skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree that the new logos are sufficient. Perhaps "sufficiently descriptive", but they look so similar to each other that it requires people to read text (which is a UI fail right there for cables) which will be particularly hard to read when printed on tiny connectors.
Probably traffic related. Lots of people reallocated to checking other sites.
Synthetic yarns slowly getting agitated by foot traffic, vacuums, etc, loosening their weave over time.
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That would be classic Zuck right there
Communication for many out there. Many will be just fine without commenting on cat photos or bragging with their likes or followers. Many will be in trouble if they use WhatsApp/Instagram/Messenger/Marketplace to do business and any important communication.
From [0]

> ...there is no limit to the scandals, leaks, whistleblowers, lawsuits or penalties that will bring the Facebook mafia down.

Fine. 'Literally' bringing the Facebook mafia down like that would do.

But only for now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28742179
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Re Neuroscience and Brain/Nervous System I like Liqun Luo's Textbook that I mentioned above. I don't know much about immune system books unfortunately.

Concerning memory and smell, you'll most likely find information in the "popular science" category. Personally I am skeptical about the often-touted "special link" between smell and memory. I don't believe that this link is any more special than the one between vision and memory.

You could also look at Paolo Pelosi's "On The Scent" for a book on the sense of smell aimed at a scientifically keen lay audience.
> Even if our ML systems were meaningfully intelligent, there's still the issue of proper training. You can't teach humans to be a safe drivers by showing them a huge slideshow of dash-cam images.

That's an interesting concept to explore:

I would guess that videos could improve people's driving: Imagine new drivers; showing them videos of different situations, actions, and their outcomes, may help. The same videos might not help an experienced driver, but they might be helped by videos of more complex situations or by videos tailored to a specific driving skill.

But I'd be interested in research: When does such training help people and when does it not? What aspects of the training are effective or not?

And can that be applied to ML? It may be the old fallacy of conceiving of computers as 'thinking' like people, which Dijkstra compared to conceiving of submarines swimming like us.
Same issue over at b.ns.facebook.com
Looping routing creating self-inflicted DDoS

mtr -r -c10 -n b.ns.facebook.com

Start: 2021-10-04T10:28:03-0600 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev

1.|-- 192.168.1.1 0.0% 10 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.0

2.|-- 96.120.12.229 0.0% 10 10.2 10.8 8.8 15.7 1.9

3.|-- 96.110.149.185 0.0% 10 17.7 13.6 9.8 32.3 7.0

4.|-- 162.151.51.125 0.0% 10 10.9 12.2 9.6 15.3 1.9

5.|-- 24.124.155.233 0.0% 10 13.0 10.4 9.4 13.0 1.2

6.|-- 96.216.22.45 0.0% 10 16.5 16.7 11.2 29.1 6.4

7.|-- 96.110.43.241 0.0% 10 17.4 13.6 11.9 17.4 1.6

8.|-- 96.110.38.114 0.0% 10 12.5 12.8 12.0 14.0 0.6

9.|-- 173.167.59.170 0.0% 10 36.1 19.3 11.6 36.1 9.7

10.|-- 129.134.40.76 0.0% 10 13.1 12.3 11.3 13.1 0.6

11.|-- 129.134.34.72 0.0% 10 15.3 15.7 13.5 21.3 2.5

12.|-- 129.134.102.85 0.0% 10 39.0 39.2 38.0 40.8 1.0

13.|-- 31.13.25.13 0.0% 10 30.5 29.8 28.5 31.0 0.9

14.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

15.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

16.|-- 31.13.25.13 90.0% 10 30.2 30.2 30.2 30.2 0.0

On a side note... why is it so freaking hard to format line breaks in HN?
It's all those people coming back to the real web.
Used to have a manager that we swore did exactly that. Every time he was away on holiday, mysterious site problems to prove his worth!
Such a strong belief that moderate drinking is beneficial.. "It gets the heart running". How to explain that it's not beneficial? How to show a study and have people believe in said study? Which study did you refer to?
Would be very interesting if they release the RCA to the public
I personally like https://isup.me (alias of downforeveryoneorjustme.com) because it's much shorter.

isup.me/facebook gets me what I want.
The error rate would certainly go up at first due to the additional complexity, but the cost of each error goes down. Besides, I have to switch the speed at which I'm driving far more granularly than at county lines, and no one's worried about a car's ability to handle that.

