skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could do all of that, fix the keyboard, put in a 100WHr battery, and componetize the parts (SSD/RAM, CPU, motherboard) without changing much from the current look and feel. I imagine it would be a hybrid between the 2015 and 2016 Macs.
Was Director of IT. My manager would be considered Middle Management. She had a half dozen directors reporting her and would meet with them to get updates and set goals for each department every week. She would pour over all the financials and accounting to make sure things were on track. She would take the results of meetings back to Upper Management and tell them everything was fine. Upper Management would then go play golf and figure out some new way of expanding our lines of business, or meet with random groups of staff to make their presence known, put on a friendly face. No idea what else Upper Management did with the rest of their day
Mind that it isn't a "complete" airport. It's on the area of Berlin-Schönefeld airport. Thus less need to acquire new land. Which I expect to be a notable part for a new runway in London's vicinity (of course a new runway also requires new fire fighting station and new tower etc. to guarantee service, such a project is a bit more than just the runway)
True, but they're also slower, so you'll have to either test fewer cases or run the tests less often.
Ask HN: Why 3D printing still sucks?
There are so many YouTube videos and you need to print calibration pieces so many times for even slight change in filament or seasonal change.

Are there companies which are making 3d printing better using better technologies?
Surrogate Mothers in Greece: “It's Not Her Baby”
Somewhere there are chip designers thinking they can create the first processor on which NetBSD cannot run. Have fun kids: many have tried that and failed!
NASA’s restored Apollo Mission Control is a slice of ’60s life, frozen in amber
I still don't understand how building an airport can be so difficult, and how we've apparently gotten worse at it over time. There's a weird mix of ego and incompetence at work in the BER project (e.g. smoke vents installed in the floor for artistic reasons, despite the face that smoke rises).

Yet at its core, an MVP of an airport would be a runway with a building next to it + fuel and security services. It baffles the mind that this can be such a shitstorm. I can only perceive this to be bikeshedding at a national scale.
The Air Force’s Crazy Idea of Boeing 747 Airborne Aircraft Carrier Concept
This is definitely one major issue. At the top. The challenge at the top is that these outsourcing contracts are for many millions of dollars. They are often written in such a way that the parent cannot dictate how the outsourcing firm conducts business. The parent fills out a ticket and the outsourcer assigns the ticket to a resource and marks the ticket complete. The issue here is that this is not a bug related to email or Login credentials. This is an airplane with folks relying on it for safety of flight.
Julia's ecosystem is rapidly catching up with R and Python (and it already has interop with those languages). I am quite fond of the language and would not be averse to using it as a main language in the near future.

This seems like a welcome addition. The tutorials are clear.
Sure, but is it really a question here that Boeing definitely would not try to hide this in the first place?

Why would Boeing willingly and knowingly ship a plane with a fuel leak? They know a fuel leak has an extremely deadly potential.

What could _possibly_ be the interest for Boeing to ship _one_ plane with a fuel leak? If that was a systematic thing, then yes why not, we could say they hid it on purpose. But here it doesn’t make sense.
Depends on the use case. I work for a MSP and I do almost all my office work in GSuite on the web. The only thing I fire up LibreOffice for is dealing with CSV files which are a pain in GSuite.

99% of my job requires nothing more than a web browser and a terminal with a SSH client. The remainder is mostly Wireshark.
Here in California, I give more than 50% of my money to the Government.
MS is actually walking back from lockdown. New Qualcomm ARM laptops allow you to disable secure boot exactly like on old x86 ones.

They don't need to do this anymore, pushing Windows is not their priority, they want to get people on Azure, Office 365 and Xbox live. Everything is about services these days.
> The thing that annoys me most on Windows is Windows itself. After using Linuxes for almost two decades now, the notion of the OS taking tens of minutes to self update when all I wanted was to quickly reboot it is unbearable.

This is definitely a problem especially considering that the shotgun approach to some Windows updates actually hurt the performance of some machines, even breaking Windows on occasion [0]. However, in fairness I would say that I've spent just as much or more time fixing rolling release issues on Arch/Manjaro, or troubleshooting the package stopping me from sudo apt upgrade. The worst experience for me was having to reformat after the update from Ubuntu 14.04 crashed.

What annoys me most about Microsoft's overarching paternalistic philosophy is is how creepy their telemetry initiatives are. Granted plenty of companies do this now, for the same profit-driven motivations, but Microsoft goes above and beyond in terms of disabling or even ignoring opt out options [1]. I've found the Winaero blog [2] to be a good source of tools to stop some of the Windows telemetry shenanigans.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/05/19/microsof...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/a4lpg0/windows_1...

[2]: https://winaero.com/
It wasn't that someone had installed a light switch and they couldn't find it....they just didn't a have a switch.

