skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about the Japanese style of home ownership, but, in the US, I'd be worried about routine maintenance on a house occupied only a few times a year, as well as the hassle of starting and stopping utilities per visit (probably hard to do from out of country).
One of the things I hate about coverage of false convictions is that all the nuance gets lost. It’s important to note that the Central Park five were convicted of multiple attacks in the park, of which the rape of the jogger was one. Their responsibility for the other felonies are not seriously contested: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-myth-of-the-central-park-f...

> Was what happened to the Central Park Five completely wrong, or simply incomplete? I read Sarah Burns’ book, The Central Park Five, expecting a plaintiff’s brief, and it is that—she was an intern for lawyers pursuing civil claims on their behalf as a college student, in the summer of 2003. She believes passionately that the Five hadn’t raped the jogger; she is more circumspect in her treatment of their other felonies: “At some point, the metal bar from Korey’s house that Yusef had carried in the park had been used to beat Laughlin.” She is enthusiastic in her support of Ryan’s assessment, but doesn’t include this quote on their conduct that night: “The other crimes committed on April 19 were grave and inexcusable—unprovoked attacks on strangers, apparently undertaken for the fun of it, which left some terrorized, two knocked into unconsciousness, and one seriously injured.”

Obviously that doesn’t justify the false conviction or some of the associated tactics. But it is important context. As we saw with “Making of a Murderer,” these investigations are complex. It’s easy to portray a one-sided narrative that obscures how the justice system can be led to the wrong result, to make it seem like this black box that capriciously chews up and spits out totally random people. Usually, when it happens, there is an explanation. The explanation might involve racism, or human error, or misconduct. But it’s almost never totally the result of those things.
I'm guessing this will be part of the next DiRT exercise :-) (DiRT being the disaster recovery exercises that Google runs internally to prepare for this sort of thing)
https://tour.golang.org is also down
One of the projects I worked on was using data URIs for critical images, and I wouldn’t trust that particular team to babysit my goldfish.

Sounds like Google and Amazon are hiring way too many optimists. I kinda blame the war on QA for part of this, but damn that’s some Pollyanna bullshit.
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
It seems crazy to me that Google Cloud can have this level of instability but I, on the other hand, can never remember google.com going down.

Why are they operating one with a different networking infrastructure from the other?
Visualize Anything with Superset and Drill
Sure. I'll remove that one and detach it from the parent.
This might be all in my head but I've been experiencing really bad latency for like an hour, while browsing, and then I read this.
I am trying to understand what it feels like to Chinese people. As Americans, is there any past government action we can't criticize? I am sure there is some example but I can't think of it. Is there something similar for us?
We act like we find it so unacceptable but we're still perfectly willing to do business with them. Why should they change if they know they can get away with anything since $100 televisions matter more to us than our principles?
Thanks, I noticed I didn't have any users after pushing an update and thought I broke something.
yeah, maybe it was coincidence. seems to be back up for me as well: https://steamstat.us
I find this really hard to believe
> I would like that treatment options be selected and evaluated on the basis of empirical evidence.

How do you balanced the subjective benefits against the potential risks and decide if (continuing) treatment is worth it? That would seem to be something without a "right" answer.
I am pretty sure there are smart locks that don't rely on an active connection to the cloud. The lock downloads keys when it has a connection and a smartphone can download keys. This means they work even if no active internet connection at the time the person tries to open. If the connection was dead the entire time between creating the new key and the person trying to use the lock it still wouldn't work.

If there are not locks that work this way it sure seems like there should be. Using cloud services to enable cool features is great. But if those services are not designed from the beginning with fallback for when the internet/cloud isn't live that is something that is a weakness that often is unwise to leave in place imo.
None of us here has any associates at Alphabet. Please stop now.
Hollywood studios say they’re quitting Netflix – the truth is more complicated
Prediction: the final postmortem will say "someone pushed a bad config", just like most of the previous postmortems (and most of the internal postmortems as well, for Borg-based services). This is the cause of most other outages in other cloud providers as well. A really hard to solve problem.
Isn't this bundling what caused the subprime crisis ? How is this time "guaranteed to work well" ?
The problem is fairly simple. The actual output of society is produced by a relatively small minority of skilled individuals that are not easily replicable (ie fungibility is largely a myth).

Citation needed?
None of those events are hidden from view, are taboo for the press or public to talk about, and have even been studied in depth with research available to the public.

Not the same at all. If the Chinese government were smart, they could have had the debate, shrugged off any conclusions they didn’t like, and let general apathy run its course. But they didn’t do that.
You look up. A single ray of light has made its way to the earth. Some day, you hope, the sky will be clear again.
> You're dealing with a mind virus, one that I'm familiar with myself: We feel like we need to spend our free time productively.

