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I grew up in the 80s too, and I hope by this age one would not be tethered to naive interpretations of whatever values were pitched to them as a child.

I’m not the greatest natural communicator, and I didn’t get into software to work with people, but I have come to the conclusion that there just aren’t very many roles for senior software engineers that don’t require solid communication efforts to be successful. It’s not about subjective vs objective, it’s just that most paid software positions are about solving a problem for other humans, and it’s hard to get it right if you aren’t well practiced in both listening and discussing their needs interactively. The user will never understand the reasoning for the technical choices, so the empathy must flow the other way.
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The company found that 26.3% of test charges failed.

I was reliant for 3 years on Chargepoint stations; 25% fail rate sounds about right. Either explicitly out of order, silently fails, or the connector is damaged. Have had much better experience with Tesla stations - no issues in year one.
It doesn't achieve the same thing, though. Functionally, for the computer, it's the same. But code has two audiences: the computer and the coder who has to read and write it. And from my perspective, the human is more important than the computer. And JSX is more than a convenience at first glance. You read a lot more code than you write. If all of my code was written like this, it would add significant cognitive load, make the code more difficult to reason about and slow me down.
In fact for “L2” charging the charger is part of the car. The thing on the wall/poll is more properly called a “wall box”, and is mostly a contactor that the car can communicate with.
I regularly read The Economist and it is not a flawless outlet but it does not and has not attempted to perpetuate any sort of collapse narrative about China. Individual opinion pieces with negative outlooks based on current global market context? Perhaps, but an overarching narrative of collapse just doesn't exist.
If you look at the aggregate of The Economist's "reporting" on China, the GPs comment is correct.

One could even argue they are a Chinese asset because they mislead Western investors so fantastically and consistently on basic economic topics, a sort of Great Filter.
He’s describing agentic LLM tools which don’t exist in a usable state yet but also may not require full on AGI to create later on with the help of code/rules on top and from within. And he’s saying why this is useful beyond being able to do it without a workforce that costs a lot - because it’s fast enough for anyone large or small to iterate quickly with once it works, like the next step beyond continuous deployment to continuous development

Idk why he says it like ppl already do that today in detail lol
You’re on the money so far. I’d add peptides as a separate category in there. They’re not as well known. Steroids/PEDs already covers things like SARMs and some other stuff people will inject to get advantages.

It’s insane that I have to go to these lengths though to even be considered in this dating market. I’m still waiting to see evidence of effects in my own body for a couple of these but if they pan out for improved recovery (e.g. bpc-157) then I’ll be doing more cosmetic surgery. My biggest complaint with cosmetic surgery is that it’s just so painful for the recovery, recovery takes forever, and it’s why I don’t do more of it. Cause I have very obvious facial flaws that could be improved by a skilled and knowledgeable surgeon who focuses on improving beauty.
It's hard to tell if what Eric Schmidt was saying was a joke, an observation, or a recommendation.

One interpretation from the context of the transcript seem to be "AI can make/steal stuff and manual intervention (lawyers) can clean those up later". Another interpretation from the context of Eric Schmidt being a savvy businessman is that people should go ahead and solve all the technical challenges first, and everything else can come later because if the technical problems aren't solved successfully, the other things won't matter. I can't tell if he is mostly responding to the room or not.

This whole transcript[1] is more than 10k words, everyone will probably find an interpretation from random snippets that matches their perceived reality.

