If I'm understanding this correctly, you're going to need a LOT of user ratings before the rating content is worthwhile to most people.
Maybe focus the site on capturing ratings to start instead of sharing ratings for products that don't have many ratings (visual studio appears to be highest rated product with 2 ratings).
If you just showed me two related products and had me click on my favorite, I'd probably do that 10 times for no good reason.
Kinda seems like OpenAI didn’t actually have that idea or the ability to execute it, if they had to go to apple’s supplier and lie to them to get them do it.
Yeah, the models have all been really good at generating greenfield apps for a really long time (in the scope of LLM time).
I suppose it’s interesting to see how they make better greenfield apps. But I am much more interested in how they solve hard problems in existing gnarly codebases.
I'm sure they could technically do that if they have the right wording in their terms. But most consumer services are not actually going to give you a paid service without billing info, because it'd create such a headache for them to collect.
Even if they sell the debt to collections, the collections service is probably only going to pay them fractions of pennies on the dollar, since "bill for random service someone signed up for the internet" is not likely to have a high recovery rate.
Yeah I find the Mac mini trend is kind of baffling.
It seems like it's driven either by 1) people hearing Macs are good for AI, buying one, and using Claude for inference, not realizing that you interact with the anthropic API from an internet connected hair dryer. Or 2) people want their agents to have blue bubbles.
I find it hard to believe that enough normal people are doing on device inference is driving Mac Mini's out of stock. And even if they were the Mac mini is not actually a very good platform for it.
It seems like it's driven either by 1) people hearing Macs are good for AI, buying one, and using Claude for inference, not realizing that you can do inference with the Anthropic API from an internet connected hair dryer. Or 2) people want their agents to have blue bubbles.
I find it hard to believe that enough normal people are doing on device inference to drive Mac Mini's out of stock. And even if they were, the Mac mini is not actually a very good platform for it.
Her instagram account (yourowkelsey) is probably the best thing my algorithm has served up in a while (not a high bar, but hers is in fact really good).
She posted through the trip and answered a lot questions about logistics and the experience.
I think I get your point, but few PhD candidates pay tuition in the US and most actually receive a living stipend. In exchange they act as teaching and/or research assistants.
I drive a 2026 Toyota, how do I enable this new good native infotainment system of which you speak?
The one in my car sucks, and to use the most basic features (navigation, music) that cost nothing on CarPlay (beyond my phone bill) cost $15-25/month from Toyota.
This has been a big pain point me with various VM solutions I’ve tried. Having to allocate say 8GB to a sandbox, and a) having that RAM eaten up when I’m not using it and b) only having 8GB when I am using kinda sucks.
Yes, I could stop the sandboxes when I’m not using them, but that also kinda sucks.
I love Postgres. I buy using it for many many things.
I really don’t understand why everyone insists that you should use it as a work/message queue.
There are lots of purpose-built bullet proof queuing systems that are simple to setup and administer (or just use SQS).
Your queue is likely to have very different access patterns than the rest of your data, and sticking it in Postgres means you’re probably going to end up setting up partitions or optimizing auto-vacuum on that table way earlier than you probably need to mess around with this things in your scaling.
If your queue has more than a few hundred jobs a day (or you anticipate that like anytime soon), just use a queue.
Not saying they didn't have an impact -- just that it's worth debating whether the impact is truly a net positive for society on a grand scale, particularly if we're going to give them a pass on less than stellar behavior.
Zuckerberg likely has similar tendencies, should he be given a pass for making social media such a large part of our society?
I apparently use Claude differently the most people who talk about using Claude on the internet.
I’ll typically have a bunch of short sessions over the course of a day. Anytime I start a task that isn’t going to very directly benefit from the existing context I start fresh.
I don’t find a lot of benefit in explaining the project overall to Claude — I’ve deleted a lot of that explanation from my Claude.md because it didn’t seem to impact much.
I typically start a task by pointing it to 1-2 files and giving it some explanation of what I want done, and it
figures it out.
Basically never hit context window limits or compactions, and can’t remember the last time I hit a 5 hour or a weekly limit.
I don’t think you go lucky — renting from small landlords who live in/near building is the way to avoid this. In my experience, say the word “leak” they’ll be there in 10 minutes. And good tenants have value to them.
At two years with a corporate landlord, they’ve done the math and see they can cheaply renovate your apartment, jack up the rent, and make more money than they can by renewing you.
Small landlords also haven’t built software to collude with each other to raise prices.
Whether or not scrapping publically available websites is unethical is probably up for debate. In some cases at least, courts have found it to be legal, even when the site is throwing up technical barriers or issues cease and desists.
What is likely unethical is the fact that they offer residential proxies. The residential providers of those proxies are frequently not aware they’ve been opted in to provide such a service.
Maybe focus the site on capturing ratings to start instead of sharing ratings for products that don't have many ratings (visual studio appears to be highest rated product with 2 ratings).
If you just showed me two related products and had me click on my favorite, I'd probably do that 10 times for no good reason.