I don't disagree that sometimes central decision making is good, but in a complicated situation where any decision will have some negative consequences depending on the specific context seems like a textbook case of not being one of them.
some poor engineer is sobbing over a split brain mnesia cluster right now praying to get the thing back up.
I'm a light drinker (a beer a month range, and months without).

That said, I'm interested in the moderate drinking results.

Some alcohol intake is perhaps self medication for other issues - ie, stress etc. Perhaps there is a small positive there - though a larger positive would be to try and solve root causes?

Not - HN has gotten a bit downvote heavy these days - don't take it too seriously.
'Safer' comes from 'Smaller' here; It is possible to have smaller reactor which is completely underground and user passive cooling, so won't meltdown.

TBH, modern big nuclear power stations are already very safe.
When I noticed HN was loading slowly, I already knew FB was down.
Ottawa Canada here.

Where does the heat go though? Could the pipes/traps on the other side of the house freeze?
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Definitely laggy for me as well. Went to Facebook and couldn’t so come here to check in and the load time made me think oh it must be my wifi is not working with 2 sites not opening then finally HN opened. Then tried to hit reply to your post and again seemed like it wouldn’t load then finally did. So yes laggy usually this is the one site that loads almost instantly.
This seems like a success story for government science :

1. A shady dude and his business colleagues try to shoe-horn in a preconceived conclusion into a large RCT and co-opt the NIH brand for authenticity.

2. They have some initial success but once enrollment starts a variety of red-flags are raised and the whole thing is canned before any results are produced or large amounts of money spent.

3. Shady dues reputation is ruined, people are fired, and new safe guards are in place.
> non-deterministic installs

Things continue to improve. For example, Pip's resolver has been deterministic since around November 2020. Bringing something minimal into Python that provides deterministic builds (e.g. pip-tools) would help packaging a lot.
Suspecting it might be related to the recent letsencrypt cert authority expiring?
Was just debugging an issue earlier today and just couldn't help wondering how much of the internet is secured by letsencrypt.

All of the static hosts providing free SSL: vercel, netlify, render, firebase hosting, github pages, heroku etc. ...

It does work on modern browsers and devices but goes terribly broken on a lot of old devices.
normashooting.com - but only when, like the parent poster, using Google's DNS servers. Just switched to Cloudflare and it works.

Using Google DNS:

nslookup

> normashooting.com

Server: 8.8.8.8

Address: 8.8.8.8#53

* server can't find normashooting.com:

SERVFAIL

Using Cloudflare DNS servers:

> normashooting.com
Server: 1.1.1.1

Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: normashooting.com

Address: 104.22.56.165

Name: normashooting.com

Address: 104.22.57.165

Name: normashooting.com

Address: 172.67.43.70
Thanks, I did skip it on signup, but now every time I try to log in, I'm forwarded to a phone entry page, and there's no option to leave it except by signing out or hitting the help page. It appears I'm worthless to Twitter without my phone number, something I'm not willing to give them.
I was reading https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-a..., which looks a little different than your chart, but the craft beer thing (imho) is dangerous (and I love craft beer).

Most of the beers I like are 7.5%, except stouts which are 10-12%. They also come in large 16oz cans. Two of these is almost 4 drinks. "Craft beer enthusiast" can start to approach heavy drinker very quickly.
The risk/reward doesn't seem to make sense for Bezos. If Shatner dies, it'll be the end of their program. If he lives, maybe a marginal benefit? The man is 90, and his health is not stellar. He legit could die of anything.
> Does anyone actually know anyone who drinks more than 2 drinks every day?

Both my parents, who were successful professionals, did this.

