skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the name of the protagonist from science fiction novel Diaspora by Greg Egan, which is where the quote at the top of the README is from.

> In the Truth Mines, though, the tags weren't just references; they included complete statements of the particular definitions, axioms, or theorems the objects represented. The Mines were self-contained: every mathematical result that fleshers and their descendants had ever proven was on display in its entirety. The library's exegesis was helpful-but the truths themselves were all here.

Also it's a little homage to both "orphaned technologies" in the history of functional languages, such as the LISP machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine, and to Haskell's "orphan instances" https://wiki.haskell.org/Orphan_instance.
...and now back up, with reddit et al still down. Hmm.
> It's interesting because Varnish gets it write in their docs

Sorry I couldn't help myself...it's too funny to misspell "right" in a thread about spelling mistakes
Yes, because capital ownership is private. Perhaps we should rethink that?
It's a blog post lede meant to garner interest; I think you are treating it far more seriously than it should be.
Amazon.com uses Fastly https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
If they don't qualify for traditional banking, explain to me how they could open an account to Coinbase and wire money to purchase bitcoin?
Im experiencing the outage here in brissy its not looking good
Seems like they are still taking stock of exactly what is broken.

It has now been updated to a pretty sizable list.

edit: And now it looks like it includes every location.
Anymore info on the takedown?
Do those companies had a former employee who a year after having worked for them builds an extremely barebones clone in a day and calls it superior (even as a joke) to their product? I bet not.
>I assume an array, 80 rows and 10 columns

No you just need front, middle, back, window, handicap? and how many seats next to each other for your travel buddy's. That's the cool thing, no need to use your mouse, no need to show more information than needed for the job.
I forgive them because it's Guru Mediation time. In this hectic harsh world, even computers need a moment sometimes.
Major newspaper and government websites down
That's Minifcation and you'd normally thigs like https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier

I am not sure what you'd use this tool for possibly for scraping work but beautiful soup is probably better for that
Maybe this one, titled "The Cloud".
https://xkcd.com/908/
even cnn.com is unavailable!
This has got to be even bigger than when cloudflare went offline, in terms of big companies affected. Clearly they have way more F500 customers than CF.

Good luck to the on call engineers!
wouldn't websites have alternate CDN's managing their traffic, why should they have a single point of failure ?

I was assuming there are couple of services like Fastly and companies might have architected keeping in mind the alternatives too, I guess.
News – People of WordPress: Tijana Andrejic – Wordpress.org
The Web (World Wide Web) build atop of the Internet, is not impervious.

ps. "The Internet was build to survive attacks" is not true. It's a myth made popular by Robert Cringely in the early 1990s. The Arpanet was simply a protocol for mainframes used by computer scientists to connect. The Internet is relatively resilient against attacks, but that was not the "whole idea". It was not in the design at all.

Bob Taylor: “In February of 1966 I initiated the ARPAnet project. I was Director of ARPA‘s Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) from late ‚65 to late ‚69. There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was created to enable folks with common interests to connect with one another through interactive computing even when widely separated by geography”.

Vint Cerf says the same about invention if TCP/IP transport protocol.
What's the name of the Taiwanese workplace drama?

For people learning Mandarin I provide some information including word lists for a lot of shows on Netflix here:

http://www.jiong3.com/gradedwatching/
Hands up if you're also here after being woken up by downtime alerts on the west coast
I encourage you to perform your own research. Citing hipster surveys on a beginners' help site has not earned you a passing grade.
Interesting!
We have been doing the same thing with HopsFS for a couple of years. Except, we only store the small files in our database (www.rondb.com) - RonDB is a recent fork of MySQL Cluster (NDBCluster). Very small files (<1KB) are stored in memory in RonDB, small files (typically <128KB) are stored in NVMe disks in RonDB, and other files in HopsFS (which now stores its blocks in object storage (S3, ABS).

We had a paper on it as ACM Middleware and it's open-source on github. Are you going to publish your solution?

(Discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149154 )
Made my alpine linux docker builds fail as well (varnish) - but shouldn’t it use a mirror when the primary download site is gone?

fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main/x86_64/APKIN...
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/community/x86_64/...
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main: temporary error (try again later)
twitch also, lots of other minor ish websites
I'm having intermittent Reddit issues, as one more data point.

I'm grateful for HN. I rebooted my computer. I thought it was my device and then saw this on my phone while rebooting.
I think you meant safest from a security perspective?

Because replit sued open source competition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
Twitch isn’t working and not responding and also the web dashboard
Presumably the feds wouldn't say who they were and would pose as common criminals, because they wouldn't have any reason to suppose that the datacenter operator would keep quiet if they were open about their identity.
ah yes, this explains why XKCD is also down.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. I know a Swiss couple who decided to leave the country to live in Italy for example.
The article says that... large company has to do what a national government tells them to?

