skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and this measure is based on what science?
My entire Meet call just got dropped and can no longer connect. Lots of 502's.

The good news is that it happened on a Friday -- see you all next week!
John Searle Octopus Test
Yep, companies love to do that.

See Ubisoft and selling EXP boosts so you don't have to grind as much in Assassin's Creed. They decided to make it a grind to encourage you to buy the "solution".
Thanks. I love hearing bits of interesting history like that. I'd never heard of Qanats.
The spying thing is a problem with US gov. Why are you dinging Apple for that? In fact, Apple refused to unlock the phone when FBI requested for the famous shooting case (I forgot). Others do the same - Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Apple is complying to the law.

Also, Apple is putting encryption in hardware to prevent this sort of a thing. They don't have keys to the device.
In my experience the video compression on PS Now is very noticeable, especially in dark scenes. Lag is usually fine at least for games that aren't particularly lag sensitive, but there are days when it's spiking so much it's unplayable (and online games installed locally are fine). I haven't been using the streaming much recently, though: now that it lets you download most PS4 games there's not much point to the streaming except for those games that require it or quickly trying out a game or playing on a non-PS4 device.
Obligatory mention of 'SILVERSPOT, The Story of a Crow ' from 'Wild Animals I Have Known'

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3031/3031-h/3031-h.htm#link2...
thanks for the suggestion. ordered on amazon :)
In any other time we wait in the dark huddled around our AM radios to hear if they've figured this thing out. Or we close the city gates and start burning witches. Or we burn animals on the altar to Yahweh and Ashera.

It's unusual that we get to see the bleeding edge science before it's all figured out, and it's definitely making things confusing, but it isn't sad.
Yeah that was what initially got me to check status. Checked twitter and saw others with the issue. Tried to do voice only call but Google Voice was down as well.
I completely disagree. Individual restraint will not do the trick. Your limited time and energy is better spent working on creating mandatory, systemic behavior change. It is not hypocritical to, for example, vote for closing tax loopholes while using the very same.
Google Analytics down

Edit: Gmail Down
This isn't a 1:1 comparison. Everyone's 18-22 at some point in their lives... not everyone is black or muslim.

Replace 18-22 year olds with 13-17 year olds. Do you feel any different?

I do agree that this is arbitrary and unlikely to be effective.
There are places where it is allowed to eat dogs and forbidden to eat pigs.

And I'm pretty sure the arctic explorers both loved and ate their dogs.
Same. I was trying to figure out what a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) network might behave like in the context of a CNN! Maybe, rather than be single-shot it tries to explore as many possibilities at once, leveraging further increasing parallelism in the GPU?
I was writing a longish note in google keep, and now keep.google.com gives me 502s.
We're getting 502 responses to all of our calls to all Google APIs. There doesn't seem to be a correlating incident on either dashboard:

https://status.cloud.google.com/
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
Replace 18-22 year olds with "regular people"

It's clearly not legal.

Whether it's ethical or effective is in doubt, given herd immunity arguments, Sweden, the Constitution, etc.
At what point does the responsibility shift to the University Presidents if they can predict with confidence (and then confirm with data) that their students will never comply with their directives?
I don't know how you keep arriving at the conclusion we disagree on this topic.
>Pex fingerprints of videos are not the same.

We also download the content to our servers. We analyze it, hence the fingerprint, and then delete the content. So yes, it's not apples to apples, but it works very similarly.

>They have lot of this data ... because they host the majority of videos... which happens because hosting videos is expensive.

Fair, but not that necessary. Usage data is great, but YouTube has only data on YouTube. It would be great to have them, but the search is about letting person to find what they are looking for. And for that the exact usage data is not necessary.

>A pure search engine without hosting the actual video bytes and only links to others doesn't have the same virtuous loop of data feedback

Yes, but again, that's the same thing as when Google points you to a page. Yes they hold the HTML page, but you are not reading it there. They don't know if you read what's on the page, what you did there, etc. Same as we don't know what you did with the video once you got there.

>I disagree that it was billions in marketing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-videos-are-goofy-its-st...

>Back in 2005, Google was also the default search engine for AOL and Yahoo and yet a little upstart like Youtube (without billions) was beating Google's own Video service! The irony! Susan Wojcicki was the early employee of Google who convinced Larry Page that they were losing and to acquire Youtube instead.

Nuances matter. Google bought YouTube not because it was beating their video service but because they were perceived by most users as a search engine and it posed huge competitive challenge to their core business. Why did Facebook buy Instagram?

