skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managers measuring the wrong thing is not exclusive to software engineering. Measuring obviously wrong things goes back decades (ie IBM paying Microsoft by the KLOC).

This phenomenon was likely first identified by Deming. His Red Bead Experiment is infamous in demonstrating.

https://deming.org/explore/red-bead-experiment/

There's a lot of good research and advice from DORA on what to measure and improve.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-...
No, life goes on and it's not a calamity. It's pretty bad, but we'll have another crisis if tourism goes down because of the bad publicity of the earthquake.

For many Moroccans, welcoming tourists is their livelihoods. The best thing you can do to support them is to keep your plans in place.
levels.fyi has the same info
> but once you disregard that and let them build their project suddenly you get budget overruns, delayed schedules and failed projects and surprise cleanup costs from decommissioning.

Those idiots are NEVER disregarded, they've put in place a huge amount of extremely expensive regulation that makes nuclear 10x as expensive as it would be otherwise (compare 1980 nuclear power cost per KW to today), all to prevent the occasional Fukishima which kills one person and makes a couple of square miles uninhabitable (technically theres another 200 you evacuate from for a few weeks and then another 20 for a decade or so but a brief look at Fukishima radiation maps[1] shows nothing that would be over the cancer detection threshold[2]).

[2] https://xkcd.com/radiation/

[1] https://jciv.iidj.net/map/
Again, thank you for your concern, but it is not me who is not properly engaging with arguments here. Sometimes it takes a clear mind to receive clear (and arguably pretty simple) arguments, and yours doesn't seem particularly clear.
> The few times one tries to actually keep a partially covered window (i.e. show only the last few lines of a terminal visible), the UX is terrible because as soon as you switch focus the visibility of the entire stack of windows changes

"pop window to front on focus" is a choice - in fvwm2 by default it doesn't happen, you need to click the window decoration to bring one to the front and can focus it just fine without doing so.

I use focus follows mouse as well so all I have to do is put the cursor over wherever I currently want to type into, but while I personally think the combination of the two is more than the sum of its parts, 'windows stay put Z-order wise' is great on its own too.

> Scrollable tiling managers, however, would be the bee's knees: windows are laid out on an infinitely scrollable horizontal layout, which would also easily replicate the common side-by-side layout "power users" often rely on.

I have a small script called xclus (https://trout.me.uk/X11/xclus) that fires up my xterms pre-tiled and scroll around them - including sometimes borrowing the left hand pair of the screen's worth to the right to end up having six dedicated to a task rather than four. Looks a like https://trout.me.uk/screenshot4.png in practice, look at the pager at the bottom to see the pre-tiled ones that I can scroll across to.
> Even if there was a conspiracy to kill JFK, I don't see how it's relevant to current politics...

A group with that much power - to kill a president then get it covered up - is not going to just fade away quietly. It'd have to be a powerful group and powerful groups have a habit of lasting beyond the lives of the members.

If it turned out that there was a conspiracy it is actually quite likely that the group that organised it are still active. Picking on one from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_... that would make a good story ... if it was the Israelis there'd be no reason to believe they stopped. It'd put Jeff Epstein's kompromat operation in a new light if they were trying to manage US politics.
Was dem einen sin Uhl, ist dem andern sin Nachtigall.
When iOS introduced the long press, that pretty much did it for me: I couldn't tell what user interface element did what when I pressed on it, so I tried tapping everything. And now we have to long-press on things to make them do other things. I can't spend time tapping then long-pressing on elements to do what I think or hope the app can do.
Symfony is from France.
How does Linux NAT a ping?
Trees have been doing this since forever.
The idea that Nazi Germany invading Britain would result in the extinction of most human life is utterly absurd.

Even a full nuclear exchange at the height of the cold war wouldn't have bumped off human civilization.
> NGINX Unit – universal web app server – a lightweight and versatile open source server project that works as a reverse proxy, serves static assets, and runs applications in multiple languages.

https://github.com/nginx/unit
I couldn't agree more! Agapanthas are absolutely-everywhere around Adelaide but it's hard to call it a 'weed' when people are actively-planting-them all-over-the-place! (they love our climate but I don't think they are too-invasive, thank-goodness!!!)

Sure, it's a hardy-AF plant in SA (stays green, yaay) but it also completely dominates the landscape that it grows in, and has a particular smell (I'd call a stink, surely there are some that probably like the smell, so this is just an opinion).

