skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first was Lion Air. I know of several multinationals in Asia that ban employee travel on Lion Air and its subsidiaries. They've recently been caught attempting to bribe transport safety officials, with the knowledge of senior management at Lion; a number of their pilots and other crew have been caught using crystal meth; and they were formerly banned from EU airspace (the ban was lifted a few years ago).

Indicative of their company culture is that on the MAX accident flight, there was a maintenance engineer in the jump seat observing in an attempt to diagnose the AoA issue which had also occurred on the previous flight of the same aircraft. On the previous flight, the specific combination of factors to cause the trim runaway didn't occur. This aircraft should have been grounded while the issue was resolved, and instead was taken for a test flight with unwitting passengers on board.

The second was Ethiopian, who are growing rapidly and thus hiring rapidly. The first officer of the accident flight had flown an aircraft (any aircraft) for a total of 350 hours.

FAA wrote to Ethiopian in 2016 decertifying them, with 60 findings identifying a systemic failure of the entire quality management and training management systems. They were recertified in 2017 but there have been whistleblower reports that nothing significant changed, with politically-oriented decisions, nepotism, unsafe practices, task cards being signed off without executing the required maintenance actions, etc. EASA still doesn't consider the issues resolved. Look up Yonas Yohannes Yeshanew, who used to be Director of Aircraft Engineering there.
And please mind that e2e means next to nothing when the data is stored and retrieved with a closed source (and usually auto-updating) client app.
Pinboard.
Nobody else can excel because finance dominates and makes other industries less competitive. It's like Dutch disease with money instead of oil.
Well, that's a really awesome website :)
>There's this popular conception that the average person doesn't care about privacy, but I think that's wrong. I just think that to really get a handle on what it means to be private in the modern digital age is too complicated for the average person.

Cypherpunks tried to sound the alarm around the time email got popular and had similar difficulty then - the barrier to adoption was too high and laypersons didn't really understand why they should care enough to overcome that barrier.

See Wired coverage from 1993 as one example of this view from the techno-savvy thinking things should be one way but acknowledging that reality is much different.
https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/

From the article Crypto Anarchy, he believes, is inevitable, despite the forces marshaled against it. "I don't see any chance that it will be done politically," says the Cypherpunk. "[But] it will be done technologically. It's already happening."

Rather than some digital utopia where personal information is heavily protected and not linked, we have a generation of programmers working to persist tracking cookies across browsing sessions, whether anonymous or not and law enforcement leveraging a scraped database of three billion photos to identify people whether they choose to be identified or not.

By following the electronic links we make, one can piece together a depressingly detailed profile of who we are: Our health records, phone bills, credit histories, arrest records, and electronic mail all connect our actions and expressions to our physical selves. Crypto presents the possibility of severing these links. It is possible to use cryptography to actually limit the degree to which one can track the trail of a transaction.

Of course that didn't happen beyond https everywhere for point-to-point encryption and regular leaks of consumer data proves once collected data is often not protected from public scrutiny, much less encrypted at rest, anonymized, etc. So even if you do protect your data perfectly there's still a chance it'll be discovered elsewhere. Rather than trying to create backdoors, government should be trying to enforce much more stringent regulations on use and protection of consumer data. However given the political zeitgeist I don't really see that happening.
Municipality with no residents, being shut down by B.C. government
The high costs of electric scooter maintenance
We have started doing our own optimizations too: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2019/12/02/const-prop...

Your overall point is absolutely correct though. We couldn’t have done this without LLVM.
What makes you say automated captioning isn’t good enough to meet the standards? Certainly CC on a lot of TV is pretty messy.
Debating Whether Big Tech is Taking Over the Stock Market
Yes, I do indeed understand the concept of a verb. In fact, that is why I directed people to look at the ad itself.

As it happens OpenOffice was never discontinued, it is still an active Apache project.
One of my favorite pieces of trivial knowledge is that MySpace's rewrite to asp.net included mimicking all their old ColdFusion .cfm routes.
Or ditch the cardboard, and use 5 square HVAC filters to make a true "box fan".
Interestingly the std::array::fill member function is identical in the case of int or char, I suppose because there's only one overload of fill and it has to take the element type. No idea if the generated stosq is as fast as built-in memset: https://godbolt.org/z/4iYGup
I wrote a simple HTML-page, with a jQuery based presentation layer, which allowed me to handle them under revision control

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

Unfortunately opening this now `file://///bookmarks.html` doesn't allow loading the resource as a security issue. So I've exported all my bookmarks and deleted them.

I have the old history for reference, but I've just decided not to bookmark in the future.
“Better to just incorporate refactoring into the estimate for any given coding task and do it without explicit permission.”

