skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm traveling, so I just assumed my internet had died instead and didn't refresh all day. I literally just found out HN was down by this post.
Fable is pretty kick ass if you’re feeling adventurous within the .net ecosystem.

https://fable.io/
Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd
Just installed a new router and was trying to browse HN to check if my internet connection was working properly, lol
Sounds like the police need more funds - and fewer people complaining about "oppression" for chasing down assholes like whoever shot at your friend?
All I want is to be able to use the Oculus without any account at all. Just offline.
The SQLite CoC, for anyone who's interested:

https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
This downtime is a wakeup call for many
Tried it once, never again!
UAP (UFO) Guide
>That's true for practically every asset class

No, this is false. With stocks, the holder can get paid in dividends. With real estate, you gain value from actually using the land. A bond is actually a form of credit. Et cetera. Which other assets are you thinking of?

Edit: You must be conflating it with the funny money private stocks and their buybacks that a lot of startups have. Those are obviously a gamble, they're not really "investments" for most participants. It's no surprise that the same type of companies tried to go deep into ICOs a few years ago which are like the crypto equivalent of a bogus penny stock.
AppleP][
I've always had memory like swiss cheese, so I doubt a smartphone is making it any worse.
Yeah, I had to _actually work_ for once. Glad that I can finally distract myself again :)
From the GitHub README:

> PyPI wants me to enable 2FA just because I maintain this package, which I don't care for. So this package is now unmaintained.

Just set up a KeepassXC file and put your 2FA info in there? You don't need to give PyPI your phone info, PyPI takes TOTP[1]. 2FA is pretty normal; I don't see why the author has a problem with it. It doesn't violate privacy (since it's not actually tied to any PII like a phone number), it takes like 10 seconds to set up, and it protects your packages from hackers. Perhaps the author simply doesn't see the point of 2FA, since he implies the PyPI authors only did it for compliance reasons (and not for normal bolt-your-doors security reasons, which is more likely)?

He calls setting up 2FA "an expense of my free time" when surely it took more time for him to delete and re-add his package than it would have to just set up 2FA.

EDIT:

To be fair, the maintainer owes us nothing[2], sure. But it's not unreasonable to protect the larger community with basic security practices, either.

1: https://pypi.org/help/#twofa

2: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
My first thought was that my own Internet was down. My second was that HN was somehow dependent on Rogers. Hard to go through a Friday afternoon without HN!
You’d be best suited making sure your pdf viewer is locked down and doesn’t allow for any js. You could parse your pdf pretty easily and read the sections before you open it, it’s mostly in plaintext
Previous post on the HN status twitter account is from June 2021.

Over a year with no issues. Impressive.

https://twitter.com/HNStatus
> Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible.

It's not even improbable if the disks are the same kind purchased at the same time.
The Cloudflare blog suggests it's BGP problems: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-c...
A Pleasing Symmetry in Rust: how enums and structs mirror each other
While waiting for tests to run, I was directed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
I went to Reddit and lobste.rs . Was horrible! (Not really ).
I've been meaning to try that feature. Will probably check it out next week.
Yeah the delirium tremens are rough.
noprocrast exists for a reason :)
Interac is down because Interac uses Rogers' network.

Interac's backup network also happens to be with ... Rogers.

Canadians across the country can't use debit cards, regardless of their financial institution. Credit and cash only. E-transfers are unavailable. Fun for people trying to pay their bills online.

And that's just the financial side of the situation. Millions of people have lost Internet and phone service.

Someone on Reddit wrote: "Maybe the worst part is that they have literally no open lines of communication. No twitter posts. All chat options (twitter, IG, FB, web based) are all unresponsive. Can’t call tech support, as the call will fail. Can’t even call billing or general inquires as it’s the same thing. Shit happens, I get it. But to leave your customers completely in the dark? Brutal. Just brutal."
Gun applicants required to list social media accounts
It appears as though the government would like to use gun registration as means to actively surveil on citizens.

This seems a bit far reaching. They already know your address, social security number, DOB, phone number, any aliases, height, weight, etc.

What do they propose to do with the information?
Worst couple of hours of my life.
None of the Chinese people I know, love the CCP. They may have an opinion on whether China is well-governed but for the most part they don't care who's in charge as long as they do a good job. Agreed with your notion so far.

But that notion doesn't go very far, because a large part of that notion is detached from the reality of how that notion is abused. 9 out of 10 people that I've met spout the "love Chinese people hate CCP" line, only to continue with spouting borderline racist stuff like "Chinese can't innovate/steal our tech" or "why do so many diseases come from China". Furthermore, "hating the CCP" in practice translates to actions that harm not only the CCP, but also the Chinese people as a whole, and most people have absolutely no problem with that. Chinese people are considered a sacrificial pawn who should gladly offer themselves up for the noble fight against the CCP. People slap the "CCP spy" label on Chinese scientists, engineers, students, etc, completely without proof, and voila — you now have a justification to attack Chinese people behind a fascade of "standing up against the CCP".

