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> Each time there is an outage there are so many downstream Google services affected.

I think that happens because google share infrastructure for external "hosting" and internal progects
Betting protection from antitrust issues on getting cozy with a political party is a risky strategy; political landscape shifts on quite regular basis. It's safer to keep a competitor alive so that if and when the power goes to people who don't like you, it won't be easy for them to go after you.
The third “word” might be PDF?
That’s a bold claim. He lost a fortune that would have made him a billionaire and possibly one of the 100 richest people in the world. He is still a very, very wealthy man.
> And never rely on the government, banks and other parties that can and will make you dependent. [...] Reside in countries where it's allowed to possess guns and do so.

How do you obtain bullets? And food? Do you make and grow your own, and from what materials?
You're making so many assumptions in 1 short comment that it's hard to dismiss all of them without writing a novel. But still, this is HN, so let's go:

- I'm not German and most of my points apply in quite a bit of the EU

- the EU is about 4m sqkm, which while smaller than the US, puts them in roughly the same ballpark (they'd both qualify as "huge countries")

- the EU as a whole has at least as diverse climates as the US

- I'm not even sure what to respond to the "needs" part

- I've been to the US more than once, to different places

Let's track back a bit and find out what exactly your argument against high quality German windows is.

Is it that you don't need them in hot climates? You do, to reduce the need for cooling.

Is it that you don't need them in cold climates? I don't even know what to reply to this :-)

Is it that you don't need them in Mediterranean climates, a la California (stable relatively warm and dry climate)? Even there, there is variation, houses do need heating and cooling and it can't hurt to have better windows. I'll grant you this, but that's probably an area which is 1/30th or less of the US territory.

Or was it about normal drying vs tumble drying? The only solid argument against normal drying that I can find is that normal drying requires more space (and a bit more time, but you can easily plan around that). But US homes, on average, are way bigger than EU homes. So Americans could easily find room to dry their clothes. If I can do it in 65sqm, an American definitely can do it in 120+ sqm.
> My theory is that snippet and reply may lead to taking quotes out of context and replying with an uncharitable interpretation of the snippet.

My theory is that we're all so used to internet debates unfolding in snippet-and-reply-like formats that we associate snippet-and-reply with argumentative discussion by default.
I've noticed that for far longer than 12 months. Google search results are frequently crap. DuckDuckGo is often better.

But sometimes I dream about building my own search engine. It would avoid the big ad-driven sites as much as possible, and give preferential treatment to obscure blog posts about topics nobody else has written about. I want a search result to show the many different ways it could be interpreted, rather than assume one of them based on whatever heuristic, and show me tons of identical results that aren't what I want.
All the more reason to use a DNS level ad-blocker and clear all cookies on browser exit, I guess...
I currently have 135k network rules active in uBlock Origin without having all of their lists active. Your 150k proposal is nowhere near enough.
Sure, though the balance of issues actually affecting the viability of documents and web applications greatly favours Chromium.

Like I said, I think Mozilla could put themselves in a great position to differentiate themselves on quality or any other important axis if they would just give up on maintaining Netscape. At this point they don't even support any of the old plugin or extension interfaces, so even if they wanted to rebuild all of their current UI gimmicks, it wouldn't be a crazy amount of work.

As it stands, the least you could say between the two, regarding implementation quality, is that Firefox is almost not noticeably worse most of the time. That's not a terribly high standard.

The an example of the sort of differentiation users appreciate, unbreaking content blockers like uBlock Origin with a patchset that forces Google to either merge it, or acknowledge that they had ulterior motives for deprecating the content blocking APIs in favour of ones with serious limitations. For example, a performance improvement to declarativeNetRequest with an increase of the rule limit from 30,000 to something more useful, with no loss in performance.
Single-core CPU performance is at a peak. There aren't any revolutionary increases expected there anytime soon.

Milticore performance gets more and more important with time.
> Allowing third-party extensions to inspect and _modify_ arbitrary HTTP requests is nothing short of dangerous.

On the contrary, I think google removing this ability actively removes user choice. A choice that I think users should be able to make.

Slippery slope argument: I run a PiHole on my network. Perhaps Google should also absolutely require DNS over HTTPS in Chrome, too, because it's nothing short of dangerous to allow third-party DNS servers to inspect and modify arbitrary DNS requests.

> Extensions can be compromised.

It's also Google's decision to make extensions auto-update by default.
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If you live in a city and have looked into the phenomenon of urban "food deserts", you'd know that it is affected in significant part by the low per store margin of a grocery store being eaten by security and shoplifting costs. The OP may be somewhat hyperbolic, but he's not all wrong.
This is an unrelated incident.

