skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many devices which are extremely difficult for third parties to service, including aircraft engines.

The manufactures of aircraft engines are not doing the service on those engines. I would be hard pressed to think of an airline that gets GE and its ilk to service the engines.

the dealers are very good with recent models, and less good with older ones.

Not sure where this comes from, but its definitly not my experience owning a Kia Niro. The whole dealership network is not very good at this newer model at all.

Dealership mechanics are usually more junior (less experienced) than independent mechanics, but they spend all their time working on a much smaller range of models, so they're generally better on those vehicles. Having every special tool, and a great deal of training helps too.

Training does not overcome experience. The checklist never beats the experienced mechanic's intuition.

But here is the bigger problem, dealerships hire inexperienced mechanics and try to train them up because they refuse to pay for the decent mechanics (well, excepting specialized performance dealerships, but even then). People have to start somewhere, but when it hits the fan you want someone who has been around the block.
I didn't mind creating a Kobo account - I have never actually purchased anything from the Kobo store.

I have ALWAYS side-loaded all my books using Calibre.

However - about once or twice a year, I do turn on WiFi and download OS/system updates - which actually made the device faster and more reliable, so...
I prefer Newpipe since it's FOSS.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases

Vanced appears to be a cracked/modified version of the official YouTube app.
> I wonder how far this can really be taken in my city. We already have high and problematic overflow of visitor parking into residential neighborhoods.

The problematic thinking is that the cars need to be here in the first place. If it is easy to get to the residential neighborhoods by walking, biking or public transit then most of these cars don't need to exist.

Of course it isn't easy. It takes a long time to shift habit, culture and perception. But the upsides are great. It is easier and faster to get around, less people getting hit by cars, less noise. Plus there are other benefits like I can go out and drink without worrying how I can get home or who is the DD.
I agree if cached data was actually proportional to usage.

But a lot of these webview kind of apps just download the whole thing anyways, so it's literally just a matter of if the bytes are classified under "application size" or "cache" by the OS.

(Precisely so they have the whole thing available for when you need to use it offline)
Not getting into an arms race against hackers is a sound business decision, unless you have a very good profit motive to keep them out.

Maybe the devices are loss leaders and you can't afford to have many users not following up with purchases from you. Or maybe you are at risk of being sued over some shady licensing deal if you don't lock down. Or someone like Microsoft bribes you to lock out competitors. Or maybe you're just a control-freak asshole company.

Or a mix, like Sony.
“YouTube premium is not available in your country.”
I sincerely wish you luck! Yeah terrible managers are awful. The feedback loop of "my boss won't do shit to help me so I'll figure it out on myself" to "I'm competent in every single technology here and could run the show myself with enough time" to "management recognizes my skills and puts everything on my plate even though I have no time" is pretty dangerous.
only dead when unavailable
Almost all the content I watch has embedded sponsor ads anyway.
When they let Russia invade Crimea they broadcast vey clearly to Russia that it had free reign to do whatever it wanted. No different from when Europe let Germany seize the Rhineland.
> I want to reward companies who omit it in the hope more will follow.

Let's hope not, I really like my comfortable ectra escape key. The pictures I saw when quickly searching for HHKB looked incomplete to me, control is fine in the corner!

Hopefully we'll have all options though, a comfortable keyboard is a must.
I guess the rational solution is for regulators to force the release of those manufacture specific tools.
But then the police somehow got said evidence after the person left, and they know the person's identity - but presumably not from the driver's licence (which would have included residential address) - and then they're hoping to stumble upon said person in a random traffic stop? When they even admit they can't realistically go after every speeder on the road?

IMHO, if I had to guess at the probability of this scenario being realistically, my Occam razor sensor would say it's most likely a manufactured scenario that isn't actually grounded in reality. </two-cents>
Ahhh, nice! What's the purpose/utility of the matrix display? Can it be used as a light source? Or maybe a point grid display for pixel art style faces / messages?

> I think I heard about VR-OS but haven't looked deeper; focused on the HW right now.

That's actually precisely why I brought it up :D

> a Windows VM... should work?

Ah sorry, I edited my message above to be clearer as far as what I was actually asking ( load profiles and such ). I got so excited that I started brain dumping without a lot of context.
To be fair Java has made some strides in memory usage. GraalVM reduces it a lot and with Valhalla (and to some degree Loom) it should be more competitive on that front (and others) with other languages.
Boeing’s receivers are picking up radio signals well outside the band allocated to radio altimeters - they got away with this until now because the nearby bands were unused.
Growing up in 90s many/most politicians ran on a get tough on crime platform. Crime rates naturally fell.

Current trend last the few years is to be soft on crime. So now crime rates are rising.

There is also increasing shift away from the mindset that one has the right to defend oneself. Both as a private citizen and as a police officer.

