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EwanTooon Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Using more tokens is a significant problem if you pay per token?

EwanTooon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Yes, the largest regions get new services launched in them first, and the widest range of hardware, encouraging more people to use them.

EwanTooon AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Yes, it's exactly the same price

EwanTooon Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

As a Google user in a household of iPhones, my opinion is Gemini on android is radically better than Siri.

EwanTooon How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

I think a more interesting article on S3 is "Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3"

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-op...

EwanTooon As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried

No, they're not removing ADB install capabilities

EwanTooon Google restricts Android sideloading

Is this not from 2024?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/google-starts-blocking-use...

EwanTooon Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

This blog post appears to be part of the scheduled launch marketing, it's now generally available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-dsql-is-now-g...

EwanTooon Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire

You need a license from Microsoft to resell Windows licenses as an OEM.

US sanctions against Huawei mean that they can't sign a renewal.

EwanTooon How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

It's now over 300 million subscribers, as you say they're doing OK.

https://ir.netflix.net/investor-news-and-events/financial-re...

EwanTooon Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th

Deleting it from the public site doesn't mean they're not keeping it for internal use...

EwanTooon New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

If you request this, AWS requires:

"After your move away from AWS services, within the 60-day period, you must delete all remaining data and workloads from your AWS account, or you can close your AWS account."

So egress charges are still a significant problem.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Data_transfer_fees_when_mov...

EwanTooon Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork

It's realistically for the handful (dozens at most?) of very large Riak implementations where it would be enormously expensive to rewrite the application running on top of it.

For example, the UK NHS Spine messaging system which has been building on Riak for 10 years

https://riak.com/posts/press/nhs-launches-upgraded-it-backbo...

EwanTooon You'll own nothing and be happy- Jaguar Land Rover now offer a car subscription

This is just car leasing as far as I can tell?

What's interesting about it?

EwanTooon We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

Laughable, but accurate.

Google for example does exactly this.

EwanTooon UK's Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily, source says

More useful link https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/19/yacht-...

EwanTooon How we migrated Gov.uk notify to AWS elastic container service

It's pretty common, all the biggest clouds are USA or China owned.

In the UK government services go through information security classification to determine what level of security is needed, with the most confidential stuff still being self-hosted.

I assume most countries operate that way.

EwanTooon DARPA unveils 6 new designs for uncrewed vertical-takeoff military aircraft

I see the images too. Perhaps people with ad blockers?

EwanTooon Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies

The car company can share the details based on the chassis VIN number rather than driver details.

Then the insurance company grabs the vehicle registration number when you ask for a quote and looks up the VIN on their side based on a security database to prevent resale of stolen cars or similar.

Anonymous data becomes identifiable data...

EwanTooon Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

None of the low cost providers that I'm aware of support SMS or a phone number in general.

EwanTooon Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

When I travel, I normally just buy an esim from Mobimatter, there's various equivalent services that do the same.

The cost for a 30 day / 25GB sim that works in dozens of countries is $22. I think at that rate, $1.95 per day doesn't feel particularly exceptional?

https://mobimatter.com/esim-united-states

EwanTooon Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

Writing was definitely designed by right handed people!

There is some hope though, I've not found a nice fountain pen experience but there's some gel pens which are pretty hard to make smudge.

I use these:

Uni-Ball Jetstream Sport SXN-150S Ballpoint Gel Pens. Premium 1.0mm Rollerball Tip. https://amzn.eu/d/6mVJHLS

EwanTooon Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?

If this is the first time you'd to be responsible for budgets, working with the board, finance teams, HR, etc, then I'd recommend a general business management book like "The Personal MBA" to give you an introduction to the concepts and language that those teams will use.

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume https://amzn.eu/d/dTAp1GF

EwanTooon Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review

The Airbus case didn't finish as your comment might suggest, both sides have agreed to resume working together.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-qa...

EwanTooon Cybertruck Launch

Twice the weight of the Tesla model 3 which is 1800kg, it's pretty extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3

EwanTooon Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

I have a similar probably false memory of schematics having copyrighted writing embedded in them so the layout can't be reproduced without a breach of copyright.

EwanTooon Topic: Discord Stealer

You can then steal their account balance and any items you have.

EwanTooon WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says

It says something about the past few years that large established companies started renting premium space in WeWork buildings so they could imagine that they were a 2 person shop renting a 6'x8' office!

EwanTooon WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says

It's unlikely to go into liquidation and actually shut down.

This bankruptcy is about renegotiating and possibly exiting leases where they're not making money, and pushing that loss onto the building owners instead.

There will be fewer WeWork locations, but the company will still exist.