skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It shouldn't be too stressful. (...) it's not like there is one person typing at a keyboard with a hundred managers breathing down their neck

Earlier comment mentioned that there is a bottleneck, and that people who are physically able to solve the issue are few and that they need to be informed what to do; being one of these people sounds pretty stressful to me.

"but the people with physical access is separate (...) Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures", source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749244
Interesting; I have been noticing a lot of service are unstable today. I wonder if there is a larger outage.
You hit the nail on the head!

And the same exact critique applies to folks saying “-Werror is harmful”. That statement is false unless you also add the limiting principle: “-Werror is harmful in software shipped as source that users build themselves”.

This is a classic case of folks talking past each other. Kinda fun to watch actually.
Looks like WhatsApp is down
I even use it on my Debian 11 install and android! It's pretty good.
I stopped following a bunch of people on LinkedIn. It seemed like all they did was repost stuff from others - mostly infographics. None of the information was even helpful to an IC like me.
Any alchohol is bad for you, dont believe the one drink a day is healthy.
Just don't drink and your chances of living a healthy long life are good.
Who else sees their deleted messages on WhatsApp that shouldn't be there?
Good question. It completely untethers me from my desk. The battery life is so good I can get through an entire work day without worrying about power at any point. This frees me up to leave (e.g. for a meeting, to work in the park or just on a couch, or simply being frazzled and in a hurry) without even considering a power brick or when I'll be able to plug in again.

To have that freedom in a 3 lb laptop with virtually no performance compromises is incredible.
Both! You have to take way more times the active dose of Naproxen to die as compared to Tylenol.
My concern is for the long-term survival of their institution. I see them as a critical, slow-moving part of our civilization. I don't understand how it works; I'm an individual, and they are an ancient religious institution.

Here is an example, the Catholics resisted eugenics when it was considered scientific and rational. If I had been involved in the debate at that time, I probably would have been on the eugenicists' side because that was the popular point of view. I would have been wrong. The Catholics provide a slow moral feedback loop.

My point about the pedophile is that they can't hide them now. The internet has changed the game. The Church worked even with its warts in the past because the Church hid them from view. But they don't have this power anymore. More and more families will leave as the warts are exposed. They will lose members and relevance.

So remove the pressure, remove the temptation before it happens. I believe the Catholics call this "an occasion of sin": Don't go into the hotel room drunk and horny with the prostitute so that you don't have a moral struggle while sitting on the bed beside her. A challenging problem is turned into an easy problem by avoiding it in the first place. If they are worried about the corruption that can happen from priests having families, make it so they can't have families but can still find a remedy for their basic needs. Make it easier for a priest to be a priest. The early Christian Church did not have the celibacy rule.

What's worse is other religious-like systems are antagonistic to the Catholic perspective. The Chinese Communist Party effectively owned Grindr for a time, and they could have built a social network map of the transgressing priests using their app. Then they could have leveraged these guys to do their bidding. It's hard to lead a flock while being blackmailed by another Sheppard.
Dropping that many BGP routes will have its high latency toll on the whole internet backbone for minutes/hours, I'm not surprised. I wonder if the recent LE's DST Root CA X3 deprecation has something to do with the outage (some DC internal tool/API not accessible because its certificate is expired or something like that).
Or, perhaps there is a drastic change in his stock ownership after his opinions changed.
Also thinking that these two events are not independent...
Well... either the type becomes meaningless, or the type becomes something that must be enforced in the presence of dynamic input.

If your type says "an integer from 1 to 10", and you ask the user to enter a number from 1 to 10, and they enter 20, then something has to happen. If the compiler haa a routine that parses user input into "integer from 1 to 10" (or any range), then it has to either clip, wrap, or fail. If it doesn't, then you just parsed the user input into an int. When you try to stick that in your "integer from 1 to 10", one of the same things must happen. (Or, as you say, the type becomes moot.)
> One way to look at it is that they've left the ball where it should be: with the haulage firms who must now pay more for drivers.

Of course, this is actually sign of governmental incompetence. Yes, haulage firms will need to pay more, obviously. But the process of raising wages, training, and hiring drivers is a slow process. Even if every haulage firm decided overnight to raise wages high enough to attract new applicants, it will take months to train all of these people to become truck drivers. To expect the supply chain to handle just a sudden shock like this was very, very foolish of them.

Oh, and there's a bunch of non-wage stuff too, like Priti Patel threatening to arrest any truck driver who has an illegal immigrant in their truck, whether or not they were aware of them. I'm sure this won't have a chilling effect on cross-border trucking, will it?

Also, it's not exactly like the Tory party is the party of "you should pay your workers more", now is it?
I have a fake birthday I use consistently across most of the internet.

