skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you and I each check out a copy of War and Peace, and you turn yours in on time but I don’t, they know who to pester.

They track checkouts. But back in the day, we could switch checkout cards in the cover of the book and return them and the library would never know the difference. With modern computers and barcodes, I do believe the individual books are tracked.
PayPal is awful for small transactions, I regularily get donations for my projects that are literally 0 USD, because all of it is eaten away by PayPal fees, and even for a 5 USD donation you end up losing around 15% of the transaction amount.

Do you know of any other service that is suitable for microtransactions, besides cryptocurrencies?
Any FB throwaway know if someone got fired for this?
not your keys, not your crypto
Next step: make it generate a podcast feed from the blog feed so it can be subscribed to like a podcast.
I think tht even today with the internet it takes a good detective to sort through all of the evidence. There are easy answers and there are the correct answers, in between truth. With AI it will only get more difficult. You have shot spotters, license plate reader and gps with no warranty.
The problem is not misinformation per se but the largest social media data processor running algorithms boosting such information for profit.
Not sure why it happened, the company claims that it was sabotaged by a competitor.

If you want to read some more about how they work and how they're priced, I wrote about it here - https://propwash.nihalmohan.com/issues/are-drone-light-shows...
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I’m by no means an expert in US political history but all books and papers I’ve read indicate that this polarisation between the parties did not always exist. Members were allowed to vote according to their own principals instead of just the party line which is basically always opposing the other party.

Senators and other politicians would have bbq on Saturday at each other’s place. It appears that this no longer happens.
Saying it's beneficial to 90% of users in response to a complaint about how bad something is sounds like a justification to me.
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As far as donations go, Patreon and Ko-fi should have a lot lower fees.
This is straight out of Peter Thiel's handbook. Create a monopoly and then take the profits.
Having been on the team that issued postmortems before, I can tell you that we said as little as possible in as vague a way as possible while meeting our minimum legal requirements. Actual Facebook customers (i.e. those who pay money to Facebook) will get a slightly more detailed release. But the whole goal is to give as little information as possible while appearing to be open. As an engineer that makes me growl, but that's how it is in this litigous world -- don't want to give someone a reason to sue.
They technically announced it [1], but I agree that it got next to no coverage. Presumably they deliberately "silently" put the announcement on their blog without circulating it to news outlets. HN discussion at the time [2].

[1] https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2021-06-18-Upcoming-Changes...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560616
Their customers aren’t paying for the software.
The rest of the phrase is "bought, or maintained." Built refers to Facebook, bought to Instagram and WhatsApp, and maintained to all three.
Does it matter? It is an app built by a dude. Facebook found value in it and invested. They can shut it down completely and no one has any right to stop them from doing it.
Do we hold journalists posting on Twitter to the same standards as writing in newspapers and their websites? Genuine question
> It might work for utilities

The uptime of Comcast where I live is definitely an order of magnitude lower than any large internet site. I have no other options for high speed internet, which doesn't seem to be a particularly bad deal for Comcast...
If there’s a chain of caches 3 deep, a 15 minute cache on bad responses will take 45 minutes to clear.
> I mean, what's the point of long term held assets then?

Mainly as a hobby project, as far as I can tell. The overwhelming majority of categories of "long term investment" are either completely mathematically impossible to deliver on the promises (this is where most of the crypto investors are), or have already proven themselves to be complete crapshoots where you either win big or lose big (this is where the people "investing" in things like beanie babies and trading cards are).

There's no investment that can gain value indefinitely. There's some that will probably gain reasonably steady value for the length of your or my lifespan, but they're few and far between, and usually rely on active management, government backing, or both.

> Most people don't do anything with index funds either

It's rather the point of an index fund that those are actively managed. You don't just type "i want to invest" into your Compaq Presario, turn the computer off, and come back twenty years later expecting to have double the money.
The legal system was not designed to neutralize the damages. The legal system has been designed to neutralize the damages and leverage scapegoating to deter future cases. e.g. in this case the jury is basically telling Tesla “… is very not profitable. It is your fiduciary responsibility to investors to ensure this never happens again.”

You might disagree with that design of the courts, but changing how the US legal system works is more than a lot difficult.

If you do take on this challenge, I would suggest starting with helping reduce punishments for individuals before focusing on reducing the punishment for corporations. Hopefully the same strategies for change will “help” both situations.
Correct to $6B.
As much as I agree in general, if you own the keys and fuck up, then there would be no one to make you whole.
How long did it take for people to switch from Instagram / Vine to TikTok?
DuckDuckGo does save users search history. It is stated in their privacy policy:

"We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."

