skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry! I'm taking pigeon stories as his autobiography[1], there was a biography that came out a year earlier, but that wasn't written by him.

I normally don't like autobiographies because they are usually just bad stories expertly written by ghost writers.

[1] its not really an autobiography, However pigeon stories is a series of short stories that give the background to either his characters in his books, or the situations his books cover.
Ask HN: Why Was HN Down?
This happened around the same time as Gmail. Is this related to Google services? I rely on them heavily, so any headsup would be useful.
Just got a text from my kids' school saying GMail is down and to use the school's direct email. Immediate reaction was "Google isn't down you idiots, the problem is on your end", go to check GMail, yep it's down.
Luckily nobody is using Google services for anything critical. Or what, are you?
Hey, it seems like this was clarified to not be work towards anti-cheat after all, and seems to have been a misunderstanding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/jtz08q/collab...
What exactly did you do that makes you so confident?
Some politics topics have shot up pretty quickly in the past but user and/or mod flags send them back to page 2 about as quickly.
Help! My Waymo taxi won't open the doors without me logging into the app. Its driving around in circles on route 500 and won't stop.

/s - for now ;)
Looks like the problem is with Accounts. Most Google apps work when not logged in, i.e. can view YouTube videos.
Don't know about your experience, but in mine, grandmas of today are rather trigger-happy. Smartphone photos aren't raw, but it's still megabytes of data for each photo.
Probably something related to users authentication then
Yes! It's actually pretty close to what I wanted, but not enough to become the everyday music player
Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline
The first problem reported with plasticizers was endocrine disruption [1]. This has been linked to the reduction of fetal anogenital distance, a key marker in determining the sex of a fetus [2]. This causes various reproductive disorders [3].

I am convinced that this contributes to the apparent feminization of human societies, a topic that apparently cannot be brought up for discussion in the US due to the ludicrous contemporary political climate.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001664801...

2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16079079/

3: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-018-2350-5
Google employees can't login to update their status board on https://www.google.com/appsstatus ?
Just use alternatives:

* DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search

* Bitchute / LBRY / Odyssee instead of YouTube

*Nextcloud instead of Google Drive
Google has now updated the status page, every single service has an outrage:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus
How coud all of googles websites be down this long tho. You would at least think google being the company they are would have some sort of like backup serevers or backup plan type stuff. Idk
Universal Package Management
It's red already.
Google Service abruptly went down, impacting hundreds of users. Among the services that were disrupted at the time of writing include Gmail, Google Search, YouTube, and Google Maps among others.
>So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again?

Much less chance of that happening than my local backups getting borked...
Four Valuable life Lessons I learned Turning 40 Years Old
What if your datacenter explode? Will you lose nothing? Is everything backed up/replicated to the second/third one? Because I think that's a bigger possibility than Google not coming back.
It’s probably not you.
Yup, Ops Genie is BLOWING UP with alerts... but can I get into GCP to see what's going on? Nope.
There are other ways to deliver packets... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Solid red now. Everything down
It would be so interesting to see the postmortem...
The moment you realize that the only way you notice Google is down is through HN.

Cheers all you selfhosted-FOSS-alternatives! Time to bump up those Patreon contributions...
Strangely everything seems to be little faster in incognito mode
I happened to use Google Takeout to download everything I had last weekend (~200 Gb)... at first I thought my account was banned and that was the only solace I had, but this definitely is killing my productivity.
probably because everyone was checking HN to see if google is down/comment that its down for them too/...
What are IAM permissions?
Is google's status page actually linked to anything?

Or is it ahem airgapped?
I apologize for my ambiguous phrasing, and I feel bad that you were downvoted (I reupvoted you, but that’s only one vote).

I wrote too fast because I thought it could help people work around the problem.
Hey can someone explain to me how all google apps are down cause idk a lot and ik that at least a kid ddosing these websites is not a possiblity so what kind of attacks are going down here? And how come google doesnt have like backup servers to run there websites on or is that not a thing?
I've read and enjoyed quite a few of his books and also enjoyed the TV adaptations. I happened to pick up a copy of Agent Running in the Field in a second hand bookshop last week so I'm looking forward to reading that in his memory.
I recall that their SREs use IRC?
Look the status page still works https://google.com/appsstatus#hl=da&v=status but it says everything is broke.
I can't login to anything via Google Auth this morning.

