skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great dip to buy. (I'm not a facebook zealot, but you know it will recover today or tomorrow once the DNS is sorted in an hour or two)

Of course there is the whistle-blower issue too...
It all depends on what your perspective is. This article seems to speak to web devs, and I agree with their premise for the most part. But it doesn't work for single indie game developers. Hermit programming is very effective in that space (insert Stardew Valley reference here).

So I come back to... why bother even writing this? It's no secret that poor "team players" are a nightmare to work with.
> This was possible in part because the number of available technologies (software + hardware devices) was so limited that, for instance, a C programmer could literally code for any available platform;

Uhhhh…WTF?? On a scale of 0 to WRONG this is WRONG + 1.
It's quite possible to run a business without WhatsApp. Lots of businesses have been doing it for quite a long time.
How is that a good comparison? Not everyone uses Facebook out of habit, some businesses need it, and it can be used for good things as well as bad because it's just a medium in which people post content

Yes how that content is presented, ranked, etc is controlled by Facebook but that contribution is less than the content itself.

It would be better to say it's the spoon in which someone could eat a sugary cereal or something healthy.
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Yeah, but if you're going to use something centralised anyway, may as well use a more private option.
Checked isitdownrightnow.com and said Netflix was also down. Any chance these are related?
Probably because the same can already be expressed using relations and foreign keys.
In parts of South America it's used for all sorts of things. Want to know when your bus is arriving? The bus company likely only knows because the driver is WhatsApp'ing them status updates.
> safe for the another month

Not so fast there buddy. Best check what autocompletes for "how to dispose of a b..." and "best place to b...".
I love nuclear too, but one issue is that it is really expensive upfront, especially if you want to do it cleanly and safely.

If you add "fearmongering and endless litigation" as you call it, it means that only nation states can develop nuclear power, and only if it is seen as strategically important. By comparison, anyone can build solar panels and wind turbines, or burn coal.
Big tech free services have WAY better uptime than commercial alternatives.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced....Finally!
> to PFAS

This should be PFBS, according to Wikipedia. PFAS is the whole family of chemicals, PFBS is a particular member with a much shorter half-life than PFOS. “PFAS” getting a non-abbreviation moniker would sure help to disambiguate things.

Also from WP, Scotchgard now uses “a proprietary fluorinated urethane,” which means we know next to nothing about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard
> From that light, I think the article's point is that rules of the environment have changed so much that the archetype of the lone-programmer is becoming obsolete in the workforce.

Tell that to millions of small-medium businesses, if their needs can't be met by squarespace (and anything other than a brochure really can't) They reach out in their network for what could be looked at as a 'computer/internet handyman'. Will they get the highest quality solution? Maybe not... but they also don't have the budget for that.
>I wonder how that will play along with their Video Streaming service

Yeah, that's my main concern, are they really going to disrupt even themselves?

>wouldn't be hosted streaming, but a downloadable video file

I agree but then if one can just add a <video src=""> and forget about it (plus, it's free) then streaming wouldn't even be considered (for plenty of use cases).
Argh. Clickbait article header. The header sounds like a "blanket trawl," which, I suspect, would require an NSA-grade computer to manage (which they have, so it's not beyond belief).

They were sending warrants to people that searched for particular names, addresses, etc.

Not news. We all know this has been going on for many years. It's fairly standard, in many "capital crime" cases.
Anything hosted on Facebook's infrastructure is down. The two sites that you note are up aren't hosted by Facebook.
It is still the fastest single-threaded performance available on any chip you can buy today: Laptop, desktop, server.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

(Available in a fanless ~$1k laptop, no less!)
Given Shatner's prior comments on the subject, it's obvious that Bezos is paying Shatner a lot of money to be able to advertise that Captain Kirk flew on a Blue Origin rocket. Definitely the sort of thing that a competitor that knows that it is behind and is willing to do/pay anything to get ahead would do.
While you're trying to do this, look into CLEP tests. They do what you're looking for, but in many topics, not just CS. Want to test out of your humanities requirements? CLEP tests let you do so (at least for many universities).
The A15 performance cores seem to be equivalent in performance to AMD Ryzen 5950x desktop cores, at 1/5th of the power budget.

