skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposing FB and Whatsapp are splintered when FB goes down then people will still be able to use Whatsapp. When Whatsapp goes down people will still be able to use FB.
I mean, not an RCA per se, but info more akin to cloudflare's blog post would be v welcome IMHO: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28737910
> "You have built

Whatsapp was not built by Facebook, it was purchased.
Julia's package management is stateless, so it won't mess it up badly at the very least.
And if it obscenely hurts the company, they leave. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Good news is better than bad news. But bad news is still way better than no news. This is basically a Tesla into space type of stunt. Bezos knows people will remember Blue Origins because a Star Trek captain was on it. Either dying or not, it is still very memorable. Blue Origins will be immortalized. As for Shatner, I am not surprise if he secretly wished to die on the trip. Many many people I know of have their bucketlist that is something like that....to die somewhere uncommon and go out of life spectacularly. If you reach 90s, you likely have lots of life regrets...why not go out with a bang eclipsing all regrets.
You don’t think there is a slight difference in how those two very different ”joins” behave when the underlying storage is entirely non-local (columnar graph) or row-local (RDBMS)?
I mean, what's the point of long term held assets then? That's one of the points of investment. Most people don't do anything with index funds either and expect growth year over year.

Crypto isn't quite the same as an index fund, but many people use crypto as an investment with expected growth and they've been right so far.
It's less than that if it's a tax write-off too :-)
That strategy seems to work fine for my 401k
Punitive damages exist in every state, and exist because without them corporations are able to simply budget in the cost of breaking the law. That's why the McDonalds hot coffee incident was so large (they were breaking the law, the woman originally only sued for the few thousand in health insurance copays, the bulk of the fine was because McDs had had the same law suits with different people multiple times but continued to break the law)
Apple will finally let you report App Store scams with Report a Problem button
> I would love to know if there are other ur-languages out there.

At least to me, "The seven ..." reads as the author saying "there are exactly seven of them, and they are these: ..."
> It might work for utilities and public works, but do we seriously believe that apps - the interfaces of the utilities - need to be regulated? I don’t get these arguments, and I see them everywhere.

I don't get the distinction you're drawing? These apps are very directly akin to utilities like mail (usually government-run) or phone (usually semi-privatized but heavily regulated), and they're natural monopolies for which market competition can't be expected to work well.
> Yeah, the "Telephone" app is the worst feature on my phone.

... I have just devised the perfect marketing pitch for the pinephone. (Yes, I know calls are working these days; work with me here)
The hot coffee lady wound up in hospital with severe burns. McDonald's had a pattern of overheating coffee to disguise poor taste and they continued it knowing they had seriously injured multiple customers.

In this instance a factory worker seems to have have overheard bad language and seen it on graffiti in the bathroom. Pretty different.
Open source can solve this problem.

Any service you choose might be missing your edge case. But if you can see all the code and figure out where to plug in your edge case, then you can contribute it for all users in the future to enjoy.

We've already seen people show up and implement features we hadn't researched yet. I encourage you to check it out.
Well, I think the argument goes that these liberal countries are a vital part of a broader international system, that has no privacy laws, is not doing anything about climate change, and is at war all the time: in fact, a system that's basically a combination death pact / torture machine.

Living in a gated community gives you less personal motivation to radicalism, but the broader, more general grounds are still there.
What Is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation? (2012)
Python 3.10
Not following. Is it 2022 already?
All the things you're not paying attention to, that you know you should pay attention to, start paying attention to those things.

This applies to fitness, investments, making an effort at work, family ties, relationships, sleep, <fill in the blanks>.

We often know what we need to do better but keep ignoring/procrastinating/letting inertia get the best of us. It's this stuff that you'll wish you had paid attention to 10 years later.
Still the easiest way to start selling online, at least in Europe... They've got the low volume starter business niche by the balls.
Sure, technology isn't about complexity but simplicity.
The trick is to take a complex problem or process and simplify it, so it becomes cheap and easy.

Quantum computing is based of components of many small specialized company's, employing fringe process skillfully.
I can build you some some BCI ( one way) with components for less than 5 euros.
I don't know what supercomputing is, but if you want to rent a super computer or cluster it will be very cheap.
AI has pretty much peaked and is just a general tool by now. It would be great for a simple project with high impact, if you got the right idea.
im not op but im an offgrid farmer i use lead carbon batteries they have held up well. on a 5k inverter i run a 70 inch tv, stand alone freezer and a fridge/freezer. my home lab has been reduced to a few pis a unfi usg plus a couple of access points. i have an lte 4g ptp connection. i use gas for hot water and cooking (kinda cheating) woodfire in winter and i currently cook in summer but am working on a daytime solution with some extra panels and a second inverter -> reverse cycle. these batteries are 5 years old still going strong. only thing i dont run is stuff with an element like electric kettle. other than that no huge difference in quality of life.
This was posted a few days ago with a much less sensational headline. Also important to note it was 6,000 users and Coinbase has made them all whole.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719786
“ We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

Well that happened already. No worries.
Intelligence is emancipation. This is also reflected in the analogy: the increase of freedom is there. Surely Simone Weil will have added something to make that whole idea significant: a cage remains, so what? A gain is there, beneficial. Pride is justified.

