skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why, even with keycards, you need __key__ disaster recovery employees to have real keys that really go through the locks and let them in to do what must be done.
Facebook in this case, operates a set of intermediary DNS servers that are responsible for everything between your ISP's recursers and the roots. These are responsible for facebook.com, instagram.com, whatsapp.com and everything else they operate.

This is not the case for instagram.com, which is hosted on a different provider (AWS Route53) and was resolvable during the whole outage.

I'm not sure why Instagram's fronted servers returned 503, though. Maybe their backend fleet was included in the withdrawn prefixes, or maybe it was referenced through the affected domains.
Cool, cool. Try using your imagination though.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that LLC / incorporation has no benefit to society, it plainly does. I was responding to the conjecture that it's society at large that writes the rules. I figure the stakeholders writing the laws are the people who have the most to gain.
Excuse me, tech went through that phase and promptly left it because people didn't care enough
I think, speaking as an obese person, that if there was a solution that was as easy as getting jabbed in the arm twice - I'd jump on it in a moment. Obesity has a diversity of causes but I can guarantee you that it's never an easy thing to overcome.
Just imagine how annoying that would be. Your local resolver has a blip of connectivity and during the time it cannot contact an origin nameserver it burns all of the reasonable retry intervals. After a few seconds its link comes back up but the resolver is still waiting because of "backoff".

Exponential backoff is a really bad antipattern that harms users. There are other, better ways to shed load.

Also, there's no evidence that any DNS infrastructure was overloaded during this event, so what are we even discussing?
I think the library warranty thing depends. If the government wants to find out who checked out the Communist Manifesto so they can jail them for thought crime - that's bad. If the police want to know who checked out this specific copy of Harry Potter because they found it at the scene of a murder, that's good.

Sure, I might've just dropped my copy of Harry Potter near a murder as I innocently passed by. And yeah, I might've been looking up the victim's name and address in Google purely out of curiosity right before they got murdered. Neither the Google search nor the book are dispositive but they fit into a broader context which could be used to convict or exonerate me.

Ultimately we need laws or judges to set reasonable limits on powers that could be used for good to make sure they aren't also overused for ill.
this shouldnt happen again. Not FB being down, the internet should not be this kind of centralization / monoculture
I mean... It's some screenshot of white boxes. I'll believe him but I think the messages were stored on his phone (with a flag to say "message expired, don't show to user"), but to make a believable claim for more people you're going to need to show more than white boxes.
I have some fresh boot soup I can offer you? With a side of steel-toe.
The claim is that the least educated are most likely to be unvaxxed. That is false.
Tree-sitter integration (through the fast C layer) is in its early stages, I wouldn't expect it until Emacs 29 or later.

There is a lisp-based tree sitter package that works for now, but there are no plans to add it to the core.
Reduced staff because of the pandemic? 18 months in? This looks like a sweet deal for those workers more than anything else.
If you aren't vaccinated, you are fired because the government has mandated it. If you don't leave, you're trespassing and the police will most certainly going to be involved.

But in general, American oligarchs have figured out that private enterprise is a good way to circumvent constitutional and legal limits to their power.

This is also how the surveillance state came into existence. BigTech is a de facto arm of the government while maintaining legal separation. It does the dirty work because it doesn't have to play by the same rules government must. As naive libertarians like to say, it's private so it's all consensual so it's cool, man.
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They said “specific” book, which I take to mean “we found this book at a crime scene, can you tell us who checked it out?” Not, “I want to know everyone who checked out war and peace this year.”

But after thinking about it, I think they meant the former and you meant the latter. But to the library, it’s the exact same thing. A library doesn’t (traditionally) track each and every book, so if it’s a popular book, it could have been checked out by any number of people.