It should be as implicit as attending planning meetings. For some reasons PMs usually have no problem forcing people to sit through meetings but they have a problem with spending the same amount of time refactoring .
None of what you said has anything to do with E2E encryption.
Agreed that candy crush as default is heinous, but it feels like "telemetry" is kind of brought up as a bogeyman. Clearly, there exist scenarios where device owners have a legitimate need for no (or minimal, considering updates) communication with MS regarding device activity, but that's not generally the case for the average PC user. I want my OS maker to get stack traces from stacks so that they can fix crashes. I want my OS maker to receive actionable data on highly-used features so that they can effectively prioritize what to improve and what can be culled. (And obviously, I want this data to be treated with appropriate security.)

edit: To clarify, users should be able to disable telemetry - it's the anti-telemetry rhetoric I find to be overblown - in general what I hear isn't nearly as nuanced as the replies here, it's simply blanket opposition to all telemetry.
>I can’t imagine that corporations would allow Microsoft to market to their end-users. There must be some ultra-premium edition of Windows 10 that one can buy, where telemetry and ads are fully disabled?

The closest you have is LTSC. No ads out of the box. Still has telemetry though, although you can turn it down to "security" level. It costs like $300 for a license[1], and they won't sell it to you unless you commit to buying a bunch (although that can be worked around by buying a bunch of cheap CALs).

[1] https://www.cdw.com/product/windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2019-...
Yes I exaggerated the lawyers' career paths, but I did say we're talking about the top 25% of developers. Let's not forget the bottom 50%, and others who aren't even counted because they got out immediately after a year or two.

And from what I've seen, even in smaller cities, decent lawyers who 'make it' by mid 30s usually find a niche, and start gaining more respect, book of clients, and just generally are immune to the ageism and short careers in tech.

And exactly like you said, it isn't even about the money so much anymore as I do okay. It's that we're completely isolated from anything related to business, and that really screws us as we don't get any insight in what the numbers really are (or how much I'm billing my own customers as a consultant), how to increase sales or contracts, strategy, networking, etc.

At 40 years old, if development jobs dried up, I'd have no clue how to go out on my own because all I know is 10 different MVC and JS frameworks.

At I'm really getting worried because I do see that there are so few engineers over the age of 50. Where do they all go, since I know many can't or won't get into management?
Open source software for financial services
I shot out of bed for the 5th morning in a row today to make it to Mysore style yoga class at 6am.

I was tired and hungry.

I had to pick up my better half from the airport last night at 2am because her flight was delayed.

I was nervous that I wouldn't remember the standing sequence for the 5th time in a row.

I lost my chant card already that I was just given yesterday...

I had every excuse in the book not to go, but I went anyways.

Turns out I wasn't that tired or hungry, I remembered the chant and the standing sequences almost perfectly, and I made it a few more poses into the seated series.

I can't wait to go back tomorrow.

No matter the circumstances.
Blog Is My Playground
Here's a source indicating that from 2018:

https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/ios-tutorials/backu...
It's fixed, thanks. The cert failed to automatically renew and expired at a very inconvenient time.
Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company
I strongly prefer .query() for legibility and that it can but used in a pipe. My only problem is that often flake8 will not detect the use of a variable inside of the query string. Has anyone else come across this before?
The First Website in the United States Was Made for Physicists
Ask HN: Why are there no software projects on Kickstarter?
Why are there no software projects on Kickstarter? I see hardware projects from both small teams and large companies. But I don’t see any software projects. Why is that?
The counterargument here is that the officers of the company can make most of their income not from being paid oodles of cash, but from being given oodles of stock that they later sell back to the company, which is now capital gains and not ordinary income.

From a matter of tax form simplicity, it is much easier--and probably better for society--just to count everything as ordinary income and tax it as such. Fewer potential for loopholes that drive your effective tax rate down to 0; easier to actually do your taxes yourself; etc.
There are several countries in the EU that likes and produces big an heavy cars, Germany is not alone, my guess from this post is that France primarily produce smaller cars. To make any difference we should make it easy and cheap to buy fast electric bicycles since they have a lifecycle emission that is about one tenth of cars (Blondel, Mispelon, and Ferguson 2011). At the moment customs for chinese electric bicycles are really high in EU.
Software glitch damages part of new Canadian science vessel
Ask HN: Turn Charts into Playlists
Would you pay for a service that turns a chart (you choose) into a Youtube Playlist, then checks for updates in a regular basis?

