While I tend to agree with your general example, there are lots of products that people don't talk about because they are icky, personal, or embarrassing but also really useful. Period cups fall into this category. Ting or whatever needs to advertise because nobody talks with their friends about phone subs.

Facebook knows I graduated with a degree in comp. science and when (since I told them). They could therefore infer that I am into nerdy things - but I get bottom of the barrel ads.

Part of the problem as far as I can see is that there is no way to mark an add as insultingly matched.

There is no shortage of money to build housing. There is an abundance of regulatory burdens in places that are desirable to live in.

Its not due to a lack of money that housing in SF is extremely expensive.

SF is not the only place where housing is expensive. There are plenty of cities where they could build more housing and they don't because it isn't profitable or because they don't have the workers to build more, not because the government is telling them they can't.

It is expensive in those other places for similar reasons as SF -- the government either tells them they can't (through zoning), or makes it very expensive (through regulation, like IZ / "affordable" housing), or limit profitability (rent control), or some combination of the above. All of these reduce the supply of new housing.

Generally the cities where housing is expensive are exactly the ones where the government is telling people they can't build (or making it very expensive to get approval). Do you have a specific example of a city such as you claim?

Which cities, for example?

Awesome. Any chance we will see a phone app?

I know coding on a phone sounds stupid, but with an agent it’s mostly approvals and small comments.

The ChatGPT app on iOS has a Codex page, though it only seems to be for the "cloud" version.

They put it into the Azure portal, and I tried to get it to answer me what the open resource cost us in storage. It appeared retarded at first, but then I realized it didn't have access to know what I had opened or anything.

Until MS makes sure their models get the necessary context, I don't even care to click on them.

I think a good workflow is to use the llm as a minimum to fix typo and grammar issues.

From there you can also go from first draft to feedback.

Openapi can do that too. But the real benefit is that it forces a simplification of the interface. XML has too many outs for architectural astronauts. JSON has close to none.

Anyone on HN can write a Swift alternative protocol in a few days. XML documents signed with public keys is a good start. The trick is to get the banks to use them and to integrate them in their systems, but the EU is capable of writing banking regulations.

Operating systems are even easier - pick your flavour of Linux - devices are all made in China anyway.

Its the cloud and software part that sucks. VPSes aside, almost any managed service is US based.

AI has made this even worse.

Expect mistral to keep getting large cash infusions until they get competitive.

Managed services weren’t needed because big tech was bending to EU regulations and buying out alternatives. The services aren’t rocket science; plenty of euro devs participated and still participate in building them, they’re just on US big tech payrolls. Expertise is there, money isn’t, yet.

Good point. The data center hardware is there and there's plenty of open source for things like PaaS and AWS compatible systems. Bewildering that this does not exist and everyone just used AWS.

AWS, etc has datacenters in the EU.

Microsoft relies on the EUs courts to recognise their property rights.

It is absolutely true, with the interesting caveat that the basic (spelling grammar) doesn’t matter. Clarity and detail of your ideas do.