But was un-discoverable? Or un-preventable? Seems plane inspectors and safety-related roles were affected and have been furloughed:
> But for the people involved in inspecting our planes to ensure they follow Federal Aviation Administration safety standards, the situation is more complicated. While principal aviation inspectors were told to keep working, assistant-level inspectors and other support staff were sent home and then had to be recalled.
Of course it was not unpreventable, though it might turn out that preventing it would have been unreasonably expensive.
But, the FAA inspectors are not responsible for making sure planes are safe to fly. They are responsible for making sure the people whose job that actually is, are doing their jobs effectively. That’s a critical difference.
It’s UPS maintenance personnel who are responsible for making sure that UPS planes are safe to fly. Yes, it’s possible that there is some institutional failure at UPS, that could have been caught if FAA inspectors were working in the past 30 days, but this isn’t the most likely scenario, and the root cause and responsibility (in this hypothetical) would still lie with UPS and not the FAA and the shutdown.
Thats kind of insincere given how much safer flying is compared to driving a car. Modern flight is not dangerous, its just more spectacular when failures happen.
À lot of the reason why flying is so safe now is because of the culture of investigating every incident to make sure they won't happen again.
And, unfortunately, it's not that rare that the investigations to turn up things that were the result of corners being cut. I'm guessing that's what the "FAFO" comment points to.
And that has a lot to do with the said regulations. It is not safer because of magic or because flying in air was inherently safer then driving on ground.
Flying is only safer than driving a car when extremely regular and frequent maintenance is performed and performed correctly. The safety of flying goes down very fast when the maintenance effectiveness goes down. That is not true for cars.
Probably also worth pointing out that flying is only safer for Part 121 operators (airlines) -- private jets, sightseeing helicopters, skydiving operators, and general aviation are all more dangerous.
The maintenance and inspection tends to be done by MROs, and any institutional issue within UPS's MRO would have been identified before the shutdown by the FAA and other regulators.
But based on your comment history, you aren't from the US, have not ever visited America, do not care to visit America, and haven't interacted with Americans, so I doubt you have on the ground experience with the US. But that also leads to the question of why you even care to comment on our affairs if you dislike us to such a degree.
> Finger prints require physical contact, facial recognition can be done at a distance and dragnet style
I'm sure there are lots of existing (pesky) laws about grabbing people and force-taking their fingerprint, or similar, while maybe not so many of those laws against taking a quick picture of a "suspects" face.
The top right button has a "Download code" which gives you a .zip file. That .zip file doesn't have any JS in it, and renders the terrain just like in the online editor, except you can turn off JS and it still works.
In my office :) Southern Europe if that's the question, and I work for myself, contractor/freelancer jumping between existing relationships and kickstarting new startups trying to find product-market fit.
Never visited the US, never had any plans to visit the US and don't have any relationships with anyone/anything from the West coast in the US, FWIW.
I'm here because HN is filled with interesting people from all over the world, even encountered a childhood (programming) hero once or twice and managed to get questions answered. The wide range of people is why I keep coming back after almost two decades of being here.
I mostly use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as a "frontpage", it's sorted by most active discussions rather than "trending upvotes", as I'm mainly here to read and write comments, rather than finding new articles. I think using any of the other "lists" as a frontpage might give you a different impression, because I certainly feel like HN is more "Pro BigTech" than any other websites, if anything I'd probably say the opposite, but probably the truth sits somewhere along the middle.
Overall for the common person I'd agree, but I assume we're all more or less hackers here and for us, I'd say "If you have to ask, ask and learn, then do it".
If everyone followed your advice no one would ever do anything, as we all begin somewhere, something that should OK.
Of course, don't do million dollar trades when you begin, but we shouldn't push back on people wanting to learn, feels very backwards compared to hacker ethos.
we shouldn't push back on people wanting to learn but we should really point out very loudly that not fully understanding something like shorting can turn a small investment someone was fully ok with losing into a life altering bankruptcy due to a margin call.
To expand on the original reply to you - shorting companies, or engaging in almost any stock-based activity beyond “buy and hold,” typically entails much, much higher risk than just buying and selling stock. The most you can lose when buying a share is the purchase price, and that’s fairly unlikely, but when you start getting into even options/etc, you’re magnifying your risk - small swings in the market can lead to large and disproportionate losses, and when you get into shorting in particular you can lose far more than your initial investment. This is why you’re getting the reaction you’re getting - because the thing you’re asking about is sufficiently risky that if you're asking on Hacker News (and not, say, asking a professional), you don’t understand the risk profile well enough to do it “safely.”
That, and because snarky answers get more imaginary internet points than helpful ones.
> you don’t understand the risk profile well enough to do it “safely.”
