skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having built a few sheds, tips for those in the US:

1) Most areas allow 120-150 sqft as max size with no permit. thats usually interior dimensions so if you want it all you have to buy longer lumber and cut down to maximize interior.
2) Counties usually do not allow any interior water or electrical wiring w/o inspection. So exterior solar and battery box and extension cord run in to power stuff.
3) If you buy something pre-built, make sure they built on 16” on center or some other standard otherwise you will be hand cutting every piece of insulation.
4) Metal roofing is pretty cheap at Home Depot, but right now you have to order a minimum number of sheets (I wanted 14’ sheets, but at qty of 10, twice what I needed, so bought shorter lengths)
5) Many items I had to special order two years are stocked at HW stores. For example, Techshield OSB which has a foil face is cheap and dramatically decreases interior heat transfer in walls and attic
6) Watch YT videos on deck building and framing. There are many good examples. A flat deck is half the battle. Much of this can be done alone with practice but you really should have help for rafters, roofing and ceiling plywood. It’s easy to get injured trying to handle 1/2-3/4” plywood 12 feet up.
It’s way easier to cancel Netflix via Netflix than the App Store though.
Facebook 2021 revenue is around $100B. That’s $11M an hour. Since it’s peak hour for ad printing, one can assume double or triple this rate.

They are already looking at > $100M in ad loss, not counting reputation damage etc.
> I’m having a hard time deciding if these are the same thing or not?

Well, obviously Microsoft would say they are.

But any common sense evaluation of the situation would recognize that Google introduced their feature to get AROUND a limitation and offer customers choice (If you install Chrome on iOS you're saying you want that to be your browser), and Microsoft introduced the same feature to INTRODUCE a limitation (In spite of any other browsers installed, Microsoft is ignoring all signals and already supported protocol handling capabilities to force you into their browser).

While a pedantic techie can read this and say it doesn't matter, the courts may see it differently.
The New England Journal of Medicine study that came out in the early 2000s (I don't have a citation for you) concluded the opposite: It's the alcohol that kept the arteries clear. Their study was motivated by the observation that the cadavers med students work on are typically homeless or strongly disadvantaged alcoholics. The bodies were often disease-ravaged, but their blood vessels were in very good shape.

I think of it as an "alcohol as a plaque solvent" model.
> The HN community seems to congregate here for updates causing higher than usual traffic.

IMO it's probably a lot of us tech workers watching in awe of what's going on when a big tech company craps itself.
Luckily you don't need to do that exhaustively: all you have to do is cover the general failure case. What happens when communications fail?

This is something that most people aren't good at naturally, it tends to come from experience.
I suspect it's an automated system triggered by DNS not resolving, and they try to "make an offer" if you follow through.
No, but most HN users know what Facebook (and WhatsApp and Instagram) are.

That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.
People don’t eat straight corn syrup. The products they do eat that contain it are quite expensive per calorie. I.e. Coke.

The problem is initiative and knowledge. They should walk or ride a couple of miles and buy the biggest bags of rice and beans they can, along with a bottle of multivitamins. And then learn how to cook.

If that’s classist, then the classes are structured by knowledge and choices. Which they may well be.
> moderate drinking (1-2 drinks)

I really feel like moderate drinking is a poor standard invented by the industry to prevent loss of sales due to science, and ultimately an oxymoron not unlike safe cigarette, clean coal.

Though alcohol is out of the drinker's system within 24 hours, what that drink does to their system takes a month to play out. Yet someone who has had strictly 1-2 drinks a day for decades is somehow a moderate drinker? If a drinker hasn't gone a single month without a drink since their junior year of high school, I believe the more accurate label is alcoholic.
Or an even more general one: Why Obsessing Over Vicarious Actions is Dangerous.

Everyone needs to live their own life and do what's right for them. Whether your life looks like your glamorous neighbors or not shouldn't matter to you.
I'm not disagreeing with you, however clearly (if the reddit posts were legitimate) some portion of their OOB/DR procedure depended on a system that's down. From old coworkers who are at FB, their internal DNS and logins are down. It's possible that the username/password/IP of an OOB KVM device is stored in some database that they can't login to. And the fact FB has been down for nearly 4 hours now suggests it's not as simple as plugging in a KVM.
A config change gone bad?

That’s like failure scenarios 101. That should be the second on the list, after “code change gone bad”.
You're right, it's misleading, thanks. Other sites (dreamhost, godaddy) don't list it as for sale.
There's still no connectivity to Facebook's DNS servers:

> traceroute a.ns.facebook.com
traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms
2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms
3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms
4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110) 11.446 ms 11.482 ms 11.328 ms
5 12.122.163.34 (12.122.163.34) 7.641 ms 7.668 ms 11.438 ms
6 cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.158.9) 4.025 ms 3.368 ms 3.394 ms
7 * * *
...

So they're hours into this outage and still haven't re-established connectivity to their own DNS servers.
I can't see how this is the reason for HN to take 10 seconds for the response of the main page (I mean, the URL fetched from the address bar, not the subrequests the page does), as everything else downloads immediately.

The DNS entries should be cached by the browser (and the middleware), so that this problem should only happen once, but I get this constantly.

Also, I sometimes get an error message from HN, which seems to indicate that this is some backend issue which fails gracefully with a custom "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" on top of a 502 code.

It feels more like there is something else still broken.
Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eni5Uy9sgo
(Firefox and Chrome) Dattorro's Reverb in JavaScript
PushShift is one of the most amazing resources out the for social media data and more people should know about it
Facebook outage takes down Oculus Quest devices
For sure. Reminds me of the difficulties of starting a power grid from total blackout, bringing generators and power stations to sync.. .
1000 sq ft of drywall is probably several evenings of work for a DIY'er, and not something you want to force into one long day.

I will sometimes buy tools like this (new or for craigslist) and resell on craiglist, and then I think of it as "renting from craigslist" but without a deadline to return it.
>> Psychologists have found that people make different choices when presented
with the same alternatives, depending on how the alternatives are described.

Encapsulated into an old joke:

Two monks, both avid smokers, go to the pope for spiritual advice.

The first monk goes in, then after a while comes out looking dejected. The other
monk asks him:

"What happened? What did he say?".

"He said no: we are not allowed to smoke during prayer".

The other monk smiles and nods knowingly. "Let me try" he says.

He goes in. After a while he comes out smiling triumphant.

"Wow, he said yes?" asks the other monk, amazed. "What did you say to him?"

"I said: Holy Father, are we allowed to pray while we smoke?".
Yeah that's some pretty hardcore A/B testing right there.
Designers Jam Together to Create Beautiful Websites
Right, lying to Congress is a crime regardless of whether you're under oath, but if you're under oath and lie, it's both.
Yet another reason to not over-rely on a few big tech companies for the majority of the planet's communication. Forget concerns about competition, monopolies and so on for now (as important as they are), what we want are many social networks, video conferencing apps, messenger apps. Every country should strive to build their own Google or FB, or certainly many more should. State-backed if needed. It's a question of resilience and security as much as anything.
my home connection with ISP is down Vodafone Ireland, so I guess they have such a big churn in Vodafone from FB BGP routes that it blew Vodafone network. Is it DNS or routing issue?
Yep, these are called pop up storms around here, and if you do lots of stuff outdoors then it is super, super useful to have accurate, localized weather predictions for a couple hours out.

I was using darksky for a few years, and their 15 min warning was absolutely awesome for knowing when to book it off a trail biking, hiking, etc. It has sucked not having it since Apple bought them and killed the android app (yay anti-competitive behavior!)

This summer I got nailed twice with really, really heavy thunderstorms while out doing trail work. The typical weather forecast was just "50% chance of rain for the area, pop up storms possible". Not very helpful when you have limited time to do stuff, and the weather for the next week is heavy rain.
The talk also mentions this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/spring-break-gets-tame...

Kids nowadays can't party like we used to - because they need to consider that everything mildly interesting they do will be uploaded to our machine overlords for monetization. Bare breasts probably monetize well, so they were one of the first "casualities" of ubiquitous social media.
https://heyfocus.com/ worked for me, maybe it’ll help (if you’re on Mac). Addiction to social media is a real problem; thousands of engineers are paid to make sure that these products ensnare your attention. It wouldn’t be odd if it takes a few bucks of your own to rescue yourself. Don’t hesitate to seek help, no one will laugh at you.
But all HN users know what Facebook is. And outage of this scale is rare and interesting.
Also amusingly I think quite a lot of employers use WhatsApp for part of their disaster communications plan.

If this happened then some wider issue (github down) there’d be chaos.
It's noone's business if they don't want anyone to know.

Here GP is gossiping about them, this is what they were trying to avoid amongst their peers.

If anyone REALLY wants to know they can find out when the single photos come out.

I thought HN understood privacy.
Yeah. Do what you have to.

Sometimes the DR plan isn't so much I have to have a working key, I just have to know who gets their first with a working key, and break glass might be literal.
Yeah the patch to fix BGP to reach the DNS is sent by email to @facebook.com. Ooops no DNS to resolve the MX records to send the patch to fix the BGP routers.
I'm pretty sure this has been building up since the morning (Germany). I've had odd connectivity problems to a number of sites including slack for a moment.
Or you could work for IBM

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Ask HN: What's Wrong with the Internet?
FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this)

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?
It's just people flocking to HN for reliable news on the insane outage affecting global Facebook services, and refreshing far more than they usually would. Data point of one
India runs on whatsapp. They'll have more backups now.
Mods have changed the youtube link back to Instagram.

I actually posted Instagram link first (the original source). Realized that it's not appearing the feed. I thought Instagram links are banned. So I posted thisyoutube link later which is a re-upload of original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eni5Uy9sgo with the comment mentioning the source.
sorry, I’m asking specifically about the assertion that most people use Facebook to share files, what evidence is there for that?
It's terrible PR for the FB PR team's performance.
Looks the same to me. I'm guessing the css just didn't load for you.
Nobody recognized Mick Jagger when he grabbed a beer at a bar before a concert
I worked at Facebook and here are my thoughts watching CBS
> is that no one ever makes a mistake

This isn't what I'm saying, though. The thought I'm trying to express is that if no individual accountability is done, it allows employees who are not as good at their job (read: sloppy) to continue to exist in positions which could be better occupied by employees who are better at their job (read: more diligent).

The difference between having someone who always triple-checks every parameter they input, versus someone who never double-checks and just wings it. Sure, the person who triple-checks will make mistakes, but less than the other person. This is the issue I'm trying to get at.
Except it's hard to make a case that people who support nuclear power are misinformed.
And this is why we should build our critical systems in a way that can be debugged on the phone... With your grandma.
Where could the physical data centers be that they need to access? How far away could it be?
Yeah, I would guess that the important difference is that Apple emails a receipt for all subscriptions every month, making it much less likely that someone forgets about their subscription when they no longer regularly use it.
To your first question, I do not remember having given any hand gesture around a politician. Have you ever done so?

To your second question, where am I "saying that like it's some innocuous thing that anyone would do"? And what does it matter?
How do you feel about Steven Donziger ?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawyer-who-sued-chevron-sen...
Ask HN: Are there companies founded by former big 4 consultants or I-bankers?
I'm trying to figure out if former consultants from the big 4 or investment bankers have founded companies in non finance tech space that have had good exits. None come to mind but I imagine they must exist.
5% per transaction or $299/mo don't seem like equal options to me.

What am I missing ?
Has the flu been fatal to people without comorbidities?
In addition to other regressions mentioned here, Android 12 also removes the ability to set a custom "share" screen (akin to Sharedr).
Biology and especially neurobiology has made huge steps to understanding the brain and how human behavior comes to be. DNA (Genes are only a very small portion of our DNA, the interesting stuff happens in the other 95% of our DNA) interacts with the prenatal environment, the culture you grow up, the relationship with your parents, the levels of hormones in your blood, how warm you feel, how long ago your last meal was and many more factors to form human behavior.

> And it leaves us with as much control over our ability to act as any other control

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.

Judges that decide over parole won't attribute their decision on the last time they ate, even if it is the single most important factor to their decision.

It will be interesting to observe how society will react to this in the next 50 years when the science will become harder and harder to deny.
> The Air is the first laptop I've owned that I actually like using rather than tolerate.

Either you have been buying extremely crappy devices and expecting too much from them or this is some grade a, piping hot bullshit. While the differences under the hood exist, they're not substantial and when the hood is closed, it's still the same device with the same operating system.

Intel MBAs and M1 MBAs are not so different overall that you would have to say you like using it versus tolerating it, assuming you were using the Intel based MBAs before.

Otherwise this comes off as a thinly veiled "Wintel ew, Apple good!" regurgitated bit of fanboy wank.
Signal replicates each message to NSA and FB, so when one is down, Signal’s backend fails with a timeout error.
I think you zombies are reloading HN obsessively since there is nothing else to do now that Facebook is down.
Ask HN: Does anyone use a fully Kubernetes-native stack at home/work?
Forgive any potential misuse of terminology (not my primary field of expertise), "fully Kubernetes-native stack" here is meant to mean that all services and infrastructure (or as much as possible) are deployed within the cluster itself.

