Hacker News: flybarrel

New comment by flybarrel in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

flybarrel — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:32:00 +0000

mmm by that definition, which market is truly free market again? I'm not sure you can find one tbh

New comment by flybarrel in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

flybarrel — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:30:36 +0000

and that action is perfectly fine. But it is then hypocritic to claim one is more justified than the other

New comment by flybarrel in "Show HN: Editable Games"

flybarrel — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:04:24 +0000

For some reason I read "edible games" and was super duper curious...

New comment by flybarrel in "Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique"

flybarrel — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:40:55 +0000

> In the digital age, almost impossible. Documentation, process automation, and knowledge transfer mitigate this risk.

Are you sure you really work at AWS? Dude, how often do you realize the documentation is not sufficient and you have to dig through people's brain to actually get the nuances, that is, lucky enough they are still around? lolll

New comment by flybarrel in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

flybarrel — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:15:16 +0000

Oh this post...calling out DeepSeek's T&C but not comparing it with OpenAI's is really disingenuous IMO.

New comment by flybarrel in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

flybarrel — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:44:50 +0000

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation...lolllllll

New comment by flybarrel in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

flybarrel — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:00:33 +0000

I would not be super surprised if they intend to do, but I felt that's going to be very hard to implement. The censorship very likely comes from another layer.

New comment by flybarrel in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

flybarrel — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:16:29 +0000

There's a thing called "local laws and regulations" that you need to comply with to be able to operate in China. It's plain and simple - without this level of limitation, once the model is viral it will be on the radar and then censorship will apply anyway. May as well implement that from the beginning. So I don't believe CCP is actively "involved" in this, but rather the laws impacted the behavior of the company.

Microsoft apply censorship to Bing search results in China. It doesn't mean they are controlled by CCP. They just got impacted by law and they want to keep operate in China.

New comment by flybarrel in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

flybarrel — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:21:51 +0000

| meet the interests of the majority of people

I wonder how do you know "the interests of the majority of people" is to ban Tiktok...

New comment by flybarrel in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

flybarrel — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:19:14 +0000

Back in the early stage of social media, US companies had the choice to operate in China as long as they comply with the censorship and local laws. Had they chosen not to quit China market at the point, they would have been probably huge in China holding major access over Chinese users too. (How would Chinese government react to that is something we never get to see now...)

I keep seeing argument regarding "China bans social medias from other countries". It's not an outright ban saying that "Facebook cannot operate in China", but more like "Comply with the censorship rules or you cannot operate in China". It's not targeting "ownership" or "nation states". e.g. Google chose to leave, while Microsoft continues to operate Bing in China.

New comment by flybarrel in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

flybarrel — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:34:01 +0000

| I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

Please do not plan based on anyone's goodwill only, especially in this one you have such a high stake. I'd at least consult a lawyer at this point, even if it means you don't take any legal action.

New comment by flybarrel in "The size of BYD's factory"

flybarrel — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:40:10 +0000

$7.25 minimum wage per hour at fed level. 40 hour per week and 50 working week you have 14,500 USD, or 105K RMB roughly based on exchange rate today.

105K RMB yearly is close to or above average even in the above cities.

for some state the minimum wage can be $15 or higher, this is wayyyy better than China.

New comment by flybarrel in "Private Cloud Compute Security Guide"

flybarrel — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:25:28 +0000

You are likely right the code is not audited, or deployment is not verified. This is a design-level review.

You are inaccurate on "they only interviewed engineers". There are document reviews as well which covers design and architectures.

Source of the report on methodology shared such information.

New comment by flybarrel in "Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS"

flybarrel — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:45:49 +0000

I work in EBS. I had no storage background when I joined 3 years ago :)

New comment by flybarrel in "Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS"

flybarrel — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:43:06 +0000

Yes throughput for EBS is also relevant to the instance type. It is all published here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-opti...

EBS connects to EC2 via a separate pipeline, different from the EC2 instance Networking bandwidth. This is true for all Nitro instances. EFS / FSx connects to EC2 via Networking bandwidth. So you should refer to that if you are looking for the bandwidth information.

New comment by flybarrel in "Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says"

flybarrel — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:25:20 +0000

> Product managers had little motivation to act fast, if at all, since compensation was tied to the release of new, revenue-generating products and features

Only if I get rewarded that way lolllllll

New comment by flybarrel in "Making EC2 boot time faster"

flybarrel — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:22:52 +0000

Depends on what volume types you are using. For random access - with io2 you can get 256K IOPS per volume, and if you do RAID0, on the largest instance you can get 400K IOPS. Directly-attached vs over-the-network storage can be fairly different, but going back to a spinning drive is not a fair statement.

New comment by flybarrel in "What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)"

flybarrel — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:14:33 +0000

loll Spanish people must be very pleased hearing this...

New comment by flybarrel in "AWS CEO to Step Down"

flybarrel — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:42:42 +0000

Not sure what you are talking about. Garman was in product since joined AWS till 2020, then to Sales / marketing.

New comment by flybarrel in "McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting"

flybarrel — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:20:48 +0000

Exactly. It's the risk management system that a company implements. Tech companies also serve customers who are in competition with each other. No company is above this. It's all about how you handle these tricky situations. I have yet to see concrete evidences saying that the internal firewall was breached. I'll wait and see.