Last time I checked the standard SLA is actually 99 % and the only compensation you get for downtime is a refund. Which is why I don't use AWS for anything mission critical.
What do you do if not AWS?
Readit Newssystemvoltage commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
systemvoltage commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
workos is down too, timing is highly correlated with AWS outage: https://status.workos.com/
That means Cursor is down, can't login.
systemvoltage commented on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense anthropic.com/news/anthro... · Posted by u/wavelander
Great news! Congrats to Anthropic! I like to see big tech engage with the govt and military.
What changed? 2017 HN would be very different on this take.
systemvoltage commented on Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars blog.johnluttig.com/p/hyp... · Posted by u/walterbell
You can't find a critique of extreme wealth concentration? There are many. Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
No, I can’t find a single article praising wealth concentration.
systemvoltage commented on Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars blog.johnluttig.com/p/hyp... · Posted by u/walterbell
Assuming you're not just a troll, it doesn't seem very reasonable to be against something simply because many people support it.
Not trolling. It has served me better than most heuristics.
If there is something subjective and if you cannot find a critique of it, it’s usually a super power to assume the opposite is true barring obvious exceptions.
systemvoltage commented on Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars blog.johnluttig.com/p/hyp... · Posted by u/walterbell
“The AI capital influx means that mega-projects no longer seem outlandishly expensive. This is good for the world!”
Is it? This whole piece just reads of mega funds and giga corps throwing ridiculous cash for pay to win. Nothing new there.
We can’t train more people? I didn’t know Universities were suddenly producing waaaay less talent and that intelligence fell off a cliff.
Things have gone parabolic! It’s giga mega VC time!! Adios early stage, we’re doing $200M Series Seed pre revenue! Mission aligned! Giga power law!
This is just M2 expansion and wealth concentration. Plus a total disregard for 99% of employees. The 1000000x engineer can just do everyone else’s job and the gigachad VCs will back them from seed to exit (who even exits anymore, just hyper scale your way to Google a la Windsurf)!
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systemvoltage commented on Grok 4 Launch [video] twitter.com/xai/status/19... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Internet comments are not a scarce resource.
Let's say HN is missing out on 20% of potential comments. We still have too many for any one user to read.
It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.
systemvoltage commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
I absolutely despise comments like these, and you only see them on HN.
It's like saying great architects aren't great, it's the construction workers who should get the credit.
I agree somewhat, you can feel the tension on HN with respect to labor vs capital. Which is funny because the entire premise of YC is to infuse capital and get a huge leverage over bootstrappers.
systemvoltage commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas
This really misses the key drama of what happened in the last game.
Ding had a perfectly safe position where he could try to squeeze Gukesh pretty much endlessly with basically 0 risk. He then, completely inexplicably, went down a forced line which led to the final phase of the game.
In this phase the position was drawn with perfect play, but that is completely irrelevant because it is really tough to play. And more importantly in this phase, Gukesh was the side pressing to win with all sorts of interesting ideas. Ding, by contrast, left himself in a position where he's now going to be tortured for hours, has 0 chance of winning, and a single lapse of concentration means you lose. And that's exactly what happened.
Engine evals are really misleading in these sort of positions because it says it's completely equal, which it objectively is, but white/Ding will lose that position with some degree of regularity, while black/Gukesh had 0 losing chances. So in practical terms equality is not really correct.
Chess engines should come with another metric bar: "The twitchy-ness" of the position aka the gradient of primary eval metric as you pareto the possible moves from best to worst. The stronger this gradient, the more risky it is to play, and more changes to make a mistake.
If that headline doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about Artemis…
The sooner this program gets canned the better. Suppliers aren’t even pretending to give value for money anymore.
Great article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae...