skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t sound to me like this was a DNS outage. Their records existed but their name servers were unreachable because they’d withdrawn their BGP route. So I don’t think the rest of your comment is really consistent with the available information.
Vaccines are still beneficial and the more complicated the rules get the harder the administration of them becomes. Everyone[1] can, without any cost to themselves either monetarily or health-wise, go out and get a vaccine - if you suffered from COVID I'm sorry that you'll have long COVID systems but you'll also be supervaccinated at that point - which is even better!

1. With a few very very specific exceptions that should be respected.
Don’t read political posts from sources you do not know/trust?
So why the need to fire 'Joe from Billing', who has been working diligently from home for the last 18 months? Folks don't contract COVID by Internet.
>2% death rate
We have ample evidence that the current vaccines reduce COVID's spread[1].

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z
Google Is the Number One Search on Bing
Flu vaccine is not sterilizing and commonly required required by employers.
Gen Z: exists
Scaling UI doesn't increase the number of buttons in the top at drop down visible at the same time. They use to be 9 before Android 10 I think. In Android 12 they are even bigger. Scaling down won't fix it. I already use it scaled BTW.
And Google Pay, apparently.
Even google isn't quite sure about the summer time.
Not sure if that is just a Google German thing...

A few weeks ago I tried to find out what the current time in CET is.
Asking google for "CET" gave me: "23:27 CET".
Asking google for "CET time" (I know that "time" is twice in this case) gave me "00:27 CET".

The last one is wrong and should be CEST or even more correct would be just the same result for CET as I asked for
> or are you just subtracting time from the downtime start without accounting for whether it's up?

This - look at the JS source linked on GitHub.
DK is legendary
> Can you point to the place on the doll where it hurt you?

Using a reference to how survivors of abuse are often required to re-enact their abuse to make a snarky comment is neither funny nor clever and it doesn’t add anything substantive to this conversation.
Imagine the SWIFT network (handles all bank transfers) going down. _Technically_, it's a private company, but it can wreck havoc on a country. Similarly, these messaging services are quite essential for some people and this dependency is only going to become stronger. So it can absolutely make sense for a country to have a fallback.
It's optional and disabled by default for 1-on-1 chats and not available at all for group chats.
"because it's inconvenient" seems like a pretty poor precedent to set for governments mandating (unnecessary) medical procedures.
Mandates like the one rolled out by Biden administration are definitely not legal, just like the eviction moratorium is not legal. The federal government does not have police powers and the agencies and regulators can't make rules outside their mandate.

The authority to mandate vaccines is at the state and local level.
This is a live event unfolding and that’s pretty much all there’s to it. So it’s like a twitch chat. Deeper discussions will follow when the postmortems come out
Gamemakerstoolkit is a good one. I hate to pay, to be in a Discord server.
I'd argue that the problem is much deeper than social media. It's the internet and we're acting surprised that giving a microphone to every human was not going to lead to angry mobs and echo-chambers of the scale the world has never seen. Then, we decided to clamp down on it, lose civil liberties and the ability to dissent. Comedians are apologizing for making people laugh - think about it. So we're overall worse off in terms of social civility than we were 30 years ago. I still believe that the internet has done more good than bad, but it's foolish to not acknowledge the shortcomings.
A computational unification of cognitive behavior and emotion [pdf]
Yes, that's the point. If you're running a DNS server and being overwhelmed by this, you might have considered artificially injecting NXDOMAIN with a long cache value to get some relief. Which could extend the outage for FB.
Except when you have some specific dependencies/targets that make this difficult. I'm sure I'll get there eventually, but I chose .net for this thinking it would be dead simple, and yet here I am wading through documentation and stackoverflow posts to get to my self-contained single-file executable.
True, in that case it would be, "do I see lots of 'Now Hiring' signs around town?" Which, currently in Austin, TX, USA where I live, I do. Sometimes more specific, at construction sites, wanting specific trades.
Usually I would respond with a scientific source to correct your claim. However, since that has already been added to comments, I am really curious. How did you arrive at your current conclusion?
Decentralizing Facebook: From Digital Feudalism to a Free Market
Would you hire a carpenter that didn't believe in nails?

