skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a hilarious bit of exposition of how few people actually read/watch the links posted here. Anyways, both IATA and ICAO (as well as FAA) are explained in the video. Y'all should watch it!

It took months of original history just to get an answer to why Canadian airports start with a Y
The only problem when I used any of these RSS feed readers is that the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad. I always get notified of topics I do not really care about (Liking a particular website does not mean everything they put up will be relevant and interesting). That's when I found HN and it resonated well.
(Copy & paste the link, can't confirm on my phone but I'm guessing they redirect HN referers to Google)
If this was purposefully orchestrated as the indictment suggests, it's very likely that 100% of every deposit made to FTX could be lost for good. Minus the real estate purchases of course.

Crypto transactions are irreversible.

All of the money that Alameda Research lost (which they borrowed from FTX investors) to bad bets could have easily been won by SBF et al on the other side of the trade... withdrawn to safety and put in a cold wallet for whenever they all see the light of day again.

The majority of the money that Alameda lost to bad bets was propping up shitcoins.

SBF could have created an account on FTX under a pseudonym and taken the short side of all of those shitcoin trades, knowing exactly how much financial support they had and how to break them.
Money. Without money there's no innovation.

Ask yourself: what happened if Steve Jobs born i.e. In south Italy and not in USA?
Update: funds were not stolen. PortableSecret wasn't cracked (yet)!

What happened is: the wallet app I'm using automatically performs CoinJoin[1] when funds are received (In fact, this is their business model! They take 0.3% of the amount to automatically anonymize all inbound coin).

CoinJoin is a protocol that breaks up the sum received in tiny pieces and scatters them across a large number of "sub-wallets".

So my wallet still has the funds. Bt the 'receive' address I used looks drained, that's because it was only a temporary address to share with the sender. Funds were soon after scrambled/tumbled/anonymized.

This was an interesting experience. I spent all day thinking about what could have happened, researched and learned a bunch of stuff in the process.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/Privacy#CoinJoin
But that doesn't really clear anything up. I see that there is a 501c that has been created, but it seems contrived to add value to flickr.com by offering some assurances that your photo collection doesn't slide into the abyss while offloading the storage costs. None of it seems
very charitable to me.
$10M ona 40 year term and a 2% rate is like $30k/mo in payments. I wouldn't say most people would think of $30k a month a super low payment.

And now that the bank has new ownership they might be able to refinance again and continue to kick the can down the road, but they're less likely to get as favorable of terms I'd imagine.
The thing is, if you intend to do something like establishing a completely self-sustaining population on Mars (one that could live indefinitely of the earth disappeared), then you need to have a presence in many many places on Mars, because you need access to numerous raw materials.

For a simple visitation mission, you can pick an easy place, sure (the other reply points out why this basin is not in fact that easy). But this does nothing to prove that long-term habitation of Mars is in any way possible.
after reading about his parents' high level of involvement, i think they knew there were all sorts of illegal things going on, and decided to not ask too many questions to allow for plausible deniability.

but they gladly kept spending that money and spreading that influence.

and, to seemingly throw away your kid's future because you're so enthralled with finally being one of the true bigwigs around Stanford... smh.

he needed parents.

and the myriad people surrounding him for years during the theft and fraud -- who are now all Pikachu-faced that he could have been doing these dastardly things.

and maybe sbf will get his little brother sent to jail, too.

SBF wasn't paying attention to the SPAC people -- you gotta take yours off the top, like a politician (quoting dead prez) -- not just steal everyone's money, and _def_ don't steal from the rich -- i thought we all collectively learned these lessons.

if we killed SPACs _and_ crypto, where are all the scammers gonna go?

conspiracy. wire fraud. commodities fraud. securities fraud. money laundering. the Federales even threw in a campaign finance charge just for giggles.
The elephant in the room in this discussion is OS level permissions to access files and information on the phone from outside the app.

The app can do whatever it wants, but if I disable it’s access to the internet at a system level it’s not getting access to the internet.

Even desktop OSes work like this. Just because I install a piece of software on my laptop does not mean that it gets root access.
>it's not a foregone conclusion that what the world wants is to be mindlessly entertained by the algorithm of a faceless corporation

Not foregone, but not likely to be supplated by high effort individual curation.

Another plus of TikTok is that the only unitary identity is your content posts, rather than, e.g. your comment/post history.

TikTok is the evolution of SnapChat, which fucked up precisely at playing coporate tastemaker with its ephermeral content model. TikTok solved that.
See IndieHackers podcast titles and content for comparison. I agree, I don't want to listen to OP's podcast but listen to IH's all the time.
Peertube is amazing. My cheap VPS punches well above its weight thanks to it, and I can host videos that have had (low) hundreds of thousands of views without having to rate limit anybody or force registration.

