skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term airplane mode will persist as an anachronism forever. Some day we will have to explain to our grandchildren why disabling networks has anything to do with airplanes.
Probably that they had a feeling they wanted to refute it somehow but figured an article would be more authoritative, except the one they picked was picked by the headline rather than content.
They also sit at a much higher pressure. The concern is that the much lower air pressure can cause stress on lithium batteries in the cargo hold, leading to bulging and possible damage, maybe catastrophic.

Especially for already damaged or poorly made batteries
> What is broken about old hardware?

Libreboot -- the FSF-approved fork of Coreboot which the author is indirectly referencing -- only supports a small number of Intel Core2 systems. This microarchitecture is heavily affected by speculative execution vulnerabilities, and rejecting Intel's microcode blobs means that these vulnerabilities cannot be effectively mitigated, even partially.
If I could offer you one piece of advice: if/while you still have time with him, thank your Dad for everything he's done for you.

I was with my Dad in his final hours, but it wasn't until after he'd passed that it occurred to me to thank him, and it still upsets me 3 years later.
Care to share the story or what he said to convince you not to work in videogames?
I’m not Jewish, but that sounds really appealing to me!
maybe less fancy, but my old 15 inchs, mat screen, i got second hand maybe 12 years ago, handled 5 years of intensive work, live acts in forest rave parties, fell several times on the floor, got splashed many time and was mostly upgradable. if it wasn't for the gpu id be still using it.

too bad they traded reliability for a few millimeters of thickness.
The article mentions that two of her books (The House of Arden and The Railway Children) are being republished this fall. That said, her copyrights have expired, so they’re also available now as open‐source, public domain ebooks at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit

I was a big fan of Nesbit’s Psammead trilogy as a child: Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet.
Locomotion? Nervous systems? Skeletons? All this trial and error will never amount to anything.

The jury is still out. Bacteria and plants may outlive us yet…
This happens to me, too, particularly when I fly in Asia. I collect screenshots of notifications welcoming me to countries I've never been to.
One big limitation of this standard is imaging data. X-Ray radiographs, MRI scans, PET scans, etc are not part of the USCDI standard V1 that'll be available to US patients. The current story for getting these scans still sucks and isn't close to being actually available to patients in the US. The best you can get is a set of DVD's containing that stuff, if you are lucky.

The problem is that the protocol used by imaging devices (DICOM) is ancient, and connecting with a DICOM server is a pain. There is a sort of modern standard that I've heard talked about called DICOMweb, that I think will be hooked up with FHIR and be made apart of the USCDI eventually (probably). But we still aren't very close to being able to see X-rays on our phones.

Also, one funny anecdote I've heard from working in this space is that some doctors do not like the Clinical Notes story (https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/US-Core/clinical-notes.html) since it means that their personal notes about their patients will be made available directly to the patient, something that was not possible in the past. Doctors often write down their real thoughts about the patient in there and can say some things the patient might not be happy with.
Why would doing that be in Apple's interest? Also, consider that the air pressure in airline cabins is about the same as it is on the ground in Santa Fe, NM.
I experienced similar at a previous company. Everything was a 1, 2, or 3. If it was a 5, the "scrum master" got a frowny-face. "Guys, can we break this down more??" Then a 15 minute discussion would ensue. That was literally the person's only contribution.

(If you suggested an 8, they'd look at you crazy and it would get back logged.)

The entire engineering org was measured on velocity. Every 2 weeks, at end of sprint, there would be a huge Slack posting with various stats for something like 6 or 7 teams. "85% completion! 5% are still in review. 10% of tasks were not even started!!"

Some managers would game the system. If a task wasn't done, they'd just mark it complete and open a ticket to finish it up next sprint (typically "integration testing for feature X" or "QA feature X".) One guy must've dragged his original 3 point ticket out for 4 sprints doing this. The "velocity" was meaningless.
*laughs in hospital still on Meditech "Magic" which is essentially a TUI

even sitting at the terminal, I can't get the fucking records I need
I assume it has a WiFi card? Snow Leopard was a great OS, and as long as this Mac Mini is ethernet-only, this sounds like exactly what I want (computing productivity without internet-age distractions).
The whole point of e2ee is that you don't need to know what the server is running, just check the (open source) client.

The point of their private contact discovery is to leverage SGX enclaves so that you can verify what code is running on their server.

Sealed senders allow you to send a message without revealing to the server who you are.

