skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But people moving from Facebook to another social media or messaging platform is just changing the company.

This is not necessarily true. There are social networks and messaging systems implemented as open protocols.
I for one wish that they'd just do the study properly. Sure, it's now tainted beyond all belief, but it's such a societally important question that it's rather amazing we don't have a good answer to the question of how bad (or otherwise) light to moderate drinking is for you. Such a huge chunk of the population does it!

If we look at another societal thing that historically a huge chunk of the population did -- smoking -- it was known that it kills you, horribly, but it took taken more than sixty to eighty years for the public to get that message, and now society is slowly adjusting [at least in Europe] with real public benefits. If an effect is present with alcohol, even a small one, the integrated effect would be massive and it's a very scientifically valid question to ask.

Alcohol is really interesting -- people under report how much they drink, and how much they under report is a function both of the amount of booze, and the covariates that affect life expectancy like education (Prof Raymond Caroll at Texas A&M has an excellent book on this -- there's a method to correct for it by bootstrapping called SIMEX -- e.g. applied in [1], in which a sample of about 3000 adolescents and young adults around the age of 20 shows that binge drinking "may not be causally related to deficiencies in working memory, response inhibition or emotion recognition"). The paucity and conflicting of evidence probably means that the effect size is small, but the error bars are huge and as the article says, the covariates are many. It's just a shame that we can't have nice things because of the bent actions of a few.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.15100?c...
All of the big tech companies you mentioned could completely disappear overnight and my life would be completely unaffected or possibly improved.
Spain violated free speech rights of Basque politician, European court rules
Its OK as long as gossip fit "progressive" agenda and/or comes from renowned "progressive" newspaper Pravda. Otherwise it is a racis' conspiracy.

That WaPo Krebs article links malware analysis which goes into dire detail on how that ransomware probes for Volume Shadow Copy (via amateur WMI) yet... omits keyboard layout probe method(s) at all (there are at least 3 possible ways)
I have not laughed so loud since before the virus that shall have no vogon name.
Here's what wikipedia says about using wikipedia as a source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wik...
Apples and oranges much? Nowadays Switzerland requires digitally signed vaccinated/recovered/tested certificates before you go into a lot of places (bars, restaurants, clubs), meanwhile in the red states, where the infection rates are the worst currently, some governments are even banning such restrictions.

So, are you pro restrictions for the unvaccinated, and pro control of public events with such certificates, then?

Also, to clarify, those thousands of free beds in Switzerland are not ICU beds, they don't even have 1000 ICU beds in total: https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/hosp-capacity/icu . So, don't confuse those 2 either.
Ask HN: Is Multiple Tech Leads Better?
Is it better to have 2 or 3+ tech leads instead of 1? Seems it would help spread out knowledge and reduce the amount of work put on one person's plate
This solves the disinformation problem
I may be mistaken but I recall reading several times that even though you can choose another app as the browser, all those apps are forced to use WebKit as the engine.
I know everyone on HN loves to hate on Facebook, but the fact that HN's servers are getting crushed when FB is down perhaps shows a revealed preference.
I had the exact opposite and it was hilarious. Every time my manager (a great guy and really good at what he did) was away for a week the sprint would go very smoothly.
It's a very large glass of wine, yes. That said, I've been in restaurants with large wine glasses that generously fill them.

I guess if you're paying by the bottle who cares. Ensures more consumption?

And, was more noting how people could deceive themselves. I just fetched one of the large wine glasses from the kitchen. Filled but well below the rim (maybe a couple of cm below) it was 2 cups of water (so 6 units!) - I emptied out the water and filled it with 1 cup of water (so well over the 2 units) the glass was less than half full. Visually looked about a third of the way up the glass due to the curve.
> A little nuclear waste goes a long way.

I see your point, but it also doesn't go a long way. It's very dense and solid, and tends to stay put as far as wastes go.

> If you have any concrete, practical suggestions for ways to deal with it, the world needs you. Summarizing them here will make me an advocate.

This is wrong for a couple of reasons:

1. We already know how to deal with nuclear waste: [deep geological repository][0].

2. Moreover, we can continue to safely manage nuclear waste above ground for a very long time. Far longer than we can continue fossil fuel pollution. And this worst-case solution is still far, far, far safer than fossil fuels.

