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This is not a cynical enough point of view. Right now, the intelligence community pays attention to the opinions of Congresspeople and other officials, and runs operations to monitor their activities and weaken (or strengthen) their power or influence.

US intelligence agencies are political entities masquerading as law enforcement, and their motivations are largely internal, rather than controlled by the executive (as we saw during the Trump years.)
Junior enlisted pay is pretty low, and I recall newer recruits looking to part time work or public assistance. If you want people willing to give their all for the cause, they should be paid enough to not feel like indentured servants. And if there’s a worker shortage, people will tend towards better pay, shorter hours and way less chance of being maimed or killed.
Doctors don't have enough time to spend with their patients under current arrangement and the patients are all lined up in one hallway. Would not house calls be inefficient because a significant fraction of a medical team's time is spend in transit?
That doesn’t help - you don’t know the difference between the two clocks
>They have a mirror like coating which blocks the vast majority of heat and makes them mostly one way so I can walk around naked knowing it's basically impossible to see anything from the ground.

Even without such coatings, no one can see inside your windows unless it's significantly brighter inside than outside. This is commonly known by anyone who watches police TV shows (the interrogation rooms take advantage of this effect, with very bright lights inside the room and the lights off in the observation room). So generally, no one can see in your window except at night. But even here, they'd need to be at a similar height in a neighboring building, or you'd have to be close to the ground and standing next to your window.

>My building is 100m tall and I feel that's roughly ideal.

I agree; too tall and there's too much space used for structure and elevators, and it takes too long to get to your floor. But a building like yours makes good use of the ground area with many dwellings.
Do you really think that "Space Karen" is a clever insult? It's such a boring meme. You might as well just print a "Spaceman Bad" t-shirt so that everyone knows your approach to technology is motivated by politics.
AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service
The ATC is dawning on the fact that if they don't call off the takeoff within 5 more seconds, V1 speed will be hit and there goes both planes... I'm surprised they weren't less composed...
Why would Seinfeld's compensation for work he produced in the 1990s be compensating writers today?
There has been some confusion in the discussion here about whether the work https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06279 is actually about category theory. To clarify the confusion, here is a snippet from the abstract.

> The moment problem in probability theory asks for criteria for when there exists a unique measure with a given tuple of moments. We study a variant of this problem for
random objects in a category, where a moment is given by the average number of epimorphisms to a fixed object.

So the work is about category theory. The confusion comes in because the Quanta article focuses on what is expected to be the most important application of the work, which is in the study of ideal class groups from number theory. That is, the authors will try to (but have not yet) use their theory on the category of groups in order to make progress on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics.

I'm not qualified to judge the significance of their work here since all of the math goes over my head. Taking the authors' words,

> This is a significant advance, as previous work has always relied on a
priori knowing a distribution with certain moments. Being able to construct a distribution
from its moments opens new avenues such as in our subsequent paper mentioned above

I guess we will find out if/when their subsequent paper on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics comes out.
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if the UI itself hadn't changed much; if Windows had retained those icons, that style, those ways of doing things. What if we had the Windows 95/98 look but with the benefit of 20+ years of polish and refinement?

Not saying I think their UI is perfect, but perhaps we'd see people feel a lot more familiar/comfortable with their computers, and perhaps it would also have inspired future generations not to constantly redesign things. Just as Apple became an inspiration for designers; it could have been the other side of that coin.

It's fun to think about.
> A reckoning is coming for those who choose to live unsustainably.

Any “reckoning” they get the “sustainable” folks get as well. You don’t really think that if society broke down to that level (a reckoning) that folks living a sustainable lifestyle would be any better off than anyone else do you?
Maybe refereeing can be automated. No one likes imperfect refs (except maybe someone who pays them to be that way).

Even though the best chess players in the world are computers, sports is more than just the pursuit of perfection. Imperfections are what make it interesting. Sports is about the story you can tell.
If I had to justify myself every time I took the basic initiative of fixing errant, problematic or poorly performing code just because it wasn’t ordained and blessed for me specifically I am out the door SO fucking fast…

Happy to have discussions and elucidate to others the change, and make whatever documentation necessary available, but if some leader somewhere things I’m a “problem” for merely having done the work…okay, let me solve that problem too: bye.

That’s an environment with serious trust issues manifesting as micro-management and I’ve got a severe case of post-micromanagement-stress-syndrome.
Since the text is black for most Hacker News readers, and more text turns off more pixels on their screens, my carbon pledge is to increase the number of vowels in my messages by 15% by 2055.

