skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its all down according to https://www.githubstatus.com/

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:19 UTC
Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:19 UTC
Update - Packages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:18 UTC
Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC
Update - Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:12 UTC
Status page showing a complete outage now
I'm wondering why this isn't on the front page? It has a lot of points in 23 minutes.
Down under?
As someone with minor but noticeable hearing issues, the reason it's so jarring is because our brain's audio processing center depends on both ears for understanding human speech.

If you're deaf in one ear, your ability to hear and understand speech in particular goes down a lot, even if someone is talking on your good side. Put that person in a noisy crowd and it's game over.
Please. Feeling better already. No more acid down my throat. Please. See. I'll even sing if you insist.
That this can even be done is absolutely atrocious.

I heard about security issues related to fonts and wondered “how in the world”. This helps clarify why.

It simply should not be possible.
> But "huge advantages"?

They don't call null/nil the billion dollar mistake for nothing.
from where? they don't only have one load balancer,
so you'd still have the problem of the page showing green when it's not loading for some folk?
Looks like we have a full house outage at GitHub with everything down. Much worse than the so-called Twitter / X recent speed-bump that was screeched at and quickly forgotten.

I don't think GitHub has recovered from the monthly incidents that keeps occurring. Quite frankly it is the expectation that something will go down every month at GitHub which shows how unreliable the service is and this has happened for years.

I guess this 4 year old prediction post really aged well after all about self-hosting and not going all in on Github [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
“Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas” : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161444

That’s librarians at a school subjected to a two year criminal investigation, complete with search warrants and interrogations, because of the books that were on their shelves
It isn't just the barrier to entry, Microsoft famously paid the cost to enter the smartphone market.

It is how many platform ecosystems a market can support problem. Creating a platform ecosystem creates higher costs and lowers profits for everyone building in the market (the market in this case being "all smartphone users").

1 more platform is going to be at least a 30% increase in dev costs (if not a full on 50% increase, and for large complex apps it can be even worse), and now if that platform gains market share, that is less sales on the other 2 platforms for anyone who doesn't support all three.

So to make the same money as before, a company now needs to spend 30%-50% more on development expenses.

There is a natural limit to the number of platforms that can exist when the cost of building across multiple platforms is non-trivial.

This by the way was why even the tiny European market was able to support so many different 8-bit platforms back in the day. Porting costs were minimal, one or two people for a couple of months, and developer costs were much lower back then. Jump to the 90s and now suddenly you have just 2 consoles, and with Xbox losing market share year over year, we may soon be down to just one in another decade or so.
Yet again, this shows how useless GitHub status page is.
The reply link is now available again?

Everything is red now. Nearly lunch time in New Zealand.
Oh I found the goto-definition works pretty well in RubyMine.

I would imagine goto-definition not working well to be more an issue with Ruby being a dynamically typed language and having metaprogramming features like define_method, not the framework. (FWIW I really dislike Ruby despite really liking Rails)
Could it have been brought down intentionally? Related to this?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-action...
Not really, "big tech" has been innovating non stop for decades and finding solutions for problems we didn't know we had.

Each new thing reaches maturity and market saturation eventually and they have to find something else but it's not related to tech only.
> did this a month or so ago when a Dr. recommended a cortisone injection behind my ankle. I asked GPT about it, it said consensus recommends against it because it can weaken the Achilles. The doctor hated it but I am really glad I didn’t just blindly trust him.

Taking medical advice from ChatGPT over what your doctor says, what could go wrong?
It's going to be a lot less than 24ms though because that's the antipode which is worst case for a around-the-globe signal. However, the antipode for probably every single stock market is likely somewhere uninhabited. It's still going to be a huge improvement of course but I'm sure there's encode/decode times to convert to/from an electrical signal. And presumably the 0.1 bps probably means it also takes a long time to receive a single packet (error correction & collecting enough signal in the first place). So we're probably a long ways away from it making sense for that use case.
I am quite familiar with the basic functionality of Git. However, I am always amused by how it works in practice.
Curious: what version of Rails was the codebase was running, and how long it had been around before it landed in your lap(s)?
I feel like I'm living in an alternative dimension when somebody worries about that when we have someone like Trump literally running for president and with a high likelihood of winning, like someone buying a gun after using drugs its a matter of massive importance when we have a jackass this close to being president who literally stole from charity and would convert muslins, black people and mexicans into slaves if he could.
Can't wait for the writeup! So many services down at once... Something very interesting must have happened
It's because of the way most companies build their status dashboards. There are usually at least 2 dashboards, one internal dashboard and one external dashboard. The internal dashboard is the actual monitoring dashboard, where it will be hooked up with other monitoring data sources. The external status dashboard is just for customer communication. Only after the outage/degradation is confirmed internally, then the external dashboard will be updated to avoid flaky monitors and alerts. It will also affect SLAs so it needs multiple levels of approval to change the status, that's why there are some delays.
Much bigger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412

