skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I was having trouble accessing my Gsuite apps, had a couple of 502s, which led me to check HN. While it doesn't give me 502 now, it's abnormally slow.
Liquid metal nanodroplets: surface-initiated atom transfer polymerization
Google Compute Engine Incident #19003
It's free, easy to use, and normally fast and reliable.

What's popular in Germany?
Kind of. It helps boost Vulkan adoption, but it still needs to translate into those developers releasing normal Linux versions (on GOG, Steam and etc.). Not all of them will do it, like the very above example demonstrates. Bethesda simply doesn't care.
$50 is cheap if you're comparing it to buying an already registered .com from someone. A .com is definitely the best by far if you can find a name you like unregistered, but it ain't easy.
There are tons of wrongs with mutating arguments. The fact that it is possible to mutate arguments in JavaScript does not make it a good idea. Such functions cannot be trusted (how can you know what happens when you call it?), and they are hard to test.

There is _always_ a better alternative to mutating arguments in a function.
Right. I'm saying that is easier said than done.
> Other people's current predictions on this are all over the place and seem more dependent on what each author would prefer than neccessarily any reality.

Expectations of Fed rate hikes and cuts are reflected in the fed funds futures market, where participants estimate future values of the fed funds rate. Currently, the market implies a 94% chance of at least one rate cut by December [0].

[0] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...
Forgive me for being blunt, but that's just how modern medicine works. No one has the Star Trek tricorder that can scan your body, read your genome, and detect a quantum fluctuation in your synaptic waveform matriculation to calculate how many CCs to put in the hypospray.

We really only have one amazing piece of technology at our disposal: statistics. At the absolute best (and I'm not saying it's always the best...), what comes out of a pharmaceutical development pipeline is a drug that works for some people some of the time. Sure, sometimes you get broad categories to try to narrow down effectiveness, but at the individual level there is ultimately no choice but to try a drug and see if it works. And this is especially true in psych drugs, in no small part because there are so many unanswered questions about how our mind works.

And that sucks. I get it. It must be so frustrating to deal with a revolving door of new regimens and new side effects, all while yearning for relief from the underlying ailment. Not to mention navigating our nightmarish medical bureaucracy. But please understand that doctors, generally, are just doing their best to help given the tools they have. If you don't currently have that kind of trust and partnership with your doctor, I hope you are able to find one with which you can. I wish you the best, and hope that this perspective will make your frustrations somewhat easier to bear.
Gitlab has been super slow too
Its not hard for them to maintain blacklists, especially since they do not care about network quality.

If I were in your position, I would set up a proxy that appears as http traffic (so you fly under their radar).
The answer is that caffeine is addictive and the soda companies are selling drugs.
>Migrating a billion people is not a thing

Yet.
The $1,000 per month doesn't come from nowhere. The government has no way to create additional value from thin air. It will have been spent in the economy anyway. And every time governments try to steer the economy in a certain way the overhaul it create far overweight any upsides. So it's negative feedback loop, not a positive one.
When did the street fight start though? When one of them was looting the other’s home? Or is it a new fight with each new administration?
The GCE console also affected, couldn't send a support ticket just getting errors.
That feeling when you open https://console.cloud.google.com and see that you don't have your Kubernetes clusters and CloudSQL databases, but CTA to create first.
Cloudflare Workers also supports Wasm and so supports all those languages, too, in theory.

In practice, though, Python's, Perl's, and PHP's Wasm support is extremely immature and probably won't meet the needs of a production web application today. Go is closer but still presents challenges.

Rust seems to have by far the most mature Wasm tooling (and Rust support is built-in to the Workers CLI tool). C and C++ are also reasonably usable.
Transport, vibrational and mechanical properties of low-D systems under strain
>Consider however the variant I proposed (picture 2 result). Would that be penalty according to GDPR and if photo is already public and not used for personal identification ?

>However, random photo of you doesn't identify you AFAIK and porn star names are also made up, so you are connecting 2 non-identifying things and the end result most also be non-id ?

I'd say this would still be against the GDPR. The porn image (assuming a professional production and not revenge porn/stolen images) and an image from social media would both be public images of course, but under the GDPR you still need a lawful basis for processing data as defined by article 6 [0], one such basis for this is that the data subject concerned (i.e., the person in the photo being uploaded) gives specific consent for this purpose. The only way I can see such a site being legal is if you're providing a service to allow people to upload their own images to see if porn of them is being uploaded without consent, however you would need to ensure that the person in the image is the one consenting to that use as you would be liable if other people were uploading those images. It may also be legal to run such a tool for purely personal reasons as the GDPR does not apply to personal activities [1], but it would be illegal to make this available to other people and you would still have other legal issues with such a tool (like copyright).

