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Of course netflix is optimising costs, otherwise it would not be a business, I just think they put much more effort elsewhere. They could be using other words, like "financial discipline" :)

My point is that even if I get 20 times discount on egress its still nowhere close, since i have to buy everything else - compute, storage are more expensive, and even with 5-10x discounts from list price its not worth it.

(Our cloud bills are in the millions as well, I am familiar with what discounts we can get)

We run our own infrastructure, sometimes with our own fincing (4), sometimes external (3). The cost is in tens of millions per year.

When I used to compare to aws, only egress at list price costs as much as my whole infra hosting. All of it.

I would be very interested to understand why netflix does not go 3/4 route. I would speculate that they get more return from putting money in optimising costs for creating original content, rather than cloud bill.

From the perspective of China, it probably makes sense to try and train on local chips and try to dethrone Nvidia. I guess this means PRC thinks AGI isnt around the corner and they can catch up on hardware.

Haha, I wish. Very random that this has happened. One of them was Assembla - Boston based. The other, that I work in now - Vinted - Lithuania based.

I like companies that do tryouts. In the last 15 years I worked for 3 employers. Two of them did tryouts - a day or two literally working in their environment. One did not.

The two that did it both were great, the one that did not turned out to not be for me.

I'm with the last employer for the last 9 years, and not looking to quit :))

I am under the impression that fine tuning is expensive (could anyone put a number on that?) and that each time a new model is released you have to fine tune it again, paying full price every time.

Probably less than 1%.

Such a cool question! My perspective as a Lithuanian:

I think they will continue to sell both petrol and diesel in 15 years. I think gas (we have some cars running on literally gas) will not be there anymore. There will be more EV chargers, I would think in every station.

I would think in 15 years someone will try and succeed to create a "destination gas station", like a cool restaurant, that people will go out of their route to visit.

I don't think we will be on self driving trucks in 15 years. But once we get there, gas stations will service them in whatevet service they will need.

Good question. I'm not certain myself why. I am not from the USA, so I don't see how it affects me. Also, probably unfounded, but I am somehow suspicious if this is for the benefit of software developers, or billionaires.

I guess I understand internet freedom causes better. Also, they are universal worldwide, this is USA specific

Somehow I'm not a fan of HN using this community for lobbyism purposes.

Netflix, TikTok

Yes. Have them work for it.

As someone from a country neighbouring russia, I wish my country decided to do this as well.

The goal is defence - to prevent easy russian train logistics deep into Finland.

One of the main goals of this is to not have the russian gauge available in case russians attack, so that logistics deeper into Finland cant happen easily with the same train, so backwards compatability is not desired.

Interesting question. Could you elaborate in the definition of "AI is as good as half of the developers"?

I'm really curious in what problems the codebases of startups of today will have in a few years. The internet is already full of memes about working with legacy code. What will be the legacy codebases where half of the code is generated with AI tools?

If google is forced to sell... Why would OpenAI be allowed to buy it? Won't this become the same (or worse) problem down the road?

A google search tells me that around half of people in the USA do not hold a passport. Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID.

What did you do to get shadow banned?

The russian threat is why military spending is increasing in europe (look at countries which increased spending and their proximity to russia).

Wow, this comment section has quite some russian propaganda.

As a european, I do not consider it peace time. It's an ongoing hybrid war.

Also, blaming germans for "degrading profession of war" shows quite some gaps in history knowledge.

It's good it is not on government servers. It would be a security risk if it was.

Thanks for explaining some intricacies about taxes, however this does not disprove my point.

1. Scandinavian countries impose higher taxes on their rich VS the US. It does not have to be a wealth tax. Think effective tax rate. 2. Income inequality is lower there compared to the US.

It is a very different system than the US, it's frankly strange to have to argue that.

That's quite a defeatist attitude you have going for you.

In this case I mean the players are the sociopatic billionaires.

However, in a democracy, all citizens are players.

Dont hate the player, hate the game :))

The USA system is made this way. There are other systems in the world (namely the scandinavian countries) that don't allow individuals to accumulate that amount of wealth.

There does not have to be a law for the US government to do something.

Remember the NSA spying scandal?