skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems purposely ignorant. The election part is just one thing that makes it bad. I didn’t even mention politics but I’ll bite, from what I believe I hold as a rather objective view.

1) I never heard any talks of Obama campaigns being “evil”. My knowledge is they were positive, spreading a message hope. It was more of the fact that at the time, FB was demographically skewed young and he did well with young voters. I never saw any accusations of external election tampering, fear mongering, international influence, hacking, etc. It was not conducted in a way that one would feel call “evil” unless you just don’t like Obama and feel he is personally evil and that’s your baggage not facebooks. I can’t recall exactly, but I don’t think FB even really had an advertising mechanism back then. The algorithm was not what it is today, although it was still unhealthy by my standards by witnessing the addictive qualities it had.

2) Plenty of evidence Trump behaved evil. Probably even more so those who sought to have him elected. Fake news, propaganda, fear mongering, election tampering, hacking, meddling, name calling, etc. Even the most objective person on earth has to admit it was just a dirty election of epic proportions. All enabled by Facebook.

This is unhealthy. I don’t use FB and this effected me. It’s second hand smoke and I’m stuck on this flight. The don’t have to solve single thing regarding society, but that doesn’t mean they should be able to harm society. That’s why there are calls for regulation. Them being profitable is not in question, their ability to make decisions that balance profits with the health of their user base is what’s at question.

There’s plenty of people, myself included, that have voiced concerns about the negative consequences of this social network. But, like it’s a bit like the people warning of an housing bubble leadinf up to 2008.

Edit: a lot of typos, not fixing, but you get the gist
EV chargers are easier to install than gas stations though; you can add them to an underground car park in a year or less, no problem.

We created gas stations in less time, and they’re bigger and more logistically intense.
People would be using telegram or signal for business in less than one day.

Nobody would ever think about WhatsApp in one month. People that uses Facebook as their photo album would be pissed with losing some old photos taken with digital point and shoot cameras.

Stalkers of former boyfriends and girlfriends would be inconsolable for a few weeks but then move on and be better with it.

There would be a great cultural loss in the disappearance of some groups and even some profiles of very interesting people. But they would resurface, in blogs, telegram channels, forums and whatever else appeared to fill the vacuum.
Nobody misses myspace.
Nobody would miss Facebook.
And eventually Facebook will disappear.
The Layman’s Guide to Financial Deceit
This reads like GPT-3.
Ye gods, talk about clickbait.

I think this is the perfect example of a headline that starts conspiracy theories. I mean, of course there’s no way such a coincidence could really happen, right? The combination of words just screams this was intentional. Why else would one of the most well-known suite of services on the internet possibly go offline right before a whistleblower hearing? This is the Robinhood-shut-off-buying-GME moment. Is there a subreddit for this yet?
Probably re-enabling it gradually to avoid hammering DNS servers too much due to client caches being totally cold
I agree that the solution has to be amazing. But I don't think it's not something worth thinking about. The world would be a pretty boring place if everyone thought they couldn't build something because someone else already did.
101 Years of the Maxwell House Haggadah (2013)
We don't use tapes, everything we have is in the cloud, at a minimum everything is spread over multiple datacenters (AZ's in AWS parlance), important stuff is spread over multiple regions, or depending on the data, multiple cloud providers.

Last time I used tape, we used Ironmountain to haul the tapes 60 miles away which was determined to be far enough for seismic safety, but that was over a decade ago.
It can be argued that Americas Puritan rejection of alcohol and tobacco was retained with a different justification.

Plenty of very secular countries have drink and smoke a lot (for communist countries, for example).
emsy's claim was that Apple's App Store doing something bad isn't a problem, but rather that the only problem is that there aren't other app stores on the iPhone. The "alternative" is that, no, it's actually a problem that Apple's App Store is doing something bad.
Fair enough! Is there anything you wish you could have had in your experiences with them? Things that would have made it amazing?
I cannot share specifics of my work, which is unlikely to result in a satisfactory answer. So, sorry. I'll be blunt that most of it is tackling banal issues. Scrolling through our social impact report which includes the public stuff I found the highlights I thought were interesting. You can take this with a grain of salt and I don't tend to find these things super convincing for any company, but here:

* Founded a non profit which has upskilled hundreds of thousands of medical workers

* Did a lot of pro bono work (meaning "valuable" consulting work, but also the usual humble volunteer stuff) to keep food banks alive during covid

* About $200M in pro bono work dedicated to improving racial equity and hosting a leadership program for black leaders

* $2B in cash and support dedicated to social responsibility (I think this is mostly climate?) over the decade

* Around 220,000 hours of pro bono consultant time over the year

* Apparently we helped Khan Academy reach kids as things were going remote and TeachForIndia
_____

And of course there's the not totally pro bono stuff which is just "nice problems to work on". Some people scoff at this because its paid for, and it is typically very expensive. But I'll list it it anyway:

* COVID response for 35+ national governments and many smaller governments

* Public Health

* Economic and Social Development

* Racial equity and diversity

* Upskilling or reskilling workers who lost jobs

* Lots of decarbonization and renewable energy stuff

You can read if interested here: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/about%20us/social%...

