skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that while Waymo did some tests unsupervised, most of the rides that non-employees can hail still have a supervisor. Is that not true?
You do know that <insert-extremely-damaging-thing> is literally used by small businesses in 3rd world to conduct....business right?
Facebook group of apps down globally
What Type of Social Proof Is Most Effective?
There is zero reason to believe it's related at all. It's perfectly reasonable to have multiple large and unrelated failures in the same week.

I also wouldn't classify the loss of 1 company, and the expiration of some TLS certificates, as the interconnected network of networks being broken. The Internet has continued to function even if some larger players were unreachable or having issues.
> The country where I live

With your username, I think you can risk naming the country without any additional loss of privacy.
> The M1 is a good CPU. It's incrementally better than the Intel CPUs used in earlier versions of the same product.

I suppose everything can be called incrementally better by some viewpoint but calling it incrementally better than the Intel CPUs used in earlier versions is wild to me. I specifically switched to my first ever Apple product because of how revolutionary the generational step was compared to what we've been getting on x86 laptops year to year and no equivalent x86 laptops of the year came close. Not only is it comparable to my overclocked desktop in tasks from 1-4 cores it does so without kicking on fans and the battery life is astounding while it does it. It even runs emulated x86 software faster than the native x86 version of the same year.
for me even this site loads very very slowly.
pinging google name server is fast as usual.
it could be a more wide problem not just FB related.
Sort-of; it's really the TAMDAR [1] system taking measurements of humidity and temperature that are readily assimilated into the global forecast models run by all of the major weather forecast centers (NOAA, UKMO, ECMWF, etc). These observations play a non-trivial role in improving the assimilated initial conditions and boosting forecast quality. Recent work [e.g. 2] has demonstrated that the degradation in availability of aircraft-based observations during the pandemic likely did produce a real, statistically significant decrease in average forecast skill during the afflicted time periods.

[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2006ams_TAMDAR...
[2]: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/59/11/JAMC-D...
Apple tries to sell you, but I feel like they are better on dark patterns. Whenever I use Windows, I feel like I have to be actively on-guard against the OS subverting my intentions. There are a lot of problems with the Apple ecosystem, but that isn't really one of them.
It pales in comparison to the lack of empathy facebook has shown to its user herd.
The "learn the secrets of how $SUCCESSFUL_PERSON did $SUCCESSFUL_THING!" is almost always garbage content. Despite that, it's a massive, massive "industry," that will never die.

Once you see the extent of the Matthew Effect [1], it's hard to unsee it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
I was on a video call during the incident. The service was working but with super-low bandwidth for 30 minutes, then I got disconnected and every FB property went down suddenly. Seems more suggestive of someone pulling the plug than a DNS issue, although it could also be both.
I'd be careful with that, I don't see why game development would be any different. You still have to focus on customer satisfaction. Single indie game developers succeeding without doing that seems to be an exception, not the rule. For every Stardew Valley, it feels like I've read a dozen postmortems from people who went off developing something for years only to find out that nobody wanted it and there was no audience for it.
The short answer is 1 in 5 people in the US drink more than 2 drinks per day on average.

I know many people who fall in the second from the top decile of drinking (i.e. between 2 and 10 drinks a day). Some of the people who I think are in this group are probably actually in the top decile (above 10 drinks a day) and conceal the real quantities they consume

Let me put it this way, 75% of alcohol is sold to people who drink more than 10 drinks per day and this group comprises 10% of the US (the top decile of drinking.) Given the numbers it is pretty clear that a strong majority of this group is not homeless.
Seems like Patreon is their most successful comparable model. Patreon offers tiers of 7.9%, 10.9%, and 14.9%, while Hyper offers 5% pay-as-you-go, or a flat $299 monthly.

So if you're, let's say, a Twitch streamer with 5,000 subs but 20,000 Discord members, I could see a strong use case for Hyper, because there's such minimal friction for both customers (Patreon rewards are often disconnected from other community channels like Discord) and sellers (subscriptions can be configured to change roles, allowing access to permissions, channels, etc).

Hyper: $300mo flat / 2000 users @ $5mo = 3%
Patreon (lowest tier): 2000 users @ $5mo * .079 = $790

Hyper: $300mo flat / 5000 users @ $5mo = 1.2%
Patreon (lowest tier): 5000 users @ $5mo * .079 = $1975

Looks viable to me!
Hi. I realize you're not looking for answers, but I would like to give my 2 cents. Now, this is just my opinion and I welcome constructive criticism.

> are these people even real? Do they live somewhere I'm just unfamiliar with? Or did the internet give them some loud voice that otherwise doesn't exist in person?

