skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason contacts don't tend to show up on Matrix/Element is because we don't push the user into sharing their addressbooks given the obvious privacy issues. Instead you mainly have to figure out who you know out-of-band for now (e.g. tweet "hey, who's on Matrix?").
That's still evolutionary not revolutionary. Every CPU intended for laptops over the last 20 years has been both increasing performance and reducing power consumption compared to the generation(s) before them. Apple didn't buck a trend, they didn't do anything new. They "just" had a really good execution of the standard, tried & true improvement path.

This was the whole marketing push behind projects like Intel Centrino - to drive even lower system power consumption by mandating certain combinations of certain parts that worked well together. Which continued with things like Intel Atheno & Evo.

Nothing Apple did with the M1 changed the game. It's the same game, it's the same race it's always been, they just are now in the lead of that race with their car. Which is impressive in its own right, but definitely not "revolutionary"

> Less energy means less heat, less heat means you can crank up clock cycles.

This goes the other way around. To improve efficiency you reduce the clock cycles and increase IPC instead. That was the M1's advancement over the status quo, a significant increase in IPC. Clock speeds didn't change - in fact, it regressed by a tremendous amount. This regression in clock speed is how the M1 consumes so little power by comparison.
> I feel obliged to point out the destructive power of Knuth's statement, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Except that line was written in a book (Volume 1: Art of Computer Programming) that was entirely written from the ground up in Assembly language.

Its been a while since I read the quote in context. But IIRC: it was the question about saving 1 instruction between a for-loop that counts up vs a for-loop that counts down.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" if you're deciding to save 1-instruction to count from "last-number to 0", taking advantage of the jnz instruction common in assembly languages, rather than "0 to last-number". (that is: for(int i=0; i<size; i++) vs for(int i=size-1; i>=0; i--). The latter is slightly more efficient).

Especially because "last-number to 0" is a bit more difficult to think about and prove correct in a number of cases.
Seems like it'll be "Rocket Man" instead.

https://youtu.be/lul-Y8vSr0I
Interesting SPEC 2017 performance figures for the A15 performance cores vs x86 that the story's author posted in the story comments:

>Comparative subsets would 5950X 7.29 int / 9.79 fp, 11900K 6.61 int / 9.58 fp. versus 7.28 / 10.15 on A15
I’d highly recommend you actually do the calculation of what a “standard drink” is. You might be surprised. In my garage fridge is a pint sized can of alcoholic Kombucha at 7% ABV. Higher than most beers, for sure, but not unusual for some craft beers in my experience. Back of the envelope calculations has that at 1.8 standard drinks, very close to the limit.
For pure psychological, "Audition" is horrifying...a japanese horror story without any supernatural elements...
What a broken product. There isn’t 1.5B users with public profiles in FB, so whatever methods these guys used clearly went beyond regular data scrapping.
Failure is the goal. If you are constantly producing children you're producing workers for your fields to increase yields and even more important you're increasing the human resources that can be used, taxed, and tithed.

Outlawing most drugs makes sex one of the few legal pleasurable activities, especially before modern technological entertainment.

Making sure sex is limited to married families has an effect of keeping both parents invested in the children so they are raised to adulthood. Having your life tied to children at a young age has you focusing on providing a good life for your children so you don't want to risk your life revolting against those in power.

Those in power just pretended to follow the same rules as others.
Good. Hopefully more companies get hacked.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are experiencing an outage
No longer program for a living but even 20 years ago that kind of stuff was 80% of my daily job as a LAMP web programmer. I wrote as little code as possible, and only to glue stuff together. The challenge was to understand the pieces to fit together and even just remember how to access all the accounts required. In that light, I'm not seeing much has changed in the past few decades.
At the start of this year I started working for an employment service company that covers the Indo-Asia-Pacific and South American markets.

I was amazed to discover how pervasive Facebook, Inc. has become in the developing world for conducting business and navigating everyday life.

For a lot of people in developing nations such as the Phillipines and Indonesia, Facebook is synonymous with the internet. This has been buoyed by their push to bundle uncapped/free data for Facebook with mobile plans in markets with high growth of mobile internet access.

