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In the next release, we @zerodha won't even ask for storage permission. 😬 Image: @livemint

Rachna hai phir itihaas . Salute dear @VijayKedia1

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@refsrc Quick commerce is an interesting trend, but I have some concerns about the sustainability and long-term impact on local businesses. While it offers convenience, we need to ensure it doesn't come at the expense of community-based retail.

JPMorgan's new note on quick commerce:

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I'm a huge fan of @neetcode1’s work and finally got a chance to meet him in person in Seattle. Neetcode + System Design for the win!

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21st Day OF MY #CLIMATEFAST 350 people slept in - 10 °C. 5000 people in the day here. But still not a word from the government. We need statesmen of integrity, farsightedness & wisdom in this country & not just shortsighted characterless politicians. And I very much hope that @narendramodi ji & @AmitShah ji will soon prove that they are statesmen... #SaveLadakh #SupportSonamWangchuk #SaveHimalayas #SaveGlaciers #6thSchedule @

20th Day OF MY #CLIMATEFAST 3000 people fasting with me. But still not a word from the government. Very unusual for a democracy... when 90% of the population have come out to remind the leaders of their promises and 100s have been on fast some for 20 days. But we're very impressed by the public support nationwide... making up for the compromised mainstream media. #SaveLadakh #SaveHimalayas #SaveGlaciers #6thSchedule @JimCameron @GretaThunberg @LeoDiCaprio @350 @UNFCCC @UN @UNEP

Big Announcement! ByteByteGo has acquired High Scalability (highscalability .com), a popular blog that writes about building bigger, faster, and more reliable systems. We're grateful for Todd Hoff's incredible contributions to the site, which he has been running for 17 years! High Scalability has always been an engaging and insightful resource, and we have thoroughly enjoyed reading it over the years. We will continue posting high-quality content about how real-world systems are built. To kick things off, we’ve already made some exciting improvements: - Migrated the site to a new blogging platform (Ghost) to support HTTPS. - Fresh reads: "Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale." - And: "A Brief History of Scaling Uber." Check it out here: highscalability.com

#ChatGPT made a significant impact upon its introduction, energizing #AI_Sector. Initially touted as a potential challenger to @Google, it continues to uphold that promise. Google experiencing a decline in its search market share to Bing & missing out on a substantial AI battle.

I'm done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only product has the same (if not worse) issues. And second, if you know a bit about how these models are built, you know you don't get these "incorrect" answers through one-off innocent mistakes. Gemini's outputs reflect the many, many, FTE-years of labeling efforts, training, fine-tuning, prompt design, QA/verification -- all iteratively guided by the team who built it. You can also be certain that before releasing it, many people have tried the product internally, that many demos were given to senior PMs and VPs, that they all thought it was fine, and that they all ultimately signed off on the release. With that prior, the balance of probabilities is strongly against the outputs being an innocent bug -- as @googlepubpolicy is now trying to spin it: Gemini is a product that functions exactly as designed, and an accurate reflection of the values people who built it. Those values appear to include a desire to reshape the world in a specific way that is so strong that it allowed the people involved to rationalize to themselves that it's not just acceptable but desirable to train their AI to prioritize ideology ahead of giving user the facts. To revise history, to obfuscate the present, and to outright hide information that doesn't align with the company's (staff's) impression of what is "good". I don't care if some of that ideology may or may not align with your or my thinking about what would make the world a better place: for anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge (remember Google's mission statement?), but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts. History is littered with many who have tried this sort of moral flexibility "for the greater good"; rather than helping, they typically resulted in decades of setbacks (and tens of millions of victims). Setting social irresponsibility aside, in a purely business sense, it is beyond stupid to build a product which will explicitly put your company's social agenda before the customer's needs. Think about it: G's Search -- for all its issues -- has been perceived as a good tool, because it focused on providing accurate and useful information. Its mission was aligned with the users' goals ("get me to the correct answer for the stuff I need, and fast!"). That's why we all use(d) it. I always assumed Google's AI efforts would follow the pattern, which would transfer over the user base & lock in another 1-2 decade of dominance. But they've done the opposite. After Gemini, rather than as a user-centric company, Google will be perceived as an activist organization first -- ready to lie to the user to advance their (staff's) social agenda. That's huge. Would you hire a personal assistant who openly has an unaligned (and secret -- they hide the system prompts) agenda, who you fundamentally can't trust? Who strongly believes they know better than you? Who you suspect will covertly lie to you (directly or through omission) when your interests diverge? Forget the cookies, ads, privacy issues, or YouTube content moderation; Google just made 50%+ of the population run through this scenario and question the trustworthiness of the core business and the people running it. And not at the typical financial ("they're fleecing me!") level, but ideological level ("they hate people like me!"). That'll be hard to reset, IMHO. What about the future? Take a look at Google's AI Responsibility Principles (ai.google/responsibility…) and ask yourself what would Search look like if the staff who brought you Gemini was tasked to interpret them & rebuild it accordingly? Would you trust that product? Would you use it? Well, with Google's promise to include Gemini everywhere, that's what we'll be getting (technologyreview.com/2024/02/08/108…). In this brave new world, every time you run a search you'll be asking yourself "did it tell me the truth, or did it lie, or hide something?". That's lethal for a company built around organizing information. And that's why, as of this weekend, I've started divorcing my personal life and taking my information out of the Google ecosystem. It will probably take a ~year (having invested in nearly everything, from Search to Pixel to Assistant to more obscure things like Voice), but has to be done. Still, really, really sad...

A friend bought a flat for 1 #crore in Pune A loan of 60 lakhs was taken out, 40 lakhs was paid in cash. Flat for rent. The rent is 30,000 1 lakh per annum for maintenance. So out of 360,000 rent, this leaves 2,60,000 Tax-Interest Separate. That means the annual return was 2.6%. He thinks it is an investment 😅 #Home #Investing #whatsapForward

@A_K_Mandhan Shows which countries' governments are supportive!

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My mom around 8 months back went to Max Hospital, Gurgaon. After her tests she informed me: [1] The senior citizens used to get 20% off, now that is withdrawn. [2] She was constantly pushed by doctors to consult multiple super specialists (so more money for hospital due to these additional consultations). [3] Cost of check up has also gone up. The consultation (depending on the doctor costs 1500-2500 INR). After the call, both my mom and I bought the stocks of Max Life. The stock is up 56% in the last 6 months. There is no point in cribbing about rising prices. Your only defence is to tag along with capitalists and make money. So that you can eventually pay them.

He fried Apple's ass here. Honestly insane the CEO of a company of Meta's size would just shoot a video on his couch clearly impromptu and upload it and just absolutely wreck. What a king.

the GPT store is live! openai.com/blog/introduci… fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today.