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EC2 is more scalable than your wallet. What do you need Kubernetes for?

Amazon / AWS is very efficient at it. They are the largest cloud by a significant margin. Much larger than Hetzner.

Google and MS may be close behind.

Not sure about Meta but they are also renting from Amazon so...

Anthropic mostly rents from Amazon, Goog & MS.

EC2 may have higher margins than that.

But your point stands, ain't no way xAI competing in that game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

Both the US and China have newer more advanced capabilities than a 50 year old system...

[SOSUS] was the primary cuing system that antisubmarine forces used to localize and potentially destroy targets for over forty years, but secrecy largely kept that fact from the fleet. The lack of strong fleet support was a factor when budget cuts after the Cold War fell heavily on the surveillance program.

Driving cars down every street in every advanced country to take photos seems ridiculous, but Google did it (StreetView) and the US DoD has more money than Google...

Nuclear weapons are a deterrent against somebody invading the US (or another NATO country) but that doesn't make conventional forces not a deterrent against other kinds of aggression. Many attacks have been made against the US and not resulted in nuclear retaliation, like 9-11.

India and Pakistan have nukes and have fought each other recently so your assertion that "has_nukes() == no_game_start()" is *false*. Nukes, however probably will deter India from doing the full-Putin into Pakistan.

Where you say AWS, you mean "a single AWS region"

But anyway, from your YCombinator blurb:

    "When you’re done editing data, it automatically flows back to S3 within a few minutes"

The statistics can be found in the public earnings of AWS vs the companies that would get paid for on-prem workloads (Equinix, Dell/HP/IBM, Intel etc).

Amazon loves it when you run idle EC2 instances ($$$) rather than using Lambda.

Most real workloads I've seen (at 3 startups, and several teams at Amazon) have utilization under 10%.

Meanwhile, from Q3 Amazon earnings:

* AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion.

That means AWS brought in $4.3 BILLION more dollars in Q3 2024 vs 2023.

That's a huge amount of incremental revenue growth. If the net movement of workloads were out of the cloud, then it would have to show up in the results of Intel / TSMC / Equinix et. al.

I just took a look, and Equinix quarterly revenue is $2.1B.

This post itself is glorified marketing. I don't know what to call it, something like 'title hacking'.

I have no idea what the OPs company does, but I do agree with the title.

Yes, indeed HN is glorified marketing and networking for YC :)

But I think a16z has spent a lot more time and money on their marketing efforts, especially as it relates to crypto. I for one am sick of hearing news stories, only to find that they're thinly veiled a16z marketing pitches for crypto scams.

If you have one of the metal instance types, then you get the whole host, e.g. i4i.metal:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4i/

I don't want to justify much, if any, of the behaviour of the incel/redpill crowd but...

For me several years passed between thinking 'I would like to lose my virginity' and said event happening. Should anybody feel sorry for me? No. But I can empathize with some of the feelings that lead people down that path.

Somebody didn't believe me that I thought (based on LinkedIn) that there were over 50k AWS employees in 2020. According to this article, there are over 100k AWS employeees now!

They just... don't retire them? The most expensive thing in a DC is the chips, so it's worth it to just build more datacenter space and keep the old ones around.

In 2019, before I left the EC2 Networking / VPC team, we were using M3 instances for our internal services... those machines were probably installed in 2013 or 2014, making them over 5 years old.

With the slowdown in Moore's law and chip speeds, I'd wager that team is still using those M3s now.

Eventually the machines actually start failing, so they need to be retired, but a large portion of machines likely make it to 10 years.

Coinbase and Kraken are not registered as banks, and do not offer FDIC insured accounts.

Do banks require SEC registration to offer interest-bearing Non-Security Deposit products?

No, because they are registered and regulated as banks.

For what its worth, banks don't just co-mingle customer funds, they invest those funds on their own behalf and reap the profits for themselves.

And that is why banks are regulated, must register, follow certain rules etc.

Kraken has been operating under the money transmitter licensing scheme for a decade

Yeah, but that doesn't give them a license to operate a securities exchange, or a bank. How many other money transmitters (that are not registered securities exchanges or banks) have 'tokens for sale' like Kraken?

I don't think the piece is arguing that it's fraud, just that it's bad (for investors), maybe immoral.

From memory, the regionalization project ran from approx 2014 to 2015 or 2016.

There were also other reasons given, like the amount of internal software that used e.g. IPv4 addresses. Also, AWS likes to have 'lots of small things' instead of one big thing (regions, AZs, cells, two pizza teams, no (official) monorepo) so regionalization was part of that.

Another big reason for regionalization, other than IPv4 exhaustion was that AWS promises customers that AWS regions are completely seperate, but with one big giant network, it turns out there were all sorts of services making calls between regions that nobody had realized. I have a couple of funny examples, but that might make me too identifiable :)

This is what many 'serial entrepeneurs' already do.

Presumably part of the appeal of a small reactor is it's cost. If you're trying to do things on a budget, then there's smaller budget for safety.

You just listed 3 choices, which range in size, weight and likelyhood of killing pedestrians. I.e. a minivan fits more people, but is smaller than some of the massive trucks I see driving around.

I knew a family growing up that had six kids, so 8 person household, they had a minivan (Toyota Tarago).

A modern SUV would likely be a) heavier b) have worse blind spots, and c) has a higher front bumper, so worse impact if you hit a pedestrian.

The "I didn't have a choice" argument is almost always a logical fallacy.

As a thought experiment, could a witness protection program (i.e. an arm of the government) issue a new/fake SSN? Yes.

Could they change your retina? Maybe some surgery exists to do this, but it sounds risky/complicated!

The US Navy builds many reactors for the price of this power plant.

A Virginia class submarine in 2023 costs $4.3 billion (that's for the whole submarine), it has a 210MW S9G reactor.

The Vogtle Unit 3 was $17 billion over budget, for a $30 billion total budget, for 1,100 MW.

$204MM / MW for the US Navy vs $273MM / MW for Georgia Power et. al.

This project makes nuclear submarines look like a bargain!

Sources:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine

* https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-co-southern-climate...

https://blog.drgriffin.com.au

Of interest to the HN crowd are probably these posts:

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-07-31-cracking-the-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-07-12-prioritizing-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-28-servers-in-se...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-01-13-facts-will-no...

Beijing Olympics was 2008, that's 15 years ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23397205

The other difference between Cybertruck and Ford trucks is that Ford has actually sold trucks to customers.

1. Agree

2. Err, I can't see any big banks or other entities touching COIN, and the CRIMINAL proceedings that it will likely be embroiled in with a 10-ft pole!

3. Maybe BTC will come to 'dominate' the 'crypto' space, but that space will be a smaller and smaller part of the US (and global) economy. Although it never got very big to start with. BTC is used for approximately 0.0% of US transactions right now (rounded to nearest decimal place).

I've heard of bungie jumping, and sky diving businesses, any examples of base jumping businesses (not counting gear makers).

Why not? Gold is both a commodity and a security (think gold ETFs).

This logic seems like wishful thinking that people can't get rekt by both the SEC and CFTC, they can.