skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Table 3 here [0] provides a breakdown of drug discovery by country and by expenditure. In terms of number of drugs discovered, the US leads with 66%, followed by Canada, the UK, Germany, and Belgium in that order.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10134693/pdf/10...
Because AI already was in the public zeitgeist as a term for something that is decidedly not what is being offered by companies like OpenAI, and beyond it's meaning in the zeitgeist, the wording itself, Artificial Intelligence, belies much more than these models actually are, which is generative models. They are not intelligent in any way a layman would call intelligent.

> "Cloud" is also a stupid name for a managed datacenter/IAAS/PAAS

"Cloud computing" though as referred to datacenters makes a degree of sense, certainly more than calling GPT an actual mind.

And it seems pretty clear to me that based on the way these companies and their CEOs are leaning into fantasies of Skynet and such, that they're not only encouraging the conflation, but using it to sell the product. And by all means, sell your product, but if you open that conversation by lying to my face, don't expect to close a sale.
In a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.
How do you verify chatgpt is giving you a correct interpretation of these docs without spending the time to read them yourself anyhow?
> supporting emulation also supports the illegal piracy of our products

So does the original Switch which is trivial to hack and dump games from.
From a founder/early employee perspective, if I were risking that much _literal lifespan_ on a high-rish venture, I'd want some kind of return to make it worthwhile.
>Not for those that demand such politicized images, I suppose. But on all other metrics pretty much yes.

What other metrics are you justifying on? In previous comments I detailed my testing of Gemini 1.5 Pro and it shows significant improvement over Gemini 1.0 and Bard. My target is matching the ability of GPT-4 in my personal set of benchmark tests. It isn't there yet but going from 0 tests passed with Bard to 6 tests passed with Gemini 1.5 is a significant improvement in my mind.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565128

>I don't get your reference to elections at all, it doesn't seem to make sense in context of your first question.

My claim is that the people complaining the most about what pictures Gemini are generating are part of one side of the US political aisle that is focusing on the content of these images and not any sort of technical improvements or failings.

I am led to believe they are a loud minority based on their election performance over the last seven years.

Calling gemini a "disaster" as the article does is too strong of a word given what I have seen with Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing
This is the best summary of the situation I've seen.

"An art collector may pay $1 million for a coveted painting. Very little energy is required. The painting was produced long ago. It may even remain on display in the same location—only the name of the owner changing. Financial transactions that require no manufacture, transport, and negligible energy are said to be “decoupled” from physical resources. Plenty of examples exist in society, and are held up by economists as illustrating how we can continue to expand the economy without a commensurate expansion of resource needs...

In summary, decoupling and substitution are touted as mechanisms by which economic growth need not slow down as energy and other resources become constrained. We can make money using less of the resource (decoupling) or just find alternatives that are not constrained (substitution), the thinking goes. And yes, this is backed up by loads of examples where such things have happened. It would be foolish to claim that we have reached the end of the line and can expect no more gains from decoupling or substitution. But it would be equally foolish to imagine that they can produce dividends eternally so that economic growth is a permanent condition."

The rest of the book sketches out the hard physical constraints that we have to operate in over the next few centuries, and addresses some common questions I've seen here ("What about fusion?", "What about mining asteroids?", etc.)

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#article_main
Down here in South Africa too.. it's weird that it's not affecting everyone, yet it's worldwide.. It's almost as if it's taking down a percentage or section of addresses/uid's on their database... I wouldn't be surprised to hear that everyone affected, joined the app at a similar date, or the sequential uid's.
To me this sounds like more than a bug.. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hack.
This is rough napkin math, no need to downvote if anyone knows the real number and this is way off :)

Meta 2023 ad revenue was $131 billion. To make it easy, let's assume an even spread for # of users and ad revenue generation per hour/minute of the day and day of the year (which I'm sure is not the case).

This would be:

$358 million per day

$15 million per hour

$249k per minute

This also assume a minute down won't be somewhat or totally offset by a spike in users when it comes back online.
A few things glossed over:

- the shame in question might actually be about whether one can provide a sufficient and healthy environment for the kids to grow up and thrive in an ever-changing world, the pace of which is increasing exponentially. It might be good to be circumspect about having children due to the fact that we are economically bifurcated into very-rich and increasingly-poor (in most places - it's understandable that if you're from Sweden like the authors you might not feel that quite so much b/c you live in one of the few examples of modern governance done kinda-right).

- 'outcasts' and 'misfits' are, in most places in the world (again, a nordic caveat is important here) a GOOD thing. The state of culture rit-large these days is pretty abysmal, and if you happen to be an outlier you actually represent a potential path for survivability given that the apparent thrust of most of the critical mass of society is self-destruction. Personally, I blame the news cycle and social media for this.