The pro-China people that I know here get angry whenever they see another article that claims that China is performing $HUMAN_RIGHTS_ABUSE. They don't care about CCP specifically, but many such allegations merely pay lip service to the notion that they're only attacking the CCP. If you look past the fascade then in practice they're attacking China and the Chinese people, because such accusations are used to justify sanctions against China, Chinese companies, entire Chinese provinces, depriving normal people of their livelihood, all with either very little proof or very misrepresented facts.
HN will be around a hundred years. I think it's more than just a forum. We've seen lots of people coordinate during disasters, for example. Dan and his team do a good job running it. (I'm not a part of it.)

EDIT: My response was based on some edits that are now removed.
I've realized that I check if my internet works by opening HN...
Notepad++ is great, my only complaint is that I don't like how heavyweight the ctrl+f process is, where you have a full-on popup window rather than just a little area for the search box somewhere along the edge of the window, like most apps do.
I wonder if things like double disk failures and restores from backup make HNers of the "bare metal 4ever" tribe revisit their cloud hatred.
What makes you think that? That's just a tweet from an unrelated account.
I did some work. Please don't let this happen again.
How fun. I also found this when I was looking to learn a bit about how to operate a slide rule a friend gave me:

http://www.sliderule.ozmanor.com/srmanl.html

They're really interesting items and of course can be gotten for a couple bucks at any antique knick-knack shop. It's worth taking an hour or two to learn the general idea of how they work if you're curious.
The American ones die largely in car accidents.
The Lenovo websites are really hard to navigate and I think they also use them to steer people into specific configurations they've probably batch produced. I just spec based on the PDFs and then ask a distributor for a quote. It sucks as a buying experience.

To find the PDFs you can navigate psref.lenovo.com. Pick the model and go to the specifications tab. You can just see the content there or click the PDF link to get to the file. And even that website is not always fully updated. Sometimes the distributor can already configure something they haven't published the specs for. Yet another thing they could make 10x better and end up selling more because of it.
We're not there yet, unfortunately. There has to be large scale public scandal with unmistakable proof of deepfaking for the public to comprehend the reality we are in.
Ditto, I expected to this be front-page on HN with many upvotes.
Nevermind, I thought the OP ran that twitter account
Show HN: 2synths
Crypto tokens are absolutely a scammy MLM or ponzi scheme. They're not investments. No profit is derived from the token itself, no one is holding bitcoins to do useful work with them. The value comes entirely from speculation and from miners pumping the price so they can recoup their investment in mining equipment and energy costs. They're also not "currencies", they function incredibly poorly for that purpose.
I notice that it has full text search support, too, which pocketbase doesn't seem to.
Thank you Dang!!

____________

Related:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
So that means dataloss.. Probably restored from backup.

Good news for people who were banned, or for posts that didn't get enough momentum :)

edit:
Was restored from backup.. so def. dataloss
And all those poor project managers at the end of 2022 wondering what on earth they did right on the 8th of July that caused productivity to reach previously unthinkable heights.
I am curious about your sleep temperature. Have you tried to sleep in a cold room but with warm covers (good isolation).

This is nirvana for me, I sleep best that way.

If I do not have warm covers I do not sleep well (pour when it is too hot). I also cannot sleep naked, I need to cover my shoulders with a tshirt otherwise I am always cold.

I always wondered how much psychological this is but I do not want to experiment with my sleep.
are you wearing a cape, or are you not?
Agreed. We did a process on Drata vs Vanta and ended up choosing Drata, but they're similar in terms of product/pricing. Drata has saved us tons of time.
Will you be posting a postmortem?

Not that I deserve or expect one from a free service, but because I enjoy reading postmortems from failures where both the primary and backup systems failed, I like to see what holes I might have in my own failover setup.
Rocked backward-and-forward with my arms crossed.
uBlock Origin catches almost all of it, but PiHole catches the rest. Also great for devices which cannot run an ad-blocker. (Mobile apps, smart TVs, etc)
The U.S. may be losing the fight against monkeypox, scientists say
Hmmm... but less precision is still required than optical lasers, right?
My experience was that you can easily find ones that are highly walkable, but "no cars in the city whatsoever" only seems to exist for, like, tiny little towns locked by mountains or on an island or something. Which I guess Venice is sort of like that, except that it's not all that tiny. That's what I like about it: it's a good-sized town/city that's super walkable and no cars whatsoever aside from the entrance area where the trains also come in IIRC.