No idea why it's getting pushed farther and farther down the front page despite getting lots of activity.
I've been saying this in this thread, but Grothendieck used the language of category theory to revolutionalize algebraic geometry. All model algebraic geometry is written in the language of category theory. The best example of a specific problem solved using category theory is Grothendieck's proofs of the Weil Conjectures. In particular the proof uses etal cohomology which in it's definition uses category theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weil_conjectures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale_cohomology

If you can get to the point of understanding this stuff, which admittedly takes a long as time, I promise you that you'll appreciate category theory, lol. I didn't understand the significance of the Weil conjectures until my 4th year in a math phd program where I studied number theory.

The problem (at least partly) is that it's possible to read about and understand the statements in category theory long before you can understand any of the elegant and great uses of it, great uses of it in pure mathematics at least. I'm not familiar with the uses of category theory in computer science.
Not sure what you mean by minimal lag. The status page showed all green for at least 10min while everyone got unicorns.
Many seem scammy, and I went through the search before and gave up.

Then, as fate would have it, a HNer(tjames7000) mentioned he made EasyOptOuts for this reason, so I signed up. Cheap, seems effective, absolutely no complaints.
on X @githubstatus seems to be getting regular updates / automated messages around impact
Time to go out and see people
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=530...
Submitted the twitter link because HN thinks a link to Github's status page is a repeat of a topic from 9 months ago.
Because of many people commenting and possibly being flagged as well.
I use it for something.

I had a github page that was public, but it was made private and the DNS config was removed. Fast forward to today. I made the private repo public again and forced a deploy of the page without making a new commit. It said the DNS config was incomplete, so I tweaked it and hit "check again" and github went down.

Probably unrelated, but the timing was spooky.
totally down -.- Cannot access from Hong Kong OMG...
Imagine everyone having their site on gh pages, and artifacts for OS startup on here. Hello, NixOS...
A hip roof is more wind resistant than other designs.

More in line with your proposal is a monolithic concrete dome. Those are excellent at resisting wind damage.
Anyone know the logic for why it was renamed from Monkeypox to Mpox?
As I understand it, what you get with this is a pre-installed VM image. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Interesting that CoPilot is down as well. I would have assumed it was really only part of GitHub as a branding/marketing thing.
totally down -.-
But that triggers an immediate tiktok dopamine chase. I immediately want to judge what I'm seeing and swipe to move on. I start wondering about the ML training on my every move and hesitation. It's restless
I havent tried millions but you can use hundreds of thousands of spans witout any noticable delay. It was implemented wonderfully.
The downvotes you seem to be getting only confirms that HN average commenter have a very poor sense of humour and take themselves too much seriously.
I think this is also interesting with respect to running a company or a more close-knit team.
I swear even my VSCode intellisense is broken now... Rip to a real one.
Welp, that’s as good a time as any to call it a day!

Good luck to the devs and dev-analogues involved in getting the ship righted.
>For starters, it’s rather unreadable when opened in a text editor. But I bet you don’t really do that with your CSVs all that often anyway!

I really wish that were true.
Pretty sure the FBI and equivalent agencies already have access to every state’s DMV records so it’s sort of a distinction without a difference.
This is blogspam rewriting the original instructable
The WHO explains their rationale here: https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-...
Imagine everyone having their site hosted on gh pages. Now imagine artifacts for system update on github. Hello NixOS filesystem!
The new CSS Highlights API isn't implemented everywhere yet, but will be.
See one current thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251336
All the AI-native developers are twiddling their thumbs because Copilot is out of office.
Our scenario is trying to produce a diagram during CICD. We have ongoing changes that happen to our SQL codebase, and it's a constant problem to align our documentation and diagrams to that. If we could see the current ER diagram of 'main' branch, and ideally also any given historic commit, it would be huge for our product owners, as they could consume the diagram and understand the current schema without disrupting the engineers. The CICD pipeline would ideally spit out a static page of the ER diagram during build, either as SVG or HTML.