[1] https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford...
China's manufactures finding the winners. This is the system working as intended - create many producers in xyz sector via subsidies, hardcore (involution) competition from 1000s in different provinces innovate manufacturing to bare margins, losers go out of business/ get bought up by better competitors and consolidate like _intended_ outcome of other PRC industrial policy. TLDR Set up competitive environment to force producers speed run to a $250 model-T while everyone else could only make cars for $1000. Have so much competition to force manufactures to improve processes/drive down prices/affordability in short time and then settle with a few large but sustainable survivors that are globally competitive / can (out)compete with western incumbents.
And Uber and Airbnb.
Wow, he's totally delusional, isn't he?
This is what Ive been doing with comp as well. I am making x, I wouldn't be happy with less than x, or I like my role and I wouldnt move unless I get y. Recruiters will usually be pretty open back and it saves a lot of time on both sides.
In the US there were government subsidies for installing chargers, but no incentive or profitable business reason to keep them running.
Amazon has been doing this for a while now
He's got a lot of opinions. At the very least, Ilya Sutskever's story is evidence that there are engineers and researchers at Google who want to win, but aren't allowed to.
Vietnam and Africa are not their geopolitical rivals.
FYI: This is only the two social security files, not the whole breach.
In other words, you cheated. Those aren’t instructions you would give to a child.
> The author goes into some detail on liberal socialism. On the other end you can also have liberal anarchism though.

What do you mean by "on the other end"? AFAIK anarchism is a type of socialism.
I've appreciated reading other's take on this process. It's a very personal thing and finding what works for one's self takes time and is never really finished.

One thing I'd add is a daily paper journal, where at the end I note down a few big projects works well. It helps with continuity and really improved time estimation. By doing this I've come to realize I under-estimate time to completion of my 'that will take a week' projects by 4x - 8x.

Recently I've incorporated a Maslow's heirarchy of needs approach to task prioritization.
Hours of sleep, quality and consistency of diet, meditation, months of saved income, and family and community connection are the base. (I'm still working on these but it feels right.) It's somewhat automated but that's a different topic.

If anybody had ideas about the later idea I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Time to take my lion's mane.
It depends on the framing. “Stealing” content that someone else created is universally derided. Slurping up the internet and distributing it to billions of users is an economic model.
Yep, the sympathetic nervous system is your "fight or flight" response, and then your parasympathetic nervous system is "rest and digest."
> When you miss sales targets by 99.9% it’s got to be more than a competition problem

It's fairly common across the EV industry in China.

BYD is an amazing product and makes good cars. The other manufacturers not so much, as is reflected in Chinese EV car sales [0].

That's why manufacturers like SAIC (MG Motors), GAG (Wuling Motors), etc have resorted to trying to export abroad because they cannot beat BYD domestically, but this faces hurdles as most other major markets abroad (VN, JP, SK, ID, IN, Brazil, EU, MX, etc) place tariffs on autumotiive exports, forcing Chinese manufacturers to either open entire factories abroad with JVs or quit those markets

Every factory SAIC, GAG, GAC, etc opens with a foreign JV is an equivalent set of jobs and IP lost in China.

[0] - https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/big-boost-chines...
I think the article is only looking at the negatives. There are some people that we would prefer to be on Mars instead of Earth.
I don't understand how once you've installed it you can't just set a price to charge that makes it profitable to maintain, whatever that price is.
I mean, there isnt any illusion, because the stock market != economy. The statement was about economies.

Secondly - that was an incredibly short paragraph, so talking about illusions, and depth is *really* assuming a lot from under 250 words.

Plus your addition of current events, only underscored the point of needing to be aware of the news. So... thanks?

> So I rather people voting on their core values whatever those are than “perceived wisdom they are so informed”.

I think this assertion was not supported (and potentially undermined) by your supporting anecdotes.

Edit: if anything, your sharing more News to .. argue (?) against the position, supports the point that aware of current affairs is needed.
It worked for uber and taxi's.
Yes, you need downloaded maps. I'll have to compare this with what I get from GaiaGPS.
Aging speed varies, biomolecular evidence
If you have to this you are doing it wrong
Nor was China when the US began offshoring.
There are a lot of DOM util libraries that look like

h("ul", h("li", "task 1"), h("li", "task 2"))

This is called "hyperscript-style" after an early library that used it. This is basically what JSX compiles to too. There used to be a lot of JSX vs hyperscript debates.

