skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think it's the retro desktop UI that reminds of various kind of pointless "pretend OS in JS" demos

Which is a shame because from the docs it seems intended as a useful tool
Elastic Is Unavailable
I thought forking webservers was too slow?
What do they all have in common? Reddit, Github, Imgur, and Stackoverflow?
reddit and twitch also
Reddit, Paypal, Guardian, ElasticSearch...crap.
Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)
Fairphone doesn't. Fairphone goes as far as giving percentage of phone sales to factory workers.
Planned obsolescence. My company has a fleet of 2013 MacBook Pros which are about to become useless for dev work because xcode is tied to macOS. Not being able to upgrade macOS means not being able to get the latest version of xcode which means we can't build against the latest SDK. I doubt there is a solid technical reason why these machines can't run the next version of xcode.

It's a better scenario for regular consumers. Based on past release schedules there will be security updates for a couple more years for those stuck on macOS Big Sur.
Yes, it isn't strictly part of the device name, it is a separator. But it still works well for distinguishing device names from file names. For a character device, the path name has to be blank. "COM1:" is definitely a device not a file, as long as colons are not allowed in filenames.

(Well, strictly speaking you might argue it could be the default unnamed data stream of a file called "COM1". But almost nobody ever refers to the unnamed data stream explicitly like that, just using the bare file name to do so; and if one must, the canonical name for it is to include the stream type, giving the default unnamed stream of the file "COM1" a name of "COM1::$DATA". That's obviously not a reference to the "COM1" device, since it violates the "path name must be blank" rule)
I used tabula (and later camelot) to extract some register maps from data sheets to automate making some basic drivers!

What an awesome tool. I had to post process but both were consistent enough in how they were wrong that it was still faster to extract the register maps
This says it all really. Apple clearly won't risk losing profits while pushing a veneer of privacy. I have no trust in it at all.
Fastly (CDN provider) is down
It seems Fastly is down, affecting several popular services and sites such as Reddit, Clubhouse.io, Stackoverflow...
People in general is not aware there are physical limits with energy sources and materials. We won't grow forever, actually we'll probably shrink once we hit the limits.

It's going to be a shock for a lot of people, specially in techno-optimistic communities as HN.
Getting multiple 503 errors to different sites.
usps.com wasn't on the fp either

postofficelocations.com, postofficehours.com, yelp, postallocations, etc.
Can confirm this. Can't access reddit from both the web and through API powered indie app on Android.

Most likely a fastly issue as other commenters mentioned.
It seems to be an AWS outage or fastly or something, Reddit, Twitch, parts of Amazon (their CSS for example) all seem to be having issues.
The Varnish error is almost identical to that of the Guardian (newspaper) website in the UK—wondering if they're both using CloudFlare and that it's CloudFlare that is having the issue?

Edit: Perhaps related to this ongoing Fastly outage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408), https://fastly.com returns the same kind of Varnish error and Github currently has no assets being served in their web UI.
I’m not saying nobody will value them ever under any circumstances, I’m replying to someone saying “Who wouldn't get one?” with “you’d be surprised…”

Mainly I’m expecting grid-corrected batteries of this type to be owned and operated by power companies and governments rather than by individual home owners; and most privately owned batteries to be the ones in cars rather than permanently attached to houses.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210608090928/https://snowtrack...

"Snowtrack is based on our open-source community project": https://github.com/snowtrack/snowfs
Looks like this has taken out Reddit at least.
Fastly Is Down
Thought no mention of it on their status page: https://status.fastly.com/

fastly.com returns:

> Fastly error: unknown domain: www.fastly.com.
> Details: cache-lhr7346-LHR
Status page is at https://status.fastly.com which just updated

Hugs to the team responding (as a fellow on-call member!)
Yatima in arabic means orphan.

Was this intentional?
Also SMH.com.au
Yep, seems like:

Reddit
BBC News
Twitch.tv
Twitter emoji cdn?

are all down 503 service error
StackOverflow too.
And a large part of GitLab
Is it also hitting Github? I'm not getting any css when loading Github.
This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0].

[0] https://www.gov.uk/

https://m.media-amazon.com/

https://pages.github.com/

https://www.paypal.com/

https://stackoverflow.com/

https://nytimes.com/

Edit:

Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
> But there will be ways around it. And suddenly with over half your email data at stake this is what both marketers and publishers will start working on in the coming months. Until emails are wholly plaintext there's always something you can make uniquely identifiable.

TLDR We don't give a shit about privacy and are actively working on combating this pro-privacy measure.

> A smaller publisher, a local newspaper, a solo freelancer, a small blog; all these will lose data on a significant part of their audience. A likely valuable part of their audience. And it may stifle or slow their growth or opportunities.

