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Conversations about the costs of inference never consider the reality that API pricing is significantly higher than the operating costs.

Nor do they ever consider that the cost of datacenter hosted inference has to crash when the bubble pops and hardware vendors can't fill orders at sky high prices created by demand anymore and the hyperscalers can't keep things running near capacity at the high demand prices.

All of which leads to the ROI math for implementing AI looking much different.

Has everybody forgotten how much money Nvidia, TSMC, and all the hyperscalers are making, today, in pure profit? The costs of inference are high because we're in a bubble.

I don't think it's going to be a disaster, doing nothing is not quite a disaster when the AAA games sector has been ticking over like this for the past 10 years or so.

The law is worded so that this does extremely little even if fully passed by CA's legal system due to the very broad exceptions. Exactly as lobbyists want it.

Makes great headlines for SKG while doing pretty much nothing material for them though.

Despite the good intentions of SKG, their efforts are being heavily shaped by the intense lobbying against them.

This law has a lot of weird omissions and obvious loopholes because industry lobbyists want it that way for their clients. It's a very clever law in the studio and publisher's favor. It changes pretty much nothing. The worst GaaS plagues on the industry will be able to keep trucking along as usual and the few service games remaining that have an upfront cost will slap on the tiniest singleplayer function to meet the law. Hell a model viewer might even meet it, or at the very least bait people into trying to waste time in court over it.

All while making nice headlines implying that SKG is making meaningful progress (they're not)

However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely.

How is that incentivizing offline games? Half of the service game focused industry would be exempt

However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely.

Live service games overwhelmingly fall into exactly this category. If anything they're being incentivized over making a game that has an online multiplayer but focus being singleplayer or anything intended to be released and moved on from.

I would love to live in a world where my coworkers learn from their mistakes

is this Human 2.0? I only have 1.0a beta in the office.

I get the joke but it really does highlight how flimsy the argument is for humans. IME humans frequently make simple errors everywhere they don’t learn from and get things right the first time very rarely. Damn. Sounds like LLMs. And those are only getting better. Humans aren’t.

It's not seen as important enough for others.

Just like with a lot of things. Sure you could do a thing better, faster, more efficiently on a PC, but some people just don't care when 80% is good enough.

It's also a smart legal strategy.

Nintendo's lawsuits they won against emulator projects in the past had donation systems as one of, if not the sole main point they drove to win the case.

Because he doesn’t.

The impression I get from SWEs I’ve met throughout my life is that most of them don’t actually care about their job. They got in because it paid well and demand was plentiful.

mobile gaming is much bigger than HN would believe.

A lot of people do in fact, play more than a couple forever titles.

I know multiple weebs that want more powerful ipads to play mobage.

It makes me wonder why he has the job of CEO then if he's so confident that the technology will destroy the world.

Don't worry, I know exactly why. $

Reddit has been shedding its techy enthusiast crowd for the past few years with the combination of policy changes and insufficient moderation against LLM bots. I wonder if that’s contributing.

Your home systems can slot in HBM? Doubt that.

Another issue is that you actually need a lot of money to meaningfully run for most federal office roles, so that's one filter which promotes rich guys who don't care about doing the job well.

To put it another way, I have not participated in a federal election where I was excited about my options, ever. I have always been triage voting in federal elections ever since I was old enough to vote.

So yes, we do vote for our clowns, but only because we're not given any decent options to vote for.

Fortunately, the US giving a lot of power to states means that our more local elections are a lot more interesting to participate in and at least in my state, I have several decent options to vote in people who will make a real difference.

I am not exaggerating slightly when I say that arch wiki taught me how to use Linux

I’ve always been dabbling in Linux since 2007 but I never really felt productive in it until i discovered arch. And it’s outstanding wiki

That would be great if your community only exists in a voip channel

I can't believe theres a country out there that has recreated the DMCA but for child welfare

Bet they asked an AI to make the bit work /s

I never stop being amused that LLMs have made HN realize that many programmers are programmers for paychecks. Not for passion

So just like windows, don’t update it

Year of the Linux desktop for sure

Well considering the fine is larger than their profits in Italy, why on earth would they keep doing business there?

Yeah lemme just keep burning money to provide a service in a single country.

Is there some idea that CF is a public utility?

Or an idea that CF should just comply with a 30 minutes zero questions asked API infamous for egregious false positives?

That CEO should stop posting but that just sounds like a business decision

It reminds me of any of elon musk’s crash outs.

Kinda a bad thing to be associated with

My man that’s an ad

Many posts on HN are ads. We’ve just collectively decided that some of them are OK

I believe the theory that Mangione even wanted to be caught and arrested because he didn't see a viable life for himself anymore with his spinal problems and medical bills. Who social engineers their way into getting a CEO's itinerary and then keeps a manifesto on their person well after the crime

Now he doesn't have to worry about paying for that. Or getting reasonable treatment but hey,

How?

Consoles don’t pay for online subscriptions with f2p games anymore, which is the overwhelming lions share of online play today.

Consoles also get to flip games you’re done with. I’m positive about 3 of my friends spend much less than I do on gaming these days because of all the games they buy, play once, then flip again on FB market place

And then you get to the rising entry level cost of PC gaming. If you want something better than a Steam deck you’re looking at 1K USD to start with an Intel dGPU

But I guess if you’re fine with a Steam deck it’s a bit cheaper than consoles to start

The best claim that PC gaming has today is that it has a much larger library with indies that don’t release on console

Hard to call it outsmarting when your opponent is a toddler

It really depends on your GPU drivers.

If you're using nvidia like 75% of Steam's hardware survey reports, it's a mixed bag and 1% lows are fucking abysmal compared to windows.

But try getting nvidia to care about Linux beyond CUDA. They'd rather just stop selling GPUs to normal people before they do that.

idk about that with the rising cost of hardware. But I guess if your IT dept is doing the purchasing thats not really your problem.

I just use a DisplayPort to hdmi cable. Works well on my 4k@120 TV

chromium/blink is going to be ship of theseus'd before it "dies" imo