skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landing fees already have this built into the structure, along with waived fees for fuel purchases, etc.

It probably is reasonable to look at occupancy percentage along with engine type, and adjust landing fees based on that. Two out of 18 souls on board with a turbine? High landing fees, divert some to an ATC fund.
Isn't it just PFOF? Is that actually illegal?

Edit: No, it's not in the US at least. It mostly just allows the broker to internalize orders if they prefer.
I created a new category "/cpn/" (stands for commonlog) and posting links with my understanding. You can see them here: https://www.jjude.com/cpn/

In fact, I also posted about Simon's post: https://www.jjude.com/cpn/informal-guidelines-for-running-a-...

As he says, having a link blog is a "low stakes, high value" activity. More people should carry it out.
> I dont know what the future hodls

I see you.
Slack is perfectly fine on any machine I’ve used it on in the past 5 or so years, I honesty don’t know what you’re experiencing or expecting.
That's true, but you could say the same thing about a Van Gough painting. There are lots of old pretty paintings. But if you paid $xxm for your Van Gough you can be pretty sure its still worth a lot in ten years. There are no guarantees. But that's not just true of Van Goughs and bitcoins.
Seems like a problem to me; nearsightedness is becoming more and more common.
What was "cockpit" renamed to?
I’m curious what will happen to FIRE over the next few years. Presumably a lot of their funding over the past few years has come from right leaning sources and presumably they’re going to have to change their tack with the new folks in power.
> Spotify pays out 80% of its money to its creators

The article says "nearly 70%" in 2023. Like Apple. So they would get to keep $4.2B for themselves. That's quite a lot.

It also matters that Spotify undercut other ways of distributing music, effectively reducing income for artists.

> Meanwhile, TikTok ...

Of course, there's always a worse one.
From https://www.faa.gov/jobs/career_fields/aviation_careers :

> The approximate median annual wage for air traffic control specialists is $127,805. The salaries for entry-level air traffic control specialists increase as they complete each new training phase.
secret third option: I like a band so I sail the high seas and then buy merch, or join a patreon, or some other way of cutting out at least some of the most egregious middlemen and directly supporting artists.
Newsflash: "planes are rich people's toys" has been killing general aviation already for a generation if not two.
cynically, crypto’s greatest achievement thus far has been speed running 200 years of financial mistakes and explaining why we need financial regulation.
What would seem like a reasonable, measured response right now?

It’s worth adding here too that Musk’s own purported ambitions are entirely political. He has even gone so far as to claim he has given up on democracy. Ironically, he also claimed this election was crucial. DOGE is a politically motivated program.

This is all worthy of intense scrutiny and concern
(this is going to sound like I think this can be fixed with a technical solution. I don't)

I wonder what the software UX is like for ATC, and if there's room for improvement? Is the software/hardware ancient? I'd hope that it is absolutely rock solid but knowing big custom projects I'm not very hopeful!
Yes. That ban (sorry, I still think that's what it was in reality) was a mild one and inconsequential. I personally have no problem with that specific episode.

The real problem is that and other such minor episodes normalized word bans as a general principle. So as soon as more radical people come in power, they have used it to ban what THEY want.

Just like normalizing talks about occupation of Greenland today, will inevitably lead to the real occupation in 20-30 years in the future, by some Mango v2.0.
> if half of the air traffic controllers took the offer to leave their jobs, do we have a Plan B?

In theory you could do what Reagan did and tell the military to do ATC.

Whether or not this is a good idea is another matter.
> I think it's the same reason PGP never caught on. The learning curve is just too steep.

This is what I always emphasise: usability first. If a solution is secure on paper, but confusing to use, then it's not secure - the user can get confused and do the wrong thing. Defaults matter.

> What it needs is something like a torrent client that 1) doesn't let you download unless you supply the expected SHA first, and perhaps 2) that it verifies that the hash came from the signed webpage where you got the torrent link.

This is already a solved problem. Just provide a magnet link. You already have to trust the website to provide the checksum, so why not trust the link?

As for packages, Debian experimented with a BitTorrent transport for apt a long while ago, but I suppose it didn't catch on. Perhaps this was before BitTorrent had HTTP fallback? Either way, this would be an interesting avenue for research.
Seems ripe for disruption with AI.
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Let's be honest: nothing MAGA is based on intellectual rigor.
What makes you think they avoid it?