If skeptics aren't convinced, I don't think their skepticism is founded in reason.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
It takes about 10 years for full blown alcohol dependency to develop, I feel that's the one unspoken truth about alcoholism. It's a slow descent.
Thank god we have DoH.
Facebook is having one hellva last 48 hours I tell you what.
That first review is identical to the first review on every single other USB-C cable, regardless of brand. It's like the top review of ever single power strip being "I overloaded it and my house burned down".

No wonder people take the risk by buying the cheapest option and hoping they win the QC lottery.
The M1 is evolutionary. What I think will truly revolutionary is the AR classes that Apple makes in a couple years using the next-generation of that silicon.
Yeah it seems like they just waited for a new generation of consumers to grow up without knowing it is a trap. That plus waiting for the regulatory environment to give up on anti-trust almost entirely.
You can make those Edge-only URL (using the "microsoft-edge:" protocol/URI handler) to open in your default browser using EdgeDeflector

https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
Internet's got a case of the Mondays for sure
BGP goof?

https://twitter.com/g_bonfiglio/status/1445056923309649926?s...
> Build converters between popular profilers and analysis UIs to unlock better analysis.

This would definitely be handy - a tool to transform among the profiler formats? I think some subsets of this exist -- tools that will map one or two to one or two other formats, but nothing very general.

> Update profiler documentation to point to great analysis UIs that can accept the output for that profiler.

The chrome trace format is versatile and Perfetto [1] is a great visualizer for it. It's mentioned several times in the spreadsheet but I wanted to endorse it because I've had some positive experiences lately. There are some subtleties to how the trace format is rendered that don't seem like they're totally captured by the trace format spec though.

[1] https://ui.perfetto.dev/
"Is it possible your manager was surprised by your PTO, or did you plan well in advance and remind them beforehand? Did you communicate the extra hours you were putting in before and during the time you were doing it?"

Yeah, they knew. I sent emails to the team and others that I worked with to let them know, filled out the team calendar, and turn on my OOO notifications. All the expected behaviors.

Yeah, I'll never move up and make more money. I'd love to make more, but it won't ever happen. I did like working as a tech lead, but I'm not going to do it without the pay that comes with it.

I disagree about it being shortsighted to bring up the raise issue. I would be fine with a 7% raise as long as it didn't mean more hours. If we dont stand up for fair compensation practices then only the people in power will really benefit. Just look at the percent change in CEO vs employee pay. It seems a lot of that change is because employees aren't standing up for fair compensation. Like at year end this year, if you don't get at least a 5% raise/ COLA then the company is effectively paying less next year due to inflation. Many people who are not adept at finance will look at a 5% raise and be ecstatic since COLA for the past decade has be about 2-3%.

I agree that conversations will not help on these subjects. You mentioned about this being a bad manager. I have had a couple of bad managers. Some of them may not have been bad themselves, but most of the authority happens at the department head level, so they might not have had a choice. I can't really leave either since most of my experience was in obscure tech (Neoxam and FileNet).

I've always done the things that they like to see for engagement (except one department that seemed to want 10 hour days; more hours = more engaged). I mostly did things like system improvements, action communities, knowledge sharing sessions, etc because I actually liked them. But in the end it never makes a difference.
Also slow here. I can't see anything on the AWS Service Dashboard https://status.aws.amazon.com
This is very hard to get exactly right, because traffic isn't constant at all times, and you don't know if people won't just make up for lost time using facebook at another time of the day, etc. So you can't really know.

But, a good rule of thumb right now is about $10,000,000 per hour.
Those efficiency cores are something to behold. They positively blow away the A55.

A510 is the next best thing. Like bulldozer, it will have two integer units sharing a single floating point unit. I doubt companies will ship 8 A510 cores which means that overall little core performance will likely not be improving a huge amount.

In fact, it's looking to me like A79 is going to be the "little" core while X2 will be the big core and a couple A510s will be strictly limited to secure low-level processes.
Silicon Price Spike Is Latest Terrible News for Tech Prices
Canvas: A Bet on New EMRs
makes me think, why dont porn sites ever go down ?
Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support to the GNU Compiler Toolchain
aws.amazon.com is down as well
While I agree, I think you're not giving credit to RISC + Apple's vertical integration here. What does it do? It produces a lot less energy per instruction.

I think that other manufacturers will look into their energy usage as well. That's quite revolutionary, because it seems to me that it has shown a proof of concept for which there's a lot of room to grow in. Less energy means less heat, less heat means you can crank up clock cycles.

