skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha i didn't want to say it but you went there
That is an orthogonal concern.

Versus

That is an entirely different concern.

The second is more approachable but requires an adverb to have the same meaning, and adverbs are also discouraged. I think orthogonal is fine.
> I'm not particularly interested in oil rigs,

Are many people?
I really can’t help but wonder if our entire online ecosystem is built entirely on fraudulent ad sales.
Really hoping one of these wave pools makes its way to the midwest.
Yes, I do agree
A lot of different sites are down right now. I wonder what's going on.
Working Fine On My Hand!
In other words, we don't have to pay interest, we choose to, because inflation would almost certainly rise substantially if we printed a ton of money, and we're cautious (some might say overcautious) about inflation.

Of course there are some head-scratching rationalizations going around about why gargantuan deficits are good now, a decade into one of the longest economic expansions in living memory, but would have been bad to do when proposed in response to one of the deepest recessions in living memory.
I don't think they were talking about the City. They're talking about Greater London.
So is the outage report on my side
@DenisM: “I can imagine there could be good reason to dilute someone” ..

Cutting a business partner out of his fair share while he's in the middle of battling a life threatening disease, a good reason. I guess you went to the same school of ethics as Gates :]
SF's $1.8B acquisition of Brazilian data centers
Not working for me.
You hear about it when someone gets caught. You don't hear about it when they don't. Who would ever say, publicly, "Look! I've been faking out AdSense for years and getting away with it!"?
AOSP is completely open for anyone to work. It's as simple as that. Nobody is forced to use Google apps. They are free to fork and come up with a way for people to install apps from their own app store.
Human-competitive Patches in Automatic Program Repair with Repairnator
Why would anyone let little children watch YouTube when there are dedicated TV programs or even whole TV stations with quality content for children?

YouTube is best for deeply specialized content. Generic content has better sources.
Ask HN: YouTube down?
Youtube appears to be down? I'm getting the following error:

---------------------

500 Internal Server Error
Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

<huge hash text>
Pretty sure Twitter has an ad metrics problem too. As I wrote last year:

> When I ran a Twitter Ads campaign for one of my clients, within two days I noticed that Google Analytics was reporting nearly 100% fewer visitors from the campaign than Twitter was reporting clicks. That is, if Twitter counted (and charged for) 100 clicks, Google Analytics showed fewer than 5 visitors from the campaign.

> The support team at Twitter Ads told me they are legitimate clicks, but people are probably clicking the image in the tweet to expand the tweet or image, not expecting it to take them to a different site. As soon as they realize they’ve just clicked an outgoing link, they go back or close the tab before our site and Google Analytics script even has time to load.

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-ad-campaigns-fail/
what are some others?
Presumably at least one person knows why it didn’t happen.
Yeah I'm getting the following error:

500 Internal Server Error
Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

<huge hash text>
Yes.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown
I imagine most people aren't going to read that whole comment, but I did. Thanks for the write up, and for showing that my knee-jerk interpretation was incorrect.
There's one in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig, and another in On Lisp by Paul Graham.
Yep down for me too, 500 Internal Server Error. (Montana)
There are apps for this. Most are parent curated.
Direct videos are up again, but it looks like other site features are wonky
It seems like the interface is working, but the actual content is failing to load.
This is going to be one good postmortem.
PornHub is down for me.
> What doesn’t sound fine is to claim that any PBR-related work in the graphics literature today starts from “first principles”.

The use of that term was entirely my sloppiness alone. I used “first principles” only to mean the opposite of a phenomenological model, as @s-macke put it. What’s the right term there? Theoretical model?

You’re okay with “physically based”, but not “first principles”, @s-macke was okay with “first principles” but not “physically correct”. Personally, I wouldn’t mind being able to talk about graphics in a way that doesn’t immediately rub physicists the wrong way, but I’m not sure how, and I’m bound to cause some problems flinging around terms that have a precise technical meaning in physics. Sorry about that. ;)

It’s definitely true that in graphics we are not usually setting out to simulate quantum effects, unless the result is visible at the macro scale. Despite that, we’re trying to incorporate all the physics that matter at the macro scale.
I'd love to read a short sci-fi story about what it's like programming in a mature field. what problems will go away? which do we want to go away?

(will people still use emacs?)
Some specific pages are giving me internal server errors, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/MLB?pbjreload=10
Not working here in Vietnam
Just when I uploaded a video that would have gotten many views. FUCK
Quora is down for me.
Reading Around the World: Five SFF Books from Five Different Continents
That’s the generally, it’s not a long list. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/combat-zones
> Instead, this is really about making it completely unpalatable for normal actors to not pay mongo in every single case.

Or they might just release their entire stack, which is probably 90% open source stuff with 10% glue code anyway.

