drawnwren

I’m so confused by this comment. Are you not aware that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is currently considered the best model?

fwiw, T-Mobile also have the 90 days restriction. I'm not entirely sure it's a company policy vs a US policy.

(Apologies for the snark, someone else made a short snarky comment that I felt was also wrong and I thought this thread was in reply to them before I typed it out -- thank you for the reply)

- ALBs -- yeah this is correct. However ALBs have much longer startup/health check times than Envoy/Traefik

- Cloudwatch - this is true, however the "configurable" behavior makes cloudwatch trash out of the box. you get i.e. exceptions split across multiple log entries with the default configure

- ECS tasks - yep, but the failure behavior of tasks is horrible because there're no notifications out of the box (you can configure it)

- Fargate does allow you to avoid maintenance, however it has some very hairy edges like i.e. you can't use any container that expects to know its own ip address on a private vpc without writing a custom script. Networking in general is pretty arcane on Fargate and you're going to have to manually write and maintain the breakages from all this

> You might be able to do the same with Kubernetes, but your control plane will be out of date, your OSes will have many missed security updates. Might even need a major version update to the next LTS. Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Promtail will be behind. Your helm charts will be revisions behind. Newer ones might depend on newer apiVersions that your control plane won't support until you update it. And don't forget to update your CNI plugin across your cluster, too.

I think maybe you haven't used K8S in years. Karpenter, EKS, + a GitOps (Flux or Argo) makes you get the same machine maintenance feeling as ECS but on K8S without any of the annoyances of dealing with ECS. All your app versions can be pinned or set to follow latest as you prefer. You get rolling updates each time you switch machines (same as ECS, and if you really want to you can run on top of Fargate).

By contrast, if your ECS/Fargate instance fails you haven't mentioned any notifications in your list -- so if you forgot to configure and test that correctly, your ECS could legitimately be stuck on a version of your app code that is 3 years old and you might not know if you haven't inspected the correct part of amazon's arcane interface.

By the way, you're paying per use for all of this.

At the end of the day, I think modern Kubernetes is strictly simpler, cheaper, and better than ECS/Fargate out of the box and has the benefit of not needing to rely on 20 other AWS specific services that each have their own unique ways of failing and running a bill up if you forget to do "that one simple thing everyone who uses this niche service should know".

I’m not sure which services you think were named that solve the problems I mentioned, but none were. You’re welcome to go read about them, I do this for a living.

Genuine question: how are you handling load balancing, log aggregation, failure restart + readiness checks, deployment pipelines, and machine maintenance schedules with these “simple” setups?

Because as annoying as getting the prometheus + loki + tempo + promtail stack going on k8s is —- I don’t really believe that writing it from scratch is easier.

I think at the end of the day, I have a bunch of config files and commands. Showing a quick translation between the spaghetti and your solution would make the most sense. The less language I have to parse the better.

i.e. you have a set of kubernetes CRDs probably managed by a gitops solution -> we do this for you, you have a bunch of different pyproject.toml files that need to be orchestrated into a docker container -> this is what that looks like in release, tbh our terraform isn't a huge bottleneck because so much just ends up going in the kube crds.

maybe have two pitches: 1 for startups getting started and 1 for startups who already have a lot of this figured out (probably your bigger target audience if you have a strong pitch)

I'm pretty much exactly your target market. I run a kubernetes, docker, poetry devops hell at an ml startup and was curious how your product helped. You got about 2 minutes of my time. I scanned your website, I have no idea what you do or whether you fix my problem.

Not trying to be negative, but I think there may be a 30 second pitch to be made to people like me that isn't made on your site.

You know an area is fucked when people start trying to blame the victims for the crime.

I’d be willing to be good money you couldn’t take the bus out of the old X headquarters at 11pm for a month straight and not get robbed at least once. I got robbed twice in the 3 months I worked in the TL.

This reasoning for fintech is mostly wrong. The people who have alpha and are trading are very rarely the people who have data engineering and infrastructure skills.

