natfriedman

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by natfriedman 3y ago
craigslist for gpu cluster rentals?
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by natfriedman 3y ago
Does vast do clusters? This is for clusters.
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by natfriedman 3y ago
And to support startups we invest in who need GPUs!
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by natfriedman 3y ago
Yeah, ~250-350 per node depending on node spec, volume, etc.
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by natfriedman 3y ago
H100s cost $35-40k each
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by natfriedman 3y ago
We think there's enough data. There is a multi-century history of chemical methods destroying scrolls by the hundreds without reading them, so we're not eager to fund that work.
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by natfriedman 3y ago
We're thinking about this too. The overall prize pool was about 6x smaller a week ago so we are still digesting this rapid influx of sponsorship. The grand prize goes to the _first_ team to read 4 passages from the scrolls. But we coul
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by natfriedman 3y ago
You can see some very promising ink detection results here: https://scrollprize.org/tutorial4 And in this recent paper: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/educelab/EduceLab-Scrolls/...
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by natfriedman 3y ago
Hi folks, I'm the co-creator of the Vesuvius Challenge. We now have nearly $1.5M in prizes, thanks to a lot of amazing sponsors. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.
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by natfriedman 4y ago
It seems quite possible that the solution isn't fully automated. N is in the hundreds. And modern AI does, in fact, involve quite a lot of hand crafted data...
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by natfriedman 4y ago
Credit for those goes to Jonny Hyman, who also does animations for Veritasium, Dejan Gotić, who did the fancy 3d animations, and JP Posma, who directed the entire project!
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by natfriedman 5y ago
In general: (1) training ML systems on public data is fair use (2) the output belongs to the operator, just like with a compiler. On the training question specifically, you can find OpenAI's position, as submitted to the USPTO here: h
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by natfriedman 5y ago
You should read the FAQ at the bottom of the page; I think it answers all of your questions: https://copilot.github.com/#faqs
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by natfriedman 5y ago
I haven't seen any reports of this, but it's certainly something we want to guard against: https://copilot.github.com/#faq-can-github-copilot-introduce...
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by natfriedman 5y ago
We think that software development is entering its third wave of productivity change. The first was the creation of tools like compilers, debuggers, garbage collectors, and languages that made developers more productive. The second was open
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by natfriedman 5y ago
It shouldn't do that, and we are taking steps to avoid reciting training data in the output: https://copilot.github.com/#faq-does-github-copilot-recite-c... https://docs.github.com/en/early-access&
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by natfriedman 5y ago
Hi HN, we've been building GitHub Copilot together with the incredibly talented team at OpenAI for the last year, and we're so excited to be able to show it off today. Hundreds of developers are using it every day internally, and
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by natfriedman 5y ago
Update: the author's email was in my spam folder, which must be why I didn't receive it.
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by natfriedman 5y ago
Any forks that make the same very minor changes that ytdl made -- not to provide specific instructions for copyright infringement -- will be reinstated. Or they can complete the DMCA counter-notice process, and if that is unchallenged or su
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by natfriedman 5y ago
The mitigations you suggest are all logical. However, there are legitimate reasons to run CI and tests for outside contributions without taxing maintainers with the cognitive load of having to evaluate whether each contribution is CI-worthy
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by natfriedman 5y ago
Yes. This is just a category of attack whose growth has been incentivized by rising crypto prices. All providers of free compute are experiencing some level of mining attack right now. Eventually a new equilibrium will emerge.
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by natfriedman 5y ago
This is a cat and mouse game. We add code to detect and disable abuse – sometimes in very clever ways – and then the abusers come up with a new way of circumventing that detection. In order to prevent miners from creating long queues for le
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by natfriedman 5y ago
Will look into this, thanks for sharing!
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by natfriedman 6y ago
(GitHub CEO) It looked at first like this thread was complaining that GitHub doesn't work in something called Qutebrowser. So I downloaded Qutebrowser to try it out, and GitHub seems to work just fine. We care quite a lot about web sta
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by natfriedman 6y ago
It's taking us a day or so to remove all the restrictions. Email me if this isn't fixed today: nat@github.com.
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by natfriedman 6y ago
Right on all counts.
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by natfriedman 6y ago
We have a really excellent policy regarding government takedowns: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-... Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content rem
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by natfriedman 6y ago
It wouldn't help with sanctions. As I said in the blog: The US has long imposed broad sanctions on multiple countries, including Iran. These sanctions prohibit any US company from doing business with anyone in a sanctioned country. (Th
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by natfriedman 6y ago
I mentioned it many times, actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630340 https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1250200008621608962?s...
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by natfriedman 6y ago
The license is specific to GitHub. However, we don't want this to be a competitive advantage for GitHub; developers should choose GitHub because it is better, not because it has a license from OFAC. So we have taken it upon ourselves t

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