>I disagree with a CEO who boils down his business disadvantages to "marketing" expenditures.

Fair. You are free to go and run with it. You don't have to agree with me. I gave you my reasoning why I am not doing it.

>If millions of others agree with you, that proves you have a compelling product. You don't need billions. Neither the early startup Google nor early Youtube had that type of money. Every company that seems formidable and unbeatable today because they have billions in the bank was previously a small company that didn't have billions. Likewise, you can be one of those companies that finds a way to billions instead of falling back on lack of marketing as the roadblock.

I don't think you understood. We built quite large and growing company already. I have no interest entering the market as I found better business for myself and the company. I shared with you my analysis of why I decided against entering the market. Again, you don't have to agree with it.
Fun fact: In the US, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act forbids employment discrimination based on age against people over 40. It’s legal to discriminate against young people based on age.
Side note: Google'e status page, linked, breaks the back button. How the 'F can a simple status dashboard break something so simple?

(In Google's own browser, too.)
The Boulder hospitals are full, or strained? Flattening the curve was about keeping the hospitals from being overrun. Putting the strictest measures on the segment of the population that is least likely to get ill seems questionable (testing positive does not necessarily mean one has symptoms). Granted, spread to more vulnerable populations must be minimized -- but I wonder about the real science behind this policy (if it's about science).
Absolutely. There are some many direct and indirect subsidies (fossil fuels, defense, farm) that actively encourage and reward actions with huge negative externalities.
Everyone is great at pointing out problems. But people are rarely good at coming up with (good) solutions without a level of overall understanding and context.
Here's some more coverage: https://www.cpr.org/2020/09/24/boulder-county-issues-ban-on-...

Here's the text of the order: https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/disease/covid-19/publ...

The text says in part:
""Gathering: more than one individual coming together or being physically near each other for any shared and common purpose, including socializing or participating in any activity together including but not limited to shopping, dining, or exercising. A gathering does not include employees of any business while performing work for that business or any classroom learning activity explicitly permitted by the University of Colorado. Members of the same household while in their shared household space (e.g. a dorm room) together are not considered a gathering.""

They've excluded people at work, so I suppose this allows people in this age range to provide childcare for essential workers, work in health care or at grocery stores, etc.
My Google Voice call was dropped about 5 minutes ago.
Do these status dashboards have any more credibility left? Always showing green when services are down.
Of course both dashboards show all green:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

https://status.cloud.google.com/
Firebase Is Down?
All of our apps using Firebase have just started spewing auth errors - anyone else having issues with Firebase?
gmail down
2/3 of my Google mail accounts are going up and down like a yoyo. Poor OSX doesn't know how to deal with it
That does seem a bit unusual but then again the amount of attention that social media (and media in general) is getting lately is basically off the charts.
Wow, this is substantial.

All my mail sync is down, Analytics isn't loading, Sheets and Docs are all stuck in "Reconnecting". I wonder what could cause this.
One thing that I didn't realize I loved about sprints until I went to a place without them is the guarantee what for the next two weeks, your priorities are set, and aren't changing unless something very unexpected happens.

Having a two week period with a decided set of work allows you to peacefully do this work isolated from incoming requests - unless they are critical, they will always be delayed to the next sprint. Without sprints, our direction and priority changed daily, with no ability to say "we haven't planned for this, please wait". The result was it was incredibly hard to get anything done, and attention was always scattered.

I am happily back at a place that is doing sprints, and I am sure the problems at my previous organization were far bigger than not having them, but sprints do seem like a great tool to isolate the developer from exterior fluctuations. Granted, a great project manager can probably do the same thing.
I don’t agree that the “hardcore freedom of speech” view requires or implies the assumptions you spell out.

They could all be false (eg more information is not better, people are frequently unable to parse out untruths and limiting information actually improves discourse quality) and still it is vastly more harmful to allow private institutions to wield the power of defining acceptable discourse than to permit all discourse.

The key issue is what the endowment of discourse-approval power grants to that institution. The issue is not whether discourse is true, productive or high-quality.

A bunch of nuts spouting off conspiracy theories on Facebook is low quality, likely to mislead people, and does not add useful information.

But allowing private entities to have the power to make policing decisions about it is a dramatically greater evil.
>This mental game seems to me to be one of the huge factors that determine outcomes.