Monthly subscription.
Thanks for the pro tip! I just switched over to this and immediately noticed a huge improvement in my powershell experience :)
No doubt! I have so many scripts I had to create a framework to manage running them :)

[0] https://github.com/lovette/bootstrap-bash
Ahh OK... well yes, that makes way more sense. I think it's a matter of convenience, its far simpler to download an app and let it "do its stuff" than to find a suitable client and feed it the correct config.

What you describe is also a good setup. Good if you don't trust your VPN provider to deliver a secure app -- a level of trust that cannot always be assumed.
Uhhhhhh....wait waht?
I don't see how the current title isn't factual
I think so too. But why don't we ever hear the scientific community come out and stand up for themselves? I imagine that would be considered news in and of itself.

I reckon its because there is a social and possible economic price to pay to say anything that detracts from a sense of emergency around the climate. It is a toxic culture now similar to that of the 'woke' wing of the left or the pro-gun wing of the right.

If anyone wants the general public to take this issue as seriously as it should be FUD is not the way to go. I think it hurts more than it helps.
Thank you! I will check this out.
I recently reinstalled a colleague's laptop, with Windows 10, done quick and dirty, he was concerned he didn't have a key/license, said doesn't matter, we can install first and activate later.

After installation, the thing was self-activated. Legit ISO downloaded from Microsoft, though via that ISO downloader software, starts with something with "H" and runs ads when you use it.

Kinda makes me wonder why MS is even bothering gatekeeping their ISOs. Why not make them freely available?

...nobody makes cash of OSes anymore... It's market share they're after.
Someone with a regular job can not afford a house close to a major city any more and for sure can not afford any desirable German car. People dress cheaply, buy used cars and many live in frugal appartments, buy in stores that many American or Canadians would consider third world (never ever go buy stuff in an Aldi when you are used to Canadian standards...).
That level of complexity is not helpful to adoption.
Paul Krugman often rails against German industrial policy vis-a-vis the EU and hits a lot of the same notes in this article. On the other hand, most of the EU countries seem to accept this status quo and many of their citizens end up immigrating to Germany directly or benefiting from the massive EU subsidy regime funded by Germany so there are various forms of wealth re-distribution within the union.
How Much Is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?
Amazon dreams of a drone-filled sky
So now that iTunes is gone, how does one do a local iPhone backup?
Some well-liked SF mod got randomly booted due to a CoC powerplay, and then everything exploded. Rules weren't followed correctly, mods getting kicked out or quiting in revolt, all sorts of corporate powerplays and misplays

Basically the whole stack overflow administration is fucked, but also no one really cares because that administration is mostly invisible to the majority of SF users (developers coming from Google). Same way Wikipedia drama has never been cared about by anyone but Wikipedia mods. General pop will only care once the quality of the system degrades

This article however probably has nothing at all to do with that, and is probably authored/published by a team entirely independent of the stack overflow mod administration.
As they say in Germany: "Bedenke wohl, worum du bittest. Es könnte dir gewährt werden." ("Consider well what you ask for. It could be granted to you.").
As far as I know there is basically no reason to use OO, it is a completely dead project. All of the development effort is being focused on LO, so if you want a FOSS word processor use LO.
Life isn't getting easier for the majority of Americans. Life expectancy is literally going down.
Quest over! If you're actually interested in understanding the reasons for Brexit and you should before making such comments, try this https://briefingsforbrexit.com. Not recommended for those with a short attention span.

"Briefings for Brexit is a small group of volunteers, mainly academics, who set up the website in 2017 in order to provide reasoned factual material to help to inform the national debate on Brexit. Most of its members did not previously know each other. The two co-editors are Graham Gudgin and Robert Tombs, both of Cambridge University. Its contributors come from a range of academic disciplines and universities, and cover the whole political spectrum: their names can be found on our website. The group has no links with any political party. Neither of the editors receives any payment, not do any of the contributors. The newsletter editor, a student, receives a small payment. Briefings for Brexit is entirely funded by well-wishers."
Do they factor in the number of clicks on each result? If so then it would presumably improve over time.

I know Google also factors in how long people spend on the resulting webpage.
...is a (great!) replacement for vanilla Notepad, but Wordpad and Notepad have very different use-cases.

LibreOffice Writer!
Yes. I am not an economist, and even if I were, there are so many moving parts to Brexit I could not begin to calculate which ones are the most important.

But I do believe that financial exports (which is what the US and UK have specialized in since the Reagan/Thatcher era) create Dutch Disease just like natural resource extraction does, making the currency too valuable for high employment sectors and concentrating profits in low-employment sectors.
In fairness, the title does not say that Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups because FBI complained :P
Why are we talking about this?

I ordered a car part, I received a block of clay. This isn't a problem that is solved by any return policy.
I would say that most pure software project are not necessarily capital intensive, so if you have an idea you can just execute it, and directly start selling to customers, so it makes less sense to do a Kickstarter.

