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In most locations in the US any entity can hang wire on utility poles (the poles are often owned by the city, with an open access policy -- this is how CATV and PSTN wires are up there on poles, and more recently 5GUWB base stations). There are certain requirements (e.g. insurance, you have to have assets on hand to repair your cable when someone drives into a pole, you need workers who are certified to work near high tension wires, etc). Usually you can outsource that stuff, for a price, possibly to the same contracting company who does the same work for Comcast.
Crystal is just awesome. I doubt I'll have a chance to use it in a real app any time soon... but I've kept my eye on it for the past few years.
This has been my experience as well.

When I worked in military SAR, interruptions in service provision (i.e. aircraft breaking down, or lack of crews, etc.) very quickly attracted attention of some very senior brass.

The people who couldn't give simple answers to direct questions, who couldn't articulate a coherent plan to get back in business, were the ones who floundered.
It didn't take 2 years. That was the time measured, somewhat arbitralily, from the initial cancelled mammogram.

The actual time is left somewhat vague but the information they give narrow it down to between 7 months (that was the time from her finding the lump to seeing an oncologist) but then an unspecified time to get the scan and recieve the results, (if things had gone better you could add another fraction of 8 weeks, since that was how long the wait for the surgery was, but that date must have been set some time before they got the results and knew that it was too late). But either way less than 12 months, since she spotted the lump in late 2021 and we're currently not yet in late 2022.

So 7/8 months for a breast lump being spotted to a scheduled mastectomy, and at some point in that process it was identified as fast growing, in the time after COVID. Is that fast or slow? I don't know, but I kind of feel like after reading an article about it I should know, and people shouldn't be left with the incorrect impression that it took 3x as long.
I personally don't believe this at all. I think it's almost entirely bureaucratic inertia, and a prisoner's dilemma among the management. One who bloats, floats.
I think the most important reason is that supabase is a good product. Marketing is just a plus.
> This is what I don’t understand with the tech workers who can work remotely, why live somewhere really expensive?

Because of what's around it.

Funny enough you mention Iowa. My brother got a job that allows him to work remote and considered moving to a small town in Iowa because he could buy a decent house for under $100K, which would give him a mortgage that's half of what he pays for rent right now. But then he looked at the neighborhood in street view and saw an alarming number of Confederate and Trump flags and decided against it.

I luckily bought my house when I did, because home values in my area have nearly doubled in the last 7 years (Paid $338K, currently estimated worth $650K now). For me to move to a cheaper place means living in the middle of nowhere, and I prefer to live somewhere that gives me lots of options for fine dining within a 30 minute drive. I also like living in a nicer neighborhood where I don't have to worry about some crackhead trying to steal my wife's catalytic converter.
We find it difficult to use the Costco OTC drugs like Advil among two people before the expiration date.
Semantic web is data science for the browser. Most people can’t even figure out how to architect HTML/JS without a colossal tool to do it for them, so figuring out data science architecture in the browser is a huge ask.
I've always had the somewhat silly thought to myself "What if the archaeological record only goes back to the point of past archaeologists digging everything up?"
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Surprised you needed to dip into savings. VCs and SaaS companies are like moths to flames.
I appreciate the Post Scriptum. Good luck!
Cancer specialists weren't deployed onto ICUs - what happened in the last few years was that protocols meant that operations had to be done far more slowly or not at all.

A close friend of mine had an operation be cancelled because two specialists would have had to be in the same room and that was not possible "cus covid"[0].

So now there's an enormous backlog of which at least some was completely avoidable.

[0]"cus covid" - i.e. not actually because of coronavirus, but because we were doing things like following arrows around on the floor, having people isolate for weeks on end during periods in which every tube carriage had at least one person who had the virus, etc.
Biglaw attorneys routinely bill 2200 hours a year in 6 minute increments.

Add in nonbillable work and self-written off time, and many of these attorneys work 60+ hour weeks. Plus, they do this into their 50’s.
Sears sold the Craftsman name just recently for nearly a billion dollars. Stanley Black and Decker purchased it. Very confusing, because the agreement allows for both to use the name for a time...so your Sears Craftsman power tools aren't compatible with the Lowes ones.
But even if you do something objectively wrong, it can still work out anyway. Look at every Perl script written by non-programmers. Horrifying mess of bullshit, and you try to read the code and think this shouldn't even be parseable, but somehow the script works.