I'm undecided on whether I see that as a "mind virus" or just the right choice to maximize happiness in the long run. My impression is that spending my time doing unproductive things that I strongly enjoy (like videogames) is somewhat of a local maxima in terms of the happiness it can bring me. One day my favorite game servers will be shutting down, or scraping along with a small fraction of players as everyone's moved on to the next game, and I will have virtually nothing to show for all the time spent. In the best case I'll have a handful of memories that I enjoyed, in the worst case I'll have a deep regret that I spent my most capable years on something that is of no use to me anymore. Presumably by being productive I can avoid that regret, and I'll have skills, money, or creations will be useful to me for much longer. That's my theory of how sacrificing some happiness in the short term should make me much happier in the long term.
Through the power of extreme sarcasm.
Was trying to set up SSL on a GKE cluster today. Guess I'll have to wait for tomorrow if I want to be able to tell my mistakes apart from Google's.
forbes.com is down also?
Even more irony: Google+ shown as working fine: https://i.imgur.com/52ACuiY.png
How common are blobs cryptographically signed to a specific kernel version?

My impression was that with AOSP running it's fairly easy to update the Android versions (the blobs can still contain vulnerabilies, of course).
> The only person who's DNA was found there (who wasn't part of the five)

Are you saying the police found DNA of one or more of the five on the victim?
That majority of work only accounts for a small portion of value on the margin. You could reduce that work quite a bit with very little overall effect. In fact, this could even increase total product since the unskilled do tend to be heavily liquidity- and risk-constrained, so freeing up some time and effort on their part (without the stress of involuntary unemployment!) would significantly incent them to do such things as retraining, starting businesses, entering formal education etc. etc. This is a major argument for UBI, in fact - which would work a lot better than cutting working time across the board by fiat!
Ornamental Thinking: On “Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason”
artificial: "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally"
Instagram is on GCloud? Facebook has a heavy investment in their own DCs, I thought they would have transitioned to them by now.
About this:

“There is no scientific basis to do that.”

That’s a political statement. You are trying to disqualify clinical experience and an empirical approach, despite both being part of the Western scientific method for several centuries. Your view is popular and is gaining momentum everyday. Your view suggests that only double blind studies and statistical analysis amounts to “real science”. Your view has powerful factions in business that are supportive. Your view is going to do tremendous damage. Your view is ahistorical. I can only hope that you will reevaluate your view, and realize how much richer and broader the Western scientific tradition is.
To be frank I wonder if the best solution to the major NYPD institutional issues is a purge in the entirety - let none who worked there ever work again.

It is only "radical" as a notion because they are in power - we wouldn't bat an eye at banning gang members from high trust jobs even if they were never convicted of anything - just being part of an organization party to such crimes makes them unworthy of the priveledge. So why treat this bad apple orchard any differently?
We have lots of good faith in posters, including you! It's just standard moderation that when one submission is based primarily on content from another, we change the URL to the latter. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The 1992 Republican National Convention was in Houston and AFAIK no one died
And Thunderbird suddenly kept throwing prompts for my Gmail passwords, even after I sign back in. I hope it's related.
You're ruining this for everyone.
There's so much other "work" that needs to get done that I could easily fill it up if I didn't have to be at work so much. As it is, I've put in 20 hours this weekend around the house and I've barely put a dent in my todo list; I've got to go back to work tomorrow to get some rest.
Reality is that a password expiration policy quite often leads to password simplification (e.g., having an incremented number in the password, post its on the screen,
...).

I'd prefer 2FA and (allowing / encouraging) longer / stronger passwords over change policies.
Heads up, the "main" menu hamburger will cover the headline menu burger if the window is scaled right (half my monitor).

Another thought, would it be possible to implement keyboard navigation for this?
This is your yearly reminder to resist centralization of the internet.
You could start by making sure that your "fact" is both true and relevant, and by giving people enough information to establish that for themselves.

Comparing your comment to something that everybody knows is misleading in this case. You made a provocative claim on an inflammatory topic (which all nationalistic topics are, and unfortunately getting more so). That's flamebait by default, so to follow the HN guidelines, you need to pack your comment with flame retardants like substantive information and neutral language.
If you want to learn about the incident, here's a great documentary (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt5cYU70ujs
There is a cloud I've developed that is secure and isn't a butt :P

https://hackaday.io/project/12985-multisite-homeofficehacker...

I made IoT using cheap (arduino, nrf24l01+, sensors/actuators) for local device telemetry, MQTT, node-red, and Tor for connecting clouds of endpoints that aren't local.

