skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not using it as a benchmark at all.

I'm using a high profile example to point out clear issues with how we handle human driver responsibility. If your negligence directly results in you killing someone, you should lose your license to drive.

If we someday reach the point where autonomous driving systems are actually 10x safer than human drivers and those systems still have issues with hitting emergency vehicles, we should absolutely hold those companies responsible for those accidents.

My point is that not holding those companies responsible would be less insane than our current practice of letting clearly negligent drivers continue to drive with minimal consequences after they kill someone.

So instead of being outraged about this hypothetical future, why not be outraged about the insane lack of consequences that drivers face currently?
Yep. Matrix is a decentralized alternative (provided you don't just use the default homeserver).
> So basically, everything I used to be able to get in a phone book. Honestly, at this point all of that information should just be considered public, because it obviously is.

I am honestly shocked at your proposal.

In a real paper book you had a choice not to get your number published.

Have you put any thought about people who are maybe running from abusive spouse or any other people who have reason not to have their location data to be broadcasted to entire world?
It just bit FB.
> You many not feel any direct firsthand consequences, but the overall impact would transform the world around you.

For the better.
You only posted a piece of my edit. I did also clarify my point. Was not meant as a complaint as much as a clarification and invitation for discussion. Wish more down votes would comment.

My style tends to be terse/short and perhaps I don't always make my point well.
I don't use Facebook, but I'm very curious about why it's down. I'm sure I'm not alone in my curiosity about one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Unfortunately Whatsapp replaced texting for around 80 % of the world.
Rolling out 1M Postgres indexes
Strong disagree.

> Name Email Location Gender Phone number User ID

It's never about one item of information released: it's about the aggregation and linking potential. Name/location/phone together form a pretty decent unique identifier. FB obviously gives you friends, interests, hangouts, and most importantly, photographs; none of which you had before.

Ater aggregating with other databases is when the harm comes.
There would be a massive opening for new platforms to take over, and the odds that they are also based in the West would be much lower.
yes. I want to see what my friends and acquaintances are up to.
> So basically, everything I used to be able to get in a phone book.

Your phone books had your login usernames and emails?
Startup idea #1: A ticketing app that helps venues sell their empty seats
Open to remote from Portugal?
> 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.)

you can opt out of Facebook too... and Irish phone books had addresses...
Gotta post this every time theres a big DNS issue, which seems daily now.

Check out Dug! Its a global DNS propagation/monitoring toolon the CLI: https://github.com/unfrl/dug/
And this is exactly why this is a problem. I have never consented to facebook having my information. I have never had an account linked to anything real about me. I had one in 2004 or so to learn about college parties. I used a pseudonym and deleted in once I graduated.

But I guarantee they still have my information because people I know use their app.

This is not okay.
Neither Virgin nor Blue Origin actually go into orbit or even "space", and both have a trash safety culture and a not-much-better record:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/science/jeff-bezos-blue-o...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-red-warning-lig...

This is obviously a PR stunt, but the point of the stunt it to get people to think Blue Origin = "space"
Show HN: Opta: open-source Infrastructure builder for startups
Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today (2021-10-04)?
Is HN slow today, or is it just me
I loging in from Canada
Developer of the repo here. To be honest, I agree with most of these points - this project shares a goal similar to large companies like https://blackshark.ai/ , so I don't expect to be able to achieve results of a similar standard. If anything, this project was just meant to be an experiment to play around with computer vision and Blender in my free time, I never expected it to receive attention, and especially not this early on.

That being said, seeing the interest around this idea, I will make an effort to translate my research to a viable product. As you said, the current readme is quite lackluster, mostly as I haven't yet figured out how everything will work - I'll be updating it as the details become more clear.

w.r.t the BlenderGIS point, this is something I am yet to decide on, so I'll see what the most suitable platform will be when I get to that stage of the project.
No, sorry, you're right. Some of my "friends & family" did insist on posting politics all the time. I muted or unfriended all of them. You'd be surprised how many people never do that stuff.
There is a definitely a benefit in terms of trust and security, though not fool proof.

However, when you force companies to only signup and accept payment through your payment gateway instead of giving customers the option, and then unequally applying rules and colluding with other companies you start to get in trouble in regards to monopolistic practices.
If you want to talk about a matter of probability, your real phone number and birthday are almost certainly already out there.
The Original Smartwatches: Casio's History of Wild Wrist Designs (2015)
I'm not an expert, so take this with some salt:

Autistic individuals appear to have more aluminum (specifically in their brains, maybe?) than others. But this is only correlation, not causation (and, so far as I know, not proven even as correlation).

