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by poeticsilence | 2025-04-01 21:11:05+00:00
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by anosidium | 2025-04-01 21:11:23+00:00
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by eckesicle | 2025-04-01 21:11:24+00:00
EV popularity varies a lot from country to country.

Stockholm is jokingly referred to as Teslatown these days.

In the UK it’s pretty mixed between Tesla, VW, Kia, BYD, and BMW.

France like their Peugeots …

In Italy last year I saw one EV in the whole time I was there … (although it’s supposedly 5% of new car sales)
by kubb | 2025-04-01 21:11:47+00:00
Every time this sentiment comes up, it's worth repeating: it's not about envy. It's not about how much they have or how much better their life is than yours.

It's about inequality creating a worse world for everyone. We all do this exercise of being happy with what we have regularly. This is how you deal with the reality that you live in.

But you shouldn't let this coping mechanism stop you from pushing for a better world with less inequality. Getting comfortable with how broken things are is necessary, but not sufficient.

Imagining that things could be worse is only half the answer. The other half is thinking how things could be better.
by rawgabbit | 2025-04-01 21:11:49+00:00
Anecdotally, quite a few Asian Americans I know of, came from relatively wealthy circumstances in their home country. Their parents were doctors, lawyers, etc. When they came to the US, they often started at rock bottom as their licenses and degrees didn't translate. They worked at menial jobs but quickly found a white collar job. Their children often were able to get into nationally recognized universities.
by uuddlrlrbaba | 2025-04-01 21:12:21+00:00
Tech debt is such a flawed concept. There is no world where requirements 10 years later are the same as the MVP, or even foreseeable. You can never pay it off. Software is always changing.

Even if it were debt, debt is a tool to get you what you need today. And then you likely roll it into something down the line. Maybe you pay it off (and even then the asset still requires maintenance) Like a starter home, then upgrading to a larger home to start a family, etc, etc. Requirements and resources are in constant flux.
by oblio | 2025-04-01 21:12:24+00:00
I'm going to watch with interest how long Tesla can flight gravity.

Tesla will probably be kicked out of China by the local brands. Chinese brands are hyper competitive and either make their own batteries or have strong partnerships with Chinese battery giants. Their software stacks are frequently good and the manufacturing quality can be really good (to no one's surprise, China makes half of what the world uses).

Tesla will probably be kicked out of Europe by Chinese and European brands. Even the European brands are starting to slowly launch cheaper models where Tesla isn't going. I doubt Tesla will launch a sub 20k€ car soon (or ever).

That basically leaves only the US as a big market. I doubt that's enough to sustain a trillion dollar valuation.

Note: I don't believe in Tesla robotaxis or robots doing anything economically relevant within the next 10 years.
by poeticsilence | 2025-04-01 21:13:07+00:00
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Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Managing Interview Pipelines, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Education & Team Growth, Leading Communication and Coordination Between Stakeholders Across Teams and Organizational Silos

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Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

I am a seasoned (>10 years experience) full-stack staff-level software engineer specializing in the backend, platform engineering, internal tools, and data engineering. In addition to strong programming and architectural skills, I'm a force multiplier for any team through the three T's -- teaching, talking, and tooling.

In the past, I've led teams of up to 12, managed interview pipelines, pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for all of the following -- stream processing, data model, query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction -- for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

More recently, I've built a no-code form-filler and a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for both minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are far too large for existing context window outputs using a novel, patent-pending process.

I am also an improvisational pianist and distinguished poet.

I have extensive experience working for and running both startups and software consulting shops, which gives me a unique insight into speaking with customers, translating between engineering and other organizational departments, gathering requirements, and aligning stake-holders across departments. If any of the above seems like a match for you and your organization or project, don't hesitate to reach out.
by dgacmu | 2025-04-01 21:13:14+00:00
You're misinterpreting the article, which admittedly has a confusing headline.