Even if you do not really intend to monetize, and you want to develop something to scratch an itch, a Github account is rather affordable.
Are you familiar with C++? That example is roughly equivalent to:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <string_view>

int main()
{
std::string name { "Vivian" };
auto nickname = std::string_view { name }.substr(0, 3);
name.clear();
std::cout << "Hello there, " << nickname << "!\n";
}

which will happily compile, but whose behavior is undefined.
I've said it before in another comment [1]:

>There's nothing I enjoy more than the plight of the German Saver, who's obsession with "fiscal responsibility" has led to shitty austerity politics all across the EU (to be fair some other northern European countries like Netherlands also share the same view) and depressed growth for the poorer southern European countries.
Germany has benefited most of all from the unfinished project of the EU. Without becoming a federal union like the US, but having a common currency, Germany's exports have been artificially cheaper and thus more competitive for over 20 years.

>This is the natural outcome from the obsession with running fiscal surpluses. Now Germany is on the brink of recession and they're finally starting to make some noises about fiscal spending, but the politics will likely limit it to modest deficits than anything transformational. Enjoy the negative rates.

The common currency (Eurozone) is deeply flawed and it only allows a rich country like Germany to win at the expense of poorer countries like Greece or Portugal. I find it insane that EU politics have never really dealt with this. I find it absolutely insane that after the 2011 sovereign debt crisis, Germany somehow managed to escape with keeping the Eurozone intact and having the poor countries impose austerity instead.

There absolutely needs to be a political revolution in the Eurozone countries. Either complete the EU project by becoming a United States of Europe, and receive all the equalizing payments of healthcare, social security, and common military spending at the federal level, or get rid of the common currency. It's just hurting the poorest people in the Eurozone to keep the current arrangement.

You might be under the impression "well Germany might be parasitic vis a vis other Eurozone countries, but at least it's good for working Germans", but you'd be wrong.

The US today has a tight labor market which will eventually drive wages up if it persists long enough. Germany on the other hand has similar employment statistics but they did it with the Hartz reforms [2]. The unemployment stats look great because you can get a shitty low wage job [3].

Germany has kept the wages of workers depressed in order to be an export powerhouse. It's parasitic on other Eurozone neighbors but also on German workers. The people who have benefited the most from this arrangement are the German capital class. The shareholders and managerial class of German industry, whether it's giants like Volkswagen or even the small Mittelstand companies. German workers should have gotten wealthier over time which would have made Germany similar to the US in being driven by domestic consumption. That in turn would have made other EU members better off because those wealthier Germans would have been able to consume more of their goods and services. It's truly baffling how even German workers have put up with this. They're losing to the benefit of German capital.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20793982

[2] https://theconversation.com/questioning-the-claim-of-germany...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_employment#Germany
vscode requires languages to implement a language server. It doesn't have anything to do with rust.
Replicating Polyfill.io Using Cloudflare Workers
The key is in another comment on this thread:

> Lots of these things that look like syntax problems are in fact design problems surfaced by the compiler.

A lot of people are finding value in the rules Rust provides. This is irrespective of domain. The strict compiler helps you refactor code in ways that less strict languages don't. You still can do it, of course, you just have a lot less help.

The trick is, is the initial hit in productivity worth it, until you get up to speed?

That said, of course everything doesn't need to be in Rust. But there's a reason it's finding broader appeal than purely systems stuff.
Might be a good reason to look into storage as an appliance. Personal NAS' (Synology, QNAP) are quite serviceable.
> Never mind also that OpenOffice was discontinued in 2011.

Not exactly. Ownership of the project moved from oracle to apache in 2011, but OpenOffice is still around and kicking.
IIRC it's very CPU dependent. I remember running into a similar issue with memcpy vs. memmove where the latter was actually faster on some CPUs because it used stosb instead of AVX/SSE and some intel CPUs could make that really go fast.

TL;DR: benchmark for your specific hardware if it really matters.
This hard line is too facile. If you are paranoid about malicious code updates, then making part of your stack open-source doesn’t matter. I could push an update to your OS that reads the keys out of your BitWarden.
Because that would add several million dollars to the airplane's price. An angle of attack sensor (the sensor MCAS relies on) for a small, twin-engine private jet can cost nearly $50,000. The ones in the MAX cost a lot more.

Even if cost wasn't an issue, space and weight are. There are just so much stuff you can tackle on the fuselage or inside the engine cowling before it starts affecting the airplanes ability to fly.
I totally disagree. I work for Apple, and I can tell you that for everything you do privacy is involved. It’s not just marketing.