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When I tried Clojure I had to set up a "project structure" with files before I could run any code. With common lisp I can just start typing in a buffer in memory, and evaling right away. I can use common lisp as a quick little calculator. More freedom to use lisp as I see fit, not in someone else's vision of a "project".

The clojure repl took FOREVER to start up. Pocket programming is a no-go. SLIME starts up in a flash.

I don't have anything against the Clojure language itself. I'd say this is more of a credit to common lisp for getting so much so right in the language, runtimes, performance, and tooling. It's a unicorn.
this does not make sense to me. ttls tend to be short lived, but as i understand expirys are typically measured in days for this exact reason. if the ttl expires, and the upstream cannot be contacted, retry every retry seconds, and in the meantime, if you have the records (every isp has/had records for fb before the outage) that have not expired, then serve them.

why did the public user dns servers (isps/google/cloudflare/etc) drop the facebook records? dns is designed to be able to handle an unreachable server. (or was some mitigation for some sort of abuse added along the line somewhere that invalidates zones if they're associated with completely unroutable addresses?)
Alcohol passes the lindy test.

(At least for Europeans)
Everyone knows deploying anything critical on the first and the last day of a work week is not a good idea. Is Facebook run differently?
> to recast the concept

I agree with both of you. I think the concept has to be recast, and that's going to be a very hard thing to do. I think a lot of money and effort was spent to cast these things as "Intellectual Property" in the first place.

However, it was on HN that I first saw the term "Imaginary Property", and I've seen that more and more lately. So there's hope. If usage of the term grows exponentially, it might happen.
It wouldn't be the first time it's happened, and you would expect their network and security folk to understand single points of failure.
> They are essentially doing glorified bikeshedding, and providing an explainer of how BGP works that can be gleaned by reading virtually any introductory text on it, and using it as a marketing opportunity.

I mean, I'm not really sure what the purpose of a corporate blog is except that? You make posts about whatever will garner attention in order to get some views, maybe spread some information, and - of course - turn it into a marketing opportunity. That's the job, no?

> Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation?

Personally? No. Although amusingly, a non-technical friend of mine took the twitter posts they made as a sign that Cloudflare had caused the outage somehow, so it's certainly possible there's a risk there.

And from one of your other comments:

> Next time Cloudflare's CDN eats itself and starts vomiting up private customer data, Facebook can do a blogpost titled 'Understanding how Cloudflare exposed the private information of untold numbers of its customers'.

Yes, they should totally do that (at least if they have anything informative to contribute, as I think Cloudflare does here). Why would this be a bad thing, or a reason not to talk about Facebook's issues? And I mean, at one point today something like 6+ of the top 10 links on HN were about Facebook, so I mean, everyone else is talking about them. Why not Cloudflare? And if and when Cloudflare has their next big issue, everyone will be talking about them either way.
I think we actually had that, bought on a whim by my Dad at a computer show in the 90's. We had some fun looking up how many people with certain first/last names were in the US, but didn't have much other use for it.

And funnily enough, family members of mine have started multiple businesses named A-1 something. :)
Doubtful - possibly DOCX to HTML, though. EDGAR (the SEC's filing system) only allows a limited subset of HTML 3.2 including inline CSS styles only[0].

The real culprit is the financial printer, Donnelley Financial, and to a lesser extent the filer. They could have made a better looking, more designed document but for a S-1 there is no motivation since the only consumers of this will be analysts. Future 8-K and 10-Q filings will likely be better designed. Still, it could have been done better.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/specifications/edgarfm-vol2-v... (search for "5.2.2.3 Acceptable HTML Tags Within a Document Body" and the following sections).
At no point in the blog post did they offer any conjecture about what was happening at Facebook. All of their information was general descriptions of DNS and BGP, or descriptions of how the Facebook outage was experienced on their end from running a DNS resolver. That in and of itself makes for an interesting and informative perspective.
I've found that when I post things I learned on the job here it actually causes people to tell me I'm wrong or made it up even more often…
I built a 36x24' Tuffshed with a 650sqft loft above it in the grambrel roof. Took me nearly 2 years to get all of the utility work and drywall and stuff finished.
If you read the blog post, you'll see that it's speculation-free facts about what happened. BGP announcements happened at time t, DNS started failing at t+n, DNS requests spiked, BGP updates happened at t', DNS returned to normal at t'+n.
I assume you did not read the blog post? It’s just a technical post describing the outage from Cloudflare’s perspective and mostly focuses on the increased traffic to 1.1.1.1 and the latency it caused

You can pontificate about likely contents of Cloudfare’s blog post, just like others who did not read it, but clearly you have no idea what it actually contains
Expensive from ZAF to USA tho. Fall back to email was our route.
Immunocompromised and elderly hospital patients have some agency when it comes to galavanting with kids.

