skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fashion is fast, but it's not _that_ fast. Most items would break down long before they go out of style.
HN engineers believe out of band admin control planes to be surveillance and backdoor firmware so they are disabled for privacy reasons.
Some advice that actually works is:

Take responsibility for things that happen to you. Taking responsibility means you can do something about it if it isn't what you want.

Assigning responsibility to others means there's nothing you can do about your situation.
> but now that I learned that SERVFAIL is not cached on [...] intermediate DNS servers [0]

I thought so too, but at least some do cache according to Cloudflare's blog post:

> Consequently, 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and other major public DNS resolvers started issuing (and caching) SERVFAIL responses.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
No one cought it by having a conversation or casual contact at work or in public.

>Essentially 100% of people who contracted HIV in the 80s died from it.

You need highly contagious and deadly. Not or. Speed of spread/ death counts, as well.

Besides, COVID was initially sold as being much more deadly than actually is. Hindsight makes justification/ lack of easy.

Yet how long would the hypothetical lockdowns have taken credit for slowing the spread back then? Even without lockdowns, how long did the cooties stigma last?

>cannot be boiled down to a single person's opinion at any one point in time.

I've been told to trust the experts.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, who unequivocally stated, they would not take a vaccine under Donald Trump. As well as a handful of west coast states who decided the previous administration's FDA was not satisfactory to grant permission to use the drug and enacted their own state bureaucracies.

Don't even try to gaslight this one. This was the first vaccine skepticism. Things don't change just because your party is in charge. After 2020, I can't take the gaslighting anymore. Stop it.

EDIT; downvoted for pointing out the first national politicians to call into question the vaccine's efficacy before their flip flop. Keep rewriting history guys. Did you learn that working for Jeff Bezos?

EDIT: Oh looky... now I'm flagged!
Definitely not recent, but you might find this interesting nonetheless: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
I thought OS updates require cooperation of the phone manufacturer/carriers.
These systems are highly automated.

Someone didn’t send an update with an empty table, hundreds of BGP updates were issued to remove blocks of addresses.

So either it was sabotage or they had to fix the underlying issue which caused the system to remove the addresses in the first place.
Which also were not a utility... Rotary phones are an interface to a utility.

But let's be realistic, the copper required to connect homes to each other required a massive public works effort. Facebook turned on a server and ran some PHP to stalk college women. Big difference.
Again, that's an OS feature.

The hardware still has a set MAC, and the rest of the hardware whos addresses are being reported may or may not be randomized.
I'm assuming someone in building security has watched the end of Ex Machina...and applied some learnings, or not.
You seem to be unaware of the massive labor shortage affecting the US right now.
I refreshed a few times just to gauge if it was a temporary network blip on my end. Sorry!
Adults realize the danger in unchecked authority. Children do not. That is why they trust their parents without question. It's only as an older teenager you come to realize that your parents are imperfect people, with idiosyncracies, faults, and problems of their own.
You need a mix. Time period is what differentiates low risk and high risk investment.

It is a problem if you can't get 10x. Can this $200k house be worth $2m in 40 years? Will buying this $10 productivity book return $100 worth of productivity any time in my life? Do I really need such an expensive laptop to get work done?
or like an iptables or Windows desktop screen resolution change :)
Ah, just checked. I thought it installed python versions as well, but it can create environments (virtualenv, conda, system pythons, pipenv, docker), and can install packages in those environments.

I do not see a way to install a whole new python version (only the ability to add to the list, which requires you to select the interpreter from an open file dialog)
Why C and not rust? Do you enjoy debugging?
EU politicians call for Facebook investigation after whistleblower revelation
Speaking of flushing, today I learned that Google public DNS has an open "flush" function:

https://dns.google.com/cache
For sure. Yet I'm not convinced America can take that too far. So I wonder if it is willing/wanting to lose the Silicon factories, and cause a giant technological reset

China would be at a massive disadvantage if it won Taiwan and lost the chip factories. That really would be a massive cold war, then.
As a teenager I marveled at how I rode a bike. It was a complete mystery how turning was done. I thought about turning, and my bike turned. I finally figured it out, by carefully watching what I did when riding very slowly.

To turn left, I turned the handlebars ever so slightly to the right. This caused the bike to lean to the left, then I turned the handlebars left.
Unpopular opinion but I think a talent exodus and turnover are likely at fault here as well. The people who stood up this juggernaut are no longer here, and Facebooks ability to consistently attract talent that is competent enough to maintain such a formidable beast is hampered by repetitive revelations that it operates at the net-loss of humanity as a whole.

