Typical red LEDs used for displays have a peak emission somewhere in 600-650nm range, but it's bell curvish so yeah you can expect a small amount of 670nm light out of it. Does getting exact 670nm light matter? It's…
GPUs are too slow for HFT trading, yes. Deep neural networks in general do work in this domain, people do use them, but the stuff that you can profitably deploy into production is not going to be your vanilla garden…
Really depends on time horizon you're talking about. They actually work pretty well for HFT, there's plenty of data around, and most of the information is just in market data - no nasty low frequency stuff to deal with…
Why not both? Linear models for absolute lowest tick-to-trade latency doesn't preclude you from using fancier stuff at earlier modelling steps. Final linear models you ship to fpga can be mere distillations/triggers
Amazon is worst payer among them in the US as well. Facebook and Google pay decent money in London and Zurich, almost on par with US in the latter, London is maybe ~30% less. > How much are you left with now, ~1% of the…
The author is spot on. You just happened to be working for the scrappiest/shittiest faang that's all. Shop around, there is decent money to be made in Europe - but of course it's not as easy to walk into it as in the US…
> The main issue is that there is just nowhere near enough housing to keep up with population increases, seemingly anywhere in the Western world. With falling fertility rates, natural population growth in the west is…
Exactly. If you're in tech, you should be shooting first of all for $500k TC today than $500k pnl, the former is way easier (luck aspect aside). No point in thinking about active investing until you have like 7 figures…
Put spare money every now and then into VOO or VT or similar and forget. No knowledge needed and time investment is like a few minutes of your time a month/quarter/year. Squeezing more alpha than that and not losing it,…
wat? Google used clicks ("navboost") since approximately forever, it's one of strongest signals for all major web search engines. I guess the better question is why they don't optimize ranking directly on clicks, why…
Not flaky at all. 10M+ LOC monorepo with a few hundred devs here. All it takes is a fast build system. Full clean rebuild for me is a few minutes tops (distributed on a shared cluster), incremental is O(seconds) -…
> So one option is to move to one of the outsourcing companies or even better to a smaller company dealing with western clients. That's pretty much what most (if not almost all) of ukrainian tech is doing. And coupled…
You are grossly underpaid, even for eastern europe. Guys just across the border (or two) from you make 2x+ more, while paying next to nothing in taxes (5% I've heard, as faux contractors) and enjoying some of lowest CoL…
Money can buy you financial freedom, more holidays than you'd know what to do with, good place to live almost anywhere in the world, trust fund for your heirs and all that other stuff you mention. Good money - the kind…
Still pretty useful in high noise/signal regime. Though at my last two gigs in this area they were kind of obsoleted in favor of generalized additive models which are more interpretable, robust and have more powerful…
Kind of, I've seen some non-public Intel SKUs in the fleet but afaik they just had tweaked core counts and clocks for better perf/watt. They were also exploring non-intel architectures at some point, ppc especially but…
Yes, you can explicitly set up additional aliases that will bounce incoming mail (or redirect it). It's an option in "New Alias" screen - "Reject (bounce) all mail sent to this address (disable the alias)". While…
What's the benefit of running own server in this case? Wildcard aliases is actually a standard fastmail feature, I use it a lot. No per-email setup needed whatsoever, I just give out <whatever>@mydomain.com, they all…
Last time I job hunted right before covid, this was a thing back then too. All the usual suspects (faangs & hot pre-ipos) said no and could only offer me Canada/UK and a transfer on L1 after a year (meaning I get stuck…
Discovered almond milk. I need about a liter of the stuff a day in tea/coffee and with cow milk that's a ton of extra calories and carbs. Almond milk tastes about just as good with a fraction of cals and zero carbs -…
> the equivalent of those $20K is a massive improvement for me $20k raise is peanuts in US tech. If you're in it to chase the greenback, suck it up, transfer to US on L1 asap, get green card in 2-3y, get $100-200k raise…
Sounds normal. I had experience with Google - they would categorically refuse to uplevel on transfers (except maybe across ladders e.g. PM<->SWE) and reneg on pay (mostly 'cause you have zero leverage in this position).…
Right, Google actually has a 'no jerks' policy and values being a good team player more than pure technical brilliance. Being a good engineer gets you L4 (mid) or low L5 level at Google. Growing beyond that is mostly…
Exactly. Click = upvote. Returning to SERP after a short dwell time = downvote. It's noisy but because you can mine such things implicitly by just logging user's behavior, the volume of data is way bigger than what an…
Whereas OPT not being lottery-based is 100%, no? And more importantly, you can pretty much go work wherever you want with it, every tech firm is ok with it, but relatively few bother with H1B today for overseas…
