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Comment · 5 months ago
How? How in the world you burn 500.000.000$ in a month?? I would LOVE to have a look of the distribution of tokens per employee. It needs to be at least 10 people who did the 95% consumption as soon as they saw no limits. Other theory is that they had Mythos available and prompted "hi"
Comment · 5 months ago
A year or so ago, I started clicking “new” instead of the logo, which I usually click to get to the front page. I had no idea what was going on and just assumed HN had changed the algorithm and suddenly become much more active.

I think it took me between one and two weeks to realize I wasn’t actually clicking the front page.

Not the smartest sheep.

Comment · 6 months ago
Same here, android
Comment · 6 months ago
That happens in most speech to text systems, even Superwhisper, Monologue and Wispr Flow. I read somewhere it comes from training on YouTube audio and happens when there is silence. I guess it depends on the model but most of them are based on Whisper which has this problem
Comment · 1 year ago
Hackernews people will probably leave Google Search, but the rest of the world will surely stay with it for a few more years until we, the Hackernews people, can assure them that the information that those LLMs give is 100% the same as they would find in Google, but faster and to the point.

I think the next most significant milestone for this will be Siri and Google Assistant using this technology all the time. This, I think, will cause Gen Z to start leaving Google Search, and slowly, older Gens will follow.

Me personally? I can't handle Google Searches anymore. I started using Kagi and ChatGPT with the search module, but for things I need to be 100% sure about, I go to Kagi directly.

Comment · 2 years ago
A little off-topic, but I love that the first paragraph describes the project. Usually, posts exclude that information, and the landing is not of more help.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, but that doesn't change how they fundamentally work. You can replicate things fast, with many variations, almost like brute force but more "thoughtful." Don't get me wrong, this opens many possibilities, and I am even thinking about having a local AI machine for my stuff. However, working with multiple layers of knowledge connections is where I don't see LLMs arriving. Maybe some other technology is based on this, but following LLM evolution will be better data and "patches".
Comment · 2 years ago
My take on LLMs is that it won't scale much of what we already see because this is "just" text prediction on steroids. I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but that's my opinion, and going through that path, no, I don't see this path as the best path for "autonomous development machines", only powerful autocompletion like we already see today.
Comment · 2 years ago
+3.5B views in a child-oriented channel. It is high, and even more so near Christmas. I would expect a higher CPM for that target, but maybe the category is saturated.
Comment · 2 years ago
Of course, if you take "improve" to your terms. For MrBeast, it is to have more views (other than monetization itself); he deliberately works towards it and is public about how he uses YouTube tools to get more views and retention. So, I think my comment is on point.

Other creators will fight for different ways to improve their content, which can technically be 4K HDR or having better guests, etc.

Do youn't like Mr. Beast's "empty" content? Then you don't like society, which is the one taking MrBeast to the top, and I would completely agree with you.

Comment · 2 years ago
It makes sense. He loves stats and uses them a lot to improve his videos so with this, he can have a platform that can monitor the entire ecosystem.

Right now it's pretty basic but I would bet it will become more complex and have some paid membership for advanced stats and suggestions for your videos.

Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah right? If people don't want viruses, just don't download them!

My point is that ordinary people don't know that TikTok could be even remotely bad for them, and when they do know, they will think that it is not that dangerous.

And Apple/Google dialogues about data transfer and all that will be dismissed by the user the second its pop-ups.

The user I am describing above is "the crowds". That's why TikTok is so massively used even though their security problems.

Comment · 5 years ago
What I don't like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don't want to address this
Comment · 5 years ago
This, love his channel, although he is not very active, but when he is active the project is often really interesting and can go for 10 or 12 hours straight.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love the Idea but pricing seems a little... premium for something is "beta".

For example, Cache, a Get is 0.0001$ per request, so, with the initial 5$ you would have 50k Gets that, given the nature of a Cache seems extremely expensive. I guess your highest costs are storing up to 1mb and egress traffic (If you are in a cloud provider) but, even for a side project I could destroy the 5$ by myself developing the project itself.

Other than that, loving it, and I will try to give it a go in the future, and check how the pricing affects my decisions.

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