skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly, but the pilots would have to screw up as well. You typically tune in the ILS when you're expecting to pick up the approach. It's not like you set the ILS frequency hours before landing and just follow the first signal that pops up. So if you do follow a malicious signal, it's going to be few miles away from the airport at the furthest. However, ILS is becoming less used because it requires maintenance of ground systems. GPS approaches could also be spoofed, but would be a more sophisticated attack. But with GPS navigation you aren't tuning radio frequencies in your nav equipment so there's probably more chances to fool a pilot (you could drag them much further away from the airport if you started spoofing GPS further out).

However, ALL instrument approaches have minimum visual altitudes, and the lowest I'm aware of is 200 ft above the ground. If you can't see the airport by the time you get down to the minimum altitude you execute a missed approach procedure- basically you climb and navigate to another waypoint to restart the approach or to hold. Additionally, all aircraft must have barometric altimeters as required equipment- no amount of radio spoofing can fool them.

So in an ideal world an attack would go like this: the pilot follows the malicious approach, notices that they are at the minimum altitude, looks for the airport but doesn't see it (or sees it a few miles away), then executes a missed approach- no crash. There aren't too many tight approaches that could make you crash by being off by a mile.

To get around this you would need to spoof either the pitot-static (pressure sensing) system, or the pilot's altimeter setting. You could only spoof the pitot-static system by sabatoge on the ground, and you can only realistically spoof the altimeter setting by pretending to be ATC on the radio- at which point the real ATC would correct whatever you said and get real suspicious.

Of course, given that instrument landings are the highest workload portion of a flight, pilots get distracted. Even if they would normally catch on to the fact that they aren't on the correct approach, you might cause a few crashes by pilots that aren't on top of their game.

Edit to add one more thing: Your plane is tracked by airborne surveillance as well, and if you claim to be at a waypoint and that doesn't match what ATC has on their scope they will warn you. So you'd have to also spoof a surveillance signal at the correct location while blocking the real planes signal to keep ATC from noticing.
It’s time to rethink UX design challenges
Ok, but Blind is filled with the type of people who would fit right in at FB.
China’s Global Investments Are Declining Everywhere Except for One Region
So what are the numbers for the Northern Midwest, and why are they ridiculous? If there's a report link that break down the model, I love that kind of reading.
Saved from obsolescence, Microsoft is now making Paint better
What's interesting is that a Phd biology researcher I know had been researching LED lighting and wound healing.

Things like children with severe burns exposed to certain wavelengths of light - control would be one limb vs another limb, exposed one showed improved healing.

I believe the wavelength was I believe 660nm or 670nm.
This is only relevant if you're deliberately splitting the game across multiple servers (MORE work) so that people living in different cities can play against each other and have low latency to their own server. Other than that there's no reason to run one multiplayer game on more than one server.
Good.

Good to hear some peope have a spine.
Kubernetes Config “Manager”
A lot is happening arround XFS, LVM, device mapper and also the Stratis project.

Also a thin LV with XFS will give you many if not most of the benefits of BTRFs/ZFS but with stability and being available on any reasonably old Linux distro.
> Maybe this is a common trick?

No. It's obvious and trivial, but you'd be on a verge of being called names if you tried to use it in a Python codebase. Lambdas in Python are limited to a single expression by convention - which in Python-land is scarily rigid and specific - rather than just by the language spec.

Before `... if ... else ...` was added to the language as an expression (I think around 2.5), people had to make do with some workarounds. The fact that `True` and `False` get automatically casted to ints and back allowed for writing something like `[val_if_false, val_if_true][condition]`. Or you could use `and`/`or` combination as per usual. The official stance at the time was to never do this and use an `if` statement instead, but people still sometimes resorted to it. Then, the `if` expression was introduced specifically to combat the use of such workarounds. Now you'd be lynched if you tried to use one of them.

"There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it" - from the Zen of Python[1].

In general, despite a lot of effort to eliminate them, there are still some creative ways to use the language. It will always be the case, obviously, as you demonstrate. However, that creativity is 100% rejected by the community, to the point that even mentioning inadequacy of some construct for some use case is frowned upon - because it could lead to people inventing creative workarounds. If you try to complain about something in the language, the general attitude is "write a PEP or GTFO". More often than not it results in the latter.

The saddest part of it all is that this apparently is one of the major factors that made Python as popular as it is. There are valid reasons and a lot of advantages to this strategy. Go is similar as far as I can tell. Among the dynamic languages with rich syntax, Python codebases tend to be stylistically very close to each other, and not because there is a lack of ways this rich syntax could be (ab)used, but because doing so is unpythonic.

