skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they can't cache SERVFAIL.

Correction: according to Cloudflare's blog post, some do cache errors as well.
Except they are firing people. My company just announced all remote employees must be vaccinated. What does that mean? That is what their lawyers told them the vax mandate means. The same vax mandates that are getting nurses fired. Why can't people just come out and say it that the federal government mandates in their current form are illegal?
This is not published yet -- not even pass peer review... In graduate schools professors often give two papers stating contradictory conclusions. Gotta to find which one is correct.
Well, no, because that's not what it says. The qualitatively different statement "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't tell Google about it." is probably true, but... well, qualitatively different.

(If the problem with the original isn't obvious to you, try specific cases like "If you don't want people to know you're gay, maybe you shouldn't be being gay.".)
I wonder how many of the customers colocated in the other half of the datacenter decided to leave or seek compensation when they found that that the datacenter didn't have the physical security that they were promised.

I'm pretty surprised that anyone was on-site that was authorized to make a snap decision that affects contracts with every customer colocated there.
I would assume DNS providers were on call with FB staff to manually trigger flushes across the system to prop the records ASAP. Of course this doesn't affect client TTLs but resolution failures generally aren't cached anyway.
Ah, my bad, I misread your comment!

Yeah, that could happen.
what's with the weird underscore repo name?
Anyone else slightly sad that it's back?
>If you see switching app stores a "cost" because it's less practical, you most likely would still be able to use your store of choice

This doesn't really match what's happened with the PC gaming marketplace. Facebook pays for exclusives to the Oculus Store, Epic (whose lawsuit brought this e-mail to light) pays for exclusives on their store. A fair few major developers only release through their own store. Cases that buck this trend (like Halo releasing on Steam) tends to be news rather than typical.
I suspect it will slowly get there. We'll find out, it is recovering now.
Maybe you should also try harder to understand the corporate and political system in which your family and friends live.

Facebook seems to make that harder rather than easier.
> it's not people coming to hn specifically to read about fb being down

You know you're replying to the person who runs the site, right? I reckon they know more about what's causing it than you do.
> I think this might be my "yeah, the pandemic is officially over" moment. You don't fire the freaking healthcare workers in a time when you supposedly need them desperately.

Welcome to the club. If there were the pandemic we were promised and made to be afraid of... we'd be seeing people collapsing in the street as the CCP made us believe. Yet, I don't even know anyone who's died of COVID. I know a handful of people who've had it. I know several people hospitalized for other random things. No COVID deaths. One COVID hospitalization (now recovered).
How much do they need to elaborate?
In the same way that the mafia is being fair taking your money for not removing your kneecaps
The argument is more nuanced than that. For example if I tell my TV “Hey Siri, play Top Gear” it will show me an Amazon logo for a few seconds while the app starts and then the video plays. At no point in that interaction did Apple attempt or even have a chance to say “are you sure you don’t want to watch {other-car-show}”. This decision by Netflix is hurting consumers.
Hi, I work at Signal on calling. Opening the mic while not in a call would be a serious bug, so I looked into it. I ran Micro Snitch and verified that it only sees the mic as active when you are in a call with someone (if you're in a group call and alone, keeps the mic off; if you're calling someone and they haven't answered yet, it keeps the mic off).

So I don't think it's an issue with calling.

However, if I hit the "record audio message" button and then hit cancel, I can get it to stay open until I close the app and restart it. I will report this bug to my coworkers at Signal that work in that area of the code.

Could you try and see if this problem is caused by the voice recording feature? For example, if you quit Signal and start back up, does the bug go away? If you start a voice recording and cancel it, does it come back?

Update: you can track the progress of the bug at https://signalmessenger.atlassian.net/browse/DESKTOP-2406

And if you have new information, please put it there.
No? All federal laws rely on the police to enforce them. I'm a realist, not an anarchist.

