skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good planning! Now, where does the IRC server live, and is it currently routable from the internet?

While normally I know the advice is "Don't plan for mistakes not to happen, it's impossible, murphy's law, plan for efficient recovery for mistakes"... when it comes to "literally our entire infrastructure is no longer routable from the internet", I'm not sure there's a great alternative to "don't let that happen. ever." And yet, here facebook is.
Sure, if you regress once, it affects you. If you continue the regression analysis you'll quickly see that the ecosystem suffers if you don't participate and advocate for your preferred choice.

It's like buying on Amazon/Walmart while you see local stores shutting down when prices are more are less equivalent. Buy local if you want those stores sticking around.

Same dynamic in the browser market.
Account Surfer
You don't need a FK to point to multiple tables. You would have the reference in the other direction, from multiple different tables to one table.
Problem is user id link. From there you can get much more info. Facebook should be legally forced to reindex users and void all current user ids.
Why would you want to do this rather than using the built-in hillshader and 3D map view?

https://opengislab.com/blog/2018/3/20/3d-dem-visualization-i...
> Why is Carlsen so relatively bad at chess with his understanding of the why?

I think you have it backwards. Stockfish probably could tell you which specific 30-depth line changed its evaluation, while a human player is much more likely to play based on feel and intuition
He just deleted all his updates.

user:

https://old.reddit.com/user/ramenporn

some messages:

* This is a global outage for all FB-related services/infra (source: I'm currently on the recovery/investigation team).

* Will try to provide any important/interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls.

* Update 1440 UTC: \

As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).

There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.

Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.
Is there a "Kessler syndrome" analogue for the internet, where failures beget failures until it's just an impenetrable cloud of fail, forever?
> structure is probably a good fit for the data model in your database

Um, actually we made some not optimial choices with our initial app-data schema and working with other vendors got us to this one. And also, yes, because we've used it for integration in a few places before, there is less work for us to currently do. We have also offered to help other providers wherein we would be spending our own cash-time for a mutual benefit.
This looks great! Two questions if i may:

1. Any plans to release some general purpose version of this? Ie i'd love to buy this and hook it up to an HTML webpage i generate or something. Then it's flexible to whatever i want to show on my dashboard.

2. Any plans for how consumers should power this hanging on a wall? Since it's wired it looks like.
I would also recommend "Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work" which gives a good overview of the implementation of a database. I felt that closer to an engineers perspective
Archived version: https://archive.is/QvdmH
Personally, I find writing tests in Go to be extremely painful outside of trivial assertion tests. The minute you need to start introducing test doubles, spies, or mocks, you're abusing interface{}. Compared to Ruby's rspec or even Python's pytest where creating these objects is fairly straightforward, writing new code with Golang often feels like a chore.

I get that a lot of this difficulty stems from Go being a compiled language, but I still wish that writing tests were easier. (I'm really thankful that Ginkgo and Gomega exist though!)
Will the Media Finally Learn Something from Its Fake “Havana Syndrome” Debacle?
> I hate this trend in modern journalism where anytime consumers show preferences for something a journalist doesn't like, they are written about like some sort of victim in an information war.

That’s “victims of misinformation”.
> Then don't fine poor people

Means-testing for public services? Please no. Means testing introduces bureaucratic hurdles, and the cost of determining and enforcing means limits can be up to 10x the actual amounts paid out. https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2013/jan/14/...
Albert Einstein Explaining “ E=MC^2 ”
What should I use instead? Seriously.

I know that ecosystem fairly well, and have found it pretty effective to develop in. Compared to that, we have vanilla JS, which is okay for a thing or two, but awful to make a full SPA in. Or probably like 20 other web UI frameworks, all of which probably do the same thing as far as dependencies and have a learning curve for how to use them.

And what do we mean by "enterprise" here? The issue is the dependency chains and the maintenance issues that causes. If it was really "enterprisey", you'd think they'd do a better job of having a manageable dependency chain.
I'd like to share some dated, but still relevant, annual reflections on "cloud wars" that I wrote in 2016 [0] and 2017 [1]. Back then I was an exec at VMware, CTO of their cloud division (vCloud Air), and previously a Tech Evangelist at AWS.

I re-read them now, after 4-5 years, to see how much I was right and wrong about my predictions.

I hope you find these interesting.

[0]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2016-3f...