I seriously doubt that "solo freelancers" and "small blogs" are going to be affected by this. They have real businesses to run, email is just a marketing channel for them and not their source of income.

> Where previously you could unsubscribe readers who hadn't opened your newsletter to save money, now you don't know if they're loyal or not. You'll have to find other ways to entice them to let you know they are reading. A larger publisher can afford to keep 20,000 recipients on a list that never open an email. A smaller outfit cannot.

This is so delusional it hurts my brain. I have never in my life been unsubscribed by any newsletter, but I've been auto subscribed to hundreds of them by asshole marketers. If thousands of people don't want to read your shitty newsletter - that's a YOU PROBLEM easily fixed by allowing subscribers to unsub in a fast and reliable manner.
Very interesting and rather amusing stuff, must be an old law? I wonder why no one pushed to upgrade the "horses" to "motorcycles" or "cars".
rubygems.org affected too
Here's the status page incident for this.

https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
I like to remember that threading APIs were a later add-on after Unix had already existed for years. They're not fundamental like the Process is.

Isn't it an appealing model to not even have to talk about threads because every process is 1 thread by definition?
> I feel like there should be more tangible and clearly successful examples by now, if the technology was really promising.

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c...

And the followup, Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
basically the internet is down

reddit, stackoverflow, github, paypal, pypi, twitter, twitch, NYT, CNN, BBC, the Guardian...

edit: wow, even Amazon.com relies on Fastly for some of its edge caches!
Taken out xkcd as well.
Yeah Reddit/Stackoverflow both show 503, GitHub opens but things like images aren't loading.
SMH.com.au
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408
gitlab.com is down as well.
Ask HN: Anyone seeing DNS issues in Europe/UK this morning?
This is by the same guy who was pressured to have his open source project taken down by replit, fwiw. Kalyn is incredible from both a technical and literary point of view, I seriously recommend you give it a look.

What I like most about this write-up are the justifications for the design decisions made, for example, including state/IO monads, using a boxed memory model, or the representation of captured values in closures.
Are these sites on the same cloud or CDN?
https://www.theverge.com/ seems to be down too
> There's plenty of datacenter operators in Russia that will take your money.

Wouldn't they have some uncomfortable questions to answer when Putin finds out they've been cooperating with the Feds?
Iceland as well.
The Guardian Newspaper website is down
A "backdoor in bitcoin's hashing algorithm" would not help them recover a private key. "bitcoin's hashing algorithm" is, for PoW, SHA256. The only relevant break for PoW would be a break in preimage resistance; this would allow the attacker to mine blocks faster, which does not allow them to calculate private keys. They could use that to mine an alternate history where the ransomware attack did not occur, but that would of course be immediately obvious.

Preimage attacks tend to be much more rare than collision attacks. MD5 for example still has no publicly known practical preimage attacks.
Caused by Fastly outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408
Even when the internet is down, HN is still up
Do they have an official status page? Googling gets https://docs.fastly.com/en/guides/fastlys-network-status which is 503

Edit: Elsewhere in the comments: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
> We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.

Guys, you are offline with a 503 error, this is a little more than "potential impact to performance".
Also checkout the Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nulyx0/how_rep...
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432397
Additionally, electric engines and drive-trains are much lighter. You don't need a gearbox, compressor and many other components. This makes up for some of the extra weight of the battery.
Ten Percent Happier is down, and now my day is ruined.
Looks like it is. If you're still able to see much of the UI, don't force-reload the page as it'll invalidate the CSS in the cache.

I did that moments ago, and I regret it.
cnn.com is down as well.
suggestion: sometimes it is better to be challenged and not to translate everything. I wish there was a way to only translate some of the world with some dictionary of words you don't want to translate.(you already know them)
Ironically, even this Outage page is out for me
Yikes seeing just a "connection failure" on Paypal is something else.

edit: PayPal looks be back up at least in US East but when I turn off my VPN and access from Asia I get "Fastly error: unknown domain: www.paypal.com."

Now I'm seeing a 503
Ah didn't cop that Twitter emoji issue was related! Thought an ad-blocker was stepping up its filters aggressively :)

Stack Overflow, The Guardian, Gov.uk too as some other biggish names getting hit.
pypi.org, but not https://status.python.org/ - I'm impressed that they actually hosted the status page differently!
Now I want to know if someone has made a butter-fuelled hybrid rocket, and not why not.
No wonder, The Verge and NYT are down too.
Whose common sense though? You seem to have one particular opinion on how to organize a project, but that's not the only one. Sometimes, having just one file is easier.
Interestingly, Twitter only has its emoji SVGs down.
All of these work from here in Grenoble, France...
They all seems to be using fastly.com
Indeed, part of GitHub (.io) too.
Fastly CDN is down which is taking out parts of a number of sites.
I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, ..., even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting so many eggs in one basket.
It is located in a #ifdef 0 block.
So my guess is it might be for testing purpose.
FDA Approves Biogen new drug against Alzheimer amyloid beta plaques
They are all on Fastly CDN...?
Parts of Shopify
Why GNU Free Documentation License? Debian got rid of them because the license forbid the content to be read on proprietary devices. Creative Commons license doesn't have such issue. Wikipedia also uses CC license instead of GNU FDL.
Interesting. Here in the Netherlands they don't.
also https://www.reddit.com (at least in Netherlands)

