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Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
Emacs 29.1
One week of empathy training (2019)
One week of empathy training (2019)
The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
Hey folks! We're Alex and Evan, and we're working on putting together a 512 H100 compute cluster for startups and researchers to train large generative models on.
- it runs at the lowest possible margins (<$2.00/hr per H100)
- designed for bursty training runs, so you can take say 128 H100s for a week
- you don’t need to commit to multiple years of compute or pay for a year upfront<p>Big labs like OpenAI and Deepmind have big clusters that support this kind of bursty allocation for their researchers, but startups so far have had to get very small clusters on very long term contracts, wait months of lead time, and try to keep them busy all the time.<p>Our goal is to make it about 10-20x cheaper to do an AI startup than it is right now. Stable Diffusion only costs about $100k to train -- in theory every YC company could get up to that scale. It's just that no cloud provider in the world will give you $100k of compute for just a couple weeks, so startups have to raise 20x that much to buy a whole year of compute.<p>Once the cluster is online, we're going to be pretty much the only option for startups to do big training runs like that on.
Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
Hey folks! We're Alex and Evan, and we're working on putting together a 512 H100 compute cluster for startups and researchers to train large generative models on.
- it runs at the lowest possible margins (<$2.00/hr per H100)
- designed for bursty training runs, so you can take say 128 H100s for a week
- you don’t need to commit to multiple years of compute or pay for a year upfront<p>Big labs like OpenAI and Deepmind have big clusters that support this kind of bursty allocation for their researchers, but startups so far have had to get very small clusters on very long term contracts, wait months of lead time, and try to keep them busy all the time.<p>Our goal is to make it about 10-20x cheaper to do an AI startup than it is right now. Stable Diffusion only costs about $100k to train -- in theory every YC company could get up to that scale. It's just that no cloud provider in the world will give you $100k of compute for just a couple weeks, so startups have to raise 20x that much to buy a whole year of compute.<p>Once the cluster is online, we're going to be pretty much the only option for startups to do big training runs like that on.
SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hello HN! It's been about 9 months since we've done one of these and it seems like time for another. Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.<p>I'll be here for the next 2-3 hours and then after a break of about 1 hour for another 2-3 hours. As usual, there are many possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!
IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)
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Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
Threads users down by more than a half