skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This would be a point for sure, except this is a primary and the only people who can vote in it are registered party members

Can't you register the same day as the voting happens? Seems utterly stupid that you have to register to vote to begin with, but if it's a requirement, you should at least be able to register the day of the voting.
Coordinated 0day patch?
Instead of freeing it you can just keep zero it out and keep it. That way you don't have to allocate memory for the next HTTP request. IIRC this was how Varnish managed the per thread worker memory.
I'm having one heck of a time getting into Discord or getting YouTube to show videos. Anyone else experiencing issues outside of the Meta realm?
Obligatory DNS joke :-)

It's not the DNS,
It can't be the DNS,
It might be the DNS,
It's the DNS
Plane: A distributed system for running WebSocket services at scale
Great suggestions! I would expand that list with a couple more modern recommends, like Kamasi Washington, Shabaka And The Ancestors, Nubya Garcia, or even Portico Quartet. Some Jazz/fusion-adjacent acts as well, such as BADBADNOTGOOD, The Comet is Coming, or Thundercat. The genre is thriving today.
How did you manage to arrive at that interpretation?
There's already a website for citra downloads at https://citra-emulator.com
FWIW for me Google seems relatively stable, but I tried logging into a lesser used gmail account on a lesser used browser, successfully logged in for like 10 seconds, then got logged out.

It's very spooky when supposedly the two companies who probably aren't sharing infrastructure seem to go down at the same time...
So we shouldn't hire interns around the elections or during one. Because the mistakes they create is common cause of these events that some will describe as stochastic terrorism.

Not to say that this would be one. It just these theories usually jumb over simpler and more common reasons ( humans do make mistakes).
Ironically, this requires a fb login to view so I can’t.
One weekend I was on-call, we had a system we ran for the government, but authentication was handled by another government owned service, hosted and managed by another company.

A user called in early Saturday evening, saying that the system was down. After a bit of debugging, wondering where our alerting had failed, I concluded that the system was perfectly fine, but the authentication service had been returning 500 errors for around an hour. When I called the user back he made a comment that rather changed how I think about monitoring and systems. He says: Well, from my point of view it really doesn't matter which part isn't working, it's just down.
Yes, seems that my info there is well out of date (though when I last lived in the UK, the underground is on a different fare regime).
Status page is down for me now too
That's exactly what the post from 3 weeks ago discussed.

AMD dropped ZLUDA funding, the remains were opensourced and it won't ever be a viable option.
SRE now have real work to do.
Instagram is also affected.
I've never seen an outage this bad and I've been on Facebook since the oughts.
Yeah take that with a massive grain of salt. Most social studies can’t be reproduced. (As in, at least 2/3rds can’t be reproduced, and the remaining 1/3rd often only on the same specific cohort)

During my studies my team tried to replicate some studies showing improved test scores after playing games like Tetris; we tried it on several schools and found literally no effect whatsoever.
my heart rate was pounding when I couldn't login and couldn't reset my password just now. Seeing this HN post made me come back down to normal. I'm now going to move away from FB, Google, and all other major tech companies I rely on.
Once you go full media, well ... I think that's way more troublesome in terms of local bandwidth and trying to find public domain music and film.

Although showing Night of the Living Dead in a coffeehouse does have some kind of amusement value.

Still, only works if you own it and have local control.
Like I said, "consciousness" is a red herring and doesn't even really exist.

What we care about is whether information complexity is increased. LLMs don't (and can't) do that by the very nature of their mathematics.
Thats down too. lmao
The second option sounds way less discoverable, assuming you’re interested in learning Shen.
I was trying to say that you can't boil the topic of regulations down to "more" vs "less".

It appears that you were incapable of hearing this message and have responded as if I just said "MORE REGULATION! NOW!"
Touch grass. xD
When working with tabular data, there are very few situations where absolute model performance is the only criteria that's important. In practice, the following are equally as important:

- Explainability / debug-ability of models

- Effort to train, deploy, and manage NN models in production

- Capturing, collating, and organizing new & better datasets

- Local developer experience and human-model-iteration time

Building all of your software in C or Assembly will be faster and higher performant. But at what cost and with what tradeoffs? Building a website has a different set of tradeoffs than building a program for the Mars rover.
They also do not refund spend during this time typically so wouldn't be a 1:1
Facebook, Instagram Down
I was recently at the kiosk at an Odeon cinema in Norway and I noticed that their popcorn buckets were helpfully labeled S, M, and L. Stor, Middels, Liten. No X-sizes in that case though. At least with popcorn you can plainly see that S is much bigger than L is when you pick it up yourself.
Mastodon is up!
It was already stated (possibly here or a space related blog) that they have all critical controls replicated on mechanical switches.
We've seen continuous layoffs for the past year or so, and the stability of everything is wonky now. Yesterday I had trouble with LinkedIn, last week it was Coinbase, a month or so ago Gmail was hanging. I don't think it's because of Super Tuesday.
Maybe the outage happened because they used a 0-day to pwn smcl
Paywalled and blocked.
Spotify is in offline mode...

