skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that if linear separability is the only issue you can just use kernel methods. In fact, gaussian processes are equivalent to a single hidden layer neural network with infinite hidden values.

The magic of deep neural networks comes from modeling complicated conditional probability distributions, which lets you do generative magic but isn't going to give you significantly better results than ensemble kNN when you're discriminating and the conditional distribution is low variance. Ensemble methods are like a form of regularization and they also act as a weak bootstrap to better model population variance, so it's no surprise that when they're capable of modeling the domain, they perform better than unregularized, un-bootstrapped neural network model. There are still tons of situations where ensemble methods can't model the domain, and if you incorporated regularization and bootstrapping into a discriminative NN model it would probably perform equivalently to the ensemble model.
Event Interception
The downside of a Pi is dramatically reduced muscle that’s well below that of even many smartphones and tablets these days, which can be prohibitive depending on usage.

Undervolting is a good option I agree, but there’s evidently value in machines that run on a lower power profile out of the box.
that's exactly what me and my wife did to protect our toddler from drug addiction. We started him on light marihuana since two, only later introducing other drugs like MDMA, amphetamines and very sparingly cocaine. Hope this exposure helps him never to get addicted.
codeberg are censors. People should be migrating elsewhere. https://codeberg.org/themusicgod1/codeberg-is-corrupted-dont...
Status has just updated (as of 10:49 AM ET) to show that there are outages.
The first thing I did was to reset me password(s), and wonder if my devices had been compromised.
I thought I got hacked and tried to retrieve my password.

Got a weird email with the same code every time from facebookmail.com
It seems to not just be Meta - sites like Downdetector[0] are showing a spike in reported issues from AWS, Google services, and X/Twitter as well. I noticed issues with Google myself.

[0] https://downdetector.com/
I struggle to believe that. I've found Copilot / ChatGPT really useful, especially for doing support investigation tasks (chopping and filtering logs mainly). Not once has it just output a perfect answer - it's required me to know what it's trying to do in order to tweak it to my needs. Not having the skills in the first place would leave me with a confused half solution.
Google Play Store also affected
what are stats for Facebook uptime? i can't remember last time large parts of it went down like this.
Discord also seems to be down for me
What's in common with those industries is that they are largely regulated or government-controlled, making them much more difficult to break into.

Don't hate the players, hate the game.

If we deregulated there would be a rush of innovation and the next YC cohorts would have many more startups targeting those industries.
It is extremely slow right now.
They use three text encoders to encode the caption:

1. CLIP-G/14 (OpenCLIP)

2. CLIP-L/14 (OpenAI)

3. T5-v1.1-XXL (Google)

They randomly disable encoders during training, so that when generating images SD3 can use any subset of the 3 encoders. They find that using T5 XXL is important only when generating images from prompts with "either highly detailed descriptions of a scene or larger amounts of written text".
and I thought I was having a bad day
I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy.

What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
If you are referring to the background, indeed the colors change on purpose. It would be cool if that wasn't on purpose. As for browsing issues in Firefox, could you clarify the issue? If it's around using the Browser app, it is just an iframe so many sites will not load in it.
> For me the trick was to stop thinking about it and to just let go.

Indeed. From "Juggling for the Complete Klutz" by Cassidy and Rimbeaux:

> Step 1: The Drop

> Throw all three bags into the air and, making no effort to catch any of them, let them all hit the ground. This is an example of The Drop. I do it all the time and so will you, but it'sgood to familiarize yourself with the moves early on.

> Practice the drop until the novelty wears off.

Learning to juggle is really about learning to fail, repeatedly and publicly, and still have a smile on your face.
> probably the atomic cooperation is even more important

That's why I don't understand why Budapest Memorandum signatories allow Russia for breaking the security guarantees.

Ukraine gave up fully the third biggest nuclear arsenal for security guarantees from Russia, USA, France and UK.

To me it seems pretty clear that if Ukraine falls then nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation is dead. And that my country, Poland, should seek to develop nuclear weapons.
https://twitter.com/teamcity/status/1764669887014736007 they tweeted yesterday that they patched vulnerabilities. They published a blog post about it on the 3rd. https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2024/03/additional-criti...

I'm genuinely struggling to understand what went wrong here.
Like they used cheap Indian coders to save money and now everything is better?

It'll be a test of try to pay less and probably a bunch of spaghetti code fixes after.
Strictly speaking, just because there's an outage does not mean you're not pwn'ed.
This means IG is also down. Which means probably a network tier screw up yet again. Idk why they design a monolith network that basically can put out all their infrastructure.
I really hate that companies do this. PayPal does it sometimes, too.
I asked lots of questions to the founder of the company I was at. He was very nice in always answering me and helping me understand what's good / bad. I try to pass it on but I'm not sure how to proactively get the knowledge other than reading something like "All about VC fundraising" (fake post, I'm sure it exists) and hoping it's there.