Startpage's privacy policy states they do not save search history:

"We don't record your search queries

When you search, your query is automatically stripped of unnecessary metadata including your IP address and other identifying information. We send the anonymized search query to Google and return the search results to you. We don’t log your searches.

To prevent abuse such as robotic high-volume querying, we anonymously determine the frequency of popular search keywords as a part of our anti-abuse measures, while protecting your privacy."
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MarkMonitor and CSC <https://www.cscdbs.com/> are the two Enterprise registrars I'm familiar with. If you're really big, you can setup your own registrar (or two), like Facebook did https://registrarsec.com/ (not open to outside registrations, AFAIK).

I've used register.eu (which looks like they're in the midst of a name change) to manage domains that required a local agent for presence requirements. They don't support as many places as MarkMonitor, but most retail registrars won't register you if you don't have presence or won't handle small locality domains that require presence.

If you're concerned about the security of your domains, you really want to use a registrar (and a registry/tld) that can work with you to setup a registry lock. A registry lock is set at the registry and not the registrar; the registry will contact the registrant (that's you) to unlock it, otherwise no changes can be made. This will prevent shenanigans like this https://www.computerworld.com/article/2485799/network-soluti... (thanks Network Solutions)
That's pretty much the only product they support, no? I am no fan of Oracle (probably nobody is), but they do support some very heavy projects, the obvious ones being OpenJDK, MySQL, and the Linux kernel (mostly btrfs IIRC).

https://lwn.net/Articles/867540/

Edit: I am not really talking about WebKit, Darwin, and the other projects they only developed for themselves.
Open plan doesn't work PERIOD, it's not a mixed-only problem. You'll have sales/marketing/bizdev types on the phone constantly while folks are trying to be head-down, mixed not required.
On a fun note, microsoft does ship a trojan in windows.
Its called Cortana and Telemetry.
This action seems too late to save the public telephone network.

The usefulness of the network has already fallen below the threshold needed to be self sustaining for person to person communication, much like email has too.

Both are now used mostly for person to organisation communication, and that too will fade in the coming decade.
It does, but it's different now. Back in the 90s people were excited by the tech, and the creative possibilities the tech afforded them. People would spend a lot of time making a website (home page) about their favourite thing just to tell other people about it.

That creativity still exists but now no one makes a site about their favourite things. Now it's pretty much always a play to get fame and fortune. If someone likes a show they have to "review" it to demonstrate their superior opinion that's worth subscribing to. If someone likes a game they start a channel where they play it live to an audience. If someone makes a game it's to try and make money through Steam Greenlight or Kickstarter. Even the creative coding scene seems to have shifted to trying to sell NFTs rather than just being about making cool looking things with math.

The passion to make things is still there but the motivation has changed from the joy of sharing what you like making to trying to make money, and that has changed things quite considerably. I think it's had a chilling effect on what people are willing to share.
This should be obvious, but not all federal courts are the same.

For a good example of a federal court gone rogue, look at east texas: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/supreme-court-ma...
hm, i think that page needs to be updated. They suggest protonmail for email and it has been shown, that they will do ip-logs etc.
If it's the intern, talk about a learning moment
I totally agree on the point that any random individual trying to inflict "sync" voice interaction on anyone deserves to be ignored for good.

That said however gateway providers are consciously funneling malicious crap to citizens. And they ought to be held responsible for that by the law. This will fix the problem.
Due to inadequate infrastructure.
This is almost nothing like Mt. Gox.
Shouldn't you also insulate the floor? If you did that, how did you retrofit insulation there?
The problem is that Google is even retaining logs of this kind of thing in the first place.
Disruption could also come from tax reform. Some countries don't make you figure out things on your own: That's a bit like making a shopper put in the correct prices on each item they're buying and penalizing then for mistakes. A "Price is Right" game-show version of a tax filing system.

Some other countries just tell you where you stand because for the vast majority of people a standard filing is all that's required. In those circumstances, only the edge cases need to deal with complexities. In the US, everyone does.

