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New comment by b34r in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

b34r — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:34:17 +0000

It's important to remember this is just the commercial arm. The OSS side has as many maintainers as Adam allows and the community is quite active with PRs and volunteer work. Tailwind the project will be ok. Someone will fork it if stales thanks to its popularity. That being said, many more companies should sponsor considering its ubiquitous adoption.

New comment by b34r in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

b34r — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:32:05 +0000

What? That's not what this does at all. Educate yourself. It has nothing to do with the commercial side of his business, it's just the already public docs in cleaned up pure text form.

New comment by b34r in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

b34r — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:04:01 +0000

No, I spent many hours of my personal time on it.

New comment by b34r in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

b34r — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:00:52 +0000

Nope. Started with regex but it was brittle so I used my library which parses to AST which is easier to work with. It's a docs site, so I'm getting one more download woohoo.

New comment by b34r in "Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI"

b34r — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:19:38 +0000

They need to skill up on being public and creating useful tech demos. That’s why OpenAI is currently winning, they know how to foster engagement and interest. Who had heard of Claude? Almost no one outside of our industry and probably within as well.

New comment by b34r in "AI’s compute fragmentation: what matrix multiplication teaches us"

b34r — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:26:14 +0000

Chad Jarvis is an AI-generated name if I’ve ever heard one

New comment by b34r in "TinyVG – an alternative binary encoded vector graphics format"

b34r — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:46:17 +0000

Good luck getting browser support so it’s actually usable

New comment by b34r in "Silicon or Carbon?"

b34r — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:24:04 +0000

I question the taste of someone that thinks SF is a great place, honestly. They were supremely lucky many tech companies were born there and have completely squandered the advantage.

New comment by b34r in "Tech Progress Is Slowing Down"

b34r — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:39:18 +0000

I see the top asymptotic part of the curve being an Iain Banksian “Culture”. Very very far off, but at a certain point, maybe Kardashev II-III, there will be a gradual plateau.

New comment by b34r in "Tech Progress Is Slowing Down"

b34r — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:42:17 +0000

It’s an S curve of which we are in the early ramping phase. ML is going to change everything

New comment by b34r in "Tech Progress Is Slowing Down"

b34r — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 03:52:26 +0000

We’re in the Singularity even right now and most of the world doesn’t know it.

New comment by b34r in "Tesla Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges"

b34r — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:47:53 +0000

Yup. Project Vacation is in full swing these days.

New comment by b34r in "Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died"

b34r — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:33:33 +0000

There are so many nuanced things that go into making a great EV: advanced software with OTA updates, highly efficient electric motors, material science breakthroughs in battery tech and other components. Toyota can get there in time but there’s so many things to do and they’re facing increasingly rough headwinds the longer they wait to properly electrify.

New comment by b34r in "Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York"

b34r — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:13:04 +0000

Let me rephrase, it either ensures their jobs stick around (perhaps doing a different function?) or that they will receive well above industry average severance.

There’s no point in unionizing unless that leverage equals some sort of compensation down the road.

New comment by b34r in "Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York"

b34r — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:07:43 +0000

Yes and ultimately they will reduce the headcount to a fraction of current size since autolabeling will work in most scenarios. To my knowledge this has already happened… labelers now are tagging new scenarios for the autolabeler to grok for future learning passes.

New comment by b34r in "Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York"

b34r — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:05:52 +0000

Idk why people are downvoting me, it’s 100% facts. Google “Project Vacation”

New comment by b34r in "Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York"

b34r — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:42:39 +0000

They’re labelers, which are being quickly replaced by automation. This is a bid to secure their jobs long-term.

New comment by b34r in "Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder."

b34r — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:14:39 +0000

Time to start nootropics

New comment by b34r in "Mazda has tested a synthetic fuel in an unmodified MX5 on a 1000-mile road trip"

b34r — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:41:41 +0000

“For the first time I can remember, we can access all the supply we need for both businesses.” Martin Viecha, Tesla IR, September 2022

https://electrek.co/2022/09/12/tesla-access-all-the-batterie...

New comment by b34r in "BMW iX5 Hydrogen Enters Production"

b34r — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 01:43:10 +0000

Looked it up and hydrogen is actually much safer than gas when it comes to ignition and probability of explosion during accidents. If liquid fuel vehicles must remain in service, it seems like a worthwhile trade.