skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing that people talking about the Chinese boogieman mean.

A nebulous, ill-defined hand-waved general accusation, with no clear goalposts, that infers that there's an intersection between the company's past or present employees, and past or present employees, executives, or advisers in government, that the company at some point received government seed funding, investments, or government contracts, that secret meetings take place between the company, and the government, that the company is a special contractor for the government, building custom solutions for it, or that the company may be compromised by government meddling.

The beauty of accusing a company of having close ties with its government is that it can mean almost anything you want it to mean.
Wow I am absolutely sucked into this website, I want to scroll it forever. God I'm so jealous, albeit I'm only 24, but I really want to learn how to do all this stuff and move out to somewhere far away.
No issues for me. Maybe they have a failover mechanism?
my vm instances are all still there, can even log in via SSH in the compute engine tab. looks like they got a reboot 15 min ago. just restarted some processes but lost my progress on about 12hrs of computing time, i'm guessing it's going to be hard to get a refund..
I recall having really bad fevers. I'd taken some Panadol and gone to the doctors at work. When they measured my temperature it was at a low point and in the normal range. They ignored my description of how bad I felt and sent me home with a "if you're still sick tomorrow come back". I went home and continued to get worse and worse. I felt like absolute death. The next day I made it back to the doctors and when they took my temperature it was nearly 41 degrees. Turns out I had a blood infection and I had to be hospitalised and placed on IV antibiotics.

They based their initial "he's ok" on a single temperature check after I'd taken Panadol. I get it, when a doctor hears hooves they think horses. It's just frustrating.
IMAP as well - for some considerable time now.
On HN “rent seeking” has a broader meaning of “making money in a way I don’t like”.
Ironically, I moved all of my objects off GCS today.
AWS changed internals of Service Health dashboard after they couldn't update it when S3 went down in us-east-1 (https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/)

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Authors here:

We originally started on this project because it was surprising and a bit frustrating that no one else had done it, but there ended up being a lot of fun technical and algorithmic problems to work out along the way.

Happy to answer questions about the system.
M.D. recruited medical experts to drown out fake health news on IG and Twitter
us-central1
us-west1
us-west2

is what I’ve heard so far. east seems to be OK, and Europe too
“Won’t do it”.

PMI doesn’t protect the buyer, it protects the bank. If the buyer stops making payments and housing prices are dropping, the bank could be screwed.
> I wish the U.S. government had used their power to push for some form of a mandatory and transparent security audit to ensure data privacy.

That's exactly what the UK did. It's called the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC).

Here's the latest (public) annual report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
That's why AWS is all about their Personal Health Dashboard (PHD). They can post specific issues for your account in there. Also, they get to keep the public page looking nice and green to show to executives of prospective customers.
Why? Do you expect to be able to do something about it or did you just want somewhere classier than Twitter to complain?
Hm, maybe the wrong word in this context. It left a big impression on me, but not in a positive way.
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Yeah I've always thought it was sad. I love SEGA games, they have that signature, clean, fast, simple feel across their characters to game design.

Sega SATURN was a major flop, even though it is an interesting system none the less. See shenmue running on Saturn vs Dreamcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YxOpZ7mDo

So the SATURN was more than capable of outputting even PSP level graphics for the mid 90s!, but seemed to have poor developer experience overall.

Similarly, they went all in on Dreamcast and the console was perfect and overshadowed by PS2 and entrance of XBOX. Sony had a near monopoly hold on gaming console market with the success of their PSX variants but failed to keep Microsoft out while successfully doing it to other Japanese console manufacturers, testament to the sign of a truly, cutthroat environment, for example Nintendo's "backstabbing" that made Sony lose face and release PlayStation as revenge.

XBOX roughly has 1/4 of the US console market, that's either something that should've gone to Sony had they've been able to keep their market leader position, something that traditionally has been a Japanese dominant one.

Now Google is entering the game industry with a Stream game approach but its already questionable, because I've used it before on PS Now and the experience has been terrible, it would intermittently degrade in visual and audio quality, and with a poor quality Canadian ISP with a capped upload speed, the reaction times were absolutely horrid.

I'd imagine in 20 years when Canadian ISP gets cheaper and faster with 5G (after the world has been running on 6G), this might make sense.

Perhaps its a totally different experience if you live in a country with cheap and super fast internet like South Korea
could this be the result of another BGP hack ? cyberwarfare ? I am just speculating here big time.
Amazon isn't buying the goods though. The store selling the good isn't just selling it to Amazon, so it's not reselling.
This is a local zoom setting, you can change it.
The question is whether you think Donald Trump has any actual negotiating chops, or if it's an impulsive response to someone in Huawei making a joke about his hands,or visiting the US but not staying at a Trump hotel when they did
Use 'Turn off my video when joining meeting' in Zoom.
> Try starting an open source project these days; your chance of getting any traction is close to zero. Influencers are unlikely to help you to spread awareness of your project unless there is something in it for them financially; they're more likely to help promote an enterprise competitor who will pay them.