But I am of course pessimistic on tax reform since that general populace just accepts "oh yeah filing taxes sucks" at the same time that tax service providers lobby congress who, absent a strong outcry from their voters, just follow the corporate money trail.
Sounds like they intend to pay. I'm surprised. I'd fight it if those are the actual facts as seen from their end. But I suppose the veracity is an issue no matter which side you listen to.
Startups hire best people or right people?
startups were told to hire the best people but not to spend too much money. Best people won't join startups unless given lucrative equity package. Where could we find best but affordable hire?
I heard rumors it was triggered by a PR auto-merge bot.
Oops. Either add or remove a "don't" there, to make it make sense.
I think it would be extremely unusual and counterproductive for someone in the trenches to get fired about this, as it is clearly a failure of procedure that this was even possible and so hard to recover from. Large companies I am aware of have a no-blame postmortem culture around this stuff. There may be people suffering consequences at a higher level in the SRE division, though I doubt this will happen in a timeframe of hours after the outage.
Not an antipattern. Route announcements/withdrawals are well, serious things and should likely flow through a single source. The idea of a 'microservice' based route update makes any network person uneasy.
This was actually announced in a easy to miss email with the subject "Upcoming change to your account" sent on June 30 2021. It did get a little press that day but on the fee increase day I saw little reporting.

These changes went into effect on August 2nd 2021. Here is a PDF that has a breakdown showing all the changes that happened that day [1]

To PayPal's credit, this was their first rate increase in a very long time if not forever. That said this is a huge new fee for merchants while not providing any new services, at least at this time, to justify it.

[1] https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/pdf/US/en/feepage...
All this, and all that other Silicon Valley financial infra, because direct bank tranfers are (presumably?) not known or difficult or impossible.

From my northwestern European perspective, it's weird this straightforward solution that we've had since, well, the fifties? is overlooked.
> To wit, the global monopolist who benefited the most from the network-effect lock-in used to be IBM. Then it was Microsoft. Now it's Facebook. In time, this too will change.

Why does there have to be a global monopolist though? I wonder if we ever will end up in that decentralised dream.
Subtract 100 years and Bezos would have taken his financial background and applied it to found Amazon in 1895 as a garage sale then scale it as far & fast as possible until it was a flea market operator on steroids, crushing all competition, giving Sears Roebuck the same threat only a century earlier.

By 1900 Bezos would have had enough money to indulge his imagination in an approach to powered flight, with the engineering luxury of no requirment for it to perform financially for the forseeable future, but who knows how much time he dedicates to spending in the garage himself any more, or what they're doing in there most of the time anyway.

Musk would have taken his financial background and in 1902 began progress toward his version of a flying machine, perhaps launching one before the Wright Brothers achieved theirs. If one person could do the work of two, maybe that would happen.

While that was going on then Musk would build a single EV prototype "on the side" in his garage that was considered state-of-the-art in 1904 even though not entirely perfected. Then scaled it by cloning as many as possible, constantly suffering from & overcoming hardware obstacles along the way. Tesla himself would have been alive and in his prime, and if brought on the team, then Henry Ford's chances might have been quite a bit more limited.

Then Bezos would get recognition for his less-well-publicized flying machine as his indulgence becomes realized.

And straightforward comparisons between these two approaches should eventually be able to be made.

By the time Packard & Hewlett came along in 1939 there would have been far less doubt that a garage was the ideal place to start.
Because some people think government is the answer to every problem and if you just regulate Facebook and by law they have to have 100% uptime - then surely they will.

These are also usually the people close to government or in it unfortunately.
You say no crypto, but Nano was built for exactly this. You're not gonna beat zero fees.
They do make a lot of money from value add services, but in some cases, yes they absolutely are paying for software. This is fairly common when people want features/updates that don’t yet exist.
What about Shopify?
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> were too lazy

This is well established in divulgation: I'd say, Daniel Goleman, Focus (2013).

Emotional Intelligence: "It's not the dry smarts of IQ, it's the smarts in understanding others".

Focus: "It's not the smarts, it's the grit".

(...to determine/predict success.)
> What is the job function of an elevator operator in a fully automated manufacturing facility?

It's Tesla after all - fully automated manufacturing facility doesn't mean a human isn't needed to operate. Just like Tesla's fully automated driving doesn't mean a human isn't expected to be at the wheel.
It clearly is a PR piece for investors and customers. And that's ok, not everything is an eng blog.
I did think about rsh and rcp but if NFS doesn't work, likely those bad boys are toast as well. Will fiddle and see what is easiest.
Ah, thank you for the links. I searched prior to posting but the title on [2] is very non-descript. I was expecting a lot more outrage considering the size of this hike is pretty massive for merchants that process a lot of smaller transactions.
Earlier today when I was getting these I went to go check the page to see if the comment was posted there. More than once it said it failed but I was able to stop myself from trying again because it was actually there.
The ruling happened in a federal court.
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There are numerous articles that elaborate on evidence. The bloomberg article linked has some, as does a tesla link above. It's worth a read if you haven't read much about this case yet.
I'd pay extra for my carrier to just flat out block all phone calls not originating from a major domestic operator.
The Bootcamp training at FB explicitly mentions that such things are not a fire-able offense - the attitude is around learning - if you managed to bring everything down, let’s learn together how you managed to do this… :)
From their filing

>For example, in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization (the “May 2021 Incident”). Promptly upon Syniverse’s detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals. Syniverse has conducted a thorough investigation of the incident.

