Teams that just work can't exist in stack ranked companies. You can't keep the team as a whole, you always have to cut someone.

Which means that everyone is playing the game to not be cut.

True, stack ranking is a terrible management approach, and if you work at a company that does it, then playing the game is the only way. But frankly, I'd be looking to get out anyway. The best way to play thr stack ranking game is to be job hunting.

But I'm not sure the author of this thread works in such a place. In that case the game is different.

In the case where the "urgent midnight fix" is important, it's necessary to promote the visibility of your (just working) team. If visibility is the game, then be visible.

You know how test-driven-dev was always "write the test first"? In that environment a test is always written before any code.

Well in the "ticket closing" scenario it's important to open a ticket, regardless of how trivial, for every code action taken. For every meeting attended. For every scenario dodged. If tickets are the way to score then write tickets.

If "being a hero" is the valuable thing, then be a hero. Be prepared to champion your team every chance you get. Every time you interact with management stress the emergency you just fixed (before it became an emergency.) Tomorrow do it again with the next thing.

Management needs visibility. Be visible. I know, this seems stupid and beneath you. But that's why they call it a job, not playtime.

> I'm not sure the author of this thread works in such a place

I worked at Amazon, previously.

> Management needs visibility.

I know this very well, and this is a problem. The nature of jobs in any industry is that not all of them are equally visible. As a manager, you should be proactive in assessing the state of things rather than waiting for people to deliver visibility to you. People who deliver "visibility" in spades are often charlatans. People who deliver fixes, code, and improvements in spades usually do not have time to manage their own public relations for your visibility.

However, you have ALL the tools to proactively see what they've been upto. You can attend their standups and other regular meetings, you can set up an updates document, you can see what they've been posting in Slack, you can look at their PRs and commits, you can look at JIRA tickets, and in the age of AI you can have AI explain to you all of the parts of the above that you do not understand.

I don't disagree. However few managers are this proactive. If you have such a manager, then fantastic.

If not then making yourself more visible becomes necessary. Because you can be sure (at least some of) your co-workers are doing so.

Or, you know, stand on principle, then come here to complain about injustice as things work out badly. :)

The weights are open and when prices settle down again will be runnable with less than 10k of hardware.

I can easily run it in a 8 bit quant with the 4 x 48GB Radeon Pro W7900 GPUs I snagged for 2k each before the memory squeeze.

A 158B parameter model, especially in an architecture as efficient as DS4 is not that hard to drive currently if you got in before the craze, and will be relatively easy to drive with future hardware generations.

Doesn't DeepSeek-V4-Flash have 284B parameters?

You are correct.

In the china AI scene, there seem to be two separate types of companies.

Companies or labs like deepseek that produce less but larger and more innovative models, so seem to be more research oriented.

then there are companies like z.ai (GLM), Minimax, and Qwen which focus more on commercializing the AI and so produce far more versions, but with far less improvements between them (usually fine tunes)

Commercial providers like anthropic probably do the same thing, maybe even without labeling it like a different version if the model is similiar enough.

Nobody is serving models in BF16 precision, not even commercial providers. Especially with newer quant methods (like nv4)

The article states you can fit Q4 in 4 x 4090 and it works reasonably well.

I'd personally fo for deepseek V4 flash at Q8, hardware prices need to come down though. Once an NV4 version get released it'll be easier to run on commodity hardware.

I was on the same boat as you. I installed noctalia after having tried and not really getting a perfect arch / niri / waybar setup.

I think I'm completely done after like 6 hours which is insanely fast, and it really is everything I ever wanted. It is cohesive, easy to style, has good defaults, includes essential programs like polkit agent and notification daemon / osd, has a ton of plugins.

I should have tried it so much sooner.

The whole text feels like a conversation with an LLM. Even the title.

And the content feels fluffed up, the core idea is: "I'm furious that Bitwarden doubled the yearly price and did not disclose it properly". Which is valid, but does not require an extensive article, much less one written by an LLM.

As an aside, I found out from this post about the increase, and I don't mind the increase, especially after 10 years, but I really don't like the fact that it seems they actively hid it. But I also don't think it's aa big of a deal as OP is making it out to be.

It doesn't.In tennis a 14 UTR whatever wins against a 13 UTR whatever. UTR is your effectiveness rating against every other player. Same in chess with ELO.

The issue is woman would disappear from profesional sports. Sinners 16.27 rating means that he double bagels Sabalenkas 13.29 essentially 100% of the time. The 500th ATP player has a UTR of 13.81, half a point is quite a bit stronger, do he's still very much stronger than Sabalenka. You probably have to start looking well into the thousand somethings for something that is consisently beaten by her.

Only the top 200 players make money, the top 100 good money, and the top 50 ridiculous money.

So women would not be in something like top 2000 of tennis players or worse. Which would basically remove any incentive for women to participate in pro tennis at all.

I don't get how you can compare Sinner's UTR against Sabalenka's when they're based to two disparate group scores? Doesn't there need to be at least a modicum of cross-pollination to make a meaningful comparison?

There is some cross pollination. Women can play vs men, just usually don't. I'm fairly certain singles UTR is universal across players, it only distinguishes between doubles and singles UTR.

UTR can also include unranked games if one of the players submits a score and the other approves it.

From an r/ArchLinux moderator responding to a censored user:

"I got a DM from much higher up the chain asking me to remove it. Whilst I technically don't answer to them, I do respect their wishes. They don't like someone they consider as part of the core dev teams being called out like that. What you did broke the Arch Linux CoC."

Wait so is this part not true?

Your quote is referencing action taken with regards to one specific case, because of CoC violation (nothing there about choice of topic).

The title is worded as if there is a general stance with regards to position on topic.

The latter does not follow from the former.

Raising questions and voicing considerations is one thing while brigading and flaming is another.

This outrage is manufactured.

I might not have asked for it (because it never occurred to me) but I'm actually interested in trying it.