This is interesting. You're saying you would be giving away something valueable for free, and yet there would be no takers? Maybe it's not so valueable after all then? Stuff that is genuinely solving some yet unsolved pain or problem should, given time, take on its own, without influencers.
Thanks for the tip. It's there now. (They don't teach CSS is CSCI phd programs :) )
Just like AWS, then. "Some users are experiencing increased error rates" = "Everything has been down for hours"
Mumbai region here, and GKE seems to be fine. (Accessing it from Bangalore)
I really don’t get this. There’s a huge number of complaints about poor communication from companies like Google and AWS during every outage. Yet they remain seemingly indifferent to how much customer trust they are losing, and the competitive edge the first one to get this right could gain.
Are there any services that track uptime for various regions and zones from various providers? It's rare that everything goes down and thus the cloud providers pretend they have almost no downtime.
China says Tiananmen crackdown was 'correct'
Interesting. Thought I had read some posts of them migrating their data, but you could definitely be right.
Let's see if perfect leetcode skills will save the day. /s
This is a person who's trying to help out while on vacation...can we try being more thankful, and not nitpick everything they say?
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Their dashboard does show red on GCE and networking right now, for what it's worth. https://status.cloud.google.com/
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I don't understand how Amazon is even in the anti-trust docket. They own like one tiny ass grocery chain, and an online market dwarfed by large retailers. Sure, they have a near monopoly on eBooks, but I don't see how you make the case they used that to break into the discount microfiber towels market.
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Not to mention simpler examples like the anti vax movement. Which has put not only individuals in danger, but whole populations. There's plenty of examples of information leading to harm.

(This comment is neither a recommendation for censorship nor a push for freedom is speech)
gcloud tells me:

WARNING: The following zones did not respond: us-west2, us-west2-a, southamerica-east1-c, us-west2-b, southamerica-east1, us-east4-b, us-east4, us-east4-a, northamerica-northeast1-c, northamerica-northeast1-b, us-west2-c, southamerica-east1-b, northamerica-northeast1, southamerica-east1-a, northamerica-northeast1-a, us-east4-c. List results may be incomplete.

Luckily for us eu-west1 seems to be working normally.
Maybe all (registered) contributors would have to sign agreement that they give rights to publish also with commercial license to the corporation or non-profit that is in charge of the distribution. Would they be willing to do so? Well maybe they should get a cut of the profits.

That gets complicated managing all the payments, but I can see a single company using this model for their own benefit. Build momentum with the (two) OS licenses and get some income from the commercial license.

What could make this an attractive simple-to-manage model is that there would still be just one product, with different time-based releases of it, provided with a different license.

No need to fix bugs in the older releases, they are fixed in later versions. And everybody gets the fixes eventually but those who pay (or agree to AGPL) get them sooner.
100% employment is possible. Just look at any U.S. military base. Without poverty, capitalists lose some of the leverage over the working class which makes the current levels of exploitation difficult to maintain without massive price hikes. I think the U.K. had an experience with mass employment that convinced capitalists to raise the prices of their goods just to maintain the exploitation which poverty allowed.
Imagine taking the time to write this as a response to a light-hearted comment on the high-profile failings of other mega-corporations in a similar vein over the past several months/years. Rather, you take some perceived offense on behalf of your associates at Alphabet who refused to learn from the missteps of others :/
For what it's worth, I run i3 on my work laptop and I don't have any issues with those things - the only config I've done for multiple monitors is configuring one to be vertical and binding workspaces to particular monitors.

I didn't go for a clean install with no desktop environment, though. I started off with a standard Ubuntu 18.10 install and then installed i3, so I can still start a session with either i3 or gnome. Highly recommend this setup - it makes everything pretty easy because you still have all of the default apps and settings from Ubuntu. The only real config weirdness I had to deal with was adding keybinds for volume/media keys, and the fact that the display brightness keys on my laptop aren't bound (I always run on 100%, so it doesn't bother me).
Yes, ACs are heat pumps, which means they're just moving heat from one area to another. So yes, the heat shed by human beings via evaporative cooling, is then dumped outside via heat of vaporization.

Specifically the ambient indoor air heat is absorbed by refrigerant which is transformed into a superheated vapor saturated with moisture. When this vapor either touches a cooler surface, or has cooler air blown past it, it will dehumidify and exhaust the heat it has absorbed indoors to the outside. The mechanical work done by the AC (fans, pumps) is also being released as heat. So the total energy being dumped outside is therefore the heat that's taken from the inside plus the energy used by the AC released as heat.
Yep, USD!