- Hyper-orthodox anything is not a great example of how to be. It's a very all-or-nothing strategy in a world that increasingly requires elasticity.
time to move away from undersea cables to satellites.
He's 17 and at that age it's just an adventure. Not everything needs to happen in the context of Marxist class struggle.

Also, 10k Euro a year for living expenses isn't actually cheap, he would spend less money with a more traditional lifestyle and renting a small flat (outside big cities at least).
I was thinking is deploy of DMA "compliant" unbundling the day before it takes force.

Could be both.
On Super Tuesday in the US today, too. Very interesting timing for how much political nonsense is on social media.
Built on React, though.
This is so funny because the status page itself actually shows 500 Internal Server Error to me in the API calls. So the status page clearly isn't isolated from the FB network itself. I highly suspect it is either a BGP convergence issue, or their OIDC service hits the dirt.
> BY JON GAMBRELL
Updated 8:25 PM PST, March 4, 2024

Timelines don't match nicely
That was basically why openai was founded.

Too bad they decided to get greedy :-(
> The paid membership tier will launch in early April and initially cost $49 per yea...

> The subscription tier, Target Circle 360, will include unlimited free same-day delivery for orders over $35 in as little as one hour with no delivery fees and two free-day shipping, along with other perks.

$49/year for 1-hour delivery from Target sounds pretty good. One huge advantage for ordering from Target is avoiding the multitude of 3rd party sellers and commingling of inventory on Amazon.

However, just like there's subscription fatigue for Netflix / Disney+ / Paramount / ..., there's going to be the same thing for this / Amazon Prime / Walmart+ / etc.
Given the range. Doesn't look like DNS
Windows 8 seemed to force it more with the full screen start menu and all the other stuff, even when the user didn't have a touch screen.

I rarely, if ever, use full screen apps in macOS, so in the model I described, I wouldn't notice any changes (in theory). Similarly, someone who only used a touch device shouldn't see any major differences vs normal iPadOS. Though I'm sure when fulling vetting this out and looking into all the edge cases, there would likely be a lot of little issues that would need to be solved or lead to compromises.

Windows 8 went overboard and tried to force the touch idea, even when it didn't make sense... like removing the start button from Windows Server and relying on hot corners, which was hell with RDP.
Add a few more that others may not mention:

Brahms symphony 4 - 1st movement
Brahms symphony 3 - 3rd movement
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3

Jazz

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
In a Sentimental Mood
My Little Brown Book

Dave Brubeck Quartet
Koto Song

Rock

Pink Floyd
Echos (from Meddle )
Animals
maybe a long tail consequence of further shifting traffic?
I started college in the US at 16 (which is admittedly a bit early) but I'm not sure 17 is all that young. And, yes, this sort of feels like a gap year in Europe sort of lifestyle.
Bullshit. Google is telling them to remove content if they want to comply with Google's advertising T&C, otherwise the ads won't run and they won't make money. That's not censorship; if you're running an ad-supported site, you have to run ad-friendly content. If Google is paying you to run their ads, you're their piper, and you play the tunes they call.
Discord messages also appear with a large delay for me.
Messenger is also down. For some people this is an important means of communication (many young people I know in the US). People may either be in a panic or otherwise cannot coordinate sufficiently the plans they may have had to get to the polls.

That being said this year's primaries have got to be historically uncontested that it could not matter less.
This shouldn't affect europe. It just stopped working
Ubicloud's competition has support for cluster-api [0] [1]. Any plans to add Ubicloud?

[0] https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/user/quick-start.html#instal...

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/tree/main/i...
Are you suggesting that it's wrong to presume to police other people's speech?
It seems a little dangerous to put so much trust in a model known to output incorrect information
SSID: LibraryBox@http-10.20.30.40

I actually have a "MonsterOTG" portable WAP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnT-rWFnE8 ...their pitch was "put your kids movies on an SD card and they can navigate to them from their iPad (on a road-trip)"... or have all the media on one SD-card and not have to have them on all your phones (like a proto-NAS, kindof).

I used it actually while on a trip to "fake" being a web-server. eg: `scp index.html 10.1.10.1:/media/files/public` (or whatever) and then I could have my phone navigate to it. Chromebook => "OTG-Wifi" && Phone => "OTG-Wifi". Chrombook.push(); Phone.fetch(...);

I couldn't connect directly from phone to chromebook, but if they were both on the same (captive) wifi, I could actually have the phone navigate to the server running on the chromebook via that little device as a "wifi mediator" (even while in the middle of nowhere with no internet for 50 miles around). I had some episodes of Twilight Zone that I'd ripped and could connect to it while on a flight. You could take the SD-Card out of your camera and fetch pictures over to the macbook-without-sd-card situation, then clear the card and take more pics (or keep them on and just be guaranteed that you have a backup).

