skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is honestly the best feature Facebook has ever developed. I hope it's permanent. It has the following effects: you feel better about yourself, you can spend more time with your family, you are more productive.
Are you saying that Apple is better at openness?
The proper term is "conspiracy fantasy".
> (even someone like Dave Chappelle, who is a comedian of all things, has been attacked on such grounds).

Dave Chappelle, with his recent $8-figure deal with a prominent pop-culture/FAANG company, who keep publishing and promoting his specials, seems like he's actually a counter-argument to your point.
Can we really ever know? There are million of $ at stake!
Sounds like automation deployed a configuration update to most of Facebook's peering routers simultaneously. Something similar brought down Google in 2019.
Interesting side effects:

>Now, here's the fun part. @Cloudflare runs a free DNS resolver, 1.1.1.1, and lots of people use it. So Facebook etc. are down... guess what happens? People keep retrying. Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413

>Our small non profit also sees a huge spike in DNS traffic. It’s really insane.

https://twitter.com/awlnx/status/1445072441886265355

>This is frontend DNS stats from one of the smaller ISPs I operate. DNS traffic has almost doubled.

https://twitter.com/TheodoreBaschak/status/14450732299707637...
How it can be allowed that two of the most used messaging apps inn the world fall at the same time?

The regulators in many countries that allowed the purchase failed to protect customers and competition and helped to create a more fragile world prone to systemic disruptions.
Maybe everyone needs their ansi.sys moment though. Back in the early 1990's, I, and probably half the programmers using DOS, rewrote the dos ansi.sys driver/TSR because its was _SLOW_. mostly IIRC because it was calling the BIOS text output, but also because it was a pretty solid implementation of the ANSI terminal/esc sequence "standard".

So, the first half took about an hour or two to handle output (just write a character at the right location in the framebuffer) and get the INT/TSR boilerplate right. Then for the next 20 hours fight with all the edge cases the cropped up with corrupted text in various TUI programs that were calling the DOS string functions. Then as the size+perf approached NANSI.sys (http://www.kegel.com/nansi/) give up...

Learning experience.
Environmental activism against nuclear energy was focused on the risk of Chernobyl-style accidents long before Chernobyl. Chernobyl vindicated anti-nuclear activists in a long-running argument about whether governments could be trusted to safely manage nuclear power.

I was a kid in the 1980s, so I might not be remembering with perfect accuracy, but I remember hearing about global warming as a high-profile environmental issue sometime later, maybe the late 80s. Before then the environmental concerns you read about in newspapers and popular magazines were acid rain, nuclear contamination, nuclear winter (still in the Cold War), chemical pollution, deforestation, etc. Global warming might have been on scientists' radar screens, but it didn't hit the public consciousness until after the public had made up its mind about nuclear power.
Yup, they make a new chat app if the previous one is down.
> To help protect private app data, Android 12 changes the default behavior of the adb backup command. For apps that target Android 12 (API level 31) or higher, when a user runs the adb backup command, app data is excluded from any other system data that is exported from the device.

It isn't "app data", it is my data! This is the straw that made me switch to LineageOS, my phone shouldn't prevent me from accessing my data!
I had no idea about the 60 Minutes thing until people started mentioning it in response to this outage.
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If it was intentional, that's serious jail time territory. That's a high price to pay for such limited downtime. I'm pretty sure an intentionally malicious actor with that type of access could do much worse things.
Word is that the last time Google had a failure involving a cyclical dependency they had to rip open a safe. It contained the backup password to the system that stored the safe combination.
Crypto-mining IoT network to fund internet access in San José
frankly, who cares? Seriously.

Those services are toxic for years now and everybody knows that. Who still uses them occasionally let alone relies on them can't be helped, can they?
It also looks like its much deeper than just people not finding the site. Employees are all locked out and there's another story on the front page on HN saying employees are locked out of the building as well.

If you wanted to scrub a lot of the data and nefarious evidence the whistle blower brought out, this would be a great way to do it, under the guise of a simple "employee screw up" cover story.

Its hard for me to think something more nefarious is afoot considering FB's track record with a myriad of other things. At this point, it seems more likely something sketchy is going on and not just some random employee who screwed up and brought down the entire network with a simple change. I would assume there are several layers of decision makers who oversee the BGP records. I have a hard time thinking one person had sole access to these and brought everything down with an innocent change.