I'll note I believe I ended up spending significantly more on a VGA adapter because I got frustrated with how blurry the default output looked on an LCD screen.
To be clear, since it might not be obvious to some readers: the fear your parents had about playing outside is what the police might do to you, as opposed to concerns about crime or general violence, is that correct?
Worth noting is that they never say meat _prevents_ cancer: https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/m just as they never say vegetables _cause_ cancer: https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/v (amusingly though some individual plant foods have been listed to cause cancer).

Epidemiology is the amusing intersection of science and ideology.
With Google Cloud incidents, most of the time whole regions fail, and with AWS generally only a region fails. Of course there would be exceptions, but Google Cloud does not make me feel safe as an outsider (and a user of multi-region AWS)
Creating government regulations in the hope of stopping massive bubbles from forming/bursting is like putting a band-aid on cancer. Just like with cancer, you need to look at the source of the issue: the Federal Reserve. The Fed creates bubbles through

1. Control of the Federal Funds Rate.

2. Inflation.

3. The purchase of bonds and assets from both public and 'private' corporations. Note: private is in quotes since it can no longer truly be considered a private corp when govt gets involved.

To still, in 2019, be asking government regulators to solve issues formed by other bureaucratic branches shows that not enough people have learned from history.
They are already doing that, this is presumably part of what the entire conflict is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
I wasn't aware that outage and had small heartattack when I saw huge drop of visitors. I think other metrics are also affected.
I think this might be a static page they are hosting on Akamai?
There are some whole argue that the resiliency of cloud providers beats on prem or self hosted, and yet they’re down just as much or more (GCP, Azure, and AWS all the same). Don’t take my word for it; search HN for “$provider is down” and observe the frequency of occurrences.

You want velocity for your dev team? You get that. You want better uptime? Your expectations are gonna have a bad time. No need for rapid dev or bursty workloads? You’re lighting money on fire.

Disclaimer: I get paid to move clients to or from the cloud, everyone’s money is green. Opinion above is my own.
This move by the US to sabotage Huawei will, in the long term, harm American competitiveness. I haven't yet seen or heard any concrete proof that Huawei poses a "threat" to national security. The fact that Trump mentioned their fate could be "negotiated" as part of a larger trade agreement with China points in the other direction. Either way, this is bad for free enterprise and free commerce.
I have always taken Stoicism to mean little more than everyday psychological dissociation with a nice-sounding philosophical lingo around it. Is there actually more?
It's meant to be ironic, making the point that people don't really change. Not sure what would be offensive about it unless you were a proud descendant of the actual Philistines, and objected to the use, since the 1600s, of the term philistine (uncapitalized, as this one probably should have been) to mean an uncultured boor.
Also not taking a salary should be rewarded much more because you are not just not getting paid you are actively going into the negative / red personally
I think I heard 20,000 years before it's safe.
They initially opened an incident against GCE (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003) then opened one against Networking (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...).

The networking incident looks like the one to follow for updates now.
This is pretty much what I mean. Essentially I'm proposing that the "base class" shouldn't support anything other than close(). You could have objects which don't support read()/write(), but custom verbs with different semantics appropriate to their type. Tape drives (and only tape drives) could support a rewind(), etc.
Capitalists can't just raise the price of goods, unless they're in a cartel which is illegal in most of the western world. They'd be unable to coordinate thanks to competition. It's a double-edged sword, they can't coordinate to save the earth or uplift humanity, but they also can't coordinate to stamp down the proletariat.
On the career front I know many people who want to be in management but I doubt they know that management is not just a bigger salary and bossing people around. You often find yourself caught between executives and your team. Some then cry fowl because they feel they not getting respect they deserve and happiness is elusive.
I’m semi-convinced that Stadia is just a way to subsidize GPU’s for ML.

I’m not sure it’s possible for Stadia to ever turn a profit. But if it can help Google pay for tens of thousands of new GPUs every year which burn through ML tasks when not in use? That might be a pretty good deal for Google.

Maybe Stadia can break even. Maybe it can turn a tidy profit. I don’t see how that will ever be enough profit for Google to care.
It will certainly have that effect in China.

They make cellphones, we make self-owns.
Right now this is at the 'good at least it's not mine to fix or worry about' kind of like 'and the reason I choose IBM' [1]. I can just sit back and wait for gmail to work correctly. Now at the point it starts to last what I would consider a long time well then I will have things to worry about.

One thing with gmail though. When it's down it's similar to a snow storm if you only do business in a city. Everyone is impacted and everyone understands a missed deadline is unavoidable.