To compound the carbon-negative effect of my pledge, I will bully people into replacing their supposedly obsolete displays with OLED ones that actually dim/turn off those black pixels. Yes, that'll put carbon right back where it belongs.
> 25% of nurses leaving within a year

That's precisely a collapse. You don't just absorb that many people leaving without issue. You put more strain on the people remaining, and see even more leave next year, and fewer people coming in.
That doesn't seem logical if the alternative is not having the lights at all.
It only works in countries were the majority are atheist.
A Constitution, for all it's brilliant eloquence, is just words.
Does anyone know of a halfway decent _truly_ uncensored search engine? One that’s free from “morality” censorship at a minimum and ideally also resistant to DMCAs, etc…
I think it’s less an engineering culture issue than a management one. Do you reward people based on number of features, meeting rapid deadlines, quality, or something else like customer satisfaction?

People respond to an organizations actual priorities not whatever platitudes people toss out. If you want quality you need to sacrifice something even if
long term results improve in the short term quality takes time.
Things vary by country.

Here in the US, health care spending (measure $ per GDP) has been nearly twice the level of many other advanced nations while health care been subpar and continues to decline compared to other nations.

The reasons the US spends much and does so badly for its citizens are very complex in overall but one simplification that I think makes the inefficiency obvious is this; we have a full state sponsored system - medicare and etc as well as a full private health care system and they each cost money.
Ok. I've had some time to think about this, and I am warming up to the idea. It would sure simplify a lot of challenging coordination problems. My only real concern is that the repo may grow so large it becomes very slow. Doubly so if someone commits some large binaries.
Biden administration announces conditional $700M loan for Nevada lithium mine
this will work only if it's Xorg that has crashed.

For a kernel panic or lockup I think it's a combination roughly similar to:

1. Ctr-Alt-PrintScreen

2. continue to hold Alt

3. R-I-S-U-B as a sequence, to make certain things happen and like syncing the file system
I don't see either Large or Small Icons (KDE 5.25.5): https://imgur.com/a/3qV1z0h
A "high rise", no, but a mid-rise, yes. You don't get enough density with everyone living in separate, single-family homes, even if they're packed fairly close together.
Robots don't experience anything. They're not alive. Everything they do is something we code into them.

The rest of our fellow animal companions on this earth are thousand times better than any robot. If I'm forced to choose one of them, I wouldn't choose a dog, I'd go for one of the apes, octopus, crow, or maybe even a dolphin. But I'm fairly sure if they're given the option they'll rather stay here.
Intuitive Scientific Discovery Through Program Synthesis
Yes, of course (if e.g. some shards but not others broke/received an updated incorrect config). In fact, it applying to some but not other versions of the same app makes it look more likely to be a bug than intentional.
Plausible.io
What does your Delphi-based product do?
I use `pip install --user pipx` to install pipx, but I think a better option when using homebrew would be `brew install pipx`. With the latter, doing a `brew upgrade` should keep python and pipx in step.

EDIT: Thinking about this some more, doing `brew install pipx` would keep pipx from breaking on brew upgrades, but I guess your installed scripts would still fail if you upgrade from Python 3.N to 3.N+1.

So the only solution, I think, is to keep around all the versions of Python you use, assuming you don't want to upgrade all your scripts when upgrading Python.

I use pyenv to manage Python versions rather than Homebrew, and this seems to avoid the issues you're having, because the Python version used to install whichever tool via pipx sticks around until I explicitly uninstall it.
I'm not a design expert, but KDE looks absolutely fine to me. Maybe because I'm a programmer and it was designed by people like me for me.
I can find an article on the topic of "Russia War" every year too.

Please stop being ridiculous.
I really wish we would stop calling it technical debt. Every team/org I’ve worked in with “tech debt” issues has had very tactical problems that could have been communicated, invested in, and solved. But instead the org talked about “tech debt” - an immeasurable boogeyman that anyone outside of the engineering org has no grasp of and, most importantly, management up the chain to the C-Suite have decreasing mental models of investment/pay-off the further up you get.

Teams saying “tech debt” are perpetually under funded and under appreciated.

Instead, speak a language your management chain understands.

* These specific services have outgrown their architecture and back pressure keeps outgrowing their current scale, we need to invest in a more reactive architecture. It’s going to cost 3 teams 1Q and we will prevent N outages based on historical data.

* In 2023, engineers far fingered the deployment of these services N times causing various levels of service outages, one made the news, we need to invest in guardrails in our CI/CD to prevent that. It’ll cost one team 2Q and we will prevent N outages.

* We had 4 employees across our engineering org quit last quarter because holding the pager burned them out, we need to stand up a tiger team that can help kick our metrics into shape.

Speak a language your management understands. Speak in terms of delivering features (feature velocity), reliability (outages), employee retention, hiring through resume driven development, etc.