I realized this was true for my personal projects this year, but never realized it's also exactly the same as work.
I am experiencing intermittent issues with GMail not loading new conversations in a timely fashion, and showing "something went wrong" notification messages.
And not even a ReadMe file to accompany either ZIP file.
I'm also getting intermittent 502s in Gmail
Not to be offensive, how many countries out there with big tech companies shaping the technology? Maybe Sony from Japan a little and except their PlayStation, I can't think of anything they do these years, unlike in 80s.
I think there can be a difference in goals, but history strongly suggests no country has mastered the difference in outcomes, so regardless of which goal, attempts to do either should be held to the highest suspicion and probably censured by the international community.

America learned a bloody and horrible lesson trying to install a friendly government in Afghanistan after Russia diminished their influence in the region.
Many of the commenters here have pointed out that the semantic web did not become popular because the incentives are not supportive of the investment. I agree, and this leads me to wonder if there are domains in which the cost of investing in semantic markup are relevant.

I see scientific publishing as a venue that could clearly benefit from application of a semantic web-like domain-specific approach. There are a variety of possibilities [0], [1], but again many are implemented behind proprietary paywalls. There's value in search and knowledge representation, but the prohibitive cost of implementation is challenging.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Scholar
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Science
Semantic Web postmortem seems like one of those things where everyone is touching their own part of the elephant.

This is the best overview I've found of the basic history:

https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
The nature of changes is that you cannot predict them in advance.

Even if you knew your roadmap for 2 months and were operating perfectly, something unpredictable could happen, as things do. Such things don’t give you any kind of notice before they happen.

In such an event, you can’t be expected to remember something someone told you 2 weeks ago in passing anyway. Standups are a short but heavy information dump and are not good at facilitating recall as time goes on. This is true especially if you are operating in a rapidly changing environment such as a startup.
Google Calendar has been spotty for me and Hangouts isn't working at all.
My meet call dropped & hangouts chat is failing to connect. Maybe time to switch to Jitsi!
The article does not say anything about what if any data was used to make this decision.

Conflating this as a human rights issue as some commenters have tried to on this thread is a dangerous trend.

In other cities, like La crosse, WI for instance college campuses tended to be the hotspots.

The same was true of senior housing a few months back.

So I am leaning towards the public health officials targeting this based on data for hotspots and demographics and not just to ground some group of people.

The virus needs to be quashed and NY is the evidence.
What makes Corvids truly fascinating, is that their offspring will be taught to recognize them too.
It's still Thursday in some places :)
>wrote a letter jointly telling the college students if they did not shape up The universities _would be closed_

I think from this we could infer that they will take responsibility when they think it becomes clearer that students will not sufficiently comply with the public safety directives.
Why not just gather in the neighboring city?
Persons within the age range of 18-22 are not a protected class, so this does seem legal. Effective, maybe? I assume this is based on the idea that this age group is acting as super spreaders.

Ethical? That's a judgment call. I say yes, personally.
As a 27-year-old CU PhD student and staff member, I just want to say that this is a welcome development. The university recklessly opened this fall without adequate security measures in place over the loud protests of faculty and staff, and (surprised_pikachu.jpg) now Boulder is facing a massive outbreak clearly attributable to campus' opening [1].

My friends, colleagues, and community are being directly endangered by CU's obfuscation of case data, refusal to provide comprehensive testing, and foot-dragging on promised safety measures. It's ridiculous that the city/county are being forced to mitigate the downstream effects of this doomed-from-the-beginning plan, but the "run it like a business" university administration is a lost cause.

[1] https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/disease/covid-19/covi...
I wanted to quote something from the “retrospective summary” but it was a photo of the text!
Google Cloud Console is down
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
Uuuh...dogs can't eat any type of food. Everyday things like garlic, onions, avocado and chocolate, in no big a serving, can kill them in a relatively short time.

Please be aware of our little friends can and should eat.
An even simpler way of routing a certain container through wireguard, without needing to create a docker network and bind it to wg manually:

https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs#example-client-cont...
A few months ago when all the auth services stopped working it took them a while to update the pages too.
Note that it's USA only
Jacobson v MA also formed the basis for Korematsu, the case that justified the suspension of Japanese Americans' human rights on the basis of their ethnicity.

Jacobson and its descendant Buck, then Korematsu, are among the most shameful moments in the history of the law in America.
> They've excluded people at work, so I suppose this allows people in this age range to provide childcare for essential workers, work in health care or at grocery stores, etc.

How kind of our benevolent overlords. We can still partake in the economic machinery! Just none of that pesky “living your life” stuff.

