skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The servers struggle to reply a basic 5xx answer.

Two possibilities:

- the DNS services internally have issues (most likely, as this could explain the snowball effect)

- it could be also a core storage issue and all their VMs are relying on it and so they don't want to block third-party websites and think it will last for a long time, so they prefer to answer nothing for now in the DNS (so it will fail instantly to the client, and drain the application/database servers so they can reboot with less load)
Good, now I can go for lunch.
The metaverse is the 3D internet, full stop. The main way that we will interface with the metaverse is the web, which is currently still in 2D mode.

However, with the introduction of WebGPU, WebAssembly, and WebXR the browser will be able to host immersive, spatial websites.

I wrote an article that goes further into this if anyone is interested:

https://alexstlouis.medium.com/the-metaverse-or-should-i-say...
Not just you. It is very laggy on my end too.
it is probably unrelated but HN is crawling
The commenter meant that SSC was the subject of (i.e. an example of) the New York Times's predatory reporting.
From how often this is mentioned by people who love USB-C, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person who never had an issue with correct orientation.
> Also, to be abundantly clear, I think this is all a good thing. It is intrinsically part of the value of a sum type in a language that you're not forced to think about the modestly complicated memory layout such things entail. It is good that compilers have some special cases for when you're summing on small values.

Seems more likely you'd limit your enums to 256 entries and always use a byte than require a word by default, no?

niche-value optimisation is a much more complicated affair so it's unlikely as a baseline indeed.
Shaded Relief Maps in Blender
I recall back in the early days, working with IBM professional services on a large contract Lockheed was doing with DOW Chem, but hosted in IBMs datacenter space at a very large DC in South San Jose...

It was a FN nightmare to get anything done - it took a month just to get static IPs allotted to the project, way too many meetings, too many PMs on the IBM side and the pricing was absolutely ridiculous. IIRC we were charging DOW ~$40,000 a month to host two Racks in the DC when prices for bandwidth were ~$900/MB at the time...

I then worked with IBM and Intel when Intel was deploying a an OpenStack setup for RedHat. Same level of BS to get simple things accomplished. It was one of those cringeworthy projects where you had PMs on the team who didnt know jack about anything we were doing and were super slow to get anything done. You just cringed when on a call and people throughout the project were so disjointed and disconnected that you felt embarrassed for them on the calls...
You're already gonna be encouraged to move to an Enterprise ($5k+) account if you use too many resources, and/or if too much of your traffic is from non-browser clients, and probably for a bunch of other reasons I don't know about it. The terms under which this may happen are essentially arcane knowledge learned through experience. Think about it: if this weren't the case, every other CDN would already be out of business, rather than rapidly expanding and acquiring and growing.

Plus, you don't get an SLA for any of their "self-serve" plans until the $200/month one.
in the beginning of the pandemic i was drinking probably half a bottle of wine a night which is probably ~3 glasses. the stress of everything, being stuck at home with 3 young children, etc. took actually a while to kick the habit. now i just have a few friday night and over the weekend. but during that time i still went to work and was my normal dad self, just after the kids went to be drank a bit. i think you can do some moderate drinking without being homeless although i do feel much healthier now that i don't drink much during the week
I simply meant that my experience is that those on the right don't deploy ridicule as much when dissent is expressed. I'm not speaking to the individual issues you listed at all, of course we disagree on some of those and likely agree on others.

This is obviously subjective, but I have spent some time in 12 step groups. Addiction cuts across the normal divisions we have in life. It affects the poor, the rich, every political affiliation, and so on. It does get a person out of their echo chamber somewhat, at least the typical echo chambers a person may have been in. 12 step groups can be their own echo chamber.

I personally transitioned from left to right politically while in 12 step groups. I transitioned from left to right while being a part of a mostly left-wing family. I've seen the condemnation and the ridicule deployed against conservatives. I've deployed it!

At some point, I began to look back at what my own personal experience was with conservatives, and I saw that my ideas of conservatives didn't match up with my experience. The conservatives I had known, didn't talk about tolerance, but they certainly practiced it when a dissenting opinion was expressed.

As a thought experiment: Imagine your views on a core left issue changed. Say you had some personal experience with abortion that pushed you into a more conservative position on this particular issue. Can you tell the people in your life with whom you discuss politics with? Can you talk about it on your social media with as much gusto as you used to talk about your more left-wing positions?

Also, if you look around HN, it's not hard to find comments that are pledging their allegiance to certain ideas before then offering criticism. These comments typically look like this: "Of course, I believe __x__, __y__, and __z__, but I do wonder about this aspect of x sometimes"

Why do they feel like they have to pledge their allegiance to __x__, __y__, and __z__ before offering any criticism?
You broke it.