Long story short, its an IoT that is secure, consisting of a cloud of devices only you own.

Oh yeah, and GPL3 to boot.
I use both services heavily at work. The networking in GCP is terrible. We experience minor service degradation multiple times a month due to networking issues in GCP (elevated latency, errors talking to the DB, etc). We've even had cases where there was packet corruption at the bare metal layer, so we ended up storing a bunch of garbage data in our caches / databases. Also, the networking is less understandable on GCP compared to AWS. For instance, the external HTTP load balancer uses BGP and magic, so you aren't control of which zones your LB is deployed to. Some zones don't have any LBs deployed, so there is a constant cross-zone latency hit when using some zones. It took us months to discover this after consistent denials from Google Cloud support that something was wrong with a specific zone our service was running in.

AWS, on the other hand, has given us very few problems. When we do have an issue with an AWS service, we're able to quickly get an engineer on the phone who, thus far, has been able to explain exactly what our issue is and how to fix it.
I run Nitrogen OS with Magisk on my Pocophone F1 and it passes the SafetyNet checks.
About that John Hawks's evolutionary argument - "if humans with smaller brains could manage, lesser energy requirements would select for this":

I wonder if maybe having larger brains didn't bring extra survival advantages thanks to having available "spare capacity".

From modern day sports we know how bad head injuries can be (boxing, American football, soccer). If in our evolutionary history a chance of brain damage was common, larger brains could be difference between "brain damaged but still functional" and "brain damaged and dead".

Interesting side-effect could then also be availability of this extra capacity for other functionality in individuals which managed to escape brain damage.
Multiple regions seem to be affected though. Wouldn't it make more sense to start out config pushes with a single region before expanding it to avoid these types of wide outages?
That was too strong, you're right.

I'm just noticing that Huawei is conspicuously singled out, and Trump is the kind of guy to do that over some petty personal slight.
Not much nuance to this: They were guilty and they are guilty.

From the Armstrong Report:

We believe the inconsistencies contained in the various statements were not such as to destroy their reliability. On the other hand, there was a general consistency that ran through the defendants' descriptions of the attack on the female jogger: she was knocked down on the road, dragged into the woods, hit and molested by several defendants, sexually abused by some while others held her arms and legs, and left semiconscious in a state of undress.
You might expect this, but this says more about you than it does about the American government and its diplomats, at least the ones in charge when the Branch Davidians were in armed rebellion against the US government. Here is a reference describing her apology at the time: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janet-Reno . The relevant quote: "Reno’s acceptance of full responsibility and her candour and obvious regret over the incident helped her earn the respect of many Americans."
Clickbait title conceals a decent article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
> a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers

Who are you getting this steal of a deal from?
I did some lunch table math a few weeks ago. Assuming it takes on average 30 min for an employee to rotate a password (reboots, re-logins, etc.), assuming an average $50/hr across all employees, ~600k employees @ 4 changes per year (my current company policy is ever 80-ish days) = $60MM of human time spent per year making the company less secure.
That explains why my google home thing thinks it’s sub-zero even though I’m warm in shorts and a t-shirt.

https://pasteboard.co/IhBsyrsO.jpg
I think some Chinese think of the 64 events in the context of the Cultural Revolution (which was still fresh in the memories of the leadership at the time). Many were afraid that the student protests would result in another Cultural Revolution and believe it was for the greater good to stop the protests at all costs.

Perhaps a congruent (but not exactly analogous) debate in the USA would be the use of atomic weapons at the end of WW2.
Harm-reduction is a communal and cultural process as much as anything else.

I keep seeing harm-increasing and harm spreading behaviors online and in real life. I remember being in New York in the 1990's. People would call you out for doing minor harm, like needlessly holding up a line. Fast forward to 2017, I see a guy at West Oakland do a ridiculous dance standing on the yellow strip to purposely hold up the BART train. No one besides the conductor says anything. Our culture has lost the ability to spread and enforce such norms.
I'm reading this thread while in a hotel a block away from the square in China (not on VPN, because that has not been working due to political events). Of course the BBC article is blocked. The thirtieth anniversary of the event is tomorrow.

Interesting that HN is not blocked.
Brex, at least currently, isn’t the kind of card where you carry a balance. Instead they look at your bank account and say “you have a million dollars in there, you can spend 100K this month” (not real numbers). You pay it all back at the end of the month.

So while not immune from risk, it’s considerably less risky, and works over a shorter time frame, than other credit options.
So does this mean they also changed the guidelines in the SSPA? This is their security framework / certification for vendors doing business with Microsoft.