I think this is fine, as long as courts work to keep the scope small and laws allow people to do whatever they want without hindering freedom.
It's surprising how little impact FB being down had on myself, my family and my business.
Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide
Last I looked, ZFS didn't support reflinks. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/405
If you right click and go to the open with menu and scroll to other, there's a checkbox with the finder window called "Always Open With". This way you don't need to remember which button to hold down.
I just tried to open a hacker news link and go redirected to Facebook login page. A friend trying to open a ‘Facebook is up’ Twitter tread got the same login page. Anyone else?
Does that seem to be the case for Google? My impression was that both companies take essentially the same percentages. They even both announced programs over the last year to reduce their fees for devs making under $1 million a year, only Apple beat Google to the punch there. My take away is that Google has felt more pressure from public perception/noise making than alternative app stores.
How is mandating a remote employee, who's clearly not moving around a legitimate interstate interest. Pray do tell. In general, non-kangaroo courts require laws to be written to be suitably tailored and narrow in scope.
This is unfortunate. I hope life can go on now.
They comply with the law to the extend that they can. Apple by design locked themselves out of the capability to provide people's data in many circumstances. So the fact that requests exist says very little about what was actually provided.
If there was a scale representing job difficulty — firefighter would be among the lowest difficult. I can respect those that volunteer but the ones who are career have no sympathy from me seeing that they are easily in the top 5% of society for doing something that 80% of us can do.
Until someone else's server goes down and you didnt check their recovery plan.
Cloud is cool until it isnt.
I'm not one of their customers, but my understanding is that they're all about renting out high fashion and near-high fashion. These dresses have a short lifespan that has nothing to do with their physical integrity. I doubt they have much value to RTR more than two or three years after they are acquired.
Grandad - “Remember grandson, a long time ago there was a worldwide pandemic.”

Grandson - “was that before or after the World Wide Facebook Outage of 2021?”
Thats why we have patten called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_management
Cloudflare and similar companies only work if the TTL is very short. If they set it to some infinite number, they wouldn't be do even the most basic load balancing at the global scale in which they operate.
No thanks, I prefer a search engine that doesn't implement Chinese censorship when I'm not in China.
"The general designer of Russia's Energia corporation Vladimir Solovyov warned that 80% of the Russian segment's equipment was past its service life"

The ISS is supposed to come down in a couple of years too, no?
> Just do what most American cities do with other natural monopolies like utilities: use careful price controls to cap margins and slow rate increases.

Nothing Apple does is a natural monopoly.

Artificial monopolies can be maintained through vertical integration. If you don't like their app store, use another one. If all they provide is the app store, that's easy, and every platform would have half a dozen or more.

But if using a different app store requires you to develop your own operating system, and convince millions of third party developers to make applications for it even before it has any users, and make your own hardware, on and on, well then it's infeasible to make a competing app store and you get an uncompetitive and abusive market.

The solution there isn't to regulate it like a utility, it's to break up the company so that the operating system isn't made by the same company as the app store and has no reason to restrict the users to only the one. Then you have competition again and don't need any regulation other than the constraint on vertical integration.
I'm from New Zealand, and this is a complete disaster for a plethora of reasons.

1. The government is spending ~$1B a week on lock-downs JUST with Auckland at 'level 3 and 4' - something that's unsustainable.

2. The public health system has NOT been adequately bolstered in the last year to cope with the inevitability of elimination failure. This is a huge problem, as our health-care system is massively over-leveraged and critical works are grossly under-paid when compared to other countries. Australia for example offer safer working conditions and vastly more pay. Nurses in particular have been fighting for a long time via unions to improve conditions. Protests etc are banned under COVID lock-down laws. Nurses are quitting in droves.

3. Elimination was NEVER a valid response, as it required all other countries to follow suit (and no, vaccination wasn't going to result in full protection). NZ is fully dependent on trade, immigration and tourism for its economy - the notion of lock-downs was laughable to begin with.

4. The social cost has been EXTRAORDINARY

5. The mental cost has been overwhelming

6. I have contacts in government, and exploring an alternative strategy to elimination has only BEGUN to be investigated in the last few weeks. So the entire strategy has been short-sighted and arrogant.

7. Vaccination rates are still poor, despite high availability of the Vaccine.

8. Exporters are rapidly sending jobs/manufacturing/supply off shore.

9. NZ has an obesity problem, and an aging population. Both are high predictors for poor health outcomes with COVID.

10. We've spent huge amounts (across multiple dimensions) on a failed strategy, and is increasingly showing to be for no gain but delaying the inevitable while failing to prepare

In summary. We have an aging and unhealthy population, a crumbling health system bracing for an impending Tsunami, a failed strategy, a plethora of social and economic issues, low vaccination and a government who public enjoys large popularity but has made all the wrong strategic decisions in isolation.