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/
I cant see any gke cluster in Brazil, or any VM.
Google's G Suite Status Dashboard is here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

Shows Gmail, Calendar and Hangouts with service disruptions.

EDIT: 3 minutes later, and now Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Voice are showing disruption too. Cascading.

EDIT2: 21:07 UTC - All above services plus Google Sync are now showing service outage (red).
Google Play is also experiencing massive issues.
If you’ve never made a baking soda and vinegar volcano (or rocket), well, there’s no time like the present!
The status page took a while to show issues. My app was down, and Twitter knew google cloud was down before the official status page.
The US government doesn't care about privacy, they care about other nations spying on their citizens. It is evident from all the leaks of NSA/CIA that they spy more on their citizens than other nations'.
The doors at my work open with an app. It connects through the internet.

My phone switches from mobile data to wifi as I get near the door, causing a several second wait. Now I hit the button before I reach the wifi and then run to the door to try to get it before it locks again.

Hopefully we never lose internet...
I don't know man?

If it weren't regular and accepted, it wouldn't get any votes.

I think that's pretty clear evidence that it is regular and accepted.

But I guess we can agree to disagree. No worries man.
Love everything about this blog.

The only disappointing thing about his projects was the house he built. You go out to live in paradise... and decide to make your home in a cave SMH.

Need way more windows: https://ludens.cl/paradise/house/814.jpg
I find this hard to believe.

If you cure cancer, that's a gift that keeps on giving. Imagine knowing day-in and day-out your work was all worth it and you continually save N lives YoY.
Ability to control your thermostat from anywhere in the world > remote control
The culture is shaped from the leadership. There's no requirement a company needs to promote developers to strategic thinking positions.
You are assuming their values. Smart people can be selfish. Smart people can have no concern for a legacy or the bigger picture of humanity.
Blink/Chromium
And not even "annoying due to health issues" but instead "annoying because it'll make you leave your job if you work in a field with dosage limits" and "annoying because you'll be setting off the radiation detectors when leaving the exclusion zone"
The real question is, does Google really need to dominate to be successful? We should be rating success by the quality of a product and market share is a relatively poor proxy for that.
Looks like only GCE is down according to the status page now. I'm able to access my console for instances and GKE clusters.
My guess would be that it's always easier to make a rewrite performant because you already have a working version and know exactly where bottlenecks are. I imagine rewriting it in Clojure, or any other language, would've resulted in a significant performance boost as well.
I feel like bubble solution and bubble bath products fall squarely in the household detergent + toy department
Publish project posts on hackaday
He said this as recently as October 2016. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case#Acc...
Since the early 80s we've been citizens, not subjects. You can thank Thatcher for that.
GCP has been down since 11:50am and they acked it 35 mins later. They're great at leaving their customers in the dark.
Gosh, this was so scary... I thought someone had hacked in and deleted everything...

I hope they come back. This is still pretty scary
> this recent yield inversion may not be related to growing risk of recession in the US

It's been a reliable signal in the past, but perhaps this time is different.

Interestingly, some economists postulate that such an inversion may be somewhat causative of recession, due to increased short term funding costs relative to long term funding costs.
Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?
Couldn't load the support console to "me too" this one either!
You paid for a Windows license for the ability to automate away your tax advisor?
My site runs on Google App Engine and its down as well.
He wasn't running for office then, though he has toyed with it since the 80s, hinting he was going to run then ultimately not.

All the same, politician or not, he hasn't changed since then. While a candidate for president, he retweeted a "crime statistic" that said 81% of white murder victims were killed by black people. The actual number is 15%; whites are killed by whites 82% of the time. When it was pointed out how terrible wrong it was, he didn't apologize -- in fact, he just said, I didn't say it, I just retweeted it, as if he bears no responsibility for the things he amplifies with his megaphone.

The fact that he read the tweet and his BS detector didn't go off tells you that that fake news is consistent with his internal view of the world.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov...
You do realize that morality and ethics can be drastically different from yours, and what you are proposing really amounts to "let's civilize those savages" ?
hahahahahahaha, just like with AWS's dash, right? hahahahahahaha
I say this as a scheme/Haskell weenie. Writing really performance scheme and Haskell code often means writing ugly code.

The same with Clojure, suddenly you start writing Java with parenthesis.

In the JVM, if you want absolute control over performance its better to just write Java for those parts (don't know much about Kotlin).
Having just gone through the airport yesterday I definitely relate to this.