In Venice, you can walk from the train station to the park on the opposite end, it takes close to an hour, you'll not even see any cars during that time and it's all fairly dense and urban. If there are cities that you could say the same of, I'd love to know about them.
While the naysayers will say, "Why isn't this in the cloud?," I think the response times and uptime of hackernews is really impressive. If anyone has a write-up of the infrastructure that runs HN, I would be interested. Maybe startups really can be run off of a rasberry pi
> - Germanies nuclear plants were built around 40 years ago, with a lifetime in mind of 40 years. The idea of arguing they can run longer because nothing happened in the last 40 years is preposterous, and betrays a complete lack of understanding of how industry works. Not only are the designs lacking essential security features, every single part was produced with 40 year lifetime in mind.

It's normal to do a general maintenance (with upgrades to recent security standard) at the end of projected lifetime and then run it for another 40 years. It's absolute - economically speaking - bullshit to destroy a mostly-good nuclear power plant. It's not like the reactor core is the only thing there, anyways - even replacing it would be much better than tearing the place down.

The worst thing is - you lose experts, and they don't train new experts. And then there's no one to bring the nuclear power plant up again, or build a new one. Lost technology...
Feels snappier. :)
Because it's a straw man argument unrelated to the article?
Hit F5.
theres two people fulltime on it but dang appears to be both DBA and SRE
I think I found the last one before the outage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026565

The ones after it are hours later and usually deleted, until this post (...71).
Wondered if I had been banned.
I prepared a spreadsheet of the approximate amount of karma I would’ve received had HN not been down and will be submitting a reimbursement request to dang.
> Europe in shambles

Europe turned to socialism much earlier than the US. While this started around 1900, Germany's situation can be instructive.

When WW2 ended, as we all know, Germany was flattened. Although Germany did start receiving Marshall Plan money, it was considerably less than Britain and France received. Germany's solution was to become a free market economy. The result was the "German Miracle". West Germany roared from flatline to the dominant economy in Europe.

Britain and France never really recovered economically. East Germany, under the communists, did very poorly.

West Germany's success continued until 1970, when Germany put socialists in power and the economy slowed down.

It's just another example of free markets working very, very well.
All sites broke on my machine this morning.

I reset the router... and HN was still down.

<sniff>
I actually worked, amazing what you can get done if there’s nothing else to do
Libraries are great, but you can't deploy new versions of library without needing to step on toes. If your dev teams are just "shove this at ops" and done, then it may not make a difference, but if you need to be responsible for the code running in the real world, just library segregation doesn't cut it.
this is quite a significant outage and has been ongoing for over six hours now.

would love to see a tech write up or blog post or even a Twitter hint but there seems to be absolutely zero transparency.
And yet the protests inside China are very real. The criticisms online are very real. The fact that they change policies is very real. Censorship isn't omnipotent, China isn't North Korea. Or do you think every single Shanghai lockdown protester has been rounded up? Do you still remember the Evergrande protests? Are all those people in jail?

The Harvard survey was anonymous. Or do you think they're lying and they secretly recorded every participant's personal information so that they can punish them to answering wrong? If so then why did 4% answer unsatisfied? Did they have a death wish? Have all those people been jailed? And why was satisfaction rate for lower governments much lower? Won't those people get into trouble with e.g. the local police department or the mayor?
Looks very similar to Facebook's outage. A combination of BGP and DNS problems that started with a configuration change.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going to expect this to happen every sprint.

They'll be so disappointed.
He didn't have to send that email at that moment if he was going through some stuff.

One's having a bad day does not excuse anti-social behavior. Ever.
So, why and what lessons were learnt? We get to post about others having that problems
Assume you're having to ship a large single release bundling the code of multiple integrating teams: a bug in one of those teams' code will likely delay the release of the entire bundle: bugs are inevitable and no amount of better management will solve them. With microservices, you add coordination overhead but teams have more autonomy in shipping their own individual bundles.
I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization course that is hosted online. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....
It's hard to understate the impact of this across all of Canada. As someone who uses Apple Pay for almost every transaction, this underlines the fragility of a "cashless society."

Also, around half my team are unable to effectively work today. We all work remote, and half the team's home internet is on Rogers, which is down. Some people are tethering, but people who are also on Rogers for their wireless are out of luck.

I'm not a Rogers customer anymore, but my boss showed me how you can't even login to their account anymore. Their website is down too, just timing out.

Funny, I left Rogers last year and just last night a telemarketer phoned me asking me to return to Rogers. What a sign that I made the right call by politely refusing.
> it's also important to take emails like this to heart.

