skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't wait for the postmortem!
Code reuse is a wonderful thing, until it's not.
Agreed. Obviously the complexity of the console you are trying to emulate is a huge factor in just how much effort it will take to implement.
yep, I can confirm. Excellent communication on Zack's and Kenton's side. After limits were lifted everything is working perfectly - no more 429 errors. Thanks again!
That's an over simplification. True information can be dangerous or not. Falsehoods can be harmless or not. Context has a significant impact on how the information is treated and the ramifications that come from it.
Edit: and I agree!

I’m not in SRE so I don’t bother with all the backup modes (direct IRC channel, phone lines, “pagers” with backup numbers). I don’t think the networking SRE folks are as impacted in their direct communication, but they are (obviously) not able to get the word out as easily.

Still, it seems reasonable to me to use tooling for most outages that relies on “the network is fine overall”, to optimize for the common case.

Note: the status dashboard now correctly highlights (Edit: with a banner at the top) that multiple things are impacted because Networking. The Networking outage is the root cause.
Not sure if related, but I was going to a BBQ yesterday and myself and 3 other people got lost because Google Maps app glitched out, directing us to the wrong places. If you search twitter for #googlemaps tons of people have the same issue. Surprised no one has posted about it.
This article gets history approximately wrong. Yes, Cyc failed at its original goals, but it's still going, kind of, and as far as I know was never intended for image recognition. Fuzzy logic isn't used much in science because probability and statistics are the more usual ways to handle uncertainty.

Given its inaccuracy so far, I'm not sure the article is worth finishing?
Encrypted Message Exchanged by Space Force's Citizens of the Stars(LUCKY)(FAIRY)
Came here to post same series!

If you don't want to watch 19 episodes spanning a few years, he put up three summary videos of the project starting at episode 20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61lZn1sUkzE
>nothing is lost

except time
You know this reminds me of a bad taste that Google Sales team left when I asked for some of my billing that I was unaware of running after following a quickstart guide.

AWS refunded me in the first reply on the same day!

GCP sales rep just copy pasted a link to a self support survey that essentially told me, after a series of YES or NO questions that they can't refund me.

So why not just tell your customers like it is? Google Cloud is super strict when it comes to billing. I have called my bank to do a chargeback and put a hold on all future billing with GCP.

I'm now back to AWS and still on a Free Tier. Apparently the $300 Trial with Google Cloud did not include some critical products, AWS Free tier makes it super clear and even still I sometimes leave something running on and discover it in my invoice....

I've yet to receive a reply from Google and its been a week now.

I do appreciate other products such as Firebase but honestly for infrastructure and for future integration with enterprise customers I feel AWS is more appropriate and mature.
I've been thinking of writing a blogpost comparing the advantages and disadvantages of emscripten, wasi, and plain llvm (which is what is discussed here), and also how those interact with web vs server. This space has definitely gotten more interesting recently!
The quality of the product especially for enterprise products has a lot to do with the quality of support. Google also lags there.
Many, many people in SV are working on cancer and other really valuable things. Progress is slow because it's hard, not because nobody works on it.
What if the interaction were more like OOP - the File class wouldn't necessarily make sense as the top parent.

Would be kind of interesting to call methods on objects rather than read/write files, but it's not immediately obvious to me that that really gains anything over the status quo.

And now that I've written that, I wonder is that what powershell's verb-object does anyway? I've never come close to proficient enough (nor wanted to!) to know.
Multi-cloud for those times when you really need that level of availability and can afford it.
This happened to Amazon S3 as well once. The "X" image they use to indicate a service outage was served by... yup, S3, which was down obviously.
...and only the paranoid survive?
> the status dashboard now correctly highlights that multiple things are impacted because Networking.

this column of green checkmarks begs to differ: https://i.imgur.com/2TPD9e9.png
Wouldn’t that also apply to all the wildlife in the area? Are there no animals inside the exclusion zone? I get that cancer rates and birth defects would go up, but that’s a bit different from being poisoned, the implication a lack of survivability.
I guess we know what steam uses (the store at least).
and a nice Sunday afternoon
I posted for the long Kate Adie video in the article which I had not seen before.

