skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blame culture isn't the way forward here.

Do a post-mortem, work out root causes, work as a unit to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Obviously if there are levels of gross negligence or misconduct discovered during post-mortem, that will need to be dealt with accordingly, but coming into this with an attitude of "we must find someone to blame and incur repercussions" isn't healthy at all.

We are humans - don't forget that.

edit: forgot some words.
the problem has been fixed
Hashed-block chains can be used to prove data history has not been tampered with, i.e. an audit log is true. If you change something in the history/audit the related blockchain from that point in time onwards becomes invalid.

There needs to be some 3rd party interaction to completely believe what this chain of block hashes tells you, as someone editing history in a DB could in theory replay all other transactions and recreate the ledger from that point onwards to remove evidence of the modification.

Search for "ledger tables" and "distributed ledger" for more info. The idea pre-dates cryptocurrencies by quite some time. I've seen small scale implementations of it, and talks about MS researching the area in relation to SQL Server and similar offerings.

Edit: reading further down the comments, it looks like MS's work has recently left the research stage and is being offered as an alpha product in some Azure regions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/announcing-...

Other comments below mention similar ledger features in other products/services too.
Are you saying that people who say “i should be required to have fire protection, carry health insurance or use turn signals” should be able to not do those things and not look like a hypocrit?
How to receive payments worldwide and how much it costs
Fwiw this won't have happened (a similarly? designed copycat) if Replit's infrastructure was open source. A good example of this model is how GitLab still succeeds even if it is open source that other people are free to host.
They'll never tell how they use the data for obvious reasons and I also can't go into any details. But any obvious thing you can think of almost certainly has been tried, they've been doing it for 20+ years and ranking alone is staffed with several hundreds of smart engineers. Mining clickthrough logs is a fairly old topic itself, has been around since at least early 2000s.
When this happens to cloudflare, it will be even more impactful.
The intention behind not letting it work for their competitors is immoral and potentially illegal. They want to do it to prevent their consumers to buy their competitors products for their family, even if their competitors product are better; just because they already have a device in the Apple ecosystem.
It is a bit like "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story". I have felt the urge to respond with something witty and scathing to a story online, only to realise after a moment's reflection that my response would be irrelevant in several scenarios. The disappointment that follows for wasting a witty response...that takes some resisting.
>it is totally legal to pay more taxes than you owe, and you can even reclaim the money later if you need to. There is nothing preventing anyone from paying the taxes that they feel that they should owe, in excess of legal requirements.

Gary Trudeau had a story about how he and his wife were always getting audited because they paid more taxes than people in their income bracket normally paid, so that would be one reason why you might not want to pay more than you have to.

also if I thought I should pay more tax I would probably also think the other people like me should pay more tax and since I am probably in competition with them over things I would not like to disarm myself unless they were likewise disarmed.
Fastly is back now.
(The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.)
VLC also has the advantage of being developed in France, where the legal system does not recognise software patents.
Hashing is for ensuring data integrity and encryption is for protection of data and information I know it but I meant hashing bitcoin private key with some hashing algorithm in order to conceal it.
is https://picc.io down ?
It never seemed important to the CEO of a previous company I worked for that we had something to say, only that we gave off the impression that we had something to say. We hired an outsourced blog writing service to fill our wordpress instance with generic, inoffensive platitudes and listicles poorly cribbed from Wikipedia and the ONS. Squint a little bit and you could convince yourself there was value to it, but nobody with any experience in the problem space would treat it as anything more than marketing fluff. His hope was always that one day we would get rewarded by the great Google algorithm and appear on the first page for search terms we were convinced our users were looking for, but the end result was that our blog was largely designed to be read by robots.

It's the same thing as the tweaks you have to perform for SEO optimisation, some have questionable value to the end user but you jump through the hoops anyway because it's what is done, by pleasing the robots you're rewarded with a higher search position.
Spotify is also hit, though it still works without images
I’d highly recommend that you study formal ethics. Ethics is not built on a platform of opinions.

Unless you are the sort of person that claims that reality is just an opinion, too, in which case you should also study formal philosophy.
I think Fastly is the one having problems (they happen to use varnish but I haven't seen anything which says varnish is the root cause) - so all sites using it are down.
Bit pedantic, but it's PyPI that Fastly gives services to, not pip (and PyPI that's down, not pip). The two are only loosely related – pip is a piece of software.
now, you can access i guess, since fastly is back
Fastly Engineer 1: Seems like a common error message. Can you check stackoverflow to see if there's an easy fix?

