skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the global fight against COVID-19, the US, the world's largest economy with strong capabilities in scientific research and industrial production, and a self-proclaimed "beacon of democracy," has shocked the world with its poor performance. As of 27 May, Johns Hopkins University's statistics show that the US ranks first in the world with more than 33 million cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 590,000 cumulative deaths. With less than 5 percent of the global population, the US accounts for nearly one fifth of confirmed cases and 16.9 percent of deaths worldwide. A recent analysis report released by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington estimates the actual number of COVID-19 deaths in the US exceeds 900,000, far higher than the official figure. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on May 9 that the figure of 900,000 is "a bit more than I would have thought" but there is "no doubt" the US has been underestimating its number of deaths from COVID-19.

Despite speeded up vaccination, the situation in the US remains worrisome. In late February, deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, more than the combined death toll of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. The US health experts and officials have admitted that the country is faced with the fourth wave of infections. The Guardian reported on April 16 that at least 21 US states had seen a 10 percent or more increase in new COVID-19 cases diagnosed daily.
>Otoh sitting in the sun for a few hours to charge some battery via rays from the sun is itself free.

Sounds wonderful, please show the math.
Note: that's a more accessible podcast/write-up of the paper I linked in my comment as [1]. If people want the denser in (in both good ways and bad) version, look up there.
Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no?

I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.
Same reason why Gmail uses their own emojis rather than the system ones — (as said above) branding. When you send a tweet, Twitter wants it to look identical across all devices. The classic native UI vs cross-platform UI debate in a nutshell.
Haha! That sounds highly plausible!
The fastly monitoring/status page says: "Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return". Which sounds like the increased traffic is to be expected.

[1] status.fastly.com
> More than 9,000 law enforcement officers were involved, sifting through 27 million messages that were sent on via the app over the 18 months of the operation.

I’m impressed they were able to keep this under wraps with 9k police officers involved.
Stack Overflow is down, can someone tell me how to declare a static multidimensional array in C++?
Using AI to predict what should go behind a paywall
The shield and your comment list the UK and Scotland separately here, which (at least for now) is not accurate as I'm sure you're aware. Are there separate agencies involved that merit including both flags?
It's sufficiently significant (historically) that there's a good Wikipedia article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
That was quite easy to cut and paste and compile:

$ time ./althttpd-time-parse
Test completed in 10518961 us

real 0m10,521s
user 0m10,486s
sys 0m0,004s

The "Test completed" line is from my main() "driver", I wanted to measure time inline too and the measurements seem to agree.

This is on a Dell Latitude featuring a Core i5-7300U at 2.6 GHz, running Ubuntu 20.10.
None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)
The takings are just insane. In EU they seized 8 tonnes (!) of cocaine and 22 tonnes of marijuana.
The only one you can’t actually cheat is property tax. The government can send someone there and seize the asset. Everything else can be avoided or fought.

I think what we are seeing is the beginning of the slow destruction of the nation state which was built to fight existential and total wars. The only thing higher tax rates are going to do is push wealth out of some countries and into others, unfortunately. Why doesn’t the U.S. just invade the Bahamas and stop tax avoidance? Once you realize why, you’ll realize that just taxing more won’t work.

Whether we like it or not, I think the standing down of the nation state from wars in the past is going to lead to a collapse of welfare states and social programs (I don’t use these terms negatively so don’t assume I’m “against” these programs), and continued fragmentation of large national and international organizations. Some people are very happy with their nation (Norway or Switzerland or something), others aren’t (United States, China). Those who aren’t are going to move their wealth to somewhere that is advantageous to them. Even China doesn’t stop this. Wonder why housing prices are so high in Vancouver?

Most people for most of history haven’t lived in anything approaching a nation state. It’s a new thing, and it is likely in my view to be temporary. It’s hard for us to see because it’s what we were born into and our perspectives are short term.
A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."
I would really love a detailed breakdown of the FSB executable, preferably running on bare metal and from the IP of a likely target country (Ukraine for example). Seeing how RU-intel operates I really wouldn't put it past them to send different payloads depending on who downloads. Especially if they are all generated customly.
I don't really care for iMessage or Facetime, I don't use them even though I can, but

> because Apple left a decade-long opening for Google to build equally good Android alternatives to iMessage

is simply not true. No one but Apple can integrate SMS and messaging on iOS as Apple can; others do not have entitlements for that. You could do it on Android (and Google did for a brief period with Hangouts, and so did Signal), but you can't do it on iOS.
One of the (publicly unspoken) conditions to offer VPN services in western countries is to keep logs and provide on their request, regardless of the marketing stories. There are several verifiable cases where Nord has cooperated with FBI and Interpol and provided logs, but this is a fairly small lie, compared to the time when they tried to keep quiet about a breach.

