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It's interesting the first SO comment jumped onto covid extremism right away, when that had nothing to do with the question, and got a lot of points. That's not a good sign for SO, if it's going to bring politics into the questions and reward people who do.

Personally I think if there's not a performance issue, trying to enforce a policy "just because" is untenable. In this case, it seems like there was a performance issue, so that should be addressed.
Not sure about inference but for training, 128GB is big enough to fit a decent-sized dataset entirely into memory, which causes a massive speedup. It's also probably cheaper to get a 128GB Mac Studio than a dual-3090 rig unless you're willing to build the rig yourself and pay the bare minimum for every component except the GPUs themselves.

As for 128GB memory on-inference models that a consumer would be interested in, I got nothing, though it certainly seems like it would be fun to mess around with haha
We always talk about how the lead poisoning turns lower middle class into criminals, but I wonder what's the effect on the educated, affluent people who nontheless get the same exposure.

I have a pet theory that Yeltsin, Chubais and the like ripped the Soviet state and economy apart out of the lead-induced haze and desire to vandalize, only they had not just a sorry bench to ruin but a whole country.
Manager here. I do the same thing and I suspect a few of my reports are as well.

As long as they continue to complete their work to my satisfaction level I don’t question them on it. I’ve made clear to them that there’s a few core hours they need to make sure they can be available for meetings with other teams and our 5-10 minute standup is about the only checkin I need. I can already see their git commits and jira history so if I really really wanted to follow along as they go I check that instead of interrupting the devs.

My management might want us to work harder if they found out, but every time they’ve tried to get more productivity without increasing pay there’s been a mini exodus of employees and I think they’ve(consciously or not) picked up on the amount of output they are going to get for their salary.

The common opinion I and other managers I know well enough to speak openly with is that this a fantastic event for good managers and terrible for bad ones. The good ones work load has diminished because we as managers no longer have to do performative micromanagement for our bosses or other managers. Good managers also already were managing against plans or results that don’t change whether remote or in office. The bad managers have had their workload increase because micromanaging remotely doesn’t appear to be a solved problem
> IMAP syncing is slow and silly.

JMAP might help a bit with that, but that still has a few design choices I don't understand.
Malthus called, says he wants his idea back
This just ends up putting referral on the same place as job application.
IDK why this is being downvoted...poster is right. QE never ended in 2008 or when it peaked in 2010...and the closest we came to trying was in 2010 which sparked a flash crash and was immediately shelved as an option in favour of three more rounds of QE on the house.

from TFA: "The Fed's pandemic actions fueled a housing boom"

well thats part of the issue (pulling a mini tarp), but the other half of the story is the extraordinary steps taken way back in 2010 to keep people in their homes in the first place. The government wanted cake and they wanted to eat it too. Banks that over-leveraged and pandered predatory loans were never allowed to crash and burn; they were almost all bailed out through TARP. homeowners in turn who accepted these loans were also often gifted with TARP assistance that kept them in overvalued homes. auto-makers without customers were never made to reform, only a few token concessions and mergers here and there for companies with a track-record of dismal performance, and a well published cosmetic defect when executives from these conglomerates came with dog-eared pockets to congress on private jets.

Effectively, when the market ran out of gas, the federal government began expectorating ether into the air scoop of the economy like a wasteland war boy effectively trying to outrun any crash that didnt focus entirely on the poorest members of society.
They can't be in the EU, as "Parmesan" is a PDO name and cheese with the name must come from the region of Italy.
I guess "everyone" is wrong. The huge influx of money is part of it but the current inflation doesn't have just one cause. There is a huge spike in energy costs partially from the war in Ukraine, partially from a decrease in production by the prices cratering in 2020 and partially from an increase in demand. There are huge supply chain problems everywhere. Massive labor shortages. I'm sure I'm missing some others. This isn't a simple problem with a simple cause.
The only worthwhile re-invention of late might have been triple-accounting.
The recession of 2008 was absolutely fixed, in that bank collapses were prevented, highly leveraged products based on bad loans were drained from the balance sheets, underwriting was tightened up, and economic activity rebounded.

That fix was just never paid for, in terms of shrinking Fed balance sheets and renormalizing rates.
Legos: https://www.brickeconomy.com/
All of the public tech companies that I know about basically guarantee you cash + stock and a known vesting schedule over at least two years. Of course, we are living through the first era where BigTech stocks are tanking left and right.

I just left working at “normal companies” most of my career to work at BigTech two years ago at 46. My base pay was about the same. But my stock/prorated signing bonus brought my total compensation up by around 25%. I can (and do) sell my stock as soon as it vests.

I’m on the low end of BigTech compensation. I work remotely and did a slight career pivot from software engineering.