Or a software engineer that didn't believe in binary?
Imagine that you could maybe met someone better if you have not settled for FB recommendation.
This looks fantastic. This generation needs a Robot Odyssey.
Fusion is "cheap" if the externalities are priced in. (Of course that's currently a very big if.)

But even then, assuming a version of "fusion tech currently in R&D" realized today, we can probably build a lot of windmills and battery parks for the price of one fusion power plant.

Again, on the long term it seems ideal. (It can be made portable, abundant fuel in the universe, safer than fission, etc.)
> The federal government does not have police powers

Then what's the FBI?
They just would switch to TikTok/Snapchat/Friendster.
I’m afraid to ask why having antibodies from a previous Covid infection isn’t as good or better than taking the vaccine.
Windows 11 Available for Download
Hold on hold on... this article makes the claim you're trying to show, but then immediately backtracks on the currently most-spreading strain.
> Woz tried to add expansion ports to the Apple computer

Like the expansion slots in the [Apple II, Apple ///, Mac II, IIgs, Power Mac, Mac Pro, etc.] or the [SCSI, ADB, USB, FireWire, PC/Express/SD card, Thunderbolt, etc.] expansion ports on various Apple computers?
>Just support your friend
>JUST

well, he is supporting him. Wondering what's going on mentally is part of that. I don't understand why this is even posed as a solution.
"Facebook is the best site in the world for dating and for expanding your social horizons/circle"

Maybe for boomers and some emerging markets. It appears to be losing popularity very fast among younger folks in most Western countries. Not that alternatives are much better IMO, Twitter in particular is even worse.

Nothing beats going out and talking to real people. It gives you a competitive advantage over the masses that are too lazy to socialize in real world.
> So why the need to fire 'Joe from Billing', who has been working diligently from home for the last 18 months? Folks don't contract COVID by Internet.

I've been working from home too, but that doesn't stop me from going to the bar on the weekends (I'm not sure about where you live, but in NY they've been open for months).

And to point out the obvious: at some point, Northwell is going to want Joe to return to the basement of whatever hospital his billing department is in.
And they were right, no?
Well, it's interesting but not "game interesting" - because doing this quickly becomes a full-time job.

On the other hand, people already prone to enjoying it as a job will probably love it.
Creating exceptions like this might allow you to retain some portion of these employees but it will complicate rules around employee interaction (Sorry Joe - you're not allowed to attend the employee picnic this year) and open the company up to liabilities from both the patient and HR side that are unnecessary dangerous. Additionally, the more carveouts you add the more likely you're going to get a wrongful firing suit.
They did have one's address in the phone book. Now, you had to have a decent city map, and some sense of the city numbering scheme to know where that address was.
This is a very detailed s-1. The 'Our Financial Model' starting on page 84 is a great way to understand how B2C companies make money:

> Our ROI calculation assumes an average of 20 lifetime turns per unit. Based on the average lifetime turns as of June 2021 of all items we acquired in fiscal years 2015, 2016 and 2017, we have determined that an item can turn a minimum of 20 times on average over its lifetime.

>When we multiply the item economics from fiscal year 2019 and the first six months of fiscal year 2021 by 20 turns, this implies total lifetime revenue of $445 and $536, respectively, and total lifetime profit of $212 and $324, respectively.

>Therefore, our product ROI has improved from 4.0x to 5.9x on a revenue basis, and from 1.9x to 3.6x on a profit basis based on item economics in fiscal year 2019 and the first six months of fiscal year 2021 applied over the expected lifetime of units, respectively. We believe we have the ability to drive improvements in product ROI over time as we continue to decrease our fulfillment expenses to improve profitability per item and use more efficient product acquisition channels to reduce upfront product cost.
How do you date on Facebook? I barely ever use it these days, but I would never connect with strangers on there.

