skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this article [1] mentions a 2008 YouTube outage caused by a BGP misconfig during an attempt to ban YouTube in Pakistan. Included is a screenshot similar to what we've seeing with this outage. Possibly related?

[1] https://blog.cdemi.io/beginners-guide-to-understanding-bgp/
It saddens me that the link you posted had to leak the OS you're using... (the fact that it happens)
I think we worship complexity unconsciously because it's artistic flair and special knowledge that also brings job security.
Some analysts predict YouTube to bring in $15 billion in ad revenue in 2018. If so, they are losing around $28,000 for every minute they are down.
Probably a good time to torrent what with the intertubes unburdened.
Towards GPU processing of JSON
YouTube has 1000s of the smartest minds working on increasing page view so and duration in app/on site

It’s like giving crack to a little kid. Impossible not to have them get sucked in
I'm not as certain. I went into college full-on STEMLord type person. Humanities was useless, STEM was the only way forward, etc etc. Graduated much the opposite, wanting to see more people appreciate the Humanities and incorporate them into their work and such.

And it all happened because I took some interesting humanities courses, and had some fun teachers. My two philosophy ones -- a general introduction, then a Philosophy of Science course taught by a person who had actually gotten their undergraduate in biophysics -- really led to some interesting discussion, and got me reading deeper and more across the humanities. Now, that's most of my reading, it seems.
Yev from Backblaze -> Glad you like it!
*Edit -> I was just at SpiceWorld in Austin and a lot of the sys admins who were there enjoyed it quiet a bit! I'm headed to JNUC in Minneapolis next week and last year we talked a lot about hard drive stats as well!
siempre pillas un chileno en los comentarios
I thought they had all sorts of crazy canary deployment processes that will automatically stop/rollback the deployment if the failure metrics start increasing?
> No one calls them mercenaries

They are, though.
I am extremely amused by this - at first I thought it was some kind of Kaufmanesque joke but it appears to be genuine. The damage report machine is damaged, apparently.
IX?
http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com
Yes I agree, encrypting the stack trace enable them to share sensitive server side error codes to the client which in return can be easily reported back without having to explain anything or try to decode cryptic custom error messages.

This is fantastic!
Thank god my daughter fell asleep before this happened. It'd be a long night.
This also takes out all the ads. It’s insane that YouTube programming made for little kids can have 5++ ads within the video, all of which are wildly not appropriate for kids
Hardly anyone uses it. By Google standards, I mean.
Facebook is very replaceable, from a technical standpoint.

(From a social/demographic outlook, its replacement is inevitable.)
Probably because the logs directory filled up...
Or maybe I'm using an extension like this, and am pretending to be a Ubuntu+Firefox user so that they get their commission money from Google --> Mozilla, indirectly funding them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
Not OP, but I think "financial heroin" in this context is any kind of loan or debt, being advertised and sold like a fancy product.

Ex: At Apple stores, the associates tell you This new iPhone X is just 33$ a month, and then I ask them "But it's 1000$ though, so I'll be paying 33$ / month for 3 years?" and they say "Yes."

Also credit cards are advertized so much but every credit card charge that you incur swiping the plastic is a loan you take from the company for the amount you are charging on the card. Lot of people don't realize this..
Just as a point of reference, as a very infrequent Instagram user (Maybe once a week, often much less) I have yet to see a single ad. So it seems like they scale the amount of ads they show depending on how heavily you use the service.
I believe you can still bring it down through a distributed amplification attack. Refer to Google for more info.
It seems odd to have a popup over your eulogy of one of your best and oldest friends.
Every minute on China's internet
I'm not saying it's aliens, but...
I try to cultivate what I like to think of as strategic laziness. It is good to achieve something with the minimal amount of work, but it is better to find a way where the thing does not need to be done in the first place.
Why is a webstore with prices in Euros better than the exact same webstore with prices in dollars?
When our company first began implementing employee tracking the goal was to help our staff understand their own performance, co-educate and to attempt to support a culture of experimenting with every aspect of our work.

Our initial systems ended up being decent at keeping people "moving fast" but in our first few feedback sessions we found it stressed people out, encouraged competition instead of co-education and locked people into workflows they "knew worked" rather than fostering experimentation.

We quickly killed all but the most basic performance tracking aspects of the project and we found better ways to achieve our goals.

We now have a sort of "opt-in" tracking for staff who are interested in testing the strengths and weaknesses of a novel approach, for example. This puts the data in their hands as a tool to convince us of the validity of their approach and the empowerment is not trivial.