Yes, I know about the dot com bust. Those weren’t large profitable tech companies and they didn’t have the head count that companies have now
I wouldn't exactly call it noxious, but C02 isn't exactly something we want to be spewing more of. Isn't a landfill full of plastic pretty much just a big pile of captured carbon?
As the resident 'fire-put-outer' engineer on my team whose priorities appear and vaporize every week or two, how do I quantify that work into quarterly OKR(s)?
Direct observation of the dead-cone effect in quantum chromodynamics
Because irrational fears aren't driven by in depth analysis they are driven by fitting in with a theme.

If people play telephone pretty soon the tracking chips instead of being in the rind will be said to be in the cheese and either they will be used to remotely terminate undesirables* or tracked from a satellite.

* People who put too much salt in their sauce.
Just one man's opinion here but on these-

It pushes Microsoft accounts

I use it on my work machine without an account, and there's no push that I could ever see. Seems about the same on that front as anything else, including Firefox. I also have a Firefox account. I do use a MS account on my personal Edge install.

and affiliated products super hard.

You would think this is a negative, but it opened my eyes and saved me a lot of money. In fact, Edge's shopping features were something I wish I had for years prior. I liked it enough that I went looking for best-in-class options, and ended up installing Honey. I now rely on both Honey and Edge's shopping features to save me money.

I would go so far as to say if I had to leave Edge and use a browser without Edge's shopping features, I'd be one of the features pulling me back to Edge.
Lead is actually still astonishingly everywhere: mugs (any color glaze), kids toys, old crystal, brass, stained glass, etc. The particulates still become dust and percolate the air. Reverse osmosis your drinking water costs $200-$300 for a kit. A relative had someone come in with this expensive lead-detector gun and over 3 hours found significant traces on 100 different things in the house. Just be generally suspicious of anything colored manufactured in China or old antiques.
Dead wrong. Selling MBS affects the incentives of mortgage initiators in a vastly different way than selling Bonds. It's a direct pipeline to affecting bottom line mortgage rates for consumers as opposed to a highly indirect one. When bottom line mortgage rates for consumers go up, the housing market is affected directly and immediately.
> So it's going to become much less of an issue really soon.

The main issue would be trying to purchase one of those, which is likely going to be both very rare and orders of magnitude more expensive than a Mac Studio.

The Mac Studio isn't some crazy exotic hardware like datacenter class GPUs, but definitely has some exotic capabilities.
My guess is rising wages.

When wages go up, it can either go at the expense of profits, or at the expense of prices (Or, most usually, both). The labour shortage in the pandemic created upward wage pressure, which added to existing pressure[1] caused by rising housing/healthcare costs.

Notice how interest rates went up, as unemployment hit an all-time low? Capitalists hate low unemployment, as it causes wages to go up. Raising interest rates cools off the market, reduces the number of speculative investments, and increases unemployment.

There's a reason that the government always wants a few million people to always be jobless. It puts the brakes on wage growth.

[1] This is most notable in resort towns. As housing prices went up, nobody who works a service job can afford to live in them anymore - so all the workers pack up, and move to the city. As a result, businesses either have to raise wages, or shut down, or significantly reduce their hours. For some reason, tech folks vacationing in their lakeside dachas aren't keen on putting in a few hours at the local grocery.
States Need to Confront Minimum Parking Mandates
It would t be terribly hard to implement with good ux such that people use it.
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You’re typically missing out if you don’t. The rind is delicious!
Google Sheets.
> The Fed's pandemic actions fueled a housing boom. As it tries to withdraw that support, it could be bad news for housing — and the Fed's standing on Capitol Hill.

I think this article is a bit of a nothingburger. Of course QT has the opposite effect of QE, that's the entire point. The 2020 housing boom will not blow up like in 2008 because today's mortgage backed securities are much more stable than the C-tier CDOs of yester-year, as long as the labor market is doing well (which it seems like it is[1]) and folks can afford their mortgages. Of course house prices may deflate (~20%?) purely out of demand for such high prices decreasing, but imo it's unlikely we will see mortgages go underwater, and therefore the Fed doesn't really have a problem on their hands.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/economy/jobs-rep...
Tesla is going to tank so hard. The people buying Teslas were wealthy Democrats who thought Musk cared about the environment. Half (maybe more) of the GOP doesn't even care about environmental issues. This is political positioning on his part to get ahead of elections and try to align with the party he thinks will win.

Now watch as he starts pandering towards the GOP regarding his failed Twitter acquisition.
I have the two books currently sitting next to me. They're very very in-depth and math focused (well that's sort of expected for the mathematics book at least) - you might want to also look at some more lightweight and "fun" tutorials for rendering and going in-depth with the rendering book in parallel.
When I was younger I was in a similar position. Now, I've realised that there's a lot more to life than work and you only have so much energy to spend.