FB has too many smart people who would allow a single point of failure for their entire network such that if it goes down, it becomes "a simple error on the part of some random employee". This is not some junior dev who broke the build, its far more serious than that.
ESPN (and sometimes Fox, I think?) will sometimes show a field mark like the AR first down line for a team's kicker's record kick (furthest kick they've made successfully in a game with this team). My brain tells me when I've seen it has most often been a Blue Line, so I guess it denotes the wider kick-scoring "Blue Zone" versus the field-scoring "Red Zone"?
Still better than what Apple offers.
This isn't quite accurate either. It was the Volstead Act - an act of Congress - that defined the breadth of the ban (i.e. what constitutes intoxicating liquors). The Supreme Court did uphold the legality of the Volstead Act.
This is a one off event, not a chronic stress trigger. I find them envigorating personally, as long as everybody concerned understands that this is not good in the long run, and that you are not going to write your best code this way.
I guess they didn't have an "emergency ingress" plan.
The problem is rail is horrible at traffic handling and uses time multiplexing. One guilded age unethical activity was deliberately creating "traffic jams" on competitor's lines. While rail is good and could use expansion it makes a dubious complete replacement. It works wonderfully with shared routes but fails at handling the "amalgamation" part.

Even Japan still uses trucks for the last mile and they have embraced it enough to have "bullet train suburbs" around stations.
am i correct in interpreting this as almost equivalent to a DDoS attack
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Why is everyone so confident with their conclusions without RCTs? This article points out how deeply complicated ethanol consumption is with our biochemical systems. Without RCTs we really can't measure the overall effect of ethanol without quantifying the effects of ethanol on each of those systems.

Can't we just reserve judgement here, and use some humbleness in the face of our ignorance to drive for a real RCT funded by the public?

Can we try to avoid the trap of becoming confidence-men?
This is really neat. I dabble in woodworking, and the workflow for making these maps is pretty similar to what I do to create the 3D models for CNC caved wooden relief maps: https://imgur.com/a/ZihtlwN
Release notes: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/

In terms of language features, the stand-out highlight is structural pattern matching; see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/#abstract
"... but liquor is quicker!"
> It's not a coverup.

While I tend to agree, you can't say that definitively -- no one can at this point, except those at FB super close to this issue.

> The whistleblower story is all over every news site.

As many point out in your other comment above on this, the outage is drowning out the whistleblower story on most search engines.
I don't agree though. That's my point. A database engineer, accountant, and PM all enable the product they support. That is the ultimate goal of the work.

If I work on a project to help a pharma company set up its supply chain to produce rare disease treatments, does that enable some guy in Asia to work on oil projects? Vaguely, yes in the sense that there is more money in the system. But not much, and certainly far less than it does on building the local capability to support other pharma companies on similar supply chain problems.

Personally I feel the direct impact of my work is positive, and likely orders of magnitude more positive than I would see working in tech for "engagement" or spyware or whatever. If I decide to leave, I'll go to one of the companies working on these same sets of problems.

And on a wider spectrum, no I don't believe the firm is bad on a whole. I think it nets good, trending towards banal average.

edit: putting it another way Facebook could not run (or would run less effectively) if it had 0 database engineers or PMs. McKinsey's oil division could work just fine if it had 0 pharma consultants. And its not that much of an anathema for some people to work on oil clients.
Said "this is why we can't have nice things"
"Someone at Facebook screwed up" - intern Chris, you're fired!
Surprised no one went with the typical "state sponsored" actor as cause for outages yet.
Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale [pdf]
am i correct in interpreting this as almost equivalent to a DDoS attack on DNS providers?
The cost savings from SpaceX's reusable rockets are absolutely revolutionary. If SpaceX manages to get their Starship rocket to follow the path laid by their Falcon rocket, they'll be even further ahead of the competition. So good on Blue Origin for having performed this kind of internal review. I really hope they pull into the same league as SpaceX.

Having said that, I do hope Blue Origin does this by emulating SpaceX's positive characteristics: the focus on customer demand, cost constraints, iterative design, etc. Not SpaceX's negative characteristics of pushing employees to work 60+ hour weeks for months on end, periodically culling 10% of their employees, etc. I worry that Musk is running his companies as cults of personality that won't survive his departure.

Based on Blue Origin's accomplishments, I'm not holding my breath for for them to catch up any time soon. Fortunately there are several other companies using innovative techniques to get into the market so even if Blue Origin goes bust, SpaceX won't be alone.
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I read that as POTUS at first and paused for a minute
I didn’t think it was at all excessively excited and optimistic. Just presented with a smile like any host I expect to do. I thought it was fine. Maybe it’s cultural.
With the right access it wouldn't be hard for someone to configure some key routers in such a way that all traffic is blocked and no one can get into them over the network. They'd need to send someone physically to the sites to reset or replace them.