Fastly Engineer 2: I have some very bad news...
"Conspiracy theorists", silenced by big tech looking more and more likely to be correct.
Imagine losing sleep over a corporate problem where you're just the next Joe Engineer, to be fired the second you're not needed. Have some perspective people.
Seamless nix integration for Intellij IDEA
Agree, but currently, ipfs would serve as a fallback, since it's about files. Decentralized/distributed generally has slower network performance.

Unless most nodes are high performance, I guess?

Personally I think a distributed database system, where entries are being made redundant in something like a blockchain+dht, would be a good start?

Decentralizing the internet works if it financially makes sense for platforms to build such tools.
Pretty much every state has a bunch of random stuff that's protected. The list never really gets shorter since protecting types of property that statistically nobody has anymore doesn't generally cause issues.
GAAP has companies recognizing unrealized gains, it's not complete nonsense.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/gaap-accounting-rules-unreal...
Because it tells you how to go from local time to UTC — and a change-of-basis transformation A from old to new is defined to be such a transformation that x_old = A x_new , not the other way around, x_new = A x_old .

So, you have 02:00 in some local time, and you want to go to UTC? The change-of-basis transformation is "add 1 hour", because 01:00 (in UTC) plus 1 hour results in 02:00 (in local time), all perfectly reasonable, from an algebraist's point of view.
really, m.media-amazon.com seems to have a very short TTL (showing 37 seconds right now) and has been weighted to cloudfront now.

Amazon is also known to use Akamai. Sure, Amazon relies heavily on AWS, but why should it surprise anyone that a retail website obsessed with instant loading of pages decides to use non-AWS CDNs if the performance is better.

Even if CloudFront became the default, I'm certain amazon.com would keep contracts with fastly and akamai just so they can weight traffic away from CloudFront in an outage.
Wait until rent control hits
It's also open source so anyone who wants is free to revert the commit and build their own version.

edit: Beaten to the punch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27428383
On Windows 9x you could crash everything with a blue screen by trying to access c:\con\con

Even remotely, <img src="file://c:/con/con"> on a website

Those were fun times
Update:
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Posted Jun 08, 2021 - 10:44 UTC

Seems like this is being resolved; curious to see the details afterwards

(from https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj)
This.

> yachts and super cars will pay 90% tax

Oh really? But car parts are just 20% so let‘s just cut the Veyron in half before delivery. And the yacht is better privately rented from that Serbian shell company whose business model it is to just own one boat and rent it to a single person.

Rich people are smart and greedy. And if they aren‘t, so are their tax advisors.

There is a massive case for simplicity in tax code, even if it does not fit perfectly.

Minimum gloval tax, revenue tax, Tobin tax, high inheritance tax (with significant tax free minimums) and a land value tax would be way harder to cheat and easier to implement.
Call me back when you can compile a Linux program to run on Android.

Shouldn't that be the deciding yardstick for OS compatibility?
I hear you, but I just want to point out that this rarely happens anywhere else. It's great if tech (and people in general) hold themselves to progressively higher standards than what is out there already, but I don't think tech needs to be that much better, I'd settle for just doing a good honest retro (without throwing anyone under the bus, and without covering their asses)

A good leader will take the hit (and the repercussions) for their underlings, compensate customers where compensation can make it better (and offer to make it easy to use fallbacks if this happens again) -- and internally fix the problem so it can't happen again, without throwing anyone to the dogs.
It's OK though, because large swathes of this discussion seem to have turned HN into reddit, at least temporarily. Normal service will no doubt resume in due course.
Fastly: The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented
Of course, the Enlightened Folk of this site can no longer use their leisure time on lowly activities such as the "Reddit".

Teach me your ways, master! /s

Jokes aside, people can do whatever they please. Reddit has a bunch of niche communities around many hobbies and fun things. No need to be bitter about it.
we had that experience when cloudfare was down for sometime lastyear. We now setup a minor own static server as a backup, if at all this happens again. Althgh we hadn't so far had to use it.
“Damage control” for what? It’s just that nobody wants to see 100 posts about the Fastly outage, on a domain by domain basis.
I don't agree about the blame, but I do also find the empathy cringeworthy. Something's broken; someone's job is to fix it; they'll fix it; it will work again. /shrug/

Post-mortems make far more interesting submissions IMO, but I suppose people up-vote 'yes down for me too'.
"Only the last couple seconds of their lives."
That's one framing. Another framing is that if you think we ought to have roads and socialized healthcare and so on, then it seems like it's a bad thing if people are financially incentivized to pay a small platoon of rule-understanders to prevent their money from being spent on those things you think we ought to have.
I'm sure you've never made a mistake.

The best way (in a team), to tackle mistakes, is to ensure the process in place corrects these mistakes. The only way to do that, is a post-mortem/learning from the mistake. If you blame it on some engineer who did it, that guy will eventually be replaced by some other guy, who may make the same mistake.
Apparently they are also hosted using fastly which is down.

