https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/49846715?hl=en "If you're experiencing issues when trying to log into YouTube from your Sony PlayStation 4 device – we're on it! We've seen similar reports and our teams are looking into it. We'll circle back with updates soon! Thanks for your patience in the meantime."
Anyone here from Google got any idea what is going on?
So throughout the day, there has been a huge rush on the petition to stop UK exiting the EU, and we've seen a lot of gateway 503 errors (the default nginx page), and "down for maintenance" pages - and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light as to how it has been so hard for them to cope with scaling...
Traffic has been about 2000 users / minute I believe, and users each get sent an email, and then have to click a confirmation link - and you can see the current number of signatories so I guess they are probably looking at more like 4 - 5000 users peak across a minute so hundreds of thousands an hour roughly.
They also have JSON api that various people are querying `curl https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584/count.json`
What I really want to know is, why could they not just "turn up the juice"?
I've noticed this over the years especially with science reporting. The news site will report on a study with quotes from both the paper as well the author.
But nowhere on the page is an easy link to it or even just the title of the paper with author names.
They even say: "(That paper was published more than a month ago but began to pick up interest this week.)"
In trying to find the paper I googled parts of the info. But my journey went from that article to a random webpage called Inc: https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/facebook-may-have-just-shown-what-elon-musk-bill-g.html
They ran with the story and corrected it based on this post:
That took me to the blog post at code.facebook.com that should have at least been the linked source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate/
That finally takes me to the paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05125
So I don't really see the need for this unless the news article authors are afraid of being refuted or it's some click bait issue.
On another note it's crazy how many websites seem to rewrite the same basic article over and over again.
My question is have any tech companies revoked their contracts with police agencies in response to the protests?
I saw this headline[0] "UK government urged to suspend export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to US" and it made me question if American tech companies have any clauses in their contracts which revoke use when the software/hardware is used to repress civil rights.
There have been a lot of videos of journalists with identifying gear on, beaten by police officers. This alone is a gross violation of rights.
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-On Judg the content quality is higher than on Instagram due to our voting system. Today people are leaving Facebook because of the poor quality of the feed content.
-We finally give our users the opportunity to say « I don’t like this post » with our rating system. For a long time, Facebook users have been asking for this feature and we have found the perfect way to give it to them without the mean aspect. Mark Zuckerberg said in December 2014 that he wouldn't allow the dislike because he thought people would be mean to each other. Judg is the proof it wasn't true.
-Judg is fun and less serious than its competitors. It's a game and it's rewarding.
Funny facts about Judg:
• Judg is the result of a strong teamwork but also a family work. Indeed, all the founders are coming from the same family. What better way to build trust and cohesion within your team?
• We almost lost hope when Apple rejected our App. The reason? “Your app includes features, such as rating other users, that can result in mean-spirited content”. What!? That’s our entire concept questioned here! Phew… after removing the category “Selfies” (because it targets people too much) they finally accepted it.
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I am following a link from member boh to : A return to Stupidland: Ten years after the dotcom boom (independent.co.uk)
It's a nice personal account of appreciating lessons from the past. I believe PG has written that there is no bubble. I have to agree on that statement.
The dotcom bubble had totally different characteristics from today's upward shift. One can easily understand this difference from the IPOs of 1999. This was the target back then. Build it, grow it, sell it to the ignorants without any profit in the foreseeable future. Yes I know there were exceptions like Amazon that made it a few years down the line. However most of the entrepreneurs back then and their investors knew that their product/service will have no chance to make it in reality and all they wanted was the easy way out.
So what's the difference now?
Currently evaluations run high. Buyouts, not IPOs. If you don't like “Google” buying XYZ startup, just don't buy "Google" or sell it. However “Google” has a real sense of what they want to achieve and if they miss on a buyout, then they are the first to hit the ground. Hit the ground it is for some biggies, but we are not going to do name-dropping here. Their boards should have known better on who they put as CEO.
So are we seeing a bubble now?
Not by 10 million miles. And the reason is simple. Most of 1999 bubbles were copycats of the kind: Our Super Duper Site is going to be the NEW e-commerce market bla-bla that nobody thought and everyone needs. Give us 1 billion through IPO and we'll make it.
To begin with, the vast majority of Web 2.0 startups, are growing with “peanut” funding compared to 1999. However those that grow deliver good returns for their investors that are professionals (Angel Investors and VCs). So if someone takes a wrong call to invest in a startup, it won't be a pensioner hoping to turn 50$ into vacation in the Caribbean, but rather a professional who took a wrong bet. After all they know the odds and they have agreed to play the game. No tears.
Now not to underestimate the importance of Web 1.0, but Web 2.0 is the real revolution of IT in the cloud. One IT revolution was with the PC in the 1980s and the second one is Web 2.0. What are the reasons? In my opinion 2 main reasons:
1) Bigger bandwidth with popular DSL connections that can handle fairly demanding applications. 2) The explosion of publicly available open software tools from OS, to databases, to frameworks, to everything.
It's strange - what could possibly take 4 days to fix?
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-ps4-log-in-error-issue-fix-how-to-cast-a9541811.html
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/ps4-youtube-error-code-np-37602-8
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/49846715?hl=en
"If you're experiencing issues when trying to log into YouTube from your Sony PlayStation 4 device – we're on it! We've seen similar reports and our teams are looking into it. We'll circle back with updates soon! Thanks for your patience in the meantime."
Anyone here from Google got any idea what is going on?