Monday, July 31, 2023

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
457 by trevin | 385 comments on Hacker News.


Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
684 by flaque | 164 comments on Hacker News.
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 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. 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. 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.

Friday, July 28, 2023

Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
607 by imadkhan | 897 comments on Hacker News.
I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I've been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years. I've had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails. So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.

Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
592 by caiobegotti | 248 comments on Hacker News.


Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
597 by werner | 122 comments on Hacker News.


BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system

BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
558 by carride | 191 comments on Hacker News.


Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
789 by Akronymus | 513 comments on Hacker News.


Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
707 by luu | 152 comments on Hacker News.


Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API

Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
687 by danShumway | 190 comments on Hacker News.


Show HN: A Python Job Board for Python Developers

Show HN: A Python Job Board for Python Developers
1040 by TreeIsAlive | 3 comments on Hacker News.


Common Pitfalls in Go Benchmarking

Common Pitfalls in Go Benchmarking
1202 by ibobev | 4 comments on Hacker News.


Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
523 by jakobdabo | 246 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, July 6, 2023

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernotes remaining staff has been laid off

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
571 by baron816 | 308 comments on Hacker News.
Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about. If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
547 by deathbypenguin | 130 comments on Hacker News.
I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog here". https://ift.tt/YCRGHK2

Fast

Fast
556 by valtism | 212 comments on Hacker News.


PhD Simulator

PhD Simulator
546 by Smith42 | 174 comments on Hacker News.


Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
538 by Vinnl | 87 comments on Hacker News.