desire to avoid PD and anything like this.
the intro music, it has a circular feel to it. who can tell me about this? why is it used when it's used?
> English | 简体中文

> You may use either the server I host

Right. And isn't this what home dirs are for?
Remote work turns America into Suburban nation
>Let's address corruption throughout the whole of our government, not just the Supreme Court.

Correct, but it is essentially un-addressable, because the common populace is quite gullible, and non-discerning and will give off their freedom to people who are authoritarian, corrupt
The Wikipedia article says that sodium actually protects metals from corroding, but I am unable to see how that works by reading the citation.
And there’s always the tiny chance that the King immediately dissolved parliament, revokes all non-royal decrees, and declares war on Canada. That’s worth the chance!
Aren't gut bacteria surviving in the appendix, replenishing after antibiotics finished their course?
> It's a win-win because the developer has the incentive to provide the best possible service in order to retain customers.

Only that a lot of users of Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office and so on will tell you otherwise.

The sentiment seems to be that the products got worse after switching to subscription pricing.
I prefer the SOA terminology because as the post you're replying to says, you don't need to make these services too small, whereas "micro" implies that they are.

Monoliths vs microservices is really a spectrum.
Are you paying for API access or for ChatGPT plus?
Yes, much of it seems circumstantial. People who have communities are in a different situation than people who do not. A lot of loneliness is age related, location related, etc… This thread is filled with kind, well intended, totally worthless advice being offered by younger people, people who have a community, people who have a family, people who live in dense urban areas, etc… The answer seems to be “volunteer”, but obviously if that worked there wouldn’t be these threads. Loneliness is a societal problem, not something an individual can solve by volunteering.
Hospitalization&sociodemographic conditions in bipolar&major depressive disorder
It took me way too long to realise that's where the name was from...
Conjuring a group of philosophers together with the intermittent (fork - plate) cycle is a subtle structural setup. There is thought behind that gestalt of simple elements that started off in a thicket of complexity. That thought is also the product of collaboration over time by experts. Finally, at the end of that discourse, someone reduced it to its essential complexity and showed applicability to general patterns of interaction.

None of that is child talk.

OP started off on a promising note and one hoped that he would start playing the song of 'vector languages' for machine intelligence -- but alas, he then started singing out of tune.

> You’re not being open minded here.

Unfair. Rather may I suggest you did not read carefully. I did say "civilization". In a civilization, you will need both teachers and students; thinkers, and readers. What language will the thinkers use? "Explaining" is a concern regarding established results. What about deriving new results? (See above)
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>Link Between Poor Verbal Memory and Hospitalization in Depression and Bipolar Disorder Patients

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychiatry-verbal-memory-23176/
Why stop at reinstalling the OS? You also need to throw away the PC in the dumpster of another neighborhood or city and at least use an angle grinder on the NIC and SSD. Don't forget to wipe off the fingerprints beforehand.
Waiting for billionaires to solve our problems again?

The US economy is $23 trillion a year. It makes no sense that we don’t double medical research tomorrow. We’re either going to have a similar fate, or will personally know someone who will.
As many commentors note, this is a comparison based on Sierra Leone MDs and assistants. Sierra Leone (as the article notes) is nearly at the bottom of the international "human development index", so very poor - there are not enough surgeons or even MDs to treat everyone.

The surgery studied is an elective hernia surgery. In a wealthy country this could be done in a "hernia repair factory" and I recall, but won't find, a study showing that is the best case: the more practice the surgeon has, the better the outcomes. I would expect the same results here: if the MDs do not specialize in hernia repair, they will be beat by the specialist (even if not an MD).

Very importantly, this was a RANDOMIZED clinical trial. That means that counfounding variables should be equally distributed by the randomization. You generally do not have randomization when you are comparing outcomes, e.g., between the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic in the US. That is a great feature of the study. It gives me much more confidence that what they detect is a true difference, not caused by a factor like selective recruitment.
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Wgat about the firmware? Stuff like Intel ME.
Yeah you could totally sync your shell history if you’re using a NFS share or something, but that’s going to affect way more than just your .bash_history

Why is our localisation relevant/quoted?
Archive.is have a history of blocking CF as CF do not pass EDNS Client-Subnet data. I think that blocking CF is an odd choice given that sending EDNS Client-Subnet data is entirely optional.

