skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this.

"useful"

and

"no use case"

are not the same thing.

Clearly anyone who isn't completely blind can see that you can use crypto for some things. It's pretty easy to demolish the strawman that is 'there is nothing to can use that for'.

...but given that technically it's like an unregulated, very slow, very expensive payment system, it's far harder to swallow the idea that it has compelling use cases, by which I mean, "I would be convinced to use this" unless:

- you are doing something that is illegal

- you're doing something traditional payment providers don't allow

- you want to avoid taxes / tariffs (see, doing something illegal)

- you want to avoid the red tape to do something (eg. banking, coin offering)

- you're speculating

Otherwise, you can just using something else, that is faster, simpler, cheaper and safer (ie. legal protections, etc.).

Many of the 'novel' ideas in crypto like asserting ownership via NFTs, smart contracts, etc. are not fundamentally restricted to crypto; you could run them centralized, and it would make almost no difference at all. You'd still have a CoinSpace wallet that you convert USD to CoinTokens on, and upload your smart contracts to.

The crypto part of this is not compelling, it's just a pain in the ass to deal with, technically, and commercially toxic by association with bad actors.

On top of that, the crypto is fundamentally worthless unless you have people who want to buy it, so it is in bad faith that most crypto proponents advocate for it; it is in their interests, not yours, to be involved with it.
> The internet is an interconnected web of dependencies.

Ironically this is exactly what increasingly centralisation weakens. The huge cloud providers have eroded "an interconnected web of dependencies" into few huge server farms servicing everyone else.
You having failed rethorics and basic literature classes does not make your arguments more valid. This is not how ad-hominems work, no matter how many times you've read it on Substack.
My sites on Hetzner (Germany) are coming up fine as well.
Linode seems unreachable too (and related hosted VPS).
Is it my problem or is it a general failure on Linode?
Yes. Regional issue but affecting the website and the registry. Not available in the UK currently
Are you really willing to trade all that screen real estate?
Be enlightened by the truth.
is there a list/writeup of these problems somewhere? is this only applicable if you want to do editable rich text? could you perhaps try to explain the high level problem? what's different on iOS? thanks!
Here in Japan, Twitter seems to be fully operation, e.g. images load too.
What a ridiculous argument for tax evasion. Your tax money also supports elderly care, orphanages and a range of essential services that you have already benefited from. What you are doing is immoral - freeloading.
I don't do take-home assignments, sorry not sorry. And yes, I can get hired without it. Happened in last 3 positions.
The reason someone in Vietnam, China, or any other country with terrible government would dare dream of being paid to do graphic design without the government tracking such a payment is not simply about tax evasion. You might be helping to promote abortion. Or gay rights. Or liberal democracy.

There are innumerable reasons why someone in an authoritarian regime would prefer to earn a living outside the political apparatus, which in the current official monetary system is impossible.
Should probably do slower roulouts next time.
If most of the websites, that most people rely on for their day-to-day functionality, use Cloudflare, it's effectively a central point of failure.

Sure, there are alternatives and not everything uses it, but if it's enough to greatly affect a large proportion of internet users, it's a problem.

Just like if google mail went away for ever. There are plenty of other email providers, right ?
Key to making Nexdoor tolerable is setting your neighborhood radius as small as possible.
An article was posted here on HN: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/06/six-ways-... .

It has stuff that I found aligned with reality.

Just find your interest groups, could be drama, music, CS:GO, foreign policy, gender history, baseball, Trump- whatever- one or more. And regularly hang out with them.

Some friendships will naturally occur. Be honest about your feelings.

One thing that most people don't mention about friendships is a little bit of toleration of their small faults. You are not perfect, and your friends won't be perfect. Remember this. To be in any kind of long relationship, you need to be a little forgiving.

Also, sharing vulnerabilities (after you know you can trust that person enough), faults, and sharing in general creates closeness.

Apart from this two, there are regular things like shared interests and values, spending time together, etc.

If you spend enough time together, some people will notice you. And they will want to be with you. If you are not acting in an extroverted way, the potential friends you are missing out aren’t suitable for you anyway.

2-4 close friends and 5-6 not-so-close friends are enough to get through college. (Doesn't mean if you have only one, you will be in misery.)

How have you faired with potential romantic partners?
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/xvs51y9qs9dj:

Identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Posted 5 minutes ago. Jun 21, 2022 - 06:57 UTC
They're talking about getting accurate information from an employee posting on HN rather than on the status page, rather than the outage itself.
Things like Victorops/Splunk On-call are also down because of this.

This means if your alerts are fired through them, you'll peacefully be sleeping through this incident unless your customers wake you up.
Interestingly enough, I'm already logged in, and the homepage as well as the rest of the Linode dashboard are operational. It seems only the login page is down.
It’s highly unlikely the people facilitating illegal money movement and exchange are morally clean which seems to be your criteria here.
Great idea with the subdomain! May I ask how you do it? Also, one idea for you: how about using created20220621@company.example.com?
It is really amazing.