edit: 12:05 up again for me, no images or custom fonts loading though ... and down again 1 minute later

edit: 13:01 reliably up again for me
numpy docs, too. i think it's cloudflare related as well. at least, I keep seeing some cloudflare errors interpolated with the 503 varnish error.
debian's main apt repo mirror affected as well
Fastly Is Down
I think reddit in India is down as well.
Elastic Outage
Your point being? It's been serving sqlite.org just fine for all this time. You seem to be making some pretty big assumptions about security here without actually explaining what your specific concerns are.
Quora and reddit too
I wonder how much crime would be left if the drug trade were legalized
and this is why the guardian is down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408
depends where in France, most people i know here are affected as well
Used it a lot for development. Very good.
Strange, I've been getting these for lots of different sites this morning, I wonder if this is a cloudflare issue
If spammers will use this feature too, won't this lead to websites displaying non-stop Captchas for every user coming via private relay, similar to VPN/Tor?
Shopify's CDN is down.

Which is causing $15+ million in lost product sales for every hour of outage.

Not to mention the loss of any new customers.
>IntelliJ has defined shortcuts for F10, Shift+F10, Ctrl+F10 and Ctrl+Shift+F10. Adding another modifier to all these isn't great.

You're thinking small here. With QMK keyboard firmware, a single key can send shift-f10 or similar. I have a top layer key that acts as ctrl-super and also as a sticky key (I don't have to hold it) because I configured a bunch of key chords in Sway that start with those keys. Mainly focusing specific programs by appid or class. So, I'll hit that key and then b for browser, v for video (mpv), etc. You can even have keys that directly type out parentheses, no shift needed. The default layout for my keyboard had that for both parens and brackets. I found more useful things to put on those keys, though.

I use a Pinky4 which takes some stuff off the outer edges compared to a 60%, but has more on the inner edges, and so I stuck that key somewhere along the upper right edge of the left half. If I were using qwerty, it'd be near t and g keys.

In addition to being able to run QMK on a keyboard, you could also get a macropad, or just a second keyboard (maybe something small like a planck, could go above your main one), and have all sorts of specific binds like this. I would recommend layers instead for anything not used constantly, but a case can be made for both options. I have mouse keys in a separate layer, letting me hold a modifier with my thumb and then use something similar to an arrow key cluster to move my mouse. I even have all 4 scroll directions mapped, which lets me scroll horizontally, unlike my actual mouse.

Software on the computer really affects use-case I think. In qutebrowser (or firefox + tridactyl) I just hit r to refresh a page. I never miss easy access to f5. I can also copy a page's url with yy instead of doing a dance of ctrl-l and then ctrl-c. I can still hit f5 if I have to. Like if using an unusual program or another computer with my keyboard.

It sounds like due to your software choices, you use the function row a lot more than me. There are some larger split keyboards, but it's worth considering changing some of your behavior/software also.
reddit down aswell
https://flutter.dev/ and https://fastlane.tools/ as well.
Isn't there an xkcd comic about CDN failures?
Protip to the cartels - pay top dollar to some world class engineers to setup a dark web market and you'll make buckets.

Most if not all markets until now have been run by geeks with limited knowledge and skills, wading in to the criminal underworld and inevitably making rookie mistakes.

Both Ross and the guy in Bangkok had their personal emails tied to the markets. Some kids running a big market from Germany connected to the server on their mom's wifi. The list goes on.
This is excellent. From my own experience switching off iPhones is one of the first thing thieves do.
If the private key was hashed, and they only had the hash, then they could not crack it. Hashing is not the same as encryption.
Using a local cache might indeed improve for following queries.

But I managed to be able to "stream" results. When it didn't involve any GROUP BY, of course.

I guess that would spawn a nice side project, to rewrite it in a language to learn it ;-)
I remember seeing these crackers around back in the days. Skidrow at least cracted some grand theft auto games.

Not sure why they're blocked
Bitwarden is also down (the Web Vault, not the website).
Searchable offline backup of stack anyone?
yeah grenoble, updated.
I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, .... Even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting too many eggs in one basket.
Comment thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408
Why is this a link to the Fastly homepage, where absolutely no information is provided?

This is the page that should be linked:

https://status.fastly.com
> If we can have cheap scanners or other instruments to go with the AI

That's a big if already. Not to mention that a lot of times you don't want to give unnecessary radiation to patients, so they wouldn't be interested in making, say, X-rays more accesible.