Also NIST dropped password complexity requirements. The only hard requirement is it must be 8 characters or more. New guidelines is to let users choose their own level of complexity and encourage them to make longer passwords that they can actually remember.

We would like to follow NIST 800-53, but too many customers (like Microsoft) still do not allow for the 2016 NIST changes.
Cloudflare also used to use Apache mod_security.

"Cloudflare WAF supports the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set by default"
https://www.cloudflare.com/waf/
Kind of unrelated but also relevant. What is it like working as a software engineer in Japan vs. say San Francisco? How's the pay? The stress?

San Francisco is a filthy city but would are software engineers happier in that city or would they be in Tokyo?
Back when S3 failures would take town Reddit, parts of Twitter .. Netflix survived because they had additional availability zones. I can remember the bigger names started moving more stuff to their own data centers.

AWS tries to lock people in to specific services now which makes it really difficult to migrate. It also takes a while before you get to the tipping point where hosting your own is more financially viable .. and then if you trying migrating, you're stuck using so many of their services you can't even do cost comparisons.
Ask HN: When's the best stage to join a company?
We hear a lot about early employees at Google, Facebook who went on to become leaders at the firm, found their own startups, become VCs etc. What about 500th employee? 5000th employee? To optimize for growth, is there some heuristic to determine the best stage to join a company?
Good point, no one ever criticizes that.

But it's a good point to bring up when someone plays the moral relativism card. Imagine if our government sent armed thugs after anyone who posts or even mentions the famous photo of the students at Kent State. Not even Nixon would have tried that, but it's business as usual in China.
I think password expiration came about before two-factor authentication was as easy to use as it is now. Security concern around password age would be mostly obviated by 2FA.
AFAIK google.com is running independently on a different infrastructure, but some of other services are relying on GCP hence the problem affects them too.
"Crackdown", in 10 years it'll be "Trouble" then "Protest" then "Revolt"
For me, at least, that was showing as all green for at least 30 minutes.
G+ is alive and well for G Suite subscribers, not the general users.
So just got a new phone and trying to resync my 2FA for AWS but I can't because Gmail is down. Ffs.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077763
It's probably best interpreted as an American idiom for what the rest of the world would call an "own goal." As in, you kick the football into your own team's goal, resulting in a score for the other team with no effort needed on their part.
Not all developers are interested in falling into exclusivity trap. Normal ones benefit from wider reach. Why should they limit their sales to one store, if they can sell in all and get more profit? I.e. they'll release on Stadia and in all normal stores. Hopefully for Linux too, since they'll already have the Linux version.
Yeah but... Real estate market gets hot because of restricted supply...

And supply is set by regulation, regardless of cost...
The Five Laws of Futurism
Some services are still impacted globally. Gmail over IMAP is unreachable for me. (Edit: gmail web is fine)
Here is the difference: in one case it is forgotten because the government is actively imprisoning people who mention it; in the other, because people are apathetic and easily distracted and perhaps disagree that this is an event of similar import. It seems a rather important difference to me.
Slow machines aren't good to just easily notice bad websites, they're also good to notice bad server-side code and native apps.
Really fascinating to read the comments here.

Lots of discussions about whether they truly were guilty of this crime or another.

Not much being said about the fact that they were children and that even if they did commit another crime at another time or were witnesses to the crime or whatever, it's not necessarily a "good thing" that they were in jail long into adulthood.

Hacker News showing its true colors here.
> Ad blocking isn't part of the rendering or JS engine.

If we believe Google it is in a very performance sensitive part of the APIs, I would say that makes it a prime target for future optimizations just to hard wire the performant behavior directly into the engine.

> This is just unsubstantiated fear mongering and mostly flat out wrong.

Of course we can always count on a profit driven company to do the right thing and there was never a project Dragonfly at Google, just as there was never a Tiananmen Square massacre. Trust in Alphabets morality absolutely, trust that when they are doing something obviously wrong that they are doing it for the right reasons.

> Google rammed something like that into Chromium everyone else could just fork it

Maintaining a fork is going to be quite difficult when upstream wants you dead, already ships black box modules for some features and represents the de facto standard for 99% of the world.
AWS has better customer service and I don’t remember the last time there was a huge outage like this besides the S3 outage
Yes, and for good reason. NYC had a high crime rate in the 80s and 90s, once I was able to have my own day to day autonomy (mid teens, mid 2000s) the city was much safer.

I understand the push for crime reduction policies, lots of minorities (who are victims of crimes themselves) wanted a tougher approach. Unfortunately the politics of the day was that the cruelest types of punishments won out. Three strikes and stop and frisk have devastated the community.
I know a consultant who calls that region us-tirefire-1.