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tdr2d commented on Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/... · Posted by u/notmine1337

__bjoernd · 2 months ago

AWS is subject to CLOUD the same way European providers like OVH, Hetzner, or Stack it are. All of these companies operate in the US.

tdr2d · 2 months ago

Humm no. OVH is French, OVH US is not, both are two different subsidiaries. In fact, you cannot order OVH US infrastructures with a European OVH account, you need to create a US account.

tdr2d commented on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware? · Posted by u/jwithington

tdr2d · 5 months ago

Hi, im a presales engineer for OVHcloud, a cloud provider. OVH is a "pinacle" VMware partner, we are a huge reseller of VMware licenses, and were able to secure a 3-5 years contract with broadcom with only 5 to 15% of price increase.

Of course, the clients I talk with are mostly interested in moving to the cloud or are already in the cloud, so it won't be applicable to you if you'd stay on-prem. I wanted to share my experience.

For some clients, change of technology would be more expensive than paying a bit more to VMware. You'd have to re-train half your IT department, and the migration could be long, risky and complexe. So in this case, a lift and shift move-to-cloud can be competitive, and frankly a serious option.

I see a lot of projects with Nutanix, but you'd be surprise of the price, which is almost the same as VMware. Nutanix comes with way more features than vanilla vsphere which explains the cost increase. You'd have NSX and vSAN packaged, plus replication features. Nutanix offers a great alternative. Actually, OVH proposes Nutanix too, so we can be agnostic and have a sort of leverage over Broadcom.

Some clients are ok to move to public cloud (equivalent AWS/Azure..). The smaller the infra the easier it is. It can be very cheap at OVH. Also it's great if you do containers because of the universal nature of them, they are easy to migrate. However, If the client has a lot of Windows Server, the cost is actually higher (at OVH the price of the Windows Server Licence is higher than at Azure..) because we cannot leverage the Windows Datacenter licenses

The cheapest viable option is to go to Proxmox on Baremetal servers. The features are close to a standard vSphere environnement. The lack of enterprise support is the thing that stops most clients to do this move.

tdr2d commented on 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code jakobs.dev/solving-mnist-... · Posted by u/js98

tdr2d · 2 years ago

Obviously, the code may be elegant and compact, 78% accuracy is considered very very bad for MNIST.

A dummy model written with Tensorflow easilly reaches 90% accuracy. The best models ranked at 99,87%, see the benchmark : https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-mnis...

tdr2d commented on $500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guaranteed Income nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us... · Posted by u/lxm

tdr2d · 3 years ago

It actually nearly exists in France https://www.caf.fr/allocataires/aides-et-demarches/droits-et... It is called RSA. Any person (in need) who are elligible can claim around ~500 euros of revenue, even more if you have children.

I personnally see a lot of people abusing it and not willing to find themselves a situation, when I pay their salary with huge taxes. It's not so fair for active people who have the ambition to reach a greater comfort than the bear minimum. But, it really makes you feel safe to know that your country will never let someone in need down.

tdr2d commented on Ask HN: How do you find meaningful work? · Posted by u/MathCodeLove

tdr2d · 4 years ago

As long as you're an employee, your job is to produce monetizable value for you employer. You can be asked to do whatever your manager decides you to do, even if it's boring work. As long as you don't share a common vision with your company, you'll always find something to say about the decisions it made. This can be called frustration..

What to do is up to you. Bear with it, or work on other projects that you believe will make more sense to you.

tdr2d commented on Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by the Fuel sciencealert.com/for-the-... · Posted by u/thedday

tdr2d · 4 years ago

Not to mention that this is not the whole system, but just the fusion reaction makes me laugh. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to reach such condition and temperature to provoke this reaction. That amount should be taken into consideration too..

tdr2d commented on Ask HN: Object storage for $.02 per GB egress · Posted by u/getcrunk

tdr2d · 4 years ago

Ovhcloud's object storage is pretty cheap as well and S3 compatible. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#storage