pyb's comments

On: Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

[pyb]

I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.

On: Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

[pyb]

The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy

Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error checking, and to restart the misbehaving component. https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/BEA2024-0404-BEA2025-...

("une supervision interne du composant à l’origine de la défaillance ; - un mécanisme de redémarrage automatique de ce composant dès lors que la défaillance est détectée)

[nolist_policy → pyb]

The linked document is not related to this incident.

On: Compare Single Board Computers

[pyb]

This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.

On: There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

[pyb]

Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.

[nick__m → pyb]

Why not just pay them significantly less than seniors? if there is a surplus of juniors shouldn't the invisible hand of the market adjust the salaries accordingly?

[t-writescode → nick__m]

The invisible hand of the market is playing games with promises of AI allowing one senior to do the work of a senior and 4 juniors.

Whether or not it works will be something we find out long past the early-experience tenure of those junior engineers.

[ares623 → nick__m]

The invisible hand of the market is saying to hire offshore

[pyb → nick__m]

Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.

[throwawaysleep → nick__m]

Depends on what you think the cause is. They can’t work for $20 a month legally in most cases.

On: Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired

[pyb]

What's your location?

On: 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

[pyb]

The paradox of politics : are hated whilst actually doing what the majority wants.

As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.

[rapidaneurism → pyb]

Being unpopular is not the opposite of popular.

The winter fuel payments were very unpopular with a very vocal part of the population, while any benefits were very thinly distributed on the rest of the electorate.

The cost of the online safety act is very small and almost invisible distributed across everyone. Any major effects (leaking of personal data) can be blamed on the victims (most people assume that only perverts will have to verify their age). Another effect where security conscious people will be excluded from online discussions is probably in invisible (if not a benefit) to most people.

On: Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?

[pyb]

A company invented the role of "forward deployed engineer" to solve this problem.

On: Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?

[pyb]

There are 300 random candidates but probably only 3 viable candidates.

On: H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House

[pyb]

As the meme goes: "You don't need to sell it to me, I was already convinced!"

On: South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops

[pyb]

Have you been to Korea ? Or even the UK ?

[forinti → pyb]

Yes, I lived in the UK for about 5 years.