I wasn't even aware it was abnormal.
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Here too. Just had the "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" error.
Some internet backbone provider is probably down itself.
You really can’t compare the average mile with the average autopilot mile. The best analogy I’ve heard is comparing human aircraft pilots (takeoffs, landings, weird old planes, all kinds of pilots) against aircraft autopilots only cruising at 30,000ft.
A measuring cup of wine is obviously more than a standard drink.
Unsurprisingly, Oculus is down as well, as are most services for the VR headset. So that's 4 major properties right now.
Tipping towards what? How will having this laptop change your life over having another laptop? What can you do now that you couldn't do before?
I thought the Schmid Peoplemover was impossible
Remote policy?
I don't think people were expecting magic but when we had x86 emulators to run Windows/DOS VMs back in the PPC and even 68k days with programs like SoftPC and Virtual PC being readily available and usable for business applications at least I can't really blame people for expecting Parallels and VMware to pivot their products to meet that need that was essentially what most people were using it in the first place for.
Somebody published vogon poetry and pictures and the internet routed around the damage...
Someone once told me not to take criticism from someone I wouldn't take advice from ;)
Pay a large upfront cost now and get rewarded/stuck with moderate priced electricity for fifty years, while you watch renewable electricity getting ever cheaper and then in fifty years pay an even larger cost for the cleanup (currently over £100 billion pounds in the UK and rising). A vote for nuclear now is a vote for a large bill due just when you want to retire... I like the theory but it may be they have just missed their window...
I'm wondering if it could be kind of adaptation against air (and smell) pollution in cities - when I spend my holidays far in the mountains I have less of such problem and better sense of smell than anyone else, then about installing air purifier or using anti-pollution mask non-stop for some time to prove it.

I'm vegetarian and I may have a deficit of bromelain (which is an enzyme which makes the mucus less thick) too.
Cheers, I'd edited my post.

Thought the common wisdom nowadays was to use nameservers on different TLDs and sub-labels for the best resilience.

/added, they seem to have glue records so I'd assume it's the nameservers themselves having issues.

$ dig NS @g.gtld-servers.net. a.ns.facebook.com

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

facebook.com. 172800 IN NS a.ns.facebook.com.

facebook.com. 172800 IN NS b.ns.facebook.com.

facebook.com. 172800 IN NS

c.ns.facebook.com.

facebook.com. 172800 IN NS d.ns.facebook.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

a.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN A 129.134.30.12

a.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35

b.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN A 129.134.31.12

b.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:f0fd:c:face:b00c:0:35

c.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN A 185.89.218.12

c.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:f1fc:c:face:b00c:0:35

d.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN A 185.89.219.12

d.ns.facebook.com. 172800 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:f1fd:c:face:b00c:0:35
Was kidding about telling Paul Graham. Ain’t a snitch

Thanks btw for blocking my IP, HN mods

Typing from my cell connection. Block this one too. Censorship is awesome.
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This is basically why I'm back on FB despite my many account deletions.

Ultimately to participate in civil society in my community I have to be in particular FB groups. I'd much rather meet people at local events, but the past 2 years basically I can either be isolated or on FB
> I have heard from interns that colleges want to see engagement for social justice or diversity causes during the application process.

It's been 15 years since I did the college admissions dance, but I do remember that most of the superstitions about the application process don't apply if you score above a 33 on the ACT (perhaps you'd need a perfect score to have the velvet rope lifted if you're applying for MIT). All the rules of thumb about taking at least three years of a foreign language and balancing between 2–4 extra-curricular activities are for the students who won't be immediately offered merit scholarships.
The only time i see this link is when visiting a customers team site and its mostly because i refuse to install native teams apps just to join a call.

I'm actually fine with having edge installed.. I have firefox and chrome too.

There isn't a day that goes by when i Use edge that Google is spamming with with popups to switch to chrome or open in chrome or to try and auto-login with a google address.
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Turin's spectral theory of olfaction has been disproven. I think even Turin himself admits that "perhaps it's not exclusively spectral", which means a lot, when you know Luca ;)
Netflix is up
That's certainly not a bright line in any American jurisdiction. Courts can and do order the production of library loan records. In general an American court can order the disclosure of any record maintained anywhere by anyone for any purpose. There are no records that are private and privileged against a court order, with a few narrow exceptions. The police can't order someone to produce anything; they need a court order to do it.
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As far as I could find Mozilla is signing at least one plugin by McAfee, but that at least seems to request permission to run and can be disabled.
This is what i came to comments for.

Unfortunately, we have literally dozens of comments that amount to nothing more than schadenfreude, and another handful of non-FANG employees speculating how one of the largest internet operations in existence could improve their game (lol)
Alcoholics tend to not buy super expensive drinks. It's mostly low-end cheap vodka purchased in 1.75 liter bottles in my experience.
Obviously not possible to check right now to provide proof, but I feel quite confident in saying that Facebook does not use Let's Encrypt. It's also clearly not an SSL issue.
Sure! Though some of these solutions are pretty opaque to the compiler.
I'm not trolling. I'm trying to improve discourse. Doesn't mean I'm right (as my own comment downvotes indicate) but that was my intention.
I've had a few difficult colleagues. These discussions are, IMO, critical.