I feel like I'm missing something here.
https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1445155265360416773?s=21
> Or a software engineer that didn't believe in binary

If using binary may incur a chance of heart failure and blood clots, yes, I'd be sure to hire a software engineer who didn't do that.
man and here I thought they just blocked me
Actual healthcare providers are likely contracted companies and/or workers, and not direct employee hires. Moreso for physicians and mid-levels, but sometimes nurses and techs, as well. (Although idk about the subject of this story, specifically.)

Primarily educational institutions and 100% public hospitals are keeping physicians directly employed, and even some of them are now going the contract route.
As an emergency physician, good riddance to bad garbage. If they haven’t learned anything in the last 20 months then they deserve to go.
Instagram isn't fully functional, for me I cannot post story..
It doesn't. But when Facebook DNS is missing, users ask for it many times because they have nothing to cache.

This adds load than get block other queries.
They may be more concerned about the potential of it spreading to their other employees. People occasionally associate with their coworkers physically outside work (e.g., happy hours, coffee, lunch, etc). Even if they are mostly working from home, they present a risk to the other employees.
I deployed http://www.fboutagecost.com at exactly the same time as Facebook came back up – you're all welcome, I guess?

(It was previously counting up at $3855/second, but is now stopped)
Because Nancy in Nursing might need to go to Joe from Billing's office to discuss a payroll discrepancy, whereupon Nancy in Nursing becomes a potential carrier, infecting Paul the Pediatric Patient.
>Healthcare providers probably employ at lot of people who aren't nurses or doctors.

Hard to say for any particular provider. Some facilities/companies subcontract everything. Some don't.
WhatsApp is still down. 22:36 GMT
Yeah, I have a CO2 meter, and you're right. I tend to leave the window a bit open with a fan circulating, and especially if I've got a burner running for heat in the winter. During wildfire season, I just accept that a bit of CO2 is less-bad than the PM2.5 levels (100+ ug/m^3 on a bad day), though I've considered building an algae based CO2 absorber for in here.

The other problem is if one has farted, it takes all day to clear unless you've got a window open.
If an authoritative DNS entry was removed, it can take up to 72 hours for that change to be propagated around the world, though usually just a few hours for some other authoritative DNS systems to get you mostly back:

https://ns1.com/resources/dns-propagation#:~:text=DNS%20prop....
Healthcare workers are at the highest risk of contracting disease and spreading it to others. There are numerous reported cases where unvaccinated healthcare workers have transmitted illness to patients who had been brought in with other ailments, in a number of cases with fatal outcomes. Firing a very small part of your workforce who carries a very large risk makes perfect sense.
And Founder of Our Feast!
I'm all for vaccines but all against mandates. Vaccine is for your own safety and won't affect spread rate (that much). There are many procedures you can do to your body that can benefit you or others yet we don't act like it's legitimate for government to force this.

You know you can live with one kidney just fine.
Are you familiar with the 1st Amendment, and the immediate backlash (aka: the Sedition act) passed almost immediately afterwards?

The printing press had the exact same issues as today's media, albeit at a slower pace but it was still there. A balance must be found.

A few decades ago, the balance people liked was that newspapers were free to say anything, but if something was untruthful, then people could sue newspapers (providing a strong incentive for newspapers to remain truthful). I don't think it was a perfect system, but it was better than what we have today for sure.

The issue is that we haven't figured out what the new system should be. (If someone posts misinformation on Facebook or more commonly: false-information on Google Reviews / Amazon Reviews / Yelp reviews: who do you sue?). Heck, people seem to have entirely forgotten the first 150+ years of American history with the 1st Amendment and how we settled upon the libel / slander laws.

People don't really care about the national-level discussion. National level is abstract and doesn't really affect our day-to-day lives. But ask people about how misleading Yelp reviews or Amazon reviews have hurt (or helped) them, and you can tell that people are incredibly jaded about this "Free information" online.