Even when walking through security totally clean you feel helpless, it is probably the closest we come to feeling the pressure of a totalitarian govt. in the USA, it makes me appreciate the bill of rights and not take for granted what it gives us.
Locally defined quantum emission from epitaxial few-layer tungsten diselenide
Because that's worked so well for the last 20 years.

If China would open their economy to US companies in the same way the US was open to China pre-trade-war, then things could work.

As it stands China makes no secret about their desire to displace the US as the world's leading superpower, they've proven time and again they'll exploit any openings we give them toward that end. They don't want win-win scenarios, they want China-win-everyone-else-lose scenarios. It's long past time we stopped negotiating in good faith with bad actors.
And thus was ruined hundreds or thousands of pleasant Sunday afternoons.

I don’t miss being on pager duty one bit. I see it looming in my headlights, sadly.
I happened to be initializing a GKE pool upgrade just as this occurred. The upgrade is now stuck according to the console.

The interesting thing is that a couple of minutes before everything went wrong, kubectl returned a "error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized)" error
19:30 UTC and while several services appear to be back up IMAP logins to gmail are still timing out (UK, on BT).
So is youtube: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube
Sectigo (fka COMODO) revoked code signing certificate
Air curtains can be extremely efficient and allow doors to stay open. That sounds like an insane waste of money and energy if store owners are not using one - are you sure you're not just feeling the 10-20% lost cold air when walking past?
Cloudflare Workers is based on the Service Workers API, which is a W3C standard. StackPath looks like they are following this API too (though I haven't dug into their docs). So it ought to be possible to move code between these platforms. Hopefully others will follow suit as well.

Fastly has gone a different route since they support WASM exclusively (no JavaScript), but I believe they are also following an open standard for the underlying APIs (WASI).

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead of Cloudflare Workers.)
India is the country with biggest population density in the planet (barring some micro nation), why does everyone keep giving India a pass for having absolutely no regard for sustainability and keep exploding their population by having way more children than those they could actually provide with a good life (if not environmentaly, at least economically) ?

Should we really expect the same level of life for the children of couples that had 2 children and were able to properly provide for then, and for children of couples that had 6 children when they couldn't even provide properly for 2?
Compelling Science Fiction Issue 13
Racism is a hell of a drug.
What if your image has been cached by a CDN outside of France, and then downloaded and matched by someone who never interfaced with a French IP? Who is at fault here?
meta key isn't working for me on my 2017 macbook pro... am i doing something wrong?
>Really seems like Wall Street is in love with the term "shadow banking",

Actually, the hedge fund and private equity fund people hate that term because it implies something nefarious is happening. In reality, the new post-2008 crisis bank regulations in both Europe and USA to ensure stability causes a new phenomenon to emerge: Non-banks lending money to companies that banks are not allowed to lend to.

Every economist and financial regulator knows this became a side-effect of the more stringent financial regulations. So the "too big to fail" banks will still lend millions to big companies like Microsoft and Apple, but the $50m companies are too small and too risky to bother with.

Look how these "shadow" lending transactions keep emerging...

- a billion dollar pension fund is woefully short of its obligations to pensioners and needs a higher yield on its money. Buying safe US T-bills that yield 1% interest is not enough. They need to look at alternative asset classes that gets them in that ~8% range.

- a medium-size company needs $50 million loan to expand its business and is willing to pay a higher interest rate than 1% T-Bills. (That makes sense since the company doesn't have the same credit worthiness as the US Government.)

- If the pension fund (needing to put their money to work) and the company (needing a loan) can match up with each other, they can help each other's goals. But the pension fund isn't in the business of analyzing credit risk or providing loans directly. Likewise, the owner of the company doesn't have the time to fly all over the country and meet with 100 different pension fund officers.

That's where middlemen like private equity come in. They're the ones with the staff of credit analysts. The "back office" of the private equity fund that analyzes a company's credit worthiness does much of the same work that the credit analysts at JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc did. They become the "shadow bank". Of course, they also charge management fees and a % of the profits for their "financial intermediary" services.

The middle market's underlying need for credit never disappeared. The new bank regulations just inevitably shifted the loan transactions to a different set of players.
My IPs on GCE inaccessible for more than 30 mins already
Yep, I can no longer see my Cloud SQL database - it's as if I've never created one at all. Really hoping this is just an issue displaying it and that Google hasn't punted my infrastructure and backups.
I just created a code snippet in C [1] which prints hello world by using the (bare-metal) WASI interface. No headers included. The compiled wasm file works with wasmer, lucet, wasmtime and an web implementation of WASI [2]

[1] https://gist.github.com/s-macke/6dd78c78be46214d418454abb667...