There’s more to running a business than just cloning a software stack. Any idiot can fire up an OpenStack based ‘cloud’, but that won’t make them the next AWS.
Ok, then why don't you write the "kids Popcorn Time"?
Well, judging by the account name, this is probably Peter Wang, the CTO of Anaconda, Inc. So maybe that answers your question.
Not working here in India as well.
Shhh, don't say that out loud.

I love the fact that I get internet content for nothing as it's paid for by big advertisers who are to stupid to realise that I never purchase anything that they advertise.
What is Elsa-Gate?
not working in Hungary also
You can create "custom audiences" by uploading a list of email addresses, it has to be a minimum size group of 100 I believe.

However it's unlikely that you'd see too much as I have to imagine most of the inflation is happening in the broader targeting efforts. "males 18-31 with these interests" etc.
Nearly Every Real FCC Public Comment Supported Net Neutrality – Stanford Study
That's utter nonsense. Are you claiming that in the US today, Trump or his subordinates decides exactly what will be produced and who will be the heads of all enterprises, like was the case of, for instance, Stalin and Soviet Union?

By the way, the term "state capitalism" was invented to communicate that the economy in the Soviet Union was radically different from either a free market economy or the anarchistic, democratic socialist economy that the Bolscheviks had promised.
Cloudfare site also affected
And you're looking to shame anything, no matter how benign. That's even more wrong.
dont think facebook is that kind of company yet .... other businesses which are core to our day to day are not built on fb's operations i would think (such as banks manufacturing companies etc).

and if this happened could you imagine the influx of engineers available
Sign of the end times folks.
They're just reinforcing the demise of the platform. Over 80% of the last followers I picked up were bots. At least I'm assuming anyone who followers 4800 people can't be human.
it just got serious
Down in Canada too.
Not working in Ireland
Winnipeg Mayor Wants Handgun Confiscation, Winnipeg Sun Reports
Yep, down for me here in NYC
You do realize that their code is open source, right? Here's the line of code that does exactly what I "claim": their message rate limiter implementation uses string keys that are constructed using the source and destination phone numbers.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/e26e383bd7a6...

Frankly, the fact that people like you believe so strongly that Signal doesn't do this should be damning for Signal, as it goes to show just how deceptive they are being about this issue: the reality is that Signal is quite careless with metadata :/.

(As for what you do instead, there are tons of trivial ways of making a secure messaging system that are better about metadata than Signal, and even ways that allow you to implement various forms of rate limiting. Signal is just being lazy here.)
Hmm the YouTube app on my TV timed out I just switched to Netflix didn't figure it was a global issue
Kids like to watch other kids. You can sometimes get them into a cartoon or an educational program... But they really like to watch other kids do things invent and play.. and they learn from them.
major outage worldwide i'd say. im from brazil
appreciate the info, thank you!

will look inter library and paying someone... fear it may be cost prohibitive...
Yeah except that in everything else people take advice but you say boo about someone’s parenting and you might as well have suggested they’re literally abusing their parents. There are plenty of things that are known to be suboptimal.

The American Association of Pediatrics recommends no screen time under 18 months except for video chatting, and only 1 hour a day for children 2-5 [0]

Most of us are engineers here, but as soon as parenting comes up people become so superstitious and irrational.

[0] https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages...
Getting 503's on the Android app on my end.
Facebook and Twitter are aggressively censoring alternative media and news sites that cover police brutality, political opinion and corruption. [1]

It's very strange to see these arbitrary and heavy handed actions not receiving the same outrage as possible censorship by Google in China, when they are in effect the same thing.

Clamping down on political opinion and activism ie dissent is censorship. The chinese do it directly without apology, we are using sophistry by using nebulous ministry of truth terms like 'fakenews', conspiracy and FUD to achieve the same ends.

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/tide-turning-regulat...
And another discussion where Facebook does something wrong and HN immediately starts talking about Google.
>It’s a self fulfilling prophecy, the more constantly stimulated the kid is, the more difficult it is for them to pay attention when it’s important.

I think this is true for all humans in general. I actually think it is worse for teenagers who have more unsupervised time and don't know any better.
--

FYI.. there was a program on about kids in Costa Rica or maybe Honduras where they all had chores. Even the 3 year olds. I thought it was interesting as the kids themselves were very well behaved.
I've been doing a large amount of video production that is published to Facebook for the last few years. Mostly live, some post / uploaded work. But the live productions stats the morning after an event are extremely suspect. It seems like the numbers astronomically inflated.
thought it was just my connection ... indonesia can be like that sometimes and believe it or not i came on here to check if anyone else complaining ... seems like its true and not just my isp
In my mind, as a trait, it's about how a person thinks rather than how they necessarily act.

A diligent person may be someone where creating more work isn't a blocker to an acceptable solution, whereas a lazy person has reduction of work as a requirement for theirs.