Haaah, now I said it... I hope not many Python programmers read this thread; I can already see torches and pitchforks on the horizon...

Source: I've been writing Python for the last 12 years for pay.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python
I'm responding to the last sentience where you says person #2 was better because he was paying off the mortgage.
Do you not consider Gmail data posted voluntarily by the user? How about search queries or calendar entries?
Based on her response, do you think it was a joke to her? Can you be absolved of slander or inciting riots if you say you were just kidding?
Every time we manage to reduce carbon emissions we are also gaining more time to solve the problem.
Video Game Developer Is Always First to Leave His Office at 11:45pm Every Day
You can have Adaptive Cruise Control without Auto-Steer enabled but it's not possible to have it the other-way around.
Mach-O also has a more compact bytecode-like representation for relocations, while ELF just wastes tons of space. See https://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177
"Overeating drives weight gain" is like "more movement on the gas pedal causes speeding". Yes, but uninteresting. "Loud rock music makes people drive faster" is not saying the same thing, and is interesting.

Even if it reduces back to "they're going faster because they move the gas pedal more".
The definition of the middle class would surely depend on the cost of living in the particular area. You can make $30k and live like royalty in the 99% of the world.
I think a UBI is sort of inevitable to ensure society transitions peaceably into this new era - this round of automation appears to be falling well short on new industry creation compared to prior iterations. It's something I'd love to see get a wider adoption as otherwise I'm pretty :shrug: on Yang.
Or maybe prospects don't use Facebook either and it seems odd to contribute to a website you don't even visit.
I think this makes sense for an advanced free soloist like Alex - but does not invalidate soling easy climbs for everyone, part of the skill of free soloing is in training the mind, keeping control and conditioning yourself with the feeling of fear. You have to work up to that, and choosing lower grades helps you build those strengths - but continuing to climb them once they feel too easy (mentally), will leave you with relaxed focus, which is of course deadly.
How are they going to boil all this down to a single number? So ridiculous.

All these pseudoscientific people have taken the comfy position of unaccountable gatekeepers. Society's true vultures.
The idea of immortality is absurd. At some point you have to toss out the old model and replace it with a new one.

Way longer lifespans than we expect today we might just see. Immortality means forever though.
Microbiome: Overfed bacteria [make] people sick
Might have to do with wanting to avoid people trying to game the system?

Not that I expect the shroud of secrecy to actually mitigate that problem.
Why not raise pigs or chickens, for a simple and more reliable meat source than chasing deer with a car? If hitting a deer is needed to feed a family, then all the people who don't get lucky starve to death.
> The difference being, the very best,...

... at doing LeetCode all day.
As someone evaluating Kafka for the first time, it would be useful to know what Hermes provides other than Kafka already does. After glancing at the homepage I see the REST api and the fact it is push based. Honestly I don't see how it would fit on my use case but interesting project nonetheless.

> exactly once delivery

Kafka is known to provide exactly once semantics - given your producers and consumers follow some rules, notably being idempotent. When ingesting from Kafka Stream API, it is actually exactly once delivery. There are a couple posts on confluent.io explaining how they achieve this (sorry, currently on mobile, can't copy-paste without having an outburst on how unusable touch devices are for me).
The other day I did a quick experiment, and checked all the available loaves of bread at my grocery. There was not a single loaf that did not contain added sugar.

I imagine most people buy bread thinking that it's healthy, but they're basically just buying candy in bread form.

It bums me out.
But you have to prove that those IP addresses were used for crime. Maybe the purpose was only to earn money from reselling them.
I was wrong, my engineer said that derangements are the answer to the convergence.
What makes YouTube different than TV, which many of our parents watched as kids? TV used to be a babysitter, too, for the previous generation.
I followed up on the wiki article. The citation was a just eurogamer article that had little to with human perception of latency. It did have this nugget: “Criterion said it was aiming for 50ms latency [for burnout paradise]” which agrees with what I’ve heard making handheld electronics. The goal was always <50ms latency.

Personally I noticed a significant improvement switching to a 165hz monitor in basically every first person game. The only difference here is going from 16ms to 6ms frame granularity (10ms off the worst case). I’m not sure how much is visual smoothness or latency, but I’d gladly take refresh rate/fps over UHD.

