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Don't pay attention to the news. It reports statistically rare events that are unlikely to affect you. Pay attention to the statistics[0,1,2]. US aviation is still remarkably safe[3]. Just don't be this guy[4].

[0] http://ipa-world.org/society-resources/code/images/95b1494-L...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[2] https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety

[4] https://www.xkcd.com/795/
I meant that statues from Ancient Egypt with intact noses don't look particularly "black" (with all my previous qualifications on the use of that term). They don't look particularly "white" (same qualifications) to me either, they just look ... Egyptian.
I've known Chris Cox since freshman year of college and he was an informal advisor to my first startup. The NYT article referenced in hashberry's earlier comment includes a key quote:

“For over a decade, I’ve been sharing the same message that Mark and I have always believed: Social media’s history is not yet written, and its effects are not neutral,” Mr. Cox said in a note to employees on Thursday. “As its builders we must endeavor to understand its impact — all the good, and all the bad — and take up the daily work of bending it towards the positive, and towards the good.”

“This is our greatest responsibility,” he added.'

When the Chief Product Officer says on his way out that "social media is not neutral" and encourages all employees to bend it towards the good... you barely have to read between the lines to understand what's really happening.

The real story here isn't the "spin" from the NYT. It's the fact that Facebook is hemorrhaging its best people as those on the inside finally start waking up to the fact that Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook as a good thing for the world was a lie.

If the guy who is officially in charge of product and who has been there since 2005 can't make a difference, what chance does anyone else have?

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/technology/facebook-chris...
Facebook login has value for many people. It certainly makes it easier to create new accounts and then log into 3rd party websites.
Not a chance. I'd trust him about as far as I could throw him. If there is one exec of a major web property that has lost all benefit of the doubt then it is Mark Zuckerberg.
How would one get into one of these MUDs? I realize these are quite old, but I can't even find out how to load this up. Maybe I am missing the point here. That, or I need to install Java.
People say this, but they never explain where the power will come from when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. I hear people throw out "batteries" as if that word is some sort of solution.
> You cannot know whether the device leaks your vote, i.e., whether your vote is secret.

The electronic voting machine never is granted your identity. But I'll grant it's possible that records of the voter identity with the ballot identity exist and could be used to map the voter's vote.
If there are already power and telephone poles, they can run fiber. I don’t understand why the whole, damn country could be wired for power, but they can’t run a dammed fiber cable.
I've tentatively switched to that URL from https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/a-note-from-mark-zucker.... If someone can suggest a better article, we'll happily change it again.

Generally, corporate press releases don't make for great HN stories. This is a bit of an exception to the original-sources rule in the site guidelines.
It's perfectly possibly they'll increase privacy, in the sense that instead of blasting updates to everyone you send them to specific people, with an autodelete.

This doesn't interfere with tracking.

Most people, when they think about privacy, think about the disclosure of specific posts to unintended audiences. They often don't think about the tracking beacons silently categorizing everything.

So in short, it's perfectly possible to have "privacy friendly" Facebook - if your definition of privacy doesn't extend to being free from ad trackers.
>Iran has been accumulating captured US and Israeli drones and attempting to reverse-engineer them for years.

Well, if they capture a drone in Iranian airspace it is by definition Iranian drones. The easiest way to stop this is not fly drones around Iran. One could almost think someone wanted to piss them off.
We've been using it for some time as well, not even with a random value, just `X-Entity-Ref-ID: null` works too. Found it through some obscure StackOverflow answer.
He's done plenty in that decade that affirms the quote.
The worlds infrastructure is inherently fragile. It should be difficult to take down these large distributed systems, but they are over-coupled.
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Since we're all linking the MUDs we're nostalgic about, I've always had a soft sport in my heart for the Unofficial Squaresoft MUD (http://uossmud.sandwich.net/). It's a love letter to the worlds in classic square games with a class system inspired by FFT.
Hmm, I didn't mean that all notifications are spam.

But, the task recipients face for sifting and sorting their inbox into different buckets is essentially the same faced by a notification sender who accepts feedback instead of hiding behind a no-reply address. Lacking real message authentication and authorization tools, we have to look at a mixture of content and metadata patterns to try to sort it out.

In this every gray world, I can imagine reciprocity being a useful measure...
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Why does this shareholder value meme keep getting perpetuated?
I'm a poll worker so I have some experience with the problem. I agree with you that a peripheral is one more thing that can break or be tampered with, and I wouldn't recommend a mouse. Here's what I've observed (at least in the iVotronic systems we use in Pennsylvania):

- since there's only one screen, and it's all touchscreen, users get consistently confused between pictures of buttons describing what the buttons do and the buttons themselves

- the touchscreen is itself a peripheral and prone to wearing out. When it does, the fact it's wearing out is difficult to observe during the election day; there's no cursor indicator, so a poll worker can't check calibration.