The other reason is my concern at a defence minister even mentioning this event when everyone is aware of the state position already. It seems to be an expansion of the conversation from trade and market access to ideology which is unfortunate. There's enough to sort out with just market access, currency flows and IP.
Depends on the particular states. Some states have the necessary economic resources to buy power at peak hours when necessary.
Mythical Man-Month and all that, but progress would probably be a little less slow if more people and organizations are incentivized to work on the same problem. See the progress on self-driving vehicles.
https://downdetector.com/

Pretty much every service is down
I remember reading about fuzzy logic in a discrete math book. It was exactly the same as basic probability theory. I think the article is overblowing it a little...
Couldnt agree more.....I type on my X220 with 9 cell battery.
Why is that no CS professors ever use a single line of CSS on their pages. This site would benefit from the following:

<style>

body{
font-family: "Calibri", Times, serif;
margin: 75px;
}

</style>
is that USD? seems to be around that range still for a high quality one.

yeah I might pick one up....I always wanted a Dreamcast.....and I still do I realized!

Give me Shenmue 1&2, Phantasy Star Online, Omikron + Bleemcast + Gran Turismo 2 Simulation Disc and I'll play the shit out of it.
That's one region, not the multiple region that OP mentioned
Ask the mods. They have flagged my account so that new comments in some threads begin with 0 points.

Agree on the upvotes thing; it is a health sign of skepticism.
We're hosting an open global Zoom call for all engineers affected by the outage, join us at https://zoom.us/j/793450725
This might not apply to you, but if your business is country-specific, consider using the appropriate country code TLD (like .co.uk, .ca, .fi, .ru, etc.). In my experience, people are familiar with them and trust them the same as or more than .com.

For example, in Canada, I'm always a bit hesitant when I land on a .com website (is it USD or CAD?), but a .ca domain tells me I'm at the right place. Especially for multi-national companies like Amazon or The Home Depot.

I wouldn't use .us in the USA though—it doesn't seem to be very common, putting it in the same boat as .biz and all the other new ones. .com seems to be the de facto "US" TLD.
My money is on config push.
I suspect there's a correlation between outages that are easy to detect and communicate and outages that automation can recover from so easily that you hardly notice.
Yes, my apologies. If possible, I would like to remove that comment, which was made as I was simultaneously dealing with other stressful issues at the time. Won't happen again.
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> People like Unix's “everything is a file” approach because what it really means is “everything is exposed to the same nexus”. It means you need only ssh to a system and you have all the power to reshape all aspects of that system with a single interface, the command line, using a common set of highly composable tools

But at least in Linux there are ton of files that are not exposed to the "same nexus", i.e. filesystem. The most common example would be network sockets. They are files, but do not exist anywhere in filesystem. In Linux file is more of an object handle.

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html

http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slide...
Weird for Twitter to still be up and fully functioning. I thought they migrated everything to GCP this/last year?
Your last two comments have been personal attacks, and we had to warn you about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18096897. If you continue to post like this to HN, we are going to ban you. I don't want to do that, so would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site more to heart when posting here?

It's not primarily an ethical thing. We're just trying to prevent this place from burning itself to the ground. That requires everyone to have a certain discipline with their angrier impulses here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Your comment would be just fine without the last sentence.)
We are on region us-east1 and our systems are still up. Specifically, we are on us-east1-b.
I've seen the term "rent seeking" used a few times here on HN, and I have no idea what it means. For those curious:

Rent-seeking happens when a person or business uses their position or resources to get some additional benefit from the government. The most common occurrence is when a company or industry lobbies the government to receive special subsidies, grants, and tariff protection. The term "rent" in economics means receiving a payment that is over the costs involved in the production of the item or keeping the item in service. These actions do not produce any benefit for the community-at-large but only redistribute taxpayer's resources.[0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
See my comment to this story in which an MIT student went for an interview with them in which she declined their offer yet google went ahead and patented her work. I met with those same scuzbags myself and back her story up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

Wonder why my comment here is being downvoted? It is relevant to what Google is today ....run by arrogance and ignorance that’s catching up them!!
What happens to our online identities when we die?
Please edit the nasty bits out of your comments here, even if someone else missed something you thought was obvious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Game of Thrones analogy: an important character being told they are the true heir to the throne results in another character burning down a city. Information can be dangerous depending on the context. Also in the show, The heir’s father in the story kept the information secret to protect that persons life.
I don't think economists really have such a narrow idea of utility. Usually it is applied in abstract models, where utility is predefined (like a lottery where you can win money, and the amount you win is used as the utility - no need to consider how happy it might make the theoretical player).

For the real world, I think evolutionary aspects have to be taken into account. A single actor may not act rational, but in the long term, the actors making the rational choice will prevail by the power of evolution. So rational choices will be made in the long run, even if it may not even be deliberation of the actors.