When I was in uni CS majors could take multiple gamedev classes but they were electives
The irony of someone on THIS site of all of them scoffing at other people for being nerds . . .
This is essentially my point, I guess too briefly put- a country getting a loan is not an indictment of that country's currency; that is a huge leap to conclusions as evidenced by the world's best currency being maintained by a country that is borrowing 5% of its GDP each year.
I'm not a physicist but "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" was life-changing. A sweeping view of the baton-passing of ideas over decades that lead to a climatic event.

Both personal, and highly detailed, it is an absolute masterpiece and a must read for anyone pursuing a scientific career.
In China, March '25 egg futures haven't budged. They were 3200 CNY/1000kg (for 5000kg contracts) in August and 3200 last week. Why is bird flu hitting us harder?
If there was any value at all in renaming it to main, it was preventing people from being reminded of the unhappy concept of slavery. I don't think one ban is more conceptual than the other, if there's a difference it's that scrubbing an unhappy concept from research is more pragmatically damaging than scrubbing it from nomenclature - not because one's morally better, but because the former is more difficult to evade.
Something like that has already been implemented before in a corporate environment: "Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside" (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-...)
While true, its regularly implied that the creators are being screwed by Spotify when in fact it would be between them and the rights holders and Spotify has nothing to do with that relationship / contract.
Wrong! He'll push to use Grok. /s
It takes a lot of CPU to show all those ads.
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I refuse to reward their behavior, one doesn't fight fire with fire.
AI companies != OpenAI and there is no guarantee that all the AI innovation in the future will even happen in the US.
There's also a lot more nuance here and I definitely wouldn't say demonization of Democrats as a party is what lead to the current situation, that's seems a very oversimplified take. I would say more demonization of LGBT people, immigrants, scientists, government workers, media, etc. and demonization of those people is very different than demonizing the partisan apparatuses. I'm honestly on board with hating the Democrat political apparatus.

You should be allowed to hate on a political party, it's weird to think that's inherently an issue (especially in the current climate). I think a big part of the problem is in the US we're only allowed 2 parties so if one doesn't stuff you find unacceptable you sorta just need to support the other. Gotta love the "land of the free".
>It's Snarkiness, not FUD.

Making confident but incorrect statements is not snarkyness. That's like me saying climate change isn't happening.
If you live in the Bay Area on the Peninsula, you'll be excited to know that the San Carlos airport and the FAA are in a pissing match over their air traffic controllers' pay, threatening to un-staff the control tower and leave that very busy airspace without tower control. The tower was set to go dark on Feb 1st[1] but it looks like there is now a temporary extension[2] keeping it staffed. Why these guys need to play a game of chicken when lives are at stake, I have no idea.

1: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay-area-airport-losing-...

2: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-carlos-airport-reach...
Reagan taking away collective bargaining rights for ATCs seems to be what have led to the shortage and the helicopter accident last week.
Complex Systems and Möbius Inversion
Making war between (certain) nations unconscionable and apocalyptic may have done more for peace than anything created for the purpose of peace
Did he actually launch or land rockets? Or did he hire a bunch of people who actually did that?

I'm not saying that there isn't skill involved with hiring smart people, but I don't think it's correct to act like he single-handedly invented self-landing rockets.
It is so predictable to get a straw man argument like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
For the record, JS1024 [1] is a de-facto spiritual successor to JS1K nowadays.

[1] https://js1024.fun/
I thought the buyout offer went along with the cancellation of remote work. Like, if you are thinking about quitting because you don’t want to come in, here have an extra incentive to do that and take some time to find another job.

ATC already couldn’t work remotely. The only people who would take a deal like this would be people who were thinking about quitting or retiring anyway. I suspect ATC will not be substantially affected by people taking that deal.
they mean that you can pay for spotify without it being through the app store or play store, meaning that Apple and Google can't take a cut, meaning that it's cheaper.

that's not some kind of deal, that's just how it works.
Yes I refused to sign anything so they just send it to a carousel of debt collectors who give up with resistance but then resell it to someone else whom hasn't received a cease and desist yet, then I must start over fighting it. This happens roughly annually for several years now.
In order for transactions to be signed with the private key, the device holding them has to be connected to the internet, or at least be able to interface with another device that is. It is highly likely that anything involving their BTC reserves requires someone to be physically present at some sort of facility and it is 100% not available for hackers to just siphon whenever they wish with a virus. If possible, it would at least require physical infiltration.
I am sincerely curious about your thoughts on the origins of mitochondria, and how you came to feel so strongly about it.
Based on how it works it cannot run as non-root even in principle. https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Correction: the readme claims it will work without requiring root, but it does need to manage network namespaces, which afaik may only be available to root users depending on system configuration.