Not saying that having a VPN service from Russia or China is a better solution...
I've been around a while and I've found that it's rather rare a person will try to intimidate or belittle a person on the same day they have an epiphany of their own failings all without external influence. In this situation the CEO is forced to confront perspective that isn't aligned with his. He's got two options at this point: the first is to acknowledge where he made mistakes and truly apologize the second is damage control - I think he attempted the latter. When you look through his history his apology is exactly as I described. His intention is to squash both problems while leaving the door open to an end game his lawyer(s) have counselled him on, potentially after the scrutiny subsides.

Also, my intention of responding in line was appropriate in my opinion. The parent to the CEOs comment was very well defined. The CEO made reference to it being good advice. In my opinion publicly acknowledging good advice without following through on it seems hypocritical. That's my opinion.

Finally, appropriateness seems to be an odd argument given all of the public inappropriateness from the CEO directly. The CEO has had many openings to right his wrong at this point, yet has not seemed to have been able to bring himself to execute on that.
>Should this really be something we consider negatively?

Only because they said it is a fundamental human right.

What Apple don't understand is the way they have been doing PR and public messages and marketing in the past 4-5 years reeks of hypocrisy. It is similar to Developer Relations as Macro Arment pointed out [1]. It is very much Google in the early 00s.

Change the message to good old Steve Jobs fashion, helping their customers. And I am fine.

[1] https://marco.org/2021/06/03/developer-relations
There are complaints about India's single timezone:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359

However, given that India is relatively narrow east-west, the discrepancy between wall time and solar time actually isn't that bad:

* https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-...
Reminds me of the character from Narcos who was working to secure the Cali cartel's communications. No doubt lots of work for people who know how to harden networks for criminal orgs.
The problem is a blame culture ensures the near-misses are never reported. Air safety discovered this many years back - a no-blame culture ensures anything safety-related can be reported without fear of repercussions. This allows you to discover near misses due to human error and ensure that the overall system gains resilience over time. If you blame people for mistakes, they cover the non-obvious ones up, and so you cannot protect against similar ones in future, so your reliability/safety ends up much lower in the long run. It's all about evolving a system that is resilient to human error - we will make mistakes, but the system overall should catch them before they become catastrophies. In air travel now, the remaining errors almost never have a single simple cause, except in airlines/countries that don't have an effective safety reporting culture.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't care. Anyone who buys diamonds has blood on their hands too.
but what's the point of watching news? why bother?
As many poster already pointed out the article is absolute rubbish due to conflation of wealth gain with income. Would love to get my hands on the actual IRS data though. Any ideas?
Right, this is a benefit of ownership is having control of how an asset is used.
Romania. 10% income tax, 5% dividend tax, 1% corporate taxes for startups up to 1m revenue.

Cost of living: very low, 30-50% less than Austria/Germany.
Ultrasound scanners are fairly cheap. But operating them is not easy, you still need training to use them and know what you're looking at.

> it's better than nothing.

Not necessarily, that's the issue with screening asymptomatic people. You have to balance the consequences and rates of false positives with the benefits of true positives. If ultrasound screening mostly catches indolent diseases, or those where catching them so early doesn't affect outcomes too much; and you have a lot of people going through unnecessary/risky tests, you might end up doing more damage with those screenings. It's not so easy.
Vendors don’t even agree on whether the :gun: is a revolver or an automatic or space ray guns or even water guns, btw it’s an 1911 in original DoCoMo emojis

1: https://blog.emojipedia.org/content/images/2018/04/microsoft...
I make most HTTP requests using netcat or similar tcp clients so I write filters that read from stdin. Reading text files with the chunk sizes in hex interspersed is generally easy. Sometimes I do not even bother to remove the chunk sizes. Where it becomes an issue is when it breaks URLs. Here is a simple chunked transfer decoder that reads from stdin and removes the chunk sizes.

flex -8iCrfa <<eof
int fileno (FILE *);
xa "\15"|"\12"
xb "\15\12"
%option noyywrap nounput noinput
%%
^[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xa}+[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xb}[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xb}
%%
int main(){ yylex();exit(0);}
eof

cc -std=c89 -Wall -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy045

Example

Yahoo! serves chunked pages

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: us.yahoo.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'|openssl s_client -connect us.yahoo.com:443 -ign_eof|./yy045
Great write up Paul.

An interesting add in my opinion is that one can also do great work when working on a project not of your own origination but of an area where one's interests lie or where visions intersect.