There's really some non-pirate use cases of things like that, and the overall concept is pretty cool! Got me thinking of something like a neighborhood "Captive SSID", like a LAN that you opt in to vs the WAN that's always connected. It's really instructive to think through for yourself personally: if you were on the moon, and all you had was a wifi access point that held SD-Cards
Underwater cables seemingly got attacked; the Red Sea situation is likely related: https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou...
This helped my understanding of VC/founder relation much better. Thanks for putting a broader perspective to the situation described in the original post.
I agree with this 100%! I do not believe this is just a little bug. This is more. There’s been a lot of things happening that people are trying to ignore. But this just adds to it..
This is from 2022
But is there any recourse to the founders telling you one thing and then raising differently later because "circumstances have changed?"
Ok so now we're proposing that financial regulations that hamper funneling resources to terrorist organizations and make money laundering and tax evasion a massive pain in the ass are "time wasted"? Weird take but ok.

And miss me with that "consent" fig leaf. You damn well know ToS (what would the plural be there?) that notionally establish consent are intentionally designed to be impenetrable walls of legal verbiage designed specifically to provoke end users to click through without reading a damn thing. Furthermore, to truly opt out of all forms of digital tracking, which I think we agree most people would do if given the option, would require completely disengaging from the economy as brokerable electronic records are produced every time you use a cellphone, view anything on the internet, or perform a financial transaction with anything besides cash.
Again, that objection makes no sense to my comment when it was already violated in the discussion before I wrote anything: "Are there colors? labels?"

If you'd like to object to it ("to be fair" or whatever), the parent comment I replied to would be the one to do so to.
I think since then Elon has mentioned that abort via the main Starship engines may be possible through all points of a launch (putting aside the landing process for now). Probably also helped by the hot staging related changes, since IIRC the concern regarding abort modes was whether or not the engines could safely ignite and separate from the booster.

It does still leave the system without a means of aborting if the ship's main engines have trouble, although I suppose they do have a good bit of redundancy there.
Unless it's a recent change, it works perfectly fine offline (wifi turned off).

As for alternatives, there is Pico, but Quest 3 may be superior in games selection. Or go wired which is of course less portable
Simping for big business is a favorite American pastime. Somehow, so many Americans have been convinced that they're actually business owners, just having a set-back and temporarily working for $20/hr stocking shelves or selling cars. But in their hearts they are actually tycoons, and anything that hurts business surely hurts themselves!
Just quit a job asking RTO for no reason. There are extensive studies showing the effectiveness of remote work.

I believe it's a mix of justifying management heavy org structures and straight exercise of power. There's been a power shift in the economy since covid towards the employee. There's been clear and open conversation about how that's a problem and how it needs to be reversed.
The 2021 outage was worse, it completely killed the network access to FB data centers for hours, and even led to issues with FB employees accessing offices (since the badge readers were also offline). It was so bad it got it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage
He sounds like a confident young man; not one who quivers at the thought of travelling.
PromptSet: A Programmer's Prompting Dataset
It's enough to get their lawyers after you and cost you a ton of money in legal costs to fight even if the legality behind it may be dubious. I'd say the recent Nintendo filing against Yuzu is a similar case for comparison.

Is Yuzu liable for piracy because they create an emulator and create guides on how to get licensed games working on it? Who knows. Could Nintendo throw lawyers at them endlessly until they submit, or even set a terrible precedent if Yuzu lost? Definitely. Which is why Yuzu just settled it, which in effect lets Nintendo win through their dubious claims.
YouTube works fine for me in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Why are there so many methane satellites?
Funny. This page won't work too and is clearly down. So there is possiblity of pretty big amateurism from facebook or failure at dns servers.
Entire businesses and livelihoods would crumble without Meta’s platforms.
Tip for Meta engineers: when your service is failing, don't just log people out and prevent logins. Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in. The public might even come up with a catchy name for the whale.
Cloudflare also having issues as of 1 hour ago:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

I wonder if it's connected to this. Seems like most large players are having issues now.
I don't remember that one - must have been on a hiking trip.
This one might turn out to be worse yet! Hopefully not.
Cloudflare reporting that they were implementing a fix for something SSO-related at 16:02.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
They don't? I've worked in ad tech at some smaller places and we absolutely refunded spend during outages.
Something I've seen recently is the founder thats willing to let a company die.