They also show how effective your manager is. Your manager should be able to take seriously your concerns about that team member. You and your manager should be able to zero in, rather quickly, on strategies for handling the difficult team member.

Discussion about termination / reassignment of your colleague should be avoided early on, but if it becomes obvious that it's an irreconcilable situation, your manager should be pretty frank about company policies about "performance improvement plans," the optics of firing someone, and strategies to isolate the other team member so they don't impact everyone else.
Though from what I'm reading the FoundationDB internals are adding even more compatibility breaks from databases that work just fine in CouchDB 2 and PouchDB.

It's nice to see "we're trying for internals that make it easier to run it at scale", but it's not really a "at scale PaaS" play if there aren't any vendors on the major clouds that aren't IBM's interested in actually running whatever those internals are as a service.
> developers that make it in the first place

I don’t know how common the following is, but I have more than once created tech debt under duress from management. It seems to happen more frequently with a system already deeply in debt: slapping on another band-aid or bolting on another sidecar are both faster to do right now, and right now is when the fix or feature is ”needed.” We could always circle back and pay down the debt in the mysterious future “when we have time,” which never seemed to materialize.

Not disagreeing that that means something went really wrong somewhere, just wondering how common the situation is.
> where you expect to get under 10 individuals.

Maybe. If this person was, for example, online dating, a member of a popular club, had a YT/TikTok channel, or shared a name with someone who does or is otherwise notable, this could be a big list.

How would you feel being suspected in a murder case because you searched for a d-list celeb who shares a name with the victim?
> People really do think FB is the internet

It's the AOL of 2021
This was purely self-inflicted.
> To make sum types work, you NEED to support embed relations inside relations

If that is the case, sum types would be in violation of first normal form.
>- the "CrewCrew" are not just some activists, but some sort of authorized force

Legally, they would be "Ordner"[1], and are thereby "authorized". It is perfectly legal for organizers of "assemblies" to recruit and use volunteers to keep order and peace, as long as these volunteers are unarmed (by law). The Gewerbeordnung does not come into play here. I am not quite sure they were up to snuff when it comes to identification, tho, as legally they have to wear a white armband saying "Ordner", and I do not think they did when I saw them (they did however have those t-shirts and other swag if memory serves right). But I might be wrong.

I am sure some people, maybe even the CCC president, were offended by Vincent's websites - to be offensive is a goal Vincent stated himself - and the CCC leadership then decided to ban him. We may debate if this was justified or free speech or whatever, but at the end of the day, the organizer of the Congress told him to fuck off. There might have been misunderstandings along the way, and/or the CCC may have changed their initial decision and/or fucked up their communication (they are human, after all). But the end result was a ban from the venue.

As I said in another comment, I find the assault of Vincent that then occurred extremely problematic, probably outright illegal assault (I see no evidence of justified self-defense by the security in the video). At the same time, I respect the CCC's decision to ban an "undesirable". The club members have to figure out for themselves who they want at their events and in their spaces.

And as I also said earlier, I find the lack of accountability of the security "crew" very disconcerting. You cannot have people running around playing police (their Congress-internal
DECT phone number even is "110", same as the police has in the public telephone network) who beat up people and cover their faces to hide their identities, all the while the CCC which these security people represent runs campaigns to get laws changed to make police more accountable by having officers to clearly be identifiable (by a number on their uniforms), wearing bodycams and raising the limits on when police is allowed to use force.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/9.html
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But doesn't that mean it will be easy for the SMBs to move to any replacement service?
This is taking a longer time than expected for a company like Facebook - must be serious where a rollback isn't possible or trivial.
+1, with the recent reveal -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741532
How much revenue does facebook loose per hour down?
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Hey man, if we’re rebuilding roads for the sake of self driving cars, let’s just go back to ubiquitous light rail instead, like we had before cars got popular. This whole self-driving industry is so ridiculous when you consider that this has been a solved problem for over a hundred years..
Because he doesn't like the website so he thinks nobody else should be able to use it.
Is HN laggy today for everyone?
It loads very slow and quite often I get

We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!

Is it just me or it is for everyone?
Or some country has started a war.