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Ask HN: What skill would you learn intensely for a year for neuroscience?
I am very passionate about neuroscience. I'm not super passionate about the ways in which a lot of current neuroscience research is being done. I'm currently in a very fortunate position where I have a remote job that allows me to live somewhere with a low cost of living, and as such I will have lots of free time in the coming year to dedicate to learning.

The biggest goal for my career is to be very proficient at something that is in demand across multiple industries (still tangentially related to neuroscience, but things like robotics, cognitive science/intelligence studies, regenerative medicine, etc) that is not something an average job candidate could do. My biggest problem with this is that I am heavily interested in loads of things and get stuck with a bit of overanalyzing on where the best place to start is, and as such have a hard time getting started.

There are loads of smart people here on HN across a wide array of industries, and so I'm looking for some advice. Hopefully what you do day-to-day is related to neuroscience in some way, but I'm open to any and all thoughts! What I want to know is this: I have a year to dedicate to deeply learning a subject/skill/software/etc. If you were hiring in a year from now, what skill might you look for, if you could only pick one?

A deep thanks to anyone who takes the time to share their thoughts.
Is it safe to use this to avoid any possible bed bug outbreaks? or are there any risks that outweigh the benefit of it defending against possible bed bugs?

I've been thinking about spreading it around every so often under my bed (plus around my bedroom) just in case.
It was really a genuine question. I was not attacking them; I think they offer a valuable perspective.
Have you tried aggregated capture files? https://bloomberg.github.io/memray/run.html#aggregated-captu...

With that option the files are much much smaller and much easier to analyse
Initial roadway construction is using primarily federal dollars, but long-term maintenance is usually primarily funded by the state or local municipality.
I'm not sure why you're defending them when we have no idea what their family dynamic is?
"Should we define an exact decibel level at which the noise threshold kicks in?"

Possible, but usually not necessary. With noise, any unnecessary noise is meant. If a baby cries that is hard to prevent, but the parent will still try. If some hooligans howling around - that should not happen.

"According to your rules, a toy car should be banned"

My rules would - like usually - contain a symbol as well, making it clear with "car" a real "car" is meant. And toy cars that do produce loud noise - yes, I would ban those. They can be really annoying.

It depends what kind of park it should be. There are parks, where even playing kids are not wanted. (fancy castle parks) In a city park, it depends on what the people want - and yes, you can have text under the park rule sign, which is how I know it.

Usually the guidline should be common sense and not disturbing others - but for those cases where people disagree - then you can refer to the rules.
I was coming here to say the same, but with less words: I fuckin love Quanta.

I'm broke as heck, but I really hope people with more discretionary income are able to support them financially <3
> Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the U.S.

They never thought about corruption, didn't they ? /s

"There is no distinctive criminal American class except the congress." - Mark Twain
I love Svelte, but please make substantial comments on HN. Flagged.
So when you're gone they can swear to their hearts content? (ie there are no laws if a cop isn't looking?)
You assume them being commercial would imply their success.
This discussion awoke an ancient memory in me - this DailyWTF article about skechers.com https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom

The article is (as to be expected) very disparaging, but the author responded with valid points. Either way, a fun read and a blast from the past.
Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a growth engineer (small team, fully remote)
I could support that, though maybe not in a place that's unavoidably car-dependant. As you probably know, parking eats up real estate and drives up prices.
The fact is that we're not that interconnected though. Finding people that have useful, actionable information, and want to share it with you, is extremely difficult.
It's mocking. It's like a subtle middle finger to those who suspected something here makes no sense and decided to look more carefully at the photo.

Like others said, I too would choose to not include any photo at all - there's no way to frame inclusion of a wrong photo as something good.
> Democrats rushing to the right on immigration recently in response to public opinion

Hardly. They're "rushing to the right" to try to get the intransigent House GOP to approve more military- and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. (And that didn't work because The Leader — which sounds better in the original Italian or German — said "no, don't fix the problem because I want to campaign on it," and Republican legislators, terrified of being primaried by MAGA types, caved in.)
Have you tried studying using the SAT Prep Black Book? It explains really well how to study for the test and why the test is designed the way it is
You’re the one making the claim, why can’t you show us your calculations? I can’t reproduce your numbers unless you’re assuming a truly massive real-estate assessment.
Basically rust needs to be able to express generics that have the interface popularly known at monads.
Its hilarious that the top comment on this submission still doesn't "get it". Set theory and combinations get thrown out the window to loosely redefine "majority" to make a point.
The overt "real life" war with China has been coming for a long time. They have never had a plan to stop it. Leading edge technology (including but not limited to AI) is currently being used for cyber and psychological warfare and planning.