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I don't know what the new system should be. But the 1st step is to acknowledge that at all points of our history, we've had freedoms AND we've had problems associated with those freedoms. We want the "good stuff" associated with free communication, but we must work our best to clamp down on the "evil stuff".

I don't think anyone disagrees upon "evil stuff" of free speech: doxing, swatting, "fake news" / "misinformation", etc. etc. Both sides pretty much agree upon the realities of today's media (the right calls it "Fake News", the left calls it "misinformation". Come on, its not like we're that far apart on the matter).

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In any case: take solace in history. The 1st Amendment vs Sedition Acts were the big debate in the late 1700s. Its not like the discussion was ever resolved: we just had different political powers swing free-speech one way, and then swing enforcement the other way (ex: Office of Censorship during WW2).
> From an economics perspective, people choosing to avoid vaccinations adopt a stance that exacerbates a public health risk

So do people choosing to leave their house. There are certain classes of externalities that society has chosen not to explicitly internalize, such as those imposed by living a normal life.
Not if the IP was 127.0.0.1...
>So I tend to take the low effort comments as a visceral articulation of the relief felt at knowing that the platform and the conspiracy theories and such spreading on it are...gone, albeit only temporarily.

That's funny, because most of what I read while Facebook was down was conspiracy theories about Facebook being down.
it's not, it just tells you that everything is a waste of energy because none is of your control.

I'm sure there are ways to interpret this as: this arbitrary list of things is achievable, the rest is out of your reach. But then it's your job to find out what those things are, the determinism "insight" is useless.
I'm from the US and have the same experience. Just glancing at my feed it's:

Somebody celebrating getting out of rehab.

Somebody heading to Italy for vacation.

Somebody going in a hot air balloon.

Somebody going to Santa Fe for vacation and asking for things to do.

Somebody said last night was one of the best nights of their life.

Somebody sharing progress updates on their offgrid homestead.

Somebody got a new pizza oven for National pizza month

Somebody going on a train ride.

Somebody telling me that Dune movie tickets go on sale today (cool).

A bunch of posts from a tesla owners group, laser cutter operators group, and sailing groups that I am a part of.

A bunch of posts from buy nothing, and housing groups that I'm a part of.

I see literally nothing related to politics.

However, jumping over to twitter it's:

Something about "the establishment"

A news story about somebody getting shot.

Something about counterterrorism strategies.

North Korean FUD

Something about a gunfight and a DEA agent being killed.

etc. etc.

Facebook seems to me to be a place where people come together and talk to each other about happy things happening in their lives (or sometimes, looking for support when sad things happen).

Twitter seems like a place people go to get angry and scream at each other.
How about unvaccinated staff pose a risk to patients who are in the hospital and likely immunocompromised?

I agree if they fired people wfh that was stupid, but for doctors and nurses? Yeah they are a liability for other patients.
Mark Zuckerberg Loses 6B Dollars from Social Media Blackout
That was just a matter of seasonality, and a quirk where the southern states which tend to be the least vaccinated also have late summer respiratory virus surges. Highly vaxxed Vermont has been experiencing a major surge, we might expect the same in New York although they might have a much higher proportion of naturally immune.
> And no one is being held down and coerced to receive a shot.

This is absolutely garbage reasoning. They're having their livelihoods ripped away. Simply not pulling a trigger does not give you some moral high ground.
No idea. I'd speculate that it's some kind of historical reasons from before FB acquired IG.
And WhatsApp still appears to be completely down.
London Review of Books has quite a few.
Short answer is because they've set their DNS TTL to 5 minutes: https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3anews.ycombin...

As for why, you'd have to ask them. It could be to allow for relatively quick DNS failover in the case of an outage. Or if using a proxy like Cloudflare, that provider could prefer short DNS TTLs to have flexibility in their routing.
Sending an upvote before all the downvotes come piling in...
They're not all for internal links to OS-related information hosted on the web, though. The start menu search will always open a Bing search in Edge, for example - doesn't matter what your default search is set to.

