Hacker News: epberry

New comment by epberry in "AWS building 414 exaflops AI computer exclusively for Nvidia's internal research"

epberry — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:46:05 +0000

Healthcare is one of the last places I think about for GenAI but maybe I have that totally wrong. Seemingly factual accuracy is a premium in that industry. I guess protein generation is a little different.

Using Terraform to Automate Okta SSO Group Access

epberry — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/okta-terraform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551296

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by epberry in "Pains of building your own billing system"

epberry — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:30:33 +0000

On the other side of this, understanding usage based consumption billing as a customer is very tough. First got exposure to this working on https://ec2instances.info.

New comment by epberry in "Sora: Creating video from text"

epberry — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:33:21 +0000

These looks fantastic. Very slight weirdness in some movement, hands, etc. But the main thing that strikes me is the cinematic tracking shots. I guess that's why they use "scenes". It doesn't seem like a movie could be generated with this involving actors talking.

How to See AWS Public IPv4 Address Costs

epberry — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/aws-public-ipv4-cost-and-how-to-see

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363222

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Anatomy of a serverless usage based billing system

epberry — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-serverless-usage-based-billing-system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39348408

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New Fastest Benchy 3D Print [video]

epberry — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:55:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPnTeIat98

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39251230

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by epberry in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

epberry — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:47:28 +0000

This only applies if these developers move to the new terms it looks like. So these large apps can stay with their existing setups and not pay the fee.

Metrics in Pinterest's Internal Growth Dashboard (2019)

epberry — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/27-metrics-pinterests-internal-growth-dashboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38973464

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (2019)

epberry — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691583

Points: 213

# Comments: 5

The Fargate Illusion (2019)

epberry — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:35:44 +0000

Article URL: https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019/04/13/the-fargate-illusion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38605835

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

BigQuery Cost per Query Labeling

epberry — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/bigquery-cost-per-query

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38209804

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance

epberry — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:45:26 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.aimodels.fyi/telling-gpt-youre-scared-or-worried-improves-performance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38128669

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by epberry in "The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)"

epberry — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:54:21 +0000

Yeah. In an infrastructure as code setup there's some more rigor that can be applied, at least in terms of tagging what's going out. But I've generally seen the finops team come in and optimize ex post facto.

New comment by epberry in "The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)"

epberry — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:30:27 +0000

This post, along with this Simon Wardley thread, https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1088780650860158978?s=20, attracted me to finops as an engineering problem. Consumption based pricing is really tough for a lot of orgs to handle at the $1M+ range, so much so that it requires dedicated software to line things up.

I started helping maintain https://ec2instances.info in my spare time and the code base is literally full of IF statements to paper over AWS billing quirks. Later, I joined Vantage, one of the companies linked in the article.

It's a little bit undecided whether finops will have the growth that devops did but the problem is seemingly felt very acutely.