[carlsborg]

It was 2016 and he said "I’ve noticed on AWS prices was that a few months ago, the spot prices on their GPU compute instances were $26 an hour for a four-GP machine, and $6.50 an hour for a one-GP machine. That’s the first time I’ve seen a computer that has human wages.."

Minimum wage (or thereabouts $7.20) now gets you a whopping p2.8xlarge (8 GPU, 32 vcpus, 488GB RAM), and the single GPU machine p2.xlarge is now $0.9 per hour.

This is a crazy data point. What will minimum wage buy you five years from now?

[SiempreViernes]

Depends, do you think the lowest legal wage should go up or down?

[jononor]

Even if I wanted it to double, I don't think that would make it more likely to actually happen. I think the likelihood of machine power available being double or quadruple what it is now is pretty good.

[likelynew]

g3.xlarge is many times faster and spot prices are like 0.5$ per hour.