[1]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...
YouTube and YouTube music are the only remnants of Google for me at the moment. With the occasional use if Facebooks messenger for a particular group of friends and WhatsApp. The later really annoys me, so. Turned getting rid of everything MS was much easier, privately that is, now that I don't need Excel anymore. My employer provided IT equipment is still MS, so.
Why is this not the first post on hn? It’s double the points and has over 590 comments?
Best HN client app ever. Thanks for the great work!
No problem, they still have phone numbers of those people so they can send them SMS with Signal invitation. :)
Also note that this legal theory only comes into play if they're compelled to do so. The police and investigators can always just kindly ask for records to be produced without a warrant and it's up to the institution to honor that request or not, much like how Google does its own review of law enforcement data requests in absence of a warrant.
The argument was that Facebook is neutral as a platform. Similar to the internet, it serves all kinds of content. Some of the content is good, and some is bad. That doesn't necessarily mean the platform is good or bad.
Harmful misinformation is fire in a crowded theater and threats and incitement to violence have never been protected.

There have always been limits to free speech and it has always been possible to set ground rules for how companies operate.
Truth is... the game was rigged from the start...
Some Oculus Quest owners can't use their device https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/q18xwy/faceboo...
> Qualcomm dominates at radios, which matters far more than single-core CPU performance.

that is nonsense. I switched from iPhone to a Pixel 4 post-CSAM scandal and the difference is night and day. My phone now makes me wait. Every single fucking day I wait. Wait Wait Wait. Slow Slow Slow. And this is a phone without the bloatware. Fucking miserably slow. Not in absolute terms necessarily, it would have been competitive 10 years ago. But in 2021, Qualcomm is fucking over every single Android user and their management should be ashamed.

I assume nonsense about single core performance being good enough is how the industry (Apple aside) has ended up in such a sorry state.
The Reddit post is down but not before it was archived: https://archive.is/QvdmH and https://archive.is/TNrFv
agreed, they fell off the internet according to routeviews
his account is active, only the incident comments were deleted
Haha that's so true, the NFT ecosystems roots are with discord. It's great for communicating with your core audience
If you weren't aware, Database Design for Mere Mortals 25th Anniversary Edition was released last December!
Yes, shadow profiles exist and really show how shallow Facebook's promises of privacy are:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...
In the past "public" did not mean a single, all-encompassing global village of information that anyone on earth with a computer could get access to. People then operated within local shells of information, extending outward from the neighborhood block to the city to the country and maybe finally to the world.

What time you walk your dog each day would be neighborhood level public info. Phone numbers would be city level. For greater reach than that you usually had to put the info out there yourself or be someone of media prominence.

Nowadays the time you walk your dog is out on the internet because it was leaked from some Amazon S3 bucket collecting pings from your dog's smart collar. And what more it's been joined with your name, phone number, and other personal info to create an automated profile of you by interested groups.

That's a whole different ball game, and not one that many people expect despite living their lives (in their minds) the same way as before.
If he's in the belly of some crocodile, he's probably not using electronic devices.
Not OP. They _can_ but good luck trying to convince parents of that. They're not tech savvy enough to install apps themselves. They have simple questions about why Whatsapp cannot be installed in a basic Nokia phone for instance. It's not easy to convince them to use Signal or Telegram or anything else.
Have you not seen a warning that appeared frivolous or you disagreed with? Or, as my sibling comment says, might be a harmful construct in some contexts but used correctly in your example?

Further, the compilers are evolving entities written by mere mortals, with their own bugs, occasional poor decisions, and yes, chances to be corrected over time. If the compiler's authors decide a warning is too noisy and disable it in release X, but random linux distro still uses (X - 0.1), should you fix it for them...?
The case I recall was the integration of the .Net Framework Assistant. The initial version installed itself after a Windows update and couldn't be removed, later versions seem to have fixed that.
Did you not read the whole article? The author explains why his defense of this study and the players involved is wrong, and why they are "furious about every aspect of this story"
Yes - but invisible to the user and inferred automatically.
You’re hung up on GABA, but it has little to do with alcohol other than being part of the physiology of physical dependence.

LD50 for benzos is already “really high” - that is not an issue. Alcohol affects other neurotransmitter pathways other than GABA. That isn’t even the one responsible for the psychological dependence. So a GABA-A agonist with a high LD50 exists in multiple (benzos), but it’s not an alcohol substitute. There is a reason why these medications are used for acute withdrawal, but are not used for treating dependence.

Also, being addicted to benzos is far more debilitating than the “vaping” equivalent. They’re quite harmful for chronic use except in very limited circumstances.

Maybe synthahol might be a thing - I mean you’re probably closer with something like ecstasy - but a GABA agonist isn’t it.
This felt like something straight out of a post modern novel during the whole WSB press rodeo, where some user names being used on TV were somewhere between absurd to repulsive.