Dbeaver and PGAdmin's diagramming functions aren't anywhere near as advanced as what you've built here, and fall apart for large diagrams. Your team has a lot of smarts!
Twitter now has:

We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back.

https://x.com/githubstatus/status/1823864449494569023
Cause seems to be database related per most recent update (23:29 UTC):

> We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back.
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:29 UTC
Dupe. Discussion (313 points, 28 minutes ago, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
Who's the Bozo Doofus maintainer? https://yhbt.net/unicorn/LATEST. I love that we can still see Unicorn in action. I rarely had problems with it back in the day.
"We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back."
checked out radicle: doesn't do windows
We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back.
hope it comes back soon
It appears that people aren't aware that twitters is a porn app, for many users.

Porn is allowed: https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-musk-porn-adult-content...

And interest in porn is growing: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-crypto-pornograph...
these things could happen anywhere though. Gitlab also `rm -rf`ed before remember
Latest update at 23:29 UTC says: "We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back."
This one also got pushed down. Dang probably isn’t into this kind of post.
We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back.
hope it is back up soon
They're already mirrored on my hard drive. That's how git works.
Pretty sure its this considering the next bullet says the same thing "Active Noise Cancellation with Silent Seal™ 2.0 adapts to your environment 3 million times per second and cancels up to twice as much noise."

We're going to assume it means:

- 90 calculations per the distance traveled from mic to speaker

They also mention:

- 3 million calculations/second

Canceling out the calculation unit, that comes out to 33333 Mic-to-Speaker-Distances/second.

We know:

- Speed of sound is 343 m/s.

That puts the Mic-to-Speaker-Distance at a bit over a centimeter.... that checks out.
To jam, presumably you need to know precisely where the receivers are.
well since we're being pedantic.... you're saying you still have doubts of whether or not the existence of a working vaccine for a deadly disease qualifies as good news, because the availability of the vaccine may not be universal
Dupe. Discussion (341 points, 31 minutes ago, 119 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
It's certainly a major disincentive for me to start developing iOS apps. Dealing with all that patronization and red tape is off-putting and feels just not worth it for projects that you want to do for personal edification and fulfillment. IOS not being particularly fun to develop for likely hurts the platform to some degree.
Yep, angry unicorn.
If the copilot debacle wasn't reason enough to make people migrate or diversify the code repo efforts with, let's say, GitLab, this should.
@dang https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kz4khcgdsfdv is probably a better link for this submission now
could be if the package is hosted on github
Plot twist: when did the British pound, the Scottish shilling and the Welsh penny stop floating against each other and become a single currency? Was that before 1750?
First time in a while that pages goes down with github itself, it's usually separate from the main site.
I think there is a cultural component. In my experience (in AU) business folks consider themselves ubermensch and technical folks are viewed as inconvenient but necessary resource to achieving their important goals.

Unlike when I started on my career, these days you have about 27 million (and increasing fast) programmers in the world, a vast number of no-code / low-code tools and AI driven tools like CoPilot. Against this background, programming is an ever more fungible resource.

You need to be aware that reading HN and other tech oriented forums/blogs/etc you are seeing the nerd viewpoint. Every problem can be solved by throwing more AI and SW at it. The business community views every problem in terms of money - either to make more money or save more money. The rest is just detail (to be delegated).

In my view, you need both comprehensive business knowledge/experience and a strong IT foundation.
That survail
Based on what I've read in the past, I believe the secret is simplicity. Simplicity scales
Timing for this being on FP could not be better given Github downage.
Anybody who publishes an app on the Google Play store and hosts their privacy policy on Github pages may have their app taken down because Google's bots won't be able to verify it exists.

That happened to me a while back with an app listing that was almost 10 years old because the server I was hosting the policy on went down. Ironically, I switched it to Github pages so it wouldn't happen again.
We need more laws like this, then. Federal ones.
It always struck me as weird that proponents of the Fermi paradox use lack of radio signals as indication we're alone. Ignoring that radio signals were audible from Earth for maybe 100 years before we significantly reduced the power associated (& switched to digital) and started encrypting everything (makes everything look like noise).

