How very DPRK of them.
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CrzyLngPwd commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi
This is an industry we're[0] in. Owning is at one end of the spectrum, with cloud at the other, and a broadly couple of options in-between:
1 - Cloud – This is minimising cap-ex, hiring, and risk, while largely maximising operational costs (its expensive) and cost variability (usage based).
2 - Managed Private Cloud - What we do. Still minimal-to-no cap-ex, hiring, risk, and medium-sized operational cost (around 50% cheaper than AWS et al). We rent or colocate bare metal, manage it for you, handle software deployments, deploy only open-source, etc. Only really makes sense above €$5k/month spend.
3 - Rented Bare Metal – Let someone else handle the hardware financing for you. Still minimal cap-ex, but with greater hiring/skilling and risk. Around 90% cheaper than AWS et al (plus time).
4 - Buy and colocate the hardware yourself – Certainly the cheapest option if you have the skills, scale, cap-ex, and if you plan to run the servers for at least 3-5 years.
A good provider for option 3 is someone like Hetzner. Their internal ROI on server hardware seems to be around the 3 year mark. After which I assume it is either still running with a client, or goes into their server auction system.
Options 3 & 4 generally become more appealing either at scale, or when infrastructure is part of the core business. Option 1 is great for startups who want to spend very little initially, but then grow very quickly. Option 2 is pretty good for SMEs with baseline load, regular-sized business growth, and maybe an overworked DevOps team!
[0] https://lithus.eu, adam@
#2.5ish
We rent hardware and also some VPS, as well as use AWS for cheap things such as S3 fronted with Cloudflare, and SES for priority emails.
We have other services we pay for, such as AI content detection, disposable email detection, a small postal email server, and more.
We're only a small business, so having predictable monthly costs is vital.
Our servers are far from maxed out, and we process ~4 million dynamic page and API requests per day.
> Work brings dignity and purpose to people’s lives.
Speak for yourself! For me, and in my experience many others, work is a necessary evil. I’ve experienced more indignities in the workplace than anywhere else (though fortunately not as consistently as some people), and the thought of work being my life’s purpose is too bleak to entertain. I’m very happy for those who have a more positive experience, but some of us don’t fit so well.
Agreed.
Humans were never meant to work to line the pockets of billionaires who see us as mere speed bumps on the path to their personal success.
Work is an obscene use of intellect.
Smash the looms, people before profit!
If it can be automated, it will be, and there is no avoiding it, since the people with the robots and the automation care only about profit, nothing more.
We, little people, are merely annoyances, and the sooner they can be done with us, the better.
I don't understand the downvotes. This is an accurate description of the food I get in german supermarkets at least.
Same here in the UK.
Being downvoted for stating the facts is very common on HN.
Most food in supermarkets is now just slop. Foam for bread, veggies that have been grown as fast as possible and packaged as fresh despite being weeks or months old, sprayed with chemicals and shipped halfway around the world, meat raised in a shed and fed one food, which is then injected with water to increase it's weight, freerange eggs that were laid 6 weeks ago and have had their protective layer washed off so must be refrigerated...and on it goes.
CrzyLngPwd commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
I'd argue 2 types of users are
* People using it as a tool, aware of its limitations and treating it basically as intern/boring task executor (whether its some code boilerplate, or pooping out/shortening some corporate email), or as tool to give themselves summary of topic they can then bite into deeper.
* People outsourcing thinking and entire skillset to it - they usually have very little clue in the topic, are interested only in results, and are not interested in knowing more about the topic or honing their skills in the topic
The second group is one that thinks talking to a chatbot will replace senior developer
I agree, but there is a creeping issue of where the first group may delve deeper into a topic if all they/we have is an increasingly polluted internet.
CrzyLngPwd commented on How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users blog.algomaster.io/p/scal... · Posted by u/olayiwoladekoya
Echoing what others have said about the numbers being off.
I ran a 10k user classic ASP service on a VPS from Fasthosts, with MySQL 5.6 and Redis, and it was awesome.
If only we could find a way to blame Putin for this.
Take all jobs? Yes.
End human history? No.