Loved it.
Robust and portable, until someone tries compiling it with LLVM 13 that you haven't tested on…
Yes. And those are whites becoming a minority, sooner rather than later. Will all of that growth go Blue? Probably not. But all of it doesn't, just more than go Red.

Will some collective demo switch sides entirely? That too seems unlikely unless there's some other traumatic event.

While it's true, no one can predict the future. As things are, odds favor the Blue.
Until someone smashes the "SEND MOAR SERVERS" button.
You’re hung up on GABA, but it has little to do with alcohol other than being part of the physiology of physical dependence.

LD50 for benzos is already “really high” - that is not an issue. Alcohol affects other neurotransmitter pathways other than GABA. That isn’t even the one responsible for the psychological dependence. So a GABA-A agonist with a high LD50 exists in multiple (benzos), but it’s not an alcohol substitute. There is a reason why these medications are used for acute withdrawal, but are not used for treating dependence.

Also, being addicted to benzos is far more debilitating than the “vaping” equivalent - this has been well studied since they had their heyday in the 70s. They’re quite harmful for chronic use except in very limited circumstances.

Maybe synthahol might be a thing - I mean you’re probably closer with something like ecstasy - but a GABA agonist isn’t it.
Or most people simply don't have anything useful to add or do during an incident.
Eric Schmidt, as Google CEO, had a habit of saying unpopular but true things. When he responded to a question about how people interact with Google with "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," he wasn't so much offering self-criticism as a warning regarding the overall societal trend, of which Google was merely a part.

The context is often left out in that interview snippet, because he goes on to say "... but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

Actions online leave a data trail. The US government has broad subpoena power to acquire that data trail. DDG is a smaller aggregation house, so it's less likely to be hit first, but I wouldn't assume that they don't retain routing info, IP addresses, etc. that could (with some difficulty) be collected and aggregated to narrow the search space for a person.
are you logged in in both? if not, you are getting cached pages which can be served faster.
Or watch movies and shows using one of the many alternatives to Netflix.
> You say that as if DuckDuckGo is completely immune to the same sorts of warrants.

If you don't collect data, you can't share it in a warrant.
So it is or it is not possible to run X11 on Plan 9 ?
The article says that it runs twm and then later that it is possible to run linux program through an emulation layer.
FB's BGP routes have been “withdrawn from the internet.“
I would bet money that there is one awarded in the next 10-15 years.

Nobel prizes are notorious for not being reactionary, and waiting for the full effects of the work to be realized - i.e. GFP tagging awarded the nobel prize 16 years after it was first used.

mRNA vaccination technology is just getting started, the impact of which will likely be on the level of penicillin.
By focusing on the process, lessons are learned and systems are put in place which leads to a cycle of improvement.

When individuals are blamed instead, a culture of fear sets in and people hide / cover up their mistakes. Everybody loses as a result.
David Nutt shares your hypothesis and is working on such a substance [1].

I agree with you that something like chronic Diazepam abuse is probably less harmful to the body than a similar alcohol habit - but I'm skeptical (but hopeful) one could design an effective, recreationally-useful GABA-ergic drug that didn't come with the baseline shift and rebound anxiety (and in the limit, seizure/death) usually associated.

You can already choose to abuse pills in contrast to alcohol, and it's generally not very pretty either.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/26/an-innocent-...
But, ok, yeah, I'm sorry. I'd perked up and replied to parent because the "2 standard unit 20ml limit" as "safe" seems to show up in a bunch of studies, and interpreted "2 drinks" as that.
But if he meant US standard drink that would be a 1.7*2 units (or 2 5% beer bottles), which is a bit harder to hit (but also firmly in unhealthy territory).
That said, as another person noted, you can blow through that with a high ABV craft beer really easily (or an overly full glass of wine).
It's always DNS
TRP channels were first cloned over 20 years ago, and are indeed medically relevant for nociception and pain. The piezos are equally relevant; knockouts are embryonically lethal, and the function of mechanosenstation in somatosenation and in general continue to be elucidated. For instance, it was only a few years that they were identified as being required for the baroreceptor reflex.
I think that should very much depend on the severity and the statistical impact of the bug. As long as the long doesn't raise the deaths-per-mile-driven number above what humans would be doing, I would say it would be ok to just leave it running and just update once it is fixed.
The goal is to get cars driving better than humans (which btw they already do by a huge margin, even with the fsd beta). so disabling the autopilot because of a potential bug would be condemning a lot more people to death than leaving it in. Interesting variation of the trolley problem i guess
Most of the people I'm seeing get actually cancelled are... being considered "an enemy of the state working to overthrow the government".