It's far more friendly and humane but it's also something that benefits everyone at the company.
The amount of negative feedback this post is getting is excessive.
Spanner and Storage at least are region-wide, so a single AZ going down shouldn’t affect customers on those products.
Signal using phone numbers is almost as anti-anonymous as you can possibly get. A phone number leaks nearly everything about you to anyone who has access to the right data sources. Most people would be more anonymous providing a SSN than a phone number in practice.
Internet Exchange.
Thankfully nobody important cares about my opinion.
So you’re right, it is a bit scary. We cook on low, with just a little bit of butter. I certainly wouldn’t deep fry ANYTHING with her around, and when I have the kitchen is a no go zone. To me it’s about calculating risk, and a small amount of ~175° with a closely supervised child is not that risky.

I get some judgy looks on the playground for studiously ignoring my kid and letting her play for three hours and everyone else stays for maybe 15 minutes being super engaged with their kids before they get super bored and leave, so I guess I’m not really normal. I consider one of my goals to get my daughter to walk to the park alone at five, since that was the age I had agency to go wherever I wanted. I’m not super optimistic, I may end up moving to a small town to make that possible, if I can get a good remote position eventually.
Should start working when 303 leave and 200 remain
From the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)

...an autonomous system *(AS)* is a collection of
connected Internet Protocol *(IP)* routing prefixes
under the control of one or more network operators on
behalf of a single administrative entity or domain that
presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the
Internet.
Working here.
>> gcc and Apache destroyed the market for commercial compilers and web servers; should they have been prohibited?

The difference here is that Apache didn't shove you a PlayStore, maps app and a browser in order to use their libraries. I want the products to "win" on merit not on reach.
You also forget that Apache is open source which is not the case with Maps/youtube where your access can be denied at any time.

>> Which is a good thing if it results in more people getting quality services.

This gives no guarantee that Google won't start to charge its users for these services at some point in time. And there really won't be any competition as all the competitors have been killed by the "free" price.

Actually it seems they already set the price. You may argue that the end user doesn't pay for Playstore etc but we both know they pay...just like they paid for Windows.
"Google said it would sell a license for a package including its Google Play...."
ITS BACK
Backblaze B2 supported by several linux clients I believe. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664628-How-d...
B2 is not unlimited by at $0.005/GB it's pretty cheap.
Ran out of canaries?

Well, could be an unforeseeable-wack-crazy-bug. Can't plan for every possible failure.
A “source available” example

https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts
Autonomous System
Makes a good case for self-hosting videos as a backup
Khashoggi's killing took 7 minutes, was kept on table & cut up while still alive
Or you can view it now https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1052213813108453377
Check the latest G+ updates?

oh, wait...
Still down for me. Nothing is working. Loads and then the interface seems to blank itself out. App just generates playing ID errors.
i'm hungry, i wanna a cookie
Yep, the videos that autoplay on kids content can be super creepy, borderline fetish/brainwashing content. The channel H3H3 summarized a few of the videos (Spiderman and Elsa come to mind). YouTube didn’t take action against those videos until a year later.
Yeah, using it even on the API documentation page [1] is a bit much. This does look like a cool framework, though.

[1] http://python-responder.org/en/latest/api.html
In 2008 I worked for an ad network and we dealt with a massive amount of fraudulent traffic. We did our best to shield our advertisers from the obviously bogus traffic, as it absolutely killed traffic quality and inflated CPAs.

However some advertisers, notably one large video game/entertainment website, wanted to purchase as much traffic as possible, and they were overjoyed to get the bot traffic (which went for a CPC of about $0.001). They were buying $10-20k per day from us of fraudulent traffic. Turns out they were relying on the audience engagement platforms (alexa, hitwise, quantcast, comscore, etc) to track their audience size and those platforms incorrectly counted our bot traffic as legitimate.

As the majority of their advertisers were brand marketing (e.g. Nintendo paying for a full-site background spread for the latest Zelda) and there was no direct way to measure success, advertisers would be swayed by the third-party audience profiles and agree it was good idea to spend massive amounts of money on ad campaigns there.
> thanks

Yes! The state of parsing is such a sad thing, discouraging so much other progress, that it's wonderful to have it improving. It's appreciated.

EDIT: And my thanks for all your guidance this evening. Good night.
This seems to be GCP related. I know the status page is all green currently... but we have a lot of services using GCP products and some are failing and showing increased latency. Pubsub failures as well.
It was working fine for me until the minute I hit Upload on a video. I was entirely convinced I'd had my account auto-banned or something, and was very confused/frustrated. Couldn't find any mention of it anywhere at that point, then this thread popped up.

It's pretty telling that YouTube is so reliable, and Google is so horrible to their users, that my first instinct was that I got banned for no reason by some bot, rather than the site was broken.
YouTube TV is throwing errors on the "Home" page, but the "Live" page is working fine. Some app-side issue, I guess.
Are you thinking of deep frying?

