skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scanning through this, it seems kinda cherry-picked too. To refute "storms are becoming more common" it gives us a graph not of global hurricane/typhoon frequency, but... "landfalling continental US hurricanes". Good grief. That's a population with a frequency of one or two per year, it's all noise![1] I don't happen to have the full data set handy, but I'll bet anything it doesn't say what the article says it does, because if it did he would have used it.

What's the truth? Damned if I know, climate science is hard. But I know better than to trust sources like this.

[1] But even as noise, it seems from the graph in the article like it's getting worse and not better. We haven't had a year with zero or one hurricanes in about a decade, it looks like. And never had one with more than four until 1985, since which it's happened three times.
It’s this sort of thing that has prevented me from activating 2FA on my gmail account. I pay for Google Drive (as a tertiary backup) and would be willing to pay more for service that include actual customer service. At this point though I feel locked in. I could switch (any suggestions on paid email with *real* support available?) but it’s a pretty big burden to go through every site & service that uses my email as either a login or password reset vector and change things over.

Heck, here’s an idea for a startup: a digital “moving” service. IRL I could pay a company to take everything I own, pack it up, ship it somewhere else, and even unpack it too. I’d like to see a digital equivalent.
My city government here in California calls them "people who live outside".
Many airlines do this. Lufthansa did it to me last year. They are usually accommodating if you ask in advance (mine was due to a connecting flight being canceled and driving the last leg was much faster than waiting for the next flight).
> Note that the reason for airport mode is a courtesy to cell-phone carriers.

This doesn’t track. What about trains?
Arm bleeding talent at an alarming rate
I remember these from various forum signature prestige graphics lol
There's other types of bad than wrongness.
Wow… AirTags on your luggage? What an incredible idea, lol.

Really though… can someone who knows what they’re talking about (or a pilot?) tell us if the transmitting excuse is a cover or BS?
In part, yes. Have updated my earlier comment with additional research.

In short, it's complicated. And because of that complication, anyone with a vested interest or political slant can skew representation any-which-way.

However, climate disruption is driving a trend-change in mid-Atlantic hurricanes, wrong-footing the attempt by Michael Shellenberger to hint otherwise by sleight-of-hand.
Yes indeed. I am sure the author learned to read texts with this font quite fluently while working on it, and you'd learn too with little practice.
Next AirTag software update: when any nearby phones indicate they are in Airplane mode via Bluetooth (which they can do because bluetooth isn't blocked in airplane mode), put all nearby airtags on standby for an hour). Apple can figure out all the nuances. Or they'll add cheap pressure monitors and determine tag is on an airplane. Repeat. Your move, Lufthansa.
An airline that actually cared about customers would figure out a way to temporarily provide all bags with an Airtag (or equivalent) and encourage customers to track their bags.

Or at least, encourage customers to provide their own Airtags.
This is an interesting idea, but given how inexpensive the high resolution small SPI-connected LCD displays already are, this might not be a very useful solution.
I just ordered AirTags for exactly this purpose. Thanks for the hint Lufthansa.
This depends so much on your usecases.

In our company it certainly is not cheaper. But what they do is ridiculous. They just moved from physical datacenters to AWS instances. Every "server" instance is running 24/7 independent of load, and you have to fill in an excel of 10 tabs to get permission to fire up an instance. In fact, the only thing they changed is the physical rack location tab to an AWS zone one :P

So now we are "in the cloud" but we have almost none of the benefits said cloud offers. And we're using it in such an inefficient way that we're wasting money by the millions. And we kept all the internal overhead we already had when we managed the datacenters itself (that's what that excel is for).

Once we actually start dynamically spinning up instances based on load and shutting them down when not needed, then yeah I could see it being cheaper than having a bunch of metal in a rack somewhere. But I guess we won't get there in the next 10 years or so. We'll probably be all-in on cloud by the time everyone has already gone on to edge computing or whatever the next big thing is, lol.
In this case, hasn't NATO all but said their response to a nuclear escalation would be an overwhelming conventional strike.
> Humans take in a tremendously high bitrate of data via other senses and are able to connect those to the much lower amount of language input such that the language can go much further.