The whole point of Signal is to build something that you don't have to trust. But of course you need to put some effort to understand it (and what it means, e.g. if you don't trust your OS running the client or if you don't trust the SGX enclave).
Thanks for letting me know! I think it may have gotten stuck in a filter queue for manual approval. It would be nice to know exactly what triggered the filter so that I can avoid it in the future
I think they meant because it's Air France and the EU generally tries to support Airbus (based in Europe) rather than Boeing (based in the U.S.) it seems likely that it is an Airbus aircraft
Do you mind sharing what Ed said or did that convinced you to stop trying?
Trains are what keep groceries on your shelves. They almost had general strike last week because the drivers only have 5 days a year not working. No weekends, no sick days, etc.
I have had a 40 year career in IT, watching it from almost the very start (programming in 6502 assembly) to now (working with Natural Language Processing), without a college degree. I’m proud of that. I consider myself a continuous learner.
I consider Lufthansa a pretty evil company, but I still doubt they will open your luggage and then destroy your personal property.
While I get that some people are overly entitled, I think there's often too much of "X thing was there when I moved here, therefore X thing is an immutable fact of the universe and must never, ever change" attitude.

You see it in San Francisco a lot, with people who moved in only a few years ago complaining about how the city is ruined now because something changed, regardless of what it was, or how it changed. I assume Austin is similar.
It could be as high as 10% if you have a connecting flight, maybe? I’ve been fortunate enough to always fly direct and never had any lost baggage. I’ve always assumed direct is fine, it’s once you start transferring loads across different flights and codeshare carriers it starts to do awry.
How is Centos kneecapped?

Instead of being a fork, it’s upstream.
They don't identify as AirTags over BT like they do over NFC.

https://lifehacker.com/try-using-a-bluetooth-scanner-app-to-...
I think that it’s right to call out scientists who think that math is reality.
We made math up, end of story. The “Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics“ is obvious selection bias.

Math, statistics, is a tool. I don’t expect my shovel to be a dowsing rod, and I don’t expect my bayesian methods to predict the future. But, shovels do dig wells and probably does, on average, work out; neither is worthy of being disregarded. But, there have literally been folks since Pythagoras‘s time who believe that logic, and math, are The Truth. Like, God: The Truth. Like, it works because it’s the way that nature is, and we understand and control it and it is math… a “Natural Law”.

A better scientific mind does not fall for such folly. The “outliers” are the very phenomena that science wants to study. If we can explain the outliers through an error in method, fine. But, if the outliers are not able to be explained then we would never want to gloss over them because they don’t fit our expectations of a mathematical model of reality.
Oh no! Our management/efficiency consultants have value engineered our labor practices to the point of extreme fragility!

Maybe hiring more McKinsey consultants can fix it!
I really love it when I want records from Doc A to be sent to Doc B, then the Doc B offices refuses to get records and insist the patient need to do it, despite signing over all the papers, and then Doc A refuses to send them because they can only give to patient - even though patient is begging to send them. Quadruple the pain if you need records from multiple doctors. This is why now I prefer going to chain hospitals like university clinics. At least they can access records from doctors within their network. Like NYU, Mount Sinai, Presbyterian, etc.
I understand-- I looked it up, and although they're only buying Airbus going forward, most of their 10-across fleet is still 777: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_fleet
Sadly, SIM cloning attacks start by social engineering a cell phone support person into sending the attacker a replacement for the SIM they "lost".
“Grandpa, what’s an airplane?”

“Well Nancy, before instant interdimensional travel…”
Are you proactively showing users the value your service provides, or just relying on “discoverability” that might never happen?
Is this an American thing? Why does a school district have a police force?
For anyone wondering, this is probably referring to:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
FSF - Free Software Foundation

RMS - Richard M Stallman

OSS - Open-source software

Very poor writing to launch into accronyms with no explaination.
A twitter employee talked about that in the thread: https://twitter.com/noradio/status/1333558513314922497
Translation of the cited statement by the Lufthansa spokesperson:

“Baggage trackers belong to the category of Portable Electronic Devices and are therefore subject to the Dangerous Goods regulations issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization for carriage in aircraft. Accordingly, the trackers must be deactivated during the flight due to their transmission function, similar to cell phones, laptops, tablets, etc., if they are in the checked baggage.”

This likely refers to the following regulations: https://www.icao.int/safety/DangerousGoods/

From the 2017 addendum no. 2:

“Portable electronic devices containing lithium metal or lithium ion cells or batteries […]

d) if devices are carried in checked baggage:

— measures must be taken to prevent unintentional activation and to protect the devices from damage; and

— the devices must be completely switched off (not in sleep or hibernation mode);”

Note that the AirTag batteries contain lithium.

So Lufthansa is merely citing the applicable ICAO regulations, which presumably apply to all civil airlines.
This matches my recollection. I have been calling this foldable, portable category of computers "laptops" for approximately thirty years. The term "notebook" came along later, and always felt like a somewhat artificial marketing term; I never adopted it.
My most frequent use of the airplane mode, is when I go underground on metro systems, which I find pretty ironic.

