skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the correction. I remembered it wrong. In this article for instance Matt Cutts details how they go about flagging individual pages [1]

[1] https://searchengineland.com/googles-cutts-we-dont-ban-sites...
I have both and really have no issues, just saying. Spotify has the crazy advantage of being on literally every device I own, my car has a Spotify app built-in directly into the dash which makes it crazy convenient, I also have it directly on my TV, on my speaker.....they have built an ecosystem and the ecosystem works great(in my case).

One complaint I have about them is that shuffle is broken. Completely broken. And I know they explained multiple times that it's not, that people are imagining things, but I just don't believe that - it's impossible that in a playlist with 300 songs I keep hearing the same 5 songs over and over and over again!
I don't think you understand how ecommerce works.

A very significant amount of people won't go back. It's why the most effective marketing campaign by far is retargeting those people to convince them to come back. Unfortunately that's not possible in this case since you can't track the users as the site is unusable.
I am running every SEO advise as an experiment before implementing it across my network and a lot of advise actually brings results.
Pretty bad www.gov.uk is down as more services move to digital.
Some argue it's already been there for a while [0]

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
If I present some device to my local street dealer and tell him to "use this it's secure I swear" he'll probably punch me cause he suspects a trap.

Amazing that these "world class" criminals fall for this stuff.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this level of outage from Fastly.
Affecting Auckland (AKL) which is not on the list so I can only assume it's affecting more locations than they're letting on.
and yet you're able to leave this comment.
Wow, talk about a brutal SPOF, most of the things I had planned to work with today are broken: reddit, github, stack overflow.
I don't see the typo? definitely a fastly problem though..

Fastly error: unknown domain: numpy.org.

Details: cache-pdk17841-PDK
You have to respect this type of policing approach, the ironey is just delicious when you consider:
1) They socialy engineered their target just like scammers would
2) They got the target to install and trust some 3rd party app they supplied
3) Then the victim pyramid pushed the scam app onto others.

We often read (1) and (2) all the time with various scams from call centres, now the law has used that approach against a criminal and taken it too another level.

I have a lot of respect for this approach against such criminals on many levels.

But one take away from all this - IT security is often limited by humans and this highlights that perfectly. Just nice too read about criminals falling foul to the law who have taken one of their play-books and used it against them. Sure makes a change from reading about some old person loosing all their savings as somebody convinced them to install some random app just because they said they was from the bank/Microsoft etc.
AWS Route53 and Cloudfront are direct competitors to Fastly.
Not from Paris, France.
Taxing realized gains has the obvious advantage that’s there’s no question as to what the value was at the transaction. Unrealized gains have to be estimated/appraised; you get into minority ownership issues as well. (How much would you personally pay for 10% of a business where I control the other 90%? If most of my wealth is tied up in a business I’ve created, given that, how do I reasonably raise the cash to pay the tax on a gain that hasn’t been realized?)

Similar questions for a house that I’ve paid off prior to retiring. It doesn’t make sense to me to have people paying imputed capital gains on some number that Zillow or a government version thereof decides is right.
> Given the seeming importance of iron to an industrialized society

Is it more important now than it was in medieval society? We make more of it, but that seems to be mostly because we can, not because it became more important.
There are ten websites left on the internet and they're all hosted by four or so megacorps. Isn't it great?
I briefly saw an output error about "domain not found" when hitting fastly.com, wonder if some list of domains has hit a limit/flushed/etc.
Same 503 error message on the actual http://fastly.com/ website
Anom Encrypted App Analysis
>There’s plenty of lightweight minimal web servers with minimal dependencies.

In 2001?
For parsing/protocol handling the implementations where this was distributed amongst several files and/or classes have usually been the worst, in my experience.