They don't. Human bitrates are quite low all things considered. The eyes which by far produce them most information only have a bitrate equivalent to ~2kbps:

http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/ruyter+laughlin...

The rest of the input nerves don't bring us over 20kpbs.

The average image recognition system has access to more data and can tell the difference between a cat and a banana. A human has somewhat more capability than that.
Many people exist and use email before becoming homeless. When that email is gmail - they actually do have to use it when they become homeless!
Well, also a GPS receiver to detect flights to or from Germany.
Do you ever see a case when there are so many services with so many dependencies that personal deployments are too costly or unweildy?
American Airlines self-reported a baggage mishandling rate just short of 1% this year. That seems really high to be honest, when you consider that most planes have a minimum of 150 passengers.

2022 was an anomalous year since the airlines ramped up their schedules without having support staff at the airports to handle it. The statistics seem to indicate a tripling of lost luggage rates.
Basically everything from the age of 11 onward. I can't think of a single thing I'd do the same if I could do it all again, but probably my biggest would be not to go to university. I was too young and naive and the absolutely last thing I wanted to was work hard and study, and it had the biggest impact in terms of the direction my life took.
Trackr has been gone since 2021.
yeah, they really can. Flights are a sellers market, they run near empty flights often. Plus less people are using AirTags than you think.

Again, I think its a dumb rule. But don't think you are special and can just ignore it forever with no consequences.
FSF has been burning bridges for pretty much their entire existence (what is "open source" if not: have you considered not firebombing every bridge you see)
Bohlen-Pierce
https://theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/14/bohlen-pierce-bost...
And you are confidently wrong since the NFC has very short range.
> Are we OK with Google just shutting off accounts in that scenario? Are we prepared to accept that the members of our community experiencing being unhoused will find themselves constantly creating new accounts as their old ones are shut off or rendered unusual from the consequences of purposely-low-security-for-the-vulnerable?

I am, yes, if the alternative is that they loose access to their account every few months!

Also, at least this way people have the ability to keep their accounts truly safe if they choose a strong, unique password. If Google just locks them out no matter what, there's no recourse.
You'd expect Spirit Airlines to do this, but do they let you check a bag for less than a hundred bucks?
It’s immoral and illegal in Europe but sure quite a few airlines still try this on.
Kinda cool, but if you want radon levels why not buy a radon detector? Like this one: https://www.airthings.com/wave-plus

No need to try to find and calibrate some used Russian geiger counter.
Interesting. Is that a desktop OS though? I'll have a play with it soon. Thanks for the heads-up.
From the NOAA article the author links to to refute media narrative:

Our main conclusions are:

1. Sea level rise – which human activity has very likely been the main driver of since at least 1971 according to IPCC AR6 – should be causing higher coastal inundation levels for tropical cyclones that do occur, all else assumed equal.

2. Tropical cyclone rainfall rates are projected to increase in the future (medium to high confidence) due to anthropogenic warming and accompanying increase in atmospheric moisture content. Modeling studies on average project an increase on the order of 10-15% for rainfall rates averaged within about 100 km of the storm for a 2 degree Celsius global warming scenario.

3. Tropical cyclone intensities globally are projected to increase (medium to high confidence) on average (by 1 to 10% according to model projections for a 2 degree Celsius global warming). This change would imply an even larger percentage increase in the destructive potential per storm, assuming no reduction in storm size. Storm size responses to anthropogenic warming are uncertain.

4. The global proportion of tropical cyclones that reach very intense (Category 4 and 5) levels is projected to increase (medium to high confidence) due to anthropogenic warming over the 21st century. There is less confidence in future projections of the global number of Category 4 and 5 storms, since most modeling studies project a decrease (or little change) in the global frequency of all tropical cyclones combined.