>The results of the investigation revealed that the unauthorized access began in May 2016. Syniverse’s investigation revealed that the individual or organization gained unauthorized access to databases within its network on several occasions, and that login information allowing access to or from its Electronic Data Transfer (“EDT”) environment was compromised for approximately 235 of its customers. All EDT customers have been notified and have had their credentials reset or inactivated, even if their credentials were not impacted by the incident. All customers whose credentials were impacted have been notified of that circumstance.

>Syniverse has notified all affected customers of this unauthorized access where contractually required, and Syniverse has concluded that no additional action, including any customer notification, is required at this time.

>Syniverse did not observe any evidence of intent to disrupt its operations or those of its customers and there was no attempt to monetize the unauthorized activity. Syniverse did not experience and does not anticipate that these events will have any material impact on its day-to-day operations or services or its ability to access or process data. Syniverse has maintained, and currently maintains, cyber insurance that it anticipates will cover a substantial portion of its expenditures in investigating and responding to this incident.

>While Syniverse believes it has identified and adequately remediated the vulnerabilities that led to the incidents described above, there can be no guarantee that Syniverse will not uncover evidence of exfiltration or misuse of its data or IT systems from the May 2021 Incident, or that it will not experience a future cyber-attack leading to such consequences. Any such exfiltration could lead to the public disclosure or misappropriation of customer data, Syniverse’s trade secrets or other intellectual property, personal information of its employees, sensitive information of its customers, suppliers and vendors, or material financial and other information related to its business. The release of any of this information could have a material adverse effect on Syniverse’s business, reputation, financial condition and results of operations.

Syniverse processes 740 billion texts daily and counts AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Vodafone and China Mobile among its clients. They serve 95 of the top 100 mobile carriers in the world. They bill themselves as "the world's most connected company".
Using since first dev build, search absolutely was not improved.
Well the UK is at 40% too if you also include national insurance contributions, but both income tax and national insurance are calculated by employers and paid automatically out of your payslip (PAYE). This means most people never have to think about doing a tax return, and also means it’s harder to hide earnings for most people.

There is then a process where people with more complex tax affairs then fill in a government questionnaire on a website which instantly calculates the tax rebate/payment required and adjusts your tax balance.
My first linux distro was 40 floppies, then an Yggdrasil CD, then various Redhat and SUSE (for Reiserfs) boxed sets from Fry's.

The guy in my apt. building who loaned me the floppies got a full-time linux job the next day. :)

The huge advantage of Linux over SCO (which was unbundled) were the free networking, X11, compilers ... and multiple virtual terminals.

So I was one of the first serious Reiserfs users - even SUSE reps don't believe me when I say I was using it in production (for mail server workloads) around 2001. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
Both posts have essentially the same info - the fb one just didn't include an explainer on how the internet works.
The loudest proponents of meritocracy tend to be the ones that have none but simply wish to use their capital for their private lackey class unimpeded. It's a bit of a dog whistle.
For a status page to be actually independent, it needs to have all it's requirements hosted on other infrastructure. fb.com authoritative DNS is the same as facebook.com, so it's going down when (FB) DNS goes down (and DNS is going down when BGP is broken, apparently).

It looks like the status page is hosted on CloudFront though, so it got part of the way. (Of course, the other question is if it was updatable / updated during the outage)
Except it exhibits absolutely monstrous volatility.

[edit] That's a lot like saying you can't beat the "$0 commission" at the airport currency exchange - true, but misleading. They wreck you elsewhere (in that case, in exchange rates). The truth is if Nano were "just as good" as sending dollars back and forth except free everyone would be using it. The fact they're not, this many years in, means you're missing something in your analysis.
Leave it...its adjusted to the real value of Facebook.
The outage yesterday reminded me of how many other services do the exact same thing. The only app I use by FB is WhatsApp and it wasn’t too bad using signal, FaceTime and sms to communicate.
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I seem to recall Hacker News being run of a single thread on a single machine. In that case, perhaps it's time for 'dang to upgrade it with an M1…
That’s paying for the development of the software.