skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525#Cause_...

> Robin said that when the captain left the cockpit, possibly to use the toilet, Lubitz locked the door, preventing anyone from entering. The captain had a code to unlock the door, but the lock's code panel could be disabled from the cockpit controls. The captain requested re-entry using the intercom; he knocked and then banged on the door, but received no response. The captain then tried to break down the door, but like most cockpit doors made after the September 11 attacks, it had been reinforced to prevent intrusion.

This seems like a pretty direct consequence to me. Similar to how an ultra isloated air-gapped environment with only one-way networking[0] would mean that the ops people couldn't easily stop e.g an ransomware attack in its tracks when detected. It's a cost/consequence of having the isolated network in the first place.

(If there was some magic code that always opened the cockpit door, then that could be coerced out of someone, yielding the system almost pointless)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
For PF, I recommend "disconnected by default" I've been using my laptop like this for a while now and the peace of mind is easily worth the one command I need to run to connect each time. Especially on a distraction free device where I wouldn't expect a lot of notifications and synchronizations.
Great, so you found 1 case in the last 20 years where some idiot opened the cockpit door. Congratulations. This changes nothing.
> I assume a random person can't just sell 10 years of electricity futures without some kind of collateral.

Maybe they run the negotiations in parallel, so they can kind of use one set of futures as collateral for the other?
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> Then how would pilots do things humans need to do, like go the restroom or eat (on prolonged flights)?

With a bathroom on their side of the door, and a packed lunch.
I found the part about smallest write and erase units being different sizes to be confusing initially because it doesn't explicitly explain the difference between "write" and "erase". I guess it makes more sense from an EE perspective than a software perspective: I think "write" here really means to set selected bits to 1, which for arbitrary write operations would require all bit's starting state to be 0... where as erase sets all to 0, but can only be done at the larger block level. I guess this makes sense when comparing to things like EEPROMs.

Reminds me of the old IBM punch cards where I guess you could always add holes (1s) but not remove them... if this were exposed to the OS for SSDs it might be possible to do more interesting things like modify data in ways that only adds 1s more efficiently. Remember ASCII del char 0b01111111? :D

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Unrelated, but by the time I finished reading enough of this to upvote it, it had already dropped to the 4th "new" page on HN... this does make it feel like HN is biased towards low investment short articles.
I would assume they would just raise their prices. Like with shipping containers from China to the rest of the world - prices increased tenfold...
In Europe you're not required to take off your belt because of an arbitrary rule like shoes in the US. They just tell you to take it off because most belts have metal parts so they will likely trigger the metal detector.
Candidates will likely evaluate your company using Maslow's hierarchy of needs (intentional or not). Compensation, the projects, and their manager are the primary factors. An uncommon dev choice shouldn't be a blocker, as long as you set a path to learn it on company time.
Your experience reminds me of this one phone platform with poor third party app support but a pretty vibrant indie developer community. They'd make unofficial clients for all sorts of things, only to eventually get lawyered out of existence. It was both sad and hilarious:

"Hi, to protect the blah blah blah of our service you must take down your unofficial application"

"Okay, but is there an official client coming for the platform?"

"We have nothing to share at this time."
> the full expectation that the lending accounts would be regulated by another entity because they are not securities.

Why do they think they aren't securities?

Because they obviously meet the Howey test, and while they may have “expected” that they would be regulated by another body (and which and on what basis?), they obviously haven’t done what it would take to make them (for instance) FDIC-insured depository accounts rather than SEC-regulated securities.
>It's not an 'article' it's a transcription of a book. There are multiple pages.

Forget linking to the right chapter of the book, you had not even linked to the right book. How did you expect anyone to verify your claim!?
> It was a PR post written to rile a user base without knowledge of the financial system or securities law.

After reading the reddit thread: It seems to work in that case at least.
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Wishful thinking. Even if passengers assumed there's not path to survive other than fight -- and you're not in a position to say that they assume this -- most people will not do anything about the hijack anyway.
It would, no doubt.

I Russia, despite a nominal ban, you can buy a gun on the vegetable market, but nobody seem to be going, and shooting people out of a sudden other that 2-3 freak accidents per year.