Facebooks no longer an innovator, just a mining operation with a dwindling population of hateful elderly and bots.
To people rushing to criticize the decision:
a) He has already published major papers. It is stated in the article in the end. The article probably should make that a bit clearer. You can also google him.
b) He received acknowledgement and praise for his thesis contribution. The article states about praise from an examiner from the university of Oxford. Not my field so I can not evaluate his work, but I would be surprised from what I see if it was trivial contribution.

A PhD means you know and can push the frontier and do rigorous research. Are people worried the individual skipped a few extra course credits or he skipped quals? I doubt the faculty felt he did not deserved it. And this is clearly not a one off.

P.S. I think this is his scholar profile.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=baVVmaoAAAAJ&hl=el...
Did you mean to reply to someone else? Because as explained, DDG didn't implement any censorship.
I'm surprised to hear you even have content. That was Facebook for me like 7 years ago. Now it's a ghost town and the only people left are people hitting the share button on low effort posts. I did block almost all of the people who post or share political stuff from one side
Don't worry, I'm sure the administration has lined up a few tens of thousands of unchecked illegal aliens at the border to take the jobs.
The packets were piling up at the fork in the river
Yeah but what is the tech public going to do with these insights?

It's not actionable, it's not whistleblowing, it's not triggering civic action, or offering a possible timeline for recovery.

It's pure idle chitchatter.

So yeah, I do give a shit about corporate here.

Disclosure: While I'm an engineer too, I'm also high enough in the ladder that at this point I am more corporate than not. So maybe I'm a stooge and don't even realize it.
Renewables make up ~20% of US production.

In the summer months peak usage is near peak solar generation, and usage is as much as 60% higher than minimum daily usage. With the rise of electric cars, a whole lot of usage will be able to be scheduled for times of excess.

There is a lot of current room for renewables to displace carbon. There will probably always be some fossil fuel capacity for peaking plants and battery systems are already being deployed in places.

The point at which we have too many renewables and a gap in generation is a long time off, and possibly with battery systems and demand shifting will never happen. It seems like the time to solve that problem will be measured in decades, there's no need to say renewables aren't a solution now when they can solve a huge portion of the problem starting immediately.
I guess that would really depend on your setup. It would differ significantly if you’re doing virtualised nodes ontop of vmware/proxmox/qemi/etc, if you’re doing single node with storage, or if you’re doing something more exotic like raspberry pis with either one node with storage or external nas.
I have a couple of different setups (mostly for fun), which are pretty simple. Main things I use are a csi driver to allow me to use my trunas scale as storage (https://github.com/democratic-csi/democratic-csi), cloudflare’s argo tunnel to expose my clusters to the outside world (https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-ingress-controller), an operator for managing external dns with cloudflare (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/blob/master/...). Everything else is pretty much they way any other cluster would look.

In regards to databases I mainly stick to kubedb (https://kubedb.com/) as my needs are not that great.
A list of real-world uses of differential privacy
Ouch, the recipient pays a large fee.
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The visa card fee is based on the gift card's value. Gift card values from $10.00 to $74.99 have a $2.95 fee. Gift card values from $75.00 to $149.99 have a $3.95 fee. Gift card values from $150 to $249.99 have a $4.95 fee"
Also see Krebs’ article on the outage (although he hasn’t yet updated it after the problem was rectified): https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-faceboo...
Not disagreeing about tastefulness but I think the cartoon may also be a Disney reference given the visual similarity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Hiawatha
The implication that HN is a primary source of knowledge is disturbing.
A lot of legit Patreons use Discord as a perk, so it exists. But it's small potatoes.
Solving aging would be a massive win for humanity at the individual level, and a horrific catastrophe at the species level.
>Obsessively following anything or anyone is not good for you and that's very likely a 99% universal advice.

I think the problem with reducing the advice to this level is that it reduces away the idea that some information is much less healthy than other information.

When you follow other people online, you are always learning from the information you gather. The problem is that you aren't always aware of what you are learning. If one is constantly following very successful people, they are learning how filled with the success the life of others are. This begins to contrast the lack of success in their own life. Not that their life lacks any success, but it isn't filled with only success. You get a false impression of the life of others which results in an unhealthy judgment of your own life.

This can become a significant problem on social media and one that I've seen brought up before in regards to teens and instagram. The older one is the more life experience and other sources of learning one has and thus the less susceptible to the effect, but less susceptible doesn't mean immune.

In contrast there is a flood of other information that isn't as toxic. Follow your favorite hobby by someone who shows both their success and failures and you don't risk building the same unrealistic picture. Follow a bunch of information largely freed from daily grind, like watching videos that dig into math, history, and science and you would have even less risk. That's not to say you can just assume the information has no risks at all, addiction and such are still a concern, but short of some very specific scenarios I would find it much safer to consume.

