skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is cargo cult but it's cargo cult because it is the way to "success". Company A have great page ranking, and blog about how they think they got there. Company B also have great page ranking, but think they did something different to Company A, so they blog about it, too. Everyone else reads both blogs and intersects what both companies did, and implement those changes. Iterate for every difference you encounter and voila.. you now have your rubber stamp SEO method.
You mean zero runtime deps because it pulls a lot of stuff when it does get built. Still great but I'd use traefik for more than 10 sites.
First impressions with Deno from building PlanetTypeScript.com
www.gov.uk & bbc are back
I assumed it was an intentional pun.
You can use four or more letter extensions quite happily in my experience (.html works for example). Three is just convention.
IBM has their "TradeLens" [0] (ironically unreachable at the time of posting) product [1], which was developed for Maersk and seems to have been adopted by a few global logistics providers.

[0] https://www.tradelens.com

[1] https://docs.tradelens.com
I'm pretty sure it does use system libraries for decode
He's talking about Fastly themselves, not their customers
I have hit "vouch" on this post because I wanted to respond. Being anti-Marxist (you originally said cultural-Marxist which is a reference to something different) is a perfectly valid position to hold, and if you spend much time on HN you'll find that there's actually a fair amount of political discussions and representation from the left, the centre and the right. But what you said looked weirdly out of place in this thread, and to be honest it seemed to me you were more interested in starting a fight than anything else.
GitHub Pages appears to be down too, taking an awful lot of sites offline
Since Fastly’s own website is currently down:

What is fastly? Why are a huge number of web sites dependent on them? They are some kind of web host for companies that don’t want to run their own servers/data centers?
Theoretically, but there are ways to protect against this. That's what proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are for instance.

Certainly there is a huge financial incentive to run a 51% attack on Bitcoin or Ethereum but thus far no one has managed it.
Yeah security. There is a heap of prior art from an IP stand point.

I get the feeling that if you manage to get your company in the top 10 HN stories of all time (for negative reasons), you’ll reevaluate your MO.
Down in SA
Huh? They only threatened to sue.
Still down. I think we should keep that in its own thread though.
I also saw a glimpse of 'I/O error'. That sounds fun.
My views on what has been happening in the field in the past 3 decades or so: the field to an extent, but not entirely, has degenerated into form making.

This is simply due to 2 technological advancements: material science (and related structural engineering) has made leaps in the recent decades. This permits actual construction of flights of fancy. These flights existed on paper long before 20th century but they remained on paper.

More critically, CAD permitted what are effectively lesser architects to trivially create complex forms. Before CAD, these purely form-making architects in their 'reaction' against absurdly reductionist Modernism were themeselves reduced to making hodgepodges of "classic vocabulary". Post-Modernism (shudder) was the result.

Then came CAD. CAD is like crack for form-makers. Poster child for this sort of lesser architect is the august Frank Gehry. This is what Gehry was capable off sans CAD:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Gehry_Ho...

This is what he started making when he got his hands on Maya [0]:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Barcelon...

Now, if the OP was actually capable of designing the equivalent of FizzBuzz with a T-Square, this matter would be entirely clear to him. But alas, he is "distinguished architect" who likely has never touched a brick and is now dissing actual architectural minds, such as Mies, Corbu, Wright, Saarinen, who did in fact build and were not merely inventive form makers.

p.s. Today's is Frank L. Wright's birthday. Happy birthday, Frank!

[0]: https://priceonomics.com/the-software-behind-frank-gehrys-ge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(software)
Makes me wonder if "invite only" could eventually be read as a red flag indicating possible honeypot? Guess no secret tool is forever.
https://www.greenhouse.io/ down as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210608085551/https://casparwre...
I doubt this is a new trend and it doesn't seem very surprising. Being able to communicate "the point" of what you're doing to someone who doesn't know anything about it is a skill that is hard to acquire and hard to maintain for anyone.

It's important for all of us to stress its importance though. Anyone who wants to create something new probably have to constantly polish that skill.

For Fizzygum I did find a good intro video one click from the front page though: http://fizzygum.org/docs/intro/
Most people don't need any of them to continue with their life though!
Can't use reddit or imgur on browser in any capacity
Why no other sites bypass the CDN and go directly?
There is no such thing, there are more developers than ever, but yes, it is my impression that some companies are getting priced out of the job market.
HTTP/1 requests for binary files also aren’t text based under that criterion. The protocol itself is text based, but the payload(s) can be binary. That’s doesn’t change between HTTP/1 and /1.1.
Global internet outage affecting Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, other websites
One day we will realise the war on drugs was mostly destructive to ordinary people. It's important to realise the US has historically played a huge role in the global drug trade, and that really stopping the drug trade means going after banking executives, politicians and chemical corporations. However that is never done.
An apparent global outage has hit major websites like Amazon, Target, CNN, Reddit, Twitch and a host of the internet’s other most popular sites Tuesday morning.
twitch.tv Too.
A Project of One’s Own
That's an interesting nuance I never considered.
I'm particularly intrigued as to why Amazon.com uses them.

