skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because not all runways are equipped for CAT III autoland (i.e. the aircraft is not capable of landing itself without a shit-ton of calibrated equipment on the ground being there first, also good luck finding a CATIII autoland somewhere mountainous or with an otherwise tricky approach).

I think if you get must of the major airports covered that's still good enough. But, if I understood this article correctly, what Airbus is trying now is to make it happen without those ground requirements. And I'm sure they do not expect to cover every airport and runway to begin with.
In Italy landlords have to pay taxes for the rents even if the tenant doesn't pay (the government defaults to not trusting citizens to declare income), thus creating a pressure to formally evict tenants. (This problem was fixed a few years ago for residential rents but it's still a problem for commercial rents). How does this work in the US? How does it compare, as a landlord, to face months of likely vacant property versus months of months continued use but with missed payments?
Wouldn't the next logical choice on the "beefiness scale" be a G-Shock? (Personally I can recommend the GAW-100B-1AER for about $100)
People won’t pay more if there’s a choice.
Like I said, I'd usually just clone locally, as in clone from the repo you already have on disk.
In some countries they banned landlords from evicting tenants during the pandemic to stop stuff like this happening. They then asked banks to provide mortgage holidays so that the landlords could afford to keep non paying tenants. In my opinion this is a good example of government intervention for the greater good.

Is there any political will in the US to do the same? Could something like this ever be considered in congress or would it be seen as too 'socialist' maybe?
> As wasm cant do any more than computing you simply contain the library, it cant anymore open any files, make network calls, etc.

That presumes the WASM implementation is bug free, which is not a great presumption, especially for the more sophisticated implementations with JIT engines, and even more so for those adding multi-threading, GC, etc.
I've felt similarly, on and off, my whole career (7 years since my first SWE internship). Unfortunately I've not got the answers but I do have a thought I want feedback on.

Maybe it's ok not to love it but to be satisfied regardless. It's an in demand, well paid, flexible, reasonably interesting (even if I would never miss it) career that allows me to lead a great life in other aspects without giving up too much. Can't that be enough?

I worry that the current narrative of having to 'love' your job is damaging and causing me (and maybe you) to always be searching for the 'perfect' career which doesn't exist.
Alan Greenspan, the economic "Godfather" of this era, viewed growing working insecurity as a positive development and expressed dismay that it may not continue indefinitely [1].

EDIT: Removed suggestion that Greenspan publicly expressed a specific intent to foster worker insecurity.

[1] https://chomsky.info/20120508/

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/hh/1997/february/te...
Among other things, birth control is not infallible.
China is not post-industrial and without their factories US businesses would have no products to sell. China can change its mind about cooperating or drastically raise prices any time they want. The US has put itself in a very precarious position by dumping all manufacturing. Manufacturing is what adds real value to an economy. Without something to sell it's turtles all the way down. OTOH US labor is not competitive and that is a very real problem. Americans have sort of become too rich for their own good. At some point every single person has to start their own business because being an employee will not pay enough to keep up with the cost of living.
The problem was people went in with an expectation that it's a "normal" store and that shop assistants would be available to explain things, give advice, and so on. Or that you could browse and eyeball stuff when you got there, instead of already knowing what you needed (though they did concede to having a small sheaf of parts lists near the counter).

If you go in to MSY with the expectation that it's a warehouse that happens to sell things and that the staff are only there to 1) fetch things for you, and 2) handle the transaction then it is extremely efficient for both the business and yourself. No bullshit small talk, you can just go in, hand over a parts list, finish your sale, and leave within 5 minutes of being served when at a normal shop you might be there for 10 or 20 minutes.

It's a shame my local MSY closed down, they had hands-down some of the best shopping experience I've ever had.
> sleep-tracking device that can alter dreams by tracking hypnagogia and then delivering audio cues based on incoming physiological data

Neither the press release article nor the actual paper abstract seem to mention how is a hypnagogia phase detected? Anyone with access to the full paper can expand on this?

For what is effectively the most important/novel part of this device it seems fairly handwavy on details.
Having lived in Australia, Germany and New Zealand amongst others, I find the Australian scheme the best. In Germany, everything is just .de (like in many other countries), while I find that the nz sites (.co.nz, .ac.nz ...) using a different scheme than the topdomains (.com, .edu) even worse.
ECJ Invalidates Adequacy of the EU-US Data Protection Shield [pdf]
I think it works for more than that!
Well,

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly" - USENIX 2020

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
> (semi-OT: I'm also surprised how those screenshots are paraded around as "aha! caught them!". Did anyone seriously think there wasn't any moderation of trends etc going on before?)