I'm always quite concerned that it's practically a one man project, though. I hope it can build the community of developers that it deserves.
I think it’s fantastic that you engaged this comment. I hope you two talk further.
"less interested in getting the details of the story right" is exactly what is "whack" about media today.
Clickhouse works the same way right?
No you can't because solar isn't a continious source and fusion is.

No amount of investment into solar power can make the sun magically shine 24 hours a day.
* Advent of code is about solving puzzles.

* Making a programming language is like solving a puzzle.

* People that like solving puzzles like puzzles of all kinds, so the likelihood of a top advent of code solver to also have worked in the "puzzle" of making a programming language is big.

Feels pretty logical to me :-)
Vidcutter is good but no where near as customizable as Losslesscut (specifically in terms of keybinds) and using the timeline is nowhere near as smooth. Its being developed in a way I approve of much more but I still prefer using Losslesscut by a large margin. If it ever catches up I'll be thrilled because I do like what its about a lot more but I don't really think it currently competes in terms of user experience. Still if it works well for you then there's a lot to appreciate.
Also a misunderstanding of the youth social media trend: TikTok is the evolution of SnapChat, not Twitter/Facebook.
I think balloon framing preceded drywall by quite a long time.
If you visit an airline on WikiData, they have the FAA, IATA, and ICAO codes pretty well mapped out, but I hadn't ever come across an ACARS entry before. Might be worth mapping out. Example:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8731
FWIW, I agree. It'd be nice if we gradually walked back the idea of selling computers with these kinds of limitations. Some lock down is going to be desirable in some situations, but it should be the exception rather than the norm.
On sponsor block, most of the creators I follow have visual indicators for the sponsor time so I can just tap the arrow key or the screen until that goes away. I guess I don't mind that 'skip ad' arrangement since the creators are getting paid directly by the sponsor. Some creators also have Patreon model where you can get sponsor-free edits for regular payments which seems like an alright decentralized solution.
that pretty much sounds like th' internet as a whole, then
If I ever ever see anyone wearing these it'll blow my mind
I’m not sure if it’s the same taro, but people grow it in the ground here in New Zealand.
He certainly committed fraud, but it’s certainly unusual that he was prosecuted for it when nobody lost money. In fact, investors did well.

It’s hard not to feel like this is not a thing that would have been investigated had he not been a totally raging asshole.
I don't need the anonymous version for this; I've already talked with a mental health professional two times on call. Both times, I changed my name. It works for me.
I assume this is a reference to other engineering disciplines, where an engineer signing off on something has real meaning.
the thing that bugs me the most about all this is all caps

Numerous studies have shown by now that SHOUTING CASE is the slowest to read. Humans read words by their shapes not by individual letters. Capital letters lose the distinctive shapes that their lowercase counterparts often have and thereby also become more ambiguous and error prone
>"Hazmat Hijinks: Total Meltdown" on Steam

Looks like 1990 Chip's Challenge on Windows 3, thats not a good look.
Emacs was built as a TUI, and it is built like a giant REPL; read input, evaluate command, print the output, and loop back. IDEs based on "modern" GUI frameworks (IntelliJ uses Swing, not exactly "modern") are inherently multi-threaded; you have the UI (or "main") thread that accepts events and updates the display, and ideally never blocks, while evaluation is performed on worker threads that can be canceled or scheduled as needed.

In practice, you can get far with Emacs' process supervision to avoid blocking the command loop, but some things that are trivial to offload to a worker thread are next-to-impossible to avoid blocking in Emacs. One of those things is parsing megabytes of JSON from an LSP server into Lisp data structures, which is baked into the Emacs core and will block redisplay.
What's the Go method to upvote a content and how do other federated endpoints receive that signal? Or are you telling me to build it myself, in which case... yeah, that's what this thread is about?
It’s difficult to work a part-time and a full :(
Very smooth. Wonder if there are any optimizations like Hashlife going on? There’s a lot of spatial redundancy to exploit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
So why do they donate all that money?
I at times am chopping up 2-8 hour videos with dozens of clips that are not pre-defined for me. I can do this with FFmpeg and I love doing most things from terminal but its a pretty hard sell when what you're doing involves something inherently graphical. I use FFmpeg for all sorts of things but it just doesn't make sense for editing such large videos on the fly like this.
At least 5 HN readers disagree with you.
In other words research in fusion helps make more accurate simulations of how nuclear weapons would behave.

