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.
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.
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.
I agree. I've been using Copilot for several months now, and the only thing it (almost) consistently helps me with is predicting relatively trivial snippets.
Anecdotally, I've had it mispredict from very simple contexts, such as skipping numbers in series' where the pattern should've been extremely obvious.
I've had it sneak in sublte and obvious bugs on a regular basis, to an extent where I don't have much confidence beyond any code I can grasp in a single look and be confident it's correct. Sorry bros, I'm not on the hype train this time. Feels like crypto all over again.
There are many way how current LLM can be scaled in different dimensions and there are research around it e.g.:
1) Many different AI with different role: business analysis, tester, developer. You as developer are treated as customer and write simple prompt but business analysis AI will make a proper step by step prompt to Developer AI - so that you don't have to very good with prompt engineering
2) bigger context for LLM so you can feed up to date documentation and full repo
3) LLM having access to do RAG on web search to get up to date information
4) LLM having access to terminal and debugger so Tester/Developer AI can automatically see the flow how code is executed and variables states during execution
5) faster and cheaper LLM so that you give a task before you go to sleep and all those AI in a loop try to solve this task trying many different options until passed all tests.
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".
+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.
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.
Let's please clarify the term "improve" and remove the positive implication -
What he's doing is making his videos "more effective at monetization" and that has fuck all to do with quality.
You may disagree with my tone here but I'm biting my tongue at the Little Bobby Tables view of children's attention and development (qualified Educator so I can talk shit about Mr Beast any day) so I'd like to keep it analytical as possible.
I very much appreciate Ed Bolian at VinWiki for his behind the scenes discussions about monetization. They are healthy! Because of those, I genuinely have tried to follow quality channels and bring them revenue via their presence (Ammo NYC, VinWIKI, TomleyRC) sitting through ads or maybe checking out sponsors. It's not that hard to be adult about it.
One of these days I hope we get to see a breakdown of where all Mr Beast's money is / was used, how it was sheltered, taxed, moved, or otherwise employed because that didn't just sit in the bank. Reference: Taylor Swift. Citation: Scott Swift FINA Report.
I wonder why you are downvoted.
I have no skin in talking about your second part (other channels + breakdown of MrBeast money), but I sympathize with your first part.
Optimizing for monetization seems to degrade quality most of the time.
E.g. click bait video names/thumbnails that do not tell the viewer what they are about to watch. Or reducing the feature set of apps so no casual user is confused, but advanced users are left behind.
Or stretching video lengths to improve ad income without actually adding any valuable content.
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I suspect others downvoted due to the waffly style of the comment. What was that last Swift thing about? Reads like someone with multiple bees in their bonnet
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.
Do you think MrBeast is lying when he says that his videos on his main channel lose money because of the production costs and that he just puts the money he makes back into making more videos?
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.
Isn't the onus on the user to assume risk? If they wish to have an accurate perspective then they have ever opportunity to do so. Sorry, if the contrary is true, and markets don't result in the best of all possible worlds then we have to conclude that free market capitalism is not going to work. The two are inexorably yoked together.
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
The "Restore previous session" checkbox is the first setting in the preferences for me (wording may differ a little as I'm not on the English version though).
Doesn't that work for you?
Does "Restore previous session", literally the first setting not work? Firefox will reopen my tabs only if my computer doesn't cleanly shut down or I don't close it before shutting my computer down.
While session restore of your tabs is off by default in Forex, I believe shutting down your computer while Firefoxis running is a special case. Since the user didn’t explicitly quit Firefox, it is trying to resume where you left off.
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.
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.
Thanks for the feedback on pricing. Yea we understand the initial cost on some APIs might seem high in aggregate but what you see is what you get. Unlike AWS who bill you in aggregate across storage, egress, etc, we only have one cost - the price per request. So some costs are baked in but we as developers ourselves totally get it and pricing will definitely evolve. Thanks again for the feedback.
Likely an unreasonable ask, specially considering that you folks are just starting out - but have you considered adding a free tier for hobbyists and pet projects?
Most of you competitors have some form of free tier and cheapo devs like me would prefer to embrace some complexity over paying upfront for just simple projects. the $5 starting bit is great but is not the same as a limited free tier.
Overall love the idea and wish you all the best. Love the minimalistic/functional UX of the site as well.
Free tier was something we've had previously but it became hard to justify because of our third party integrations and what it costs us. It might be something we try figure out in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
That's reasonable—glad to know you considered it. Two alternatives to the free tier for single or small-batch uses so that you don't need to deal with payment information and reduce sign-up friction:
User completes a human-level task (for another API even) somewhere between CAPTCHA and MTurk to earn a few API calls.
Do something with ads near or even on the result to earn a few API calls. (Prototyping dev eyeballs are valuable.)
I think $5 (or even $50) over the life of a hobby development project is not at all unreasonable. If the service can be integrated in less time than what is required to set up a free solution, then you only have to save an hour or so for it to pay for itself.
So... Airlines would be interested in heavier people because they pay the most, isn't? And people in low economic brackets would try to lose as much weight as possible, probably getting below healthy conditions just so they can travel cheaper.
Healthy indeed...
> Airlines would be interested in heavier people because they pay the most, isn't?
No, because other factors bring in orders of magnitude more money, which is why airlines cater to business travelers that buy expensive tickets last minute, not leisure travelers, that buy tickets months in advance. Weight (and the cost of fuel to move it) is only one of many factors that contribute to the total cost of airline tickets.
> And people in low economic brackets would try to lose as much weight as possible, probably getting below healthy conditions just so they can travel cheaper.
If we take baggage fees as in indicator of cost, we could assume 50 lbs will cost or save you about $30. And people are going to not only lose weight, but lose so much to be unhealthy to save…60 bucks round trip on a once yearly vacation? If giving people $60 a year to lose weight is real, we have just discovered a way to save billions on healthcare.
Airlines would probably still be interested in more people on the plane, as that allows for more incidental charges like carry-on bags, checked bags, overweight bags, in-flight snacks, drinks, etc.
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.