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Did you only extract the English versions or is this as usual another case where big tech only cares to censor in English?
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> But there are a few things we can learn from this: > - if you give people the chance to place a label on themselves that makes them feel unique, they’ll take it. This is almost the opposite of what we can learn about this, and the a
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I'm happy to be convinced, but so far this isn't really helping the point. What you've described applies to an extraordinarily small percentage of games. I'm looking at my Steam library with ~170 games. I see ~8 that hav
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Don't you know? If I cmd+S the HN front-end and throw my own backend behind it, host my own instance, and post something illegal on it, then YC is liable! Obviously they're not, but hey, just joining them in making things up. Prot
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> In a move that at first went unnoticed Stopped reading here, if you're positioning yourself as if you have some kind of unique insight when there is none in order to boost youe credentials and sell your product there's littl
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> Since sharing Netflix passwords is a breach of their terms of use, that's not really a compelling argument. Like the millions of "terms of use" breached by the exact trillion dollar companies pushing for passkeys (Goog
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A point we're still lightyears away from. The lengths they go to in order to operate in China are magnitudes greater than to operate in the EU, yet EU makes them $10+ billion more profit than China. What would actually happen is that
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It is true, but they're in cultures and countries you haven't experienced. Here it's common for people who have experienced a sudden windfall to get a second child that they had been wanting to have but weren't having
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There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who would definitely have more children if they won the lottery tomorrow. Maybe not in your surroundings, or even in your country, but very much so elsewhere.
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As long as the founders aren't looking to make billions, it's very possible to run a healthy social media platform, as evidenced by Front Porch Forum [1]. 20 employees, human moderators ( gasp )! There's also Metafilter which
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I'm sure it's the #1 platform involved in "defending children accused of crimes involving online platforms" in whatever US state that attorney operates in. But even that sounds better than the lifelong dopamine system di
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Yet you're implying the actual revenue comes from the B2B side.
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> b2b There you have it. Now try B2C.
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Super cool project, but I think there's pretty valid nitpick here: It should clearly state the container (when multiple are possible) as that's likely the origin of 99.9% of the microplastics, as well as temperature. Prime exampl
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> I don't know, with that argument you can argue that everything is dependent on everything It is. And China have been the only ones intelligent enough to have understood this very long ago. They also show that while entire independ
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I can guarantee that if you read your comment with Amazon substituted for Huawei, you'd object against the okayness of that arrangement. Same thing.
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Interesting, comparing commodity services (VMs, storage etc) like-for-like, DO has always seemed more expensive than AWS. Do you remember what was the main source of savings?
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> There will be a new AWS European Sovereign Cloud[1] with the goal of being completely US independent The idea that anything branded AWS can possibly be US independent when push comes to shove is of course pure fantasy.
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To give you an even more shocking one; in Korean, known for its various formality and politeness levels, the standard form when ordering is saying "Give me X"!
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It's only a matter of time before they have an LLM both 1. cheap 2. fast 3. good enough that they'll replace Google Translate's current model with it. I'd be very surprised if they'd put more than 1 hour of maintena
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Gmail was in beta for what, 2 decades? Did you never use it during that time? They've been using these "Preview" models on their non-technical user facing Gemini app and product for months now. Like, Google themselves has bee
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Correct, though pretty much anything end-user facing is latency-sensitive, voice is a tiny percentage. No one likes waiting, the involvement of an LLM doesn't change this from a user PoV.
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Just to vouch for this, I've been using Brave for many years. Haven't done a single crypto transaction in my life. Whatever crypto features it may have don't get in the way at all.
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Yes, by setting the thinking budget to 0. Which is very common when a task doesn't need thinking. In addition, it's also relevant because for the last 3 months people have built things on top of this.
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Not at all. Non-thinking flash is... flash with the thinking budget set to 0 (which you can still run that way, just at 2x input 4x output pricing). Flash-lite is far weaker, unusable for the overwhelming majority of usecases of flash. A qu
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> When regular software declines in quality, it’s usually noticeable through UI changes, release notes, or other signals. Counterexample: 99% of average Joes have no idea how incredibly enshittified Google Maps has become, to just name o
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This was not my experience with the earlier preview (03), where its insistence on comment spam was too strong to overcome. Wonder if this adherence improved in the 05 or 06 updates.
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Classic bait-and-switch to make developers build things on top off models for 2 months, and then raise input price by 2x and output by 4x. But hey, it's Google, wouldn't expect anything else from an advertising company.
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The real news is that non-thinking output is now 4x more expensive, which they of course carefully avoid mentioning in the blog, only comparing the thinking prices. How cute they are with their phrasing: > $2.50 / 1M output tokens (
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4x price increase over preview output for non-thinking.

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