- users with fine-motor-coordination issues have to brace against the box to steady themselves to touch the tiny targets they want. There's nowhere to brace against a touchscreen that isn't also touch-sensitive input, and the screens don't accept multi-touch.

A row of buttons along each side of the screen, not unlike the solution used at many ATMs, would ameliorate all these problems. These boxes are already custom hardware jobs, so switching out touchscreens for a couple of button banks would be cheaper, equally usable for most voters, and more usable for mobility-impaired voters. It would improve all three observed problems.

Wishes and horses though; the machines we have are the ones we use.
No shit! Like plenty of users I don't visit this place anymore as my blog is now empty of content (NSFW nude art blog).
But even before the ban, content creators (photographers in my case) were posting less and less, focusing instead on Instagr.am networking and Patreon.
Facebook can easily run "a privacy-focused social network" that's not Facebook, but a separate, very different product for separate, very different audiences.
Manufacturers have large minimum order quantities, are slow to integrate with, and have business policies like chargebacks, business rules, fees, etc. that the retailer will have to negotiate around.

The little guys have none of that and will bring in tons of traffic to the site, making it a more attractive option for manufacturers who will bend their rules to get a piece of the pie.
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I'm not justifying how this was linked here, but I'd recommend putting your own attribution on the original source of the content (in this case, Imgur) rather than relying on everyone to access it through the specific forum you originally posted it on.

Also, Hacker News doesn't have submitter filled "descriptions" for linked pages, so there literally is no way to add attribution meta-data when posting a link.
No, but it's corrosive to constructive discourse, per my other comment.

I'm legit a little slack-jawed in "did you really go there?" to see this comment adjacent to that, considering.

EDIT: I didn't flag that comment, fwiw.

EDIT 2: "Trigger word" is another great example. That's a dismissive use of the notion, implying the people being "triggered" are irrational, emotional, and, by inference, wrong. It's an ad hominem, and it's destructive discourse.

I don't know when we decided it was cool to conflate people expressing disapproval with people who've been traumatized and are reacting to a stimulus that's evocative of their trauma, but it's not. Speaking as someone who's experienced multiple kinds of the traumas that can legitimately warrant "trigger warnings", it's really, really not.

I truly want to understand how someone thinks they can talk to and about people like that, and then cry foul at blowback.
So far I've been disappointed with sync issues with Spideroak, OneDrive, and Nextcloud.

Now I use Tresorit (which I only became aware of because of... and online ad!?) It doesn't seem to have sync issues for me. Dropbox didn't have issues either, but it wasn't as secure.

I wanted so badly for Nextcloud to work.
Why? What level of criticism is acceptable, and what level is not, and why?

This is something I've not really been able to understand about those who defend Facebook against these "attacks". Nothing reported (AFAIK) has been untrue. Facebook is one of the richest and most culturally central companies of the 21st century. It seems fair game to examine what they do.
Any other company in their shoes would have had a mass exodus. Chris was a big part of making employees feel like they shared a piece of the dream.

Whatever your thoughts about Facebook, the fact that some of the smartest people have worked, and continue to work at a company "beset by scandal" should give you pause.
perfect_loop: Let’s chat. Email me at james.griffin [at] degreechamp [dot] com. I’ve actually been searching for a product manager/head of product for awhile. We have a pretty small team of technologists already working on the product. Admittedly, the salary will be much lower than you’d get at a FAANG, but it’s a fully remote position and I can get you an offer in 1-2 weeks. I’ve been funding it with a software consulting business I built, so if you’re interested in both products & services that’s a major bonus!

- James Griffin, CEO of DegreeChamp
It's hardly unheard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure

An organization Facebook's size isn't gonna be applying configuration changes to one server at a time over SSH, either. A server configuration can easily affect thousands of machines across the globe if it's deployed to them all.
DF does massively complicated and computationally expensive simulations. It eats CPUs alive. How it shows those results (ascii, tile pack, etc) has nothing to do with it - it isn't GPU-bound the way just about every other game is, because it's as much a simulation as a game.
California has their own tax software you can use online, although it doesn't cover as many use cases as TurboTax.
I think the most important thing is empathy. It can be pretty hard for some people to put egos aside when doing/receiving code reviews.

Other than that, have clear standards regarding formatting (preferably do it automatically with something like clang-format), build and run a linter/tests on CI so that the most basic things are caught automatically.

