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Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @09:21PM (#49504592)
If you do the math (also a common system design interview question for an AI lab), its actually only ~3PB (compress to 1PB, ~$22,000/mo in S3) and a few thousand/mo in compute over less than 4 months to index the entire internet for pretraining purposes. At that price point, its actually very affordable to many thousands of organizations to get their own copy. I would expect the major labs to special case kernel.org similarly to other sites like Wikipedia, but not the majority of scrapers
Re:Airport Simulator on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:17PM (#48985576)
Super fun game! Minor modifications that would be fun: * As you draw a path, at the same rate gradually bold/pulse all other planes' existing drawn paths from their current location forward so I can visually see if two future lines will not just overlap, but overlap at the same time * A slider to control game speed * A clearer arrow over the landing zone. It took me quite a while to realize how to land a plane * A timer over each runway to next takeoff
What about Senate staff?
Re:Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:29AM (#40467180)
First, this looks amazing, congrats! The primary reason I've held off on buying an eink tablet (remarkable/kindle scribe) is because much of the non-leisure reading I do for work requires enterprise-friendly features like MDM and encryption, and even with that plugging into a laptop to sync every document is a major UX hurdle.

Are you thinking about this primarily as a consumer device with, or do you want to go after those business applications sooner than later?

Disclosure: I work at AWS, own a Kindle Oasis, but have nothing to do with Kindle or devices.

Re:AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:35AM (#28539608)
I just mean that it was a coincidence that I asked GitHub for the feature and they were already working on it
Re:AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:51AM (#28538445)
Nice write up! By pure coincidence I asked GitHub for this feature 2 weeks ago [1] and they confirmed it was in the works.

[1]. https://twitter.com/micahhausler/status/1431350884810821637

Re:Amazon EKS Anywhere on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:24PM (#28472192)
EKS Engineer here. This is something we have lots of thoughts about and want to make better in EKS on AWS.

For EKS Anywhere, you can configure your cluster with OIDC auth today, and IAM auth is coming very soon. https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/90

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020) on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:29PM (#24349124)
Amazon EKS | Sr Software Engineer | Remote (US/Canada) | Full Time

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team you will help us deliver the mission of making AWS the best place to run containers. You will be part of an exceptional team that is moving the needle towards making containers as the next generation compute platform. This is an opportunity to engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in distributed systems and cloud computing.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1231608/senior-software-deve...

Also hiring:

* Senior Software Manager https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1202522/software-development...

* Software Engineer https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1253531/software-development...

Re:Monzo: How our security team handle secrets on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:03PM (#21228910)
That would by my error, its actually `BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume` and `TokenRequestProjection`
Re:Monzo: How our security team handle secrets on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:49PM (#21227783)
(Disclosure: I work on Kubernetes/EKS Security at AWS)

I'm curious why they didn't look into using Kubernetes ProjectedVolumeTokens for authenticating to Vault? The tokens Kubernetes issues are not stored in etcd, and they contain pod-specific metadata so they are invalidated as soon as the pod dies (when using TokenReview). Alternatively, they can be used to directly authenticate with Vault since they're OIDC-valid tokens [1].

The semantics around secrets in Kubernetes aren't nearly as robust as Vault, so I was surprised to not see this more clearly called out (ex: list secrets == get all keys and values). Even if you use KMS/AES encryption (which they reference) that doesn't help with access control.

[1] https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/jwt.html

This. It extends to command line tools too. I can _never_ remember what the order is for `ln -s`.
Re:How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:02PM (#20707862)
You are correct that the API server is only aware of the VPC network, and not any overlays. One solution to the metrics-server or other webhooks is to use host-networking mode so the API server can have connectivity.
Re:How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:42AM (#20706177)
EKS Engineer here.

Calico policy can be used with the AWS VPC CNI, but you can remove the default CNI and install Calico or any other CNI plugin you’d like.

Re:How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:32AM (#20706090)
EKS Engineer here, thanks for the feedback.

Service IP configurability is a very common ask, and as you’ve linked, is on our roadmap along with a slew of other control plane configuration options.

You can delete the AWS VPC CNI DaemonSet and install any CNI plugin you’d like.

EKS regularly backs up etcd and has automatic restore in the case of a failure. Manually restoring to an old snapshot would be quite disruptive. What is your use case, and what would be the interface you’d like to see?

Re:Blender 2.80 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:01PM (#20568047)
One of the things about blender that was frustrating for me when I last tried it ~3 years ago was the inability to use a different python REPL (ex: iPython) or easily import the blender python libraries in a non-blender python process. Can anyone say if this has gotten better?
Re:26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:07PM (#19704237)
A year ago I moved from Chattanooga, TN (mentioned in the article) to Bellevue, Wa to work in “Cloud City” Seattle to take a job at AWS. It used to cost me a total $59/mo for 100MB fiber up and down, no contract, with _amazing_ customer service (I seriously have stories to tell about how great EPB is).

My only real option at my new residence is Comcast at $79/mo which went up to $94/mo after 1 year for a hypothetical 100down/5up, with frequent network drops.

It was quite disappointing to find zero options for fiber, and this convinces me that this kind of corruption by ISPs and legislators needs to be severely curbed.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:04PM (#19545488)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS | Frontend & Software Development Engineer | ONSITE (US relocation) | Seattle, WA | Full Time

Amazon Web Services is looking for Systems Development Engineers (SysDE) and Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to become experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming administrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing customers up to focus on their applications.

Please note that these are not entry level positions. Kubernetes and/or AWS experience preferred.

Please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager for this position with any questions, [email protected]

- https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/814274/software-development-...

- https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/756191/front-end-engineer-ek...

Re:Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:15PM (#18677898)
I know a family friend who works in internal investigations at $PACKAGE_DELIVERY_CORP, and this kind of sting is nothing new. You just don’t hear about it.

Disclosure: I work at AWS but know nothing about Amazon delivery

Re:AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:03PM (#18158301)
This is something we’ve heard a lot and are working together with the Kubernetes community on. We’ll have more to announce on this one soon

Full disclosure: I work on EKS at AWS

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018) on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:52PM (#17207284)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS | Systems Development Engineer | ONSITE (US relocation) | Seattle, WA | Full Time Amazon Web Services is looking for Systems Development Engineers (SysDE) and Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to become experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming administrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing customers up to focus on their applications.

Please note that these are not entry level positions. Kubernetes and/or AWS experience preferred.

Please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager for this position with any questions, [email protected]

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/632063/systems-development-e...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:58PM (#16972518)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS | Systems Development Engineer | ONSITE (US relocation) | Seattle, WA | Full Time

Amazon Web Services is looking for Systems Development Engineers (SysDE) and Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to become experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming administrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing customers up to focus on their applications.

Please note that these are not entry level positions. Kubernetes and/or AWS experience preferred.

Please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager for this position with any questions, [email protected]

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/632063/systems-development-e...

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