> Mitigation work is currently underway by our engineering team and is expected to be complete by Wednesday, 2019-11-13.

The fix/mitigation is being rolled out.

> Workaround: Users seeing this issue can downgrade to a previous release (not listed in the affected versions above).

There's a workaround for end-users (downgrading to a version which is not affected),

Also:

> the number of projects actually affected is very low.

(disclamer: I'm SRE at Google)
Maybe I cannot relate because I drink 4 to 6 liters of water per day but do people really need to be electronically prompted to drink enough water? (On the flip side, I also don’t need a watch to tell me to get up and walk around — because I drink 4 to 6 liters of water a day...)
I use a pihole at home too. It is funny since I have gotten a few texts from my roommates about their phones being infected when they aren't connected to the wifi here. They think it is a virus and I have to tell them that is what the internet normally looks like.
It's funny as I was just thinking that this makes sense for YouTube in my case. I am using it mostly via mobile browser and current page refresh behavior removes advertising from the video. I do it all the time.

I am expecting something like "pay for subscription or else" feature proposal in the observable future.
> As a user I should have complete control over what runs on my machine.

You do. By running Firefox. This level of control might be useful to you but it's not to most users. As much as power users chafe against things like the App Store, for example, this is clearly a win for most users. Limiting what a malicious extension could do is very much the same because I can guarantee you there are scams to get users to install malicious extensions.

How Firefox should respond here is to make ad-blocking a first party solution. In that Firefox itself is responsible for the blocking and all extension writers are responsible for are the rules.

At that point you will have a solid story that FF is putting the user first.
Only far worse
Dapps for Surviving the Holiday Season Ahead
No, it is not correct in this context. If you are speaking with your friends, then it is OK to say “ikko.” However, in an instructional setting, which this is, “hitotsu” is the correct phrasing. “Ko” is used in casual situations. I have been localizing software, manuals, marketing materials, training documents, scientific papers, etc. for over two decades with native Japanese speakers. I’m also married to one. Trust me on this.
Alternatively: "there's so few of you that the cost of adding yet another set of laws to our compliance routine is greater than the revenue you'd generate".

Online publishing is low margin and this appears to be a local news station so it probably does make sense from a strict business perspective. I wouldn't be surprised if they're outsourcing compliance auditing and GDPR is a check box that cost money so they just chose to block instead. You don't need to assume questionable ethics when there's a perfectly ethical business case. Sure it would be nice if online news wasn't monetized with our data but that's not the world we live in you can't blame a local news station for not trying to be the ones to challenge the status quo.
Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart
So let's say you have an old YT account that you don't use anymore tied you your gmail account and there a few dozen family holiday videos you uploaded years ago to show friends (which was kinda the original purpose of YouTube) and completely forgot about. Does this mean that one day you might wake up with access to your gmail completely blocked off because an algorithm on YT decided that your channel is not profitable?
Sites with recaptcha should be boycotted as much as possible. It's a stupid, annoying test.
I did read and understand the article, but the point stands. Over-specificity is as much of a smokescreen tactic as over-generality. It's not "unreasonably critical" to point that out, unless "unreasonably" has more to do with the sacred-cow object of criticism instead of the substance. Also, both the start and end of your comment violate site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have found that picking at people for a decision that you don’t agree with is rarely useful; we already have people going through GitHub to find instances of other “disingenuous” behavior. Like the decision or not, the change is the product of an entire team at Google, and it’s not productive to harass the one person mentioned here because they’re an easy target.
That is sensible, but I've also heard people basically call any code that is not micro-optimized wasteful and harp on about how back in the day it was second nature for programmers to care about bytes and cycles in every line of code they wrote, and modern day programmers are just lazy and incompetent.
The factory that manufactured the elements back in the day was apparently somewhere nearby, and if you know people in manufacturing, some of them are the type to never throw anything away...
That’s why there’s SRE and on calls. Well in those big event, there likely will be a war room with hundreds of on-calls checking in either remotely or onsite. There could be an “oncall leader” as well or Speical OP team. Bad days for oncalls.

Honestly SDEs from google are quite lucky since they got SREs to back them. Elsewhere it might go to the dev team directly

EDIT: if you know any big company pays oncalls more, let me know and I’ll seriously consider join!
> It's very likely that if the said small channels are indeed too small to be allowed to monetize, then they would fall under the not profitable accounts even if they were allowed to monetize.

It might take 6 months or even a year+ of dedicated uploading to meet those guidelines for most content (unless it's a really popular / trending niche like a new game, etc.).