So a lazy person might work more at their solution, so long as it helps them avoid more work in the future.
Not on HN, please. If you want online shaming, the rest of the internet is available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How many stomachs do humans have? How much energy do we obtain from fiber?
Child getting crazy with @youtube down. LoL, they don't understand that services can get offline. #youtubeisdown
Not working in NJ
Wow, thought my internet was just being weird. Guess not.
Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
Same as South,Korea.
Ask HN: Buried by Technology and Software Complexity
In the past, technology like the horse drawn carriage was fairly simple in that one person could understand it all. Now we have massive things like aircraft carriers that have nuclear powered engines, Linux OS, and probably millions of lines of code and bells/whistles. If we eventually get to the point where we aren't junking these systems every few decades, who will maintain all the technology and code?

Will we reach a point where nobody understands and can fix much of our infrastructure?

It doesn't seem problematic now, but if Moore's law's effect completely stops and we can't make new progress like the rapid changes in computing we've seen since the 50's, I think we'll enter an ice age where we're re-using computers and machines for much longer periods of time. I don't think any of our software is designed for that though.
I appreciate your answer, and answers like yours are reason enough for me to believe that this topic is one we should talk about more openly despite the risk of the conversation devolving into something undesirable and unhelpful.
I'm streaming my marriage too. Jesus!
I get the same for individual videos.
Getting "An error occurred. Please try again later" playback errors here
They pay them back to...themselves.
Mistakes were made... anyways. here's Wonderwall.
Getting errors too. First time ever tho so props to the YouTube team for being pretty damn good most of the time.
Creativity correlates with openness to experience. Openness to experience means you're more likely to play with a new experience or idea in an open way - and perhaps generate new ideas from it - than to dismiss it out of hand because you find it boring and/or anxiety provoking.

https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/the-number...

You don't need a work ethic to be creative. IME creative people have to be creative. It's not a choice.

You need a work ethic to turn creativity into value - which is a different problem, where you have to balance creative output with critical evaluation and conscious persistent development of relevant skills. (In addition to all the usual biz dev stuff.)
YouTube down worldwide
In Brazil, im middle of jungle (Amazonas)
Youtube Down!!!!
Right? “Hmm, hedge fund manager making $10 million a year, or developer making 250k? Tough call”
Doesn't work in New York, search functionality works but no video load
Reverse Polish Sausage

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rps.png
Economically: we pay soldiers comparatively little. Not sure if that's good or bad but it's certainly different for mercenaries.

Morally: it's different to kill because you volunteered to defend your country than because you need some money.
No, op is assuming that an editor can only _replace_ characters.
lol is yt down for you too rn?
Youtube down in Netherlands
Yeap is down for me as well :(
Pretty cool, but I can't shake the feeling that the first example looks an awful lot like javascript...

Perhaps... Maybe ... its because I have been "cheating" on Python with JS. I mean, it is a pain in the booty to code up a web app in python without JS. Try to code a mobile app with Python and Kivy... not all that fun (not practical). In less than a week with React, I have done both. So... why not just skip Python all together? I have been asking myself that question.

Bottom line: The authors of this "service framework" states the Python world doesn't need another web framework, I agree.

It needs some serious love in GUI land.
Down in boston
Why isn’t Bitcoin banned everywhere?
Wow. Haven't seen this before.
> How does an empirical statistical table of reflectance fit into the world of physics models? Would you consider that more correct than a microfact model?

Reflectance would be an emergent property of a material. No such thing exists in a microscopic quantum model (that is, first principles). It may make sense in certain situations, but it doesn't make sense in others.

Think about a simple process of an electron absorbing a photon, which later goes back to it's initial state by spontaneously emitting two photons of different colors (like from |0> -> |2> by absorption, and |2> -> |1> -> |0> by two consequent emission) with random delays in time (which has to obey the distribution is determined by Fermi's golden rule, which is in turn determined by the microscopic Hamiltonian). How do you assign a reflectance to this process?

Or a valance electron going into conduction band by absorbing a photon, moving around a bit, and emitting a similar photon at a different point after merging with a hole.

I can give you dozens of examples of physical processes of light-matter interactions that no kind of B*DF function can emulate.

> I’d love to see a model derived that way that we can use in graphics, and I don’t have the physics chops for it. Feel like writing a paper for siggraph? ;)

Solving the many-body problem in the presence of an EM field which is also treated quantum mechanically, without approximations that washes away all the quantum mechanical effects? That's probably worth a lot much more than a siggraph paper, like a couple dozen of Nobel prizes.

> Yep :) That is the end goal of most graphics, we do stop when it looks good enough.

