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Agreed on this. Anthropic has now changed the verbiage on the definitions of the models under `/model` to say that Opus is for everyday usage, and Sonnet is for routine tasks.

There's apparently a reason Sonnet and Haiku have been left in previous version #s.

Still encouraging, though, that things are catching up. We can't expect $20k local setups to match $20bn compute clusters.

Saying that "we're firing to use AI" makes you look like you have ROI on your AI investments and you're keeping up.

In fact there are possibly other macro-economic effects at play:

1. The inability to deduct engineering for tax purposes in the year they were spent: "Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) from 2017, the law requires companies to amortize (spread out) all domestic R&D expenses, including software development costs, over five years, starting in tax years after December 31, 2021, instead of deducting them immediately. This means if you spend $100,000 on software development in 2023, you can only deduct 1/5th (or $20,000) each year over five years"

2. End of zero-interest rates.

3. Pandemic era hiring bloat - let's be honest we hired too many non-technical people, companies are still letting attrition take place (~10%/yr where I am) instead of firing.

4. Strong dollar. My company is moving seats to Canada, Ireland, and India instead of hiring in the US. Getting 1.5-2 engineers in Ireland instead of 1 senior on the US west coast.

Otherwise AI is an accelerator to make more money, increase profits and efficiency. Yes it has a high cost, but so does/did Cloud, every SaaS product we've bought/integrated.

Why does the motivation matter so much? It’s not a global ban, it’s not a permanent ban, nobody is going to jail. It’s like seeing if moving the smoking age to 18 will improve health outcomes.

It’s ruining their lives as far as we can tell, and at the end of the day it’s just one country testing it out. It’ll be stastically significant, culturally close enough of a sample set for us to learn from.

I’m curious to see what the 1-2-3 year effects are. We need to let some real life experimentation happen, somewhere, instead of accepting what every conglomerate wants.

I get that “it’s easy to say” for me as someone completely unaffected by this law.

The study that was posted last week regarding at school banning of phones was enlightening. It improved scores within two years after a bit of resistance. Boom!

I want them to have a chance at being healthy and well-educated; we can’t stop teens from smoking altogether but we can sure limit their access by default.

Similar. Charged $150 for 2 bottles of wine that never moved off their shelf. I cancelled within the minute.

You'd think that given no services were actually rendered and no perishable items, it'd be an easy open-shut support case.

But, no, you see: "that automatically accepted order itself was the service rendered"

Cool. I took the L because I order food all the time. Hate them for it. I don't know what our alternative is. We all laughed at this company as they burned through billions a year to acquire us, and now it's a monopoly robbing us all.

We need politics out of here. Maybe make the line between HN and the rest of news a bit more clear.

Disclaimer: I own one. TL;DR: What can you give me for ~$70/mo (amortized over 5 years including bed) that makes my sleep better without me having to do anything or put anything in my body?

Think of the alternatives I have: Sleeping pills. Sleep studies. Benzos. "Supplements." Weight loss. Working out. Sleeping hygiene routines. FWIW, I've done/do all of these. They work, and they are work.

Sleep is more important to my health than what I eat. Some of us are like this. You know us. We're your colleagues, friends. You've seen us, heard us mope around.

I checked it out because I saw Bryan Johnson talk about it. Found it to be stupid, the price, the app, the subscription, I get what everyone here is saying. You are right. But, there was a free-x-nights trial policy and curiosity got the better of me.

So far, it's been amazing (5-6 months in).

+ You can slap a faux button/area on the bed to change temp without the app.

+ This App, mentioned in the article, it works 100% of the time, and it's fast. I suspect it's over LAN when you're home, at least it's that fast. For comparison, $3.2 billion dollar Nest's app isn't reliable nor fast -- How many total days of your life have you already lost to a synchronous thermostat app that needs to auth/connect with Google before you're allowed to change the temperature of the room you're sitting in? :) Come on, tell me the truth!

Does that help clarify why this sells?

Note: The bed is now $3k, not $2k, plus sales tax. Amortized over 5 years $3k + $240 * 5 = $4200. Divide by 60 months.

Note: Lots of misunderstanding in the thread by people who haven't checked the product out. It's not even a bed, guys, it's a liquid-cooled cover that fit's on top of your existing mattress. If you want the motorized mattress that lifts you when you snore, that's another few thousand dollars.

Hey Peter! I wanted to thank you for doing this. I just got my green card last year, and it all kind of started with me asking you a question about H1B caps in a thread like this almost a decade ago. Super appreciate you doing this for people that are dreaming of a better future, dreaming of the American dream.

Wish you the best!

Good advice indeed, but paying is only one part of the problem; you'd still owe the bill.

Thank you all so much for chming in about rewind. I’ve been ruminating about what to do about my subscription. To see that I’m not alone in paying for this app that the founder ditched… I finally feel heard. Thank you!

While we’re here, has anyone been able to export audio from Rewind.ai’s local storage?

