skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have thought that these companies that are richer then $GOD would have (virtual) instances of at least the previous stable version available for situations such as this. It would at least keep their damn doors open and internal communications systems going... Maybe they'll NOW think of such things? What's the cliche, penny wise and pound foolish? Or is it, no need to listen to experienced Network Designers? I can never remember...
There should be 24/7 on-site rotations. I wonder if physical presence was cut on account of COVID?
It was my perception 10 years ago that HN was powered by a single threaded process with the entire post history loaded into memory (not sure how accurate this perception was). I am curious how much it has changed.

edit: found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
Coverup?

I'm so curious what you mean. How could you come to the conclusion that it is anything other than a technical issue?
I hope that all their workers quit and services never come back up. One can only dream...
Canada arrested a Chinese national under the court system on legitimate charges. China arrested random canadians on trumped up revenge charges.

Whataboutism is not a propaganda term from a few years ago. It's a decades-old term from the Soviet union using LEGITIMATE criticisms of the US (the US civil rights record should have been/was an international embarrassment for Americans and humanity) to deflect OTHER Legitimate criticism of the USSR's appalling human rights and civil liberties concerns that ultimately were worse than Americans. (e.g. the number of black americans lynched in the US was DWARVED by the number of soviet citizens killed by the system in the gulags, etc)

This remains the case today. Regardless of the US actions, any sensible impartial observer (from a non-US or even non-western perspective) can see that the PRC is far more of a reprehensible civil rights abuser than any country in The West. This is not up for debate.

When was the last time the Dalai Lama visited China? My point is that China and Russia would have treated Assange differently if his equivalent was on THEIR soil like Assange was on British. There would have been no respect of rule of law, or international sovereignty of diplomatic missions. He would have been gone.

Lastly, I'll give you some credit on one point. The US nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a reprehensible and unforgivable act by any ethical code. It was not needed to end the war. There is no defending it. That does not change the reality of the next 50 years of nuclear deterrent.

> At the end of the day, everyone has done good and everyone has done bad. But one has done far more evil than good while hypocritely pretending to be the world's beacon of good. This hypocrite not only colonized one of the "bad", it also invaded the other "bad".

> It's the hypocrisy that's just unbearable. I don't remember china claiming to be the world's beacon of good. Don't remember russia claiming to be the epitome of freedom and democracy.

Personally I don't care about hypocrisy, just objective actions - positive or negative. The US has done plenty bad, but overall has been a net good for the world - both for increasing the liberty/quality of life for their citizens, and for the rest of the world by establishing overall peace and prosperity through globalism (which improved the quality of life for Billions).

China has also done the same. But the costs to it's citizens seem higher.
I get "how to dispose of a broken tv", and "best place to buy a used car". And your point was...?
I just got off a short pre-interview conversation with a manager at Instagram and he had to dial in with POTS. I got the impression that things are very broken internally.
Why does it matter if he's guessing or not?
> Look at the github repo. There are only three committers to Casey's repo. I'm sure Microsoft could manage to contact them.

Microsoft's attitude towards the code seems a little odd. [0]

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.

Given that WSL exists I can't imagine this is a universal policy towards reading GPLv2 code at Microsoft.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...
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> either Nuclear or nothing

I've never heard that. More like everything that can help fill the gap, including nuclear.

> isn't "either Nuclear or climate disaster" a false dillema?

That's a false dilemma you've brought from somewhere else, not from this discussion, but the reason "either nuclear or climate disaster" is nonsensical is because global warming is happening already. The extent to which it happens will depend on how fast we can reduce our carbon emissions. If adding nuclear power into the mix helps us act faster and decrease the amount of warming that we ultimately experience, then we have to weigh that benefit against the risks.

There's a taboo against weighing nuclear risk against any other kind of risk, but that is a relic of a different time when nuclear accidents were the worst thing we could imagine. Nuclear isn't the scariest monster under the bed anymore. Global warming is going to result in global human suffering on a grand scale. We have to compare.
Most sophisticated and biggest hack. They really thought about all use-cases.
https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/07/the-cloud-is-not-fla...

https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/12/2020-platformonomics...
Why not just release AOSP as frequently? Then it'd be easier to push other small updates.
The rate at which some amazon services lately go done because other AWS services went down proves that this is an unsustainable house of cards anyways.
Given that judiciary being subservient to the Party is an intentional feature in China, no competent western system would do "worse" in judicial independence than China.

The GP is literally always correct in relativistic terms. If that makes people in the West feel more comfortable with the government, I guess I could say good for them? :)
Privacy is generally agreed to be a human right. And privacy means that you can do or say something and have a right to have it not be known or made public. If someone with access to you data exposes it, it's a violation of privacy.

