skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jets have been capable of doing landing automatically for decades. This is allowed only on certified planes and runways and actually required for poor visibility situations. ILS CAT IIIc has no decision height or run way visibility requirements but no airport actually supports that yet. The main reason for this is that taxiing blind is kind of tricky. Landing and stopping the plane on the other hand is a solved problem. CAT IIIb landings are fully automatic.

The plane approaches, flares, and lands and keeps the plane on centerline (in some cases). Most (if not all) currently flying 737s are capable of this. The question is of course if this particular airport was ready for that (if not, I'm not sure if the autopilot would allow this) and whether the pilots were certified for this.

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/aircraft-operating-foggy-cond...
US company offers free cybersecurity assistance to campaigns
How we optimized our DNS server using Go tools
OK, should be back up.
Now you could not use a CLA drafted by a union and instead try to fuck people over with your own contracts.

That would be illegal in Switzerland (not really a business hating commie hell hole). When a collective agreement exists for specific areas it applies to all companies in that area.

That's not to say that dodgy firms don't try to get around it, but if they're caught it it gets expensive and troublesome. And checks (alas, I don't know if sufficiently) are conducted.
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Launch HN: Podcast Audio, in One Click
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Server ran out of memory, apparently - back up now, with more swap space on the server :)
> It serves about 35,000 concurrently running A/B experiments,

With that amount of optimizations, you would expect them to have the best user experience in the world. Do they? I think there is something severely wrong with the current A/B testing methodology.
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>Thus far the discussion has focused on non-Ph.D. posing as field expert and coming up with original research.

I had thought we had already diverged from that when we were discussing noise filtering. In regards to original research in the actual field, I agree the standard must be tougher and personally wouldn't depend upon a single expert or peer reviewed paper to accept something as truth, especially in the social sciences. In physics, I assume any ground breaking results would be quickly redone by independent researchers and a consensus for or against would follow.
> What you don't seem to understand is that the battery tech's problems currently are not the chemical process or format of the cells, but the volume.

> So no this is not only about vision, Tesla (whether Musk himself or his engineers) identified a real problem, and engineered a real solution - the gigafactory

So, Musk identified a problem (manufacturing batteries at scale), found a vendor with a solution (Panasonic) and sold it under the name Tesla.

Do you see my point now?
I think it’s to keep a horse in the race.
I wish there was a better way of handling that in Rust. You should be able to have a few markers in your code:

- uses unsafe
- no unsafe, but dependencies may use unsafe
- no unsafe, no dependencies except the standard library may use unsafe
- no unsafe, not even in the standard library uses

The current situation is the second one, but many cases probably want the third, and occasionally the fourth.

The best part is, this should be fairly easily solved by crates.io upon submission (is there any use of unsafe and are all dependencies marked as strict or more strictly than yours?).
This would be a cogent argument if there weren't degrees of damage.
It does say something about a precedent though.

I like protecting the environment, but the proposed scenario seems pretty implausible to me.
Guys on my team struggle with Apex daily since we've started using it, which has lead to me look for a better, FOSS alternative. This looks like it might be the one
Still using my first gen iPad here, though it's only for reading ebooks.

I have a bunch of 30 pin cables for it though (eg one left plugged into charger at home, one always in my bag, etc). No idea which one is the original cable, and which are cheapo knock-offs.

Over the years, I think one of them went bad and needed replacing. The rest are fine though.
AWS Fargate vs. Lambda: Comparing cost, performance, ease of use
How could cutting drivers pay without cutting prices to increase demand raise revenue? It would raise profit possibly or in Uber’s case reduce losses.
"Roger beeps" - a type of squelch tones - control intermediate equipment too, like amateur radio repeaters.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squelch#Uses
Needle in a haystack. It's roughly as inaccessible as the Amazon; at least there you have water. We "know" as a matter of statistical likelihood that there are significant numbers plant and animal (mostly insect) species in the Amazon that have been destroyed by human action before they can be meaningfully catalogued, it's just fortunate that these trees have been found and protected.
Here you go: https://hursts.org.uk/airbus-nonnormal/notes.pdf

Section 2.17. Volcanic Ash Encounter
via https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/readiness/tree/master...:

> 1. Once traffic is ensured to flow though Cloudflare, we initiate decommission of Route53.

> We would disable the transfer lock and generate an auth code.

