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CerebralCerbon The Sloppification of Peptides

It's all over in Norway too. Anecdotally it is definitely more common than steroids already. I can only find statistics on the legal ones, but they show that 10% of all women in their 50's are prescribed the ones for weight reduction <https://www.fhi.no/he/fr/folkehelserapporten/samfunn/legemid...> (Fig 13).

CerebralCerbon DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety

Hard liquor is absorbed faster than beer which leads to a stronger rush effect. It's similar to snorting vs shooting cocaine. When the effect hits faster, the psychological association between the stimuli and the effect (sensitization) becomes stronger.

This effect has been demonstrated with rat studies using cocaine:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005...

CerebralCerbon Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike

If the US wants to abdicate their position as a global hegemon of every waterway and trade route this seems like a good way to do it. The US is much less dependent on the Strait of Hormuz than its competitors.

Ten years down the line it may be the case that India will sail up and enforce toll-free waterways instead. That will never happen as long as the US puts up the resources for it. The American taxpayer will be better off if the burden of global free trade is borne more equitably.

CerebralCerbon Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses

The fleet management features that lead to the review are documented and were easily disabled.

CerebralCerbon How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

-cide is a latin suffix that quite simply means "kill". Trying to call ethnic cleansing genocide is like calling divorce mariticide or moving away from home patricide.

The correct latin term would be something like "expulsio gentium".

CerebralCerbon Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

The post you replied to suggested a real solution to the problem. It was implemented in my current org years ago (after log4j) and we have not been affected by any of the malware dependencies that has happened since.

CerebralCerbon Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles

It's an interesting idea. I did some napkin math based on the Solaris Urbino 18 bus. The buses have about 45 square meters of ceiling area (18m by 2.5m). Assuming efficient solar panels you could get 250w/sqm. That works out to 11.25 kwh/hour. The bus advertises with 600km of range with 800kwh of batteries so that is 1.33 kwh/km. Hence it could do ~8km/h on average when it is sunny.

The math does not really work out to a viable product with this bus, but it is not too far off. A city bus that has been purpose-built for low speed in urban areas without other traffic may work as it can make some sacrifices. For instance, since it runs much slower on average it would need smaller engines. It could also use more light-weight material since it won't need to handle high speed collisions. If it is just used for short distances within a city center it could also do away with seats. Lower speed should also lead to lower consumption.

The Solaris Urbino 18 weighs 17.5 tons curb weight. Assuming fuel consumption is pretty linearly related with weight and you could get it down to less than half, you could get a bus with a range of 10 miles per hour of charging. If it drove for 6 hours a day, but got charged for 12, 20 miles on average per hour is possible.

CerebralCerbon Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

I have yet to see anyone who previously could not write code be able to do so, beyond simple scripts, with LLM's.

CerebralCerbon AI is stifling new tech adoption?

Only in one sense. As code is now cheaper, abstractions meant to decrease code quantity have decreased in value. But abstractions meant to organize logic to make it easier to comprehend retains its value.

CerebralCerbon We need visual programming. No, not like that

I love the return link from the footnote back to its reference.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

There's little to gain from innovating on the landing page. A slick Wordpress template gets the job done just as well as a tailor-made landing page. Effort is better spent elsewhere (the product).

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Is React Native still popular?

I picked up React Native and Expo last year for a medium-sized hobby project and found it a better experience than when I developed a Flutter app three years ago. I have always heard the React Native dependencies were a mess, but I did not have that experience. Things were stable and Expo has pretty good documentation.

CerebralCerbon Peloton CEO quit after laying off 2,800. A lesson about how not to lead (2022)

You won't get a CEO to lay off 2800 people without offering them a golden parachute. Parachutes comes with strings attached.

CerebralCerbon My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it

> He wouldn't hurt a fly, literally. If he caught a creature inside the house, he would carefully open the window and toss it out. Even when a cobra came out of the grass in the monsoons, he would not let us hurt it. Raised in a strict Maharashtrian Brahmin household and then in the College of Engineering in Pune, he was well-read but hadn't seen much of the real world before entering the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.

The first three sentences paints a picture of a man of unusual ethics. The tidbit about his Bramhin background explains why he is that way.

An Indian might be able to infer the Brahmin tidbit from the first part. But as an European reader like myself, it is relevant to know that the ethics is rooted in religious upbringing and not just eccentricity (which would be the typical explanation for why a person would behave like that in Europe).

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?

Before corona started, I walked to work every day (1.5 hours in total). It's a habit I've had since I was a student too poor to buy a bus card.

A few months after this I started noticing how just walking the stairs got me tired, and how my general well-being deterioated.

I've certainly never been "fit", but walking to work is a great start. It also does not require much dedication , something which is hard to spare if you have a busy career.

CerebralCerbon Pay Transparency Is Coming

Nothing prevents anyone from being "that asshole" because nobody considers someone an asshole for researching their labor market.

The newspapers publish lists of the richest 100 in each municipality every year. It's a yearly tradition, and there are no significant protests against it.