For example, rather than using any AWS/Google managed databases, queues, or caches, deploying open-source varieties using standard Kubernetes objects instead.

If so, does anyone have any useful guides/manifests/charts or advice for setting up and configuring something similar? I have a bunch of old devices I've been steadily repurposing as compute/storage for experimentation at home, and it'd be cool to develop closer to a real world distributed environment without footing as large a bill. I would guess I'm not the first person to have been interested in doing this, so at this point just trying not to duplicate any work if this is already a solved problem.
For me it lags when scrolling. Very odd.
Team size is around 8-12 and project involves about 30-40 team members
Optimism: This lets Google provide updates to users without carriers/manufacturers having to go through the process of approving Android updates for every model/carrier combination.

Cynicism: The more that Google moves into Google Play Services, the harder it is for anyone to make a usable Android device without agreeing to Google's terms.
I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error.

What's wrong with the internet?

FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this)

ycombinator turned out to be giving only errors.

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?
The unglamorous dark side of self publishing: Like a boss, baby
My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.
The semantic understanding problem, more generally, is under-acknowledged in autonomous driving.

A human can tell the difference of a child standing by the side of a road, about to throw a ball into the road; vs a child standing at the side of a road, waiting for a bus. A human will slow down in anticipation of the likely outcome. A robot without state awareness will be extremely limited in available responses.

Without a useful state model of the universe (i.e. concept awareness), you're limited to purely reactive behaviors.
Where is this judicial fantasyland you live in with apolitical judges and independent laws? They're written, passed, judged, and enforced by heavily partisan actors, now more than ever. You're kidding yourself, and no one else, if you think the US judicial system is politically independent.
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I’m sure Bezos would feel bad for anyone’s death in this case.
I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error.

What's wrong with the internet?

FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this)

ycombinator turned out to be giving only errors, but now seems to be working occasionally. I can not submit anything, though.

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?
Hopefully forever.
Who else sees their deleted messages on WhatsApp that shouldn't be there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749652
Facebook has never been open and honest about anything, no reason to think they would start now.
Web intent resolution change is probably going to create a lot of drama when someone actually notices it.
Microsoft already did that with Continuum. No one used it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/continuum
The recent iOS update changed the default appearance of buttons in Safari, and not many sites use the raw button appearance, but HN does. So that could be what you're seeing
I would love that! The desktop part could still be another product with a more powerfull cpu and gpu which is using the iphone just as a bootable drive.
Is it just me or do attacks on Facebook come in waves?
Their methodology is flawed it seems.

It says Google is down but it's not. [1]

[1] https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google
Can't tell, but logging out to get the cached pages did seem to help... so maybe it's a lot of people all logged in hitting the same database each click?

Normally, very fast for me.
This is definitely along the lines of what I was thinking. There are obviously varying degrees of moves, from a micro I'm moving a couch to an entire house. Maybe the micro case would be the one to start with, where you can get quick and easy access to a pick up truck or small van.
Essentially, they locked themselves out with an uninspired command line at the exact moment the datacenter was being hijacked by ape-people.

Yup, corporate comms won't love these status updates.
To be fair, Facebook has never been open and honest about anything.
> It does not.

Yet.
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yup me too lol, it's serving the the 502 bad gateway error to be precise
Yeah...

When I was doing house solar (big ground mount 15.9kW system), I really beat the hell out of myself trying to finish with a rental jackhammer in a day. I was drilling the holes and the auger was bouncing off the hardpan, so I rented a jackhammer... and it was an electric beast, not a light pneumatic version. Anyway, I got it done in a day of pounding, but I was not in good shape the next few days.

Having low stress of getting it done is nice.

Also, depending on the area you live and the community you're part of, that sort of thing may just go into the general rotation of "Oh, yeah, I've got one of those." I'm borrowing someone's portable cement mixer right now for deck footings, a friend up north has my auger, I've got his subsoiler... in rural areas, useful tools tend to just wander around, and as long as people have a vague sense of where they might be, it's not a big deal.
> Brave Software is also considering taking things one step further. The company is planning to intercept Windows Search/Cortana links to Bing and redirect them to its users’ default search engine instead.

Yes! THANK YOU! OH MY GOD THANK YOU BRAVE!! FINALLY!