skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting tidbit in here (really the only piece of information at all) is that the outage itself prevented remediation of the outage. That indicates that they might have somehow hosed their DSCP markings such that all traffic was undifferentiated. Large network operators typically implement a "network control" traffic class that trumps all others, for this reason.
In Search of Verified On-the-Fly Concurrent Garbage Collection on Modern CPUs
I think we've crossed the point where, for most people, an iPad (or surface) makes more sense for personal use than a laptop. I have one of the recent iPad Air models and find it more enjoyable to use for everyday tasks like web browsing, light photo editing and sharing, goofing off on youtube, etc. Had I known I was going to like it so much, I probably would have sprung for the more expensive iPad Pro model with face ID, the new pencil, etc. My personal laptop mostly sits unused these days. Admittedly there are some tasks, like booking travel for example, where I still prefer to use a laptop - but those seem to be less and less of an issue over time.

For development work, I don't see my MacBook Pro going away any time soon. But I do see the iPad becoming more incorporated into my professional workflow. It sits on my desk while I'm working and I use it to run things like iTunes, email, slack, and personal reminders - where they feel like less of a distraction than when I run those things on my desktop. Integration between my macbook and ipad is already pretty great when it comes to handoff, airdrop, messages, notes, etc - and Apple seems committed to continued improvement as I think they realize that seamless integration is one of the things that makes people stick within their ecosystem.
Vast majority of the people with iOS12 will update. Also, at least on the announcement page, there seems to be no mention of iOS13 required for running apps using SwiftUI. Up until Swift 5 the whole runtime library needed to be shipped with the app and it is quite possible that a SwiftUI library could be shipped and run on iOS12.

Edit: On Apple developer forums I've read that the library is annotated with iOS13 requirement.
Configuration often goes through less testing and scrutiny, while simultaneously having a significantly faster deployment process.
My understanding: Unicode is the dictionary maps codepoints (e.g. `0x200B`) with characters (e.g. ` `) and UTF-8 is a way to encode those codepoints with 1-4 bytes per character. Is that right?
Most importantly, commerical gsuite was down. Its paid service(with bad, but still a SLA), and some companies worked on sunday. Pretty bad when both corp email and hangouts dont work - no way to communicate remediation steps.
> Google Cloud Storage measured a 30% reduction in traffic

With things like these the monetary value is so huge their legal team will never allow them to give details. More detail, more chance of lawsuits
https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/

I think what you quoted is Apple saying "if no one is clicking on your ad we stop showing it to people".
>A daemon that pulls new mail from my IMAP servers to my local maildir as soon as it arrives. (I know mutt has an IMAP mode, and it looks like that's aerc's primary mode of operation, too, but I like to have a local copy of my entire mail archive.)

What's wrong with fetchmail? Granted, it's not "as soon as it arrives", but you can run it every minute if you want.
Null impact of letters to unlikely voters
One in 90 is really really high.
I don't see how that's relevant to this subdiscussion, since the switch from bash to zsh won't effect what he's talking about.
Oh, I used this back in the mid-90s and it was SO good!
Fascinating. Thanks for your reply.
Sentinels of Creation finally releases tech for smallville demographics?
When you're dealing with this scale of system, the number of config changes, automated or human, can make determining which config the harder issue. Once you've found out what the issue is, you probably also want the revert to go via the normal flows, for fear that your revert could exacerbate the situation. Both of those add time to remediation.
Wait, they were fired for showing a grant application to a collaborator? This is something that happens all the time in academia - it's completely normal, regardless of what the rules state (assuming it's their own proposal, which is unclear from the article - as are all these vague accusations). Emory recently fired two tenured Chinese scientists, who are actually quite important in researching Huntington's disease, on similar accusations of hiding their collaborators. The thing is, in the Emory case, the accusations are patently absurd. The collaborators were listed on the papers, and a dean at Emory had approved the collaboration. It looks like the Trump administration is pressuring the NIH, which is pressuring universities, and the people at the bottom are taking the flak.
Plus, removing the scripting runtimes in future versions of Mac OS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20089811
Always fun to see a comment that doesn't age well the moment it's posted.
Well, except there’s a finite amount of educational slots, and so fewer people who would keep that education and knowledge in the US are able to get in.
Was American science declining in the 1960s when almost no Chinese students were in American universities? Could there also be extremely smart people in Africa that might now find a place in American universities? Are there Americans that might now find a place in American Universities? I am not saying anything about visa policies, but suggesting that limiting Chinese students will hurt American science is a pretty narrow view. There is also a counter argument that many bright Chinese students go back to China, thus strengthening China. There is also another view that some Chinese students are working for or carrying the water for Beijing’s government. Students in China can’t just decide to go to the US, they have to be approved by the Chinese government and there is no doubt that such approvals require allegiance to the CCP and and some willingness to help the CCP when asked. Attributing nothing but good intentions for the 350,000 Chinese students admitted to the US each year is naïve.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/chines...
> OSS version of Vitess

Isn't Vitess already open source (Apache 2.0 from their site)? Or did you mean to say managed/hosted/DBaaS version of Vitess?
That link does not help your case $300 for a fashionable lamp you can use for life and is a major fixture of a living space vs a $1,000 monitor stand? Congrats Apple you made restoration hardware look like ikea in terms of pricing.
Show HN: Webhooks for Supervisor Events
Ask HN: How did you find your side project partner?
Non-solo founders...

