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Wow, I learned that I could have a wet vac drain.

My yard is absurd clay. I've used my wet/dry vac, along with an electric pressure washer, to dig holes and remove tree roots (easier to cut what you can see).

A drain would increase my work time, at the expense of thicker sludge when I'd have to empty the vac manually. What I really want is to move the mud slurry, not store it. I suppose I should build an open frame to replace the vacuum body, and just use the pump lid.
That's fine and up to you. Our interview process is extremely streamlined and requires 1/2 - 1/5 the time of most engineering interview processes. We do require someone to show they are capable of doing the work. How would you prefer to do that so I can take your feedback into account?
Because a relational database give you schemas, constraints and a query language out of the box.
A step away from the ol’ hacker news “trivial”
This is a great analysis; thanks for writing.

I have also been working on running multiple Python interpreters in the same process by isolating them in different namespaces using `dlmopen` [1].
The objective on a high level is to receive requests for some compute intensive operations from a TCP/HTTP server and dispatch them on to different workers. In this case, a thin C++ shim receives the requests and dispatches them on to one of the Python interpreters in a namespace. This eliminates contention for the GIL amongst the interpreters and can exploit parallelism by running each interpreter on a different set of cores. The data obtained from the request does not need to be copied into the interpreter because everything is in the same address space; similarly the output produced by the Python interpreter is also just passed back without any copies to the server.

[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlmopen.3.html
Getting engagement is necessary, but not sufficient.

I don't know for sure, but from all the dev companies I saw on twitter, I bet on them doing well signup/results-wise.
The way it was written, it left many of us wondering what the answer to the question was, though.
What is "meaningful" power? Why should 3 million people (Kansas) have the same influence on federal laws as 40 million people (California)? How is this fair?
Speech can cause a release of hormones that make you feel negative emotions. That is not violence any more than causing the same effect by, for example, teaching someone about how their ancestors committed a genocide is violence. You do not have a right to not hear things that make you unhappy.
So in California I can just dig up the HOA's land without permission to run a wire to my parking space? Or if my HOA has a parking garage I can just start drilling through the walls of the HOA's building to stick a charger in, no permission needed? Surely this can't be how it actually works in CA? I'd like to see a lawyer's take on whether this is an "easy legislative fix."
It actually does exist lol! Made by Cisco as an e-learning tool

Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foa34qoRzjs

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317144142/https://cisco.edu...
Crazy idea, but why can't we just buy some armored cable and let it lie on the ground? People can bury it themselves if it really bothers them.

A lot of these people dont seem rich enough to justify caring about it being pretty...
My guess is that making obeying a legal (I don't agree that it should have been, but it was) subpoena by a us judge punishable in the EU is setting incredibly bad precedent.
Ask HN: Are Facebook and Google engineers slacking around with little work?
I read this article:
https://wap.business-standard.com/article/international/too-many-employees-but-few-work-pichai-zuckerberg-sound-the-alarm-122080801425_1.html

"Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work."

It seems like many smart engineers are hired but not given any real work to perform?! Leetcode can't test for drive and passion?!
Well at least I didn't see any evidence that says a good accountant would make a worse physicist than a bad accountant. So the assertion that people that are good at solving well-defined problems are not as good at (or at least has no correlation with) solving poorly-defined problems is not well supported.
"Next to height, the most unfair advantage someone can have is the ability to walk into a room without preparation and persuade the audience on just about any subject."

A lot of the people I know who can do this are people that prey on people who either can't think well or are afraid to be assertive. Essentially, think car salesmen.

I don't know any people who can do it for "any subject" without preparation.

With that said:

1. Understand exactly what it is that you are saying, including all the words/phrases you use. As an example, I was going to use "Sword of Damocales" today in writing and then I realized that I don't know ALL the context, so I googled (and also corrected my spelling - Damocles!)

2. Practice speaking - watch your parasite words and phrases. Recording yourself speaking is painful, but useful. If you are average, you also likely have annoying deep speech patterns (tone of voice, pace, etc). Anyone who tells you that you can fix these without a ton of time or a ton of time and a speech pathologist is lying.

In short, practice, do little things, but if you want to be a world-class speaker, you better make it a routine like working out.

I can compensate by memorizing whole speeches when I need to speak in front of hundreds of people, but it's a painful process.

The worst is memorizing half-way - you try to use clever phrasing, then forget something, and it all falls apart.

For context, memorizing a six minute speech (about page and a half) takes me multiple days of 2-4 hour walks and just grinding paragraphs.

I only use this a few times a year if I need to present to the whole company or something. Otherwise I just get a brief outline and wing the wording.
5G doesn't scale: no mobile tech scales. It works well when it's new, and in remote areas where it is not congested, but whatever speed you can pull out of it doesn't work in cities when people use it as a primary internet connection.

