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by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:28:33+00:00
If you land with less fuel than the legal minimum you are going to have a lot of explaining to do, there will be an investigation and you, the pilot and the airline will get enough headache from it that you will make bloody sure it does not happen again. The pilot(s) may not be able to fly until that investigation has run its course, the airline may get fined or warned if this is the first time it happened. In an extreme case the pilots may lose their license.

> It seems absolutely fair to say that, in this situation, the people - the pilots in particular, but also cabin crews, ATCs, engineers, and their unions, are the backstop worth observing and celebrating.

I will hold off on that conclusion until the report is in. There are so many possible root causes here that speculation is completely useless, and celebrations would be premature.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-10 16:28:39+00:00
I think it is worth pointing out that there are "zero configuration" vim distributions, which come with the same ease/limits.

Not to take away from Helix, which I think is a cool project. But I think it's greatest strength is that it can (and should) be more than a vim rewrite in Rust. It can actually get rid of the legacy parts of vim and redo the things which did not work and integrate modern features from the beginning.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-10 16:28:59+00:00
> That is to say, in this case, when they missed their first or second approach, they CANNOT say, "We'll use our reserve fuel and make another go at it" because that would be intentionally planning to burn your reserve.

Is that what happened? That's not in the article, what's the source?

And other comments here are saying the third attempt was in Edinburgh, so they were already trying to land anywhere possible by the third attempt.

At what point are you saying they chose to plan on using reserves when they still had any option for landing without reserves?
by AceyMan | 2025-10-10 16:29:00+00:00
Update: OK, if *Edinburgh* was their alternate and they missed there and were then forced to bugout for Manchester, that's then an example of when reserve is OK to be burned. (The 'slight simplification' I omitted was unpacking how the alternate fuel plays into the process, but here, that was a key part of the series of events.) That's what I get for not reading TFA first :-/
by ericselin | 2025-10-10 16:29:29+00:00
https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/wiki/Guidelines#validat...

"Projects that are smaller in scale or are temporary or seasonal in nature will likely be declined. Examples of this might be private-use, sandbox, test, lab, beta, or other exploratory nature changes or requests. It should be expected that despite whatever site or service referred a requestor to seek addition of their domain(s) to the list, projects not serving more then thousands of users are quite likely to be declined."

Maybe the rules have changed, or maybe you were lucky? :)
by DaveZale | 2025-10-10 16:29:43+00:00
"privacy is dead"

The quote "Privacy is dead" (often accompanied by "get over it") is from Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who reportedly made the statement in 1999, according to WIRED magazine. He said it in the context of the public's perceived lack of privacy in the burgeoning digital age, where data was increasingly being collected and shared.
by danabrams | 2025-10-10 16:30:11+00:00
Maduro, Castro, and Saddam Hussein are/were bad. Castro and Hussein, at least, committed murders to maintain power and Maduro pulled a coup after he lost an election.

Whether they were worth removing is another question, but if you could flip a switch and magically replace them with something better (with no cost and a guarantee the replacement would not be a murderous authoritarian) you would of course do it.
by kube-system | 2025-10-10 16:30:12+00:00
I'm not an aviation expert, but generally in safety engineering, safety buffers are not simply calculated as [normal situation] * [safety factor], but [worst case scenario] * [safety factor]

If you ever cut into your safety allowance, you've already fucked up. Your expected design criteria should account for all use cases, nominal or worst-case. The safety factor is there for safety, it is never intended to be used.
by fulafel | 2025-10-10 16:30:20+00:00
.. but people ARE maintaining the implementations and tooling even if the spec might not be getting new features aside from extensions. There's a difference.

Look at Mesa release notes for example, there's a steady stream of driver feature work and bugfixes for GL: https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.2.0.html (search for "gl_")

A slow moving graphics API is a good thing for many uses.