Isn’t this overarching story what the media is saying, which kinda refutes his refutation? Weird article.
On a related note. Has anyone figured out a way to prevent my damn AirTags from randomly chiming? It's driving me insane.
Meditation apps? Calm
Homelab-priced sensor is the temp sensor in your server, it's free! Actual servers have a bunch, usually have one at intake, "random old PC" servers can use motherboard temp as rough proxy for environment temp.

Hell, even in DC you can look at temperatures and see in front of which server technican was standing just by those sensors.

Second cheapest would be USB-to-1wire module + some DS18B20 1-sire sensors. Easy hobby job to make. They also come with unique ID which means if you put it in TSDB by that ID it doesn't matter where you plug those sensors.
I like this, it's like code golf but for fonts. It's cool that it can be done but not something I would use regularly.

I think the end game would be a 3x2 font that is basically Braille.
JEP draft: 64 bit object headers
Strange idea, instead of finding a way to ban technology that makes you look bad — maybe instead be customer friendly, offer free tags and add clear real-time map of where the customer’s luggage is currently and is expected to be.
Novamin turns into hydroxyapatite, like in Japanese toothpastes. Fluoride and nanohydroxyapatite work better together than either alone, for carries at least. The approval process is too expensive to get through here, even though nanohydroxyapatite is used regularly in many countries.
It’s actually illegal for them to do this without refunding you in Europe but a lot of airlines just ignore the law on this it seems.
> They don’t uniformly enforce…

Because it’s a scam. They pick “enforcement” targets by guessing who seems likely to pay.

I’ve never been charged when traveling solo. But with family or co-workers they have a shot at the “oh, just pay it, we have a plane to catch” gambit. I know their tricks and always refuse. Then I lay the bag down and start rifling through it like Yoda in Luke’s lunchbox.

The long line of passengers who think they will miss their flight are staring daggers at me. My travel companions are attempting to activate their invisibility cloaks. I give not one f because it is a scam.

I am helping everyone by showing it is a scam. Half the time the agent backs down. The other times I can usually throw a few heavier things into a spare duffel bag. F that s.
You, when you said “they don’t have to use Gmail”.
I have every incentive to stick a tag in my bag and no incentive to take it out.
well the z16 is out, so someone knows if the 40% performance improvement per core is true or not.

if you were trying to dampen my enthusiasm for learning mainframe technology, you've failed, sir (or madam).
https://news.sky.com/story/heathrow-asks-airlines-to-cancel-...
Trains move significantly slower than planes. They're also on the ground, mostly below the towers, while planes are in the air, moving very fast, with multiple towers in line of sight.
I think the title of this article is a bit more inflammatory than most here, so it's likely to wake some of the trolls. That said, I think this is a well-written article which uses cited references to show:

1. Hurricanes have not become more frequent or powerful due to climate change.

2. Despite #1 being true, many media publications regularly claim otherwise and do not retract claims when called on it.
Obviously exceeding total GDP is not possible and we'll stop well before from just commercial considerarions as you describe. The question is how much of that is inherent to the problem and how much is lack of innovation. And we'll get to find out because if the processes stall from the economic side all the research turns to that whereas today it's an arms race for the next node and the increasing cost is taken as a given because as long as you get there the customers also arrive. Once that's no longer the case it frees up competitors from just chasing the node at equivalent costs to actually innovating on the total cost. If that leads to nothing then maybe we actually stop almost completely.
Indeed; and there's no problem with half of a plane using Bluetooth headphones during the flight, either.

I don't think this move by Lufthansa has much to do with engineering :)
How do you get the AirTag to do this?
The US/UK may be able direcionalise the jamming and some of the anti-radar missiles adjusted in what they lock to frequency wise to hit these sites.

In a further iteration of the cat-and-mouse-game, the signals from the Starlink units can be detected and used as a target for Russian signal-homing missiles. A Starlink terminal would require to be close to the command post. Hit the terminal, kill the commander.
This session replay thing is not critical to anything they do, including ecommerce. It's just another analytics thing...