Many people may try to blame some technology for the war. But the real cause is the failure of those with power to find alternatives to warfare for political and social integration and overall to effectively manage resources. Beyond that, there are significant contingents (not limited to any particular country) that has a Malthusian, selfish, racist, explicitly non-civil worldview, in which human lives aren't fundamentally valued. So for this group, warfare is in some ways desirable.
In interviewing I try to avoid approaches that in any form or shape resemble riddles, so ostensibly open problems but with predetermined acceptable answers.

I've found that it's both frustrating for the candidate and doesn't give me much insight.

Such a back and forth to me is too close for comfort, even though I used to be into role-playing games back in the day.

Currently I try to use the little time I have to determine whether the person in front of me is a charlatan, so only questions that are easy to answer for someone actually having the skills advertised in their CV.
Ignition source matters, because frequency happens. Take the camp fire. If not for PG&E, 85 people would be alive, and 16 billion in damages would be averted.

>But that's exactly what they expect you to do. Their houses are in a tinder box. There is some absurdly high probability that they'll burn.

I dont know what you think is "high probability", but it doesnt really matter. The point is that it should be between them and the power company.

I think you have a pretty distorted view of reality. PGE didnt and doesn't get sued for natural wildfires, only what they cause.
Taylor Swift is preferred by a much larger number of people than Thelonius Monk is; does that make Swift 'better' than Monk?

The quality of something and validity of people's preferences doesn't depend on popularity.
I had never heard of XSLT before until I happened upon this Esperanto dictionary.
https://www.tujavortaro.net/
Yes, and what the wrong photo does is fuck with your sense of scale entirely. The included tower is more of an industrial installation; the real tower is more like something a couple drunk metal thieves could salvage in an evening.
Yep, there's a mechanism that replicates the functionality of a retractable ballpoint pen.
Creating an Alternative Browser Engine for iOS
The original authors have done next to nothing to improve Awk in those years; it's embarrassing to be writing another book on a subject that they have not advanced.

Awk could use improvement in numerous areas. Oh, for instance, you can pass associative arrays into functions, but not return them. Functions that filter array to array have to take an output array parameter.

Using extra parameters as the only way to get local variables is also a smell.

a[i] syntax cannot index into strings, what the hell?
Flamewar like this is completely unacceptable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248035

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237162

Since you have such a long history of posting like this, I've banned the account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
I agree but there's a difference between the DX vs the execution (how the thing runs internally).

I believe the vibes thing refers to the DX, not the engine itself.
Managing #microservices in #Go that communicate via #gRPC on #Kubernetes is a really common theme these days.

You might have noticed that #loadbalancing these #gRPC requests and responses is not trivial.

In my recent article I tried to dive deep in to the realm of gRPC Name Resolution and Load Balancing on Kubernetes in order to unwrap almost everything that we need to know regarding the matter, from the (tricky) problems we're facing all the way to the solutions and implementation details.

gRPC Name Resolution and Load Balancing on Kubernetes: https://lnkd.in/d7Qw9fqc

I also put a link to all the wonderful references that I personally enjoyed reading and tried to digest. Big thanks to William Morgan (linkedin.com/in/wmorgan) and Daniel Polencic (https://lnkd.in/duC9bCQm) for their amazing blogs regarding the subject.

If you’ve liked this blog, a share and a clap would really mean a lot to me. Let me know your comments and ideas as well.

#grpc #golang #kubernetes #load_balancing #name_resolution #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #microservices #microservicesarchitecture #loadbalancing
Grabby Aliens (2021)
The answer has to do with Ross Weljean, 64. After coding the base versions of KDE's core software packages as a 36 year old back in 1996, he has considered KDE's software library to be his life work. Living primarily on a diet of Kraft American Cheese singles pushed under his doorway by open source aficionados, he has remained committed to the open source movement, taking breaks only to fight his landlord in court, to trial new mechanical keyboards, and to play John Conway's Game of Life between projects.

