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That would be a better link, but that isn't the one that is opened automatically in a new tab when you open Firefox after an update.

What about ferromagnetic fluid? You can still spin it if you are aiming to push it 'centrifugally' into the features of the vacuum boundary, but you shouldn't lose a lot during the detachment.

(Plus it looks much more sci-fi.)

Oh dear - I didn't realise it was posting.

I was getting a 500 error on attempting submission and assumed I was falling foul of some ban / filter.

Will see if I can prune the duplicates.

Thanks for letting me know!

For those wondering what this is about before jumping into the PDF. It is an article from the captain's perspective of a flight in 1977, where a Lockheed L-1011's left elevator jammed (corrosion) during take-off forcing the plane to pitch up.

The captain, Capt. Jack McMahan, was awarded the FAA's Distinguished Service Award for successfully landing the plane by using a thrust differential between the wing engines and tail engine to counteract the upward pitch, preventing a stall.

The (short) Wikipedia article can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1080

Apologies for the tangent, but I'm interested; Are there problems with over-doing insulation?

Maybe "Trusted" could be be a better alternative to "Verified".

I'm not sure if the US is the same as the UK, but here there are tax incentives [1] to classify, or interpret as much engineering time as possible as R&D.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...

What is your proposal for an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, etc? Thousands of small independently-owned networks? How would that work when you need to send data from/to arbitrary locations in the entire US/world?

If you are getting a 404 trying to view the main Svelte site (https://svelte.dev/), there seems to be an intermittent issue with Google Cloud Run.

You can view the site directly at the uglier url: https://svelte-website-mrf26sti4q-uc.a.run.app/

Link to the relevant incident: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr

"This incident affects: North America (Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), Atlanta, GA, United States - (ATL), Boston, MA, United States - (BOS), Buffalo, NY, United States - (BUF), Calgary, AB, Canada - (YYC), Charlotte, NC, United States - (CLT), Chicago, IL, United States - (ORD), Columbus, OH, United States - (CMH), Dallas, TX, United States - (DFW), Denver, CO, United States - (DEN), Detroit, MI, United States - (DTW), Houston, TX, United States - (IAH), Indianapolis, IN, United States - (IND), Jacksonville, FL, United States - (JAX), Kansas City, MO, United States - (MCI), Las Vegas, NV, United States - (LAS), Los Angeles, CA, United States - (LAX), McAllen, TX, United States - (MFE), Memphis, TN, United States - (MEM), Miami, FL, United States - (MIA), Minneapolis, MN, United States - (MSP), Montgomery, AL, United States - (MGM), Montréal, QC, Canada - (YUL), Nashville, TN, United States - (BNA), Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR), Norfolk, VA, United States - (ORF), Omaha, NE, United States - 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(WUX), Xi'an, China - (XIY), Yerevan, Armenia - (EVN), Zhengzhou, China - (CGO), Zuzhou, China - (CSX)), Africa (Cairo, Egypt - (CAI), Casablanca, Morocco - (CMN), Cape Town, South Africa - (CPT), Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - (DAR), Djibouti City, Djibouti - (JIB), Durban, South Africa - (DUR), Johannesburg, South Africa - (JNB), Lagos, Nigeria - (LOS), Luanda, Angola - (LAD), Maputo, MZ - (MPM), Mombasa, Kenya - (MBA), Port Louis, Mauritius - (MRU), Réunion, France - (RUN), Kigali, Rwanda - (KGL)), Latin America & the Caribbean (Asunción, Paraguay - (ASU), Bogotá, Colombia - (BOG), Buenos Aires, Argentina - (EZE), Curitiba, Brazil - (CWB), Fortaleza, Brazil - (FOR), Lima, Peru - (LIM), Medellín, Colombia - (MDE), Mexico City, Mexico - (MEX), Panama City, Panama - (PTY), Porto Alegre, Brazil - (POA), Quito, Ecuador - (UIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - (GIG), São Paulo, Brazil - (GRU), Santiago, Chile - (SCL), Willemstad, Curaçao - (CUR)), Oceania (Auckland, New Zealand - (AKL), Brisbane, QLD, Australia - 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> I consider vision to be a drug -- an addiction. People can get into the horrible habbit of depending on their vision instead of on their brain. IMHO looking at things is a tool of last resort. Once you have exhausted every other avenue of diagnosis, and have given very careful thought to just trying to do the action again, then you may need to open your eyes.