If someone comes up and pulls a knife on you, and you pull a gun out. The results can be anywhere from being treated as hero to a villain. For sides of the confrontation.
optimizing for simplicity is optimizing costs and speed of further changes. So, basically the same as 1) and 2). Effect isn't immediate, but it's not in a far future.
Your website has cute style! Curious what it’s made with
I use a Boox tablet, it can open up the open source formats, and since it runs Android it can also just run the official Kindle app and basically be a Kindle at the same time.
I don't believe you have ever worked on a GDPR compliance project.

Our corporate expense SaaS didn't support GDPR for a long time, and we had to migrate. That cost both us and them time and money. It's not because they were sending all our data to Google nefariously, it's because it's a huge compliance burden they did not bother to undertake.
Are there use cases where the database schema may differ slightly between tenants? How would migrations/schema changes propagate thru 1000 databases? What if it fails on one database? That sounds like a nightmare to maintain.

Your goal is to scale the application and I think the way is to change the multi-tenancy to store the tenant id in each relevant table as well as indexes on that column for every table since the majority of queries will have tenant_id.

The load balancing part depends on what your app is doing, you could segment web traffic based on URL or whatever per tenant to different servers. Or all traffic goes to all servers and scope when using DB is the tenant_id, then you treat all traffic the same and the load balancer just ensures even-ish traffic across a pool of web servers.
I don’t know much about aviation or electrical engineering, and I’m wondering if anyone could help me understand something.

It seems like the telecom and aviation industries (along with the FCC and FAA) disagree on a question of fact: does 5G equipment interfere with radio altimeters?

There’s a way that the FAA could convince me, and probably all the politicians. Shoot a video with a radio altimeter and some 5G equipment where the radio altimeter malfunctions. Put it on YouTube. Do a press release.

This seems like an obvious step if the underlying issue exists. Any reason they haven’t done this?
>> It's silly to the point where I read someone defending our right to use cryptography under the second amendment.

That's really stupid. It's as bad as when the government wanted to classify cryptographic algorithms as munitions. To make the argument I think it's best to fall back to a right to privacy under the 4th amendment, and to the fact that it's just math which anyone can do.
Oh boy, we need AI powered blockers that filter out this stuff.
My assumption is that it's less of a monetary loss for them to serve the ads unbundled compared to putting the engineering resources behind bundling them. They, obviously, have the exact numbers readily available, and I assume the "money lost" lines will cross eventually.

Regardless, there is a loss, and they'll respond to it when it becomes significant enough.

edit: uBlock Origin has over 10,000,000 users, according to the chrome web store. I can only imagine something will change soon, or there's some serious technical debt holding things back.
Well it may not be correlated to complexity but it certainly is correlated to end user satisfaction. If their device prompts a "device cleanup" operation and your app is near the top of the list that doesn't do much good for retention.

Not to mention the billions of devices in the world which are running old OS versions with scant memory capacity.
I have owned several Kobo's over the last 10-years, WiFi is always off and I never get nagged.

Have always side-loaded books via direct USB mounting - or Calibre.
I have an older Paperwhite and I rarely use it. If I'm traveling I probably will have my tablet with me anyway and if I'm hanging out waiting for someone I already have my iPhone with me and that's good enough for a short read.
> ensuring access to basic needs like food and housing, for one thing.

Plenty of wealthy people still commit crime.
Conveniently it's a single tree that catches fire with none nearby. Plus the drone is mere minutes away. What if it's densely packed brush and the drone is further away? Or a powerline touches off the fire setting hundreds of trees aflame? Or multiple lightning strikes touches off many fires in a wide area? This thing looks as if will be very expensive and work only some of the time.
What do you mean by install their own software? What are people installing on their Kobos? I bought mine just because Kindle doesn't have ePub support[0]. Now I'm curious what else I could do with it.

[0]I know about Calibre. I'm not willing to jump through any hoops for ePubs. This should be basic functionality on any ereader.
> I'm not sure how you read that.

I was responding to a statement made upthread:

>...> “Working hard” is meaningless, it’s about your output.

While I don't need your elementary explanation of how capitalism operates, it does appear that you agree with me. We aren't paid by how much value we provide to the company. We aren't paid by how much effort we provide to the company. We're paid according to the amount of leverage that a company has to exploit us.
Since a few months, firefox by default doesn't switch from incognito back to normal mode when I close the only remaining incognito tab. Can probably be attributed to increased privacy, I suppose, encouraging the use of incognito mode. But there's no setting to change that back. Over time, more of these minor annoyances appear which I'd need to dig in my memory for. Luckily, it's a relatively small price to pay, overall I'm just happy to have adblocking in the browser.
I'm sure if a DA tried to pull this, a grand jury or judge would no bill this.

