skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based another comment by someone who studied the source, it sounds like the ocaml code generates C code for the various optimized kernels. Wonder how the C kernel chooser code looks like.

FWIW, proper hygienic macros and scientific focused array types makes this sort of meta-programming optimization in Julia kinda fun.

Though just using type dispatching / multi-methods might be all that’s needed. It all makes me want to have a reason to write that kind of optimized code... For example if you can lift the size, variable, and variability into types you could match on your config roughly like: “fft(X :: Pwr2_64, Y :: FWD, Dir :: REV, Var :: BIDIR, Z) = 2^4-2^(log2(X))”.
Video ads are intolerable. Whenever they exist, they spawn an arms war of dark patterns to get and stop them from auto-playing, without warning, at maximum volume. The Facebook Android app is gawdawful for this; I just discovered that you can put it into some sort of a data-saving mode, which seems to stop auto-play for the moment... but time will tell. And though we're supposed to be bagging on Facebook here, YouTube is really bad with some of their in-the-middle of content ad spots that I've been noticing lately. I'll be watching a peaceful little Timeline documentary, and right in the middle of an interview the TV starts blaring pop music for something I am never going to buy. Especially galling when it's something produced for cable TV, so it has commercial breaks built into it naturally, where the ads could be inserted unobtrusively.
estou no brasil, aqui mesmo erro acontecendo.. que droga
All greens according to https://status.aws.amazon.com/
In the early days it went down all the time. Same with all of their competitors. The YouTube engineers had a Python+Mysql+lighttpd stack and even had a fork of lighttp for faster performance. They spent every day eliminating bottlenecks until it was stable and then Google bought them.

The original talk about their stack was on Google Videos back in the day. Now sure if it got moved to the YouBoobs.
Perhaps Google should charge whatever profit it wants for Google Play store. And here is the beauty: If google charges too much then someone else will offer a "play store" for less thus more competition.
If Maps and YouTube are so important to Google then it should advertise them more(i.e. pay the local/global manufacturer or whoever can advertise it). This way the market is open to competition for each product. Bonus: Android could become more privacy oriented.

More choices for end users, more choices for manufactures => happy people, less monopoly.

Side note: I'm not particularly happy with the dictatorships regimes(Google and Apple) in the native apps environment. It just doesn't feel right to have the whole world censored/guarded by two big corporations.
They're generic templates to make you think the page is loading faster than it is. They don't represent the content that eventually (normally) shows up.
New NSA/google patch gone wrong?
i think that if this is the case, it's an fast and easy fix, but they haven't solved yet so i think this is not the issue
My vote: Bad configuration got pushed.
Wait, I think it’s down here too. The home page opens just fine. But when I search for something and try opening that up, nothing comes.
Very glad to see it's not just me. I was about to think they had a radical new redesign again with everything AJAX'd and decided to make it totally unusable in anything but the very very latest DRM-encumbered browser(s).
twitter noticed: https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=bgp...
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/china-muslims-camps-u...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-re-education-camps-15354...

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2018/...

https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-editors/chinas-crackdown-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/ch...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/only-in-china-prisoners...

https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2015/08/13/this-is-how-the...
The DDoS came from inside the Google servers!
I thought Jimmy Dore or I got hellbanned from YT... nawh, just YT down. SRE's are proly eating dinner and fixing it rn.
"pbjreload=10" no final do link do youtube, não consigo acessar meu canal https://www.youtube.com/user/osnir5405/
I'll take your $20 bet and raise you to $100. Not a DDoS.
It's crab people for sure.
Oh she knows
Maybe they twern't suggesting integrating with the compiler.
Ya I was listening to a podcast on youtube that was over an hour and no issues until I clicked home to see something else afterwards.
nice very lucky dude :)
That would not cause a global outage. YouTube has caches in all the major ISPs.
as someone who works a blue collar job in an auto repair shop, these articles always make me pause for a moment and ask if i really want to keep learning python in the hopes of pursuing an office job. The entire environment just sounds like high school all over again. Why does anyone in an office put up with it?? is this somehow different than time keeping? do you have a punch card?

If you asked my boss where i was, shed probably just point at the garage and wave at the 'authorized personnel only' sign. She has no reason to care what size wrench im holding or why im beating the living shit out of a siezed idler pitman assembly. I once drove a car with no doors and a missing windshield out of the lot and down the street, and the only thing she wanted from me was to know if id run to leroys donut and pick up a frozen coffee.

Why is this different in an office? are office jobs just not trustworthy?
I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck.

Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.
Ugh. Sounds like a porn-adjacent cam site for frustrated, bottom-feeder control freaks.
A coincidence, I am willing to bet.
Ask HN: What encoding does YouTube use on the public facing error pages?
When I attempt to watch a YouTub embed, the error message includes this text[1].

