skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but I’m glad that you can feel smugly superior about it

And I'm glad you can feel smug about combating smuggness, because obviously the consequences of some social media and chat apps being down can't be measured but by anecodotal stories of some unrelated issue like being locked out, not about their general societal impact, shady practices, contribution to disinformation and data mining, etc. Who's being self centered now?

If anything, the lesson here is to not depend on some single, centralized, channel, for such communications (e.g. to get your AirBnB key). Now I also feel smug for always giving 2-3 alternative ways in cases contacting someone/someone contacting me is crucial...

It's not like what the world lacks in 2021 is communication channels. One can use land phone, mobile phone, SMS, email, and 200 other alternative IM outlets...
Sorry guys - flag this if you will - this is what it looks like seen from any other place on the planet.

The US has a lot of stuff going for it, just not its legal system wrt. race and jury awarded payouts.
Where's the data in this article? No graphs, no publication? If I want a full conclusion I'd like to see more than a journalist's take on this.
Well, if you believe hard enough that it exists, you will eventually find it, or fool yourself into believing you've found it. That basically sums up all dark matter research ever. Personally, I think the theories are wrong and dark matter doesn't exist. It's heresy to say so though in mainstream cosmology.
Google Announces Secure Open Source Rewards
To show they're illegal the burden of proof is on you.
> What is stopping infections and deaths? The vaccine.

Vaccinated people still get and spread infections - They simply dont get much symptoms from it.

This kind of comment is exactly why people don't understand what the "vaccines" actually do.
Using a VPN provider in a country outside US jurisdiction would be recommended. Sure, they can also request the data from there with enough political pressure, but it is about putting up barriers.

This screams of government being acutely overstrained as it is but no reason to give them a hand with such deed.

You should also search for this person too. They requested data and data should be served.
ACH does work, but it's just not accessible via an API and such.
It's a bit of a stretch to equate Paypal with "all American transactions." There are of course Visa/Mastercard (variable but about 2%), debit cards, Venmo, and older bank transfer technologies (ACH).
Another possibility is that failing to announce the prefixes for their DNS server IPs was just a symptom of a larger problem, like misconfigured routers.
>why in the FUCK does everything about China has to do with the government?

Because it's... a single-party Communist state? Stories about North Korea also tend to talk about its government a lot.
Shorter TTL increases poisoning risk. Anyway attacker can set arbitrary TTL if they succeed poisoning so longer TTL won't increase risk.
Meanwhile, accepting Bitcoin Lightning Network payments is free of charge. Can't wait for more adoption.
That is also a desired outcome. If I desire a green outcome, I only have to make blues stop voting. In multi-party system if I can make reds and yellows also stop voting it’s great. Fortunately, they will all comply even if I tell them I’m doing this. In fact, they (and you) will particularly comply when told for fear of the shame of backing down.

This pride is particularly exploitable and is why you can orchestrate all sorts of outcomes among demographics that have this vulnerability.
Absolutely, but wait times have been increasing due to budget cuts. There’s an unhealthy fear/contempt of the IRS in the US. It’s one of the most important government agencies, and it should be treated as such and given the resources to serve the people better, instead of serving as a perpetual political punching bag.
That's exactly what Flexa https://flexa.network/ is doing (I just got hired there)
Yeah, yesterday evening I could only communicate to myb Signal buddies, about 50% of my chatting traffic. Sadly, everything "official" (like kids/school related things) is still only on WhatsApp.
Prague-Karlín, Sunday Oct the 3rd.
Don't like these articles as I see them as low hanging fruit to make a headline. People see it and think OH NO HE LOST 6 BILLION? Where the reality is a more complex than that.

What I really want to know is how much did Facebook lose in advertising. How much did that outage cost?
I can't seem to find a better comment to ask about this:

What do you think about the SAFE stack? (I know that the HN backend is written on a completely different stack.) Do you think it will gain some popularity and/or is a competitive advantage over something like a plain lamp/lemp stack? Or do you expect it to languish and die?

Really just curious what you think about it and would appreciate a reply if it isn't much trouble to you.
> Really? I'm dumbstruck by this sentiment. I've never met or even heard someone express they like being interrupted with a unsolicited, unexpected (video) call.

How about a call from a family member or friend that need urgent help?
> colleagues used epithets to denigrate him and other Black workers, told him to "go back to Africa"

Which is a bit ironic considering Musk himself was born in South Africa.
YikesScript
UCSF's customized 'brain pacemaker' successfully treats severe depression
That's gorgeous!
Yeah I agree. It doesn't do anywhere nearly enough.
I am regularly surprised by old Gmail addresses I set up. Usually it's because I get a mail saying someone tried to log into it, so then I guess it must be mine. In the end there is/was a reason for them but life has moved on. Still accessable though even after many years.
Facebook and other social gardens took the Star Trek out of the internet

In a related thought that'll probably be when the next big internet wave happens - spaceships and colonies offline-first until a data sync drone flies by

Designing for offline is designing for cool
I genuinely don't understand how the parent comment triggered this response for ... just saying they think both battery failure being "covered up" or sabotage are likely?
Were you being abused for your skin colour? Your religion? Your sexuality? Your age? Were you abused by your supervisor? Did their mgmt chain minimize the harm this did, or did they tell you to suck it up or you've never make it in the big leagues? Did you eventually make it in the big leagues?