>fusion is not directly related to nuclear weapons or the maintenance of a nuclear deterrent

ChatGPT is wrong in this case. Fusion occurs in hydrogen bombs i.e. nuclear weapons
Most linters follow the 80 character limit because of the IBM punch card and Unicode and ASCII are also both full of these historical quirks. Many of us deal with these every day. I assume it's the same for people working in the aviation or medical industry
The internet is an ever expanding series of interoperable protocols. The ask here, that we start to define shared standards for more already-well-known-to-humankind but-so-far-often-proprietary/not-standardized means of information-exchange seems remarkably pedestrian. I'm not sure what has you so fired up against it?
I'm in an industry with a lot of migrant workers, I was asked to write software that would change the time records for migrant workers so they never get overtime.

I said I wouldn't do it unless they showed me the legal advise saying that it was ok. The office sycophant piped up and said "I'll do it". From then on I stopped being invited to meetings and my job transitioned into answering the phone and then out the door.

I hope they jail the developers for 500 years, that's the sort of signal that needs to be sent.
This game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/588210/HELLION/

Looks like it sold incredibly well and was abandoned by the developers and is no longer for sale.

A weird example.
One of my favorite tricks is to use a visual difftool.

Copy good log into left panel. Copy bad log into right panel. Quickly show which lines are new, which are missing and which are out of order. Obviously ignore the timestamps ;)
I know nobody expects him to be a reliable narrator, but it's actually very easy to create a bank account for a new company, at least in my experience starting a small business.
I am American and interpreted his comment as positive.

I live in a small town, with a handful of police officers, and their boss (the commissioner) is elected by me and my neighbors. There's no greater accountability than that!
It was one of the most popular “mini-services” at google along side less useful things like percent/ (which shows your tenure percentile), memegen and bunch of others, maintained by like a single engineer on the side. These were (at least to me) what was so great about Google’s early engineer-driven culture. It was like the early web app age in a sense…
This juvenile argument is always brought up when it comes to the subject of Reparations owed by The British, but unfortunately for its proponents, holds no water. This is simply an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for gutting the Colonized Countries in all dimensions viz. Economically, Socially and Culturally.

Here is Jason Hickel (one of the authors of the posted article) on The Case for Reparations - https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/10/13/the-case-for-rep...

In particular; read his rebuttal to the five commonly used arguments (including yours) in the latter half of the above article.

Some more articles for your edification;

1) https://qz.com/1911783/what-the-uk-owes-in-reparations

2) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-calls-...

3) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/world/americas/colonial-r...

Some excerpts from all of the above links:

1) W. Arthur Lewis, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from St. Lucia, had argued since the 1930s that colonialism had gutted the economies of colonized societies for generations to come, making the debt one of not just repayment but also of reconstitution.

2) India wasn’t “developed” under British rule – it was de-developed. And not just in terms of social welfare. British policy was designed to destroy India’s domestic industries by imposing asymmetrical tariffs, by dismantling the institutions that trained up producers, and in some cases even by maiming skilled artisans – all to create captive markets for British goods. During the course of British rule, India’s share of the global economy shrank from 27% to 3%.

3) Frantz Fanon had it right when he wrote, in Wretched of the Earth, that “Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have withdrawn from our territories. The wealth of the imperialist nations is also our wealth. Europe is literally the creation of the Third World.”

4) “The sequel to that history of repression and disavowal has been poverty and uneven progress. So calls for reparations consider this wide story and its micro-level consequences in their activism,” Smith said.

5) “There’s no real ownership of responsibility. So there is recognition that what happened in the past was bad, but we’re not responsible now,” said Moffet. “It’s a way of sort of separating the monarchy or British government from the past.”

6) And then it strikes you…. Then it strikes you that there is not enough money in all of Britain to compensate for these injustices. And you realize, that if Britain paid reparations – real, honest, courageous reparations – there would be nothing left. Britain would not exist.

And that is exactly what people find so terrifying about the question of reparations. It’s not that they fear the actual prospect of paying. It is that even just thinking about what is owed reveals the hard truth: that what is owed, is everything.
How about "ease of use is more important than looking cool". Half of modern apps are full of icons that all look exactly like each other and none of which I can use without a tooltip.
There's also TBML which is for Tech Bro Meals (soylent, mainly)
Everyone should make a point to read "Don Quixote".
It's a deep architectural issue resulting from who the primary audience of Linux is and lack of things like UAT and market research/targeting and a holistic UI design which macos and windows have because they have armies of people to do that stuff.

Explaining a developer or someone who can even just install Linux how fragile it is is difficult and that's why such people don't make UI decisions usually in commercial products. The very user friendly DEs do a good job at wrapping around the ugly underlying UI... except when they don't. The expectation I suppose is you open bug reports and issues or contribute.

