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PaywallBuster··on Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
> As a result of the findings, which were first reported by the New York Times, Google provided an additional $9.7 million to 10,677 employees, the majority of whom are men, to compensate them for unexplained discrepancies between their 2018 pay and that of co-workers who have the same responsibilities.
PaywallBuster··on Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
tl;dr there's no details about

mostly talks about internal policy and an ongoing suit against google for gender discrimination (against woman)

PaywallBuster··on Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
I moved RDS and Elasticache to ARM with no issues for over a year ago

For EC2 only used it for a single instance where I could redeploy the app easier by picking an ARM image

PaywallBuster··on Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
That's the article we need

What's AMD tools look like and what would it take to catch up with CUDA

and I guess it does not depend on AMD alone, the cloud providers trying to get alternatives to Nvidia could be investing into this too

PaywallBuster··on 99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work
big corporation = big regulation + big unions (add more items) = no flexibility

Looks like all big enterprises have no option but to end up in bankruptcy court, given that they're too big to make drastic changes, have to deal with strong arming unions and only when it's too late things have to be decided in court

(same for other industries like Auto)

PaywallBuster··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Heard from someone you could get h1b via certifications (like AWS) without a need for a college degree, is that right?
PaywallBuster··on Middle class homebuyers taking $7k mortgages planning to later refinance down
dangerous play (as I've read so far)

home values are hugely inflated

when they drop too, you'll end up with negative equity and possibly a denied refinancing

worst of both worlds

PaywallBuster··on Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
> In addition, dropping the cross-sign will reduce the number of certificate bytes sent in a TLS handshake by over 40%. Finally, it will significantly reduce our operating costs, allowing us to focus our funding on continuing to improve your privacy and security.

Are they using public cloud?

PaywallBuster··on Batteries and Renewables Are Saving Texas During the Heat Wave
Texas is not redneck republican southern state

- Texas is the "energy capital" of (USA/World?)

- Texas have its own grid disconnected from West/East grids

https://www.houston.org/why-houston/industries/energy

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

Someone more knowledgeable feel free to chip in with more data points

PaywallBuster··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
drama queen

429 requests handled at the load balancer are extremely light weight

PaywallBuster··on Irregularities found during FDA inspection of Intas Pharmaceuticals
We may need nearshore/onshore QC
PaywallBuster··on America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
Not really a renaissance

> 6bn fund to help keep existing plants running

> [law] made nuclear power eligible for the same tax credits as renewables like wind and solar

And the small/modular nuclear projects seem to be going the same way as traditional reactors

> NuScale, a startup building a small modular reactor on inl’s campus, recently said the cost of its project would surge by 75%, to $9.3bn

PaywallBuster··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
He could get commission from any sales in the next 30 days

not just this 11$ product

PaywallBuster··on Crypto Exchange Backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, Schwab Starts Operations
and front running retail with insider information
PaywallBuster··on How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs
or just consider different providers

and easily lower costs by 50% depending on balance storage/bandwidth

PaywallBuster··on The duck in the room – the end of baseload
buying the server (capex) is probably the biggest pricing factor

since dc cooling has become very efficient

also since 99% people are wake up during day time, actually you'd not have "excess" capacity, you'd have more stuff running

PaywallBuster··on Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia
Can someone explain the whole detour?

Looks like the plane was out of route right from the beginning?

Why not turn around from where it took off?

Is there an overlay somewhere?

And why would it drive all the way to a deserted airbase with no qualified personal to fix it?

PaywallBuster··on Making a single bolt for an FL car
tl;dr https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs3x9KdP5Ub/
PaywallBuster··on The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years
Just one example where a key investment gets blocked due to politics

Keystone XL pipeline halted after Biden blocks permit https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57422456

One presidency would approve it, the next one would disprove it

PaywallBuster··on The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years
Nuclear is a decade long planning

Doesn't work if the government changes hands every 4 years and comes with radical different ideas and starts reversing stuff from the previous government.

Totally different to China, with their 20 year plans, where they're committed to developing nuclear, are putting superior resources into it and are building at scale.

Every country with nuclear had a period where they went ahead and build a bunch.

Building one or two in isolation is just a gamble

PaywallBuster··on Tesla plans for 375,000 Cybertrucks per year
Last photos I saw, looked like plastic

legos with wheels....

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
Find the most popular queries, built content pages around it and add ads there

And you could try some alternatives to AdSense like:

Ezoic, MediaVine, or Adthrive

PaywallBuster··on The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know
> Some people enjoy learning for the sake of it

Nothing stops you from buying books about your favorite topic and using your personal time to get a deep understanding on said topics

> Those people are essentially forced to discover said enjoyment through years of mandatory education where that exists.

it's working wonders for modern generation

PaywallBuster··on Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
Largely legacy I'd say

- Most new stuff is built on regular servers with Linux running

- Mainframe kind of stuff would be HPC (high performing computing), this is where huge calculation are done at scale, this would be scientific/university/engineering use cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

> most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.

PaywallBuster··on The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know
man are utilitarian, they choose things with goals in mind

get a good degree, have a good career, be set for life

but now... you could take 3 month training for a blue collar job and make the same money or you could do your own business which is easier than ever (

1. we're wealthier/more developed, you could put together a business plan and get money

2. the internet = low barrier to entry

why woman go to university?

PaywallBuster··on Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023
if China invaded Taiwan, probably we'd have 100x more problems and demand for apple hardware would dwindle

prob not his worse case scenario :)

PaywallBuster··on Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
Seen the same in Netherlands
PaywallBuster··on Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
Do we need all that premium/proprietary equipment?

Laser projectors: $40,000-$150,000+

Dolby Sound: $75,000-$100,000

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time?
if you try to do any local development you might also need to cache dependencies locally (somehow, predict deps in advance)

probably easier you find someone to sponsor you like internship and you move to some place that has better connectivity (maybe border town)

PaywallBuster··on Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
> Money market funds are proving popular among savers seeking bigger returns on their cash as high levels of inflation persist.

so, basically the same thing happening in the US

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