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California gets a lot of flack for having too much regulation, but this change is very welcome for consumers. No more junk fees in CA. - https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-restaurants-junk-fees...
Is this just restaurants?
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Most Americans don't realize just how huge and extensive medicare/medicaid is. They cover 65mil and 88mil people respectively, including 40mil children. That's 153mil people out of 330mil population -- that's 46% of the USA's population. Total spending is $1.9T for both. A cost of $12,400/person covered. $1.9T is 7.5% of the total US GDP of $25.44T. Medicare/medicaid is a massive program. Bigger than social security…
In that case, why not just go all the way to Medicare for All?
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At some point, nvidia does have to worry about amd getting their act together once they've annoyed all the current customers
Amd will never figure out drivers and software stuff. That’s always been their weakness
https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot
Open source CLI to deploy multiple gpu vm’s on all major cloud providers, with an option to use spot pricing with 1 cheap vm used as a controller to always make sure you have the most inexpensive deployment available with failover and load balancing.
It’s like beating the cloud providers at their own game I wouldn’t be surprised if they banned it.
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Amd will never figure out drivers and software stuff. That’s always been their weakness
I wonder what Lisa tells the shareholders & board when they ask why billions fly past their noses in valuation. Curious why ATI/AMD never could be on par to Nvidia regarding the software stack (drivers mainly), I would assume bad leadership and goals.
Nvidia effectively created this AI world by building tooling and software for something we didn't know existed up until not too long ago. AI was created on the shoulders of the work that was done.
AMD wasn't taking the risk on the unknown, for whatever reason.
Water under the bridge. The ship is certainly busy course correcting now. Give it some time.
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It's more than a box in a rack. These providers do actively monitor and fix these boxen. They can all be rebooted remotely as if you physically hit the button, you've got interfaces to access the machine as if you were logging in physically with a DB-9/RS232/ethernet/whatever console, etc. It's not just "space in a rack and you deal with the servers yourself and you come to fix them if they break". These companies kn…
You're missing the point. There's a massive difference between getting a box service, and getting a highly available regionally distributed service with a semblance of a SLA of bandwidth to anywhere on the planet. To quote a former manager, its not even apples and oranges, is apples and pumpkins. They simply aren't in any way the same scope.
(Also, at Hetzner you can even rent their network hardware if you want to make custom solutions.
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At some point, nvidia does have to worry about amd getting their act together once they've annoyed all the current customers
Amd will never figure out drivers and software stuff. That’s always been their weakness
I'm sure people said that too and look at where we are at today.
Over the weekend a coworker was helping someone in our lab prepare data for an important conference talk. We accidentally ran up a rather large bill because while the EFS storage pricing was simple enough, the usage pricing bit us. It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it. It feels weirdly similar to the US healthcare/…
> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it. It feels weirdly similar to the US healthcare/insurance situation. Not just the healthcare situation, but everything. There's nothing much more stereotypically American than "not knowing what you're going to pay for something until you're billed." Dozens of little fees on you…
We're absolutely seeing the same thing even in non-GPU traditional servers. Here is an estimated monthly cost breakdown for a new GCP instance type, the n4-standard-2, in us-central1: 2 vCPU + 8 GB memory: $69.18 10 GB Hyperdisk Balanced: $0.80 3060 provisioned IOPS: $15.30 155 MB/s provisioned throughput: $6.20 Total: $91.48 Like, you can tear apart that $69/mo for 2vCPU + 8gb of memory, no problem. That's utterly i…
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> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it. It feels weirdly similar to the US healthcare/insurance situation. Not just the healthcare situation, but everything. There's nothing much more stereotypically American than "not knowing what you're going to pay for something until you're billed." Dozens of little fees on you…
People complain about this relentlessly, but never change. Additionally, every single business owner I know complains that whatever it is they're selling, (1) it isn't worth the brain damage to sell to customers looking for the lowest price, (2) as long as people comparison shop in a harebrained way, hook pricing (aka up front pricing that looks low and turns out high) is only rational. It's not like they're providin…