Personally, if found stuff that wasn't mine, it'd get pitched to a dumpster.
A couple YouTube channels I'd suggest:

https://www.youtube.com/notjustbikes

https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity

https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful

If you want to go deep on parking policy, here's a talk by Donald Shoup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gokb4rPik
Release lite version without that file.
Written from a limited perspective; novice expert wisdom. Certainly it's valuable to stick around to really understand long term effects of things your immediate predecessors and then you yourself did. You do start to understand things. I agree that staying at one job for 5 years, not 5 jobs over 5 years, makes one senior. You also have to be capable of learning such wisdom within whatever constraints may be in place.

But you don't then need to repeat this ad nauseam. Once you then go into your next job after your first long stint, you should instantly recognize the tradeoffs and be able to ascertain whether they were known or unknown. After a few years doing that, then you are probably ready to be staff level, although the likelihood of internal promotion is likely slim.

I'd say the ideal tenure history looks similar to (not precisely):

new grad > 1-2 years > 1-2 years > 5 years > 3 years > whatever

You need those quick hops initially to a) see at least a couple different work environments, and b) to get your salary up quickly, which is especially important early on. Then, yes, after 2-3 of those shorter stints you need at least one longer stint to gain the real wisdom that you didn't get with your early on "same year of experience multiple times". Then you need to hop again for both salary and promotion, and to see how your wisdom applies to another environment. After that, optimize for whatever your life wins and losses have guided you towards.

Of course (!) YMMV. Sh_t happens. Or you might have hit a lottery at your very first company. Who knows what else. I'm just suggesting what an "ideal" progression might look like, not considering how life throws things at you, or how companies vary in their quality making it bad to stick to some prescribed progression.

EDIT: I see the author actually followed (is following) my exact suggested trajectory. I find it a little odd then that the advice given doesn't capture that at all.
I like what Duffel is doing as far as creating a nice, consistent airline booking API goes: https://duffel.com/

Maybe some carriers should integrate with Duffel and build their apps on top of the Duffel API instead of shipping all the logic off to accenture or whatever
the webiste Strong Towns has some good info on parking minimums:

https://www.strongtowns.org/parking

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minim...

Some more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/to-save-t...
My "killer use case" for Vanced or NewPipe isn't even the ad removal, it's being able to continue playing the audio while the app is minimised or the phone is locked.

That is such a basic restriction that free YouTube places upon itself that ruins my main use case - listening to a couple of videos on my commute to and from work.
Crime fell nationwide in the 90s after steadily growing since the 60s because of the elimination of leaded gasoline. The evidence is really strong.
Units are units, they're fungible and convertible by nature. As an engineer in the US, I can assure you that there are cases where Metric units are handier, and other cases where Standard/English units are handier. It's not at all a bad thing to be bilingual in units, and the Petroleum and Aerospace industries are still largely based on Standard units. (As are pixel densities, most PCB traces/pads, and the like...) I design most things in Standard units, since metric hardware is expensive and hard to get unless you buy CheapChineseShit.)

A good example of Standard units being easier is machined parts, where 0.001" (a thousandth of an inch) is a much more useful size in the real world than a tenth (too coarse) or a hundredth (too small) of a millimeter. (It also helps that a cigarette packet wrapper is exactly .001", so you just need to find the nearest smoker (harder to find than it used to be) for a quick and dirty clearance gage....)

I'd also argue that Fahrenheit degrees are markedly superior on a human scale - I've had European cars that use Celsius to run the automatic AC (even if they lie and display F), and since they're nearly twice as big, you wind up fiddling with setpoints much more than you do with a Deg F setpoint: the Celsius/Centigrade degree is just too large to really dial in on human comfort. That said, I find metric Temperature the be the thing that's hardest to develop a "feel" for, outside the usual room temp ranges. I know polyimide cures at 600F, but have to work out what the Hell that is in Celsius...

But as I said, be "bilingual" and it's not much of an issue at all.
According to them.
App Store Distribution and You [Another App Store Rejection Horror Story]
> The implied arrangement is that you watch the ads (at least the first five seconds until the skip button appears) in exchange for them doing all the work of collecting, hosting, and delivering that content to you.

What if the delivered content is subpar?

I have watched ads (ie paid with my attention).

How do I get my money back?
What about older planes? I'm not sure if boeing should be responsible for retrofitting all of their older planes just because of change that happened years later.
Yes when I ever make an app for my own project

But for most employers they just need presence, almost nobody was breaking even on apps they just needed the presence on the app stores. Big waste of money for most, and for most projects I was pitched
"but nevertheless you're taking service and declining the payment"

Those strong words would need a real, clear contract between google and the user.

"We serve you a video and we track everything you do, allmost wherever you go online"

I haven't seen it spelled out by google like this and surely this is genral knowledge around here, but most people still don't have a clue about the general concept.

