skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't play doom 4 -- which I'm pretty sure I would have loved -- because the price of entry would have been a $1.5k gaming pc, and I couldn't justify spending that much money for one game. There's zero may my mbp would have run it.
At least G+ is working. /s
Seconded. I honestly don’t see the world exactly the same after I read it.
As detailed in the article, he didn't "mention" the event but was replying to a specific question about it during an event in Singapore.
PS. Since we are showing things...

I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just GetDC() + BitBlt() in a loop + some nuances.

It looks something like this - https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif

The release "page" is over at - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102...

If there's any interest I can clean up and publish the source.
Personally, Redox's use of URLs seemed like really bad design to me. It doesn't get simpler than the Unix path syntax.

Having a scheme:// makes sense for URLs because you don't otherwise have any contextual information indicating how to access a resource. But this isn't the case for something like a virtual filesystem, where the total set of filesystems mounted under it - and their types - are all known to the system. There's no need for disk://foo when you can just have /dev/disk/foo.
To clarify something: this outage doesn’t appear to be global, but it is hitting us particularly hard in parts of the US. So for the folks with working VMs in Mumbai, you’re not crazy. But for everyone with sadness in us-central1, the team is on it.
Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
I agree. Don’t forget about the negative environmental effects of the drugs as well. Fish become sterile i.e.[1]

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/antidepressant-chemicals-are-ch...
FWIW, Youtube is fine for me, but I'm seeing intermittent errors saving updates to a document in GSuite. I had thought the latter error was a problem with the wifi where I am, until I saw this. Now I'm not so sure. HN is loading fine on the same wifi...
To the extent that the Syrian civil war was aggregated by drought, we may have already seen the first climate refugees.
Can't use my Nest lock to let guests into my house. I'm pretty sure their infrastructure is hosted in Google Cloud. So yeah... definitely some stuff lost.
I keep trying to explain to people that our customers don’t care that there is someone to blame they just want their shit to work. There are advantages to having autonomy when things break.

There’s a fine line or at least some subtlety here though. This leads to some interesting conversations when people notice how hard I push back against NIH. You don’t have to be the author to understand and be able to fiddle with tool internals. In a pinch you can tinker with things you run yourself.
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Yes experiencing IMAP auth/connectivity issues here as well, along with outgoing SMTP
This is very interesting way to view it, but in my office there's a few people who do literally nothing and honestly I would like work more if they didn't have to be there.
IANAL but I don't think CDNs an IPs matter here. The question would be more among the line of "in the picture taken in France" or "has the matching been done in France or by a company that has a presence in France".

And unless everything happens in France, it would be a huge mess and I don't think anything can be done. GDPR is an attempt to harmonize the rules of different countries and make them enforceable internationally.

I don't know how it is done in other European countries but rules regarding personal data and authorship tend to be stronger than in the US, and freedom of speech is more controlled (ex: hate speech, libel, ...).
Any plans for C++ support?
Haha, love it, it's not just me then!
Put some clothes on.
Nice overview : https://downdetector.com/
That solar quote was from a follow post from 2014: https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html
It seems global to me. This is really strange compared to AWS. I don't remember an outage there (other than s3) impacting instances or networking globally.
Thanks! I’ll leave this here as evidence that I should rightfully reduce my days off by 1 :).
I just googled the issues related to mortgage downpayment gifts, and it looks like you're correct. This is the best summary of issues I've found and it doesn't mention anything about being higher risk in and of itself:

https://www.accunet.com/buying-a-home/can-my-down-payment-co...

From that page, the bank wants to make sure it's not a loan or a side-payment from one of the parties to the transaction.

Still, I'd be really, really surprised if there weren't a correlation between "fraction of DP as gift" and "default rate", but I don't have anything concrete to cite ATM.
AWS is no better. Something from 2015 I remember: https://twitter.com/SIGKILL/status/630684777813684224?s=19
You CAN run a terminal with a jailbroken iPad.

Just sayin'
Google Colaboratory is back. At least I can access my github's notebooks and public notebooks from google drive.
I don't find it offensive but using demonyms as insults has always seemed distasteful to me, even if the group in question no longer exists.
not necessarily. I'm using 1.1.1.1 as well and I get no response.
On days like these I’m glad I don’t use any of the affected services
The default risk must be uncorrelated though or else you get no gains from diversification. This was a big part of how CDOs justified the security of a AAA tranche, when in reality everything was correlated because bad loans were made to everyone.
That's true when the namespace covers objects that are very similar to access, ideally identical.

If that's not the case, I have found the scheme to be helpful to indicate what's going on.
I had a feeling it was a bionerd23 video before I clicked that link... she has some pretty scary radioactivity videos.
x86_64 disallows this because the 286 only used the lower 24 bits of a memory address, which made developer (ab)use the extra bits like you said. This causes all kinds of havok with some 486 variants and the Pentium, which did use the full 32 bits.