It's interesting, because I'm always reading articles about how "Western teens aren't using Facebook any more", which is true, but it's also irrelevant, because they're not really a profitable market, teenagers have short attention spans and no money. Facebook's growth strategy is to become the one stop shop (in lower income nations) for everything you want and need.
I'm a 1-person remote team, and I virtually never deal with non-technical people. So I'd say hermits most certainly do exist.
Do you have any friends that might have used any FB app? If so, chances are high they uploaded their contact list and FB has your name and phone number.
I sure do. There was a time in my life where I was getting properly drunk every single night for years and held down a programming job the whole time (and I still do!). I know several colleagues who drink far more
than two drinks a day and are all productive and well liked at their jobs (all ate in their late-30s to mid-60s).

Sometimes people spend years trying to find the right prescription drug to quiet their daemons (with awful side-effects along the way) but oh so often, good ol’ over-the-counter alcohol JustWorks.
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Very much. I have a bunch of Windows x64 VMs that I do not want to convert to ARM (even just for the time it would take to migrate over to new VMs), plus a x64 Windows 7 VM.

The value of virtual machines is to be able to virtualise a specific platform! That Win7 machine has software that needs to keep running. There is no Win10 porting or equivalent.
YES

There is such a difference in being short, curt, or whatever you want to say, and being awful. Pointing out obvious mistakes, flaws, and other issues is part of being a supervisor/manager/executive. Some do not have time to mince words and beat around the bush.

When it becomes personal attacks/insults, that's the line.

The question you have to ask yourself is - am I listening to the feedback or am I ignoring it because it wasn't presented how I wanted it to be presented?
can productivity (or emotional stability) for the overall US economy be tracked on a daily basis? I wonder if a wholesale facebook outage would show up on that graph as a brief blip in the positive direction.
It uses the same nameservers as facebook.com, same point of failure.

Seems like another poster posted finer details regarding BGP/peering which is ultimately causing the issue.
That seems to undermine their "everyone is treated equally" argument.
Or it could be as simple as everyone wants to discuss one of the biggest tech companies suffering such a massive outage, combined with the aforementioned FB-haters basking in this moment.
Another day, another selling of 1.5B Facebook users on a 'hacking forum'.

There seems to be no end to the chaos around the Facebook mafia.
> If anything I think people are grappling with the fact that the Internet just makes data scraping and processing possible on a scale previously unimaginable,

Agreed.

I remember way back when FB first launched the "feed". Folks on Slashdot (yes, that long ago) had great outcry about how much of a violation of privacy it was. I countered that all it was doing was collating all the posts that people were making on their "walls". Nothing new was necessarily being exposed.

People still didn't like it. Someone argued that the extra steps necessary to visit each "friends" wall was a valuable impediment. Obviously, that's a weak position to take, but it reinforces your point: data scraping is easier than anyone seems to be willing to acknowledge. Anything you write in any "semi-public" space should simply be considered entirely public.
Well, I know you jest, but a lot of conversations, with many people, over years and years would be lost. It'd be akin to hundreds of email threads with friends being deleted.
You're right. Fb doesn't seem to be using letsencrypt.

https://crt.sh/?q=facebook.com

On a side note, the amount of phishing sites using letsencrypt and having a domain similar to facebook.com is quite appalling.
You are, of course, correct. In fact, the article even states that explicitly. My comment was a [too?] subtle snarky reference to a famous 1963 episode of the Twilight Zone starring Shatner, in which there was "a man on the wing!". "Nightmare at 20,000 ft" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXHKDb0CNjA
"sour grapes" (2): "feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger"

Seems appropriate to me.
Not to be outdone, Elon announces plans to launch Shatner across the hood of a Tesla Model X.

Wait, wrong show...
I mean if you have data feel free to present it like I did.
> 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.

The whole space tourism idea has the same issue, if a rich billionaire, regardless of health condition, dies then Blue origin would have the same problem.

This seems on the surface to be a PR stunt to boost Bezos massive ego.
I'm getting an error page with a dead image link and a 2020 copyright date (uk)
Yes, that's literally my exact point in my last paragraph.
Cool!

Looks like this is the same Arrow from Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (the "CAP theorem," so to speak, for democracy and voting).
>you trust Microsoft not to ship a trojan in Windows

Speak for yourself, mate.
I assumed this would refer to the fact that Disneyland in Florida had (has?) Permission to build a reactor of their own as a power source.
> Am I naive for thinking that everyone knows that Alcohol is not good for them?