I’m surprised they haven’t banned laughter yet. It spreads SARS-CoV-2-laden respiratory droplets like nothing else.
my cows are too smart for electric fences. i set one up to separate 2 herds with a bull in each herd. the bulls will fight if the ladies are in season. they watched me set up the fence worked out that I placed the control box up at the same time the the fence got all zappy they pulled all the wires out of the control box. Cows are a lot smarter than people give them credit for.
ironically, if this is true for all chrome users, the back button works just fine on firefox + windows.
Firebase api calls don't seem to be working either.
Google Drive down. 502
> Rights previously granted (and still allowed) under Timescale License

> Right to run unmodified TimescaleDB for internal use

> Right to utilize unmodified TimescaleDB to offer a Value Added Service

> Right to distribute unmodified Source and Binaries as part of Value Added Product

> Right to modify TimescaleDB for internal development and testing, and subsequently upstream modifications to Timescale

Do you can still run modified (or unmodified) "community edition" timescale in an SaaS configuration right?

Also it sounds like you can actually run unmodified TimeScaleDB (Timescale license w/ all the enterprise features) as long as you add some value (is easy setup value? Do I need to like automatically shard or something on top of it?)...

Am I misunderstanding? I'd love to run a postgres aaS provider for fun someday and I'd like to use timescale as one of the supported addons.
FWIW, the GMail imap interface in Apple Mail is still working alright for me. Can confirm the gmail web interface is completely borked.
Entire village lost its broadband at the same time every day for 18 months
I disagree.

18-22 year old's in college are self-contained for the most part. They're around people their own age, not known for intermingling with senior citizens etc.
Case Study in the Science of Brainwashing
Seems to be all google auth
I live in boulder.

So the issue here is really that the university of Colorado has a number of students who are flagrantly ignoring masking rules. They also have a administration that opened the campus. Boulder is a very left leaning city, has a department of health that has decided to be extremely expansive with their mandate in boulder county. Churches and public schools are still closed. But there is a tricky issue in that the state constitution keeps bolder from regulating CU. The majority of cases in Colorado are now from CU. That’s why they’ve structured at the way they have, because they cannot regulate CU directly.

So the question becomes is this a violation of the bill of rights? You’d have to be able to argue that the governments actions are designed to be punitive, rather than protective. As much as Boulder has consistently overstepped itself, I think this still meets that criteria.

As a sidenote, for all of the politicking about red state versus blue state, it is definitely millennials and zoomer‘s that I see without masks. Doesn’t bode well for the future.

Also Boulder and CU have had this war going on for quite a while independent of covid. It got to the point where the University even decided to purchase a quarry to get around Boulder restrictions.
Back button disrupted for Safari on iOS.
>The Boulder hospitals are full, or strained? Flattening the curve was about keeping the hospitals from being overrun. Putting the strictest measures on the segment of the population that is least likely to get ill seems questionable (testing positive does not necessarily mean one has symptoms). Granted, spread to more vulnerable populations must be minimized -- but I wonder about the real science behind this policy (if it's about science).

Doing some quick Googling about the scientists at the head of US public policy on the subject: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-19-colleges...

The scientists seem to say 1) don't send students home and 2) contain them so they don't cause further outbreaks at universities. So the suggestion of ending youth public gatherings at a university seems in-line with the science.
My more cynical interpretation is that the school wanted to shift the onus onto the students, because more effective measures would have affected the schools ability to charge tuition at it’s full rate.
Human rights are always dangerous.
It’s a human rights issue regardless of the data, and your assertion that “the virus needs to be quashed” goes against reality. We’re not practicing containment in the US, therefore this virus WILL diffuse through the population. All we can choose is how many lives we want to destroy before we accept that reality. (By the way, even if we were practicing containment - which we’re not - it would still eventually spread. Look at New Zealand for an example of the folly of human hubris).

They are undertaking this measure because of a spike in COVID “cases” (read: positive PCR test results). A spike in cases without a corresponding increase in deaths or hospitalizations should be a good thing, but we treat it the same as having an equivalent number of centenarians get sick. Completely absurd and it goes against everything we knew about public health before this mass global hysteria took root.
I hate the water / electricity analogies because they don't make sense.

Voltage is not like water pressure. If you have a high water pressure, water will inexorably be pushed through the pipe to relieve the pressure. That's so regardless of whether the pipe is 1 inch or 1 yard in diameter.

Voltage on the other hand means nothing without current. A high voltage on its own - like static electricity - will not move many electrons through the conductor.
The culprit is that linking to:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus

Then loads:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

If you hit back, it goes to the URL without hash, but then instantly goes to the one with the hash.

Pretty annoying.

(If you paste the 2nd URL directly, you will not have problems.)