skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dyn is primarily concerned with the internet at OSI layer 3: they are tracking the number of prefixes announced, from which particular ASes, and the impact that cuts, political interference and other events have on the global BGP routing table.

they have considerably less of a view into what's going on at layer 1. What it looks like from their post is that if the cable is actually cut north of sierra leone, that a protection system was activated and traffic was re-routed via cape town, and then other, physically diverse routes which go from cape town to the global internet. (edit: possibly re-routed via physical diversity from Accra, Ghana or from Nigeria, both of which have a lot more unique cables connecting them to Portugal, Spain and France. Not necessarily a round trip all the way to Cape Town).

what is actually going on with a particular cable at layer 1 is considerably more opaque. telecoms consider some of this information to be proprietary or guarded information. if you're a carrier with an IRU in a cable or a leased 10 Gbps circuit from city N in africa to a POP in France or the UK you will likely get periodic NOC updates, and eventually an RFO.

other people who are not direct participants in the cable are not usually high on the priority list of the repair/maintenance operators.

one of the things that major carrier and ISPs care about is knowing the truly physical diversity of their routes in and out of every POP. Knowing where stuff is "collapsed" (eg: two cables running together in the same duct bank to get to a carrier POP such as one wilshire), and where it is not. this is in the realm of GIS data that is usually not made public unless you need to know.
I don't think there is a mass conspiracy going on. I do think there are disvirtuous circles going on. Ex one school is located in a bad area over time gets less funding, becomes less attractive, fewer people with means want to send their children there, school gets less funding etc.

It's not just rich people who oppose poor people. It's also poor people. Think of the guy who is scraping to get ahead and sees someone he knows totally taking advantage of the system and not working, or is involved in criminal activity. This was a good article on it:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
I'll grant that it was a nitpick and they describe an ethics.

But I don't think I'm alone in being awfully tired of tech companies that talk about the benefit of all then sell our personal data or make military robots or manipulate our news. Where's the meat behind these promises and where's the accountability for not avoiding uses of AI that harm humanity?
I absolutely agree with you, my observation is strictly limited to the design. I think Slack's devs are way more to blame than Wey's, we're just not talking about memory usage in this thread :)
Your statement is technically libelous in nature, as you are accusing a major restaurant chain of not actually cooking any of there food based on spurious factual assumptions.

You may want to consider asking dang to delete your comment.

As a side note, if you walk into an Applebee's you can actually be seated at a table with a view of the kitchen, where you can watch the cooks at work. Applebee's may not be the best cooked food, but it is actually cooked by real live people, and has been for decades.
> So they were not really employees, but consultants.

On places where it's hard to fire people, mostly everybody works as consultants and people tend see those positions as normal job positions.
> that was a big mistake

Zeynep Tufecki does a good takedown of Facebook's "14-Year Apology Tour" [0].

It's a long-term, calculated, deliberate strategy to methodically abuse privacy with disastrous consequences, then when caught dead-to-rights, say "oops, sorry, made a mistake, we'll fix it".

This game worked amazingly well for 14 years, will people fall for it again this time?

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...
Wozniak used Facebook? That's a surprise to me. Is Richard Stallman on there too?
If I did, I probably wouldn't keep pointing out on HN that it only persists because the US Congress has found excuses to ignore the fact that statehood clearly won by the terms of both of the last two status referenda.
e2e encryption landed a while back and works pretty well (although technically is still in beta). the UX has some warts which we're working on :)
so what women want doesn't have value?
> keep sending in objects every time I make a method call

Classes and objects can actually be good syntactic sugar to solve this same problem. You can get a lot of the benefit of functional programming by writing immutable classes without any inheritance. The first argument of any method in the class is assumed to be the class itself, which is "POJO/POCO" and immutable -- "this" becomes a read-only keyword.
C'mon, we "fail fast" around here, no time for your "waterfall" nonsense.
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They also started, if I'm doing my arithmetic right, in 1996. Honestly, I could see C++ having been their best choice back then. Every language I would rather do a large project in is either newer than that or would have been pretty immature for a large project in the mid-90s.
I am not a vegetarian, but I would happily pay double to eat meat that doesn't result in an animal being killed. But it'd have to taste okay, at least, for me to make that jump. Doesn't have to be perfect, but has to satisfy a craving for a burger or something like that.
What about Binder? Do Chrome OS kernels come with Binder built in, or are they emulating it on top of another IPC mechanism?

Edit: yes, Chrome OS kernels come with the binder driver enabled.
> not allowing that export at all would probably be met with legally-binding criticism

Yeah? Can you point me towards any law that says I have the right to export data I did not enter?