My thinking is simplistic but I think someone with more understanding of it will tend to agree with my high level view and tell you exactly why this is revolutionary.

Note: I'm not giving Apple full credit here, I'm giving it half credit. The other half goes to the invention of ARM and RISC micro-architecture in general.
Hacker News also got so much slower, is it the load from people hoarding here after not being able to reach FB?
Signal has and will go down just like facebook.
Cloudflare/aws having issues affects an insanely high percentage of the internet. People still use them.
Outages rarely cause anything, they happen, people move on.
cant login to aws console either
I get the same from AT&T, when I am already an AT&T customer. I get the same sense, that it's just referrals they are after.

Sometimes I get calls from purported cable ISP's claiming there's a software update needed, and after "performing" the update, they ask for payment via gift card. These are relatively rare calls.
> because it's developers that make it in the first place

I've inherited quite a few projects riddled with novice code; and code by developers who just fundamentally didn't understand critical concepts.

Especially as a newcomer, this is a topic that needs to be handled gently. Sometimes this requires correlating known flakiness with problem areas.

One word of caution: If the developers who made the debt are still in the organization, and oblivious to the problems they created, assume that your manager is also oblivious to the problem. It may be best to leave quickly, or feel out upper management to see if they agree with your assessment of problems.
Lol exactly what I was thinking. I'm trying to keep my tinfoil hat in the closet and yet it seems odd that after there is a huge FB whistleblower story on 60 Minutes last night, all of FB goes down today.

I really hope it's just some internal technical error and not a "see, despite the bad things of FB, you really need us" move.

It's probably trivial, the timing just seems weird to me.
Facebook is an unparalleled titan in the realm of advertising and WhatsApp is basically a utility-level communication system for a big chunk of the globe. Instagram is a key cultural driver of the Western world. You many not feel any direct firsthand consequences, but the overall impact would transform the world around you.
Don’t Blame the Fed for Tesla’s Stock Surge
You missed one rightnow in the middle
Reddit r/Sysadmin user that claims to be on the "Recovery Team" for this ongoing issue:

>As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.

User is providing live updates of the incident here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q181fv/looks_like...
"When you are strong, appear weak."
All true. But due to the hype we often see people trying to use overly complex ML models in problem domains where simpler deterministic statistical techniques such as linear regression analysis would be just as accurate with lower costs and better testability.
Your numbers are off. Based on your link, a 12oz 5% beer is one drink so a 16oz 7.5% is 2 drinks (1.5 * 4/3) and thus two of those is exactly 4 drinks.
Hacker News also got so much slower, is it the load from people hoarding here after not being able to reach FB?

[I'm also getting server error trying to submit this comment]
I'm glad I never gave FB my real phone number or birthday. Nobody should. I predicted this would happen some day. It's always just a matter of probability and time.
Agree. Rendering text well really is hard, if you sit down and try to do it from scratch. It’s just that dealing with all of the wonderful quirks of human languages doesn’t have to make it _slow_. That’s their mistake.

And you’re right; all refterm really does is move the glyph cache out to the GPU rather than copying pixels from a glyph cache in main memory every frame.
extensive peering arrangements
Full Dependency Injection in Elixir using closures
Seeing the same thing with 8.8.8.8 name servers. Everything I query returns an error
John Graham-Cumming:

>Between 15:50 UTC and 15:52 UTC Facebook and related properties disappeared from the Internet in a flurry of BGP updates. This is what it looked like to @Cloudflare.

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445065270272434176 (thread)

UPD

>About five minutes before Facebook's DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook's ASN.

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445068309288951820
How did they ask that question? How direct are they in determining a candidate's ideology and political leaning?
Why?

The reasons I've seen are:

> it creates a risk of bad self-image for young girls

It's a parent's job to educate your children. There are much worse things than Facebook out there.

> it collects data

Literally no harm in knowing that someone is interested in JavaScript, cats and fetish porn, and targeting ads to that user.

> it's addictive

So is sex, marijuana, and collecting stamps.

> it helps organize protests

Good.
If one has a hammer one tends to look for nails.
I have many connections to people I met travelling. While not friends that I talk to often, the connections are still valuable.
> Why do we want to kill the incentive for starting companies and becoming wealthy?