My question to you is what encoding is this? What data is encoded in this string?

[1] https://gist.github.com/schappim/bf9992ac6447c63486ffb87f8ea927d2
Maybe I’ll accept non-monospace fonts for code. You get the right ligatures, decent kerning, the softer touch of sans-serif... it has some possibility

But psuedo-cursive strings? This font that looks like a retro emulator using a vectorizing filter?

This is too much. I’m not happy about this development at all.
In a nutshell setting aside 8 hours, going to sleep and waking at the same time even on weekends and holidays, refrain from stimulants and depressants 8 hours before bed.

Recommended reading: Why We Sleep
What do youbmean by that? When I buy something at Target stores, they have absolutely no way to attribute whether I saw something on TV, a billboard, the aisle, their junk mail in my mailbox, or online.
Down here in India as well.
I concur. I tried a kids channel on Roku one day, and was immediately shown a very sexually suggestive ad. I contacted them with pictures from the ad and they initially agreed it was very wrong. But then they came back and said that they just serve the ads Roku gives them and there's no mechanism to make them age-appropriate.
> SD Card slot is an essential thing, I can't believe they've removed it.

Is this sarcasm? I don't remember the last time I used an SD Card on a laptop.
Opened it up, saw a foot fetish video on the front page.
Their are workouts that strengthen joints up to a point and significantly reduce injuries. The trade off is you need to specifically focus on them and their are a lot of at risk joints.

More important in many ways is knowing what pain is a sign to immediately stop, and take time off to recover from. Taking a week or two off now can prevent significant long term issues.
oof. im in cali and its out too
A major problem with Prodigy was that it didn't transition well to the Windows 3.1/95 ecosystem.

Their custom graphics were a good plan for making use of a 2400bps connection, but they screamed EGA. I suspect they had to develop a lot of GUI features from scratch.

The result was that the Prodigy package looked like running a DOS package in a window, while AOL looked and felt like a native package.

I also suspect it did them no benefits that you got an assigned and largely illegible email address by default-- you didn't see people clinging to their XXXX22X@prodigy.net addresses the way they kept their CutesyName69@aol.com ones.
Try different hobbies you never imagined yourself doing. Even a few classes can bring on that cerebral "tingle-y" feeling and you will see yourself in a different light. You may not love them all but you make take to one and find something worthy of a lifetime of additional study.
Tips for Bi Curious Dating and Chat
Heh, you can find apologists for anything these days huh
I don't remember the exact timeline of YouTube's growth, but I think during the time period when it was the most popular site for pirated TV shows, it was really stable and has been ever since.
$20 says it was Greg. Again!
Suddenly I have nothing to do at home..
^ This. View it as a teaching tool to make yourself a more effective parent. Don't view it as a babysitter.
A billion dollar business relying such a shallow dark-ui technique for it's main source of revenue.

The state of marketing departments in companies must be a joke if this is how Facebook and Twitter are milking them.

I imagine billions of dollars are being wasted in companies with no return value in the name of "marketing".

And if anyone ever thinks Facebook and Twitter are actual competition to Google in ad market they must be out of their minds.
at least pornhub is still up
I totally forgot google video was a thing.
probably an unhandled undefined error in the JS code.
Maybe it's a brain teaser - if you can answer how to DDoS Youtube, they'll call you up for an interview.
it happened few months ago too i thought it was cookie problem
youtube down worldwide wow that's something
Went down in Melbourne Australia about 30 minutes ago and is still down. WHAAAAAAAAAAT DAAAAAA FAAAAAAAAAAAARK!!!!!
I'm going to explode. I need my YOUTUBE NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!
Is this not indicative of the drop of traffic in Australia?

https://metrics.ix.asn.au/d/000000041/ix-peer?orgId=2&var-Cu...
Yes, they do. Pretty clever idea, I think.
maybe nsa was installing a whole bunch of wire taps?
This won’t be popular here, but I use LastPass extensively (300+ saved credentials) and works like a charm: 2FA via TOTP, incredibly reliable Chrome extension (I almost never have to copy/paste passwords from it, the auto completion aggressively works even with the websites that explicitly try to prevent it or change frequently), beautiful ios integration and seamless synchronization across 6+ devices. I take a csv backup on an encrypted usb stick monthly just in case. I don’t remember any of the passwords I use (besides the LastPass master password), including the most important ones such as gmail and bank accounts (for which I also rely on TOTP whenever possible). Always automatically generated and stored in LastPass.