You’ll find you’re negotiating in a positive sum game if you do this. You give me 1 unit of investment for this problem this quarter and I’ll give you 1.3 units of return next quarter. And maybe there are greater returns elsewhere so you aren’t making a competitive bid and that is okay, or maybe your management will invest in you and you just signed yourself up to deliver 1.3 units. But don’t handwave and ask for budget.
I know it is a very unpopular opinion on HN but I don't get KDE. Sure, all applications are super feature-packed, which is mostly a good thing (Konsole, Dolphin, Okular are chef's kiss) but also has its downsides: e.g. that, last time I checked, you cannot have a simple dedicated calendar app like gnome-calendar (or macOS Calendar) but must open the outlook-heavy KOrganizer which comes with mail, contacts, etc. Not really what I want when I just quickly want to check my calendar. But this is just a small annoyance.

What really bothered me though was the UI. All these lines! Everything has an outline. Every UI element has a heavily highlighted outline. It feels super dated and cluttered. But the last time I daily-drove it, I thought "Hey I embrace the KDE life style. I am finally on the right side of the Linux Desktop according to HN and Reddit. Whenever people sh*t on Gnome, one of the big arguments is that you cannot customize it. So I just customize it, make it mine, lets go!"

Well surprisingly the other themes were almost all equally bad or caused inconsistencies. So I went further down the rabbit hole and installed Kvantum. I found a theme that I liked and happily used it for some time. Until I noticed that the theme altered the functionality of KMail. Namely, when tabbing away from KMail, it would select another Email. Super annoying when you want to keep an Email open in the background as a reference while e.g. doing something in your browser. I raised the issue with the Kvantum dev who redirected me to an issue with KDE. I don't remember all the details but it is an issue in KDE and for them it is a wontfix.

So, for me I basically had a similar experience to others here with Gnome. I try to make it work for me until I hit a wall where the maintainers tell me that my use case is not supported by the desktop. So I went back to Gnome.
And you know what. I like Gnome. It works for me. It looks nice and is functional. However I don't want or need to convert other happy KDE'ers which is also not the point of my little comment. I don't want to dunk on KDE. It does a lot of cool things, but I just cannot stand the UI. Isn't it great to have choice?
Is there an alternative to swearing on the Bible for atheist politicians in the US?
Yeah, they abandoned Gen1 pretty quick
The downside to life in a supertall tower (2021)
Worked for me. However, one of the people I followed follows a bunch of folks I don't care to follow, so I wasn't able to make good use of the tool.
I think this is a “must-read” for anyone, even if you aren’t in game dev or doing networking stuff. There’s just so many mini “eureka!” nuggets to enjoy.

I think that internet multiplayer is possibly one of the hardest things in game dev (use an engine that gives it to you!!!) despite feeling like some little sideshow.

I imagine Blizzard and Westwood have similar stories from the 90s.
Exactly so. It didn't help that it occurred right around the same time as the bitcoin/ransomware attacks starting increasing in frequency.
I've been meaning to switch to Fedora because of more up to date packages after 10+ years on Ubuntu. It does work for me though, and by now I reached a point of where everything works, so I'm afraid to change things too much.
> but those children are more likely to have somewhere to play - and someone to play with - nearby if we build densely.

Exactly. I live in a mid-rise building in Tokyo and there's huge parks on two sides where children can play, and lots of other kids in the building to play with, all just a few minutes' walk away. No one minds taking an elevator.
https://archive.ph/CtdNi
Partially reiterating a sibling comment, but the GOP hates Trump. All of the Trumpy elements of the current House just refused to confirm the speaker in return for holding a new "Church" committee, so I'd say that faction of the Congressional GOP is as suspicious of our spy agencies as it ever has been.

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/05/mccarthy-speaker-republi...
There was enough premeditation to buy cigarettes and have matches or a lighter, not also planning for what to do with the butts is a choice.
Yeah I'm more of a hoodler than a trader, but it seemed unfathomable to me that you wouldn't be able to trade them directly. It's just common sense.
GPT as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of (AI)CPA Capabilities
Lombok is a compiler extension, not a dependency. It does actually need to be present at runtime!
> Alfred Security also make a impressive, very inexpensive camera ($34 US, 1080P, night vision, 130 degree viewing angle and easy to mount).

I’m interested, but I can’t find anything about this on their site. Can you provide a link?
I have communicated tech debt very effectively as cleaning a house - "If you do not regularly clean up you're going to end up in a world of hurt!"