People are writing new OpenGL code all the time. See eg HN story sumbmissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by tshaddox | 2025-10-10 16:30:53+00:00
I mean sure. Winning a war is also sometimes seemingly necessary to achieve peace. And violence is sometimes seemingly necessary to replace a dictatorship with democracy. In this case, it looks like they're awarding her the prize for her efforts to peacefully oppose dictatorship.

> The prize is supposed to be awarded to people who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

That's the one-liner from Nobel's will. It obviously leaves a lot of room for interpretation, and historically has often been awarded for civil rights advocacy.
by palmotea | 2025-10-10 16:31:07+00:00
> I think your categories are off. The workers in an individual company are not all the workers ever.

That's missing an important aspect: AI is not some technology marketed as affecting some relatively narrow slice of the economy, like a few car factories. It's being hyped as transformative of the whole thing. And that's what many people in power are hoping and pushing for (hello, AI use metrics).

> You might work in a car factory and a new bit of automation makes your job safer or higher quality, and but also your team won't get to double in size. You make cars more efficiently, which means either your car company stays in business as it's still competitive, or the global customer base of car buyers gets a cheaper car than it would've if your team had doubled in size, or both.

That's a fairy tale. If the technology allows you to make cars more efficiently, management cuts your team. Maybe some other consumer gets a cheaper car, but fat lot of good that does you, unemployed guy. Then repeat that across most if not all sectors all at once, and it's not a good story for consumers, broadly.

And then there's all kinds of other stuff going on, stuff that economics thinking (especially ECON 101 dogma) has a hard time with.
by everdrive | 2025-10-10 16:31:07+00:00
>For the majority of human history, descendents did better than the previous generation. There's nothing surprising or awe-inspiring about that.

I'm not sure this is true. This has probably been true subsequent to various industrial and agricultural revolutions, but I would imagine that much of 3000 bc --> 1400 ce did not see clear cut generation-by-generation improvements in quality of life.

I definitely take your other points though; in the 1970s the president of the united states would not have had the capabilities of a modern smart phone; but the fact that this is true does not actually improve the quality of my life in any way. Part of this is just because not all technological advancement necessarily speaks to quality of life improvements. Some obvious examples might be: indoor plumbing (clear improvement) vs. social media. (mostly a detriment)
by cogman10 | 2025-10-10 16:31:46+00:00
Containers are native. They aren't (usually) emulators. They are shipping the entire OS with the runnable, but the runnable is still ultimately working with the host kernel and the host memory spaces.

As for Wayland v X11. Wayland has gotten pretty nice over the last year or so. It's much more straight forward to work with vs the old fiddly xorg.conf files.
by nivertech | 2025-10-10 16:31:53+00:00
OK, but I think it's not up to the programming language designers to define mathematical properties of the operations on specific data types.

I think the most pragmatic solution is to have 2 tiers:

1. use existing standards (i.e. IEEE 754 for FP, de-facto standards for integers, like two's complement, Big-Endian, etc.)

2. fast, native format per each compute device, using different sub-types so you will not be able to mix them in the same expression
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-10 16:32:27+00:00
In the US, I think that's probably true especially using hours as a proxy for training.

The EU has shown us that you can safely have far fewer hours.

As a pilot I do think that nothing replaces butt in seat, but I also think that 1500 hours of instructing/aerial surveying/hour building is well into the diminished marginal returns area.
by ErneX | 2025-10-10 16:32:42+00:00
Venezuelans are being starved by the sheer incompetency/corruption of its leaders. It’s a kleptocracy.

The collapse started way earlier than the sanctions. It’s funny, but it’s even insulting that some people cannot comprehend that there is evil beyond their own frontiers. Not everything wrong that happens in the world is because an empire is meddling, we are also capable of being useless by ourselves!
by ikawe | 2025-10-10 16:32:53+00:00
I'd love it if it were easier than I think, because I spend a lot of time thinking about it! I host maps.earth, which is a planet sized deployment of Headway mapping stack (which I also maintain).