Just don't pretend that there isn't a clear threat of violence, when you are making laws that tell people what to do or take their money.
> What happened in 1929 was mainly a liquidity crisis, not an actual economic crisis, at least not at first. The underlying productivity of the American economy was unchanged before the crash and immediately a

apologies for a potentially ignorant question, but werent most economic crisis in the past (and near recent) caused by liquidity issues?
It's more of a utility, and to more people, than rotary phones were.
In other words, it's your personal opinion, correct? What you explain above are the reasons for which you hold this particular opinion, but it is still your opinion, yes?
Reminds me of the Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me song. Actually those lyrics pretty much sum this all up :-).
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Again, from the article (it's not a long one):

> Barnes, a meteorologist at the SA Weather Service in Cape Town, graduated in September.

> [...]

> "Work is good here in Cape Town. I wasn't expecting a doctorate. So at this point, I am not about what lies ahead in my career. I will look into opportunities should they present themselves in the future."

Sounds to me like he's not especially interested in academia.
It’s even simpler. They’d split up into pieces.

Seeing as how there are very few massive companies that weren’t created by piecing together smaller companies in the first place it shouldn’t confuse anyone. Also companies spin off parts constantly when they think it’s in their interest so they idea they won’t know how to do it is frivolous.

You could certainly make an argument that my $10bn number is too low, or that there should be a sliding scale of some sort but the concept and it’s likely outcome is very easy to understand.
There would be war over it.
> Does this argument explain why I can't think of a single country that has put forth a concerted effort to discourage cross border capital flows

This is a complex topic in a country where many pressure groups are fighting over policies.

In terms of immediate winners and losers, on the pro-globalism side, the winners are:

* investors that benefit from the race to the bottom

* the professional and managerial classes whose salaries rise as companies become more centers of management/coordinate/design with productive labor formed elsewhere

* service workers in select urban areas dominated by business services and consulting sectors

The losers are:

* blue collar workers

* service workers in smaller urban areas and rural areas

But in terms of long term effects, the losers are the vast majority of society, because de-industrialization creates a lot of social pathologies as we became a society with a shortage of meaningful work, the decline in solidarity hurts the nation's ability to coordinate to solve problems and deliver services efficiently, and the global supply chains are fragile, with many points of failure.

But the larger point is that the proponents of globalism are those who espouse liberalism, from the university professor who believes humans are isolated machines that maximize lifetime utility to those committing street violence against "fascists" -- that is, anyone who believes in national solidarity. This array is effectively the shock troops of globalism. It is one large movement fundamentally rooted in the idea that the purpose of life is to enjoy yourself as much as possible before you shuffle off to the grave, rather than being a part of a chain of being with your ancestors and grandchildren, in which the purpose of life includes making sacrifices for your group in order to contribute to your group's overall long term success.

Thus a society gripped by liberalism is one in which everyone defects. Consumers don't buy american made goods out of a commitment to the wellbeing of their society. Companies don't hire american workers out of a commitment to their fellow countrymen's wellbeing. Taxpayers do whatever they can to offshore wealth. It's everyone for themselves, and those types of societies just don't last very long. This is why we see liberal democracies in Western Europe and North America being rapidly eclipsed and outcompeted by well organized nationalistic societies in Asia.

It is for these reasons that societies have historically put up boundaries and exacted punishment on defectors and adopted institutions to inculcate loyalty and patriotism. When those borders are knocked down and the institutions subverted, don't be surprised when you are stabbed in the back by your countryman who doesn't give a sh*t that you and he are citizens of the same country.

> And it looks like globalism does help increase that if the goods your country produces are uniquely positioned in some way

You are talking about gains from trade. The issue is not gains from trade but trade deficits -- e.g. one way trade. These large Global capital inflows are not used to finance trade, they are used to finance trade deficits.
This provides a good set of details (mostly educational) what happened up to but not including the how and why the BGP routes were withdrawn (who sent the UPDATE packets to the neighboring ASes?).

The most "natural" occurrence that I can think of is best-path change. If a "better" route between AS is added, the now-second-best routes are withdrawn.

Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no way of determining the source of the withdraw message (UPDATE)...
Original report: https://internet2-0.com/whitepaper/procuring-for-a-pandemic/

Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/china-pcr...

Looking at the graph in the Bloomberg article, the PCR spending increases began years ago, so the evidence for the conclusion isn't overwhelmingly compelling.
I did a little testing while Facebook was down. I copied an HN frontpage request from the network traffic tab in chrome’s developer console. Using the ‘copy as curl’ option, you get a fully formatted curl request in your clipboard that makes all of the headers and protocols of the original browser request.

