skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we take a moment and reflect on the fact that all of this data is freely available to anyone? I can sit in front of my computer, or anywhere with my phone, and follow planes around the world with an accuracy of a few meters, and replay the data at a later date.

The various flight trackers all use thousands of receivers around the world, and most of them probably use the same kind of SDR chip that was originally designed for USB TV and radio receivers.

http://rtlsdr.org/#history_and_discovery_of_rtlsdr
I interpret "dead" in this context as "very few people are using it, and usage is shrinking".
There was the chicken scandal. Around the same time they had the "your food in 60 seconds or its free" disaster. Lately they have been advertising their improved ingredients
I work on some authentication software for a relatively niche service in a company of 50 developers. We get brute force attacks of thousands of IPs quite regularly.
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I thought they track things like small vibrations in plane body due to such incidents. How would they detect Bird strike(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike) if
hitting wall go unnoticed? Don't airports have sensors and cameras for such situations to alert Air traffic control immediately?
I installed RDB last week on my hobby I64 machine. Although I had glancing encounters with VMS through work, it has been a lot of fun to explore some of the features of the OS in depth. I remember having a WinNT RDB eons ago too. But it seems to have disappeared from the web. The Internet Archive has a copy of "Rdb : a comprehensive guide" for loan if anyone is interested.
It also gives power back to the pimps and abusers over the people it was meant to “protect”.

In reality these laws were just another way to punish women who work in the sex industry. If it were about actually protecting them they would have made laws that target the people in power and the clients the target of enforcement.
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I have the opposite experience. I never want to check my bags because waiting around at the carousel for a checked bag isn't my idea of a good time. I want to be able to just walk off the plane and get to ground transportation with minimal delays.

Yet airlines keep offering me free baggage check at the gate on full flights. I actively try to avoid checking my bags, but I'm usually in boarding Group 3 or 4, so I'm forced to have my bag gate-checked. I hate it. Most people do. Some even try to untag their force-checked bags on the jetway when they see overhead luggage space, and then get told off because that is prohibited. I've resorted to buying an AmazonBasics underseat bag[1] so I never have to check my bag.

For domestic flights, in my experience few people want to check their bags. (exceptions exist of course, like in your case)

For international flights, checking bags is included in the cost of the ticket.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Amazon161214-Underseat-L...
I agree that ECS is at its most fundamental a relational scheme. Not sure why that is controversial though..
> if you’re going down that route, you could claim that any feature not necessary for turing completeness conflicts with the one way to do it strategy

I suppose one could do that, philosophically if not practically. What I had in mind was the various syntax sugars used for the same thing, particularly in Ruby. While some ways of doing things in Ruby were convenient, there was a host of other "shortcuts" that added to the confusion, and it was evident that it was the design of the language itself - not an accident - that allowed these shortcuts, at least imo.

> On a side note: I don’t use comment voting systems

I had a feeling you might say that, but I'd already clicked the "reply" button. Sorry for being presumptuous.

Not that I care about the voting system either, but people tend to use it as a cowardly way of showing disapproval.
Does reduced air pressure speed up the removal of alcohol via breathing?

If a fever can, wouldn’t alcohol do the same?
One minor UX gotcha: the alarm for a pressurization problem on a 737 is not all that intuitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
Leaving aside the spectacle of two rich and powerful white male CEOs publicly throwing down about homelessness, which, admittedly, is riveting stuff - can we please talk about the real issue?

“Critics of Prop C say that it sets aside too much of San Francisco’s budget to one issue, giving it less control over long-term spending. The new mayor has said that the city needs to better spend the money it already dedicates to combating homelessness.”

Speaking as a full stack dev turned founder who experienced homelessless in San Francisco for several weeks in 2015, I am entirely unimpressed with the stated arguments against this corporate tax hike.

Too much for one issue? Can someone tell me what might be a more pressing issue that incredibly wealthy corporations could be supporting?

And regarding spending the current homeless better, well, yeah. Nobody’s going to argue against that. But is anybody seriously claiming that more money wouldn’t at least put a dent in the problem?

Without sounding overly dramatic, people’s lives are at stake. And not just people of poor character who made bad life choices. Real people, people that you might even interact with in a social or professional context. God forbid any pampered Twitter employee actually had to experience surviving on the streets of SF for a few days. It’s so easy to judge. But it is so much harder to pick yourself back up when you are that far down. Basic, stupid things get in the way. Getting to interviews, having clean clothes, being able to shower and use the rest room. Not to mention the nearly constant power tripping you are subject to from everyone you interact with based on your position on the lowest rung of society.