Being murdered in a banal armed robbery is a by far bigger risk.
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Fair enough, perhaps I should have said 'adults'. Every generation of adults, since time immemorial, has complained that 'kids these days' are intellectually or spiritually degenerate compared with their own generation. It wasn't true then. It isn't true now. TikTok is not 'rewiring children's brains', or whatever it is that adults are panicking about, any more than Grand Theft Auto or Eminem did. Buck the trend.
> Considering how many crazy, extremely radicalized people are out there, I'm surprised attacks like this aren't much more common.

Maybe because your base assumption is wrong: there are not many of them.
It's also much easier to get SWAT onto a train or ship or stadium. Airplane over a city has only one option.

Oh, and only one of these things will be heading for Congress potentially.
> high reliability through redundancy ... easy physical maintenance through hot-swappable components

I don't think hyperscalers will ever care about this. They have millions of servers. They can just take the whole server out of commission as soon as it fails a health check. This is a critical difference between the mainframe model and the modern cloud model.
Hmmm. That escalated quickly.

Or it could be the thing they joke and laugh about how different they're from each other. Taking extreme absurd examples at each other. Maybe even recording a TikTok video.
Cooperatives don't compensate everyone equally. For example, Mondragon cooperatives set wage ratios between manager wages and minimum wages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Wage_reg...
> Excuse my ignorance but how is that any different from "interest"?

Corporate fixed-coupon bonds are corporate offerings of simple interest-bearing instruments, and are regulated as securities.
You found it ok to go around the sites rules (as enforced by the reply limit) by editing to reply. You’re breaking the rules to influence others to your opinions, and you study people breaking the rules to influence others to their opinions.
Perhaps people are less truly radicalized, and substantially more negotiable, than we've been lead to believe. It certainly benefits both the media and politicians to sell us a story that there are an extreme number of radicalized people out there.

I've certainly never met any neo-Nazis. Not to say they don't exist, but if they are truly as common as I've been told, I think I'd have encountered some.
If I do this, the internet basically becomes useless for me to be honest. Many useful sites breaks for me (shopping, banking etc)
Already there. The Oklahoma City bombing is only the most notable, but domestic terrorists coming from the military is growing. https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-police-and-rise-terro...
My only disagreement with this is that there are some things that result in a more efficient unload. For example, as you put utensils in, grouping like utensils will result in a more efficient unloading. It's sort of like insertion sort, you start wit an empty set, insert a fork in one area, next you insert a spoon where spoons go, etc. It is marginally more effort than placing them in.

I do agree though if you load you get to load however you see fit. So carry on with doing stuff!
I remember one time as a child attending school in Australia, overhearing a discussion between a woman who lived near the school and a local council officer. The council officer had discovered the woman had a dog of a certain breed that wasn't permitted in that region, and was telling the distraught woman that the dog would need to be taken away and killed. The dog hadn't caused any trouble or bitten anyone, mind you. Although at the time I didn't have any notion of "freedom", it shocked me nonetheless.

As someone put it, "The problem with Aussies is not that so many are descended from convicts – it's that so many are descended from prison officers".
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The common service call for Bosch dishwashers is "will not drain", and the common fix is to pull out the completely clogged filter and clean it as seen in the video above. The evidence doesn't support the idea that the material eventually dissolves out of the filter.

Secondly, the final rinse water is filled into the tub and recirculated over the same filter. It's not directly sprayed from the water supply over the dishes and into the drain.
Consider: older company moving stuff to azure, google, Amazon from private/colo data center. The Linux stuff moved. The as/400 and related mid-range mainframe left. What does a prudent company do with it?
Or because every actual study has shown this line of reasoning isn’t backed by reality.
Variable time delay feed back has been used for decades in treating stuttering. As you adjust the delay to the ears while someone reads you can force most people to stutter. Funny as trick hell to play on people.
Good announcers are trained to ignore the delay from stadium speakers etc.
Ok, fine, defined in terms of.

There’s nothing odd about the fractional scale, nor is it unique to US Customary Units.
I could think of 100 ways you could still do damage to an armed public. Whats your point? Its a deterrent and if someone is doing massive damage they are going to be spotted.
Not trying to nail down exactitudes here just throwing out some ideas…
Almost as if the language is enough to define good software.

What are the merits of what was built?
The root cause of this is mental illness. Seems to me that one of the fix on a deeper level is to improve mental health services/living condition.
Your comment was the only useful one in this entire discussion. It is shameful that folks here claim to be scientific and yet cannot read a single WP article.
I'm not sure why you'd think software inefficiency has anything to do with it. It's not a significant factor driving demand for new hardware.

