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Technologies: Elixir, NodeJS/Typescript/React, Go, Python, Postgresql/MariaDB/Mongo/Cassandra/others, React Native, Phoenix Liveview, AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Nginx/Caddy

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Email: jeremy [at] sov.studio

Hi all! I'm a senior software developer/architect looking for interesting roles. I have been doing development for over 15 years, and have a wide range of skills and expertise. I specialize at seeing projects from conception through implementation and release, and have experience leading small development teams and projects as a lead developer, director, architect, and project manager.

For the last few years I've mostly been in the Elixir and NodeJS/React spaces, building B2B and B2C projects in both. I'm very much a polyglot though, and have spent time in at least a half-dozen languages over my career. I have a lot of experience in the ministry and non-profit spaces as well.

If you're interested in just consulting, I'd love to have a conversation there too. I work with a designer in creating highly creative and user-centric websites and applications.

I'd love to have a conversation with you to see if we might be a good fit, either for employment, or for consulting.
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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.
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.
Yes. But that still seems more palatable. Go figure.

For better or worse; that is the current perception.
It's been around a very long time and continues to be relevant. It's just a window in time where it was feasible to have a graphical application made on labview to be accessible to undergrads crossing over with such a thing being quite unstable.
Roll dice for mutation, for every person infected.
well it's that phrase, not just the word, although the word is a tell. And it's not absurd. It is absurd to think it's absurd. You are being ignorant.
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.
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.
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Why do they need the NOAA? It's always sunny in Trump's America, isn't it?
One day I hope this can be made for real
Some would call that a strength if the goal is institutional reform from a very different viewpoint.
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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.
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.
YC alum Mendel, a 'Ramp for Latam enterprises,' raises $35M Series B
It sounds like a good option to have with confusing phrasing. "Buy access for 1 month" would be a lot more clear than "monthly" which to me indicates something recurring (I'm not a native speaker).

It also sounds like an option that reduces sales in almost all cases, so it will never be widely adopted.
In my mind not niche means having jobs, and Rust has no jobs, not in any meaningful amount at least, and none at all in most countries. That puts it deep in the niche category for me.
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.
Larry Fink: National Debt May Make Bitcoin Reserve Currency over Dollar
Yes sure, but how?

This is not a trick question btw. Genuinely curious.
Degradable bioplastics offer a smart solution to nitrogen pollution
Ya'll should have come to Beyond CUDA.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jtatarchuk_beyondcuda-democra...
Actual link: https://www.ft.com/content/c97bd5e4-4eaa-4850-b94c-583fa5442...

Archive links in comments please: https://archive.is/6tgod
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.
I would argue that the CCP and the Maga crew employ a handful of similar tactics against the ultra wealthy in their respective countries. If you play ball and kiss the ring, things generally go ok for you. If you criticize them publicly or loudly, they do their best to make you wish you hadn't.
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The array syntax is very offensive: `const a = [3]i32{ 1, 2, 3 };`
A set is denoted by braces, not an array.
Good thing no one is asking you for "help". You're the one threatening FUD without anyone asking for it. Go bother someone else with your nonsense, lol.
I wasn't going to get into that but I got the same feeling about the techspot article ironically
Yeah kind of. People are pretty used to buying stuff from China at this point so it's probably not as much of a driver. It's not recent history.

Still I think people would prefer Western made electric cars if they were competitive with Chinese ones.
Or Enigma by Robert Harris.
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.
Yikes! If anything, this one looks even worse.
It’s in uncharitable to say the benefits are lost - I’d reframe it as creating tradeoffs.
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.
Generally running the whole benchmark is ~$200, since all the providers cost money. But if anyone wants to specifically benchmark Omni just drop us a note and we'll make the credits available.
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!
The article isn't clear, perhaps deliberately. But they mean that BYD is doing well globally, while Tesla sales are plummeting in Europe. Not that BYD made massive gains in specifically the EU market.

People aren't turning specifically to BYD, they're turning to anything but Tesla.
Was this someone on the Tauri team, or just third-party speculation?
Taskplosion
Enter a task, pay $1, and watch it vanish in style.
Time flies... Thanks for the correction, buddy.
There are several downvoted comments from butthurt Nazis in this thread.
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)
For a second I thought that article was old because it refers to Firmament as an "upcoming title"
Wow, you're right. I read the article quickly and did not catch the fact that those were two related, but not totally causally linked statements. My bad. I still find it odd that Europe and others are reacting to bad behavior on the part of the U.S. by drawing closer to even less trustworthy business partners.
So not all of them are local and open source? Ugh.
> 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 [...]"
> 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?
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.
Or you just run things like duplicate bridge. Everybody plays the same set of randomized boards.
I’m using Phlex/RubyUI primarily in my project https://baheth.ieasybooks.com and it is amazing in both performance and developer experience.
Yeah, my job is now automating tasks using AI and code instead of automating tasks with just code. The code part has gone down, and the abstraction has moved up a layer, but I have more work than ever.
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.
Literally what
>to the detriment of forest cover, resulting in deforestation and the subsequent degradation of soil, water, and biodiversity.

I just love when developed countries (mine included) that have already cut down most of their forest cover get all in arms when a developing country wants to improve it's economy at a cost of cutting down some of their forests.
Softmax just normalizes the logit outputs to be positive and sum to 1.0, it doesn't have an effect on determinism.
"....could have got me fired"
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.
I don't know why my article from a couple of years ago has been resubmitted, but I'm here for any questions...
If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.
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.
I agree with you this is absolutely ChatGPT output. This should result in instant bans from HN in my opinion. I only come here to hear from human beings.
Ok... you got me. Can you unpack this a bit? Are you saying the consulting services, like, launder techniques and IP from their clients and reuse it other clients or...?
Hey, this is my blog, thanks for sharing!

I've been finding myself increasingly annoyed by non-coding managers thinking AI is going to bring 190% reduction of cost, or will replace entire divisions of coders. It's a helpful tool, sometimes, but sometimes also a complete and utter tool. So I wrote this rant about it.
>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.
Feels crazy that, in the middle of fighting an existential war for the survival of their country, they still have eye for this sort of thing. Completely unlike Russian soldiers, who even dug trenches in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl.
> I will never know why the rich ( north of 10 million in the US) feel a need to keep working though. Start a band, travel, etc.

I suspect it's selection bias: Non-workaholics rarely build vast wealth.
While the BYD offering looks attractive on the surface, it doesn't make sense for the Europeans to eagerly start adopting Chinese brands instead of American brands. Any country one becomes overly dependent on is a threat to one's sovereignty. The lesson has to be learnt from this change in American politics.
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I think it's easy for us to judge the situation. El Salvador was in absolutely miserable state, so I can really buy the argument that desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth is, most people living there do support his policies.
MDN docs > SVG and CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorials/S...
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still floating at +10 brah, but thank you for the upvote
Are you saying you prefer Ocaml to F# or C# to F#? Your example was indeed inelegant but it is also poorly designed as you take 4 lines to reproduce a function that is already built in, people can poorly design code in any language.
It's likely.
They also have a much broader range of vehicles than Tesla. Even if they could, they’d never sell a BYD Seagull in the USA, but small cheap cars are still a huge market in Asia and Europe.
I am implying when are living in times where you can't tell if something is a joke or not based upon how much sense it makes.

I guess I just generated another example. Although it was kind of intended as irony.
"....could have got me fired" not "...might have got me fired".
More to the point, the professor would be required to provide the same effort to every other student in the class.
Google Fi post: https://support.google.com/fi/thread/335006509/rcs-messages-...