> The main use-case that was discussed then was to empower services like Riot, to encourage competition — something that, surprisingly, Facebook was very supportive of at the time.

You have any evidence for that encouraging competing social networds was the "main use-case" for this feature? This is a pretty strong claim to make with no support.

> It has since became clear that people were not reading the permissions that they were granting and more applications were abusing them than trying to build an alternative to Facebook

The vast majority of people whose data was stolen did not grant ANY access. You appear to be deliberately mis-representing events.

> Some services who needed the social graph for legitimate reasons well understood by the users (e.g. Tinder) have kept their now-not-publicly available access.

Access to the social graph, and full access to the activity of all your friends are not the same thing. Again you seem to be deliberately misleading people.

> Facebook not only has been very effective at showing me and letting me edit

So how can I monitor and delete the shadow profile they have build for me?

> Don’t be misinformed and attack Facebook for selling your data — they did not.

Nobody has said their sold the data. They gave it away for free

> The amount of blaming the nurse for your fever on those issues is getting really concerning.

I didn't have a fever before I reached Facebook, something Facebook did got me sick, so why shouldn't I blame them for the fever?
Probably the same reason why people may want to avoid lead, mercury in tuna or microplastics: Science is always trying to figure out the safe levels of consumption. Especially for something consumed your entire life starting as a fetus.
Classic case of Developer returning to window with prod env setup. I am sure it was a "blameless post-mortem" i.e action item contains change in tooling and processes rather than trying to change human behaviour.
Sigh... Why is this even news? I really don't care about individuals leaving FB especially when they have no connection to FB other than being a user. It's not like Woz was some power-FB user AFAIK.
Puerto Ricans do pay other Federal taxes. They also get less Federal funding per-capita than the national average.

They are U.S. citizens. It is a U.S. territory. They are required to follow U.S. Federal law, yet do not have representation within the U.S. government. Even if they were not U.S. citizens, since they are not autonomous and allowed to govern themselves entirely, the U.S. has some responsibility over any situation Puerto Rico finds itself in.

If you think they should be paying income taxes, tell your congressperson to stop dragging their feet and respond to the requests for statehood Puerto Rico's government has made multiple times.
They do have a standalone AppImage. Which somehow managed to hang my entire GNOME session the first time I ran it, but worked after logging out and back in.
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You mention "run GNU/Linux applications as containers" but is that a full dev environment? As in, I can open a cpp file or whatever, make a change, run a single command and I can see my changes?
If you called 1-800-COLLECT, you would deal with an automated system, not an operator. I would use this as a free signal for when my dad should pick me up from after-school activities, but in my case it didn't require putting in a message, he just knew if he was getting a collect call from me to head out soon, and in any kind of emergency I would just use the change in my pocket.
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I have the same problem. If you showed me two UIs I could probably identify the more aesthetically pleasing one.

But if you showed me a single UI, I highly doubt I could improve it.
Please don't take HN threads on partisan goose chases that nothing new can come of.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794319 and marked it off-topic.
There's a definite "corporate culture" bias there in your F50 tech company skewing the other direction. How many of that 50-75% are H1b? If not H1b, how "yes man" is your corporate culture? I've worked in large & small orgs on the West coast over the past 20 years, and I tend to notice that people willing to work in large organizations are culturally or personally conditioned to put up with large org B.S. I've seen a significant tendency of Asian workers to take orders and not ask questions, do not try anything outside of what is expected and perscribed. Large orgs thrive on that crap, small to medium orgs it's a sign of something wrong with you if you're not trying to work outside of your box.
The hardest part is changing people's patterns when they get money (I have this same issue to a lesser degree than my friends that had poorer childhood experiences).

That spend it before you lose it thing is really difficult to overcome.
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Why is the date set in the future? April 11?
Agree on F360. And, for what it's worth, it does support python scripting as well.

My biggest hope for F360 are:
1. 2D vector import to sculpt workflow, not just model.
2. Shared Parameters between documents in the same projects

I've had great results with their CAM as long as you have a good post processor.
Is there a way to make a gopro act as a webcam in linux? (not with wifi, preferably with usb 3?)
What's the bit about using electron in the JS bindings docs?

http://libyue.com/docs/v0.4.0/js/guides/getting_started.html
I interpret it as saying that they don't think sharing current AI research is dangerous, but they're keeping the option of withholding research open in anticipation of the possibility that could change.