So no, the old argument of "if you don't want it known, don't do it" is fallacious and dangerous.
Can you recommend similar others (or maybe how to find them)? I learned of PushShift because snew, an alternative reddit frontend showing deleted comments, was making fetch requests and I had to whitelist it in uMatrix. Did not know about Camas until today.
At this point, it's hard to see how it's possible for Facebook to be fixed.
I love that quote. To get where you want to be, it may be helpful to build the skills you want, before you need them.

At this point, an organization like Apple is too cemented to easily change. I think you can't learn _everything_ on the job, because some things you'll learn too late. Now, it's more than "a few decades later," and have they really learned how to partner?
That news broke ~12 hours ago right?
What is public key encryption?
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Ask HN: Can a programmer be sued for a bug that kills SSDs?
As the number of writes on an SSD are limited, a bug that causes excessive writes can kill an SSD.
Depending on his circumstance why would he stop working with professors or as a PhD in the research community? It feels like others on this comment thread are making an assumption he enrolled as an ordinary student and 'skipped' to PhD, and now is about to jettison from academia entirely. The article sounds like he has been working in his scientific field for some time and is just as likely that the master's program was sponsored by his work at that site in his field. If you had someone who was working FT and stopping/starting through a master's program and at the end was more a junior research peer with clear expertise than just someone who 'finished a program' and the work had enough merit why wouldn't you upgrade it?
When my Mac died I moved to Windows to escape the resource hungry OS updates. When my laptop with Win 10 dies that will be the end of Windows for me. Windows 11 is.. yuck!
Both authors assume that what we call "intelligence" and "sentience" is deeply influenced by the environment our species evolved in (plus a billion happenstances) and that therefore any dream of meaningful communication with extraterrestrials is a naive dream.

Now, we don't know if they're right because, as you pointed out, we never met actual aliens. But that doesn't change the fact that their assumptions is based on actual science.

Klingon mating rituals, on the other hand, are not.
If, after 2 decades with deep-pocketed backing, the only rocket that you've actually managed to make is a glorified tourist toy...then maybe customer wishes don't really matter so much. You need to admit that it's a vanity hobby. Or to stop wasting your money, and go back to running warehouses.
"The Things", [0] as mentioned in the featured article itself, is ridiculously relevant. It's the story of The Thing, but told from the perspective of the Thing.

[0] https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
I assume this outage is costing millions per hour. And it's not exactly great advertising for Facebook, either. I doubt very much they would do something like this on purpose.
I think the real take away is that no one has this figured out.

A small company has to keep all of its customers happy (or at least be responsive when issues arise, at a bare minimum).

Massive companies deal in error budgets, where a fraction of a percent can still represent millions of users.
That's an interesting problem. I wonder what social discussions need to take to reach acceptance for "AI assisted driving". Mandatory AI breaking to prevent driving into a bus queue?

I'm also curious how to find the people who do object vs theory-crafting all possible concerns people could have.
Fundamentally, how is a 2nd independent VPN into your network a different attack surface than a single, well-secured ssh jumphost? When you're using them for narrow emergency access to restore the primary VPN, both are just "one thing" listening on the wire, and it's not like ssh isn't a well-understood commodity.
Around here we use Slack for primary communications, Google Hangouts (or Chat or whatever they call it now) as secondary, and we keep an on-call list with phone numbers in our main Git repo, so everyone has it checked out on their laptop, so if the SHTF, we can resort to voice and/or SMS.

I remembered to publish my cell phone's real number on the on-call list rather than just my Google Voice number since if Hangouts is down, Google Voice might be too.
I personally prefer Penske, but they cost more and are not in as many markets.

Their fleet is always newer though, but their boxes are higher up and less accessible as they are built atop a truck chassis instead of a van chassis.
If government crypto backdoor was the answer to prevent a catastrophe the size of climate change and the following mass extinction, then government crypto backdoors might not be as bad. It would also depend on the feasibility of other alternatives.

In the absent of the threat of people using fossil fuel, nuclear isn't great. It is just better than cooking the planet and continuing releasing toxic emissions in the air and water.
Netflix doesn’t want their content to show up in apple TV search because they don’t want to give access to their user’s data to Apple. It’s a terrible anti-consumer decision and frankly it was one of the last straws that led me back to piracy after many years. All I wanted was a universal search for content instead of having to go into each provider’s app.