There's also variants like h.ul(h.li("task 1"), h.li("task 2")) using Proxies now too.
Ah, this is in the UK. Couldn't do this in the US because AI can't carry a sidearm against school shooters yet.
I hope this teaches billionaires to never speak candidly to groups.
You don't say. This thread whiffed badly on is vs. ought.
My comment was neither against or in favor of ads, I have a bad feeling with ads like everyone else but that doesn't mean that I think I should prohibit them.
As a regular joe, try to do something legally questionable against Oracle, and then "have the lawyers hammer it out". See how much of a good place the world is in this case.

The problem is this stuff is highly asymmetric. Things are always "hammered out" in their favor, because you cannot afford to be a party to the "hammering out".
Whether he was "joking" or not this is the playbook they have been running for years now.
Notes on 2PC · Once
A star-like thing is flying 1M MPH. It'll escape the galaxy
Imo the biggest issue (from memory) was that Tensorflow used a static computation graph. PyTorch was so much easier to work with.
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Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’

Eric Schmidt has a similar approach to his extra-marital affairs.
Are these microtubules located in the Pineal gland?
He's describing a completely absurd fantasy. No matter how amazing your agent's code generation capabilities are, you can't simply snap your fingers and acquire the userbase that makes social media sites notionally valuable, and even if you could the market would be so flooded with people creating the same kind of garbage that absolutely nothing would "go viral".
People will indeed sometimes lie or spin for various reasons. There doesn’t necessarily have to be an external incentive. Sometimes internal factors are enough; e.g. to reduce cognitive dissonance. They will sometimes lie to themselves and they will sometimes lie to other people. The world is complicated.
The title of the article is a bit misleading. Manufacturers are going broke because there's too many of them, which is arguably a nice problem to have.
Genuine question, if they have so much excess capacity and low domestic demand, wouldn't it be easier to just export to other countries? Or are there barriers put in place in the world stage that limits this?
This is only half true. It needs to read:

“Any VC backed startup can steal IP and hire lawyers to clean up the mess”

If you have money, you can usually buy influence and also buy your way out of a ‘mess’. Just make sure that those you steal from have less money/influence at their disposal than you.
> Not a good example because Boeing didn’t outsource.

No, that's precisely my point actually. Boeing is one of the very few companies that maintained its local manufacturing capacity. (to say that they "didn't outsource" is not remotely accurate)

Despite everything that was pointing in Boeing's favor -- culture, financials, market, reputation; it was taken over by the MBAs that put McDonnell-Douglas into a nosedive and now all of that is gone.

So now, let's assume that Boeing sees the light and wants to rebuild their manufacturing chops. Who do they hire? Who can they hire, who has the manufacturing expertise? When I worked at Boeing 25 years ago, the old-timers were invaluable. Most of those folks are dead and gone; my generation should be graduating into old-timer-hood in the next couple of decades but Boeing hasn't invested in us. Wages have been stagnant, software is easier, tiktok is more exciting, and the young generation is used to being bossed around by MBAs who don't understand the work.

If not Boeing, the once-shining-example of American manufacturing what didn't outsource, who can bootstrap our manufacturing renaissance?
Probably more telling for smaller companies. In bigger companies, there may be separate roles and organizations managing the interview process, and you might not interview with the exact people you work with.
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Hanlon's sledgehammer.
Even if there was an LLM or something else able to do this, you also need resources, you know? Compute, storage, bandwidth etc. If you're Google or Schmidt you can afford it, but most of us not really.
I'm kinda surprised this is news to readers here.
This isn't mentioned in TFA, but a relevant tip for anyone interested: there are two "good bacteria" probiotics I know of that have been studied in people with IBS and IBD: VSL-3 and Visibiome.