Warning: your house might end up looking like a hoarder's house!
I think there's still a pretty hard requirement to know and write C for embedded dev. It's not that you can't get away with using just Rust, but the full Rust support for chips is really not there. I too started down a similar path. It's a great way to learn, but I found myself needing to reach into C for nearly everything practical.
Fix Faulty Mac Trackpad Pinch Gesture in One Click
Sometimes the two finger pinch (pan, zooming) gesture on a Mac trackpad would stop working. This is a bug first introduced in Monterey, but unfortunately it has not been fixed after all this time.
This is why people like Donald Trump get elected, he promises to do thing like "drain the swamp". Of course he is doing it out of self interest but when people promise to help put an end to this horror, other get behind them.
Like the article says, US is probably the best of the Western healthcare systems right now.
Lots and lots of great things in here, thank you for sharing.

> At first take it might seem that getting two pieces of identical code to run the same should be fairly easy and straightforward

I found that a little funny. I would certainly not assume that. Synchronization problems are one of the scariest areas of programming in my opinion.
People who are complaining about writing Chrome extensions now, clearly didn't write them early on. It's still not as easy as it needs to be, but back in the day they were extremely difficult to develop/debug.
Future Raises $75M Series C with Investments from Kate Hudson, Kevin Durant
It's not quite obese people. It's women who weigh 220+ lbs and men who weigh 260+ lbs. Interesting that it's absolute weights. You could be 5'0" man who weighs 230 lbs and qualify.

It also seems to exclude anyone who has ever used tobacco products daily for longer than 3 months. So if you have quit, you're out.

https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/faq
Sort of. But customers don’t want features. They want you to solve their problems. Most customers also value that being done reliably. So features are a means to an end as much as code quality is.
Wait what? KDE & Gnome are only desktop environments and have no bearing on gpu / kb rgb drivers.
I was a hobbyist programmer for a long, long time before I ever got paid for anything related to programming. For me, the biggest leap was learning about testing.

I had heard about tests for a long time, but they were always presented as tedious and dry. In my experience, that's completely inaccurate. Even as a solo programmer, tests are amazing. They let you stay in the "if it works, it's good enough" camp as long as you need. "Okay, it works. Write a test that proves that it works. Now write some more specific tests that prove it works in specific ways, under specific questions."

Having tests in place lets you start to experiment with your code in provable ways. The only other thing that comes close to the impact of testing is learning to properly profile a codebase. But if I had to choose one, I'd choose testing to focus on.
Like I said, I was naive.

But consider that I’m representative of the average American of a certain age and older; whose interests begin and end with oil and our involvement because of it.
> e.g. that, last time I checked, you cannot have a simple dedicated calendar app like gnome-calendar (or macOS Calendar) but must open the outlook-heavy KOrganizer which comes with mail, contacts, etc. Not really what I want when I just quickly want to check my calendar. But this is just a small annoyance.

Kalendar doesn't cut it? https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/
The full Edsger Dijkstra paragraph:

" The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

> It performs tasks, and does them in its own way.

The question is this: Are submarines 'artificial fish'?

(Dijkstra's typically cranky rant* was addressing something entirely different - note the title of the talk.)

* this humble HN user is simply channeling the iconoclastic spirit of the 'great man'.
"Bitcoin, Bittorrent, Skype" made me do a double take. Yes, they are cool, but it's some time ago they were the hotness. Especially Skype, which is touted as peer-to-peer but I don't think it is since many years ago.

It started out that way, though, which was very cool.
so basically what made gmail amazing was removed in favor of selling you google one storage subscriptions
I lived and worked in a number of countries, I'm Australian by birth and retirement.

I once read a detailed an convincing argument that the US system had too many layers between sources of health care money (taxes + payments in private insurance) and end point (delivery of health care) with no incentive or structures to keep the middle ground lean and mean.

ie. Way too many people and groups prifiting richly from the pipeline flow of healthcare money with too many lobbyists motivated to keep that status quo.

It's not that the US has dual systems, more that they don't compete on outcomes but that the private system is motivated to increase profit and hamstring the public system.
We need a solution to this family of experiences, quickly.

> Some toots are not shown https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3794

> Turns out, there's a lot more messages in the conversation, and Mastodon shows barely a fraction of it. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9409

> I can only see one or two toots […] Some toots don't appear to have any replies https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017

> you are often missing replies https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18150

> the existing behavior is a barrier to Mastodon usage for those who are not sufficiently technical https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20533
Wait, “load unpacked” doesn’t persist anymore?
I remember when New York wanted to lynch the Central Park five.
Reason and idealism seems to vanish when people feel threatened.
The library (if I read correctly) seems to lack traversals, so no "each". Is it true that if I nest collections I am still in deep pain?

Nonetheless still a cool library. The APIs in many cases look surprisingly natural.