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Didn't the DoD at one point build a 1k+ PS3 cluster based on their multi-core chip and had a mini supercomputer CotS?

The Air Force did (Condor) and it hit #33 on the 2010 Top500.

Nintendo is probably THE most aggressive company in the industry in terms of going after people for using their IP in unauthorized ways. They don't have a blind eye.

Waymo driver? The vehicles are autonomous

the "Waymo Driver" is how they refer to the self-driving platform (hardware and software). They've been pretty consistent with that branding, so it's not surprising that they used it here.

Importantly, Waymo takes full ownership for something they write positively [...] But Waymo weasels out of taking responsibility for something they write about negatively

Pretty standard for corporate Public Relations writing, unfortunately.

right-click, search Google: "MSK most commonly refers to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a world-renowned institution for cancer treatment and research"

Right-click, "Search Google for 'ADC'", takes much less time than making this useless comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

yep, and it was this exact requirement that also caused the exact same outage back in 2013 or so. DDoS rules were pushed to the GFE (edge proxy) every 15 seconds, and a bad release got out. Every single GFE worldwide crashed within 15 seconds. That outage is in the SRE book.

I have a bit of a different take on browser fingerprinting: I don't want to uniquely identify you as a person so I can serve you ads, or whatever. I want to identify your traffic when you're scraping my content from 2,000 different IP's and 1,000 different user accounts, I can block you or rate limit you without hurting anyone else.

Given the scale of scrapers these days (AI companies with VC money have no problem spinning up thousands of VMs running Chrome), fingerprinting at the browser level is the only realistic option.

(obligatory: my personal opinion, not necessarily my employer's)

TCP/IP Illustrated is still in copyright. Please don't post pirated material here.

and his dad was head of computer security at the NSA for a while

Google had 86TB of sourcecode data in Piper way back in 2016.

Also the just-released DGX Spark from Nvidia (although it "only" has 128gb of unified memory)

in AWS's defense, it's pretty easy to see the rationale for this. The amount of abuse they must deal with is staggering -- "spin up account, do evil stuff until they notice and nuke the account, repeat"

It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.

Someone who is writing on their personal blog and doesn't give a damn what is "acceptable" to some rando on the Internet?

Those look like E5500 or E6500 cabinets (hard to tell from the angle).

Netflix is a weird case, in that they let new hires pick the mix of stock vs. cash in their total compensation. Since the CA law requires posting the cash salary in the job offer, it really can be that wide of a range.

Sparklines have been around (in modern usage) for nearly 20 years (coined by Edward Tufte in 2006.

Also, Google is a thing.

what an intrusive, nosy question!

Not everything needs to be spelled out for people who are too lazy to Google

that's a related tool for monitoring the utilization of BPF programs within the kernel, but NOT the focus of the article -- detecting noisy neighbors in non-EBPF workloads.

Hack is not PHP (any longer)

If we're purely talking voice actors, there are SO many incredible talents to choose from: Mark Hamill as The Joker for sure, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Tara Strong as dozens of characters, etc.

It's a 15-year-old project. Try harder.

I mean, KIND OF, if you squint. From the trace, Akamai and Google have a direct peering link (hop 6 looks like an Akamai edge/peering router -- Akamai owns Linode so that makes sense -- and hop 7 is a Google peering router).

For it to be hitting "the Internet" you'd expect to see hops on a Tier 1 carrier like AT&T, Lumen, etc. and/or an ISP like Comcast, Spectrum, etc.

To be fair, that entire traceroute never touches "the Internet". Everything after hop 6 is inside Google's backbone network, and everything before hop 7 is inside Linode/Akamai.

codecrafters (YC S22, http://codecrafters.io) has a new module called "Building Your Own Interpreter" that works its way through this book. It's great because you work in small chunks, each of which has unit tests to tell you if you got, e.g. scanning string literals correct.

Currently free while the module is in beta. I spent today working through all of the lexer exercises in Rust (I'm currently learning it), and had a lot of fun.

I'll point out that Reddit runs an onion service (https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqn...) so blocked exit nodes is more likely to be collateral damage from something else than a deliberate action.

Generally speaking, if you're getting blocked (from old.reddit.com or otherwise), the workaround is to login. If you're logged in and still getting blocked (or are getting blocked trying to login, that's a different problem entirely).

They don't use AWS to run the big three apps (FB, Insta, WhatsApp). They very much use them for other things. FB data center machines tend to be highly-specialized and optimized for running the apps, not general-purpose compute.

Couple of reasons: Meta's annual spend with AWS is large enough that they'll have a negotiated blanket discount that takes a fixed percentage off the top of their monthly spend. This is very common for larger AWS customers, not just Meta.

For instances specifically, any planned usage will be using either reserved instances or at minimum a compute savings plan (CSP) that drops the hourly rate dramatically in exchange for a committed number of instance hours, with or without an upfront payment.

Finally, there may be a negotiated rate for specific instance types built into the contract. Again, common for very large customers.

source: I was on one of the cloud-related infrastructure teams (left in early 2022). I have no idea about their spend (or discounts) today, but two years ago it was enough that Andy Jassy would meet 1:1 with Mark to "discuss the relationship".

Meta also doesn't pay AWS anywhere near retail price for instances.