<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fooker</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fooker</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:00:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fooker" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooker in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a problem when there's 10x leverage AND the underlying asset massively deprecates in value.<p>Neither of those look likely yet.</p>
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<p>It was not a "prove it" challenge.<p>I'm pointing out that there's no known information theoretic constraint about the impossibility of frontier AI models being improved to fit/run on a small GPU.<p>Please do not make up plausible sounding science facts.</p>
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<p>Again, this is how all of economics works.<p>A Toyota dealership arranges a loan for you. Through a bank for a used vehicle, sometimes through Toyota itself for new cars.<p>A house builder will routinely take on part of the loan providing burden to get some of the interest.<p>Even someone selling you their thirty year old house will often provide seller financing.<p>You may have ideological opinions against this, which is fine. There are billions of people, for example that are fundamentally opposed to the idea of interest. But like it or not, this is how it has worked for the last ~500ish years.</p>
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<p>There's no information theoretic constraint we know of that prevents this. You will almost surely win a Turing award if you can prove this.<p>It's almost a given that whatever is frontier intelligence today will run on a potato in a few years.</p>
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<p>> on an RTX 5070<p>RTX 5070 prices go up ~N times. Nvidia makes more money because it's easier to make these things than it's to make a GB300.</p>
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<p>All economics is circular financing, that's how it works.<p>You pay Apple for a MacBook, Apple uses it to develop a better MacBook.<p>What goes wrong is leverage. We haven't seen much hint of the 10x leverage kind of deals that brought down the house in 2008.</p>
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<p>You don't, at least traditionally in math research.<p>This will almost surely change with AI.</p>
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<p>Just in case people didn't know - Flock is a YC company</p>
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<p>Yeah it's for simulating how many neutrons are going to be in the air.<p>And what fraction of electromagnetic waves and particles are going to absorbed by those neutrons and other things in the air.<p>Pretty much weather!</p>
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<p>Mathematicians routinely spend years on a problem without getting anywhere.</p>
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<p>This misses a very important point.<p>It’s not just about out remembering, it’s about breadth.<p>Mathematicians are all about depth. It’s pretty much impossible to become an expert in more than one narrow field of mathematics.<p>AI is happily applying techniques and abstractions across these silos.</p>
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<p>k</p>
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<p>> you think kids in other states<p>Parents of the kids, realistically.</p>
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<p>We are not getting that reckoning.<p>It’s great to yearn for bug free software, but that necessarily brings an insane amount of red tape to get anything done. Like 5 years worth of review to start building your code with the next version of your compiler. Or six months to ship a hundred lines of code.<p>I'd rather have bugs. I’d happily quit having anything to do with software than suffer months of doing nothing in the name of security.</p>
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<p>> reword my initial prompt to get the agent off an unintended track.<p>The signal here is the action of stopping the agent “do something else, this is stupid”, not a tweak to the initial prompt.</p>
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<p>Okay yeah, fair point.<p>My comment was from a decade old perspective</p>
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<p>Google has close to the best internal tooling in the industry for a decade or so.<p>Then the Google engineers who joined Facebook missed it so much that they built a better replacement.</p>
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<p>There's a full fledged 'reasoning' step that basically expands your prompt.<p>As long as you are not missing important information, how you word the prompt does not have any effect.</p>
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<p>There's no program you run to 'make the thing'.<p>It's mostly ad hoc scripts and some pretty horrible hacks being run by a hundred engineers trying to improve a thousand different things at once with a hundred thousand GPUs.<p>I'm sure once we understand the tech better, the training process will look like running a program.</p>
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<p>This trope was valid maybe in 2022.<p>Model training now is not a straight forwards process of input data -> run tools -> get model.<p>There's a whole lot of alchemy going on. We don't quite understand what works and what doesn't. Think of it like painting with water color and having to improvise very often.<p>The only advantage over water color is that we can revert to a working state.</p>
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