I'm still leaning heavily towards an "oopsie" with routing that accomplished the same thing, however.
The Swiss cheese model of accidents. Occasionally the holes all align.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
This is not too rare when HN is being slow and giving those "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" pages.

If you get one of those on your comment submission you have no way to know if the trouble stopped it from accepting the comment or if it accepted the comment and ran into trouble then trying to display the updated thread.

For some reason I can't even begin to guess at HN does not seem to have protection against multiple submissions of the same form, so if after getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" on your comment submission you hit refresh again to display the page and the form gets resubmitted, you get a duplicate comment.
From Apple's perspective, developers are either creating competing products or products that Apple will eventually compete with. Either way they would rather not help.
Too bad Facebook can't write status updates on Facebook. They have Twitter account tho.
How would you compare Brave to Vivaldi, which also uses Chromium under the hood? That's my default not-Chrome, haven't used Brave.
Apple Pay with VISA lets hackers force payments on locked iPhones
A BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline (2019)
It's not that easy. Installing another messenger is easy, but you need to migrate your contacts to it as well. If you've been communicating through Facebook Messenger and don't have their phone number, you're shit out of luck. With WhatsApp you're somewhat better off since it uses phone numbers as user identifiers, so you at least have everyone's number, but international texting is incredibly unreliable and international calling is prohibitively expensive for lots of people.
Not just that, but another story just broke about the sale of personal info on 1.5 billion FB users.

Maybe this is just to cover the fact that they leaked information about 20% of the earth's population?
It's great to see someone on HN endorse Clickup based on personal experience. I selected Clickup over a number of other options for my workplace's project management system only a few months ago, in large part due to the flexibility and customization you alluded to (and cost vs. features), and I have been hoping that it was a good choice for others and not just according to my own biases. If you haven't had a chance, take a look at their automations - they might give you some ideas for automating your personal workflows a bit.

Bonus tip: If you use one of their docs as a meeting agenda/minutes, you can select a portion of text and make it into a task with a right click. I just discovered this, but it seems to be a great way to create follow-ups and assign people to action items.
TOR browser + duckduckgo
The dramatic irony is highly overrated. Deepness before Fire is way more enjoyable.
Hanlon's razor applies here, but it's a lot less fun. :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068715/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#:~:text=Ear....

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.gwern...

So genetics plays a significant part in personality traits and iq. Having high conscientiousness is the trait that correlates with work ethic and drive.

It's definitely not 100% but genes play a big part. Twin studies are cool - even though there's usually something tragic involved with twins separated at birth, it gives you an excellent way of assessing genetic influences on a huge array of factors.
"facebook.com" is registered with "registrarsafe.com" as registrar. "registrarsafe.com" is unreachable because it's using Facebook's DNS servers and is probably a unit of Facebook. "registrarsafe.com" itself is registered with "registrarsafe.com".

I'm not sure of all the implications of those circular dependencies, but it probably makes it harder to get things back up if the whole chain goes down. That's also probably why we're seeing the domain "facebook.com" for sale on domain sites. The registrar that would normally provide the ownership info is down.

Anyway, until "a.ns.facebook.com" starts working again, Facebook is dead.
Mesh networking with Yggdrasil to get better IPv6 coverage
So...maybe HN has dependencies on FB (such as tracking pixel, etc.)...and with their outage, timeouts kill things for HN? Not blaming HN, just wondering if second order diminished experiences start happening because of FB's heavy gravitational pull?
> It's a bit like the police asking the library who checked out a specific book.

And you have no problem with this? Government and police looking into and judging you based on what you read is one step away from policing wrongthink. You can't learn anything deemed dangerous anymore without being arrested. Can't look up how a bomb or sarin gas works without SWAT coming down on you because you're obviously a terrorist.

This government collusion with Google is the same thing. Government and police show up and say "find me a list of people who searched for dangerous knowledge". This is normal now, without even the trepidation depicted in films like Se7en.
I don't think it does, beyond box ticking. You're not likely to get enough competition to get competitive market dynamics on iPhones. Sure, a highly motivated user might go to alternative app stores.

Netflix does not need to go to a different store. They're influential enough to negotiate. Apple would cut them the discount, like now, and they wouldn't. The other store will not have enough users to make the reduced fees worth ditching the app store.

If there was enough competition, most of the app store profits would dissipate. That's what competition does. Users wouldn't pay 20-30%'extra to have apple's stamp, prices would fall and the business model is gone.