Tell about "limits" to someone "in a tiny cage": it takes "a decently sized cage" to see its limits.
It would absolutely work. Just force them to divest WhatsApp.
I just changed the email address on all my domains. My inbox got flooded with emails across three different domain vendors. If they didn't do it before, they sure are doing it now.
Discussion last Friday (re: California notice): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719786
> The problem isn't (wasn't) facebook.com's A records, it's that the
> authoritative nameservers for facebook.com are (were) unreachable.

The problem isn't (wasn't) DNS, it's that a large number of websites rely on a single point of failure in order to function properly.
Ask HN: What are the biggest problems in your life?
What are the biggest problems/annoyances/inconveniences in your life? Could be work-related, personal life, etc.
I support meaningful punishment of companies that have willfully, egregiously hostile work environments.
Are there documented cases of this happening?
Can't remember the last time I saw someone smoking in Australia. Maybe staff outside a hospital while walking to my office, but even that would be over a week ago.

Alcohol though has a very strong influence, unfortunately.
too much work :P
not enough time with family and friends
I would argue that the internet has been very good at decentralizing power. The problem is that this is what decentralized power looks like. There are a seemingly infinite number of groups flexing their collective muscle, generating their own realities, and even their own economies.

I get that the rich have gotten richer and corporations have gotten bigger, but in so many ways their power has decreased. We live in a world in which the most important force in modern American society is freaking 4Chan (QAnon). The billionaire class has lost the thread on how to control this. They try to put the squeeze on the Facebooks and Youtubes of the world, but that seems to have little effect on the spread of very insane but incredibly meaningful movements.

I some times wonder if the mistake we all made was thinking decentralizing things was a good idea.
Businesses and any productive individuals for that matter can't move fast enough out of this cesspool.

You look a wrong way and someone's gonna pull a race card on you, happily assisted by the closest ambulance chaser.
Show HN: Codecademy Docs
Call center: show general call back number instead of direct agent number who may be unavailable to answer at call back.
To achieve the goals we’d set, we had to go beyond using BGP as a mere routing protocol.

Uh-oh.
comparison w/ people that are younger, smarter and have accomplished more.
Or maybe the promise of slowly depreciating value sitting in a bank account seems slightly too bad.
> Excel - the spreadsheet model of programming has quite a bit of power that is hard to duplicate in other ways

Aargh -- at least frigging call it VisiCalc, please. Or improve on it, drop the final -e, and call it "Improv". Either way, please don't contribute to (or are you yourself suffering from?) the current pandemic of thinking "spreadsheet" is synonymous with "Excel".
You do know the meaning or jokes and/or ironic comments, right?
There are a lot of things I hate about Apple's App Store, but it provides some significant services.

It is not a simple "pipe" between developers and users.

For developers it provides seamless and secure payments, SDKs, APIs, an IDE, and app distribution and updates to roughly a billion customers.

For end-users, it provides a mostly seamless experience, and (unlike other app stores) a nearly airtight guarantee that an app won't be fraudulent, won't install spyware, won't fuck up your machine, and can be easily uninstalled if you don't like it.

There are myriad flaws, and we can choose hate the overarching concept of folks needing an "app store" instead of simply running apt-get or whatever like Real Computer Users™. We can certainly choose to hate many things about it, like Apple's gatekeeping w.r.t. adult/controversial apps or their maddening review process.

But the things they do provide are significant and clearly have value to many.

So yes, I think it's appropriate to think of them as "providing access" and not merely "not denying it."
If it were open source, then somebody else could repackage it and sell it themselves.
Lot's of activities, that people under alcohol, consider fun are pretty repulsive for sober mind.

Go to clubs fully sober, the music is too loud, people are obnoxious, its not probably pleasant experience.