(Without Airplane Mode, the phone will keep trying to connect to cellular towers, which just makes the network experience unstable)

Perhaps "Underground Mode" would be more suitable in a modern context /s
You miss the point. The point is that you have to trust something at some point. It's your choice what to trust, but you cannot live without trust.

Don't trust Google Services, that's great. Trust your favourite alternative instead.
A missing elements for me is that with a lot of exploratory scientific work we (often half intentionally) have no idea what we are doing. We can easily run a giant job that uses 100x more compute than expected. Yes you can limit cloud compute resources if you are smart but its much better is the default is that you run out of compute and your job takes longer than you get a 100x bill back from our cloud provider. And if you limited your cloud resources to a fixed amount, didn't you just eliminate half the benefit of using cloud in the first place?

Then the problems of data management, transfer and egress are huge. Again the "no idea what we are doing" factor comes into play. If you have a really good idea up front what is going to happen you can plan out a strategy that minimises costs. But if you have no idea at all - genuinely, because this is science and we are doing new things - then you could end up blowing huge amounts of money on unnecessary egress and storage costs. And at the small end we can be talking about experiments run on a shoestring where a few thousand dollars is a big deal.

The way I see it, we need everything - powerful individual workstations / laptops for direct analysis, then a tier of fixed HPC style compute for this kind of work that is poorly matched to cloud, and then for specific projects where it makes sense (massive scaleout, exotic hardware needs - GPUs, FPGAs etc) you embrace cloud resources for that.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

> Individuals’ Right under HIPAA to Access their Health Information 45 CFR § 164.524

> Timeliness in Providing Access

> In providing access to the individual, a covered entity must provide access to the PHI requested, in whole, or in part (if certain access may be denied as explained below), no later than 30 calendar days from receiving the individual’s request. See 45 CFR 164.524(b)(2). The 30 calendar days is an outer limit and covered entities are encouraged to respond as soon as possible. Indeed, a covered entity may have the capacity to provide individuals with almost instantaneous or very prompt electronic access to the PHI requested through personal health records, web portals, or similar electronic means. Further, individuals may reasonably expect a covered entity to be able to respond in a much faster timeframe when the covered entity is using health information technology in its day to day operations.

> If a covered entity is unable to provide access within 30 calendar days -- for example, where the information is archived offsite and not readily accessible -- the covered entity may extend the time by no more than an additional 30 days. To extend the time, the covered entity must, within the initial 30 days, inform the individual in writing of the reasons for the delay and the date by which the covered entity will provide access. Only one extension is permitted per access request.
You should do the same for macOS! Cool analysis, I appreciate it
It was a carry-on bag that was overweight, so nobody other than the passenger would be handling it.
Why would a strong password and needing an entirely different communication channel be the same thing? That's like saying walking to work and needing to drive a car to work are the same thing.
why are there so many downvotes for comments that are sharing/confirming their own issues with the library? Seems pretty terrible/unconstructive if those are all from the maintainers of the library
The key issue is learning effort (such as energy vs time). Congenitally deaf-blind humans with no accompanying mental disabilities as a shared cause can learn as children just fine without any video or sound from comparatively low bandwidth channels like proprioception and touch.

Another issue is what we really care about is scientific reasoning and there, if anything, nature has given an anti-bias, at least at the level of interfacing with facts. People aren't born biased towards learning Metric Tensors and Christoffell Symbols but it takes only a few years at a handful of hours a day using a small number of joules for many humans to get it (I'm counting from all grade school prerequisites vs GPUs watts x time). Much fewer for genius children.
Still though:

> As hinted above, the full Cloudflare Workers service involves a lot of technology beyond workerd itself, including additional security, deployment mechanisms, orchestration, and so much more. workerd itself is a portion of our runtime codebase, which is itself a small (albeit critical) piece of the overall Cloudflare Workers service.
Yeah , my car's radio used to go nutty when my old Cingular flip phone would check in with the network or get a call.
There was a time before this article when I put QNX on an old iPAQ Pocket PC. Back then (mid 2000s) it was strange to see a Unix OS running on a handheld device!

EDIT: I think I found a link for it:

https://eqip.openqnx.com/sites/eqip.openqnx.com/files/ipaq_b...
Depending on the type of product, maybe a discord/slack community?

Aside from that, unless I'm super invested in a product, the feedback mechanism needs to be ultra low friction.

This example is probably outdated now, but I remember I used to use Visual Studio's smiley/frowny feedback that was (IIRC) in the title bar: click the frown, type my complaint, click submit.

Sometimes multiple choice works too, BUT: the button should be something like "Submit Feedback Now" not "Next"! If it's a "Next" I assume that means 10-100 more questions, including and my SSN and home address.

^^ just some rando's opinions. Take em or leave em.
The whole point of e2ee is that you don't have to care about that!
Then they'd either have to ban Bluetooth headphones too, or admit that they're doing it because the trackers make them look bad and not actually for safety.
Frame challenge - 2FA doesn’t solve any problems that are actually problems for the homeless.

