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by flaque 2y ago
Of course? On average, companies that are still standing after ~15 to 20 years are going to be a lot larger than the companies who started more recently.
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by flaque 2y ago
they're a replacement for cargoships. If done right, they're faster than a cargoship, but could (maybe) carry lots of capacity for cheap, while also not requiring them to take the same routes as a ship.
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by flaque 2y ago
This seems broadly good. If you told me a democratic admin had recruited these people, I would think "wow! what a positive signal for the current admin!"
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by flaque 2y ago
This only makes sense if you think scaling laws won't hold. If someone gets something to work with 1k h100s that should have taken 100k h100s, that means the group with the 100k is about to have a much, much better model.
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by flaque 2y ago
San Francisco Compute | Multiple Roles | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building a new, regulated, commodity market for large scale GPU clusters. More like the Kalshi, less like craigslist. To accomplish this, we make a VM orchestrator c
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by flaque 2y ago
> put a note where people will see those prices so that they understand those prices are unlikely to remain. Yup, shall do! > Also, I'm really impressed at how great your replies about your product are! You're a gem. Thank
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by flaque 2y ago
Hi! I run sfcompute. We don't have a limited number of slots! We just go down a lot. It's VERY beta at the moment; we literally take the whole thing down about once a week. So if we know of some major problem, or we're down,
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by flaque 2y ago
If OpenAI has merely 10% margins, they've recouped their costs by 3x.
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by flaque 2y ago
> Tech giants and beyond are set to spend over $1tn on AI capex in coming years, with so far little to show for it. Regardless of whether or not the implicit claim here is true (the claim being "all this spend won't produce an
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by flaque 2y ago
> Whether (people) get insurance, or what the rate for their insurance is, or legal decisions or employment decisions, whether you get fired or hired, could be up to an AI algorithm This is a bit like trying to regulate horseshoes while
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by flaque 3y ago
Ah! Whoops apologies :( I don’t think we were clear that this is a launch of the second cluster, not like a rehash of the previous one. Not trying to repost, just is a poorly explained launch.
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Bay Bridge: the cheapest H100 training clusters(sfcompute.com)
30 points by flaque 3y ago|8 comments
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by flaque 3y ago
This is great! Keep going with this!
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by flaque 3y ago
This is cool! I would ignore everyone who's repeating the same sort of standard startup advice or saying "blah blah doesn't xyz already do this". A lot of startup advice is bad / actively harmful, your thing is pret
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by flaque 3y ago
Nat & Daniel’s cluster is great, and we fully recommend startups seek out this option as well. Nat & Daniel are some of the best investors one can have
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by flaque 3y ago
Yeah, if someone doesn't care about the cost and wants to buy whole cluster, they might be better off using an existing provider.
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by flaque 3y ago
Oh no, definitely not. We just got a loan. Neither Alex or I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund. We want to be a customer of the sf compute group too!
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by flaque 3y ago
> Your project has a youthful optimism that I hope you won’t lose as you go. And in fact it might be the way to win in the long run. This is the nicest thing anyone has said to us about this. We're gonna frame this and hang it out o
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by flaque 3y ago
Ah yeah, that's normal! Was from my old CRDT company, and works as a good emergency email while we debug our DNS.
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by flaque 3y ago
Ah, we're running a medium amount of compute at zero-margin. The point is not to go sell the Fortune 500, but to make sure a grad student can spend a $50k grant. Right now, it's pretty easy to get a few A/H100s (Lambda is gre
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by flaque 3y ago
!!!!!! fixing this. For the moment, evan at roomservice dot dev
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Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups(sfcompute.org)
727 points by flaque 3y ago|176 comments
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Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor(manifund.org)
266 points by flaque 3y ago|184 comments
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by flaque 3y ago
This is the "anti-nuclear" of urbanism. AVs are safe now and they're only going to get safer. You can't legitimately say you care about pedestrian and bike safety and then turn around and suddenly try and block AVs becau
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by flaque 3y ago
This article is poorly written, OpenAI has an actual postmortem here: https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage .
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by flaque 3y ago
This feels like a bad faith take. It's reasonable to say _why_ the thing occurred, that's not blaming. "We fixed it, the root cause was X" is a perfectly fine thing to say.
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by flaque 4y ago
Possibly the opposite. If you own a home on a lot that previously you could only build one or two units on, but now you can build N+ units, that lot is worth a lot more. You should expect rent to fall though, multiple studies ( https:/
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by flaque 4y ago
Here ya go: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WG6X2sttiYltyGbWWfG4...
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by flaque 4y ago
I'm not sure why this is that scary of a thought. Right now law enforcement already has a "killswitch": a traffic stop. If you don't stop at the traffic stop, the "killswitch" is a chase & spikes on the roa
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by flaque 4y ago
This argument doesn't work, because you don't know the statistics of it being an alien probe.

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