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It’s a good thing new hires don’t have to wait or be rejected because the FAA needed to hire a different race or sex for the position.

The FAA never had any such policies as far as I can tell.

This will get downvoted from the mindless reactionaries here but here’s the link to the practice. https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/air-traffic-controller...

This is just some claim by a person. I appreciate the context but as far as I can tell no such policy was on the books. The person making the claim has a clear motivated reason for claiming such and its all pretty vague.

It's okay, one claim is all that's needed for this adminstration and the current overton window in the US. The eternal leader himself changes his tune from sentence to sentence - the US has already won, the US needs help, the US was just testing the US has agreed to a ceasefire after discussions with Iran, even when Iran wasn't actually there.

What matters is that the claim was made, and now you have to pretend it is true.


Well how do you know if you overdosed? What else happens besides anxiety and paranoia? Some of the reaction may be genetic, but I think many people have a negative reaction to taking mass quantities of cannabis. I don't know if you want to take a poll here but it's pretty common...

The fact that someone had a negative reaction to an overdose has nothing to do with how (properly dosed) THC/CBD affects unhealthy (and healthy) people.

Many substances can be overdosed on, even though they may not be harmful - or may even be beneficial - in appropriate amounts.


"Here, Honda is setting itself up for failure on the second disruption sweeping the automotive industry: the software-defined vehicle (SDV), which has core capabilities that can be upgraded and improved over time."

I'll pay triple for a non software defined vehicle that doesn't track me and can't be touched by the dealer once I purchase it. My one SDV (Tesla) is still on FSD from 2023 because the newer versions are terrible judging from the comments on the Tesla forums.


This. And same for phones, tvs, operating systems.

I bought a perfectly fine macbook pro m1 in 2020. It has been made far, far worse, slower, bloated and less responsive by apple. I see nothing improved, everything significantly degraded. It used to be that I could airplay to our tv with a single mouse click, now it seems to work once every 5 attempts, and takes about a minute. It used to be near instantaneous.

I bought a top of the line philips oled tv in 2020. I think I paid 4k for it. It has been made slower, bloated, less responsive by google and philips (or whatever company makes those tvs branded by philips).

I buy a top of the line iphone every 2-3 years, and it gets worse.

I bought a SONOS soundbar a few years ago. It used to work fine and produce nice sound. Now if I start my tv, and don't play anything for a few minutes it goes to sleep, and I need to restart my tv to get the sound to play.

Blocking updates on anything newly purchased seems like the best option. Not buying anything from those absolute crap companies seems like the second best option, but its hard to find alternatives.


I think a lot of people are starting to feel this

> I'll pay triple for a non software defined vehicle that doesn't track me and can't be touched by the dealer once I purchase it.

But you didn't? So... you wouldn't really?

I don't mean to be too cute but I think it's worth taking the sting out of your words a bit. Maybe you would prefer a different choice for your next car, but that's a far less dramatic way of putting it.


Those options don’t really exist though. The cars that cost 3x as much (new ones at least) are also doing the same thing.

> My Tesla is still on FSD from 2023 because the newer versions are terrible judging from the comments on the Tesla forums.

I've had FSD since 2020; the latest version is noticeably better than 2020. I wouldn't put too much stock in forums which tend to skew negative.


2023 is better than 2020. 2026 is not necessarily better than 2023. Shifting speeds abruptly in the modern FSD notwithstanding, what happened especially for people with HW 2.5/3 (circa 2018/19) is the change in behavior of adaptive cruise control and FSD -- you can go look it up. Essentially they "removed" a useful feature that let the car seemlesly move between the two -- I think because they didn't want to support the drivers "stalk" on the steering wheel anymore - new Teslas don't have it. So basically for me, SDV is not all that it's cracked up to be -- yeah and all that privacy stuff too...

You’re aware this is effectively a forum?

