I would love to pay for youtube premium, but i have a google workspace/apps/own-domain/whatever the hell they call it now account, and loads of stuff (like youtube premium) isn't supported.
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metabrew commented on Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice sesame.com/research/cross... · Posted by u/monroewalker
I tried the demo, but I decided to not say anything. It desperately tried to make me talk. The entire experience was bizarre and unsettling - another commenter described it as a northern Californian startup CEO’s level of strange fake enthusiasm. As a Brit, I found the level of synthetic bubbliness in the voice extremely off-putting. I’d hate to live in a world where that was the way everyone behaved in real life.
The entire thing felt like it was a hyper advanced engagement hack. Not there to achieve anything (even my enjoyment), just something to keep my attention locked on my device.
AI products in the future should have a clear objective for me as a user - what can they help me do? Some simulacrum of a person that is just there to talk to me at length is probably going to be a net negative on society. As a tech demo, this makes me afraid for the future.
Will definitely need to tone down the American Corporate Alacrity for the UK market..
metabrew commented on UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying cnn.com/2024/11/29/uk/uk-... · Posted by u/mikhael
Many opponents to the bill have been very cagey about their reasons for opposing it, and eventually admit it's for nebulous "religious reasons".
Personally I'd like the right to die with dignity if I were unfortunate enough to find myself facing horrible, imminent, certain death.
I'm glad it passed and I hope it makes it into law.
neat! any support for efficient spatial queries?
metabrew commented on Google’s smart speakers are finally smart enough to shut up theverge.com/2023/4/21/23... · Posted by u/taubek
Using Google assistant via a home mini and nest mini has generally gotten worse, not better, over the last few years. I can't wait to bin them and replace with something else that works well with home assistant and setting timers.
metabrew commented on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser play-cs.com/en/servers... · Posted by u/philosopher1234
spent so many hours playing this years ago.. great memories. too bad it doesn't seem to support inverting mouse y-axis or changing keybindings. too much muscle memory to overcome.
API for the server example looks... actually good, wow. Nice job!
Also tickled to see my erlang 1M comet blog post referenced. A lifetime ago now, pre-websockets.
metabrew commented on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today? · Posted by u/philippb
Non-cloud:
HPE sells their Apollo 4000[^1] line, which takes 60x3.5" drives - with 16TB drives, that's 960TB each machine, one rack of 10 of these is 9PB+ therefore, which nearly covers your 10PB needs. (We have some racks like this). They are not cheap. (Note: Quanta makes servers that can take 108x3.5" drive, but they need special deep racks.)
The problem here would be the "filesystem" (read: the distributed service): I don't have much experience with Ceph, and ZFS across multiple machines is nasty as far as I'm aware, but I could be wrong. HDFS would work, but the latency can be completely random there.
[^1]: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/storage/apollo-4000.html
So unless you are desperate to save money in the long run, stick to the cloud, and let someone else sweat about the filesystem level issues :)
EDIT: btw, we let the dead drives "rot": replacing them would cost more, and the failure rate is not that bad, so they stay in the machine, and we disable them in fstabs, configs, etc.
EDIT2: at 10PB HDFS would be happy; buy 3 racks of those apollos, and you're done. We started struggling at 1000+ nodes first; now, with 2400 nodes, nearly 250PB raw capacity, and literally a billion filesystem objects, we are slow as f*, so plan carefully.
When we set up user content storage of images and mp3s for Last.fm back in 2006ish we used MogileFS (from the bradfitz LJ perl days) running on our own hardware. 3/4/5/6u machines stuffed full of disks. I still think it's an elegant concept – easy to grok, easy to debug, easy to reason about. No special distributed filesystem to worry about.
Don't take this as an endorsement of the MogileFS perl codebase in 2021, but worth considering this style of storage system depending on your precise needs.
metabrew commented on Cassandra as a Service on AWS/GCP datastax.com/constellatio... · Posted by u/tjake
Interesting. Shame there's no pricing info published.
Virgin Media is an ISP, for those who don't know.
Perhaps more shockingly, they have a maximum password length of 10 characters, and the first character must be a letter.
first character has to be a letter... are they storing them unquoted in yaml files?