But now I want to see how badly you could Uncle Bob this thing. My screen should be wide enough for the resulting function names.
imgix is also having a major outage
The environmental impact and cost are of course important to consider, but for energy, there's also always the geopolitical aspect to comsider. Having the capacity to make fuels from plants means some independence from Saudi Arabia and Russia for the western world. The shock of 1973 has left its mark.

Having a huge supply chain for corn also drives innovation and scale in that industry, should corn become rare because of a drought, it would be relatively straightforward to redirect the corn supply into food.

When watching the video, what struck me as absurd is more the energy waste from meat production.
In Perth, reddit is down. So is Blackboard files for uni
Down in india
It's not different. Like I said, it's just classic blockchain handwaving.
The typo is "Mediation" instead of "Meditation", I think.
Couldn't be happier I moved https://noisycamp.com to BunnyCDN.com.
I wondered the same thing actually. After I read about async await I thought “Well, what’s the point in Combine then?”
Yeah, I also wrote a bot that chooses to create a status incident with the lowest key neutral message when it detects continued healthcheck fails (outside of maintenance) that steps in if an operator hasn't already created an incident. Maybe they're too busy fixing.
Affects far more than that
AWS is almost never reporting issues on this page.
"We're investigating reports of intermittent connectivity issues" => transatlantic cables cut, WWIII imminent
Mediation vs Meditation I think.

I think Varnish uses mediation intentionally though, it was this way 7 years ago when I last used Varnish.
Mediation is a real word though?
isitdownrightnow.com is down
Yeah so it's been mentioned in the comments already, but to everyone in Fastly right now: I feel for you. Something like this must be insanely stressful, and not just during the outage. There will be (should be) a massive post-mortem. People will be losing sleep over this for days, weeks, months.

:(

Edit: There seems to be a major empathy outage in this thread. Disgusted but not surprised, unfortunately.
I first noticed that xkcd was down. Then I went to post about it on reddit . . . also down! Good thing HN is up.
But https://news.ycombinator.com/ is UP! :) Prepare those HN servers for massive influx in 3...2..1..
I was under the impression that most of the English -> English subtitles are just machine generated. So often the subtitles will be homophonic to what was actually said, a mistake that a human would not have made. And then what's worse is you get [Speaking German] or whatever, so I have to pause, disable the subtitles and rewind, just to be able to see the original subtitle that was included for the vitally important to the plot translation of the foreign language.
> the author of this article expects capital owners to be taxed in income as a share of the growth of the value of their assets... should they get money back when/if the markets crash?

Sure, and people paying inheritance taxes should get their money back when they produce new heirs.
I'm hackintoshing my laptop and fuck, I can't get information to fix my problem

I miss you superuser.com, reddit.com and stackoverflow.com
Why are so many websites down?
Looks like an SRE team rolled out buggy software.
I assume "Guru Mediation" is supposed to be "Guru Meditation", a reference to the way AmigaOS used to describe system failures.
> Don't we argue against centralization on HN all of the time?

No, we argue the right paradigm for the right use case. Both centralization and decentralization have their pros and cons. But the blockchain decentralize-all-the-things group think is just people who don't quite grasp the tech being blinded by the hype.

What you've described (adding more nodes) is just classic DR: spin up your infra from append-only backups in a warm site, or better yet, failover to a hot site with minimal downtime.
Kinda my thoughts. The companies are not "loyal" to you generally speaking, so why should you be to them? This is not black and white though, it's a scale I believe.

It doesn't mean you should be unprofessional, it's unethical to not do the work your paid for well.
Oddly their homepage rendering an error was a more accurate description of the problem than "investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN"
AWS failure perhaps? V. interesting
Unless you are a wage or salary earner, it is trivially easy to avoid having to pay taxes, at least in the USA. Same with the much lauded “inheritance tax” and even, to a lesser extent, sales taxes. It costs about 4000us a year to maintain the legal structures required to pay essentially no taxes, except sales taxes in some locations. In many cases, for lower levels of income, just having a small business can negate income tax burdens.