(1) Tesla sales have crashed in Europe.

(2) BYD sales are up globally, with the largest gain in China. Most of those sales are not in the EU; the EU has imposed high tariffs on Chinese autos.

These two statements are operating independently of each other; it is not the case that BYD sales are what have caused Tesla to crash in Europe, and this is not what the article says. However, the headline puts these two facts in close juxtaposition, inviting an incorrect conclusion on quick skim.

Drawing from other sources, BYD sold only about 83,000 cars in the EU in 2024, though they are projecting to double that in 2025. So it may be that BYD will be part of _future_ Tesla sales drops, but these are likely due to price/quality more than politics.
by oytis | 2025-04-01 21:13:24+00:00
Cause ultra-wealthy are not the top of Chinese society? In a socialist society the wealthy are only wealthy by Party's grace - should they decide to revert Deng Xiaoping reforms, and all their wealth will evaporate, and they will be lucky if not with their owners.

The real elites in China are CCP officials - no one can keep them in line, in any case no one keep in line Xi Jinping himself.
by flipthetable | 2025-04-01 21:14:27+00:00
Doctors aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Their jobs often go far beyond diagnosis.

For instance, in paediatrics one of the trickiest types of case to deal with are those relating to safeguarding. The tact required to navigate those situations, eg. correctly identify whether an unexplained bruise is a signal to flag a safeguarding issue or has a reasonable explanation, is not something that can be automated and would likely receive a lot of pushback.

It is worth noting that in 1930 Keynes predicted that the work week would shrink to 15 hours thanks to advances in automation.

I have great confidence in our abilities to create more work for each other.
by joeldrapper | 2025-04-01 21:15:19+00:00
In my experience, it’s not an extreme scenario to render several thousand components in a single view.

I think you’re looking at this from the perspective of having maybe a partial for your header and another for your footer. The way you build views in Phlex is you would have a component not just for the header but also the nav, each item in the nav, and each icon in each item.

We can argue about whether that level of abstraction and reuse is worth it, but the fact is ActionView gets very slow when you build views like that composing thousands of partials — and for people who want to build views like that, it matters.

Still, I think these “12× faster” comparisons are silly. If ActionView was just as fast at rendering thousands of small components, I’d still pick Phlex for the developer experience. I enjoy writing Ruby, not toggling between Ruby and HTML.
by toast0 | 2025-04-01 21:15:30+00:00
Well... if you want to get into really funny business, white could promote to a black Rook on its home square (not valid with current FIDE rules, but older rule sets weren't always specific about the color of the piece promoted to). I don't think you should castle with that Rook, but maybe?

I guess something about being on the squares since the beginning of the game.
by fragmede | 2025-04-01 21:16:07+00:00
The kids ask ChatGPT to rewrite it using the diction of a 9 year old, so it doesn't look like it was AI generated. If you have a big enough corpus of writing, you could use yourself as the input style to emulate. Unfortunately I think we're going to has get over generated vs not as the technology improves. we'll have to judge a work based on its own merits and not use any tells. Quelle horrer!
by minimaxir | 2025-04-01 21:17:00+00:00
That's not strictly correct. All LLMs output logits softmax'd into a probability distribution of the next token, and this distribution is indeed deterministic.

Most generative AI apps set a nonzero temperature which scales the probability. So if you have a distribution with 50%, 30%, 20% for tokens, and a temperature of 1, then you'd up to 3 different outputs sampled at those exact probabilities, which iteratively cascade into completely different texts. The RNG of the probability selections can be controlled by a seed but with distributed systems that is often not the case: I've only seen seeds returned for cases where the entire model is on a single system. Otherwise, just not using a seed is fine for sufficient randomness.

If the temperature is 0, then it instead chooses the token with the highest probability, and done iteratively the final output will be the same. (this is not accounting for distributed system weirdness)
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-01 21:17:51+00:00
> That's the thing, she wasn't Queen of England in the same way Trump isn't President of Texas.