Also, don't forget that happiness research itself may also be wrong. I think the classic about people without children supposedly being less happy than people with children points in that direction. By the standard research methodology, watching Netflix on the couch all the time would probably make people the most happy.
The two Google Cloud networking incidents are:

Incident #19008 began at 2019-06-02 12:48. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

Incident #19009 began at 2019-06-02 12:53. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

Times are US/Pacific
Given that half time is 50000 years for some of its content its is not a big surprise.
The banner at the top. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
> To prevent your pipes from exploding

Seems like a thermostat could do that.

How did people keep their pipes from exploding before Nest?
Not the main functionality of the service, just lots of data analysis tooling. nothing that end users would notice
Might be of interest if you like this article (A little OT)

Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

https://www.amazon.com/Budas-Wagon-Brief-History-Bomb/dp/184...
If market competition wasn't so aggressive, we could start to focus more on value creation. Right now the economy is all about capturing existing value, monopolizing markets to keep competitors out and using targeted advertising to divert people's attention away from real value. Journalism is in such bad shape that if an independent scientist invented a cure for cancer, most people probably wouldn't hear about it and that scientist would end up homeless. If there is no big money behind something, nobody cares!

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.

Journalism is dead, now everything we believe in is decided by so-called 'influencers' but these are typically the most shallow, superficial, scheming, manipulative individuals that have ever walked the face of the earth. These people wouldn't know how to tell the difference between real value and a steaming pile of shit. Most influencers are just idiots with rich friends.

Capital has replaced our values. We need to bring back real values like honesty, integrity, humility, experience, pursuit of knowledge, empathy, efficiency...
What about the slave laborers in foreign nations who produce raw materials and manufactured goods for the products consumed here in the U.S.? Surely they do the majority of the work?
Wouldn't one of those joint-ownership project things where one company within China owns 51% of the project work out? It would have to be not Huawei, but would that work?
Done. Apologies.
Such as people who would gladly steal your identity for financial gain.
I would love to read that post. I hope you can post it soon!
GOFAI is a slur against people who build systems responsibly, it doesn't matter the context for a slur just don't do it.
Centralizing Logs with Firebase Cloud Function
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> http://time.com/5597843/central-park-five-trump-history/

Warning, parent link contains auto-playing video. Even after you pause it, it'll unpause itself after it finished buffering.
Banks seem to be involved as well, ”According to the latest report from the Federal Reserve, unregulated credit funds now have access to more than $1 trillion in lines of credit from regulated banks, an increase of 65 percent over five years”

So instead of banks lending directly to the risky mid-size businesses, they are lending to trustworthy middle men?
And the illusion of superiority over non cloud offerings.
The exclusion zone is actually resembles a wildlife refuge these days. From reports of the numbers of animals present it seems like human populations are much worse for wildlife than low levels of ionizing radiation and other contaminants from the disaster.
>Me, riding the whole body counter in SP1430, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, after being inside the Unit 4 “Sarcophagus”

What do people do who actually go inside the Sarcophagus these days? I assume there’s monitoring that needs to be done, but I also assume that you can monitor a lot of this remotely. Also, how much longer until Chernobyl is considered “safe”?
Oldest smilie face found on 4k-year-old pot in Turkey (2017)
"a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up."

Yup, I'm trying to check the Associated Press News right now and it's having trouble connecting to "storage.googleapis.com".
I've noticed problems on GDrive (GSuite) and YouTube as well. Connected?
AWS has what feel like monthly AZ brownouts (typically degradated performance or other control plane issues) with the yearly-ish regional brown/blackout.

GCP has quarterly-ish global blackouts, and generally on the data plane at that which makes them significantly more severe.
And lots of sales on my case
Anything created in-house at Google (GCP) is typically created by technically-proficient devs, those devs then leave the project to start something new and maintenance is left to interns and new hires. Google customer service basically doesn't care and also has no tools at their disposal to fix any issues anyway.

The infinite money spout that is Google Ads has created a situation in which devs are at Google just to have fun - there really is no incentive to maintain anything because the money will flow regardless of quality.

Source: I interned at Google.
It's the Queen's birthday, a Monday off here in New Zealand...

... but not for everybody now.
Same. I was thinking, oh, my db cluster must be having trouble recovering. Couldn't get any response through kubectl. Logged in to the cloud console and it looks all brand new, like I have no clusters setup at all.

Of course, this is 2 weeks after switching everything over from AWS.
Has had a revolving door arrangement with the White House. Was fingered in PRISM. Was involved in the US Digital Services and 18F. Closely worked with the government to lower its repatriation tax burdens.