And again, many companies have stuff like this. I tend to think this is a bit better than average big co., but whatever, it doesn't hit my day to day. In my opinion the more down to earth impact that you might enjoy is just helping companies you like do better. If you like to help pharma, or renewables, or videogames, or... banks, you can do that. Which is just kind of good enough on its own. Unlike a job where you work within your little sphere within a big company, consulting lets you just tackle big problems with the big decision makers. idk, my experience has been largely positive. I'm happy to speak on its behalf. I know I could go work for Facebook and earn probably another $100k, but I feel pretty strongly that would be a lot less fulfilling. My view of the firm has maybe 50 people in it. It's a pretty flat org. And you have a clear line of what partners oversee your stuff. It was legit upsetting to hear about the ICE work during the trump admin for myself and many others, but at the same time it feels more like a separate subsidiary. Less like facebook where all rolls up to zuck. Like if you worked for ben and jerry's and something bad happened at dove. Both are owned by unilever. Is dove thus representative of all of unilever? Ehhh I don't think so. Example companies chose at random.

tl;dr solving business problems you're interested in is simply a good business.
>At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they are not Facebook engineers. They provide an explanation of BGP that you can glean by reading virtually any other introductory explainer, and turn it into a chance to promote their own service.

This is not an honest representation of the article.

They talk about what their services observed related to bgp traffic from facebook. They are an authority on that.

They talk about their dns traffic changes from facebook's outage. They are an authority on that.

They talk about suspected causes, based on the observable data, and guess what, given they are who they are, this is something they are a subject matter expert on.

"we saw a spike in bgp traffic from facebook followed by a bunch of route withdrawals. we think this could be a bgp configuration issue [given we took large chunks of the internet down 2 years via the same fuckup]"

Is something in the subject matter wheelhouse of cloudflare, yes.
Neodämmerung is nearly the best thing to come out of The Matrix Revolutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wrFVJoeGc
They talk about what their services observed related to bgp traffic from facebook. They are an authority on that.

They talk about their dns traffic changes from facebook's outage. They are an authority on that.
Actually I've been invited to a 2 day developer session by Apple in the UK. It was very cool and educational - 2017 I think. It was all about partnership and how Apple can help all the 20 or so apps that are out there, what different APIs and new features the Apps can use and they had team members from a variety of different areas of the business. They didn't check that my app was using RN at the time so... :D

But needless to say that is a very different XP in comparison to all the millions of engineers who don't get that chance and the dev forums are useless most of the time.

Anyways just wanted to share that as an XP as I've never heard of anyone else ever been on one of these from my tech friends.
The first doctor discovered washing hands improved outcomes ~174 years ago & was initially dismissed[1]. It was later confirmed a couple of decades later when germ theory & bactereology[2] was born. Our understanding of how to have successful organ transplants only really took off in the past ~80 years as doctors started to better understand rejection. At the same time, in the 20th century, we got all sorts of new scanners & equipment to visualize the internals of the human body that we've never had before. Finally, the 20th & 21st centuries brought along revolutions in computing, genomics, & pharmacology.

So yes, 200 years ago doctors knew a great deal far less than today. I'm sure a doctor 200 years in the future looking back on today will feel similarly. There's still so much we don't know & there's a lot of guesswork involved. I wouldn't say they were idiots but the outcomes were certainly not at levels we'd accept today (just as the outcomes today won't be acceptable 200 years from now).

FWIW, the same is true in other disciplines. The 20th century marked a rapid exponential curve in learning. No one really studies any of the masters you note except for maybe Newton & Galileo. The former because the kinematics equations are actually extremely good approximations for Einstein's equations (& also his work on light and lenses remains accurate and foundational to this day). The latter as a warning of the dangers of putting ideology ahead of science and scientific thinking. Galileo's heliocentric model isn't actually used today except as a way to teach kids about the solar system because it's really simple & is good enough at that level (his work on gravity was an important influence for Newton's ideas on the topic).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
I always want to know what a service like that has found, but I'm also pretty unwilling to upload an image of me to it, given that there's not a lot of public images of me out there that I'm aware of. Then again, maybe if I did check I'd see a bunch of images where I was tagged by other people and that would disabuse me of the notion that images of me online are rare at all...
That's interesting that they're built on different chassis. I'm assuming the accessibility is the main reason?
Scaling Kubernetes Tenant Management with Hierarchical Namespaces Controller
> If chrome had a 15% fee to allow users to access websites then I think it would be pretty damaging to innovation on the web.