Frying eggs doesn't require hot oil, just a non stick pan and maybe a dab of butter.
Which one of you accidentallly the youtube?
Nope, not yet.

2:40 UTC/10:40pm EDT: up for me.
How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/user/test
I was able to finish watching a video on my phone, and it definitely hadn't buffered all of it yet, so some servers must still be able to handle requests for videos.
I have always found the idea that we in the US shit on China's accounting practices rather hysterical.
If "The pot calling the kettle black" ever applies it is for that.
I could tell you a few ways, but would never work for them out of principle. They can find their own bugs.
Many companies can die with the dying partner if the remaining partners are not able to capitalize and run the business in his absence.
I'm guessing it stands for Internet eXchange?
Just checked, not for me https://screenshots.firefox.com/xbO5zc86pso83oH8/www.youtube...
You probably don't have a DLCR camera and are comfortable with the built-in SSD capacity. Not having an SD slot while having a cam is like not having a car in LA, many Macbook users also rely on SD cards for "hard drive expansion", there even are SD cards designed right for this (e.g. https://gizmodo.com/this-leave-in-sd-card-merges-with-your-m...).
The government and the people who run it are literally jailing actual Mao-worshipping communists right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-...

The reason why China isn't meaningfully communist is because their economy isn't communist, or even socialist, in any meaningful sense. There are a lot of govt-owned companies, yes, but they're run as capitalist enterprises. Again, what this resembles most is fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, just less bloodthirsty. What it does not resemble is the USSR, or China under Mao.
YouTube is not built on GCP.
It's back! I've been refreshing every second - That must've fixed it.
And who is the trusted organization that makes the determination whether a license adheres to OSD? Unless you want to hire your own lawyer and make the determination yourself, the world must wait on OSI's review of the license. Until further proof is put forth, I also would not consider the new license to be open source. That is, it is not yet safe to say that this license is open source. This holds true for me, because OSI guidelines are organizationally justifiable and makes my life easier when dealing with auditors.
100%. Whenever I say I miss Hypercard, people find imitations but that's not the point. Hypercard was holistically perfect for a personal computer of the mid-90s. Having an equivalent today would be beyond mere imitation. It would have to extend the values and respect for users (ahem, "authors")
Forgive me hijackjng a self-driving ML discussion to ask a novice question on self-driving — “stateful” vs “stateless”, and how can state be used safely?

Specifically I mean pre-determined saved/downloaded knowledge about the current route being driven, or your specific instantaneous location. Anything from annotated maps, to LIDAR scans.

It seems like the paradox is that stateful algorithms can dramatically improve performance by factoring in data that real drivers benefit from tremendously, namely, familiarity with the road.

However detecting when known state is violated due to some temporal change (road work, accident, natural disaster), and being able to shift back into “general flight” rules, seems in some ways to be even trickier than not using historical state in the first place.

So you need an algorithm that can learn to drive better than a human, without having basically any contextual knowledge of the road it’s driving on. In other words the algorithm needs to be a better driver the first time it ever goes down a road than a human who has driven the road for years.

As a human, familiarity with the road makes a tremendous difference for how I drive it. I generally drive the same roads 80% of the time (I.e. commuting) and knowing what to expect around each bend absolutely changes how I drive the road, even down to where the speed traps will be.

Any ML driving solution that depends on super-fancy stateful pre-scans of the environment seem fundamentally flawed. If you can’t drive a road safely that isn’t pre-scanned in hidef LIDAR for instance, I don’t suppose you can safely drive that road on an arbitrary Monday. Maybe solutions like this were never even attempted, but certainly some amount of statefulness is inherent in some of the commercial solutions out there (Supercruise?)

So what kind of state can you use safely? First thought was basics like speed limit, number of lanes, type of road surface, and your algorithm may have predictions of upcoming changes being constantly weighted against the current assessment of the present state.

So maybe the fundamental rule is no hard-coded state that can’t be reliably detected in real-time to the point where at some point a real-time signal is able to over-ride the programmed state?

But then it seems that inevitably you get to the point where your real-time classifiers are basically running the show anyway so are you back to - what good is a Map anyway?

Would love interested but accessible readings on the subject, or maybe it’s so off base that it’s not really part of the discussion?
Gotta love the cover image on the story. Hipster with a "man-bun".
That's very true, there's always a bug somewhere lurking, even if you're Google.
I read this about Mayan parenting recently and really enjoyed it.[0] We (the USA) are definitely a WEIRD[1] nation.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/01/6412662...
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/weste...
PicoLisp[1] And Shen Lisp[2] have included one in their std lib, and maybe Prolog-like implements core.logic[3] and POP-11[4], many minikanrens[5].

