skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The name 'Null Island' serves as both a joke based around the suppositional existence of an island there, and also as a name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0,0 are assigned in placenames databases in order to more easily find and fix them.

Didn’t knew geographers were such funny guys, but it’s a nice one!
I (an Eastern European software engineer who was working at Google Switzerland) can't forget the Christmas gift I got from Google that I donated Chromebooks to students in U.S.

It was the weirdest Christmas present that I got in my life, and believe me I got some very weird clothes from my mum when I was young.
If you go to DaveBailey.com and look in resources, you'll find structured reading lists full of 'friend links', allowing you to access them for free. Hope you enjoy :)
If they do this 25 times, and still end up crashing is it possible that perhaps the procedure is a touch too complicated for a life and death situation?
> you get prominently asked at install time

Do you? I know the iOS setup wizard asks for analytics, but I don't recall it ever asking whether you want to turn on "limit ad tracking".
Yeah, this is very cool, and I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it. Though I think we’re finally at the point where async python web frameworks and tools are great, to the point where I’m no longer jonesing for something better like I used to, both in terms of performance and usability.

Yeah, aiohttp was where it all really began, and sanic is nice for recovering Flask users, but if you really want to see performance and momentum, check out Starlette (https://www.starlette.io) and FastAPI (https://fastapi.tiangolo.com) which is built on top of Starlette and is very clever and probably the most rapid way to build an API that I’ve ever seen. In most practical tests Starlette also outperforms aiohttp/etc. by a factor of 5, and the ASGI spec it’s built on is the actual successor to WGSI and the future of python web programming.

Things have come a very long way the last handful of years, and there are many great options. Nice to see yet another one.
Commodore never upgraded Paula chip (knowing that company they probably immediately fired designer and didnt keep documentation to the chip), every model got the same 1985 state of the art Double Density floppy controller all the way to 1994 bankruptcy. As LIV2 already mentioned even their top of the line $3.5k A4000 Workstation shipped with gimped Floppy subsystem.
This article is incredibly misleading and I can't believe almost everyone on HN is taking it at face value. You've clearly made assumptions to fit your conclusion without verifying the validity of the assumptions themselves.

The items you list at the top are just part of the normal telemetry subsystem and have nothing to do with advertising. Windows has an separate system for advertising and it's completely isolated from telemetry data unless users opt-in to "Tailored experiences" within the privacy settings. (See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468236/diagnostics...)

Ad tracking within windows is limited to the windows store apps you open and what you search for in the start menu if web-searches with Bing are enabled, which is entire gist of the "Microsoft Search Network".

Opting-out from "Advertising ID" during install/in privacy settings, or disabling personalised ads globally @ choice.microsoft.com stops this behaviour entirely.

Instead of making assumptions about Cortana, you could've just checked the privacy guide:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468233/cortana-and...

I quote: "Cortana does not use the data you share to target ads to you. Ads may accompany search results that Cortana delivers, just as they do when you search on Bing.com. Even if Cortana does the searching for you, your web search queries will be treated as described in the Bing section of the Microsoft Privacy Statement."

Using Cortana doesn't give Microsoft any more ad money over someone just doing a plain Bing search.
404. Try this instead: https://github.com/lazysysadmin/DomMan
I don't want any advertising in the software I buy.
YaCy – Decentralised Search Engine
The "horrific" part is also a preparation for adult life, which is not just roses and kind people.

So that's part of the "social experience".

Someone home schooled, especially if kept from friends too, would have a much bigger problem understanding adult life.
Redundancy plays a part, but it is not a major one. Major differences include the amount of scrutiny and government supervision in terms of inspections, certifications, regulations, maintenance, traceability, medical checks etc. that commercial aviation requires and the difference in technology and support between a modern commercial airliner and the average general aviation plane.
Well, at one point a recruiting company acting on their behalf tried recruiting me for an ops position. After seeing a few metre long NDA in perfect English, and Russian, and them being extremely tight lipped for whom and what for the job is, it was very clear to me that it was Google given that I knew that the recruiter is one of the few with whom Google works in Russia.

I asked "Google?" It raised their eyebrows, but they said they can't answer that.
link is right there, under the post https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118 Easiest would be finding your local retro computer museum/club.
Engines are a big one. But the reasons are innumerable. Commercial aviation is always scheduled, so you have a very definite takeoff time, location, and destination. This cuts down the variables encountered along the way greatly and allows for precise route planning taking weather and traffic into account at all times. Commercial flights are also 100% IFR even in perfect weather, which means their every maneuver is coordinated with ATC. ATP pilots are also literally 100x the experience of your average GA pilot with a couple hundred hours. Not only that but they are in regular practice, not just someone hopping in the left seat for potentially the first time in years. They're also held to a much higher medical clearance level by the FAA, so you have far fewer medical incidents inflight. GA also includes training flights too, which contribute a significant amount to the accident numbers.
I’ve never heard of anyone who actually uses mnesia for real or would consider it prime-time. I’m no Oracle fanboy but comparing their DB to mnesia is like comparing an oil rig driller to a fisher price screwdriver.
I, for one, would jump at the chance on flying on commercial planes so problematic a reaction by the pilot of less than 10 seconds causes the whole passenger list's death

Hey walterbright, who do you work for?
Oh, I quite agree that Boeing screwed up the MCAS software design and needs to fix it. My experience with designing safe systems at Boeing has led to a lot of design decisions in D. I often look at lists of common bugs in programs to see if I can find a way to design such bugs out of the programming language.