I guess it also just doesn't seem to be going-anywhere to me, sorta stuck in its meme, especially if it's meant to be there as an ornamental plant. I know it has lots of plant-relatives over in Southern Africa where it is from.. and there's some cool variety there.. where's the breeding? It seems like people in SA planting them everywhere just fell into some default-standard-Agapantha-attractor and can't climb-out. Seems like a bit of a lack of imagination to me.
As someone with celiac disease who often has to deal with acquaintances telling me that my stomach pain is actually emotional and "in my head", I can understand negative responses. Based on my own personal experience, eating gluten can absolutely affect my emotional state, and going through a difficult experience emotionally can also cause my Celiac to flare up. I think what isn't clear is which way the causal relationship goes, and I don't think there is any reason why it has to be just one way. Our minds affect our bodies, and vice-versa, but it can be very complex.

One thing that I've figured out in relation to all of this though, is that if I'm ever feeling emotionally bad, focusing on doing what's best for my body always helps. For example, going through a breakup or divorce is emotionally painful and I don't think most people would blame their body for that pain (I wouldn't), but any time I've gone through a heartbreak, I've found that the best remedy is to hit the gym, stay active, and eat healthy. If my body feels good, my emotions will follow.
Nanite was/is optimized for "next gen consoles" like the PS5 which has now become the current gen consoles. Things like direct NVMe-to-GPU asset loading, bypassing both the CPU and OS, is still early beta tech on PC.
Restoring a 45-year-old video game
Recently I bought a MBP and I'm surprised by how hard to use it is.

Printing by both sides? Not supported, you must do it by hand. And some apps print the pages in reverse order, so you end up having to sort the pages.

Use numberpad . as . instead of ,? You have to download an app to use a sane default.

Alt+. in terminal? No luck if you aren't using an English keyboard.

Run a downloaded app? Run it, accept failure, settings, security, look for blocked app, enable it. It is even worse than Windows Vista.

Give some app permissions? Yeah, you must know which permissions, as you cannot search by app...

And so on...
Precisely.

They list of groups that might have pulled the trigger on Kennedy is dozens long. Knowing which one did, decades later, really changes nothing.
This school of thought in the medical field is quite popular in the Netherlands and is picking up popularity within the UK; however from personal experience and that of others I’m noticing that it’s being used by doctors to dismiss people’s symptoms - particularly that of women (N<5)

In one case I know someone who had chronic health issues who had to change doctors after one year because her former GP (who was quite young) kept insisting her health issues were phycological. Her new GP (quite experienced) was able to identify several of the physical root causes to her complaints within months of her first visit and provide appropriate treatment afterwards. I see this pattern repeated with May of my other friends who have chronic health conditions and have had to deal with both health care systems.

I have two theories why this school of thought is gaining popularity in the west;

* Allows over worked or inexperienced doctors to easily dismiss patients because in their view they’re triaging patients complaints.

* Overloaded healthcare system is able to reduce the care patients need by effectively gas lighting them by saying “you need to need your lentils health”, “deal with your trauma” instead of seeing specialists and doing tests.
The revelation is that the bullet was not lodged
in JFK and did not fall out while shaking about
on the gurney.

I'm sorry, this is not correct.

This pristine bullet was previously thought to have been found on Connally's stretcher, not JFK's stretcher.

It was thought that this bullet traveled into JFK from the rear, exited his throat, and then wounded Connally.

If Landis' claim is true, that would upend entirely the Warren commission's findings. Of course, we probably can't really know the truth at this point. But the article makes a solid case for it being quite likely true.
CO2 removal and sequestration will be a net energy sink no matter what you do, since it amounts to “unburning” some portion of fossil fuel combustion that’s already been committed. The question is what methods are the least bad in terms of thermodynamics, and how much renewable and nuclear energy capacity are we willing to divert?
With respect to your first point, we should all make sure the products we buy are ethically produced. But this has no bearing on the question of whether it's rational to assign higher prices to naturally produced diamonds. There are many other things that are unethically produced, that people pay high prices for, and where those prices are viewed as sensible (eg. oil, smart phones, opioids).

As for your second point, there is a large marketing component for most things that are bought and sold, including art and memorabilia. You say that for diamonds, the value is fabricated. But I believe the fabrication of value creates real consequences. It's not trivial to coordinate the action and common knowledge of an entire population. If you do it right, it creates a new Nash equilibrium. If someone then gifts you a "natural" diamond, it is irrational to sell it at the "synthetic" price. Your buyer might even be a diamond dealer who also believes the natural-synthetic thing is a marketing scam. The whole population can even know the whole situation is fabricated. But unless they can all coordinate and change the market price in unison, it doesn't make sense to deviate from the equilibrium.
A TODO list that actually works
Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I've seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites.

I'm talking about https://www.caseys.com in this article, which gives me

Access denied
Error code 1020
You do not have access to www.caseys.com.

The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site."