This bug has been there since the first time I installed Spotify on a smartphone and it's still there a almost 15 years later.
That's true and an excellent point. I commented about the reported issues elsewhere mainly because I experienced them myself (google.com and drive.google.com not loading or being extremely slow to load content). That could be entirely sympathetic though - people having issues with Meta flooding other services and briefly overwhelming them.
Fwiw I tried to reset my pw and it didn't work either. Because FB web app said I input wrong pw.
Anyone else find this shit weird? First Nation wide outages with all phone carriers, mainly AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile… massive outage… and then now Facebook and instagram. Then banks were having outages and pharmacies.. and when the phone outages accrued mine was working fine and my fiancés was not. I just find all this weird… feel like there’s more to it!
Bitcoin Hits Record High, Recovering from 2022 Meltdown
Maybe post your password to Twitter or something. Let it escape into the wild, where it can be observed in its natural state.
Thanks. It is great as I can run under my ipad both pythoista and ish even. But changing the basic syntax will be hard for beginner. May I suggest have some tutorial. In particular for both external (say vim or any external shell script) and internal (hoe to use any editor and save the current work in progress) use. I found it hard even to navigate under your hypertext, sorry …
It might not have actually invalidated the session
I've given it a lot of time, no luck. It displays:

ISSUE STARTING SESSIONS

We are investigating the issue
Don't come across many Jacksonvillians around these parts. I use this train between Charleston and Jacksonville somewhat frequently and can second your experience with it.
The Brink (on the threat and horror of nuclear war)
Very enlightening thanks! I wonder if there is or could be some notion of "vesting" over time of the investment such that (1) could not happen. So if the founder tried to sell tomorrow, the investor would get back 1x, but that 1x decays to 0.2x over 5 years or something.

But I guess VCs generally have the leverage and wouldn't want such terms.
Check out the documentary Poverty Inc. It breaks it all down.

https://g.co/kgs/Bb2HafB
Concern as the gambling industry embraces AI
Send me your password and I'll log in and change it to nonsense. Get out of that heck hole.
Risky move. The slight drop (and subsequent recovery) today is unlikely related to this outage in any way.
Has a meta developer used Chat GPT again?
I have yet to see one plausible reason for why this would affect primary voting in any way. Voting is done at the local level on local hardware; we don't vote on Facebook.
Yes, cherry-picking the arguments that actually matter.

Most people going to an office spend their whole day on video calls, and have the temerity to shush people around them who are actually collaborating. They do this while drinking shit coffee from an awful machine (at best) or mediocre coffee from an expensive coffee bar (at best).

If people want offices to work out, they have to be downtown, near amenities, not stuck out in a suburban hell-hole because "parking".
It's definitely related to Super Tuesday. Why kill 2 birds with one stone when you can kill 10?
Prayers for Ukraine!
This coming in on the heels of the yuzu repo shutdown?

Very very interesting.

Suggestion: Allow an option to migrate from GitHub, like what Gitlab provides (Wiki, Issues, PRs etc. in one go.)

You need to bootstrap Git hosting projects like this, because Github/Gitlab type big providers will always have the corporate/DMCA/Compliance they need to deal with.
AI is not a replacement for programming. The Metaverse is not the future of the internet and Jensen is not a first name!
What tool are you referring to with "OP"?
Thanks. That makes a lot more sense. The Register must have misinterpreted the controversy when they wrote this:

> Rapid7 says it reported the two TeamCity vulnerabilities in mid-February, claiming JetBrains soon after suggested releasing patches for the flaws before publicly disclosing them.

> Such a move is typically seen as a no-no by the infosec community, which favors transparency, but there's apparently a time and a place for these things.
Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including:

- Google

- YouTube

- Google Play

- T-Mobile

- X (Twitter)

- Discord

- TikTok

- Pokemon Go

- Snapchat

It looks like they all have the same failure point.

[1] https://downdetector.com
Nobody likes to be sneered at but the story illustrates the corrosive impact of oligarchic domestic propaganda pretty well, which is pretty relevant to the topic at hand.
Yup and if all else fails, just leave (wish I realized that before my burn-out)
Ironically, Meta employees are also affected by this
They layoff too many ppl.
Way to go meta team...
Funny enough, a few years later Commodore offered a port of Unix System V that ran on the Amiga 3000, I actually played with it in my University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix
Same reason we're also not talking about the ten million non-coincidences that didn't seem to happen today. It's a kind of survivorship bias that coincidences seem like they mean something.

