clutchdude

Because COVID happened much sooner and has likely had a bigger impact than the hiring practices from a decade ago - notice we don't have a concrete number of "disadvantaged qualified candidates" from this article. Whereas, I can point COVID with actual numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952695

If we're going to say "Did that contribute to a shortage of qualified ATC..?" then you have to considering all inputs into what is a current conversation rather than extrapolate your already asserted points from the article.

COVID would likely have a bigger hand in the current issues than mistakes from 10-15 years ago though.

I found it somewhat puzzling we discuss ATC staffing and don't mention it:

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2024-0...

> When training at the academy resumed in July 2020, after the four-month shutdown, class sizes were cut in half to meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing guidelines.

> The pandemic hit controller hiring and training hard with on-the-job training for developmental controllers significantly dropping at facilities, resulting in delayed certification. In fiscal year 2021, the controller hiring target was dropped from 910 to 500.

> Since then, the FAA has been working to restore the training pipeline to full capacity. The agency’s Controller Workforce 2023/2032 Plan had a hiring target of 1,020 in FY 2022 (actual hires were 1,026) and 1,500 in FY 2023. The is set to increase to 1,800 in the current fiscal year.

From the article:

> Has this had a long-term impact on aviation safety and air traffic controller shortages? Likely yes.

This was a terrible conclusion. Ask any ATC person what's up with staffing and "COVID training and hiring disruptions" will be in the first few sentences they say.

The fact this article goes on and on without a single mention of the impact COVID has had gives me all the stock I need to place in it.

Some folks may find it hard to believe, but the 1-2 year interruption in hiring pipelines can cause large ripples that take years-to-decades to resolve.

Slapping a DEI strawman up and trying to tie it to a tragedy reflects on the changes some seek.

To pile on, the very data they have in their hands probably has very strict legal requirements for storing/moving and distributing. Failure to account for proper processes can be held against them.

It's only matter of time until one of these clowns starts "accidentally" touching data like the 2020 census individual response data.

To me, that's the red line: If they can touch that and suffer no consequence, then there is no law or process can exist to ensure accountability of the government.

https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/agency-h...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...

Question - did you need drugs such as LSD to have that experience or did it lower the barrier to entry?

I've seen this before and it's frustrating to deal with chasing phantom APIs it invents.

I wish it could just say "There is not a good approximation of this API existing - I would suggest reviewing the following docs/sources:....".

This is the likely real reason - employer provided meals are a big deductible and providing the proper documentation and management of expenses can be a good kickback on providing that perk.

However, once an employee starts putting expenses that won't pass the smell test, it could threaten the perk.

> then keep adding until it looks and feels right".

I think something of value that a lot of cooking/baking education misses is showing what it looks like when it's wrong at various stages.

A deflated loaf of bread could have 2-3 reasons why it looks bad but you'd only be able to know what exactly went wrong by knowing at what stage it was wrong(such as insufficient kneading).

At some point, you just try to make it with whatever you think "a handful" is and measure when you do.

If you fail, you note and adjust.

After a while, you know that it's situational - unless it's salt or leavening agents(yeast, baking powder, etc.), there is a bit of wiggle room to adjust things.

To give you a vignette in my job - I am right now debugging a piece of open source code that had some auth changes at sometime in the last several months with no changes in the docs to suggest a config change is needed. I have to figure out how 3-4 different frameworks are resulting in this not working.

If my boss messaged me right now and handed me something that required a similar data structure change, I'd stumble on it for about an hour or two until I understood that actual problem.

I'm sure I could "invert" a binary tree if I had to but it'd probably take a far more than reasonable time as that just isn't something I'm dealing with nor most rank and file devs.

For those looking for more info:

https://blog.grimm-co.com/2020/07/dji-privacy-analysis-valid...

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/dji-pilot-android-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/dji-drones-se...

What you imagine or feel is irrelevant - if the housing you were in wasn't an Airbnb, it'd likely be occupied by a permanent resident.

That person, for better or worse, would be part of a community and contribute to it.

At some point, a community resembles swiss-cheese because so many people who would otherwise be in the community are absent because the housing they'd live in is absent. AirBNB's are just one part of this equation though.

> how it feels to be part of that neighborhood.

Here's the thing - you aren't. You don't contribute anything other than a modest payment, you enjoy the "culture and views."

And because the apartment you are staying in isn't regularly occupied, it's not really part of the neighborhood anymore than a bench would be.

That really is the crux here.

If the technology is allowed under free-use or a free limited license, that'll change things.