> To run httptap you do not need to be the root user. ... It makes use of linux-specific system calls -- in particular network namespaces ...
Which is basically a problem with how we do school. Turns out that making teenagers stare at screens all the time mints a lot of near sighted 20 year olds who wouldn't have otherwise been.
Every report on this shows the data has been made much LESS secure now.
Wrong; impoundment is illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...
STEM is still "just" 1/4 of workforce. Another 1/2 is going to be in other tertiary or vocational including trades. The side benefit of STEM overcapacity is you can drive skilled labour costs down in highvalue/strategic sectors, and the flame outs can do other shit i.e. foreign doctors driving Ubers in the States. China will have STEMs who aren't "good enough" doing banal work too. Except you can get upskilled people to work low skilled jobs and not vice versa, i.e. US isn't going to get glut of humanity degrees to fill fabs.

Will there be as many cheap workers as last couple decades pouring 100 years worth of US concrete in 3? No, hence why all the upfront build infra investment right now, while blue collar still somewhat plentiful and cheap. Meanwhile, tons of resources pouring into automation / humanoid robots, because at PRC scale, IMO can't really immigrate/migrant worker way out of issue. Not saying it's not possible, see meme of circle around Asia where 50% of humans live. There's likely still going to be a lot of accessible cheap bodies around if culture willing to tolerate it.

The broader picture is big % (like 30%+) of PRC workforce has been (and will be until they die) bluntly... net drag. There were always 100s of millions of farming households (functionally a jobs program) and informal workers spinning wheels doing shit all. All the labourers and workers pouring concrete and building factories were only ever fraction of PRC workforce. PRC losing the fraction that doesn't do much and replacing it with a smaller fraction that does a lot, and when aggregate # of workers that does a lot is 2x-3x more than peers (vs past where peers had orders of magnitude more skilled than PRC), then that's much better net position for future when competing on high tech / high value. Another added benefit of not having 100s of millions of excess mouth to feed and fuel and future PRC demographics is also going to enable strategic autarky like US. IMO PRC "finite" still too much. There are a lot of benefits to where PRC demographics is trending within our lifetimes. Of course if they don't figure out TFR in 30-40 years things will get real bad in 60-70 years, but that's time frame too distant to extrapolate.
Exactly.

Which is why you stop exclusively using market forces to determine how industry should be spread out around the globe.
imagine the share price jump when the first corp announces this!
How are VMs solving this issue? You cannot just snapshot them and migrate them to another provider. You'll get different local-IPv4 and different IPv6, etc.
Are you perhaps thinking of PCI or SOC2?
many senior scientists are around 30-35 years old (by that time they have completed grad school and postdoc and are starting to get their first grants). And in nuclear physics most of these folks were young but had worked in key labs and their bosses were advisors on the project.
turns out, a lot of tech took a hard right turn in the last decade or two.

I think it is explained by the idea that, when tech overtook finance as the best shot at accumulating supra-human wealth and power, the young sociopaths started going into tech instead of finance.
Because people are willing to pay more. Why should I make money because my house is worth more than it was? Because people are willing to pay more. There's no more "should" required than that.
It's shocking and saddening to think one might need to change from the United States to some other country in order to seek freedom. But here we are
Vanguard funds are owned by the investors in those funds. The fees that they charge are to cover the expenses, not make profit for a private company. If they're doing so well that the fees are brining in more money than they need, they lower the fees so that their owners (the investors in the funds) don't have to pay as much in fees.