I didn't receive expected WhatsApp messages and am only now realizing there's no indication within the app that there is even a problem. It only becomes (somewhat) apparent when sending a message never gets a single check mark. Not a graceful failure for the user view.
Gates was deposed in summer 1998 and did a famously horrible job. He stepped down as CEO in January 2000. Microsoft struggled for relevance beyond Windows/Office for the next decade or so.

I think there are a lot of parallels.
My mother uses FB/Messenger to talk to her children and grandchildren.

My extended family uses FB to share info about events.

This, and other pedantic activities are really common around the world.

Don't reduce the material reality a situation to a meme that that represents a personalized view.
Yep, struggled to load the homepage and this
Well that's not true. M1 is great for certain workloads, but I'd take my G14 any day of the week with it's Nvidia GTX 3060.
I would like that say that after my "burn it down" comments on another Facebook related post that I had nothing to do with this.
Alcoholism/Functional alcoholism is fairly pervasive. I'd say you're either naive or your circle of family and friends are saints.

Yes, I know several people that fit that description by much more than 2 drinks every single day.
With the Facebook properties down, the rest of the internet will have a significant increase in usage.
> "Shatner has a fear of flying"

I immediately thought of the Twilight Zone [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734600/
Email, SMS, good ol' phone calls, Signal, <insert local app/platform here>, your own website, etc, on top of whatever you use right now.

If you're in a country that relies a lot on Facebook or Whatsapp, that's where the main focus will be, but at least try to have alternatives just in case something goes wrong.
Why Judaism? On abandoning secular modernity
Probably not, but their external and internal DNS may share infrastructure that's at the root of the failure
Maybe they shouldn't.
A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem
Is there anything useful which consulting as an industry does ? I have been hard-pressed to find examples.
Is this caused by missing glue records? I can’t resolve any of FB’s nameservers. Anyone know how that could happen?
Related: Here is an article investigating the delay between discovery and award: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full...

As can be seen there the delay is often measured in decades. For medicine many awards around 20 years or more after discovery.
Which in turn, reminds of this paper [1] (from someone who previously worked at Facebook).

TLDR; Metastable failures occur in open systems with an uncontrolled source of load where a trigger causes the system to enter a bad state that persists even when the trigger is removed.

[1] Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems - https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...
> 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. There are ways to achieve the same lifesaving endgoal without the upfront sacrifice of lives.

The part which really strikes me as morally reprehensible is where the companies are saving money on test drivers and controlled test environments and externalizing those costs onto every other driver sharing the road with their training data collectors
Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum
I can confirm, HN, GitHub and Slack are very slow for me as well. Google is very fast, on the other hand.
>it would be naive to think that it isn't [...] probable

It's probable that Cloudflare is a sophisticated criminal enterprise maliciously DDoSing prospective and existing customers so that they sign up for their (typically free) DDoS mitigation service?

It's possible, but this weird logic of "if there's an incentive to do something bad, then someone's probably doing something bad" - with absolutely no evidence to support it whatsoever - is the logic of conspiracy theories (e.g. 9/11 = inside job, Sandy Hook shooting = hoax, COVID-19 = fake virus to control the public).
you should really stop forming a priori opinions about legal concepts you have no experience with.
Seems unrelated to their infrastructure, the DNS records for facebook.com, instagram.com, whatsapp.com and all derivative domains are wiped clean it seems

edit: though saying that, they do run their own registrar... Might've fucked something up over there.
I can confirm, HN, GitHub and Slack are very slow for me as well. Google is very fast, on the other hand.

EDIT: actually HN failed to post this comment the first time I posted it!
Changi Airport deploys new filtration and UV technology for cleaner air
one way or another, get their customers to ask for it.
Yes... 1 glass of wine per meal is not crazy. Adds up to 2 drinks a day and that's not counting apéritif or any after-dinner drinks.
Probably people flooding in to see if anyone knows why things are down. Even Google speed test was down, presumably from too many people testing if it's their internet that's at issue.
That's not what they meant by free.
HN lagging, BBC was also very laggy about 30 minutes ago, and 35 minutes ago our whole company got booted out of their various hangouts simultaneously apart from the people in the states.
Many people don't realize that with the 2020 lockdown and next to zero face to face transactions happening, platforms like FB Marketplace provided an opportunity for many people to set up businesses and generate income. I understand the angst people have with FB, but there's a bigger world out there beyond our keyboards.
I have known people who believe that "moderate drinking" is actually beneficial to health - something that has been shown to be untrue when controlling for socio-economic factors.