Participating preferred = investor invests 50M on 1x participating preferred and company sells for 100M. The investor makes 50M + their % share of the company. Common stock makes % share of 50M.

They participate in the % sales ON TOP OF their preferred stocks liquidation preference (money in = money out before common stock value is considered)

Now here's where it gets nasty. 2x participating preferred = investor invests 50M and company sells for 100M. Investor makes 100M and common stock makes $0. Or if the company sold for 150M, investor makes 100M and participates in the % stock value from 50M.

It's a bit confusing, but the short is participating preferred is the absolute worst terms for common stock holders (founders included.)
They recently started demanding that I log in on a phone app, to make some choice to use messenger on ipad. That is pretty much the end of messenger for me.
For those of you who aren't jugglers here are some interesting patterns to look at:

Mill's Mess. Once you've mastered this, you've mastered 3 balls!

https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/3balltricks/MillsMess.h...

This 5 ball multiplex is a fun one to learn - look like you are juggling 5 balls but you are only really juggling 3.

https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/5balltricks/FiveBallSpl...

Here is my favourite 4 ball pattern

https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/4balltricks/552.html

Though the difficulty rating is surely wrong - this is one of the tricks you learn on the way to juggling 5 balls and by the time you've got to 552 you are almost there.

I used to practice this pattern obsessively - the 3 different heights of throws are hard to get right but when you do the pattern clicks in and it feels great!

https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/4balltricks/534.html
Let us all cater to what annoys you.
I'm sure people will be able to vote even if their vacation pictures are unavailable
probably a billion people trying to log into gmail/youtube/whatever instead of FB.
It's explaining the motivation behind the policy choices.

You don't have to agree with the motivation or the choices for this to be helpful.

Being able to better predict both implementation of current policies and what policy choices are likely to be made going forwards is useful and the author's description of the world view driving them seems to me to be accurate.

> I doubt you actually read it.

Saying this in a conversation about denying parts of reality you don't like verges on performance art.

> you can’t convince me

Evidently, but hopefully other readers will still derive value from what I've written here.
damn you're not joking
Yes. Looking in the details the US is #1 in material goods. Financial #1 supporter is EU. And things are changing, with doubts and critics in the US and unity and wake-up calls in the EU

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...
me: wonder if there's a problem? i'll find a status site

me 2 seconds later: nah, i'll check HN

me 5 seconds later: ahh, there it is
I assumed it was a "me" issue. They really ought to put something on the login page. Then I found out my wife had been logged out too.

I started to go through the password reset process and that failed as well. Then I got here.
not only Facebook, Google loggeed me out as well, and had trouble logging back in. downdetector shows nicely that almost everything had a hickup. what are the chances of this?
Neither party's primary is in the slightest way contested, so what do you think the "bonus" is here?
Because it is not a scam. Bitcoin is a credibly neutral asset class, mathematically proven to be beyond the control of any single entity.

You might call it a scam if you lump it with other shitcoins. But that's similar to lumping NVDA with penny stocks.

Or you might associate it with fraudsters like SBF. But that's similar to lumping AAPL with Madoff or the wolf of wall street.

Or you might be objecting to its energy usage. I will agree with you on that, but that doesn't make it a scam. That just makes it a tragedy of commons. And unfortunately, investors won't give a shit about its energy usage as long as they make their dough, just like with any other investment with bad societal influences (tobacco or gambling or marijuana etc).

Finally, if you live in a stable society with a decently governed monetary policy and like the role the government plays in your life, it will be very hard for you to understand the value of Bitcoin.
It amazes me how most smartphone apps- which operate in a wireless environment of likely flaky connections, don't seem to be tested or designed at all to handle loss of connections. They tend to just become non-responsive or do erroneous things like play the first second of an audio file and then auto-pause, without reporting any errors.
> While driving the most I might want to do is adjust the temperature, and since it's not safety critical I can choose a convenient time.

I'm not sure how much I agree that temperature is not safety critical. It's relative for sure, less safety critical than breaks or transmission, but it can still impact safety in certain situations. In the city when you have a lot of red lights and stop signs, it's not a big deal to wait for the next stop. But on a free-way when you've got a ways to go before you can make a stop then uncomfortable temperature can create a distracted or nervous driver situation. I suppose you could pull over on the shoulder if it were that big of a deal, but even that isn't the safest thing to do on freeways and it's recommended to only do that if you're making an emergency stop.