Their business is doing so well that they can lower fees.
I don't think those are comparable. Russia is running a war economy. Those run perfectly fine till they don't run at all.
computers have experienced rapid deflation in the previous decades. did that prevent people from buying computers? no, obviously not.

of course you are just trolling ("LOL") and you are incurious to any evidence or argument that contradicts your straight-from-cable-news talking points.
Canada shouldn't retaliate with U.S. tariffs–build a Canadian app store instead
Why does an Nvidia H100 80GB card offer 85.52 GB?
Kids don't care about corporate ethics or artist respect, they care about where their friends are and where their playlists and memories live. Spotify is the soundtrack of their lives and my own kids love their sort of curated history of music. Moving their playlists isn't going to happen, asking them to switch to my Apple One subscription would be like asking them to rewrite their social identity. My own household would be in open revolt if I asked them to switch to anything else.
Take this example:

A human googles "how much does a tire cost?"

They pick out a website from search results, then nav within it to the correct product page and maybe scroll until the price is visible on screen.

Google captures a lot of that data on third party sites. From Perplexity:

Google Analytics: If the website uses Google Analytics, Google can collect data about user behavior on that site, including page views, time on site, and user flow.

Google Ads: Websites using Google Ads may allow Google to track user interactions for ad targeting and conversion tracking.

Other Google Services: Sites implementing services like Google Tag Manager or using embedded YouTube videos may provide additional tracking opportunities

So you can imagine that Google has a kajillion training examples that go:
search query (which implies task) -> pick webpage -> actions within webpage -> user stops (success), or user backs off site/tries different query (failure)

You can imagine that even if an AI agent is super efficient, it still needs to learn how to formulate queries, pick out a site to visit, nav through the site, do all that same stuff to perform tasks. Google's dataset is perfect for this, huge, and unparalleled.
But is it as safe today as it was a year ago today?
I think Spotify's payment model is flawed, not the large number they pay out, but how they distribute it.

If I pay them EUR 10 per month and listen to 200 songs by seven artists/bands, I would like Spotify to first take what they need to run the service (and make a profit) from the money. Then I would like the rest of my payment to be divided among the artists of the songs I listened to.

Because Spotify seems to pool all payments into one large sum, if an artist has some fans who listens 500x each to their songs then those fans will "siphon off" my payment to their favourite artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena:

“The four extant species are the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), the brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), and the aardwolf (Proteles cristata)”
The Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism's Forgotten Martyrs
I think a more compelling argument is damages exceed the profit even if they don’t exceed the gross revenue.

It’s one of those things where yes people are forking over 14 billion per year, but that’s because they have 14 billion which would otherwise be spent on something else. Even just VAT on 14 billion gets close to the total tax revenue from UK gambling especially when you include other economic losses.

So where’s the benefit?
> harassment-free experience for everyone

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
I think the grandparent comment is asking within the context of the past couple of weeks.

Not saying that your sources aren't useful or anything.
Yeah but you can front run a (active) mutual fund
Honestly surprised that airlines don’t have options to tip the air traffic control crew, with how tipping culture is these days
USA Air Traffic deaths spiked back in 2018 during the Boeing 737 Max debacle. They have declined since then. With the introduction of ADS-B things are only getting safer for commercial air travel. A lack of ATC personnel will probably just mean airport delays and cancelled flights. They can't get any more tired and burnt out than they are now.
PFOF is neither front running nor illegal.

If you are curious about a brokers position on PFOF you can look up their disclosures. SEC Rule 605, 606 and 615 are the search terms you want when looking these up. Fidelity has a similar disclosure on this as Vsnguard, which is that they don’t engage in PFOF except for some options markets.

Robinhood got in trouble for false advertising about PFOF not because they engaged in it, because again, PFOF is not front running and not illegal.
> The point of the Jones Act—or at least that one particular section that a lot of folks tend to talk about—is to have US citizens and US ships available in case of war. But given US prices relative to the prices for other countries, it costs more, and the US has not been willing to pay the premium to support that readiness.

While we didn't get the ships, we did get a 100 foot railway in Canada: https://maritime-executive.com/article/judge-rules-that-cana...
archive.org is also under the shadow of a $621 million lawsuit and run on a shoestring by activists. That amazing "play the game" feature was explicitly called out as fully illegal (even to people with disabilities) by the Librarian of Congress a few months ago.

> The librarian renewed all existing exemptions except for the exemption for accessible access to video games, for which there was no petition for renewal.

https://www.arl.org/news/librarian-of-congress-expands-dmca-...

There's enough balls being dropped here that multiple organizations with different boards, advisors, and funding models are needed. Kudos to all involved.