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by qlte 2mo ago
Backed by a16z... yep, that tracks
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by qlte 2mo ago
In theory it sounds like a great deal for the imperial center, but the system also requires high tariffs on all goods produced outside the empire to preserve the privileged mercantile relationships. If the same goods are cheaper imported
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by qlte 2mo ago
I didn't have that issue back when I originally created my API keys a couple years ago. Just out of curiosity I switched to a different Google account that had never interacted with AI Studio and never used Google Cloud console. It was
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by qlte 2mo ago
FWIW I definitely did not not need to do anything like that to generate a key via AI Studio. It was like three clicks to get the free tier key, later on enabling billing was a few more plus typing in credit card info.
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by qlte 2mo ago
You prepay for tokens exactly like the OpenAI/Anthropic dev dashboards when using AI Studio, which the link above is pointing to not GCP, also there are project specific spend caps now. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api&
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by qlte 2mo ago
> stringing together words that sound smart to obscure the simplicity of the thing it's describing Laser targeted at LessWrong posters
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by qlte 2mo ago
For me it helps that back when xAI was the new hotness, after reading HN comments constantly advertising the free Grok credits they were giving out each month for developers with data sharing enabled, I eventually set aside my personal dist
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by qlte 2mo ago
> If I want a script or numerical code, use Python. I had the same convention until about a year ago when I started specifying Go for any kind of scripts on a whim. Now I get blazing fast, dependency-free static binaries with nea
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by qlte 2mo ago
> Andon Market’s seemingly random assortment of products includes many candles.
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by qlte 2mo ago
> The quality it is today, is the worst it's ever going to be. Someone in 2004: A few years ago it would have been insane to say that you got help from Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky button to fix your outdoor plumbing.
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by qlte 2mo ago
Alternatively, AI datacenters are just broadly unpopular across political lines.
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by qlte 2mo ago
It makes very little sense to regular people because he’s directing his argument to followers of “e/acc” who he assumes should support policies that mindlessly consolidate power and capital in AI “innovators” (aspiring monopolists to t
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by qlte 2mo ago
> light-years away from what happened here What? This project is literally an LLM port of Postgres from C to Rust. The name "pgrust" is a hint, if somewhat subtle. There is also zero evidence a human has reviewed a mean
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by qlte 2mo ago
People always say this like it’s a panacea but n=1, I did exactly that for about 5-6 months in 2024 after I quit Twitter and didn’t want to get sucked back in to endless election drama like in 2016. For the first couple weeks it seemed like
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by qlte 2mo ago
Holy shit I was 90% sure you were joking. I get called an AI “cynic” but apparently I’m not actually cynical enough to predict how these big AI labs operate. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-model-hacked-outside
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by qlte 2mo ago
Would they? To me it feels like we’re past the dreamy early days of the AI boom (in the US) and now investors want to see the tech monopolies actually start building the new cash printing machines they’ve been promising with the hundreds of
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by qlte 2mo ago
Based on the HN “realists” I routinely see in comments, I expect it will go something like this: I’m generally pro-privacy, but here’s the hard truth: at my startup, we disabled keyboard input in our app Slopgen and switched the default
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by qlte 2mo ago
Oh nice have things stabilized with models/quotas and Antigravity is usable with the Pro plan again? I was getting a crazy amount of value out of Gemini CLI for “free” on my Pro plan but after the shutdown struggled to make agy work w
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by qlte 2mo ago
The LessWrong/“rationality” crowd gwern is part of like to pat themselves on the back for identifying the trend and resulting harms from super intelligent AI going back decades. And yet, the main tangible contribution emerging from thi
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by qlte 2mo ago
Success or failure isn’t judged by how many explosions or dead bodies each side racks up. Def Sec McNamara admits he made that mistake during the Vietnam war when he repeatedly asserted the US was winning with all sorts of statistics and c
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by qlte 2mo ago
It’s not “needing to be taken care of”, in your scenario when you go the hospital for your camel injuries and use insurance for medical care (even if it’s fully private paying your own premiums), suddenly another party is involved who doesn
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by qlte 2mo ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding it’s no different with private insurance in the US. If you are injured and the circumstances vaguely resemble any kind of accident (broken bones, concussion, lacerations, etc) a few weeks to months after receivin
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by qlte 2mo ago
> YouTube starts shoving AI generated shorts into my feed every time I login > Accidentally click every once in a while or out of perverse curiosity Tech Industry logic: revealed preference shows that despite user's &q
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by qlte 2mo ago
What you’re generalizing as “inverter power sources” don’t have any fundamental technical limitation like you describe. Those limitations are an artifact of the historical default of a “grid following” inverter that was suitable when the gr
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by qlte 2mo ago
> In other recent news OpenAI also greatly cut their model prices, 20% for 5.6 Terra and 80% for 5.6 Luna, to stay competitive. I’ve seen comments on HN saying how bad this is for the Chinese model developers since the cheaper op
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by qlte 2mo ago
Plus “building up” like Tesla which had many 10x multiples is kinda a different story than a company that started out in the Top 5 by market cap. Sure, there’s a limited float plus meme stock/hype/etc but still, steady growth wh
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by qlte 2mo ago
> … comments that are somewhat relevant to the original post. This is a really common tell for HN bot accounts I find, even when effectively disguised/customized to drop the most obvious LLM cliches/em-dashes/etc.
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by qlte 2mo ago
> People ... are trying very hard to argue that humans are subject to this via social engineering but it is not the same Thank you, I always hear the "but humans fall for social engineering too!" line used reflexively w
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by qlte 2mo ago
It’s just a different form of sanitized corporate PR even if the voice is tweaked for the medium. At least traditional bland corporate PR doesn’t try to build up a weird parasocial relationship with the product owner/dev trying to act
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by qlte 2mo ago
And yet, despite those hypothetical rosy scenarios on paper, tens of millions of ratepayers across different regions in the US are seeing their power bills increase right now , even with inefficient gas turbines being deployed on-site and

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