If you're technical, how did you find the business person?

If you're the business brains, where did you find your technical partner?

Who came up with the idea?
This is true with any industry. There is no alternative from Honda unless you are willing to spend <car-price> on another car.
I'm actually not sure if cities in the bay area did, but lots of other cities did: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/uptown-squirrel/
Not this far north.
They are listed as paid full-time researchers in Chinese institutions. But xenophobia!
Roadways are usually wide enough that a car can pass through the middle, leaving plenty of space for a cyclist on the right, and still avoid colliding with an oncoming car if that oncoming car moves to the right of its lane.

Of course, even though the above is possible, drivers often don't leave enough space for cyclists, so cyclists should ride in the middle to force cars to not try to squeeze past.
It’s pretty funny though that you consider a few dozen Apple broken devices as "a collection" meanwhile a few dozen of Android broken devices is generally considered "a pile of thrash".

And this effect is massive last week I offered two of my old laptops to a friend child wanabee hacker. He quickly considered a 2012 HP for parts, then he kept on thanking me for a working state 2002 PPC iBook.

PS: To be honest he might be ranting about it in a few day, I’ve played around it a little and that 2002 iBook bios is a mostly undocumented nightmare!
Well you can't just change code, it has to get reviewed, it has to go to QA, it has to go to UAT, it has to get signed off in triplicate by all the major stake holders. Configuration changes are easy though, they don't have to go through all these error prevention steps, we can just have our less technical support staff make configuration changes live in production. In fact we'll build them a DSL so we never have to make urgent code changes again...
Apple takes powers from developers hired by greedy companies and puts that power in the hands of the users.

You find that you're being strongarmed. As a oonsumer, I could not care less. Hell, I am thrilled that developers are being strongarmed when it comes to user privacy and security.
American health care is in sad shape, but personally I only know of two Quest patients who were sent to collections, and both were due to incompetent communication between Quest and the insurer.
I don't know if there is a science in "root cause analysis" to pickin the one to put in the headline?

In this case, like most similar ones, it seems obvious that there are many things that conspired together to mess things up. If I got to decide based on the description, I would point the finger at the system properties that caused the 5 hour delay to reconfigure the network capacity.
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This is a surprisingly vague postmortem. No timeline, no specific identification of affected regions. And no explanation of why a configuration change that was (apparently) made with a single command required so much effort to undo, or why repair efforts were hampered when (again, apparently) the network was successfully prioritizing high-priority traffic. Even for a public postmortem, this seems pretty weak.
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This is the exact opposite of how things are. Due to the constraints of the monetary union, the Bank of France is not a true central bank (the ECB is) and does not have the ability to print money or otherwise set monetary policy. It absolutely cannot indefinitely finance the deficit spending.

The Fed, on the other hand, is a classic central bank and it can print money to finance the federal deficit. I think you're misinterpreting the supposed "independence" of the fed - it remains a government institution that is largely independent operationally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...), but it's not a private institution. In other words, it's not independent the way a private bank is; it's independent the way FTC is.
We do a club at my kid's school called What's Inside. It is modeled after the popular YouTube channel by the same name. But we don't simply smash stuff open like they do on that channel. We give the kids some tools and let them take apart various gadgets, then talk about the stuff inside. It has been a hit. We usually ask for broken gadgets to be donated for the club. They are usually electronics, but anything that is safe to take apart is fun and educational.
I read a lot of hostile views towards bike lanes and segregating bicycle traffic and I think it really contrasts with the mind shift I found when moving to the Netherlands.

All the strong views in the comments seem to imply that there is an I "the cyclist" as an urban tribe, like skaters or petrol heads. In the Netherlands there obviously are cyclists in lycra and carbon fiber bicycles, but for the most part, there are people who-happen-to-be-on-a-bicycle.

I don't change clothes to cycle to work, I don't sweat, and don't curse cars. But I also am not a "cyclist" I just get on a bike to get to work.

I think that, specially in an urban environment, there is a need to embrace the mindset of the bicycle, as a thing you use, as opposed to a thing that you somehow identify with.

