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A lot of people are in denial that there isn't using some magic efficiency to cloud services that other datacenters don't have. Primary cost savings on cloud VM's is from overprovisioning. The more abstracted away the service is from the hardware, the more they can overprovision without customers noticing.

The 50%+ profit margins have to be coming from somewhere. AWS is not made of magic, it's made from largely the same PC parts you buy on newegg

I have a feeling what's happened is that they built something they thought was quantum, but since it's so hard to measure qubits they had to develop a bunch of powerful statistical models to help read the qubits.

These models have gotten so good at reading "correct" results from qubits that they've actually started solving the problems themselves.

So are the qubits actually doing anything now or are the models solving problems from totally random qubit inputs? I think that's a question that even they can't answer

So how long until MS freaks out and starts attacking Linux again? I'm calling GPU DRM modules existing in the next 2 yrs, commonplace in three. Shaders and 3D API inaccessible without the right keys. Only 2D mode and OpenCL without the keys, to "protect" game makers from people running their games on unauthorized platforms. EUFI isn't enough to protect their market share if gaming is threatened, they will extend the lockdown to GPU's as well... for "security"

instead of messing with JSON and making it less human friendly (arguably the thing that made JSON so popular in the first place), why not just use something designed for efficient machine-to-machine transfer?

Basically making JSON more machine friendly and stricter to parse undermines the original reason to use JSON. If efficiency and absolute correctness are important use something not designed to be forgiving to humans :)

This article has little substance. The arguments don't apply to JWT, it just mentions badly done implementations and an insecure option that obviously nobody would turn on.

What else are we going to use? JWT is basically the simplest token protocol possible that maintains antiforgery properties. It's great that somebody standardized something that most API's were using anyways. If you give anyone that knows crypto the task of making a simple token protocol they will come up with JWT over and over.

Zucks rants about his dream for society scare the hell outta me. It's seriously 1984 type shit... the only way to create "safe" and "friendly" global communities is with bulletproof censorship. Some level of civil disobedience and public disagreement is needed for a properly functioning society. Look up China and "harmonious society" if you don't buy it.

I wish Sergey or Larry from the Goog had such aspirations. At least from what I've read their intentions are pretty benign despite running such a huge monopoly.

they could bake a pre-trained CNN into the messenger pretty easily and run it locally... so plausible

:) Sorry, I always carry my trusty pitchfork when on the internet.

Cloudflare is unquestionably a source of pure, unencrypted traffic for the govt.

Does anyone remember a few years ago when Google found out through leaks that the govt was wiretapping it's private traffic between datacentres?

What makes you so naive to think that the govt isn't sniffing every single page on cloudflare?

I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own.

This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombinator holding Canada interviews for founders without US Visa".

Having used JS along with somewhere north of 10 other languages over the years... JS is the most painful, even moreso than Perl which was close.

Classes and objects are 100x better than the crap they've come up with to fix JS so far so stop complaining.

Oh no it's not functional???!!! Javascript never was. It was always supposed to be an OO language the implementation is just shit. For the love of God everyone just shut up and let them fix it. Trying to change JS from what it was meant to be into something else entirely is just going to make things even worse

NSA 100% . Some time around 10 years ago governments decided the internet was too "dangerous" to be free. Arab spring cemented that into their minds, and now a bastion of free thought has become the worlds biggest spying apparatus.