skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For years and years I watched Kari Byron dubbed in my native language. And the dubbers are mostly really good over there, great actors. Today I got to hear her real voice for the first time, and it was... weird. I feel some kind of immersion has been broken. There are quite a few shows I can't watch in English due to the real actors (or English dubbers) being worse than the dubbers of my countries. I'll add Kari to the list.

Other than that, she's great! I'm a huge fan.

Edit: it's Kari.
What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
One can be against heavy-handed authoritarianism both at home and abroad, while still seeing the (quite distinct) shades of gray between the US security apparatus and the CCP, or between the CCP and North Korea, or between the US and the EU. Different governments and processes give different weights to due process and human rights vs bureaucratic efficiency and national security.

It should not be controversial to say that the CCP is more heavy-handed when it comes to government reach into private lives. That doesn't exonerate the US by any stretch; our government does a ton of shady shit, much of it arguably unconstitutional or extrajudicial, from warrantless wiretaps to drone executions of US citizens. But these make the news, which indicates 1) at least there is a relatively free press and 2) they are unusual enough as to be noteworthy, as opposed to commonplace and not discussed.

China doesn't share the same values as the West. The individual is deemphasized for the collective good, as defined by the current CCP elite of any decade. That doesn't mean their political system is inferior or superior -- our fragile "democracy" is threatening to devolve into civil war and take down the whole country, if not world with it -- but it IS a very different government on a different part of an authoritarianism <--> libertarianism continuum. It's not useful to equate them in this context just because the West does shady surveillance on its own citizens too.
I didn't expect Starlink equipment to be very power hungry. That's unfortunate. Really damages my rural off-grid small home fantasy.
What Took Facebook Down
But that has nothing to do with blaming processes vs people.

If the process in place means that someone has to triple check their numbers to make sure they’re correct, then it’s a broken process. Because even that person who triple checks is one time going to be woken up at 2:30am and won’t triple check because they want sleep.

If the process lets you do something, then someone at some point in time, whether accidentally or maliciously, will cause that to happen. You can discipline that person, and they certainly won’t make the same mistake again, but what about their other 10 coworkers? Or the people on the 5 sister teams with similar access who didn’t even know the full details of what happened?

If you blame the process and make improvements to ensure that triple checking isn’t required, then nobody will get into the situation in the first place.

That is why you blame the process.
>His contribution to the body of scientific knowledge was deserving of a doctorate as determined by experts in the field, no?

This is what I dont agree on. A doctorate is not a prize for the best scientific work from a student that year.
The beginning of the end of humanity
In the post-mortem, we'll find out that Facebook's alerting and comms systems all run on Facebook. As a result, they can't even coordinate the restart to roll back changes.
People probably got more time to work.
I wonder why Netflix don’t want their content to be searchable in Apple’s TV app:

> “Since TV App is not going to happen right now, there’s nothing else to get from Netflix at this time”

The TV App is actually pretty great — one of the few parts of the Apple ecosystem where the garden walls are very low.

I can search for a TV show or film, and even when the iTunes Store has it available, TV still suggests I watch it for free (effectively) on Amazon Prime, or any other streaming services I have set up.

It’s a little surprising Apple seem happy to forego the revenue themselves — but great for users like me.

For whatever reason, Netflix is the only major streaming provider who don’t integrate with the TV App — which is a shame.
And staff should go to jail.
As I understand it, a data lake is a storage space for unstructured data. A data warehouse is a storage + compute layer, usually with data sourced from a data lake, that is ready for querying. This understanding comes from the description in this paper[1]

> To solve these problems, the second generation data analytics platforms started offloading all the raw data into data lakes: low-cost storage systems with a file API that hold data in generic and usually open file formats, such as Apache Parquet and ORC [8, 9]. This approach started with the Apache Hadoop movement [5], using the Hadoop File System (HDFS) for cheap storage. The data lake was a schema-on-read architecture that enabled the agility of storing any data at low cost, but on the other hand, punted the problem of data quality and governance downstream. In this architecture, a small subset of data in the lake would later be ETLed to a downstream data warehouse (such as Teradata) for the most important decision support and BI applications.

[1] http://cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf
The former can become the latter pretty easily though and without any consent through both illegal (hacking) and legal (company acquisition) ways. Corporate surveillance very much is a part of the problem and you can't talk about one without talking about the other.
This maybe just an anecdotal conjecture, but I've noticed this a lot lately with many news sites. It seems that with the advent of social media and smart phones, our attention spans have drastically shortened. Now all the articles have paragraphs that are 2-3 sentences long.
It is about time to speculate about sabotage, a disgruntled employee or something more exotic.