Taxation always has been, and continues to be, a burden for the servile class to bear. The rich or enterprising pay taxes only when they are ill prepared or choose to, often to reduce scrutiny.

The " I should pay more taxes" rhetoric from the wealthy is merely virtue signaling, 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.

By and large, sales taxes are more evenly applied, but that too is far from perfect.
Well not always. For example not if you are a Uyghur muslim in china. Then you don't get anything while also getting sodomized with broom sticks. But hey you know, what shall we do, I guess lets just look the other way. Besides it's just cultural differences right?
It's interesting because Varnish gets it write in their docs: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/troubleshoo...
Post should be updated to link to this page instead
We actually use this too (https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-file-plugin.1.html#PARAMETERS with "dir" parameter). It allows you to create a directory of devices to export. Symlinks are supported and generally better though.
Looks like HN is working ;-)
fastly gives free service to things like pip. It's actually very nice.
Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg News Websites Down
This seems to be a bigger issue. BGP failure?
Blame site operators that are single homing and not loadbalancing CDNs
Wow, this is nuts. Reddit was down, shrugged it off since they don't have the best reliability.

Jumped onto GH pages, and ended up with a 502, so knew it was time to jump onto HN.

I didn't realise it was such a popular CDN these days.
Depreciation with an electric car is driven more by advancement in batteries, and other new technology that is advancing relatively rapidly compared to ICE cars.
https://docs.npmjs.com down as well
Some sites are on Cloudflare, right? Looks like we have a natural experiment to test this belief!
Pretty much everything about X.500 is breathtakingly terrifying. How did people even manage to come up with it?
Hacker News is the only one UP!
That is true, but the typo is because they presumably meant to reference this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Beware of Biases When Managing Remotely
Being text based is a huge flaw with HTTP in my opinion (and also elsewhere, like Redis). It leads to parsing bugs and overly verbose communications. Humans are good at reading text, CPUs prefer binary.
I find this a bit concerning. Catching bad guys is all well and good but I wonder whether the various governments are overreaching.

Selling a bugged phone to a known criminal is likely fine (cite: The Wire).

But is it acceptable to sell a bugged phone to unknown/unidentified/random people and then use the phone's communications to determine if the owner is a crook and the owner's identity? The sole basis of suspicions seems to be "bought phone", or maybe "bought phone using bitcoin", or even "bought phone on TOR using bitcoin".

It will be interesting to see how many of these cases hold up in court.
Got the same here (Australia)
Exploring Cellular Automata and Complexity – Slackermanz Blog
if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.
I fiddled around for many hours with traefik, and could not get it to do what I wanted -- something I'd done before and had a known example working config of.

10 minutes of caddy, I had everything running exactly as I wanted and the job was done.
It's funny, I searched Twitter for "Ebay down" and the top result was an Ebay tweet with some not coincidentally broken Twitter emoji SVGs (as another person mentioned)...
I’ve noticed lots of social media content is tied to this - Reddit and Twitter images and some videos, for one.
>Can someone explain simply why it is supposed to be so hard to track ransomware bitcoin payments, if all bitcoin transactions are in a shared public ledger?

Clearly, it's not. This is a pervasive misconception. Bitcoin is not, and is not even meant to be, private. Even with obfuscation attempts, nearly every ransomware gang has their bitcoin payments fully tracked, as this one did. There is a robust industry of blockchain analytics that pulls in many many millions each year surveilling the bitcoin blockchain. Virtually all exchanges (fiat on and off ramps) collaborate with those analytics companies and require full KYC/AML of their customers, and can thus apply their KYC label data to blockchain metadata.

