skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dwelling would be thinking about doing things. People often get caught up in the research portion of vacations or hobbies and they just watch videos and read articles about it or scroll through hashtags of the subject on twitter or instagram but never actually get about doing the task.

So don't think about doing it, actually go out and do it
> Why extract mineral resources from a planet that is so deep within Sun gravitational field that you have to expend more energy to get stuff from there than you would to get stuff from Earth surface?

Mercury itself is light enough to cancel that out.
yes, me too (I'm in south-america)
The cynic in me wonders if this is related to the Pandora Papers leak
This works like charm. Thank you!
They were legally compelled to BEGIN keeping logs for a specific individual. It’s not that they had logs ready to go. They also notified the user that they had received the Swiss warrant.

What should they have done differently? It’s comply with the order or dissolve the company.
The 1440 UTC update is also archived on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20211004171424/https://old.reddi...

And archive.today: https://archive.ph/sMgCi
It is a matter of preparation. You can make sure there are KVMoIPs or other OOB technologies available on site to allow direct access from a remote location. In the worst case technician has to know how to connect the OOB device or press a power button ;)
This is awful. If drm-ed pay to access sites weren't bad enough. Now we have a way to late stage capital our way into setting literal invite links.
You got to start the discussion somewhere.... For me, I t think that it should be related to the number of employees.
Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
Hacker News (this site) seems to be going down today just like facebook. Is there a massive DDOS attack occurring or just a co-incidence?
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The goal of pair-programming in XP is to produce better code, faster.

The idea that pair programming is mainly a teaching / learning mechanism is very widespread, but it's a profound misunderstanding.
Any algorithm that can maximize engagement can be tuned to minimize radicalization and dissemination of hatred and fascism.

I'd argue that it's absolutely in Facebook's self-interest to reduce their active role in promoting fascism, racism, homophobia, etc.
I use https://teuxdeux.com for weekly planning.

Basically for any planning. That's the only todo list that works for me.
I feel for the users of WhatsApp, but everything else...it is Christmas morning over here.
And, I suppose, more simply, the diabetus! Pickles * beer^2 * burger * fries = (sugar * fat)^2 = pike of insulin over several hours * abundance of bad fats that the liver is supposed to absorb. I do realize not every alcohol binging happens in this form, but it’s the classic modern/hipster form. Any such behavior, even without alcohol, would turn the liver upside down.
Two things from that video:

1. The amount of planning that is required for this is just astounding to me. That we can pretty trivially plan to use something like planetary motion as a motor is fascinating.

2. I'm really bad at Kerbal Space Program.
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Serving ads based on your search terms is like serving an ad because some ones search had the word 'bolts' in it. You don't need to keep a lot of information pertaining to that around, not about the people using your service at least.

Google isn't doing that. They have pretty complete portraits of your life (and dare I say) psychology that only comes from having such an incredible wealth of information about you and your position in the network graph.
This is why so many teams fight back against the audit findings:

"The information systems office did not enforce logical access to the system in accordance with role-based access policies."

Invariably, you want your best people to have full access to all systems.
There could be something in the contract that requires all community interaction to go via PR official channels.

It's innocous enough, but leaking info, no matter what, will be a problem if it's stated in their contract.
Hacker News slow today [04 Oct 2021]
Hacker News seems incredibly slow today. Timeouts or multisecond responses. Y'all okay?
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Do we even know if someone had the account deleted? I think facebook might have their hands full right now solving the issue rather than looking at social media posts that discusses the issue.
I know you think this is some sort of neutral comment about personal choice, but it isn't. Millions of underserved people all over the world live in Food Deserts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert), places with little to no access to affordable nutritious food. Those people wind up consuming a large portion of their calories from high fructose corn syrup, not because they have chosen to do so, but because they have no choice, and that is their only option. Whether you want to accept it or not, your comment is classist and makes HN a more hostile place.
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An alternative market would create pressure on Apple. If Netflix tells the App store to go screw themselves and lists on a different store, then the App Store gets that much less traffic and either has to compete or lose out.
You'd need to actually draft a law rather than write it on a napkin and there would be armies of very well paid lawyers trying to avoid it, but that's common to any attempt to break up concentrated power.

In that context it wouldn't be all that hard. You'd need to figure out some definitions for common ownership, joint enterprise, and so on. A lot of those laws and definitions already exist. It's only really in the last few decades that we've abandoned antitrust law but we have successfully done things like this in the past.
>> This is really just the AI vs AGI[1] distinction. If you're not aware, the label "AI" (naked with no modifiers) has already been downgraded to "weak AI".

This is according to whom? Who was it that 'downgraded [AI] to "weak AI"'?
Yes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first time.
He’s a HN 10xer. He doesn’t care about anyone outside his Palo Alto cold-press-Koffee-Klatch, despite what he virtue signals. It’s amusing seeing people here trip over each other to say some variety of “I don’t use Facebook.”
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Sounds good to me. The less default apps the better. At this point they probably don't go further since it might cause system issues.
Yes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second time.
Yes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second and third time.
The Statue of Piety
Yes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second and third and fourth time.
There's always Oracle Cloud ;)
It kind of makes sense, though. First, there are plenty of open source browsers available, why should Google maintain one when the vast majority are going to opt for Chrome anyway?