I'd love to know the algorithm used to arrive at this amount of money, because it seems quite large to me, but I'm very happy to see any company that countenances this sort of nonsense hurt financially. Big companies are not your friend. They're not your enemy. They're just doing what they think they need to. If safeguarding profits requires that they _actually_ enforce rules about racist abuse, then by all means, sue them 'til the pips squeak. LOL.
I'm tired of people expecting me to just take it when it comes to racism.

No. You're going to fuck around and find out. As did Tesla.

Don't expect me to develop a thick skin. The person paying $137 mil can do that.
> Sure, telcos sucked, but there were tons of them spread across all corners of the globe

Local monopolies rather than a global one.

What if there was a global, international messaging system available to everyone with a phone, that strove for five-nines reliability? And wasn't funded by advertising? And didn't deplatform anyone(+)?

Oh wait it's called SMS and everyone hates it, largely for good reasons. The internet has a lot of problems but it disrupted the telcos by being far cheaper despite using the same infrastructure while offering more capability.
It’s not reasonable to demand any details at all, it’s nice of them to notify people of what went wrong but it really is none of our business.
Few weeks of OSS and the journey keeps getting better
Your OOB network wouldn't be affected by changes to your main network
In their heyday is about 30-40y of holding period. So, it seems we have to wait another 20y or so to see single digit FB returns.
A service that costs a fraction of a cent to perform but charges tax on total revenue plus a big old fee has a big barrier to entry or it has zero customers tomrrow.

"all american transactions" - who cares what proportion it is? It's the most vulgar display of market power imaginable. "We will tax this large chunk of the economy." And I'm not even seeing anyone saying they won't get away with it.

It's really quite astounding!
If the crocodile looked him up on Google, we basically already got it.
What you did/experience last night?
After the Pandemic, outage of FB, WhatsApp, and Instagram was observed by many of us. I am curious about what happened last night, what did you do or how did you feel about it ?
Depends on which specific country you mean by Asia, as nations are kind of culturally segregated by sea and by heritage in Asia - I mean, Instagram is but Facebook itself is smol in Japan[1] and Twitter is bigger unlike anywhere[2] (taken from page 110 and page 170 of "The Digital 2021 Global Overview Report" from we are social/Hootsuite[3]).

1: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001dig...

2: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001dig...

3: https://wearesocial.com/blog/2021/01/digital-2021-the-latest...
This isn't a set of security best practices. Many are simply required by PCI-DSS, along with a whole bunch of other things if you're doing card payments.

Some of them do offer security benefits (e.g. tokenization) but are often considered more because they reduce cardholder data within your network, which can make things a lot cheaper. A rare example of economic and security factors aligning!
Why are American houses so flimsy and poorly built?
I DID think it would be about clock jitter though.
“ It's easy to feel blasé about the internet, but it's also played a huge role in making information easily accessible. I learned about electronics from online tutorials. Taught myself programming. Also learned a lot about home repairs and renovations. Made a lot of contacts, landed jobs, etc. I met my partner through a dating app.”

All of this was possible before the internet.
Yes because it's PayPal again in the middle with whatever fees they wish to apply. On crypto.

The difference between crypto and cash is that the bank can refuse a cash transaction, from either end, and through. With crypto the network accepts the transactions with no recourse to block it, reverse it, or impose their view on how money should circulate.
Who says its insane?

I think its entirely reasonable given the size of the company.

I mean they have arbitration agreements which caused the abuse to get this bad, not the other way around.
They have an official account.
https://twitter.com/Facebook/status/1445061804636479493

hint: "some people".
I didn't know until I happened to read about it on HackerNews.

Nothing in my life changed whatsoever.
Just for the sake of completeness I saw a Twitter from some conspiracy website stating that it was some kind of menace from outer space.
I dislike Bitcoin but Lightning Network is effectively a decentralized Paypal. Assuming it works, it should have a very easy time competing against these excessive fees.
Thank you for share this blog sir.
I'd say curiosity is: "a desire to understand 'why' intrinsically, rather than because the answer would be useful".
I have to say though, the responder to the first comment did a bad job at conveying what exactly refterm is... Apparently people falsely think that refterm is a terminal emulator and use it interchangeably with terminal and terminal renderer, while it isn't.

