skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Yep, we have a lot of things on the todo. We want to add more user-focused / location-based outage information since our site is still too reliant on simple HTTP checks to report downtime. This is especially a problem with a Discord outage, for example, where the frontend website is not down, but there might be problems with the API, apps, or other components.

And I'd like to be able to have our site communicate outages like this Cloudflare one, where more than one site might be affected by a larger provider. Automating that is difficult.

This is still a side project, though, so I mostly work on it when I get the urge :)
Only if you use their "infinitely scaling" services. eg. s3. If the attacker is hammering you with expensive queries and your database is on 1 ec2 server, you're still going to go down.
Good to know! That makes perfect sense based on what I saw during the outage. I had no idea.
Yup, reinforces the thought that you never have both DNS servers with the same service.
What luck, I chose today to install a new piece of network gear. I thought I had managed to totally FUBAR my network. DNS was failing, "ping 1.1" (my current goto test "Am I connected to the internet?" as it requires the fewest keystrokes and hits the Cloudflare DNS 1.0.0.1) failed and I just assumed it was my fault. Backed out my changes, and discover in fact, the internet was down.
8.8.8.8 is Google and is down in addition to Cloudflare. 8.8.4.4 was still up.
A lot of people in the west believe that we will somehow "figure it out" and that their way of life will never have to change for a solution (or be forced to change by the consequences from the lack of a solution). I think news like this is often viewed as some kind of reassurance to people of this belief. Perspective matters, which is why these kinds of results need to be given in their proper context -- i.e. extreme alarm that we are still only stopping an increase now, decades after first understanding that this was a problem yet continuing to increase our carbon output, and only during a pandemic-induced economic slowdown.
Still though, revealing any details could lead to their discovery.
You are assuming that Apple would know. Am I missing something?
I don't think there are batteries that meet Toyota's durability standards.

Toyota wants their cars to be able to last a million miles in extreme environments (-40 degrees Alaska, +120 degrees F deserts). You can't do that with today's off-the-shelf battery technology.
Or there is the other option that we as a country acknowledge that being compassionate and finding solutions to feed these people is an all around better way to take care of our citizens.

Why is the solution: Generate corporate profits or die. Or expose yourself to needless risk or die? Seems...sociopathic?
Brazil here, basically everything down.

I noticed a lot of packet loss to 1.1.1.1, not an outright "outage", maybe they were rolling a deployment?

Edit: Looks like a deployment to me (looking at the logs I could see cascading traces, so it took down one DC and the other started responding - increased latency - and then down, etc..), gonna be an interesting post-mortem!
Freenode's IRC servers were down which was unexpected for me. I was expecting old-school communication networks to not have a dependency on Cloudflare.
Alright, we'll remove the dupe penalty.
Yeah, Pihole made it super easy to cut over to Quad-9 once I figured out what the problem was.
Yeah a friend wanted to work at Disney maybe 20-25 years ago and they don't treat their engineers very well.
It used to be that way. Right now in the United States, the level of corruption that we see is absolutely off the charts and out in the open.

It's akin to a strange alien weapon for most Americans, that goes off near you, putting you in a state of trance, and you don't even know what's happening.

There is brazenness and blatancy to it, as in "yeah, I did it, what are YOU going to do about it?"

In many other countries the remedy is torches and pitchforks, but here in the U.S. the crime syndicate infesting Washington D.C. is protected by a thick layer of laws and "norms". That's why William Barr can go on TV and say things like "winners write history". Try that shit elsewhere and see what happens.

In the developing world, corruption is quiet, it's subtle. No one is supposed to know you have 5 summer houses, because that makes people jealous and very very stabby. And that's the difference.

I only see it because I grew up in post-Soviet Ukraine. Americans don't have that unfortunate experience.
You can easily look for independent estimates (or cold hard visitor/usage statistics) for the total iOS userbase.

Billions, billion, millions, million, thousands, thousand, hundreds or even just a hundred:

You came in snarling with the accusation that many people whom you don't even know, have Stockholm Syndrome, which really just hints at more of a problem on your side.
Did anyone else see their ATT internet go down? The DNS issues started and then the Pace 5268AC rebooted. I don't use cloudflare for dns. Does ATT's backend?
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Despite them actually mixing it into their entropy pools, the lava lamps are still entirely for show. The noise of the camera sensor itself is going to contribute orders of magnitude more entropy than the slow movement of the lamps. It's not completely a fake stunt, but it's certainly headline-optimized.
I made this plugin mainly out of pure frustration. I had been using the extension Project Templates back when I used VSCode as my IDE, and I had come to rely on it. When I migrated to Neovim, I thought "this extension was sooo helpfull! Clearly there must be an equivialent for vim, right?" I went searching and searching, but I couldn't find anything. There were plugins that created templates for individual files, and even multiple related files, like templator_vim, but nothing that creates templates for an entire project, that defines the project structure and boilerplate code for each necessary file. In most IDEs, the IDE will take care of these things for you automatically when you start a new project. But with vim, you have to create each individual file and folder yourself. This plugin aims to fix that.
How could that possibly have happened? Food needs to be planted, harvested(in many situations primarily by migratory workers from other countries) and delivered, power needs to be kept up, necessary medical supplies needs manufactoring, water needs to be cleaned and delivered. There's no scenario where the world gets to collectively take a break
DNS is decentralized, it's just not when everyone goes with one big service.
Felt like a BGP issue.
If you can point to one specific thing you are most interested in, or happy to check out, from vue 3, what would it be? And what's the closest another framework (or vanilla js) has to said feature?
The nameserver is aws but IP4 points to “m5 computer security”
This. And maybe we shouldn't trust China's reported data, but Europe is almost doing miraculously well if you compare to the USA. Not going for eradication, but containment.

With containment, everything else is possible (healthcare system not overloaded, economy can be opened up, schools can reopen, etc.).

The US has capitulated completely, and even containment isn't really on the table nationally; on a state-by-state basis, some states may achieve a level of containment, but others are simply not even trying (or like Georgia, actively banning containment measures like local mask enforcement orders).
The old saying trust but verify always seems to come up. Companies claim x and we find it to be untrue. They apologize, share statement they will do better and the cycle continues. Is anyone else tired of the tomfoolery?
Sounds like there's a difference between drug dealers that do and don't know how to keep under the radar. And the person who said that to you, only knows of the unwise ones? :)
Coronavirus symptoms fall into six different groupings
@dang: can the title be changed to "UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs". So users don't have to click through to the story to find out which firm?
> There's no reason to believe that HN is "incredibly xenophobic" except insofar as human beings in general may be.

And that's likely the case so in a way the GP was right. HN is rapidly approaching being large enough to represent a fair cross section of the communities it is active in, with the note that it skews wealthy, educated and tech oriented. Whether that slice of the population is more or less xenophobic as a rule is an open question. I fear for the answer.
You may be able to use network booting for the newer models at least

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
That looks like a powerful service. From a quick check, it seems to have all the things I need. Thanks a lot, it’s a step in right direction for me!
Can the title be updated to include the name of the "firm" (article says "Hong Kong-based VPN provider called UFO VPN")?

@dang
I also kept scrolling to see if it continued below the other links
Thank you for your kind words and for this awesome explanation that did finally quench my thirst for knowledge on the matter! Much appreciated!
So I just noticed that my mtr session that I started originally just changed paths and is now going to a different POP and now 1.1.1.1 is back up for me. No clue if the issue is fixed or they just sent a BGP update withdrawing the advertised route for 1.1.1.1 for the impacted POP.
That's my machine!
I agree that the evidence suggests an at least 3 month immunity for symptomatic cases, but anything beyond that is up in the air and complicated by how asymptomatic cases relate to immunity. I'd personally get the vaccine if it had proven immunity or reduction in severity for just this amount of time, if only to benefit others at risk and prevent asymptomatic transmission. And certainly would never dissuade others from doing so.
Interesting. They had an outage in the midst of a negotiation I was a part of. Are they less stable than Akamai and the others?
The segway failed because of product market fit.

As a product it was very interesting, but it had pitfalls. It wasn't exactly clear where to store it. The people who saw it all had houses and garages, but for the everyday user in the city hard to figure out where you would put it after each use. Even bicycles are challenging to store in NYC, which is why Citibike is interesting.

The second problem and much larger was the price point. If you want something to succeed you have to price it so that you can gain mass appeal. The $5,000-10,000 price point is a dead zone. As consumers we almost never spend this amount of money.

We spend hundreds of dollars all the time.

We spend a thousand or two thousand dollars infrequently, but we do it. Computers, vacations, some furniture.

But when you get to $5,000+ that is a price we pay very rarely. It is actually more common to find something more expensive, such as $10,000+ for a car, then to find $5,000. As a result it was hard to figure out where that price fit in.

Also, no one thought of subsidizing the cost. With the iPhone, it's expensive, but you have the carrier to subsidize the cost and more importantly create a monthly payment plan. If you could at least convert $5,000 to some sort of monthly fee that would help.

So what they really failed at is distribution. In fact if they planned around distribution they could have actually jumped on the entire citibike, jump, etc market before it ever existed.

It would also mean that customers wouldn't need to pay $5,000 out of pocket and instead could pay per use or a monthly fee.

