Also can't logged into my openAI account. Not saying is related, but timing is weird.
if you are logging in with facebook account that might be the reason
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That's the standard HN experience, this site runs on a single core I believe.
Does it really or is this a joke? Edit: I found the following, I wonder if it's still the case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
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They also do not refund spend during this time typically so wouldn't be a 1:1
They don't? I've worked in ad tech at some smaller places and we absolutely refunded spend during outages.
That's because they were some smaller places.
When you've more-or-less monopolized a lot of the web's content sharing you get to tell your clients to pound sand. Where else they gonna go? Twitter? The incel white supremacist dollar is not what advertisers call "the good dollar".
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#504Who thinks Meta pushed to prod without testing?
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Does it really or is this a joke? Edit: I found the following, I wonder if it's still the case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
It's real. Single core performance improves all the time. People overestimate how much power it takes to handle lots of queries per second on a well-tuned system and well-written software in 2024. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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I panicked the same. Even when I tried to recover my password, it said my email address wasn't associated to any account. I thought I lost it forever
That's the natural endgame of the "user-facing services must not stop, if something they depend upon stops, they must only degrade" philosophy.
I heard for a while Netflix would fail open if auth was unavailable. Like it’s just movies just let em see it.
Facebook data is more sensitive. Not so much the data people go there to see, cool memes that their friends liked, but the list of friends and interests.
Other places I worked had the ability for Ops to push out a change saying the site was down for maintenance. After a while we stopped using it and just took the hit of a bunch of 5xx errors. Basically when the planned down times became shorter than the time to propagate the down setting.
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Yup. That it’s related to the elections is also predictable, due to stress. Made worse in big corp due to affirmative action + lack of enough qualified candidates meeting diversity criteria. Which is inevitable when you have coarse criteria applied to such a large industry this way so quickly, as it takes decades for anyone to be qualified for the senior roles, and many years for junior/mid level, even if there were…
Blaming an outage on DEI... Man that's a new one for me. Could you let us know where you work? I want to make sure I never apply there.
Bwahaha, just wait until you see the shrapnel flying over the next year.
You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?
I’ve seen the sausage being made at the middle manager level in big corp for a long time. It’s never any one person/hiring decision, but the pattern and it’s impact has been obvious (and getting unavoidable) for a long time.
That no one seems to want to talk about the actual issues, but doing character assassination and black listing (like this comment) is part and parcel of the problem.