darkwizard42

Would argue it is even coming to Tier 3 cities (personal experience from Rourkela, Odisha where I feel like rooftop solar has exploded in the last 5 years)

For what its worth, https://www.weaverobotics.com/ is one of those VC-funded robot-to-fold-your-laundry companies! I think physical world implications are coming!

Seeing a lot of tricks similar to how ridesharing companies tried to be "profitable" before going to IPO. Caveat: Thing have materially improved but really Uber is carried by its insane Ads margins

The idea of removing model training from your costs is a little wild tbh.

The profitability of being able to serve a query wasn't really under question (nor is the margin expected to be anything less than 80%+) I think.

I think the evolution of the harness and ability to preserve loop context outside the context window has made running these kinds of agentic experiences easier.

sorry so many buzzwords to say, the capabilities to do this kind of work are more accessible and easier to manage, so now it works!

Good to see, and agree they were severely overhyping their product back then.

The average person is not serving on a board and is definitely not volunteering.

Sports communications at most travel/rec leagues is via group chat / Whatsapp / FB group.

The average kid in an average suburban public school is not getting this amount of digital communication. If they are, they still aren't using a Google Calendar and are managing the complexity in much simpler ways (paper calendars)

The average person is not using a calendar and is not getting more than 1 relevant personal email per week.

Most people use their personal email extremely sparingly and it is inundated with promotional / account-related materials which are already handled rather deftly by most mainstream email providers

I don't see you publishing something which further reduces the memory footprint?

Given the project is open source, have at it! See if you can help improve it instead of complaining. This is a significant improvement and a cool project!

The problem is that it requires vast sums of money to influence politics.

That is the antithesis of how politics should function (people are the interest, not moneyed companies)

Some payment is withheld unless competitors (Youtube, TikTok) take specific actions as well.

Well, they are being asked to make changes as well, which presumably prevents the damage.

It can be argued the changes don't go far enough so maybe "pay fine, reduce harm, but harm still permitted..."

The prosecutors representing the justice departments of states of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey

For what its worth, if you believe Meta's product does do this damage, the other products which do similar things should also abide by it.

It helps simultaneously "level the playing field" but also protects consumers.

If the courts stated ruling is hinged on consumer protection then this seems fair. Any competitor which doesn't follow suit is likely opening themselves up to a similar lawsuit which would cost a similar order of magnitude of damages (so it is in the interest of the competitors to do take these actions)

The US is unique in its "cable" and telecom approach (maybe shared with some other Western countries).

In most APAC and African countries cell plans are extremely competitive and data is SUPER cheap. Same with streaming services.

I think Uber is openly stressful, but is not transparently low paying or dangerous and that is why people are working it. On face value, it seems easy to earn with your existing vehicle, but most drivers dramatically overestimate earnings after depreciation, fuel, maintenance on their vehicle. Additionally, Uber puts the driver in the most dangerous situations (pickups and drops on active roadways) which aren't apparent to the driver. Driving for 6 hours a day will eventually wear on you.

So, yes, I think drivers severely underestimate the risks and rewards and that is why another job is likely better (which is loosely defined here)

It doesn't seem like it is confirmed it was on 16 [1]. The Coast Guard said the ship was not in immediate danger. Does that change your opinion?

[1]https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruise-ship-helps-stranded-s...

The Uber driver likely gets a different job, probably something a little less stressful and low paying (and frankly dangerous) than Uber.

Because I make significantly more than the guaranteed rate of the delivery driver.

I didn't claim being a delivery driver was so lucrative that I wanted to do it. I just pointed out that they are now being paid a guaranteed wage (which is fairer than "working" for an hour with no predictability on what you will make).

Why is tip before the order the norm? That is the question.

Why would you tip before the service is provided if the tip is meant to be for good service? If the tip is no longer a bonus for good service, then what is it for?

This is the confusing part of the entire experience.

If you are a supergiant like Citadel you can simply acquire positions which are so large they are the equivalent of someone's portfolio (or put another way, Citadel sees a huge block of equities packaged up, looking to move and bids on it).

It would be like if you needed to acquire 100M shares of Apple -- usually a broker will fill that large of an order from several sources OR if some fund has the full liquidity, it can be filled from that single position (and thus acquiring the fund's portfolio position). Now repeat this for their ENTIRE portfolio.

What is the evidence that tipped workers are universally underpaid? Compared to who and against what benchmark? In the law passed by the city, the drivers are now very well compensated -- and guaranteed that compensation (something I believe is important).

I think this is probably true. Allowed for Citadel and others to create a ton of pressure on SA's highly leveraged positions.

Always a bigger whale out there with the ability to exert pressure...

I think this just further confuses end users and is another reason we should get rid of tipping culture.

Tips are currently serving several purposes in users' minds:

1. earned for great service

2. to make up for lower base pay (tipped min wage is lower in many US states)

3. to help employees who they feel aren't making enough

Now reasons #2 and #3 are no longer true because driers are now fairly (IMHO) compensated through the guaranteed wage. How many users actually know about this?

Sure more money is flowing into the drivers' pockets, but doesn't this just continue to muddle the usage of tips and ultimately cost the consumer more?

Yeah, I don't think the terrorism in India is from lack of being heard.

It is generally extremist arms interested in destabilizing India to strengthen other regional powers (usually Pakistan).

The goal of much of these terrorist attacks simply end with ... no India, not "we demand change to policies in a reasonable way"

Is this similar to Singapore where much of the housing stock is government housing?

Incredible story, just pure resourcefulness and grit in following this through. I know it sucks to have this disease, but kudos for how you approached this.

You can even just instruct the LLM to create a context file for you! They are surprisingly good at that as well.

I'm not sure how you drew the conclusion they don't think it will be profitable soon or an AI ceiling.

The only thing we can realistically glean from IPO is the need for more funds which are not able to be provided by private markets on the terms a private lender/investor may want.

Insiders will profit from this liquidity event, but I suspect the earliest investors will stay put only liquidating enough to make their funds look great while still keeping an eye on the future growth.

Uber WAS a pump and dump. Insiders used the public for exit liquidity and any public shareholders got stuck with a pretty crap stock. Uber went up 100% from IPO to mid 2025, Google went up 400% in that time period (and I picked 2025 to avoid the huge AI runup we have seen).

It was hemorrhaging in many cities using extremely profitable cities like London and NYC to keep their global competitiveness.

Uber was able to pivot and become financially sound with two moves: - Uber Eats becoming first party delivery to restaurants (it started as a limited selection of items from some restaurants and quickly evolved into a Doordash-esque competitor) - Uber launching a 1B+ RR Ads business - margins on this are obviously incredible

Both of those combined with discipline in their ridesharing business (exiting the China market with a sale + stake, dumping their self-driving business when it became a money sink) have led to a recovery in their stock price, but it is FAR from the crazy expectations set up for VCs. I expect those in the last round didn't get a great return, but obviously folk like Benchmark exited like kings.

The biggest regulation of building in space is... where do the debris go. You are tightly monitored for how much trash reenters into the atmosphere, so there is still SOME level of regulation.