This article at least "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" as it shows that even among HN audience there's plenty of relatively dumb people. 200+ in this case. 200 people who not only fail to see a pile of horseshit for what it is, but in their ignorance spread it bringing even greater harm to people who are less equipped to critically review information like this.
> You fortunately don't need medical research in learning how to live your life and experience meaning.
Here I'd disagree with you. I do need to know if you become happier because you become dumber due to brain damage or for some other magical reason. So far I haven't seen any evidence contrary to the dumber explanation.
This is not the official version of the events in any sense. Some "expert" looked at report WH saw and said this. That "expert" has probably never been involved in anything like that.
The article is not too clear what exactly happened from the perspective of "feds", but I would not be surprised if the title is true exactly. We are in a tiny bubble even among software engineers who knows you can tell AI with sufficient access: "here are two pictures, put them into a single PDF", and AI will do it. Most people just don't know, "feds" including.
> "in x years we won't need programmers" and end up proving themselves wrong time and time again
This is how it looks in your head, maybe. But in reality since Sonnet 3.5 - when the whole "no need programmers" started - no "years" have passed. Sonnet 3.5 came out on June 20, 2024. We are still 5 days away from the lowest possible "years". So even if you quoted them literally, they could not have possibly proved themselves wrong yet even once, let alone "time and time again".
Unless I made a wrong turn upthread, I think the context was alternatives to US cloud services like AWS for organizations that are trying to develop their own frontier or near frontier models.
My understanding is that Bedrock is for those who want to use existing models. It lets you access models from various companies via a unified API, helps comply with things like GDPR and HIPAA, makes it easy to switch models, and some other things.
For those developing new models what they are looking for is lots of CPU/GPU/storage. They would be fine with classic hosting services where you rented or leased a machine and all the hosting company did was manage the hardware for you.
That's besides the point. Hetzner does not offer training GPUs either. In comparison to AWS it barely offers anything, which was exactly the point of the comment you replied to.
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