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> The best version of GNOME was Gnome 2.

Very much in agreement.If my unix* history is correct, even the apple design copied(or let's say "was influenced") a lot from the gnome 2 UI.
There is a fascinating list of other examples like that, even within the same country or just a few decades apart.

Southern India vs. Northern India, Southern Italy vs. Northern Italy (in the other direction), Estonia or Poland in 1990 vs. Estonia or Poland in 2022 (the very same ethnicity in a single generation, so cannot be blamed on genetics), Rwanda vs. Congo, Lebanon pre-1973 vs. post-1973. Somaliland vs. Somalia.

Greece and Italy were countries with very low levels of governmental debt as late as 1975...

In cases of obviously broken countries, people tend to search for a guilty external party, most often the colonialists, but even though they may be sometimes right, this is a lazy pattern; plenty of colonies have grown obscenely rich (cough Hong Kong, cough Singapore) and plenty of colonial countries stayed relatively poor (Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Russia).
This sounds interesting Do you have links about details kd their efforts?
It mentions coups repeatedly, and, discusses and refutes thr French payments issue, makes multiple comparisons (unfavorable) to the success of Jamaica, another former imperial nation that has done significantly better.
Well, it does prove a point.

If Lanka said "there is no proof that gravity makes things fall down" he'd loose the 100k. That proof is really well supported by hard evidence.

At this point viruses are simply not proven by hard-science and Lanka was made to pay up based on non-hard-science papers, that are now vetted by a court case to be just that: no hard scientific proof.
Quite a gloomy article. :(
I wish there was more enthusiasm around this tech. The Hyundai N Vision 74 is the first concept car I've wanted to test drive in a long while.
Bigotry is against hn policies.
Socialism optimizes for progress due to its structure. It allows people to earn according to the value they provide while not sucking excess amounts of resources out of the system. The truly democratic decision making process of socialism, where all workers have stake and a vote, provides a greater degree of progress because the needs of many are put before the needs of the few capital owners

PS: If you earn wages by working for someone, you are a worker no matter how much you earn

Technological progress is generally what I'm referring to
There's a huge difference between a team of 6 full-stack developers and a modularized team where everyone has their own projects.
It probably only checks the state before/after and blindly does the arm movement in between as is usual for these industrial robots, since they can do this quite percisely without active corrections.

I doubt it has any kind of hand or finger detection built in, since all you need is to figure out the board state.
The poster has not stated that robots would be inherently unsafe. (And if they were judged so, it would also be in consideration that humans also are.)

Anyway: the difference is in explicit projectual intention. Some systems are created with a dimension (contextually, safety) as a key performance indicator, some other as just a factor to be sensibly taken into consideration. If you are drawing the project for a plane, a main thing you'll keep in mind is that it will have to stay up; if a toy, safety is required but not part of the function.
That is the plan. The "BUY" button would not be for buying the software, but for buying the service that they usually hire people for.

It is not possible to "hide" the fact that it is done by software. As there are some differences. The software is stronger in some aspects of the tasks and weaker in other aspects. Overall, the software is superior. But it is noticeably different to work with the software than with a human.

Think Robotaxis: Superhuman reaction time. Never sleepy. But bad at interpreting unusual situations. Overall, they will be 10x safer than human drivers at some point. But you will still notice if a human or a bot drives the car.
I don't agree.

Its perfectly reasonable not to have any idea about an estimate until after an investigation or prototype has been produced.

Demanding an estimate up front for something totally new just makes you look inexperianced or bad at managing engineers.
One of the points of the article was that the DR was also the subject of imperialism, but it’s doing much better, and the majority of the divergence between the two countries occurred after the indemnity to France was paid off. This seems to undercut imperialism as the primary explanation for Haiti’s current problems. What do you expect economics historians to do? Ignore this fact because someone on Twitter says it must be wrong?
A thousand tons of molten radioactive lithium, exposed to air, would make a pretty satisfying boom.

The tritium being bred in the lithium had better amount to more than micrograms, because that will be fuel. Separating the day's few grams of tritium from the thousand tons of molten radioactive lithium coursing through miles of pipe is an exercise not yet tackled by fusion promoters.
Ah yeah good point, I forgot about “aparthotels”. They’re a pretty good in between, a nice Airbnb can be nicer but an aparthotel is probably more reliable.
I can also think of "hire to fire" because of management fire-quotas... team moral must suck when HR-enforced curve fitting is policy
This is a falsely attributed quote. There's zero record of Zhukov (or anyone, particularly none of the various people this quote has been attributed to) saying this. It's a lazy stereotype of the CCCP's strategy during WWII and absolutely incorrect.
If you hire 1 or 2 devs and one gets sick don't expect other one not to take vacations he planned 2 months ago.