Or you could imagine it as this: your animal brain has evolved to notice patterns. Seeing coincidences like this is akin to seeing faces in the stars. The challenge of evolved being is to override those impulses when they're not logically sound.
M1 Max 64Gb here. It’s like 2-3 year olds now? It’s still miles ahead of any other laptop I’ve tried since.

Everything just loads instantly. Like literally instantly, and I can easily work a whole workday on it with some battery to spare.
> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window

no need to do that, for google search, people will come back later to make the search
IIRC, it also offered an anonymous forum.

Plus, it can be easily "hidden" and remain available without its owner babysitting the hardware.
China plans to bring largest surveillance camera network on Earth to the moon
Yeah will all be downloadable weights. 800m, 2b and 8b currently planned.
Crazier things have happened.
Above I linked to a blog post Jetbrains put out on March 3rd, on Sunday. It details the vulnerability. March 3rd is before March 4th, so it seems they did not silently patch anything but published the patch and details concurrently.
My shadow is extremely good at mimicking my every move, but I don’t live in fear that it will make the jump to the third dimension, kill me, and assume my identity. Should I?!
Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up.
For some reason I couldn't browse the home page but I could still access my messages (website).
Wonderful! Any public datasets you could point me to?
I was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
Not everyone sits on hacker news 24/7 - I missed the previous post 22 days ago and I appreciate it being here again.

Let the community decide with upvotes, that’s the point.
Yes, this is possible, we have ComfyUI workflows for this.
It really should be a static page.
Target launches paid membership program as it chases new revenue streams
Llama3 become sentient
Agreed! It is odd…
There are no tuples in Go. Very unfortunate. Tuples, enums and pattern matching is sooo good in Rust. I really miss it in Go.
Unfortunately, it's developed by crypto-brained guys.
The advanced version: it's not necessary to let them hit the ground. Stand over a bed or couch, so to pick them up, at least you only have to bend down to waist level.

My favorite version: juggle while standing in a swimming pool! Use an object that floats, like wiffle balls, and a missed catch just stays there floating right in front of you.
The status page seems down for me as well. I just get a never-ending loading screen.
Before that it was chegg and yahoo answers or paid tutors. Homework is not a good test of ability. Honestly neither is even just doing well alone in school. Many graduate programs expect you to have done some training conducting research under faculty direction now.
What could affect so many different services? Some DNS server? Clould provider like AWS?
No login here:

https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
The patch was available.

>Rapid7 spotted fresh patches for CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 on Monday, without a published security advisory and without telling the researchers.
When founders get hit by this, well, it is their job to understand what they're getting into. They're the ones who can hire lawyers to tell them what it means, who cana ccept or turn down investment, and pivot the company where it should go.

For the employees who get stock options though, it's a despicable move that should get you blacklisted. If you fuck over early employees like that, I will avoid you for life, and tell everyone else to do so too.
Lovely bit of cloaked dramatic irony in "Leave The World Behind"
t=1:11:20 [0]

Ruth (Myha'la): This is for the better.

G.H (Mahershala Ali): For who?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film)
Not sure about globally, but middle aged, 45 - 65, slightly more women.

I would bet those who are not working in full time jobs are a lot more active though.
Problem is just 14 years away
Product discovery questions to ask in customer interviews
Hey folks.

I've interviewed a ton of customers over the years.

Here's a list of essential questions to ask in your next customer interviews to dig carefully into their pain points and focus on actual customer behaviour.

Alongside each question, I've also included what the goal of the question is and what a good answer looks like.

Hope it's helpful!
This is the same issue we're having
I think the downtime associated with other services could just be people choosing alternative sites for their social media time.

Facebook + Insta makes up a huge share of the social media market, and when they go offline, it'd be natural for their competitors to receive large sudden upticks in trafic they're not immediately prepared for on a Tuesday morning.
Thanks for the reply! This is the bit I’m struggling with:

> Bayesian: "Shrug," I say. You can't mislead me by telling me what a real coin actually did.

> Scientist: I'm asking you what happens if I keep flipping the coin, checking the likelihood each time, until I see that the current statistics favor my pet theory, and then I stop.

> Bayesian: As a pure idealist seduced by the seductively pure idealism of probability theory, I say that so long as you present me with the true data, all I can and should do is update in the way Bayes' theorem says I should.

> Scientist: Seriously.

> Bayesian: I am serious.

> Scientist: So it doesn't bother you if I keep checking the likelihood ratio and continuing to flip the coin until I can convince you of anything I want.

> Bayesian: Go ahead and try it.

Maybe the part I’m struggling with is “You can't mislead me by telling me what a real coin actually did”. Is the author overstating the benefits, or are they trying to communicate something that I’m just not picking up?

