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Is there any scaffolding or harness runnning around the model on the cloud/server side? Seems like there's a lot of opportunity to make changes/improvements without making your cus…

CDOs and SPVs have two things in common: They're acronyms and they are financial engineering. Maybe this time it will be different?

Ed mostly avoids talking about LLMs and instead talks about money.

EC2 is more scalable than your wallet. What do you need Kubernetes for?

Amazon / AWS is very efficient at it. They are the largest cloud by a significant margin. Much larger than Hetzner. Google and MS may be close behind. Not sure about Meta but they …

EC2 may have higher margins than that. But your point stands, ain't no way xAI competing in that game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS Both the US and China have newer more advanced capabilities than a 50 year old system... > [SOSUS] was the primary cuing system that antisubmari…

Nuclear weapons are a deterrent against somebody invading the US (or another NATO country) but that doesn't make conventional forces not a deterrent against other kinds of aggressi…

Where you say AWS, you mean "a single AWS region" But anyway, from your YCombinator blurb: "When you’re done editing data, it automatically flows back to S3 within a few minutes" D…

The statistics can be found in the public earnings of AWS vs the companies that would get paid for on-prem workloads (Equinix, Dell/HP/IBM, Intel etc).

Amazon loves it when you run idle EC2 instances ($$$) rather than using Lambda. Most real workloads I've seen (at 3 startups, and several teams at Amazon) have utilization under 10…

Meanwhile, from Q3 Amazon earnings: * AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion. That means AWS brought in $4.3 BILLION more dollars in Q3 2024 vs 2023. That'…

This post itself is glorified marketing. I don't know what to call it, something like 'title hacking'. I have no idea what the OPs company does, but I do agree with the title.

Yes, indeed HN is glorified marketing and networking for YC :) But I think a16z has spent a lot more time and money on their marketing efforts, especially as it relates to crypto. …

If you have one of the metal instance types, then you get the whole host, e.g. i4i.metal: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4i/

I don't want to justify much, if any, of the behaviour of the incel/redpill crowd but... For me several years passed between thinking 'I would like to lose my virginity' and said e…

Somebody didn't believe me that I thought (based on LinkedIn) that there were over 50k AWS employees in 2020. According to this article, there are over 100k AWS employeees now!

They just... don't retire them? The most expensive thing in a DC is the chips, so it's worth it to just build more datacenter space and keep the old ones around. In 2019, before I …

Coinbase and Kraken are not registered as banks, and do not offer FDIC insured accounts. > Do banks require SEC registration to offer interest-bearing Non-Security Deposit products…

> For what its worth, banks don't just co-mingle customer funds, they invest those funds on their own behalf and reap the profits for themselves. And that is why banks are regulate…

I don't think the piece is arguing that it's fraud, just that it's bad (for investors), maybe immoral.

From memory, the regionalization project ran from approx 2014 to 2015 or 2016. There were also other reasons given, like the amount of internal software that used e.g. IPv4 address…

This is what many 'serial entrepeneurs' already do.

Presumably part of the appeal of a small reactor is it's cost. If you're trying to do things on a budget, then there's smaller budget for safety.