I believe people should be free to chose to drink too, but alcohol is truly in the "culture", like you said. Very few clearly harmful activities like that are part of any culture and that is what makes it important for us to educate society about this. I believe that alcohol should come with the same level of warning as cigarettes do, but the society is not there yet.
Yes, a few of my friends and none of them are homeless. Granted the number of drinks they do consume has gone down as we've all become older.

Separately, when I was in the army, and much younger, we all consumed significantly more than 2 drinks day and were still high performers at our job.
I don't think anybody is disagreeing here to the level insinuated. The OP's point wasn't that the vaccine has no risk. It's that both choices have risks, but since there's more data regarding the vaccine, there is less uncertainty about the risks.

With most of the population (possible exception being teenage males, the last I looked, regarding myocarditis), the same outcomes are prevalent regarding the virus as the vaccine, but at lower probabilities with vaccine. Since risk = severity x probability, that generally makes the risk of the vaccine lower.

Questioning a vaccine is prudent and doesn't make someone an idiot. But sometimes there does seem to be a conflation of ideas regarding risk, data, and uncertainty.
This sounds a lot like me, except my changes and moves have all been internal.

The biggest thing that has helped me (depending on one's definition of help), is to acknowledge that I have a job, not a career. This removes some pressure and self imposed expectations.

I was also once told by a manager in my 1-on-1 that "not everyone has the potential to be more than a midlevel developer and that's ok". I'm working on accepting this.
yeah lagging for me too
Well it sure is the place to find out for sure.
According to https://lookup.icann.org/lookup both glean and reactjs have Cloudflare nameservers. fbinfer has ns.facebook.com nameservers which are presumably down.
Well, that's partly a matter of scale.

The largest insurer in the world has assets of $1,190 billion [1] and the cost of Fukushima cleanup could be as high as $660 billion [2] or even $1 trillion [3] (estimates of this vary wildly).

Insuring such a large risk would be like playing russian roulette with the company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_insurance_comp...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...
[3] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...
In what ways is Facebook "extremely valuable for a lot of people"?
I used to say that IE was just the first stage of the Mozilla/Firefox installer.
"Deal with FOSS" is an interesting way of phrasing "Not keep secret how an implanted medical device works".

There should be a fundamental right for patients to know this, otherwise they effectively don't have bodily autonomy.
Just had two nieces start college last year. Both in Large midwestern state colleges. These were not Ivy League or staunch liberal arts colleges.

Both put a huge emphasis on extracurricular activities which needed to be focused on social justice areas. Both were petrified they didn't have enough activities to get accepted.

In the end, they got accepted to where they wanted to go, but the shift to tow the line for social justice, inclusion and other hot topics of the day has been surprising to me. When I applied in the early aughts, the only thing my classmates were worried about were our SAT/ACT scores. Nobody cared at that point about your political leanings. Seems like today that is a greater focus than ever before.
> The fear-mongering was absolutely not justified given that we will soon be facing climate crises that will make Chernobyl and Fukushima seem miniscule.

But isn't "either Nuclear or climate disaster" a false dillema? I mean, Germany right now has about half it's power being generated from renewable energy sources, and wind alone provides over twice the energy that nuclear does.

Why do nuclear power proponents insist in pushing the false idea that's either Nuclear or nothing?
It's pretty easy to go over two units in a day if you drink casually and aren't paying attention. Checking a handy online chart, 2 units of red wine is 70% of an US measuring cup - 167ml. So if you thought a "cup" (as in measuring cup) of wine was fine, you'd be over 2.

A bottle of 5% beer is defined as 1.7 units, therefore a bottle of 6.5% or 7% craft beer would be well over 2 units.
> I don't see how making types non-nullable solves the problem, doesn't it just create a new problem? When I load the string from somewhere outside of the program, if it is not present, I would either have to check for that condition otherwise I will crash

If the type is non-nullable then the compiler will refuse the program if you have not dotted your is and crossed your ts. So you'd have to check your expectations at the edge, and if the expectation is "that is indeed optional" then it's optional internally and the compiler will ensure that is acknowledged at every place it's used.

> otoh, if the strings are not external then there is little danger of things ever being null no?

It depends. Lots of things are internally nullable. If I look an account by a key that's been provided externally, the account may or may not exist, that's an optional.

However it's true that most of the internal values will be non-nullable, and then the advantage of non-nullable types is that is checked and validated by the compiler, so it avoids misuses and misunderstandings.

When you only have nullable types, then the only thing you can do is assume, everywhere, and pray that you're right.
Same here. Sounds like another cloudflare-like problem.
somewhere an engineer is begging a mnesia instance to come back online.
> Am I naive for thinking that everyone knows that Alcohol is not good for them?

