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> figure out how to call the driver

Which country are you in where you cant take "call the driver" for granted?


Going from license plate to phone number would be one hell of an endeavor in most US states.

I expect the US police to have this capability; < 1% expectation that they would share it with a random citizen who walked in.

“Powerless to help you, not powerless to harm you.”

I don't quite understand the question. If she had had her phone, she could have called the driver using the information from the didi app, but she had no phone, so she didn't know who to call.

Herself, I’d have thought.

33 months in this corner of India, disregarding tariff rises and increased consumption.

Around 2005, Google published MapReduce, THE parallel data processing paradigm. The ecosystem from Yahoo, Hortonworks etc overshadowed Google with Hadoop, Spark etc. Google then launched both paper and product when it came to cloud scheduling and transformers.

Umm, does a Nixfile have a "grammar" of a 140000+ records and 232000 attributes from its individual packages? Can a lightweight text editor underline an error?

It doesn't have to be specific attributes. It's just map(string, derivation) for the package list, however you language expresses that.

Similar to how JS has x["a"]==x.a, they're attributes.


I wanted to implement a similar tool in 2011, Ditz IIRC. The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky, it promised using a self-hosted and reliable repo as the source of truth and Netbeans as its frontend. I implemented Mercurial VCS and designated one machine as remote (a hghub) for ssh cloning and web interface, we didnt have any pesky subscriptions.

Do you remember the microwave antenna power stations that power from solar satellites? The Moore-like drop of solar prices killed solar satellites, solar greenhouses with turbine chimneys, TW superconductor submarine cables circling the world etc.

Missed the memo. Whats the proof of positive free cash flow?

The S1 that was just filed.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026...

Operating cash flow of $3,929M and $482M of CapEx gives $3,447M of Free Cash Flow in H1 2026


How many times are you going to post this exact same comment in this thread?

I thought you were exaggerating but man…

it doesn't exist. Anthropic overtook OAI as the most unprofitable company in human history

The S1 was filed yesterday. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026...

Operating cash flow of $3,929M and $482M of CapEx gives $3,447M of Free Cash Flow in H1 2026


-$70Bn

Their recently released S-1, though I don't think they do a detailed breakdown.

They state their operating cash flow and their capex. FCF is defined as OCF-Capex

Leaked s1 filing, I would guess

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026...

Operating cash flow of $3,929M and $482M of CapEx gives $3,447M of Free Cash Flow in H1 2026


It's all based on vibes and whatever vague lies the companies put out about their financials. Marvels of corpo-nonsense speak such as "If we ignored every single cost we have, we're quite profitable!" seems to be very popular with the AI crowd

This sentiment aged extremely poorly with Anthropic's S1 now released. Turns out the "vibes" guys were right! I expect the goalpost will shift to claims that the S1 is fabricated in a larger than Enron fraud involving both the auditors and Anthropic.

You mean the S-1 docs where they state they're operating at a GAAP of -4% (even then that's based on their best 28 days multiplied by 13), meaning losing money? You sure showed the plebs with the impressive billions of dollars of loss!

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026...

Operating cash flow of $3,929M and $482M of CapEx gives $3,447M of Free Cash Flow in H1 2026


I believe it was Eric Schmidt at Google who once famously said "revenue solves all known problems" in an all hands

There's a reason he didn't say profit...

Not saying I agree with the sentiment, just noteworthy and perhaps something to reflect upon while judging behaviors aligned with this perspective.


If you need to strawman to make a point, you're probably not making a good point.

"We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company." - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/sam-altman/

Where exactly is my strawman? Scam Altman himself has said this, if we ignore the inconvenient parts of the business that loses all that money, they'd be super-duper profitable.

Anthropic said something similar, claiming to their investors they're profitable... If you ignore partner costs and the costs of training.

And mind you this is coming from a proven pathological liar who has a massive vested interest in over exaggerating his business' viability, so doubtless the "Very profitable" part is itself a massive lie.


Gross profitability always happens before net profitability, lol. "We've reached the first but not the second" isn't a deceptive claim, especially with the caveat in the same sentence, and it's a step that every net profitable company went through at some point in its life.

The correct quote is "If you ignore the costs that will come down in the future or stay fixed as userbase scales, then we are actually quite profitable"

Which is a basic truism of pretty much all startups, and nothing noteworthy or insightful to point out.


Why would you expect training costs to come down in the future? It seems to me that the labs themselves have concluded they can't stop training due to competition, which is why they're now asking the government to step in and shut down their competitors.

> or stay fixed as userbase scales

Did they mention 77 minutes of review time for even longer PRs?

A year back, an internet stranger's Claude reported a take-home programming assignment had an instruction (to insert a watermark). Wonder if the latest chatbots report this to user.


HowStuffWorks used to be full of expert animations of automatic transmissions and helicopters around 2006 but they had a multipart article on spontaneous combustion, with anecdotes of 1890s people who retained too much ethanol.



Those forms of articles (along with Straight Dope) were the ultimate dopamine rush back then, and now it just doesn’t hit the same.


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