I can't believe they wrote a sentence that contradicts it's own claim.

Goodharts Law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/goodharts-law/

But does Goodhearts law apply to things that were never a good measure to start with :)

Agreed. Transportation is a public service and economic engine. Subsidizing travel to help supply travel to demand is the easiest and likely most affordable thing we can do to ensure economic volume.

This reminds me of a similar article that might have been posted on here about tech now focusing on hype as the product.

https://rys.io/en/180.html#hype-is-the-product

> In fact, increasingly, hype is the only thing that counts, as larger and larger chunk of investment money is chasing it – to the detriment of everything else that happens not to bolt the hyped tech onto its unrelated but otherwise solid product or service.

> The bubble grows. The line goes up.

> Because the hype is the product.

> This reminds me of a similar article that might have been posted on here about tech now focusing on hype as the product.

It kind of reminds me of the money-manking strategy where someone buys a business with a good reputation, debases its products, then profits from the (temporary) price premium it can still charge due to is prior reputation.

These people are well on the way to ruining tech's reputation, but they don't care because they hope to get rich(er) in the process.

Ok. So for Musk I would like to cap the money borrowed against his stock portfolio to also be $1.

> FTA: So we're not only going to be treating (or outright preventing) a number of diseases, we're going to be learning more about the cause of these diseases than we ever did before.

Ultra processed foods (UPF) needs a hard look IMO. It's the leading cause of many diseases stated in the article and several others including cancer and dementia.

In the software world I call this an end user discovered issue. But when the issue involves a plane that is carrying actual souls. That can feel very scary.

I am sure this has been resolved by now since its from 2020.

I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do. I would be more surprised if this is fixed.

I think from the point of view of Boeing, the FAA and the airlines, "put it in our maintenance checklist to reboot every 51 days" is a fix.

With that framing, this sounds like one of the easiest maintenance tasks imaginable. No wrenches or grease involved.

> I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do.

I'd ideally like to sleep tonight, thanks.

They do get software updates. Watch "Stig Aviation" "Stig Shift" series on youtube. He's shown how to do updates in a few of his videos.

Scary would be right.

Reminds me of the F-22 Raptor crossing the International Dateline error in 2007. They were flying a squadron of them from Hawaii to Japan. They crossed the IDL and all nav/fuel systems went down, as well as some communications gear.

They only made it back because they were flying with tankers at time, who led them back to base.

Was that a coordinate thing, a timezone thing, or something else?

I'm assuming the former.

That depends on how much code was having trouble, and what you mean by "resolved".

The safe option might be to avoid the situation, and I could imagine that even if there is a code update it might just make the plane balk at getting ready to take off after a certain amount of uptime.

I could suppose it's some of all of this. But my money is on UPF. The author of Ultra Processed People has an identical twin in NJ while he lives in the UK and their weights are vastly different.

UPF means "ultra-processed foods", in case anyone else had to look it up like I did.

How does that cause the rest of the world to also have decades-long steadily increasing obesity rates?