It’s not about wanting, it’s about what the job asks for. As a self employed engineer I am paid to solve business problems in an efficient way. Most of the time it just make more business sense for the client and for me to pay to just have to git push if there is no performance challenges needing custom infrastructure.
But competitors are already here and as others have stated Tesla sales are free falling outside the US, at best that’ll only work for the US. Even in that best case I don’t think that market alone justify the stock valuation. But even in the US I don’t get what will be the Tesla mass demographics anymore.
It’s quite clear with DNC sabotaging Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016 and the way they handled 2024. Losing to Trump was an acceptable outcome compared to challenging the establishment.
I was a very skeptic on AI assisted coding until I tried Cursor and experienced the super autocomplete. It is ridiculously productive. For me it’s to the point it makes Vim obsolete because pressing tab correctly finishes the line or code block 90% of the time. Every developer having an opinion on AI assistance should have just tried to download Cursor and start editing a file.
For me ChatGPT was not that useful for work, the killer app was Cursor. It’ll be similar for other industries, it needs to be integrated directly in core business apps.
As a small business (5 person) owner AI increased our productivity and our margin so I look forward to hiring more people. There is something strange with big companies only looking to reduce staff, are we unofficially in a recession?
Here in France people my age (millennials) don't have a TV. People watch movies and series on their laptop, and those who are more into it have a video projector for home cinema. I'm always surprised to read that a TV in the living room is still a thing for non-older generations.
I’m so tired of this recent obsession with the stock market. Now that retail is deeply invested it is tainting everything, like here on a technology forum. I don’t remember people mentioning Apple stock every time Steve Jobs made an announcement in the past decades. Nowadays it seems everyone is invested in Nvidia and just want the stock to go up, and every product announcement is a mean to that end. I really hope we get a crash so that we can get back to a more sane relation with companies and their products.
Network effect is strong. That’s why they buy already successful networks. I’m sure he recognizes that he has no clue how to build another one and that it was mostly luck of being at the right place at the right time.
That’s the narrative I keep reading but meanwhile here in Europe the only BYD (and Chinese) EV models that are sold are luxury ones, mostly SUV. Where are these all these cheap decent Chinese EVs the market is supposed to be flooded with?
Also specifically where are affordable family cars? Seems Chinese are following the same playbook as other legacy manufacturers: you want a family car? That’s gonna be a SUV. Oh sorry you want non ridiculous cargo space? That means our biggest luxury SUV at 70k€ (that has the cargo space of a cheap small minivan from the 2000s).
I fear end of ZIRP has even worst implications. I’ve got a feeling it’s not just the tech job market that is bad, but the tech industry as a whole was too circular, doing B2B with other tech companies (maybe there is a better word?) all fueled by free money and the house of cards crumbled.
Same when I lived in Paris for me, I feel more of that randomness in encounters the parent commenter talks about in my small rural (albeit touristic) town.
For email which is the most important to get back under your control simply buy a domain and then there are plenty of options for email hosting (including Gmail, but you cannot be locked out now).
Yeah I’m only in my late 30s and I’m in the same boat. Many things and mindsets can be good, it’s not about finding the absolute but finding the most appropriate one for the current context of your life.
I hope it works for you. My parents chose to leave me in the normal school and curriculum "because that would surely make me normal". It was miserable for me. Social skills never came naturally, I was isolated and bullied, and bored to death in classes. At the end of my childhood the results were trauma and bad grades. I'm quite sure I would have been happier getting more stimulated on what I loved. They made the common mistake of thinking that improving skills you are already strong would be somehow detrimental to others.
There is a difference between a social network or forum that has different beliefs but interesting discussions, and one that is solely focused on attacking the other camp.
Sure, but the problem is that it seemed democrats used "the economy is good" to imply "people have money" and avoid addressing the struggle. Maybe because they were afraid of tainting the results of the presidency. Even here there was reluctance to admit most people were not doing good and only tech workers were complaining.
But driving up the costs is a good thing in the big picture because negative externalities are artificially suppressed, the environmental, social and geopolitical cost of having cheap electronics and crap from China is way more high than anticipated. 1929 was another world, and economists have yet to update their view to the 21st century, GDP only is not the end goal.
I don’t disagree, but regarding your edit I’m not saying Republicans are not (way) worse, but that I’m hugely disappointed at Democrats. My hope was that instead of taking inspiration from Republicans they would lead an other way.
But Democrats gave simple explanations: “Joe is the sharpest he has ever been, the economy is the best you experienced your grocery bill increase is in your mind, no need to hold primaries and have your opinion we know this candidate is the best, etc… and if you disagree with any of this your are not smart enough”. I’m harsh but as a non American leaning left economically I found myself in disagreement many times this pas year but any criticism was met with huge suspicion.
Except voting for massive tariffs make sense from an environmental and workers point of view. Logic instead of emotions was lacking in the democrats camp too.
More like it’s clear that trying to gaslight voters by using technical definitions to hide that food had increased more than 30% didn’t work. You can’t tell the people the economy is the best when they can’t afford food, no matter your technical indicators.
No, the problem is the medias (and campaign strategists) didn’t even try to communicate on these policies, and again thought social progressivism alone would do. That worked for a time in the early 2010s but they have yet to realize that when there are economic troubles it’s not enough to win elections, as this vote demographics show. No need to insult the intellectual capacity of the other camp.
Stellantis is the perfect illustration: they kept putting all efforts into pushing their flawed ICE engine (PureTech) because they wanted to make profits from it for at least 10 years. And now the efforts are still not on making a good affordable car but on lobbying to revoke the EU ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.
My experience is the opposite can be true: I learned how to differentiate and integrate in high school but did not get a deep intuitive understanding until 10 years after when I got back at Math for video games and machine learning. If I were to teach someone I would first work through practical problems with acceleration, speed and position, going from one to the other with computer calculations (I remember the concept really clicking with the use of accelerometers inputs), and only going into the symbolic notation and hand calculation after already being able to use them. But that’s just my way of learning.
> Rather, there exists a popular intuitive dualism that suggests our own consciousness must be more than an emergent neurological phenomenon
I don't get a challenge of consciousness as something else than an emergent neurological phenomenon. The problem is by what mechanism does it emerge. Animals without language show sign of consciousness (even if more limited form), and conversely high level computation does not especially in the light of the capabilities of LLMs (computers are crushing numbers identically no matter if the matrix multiplications are for rendering a scene or LLM inference, otherwise it would mean that some arbitrary sequences of numbers lead to consciousness like magic formulas). That leaves only something physical/biological to explain the emerging phenomenon, which is what the research is trying to do.
Remembering the 90s when I grew up really into alternative music I think what has changed is maybe public perception. AI back then would not have changed much because mainstream pop music was already accepted as generic derivative existing only to make money. Quality was already seen as secondary to be successful. But nowadays maybe due to social networks incentives instead of journalists curation only numbers seem to matter.