I’m definitely in the enthusiast group though. I didn’t even realize that console players dealt with such high latency. It will be very interesting to see how the market plays out.
Bloodborne on PS Now? That sounds like hell. Plenty of later bosses have very narrow dodge windows. I already have a physical PS3 and PS4 so there's no reason for me to get PS Now. A couple co-workers of mine used it and none of them liked it. It works okay for RPGs, especially turn based RPGs where there is zero emphasis on timing or reactions.
Become?
Flying taxi company completes first flight test
It seems on chrome you can refresh the page then immediately hit stop to read the article fine without subscription overlay.
> despite nobody wanting to live besides a nuclear reactor

I certainly wouldn't say this is true. I live 13 miles from Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Not only is its proximity a non-issue for the vast amount of us in San Luis Obispo county, the economic vitality it injects into our economy (high paying jobs, taxes, etc.) helps make our area very desirable to live in. For reference Diablo gives us $22 million in local property taxes annually, of which about $8 million per year is allocated to the school district. It's going to be tough when it shuts down in 2024/2025.
If they were serious, they would have done San Fran to San Jose where the dollars spent would actually be useful rather than moving people from Nowhere to Nowhere Else.

San Francisco, the 13th largest city in America? And San Jose, the 10th largest city in America?

If they were serious, they should have done New York to Los Angeles where the dollars spent would actually be useful rather than moving people from Nowhere to Nowhere Else.
define "ads"? If something doesn't have "special offer" popups or a slogan, yet bubbles to the top of search results...
Shouldn't the "obvious" conclusion be that you'd eat less of them, because you got enough calories sooner?
I remember the New York Times employment section in the newspaper between 1996-1999.

There were absolutely silly $ numbers being thrown around.

IIRC(apologies if my memory is incorrect), ads for IT jobs seemed to fit two major themes:

1) Y2K work, often COBOL
2) Web 1.0/UNIX/HTML

And(again IIRC) the published $ in some cases then, may not be out of line with today.
Viable interactive VR will not happen over streaming (video sure). It's already tough to reduce latency to an acceptable range when games are played locally.

John Carmack has some good blog posts about this if you're interested in the details.
Mind sharing what the solution you referenced?

From a hard theory network perspective, having higher bandwidth, lower latency, lower error rate on transmission path combined with closer geographical proximity to servers seem to help mitigate increases in latency.

However, if you argue the problem is solved by your empirical evidence gained by playing Witcher 3 of all games, I disagree with your point. Play a real time strategy game, a MOBA, or a first person shooter. 70ms~ (a report for Stadia reported 70ms-130ms, may be stale data) of lag is noticeable to people. On the other hand, I don't mind streaming a turn based game.
Personally, I wouldn't overlook someone who worked at Facebook. I don't really like them as a company, but it doesn't mean everyone who works there is a bad actor.
Silicon Valley Couldn't Care Less About Earth’s Imminent Demise
Absolutely not. Game developers have deep deep knowledge in making games for Windows and PlayStation type OS’+hardware. Studios aren’t going to spend years having their devs relearn nuances specific to Google’s Linux implementation
> I never quite understood the idea that any amount of loss of life is unacceptable in projects such a these. I think we put far too high a value on human life, and fail to measure distinct numbers relative to their greater effects.

What dollar value should we put on your life? $10,000? $200,000? $2,000,000? Should we encourage your boss telling you to do something stupidly dangerous, because the project's behind, and he doesn't want to pay your team overtime?

1000 people died building the Trans-Canada railway. In the early 20th century, 70 people died building a minor tunnel, used to construct a tiny hydro power plant in the greater Vancouver area. Any pre-WWII infrastructure project was built atop a literal graveyard.
I think often its both that wealth changes people, and its often a certain kind of personality that seeks and succeeds in obtaining high-powered, high-income positions.
>"...our data shows that, when used properly by an attentive driver who is prepared to take control at all times

If it needs vigilance at all times to be safe, then it's no "autopilot".
Presumably because it refers to a person like a thing. Language often betrays our thoughts by being unnecessarily clear.
> Why would people who care about privacy interview with Facebook in the first place?

I believe this may come from the responses to cold e-mails. A recruiter working for FB presents an offer. They want to tell them to GTFO and they highlight the privacy concerns in the response to say thanks, but no thanks.