It is like telling someone to not overeat. While that's good advice, it is important to make sure the person you are talking to understands that overeating refined sugar and fats are much more a threat than overeating vegetables. Such an example almost feels silly because of how common sense the information feels, but when it comes to following people and information sources online I find people aren't as well informed as to what is the deep fried refined sugar and what is the vitamin packed fiber.
FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US
iMessage is the working implementation, as long as nobody joins with green bubbles [0].

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-102...
I returned a uhaul, after moving a friend, to a little auto repair shop in Flippin, AR. Population 1,471.

These little places are both one of the big advantages they have, and also the source of a disjointed, poor customer experience.

I still don't think you can disrupt them without their omnipresence. You could slowly build a competitor that focuses on the customer experience, but I don't see you unseating uhaul if that's your focus.
I am not always at home when the Internet is being used, so my phone would not be enough. The ADSL is there mostly for historic reasons. It works so I don't change it. In most cases the speed does is not really matter. I work mostly using the shell over ssh. An occasional video works just fine. The only case where I need a better uplink are telcos that require me presenting. Or in theory the camera, but I'm not in the fashion business so I hardly ever turn it on... In that case I am obviously at home and switch to the connection of my phone.
I know many successful people. I know why they are successful. None of them blame others for their problems. They take responsibility. When they fail, they take responsibility, get up, and try again (and do things differently) until it works.
We live in a world where nearly _all_ information fed to the public is misinformation. Except in one case it's due to FB and in another it's 5 dudes who own the entirety of US (and large chunk of the world's) "free" press. In this narrative-rich, (nearly) fact-free environment, aside from the obvious asinine bullshit that's easily seen through, the "misinformation" becomes simply something you don't agree with. The benefit of this is that it's no longer just 5 dudes that control the manufacturing of public consent. At a minimum it's 8 now (add Zuck, Pichai and Dorsey to the mix). With any luck, these 8 might start stabbing each other in the back.
> Tech has yet to go through it’s ‘industrialization’ phase where one of the main advents was replaceable/interchangeable parts.

Oh i did not know that car parts could be used interchangeably from one brand to another. So nice to learn new things on HN every day.
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1) Nobody (that I've seen in this discussion section at least) is denying that natural immunity is quite effective at preventing spread and complications - though a lot of people are correctly mentioning that natural immunity + vaccination has been shown to be even more effective than just natural immunity (so why not get vaccinated anyways).

2. Living in a society means you can mandate a vaccine - it means you can mandate a whole lot of things. I'm still unable to drive a tank to work even though I probably wouldn't hurt anyone - how unjust is that! Being part of a society comes with rules and requirements you need to follow - even in freedom loving america. There is a way you can leave that society - it is still quite possible. Buying a cabin in remote Oregon won't suffice but you can emigrate to an area of the world that doesn't effectively enforce laws - they do still exist.

So no, nobody is mandating that your body receive the vaccine - the mandate is that if you want to keep living in a prosperous society you need to do the absolute minimum to keep everyone in that society safe.
It was almost like the fallout of in 2012 when GoDaddy went down with their internal network collapsing. Being a very large registrar, root certificate authority, and a number of other significant hosting resources, half the internet died that day with it.

I guess you can at least sense "what if facebook went offline?" if just by employee fubar, or if say the government shut them down China-style (or US probably ought to).
The sad thought crossed my mind: people using Whatsapp to have last calls with family members dying of e.g. COVID, trying terribly to get onto telegram or something but having no luck getting through since everything was degraded.

Kinda ruined the few hours of fun for me.
On the flip side, it’s the longer you can survive an outage by relying on enough clients having the cached records. So can go both ways a bit.
> Or will Taiwan seek to destroy those factories before China can own them? Which would send the world into a crazy period, but will ensure China largely loses a significant advantage, and any victory is tainted.

Word on the street is that TSMC buildings in Taiwan are already set up to be scuttled. Explosives located in locked rooms within the facilities.
I feel this way about mistakes, and fuckups.

Whoever is responsible for the BGP misconfiguration that caused this should absolutely not be fired, for example.

But training about security, about not revealing confidential information publicly, etc is ubiquitous and frequent at big co's. Of course, everyone daydreams through them and doesn't take it seriously. I think the only way to make people treat it seriously is through enforcement.
Because everyone is using Telegram instead of Whatsapp due to WA being down.
> Many more murders than the fascists / Nazis / holocaust.

Really can't believe I'm about to defend Stalin, but if you hold the Facists/Nazis responsible for all the deaths in WW2 (Which I think you have to), they were responsible for more deaths.