This is pretty similar to conspiracy theorists vs normal people with regards to the US government spying on people before Snowden.
> Don't forget, Facebook is the bane for privacy, not the EU.

To be fair, you can (and are probably) both right.
/r/F91Ws_on_NATOs/ is a subreddit specifically dedicated to modding F91Ws with NATO straps and other mod ideas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/F91Ws_on_NATOs/
I guess it reduces duplicating the history? Large files are by far the bulk of what I personally deal with so it don't think there's a real difference for me but I could see it helping.
It doesn't prevent Heartbleed like kind of attacks.

Also doesn't prevent internal memory corruption attacks that expose unintended behaviors from the public module interface.
You are making extremely strong claims with fairly weak evidence. The memo is a call to action for businesses to _catch up_ to the large lobbying influence created and wielded by unions in the 60s. As someone who moved to America to flee a totally barren economy run by labor unions, I am glad the business groups were able to rise to the challenge here. I simply don’t read the same vast conspiracy in the memo that you imply. In the early 70s, left-affiliated groups like SDS and Weathermen were probably producing internal organizing notes that read as equally self interested and myopic.

Another weakness in your grand theory is that across housing, cars, single incomes, and retirement, many of the affordability concerns have just as much to do with non-corporate organizing as corporate organizing. Since when did the Fortune 500 coordinate to jack up tuition? Which S&P companies run local planning boards? Low income households in other countries can afford decent housing stock and higher education. Corporations aren’t the reason our low income residents can’t. As a quick point, this isn’t a mere matter of a shrunken state either, since our government spending as a % of GDP has steadily risen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
They wouldn't be very private if examples of them were discussed on HN, would they?
That's an insight. You use automated stuff only, when the automated stuff is available? Wow. Haven't thought about that.

Of course we are talking only about situations when its is available and some airline then still insists that you don't use it.
I think your terms are spot on.

John Sterman used to say something very similar going back to at least the 2000 and the trend has only accelerated since then.

At the time I remember him giving lectures on System Dynamics models to demonstrate the effects.
The pay during maternity leave is covered by the state. I am guessing this holds for all countries but I can only say for sure for my country.

It is somewhat annoying for the employer to "lose" the employee for a year but there is ample notice (eight months or so :) ) so the employer can prepare for the absence.
Never Use Kandji
WaitButWhy's two-part series on AI revolution [0] was an insightful primer into the field for me and was one of the core reasons why I chose to do Computer Science in college. Highly recommend it.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
I've just done a bit of googling and this guy

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/articles/galaksija/

Has designed a replica system, with some minor mods to allow for newer easier-to-get logic chips, and better compatibility with newer Z80 CPUs. He offers up the whole design for download - so anyone should be able to build one. I've bookmarked it... I'm definitely interested in making one to add to my retro collection.
It's well past time we built and maintained affordable social housing in this country. Not gigantic, underfunded, monolithic projects but appropriately scaled, tax funded, distributed apartments.

It's been successful in many parts of the world, including in the US. It won't be enough to solve this immediate crisis, but maybe it helps us land on our feet better and builds resilience for the next time.
I happen to like Twitter. Me and Facebook have never gotten on well.

To each his own.
Nearly 100 Migrants ‘Still Floating in Mediterranean, Risk Drowning’: UN
Tracking the growth of low-code, no-code startups
Ask HN: What Is Google Up To?
I used to hear regularly about various grandiose projects from Google, a.k.a. "moonshoots" (Glass, Loon, Calico, etc.), and the whole "Google X" thing.

But now I’ve had no idea what Google's up to for a while. Nowadays it seems Google is more normal than ever.

Insiders, Xooglers, any intel on Google's new fancy secret projects?
Have you considered transitioning to DevOps? Assuming you like operations, of course.
> The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive it may be and possibly even priced against the highest value tasks it can do.

It's even worse: The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive its outputs are, because it is less efficient. Have you seen an aluminum can lid stamping machine? [1] It can only produce one thing, but that thing is incredibly cheap on account of the machine producing tens of thousands of items per hour.

[1] That's probably not its official name...
The Value of Human Life (In $)
A vDSO can't transfer execution to another thread. Theoretically a vDSO could manipulate a thread's scheduling context to move it up or down a queue, but it couldn't force immediate execution of another thread, couldn't suspend the current thread, and definitely couldn't do both those things simultaneously, which is what the patch does.
The best indicator is a recommendation from someone whose opinion on movies is largely aligned with yours. I suppose you need a platform where the user is profiled and matched against reviewers/raters/critics with similar tastes. Has anyone done this?
My Samsung phone says Made in Korea on the back. I assume that means it was assembled there and mostly uses Chinese components on the inside like everyone else. It is almost impossible to avoid China if you are in the manufacturing business.
WebAssembly is anything but mature, and given that .NET also supports C++ from the get go, I would be curious to have a security analysis in how much "secure" WebAssembly actually is.