They literally have their own directly competing CDN product. You'd think they'd be dogfooding it.
It would be a valid comparison if it was compared to the average person's wealth increase (e.g. the value of their house, 401k) vs. their income taxes.
US people have to get a second citizenship and renounce their US citizenship before they can achieve the tax rates you mention.
> [0] https://www.gov.uk/

Just checked, thank god the NHS vaccine site is still available - vaccines just got rolled out for under 30s today.
It's always DNS...
Well I know where to go next time if I were to be a Russian hacker
> These pluralities are unable to exist on social media

I broadly agree with the author, but I have a small nit regarding the above sentence. Pluralities definitely are able to exist on social media, it's just that it is far easier to get swept up in sensationalism, outrage and gossip than it is to find and continue seeing sensible and well-thought posts. The initial days of social media enabled the former, but got drowned out when mass popularity was reached. Think early days Twitter and Quora.

I say this as a person who has no social media accounts, but uses twitter intermittently without an account. It is possible to find nice things on the internet using a pull-based model, i.e. when you actively search for (not just passively follow!) the good stuff and actively block out all the bad stuff. Problem is that SM companies make it increasingly difficult to do this, plus trusting your reading list to the "recommended" and "trending now" sections of a social media feed causes issues. But knowing for what to search and how yields good results which you would not be able to find if you have a blanket ban on anything social-related.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628

"A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times."
Just spotted that. A definite bad day all round for the fastly team.
Fastly modified the Varnish error to ensure that it is known if the error is returned by Fastly's Varnish or by the origin's Varnish should the customer run their own Varnish on the origin.
I see this message when visiting twitch.tv:

Fastly error: unknown domain: www.twitch.tv.
Details: cache-syd10136-SYD

Or alternately this one:

Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Mediation:
Details: cache-syd10146-SYD 1623148640 1040952784
Varnish cache server

Certainly not ideal for a group of websites that huge. I wonder if this will be one of those cases where I get to read an interesting technical write-up of the outage.
Not in East Germany :D
Let's make all of the main internet sites dependent upon one central private service. Great idea guys.
Yep, that'd be it.
In Adelaide, experiencing the outage as well.
Ok, that's not how I read GP though
I don't think moving to digital is the issue here. The issue is relying on third parties, which can have an issue at any moment, taking down whoever relies on them with them.

A government should not rely on CDNs like that. In fact government websites should not have any traffic going over third parties. When I want to use/view a government website, I should not be subjected to sharing any data with unwanted third parties and the government should not be affected, when some private company makes mistakes or has outages. It is an unacceptable situation.

They can set up their own state-owned CDN, using the same underlying technology. Compared to where they spend all that tax money, some servers and some engineers would be a very cheap investment, in relation to the independence achieved.
Dub-oriented translations are also designed to "look natural" when coupled with the actor's lip movements.

To make matters worse, sometimes shows are re-dubbed [0], but may retain the subtitles that were accurate to the previous dub.

[0]: For instance, Neon Genesis Evangelion was released on the Italian Netflix with a brand-new dub, which caused quite a commotion: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/neon-genesis-evangelion-net...
Firefox used to be able to do this, but they don't anymore for strategic or political reasons. They don't want website authors to depend on certain codecs that some users have on their PC but some others don't. I can understand the rationale, but think it is a bit sad.
Does it being written by the Sqlite devs not improve the outlook for you?
The state machine of those conditions ends up generating the outline to a PKD novel.

I'll avoid your schizophrenia generator, thanks.
Tangential question, but with services like these, is there a known way to handle failure gracefully? Some way to automatically bypass these services if they are known to be down?
Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.
The issue is quite complicated. I think a common denominator is to have a single tax that gets taxed once, which is pretty much how it works in Germany but I guess similarly in most OECD countries. (At the same time there are calls for a tax per transaction like the Tobin tax.) But what happens is that "traditionally" business owners buy things effectively tax-free (or at 50% less taxes) through their companies that they use at home. I think this is now even widened towards self-employed or even just more or less regular remote employees who work for a company in a different country. Practically all companies that I recently talked to that do remote in a different country would require me to found a separate company.

As mentioned elsewhere, if you are in a higher income segment (to be realistic even a medium one suffices) you have access to a proportionally much wider range of tax discounts.

> should they get money back when/if the markets crash? This is a completely unrealistic proposal.