Purely direct victims in concentration/death camps, yes Stalin killed more people.

But let's not forget, that was all in the 30's. The Cold War started AFTER WW2, after Stalin's death, and the narrative of The Evil Empire vs The Land of The Free all occurred then.
Of course, it’s not the governance that has failed. The problem is your fellow citizens.
I've never connected the Swedish clothing scene with fast-fashion. Do people buy things at H&M and wear them just 20 times? I associate it with very slowly changing sensible basics like hoodies that I'd buy and wear for three years.
Oh phooey. I know people who are not handsome, and had little success with with the opposite gender. They studied the problem, read everything they could find about it, and applied it. They've become ladies' men.

Even unattractive people can do a lot to improve their looks with clothing, diet, and a fitness regimen.
Most of the poor and uneducated have been vaccinated - there certainly is a good chunk of the country that hasn't - but vaccinations are now in the majority.

America has some serious issues with societal stability and wealth inequality - but neither of those are really on topic for this discussion.
It's not that I reject it it's that Id like to see something like git logs. Public health officials should drop the aura of infallibility and adopt some dev community style humility.
Great visual!
Once they start adversiting again it should only take a few minutes at most for most ISPs to get it.
Sneaky Secrets of Wealthy Luxury Home Buyers
the racial gap has actually been closed for a bit now https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=racial+gap+vaccine&ia=web
As far as i know the understanding of how multi layered neural networks actually work is a hot research topic.
Probably a lot less arrogant than it sounds. They probably share a whole lot of tooling between platforms. Emulation just isn’t in their skill set anywhere.

Desktop is a niche for VMware, and Mac a niche within that. It seems pretty straightforward that perhaps this product doesn’t pay for a whole new engineering skill set.
Even when countries were on the gold standard, they still had fractional reserve banking. If a troy ounce of gold was $100 , the bank had one ounce of gold and three separate people had a $100 bill, any one of them could go to the bank and get the gold, as long as not all of them did.

It's also possible to have a gold standard without holding your reserves in gold. The bank could hold them in anything -- other metals, bonds, real estate -- and then exchange that thing for gold in the market in the event that the customer comes for it, which they only do if they lack confidence that the bank will be able to make good, which doesn't happen when the bank is holding valuable assets. And then you can create as much "money" as you need by, for example, making mortgage loans backed by real estate.

You can still get into trouble there if the value of the assets declines (see 2008 housing crash), but that's a different kind of problem than the original one with separate methods to avoid it.
Then encrypting your hard drive could hide your planned murder plot. Secret communications on encrypted messengers hides your instructions to friends to blow up parliament at dawn. Using the dark web means you are covering your tracks for the kiddie porn you sold.

This seems like the worst idea with the best sales pitch that I've heard in 2021 so far.

I haven't thought out the lesser scenario where hiding evidence is illegal (something something working on your own conviction), but at least this "gets you convicted for the worst possible crime" seems like a terrible, terrible idea if you don't want to live in a place worse than North Korea.
No, absolutely not. I'd say that Tesla flirts with the opposite outcome, that we saw with nuclear power. Early catastrophic failures resulting from premature deployment can produce a very reasonable revulsion away from the technology, such that the technology will have a PR problem well past the "break even" point. That folks continue to be bullish on self-driving tech despite cars repeatedly hitting stopped emergency vehicles at speed tells me that tech enthusiasts haven't learned from history.
i was shocked to see videogamedunkey on the front page of hackernews a few weeks ago. there is a huge influx of redditors in the past year and a half. why do you think the admins introduced classic mode? its because they are acutely aware of this, despite constant denials, and are trying to prevent the site from becoming, well, facebook eventually. full of LCD.
Don't forget LexisNexis.
CFR, not IFR.
"A man can dream though... a man can dream"
When you have enough designers and "UX experts" on staff to create an entire OS + productivity suite's design every year, you're going to get an entire OS + productivity suite's design every year.
How Close Is Nuclear Fusion Power [video]
>What drives me to distraction is people not reading what's actually said, and instead reacting to something that wasn't said. I honestly expected better of the HN community.

Well, why should "what was said" (a mere opinion itself) solely be allowed to frame the issue?

If someone can imply that the outage "could be, might be, used as a cover", then it's perfectly legit for someone to also opine that the outage was created as a cover in the first place.

It might not be true, but then again the more limited claim might also not be true. It might also be too paranoid, but then again, someone might also say this for the original claim as well.

Also it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't understood what was implied. It can also mean that they understood it, but think the expanded scope (outtage not just used, but created for the purpose) might be the case.

So I don't get lamenting such as: "I honestly expected better of the HN community. I guess I was wrong".