It would also be very damaging to Chrome, because users would promptly download another browser. People generally carry one phone and switching to another is much more costly than switching browsers.
What bothers me most about The Cloud is that in every other era of networked computing, the people who forgot the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu... would get smacked in the face with it in a matter of months or a few years at most. But now, people seem to be getting away with it, and so nobody is learning.

I suspect 'the problem' is in several parts.

One, there is one administrator, after a sort, and on top of that the amount of real-time monitoring is way up from the Sun era, and so humans can and do intervene more often. Less interactive systems fail for longer before anyone can rectify the situation. The network still isn't reliable, but the intervals are short and it's difficult to build a narrative about how much of a 'failure' it is for a service to be down for 10 minutes versus 8 hours.

Two, operating systems are still struggling to saturate high end networking hardware from a single process, let alone a single thread in that process. If you send data as fast as you can, you can still be doing the same from a couple other processes, so it takes longer to notice the bottleneck. Noisy neighbors can't completely shout you down.

The ones I'm still scratching my head over are homogenous networks and static topologies. Those really are affecting us, but probably get obscured in the statistics to a degree where they can be ignored by most of us, or at least can't be converted into an action item concretely enough, which is effectively the same outcome. They hide in response variability, among other places.
That’s an extremely charitable assessment. Everybody knows what Netflix is already. There is little need for Netflix to market its service. They benefit from marketing specific shows, but I really doubt they benefit from marketing the app itself.

And even if they did, 15% of their revenue for marketing? Forever? That is some amazingly expensive marketing.

Apple is extracting rent, plain and simple. If they truly cared to partner with Netflix and make them successful, they wouldn’t have launched their own competing product that they get to host on their App Store rent-free.
There was an A6 record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt), but it was rejected (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt) in favor of the original AAAA record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt).

Christian Huitema is listed as an author on both AAAA and A6 RFCs, so maybe they know why the AAAA identifier was originally chosen instead of A6. Unfortunately, Google doesn't provide any "AAAA" hits for their blog at https://huitema.wordpress.com/.
Also in today's news Xi admitted that covid did escape from the Wuhan lab.

Eat shit lockdowners!
I'm not particularly surprised.

How much do you think the long term value gained from HN has been impacted by the slow down today?

My bet would be not very much at all - I doubt there are few regular users who would be deterred from coming back.

Plus there is no income stream to protect.

Thus justifying a non-lean approach seems a stretch. Generally things appear to work pretty well here and the odd day where things aren't perfect isn't the end of the world.
Well, whether they manufacture consent or dissent depends entirely on what party currently controls the White House and the Congress. So he's half-right. I'm a big fan of Taibbi's writing, and especially his books. "Griftopia" was pretty good, too. He's a rare breed - a liberal who is also willing to criticize liberals when they deserve it.
Those are niche scenarios. For most people their contacts are on their phones and cloud accounts.
I'm in agreement that facebook is partly what you make it and experiences vary. My own experience has been generally positive; However I was a member of a niche interest group that used to be run on an old-school forum at its own domain. Over the years more and more content moved to the facebook group and there was roughly an even split when an accident by the web host lead to the total loss of the forum which could not be restored which meant all users now moved to the facebook group. The quality of material and the standard of discourse is shockingly worse on facebook than it was on the forums to the point where many interactions degrade into mudslinging. There shouldn't be too much difference between the forum/fb groups, but the only explanation I have come up with is that facebook's algorithm selects and displays content to people who would never have seen it on the forum, and some of them feel compelled to comment with either nasty or unhelpful input. On the forum I think the discovery of this content is self-directed and so only those with a genuine interest come across the post and interact with it, most others will just ignore the post title and scroll on, whereas facebook will show them the whole post with images and this makes them more likely to interact when they shouldn't. The other explanation is just that the mudslinging was always on the forum, but I did not come across it because it was not selected for me, but this goes both ways in that perhaps facebook is selecting "high-engagement" posts (with LOTS of argument) to display to me as well, thinking these will be of more interest. Whatever the cause, the difference is stark for this particular online community.
What is "accessible"? I can call anywhere in the USA for free, and its $0.01/minute to call an overseas relative, yet I almost never call.
This will have a positive effect on the mental health of Facebook users.

Could Mr Zuckerberg please arrange for this to be weekly event ?
I’m impressed she’s stuck with Two Sigma for so long. I’ve heard mixed things about the culture.
China has nukes. So do the United States, Britain, and India.

