skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know who either he or you are, so...
Also be prepared for random shit to break e.g. disable Cortana and discover it's what did Start Menu indexing.

OTOH if you already know what things are officially toggleable (e.g. tips and tricks in the Start Menu) and stick to those then the UI in this is much faster than going through Settings or gpedit manually.
The DNS hammering bit was posted by Cloudflare CTO on Twitter. https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413
GNU Radio 3.9 in Buildroot
Hehe, true. Good that it isn't down. FB got a place to resort to.
Covid made it okay to fist bump
The sentence might be a bit hard to parse but that's not what it's saying.

It's saying that someone who takes the vow of celibacy has strong religious beliefs, which is a statement that could be argued separately.
One should use codebgp.com
Suspicious. What timing eh!
China PCR test orders soared before first reported Covid case
Yup. Another analogy is that you probably have a friend (or maybe you are that friend?) who happens to very good attracting (romantic) attention when you go out in public. Ask them what their secret is. They might have some basic, universal things like "dress nicely", "have good hygiene", "get in shape", etc, and those things might help you (10% of the way there), but in reality, they just happened to have been handed some lucky genetics that made them attractive / charismatic, so none of the advice they give you will work (in fact, some of it might back-fire like "smile at strangers").

On the other hand, if you can find the person that _isn't_ naturally good at the skill but was somehow able to get decent at it, even if they're not the best at it, they're more likely to have beneficial advice.
China PCR Purchases Spiked in Months Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says
Conspiracy theory or conspiracy fact?
The they will have to old school it and try a brick.
I think if you were smart enough, you may be able to mask some needed changes under some legitimate tickets. You make certain changes that you know will break stuff, but you assign a reviewer who doesn't know enough about the particular thing that they may think it seems fine.

I am talking in a very generalized sense, not for this particular issue. But I don't think the code review/deployment process is entirely safe against internal bad actors.
XD! Best comment.
> "in order to cause loss or damage to a legal, financial, or property right".

It would be a stretch, but perhaps an imaginative prosecutor could claim that the user is trying to diminish Facebook's finances/property by generating web responses (using CPU time and electricity) which it otherwise wouldn't.

That's discounting all the expansive interpretations of the CFAA which would deem any breach of Facebook's terms of service to be an act of illegal hacking, not to mention an interpretation of copyright law that asserted that the user was receiving unlicensed copies of Facebook's intellectual property (e.g. their HTML).
So it appears that WhatsApp are in the process of restoring from backup? Why would they need to do that if it was just a DNS issue? And why would the server be accessible while backup restoration was still in progress? I feel like there is going to be a lot more to this story when it all shakes out.
Agree. I just did a quick check and 60 Minutes averages around 10 million viewers. It's not like in 1977 when something 20%+ of the US population was watching that show.
>Well-managed companies

To what extent does this include Facebook?
Only true if this outage is extended.
If you're going to read emotional content into that "Am I missing something?", I think sarcasm and derision are not the most plausible options. In this case, it seems like incredulity is the more likely and appropriate reaction: because it seemed like the person asking the question was putting a lot more thought and effort into the discussion than the Microsoft developers who were not willing to seriously reconsider their off-the-cuff assumptions.
Also anecdotal, but I didn't know about the whistleblower until I searched Twitter for "facebook" when I learned about the outage.
Google searches for "Telegram" are exploding today:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=te...
The first rule of netops is to have a separate, externally accessible, not controlled by the managed routers network of serial consoles with the entry points connected to IP over LTE or completely dedicated network of a different provider.

We have been doing this since 1996
We can both recognize that this effects a lot of people and recognize that it could be a good thing for the long run. WA has a lock-in effect that is difficult for competitors to fight against. An outage like this can help bring competition simply because people may no longer be so reliant upon a single app. Simply having a second app for "backup" helps reduce the lock-in. This should always be the response to "I don't want to install a billion apps"
Shot in the dark, but this might be related to how Visa and MC differ on authentication requirements, particularly CDA and ODA[0].

0: https://youtu.be/YmJ4ULncNwg?t=1067
Flow matters more than passion
while reading this comment the deus ex dark age ending music started playing in my head

"the facebook's going black... no more political battles with elderly relatives, transmissions of any kind... we'll start again, live in villages"

(then cutting to zuck plugged into the planetsized AI... exploding)
Sample size of one but a quick google shows me zero whistleblower news and 100% outage news.
I don't understand that logic, wouldn't people interacting with the website normally also generate the same amount if not more DNS requests?
Then unfollow. They don't know if you unfollow.
For those wondering, the title is some kind of culture reference. Perhaps it should be changed to "Twilight of Just-In-Time Compilation"?
Migrating from Cloud Run to Google Kubernetes Engine
Facebook is not a neutral platform. It has a lot of moderation and algorithmic ranking of posts.
The safe in question contained a smartcard required to boot an HSM. The safe combination was stored in a secret manager that depended on that HSM.