Regardless of what type of user you are, on Linux you are always a product tester alongside an admin alongside what you normally do. And as a Linux user I accept that fact.
Tell HN: Binance does not have an HQ and no one knows who/where their execs are
* It's an entity that has no headquarters

* No one knows where their executives are or who they are

* No one knows where their CEO is hiding

* Refuses to get audited by a Big4 firm

* Releases sketchy audit statements from unknown audit firms

* Operates in a highly unregulated environment with zero regulation on what they can do with customer funds

* Facilitates the trading of unregistered securities, most of which are probably straight up scams

* Regularly makes statements like "we have the best KYC team in the world!" to fool idiots
Pretty sure orignal google’s golinks predates Go the language by many years
Easy: Among Us, for the many months that it toiled in nearly complete obscurity to the point of the development team nearly giving up the ghost and quitting, until one specific streamer picked it up and gave it the critical mass attention it needed to go absolutely huge. Had the developers had slightly less resources and shut down the servers before that crucial moment it would have never happened, even though clearly Among Us is a fantastic game in retrospect.

Quality is necessary but not sufficient for success.

Also: a while back, I wanted to empirically test the "any good game will succeed on steam, and if it doesn't succeed, it isn't a good game" hypothesis by setting up a little metagame called "Steam Prophet". We would track upcoming steam games and try to predict which ones would succeed BEFORE they came out. We eventually disbanded the project when we got so reliably good (but not perfect) at predictions that we got bored and quit. Turns out that just a few leading metrics were incredibly predictive of day 1 (and thus day 30, day 60, and day 90, and year 1) success -- chiefly the number of followers the game had on Steam on launch day. It is a rare game indeed that can succeed on Steam without first having banked tons of high quality wishlists (of which followers is a public proxy metric for).

The spirit of Steam Prophet lives on today in the form of Simon Carless' Game Discover Co newsletter, which obsessively follows upcoming and newly released Steam Games:
https://gamediscover.co/
What is it you're actively using PDAs for?
People keep telling us this but we feel it's overblown. When you listen to western media they make it seem like an invasion is just around the corner, whereas over here the relationship with the PRC is little changed.

Nobody can know for sure but you can never know if a huge earthquake will hit San Francisco, better not live there. Or if the subway will flood in new York city, better not live there. Or if Berlin will be hit with a terrorist bomb, better not live there...

And so on. At least here we are very unlikely to be shot, and, our public transit means we don't have to risk death from drunk driving. I believe a rational analysis of actual likelihood to random death in Taiwan vs the usa, the outcomes are much better in Taiwan, and that's before considering better access to healthcare and other reasons our quality of life is higher here.
I had the same understanding and it was very distracting reading this article.
When I was a kid back in the 60's we had a joke that FBI stood for Fat, Bald, and Ignorant. Since I was a kid a long time ago and there are probably a lot of people my age (50-60's) at the FBI, maybe this old joke was prescient.
Because Alphabet will have around $280 billion in revenue for 2022, and the masses need to pay them $12 a month to see less ads because YouTube has decided to ratchet up the frequency and length to force that? And users are already paying via their data being collected and sold.
At this point it's basically historical/a mild hazing ritual. Everyone involved in aviation knows how to read this gibberish, and the next generation damn well better do the same!

Back in the day, it made sense. Say, back in the 60s, these messages were sent over a teletype at maybe 75 baud or less, roughly 10 characters per second. Now the Telex network was billed differently, but by comparison, at the time, domestic long distance rates could be over $1 per minute during the day, so it was on the order of 600 characters/$1. All the abbreviations probably reduce the data transmission by 80-90% over a fully spelled out transmission.

For things like hourly weather reports from every major airport, the abbreviations probably saved $50/hr or more on Telex charges every hour every day at major airports receiving them. That's not to mention the lower latency from getting weather reports sooner or not needing to install more Telex machines to keep up.
I still can't get past the sharing aspect, especially in the time of covid.

Have there been any studies on disease transmission in cultures that partake of drinks in this communal manner?
They got a lot of workforce in Ukraine, and now there is sh##-show. I would say give them time
Three years is not standard. 1 year is far more often in my experience.

Don't need to trust me. https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/the-ba...

> As for a time limit on a non-compete agreement, most employers see between six months and two years as a reasonable non-compete time frame, with one year being quite common. However, the time frame depends on the industry and type of career path the individual has. But the longer the duration of the non-compete period, the more likely a court will deem it unenforceable.

In California non-compete agreements are not allowed, and some other state have a hard limit on the length, eg, 1 year for MA - https://www.katzlawgroup.com/non-compete-agreements - and 2 for IL - https://www.navigantlaw.com/non-compete-2-year-rule-long-wil... .

To be sure, these examples concern employees, not contractors, but I doubt it differs. OP should check if 3 years is even legal in their state, and regard this as a bad sign about the client. It means they want to play hardball, so you as a client will have to be on your toes and play hardball too. Which I don't think is fun.
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