If the correlation is correct, it remains to be determined whether the aluminum causes autism, or whether autists absorb aluminum as a consequence of their autism.
Android 12 is live in AOSP
Maybe Google, because of the search engine. Android: somebody will fill the void.

Messaging: people have been switching on hordes to every new free messaging system in the 90s and early 2000s, we will adapt to something else.

Netflix and video in general: same thing without the 90s/early 2000s.

Amazon: very convenient store, we'll spend a little less and somebody will fill the void.

Apple: can't say, never bought anything from them.

By the way, when I couldn't message on WA today I thought day they finally cut me off because I still didn't accept their new privacy policy from months ago :-) I resolved to wait and see for a couple of days.
Yarvin hates cryptocurrency and you can read about it in the very old Urbit documentation. More recently, Urbit identities are NFTs traded on Ethereum so they got there eventually.
This denotes how important TSMC and having the fabrication node advantage is for Apple. The A15 seems to be an all-around good chip, just not the magnitude of performance jumps (20%+) Apple has shown since the A7. For reference, this chip is on an improved TSMC 5nm (N5P) node but still 5nm nonetheless like last year's A14.

Last year's M1/A14 cores had performance gains due to the combined architecture improvement and the shifting from TSMC 7nm to 5nm fabrication. At the time it was difficult to determine the % of gains attributable to either, so now it seems we have a better idea that node advantage could be the majority.

It'll be very interesting to see what happens in the next M-series chip announcement, e.g. M1X or M2. I still think it's plausible Apple switches the M-series chips to 3nm first in order to cement their superiority over Intel. That said, porting architectures across nodes is no small feat (as we saw in Intel's Rocket Lake, though that was small -> big).
> Even in the biggest of organizations, they still have to wait for somebody to race down to the datacenter and plug his laptop into a router.

I love this comment.
I wish it would stay that way.
what's stopping anyone from fact-checking the fact-checkers? Also, it would be great if fact checking was presented in an argdown form, or someway to distill the bases of disagreement
Aluminum has been correlated with lots of diseases that affect the brain and nervous system. I don't know if the mechanism is understood though.
Sounds like a restatement of the open world / closed world debate.
It seems you are right. And other countries have long done similar or worse.

I always thought that in the west you had a freedom of thought and could pursue whatever direction of research you wished without consequence. After all, without freedom of thought, you can't really have proper freedom of conscience, let alone freedom of speech.

I'm slightly disturbed that apparently it's not quite that simple. Today I'm one of the (un)lucky 10000 I guess. https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think what’s meant is this: if you do

uint32_t foo = 42

you’re effectively saying

foo = 42 (mod 2³²)

So, foo stands for the equivalence set

{…, 42-2³², 42, 42+2³², …}

If you say

uint64_t bar = 42

you’re making the different statement that

bar = 42 (mod 2⁶⁴)

You can’t say that foo and bar are the same number, because (for example)

foo * 2³² ≠ bar * 2³²
What is the consequence of such a blatantly false testimony to Congress?
DevOps, Living Documentation, and Hexagonal Architecture
With a land line phone number from a phonebook, criminals can’t do much. With a smartphone number they can hack phones, potentially steal bank accounts, track their location and on and on.
So how much do we need to pitch in to keep it down?
lots of people are heroin dependant, the number of people hooked doesn't make it right.

At the very least you are going to need a better arguments than that following the recent data dump.
Interesting that they published stuff about their BGP setup and infrastructure a few months ago - maybe a little tweak to roll backs is needed.

"... We demonstrate how this design provides us with flexible control over routing and keeps the network reliable. We also describe our in-house BGP software implementation, and its testing and deployment pipelines. These allow us to treat BGP like any other software component, enabling fast incremental updates..."
It shouldn't be too stressful. Well-managed companies blame processes rather than people, and have systems set up to communicate rapidly when large-scale events occur.

It can be sort of exciting, but it's not like there is one person typing at a keyboard with a hundred managers breathing down their neck. These resolutions are collaborative, shared efforts.
> I don't understand how you can say that trigger warnings somehow make people avoid getting treatment - how does that make sense?

Lots of people use trigger warnings to avoid topics entirely, and yell at people who don't use them with anything even remotely related to the topic. They demand everyone elsee change rather than treating their own disease.
(just a wild theory)

Is the downtime (at the time of writing) their way of blocking a known ongoing attack that can't be stopped fast and safely enough by other means?

Something like: 1) take everything down, 2) fix the bug, 3) deploy everywhere, 4) start everything up.