Yeah, I think companies making $50M a year should be glad to pay an extra half percent tax. If the moral argument isn’t persuasive, do it for business reasons. SF is attractive to the kinds of people who build world-changing startups because for all of its faults, it has a soul when it comes to progressive issues. Simply as a PR issue it would be wise for the tech community to take a simple action to make the world a better place, right here in our own backyard.
Less stress imho. At altitude the forces on wings/structure are far less than during takeoff.
This is the standard for many US laws unfortunately. If you're captive as a sex slave, you're turned into a criminal. Minors can be arrested for prostitution. It's absurd.
Proof
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tangential , Andy's DB lectures are rocking my world

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA
The real win is compliance, and it is a real win that deserves being talked about, but that's not the point the study Fung is talking about in the article is trying to make. It specifically sets out to prove that beyond caloric deficit there are benefits to IF:

> We demonstrate for the first time in humans that eTRF improves some aspects of cardiometabolic health and that IF's effects are not solely due to weight loss.

It fails to do so because it does not measure food ingested, only food served, and so we have no idea if the diet was actually isocaloric (hint: it wasn't).

Keto and IF proponents both want to see a metabolic advantage that simply is not there. Compliance is huge, but there is no existing study showing a metabolic advantage that doesn't also have a caloric deficit.
You are so f*ing out of touch. Sorry you are so tired.
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The pilots hit a very short wall.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/C99D/production/...
3400 words about how one person smuggled in a book to read, instant coffee, M&Ms, and champagne-soaked gummy bears, and somehow still half-thought it was _the ashram_ that was "total bullshit."
Yeah I hate all the daws. They are good for editing audio not editing music in the note space.

Current music theory is kinda terrible. I’ve developed something that I like to think supersedes it and I’m beyond pumped to show it to the world. But it’s hard so it’s taking some time.
It's coming to SMS and probably other "chat systems" too. It's quite easy to build a robocall system on top of Twilio now and they offer much more than just calls.
Absolutely. That's exactly it.
"This new camera literally makes it possible to freeze time"

It literally freezes time? Come on..
U.S. losing its historic capacity for 'creative destruction'
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While you need to use IE11 specific props it's actually fairly easy to get CSS grids working back in IE11. For page or regional layouts it's been my go to for the past year now.
On the other hand, marginal tax rates are a thing. If you take six months off (across a year boundary), you might be only losing 55% of your salary or so, not the entire thing. (That is your marginal rate is much higher than effective)

Say you get 5% real returns in stocks after taxes on distributions. After 15 years, you've lost about 10 months of salary at your effective rate.

Having to work 4 extra months 15 years in the future to take 6 months off now seems like a reasonable trade. (It's a 3.5% annual discount rate on the future).

PS: if you get into a situation where you have an income surge one year (say an IPO), it's a no brainier to do this. The tax rate differences on income now vs future can be high enough to match all stock returns.
A fever is, at it’s core, an increase in metabolic rate. Your hypothalamus is telling your body that it’s temperature set point is higher than usual, and it takes energy to raise your temperature. I don’t see how a difference in air pressure would have a similar effect.
It's not just tracking by cops. Private companies are installing license tracking cameras on their corporate facilities and tracking all cars that drive by them on public roads and are then reporting these activities back to city and state governments.

Municipalities are even requiring companies to do this.

Also, isn't it interesting how dark papantir went after all these things came to light. Notice you never see techs commuting on Bart or Caltrain any longer with palantir bags or shirts on any more.
> Why do you assume it has to be low quality or mediocre?

Have you eaten at any of the listed restaurants? They're all using a similar concept. Food is, for the most part, cooked elsewhere and heated up when needed. Just above the quality of a $4 frozen Stouffers TV dinner.

I'm making a judgement based on what I'll pay for. I really don't care what the pain points are for the restaurant if the food is as shitty as the meals I've had at Applebees, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, IHOP, Dennys etc.

Chilis has rolled out this concept (somewhat) over the last year or 2 and the quality of the meals has suffered greatly but it's still slightly better than the places listed above.

FWIW, I have 2 friends whose family business are italian food. One of them lives in PA and ships me stuff in a styrofoam cooler that's better than 90% of the italian places around here. The other runs my favorite local italian place. I've been going there for 22+ years. I dread when he retires...
And these days they prohibit checked batteries.
The more interesting dimension is depth. Full depth racks are fairly hard to fit in a place after the fact.