> screening tool that less qualified medical professionals (midwives, nurses, GPs) or even the patients themselves can use

But how beneficial would that be? When you need an scan, it's probable that something weird is happening, and you'll probably need more tests than just a scan, and also some specialist that knows which tests to order and what conditions to consider.

Once you think of it in that way, it makes less sense. You'd be investing money, resources, training, time into a solution that might benefit only a small subset of patients (those with something weird but that can easily be discarded by a cheap scanner with high certainty without needing an specialist), without even being sure of what actual clinical benefits you would produce. It's far better to invest and research in other areas.
Building distributed systems, geo-redundant and whatnot - just to make some external service your SPoF?

sigh
Hee hee! The parent domain now has a useful form for criminals to turn themselves in with: https://www.anom.io/

"To determine if your account is associated with an ongoing investigation, please enter any device details below:"

and then it asks for your username, country and IMEI....
GitHub?
I had some issues, checked the service status page said no issues, but images were returning a 503.
Maybe they host their service status page elsewhere including using fastly.
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Seems to be every site that runs varnish...
https://dashboard.stripe.com/ is down
https://github.com/ is defaced
Basically everything is broken. "Centralising Everything" huh
Such a huge number of sites. It seems like it's mostly US based sites and Australians are okay. Sending good vibes to whatever poor person is on support right now.
The 3-letter agencies have probably playing with this for a long time.
https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter...

The whole idea of the internet was a distributed network impervious to most attacks.

The reality is that a single failure can knock out 90% of the services people use.
Lowkey status reports are the norm now :)

"some users may experience degraded service" => site completely down for all locations
So I'm wondering where in the "hundreds of servers around the world" did they exactly go wrong.

This happened with Cloudflare before too. I think we are a little too dependent on these services.
Where I live, the tertiary institutions place your degree on a blockchain. TBH I have know idea why a simple digital signature would not suffice but I guess blockchain sounds cooler.
So you think it's safer to rely on every engineer adding that (and the other facilities provided by web browsers by default when using native elements) to every input field in a form, than relying on them not doing weird things with that one form tag?
github.com is pretty broken
Flipkart in talks to raise $3B from investors including GIC, SoftBank: Sources
PayPal seems to be working for me at the moment. Rest of the sites are 503s.
and Imgix
also https://www.ft.com/
Imagine that, you've got some brain disease that makes you think that true things and false things are true at the same time. No amount of brain convincing solve that. And you went crazy over that. There is no escape.
Well done for...

1. Not reacting back in an unprofessional manner which I can assume would be easy to do so as you put some hours into the project

2. Taking this all in your stride and in a way getting more attention to your skill set than the original idea would of done

Congrats!
Je confirme : des problèmes avec le CDN Fastly.
Sorry in advance for off topic, but seeing as how both this website and Reddit is currently down with the same 503 Varnish cache error currently, I wanted to ask how that would be possible? Surely Reddit uses their own infrastructure and not some shared hosted server where this could happen across the board?

Edit: Wow, this is much bigger than just those two sites. Looks like half the internet is down. https://downdetector.com/
I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.
Tantivy is giving it a good go: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy

The good thing about Lucerne existing is you’re allowed to also use their good ideas.
Currently only listing a small issue in NA
Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
reddit.com is affected too
What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?
Terraform having issues and rubygems down too
In Software Engineering we call it "coupling"

/s
GitHub now showing partial outage (images on status pages are fixed)
This is exactly why IPFS is needed! Decentralized CDN.
Pytorch and Python docs, all down. No stackoverflow. I guess this is a forced bank holiday for developers around the world.
> This incident affects: North America (Ashburn (BWI), Ashburn (DCA)).

How come we are affected by this in the Netherlands?
>Are you familiar with the concept of selection bias?

Yup

>The great majority of C++ users probably do not look at StackOverflow,

That I would like to see a citation for. The plural of "personal anecdote" isn't "proof".

>You do not need to love C++ to earn your living with it: it is known to work.

Did I claim otherwise?

> Objectively, there are, literally, millions of C++ professionals.

Citation needed.

> More retire every year than the total of working Rust coders

Citation needed.
Looks like fastly.com uses fastly…
Even amazon.com styling is borked for me
Microsoft ION - Decentralized identity anchored in Bitcoin ledger.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-bl...
When viewing a meditation session you can see a download button in the upper right (at least on iOS).

I always have a small stash of my favorites saved locally in case of internet outage or I’m caught in a situation where I don’t have internet but need a few minutes.

On top of that I’ve been really trying to rely less on an app. So I throw a lightly guided or unguided session in every couple days at least where I focus on going solo so I don’t need an app and just need a timer.