As a work-around one could use Google or OpenDNS or others listed below:

8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 149.112.112.112

There are a few DoT/DoH/QUIC servers [1][2] if anyone is using Unbound on their home network or wish to edit their browser settings. The equivalent command for dig with DoT is kdig, available in the knot-utils package.

kdig @37.252.231.163 +tls-ca +tls-host=open.dns0.eu +noall +answer archive.is
archive.is. 300 IN A 185.101.35.175

[1] - https://dnsprivacy.org/public_resolvers/

[2] - https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-av...
Just because A increases the possibility of B does not mean B implies that A happened. I had h pylori but no GERD (and my partner has the latter but not the former). I was completely asymptomatic.

That paper you linked to just included h pylori as a passing example of potential endogenous factors and did not make a more substantive claim. Note: I did not check any of the footnotes that mentioned H pylori, which might have done.
This is not really the same, but may be interesting to some: I subscribe to ChatGPT plus for a month to check out GPT-4. The rate limits were cumbersome though and it can be easy to waste a prompt, so I started to bootstrap:

I would explain my problem to 3.5 and ask it to suggest comprehensive prompts to use with 4 to maximize my limited quota. It worked very well.

In the long years to come the most advance AIs may become so far removed from us that the best intermediaries will be their less advanced brethren.
Why the random forgetfulness?
Personally, I never liked his hotels much.
Yes, the last one is a stock image showing spices and raw rice.
This will never disappear because you cannot make money unless you’re charging people to appear in this list. Google would have to become a subscription service to get rid of this and that’s too radical of a change for any board to back
I get that argument, but I'm not sure you have the relative population sizes right. It seems a bit doubtful that millions of MSI users are interested in flashing custom firmware on their motherboards, but every user is potentially impacted by signed malware. Particularly since the firmware signing is a known thing and there's less restricted hardware available. People really interested in being able to do whatever they want with their hardware are presumably purchasing accordingly.

Like I said, I get the support for increased openness and freedom in hardware and the appeal that has to some users. But security is a feature that a lot of users (even power users) care about too, and it's bad when that feature breaks.
I am a painter who has collaborated with computer vision engineers on style transfer between paintings (aesthetic exemplars) and photographs. One of the things that distinguishes a painter from a camera operator is their depth aware organisation of colour contrasts. I use plural as there are many forms of colour contrast. I believe that effective Foreground-background separation has greatly underestimated potential to impact the future of the photographically acquired image. More power to you sir.
As a consoomer I find interesting that the production quality has bigger say over which DIY projects I watch than if the thing they are building aligns to my interest. For example JohnnyQ90 is filming himself creating very high quality RC cars from scratch, and despite me not having interest in machining/rc cars I still watch basically all his videos.

Your interest being niche may not matter as much as you may think.
The technological singularity is approaching fast.

It's pretty clear that, given terminal access and an appropriate outer loop, GPT models can iteratively create new GPT models (either by writing and executing Pyhton code, or later versions trained on LLM weights may even be able to output new weights directly). If the inner workings of the loop are sufficiently obfuscated (in the code-based version), it wouldn't necessarily be clear to us what had changed, and the model weights/architecture on their own are not interpretable. That's very close to a singularity definition (machines that self-improve faster than what our understanding can keep up with), the only open question is whether the new versions would actually be improvements. But that sounds solvable too (except that it wouldn't be easy for us to tell for sure).
Indulgences never went away.

The geocentrism-related issues commonly cited were due to flaws both in scientific and theological thinking (false theological justifications of novel assertions, among other things).

The inquisition was just and I would have no issue with it returning in catholic countries. The picture people have is often based on black legends rather than fact.

The crusades (generally, with some exceptions) were good, but for practical reasons it's not really feasible to engage in again in a way that would not bring about greater harms.
Besides what beagle3 wrote: Providing binaries for various platforms is more work than you might think and the people who like to do development work are rarely the same people that like packaging and distribution. That's why developer and maintainer are separate persons more often than not.
That would be assuming that we've not already overshot sustainable population. With every biodiversity marker pointing that we're in the middle of a mass extinction, it really does seem like that may be the case.
There is a two-way link between gut bacteria and immunity. Immunity often forces composition of gut bacteria regardless of supplementation. Pro/pre-biotics often have no effect, we are still missing something.
This is sad. I just don't get it with what's wrong with being trans or gay.
Different but the same problem: "Generate a heat sink heat exchanger with maximum efficiency, shaped like a passive solar home"

TIL from off-gridders and homesteaders about passive solar design so that the air moves through the home without HVAC (compared with high rise buildings where it is necessary to pump water up like a gravitational potential water tower.)

Does ReRender AI have features for sustainable architecture?

Prompt: "Design a passive solar high-rise building with maximal energy storage and production"

Notes from "Zero energy ready homes are coming" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064493