Right, in that case, I'd probably give up my vacation instead.
China figured out how to make 7nm chips despite US sanctions
Six is where you start figuring out how you're going to split the team. Eight is where you actually make it happen (either into 4+4 or 6+2).
The Ermine Street Guard
For getting into the academic publishing space this makes perfect sense. Good to hear about HTML being in the roadmap!

How do you envision the process of submitting to journals looking?

MSWord and Latex are normal in this space and I’m not aware of any that take PDFs for the obvious reason that journals want control of the rendering. I can only presume that this is somewhat of a fraught tech lock-in that resists new formats/languages/backends.
Most engineers can guestimate, but I do know one that would say the following:

no idea, I will have to do two days of research on the matter and come back to you with an estimate in standup the day after tomorrow. (really, he said exactly that one time, it was a wonderful expression of his character I thought)

The person who just says no idea, and doesn't have a way to get to an idea, seems to have a very problematic limitation.
Yes, let's judge an entire culture by a random bus stop experience.

Replace "Russian" with "Black" and this would be considered a racist post.
Book Review: The Society of the Spectacle
Can't confirm as a Pole. Don't want to ask you to dox yourself through an argument, but I'd like to say that it's a lot better nowadays, with the only exception being the Catholic Church's wrongdoings in the countryside.
I’d be happy to have a shorter life on my small, cheap battery because it should be cheap to replace.
To an extent, all historical/geopolitical/megapolitical/etc analysis suffers from this.

The process is (a) observe a bunch of facts about history, geography, economic policies, politics or whatnot (b) explain the present (or future) state as a consequence of these facts. If you're inclined to observe certain facts or emphasize certain fields (say history), then your conclusions reflect that.

The "method" of analysis is hopelessly prone to biases, from professional biases to ideological or chauvinistic. As the article shows, ideological (anti slavery) can affect the geographic (soil erosion/smallholdings) affecting and being affected by other things.

"Why is Haiti Poor?" isn't, perhaps, as important to answer as "How can Haiti become wealthy." You need a less comprehensive theory for that. If our theory-building practices are free-style and bias prone, IMO it's better to minimize theory zize.
>The idea that it’s possible to have a project with no budget or time constraints just isn’t often the reality of the situation.

It must be possible because most budget and time estimates end up being way off anyway. Virtually no real projects are managed on the basis of accurate estimates of how long they'll take or how much they'll cost.

Time is almost always more flexible than the people imposing the deadlines think that it is.

As for budget, you just have to choose to keep spending more, or to stop (or wait till you run out of money). Making up an estimate beforehand doesn't alter that process.

If management were really in the business of setting budget and time constraints, projects would constantly be getting canceled because they went $100 over budget or a week over time. In reality we all know what usually happens: the project simply continues; the estimates, deadlines, etc. are shifted.
'I think it was prompted by your uncharitable criticism'

Yep, it's only fair.

'nor context of the palmetieri2000 post (he wanted to illustrate that it _can_ be that comical) was about that'

What is 'it' in 'it _can_ be that comical'?

Here I disagree with you -- I interpret 'it can't be that cartoonish' as a reply to 'culture-wide thing' statement. A subculture can be arbitrarily weird, but when a sweeping statement is made about the whole nation it becomes cartoonish.

In this context bringing up a game review is as a valid point as bringing up Manhunt or Postal in a thread about American-wide culture.
Anthony Burrill launches evocative typographic archive
They are not coordinating directly just like e.g. the rise of identity politics in many western nations is not controlled from some central institute. In the case of identity politics (in the vernacular more often called "woke") the ideas are spread through academia from where they percolate into public life. These ideas are part of 'The Great Reset' [1] which is pushed by the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab's organisation. Mark Rutte [2] (the prime minister of the Netherlands) is Schwab's personal favourite prime minister, Justin Trudeau [3] is close to Schwab's organisation as well. That these two leaders now attempt to steer their countries in the same direction does not take much coordination other than their shared goal of implementing (parts of) the plans laid out before them.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

[2] https://rumble.com/voe3ah-mr-klaus-schwab-follows-every-deba...

[3] https://www.weforum.org/people/justin-trudeau
It sounds like you're not having enough coordination meetings. You can make communication more efficient if you add more levels of hierarchy. MBAs are good at managing. Engineers are often wandering off-topic, so put MBAs in between the engineers to manage the communication and avoid unsupervised engineer-engineer-contact between different groups.
It took one tweet from a random user (@fionafranfeld) to get bodega bro cancelled from his tech job in New York at @outreach_io https://youtu.be/gIraad4RrRw?t=190
They really should NOT make this look like wikipedia, even if it's similar in concept. Wikipedia (and its software, mediawiki) are three things: 1. content that is generated, 2. the community and culture and 3. a standard toolset. This site has very little in common with any of these, and especially the third point. The visual cue of the site's appearance indicates at least 3, but they aren't even using Mediawiki software.
Google search, from very early on, considered it a success metric when users went quickly to a result. I have no idea how that factors into the current surely hideously complex ranking algorithms, though.