It reports error that my Google Account can't be found. I thought my account had been deleted!
> I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Probably: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
just authentication services does not work in Turkey.
Turns out hacker news has an indirect dependency on google!
Back up for me, almost. Some warnings on gmail but the inbox is loading up.
I've switched from GPM to Tidal+Roon. So far so good.
"Sign in with Google" also fails. So this outage is taking quite a few otherwise unrelated third party apps with it.
Thank God! Google Cloud Print is still working! I'd be destroyed if that ever stopped working!
Even search seems to have issues. It can't seem to find rare pages at all, and ranking seems subpar for the past 15 minutes or so.
The Google outage is one of the top BBC headlines now, so it has become mainstream news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55299779

"The outage started shortly before noon UK time, with Google sites returning server errors when visited.

Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps, and more.

...

Despite the widespread outage, Google's service dashboard for its services reported no errors."
The example of asbestos is interesting, because it was actually know since the roman empire that it was toxic. Juvenal wrote about the disease suffered by asbestos miners in the beginning of the 2nd century!

As you mentioned, the problem is never knowledge: it's the political fact between wealthy corporations and people's interest. Companies try to cover their mess up for as long as they can, by every possible mean. They know it won't last forever, but it doesn't really matter since they banked up their profits in the meantime and people in charge almost never suffer legal consequences for their actions…
Agreed, it's a shame they couldn't settle with a business model. On the positive: the source is available and their descriptions of the distortions are still the the best reference.
It should be faster than it takes TechCrunch to write an article about it
This morning also Microsoft O365 had problems with authentication
My mom got dry eyes, she needs to work with computer but normal LCD screens always make her eyes dry and painful. I searched a lot of eye-friendly device and reviews, finally I found DASUNG Monitor. Though, compared with ordinary monitors and screens, it’s black and white and lack of color, it’s very eye-friendly for people with dry eyes and eye disease. The clarity of the screen is actually remarkable, and the refresh rate is good enough. Because I bought the one without frontlight, so I need to turn on the light at night, I bought an eye-protection lamp for my mom. All in all, the feedback I received from my mom is relatively good. It turned out that her eyes were always dry and unclear when she staring at her office computer screen and mobile phone for a day at work, she rely a lot on eye drop. After I bought DASUNG Monitor for her, her eyes feel much more comfortable and dry eye eased obviously. She would use the screen as main screen, and make text reports and spreadsheets. Seldom using her normal screen only when she needs something with color. Your eyes feel much more comfortable than using a normal screen after a whole’s work. It’s worth the price!
I wonder if this means Google Fi is affected too?

And I also wonder how many Google engineers might not even be getting paged right now as a result.
Factory farming uses almost no land. The animals never leave the building or their cage.
Everything seems to be back to normal, for me at least.
*"PRIVACY" IS LIKE "the environment" – it's about too many things to be useful, so everybody ends up trampling it for a host of petty reasons. Leading to a world that's degraded and hostile, and that would never have been chosen had the consequences been made clear.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, they are going to have an immense SLA claim issue. 99.9% SLA on Workspace services, so any business paying for Google for Business (now known as Workspace) is going to have a credit claim (assuming the outage is longer than 43m 49s which feels like it will be).

Edit: As I comment it looks like things are coming back! Timing or what...
If you use Insync you have the option of converting to DOCX or ODT.
Insync has other issues though, my "sourcetreeconfig" is being downloaded as "sourcetreeconfig.xml".
Bummed to have not received an email about what's happening and why from the Google team.

Has anyone on a "platinum"/"enterprise" google workspace plan received any relevant communication about what's happening and ETA on uptime?
I think it's back. Youtube is loading.
Is it due to the SolarWinds Orion exploit?

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/
moment of empathy for engineers
i wonder what % of the hn crowd cant work if google auth is down
The Boys is basically Hollywood not actually doing the source material because it's too controversial. It's a very watered down version of the comic that doesn't even follow the comic's story.
Calendar is also down.
Whoose laughing at self-hosters now huh ?
That's interesting, Youtube never works for me in Firefox just fine. Video playback gets stuck somewhat regularly, requiring FF restart.

But yeah, the page loads for me as well :)
Since we're all here, let's show some love here(12k hours for a game in Delphi)
There's Odin and Beef Lang.
I guess a lot of people are fine with the risk.

Everybody uses it, so if, like, Gmail loses all the emails, we are then in such a state that the consequences will be more bearable and socially normal.

Most people are fine with accepting that whatever future thing will happen to most people will also happen to them. Because then the consequences will also be normal.

If the apocalypse comes, it comes for almost all of us and that's consolation enough.
Really great site! Uncluttered and easy to follow.