So alcohol users can develope whole different requirements for fun and if they quit, the world seems so depressive, because their habits and friends are still from that alcohol world.
I can confirm that. I once had a problem with business tax, called them and I was surprised how well they treated me and gave advice.
The effort should be focused on forcing states to standardize their tax code and states/IRS to provide a simple filing service. If the answer to what’s blocking it is “some corporations wouldn’t like it” then it can’t be that big a problem
What if I forget which .com registers I picked?
I also had special deals in place for various other developers. The deal with Intelliborn was especially "at cost", but I also did deals with anyone who seemed to have leverage or whom I simply felt a need to motivate. In one interesting case I actually took a larger cut than 30% in exchange for extremely pervasive cross-promotional advertising, though you could argue that was simply a separate service "on top" of the payment processing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27615663 <- some commentary I wrote about Apple's negotiating position with respect to the 15% discounts for anti-bulk sales (which is weirdly backwards) where I touch on special deals (and tie in how Intelliborn's special deal was in some sense due to store competition).
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Hi HN,

I've got 6 years of experience with Python in general, and I'm really proficient with PostgreSQL (for any back-end task) and establishing pipelines for Machine Learning (ML) tasks (using Prefect for the past year or so).

I also work on data science problems exclusively, without the adjoining back-end problems (e.g just give me the data set and you'll get back a model). I mainly use Pytorch & Scikit-learn for these tasks.
What if somebody steals it?
Do you know why they used A-1 rather then A+? I've always wondered, but never knew anyone to ask.
It doesn't make it sound like an attack, it's standard boilerplate to dispel any worries. It's natural for anyone to wonder downtime -> data loss? , so it's natural to reassure people that it wasn't the case.
I'm not sure the OECD is the right comparison point because many OECD members (the Latin American and Eastern European countries, mostly) collect far less in tax revenue than the "more developed" OECD nations like the United States, France, Germany, Sweden or Japan. To use your example of India (I know India isn't in the OECD but it has good tax data, has been studied extensively, and its tax regime isn't miles away from the "less developed" OECD nations) - India collects somewhere on the order of 10% of its national income every year in taxes; the other countries mentioned are in the 40-70% range. For a country that only wants to collect 10% of its national income in taxes it's easy to get away with the (relatively simple) mechanism of consumption taxes; to collect more revenues increasingly progressive forms of taxation, such as income taxes, are required.
I work in video games.

It amazing how wrong people can be and how confident they are about being right.

Even sometimes fighting _me_ about things _I_ designed and built.

It’s quite sobering; taught me not to believe all the speculation I read.
Harmonic most likely uses Algolia for the data whereas my app uses the HN website. So Algolia delivers a cache copy from their own servers whereas mine scrapes the HN website itself. Hence the difference. Also logged out pages were working much better than logged in (HN delivers caches copies for logged out users).
Is there any notable difference between flashing a GSI vs flashing AOSP from source or is the latter just done to ensure a degree of control over what one puts on one's device?
I also really like the Vsauce video essay about holes.

https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ
I am serious. And Red Hat had $3.4 billion in revenue the year it was acquired. There are plenty of people getting paid to write open source software. The top contributors to open source projects are frequently for-profit companies. Open source != hobbyist.

There’s nothing about paid software development that requires source code to be kept private.
Apple is all on Slack.
I don’t know, the paper[1] describes how they setup their systems so I think it is relevant to what happened

[1] https://research.fb.com/publications/running-bgp-in-data-cen...
Taiwan govt prepopulates tax forms for you. Just go to their website via smartphone or computer, you just click next next next and fill in credit card info if you need to pay more tax or bank account number for tax return.

It takes me like 5 minutes to file tax every year.
The badge story only shows how people are looking for "efficiency" where it doesn't matter, with predictable results.

The badge system should be local to the building. There are few actual reasons (sure, besides "efficiency") of why badge control should be centralized. Even less reasons for it to be a subdomain of fb. Another option would be to keep the system but make it failsafe (but it seems the newer generation doesn't know what that means). If the network goes down keep it at the last config. Badge validation should be offline first and added/removed ones should be broadcast periodically.

This is the same issue with smartlocks times the number of employees. Do you really want to add another point of failure between yourself and your home?
Where would they move to be out of the jurisdiction of a federal court? This wasn't a state level lawsuit.
Jury awards to individuals against corporations have been skyrocketing over the last decade or so. In the insurance industry it's referred to as "social inflation" and is a pretty hot topic right now. People in the industry were shocked by a record $411 million award last October [0], only for that record to be shattered by a $1 billion award not even a year later [1].

My pet theory is that it's mostly driven by attitudes that corporations have too much power coupled with increased inaction by the government entities that could be addressing all of that corporate power. An increase in litigation financing is probably a big factor too.

