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20 Years of Amazon S3

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25 Years of Wikipedia

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Generative UI: LLMs Are Effective UI Generators

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Life next to 199 data centres

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ChatGPT Atlas

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easton
·14 gün önce·discuss
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 your config and pull your containers into it.

(that article matches things I heard from Amazon when I asked why my stuff is slow)
easton
·16 gün önce·discuss
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)
easton
·27 gün önce·discuss
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 to their inputs.
easton
·28 gün önce·discuss
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
easton
·geçen ay·discuss
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.”
easton
·geçen ay·discuss
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.
easton
·geçen ay·discuss
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 put in a global endpoint like with Claude (or OpenAI directly) then it’ll probably match the direct pricing, if the pattern holds.

(https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/, scroll to OpenAI)
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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).
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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 could’ve had the car on its way.
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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...

There’s a bunch of caveats but it’s worth enabling if you’re changing dns all the time (as most AWS networking doodads like to do).
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
It’s a joke because all of the AI systems du jour are non deterministic and people are putting them in important places anyway.
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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 stickers on device without blowing a hole in the battery, make me a chip for that”.)
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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).
easton
·2 ay önce·discuss
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.
easton
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 back before continuing).

I think it’s designed for things like Terraform or CloudFormation where you might not realize the state machine decided your database needed to be replaced until it’s too late.
easton
·3 ay önce·discuss
They should also order the comments in order of recency top to bottom so you have to read the page in reverse.
easton
·3 ay önce·discuss
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 other people are along for the ride (unless the idea is the designers are being replaced with a PM+Claude.)
easton
·3 ay önce·discuss
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
easton
·4 ay önce·discuss
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time.
easton
·4 ay önce·discuss
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 without even a glint of self awareness on their face. They must've picked the only people on the team that could say that without laughing.