All this BGP talk is boring.
The onion site is just a reverse-proxy to the main web-site.
So if the main site is down (due to internal DNS or BGP issues) onion reverse-proxy can’t get to it as well.
I've spent far more while arranging for space at home, and the resulting workspace is not as great.

I wish there was such a Shed-as-a-Service in a bikable distance from my home.

Seriously, I believe there is some demand for local, tiny offices for remote workers.
You can buy a pixel device and flash it to AOSP here: https://flash.android.com/

Install a launcher of your choice and be on your way: https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/round-up/best-android-launchers
Source (hacker group Anonymous) : https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1445082304393719818
I have within the last year and tried the on phone contactless pick up and drop off, but it didn't work and I had to go inside. Could have just been the operator/location though.
And before the M1 variants ever existed, people moaned about how they only tolerated the Intel MacBook/Air/Pro variants?

Bullshit. It's fanboy revisionism.
That's great and all, but the tax revenue in absolute terms from corporations is probably several orders higher than what you can tax a rich CEO.

Just something to keep in mind.
Very happy about the speed and privacy improvements. I'm excited to install this.
I agree, but there may be certain things like electric power grids, sewer systems, messaging systems, high bandwidth ISPs, where it may not make a lot of sense to have two (or not two in a particular geographic location). In that sense you may need some regulation.
OK, so you’ve now basically outlawed sarcasm, parody, art, and a number of other worthwhile things. Try again, please.

Hard cases make bad law.
I work as a database engineer at FB. Do I contribute to the issues FB causes? not really.

I work as an accountant at FB. Do I contribute to the issues FB causes? Not really.

I work as a product manager at FB that isn't a "problematic" project. Do I contribute to the issues FB causes? Not really.

Your mental gymnastics are on par for a McKinsey type consultant.
I just wish the damn AppleTV apps worked better together.

I use AppleTV for all my viewing (which isn’t really that much), and one thing that really annoys me, is the crap quality of the apps; even marqée-brand apps.

I’m constantly having to reboot the unit to get out of “lockups.”

Wouldn’t be surprised if a big reason that Netflix and Apple don’t play well with each other, is that they can’t code it (as opposed to nefarious motives -Hanlon’s Razor).
maybe, there are reports (i.e. unverified tweets) that employees cannot access sites due to the security systems also being down. I imagine email, and messaging for employees would also be down too.

It may be very hard for employees to get to the physical boxes, and/or bypass any physical or software security systems.
In that case it is truely astonishing, however I cant see why he wouldn't benefit from working as a phd under the best professors in his field, continuing his work.
In between which are often gratuitous photos and ads.
> People who get marked as such never work in "normal" companies again and have to move continents to find work.

Who?

Maybe I'm just not paying attention to the news, but I somewhere missed the great wave of American software developers migrating to Europe for a better life for their families.
> there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc

Note that these services are also powered by scraping public data.
That -sounds- simple, but it isn't, and in reality any company would easily bypass that by simply creating other companies to take some of the revenue. They already do that to avoid international taxes. As an example, the US charges tax on all income coming to a US company so companies have entities in countries like Ireland and Luxembourg to keep that money out of the US government's reach.

So Apple might have $100B stuck in Ireland, unable to bring it to the US, but it doesn't matter, that money still counts for their shareholders.

And it's the same thing here. If you try to tax $10B they'll just have 100 companies all making $9.9B/yr, in a variety of different countries, completely separate from each other, and you're back where you started.

And while this would be extremely complicated/expensive for them to manage, it'd be profitable because the alternative is to get a 100% tax on those profits.

Taxes aren't easy. And calling a company that sells phones a "society-destroying problem" is a bit hyperbolic, don't you think?
Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers
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The headline in the post has been modified too from the original. The original is Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched A Name, Address And Telephone Number. The A there does a lot of heavy lifting, and implies that the warrants are for specific items.

The title on HN here is Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched Name, Address And Telephone N, which implies that this is for all searches that are for any of these sorts of items.
The entire reason that high fructose corn syrup is so prevalent in low-cost foods is that it's cheaper than sugar, especially in the US because of corn subsidies. Find literally any evidence that HFCS is more expensive per-calorie than sugar and you will come up empty-handed.

> If that’s classist, then the classes are structured by knowledge and choices. Which they may well be.

class by its definition accounts for massive difference in access to resources. If you think access to resources doesn't measurably change the level of knowledge that a population has, that's a declaration that resources do nothing, which would be an odd stance to take on a knowledge-focused community website.

