kory

Thanks for the feedback. We're aware of this issue, and it will be fixed (labeled correctly) in our next release.

Whisper small and base are coming in the next release as well, so look out for that in the next week or two.

To truly understand perf, ideally one should compare many types and sizes of models. I suspect some model types perform substantially better on the newer ANE / OS compared with others.

I think the economy is hitting real, hard barriers in resource extraction, energy usage, and number of people that buy and sell. That’s where stagnation comes from.

The real economy will stagnate. AI can automate some work and intensify future technological discoveries, but that won’t make energy any cheaper, clean our environment, create more humans, or make resources as easily extractable as they were 100 years ago.

The real economy can’t grow too much more than it’s current size, at least in the physical world.

Even if I do retain a profit when selling, we’re going to be trading down to a worse house. Payments for the same house now based on the Redfin estimate and current interest rates are more than double.

Given how bad the tech sector is doing now that the real world is back post lockdowns, I’m not comfortable taking on that much more of a payment.

It’s really a challenge.

Do I love my 5br house in Seattle that I pay only $3200 a month for? Yes. Low rates and low prices made that possible for a brief moment in 2020.

Will we be here forever? No… I don’t think I want to raise kids in the city. Everything is densifying and that’s not for me. But as rates continue to rise, the financial cost of moving seems increasingly large. We might be stuck here for the entire mortgage term if prices drop below 2020 prices, which is feasible if rates continue to rise for the next few years. Payment a few thousand a month higher, purchase price a few hundred k lower.

I could always rent it out. I really do want to preserve this old house and it would need to go the right tenant that takes care of it, likely for a below market rent in exchange. However, given how absolutely unfriendly rental laws are in Seattle and how little choice I’ll really have in a tenant as a result, I’m very averse to that. Maybe I’ll just leave it empty once enough time passes for the payment to be inflated away to a negligible amount.

I suspect inventory will stay low for these reasons. People either can’t move, don’t have an incentive to rent out their place, or will rent and not sell to avoid catastrophic losses.

Overcrowding isn’t an issue because it’s a subjective opinion? What? By every measure cities are more crowded than suburban areas.

Every big city I’ve been too has been dirtier than low density suburban areas of equivalent wealth.

Cities are definitely louder than suburban streets, if they’re in cul de sacs and not next to a main throughway.

Pay them better than anyone else can.

Yes. But clearly that isn’t what your community wants or they would have voted to ease zoning restrictions.

Then move somewhere that does let you build it. Your local community has made a decision to disallow whatever it is you want to construct.

Zoning laws make sure a community stays as the community desires. A community bans large apartment buildings for the same reason they ban power plants; construction benefits the property owner at the detriment of adjacent property owners.

At least be straightforward with the reasoning, then. If the mainstream YIMBY said "I want to live in your neighborhood and I can't afford it, therefore the zoning should be changed", or "you're too rich because of zoning so I want to remove it so we are more equal," I'd have more respect.

But usually it's something about how mixed use neighborhoods are better, or how someone on minimum wage can't afford to live on their own in a very expensive neighborhood. Ok, but those probably aren't the real reasons you're advocating for change. Just be direct.

Language that straightforward is surprisingly hard to find among the YIMBY croud.

I intentionally left out YIMBY moral grandstanding, because it's usually a shield to hide the real reason they feel zoning should be changed: "I can't afford your neighborhood and I want to live there"