None of the leaders of the listed nations want to die in a nuclear holocaust.

So no, your "united force" will never happen.
> why do you need to acquire the non-voting shares to acquire the company?

Control doesn't alleviate the duties, fiduciary and of loyalty, the controlling person has to its shareholders. An acquirer who only bought the votes would still need to act in all shareholders' interests (or face litigation). To have a free hand, and full access to those cash flows, an acquirer thus must purchase the whole company.
The FBI and CIA are after me ... but for some reason can't find me.

But they did know where to mail my checks.
Moreover, Netflix is an app that would work perfectly fine in the browser. Netflix was providing a native app as a courtesy to the customer, not the other way around. Most Netflix subscribers I know would probably shake their fist at Apple and God and then go back to binging Friends in Safari.
The obvious question to me here is why you're "friends" with people like that? One of you sent the friend request in the first place and the other accepted. If/when it turns up you made a mistake with either step it's easy to undo it. As you said it's mostly outliers. Most people don't post/comment at all and the ones who do you can easily regulate (unfriend, or create a custom list (either black- or whitelist) if you need to stay "friends" for whatever reason).
Time machine: Solaris 2.6 on QEMU
>extremely tight for several years then life goes on

Strange way of saying "$2 Trillion Apple goes bankrupt because no chips means no product to sell".
I live in a country where WhatsApp is heavily used for all sorts of things (business communication, personal communication, ordering food from local restaurants, and so on). I was actually surprised by how utterly replaceable it proved to be during this outage. I don't know anyone who doesn't have at least two or three messenger apps installed anyway, and since most work by the phone number, it's pretty seamless to switch to another.
none probably
Whatsapp contacts are phone numbers, so you can just call or text them with the phone network instead if it's essential.
Remove all third-party apps from the ecosystem. How long do iDevices survive in this scenario? Even now that it's already such a behemoth of a platform?

Now do the opposite—make Apple as a whole disappear. What would app developers do?

I'm not saying Apple doesn't provide value, but let's not pretend they don't need the third-party developers they are so keen on squeezing no matter what. More than they need Apple, at least.
I've never relied on WhatsApp but if I were still living in China I cannot imagine what I'd do if WeChat suddenly stopped working for several hours.

Sure, you could try to contact people some other way (like a regular phone call) but most people don't even bother exchanging phone numbers any more, so you probably wouldn't even have someone's number unless you have their (paper) business card, or if you met them before 2012.
Well, I am going to fixate on the selfies because there were a bunch of dimwits taking selfies.

“Armed” folks armed with what? Yeah, I’m pretty sure the most powerful nation ever to occupy the earth wasn’t going to fall to a bunch of pitchfork wielding social media posting hayseeds demanding to have Frankenstein’s monster handed over to them.
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I think that the recent mathematical+philosophical(?) work by “johnswentworth” on AlignmentForum/LessWrong on Abstraction as “Information at a Distance” is an intriguing approach towards how it could be that abstractions which are “natural” could arise. I think this seems like it might fit fairly well with the concept of natural kinds (though probably not a 100% match? ) .

Separately, I think the idea of degrees of naturalness of a concept seems to make sense?
The customer wants convenience, the developer wants to give convenience, and Apple charges 10-30x the going rate of merchant fees for it. And neither the developer nor the customer can pick a different style of convenience. I don't think it can be a free market if customers can't choose another option and developers can't compete with existing options.
Given that warp is a pretty major player in the VPN space and lots of their customers are likely to blame them for not being able to get to Facebook, I think having a detailed "wasn't us" on their blog that their sales engineers can point to is reasonable.
> Retries make the world go round, and round again.

Depends on the rate I would think:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff
That remains to be seen. Mass-produced autonomous drones could quite conceivably get similar kill counts as nukes.
that post

is very hard to read

why?

too many paragraphs

I get it

it wants to read a bit like train of thought

but ultimately

it just makes the message harder to get across
79/39 split is indeed unique
Interesting relationship
> Linux has all these driver problems... most things won't work with plug'n'play... I understand why people stick to Windows.

Linux of the early 2000s maybe. I've never had a driver problem with Linux, and it has been my primary OS on my desktop and various laptops for the past ~7 years, and I've installed it on computers for other people many times.

Is driver support worse than on Windows? Of course; hardware manufacturers usually only bother to make drivers for Windows.

But is it a problem most people will run in to? Definitely not.
> if I were still living in China I cannot imagine what I'd do if WeChat suddenly stopped working for several hours

Use QQ, of course! (Except that it probably shares infra with WeChat and would be down as well!)