> "It has to do with the fact that we haven't progressed far enough with our lighting system that we can control it," Horst Amann, airport technical director, said on Wednesday during a rare public appearance.
I wonder if it has something to do with construction company execs having more skin in the game in more authoritarian regimes.
Why do evil scumbag jews like to use doublespeak? “not evil”, “not a robot” WTF?
Seriously.
While the cameras in the article seem to run on some stupid software that doesn’t help, I don’t think I would have cared as a student about cameras in general. In fact I may have appreciated the fact that cameras mean the teachers can’t get away with the privilege of being more trustworthy than the kids.

Catching cheaters would be nice. Catching bullies would be nice. Reducing the rate of false sexual assault claims and actual sexual assault (my year had one of each teacher:student).

But... it probably opens doors to worse things. Dumb cameras would be good. Smart cameras would be bad. As would software run over the dumb cameras.
Tegel is one of my favorite airports in Germany since I can reach it from central Berlin in 20 minutes by public transport and in the main terminal most gates are less than 5 minutes away from the entrance, so you could in theory arrive 40 minutes before your plane departs.

The building is very old of course and you can see that it far exceeds the capacity for which it was planned, still in terms of convenience it's hard to beat, and I'm not looking forward to having to fly from BER sometime in the future (though I'm pretty confident it won't fully open before 2025, if ever).
>There's a lot of public infrastructure around. The vast majority of it was commissioned by politicians. The vast majority of it is just there, mentioned a few times in the local rag before commission and upon opening and that's it.

Of course, because the most of the press doesn't do it's job. Here is a more banal example about public bathrooms in New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAE5emMCs8

>Berlin Brandenburg is an exceptional case

No, I wager is the rule.
I strongly agree, and what's more I have heard more than once of firms choosing to establish a European base in Lisbon over Berlin simply because of the airport connections.

Whilst we're ragging on Schönefeld, my least favourite part is having to walk through burger king to get to the departure gates.
I thought the only thing that had been confirmed about Fuchsia is that apps for it will be written in Flutter. Aside from that I've wondered if maybe it was Google's version of Microsoft's Midori project which was a microkernel operating system written in C# from which many lessons learns have been implemented in what we know today as Windows 10.

Or it could be a plan to abandon Android in order to avoid Oracle's Java API lawsuits.
Calling himself "Dr Humble" is somewhat ironic...
Canonical needs to put USB drives with Ubuntu into retail stores then :D
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How much was land acquisition and noise proofing of residential buildings for those? The new airport in Berlin is not in a particularly densely populated area...
Maybe this will be one of my reasons for returning to Windows.
How would a proof-of-work system, let alone a blockchain, work?

Apparently, GnuPG breaks badly at 150 000 signatures. You want adding a signature to be doable on a really old laptop and/or low-end Android phone; a motivated attacker can just choose to expand 1000 000 times as much effort as a not-too-interested user on antiquated hardware.

Of course you can make adding a signature more expensive the more signatures are already there, but that lets a motivated attacker make it impossible to vouch for certain users (keys.) Etc.
3-year vesting I guess :)
It's quite the opposite: The whole point of the architecture is often to facilitate testing. If we didn't have to write tests we could do without a lot of that boilerplate.
On my computers I use a commercial system with its own editor (Mac/Linux) and a free one (Clozure CL on Mac), also with its own editor.
I’ve worked on airport design. €5bn is not that much and 10 years is not a particularly long build time. Heathrow’s T5 building was about £4bn and the design work started in the 1980’s and it had loads of teething problems also. What’s the big deal? It sounds like they were just unrealistic about how long it would take and how much it would cost.
It seems like even personally identifying as conservative or liberal is a fairly new (last 30 years) change. Time was it meant "stay the course" vs "shake things up", which are reasonable things the change your mind about from election to election, or federal vs state elections. Now the parties are just sports teams, and you support your side as a matter of personal pride.

Look at Reagan's last election - he was hugely popular, and won by a massive margin in the electoral and popular votes. A big chunk of the country was happy voting for a democrat before Reagan, and went back to voting for one after him. I can't imagine a scenario like that these days.
> If dynamic languages let you write buggy code in half the time that it would take to write perfect code in a static language, that would be an acceptable trade-off in many contexts.

Shit at 50% off is still shit. You're not being paid to produce shit, even if you might be really, really efficient at doing so.
Well to be fair, all there is to go on at this point is that document. The blog is pitched at a wide audience and is meant to be a "light" entertaining read, rather than something in depth and technical. But agreed, it would be interesting to know the exact process of "extracting" the coded message. The point of the article is that it was there (or to your point, it was claimed in court that it was there!), rather than how it got there. Bottom line - it did the trick.
You describe with this every big government software project as well.
I think it’s the issue of Apple vs. Open in general. Apple’s echo system is closed to the world.

