skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or is it simply because most journalists care more about reporting their opinion

I mean... this piece actually has much more opinion in it than "journalism" is "supposed" to, doesn't it? It's an opinion piece, not a piece of journalism, although he does a bit of research for it.

So I find it a bit confusing to ask for "more journalists" to write like this, while also saying you think most journalists care more about reporting their opinion than OP... OP actually centers it's opinion pretty directly, no? Mostly I think this piece is doing something that is not what journalism is even expected to do at all.

But to be sure the distinction between "journalism" and "opinion" is pretty confusing and blurry these days (because opinion rather than journalism both gets more clicks and is cheaper!). I'm not sure the solution to problems with journalism lies in asking journalists to write journalism more like an opinion piece, even a very well-written opinion piece!
Brain implant relieves patient’s severe depression in ‘landmark’ US study
I would say this is a bit misleading. Personally, I was able to access my FB building this morning (after the outage started) and have continued to be able to use my badge with no problem since. Not saying that there are no employees experiencing this issue, but it is not affecting all Facebook employees.
No. A network like Facebook's is vast and complicated and managed by higher-level configuration systems, not people emailing patches around.

If this issue is even to do with BGP it's much more likely the root of the problem is somewhere in this configuration system and that fixing it is compounded by some other issues that nobody foresaw. Huge events like this are always a perfect storm of several factors, any one or two of which would be a total noop alone.
Hey everyone,

Felt like a good day to post an update on Sqwok after last posting a Show HN in December last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672).

The site development has continued to move forward, sometimes feeling much slower than I'd like, but still moving nonetheless and here's what's been added since Dec:

- Markdown support w/live preview added to chat messages and user bios. (Custom built parser took awhile to learn/figure out, planning a blog post on what I learned, details in the faq).

- Improved messaging and presence backend - did a major refactor of the backend "real time" messaging and presence handling, and it now supports multiple concurrent sessions/logins and cut down on large number of bugs. Still not perfect and plan to continue to improve it.

- Online Users feature that displays who else is online.

- Improved "follow" feature with dedicated pages under user profile.

- Improved User profile pages with new bio section, location, website, displayname and ability to edit all (avatar coming soon).

- Settings pages that include ability to change email, change password, delete account, and configure email notifications.

- Email notifications were just added that allow users who added an email address to be notified when they are @mentioned (chat, bio, or post), or followed.

- Many improvements under the hood to UI components and elsewhere, with much more to come.

Sqwok is meant to be a place to discuss the news, current events, and other topics in _real time_ with minimal friction and effortless ease.

Let me know if you have any questions & thanks for reading!
That Ramenporn got engagement by Hate Speech
As a former data center technician, I wouldn't say it's too far off
Do you have any measured stats on your Dishy's power consumption? I've read it's 90-100W nominal, which seems reasonable if you switch it off at night when not in use. Like other commenters, I've been also been thinking about off-grid home requirements.
Haha sure. They were too busy implementing php compilers to figure out that "whole DR DNS thing"

rotflmao. I'd remove Facebook from my resume.
My city recently forced every resident into an esoteric market-based solution for electricity (sold with a pack of lies about renewable energy and reduced rates) that required explicit opt-out to avoid and stay with the provider who actually generates power and services the people on its infrastructure.
Python 3 is easy for a Python 2 programmer to pick up, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to port large systems from one to the other.
You'd think they'd have worked that into their DR plans for a complete P1 outage of the domain/DNS, but perhaps not, or at least they didn't add removal of BGP announcements to the mix.
Preparing for the Giant “Unplug”
> Judges that decide over parole won't attribute their decision on the last time they ate, even if it is the single most important factor to their decision.

This finding doesn't replicate[0]. In the original study, there was a more mundane explanation: "Defendants without representation have their hearings scheduled at the end of sessions, before breaks."

You have much more confidence in the current research than I think is warranted. Genes are indeed a small portion of our DNA, but your statement that "the interesting stuff happens in the other 95%" is unbounded and poorly defined.

Personally, I think we have some control over things, and probably less control than most people perceive themselves as happening. But this research is in its infancy and having trouble with basic replication, so holding a strong opinion is a recipe for making poor decisions off it.

[0] https://www.annieduke.com/no-judges-dont-give-harsher-senten...
There's no such thing as choosing renewable energy on a grid. Energy is fungible. If you get on one of those "choose green" schemes, you're just getting the same energy but also buying some credits from somewhere else.
I think that's the worst part of the new Firefox UI. Firefox got rid of the defined, rectangular tabs using a colored background with lines between them. Now it's white rounded rectangles floating in a light-gray background with no other visible distinction. Even with perfect eyes, it was hard to tell what was going on without taking a moment to really focus on it.
According to Allied Market Research, the global mainframe market is worth only ~$2.5 billion annually.
Finally some HTML that a human can read
If someone is sloppy and not willing to change he should be shown the door, but not because he caused outage but because he is sloppy.