However, the formula currently sold as Visibiome is the same formula that used to be sold as VSL-3, whereas VSL-3 was forced to change their formula after a legal dispute. So most of the studies, because most of them predate this name/formula split, talk about VSL-3 but are referring to the active ingredient in Visibiome. Some people report success with one or the other, but I definitely prefer Visibiome overall.
In VN, Chinese manufacturers tend to compete directly with SK and JP FDI, so the RoI isn't too hot, and Chinese manufacturers face the same hurdles American manufacturers faced when entering China (eg. Forced JVs, ToTs, etc)
Originally each manufacturer was approached by various oil companies to use specifically their blend of combustible fuel. Not all of it was even gasoline, or at least gasoline as we know it. Some madmen even made two stroke kerosene engines. Esso and Sunoco (then known as Sun Oil Company) were the earliest to do this pressuring, having approached manufacturers like Stutz and Paige, and are partially to blame for the octane rating system we've had since 1927. The octane system and standardization of additives came about after two decades of reliability issues from vehicle owners buying the "wrong fuel" for their cars, and the oil companies all acted together before lawsuits could run wild and damage what was, at the time, possibly the fastest growing industry.
Reminds me of one big company I worked for, where I took a job despite all the indicators screaming "don't" because the pay was relatively good. Left it 18 months later with on-call PTSD.
The law is not necessarily broken, but enforcement is.
Yes, literally unbelievable because it doesn't exist.
If this was a conversation between equals, I think you might have a point, but the balance of power between employee and employer (especially when it’s a huge corporation) lies firmly on the side of the employer.

An employee has needs that sometimes cannot go untended, s/he has rent/mortgage payments, s/he may have family to take care of, loan repayments, children at non-free school, etc etc. This is normal, and the paraphernalia of living a life. They are long-term commitments.

So if the employee is presented with an ultimatum like this, it really amounts to “rip up your life, or take the new (worse) offer we are giving you”. It smacks of Vader’s famous line: “I am altering the deal. Pray that I don’t alter it any further”. You may prefer living in a world where corporations can wreak havoc with employees lives without consequence (like Vader) but I don’t.

Leaving the country at the end of this year and returning back to the UK. I came here for the money and the weather. The weather is now too damn hot, and I’ve made enough money to retire (in the UK at least) and look after my wife after an American hospital utterly destroyed her life, putting her into a coma after trying to “turn beds” like restaurants “turn tables”. I so much wish I’d done this 2 years ago, life would have been very different if I had.
You can make a loose analogy, but there's an enormous difference between violating IP rights and literally stealing things with physical violence.
Possibly at that price there’s not enough demand. Put another way, it’s possible there’s no price that covers the cost of maintenance per charge and attracts enough people to get enough charges.
One of those Victorian novelists: "I hope he endeavors to be worthy of her"
I think the jury is still out on that one.

I think the initial idea to make disparate knowledge available more easily is a great one. And as old as recorded knowledge.

So the idea of a search engine in itself is a great one imho. But the idea of an ad-display-engine is imho not so clear cut. Especially when it is a de facto monopoly.

Especially when the monopolist can go the route of active enshittification, making stuff harder to find just to increase ad revenue.

Just to name one example, where we might want to wait until we take a look at the scales and decide if it really is a net benefit to the world, what Google is doing.
When things are hammered out, one party is the hammer and the other party is the nail.
I saw that movie. It also tried to put water memory across as fact.
They don't even seem to specify what kind of charger they've tested. But I wouldn't be surprised if they found that a quarter of public L2-chargers were out of service. They have tons of failure points and usually very little internal logic to self-report.

Some of the early fast chargers (outside of Tesla) were notoriously bad, and a lot of them are still around, for better or worse. Many of the early AC and DC chargers were also without any kind of connectivity, making it hard to properly manage them. In the early days even some of the fast chargers at gas station weren't really network connected, and if they were it was poorly implemented. Not that different from pumps at the forecourt.
> China's manufactures finding the winners

But what happens to the failures, especially since they are overwhelmingly subsidized by local governments?