And if these specifics don't satisfy you, we all know that the Department of Defense was heavily involved with Silicon Valley since day 1. I'll wiggle my eyebrows vaguely, but suggestively at this fact, and let the audience draw its own conclusions, about the close relationship that the US Government has with SV tech firms.
I'm assuming the logic goes something like:

If we are leveraged at 100% when we take the real valuation of assets into account, then, if we jack up the valuation on assets we hold, then we can chip away at the leverage ratio and get it to go down.
In a closed system sure, but I'd expect a larger building to have significant fresh-air return systems.

In a scenario where you've filled the place with people, the interior humidity is going to exceed that of the exterior air and you'd just start dumping the moisture outside exchanging with the fresh, dryer air. It's a comfort regression sure, but not a everyone dies situation.

The survival of the people doesn't come down to the AC heat pump keeping up, it comes down to supplying them enough water to drink and disposing of the humidified air.

My point is just that it's the relative humidity that matters, and the AC system has some options there. I've lived through a desert summer in a small space without any AC at all. I'd just keep the windows closed as deep into the day as possible riding out the night's cooling until the air gets too humid indoors from sweat and respiration for the fan to have any cooling effect. At that point I'd open the windows for relief. The air coming in was usually much hotter than the interior air, since the space was well insulated and nights get cool, but it didn't matter because it's very dry air and perspiration resumes functioning. The situation is easily survived unless you run out of water for your person.

Of course if the outdoor air is something like 100% humidity there's only the heat pump option, but that simply doesn't happen in deserts when it's hot out. It's a desert, not the tropics.

In the desert the relative humidity shoots up when it cools down, the humid nights are the worst. But it's because they cooled down. Again, not a survival problem since it's not that hot, just uncomfortably muggy. One saving grace with deserts is they don't generally have any mosquitoes, so these humid nights can easily be spent outdoors without any annoyance.
I think there's a misplaced assumption here, that you should trust a network to keep your traffic safe.

it's reasonable to think that regardless of their SSL implementation, you should assume that the network owner is going to try and spy on your traffic and sell it to the highest bidder
So that's why YouTube was being weird. I thought it was an extension problem or something.
I wonder what your opinion is of Kyle Mitchell https://writing.kemitchell.com/
Funny how as soon as I realized that Gmail and Google Sheet aren’t working properly I rushed to HN to figure out what’s going on. I love this community!
One click on this link and it instantly starts streaming your webcam footage to everyone in the chat room.
I'm really not sure about using fuzzy logic or fuzzy sets for AI, but I did use it for control and doing, of all things, some social stuff. It worked really well and was very simple and understandable. The article does seem to be a bit overblown and more concerned with the word "fuzzy" than what was in the fuzzy logic papers.
Impressive that they managed to write the article's title back in the 1600s.
They both seem to say the same thing....
So far the Ko list:

GCE, GKE, BQ, Pub/Sub, GAE

asia-south1
us-west1
us-central1
us-west2
Rationalism in philosphy means more than being rational: it is the belief that you can deduce true knowledge about the world by mere thinking ("apriori synthetic" knowledge).

Imagine you are Einstein, and you have derived relativity from a few axiom, if you are still interested in experimental verification of your theory then you are an empiricist. If you say: I know for sure I'm right no need for experiments at all - you are a rationalist.

Modern science is mostly empiricist, maybe hardcore austrian economists are rationalists (for them economy is derived from praxeology, experimental verification is not possible and not needed)
The solution to just about everything: Working less (2016)
Are you using the stable version or something else?

When I ran the stable version a few months ago it didn't even act like a tiled window manager. After you open it, all it did was tile a bunch of existing windows automatically, but then if you tried to resize them, it only resized the window that had mouse focus.

i3 would have resized all of the windows to fit so there's no gaps.

Overall it just felt very flaky and it had a lot of screen flickering when moving things around.
One issue per billboard is a pretty fine ratio in my view.
Yeah I was expecting something with maybe a 1KW peak output that small scale people could emulate. This system is huge.
The distinction isn't “can possibly learn” but “can clearly and immediately understand while doing the real work”. It's one thing to sit down and play around with alternate styles, code golfing, etc. but for production work it's usually best to pick the most understandable way to reduce the cognitive overhead so when someone is making a change, debugging, profiling, etc. they're not instead spending time decoding the clever trick their predecessor (possibly them six months ago) used.

This is particularly true with religiously following functional style in languages which weren't designed from the ground up to work that way. The results usually take more time to understand and are often slower because the runtime is not as optimized for uncommon styles.
MessageEase seems interesting. I've just downloaded it. The swipe gestures seem like they are slow, but maybe with practice the larger sized targets offset that. This comment was typed using the keyboard.

I'm going to keep this installed and see if I can get faster.

I also notice that there's no autocorrect, which I miss especially when it comes to typing the pronoun "I."