I also regularly tell people that if you don't have a plan for when your software fails, you're going to be sorry. In this case, the plan is for the pilots to follow the runaway trim procedure.

As for software people, do you have a backup plan for when the software goes berserk? No? Well, someday it will go berserk and delete all your files. Have a backup plan. Suing the software maker won't get your files back.

About 90% of pilot training is dealing with emergencies that are never supposed to happen. One of them is runaway trim. Nobody has a plan to dispense with pilots and rely totally on automation.
> I'm just amazed that they have so many employees yet their window and browser apps are still really lacking.

Well they're lacking an entire platform (Linux), so it's not even just about differences in polish.
How is this even remotely interesting? Car journeys are far more frequent and shorter than airplane journeys. It doesn't mean anything.
Except when the best tool for the job is a language without GC at all.
The European IBank is an arm of the European Central Bank. The mandate of the ECB is to provide a stable currency, not to combat climate change. That is something for the European parliament and the governments of EU countries to tackle.
Leaving Google it became clear how extremely entitled the culture was. People lose perspective when embedded in a culture that is permissive about entitlement.

Management will always attract its share of assholes, and enablers of assholes. And while I don't mean to excuse behaviors in management that are inexcusable, I think the sense of entitlement and overinflated egos of the rank and file did much to improve company culture.
I'm not sure if this is relevant. The point about Brewer's yeast is literally in the last appendix, here: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix I do agree that this is a minor point and included this mostly out of curiosity.
Another example is G Suite. They started as "Gmail with your own domain" and switched to a corporate Office suite. Now individuals that use them regret it more and more.

At least password managers are easy to switch.
ML from Scratch, Part 5: Gaussian Mixture Models
Who Will Buy Canonical and SUSE?
How hard it is to turn off a switch right there on the center console so it is easily accessible?

(It's not like the pilot has to turn around and search for it.)
Show HN: Flying Logos – Exclusive Logo Animations with Sound Design
It is enough to expect him to perform better as a leader at least.
> And since I paid $11 thousand dollars to be in a position to reply to you, I think I will:

Is there a list of top HN quotes, because I would like to add this one!
> That is not their fault, they don't get to make laws, only interpret them.

Isn't that exactly what the parent of your post called:

> These judges are essentially monkeys in a machine shop.

Blindly trying to apply an unfitting law, because those are the instructions?
Equipment used is part of it, but smaller than you’d imagine.

Well maintained single engine aircraft (in the certified category) are generally reliable. The majority of incidents in these planes come down to avoidable pilot error. Looking at the forces behind pilots making mistakes will provide a lot of insight. General aviation is not forgiving to mistakes and tired, under-trained, overconfident or briefly otherwise human behavior can (and does routinely) cause issues. These factors are more carefully compensated for on the commercial side.

Of course, the counter argument here is the missing safety features that should exist to compensate for mistakes.
From the article: "The first two statistics are computed for typical travels for respective forms of transport, so they cannot be used directly to compare risks related to different forms of transport in a particular travel 'from A to B'."
If my boss is too fancy to recook coffee so am I. Communal assets only work out if they are properly cared for by almost everyone except the usual antisocial free-riders who you have to ignore.
twitter seemed to have suspended somebody for sharing this https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1195565351930486784
Thanks for weighing in.

A decade back, my SO worked on clinical trials at a research hospital in the eye clinic. I understand nothing about this stuff.

However, I gleened one important bit of advice:

Avoid any surgery, procedure that surgeons themselves avoid. My SO claims that eye doctors avoid LASIK.

Maybe 10 years ago, a visiting eye doctor was lecturing about LASEK (not LASIK), an operation he had done on himself, and other doctors took note. That was evidence to my SO that LASEK was worth considering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy#LA...

Again, I know exactly nothing about this stuff. I am not saying to have LASIK or not. Progress marches on and I'm certain techniques have improved.

