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Appreciate it! Are you recording the lectures as well?

Would also love some additions resources and recommendations from practitioners only.

It's not as dramatic as the title makes it out to be. It's a steady transition to EV buses and Grab drivers within D1 (the current CBD and Japanese red light district) and the new CBD called Thu Thiem. The majority of Saigon is exempt.

It's still a good start, but forcing most Saigonese to shift to EV vehicles in such a small amount of time with no subsidy would turn into a Tiannamen style event - not becuase they're anti-EV, but because a new bike costs around $1-3K in a city where your average take-home is around $3-5K/yr, rents are around $1-3K/yr, everyone is sending back $1-2K/yr to family, and the majority are working actual 996 hours.

All NA beers I've seen prominently point out that they are 0.5% or less in ABV.

That said, AB InBev owns the IP for actual 0.0% beer and all of it's products are fairly good.

Their NA Stella and Budweiser tastes exactly like the original.

It also makes it harder for so many immigrants who are following the straight path.

There are so many hustlers and that forces the American system to be so antagonistic for those who do follow the rules.

It truly sucks for his kid who is a US citizen - just like how I became a US citizen even though my parents had to naturalize.

But millions of immigrants naturalize in the US without committing crimes.

It isn't that hard - don't commit fraud in a country you are not a citizen of.

"In 2014, he and his sister Uchechi Onyekwere were charged in a $13 million medical fraud scheme. ... According to the FBI's report, the operation took place from approximately 2008 through at least the end of 2013."

"As alleged, the defendants used fictitious companies and fraudulent claims to steal very real health care dollars," said then-United States Attorney Loretta Lynch in 2014. "The Medicare and Medicaid systems serve our most vulnerable citizens, and those who seek to steal those tax dollars will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

You cannot naturalize in the US if you are found to have conducted criminal conduct. There are millions of us immigrants and children of immigrants who followed the straight path.

Yep! Totally agree with ya! We're all a team and no one is above or below each other, and I always made sure to manage out people who had a superiority complex - even if they were gifted (and they usually weren't) they would just make life hell for everyone else.

I also always fought for higher compensation - I'd rather have a couple really talented and well paid individuals rather than a mass of low paid and checked out ones.

I've mentored my PortCos this way as well.

The absolutely are copy editing, writing, and translating with AI but keeping a human in the loop to steer, edit, interview sources, and do research.

These were entire divisons that made up the majority of a newsroom. Most members of a newsroom aren't reporters - they're editors, copywriters, translators, graphic designers, narrators, etc.

If the whole point of a good journalist is to provide and synthesize context from sources, validate with experts, and do research then most of those other roles are tangential and can be reduced with human gating.

This is how newsrooms and other similar organizations are approaching and leveraging AI now.

> sony is a giant corp with a reputation and a monopoly on playstations.

That's like saying Volkswagen has a monopoly on Volkswagen cars.

Sony clearly does not have a monopoly on the video game industry, and a plurality of video games are cross-platform across consoles, PCs (Windows/Linux), and even MacOS.

This. Those of my friends with kids moved to neighborhoods and suburbs where other households of a similar age existed.

You see this in SF, with singles primarily living in the Marina, Russian Hill, or Rincon Hill and then upgrading to Mission Bay once they have kids.

The Beeb [0], WSJ [1], Guardian [2], NPR [3], The Economist [4][5], and others are using generative AI as well.

The reality is that everyone is using it, and has been using forms of AI and ML for news writing and copywriting for decades. For example, I remember hearing how Reuters used to use statistical models to auto-generate articles from notes taken by journalists 20 years ago that would then be copy edited.

The reality is that Generative AI is here to stay just like the Internet, but there are ways to use it responsibly (also like the Internet).

[0] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/policies/what-were...

[1] - https://www.wsj.com/news/author/wsj-artificialintelligenceto...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2023/jun/16/...

[3] - https://www.npr.org/about-npr/1205385162/special-section-gen...

[4] - https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/How-we-handle-AI-g...

[5] - https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-economist-launches-a-d...

> Wow, this announcement is good content marketing.

Why do you think companies hire PMMs?

LLMs are also a mixed bag. The core issue is limited Viet-English corpora aside from what can be found in local government documents in the US and Canada given the huge Viet Kieu community requiring local governments to create Vietnamese language collateral.

You got downvoted but I know what you are talking about, but there were other ways to write that sentence.

Basically what OP is saying is interpersonal relations can be confused when using the Vietnamese and English definitions of both words.

Anh and Em essentially means masculine and feminine, but is also often used in romantic, non-romantic, casual, and sometimes formal usecases and this is heavily dependent on the verbs and adjectives that follow.

Viet-English NMT is very flawed at the moment.

> where "here" is

California

> It doesn't mean we can't get along or have a peaceful world full of diversity in language and culture. We just need to get better at nuance and understanding

Wasn't making a judgement about that. I was just pointing out a somewhat common mistake and pattern I've noticed Vietnamese ESLers make.

Your reaction seemed very intense and polarizing for what sounded like a funny anecdote of a date gone wrong.

My SO had a similar reaction when she confused "common law marriage" and "civil law marriage" years ago.