I have one question: is there JD best practice on how to handle file sets that are generated frequently and in large-ish numbers? I’m thinking specifically of camera image files. My current approach is to have a directory per year, and then subdirectories (with a YYYMMDD-subject name) for each distinct shoot (typically between 30 and 50) in that year, together containing between 5000 and 20000 new images (depending on how many shoots I do). I maintain a parallel folder structure for the processed images. My current thinking is to keep this photo-library as-is, but put all of my ‘normal’ files into a JD structure.

By the way, and picking up memetherapy’s comment, I’ve also experienced knowledge management problems in large corporations for which JD would be a great answer. The last place I worked moved several years ago from a ‘classic’ system based on servers and file systems to a system based upon numerous per-project sharepoint sites. It didn’t help that the template for the sites was developed from a project lifecycle perspective and had about 70 folders covering every stage from initiating a bid to project shutdown. There was pretty-much a single ‘dev’ folder for the actual work, that techies like myself inevitably populated in inconsistent ways. Something that was never resolved was that all of these silos made searching for old reports, etc really really hard and fundamentally broke knowledge management in the company. Especially when most of the silos had per-project access permissions.

On the point made elsewhere about tagging, in my experience it is extremely hard to get people across a large company to add metadata to content, let alone do it consistently.
User extended attributes (xattrs) for NFS (landed in kernel 5.9) was a feature some people, including me, were waiting years for.
This puts into sharp relief how outages and downtime can hit ANYONE.

Cheers to all the small SaaS businesses out there keeping their services up and running without much of a hick-up all year round.
Gcloud/GKE command line utils are also having problems.

Was deploying some test applications and kubectl started complaining about gcloud auth helper throwing not zero errors. Trying to launch cloud shell from the website and nothing happened.

The web application which is a site that does not rely on any external API is running fine.
What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative.

Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.: not my personal experience, I never tried self hosting, just relying what I read here on HN when the topic comes up).

So, yeah, what do we do about email? I feel like we should have a solution to this by now, but somehow we don't.
Drive and Gmail seem to be back for me (12:31 GMT)
Atlassian's #HugOps page[1] collates messages of support for Devops as a public embedded Google Map and it really encapsulates the current feeling!

https://imgur.com/a/3RurTYf

Don't forget to #HugOps all the people who've been woken up on a monday morning with this! Hope this gets resolved soon :)

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/hugops
These are temporary deferrals, a properly configured outbound mailserver should retry for days.
It's up again!
/. , of course.
Here in Brazil, YouTube has just up!
That supports the claim about it being an auth issue.
https://viewdns.info/ismysitedown/?domain=google.com points to 172.217.1.46
You can't plow a mountain side and grow acres of corn or build a feedlot. But you can run cattle and sheep over it which are able to forage the grasses while climbing the terrain.

So mountainous people are able to obtain calories from animals in places otherwise unsuitable for more conventional farming methods.
Gmail and Youtube are back online for me. Hangouts is beach balling. There is a warning at the top of my screen though.

"Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists."
If memory serves, HN is hosted on a relatively lightweight server configuration.
> Outing is a controversial but old practice
I would translate "controversial" here as "shitty". It is just selling other people's privacy for clicks, which may damage their lives.
If you are right; congrats! you just got few googlers fired!
Anything that uses the mpd protocol, including mpd itself, can do all of those things except sell you new music.
Junior programmers suffer from the tragedy of the commons.

Why waste $$ training juniors, when for a fraction of that $$ you can poach a ready-trained senior from the company next door?

Every company wants someone else to take apprentices and carry the burden of on-the-job training
I bet it'll crash as well lol
These uptime numbers cloud providers gives out can't be nowhere near actual uptime.
Perhaps you don't have a change in the number of crackpots, but you have a decent chance the crackpots are now all saying the same thing. Misled voters in a democracy seems like a bad thing to me (this extends to the way mass media is currently used of course).

There's an obvious slippery slope in these discussions - ultimately it's reducible to who you give the right to vote to, and discomfort about measures to keep the undesirables from rallying ought not to be ignored.
Google's Back Up
Phew, that was a scary 30 minutes
won't help when the ai service itself is down.
Internet jargon; when a commenter is overly excited, they tend to overuse exclamation points. In the rush to add many exclamation points, the shift key might not be held down for all of them.

So you end up with things like "OMG!!!!111"
Is Google Auth down because of the SolarWinds Orion exploit?

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/
my googles stopped working.
Looking at the other comments, it seems highly likely zanzibar[1] is down. Their auth service.

[1] PDF: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190.pdf
I understand and while we all understand that it isn't technically "unlimited", they still are just using the service they pay for in the way it was advertised to them. If it isn't unlimited and you don't want to deal with that 0.1% of users, do not advertise it that way.