Spend your energy on what makes you happy.

When it comes to work, I prioritise a high money/effort ratio. I get paid well at a megacorp but I work normal hours and take it pretty easy while working. That's not to say I'm lazy but I'm not crazy ambitious like some of my colleagues.

Entrepreneurship really needs a lot of time, risk and dedication, so it's not for me.

I also want to be creative but I do that outside of work. I have a lot of varied hobbies.
There's another option that the fed isn't considering: let Congress find a way to force businesses out of congested areas where houses aren't and won't be available any time soon. There's also financially incentivising remote work and providing incentives to move away from major cities.

There's still a supply shortage in building homes to deal with, but that'd at least solve a problem for a good chunk of folks.
There are a number of fiscal and monetary mechanisms available to central governments and central banks respectively, which are used to spur economic activity and to relieve economic hardship: by directing government spending or by creating monetary liquidity.

The assertion is not so much that poor people cause inflation; rather, that inflationary fiscal and monetary policies are often only recognized as such when they happen to benefit middle-to-lower income people.

Example: PPP Covid programs which pay business owners billions is necessary and proper given the circumstances, but direct payments to taxpayers is not because it will cause inflation.

In truth, they both provide relief, and they both contribute to inflation.
We are building this right now for a niche. In our world the hardest thing is good, clean, indexable data. Google can crawl the web just following links and index web text, but for niche search a lot of the relevant material to index is private.

If you are working on niche search, I’d love to hear how you are being creative about aggregating and cleaning data to index on. It’s a fun, challenging problem and there are going to be a lot of winners on the other side of this!
The housing market is in a mega bubble. Why exactly does it need support to push it even further into madness?
Ah, so you're saying he started from the KRs and back-calculated the O?
I think it's for all of the engineering roles. Not sure what "full-fat" means here, though.
Boring is subjective.
This is true for consumers, but not B2B
This is already happening in the Bay Area (more or less)
Mostly it's old-school transfer style transfer! Well, "old" in the sense that it's pre-CLIP. I've played with CLIP-guided stuff too, but I've been tinkering with a custom style transfer workflow for a few years. The pipeline here is fractal IFS images (Chaotica/JWildfire) -> misc processing -> style transfer -> photo editing, basically.

Only the workflow is the custom part--the core here is literally the original jcjohnson implementation. Occasionally I look around at recent work in the area, but most seems focused on fast (video-speed) inference or pre-baked style models. I've never seen something that retains artistic flexibility.

My original gut feeling on style transfer was that it would be possible to mold it into a neat tool, but most people bumped into it, ran their profile photo against Starry Night, said "cool" and bounced off. And I get that--parameter tuning can be a sloooow process. When I really explore a series with a particular style I start to feed it custom content images made just for how it's reacting with various inputs.

Here's a piece that just finished a few minutes ago: https://mwegner.com/misc/styled_render-BMrHXWz_2RBaUq8pAYKfL...

That's from a local server in my garage with a K80. At some point I had two K80s in there (so basically four K40s with how they work), but dialed it back for power consumption/power reasons.

I do have a 3090 in the house, and a decent amount of cloud infra that I sometimes tap. The jcjohnson implementation is so far back that it doesn't even run against modern hardware. At some point I need to sort that out, or figure out how to wrangle a more modern implementation into behaving in the way that I like.

I don't really post these anywhere, although do throw them over the wall on Twitter if anyone is curious to see more. These are a mix of things, although the CLIP/Midjourney/etc stuff is pretty easy to spot: https://twitter.com/mwegner/media
You're on an island with five chairs. There are four people. Everyone has a chair.

Add six people. There are now five chairs and ten people. How can you manipulate the prices of chairs such that all ten people can have their own chair?

Artificially lowering the prices of chairs does not solve the underlying issue: There are not enough chairs for everyone that needs one.

By treating housing price surges as excessive demand (raising mortgage rates), you lower demand not only for _existing_ homes, but also for creating new homes. If your goal is to ensure that housing prices always go up and affordability/homelessness go in wrong direction, the Federal Reserve's policy is very effective.

They're wrong to prematurely kill demand before it can cause new housing construction to increase, fixing the underlying issue of not enough supply.
The Fed will curb inflation with high rates that slow down the entire economy and drive up unemployment, which is exactly what they're doing.
Not "downtown", no. It's a very old city without such arbitrary ideas of zoning.

There are some purely institutional areas far way from historic city center, like La Défense, though even it has some residential areas.
That's not what the posting said.
Only proves that devs are susceptible to dad humor.
"It seems like this forum is full of people who have traveled a similar path: starting with big ideas and hopes for their future, sometimes being able to achieve those but through a tremendous amount of time and effort. Or, have realized that a certain amount of money, free time and family is all they really need." -- I think you could replace "this forum" with "this world" and it would still be true. At this point in my life I don't mind admitting: I'm in the latter group.
Is the TC at these small companies (particularly taking into account the risk of any stock options) comparable to the TC at Big Tech (notwithstanding the recent sell-off on Wall Street)?