“Wall mount” racks won’t fit data center depth equipment.
Apple Watch worn by Saudi journalist may have transmitted evidence of his death
Purdue Pharma is still doing pretty damn well. The problem isn't in using opiates to treat pain - it is Purdue's marketing actively lying about the addiction potential of OxyContin.
AppEngine had the same problems - seemingly every week some component of the service would be down for some non-negligible amount of time (laughably it was often search -- we're talking about Google here).

I've generally found AWS more reliable than GCP - even when GCP isn't having downtime, you'll occasionally get 503's from their APIs, so you need to wrap all your calls to them in retries.

AWS has had multiple instances of cascading EBS backplane failures, but outside of that I've found their core services pretty reliable -- 400+ days of uptime on a lot of VMs in systems I've worked on -- I avoid EBS when I can.

My advice is to keep your stuff simple - PaaS might seem attractive, but you have so little control as you mention when something goes down. Embrace multi-cloud by using the lowest common denominator of tech available - virtual machines, dns, networking, and instance storage if that suits your needs. Treat vms as disposable - and make sure you have system, service, and data redundancy at that level to survive the failure of an entire availability zone across your application.
Remote health monitoring of an Apple watch seems to be a very interesting future service that likely is already here we just don't know about it widely yet.
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Japan to allow blue-collar immigrant workers in the country without a time limit
>since Lenovo has been caught in the past shipping laptops with spyware

those were IdeaPads not ThinkPads.

> I couldn't get myself to trust a computer manufactured by a dishonest company, in an authoritarian country.

... you'd be naked and bereft a lot of other comforts if you were to get rid of everything made in China.
Lots of them are good restaurants. Not exactly authentic but personally I prefer non-authentic Mexican food.

Tokyo has insane amount of good restaurants.
This brings up a good point: I would agree with extra penalties for disrupting behaviour while the airplane is underway, especially take off and landing. Boarding and disembarking not so much.
I will briefly note that getting a world class education completely for free is an extreme form of privilege that few people can hope for. There can be a downside to that.

I once saw a question on a very toxic forum by some self proclaimed idealist with a scholarship who was extremely critical of their classmates and their obsession with trying to find a well paid job after graduation. It seemed lost on this jerk that most of their classmates likely were saddled with crushing student debt and would need well paid jobs to service their student loans.

I don't know what the solution is. I do know that when people get something completely for free, they typically undervalue it and frequently don't really appreciate it, among other things.
It could, but probably not.

Things are going to slow down a bit, because China and the US are raising interest rates/cutting credit, and Trump is slowing trade.

That will expose some markets that are overleveraged, but hopefully we can do some weaning without causing a cataclysm in anything that would squeeze the money supply suddenly.
Pretty amazing how virtualization has come to the point that we even need to virtualize our reliance on cloud vendors across multiple vendors to ensure realiability
Personally my answer was to get a decent color laser printer. The printing is basically magazine quality or better, and even though the toner cartridges are expensive they last for years it seems like (at least for home use).
I bought this last month for our land line and it has been awesome.

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Unfortunately, some servers piggyback the BMC onto one of the regular network ports.
I read the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see no ban on jokes.
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Hi, I'm from the rest of the world.

This is not how airlines are operated. In many other countries you get one or two checked bags included in the ticket.

A strange thing occurs as a consequence: you just board the plane, and then the plane goes.

Do you do the weird not-a-queue-but-queueish-blob-of-people thing? No, because there is not a zero-sum game for overhead space.

Do you do the pay-extra-to-spend-longer-in-the-hell-tube thing? No, because there is not a zero-sum game for overhead space.

Do you spend 45 minutes to an hour fucking around with idiots who are trying to spit in the face of both geometry and physics and falling arse-first onto the nose of good manners? Not at all, flights are typically on the runway 15-20 minutes after the first boarding call. There is not a zero-sum game for overhead space.

When I first flew in the USA I thought "something is wrong with my flight". It took me several flights to realise: this is normal here. And it's maddening.
List what you want to rack in it please
Even glycol and glycerin vapor are probably not a good idea to inhale. They could hardly be as bad as smoking cigarettes, but so far basically anything you breathe in that isn't air turns out to be a bad idea once we study it thoroughly.
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I've considered this same approach, but I would create two different applications instead of one. The first one would be a light-weight "browser" with built-in layout styles. The site would merely have to specify the content, and the browser could display it in a way that fits the user's screen size. Content could be laid out in a way the user approves, eliminating the need for special site design. Payment information security could be built in. Companies would love to target this application because their online stores would already be optimized for user viewing and click-through. (It's easier than a company having to ask "How would you like us to send you content in a way that would get you to click on it". No more guessing game! No more client-side analytics!) And heck - RSS could be made useful by there being a built-in feed-reader.