[1] For those not old enough to know what I mean read this: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/personalc...
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Solutions based on third-party butts have essentially two modes: the usual, where everything is smooth, and the bad one, where nothing works and you're shit out of luck - you can't get to your data anymore, because it's in my butt, accessible only through that butt, and arguably not even your data.

With on-prem solutions, you can at least access the physical servers and get your data out to carry on with your day while the infrastructure gets fixed.
> if you are going to flag or downvote please tell me what the article gets factually wrong

Half the articles on the "Weird Republic" web site you link to are bashing a host of various black people and things. Jesse Jackson, Kwanzaa, reparations for slavery, it's just article after article bashing blacks. I don't have time to read this white trash gutter nonsense, I've heard it enough before.

Two comments back you're talking about "white people were specifically being targeted for violence" and on and on racist white trash David Duke like gutter talk. I don't have the time to go out and research the falsity of every little thing. You probably don't even deserve the time I expend for this comment, I'm not going to waste my day seeing why every point of that nonsense anti-black site is wrong.

I am white and I do not look down on blacks who were not even allowed to vote or drink from water fountains in my parent's time. I look down on pathetic white trash who have accomplished nothing and have some sick desire to continue to suppress the black African nation that was kidnapped by the white American nation.

This web site has comments from white billionaires, white millionaires, extraordinary white programmers and such, and ordinary but hard working, hard studying white programmers like me, and we have no desire to waste our time exploring or even exposing the sewer that you and the Weird Republic David Duke people dwell in.
Does anyone make left-handed keyboards with the numpad and the PageUp, etc. block of keys on the left? I saw a positively ancient one at a friend's parent's house years ago, but that's it. That would solve the problem of moving the mouse closer, while still having a full keyboard. It would also put the numpad closer to the Tab key.

Alternatively, I could use the mouse with my left hand. My friend actually did this when I suggested it as a joke, and apparently it didn't take long for him to get used to it. However, I generally don't like ambidextrous mice.

Alternatively, I could use a ten key less keyboard and get a separate wireless numpad.
#2 I forgot that that was a thing. Makes sense.

#3 seems existentially hard to prove- and it seems like half the competition would be getting cold, hard evidence that they did it- recording themselves doing whatever at a much higher resolution than possible might work.

#4 Makes sense. Maybe the earth is actually flat, and they got to the other side of it? [/s, obviously]
Ask HN: Interview Tips for a Director of Engineering Role?
Interview-wise:

- What are the key skills that a DoE should have in order to do their job right?

- How do DoEs get interviewed, in general? What does the interviewer usually look for?

- What are some of the things that one should ask about during the interview process to learn more about the role?

Role-wise:

- What are some of the commonly made mistakes in this role, specially for new-commers?

- What separates good DoEs from bad ones?

- How do DoEs get better at what they do?
Do you work at G?
Our GKE stuff in asia-south1 (Mumbai) is up, and the GKE console works fine here. (Bangalore).
No they don't. According to Amnesty International there's about 40million slaves in the world, which sounds like a lot until you realize that's only about 1% of the world's workforce. The reason they are slaves is not to make things cheaper forthe rest of us but because they live in corrupt societies that allow it. The amount of slaves in a country is highly correlated with that country's placement on the WBO's global corruption index.
Yes, people call it the "Unix philosophy" not the "Linux philosophy." And the Plan 9 folks (nee Unix folks) also thought everything in Unix should be a file and not everything was.

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seems like only us down
That's kind of the point of stores:

https://github.com/mpw/MPWFoundation/blob/master/Documentati...

and Polymorphic Identifiers:

http://objective.st/URIs/

Hierarchical paths were a good idea, let's use them. Objects were also a good idea, let's use those. A small set of verbs (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) was also a good idea. Let's combine these!

Abstract from:

Path + File + POSIX I/O
URI + Resource + REST Verbs

Get:

1. Polymorphic Identifiers, which subsume paths, URIs, variables, dictionary keys etc.

2. Stores, wich resolve URIs, subsume filesystems, HTTP servers, dictionaries, etc.

3. A small protocol that essentially mirrors REST verbs in-process

See also: In-process REST, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-9299-3_...
Was certainly an interesting alert when my Cloud Functions started reporting downtime. Among the many things that dip in and out on what seems like a monthly basis, I’ve not seen them just drop out in quite a while. Hopefully they get things sorted out. I can’t really imagine what it looks like internally when this level of outage is going on, but I want to think everyone is fairly collected
> not because it isn't right for some people but because it is generalising your experiences into assumptions about what is 'real' and what works for other people that does not match my experience at all.

This is the vast majority of the comments on 'hacker' 'news', including your own here.

> Not everyone is like you.

Non everyone is like you either. That's the problem with a social media site like this one where anectdata is king.
What was the quickstart guide?