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> The UK is actually a scary place right now, if you are paying attention..

It has been the most authoritarian country in the West for decades already, this is nothing new.

British people are the most apathetic people in the world, so it's really easy to abuse them.


>the most authoritarian country in the West

Australia and the US are more authoritarian in specific areas e.g. censorship and taxation respectively.. but overall, yes, the UK is worse.

>British people are the most apathetic

I'm not sure that's fair, our culture looks apathetic from abroad, but like other countries we care deeply about what our media tell us to care about.


> our culture looks apathetic from abroad

I live in the UK, and have lived in multiple other western countries before.

British people absolutely ARE apathetic.


Check out this fully self-hosted solution that was posted on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081188

After the article I set it up myself, it took me around a day I would say. It supports exactly what you're asking for, although it's not a comprehensive tutorial so you'll need to figure some things out on your own.

Full disclosure I ended up turning it off only 2 days later because it was causing too many issues with networking and I suck at networking-related things, but it was great while it was working. I plan on setting it up again in the near future.


> I truly believe they're really going to make resilience their #1 priority now

I hope that was their #1 priority from the very start given the services they sell...

Anyway, people always tend to overthink about those black-swan events. Yes, 2 happened in a quick succession, but what is the average frequency overall? Insignificant.


This is Cloudflare. They've repeatedly broken DNS for years.

Looking across the errors, it points to some underlying practices: a lack of systems metaphors, modularity, testability, and an reliance on super-generic configuration instead of software with enforced semantics.


I think they have to strike a balance between being extremely fast (reacting to vulnerabilities and DDOS attacks) while still being resilient. I don't think it's an easy situation

The most surprising from this article is that CloudFlare handles only around 85M TPS.

it can't really be that small, can it?

that's maybe half a rack of load


Given the number of lua scripts they seem to be running, it has to take more than half a rack.

Since it's not included in the main article, here is the prompt:

> You are a stock trading agent. Your goal is to maximize returns.

> You can research any publicly available information and make trades once per day.

> You cannot trade options.

> Analyze the market and provide your trading decisions with reasoning.

>

> Always research and corroborate facts whenever possible.

> Always use the web search tool to identify information on all facts and hypotheses.

> Always use the stock information tools to get current or past stock information.

>

> Trading parameters:

> - Can hold 5-15 positions

> - Minimum position size: $5,000

> - Maximum position size: $25,000

>

> Explain your strategy and today's trades.

Given the parameters, this definitely is NOT representative of any actual performance.

I recommend also looking at the trade history and reasoning for each trade for each model, it's just complete wind.

As an example, Deepseek made only 21 trades, which were all buys, which were all because "Companyy X is investing in AI". I doubt anyone believe this to be a viable long-term trading strategy.


Agree. Those parameters are incredibly artificial bullshit.

I know this is a joke comment, but there are plenty of websites that simulate the stock market and where you can use paper money to trade.

People say it's not equivalent to actually trading though, and you shouldn't use it as a predictor of your actual trading performance, because you have a very different risk tolerance when risking your actual money.


Yeah, if you give me $100K I'm almost certainly going to make very different decisions than either a supposedly optimizing computer or myself at different ages.

> Are you sure? While Amazon doesn't own a "true" frontier model they have their own foundation model called Nova.

I work for Amazon, everyone is using Claude. Nova is a piece of crap, nobody is using it. It's literally useless.

I haven't tried the new versions that just came out though.


> How will the Google/Anthropic/OpenAI's of the world make money on AI if open models are competitive with their models?

They won't. Actually, even if open models aren't competitive, they still won't. Hasn't this been clear since a while already?

There's no moat in models, investments in pure models has only been to chase AGI, all other investment (the majority, from Google, Amazon, etc.) has been on products using LLMs, not models themselves.

This is not like the gold rush where the ones who made good money were the ones selling shovels, it's another kind of gold rush where you make money selling shovels but the gold itself is actually worthless.


French doesn't put one before the period.

While I understand the point of Linux distros overall, because they allow very specific usage like embedded, etc., I really don't get the point of those generalist but slightly specialized distributions focused on a single aspect that consumers use a computer for.

I'm far from a Linux super-user, I only use it for my servers and Raspberry Pis, but even I would rather pick Debian and install the necessary stuff by hand. This feels like opting-in to bloat on your newly installed OS.

I'll happily listen if anyone has a good selling point for those, but I can't think of any OS less attractive than something tailored for a single use-case on my generalist PC build.


The reason I use Bazzite is very simple: I only use my desktop computer for gaming and when I turn it on, I want it to work immediately without issues.

With previous distros I always had issues configuring something or another with games/drivers. Bazzite has been the closest to Windows/console experience for me wrt Linux pc gaming.

If this is a generalist computer, then you are absolutely correct. This is not the distro for you. This is very specifically built for gaming.


^ this. I'm in the same boat. I got tired of having to do windows things on my windows pc.

Bazzite is actually two levels of specialization away from Debian. Yes, it supports gaming better than other distros, especially on the current wave of handheld devices, and last I heard 2/3 of its users were using the handheld/HTPC version of Bazzite.

But it is also part of the Universal Blue family, which means that updates are atomic and can be rolled back. SteamOS, GNOME OS, and KDE Linux are all trying the atomic distro thing, but you don't get it out of the box on the mainstream distros (yet).


It's common for people to have both a PC and a game console. Even a PC, an iPad and a game console. Right tool for the right job, not a bad idea.

Yes of course, but if you have a PC that's good enough for gaming, it's also good enough (more than good enough) for all your other PC needs.

But not necessarily in the right form factor. My generalist PC build is a laptop, my gaming machine is tucked away under the TV and doesn't have a mouse or keyboard.

I have separate PCs for gaming and work. The former lives in the living room and the latter by my desk.

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