The laws of physics have not changed and yet every new mobile iteration cycle someone wants to insist they have.

Starlink is more akin to fixed wifi, which is essentially a point to point link depending on line of sight. That's the one possible game changer here: it's low enough, and the other end is somewhere you're unlikely to be cut off from.

But I suspect even Starlink, at any reasonable satellite density, wouldn't be able to support a city's worth of internet connections - and any reasonable effort to do so would be plain better served by just installing terrestial cables.
Yet another Apple innovation --- literally forced by the EU.
They like to ignore gas prices when it’s not convenient and include it when it is.
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>Taxpayers are trapped in this time warp because Congress has systemically underinvested in the IRS.

Only some taxpayers are "trapped", because they stubbornly refuse to efile their returns. The excess cost to process paper-filed returns of this minority is born directly and indirectly by all taxpayers. (It is very rare that efiling an income tax return is not possible).

Fun fact: back in the late 1990s the IRS had a scannable paper Form 1040-PC[0], not clear why it was discontinued. Very recently, the Taxpayer Advocate recommended that IRS re-institute some form of scanning technology for paper returns, the IRS rejected the recommendation, and the TA is appealing that.[1]

The IRS has actually made tremendous progress in allowing prior year returns to be efiled, and now amended returns can also be efiled.

[0]https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/irs-guidance/forms...

[1]https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/taxpayer-advocate-appea...
I don't believe there is normal, just average.
Totally separate question, but I'm wondering why you put 'Mar' in your url instead of the month number?
The "backbone" is made up of other ISPs
i still believe most of the companies are better off with just deploying containers on vm's with autoscaling groups with a LB in front of it and some kind of terraform + ansible | CI-pipeline deployment to manage it.

all the complexity you have to buy with dealing with k8s.
you have to update it frequently, update all the charts, fix all the breaking things in a developing ecosystem, and still have to deal with the hard parts of dynamic certs, storage and network. and you would still need to dedicate "normal" vms to host databases and your monitoring and your storage because if your cluster goes down, so is your management layer.

i have been with k8s since 1.3 and it is so disproportionate that i will not touch it for most of the times
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Fridges come to mind, but it depends on what you mean by “quality”. I had a 8 year old fridge, and attempted to replace a shelf bracket that broke because the plastic was flimsy - no parts available after 5 years. By 9 years old the brackets that held the large fan in the back of it in place had crumbled to dust.

Meanwhile fridges from the 1960s are still humming along fine.

The crumbly new fridge is more energy efficient by a long shot than that workhorse hold fridge - so it does depend on what you consider quality, but longevity and repairability are definitely major factors in what I consider quality.
I agree, communicating efficiently and precisely is key.

I work pretty hard at it. Yet still, especially when someone is not conversant in my domain of expertise (real-time embedded systems, data engineering), I do need to give context. I am not talking 30 minutes here, I am talking 5 minutes at most, in the most complicated cases.

In fact, this article is me trying to boil down things, and I realized I might have gone too far into conciseness :)
My parents currently have four options for Internet access. One is only on their phones with no tethering. The other is to dial in over a landline at 33.6k if they can find an ISP that still offers that. There's existing satellite, which is 512k down and like 25k up for hundreds a month. Or there's a wireless 256k plan that costs $2000 to install.

There's no ISDN, no DSL, no Starlink yet, no 5G fixed, no 4G fixed, no power-line Internet. They are not watching any Netflix, and things like Social Security and Medicare are increasingly accessed through poorly performing, bloated websites. They paid taxes more than five decades of full-time work. There's fiber within two miles of them, but nobody's used it to extend what's becoming a modern necessity to their house.

If they lived on the other side of the road, they'd have the area's rural electric cooperative. Then they could get at least 10 Mbps over the power lines. However, they're on a corporate power provider that has 4 to 12 hour outages 3 to 4 times a year besides not offering similar additional services.

With the right negotiations and a few hundred thousand dollars, their moderately densely populated unincorporated area could serve hundreds of homes with broadband. The cable and phone companies were given millions upon millions of subsidies every month for decades now for rural phone and Internet access, but have not served this area. It's time something else is done in these areas to give them the same access to the modern marketplace and to government services as everyone else.
Stallman’s hard line is pretty incoherent / absurd when it comes to firmware.

The FSF does not care about proprietary firmware, provided that the firmware “installation is not intended after the user obtains the product.”

https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria

So if you have a product that needs a ton of proprietary software to run, RMS will go berserk if you run that software on the CPU, but if you shift it to run on another processor in the product and make sure users can’t change it then all is good, have a RYF certification. This does not make sense. Maybe it made sense 30 years ago.