Again, I think it's ridiculous to use online storage services in that way but still, is it really fair to blame the consumer here?
It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290

>I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now.

Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Same with Orkut.com, can't even open it.
Exactly after my setIamPolicy API request to Google Cloud was the exact moment everything went down.
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries
Let's not get ahead of ourselves :)
Dasung E-ink Monitor save my eyes and help a lot
Google Search Images doesn't work either: https://www.google.com/search?q=random&tbm=isch&source=lnms
A friend at Google's telling me it's partially back up. Anyone still facing issues?
Both Google Drive/Photos and OneDrive have an option to only keep recently used files on your local device, and even periodically suggest they automatically remove local copies of unused files to "free up space".

I highly suggest everyone disable this setting on their own, but also on their (perhaps less technical) friends' and relatives' devices. Otherwise, if anything happens to your account or - less likely - the storage provider or their hardware, your data could very well be gone forever. I can't believe anyone would want that.
Seems to back up. Most services working outside of incognito
Me too.
But it started playing ads because apparently I wasn't logged in anymore... So it works but without "using" your account.
You don't need 'the cloud' to do that. Look into Syncthing. It does depend on an outside "discovery server" by default to enable syncing outside of your LAN, but you can run your own.

https://syncthing.net/
Even Google Sign In service is down. Sites like Airbnb, Duolingo, etc that uses Google Sign In can't log in their users.
Of course it's viable as a backup. Availability != realibility. My data is still reliably saved in the cloud even if there is an outage for a few hours. The key point is backup, e.g. Dropbox. When you use Google Docs, it becomes a single source of truth and a SPOF.
Whataya know Youtube didn’t work and I came to HN to check what happened.
Hmm. My magical spell works.
yeah this is like saying it must be a compiler bug
Not 100% on that, but I think you can save these documents on Google Drive, and then they're treated (and synced) just like any other files.
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Seems to be back up (Europe/NL).
No -- it needs to be red when it's having the outage for people to have confidence in it as an indicator. The reality is Google have no real incentive to provide an actual external status page that is accurate -- to do so is an admission of not upholding SLAs. These status pages are updated retrospectively. Use a third party one like DownDetector.
At least Google DNS (8.8.8.8) still works. So, the people who use it, still have access to the rest of the Internet.
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The search for the “perfect” Advent Calendar (2018)
Seems like they are up again
Sortof, HN is slow because after the outage, a LOT of people are on HN. The servers seems overloaded.
I wonder why services like Uber (which rely on Google Maps for everything are still working, with things like routing being completely okay).
I'd assume HN is having a lot of visitors right now, the Google outage post got more than 1k5 upvotes in less than an hour.
We use Google Cloud and Firebase at work and our application and servers are still up and running. Can't say the same about the Cloud Admin Console, tho.
Ask HN: Where did Webster look up the definitions when he wrote the dictionary?
I did not realize how dependent I was to google/google services until 30 minutes ago.
Firebase is down too.
Hmmm google is back... wonder if this was an attack or if this was an internal problem with something?
All fine for me
Do you have an exact time?
ads seem to be working though
Here are your pub-quiz questions: https://www.gimpel.com/archive/bugs.htm
Access to information shouldn't be a price gouging business. This is amazing. Comcast, Verizon and ATT can go rot in hell
The problems seem to have been (mostly) resolved over here, at least the authentication seems to work again.
back inside we go guys:(
While there is accidental complexity, we can not measure what is or isn’t accidental. So I think the statement that the majority of complexity is accidental is completely made up. I also think it’s wrong.

The majority of complexity in software is unavoidable. Accidental complexity just makes it even worse.
HN is faster and more accurate than status pages of major service providers themselves. Special thanks to people working at those service providers and posting here!
It is back again.
yeah, not working in Europe
I wonder how on earth googlers are supposed to fix this when they can't log in to make changes...
Clicking the stupid download links is so tedious...
I started this[1] the last time something similarly scary happened.

It's very comforting to have a local copy of everything important in situations like this one.

[1] https://wiki.emilburzo.com/backing-up-your-google-digital-li...
These rare events help make extremely visible how much of our general basic infrastructure we've farmed out to a small handful of companies, centralizing something that was supposed to avoid the problems of centralization.
News.Y Combinator.com affected by Google outage
For me YT is down only if I'm logged in. On incognito mode it is fine
Specific features and ideas will be put up very soon. The landing page is intentionally vague to paint the broader picture. It will evolve with specifics and screenshots as we get ready to launch. Do keep a tab.
seems to be working again, for me. except gmail says "Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists."
The cool thing is that newpipe is working while youtube is down.
what a useful comment
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