Is this a GDPR measure (but My IP is in Japan, not EU), anti-proxy measure (I do use one), or cost-saving measure?
It's not. [0] Especially if you consider a) the sheer amount of pieces of clothing produced and b) the expected use one gets from one such T-Shirts (see [1]).

These are examples of systemic waste product that are only useful for consumerism churn. Besides T-Shirts and plastic waste, there are tons of products that are produces with the least concern for long-term usage. Because it not "economic" - only because we allow to externalize all the associated costs.

[0] https://goodfair.com/blogs/nonewthings/did-you-know-that-one...

[1] https://earth.org/statistics-about-fast-fashion-waste/
See the other thread (oops, it got flagged). Mainly, the right level of abstraction is that of a logic. Current logics are somewhat lacking (first-order logic doesn't have general binding, typed logics don't have a single mathematical universe), but I think I found the one to rule them all. Programming is then just a (arguably very important) special case of expressing yourself in this logic. Hopefully soon(ish) on a website near to you.
You can replace nodemon/PM2 with a systemd unit file.
This, I believe, is the free DDoS guard that people opt into because it's free.
That's far too inefficient to supply the energy needed to sustain modern area-efficient farming, so which 5 billion people are you picking to die of starvation?
It has been possible to print double-sided since at least Lion/2008…
> It takes ~40 trees to capture one ton per year

I'm confused, where is this CO2 going? Once the forest reaches its maximum average tree size doesn't it stop carbon capturing and just occupies space?
I can't wait for daily teeth brushing to be a thing of the past. It amazes me we've had so many technological advances while still having such primitive mouth cleaning solutions.

There's people that basically never have to brush their teeth, why can't their magical bacteria be used by everyone? I recently asked a dentist in training and they told me the bacteria would die after eating the plaque. Even if you have to regularly re-add the bacteria, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. You could make a lozenge which you suck on once a week, and it's still less effort than brushing daily.
A Virus for the BBC Micro
I am not afraid of the decadence they’ve made of the settings panel because I use Alfred.

I haven’t yet installed Ventura. I had to downgrade from Monterey because the cmd-L keyboard shortcut had stopped working on Contacs.app
This is one reason I heavily push for roof top solar, even if it is a bit more expensive than utility scale. In many areas air conditioning is pretty much a given at this point.

A typical solar panel absorbs ~20% of the sun's energy blasted on to a city rooftop. If that's used to power air conditioning it's doubly effective. You're reducing the heat urban heat island effect from the sun's energy, and you're also not adding additional heat from external power sources in to the city.

On a large scale this would really help make cities more livable. On a hot summer day here in northern Kentucky I noticed a massive difference (I've roughly measured it at a 5-7F difference) going from less developed areas to the more urban areas.
I can't imagine clearing somebody's browser history as part of support work. Yikes.

At an old job, back in the 90s, a Customer demanded we fire one of our young techs because he cleared the "Recycle Bin" on a PC he was working on. The PC's assigned user had been storing important documents there because "you can always get them back".

That incident set the bar in my mind. Touch nothing beyond what is necessary to get the job done at your peril. Don't touch monitor settings, chair settings, lighting-- anything.

Edit: I've always used the vernacular "the PC assigned to (person)" rather than "(person)'s PC" because the computer belongs to the company, not the individual. As the tech it's important to remember it doesn't belong to you either.
The thought you had is affecting your meta thought about being affected by a negative thought, my friend.

All your body does is process information that passes through the brain and nervous system. Thoughts are just as primary as the senses that reflect something in the outside world. And your negative realisation was interpreted by the rest of your system as an archetypal 'bad situation out of your control'. That's being trapped, which is a very old situation for an animal to be in. Trapped animals look for a way out and if nothing yields they become inactive.

I've found reminding myself of the above helps me take whatever limited control I can of the threat (i.e. writing down and visualising what I'm going to do when I can solve it) and also taking some control of other parts of my life. You can trick your body by sending it soothing signals which are an antidote to the /type/ of situation you are in (if not necessarily actually solve it).
According to the Warren Commission, the bullet was on Connally's stretcher and presumably fell out of Connally.

So if true (not that we can really know at this point) if the pristine bullet was retrieved from Kennedy's car then yes, that would upend everything.
TOML is much simpler in general but it does have its warts. It's basically just key = "value" pairs in [sections] for the simple stuff.
That they both signed a contract promising employment, seems pretty straightforward.