> immediately after, we move the domain over to the Cloudflare registry

I love the overall plan but this part would worry me... The most obvious contingency plan when you're putting so many eggs into one basket is to keep a kill-switch somewhere like your domain registrar, where you can abandon ship entirely by switching nameservers in the worst of scenarios, right?

Correct me if I'm wrong but when the Cloudflare dashboard went down a few weeks (months?) ago, no sort of DNS-level changes would have been possible. (Either way, I don't think you can even set external nameservers for domains on Cloudflare Registrar yet?)

Just curious about the thinking behind this particular move and why the pros outweigh the cons of leaving the domain where it is.
I think that's fair - especially the part about not taking advantage of generosity. But I don't think that's what happened here. Someone reported a soundness bug. Someone else (IIRC) posted a patch fixing it by switching from a custom Cell type to the standard library one, which is what the maintainer called uncreative and boring. Fixing a soundness bug is a perfectly reasonable, non-advantage-taking thing to do in a PR.

(I agree that in general there is a problem with open-source users feeling entitled to support/features and maintainers not feeling comfortable saying no, but that doesn't seem to be the type of incident that triggered this, and more generally it is difficult for me to see how a patch would count as that - at least a patch that isn't "please maintain this pile of new code," which this one wasn't.)
I am a bit upset about all the downvotes,i know it's bad etiquette to complain about that but I just wanted to say how questions of curiosity shouldn't be looked down upon. This isn't my field but climate change is concerning, so I simply wanted to know why certain solutions (however naive) were not being pursued.

Cheers.
I had a very similar experience!

My "Christmas Countdown Clock" widget (hey, I was only 12 at the time...) got literally hundreds of thousands of downloads when Apple linked to my hosting space from their old widget gallery.

After this first taste of "success" I doubled-down on learning to code and, well, here we are today :)
Door Dash is so fucking shady. I ordered something from a local restaurant there. When the food was 45 minutes late, I drove there. Turns out the restaurant had never even heard of Door Dash.
Older aircraft had the ability to spray deicing fluid on the windshield. After that bleed air from the engines was used but now it's mostly electrically heated.
Do the satellites disrupt telescopes world wide? If that's the case it's pretty tough on observatories that were recently built, at (apparently) a tens of millions of dollar price tag, that are now impacted by the decision to launch without proper oversight.

Obviously having more accessible internet for the rest of the world is a positive.

Ref: https://www.space.com/8791-giant-telescope-50-million-fundin...
Australia could stop trying to game or sabotage the existing efforts of "everyone": https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-16/australia-climate-car...
Does the dataset before the dawn of agriculture and permanent settlements matter that much?

The conversation largely revolves around flooding and food production.

The earth will be fine, itll bounce back. Billions of people however, could be displaced from their homes as their land floods, or starve if food production and distribution is destroyed. The Earth had maybe 1 billion people 200 years ago. Now its at 7.5. Unprecedented doesnt begin to describe the migration that would occur if the Earth lost its coastal cities.

What I dont like about this animation is that giant land masses like the USA and Russia get the same treatment as tiny countries. The average temperature of the USA is a lot less useful than if it were broken down by region.
Not much I can say to that if your view is to discount anything I say due to being inside the industry. Seems like you've given yourself an airtight excuse to not consider any counter argument.
But you don't hold a door: you are dropping a package on the street and letting people pick it up. Anyone can reuse the cardboard, paint it red, stack it up with other packages, or hang it on their livingroom walls... but there is no guarantee that the package won't contain a bomb, that the cardboard was made by eco-friendly methods, or that it will last one second after getting dropped on the streets.
> Except for the ASN.1 part. That's never a good idea.

Don't kink-shame the ITU-T! They're just sadomasochistic, that's all...
It also falls victim to that thing.

That thing where something groundbreaking spawns absolutely countless numbers of (mostly pale) imitations, people experience those imitations first, and then then when they finally experience out the original they find it kind of underwhelming.

It's so frustrating!
You may want to revisit how you do this. At the very least use git submodules so a particular version of your code pulls the correct version of a dependency.
I agree with you. Really it is something that probably can be learned over time. I think it helps a lot to just remember how much money this or that dumb hater have paid for their entitlements (i.e. nothing), which -at leas in my eyes- emotionally reduces their words to a child's tantrum.
There is (or was) a movement on Instacart where you'd tip $0.22 to show that you intended to either tip cash or increase the tip amount after delivery (which somehow benefits the shopper).
I agree Warframe is a "No-Bullshit" game but you still need real money to buy slots for weapons and Warframes. This is a game where you are supposed to acquire as many of those as possible to complete your collection kinda like Pokemon. It's more of a pay-as-you-go model.
Hating the game vs. hating the player.

