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I think it was when the LLM asked me a question at the end of its response. It felt like something other than a machine. Until then the pattern was me asking a question and ChatGPT giving me an answer, with or without hallucination. When it asked me a follow-up question it felt like talking to a being with agency. An entity that has thoughts or ideas or questions of its own.

That gets billed as extra usage apparently:

/model claude-opus-4-6[1M]

  ⎿  Set model to Opus 4.6 (1M context) · Billed as extra usage

I think this is probably related to which eye is more dominant for you. I've never skateboarded, but if I imagine myself doing it, it would also be facing left. And it's because my right eye is dominant and I would like that to be facing forward.

By "completely Nvidia-free" do you mean Nvidia wasn't used for training nor inference? Because if it's only inference, we know that Opus already can run on TPUs. Not to mention Gemini.

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Mining isn't the only bottleneck with rare earths. There also the processing, which is an industry China has monopolized through sustained investments over decades. They have also improved processing efficiency through investments in technology. It's going to take a while for anyone else to catch up.

My dad still uses PageMaker to publish his print magazine. He's been using this program since 1987, starting with a Macintosh and then later moving to Windows in the late 1990s. RIP Paul Brainerd.

That's not P/E. That's Price to Sales. P/E is price to earnings ratio. Earnings is profit. Since neither of these companies is profitable, they don't have a P/E ratio today.

Appreciate the transparency. Curious: What percentage of legal process on your users' accounts are subject to a gag order?

Neat! One feature I'd love to see is to follow/block users. Like this Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-followblock/dkbn...

The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.

VibeVoice-ASR is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass, generating structured transcriptions containing Who (Speaker), When (Timestamps), and What (Content), with support for Customized Hotwords.

Thanks, Emil! I've updated the post with this link.

I'm one of those shareholders. No word from anyone so far.

The only model available for in-browser chat is Haiku 4.5. Is it just my account (Pro) or are others also restricted to Haiku?

Good point. Roth IRA was clearly a miss. It wasn't on my radar since you cannot contribute to it if your income is more than $165,000 (single) or $246,000 (married).

1. There are penalties for underpayment of estimated taxes. And there are even interest charges on penalties. https://www.irs.gov/payments/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-b...

2. The triple tax advantage is not ridiculous. (1) and (3) are not the same thing. 401k for example is not taxed going in (you fund it with pre-tax dollars) but is taxed when taken out. When you withdraw money from your 401k in retirement, you owe taxes on the capital gains that have accrued in the account since you first put the money in. But if you take money out of HSAs for paying medical bills, there is no tax on the capital appreciation you have enjoyed in your HSA account.

Trusts are like life insurance. It's not about when you're old and your kids are all grown up and self-reliant. The point of the trust is when you have younger kids and need to plan for you and your significant other both dying unexpectedly. It's no use naming your 8 year old as a beneficiary because they won't be able to use any of the assets without trusted adults.

Change your default elections - this is a great point. But I'm wary of giving out specific investment advice i.e. what to put your money in.

What you are saying is very reasonable but companies don't deduct enough in taxes at the time the RSUs vest. I don't know why that is. I'm sure there's some arcane reason. That's why it's important to keep track of this a little bit otherwise you will have an unpleasant surprise when taxes are due.

Shipping lanes is more Peterson's area of professional expertise, isn't it? He's not an economist.

LLMs are famously bad at individual letters in a word. So something like this never works: Can you please give me 35 words that begin with A, end with E, are 4-6 characters long and do not contain any other vowels except A and E?

100% agree. TSV is under-rated. Tabs don't naturally occur in data nearly as often as commas so tabs are a great delimiter. Copy paste into Excel also works much better with tabs.

Code editors may convert tabs to spaces but are you really editing and saving TSV data files in your code editor?

In your "how to cook the perfect steak" video [1] there's a picture of various doneness levels of a steak. It's a fantastic picture. The creator of that picture will get jackshit from this. Phind gets value, the user gets value but the creator does not.

You're hyperlinking to the source, which is nice. But there's no reason for the user to click through so it won't really help the creator. The upshot of all this is that the open web will have less incentives for content creators. Someone's got to create new data for the AI borg. In future, these creators are less likely to be independent bloggers/photographers. Perhaps biased media outlets will be the only ones with the incentives to create.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCpnyICukM#t=55

I don't know why you are getting downvoted except that your opinion is unpopular in this thread. It's a legit counterargument though. However, speaking for myself as an N of 1, the reason I buy an iPhone is because of the assurance that it will receive updates -- especially security updates -- for several years. Android doesn't seem to hold that promise.

My last Android phone was an HTC that came out with this promise of delivering Android updates within 15 days -- a promise they did not keep. https://www.engadget.com/2016-08-25-htc-one-a9-android-updat...

As someone who runs nginx locally for web development, this is scary. One mitigation I can think of is to use this config for you Mac's local nginx:

  server {
    listen       80  default_server;
    server_name  _; # some invalid name that won't match anything
    return       444;
  }

Since influential people are on this forum, someone should get Bill Watterson nominated for the Nobel prize in literature. His work deserves that honor as much as, if not more than, Bob Dylan.

As a user, I love Perplexity. As a web publisher, I would probably want to block it. The UX of AI overviews and summaries disincentives small web publishers from creating new content.

It's funny I posted the inverse of this. As a web publisher, I am fine with folks using my content to train their models because this training does not directly steal any traffic. It's the "train an AI by reading all the books in the world" analogy.

But what Perplexity is doing when they crawl my content in response to a user question is that they are decreasing the probability that this user would come to by content (via Google, for example). This is unacceptable. A tool that runs on-device (like Reader mode) is different because Perplexity is an aggregator service that will continue to solidify its position as a demand aggregator and I will never be able to get people directly on my content.

There are many benefits to having people visit your content on a property that you own. e.g., say you are a SaaS company and you have a bunch of Help docs. You can analyze traffic in this section of your website to get insights to improve your business: what are the top search queries from my users, this might indicate to me where they are struggling or what new features I could build. In a world where users ask Perplexity these Help questions about my SaaS, Perplexity may answer them and I would lose all the insights because I never get any traffic.

A lot of comments here are confusing the two use cases for crawling: training and summarization.

Perplexity's utility as an answer engine is RAG (retrieval augmented generation). In response to your question, they search the web, crawl relevant URLs and summarize them. They do include citations in their response to the user, but in practice no one clicks through on the tiny (1), (2) links to go to the source. So if you are one of those sources, you lose out on traffic that you would otherwise get in the old model from say a Google or Bing. When Perplexity crawls your web page in this context, they are hiding their identity according to OP, and there seems to be no way for publishers to opt out of this.

It is possible that when they crawl the web for the second use case -- to collect data for training their model -- they use the right user agent and identify themselves. A publisher may be OK with allowing their data to be crawled for use in training a model, because that use case does not directly "steal" any traffic.