Don't get me wrong, the employer can then fire the employee within the probation period of two weeks scotch-free (well, after a bunch of paperwork), and the employee can quit within that period as well, and while it might seem the same it's not because that triggers all sorts of gvmt protections for the employee (mainly, unemployment benefits, but YMMV).
well, why not just arm the teachers to the teeth and give them permission to kill in the name of kids' safety?

i guess it's a unique problem to the greatest empire on earth where nobody can't seem to be agree whether kids life is more important than the right to own arms.

b-b-b-but bro! the only ones who can stop bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun! they can pew pew the fuck out of bad guy in no time! too bad, bro. in tfa, those pussy ass uvalde cops who're supposedly the good guys turned out to be, well, pussy ass try hards.

b-b-but bro! if it costs us the safety of our own people in place of the right to bear arms, so be it bro! we're the best country in the world! murica murica murica!
You’re right, that’s an important exception. To be fair that’s a decent policy in an era before taxes and social programs, and when you’re presiding over a vast, largely empty new territory.

I would make the case that the cost of a one way sea ticket to the US in those days was something of a restriction. But still very unrestricted compared to today.
And it's also completely unneeded as you can see when running Forsaken or Ratchet & Clank on PC without it.
So, just from the top of my head and rather recently:

1. the NSA lost all of its malwares/zero days to the Russians

2. The NSA lost a huge amount of documents detailing a large amount of their billion dollars sigint sources and tech catalog

3. China was able to steal US nuclear weapons design

4. The CIA itself lost its entire internal wiki

5. Top secret documents were on discord for over a month

Yet somehow these omnipotent organizations can keep the secret of how they killed the US president. Without a good answer as to what was their interest to do something so extreme in the first place
Only if you have a printer that supports it. Otherwise you have to do it by hand https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/how-to-print-dou...
Do you plan to publish the CAD and EDA source files?
Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles: A Brief Review
Except you're competing with brushless motors using magnets, not other induction motors.
> There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect.

What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware.

> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted for copy protection, or rip a CD for that purpose. This only became popular once hard drives became big enough for people to spend many gigabytes imaging their CDs.

Actually, it was Daemon Tools :^)
>Operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and Linux -- inevitability -- contain much complexity.

Operating systems should be modular, allowing the user to reduce as much bloating complexity as possible and needed.

I do not need unstoppable “gamed” and “studentd” services on my computer. The sealed system implemented by Apple has actually meant the overthrow of the root user by the corporation.
Now I can’t reduce complexity, bloatware.

The only solution seems to be praying that BSD or Linux become useable one day
Or Yule in the more northern parts.
I wish I had these when I first started:

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Check the playlists that say fundamentals
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnCantrill/playlists
It goes WAY beyond that.

In an AR-15, if you put a dot of paint where you would drill the hole for the pin that makes it automatically, that prison time even if it’s never drilled and it’s physically impossible to install the pin for the auto seer.

Likewise, a guy recently got put in prison for painting the design for an automatic part on a piece of sheet metal.

The ATF needs to be reigned in hard. Information isn’t the same as doing.
And we do produce that, more than that, every year. So using your exact argument, man made climate change is obviously real.
> and yours doesn't seem particularly clear

How often do you find this to be the case, either online or in the real world?
> It should just be as easy as plug-and-play

Never underestimate printer manufacturers. They'll fuck it up somehow.
It all comes down to economic efficiency.

Nuclear wasn’t the biggest issue with the suggestion rather than the carbon capture first approach. However the reason Nuclear is more expensive at scale than battery backed renewables is it takes a great deal of effort that could be used on other things. You can add whatever subsides you want, someone needs to actually do the work.

Obviously wind/solar power plants and batteries etc still need manpower and materials it’s just vastly less. We could run the world on nuclear power, but millions of extra people directly or indirectly supporting the nuclear industry are millions of people not building amusement parks, maintaining bridges, providing healthcare, etc etc.

PS: Risks also get factored into the above calculation at scale. Three mile island didn’t cause significant issues for public health but it did destroy valuable equipment and cleanup was expensive. As such even the cost of insurance represents an economic cost in the long term. 1 or even 500 reactors may have zero significant issues, build 10,000 of them around the world and someone will once again fuck something up.
If you look for a good work/life balance, I think it's more important to have strict rules during the single day, like "don't work after dinner" or "do sport just after wake up".
If there were three shots, Occam's Razor says it wasn't Oswald alone. For it to have been Oswald alone, he would have needed to reload and re-aim in a superhuman way. So that isn't the simplest explanation.

There are a lot of people who didn't/don't like the US, and a lot of people who like the US but didn't like Kennedy!

It is not exactly outlandish to think that maybe >1 people wanted Kennedy dead.
There seems to be something special in the way humans accumulate and refine knowledge over generations that seems to be unique, but this is hard to isolate and test. Maybe it is just that our quantitatively higher intelligence and social nature combines to weirdly to create a qualitative difference.