And, to stop clients from connecting, take down the DNS too. DNS is also a great scapegoat.
WTF Is Serverless, Anyway?
So how much cash do we need to pitch in to keep it down?
Took a shot at figuring out what serverless actually does for devs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like how FB decided to send "ramenporn" as their spokesperson.
Yeah Cloudflare have said they're being flooded with Facebook DNS retries and had to get extra hands on deck to deal with the influx.
ARM SoC developed for Android devices, on the other hand, are consistently way behind in performance and are nearly all based on ARM designs.

I've been waiting for years for someone other than Apple to make a fully custom ARM SoC that can compete with Apple.

I suspect there isn't a lot of incentive for Qualcomm to do it as they as nearly a monopoly in the Android space.

I've been hoping that AMD or Intel would step up and make an ARM core that crushes Qualcomm.

I just got a used iPhone 7 for my so and despite being 5 years old is still really smooth running the latest iOS 15. It's the only iPhone I own (the rest are Android) and I'm a bit jealous.
DDG famously blocked people in countries that aren't China from searching for topics that China censors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
Compared to the markets Intel serves, the Librem and framework markets are inconsequential. No good financial incentive for them to invest in such a move.
> People really do think FB is the internet

It is a really large part of it. Also, when people see WhatsApp and see no connection, then open Facebook and see no connection either, it's _very_ likely that the link is at fault and not Facebook.
> Google “How to kill your husband” and hand it back to her. Congrats, you’re safe for another month!

Sure, google's search results suck nowadays, but she could always just go to the library.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI already does that too
Never underestimate software that is 'just good enough'
I noticed that some websites are loading slowly due to the third party script https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js timing out.

When uBlock Origin is running, this script gets blocked and pages return to feeling snappy.
a) the independent org might take a longer time than we have; in Washington we need the answer by 31-Dec-2021. b) the largest cat in the game is Dutchie which just acquired GreenBits and LeafLogix -- and now they have three APIs to manage.
> Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company’s App Store commission structure in his sworn testimony before the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Wednesday.

> “We treat every developer the same. We have open and transparent rules,” Cook said, in his testimony. “It’s a rigorous process, because we care so deeply about privacy and security and quality. We do look at every app before it goes on,” he added.

Slightly different quote, added some context and here is a source too: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/29/apples-app-store-commissio...
Have they tried turning it off and then turning it back on again?
> Microsoft struggled for relevance beyond Windows/Office for the next decade or so

On the contrary - XBox was a huge success!
yes, very likely because of the Facebook outage and more people coming here to check.
Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don't you get that?
But will he get to say, "Engage"?
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Very slow from the UK
People would just use an alternative, like Telegram or whatever is the next most popular one.
I don't think it can. I don't believe SQL allows you to create a fkey column that points into many different tables. You can create your own pseudo fkey column that the database doesn't know is a pointer into other tables ("type erasure") but then you have to recreate referential integrity and so on yourself, and you still run into issues querying against the table that has that fkey column in a useful way.
And some wonder why I'm not letting myself forced into dual authentication providing them with real phone number. Actually I am very reluctant to log into Facebook at all, twice a year perhaps seeing old friends making an attempt to communicate with me, then only from private browsing, perhaps VPN too. I do not trust them with any shred of additional info on me to that they do not have already from earlier.
I miss a lot of links sent to me pointing to facebook post or something, no, actually I do not miss a little thing, I rather do not care about cute animals or strange people or thoughts, it is invaluable in 99,999% of the cases, for the rest I can take the loss.
> Why do so many people use Facebook? Because they want to share a file with a friend.

very confused by this read... what am I missing?
I know HBO Inc had the same 15% deal, at least back in 2018. I was on an email chain where some HBO execs mentioned this, and it was a revelation. As a vendor of iOS apps we hinted to other customers that the 30% cut is negotiable for providers strategic to Apple, without giving away HBO’s deal.
Couldn't a social security number be easily bruteforced anyway
There are several people earning their living through Facebook/Instagram and there is a whole marketplace that would impact lots of people. Don't get me wrong, I don't use or like FB in any way but FB disappearing overnight would definitely have drawbacks for lots of people.
For your average Joe or the CEO of a trillion-dollar company?
I don't necessarily disagree, but often I hear FB or other tech companies like Twitter singled out re: misinformation. News media contributes to misinformation and contributes to a warped, partisan, permanently-in-catastrophe-mode population just as much as FB, Twitter, and other mediums.

I doubt, if FB goes away, that any of the issues you're implying will go away or even get much better. In fact, the lack of a real look into the negative effects of consumer news product reinforces this idea that only the elite can know the truth, and the masses just have to get in line and shut up.