Once you start to consider neutrinos as a communication medium which we're just barely scratching the surface of, or whatever future technology might be possible with advances in science and engineering, then it becomes clear we don't know what to look for on the technological front for an advanced civilization (other than knowing it's unlikely to be 1950s analog radio waves).
Dupe. Discussion (346 points, 33 minutes ago, 125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
I've never seen such a serious outage before. Even GitHub Pages hosted sites aren't accessible.
A product that I've wanted for a long time is "broad market index fund , minus the individual stocks I am overweight in due to current or previous employment equity" (e.g. VTSAX - MSFT, GOOG/GOOGL), any chance you can handle this today/build it out in the near future? Sounds like you might be able to handle this already?
Thank you! I was wondering why all I could see was useless content there!
sounds a lot like meta’s portal
Fwiw, GitHub Pages is down too. The hosted Pages sites are down.
yep very strange. You can disconnect from Wifi to get it to work. Vscode probably keeps pinging github/microsoft before every operation.
I get the angry unicorn when I try to sign in with GitHub
I’ve been waiting for somebody to sue over notarization (the reason I STILL can’t install the Pebble app) and my biggest hope was on AltStore. This type of support gives me hope that something is going to happen in this area.

Thanks to Riley for putting so much effort into this and thanks to Epic for accidentally being on the side of user freedom :-)
it crashed the second i opened this old plugin for blockbench
A coworker and I just had to use `git format-patch` and `git am` to exchange work. Git is super cool!
Bad bitbasher bad! :catbonk:
That surveillance already exists with insignificant additional work on the part of the government. The cost of not establishing a best ID system has been clearly more costly. That's why the Real ID system was pushed onto state governments.
it crashed the second i opened a github rep for an old plugin for blockbench
Here "www" is read "dub dub dub", which is at least only one syllable per character instead of "double-u double-u double-u"
Down in Vancouver, Canada
...and we're back
I disagree. This hurts no one, and not everything needs to be sanitized and painted over with bland corporatespeak.
Seem to be up again, I also wonder what is was.
Humor is for the dregs on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.
self-driving cars are one of the most stupid ideas ever.
and... we're back, at least in Japan region
They were manually ran a hot patch on the distributed production database and forgot to use a transaction
Dystopia is upon us
Not ready for the minivan lifestyle?
You get da wrong spelling brah, it be hipstas
Eh, I'm 50/50 on this. I gave up long ago about people expecting to know and understanding about _everything_ they are doing. I've come to accept that some people just want to code etc.

I pick and choose my battles and where possible enforce certain rules (e.g. you have to have `timestamp with time zone` etc etc) at build time.

I personally find learning about stuff fun! It's why I've grown as an engineer and now have the capability to debug past the code stack into the database.

You have to pick and choose your battles, those engineers who shown interest (what is an index and why do we need it type of questions) I take my time to educate and move the critical mass/inertia in the right direction.
Feels like Github is down more often than Gitlab
They probably have a reverse proxy in front of all their http endpoints and that is still up and able to show the unicorn if the backends aren't responsive.

The static content on the error page might also be on akami or cloudflare side.
At Github's scale, why wouldn't they put a ping monitor from every continent at least?

Then, you would show the status based on the continent.
You can also disable telemetry and that seems to work too. Settings-> search for telemetry and select "off" from the telemetry dropdown.
The mobile app on iOS is a 503 with

```

Received a 503 error. Data returned as a String was: <!DOCTYPE html>
<!- -

Hello future GitHubber! I bet you're here to remove those nasty inline styles, DRY up these templates and make 'em nice and re-usable, right?

Please, don't. https://github.co...

```

That's where it's cut off on my screen.

Curious what the link is :)

I like to think, someone did.
This is incredible. I will definitely check it out.

You can add your kits to BoilerplateSearch .com directory
Seems like sites based on GH Pages were down, but are back up (i.e. the Rust blog).
That is very unrealistic. Infrastructure monitoring at that scale won't even be collecting metrics at that interval.

And simple HTTP monitoring would be too flappy for a public status page.
Thanksgiving is at the end of the month though
They manually ran a patch query on the distributed production database and forgot to use a transaction
statute of limitations for HN comment predictions is 3 years.
Reading the Instructable, it does not appear that's the case. Instead, he uses the aquarium pumps as thrusters. There are no ballast tanks. I read through it looking for this particular answer, since I couldn't fathom any way an aquarium pump could fill that role. According to the article, some people do use pumps in conjunction with a snorkel, but obviously that limits your dive depth to the height of the snorkel.
HN has a strange philosophy built into its ranking algorithm that an item with a large number of comments early on should be de-ranked because the conversation is likely to be of poor quality.
D-Edit: Disentangled Image Editing Framework for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:29 UTC
Update - We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back.