But I do think this is a good universal heuristic. So am encouraging patients to ask their care provider if they'd get it done themselves.
Actually you can do this fairly easily by:

1) Learning nano/vim

2) Understanding what X window manager is and does

3) Understanding how config files work

4) Editing the appropriate config file to change DPI. Be careful not to do something wrong or you'll mess your system up

So easy my grandma could do it.
The difference is control. For me[0] the probability of death in an airplane is higher than the chance of death by car - whether I'm a pedestrian or driving.

[0] Of course I could be wrong -- but I really don't think so
The table that's linked is also in the UK for the decade between 1990-2000, so about twenty years ago.

I'd wager that in first world countries, aviation has gotten safer since the 90s as well. The last decade has seen exactly one commercial aviation fatality in the US during the engine failure on a Southwest flight last year, while there are about ten deaths per day on average in the US for cars.

In comparison, Japan has had zero fatalities in 55 years of operation for the Shinkansen (super express trains).
The way I see it, "desktop-dependent workflows" overlap more and more with those "Windows-dependent workflows". Nowadays, most people don't need more than a web browser, and in that sense they do just fine with a tablet or phone (where iOS and Android dominate, and GNU/Linux is not really a viable option, at least not yet), or a Chromebook (yes, it's Linux, but it's mainly just Chrome).

Most people I know with a legitimate use for a desktop also have legitimate reasons to use Windows or macOS: gaming on Windows, content creation on Windows or macOS (graphics designing, video editing, ...), and MS Office lock-in. The only exception I can think of are developers, but even then, depending on the kind of development one is doing, using Windows or macOS may be the only choice.
> What's your argument?

I was replying to the argument that they had only 4-10 seconds. They had much more than that.
Considering that he claims to have worked for Boeing, this has made me... really concerned.
My name is Homo Sapiens, hominid of hominids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvbTFwXagdQ
i joined. First "friend request" i got was from some Bitcoin marketer who had subbed to "every" interest group....
I couldn't see any way to flag this person, report them for spam or otherwise mark them as someone I'm not interested in.
I was also spammed by the "new posts in..." for subs i had not joined and have zero interest in getting email from.
In short, this feels like something from the good old days when we all thought the internet was a small and friendly town... What the hell were they thinking!
>There is no Windows equivalent of Little Snitch

BW Meter is closer to Little Snitch than Glasswire. And it's very light on resources.
What is the draw to pay a subscription for a product that you have to write scripts to use, when there are free/open-source alternatives that offer a full client (like KeepassXC)?
Not sure if this is a meaningful metric. Much better to compare the deaths per traveled distance.
In a way your are comparing apples to oranges unless you can choose between either mode of transport for the same trip. Trying to directly compare car and plane journeys doesn't really make sense. Cars vs buses vs suburban trains, or planes vs high-speed trains are better comparisons.

For example, comparing the risk of flying or taking the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka is a fair comparison. But you would probably not choose to drive that journey.

Interestingly around 50% of car accidents occur within 5 miles of the individuals home which is barely double the length of an airport runway!

Number of trips may be a better risk measure when comparing plane flights as most crashes occur on take off or landing. The actual distance traveled is probably irrelevant.
I don’t think his neighbor’s family would agree with you:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.itpro.co.uk/security/33284/...
95% of you reading this and thinking oh, that's neat let me use this for the company are going to waste time and resources. Why? Because the kind of complexity the article tries to address is not reached by the vast majority of the deployments out there. Typically the 'superstructure' is larger than the thing it supports. As soon as that's the case and there is not credible path to a (near!) future where you will need that superstructure you are better off with the simplest configuration that you can get away with. It will be more robust, easier to modify and easier to troubleshoot than any of these abstraction layers.

Question one for anything that you aim at production should be: "Do I really need this?" and only if the answer is a very clear yes and you're not just trying to implement $COOLTECH because you are distracted by its shininess or because 'Google does it too' then you should go ahead and implement.

My #1 technique for improving installations is to rip out unnecessary superstructure which is obscuring why things are going wrong, and more often than not is actually part of the problem. Works every time.

The same goes by the way for modeling your development process on whatever Spotify does with your 6 people development team, and in fact for any other piece of tech that you bring on board. Each of those pieces has a cost of implementation, a cost of maintenance and a cost of cognitive overhead associated with it. The best shops out there use the least number of technologies they can get away with.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
Also, it got significantly safer by time.
Ask HN: If u block Win10 telemetry at FW does ur DuckDuckGo image srch not work?
Made these changes.
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl
Win32PrioritySeparation = 0x16.
Reboot.
TCPview upon login shows a svchost pid going to 1.1.1.1 resolves slowly (few seconds) to one.one.one.one Cloudfare.
ProcessExplorer shows the pid as
c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe -k utcsvc -p
Services:Connected User Experiences and Telemetry [Diagtrack]
Added a block all (domain, public, private) to ip address 1.1.1.1 in the windows firewall.
Searchbar (cortana) no longer works even on a program search.
Image search in DuckDuckGo for show tiles of a silohoutte of a slr camera encapsulated in a circle with a diagonal line ie road sign no whatever type.