He hopes one day to release his masterwork, KRW, the new social media network that will replace your bank, your church, your spouse and your local fast food restaurant into one incredible virtual reality network that will allow you to see into the future and the past simultaneously.
Flamewar like this is completely unacceptable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248250

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246730

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Since you have a long history of posting like this, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Seems very slick, though I don't give pre-built presentations via webcam. Still, I would love to be able to draw on my screen when screen sharing e.g. via Google Meet. E.g. highlight a function in the IDE or a requirement in a task or do a quick diagram. These are things that have somewhat lower friction when doing the same meeting in person.
This would have been great when I used to work in embedded development and had to grep log files to root cause bugs. I had thought about writing something like this but was always too busy. The biggest feature is combining log files and organizing by timestamp.. well done
"We've got a bunch of people with massive wealth, so tax only the people earning new money" doesn't sound like it is going to equalise the state of the world.

I will also accept inheritance tax at 90%, if you really want to skip property taxes :)
Calgary Farmers Market Unveils New AI Generated Branding Campaign
> In a public park?

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy. So if you went around with a big TV camera and just started sticking it in people's face, that would get the cops called on you real quick.
Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It
Pure ignorance and trend following. This is literally just a (very) custom build of the Mattel GirlTech IM-ME wireless instant messenger. I'd say, "Are they going to ban all devices with a TI CC1110?" but they just might try it.
It doesn't matter how practical it is. What matters is, the only honest course of action is to not include a photo of a wrong tower if it's not practical to find a photo of the right one.
Not sure everyone expects values to rise or rise as much as they currently do.

Fact is, everyone needs that to happen right now.

If we change the latter, expectations related to the former will change too.
Is there a free version or is it just a trial? The download button says "Use Now For Free" but doesn't tell me what that means, and I don't see a free tier on the pricing page.

Is it free for a limited trial period? How long? Are certain features free while others require payment?

This is sort of a pet peeve of mine, many tools offer a "free trial" but don't tell you what the limitations without installing it.
> leave your luggage in your car for a few days when you return from a trip.

how would that help? are you assuming the temperature in the car goes below freezing or above 120F?
Cool. It's a really good idea!
That's not a solution for them, with their preferences and needs. You don't seem to grasp a fundamental issue: Your needs are not a universal truth; they are only yours (and whoever happens to share them). New Yorkers really have different preferences; they don't want what you want, any more than vice-versa.

And while they make the best choice they can, they can still have problems with it - what in the world works out otherwise? Jobs? Elections? Anything?
Oh gotcha, sounds good. I am not familiar with Gabor Mate, but it depends on what his theory was. Wikipedia tells me he considers ADHD to be a coping mechanism. So for example if he had a theory that trauma can cause things like ADHD, then I'd say I don't think that particular theory seems to be supported by the evidence.

But it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to me that two seemingly unrelated complicated things can be linked. It's possible that he got that advice because he felt he was onto a grand theory and the evidence wasn't there for it. Or whatever, who knows.

It's possible there is something to say about anxiety/cortisol/stress, neurodivergence, gut micro-biomes, and some autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. There are studies on all of this stuff, but it's all in early stages, we don't know if the statistical effects are even real. And we certainly have no reason to conclude that one set of effects would cause the other.
He was responding to the absurd assertion that nobody has bought a house in California in two decades. It’s not cheap but that’s pure hyperbole, and Asa was reminding him of that.
The “next” button on HN is way ahead of its time!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39324956, which was posted earlier.
That's the thing: you don't. The difficulty of cutting it down is what is the major difference between the real tower and the depicted one.
There was another case, in Texas too, I believe where an older widow didn't pay a HOA due after her husband died.

The amount was in the low hundreds (maybe $300).

HOA liened her house, then forced sale.

A local landlord put a bid that was found later to be about 70% under market (like $125,000 offered for a $400,000 home). The HOA Board voted to accept the offer and sold the house to this landlord.

In the drama that unfollowed there was also this little nugget: the landlord was on the HOA Board, and was one of the ones who pushed for the forced sale, and then voted in favor of the Board accepting his short offer on the house.

I don't recall the details of the outcome, although I believe some compensation was paid out to her.
It really depends on the quality of the peering you expect. It doesn't matter, until it does. Consumer ISPs sometimes do their utmost to not peer with open exchanges, and the entire thing gets even more complex when you go to places where bandwidth is more expensive (i.e. Oceania).

There's a reason the favorite chart to exemplify value Cloudflare reps like to show is Argo Smart Routing, and why it costs about $100 per TB just like AWS and GCP.
My main issue with any virtual camera-based screensharing is that Zoom (and others) seem to degrade camera first, screensharing second, audio last. If I share a static image, it'll eventually get through. Internet lagging, laptop lagging, some random updater running, whatever.

