Hacker News: pbgcp2026

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The Potomac River Midair Collision"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:49:47 +0000

+1 on this.

So far we have IR pilot, known aviation journalist and yours truly saying same thing: "If the controller doesn't, the pilot should demand instructions from the controller." or / and "It's not the plane, it's the pilot." There are plenty of female aviators, most of them are brilliant (again ref. "Maverick" etc.) In this particular case the highest ranked pilot on board was unqualified and, most dangerous – not ready for the flight mentally. She happened to be a woman. Yes, she died. RIP. But she took a company with her. Hiding this simple fact is wrong. For whatever reason. "There are no female jobs in aviation".

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The Potomac River Midair Collision"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:43:37 +0000

Can you please try this, as experiment? Feed this URI to Mythos and have a chat about it. You will be surprised to find many things you are ignoring, may be for virtue signalling, may be because you honestly believe so. (If you don't have Mythos – try Gemini 3.1 Pro via API. Other models will refuse to discuss it with you, I mean flat out refuse, especially Fable.)

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The Potomac River Midair Collision"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:20:31 +0000

... "While I was working on this article, a well-known aviation journalist said to me that blaming the Potomac River midair collision on an interaction between complex systems is a copout that allows those responsible for the accident to walk free and prevents corrective actions from being taken." (Also my post was direct quote from the article. I understand what you are trying to do. Because of that people already died and this will be repeated. I have zero tolerance for that BS. You should too.)

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The Potomac River Midair Collision"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:16:51 +0000

Any major commercial airport approach and landing is high stress work and it must never be handed to unqualified unexperienced people, especially with ADHD. "It's not the plane, it's the pilot". Always.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The Potomac River Midair Collision"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:12:47 +0000

TL;DR: Because of her position and the difficulty of acquiring experience, Captain Lobach only had 454 total flying hours at the time of the accident, of which 326 were on the UH-60. She had flown only 56 hours in the past year,[1:12] below the already inadequate minimum of 60 for non-line pilots, due to a knee injury that kept her off the flight line for three months in 2024.[41] And in the two months before the accident flight, she had only flown for 4.4 hours,[1:12] in part because she forewent flying duties during the month of December in order to support her White House liaison role.[40:52–53] Taken in total, then, it cannot be said that Lobach was an experienced pilot; in fact, quite the opposite was true. With 454 hours, she would be ineligible to apply for a First Officer position at a commercial airline in the United States, and even in countries where airlines can hire First Officers right out of flight school with 250 hours, she would have been considered a rookie. [Note: To understand the scale: think of Captain Peter "Maverick" Mitchell in the movie.]

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:21:41 +0000

#meetoo

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Anthropic says Claude hacked three companies during tests"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:57:23 +0000

... also there was an ultimate hacking tool: Excel! /s

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

pbgcp2026 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:13:30 +0000

This feature exists today – it's called "leave your gadgets at home". S3 bucket and / or laptop with Tails on USB stick is all you need.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border"

pbgcp2026 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:54:26 +0000

Do not cross with your gadgets. And just do not go to / via the US.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Teaching Kids Forth"

pbgcp2026 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:06:01 +0000

All things considered, unfortunately, we are better off teaching them plumbing or painting ...

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Did They Ghost You?"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:59:40 +0000

Cease and desist letters from lawyers piling in 3 .. 2 ... 1 ... They should've done it in a form of .onion service.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone during border search"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:01:38 +0000

Do. Not. Go. To. US. At all. (If you must – leave your gadgets at home.)

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:28:51 +0000

Or competence of CIA and MI6 - and their relevant recent practical experiences.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:26:54 +0000

"The United States is truly blessed simply by being two oceans away from anyone who could remotely challenge it." This is tragical misunderstanding of the situation. Both military and ecologically.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:39:54 +0000

It's already in the making, just look at EFF recent emails and what is happening now with ID checks ...

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:34:16 +0000

"you can quantize them yourself" ... to the point where usual Excel will have more intelligence.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:29:57 +0000

And we can quickly see that the real problem is not the models, but HW to run them. You can build whole Enterprise on Gemma 4 31B full precision without significant problems. If you can afford not to lobotomise it by quantisation.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:26:12 +0000

In 5 to 10 years most of EU will be partnering with China, not US. Banking will become more "Chinese centric" and most of EU will show a middle finger to US with its FATCA, DMCAs, sanctions and other BS.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:53:10 +0000

"you, me, and so many people in the United States still have a far better quality of life and level of freedom" LOL - are you sure about this?

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:26:35 +0000

It just means they don't have real DBAs among them. :-0) Just vibe coders.