Coding without a debugger is like walking with your eyes closed or driving at night with no headlights. Sure, it may be possible, but you are purposefully limiting your information in order to not become "dependant" on something.

Tooling will always be a compromise of utility vs reliance but there is a reason we don't, for example, build cars by hand any more.

We are trending towards a world where individuals are becoming more omniscient and more omnipotent. Where any motivated US citizen can purchase a drone, look up how to build a bomb or plant a GPS tracker.

Regulation to prevent access to these capabilities feels like throwing rocks into a river; it may slow some things down, but it seems an inevitability that the capabilities of technologically augmented citizens will continue to grow - we as a society need to work out how to adapt to deal with this future in a meaningful way, avoiding knee-jerk policies like drone registration that inconvenience the masses and serve as no real barrier to the malicious.

You are going to have to do a better job of backing that claim up. It certainly seems to be an obvious breach of intellectual property law at the very least. Citing that some lawyers do this does not automatically make it legal.

It seems like not accepting any user interaction within the first 500ms for popup dialogues / notifications like this would be a better solution than crushing the notification into the middle of the screen.

It will be a hard road to walk, but if something like this can be pulled off in the way that Wales envisions, it could be a great resource.

My major concern is how you prevent a motivated entity willing to throw resources at skewing certain types of stories a certain way, from outweighing the larger, but more apathetic with group of general contributors.

'Slippery slope' arguments are not inherently invalid.

Don't ask people to prove a negative.

Take this as a fairly baseless comment but my reading of analyses around the original incident seemed to be saying that it was closer to microwaves than sonic waves. The side effect of the exposure was that targets had the illusion of hearing sound.

As someone with a company in the ISP space, this is awesome news.

One of the biggest problems in marketing that our team has come across, particularly in consumer broadband, is that as a company attempting to be open and honest about speeds and pricing, it can be hard to compete with the older players using bamboozling pricing and inflated speed claims to trick consumers thinking that they are giving a better deal.

These restrictions will level the playing field in the right direction for a more informed and better served consumer.

At a time of some very bad calls around internet legislation in the UK, this is finally a decision I think we can all applaud.

That is a pretty misleading headline - this isn't asking to see their text messages or something like that; It's just tracking when and where a MAC address is seen in order to work out traffic trends. In fact some of the data looks really interesting: https://imgur.com/Hx6mDSm.jpg (credit to bcraven for the link)

Most large public WiFi deploys come with this capability already included (albeit normally with an additional license required), whether or not the owners of the system are aware of the capability / are utilising it. Punishing TFL with sensationalist journalism for being open about this application will only make such use in future more hidden and isn't constructive.

If I put a camera inside a tumble dryer and the motion causes the camera to trigger and capture a photo, I think I should still own the rights to the image.

The monkey isn't acting with any real understanding of the creative situation so is just an agent of randomness, like the tumble dryer.

I'd love to know what he actually did. You'd think with what is at stake, the lottery would have some serious security measures in place to stop someone doing an obfuscated if(date=x) return [12,34,5,6,7]; or messing with the RNG.

I'm looking at the second example from the image in the article - the blue plane - and can't work out how the algorithm could possibly infer a second wing from that picture.

Given that the word 'software' only really started appearing around 50 years ago [1], that might be a stretch, but nonetheless, I think you do our current set of technologies a disservice.

I'm sure it would be relatively incidental for the majority of HN readers to cobble something together that fulfils this sort of functionality without much work. If your complaint is that languages don't form higher abstractions of things like 'thumbnails', I think that is just due to us collectively preferring the flexibility of lower level code - it's certainly not because it would be difficult to create a language with such abstractions.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software&year_...

I think GP's point was more focused on the threat of allowing a small number of people (or an individual) to do a large amount of harm.

Out of interest, did you only stop drinking caffeine or was it potentially part of a larger set of changes (mindset/dietary/behavioural/etc) made at a similar time?

Replace the 'actually' with 'currently'

Your logic is flawed.

"Some of the times they're not" does not exclude a potential correlation.

For example: "Some of the time, going to the hospital will not make me better, therefore there is no correlation between going to a hospital and getting better"

As opposed to 'Boeing keeps on hundreds of staff they no longer have a need for'?

I wonder what the performance increase would be of loading one big CSS file on the first page load and serving from local cache from then on, vs loading a smaller but different CSS file for each page you visit.

My impression is that number of requests is a more critical optimization than file size (at least when serving CSS sized files)