In either case, even if the ads are blocked, you still pay with your data, by being tracked what you watch and when you watch it - and in combination with always online smartphone controlled by google - with whom you watch.

In other words, if it would be only about ads or no ads and just the service, I would agree. But this is not the case, so I also have zero question about moral with this one. It is more about self defense of your attention.

So yes, we need other payment models than advertisement. But I doubt this can come from google, no matter how much I would pay them, for a single service.
Yeah… I always wandered the same… I love in Europe and my salary is not even near to what people claim to earn… but I am pretty sure that if we compare the effective hourly salary I out-earn most of them!
Why? Because from Prague, Eastern Europe is on the horizon. A lot of rich people in CZ are "forced expats" from the former USSR.

Just take it as another perspective from a different point of the globe.
Ya would agree as well, some cross-protocol, side-chain/SWIFT/Plaid/blockchain hybrid except for greenfield areas where it might take off natively.
We have a lot of solutions for distribution of content. Because of youtube's stranglehold, content creators go there even if they're not monetizing for the exposure. I don't care about blocking youtube ads because they're an innovation stifling monopolist, and the amount the give back to creators is pretty garbage, while raking in stupid profits.
Having been in jail (in the USA) with dozens of carjackers and car thieves, all of them were packing all of the time, because of rival gangs. They will NOT think at all before shooting. They will just shoot you and run. The kids who do this stuff are ingrained now to just shoot at any threat. Fist-fighting is long gone. I am not exaggerating here. They will shoot.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/police-believe-carjack...
From my understanding, Boeing's radars will receive a much wider band than Airbus', combined with most other countries allocating 5G spectrum further away from the expected radar frequencies. They could switch but it would involve massive effort and possible recertification of the airframes.
It's interesting to note that this exactly what John Deere has been claiming about repair software for their tractors: they're just really busy working on making it available ASAP.

John Deere has actually been saying this (that they're working on it as fast as they can and it will be ready any day now) as they stall for years and refuse to actually make their software available to purchasers, even though the software itself actually already exists, since dealers have it, and they could literally just hand people copies with zero additional work.
Who are most people? Most people in the world are data-restrained in one way or another. Depending on the market, this can have serious user impact.
For some reason it's really funny to see how much room Fastmail's notification sound takes up. Your analysis for Spark also has a send sound bundled but it's one of the stock Apple ones (Blow). Is there a reason why they have to include their own copy instead of relying on a system sound file?
I similarly killed my Spotify subscription largely because of their disgusting behavior of exclusifying podcasts.

I think this is largely a PR thing: there are obvious benefits to open standards once you understand the pros and cons. But most people don't want to learn anything about how podcasts are distributed, or how messages are sent, and with corporations pushing people to proprietary solutions, most folks will just... do what the corporations tell them to do (see Google Chrome's adoption as well -- sure, it was a fast, sexy browser at first, and word of mouth helped the rep... but let's be honest, the real reason Chrome became the most used browser in the world is because grandma and mom and uncle bob all got annoyed to death on the Google Search, Google Maps, and GMail web pages that "the best experience is on Chrome").

I've tried to explain to friends and family why I prefer open standards, like RSS, and they smile and nod but I know damn well they don't get it and think it's weird that I care so much. These are the same people who don't seem upset or annoyed that the Spotify subscription they pay for constantly shoves podcasts in their face even if they don't listen to podcasts and have no intention of ever listening to them. So I guess the answer is that most people just do not know enough, do not want to know more, and do not care enough to bother.

Open standards are amazing, and the internet is going to fragment and fall apart if we keep drifting from them. Or, at the very least, turn your online experience into a dystopian nightmare where you can't control anything, even things you bought, in your own home, on the internet connection you pay for. We really need a good PR campaign to keep open standards alive and improving. Because they're really better than proprietary solutions that milk you for every last dollar and drop of attention. We just have to show the aforementioned grandma and mom and uncle bob.
Dude, I know. But it's a pain in the ass.

In fact I got so tired of trying to make the Kindle for PC app play nice under WINE after it inexplicably broke that I just bought an old Kindle off eBay for about 20 bucks, and am using the hardware key from that to both download the books from Amazon in .azw form, and decrypt them with DeDRM/Calibre.

But it's still a pain in the ass. And you know what's even worse? Now that it's tied to a physical hardware key, Amazon knows that this particular Kindle is older than dirt, and so it won't even give me the option of downloading some of my newer books like graphic novels or cookbooks, because it detects that those wouldn't work on it. So I can't get those to break the DRM from them.

Things are only marginally better in the Kobo world, insofar as nothing downloaded directly to my Kobo has yet posed a problem for DeDRM and OBOK. But lord help us if they ever update the ADE encryption used for the on-device books.