Right now, no one can put it on their saws without having to either risk the patent fight or pay whatever Sawstop wants, with the later probably being so high, there is a reason other brands don't have "Equipped with sawstop technology!" badged on them.

I think some discussion is warranted - an unoccupied house still cost infrastructure dollars.

The tradeoff for those infrastructure investments is usually individual(s) who participates in some degree with their community and city.

An AirBNB takes up most of the same cost of infrastructure with the community footing the bill.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogism.

> , it is very much helping folks.

This is the crux of it - there is no reason we can't proposition something to replace it while continuing to move forward.

If you want muni ISP, it'll take a few years just to get the ducks in a row.

What's your take Google Fiber's foray into ISP territory and it's associated snail pace progress/surrender?

The ACP was considered wildly successful though - do you have any anecdotes on the actual program?

Folks aren't going to make the trek to a library every time they want to watch a video or take an online course. Or imagine they have children that they'd have to supervise/provide care for while doing whatever necessitated the trip.

I'm not denying the side effects of libraries being a beacon - that much is true.

But this program was designed to ensure folks had reliable fast internet at home.

Fuck - from an average coder perspective, try getting a working linux DNS server for home lab use in 2005 without having to waste a weekend or two on it.

LAMP servers were heralded as the best thing since sliced bread because of how it all just "worked."

And then add in maintenance and all the other sucky sucks of having competing binaries screw everything up.

Now, when it worked, it felt more accomplished than spinning up a `docker run...` or `argocd app create...`

However, I enjoy doing the cool shit on top of this stack now rather than waste my life figuring out why my apache process can't properly invoke php code.

Yogism strikes again!

> Now the other two centers are just used for storage, but there are still all these children toys just laying around forlornly in the outside fenced play areas where the last kids left them years ago.

I think the image of this, as small as it is to the actual scenario of failing to provide care, paints a bleak picture.

We don't even care enough to cleanup the reminders of the pandemic.

It was dead the moment my company got used to expecting us to have video meetings from 8AM to 10AM.

It's one thing to get me into the office - it's another to expect me to get everything done in my morning routine, get to the office and immediately be ready in front of a desk, contributing to discussion, communicating status, etc.

By the time these meetings wrap up, I get the post meeting notes written down/persisted and do all of the other things you need to do after being in meetings for 2 hours, it is almost lunch time.

In addition to the other commenters, here's an excellent defcon talk on what these some groups do:

Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU

Essentially, they wait for a buyer of a product to come along to a listing and order it - they'll then buy it using stolen credentials, have it drop-shipped or reshipped to the end user.

Everyone but the person with the original card comes out ahead, which is then pushed to all of us via higher fees if they notice and report the fraud.

The fact so many government organizations use Twitter as a primary means of communication on alerts/events is frustrating to no end in the post Musk days.

The profile/tweet history is downright unusable.

This is probably more a request at the compute team/gke teams but...spot management.

For example, managing a spot fleet in AWS via terraform is filled with features and levers I can pull. It's easy to manage basic scale-out/scale-in procedures and allows me to set thresholds.

In GCP, as I understand it, I can only manage a node pool at a basic level.

EDIT: Also, yell at the people who manage the python library.

https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/container/lat...

Generated samples suck - take a look at the boto3 docs and see if they tell you to go look at code generated samples.

> Disagree to disagree - employees are free to begin working for more productive companies when they're fired with no provisions for healthcare.

But that's a bad thing - because once your employment tied healthcare abruptly ends, you scramble to get something to restore it.

This may include settling or taking less optimal jobs or accepting a lower paying job.

> That's a very ineffective use of capital and those types of decisions are worse in the end for the economy

Disagree - it frees those employees to begin working for more productive companies sooner rather than drag them through "you are fired with no provisions for healthcare. Good luck and don't get sick during the donut period."

- yes, it's an special qualifying trigger for the exchanges but you are asking someone navigate this in short order(likely end of the month or less than two weeks)

At some point, during a monthly accounting reconciliation, someone should have piped up and said "Unless $<x> revenue comes in the next <y> months, we will be unable to fund personnel/payroll in <y> months." .

My point is that, whether they do so intentionally or not, wealthy folks(not just western mind you) exert influence and shape policy. This includes financial as well as political capital garnered.

Case in point:

https://www.newswise.com/articles/richest-10-of-americans-em...

> “In this way,” says Starr, “we could really incentivize the Americans who are driving and profiting the most from climate change to decarbonize their industries and investments. It’s divestment through self-interest, rather than altruism. Imagine how quickly corporate executives, board members and large shareholders would decarbonize their industries if we made it in their financial interest to do so. The tax revenue gained could help the nation invest substantially in decarbonization efforts.”