People who operate systems under fear tend to do stupid things like covering up innocent actions (deleting logs), keep information instead of sharing it etc. Very few can operate complex systems for long time without doing mistake. Organization where the spirit is "oh, outage, someone is going to pay for that" wiil never be attractive to good people, will have hard time adapting to changes and to adopt new tech.
Think of all the influencers who can’t influence and FB addicts who can’t get their fix (+insta and whatsapp)
still down, people going to signal to have a chat
I reject this logic - it's an argument for sustaining the status quo at all costs.

Facebook is the most user-hostile tech megacorp, and they will inevitably harm these businesses you care about. The sooner the bandaid is ripped off the better.
Well, seeing that Google and Apple do the same on their OS they might even get through with it.
I think the other piece the comment and the rejoinder miss is is: A PhD generally means you've done four years of work post bachelors, and some of that work was novel.

A PhD alone does not make someone an expert in most modern senses in software. The folks the author describes as "experienced" often have more than a decade of working software knowledge from after their education.

Casey Muratori has 30 years of programming experience. That's not a PhD, that's a PhD and then an additional 20+ years of experience.
But we're all ape people.
Its partially there. C and D are still not in the global tables according to routeviews ie. 185.89.219.12 is still not being advertised to anyone. My peers to them in Toronto have routes from them, but not sure how far they are supposed to go inside their network. (past hop 2 is them)

% traceroute -q1 -I a.ns.facebook.com

traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 64 hops
max, 48 byte packets
1 torix-core1-10G (67.43.129.248) 0.133 ms

2 facebook-a.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.35.2) 1.317 ms

3 157.240.43.214 (157.240.43.214) 1.209 ms

4 129.134.50.206 (129.134.50.206) 15.604 ms

5 129.134.98.134 (129.134.98.134) 21.716 ms

6 *

7 *

% traceroute6 -q1 -I a.ns.facebook.com

traceroute6 to a.ns.facebook.com (2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35) from 2607:f3e0:0:80::290, 64 hops max, 20 byte packets

1 toronto-torix-6 0.146 ms

2 facebook-a.ip6.torontointernetxchange.net 17.860 ms

3 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::2154 9.237 ms

4 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::d7c 16.721 ms

5 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::3b4 17.067 ms

6 *

7 *

8 *
That is the long running “Turbo Encabulator” trope, the original is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag but there are some wonderful rerenditions and tributes if you search for those keywords on YouTube.
Twitter seems to be a big buggy now too maybe just a coincidence. User comments under posts are not appearing.
I'm sorry it's like that at your place :(

I have a different experience, thankfully - both when I was an engineer and now as a manager.

A good manager (in a company with the right culture) can help you streamline your efforts. In a proper company a manager doesn't "get you promoted" but helps you demonstrate that you're on the next level.
Thats actually what a lot of firms do, and what was really prominant in the Cannabis industry;

Cannabis companies couldnt do "real banking" do to federal shenanigans.

So instead why dispensaries would do, is make another LLC who buys the building and all the building permits that are municipally regulated - then as the municipality zoned and approved locations and projects for dispensaries and distribution licenses (which had a multitude of their own specific restrictions)

They would then rent the facilities for ridiculous rental amounts which the rental company would legally be able to put into any regular bank - then make loans to the cannabis companies and dispensaries for whatever operating expenses were needed.

This got really ugly when Med Men, based out of LA, was made really public because of douchebaggery happening in the company revealing how they had been gaming their own investors etc...
To reconfigure misconfigured routers one needs physical access -> routers are in a high-security area of a secure DC -> physical access systems do not let anyone in due to network outage.
This is glaringly evident at the very least in the way Apple and Google (don't) apply app store review to their own apps, so I don't understand why you're being downvoted.
Well, seeing that Google and Apple do the same on their OS they might even get through with it. iOS doesn't even allow alternative browser backends, so the bar is not even reached for MS.
There are lots of ways to have find. If you need alcohol to have fun, it shows how little you know about having fun. Get a bike, or a wood chisel, or a chess board (snip a few million other ways to have fun)
I feel you're thinking through this with a "purely logical" standpoint and not a "reality" standpoint. You're thinking worst case scenario for the CYA management, having more sympathy for the executive managers than for the engineer providing insight to the tech public.