If Youtube starts banning those accounts then they are effectively not allowing anyone else to join their platform because they would be terminated before they have a chance to get popular enough to enable ads so that Youtube can make money.
are we in the farce stage already?
This isn't just the rule limit, and the most powerful part of extensions imo is to be able to block/modify elements at the dom level. Both for ad blocking and for customizations (reflow pages, modify css, etc). If you don't feel comfortable giving access to blockers, it's not that hard to roll your own. Just read the format of easylist.

> extensions can only monitor browser connections, but not modify any of the content before it's displayed
Again, this is just my own experience, but what I've found is that, once you break the valuable and large piece of work down into small pieces, those small pieces don't get prioritized, because each piece on its own isn't tremendously valuable, so they get outcompeted by other small pieces of work that deliver their own standalone value earlier on. I think the best answer to this is to advocate individually for large work of this type, but I would rather be able to work it into a repeatable process.
Welp, I've been putting this off for a few years, but this is as good as moment as any to do it. Took me 10 minutes to import all bookmarks, set up extensions, and customize one or two details but it is done. So long Chrome, it was good while it lasted!
Vs other replies, seems it's intended more toward genuinely wasteful content, like "10 hours of stupid on repeat".
Extensions can still inject arbitrary JavaScript into any page, so this isn't about safety and security.

Removing the dynamic capability kills heuristics, so it definitely makes ad blocking worse. There's a reason uBlock Origin is popular.

See: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1134127701583904770
Are you sure things have HFCS in the U.K.? What’s it labelled as? I often look at ingredients and only ever notice “sugar” ie. sucrose
They build their own servers. They are an OEM.
> The end result is the following algorithm: “let’s present you with the toughest things you can’t remember over and over again, and ignore all the facts you’ve done so well at learning (until you have almost, or completely, forgotten those facts)”

In my understanding, that's closer to optimal. Effortful retrieval is much more effective at strengthening future retrieval.
You’re right I hadn’t seen this. It’s pretty fresh and I’ve been off minecraft for a few years.

It’s neat, but even by previous FAQ response standards it’s horribly weak. It appears like little more than an ability to make scripts of existing vanilla commands. You can’t make/register blocks, fluids, modify terrain gen, or even trigger individual events. As a framework it isn’t useful for content creators.
That rule only applies for creators looking to be paid for monetising their channel. YouTube will still play ads and earn revenue on views of smaller channels. My channel for example only has about 50 subscribers but displays ads on certain videos that contain copyrighted music.
Another viable player that took the path similar to M3DB is VictoriaMetrics [1]. This allowed implementing various features [2] and optimizations [3] without the need to negotiate their integration into upstream Prometheus. Such negotiations can stuck forever. [4]

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/Exte...

[3] https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-f...

[4] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746
This reminds me that such people also think that the visual experience of browsing the internet is somehow "fixed". My impression of social media is that one of its draws (pitfalls actually) is that it gives the impression of different people experiencing the same thing, e.g.: a 100 people like this or 500 people retweeted that.

However, as programmers, we should see the internet not as a browser at all. We should see it as a list of protocols and implementations thereof.

I think a big part of the oh-so-common emotional social media battles is anticipation of the other person's experience. Hopefully for you, as a programmer reading this, your view of the internet is protected by automated command line scripts that fight your internet battles for you...
It's odd you describe this as democracy, the power-distance from the people voting has some of the highest levels in the world (i.e in terms of you voting someone who nominates someone who nominates someone, etc)
The US isn't the only country in the world, and I'm surprised the EU wasn't your first thought here given what they did to Microsoft and IE.
So it’s safe to say that people are not being alarmist about Google and should switch to Firefox.

I don’t think it’s “clear” at all that most users benefit from monopolistic app store practices. I think the giant tech companies do though.
Then I am a profitable user then.
Trying out Visual Studio Online, using the cloud to manage and compile your code
I don’t understand why you are downvoted because Firefox is a Google funded browser. One day they’ll have to compromise or find a real business model.
If my mechanic mounted a new transmission from another brand without telling me beforehand that he intended to do so, and I found out later, then I would immediately lose all trust in such a mechanic.
I think this is a combination of SEO exploiting the methods Google used to use to provide good results and personal data based result optimization only being good at certain types of queries...
I have a family YouTube Premium sub. I think advertising is a horrible monetization model. I also heard that a YouTube Premium view counts something like 6-7 times in terms of monetization for content creators as compared to an ad monetized view.
It's not either/or, just like you can have a factory making cheap widgets without letting that factory pollute the local river with industrial waste.