Yes. Most, but not all, of these "loud" influencers are real. Social media has become their platform to voice their opinions extremely loudly. And it has given them a reach that wasn't possible before. One public tweet on Twitter is instantly available to all the users and "lurkers". The algorithm pushes it based on engagement and it propagates through the filter bubble it "fits" in. Now they know that there are others who agree with them, but the only way to reach them is through social media. So most of them just keep their opinion online.

> Why are these voices the loudest - does controversy really sell this well? Is social media purposefully putting controversial things on the forefront because it increases engagement?

Yes. The main goal of Big Social (is that even a real term?) is to increase engagement and then sell ads. Fixing this "most engaged content goes to the top" approach will cut into their profits which will spook investors.

P.S This is my first comment outside of my own post (yes, only one post). I am a lurker
You are absolutely right that it’s dumb that it took so long for us to have discovered these receptors so late. Consider for a second though that this might be a symptom of a fundamental myopia in the way biological science itself has progressed? That perhaps we have been congratulating people for the wrong thing - discovering expected genes instead of finding new ways to do everything faster or finding things that are completely unexpected. As much as heat and pressure sound like fundamental senses (they are), they aren’t very high on the priority list of basically anyone trying to do biology with applications in mind. Heat receptors don’t cure cancer or cystic fibrosis. Or Covid.
I’m shocked you have a wide enough circle of friends to include homeless people but not, like any craft beer enthusiast.
Discord has some really useful but non-search-indexable info in it. Putting communities behind a paywall would make it way tougher to openly access info.

Probably make some good money though...
So this is my attitude - don’t mistake the discourse online by 1% of the population for how things actually work in the “real world”.

But then my company started encouraging you to put your “preferred pronouns” in your email signature.

Then suddenly it dawned on me those 1% reflect the beliefs of the leadership of my Fortune 100 company.
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Eastern European here, but I spent most of my adult life in the UK. Almost every person I know drinks a few beers or shots a day. 2-3 on a normal, uneventful day, and a about 5-8 drinks when meeting up with family/friends etc, and 10-20+ drinks on a night out.

None of them show physical symptoms yet, all highly functioning people, but I suspect that is mostly due to their youth (20-40).

I personally went teetotaler about a year ago. Drinking is loads of fun and I miss it, but I appreciate a steady mood now way more than the ups and downs of alcohol induced euphoria, then potential anxiety etc.
Yes I do. And they don't think it is a health problem at all. Even working in tech in downtown SF, there would be happy hours all the time and free-flowing booze. I told myself I was a "social drinker" but found myself at 2-4 drinks every single workday. So Monday is a python meet-up with drinks. Tuesday is someone's birthday and also Taco Tuesday so we all go out for tacos and drinks. Wednesday is some alumni event downtown with drinks. Thursday is my non-work friends' "Thirsty Thursday" drinks. Friday is the unofficial company-sponsored happy hour where the managers bring out Whisky at 3-4pm.

All of a sudden, I was on the road to alcoholism, just by trying to fit in and be a little more extroverted. And the booze certainly helps someone who is anxious and introverted do exactly that.
Can you explain to me why it was bad? I've not used Java (professionally at least) - from what I can tell, the main issue is that it's just much more verbose than returning something like Result<T>.
I wonder if everyone refreshing the sites/apps trying to get it to load is contributing to the problem
any announcement that conflates a decentralized web with cloudflare is premature at best and likely downright misleading. Distributed Gateways explicitly have CF as the central clearinghouse for all communication.
Constraints on the password imposed by m209 on first password management
I was going through the paper [Password Security: A Case History][1] By Robert Morris and Ken Thompson on authentication. It has been mentioned in the First Scheme that the first encryption used m209, in which they used the user password as the key.

The respective excerpt is,

> Most of the standard encryption methods used (in the past) for
> encryption of messages are rather easy to invert. A convenient and
> rather good encryption program happened to exist on the system at the
> time; it simulated the M-209 cipher machine [1] used by the U.S. Army
> during World War II. It turned out that the M-209 program was usable,
> but with a given key, the ciphers produced by this program are trivial
> to invert. It is a much more difficult matter to find out the key
> given the cleartext input and the enciphered output of the program.
> Therefore, the password was used not as the text to be encrypted but
> as the key, and a constant was encrypted using this key. The encrypted
> result was entered into the password file.

As read through the m209 further, seems like the key wheel can have 6 wheels, in which we can set/unset a specific alphabet.

There are some constraints here,
- Only alphabets can be used in the key.
- They are case insensitive.
- Not all the wheels contain all the alphabets that are needed.

Given these constraints, any idea what were the constraints on the passwords imposed by the first generation encryption of the password?