True, AMD has a few tricks up their sleeve, and is a node behind Apple at TSMC, but on a purely technical level it's clear that Apple ahead of both AMD and Intel.
There is another possible pricing loophole: They could price the amount of data loaded from R2, regardless if it's for internal use or egress (similar to S3 infrequent access, but cheaper). If they go that route, they'd probably make it per-request for small request, and by-size for big requests.
Volunteers with no purpose and meaning in life stifling discussion in a forum. Because of their bogus forum rules. Have fun downvoting this one too, mod. Telling Paul Graham about you.
> Over and over again during the last decade, IBM engineers were asked to build special one-off projects for key clients at the expense of their road maps for building the types of cross-customer cloud services offered by the major clouds. Top executives at some of the largest companies in the country — the biggest banks, airlines and insurance companies — knew they could call IBM management and get what they wanted because the company was so eager to retain their business, the sources said.

This! We literally build & prioritize feature work based on one-off customer requests...
It's a little irksome how other commentors are quick to dismiss this very valid point. SMBs in Asia aren't using WhatsApp because they've forced the platform on their consumers; it's their consumers who are using WhatsApp who've forced a choice on the SMBs. WhatsApp has very wide consumer penetration, and its use by businesses is meant as a convenience wrapper for customers.

Now, does switching from WhatsApp to some other not-very-widely-used platform cause customer engagement / retention to drop? I would wager very much so! It's a matter of priorities - people go where there is least friction, and WhatsApp otherwise provides a seamless friction-less experience.
> Who said that?

the fucking original post I fucking answered to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874408
I'm seeing similar DNS errors for many non-Facebook sites.
Looks like HN is being hit pretty hard right now?
I wish someone (with network knowledge) would do this for Windows 11. I'm curious how much data (and what kind) is being sent by the OS after you enable (as much as possible) all the privacy options during OOBE.
> People usually go to a doctor and say they don't have motivation and get Vyvanse for this sort of thing

Vyvanse only provides motivation for the first week or so.

After that, nope. Vyvanse gives you the opportunity to focus, but the motivation still has to come from within.

Or to put it another way, a wall street trader using cocaine[1] to work 100 hours a week is already motivated to work 100 hours a week, the drugs just enable the body and mind to do what the will already desires.

[1] Different drug family than Vyvanse
Is it possible to use this with Teams or Zoom or does everyone need a new app? This seems like an ideal plug-in or app to use with those since it's essentially just a "filter" app from the presenter's side. Using your app as the video source seems like it'd be straightforward to do.
You need a contingency plan for when vendors go down even in 3rd world countries. It just so happens a lot of us would not mind this vendor failing entirely. It’s unfortunate that we have so little choice in the matter but ultimately the same advice holds true for all of us smugly throwing insults while keeping our billing in AWS.
Yes. In the ideal world messaging would've have followed the same federalized model as email. XMPP offers this, unfortunately few people use it or even are aware of it.
Of course people who choose to work at McKinsey in the first place feel good about it. Says more about them than it does about McKinsey being moral
I thought Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp ran on different infrastructure (and they've been trying for a while to align everything)?

How could they all go down at the same time, if they have different teams of engineers running each product separately?

Could anyone with some background (or person familiar with the matter) explain how their system's set up?
Does anyone actually know anyone who drinks more than 2 drinks every day? The only people I knew like that were homeless, and I was more concerned about other issues with them, than the drinking (which was more of a symptom than a cause, imo).

Am I naive for thinking that everyone knows that Alcohol is not good for them? Funding research into it seems like a waste of money, since I also believe that people should be 100% free to ingest whatever they want. You can't ban alcohol, its too easy to make. I barely drink, but its undeniably important to our culture.

e: Apparently I am quite naive. My crowd is more likely to have cannabis addictions than alcohol.
Could you provide some good examples of predatory reporting from Slate Star Codex? I don't doubt you, just genuinely curious.
Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
the NY Times line is whatever the CIA wants it to be and it has been that way for decades. "Citation..." go back to reddit plebian.
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Is this related to the outages from lets encrypt root cert expiring? Probably not since this looks like a DNS issue, but still it's a crazy coincidence that two major internet breaking events happen in the same week
As far as I'm concerned my mother forfeited her right to lifetime care for me based on how my childhood went.

