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I'm curious what was the price for London to Barcelona and what was time on the TGV return leg?

>"What he's talking about isn't really even AI so much as deep learning: there are lots of other branches that now get virtually no play relative to deep learning."

Can you say what are some of non-Deep Learning branches in AI that aren't getting play relative Machine Learning/Deep Learning?

Interesting. I wonder if every university that uses the textbook just maintains it's own repo then?

I was curious about the statement in the README:

>"Until now, I have not been able to find a MINIX 3 project that allows you to compile the code that is referenced in the book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (3e) (v3.1.0)."

For such a well-known and longstanding project I was surprised to read this. Are the sources available at https://git.minix3.org just too old or is this more to do with the book?

Starlink is an access technology. The Tier 1 backbone providers of the Internet are still terrestrial which means terrestrial fiber and submarine cables. Starlink still has to buy transit from the people with fiber. I think Starlink purchases transit from GTT, Lumen, Zayo and buncg of others. A fiber cut could still impact Starlink. Think of what happens when your ISP goes down but the Wifi on your routers is still up. It's somewhat similar.

Is there an online console somewhere you can paly with and test these cuelang-based policies using cuelang-js?

>"Cedar falls somewhere between OPA with its datalog (prolog) based search approach and a Zanzibar based approach."

I understand the OPA from your description of it as a "datalog(prolog) based search approach" but you didn't characterize what the "Zanzibar based approach" is. Is there a similar short descriptive summary of its approach?

You are not generating a real physical ID but a representation of an ID, a jpeg. Nor would you be using that representation of an ID to identify and actual person for something that legally requires proof of ID like purchasing alcohol, opening a bank account or driving a car. The sole context for this representation is for a fake persona that exists solely on a social media service.

Can you explain how an AI-generated fake ID for a fake social media account constitutes a felony? On what grounds exactly? Facebook despite attempting to normalize the handing over of government-issued identification to an advertising platform, is not a government entity.

>'"Culture war artifact" is not a real term. I've never had what looks like a reasonable combination of three words come up with zero hits in a search engine.'

Is this really your barometer for discussion, that all grammatical phrases must first exist in Google search results for them to be considered valid self-expression? If so that's pretty out there.

There's a wonderful irony here in that this a discussion about a Megacorp validating people's identity and here you are telling someone that their words are not valid because they haven't been validated by some other Megacorp.

The phrase "culture war" itself wasn't in use in English before it was used in the title of a book in the early 90s [1]. There were no search engines then.

[1] https://archive.is/TS6mn

It's kind of ridiculous to think that the act of verification is somehow an ongoing service that's needs a monthly fee. When you open a bank account or line of credit or anything else that requires identification that action generally takes place once. If you prove you are who you are claiming to be then next week or next month or next year you are still verified. What does FB do every month for that $12 or $15? There is no ongoing maintenance for verification. It's a one time thing.

>"There's no real defense against AI impersonation at scale, except for charging-for-verification."

What's to stop a generative AI from generating a state issued drivers license or similar to go along with that avatar photo though? Also how different is that really though from all the existing non-AI generated fake accounts?

I don't think this "subscription service" is actually for the user I think it's for the advertisers. I think the fee is just a smokescreen. I imagine FB having access to something like a driver license gives them your address, height, eye color, signature, data of birth etc. I'm sure they will monetize this in all kinda of new ways. For example maybe political adds since you can target based on voter precinct, auto insurance, neighborhood demographics and of course a premium tier of "blue checkmark verified" eyeballs to advertisers.

Does anyone suspect this is little more than a ploy for them add government issued IDs to their trove of user data?

I'm guessing this is a way for Mark to sell a new premium tier of data to advertisers. He can charge advertisers for access to a "blue checkmark" tier of user data for an extra fee.

The idea that they are asking users to now pay FB for the privilege of giving them even more personal data is so twisted that I think only Zuckerberg could come up with it.

Generally ISPs will only let you announce the same prefixes to multiple upstream ISP if you have PI address space. If you have PA address space you are probably out of luck. An ISP won't accept your prefixes if they are PA space from another ISP. At any rate you can can still use floating static routes and use a GSLB provider like Dyn to get your incoming redundancy and still not need to run BGP. In fact if you have PA address space this is your only option.