Should this really be something we consider negatively? I believe quite strongly that privacy is a fundamental right. Apple obviously doesn't always act in everyone's best interests but they seem to be doing the most toward improving the overall computing experience by implementing privacy protections in their products.

Personally I am happy with the balance they strike between security, usability, and privacy. My primary threat model for keeping things private doesn't include my government, and if it did a large foreign company is one of the last places I would turn to. For what I do care about, at least for now Apple still has my trust (until they prove it's misplaced).
Yes! The subtitles can be completely different than the dubbing in some cases which makes it difficult for me to watch with both.

I suspect in many cases the subbing is done translating off the original script, while the dubbing is done using a completely different translation designed to flow better when spoken.
So what was the point of the async/callback web programming revolution if processes were good enough?
Have you tried http://dosdude1.com/software.html? It allows to upgrade old macs to newer releases, macOS Catalina can be installed on macs as old as Early-2008 MacBook Pro without particular issues IIRC.
Sorry, my reply was a bit too aggressive and I jumped to conclusions about what you meant.

You're right, though I still think repl.it has some right to be protective of their IP here. The originality of the service is in the ease of use and modernizing the old timesharing idea, so while they were quick to mention legal action and acted obnoxiously to their former intern, they're right to be weary of something that looks so similar to their product and judging from the emails even in the implementation details.
https://www.vimeo.com/ too, including their api.
Not really used to doing low level programming but how would you assess back pressure for I/O ops on SSDs or disks?

Are you only evaluating running OPs rates compared to a theoretical maximum?
BTC/USD is down too.
I think “I should pay more taxes” is generally understood as shorthand for “all people in my financial situation should pay more taxes.”

It’s a bit like saying “I should be required to have fire protection”, “I should be required to carry health insurance,” or “I should be required to use standard turn signals on the road.”
Interestingly, https://www.fastly.com/ works for me, whereas https://fastly.com/ doesn't.
Yes, and the court documents released include FBI reasoning based on previous sampling of users showing that the people who bought these phones were criminals. They're not ordinary phones, and distribution is intentionally limited. Drug smugglers don't want to let just anybody buy a phone for their encrypted network, you know
Twitch isn’t responding and also the web dashboard
I think that conversion to btrfs is another option. The Fedora people seem to like it.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-conver...
Spotify is behaving strangely as well
https://www.spotify.com/
"I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."

-- https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040

:-(
Or the AWS typical status of ‘seeing increased error rates on the API’ = us-east-1 is dead
All looks orange now, but "degraded performance" is a cheeky way to describe "everything is on fire".
Just occurring to me how CDNs are a major point of failure now for the internet
about that...
Do you support atomic rename? Atomic rename on subtrees? Consistent directory listings?
Their status page is now saying every location has degraded performance.
This is the link you want I think https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
https://getbootstrap.com/ as well
Well it is like that because they're trying to make it harder to avoid paying the taxes. But obviously richer folks can pay for smart people who know the system very well and actually avoid all the system using loopholes.
For people who like text-based protocols (and dislike surveillance and web bloat), I suggest taking a look at Gemini, which was designed so you could write a client for it over the weekend.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
I wonder why amazon.co.uk uses Fastly and not CloudFront?
Today's comic is titled "Product Launch", so the joke still works if you assume it's about a disastrous launch. ;)
Countercounter point: do not be afraid of lawyers, be _very_ afraid of legal systems.
There wasn't directories in the first release of DOS. So I can forgive those special devices being location agnostic. However removing the device suffix (the colon) is really what causes this to be a bug.

You either have persistent files with special attributes that identify it as a device, or you namespace your devices with characters that cannot be used in a file name. But you don't allow your devices to be valid file names and have them invisible on the file system.
If you have one trusted party that can run a database with permission system and audit trail, then you don't need a blockchain. But if no one trusts each other, but you still require everyone to have the ability to update some data, then a blockchain becomes useful
Fastly deploy their own hardware,
(That's one of their selling points) I don't think they rely much on AWS, maybe just for network interconnection?
Global sting: FBI-encrypted app tricks organized crime
> the subthread collapse link [-] used to use a - (ASCII 0x2d) and now it uses – (Unicode U+2013). This is my least favorite change because I used to use that for keyboard navigation.

Hasn't been a problem for me (my browser (Firefox on Linux) matches ASCII dashes against en dashes and em dashes too), but you could try using a Compose key shortcut? On Linux at least, the Compose key shortcuts[1] for en dash and em dash are easy: minus-minus-period and minus-minus-minus respectively.