I think that for people outside of HN, that's OK. Not everyone trusts the open source community, or open source organizations.

If something goes wrong with something important, it's normal for people to want something or someone to blame. If that something is Apple, that's useful. If it's some rando on the internet contributing code to a code repository, it's significantly less useful to the ordinary person.

For the average person, entrusting Apple with their logins is a better option than using password1234 or some other coping mechanism. People know Apple. Nobody knows OpenID. It's the same reason people used to trust Microsoft (and many still do!) with their personal information. Microsoft is a known quantity.

It's like having a neighbor watch your pets while you're on vacation, or signing up with some random service on the internet to watch your pets. Those random services get bonded and insured for the peace of mind of the user. There is no such level of assurance from OpenID other than it uses the word "open" in its name, and as a culture we value the word "open" more than "closed."
Dandelion doesn't run on linux
I can only assume you've never been in a > 2 hour security queue during peak travel time due to Tegel's small departure gates / security staff / screening capacity, with a flight leaving in 40 minutes.
It is used as biofuel..
Been using Wire for team communication for while instead of things like Slack and Skype, really like it, but I wanted to try Jami instead as I got interested in the project.

It works beautifully for me on iOS when using just for personal stuff, but it seems they do not support group chats right now, which is a block for team communication.

Does seems like they are working on it, tho:
https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-project/wikis/Gro...

Being an official GNU project with EFF backing it makes it quite interesting. Definitely worth keeping an eye on it.
Sounds like psychopaths would do the best on these tests.
I doubt a Turkish supervision agency would have stopped the Turkish airport even once for any reason, with Erdogan's clear will to open it on time.

In Germany they did many times, for all kinds of reasons (mostly fire response).
Berlin is different from other European capitals in that it is the political and cultural center of the country, but not economically. It is also surrounded by low-density countryside, and located nowhere close to the geographic middle of the country.

As a result, air traffic is somewhat low with about 33 million passenger p.a. Heathrow alone gets almost three times as much.

The reason for having two (and, previously, three) smaller airports instead of a single, large one are obviously historical: both East and West Berlin each needed their own. In those times, traffic was even lower because few people in the East ever got to fly, West Berlin had basically no industry or business that was not exclusively local, and the population of West Berlin tended to be somewhat poorer as well.
It seems like tech so incredible as this would make eyewitness testimony quite literally “unbelievable” and “incredible”. If you had tech like that, you could pretty much show yourself to any group of people less than the population of an entire city, and nobody would believe them.
It's also a very common food ingredient.
As well as many other things, have you heard of Nutella?
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No it wouldn’t.

Ultimately the company is responsible for having processes that prevent this to happen.

However, processes fail.

Obviously if both the mechanic and the inspector plot together, then the process fails. And that’s what happened here.

Boeing reported it as soon as they were made aware of it.
I'm not slamming Emacs. I'm just pointing out that there are millions of developers that won't use it and making it a, more or less, requirement to get into Common Lisp is not good.
> Asked whether his algorithms could prevent a mass shooting, van der Vorst said: “I wouldn’t claim that we could prevent a crazy loony from shooting people.”

Call me a crazy loony, but I think someone who would phrase it that way isn't on the same planet as taking the problem space seriously.
beware that the TXL bus is not gonna reach Tegel anymore, they are changing the lines.
If you want to be a good writer you have to read.

If you want to be a good headline writer, read the headlines of the New York Post. Only the NY Post headlines writers could have come up with "Headless Body Found in Topless Bar." Headline was better than the article: Google it.
Why don’t you just ask them? Not in a confrontational way, but like “hey what are you up to this week?” I’ve worked in orgs from 10-30,000 people and have always been able to at least get 5-15 minutes with this level of management.
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OpenID Connect predates JWT so it certainly couldn't have been used from the beginning. I'm not aware if there is a re edition of the spec.

Either way, pretty much everything in OpenID Connect is optional and/or implementation specific. OIDC providers have to be integrated one by one, adjusting to their slight differences.
Working with other middle managers to align resources for upcoming projects according to company goals. For example, if you know you need to implement a foobar next quarter that will require another team to implement a bazblee that you depend on, they can work with the bazblee senior manager to make sure the bazblee gets done, instead of the plumbus being requested by another group (that is, if the foobar and bazblee are more important to the company's goals than the plumbus - otherwise, they'll do the plumbus and you won't get your bazblee - so you probably shouldn't work on your foobar project)

Convincing other managers of your project's alignment with company goals is usually not an exact science, so your middle manager's ability to get these things committed to and done can be highly variable, depending on their connections with other middle managers and their ability to influence.

You can tell if you have a good middle manager if things you need from the rest of the company tend to fall into place, versus constantly being disappointed when you ask for stuff from other groups in the company.