First "NID" is a Telco term of art, it's a contractual concern more than anything else.

The first device terminates the Fiber. It has an SPF transceiver in at for the wavelength the customer is getting the service on which is 1310nm. This is pure layer 1. A technician could/would use this "NID" to get a light reading during provisioning and/or troubleshooting. This is the end of the "local loop."

The second device is the one that provides Carrier Ethernet. Carrier Ethernet is like regular Ethernet but with some extensions that allow the provider "OAM"(operation, administration and management) capabilities. This is a layer 2 device.

>"If you had links to two different providers, you would talk BGP to them and say "You can reach this set of IP addresses via me."

There is really need to do this is many cases though. If all you are looking for is connectivity redundancy you can just take the default routes from two ISPs and configure floating static routes on your router and not worry about BGP at all.

>"This is done via ASNs (Autonomous Systems Numbers), like 32150 (my old ASN). Each hop along the way gets their ASN tacked on. It's like a flood-fill to all the BGP routers in the world."

Each hop does not get its own ASN tacked on. This only happens when crossing an AS boundary i.e at eBGP speaker. There are generally many hops inside an AS.

>"The internet is a decentralized collection of autonomous systems (AS) and the primary benefit of this setup isn’t exactly realized afaict, which is multiple paths via different carriers."

The primary benefit if fully-realized and is not about "is multiple paths via different carriers."

An AS is an administrative entity. Route prefixes belong to an AS. All routes with an AS have a common routing policy that is managed by a single entity. I can look up a prefix to find it's AS and then I can look up that AS's routing policies. Here is an example for Tier 1 ISP Spring:

https://www.sprint.net/policies/bgp

I could have single ISP that I buy transit from and I might have multiple links with them. If I want to understand how to take advantage of that for example with traffic engineering then I would look the policies for ISPs AS. I would then use those BGP community attributes on my BGP links to them in order to accomplish my own routing goals.

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in your post.

>"Additionally, running one more BGP session makes their network appear larger, so they benefit as well."

This doesn't make any sense. The number of "BPG sessions" is not a metric any ISP thinks about. A BPG session is just TCP connection. The number of prefixes an ISP is advertising might be something they care about however but for smaller ISPs that doesn't really matter as they are just customers of the Tier 1 ISPs and that just requires paying the Tier 1 ISP. It has nothing to do with the number of sessions or prefixes. I could have a single /22 prefix for my company and the Tier 1 ISP will still sell me the same service.

>"There's no rule that says ISPs should only accept /24 or shorter prefixes, and this is contributing to the depletion of IPv4 addresses. I would happily announce a /25 and return the other /25 to the world, but I must have a /24 to do it."

Well yes there is. Many ISPs will generally not accept routes smaller than a /24. They configure filter-lists that prevent those routes from being accepted. The reason for this is to reduce the size of the global routing table. Each prefix has to be stored in TCAM(memory) on a router. There have been many incidents where older routers couldn't handle the number of routes in the global routing table and caused them outages. See:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/inter... and https://www.inap.com/blog/growing-pains-internet-global-rout...

Further if you have a /24 you can certainly advertise 2 /25s to the same upstream ISP if you have more than one transit connection with them. In fact this is exactly how do traffic engineering.

>"It's frustrating that some ISPs make it artificially difficult for home users to obtain a BGP session, even when they're not asking for SLAs or dedicated connections."

This because home users absolutely don't need to run BGP! You just take a default route from your ISP and you're done with it. There is not point in running BGP if you are single-homed! You can't do any traffic engineering on it or influence the way upstream ISP route traffic to you. From the hobbyist point view it would be extremely boring. What can you actually do with it? View the global routing table? You can do this without ever running BGP by using a public looking glass server[1]. There is no incentive for ISP whose business is selling internet connectivity to cultivate a hobbyist community.

[1] https://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses

The parent I was responding to was not referring specifically to Switzerland, in fact they just said "Government" which is about as general as you can be. Further Nigeria is also wealthy, even if the concentration of wealth is in the hands of very few. Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa and 31st in the World by GDP.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria

The article states the following about the software:

>"It delivers a message to the cockpit with crucial weight and balance data, including how many people are on board, the jet’s empty and gross weight and the position of its center of gravity.

