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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.