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count commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning

kotaKat · 2 months ago

Curious thought - will they be shutting down other “just walk out” powered stuff like Hudson Nonstops in airports?

I also know some Amazon warehouses had an entire Just Walk Out powered concessions area in their breakroom for purchasing snacks in partnership with one of their canteen vendors.

count · 2 months ago

Nah, they're still actively selling/implementing the backing service/tech for other orgs.

count commented on Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads carolinacloud.io/... · Posted by u/bojangleslover

bojangleslover · 3 months ago

We don't have on-demand API-based bare metal provisioning right now. Sorry if that is misleading on the website. Our bare metal is OTC right now (over the counter).

For the rest of our provisioning (VM and container) I wrote the software myself. It's based on a Django app called the "master" that hosts the console and keeps track of who has rented what etc + a bunch of "host" nodes that listen for instructions from the "master". Pure python, the only thing that's in Go is the CLI.

I looked into Proxmox but ultimately decided I wanted full control. ZFS storage from Proxmox is something I do sometimes wish we had — going to offer s3-compatible storage very soon but I know Proxmox does ZFS out of the box really well.

count · 3 months ago

How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

count commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

monooso · 4 months ago

> AWS and Cloudflare don't actually experience more downtime, it's just a bigger story when they are down because so many people use them.

This may be true over a long enough timeframe, but GP stated that their clients had experienced no downtime since switching at the start of the year.

That is clearly better than both AWS and Cloudflare during that time.

count · 4 months ago

My clients (extremely large) AWS based infrastructure experienced no downtime this year. So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

I don't use cloud flare for anything, so no comment there.

count commented on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws csoonline.com/article/407... · Posted by u/zdw

zelphirkalt · 5 months ago

Hahaha, how stupid must anyone be to deploy SharePoint anywhere near anything of national security relevance! How can it still be a thing, that anyone entrusted with such sensitive matter dates to even touch MS products of the kind of SharePoint? That includes the complete MS Office 365 disaster suite, MS Teams and Edge.

Sounds like they need to seriously redesign their security policies.

count · 5 months ago

I have some reaallllly bad news for you on that front.

count commented on AWS Service Availability Updates aws.amazon.com/about-aws/... · Posted by u/dabinat

ayende · 5 months ago

Amazon Glacier on the list is a pretty big surprise to me.

count · 5 months ago

Same capability is now just a storage class in S3.

count commented on Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty github.com/obsidianmd/obs... · Posted by u/twapi

chatmasta · 6 months ago

I only briefly glanced at your project, but it doesn’t look like a commercial offering or a component of one… what is your motivation for paying people to do this work? I would think bounties would be used more often by companies who need some open source feature for interoperability or integration purposes…

count · 6 months ago

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

count commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

wolrah · 7 months ago

> - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline)

No they're not. Nothing that mandates vertical video has ever been fine nor ever will be. Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, all bad and should be destroyed.

Unless the action is primarily vertical, which is rarely ever the case, it's always been and always will be wrong.

Yes I will die on this hill. Videos that are worse to watch on everything but a phone and have bad framing for most content are objectively bad.

There is nothing wrong with the concept of short videos of course, but this "built for phones, sucks for everything else" trash needs to go away.

count · 7 months ago

“Everything but a phone” is a tiny tiny percentage of the devices used to consume content on YouTube. It’s not just mobile first, it’s basically only mobile…

count commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

lysace · 7 months ago

At this scale it may make sense to run your own mini data centers?

count · 7 months ago

There’s lots of those too.

count commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

mdaniel · 7 months ago

If you're pushing 10 mil per month through AWS, I pray you have some bitcoin miners hidden in that spend. The mind reels

count · 7 months ago

Multiple large scale SAP S4/HANA workloads wasting electrons…

count commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

lysace · 7 months ago

I still get strong Hyderabad vibes from the copy/pasting plus the occasional original sentence.

Perhaps they trained the LLM using that data though.

(Small customer though: yearly AWS spend around 80k. Support is 10% of that.)

count · 7 months ago

TAMs are super hit and miss. We’ve had great ones (hi Nick!) and not so great ones. ($7-10M/mo customer AWS spend, support is a complicated sliding scale % of that, gogo ES!). Non-ES at smaller customers has been universally useless, except at quota increases.

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KarmaCake day3175August 31, 2009View Original