To first order, you're right on about the storage size of a vector tileset and an geocoding dataset based on OpenStreetMap. But Google maps is a lot more than that!

Headway uses Valhalla for most routing. A planet wide valhalla graph is about ~100gb of storage. It doesn't produce reasonable transit directions. Transit is an even tougher cookie.

OpenTripPlanner gives good transit routing, but it doesn't scale to planet-wide coverage. We've settled on a cluster of OTP nodes for select metro areas - each one being on the order of 5-10GB of RAM.

https://about.maps.earth/posts/2023/03/adding-transit-direct...

So, I'd say we have some of the pieces of a general purposes mapping tool that could replace Google Maps usage, which you could host yourself.

But we don't have satellite imagery, real time traffic data, global transit coverage, rich POI data (like accurate opening hours, photographs, reviews).

Do all people want all these features? Probably not, but a lot of people seem to want at least some of it and it's not obvious to me that they'll be quickly solved.
by tamcap | 2025-10-10 16:33:41+00:00
Not really. While you have a large potential energy buildup at a higher altitude, you cannot "bank it" / "save it" on descent. There is no way to store it in batteries or convert it back into fuel.

One of the challenges of aeronautics is the efficient disposition of the potential energy without converting it all into kinetic energy (ie speed) so that the landing happens at an optimally low speed - thus giving you a chance to brake and slow down at the end.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:33:41+00:00
If you have more water in the fuel than you think you do (there always is some due to condensation in the tanks) then you might be able to reach your destination but you'll be burning more 'fuel' than your original estimate would have you believe because there is less power per unit weight of (contaminated) fuel.

This is fairly common in GA and there are cases where it has happened in scheduled flights as well. That's why fuel sampling is common practice.
by Sharlin | 2025-10-10 16:34:27+00:00
It's super frequently recommended as a starting point for learners because it's high level enough to get something on the screen in ten lines of code but low level enough to teach you the fundamentals of how the rendering pipeline works (even though GL's abstraction is rather anachronistic and differs from how modern GPUs actually work). Vulkan (requiring literally a thousand LoC worth of initialization to render a single triangle) is emphatically not any sort of replacement for that use case (and honestly not for 95% of hobbyist/indie use cases either unless you use a high-level abstraction on top of it).

The worst thing about OpenGL is probably the hilariously non-typesafe C API.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-10 16:34:28+00:00
People already buy robot vacuums to do a decent job of vacuuming a decent amount of their floors. It is a $4.48 billion industry. Roombas don't look like people. They don't even look like pets or animals. They look like big hockey pucks. I have one and I have it run as soon as I leave for work because I don't want to interact with it, I want to have clean floors. If there was a robot that could fold clothes, load and unload the dishwasher, dust, and general purpose clean, I would have it run when I wasn't home too and would prefer if it folded up into a little box in the corner when I was home.

Roomba uses AI in some of their models, but people aren't trying to have a relationship with them. Because it is AI to serve a utilitarian purpose that does not involve imitating human behavior. People have relationships with chatbots because they are specifically imitating human behavior. Putting googly eyes on your Roomba isn’t the same as falling in love with a chatbot.

Cars are very very publicly visible, so they are used to project some sort of image to others; like the clothes people wear. Most people don't wear clothes or drive cars for purely utilitarian purposes. Often people will buy clothes or cars that look utilitarian to project an image about themselves. People buy furniture and decorate their homes to project an image. People do not buy their water heater to project a certain image about themselves. Robot vacuums are frustrating to watch. They get the job done in the end (most of the time) but their random zig zags or difficulty navigating around objects is something most people don’t want to see. They just want the result. Huminoid robots will be like that for a significant amount of time, where they can empty the dishwasher, but it will be painfully slow, odd looking, and very unhuman-like. People won’t want to see this but they will want the job done so they don’t have to do it. A robot that can perform utilitarian household chores would be a huge industry and would be used by most people like a dishwasher or water heater, primarily for its utility.

