Vishy Kuruganti @ulaar

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well: paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Thanks to a 12 yr old (who cracked my Apple Watch screen with her racquet), I stopped wearing the AW at night. Turns out I didn't need that daily confirmation...

Will Manidis @WillManidis

2 days ago

it brings me no joy to report I spend a year wondering why I was constantly sleepy and had a low sleep score on my whoop that was totally cured by simply stop wearing the whoop.

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The kind of generational idea I pray maa saraswati hits me with one day.

Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip

3 days ago

Get paid to wait The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth. So I turned it into an ad marketplace. Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money. Install the extension → get cash from ads. Introducing Kickbacks

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".. going to come more frequently as time goes by." Murder in the squash court, Jonah Barrington

".. increasing lack of dignity, especially if he has always been accustomed to winning. It's terribly difficult to go through that psychological period of having to accept the fact that defeat is now part and parcel of your year, and your week, and your day, and that it's.."

"It would be tremendous if everyone quit while they were ahead in sport, because then they would never see a champion going downwards. One would see him at his best, retiring undefeated. It is always sad to see a champion going downhill, because he does tend to behave with an.. "

I KNOW this.. but find it so hard to NOT fix those typos and sometimes even the capitalizations. Damn!

Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete

3 days ago

@_ARahim_ @bcherny only boomers fix typos in prompts. llms perfectly understand you even if you mistype.

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@featherdye Affordability I guess

@sacsharm @bhaumikgowande @pravesh : ^^ this scenario must be detected by Chartr right?

First world games..

Sara Hooker @sarahookr

6 days ago

Here is my special project I’ve decided to embark on. I’m going to start leaving clues in Waymos to a treasure hidden somewhere in SF. I’ll assume some Waymo’s are cleaned inbetween rides so I will replicate some clues more than once. More to come. If anyone wants to be part

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Dear Sarthak, I think this country first owes you an apology. And then it owes you a salutation. In my career, I have seen a few change makers / disruptors. @sachin_rt rewrote the rules of test match batting and one day opening , @Vaibhavsooryava has completely rewritten the rules of t-20 cricket , you, Sarthak have completely rewritten how we will ever look at an 18 year old student. The fact that senior journalists can only ask you such tired questions as you batting for opposition, exposes only our breed even more. More power to you. 👍👍👍#cbseclass12result

Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak

7 days ago

An actual, CERT-in Empanelled Auditor gave a Security Clearance, in WA/PT to Coempt's OneX platform for BPUT. As per HT report. It took tirth a single endpoint to change the master password. Full Admin Access. India is in danger, from CERT-in's incompetence.

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parents: "move out" girlfriend: “quit being such a loser” boss: "work harder" claude: "uber for dogs (the dogs are the drivers) is a great idea, you should absolutely pursue it"

@acorn @seemay @bombaywallah @jaffrelotc It's The Wire after all..

“To beard the lion in his den.” The dictionary defines it as boldly confronting a powerful rival on their own turf. For years, Norway Chess has been Magnus Carlsen’s den. His turf. His domain. So I woke up to this news and my jaw dropped. You didn’t just win a title, @rpraggnachess. You walked into the lion’s den and emerged victorious This title is important. Not because of the trophy, but because of your challenger spirit. And that’s something all of us can learn from… 🇮🇳👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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underrated to the degree to which every company that is great at fundraising in the last 20 years adopted explicitly millenarian frames: ant/openai: death by unaligned ai palantir: death by terror anduril: china/taiwan spacex: death by climate -> death by woke

roon @tszzl

2 weeks ago

the frontier labs don’t have “comms problems”. reality right now has a comms problem. what is happening is a little scary and there’s no nice words anyone could say, especially not those profiting from it, that’ll make it feel that much better

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Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn. Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together. It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe. Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

1/ My three-volume history places the Indian subcontinent at the centre of world civilisation. On the question of continuity, it is the most impressive case on earth, and the one Western scholarship has most consistently underestimated. 2/ At Bhimbetka's 30,000-year-old paintings, a dancing deity with bangles and trident immediately recalls the dancing Shiva of today, as Michael Wood observed, and as I cite in my own work. A 14,000-year-old yoni stone near Allahabad was recognised on sight by local villagers. This demonstrates continuity. Therefore the seal is a middle chapter in the whole story. 3/ The argument that Indian sacred symbols require a Elamite or steppe source was constructed in the 19th century by Max Muller, who never visited India. He later called his 1,500 BC date for the Rig Veda 'merely hypothetical.' Subsequent historians copied the original date and ignored the retraction. Voltaire said 'everything has come to us from the banks of the Ganges.' He was wrong about most things but right about this.

Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke

3 weeks ago

This isn't Shiva. It's more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography, showing an Eurasian deity "lord of animals." Indian history is amazing, wonderful, and fantastic -- It's well worth getting it right.