I then executed that request in the terminal. This request was met with the same ~5 second delay I was seeing with my browser. Front and center was my authentication cookie in the header, so I removed that from the command and the request was normal in response time (extremely fast in HN’s case). I put the cookie back, it was slow, I took the cookie out it was fast. I did this 4-5 times until i was satisfied that was it.

The delay could have been due to upstream dependencies on DNS, extra load on the authenticated request pipelines, some Facebook subterfuge in the bowels of HN or just an extremely unusual syncopation in the patterns of the universe.

But clearly the authenticated requests were slow and the unauthenticated ones were not.
Yeah. I think most advocates have long ago realized that the only way you could ever hope to have the requirements for vehicle piloting tightened up to where they should be is if you've built a society where 99% of people can drop out of the pool of drivers and survive, and that means some combination of a) robust mass transit, and b) machine pilots.

The current system is obviously the result of a century of symbiosis between car-centric development and driving being seen by most as a requirement to participate in society, and therefore a de facto right.
Facebook has a special ownership structure which means the shareholders have no input as their shares do not have voting power.
> Courts in the US are generally quite independent of the political process.

I'm not sure what to make of this statement.

To become a judge at the federal level is a deeply political process. Judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Nominated judges are usually the same political party as the president but must also be acceptable to at least a majority of senators, and there is often some bargaining to make this work. Every SCOTUS nomination in recent history has had senators question nominees on their political opinions. Federal courts frequently break along ideological lines such that the balance of liberals to conservatives on a court is important to parties and voters. Some state courts mirror this, with the governor nominating and a legislature confirming. How could this process be described as apolitical?

This is different from an apolitical process where a neutral body like a bureaucracy or bar association selects judges based on merit. The US is distinct from many European countries in this regard.
Hey thanks. I never thought to look there as I thought everything they held was past copyright.
That's how every single claim of discovery has to start.
My fellow conservatives keep screaming about how the lockdown are communism, Marxism, etc. I vehemently disagree, and frankly hate their one trick pony of blaming communism for everything . Even Stalin and Lenin would be marveling at the way in which we've achieved authoritarianism. There's nothing communistic or Marxist about what's going on in America. It's purely the fault of capitalist technocracy.
> Letting people contect with family and long lost friends is good.

Maybe it's overall good, maybe it's over the top and not super. Even if it is good, the existence of Facebook presents a block for better and healthier ways developing for them to connect.
OCaml is becoming a must learn language for those who want to take their C programming to the highest levels, because:

1. Frama-C, which enables writing bug-free C programs, is implemented using a combination of OCaml and the Coq proof assistant (which is itself implemented in OCaml):

https://frama-c.com/

2. CompCert, a formally verified C compiler, is implemented using OCaml and Coq:

https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert

Nothing at this level yet exists in the Rust and Zig ecosystems, for example. Rust is a very complicated language with many features which makes formalization much harder than with C and OCaml, which both had mathematical ideas of simplicity, analyzability, and minimalism inspire their designs, even if they continue to grow into more complicated monsters, which, incidentally this OCaml 5.0 release will contribute towards. :-)
Which, moving forward, will probably mean being vaccinated for COVID.
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> Another thing is debt: For an individual it's bad unless it's debt used to produce cash flow.

in other words... capital, right?
Why would I care if my short comment does poorly or not? Everything’s always a 10 page “discussion” on this site fuck me
When I go on trips, I don't go online. It's interesting that I don't miss it.
Oh, yeah, Zuckerberg is a real Howard Roark. Please.
That's not the way a security system should work, it should "fail secure" and not let anyone in that it can't verify 100%. There are lots of reasons to lock all of the doors, or even lock out a single person. And, since such systems can fail frequently, there always needs to be a backup plan in place, almost always involving humans.
> I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID

There's no such thing as "near zero risk from COVID." There are factors that make you high risk (age, obesity, etc) but whether covid ends up being "nothing" to "a bit sick for a few days" to "sick for weeks" to "hospitalized" to "fatal" is basically luck of the draw.

The odds of dying from covid are far, far worse than the odds of any complication from the vaccine.