A robot that reaches the level that it could be a companion, operating visibly with/around people (bringing you and your guests refreshments rather than slowly, awkwardly folding clothes alone in a bedroom while you are at work or downstairs watching a movie) would very likely have a huge pressure to fit cultural and gender dynamics.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 16:34:34+00:00
YouTube doesn't allow you to put your credentials into text box and hit send. Google sites, on the other hand, does pose a disk, but they'll likely be treated the same as any other domain on the PSL.

In my experience, safe browsing does theoretically allow you to report scams and phishing in terms of user generated content, but it won't apply unless there's an actual interactive web page on the other end of the link.

There is the occasional false positive but many good sites that end up on that list are there because their WordPress plugin got hacked and somewhere on their site they are actually hosting malware.

I've contacted the owners of hacked websites hosting phishing and malware content several times, and most of the time I've been accused of being the actual hacker or I've been told that I'm lying. I've given up trying to be the good guy and report the websites to Google and Microsoft these days to protect the innocent.

Google's lack of transparency what exact URLs are hosting bad material does play a role there.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-10 16:34:40+00:00
I think I agree. From personal experience, even when I ask for scathing critique, the need to placate and make me feel better seems to bleed through ( both on 4o and 5 as far as I could tell ). I am not sure what to make of it.

We go back to this original prediction that the tool will help those, who both want help and are painfully aware of LLMs peculiar issues.
by estebank | 2025-10-10 16:35:32+00:00
RyanAir is famously one of them.

Edit: I was recalling articles claiming the company purposely fueling less than other airlines in order to increase their rate of claims for priority landing to have a better "on time" statistics.

This forum post disputes that: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/38501/is-it-tru...
by epcoa | 2025-10-10 16:36:07+00:00
How? On descent you can trade some of your altitude (potential energy) for kinetic energy, but then you can’t land the plane. For descent on an approach you’re going from low energy to even lower energy. In emergencies and with enough runway you can futz around with this some, but wiggle room on an airliner is not great, negligible to what will be expended on a go around.
by the_af | 2025-10-10 16:36:09+00:00
Isn't the fact that there was controversy about these, rather than blind acceptance, evidence that Wikipedia self-corrects?

If you see something wrong in Wikipedia, you can correct it and possibly enter a protracted edit war. There is bias, but it's the bias of the anglosphere.

And if it's a hot or sensitive topic, you can bet the article will have lots of eyeballs on it, contesting every claim.

With LLMs, nothing is transparent and you have no way of correcting their biases.
by fidotron | 2025-10-10 16:36:11+00:00
No way.

Having attended meetings at ICAO I can also tell you many details of various aviation incidents, including their existence, are covered by some secret classification. This fact being disclosed caused most of the attendees to lose all hope in the rest of the proceedings. To their credit the FAA reps on that occasion were by far the most reasonable gov representatives in the room, and the FAA are one of the major voices pushing for greater transparency on it.
by jkarneges | 2025-10-10 16:36:14+00:00
I've had no trouble hitting the Firebase API at the speed items are created, with a 5 second delay between retries.

For scraping HN directly, in my experience you have to go extremely slow, like 1 minute between fetching items. And if you get blocked, it may be better to wait a long time (minutes) before trying again rather than exponential backoff, in order to get out of the penalty box. You'll need a cache for sure.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-10 16:36:35+00:00
Obama can’t possibly be the catalyst for your disregard of the NPP. There were far more controversial picks for decades prior.

This obsession with Obama’s award is just further evidence Fox News decides what we recall and get angry about. It comes up every single year. It’s a meme at this point. Obama but not Arafat or Kissinger? Get out of here lmao
by pdpi | 2025-10-10 16:37:09+00:00
So, first off: as a matter of "taste", I really don't like the idea of giving the Peace prize specifically to anybody whose attitude is "where's my Nobel?" It should be going to somebody who believes in the cause they're fighting for and fights with no expectation of recognition, not to somebody looking to add a feather to their cap. This probably shouldn't be a criterion when choosing the winnner, but it does make me happy if the choice is consistent with this principle.

