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by remus 3mo ago
> Please don’t respond if you are speculating. I doubt you are going to get a response from an anthropic employee, but I think it is safe to assume they have swapped to a new tokenizer because it improves the performance of their models.
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by remus 3mo ago
Obviously there are a lot of important things you need to keep a country running, but steel is a key input a in a huge number of very important sectors (infrastructure, military, automotive etc.) so having some ability to produce your own s
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by remus 3mo ago
As a website owner, if I saw someone scraping with a realistic looking name + email address I'd definitely give them more latitude than someone trying to hide the fact they're scraping. In my experience people who are hiding the f
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by remus 3mo ago
> Its AI proposition is more or less like the Google Plus. Nobody really wants it but they know about it because google pushes it everywhere it can. Citation needed. The gemini app has 750 million MAU, hardly a dead business.
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by remus 3mo ago
> hence Google paying SpaceX hundreds of millions of dollars a month to SpaceX for capacity there. I don't think that necessarily follows. It could just be old fashioned capacity issues, for example. If nothing else nvidia are able
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by remus 3mo ago
> This feels like a kid trying to do science. The will is there, but lacks experience. It's funny, when I saw the title I was hoping the article would include some sort of blind ranking, where you could see the outputs (without know
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by remus 3mo ago
> Which brings to mind: most of the big shops product (chatgpt, claude, grok, etc...) ALL rely on search, and NONE of them actually have a running search stack. Don't they? Based on traffic to some websites I run the big AI labs are
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by remus 3mo ago
They're very similar models though, just with different safeguards and restrictions in placae around particular use cases. I guess the underlying issue is that there is this model that is very capable, but it's being hobbled becau
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by remus 3mo ago
> When you think about it, the idea of a representative democracy is rooted in the technical difficulties of implementing a direct democracy: both spread of information/discussion to the masses and organizing the votes. I think ther
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by remus 4mo ago
Given this a test on some scans of magazines, generally pretty impressed with the results. Mags are generally pretty whacky layouts and it does a reasonable job working out what is where and pulling it together into a single coherent md fil
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by remus 4mo ago
They dynamically pick the number of days to display based on viewport size. Mobile = 30 days, tablet = 60 days etc.
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by remus 4mo ago
> Appointments are made in local time. Store them in local time. You may just be illustrating a particular use case, but it is more ambiguous in the general case. For example if you have arranged a meeting with someone in another timezon
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by remus 4mo ago
> They are built to know who you are: your name, your date of birth, your document number, your face. This is not age verification at all. It is forced identity tracking. This doesn't have to be the case. https://www.w3.o
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by remus 4mo ago
It is typically hard to directly attribute churn though, whereas some massive EC2 instance costing you $30/day is a clear line item where cost savings can be measured easily.
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by remus 4mo ago
> I find this incredibly amusing, and at a different point in my life I'd already be gone. How so? Bad actors buying existing extensions with large user bases then publishing a new version which does bad stuff is a pretty common pat
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by remus 4mo ago
Is it that hard to imagine? They do 100B USD / yr revenue as a supermarket chain with 330k employees and a massive logistics operation. The software supporting the whole shebang is not gonna run on a spare macbook pro in a cupboard.
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by remus 4mo ago
> I think regulation would be useful here. Or vendors just abiding by contracts they've already signed!
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by remus 4mo ago
It does seem an odd move. No doubt they're going to milk existing customers for everything they're worth, but they're going to create a generation of people who will never buy anything from them ever again. That guy who'
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by remus 4mo ago
> ...decided that they don’t want to bear the moral cost of it anymore. And of course the external pressure to loosen banking secrecy laws has been huge, particularly from the US e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB
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by remus 4mo ago
> Tell me which company in your opinion would be in the LOUD headlines, Apple or the random 3rd party? The world I want to live in is not the one where apple claims responsibility for every byte of my data which passes through their prod
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by remus 4mo ago
I totally agree cookie banners are awful, but you could equally lay the blame at the foot of website owners who are so keen to track your movements across the web that they'll layer this awful UX on their users. No tracking cookies =&g
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by remus 4mo ago
The whole point is to try and avoid ending up in situations like this, where apple were able to extort 30% of app store revenue because they dictate how people are allowed to use their devices.
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by remus 4mo ago
I am not very sympathetic to apple here, but I think the legislation in question is more to do with competition than data privacy.
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by remus 4mo ago
Surely that depends on the reason for the ban? Say it is banned in the EU because of concerns about secondary environmental impact, a different country with a different ecology could reasonably decide to keep using it.
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by remus 4mo ago
> Starlink has a hard limit on how much it can grow. If you are within the reach of wired Internet, you aren't going to pay more for starlink. I think you may be underestimating a little here. Even in places with reasonable wired av
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by remus 4mo ago
> Indeed and it’s almost sad. The core of SpaceX is an amazing engineering company with real assets and a serious moat. Completely. As if "We dominate the space launch and satellite internet markets" isn't enough, they&#x2
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by remus 4mo ago
Not at >100x revenue, presumably.
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by remus 4mo ago
> What even is the point of blocking scapers if Google consumes your content anyway and serves it as an AI answer? Google bot is generally fairly well behaved, but this is not the case for all scrapers and it can cause significant traffi
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by remus 4mo ago
> Just because API pricing would've been $2180.16 doesn't mean that's the value of those tokens. You seem to be suggesting the price of tokens is entirely disconnected to the cost of providing the service? I don't see
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by remus 5mo ago
That's a real shame. I am involved with some history-related projects and the number of websites which go offline is huge, and the wayback machine is incredibly helpful for unearthing these dead sites. It is not hard to imagine a futur

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