Because raising taxes isn't going to keep someone who would already be considering starting a business from starting a business.

Do most people who start a business actually become wealthy?
https://archive.is/Fvf70
What's react hosted on?
What if your priors aren't fully informed and asking questions to people with first hand experience could provide useful information?
“The traders claim to have obtained the data by scraping rather than hacking or compromising individual users’ accounts.”
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makes me wonder, why dont porn sites ever seem to go down ?
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alc...

Here was the reference I used.
Small glass of red/white/rosé wine (125ml, ABV 12%) 1.5 units
Bottle of lager/beer/cider (330ml, ABV 5%) 1.7 units
Seems like it should be isisitdownrightnowdownrightnow.com
Addendum: just today there are two of those on the front page:

[1]: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28746549>

[2]: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28745949>
I don’t think stock dip is related to downtime; anecdotally, I’ve never seen a company’s stock affected by downtime (unless that downtime destroys the business)
I honestly ask myself how the f Zuck has the guts and ego to still talk about a "metaverse" with a company and product so wrong, so poisonous and evil to humanity. I really can't wait to see him in jail already.
> Edit: downvote all you want.

Complaining about being downvoted is shunned upon on HN and is unlikely to cause people to stop downvoting. It brings nothing interesting to discussion and actually reduces density of interesting things.
yeah, we haven't had a website for some time. i should drop that link, thanks for reporting :)

all of the latest collaboration is happening here:
https://github.com/CookiesCo/OpenCannabis
When I do dig instagram.com I get an A response for this IP: 31.13.65.174 or similar addresses, which leads to an empty page.
Are the remote positions open for people outside of the USA?
> Great Britain : Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance

Please no. Can't we have Vaughan Williams? And one of the noisier symphonies, prefereably.
Really easy way to fix a lot of that crap.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I would like to give a word of warning for people who would like to enjoy alcohol all their life: try to avoid kindling at all cost.

If you, like most professionals, consume alcohol for social clout and for fun, this is extremely crucial.

Once you develop kindling (sneaks up on you), even a few beers can trigger almost life threatening withdrawals, so your option is to not drink any, or drink yourself to death. There is no middle way.

For those interested, check out the cripplingalcoholism subreddit on reddit. Tons of first hand experience there. You have been warned. Kindling is a pandoras box of all kind of regrets and there is no way to reverse it apart from abstaining from alcohol for 10+ years.
It's interesting to me the way consensus seems to emerge on long-tail risks. Even just looking at the very technical crowd here on HN, I bet a significant majority would agree that nuclear power is a good idea and we can manage the long-tail risks safely. But the same people would also argue that giving the government a crypto backdoor would be a terrible idea because the risk of hackers eventually gaining access to that backdoor is too high.

Why are we so sure that we know how to manage the risks of nuclear power? People just assert it like fact these days if they're on the pro-nuclear side of The Discourse, but it just seems to be that long-tail risks are really really hard for society to deal with and we get them wrong all the time. Just look at covid. Or look at plane crashes - we put a lot of resources into air safety and we have gotten really good at it, but planes do still crash once in a while.

If you want to argue that the benefits of nuclear outweigh the risks, that seems a very reasonable position to take. But insisting that the risks are truly 0 and anyone who points out the risk is fearmongering just doesn't seem that productive.
Based on their track record I wouldn't be surprised if Signal just happened to be having an extended outage too.
There are some interesting observations here, but the piece basically ends up in the same place all self-help content ends up: here are the x things you should do.

> Instead of just watching, reading, listening to other people doing fancy stuff. We need to get going. Overcome the general feeling of malaise by start running, failing, getting up, and trying again.

This is basically the same advice that a lot of self-help gurus give. The only difference is in the packaging.

Here's a tangential piece of advice about listening to "successful people online": not everything is as it appears. In fact, much of the time these days, it isn't. Never forget that you have no way of knowing whether people are as happy, rich, etc. as they say they are, and even if they are, you have no way of knowing whether or not the advice they're selling you is how they got to where they are.
I'd envisage that working like Rust failing to compile when you have a mutable reference inside a loop but working if you clone it or make it immutable except with the additional case that you can just promote it to the catch-all type. If it's a loop over a range of ints, it might be possible to use that range to determine the necessary type.

All that said, if you're using unbounded loops doing arithmetic on signed integers then you're already dealing with UB in C/C++ land.