Typical red LEDs used for displays have a peak emission somewhere in 600-650nm range, but it's bell curvish so yeah you can expect a small amount of 670nm light out of it. Does getting exact 670nm light matter? It's…
GPUs are too slow for HFT trading, yes. Deep neural networks in general do work in this domain, people do use them, but the stuff that you can profitably deploy into production is not going to be your vanilla garden…
Really depends on time horizon you're talking about. They actually work pretty well for HFT, there's plenty of data around, and most of the information is just in market data - no nasty low frequency stuff to deal with…
Why not both? Linear models for absolute lowest tick-to-trade latency doesn't preclude you from using fancier stuff at earlier modelling steps. Final linear models you ship to fpga can be mere distillations/triggers
Amazon is worst payer among them in the US as well. Facebook and Google pay decent money in London and Zurich, almost on par with US in the latter, London is maybe ~30% less. > How much are you left with now, ~1% of the…
The author is spot on. You just happened to be working for the scrappiest/shittiest faang that's all. Shop around, there is decent money to be made in Europe - but of course it's not as easy to walk into it as in the US…
> The main issue is that there is just nowhere near enough housing to keep up with population increases, seemingly anywhere in the Western world. With falling fertility rates, natural population growth in the west is…
Exactly. If you're in tech, you should be shooting first of all for $500k TC today than $500k pnl, the former is way easier (luck aspect aside). No point in thinking about active investing until you have like 7 figures…
Put spare money every now and then into VOO or VT or similar and forget. No knowledge needed and time investment is like a few minutes of your time a month/quarter/year. Squeezing more alpha than that and not losing it,…
wat? Google used clicks ("navboost") since approximately forever, it's one of strongest signals for all major web search engines. I guess the better question is why they don't optimize ranking directly on clicks, why…
Not flaky at all. 10M+ LOC monorepo with a few hundred devs here. All it takes is a fast build system. Full clean rebuild for me is a few minutes tops (distributed on a shared cluster), incremental is O(seconds) -…
> So one option is to move to one of the outsourcing companies or even better to a smaller company dealing with western clients. That's pretty much what most (if not almost all) of ukrainian tech is doing. And coupled…
You are grossly underpaid, even for eastern europe. Guys just across the border (or two) from you make 2x+ more, while paying next to nothing in taxes (5% I've heard, as faux contractors) and enjoying some of lowest CoL…
Money can buy you financial freedom, more holidays than you'd know what to do with, good place to live almost anywhere in the world, trust fund for your heirs and all that other stuff you mention. Good money - the kind…
Still pretty useful in high noise/signal regime. Though at my last two gigs in this area they were kind of obsoleted in favor of generalized additive models which are more interpretable, robust and have more powerful…
Kind of, I've seen some non-public Intel SKUs in the fleet but afaik they just had tweaked core counts and clocks for better perf/watt. They were also exploring non-intel architectures at some point, ppc especially but…
Yes, you can explicitly set up additional aliases that will bounce incoming mail (or redirect it). It's an option in "New Alias" screen - "Reject (bounce) all mail sent to this address (disable the alias)". While…
What's the benefit of running own server in this case? Wildcard aliases is actually a standard fastmail feature, I use it a lot. No per-email setup needed whatsoever, I just give out <whatever>@mydomain.com, they all…
Last time I job hunted right before covid, this was a thing back then too. All the usual suspects (faangs & hot pre-ipos) said no and could only offer me Canada/UK and a transfer on L1 after a year (meaning I get stuck…
Discovered almond milk. I need about a liter of the stuff a day in tea/coffee and with cow milk that's a ton of extra calories and carbs. Almond milk tastes about just as good with a fraction of cals and zero carbs -…
> the equivalent of those $20K is a massive improvement for me $20k raise is peanuts in US tech. If you're in it to chase the greenback, suck it up, transfer to US on L1 asap, get green card in 2-3y, get $100-200k raise…
Sounds normal. I had experience with Google - they would categorically refuse to uplevel on transfers (except maybe across ladders e.g. PM<->SWE) and reneg on pay (mostly 'cause you have zero leverage in this position).…
Right, Google actually has a 'no jerks' policy and values being a good team player more than pure technical brilliance. Being a good engineer gets you L4 (mid) or low L5 level at Google. Growing beyond that is mostly…
Exactly. Click = upvote. Returning to SERP after a short dwell time = downvote. It's noisy but because you can mine such things implicitly by just logging user's behavior, the volume of data is way bigger than what an…
Whereas OPT not being lottery-based is 100%, no? And more importantly, you can pretty much go work wherever you want with it, every tech firm is ok with it, but relatively few bother with H1B today for overseas…