Since when is this a problem? For gods sake, let people fuck up and harm themselves if they're stupid enough to take the risks, or not.
I think it's fine to say "Remember, this is risky because of A, B and C, but here's how to do it anyways..." but straight up "If you have to ask, you shouldn't" seems so backwards and almost mean, especially when we talk about money which is mostly "easy come, easy go". Let the fool be parted with their money if that's what they want :)
I mean, there’s risk and there’s risk. If someone comes in asking “how do I mod my phone/ebike/toaster”, sure, caveat commentor and all that. If someone comes in asking “how do I make dioxygen difluoride,” that’s a different category of risk. OP can do whatever they want, but I’m not in the habit of giving guns to people who don’t know what they are without making sure they know which risk category they’re in.
In the end I just need more available PCIe lanes (so I can chuck more disks in there) and ideally PCIe Gen 5, otherwise I don't have much reason to upgrade.
Is that really the cause of this price increase? I still don't understand if this price surge is specifically for the US (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812691) or if it's worldwide, I'm not sure I notice anything here in Southern Europe, so either that means it's lagging and I should load up RAM today, or this is indeed US-specific. But I don't know what's true.
> that means it's lagging and I should load up RAM today, or this is indeed US-specific. But I don't know what's true.
This is a global issue that is most severe in the US due to its share of hyperscalers and their, uh, scale. You may not feel the effects yet, but it is matter of time until someone notices your market has a RAM glut, while 30-55% of their orders aren't being fulfilled.
In all likelihood, the supply channels to your locality have a low turnover rate, and DRAM has a long shelf-life. If the high prices stay high for long, it's going to impact prices when your retailers try to restock. If the price shock ends soon, your retailer may not even notice it. Whether you ought to buy or not depends on your outlook on how things will shake out
In the US some of it could be tariffs. Micron is a US company with some US fabs but most of theirs are in other countries and Samsung and Hynix are both South Korea.
U.S. tariffs inadvertently kept prices low, due to stockpiling of memory when prices were cheap, before tariffs took effect. As that inventory is depleted, new supply chain purchases are much more expensive and subject to tariffs.
I did (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812691), the RAM I bought in March 2024 currently costs about the same as when I bought it, seems the price stagnated rather than increased for that specific example.
Do you have some concrete examples of where I can look?
I have two pieces of identical papers for recovery, stored in a safe at home with code that sits inside my head, and the other is in a safe/locker provided by the bank, that family could open too if needed. Most of my and my families passwords are stored in the password manager, and the way of recovering access to it is what's written on the papers.
Main point is that it's fire-proof and water-proof, and you can bolt it down. I'm not expecting it to protect against high-motivation thiefs, but at least (hopefully) survive the house burning down or being flooded, and you can't just grab it and go.
> > The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying “she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.”
Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers? Seems they seriously lack training and if they managed to get hurt in such situation, they have no place in the police force from the beginning.
> Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers?
Have you seen officers in the country. Half of them an obese slobs.
Also I’ve seen the caliber of ICE recruiters in a bodycam the other day. The agent had been pulled over for a DUI and was drunkenly questioning the arresting officer on if they were Haitian.
We have specific police training for these situations, for this very reason. Additionally, police that go outside of their training are liable for their actions.
DHS is completely bypassing these rules, which are in place for the reason of maintaining peace with society. Breaking these rules not only cause civil unrest, but open an avenue for society to hold DHS and ICE legally accountable.
> Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers?
Devil's advocate: if you're untrained† and flailing around while trying to be restrained, an elbow or knee could smash someone's nose or groin pretty hard.
† I.e., not an MMA fighter or into judo or BJJ, which has a lot of grappling techniques.
That's a pretty lame devil's advocate position. You know how you deal with people flailing about wildly? You step back and let them wear themselves out. Better, don't drag someone out of their car at gunpoint to provoke a flailing response when you have no reason to drag them out of their car at all. They were not at risk of injury until they chose to engage with a US citizen whose vehicle they hit in a violent manner.
But these are law enforcement, they shouldn't be in the street unless they're trained, so safe to assume they've received some training before actively working, yet it seems they're unable to follow basic instructions.
Huh, how does it matter if the person being arrested or not is trained? Obviously she's a regular person, not martial arts expert, and even if she was, police should be trained to arrest people without hurting them, something the people in the video clearly haven't been trained in.
But was un-discoverable? Or un-preventable? Seems plane inspectors and safety-related roles were affected and have been furloughed:
> But for the people involved in inspecting our planes to ensure they follow Federal Aviation Administration safety standards, the situation is more complicated. While principal aviation inspectors were told to keep working, assistant-level inspectors and other support staff were sent home and then had to be recalled.
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