Bitcoin is not account based: it is based on unspent transaction output sets. UTXOs can be combined with many other UTXOs, combined into one, or split into many. This leaves a large amount of potential for obfuscation strategies such as CoinJoin[^1]. Nearly all of these gangs attempt to use CoinJoin or similar but make small mistakes such as being representative of a large amount of the volume, leaking information through timing, combining their outputs into one, or countless other potential errors, and often a simple "FIFO" strategy can trace flows. Obfuscation is not a robust anonymity strategy, and pseudonymity is not anonymity. To quote Vitalik Buterin, "If your privacy model has a medium anonymity set, it really has a small anonymity set. If your privacy model has a small anonymity set, it has an anonymity set of 1. Only global anonymity sets (eg. as done with ZK-SNARKs) are truly robustly secure."[^2]

[^1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin
[^2]: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/119646811199575654...
It was `connection failure` for me.
Same here in Germany: imgur and reddit are down, plus a bunch of other sites.
Unless you're browsing reddit without logging in, you can just set the old reddit theme from your account settings so you don't need to use the old. prefix :)
www.python.org down as well, with the shortest of messages: 'connection failure'. Probably related?
Let's start getting our guesses in.

I think it's some dodgy VCL rolled out to all machines at once. For some reason it worked in staging.
"Some users may experience brief service disruption."
Yes! The subtitles can be completely different than the dubbing in some cases which makes it difficult for me to watch with both.

Also, they sometime use a bit odd translations. I saw a Belgian show and they translated smoking a cigarette into smoking a fag. Which I guess is technically correct (based on the cambridge dictionary), just an odd choice for general EU viewership
CSS/Javascript at https://github.com/ appears to be down as well making GitHub quite unusable.
that amjad guy sounds like an entitled piece of shit who thinks he knows what innovation is and that he has anything to with it. lold.
IBM getting involved in something is a pretty good indicator of where we are in the hype cycle, unfortunately.
Though a useful side effect of SEO people finding it to be a useful side effect, is that what they are doing for their gain may help overall accessibility (where too often the opposite is the case, when people trying to game systems accidentally affect accessibility, it is usually negatively).
They did mention firefox during the presentation.
MAD affected, not on the list. I assume it is all locations.
>The lesson here is complete trust in modern computing platforms is misplaced and impossible

For me the lesson here is the same old lesson - Your security is only as good as the humans that interact with it.
Their status page keeps claiming that my region, Chicago (ORD), is either Degraded Performance, or Operational. But clearly it's down. Is fuzzing metrics like this how they hit their SLA targets?
Because HN and those who use less or those who use backup services are smart and those who are caught now have to panic and wait.

Probably going to short the hell out of $FSLY.
I’m not sure why this is considered some giant revelation. Anyone who owns and holds stocks that do not pay dividends is aware that you only pay capital gains taxes when you sell. Why is this a surprise?

I’m not against heavily revising the tax code, but I’m not sure a wealth tax is the way to do it. I’d rather we tax the utility of money rather than the quantity (e.g., a billionaire who spends millions on cancer research will not have that money taxed, but one who spends millions on yachts and super cars will pay 90% tax). Society could then vote to determine what things should have high and low taxes.
yeah, the internet is working perfectly. if you want to view 503 errors.
Thank god network people haven't drunk the centralization kool-aid.
https://www.reddit.com as well
https://docs.python.org/
https://www.last.fm/
HTTP allows a TimedOut response to be sent by a server to request you haven't yet sent. So it's not strictly request/reply.
developer.spotify.com
Interesting. So far Twitter mob says it's just Cloudflare's WARP which does not hide your IP, just the traffic from ISP.
Only their main website though. My Heroku apps work pretty well.
Sorry, your comment is ambiguous; "should be" as in "needs to be fixed" or as in "has been fixed"?
Ask them again right before they are about die.
Yeah sorry for not giving much details, it wasn't an essay. I wouldn't work at something I consider unethical.
Looks like fastly... slowed down!

