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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
on Thursday February 15, 2024 @11:49AM (#39384990)
How can I fine tune these models for my use? Their docs isn't clear whether the Gemini models are fine tuneable.
Re:Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro...
on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:25PM (#39232254)
Oh yes, just burn all the money so they can use it as a tax write-off?
Does anyone really know how these tax write-offs work? People just use the term without any clear understanding.
Meta like any sane company out there will probably use every rule to avoid (not evade) paying tax. Thats good for the shareholders. But this isn't one such measure, it's mostly R&D expenditure.
Re:Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro...
on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:21PM (#39232204)
You gotta burn money to make money. This much cash burn is required to build the next gen level of infrastructure. Its a big bet for the company, let's see how it pays out. Haters going to say its all in vain, but no one knows how the future will look. Stock at ATH btw.
Re:Silicon Valley investors build $300B cash pile in startup funding c...
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:34PM (#39198092)
How about we tax you at 90% and let the money goto into pockets of useless administrators instead of having you spend in your self interest?
Re:Long Covid is associated with cognitive slowing
on Sunday January 28, 2024 @12:34PM (#39167867)
Not sure if others have experienced this, but you tend to forget nouns (object names, names of people, places, etc) after getting hit with COVID. I googled about this and something called "anomic aphasia" came up.
I often caught myself saying "that thing" many times because I couldn't recall the names of even basic objects or street names, etc after getting hit with Omicron.
Just curious if others have experienced this as well.
Re:Ask HN: Cheapest GPU provider to host fine-tuned models?
on Friday December 15, 2023 @03:38PM (#38658512)
Just checked out mystic.ai, it looks like you only pay for usage on any model and not idle time. Might actually fit my requirements.
Re:Ask HN: Cheapest GPU provider to host fine-tuned models?
on Friday December 15, 2023 @03:24PM (#38658368)
Thanks for the tip. Predibase has support for Zephyr-7B, but I wonder if they offer the same price per 1k token for a fine-tuned version of Zephyr-7B? Most likely, they will ask me to get a dedicated instance for that, which is the same as together.ai.
Ask HN: Cheapest GPU provider to host fine-tuned models?
Who provides cheapest GPU inferencing and hosting of fine-tuned models (7B size)? I already have the finetuned model ready, just looking for a cheap place to host and run inferencing.I've looked at Replicate and Together.ai, they both provide really the best tools in this space, but hosting is expensive. Together costs about 1.4/hr to host a 7B model. Replicate is more expensive.Ideally, I...
Re:Ask HN: How do AI chatbots develop personalities?
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:38PM (#34827548)
Characters in book don't write their own dialogs, they are merely projections of the authors. But AI chatbots are non-deterministic and come up with dialog of their own. Of course, you can say they are trained on large corpus of texts and all they are doing are just predicting the next token in the series. But yet, why do they seem like they have distinct personalities? The prediction algorithm is working in such a way that it's creating a sense of personality. How is this happening?
Ask HN: How do AI chatbots develop personalities?
If it's all just tensors, matrices, and math behind them, then how do these chatbots have distinct personalities?One possible explanation is that the personality is just an emergent phenomenon. But still, it seems distinct and very human like. Not something random. Could it be that Bing's Sydney personality is just because someone fed it a large data of text which served as the "seed" for that...
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:49PM (#31772810)
Hmm. I think this guy is just looking for a payday. He was a contractor, not a full time employee.
Ask HN: Weekly team social hour ideas (remote)
We're all remote and planning to have a social hour once a week or once every two weeks. Previously we did a life review where people had to walk through some of the events in the life. This was fun.Any other ideas? No, we are not allowed to spend money on this. Themes/ideas for a recurring social hour would be great. Thanks.
Ask HN: Work Life Balance at Facebook
I recently got an offer for senior software engineer (E5) at Facebook. I'm excited, but I'm concerned about WLB at FB. It seems that the consensus is that work life at FB is very demanding.I'm interested in hearing any personal experience that is counter to this narrative from the folks who work at FB. Are you working 40 hours or less at FB? I wanna know.Can I expect Google or Microsoft level...
Re:Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks...
on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:37PM (#25638497)
Thanks for the link. Not sure why Hacker News doesn't want to hear the truth.
Re:Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks...
on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:12PM (#25635473)
From the article: "An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks..."
Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks (2015)
Re:Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:40PM (#25606093)
From the article:
"An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks...."
"..Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says..."
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the alg...
on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:45PM (#25520669)
I actually miss the Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Feminists recommendations that I was getting 2 years ago. It was kinda fun. Now they have toned it down so much that it's hard to find engaging content. Their music recommendation is still good.
Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:57PM (#25471890)
Where would I be without RubyMine?
Re:Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:42PM (#25365599)
Doesn't look like it tracks conversions? Will this be available in the future?
Re:Selling to unicorns from my parents basement
on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:44PM (#25190085)
I had the same exact question. What does this product do? The landing page does a poor job of explaining, imo.
Re:Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options wh...
on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:41PM (#24873073)
Holy sh*t, is this true? CA wants to grab all your money!
Re:Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options wh...
on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:54PM (#24872613)
I don't think this is sound advice. Any half intelligent person will do their best to make the most out of their income through legal ways.
Re:Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options wh...
on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:34PM (#24872432)
Thanks for the reply. I was not hired as remote employee. Was hired in CA. So lets say that I got 10,000 stock options (strike @ $1.00) that vests over 4 years. 3 of those years I have been in CA and 1 year in Texas.
Let's assume my company goes IPO in 2024 (it's a lottery, I understand), and assume each share is worth $10.00. Which means my 10,000 shares will be worth $100,000.
So I will owe tax on 7500 of those shares to CA? Because I've been there 3 out of those 4 years? That is ($10.00 - $1.00) * 7500 = $67500 of my income will be taxed by CA? And remaining amount will be taxed by Texas?
Even if I move to Puerto Rico, where there are no capital gains, I still owe CA taxes?
Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?
I've heard that California taxes capital gains if you had ever been in the state even if you don't live there anymore?I have some stock options for a non public company (series B), should I vest them while I'm in CA or should I move elsewhere first and then vest to avoid some cryptic CA tax?
Re:Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in P...
on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:59PM (#23749842)
This is just people having conversations about protecting their interest. I'm sure if we spied on the "non-elite" people talking to their spouses or friends, there will be some controversial stuff.
I don't even think there's anything controversial here. This is just a fluff article.
Re:San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast
on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:10PM (#23707937)
I have lived here for 10+ years, rarely see kids play out. Every other city I have lived, it's common to see a bunch a kids and teenagers.