Of course this all requires skillful ICs and team managers to manage up and make sure the middle managers know what they are doing and what they will need from the rest of the company.
Yes this seems like it's going to range from very bad to outright terrible. In particular if the issue propagates prior to patching something like gpg as the package managers would be locked out from updates.

Every time there's an article about IoT security there's a discussion about lack of (security) updates and an upcoming Armageddon. Interestingly it'll be those devices that do not update that are immune to this type of thing.
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unfortunately it's being used in a lot of processed food. Nutella is among the most famous but if you carefully read food labels you'll see being used in a lot of more cases (sometimes it might go under a more generic vegetables fats). In Italy there was a big attempt to steer away from palm oil (at least in words) while in other countries it's not something felt at all: for example I live in Germany where you can hardly see any "palm oil free" ribbon on products.
Kind of an aside - what do you need to learn to create "deep dream" style generative programs, and can you learn it from fast.ai?
You must be mixing up the airports. Tegel is unique in that it has security and passport controls for each individual gate.

This allows you to arrive at almost the exact moment the gate closes because there will be no passengers for other flights in a queue with you. The gate agents can even see you going through security and will wait for a minute or so.
For what it's worth it is my experience that displayport MST has never worked reliably on any OS or hardware whatsoever. I gave up on it and am thankful I can now just buy a thunderbolt dock with multiple video outputs.
The drive to dilute the term is putting a lot of energy into making fighting fake news more difficult. There can be more than one bad thing happening in the world, but lumping them all together is just an excuse not to do anything about any of them.
thanks!that one was a cool headline.
wow they can take 74 shots and live

It would be interesting if humans could have tougher skin layers like many mammals do
While it's painful to read, this sort of thing is happening at most non-"tech" companies that find software becoming a necessary component in their products.

Software development especially at long-standing Fortune 500s is viewed by the old-guard management as an interchangeable cost-center and the results at Boeing are the predictable result.
I was thinking of lesbian couples using anonymous donors (as was the case in the article). If one has a brother, or either has a close male friend, they could use his sperm. Or, gay couples using a surrogate (vs adoption).

Definitely brings up other questions/issues arise there, but avoids the "will my kid have 42 step-siblings?" and similar questions.
Yeah I was surprised. Don't they have a ups for this kind of thing?
Is the future of computing truly this sort of “AI” that can be learned in an afternoon? No wonder self driving cars have been “just 5 years away” for the last 15 years...
Ask HN: Wall Monitors / Screens?
Hey HN,

The place I currently work uses around 400+ magnets in several conference rooms that have to be updated every couple weeks by interns.

Do you guys have any recommendations on monitors or screen solutions that could be run off an iPad or computer?

It's kind of a tough requirement:

* Data needs to be legible on the screens (400+ items)
* Would be on for 14-16 hours a day

Thanks for any recommendations!
Sure I have but that's mostly a problem for terminal C in my experience, as the budget airlines fly from there and they seems to have a different ratio of personnel to passengers. Airlines that mostly serve business travelers usually have better gate positions and more staff.
At least since C99 it is no longer true that all C programs are valid C++ programs. C isn't a subset of C++.
Don't forget that NASA lost a satellite by using archaic FPS units for scientific SI. The same stupidity continues & now blame they it on Indians who got to Mars on their first attempt.
Anything that isn't within a couple of levels of your own role is basically 'less visible'. That's sort of the point, it's about abstracting - divison of labour etc. So you can't really see the work that someone two levels above you is doing. Likewise for the same reason people higher in the org struggle to get information on people a few levels down are doing.

The basic answer is that operational roles are focused on the current phase of work. Middle level roles are focused on co-ordination. Higher level roles are focused on future phases of work (and managing external stakeholders).

For many of the senior roles the reasons the work is less visible is because it's either in situations employees aren't, or considered confidential. For example, CEO meeting with investors is a big chunk of work, but it's not that visible to employees. For an example of the second, I'd say 'organisational design' and areas of investment are often confidential as they have implications for hiring/firing.
> When the air-gun pellets pierced Hope’s eyes, blinding her, she felt her way up the tree trunks, auburn-furred fingers searching out tropical fruit for sustenance.

> By the end, Hope’s torso was slashed with deep lacerations. Multiple bones were broken. Seventy-four pellets were lodged in her body. Her months-old baby had been ripped away.
Mistake or missed opportunity? I think deciding not to get into the eBook market in 1997 when Microsoft employees had created the first eReader tablet "because I don't want to compete with Amazon" which only sold dead-tree books at the time was a gigantic missed opportunity. Had they seized that opportunity they would have been in the platform space of the Kindle and iPad about a decade before Amazon and Apple. Google the blog posts and videos with former Microsoft employee Bill Hill, the inventor of ClearType.
I expect that if Apple said it "forked" OpenID, then the HN community would be OK with it. It's all about the optics.