Still it hits a nerve. If you happen to be one of the upper 0.1% you are likely to have (not very profitable) assets like real estate that survive practically any market crash. For most people it makes no sense at all to invest in such assets unless you want to go ultra low risk and accept even loosing money over time while prevent a total loss - even without the tax. In fact in London many completely overpriced real estate objects are known to not be inhabited and bought by very wealthy people that just want to secure their money. Unfortunately this practice drives prices up even more and damages the market.
I'm trying to understand how these things work.

How does having the income in a business help? At some point you want to do something with the money, and then you have to take it out of the company and it is taxed, isn't it? Can that be avoided?
I am a programmer but it gets harder and harder to find good results for anything outside my niche, not to mention outside programming. Maybe there are any alternatives being worked on? Googling increasingly feels to be a complete waste of time.
I suspect you're thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8epam4NyY
This post from fly.io [1] has a pretty comprehensive survey of the tech available for running users' code safely. It's a good read.

I've been investigating something similar for a feature I want to launch. I'm currently leaning towards running users' code in Kubernetes using Firecracker or gVisor.

My main takeaway has been that while there are good solutions for isolating users' code, there's going to be a lot of worked involved in orchestrating it at scale. I.e. building and storing images, spinning up containers, managing storage, tracking/billing minutes and bandwidth, killing timed-out containers, etc. I have not found a good library for that. It seems like a good use-case for a Kubernetes operator, so I think that's what I'll wind up building.

[1] https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/
Same from Germany, all of these seem up except for reddit and ft. Maybe we got lucky with our edge node...
> potential impact to performance

So it is a "performance" issue when all pages give a 503.
plz go back to reddit when it's online
Wtf, can't use stackoverflow, Github, Reddit and I can't compile my spring boot project!!!
That's how good Fastly is. Outside of this issue it's a great service.
Not only that, hydrocarbon fuels also disappear after use - meaning you get another massive boost from the weight dropping over time, as the energy required by an aircraft to cruise is partially dependent on it's weight. So the energy density of batteries is effectively even lower than on face value.
Must be more than fastly. Heroku is also down.
Arf, thanks for pointing at it, I misread. Sorry.
And capitalisation issues, and encodings… give me a binary protocol to parse any time. They’re normally comparatively well-defined, whereas text protocols are seldom properly defined and so have undefined behaviour left, right and centre, which inevitably leads to security bugs—or even if they are well-defined, they’re probably done in a way that makes your language’s string type unsuitable, and makes parsing more complicated.
Branding! (Fun fact: Hacker News strips emoji.)
xkcd is down too :(
Seems to be cryptoransoms
It just seems like addressing the symptom, rather than the cause - that you shouldn't instantly whip out your big $20m legal stick to threaten someone.

Using a PR firm might result in him just having some nice sounding text, instead of understanding the error of his ways and fixing it.
Don't modify input, sanitise output instead.

The user entered <script> you should save that verbatim, but there are many output formats, HTML, SQL, PS (Post Script), XLS etc etc where you need to escape user provided values
Edit: No, workers get wages when they do their job regardless of phone sales. Fairphone gives factory workers a bonus from phone sales in addition to the usual wages.
If you aren't prepared to do CDN changes on a whim when something like this happens, it's often better to wait for the problem to be resolved instead of making things worse for yourself due to misconfigurations, revealing your origin IPs, etc.

Can always improve the process for the next outage.
While we're here.. I am a bit surprised to see how many sites use Fastly. As a dev I've always been happy with Cloudflare.
omg! How can i code from now!! T^T
How much value do you give to being tamper proof, to having multi party untrusting infrastructure, to being decentralized? How much do those add up to in your net cost calculation? How do achieve for these with your alternative solutions? What does that cost?

The airplane manufacturer doesn't want to expose their database to their partners. They also don't want to write bespoke applications and services with their partners and doesn't really expect them to adapt to those interfaces that in turn front the database. None of this helps reconcile wtf happened across systems when sides disagree.

Having a common distributed way to share a ledger is a valid problem to have and a blockchain is a valid way to solve that problem. Contracts further sweeten the pot.
That doesn't appear to be the case does it? Amazon sites are all working fine, at least for me
For what its worth, I'm having these problems also with cnn.com, reddit and many others, however when I switch away from WiFi to use my cell provider network, they work fine.
You need big infra and Crack teams of ops people, which paypal can't afford not to have.
If they can serve me a garbage Varnish error (shoutout to "software that actually runs your business that none of your devs work on") it's not BGP.
Yesterday I read about that error for the first time on the article about the TV guide channel and now here it is again!
Meh. Losing sleep sounds like an over-reaction. No system is foolproof. Of course Fastly should do what they can to prevent downtime, but it's still expected that they will go down.