Demand for gaming PCs and consoles have nothing to do with inefficient software. Demand for automobiles has nothing to do with inefficient software. Demand for servers, networking equipment, and office PCs to support a suddenly-working-from-home labor force has nothing to do with inefficient software. Windows 11 not supporting 5-year-old hardware, crypto booms, and pathetically short support windows for smartphones have nothing to do with inefficient hardware.

My 6-year-old laptop and 5-year-old desktop handle Electron apps just fine. It would be nice if the software was more efficient, but practically nobody is rushing out to replace a computer that was any good to begin with because Discord and Skype take up an extra 50 MB.

Besides, making software more efficient is a long-term solution to a short-term problem.
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I've never used multi-cursors, so I don't think I'll miss them. On the other hand, whenever I want to type Vim commands and the editor doesn't want to, it always jars me.

I will give this a shot, thanks!
This would really only apply for fights where I'm checking in luggage...international flights, for example.

I wouldn't mind a feature where I can drop off my luggage somewhere near my house the day before my flight and it gets tagged, bulked transferred and inspected at the airport.

This would allow me to straight to the gate and not need to check in large luggage or fumble with luggage while rushing for a flight.

This also forces me to pack early and now the night of the flight and be sleep deprived.
Yup. There's a lot of hardware offloading going on inside when running the stock firmware. Something like this board, or a dual-NIC mini-PC, and a surplus PoE switch, might be a better choice.
> A long time hire with experience on the code base would conduct more of a "feature review". Does the code address the problem or feature correctly? Is the code adhering to feature requirements? These are things that are answered towards the "feature review" of this code reviewing scale.

It is too easy even when you have been there for years to not do that. Feature reviews are hard and boring. You can look at code, but to understand it is hard and takes time. Much easier to just glance at it, hit approve and move one. I catch myself doing that all the time.
Duh, all u have to do is increase the speed of the train, and derail of the dead end. /s
Until that person goes into the bathroom...?

This kind of argument is honestly a big part of why the theater is still in place. People keep making poorly thought through arguments about why we don't need it. Those arguments are inevitably shot down, and everyone remembers that rather than thinking about it for themselves.
Go to a local school board meeting on masks and be disabused of this notion fairly quickly.

edit: Votes on this one have been a wild ride.
Did you just say you are under guard, being forced to stay in a hotel? And this is acceptable? Do you have covid, were you exposed to one person who had it? Did they provide proof of this or just tell you and cart you away?

Bound to repeate history looks more and more valid everyday.
I guess I don’t understand this concern, because it doesn’t seem historically accurate.

There have been many pandemics in the past. Governments have responded in the past with aggressive quarantines. Yet, before this current pandemic, no country had aggressive quarantines in place.

These kinds of restrictions imposed by governments have historically disappeared with high reliability when the situation calling for them has ended.
I don't remember the details, but remember reading that attack wouldn't have worked under US aviation rules, that it took advantage of some EU protocol oversight which was subsequently rectified. Don't quote me on it though.
I'm in no way shape or form smarter than Stroustrup that's for sure, but there might be space for a third category: languages seldomly used in dayjobs but many programmers would love to. Elixir, Haskell and Rust come to mind.
And sign for AWS savings plan paying upfront for at least 1 year for what most likely you won't need? Not the best option IMO. Yes, I'm biased at some point.
Only if they are communicating with some identifier!

If someone poses as other people (which these campaigns do), accountability becomes impossible because normal users cannot tell who said what.
IBM claims 7x better per-core performance vs x86, but they're lying about that, of course.
AFQT is widely accepted in the psychometric literature to be an IQ test. Military itself believes so:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/MG265/...

They literally say that they believe AFQT measures the same thing as WAIS (a standard IQ test) is measuring.
Dito here in germany (at least in my near family), the dishwasher essentially reuses the same water too to clean after rinsing, you just don't see it hehe.

