That's mentioned in the article, but is the lock-in really that big? In some cases, it's as easy as changing the backend of your high-level ML library.
I thin k you can only run on google cloud not aws bare metal azure etc
Readit NewsThe question is, a sell off for who?
If they’ve securitized and sold their data center buildout, will the big clouds and AI labs actually face any severe impact? While the sums are huge, most of these companies have the cash on hand to pay down the debt. The big AI labs have said their models earn enough to cover the cost to train themselves, just not the next one. This means they could at any time walk away from the compute spend for training.
With the heavy securitization of all these deals, will the “bubble pop” just hurt the financial industry?
If a company like CoreWeaver sees their SPV for a Microsoft-specific data center go bankrupt, that means MSFT decided to walk away from the deal. Red flag for the industry, but also a sign of fiscal restraint. Someone else can swoop in and buy the DC for cheap, while MSFT avoids the Opex hit. Seems like the losers will be whoever bought that SPV debt, which probably isn’t a tech company.
It’s an insurance company so basically pensions.
Every dime paid by the H1B tax is a dime the US taxpayers don’t need to pay. The administration should go further and layer an additional tax on H1B’s income. That would reduce the amount the H1Bs take home. Excess pay in the tech industry is driving up real estate prices in the bay and Seattle. The excess pay is either spent on rent or remitted to the home country. Neither is beneficial to a US worker in the technology hubs.
Would that not be a slippery slope ? Tax foreigners more if on a h1b, but not foreigners on other work visas.
Irishsteve commented on European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech ioplus.nl/en/posts/europe... · Posted by u/saubeidl
I often read that EU is incredibly bureaucratic and risk averse. On the other hand, I also read stories how startups can successfully bootstrap themselves via generous support of the government, like tax deduction for small companies, unemployment benefits for founders, low-interest loans, venture investment, free mentorship by very experienced and connected executives, and etc. The stories about French and Denmark companies are especially impressive. So, I was wondering if there's a difference between the governments of individual countries in EU and the EU government.
I know people who've taken money through these routes. The biggest surprise is the paperwork; since it's public money, everything must be fully transparent, and the government needs to justify why funds went to a specific person / entity.
In contrast, private investors have more discretion and fewer stakeholders to answer to.
Irishsteve commented on Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting careers.arsenal.com/jobs/... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
The slider only goes to £150,000 per annum.
Good luck with your search!
Better off getting a pro contract with them I guess
Irishsteve commented on GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13 geekpython.in/gil-become-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Why are people building their software in Python when they need performance? There are other languages that excel at this. Python strengths lie elsewhere and they are increasingly being diminished with all these "upgrades". Splitting the ecosystem with async was already a major blow and now we are looking at another split along gil/non-gil axis. It's just sad.
Mostly projects / products that start off with very low usage thus python is perfectly fine (Why overoptimize). And then it becomes useful - and a rewrite isn't worth it.
Irishsteve commented on Launch HN: Roe AI (YC W24) – AI-powered data warehouse to query multimodal data · Posted by u/richardmeng
I am glad to see people focusing on this.
If this tool could parse drug patents and draw molecular structures with associated data, I know we would pay 200k/yr+ for that service, and there's a market for it.
In my own field, there's an incredibly important application to parse patents and scientific papers, but this would require specific image=>text models in order to get the required information out with high fidelity. Do you guys have plans to enable user supplied workflows where perhaps image patches can be sent to bespoke encoders, or finetunes?
When you say parse - do you mean for prior art or to generate ideas?
Irishsteve commented on Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'overhyped' ft.com/content/24a12be1-a... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
I feel they are selling to the same businesses who were convinced they needed BigData to manage their 100 row database and CloudComputing to manage their 100 page static web site.
True - and the 'enterprise AI' are the clouderas of the modern day.
Irishsteve commented on Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'overhyped' ft.com/content/24a12be1-a... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
> The claim that AI products will never work might be valid.
Doesn't look very valid from my perspective, having used ChatGPT almost every day for more than a year.
You are correct chatgpt is a great product. But if thats the only 'AI' product, or there is a handful. Those companies will focus on replacing NVIDIA ASAP. NVIDIA benefits from having a broad set of customers.
"Meta has been doing this; when they auto-translate the audio of a video they are also adding an Al filter to make the mouth of who is speaking match the audio more closely. But doing this can also add a weird filter over all the face."
I don't know why you have to get into conspiracy theories about them applying different filters based on the video content, that would be such a weird micro optimization why would they bother with that