[2] https://wasi.dev/polyfill/
Hopefully the other long term impact will be western companies realizing they can't rely on being able to continue to do business with Chinese ones. The Chinese government will be perfectly happy to pull that plug when it suits them even if the American government hadn't been.
Spare a thought for the pleasant Australian early Monday mornings too! Always a rude awakening...
I appreciate someone in the field taking the time to respond. I think we have the ability to scale our knowledge with machine learning and mass monitoring. Again i recognize that 50 years is extremely optimistic. Ethics, money, and politics never agree.
Time for a period of degrowth, the only way we are going to deal with depleting natural resources and global warming.
We are not in a static equilibrium. I don't think anyone believes we have reached an ideal state of technology where we don't need to progress any further. People who are not producing things that are immediately useful can be working to improve processes for building things, inventing new things, doing basic research, and supporting people who do that.

There's also the issue that the population is constantly growing and in flux in different areas. Nobody knows the exact right amount of stuff to make to serve everybody and underestimating can have dire consequences and get lots of people killed, so we can and should make more than might be necessary.

It's a huge oversimplification to say we just need 100 units of food so get the 5 people to make 20 units of food each and then we're good, no need for anyone else to work.
I told you that intra-thread communication will ruin chess engine efficiency, and in your reply, all you do is talk more about stuff that requires intra-thread communication (tasks, futures, promises, etc.). You might think that all I'm here to do is insult you, but from my point of view it seems like all you're here to do is ignore me, even though I'm the one with domain-specific knowledge. It's not a "discussion" if you're not going to consider anything I have to say.
GCP status page is worthless as it's always happy and green when production systems are down and then they might acknowledge something an hour later
Well, yes, the down payment does reduce the bank's loss in some cases, but it does also function as a "moral test" in the sense the parent meant.

Every mortgage application asks if someone else is contributing to the down payment. That wouldn't matter unless there were a difference in risk classes between the two groups of people, so it's not purely a matter of a better loan-to-(initial-)value ratio.

Edit: looks like that's not the (dominant) reason; see follow up thread.
Same, my Manager called my and said "everything is down".

So I wander over to my Firebase console, and there's no database loading. Thank god for twitter, and people also saying that they have the same issue or I would have for sure though we've been hacked.

I hope this is a good wake up call for everyone. I know that I'm going to think more about how we do backups and fail-safes
> There's no reason to bring racism into it. This isn't about West vs East, it's about democracy vs fascism.

Fascism is a big word. You should be more careful when and where to use it.
I'm seeing that with northamerica-northeast1. I can't access anything over the network in that region and most of the GKE clusters and VMs in that region aren't listed in the console
Why do you have to control the temperature in places you aren't in?
Confirming issues on our end. I'm able to load up my console but when I go to Kubernetes Engine, I don't see my clusters. I'm monitoring closely on twitter
Ask HN: Computational physicists, what algorithms do you use daily?
> I'm puzzled: did they actually put five people in jail, even though there was actually one perpetrator?

It's actually a pretty complicated case. I'd recommend reading both the recommendation from Morgenthau to vacate the convictions[1] (which ended up happening) and the Armstrong report[2] (which came to the conclusion that the Central Park Five were most likely involved in the attack). Doctors involved in the case as well as the victim still believe that there were more than one attacker[3] (the victim has no memory of the attack). The only person who's DNA was found there (who wasn't part of the five) is the person who claims that there was only one attacker (he confessed to the crime and made the claim that he was the only attacker after meeting one of the five in prison).

Like I said, the best way to get an idea about the case is to read the two reports. Most of the news articles that cover the story don't do a great job.

[1] http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/wise.pdf
[2] https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Armstrong.pdf
[3] https://abcnews.go.com/US/case-settled-1989-central-park-jog...
> kicked out of SD/WiFi associations

They are back in now.
> But since rates are currently just north of 2 percent, there's no room to maneuver. If a recession hits now, the Fed cannot drop rates 5 percentage points. They'll run out of ammunition at the zero lower bound.

There's no reason rates cannot go negative. Bund yields (Germany) are negative currently [0]. As a matter of policy, there are other approaches that may be taken. A modified Taylor rule with a zero lower bound may deliver optimal policy if the neutral rate falls below zero [1].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

[1] https://www.albany.edu/~bd892/Papers/TaylorRule.pdf
Took me a while to track latency issues to GCP. Wasn't expecting it. This also seems to affect some GAE instances and some of their products like google photos. At least according to my observations
gitlab is slow too
Research actually suggests that memorable experiences do yield sustained happiness, whereas transient ones or simply material goods do not. A handful of Facebook likes would probably not make you very happy in the longer run, but having your cure for cancer reach top spot on HN just might.