Suds are also not rinsed off in the UK if I recall? That would definitely safe some water too.
Well, you could certainly just download from archive.org for the first-time usage of any particular song and then cache them from there. Like being your own CDN.
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We had almost zero airport security in the US until the 60’s. And that never went away, so that’s your answer.
If the value of crypto is that it drives down the risk of lending by bringing transparency to the assets of borrowers, then how can the interest rate be higher than in the normal financial system? The fact that there is less risk but interest rates are higher should tell you everything you need to know about why this is a scam.
In a suddenly chaotic situation how does the distributed security communicate and know they're on the same side and not treat each other as the enemy?
I submitted this story because it reminded me of my own efforts to create a blog. I started writing in 2008 and continued writing fairly regularly until 2012. The subject of the blog: the design of high density housing. I am not an architect, but I developed a passion for the subject and wrote blog posts based on the books, papers and news I consumed.

My blog had no relation to my job, but I still kept it semi-anonymous. Why? I'm not sure - perhaps it was an online alter ego for me?

Why did I stop? Simply because hardly anyone was reading the blog!

At first, I convinced myself I was writing for myself and an audience was not important. But over time, I came to realise that, although the size of the audience was not important to me, the interest and engagement of readers did matter (especially for a blog with a very small audience).

I thought the submitted article was a lovely piece about the author's experience, but also about blogging in general. And it makes me wonder: is the heyday of blogging well and truly over?
Long lines for you, not for the policymakers!

Keep voting.
Billions? We’ve been spending billions per month for twenty years.
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It’s not cynical when looking at the incentives. Once a rule is in place for “safety” reasons the political cost to remove is really high (what if something bad happens?). Politicians won’t touch it. That’s why I think exceptional measures should expire automatically (on a date or when a hard condition is met)
Practically every law enforcement agency is going to disagree with you on that. Id like to see these studies if you dont mind.
"Our oppressor isn't as bad as you've heard. They give us choices! For example, we get to choose chicken or beef for our 12pm meal."

Be careful. Stockholm syndrome is real.
Am reading through the comments and I have to say westerners really think all news is about them. People who don't understand the context of a story arguing out the ethics of a story they have no idea about. PS: I am a Kenyan. That being said, any Kenyan here who uses Twitter regularly will agree with the article. Go to Twitter right now and you will see the disinformation in action. Trend number 1 (Nyonga) Trend number 3 (Kenya under Raila) are all political trends that are being promoted by "fake accounts" pushing the hashtags. Everyday new hashtags come up peddling the same misinformation against political rivals. This has been happening almost EVERYDAY for the last several months and it will only get worse as we near elections which is exactly one year away.
I agree the parallels are clear. Both narratives rely on fear and mass hysteria. Putting aside the hot potato of 9/11, we can hopefully discuss the issue of Iraqi WMDs in a less inflammatory way.

The mainstream presses never had a reckoning for their role in issuing false rationales for the war in Iraq. Those who believed the propaganda shouted down dissent as "conspiracy nuttery" and anti-Americanism. After the fact, many of those I know simply switched their positions. They denied they ever unfairly dismissed concerns or experts (Hans Blix) which ran counter to prevailing propaganda.

Which brings us back to the present rationales for expanded state power, where dissent is dismissed as conspiracy nuttery and anti-science. Once again, the incentives are ignored.
To me this sounds like a risk for service cart/flight attendant/exiting pilot being overcome and entry gained to the cockpit. Even better a hijacker knows exactly when the opportunity arises as the service cart will be moved into place indicating the dance is about to start.

Furthermore, what's to stop suicide pilot murdering co-pilot behind a locked door?
So does a global pandemic that's killed millions worldwide.
It’s incredible. This guy sold $15M USD of worthless tokens to the public. Investors lost their money.

Instead of feeling ashamed, he’s proud of having settled the case out of court and “laughed all the way to the bank”.

Crypto ethics are truly well hidden.
^ Hey everyone, the propaganda worked on this one! ;)
No, he's not right because his entire argument was a straw man, trying to claim that I was sovereign citizen-ing financial regulation.

The Coinbase CEO is not an idiot. He has been very clear that this would be a regulated instrument. The SEC has no jurisdiction here. Either this is an interest-bearing currency lending account, for which the FDIC would be the regulatory body, or it is a securities lending account, for which FINRA would be the regulatory body. The SEC has not ever regulated securities lending or interest bearing accounts. They have also never had any regulatory authority over non-tradable financial instruments. They're literally the least likely agency to get this turf, which is why industry insiders like Matt Levine are shocked by this. It's only complete outsiders like you that think the SEC has any stake here, because you have a completely facile understand of the jurisdictions of the financial regulatory bodies in the US.