Thankfully researchers have finally started assessing it, with the first wave of papers reaching USENIX 2020.
47% of German GDP is manufacturing. Hardly deindustrialisation.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/german-econo...
Ask HN: Linode blocking outgoing SMTP connections from application
Recently we had setup a new linode for testing some internal applications (Php, Python, Go and Node JS) based.

While configuring and testing, we found that the email notification feature had stopped working.

On troubleshooting the issue, we found that the outgoing smtp connections on port 587 to any host (We had tried smtp.gmail.com and smtp.office365.com as we have paid accounts on both the services) is blocked.

What is the process for enabling it?

Raised a support ticket, but have not received any acknowledgement or resolution to it. We feel, this community could help.

And reason why it is blocked in the first place (apart from curtailing spam) without any prior notification or consent from the customer?

Is it documented somewhere that we missed to see and what other restrictions linode has on it's servers?

Had we known all these things, we would not have created the account / servers on linode.

Now moving to another provider and setting up the systems again from scratch is a lot of work.

Any new linode account creators, beware of the restrictions on linode servers, limitations on linode servers, issues with linode servers and requesting everyone to be updated about the linode restrictions.
>At the same time, jobs went to China and so on.

This is a direct result of policies that began in Reagan and Thatcher's era. Deng saw at that time that the West is now led by profiteers rather than statesmen, and honed his pitch perfectly.
I can relate. I have this problem most nights. What works for me is pretending to be asleep. In most cases, in less than 10 mins I will fall back to sleep. Of course all of this happens after I used the bathroom, check the doors and look out the front window.
> If the parents do not have the resources to give the child a stable and healthy upbringing

... they should use birth control or abort.

> All of which you will have to pay for later via your taxes

This is true only for crime, but it should still be cheaper per person compared to the alternatives.

> Not to mention you seem a bit indifferent to the suffering of children

I simply do not consider the suffering of children above the suffering of adults - forcing taxpayers and employers to pay maternity leave causes that.

> our children

"our" children? I would gladly pay for my children if I had kids, but I do not.

> just like spending money to educate children in school is an investment for the future.

One that should be left up to the parents to pay for (I would also consider school to be child abuse but this is besides the point).
Ask HN: What books dramatically changed your viewpoint of the world?
Poor Americans are the envy of the rest of the world.
They get paid $15 plus tips for filling up a glass with beer.

Boomers were lucky because their parents won the war and the rest of the world was either rebuilding or was hobbled by communism/socialism.

Once China and other Asian countries opened up their economies, everything which could be done there was done there.

In the long run, Asians and Americans will earn the same money for the same job.
The problem is security. How do you prevent that such a system is unhackable and can't be misused remotely? That's the number one concern in all of these industries these days.
I am not in the usa.

I agree there are lots of options. The article would be compelling if the author picked an option and argued for it. Vauge negative statements about the status quo that nobody disagrees with are not compelling. Positions that can be defended and argued for/against are.

Anyone can preach to the choir.
Automatically Detecting Text Encodings in C++
Reddit is still the best for specific topics imho, I wouldn't mind switching to a forum but if I want to read about and discuss football (soccer), news about my country, old school runescape, and stuff like /r/IdiotsInCars there's really no alternative for me (since I haven't used FB in years).
Have someone help you update your resume to make it sell you for something else. Pick two or three job adverts that appeal to you, do a brain dump of pertinent info, have someone help you turn that into a resume that says "I'm qualified to do this other job."
They fired a politician, just a bit too late: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nsX9nUFIBc
On the other hand those employees are a lot easier to fire at extremely short notice and virtually no cost than any other developed country, so there's that.
Critical thinking can suggest that the actual physical product lacks innovation or doesn't bring anything dramatically better on table but the branding does, therefore the branding people take the money.
Out of curiosity, which “barren economy run by labor unions” do you speak of?
but first get on all social media to debate quitting all social media ad infinitum
I find it surprising you think any of this is new, or that in this there is any deserving party. If you focus on the blip in front of your eyes(BLM), you probably bypassed all casuality that made that blip exist, as well as what happened when the "blip" peaked previously. If you focus on what you're fed constantly, you will live in a permanent state of fear. And that is the objective - you focus on the flames and don't see who is fueling them or trying to take them out.
Assuming you are talking about the US (frankly, your description of "society" is quite different from mine), violence is actually condoned and often encouraged, and has been throughout american history. There are a few exceptions, but that's it. And that, my friend, is not a matter of wealth. It is a matter of civility. And if you're expecting the ruling powers to enforce civility, you need to show them it is in their interest also. France did it quite well with the guillotine... Just an idea.
Feel free to expand. It's interesting to me, and I'm not sure anyone else is still reading this at this point.
This still seems like foolish thing to do long term.