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128.1635&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Can you not use an Oculus headset if FB servers are down? That’s absurd.
Acute Myocarditis Following Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination in Adults
I would take an M1 MacBook Pro over my intel MacBook Pro in a heart beat. It’s a heating battery dying piece of shit to put it lightly
Programming is one of the few professions where one can be very successful as an introvert, working in a manner that is compatible with my personality type. I think it's great that there are other methodologies for people with different preferences but I hope pair programming doesn't start to be seen as a "best practice" that is forced on all teams without acknowledging these personality differences.
Superbly written article, covering so much of the nuance involved in medical science. Easily one of the best links I've ever come across on Hacker News.
While uint32_t is not an uint64_t in the is-a sense, I don't see why any specific value of uint32_t can't be converted to an uint64_t. What kind of error would be prevented by disallowing this conversion?
Yeah, honestly, this kind of thing slightly terrifies me. I know I have definitely Googled for totally random things that, when taken out of context, would look pretty bad. I remember once watching a show where someone was knocked out with chloroform, and I googled something like "Does chloroform really work?" or "Can you really knock someone out with chloroform?"

I turned to my partner and joked "You better not be huffing any chloroform in the near future."

That's the light side of it, but the scary side of it, and why these sort of "fishing expeditions" are so dangerous, is that statistically it's probably the case that if you're keywords are pretty specific (googling a person's name or address in a very time limited window), that 90-95% of the time if someone popped up they were doing something suspicious - but that means 5-10% of the time you'd get a false positive. Given revelations of people who have been released fro death row for rather flimsy evidence, I don't have confidence that the authorities would do much besides try to find someone guilty once they got a hit.
The glue records are fine from my end:
dig -t NS facebook.com @a.gtld-servers.net
The Case of the Insecure Printer
There are two issues being discussed here: the ability to speak/censor opinions, and the ability to control unspoken opinions.

First, every individual has what should be a rather obvious and fundamental right to think whatever thoughts and have whatever opinions they like. Nobody gets to decide what opinions an individual holds, except for that individual.

Now, as for the spreading of those ideas:

Power to censor is frequently used to silence good ideas and allow bad ones to flourish - see modern-day censorship in China, Russia, North Korea, India, and Australia, or older censorship around the Vietnam War and slave liberation (back when owning slaves was in fashion).

The fact that someone is silencing an opinion has very little to do with whether or not that opinion is actively harmful - and, at the very least, those in power have a strong tendency to use their power (including censorship, if available) to gain more power, and those in the public realm will use their own speech and censorship (including via "canceling" aka mob justice) to benefit their own group, regardless of whether their cause is just or their tactics are fair.

So, it's all well and good for you to say "this opinion is harmful", but that's not really well correlated to whether that opinion is actually harmful. Even when the majority of the country agrees that an opinion is harmful, that doesn't actually mean that it is - but, as a democracy, we choose an imperfect system that works most of the time. That system, however, involves passing laws that declare some speech harmful, based on representatives elected by majority vote of their constituents. Twitter-based outrage from a tiny fraction of the population defining "bad opinions" is so antithetical to the idea of democracy that it shouldn't even be considered in the first place.

tl;dr we have an existing mechanism for controlling "harmful speech" and it's the government, not social media mobs.
I can think of half a dozen people who drink more than 2 a day. Heavy drinking is very common in the UK and Europe, Scandinavia especially in my experience. I stopped drinking a year ago because I was in the habit of having 4 and conversations like this convinced me I was killing myself.
The reason that moderate drinkers (i.e. 1-2 doses/day) appear to enjoy less risk of disease than the abstainers, is that the group of the abstainers includes people that used to drink but stopped to (e.g. they were alcholics and sobered up or they got sick and had to stop because of it) which still have hugely elevated risk profiles. When you account for that, the dip vanishes.

[1] https://youtu.be/l3ilpQ-_IME
Does Magnus Carlsen understand why chess moves are good? Does high depth stockfish or AlphaZero understand why moves are good? Why is Carlsen so relatively bad at chess with his understanding of the why?
Like, every day, or on average?
Yikes, seems like an easy redundancy split.
I know plenty of people who will regularly consume a bottle of wine a night, or a 6-pack a day. It is very common.
Ethernet cables used as antennas to siphon data from air-gapped systems
Might be worthwhile to note this is copyright 2014 in the title.
Microplastics is such a bleak topic. How are you going to shift the manufacturing world away from plastic of all things?
Is there any real business going over discord & telegram? I've only seen scammer, illegal porn and conspiracy believers sell through those channels. Legit Influencers are usually using patreon, onlyfans or similar platforms.
It seems that you didn't even read three paragraphs into the article:

"At times, McKinsey consultants helped those drugmaker clients fend off costly FDA oversight — even as McKinsey colleagues assigned to the FDA were working to bolster the agency’s regulation of the pharmaceutical market. In one instance, for example, McKinsey consultants helped Purdue and other opioid producers push the FDA to water down a proposed opioid-safety program. The opioid producer ultimately succeeded in weakening the program, even as overdose deaths mounted nationwide."