If you were to open refterm once, you'd see a text that explicitly states "DO NOT USE IT AS A TERMNIAL EMULATOR", or something like that (can't open it now to copy exact).
If you also have dandruff and/or itchy scalp, it’s most likely a Malassezia infection that’s also affecting your face.
Coffee :D
It depends how you look at it and how strictly you define "Lisp". Which parts of that definition really matter to you.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/ast/
No, the vaccine passes are recent and have made no impact. That is visible in the graphs. Nor can they, given that vaccinated people still get sick and spread it. Regardless it's irrelevant to my point: the hospital system was never even close to being collapsed or overwhelmed, even though it's the same virus everywhere.

Obviously I know the graphs are total capacity and not ICU. I even mentioned that. The point is identical if considering ICU beds.

I guess the answer is no, you won't answer point (2).
You are conflating punishment with deterrence. Penalties are never about just one of these things.
Hopefully the massive popularity will help bring light to this issue as it's not just Squid Game, it's a much bigger problem as localization issues are widespread in all sorts of media.

I am fluent in three languages and watch international content with subtitles at home so that my wife can enjoy the content too, and from my experience, Netflix is one of the worst culprits at this. If I had to guess I'd say they hire the cheapest translation company available who then outsources their work on fiverr.
Funny you should call it the Trump tax cut since mine went up substantially for the reasons you mention.
This stat has been repeated many times, but even in July, the figure was completely wrong, as the leaked CDC docs show very clearly.

Yes, I do think that the President of the USA should - when citing statistics about health to justify forcing people to take medical interventions - actually use accurate statistics. And that such stats should not have to come to light through press leaks. Do you disagree?
I agree. I wanted to check using curiosity but I’m not in the UK so the site does nothing.

That said I do like defaults and fewer settings etc.
oh the irony!

can't use the phone network to place a call b/c of fb-errors clogging the pipe
This kind of money will incentivize "crews" to appear which will make this kind of abuse happen no matter the policies.

10 people team working for one year, that is 1 mil per month per person, and if it didn't work, you still got a basic salary.
Would it be bad to have a healthy form of crack?

By healthy I would mean physically non addictive and without any negative long term effects. If you used it right it would just give you euphoria, motivation, stimulation and potentially nootropic effects?
> what if I lived in multiple states?

You just pick the state that gives you the smallest tax.
> where anyone with a computer could connect to the Internet, publish a website, and communicate with people across the world.

The point is that this was never true. Well for me as a person with strong technical background it used to be true. But for many "regular" people not so. And when the usability and difficulty was lowered for the others, it was no longer feasible to self-publish websites.

I do still have high hopes for IPFS and Matrix
A bunch of you here are clearly concerned about the financial impact of the fine on Tesla’s bottom line, but maybe you should consider they could’ve gotten the house straight instead.
I assume that Lightning Network will devolve into federated payment infrastructure rather than something that is fully decentralized. It would be closer to email where providers share a protocol and interoperate by default with each other. In that sense, Paypal wouldn't compete vs crypto but with dozens of payment companies.
UK credit card transactions also used to fund cashback and rewards, but when EU rules from a few years ago limited the fees all that ended. Society no longer funds rich/middle-income people's air miles, which is an improvement.
Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse
So this is pure conspiracy theory, but to me this could be a security issue. What if something deep in the core of your infrastructure is compromised? Everything at risk? Id ask my best engineer, hed suggest to shut it down, and the best way to do that is to literally pull the plug on what makes you public. Tell everyone we accidentally messed up a BGP and thats it.

But yeah, likely not.
You need to believe vaccines stop infections to be able to blame the unvaccinated for the continuation of the pandemic.
You're welcome to correct me in a way that alays my concerns.
Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
$137M, what a joke. I'm sure he'd been able to earn at least 2x that amount had he continued his employment.
The problem I have with Chinese movies is that they will always be pushing a CCP agenda, they wont even get made if they aren't pushing the CCP agenda, let alone be released internationally. I am not going to pay to watch CCP propaganda.
The pattern I've seen over many decades is to say "computers can't do X", then when computers do X, they move the goalposts and say well, X wasn't really that hard, it didn't require the kind of intelligence humans have.

A short list of examples:

Chess

Driving

Go

Human level bipedal locomotion

Facial recognition

The list goes on.
You mention that trait curiosity doesn't give you anything, but does state curiosity?

Could choosing to work in a field that one considers more interesting lead to more state curiosity when doing that work?
Yes, but imagine crack/amphetamines/stimulants without negative health effects. With no addiction, tolerance, or making people stop doing basic habits like eating, drinking water, brushing teeth etc. A healthy form of crack that would only have benefits of the crack that could make you into a real motivated, energised work horse or entrepreneur. You could be on it, you could be off it with no consequences, but if you want to be extra productive you would be on it.