95%+ of the people in my area's ICUs for covid are unvaccinated, according to the supervising physician who was interviewed on the radio.

> I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.

That's...not how that works. This sounds like the same stuff new parents believe about how they don't want to "overload" their baby's immune system with too many vaccines at once. Their immune system sees more "load" from them picking a pacifier off the floor of their living room and sticking it in their mouth.

Please speak to your primary care physician.
It’s not a utility, and shouldn’t be considered one, and the extent to which it is used as if it were a utility anyway is very unfortunate, pointing to substantial underinvestment in general purpose messaging and information management systems.
Would you listen to an expert doctor who didn't wash his hands before childbirth or a old wive's tail midwife? BEcause this is an actual life and death scenario, and history doesn't look well on the 'experts'.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Hey man, I understand this is a sensitive topic that people have strong opinions on so proposing something that sounds controversial can trigger a lot of assumed conclusions. Can we take a step back for a sec?

First, before we assume that it is inherently risky to release this tech in the public, let's consider where the risk comes from.

There is some risk caused by the inadequacy of the technology to handle certain edge cases. This can result in the vehicle making dangerous maneuvers. However this risk is mitigated by allowing the driver to control the car as soon as the car does something wrong. I'd imagine that the vast majority of errors like this can be handled safely by a human driver who's vigilant and has control of the car.

Some unknown proportion of these might be unavoidable accidents caused by the self-driving software that a human would have probably made too (e.g. a deer running onto the road).

Another possibility is that the self-driving car causes an error that a human might otherwise not have caused and could not have been avoided by a human taking control. If you group the latter two cases together, and the accident rate is lower than that of the driver without self-driving enabled, you could argue that it has a positive impact.

The other source of error is human error. Some argue that self-driving makes people complacent and they might not be as vigilant as if they were operating the vehicle themselves. I think companies are trying to address this too by implementing driver monitoring systems, however this is completely avoidable by the passenger and its a stretch to say that self-driving cars are risking human lives because of this.

Hopefully I have conveyed the reasons why I don't think public testing is necessarily inherently risking human lives (of course this is dependent on the state of the tech being released). I'm sure you understand that every company has a limited runway and a window of opportunity to scale their technology. I am 100% with you on making sure that the product doesn't risk people's lives recklessly. However, I think the optics of this make it seem like far more lives are at risk than reality. I'm open to changing my mind as more information about the safety of the tech comes out but I am not de facto against it for the reasons I mentioned above.
Oh. Ok.
There is this TV show called Goliath, on Amazon. In the latest season, a drug company gives work to many attorneys, with the sole aim of preventing them from being on the opposite side later on. I had no idea this was a thing.

Companies do all kinds of shady shit to go around the law. They will push and stretch laws to the max, if there is profit to be made.
Healthcare workers have a duty to their patients. Those patients include the willfully unvaccinated, but they also include immunocompromised individuals who can't mount a robust vaccine response. While that latter class of people might sound like an edge case not worthy of consideration in larger society, it is exactly the sort of edge case that's relevant in a healthcare setting.

If a healthcare worker isn't willing to receive a jab that could literally save someone else's life, they're in the wrong field. If they don't believe that vaccines are effective or safe or whatever, they can choose not to vaccinate; but they shouldn't be allowed to force that risk on their patients, especially since a "vaccine-hesistant" position is overwhelming at odds with the medical consensus.
It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.
And watch what their family has done to put them in the condition they are today. Most rich people are rich because of inheritance.
I read their link:

> This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.
> those NS records have a 6 hour TTL

Why on earth would any system need a TTL beyond 1 hour? The longer the TTL the longer your outage period will be if a cache is poisoned.
I'll throw in Discord into that mix, the thing that basically mostly killed IRC. Which is yet again centralized despite pretending that it is not centralized.
For example:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0271...

https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1310...

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-t...

Facebook's own research:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22701445/facebook-instagr...

It's nice - and of course timely - that there are some heartwarming feel good stories in this thread.

But the plural of anecdote is not science. And the science is pretty damning.
Why is the conclusion in that tweet "the billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook" rather than "the billionth reason not to use whatsapp as the de facto phone and text messaging platform"?