Hacker News: ewood

TUI 737 weight incident traced to 'Miss' interpretation of female passengers

ewood — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:37:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/tui-737-weight-incident-traced-to-miss-interpretation-of-female-passengers/143223.article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747694

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Alibaba Ant Group financials – 1058% YoY profit growth

ewood — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ArjunKharpal/status/1298187638092914688

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269584

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts

ewood — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/06/giant-flywheel-project-in-scotland-could-prevent-uk-blackouts-energy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23747787

Points: 105

# Comments: 110

Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data

ewood — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657308

Points: 181

# Comments: 61

Parents Block Sick Child from Using Tele-Presence Robot

ewood — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-47305835

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210069

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ewood in "Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?"

ewood — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:25:24 +0000

Boostnote (https://boostnote.io) with notes stored in the relevant repos.

Its not perfect (Boostnote really only supports local files) but it does mean our shared body of knowledge is versioned to what is in our repos. If someone makes large changes they can work on documentation while they are developing the change knowing that their docs are only released when their change is merged.

If Boostnote was aware of this workflow or allowed editing directly to remote repos it would be pretty much perfect.

Solar households expected to give away power to energy firms

ewood — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/18/solar-power-energy-firms-government

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18707092

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bloodhound supersonic car hits financial roadblock

ewood — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:57:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45838994

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18218973

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Data Protection Laws of the World

ewood — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dlapiperdataprotection.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17616648

Points: 1

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How debt kills

ewood — Thu, 31 May 2018 06:21:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/How_debt_kills

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17194332

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

A Secretive Intelligence Agency, a High-Flying Contractor and a Big Data Breach

ewood — Wed, 31 May 2017 16:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberresilience.io/spy-games-39a4a2e8668a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ewood in "Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes"

ewood — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:57:17 +0000

True. I think that if Buffett wanted to address this problem his best option would be to fund an entity that could lobby on this issue and match dollar-for-dollar pharmaceutical company donations for house reps and senators that were willing to push to reduce the cost of healthcare.

Tackling healthcare is one 'big issue' that could have a huge effect on the US economy and living standards. Seems a worthy 'legacy' project for Buffett to finance.

New comment by ewood in "Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes"

ewood — Tue, 09 May 2017 13:58:32 +0000

Good points but important to point out that driving down costs may not be a net negative. From Buffett's comments in the video he seems to be indicating that business are more likely to make investment and hiring decisions on the basis of high and ever-increasing health coverage costs than a change in corporate tax.

Capping or reducing healthcare cost as a % of GDP may help many other sectors to expand. On this basis politicians should first try to get the support of corporations to reduce their insurance costs, and try to change the argument - sustainable healthcare for all. This kind of corporate backing would counter the inevitable lobbying of pharma/medical corporations who will put their resources into countering any legislation that reduces their profit margins.

New comment by ewood in "Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes"

ewood — Tue, 09 May 2017 11:50:17 +0000

Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBPKE28UF0

Mipsdis: MIPS disassembler in the browser

ewood — Tue, 09 May 2017 11:30:11 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/announcing-mipsdis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299083

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How to Contact the Voyager 2 Probe

ewood — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:01:15 +0000

Article URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137529

Points: 4

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New Electronic Travel Ban Is Trade Protectionism for Legacy Airlines

ewood — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 07:07:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty/2017/03/21/new-electronic-travel-ban-is-trade-protectionism-for-legacy-carriers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929002

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ewood in "Musk Bets He Can Fix Aussie Power Woes in 100 Days or It’s Free"

ewood — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:55:40 +0000

Anyone here have deep insight on this? I thought a large part of the problem is the way that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is operating the market? Their mandate seems to be to prioritise price over reliability causing artificial shortages when there are not enough bids to form a market for excess load.

It appears that there is sufficient capacity in SA but providers are holding out for higher prices or not wanting to meet demand because they are providing higher priced capacity from their operations in other states.

New comment by ewood in "Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?"

ewood — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 09:47:43 +0000

In many cases it is not Bloomberg's monopoly but the data provider's. The licensing and royalty agreements between Bloomberg and the data provider have very onerous terms including restricting how many screens the data can be displayed on, what mediums the data can be transferred to, and where and for what purpose the data can be used. The terminal restrictions and API limitations that Bloomberg imposes are usually driven by these concerns.

Bloomberg offers less restrictive APIs but they are even more costly than a terminal license and often require the end user to sign agreements with the data providers directly and pay additional royalties.

New comment by ewood in "Thoughts on preventing Cloudbleed"

ewood — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 13:33:41 +0000

A investigative authority like the NTSB is a really interesting idea. If it had the authority to level fines against companies that have been negligent or acted without due care it might have a real effect on behavior.

The only current recourse for those affected by these sorts of incidents is class action suits or public outrage/reputation damage. Both of these seem limited and put the onus on those who are impacted to fight for recompense.