HN discussion here: https://fastly.com/
I think the government websites being down (UK ones for example) are the bigger issue. Reddit/Stackoverflow etc being down isn't that big of a deal imo.
Here is lesson to learn for shopify talented staff. Don't put all your eggs in the same nest. I'm sure they can build something better than that. Hopefully, they will learn from this outage.
>The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

According to the status page.
That doesn't take away their embarrassment. It's mean how many websites rely on fastly. Twitter hasn't been loading emojis in a while, and I believe it's for the same reason.
SEO professional here, I can't see the article due to the wide-spread outage but have reviewed the comments here, comments in closed FB groups, and injected links on sites from this tool, as well as the tool's admission of such links on their site. This tool is most likely owned by a publisher attempting to steal SEO link value from user websites, it is also possible they are selling these links outright or via a PBN system. This type of link building was a common practice in the early 00's used by CMS theme developers and tool makers alike to gain link value. Google took a stand against "widget links", which is likely what these would be classified as, and as recent as 2016 even warned against their usage: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/09/a-reminder...

A year later Google's John Mueller, a trends analyst who often also acts as a liasion between Google and the webmaster community, stated that Google might automatically apply a 'nofollow' attribute to these types of links, effectively killing their ability to siphon SEO link value to improve themselves: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-auto-nofollow-widget-lin...

We have noted in our agency research for clients several similar usages over the past few years that appear to be giving websites positive value instead of either being ignored or penalized, including a WordPress plugin that injects links on government and collegiate websites. The way Google assigns value based on links has changed quite a bit over the past 5 years and there is a chance they no longer penalize for widget links (unlikely) OR that their ability to detect them has degraded significantly (my guess is the later).

One thing is for certain, Google absolutely retains the ability to manually devalue links and penalize a website for violating their guidelines. They do not enjoy negative press or communinity discussions on search quality like this one and in the past have taken swift action when such issues arised in the media.

At our agency we advise clients against this type of link building as it has no long-term value for a brand and could cause long-term pain instead. SEO should be used to help new brands gain a competitive advantage against more established incumbents such as a startup taking on Amazon or a new SaaS tool providing valuable data to an industry.
I disagree. There indeed are a lot of programs which are not touch optimized. But if that's not a fair comparison since you can't do those things on an ipad at all. If you restrict the functionality of the windows tablet to the very small subset of ipad activities then the windows tablet does not fare badly.
I have always maintained that seismic interpretation entails the derivation of a plausible geological model, obviously limited to what a seismic image can provide. On the other hand, insight in the local geology and knowledge about the physical properties of ambient rocks and fluids are key in narrowing down to "plausible" solutions. Similarities with interpretation of radiology seem obvious. In the last years, a fair number of seismic interpretation articles have appeared, reporting on the use of AI-like techniques, more focused on 2 & 3D pattern recognition rather than on interpretation in low signal-to-noise environments, as described below. Evidently, only success stories are reported, but it is safe to conclude that AI-like techniques definitely are an addition tool in the evaluation of the subsurface. Hence I would presume that something similar eventually will take place in the development of interpretation of radiology data. After all, geophysical techniques and physical methods for medical purposes have both benefited from each other since many decades
Would be fascinating if Fastly is not be able to use GitHub, Travis, Terraform, pip, etc. to deploy their fix
Do more rely on Cloudflare? Because this felt like it was more than half the internet, certainly more than half the biggest sites.
Really not the "internet's" fault.
Fastly has scheduled maintenance to retire some TLS certs next week.
We need to learn from our, and other mistakes, or else we keep repeating them. Nothing "old fashioned" about that.

And we, especially companies, typically only learn if there is something at stake. Stock-price, a job, customers, liability etc.

(Call me old fashioned, but what I learned from it, having no stake in the game, is we are truly demolishing the resilient, decentralised nature of the internet; or already have done so)
I only use batteries to put them in socks and hit people.

In that scenario, all different battery types & chemistries are the same.
I disagree. People implemented those systems, so if you are correct that it is the systems fault, then it is also a persons fault.

People must be held accountable to have good incentives to reduce such outtages in the future.

I do agree though that we should always be compassionate and realistic with other humans.
By the way, Peru's new prime minister is in dispute right now, and the results are very close to 50-50
In Italy we say "Mal comune mezzo gaudio" equivalent to english " “A trouble shared is a trouble halved”
It's probably a DDoS attack.
It's two-hop with encryption/anonmyizing before sending your request.