(This is what I and others argued they should do in 2015: https://conceptspacecartography.com/openai-should-hold-off-o... )
>Mostly bias, I suspect.

If bias gets you a significantly more remunerative or prestigious job, well, that should be factored into your return on investment, if you are looking for renumeration or prestige or to work around people with prestige.

>One thing you have to be careful of is that "elite" school graduates often have an over-inflated sense of how good they actually are.

My experience of the world is that having an over-inflated sense of your own worth doesn't hurt you any.

It's sad, because I personally find that kind of overconfidence super annoying, but if you are trying to maximize your career...
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Maybe displaying ads should require a license.
That's what Instagram Stories are.
Is it feasible to use cryptography and a distributed ledger to solve this problem? Are there any solutions that are usable today?

You'd need something that would work without a data connection, as well...
so whites are underrepresented, and the data supports the idea that racism isn’t a great explanation. interesting
It seems like a terrible time to put your org's shares into the public market, so late in the business cycle with the eventual downturn looming.

EDIT: Agree that if you must go public, go before the music stops. I'm wrong here.
Which ones specifically? At Dominos, I see people hand tossing dough and setting the ingredients whenever I go into one(not too frequently, don't judge me). I would imagine a group like Dominos would be the first to mechanize considering their scale?
> The US is free to walk away and leave it how they found it,

The US didn't “find” it, it took it by force.

EDIT: From another colonial power. I’m not sure Spain is really in the market for a Carribean colony right now, so it might not be that easy for the US to walk away and leave PR in its pre-US position.
Regardless of comments about the required skill levels of whatever profession, in this case I think it is clear that it is because it is still in development and the screenshots are only meant to demonstrate the look of the native UI elements. Setting all the paddings to something acceptable takes time (and is just one part of perfecting a design), and that time is pretty much wasted if the layout might still change significantly.
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It isn't really, but Woz is pretty cool so..
>Seems like people are mad that I believe that most food in restaurants are not cooked.

Or, you know, you're just talking out your ass and it's not even remotely true. A lot of menu items just means there's either a lot of prep being done, a lot of the menu items have a reasonably similar set of bases, or both. There's always going to be a certain degree of Sysco stuff that's just bought and dunked into a fryer, but claiming most of a given menu is reheated from a microwave without any further backup other than "lol you can't smell it" is ridiculous.
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Looks like you have no friends to even suggest that.
That’s a shame, 3 stars is my default (would be 2.5 but can’t select that), but as far as I’m concerned that means “got me to my destination with no notable positivity or negativity to the ride”.
Where I grew up in Baltimore the problem wasn't the funding of the schools. Indeed, when I was in school Baltimore City spent just a bit less per pupil than Montgomery county which was one of the 10 wealthiest counties in the nation. However the money was spent very differently. So while I would agree that there are real systemic problems I don't think there is any amount of money that could be thrown at Baltimore City that would really change the outcomes in a meaningful way. And that is what makes me the most sad about it.
Could GDPR be the end of Facebook? GDPR mandates that the user data be portable. Users can now download their data and upload it to a new social network. What is stopping a new startup to come and create a social network where users upload their facebook data.
The sackler family are upper class drug lords. Medical schools should be ashamed to take a dime of their blood money.
The section of the Wikipedia page probably needs updating. The very next section describes how they went from 50 people, to 150, then lifted the limits entirely.

> ...which might explain why there wasn't as much benefit from it as one might have hoped.

I think you've got this the wrong way around. The users probably didn't like being constrained to an arbitrary number. My main point was that any service that tries to impose such limits is going to feel pressure to raise/abolish them.
I think the issue is that you're assuming storage providers exist that will never get hacked, or that there's a scenario that entails your data being stored out on the Internet and not compromised.

I think we are in a "when, not if" world for security compromise.
It can take a lot to filter water safely. The classic carbon filter under the sink does very little to improve safety, even reverse osmosis can fall short. So, while you can make things safer it's far more difficult than many assume.
Eh, I don't think people will look that closely at the time. Probably more like "How long has it been since they last posted" at best.

I don't post that often. When I get stuck on a problem because of poor documentation or poor explanations I just make a tut off that. Mostly focused on other things right now though. Making a video is a lot of work. Come up with a project, a script, rewriting your explanation, fill in your gaps in info, voice recording, video editing. It adds up.
“Only” 250 bottles from 11 brands and 9 countries from different continents. I think this is more than anyone could ask for for an initial study, usually it would be done for a single region.
This is the notes he will be presenting.
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Smell outside a restraunt is certainly a true statement. No HVAC (A/C or Heater) is going to filter the kitchen's vent. Tell me you can't smell the difference between Burger King's fake grilling and McDonald when your outside of them? Same thing with restaurants.