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somewhat different take on CBSE drama - core problem is Modiji's preference to do big bold things ("Go Big or Go Home" style) that sometimes backfires spectacularly. why so? because other issues - incompetence, crony-ism, corruption - are endemic. there's no silver bullet. the primary mitigation at scale is to go slow and avoid major disasters like this. let's look at public's favorite culprits: 1. the firm (Coempt) was fly-by-night: well not really. its a 25 yr old firm. it has 170 employees and you can check their profiles on LI. it is not a shady successor to Globarena. these are sibling firms of same age. it's Directors are legit (two of them run a decades old reputed Medical Diagnostic firm, Prof Sadagopan is the new one). 2. corruption/cronyism is unique in this case: lol. how else do we think Govt. business is acquired without a healthy side of crony-ism or bribes? why are no VC funded startups chasing Govt. edu business? Coempt hired Prof. Sadagopan as Director. Why might that be. Well he was deep in GoI - involved in many high profile digitization initiatives. Of course - he was bought on-board to acquire more Govt. business via contacts. Wouldn't you do that if you were running the business? (hell - even our most highly valued desi AI startup has a Govt. insider at the top (no ding on him - he's a legend). this is how the world works) 3. it was a process problem and blacklisting would have solved the issue. sorry - Coeempt and Globarena are legally different firms. how would you do this do this legally? 4. the company is uniquely incompetent: with due respect - i would invite everyone to check out their developer profiles on LI. this is the garden variety tier-3 Indian software firm run at low cost and competence. the kind of firm the now famous 19-yr old hacker (full credit to him) will not touch with a long-pole when he grows up. incompetence is the norm in such firms and peer firms would be no different. 5. the minister is uniquely incompetent: well he certainly seems like a strong no-hire - but can i ask what NIC, Cert-IN etc were doing? does anyone even work here? if the responsibility of checking security of prominent Govt. sites is not with these departments - then whose is it? ie. - the circle of incompetence is all pervasive in Babudom. CBSE, this minister - are just par for the course. 6. hiring TCS would have fixed the issue: dear brother and sisters - have you forgotten the new IT Tax portal and the fiasco that was unleashed by Infosys a few years back? fact: there is no company or state in India that has rolled out OSM at this scale. Ask chatGPT. other rollouts have been much smaller. so any company one hired would not have seen the problem at this scale. (also see below) 7. this is a simple problem, if only for incompetence and corruption. cyber-security goofup is certainly a self-inflicted wound. but scanning 2 million exam booklets in a short burst is not easy or cheap. you need a lot of machines at once. you need a lot of reasonably competent people administering that process at once. then you have no use for most of them for next 11 months. this is the equivalent of Christmas or Diwali shopping traffic for Amazon and Flipkart. scale makes problems hard. sudden bursts makes them much harder. ----- which brings me back to the initial point - a major root cause of the problem here is an operational one. one simply should not rollout stuff at this scale at once. roll it out in one state. roll it out for one exam paper only. learn, fix, repeat. (chatgpt indicated states like Punjab had done that). slow velocity mitigates blast-radius of rank incompetence. you cannot fix all the tier-3 software firms in the country suddenly. you cannot change how Govt. business is acquired through a central diktat. but you can, much more easily, ask officials to go slow. (hell - your Babus love to go slow). while I can certainly see that commission-maxxing also may have led to a sudden large contract and rollout - a more obvious big big reason is that Mudiji just loves to go BIG. (not something that needs elaboration). culture percolates down. every Minister would be answering Mudiji what BIG initiatives his ministry has done. And this was probably Pradhan-jis. Blew up big time. so I dunno if he's gonna ask Pradhan to resign - when Pradhan was Go-Big-or-Go-Home-maxxing just like the PM loves. after all - is the PM going to fire himself now for Demonet or botched GST rollout or .. ?

@jsensarma Also because of the backdrop.

Way back in 2019, I reported extensively about the Globarena Intermediate marks fiasco in Telangana. In fact, I had run a major campaign on my media company Mojo TV. We were the first TV channel up pick the story too. 23 students died by suicide, I spoke with all their families and it was truly heartbreaking. I remember one particular case where a single mother who worked as a farm labour was very proud of her bright daughter. The entire village came to support her education, everyone pitched in with books, commute and all expenses. When the Globarena marks mess up happened, she cried the whole night. Her mother told her it is okay, and she can go for reevaluation or write the exam again, morning the mother wakes up to see her daughter hanging in the middle of the house. I had demanded blacklisting Globarena, arresting the officials. But I guess companies like Globarena are pests that never die, they just transform into something bigger and dangerous and come back to haunt. Globarena now has become Coempt Edu Teck that messed-up the CBSE evaluation. Globarena in 2019 messed up results of 9.74 lakh students in Telangana. Out of this total, approximately 3.8 lakh students failed. 23 suicides were reported. Back then too Globarena failed to provide the answer sheets. After all this, Globarena transforms into Coempt Edu Teck, messes up the future of 18.5 lakh CBSE students across the country. It is almost like they got rewarded for bad behaviour. The officials who were giving approvals for CBSE just 74 days prior knew the history of Coempt Edu Teck. They knew the company is incompetent, but still decided to go ahead and give them the tender. Yes, the Globarena/ Coempt Edu Teck guys are fabulous at landing tenders. The names and associations of Coempt Edu Teck board now seem to run pretty deep in the highest offices. Unless the rot is burnt right from the root level, this won’t stop. All board members, directors, CEO, investors, government employees that tweaked the system to ensure Coempt Edu Teck got the contract should be dragged to the courts & never should be allowed near any business again. But in this country that is so much in love with corruption, I doubt if this will ever change. Coempt Edu Teck may soon get the tender for all exams across the country. PS: To all the students, one exam is not the end. Kudos to your fight. Keep fighting, never ever give up. And if you are feeling low, speak with friends and family or reach out to any helplines. Roshni Helpline, Telangana +91 81420 20033