We are on path for major disaster.
Okay, that makes sense, but "creating an entry in a database" would've been confusing to the intended audience of urbit devs. I probably should've said "serve some stuff".
Without realizing it, you're criticizing debian's release methodology without realizing why people use debian. There is often good reason not to just patch things willy-nilly. Patches that are easy and allay obvious safety concerns yes. But being a little bit behind bleeding edge is a good thing.
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What about these people? But no one has actually cared about people. From the very beginning, whole thing was about numbers, graphs, percentages, calculations, and other deathful thrills from the nuclear reaction in the media only wars could previously initiate. The already detached bureaucracies across the whole world have received a nitro injection, and nothing could stop their wheels. If Procrustean machine tells that they have to go, they have to go, and be thankful they are not getting shot in one day — there seems to be many people ready to pull the trigger if it's for the betterment of the humankind.

Your caring about people is out of date, comrade. Trust the numbers!
Aside from explicitly turning off null safety and tricky use of casting, an easy example is interfacing with JS.

If you're using either a library that wasn't written in pure TS (maybe JS or JS with .d.ts) or interacting with some unconverted JS from your own codebase, you can easily pass a null through entirely by accident. The problem really stems from the JS end of things, but 9 times out of 10 you're going to be touching JS at _some_ level when using TS so I think it's fair to point out this gap.
... Pixel 6? We are discussing OSs, not hardware.
To add on to this: One of the best Great Courses lectures I've listened to is Edwin Barnhart's Maya to Aztec series, and I can't recommend it enough. His love of the subject is infectious, and the Maya deserve more attention on the historical world stage as one of the very few locations to independently develop a true writing system.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Maya-to-Aztec-Ancient-Mesoamerica... for the Audible link.
Presumably they're working remotely, but the incident required physical access, so only the reduced number of people present were (immediately (or at all, I don't know their policies)) available to deal with it.
Nor does it mean that a simple mistake could not be remedied, as it was.

And we should be forgiving.
Wish we had some scientists and engineers in there! Mostly we just have assholes.
Maybe or maybe not. Making and moving four articles to H&M, then to the consumer who might wear them 5x each is not obviously worse than making one article, moving it to Rent the Runway and then moving it twice for each of 20 wearings.
You are either a company who knows how to make remote work -- in which case it doesn't matter where people live and you can afford to pay them the same rates. Or you're a company that can't make remote works and relies on having people go into the office, and if so you can get by with paying local rates. But as more and more companies figure out remote work, I think local rates will mostly disappear, especially for developers.
There's evidence that the vaccines give better protection than natural infection. There's also evidence that being infected and then being vaccinated gives better protection than either one by itself.

Additionally, this isn't how public health works. Vaccines are a level of protection that is easy to standardize and operationalize. We don't let schoolchildren skip getting the chickenpox vaccine if they've already had chickenpox.
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Facebook starts to come back, but Cloudflare tells the tale
I am always forgetting the polarity. Seeing the cut-overs listed helps me:

$ zdump -v Europe/Berlin | grep 2021
Europe/Berlin Sun Mar 28 00:59:59 2021 UT = Sun Mar 28 01:59:59 2021 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
Europe/Berlin Sun Mar 28 01:00:00 2021 UT = Sun Mar 28 03:00:00 2021 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
Europe/Berlin Sun Oct 31 00:59:59 2021 UT = Sun Oct 31 02:59:59 2021 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
Europe/Berlin Sun Oct 31 01:00:00 2021 UT = Sun Oct 31 02:00:00 2021 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
Except, this is like saying the current flu vaccine provides 100% resistance to the 1918 spanish flu, while leaving out that it doesn't work for this year's virus. All perhaps statements that could be considered true, but not useful if it's dealing with current events.
I just got redirected to a fb login page when trying to open a hacker news link. The same happened to a friend opening a Twitter thread. Anyone else?
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, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.
"You have built, bought, or maintained a product which is vital to billions. It's a free service unavailable 0.01% of the year. For this you must be punished."
> But infected is way more protected than vaccinated only.

For the Pfizer vaccine, against the Delta variant specifically.

> If your position is that everyone should meet the highest standard of infected+vaccinated - which is only marginally better than just being infected - then we should be mandating mandatory covid infection. But if your position is that vaccination alone provides acceptable protection, then infection alone already far far surpasses that in both lasting immunity and total efficacy.

This is an absurd argument to make. There's no ethical argument to infect people. And the absolute material difference between vaccinated and natural immunity is literally dozens out of a population of over 600,000. Natural immunity might be "way more protected" but that's speaking in relative terms.
I assume the idea is that large companies such as this would have a period of time to scale down operations to the largest size where it still makes sense, and then more competitors would pop up to take over the market share they leave behind. I’m not defending the proposal since I’m too ignorant to have an opinion worth speaking out loud, but that was my interpretation at least.
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Yea, legally it’s clear Apple can charge whatever they want. The actual leverage large companies have is by not having their Apps on iOS Apple may lose customers.