I completely agree, and I'm not saying it's a bad model for its purposes. It just isn't a first principles physics, is all I'm saying.
Github did weigh on this now saying they are unaffected https://twitter.com/GitHubSecurity/status/105231733337972326...
Healthier example: I met my boss doing group trail runs.
Not working in Thailand too
https://outage.report/youtube is down
We don’t have a yard, my kids can’t cook eggs while I’m getting ready, and pillow forts get old. Maybe there is another solution to improving online educational content than shaming parents who find mornings “hard”.
Well now. I guess everyone runs into one of these every now and then. I thought my Roku had finally bought it.
An internal Problem with YouTube's servers has occurred. Thus you cannot access several things on YouTube like the homepage and your subscriptions. Thus your homepage link will have "/?pbjreload=10" at the end of it. In addition you will also likely get a 500 internal server error when trying to access things, if you get that it means that that again the servers are down and you got to try again later.

It sucks but we all have to deal with it sometime.
> because in the digital era, the suppression of information acessibilty is incompatible with free-market productivity

LOL. This video is not available in your country.

China is just a giant corp intranet with a huge ass firewall.
Just add "disable_polymer=1" to every URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&disable_polymer=...

yw
down in switzerland, on phone and laptopn
Devastating for streamers. Google must compensate
Hello, i'm from Guadeloupe and I have the same text !!! I can't see my youtube videos !!!
I thought about that, there was an app doing that for iOS called Jellies
down in switzerland, phone and laptop
Physically Based Rendering, online
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/top/

Warning: Pretty creepy stuff and definitely NSFW.

Very conspiratorial but it's one of the more evidence-backed conspiracies out there (in that you can do a search on YouTube and see the actual videos). Basically, there is some really weird stuff on YouTube directed at children.
“Clean the World”
hope it wasn't a DNS attack
Not working in Poland
I get an almost empty Youtube interface, Youtube Music is also down, Google play music is working a little bit slower than usual. I'm in MX.
You're not wrong, it's an instance of a heckler's veto.

But HN policy is (basically) to allow the veto to work as the lesser of two evils, on the theory that there are lots of other places to discuss this sort of stuff. I think that's a reasonable policy for a tech site.
Unfortunate timing, right about when San Bruno leaves for the day.
Other than YouTube kids that is owned by Google itself what other apps are there? Can you recommend?
It's always been possible to get a non-GCM version of Signal if you really wanted. And there are plenty of reasons to shut down third party clients that have nothing to do with the Signal team wanting to keep backdoors open.
Esports Company Cloud9 Raises $50M in Series B Funding
I'd ask that you consider local alternatives, or at the very least make it opt-in. It would be very annoying to have some awesome open-source document manager send off my documents to the cloud.

There are some surprisingly powerful OCR libraries you could run locally, Tesseract.js not the least of them.

Cheers, and awesome project!

http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
I think it depends on the product field you are facing.

Personally, I will recommend Donella’s “Thinking In systems”
Azul: Ruat desktop UI framework
The best thing about YouTube and such is that you can use it as a reward activity. So effectively it's a behavior training tool.
I was wondering what was causing all these 500 Server Error iFrames to show up all over the web. This is exactly why I oppose our current system of copyright laws. There's no legal way to mirror a lot of the really unique, rich content that's on YouTube and, if one day that content creator decides to delete it off YouTube, we might lose large pieces of internet history forever and just flat-out break sites that are embedding that content.

Scary thought...
Is this a big thing?
Speaks to the great work that the youtube SREs generally do that these events are shocking.
Yep. It's down. "pbjreload=10". Seems like an old issue related to cookies. But who knows.
That's because people like you see 1 example and extrapolate that onto everyone's life circumstances.

For example: What about a single mom who puts on youtube for her child while she does the home chores and cooks because she does not have the money to pay for anything else (youtube is free)? Should she force her kid to sit there without any stimuli while she works? I'd argue that is far worse.
Tried to decode text as base64, but nothing interesting. Either it's not base64 or the original is in some binary format.
Gee, if only everybody had that choice.
.... cant find any soluting try deleting pbj reload i got one vid to work i hope its not a dns attack
Yup - guess I can't blame this one on my apartment complex's awful ISP. I hope someone posts a post-mortem later.
After cautiously disabling every Chrome extensions to see if that was the problem I just reached the same conclusion.
A flawed document like this does far more harm than it does good. I'd implore the author to take it down before they mislead people into drawing the wrong conclusions.
I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)
YouTube app does not load any videos in Romania either.
i hope it isn't too but i can't seem to get any youtube video back online
I wonder if there's any link to the Brazilian elections, the candidates are using YouTube heavily and it's prime time there.
is it a dns attack..
idk what that means tho i was searching up probs and i found this website
Great, another issue tracker for Kenneth and his followers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H maintainers to belittle contributors, delete unfavorable comments and generally create a hostile environment for users.

No thanks!
I also can't access Google analytics
its down for me too....