...I'll see myself out.
I just had a look at amazon.co.uk and most assets fail to load, the browser debug console is full of 503 errors. Picking one at random, it's fastly:

$ nslookup images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com

Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com canonical name = m.media-amazon.com.
m.media-amazon.com canonical name = media.amazon.map.fastly.net.
Name: media.amazon.map.fastly.net
Address: 199.232.177.16
Name: media.amazon.map.fastly.net
Address: 2a04:4e42:1d::272
elastic.co down as well
Does not seem like: https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/blob/606977bbf...
95k websites use them according to BuiltWith, lots of big names there!
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage
+= North Africa (Egypt, Cairo)

Stackoverflow.com, reddit, qoura down. (and probably more, those are the ones I tested)
Stuff is down across the web, but the most it says is “degraded performance” and in my area it’s all green even though the sites are still down.
It must be fun to come up with a hypothesis like this and be able to put some engineering constraints on the likelihood of it.

And then being able to summarise it in a fairly readable 4 pages.
All Webflow sites?
It's a sad reality of society, but it doesn't have to be. I guess one of my biggest issues with modern day slavery is that the companies that exploit these poorer nations often paint a deceptive picture that everything is above board.

And whats worse is that these companies have the audacity to get behind social movements. Its predatory and just another scheme to improve their bottom line and lull their customers into believing that they are making an ethical choice by purchasing their products.

The raw reality is that everyone is getting exploited so we (the west) can enjoy using an iDevice while sitting on the toilet.

Its sickening.
Are there any electric boats yet? Especially curious about the feasibility for shipping boats. The density seems to be less of a concern there.
Apple could smooth these over internally quite easily, without releasing it publicly.
And all Webflow sites it seems...
> That's not how income tax is calculated,

Yes, and that's the problem (one of the problems).
Seems to affect Target ( https://www.target.com/ ) and Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/ ) as well.
> In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200.

Except if the HTML/CSS is hosted on that CDN?
You need the schema to deduce the meaning of the data contained in such encodings, you don't need it to safely parse the BER stream. Only slight complication is that you have to handle indefinite length constructed encodings of unknown tags, but that is simple, because you know that the encoding is constructed in that case (first, because the P/C bit of even unknown tag has correct value and secondly, because indefinite length encoding is always constructed).
He was listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2021, with a net worth of $17.2 billion. His fortune is largely driven by his ownership of Telegram

- Wikipedia.

So billions from Telegram, a free app. What am I missing?
nature.com
just had my own site down because of this. glad to see it wasn't my fault lol but good luck to the Fastly people on fixing the issue.
Amazon.com was completely broken here (Europe) and they're back, I was observing from where the assets were loaded from and they switched from EU to NA as a failover. Homework well done.
I still don’t understand why decisions about life or death have to involve 100% certainty or 100% correctness. I would think that it’s the opposite, that when the stakes are high, you want anything that improves your odds. If your life were on the line, you’d accept treatments or diagnoses with much less than 100% certainty.
It is funny how ubiquitous Fastly is on internet. It seems like they run the whole internet.
Easiest and most effective google SEO is to just buy ads.
I will NEVER understand why people put so much trust in single provider solutions for anything critical.
The downside is excessive context switching, and sharing data between processes becomes difficult (counters, etc).
IIUC, all the old ISO/ITU telecommunication standards were like that. This is why people fled in droves to instead use and implement TCP/IP from the RFCs.
looks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 (https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...) so it's not an AWS thing
Europol press conference is available for playback now at https://youtu.be/e443mE8l-_0

There is another press conference at 09:00 PDT too (FBI I believe).

Side note: Scotland is recognised separately from the UK in the list of participating countries. ;)
Well they thought that using a CDN over a CDN would be a good idea
Terraform registry too AFAICT.
Even amazon.com homepage has no CSS right now!
Yikes, seems like a massive outage.

EDIT: Hexdocs is down, elixir-lang.org is down
https://repo.maven.apache.org/ is down too
Especially when compared to the competition phones that ran kernels that were only used in the embedded world
Xkcd Is Down