There is no right or wrong, only working and not-working.
I didn't ask for any of that. I'm explaining why the article came off badly to me. I'm assuming that was not the author's intention. I provided this feedback in my comment so that they may reflect on why this is so.

There's nothing else in my comment. You are reading too much into my comment.
> Consumer price increases are inflation, no matter what drives them.

Yes, but I never argued it's not inflation.

Most suppliers lean on the crutch that costs have gone up for them (due to supply constraints or inflation) so it can get recursive: some consumer price increases are driven by inflation - the most obvious being inflation of fuel increasing the price of shipping.

The price increases on the Texas energy market deserves a special call-out because it's a hypocritical corporate bailout with public money on a so-called open energy market, without fixing the root cause. Throw in once-a-century storms happening every decade, and you got a stew going.
> Epistemology is a field which is sadly usually confined to religious schools.

Funny that you're mentioning that, the Epistemology classes I took in university while I was studying History were some of my favourites.
It appreciates, but you still need a place to live, so you can't ever actually access that value by selling or renting it out. The best you can do is borrow against it, which is a nice option, but doesn't actually give you anything; you have to pay it back.

A much wiser thing to do is buy a duplex or triplex, the "nicest" one you can afford, defining "nicest" in terms of total rent after expenses other than principal.

Then as the value goes up you can access it through rents going up. You may even be able to sell half off as a condo someday in some cases, while still keeping a place to live.

If buying a place that you can rent part of out in the future is not realistic, I would just buy the most affordable home you can tolerate and enjoy. The extra value won't ever be able to help you unless you decide to become homeless, die, or move to a different much cheaper area.

> Tl;Dr: conventional wisdom is to buy the nicest house you can afford, thinking that housing appreciates
"Don't try" was his take on a lifetime of trying. He failed in all areas of his life until he hit it off as a writer in his 60s (after decades of rejection).

In other words, his biggest regret was all that effort he made. All it did was make him a miserable misanthrope. It was only when he let go of his expectations and stopped trying so hard that he started finding success.
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Indeed: There are voting systems that are objectively better at delivering representation and safer from causing perverse outcomes. If he were to stick to that, it would be more honest. Up through George H.W. Bush the Republican party represented me just fine. Now I'm a registered Democrat. I've got differences with both parties. I think the electoral college, partisan gerrymanders, and the Senate are structurally unrepresentative, but, under a first past the post system, supporting a mainstream party is what gets you the best representation.
This is the correct answer. The love affair to do everything in python must end this year!
Maybe zuck expected 10x engineers
Well, Google's and Facebooks definition of 'the best' engineers.

I don't think grinding leetcode for an interview is the best indicator of a good engineer, and graduating from a prestigious university is not always an indicator either. imho it seems like the best engineers now are the ones doing their own thing outside of the large companies, or are at smaller startups.
Also how we perceive time largely depends on how novel and new the experience was. I just got back from an Indian wedding that lasted two days, but felt like a week of time had past since I was experiencing so many new things for the first time.
Thanks simon! Makes perfect sense.
Historically, people at a lot of meat.

> The researchers studied ten other comparable food lists from southern England and discovered a remarkably similar pattern: a modest amount of bread, a huge amount of meat, a decent but not excessive quantity of ale, and no mention of vegetables (although some probably were served).

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/04/who-was-eating-meat-in-...

Simply put, you have an animal who eats a bunch of veggies. It’s gathering the calories for you. Then when you kill it, you harvest those calories. There are other means of collecting calories (farming grains, milk & honey, etc) but for most of human history (even now) meat was necessary as it contained the calories to survive.
This. This stuff happens all the time. So there is a new construction planned somewhere, workers accidentally find some walls etc. Archeological team is dispatched, they remove much more ground, as much as to see how big the object(s) are, what era, figure out they have a archeological gold mine. But they don't have resources (money) allocated for it yet, so they will rebury it. Next year, or in the coming years they'll come back and do the proper excavation. And if I may add a bit sarcastically, a PhD or three.
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I wanted to specifically highlight that people can (and should) read the source code. I now see that this might have been a mistake. But I was hoping to share the joy of taking a cool tool and looking under the hood.
Thats not the title -- the house is already sold: "Philly Agent Sells a House That Mines Crypto…For a Purpose"

Long story short, buyers paid $150k over median value for a single included $500 computer, mining $84 a month...
They won't be taking more of my money, because I don't lie on my tax returns.