The engineer attempted to restart the service, but did not know that a restart required a hardware security module (HSM) smart card. These smart cards were stored in multiple safes in different Google offices across the globe, but not in New York City, where the on-call engineer was located. When the service failed to restart, the engineer contacted a colleague in Australia to retrieve a smart card. To their great dismay, the engineer in Australia could not open the safe because the combination was stored in the now-offline password manager.

Source: Chapter 1 of "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" (https://sre.google/static/pdf/building_secure_and_reliable_s... size warning: 9 MB)
Most likely they did plan for this. Then, something happened that the failsafe couldn't handle. E.g. if something overwrites /etc/passwd, having a local user won't help. I'm not saying that specific thing happened here -- it's actually vanishingly unlikely -- but your plan can't cover every contingency.
Clown.
There is GrapheneOS too:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/DanielMicay
doubts about veracity:

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1445100884740935686
I know everyone is in awe of the 5th symphony, Finlandia and the Violin Concerto, and while these are all great (especially the Violin Concerto), my favourite piece is actually his sixth symphony which is so remarkably peaceful and unassuming that it can often warm my heart, especially on a cold, snowy winter day.
Today, Facebook made the world a better place. For real, this time.
Further to this, doesn't Chrome and Safari quietly auto-ping/reload pages that "fail to connect" if they're left open in a tab or browser?
I enjoyed it. It basically a conversation about the experience of Dell taking his company private and then public again and the underlying thesis for doing so (is the future public cloud? Edge?). Flowed well and felt like being a fly on the wall with them having coffee and talking about the industry
I wonder if Oculus Quests are working?
Would you (or someone else in-the-know) help me, an out-of-the-loop person, understand why Facebook is reviled so much more intensely on this site than other social media platforms?
Show HN: Track BGP Resources Automatically
A while back a project was announced that it was the first grid battery in the UK, but this project has been running since 2017.
DNS outage is an outcome of faulty BGP updates. As such not only the Internet can't see the FB network, there is also no connectivity from the FB network to the Internet right now.
The story that a woman at Facebook doesn't think they're going far enough to control speech they hate and bad-thoughts?

I think Facebook is awful, but her primary complaint seemed to me that she lacked controls for what people like her, you know, the good people have access to prevent anyone else from seeing. That she was powerless to stop users from saying the wrong things. How was her motivation anything but a desire for more authoritarianism? She said she specifically took the job on the condition she could monitor and direct posts to prevent the wrong info from being online, that's the last type of person you want in that position, the one that wants it.

I expect that we're still pretending Facebook is "just a private business", despite it being unlike any in history and that the ties to government are completely benign.

I'm not saying she was wrong in any claim about internal discussions. But, if you can not imagine yourself being on the wrong side of someone like that, you have limited imagination.
Facebook outage is now the top story on CNN and Fox. Facebook stock down 5%. Facebook is not returning calls from Fox, or CNN.
System administrator with high authority can pretty much bring down the whole network stack if s/he wants to.
"You will own nothing and be happy." https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
Well, individuals will still stress, if anything, due to the feeling of bein personally responsible for inflicting damage.

I know someone who accidentally added a rule 'reject access to * for all authenticated users' in some stupid system where the ACL ruleset itself was covered by this *, and this person nearly collapsed when she realized even admins were shut out of the system. It required getting low level access to the underlying software to reverse engineer its ACLs and hack into the system. Major financial institution. Shit like leaves people with actual trauma.

As much as I hate fb, I really feel for the net ops guys trying to figure it all out, with the whole world watching (most of it with shadenfreude)
There's a lot of caching involved in the chain of requests that would alleviate this request volume if things were working.
Author here, what do you think would give this kind of content more substance? Still very new to this and genuinely looking for feedback!
Andreessen Horowitz Values Developer of NFT Game Axie Infinity at $3B
At their market cap it would take in excess of 10 years to zero out. 170,000, if that's the actual number, is absolutely nothing to them
The places I've seen this at had specific verification codes for this. One had a simple static code per person that the hands-on guys looked up in a physical binder on their desk. Very disaster proof.

The other ones had a system on the internal network in which they looked you up, called back on your company phone and asked for a passphrase the system showed them. Probably more secure but requires those systems to be working.
When I worked there they were all about open source projects to build it themselves and control the service. Well, when your whole company is run on one DNS service this is going to bite you in the butt.

I only know of a handful of Saas apps they didn’t build internally. Sadly none of those will help them get out of this situation.
They should put an obligatory message on every bottle of booze: "drinking causes a reduction of libido".
I don't think Facebook could actually say anything more accurate or more honest. "Everything is dead, we are unable to recover, and we are violently ashamed" would be a more fun statement, but not a more useful one.