But at this point I doubt Netflix is willing to risk it as there is simply to many streaming options. However, Netflix doesn’t need to use IAP so for them it’s a question of increased conversions with IAP rather than dropping the platform. Assuming their also saving a little on CC processing fees a 15% cut is probably a reasonable deal for increasing the number of Netflix customers and quite a bit of revenue for Apple.
I'm still thinking it's BGP poisoning of some top platforms... no one really knows what's going on, but BGP isn't byzantine fault tolerant

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/faceb...
But if an expert in fasteners says "use this nail/bolt, made of this material and grade, for this application"...and then Joe Roofer says "WELL I actually work on roofs unlike those ivory tower mechanical and structural engineers, I'll use what I think is best" and then years later a couple people get killed...

There are a lot of infamous incidents caused by people thinking they know better than the people who designed stuff and actually had training, experience, and education in that field. Doing things like changing fastener grades, or styles, or completely changing how something is put together. The most ready example I can think of is the hotel bridge collapse that killed a couple dozen people, because some mouth-breather thought he knew better than the structural engineers that drew up plans on how to anchor the bridge to its overhead supports.

Virtually nobody at a hospital is qualified to second-guess vaccines, and the people who do are people I don't want anywhere near patient care because they're going to second-guess other experts, like the doctors they work with, the instructions for equipment and drugs, etc.
The underlying problem is that HN is near the limit of its hardware all the time, which could happen on one server or on 200 servers. And the reason it's near the limit is because it's single-threaded, I believe. Fix it to use multiple threads, and one centralized server will handle load spikes like this just fine.
Or go back to host files.
Healthcare providers choice to fire their employees.
If China takes over Taiwan, what happens to silicon chips?
If China came to own Taiwan, what would it mean for our tech industry?

Is this China's master stroke? That it can be sure that the whole world will fall into line because we are reliant too heavily on Taiwan for silicon chips?

Or will Taiwan seek to destroy those factories before China can own them? Which would send the world into a crazy period, but will ensure China largely loses a significant advantage, and any victory is tainted.
This comment is exactly the problem with America right now. A large band of relatively well off people completely out of touch with their economic lessers, yet who feel morally superior to them. You don't realize it, but this will lead to a destabilizing force the likes of which you've not seen in your lifetime, and will put January 6 to shame. It has been the case in nearly every empire and nation where similar dynamics have been at play. What the poor, uneducated, and minority lack in economic power, they more than make up for in number.
Why would you want a complete stranger to see all your personal stuff?
Who said “cannot”? It’s about reduction.
Agree on importance of correlating records across heterogenous systems.

AND:

All PII field level data must be encrypted at rest.

UUIDs unlock both the record linking and privacy achievements.

The book Translucent Databases shows how. Hide sensitive data with salt + hash, just like with proper password files. Use UUIDs as opaque pointers for linking.
> Data shows vaccines reduce spread.

So does natural immunity, but this is being suppressed.

> By not getting vaccinated you’re a potential Burden to the health system

This doesn't mean you can MANDATE someone to take the vaccine. This is a violation of medical ethics to use someone instrumentally for the sake of some other good (which is precisely that you're describing).
My body my choice. If you infect me with your covid, it's a problem. Covid kills more people a year than obesity.
It seems like your comment originates from a misunderstanding of what 'to gaslight' means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a specific form of manipulation that uses intentionally false narratives.
Does your ideology radically change over your life? Why would theirs? They judge with their own biases, and are often out of touch with public sentiment. They're just people, and in case of at least one, a rapist with powerful friends.

A bigger court elected by the people could help solve that problem. Not lifetime appointments with zero accountability. The Supremes are just another fascist and anti democratic institution, like the electoral college or the party apparatuses.
The vaccine isn’t without side effects, and there is still a debate about whether natural immunity is sufficient.
Facebook sells ads. Facebook doesn't care if the ads work.
Yeah. For me, the overwhelming majority of my feed is just photos of my friends' babies and children.
Just because Delta was spreading doesn’t mean they had time to do a study on it. You have to look at the paper’s submission date.
The CDN nature of Netflix appliances is clear if you read their docs on fill patterns: https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600356180...

Netflix installs appliances at peering exchanges around the world: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/457

Disclaimer: I don’t know much beyond a few Google searches on the topic.