AMD's original x86_64 CPU (Opteron) only used the lower 48 bits of the address (I think modern cpus still do), so to prevent any future problems they disallowed using the upper 16 bits.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/NY...

https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ny-murder-rate...
While not exactly google cloud, G suite dashboard seems accurate: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
AWS experienced a major outage a few years ago that couldn't be communicated to customers because it took out all the components central to update the status board. One of those obvious-in-hindsight situations.

Not long after that incident, they migrated it to something that couldn't be affected by any outage. I imagine Google will probably do the same thing after this :)
You obviously don't recall the early years of AWS. Half of internet would go down for hours.
It's more complicated then that. Take a look at this psychrometric chart showing the environmental bounds at which human comfort is guaranteed: http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/

You can see there that even at extremely dry conditions, if the operative (ambient + radiant) temperature is hot enough, it will cause heat discomfort. Even if the human starts sweating, that'll only reduce the temperature a bit so dehumidification isn't the only role of air conditions, sensible cooling is also a factor.
To bad we don't have google cars yet.
It's frightening how many services rely on gcloud and which impact this downtime has
Took me a second.

I didn’t know the cloud-to-butt translator worked on comments too. I forgot that was even a thing.
There's been a lot of apprehension around auto lending for a long time. I'm not sure what a crash would look like though.
"Everything is fine, unless you're Carl. There's a massage outage, but only at Carl's house. Sorry, Carl."
Technically, the US spies on the world... and shares info about their citizens with a number of other governments.

On the other hand, the US isn't currently occupying, detaining, and requiring patriotic reeducation for an ethnic minority within its borders.

I feel like an "It's already happening, and this is what you get" appraisal cuts less favorably towards China than the US.
How are you deriving the 30W of AC capacity here?
You have my honest sympathy because of the difficulties you now suffer through, but it bears emphasizing: this is what you get when you replace what should be a physical product under your control with Internet-connected service running on third-party servers. IoT as seen on the consumer market is a Bad Idea.
Show HN: Story-based programming course for complete beginners
I witnessed how hard it was for my wife to start in programming by courses from Coursera, so I've written my own programming course :-)
The main idea behind is an adventure story, where you travel in the future and your mission (obviously) is to save the world from machines. To progress in the story you need to learn C# programming and solve puzzles on the way.
The small bare metal hosting company I use for some projects hardly goes down, and when there is an issue, I can actually get a human being on the phone in 2 minutes. Plus, a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers.
This is weird, I had Zoom installed a long time ago but uninstalled according to their instructions [1]. I'm a macOS user.

As soon as I clicked that link, the client downloaded a PKG file, installed itself and launched itself without asking me if I wanted to share my camera or audio.

I uninstalled according to their instructions again, searched for all "zoom" files in my disk and rebooted.

This leads me to believe that following their uninstall instructions is insufficient, and there are hidden files left on my computer.

Sorry in advance for the off topic message

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362983-How-to-u...
> I wish more devs -- particularly web front-end devs -- tried out their work on something that isn't a top-of-the line developer computer.

I agree, and I am, and I do.

I held out on laptop from 2009 until recently, it had a core 2 duo, It was (and is) a really good machine for showing up sloppy performance hungry websites, and has been the source of a few of my rants here on HN when discovering some stupid side JS animation saturating one of it's cores unnecessarily.

I agree there's a lot of shitty JS code out there. But there are a few of us web devs that care, and will do anything we can to prevent the crap we see around us.
Where are you based? If you’re in the US (or route through the US) and trying to reach our APIs (like storage.googleapis.com), you’ll be having a hard time. Perhaps even if the service you’re trying to reach is say a VM in Mumbai.
Why is this so text about distribution of company equity from a fresh graduate with 2 years of student-worker experience getting any notice?
After 38,000 layoffs, Wall Street wakes up to 'peak car'
See PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition [1]

"PipesFS replaces socket-specific data access calls (like send and recvmsg) with basic reading from and writing to pipes, whereby the location of the pipe identifies the socket. The actual path for sockets is long, consisting of 8 filters for the reception end, but users are easily shielded from this com- plexity through symbolic links"

[1] https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/papers/deBruijn_Bos_...
DNA from the guy who confessed was found on the victim, whereas none of the CP5’s DNA was found.
What, racism? I meant precisely what I wrote, cultural - nothing to do with color of skin or other features. Freedom of speech et cetera.
Weird, I'm able to use Gmail on desktop, but my iPhone hasn't been able to sync since messages 1:44pm Central US time (18:44 UTC), even after restarting. Is this related?
I swear most status pages are run by folks who aren't "there".
Does anyone know if this is a regional or global outage?