Your hypothesis is essentially that Bloomberg, as a company, doesn't make sense.

hahaha so I got ycpmbinator too. For me, it’s only on mobile but I always miss the o.

Well if you use firefox focus on mobile, you don’t get the autosuggest.

At $0.99 a year for each ycmpbinator and ycpmbinator, and the way inflation is going — I think I should be saving over $10k a day by the early 30s.

Yeah, it was extraordinarily far, which is why I remember the conversation. But he drove up to SF and slept in his car for the weekend because the trips were a lot more valuable here.

When was the last time you had an Uber driver that actually lived in San Francisco? Most of the drivers I talk to were driving in, from as far away as San Diego.

I think one of the core features of a bubble is that the median market participant loses money. I think that definitely occurred in 1999. I don't think it has occurred in 2024.

I'm not convinced it will happen either. Venture Capital operates on a business model that is really hard for human intuition to deal with. 1/1000 success rates require so few break out successes that, yes -- they can fund an entire sector that will, with extremely high probability, fail and still be profitable.

FYI: your page is just dead for me. I was curious what you were doing, but all your examples and the search box itself just lead to "Something went wrong with your request. You have nothing to worry about, please try again in a moment."

Yeah, I'm not arguing whether that's right or wrong.

It just doesn't matter. Vim is objectively faster. I don't care how many millions of dollars or pl optimizations my editor has. I care how quickly it works.

This reads like the sort of academic engineering that I hate working around. You ask great questions for research, but the truth of the matter is quite simple.

You can just open both editors next to each other and ask how they are. For me, it's trivial to see that vim is at least an oom faster than VSCode. I don't need to profile or show test coverage. I can just use it and it works. Even if they were about the same speed, the less-than-perfect vim mode implementation always takes too much time out of my editing flow.

Occasionally, an ide will have such a great curated experience that I'll use it for something specific -- but the general case is a no contest for me.

You’ve assumed that the customers in developed nations are primarily fixed installations. Starlink is wildly popular with the rv/sailboat/second home crowd.

I also wouldn’t be betting on US terrestrial internet providers to outcompete anything.

I'm not clear what you're arguing against, but you seem to be making an argument about a previous election and not a future one.

Do you believe that Russia benefits equally from the election of either candidate this time around?

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_assassinations

Yeah, everyone made this a comment about a specific candidate. But objectively one candidate is pro-supporting Ukraine and one is against it this time around. Regardless of your prior beliefs, Putin benefits far more from a specific candidate this time around.

And they have repeatedly been caught meddling directly in Western countries (see i.e. multiple assassinations in the West).

Interestingly, when I use Cloudflare's Warp DNS I don't have access to it. So, it might have something to do w/ region as well?

The original question asked if anyone had GPT-4o. You're asking a different question.

It is. I've got it already, but I'm a bit of a gpt4 power user. I hit my rate limit biweekly or so and run up close to it every day. I'd bet maybe they prioritized people that were costing them money.

Computer power is not stagnating, but the availability of training data is. It's not like there's a second stackoverflow or reddit to scrape.

This isn't really correct. Blue Force had already repurposed it as an autonomous weapons system and it was originally developed as a sparring partner for fighter jets (it was far more capable than just being a target).

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/unmanned-flying-te...

It sounds like your two options are to either charge the max to all guests and the expense of less bookings or to take the loss on the extremely dirty outliers and expect it to be made up by the extremely tidy outliers.

I think their point of view would be that they’re selling a global product and the value of serving a market needs to exceed the cost of the peculiarities of serving it.

Maybe there’s a complex solution here, but the naive one of global compliance to local demands needs an evaluation of cost vs reward. There’s also the somewhat possible concern that the EU might actually just be hostile to Apple and cutting losses now against possible future losses makes sense. (Again, remember we’re presuming order of magnitude increases in fines).

what are their margins? an $18B fine starts to make it seem possible that it would be profitable to not sell there.

To be fair, python package management is in such a poor state that I would expect any outside opinion to not be worse.