Yes, extremely. Aside from the fact that I know plenty of people in my extended family who drink more than 2 drinks per day, the vast majority of my family clings to the "a drink a day is better for you than none".
Mine is in the basement, and it diffuses throughout the house. Next to it is uncomfortably warm on full, the bedrooms on the first floor on the far side of the house are above freezing but not warm.

If you had it in a bedroom on the second floor and your piping was in the basement, it might not be enough. It doesn't take too much to keep a well-insulated house above freezing though. In my experience, even body heat and a few candles is sufficient unless it's below like -10 °C or really windy.
I'm not a Facebook user, and I'm a casual HN user. I heard Facebook was down, so I checked HN. I bet that's the source of the problem. If you know about HN and you hear Facebook's down, you check HN to see what people are saying.
Aaah, it is much clearer now how come FDA approved COVID vaccines. I guess we'll soon also find out that Biden got loads of money for mandating them.

/ducks
If you haven't already, you've been able to "auto-delete" the data Google keeps on you for a while now. I think Google should be turning this on by default for everyone, but, if you are not doing this, a little more detail may be found at https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically....
Is this in some way connected to the Facebook data leak of 1.5 billion users? The timing seems quite odd that both these things happen around the same time.
Yeah, but would there be any drawbacks?
I'm a little over 2000 weeks old. Does that mean what I think that means?
> Facebook gives you the illusion that you can opt of this data being public.

What makes you think that that isn't the case here? It sounds like they just scraped all the public profiles they could find. It's not a database "leak" or something like that.
> To use that logic, we should also not have judges or a legal system.

I don't see how that conclusion is drawn at all. The legal system is run by highly trained individuals in as public a way as possible, bounded by its own set of standard laws and procedures, to very specific sets of issues, often times throwing out cases because they are not "resolvable" by the narrow capabilities of the system.

To compare a random anonymous person behind closed doors spitting out a "fact check" on their laptop to judges is an insult to judges and the legal system.
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So they managed to remove facebook.com from 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8. That is impressive. Not something anyone can achieve in such short time by even trying.
Dedicated operators is OK, but IME the semantics are value-level e.g. one value is overflowing while the other is saturating. In that sense, I think Rust' `Wrapping<T>` is really nice though the ergonomics are not ideal.
Exactly! I couldn’t agree more.

I’ve always said that you need to look after power users’ interests, because even though they’re a small percentage of your user base they’re the ones who influence everyone else. A single power user will likely influence their immediate family, their classmates, work colleagues, friends, relations.. easily a broad spread of people.

Neglect power users at your peril.
Facebook is having a very bad day today, You have this hack announced today, all their sites are apparently down due to a bgp issue they are dealing with, and then the bombshell allegations of them intentionally creating toxicity on their platform to enrich themselves at the expense of society. Zuck's world is slowly collapsing in on him, expect heavy regulation and the beginning of the end of facebook as we know it.
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I think it's a normal reaction to the marketing. When every product launch is promoted as the second coming of Jesus Christ people become cynical and overly critical.
Ask HN: Why no one has created a way to apply jobs via API?
But at one point AOL was the actual internet for it's subscribers.
To the extent that the comparison is disingenuous, I would think it's because we're comparing the criminal mismanagement of a Soviet nuclear facility with ordinary coal facilities. Frankly Chernobyl wouldn't happen in the west (and thus using it as a reason not to invest in nuclear seems disingenuous), and certainly not with newer, smaller, and safer reactor designs.
A couple of years ago, an admin at Hacker News asked those of us who are just reading to log out because their system is architected in such a way that logged in users use more resources than anonymous ones. So, if you're feeling altruistic, log out of HN!
It actively uses its algorithm to radicalize racists and conspiracy theorists, and when it discovered that's what it was doing decided to keep doing it because it was good for the bottom line:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-pushes-qanon-racism...
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Plenty of people. Once you start paying attention, you see many many casual alcoholics. I'm not sure why you're being downvoted because it's a common misconception as others have pointed out how much constitutes a drink and how much we're actually drinking.
If I wanted to know if a site is down for everyone or just me, I would check twitter/hn first before checking the down detector sites
Not to mention all the small businesses that rely on Instagram too. Here it's used as an e-commerce platform.
> It's a parent's job to educate your children. There are much worse things than Facebook out there.

I'm guessing that either you're not a parent, or your kids aren't teens.