I suspect these founders find some way to extract as much as possible from their company after raising funds.

Without naming names, I've seen a startup go boom (raise huge money and be valued at 3x that huge money), then all the senior leadership disappear: moved out of state, only show up for pre-recorded town halls (that used to be live), no longer a part of engineering meetings, cancelling department meetings, etc.

That went on for a couple years until the founder minimized their position in the company.

I don't understand how that could happen unless that founder extracted what they wanted and were just riding the ride rather than marching towards IPO.
They could also be reconfigured, via a specially crafted email, if I recall correctly, to call 911. A huge proportion of these boxes were in a handful of zip codes in Florida, and once the exploit started spreading, a few PSAPs got hosed until a fix could be developed
LEO satellites would be too inconsistent, and further orbits have way too much latency.
Why would you think I’m talking about pentests? Those are largely checkbox engagements run by people who use some automated tool; they’re pretty unlikely to find 0-days.

I’m talking about real security audits, where a researcher takes significant time to understand a codebase. Those tend to be conducted by people and firms who know what they’re doing and can be picky about who they work with. The purpose of an engagement like that is expressly to find and patch 0days, so requiring that CVD be done in a specific way is just an implementation detail.

My source for this is that I require them, and many (although certainly not all) other researchers I have talked with do as well.
This is also happening to me. When I try to reset my password using their password recovery I get "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again." For some reason my phone number is not working as a way to get a recovery code, same error. I can't get the recovery code sent from the app or from my browser on my laptop, but when I use my chrome browser on my pixel it sends me a recovery code, which results in "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again."
It's not unreachable. I can easily see the FB page on my browser. It's just that even after resetting my password it doesn't accept it. Probably something's fucked up in the credentials database.
YouTube seems okay here. East coast US.
There are an unsettling number of NA startups that seem to aggressively hire remote workers or contractors in Asia\Africa and then a couple mid to senior people in NA timezones.

They build their product and then just seem to fizzle out. My guess that the technical debt and lack of talent retention kills them.
I think the current buzz in the VR space is the "Bigscreen Beyond" which eschews all of the nice-to-haves in order to make the headset as light as possible, and the result is surprisingly compelling.
It's absolutely absurd that AMD stopped funding this, since right as it got released as open source it started producing value for AMD users. You'd think this exact thing would be their top priority, but instead they've been faffing around for years with two (are they up to three now?) alternate APIs with minimal support so far.
In my case I was doing iRacing with a cable, it requires the Oculus app to run for the link to work. Which in turn needs the login to be active.
It’s still down. I can’t get in at all.
Really? I'm not a JavaScript dev but this is pretty inscrutable. I think its totally reasonable for devs to expect not to have to do all this byzantine casting and comparisons just to find out if a variable contains a number. You're right in the sense that an experienced dev should know to vendor this or reimplement in code they control rather than downloading it every time they build, but the necessity of this library is more of a damnation of the JS stdlib than anything.
Those lines were cut yesterday, so it seems like a poor candidate for explaining the current outages. Likewise the geography doesn't match up with the outages.
There are so many artists that thrift stores are filled with artwork. It was never about having a quantity of art. Provenance is everything. Its why silicon valley execs don’t drink boxed wine, and why ai art isn’t going to change much of the art world.
A moving goalpost isn't a great argument either.
I think you need to be online for the first setup of the headset, otherwise it won’t work at all.
Too bad we don‘t have crash testers in the IT industry.
That doesn't seem to address the reservoir capacity question. It also notes that Lake Mead was very low (meaning there was insufficient rainfall, rather than insufficient storage).

I agree that California has water crises often... that wasn't something we disagreed on at all. And for what it's worth, I lived there for a couple decades, through many of the droughts.

I just don't think what you presume to be obvious and self evident (more dams will fix it) is necessarily true.
> Despite all its ills, driving is, for enough people, a more pleasant experience than tackling strikes, standing on a train for two hours, or being unable to travel at certain times at all.

In order to make driving less attractive than mass transit outside of urban cores like Manhattan or London, driving would have to be made more costly via increased tolls, removal of parking spaces, and less road capacity in conjunction with mass transit being made more frequent (every 5 to 10 minutes) with more routes.

Point to point travel in an individual vehicle is just very hard to compete with, especially on amount of freedom.
iirc these all use GCP which would make sense for them all to be disrupted at the same time. I wouldn't have thought Meta was GCP reliant though?
Thanks, will try. Maybe they fixed it, last occurrence that I could find in my logs was Oct/23.
This looks like a hack that will inevitably bite you in the back sometime in the future, for example if one of the involved programs starts to validate UTF-8 in the future, or your system locale changes, or something similar.