News media proliferated nonsense from fed sources to justify the Iraq war, they gave Trump 24/7 airtime for a while because it increased ratings. They constantly forgo any real accountability for their actions, and pretend that they aren't just another addictive consumer product that warps peoples' brains.
For a lot of complicated programming you can be 20 levels deep in function/method calls and most of the time you deeply don't care and you want to crash out to the main loop which will then either decorate the error for the user and crash itself or clean things up and loop if it can.

Then there's exceptional exceptions which should be not crash near the "edge" of the program and need to be caught and something done with, so you add those to the program.

What you wind up with using that approach is only exception handling being written where you need it, and the vast bulk of the code is understood to always crash and get handled in some inner loop, or even some external supervisor.

Go feels like it was a reaction to (probably early-2000s) Java programming patterns where at every level Java programs were catching and decorating and rethrowing their own exceptions. Neither of those approaches really are helpful though because you litter your code with all kinds of exception handling that nobody really cares that much about, and under both systems you can crash instead of retrying and all the useless error handling code you've written everywhere doesn't help you see where you've made that error. The 2010 erlang crash-first programming mentality works way better imo rather than error checking everywhere.

And Go out of the box makes it difficult to get stack traces, so you should really use an error library at least.
I don't consider my name, date of birth or the city I live in to be personal information.
Tech companies that reach monopoly scale (like Apple, Facebook, Amazon) should have to disclose all their agreements and honor a "Most Favored Nation" clause giving all companies the same pricing and access as the best negotiated agreement with any one company. This is the most reasonable way I can think of without breaking them up to prevent them picking winners and losers as new opportunities emerge. If you have a better plan I'd be glad to hear it.
There was a meta-study a year and a half ago. It seemed to indicate that the supposed beneficial effects could be explained by moderate drinkers tending to exercise more and generally make sound health decisions. The study seemed to indicate that the safe number of drinks is one or two PER WEEK. It seems that zero is the number of safe drinks per day.
At Google, a couple years back they swapped out one of the technical interviews for a G&I interview, which is really just a behavioral interview. But the questions come from an approved question bank, with each question tagged with a different attribute it's supposed to probe. One of these tags is DEI, and you're required to ask at least one question tagged DEI when conducting one of these behavioral interviews.

Usually the question does not explicitly call out race or gender, but the grading rubric definitely dings the candidate if TC doesn't reference them in their answer or says anything about political, economic, or regional diversity instead.

The one saving grace of this system is that no one expects any meaningful hiring signal to come out of these interviews unless TC is a total idiot when answering the questions.
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
It's not just Facebook. Your phone is tattling on you 24/7. ALPRs are recording where you drive. Browser fingerprinting is creating a profile on you even if you block ads and trackers. Short of never using a computer, there is no opt out anymore.
All running their DNS on AWS. My guess is that AWS is seeing a massive flood of failed and retried DNS requests for facebook properties, similar to what jgrahamc mentions here for Cloudflare: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413
So what does u64 do when overflowing? Panic?
It's been obvious for years that Apple gives absolutely no fucks about destroying small businesses with their inane review processes (which change on a whim and seem to depend on the mood of the reviewer) and fees. Of course larger corporations are exempt.
Oh, and wow. 16oz = 473ml (had to look that up)

473ml*0.12 = 57ml of alcohol (!) - so almost 6 10ml units in a single can??? so two of those 12% stouts would be 11.4 units!
Ouch... Yeah. Maybe switch to one of them as a special treat once in a while. :)
It's here:

https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm

That issue was closed but the current open issue which acknowledges this is a real problem is here:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462

Here is a comment on the code directly from a contributor at Microsoft:

> @AnuthaDev We‘re quite aware about the code and are extremely happy about what was created there. I mean it seriously: It sets a great goal for us to strive for.
Unfortunately the code is intentionally GPLv2 licensed and we‘ll honor this wish entirely. As such no one at Microsoft will ever look at either of the links.

> I‘m the person who‘s tasked with building an equivalent solution and you may subscribe to #10461 to get updates of my progress. Unfortunately our existing project isn’t straight forward to modify the same way we could build a terminal from scratch. A lot of parts of this project must be rewritten and as such it‘ll take a bit for us to catch up. But we will - it’s only a matter of time.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...
Would not using Google or Facebook be considered suspicious at some point?
We now know that isn't true, especially not for heart disease. This study, as one example, separated out "never drinkers" from "former drinkers" to address this bias and found drinking to still be beneficial.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

I can't help but feel bias against drinking has religious roots. This has been studied to death, and generally moderate drinking is shown to be beneficial, or at very least not harmful. But some folks are so opposed to that result they keep moving the goal posts.
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