I can't speak for the rest of HN, but this is a truly bizarre thing to complain about.
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Maybe during wartime?
> Your assertion that you can't see anyway for Ukraine to win is based on "If Russia loses, it would be the end of Russia". Well, if Ukraine loses it will be the end of Ukraine, so I guess by your logic Russia can't win either? (TBF, everyone losing to some degree is right with war).

One big difference here is that Russia has nuclear weapons and Ukraine does not.
I don't think it's down to managers to save employees per-se, but giving them feedback in a timely fashion about their performance and clearly communicating expectations is good. I also do think that managers tend not to exercise softer options to help, like those that will expose weak employees to good examples (e.g. involving them in code reviews by strong coders, pairing them with others, etc.). I have seen a "no hope" employee become a diligent, thorough and crucial team worker this way (and I was deeply impressed with him).

I have also saw two managers at different levels tolerate and ignore a blatantly unqualified and unskilled employee for nearly two years before firing him and lying to him about why, blaming headcount limits. That guy to this day doesn't know why he was fired, and since has reapplied to our company. I think this is probably not that uncommon a story, and maybe, possibly, if we had taken some proactive steps, we could have helped that guy a bit. I was also disturbed by the culture that will ignore problems and let people walk around with them instead of giving them opportunities to improve on their own.
When I worked at Domino's, 90's, UK, the standard time to stretch the dough, sauce, top, and cheese a Pepperoni Passion was 44 seconds.

Everyone was expected to be able to do it after a short while in the shop.
Unfortunately it comes (mostly) from knowing your audience. You can get into training design and it will help a fair bit, especially if your setting allows for interaction with audience, which lets you check if they 'know' something. It will not, however, do as much as practice.

Unfortunately again, knowing your audience comes from talking to them a lot. Best public speakers tend to be saying the same thing for years (hundreds of hours of saying a specific story, for example).

There is no objective encoding. Cultural component tends to be bigger than expected.

Your model is, largely, wrong. Firstly you want to be able to model minds of your audience, secondly you want to be able to provide information that shifts that model into a model that you want them to have. Only then 'thinking clearly' comes in.

Your model could work for teaching people known well agreed upon steps in a field they know nothing about and one could get better at it with practice. Unironically get on twitter (or tiktok, I guess) and practice delivering one specific message.
There is a tangible difference between growing and nurturing something yourself, and seeing it do its own thing in the wild. Sure, nature is magnificent in its own right and displays that almost every time we walk out the door. But setting up your own system, whether it be a soil based system or hydroponics, gives a better sense of understanding and an appreciation for the actual process and end result.

FWIW I run a small hydroponics system off my porch and its amazing to see all the small changes that happen over the course of a day/week. Everything from water temp to nutrients levels to PH can change the outcome dramatically! And then there really is a sense of ownership/responsibility for the thing.
I have a double kids trailer from Thule. Even with kids it has a ton of storage. It detaches easily and has 4 wheels. The shocks are also adjustable to make it easier on the kids with heavy loads.
Wikidata is quite usable though with SPARQL through REST. To me the biggest problem seems lack of documentation but for small scale experiments interesting stuff can be done with it (with enough caching, probably with SQL). Running my own triple store seems a lot of work though, already choosing which one to use actually
The portable corded Dewalt (Alton) DXV04T has an optional HEPA filter, https://www.protoolreviews.com/dewalt-4-gallon-wet-dry-vac-r...
Expiration dates on some OTC drugs like Advil aren't as important as you might think. [See this.](https://www.healthdigest.com/756305/does-ibuprofen-expire/)
You probably know this, but sous vide will cook fine from frozen too. You just have to give it an extra hour or so. Heat baths are cool!
There are many reasons why this isn't done and isn't a good idea. One of them is: animals will eat the cable. Another is: people will trip over the cable. Another is: eventually someone will dig the cable up with an excavator, even if the operator of the excavator is the same person who carefully laid the cable a few years earlier. I don't explain how I know that...
First because sometimes violence can be used towards a good cause, for example Ukrainians killing Russian invaders to defend their lives and freedom. Second because even if a thing is wrong it does not follow that it should be forbidden.
Huge swaths of the American populous live on the coasts and in large cities. Illinois (home to Chicago) is home to 12 million people (2020 census data). That’s over 3x the number of people who live in the entire state of Kansas (2020 census data).

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”. If farmers in Kansas feel they’re being unfairly treated by any company that trades across state lines their only point of recourse is their congressional representatives.