The same way in that both are true, but not really the same way beyond that. Texas is separate-but-subordinate sovereignty from the United States, England is not a separate sovereignty from the United Kingdom, it is one of several older sovereignties that was fused to form the UK. To the extent that laws still in force in the country of England refer to the monarch of that kingdom, those references now apply to the monarch of the United Kingdom.

> The Treaty of Waitangi might use that term, but it is simply incorrect, even if they are well educated.

The interesting thing is that the Treaty uses the correct formal title in the introduction, but then uses "the Queen of England" in the individual operative articles. Honestly, looking at other treaties of the Victorian era that are similar in context (dealing with entities that are ceding authority and becoming subject, as distinct from treaties with entities that will continue as independent sovereignties -- there is a pretty big stylistic difference here, if you compare, say, the Treaty of Waitangi or the Stone Fort Treaty with the treaty with the Republic of Texas addressing the African Slave Trade), it looks like possibly a quirk of the drafting of the particular text, using the shorter outdated title where more typically treaties would just use "Her Majesty the Queen" in the interior. OTOH, this is also earlier than the other comparable treaties I can readily find (like the treaties of the 1870s with various Canadian First Nations), so the style may also have shited over time; in either case, the interior references are clearly less-formal references with the formal and correct title at the beginning.

The opening of the Treaty of Waitangi is: "HER MAJESTY VICTORIA Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favor the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary [...]"
by mvdtnz | 2025-04-01 21:17:58+00:00
> Yeah, but my point is that you download the runtime and core of React/Tailwind just once for the whole web page and those should be removed from the test, or at least there should be comparison which includes the both cases.

You think a test that is comparing the size of apps that use various frameworks should exclude the frameworks from the test? Then what is even being tested?
by Zigurd | 2025-04-01 21:18:13+00:00
From the Feb 2024 round announcement: “A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, amongst others. Strategic investors NVIDIA and AMD also participated”

I bet the limiteds in those VC funds are thrilled to own a falling knife in social media and the interest payments on $12 billion in debt. And this is a real enhancement to Nvidia and AMD investment strategies.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-01 21:18:38+00:00
A lot of very dismissive takes on consulting within this thread.

That said, the article is on point about how junior and associate roles are now on the line.

You can be dismissive all you want on here, but at the end of the day, FAANG, MBB, YC, and BBs - not MBAs - are the LDPs of the 21st century, and if you don't like leadership at companies today, it's only going to get worse, because the people who survive this will be even more mercenary.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-01 21:19:41+00:00
Arguments against merit make two errors. First is treating it as a formula, not a correlation. Second is conflating merit for free will.

Merit is not about freedom from circumstance. As the article points out, luck can be stow someone with more merit. Someone can have better parenting, education or genes through no action of their own. This does not mean they lack merit. Merit is a performance metric.

Working hard or having talent won't always result in equal rewards in the real world. Nobody is making this straw man. However, talent and effort improve outcomes relative to lack of talent and lack of effort, all else being equal.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-01 21:20:29+00:00
According to this site, which claims to be tracking European EV registrations, you'd expect to see VW, but BYD isn't in the top 8.

Tesla is so low for this quarter I suspect the data isn't yet there.

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Brands/Bar/All-time-by-Qu...

Edit: Yes, I think this site isn't ready for Q1 2025. Look back in a few days maybe.
by lordswork | 2025-04-01 21:21:16+00:00
>Would you mind sharing what the project is

rust + wasm simulation of organisms in an ecosystem, with evolving neural networks and genes. super fun to build and watch.

>which AI you are using?

using chatgpt/claude/gemini with a custom tool i built similar to aider / claude code, except it's very interactive, like chatting with the AI as it suggests changes that I approve/decline.

>No sign so far of AI's usefulness slowing down as the complexity increases?