We all have to do things in our own self-interest, especially when there are higher powers bearing down upon us.

They're not off the hook, but they're not the biggest fish that needs to be fried. Going after them won't solve anything except the need to vent one's own emotions.

The cycle will continue to repeat for other websites and other people. We've established that it happens often, and we've even established the root cause. Idling on "who's at fault and what should their punishment be" is just that: idling.
Device Concept as CES: Smart Mail Box
There are traditional B&Bs--though much less so in cities and many presumably cross-list on AirBnB these days. Honestly, for regular business travel, chain hotels may be boring but they have 24 hour desks and a certain level of standards (which varies by chain). When I'm travelling for business, the last thing I need is lack of predictability.
If the dollar creates two dollars, it’s not wasted. A dollar spent on PV will generate enough electricity for many cakes.
> ads that try to fingerprint my device

pretty sure they all do ...
There are plenty of repository clones, that's not the issue. The issue is that people want to contribute back to the same repository so you don't have to figure out which project is the just up to date. When a project like this goes away, it takes some time for everyone to figure out which fork is actually being maintained properly.

The best course of action, IMO, is to state that you're stepping away, perhaps indefinitely, and ask if anyone wants to be added as an admin to take over. That's not required, but it's a nice thing to do.

I'm sad about this on a lot of levels, any I hope the maintainer does what I'd like, but if not, I'll just wait a few months and see how the dust settles. For now, I'll probably go back to investigating other projects.
Sad to see this. I'm using Actix in a new project and have been watching the project for a while. Guess I'll be refactoring to use Hyper. If I were farther along I'd probably try to take ownership, but it doesn't make sense given that it's only around 40 LOC in my project that depend on Actix at this point so switching out to another framework is more straightforward than taking ownership of a codebase I don't know.

I understand fafhrd91's (the maintainer) frustration, but it would have been much better to just abandon the project and throw it up for some other volunteer to come in and take it over. Then the project can live on and he can bask in any success it has in the years down the road. Instead, it's a complete mess where all the good work and good will has been undone in a single move.

I've abandoned multiple OSS projects over the years and let other maintainers come in and take them over. Now over 10 years later I can still say I created that project that still gets used because other people have seen value in continuing to contribute and maintain it.
Soem comments on both the article, and other comments here:

- It's an interesting assessment, but without know the details of how he did the measurement, take care in interpreting the results. If he was using a smart-phone just lying on s seat of floor, the data are almost certainly (mostly) meaningless. If he was using a professional triaxial accelerometer that was rigidly or semi-rigidly attached to the floor, the data are more representative.

- With regards to comments about the data being related to track conditions. Passenger trains have two sets of suspension - the primary suspension between the axles and trucks (bogies for our European/Asian friends) and the secondary suspension between the truck and the passenger car. The secondary suspension is typically very soft for ride-quality purposes and is mostly isolated from the track. The vertical vibration levels measured here are almost entirely a result of the ride-quality decisions made by the manufacturer and agency engineers, and less so about the track condition.

- As pointed out by nhf and inferiorhuman, the side-to-side jerkiness (lateral vibfration) is likely related to track condition and is some combination of track alignment problems and wheel hunting (there the wheels on the solid axle bounce sideways back-and-forth between the parallel rails).

- Electrifying the line will have no affect on the cabin vibration unless Caltrains elects to purchase entirely new passenger cars with different secondary suspension design goals. If the new electric locomotives are pulling/pushing the same passenger coaches, the vibration will be the same.

- From personal experience I can tell you that the TransRapid TR08 (German system, used in China) can gave similar subjective levels of jerkiness when the guideway configuration has a sudden change.
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That's plausible, although as a relatively naive user, I always thought the 5.99 + 10% was just how they decided to calculate the price to scale with the cost of the order. I never thought that the 5.99 was all for the driver. I might be in the minority though, it would be interesting to see how masses of people generally read that language.
yeah. maybe that's why i get this feeling of being out of touch with software that was written with an IDE. you can see the difference come debugging time. C/Emacs you just know where everything is, just reading the logs (sans stack trace) is enough. Java/Eclipse ... you need to bring in the heavy machinery, and then good luck to you.
Yeah, fck DoorDash.