CerebralCerbon Tesla Model Y became the best-selling vehicle in Norway within a week

Cars are very heavily taxed in Norway. The EV's are barely taxed at all. A Tesla Model 3 is close to the cheapest new car you can buy.

EV's pay much less for toll roads. I think it used to be free.

Gasoline is heavily taxed. The price is currently close to 9$/gallon.

CerebralCerbon Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

Every business with a competent marketing department will continuously track and measure the effect of the ads they run, like how many users who click the ads turn into paying users.

My startup has tried a variety of marketing strategies from in-person campaigns on the street, video ads on YouTube, "free" PR through newspapers etc. In order to measure the effect of each approach we only did one at a time.

For us paid marketing on Facebook/Instagram was, unexpectedly, the most efficient form of marketing by far. But I would not assume that applies to all, or even most, businesses. So you should experiment with different strategies for your business.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

I first used my Google account to sign up using my phone, but decided to switch to desktop halfway through the onboarding process. It was then impossible to login because: "Email ID not registered." It was also impossible to register because: "An account already exists for this email address." I started a new free trial using another Google account.

I tried to add my REST API as a data source, but I had to initialize it with an endpoint that returned some entities. My base endpoint ('/parse') does not do this. Therefore it seems like I need to add a new connector for every API resource I have ('/parse/classes/Dog' etc).

I added a table and hooked it up to the data connector I made earlier, but despite using a previously configured connector I had to re-configure authorization headers etc. Inbuilt pagination was nice.

I clicked "Test&Finish", everything looked alright but the table in the designer did not update. After spending a few minutes trying to figure out what went wrong I tried the play button and it seems like it worked all along, just that the data changes is not reflected in the designer. That kinda ruins the WYSIWYG aspect of it.

I figured I should try one of the templates to see how a real DronaHQ app can be. It seemed to me like DronaHQ can do more complex apps than the two others. I tried the Dashboard template. It had a bunch of filter options, but nothing happened when I clicked on them.

Overall it looks like DronaHQ is more ambitious than the others. But the bugs really needs to be ironed out.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

The port used by the docker container could not be setup during installation. Letting the setup fail and then edit the intermediates (docker-compose.yaml) worked fine but it was not elegant compared to Budibase's installation procedure. It's an issue resolved in 5 minutes though so far from a deal breaker, and with the changed install script it should be gone.

You've made a pretty great product and I look forward to following your journey. We're already using it in production.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

Those changes sound great! I'll definitely keep following you. I use docker compose.

Your product is solving a very real problem that I think is under served. I developed a lot of back office tools in my old job. It was very easy to find good ideas for tools that would improve the workflow and efficiency of our sales, marketing and accounting departments.

I found that rapid prototyping and quick iterations worked great for finding good solutions for non-technical stakeholders. It made it possible to give them something concrete to "touch and feel" after every meeting. It spurred a lot of engagement.

Low-code tools like yours will really aid this kind of process, and I look forward to seeing where you'll go.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

No self-hosted option unfortunately. It seems to be a more mature solution than Appsmith though.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

I found Budibase cumbersome to use. It looks sleek, but the overall usability is worse.

To delete a component you have to find it in the component list, open a hamburger menu and delete. This despite having a panel with component details open with plenty of screen real estate for action buttons.

The API I use outputs data in a nested json ("results: ..."). As such Budi parsed everything into a single column. There was no clear way around it. Automations maybe?

In general there was very little use of the screen with most things being empty. I guess it is earlier in development than Appsmith. I do like the aesthetics and SSO support though. It was also much easier than Appsmith to install self-hosted. I'll keep following the project.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

Thanks, I'll check it out. Definitely seems like Budibase fits my use case.

CerebralCerbon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

An environment-health-security app for the B2B market

* Flutter frontend iOS/Android

* Parse Platform backend backed by MongoDb, hosted on Hetzner dedicated server with backups in Azure

- Migrated from Firebase

* ASP.NET 5.0 backend for various other integrations and periodic back office jobs

- Migrated from Firebase Functions

* Back office tools (CRM, billing etc) in React/Redux

- Currently experimenting with Appsmith to allow for quicker iterations

* Landing page in React

- Originally just plain HTML. Re-wrote to React to be hip.

CerebralCerbon Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science

I do not know how automation is measured, but a couple Americans I've met here in Norway has said that automation is higher here.

CerebralCerbon BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize

Do you have any source or reasoning for the claim that the persecution of Uyghurs is ethnic?

CerebralCerbon The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

It's accepted as normal in Norway to wait for up to two years for a specialist. If your need is urgent you'll get it much quicker though.

If you are a white-collar worker you'll usually have a private health insurance so that you won't have to wait in line for public care.

CerebralCerbon One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden Building a Log Cabin

https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/tomt-robertsfors-robertsfors-ko...

Free as long as you live there afterwards.

https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/tomt-norra-rorum-hoors-kommun-s...

10k SEK, close enough to cities to commute.

CerebralCerbon Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs

Not necessarily. There are other aspects to traditional family structures that serves to even out the power imbalance caused by a single breadwinner, such as the woman's parents living in the same household and alimony laws.