My SO is Vietnamese and a Bac Si trained in Japan and here, and even she has made similar ESL mistakes.

Some of the tools and dictionaries used for Viet-English are wonky, and depending on when they were educated the English teachers were either unqualified backpackers or some grifter who opened an English tutoring center (oftentimes one and the same).

And coming from a language with little overlap with Indo-European languages and roots makes it a very alien experience (and the same in reverse as well).

When I was a PM, I was brutally honest about my heuristics, thinking, and product vision and made sure to give as much visibility as I could to ICs without overstepping executive leadership mandates.

And if an engineer thought I was talking shit, I'd give them the option to lead low risk customer calls with me shadowing and their manager's permission so they can see the tradeoffs a business deals with on a daily basis. Either they could prove their mettle (and I'd mentor them to climb up the engineering or PM ladder) or they'd shut up once faced with the kinds of day to day tradeoffs and responsibilities comes from being a PM for an 8-9 figure product line.

Of course, I always demanded full visibility into our hiring pipeline across functions because a bad hire is an expensive mistake that can kill an entire product line.

Also, this was how I became a Sales Engineer and later Product Manager as a SWE. I told a VP Sales and Director of Product that they were talking out of their ass but I had a great engineering reputation internally, so they brought me in on a similar gambit. My leadership were old school Silicon Valley (they lived first hand during the Halt and Catch Fire era), but this kind of culture is still common here in the Bay.

Edit: oh damn, we got Silicon Valley history makers here :0

Bolt (the CEE ridesharing app) is the primary player in Nigeria. In Uganda it's primarily a bunch of local startups.

Submarine article.

Also, back when I was still a PM I found most these kinds of tools to be a waste of time. Tools don't solve ownership.

I found just talking directly with my sellers and engineers in the same room would solve these backlog issues.

Every project, initiative, and task needed to be directly tied to enhancing customer satisfaction or tangibly driving revenue (1-2% of ARR).

If Eng could not justify why a refactor could help customer satisfaction or topline P/L, I'd deprioritize it. If sales could not justify why a checkbox feature would satisfy the majority of our customers or help our topline P/L, I'd deprioritize it and re-prioritize the refactor.

Just demand fucking ownership from everyone - PM, Sales, and Engineering - and complex projects can be easily executed.

Ownership also means trusting the people executing but also validating - I trusted my engineers, salespeople, and stakeholders and vice versa, but I always made sure to do my homework.

Backlogs will always expand - that's to be expected - but someone must groom them and own them. That's on the PM.

Who cares what tool you use - it could be JIRA or a Excel 95 spreadsheet. Just own shit and fucking execute.

They should, but much of Australian media (which is largely Murdoch owned media) never brings it up.

It's why so many Australian journalists ended up being poached by the The Guardian - especially after what happened at "The Australian"

I don't want to be that guy, but Murdoch also owns much of the Australian media and the "nerd" reich.

Yeah, but Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian employees work longer hours and get paid less.

Even ignore Asia - Poles, Czechs, and other CEE residents work longer hours than Germans yet are similarly as productive (based on GDP per capita) and have caught up developmentally.

Why do you think GCCs are a thing and Google India wages [0] are now reaching Poland levels [1] for mid-career Googlers.

These are multinational companies - not American companies.

No one complained when Google and their like moved hiring from the Bay Area and New York to North Carolina despite both having diametrically opposing politics.

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

A couple larger GCP customers requested this for sometime, especially on the cybersecurity side.

A SOC/IR or AppSec team doesn't need a generalized model that knows when Chaucer lived but it absolutely needs a model that can efficiently, quickly, and accurately prioritize vulnerability severity or validate patches.

IMO, the EU's small parcel tax and packaging tax along, the tariffs on China and Vietnam, and the ExChina thesis made SHEIN's IPO much less impressive at it's intended valuation.

They could have IPOed on in the LSE in 2023 at the current discount when they had the chance, but they got greedy and attempted an NYSE IPO.

PDD was much smarter.

> some investors with longstanding experience of Asian capital markets told me they had never received so many assurances from underwriters about the quality of an IPO book

This. It shows that even SHEIN's leadership has qualms and wasn't fully convinced.

This is a common issue I face on HN as well. A lot of "folk wisdom" on here is divorced from how stuff actually operates.

Take that Cory Doctrow [0]

[0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html

Foundries aren't the blocker - it's packaging and OSAT that's the blocker.

Yep. DCs are extremely capex heavy, so these backlogs can make or break entire projects and are super high risk as a result. That's why tax holidays and subsidizes have become so common for these projects.

Honestly surprised by the degree of skepticism about this on HN.

The rack assemblers like Dell, HPE, Supermicro, and Lenovo have 18 to 24 month backlogs on deliveries at the moment, and even the neoclouds have 6-9 month backlogs to onboard customers onto their SaaS platforms, and 12-24 month backlogs for delivering bare metal. All those require memory.

Also, 2030 is barely 3 years away from now as 2027 is around the corner. Yes we are ALL old now.

Using priors from 2015-2019 today is the equivalent of thinking your experience in 1995-1999 should inform decisions made in 2008-2013.