It seems like a fundamental difference of "who gives a shit about corporate" from my side. The level of detail provided isn't going to get nationstates anything they didn't already know.
I did. I had trouble editing my comment. In the end, they do propose that it would have been valuable to continue with the study, and others like it, provided many changes were made:

```Sixth, in the final review, the NIH made no attempt at cost/benefit analysis. Their final report is a fair summary of the problems with the trial. But it doesn’t consider the information that was lost by cancellation, or the fact that that there was little cost to taxpayers. (Though Collins’ letter to Senator Grassley reveals the NIH did pay around $4 million out of pocket.) Could a different principal investigator be put in charge? Could the study design be modified to address the concerns? Could the monitoring bodies have been strengthened so people could trust the results? Maybe the trial was unsalvageable, but it’s telling that the NIH didn’t bother to make that argument.```
Getting everything back up again will probably be a nightmare. Imagine all the internal services trying to reach a consistent state after such a long outage.
The regulating bodies of those utilities work hard to create incentives for them to innovate. I spent four years of my career working on energy programs with major utilities around the country in which they tried to incentive reductions in energy usage.

Which is a curious statement: why would a electrical utility want people to use less electricity?

The reason is because the regulatory agencies created incentives within the regulatory framework to encourage them to do it. Basically the regulators start with an outcome, bake that outcome into how utilities get paid, and then let the utility innovate to figure out how to do it. This led to meaningful reduction in energy usage across many markets.
Assuming anyone can actually look up the phone numbers to call.
Bet it was located at irc.facebook.com ;)

Joking aside, I can see how an IRC network has potential to be used in these situations. Maybe FAMANG should work together to set something like this up. The problem is, a single IRC server is not fail safe, but a network of multiple servers would just see a netsplit, in which case users would switch servers.

Also, I remember back in the IRCnet days using simply telnet to connect to IRCnet just for fun and sending messages, so its a very easy protocol that can be understood in a global desaster scenario (just the PING replys where annoying in telnet).
I think the sub-comment is confusing the linux kernel with BGP.
Apparently DNS services are getting hammered with much higher traffic than usual for Facebook domains (as FB DNS is down so millions of devices are continually retrying the lookup).

For twitter specifically, I also wouldn't be surprised if a non-trivial number of people have increased their use of twitter while facebook is down.
Which Go router should I use? (with flowchart)
What are you currently using for Design QA?

Spreadsheets and screenshots? That's what we used before we started Jam. :D
Time to stop using Google Search or any of their services. Realistically the only one that's not replaceable ATM is YouTube but hopefully soon will be with other platforms gaining speed.

Personally I use Brave Search for 99% of my searches. They are definitely privacy based, unlike some other alternatives.
There is a global outage this morning starting from 8:00 AM. This list has Google, Tiktok, Zoom, Slack and of course FB products and services.
> Seriously, I believe there is some demand for local, tiny offices for remote workers.

I'll second this. I need a real office most days due to having a ton of voice and video calls, but private office space at most co-working spaces is both overkill and around $1000/month, which is kind of silly.
They really changed their demographics at warp speed from college kids to octogenarians.
Nielsen TV and radio ratings are the functional equivalent of "an algorithm that rewards CTR", and that system rewards polarization and outrage in exactly the same way. "If it bleeds, it leads" is the longstanding mantra of TV news.

IMO the problem of public trust in institutions has one answer: democratic accountability. In the US, the news media claims to be the watchdog of our society, and to act in the public interest, but there are no mechanisms for public accountability. Who decides what topics should be covered? Who decides what angle to take? Who decides what makes the front page? Who decides whether something is newsworthy or not?

None of these decisions are made with any connection to the public that the media purports to serve. In fact, the lack of connection to the public is considered a virtue. Journalists legitimize themselves by claiming to be neutral, objective, rational, principled, virtuous, beholden only to the truth and above the fray of partisanship and self-interest that warps the opinions of the public. So the media claims to be legitimate and trustworthy, not because it has democratic accountability—but because it does not.

The fundamental premise of the institution of the media is that democracy is fatally flawed and the public can't be trusted. That's why what's happening on social media is characterized as a problem of misinformation and public susceptibility to propaganda—the cure is greater control of information by a credentialed elite. Bt the real problem of social media is that a small percentage of the population are able to gain influence because the US electoral system grants them disproportionate power. Social media is a way of coordinating a political movement, not fundamentally an issue of truth and lies.

The problems in our society and on social media come from too little democracy. The media represents them as problems of too much democracy, and that tells you everything you need to know about their basic political commitments.

Frances Haugen's twitter bio says "We can have social media that brings out the best in humanity." Who decides what is the best of humanity? This won't be a democratic process, but yet another elite group of purportedly neutral and objective "experts and academics" from expensive universities. I can barely imagine a darker authoritarian project than to try to get private social media companies to manage the thoughts and feelings of their users so that it meets with elite approval.