In my opinion this shouldn't even have to be a big deal. The only reason we're even discussing it is because car manufacturers are moving from tactile buttons to touch screens. People are accustomed to working these types of auxiliary systems without stopping and historically have been able to do so without taking their eyes off of the road. People aren't going to stop doing those things because now they have to use a touch-screen.
Its worse than that. I used to use a cookie whitelist addon in firefox, so only a few sites could set cookies at all.

I stopped using it because if you blocked websites from setting cookies, that meant the cookie consent banner showed on every page rather than the first you viewed because the cookie consent cookie had been blocked. That made blocking cookies entirely apart from whitelisted sites impossible.
From a process/QA perspective I doubt this can ever be properly tested.

Sure you can set up a UX to show that the auth server is somehow down and discourage users from trying to login/reset passwords, but when shit hits the fan, you actually never know the precise error that gets thrown to the client because it could be any layer between the backend and the client that failed...
Seems like a big coincidence that Facebook login is down at the same time. What could be going on?
I was wondering if Google was just melting down under a tidal wave of password reset emails from FB/IG..

My gmail seems to be working fine, both personal and work.
Actually I can see this morphing into a Russia interference conspiracy.

If the main social media used by liberals goes down, while the one used by Trump (forgot what it's called) stays up, surely that is an advantage for him?
Seeing downstream effects on YouTube and mail.
Social Media is very successful in Get Out the Vote campaigns for younger people - who typically vote for one party disproportionately.
The domain reads a lot like "metastasis" which fits quite well with the social media landscape and oodles of terrible "suggested" content on Facebook in general
Seems to be related to Facebook being down. For some users, Facebook asks to log in with Google instead.
I'm just waiting for all my relatives to breathlessly call me saying "I THINK MY FACEBOOK WAS HACKED".
The primaries are pretty well decided, so I suppose the conspiracy would be "trial run".
It's probably DNS.
feels like an oauth zero day. What a time to be alive! (contain irony)
google oauth probably be getting slammed by people trying to use for facebook login
I believe much of the team that was working on the S900 left Commodore with Jack Tramiel, and were involved with the design of the Atari ST.

In particular Shiraz Shivji, who was the main designer of the ST, was part of the S900 project.

Pretty sure the S900 was effectively dead before the C128 project was even started.

And in any case the S900 was a monochrome business computer, aimed at the productivity market -- a segment Commodore later targeted with PC compatibles instead.

The C128 was targeted at consumers who wanted to run C64 games.
It sounds like you are struggling with withdrawal symptoms. I recommend a detox and get your life into order.
More logical than my tin foil hat of today being Super Tuesday and an ideal time for a foreign adversary to instil election integrity fears in the US
Yeah, and they've dug themselves a hole with having near permanent login persistence. I can't remember the last time on a computer I use frequently that I've had to log in.
If we had comparable energy prices to the USA then we would also have more manufacturing. It's almost the sole driver behind the current economic crisis.

Europe is sadly not energy independent like the USA is.

It's not economically feasible to operate a large factory in central europe any more, it's barely possible to operate a restaurant (they are closing in droves) -- energy prices are too high.
in Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety
The mathematics of siteswap are fascinating. The linked article points to the canonical Internet source for siteswap information: http://www.siteswap.org/

There you will find many articles on the subject and several varieties of the software you described to visualize or verify patterns.
And that need is not just when they say something. Watch a kid play and they are constantly looking up at the adults in the room to see if they're paying attention and interested in what they're doing. Being lost in a phone isn't great feedback when the kids look up.
logged out of fb, i sta, and msgr in NY
I think it’s really hard to get good UX by setting up
some simple rules. In the end we need good UX, however this is done.

For things like lights or wipers the solutions from the past are quite good I would say.

For things like the Tesla turn signal buttons I would actually prefer to have both buttons and the traditional stalk. Depending on the situation one is superior of the other.
How to 'decouple' emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can't
Google logged me out of an account and I had trouble logging back in. downdetector also reports Google having issues and friends also had trouble with both.
Depends on the goal.

"Save the earth", then no; it's probably the only viable one even. But quite certainly easier than cutting carbon emissions in societies that don't want to change.
"Save humans" then certainly dumb.

Both would be different vectors.
I had just added Google Authenticator as a two factor ligon for both Instagram and FB not ten min before it happened so I thought it was something got messed up when setting that up. I got a msg on FB saying session expired and tried to log back on with Unexpected error. Then thought I was hacked until my husband confirmed same on his account.
logged out of fb, insta, and msgr in NY
What are the chances this is GPT-5 that has escaped and gone rogue?