As a historical example, railroad companies were once notorious for business practices that unduly favored high-volume users. They'd provide discounts to large corporations while excluding small businesses, and they'd charge more for short hauls than they did for long hauls[0]. It was incredibly unpopular for years, and it disincentivized trade and development in perfectly suitable states like Kansas.

Yet it still took congress years to take action for the same reason it does today (they don't want to anger corporate interests). It finally took a politician from a populous state (Illinois) to bring the issue to bear and incentivize congress to act. It's not a perfect example of what you were asking for, but it's an interesting case study. Kansas would've been much less equally represented in congress than it is today. If anything, it's closer to being over-represented now due to the caps.

At any rate, and to your point, the result was the creation of the first independent federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission. Now there are at least 32[1]. This is often cited as an example of federal overreach. It's worth considering that without these agencies, however, that congress may simply be gridlocked on more and more issues the way they were on railroads for years even with more equal representation.

Despite any personal political views I may hold or knowledge I may have acquired, I get extremely nervous when people are quickly and passionately in favor of something like eliminating the electoral college. It's a challenge to find pure functions in our system. Ultimately, I have no grand conclusions to offer up here. I just hope you find it interesting or helpful.

[0] https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Intersta...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
Skip the thaw step and cook those things sous vide.
Fuel cells might be better than batteries for semi trucks, which is a pretty big niche.
Is there any internet in the US that isn't subsidized?
Here in NYC, Google Maps does absolutely none of these. It doesn't offer price, or which train car to board for efficient transfers - both of these are only offered in the Citymapper app. All the apps do offer when the next train will arrive, but most will not offer alternate line trains on the fly if you were to stop over at a shop, for example. The Transit app does offer alternate lines on the fly, but only if it was one of the initial alternatives for that sector.

Citymapper is also the only app that handles train or bus disruptions somewhat gracefully - I've had both Google and Apple maps offer routes on trains that were currently not running.
They said the cheapest model with 200+ mile range, the base model you saw a lower price for is only 150 mile range.
Or you can buy beans and rice. More protein. More cooking options. No need for freezing.
The difference between working from home and working in the office is not how many hours of productive work you do, it's in what you do with the rest of the day.

Every single study done on it shows that creative staff (including engineers) are more productive working where they are less disturbed, that open-plan offices are the least productive environment, etc. So it's utterly unsurprising that people get more productive working from home and can do 8 hour's office work in 5 hours at home.

But even aside from that, if you can complete your work in 6 hours, but can't leave the office for another 2-4 hours because of the office culture, then you'll spend those 2-4 hours doing random stuff in the office. If you're at home, you can leave Slack on and go do something useful. It's not only that WFH gives people more time, it's that it removes the "you must pretend to be busy for 25% of your workday" restriction.

As always, a negative reaction to WFH is a sign of bad management culture. Good managers are happy that their people are getting more done and happier about it. Bad managers see "they're only doing 20 hours a week if they work from home!" and are angry about it.
> you can’t get so called out-of-thin-air values

You can't get out-of-thin-air primitive values (no word tearing).

But you can still observe states that cannot be explained by any possible sequential interleaving of your program. E.g. your program can do:

a = 0;
b = 0;
a = 1;
b = 1;

and another thread that does:

print(b)
print(a)

may observe 4 different combinations of values, surprisingly including also this one: { a = 0, b = 1 }

Why a corruption at a structure level should be considered less serious than tearing at a word level?
But the president does not just represent dwellers. He also represents jurisdictions and governments. This is the reason a state's pull in the presidential election is a combination of its pull in the House (representing purely dwellers) and its pull in the Senate (representing purely jurisdictions/governments). People who want a popular vote for the president fundamentally do not see the US as a federation. People who want a leader for LA can vote for LA's mayor.

It is unfortunate how many people did not pay attention in civics class when they went over every compromise made in the formation of the Constitution, especially the ones about population proportionality as it relates to the legislative and executive branches. If you want the particular arguments for how large states would screw over small ones, the records of the Constitutional Convention are a good place to start.
It wouldn't matter if a person just cares about status if the environment incentivizes them getting it by building a better product. Also understanding is power. If Person A can peer into the motivations of Person B and predict what they'll do, while Person B thinks Person A is a mysterious and enigmatic black box, then which one would you say is more senior?
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware
Note that there is no such thing as 'optimistic nihilism', though. People at Kurzgesagt probably thought of it as a novel thing, yet it is not. There is already a name for it, that is, existentialism.
Not working is better than working and being a liability.