>"You have moments of happiness when things work out, but they don't last long, because then you're on to the next problem. So why do it at all? Because to the kind of people who like working this way, nothing else feels as right. You feel as if you're an animal in its natural habitat, doing what you were meant to do — not always happy, maybe, but awake and alive."

While the above does ring true to some extent, one can also approach all tasks with a sense of being awake and alive; This is something some eastern religions preach about. I do admit that this will be hard to implement in practice though. i

One person who was able to test out their own ideas while working for others is Nikola Tesla. He might be used a case study by others with grand visions who want to do great work. Although, it can be argued that Tesla had to at some point seek independence.

"In 1883, Nikola Tesla was sent by his employer - The Continental Edison Company- to fix the problem that had occurred in the powerhouse and electric lights installation at the railroad station in Strassburg. This presented him with the opportunity to test out his theory of a two phase alternating current motor encompassing his rotary magnetic field discovery [at that time, everyone who had tried to make an alternating current motor used a single circuit]. He set to work and tested his theory in the power plant. He was successful in starting up the power generator with this new system. This meant that Tesla now had a novel electrical system that utilised alternating current."

The above was taken from https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-the-who-you...
Enjoyed reading this. You need to have a specified character to take that level of career / financial risk. He seems to be curiousity driven above all else. Hope he's continuing to do cool stuff after his PhD.
From how the field seems to develop, it might be quite likely.
>but just in case you're serious

They're not.
The feds would pose as a slightly shady hosting/Colo company or similar.
His operating system is probably GNU/Docker.
There's, to me, no obvious clear cut line. But here are some indicators that make me consider someone was being grossly negligent and/or even malicious:

- ignoring warnings

- acting against known-to-them best practices

- repeating a previous mistake

But, again, these are just indicators, not a checklist.

Interestingly, any of these can happen also due to stress, burnout and generally broken company/team culture. Including something like a CYA culture where if they don't do something fast, they will be blamed for it, and thus they need to move fast and break things.
Pantheon was also affected: https://status.pantheon.io/incidents/n9sngt0q0mct
It's possible and it's compile time option, source package managers like portage allow you to do that.
I will tell you a secret: it's not Android users who complain about the lack of iMessage or Facetime. Most of them are not even aware of their existence. They are using Whataspp, or Viber, or whatever and go on with their lives.
> PGP isn't very good technology.

What part of PGP precisely? I've read a lot of criticism of PGP but they were either focused on a specific (catastrophic) implementation such as GNUPG, or were really skeptical of usage by non-technical humans.

I know quite a few people doing PGP email with Thunderbird and they're pretty happy with it. It's also very convenient that their GNOME-based Tails operating system has PGP sig verification enabled as context menu entry in the file manager, same for encryption/decryption.

Basically, once you know what public/private keys are, you've got all you need for secure communications. Is that a bad thing? My only HUGE criticism of PGP is with the key servers. It's getting better now with WKD, OpenPGPCA, etc.. I'm really excited about the Sequoia project. From their blog/docs it appears all my criticisms of PGP are being addressed.
Fastly was down due to a service configuration issue
Random version of microemacs with private modificatons
I think this is very problematic.

Let's say police claims you did something with only the chat log as an evidence and they run the chat software. Then they could very well have just faked it, because they have a high incentive to do so.

If the messages were on a third party platform you would at least have a neutral third party involved.
I don't think it's any coincidence that Jeff Bezos specifically was leaked.

He has been straying into politics in DC very very heavily, and it looks like he's making enemies. I suspect that is also the reason we see near-daily anti-Amazon posts on social media.
Also it takes time for DNS changes to propagate(some people hates this word but actually)
In our modern economic system wealth accrues more wealth. If you don’t actively redistribute the wealth, not just the income, then you end up with wildly unequal societies, in essence what we have today. Wildly unequal not just in terms of resources but also in opportunity. If you believe that equal opportunity should be a birthright of everyone then a sensible way to deliver a more equal opportunity for each new generation is to redistribute the wealth tied up in inherited estates from those with a lot of opportunity (the inheritors) to those lacking opportunity.

Do you understand it better when put like that?
What kind of read/write ratio are you using? And would your solution work for a write-heavy workload?

Kafka has limits on the message size and i need a solution for storing large blobs (up to 10MB) at data ingestion on for a very short time until the job has been processed. So read/write ratio will be exactly 50% and there will be a high write load. Is FoundationDB capable for this specific task? Are there some knobs tuneable for acid? Perfect acid requirements would not really be needed, if everything is fsynced every second would be completely ok.
I don't see how it's so traumatic for the engineers involved, unless the company culture in Fastly is really awful and there are punitive repercussions, or attempts to pin responsbility on individuals rather than systems, which I doubt.