I can see my GKE clusters in one region but not in another, so I am guessing it's the former.

Looks like we'll need a cluster in each region going forward...
Phoenix Arizona residents think otherwise
The Armstrong report is pretty clear in saying how likely it is the 5 were involved in the assault:

> The report concluded that the five men whose convictions had been vacated had "most likely" participated in the beating and rape of the jogger and that the "most likely scenario" was that "both the defendants and Reyes assaulted her, perhaps successively."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case#Armst...
I can tell you that I gave my best during my 5 years at the IDF solely because I knew how well I would be paid afterwards if I did well, and I got directly hired at a FAANG. I can say the same about almost anyone I've known during my service across all programming units and beyond. Even the ones who knew they would stay did it for the chance to become Lt. Colonel and then director afterwards as a civilian. As for the ones claiming to be motivated by patriotism, they too usually ended up pursuing more lucrative venues.

As for IDF jobs with less potential, they are usually accomplished by people with fewer ambitions doing much less than their best and placed there because of that (think of military HR, secretaries, nurses, cleaners).

In short, there are no surprises. The Israeli military service is just a minor inconvenience in the path of ambition that is fueled by the capitalist spirit of the general economy, rather than being a replacement for it.
Services in other regions depended transitively on us-east-1, so it was a multiple region outage.
This feels like 80's.

When the mainframe is down terminals are useless.
The varnish I used is intended for oven-drying at 140 to 150 degrees Celsius. I don't have an oven large enough to fit this coil, so I heated it by applying roughly 20A of direct current to the high voltage winding. I monitored the temperature by measuring the resistance change of the wire.

I can't even...
That's the gist of China's admission to the WTO: they would have in no way qualified in terms of transparency or free trade, but promises were made that things would change.

They didn't.

If Chinese products are so yellow-star-spangled awesome, then why not let their citizens choose freely between Chinese and foreign products?

Free trade is a two way street.
Now, iTunes backups (which historically took up gobs of space on the tiny MacBook drives of years past,) only save app data, and restoring will take up the aforementioned bandwidth.

That’s why I use an iOS 6 iPhone 5 with iTunes 11 on OS X Mavericks.
Also the AC dumps heat outside, which in urban areas contributes to local heat increase (i.e Urban Heat Island effect), which in turn requires even more AC too fight.
Tell that to a gay man in Iran who is outed among many other examples.
The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement has two cranes inside, and a lot of sensors. Incidentally, it's a great engineering project. The only downside is that if you visit now, you can't see the sarcophagus.
None of that helps unless the PE firm can actually get that 8% return. The chase for yield during the recent (last ~15 years) "global savings glut" has been pretty disastrous.
"Cloud Automotive Collision Avoidance and Cloud Automotive Braking services are currently unavailable. Cloud Automotive Acceleration is currently accepting unauthenticated PUT requests. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
I don't know about Steam, but I know Apple must use Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Oh look, a thread about my current company. I'm actually in a bug fixing team right now separate from the main product development team. It's an extremely difficult position because as someone else mentioned, you need an incredibly deep understanding of the system to truly resolve these bugs. Unfortunately I work on a 20+ year old legacy codebase with minimal documentation and poorly written code, and our dev team is unwilling to spend any time helping to resolve these issues. They're too occupied with churning our new features, while the bug team is abandoned to clean up the mess from all this new code without any sort of help whatsoever. Another perspective that many people don't discuss is that only doing bug fixing is soul crushing. With things constantly breaking, it can be very mentally draining having to fix them. That being, the attrition rate on the team is quite high because there's very little career growth or satisfaction in being a bug fixer. This experience could be exclusive to my company, and I can't say whether it's effective for the business to run things this way since I'm still really early in my career.
AbeCMS: The Lightning Fast CMS
>All they have to do is bundle these mortgages together with safer ones and sell the resulting bundle

Sounds strikingly familiar...
You should have foreseen this when you bought stuff that rely on "the cloud"
We're talking about the existence of concentration camps, not the reasons for concentrating.
"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy," he told the forum.

Gunning down protesters then grinding into a mulch with tanks and aocs, so that you can wash the remains down the gutters is never a solution.

Trying to push this incident into the background only shows how little change has happened.

