dachryn

alpaca lora is quite capable actually and is suddenly gaining a hell of a lot of traction in the corporate world

dont underestimate how many of those parameters are actually necessary to support multiple languages.

If you focus on english only, this can easily reduce the paramters 5fold

you are underestimating the impact of programs like this.

The CEO will quickly spot broken processes and inefficiencies. Ass kissing can't make up for business problems. Beyond that, by working in a different store, gets a feel on how generic the approach can be, and where they need local optimizations.

The only think you are taking out of the consideration is toxic lower management and asshole colleagues, but that's not something I'd expect the CEO to fix directly himself. If anything he is just bored of the ass kissers and good news shows, and wants to regain a feel of reality

I was not expecting this Reddit level of comments on HN. Really hoping you are sarcastic.

the execs definitely miss out on a lot of money because bonus programs are typically multi year.

There are always -short term (how did we do this year, the classic everyone gets) -long term (bonus defined today, paid out over a few years if you meet the strategic goals, typically director and exec level, we are easily talking 100k+/year here in bonus money)

bonusses. So, yeah, still a financial letdown for them. But they still got paid quite a lot of money of course. The average swiss person had no stakes or no culpability at all (except maybe choosing them, clients could have walkd away)

on paper, in practice they don't kill products, they just die because of mismanagement.

Google is the other hand, they kill products outright even when there is still life in it.

With microsoft you can pay for extended support, but its pretty basic. They don't fix bugs, its only 'security issues'

the openAI playbook

They are brilliant at marketing (look at DALL-E). But then stable diffusion comes along etc and they need to prove their worth against competition. I am afraid Microsoft is not handling this well

a 400 month customer is really a tiny fish, don't expect special treatment without support packages. Do you even have an enterprise contract with them? The bronze contract can be had from 0 spend, and gives the option to pay through invoicing and have support. Or are you just going through credit card which is intended for hobby use?

I am not defending them, but this is totally on you. What was the missing information? Lack of identity verification or credit card verification? Again that's on you. You should have also received a warning in the cloud console and if you hvae the cloud app on your phone, there as well.

yes thats their business model: have universities and institutions pay for access.

it's simple: Many companies are on Azure for some reason. (mainly because of preexisting microsoft contracts, and because its so tightly coupled with office that if you want office at the enterprise level, you always need a little of Azure)

Now, those companies need data infrastructure. Azure ML studio is horrible. Azure data factory is somewhat okay'ish, but far from ideal. Azure Synapse is a steaming pile of junk that doesn't seem to improve. Azure data lake is kinda functional as a data lake, but lacks any decent ways to analyze that data.

Spinning up jupyter notebooks is not something most IT teams understand, they want a managed service.

As far as I know, Databricks is then the only solution offered by Microsoft. That's why they get such a high adoption rate. Not because of merit, but because they are the only somewhat acceptable solution on Azure. Good enough to just work. Not good enough to gain a competitive data advantage.

I hate what the world has come to, but sadly IT procurement has too much influence and CTO's dont understand the modern world enough. They just care about the big Microsoft contract, because it makes them look good (look at all these savings!)

If Microsoft would showcase Teradata or Dataiku or a bit of Snowflake, all of those run through the azure marketplace anyway,... we would be better off. But consultants and premium partners naturally only care about Databricks

can you actually link to the ones you recommend then?

Because I am quite interested then in figuring out the economics side of obtaining one

you are too pessimistic. Senior profiles definitely dived into the statistics aspect of it all. Experiment design is often a big part of modern business cases, because naturally it is part of the cost to obtain data.

It is still taught at university if you do a master degree or PhD at a decent place.

But I agree that many juniors have no clue. Especially those who are self taught and join in from a different field

lol that's such an abuse of statistics that absolutely makes no sense

The problem in Portugal is the relation between income and housing cost. If the average rent of a 1 bedroom is 1000/month, and the average net income is 1300/month, you have a problem.

And oh boy are they building. Entire new zones that didn't even exist 20 years ago are now full of high rise buildings, public transport, shopping malls, ... But the prices to live there are phenomenal, even to western european standards.

they mostly use numpy (matrix maths library).

So if you use a library for matrix multiplication, inverse, transpose, ... with a nice syntax, you're good to go.

there are education discount programs for students etc..

I've been with DigitalOcean for a very long time, their prices seem comparable to Linode, I always saw them marketed more or less the same.

In fact, I don't even know why one would pick Linode over DigitalOcean or vice versa

no the actual issue is that it would mean a demotion for Ryan

Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investments to be making. But the only way out is to fire the guy, and that's just one step too far.

So the ryan's are untouchable because of politics, they want to keep their scope and budgets. If nobody wants to decrease their budget, no money is saved sadly

I dabbled in this myself, and never managed to beat a classic index tracker.

So yes, I made a 3-5% profit over roughly 18 months, but it took a lot of time, stress, and in the end I ended up with less money.

Is your experience the same?

If I try that, my banking app refuses to boot because it assumes its jailbroken or something.

I went with AEG specifically because they guarantee at least 10 year of replacement parts availability on those specific devices.

To me that's more valuable than a 2 or 3 year warranty.

I honestly don't like their hardware either.

Well, the camera and battery that is. My huawei and iphone vastly outperform the samsungs I had.

I grade Samsung on the same level as Sony Xperia: great phones, but one too many things that are failing to be acceptable

(Had a Samsung s7, s20 and now an s22 from work, not by choice)

it insane how this is often not the reflex of people.

If its closer than 2m, attach a cable.

The big elephant in the room remains: cost

Google is king in having reduced the cost of search queries. After all, they process billions of them, they need to bring down the cost. The built their own chips for their datacenters specifically optimized for these algorithms.

ChatGPT, or really any GPT algorithm, currently does not have a way to scale in a cost efficient matter. I am really wondering how Microsoft plans to make this sustainable. I assume they dont, and just throw money against it to gain market share. Just to put the finger to Google. They'll get the money somewhere else and just sit it out. Amazon with the diapers.com story all over again. In the end we'll all be worse off

Never forget Microsoft is actually evil. I would not be surprised if they start to lock chatgpt style searches somehow in their corporate licenses and force users to use them through their IT execs. Much like they have gained market share with Teams.

I am still debating, if they release it, should i use it to burn MIcrosoft's money? Or should I stay away from it because stupid investors and sales people will be all up in this

for a startup, it might actually make more sense. Do you want to pay an engineer to setup the backups and monthly update cycle? Setup the alert monitoring?

There is an implicit cost there. If its only one or two of those things, just take the managed services.

If you start to scale, get an administrator type of employee to save on this

self hosting feels like an afterthought. That's a red flag, it means they actually don't have any open source users or ecosystem.

good luck actually getting that money.

What are you going to do, sue over 20 euro?

same happened in Belgium, the US won over the French Jet.

In hindsight nobody cares anymore, but it was a lot of public debate and very clear the decision was political and not merit based

Hey, that has value, there is definitely a good case to be made for that. But just be open and honest about it instead of doing weird procurement steps

kinda yes. Recommendations that are irrelevant to you because you already watched it are annoying.

Not knowing where you ended up, which episodes you have already seen are annoying. Especially if its between seasons

that is a big part of the netflix value proposition. You sit back in your coach, and just binge watch the next recommended thing

I always had back luck finding odler stuff, am I just doing it wrong then?

Torrents tend to stay somewhat alive way longer.

I miss the glory days of rapidshare, fastupload, rapidleech, megaupload ...

the people buying these things obviously have no idea about that. Migrating to Okta or something else neutral would cost the same, but hey, that's a different name