today at 9:58 PM
It seems that Meta didn't mention one aspect of their "next-generation" AI training system: their incompetent web crawler hammers websites while completely ignoring robots.txt. Meta's 57.141.0.0/24 made up about 90% of all requests to my server this past week, and it didn't stop after I blocked it. They continue to make a request every 2 seconds despite me responding with a 403 every time. Truly an engineering marvel that Meta has bestowed upon us.
today at 10:23 PM
I've blocked Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic and yet they seem to find ways to get back in. It's pretty annoying.
today at 10:09 PM
> incompetent
I think that's not incompetence, I think that's by design.
today at 10:26 PM
How? What's the incentive structure for that design? There are no extra ads to be displayed here, so how does Meta get value from that design? Seems way more likely to be incompetence in my world view. Explain why that design is superior!
today at 10:08 PM
nft add table inet filter
nft add set inet filter meta_crawl '{ type ipv4_addr; flags interval; }'
nft add element inet filter meta_crawl '{ 57.141.0.0/24 }'
nft add chain inet filter input '{ type filter hook input priority 0; }'
nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr @meta_crawl tcp dport {80,443} reject with tcp reset
today at 10:14 PM
I did finally block them at the firewall level last night. They are constantly trying to connect anyway.
today at 9:55 PM
Posting this two days before earnings seems to indicate that there is going to be some bad capex news.
today at 10:13 PM
Ya dont say.
Negative Free Cash Flow are the words every one on HN needs to learn.
Every thing before now, you will look back upon as the happy time. When every year storage, ram and compute grew and the prices went down. Your cloud provider made so much money they paid cash for hardware.
Now they borrow at 8% and net margins on ram/storage were around $0.10/GB ... today they sit at over a dollar. (SEE micron's s10's if you want to check the math on that).
Forget circular financing, its a circular firing squad because your going to have to figure out where the hell your going to run any of your gear.
4x to 10x for ram +8% for financing +30percent AWS margins. Good luck everyone its gonna get rough out there.
today at 10:26 PM
I am very lucky to have stocked up on RAM before this happened (256G) but I wished I had doubled or quadrupled that, an upgrade simply isn't going to happen now.
today at 9:25 PM
Actual title: ”Inside Prometheus: Meta’s Journey to a Gigawatt-Scale Supercluster”
today at 10:04 PM
Is this one of the pilot models they claim R&D tax credits for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921118
today at 9:18 PM
shell glob rather than RE? what's the world coming to!
today at 10:10 PM
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today at 10:04 PM
Imagine your job is just replacing millions of Dollars worth of hardware every day. I mean there must be a reason the hold 8 GPUs per rack spare.
today at 10:30 PM
Yes the reason is they're pushing the GPUs hard so that they fail, and having hot spares saves the job until helping hands can go replace the bad component.