I think OP's really onto something here.

Maybe something to reset the brain chemical state in such way that tolerance and addiction could not come up. It surely must be possible in some way.
No. It’s theoretical vs actual.
You don't think this is worth the money, assuming no scientific value?

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/9...

Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker
Published: July 23, 2018

This is the most accurate natural color images of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

These natural-color images result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to “true color” than the images released near the encounter.

This image was taken as New Horizons zipped toward Pluto and its moons on July 14, 2015, from a range of 22,025 miles (35,445) kilometers. This single color MVIC scan includes no data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments added. The striking features on Pluto are clearly visible, including the bright expanse of Pluto's icy, nitrogen-and-methane rich "heart," Sputnik Planitia.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/933/true-colors-of-pl...
The important detail left out is that this was a San Francisco court.
I think the award is problematic due to a simple and ancient human trait: envy.

Consider. While the intent may be punitive damages to dissuade the bad actor from bad actions in the future, the effect is often instead resentment by many towards the awardee. This then perpetuates a cycle of suspicion, hostility, and potentially harms minorities rather than helping them, as this cycle inevitably anneals into right-wing politics. On a small scale, this might be an employer deciding to avoid hiring minorities in order to avoid the risk of a huge settlement. On a large scale, a country could go to war over reparations that they felt were unjust.

I think there’s a happy medium. Let the awardee have an award equivalent to their actual harm - and the punitive damages all go to charity, or to a governmental or quango fund to combat the issues that have caused the fund to grow.

This inhibits selfish motivations and the perceptions of them, and would still perform the same function in terms of punishment.
I don't think this is the case. Wasn't TechLead fired for SEV events?
As far as I know, all the tax software tells you you are responsible in the end.
I have wondered how likely it is for a government like CCP to go ahead and complain to WHO so soon after detecting the virus.

It took them 3 months (!) with the original, presumably deadlier, SARS[0]. Did things change for the better during those almost 20 years, or were they indeed aware & intending to hold off for as long as possible until Taiwan shooting an email to WHO on December 31st forced their hand?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002–2004_SARS_outbreak#Novemb...
This person is a VP of engineering too. Like. I feel uncomfortable just thinking about the poor people working for them. Ugh.
I've noticed the same. If you have CCs stored in the browser, I find the Stripe flow easier on my website, and it loads very fast, while the PayPal widget is the slowest-loading part of the website.

I see about a 70/30 percent split, as you do, for Paypal/Stripe.
There is more than on reason folks do mandatory arbitration agreements - I'm not entirely sure this is the main one. Mandatory arbitration keeps such things out of the public record and often silences the accuser.
It's the first time I've heard about the SAFE stack. I have no experience or opinion about it, but here's a reference for curiosity's sake.

- Saturn for back-end services in F#

- Azure as a hosting platform plus associated platform services

- Fable for running F# in the web browser

- Elmish for client-side user interfaces

https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/overview/
Learning Indoor Inverse Rendering with 3D Spatially-Varying Lighting
Does anyone know if FB's advertisement contracts even have an SLA ?

I can completely picture a world in which many people bought some ads yesterday morning (say, to promote an event that occured yesterday evening), the ads were never displayed to anyone, and FB will keep the money, thank you.
For me it is less about being scared, more about s-expressions being more friction-less in enough circumstances for it to matter.

One thing that - to me - seems like a missed opportunity is to use Lisp notation in mathematics. There are many fields such as algebra, logic and so on that lend itself to being expressed in terms of a Lisp. It isn't just about avoiding ambiguity, but also about having a uniform way to mechanically transform expressions.
>kindling

but what it is?
There’s no perfect pillow, its little bigger or smaller, always
No, it's 1st Jan 1970
> You just plug in the data from your W-2.

This is still a lot more work than in many countries, and you still need to either fill in a paper 1040 (plus state taxes where appropriate, and some of those (cough CA) are far from simple), use tax prep software, or someone like H&R Block.

In the UK, if you're in the majority of people who have one job and straightforward finances (e.g. not renting property, no CGT, etc) you need to do nothing at all for your taxes. Your employer deducts tax from your wages and that's it. I guess technically you should verify that your "tax code" (the mechanism used to inform employers of what needs withholding) is correct but again, unless your situation is more complex that is a standard figure shared by the rest of the employed workforce.

My parents never filed a return in their entire lives.
I mean a reason SMS gets its hate is because the moment you send a message across international borders you start paying ridiculously large sums of money (compared to the amount of data transferred) for every single message. If you now take Europe for example where it's easy to have friends in another country that you talk to regularly and you can see why WhatsApp quickly gained in popularity there simply because it was the cheaper option.
Why is the amount not split into a smaller, proportionate, compensation payment to the worker, and a larger, deterrent fine payment to a regulator/government?