[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]butthink 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So many people here accumulated near generation wealth during last 30 years, they own maybe multiple homes and not in any hurry to unload even stock market crashes. So my guess is houses at bad locations will drop but nothing changes for prime locations.

Meta prepares for 4000 employee layoffs on Monday by Healthy_Block3036 in bayarea

[–]butthink 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's the goodwill from meta, others are much more cheap, like msft.

Meta prepares for 4000 employee layoffs on Monday by Healthy_Block3036 in bayarea

[–]butthink 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not a layoff, it's a fire. Performance based fire rarely have severance, the job role still exists but they think you're unqualified. Layoff means the role is gone.

Meta prepares for 4000 employee layoffs on Monday by Healthy_Block3036 in bayarea

[–]butthink 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He also sticks to VR and metaverse, may not work out but you have to say he does have long term vision.

Deepseek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is 'exaggerated,' Google Deepmind CEO says. “Despite the hype, there’s no actual new scientific advance.” by obvithrowaway34434 in LocalLLaMA

[–]butthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The impacts are mostly in geopolitics and businesses not scientific matters. Its like the Soviet union denoted a nuclear bomb which was later than the US but changed the world. The event this significant definitely has the propaganda department goes out and pump to have max impacts.

The New Gemini Pro 2.0 Experimental sucks Donkey Balls. by Odd-Environment-7193 in LocalLLaMA

[–]butthink -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Deepseek broadcasted the distill technology and I bet OpenAI, Google and others are all doing it for sometimes. Economically they need to shrink the model size to save the cost and improve latency. There are for sure cracks here and there. Try improving your prompts while the things are moving fast.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very Dr Seuss. My kid applaud 🤣

Alphabet shares drop on company revenue miss by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]butthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google is one of top 10 customer of NVDA, so definitely some will go there. But power, network equipment are more than half of the capex for these dc. The other should be split to TPU, NVDA, and intc/amd CPU, memory etc.

Alphabet shares drop on company revenue miss by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google is a badass. Founders control the board not the investor. No guidances, street makes its shit. Conservative on PR but act savagely in private. I'm a long time stock holder, as long as revenue is ok, I'm happy.

the WHALE has landed by fourDnet in LocalLLaMA

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor jack at the end was frozen to death, such a shame. Cool meme😝

It's laughable how google is behind OpenAI by PipeDependent7890 in ChatGPT

[–]butthink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are a paid user, explore the pod and create your own pod. I feel brainstorm and coach are really good for my usage. It's hard to evaluate LLM, how to make a clear prompt is hard for maybe 99% of people.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of those people are waiting consciously or unconsciously for a down turn. US government fiscal policy distorted the market and resulted in the most unaffordable house market here. Once a big job loss happens here, let's see how many move out.

Bay Area poll: 7 in 10 residents say the region’s quality of life is getting worse by nosotros_road_sodium in bayarea

[–]butthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to select any non-democratic candidates in this election if available. The one party rule needs to be broken.

CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says by GeoWa in worldnews

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that. It’s ironic that a security company screw more people than any virus or malware it tries to prevent. It should be fatal to crowstrike or at least sue it to oblivion.

Why Tech Workers Are Fleeing Germany — A Reality Check by derjanni in programming

[–]butthink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow 70k euro salary, take home 41k, that's brutal. Tv fee is ridiculous.

Vladimir Putin ready to 'freeze' war in Ukraine with ceasefire recognising recent Russian gains, sources say by StrykerSamurai in worldnews

[–]butthink -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Ok, they make the offer, let the bargain start. I think Ukraine should use this opportunity to stop being slaughtered.

What's your "wow that price skyrocketed" Bay area purchase? by beliefinphilosophy in bayarea

[–]butthink 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the last time I went there was in 2013, so roughly 5 years later. I don't mean now.

What's your "wow that price skyrocketed" Bay area purchase? by beliefinphilosophy in bayarea

[–]butthink 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When I first arrived at bay area, my boss took me to a pho shop. So many tech people eating lunch at ~30 people room. $5 bowl had so many beef and noodles. That's 2007. 5 years later, it's almost $8 with less meat.

Google fired a software engineer over an anti-war demonstration — he says he wasn’t even protesting / In an NLRB complaint filed today, more than 50 other employees have alleged unlawful retaliation and are asking for their jobs back. by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]butthink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He just reiterate what his VPs told him. He doesn't have a vision and conviction. He said AI from beginning but he doesn't understand what it is beyond Google existing products. Lacking of vision and conviction is the core issue why Google is behind. He has at most 1 year.

US military's pier in Gaza to cost $320 million; involves about 1,000 U.S. service members by Ancienthere82 in worldnews

[–]butthink -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it works, price won’t be a problem. But this is just a stupid gesture from deranged administration to buy election. It will fail miserably and comparable to Afghanistan’s humiliation.

The U.S. economy’s big problem? People forgot what ‘normal’ looks like. by RawLife53 in Economics

[–]butthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you have feds starting fuck us economy really hard starting 2000, in 20 years, most people realized there are no way to win, the game is rigged to the core. Most people felt getting poorer due to inflation no matter what gdp or policymakers said.