When I am young my top boss recalled his day of 4 KB ram mainframe and use eyeball to debug.

Then we have 640 kb is all we need era. Up to now, it is easy to use 2GB for a hello world I always think. But this …

We are not totally lost.
Yeah but if the internet is widely down, the network effect is that people probably aren't using your site because everything else is down and they'll wait for confirmation from sites like facebook and their internet banking and netflix to make sure things are back to normal.
You're not alone in this feeling. I left the industry because of the "trendiness" or "shiny object syndrome". Then put on top of that the change from serving people to spying on people and that was all for me.
Google's Firebase uses Fastly even after acquisition. It's possible Linode to continue using Cloudflare.
I think it has everything to do with CF and not hosting. I have Linode servers without CF, and everything is great.
0 is my setting, at which point I don't need an account, but the service becomes extremely tolerable.
I mean if large websites like Notion or Medium had used IPFS instead, there would be no central point of failure, and web pages would still be available from distributed hosts
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The rest of the world does different things, and software isn't that special.

For many jobs, the world outsources candidate quality assessment to trusted academic institutions and certification boards. But the software industry has decided — perhaps rightly — that software engineers do not have to go the traditional route of getting a tertiary education attested to by diplomas and certificates.

So rather than comparing with doctors and lawyers, you need to look at what the rest of the world is doing with professions that lack institutional gatekeeping. For example, it's pretty common for translators to do tests before they are offered a job. An agile consultancy described in a podcast how they are hiring scrum masters — and there is a combination of checking the certificates (PSM3's are fast-tracked to a final interview) and tests (seeing how a candidate scrum master can run a scrum event with a team). I am sure there will be lots of similar examples in other areas.
Ah, well in that case they already have that so no need to complain: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
The worst part is cloud infrastructure companies like DigitalOcean and Linode are both down simply because for some reason they can't build their own infrastructure to not rely on Cloudflare lol.
No BS? Like i said, Switzerland is now a power-block like the US ;)
Probably Mullvad is still unknown to most. They're not the one doing the sponsorships on YouTube.
There are types of software where rushing product is the norm. Everyone read stories of long death marches of computer games. These games have millions of lines of code. I would put my 2c that code in these projects is part of the people who made it. You should not expect to be able to understand code without talking to people. Yes patchwork can be intricate and some things may be lost in countless requirement U-turns. What I think was common in successful projects is that people kept some understanding of the code. They might have no incentives to share it with you ^_^.
ymmv ofc.
> People use it knowing fully well it may not support the latest & greatest consumer gadgets like Windows,

Like what exactly?
Maybe you should try first to actually go into their status page[1]. It is showing a global service disruption since 06:43 UTC; about 20 minutes since you wrote this

[1] https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
I didn’t realize promoting free speech, which would get you arrested and potentially murdered in China, meant you were an immoral person.

But with absolute government control over the payment rails, such activism is impossible without a sword over your neck.
Definitely the right algorithm if you want search results that are driven by marketing teams.
May be atleast like [Incident HN] to report about incident status.
Shouldn't you hit me with a stick first, or break a pot?
I believe discord was also affected due to this.. However, I did get messages from my friend in Thailand
My 2 cloudflare pages are working perfectly ,
https://mustafagroup.site/

https://emaanpainters.co.nz/
Not the person you're responding to, but my view on this is: Having one online identity that is publicly viewable by everbody is a privacy nightmare. Yes, I know that it's pseudonymous, but it's possible for a sufficiently motivated entity to find out who is behind a pseudonym.
Everything using Cloudflare is down. Tells you that how much of the internet Cloudflare is part of.

Once in a while web2 is going great with Cloudflare. Until when everyone uses it and it goes down.
Same here. I picked a bad time to mess with my DNS config.
The status page shows about as much information as the post here.
This looks like a funnel designed to get rid of all qualified people.

Get rid of your recruiter because they obviously lack access to senior resumes, which is not surprising. I long stopped even replying to recruiters as have many others that I know that are properly senior. Most qualified people don't deal with recruiters at all if they can avoid it. And there is no shortage of very lucrative good jobs to be had. Alternatives: get your senior people attending conferences and local meetups. Make sure there's a referral program. Treat incoming referrals with urgency. Those are your best shot at hiring good people. Don't scare them away with your bureaucracy. If anyone good comes along, be ready to act fast.

And of course skip the take home exam; it's usually completely redundant, humiliating, and candidates hate them. The best ones doubly so and they'll probably tell you so. The ones least eager to take that test are exactly the people you should be making an offer. Probably your recruiter is losing those candidates long before you even get to talk to them.
> - You still need a fallback and to deal with different archs.