If you’re stallman, proprietary firmware isn’t bad so long as it’s suitably hidden so it can’t offend your sensibilities. So pretend CPU microcode updates don’t exist and add secondary processors to deal with blobs (purism). Does ensuring users cannot upgrade firmware make them more free?
Dont drive on roads I guess? Would hate to be apart of graft.
Why do you want to criticize Google Fiber?
Why is the article harping so hard on the whole "government grants" bit. Where the investment is coming from is just about the least interesting bit of this story.
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> they choose that on purpose to inconvenience Android users.

So you keep saying, but what’s the source for the claim? It inconveniences iOS users just as much since it only happens during the interaction of iOS and Android. I doubt Apple hates Android so much they specifically choose to inconvenience their own users to spite the competing platform. Seems to me a more likely explanation is that they don’t care enough or don’t want to implement the protocol.
10x engineers are a myth when it comes to productivity working within a team. There are absolutely 10x engineers when they're working on a project more or less completely solo.
I'm positive it is a different skill and I even think that those two skills can be at odds at times.

Poorly defined problems often come down to things like creativity and your ability to handle emotions. Sometimes you have to follow a seemingly senseless curiosity to find the right path forward. Sometimes it is about finding beauty where it isn't expected. Also these problems have multiple valid and fundamentally different solutions and can be highly subjective. Think art.

Well defined problems are about juggling multiple things in your head, high concentration, relying on fundamental knowledge, heuristics etc. All of that possibly under pressure. There might be multiple solutions but they are typically on a scale (good enough vs perfect etc.) or are choices between measurable tradeoffs. Think engineering.
They're right, but they aren't getting to the root of the issue. Most dev teams don't communicate anymore, and people just work on their siloed projects and "throw it over the fence" to the code reviewer when done. There's very little collaboration or ad-hoc knowledge transfer. This leads to a disjointed, unworkable codebase. If I'm seeing this at the piddly little startups I have worked for during the pandemic, then I'm sure the effect is amplified at the most exclusive development teams in the world.
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Growing cannabis outdoors last year was a very interesting experience. I want to move into growing indoors under controlled environments, but I figured that as a first step/MVP 'spike' if you will, outdoors with autoflowers would be a low cost test to get familiar with the process. No lights or exhaust setups, just sunlight and the rest of mother nature.

It was tough. Humidity. Insects. Mold. Are they getting enough light? Too much water? Not enough water? Am I amending the soil correctly? Am I giving the right nutrients at the right periods of development? In Michigan we're able to grow up to 12 plants, so I had quite a few. It was definitely a labor of love.

I also became so appreciative of plants during this period. Every morning I looked forward to waking up and checking on them, adjusting the air flow, watering, attacking any pests, and of course admiring all of their new development. I would talk to them sometimes, they really became good friends. I would tend to them in the evening, with my dogs wandering around the yard with me. I really enjoyed the cadence/structure that it gave to my life.

In the end, my harvests were absolutely terrible. I went out of town right at the tail end of my first crop and they were lost entirely to botrytis. I don't think I was giving them enough food throughout their lifecycle either. A second crop for the tail half of summer never got enough light due to the way my property is laid out, so I would move them in the afternoon to an area with more sun. All of these factors combined - they were weak plants and didn't fully develop.

But alas the experience was great. It was a complete failure at first glance, but I learned so much about how plants grow (specifically cannabis), their structure, temperament, toughness, etc. Now I feel totally prepared to transition to indoor growing, so that is the silver lining. I'll probably start out terrible with that too, but practice makes perfect.
> There are no joins in the database and you must manually enforce consistency

In other words, you've manually developed a relational database on top of a relational database that you're using as a file system.
Nobody suggested anything of the sort. I'm just hopeful that enough people now see Facebook (and everything Meta) for the spyware that it is, that they'll delete it.
I'm no economist, but this [1] badeconomics post and the comment section were quite convincing for me as to why shadowstats is not a good resource.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow...
Unsolicited advice from some random guy on the internet:

Don't start down that road. Material success will always be just over the next hill, regardless of how much you already have. Happiness and satisfaction can't come from accomplishment or material gain.
> "$80 billion through the Inflation Reduction Act — not only for more enforcement but also for tech modernization."

Just part for computers and consultants fee. But maybe they have plans for old school shoppnigs - machines with tailor made OS, compilers and apps ? ;) But it will be a disaster if they plan to rent some cloud "computing power"... Data on Dark Net within a year ?
> decided to do some experimenting to find out.

