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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:24AM (#44421929)
Machine learning at scale: a substack newsletter about machine learning system design for large scale systems :)
Re:Costs of running a macOS app studio business on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:00AM (#38763112)
I will bite. L4 Google in Zürich, Switzerland. Base: 163k CHF (very low, just promoted), 15% bonus, 50k USD GOOG / year. Not counting stocks, I net 9k a month while maxing retirement account (aka Roth IRA but with less returns) at 2.7k CHF / month. Rent: 2.3k / month in city center, Health insurance: 350 CHF / month. No other significant expenses.

I invest 3.8k CHF / month from base only. All in all, I save ~100k CHF a year counting bonus and stocks.

Re:Show HN: The pure Python SaaS starter kit on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:41PM (#35766415)
As a ML engineer / back end type of dev, I really like the idea that I can build everything in Python. Really tempted to buy it but I am a bit scared about support.

Can you share what's the plan? I buy it now, do I get updates? What happens if you stop working on it?

Re:The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:16PM (#34837416)
I also think that paper is super interesting, I talked about it here: https://www.machinelearningatscale.com/how-tiktok-recommenda...