Considering DuckDuckGo should be independent of Windows, does anyone else see these "no image camera" tiles being shown in the DDG image search when windows telemetry is blocked at the firewall?

Software is predictable even malware. I've not setup cloudfare DNS on my machine, which is whats odd, it should be using my ISP dns from the router, but I have no way of knowing if my net access is going out over a vpn or not, ISP cant tell me so I have no way of knowing how bad things are.

Thanks.
Same SF where Mozilla's employees revolted against a CEO who donated to support Prop 8? None of that was political, then?

(And hiring mostly in SF isn't itself a political choice?)
Since Windows 7 is going to lose security updates, I have been looking at what to replace it with. My main use case being games (actual work and internet being on Debian).

What I found was that Windows Server seems to cut most of the features I do not want in Windows (Cortana, Windows Store and Microsoft accounts, OneDrive...) while still being purchasable on Amazon (although at 3-6 times the price). There are several issues (drivers and application compatibility, various settings have to be changed to match the "regular" Windows behavior), but so far I prefer it a lot to regular Windows 10.
I forget the name of the subreddit. The old subreddit which captured man's manipulative, controlling & dark side of relationships and general coaching of male sexual behaviour aimed at maximum recreation, has been quarantined a while ago and now the female version with basically the same content about how to deal with the dark side of relationships for women is in vogue. They both overlap with multiple political groups and generally attract the unsavory. They use the same language and have information structured in same format.
I was curious about point 3; was lion air responsible for detecting the failed AOA sensor or someone else?

I can't exactly say but a quick read comes up with some relevant points:

"According to the reports presented to the Indonesian parliament, a Florida-based aerospace company performed the repair of the faulty AOA sensor."

https://airlinerwatch.com/broken-aoa-sensor-in-lion-air-737-... [from april 2019]

So possibly it's not LA's fault, however

"On Nov. 5, CNN published an update on the crash investigation from Capt. Nurcahyo Utomo of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) noting that the FDR review also concluded that the aircraft's airspeed indicator had been malfunctioning on four consecutive flights prior to the crash. Utomo also indicated the pilots should have recognized the malfunction when it occurred on flight JT610."

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/11/07/faa-issues-boeing-7... [from nov 2018]
> then you could have afforded to secure all of your passwords.

You can secure all your passwords for free (with Keepass or Bitwarden for example).

1password doesn't have to justify its price versus not securing your passwords, but versus open-source password managers.
Yes, because air travel have less trips but quite longer. Title is as fair as me saying that space shuttle is safer than walking per billion km.
There are open-source alternatives which are just as secure. You're not paying for the security, but for the polish and convenience.
I mean for software we talk about reproducability and versions down to the bit. But if a consumer products replaces one piece of metal with plastic it's apparently the same product?

Products should have versions that look like this.

2.1

* Replaces piece X with plastic.
* Reduced frame width to save material costs.

This could also be positive and make it more transparent.

2.2

* Strength part X that breaks very often.
* Change edges to reduce chance of injury.

I mean this opens a huge box of problems, I know apple didn't want to admit their keyboard was problematic in fear of lawsuits.
This is how it should be.
Because changing a name allows the same English grammar to be used the same as it usually would and creating a new pronoun does not. Also, I feel like no one would really care that much if people called Stan by the name that’s registered to him (but prefers not to be called), whereas it becomes a political issue if someone didn’t call him by his preferred pronoun.
As far as I know, there's never been an incident with the 757 stab trim. I'm delighted when I find out my flight is on a 757.

By the way, my opinions on this issue are my own. I don't speak for anyone else.
It's not a strawman. Good jokes that haven't been said before are hard to find and many times lie on the edge of what's acceptable and isn't acceptable or is a combination of nearly unrelated ideas delivered through a multitude of different comedic devices. There's a reason that workplace humor is so repetitive and soul deadening.
Just rename it : Konkat. Easy /s
The engines aren't the big difference. It's the operating procedures in commercial aviation that are much different. If I step into a single engine Cessna in my private time, I'm allowed to fly with almost no equipment, very little reserve fuel, no plan for an alternate airport, in shitty weather all by myself.

Now if I step into a plane with passengers (even if it's the same small Cessna), suddenly I'm no longer allowed to fly single pilot IFR operations without autopilot, need much higher fuel reserves, need to plan an alternate, check weather requirements and have done a 6-monthly checkflight and training. And for most airplanes I would also need a co-pilot, so there are two people monitoring everything.

Most small airplane crashes are not due to engine or equipment failure, mostly it's pilot error, and that's where all the extra procedures in commercial aviation really help.
But are players happy with updates that destroy everything they built? Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this game, I'm only surprised by what I read on this article.