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verheyon Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)

I get the impression that whatever the FAA intended with the CTI schools, it didn't work out as they wanted. I attended a CTI school in 2013-2014 but left when they modified the hiring process to essentially devalue the CTI path. In recent years it looks like the CTI schools have clawed back a little bit more preferential treatment when it comes to weighing ATSA results, but it's not like it was before.

I don't resent it though - it sounds like at the time CTI students weren't much more successful than off the street hires at the academy, nor were the different CTI schools very consistent in their quality and curriculum. I went to a good one, and was sad to leave as it was a ton of fun, but I've heard stories of some CTI programs being little more than a few lecture-based classes and a certificate.

verheyon Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)

I think it depends on your definition of "younger people" in this case. For the "off the street" hires like your brother in law, those postings require you to be under 31.

That said, there isn't really a good path to ATC for those 18-22 either. The off the street bids require something along the lines of "4 years progressively responsible work experience" to even be eligible to start the process. The Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) schools exist, but have not provided much meaningful benefit to graduates since the FAA's changes to the hiring process in December 2013.

verheyon Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet

Generally there's "wet" leases (aircraft + at least one crewmember) and "dry" leases (just the aircraft). There are also different certification requirements between the two lease types. [1]

I believe as of late Amazon has been dry leasing aircraft and contracting with Air Transport International, Atlas, Sun Country, and others for crew and potentially maintenance as well.

[1] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/march/pilo...

verheyon Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet

Boeing isn't really gaining much from this. The 767s Amazon is acquiring are ex-Westjet (previously Qantas) and Delta passenger aircraft, and likely last saw a Boeing factory somewhere around 15-25 years ago.

That said, Alaska just put in another order for MAXes, and Ryanair is buying more as well. Part of why these 767s were available for Amazon to purchase at all were due to the industry model shifting and airlines favoring single-aisle, fuel-efficient aircraft like the MAX. COVID-19 has only accelerated that, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more MAX orders unless it crashes again or Airbus ramps up their 320neo production.

verheyon Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet

You are thinking of "combi" aircraft. In North America, you see a lot of them operating in Northern Canada and Alaska.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combi_aircraft

verheyon GOL Airlines to Resume 737 Max Flights on Wednesday

https://www.voegol.com.br/en/gol/our-fleet

Did they? I still see a lot of references to the MAX 8 on their fleet page, notably separate from their 737-800 fleet.

verheyon Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

How does hubble compare to Great Expectations or DBT for pipeline testing? It looks like more emphasis on automated profiling than "having to write and maintain lots of individual tests" and obviously hubble being a saas offering is the big difference?

Also any plans to profile and test file-based stores as well? There's a lot that can go wrong in a pipeline before data even reaches BigQuery or Snowflake, and you may help your customers save money if you could profile data in S3 before it goes through a potentially expensive transform process.

Best of luck, though! Data testing is a very real need in most data organizations I've been in, and I'm glad more and more tools seem to be popping up recently to help with it.

verheyon Tesla Model Y Road Trip Review: a no-compromise electric SUV

3.6 extra inches of clearance for the Crosstrek vs. the Impreza is a lot more than the 1 here though. I think that's part of the complaint.

The Crosstrek also gets a beefier rear diff, stiffer suspension, and larger brakes too.

They're the same platform, and share a lot of bodywork, but that's not uncommon among manufacturers now. The Golf and Atlas are both on VW's MQB platform now but that's about where the comparisons end.

verheyon Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets

Why do you think this? The 737 is the most popular airplane of all time, and airline orders are trending towards smaller planes. Airbus can't make enough A320NEOs to capitalize on the slowing orders from the MAX situation, and the MAX is still a very competitive product.

Aviation regulations are often written in blood, and while the MAX is obviously not in a great place, it's not necessarily doomed forever. Nobody thinks twice about the batteries on a 787 anymore, or the pylon assemblies on the DC10.

verheyon Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

That acquisition was cancelled in April. It's the last sentence in your link.

verheyon User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Facebook Messenger is the worst for this if you try and use the mobile site (which is otherwise quite capable).

verheyon We Can Break Up Big Tech (Elizabeth Warren)

Jay Inslee has basically made it his platform so far, but I don't think it's all that likely he goes far in the race.

verheyon Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?

That's a pretty massive assumption.