1: https://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
They need to get rid of the step up basis.
Over one issue that highlights they have an abundance of top level customers? Interesting strategy when it's already at a low.
https://solarimpulse.com/efficient-solutions/solar-electric-...
Up for me but no images mate.
Must... decentralize... internet...
I am already here
Seems to be mixed for me, BBC News and Sport works but stuff like Weather, iPlayer (video streaming) and Sounds (audio streaming) have died. I guess the BBC is big enough that different bits of the site run off different solutions (perhaps news and sport are still in spirit running off "news.bbc.co.uk" instead of the main servers?).
Hackage (Haskell) is down as well: http://hackage.haskell.org
> Using blockchain technology also means you cannot abide by GDPR's right to forget. That means storing any personal information in a blockchain is a legal liability, at least in the EU, which limits its potential use cases even further.

Yes indeed, blockchains aren't suitable for storing personal data. No public decentralised network is. IPFS wouldn't be either for instance. By nature such networks assume no one peer can be trusted. Not the sort of thing you want to trust with confidential information.

This openness is often sold as a feature, for example running your supply chain through a blockchain means there is a publicly auditable ledger of every step, so a company claiming to have an ethical supply chain could theoretically point to that blockchain as proof. This is potentially interesting imo.

Most enterprise blockchain solutions I've seen are hybrid ones. A business can store personal data in a regular database and have non-sensitive data on a blockchain (as per the example above). The advantage of this (outside of the above use case) being that you can run SQL queries on large data sets much faster if that data is stored on a distributed ledger.

(Note: this is what the companies selling those solutions claim. I don't have first hand experience with blockchains in an enterprise context so I couldn't tell you if this is true - I imagine it'd depend on the database and blockchain in question.)

Final point though, these aren't necessarily proprietary blockchain solutions as such. They're more like SDKs businesses can use to build their own blockchains, code their own smart contracts, etc.

Whether this is actually useful for enterprise... I honestly couldn't tell you. I do think the supply chain stuff is interesting. I also think using it as a system to detect counterfeit items is another good use case for businesses. In the past, companies have created apps where you can scan a QR code and it confirms the legitimacy of the product, but counterfeiters just made QR codes that tricked the app. If each unit is tracked on a public blockchain, it should be possible to verify legitimacy with near 100% certainty.
The focus on framerates isn’t to account for changes as the user is typing, but rather scrolling. When scrolling through text, is it smooth? Does it tear? For me, that’s what I see when a text editor refers to framerates.
Apple previews new software for iPhone, other gadgets
My money is on an expired internal certificate or CA.
Good marketing for Fastly! I had no idea so much of the internet relied on it...
I think internet just found out it's single point of failure.
They shouldn't lose sleep over it, though.
Multiple processes are a bit easier to deal with than threads per servers - mostly because POSIX signals interacts poorly with threads.

It's also more secure because you should not mix different users' requests in the same process if you can avoid it.

nginx runs on a one process per core model and more or less does everything correctly.
Why not just use both licenses, nothing prevents them to using CC-BY, let's hope they'll add that.
That's why it downloads the openh264 encoder binary from Cisco
Done by the hedgies to stop amc squeeze.
I've not seen it for opening times (UK here) but the same pattern is very visible elsewhere.

Entertainment/news sites are chock full of pages like "<whatever>, what we know so far, release date, cast, will it be renewed, has it been cancelled..." pages that spend many paragraphs saying "we know nothing, randomly plucking crap out of thin air we could guess something-or-other but that remains to be confirmed". A new news story, film, show, or even just a hint of something, and the pages go up to try capture early clicks. Irritatingly they are often not updated quickly when real information becomes available or that information changes (particularly over the last year that has affected release dates). I have several sites DNS blocked because that annoys me less than getting one of these useless/out-of-date pages more often than not when I follow one of their links.
Summary:

1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock.

2. Corporate taxes are being reduced because companies are moving profits to foreign jurisdictions.

3. Estate taxes & income taxes are being avoided by the creation of charitable foundations.

The 2nd and 3rd points are very valid, and I wish the author had spent more time on them. Unfortunately instead, the author spends much more time on point 1, conflating wealth with income, and avoiding the obvious argument that capital gains are eventually taxed - the rich are not escaping that.

...unless point 3 (foundation) occurs. And that should be the main story.

Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful. The real issue is that the super rich create these personal "foundations" that act as never-taxed income holes, and then use them as personal and political tools.

In total, there's nothing very revealing about this article. It's everything we've already known. IMO, we need to curb foreign tax havens, and severely limit tax exemptions for charitable donations.