I think people definitely understand that heavy drinking (e.g. more than 2 drinks per day) is bad for you. The question is really about the impact of moderate drinking (1-2 drinks) where the science is unsettled, and people have differing opinions. Answering this was the goal if this particular study.
(Note: I'm Head of Developer Relations at Streamlit)

The easiest way to have a secure Streamlit app would be to use Streamlit Cloud, which is https by default:

https://streamlit.io/cloud

If you want to use some other combination of technologies for hosting, we've created a Deployment Guide to aggregate the best answers from the community:

https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/streamlit-deployment-guide-wi...

Depending on what you are trying to do, I suspect you're looking for using Apache2 or nginx as a proxy:

https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/configuring-apache-2-4-for-pr...
No

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2021-Sep...
Great time to take a break from Facebook and Instagram. Use Telegram instead of WhatsApp
They've already disrupted facebook, run!
Globalfoundries F-1 IPO Prospectus
We Moved from Pony to Rust – Wallaroo
I also escape from the computer to reality like sports or walks. The people are real. Corporations like to install degenerate or mentally ill people in lower positions of power to humiliate the high performers and keep them under control.

The higher positions are still occupied by the jocks, who watch the whole theater with great amusement and joke about useful idiots (I have contact with a few of them).
Isn't everything done obsessively dangerous?
People don't know that alcohol is one of the strongest poisons we use. Kills about 260 people per day in the US. Please fight for the health of your friends.
The fundamental confusion of the article (and come commenters here) is whether you primarily release code or binaries.

If your primary product is a binary (even if you release code too for reference or to be open), by all means, use -Werror (and strictly set the supported compiler).

If your product is code (even if you release binaries too as a convenience), -Werror in the release is an impediment to your users because you've introduced a dependency on a specific compiler version. Think of what will happen when a user tries to use another source library using -Werror... but pinned to a different compiler or compiler version. You've created a problem with your project that your users will have to solve.

You could dictate the the build environment of your users, but that's simply a roundabout way to actually be in the business of releasing binaries.

For some projects, I think you can decide to dictate the use of -Werror (and compiler version) for certain code changes processes, but that's a judgement call, with pros and cons. A strength of open source is that the distinction between user and contributer can be blurry. E.g., imagine a user runs your library on a platform you have neither the time nor expertise to support, finds and fixes some issues and is willing to contribute those changes back... are you sure you want to put them in the position of addressing errors from a toolchain they don't know or understand? Maybe. But maybe not.
Get a life.

Saying something that gets you downvoted isn't something to be proud of, or ashamed of.

Go troll someplace else, and stop wasting my bandwidth with your complaints about nothing please.
I am getting DNS fails for wikipedia
This article has the feel of being written by an AI. If that is the case, then I'm confident that the need for human writers is not dead.
> and the solution consisted of addressing said warnings alone.

Alternative solutions which should not have taken two weeks would've included:

-Wno-inane-drivel-involving-white-spaces
-Wno-error=inane-drivel-involving-white-spaces

Just because you're using -Werror doesn't mean literally every single warning in the compiler ever should be a hard error. It means errors should be the default, allowing you to opt-out of stupid warnings-as-errors, rather than needing to opt-in to critical warnings-as-errors.
The fact that I can forget my power cord and not care is a game changer.
"Celibacy is thus a highly credible signal about the priest’s own beliefs, because giving up sex—whether straight or gay—is sufficiently difficult that only those who honestly believe in the prospect of salvation or damnation will do so."

I don't follow the logic of this sentence. Celibacy is not required for salvation.
What about reading on all the cool things people create on HN?
It's more than modestly lower though in some use cases.

https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1443028078196711426

Corey compares the cost of storing 1gb of data in s3 vs r2 and serving it to the internet:

> If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s [$53,891.16]
‘Saildrone’ Footage Offers Rare Peek Inside a Category 4 Hurricane
Plus I don't know about you, but I came to HN just now specifically to check if there was any insight into why it was down! The thundering herd just arrived :)
I'm fine with Matrix, but I'm not seeing the people around me moving to it, even with a more friendly solution like Element. It's already hard to make them use Signal just because they want users to remember a pin...
Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
The problem with this is you're using the worst possible examples of driving as a benchmark, and that is quite a low standard to have.

Take a look at the best possible examples, instead, and try to improve over that, then we're talking.

You cannot be a shitty doctor and bring out an excuse like "Oh, but wait, this guy has lost more patients than me, so I'm fine".

You really don't want to have a race to the bottom where human lives are at stake.