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ML inference should cost a lot more to run than typical SaaS too... that said, I'd pay more than $20/mo for access to GPT4 or Claude 3. It is worth at least $75/mo to me. I pay for both right now just in case one is better than the other for a certain task (though I might drop GPT soon).

Maybe the species that create advanced AI use it to extinct themselves before the AI is fully autonomous and self-sustaining? Presumably "help an ~average intelligence but crazy person make a bioweapon" would come before AI capable of self-sustaining and colonizing the galaxy?

> While we did use phone verification in the past, this is not the case any longer. Phone numbers were stored in the same way as the email addresses, so, again, we have no way to derive them back from the hash.

I've no reason to doubt this but brute-force cracking a hash known to be from a phone number would likely be pretty trivial.

Fwiw, I use protonmail and trust it more than most other services. But my threat model doesn't involve technically capable adversaries directly targeting me, certainly not ones that could compel protonmail to divulge phone number hashes.

I suppose it is subjective, but it seems to be a pretty much near-universal sentiment among gamers I know that "pay to win" sucks.

While I don't doubt that there's a slight temporary productivity boost, I doubt it outweighs:

1) Lost years of productivity as people die early from lung cancer (my smoker granddad ended his career early because of it, a challenging maritime career that as I understand it has an increasing shortage of workers).

2) Healthcare resources being directed towards diseases directly caused by smoking. Tax money and individual money that could've been productively invested elsewhere, plus the working hours of healthcare professionals (another field with a shortage).

> I want to be able to use caffeine as a tool.

Same here. All my daily coffee drinker friends say coffee has no effect on them. I drink it ~4-6 times a month (when I'm very busy) and I can feel the effects from one cup almost all day. More than two cups actually is quite uncomfortable.

I've witnessed something similar, seeing someone quit a hard drug habit but still being stuck on nicotine for a few years before finally quitting. However, I don't think this says much about the inherent addictiveness of nicotine vs hard drugs, because it seems like the motivation to quit the hard drugs would be much higher. They're far more destructive in the short term, both to health and relationships.

For me Delta has been the one that is garbage lately. It used to be my favorite but the last five flights have all had something go wrong. When I requested proof of delay for travel insurance it took them ages to send it over. Tbf though a lot of the issues might just be related to their hub being in Atlanta. I suppose it is hard to make such a gigantic airport efficient but wow do I hate Atlanta layovers (and being stuck there overnight when something goes wrong).

Only one I've never had issues with is Alaska but Southwest is usually good, plus their boarding procedure is by far the most organized. Seriously, why do so many airlines just make it a mad-dash by group?

I don't do Swift or JS/React professionally (well, tiny bit, but I'm not a "React professional"). However, I've made non-toy Swift/SwiftUI* (~7k loc) and React (~4k loc) project.

Imho Swift/SwiftUI is way more of a joy to work with. In particular, SwiftUI is much easier to visually parse whereas JSX is noisy and IMO hideous. I also ended up needing to bring in way more third-party dependencies for JS/React, something I hate doing if avoidable**.

* It is my understanding that many iOS professionals prefer UIKit bc SwiftUI is still missing stuff. I only ended up needing to fall back to it once or twice.

** ClojureScript/Reagent do solve most of my issues with JS/React (by essentially replacing them). Clojure is well-designed with a great standard library (so less need for dependencies or implementing stuff that should be in a standard library). Hiccup is way preferable to JSX.

To whatever extent something like this can be done locally, I'd probably pay a monthly sub for it if its good enough. But I wouldn't want any of that leaving my machine, we get tracked and profiled enough as-is imo.

The crazy thing to me is that they given the videos they originally showed (100% Sora?) they didn't need to falsely advertise. What it can do is incredibly impressive without dressing it up.

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> At last count, Copilot had over 1.8 million paying individual and 50,000 enterprise customers.

> Copilot loses an average of $20 a month per user, according to a Wall Street Journal report, with some customers costing GitHub as much as $80 a month.

Presumably at some point they need to actually make money on this? That is a $432 million / yr loss just on individual users.