Totally agree, seen it too. Do you think it can be fixed over time with better training data and optimization? Or, is this a fundamental limitation that LLMs will never overcome?

Aah. Same class I see :) Hope everything has gone well for you since. Happy new year!

This is a reasonable take. Question, how is everybody affected by the border? What are signs in our lives that we're being affected by a mis-managed border?

This may have an inflationary effect. Perhaps they want to delay it as much as possible: Can we produce Milwaukee branded silicone spatulas 3-for-$6.99?

Seems like if it’s technically possible, it will happen, and we can’t stop technological progress. In fact, you and I are probably profiting from that progress. Hard to ask a guy to do something that goes against his paycheck. Even if we vote politically “correct,” whomever that may be, what are you and I voting for with our wallets?

Ah, sensible internationally recognized easy to divide units of weight? No thank you comrade!

They had this exact same “courage” a while ago. This isn’t their first rewrite/re-invention. Anyone know why their software division is so broken?

Sonos was a cool trick in 2012, when getting multiple network connected speakers synced wasn’t an out of the box experience.

I threw my Sonos out after their previous re-invention. I use Apple TV connected speakers to stream any media nowadays.

Say the app was working flawlessly, what advantage does using Sonos provide in 2024?

Um, hello friend. Turn gesture controls off. It's in the settings.

I thought this was the future, too, but I think there has to be a shared display that you can relay/validate the output together (with the GPT) on. It has to be able to draw a thing, quickly, show you what it's thinking -- voice is too slow to be the single medium of interaction.

Nobody is saying let's ditch the Olympics and everybody should take roids. Behind the scenes, so many athletes are already enhancing themselves during the off season in so many sports, this is an attempt to "legalize it."

I'd like to know where the line on enhanced will be drawn - will they allow for robots to compete?

Also, this sounds good:

The Enhanced Games have been designed so they can be hosted at a Division One university campus, its website said, avoiding the need to build new stadiums and push cities into debt. It will also mean athletes can be paid fairly...

It's like a more sustainable, equitable Olympics that's happens to have a vice. But will people care enough to watch? The market will decide.

Now we just need a SaaS one-click page that can send that physical letter in our names. I'm not even a Hulu subscriber but I'll pay $5 per letter to be wholesomely maliciously compliant. What's needed to make this happen? Let's get the right people in a room, train a model, IPO in 2025. Letters.ai is for sale for $2M. Who's with me?

I tried to quit shopping from Amazon, and I did find alternatives. But, where do you buy your electronics from? a TV, a GPU, a monitor? What's their return policy?

Amazon is 12 month 0% APR installments on anything >$50, 5% cash back on everything else, no questions asked drop-off at Whole Foods/UPS returns/pickups. Your money is back in your pocket that day.

I tried Best Buy, NewEgg, and eBay. NewEgg, you'd think, would be better. But their return policy is non-existent compared to the convenience Amazon provides.

I think how I feel Amazon.com has degraded is that they've made it so smooth to shop that I end up buying things I don't need. It feels like the site has spliced itself into my "oh yeah I can solve that" internal loop and makes me spend $30 on some crappy (cheap) solution and before I know it it's on my doorstep.

Ah, I thought they did this to know what people are watching. Yes... see here:

Alphonso's software uses the same technology that Shazam and similar services employ to automatically detect the song you're listening to. It samples small bits of audio, creating a digital "fingerprint" of it, and comparing it against a a database on their server to identify the show or movie. In fact, Alphonso's CEO says they have a deal with Shazam, and use their specific technology to do this. But this embedded software can even be listening even when your phone's screen is turned off and it's ostensibly idle.

Ha, came here with similar feelings. Put it on a stick! Is what I thought… Could it be on a handle of sorts?

Revenge isn’t cool, but it did just get that much harder to become a crypto-bro-ponzi-scheming-asshole, of which SBF is the biggest x dumbest kind.

But if we’re so worried about individual lives, like SBF’s life in prison, what can we do to save the lives that he’s ruined?

Help me understand how letting SBF off the hook could be a net positive for society or how he could begin to repay his debt without indulging in similar activities.

What income?

Hah. Sounds about right. Upsells you to something premium, then doesn’t really do anything. That was my experience trying to get it to unsubscribe me from AT&T. It’s a one-time payment so you forget about it.

Do you drive, or own a car?

Yeah. Meta is hiring, Meta is firing, Meta is about to publish their first coloring book, ML models available, discount mattresses, the boss-lost-his-mind-everything-has-to-go, Meta is taking VR to the next level, Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network. Sure, sure. Good luck, Meta!

Does it matter that he doesn't agree with them, if he still furthers their cause?

Nice defense from a PR firm for a guy who's talking to water. He's paused his professional career at times to make this point. Publicly thrown out of a country, etc. Do you think anti-vaxxers agree with him? Does it matter that he doesn't agree with them, if he still furthers their cause?