Here's how it will play out... been there done that myself:

1) Tech team will be commanded to remove this analytics collection utility, and never use it again.

2) Lawyers get together and figure out a payment that makes sense without litigating and bringing on that risk.

3) Papa John's cuts a check and forgets this even happened.

There is no scenario where this sees a courtroom. No case law will be made. No arguments will even be made. The lawyers will jaw back and forth for a few months, because that's what they do, but then ultimately a demand will be made by the Plaintiff's attorneys, PJ will haggle it down a bit, ultimately pay it, and then the real Plaintiff will get a small stipend if they agree to lend their name to another copycat case... rinse and repeat.
> The aversion to 2FA makes them seem like easy targets if I'm looking for addresses to use for spam.

If you want to spam people, why not just sign up for your own gmail account?
You know, with that background I bet everyone holds you up as an ideal of someone who has their shit together, and didn't waste huge parts of their life.
JetBrains has web applications which is where these are used - YouTrack, Space, TeamCity.
Regulations aren’t some magic want that don’t come with side effects, though. IMO, they tend to not address the root problems and only add layers of abstraction.

One of the best examples of this is how Sweden irrevocably killed their financial markets by trying to just squeeze out a bit more tax revenue and limit speculation. The cost of that mistake has to be in the billions and IMO, we’ll see the end of Sweden as a nation before we see it “recover” its markets.
It doesn't track in any way. In the airport there's small cells or femtocells by the operators. In the air, the only cells you can reach are the one pointing upwards.

Also, they don't really ask for airplane mode anymore, at least not when I'm flying.
How did you choose the letter "j"? were all the more obvious ones just taken?
IMO it has to be a gradual, memetic process.

1) Start, obviously, with legislation outlawing the use of tips to make up for below minimum wage pay (2.13/hr plus tips but guaranteed minimum wage if you don't make enough tips at the end of the pay period).

2) Follow up with legislation and/or campaigns to address the current incentive to not report cash tips - that is, simply put, do not tax the recipient of tips below some reasonable threshold. This is actually already built in for most income brackets, so you need the third step:

3) Simple, free, and widespread education of how taxes ACTUALLY work when you're below the level of most HN readers.

Once those are in place as a basis, you tackle the culture:

4) Use the same targeted propaganda methods currently used at the demographic of service workers (if you ain't sure, ask them yourself what they are into and work backwards to where they got that idea) to make accepting tips a negative. Make them feel like getting tips is anti-[thing they like at the time]. Make tipping associated with incels or climate change or something, idk.

5) Since cash is getting phased out anyway, tax tips more than the service that's being tipped.
And what, find every system that has your existing email address and change it?
On the upside, x isn't used that much.
The cell tower network is designed to cope with devices located on the surface of the planet, i.e. where the geometry between the handsets and the tower is roughly two-dimensional.

I am also unconvinced that handsets on aeroplanes are really a problem for the network, but trains aren't the counterexample you're making them out to be.
Ahahah.

So you claim is what at some place the majority of population is ethnic $nationality, so those people have a greater claim than $current_country to be successor of USSR's holding there. Right?

Now insert 'russians' and 'Donetsk|Lugansk' there and suddenly this whole sentence stops working for some reason.

That's blatant hypocrisy.
They are using the Mortal Kombat name and trademark which they are most definitely not licensed to do.
Although there have been some legitimate concerns raised about some 5G bands edging into altitude sensors https://www.icao.int/safety/FSMP/MeetingDocs/FSMP%20WG11/IP/...
"You can't look for your Airpods because someone around you put their phone into airplane mode" seems like a pretty bizarre limitation.
That is also not true either. My 80 year old mother uses Signal because she talks property management and money related issues to people. She does not trust WhatsApp because it is owned by Facebook (Which is weird because she uses Facebook all the time). For her, knowing that cell phone company employees can grab text messages is enough for her to switch to something that is secure.
I suspect I'm misreading your comment. You say "they run near empty flights often", which is not true based on current load factor data, at least in the US[1]; it's as high as ever.