> They should walk or ride a couple of miles and buy the biggest bags of rice and beans they can, along with a bottle of multivitamins.

I just LOVE the subtle food choice of rice and beans here, paired with the recommendation to take multivitamins, a recommendation that is supported by little to no evidence. Your own lack of knowledge on this topic is in full display, as is a clear demonstration of your own biases across multiple dimensions.
It's about damn time. Hopefully they stay down. It will do the world some good (long term) to have some time away from this platform and platforms like it.
Same in the UK, I've just experienced external DNS outage on BT!
I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.
Not only facebook, but also Google, Zoom, Telegram, Youtube and many more internet service/ product/ providers from 8:00 AM today. This is more like internet outage.
Not necessarilly.

I don't subscribe to it myself. But when you have a system that's state is dependant on the descisions and therefore actions of its participants anything that influences those decisions, i.e. signals, influences its state. Even the actions of individual actors in a market can be treated as signal.

I think of it a bit like Chaos Theory. An investor saw a butterfly flap its wings in Fiji which triggered a chain of events culminating in the DOW dropping 800 points on a day.
One immediately obvious issue is comparing Tesla vehicles, which are all relatively new vehicles typically owned by relatively older drivers to all other passenger vehicle.

The other immediately obvious issue is that the self driving features of a Tesla probably work best in ideal conditions, where human drivers also do.
I suspect that the DNS aspect will be fine. The middle DNS servers only need one valid response to cache it for $TTL, but they can't cache SERVFAIL.
It actually feels like a periodical DNS outage. On Friday some of my servers weren’t responding like they should. Half an hour later everything was fine again. However, some VMs running in Azure Cloud were still having problems. Today this huge FB/WA/Instagram.

I bet we will read more about this anytime soon in the news.
Then on what other basis do you believe they decide which orphan drugs to cover and which not?
I don’t have insider knowledge but nonetheless I’m fairly certain it’s not based on pure random chance.
If the implication is that it’s based on whatever political or lobbying faction is in vogue, that seems to be even worse than an economic measure?
This is true, but it's not an excuse for not preparing for the contingencies you can anticipate. You're still going to be clobbered by an unanticipated contingency sooner or later, but when that happens, you don't want to feel like a complete idiot for failing to anticipate a contingency that was obvious even without the benefit of hindsight.
Stack Overflow does this well by automatically making it read only mode when they are having issues.
Can't log specific users if you don't track who is who.
Assuming that Facebook forced the account to be deleted, it wouldn't have been done by anyone who's working on fixing the problem.
NYT reporter on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057
True. I don't know how often people use those for personal moves, so maybe they do a much better job than U-haul. I haven't ever used them, so I have no idea.
A BGP routing mistake that can cascade into a hard-to-recover-from state of the network where inter-dependencies lock each other.
folks with physical access are also denied. source - https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1445100431181598723
The M1 Air is a lot faster than it's intel predecessor, the battery runtime is at least 50% longer in real use and the thing is fanless, silent and I haven't burned a single body part yet. That alone is revolutionary.

Just because the machine hasn't changed in appearance (and sadly neither has it's so-so display), the chip difference alone makes it a whole different ballgame.
Make them a (common carrier)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier] just like was done for WAN access in the USA. Hahahahahaha.
Saw this earlier: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736
No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.
plus HN has been a bit spotty as of late anyway
I think the issue there is that in exchange for solving the "one fat finger = outage" problem, you lose the ability to update the server fleet quickly or consistently.
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Hence the suggestion for PagerDuty. It handles all this, because responders set their notification methods (phone, SMS, e-mail, and app) in their profiles, so that when in trouble nobody has to ask those questions and just add a person as a responder to the incident.
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I got quoted as noir_lord in the press.

My bbs handle from 30 years ago.
>This is according to whom? Who was it that 'downgraded [AI] to "weak AI"'?

The "who" is all of us. _We_ all collectively watered-down "AI" based on how we _used_ "AI" in mainstream news articles and VC-backed startups or any company today throwing around the word "AI" associated with technology. I was making a descriptive and not prescriptive statement.

See that the gp complains that a "deep generative model neural net" is _not_ "AI". My point is that virtually all uses of naked "AI" is now understood to be examples of "weak AI". Therefore, making a meta-comment on every article that mentions "AI" (instead of "AGI") as "that's not really AI" ... has become superfluous.

Consider the phrase "YC-backed AI startup": https://www.google.com/search?q=yc-backed+%22ai+startup%22

Let's imagine if each of those stories was submitted to HN. Do we really need to make a meta-comment in each thread saying, "What they're doing is not really AI and I hate how the AI label is slapped on everything!" ?