>In a cockpit check before takeoff, this data is entered into the flight computer to determine how much thrust the engines will provide and at what speed the jet will be ready to lift off."

Given that overhead bins are regularly maxed out with carry-on luggage now since airlines began charging for checked bags, how are they able to accurately account for the weight and balance? Airlines seem to almost never weigh customers carry-on at check in.

As a topical counterpoint, governments can also just switch off the existing currency in favor of a new currency and create a cash scarcity crisis when theres not enough of the new currency in circulation. This is exactly the situation in Nigeria right now. See:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/angry-protests...

Another recent example of a hard currency crisis is what's been happening in Lebanon, where the government simply switched off full access:

https://www.ft.com/content/a710fa12-e7fe-4aab-8e4f-962f01add...

Thanks. The bikes are beautiful which is obviously a double edge sword as it makes them that much more desirable to thieves. It looks like the bikes start at $2500 so $133 a year for insurance isn't terrible. The fact that they offer this just makes me think wow this a forward thinking company, which is also evident in their bikes.

The videos are interesting. Will VanMoof go anywhere in Europe for you then to recover these then? I see Strasbourg and Stockholm in addition to the Netherlands. Any insight into how the pricing works for recovery?

So you accuse others of pedantry and then go on to make a statement such as:

>"The city-run "ZeroWaste" drop off locations certainly produce some waste (heat waste from the vehicles transporting the waste, for instance?).?"

Brilliant.

My point was very clear - you don't need a delivery service to get your groceries with minimal environment impact in a place like NYC. I clearly articulated all the ways that already exist to accomplish that with very little effort and no lifestyle change. If you lived in NYC for a decade then surely you should know this.

Honestly your comments read more like trolling than anything else. Also the constant "heh" and "lol" is very tiresome and not all conducive to a productive discussion.

No, it's not pedantry at all. It just sounds like you are not at all familiar with New York City. Delivery services almost exclusively use e-Bikes(which must be charged) and gas powered scooters. Further in New York City you have always been able to walk a few blocks and pick up your own groceries, stick them in your canvas bag and then put the trash in the city provided recycling bins. This actually was the "status quo" before the endless onslaught of vc-backed food delivery services. It still is the status quo for many. Lastly the city also runs a program called ZeroWaste where you can also bring your foods scraps for composting.[1] There are literally hundreds of ZeroWaste drop off locations which are often located in parks and green markets. You can actually pedal a bike in a dedicated bike lane or take the train to get there.

[1] https://www.grownyc.org/compost

There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago:

"Welcome to Your Airbnb, the Cleaning Fees Are $143 and You’ll Still Have to Wash the Linens":

https://archive.is/jTHxx

From the above link:

>'Last month, Amanda Morari spent her sister’s bachelorette weekend at a lakefront cottage in Ontario province. The washer was out-of-order and the vacuum wouldn’t charge so the women spent their last day “wetting paper towels and wiping the floor,” she said.'

>'The host told her not to worry about it, Ms. Morari said, but then came the unexpected: she got a three-star review because the cleaning wasn’t up to the mark. Her perfect five-star rating dipped to 4.1.'

Amazing, a $250 cleaning fee AND a list of chores 3 pages long? So basically you were prepping the AirBnB for the next guest and were graded as if it were their employee. Is staying in private home or apartment over a hotel really worth all this? I just always think my time and stress level is worth more than this and opt for the hotel.

Care to elaborate?

Wrong. When you build a customer a Metro fiber circuit, the ring is already built, often years before. You simply pull wavelengths out of the fiber and drop them off at at the meet-me room in the POP. Source: I used to do this.

>"It's also pretty easy to buy dark fiber from two different vendors that are reselling in the same bundle or have their bundles placed in the same conduit."

Wrong again. If you are purchasing an IRU on dark fiber you know exactly who owns the physical assets. If you are purchasing wavelengths from a reseller they will happily disclose whose network they are reselling. Additionally you can request the CLR/DLR for your circuit and see exactly how it's built. You can also easily avoid resellers and not worry at all about this.

Lastly you seem to not understand the difference between long haul and metro fiber.