I'm also seeing a lot of base-rate fallacy and availability bias issues (surprisingly, from many of the same people who complain about other people falling prey to the base rate fallacy w.r.t. Covid). That you can think of a few instances where people were loudly pilloried for, say, weaponizing the state use of force to racist ends, doesn't mean that it happens that often.
I'm not sure if that speaks greatly of the author's work--which I'm sure took a lot of effort regardless--or poorly of the fragmented Node ecosystem where micro packages are common.

Having a single maintainer control all those packages also makes him a valuable target for malicious actors.
A quibble with wind direction and humidity. Really, what's needed is to address the kinematic/thermodynamic parameters more generally that might support (a) maintenance of the existing convection and (b) the propagation of new convective cells.

The steering currents really don't change much over 2 hours for an organized system. You can get some rotational motion with a large cyclone but modern OF methods do just fine with that, and you can always remove the divergent component of the flow field. An example of (b) can be found in any Spring season convective outbreak in the Central US; once a squall line congeals along a front you'll see pioneer convection propagate along a vector somewhat orthogonal to the squall line's motion (there are heuristics for the propagation vector that work OK for curved hodographs except in inhomogeneous environments, e.g. Fig 8.10 from Markowski and Richardson). It's the 3D wind shear that matters here, augmented with the lapse rate / profile for (a).

It's hard to bullish on the AI applications here until we see them start to account for these larger input parameter spaces. But of course, where is this data going to come from? Mesoscale or convection-permitting models. And if you already have the capability to run these models in a cost-efficient manner, do you need the AI system in the first place?
Wyoming librarians under fire for books about sex, LGBTQ
This appears to be from 5 years ago. I would love to see a follow-up!

Way off topic, but the brand of shed he bought, Tuff-Shed, had a series of TV ads that will be forever stuck in my head. The voice-over was a call and response that played on the fact that the brand name sounded like tough shit. Need somewhere to store your lawn mower? Tuff shed! Tired of all your stuff getting rained on? Tuff shed!
Why I changed my mind about advertising
We have plenty 'safe' GABA-A agonist, the issue is alcohol's greatest risk and greatest hard is dependence. The health effects in non-addiction scenarios are not related to its function as a GABA-A agonist but rather the specific metabolism of ethanol produces toxic metabolites.

The withdrawal from any type of GABA antagonist/PAM type drug can be lethal. The acute and long term side effects of ethanol discourage abuse.

Also acute overdoses of the safe benzo/Z-drugs are strange & alarming since you can put yourself into a 24-48 hour coma but recover pretty quickly.
Another gross thing they did:
A former DEA council in charge of regulating distributors then worked with them to pass a law by unanimous consent neutering this single enforcement tool the DEA had.

The former DEA attorney "gave the industry intimate knowledge of the DEA’s strategy."

Below links have gross records that reveled among other things that a Rep. sponsoring the bill emailed the lobbyists asking for questions he can ask the DEA...

If you haven't watch Gibney's "Crime of the Century" on HBO it touches on this incident. The context is that the DEA used a stop order against McKesson, it was one of the only tools they had. McKesson did not like this. They pushed back HARD. I understand concerns that legit non-opiate meds were held up for a few days, but this was the only tool DEA had to send a message.

Of course.... “Purdue was very active in influencing the ultimate definition of an ‘imminent danger to the public health or safety.’ ”

Humans, hell even the most obvious 'AI', could flag ginormous amounts of pills going to tiny zip codes. They put profits over people's lives. They violated the law, minimally in spirit, I believe in conservative textual reading.

"the sponsors and co-sponsors have received $1.4 million in campaign contributions from the industry and the alliance, according to campaign finance records."

It's shocking how relatively tiny amounts of money open access to decision makers.

Gibney's doc also reveals this addiction pushing behavior is endemic: Purdue had a government regulator sit in a motel and draft their label - which gave them the excuse to market a potentially 'less addictive' drug and we all know what happened from there.

https://archive.is/bmCiD
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblowers-dea-attorneys-we...

I have very strong feelings about what I consider crimes of big pharma & opiates. To me, our for-profit system is a root cause of human misery. Obviously complicated issue, but I think there has to be some type of semi competitive socialized healthcare.
> If you allow any warnings, they will increase according to the tolerance of the most lax person on your team. And you will never spend the time on the technical debt to clean them. You are accepting an increasing number of things wrong with your codebase that you will never investigate nor regain control of.

This is making a lot of assumptions about team dynamics, and fails to account for the person who notices build warnings creep and aggressively sends in patches to fix them.
Have you ever tried to remotely troubleshoot THROUGH another person?!