Second, very few people want a contact or calendar app that exists solely on their phone. They want the synchronization they get from any alternative app, whether that's from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or some other third party.

If you're capable of installing AOSP on a daily driver, you likely already know enough about F-Droid or other open source projects to find and install a better alternative anyway.

Lastly, I totally agree about your concern with GPS being the default for any new feature implementation. I think that allowing Google to push alternative OS builders out of the game or forcing them to implement a GPS alternative from scratch, which sucks.
Feels somewhat disingenuous to combine the data for men and women, not sure about that discrepancy between surveys either: https://i.imgur.com/BVJvRx6.png
It was down earlier. Wonder if it is at all related to the Facebook/Instagram/Whatapp issues... or just coincidence
Not taking a position one way or the other here, but I'll point out that he has published three papers as primary author and coauthored five others.

And from the article: "Barnes said he already had published papers in renowned journals by the time he submitted his dissertation - one of the reasons why he earned a PhD."
I think there's a significant and important difference between collecting data after being presented with a warrant, and collecting data indiscriminately by default.
This is a solved problem. Just do what most American cities do with other natural monopolies like utilities: use careful price controls to cap margins and slow rate increases. You don't need to invent some esoteric market-based solution, especially for a service where marginal costs are near zero and supply is almost infinite.
Tell HN: Facebook is down and things run slower
My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything?
Maybe people visit other sites when the ones they would have used go down? I don't know for sure but it is a plausible explanation for me.
In this context, I remember youtube+pakistan issue[1]. I also wonder how an AS/BGP manager do his/her job... I imagine a guy/girl changing a text file in a old console. Anyone knows?

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2648947/youtube-outage-und...
I was just about to ask. I keep seeing this issue "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!"

A few refreshes later the page loads.
AWS punishes its sysadmin teams for any downtime so there is heavy incentive to not report unless there os a community shaped gun pointed at your head. This is not a universal problem.
> It can be sort of exciting, but it's not like there is one person typing at a keyboard with a hundred managers breathing down their neck.

As someone who formerly did Ops for many many years... this is not accurate. Even in a well organized company there are usually stakeholders at every level on IM calls so that they don't need to play "telephone" for status. For an incident of this size, it wouldn't be unusual to have C-level executives on the call.

While those managers are mostly just quietly listening in on mute if they know what's good (e.g. don't distract the people doing the work to fix your problem), their mere presence can make the entire situation more tense and stressful for the person banging keyboards. If they decide to be chatty or belligerent, it makes everything 100x worse.

I don't envy the SREs at Facebook today. Godspeed fellow Ops homies.
> Not just back to human error, but in the FAA sense, back to why equipment, processes, and infrastructure were in place that allowed a single moment of human inattention to be so deadly.

I'm for it - but I'll bet the average person will be against all the weeks of training we will soon require every years before you are allowed to touch a car. It will be even worse once people realize how high the drop out rate is (people who fail and suddenly can't get around)
AWS punishes its sysadmin teams for any downtime so there is heavy incentive to not report unless there is a community shaped gun pointed at your head. This is not a universal problem.
Dihydrogen monoxide is way worse...

Joking aside, the dose makes the poison. On a society level, alcohol is a problem, but on a personal level, it is still unclear how much of an effect moderate drinking has, and in which direction it goes, that's the topic of the article.

If you want a strong poison most of us use, take acetaminophen. More than 12g and it can kill you by liver failure. It is the leading cause of acute poisoning, and yet, it is very safe at normal doses (1gx3/day).
>If your goal is not to be seen, relying on things without meaningful market share is actually fine.

Except for the cases where you want the exact opposite, because the noise makes it more difficult to find a single person. If there's only 5 people using, say, TOR Browser - you become easy to track.

Not saying this is the case here, just that different situations require different operational security considerations.
From a consumer point of view, this is terrible.
I'd guess that automatic processes dominate. Maybe billions of phone apps polling for facebook connectivity (FB messenger is down, for example).
IMHO for every invention that's the definition of "revolutionary" that matters.

The first lightbulb isn't revolutionary, it's a nifty toy invention that doesn't affect anything, much less cause a revolution like the first practical efficient general purpose mass produced lightbulbs did.

The first radio isn't revolutionary, the first practical efficient general purpose mass produced radios make the revolution.

The same for computers, the same for smartphones - iPhone was revolutionary because it impacted the world; while its competing predecessors that had almost the same tech did not and so were not revolutionary.
I heard the same thing from my old coworker who is at FB currently. All of their internal DNS/logins are broken atm so nobody can reach the IRC server. I bet this will spur some internal changes at FB in terms of how to separate their DR systems in the case of an actual disaster.
Noticing the same here
It's one thing to say that people might not be as happy as they appear, but quite another to say that someone's marriage basically doesn't exist, which is what the parent was saying.
Well, you want the right people to have access. If you're a small shop or act like one, that's your "top" techs.

If you're a mature larger company, that's the team leads in your networking area on the team that deal with that service area (BGP routing, or routers in general).