A more interesting question is how did ProPublica get a copy of Jeff Bezos' tax returns. Seems like a leak at the IRS?
That is why effective end to end encryption is so important. It doesn't matter who is behind it. That is the whole point. No trust required.
Taxing unrealized gains makes no sense because that money is not earned at all until a sell is made. It's all paper. Worth something in theory but the moment taxes hike on it the value will be lost as no one will invest in that due to tax burden. The most notable bug of economics is that by changing the rules you also change the incentives and in the end the desired gains are nowhere to be seen as no-one holds the assets which are taxable pre-sell.
And if you're browsing on mobile, you need to request a desktop website, otherwise it switches to the new version anyway. Took me so long to figure out, so many annoying attempts to replace www with old in safari, and losing the selection after misclicking.
https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/

When summing up top earners:

- Top 1% of earners paid 24.3% of total income tax.

- Top 5% of earners paid 40.6% of total income tax.

- Top 20% of earners paid 66.4% of total income tax.

Guess their efforts are not that good.
Fastly Service Status
We have no way to know.
https://xkcd.com/908/
yea but it's built on top of bitcoin, so basically not its own blockchain
Mruphy's Law in action
I was wondering why my Tidal app just stopped mid song and won't connect, after much googling and absolutely no help or even notifications from Tidal explaining there's an issue it seems this outage is the culprit. Bugger.
E2E is on by default as in all P2P webrtc calls. What you can't do is use a SFU and still get E2E. Perhaps I'm just missing something but why would you want a SFU AND E2E? Why not just use TURN in those cases (if the problem the SFU is meant to fix is routing)?
It’s just one way to attempt to compare since wealthy people typically don’t have “income” like normal workers do.

It is an imperfect approach, but it does at least give some way of comparing.
Why not replace plane travel with hyperloop? Airplanes are high polluters, pay little taxes (none on fuel) , require massive bailouts and the only US civilian airplane maker is a soon to be anachronism...

On the other hand...the infrastructure requirements for a cross coast hyperloop venture...especially if impulsed by government would resolve a lot of things...besides couldn't it be used for cargo..Amazon might be interested ...and imagine the billboard/advertising opportunities..

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09jszr6/are-floating-pods-th...
If handling rent payments made you wish for equities then airbnb may not be for you.

I stopped doing airbnb because of the constant minor issues and damages caused by tenants. It is much easier to just rent.
Well, not much, I mean all our competitors are also using Fastly. I would be more worried if we were the only one using Fastly and everybody else was fine. But as we are all in the same boat, we lose the same :-)
I got that, then a 'Fastly unknown domain' error (on Reddit), then the 503s on multiple sites (I also had an API I use return a 502 then a 500 error, but I don't know what the full response was as it was just a quickly thrown together script I was using).

Edit: and now "I/O error" on Reddit.
Ah, I meant more sites like ABC, 9NOW, SBS, AFL, Foxtel etc rather than accessing US sites from AU.
I misread the title as "in a single line of C-code". I thought "must be a pretty long line"
#HugOps
I remember a speech by the British comedian David Mitchell. There had been recent scrutiny on a celebrity figure when it came to light that he used all sorts of dirty (but legal) tricks to avoid paying income tax.

Tax avoidance is, of course, legal. In this sense the rich are allowed to choose how much tax they wish to pay, based on their individual conscience or morals.

So effectively, governments have a 'tax on moral behavior', which is stupid.
It will (third footnote): https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey-preview/features/#footn...
This looks really interesting.
But Typescript and "Git uses a restrictive license" give me pause. Maybe it's a cultural thing. I'll be hesitantly optimistic I guess.
Not if you're his supplier. This whole thing works on pre-existing connections.
Qantas was just implicated as being corrupted from within, complaining that no one had told them who or what corruption until the day before this was announced.

There isn’t much of a stretch of the imagination required to see that there is a deep rabbit hole that just got filled with cement.
Cnn.com Website Is Down
bc1 is for bech32 addresses. A feature of the new segwit. Aparently there is a way to predict the private key derived from using multiple times the bc1 address. Details are available here: https://sudonull.com/post/8212-Bitcoin-Pseudo-Random-Number-...

Could it be that bech32 is less secure than thought?
I get this now on reddit:

Fastly error: unknown domain: www.reddit.com.
And this is (one reason) why using images instead of actual emojis is such a stupid idea. Why, Twitter, WHY?
FDB's Directory layer provides all you need to create and edit nested paths. What's left to develop is a file chunking and assembly part, and statistics if needed.

The only reason you need chunking is because FDB has very clearly defined limits in their documentation, and one of those limits is value size - it can't exceed 100kB, and should be kept below 10kB for best performance.

For statistics like folder byte count, you could use FDB's atomic increment operation.

Here's a good starting point (not mine): https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/object-store-on-foundation...

I'll be happy to answer specific question if you got any.
Confucius say: move Fastly, and break things.
How is having a large chunk of the internet using the same CDN provider not "centralizing"? It's not a hard monopoly obviously but still it meets the definition of centralization.