I don't have a consistent "real" phone number -- I change it periodically. I then have virtual numbers that redirect to those, which I change from time to time as well.
PimEyes – A face recognition search engine
> This is not really true... Some laptops maybe... Lenovo had a square one

The exact shape of the port is clearly not the point of their statement. It is that you had specific, one use, variations of chargers that only worked for one laptop and were trashed when you got something new and were very difficult to get a replacement or additional charger for. Whether they were barrel or square isn’t the point.

> If they buy a custom charger for their laptop, they won't use it to charge their phone, because they know their phone charger won't charge their laptop, even though everything fits.

But most people handled it fine if they had a tablet, phone, and a few other random devices with micro USB. For the average person, moving to the semi standard micro USB was a net win, even though some people would try trickle charging their phones with old, low power usb chargers. Just because grandma can’t figure out what she is doing, doesn’t mean the actual average user won’t quickly figure out that their USB-C charger will work for anything less what the charger was rated for. Your laptop charger will charge your tablet, phone, and extras like headphones. Your tablet charger will charge your phone and headphones, etc. that is a good enough solution for most people, and simple enough most people will be fine. Knowing you can travel with 4-5 USB-C devices and only bring your laptop charger to charge everything is much better.
Cook was under oath, no? So as per my understanding, it is perjury on top of lying to congress. I am, however, not a lawyer.
The article says the Apple/Netflix agreement DID follow older rules, before current App Store rules?
Yes. Clicking "new" or submitting a story is giving me an error too.
I was having trouble with Facebook and came here and saw this post and your comment!
Let’s Encrypt root cert update catches out many big-name tech firms
Here are some more examples of the dynamic shadow models, that you may enjoy:

https://whiteboxgeo.com/Shadow_Animation/small_farm_shadows_...

https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/Shadow_Animation/Kitchener_shado...
Sure. But you might not get everyone back - you'd have to have an alternate method of talking to the folks to get them to switch and meet up in the same place. You'd have this if the service just slowly died (like landlines), but not if something breaks instantly - forever. I'm guessing we've all had this when games died (especially old text-based MMORPG's, for example. So many people gone).
Yes, Facebook has issues that they need to address and strategize around, but there's still a lot of positive that Facebook brings to the table that I wouldn't overlook.

There are many Facebook Groups with thriving communities of good people helping one another. These communities are Facebook exclusive and stronger than ever.

Facebook Marketplace is also the safest place for me to buy second hand goods. I never turn to Craigslist anymore.

Messenger and WhatsApp are still reliable ways to group message.

Let's not forget Facebook includes IG which while TikTok is taking its marketshare of engagement, many users still have both and IG is not just "for old people". It's still heavily used by our youth.
> "our OSS"

OUR as in the Royal OUR: my team + some small but visible external contributors + some external non-visible contributors + some businesses paying to improve the model + some sending direct email PRs. I'm not sure what other word to use to describe a fledgling community that I'm part of besides "our".
Wondering how Facebook communicates now internally - most of their work streams likely depend on Facebooks systems which are all down.

Can engineers and security teams even access prod systems anymore? Like, would "Bastion" hosts be reachable?

Wonder if they use Signal and Slack now?
43 million US Covid cases to date
700k deaths

393 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in the US

I think the safety of the vaccine has been established. You are welcome to take whatever risks you want. Just because you have been lucky so far, doesn't make it the correct approach. If you really believed it was no big deal, you'd run out and get COVID. Instead, you hope your luck will hold. Thing about luck is that it always runs out.
That was caused by Microsoft (DDG uses Bing search results):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't make them look good, but the problem was the with the source of their results, not them censoring "tank man".
One person on keyboard, everyone else calling out code (we have 4 devs on the team currently). We switch positions every 15 minutes.
As Facebook Employee, I Was Ordered to Bury Stories About Zuckerberg’s Human Zoo
DNS servers of a major internet provider in the Czech Republic are down now. Probably not a coincidence (other DNS server's stats show increased traffic so my guess is that Vodafone's DNS servers were unable to cope with the increased traffic and crashed https://twitter.com/BlazejKrajnak/status/1445063232486531099).

It's crazy that half the country doesn't have internet because Facebook stopped working.
Simply from a UX perspective, I prefer using Signal over WhatsApp.

One main feature contributes to that: iMessage/Slack style 'reactions' to messages.

Being able to press down on a message and just respond with a thumbs up really helps with group threads.
Revolutionary is always going to be controversial. The first iPhone was dismissed as nothing special. There were touch screens before, after all, and it didn't even have a proper keyboard. The first 64-bit ARM SOC was argued not to be revolutionary because it offered only evolutionary levels of performance comparable to previous Apple CPUs.

