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by easton 17d ago
Side note: why are shallow clones evil? I always thought they were cheaper, but I guess that’s really just for my disk space. (since the server has to compute what blobs to give you instead of just “everything”?)
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by easton 1mo ago
Requiring that you believe those companies that they won’t hand the keys over to the US at the first ask. Like, the critical problem with the AWS sovereign pitch is that you must believe that they won’t give the keys to the US, and they als
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by easton 1mo ago
The most fun one is the Metro stations near the Pentagon, where often the ads will be for fighter jet engine upgrades. They must work, because they're buying the ad space for about three relevant people.
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by easton 2mo ago
The company line has been that they expect you to have your own backups in a region outside of the Middle East or you’re hosed until they can turn the (now destroyed) buildings back on. I wonder if AWS even has the capacity to keep an entir
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by easton 2mo ago
> One recounted a tragicomic anecdote from a T.G.I.F. meeting on International Women’s Day, when a Googler had asked Larry and Sergey to name some of their personal female heroes. ..and they couldn’t just say “Grace Hopper”? These people
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Logging in to Use Old Reddit(old.reddit.com)
10 points by easton 3mo ago|0 comments
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by easton 3mo ago
Counterpoint: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi... And also, you’ll notice that Fargate takes minutes to launch while Lambda takes a second or less. You’re waiting on AWS to launch a EC2 with
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by easton 3mo ago
Guessing it’s reading the system color scheme, because on my phone it’s white text on black. (on iOS with dark mode enabled system wide)
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by easton 3mo ago
Feels like AWS could just tell them they’re not launching Fable then. Anthropic needs them more than the opposite, no? Nobody who is a big Bedrock customer will ditch for another cloud provider for the privilege of having anthropic hold on
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by easton 3mo ago
A company with different taste would redo that apple ad from the Power Mac era: “this model has been classified a munition”. https://youtu.be/l2ThMmgQdpE
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by easton 3mo ago
I think that’s by AWS though. For Fable you need to flip an account wide flag that says “I want to share my prompts with the model vendor.”
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by easton 3mo ago
If you have an Apple TV it can use an iPhone as a camera for FaceTime (you put it under your TV temporarily). Works great, presuming you already have some other reason to have the hardware.
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by easton 4mo ago
The AWS pricing page says 10% more than OpenAI, which is probably because they’re forcing all inference through the US and data residency is at a 10% premium from the model vendors for whatever reason (because you’ll pay for it). If they pu
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by easton 4mo ago
I always thought it was a joke on the python xkcd: https://xkcd.com/353/ (Which, interestingly, also appears if you type “import antigravity” at the python repl).
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by easton 4mo ago
Are people in the habit of asking their admin to order a pizza or a Uber? There’s more complex things (the floor I think is booking a flight that doesn’t conflict with activities I have to do), but by time you summon your assistant you coul
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by easton 4mo ago
They actually kind of fixed this recently, you can ask them to move your route53 control plane to another region in the event of us-east-1 breaking: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/ac
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by easton 5mo ago
It’s a joke because all of the AI systems du jour are non deterministic and people are putting them in important places anyway.
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by easton 5mo ago
I think they built the NPU with whatever models they needed to run on the iPhone in mind vs trying to build a general purpose chip, and then got lucky it was also useful for LLMs. (Like “I want to do object detection for cutting people into
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by easton 5mo ago
It forces you to pay at least $20 in tokens per user even for people who use less (they probably have stats on how many people use just autocomplete, which doesn’t count against the quota. or have a seat and don’t use the service at all).
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by easton 5mo ago
Isn’t that an “API product”? I read this assuming the whole point of renegotiation was to let OpenAI sell raw inference via bedrock, but that still seems to be blocked except for selling to the US Government.
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by easton 5mo ago
AWS actually has a thingy on some services called “deletion protection” to prevent automation from accidentally wiping resources the user didn’t want it to (you set the bit, and then you need to make a separate api request to flip the bit b
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by easton 5mo ago
They should also order the comments in order of recency top to bottom so you have to read the page in reverse.
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by easton 5mo ago
The developer seats are read-only, so they rely on designer seats existing to actually create files to inspect for development (and I’d guess PMs are using figma because designers are using figma). If designers still want Figma then the oth
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by easton 5mo ago
Apple had a commercial about this a million years ago, where a guy decides to edit a video on a plane. https://youtu.be/LQWjxAdSsHE
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20 Years of Amazon S3(aws.amazon.com)
13 points by easton 6mo ago|0 comments
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by easton 6mo ago
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time .
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by easton 7mo ago
Not only that, but due to their pattern of putting letters after the version number the current version is Oracle AI Database "26ai". I skimmed the video and the presenters said "Oracle AI Database 26ai" multiple times w
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by easton 7mo ago
What's going on here? There's a AI generated song in a youtube video, but it was posted yesterday and this bot is here today. Did someone have future sight of what today's HN post was going to be?
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by easton 7mo ago
Memory increase to 12GB, guess they still have reasonable pricing.
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by easton 7mo ago
It depends on the service if things move gracefully or not. The incident explains it's only EC2 (and dependent services) in that AZ, so if they try to route traffic for services hosted on EC2 to that AZ it's not working (and custo

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