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New best story on Hacker News: NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
428 by belter | 399 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock

Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock
420 by giuliomagnifico | 237 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 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.


New best story 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
682 by flaque | 161 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.

New best story on Hacker News: 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 | 902 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

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


New best story on Hacker News: Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
602 by werner | 123 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
490 by bookofjoe | 204 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
487 by scubakid | 165 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: https://ift.tt/op4d9KB . TL;DR - ProjectionLab ( https://ift.tt/8vEOsrn ) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users! Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time early on when I was one day away from halting work on it. I posted here on a whim, and was shocked to receive some really constructive and energizing feedback that went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years. As a quick recap, the story started when I dove head-first down the financial independence rabbit hole. I wanted a hands-on and visual way to explore the trade-offs between different life paths. One thing led to another, and I decided to build ProjectionLab. After last year's Show HN, I really put my nose to the grindstone, and here are some of the big developments: - Self-hosting for Lifetime users (spin up your own private deployment, based on Docker Compose, includes support for auth/encryption) - Cash-flow visualization for each simulated year (sankey charts) - Tax analytics (detailed breakdowns for projected income, taxes, marginal rates, effective brackets, etc) - Major redesign of entire app, with landing page and resources now split into separate project - Filing separately option to improve support for international locations that don't have joint filing - Roth Conversions and 72t (SEPP) distribution modeling - Improvements to US tax estimation (Secure 2.0 updates, rental property tax deductions, Medicare + IRMAA, NIIT, principal residence exclusion, etc) - Better support for planning as a couple - More modeling options for cash-flow priorities to support different budgeting philosophies and goals - Extra liquidity + withdrawal options, ability to fund expenses with specific accounts or route income to specific accounts - Customization options for Monte Carlo simulations (characterization of success rates and outcome types, option to set random seed, etc) - And a whole bunch more! ( https://ift.tt/pSCoHVU ) The HN community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction with PL, and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here. As always, PL is free to try, with no need to create an account. It does not ask to link your financial accounts, and it has a sandbox mode if you just want to hop in and see how it works. --Kyle

New best story on Hacker News: Attention Is Off By One

Attention Is Off By One
497 by elbasti | 178 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
476 by pallas_athena | 1174 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption

U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
428 by walterbell | 308 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers
468 by thunderbong | 332 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C

Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
582 by anjneymidha | 142 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 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
579 by baron816 | 311 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
551 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/AtuZKly

New best story on Hacker News: Fast

Fast
573 by valtism | 215 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: PhD Simulator

PhD Simulator
556 by Smith42 | 175 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
567 by Vinnl | 92 comments on Hacker News.