Many here have been responsible for web service outages albeit on much smaller scales, and in my experience it feels awful while it's happening but you quickly forget about it because so does everyone else.
Yes, exactly.

As a trivial example, it's perfectly rational to say, "I should be required to carry health insurance, because universal insuring would lower the premiums for everyone, but I will not do so until then because the premiums are too high."

As a less trivial example that perhaps engages more with what I think your argument is, one can also argue, "Collisions between two SUVs have a higher rate of serious injuries than collisions between two sedans, but in a collision between an SUV and a sedan the sedan has an even higher serious injury rate. Ergo, because all of my fellow commuters drive SUVs, I am also driving an SUV, but I believe SUVs should be outlawed." (I've borrowed this example from an old James Surowiecki column: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/07/23/fuel-for-thoug....)

Irrespective of whether these are good policies for other reasons—perhaps we believe it's too much of an infringement upon individual liberty to ban driving SUVs!—it is not inherently hypocritical to not voluntarily take part in an activity which one believes has positive external value only if universally partaken.

Quite frankly, this is a trivial point, yet it's often lost in somewhat silly accusations of hypocrisy, which I think is really disappointing.
> There are clever ways of addressing gaming, for example, to counter undervaluation there could be a rule that says that if you value your land at $X then anyone is legally allowed to force you to sell it to them for $X.

That doesn't work. Just because I inherited my fathers beloved VW Beetle[1] that's only worth $1000 doesn't mean that I want to part with my father's beloved VW Beetle; it means much more to me than the official valuation.

Same goes for any other property - boats, land, etc.

[1] Example only, I did not
Netflix is planning to release Season 1 of “Vikings: Valhalla” soon
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This article is written by a complete economic illiterate. Imagine thinking that it's a good idea to start taxing people's existing stock holdings prior to selling. These people think that Jeff Besos being worth 99 billion somehow means that he actually has 99 billion in gold coins in a swimming pool in his mansion. It's utter nonsense.
Swift Package Collections
Stupid question: why didn't sites "just" fail over to their actual servers to handle the traffic, albeit slowly? I guess they won't be sized to handle the load in a lot of cases, and Fastly was responding, so DNS fail over didn't work?
One good thing is that you don’t have to support everything if you’re writing a server. It just depends on what kind of use cases you want to support.
STOP Free VPS servers. Now!
Explanation: they provide an easy platform for attackers.
Weird because last time I sequenced with Nanopore, the accuracy was around 95%, and with the new Q20 chemistry it reaches to 98% :) I think you have 5 years outdated information
>Stock Android Operating system with special Enterprise level Encryption

OHOOO Enterprise level encryption...FIPS :)

Stay away from both.
What's far worse than half of the internet being down was that Hacker News also had problems. If I waited long enough on a comments page I got an error message. I don't quite understand what happened there. The communication between my system and HN must have been working otherwise I would never have gotten an error message, so it must have been some internal HN problem. But since HN should only need its own internal "database" to generate comment pages, I don't understand why it should be impacted by the Fastly problems.
Unrealised gains compound faster than taxed gains. You then only have to pay taxes on the money you spend.
Google and DDG surface SO results cached within their own page. Here’s the copied answer:

int main()
{
int arr[100][200][100]; // allocate on the stack

return 0;
}
v1. "It's Bob's fault and so we fired Bob."

v2. "The issue was caused by a previously unidentified pathway that caused a feedback loop and overloaded our servers in a cascading fashion (or whatever). We have implemented a fix for this and updated our testing and deployment processes to stop similar cascades."

Which solves the problem long term?

As an architect making product choices, v2 wins every time.

(With the caveat that if the cause was something that reveals a fundamental problem with the larger processes/professionalism/culture of the company, especially to do with security concerns, then I'm not buying that product and migrating away if we already use it.
Our fathers and mothers put man on the moon… we build shitty software that helps the technocrats sell more junk to the masses.
I don't understand why so many people are jumping to the conclusion that the FBI broke sha-256.

Theres so many other lower hanging fruit posibilities...

1: they served the server provider with a warrant they provided physical access.
2: their server infra was running vulnerable code for another service.
3. weak passwords / weak security in general
4. they cut a deal with the upstream ransomware providers and were provided with the private key used.
Firebase hosting has been affected as well
So you still can't use Facetime without a phone number.
This looks great! Are you planning to support Linux?