I would love if someone convinced me to move to something that would work just as well, for me user experience is the most important thing, I don’t want to deal with complicated workflows, considering password completion is something I have to do ~50 times a day or more, so even just a few additional seconds become exponentially annoying for me.
Great work sir!
Is there really such a thing as left or right brained? Here's [1] an article discussing this. In this talk, what defined a person as "left brained" or "right brained"

1: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/right-brainleft-brain-ri...
If this was a code error it would have been rolled back by now... this is really bizarre. Theories?
What a good time to learn about Peertube:

https://joinpeertube.org
That could be for the simple fact that all it takes is a couple of concern people to make phone calls, and not only are you a bad parent, but you're in the system and have to do a bunch of remedial work. It's not hard, happens every day.

I have a fair amount of experience with this system. Not due to those phone calls but due to other things I did, foster care being one.
We take a special Joy when things break, I wonder if there is a word for that?
A metric @!#$ton? :D
Yes, but he was better at self-promotion than the others who did, so he is credited with it by history.

Similarly, in 20 years time Steve Jobs will be remembered as the inventor of the smartphone.
Call me old fashioned, but I like functions that return something. Hard pass.
subscribers want me to deliver another video with facts and figures
My bet is rm -f instead of cp -R.
I agree, but a special moment because these days there are people like you that never had to see "big" sites crashing or dial-up speeds.
There's a bunch of engineers in some conference room right now probably going "oh shit...." while slowly accepting the impending doom of a late night at work.
Currently my son is too young to operate YouTube so his 15 mins of baby shark in a day is easy to curate safely.

But holy crap do they learn fast. He's 20 months old and he can navigate the iPad from off to unlocked to another tab to the baby shark shortcut.

At a certain point it's going to be such an uphill battle. Things like pihole gives me a fighting chance. I need a pihole like housebold-wide filter for YouTube.
Similar behavior on Snapchat. After viewing all the photos/videos from 1 to 3 friends, I see an ad, followed by more friend content, an ad, repeat.
I fear something terrible has happened.
Tech's high speed, and my low tide
The entire @YouTube platform is down. Does this mean the internet could die one day even with CDNs? @TeamYouTube is working on it hope no DNS attacks occurred. It looks like a Bot Nets work btw...
Now see, that I'd believe.
just ended the render of my vods :(
It's like old Youtube then.
Frogs, Locust, Hail, and YouTube going down.
Ghost of the dancing baby.
With the help of aliens since they have a better vantage point of where all the cables are... because, you know, the Earth is fla-... nope. Can't do it. I can't go that far. I can only say "so much" stupid. That's too far.
Bolsonaro has not taken over the world ... yet. 17
Did Google just decided to sunset YouTube?
(2017) High Performance JavaScript in V8
> It's difficult to tell whether an image will expand when I click it on Twitter app for iPhone.

Tap and hold on a link. A sheet will pop up asking how to treat the link. The link address will be listed at the top.
YouTube deadass got fried and they're probs gonna take forever to get it back on it's feet. Press F boys, press F.
Are you on prepaid? Virtually all Chilean prepaid carriers are deathly slow, especially outside of Santiago. I had barely any service in Algarrobo on Claro, but postpaid plans ran just fine, especially Claro, even in crazy places like Farellones :)

For what it's worth, I hated every second of my life in vina and that stupid town to the north of it and also Valparaiso. God, bring me back to La Parva or Embalse El Yeso. Some of the most incredible, untouched mystical land there!
I think it goes more like

Where were you when YouTube died

On HN of course

and why were you not offline

putting off dealing with my divorce

I wish paul allen was still alive

..?

(has more of a feel to it, alternating rhymes.)
them damn Russians are at it again
whoever caused this problem at the youtube office is going to get a good talking to hahahahh

https://www.facebook.com/thestartforarts
Only getting like 1 peer per video and <150kb download.
Fortunately, I still get to see a banner advertising their streaming music service, or to watch the World Series through Youtube.

Nice to see their ad-service platform isn't impacted. /s
I wonder if this is a Vitess issue. It’s pretty unusual if so.
I am a direct response marketer, and only manage ad campaigns that provably generate revenue. Over $10,000,000 spend across more than a dozen companies. I can tell you that for many products Facebook absolutely outperforms Google.
See also, "Something is Wrong on the Internet"

"Disturbing Peppa Pig videos, which tend towards extreme violence and fear, with Peppa eating her father or drinking bleach, are, it turns out very widespread. They make up an entire YouTube subculture. Many are obviously parodies, or even satires of themselves, in the pretty common style of the internet’s outrageous, deliberately offensive kind. All the 4chan tropes are there, the trolls are out, we know this."

