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flaque

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About flaque

cofounder of https://sfcompute.com

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    Comment #43334884

    Of course? On average, companies that are still standing after ~15 to 20 years are going to be a lot larger than the companies who started more recently.

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    Comment #43130928

    they're a replacement for cargoships. If done right, they're faster than a cargoship, but could (maybe) carry lots of capacity for cheap, while also not requiring them to take the …

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    Comment #42934785

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    Comment #42922379

    This seems broadly good. If you told me a democratic admin had recruited these people, I would think "wow! what a positive signal for the current admin!"

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    Comment #42824765

    This only makes sense if you think scaling laws won't hold. If someone gets something to work with 1k h100s that should have taken 100k h100s, that means the group with the 100k is…

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    Comment #42021402

    San Francisco Compute | Multiple Roles | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building a new, regulated, commodity market for large scale GPU clusters. More like the Kalshi, less like crai…

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    Comment #41816291

    > put a note where people will see those prices so that they understand those prices are unlikely to remain. Yup, shall do! > Also, I'm really impressed at how great your replies a…

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    Comment #41811581

    Hi! I run sfcompute. We don't have a limited number of slots! We just go down a lot. It's VERY beta at the moment; we literally take the whole thing down about once a week. So if w…

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    Comment #40900635

    If OpenAI has merely 10% margins, they've recouped their costs by 3x.

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    Comment #40900562

    > Tech giants and beyond are set to spend over $1tn on AI capex in coming years, with so far little to show for it. Regardless of whether or not the implicit claim here is true (th…

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    Comment #40779242

    > Whether (people) get insurance, or what the rate for their insurance is, or legal decisions or employment decisions, whether you get fired or hired, could be up to an AI algorith…

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    Comment #38264643

    Ah! Whoops apologies :( I don’t think we were clear that this is a launch of the second cluster, not like a rehash of the previous one. Not trying to repost, just is a poorly expla…

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    Comment #37861869

    This is great! Keep going with this!

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    Comment #37677269

    This is cool! I would ignore everyone who's repeating the same sort of standard startup advice or saying "blah blah doesn't xyz already do this". A lot of startup advice is bad / a…

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    Comment #36938551

    Nat & Daniel’s cluster is great, and we fully recommend startups seek out this option as well. Nat & Daniel are some of the best investors one can have

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    Comment #36937097

    Yeah, if someone doesn't care about the cost and wants to buy whole cluster, they might be better off using an existing provider.

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    Comment #36935589

    Oh no, definitely not. We just got a loan. Neither Alex or I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund. We want to be a customer of the sf compute group …

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    Comment #36935095

    > Your project has a youthful optimism that I hope you won’t lose as you go. And in fact it might be the way to win in the long run. This is the nicest thing anyone has said to us …

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    Comment #36935086

    Ah yeah, that's normal! Was from my old CRDT company, and works as a good emergency email while we debug our DNS.

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    Comment #36935032

    Ah, we're running a medium amount of compute at zero-margin. The point is not to go sell the Fortune 500, but to make sure a grad student can spend a $50k grant. Right now, it's pr…

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    Comment #36934956

    !!!!!! fixing this. For the moment, evan at roomservice dot dev

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    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 …