I am now using Plex/Sonarr/Radarr and it works flawlessly, a much better ecosystem with open APIs and tons of integrations with tvdb/discord/trakt/opensubtitles etc. Netflix had a good thing going on for a while but they managed to screw it up.
Instagram is down. What is going on?
You still don't seem to understand. You need 12-13km/s to get to anywhere useful from Mercury. Closer to Sun than Earth there is only Mercury and Venus and nothing else.

For example, if you wanted to build a base on Mars using resources that you obtained somewhere else, it would actually require many times more fuel to get anything from Mercury than it would be to get it from Earth surface.
AWS RoboMaker ROS 2 Nav2 to control a cheap ESP32-based robot kit
If they do some major restructuring that is.
GrapheneOS ships a hardened Chromium fork.

Worth looking into.
You should consider that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the primary communication method for large parts of the globe. The world might be better off if we transitioned off them, but having them cease to exist without any warning most definitely won't make the world better off.
> It should not be controversial to say that the CCP is more heavy-handed when it comes to government reach into private lives

I'm not so sure that is true. If anything the US agencies seem to be quite a bit more technologically advanced, and I'd bet they sit on more undisclosed zero days than the CCP.

You're definitely correct in the difference in ideological values, and this difference might make up for the technological gap between the surveillance capabilities of the two governments, but I honestly would say it's still a 50-50 to me which one comes out on "top".
You know it's a big outage when other people are writing status updates for you
Maybe it is for everyone's own good. The Facebook mafia needed to be shutdown.
In a way, the Linux kernel does power the "backbones of the internet".
> No, there is no fundamental ability to control. We have some illusion of control. Don't mistake this for saying that humans can't change, we just have no control over how we change.

Again - in a way this is something I entirely agree with but not in the important way. We are all automata in a society and society can attempt to fix broken components. Even if all your actions are just a result of past experiences - you yourself are no more meaningful and it's thus appropriate to assign you responsibility for your actions. If your experiences had shaped you differently then you'd probably make different ones - but you are who you are because of how you were shaped - and the you who is shaped in that manner is responsible for the actions you've taken. Hypothetical other yous that had slightly different experiences don't exist and are therefore irrelevant - but you're responsible for what you do.
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> the catch is that they didn't log by default but they had to log specific users due to a warrant.

that is a usable quantum bump up in privacy. requiring the authorities to specifically be investigating you, rather than you just being caught in a dragnet looking for someone to investigate.
Is there any place to see how the overall internet bandwidth usage has changed during this outage?
hahaha, good riddance
Looks like they misconfigured a web interface that they can't reach anymore now that they're off the net.

"anyone have a Cisco console cable lying around?"
IANAL but is it legal to just use a fake ID with photoshopped numbers, considering there is no legal or financial damage done in doing so in the FB case? You aren't causing someone to serve alcohol to minors, you aren't giving it to the government, you're just telling a social media giant that they have no right to that information.

I'm looking at this

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/470b/

and IANAL but it seems that possession of a fake ID of itself isn't illegal and I don't think "using Facebook" falls under the intent to defraud, i.e. "in order to cause loss or damage to a legal, financial, or property right".
While it's certainly possible (likely?) that it's "just" a technical issue, the article talks about this:

> The mass outage comes just hours after CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a much-anticipated interview with Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who recently leaked a number of internal Facebook investigations showing the company knew its products were causing mass harm, and that it prioritized profits over taking bolder steps to curtail abuse on its platform — including disinformation and hate speech.

> We don’t know how or why the outages persist at Facebook and its other properties, but the changes had to have come from inside the company, as Facebook manages those records internally. Whether the changes were made maliciously or by accident is anyone’s guess at this point.

I think we can't completely rule out the possible connection to this. Again, likely isn't, but answering the question how one might come to the conclusion.
No worries.

I was criticizing OP; it is not ready to be reviewed or tried out for now.

I also had a goal in high school to make a GTA-style 3D game of my home town. Needless to say, I did not succeed. I gave up on it, but I learned a lot about 3D modeling, and motivated me to learn Python.

I wish you good luck!
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The other problem is that there's no reason to assume $SUCCESSFUL_PERSON even knows what made them successful. I was once hanging out with a friend of a friend who was pretty successful in finance, and he said he could no more explain how he succeeded than I could explain how to ride a bike. These things are often tacit knowledge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge), or 'unknown knowns'.

In that friend's view - and I think mine too - that's the reason why 'how I succeeded' books by people like Warren Buffett or Bill Ackman almost always turn out to be total dross. Not because they don't want to share their secrets (after all, their secrets would require so much capital to apply as to be impracticable for most) – just that they have no idea.