Why are you writing with certainty about things you apparently have no firsthand experience with?
> firing 1400 workers who have been the ones keeping it going for the last 20 months

The fact that they kept it running doesn't mean they actually run the place now and can do as they wish.
I only hope that the severance is good and reflects their contribution well, but they Northwell is well within their rights to require vaccination in their workplace now.
That's exactly the thing - individually there's deniability. But taken in toto, the circumstantial evidence of lab leak is stunning and obvious. It's even quickly entering "it was designed as a bioweapon but 'probably' leaked by accident but maybe not" territory. This news, for example, raises that question strongly.
Nissan launches self-driving taxi service in Japan
The context, however, is important: the OP responded "same as in Lightning" to this:

"I have some USB C chargers that only charge in 1 orientation"
Looks like they are aiming for level 4 and still using safety drivers, though.
Nah - the reason mandates are emerging is because people are acting irresponsibly and prolonging an event that's causing extreme amounts of economic damage. We want to get through this so that the country can return to normal economic activity.

The reason the mandates are so sweeping is because Americans are intensely litigious and making them targeted would potentially run afoul of all sorts of laws like the ADA.
Fwiw; Biden has full authority to mandate federal employees are fully vaccinated.
An investigative agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
Shareholders aren't entitled to know every detail of a company's operations, including why outages occur.
They don't "backtrack." Nature is a scientific publication, so they don't make claims before the evidence supports them. The article is from July, before we had strong evidence of the vaccine's effectiveness at reducing transmission agains the Delta strain.

Here's a research summary from last month[1] that shows that vaccines continue to perform strongly at transmission reduction.

Edit: A direct link to the NEJM study (9/8/21) showing reduced transmission[2].

[1]: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/covid-va...

[2]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2106757
Very poor comparison that misrepresents their motives.

None of these people opposes vaccines. They either don't accept THIS vaccine, esp. how politicized it has become, and they don't accept being force do take it.
And then Edge will pop up the "suggestion" to change the search engine back to Bing with regularity.
Obiously they've meant IX PoP's or stuff inside ISP networks.
That is not sane. That is an irrational concern.
So? Do you think its the only curated experience to maximize ad revenue on the internet (not to mention the non digital world).

If you want to argue underregulated capitalism is bad, by all means, but lets not pretend that there aren't hundreds of websites waiting to take facebook's place if fb's downtime went on for more than a few days.
A lot of people are providing logical responses. But don’t forget that fundamentally even if what you say is true, it is in no sane universe a valid excuse not to fire these people.

“We’re facing a terrible teacher shortage so we can’t fire the ones who abuse the kids just a little bit.”
Updating BGP configs should go through a flowchart like this:

Do you want to update BGP?

No: exit

Yes: type this random 100 character phrase to continue no copy paste
looked into doing this last year for a bit - there are a few people selling these maps that are pretty cool:

https://scottreinhardmaps.com/ (from what I can tell he was the first one to do this?)
https://twitter.com/geo_spatialist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7C...

https://eastofnowhere.co/collections/best-sellers/products/t...
Useless comments don’t make the topic being discussed useless to know about. This outage has arguably impacted more human lives than any other in computing history. I can’t back that up with facts yet, but you must agree it is a notable event for this community that has had ripples across the internet and real life.
In Germany, each year a committee of linguists select an "un-word of the year". "Gaslit" should be the internet unword of the decade. It has no scientific relevance and shouldn't be used when perfectly fine alternatives like "lied to" or "manipulated" exist. They just don't sound as dramatic I guess.
What are you talking about here? Could you provide some documentation?
Unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional. And morally wrong, and very corrupt (look at literally anything Hoover have done, or recent scandal with spying, or Page and Strzok.)
Not it's not! There are errors popping up all the time!
It seems like there is a Linux version for it, if you do want it though. It's even on the AUR.