But if I share everything via a single "camera" channel, it's all or nothing. The only "in between" is "image is blurry, face is barely legible, text is illegible".
This is like saying that the continued existence of Burmese pythons in the Everglades implies that the small mammals (and other python prey) are definitely doing fine and their numbers are just as high as always, of course, because otherwise all the pythons would be dead.
Ask HN: Popular open source tool originally written in Haskell?
Is there any open source tool (Bonus points: Being popular) originally written in Haskell you guys can point me to?

Thanks!
depends on your definition of a good strategy.

None of the options are good for overpriced manufacturing labor in the first world that doesn't want to retrain/can't retrain.

Most of the options are good for the whole world, because manufacturing with less expensive labor usually translate to higher output for lower cost and the labor inflation that causes in the third world is in the really nasty subsistence level of the human suffering index rather than the can't afford a second car and/or the new video game console area of the human suffering index. The benefit to the world of labor price inflation in that level of the curve is so high it's not really comparable.

From the perspective of specific first world countries whether it is good or not depends on a mix of priorities from maintaining output capabilities in the face of potential war, maximizing the stuff your populace can get (bread and circuses limit political risk to rulers) and ensuring the spread between the upper and lower ends of society doesn't get so wide that the lower end looks up from its bread and circuses to revolt. Overall it will be a good strategy to move a significant portion elsewhere from this perspective as well.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t it pretty common to e.g. have a list of non-duplicate items on screen which have a specific order they’re supposed to be displayed in which can be changed as a result of user actions (like adding new items or editing existing ones)?
My memory is just incompatible with direction-giving. In one ear, out the other. I need a map to navigate an unknown place.

This is also my issue with the "put your camera away, live in the moment!" crowd. Well it's have my camera out or have no photo anchors to bring memories out of whatever fog they fall in to.
I think this opinion differs both geographically and generationally. Uban/young/northern people are less apt to want to socialize with strangers. Neither preference is inherently wrong I tend to think the strangers you are discussing know better than you what is or isn't a waste of their own time.

For practical purposes most folks just aren't apt to have anything useful to contribute in 3 minutes. I'm 43 and I don't think I have EVER got anything useful out of such an interaction. It's just pure social petting like monkey's picking bugs off one another and I don't get anything out of it nor feel obligated to do it when walking around. I don't feel socially impoverished because I have actual social interactions in contexts which I feel are useful or beneficial.

My theory is the people that have more need of such social petting are aggrieved at changing social standards. It's just not my problem.
I wonder about the mental economy of "supply and demand". Common household goods of other cultures/eras become novel items of a bygone era. 'Rare' items eeks excitement like broken bulb tulips, beanie babies but so do common household goods from Rome.
This looks like a very solid critique of Deepmind's recent paper, or how it mislead people into regarding its results as much stronger than they really are. However I think the autor goes a bit astray at

> The paper mentions that the model could not follow the "don't repeat the same board position three times in a row" rule (aka "threefold repetition").

That is not the rule. It is not illegal to repeat a position for a third time.

The rule only says that a player can claim a draw in the case of a three fold repetition [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_repetition
My feeling is that egress is easily measured, so it's where costs that are hard to assess get moved to.

It doesn't feel great to be line item billed for stuff at 10x the rate of credible other offers.

I think there is also some geo-specific pricing that gets hidden in a global price; bandwidth can be a lot more expensive in some locations than others and if you are charged 5x for egress in south america, nobody will use the south america locations and that's not good for business.
> For the latter group, the new openness about mental illness and trauma has been a disaster.

Why so?
I don't think anyone's trying to be impolite or diminish What Came Before, but HTML is used for lots more than websites and browsers. (Examples that come to mind are email, desktop and mobile apps, ebooks, and digital signage.)
Fair enough. You can optimise for lots of things.

But when people warn against "premature optimisation", specifically, they are advising you to give higher priority to things like modularity, readability, abstraction and maintainability, and not sacrifice them all for a singular goal, typically speed.
A bicyclist in Golden Gate Park once yelled at me for being on an e-bike, while pointing at a giant "No Motor Vehicles" banner at the entrance. I told him, actually, California vehicle code 24016 specifically states “an electric bicycle is not a motor vehicle.” He replied "You're a fu*king idiot".
That is so obvious.. yet I've never thought to try this in 10 years of using git.