I had a difficult childhood, while its a long story, I was my mothers emotional support network, and effectively parent/spouse, from about 8 on, however when I was inconvenient for her, she pushed me out of the way. I never got to be a normal kid. The start of the break for me was when I first tried moving out at 22, it didn't go well, I asked to move home, she said no. I spent a week in my car. Eventually she relented, but I learned an important lesson, that I needed to be able to rely on myself - largely alone, that my family wouldn't be there for me if I really needed it.

I am more than happy to provide some additional financial support, however my mother has a generous pension and social security, and makes more than enough money to support herself. It's the emotional burdens where I draw the line - as a only child who already shouldered more than my fair share of emotional burdens, I'm not willing to put my life on hold again for an unknown period of time to care for my ailing mother, who by any measure is miserable to be around - or rather, specifically, goes out of her way to make me miserable.

It'd probably be different if I was not an only child, and this was a burden that could be shared among siblings, but its not, it's just me.
> Unfortunately I am not aware of any programming language that either allows the use of all 3 kinds of types or at least uses appropriate names for the available types.

Ada. You can specify your integer type range (not just integers, but sticking with that here):

subtype Celsius is Integer range -273 .. 1000; -- permits implicit, but range checked, assignment with Integer types and other subtypes of Integer like Natural or Positive
type Celsius is range -273 .. 1000; -- no implicit conversion
type Byte is mod 2**8; -- permits overflow, 255+2 = 1
type Non_Modular_Byte is range 0..(2**8 - 1); -- No overflow, 255 + 2 => Exception

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If they chose 8:30, then it must have been really risky! ;)
At Embedded World 2020, every embedded semi and FPGA company had some kind of NNet running. One that was really impressive was Xilinx. They had multiple demos set up at Embedded World in 2020 showing NNet's for defects, person detection, and audio vibrational analysis with autoencoders. As did several other FPGA companies. I googled some links but they don't look like what I saw. So I'd recommend googling Xilinx if you are interested in industrial applications.
I think it would be this 2nd last paragraph from the article.

“ So, how did we get here? Until the release of iOS version 14 in September 2020, you couldn’t change the default web browser on iPhones and iPads. Google has many apps for iOS, including a shell for its Chrome browser. To tie all its apps together, Google introduced a googlechrome: URL scheme in February 2014. It could use these links to direct you from its Search or Mail app and over to Chrome instead of Apple’s Safari browser.”

Google did it first and Microsoft would like to link from its settings app to its browser.

I’m having a hard time deciding if these are the same thing or not?
"Bezos's Blue Origin hit headlines in recent days after 21 current and former employees claimed it had ignored safety concerns to gain an advantage in the space race, and complained of a culture of sexism."

That seems more like news instead of PR.
> Doesnt Rust have implicit panics on indexing out of bounds?

It does yes. A fair number of other constructs can panic as well.

> I wonder if any codebases lint those away.

Clippy has a lint for indexing so probably.

For the general case, it's almost impossible unless you're working on very low-level software (embedded, probably kernel-rust eventually) e.g. `std` assumes allocations can't fail, so any allocation will show up as a panic path.

https://github.com/Technolution/rustig can actually uncover panic paths, but because of the above the results are quite noisy, and while it's possible to uncover bugs thanks to rustig it requires pretty ridiculous amounts of filtering.
There are plenty of ways to communicate with friends and family. If Facebook is down long enough, many people will just move to something else. (And I hope they do)
I'm sure this article will attract the attention those of us who were taught by Hugh Darwen.
> Just because the desk that deals with DOJ did it wrong doesn't mean the desk that deals with FDA did.

But...they did. They didn't disclose their conflicts, unless the FDA is lying for some inexplicable reason. Again, it's in the article, it's not that long.

> You see these kinds of complicated, seemingly conflicting, relationships in high finance all the time.

You sure do.

> it's a non-issue because of how these companies are structured

These companies are structured to make money by any means necessary. Just a few years ago McKinsey corrupted government officials and used them to get contracts with utilities and infrastructure providers. Was there a firewall between the government desk and the utilities desk?
'Unusual traffic patterns detected' now
I will give them a listen before doing so to be sure, but yeah, I'll do that. Both of my parents are dead now so I doubt there are any privacy issues remaining.
Well, that sounds a bit extreme.

