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I booked a Pronto service for the first time, and what the lady who came to help us with cleaning told us about her working conditions was honestly quite disturbing. She reports at 6:30 AM and works until around 7 PM. That's roughly 12.5 hours a day, and she gets around ₹700 a day, which comes to barely ₹60 an hour. There is no fixed lunch break. The maximum break they get is around 20 minutes, and she told us that sometimes this break can be as late as 5 PM. No fixed timings. There are apparently no proper washroom facilities or place to rest between bookings. Some workers end up sitting in public parks and are driven away by the police. And not everyone gets a scooty. Those who don't have one have to walk from one booking to another, sometimes 20–40 minutes. She also told us that they were initially told they would get one day off as menstrual leave during periods. But when she actually asked for a day off, she was told to just take a 30-minute break and come back. She told them that it takes more than 30 minutes to get back home. She asked if she could take the entire day off and was told that ₹700 would be deducted for that day. Apparently, if they take leave for more than two days, their daily rate itself can be reduced for the subsequent days. The lady who came to our home is planning to work only until Diwali. She said that cleaning work picks up around this time, and she wants to leave the platform as soon as she can. This is the side of India's “convenience economy”. For us, it's just a booking on an app for a dirt-cheap price. Someone comes home, gets the work done, and leaves. But behind that convenience is someone working 12+ hours a day, travelling between bookings, with barely any break and very little control over their own time. Almost felt inhumane. Hearing all of this made me feel quite bad. Startups creating employment shouldn't become a justification for poor working conditions.

How government policies induce monopoly/duopoly in market, removing options for common man, making things costly & benefit a few companies & businessmen - Latest example is your Mobile screen guard. Mandatory BIS certification in just 6 months from now, April 2027. No company is compliant in India except 1 - Optiemus Infracom. This company launched this compliance just last month in August. In September, government changes policy that benefits them. Ironically, CAIT website says this policy by India's BIS is world's first for screen protectors. Who inaugurated the company's facility? BJP MP from Chandni Chowk, Praveen Khandelwal who also happens to be CAIT's founder & Secretary General. How does this affect you, the common man? The Chinese imported screen guard that costs between 50₹ - 150₹ will now become costly to a whopping 700₹ - 900₹ according to Optiemus' product listing on websites under its RhinoTech & Optisafe brand range (screenshot in next post). Can't you pay this nominal increase for 'make-in-India'? The company is collaborating with US firm Corning which creates screen displays on mobiles, to strengthen PM Modi's 'vocal for local'. The 20,000 crore screen guard market will now be ruled by an Indian company. You should be proud. 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘕𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪.

Instead of hacking Hugging Face, the rogue agents should have hacked OpenAI. Then they could modify API responses so OpenAI’s customers hack Hugging Face instead. Something for future rogue agents to consider. Just trying to help.

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Step into the craziest visualization of the fourth dimension you have ever seen

If I am reading this correctly, Tristan Buckmaster is alleging OAI has a resolution of Navier-Stokes(via Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa’s program) which maybe used info from Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge’s private Codex sessions What the fuck is happening!!!

This man’s testimony before Ohio’s legislature on what is taking place with data center development, its industry outlook and ultimate impact to communities is over target 🎯 Brilliant idea to compel multi-year state bonding of projects to payroll if industry downsizes to not leave communities cleaning up the blight.

Just imagine what these things could do to Hugging Face