Yes there are trade-offs, yes you will not be able to hit 30km/h speeds on your urban commute. Yes you will have to slow down due to small children and elderly.

But if you rationalise this and break it down, the downside of not being sanguine through an urban route on a race bicycle really translate into anything between 3 to 7 min extra commute time (depending on long you travel on an urban setting). That's the time you spend ordering a latte.

The upside is that literally everyone and their dog can use a bicycle around the city and be safe.

It also furthers the safety in my opinion because there is now a much greater chance that your average sedan car driver is now occasionaly also using a bicycle and is far more mindful and respectful of human fragility on a bicycle.
So I wonder what caused the choice of the turbine blades?

Is it an impulse turbine (which I believe is the most efficient?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel
More funding for Trump's world wide real estate projects from Chinese banks? More Chinese Business contacts for the extended Kushner family? Access to the President for Chinese business men through the former owner of "massage parlours" recently involved in slave sex labor? More patents and trade marks for Ivanka Trump?
It's definitely not a postmortem. Seems like just a quick update.
As someone who previously built a hackintosh (last used it seriously on 10.12), I've moved over to using an eGPU setup and it's pretty great. Last I heard, there weren't up to date Nvidia drivers, but most modern AMD cards are plug and play, and you can even get them working in bootcamp for gaming. I'm using an RX580 now, and looking forward to the next wave of AMD video cards.
Come on you guys. Plesae don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Almost all outages are due to changes. Bugs in code usually surface pretty quickly, and hardware issues don't pose a problem in such large-scale infrastructure. Changes causing outages is par for the course. That's why the industry standard is now Infrastructure-as-Code and Immutable Infrastructure: you try to prevent anything from changing in a way that will later break, and manage it in ways that will be easier to fix when it does break.

Tools like Terraform are popular today because they allow the planning and staging of changes across complex services. They're still pretty limited, but mapping out dependencies and simulating changes can surface errors before you run into them, thus making it less necessary to perform a rollback. But unexpected problems still happen, which is why you need to test your rollbacks, and intentionally stress random parts of your system to discover unknown bottlenecks. Part of the purpose for stress testing is to have a realistic idea of what kind of capacity you will really have under different conditions. But it's also nearly impossible to accurately stress test production systems without consequences.

There are ways for Google to look for change issues, and they probably have lots of safeguards in place, but we don't know what they actually do to test changes. Some of their postmortems have pointed at a lack of stringent change control procedures. Hopefully they will practice what they preach (open/blameless postmortems) and share more details soon.
I've seen much more detail in other postmortems from major cloud providers. (AWS and Azure definitely, and I think Google as well.)
To avoid problems with intentions, put a rule or something? so everyone must expect that every comment comes from good intentions.
> Overall, YouTube measured a 10% drop in global views during the incident, while Google Cloud Storage measured a 30% reduction in traffic. Approximately 1% of active Gmail users had problems with their account; while that is a small fraction of users

G suite failed to sync e-mail. My Nest app was completely down via iPhone. Google Home when asked for the weather in Nashville responded with "I can't help with that...", and a GCE MySQL instance in us-west2 (Los Angeles) was down for 3 hours for me. Not a small impacting incident.
playdough circuits

https://teachbesideme.com/easy-play-dough-circuits/
I think this is something that people are missing when they suggest services will just block the Apple relay address.

Of course they wont. They still want the business and as you've pointed out, these accounts will be in a different customer engagement category. They are almost certainly real people and they a lot of value to marketers, even is you don't have all of their other personal details.
There is plenty of evidence if you spend a few minutes looking. Here’s one: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/chines...
> With all services restored to normal operation, Google’s engineering teams are now conducting a thorough post-mortem ...

This is not the post-mortem, that is still to come.
Heh, "visibly see".
I've been quite disappointed to see how many papers from "cutting edge" research groups are chasing small improvements in well-known benchmarks by finding new techniques that happen to work, while there is a lot less effort put into finding out why. I guess Geoff Hinton's explanation about what gets published today explains it.
> With all services restored to normal operation, Google’s engineering teams are now conducting a thorough post-mortem...

Still to come.
The postmortem is currently only visible to Googlers.
This also bars people from leaving the country to attend conferences (an essential part of many grad students’ training), visit family or just travel - all things that many students need to do regularly. Having an expired visa is very much not a situation you want to be in.
Are you implying that Apple should care about the privacy of people who are not their customers?

How would that work?
As someone who built a hackintosh (on 10.12) with what were widely considered to be 'compatible parts' (I did a lot of research), I think you're downplaying how easy it is and how often issues can arise. I didn't have much trouble doing the initial install after following steps/guides online, but there were a lot of small niggling issues and problems that can arise that make me hesitant to recommend it (like for example, getting imessage/facetime activated was a huge hassle). There may be better tooling now, but it's still not for the feint of heart.

