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Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by fragmede »

andai wrote: post #54
clktmr wrote: post #49

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software. Economists would call this an instance of Jevons paradox. Each of us will write more programs, for fun and for work. There is already so much software out there, which isn't used by anyone. Just take a look at any appstore. I don't understand why we are so obsessed with cranking out even more, whereas the obvious usecase for LLMs s…

Alas, we shifted from quality to quantity somewhere in the mid 19th century.

For software?

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by AussieWog93 »

skybrian wrote: post #56
clktmr wrote: post #49

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software. Economists would call this an instance of Jevons paradox. Each of us will write more programs, for fun and for work. There is already so much software out there, which isn't used by anyone. Just take a look at any appstore. I don't understand why we are so obsessed with cranking out even more, whereas the obvious usecase for LLMs s…

Sometimes “better” means “customized for my specific use case.” I expect that there will be a lot of custom software that never appears in any app store.

This. Just today I added a full on shopping list system to our internal dashboard at work (small business) simply because it was slightly annoying and could be solved in 3 prompts and 15 minutes.

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by LoganDark »

farfatched wrote: post #19

Nice post. exe.dev is a cool service that I enjoyed. I agree there is opportunity in making LLM development flows smooth, paired with the flexibility of root-on-a-Linux-machine. > Time and again I have said “this is the one” only to be betrayed by some half-assed, half-implemented, or half-thought-through abstraction. No thank you. The irony is that this is my experience of Tailscale. Finally, networking made easy. O…

I find it difficult to configure Tailscale for my use case because they seem to completely not support making ACL rules based on the identity of the device rather than a part of the address space. I'm not configuring a router here, I'm configuring a peer-to-peer networking layer... or at least I'm supposed to be...

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by skybrian »

47872324 wrote: post #21

exe.dev. 111 IN A 52.35.87.134 52.35.87.134 <- Amazon Technologies Inc. (AT-88-Z)

Their first location (PDX) is on Amazon I believe and not accepting new customers. They’ve said it’s much more expensive for them than the others. Their other locations are listed here:

https://exe.dev/docs/regions

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by spockz »

LoganDark wrote: post #63
farfatched wrote: post #19

Nice post. exe.dev is a cool service that I enjoyed. I agree there is opportunity in making LLM development flows smooth, paired with the flexibility of root-on-a-Linux-machine. > Time and again I have said “this is the one” only to be betrayed by some half-assed, half-implemented, or half-thought-through abstraction. No thank you. The irony is that this is my experience of Tailscale. Finally, networking made easy. O…

I find it difficult to configure Tailscale for my use case because they seem to completely not support making ACL rules based on the identity of the device rather than a part of the address space. I'm not configuring a router here, I'm configuring a peer-to-peer networking layer... or at least I'm supposed to be...

I remember from the docs you can use node names. At the very least you can use tags for sure. Assign tags to nodes and define the ACL based on those.

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by faangguyindia »

stingraycharles wrote: post #2

Potentially useful context: OP is one of the cofounders of Tailscale. > Traditional Cloud 1.0 companies sell you a VM with a default of 3000 IOPS, while your laptop has 500k. Getting the defaults right (and the cost of those defaults right) requires careful thinking through the stack. I wish them a lot of luck! I admire the vision and am definitely a target customer, I'm just afraid this goes the way things always go…

i was just curious so i tested this actually.

Using fio

Hetzner (cx23, 2vCPU, 4 GB) ~3900 IOPS (read/write) ~15.3 MB/s avg latency ~2.1 ms 99.9th percentile ≈ ~5 ms max ≈ ~7 ms

DigitalOcean (SFO1 / 2 GB RAM / 30 GB Disk) ~3900 IOPS (same!) ~15.7 MB/s (same!) avg latency ~2.1 ms (same!) 99.9th percentile ≈ ~18 ms max ≈ ~85 ms (!!)

using sequential dd

Hetzner: 1.9 GB/s DO: 850 MB/s

Using low end plan on both but this Hetzner is 4 euro and DO instance is $18.

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by pelasaco »

Such statement is so off:

"In some tech circles, that is an unusual statement. (“In this house, we curse computers!”) I get it, computers can be really frustrating. But I like computers. I always have. It is really fun getting computers to do things. Painful, sure, but the results are worth it. Small microcontrollers are fun, desktops are fun, phones are fun, and servers are fun, whether racked in your basement or in a data center across the world. I like them all."

The reality: Everyone reading his blog or this HN entry loves computers.

Re: I am building a cloud

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Post by skybrian »

z3t4 wrote: post #17

You can run several VM's or containers with isolation on your phone hardware, why even use the cloud when you just want to show your friends?

For me it’s so my coding agent keeps running when I close my laptop lid and it goes to sleep. VM in the cloud because I’m too lazy to set up a computer to be running as a server all the time.
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