FSD is great for me, although I mostly use it on the highways. But 90% of my driving is FSD now. It can be more conservative for my tastes with street driving

The newer versions of FSD are soooooo much better. Don't listen to the "comments on the Tesla forums".

I think self-driving cars are inevitable: I agree with that statement. And once they are here and cheap and safer than humans, they'll become universal. I don't know when that is, but it's less than 100 years from now.

However I don't think Tesla's SFD is inevitable, or any other carmakers; for all I know, they're so bad they shouldn't be sold. It's early days. This or that brand might go out of business. But within 100 years, self-driving will conquer the world.


I just got a Honda Hybrid. It doesn’t phone home or do updates automatically, as far as I can tell, and I love this.

Unfortunately the only valid response is "Don't be so sure." There have been too many exposés about the poor data privacy practices of virtually every automaker including Honda. [1]

[1] Example: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti... (prev. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401563 )


Actually it does do that. They sell your driving data to your insurance company & government.

I also recently bought a Honda hybrid. I turned off as many of the data sharing features as I could from the first day I drove it. They don't make it easy, of course.

Feels like the real missing piece is user control: let people opt into updates, choose what gets enabled, and turn off data collection

Why do you need a EV to be a software defined variable? Maybe just a large enough lithium battery?

> software-defined vehicle (SDV)

I hate that expression. It's software-limited, not defined.


> the newer versions are terrible

300k subscribers that pay $100 per month must be..? Imaginary? Wrong?


This is not specific to ssh. Telnet and rlogin have similar things with ~ as the escape character. Back in the day it was common to send BREAK and other escape sequences when you were hardwired.

The original buzzword generator for palmOS. I used it extensively: https://archive.org/details/palm3_buzzword


Yes


What’s the difference between this and using a secret manager like Vault?


Can this do NFC/tap to pay? That's all I use my smartwatch for....


It can't, and I wouldn't hold my breath for such a small company being able to navigate compliance for contactless payments. The Pebble does use standard watch straps though, so you could get one of the ones with a programmable payment chip embedded inside.

If that's all you use your smartwatch for, you may as well skip the watch and get a payment bracelet or ring though.

e.g. https://www.curve.com/wearables/


I used to use Curve but they became really unreliable, especially when paying for public transport, so I just switched back to a normal card.

Shame because you can get some nice watch straps with curve integration, which would neatly solve the missing payment feature on Pebble watches.


Except not in the USA. To bad the rings looks nice.


Since this is hackernews, I'll point out that you can use a solvent to remove the card part of a credit card leaving only the chip plus antenna. Then embed in a new housing of your own design.


Ya, and then attach it to the back of your watch...


Yeah, Hornady makes a nice rubber thingy that you can slide onto a watch band with their RFID tag inside, but it's easy to swap it with a t5577 or whatever


This. I seldom leave the house with an iPhone, and my Apple Watch with cellular is my primary "mobile" device. I want to leave the Apple ecosystem as my devices age out, and the one thing I would love to have is an NFC ring or bracelet to replace my Apple Watch.


Eric has said publicly this is not happening. Looks like he's making a watch that fits his use case, and since he always carries his phone that's not a priority.


Android phones are multi-user, so if they can do it then Apple should be able to.


And how do you explain your 1TB phone that has 2GB of data, but only 700GB free?


The "fake" user/profile should work like a duress pin with addition of deniability. So as soon as you log in to the second profile all the space becomes free. Just by logging in you would delete the encryption key of the other profile. The actual metadata that show what is free or not were encrypted in the locked profile. Now gone.


Good idea, but this is why you image devices.


Sorry I explained it poorly and emphasized the wrong thing.

The way it would work is not active destruction of data just a different view of data that doesn’t include any metadata that is encrypted in second profile.

Data would get overwritten only if you actually start using the fallback profile and populating the "free" space because to that profile all the data blocks are simply unreserved and look like random data.

The profiles basically overlap on the device. If you would try to use them concurrently that would be catastrophic but that is intended because you know not to use the fallback profile, but that information is only in your head and doesn’t get left on the device to be discovered by forensic analysis.