As for the parsing of queries, that's probably based on how most users use search. Not everyone is familiar with keyword -based search. I expect they've done tons of A/B tests to determine what kind of query interpretation makes most users get better results. We're just not "most users".
Oh yes, one random thing I read on the internet one time - that's absolutely how it works!

As somebody who's spent time on trains there, Russians were nothing but gracious and hospitable.
> You can however price this in, and I doubt it accounts for 110$/MW.

What do you base this on?
I thought I was clear.

We can do anything that atmospheric gasoline or normal gasoline could do cheaper without any gasoline at all.

Therefore there is no market for atmospheric gasoline, and the only reason there is a market for normal gasoline, is because the costs are hidden for now.

It is not "economic" to live off credit cards just because you don't bother to open the letters telling you how much you owe and you plan to be dead before they come to collect.
Thanks. You have given me some names I hadn't considered.
Was he claiming the difference in outcome is due to different skin colors of the people of the two countries?
Commingling the reviews are also an issue. Reviews are basically the only way to fight back for consumers as Amazon isn't doing anything. Now if you intentionally mix reviews knowing some bad actors are in the set it, it should IMHO make Amazon either complicit or commiting a concealment.
It's the law and courts that let them get away with it, not EULA.
Amazon manager here: I just did a mental count of our URAs while I have been at Amazon. More than 3/4 are new hires fired in less than a year.

Hire-to-fire is neither a conspiracy nor a conscious tactic. It's the natural consequence of what we managers are put into.

If HR wants you to URA someone out, who would you rather lose? The experienced SDE who is productive and is responsible for projects you don't want delays in; or the new hire who's still trying to learn company tools.

That's why hire-to-fire is a thing.
California governor signs gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law
> Nobody can work with engineers who are unwilling to commit to a schedule. Often it is very hard to make them commit and even if they do initially they often start missing deadline after deadline.

So you're saying that 1) engineers have to be forced to "commit to a schedule" and b) that schedule then turns out to be fantasy.

I want you to think harder about what you said and where the problem actually lies. Maybe the engineers know something, about what's knowable upfront, that you don't.
> Nobody can work with engineers who are unwilling to commit to a schedule

Inability to state a time estimate is not the same as unwillingness to commit to a schedule. You sometimes do pioneering work which you really have no clue how long can take.

Estimating just writing code or doing something repetitive is easier than estimating research + prototyping/engineering.
It's not just that slavery continued on the Dominican side.

I think the key is that at independence Europeans in Haiti (and thus all land owners) pretty much disappeared, so there was redistribution among former slaves, although this wasn't fully carried out.
Commonmark with a few essential pandoc extensions like attributes and pipe tables.

Unfortunately, Commonmark and Markdown have a widespread ecosystem and are recognized everywhere. There are commonmark preview tools available even for the terminal (glow, mdcat). Its ecosystem makes Commonmark a necessary evil, at least for me. You can also find literate programming tools for Commonmark. You can edit Commonmark in lots of different editors and many static site generators work primarily on Commonmark (Mkdocs Material, Hugo, Zola).

The only other viable alternative I know of is Emacs Org Mode. However, OrgMode is tied to Emacs and you'll have to be comfortable with Emacs to use OrgMode. There are some addons for editors like Neovim but they're not at feature parity and probably never will be because of the inherent limitations of a terminal (showing multiple different monospace fonts, for example). Emacs can generate HTML using Org documents. There's ox-hugo for the Hugo static site generator.
> Frankly, why?

I was answering to your statement that they don't put any thought on visual design. These guidelines are part of their thoughts about this. These guidelines are not for your grandmother to read, unless she is a KDE developer. Gnome also has human interface guidelines [1]. They also put a lot of thoughts in their UIs.

Now, maybe this particular screen could use some improvements (though I don't see how in the screenshot you link the right part is not aligned with the left part, there's a visible horizontal line materializing this alignment by the way), and many others too. I don't think this one is that bad. Anyway, you don't need to visit this screen and tweaks the settings in it if you don't need this kind of customization. The defaults are descent. Gnome probably does not even have settings for this (and that's fine). That does not take anything out of your feedback, that's the kind of stuff KDE developers need.

Overall my point is, you don't like design choices of KDE, or that they haven't managed to simplify everything / fix visual bugs yet, I can't argue with this. I understand your stance on the fact UIs should be opinionated and choose for you. That's a different philosophy that I car hear. Just, do not state they haven't put thoughts on this, because that's false.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/
The fact that the USA population is notoriously anti-union, and Amazon nevertheless managed to put the union option back on the table.