It should be impossible for either hop to know exactly everything. Apple would know you but not where you're going and the 2nd hop will know the destination but not who you are.
I recommend reading about "blameless postmortems" [1]. Our natural tendency is to look for who is responsible for an incident and point the finger of blame. Over time this leads to a cover-your-ass culture, whether you like it or not. Therefore such a tendency needs to be actively fought against to keep the focus on quality engineering and not politics.

"An atmosphere of blame risks creating a culture in which incidents and issues are swept under the rug, leading to greater risk for the organization."

[1] https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
Looks fixed: https://downdetector.com/
What about banana.ch?
I quickly forgot Notepad++ existed after starting to use VScode. This just reminded me to uninstall it. I’m very much against censorship but I’m far more annoyed by “everything is politics”
I believe you're making a joke, but just in case you're serious, rest assured the Internet is doing just fine and is far from "down". Nobody can shut down the Internet.

Here it's just a single network/server operator experiencing problems. If this operator happened to be me, we wouldn't even be talking about it. But it appears it's a well-known CDN that many other service providers rely on because of a really obscure reason.

When they moved to the "cloud" they didn't (or didn't want to) realize it was just someone else's computer. When you own all of your infrastructure, you usually have a much better uptime than all these fancy cloud services with unscheduled downtimes and beyond-explanation "works from here, doesnt from there" kind of experience.

Hell, even a lowcost server from OVH has better uptime and experience than these cloud companies... at least until a fire comes along ;) Please convince all people you know we need to keep the Internet decentralized. Fuck cloud companies, let's own our own parts of the Internet!
Scapegoating in those situations happens more often than not. In an operations team all problems are systemic - having to do with decision makers throughout the process, sometimes acting on perverse incentives set up by others. Blame then gets diluted but still tends to fall upon the organization responsible rather than an individual, which is where it should be. Gross negligence is not so cut and dry.
I used to live in fear and respect of that error. Nothing was more dreaded to an Amiga owner in the 80-90s than that flashing red rect of the Guru Meditating....
That sometimes they fail but the world goes on.
Yep they did exactly this and are now running on cloudfront
Is this legal in the US? As far as I know, it is illegal for US government institutions to spy on US citizens unless there is some probable cause.
“Hold them in perpetuity”? How is that a benefit? If you don’t actually have access to the money?
It would be interesting to see estimations on the man-hour cost of this outage.
Yeah, things are mostly back now. Including my personal GitHub Pages site :)
Phew!

That time to find the issue is always the stressful part. < 1 hour is pretty good for weird stuff, and fortunately the east coast of the US is barely online this early (sorry Europe!).
Guess this person was right :)
> Yes! The subtitles can be completely different than the dubbing in some cases which makes it difficult for me to watch with both.

Yeah I've tried Czech dubbing with Czech subtitles, but have a lot of trouble following it for this reason. I'm sure once I get better at Czech it'll make more sense, but for the moment it seems like I need to stick with Czech audio and English subtitles or vice versa. Otherwise it's just too confusing.
That sounds antithetical to the purpose of emojis.
the attitude that "people need to be blamed" will never improve reliability in the long run. people come and go; systems and processes endure. blaming people is the best way to avoid making durable improvements to systems and processes.
Unfortunately the API was that you used CreateFile without colon.

I'd be more interesting on how the "ignore extension" part happened. Wouldn't be surprised to find some ancient option support there...
Yes, that's the morale of the story. The cloud was always just someone else's computer, not magic drops of information floating across the air.

I wonder if there's already a website dedicated to listing such outages and all the websites affected.
Is there no way to automatically transition gradually? Is copy/reformat/copy-back really the only way?
Simply replace these taxes with a single Land Value Tax. You can't game that one.
Prior discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27430508
> stackoverflow

How will they troubleshoot the error messages now?
How Long Does Apple Support iPhone Models?
>Actually, GPG allows the chain to extend for longer. You can verify a You -> Alice -> Bob -> Carol chain.

But it certainly doesn't mandate it. It's called the web of trust, not the chain of trust. You would never have such a chain of trust in real life so there is no reason to use PGP to create a model that doesn't make sense. Trust is normally quite shallow.

This is a generic rhetorical technique often used against flexible systems. The flexibility is used to create absurd straw men.
"STAY AWAY FROM ANOM IF YOU VALUE YOUR PRIVACY & SAFEY, THEY ARE COMPROMISED, LIARS AND YOUR DATA IS RUNNING VIA USA – Passed onto LAW ENFORCEMENT and other Entities"
Funnily enough, it's the opposite for me...
The onesies-twosies 18650 market does not really represent the industry as a whole.

Demand currently outstrips supply. New applications are creating demand and there's expansion of existing users too.

Cost curve improvements won't arrive in every niche equally.

It's still early days. I guess this'll continue for a while yet.

The used 18650 market is going to be very interesting.