Your main profile knows to avoid overwriting the fallback profile’s data but not the other way around.

But also the point is you can actually log in to the duress profile and use it normally and it wouldn’t look like destruction of evidence which is what current GrapheneOS’s duress pin does.


The main point is logging in to the fake profile does not do anything different from logging in to the main profile. If you image the whole thing and somehow completely bypass secure enclave (but let's assume you can't actually bruteforce the PIN because it's not feasible) then you enter the distress PIN in controlled environment and you look at what writes/reads it does and to where, even then you would not be able to tell you are in the fake profile. Nothing gets deleted eagerly, just the act of logging in is destructive to overlapping profiles. This is the only different thing in the main profile. It know which data belongs to fallback profile and will not allocate anything in those blocks. However it's possible to set up the device without fallback profile so you don't know if you are in the fallback profile or just on device without one set up.

Hopefully I explained it clearly. I haven't seen this idea anywhere else so I would be curious if someone smarter actually tried something like that already.


What you say makes sense, just like the true/veracrypt volume theory. I can't find the head post to my "that's why you image post" but what concerns me is differing profiles may have different network fingerprints. You may need to keep signal and bitlocker on both, EVERYTIME my desktop boots a cloud provider is contacted -- it's not very sanitary?

It"s a hard problem to properly set up even on the user end let alone the developer/engineer side but thank you.


The same way when you buy a brand new phone with 200GB of storage that only has 50GB free on it haha


System files officer ;)


"Idunno copper, I'm a journalist not a geek"


That is about one fiftieth of the work that needs to go into the feature the OP casually “why can’t they just”-ed.


This is called whataboutism. This particular feature aside, sometimes there are very good reasons not to throw the kitchen sink of features at users.


Same thing happened to me -- had a large vice grip in the duffel bag. Could have killed somebody over the head with it. They looked at their "regulations" and vice grips weren't on it so they let me through. You know who didn't let it through though - I left it in the bag and the Chinese security confiscated it on the way back.

btw don't try that with something that is on their list like ammo, even one bullet. Your life will be ruined.


> btw don't try that with something that is on their list like ammo, even one bullet. Your life will be ruined.

I've done that too. You travel so aggressively, eventually you have some oopsies.

I went through a stint where I was driving for work, and working with a bunch of people in a woodsy state. A guy would take us shooting, and he asked me to buy a box of ammo to replace what I shot - so 20 bucks for 500 rounds of .22 caliber ammo.

Next time I flew was the first time I had actually been selected for TSA precheck - you know, the Trusted Traveler program and you can guess what I left in my carry-on. I was very apologetic and had to talk to a very grumpy city police officer, but it was fine. I paid a fine of $130, and that was it - they offered to let me check my bag to keep the munitions too!

It has never even come up with my 3 Global Entry interviews either. And yes - I live in a blue state.

Obviously don't do it. It wasn't a problem for me, but very much YMMV. I know someone else who got dinged for having a banana they bought in a foreign airport, and that continues to come up in their Global Entry interviews. Live ammunition < Bananas, apparently.


Eh. I accidentally did that. We were on a trip to visit family and a relative took my kids to a shooting range. One of them didn’t completely empty their pockets afterward and we realized that when the TSA agent asked why we had a bullet in our carryon. My blood kinda froze, then the same agent asked if I’d like him to discard it for me. I said I’d appreciate that very much and he did so. He went on to say that, being near the headquarters of Bass Pro, that this happens all the time. I used it as a teachable moment to explain to my kids that this might be their one-time free pass and to never, ever, do that again.


Traveling with ammo is not wise, but the number of people who accidentally try to fly with firearms is astronomical and penalties are usually light.


> had a large vice grip in the duffel bag. Could have killed somebody over the head with it.

There must be a billion things in the "sterile" area of your average airport that would make better clubs than vise-grips.


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