I just see generalized policies of degrowth and basically destruction of the middle-class (whatever that means) everywhere in the western world:

- Local lockdowns rather than closing borders in time for the virus

- Increased tolerance of petty crime to make the cities as inhabitable as possible

- Very incompetent energy policies that will make energy skyrocket in price

- Policies and incentives making it harder and harder to be able to afford a car.

- Deindustrialization (that's been going on for a while) and no effort to reverse it.

- Basically no research or very bad research on basic health improvement treatments that don't involve medication.

And small things like that adding up one by one. Would be not so strange if different countries were failing in different ways, but seems strange to see so many countries consistently "failing" in the same way.
They have to go where their market is sadly
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Bezos if you kill Shatner so many people are going to be furious
Internal services using public dns records?
If you mean because the name servers are in the same zone, this is very common. When an NS is returned for a zone, you also get an “additional” A and AAAA to resolve the NS name. It’s called glue.

dig NS example.com
; ANSWER
example.com. NS ns1.example.com.
; ADDITIONAL
ns1.example.com. A 1.2.3.4

Edit: I didn’t see your glue comment when I wrote this.
I am starting to wonder if we’re pretending to live a little further into the future than we realistically can right now. Modern Silicon Valley is built around businesses with software margins. If you can scale via software, it’s huge. If we actually saddled these companies with their externalities or with doing what they say they do, would they still have been able to have software margins, or would they have had to wait until the tech/science was better?

It gives me a wary feeling when people talk about tech regulation and warn that it would change the internet as we know it. Like, if putting the externalities on the company means the company can’t exist as it does today, is that really so bad?
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There is no code, that is the problem.

You (or the Transport Administration) do not have access to the training data, the training parameters or anything at all.

It is just a black-box which we are all to trust because "it works, mostly".

In my book, that goes against any notion of admissibility by a government agency.
So we slap Microsoft's hand for trying to make people use their (free) browser, and let Apple continue to print money by monopolizing software and content distribution on their hardware? I think we just need more stringent consumer protections in general, but there's a slim chance of that happening when you're as much of a CIA/FBI lapdog as Apple.
The actual leak was published on WSJ “The Facebook Files”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
Yes. Admittedly they both work in bars/breweries.

It'd be interesting to see the experience of folks in continental Europe, where I gather wine with meals is much more commonplace.
What's frustrating is that Microsoft wins by default because most users will never alter the defaults or even understand they have that choice.

All this nonsense does is upset power users. Power users will be annoyed but not stopped by this stuff, and by annoying them you've created a negative atmosphere around your products that they will share with less technical users.

Same thing as not allowing an "opt out" over analytics. I get that the analytics are useful, but if only 0.1% of your users are willing to opt out, is the negativity/fight really worth influential users spending years shit-talking you?

Microsoft makes some really boneheaded decisions to be honest. Apple is way better at the subtle sleight of hand monopolistic stuff, Microsoft is like a bull in a china shop.
Just because a company has questionable or even straight evil business practices doesn't mean that literally millions of companies/people don't rely on them to do business and communicate.
Been done already, as early as 2002: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Now do "The unreasonable effectiveness of 'considered harmful' articles"

edit: can't find a good self-aware "Passive voice considered harmful" essay...
Sibelius took most pride in his symphonies, but they never really earned him much income. He struggled with finances throughout his entire life. Though mostly made for cash, and more or less frowned upon by himself, I find his chorals quite something else. I highly recommend listening to the Rakastava suite (choral version) [1]. And for any Swedish or Finnish speaker I also recommend Tawaststjerna's biography of Sibelius, quite a masterpiece in itself.

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What is their business model around having your DNS traffic? Selling your "who looked you up and how many times" data? I am struggling to see what secondary income this enables.
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Making poor choices seems to be the curse of humankind.
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Facebook bashing is getting old. It's 2021, dammit.
Already has. Way more people are dead because of climate change than have died due to nuclear accidents.

We are in an ongoing climate crises, it's just normalized now because that's what we are used to.

I'm old enough to remember when Cat 5 hurricanes were something like once a decade. Now we see them nearly yearly, sometimes twice in a year.

Unfortunately, that's simply not going to stop in our lifetime. It's even likely to get worse over the next 50 years as we slowly get to the point of being carbon neutral.
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