Second: If, by the end of 2026, the Israel/Palestine ceasefire is still holding, if there is real progress towards lasting peace, if Trump's administration carries on acting as a mediating force in the conflict, then, by all means, maybe he should win the 2026 prize. As of today, he just got them to sign a piece of paper. To be clear, that is still an important milestone, it makes the world better than it was a week ago, and he should get credit for getting it done. It's just not the achievement he wants us to believe it is (yet?).

Third: The man thrives on conflict, he sows divisivenes at every step. He's literally deploying the military domestically. Whatever merit there is to his peace deals doesn't nearly amount to enough to make him a net positive force for peace in the world. And that should be a factor in choosing the winner.
by AceyMan | 2025-10-10 16:37:12+00:00
Unless they are in an emergency and are busy with aviating, they will coordinate with their dispatcher on diverting, even if only to verify that the weather at the intended alternate is still favorable. Per the FAA regulations, the PIC and the dispatcher have joint operational control over the flight. Of course, at the end of the day, only the pilots have their hands on the controls, so they can make the plane do what they want—but from a legal standpoint, the dispatcher and pilot-in-command have equal & shared responsibility for the safe operation of the flight.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:37:16+00:00
Claiming you're low when you are not is going to cause a major headache for the PIC, they're going to have to write that up and they may well be investigated. If it turns out they were lying they would likely find out that that is a career limiting move and if it happens too often then that too should result in consequences. The main reason is that your fake emergency may cause someone else to have a real one.
by aylmao | 2025-10-10 16:37:16+00:00
He then went on to become the longest-serving war president [1]:

> On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr. Obama passed a somber, little-noticed milestone: He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or any other American president.

It wasn't all inherited conflicts. He also oversaw the 2011 intervention in Libya, the 2014 involvement in Syria, and the 2014 re-intervention in Iraq after having withdrawn troops in 2011.

[1]: NYT: https://archive.is/diXo5
by constantcrying | 2025-10-10 16:37:26+00:00
>I’m a little confused by what there is to investigate at all.

One of the most important aspects of taking safety seriously is that you do not just investigate things which had an impact, but that you proactively investigate near misses (as was the case here) and even potential incidents.

A plane with 6 minutes of fuel left is always a risk to every person on board and potentially others if an emergency landing becomes the only option.
by phplovesong | 2025-10-10 16:38:05+00:00
Skimmed only. Most titles was like "i use X for that" then scrolled down for the next one.

And thats the thing. Neovim (vim) is about the unix way, use existing tools and use them from vim.

Last time i checked this was not an option in helix, and some very trivil things was impossible, like populating the quickfix (is it a thing n helix?) from a makefile command.

Bottom line is helix is basically a stipped down version on vscode, and wont really succeed without a plugin system (and when/if it lands, its basically just a vscode alternative)
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-10 16:38:18+00:00
'But I don’t think the answer can be “violence is permissible when you can classify someone with a loaded term so vague that people regularly use it to describe expedited restaurant permitting”. '

This, I think, is the main point of the article. I don't disagree, and I tend to argue for at least trying to talk to people, but I admit that I am concerned about how much I am hesitating on even discussing some subjects with people.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-10 16:38:29+00:00
> How the heck are we gonna deal with it when we cannot use LLMs for sanity checking LLM code?

Unit testing. LLM's are very good at writing tests and writing code that is testable (as long as you ask it), and if you just check that the tests are actually calling the code and doing so with all the obvious edge cases and that the results are correct, that's actually quite fast to review -- faster than reviewing the code.

And you can include things like performance testing in tests as well.

We're moving to a world where we work with definitions and tests and are less concerned with the precise details of how code is written within functions. Which is a big shift in mindset.