Technical issue (most probably the case) or coverup?

It is amazing how far some people go with trying to explain this.
Yes, but Facebook is not a small company. Could PagerDuty realistically handle the scale of notifications that would be required for Facebook's operations?
Behind the scenes of Amplitude's direct listing
I know for several of my "stations", they kept trying to suggest Coldplay. I'd constantly give them the thumbs down as I didn't feel Coldplay matched what I was going for. It didn't seem to affect their later suggestions.
makes sense but at the same time it surprises me
It's also something that they (and a couple other publishers) forced Amazon to note in their catalog books published DRM-free and it has long amused me how passively-aggressively that note seems to be written from Amazon's side:

> At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It feels to me this is phrased as if this is a bad thing. Amuses me every time I see it, and it's at the bottom of a lot of book descriptions these days (certainly all of Tor's books, including A Fire Upon the Deep).
That would completely defeat the purpose... I have a hard time believing that.
For those who don't know who he is: l9i would know this. Just clarifying that this is not an Internet nobody guessing.
Fanboys have driven the word 'revolutionary' into the ground so deeply that it ceases to have any actual meaning anymore.

Meanwhile, through temporal prescience, the previous Intel based Macbooks were simultaneously revolutionary and merely tolerated before the M1 variants ever existed.

Don't you guys ever get tired of twisting your Apple apologeticism thought processes into a gordian knot all the time?
Virodome17 Is a Gmail Scammer
That's half true. Personalisation informs the search which informs the ads. If I search for a restaurant I get ads for local restaurants.
The Insider program has offered continuous builds since 2014 when they moved to a regular release cadence so it's not likely this will change unless something drastic happens to the versioning in which case licensing models would also change anyways.

What the Insider ARM builds did give you that hasn't been in a release version (until tomorrow) was x86-64 emulation support and a few other minor ARM improvements and an easy way to source a compiled ISO directly from Microsoft.

As far as activating a standard Windows 10 license will activate Windows 10/11 for ARM even if the EULA says it won't and, regardless, switching to Insider builds doesn't sidestep licensing as you need to be licensed to join a PC to the program and the ISO installer has the same licensing and EULA requirements as a normal installer ISO.
So what happens to the company spending 10.5bn to earn 11 bn? They just get a net loss of 0.5 bn?

edit: Or lets pick a real example and see how that works out. ArcelorMittal is a major steel provider. They sold $53B last year. They had a tough year though, so their final net loss was actually about half a billion.

Under your proposal, they would have lost 43 billion dollars. Uh oh, you just collapsed the steel industry.
Nature Dipped Elemental Shoes Dropped – new nature releases
From this tweet: https://twitter.com/BlazejKrajnak/status/1445063232486531099

"Because of missing DNS records for http://Facebook.com, every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers. And it may cause overloading ..."
New nature dipped shoes are pretty sick.
Why not? If it saves 30,000 lives per year is that not a meaningful improvement? I suspect my understanding/acceptance of "unknown risk while driving" is flawed in some way, or at least very different from the general populace.
Reasonable enough I guess. Thanks!
Drink occasionally, responsibly, and take breaks.
Move your resources to the one you didn't pick and point your domain registrar there.
Agreed. The theoretical fat-fingering SRE who stopped all access to FB has probably done more to benefit humanity than any other single engineer in recent memory.
I agree. I don't even mind short paragraphs because I think they can be used for good effect but not if it's every single paragraph.

It just strikes me as lazy writing. If each sentence is its own paragraph then you don't have to worry about structuring the article well or writing transitions or intro/outro sentences.
It is not a 'solved problem'. Price controls are not easy for anyone to manage. Companies can easily find ways around them in many cases.

Enabling companies to categorize themselves as 'platforms' or otherwise and then stipulating both benefits and requirements based on those labels makes a lot of sense comparatively. The general problem though is that the government isn't typically using regulations to improve freedom and competition. The government looks at regulation as a way to extract money, so solutions that encourage competition on a level playing field through market forces (like OP's) aren't given fair consideration.
Sorry about that assumption ... I took the initial "We" in your question to be one of 150 organizations and extended that to the OSS API.
That's not quite how it happened. ;)

<shameless plug>
We used this story as the opening of "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" (chapter 1). You can check it out for free at https://sre.google/static/pdf/building_secure_and_reliable_s... (size warning: 9 MB).
</shameless plug>
Apparently this issue is effecting specifically some of the people who are trying to fix the outage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749244
Relevant: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
They must have been moving very fast!
For doing this type of work programmatically in R, check out the rayshader package:

https://www.rayshader.com

It has a high-quality pathtracing renderer built-in (https://www.rayrender.net) that only requires a single line of R code to produce results similar to what's offered here (without all the manual work).
I know this is tinhat territory, but it's weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.

The outage has pretty much buried that story, and perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks.

That said, I can't see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.