Finally, remember the objective is not criticizing someone else's style, since we all have our own, but instead sharing knowledge and improving quality.
> Legally, he has a duty to maximize value for his board members and investors.

Please stop repeating that nonsense.
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Do FB give you data for the controll group, target demographic FB users that did not see the add? Ie. whats the difference in ROI for 0$ and $$$?
it’s not quite that brazen, but from what i remember the whatsapp server can push a new public key for your contact/chat to the device, which means that they can MITM you. the chat shows that the key changed, but most users wouldn’t know what that means and ignore it
More recent ones do have my username in them. I just never expected anyone outside of Reddit to read it so I didn't structure it in a way that would make that convenient.
Never heard of such an incident in the catacombs before.

In my uninformed opinion, this seems unlikely: gas pipes in Paris are buried less than 1m deep, whereas the catacombs are 10 to 30m underground, below service galleries for utilities, sewers, and even the subway.
My experience matches jstanley's: with basic ISP filtering and disabling as much filtering as they let me disable my ISP reports blocking 181 messages in the past month mostly via some list (they don't say which one). I see a few spam messages per day and generally get half a dozen or more copies the first time I see a new one, conveniently making them easy to delete (and very few have confusing subjects). I'm fairly sure I see less than half as many as the ISP blocks. This is with an address that has been public for over a decade. It doesn't seem like much of an arms race to me and it is a trivial effort to delete them.

The only things I can think of that I do differently than many people that might make a difference is that I have my mail client set up to not show remote images ever and I never dirctly click any link from email no matter the source. Possibly things might be much worse otherwise, but from my perspective it doesn't seem like spam is a huge issue these days with basic filtering.
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That is probably because 767 is a plane with quite a long history without any major upgrade. And it is cargo, so no passengers.

The first 737 Max crashed in Indonesia, it did not have quite media coverage as well. The second one got much more attention because that is quite rare that two brand new flights crashed in such a short period. Everyone suspected it is caused by design or system flaws.
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I used to be a fan of Facebook, but I was never obsessed with it. I even used to work there.

I'm over it.

It's useful for groups, some of the ads really are useful, it's nice to sometimes keep up with people that are far away, but the news feed has had done way more harm than good for our society, including my own life.

After the 2016 Election, Facebook posts lead to so much drama in my family that certain "branches" of the tree have unfriended and blocked each other and we haven't spoken since. My dad and I constantly argue because he will see some comment I made on someone else's post and have to give his own opinion, or read to me what the other person said back. There is no way to turn this part of the feed off.

Overall, it is a totally unpleasant product to use now. The only reason I want it to succeed is because I own stock from when I worked there.
One reason farmers likely avoid it is that ethanol fuel only has a shelf life of about three months[1] while regular fuel can easily last a year or more. I'm sure that's an issue on a farm where fuel isn't always cycled out constantly.

[1] http://www.fuel-testers.com/expiration_of_ethanol_gas.html
>My argument is that critics (through reviews) and consumers (through ratings) no longer set HBO's shows apart into a prestige category that HBO dominates. That's an empirically verifiable fact.

Based on... ?
Nobody has samples of them preserved by permafrost. The advantage of going for mammoths is the large amount of tissue available to work with that hasn't been desiccated or damaged by chemical preservatives.
If you understand French, watch this: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/078777-000-A/siberie-les-avent... you'll be convinced.

If you don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

Basically we need them for an earth-scale experiment that will try to prevent the permafost from unfreezing, thanks to ruminant eating the grass through the snow, thus breaking the snow insulation that prevents the ground from re-freezing deep in winter.
If the permafrost do unfreeze, I believe the climate is doomed.

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Google+ was good privacy-wise.
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>I just don't understand how anyone can believe his vision for "a privacy-focused social network"...

People need to understand, ANYTHING you use on the internet opens you up wide to privacy violations. Anything you use on the internet can end up in the hands of law enforcement. And certainly any SOCIAL network is, by its very nature, NOT private.

There is no way to be on the internet, and be completely opaque to the larger world at the same time. Zuckerberg is lying to you. So are Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, and Wire. If you're worth it, the US can track you. (Not just the US, several other nations and organizations can as well.)

Your buddy who told you that they couldn't find you behind that pseudonym as long as you were using a VPN? Yeah... he lied.

But here's the real problem, no one cares.

No one cares about privacy, because they all feel that they have nothing to hide. I know the feeling, I understand the feeling. But this is bigger than us as individuals.

The internet needs to be rearchitected, bit by bit. In concert with that effort, we need to agitate for some laws that prevent data sharing. Some laws that have real teeth.
> The use of biofuel products, such as ethanol, is heavily subsidized in the United States.

