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by usef- 6mo ago
Maybe he's comparing the renting price of a bare metal server on its own, and doesn't realise how drastically cheaper they are to batch together for an API provider.
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by usef- 7mo ago
Btw, it doesn't need to be actively coordinated for this to happen. Building architectural styles used to be per city and now buildings look roughly the same worldwide. Style is dependent on the year built not the location. Because eve
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by usef- 7mo ago
I often wondered if this is timezone related. Those of us awake during the quieter times might see fewer issues?
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by usef- 8mo ago
Where did they say this?
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by usef- 8mo ago
Of course not. But I believe your Windows example was implying fundamental tech got worse. The original "worst" quote is implying SOTA either stays the same (we keep using the same model) or gets better. People have been predictin
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by usef- 8mo ago
Not Windows: Operating systems. We did get more capable operating systems. The point of the quote is "this is the worst the SOTA will ever be". If Windows XP were fully supported today I still wouldn't use it, personally, des
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by usef- 8mo ago
Have you hit that? I thought it was only in extreme cases when Claude felt uncomfortable, like awful heavy psychological coercion. They wanted Claude not to be forced to reply endlessly.
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by usef- 8mo ago
I don't think that's an apt metaphor. You bought one general water supply, like an API user. If they sold a "no baths" cheaper option I'd be fine with them banning baths to those customers. Google's API does le
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by usef- 8mo ago
There is a reality that when they control the client it can be significantly cheaper for them to run: the Claude code creator has mentioned that the client was carefully designed to maximise prompt caching. If you use a different client, yo
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by usef- 8mo ago
Honestly, after his ~23 years of writing online I think he's fairly earned the title as an independent researcher. He added those sponsorships three days ago; perhaps wait to raise your alarm bells until he actually writes about a spon
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by usef- 8mo ago
I'm guessing it's the comments dang refers to here, but they've been cleaned up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103337
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by usef- 8mo ago
Saying their prices are too high is an understandable complaint; I'm only arguing against the complaint that people were stopped from hacking the subscriptions. LLMs are a hyper-competitive market at the moment, and we have a wealth of
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by usef- 8mo ago
"Production" what? The API is for using the model directly with your own tools. It can be in dev, or experiments, or anything. Subscriptions are for using the apps Claude + code. That's what it always said when you sign up.
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by usef- 8mo ago
That wouldn't solve this problem. And they do? That's what the API is. The subscription always seemed clearly advertised for client usage, not general API usage, to me. I don't know why people are surprised after hacking the
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by usef- 9mo ago
What would be impressive to you?
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by usef- 9mo ago
I haven't used it, but the verge recommended the pebblebee clip5: https://pebblebee.com/products/clip-5 (or the card 5 for wallets)
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by usef- 9mo ago
That is happening, and they are one of the fastest growing products of all time in revenue. But word of mouth can also say "this other provider (eg. google) is free and allows more usage" as the market matures. Google has a bigger
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by usef- 9mo ago
Why? It's a new tier that's lower-cost than the current paid version.
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by usef- 9mo ago
How do you propose they fund the free usage otherwise? They do offer a paid version without ads. (typically the ~entire general public chooses the ads: see how ad-supported products beat paid in virtually every generation of tech)
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by usef- 9mo ago
Having more data than others is a competitive advantage in both the ad and the ai industries. It's why Google and Facebook don't sell your data (unlike, eg, many medium-sized businesses today), they "just" collect it hea
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by usef- 9mo ago
Yes, it means they don't expect fast takeoff in the next year, but we already knew that. Having revenue from their free users might can just be a way to make it more sustainable. And/Or make fundraising easier from investors (whic
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by usef- 9mo ago
Are you defining "evil" as "has an ad-supported product"? In every tech generation, for good or bad, mainstream consumers choose the ad-based product over the paid product. So every company that wants scale in the long-t
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by usef- 9mo ago
Photos would need a lot of work to rival Photomator. If they're essentially shutting down Photomator development, after doing similar with Aperture many years ago, they do seem very determined to drive people to Lightroom....
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by usef- 9mo ago
It increases the countries' soft power if people around the world watch content from there. Eg. a self-reinforcing cycle that you get the best from the other immigrant categories arriving because they choose the country where everythin
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by usef- 9mo ago
We don't really know how much it cost them. Plenty of reasons to doubt the numbers passed around and what it wasn't counting. (And even if you do believe it, they also aren't licensing the IP they're training on, unlike
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by usef- 9mo ago
They made money by licensing their search technology to other sites, as well as selling physical search appliances for businesses. They were considered by some to be struggling to find a way to monetise well. Computational cost is indeed hi
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by usef- 9mo ago
The selling feature is that it's more polished (and has good accessibility etc), they're still intended to be customised, which you could use AI for. Why use Tailwind itself when you could generate one with AI? Because it's s
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by usef- 9mo ago
When the Meta cheating scandal happened I was surprised how little of the attention was on this. Meta "cheated" on lmarena not by using a smarter model but by using one that was more verbose and friendly with excessive emojis.
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by usef- 9mo ago
It isn't just the product itself: he's saying traffic to the site has dropped substantially, so any product will be harder to sell now for them. Some people who would buy the higher quality templates don't know that they ex
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by usef- 9mo ago
Google was not profitable until they rolled out ads, either. The scope of use of AI assistants in people's lives are significantly higher than google search, imo. People use it in far more scenarios already than just information retrie

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