They don’t really have a choice about hospital visits and have no meaningful way of verifying vaccination status of who interacts with them at the hospital. It’s bad enough they have trouble finding out if all their providers are in network, but at least that issue only means debt not death.
Unfortunately things from H&M rarely last past the first 5 or 10 uses in any semblance of their original shape, size, and color (in my experience)
In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.
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The parent comment above wasn't about DNS, it was about using a centralized authorization mechanism where each check needed to travel from the EU to the United States in order to approve/deny a badge check.
It depends a lot on how you dress. I'm not trying to prove a stereotype, but my girlfriend will buy from H&M and maybe wear a top 3-4x. She has a ton of outfits though so she may wear those tops over several years.

Me, on the other hand, bought 10 shirts from H&M of various colors and I wore them until the threads fell apart and you could see my skin. The shirts still lasted for a few years.

Both of our shirts ended up lasting about the same amount of time, but were used way differently
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How many HN readers actually answer their phones anymore?

Personally, I pretty much never answer calls from unknown numbers, unless I am specifically expecting a call (eg: from a service company coming to the house, or calling back about an inquiry I made).

It's really rare I even get a call from someone in my contact list - even for something "urgent" most people just send a text ("call me - urgent!" is serious). Anything for work is scheduled, and even then it's been years since it was anything but zoom/teams/etc.

Part of this I think is a shift in the way people operate with technology: texting is faster and better than voicemail. Slack, zoom, etc dominate workplaces. Part is it's been ruined by spam.

I don't know if society as a whole is there yet, but I think it's basically rude to expect you can just interrupt someone at any point and demand their direct attention to have a synchronous voice conversation with you. Had the PSTN not existed and you were to try to launch "Telephone" as an app today, it would almost certainly fail. "You get a unique 10 digit number and if anyone types it in, it makes your device ring loudly, 24/7, no matter what else you're doing, and you're instantly placed in a two-way audio call with them!"
you'd think "WMDs!!" was enough of a lesson, but I guess not. When China does not start a senseless war over Taiwan in the next few years, I hope at least some of us will do some introspection about all the current hysterics.
Social engineering did not begin with computers, that's just when we put a fancy name on it. Personal information has been used to impersonate people in person or over the phone for a very long time.
Isn't the "unique arrangement" just its age, predating the modern App Store?
Nobody uses language like “100% resistance” when talking about diseases. That’s not what the Nature article claims, and not what any reputable source would claim.
Migrating to IPv6 is hard because there is hardly any real will to do so. Most people don't need a unique IP address and don't mind being behind some ISP-level NAT. So it will happen as bigger companies are forced into it.

The phone network on the other hand could work with a very simple reputation list. If you carrier fails to act against malicious actor they lose access to everyone else and that's it. Once they have a financial interest that forces them to look into it the problem would solve itself. Just today I've had 2 calls from "the government of Canada" telling me that there was a warrant out to my name.
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I predict that Instagram will soon be filled with nothing but images tailored to the NFT ecosystem. Maybe I'm being a little too dismal.
It's a free, safe vaccine that significantly reduces the spread of the virus that has caused a global pandemic over the last 18 months or so. If you're a health care worker and you won't get vaccinated, you probably should find a new line of work.

It doesn't need to be 100% effective at stopping spread to be an excellent idea.
Angle grinder required to get access to the Facebook server cage
But they did have something to do with it, and were impacted by the situation - the parent post of this traffic is a world of devices DDoSing DNS services, one of which Cloudflare owns and operates.
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Along with curiosity—which I agree is probably one of the most underrated adult traits in terms of the ability to learn new things—is cultivating the imagination.

Thinking up wild and vivid scenarios in your mind and playing around with ideas and experimenting with concepts is how I've gotten through most of the traditionally difficult subjects I've encountered so far.
It is hard to balance dogfooding (good) with SPOF (bad), many big companies do get it wrong (AWS with S3, Slack in the recent past) all the time.