I’d expect that frequentists are exactly as immune to this problem on a per-study basis, the only difference being that Bayesian statistics provide the ability to aggregate likelihoods from multiple studies in the hopes of counteracting bias.
This particular pathology makes more sense when you recall the traitor statues of Robert E Lee, etc; there's a substantial faction in the US which is against the US specifically because it won the civil war and imposed the end of slavery on them, which they remained upset about into the 20th century and schools in Alabama being integrated at gunpoint.

That's why the "anti-government" faction doesn't care about civilians being unjustly shot dead by police, because they're not federal government.
Google login also seems to be having issues, multiple people reported to me that the login isn’t working and they’ve been logged out of their Google accounts.
YouTube is down too. Only thing working is Twitter.
mRNA vaccines: let's be sick a whole lot less and maybe cure cancer
That sounds lovely, us folks already in the industry for some time have then nothing to worry about. Our hard earned seniority won't be matched by this approach anytime soon, not even caught up.

Not that seniority is generally much in how fast you code, in fact in most places it has relatively little to do with code at all.
Might be related to this event?

> The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea.

https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
What do you mean by this? I find all of this very odd. Everything that’s been happening.
That seems to be the actual case. Most of the "usual web" is struggling. Even HN is struggling for me.
Right, I suspect many people (including me) wouldn't even know what terms look up to research such things. I get a lot of my knowledge by osmosis from the hn comment section, for better or worse :P
Yes, we did. Any other questions?
Show HN: Appendable – Index JSONL data and query via CDN
Hi HN! A friend and I were inspired by projects like https://github.com/sql-js/sql.js and the idea of querying files served over CDN with HTTP range requests. We started thinking: what would a database that was specifically designed for this type of use case look like? So we started building one, and we landed on a functional prototype that we're pretty proud of!

With our prototype, Appendable, we're able to serve and query large (GB+) datasets by hosting them on a static file host like Amazon S3 or Cloudflare R2 without running a separate server and worrying about things like tail latency, replication, and connection pooling -- all that is handled for us by the file hoster.

Additionally, one tenet that we have been following is Appendable won't touch your underlying data, so your jsonl file is preserved and we point at that data instead of consuming it into an Appendable-specific file format. This keeps your data yours and makes it easy to introspect the data: just open it up with your favorite editor aka vim.

We're curious what you think, we're excited to build this out further to get the performance even better and add features like pubsub. Everything is open source at https://github.com/kevmo314/appendable.

Kevin and Matthew
Self driving will largely make this topic irrelevant soon, however in the meantime, their time would be better spent developing a measurement of intuitiveness for touchscreens.

With a few exceptions that they've since corrected, in a Tesla operating most functions comes naturally, it's similar to using an iPhone. Even the lack of gear shifter in the Cybertruck isn't throwing me off (though they did put an additional touch control for it by the rear view mirror).
IOSKickstart: Create iOS App Boilerplate in Just 20 Seconds
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> but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics?

Maybe the basics are just being redefined. Perhaps there are some irreducible concepts to which programming can be reduced. Maybe the programmers of the future need only know those concepts and not anything at all about code.

In science fiction, in the far future, people just tell computers what to do and they do it. Presumably, these computers were built by humans at some point but were able to improve themselves. And that was the end of the need for programmers.

Maybe we just need to move the ball down the field just far enough for the programmers of today to unburden the people of tomorrow from needing to learn how to code at all.
downdetector reports has gone down but to me is still bugged out, been catching a livestream on youtube all along though, meta stocks are back up from the dip so I take it some regions are restored to normality
Four Filipinos Injured in China, Philippine S China Sea Standoff
[dupe]

Some more discussion and panic over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604590
Yup. That it’s related to the elections is also predictable, due to stress.

Made worse in big corp due to affirmative action + lack of enough qualified candidates meeting diversity criteria.

Which is inevitable when you have coarse criteria applied to such a large industry this way so quickly, as it takes decades for anyone to be qualified for the senior roles, and many years for junior/mid level, even if there were no pipeline issues, which there are.

And unqualified folks in leadership, and mid level == stupid mistakes.

And, with the DOL rules, the company can’t even pay people differently, so no bueno even giving the high performers keeping things afloat better bonuses - unless they happen to meet the diversity criteria and it makes the stats look good.

Which it’s already hard enough to do properly when there is only one dimension, and impossible when there are 2-3.

so the bigger the company, the faster it has to cut its own throat.
Yes, this article is unfortunately disappointing and seems to have a bit of spin put on it, considering this is all pretty standard coordinated disclosure stuff.
Seems like things are "working", just super slow and timeouts, so maybe they're above some threshold for making a SLA reportable outage
Google Workspace Down
Having trouble loading Google Chat and sending/receiving Gmail
You know what they say: too much mustard gets up your nose!