There's lots of firmer legal analysis out there by people who, unlike me, are actually qualified to perform that analysis (e.g. [2]). Naturally it's all somewhat speculative, but there are some interesting solid-ish statistics, for example:

> A national survey conducted by Sound Jury Consulting in 2019 found three-quarters of respondents eligible for jury service stated they would decide a case based on their own personal beliefs of right or wrong if those beliefs conflicted with the law as instructed by the judge. The number is higher for millennials.

[0] https://cdllife.com/2020/single-truck-company-slapped-with-n...

[1] https://www.thetrucker.com/trucking-news/the-nation/inside-a...

[2] https://www.hinshawlaw.com/assets/htmldocuments/Articles/The...
The OP still shouldn't be getting downvoted because they're right: she was only seeking $20,000 to cover medical bills for treatment of severe burns originally, in the course of the case McDonalds decided to go on a media campaign about it against her (and succeeded) but during the course of the case got demolished by the prosecution who conclusively showed that they were aware of the danger, had injured others, and had no justifiable reason for preparing the product the way they did.

The final settlement was - as the OP notes - about punitive damages, which they very much deserved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
You hold the ticket on a wallet on your phone, then you scan a QR code at the door that prompts you to sign a message from your wallet. Signing a message is instantaneous and verifies you control the key that owns that ticket.
I don't think anyone disagrees about that point.

Punishments must be in-line with the evidence. Otherwise you are wrongfully hurting more people. How does that do any good?
It was brought to a San Francisco court because the incident happened in Fremont (just a handful of miles away).
Out of all the "smart" and "less smart" people I know/have known, the ones who seem to be happiest are not those who pick the "right things" to work on but those who know how to put "work" in its proper place.

Success and failure aren't always about money and the kind of accomplishments that society values most.
Person I know tried to reach Coinbase support human to no avail.

He searched google for "coinbase support number" and dialed the number found.

Friendly operator guided him to solve a problem.

$50k lesson learned.
Let's try a Gedankenexperiment.

Consider Albert, white, who was mugged twice by black men. Now when strangers turn to him - say to ask the time - he'll tell them the time if they are white but will put his head down and walk away quickly if they are black.

Is Albert racist, or is he responding to past trauma as you are suggesting by blocking all Indian calls?
I assume they will have to provide proof that the company ignored these issues.
> There's only one global repository. If you want to build some libraries and reuse them the same way you'd use a normal library dependency, you have to publish them to the global PyPi. I think there might be an expensive service that works around this, but there's no repository program that you can just spin up on your own servers.

https://pypi.org/project/pypiserver/

Also, pip will install from a git repository.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. A jury weighed the evidence—evidence which no one on this forum has seen—and awarded this amount.
It just occurred to me to wonder if Facebook has a Twitter account and if they used it to update people about the outage. It turns out they do, and they did, which makes sense. Boy, it must have been galling to have to use a competing communication network to tell people that your network is down.

It looks like Zuckerberg doesn't have a personal Twitter though, nor does Jack Dorsey have a public Facebook page (or they're set not to show up in search).
In federal court.
What is the job function of an elevator operator in a fully automated manufacturing facility?
I’m all against the Facebook ecosystem, but no, Facebook doesn’t need to be regulated.
IMHO Governments should stop babysitting people on all the matters.
FWIW, there was a multi-year period, just after the do not call list went in to effect, where the amount of spam phone calls I got dropped to zero.
It amazes me that despite not really modifying the core PayPal service for 10+ years, they are still a market leader.

Parts of their business don't have much network effect, and competitors could totally rebuild the tech and eat away at the market share... Yet somehow that hasn't happened.
> Surely this is being done?

Personally saw this kind of thing as early as 2001.

Never search for free domains on the registar site unless you are going to register it immediately. Even whois queries can trigger this kind of thing, although that mostly happens on obscure gtld/cctld registries which have a single registrar for the whole tld.
He never justified Microsoft's action because of whatever Google does, nor does he say that Google is worse than MS.
No they aren't. There are hundreds if not thousands of competitors to these services. Infrastructure is just a web server. It is not similar to utilities like electric and water. They are built on physical cities which are controlled by the government.

Whatsapp is just an app. It just happens to be a popular one and people chose to use it. That's it. Just like ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc.
The Plaintiff's POV:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.31...

tl;dr Tesla gas lit the dude
can someone explain the term blankface used in the article? I read the link that was supposed to be explaining the term but I actually didn't get it...
There’s also a significant problem with a verdict creep, where juries set progressively higher punitive damages to set an example.

For example, damages for trucking accidents have grown substantially over the last decade.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/rise-in-nuclear-verdicts-in-...
If you're spending $50-$100 on equipment, maybe it's worth buying a better dongle too with more than 2-3 MHz of bandwidth.