There will be plenty of time to blame someone, share technical lessons, fire a few departments, attempt to convince the public it won't happen again, and so on.
Imagine that guy has this big npm repository locally with all those dodgy libraries with uncontrolled origin, in their /lib/node_modules with root permissions.

Wait, we all do, here.
Parent is not refuting that WSL2 performed better than WSL1, they're arguing that a reasonable response to WSL1 giving you slow build times might have simply been to use a VM instead.

Microsoft being Microsoft, they didn't want people like you to hop to VMware or VirtualBox and use a full, branded instance of Fedora or Ubuntu, because then you would realize that the next hop (moving to Linux entirely) was actually quite reasonable. So they threw away WSL1 and built WSL2. Obviously WSL2 worked better for you than WSL1, but you also did exactly what Microsoft wanted you to do, which is to their benefit, and not necessarily to yours.
> I find the commute far more effective for unwinding to be honest.

Nobody's stopping you from going for a couple hour-long drives on your own dime before and after work, if that's what you're really into. The pandemic has really shown everyone how absurd it is to take on the risk, expense, and uncompensated time consumed by commuting when it's been proven to be unnecessary in most cases.
Can't buck the zuck
As much as all of the curious techies here would love transparency into the problem, that doesn't actually do any good for Facebook (or anyone else) at the moment. Once everything is back online, making a full RCA available would do actual good for everyone. But I wouldn't hold my breath for that.
What? It absolutely needs to be up -- those ads being served are on Facebook and Insta, not display banners on random sites.
Goole searches for “Telegram” during the FB outage
I care about no longer remembering something I used to be considered a master at previously. :-(

I don't like knowledge evaporation.
> they leaked information about 20% of the earth's population

This is straight up false. It was scrapers extracting data from public profiles. They already incorporate anti-scraping techniques, so there's not much they can do other than require every one to set their profile to private.
Hopefully that's pulling from local cache or something but yikes
Thank you for the post. I can hear the frustration in your writing. Or perhaps, it's my own frustration that I'm projecting on to you.

More and more, I'm wondering about the proposition that the "left vs right" battle we (broadly) tend to engage in is just a bunch of bullshit that we get caught up in. If there are puppet masters in the world, they surely are happy when we fight amongst ourselves.
I added "Signal", "Matrix", and "Session" to compare competitors. Looks like only Telegram and Signal are benefiting.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...
This is true and surprised me. Even with 100K employees and a separate 4096bit RSA key per badge that is only 50MiB of data. You would think that they would preload the readers with the access list or at least have a copy on site.

Of course it isn't a no-brainer:

- It is still a non-trivial amount of data for an embedded device.

- You want to be able to revoke quickly.

- You still want to log the access if offline (and how big should that buffer be?).
Here's one source: https://twitter.com/BlazejKrajnak/status/1445063232486531099
https://downdetector.com/

lol! it's like the bicycle, appliance and consumer toilet paper shortages that resulted from changed consumer behavior during last year's lockdowns, but instead with internet distractions.

(even HN is creaking under the load, hah!)
that's the solution
But isn't telegram less secure than Whatsapp (at least in terms of the lack of e2e for the former)? Or am I missing something?
>Monitors are getting higher and higher resolutions; a 4K display that's less than 27" is going to feel awfully tiny unless you start scaling things up.

Does this mean people who _don't_ buy 4K displays at those resolutions are going to be disadvantaged with strangely-huge UIs? (Side note: every OS I use already has display options to scale up UI 100-200+%, but not scale down less than a "normal" 100%.)

It reminds me a little bit of when Apple's retina displays first came out and nobody knew how to handle widely-different resolutions, which resulted in huge UI/icons on normal-resolution monitors and fuzzy UI/icons on high-resolution ones, for the longest time.
My best guess is that after n many attempts to access the provided IP, the local DNS cache deletes the entry causing a miss. Then the cycle continues.
Maybe they shouldn't have hired that new guy, Bobby Tables.
It sounds like they are not even able to serve ads, on any property. So while far from perfect, it's probably a decent estimate without doing in-depth analysis.
Do y'all have vaccine requirements? I know some companies are locking people out until they prove their vaccination status.

Could it be people who normally don't go in and haven't yet confirmed their vaccination?

Edit: What in the world was I flagged for?
> stopped its spread on FB networks.

bingo. I don't care whether it's in the realm of tinfoil hat or not, this is the very real effect that this outage has had. By the time Facebook is back up, people on Facebook will be talking about the outage, not about the whistle blower report. Intentional or not, it will certainly be in Facebook's favor.
WhatsApp going down is a total shock.
I thought that ran on completely separate infrastructure.
Facebook outage is a network issue -CTO CONFIRMS
Facebook said they are working hard to “get things back to normal”. But so far things seem more normal without them.
I'm sure this is short caches expiring, and hence the records are gone since they are no longer able to route to their DNS servers.
Telegram is buckling under this too. Only major comms for me not slowing down at the moment are Fastmail (email) and Matrix (which we have the homeserver on our own ASN)
I believe so, at least to some degree. Anybody working remotely is almost certainly locked out unless they know the right IP address. And from what I hear, internal email is down as well.