Shanghai (SAIC), Jiangxi (BAIC), Guangxi (GAG), Guangdong (GAC), Hebei (Dongfeng), Beijing (BAIC), and other prefectures are putting tens of millions of dollars in SoEs that cannot compete with BYD domestically, and face preemptive hurdles entering foreign markets.

If these were private players, it wouldn't matter as much because they could be safely shut down, but these are mixed public-private, and this means a lot of misallocated capital due to political considerations.

Ideally, all these prefectures could better utilize that equivalent amount of money building domestic consumption instead - like I pointed to you before, the median household income in China is still around $350-400/mo in 2024, so even with a loan, a cheap class-A vehicle like a Wuling Hongguang Mini is still pricy.

Instead, these players are forced to export abroad leading to unnecessary trade wars and causing other countries to either limit ToTs with Chinese companies, or force Chinese companies to ToT to domestic players abroad.

This is the same story in PV Cells, Analog Chips, Mobile Phones, etc.
Eric is quite familiar with that mo, of corurse
Too many acronyms!
Why do you want them to hide their underhanded behavior better, allowing them to inflict more harm on everyone else?
I blame my side of the mountain for me, sitting right now, in Breckenridge about to head out into the woods for the day.

Absolutely captivating book to read as a kid.
X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
You've missed the "if you have to ignore it to succeed" part of my comment.

You'll do fine without robbing a bank or dumping chemical waste (neither of which are profitable in practice now, as well). Meanwhile society is littered with so many small instances of copyright infringement (memes, which usually are not fair use; fan art; etc.) that it's common practice for rightsholders to look the other way - but it shouldn't have to be common practice, it should just be policy.

Also copyright infringement does not physically harm people.
Real question. Does this count as a published paper?
He has affairs with people to steal their IP?
Yeah the idea that I should keep up with all the shops in the larger area is scary. Luckily, I'm not alone. All I can say is you're doing a good thing by adding regular updates.

And I think even partially complete OSM is helpful. If I add just one ATM, that can already help somebody looking for one. That might even be me, when I know it's there somewhere, but not exactly where.
Vietnam and China have never been any more than allies of absolute convenience.

In fact, in one of the weirder turns of recent geopolitical history, the Vietnamese would prefer to be American allies over Chinese if forced to choose, and it's not even close.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/1c22j7l/vietnam_st...
Yeah, but Ecto does. You can implement the Repo.prepare_query/3 callback to make sure the query has WHERE deleted_at IS NOT NULL. In fact, that's the exact example in the documentation:

https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Repo.html#c:prepare_query/3
Obviously things will "continue in some form". It just won't be a pleasant form, because we will not be equal to the challenges we face.
I can think of a couple of uses. None of them require the cloud. None are worth the investment.

One is sensing where people are in the home. Could be used to turn on lights, but that isn’t worth with LEDs. I would love to know where my cats are without searching the house,

Another is sensing gestures. Instead of talking to home assistant, you can make rude gestures. This would primarily be useful for the deaf.

For computers, might be good enough for tracking head position. Or track hand position for pointing at screen. Niches uses but useful if can use builtin WiFi than special sensor.
Author here. For what it's worth, deciding what percentage of the exercises should have solutions is a continual challenge. I chose to use a lot of interactive exercises (thanks to PreTeXt these are easy to embed in the text) for which students can enter their answer and get feedback on whether they are correct. That works well for computational problems. For proof-based or otherwise theoretical problems, I tired to provide enough examples with full solutions and a few exercises with them as well, while still giving those who would like to have a more authentic open-ended problem without solution that opportunity too. And of course, I want other professors to find the book useful for courses they teach, and providing problems without solutions that can be graded for credit is also important.

Anyway, hope you find the resource helpful.
The Enhanced IIe and the original IIc also had the 65C02 (at the original Apple II clock speed).