No little tickbox rule will make a competitive market in app stores. These markets are structured by nature. That's why platforms are so powerful.
Clearly you and the person you replied to are talking about very different things.
Yeah; it sounds like that is maybe the case. Reminds me of the concern around a "dark start" if the power grid goes down where you can't bring up certain power plants because they need power to start.
Ask HN: What crypto do you use for a consumer facing app? Is Ethereum OK?
I know that HN is skeptical towards cryptocurrencies, but I'm sure some of you have experience with it.

I want to take payments in crypto on my app.
The requirements are as follows:
- Low fees
- Very popular
- High number of transactions
- High transaction volume

I am no crypto expert by no means.
A friend of mine suggested Ethereum.
Is that the only reasonable choice?
> I know this is tinhat territory, but it's weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.

It's not like this is a new thing. We've been getting [facebook does awful thing] news stories pretty consistently for years now.
>In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their internal Facebook tools. That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded.

SinglePointOfFailure.NoRedundancies.FB
Why? Even if it's not DNS reliance, if they self-hosted the server (very likely) then it'll be just as unreachable as everything else within their network at the moment.
Thanks for correcting the judge study. It seems that cases with a higher chance of success are also scheduled earlier as the time it takes is less certain.

My understanding is that a portion of the remaining 95% are responsible for turning genes and whole chains of them on and off or something in between.

There is no place in the physical world where this control could come from.

The factors that influence are hugely complex and very hard to separate. Just because we do not understand how certain factors interact and influence our behavior doesn't mean we have control.
One of the most amazing composers of all time. Probably listened over a thousand times to his "Concerto in D Minor"..
Yep and that's great. Whole of Fediverse, Matrix, IRC, Telegram works just fine.
Lesson: Never depend on a centralized server.
This meta study you link literally cites 6 papers authored by our main villain Mukamal.

Is this "no one reads the article anymore" again?
This is costing them not less then $170,000 PER MINUTE. I highly doubt it's some kind of cover up.
I wonder if the requirements changes were an effort to vastly simplify their test suite. I can imagine MSFT having matrices of consumer CPUs from every year for the past 15+ years that all run the tests to make sure changes don't break workflows for their business customers that still use something like a 2005 dell optiplex.
I just learned Popol Vuh is more than a name of an old, obscure music band. "Hosianna Mantra" is an otherworldly music album, great for listening at night (mostly because it works when it's quiet).

Favorite track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKk5HWa7jzw
If we're in "tinhat" territory: it seems extremely odd to me that this whistelblower seems to be "blowing the whistle" on the fact that facebook isn't doing enough to control what people are thinking and talking about.

Like...what? "Brave whistelblower comes out showing that facebook isn't doing enough to control what you are thinking!" is sortof arguing past the question. Should facecbook be in charge of deciding what you think?
Rollout gone bad is def more likely. People with that level of access aren’t stupid enough to get sued for tens of millions of $ in damages
> Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don't even make sense.

Unless another disgruntled employee knew it would amplify the story.
The comment you are responding to has nothing to do with whomever this person is. It's about fact checking as a general endeavor.
Do you really think the bias against drinking (that might or might not have religious roots) is stronger than the massive bias that comes from the vast majority of people enjoying alcohol a lot?
What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
This is definitely the correct take. I fall into the 18-24 demographic and I don't think I've used Facebook at all in the past 3-4 years. Neither does anyone else I know who is my age.

This is essentially a reverse network effect: because so few young people are on the platform, few other young people see a reason to use it.
I can see how one can be against abortion, contraception and sex ed. But I think this is just not a realistic stance. Teenagers that don’t know about how things work, still have sex and then children.

The Catholic Church has even major problems keeping their own priests celibate as the number of pregnancies and child abuse cases show. That should tell them something.

The whole thing reminds me of the war on drugs or prohibition before. It’s a moral stance that makes sense but it’s just not realistic and has shown repeatedly to not work and do great harm to society.

Considering all alternatives it seems to me that contraception is the least harmful and easy to implement measure. It has shown to be successful and is way better than abortion or teenage moms. I think it’s it irresponsible by the church to be against contraception.

There are a lot of other moral issues they should strict on first. For example they should examine their long time support of dictators like the nazis. They had a great opportunity to speak up back then but chose not to.
Pelham Battery Storage Project (2019)
It would be in every government's best interests to have Facebook up and running
People wouldn't abandon Facebook et al. even if Zuckerberg was outed as a creature from outer space. Many people just wouldn't care.
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