I hear a rumor that the badge readers at the door also don't work, which would be just amazing if true... [Edit: Apparently partially confirmed.]
> this whistelblower seems to be "blowing the whistle" on the fact that facebook isn't doing enough to control what people are thinking and talking about.

That is not at all what the whistleblower is alleging. Facebook already controls what content you are seeing through its news feed algorithm. The parameters to that algorithm are not a 1-dimensional "how much control", but instead uses engagement metrics for what content to show. The whistleblower claims that the engagement optimization, according to facebooks own research, prioritizes emotionally angry/hurtful/divisive content.
> you yourself are no more meaningful and it's thus appropriate to assign you responsibility for your actions.

I don't follow this.

We don't blame people for actions when we think that they don't have control over these actions.

If someone has their first epileptic episode while driving a car and they kill someone because of it, we understand that they had no control and don't hold them responsible for the accident. Why should it be different if the causes are more complex and harder to trace back?
Tox is working fine and I've never seen it go down, presumably because it is distributed.
"Well, actually", as someone who has religiously avoided Facebook services for almost 15 years... I'd happily join FB if Zuck turned out to be an alien!
> would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.

Well, they work for Facebook. In my opinion you would have to have no morals to join that corporations in the first place, so I can imagine such ask would be just another dirty task to do. They seem to love it.
Can anyone with access to the Paywall tell us if TurtleNecks are mentioned? Gotta know...
...and then you go to use them during an outage

...and discover that the POTS into the modem in Finland is flaky so you can't dial-in in from the US.

...and the OOB network access requires a smartcard that's kept in a safe... and the safe's combination is in the secrets tool that requires network access.

...and then you cry.

(for sanity's sake: NOT referring to today's FB outage. Don't quote me)
What problem do shuttle buses have that might be solved or lessened by swappable pods?
That said, there's only so much patience one can have...
see my comment about "undue burden."

They could, but might say "nah, too much trouble."
Code reviews can potentially catch bugs and prevent an obvious inside attack but are mostly to keep the code-base healthy and consistent over time. Something that can take down multiple revenue streams for all customers should have some other check besides a peer code review.
I can't load user profiles at the moment, and some pageloads are just spinning wheels. Not sure if that is related to network issues or if just a lot of us are rushing to HN to check/comment

EDIT: We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!
I assume this means that anyone that uses their FB account to login somewhere can't login once their token expires...

Hahahahaha!
They did.

My family didn't share online before FB.

My mother didn't really have a common means to communicate with her grandchildren in the same way.

Email, phone are just not the same.

There are more channels available now for sure, but none so ubiquitous.

Facetime is not displacing FB for a lot of things, but that's more direct.

'Everyone is on FB' is the reason it still holds in these kinds of uses cases.

None of us case one way or the other about the platform, we'll just use what's convenient, but that is what it is.

This is a very common theme among FB users. FB by the way, is still growing it's userbase, and growing revenues even more so. The themes we see here on HN and even in the news don't represent the views among the population, nor are they necessarily very close to material reality.
Yes, I had no problem on Linux whatsoever. It's just Mac that has these weird issues.
> If my generation hadn't made tech such a toxic work environment by ensuring that people had little or no recourse when treated unfairly by employers, I'd be tempted to feel sorry for us.

Just for the record, that was not nearly unanimous.
HN Profile -> Personal Website -> LinkedIn -> Over 10 years experience as Google Site Reliability Engineer
Many local governments use FB to get info out.

Events like this show they should use multiple outlets instead of the big monopoly.

Alternatives like gab exist, but its incredibly hard to gain traction against the big monopolies.
100%! comms will want to proof any statement made by anybody along with legal to ensure that there is no D&O liability for sec fraud.
Amazing headline. Does anyone really think that American can take on anyone significant?

It's an amazing military force in many ways (who else could fund the F-35?), but it's one that withdrew after a single encounter with Hezbollah, and that lost against a Somali warlord.
How to Unlock a Zoom Account – Simple Guide
Something good, for once
1. You're arguing with the author, who isn't here.

2. The problem with your approach is that people instantaneously leap from "capable of knowing" to "knowing", and they do this all the time.

So anything that reminds you that you are definitely wrong is a useful tool, just as ontologies are helpful tools (and wrong).

3. "genus" does not exist. "species" does not exist. "clade" could exist in limited cases but is inevitably incomplete. (Consider that you are pointing at creatures and their offspring without thinking about their microbiomes, among other things.)