A homeless person has a vastly different cybersecurity paradigm, specifically, they don’t need much in the way of cybersecurity. Nobody is stealing a homeless person’s identity.

Given that, just let them disable it, and let them just use a password. It’s fine to rate limit them if they forget the password a few times, but let them keep trying to log in until they remember it.
Isn't an unstable network experience better than no network experience?
You might find this book a hoot. I did:

https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-of-living-biblically/
This feels ever-increasingly like asking Google to cover the role of a government agency. Universal service is something we expect of government agencies. It's rarely something we expect of private enterprise.

The whole "community recovery" concept sets my teeth on edge. It's a whole alternative authentication avenue ripe for exploitation. Anything that positive and innocuous sounding is going to be the target of many an abuse campaign - think Cambridge Analytica and all the people who handed over their info to innocuous-looking things. Telling people all their info has been stolen isn't all that helpful for protecting them and knowing the specific library or shelter that authorized it will do very little to help.

Plus it turns the people designated as recovery agents into high-value targets.

Again, I'm not trying to avoid finding a solution. I'm trying to avoid finding a "solution" that puts a large number of people at risk unnecessarily.
> Rather, 300-500 cell phones all trying to contact the next cell tower, multiple times per minute, would wreak havoc on cell service.

I'm probably being a simpleton, but this sounds like inadequate firmware to me. At the very least: Airtags have GPS, so shut them off when they are at $ALTITUDE.
I don't think handness has anything to do with it. I'm left handed and I prefer the paper oriented over itself.
Likewise viola da gamba, also played chordally
There are a couple of supreme court cases that could dramatically impact the internet as we know given the current composition of the court..
Yeah it has WiFi (802.11n draft) but you don’t have to use it. It has an Ethernet port up to 1 Gbps
This section makes it even more confusing to me, since I thought that the whole cell phone transmission restriction theater had been removed a few years ago. Was that only within the US and I've been violating EU regulations for years?
The first 15 words or so of your post is actually most likely true.
Isn't the cargo hold pressurized too? Don't pets often fly in there?
Yeah that's harder. If it mattered to me (like for my own physical integrity), I would compile it myself.
I have a lot of thoughts on this and not a lot of time to write them up. The things that really stand out to me are:

- a lot of FSF projects are based around the premise of a multi user *nix system. This is an outdated model of usage. Systems are generally single-user or no-user (and instead part of a herd of application hosts). Human login rarely happens except to debug, and that debugging rarely occurs on the host.

- the FSF has not done a good job of bringing new people in. They do not make a compelling case for their importance. I think this ties into the above - they don't have any compelling work to demonstrate for modern consumer freedom in one of the most important spaces - phones. This also ties into RMS - regardless of how you feel about the man, his presence in the FSF still continues to generate controversy that makes recruiting more difficult.

- The FSF is supposed to address issues about freedom, privacy, etc, but they have completely missed the modern age of application usage models. Web apps, centralized auth, locked down phone OSes, etc. They have very little presence, and a lot of licensing mindshare has gone to non-copyleft FOSS (apache, mit, etc)

- Richard Stallman famously corrects people who say Linux, by saying "GNU/Linux". This would be fine, except the vast majority of consumer electronics using Linux no longer ship with the GNU userspace. This should have been a huge red flag to the FSF that their efforts were being sidestepped entirely.

The FSF does not appear to have a clear vision of the future, or concrete goals, and has lost significant amounts of influence through inaction. I do not know what the way forward looks like for them.

Ultimately, I think the FSF "won" the mindset war, but has lost the overall battle.
This is another one that you can find on Fightcade:

https://sf2mix.github.io

it's a more significant rework of sf2, has some interesting concepts baked in
Not so much polarised as aimed. I'm not familiar with 5G (which I believe uses phased array beam aiming), but earlier generations had provision to physically tilt aerials in the vertical plane to optimise beam direction.
That seems like an extreme niche use that isn't suited for general purpose programming.
I think that one has to define terms first. Anders Ericsson - whom Gladwell relied on so heavily - was focused almost solely on a form of practice he called "deliberate practice"; and he set about defining its characteristics. Playing a gig wouldn't meet many of Ericsson's criteria. Mainly the goal, in the moment, isn't systematic improvement. That said, if we loosen the criteria, there's no reason we _can't_ count playing a gig as practice. After all, some neuromuscular/cognitive development is taking place.
I'm not super familiar with these systems, but don't they send out beacons using something like Bluetooth Low Energy or some similar protocol? That wouldn't be just passive and turned off unless something external powers it (like NFC could be argued to be).

(Which is not to say that it's therefore a valid argument by this airline, but the title seems accurate if the trackers are sending out signals actively and that's what's prohibited.)