I don't think it's arguable that the M1 wasn't a game changer though. M1 firmly established Apple's design prowess at the laptop/desktop class chip game. It was no longer arguable that mere phone chips weren't comparable to desktop class CPUs. That claim is dead. It also enabled performance and power efficiency levels years ahead of the competition, giving tangible immediate benefits to customers.

So revolutionary? It's a matter of opinion, but I think it was a watershed moment and permanently changed the technical landscape for CPUs running 'full blown' desktop class software.
Hedge funds and HFT shops definitely do.

They invest pretty heavily to make sure their edge is kept a secret.
People have been prophesying the dawn of no-code since before I was even born, and yet we're yet to see the demise of programmers.

Also:

> if you want more SSD storage or CPU processors, you just need to add them to the basket

I used to say "CPUs are cheaper than developers", until the day I discovered that's not always true, and had to spend several months refactoring the product we were building so that it could actually scale properly. Funnily enough, Terraform doesn't magically solve P=NP.
TL;DR Seems to be the old adage since the early days of self-help content: Don't dwell, do.
Most of the internet seems slow today
DynamoDB Limits
Sorry guys. I'll log out now.
> There is something nauseating about using "privacy" and other nice-sounding words to pump your own crypto-currency.

To be fair, this statement seems to be relying on mind-reading. You seem to be making a guess that Brendan's motives are to pump his token, rather than privacy.

I view Brave as a very interesting experiment that could be very much in defense of privacy.

Here's the chain of logic, as I see it.

We all realize that data is a commodity that businesses are desperate for.

This is bad because it ultimately leads to privacy being wrecked, among other issues. We can see Google and Facebook operating here as an indication of this.

One possible solution to this is to come up with a new business model for advertising that does a far better job protecting people and giving people ultimate control: which is what Brave is attempting to do. Who knows what direction Brave will take? BAT is just an ERC-20 token that can be moved by any Ethereum wallet even apart from Brave. If this succeeds, the advertising market online in the next few years may move in a positive direction.
https://pimeyes.com does just that, I just posted it here on HN.
Facebook is likely scrambling private jets as we speak to get the right people to the right places.
Having this requirement when dealing with tech monopolies is uniquely helpful because in some cases there is no alternative. We can always rent, shop or bank other places. I'd argue where there isn't a thriving marketplace of choice monopolies should have to have the same rules with all their partners.
this is not new, this is everyday life with helping hands, on duty engineers, l2-l3 levels telling people with physical access which commands to run etc. etc. etc.
No idea if it’s related but a lot of Tor websites have also been offline all day (BBC, ProtonMail etc).
"Ooh, lookit that funny car over there!"
- points phone almost at your face, takes picture
- uploads picture to Facebook

You'd literally have to have the kind of Momma that would dig a hole and hide you in it at birth to really be "off the grid" at this point.
Embedded projects typically never upgrade the compiler - not for the lifetime of the product.
In Go returning a list of items that are one of a set of different types would be poorly handled. It's possible but very awkward. You would probably drop down to just a slice of interface{} and then have to use reflection to figure out what each item was.

Dynamic languages like Python or Ruby would probably be fine but there are more languages than those out there to worry about.
They did say that these older CPUs weren't entitled to Windows updates though (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/28/22646035/microsoft-window...).

This is probably worse than being denied the upgrade in the first place...
Never gave mine either, but that’s the strength of FB: you don’t even need to have an account. They know everything about you because your friends, family and colleagues gave them that information.
Please provide clear evidence showing where Brook Binkowski presents misinformation.
We actually started it as a trial 1 week after hiring our last developer. I had to convince the team to try it and told them to give it 1 month to see how it worked, but everyone was 100% on board within the first week. We are hiring people now, and yes we are going to be hiring based off of willingness to program like this.
you can opt out of Facebook too

This is not true.

Facebook builds profiles about millions of people who have never had a Facebook account. For example, people who happened to be in the background of a photograph taken by a stranger. Another example: people who installed an app on their phone without knowing that it included a Facebook SDK that was tracking them.

This is nothing new. It's been discussed in public, and even before the U.S. congress.

Personally, I'd love to opt out of Facebook. But I can't. Because I can't log in to my Facebook account, and Facebook ignores my requests for access. I even did the "send in a picture of your government ID" route, and nothing happened. So please inform me how I can opt out of Facebook's data gathering.
Not quite, no.

As a user, Apple allows you to change your default browser in both iOS and macOS quite easily.

As a developer you can build a browser on top of whatever rendering engine you want, as long as you want to use the built-in WebKit.