At least that's what I do when a recruiter working for a company I find morally incompatible approaches me. I reply with something like "The tech stack looks great and my professional experience aligns with what the job description requires. However I don't think I'd feel comfortable working for a <short-term loans | kids gambling | personal data mining> company, but I'm open to hear about similar positions in other areas if you had any in the future."
Now I want to get an Oura! Are ads getting smarter?
> What should we do now? :)

I don't know what the solution is. I wish I did. My point is simply that there is definitely a bias on HN, and I think few people would seriously claim that it's right-leaning.

A multi-axis perspective would probably be more useful: one could say that the pro-business/pro-startup bias is right-leaning, but one could also say that it's libertarian, and libertarianism isn't necessarily on the right when compared to "conservatism" or other supposedly "right-leaning" political views.

Regardless, from looking at the articles that make the front page, and from reading comments on stories that have a political slant (e.g. anything environment-related), what I see flagged and downvoted into obscurity--excluding obvious guidelines violations--are not left-leaning comments, but right-leaning ones, including many thoughtful, reasonable ones.

At the same time, trite, left-leaning, talking point-style comments remain at #000.

This is plain to any observer who's been here a while.

So I don't know the answer. However, maybe a first step would be acknowledgement. I would love to see you and/or other mods openly admit the left-leaning bias on HN. Not an admission of guilt on your part for supposedly moderating unfairly, but an admission that the output of the HN "program," as it were--which includes the community, not just the actual code and staff--is left-leaning.

If nothing else, perhaps it would help certain outstanding members of the community recognize the problem and be more open-minded. I don't think anyone benefits when good comments are shamed into obscurity and their writers are driven away. That doesn't help the problem of polarization that our society is facing.
Haha. I've been playing with Rust lately, which is what led me to your blog post. I also added a comment immediately after which linked to the up to date Rust FAQ, but I believe it is buried further down.

Even if it is dated, I found the gist of it very helpful, so thanks!
I.M. Pei's architecture is beautiful, geodesic structure in the best possible sense. 102 is also a ripe old age (although far be it from me to say what is a fair time on this earth).

Architecture is wonderful as you get to live on through these incredibly beautiful buildings. I look at the stuff Zaha Hadid built and I feel like I can almost see her in the buildings she made. Great architects resonate through their structures.

RIP.
Wrong. Microsoft perfected this years ago with their Azure hosted desktop product. They’ve been working on high-res compression of GPU frames before Google even put a dedicated GPU cluster in their data centers
Property rights are the foundation of the US. Calling it a privilege is a complete misunderstanding of history. We are not serfs subordinate to a lord. We are not comrades subordinate to a politburo. We are citizens. As it was written in its early form, we believe in life, liberty and property.
Aren't those "buy American" requirements illegal under the WTO?
That is a fair point. But, that's not what the topic is about. Just because they contributed to front-end development doesn't make them any less questionable. Not saying I wouldn't want to work there myself. They do some good work there i'm sure.
The speed of the line isn't the tricky part in these Swiss tunnel projects. Switzerland's trains aren't as fast simply because Switzerland is too small and too dense to require it. The fastest Swiss trains are still pretty fast though at 200km/h.

Much more relevant are the insane projects achieved. The Gotthard Tunnel project is probably one of the hardest things humanity has ever achieved (on par with the moon landing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
Taking children who are apprehended with their parents and then separating them for detention isn’t typical and hasn’t been done by other administrations.
Is it even secretly anymore? It just seems outright discrimination, at this point, as far as admissions is concerned.
America: land of the free (of worker rights)...
I just read von Neumann's biography recently. He wanted to call the ENIAC the MANIAC - because of its unreliability - but his colleagues refused.
> Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told reporters that the tech giant had purged 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four Instagram accounts.

> The activity appeared focused on Sub-Saharan African countries but was also scattered in parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America, what Brookie called a “staggering diversity of regions” that pointed to the group’s sophistication.

> The fake pages, pushing a steady stream of political news, racked up 2.8 million followers. Thousands of people expressed interest in attending at least one of the nine events organized by those behind the pages. Facebook could not confirm whether any of the events actually occurred. Some 5,000 accounts joined one or more of the fake groups.

> Gleicher said the misleading accounts primarily aimed to influence people in Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia.

> The most significant audience engagement was generated in Malaysia, which has a vast media market and held a general election last year, according to Brookie and his team at the Atlantic Council.

> Facebook investigations revealed that Archimedes had spent some $800,000 on fake ads, paid for in Brazilian reals, Israeli shekels and U.S. dollars. Gleicher said the deceptive ads dated back to 2012, with the most recent activity occurring last month.