Once more - this isn't a situation you can ever forgive a government for. There is no ifs, buts or collateral reasons for this.
You got it, dang. I was being light-hearted but I get it, Poe's law and all.
Just remember that "better" can be entirely based on when you pick the starting and ending points of your graph ;)
Bikes Shouldn’t Have Horns. Neither Should Cars
It's a trade-off of risks. Leaving a key under the may could lead to a security breach.
When EcmaSCript 2019 hits the shelves it will have flatMap(). flatMap is the "corner-stone of monads" (poetically speaking) at which point monads will lose much of their mystique and things will be much advanced in the programmer land. You can use monads where you need them.

http://2ality.com/2018/02/ecmascript-2019.html

More on ES2019 at https://medium.com/@selvaganesh93/javascript-whats-new-in-ec...
Well, lots of revenue is lost, that's for sure.
I've always wondered how many engineer hours have been lost on the phone with helpdesks sorting out expired passwords.
On *nix, you can always figure out what type of filesystem is mounted at a given prefix by typing `mount`.

What the use of schemes does is make things needlessly inflexible, and embeds a dependency on the name of a filesystem provider inside consumers of that filesystem. It's akin to a Unix where filesystems can only be mounted in top-level directories /mnt, but not /mnt/foo, etc.; I don't see the appeal.
I see a lot of Nest complaints, isn't there any security issue if Nest goes down?
The last big outage, iirc, was Google didn't test their rollback procedures for router upgrades. I'll be very interested to hear if it's yet another change control problem that caused this outage.
Why are you irritated by what an engineer on the other side of the world does in their free time?

Are you irritated because it's popular? Would it not irritate you if no one knew what Theo Jansen was up to?
Serenity OS update (May 2019) [video]
.doc? Is this some kind of joke? A poorly disguised hack?
Don't be sorry, same thing happened to me just now and I'm trying to figure out how they are installing locally from a URL click with no further input from me.

edit:
Found this thread with details but no resolution it seems: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/358651/unable-to-c...
What aren’t these on separate systems? I never had the impression that google cheaps out on things but this sounds exactly like the sort of shit that happens when people cheap out. Not even a canary system?
> Buying a competitor is no more anticompetitive than causing a competitor to shut down because they weren’t competitive enough.

Well first off, predatory pricing is a thing, where competition shuts down because a market participant is deliberately losing money to gain market share in hopes of raising prices after everyone else gives up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing#United_State...

But a competitor doesn't have to shut down to be bought out. In fact, why would a company ever buy a competitor who's only alternative is shutting down? Seems far simpler to buy the useful assets from the bankruptcy. Here's one possibility I've seen: an inefficient incumbent buys a startup that has been winning procurement bids away from them lately. They have deep pockets from all the contracts not yet up for renewal, and can afford to buy the company now while they only have a few source of cash flow. End result is that prices remain high, and the borg lives on a little bit less cash flow until the contracts they just bought are up for renegotiation.

> What is supposed to happen to competitors that are actually less efficient and/or produce less appealing products?

They sell less, and make changes. Maybe they drop prices, invest in efficiency or pursue some differentiation strategy. It doesn't need to be a 50/50 but winner-take-all markets should not be surprised when regulators come knocking.
That's some excellent gaslighting, given the evidence at hand.
As mentioned above, we have several services for free mailboxes. Obviously you can have a @t-online.de address, not only if you are a customer of the Magenta giant.

Wikipedia lists some [1] providers and I think I have seen addresses from all of those providers in the wild or my mailbox.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemail
Yep. The cloud is just a lot of cheap hardware acting together as a shitty mainframe.
He probably didn't make a big jelly ball from borax, random glue, and whatever, and mashed his hands in it and inhaled it for hours.

Sure, have fun with chemicals, but some sense is needed.
Hedge funds usually manage other people’s money in addition to their own, in fact, pension money is the most common source of other money that hedge funds manage.
If it's any consolation; your parents must really have loved you since they kept you inside. I have three kids and I cherish every moment that I get to send them outside to play.
But I live in a safe place and honestly, "random murder and rape" might change my mind.
There isn’t a requirement but from the outside it looks like that’s what’s happening.
On the flip side - a customer is more willing to be understanding if 'Google is down' instead of 'our server is down'.
Do you have auto-run enabled for downloaded files?
I keep forgetting that I have it on, my brain treats the two words as identical at this point. The translator has this property, which I also tend to forget about, that it will substitute words in your HN comment if you edit it.

But yeah, it's still a thing, and the message behind it isn't any less current.
I’ve discovered q: when trying to quit vim in a hurry. You always keep finding new quirky things to do in vim but I guess the same hold true for other text editors like Emacs
I'd reported a networking issue to Shopify yesterday, which they said was resolved upstream (GCP?). Could it be?
Ordering the vegetarian meal? There’s more animal blood on your hands
It's just like the stock market.
Financial Times [1] points out the risk of trade war with China/Mexico and the economic slowdown this would cause is leading investors to expect Fed will have to cut rates.

[1] https://www.google.fi/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/855d23e2-83b7...
To help others: which two regions?