But most parents of teens realize that kids, and especially teens, are often much more influenced by things like social media & peers (and peers via social media) vs. influence their parents have on them.
Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc. So each leak uncovers a person little by little.

This vindicates the stance taken by Signal to not even collect metadata.

Edit: I mean surreptitiously scan the face of a stranger you see in public and the app will tell you about them. Don't know names of the apps.
Probably not, from other comments it looks like there was a wrong configuration rolled out, and now they are logistically struggling to get access to fix them.
Facebook down because of a cloud provider?
Alle Störungen shows a massive spike in problems for every service it keeps track of: https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de/
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This is the right explanation. We just need a formal study to assert the obvious here.

It boils down to:
Self control is strongly correlated with good health
BGP routes withdraw before Facebook Down
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M1 is an implementation detail.
Same here, about 10 years clean.

I simply won't participate in a community that insists all communication go through Facebook-owned channels. I have found that most hobbies and groups I participate in do send out their important info over E-mail as well as whatever they post to Facebook. I've never been embarrassed to go E-mail only. And if they really insist on FB, I just do without. It's not worth it. Be part of the solution, and all that.
Decrying the concept of "intellectual property" entirely, as he does, is a pretty radical position nowadays, so yes, that comment is proof of a radical position.
the 1.5B number leads me to believe that these aren't all public accounts though, so it's a bit broader than the phone book comparison

also at this point there have been enough large leaks that cross-referencing the data can probably paint a very complete picture of many people
Facebook being down makes me think of all of those small businesses who never built websites. They rely on traffic and publicity from their Facebook pages only.

It's so important to diversify, such as building a website.
> everything I used to be able to get in a phone book

Fair, although you could opt out of the phone book. (And I don't think they had location/address, though it's been so long now that I can't remember for sure.)

> I think people are grappling with the fact that the Internet just makes data scraping and processing possible on a scale previously unimaginable

This is it right here. The scale and ease of access are terrifying. It's true that in the olden days, someone could follow me around and write down everywhere I went, everyone I talked to, what stores I went to, my hobbies, and so on. But someone would actually have to do that, and they would have to single me out, and even then the information they collected would be in a notebook, not distributed to virtually every human on the planet.

Now we are all being followed, all the time, and all of that information is available to anyone with almost no cost or effort. This is a sea change, and personally I find it horrifying. There are very, very few people I would trust with that much information. I definitely don't trust the whole world with it.
The Popol Vuh is an amazing read, and I have a copy of Recinos, Goetz, and Morley's English version (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230039019) from 1981 on my bookshelf with the other religious books. If you're interested in an approachable retelling, Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya (1989) by Patricia Amlin
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHSOGryN-DA) uses actual images from the K’iche’ Maya texts.
This happens in data regulatory contexts. There are varying degrees of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and different rules around securing it.
Voting with their feet/wallet/choice of medical procedure? We have rights and regulations because these individualist methods have again and again been proven ineffective.
It seems like an easy redundancy split, but imagine driving two cars down the freeway at the same time, because you got a flat tire in one, the other day.

In order to actually be redundant you need to have two sets of infrastructure to serve, and then if the internal one goes down, the external one's basically useless when the internal resolution's down anyway. Capacity planning (because you're inside Facebook and can't pretend that all data-centers ever-where are connected via an infinitely fast network) becomes twice as much work. How you do updates for a couple thousand teams isn't trivial in the first place, now you have to cordon them off appropriately?

I don't know what Facebook's DNS serving infrastructure looks like internally, but it's definitely more complicated than installing `unbound` on a couple of left-over servers.
Any particular reason you think a metaverse is incompatible with an evil organization?

The evil co. in Ready Player One, the movie, literally imprisoned people and used them for forced labor.

(then, somehow, the CEO gets arrested by regular cops, lol).
What exactly is it that you do?

I must say, I'm envious of "thought leaders" but the net result seems to always lead back to "create your own knowledge product and sell it to other people."
Shatner does seem to always want to make a buck, but at 90, with all those years of conventions, meet and greets, and sweet TJ Hooker royalty checks, doesn't he have enough money?
I think that information increased in sensitivity because technology that gives us instant access to it also allows it to be exploited in different new ways. Like there's no machine that can take a paper phonebook and call everyone in it with customized spam messages, but you can trivially do that with a CSV file and 20 lines of python.
like today! xD