As someone who works in open source professionally, if I took every email and bug report I got like this to heart, I would have quit software years ago. (Some of my users apparently wish I would.)

Sure, glean some actionable information from it if you want, but if you let every frustrated or angry bug report and email impinge on you emotionally, it will destroy your soul.
The Dalmatian coast has some lovely small cities of ancient stone, and far less people. Wonderful things to be found.
I went for a long walk. When I came back, HN was still down. :(
I was running a self hosted gitlab instance on my homelab, but got annoyed with rails (and especially sidekiqs) runaway memory usage.

In my own rails projects I’ve helped mediate this by compiling ruby from source with jemalloc, but honestly I don’t have the mental bandwidth to hack into their whole omnibus thing, so I just switched over to gitea instead.
All I read was "why we're okay with it being slow".

EDIT: This is also not really a Rails issue per se, but maybe architectural.
Using WebSockets with React Query
Wrote tickets in Jira
I've never had a computer in the last 10 years that didn't have the "secure boot only Windows" setting on by default.

What's the news here?
But they can't work independently. Unless your micro service operates in a vacuum, it's sending generating messages that will be consumed by other services. All of that communication requires a lot of frikkin' work. You need to maintain API documentation, update client libraries, remove garbage messages from the queue, coordinate deployment schedules, and all sorts of other crap. If you have FAANG level resources, maybe you can mock out & automate everything to the point where you don't need to worry nearly as much, but that's a monolithic effort (pun intended).
Whenever I get frustrated by cloud complexity I wonder if its all worth it, as HN, stackoverflow, camelx3 etc are still on real servers. Maybe it is worth it after all.
Florida Tech CEO Indicted for Selling $1B Worth of Counterfeit Cisco Equipment
Did global productivity go up today, or were we all hopelessly clicking refresh to see if HN was back up?
Its crazy that interac does not have backup independent connectivity.
This is not nonsense, you are speaking confidently on the matter that you have no idea about. This has nothing to do with official SEC blackout periods or roles where you have access to some specific insider information.

I am literally employed at one of those companies now, and all engineers get regular emails announcing the company stock blackout. Ffs, there was a mandatory training session on stock blackout periods and how it affects engineers. Ask anyone in this thread working for Google or Apple (or plenty of other companies), and they will corroborate that it is indeed the case.

For extra confirmation, you can see as much on Blind threads on the matter[0] and the official Google Code of Conduct[1]. The specifically relevant part in the code of conduct section on insider trading: "[...] periodic blackout windows when no Google employee may trade Google stock."

0. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Investing-stocks-as-Google-em...

1. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
Istanbul Became the Global Capital of the Hair Transplant
AWS has had more outages than HN in recent times
I’m probably the last person on here to discover https://grugbrain.dev/, but I like the particular quote:

“grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too”
I had a manager who absolutely refused to hire job hoppers. He would look at the CVs and say things such as "this guy doesn't have 10 years of experience, he has 1 year of experience 10 times!". It made a lot of sense because in that specific job it took a lot of time for people to learn everything and become proficient. Hiring someone and expecting them to stay for 1-2 years was a bad thing, since training there was costlier than in other teams.
AFAICT it's pretty common among tech companies for "recruiting" to be called "talent acquisition" and "human resources" to be called "people operations" or similar
Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
The Soviet Union also had geography and natural resources. Didn't seem to help much. Japan had no natural resources. When they turned to free markets after WW2, the Japanese economy had a spectacular rise.
Is this a violation of privacy or does such a thing still exist?

Imagine they want social media accounts for a driver's license.
I worked out and took a long walk.
I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for the month!
-- Started to fall to bits around 4:00am EST - got woken up by my phone non-stop glowing as news alerts about abe flooded in - got out of bed to check the news on my laptop - wasn't working - tethered to my phone & checked BGP - AS812 was announcing bogons & dropping peers like it was going out of style - thought maybe they were doing a config update - went back to bed - was incredibly surprised to see it dropped all the peers & was sitting dead when I woke up --
There is an existing ApplePi project which is an Apple ][ emulator on the Raspberry Pi.
CTRL-SHIFT-n (or -p) -> n -> ENTER
The other way to look at it is that there was a sixty year span when memorizing many seven to ten digit numbers was important to us, and so that's exactly what we did.

I didn't lose the ability to memorize entire books like my grandfather did, I'm just not isolated for months on end in winter like he was. It's also not the babe-attracting party trick it apparently used to be.
A refreshing take!
How do dolphins choose their name?
What evidence are you seeing that makes you think this is happening in the Rogers' case? I haven't seen any diagnostics or analysis by anyone.