iso8859-1 (u/iso8859-1)

iso8859-1 commented on 20 Years of YC / HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/mooreds

iso8859-1 · a year ago

Was YC always right wing, or did a shift occur?

I see articles like [0] claiming that there was a backlash for aligning with Trump back in 2016. Does that mean that YC founders were speaking out against Trump more back then, than they are now?

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/17/project-i...

iso8859-1 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Arch485 · a year ago

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes. On-site is also OK.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, C++, C, PHP, Rust, Dart/Flutter, Zig, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Cloudflare, and more...

Résumé/CV: https://resume.kurtisknodel.com/

Email: kurtis@kurtisknodel.com

Hi, I'm Kurtis. I've been programming for ~10 years, 3 years professionally. I'm currently looking for a project that has positive real-world impact; working at a company that chugs out AI slop for the betterment of stakeholders isn't really my thing. The listed technologies are in no particular order, nor are they comprehensive. For relocation: I have Canadian and EU citizenship.

Feel free to shoot me an email with any opportunities you have, or just to connect (I'm always down to expand my network). Have a nice day :)

iso8859-1 · a year ago

There is a Haskell meetup in Stockholm in 9 days if you're interested: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-meetup-in-stockholm-...

iso8859-1 commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks

iso8859-1 · a year ago

Does this new TOS also apply to Firefox as distributed in Linux distributions?

Will Debian's default browser get switched out for LibreWolf?

https://wiki.debian.org/DefaultWebBrowser

iso8859-1 commented on Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig gist.github.com/rtfeldman... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

robertlagrant · a year ago

I would be very in favour of making λ a keyword, though. Maybe a linter could convert \ to λ.

iso8859-1 · a year ago

it would be confusing since it's not part of UnicodeSyntax

https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/unic...

iso8859-1 commented on "We're building a new static type checker for Python" twitter.com/charliermarsh... · Posted by u/shlomo_z

wk_end · a year ago

AFAICT this is dead (no updates in four years) and "alpha software...only recommended for production use cases with careful testing, and if you are willing to contribute fixes or to work around issues you will encounter." Unfortunate, because it's pretty cool.

iso8859-1 · a year ago

the repo says the code is in the mypy repo and it looks like it is maintained in there. so I think it has had updates the last four years?

iso8859-1 commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport? bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2

neom · a year ago

"One strategy I use for my relationships with foreigners is to gently pat them on their heads if they understand me. That way, there is positive reinforcement and they are encouraged to improve their understanding." - this may very well be one of the most condescending and disrespectful things I've read on hackernews ever. Also, my wife has a PhD in American History from Yale and teaches at SUNY, I don't suspect she misunderstood the question.

iso8859-1 · a year ago

You're assessment is correct and it was indecent of me to say such things. I'd like to apologize for both the condescension and the lack of respect.

iso8859-1 commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport? bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2

pfannkuchen · a year ago

Were those obstacles installed by the airport though? I thought it was like stuff on land outside of the airport for those other examples.

iso8859-1 · a year ago

The localizer antenna mount (the concrete) was inside the airport perimeter. See diagram:

https://multimedia.scmp.com/embeds/2024/world/skorea-crash/i...

iso8859-1 commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport? bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2

f1shy · a year ago

They were with gear down, the retracted it, as part of the go around…

iso8859-1 · a year ago

We don't know that for sure yet. The gear being down is based on an eyewitness report, as far as I understand from Juan Browne. The readout from the flight data recorder will provide a more trustworthy account.

iso8859-1 commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport? bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2

looseyesterday · a year ago

You are probably right on pilot error, dont forget Boeing probably want this to be the story as well!

iso8859-1 · a year ago

The 737 is one of the most popular aircraft in the world. It's had hundreds of incidents. There is no reason to think that there is any conspiracy going on, and there is not sufficient information to even think that any Boeing specific details were a factor in the incident.

iso8859-1 commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport? bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2

dralley · a year ago

>Tell her she is wrong. It's an international airport with commercial traffic. 11th most busiest airport in the country.[0]

11th out of 15 total, servicing about 4 flights / 630 passengers per day on average using the very same statistics you've linked. That sounds like a pretty small airport to me, both in absolute and relative terms.

"International airport" means very little outside of large nations like the US, Russia, Canada, Brazil or China. Most nations are small enough that there's at least as many foreign airports within a few hundred kilometers as there are domestic ones, and therefore every airport may as well be an international airport.

iso8859-1 · a year ago

That's a great observation about 'international airport'. There is no point in mincing words regarding the definition of 'tiny'. I think you've correctly characterized the size of the airport.