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What is the newer data?

Oh they'd be sure to let us know if that were the case.

I wonder how long until this post is flagged/"shadowbanned". Such was the fate of almost all of Ed's posts on HN, with little surprise as to why.

> A $20 subscription 2 years ago is not providing the same level of intelligence you're getting today.

That subscription was then and is now likely still subsidized.

People tend to believe OpenAI and Anthropic can make money any time, the only thing they need to do is to stop training newer/better models. Source? Sam & Dario, of course (trust us, bro). It may (if they sell access at API price) or may not be true, but the scenario where training is stopped is simply unrealistic at this point.

> I assume targeting big centralized networks such as X and Facebook is good enough.

Exactly, and make non-anon networks the norm enough so that most people will never trust anything said on fringe social networks.

Well, the way Apple sees it, their hardware ships with a perfectly good OS. And they know their hardware has so far been so good that even if they ruin said OS, they'd still make money. What we (and Apple, as competition) need is a serious macbook-killer with full Linux support.

Bring back the keynotes. I want to hear people cheering and booing again.

I started with DO in 2013 when they offered 20GB SSD, 512MB RAM for $5/mo. For some reason I paid no VAT then, but I do now. Their $4/mo option now is still 512MB, still 1 vCPU, but 10GB SSD. So it's like the last decade of technological progress with regards to RAM, CPU and storage that should either lead to price cuts/spec bumps didn't happen. And yeah, DO got expensive before AI bought up all the memory.

It used to be "innocent until proven/suspected guilty." Now it's more like "let's see that ID, you know, just in case..."

> This is not true at all, and it's a silly statement. X isn't mainstream anymore, and the people who think it is are simply stuck in a bubble.

Most organizations have an X account and announce things there because people actually see it. Most prominent political figures are there as well.

> I suspect you might be one of the "terminally online people"

Depends on what that means for you. For me it means people that can't stop posting and commenting, that have made social media their life. I don't qualify for that.

> you're denigrating as not "regular people".

Not really denigrating, it's more like people that are on alternative social media might already be more conscious about what the EFF is and does, so they're the ones that need it the least.

How much money are people here spending on tokens for this thing?

> We'll Keep Fighting. Just Not on X

Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it. This is a dumb decision. I'd very much like for open, distributed social networks to win, but that's not a reality we'll be living in anytime soon. X, for better or worse, gets you eyes, more so than any other alternative social media.

The only thing that's really accelerating is how fast you get rate-limited on ChatGPT.

LLMs are cool, but people should really accept that inference costs more money than the "trust me, bro" CEOs lead you to believe. No, they can't flip a switch and turn a profit.

I've seen comments on here before that went somewhere along the line of "adults don't care about RAM prices." HN is no stranger to siding with the oppressors.

Used to have Firefox as a content filter for Safari on iOS (adblocking), but have since switched to Brave. It's a great option if you ignore all the crypto spam.

> or contributes to the internet dying.

People will set these things to run wild on all platforms. Talking to real humans will be a luxury.

> it has been our mission to help the world make time for what matters. We've built a business to be proud of

There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.

Well, stealing and training on the world's IP obviously wasn't free. /s

> Balancing openness and choice with safety

No, I'm afraid this is tipping the scale of control in Google's favor.

The Guardian's twitter/X "exit" must be the dumbest thing they ever did. Their site was not so aggressively pushing for donations/subscriptions/accounts before that.

LLMs have earned their place in many jobs, but I struggle to see claws as more than a rather expensive waste of time and tokens. Downsides are gargantuan, effects of dead internet theory will be ubiquitous.

You should really get help for that Musk derangement syndrome.

What little vibe coding I've done has been consistent with that experience.

Awesome. Have you agents begun unionizing yet?

MechaHitler and undressing aside, Grok is the best integration of AI into an existing website ever attempted.

> Hard to see what xAI has to offer against Gemini, Claud, ChatGPT.

Less "I can't help you with that." on benign queries is a big advantage.

Despite its flaws, X seems to have a better balance between what's allowed and what's not than other non-niche social networks.

Twenty years ago every PHP website had search. We forgot how to do it.