That is so false that you must be trolling. I've been to plenty of restaurants where you couldn't smell the food outside the restaurant, even though you could see them cooking the food inside and the air ducts carrying the smoky air from the kitchen to the outside. This ranges from small mom-and-pop taco stops to Michelin-starred restaurants.

On a side note: I've been to both Burger King and McDonalds, and you can smell them cooking the burgers at both. You can't "fake grill" a burger, as microwaving ground beef patties produces a different texture than grilling or pan-grilling.
There's a point where "everyone for themselves!" doesn't quite cut it. The most obvious example is probably fraud. You could argue everyone must check whether a deal they get involved with is legit and accept the risks of being screwed. But that's not how it works since we must enforce a basic level of trust by law for society to function. A slightly less obvious but still rather well known example is addiction (drugs, gambling, etc).

The reason we elect politicians rather than deciding how to deal with big, social issues like that ourselves is because it's a full time job. Most people don't have the time and have no obligation to research "free-software based & decentralized social networks". They don't know about it and don't have the time or education to even know there's alternatives. We're so cynical about politics that it's hard to even trust politics to solve any of this since it's all so backwards and corrupt but I believe, because of the sheer impact it has on society, this is a political problem and needs to be solved through actual laws.
Even if they just went with 10px spacing everywhere it'd be an improvement.
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I didn't think it had anything to do with plastic from the bottles the water is sold in. Where is that assumption coming from?
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I think "reasonable measures" is pretty typical language when talking about compliance. I don't know GDPR regulation very well but I know FDA regulation reasonably well and I imagine compliance will be similar, and much easier for the new GDPR.

Most important is to document everything. Have a design history file that you can show in case you get audited. When you design your software, save your designs in the DHF. When you update or make changes to the design, put that in your DHF too.

For each GDPR article where it makes sense, have it written somewhere how you are compliant with what they ask for (you probably don't need to demonstrate compliance with Article 4 [1] but you should have it written somewhere how you are compliant with all the points in Article 5 [2]. When it says "Personal data shall be: (b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes" You should be able to procure a document that lists the various kinds of personal data collected and how each is used; e.g. "Username: The username serves to associate a person's login id to their profile. [... other details] Profile Picture: The profile picture serves to display an image of the user. [... other details]."

When it tells you to have reasonable security measures, then document what your security measures are. "This data is encrypted" or "This data is saved on an external server disconnected from the internet and only accessible by someone with a dongle". If you're still worried that your user data could be insecure, then it might be worth hiring a security specialist to check it out.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/
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I either take out my phone to change the color, or I pick up the remote to change the color. It's a little faster with the remote since I don't have to find the app first. (This is hypothetical since I don't own either device, but it definitely seems like something I would do.)
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Which leaves you with classical-clean-US-water - no taste, nothing. Doesn't taste good, doesn't taste bad, it's just not there.
Tech companies often find that profit incentives undermine the good intentions they started with. Fortunately, OpenAI is a nonprofit organization; it has no personal data to sell and no shady contracting jobs to turn away. That certainly doesn't fully immunize them from wrongdoing, but it should make it easier.
I didn't mean this internet outage is worse than the Puerto Rico situation. That's why I said they're not comparable. The expanse of the internet outage is simply what makes it news worthy.
I thought it wouldn't be so bad, but now that I have seen the screenshots... it's pretty bad.

The thing is, a lot of developers seem to have no anesthetic sense whatsoever. I realized this when I noticed that almost all Emacs themes are garbage, and that no one seems to mind. I even wrote a blog post about it with several examples and people thought I was trolling.

I mean, just five minutes of work put into this Slack thing would have improved the look a lot, so the other commenter's point about priorities is just kind of dumb. Slack may be a piece of junk but at least it is passable in the looks department. It's not like it's the 90s or anything. How can someone think that looks aren't important?
It can be both. Responsibility is not a conserved quantity. Entities who take on private data should be considering the effects of that data becoming released, including what others may use it for.
Your concern seems to be with the amount which appears to belittle the person who is receiving it. You have to keep in mind the amount is in proportion to how much you are paying for a product/service.

I guarantee you NO lawyer on earth is going to reject a 15% tip let alone 30%.

Next time you go to a Starbucks or a bar give a 100% to 200% tip and see if the barista/bartender is offended.
The way the title is formatted made me think this would be an obituary. I'm really glad that's not the case.
We should move to plant based plastics.