Ads are funding the Internet only because it's the easiest legal business model to pull off, so everyone gravitated to it. But it's not like there wouldn't be money for self-driving cars without adtech, and in reality, them being tied with advertising companies only ensures that the future will be shitty.
Not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek, but the key consideration here is that of authoritarianism (which is capable of being used in conjunction with plenty of other -isms, including socialism and capitalism). Corporations tend to be largely authoritarian as well (i.e., you are expected to respect your boss because they are your boss (and if they deign to respect you, this is regarded as magnanimity); possession of authority in authoritarian contexts is circularly self-justfiying).
They are not trying to kill advertisements. They want to replace API to provide better performance. That's about it. ad blocking extensions won't disappear. May be some will, and new extensions emerge.
> Bad days for oncalls

It sounds snarky, but it's honestly very hard to have sympathy with people who earn what these oncalls earn.
It would be nice if there was some sort of independent monitor for that. That might actually be a fun little project now that I think about it; deploy a VM on all major platforms that monitors some core services, collect all data in zabbix orso...

Anyway, I've never used GCE or Azure, but plenty of AWS ;) From my experience, Amazon tends to 'forget' about issues quite quickly. Last month there was a DNS issue, ~12 hours after it was 'resolved' according to their status page I was still having issues for instance.

That being said, I have not had any full outages or downtime due to AWS issues in 4 or 5 years.
This is covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503773

(Although they keep fiddling with the title, it should just be "Google Cloud Incident", it affected a lot of services)
>If Youtube starts banning those accounts then they are effectively not allowing anyone else to join their platform

That's a huge if - one that Youtube probably is not going to enforce on new customers. The same principle applies to most businesses I know - a new account/client has X months to be profitable until they get dropped.

On the flip side, i've often stumbled (in the days where I was parsing youtube for side projects) on projects with hours long videos with 3 views - for years. My best guess would be that those accounts / uploads are what youtube is targeting, not preventing their new account sign up / new DAU drop.
Now that they're pushing forward with the artificial limits, I'm looking forward to moving back to the days when large software was deployed on floppy/discs. I can see it now: "ublock origin part 1", "ublock origin part 2", ...
It's a shame they didn't call the line EPYC THREADRIPPER though.
What makes you think it would have gone any better if American independence never happened?

First off, British America would have never had the same amount of territory that the US ultimately had; Napoleon would have never sold the Louisiana territory to Great Britain, the Southwest would still be part of Mexico, and at best the Pacific Northwest would have been part of Canada. British America would basically stop at the Appalachians, with Louisiana probably reverting back to the Spanish and becoming either part of a greater Mexico or existing as its own quasi-post-colonial dominion. So while America could be the breadbasket of the Allies in our timeline, that would have been impossible without American independence.

Secondly, Britain would have never allowed America to industrialize to the degree that we did, because they wouldn't want that kind of competition for their domestic industry. So not only are we no longer the breadbasket of democracy, but we're not even the arsenal of democracy anymore.

Thirdly, you're looking at a scenario where in the First World War, Americans would be drafted and shipped overseas to die pointlessly in the trenches or in failed offensives like Gallipoli. And you think this would make Americans more likely to accept future British demands to be drafted and sent overseas to die in another pointless European war? Since in this scenario British America never even reaches the West Coast, there's absolutely no chance of a Pearl Harbor, either, meaning Americans have absolutely no stake in the Second World War.

In other words, British America would be a much weaker country than the United States, with less land, fewer natural resources, less industrialization, less manpower, and much less will to fight. They would have been available two years earlier, but Britain and France just sort of sat around doing fuck-all between September 1939 and May 1940 anyway, and it's not clear that the addition of a small number of Americans to the BEF would have saved France. And it's even worse than that. Without the United States the Pacific theatre would collapse, with Japan likely holding uncontested access to the natural resources of the region and probably even capable of successfully invading Australia. In real life, Britain basically gave up on everything east of Burma. It was the United States who had the resources to engage the Japanese at Guadalcanal, effectively checking their advance and making their position in New Guinea untenable. In such a scenario, Japan would likely be able to more effectively project naval power into the Indian Ocean and concentrate their forces on the China-Burma-India theatre.

Finally, compared to the rise of communism in Europe, fascism was abated pretty decisively, with probably fewer overall deaths and in a much shorter period of time.
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> I want to read what people want to share, not what people think will get them ad clicks.

Interesting thought.
The headline is a little understated. Here's what they say is down:

"Description: We are experiencing a major issue with Cloud Dataflow, AppEngine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Networking beginning at Monday, 2019-11-11 01:15 US/Pacific"
You don't even need the waterworld reference. There is a great series of books (and now a TV show) where "Belters" are space adapted humans. It turns into an interesting, if not pretty depressing, racism problem between those that grew up "down the well" instead of in space.