I would blame anyone who claimed otherwise or couldn't deal with it while not having a fallback.
It’s the equivalent to JIT manufacturing. Cheaper when everything is going fine, and devastating when it’s not. And then when everything goes down at once there’s not enough advantage to being the only one still up.
In this case it's a comparison between MIT and GPL. GPL software is more restrictive than licenses like MIT/Apache/.. and therefore not as much as present in the VFX or CG industry and that's key here. But you are absolutely right! The wording is potentially misleading and should be improved. I'll fix it
The outage has already been added to the Fastly Wikipedia page
S3 is fine.
Someone must have 51% attack the Pied Piper blockchain!
Cloudfront, by Amazon's own admission, specialises in high bandwidth delivery (ie huge videos). Fastly has consistently better performance as a small object cache, which makes it the choice for web assets

https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Ants vs. SMartwatch
If I am a market maker or arbitrageur and I do tens of thousands of trades a day, I owe income tax (uh, short term capital gains tax) on all of that. If I own equity in a market maker or arbitrageur that does tens of thousands of trades a day, I owe nothing until I sell some equity.

Over reasonably long time scales with reasonable assumptions about the profitability of such businesses, the vast majority of the value of the company comes from its preferential tax treatment.
Yeah seriously. Time to rebuilt the architecture from the ground up.
Edit: I didn’t mean anything negative here! Just slightly shocked that as the UK is opening up under 30 vaccinations, the US is struggling to find any more willing takers. It’s really probably a sign that there’s fewer anti-vaxxers in the UK more than anything. And that universal healthcare is more efficient at distribution than an inherently for profit system. I don’t know, but I just didn’t realize it was so different in the UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628 is rendering and reporting on the story, but BBC itself was down at the start of the outage, with the same 503 varnish error message.

Presumably the BBC has some kind of fallback in place.

The journalists ought interview their own techies :)
Taxing a quantity is way simpler to implement, and maybe more effective, than making a huge list of items to tax, thereby creating loopholes.
Anyone looking at these numbers should remember that % of income tax number is a flat one, linear, meaning that 20% + 20% = 40% etc. But top % of earners is exponential, meaning that second percentile of earners doesn't equal first percentile, it is actually several orders of magnitude different.
Believe it or not but "the internet" and "the world wide web" are not synonyms.
Parts of GitHub, Amazon, Stripe and Twitter are down too. I'm sure these companies have considered this downside to outsourcing critical infrastructure.

It would be interesting to see estimations on the man-hour cost of even a short outage.
I didn't check but to my recollection that domain is pretty old, domain age is supposed to be a principle metric for trust (which in turn is a strong signal for page rank). So, ...

I mean it's pretty reasonable, if a site has been around a long time it's going to be generally 'good'.
From 2003, an inside look at the mafia IT: https://www.wired.com/2003/12/mafia/
true. i think that many of these L1 theoretical usecases should move to L2s of existing blockchain(s). this way you dont have to built your own incentive structure (mining) and you inherit security of base layer.
anyway, still think that most usecases dont really need decentralised structure at all. definitelly anything that is natively non-digital.
This might come as a surprise to folks who do not own stocks and are not aware of the difference between income and (unrealized) capital gains. According to this article [1] from 2020, about half of American families owned stocks. But only 14% own stocks directly, the rest is through retirement accounts.

The media does their part with sensationalist headlines like "Jeff Bezos got 100B richer during the pandemic". Without some financial literacy, someone might interpret this that someone handed Jeff Bezos a 100B paycheck.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2020/08/31/mo...
Error 503 on StackOverflow
Fastly doesn't run on AWS.
Might be xkcd.com/503.
Manufacturers price their product to maximize profits, regardless of the sunk costs.

If they have thought pricing it at $100,000/year would have brought more profits they would have priced it at $100K, and if they thought pricing it at $25,000/year would have brought more profits they would have priced it at $25K.
That's also because of fastly, I've got this response from the Heroku dashboard:

Fastly error: unknown domain: dashboard.heroku.com.
Maven Central Repo Outage
Due to the fastly outage, major websites, including maven central repository are not reachable. It's that time of the year when builds are not failing because of YOU!
New error now, hopefully fix in progress.

Fastly error: unknown domain: www.fastly.com.

Details: cache-syd10161-SYD
And only those websites on some networks. If I connect my phone to my cell network instead of wifi, the problem sites work for me.
User reports indicate problems at Amazon Web Services
I think it is also just a natural "feature of the terrain". Criminals need to communicate with their customers and each other to coordinate, but they cannot use "normal" apps because those can be presumed to be compromised by the police. This creates a natural funnel where criminals are driven to these custom apps, similar to how old-time armies would fight over things like river crossings and mountain passes because the opponent had no choice but to go there if they wanted to invade at all.