DoorDash is the worst of all of these types of gig services. They are expensive, late, forget to grab items from the restaurant and they are not careful with food.

After a few times using them (and getting a different delivery person every time) a chilling thought occurred to me. There is nothing preventing a driver from either eating part of your food or tampering with it. Think about that. A total stranger is completely alone* with your food with zero oversight.

Once I was at a Starbucks when I saw the strangest thing. Some dude rushes in with a carryout bag and sat at the nearest table. He opened the bag, opened one (of many) styrofoam containers and hurriedly ate only part of one meal. Then he packaged it all back up and drove away without buying anything from Starbucks.

At least in a restaurant you are dealing with employees and people are everywhere. DoorDashers work for a massive faceless corporation who has been shitty about pay and tips.

Why wouldn't they grab a bite or two?
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Would the logistics still be the same if you're talking about cooling spcific subsets of the polar regions? For example, the "rim" of the arctic?

Perhaps the excess heat from nuclear can be used to clean up CO2, I remember reading a few articles that suggest CO2 cleaning plants are actually practical
But automating navigation for helicopters is much easier than for cars. At least until every other person has a personal helicopter, but even then the problem is probably much easier to solve.
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Consumer Reports, Labdoor, etc. work just fine.

You can look at where the money for these companies comes from, and see who they're serving.

Also, if you think that advertising bias and vested interest is clearly labeled, you may be seeing a lot of advertising that you don't realize is advertising.
> Weightlifting is the best medicine bar none for this middle aged mostly desk bound programmer.

Couldn't agree more. Loaded compound movements are just unreasonably effective. A nice added bonus (I find) is the therapeutic aspect of lifting. I think some of it is simply that it's almost a form of meditation in the sense that you block out all other thoughts and are focused on just on the movement and your own body.

Not to get too melodramatic about it, but squatting in particular teaches you mental toughness and is a great metaphor for life: you shoulder a burden and when you get down (the descent) you dig deep to come back up again.
"It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today."

We still use the same system today: most ham radio repeaters are triggered (and can be remotely configured by the owners) through audio tones; also most license free radios implement subtone codes (ctcss) to trigger the audio output when a radio with the same code is transmitting. The idea is that people wanting to talk each other use the same code so that they won't listen to transmissions by others. The system works as intended but is flawed by giving a false sense of privacy when users think others won't be able to listen to their conversations just because they use that code, which is false as there is no proteciton at all: the code is merely used on the receiver to voluntarily squelch off the audio when the same code isn't provided by the transmitter, but anyone with a receiver not using codes can listen to them.
> buy expensive electric cars, install expensive solar panels, and fund expensive climate change activists

Studies indicate that dealing with the effects of climate change is going to be far more expensive than averting it in the first place. This "expense" is an illusion.

> little consolation to the thousands of lives lost every decade in that country to natural disasters and disease

Climate change is also going to cause tremendous human misery in the form of floods, fires, increased temperatures, harvest failures, and so on. Places like Haiti are going to be the worst hit.
Interesting article on the technical aspects of scaling such a service, no doubt. One question remains - was any of this necessary? It's amazing how much work their machines are doing to analyze the data, and it sounds like all decisions are made on data, but I would love to see is an article that defends all this data in exchange of humans making decisions. Is this algorithmic approach optimal for the outcome, or is it optimal for decision making? Would love for someone from LIN to explain the big picture!
I expected to see something like this here.

I had a period where I wasn't doing any class work but didn't have my degree and couldn't get a job because of that. The ability to trade time and tires for some of the extra VC money was kind of awesome honestly and I'd imagine it gives people who are in worse situations options they really need (essentially borrowing against car components.)

I know in a few years it will change when they try to become profitable but there will be another thing by then.
This would have happened identically even if the project had its own hosting, so outsourcing hosting to GitHub isn't a factor in this case.
Cache Is King
First I thought "This is going to be a case where a train geek obsesses over a slightly bumpy ride". Then I watched the video and my jaw dropped.

I have no words honestly. 150 year old cog wheel trains in the Alps offer a better ride than this.

Honestly that was atrocious. I can't believe people put up with it. That's a roller coaster ride, not a commuter train. With that sort of movement, you can't eat, drink or do any work. You are lucky to be able to have a nap.