Often people discount distribution when it comes to product market fit and failures.

Lastly, riding a bicycle is rather awkward. Think about learning it as a kid. It's counter intuitive. A bike can't stand on it's own, you have to pedal to go, if you stop it falls over. Though it is extremely unintuitive, it is cheap, you can try it, it has a culture, and is a rite of passage. So we learn this behavior even though it doesn't make sense.

The Segway is also counterintuitive in some ways. Looking at people riding them, never gives you a sense of confidence. There are also plenty of videos of people falling off of them, similar to bicycles.

But with a much higher starting point you aren't really tempted to try it, or even have access to one to test it out to see if it becomes intuitive or not.

Lastly, our cities aren't designed for this type of commute. People drive, they can take the subway, but the number of people that commute outside of that on bicycles is small in the US. In Europe like in Amsterdam, the Segway takes up more space in a lane than a comparable bicycle, so it really wasn't an improvement. And since Americans aren't used to bicycles they though oh wow this is great! Europeans were like for $50-$150 one time I can have a bike that lasts forever, doesn't require charging, takes up less space, and I already own it.
Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?
Crazily, my local name resolution started failing, because I have these names servers: 192.168.0.99, 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8. The first does the local resolution, but macOS wasn't consulting it because 1.1.1.1 was failing?? Crazy. When I removed 1.1.1.1 from the list, everything started working.
I said “change or”. That’s an important distinction.

Lots of people work in industries that have questionable practices.

It’s a pretty far jump from working at, say, a newspaper that shows ad-network ads (which I find questionable and I think falls into the category “find a new business model or die”), and working for something actually unethical.

Also what I meant wasn’t that a whole industry such as online news should die, only change business model.
I can't help but think that they almost had it now that I see Lime Bird Uber scooters on every block. Close but no cigar.
I think a lot of people have an excessive fear of government debt, especially given how low interest rates are nowadays. Countries (including the US) should be borrowing more to stimulate their COVID-afflicted economies.

Putting that aside, a common trick used in countries like Australia and the UK is to keep big projects off the government's balance sheet through public-private partnerships – private corporations do most of the borrowing, not the government, and end up owning the infrastructure (often under some deal where it reverts to government ownership in 50 or 100 years time). But I get the impression that approach is far less common in the US. (Despite the fact that it is the more capitalist/free-market approach – allow private investors to own public infrastructure – and the US is generally thought of as a more capitalist/free-market country than the UK or Australia are.)

Public-private partnerships are often criticised as being inferior to government borrowing, due to higher private sector borrowing costs, and I agree with that criticism. But, even though I think it is best to build with government borrowing, if one has a government debt allergy preventing that, then building with private borrowing seems better than not building at all.
> Should be easy

Why would you assume so?
Powerful, but I can only think this is probably the end of Sam Harris.
> In theory, public health is a purely state issue

No, it's not. The federal government is, in theory, fully empowered to use any of it's enumerated powers for any purpose not expressly prohibited, which public health is not, and has quite emphatically adopted policy around exercising its power for that purpose, starting at least as far back as the establishment of the marine hospitals in 1798, later, in many steps, reorganized into the modern US Public Health Service.
Extensions to SSL, such as the SSL heartbeat extension (RFC 6520)... the one where the Heartbleed bug was found in. Other cipher suites would be another example.

The criticism here is that OpenSSL wasn't particularly choosy in which features of SSL (or other crypto in general) that it supported; it supported all of them, even if they were of more questionable utility.
1. All sorts of problems with that Statista chart. Just for starters it doesn't take into account number of tests being performed per 1m/pp.

2. Would it be astronomical? Total speculation. That's just a hysterical statement that doesn't point to a problem or a solution.

There is some anecdotal evidence that a small fraction of those that develop symptoms but do not become fatal can have lasting effects from the virus. There is no evidence that this is widespread. However, it's a favorite place for people to point to when they want to move the goal posts when deaths aren't going up.
I did a pickup order a few weeks ago when of all things Tmobile SMS went down for 3+ hours. I couldn't go in the restaurant (covid) and I couldn't text them the parking # I was sitting at in a packed parking lot. I got a flood of about 50 texts a few hours later. Sat there for about an hour waiting for a $9 sandwich. I have no idea if they didn't get my order until late, or if they finally realized it was me or what. About 45 minutes in I decided to just give up on the day and take a nap, woke up to a door knock.
It's not really clear they are having better results. I don't know what the numbers are out of China, but certainly in Europe they had really big outbreaks in Italy, France, the UK, Spain, and other places as well. Their outcomes are pretty similar, in terms of deaths per capita, to the United States.