[1] https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home

[2] http://shenlanguage.org/

[3] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-11

[5] http://minikanren.org/
I blame Shane Dawson
I had the same problem, but it was because one of my privacy extensions had disabled WebRTC.
yes, i am from Algeria North africa
As someone who has spent time at Microsoft, Ballmer did good for the company post-gates for awhile, but hit a plateau. He continued too long and thus brought in the stalled time that some refer to as the Ballmeriam era. And have qualms about how things were handled during that time. I have no public opinion on that.

That said, Ballmer addressing employees, he bled the company on his sleeve. Even having disagreements on how things were, the genuine feeling coming from him - in person or on video - was actually contagious - for a time.

Things are not black and white.

My only knowledge of Paul Allen outside of stories about Vulcan ventures was knowing people that worked at one of his properties having to sign NDAs, which is understandable.

No one is black and white. Faults should not be washed over, achievements over blown, hopefully we all add something net positive in our finite time.
The real problem with Google's china target is that China's internet is full of garbage. Public webpages values are near-zero because of the censorship. Nobody is willing to post publicly. The search results will be Garbage In Garbage Out. People are turning into invite-only "circles" like Wechat or Zhihu, where the real discussions happen and content generates. These sites are mostly non-indexable mobile apps and with billions of users.

It's an dead end for Google and any other search engine business. Even China's domestic search engine Baidu is dead long ago and pivoted to AI strategy
It's still Python+MySQL for what I can tell. But also has parts in Go (see i.e. their work on vitess to scale MySQL access https://vitess.io/ )
I tried my phone, laptop and remote server and nothing worked. But I still thought it was a problem with the video until I read it on Mastodon.
I’m currently roaming on a post paid US plan. When I arrived in Chile I had 3G on Claro. Then it switched me to LTE on Movistar. 3G on Claro was more reliable.

Interesting to know about pre vs post paid. Will keep it in mind for longer trips when I normally buy a local SIM.

We just spent the last week in Torres del Paine backpacking around ... what an amazing place! Going to spend a couple days in viña and then headed to Conce to see some old friends. I’ve not been to La Parva but will add it to the list!
I run Hypercard in sheepshaver and every once in a while show it to younger developers I meet. They are always blown away.
I found it quite funny to see how miserable the people in the picture are "trying to achieve their goals":

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/589c04f52e69cf9719483...
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id returns a very invalid json to me, starts with: )]}'
No one in an office job knows if anyone else is doing anything useful. Or even if they're doing anything useful.
AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.
What I have learned about a first date is it is to try to get a second date. Try to be yourself but not to strange. If you are trying to act like someone else the woman sees right through it.
I too would like to know more about this such as is it encrypted by any know method (ex: pgp)? It's rather brilliant if it's an encrypted stack trace or similar. I imagine it might even contain info about who the user is as well (if logged in or tracked via cookie) to help them debug it more.
I think you probably understand where I am coming from at this point. When I think about "audits" for secure messengers, I think about professional, specialized, contracted assessments with dedicated teams of experts (I'm a little biased, since that used to be my line of work). And my two objections to this discussion are:

1. I think LVH is right to point out that "audit" doesn't have much meaning in the document you've produced; it gloms together assessments of wildly differing depth and quality and condenses them all to a single pass/fail.

2. Secure messaging security is hard, much harder than secure transports (which you alluded to in the other subthread when you mentioned TLS). There are in fact not that many people in the world who can do a proper cryptographic assessment of a messenger at this point (not because it's prohibitively difficult; it should be well within the reach of everyone with a graduate degree in cryptography who enjoys coding --- rather, just because it's a specialized skill set that not many people have an opportunity to get good at). Like I said: I wouldn't say I'm qualified to perform such an assessment (LVH, different story). And all that "just" gets you the cryptography! If your messenger gets popular, the framework it's built on becomes one of the most important targets on the Internet!

So I get itchy when people say things that amount to "I've audited things, I have an authoritative opinion about this stuff". Probably not? Maybe, but, like, if we were going to place a bet...?

You can turn that logic around on me. But I'm not the one making an extraordinary claim. You are. So: what really bugs me is the idea that this is a problem domain you can reduce to a Wikipedia-style comparison chart. That kind of chart will get people hurt.
Shadenfreude?
They probably have some similar yet slightly worse product that they've decided to introduce instead. Such is the life of a google app.
Or a good case for keeping one or two physical paper books on a bookshelf, and maybe a candle and lighter.
Yeh we don't allow YouTube in our house, but instead use youtube-dl to scrape relevant educational/quality videos (Lah Lah, old Play School episodes, Peppa Pig, etc) to a local folder on the NAS. She gets to "watch youtube", but we get to control what's there.

YouTube is 100% not kid friendly in any way at all, not even with their parenting controls or their kids app. It should very much be seen as an adult platform with what gets pushed through there these days.