Jest aside, i wonder when/if stuff like that will actually happen.
There are so many microservices everywhere with different teams responsible, that if just one team doesn't forward errors properly it is messed up.
Were they? Do you have inside info? I have done many startups, and in none apart from one did I accept a lower salary whether as regular staff or as a founder [EDIT: to be clear: after a funding round, as a full time employee; as a founder/co-founder I've of course done work for free on the side, but with according amount of stock]. In the one where I did, I forced in a clause in the investment agreement guaranteeing us a raise after the next round.

I know it can happen, and maybe it happened here. If so that's shitty, and people will have learnt a hard-earned lesson they shouldn't have to have had.

[Also in case anyone do face this argument: as a general rule don't unless you feel like a founder and your share holding gives you good reason to; e.g. even in one of the startups I got 7.5% of on joining I was paid above my previous salary - the one case mentioned above where I was "underpaid" for 6 months, I had 25% of the shares when the company was founded]

> But the investor only demands a meager $200 million return on their $400 million investment before they recognize the workers' investments.

"The investor" here are mostly VC funds that almost certainly lost money on the return they did get, as they in turn take investments on terms that leave them with a minority of the profit after clearing certain hurdles. Given the duration from the last round and the amount of the exit, it's highly unlikely that exit cleared the hurdle, and so this likely at best did nothing towards the VC fund managers profitability either. At best it will have offset even worse investments a little bit.

The investors putting money into those VC funds again, got some returns, but lower than they would have if they hadn't taken the risk in the first place and just put the money in an index fund. If you're going to account for lower salary as a loss, then the limited partners and the general partners in the VC fund also suffered a loss by not getting the return they would have if they didn't invest in this company.

That is the risk you take when you choose to make an investment - be it in cash, or labour. Don't take those risks if you're not prepared for them.

I'm all for lots more workers rights than most people on this site would have the stomach for. But this was not a successful company. This exit was a failure. There's no realistic scenario where staff would get much - if any - return from an exit on terms as bad as this one.
That would be me, the other guy in Vancouver making a web desktop. :-)

Thanks for the mention https://www.youtube.com/@DustinBrett
On the principle that you get what you pay for, why not use the wetware NI of an experienced doctor? (who, in addition to dx, will also be able to rx)
Which one this time - BGP or DNS?

Either way, global GDP should be up :)
Bin laden is certainly true - it is documented properly and no one denies it. Funding ISIS seems to be a hoax though. Will be happy to be corrected.
My outlandish theory is foreign election interference. Not a tin foil hat guy, but being Super Tuesday the thought crossed my mind
Every outage there is a discussion about how these status pages are failing to adequately notify and describe the problem. Is there anyone out there doing it right?
Facebook and Instagram both are down
I had just added Google Authenticator as a two factor logon for both Instagram and FB not ten min before it happened so I thought it was something got messed up when setting that up. I got a msg on FB saying session expired and tried to log back on with Unexpected error. Then thought I was hacked until my husband confirmed same on his account.
I agree with the first part but the second is taking it too far. Plenty of people use Facebook messenger for communication about semi-important things. Not seeing how that would affect the primaries but it is not jsut for vacation pictures.
I have exactly this issue. Been frantically jumping around this morning dealing with perceived security issues and have no idea where my many FB resets led to.
you think Google can't scale it? I doubt.
Physical buttons can break and be permanently affected by moisture.
Tell HN: Meta Quest is unusable without Meta server running
> Keep the politics out of this please

Apart from how nonsensical it is to want to "keep politics" out of inherently political discussions: Your last comments on hacker news were about US trade policy, Navalny's treatment by Russia and the development of fringe political groups in the EU.
There isn't a single part of my life that is affected by this. Good riddance; Facebook is a psychological cancer.
Facebook and other social media platforms have played somewhat of a role in the 2016 election, for example. Meta has been under a lot of pressure for that, compare e.g. this recent Instagram change: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-ou...
If we get huge surge of "Uncommitted" votes to Biden as we did in Michigan, you can argue this can cause significant pressure on him and might even lead to his ousting...
Messenger is often used to coordinate logistics among friends. I would not be surprised if a Meta disruption lead to at least momentary confusion if someone was planning on carpooling. Not to mention it messes with "get out the vote" posting.

I'm not very conspiracy-minded but this does smell a little weird.

At the very least, "there's a big event in the country of one of our biggest userbases, maybe hold off on risky deploys until tomorrow"
Sooo like the Spotify app for the past 10 years.
The lines on DownDetector are fun.
At this point I'm suspecting "because libertardian mad libs."

Personally I'm looking forwards to my iPhone using friends no longer being second class citizens when it comes to borrowing a charger, but opinions will naturally vary.
Can't see the post, and can't login on twitter either, so probably :D