Proceeds to do zero experimenting.

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If one is so obsessed, just use a 5W charger, it'll practically (with the overhead of the phone running) take the full 8 hours to charge, with all heat being dissipated before it can cause any damage
The author knows C++ (https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson) and writes a lot about his performance experiments. I don't see why he - or anybody else - shouldn't raise such questions and arguments without having people (like you) getting angry about it. Is it offensive?

Anyway, he has a point, `cout` is used extensively as a logging mechanism. If you don't see that "single millisecond" making any difference, you certainly haven't work on a relevant system.
> I can guarantee, that trying to make someone else happy, will never ever fail to make you happy :

I can guarantee that there exist several data points that refute this.

Definitely can guarantee many cases where doing this to excess for some people is a net negative.

Can certainly show cases which led to divorce (i.e. always trying to make spouse happy was unstable, and the marriage would have been much better off with randomly ignoring spouse).

Helping others can make you happy. Just don't do it at the expense of self care.
That's just how just centrism looks on a global scale. People out here find it hard to imagine how Democrats could possibly move further to the right. If the Overton window leads to America, perhaps you should stop chasing it.
Damn what tariff are you on? My gas is currently 7.34p/kWh with Octopus.
Agreed on our farm the cost of fertilizer and fuel doubled since the last purchase. The current price is good for us considering we bought before the hike, but next year is going to be another story entirely. I expect the price of grains to continue climbing until local production begins in maybe 2-3 years.
The prospective fuel shortages in Europe are mostly to do with natural gas, not oil and oil derivatives, no?
But that’s just a screenshot. You can’t do that with video right?
One aspect I realized over time is that smart people tend to try to have knowledge and explanations for much more of the world than most of the others. And many times these explanations are completely wrong and partisan when it is out of their main areas of expertise but they cling to it really hard. Over time this tends to dissipate in many which also make them much nicer to be around.
I think this is the closest thing to Meta stating that they were misled

“Court documents indicate that police were at that time investigating the alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant.”
Yep, this, tell them what they actually want to hear. Make it interesting, keep it light. Pick the right detail level for the audience. Tune the content for the things the audience cares about.

I often see people diving into the deep end at work, bringing up console outputs and spreadsheets when presenting. It's like we've completely forgotten everything we hated about lectures in in university.
What’s great is that it’s not dependent. If the CDN is down - ghost degrades extremely well. It’s not pretty but it’s still readable. Excellent compromise for folks with weak internet connections.

We’re pragmatic and not idealistic - otherwise none of this would exist
What's wrong with taking a break to run necessary errands or pick your kids up from school? As long as you're meeting performance expectations, it should be fine.

Is Zuck really slaving away at his desk 9-5 everyday? I don't think so.

Sounds like another case of "One rule for thee and another for me"
Anyone else amused by the title? To me it reads as “Man […] expands to hundreds of homes.”
I don't expect anything. I'm merely stating how things are. Unless it effects Facebook's income I don't expect the situation to change.

The solution is obvious. Individual humans should stop using corporate controlled communication services for personal, or private, communications. Corporations both cannot and will not protect you from authoritarian government abuses.

I've been saying this since the early 2000s but like with most things, people will never care until it effects them personally.
It’s no secret that most people at Google hardly work. It’s been like this for years but you’re right it’s management’s fault for allowing this culture.
> It implements a new way of decoding the logits which improves performance by a relative 16%

Then you should have mentioned that in the title rather than the LOCs
The problem with this guy's reviews is he's presenting it as a false choice. Here he does 6 mass-market vacuums that are all about the same price, design, and performance. He doesn't really review them on any useful basis, like how long it can run between filter changes, how much toxic dust they spew into the air, etc. This video is basically "which of these garbage vacuums will you regret buying the least?"

A useful review would give you an actual choice: what's the difference between a department store brand $100 vacuum, a $500 vacuum, and a $1000 vacuum?
What do you think would happen if every person in LA County had their vote for president count as much as every person in Wyoming?

It's not like the vote for President is something where people from cities are going to have an opportunity to vote to harvest the blood and organs from people from rural areas or something (as if that's something they even would vote for if that were on the table). It's literally only about electing the President. That's all the electoral college affects.

It's become somewhat of a meme that there's this big divide between rural dwellers and city dwellers, and that somehow if city dwellers were allowed to have genuine proportional representation, somehow they would screw over the rural dwellers, but I have never heard anyone articulate any specific thing they think would go toward that. Let alone how they think getting proportional representation purely for Presidential elections would let them do so.
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That's a valid argument against ever performing any dig whatsoever, since it's always true that future archeologists might have better technology to extract more information from anything you find.