What happens if we move all the profits and manufacturing capacity to markets Western investors are locked out of?
> Did anyone seriously think there wasn't any moderation of trends etc going on before?

I too am surprised at people who thought the trending list was organic. It's been obvious from the day it appeared that it's curated and/or paid for placements. Purely from a programming point of view, trying to keep hate speech, racism, and shock content out of it automatically would be nigh on impossible (q.v. recent AI attempts to do this sort of thing on News sites and Facebook).
I don't understand why all of the mobile browsers still allow sites to prevent zooming. It makes no sense.
Money doesn't disappear. It just changes hands. There is no limit to how much money can be spent. The only limits are the existence of products and services that people want to pay for. Considering that productivity is at an all time high there is no reason to think that we are suffering from a resource shortage right now. Right now Chinese manufactured products are more popular than American manufactured products and that is absolutely correct.

You mentioned that "jobs went to China" but the way economics works is that if you keep exporting goods and maintain a trade imbalance your currency will get stronger until there is no trade imbalance anymore. This would mean that eventually the Chinese will be paid just as much as Americans and American labor costs would be competitive again. The Chinese growth phase will be remembered as a blip in history.

Your strategy would be highly suboptimal. Consider the fact that the vast majority of our ancestors were poorer than us. Should they have had no children? It's so easy to just point at things humans are naturally inclined to do and then criticize them for being human. Having children might be expensive but if everyone had to guarantee 18 years of no economic misfortune before one can have a child then the human race would have died out after a single generation because nobody can make that guarantee. This is just some pipe dream so that richer people believe they will never be poor.
Upper-class in Europe is mostly old money with inherited real estate and/or family-run companies passed from generation to generation. They never see it as necessary to participate in the arms race of the middle and upper-middle class. Flashy cars and designer clothes are not something they aspire to. You’d rather see them in an old Volvo or Mercedes estate.
Should we believe videos and articles?

I think we should demand more. We are being presented science right? We should be able to recognise that this article and the videos, etc are just presenting a claim. They are not providing any evidence. This is just a story.
There has been cases where a "witch" was hired to kill someone using magic, like a contract killer. In such cases you can't say the witch was framed.
> As for x86_64, the patents would expire in either 2020 or 2023

Those patents (if any) would surely be held by its inventor, AMD, to which Apple has a healthy corporate relationship.
> People are not being paid for being skilled or educated, but for being useful. It's not a given that Millions of people have something useful to do.

That's the line of thinking that leads to an abundance of low-skill, low-pay jobs and a shortage in skilled workers, where needed. Skill and education are not produced overnight to fit the market needs. They are a long-term investment by the individual and the society.

> I think usually society regulates itself that way: people who prosper have kids. Because their parents are in a booming field of work, it is likely that there will also be work for their kids. Sometimes there are shifts in economics (for example coal mining going out of fashion), and millions suddenly are without a job. The economy can "buffer" some of that, but not arbitrarily high numbers.

So the answer to society's problems is nepotism instead of meritocracy and equal opportunities. That's a good one!

> I suppose in the past this was even more obvious, as it was directly food based. I suppose as long as there was more land to convert to farmland, having kids always worked out - if they survived, they could start new farms and repeat the cycle.
> There are different strategies, like having as many kids as possible and hoping that some make it.

Civilization has always been about relieving people from the stress of having to devise a survival strategy. That's a waste of manpower from a societal standpoint. A society is made weaker by having more people struggling for the livelihood of themselves and their family.

Moreover, having as many kids as possible was a strategy for a time when wars, famine and disease ravaged the population and the earth was sparsely populated. It's a stupid strategy today, unless you advocate massive depopulation and returning to a global state of human misery.

> Nobody is "structuring society" in a cruel way, it is bottom up, individual decisions by people.

Societies can be structured and are structured. That's the essence of society.
Even letting society unregulated is essentially structuring it in favour of the groups that happen to hold power. And this is just one logical step away from racist theories: If your group is prospering for too long while other groups live in misery, it's only a matter of time to self-declare it as superior, conveniently ignoring that society was rigged in your favour.
You sit there and do nothing. The sherrif eviction backlog alone would take forever I would imagine.
Precisely... for example, how about the right to privacy? It feels practically non-existent in North America (not so sure about elsewhere). As far as I've observed, it's essentially ignored in the vast majority of situations, to the degree that people treat you like you're paranoid if you even raise the subject.
Gaining Code Execution through a broken CMS
Every life is infinitely valuable. End of.