OK, so we subsidize ethanol production... because? It's not because turning what could be food into fuel is good for "the environment" really. It's definitely not good for actually feeding people. (Diversion of what could be food-productive land to ethanol is responsible for increase in subsistence food costs for poor people worldwide).

But anyway, we subsidize it. Mostly to help farmers. Fine, you gotta help farmers somehow.

> The government hopes that by permitting the higher blend of ethanol, drivers will be paying less at the pump.

OK, since we're subsidizing it, making it cheaper than gasoline, now we gotta allow more of it, so consumers will "pay less at the pump". Not because, you know, it's inherently cheaper or anything, but just because we subsidize it.

But at least people will get to pay less for gas. Uh, what's that you say?

> But for consumers, more ethanol means lower overall fuel economy since ethanol only possesses two-thirds the energy content of a gallon of gasoline. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that a 10 percent ethanol blend into gasoline will decrease a car's overall fuel economy by three percent; this means that increasing ethanol to a 15 percent blend will bring the average fuel economy down 4.5 percent when compared to just straight gasoline.

Okay, so maybe they're not paying _as much_ less at the pump as they thought. Presumably the per-gallon cost is at least 4.5% less than gasoline, so at least they're still paying _something_ less at the pump... I hope. If it's less than 4.5% less than straight gasoline, of course they're paying more, they just don't realize it. (And let's not talk about older cars whose engines can't handle it and which will be harmed, unless you knew that and... bought the premium gas instead? Still saving money at the pump?)

But at least it's PROBABLY not releasing MORE air pollution than gasoline, if you believe the ethanol industry's researchers over other researchers. Great!

The whole thing MAKES NO SENSE. The whole ethanol thing is garbage policy.

That was originally promoted as somehow "good for the environment." (It is not). This is why "oh, maybe it won't help that much, but every little bit helps" is never a good reason to do things "good for the environment." Some things are just BS. (And don't get me wrong, i think we DESPERATELY need to do a LOT more "good for the environment" (and climate change), which is why this kind of BS is SO BAD).

At least this article is better than most and gives you enough facts to connect the dots if you're paying attention.
"hemorrhaging its best people"

I don't consider people that oversaw one of the biggest cases of user data misuse in history which, by the way, could've been easily prevented, as the "best people". Sounds like Facebook is making the changes necessary to rectify the mess they oversaw.
> We are entering the territory of cheering on the thought police, where you disregard your own faculties and off load all of your exposure to information and decision making to a highly select group of people, with their own biases, much of it monetarily motivated.

Can't you really say this about the anti-vac community and the ones publishing and selling these books? Or am I reading your statement wrong and that's who you're speaking to?
Like I said, a decentralized system can fail, but the root cause of such a failure cannot be "configuration change". If a configuration change is sufficient to break your system then it's not truly decentralized.

Let's take your car example.

If you update your car's firmware and get in an accident, it's not a system-level failure.

If manufacturer sends a wireless update and all their autonomous cars start to bump into one another, it's not really a decentralized system anymore - updates are centralized.

If you update your car, it crashes, sends a wireless signal that affects another car, and it crashes and so on... This is an example of a cascading failure in a fully decentralized system, but the real root cause would be cars interfering with one another, not your firmware update.
but also you can remove your phone number after you sign up. unsure how that’s handled though, so could provide nothing extra if they still allow searching of it, or continue to store it?
Using telnet :) The link is on the front page: telnet://iconoclast.org:7777

Unfortunately, it looks hugged to death (?), cause I'm getting a connection refused.
Who? I want the first person to open the box to get the data be fully trustworthy. That person can upload the data. If the first person to open the box is evil they can substitute whatever data they want.

We are talking about governments here so the conspiracy theory that the person who opened the box substituted a different set of data is actually possible. Conspiracy theory territory for sure, so you really want to make sure that a fully trusted third party is involved. France seems as good as anyone to fit that bill.
Seems like a lot of people were forced to be productive yesterday (:
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Because that's who a CEO reports to and that's how a CEO gets fired.

Some CEO's like Elon and Jobs can spin a great story and hold on by sheer force of personality, but pension funds aren't buying FB in bulk to get more green cars on the road.
Ah, now I'll have steeds for my robot army!

We won't win the war, but we'll look awesome.
I'm not worried personally about flying on this plane, I wouldn't change my plans to avoid it. I just had held a very high opinion of the engineering discipline and regulatory practices that has been suddenly re-evaluated.
It’s exactly why he/she is pushing for it. Because they can now hide behind the wall that is privacy. People can do whatever they want behind that wall and Facebook can and will not care to monitor any activity. This is their way of copping out.