That said, I've switched to an eGPU setup with a Radeon Rx580 and my 15" mbp, and it largely gets me to where I wanted to be with my hackintosh. Using an eGPU with macos is surprisingly easy.
The lack of transparency makes me want to consider other cloud providers. All providers will have outages -- that's a reality I can live with -- but I will prioritize the ones who are the most forthcoming in their statuses and explanations into failures.
Moving to Apple/Mac has been amazing. The interface is just so much smoother. The UX is thought out with much more care than anything Google/Microsoft offer. And I don't feel like I'm selling my soul when I'm using an Apple product - a huge plus.
Yes, I agree. If I can't move over, and there's not room for entering vehicles, then I slow down to create enough space for a single vehicle (zipper merge fashion).
> We still have WebKit and Firefox and (sooner or later), more of Servo at least.

Do remember though, Mozilla's income is heavily dependent on Google. If we want a browser engine that can remain completely free, we really need a engine that is community driven. Although that might not longer be possible given the complexity of the web nowadays.
Many people use devices from several ecosystems.
It didn't say it was a small impact, but that it impacted a small number of users. If you were one of those users, it was high impact for you, but the number of impacted users was small.
Pcie 3 was not the bottleneck for SSD. They typically are only 4 pcie lanes, when they could go up to 16 for 4x the bandwidth.
>You can also say that Gnus is slow, if you want to be extra cheeky.

gnus is not the only way to do email in Emacs. IME, it is the most bloated way to do it.

While I didn't like the tone of the person's comment, I do sympathize with him. I used various email programs (pine, mutt, Thunderbird, etc) for years - but all of them seemed to lack something, and the effort to add my desired features was too high. With Emacs, the barrier to customize my workflow is a lot lower. Now that I've been using Emacs + notmuch for mail for the last few years, it's really hard to motivate myself to try anything outside Emacs, and the feeling is much worse when it's something cool like this.

I even haven't bothered with alot, although it is notmuch based. I mean, is it trivial for me to make an Org mode TODO linking to an email while in alot?
No, iirc F1 visas are usually granted for length of program plus one year (5 for a BS etc). As long as the person maintains student status with the university, traveling to and fro is permitted.
One of the problems with this is that there is not general agreement on what constitutes, "propaganda". The Taiwanese official cited in this article refers to it as, "disinformation" and many people wrongly assume that the government is referring to "fake news" or factually false information when it refers to propaganda. In fact, many governments and other organizations in a position to distribute information arbitrarily refer to any information that counters their narrative as "propaganda" whether or not its factually correct. You can be certain that the Chinese government regards any accounts (let alone praise) for the Tank Man as hostile propaganda, no matter how factually accurate it is, just like the US government treats narratives that reflect negatively on the US government narrative to be propaganda ("sowing dissent"). I'd be more much receptive to a system that had a way to flag information as "factually inaccurate" (as difficult as that may be) than a system that flags messages as "propaganda" which is far more arbitrary and subjective standard.
Just to clarify it wasn't Quest that has the compromise, it was a 3rd party collection agency which Quest sold their delinquent accounts.

Quest doesn't store SSNs but the 3rd party evidently did as part of their efforts to identify people so they can collect.

That company needs a massive fine and being forced to offer free credit monitoring for LIFE for anyone so compromised.
Is there any service that sells homemade kid videos? I was specifically talking about paid quality content. Disney+ will not only have Disney and Pixar films, but decades of Disney channel content too. That, along with Youtube Kids + whitelist, and you should be pretty set.
(I have used Wanderlust on emacs for about 15 years now.)

I think using maildir directly may be hard to squeeze good performance out of with emacs. I'd suggest trying the alternatives: for eample, IMAP with ~30k messages should work decently in Wanderlust (and I would assume gnus), though initial load is slow (way less than hours, though). Using mu (maildir utils) via search in wanderlust to load 30k messages take about 1 minute, but if you are using mu you should be searching, not loading an entire mailbox. So there are probably some options out there, but I'd avoid loading 40k messages from a maildir directly.
Can't speak for the US but this is certainly the case in Australian Universities, I've had interns that don't speak enough English to order a hamburger yet somehow got masters degrees. Cheating is rampant and the Universities will look the other way, even threaten teachers that fail students. The industry has the legitimacy of a pyramid scheme and deserves to be shut down.

While they're here many students will also work more than the allowed 25 hours a week (meant for industry experience not ubereats) and for below minimum wage, which has a huge affect on the job market for younger people.
I'm no big fan of Apple, but I must say I get a perverse pleasure out of moves like this because you'd probably find that 90% of Facebook employees swear by and love Apple products.