McKinsey was actively helping opioid manufacturers minimize government oversight. The misconduct in question by McKinsey isn't hypothetical.
...Including that one
Lars Vilks has died in a car crash – Famous for Prophet Muhammad depiction
What's the hypothesis? Why would autistic individuals have more aluminum than the typical individual?

What's the protocol for detox?
What would a full day of WhatsApp outage mean for the world?
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It sounds a lot like the ancient astronomers couching their studies in something like bringing glory to god for his masterful clockwork or the like. See Copernicus in On the Shoulders of Giants. Really eye opening how many rhetorical back-flips they did even as they introduced the sun-centered solar system that they personally believed in.

OP seems to push the idea that we could have trusted this study, even if it was funded by industry and run by a professor with cushy ties to that industry.
It is slow for me too.
> Is it worth killing n random people, for a uncalculated and unknowable chance of saving n+m lives in the future. The pool of people randomly selected to die have not volunteered or consented to be part of this project.

This reasoning renders any governmental policy change of any sort impermissible.

It isn't coherent to apply these forms of deontological ethics to state action - a random set of people will die with both state action and omission of action, I see no reason why not to pick the option with the smaller expected number of deaths.

But this is all besides my original point: this is a legitimate moral debate to have and the rhetoric used by the above commentator was entirely uncalled for.
The only thing HN posters hate more than ads is paywalls
Weird, because over here WhatsApp is ingrained into the social fabric of your life. Couldn't imagine ever going back to texting/iMessage.
Enterprise deployment of a Somebody Else’s Problem field can really harm innovation,

“Any object around which an S.E.P. is applied will cease to be noticed, because any problems one may have understanding it (and therefore accepting its existence) become Somebody Else's Problem.”
Hmm, this appears to be a relatively new power.

https://www.propublica.org/article/remember-when-the-patriot...
No harshness was perceived on the first formulation; the second one with «Its a start at least», creates doubts about "what exactly missed a start, what remained unexplained before that partial disclosure". Among the tentative interpretations of those doubts was that you may have understood that the original poster was replying clarifying his own position, as you elicited.

There is little hidden about what is unconvincing in the situation. I just submitted an article from The Atlantic, "The Myth That Democracies Bungled the Pandemic" (they do not, to the reading of some data by that author), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748382 , and in providing a few quotations in the opening post I noted a there reported statement from Francis Fukuyama:

> it is not necessarily democracy but “whether citizens trust their leaders, and whether those leaders preside over a competent and effective state” that is crucial to defeating a pandemic

This is another way to express the issue, and another formulation of The Reply to a reading of your post as "what does one demand to trust": trustworthiness.
Those outcomes are not reasonable goals, given the profound challenges these students face. The programs are probably inefficient (many of these services are), but your statement forgets that the bar is too high for kids suffering from abuse, starvation, homelessness, etc.

It could be a lot worse without this support.
Seems like the perfect time to launch isisitdowndownrightnow.com.
Even the Name servers are not returning any values. That's bad.

dig @8.8.8.8 +short facebook.com NS

These are usually anycasted, meaning that 1 ip return in NS are in fact several servers spread in several regions. They are distributed to closer match through agreements with ISP with the BGP protocol. Very interesting, because it seems that it took 1 DNS entry misconfiguration to withdraw M$ worth of devices from the internet.
At the cost of losing customers, is my point :)
the glues are still there-- it's not a DNS issue but a network one. Their ASN has mostly been withdrawn from everywhere.
People unfortunately love the upsides of misinformation, or perhaps it's the format that makes it easy to build community around shared (misinformed) values, to rally in battles that rage for hours or days for a cause you deeply believe in and can follow by digesting 30-second soundbites on social midea and 30-minute videos on YouTube.

People will do this wherever they can talk in a group online, not just Facebook properties. It's... pretty bad actually, I think the only tool that exists right now is censorship, because the bullshit gets created, spread, and wholeheartedly received way faster than debunking will.

And censorship is a power that can't be safely entrusted to nobody.
* A friend of mine runs a posh burger van that moves around a lot, and he puts "today's location" on Facebook.

* My wife talks with her family in Brazil through Facebook, sharing photos

* My Church receives a lot of help requests from people in trouble through Facebook

* Some abuse charities talk give support to victims through Facebook

etc

You could argue that it would be nice if there were alternatives, or that these organisations shouldn't be using Facebook at all. Sign me up for your campaign, I agree with you.

But if you say "Facebook has no value" then you will never understand the value proposition you need to offer in order to kill Facebook.