I'm normally on board with variations of this argument for things that don't significantly affect other people, but cars very much affect other people. Larger cars are more likely to kill other drivers, and especially bikers and pedestrians. The damage they do to the road is also a LOT more [1] so people who drive smaller vehicles and/or walk/bike are effectively subsidizing people who drive larger vehicles. They also cause more emissions meaning more medical issues and accelerated climate change.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

And all of the ones above the US are seemingly small island nations, with #1 being a US territory :|

iirc in one of his videos (maybe that one) he also spends a lot of time discussing how because of their elytra they can have flight, without the downside of always-vulnerable wings like most (all?) other flying animals. I was surprised the article didn't go into more detail on that point.

I don't watch livestreams but I have Patreon subscriptions to two YouTubers that I enjoy. They focus on fairly niche topics and if everyone thought of paying them as "wasting money" I doubt they'd be able to produce as many good videos as they do just through ad revenue (and since I use adblockers I'm not supporting them in that way).

And cost-efficiency, if I'm using an LLM as an Siri-like assistant on my phone, most of the tasks I'll want it to do won't be that complicated and it would be a waste to send them to some SOTA LLM in the cloud, which I'll have to pay for by a monthly subscription or on a per-token basis.

Sad not to see any lisps or APL but in his defense it does say lazy :)

Another data point, I definitely find Opus better for coding, but not by much. The problems I give them are generally short (<= 100 lines) and well-defined so any advantage Opus has in larger contexts won't be apparent to me. They're also generally novel problems but NOT particularly challenging (anyone with a BS CS should be able to solve them in < 1hr).

I have them working with mostly C++ and Clojure, a bit of Python, and Vimscript every once in a while. Both models are much better at Python and fairly bad at Vimscript. Clojure failure cases are mostly from invented functions and being bad at modifying existing code. I can't pick out a strong pattern in how they fail with C++, but there have been a few times where GPT4 ends up looping between the same couple unworkable solutions (maybe this indicates a poor understanding of prior context?).

While I agree that GPT4 (in the web app) is not as good as it used to be, I don't think it is anywhere near GPT3.5 level. There are many things web app GPT4 can do that GPT3.5 couldn't do at ChatGPT's release (or now afaik).

Yup, Claude is my go-to now. Both models seem equally "intelligent" but Claude has a better sense of when to be terse or verbose + the responses seem more natural. I still use GPT4 when I need code executed as Anthropic hasn't implemented that yet (though this "feature" can be annoying as some prompts to the GPT4 web interface result in code being executed when I just wanted it to be displayed).

Ticks carry a lot more than Lyme though, and many of the diseases they carry can have long-term or life-long effects. Even with a Lyme vaccine I think it'd be worth it to take these if you're gonna be in a tick-heavy area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powassan_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_spotted_fever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tularemia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babesiosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome

And fwiw both GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus failed to give me the correct answer.

I think most people think its bad because of the eyeball scanning part, not the cryptocurrency part...

Fwiw Kagi has

"= 453288 hours" as the first result, above any links.

I feel like my account is gonna look like a Kagi shill pretty soon but it really is so much better than Google now. The Kagi + GPT4 combo is so much better than Google alone 1.5 years ago.

> more of an extension of yourself, a part of your own brain that you can call on to more easily complete particular tasks.

I like this idea but I gotta say when I think "autopilot" I think "does it for you" and imagine ceding control rather than retaining it. I definitely assumed after reading the name that it was going to be a tool to minimize developer involvement as much as possible, similar to how AutoGPT is supposed to require less supervision.

Eh it was great value when it was just Netflix or just two services but now I feel like there's often only 0-1 shows on a given platform that I'm interested in at any one time. It isn't "good value" to pay $15+ a month each for Netflix/Prime/Disney/HBO/Hulu/AppleTV and only use one or two of them in a given month. Because Prime Video is bundled with regular Amazon Prime I keep that active and activate and deactivate the others based on when they come out with seasons of shows I care to watch. I also think a lot of complaints are about the platforms increasingly making the experience worse like making me pay to remove ads when I'm already paying for the service, or what Netflix is pulling with their family plans.