I use a $5 VPS + $3 for 0.5gb of block storage to host shitty video game clips I want to share with my friends. Soon I'm going to see if I can stack some google photos alternative on top of that without it giving up. I also use it as a vpn endpoint and a gateway to expose access to a minecraft server that dynamically provisions a an AWS machine and turns on only when someone tries to connect to the VPS' IP. The last one has probably already saved me hundreds of dollars that I would otherwise pay for a dedicated machine to run a server on 24/7 even if none of my friends are playing on it.

>I use a $5 VPS + $3 for 0.5gb of block storage to host shitty video game clips I want to share with my friend

What's the benefit of this over an unlisted YouTube video? I suppose there are many valid philosophical reasons to not want to use it.

Pretty minimal benefit honestly. I just did this because at the time the youtube uploader my ShareX client had was broken

Who is he?

CEO of Citadel Capital. He's one of the people featured in 'The Quants How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It', Scott Patterson.

Pretty good baseball player.

His son was even better.

Wait, I guess this is someone else?

Boogeyman of the meme stocks

I think the CEO of Citadel Capital?

Many people in the thread are calling out AI-isms and nonsensical parts of the article. Articles like this have gotten so tiring. Is there a single place left to go on the internet where people write their own work? Or at least read it before publishing.

Well, the guy is a professor in AI. So I'd not look for 100% human-written prose from him.

But I'd also not dismiss what Tim has to say. For much longer than this stuff has been super hyped, he's reliably been one of the best sources of info on some of this stuff, especially about GPUs and how to run things locally.

Do these historically respected folks not realize they are trashing their reputations by publishing this stuff?

I wish STEM folks had some pride in their writing the way that Humanities folks do / are supposed to

This entire account is a click farming bot account trying to get you to click on what appears to be the modern day adf.ly shortener

While their normal demographic might happen to contain a lot of gamers, the article is talking specifically about the results of a recruitment campaign that targeted gamers

Ultimately it’s the authors choice and the community is not entitled to anything, but I’m surprised the idea of remaining open source while closing PRs/issues isn’t brought up. I’m sure the author thought of doing that but didn’t, but I wonder why.

Finally, hacker news on Hacker News

but isn't that the other kind of hacker?

life hacks are also hacker news, I guess x)

If families paying for experimental treatment is illegal in China, how did these researchers get away with it?

SF will recover after a few more AI billboards

Personally, as a long time visitor to SF, the billboards are one of the best parts ;)

The author's going to be floored when he hears about video games