They do know it, at least on some level. For many of them, they could do it again if they had to. They simply aren't consciously aware. (Like Auden once said: "I knew it all the time, but I never realised it before!")
my perception is a server located in YC's office under PG's desk ;)
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Another way to see it is that if you starve and don't eat well and try to store as sugar in your liver (but you can't because the liver has exit the room) you don't have much remaining fat in any part of your body, including the blood vessels.
iirc, Turbotax in the mid 2000s instituted a DRM that destroyed a whole lot of hard drives, but I don't believe they were ever sued for it.
> And I don't think they had location/address

I lived in a lot of different places in the US in the 70s and 80s. All the phone books had residential addresses listed.

This is the format and font I remember: https://groovyhistory.com/content/50602/01af8c322a21e50d0b81...
Can't verify the compiled source is what gets delivered to your Pixel device, though.
This is awesome , wonder if I can integrate it into my website to give my readers the option to listen to all the articles.
Artificial Intelligence Makes It Faster, Easier to Analyze Hockey Video
> FB/IG is down, browse Twitter

> Twitter starts to fail under load

I think it's only natural, given they're the biggest social networks. I'd guess they have significant overlap.
This could all be an elaborate set up for android 13.
IANAL but is it legal to just use a fake ID with photoshopped numbers, considering there is no legal or financial damage done in doing so in the FB case? You aren't causing someone to serve alcohol to minors, you aren't giving it to the government, you're just telling a social media giant that they have no right to that information.
Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners
This event should be a good conversation starter on how horrifyingly monopolistic this trifecta of services has on worldwide communication. When I think through a random smattering of people in my contact book, I now have no way of contacting quite a few people at all. That's fucked. I wonder how many important messages, replies, etc will be screwed up due to this.
possibly because of the huge number of commenters laughing about facebook being down
If I was so inclined to put on my conspiracy theorist robe, I’d guess more likely related to the bulk of Pandora Papers news hitting today.
So what, in your mind, is a more “democratic” news media?

I don’t think most journalists would accept the view you attribute to them—that they are opponents of democracy—but the logic seems like it applies to any expert specialization. Is that your argument—that all experts are inherently opponents of democracy because they “tell us what to think?”
there is a drastic change in his opinions of Tesla before he owned Tesla stock vs after.

I'm confident that this would apply to just about anyone that has ever bought, and then sold, Tesla stock. Because, and I don't mean to overstate the obvious, if one's opinion didn't change then why sell the stock?
> and allows subpar employees to continue existing at an organization when their position could be filled by a more qualified employee.

Not really, their incompetence is just noticed earlier at the review/testing stages instead of in production incidents.

If something reaches production that's no longer the fault of one person, it's the fault of the process and that's what you focus on.
IIRC HN runs on a single server. So they don't really put much effort into scaling to higher traffic levels. They don't really need to. Even now the site is available, if a little slow.
I would be absolutely shocked if they didn't.

The problem is when your networking core goes down, even if you get in via a backup DSL connection or something to the datacenter, you can't get from your jump host to anything else.
That’s really interesting. Where did you find that info?
Its always a DNS problem
At this point in time, I doubt this holds true.

Facebook is just too big and pervasive that such an outage would be treated by its users like an internet outage or a power outage. Once it's back online, everyone will forget.
Or a Pixel

ducks

that lets you unlock and, wait for it, relock the bootloader after installing Graphene.
Being legally compelled to hand over data is not the same as actively collecting every single facet of personal info about people for monetary profit bud.

Google does exactly what you're upset about ON TOP of a plethora of more insidious things.

If you're trying to make a claim that one is equal to the other you're failing miserably.
It does however mean Apple has significant market power. Almost by definition: in a very counterfactual perfectly competitive smartphone market, everyone sells at cost and there aren't any profits. Reducing it to monopoly vs. not-a-monopoly is drawing too bright a line.

And I don't really think iPhones are a Veblen good exactly. Targeted at higher-income buyers? Yes. Valued as much for design as aesthetics? Absolutely. But pretty sure a $500 iPhone would outsell an otherwise-identical $800 iPhone, nevertheless.
I also find that style annoying, to the point that I wonder why it's even in use. I always thought it was an American thing, given it's barely present in my country, and when it's used it sounds ridiculous to most people.
most of what they do, they do with in house tools, and custom-everything, including hardware. as a consequence, for some classes of problems there are no experts - not at facebook, not anywhere.

i feel for their netops people. uncharted territory with the whole world watching and, no doubt, a lot of morons from management trying to be "helpful" in getting this nice crisis resolved. for any crisis there is always a bunch of clowns with MBAs that consider it their golden opportunity to shine (nearly always at someone elses expense)
something like this? https://github.com/CookiesCo/OpenCannabis/blob/dev/rfc/7/REA...

lol