The other program would be an application runner with internet capabilities (and permissions settings), tailored more towards heavy-weight applications that need lots of features (like audio editing), but they have to do it manually - no built-in play(audio.ogg) like in the first program.

Of course, there are a number of downsides. Users don't generally want to open separate programs much less download them (unless they're bundled). But the way apps are these days, I don't think people would mind.
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> authorizes $1.68 billion for relief for Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas last month;

One of these is not like the other.
The takeoff has already happened, and a landing (of some sort) will have to happen (which also means flying near ground level).

The thing that doesn't need to happen is flying at full flight altitude when the pressure differential between the inside and outside is greatest.
Not sure who your friends are but where I am half the young people are creatives or otherwise not traditionally full time employed and my experience has been people are far more likely to avoid you for being a boring banker/lawyer/accountant in a suit (which I used to be) than unemployed with a good story about what you are doing, which could spark a decent conversation.
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Many RSS reader services (e.g., Feedbin) and apps (e.g., Reeder for macOS) integrate Diffbot or Postlight's Mercury or similar to scrape the article's full text. I use and recommend both.
Do nothing, live. There will come a time when you get passionate just go with it.
> I'm usually in boarding Group 3 or 4

Me too. Is this determined by just price of the ticket. I don't get how I am always group 4.
Very true! But part of knowing that you don't know is recognizing when you're in unfamiliar territory. Being able to say "this example doesn't look like what I've seen before, and therefore I'm not as sure of my response." Algorithms which can express uncertainty /should be/ more robust to domain errors.
Trust me, if procedures are found at fault, it will die if the EASA-FAA-CASA bans them.
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Haven't read the link, but that's quite terrible, and the title is misleading. No idea why it's getting buzz in this thread. It means if tmpfs/equivalent isn't available, it will cause disk writes each application launch. Or if it caches the unpacking, it's susceptible to injection. And suppose the binary doesn't have write access to the filesystem?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611

22 years later!
Even financial peers may nonetheless view your position as privileged, because they may not be able to give up whatever it is you did to be able to leave their job. Perhaps they are burdened with debt, or have a family to support, or may simply lead an expensive lifestyle that is not socially tenable for them to curtail. It could even just be that their partner – or potential partners if they are unattached – would be uncomfortable with them taking a two-year unpaid sabbatical, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't do so in good conscience.

To put it another way – who wouldn't take a two year sabbatical if they could? The fact that it's rare, even among well-paid tech workers, is a good indicator that it's not within the realm of relatability for most.

I also don't think it's necessarily a judgement of privilege. Consider the reverse scenario: a party of people enjoying their sabbaticals, and one person with a desk job. No-one's going to hold a conversation for long with that person, simply because their day-to-day experiences are not relatable. The sabbatical crowd will want to talk about long-term travel, how to stave off boredom, and the interesting startup ideas they're working on. No-one wants to hear this one guy's stories about scrum drama, getting a promotion, and taking their kids to the recent company outing. His stories may be positive or negative, boring or interesting, but no-one else can commiserate with their own current experience. For anything topical you're left with sports and the weather.
My view is that is the Emiratis want to squander their money on giving at-cost fuel and basically-zero-interest loans to their flag carrier, that's on them.

It's not as though the US air market isn't heavily protected. You'll note that foreign carriers like Emirates can't fly domestic routes. If I fly Qantas to NYC, half the plane gets off in LA and nobody else can get on. Which is part of why "Qantas ticket" is the ancient Yolŋu word for "financial ruin".
They are also all quite small, and much more culturally and ethnically homogenous.
> "I don't currently work anywhere and am taking some time off", those same people have literally picked up their drinks and walked away.

Wow. Really. Fuck them. Whats so great about talking to ppl with office job.
Wasn't that already the law?
Why is that ridiculous?
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This is sad. It sounds like he just stressed out the whole time about not being productive enough during an extended vacation. Sometimes it’s great going somewhere for a vague reason and doing absolutely nothing really that productive for a few weeks or more. I find it’s difficult for people to escape ‘living to work’ and subconsciously create tasks for themselves. In the backpacker community it’s definitely travel blogging, taking photos, journaling, etc. I’m very guilty of this. I enjoy it, but it’s really interesting to see the need to be doing -something- creep into your life, even at times when you most try to escape it.