The AI is not perfect, there are some cases where it is unable so solve a challenging issue and i must help it solve the issue. this usually happens for big sweeping changes that touch all over the codebase. It introduces bugs, but it can also debug them easily, especially with the increased compile-time checking in rust. runtime bugs are harder, because i have to tell the ai the behavior i observe. iterating on UI design is clumsy and it's often faster for me to just iterate by making changes myself instead.
by pmcconnell | 2025-04-01 21:21:17+00:00
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by subhashhh | 2025-04-01 21:22:08+00:00
I built Fastlytics to help F1 fans analyze races through interactive charts like speed traces, tire strategies, and position tracking. It uses the FastF1 Python library for data and React for the frontend. Open-sourced under MIT License – would love feedback or contributions! Live demo: https://fastlytics.app GitHub: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Fastlytics
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-01 21:23:14+00:00
> The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "England" as a synonym for "the UK".

Pretty sure its a common informal holdover of a correct title from pre-1707 that has also seen at least some use as a subsidiary reference in formal documents of the governments of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and/or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the period after it was no longer the correct formal title (and, particularly, at least, the second of those three, as an example has been provided elsewhere in the thread.)
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-01 21:23:26+00:00
there is an underserved audience that wants an engaging way to learn a language and are disillusioned with Duolingo already

Duolingo is for people that will never travel for more than a weekend once every other year, and its fine that its entertaining for them or their last minute crash course to feel less ignorant. Lately I've seen it used by people that want to feel closer to their roots.

But I don't think people actually engaging with other cultures and going abroad to do so are still using this. On the other hand, LLM's are really good at slang and colloquialisms, something neither Duolingo or an in person teacher will reveal to you.
by jfengel | 2025-04-01 21:24:11+00:00
You mean voting? Maybe.

You mean "second amendment solutions"? If voting fails, your popguns aren't going to do you any good. If the military believes that he was legitimately elected, you won't last ten seconds.

I'd like to think that the military wouldn't follow an illegal order -- the top generals appear to have at least some integrity. But if the election happens, and is no worse than it was in 2024, they will stand by it.
by ks2048 | 2025-04-01 21:24:27+00:00
I've been doing some experiments with the OCR API on macOS lately and wonder how it compares to these LLMs.

Overall, it's very impressive, but makes some mistakes (on easy images - i.e. obviously wrong) that require human intervention.

I would like to compare it to these models, but this benchmark is beyond OCR - extracted structured JSON.
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by mcv | 2025-04-01 21:25:13+00:00
It is, but as with many founding principles of the US, they don't always live up to them.

I mean, Thomas Jefferson said it was self-evident that every man was created equal and had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet he kept people as property in slavery. That just about sums up American theory vs practice. Same with the legal system: plenty of innocent people have been executed despite it being pretty clear they were innocent, simply because the legal system didn't allow the case to be reopened to handle the new evidence.
by dgacmu | 2025-04-01 21:26:44+00:00
I think Tesla is a special case given Musk's close relationship / enabling of Trump. The chairman of BYD does not appear to have succumbed to billionaire brain yet. Shifting from Tesla to BYD, were it to happen, is fairly different from shifting from, say, Cisco to Huawei, as the CEO of Cisco isn't literally dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the US president's campaigns. And in general, I think we're seeing "less tesla" and "more of all of the alternatives", whether those alternatives are EU-based or elsewhere.

Finally, most of what we're seeing with Tesla sales is _individual_ purchasing decisions, not strategic moves by governments... yet. We'll see, of course.
by neverartful | 2025-04-01 21:27:22+00:00
It was the best of times (WP5.1) and the worst of times (first versions for Windows). I used WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 extensively and it was a joy to use. It was not WYSIWYG, but it was fast, stable, and very capable. A couple of years later I used one of the early versions of WordPerfect for Windows (I don't recall the version number) and it was a complete disaster. It crashed very often. Hence, my love/hate with WordPerfect.