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Sad! Pichai monkey working on it.
Writing Secrets from the World's Best Biographer
This is well covered in many books and articles. The back story, as I understand, is that Allen was checked out from Microsoft even before he got sick. He was going through relationship and other personal issues and went through long stretch of times travelling through Europe. Gates and Ballmer felt at the time that Allen received far bigger chunk of share of their success than he had actually worked for. You have to remember that Gates and Ballmer were both putting in 14-18 hours a day and many times not even have time to shower while Allen was touristing in Southern France for months with no indications of his commitments to the company. Even while at the founding of Microsoft, Allen's contributions to BASIC interpreter was not in balance as Gates but he did received same share of company because it was his idea. There are several authors who limit Allen's major contributions to Microsoft as: (1) Pointing out potential of microchips to Gates (2) be older face to partners like IBM (3) write small chunk of code in BASIC interpreter (4) suggest packaging apps as "office suit". There are few authors who believes that Allen did wanted to stay engaged but was sidelined by Gates when he started forming leadership team. This combined with his relationship issues and then sickness pushed him out of the loop.

There are lot of parallels to Zuck and Eduardo except that Allen was lucky enough to be at right place and right time to overhear the plan to dilute his stack and prevent it before it was executed.
Ha I thought my Chrome had some hanging process that resulted in js engine error. So I switched to Safari and same error...
Electric scooter startup Grin raises ~$45M
Look at all that work that’s going to get done now.
> Guess who scooped it up?

This is the best domain squatting I've seen.
If I was trying in any way to justify or excuse SA's behavior you'd be correct.

I remember going camping/hiking in the top of the Uintah mountains as a kid and saw something that made sense but hadn't occurred to me before that time.

In high mountain meadows there were hundreds of tiny rivulets coming off the snow pack. It was enlightening to see each of these seemingly independent rivulets gather down-elevation into brooks, streams and finally a decent sized river.

Identifying that these cults of personality that are proliferating have a common source and that we need to address them as a single phenomenon isn't whataboutism, its trying to crystallize the challenge we are facing as a global society.
agreed...now if they only had an integration with Glip :)
They do multivariate tests using geography, among other things.
That de-Google-ify video I linked has 26 peers currently.
Brain dump of microservices in series of blog-posts
Imploding might be extreme but I think it's entirely plausible that 1-2 years from now their stock is at half its current value or at least half the value of its all-time high.
ive been raging for like 30 minutes glad to know its not just me
Not me, I watch netflix, read HN while playing PWI and tinking with my Amiga CNet BBS running inside WinUAE.
No. Revenue and users are both increasing year over year.
TIWS is back online. I'd presume they are draining most traffic to prevent overload according to the public SRE practices. I theorize it should take a few minutes to get everyone back in.
You are trying to do too much at once. The desire to do so much at once, plus letting yourself down due to high expectations is sabotaging yourself, and tiring your brain out too. We all need to take breaks and rest. Your brain is like a muscle. Try throwing out your todo list. Be bored for a while. Come back in a few months and pick one thing that you find really motivating.

You obviously do not want to actually do any of these things if you're not doing them already. You probably feel social pressure from HN to be super cool startup person.
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Somebody probably accidentally powered down the Web:

https://home.cern/about/updates/2012/12/month-1991-web-sprea...
Unrelated, but on a recent network outage (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...):

The incident occurred while Google's network operations team was replacing
the routers that link us-central1-c to Google's backbone that connects to
the public internet. Google engineers paused the router replacement process
after determining that additional cabling would be required to complete the
process and decided to start a rollback operation. The rollout and rollback
operations utilized a version of workflow that was only compatible with the
newer routers. Specifically, rollback was not supported on the older routers.

And the postmortem action item is:

Fix the automated workflows for router replacements to ensure the correct
version of workflows are utilized for both types of routers.

The action items should have been "1) make this work for these two routers, and 2) make sure no platforms ever get left out again".

This shouldn't have happened, because it should be standard practice to test both upgrade and rollback on all your gear. Network gear vendors do this as standard practice before they ship new gear with upgrade instructions. Google can throw together end-to-end automated tests of upgrades/rollbacks and refuse to perform maintenance until tests pass.

The bigger postmortem question should be, why was the change allowed at all if the platform didn't support rollback? Additional action item: "3) don't allow changes if the platforms don't support and have successful rollback tests".

Now, did they need to test rollback? Maybe they don't mind portions of CloudSQL, Spanner, Storage, BigTable, and AppEngine being down for 41 minutes in one zone. But if they're not even testing rollback for BGP changes, what else aren't they testing?

...Also, lol, they realized in the middle of an upgrade that they didn't have enough network cable? Maybe add an extra action item: "4) count how much network cable you have before you start replacing core routers"
A company like google would never rely on just a single company like google!

/s
503 of them.
This article appears to be from June 2017.