I think most media outlets are over-emphasizing the impact of government interventions, and under-emphasizing the impact of other factors that affect the severity of the virus. These could be factors like the health of the population--do they have a lot of smokers? obesity?, the age of the population, or other factors like the use of public transit.

It's appealing to assume that the most important factor in deciding outcomes is government policy. This is reassuring because we (society) can control government policy. But I haven't seen any good data to suggest that government policy is the most impactful factor compared to other hypotheses.
I’m not concerned with compliance with the speed limit.
Friendly reminder (and notes to myself):

Don't use Namecheap and Cloudflare at the same time.

Namecheap is using cloudflare. So if cloudflare is down, you can't change DNS settings on Namecheap as well!
They’re still using Lotus Notes for the tracking.
What kind of performance benefit can we look forward to if we keep a Vue 2.5 codebase as-is when we upgrade?
Please, if you have IBS try concrete treatments like elimination diets with a focus on FODMAPs. Hypnotherapy will not heal your gut.
where are the ducks?
Turning on your sources is not a good look.
Great question! The approach used in the study also used psychoeducation and breathing exercises as well and we’re in the early stages of an observational study into the Nerva program. What do you mean re discouraging users who’ve tried FODMAP?
This is a horribly disingenuous statement that shows you're not approaching in good faith.

Someone not agreeing with the original comment doesn't mean they suddenly agree with everything DeVos does, and just because someone linked to DeVos's Wikipedia article doesn't mean people shouldn't be critical of the rest of the comment (which is what the child you're replying to suggests).

Also, don't comment on voting. It's against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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I get your point.

You still can get linux on the K210
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/17/how-to-build-run-lin...

and it seems it's mainlined now: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RISC-V-C...
Sounds like a bunch of children just got trained to have obsessive compulsive disorder. My wife has it and my life was filled with contamination fears before COVID-19.
And CPython is already slow on everything. :D

But PyPy has an arm64 JIT since last year: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/07/pypy-jit-for-aarch64.h...
> We're effectively testing deep learning networks the same way the Romans used to test bridges. Send a bunch of elephants over them, if it holds it's good enough.

Well for human level tasks maybe, but what about other areas of research where we like to discover patterns not seen by a human? Like finding links between genomic interplay with external perturbation such as radiotherapy? It'll be very lucky to have such 'elephants' to test at all.
Maybe you should read that sibling comment again?

The part they marked "/s" was sarcasm, the sibling comment isn't saying otherwise.
Very interesting. I’ve had promising initial results with hypnotherapy for bruxism, though I need to go a few more night doing hypnosis while tracking bruxism to see.
>> despite the fact that Mr. Saleh had not reported the man and had set up what amounted to a repayment plan for him to return the money

Ya try to do someone a favor... maybe not for someone why stole 10s of thousands of dollars from you?
KwickBox is a software platform where you can easily create your online CV website, restrict and track who can view it and more.
Status turtles all the way down, it seems!
Agreed, but the real problem is DDoS and nobody seems to know how to globally solve it. Fighting DDoS is expensive, so you see consolidation. It's well and good to live in a tiny farming town but when raiders start attacking every week, those castle walls and guards start to look really appealing.
How do you deal with DDoS attacks?
> I've never met a CSS Person who has read a book on CSS

I'm not a CSS person, but I've read three (including CSSTDG) and I still can't do anything useful with CSS.
> What if understanding everything opens better possibilities ?

It does, but understanding is limited by time and money. In additon, the more humans you throw at a problem, the more complex solving adjacent problems becomes. A big org will not solve new challenges quickly or efficiently, this is why big orgs buy startups instead of having internal disruption programs.
Social distancing isn't really contentious in US (other than the subset of the population that believes that COVID is hoax).

"Stay home" is one of those things that are on every list of recommendations, but it's completely non-viable in practice because of the way US handles healthcare in work context. Keep in mind that there is no federal requirement for paid sick leave, and only 13 states mandate it. Consequently, 30% of workers don't get any paid sick leave at all - mostly the lowest-paying jobs, that are paid the least (and so taking an unpaid day off can easily mean an unpaid bill etc), and who interact with random people the most.

And don't forget that employment in US is "at-will", meaning that businesses can fire workers without giving a reason. FMLA limits that somewhat wrt unpaid sick leave, but 1) it only applies to businesses with at least 50 employees, and 2) it only applies to illnesses that are incapacitating to the person claiming sick leave.

The focus is on mask wearing right now, because the return to stay-at-home is clearly not happening, and so people go and mingle. If they mingle with masks, they definitely reduce the transmission rate enough to notice - there's ample evidence of that. What's unclear is just how large the effect is.

Also, why focus on Europe alone? We could also look at Japan, which seems to have made a bet largely on mask wearing - and has some impressive results to show for that.