Yes. That's 2->3 implementations or 3->4 implementations to target everything instead of only SSE and NEON or only SSE, AVX2, and NEON. But one of them can be the implementation you already had.

> - SIMD is a different way of coding. You can't take algorithm from Wikipedia and just implement it in SIMD.

I agree, but as I said above I think the level of difficulty is a lot lower than people expect.

> - Even if you code it to perfectly use SIMD, using those instructions, might result in higher CPU demands.

This is a common misconception which I think is better addressed by Daniel Lamire here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/68455#issuecomment-...

> - You will still lag behind games, because those use CPU+GPU while this heavily taxes CPU. You would need some GPGPU. Which is like SIMD all over again.

I don't think so, because games don't usually use GPGPU. They usually do all of their layout stuff and game logic including lots of matrix math on the CPU and use the GPU for deciding what colors pixels ought to be. This is something a text editor has to use a GPU for too, even if the dev doesn't end up knowing about it.

> Today's code editors are less text editors and more databases of ASTs. They very much are complex by necessity.

I posted about whether they are slow due to the essential complexity of the things ultimately being computed and used for text editor features or for some other reason.
Fair point. Still, based on my anecdotal experience using leased dedicated servers, mistakes at that networking layer seem to happen less often than mistakes that take AWS us-east-1 or one of the big CDNs offline.
CLoudflare just offer great services. Its straight up fact that even their free model is extremely generous. There is no big conspiracy to 'take over the internet' but when the product is good, the product is good.
Agreed- couldn’t figure out what was going on… finally checked here and - ah now I can sleep
I wrote a script recently that identifies chords from MIDI input, and, even though I'd have preferred not to use a game framework, Pygame turned out to be the easiest way by far of handling the MIDI stuff.
I'd add Garmin's Varia radar as a better (yet more expensive) alternative to a mirror. It's a bike light combined with a radar that will track and display cars coming up behind you on your bike computer (doesn't have to be a Garmin unit since the standard is open to everyone). Many cyclists who tired it (including me) won't ride without one.
Be aware: I share an account with someone in a country with F1TV.

If you register from abroad and use your credit card, they'll see you're from AU, block your account and you'll have to contact customer services for a refund.

Exclusivity deals are a cancer.
Because you can't remove stuff from a blockchain.

Change your name? Old name still there.
Change your phone number? Still there.
All old email addresses? Still there.
Same here! Love Kagi!
"that would be resistant to seizures and censorship" - from a cursory look, blocking the protocol and/or identifying peer nodes for a participant is almost trivial, for a state-sponsored actor.I dind't see anywhere in their site a proper threat model, attack simulations or any kind of actual fact that supports the claim of resistance to seizure or censorship. Have you seen those?
Also, they clearly forget that most modern CAs actually store SSL certificate details on a blockchain. Its called certificate transparency.
Broadly speaking, any CDN will have similar functionality. Fastly, Akamai, AWS Cloudfront...
Isitdownrightnow.com Is Down (*^ ‿ ⁢*)
I haven't been impacted in Australia at all, but all of my (probably US based) monitors are going off.
Ohhh, downvoted, I assume because 8chan are the bad guys.
People are working on auditing services for smart contracts and web3 apps, but it's slow going.

Considering the behavior of the current community I totally understand your skepticism toward the technology itself. It hasn't really proven itself useful or safe for anything but a few use cases, and the only thing it really has going for it is the theory and the core development. Fixes and new features are slowly being added to the tech to make trustless services possible.

The criticism that web3 - even if it did work properly - turns literally everything into a token-based speculative market is accurate. I think it's an emergent property of the technology that isn't good for anyone, and it's bad enough that it might be worth ditching completely.
Seems to be OK now.
"Pushing their problems down to the user in this way feels shitty, at best ..."

You've identified exactly what is going on.

Platforms such as this are facing a brutal, relentless scam/spam onslaught and I think we can conclude that no, in fact, they do not have an elegant solution to it.

The closest things I have seen to real, elegant solutions to this problem are:

1) metafilter charging $5 per new registration - I think you can send them a five dollar bill

2) lobste.rs with their chained/linked account referral which puts the cost on the referrer and introduces some personal responsibility for new signups, etc.

The common solution is to demand a SIM identity - any SIM identity - "for your protection". That's the best solution they have come up with - any functioning truly mobile number (backed by a SIM card, not VOIP) is enough sand in the gears to slow down the onslaught ...
I assume they're referring to the fact that it did not show any issues for ~5 or so minutes after the outage began.
I gotta ask you, because this has been eating me since I read it. It appears you've been on HN even longer than me, so I trust you know what you're talking about. I left California in 2006 and moved overseas, never established residency in another state, lived outside the country for 12 years before coming back and establishing residency in Oregon. During that time I did file federal taxes, but most of my income fell under the foreign earned income exemption (< $95k when I left). I did pay social security. But I was no longer considering myself a California resident. Are you saying that California is now trying to claw in taxes from people who left the state 16 years ago and earned foreign income, if they didn't immediately establish residence elsewhere in the US? -- FWIW, I did also skate on visas for those 12 years and never established permanent residency in another country, but nonetheless I wasn't living or making money in California, or intending to return there.
Please note that the fear-instilling effect of media coverage is not backed by conclusive evidence.