Crucially, they are plenty clear about what is, or isn't allowed (well, mostly — plenty of app review horror stories around here), and all of that happens in the interaction with developers. The user experience is always pretty decent, and you don't have to deal with this whole "do this in 10 locations" nonsense.
>> we could actually see the iPhone merge to become the device powering our monitors and keyboards.

I highly doubt that because it means Apple will sell zero macbooks and they don't want less sales.
Imagine if they need access to fb.com email to re-enable the access for the on-site technician.
I find this kind of comment fascinating because it's illustrative of how humans can form intentional blindspots as to the utility of a person or institution when when all they care about are the negative aspects of that person's or institution's existence.

op: "I don't care about thing X disappearing"
re: "While you may not care about it because of Y, X also provides benefit Z to other people"
op: "But would there be any drawbacks?"

yeah, there would be drawbacks, other people would lose Z, which may matter a lot of them even if it doesn't matter to you. Someone just told you about Z, and you just responded as if you weren't just told about Z"

These days I find it incredibly frustrating to deal with people who have conclusively decided they don't like something and that renders them incapable of acknowledging other benefits that said thing provides even if those benefits aren't relevant to them or are less relevant than the things they vocalize caring about.
Improving C# with TypeScript. KeyOf
Interesting.. My son has been formally diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

He had a hair tissue mineral analysis done last October, and it showed a high level of aluminum in his system.

https://imgur.com/pdlywQO
I think they're just riding the Facebook wave for more clicks. This is hardly news.
Yes, had trouble login, it took 3 attempts.
Discord [1] is taking a toll from the increased traffic as well:

"We're noticing an elevated level of usage for the time of day and are currently monitoring the performance of our systems. We do not anticipate this resulting in any impact to the service.

We have temporarily disabled typing notifications. We expect these to be re-enabled soon."

[1] https://discordstatus.com/
Quite a few people average one or two normal-person-defined "drinks" of alcohol per day. However, one normal-person drink of alcohol is very probably two or more scientists'/regulators' "drinks", because those are—for reasons I can't fathom unless the intent is to mislead people to believe their drinking is healthier than it is—so tiny that very few people would consider them one entire serving.
I strongly agree with this. I'll also note that "enums" solves for nil (universal or otherwise).

> I have a feeling generics will be used for all sorts of situations that could be better handled with interfaces.

Very much agree. I'll also extend "interfaces" to include closures.
lol no one cares. we're all laughing about this too (all of us except the networks people at least...)
Greetings,
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> Most people are observers/cheerleaders when there is an incident.

Yeah, a typical fight/flight response.
> Neglect power users at your peril.

I mean, I like this sentiment, and _want_ it to be true (hey $BIGCO, I matter!). But MS has already weathered a storm of bad PR regarding Win10 telemetry, and hasn't changed anything. What are people going to do, stop using Windows?
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) republished a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court judge, on the anniversary of her death. The quote was a defence of a woman’s right to have an abortion. But the ACLU’s version—for which it, too, later apologised—replaced every instance of “women” with “people”.

Language has to be kept up-to-date, even at the price of accuracy. Reminds me of when Merriam-Webster changed their definition of "sexual preference" to claim the term is widely considered offensive, after Amy Coney Barret used it in her congressional hearing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200928131548/https://www.merri...

https://web.archive.org/web/20201014032220/https://www.merri...

Perhaps that will be the next term that is updated in future quotations of Ginsburg, since she used it as well:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/14/sexual-pref...
Oh yeah - I get those as well. "We can cut your bill in half."
Yes. SSNs are distributed by year in blocks that are granted to hospitals. If you know a person's year and place of birth you can brute force them. For example if you wanted to generate plausible identities you could just use a common Jewish last name and get the SSN block from a major hospital in NYC for a high birth year. Say, 1955. The odds that you will be able to guess the SSN for Abraham Goldstein born in Manhattan in 1955 are going to be pretty good, especially if you have some oracle that will let you guess several times.
Expected in all honesty, data these days is a currency to be bartered. I despise facebooks and everything it stands for, I wish people would take themselves more seriously. This need to fill a void with nonsense, is just simply unbecoming. So, suffer the consequences.
This isn't true. The phonebook we had had only Name, Phone number and very broad location. Also those days, phone number was just that - a phone number. Nowadays it's a unique identifier for lots and lots of things including government stuff. Some government stuff even uses it for authentication/authorization.

Also I guess user ID means it gives access to their fb profile page I guess? From there one can scrape pics etc (public ones).
sounds fun!
Take things literal too much? Starlink-esque. Like Starlink, but different. Line of site with laser beams. Pew Pew!!!

Also, shocked context clues from the rest of the comment made you feel the whole thing was not tongue-in-cheek.
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