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    Ask HN: You have 50k USD and want build an inference rig without GPUs. How?

    This is more like a thought experiment and I am hoping to learn the other developments in the LLM inference space that are not strictly GPUs. Conditions: 1. You want a solution for…

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    The state of "super fast inference" is frustrating

    I am talking about the 3 providers I know of which claim super fast inference: Groq, Cerebras and Sambanova. Every one of those claim extremely fast multi hundred tokens per second…

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    Ask HN: Is it feasible to have just a REST API as a back end for web app?

    Read about this approach at a few places: Have only a REST API as a backend and do everything else in the frontend JS framework. I don't know enough about web architectures to eval…

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    Ask HN: What is the “modern approach” to web/app development?

    I am a backend dev and know little of web dev. Assuming you are designing a web app, and corresponding mobile apps in 2018 from scratch, how would you go about structuring it? What…

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    Comment #16188763

    I don't know of any, but seems like a great app idea. People are often looking for best in the area as opposed to "best restaurant in the area".

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    Comment #16163002

    A friend's friend. Working in Amazon for 15-16 years (still not manager). His stock would easily make him a millionaire. He puts minimal effort just enough not to get fired, doesn'…

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    Comment #16070557

    Iirc, staff SWE is Google's equivalent of Principal Engineer.

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    Comment #16070513

    Others here would be in far better position to advice you, but from what I can say, having an awesome github portfolio will go a long way to compensate for the other handicaps you …

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    Comment #16070480

    European tech salaries are famously lower than US salaries. Southern Europe is even worse. I was offered a role of Senior/Lead engineer (with over 10 years exp) for "maximum salary…

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    Comment #16070428

    I don't know, information shared in a comment has more authenticity and can encompass more info (such as other types of comps/benefits) than spreadsheet/form. And Ireland. :)

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    Comment #16070337

    I have. Like I said in the other comment, glassdoor (and similar sites) lump together salaries that were collected for as long as the site exists, while in reality the salaries hav…

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    Comment #16070311

    There is one major problem with glassdoor - the salaries that are collected today are grouped together with salaries that were collected 7 years ago. Which is why you always see lo…

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    Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

    There was a proper discussion on it about two years ago. Recently a similar thread was posted, but not to many response. I do not work at any of the above. I work at a fintech comp…

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    Ask HN: Recommend a command line tool to generate neat-looking graphs/charts?

    I have used gnuplot for basic tasks in the past. This time I am trying to generate graphs that'll be sent to the customers and it's important that they look neat and aesthetically …

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    Comment #11081234

    I have a question: what does this mean for theoretical physics? (except for Einstein was right) Does it settle any major debates? Does it make any competing theory more or less lik…

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    Comment #10930923

    > but the fact that he stubbornly continued them for few days without noticing that the girl is completely turned off and freaked out by him. She says she laughed at the sexual com…

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    Comment #10930896

    To be fair, in the write-up, she says she laughed at the sexual comments made by her manager. >I remember thinking to myself, “Did I do something to encourage this kind of behaviou…

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    Comment #10930695

    I am member of a minority, and have had more than one chance to go to the HR to report "being racially abused" and present the narrative in such a way that anyone would be convince…

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    Comment #10164265

    But what about bandwidth? That's still shared among all the users, right? And given that they are even advertising 'Seedboxes' and VPN servers [0] hosted in the same network, it ma…

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    Comment #9813096

    Do you hire engineers from Europe?

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    Comment #9564551

    I might be missing something important here. But according to their pricing page[1], a preemtible VM with 30GB memory costs $86.4 a month. Why would someone go for this when cheap …

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    Comment #9539009

    I am really happy to see Telegram growing. I am one of those people who deleted Whatsapp (and lost touch with 30-40 people and several groups) when Facebook bought it. So far I hav…

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    Comment #9493315

    To further clarify, the service aimed at users who like their privacy but do not have enough time or skill to maintain their own server, neither have IT team at their disposal.

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    Comment #9493309

    Thanks for the feedback, that was helpful. :)