It is easy to get it wrong if your company provides internet services that every developer typical depends in their workflows and to keep educating your own developers on how to use them and when not to use your own services.
I think the mods throttled logged in users to discourage over-discussion and thread creation. There’s no rhyme or reason for read-only to be snappy and logged-in to be crawling.
it's kinda their whole objective- to keep sites up and running. so of course they'll do commentaries- it's for marketing and helps stimulate discussions in their industry.
I am sympathetic to your argument, but it would be stronger if you didn't project the "why" onto a large group of people. It's pretty clear that the reasons are complex, nuanced, and possibly only a problem at scales most of us never encourage. (I think there are probably also benefits of the large size, e.g. Walmart has completely changed what you can buy for low prices, which has incredible value to many people)

Also, I'm not sure the SPOF problems are a result of anti-competitive behavior - AIUI, it's because JIT delivery between different entities is far more cost effective, and the human brain tends to ignore hidden risks.
I've seen a couple predominant tin-foil-hat theories are making the rounds:

- a disgruntled NOC engineer
- the company is scrubbing any/all data related to the leak that 60 Minutes reported

It seems pretty astonishing that all BGP routing just vanished.

I'm guessing the only way we'll find out is if an insider spills the beans.
It requires news infrastructure on the telco side as well as client-side support:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

There seems to be only lukewarm support for it from all parties involved. (Apple isn't even bothering to do much/anything, so that's a huge installed base where nothing is happening.)
Don't forget share buybacks. In fact these days large investors hate dividends since they are immediately taxable. Much better to keep inflating the share price and get a line of credit against it.
Part of the thing with fast fashion like h&m is that their size and quality are so inconsistent you may buy 5 things and (generously) only wear 1 of them especially if you order online, and you may not even feel that it’s worth returning a couple $5-$8 t shirts.

That 1 article you like, you’re lucky if it lasts a full year
Reminds me of the life of pi movie where they mistake the main characters precocity for genius,among other mistakes from adapting the book.
To gain usefulness, they must first obtain usefulness. I get your point, though. Right now "making money" seems to be its only use, and that is indeed useful. But that itself isn't going to run forever.

This is exactly the kind of thing I could see Santa Fe Institute developing a cellular automaton model and visualization. It would be helpful for discovering how to make and keep NFT's "useful."

Then ironically, to pay for the research the best models could be used to back their own NFT's.
I think your criticism is unfair.

> They can pontificate about likely causes

They can, but they didn't.
I find this kind of uninformed conjecture amusing on a thread full of people complaining about cloudflare doing the same (they didn't). There's no evidence of this kind of flapping behavior in any of the telemetry I've seen posted by network engineer friends, and the blog post explicitly calls out when they saw the BGP updates that brought the site back online.
Unfortunately, the only fact you've stated is this:

> No one cought it by having a conversation or casual contact at work or in public.

Correct. The transmission of HIV was also not understood. Nor was it even known to be a virus for quite some time, hence why it was called "the gay cancer." Part of the reason why it wasn't understood was the government's intentional apathy towards it, out of bigotry.

> Besides, COVID was initially sold as being much more deadly than actually is.

You might recall that the first wave completely depleted the availability of ventilators. In fact, this very website hosted links to DIY ventilator projects because the problem was so bad.

Who are you to decide how much death is enough death to warrant concern? If the world healthcare systems cannot keep up, it's a problem. Five million people will have died by the end of the year. No other disease in US history has ever killed as many people. Your waffling about what makes a disease worthy of concern is unnecessary: salmonella only kills 0.4% of people who contract it, but we don't argue about restaurant staff using clean cooking equipment.
Pretty sure Apple would still be there.

Remember, it is not just Apple that would be hit. All their competition would also. And out of all companies that produce phones Apple has probably most cash on hand. They have something like 200B USD in cash.

Also Apple is in best position to be first in line to by chips at a premium outside Taiwan as their products are already expensive and high margin. And even if that doesn't work, they are in best position to just set up their own production. This would take couple of years but would set them to kill all their competition for foreseeable future so I am pretty sure they would look it as fabulous investment.

Look at latest iPhone teardowns. There is just couple of chips in it, and already designed by Apple.