We already know that Real Generalized Artificial Intelligence is not actually here (maybe not for decades) -- and yet -- people we don't control keep using the label "AI". Now what do we do? If one remembers they're talking about "weak AI" whenever they use the naked "AI" terminology, we just let it go and move on.
> There are reports that Facebook employees can't enter their buildings because their "smart" badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure.

Wait, what? Their physical access system breaks when they can't resolve DNS to their servers? Presumably, this means that they would break if they lose internet access as well.

That's simply insane.
If there is an incident because an employee was sloppy, the fault lies with the hiring process, the evaluation process for this employee, or with the process that put four eyes on each implementation. The employee fucked up, they should be removed if they are not up to standards, but putting the blame on them does not prevent the same thing from happening in the future.
No. All the ones you mentioned are up.
Such a sad statement. I really hope that is not true. I now imagine young humans sitting in front of their computer screens because they don't have a real life to take care of.
> Why Obsessively Following Successful People Online Is Dangerous

Facebook Network Admins Are Doing Their Part To Reduce The Risk
Also, are the users able to reach the server without DNS (i.e. are the IP addresse(s) involved static and communicated beforehand) and is the server itself able to function without DNS?

Routing is one thing which you can't do without (then you need to fallback to phone communications), but DNS is something that's quite probable to not work well in a major disaster.
Hyper is a terminal, please. Don’t mix things up
Do you have any idea why it's so much more responsive?
With enterprise apps, I also have the budget to throw more computers at a problem. If it's between 2 weeks of my time, or to throwing another core at a VM, the extra core wins most of the time.
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> so-called geofence warrants, where investigators ask Google to provide information on anyone within the location of a crime scene at a given time.

It's amazing we've become so tethered to our phones that it's just implicitly obvious that your phone's location is the same as your location. Authoritarian governments rejoice! People will voluntarily pay and cling to their tracking devices, no need to track them personally.
Luke LaFreniere has publicly stated that App Review basically refused to even entertain a Floatplane "reader app" for months, until they were able to appeal to someone who actually understood Apple's rules. They were getting absolutely nonsensical rejections that either didn't make sense or didn't account for the whole "reader app" thing.
Like this being tweeted: https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1445082304393719818?s...
Still an American centralized platform. Federated Matrix is the way to go!
That tweet seems to be misleading to me based on my (admittedly minimal) understanding of BGP. The tweet states that the "Problem seems to have occurred at Cloudflare's end", but the problem likely originated on Facebook's end and a Cloudflare staffer noticed it.
You can do this with typescript. If strict mode is on, any type that can be undefined or null will cause a compiler error if the condition is not explicitly checked for.
> I hope they don't lose their job.

I hope they do.

#1 it's a clear breach of corporate confidentiality policies. I can say that without knowing anything about Facebook's employment contracts. Posting insider information about internal company technical difficulties is going to be against employment guidelines at any Big Co.

In a situation like this that might seem petty and cagey. But zooming out and looking at the bigger picture, it's first and foremost a SECURITY issue. Revealing internal technical and status updates needs to go through high-level management, security, and LEGAL approvals, lest you expose the company to increased security risk by revealing gaps that do not need to be publicized.

(Aside: This is where someone clever might say "Security by obscurity is not a strategy". It's not the ONLY strategy, but it absolutely is PART of an overall security strategy.)

#2 just purely from a prioritization/management perspective, if this was my employee, I would want them spending their time helping resolve the problem not post about it on reddit. This one is petty, but if you're close enough to the issue to help, then help. And if you're not, don't spread gossip - see #1.
Who else sees their deleted messages on WhatsApp that shouldn't be there?

https://twitter.com/Pytlicek/status/1445072626729242637
The New York Times may well be junk, but you're not helping your argument with articles from Unherd and Spectator, both notorious "rent-a-quote" right-wing rags of ill repute. Next you'll be quoting Spiked.

I've also provided links from other sources if you find NYT unpalatable.
I think it comes down to the comfort level of the worker. I remember when our production environment went down. The CTO was sitting with me just watching and I had no problem with it since he was completely supportive, wasn't trying to hurry me, just wanted to see how the process of fixing it worked. We knew it wasn't any specific person's fault, so no one had to feel the heat from the situation beyond just doing a decent job getting it back up.
You don't need to consider 'what if a meteor hit the data centre and also it was made of cocaine'. You do need to think through "how do I get this back online in a reasonable timeframe from a starting point of 'everything is turned off and has the wrong configuration'."