Most likely Facebook et. al. management never understood this could happen because it's "never been a problem before".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749476
Wow this really works, thank you. What actually is the reason for it being much faster in a private window? Is there so much tracking going on in a normal window?
Are you suggesting that HN being under a greater load has something to do with people hopping on HN instead of Facebook as they'd normally do? That seems like a reach.
In the news today: *munch munch munch
It also looks like the buttons to add comments changed in appearance. Maybe there is some kind of site upgrade going on?
Apparently HN is a giant Facebook groups page with a custom theme.
From the archived ramenporn reddit comment thread at [0]:

> This must be incredibly stressful so for your sake I hope you sort it out quickly... but for the world's sake, I hope you fail and make the problem worse before jumping ship followed by every other engineer, leaving it to Zuckerberg to fix himself. But I still hope it's not too stressful for you!

https://archive.is/Idsdl
Yes. Started loading slower pages and then throwed some can´t respond to your request right now!

Seems fb down is making people go other places meanwhile maybe_
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28750140
Getting the "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" page a lot.
Knuth's statement was basically "use a profiler and optimize the hot path instead of trying to optimize with your intuition", which is great advice. Most people heard "don't optimize at all". Something that you can derive from that advice is "have a hot path to optimize". I've seen a few programs that aren't trivial to optimize because the work is distributed everywhere.
I rather suspect that it's because of the Facebook outage, but indirectly. HN is always slow when major tech services (Facebook, Google, AWS, Github, Slack, Fastly, Cloudflare, etc) services are down. The HN community seems to congregate here for updates causing higher than usual traffic.
This is either a hilarious accident or genius comedy.
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Seems odd to not have a redundant backdoor on a different network interface. Maybe that is too big of a security risk but idk.
Glad to report that facebook's dns in china is not affected.
You can dig facebook.com and the depth of the internet happily reply with a random ip address as usual.
It's like a nuclear bomb exploded on the internet.
Personally, as a phd candidate in STEM I think this is awesome. I do not care that he “skipped steps” in getting a PhD. His contribution to the body of scientific knowledge was deserving of a doctorate as determined by experts in the field, no? Who cares if you publish 3+ papers if each of those never got cited more than 10 times in 10 years and they never had any real scientific impact? I know PhDs who simply went through the motions at some of the best doctoral STEM programs in the US and never made a real scientific contribution despite checking off all the boxes.

I guess determining if he “deserves” a PhD depends on what you think a PhD is for. If it’s for checking off boxes, sitting in a room for N years, publishing K papers, taking M number of classes etc, then yes, he doesn’t deserve it. If you think it’s about learning how to be an independent researcher and making significant scientific contributions, it seems to me like he’s done quite a bit.
Ask HN: What's Wrong with the Internet?
FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (5th try now, got "unexpected link" now)

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?
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>journalists reporting serious events

A facet I don't love is journalism devolving to reposting unverified, anonymous reddit posts.
Given the 3 or 4 posts about Facebook being down, I'm going to guess it is related. Either an unexpected increase in traffic or something related to the routing issue with FB.
A few random guesses (I am not in any way affiliated with FB); just my 2c:

Sharing status of an active event may complicate recovery, especially if they suspect adversarial actions: such public real-time reports can explain to the red team what the blue team is doing and, especially important, what the blue team is unable to do at the moment.

Potentially exposing the dirty laundry. While a postmortem should be done within the company (and as much as possible is published publicly) after the event, such early blurbs may expose many non-public things, usually unrelated to the issue.
This paper introduced me to a new concept in system architecture. Thanks for posting it!
And here I thought that following successful people was the one obsessive behavior that wasn't dangerous. Thank you for your blog spam.
Will monopolies steal the infrastructure money?
The browser is an extremely fast-moving security-critical attack surface, so it’s for the best that Android WebView is maintained separately in the Chromium repository, and doesn’t need to be held back by the AOSP release schedule. It’s still open source.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/androi...
Well, you know how client/server stuff works, right? The whole "client/server" paradigm exists because it's necessary; some use cases can't be done well just from client software. Sharing a file is such a use case. Sending a file isn't - you can just email something from your phone - but sharing or making a file available is hard for various reasons (e.g. client software isn't usually 24/7 available, it is often behind a NAT and difficult to route to, etc).

So, we need a server to share a file. There's a lot of ways to do that. On one end of the spectrum, you can do it all yourself: buy a computer, put it in your basement, connect it to the internet, install a webserver, move the file to it, write an index.html file pointing to it, write a .htaccess file to limit who can access it, and send the credentials to your friends and family. On the other end of the spectrum, you can pay someone else to do all of it by signing up for Facebook. In between are a lot of options. Urbit is one of those options, and (obviously) the people who make it are trying to make it the best option for at least somebody. What I was trying to do in this drunken rant, er, crowd-sourced user story, was to lay out how it might be implemented, in order to take advantage of urbit's strengths.

That comment is not an explanation of what urbit is or what its strengths are; it was written towards people who already know, and so glosses over that. I have a near-done "what is urbit and what are its major pros and cons" blog post I should really finish up someday, but this ain't it...
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