Plenty of people are already miserable. Might as well try if you are no?
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saiojd commented on Show HN: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA github.com/tspeterkim/fla... · Posted by u/tspeterkim
What does __syncthreads() do here exactly? I'm new to CUDA, could get the overall idea of the FlashAttention paper but not the details.
I had forgotten about the walrus operator. I’m curious what the rationale is for not just allowing the regular assignment operator within expressions for that feature. Would it confuse the interpreter or something?
I would guess, to make sure the classic noob mistake of typing `if x = 3:` instead of `if x == 3:` stays a syntax error
saiojd commented on Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno github.com/denosaurs/deno... · Posted by u/eliassjogreen
I believe that's the joke, the two package systems have orthogonal nightmares
I had missed this message but have to say I love the expression "orthogonal nightmares", really captures it well :)
I've seen a regular stream of reports on HN about people "sort of" getting AI done on laptops and non and lowly GPU machines. Is it unreasonable or far-fetched to imagine that someone figures out how to efficiently get it all done without GPUs and pull the rug out from under Nvidia?
If this happens we will just get more things done with the same amount of compute (see: Blinn's law). The demand for GPUs does not really come from algorithmic compute requirements but from social expectation of progress in the field of AI. People will use all the compute they can get doing research using the budget they are given. What matters is how this budget is set.
saiojd commented on Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno github.com/denosaurs/deno... · Posted by u/eliassjogreen
It would be amazing if academia started replacing papers with videos + code
I want to see: an explainer of the science/ideas/experiments/hipothesis
And instructions on how to reproduce the experiments/results
Some YouTubers are going in this direction
Most papers already have code, and videos are very common.
saiojd commented on Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system theverge.com/2023/7/13/23... · Posted by u/thunderbong
> This US government could easily afford to host Reddit.
I imagine the government has access to a lot more runway. Government is ideally suited to hosting capital intensive projects for that reason. But the piper needs to be paid eventually. Government isn't magical. It still has to deliver value in return for the value it takes.
This is not just theoretical. In the real world, governments that have failed to deliver sufficient value in return have fallen. In fact, that has happened many times throughout the ages. Government is a business like any other, only special in that you become an owner by virtue of citizenship.
Government is just people. It can't take, take, take without giving back any more than you or I can. For the US government to be able to afford to host Reddit long-term, it needs to start providing value that Reddit Inc. has been unable to find. What do you think they could do differently to start to deliver value?
> The reasons it does not are cultural, not economic.
I am not sure they are separable. Culture defines the economy. I agree that our broad culture sees little value in Reddit, giving no reason to bring it under the government watch – or to exist as a private business for that matter (hence the scrambling to try and change that). It is true that advertisers see some value, but not sufficiently so.
Reddit really backed themselves in a corner with respect to advertisers. The other social media giants realized that they had to make commercial users part of their core offering. I can promote my commerce all day long on those services for free and they're happy to point their users in my direction. Paid advertising just makes it better. Try doing the same on Reddit. You will be quickly banned for posting spam. That introduces a lot of friction in getting advertisers in the door, and also makes the paid ads that do make it onto the platform strangely bolted on the side, not a smooth part of the experience.
> no, but framing all aspect of life as a quantifiable trade, is
No. Such framing very much predates the invention of capitalism. Capitalism only speaks to a separation of ownership and labour. Nothing in this discussion relates to that.
I understand better what you mean now. Clearly you've thought about this topic more than I have, so I don't think I can contribute much to the conversation unfortunately.
"It still has to deliver value in return for the value it takes.": To make sure I understand, how do you define 'value' exactly here?
"makes the paid ads that do make it onto the platform strangely bolted on the side, not a smooth part of the experience.": I guess for me that's the appeal in Reddit, in that it is not completely "consumerfied" yet. I feel like a Wikipedia-type management would be a much better fit for the end-user, but obviously it would be harder to collect donations to run Reddit than to run Wikipedia.
"I agree that our broad culture sees little value in Reddit": I agree, that's really the crux of it and it's too bad.
saiojd commented on Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system theverge.com/2023/7/13/23... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I'm not sure that is the case. Reddit's problem is that they have consistently used up more value to run the service than they have been able to deliver in return. Now they are running around like chickens with their heads cut off desperately trying to find some way to increase the value provided/decrease the value needed to stave off certain death.
A socially owned organization operated in the same manner would be suffering the same fate right now. The idea that exchanging parties expect trade of equal value is not a feature of capitalism. It is the basis of all economic systems; at least those which do not depend on an imagined post-scarcity world.
I don't see your point, to be honest. This US government could easily afford to host Reddit. The reasons it does not are cultural, not economic.
saiojd commented on Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system theverge.com/2023/7/13/23... · Posted by u/thunderbong
This is a prime example of why capitalism is good. If Reddit was state owned or equivalent with regulatory capture, then nothing could be done about it. Doesn’t matter how bad it is. Like the DMV.
Now since Reddit is determined to shoot itself in the foot, new competitors can rise up and replace them. Reddit did the same to its predecessors.
Capitalism punishes harshly companies that decide to be stupid.
That's a fair point about allowing competition. But frankly, it just sucks that Reddit choses to purposefully hurt its service. With social media, there's also a strong moating effect that is fundamentally anti-competitive.