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I think many Americans feel a moral obligation to tip when asked, and when presented with the opportunity it suddenly becomes a decision between spending a few bucks or wondering if you won't be welcome to come back next time.

It can be insulting to be considered "cheap" and that's the label you might gain if you stop tipping.

We've heard from waitstaff and restaurants for decades that this is part of their income.

I think the only way this changes is through regulation or a seismic shift in this mentality causing people to stop tipping, resulting in waitstaff retention issues, resulting in restaurant owners paying better.

I wish the "morality gun" would point back at those who ask to be tipped, the same way a beggar who asks if you have some spare some change is castigated (in most places)

How to get affiliates, and more importantly how to get affiliates who don't make the brand look shoddy?

Interesting way to lay it out. For us understanding is obviously crucial for prod and repeatable business functions.

Velocity to solution is default for almost everyone else, especially one-off or low impact / low consequence of failure projects.

1. Download ollama and give it a try. It doesn't have to be that one but it's an easy on-ramp. Just get a feel for what open source/open weights is capable of

2. Mention it whenever it comes up. Most people have no clue this is a thing and I think it's useful to make people aware. We need access to uncensored / unbiased LLM models - information wants to be free but there are plenty of businesses gunning for regulatory capture as these are very powerful tools.

3. If you're in a position of developing any project that makes use of AI in any form, check the open source models first, unless you absolutely require the best of the best, these other models are pretty dang capable of almost everything any commercial model can do.

4. If your state or {insert legal jurisdiction here} attempts to regulate access to open source tools for this, oppose it with your vote and your voice.

5. Opposed laws that grant commercial AI suppliers any priority or premium access under government purchasing programs.

I'm sure others will chime in, those are a few that pop the mind.

That's exactly how they do it.

There are ML models that do the reverse and output image to text, which assist quite a lot.

The better the text represents the unique thing in the photo, the better the model understands what that text means.

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I think we burned up your tokens

A strategy that can backfire. An unpredictable tool is worse than a bad tool.

I cannot de-Google fast enough.

So if I ask Google's AI studio the wrong question, I might get my G-drive, Gmail, API access, Play store, YouTube channel, "login with Google" tokens, and more all ripped away instantly with no recourse?

No thanks

Is there no value in how the training was done such that it's accessible via inference in a particularly useful way?

Did Microsoft never run Microsoft Mail internally?

It was an email system that ran on top of file system. If I recall, mail clients connected over a networked drive to access mailboxes. So it was never regarded as being very scalable.

A common complaint coming from many Amazon sellers.

We did this a lot in the early 2000's. At the time I worked for a company with offices in Bellevue and we put our own hardware in full sized racks at a datacenter in the komo4 building in Seattle.

Because of proximity it was easy to run over and service the systems physically if needed, and we also used modem based KVM systems if we really needed to reboot a locked up system quickly (not sure that ever actually happened!).

I'm sure customer owner hardware place in a datacenter rack is still a major business

We really need an internet Bill of Rights. Google has too much power to delete your company from existence with no due process or recourse.

If any company controls some (high) percentage of a particular market, say web browsers, search, or e-commerce, or social media, the public's equal access should start to look more like a right and less like an at-will contract.

30 years ago, if a shop had a falling out with the landlord, it could move to the next building over and resume business. Now if you annoy eBay, Amazon or Walmart, you're locked out nationwide. If you're an Uber, Lyft, or Doordash (etc) gig worker and their bots decide they don't like you anymore, then sayonara sucker! Your account has been disabled, have a nice day and don't reapply.

Our regulatory structure and economies of scale encourage consolidation and scale and grant access to this market to these businesses, but we aren't protecting the now powerless individuals and small businesses who are randomly and needlessly tossed out with nobody to answer their pleas of desperation, no explanation of rules broken, and no opportunity to appeal with transparency.

It's a sorry state of affairs at the moment.

I'm not so sure about this.

First were the models. Then the APIs. Then the cost efficiencies. Right now the tooling and automated workflows. Next will be a frantic effort to "AI-Everything". A lot of things won't make the cut, but absolutely many tasks, whole jobs, and perhaps entire subsets of industries will flip over.

For example you might say no AI can write a completely tested, secure, fully functional mobile app with one prompt (yet). But look at the advancements in Cline, Claude code, MCPs, code execution environments, and other tooling in just the last 6 months.

The whole monkeys typewriters shakespeare thing starts to become viable.

This reminded me of Gates' "The Road Ahead" book (late 90s if I recall) prediction that marketers would eventually be able to pay a dime to get an email in your inbox, if only the future economy could figure out micro-transactions.

I agree with you that we're moving away from banner ads to some novel way of monetizing traffic, and therefore content published by authentic human beings.