Or do you give up some TC for the other benefits of working at these small startups?
Yeah, not really sure what the original commenter was on about... The price of money itself is higher when rates go up, so prices of goods and assets must go down to compensate for reduced demand
"The Fed's pandemic actions fueled a housing boom. As it tries to withdraw that support, it could be bad news for housing"

How is this bad news? Housing is incredibly expensive relative to the average American's salary. Yeah it sucks for people that bought a house recently, but in the long term, it is absolutely a good thing.
Single code base for multiple platforms is not impressive these days, you can do it in many frameworks. The key thing seems to be 1. written in C++ (hence performant) and 2. Has a declarative language (QML).

1 is no longer an advantage since C++ is no longer a desirable language for UI engineers, largely because UI went from desktop to mobile and web which created an opportunity to disrupt the status quo

2 is no longer trendy either as functional programming becomes more popular. People realized they can be declarative in real programming languages and don't have to turn UI into a bunch of config files.
I agree with this - Google is so dominant and so large, that it distorts the entire web. But I think this is probably just a historical accident, more or less. This is just [Goodharts Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) write large:

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

So, when you try to measure content quality in some way, that becomes a target, and starts to distort the quality of the content.

I think this applies equally in any niche, at any scale where people find it worthwhile.

If you have a niche search engine that has different content requirements, and it becomes worthwhile to SEO niche content for that engine, then it will happen, eventually.

I think it just has to become worthwhile (and then for this fact to become known) - but that threshold is going to vary a lot, in different niches, times, places, etc...

There are plenty of people (~everyone?) gaming/SEO'ing the search on Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, etc... for example, by doing niche & platform specific SEO on their listings on those platforms.

I also think that people's definition of "worthwhile" differs too. For the broad SEO industry, it monetary. For people making posts on HN or Reddit, it's Karma, or Discussion or something - and people will optimize their content towards that, just for "fun".

Actually, I think this applies pretty boardly to making _anything_, more or less, once you have someone or something evaluating/measuring your output?

How _harmful_ this is, depends on what's being optimized for; scale & rewards probably change how "hard" the optimization arms race gets - as well as how many people are affected.
If they can't kill inflation by killing equity markets and bonds the last target left is the housing market. So if you believe that their true goal is to kill inflation at this point, which I more or less do, than the thing the Fed feels like it needs to do is to target housing prices directly and their best lever for that is the MBS on the balance sheet.
A youtube video won't work for me -- my work computer goes idle if the mouse or keyboard doesn't send input for more than 10 minutes. A lot of my work involves work off of my computer, so I just bought a USB mouse jiggler to keep my computer awake so I still get instant messages from my coworkers when I'm working offline.
But the different conversion rates for each kingdom/duchy/province/parish were a nightmare even then.
that's an interesting though, it drips or something while just sitting there?
I work for boring non-tech as an IC. I might get to tackle some interesting problems but the work is boring.

Having a child changed my perspective. All I care about is max compensation for least amount of time consumed by work. As long as my manager/boss isn't an awful individual and there is no micromanagement I will be happy.

Eventually we might stumble on an idea and build something that takes off but it is ok to go about life just making six figures. Some people work harder than me for half of my salary.
Maybe this makes me sounds like a jerk, but:

All material that can end up in landfills is already on Earth.
I’m also late 20s, have enjoyed some startup chaos, and have come to similar points regarding contentment derived from relationships and coming to terms with my limits and finitude. I’ve thought “Am I giving up? Am I just doing the easy thing so I can live comfortably? At the cost of my dreams/ambitions/yearning?” Which seems like what your mentor has named “boring”. But I don’t think it’s quite that simple.

There is nothing wrong with finding a state of being that is comfortable for you right now. Maybe this is what you need, right now. There is nothing that says this is how it will be from now on. You might quit and start something in 5 years, you might not. You might enjoy side projects or other creative endeavors alongside your job.

What you probably don’t want to lose is that creativity, that excitement. Again, that doesn’t need to look like a successful startup. It could look like a fun side project, a community effort you’re involved in, whatever. The point is, and I think this is a big realization for me from the past year (but what do I know I’m not even 30) is that you don’t need to put all your eggs in the job basket. It doesn’t need to be your primary creative outlet. I’m fact, it might be better if it isn’t tied to your livelihood.

Sorry if I’m way off the mark from where your head is at, but I hope thoughts like this are what you’re looking for. If not, my b!
I'll look into that, don't know the difference offhand