FWIW, I stopped using Amazon when the German strikes started and we found out what was going on. Europe can live without abusive companies like that, even if it makes our stuff a bit more expensive. I know I wasn't the only one.
It absolutely has to be almost entirely free to work for any academic due to the need for collaboration. Also, in academia things have a lot of inertia. My supervisor chastised me for trying to use MD + pandoc rather than LaTeX for my notes. After all, LaTeX is very good and serves everyone's needs, so it's hard to convince anyone to move away from it
My EV is 1/10th of the cost to run and maintain than my diesel car. I’m more than happy to spend an extra 20-30 min charging on a 4 hour drive when I choose to drive the EV.

My diesel has also done just over 340,000km and it’s pretty shot. Hard to start on cold mornings and I’ve had to sort out some leaky injectors and seized joints on the driveshaft. There’s another couple of hundred thousand kilometres left at best.

The EV is coming up to 100,000km and it stills drives just as spritely as the day I got it. The battery is showing 100% state of health and I’m convinced it’ll happily do a million kilometres or more.
Zstd is terrible for archiving since it doesn't even detect corruption. The --check switch described in the manpage as enabling checksums (in a super-confusing way) seems to do absolutely nothing.

You can test by intentionally corrupting a .zstd file that was created with checksums enabled and then watch as zstd happily proceeds to decompress it, without any sort of warning. This is the stuff of nightmares.

After all these years, RAR remains the best option for archiving.
Your list is more likely to contain your personal pet peeves - reasons you personally wouldn’t want to work in a company. There are plenty of people who’d say the absence of those things would be bad.

That highlights the real problem. Growing a company is very hard.
Like many engineers, the author of this article assumes all engineers are ethical, and perfectly suited to the assigned task. The author also assumes unlimited budgets, perfect control over a company's hiring and resource management, and a perfect understanding of the software's requirements.

These are the same complaints I hear from inexperienced engineers over and over and over again – and not just engineers, but anyone primarily responsible for 'labor' vs. 'management'.

The 'best engineers' empathize with the perspective of 'management,' that running a company is probabilistic, and that managers, co-workers, and other departments – like finance, recruiting, product, and marketing – are also duty bound by challenging constraints often beyond their control.
We don't want to manage engineers we want to manage projects and projects have budgets and deadlines. If you can't deliver then maybe you're not a good enough for the job. If you can't even promise then why are you still working at our company? One of the best ways to drive away engineers is to make them commit and then watch them fall into misery when they desperately try to somehow make the deadline. Many weak characters break that way. The trick is to make them choose their own deadline and fail. That way you take away the scapegoat "they set unrealistic deadlines" because the engineer digged their own grave.
Garnet – what if Rust was small?
Will it support REVTeX?
That hardly sounds as the main reason for this
That France could extract this high a price really puts the concept of “independence” into perspective.
Rick reminds me of Brent from the book "the Phoenix project".
In those cases the correct answer is "Dunno, but I'll have an estimate by tomorrow after I do some prototyping".

Then you do the janky prototype and try to extrapolate how long will it take to finish it properly. Then double that and be the miracle worker who delivers in half the time :)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-hist...

^Great article on the same topic
How is it possible that most stages have symmetries around the center of view?
Yeah, that might be a problem that must be gradually solved through partnerships, outreach, and an eventual community. We already talked to a publishing industry rep about this.

In the meantime, many conferences just want camera-ready PDFs for their proceedings. Additionally, Typst will be useful in a university/lab/research group context and for tech reports right away!
Because of the other 8 million things you can do with git, especially when things go wrong and you're trying to undo them and the commands are very cryptic.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1907871/middle-east

https://interestingengineering.com/saudi-arabia-launches-clo...
It sounds like a lot of projects did complete successfully, but that this article only focuses in detail, on the failed one(s).

One interesting point, is that Haiti was charging more than any other port in the region, for docking fees. People went elsewhere due to cost.

The US may have stopped building the dock, if they discovered this highly counter-productive practice might continue.

Speculation, but regardless, Haiti seems to be the problem, not those helping.
Why does Amazon have multiple sellers for any item in new condition, in that case? By your logic, there should only be Amazon or the direct manufacturer. What am I missing?
https://onlineornot.com and https://hackernews.onlineornot.com - it's an incident management service that automatically reports downtime to your status page.

I started with my own uptime monitoring as the data source, but will be adding other providers over time (like pingdom, site24x7, etc)

I built it because I'm tired of status pages that say everything is fine when the entire website doesn't load.
Yes, there will be a template producing equivalently looking (and more accessible) PDFs for Physical Review and the likes.
Anecdata but I see so many projects on the Internet that are both British in origin or hosting and inspired to the point of plagiarism, often without acknowledging the components of the original idea. What gives?