The only other company I can think of is Samsung, that sits on a pile of cash half the size of Apple's. But while Samsung is well diversified, basically all their lines of business rely on chips, too. While Apple does not need a lot of different types of chips, Samsung probably relies on so many that they would not be able to replicate all of them.
So do many classical computer algorithms.
> Apple provides them access to, literally, nearly a billion potential customers

Are they providing them access or are the not denying them access?
> next to no value for Netflix

Apple basically has an iron-fisted grip on _worldwide_ audience of people with money to spend. Google, for example, does not, and their App store is a raging dumpster fire in comparison. I'm not saying that their "cut" shouldn't irritate people, it should - that's just market forces at play, but one must also recognize that for Netflix to not be in the App Store would be pretty catastrophi revenue-wise, much for the same reason why it'd be catastrophic for Google to not be the default search engine in iOS.
Viral changes are incremental; research needs to be updated as changes occur, but it would be extraordinary for it to be invalidated outright. Thus far, the research has mostly shown incremental changes to transmissibility &c., changes that do not warrant significant policy shifts. Getting vaccinated continues to be an excellent public health policy and goal.
Your new grad link seems to be broken.
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ok so the point about federal laws being invalid because they are enforced by the police is invalid?
Our local hospitals have lost on average over half their nursing staff in the last year, and hasn't been able to replace near enough of them. This was before vaccine mandates.

Which is only putting more stress on the ones who stayed, and it's getting to where they are getting burnt out, having gone through a year and a half of COVID and now taking to the slack due to the shortages.

No telling what's going to happen when the vaccine mandate kicks in next month for most of the nurses.

The normal overnight staffing where my wife works is usually one doctor, 3-mid levels and 6 nurses.

They've been down to one doctor and 1-2 nurses for most of the last month.
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> What an interesting response, do you really think obesity is similar to a contagious virus or are you just grasping at straws to support your ideology?

All I'm doing is pointing out that a statement in the parent comment is false, nitpicking essentially. It's kind of what we do here. There's no need to project an entire ideology onto me. Just because I disagree with one particular falsehood on one particular side of an issue does not immediately mean I am on the "other team".
The school teacher was among 11K applicants to the program. I don’t find it immoral to allow non-military to put themselves voluntarily at risk.
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Good point. I’ve got friends who use the same approach, but I gotta say, I think they do less reselling of things than they think. But that’s not really a problem (unless you run out of room) of course.
News and Interest (taskbar thingy in recent Win10), Widgets (samw thing in Win 11), the Settings app, help links scattered around the OS, Your Phone app, links sent from Android to your PC (Microsoft Phone Companion and Samsung Windows integration), etc.
True. I find it helpful to think of current DL models as a form of the reptilian brain — information processing and, at best, instinctual pattern recognition.

Intelligence is different kind of processing. It resides in the particular form of processing most often found in the mammalian brain — a processing we know intimately as conscious experience. Every human thought, word, and innovation formed within human consciousness. There’s no difference between consciousness and intelligence — they are the same.

It’s here at the “hard problem” that most (but not all) ML research turns aside to follow the “bitter lesson”, hoping that the difference between instinct and intelligence is merely one of scale.

But as OP points out, the difference is one of kind.
It's an interesting point but I don't think it's valid.

1) We still don't really understand the effects of DNA on human behavior.

2) Environment is influential, but it's an influence not something that shapes you in stone forever and ever. Plus, there are all sorts of characters from all sorts of environments.

I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I'd say it mostly comes down to a personal decision to nurture willpower.
My feed is half Americans (since I primarily live in the US) and half from a SEA country / expat friends from all over the world.

I don't get where people see this outrage content. Mine is just like cookie recipes and I'm in tons of groups with hundreds of "friends".
I’m a WFO advocate, I can’t care what you do, I just like the office better. So that’s a bold faced lie you tell yourself.
> If all it takes for your movement to attempt to kidnap elected officials or disrupt transfer of power is a few undercover agents nudging along, your movement is a huge problem.

If it takes more agents then perpetrators to pull off your sting, and if the agents conceptualized, planned, financed, managed the operation, and participated in it…

Well, let’s just say I am going to be the wrong person to sit on your jury if you want a conviction.
Does anyone have numbers on efficacy?

Given the low interchange rates in Europe I would have guessed that despite some flaws overall reduction in fraud was effective.
I think it's more fundamental. Someone 40+ who is competent will call you out on your bullshit and has the gravitas that it will stick.

I often think that people give my opinions respect more because I am old than because I am competent.
Not really; if I unplug a cable, connections break; but if I plug it back in they can and should resume much faster than 6 seconds.

And what about a five minute "blip"? Arguably it should resume proper operations as soon as the link goes back up, not some (unknown to user) time afterwards.
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