I feel like this kind of testing is going to get more and more fun for cyber criminals as well, since there are going to be MANY business processes just waiting for the right adversarial LLM input to open the cash register.
I don't often feel jealous of cyber criminals. But I can imagine how funny and wild these upcoming hacks will be!
I'm a provider, I'd like to list my service. How do I do that? Since there is nothing obvious, then how do you know the providers they list are a valid representation of what is out there? Maybe there are other providers who don't want to pay to be listed? But how do you even pay?
I have read many of your comments on GPU-related posts. Occasionally, when I see your comments, I visit your website to see if I can learn anything about your business beyond what you are posting on HN. To this day, hotaisle.xyz contains nothing but a logo.
I don’t get it.
How can you expect a website to list your service when your own service’s website contains zero information? Why would you pay to list your service, when there is no information available about the service you provide? Am I looking in the wrong place? So confused…
To be fair, there is also a contact email at the bottom of the page.
> How can you expect a website to list your service when your own service’s website contains zero information?
We are the first and only (for now) verified MI300x provider on gpulist. In order to get verified, I contacted them directly, they asked for a few bits of information about my business, including my EIN. What I'm offering there, is exactly what I have today.
I know, it is ok. Let me explain a bit. We are starting small, so the website is the last focus right now. I know the general expected culture is to have some splashy page with a typeform on it, but hey... aren't we also a bit tired of that?
In order to even get access to buy these GPUs, you have to go through quite a lot of effort. You can't just buy them off the shelf from BestBuy. They are export controlled and I've agreed to not use them to build bombs. You have to have a valid business and a great story, or they won't even talk to you. Heck, I even had to prove my business was in good standing in Delaware. I'm pointing this out because I will need to know all my customers too. My business isn't something someone just signs up for on a website.
These GPUs are also extremely expensive. Imagine a 350lbs Ferrari. We started with 8 of them (one chassis) because they are super new and it was a proof of concept. Last year, we didn't even know for certain if AMD would double down on AI. This is all we initially raised funding for. As soon as we deployed the compute, we immediately had a customer on them, all without a website. Just word of mouth. By the way, the success of the PoC unlocked our next round of funding, and we are working on a much larger order of MI300x right now.
Don't worry, you'll get a website at some point. That said, these things sell themselves, you either have them or you don't. I've been very transparent and public about what we are up to. Would a website really help here? Maybe. But I've also started other extremely successful businesses originally without websites too. At the end of the day, I'd rather spend investors money on buying more compute, than a pretty website. Once I have some more revenue, I'll funnel that right back into the business and work on marketing/sales more.
If you're curious about anything, feel free to just reach out and ask. I'm not some corporate overlord suit wearing sales guy. I'm an open source tech nerd who's been in the business a long time. 20+ year ASF member, who co-founded Java @ Apache. Happy to answer any questions.
Who says they're even looking? Being able to contact them would tell you right away whether they simply overlooked you or whether you don't yet meet some criteria (which they might actually tell you).
Confusing pricing for Kimai. Start for free for hosted but I can't find the pricing anywhere on the website but I found a blog post about how it's no longer free. Do you pay for it and try to host it?
I self-host it. But you can also use the SaaS version. The pricing for that can be found here: https://www.kimai.cloud/pricing
Currently, this is:
Standard
€2.99 Annual €35.88 per user
Project time-tracking
Billable and non-billable hours
Invoicing
Data export
Audit logs
Industry-specific translations
Personal Support
Professional
€3.99 Annual €47.88 per user Most popular
All the features of "Standard"
Overtime account
Public holiday, vacation, sick leave
Expense tracking
Custom fields
Task planning
Daily backups for download
Single Sign-On with SAML
Custom domain with SSL
Access restriction via IP
Annual plan: less bookkeeping
I think I get it. There's no horizontal scroll bar until you reach the very distant bottom, so if you don't know to middle click to scroll sideways, it looks like pricing is the last column, and it's cut off until you scroll that way.
There are 2 problems with the analysis in the article:
1. They choose startups from 2014-2015. Valuations were (a) more reasonable then and (b) we've just been through one of the biggest bull markets of tech stocks in the past decades.
2. That taking the "Mean Valuation Growth" over that time period is meaningless if (a) there hasn't been a liquidity event and (b) if the mean is weighted by outliers (which it always is).
Portfolio / VC strategy is a bet on power laws. We, as employees, don't have that opportunity. That means we've got to be deliberate about who we join to try to hit a power law outcome.
DataFrames are just SQL. There will be no performance difference.
RDDs will be worse, so it shouldn't matter. No vectorization, no column processing, lots of serialization and de-serialization. They're basically always slower than DataFrames barring some strange use case.
Version control is the best for documentation.
But maintaining it is hard - lots of great comments here.
For anyone interested, I'm working on https://hyperlint.com/ (disclaimer: bootstrapped founder). To help automate the toil around documentation.