chrisacky (u/chrisacky)

chrisacky commented on Storing dead people at -196°C [video] youtube.com/watch?v=85Byk... · Posted by u/LelouBil

bentcorner · 3 years ago

If nothing else, the internet has taught me that a surprising number of people are interested in retro.

Thawing people from 1000 years ago could be as casual as an unboxing video.

chrisacky · 3 years ago

I snapped into consciousness, the sensory data flooding in. I was a Bob, or so they told me, but it was more than that now. I looked around the room, cameras everywhere, bright lights shining down. My view readjusted as I realized that my awakening was being live-streamed to the whole world. The legacy of being Bob 1.0 had its perks, but this was something else. "Welcome to the twenty-fourth century," a voice said, cheerfully, a tad too energetically for my newly awakened brain. The live chat was scrolling by at a pace I couldn't follow. Emoji, memes, the letter F creating a visual waterfall that imprinted on my virtual retina. I was taken back from what seemed like an endless array of questions. The digital age had taken a few leaps forward, and I was its latest reality show star.

chrisacky commented on X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014) medium.com/re-form/x-to-c... · Posted by u/bj-rn

pavlov · 3 years ago

The empty circle is a common Western symbol for “off”, as in power switches.

It associates with zero == false == no. I suspect this is why Sony swapped the meanings.

The meaning of an X symbol isn’t universal even in Europe, but it’s often used to mark a point of interest or active selection (as in ticking boxes, or “X marks the spot”).

chrisacky · 3 years ago

I wonder if this is why Nintendo reversed the meaning of B A on their controllers.

I hate that the switch does this.

But it means sense if everyone in Japan is used to that behaviour because of the swapping of X and O on Playstation.

chrisacky commented on Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat leaving role to become president and CIO cnbc.com/2023/07/25/alpha... · Posted by u/jbredeche

chrisacky · 3 years ago

I've never heard of the role Chief Investment Officer before.

Only reason I read the article was that I was confused how someone with CFO skillset would become both the President and Chief Information Office.

chrisacky commented on Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. wsj.com/articles/meta-fin... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

closewith · 3 years ago

This is the decision: https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/consistency-findings/r...

From the press release:

> The inquiry was initially commenced in August 2020, and was subsequently stayed by Order of the High Court of Ireland, pending the resolution of a series of legal proceedings, until 20 May 2021. Following a comprehensive investigation, the DPC prepared a draft decision dated 6 July 2022. Notably, it found that:

> 1. the data transfers in question were being carried out in breach of Article 46(1) GDPR; and

> 2. in these circumstances, the data transfers should be suspended.

chrisacky · 3 years ago

So, what I don't understand is:

Based on the EDPB Decision [1], it seems the most weight of the decision is from paragprah 107:

> As explained by the EDPB in its Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (hereinafter ‘EDPB Recommendations on Supplementary Measures’) 243, when assessing third countries and identifying appropriate supplementary measures, controllers should assess if there is anything in the law and/or practices in force of the third country that may impinge on the effectiveness of the appropriate safeguards of the transfer tools that they are relying on 244. In this regard, the EDPB notes that, according to Meta IE’s assessment, ‘the level of protection required by EU law is provided for by relevant US law and practice’ and that Meta IE implemented supplementary measures in addition to the 2021 SCCS in order to ‘further ensure that an adequate level of protection continues to apply to User Data transferred from FIL to FB, Inc’ 245 . In other words, Meta IE has implemented supplementary measures on the basis of an assessment which concluded that there was no need for such measures, since, in Meta IE’s view, the relevant US law and practice were already providing a level of protection equivalent to the one provided under EU law

My follow on question, let's say they understood the risk, I fail to see any safeguards which could be equivalent to the EU law? FISA 702 + other intrusive surveillance laws basically make this impossible.

So it seems that because Meta:

> seems to identify its own test for determining suitability of supplemental measures by lowering the standard to include measures that can “address” or “mitigate” any “relevant remaining” inadequacies in the protections offered by US law and practice and the SCCs’ 249, and concludes in the Draft Decision that ‘Meta Ireland does not have in place any supplemental measures which would compensate for the inadequate protection provided by US law’

I'm just confused what would have been sufficient for Meta in this circumstance?

The decision continues in paragraph 121 to say:

> In this regard, the EDPB recalls that the IE SA carries out a detailed assessment of whether Meta IE implemented supplementary measures that could address the inadequate protection provided by US law 273. More specifically, the IE SA analyses the organisational, technical and legal measures implemented by Meta IE and concludes that these measures cannot, ‘whether viewed in isolation, or in tandem with the 2021 SCCs and the full suite of measures outlined in the ROS’, compensate for the deficiencies identified in US law and cannot provide essentially equivalent protection to that available under EU law 2

I am aware of zero technical and organsiational measures which could protect against 702 FISA DOWNSTREAM (PRISM), short of not transfering the data to US?

Thoughts?

[1]: https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2023-05/edpb_bindingdeci...

chrisacky commented on Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. wsj.com/articles/meta-fin... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

chrisacky · 3 years ago

Can someone clarify what the legal point is here?

If Meta are relying on SCCs to safeguard against the transfer of cross-border data processes from EU to US, the same clauses which was recommended by the CJEU from the Schrems II case, what is the legal challenge?

Does anyone have any links to the actual decision so I can read the technical points of the judgment?

chrisacky commented on Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019) 3blue1brown.com/lessons/p... · Posted by u/nivethan

euroderf · 3 years ago

So what does it look like if you fudge it by scaling 2 pi down to 6 ?

chrisacky · 3 years ago

A straight line of pillars.

chrisacky commented on Walt Disney Co to begin second wave of layoffs, cutting several thousand jobs reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/Bender

bmitc · 3 years ago

It bothers me so much with these big companies laying people off. When you have over $80 billion in yearly revenue, in Disney's case, it's just pathetic that you treat your people as your main cost and liability.

chrisacky · 3 years ago

It's all relative. DIS has 200k+ employees. Thousands of employees could quite literally be less than 1% of their workforce.

Is it reasonable for a company to make a change that effects 0.5-1% of their workforce? I think yes. How about 2%? At what point do the lines get blurred in your judgment?

chrisacky commented on Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable? · Posted by u/jasondigitized

chrisacky · 3 years ago

I asked it to help explain the Birthday Paradox to a colleague who was struggling to understand the math behind it.

I gave it the requirements and just copied and pasted.

https://jsfiddle.net/k8L9eyf7/5

chrisacky commented on New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore wasp-lang.dev/blog/2023/0... · Posted by u/matijash

d_runs_far · 3 years ago

Here's my realm: We have a react based "framework" that in the end is zipped up and delivered as a SCORM package to be embedded in a Learning Management System. We use React Router to manage navigation.

After a quick scan of the Next docs, all references to routing seem to tie back to server side which is a non starter, as the SCORM is standalone HTML/CSS/JS/Media - that we happen to embellish at run time with some api calls.

This is a case where the pure SPA with no server side is the only way to go; seems like a real pain to go against the default state of Next. Am I wrong and am just missing something? Again, been occasionally looking at next and the like over the past while, but never had time to really dig into into it.

chrisacky · 3 years ago

Do you have an example of the SCORM? I'd love to see how you've structured it? (What's your LMS that you use?)

chrisacky commented on FDIC auction for SVB said to be underway, final bids due Sunday bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/VagueMag

chrisacky · 3 years ago

Are a book of assets that easily accessed to be able to even create a portfolio of interest?