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Is HN the last refuge of real internet discourse? While some of the replies are very Reddit m-coded, it still feels like real humans. I wonder how long this will last before the agents take over.

USPS profits from advertising inserted into mail. https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm


Sorry, I was imprecise with my comparison. A better analogy would be that the USPS doesn't scan your post to figure out which pieces of mail you are likely to actually look at and then affix stickers to those letters advertising related products.


USPS scans your mails and then includes advertising with this scans when you get the feed in informed delivery.


Yes, but the advertising images are directly related (a T-mobile mailpiece gets a T-mobile png)


I'm definitely not saying it's the same as facebook, but it's an example of content curation based on 3rd party input. Selective advertising reaches a place of prominence, ty6853 doesn't get a special image when I send a letter to Santa.


No, it's buying a service. They aren't curating, they're taking anyones money and sending anything that fits in their guidelines. There's nothing stopping you from displaying your image to a bunch of people.

https://www.usps.com/business/informed-delivery.htm

The image that goes with the mail is required even.


Yes it's all very different when you use different rhetoric, right?

"Buying a service" is how advertisers get placement of certain content curated.

If it fits in the guidelines, you get the special placement and image, if it doesn't fit the special guidelines, you can draw it on your mails and it gets scanned and all they see is the scan. I can draw a swastika on the front of my envelope and it will show up on the feed (but only in black and white), but can I get the swastika on the advertisement image in color? IDK because the link you sent was literally just tossing back what I already mentioned which is informed delivery, not a link to their policies (the policies themselves are a bit vague, but under them it appears not, and they definitely have stronger 'guidelines' than the black and white for instance regarding weapons).

If your content on Facebook 'fits the guidelines' and the guys 'buying the service' benefit from it, then it gets curated more strongly. If it fits other less strict guidelines, I can still see it. But there's nothing stopping you from paying facebook lots of money and getting something that fits their guidelines displayed more prominently, so that wouldn't be curation!

Your argument is highly specious. "Buying a service" is a total red herring, and "guidelines" is just a hack here so you can pivot around it's a mechanism by which the curation happens.

As for the image, you claim it's required, but my mails don't get it, it appears to be 'required' as part of a particular 'campaign'. I have no trouble believing that some services might require an image, but this doesn't somehow disprove curation.


Sure, but it's the same business model for everyone. Give USPS money, get it delivered to a door.

Social media companies are actively curating what you see, or don't see which is the stem of all their problems.


Because they were forced to be unreasonably profitable for a public service.


We hosted DeepSeek R1 671b for free. We don’t train on your data and are working to train an uncensored finetune of the model.


We just dropped our H100 on-demand prices to 1.99/hr. It's now the lowest in the world, you don't need to talk to a sales person, and it's available now: https://t.co/AcqRIITS1s


Great summary of the industry. I do want to point out that we actually have the lowest price for H100s: 1.89/hr. Coreweave’s pricing requires long term commitment and you’re comparing our on demand PCIe cloud to their ‘reserved’ h100 cloud. Our reserved H100 + InfiniBand cloud is priced as follows and is the lowest in the world:

$1.89 / hour for 100% upfront

$2.04 / hour for 80% upfront

$2.15 / hour for monthly payment

See: https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud/reserved


Lambda Cloud has A100 40GB for $1.10/hr—less than half the price of OP). We also just launched H100s for $2.40/hr.

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud


Engaging in self-promotion without taking the time to understand the context is not helpful. Moreover, the estimated cost of approximately $800 per month would still apply, which may not be within the desired budget.


How dare someone self-promote in the midst of your self-promotion?


I am answering to the version before you edited it.

You are absolutely right, and I apologize if I came across as dismissive. We may have different viewpoints, and it's important to respect and acknowledge each other's perspectives. I appreciate your input, and I'm here to listen and address any further questions or concerns.

Let's keep the conversation friendly and open.


what do you mean with "the estimated cost of approximately $800 per month"?


Parent is saying $1.10/hr = $792/mo of GPU leasing. GGP is looking for $50/mo. Obviously $792 is a lot higher than the GGP's request for $50/mo.

Whether or not $50/mo is an unreasonable ask (it is), they have a budget and feel that even $85/mo is too far out of budget for their application.


> what do you mean with "the estimated cost of approximately $800 per month"?

Presumably they mean

$1.1/hr * 24hr/day * 30day/month = $792/month


> We also just launched H100s for $2.40/hr.

What's the availability like? I had tried it once and had problem getting any GPU.


We have lots of H100s available right now.


Thanks! Is there a status page like https://oblivus.com/availability/ for Lambda Cloud? I got very excited about building a product on top of Lambda cloud for cocalc.com, but after read lots of docs, when I tried Lambda cloud, I just got the message: "We are currently out of capacity for all instances. Please check again in a few hours." This was on April 27. I immediately thought: "There is no possible way I can build a product on this for my users, but it may be very useful for other tasks, e.g., training." If there were something like https://oblivus.com/availability/, especially with historical data, it would be very useful to appropriately set my expectations about how Lambda Cloud can best be used.

By the way, Lambda Stack is VERY impressive. Thanks for maintaining that!


Lambda availability is awful.


Lambda GPU Cloud is extremely cheap as well (1/4 the price of Amazon) and we have recently added lots of capacity.


For GPU instances, Lambda Cloud has A100s for $1.10/hr and A10 instances for $0.60/hr.

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud


Here’s a tutorial on how to fine tune stable diffusion form the guy who made text-to-pokemon:

https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusio...


I re-implemented this in python. Was a pretty fun project. Tromp is awesome.

http://stephenbalaban.com/a-binary-lambda-calculus-parser-in...


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