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I haven't seen that point yet, and I was looking for it. Presumably Moonshot paid for that Fable access and Anthropic got paid. How much of the frontier model revenue stream is supported by paid distillation traffic? Obv paid kimi services are eating that on the other side, but money is changing hands at every stage.

Kagi is cool but it’s also easy enough to add “-AI -site:YouTube.com” to Google results

We’re out of drinks. Can you two go get more wine coolers?

From the posted link: "3.6 Flash: Our workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance."

What is Google's recently released AI coding product?

GoPro has been “in trouble” for years and years. All of that may be true but they just haven’t justified their survival. They may well be better off selling to Garmin or another domestic air defense vendor and be done in the consumer market.

FWIW current administration wants to play this same game, but they def won’t do it as well.

As a creator, you could make and stream that content.

I lost my best early programs because of the Sinclair QL tape drives. They were maddening.

I knew I wouldn’t be a game designer when I struggled, as a young child, with sprites. I turned to coding BBS software, which immediately made sense to me.

Weirder is what happened a day later. I got an email that said my Chase Amazon Prime credit card was being re-associated with my Amazon.com account.

I never reported this nor took it up with either Amazon or Chase directly. There was a refund of my Whole Foods purchase (they needed to void my purchase and re-ring everything to give me the discounts.. I asked them to refund my purchase and I’d do without my Whole Foods purchase entirely).

Looking back I think at least 3 recent visits were charged to me at full price because of all this. Hard not to think of enshittification and whether Amazon Prime is even worth it, alas.. I live in a fairly rural area at the moment and need delivery.

You see how that’s an entirely different kind of legal action, right? It’s a resistance to regulation, which is entirely different than this accusation of malfeasance.

I realized recently that Whole Foods no longer automatically and reliably detects your Chase Amazon Prime credit card when paying. So they don’t give you the discounted pricing automatically. I wonder how many customers are checking out the way they always do and are paying full price when, for years and decades, this worked fine.

The customer service people I talked to in the grocery store said this changed sometime in the last year. My guess is that it’s an unintended side effect of removing the pay-by-palm feature.

This is obviously unrelated but I joked about what else Amazon wasn’t reliably calculating….

Don’t disagree, but screed funnier. Plus it still fits, as the dictionary definition is “lengthy, often ranted” — which doesn’t preclude reasoned.

When I was young, my family would weekend brunch near a mall. After brunch we’d visit the mall because the only place open in the mall on a Sunday was a model train store.

At home we had an Osborne 1. In the mall there was an Apple dealer with an Apple Mac on display in the window. It held no interest for me at all.

There was another shop that had an Atari 1040ST on display. It was gorgeous. It held such a mystique for me that I would ride my BMX after school over to the mall to get some hands on time with the ST. The shop owner just let me hang out and bang on the machine, like you can at an Apple store today. I really wanted one.

But my father was cheap and he anguished over purchases. We never got an Atari, and some years later my dad picked up a Sinclair QL instead. That was a sad turn of events.

I look forward to John Gruber’s screed on this given his recent rampages against Electron apps, and his preference for OpenAIs native macOS app (relative to Claude).

Would be more compelling to me if there was native support for Opencode

I think its entirely reasonable that license plates are recorded on public roads and accessible to police in lawful requests, like tracking stolen vehicles or dangerous suspects.

And I don’t. I think my right to privacy shouldn’t arc to nil.

Cops don’t care about stolen cars. Or stolen things from cars. I’ve given them footage of such a crime and.. nada.

And they have armies of police and armament to do the other police work. They have access to individually produced recordings that they do nothing with.

Instead of just dismantling all civic rights for _some_ property rights, maybe we should have a national convention about what police are obligated to do and their best practices to do so. Courts have already established that it is not public safety, so I personally wont support any action that simply gives them more.

Ehh do you remember the defaults back in the day? And how long local vs intermediary vs backbone TTLs could be cached for, even above and beyond the set TTL?

The propagation part refers to how long it would take for all those cached requests to expire and when you could tell some random client they should be able to see the new value. Especially when you forgot to lower the TTL ahead of time.

It’s a term of art and it’s fine.

Oh that reminds me. I made a bunch of DNS changes a while ago and left all the TTLs set to 5 minutes. I should up them.

It was designed as a bad movie by people who didn’t realize their idea was terrible. It was hardly organized, as Peter Jackson had to come in late in the game and against his will to try saving the franchise.

PJ defined the product that was LOTR against the objectives pursued by studio. Then that same entity got their true wishes with the Hobbit.

It’s not that the Hobbit sucked as much as LOTR was the exception that proved the studio rule.

Also, a thousand geniuses can’t change the trajectory of an idiot boss.

Creators create, studios iterate.

See also: Star Wars, Star Trek

The "let builders and capitalists do anything because the future will be better for it" isn't a technically considered position. It's a tautology.

Or we could stop astroturfing cultural waves that’ll never subside

The almond/coconut cream substitutes are my favorite but most coffee shops don’t stock them. Bought my own espresso machine because I got tired of dairy after effects when indulging in cold brews from coffee shops. Straight espressos are safer in that respect.

I eat steel cut oats every day but can’t really do oat milk. Not enough texture or flavor. I’d rather use Ripple in my oats for that little bit of extra.

Straight dairy tastes too weird to me now.

Something something even Apple wants 10s of billion$ a year from it… building the big money machine is an innovation of a kind when only a few entities can really do it.

It's not just the stories, it's the behavior of the community that creates the threads.

EDIT: Took a look, it doesn't really solve the issue I raised above, but it is an interesting link. Thanks.

Honestly. I want the AI news. I wish HN would add filtering features. I know they want us to all see the same homepage, but it’s time to let us have our tables. Pro-AI-era should be able to have a cohort thread, and anti-AI should be able to avoid it, or have a ring fence for their anti-AI discussions.

We end up with some good threads on HN in both directions, but there’s a weight to early voices that can bend a posts’ comments pro or anti AI which isn’t necessarily reflective of the quality of said post.

It’s kind of amazing how steadily this question is asked in every forum where it can be asked. Kind of amazing that the answers previously given can’t reach the next person who’s going to ask it.

A buffer isn’t necessarily isolation or insulation.

I respect someone with a good, proper library. So many luxury properties seem to miss that one.

I feel like you missed the point of moving overseas.

Not really, I've been to various docs for this.. one said BPPV attacks usually hit people 1-3x in a lifetime, I average that per year. Head MRI revealed nothing interesting. It's much diminished from its peak abuse of my system, but I have low-grade persistent vertigo that shows up if I move too fast, like turning in a closet.

As someone with persistent BPPV, I need anti-nausea dots in life.