onlyrealcuzzo

The average streaming show would be about €0.20 in tax to watch.

That would make Netflix like 30-50% more expensive.

I feel confident that all of the illegal video hosting companies are going to pay this tax.

What are their goals? I'm assuming just to raise revenue?

Is it even a clear problem to figure out which business pays what?

> Search volumes are declining as legacy search is being increasingly cannibalized by non-monetized LLM queries

Second sentence is empirically a complete lie.

Search volume is still growing, despite analysts asking on every call what Google is going to do about falling volume, and Google continuing to re-iterate: Search volume is still growing, as are clicks on ads.

I get it that everyone hates paying as much for clicks as they do now. You can hate it all you want. You can claim Google is lying about search volume and ads, but that would be massive securities fraud...

Haters gonna hate. It doesn't mean the king is dead.

Devastation is a funny way to put it.

Cloud is on pace to be bigger than Search/Ads next year...

Do you really think Search/Ads is going to lose 100% of its revenue by next year to flip that difference?

IIUC, that was all the Flash releases from 3.5 to 3.8

Argon has been publicly available for weeks to Ultra users.

Anthropic has been doing this with Mythos for quite some time...

> I would look at my colleagues and sister teams and wonder, why do they need these many people to work on something so trivial

And yet nobody has time to do anything except to tell everyone they don't have time to do anything.

It's especially confusing because Sol 6.1 is mostly just Astra but 10x slower at 1/10th the price - unless you pay for it to be as fast as Astra - at which point it's the same speed and price...

It's nice that they have Terra which seems to fill a void that's been needed since Sol 6 focused on cost (at the expense of quality), Sol 6.1 got a huge boost in quality, but became unusably slow unless you paid Astra prices - at which point, why not just use Astra?

Now at least we have a viable other option again.

If you mentioned it in the main page, I didn't see it.

Something that I'm interested in: How fast is the compilation speed on large programs compared to Zig, C, Go?

My ideal language is safer than Rust (no deadlocks / livelocks, no stack overflow from recursion), is optimized for cache locality, but compiles faster than Zig.

This seems like it's close to 2/3.

Interesting. Lobster rocks, and Goose is similar to something I've been building on the side, but would rather have someone build for me... Hopefully this guy does it!

> As a technical writer, I believe default AI responses are optimized for what people _think_ is good writing rather than what actually is good writing.

At least in the case of ChatGPT - it was (and mostly still is) objectively optimized for engagement. Since ChatGPT was leading the way, and much distilling has occurred, there are at least partial remnants of that problem everywhere.

The Chinese models may or may not really care about this at all, but they're doing a lot of distilling, so they're getting it whether they want it or not.

The American models for the most part care about engagement - some a lot more than others.

It's almost like there's a dimension besides time which is important - speed, which Sol 6.1 moved vastly in the wrong direction on...

Probably something like:

MiniMax -> Qwen -> DeepSeek (pro) -> Gemini (Carbon) -> Fable (to beat Carbon) -> Astra (to be slightly worse than Fable but cheaper).

I doubt we'll see any major US release besides Grok in the next 3 weeks.

Would be nice if we got a Terra that's competitive with Gemini Flash and DeepSeek Flash.

The fun part is, we're already at the point where we are seeing something frontier-ish almost every single week.

The really fun part will be when they all start adding System 1-3 natively (IMO) - which I think will be the next release cycle.