But you also say "it's a sellers market" which would imply high demand where they can afford to lose a few passengers (which would be true based on basic economics). So I suspect this is what you intended to say, unless I'm really misunderstanding something.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LOADFACTOR
Soon to add to the lawsuit Visa and Mastercard for conspiring with Roblox to facilitate exploitation of children.
The claim isn’t that you can’t learn it from text, but rather that this is why models require so much text to train on - because they’re learning the stuff that humans learn from video.
> During the discovery process, Musk apparently wasn't able to obtain any substantial evidence to back up his spam claims, making it unlikely that he could win at trial.

I was wondering why he was suddenly so interested again...
Extremely not smart to so prominently use the Mortal Kombat name and logo. Come on... we have seen this so many times. Cease & Desist coming in the next week.
Oh Lufthansa… the reason why I stopped carrying more than 1 backpack when taking the plane.

They permanently lost 1 item, among all the other times the luggage would arrive well after me. They reimbursed me a tiny fraction of the lost value.
I keep trying to tell people that the metrics knife is sharpened on both sides. The only way to be absolutely, categorically sure of your trajectory is if your velocity is 0. And that is, as they say, a "divide by zero error".

These rules and tools go in to fix a hurt caused by making mistakes, and somewhere it gets twisted away from "not making the same dumb mistakes repeatedly" to "never make any mistakes", which slows things down until you eventually make the chiefest of mistakes for a capitalist venture: never shipping.

Two of my better bosses pointed out that only people who risk nothing avoid making mistakes. One of those thought that "perfect estimates" meant you were over as often as you were under (the old accuracy vs precision argument). You can't achieve anything without taking some risks, and 'boring company' only works in a few niche markets, that don't pay well.
I'm a SWE @ google, but I work on an infrastructure team so it bumps up dangerously close with the SRE world. I go on-call once every 2 months or so, so I end up essentially being a SRE that week. The SREs that I've met at Google are world-class, so if you do think being exposed to that kind of rigor would benefit you, Google is definitely the place to earn your stripes.

Personally though, I have a hard time sleeping during that on-call week, even if I'm not being paged, just from the stress of possibly being paged at any time of night and need to go fix a production issue.

But, some people thrive with that, and there is a fairly broad range of work that falls under the SRE umbrella - you've got your fire-fighting SREs, your tool-building SREs, your project-consulting SREs, etc...you would probably be able to find a role that fits your talents/desires within the organization.
Lower in the same thread: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1577906942080598017?s=6...

> PS: Many unhoused people access their email rarely, intermittently; they don't stay logged in. They often have to guess several times to remember their password.

2FA doesn’t work, and remembering passwords doesn’t work either. Checkmate.
I think you don't understand that 10,000 tweets isn't 10,000 inserts. It's not enough to just write tweet, you need to fan-out writes to every user's feed. It's also not batched into neat transactions like your batch jobs.

You have no idea what are you talking about.
Given the frequencies used and the transmission power, I’d be absolutely blown away if it were able to cause any issues.

Aircraft rely on VHF and HF for comms and VHF and GPS for navigation. Additionally INS is used for navigation. International operations will also use SATCOM for communications.
Why don't they try something new and adopt the same technology. Clip a tag to the bags' handles at check-in and have readers on planes and throughout the airport. Lost luggage should be a thing of the past after that. You don't even need to rely on people physically scanning it with a barcode reader.
FWIW, spot prices for c5a.24xlarge in us-east-2b and us-east-2c seem to have been under $0.92/hr for most of the last 3 months. So, assuming some flexibility on the choice of region, that would adjust your estimate to $0.92 / $1.69 * $1233.70/mo = $671.60/mo, which looks a lot more reasonable. Hopefully I did that math right. Data egress prices are definitely still ridiculous, I agree.
Disco Elysium vibes.
What about Lwow?