George Gerbner's famous television studies suggested that heavy viewers of crime shows would become more fearful and over-estimate violent crime (hence the name "scary world theory"). But scientific support is mixed, it's not safe to assume that this effect exists.
Thanks for the update, just curious if we will get a report on what happened ? In as much detail as can be of course - morbid curiosity mainly. I love the post reports these events usually bring.
It didn’t at the time.

Their phone line kept cutting us off and then the people there were not too helpful.
The comment on HN had more useful information (that the issue was understood and a fix coming) before that status page then updated. I think that's their point.

Prior to that, it was some time (in the "all my sites are wrecked" timescale) before the status page had any indication of an outage.
It's quite ironic that the Internet was designated to withstand nuclear attack, yet with how much everyone started using "cloud" a stupid configuration mistake in an important company can put it on its knees.

We should really rethink that constant reliance on single point of failure.
Not having fun right now, but this brings home just how reliant so much of the internet is on a very few very big service providers.
That link isn't accessible from where I am right now.

Alanis Morissette agrees that this is ironic.
Not a 'big conspiracy'. It's the business model, isn't it? Or isn't CF going for the biggest marketshare and maximizing profits on that, like all the others?
I thought i would use it daily but i have to say that i'm getting swetty too fast.

So is this part of your moning routine? Waking up, doing vr sport, showering?
A fun glitch with NFS with Linux serving out ext2/ext3 was getting -ENOENT when calling unlink() on a very large file (for the time.)

The kernel on the server would do the work of unlinking the file which might take many seconds. In the meanwhile, the client would timeout, and make another NFS call to unlink. ext2/3 would have removed the path from the visible filesystem namespace, even though unlink hadn't complted, so this second call would return ENOENT. Somewhat confusing to users!
Yeah, they'd also be dependent on their ISP still if they're "fully independent". Good luck dealing with massive traffic spikes on a single bare-metal box and good luck maintaining a similar uptime to cloudflare's 98.84% uptime lol
It is PyTorch
Code word for torrents. Linux ISOs are probably the most common large file legitimate use of torrents and so it's become a code word for pirated content.
It does feel like more "hosted" environments are trying to do more fancy stuff inside the network, so have more failure cases. Or perhaps services that do a lot of things, even if you end up just using simple server components.

I still have a fun memory of half of IBM Cloud's servers falling over, meaning that our production app was luckily still up but our staging server fell over. I could get to their website, but their login stuff was all messed up. I believe that one was also a "routing stuff got messed up" issue....
> Also there’s significant cost converting to and from fiat to take it out

No there's not. Trades on exchanges are under 0.1% [1]. ERC20 tokens have some fees because of gas but it's a flat amount [2], which is negligible for any operation over a thousand dollars. Fiat withdrawals are generally free [3]. The most expensive part usually is the gas to interact with the DeFi smart contract, but it's also a flat fee.

[1] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024479432-Fees

[2] https://etherscan.io/gastracker 0.75USD as of now, but it can reach like 10USD when the network is congested.

[3] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043023772-Depositi...
Depressing somehow.

As said, imagine we would spend our energy in our society to actually bring poeple back together.

Social hubs just in a way that people want to go there. Imagine what you could build up with that money
> at least my service isn't likely to be taken offline by someone else's configuration error or deployment gone wrong.

It's likely to be taken offline by yourself more often than not though.
Is MongoDB really "in" now? From what I've seen it was popular for a while a few years ago with the MEAN stack and all that but it didn't stay popular, every job I've looked at was still SQL. I did work somewhere that went NoSQL but it wasn't MongoDB, it was DynamoDB.
I'm in Melbourne and it all seems ok
Ah, yes, NIS+. Thank you for the correction.

I also had in mind that OpenBSD deliberately and rigorously only refers to "YP" ("Yellow Pee"). Google "OpenBSD" and "NIS" and most of the hits you'll see directly from the OpenBSD project are from commit logs for patches removing accidental usages of "NIS" in initial YP-related feature commits. I'm not quite sure why they do that. I've kind of assumed it's to make clear that they have little interest in addressing vendor compatibility issues, and to emphasize that YP support, such as it is, is narrowly tailored to supporting the needs of the OpenBSD project itself. That's quite different from IPv6, IPSec/IKE, and even NFSv3, where cross-vendor interoperability is a concern (within reason).