What kind of things are you coding while “on the road”? Phone addiction aside, the UX of tapping prompts into my phone and either collaborating with an agent, or waiting for a background agent to do its thing, is not very appealing.
I wanted to try web search to increase my privacy but it wanted to do login.
For Turbo mode I understand the need for paying but the main poing of running a local model with web search is browsing from my computer without using any LLM provider. Also I want to get rid of the latency to US servers from Europe.
It might be a way for them to prioritize your order before others as they see how much money they earn, so actually it's a bidding process disguised as tipping. I'm not sure if it's shown in the backend though, but I have seen things like this in other delivery apps.
Why would they prioritize you when you've already paid? Wouldn't they first go after the possibility of more tip money on jobs that haven't yet paid it? I mean, if I was a driver, unless there are more high tip jobs than I could handle, I'd take those and fill in with low tip jobs, and I'd deliver the low tip jobs first in a hope of getting an after the fact tip.
Delivery drivers on some apps are told the expected pay for a trip. If you don't tip, they might decline the job because it costs them more to deliver then they make.
This makes your order sit longer until someone decides to do it, perhaps because there's a penalty from the company for declining jobs, and the driver is willing to lose money to remain in good standing
Ooh that’s actually a really interesting question. Because you’ve retroactively signaled that you will pay more for priority service? Or that you’re dumb. Needs to be iterated. Incentives depend strongly on population of both drivers and customers.
A lot of times, that makes the order come slower. A higher tip means the app will pair your order with someone else that didn't tip or tipped smaller, using your money to make up the difference. I consistently get faster deliveries when I tip towards "the average" instead of over tipping
Why would you keep using an app that you suspect was cynically exploiting your generosity like that? I’d drive every time rather than encourage such behaviour.
>Why would you keep using an app that you suspect was cynically exploiting your generosity like that? I’d drive every time rather than encourage such behaviour.
Surely you already know that choosing things doesn't always simplify down to a single dimension. Instead, there are multiple factors that lead people to deliberately choose options that have negatives.
E.g. Why do people continue to use Ryanair airlines if they always nickel & dime customers and treat them like shit?!? Because the mistreatment by Ryanair is still better than driving for 6 hours or paying more $$$ for Air France or KLM.
Likewise, why do customers continue playing along with the tips/bribery/ransom game in the delivery app?!? Because the user-hostile app is still better than rounding up the small toddlers and infant into the car, fasten the car seat, and drive to the restaurant.
Life doesn't always provide unambiguous good options. Instead, you choose the "least bad" from the list of bad options.
>US didn't want Europe to import cheap gas from its natural neigbour continent.
You can say Russia. And there are also EU citizens who are not happy about the war in Europe and want to sanction Russia, but sure nobody wants to pay for that.
Even if you believe this line of propaganda, Zelenskyy is not who was brought to power in 2015. That was Poroshenko.
I don't know if you followed Ukrainian politics when Zelenskyy was elected, but Zelenskyy is a native Russian-speaker (he consciously refuses to speak Russian now) who was accused of being pro-Russia by Poroshenko and the Orange Revolution politicians, and basically only became anti-Russia when he tried negotiating the end of the conflict in Donbass/Luhansk and then of course, when Russia fully invaded...
>basically only became anti-Russia when he tried negotiating the end of the conflict in Donbass/Luhansk and then of course, when Russia fully invaded
Here are "NGO"s threatening Zelensky with another Maidan right after his election [0]:
As civil society activists, we present a list of “red lines not to be crossed”. Should the President cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country and the deterioration of international relations:
Security Issues:
- holding a referendum on the negotiations format to be used with the Russian Federation and on the principles for a peaceful settlement
- conducting separate negotiations – without the participation of Ukraine’s Western partners – with the Russian Federation, members of the occupation authorities and their armed groups and gangs in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, Crimea and Sevastopol
- fulfilling the ultimatum requirements demanded by the aggressor state or achieving compromise with the Kremlin at the cost of making concessions to the detriment of national interests, national sovereignty, territorial integrity and order, and independent domestic and foreign policies of Ukraine
My point is that he wasn't allowed to be pro-Russian, attempts to negotiate with Russia having nothing to do with his stance. (Negotiate what, btw? All he had to do was to implement Minsk accords).
"In December 2019, Ukraine and Russia agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive ceasefire." The agreement followed prisoner swaps and the withdrawal of Ukrainian military in three areas. The two sides agreed to swap the remaining prisoners and disengage military forces in three additional regions. According to Zelensky there was also progress with the issue of gas exports. Russia and Ukraine could not agree on the issues of the withdrawal of Russian-backed troops and the elections in the separatist-held regions"
> All he had to do was to implement Minsk accords
Maybe don't consume exclusively Russian propaganda? There's plenty of information out there regarding why it failed...
>Energy prices in Europe went up because US didn't want Europe to import cheap gas from its natural neigbour continent.
No, it didn't. Prices went up because Germany planned to use Russian gas while it was transitioning to renewable energy. Russia decided to attack Ukraine though and made that impossible.
>Everybody who really wants knows which country benefited the most from the Nordstream pipeline being destroyed.
Ukraine obviously, who now had an insurance that a deal between Germany and Russia was impossible.
They are somewhat self regulated, as they can cause permament damage to the company that releases them, and they are meant for general consumers without any training, unlike table saws that are meant for trained people.
An example is the first Microsoft bot that started to go extreme rightwing when people realized how to make it go that direction. Grok had a similar issue recently.
Google had racial issues with its image generation (and earlier with image detection). Again something that people don't forget.
Also an OpenAI 4o release was encouraging stupid things to people when they asked stupid questions and they just had to roll it back recently.
Of course I'm not saying that that's the real reason (somehow they never say that the problem is with performance for not releasing stuff), but safety matters with consumer products.
This is one reason, and another is that both Dennard scaling has stopped and GPUs hit a memory wall for DRAM. The only reason AI hardware gets the significant improvements is that they are using big matmuls and a lot of research has been in getting lower precision (now 4bit) training working (numerical precision stability was always a huge problem with backprop).
I work alone, not in teams, but use LLM (codex-1) a lot, and it's extremely helpful. I accepted that in return the code base is much lower quality than if I would have written it.
What works for me is that after having lots of passing tests, I start refactoring the tests to get closer to property testing: basically prove that the code works by allowing it to go through complex scenarios and check that the state is good in every step instead of just testing lots of independent cases. The better the test is, the harder LLMs are able to cheat.
I wonder how this trade-off will age.
I'm not a Mag7/Saas/SV startup tech guy, so I've tended to work on systems that are in service & maintained for upwards of 10 years. It's not unusual to see 20 year old codebases in my field.
We scoff at clever code thats hard to understand leading to poor ability for teams to maintain, but what about knowingly much lower quality code?
When the price of building becomes low, you just toss it and build more.
Much like Ikea's low cost replaceable furniture has replaced artisan, hand made furniture and cheap plastic toys have replaced finely made artifacts. LLM produced code is cheap and low effort; meant to be discarded.
In recognizing this, then it should be used where you have this in mind. You might still buy a finely made sofa because it's high touch. But maybe the bookshelves from Ikea are fine.
reply