odd_primes
9hr ago
There are some Chinese contenders within striking distance as well. GLM-5.1 is open weight and seems to perform somewhere between Opus 4.5 and 4.6. It's pretty incredible that there is open weight competition that's less than six months behind frontier state of the art.
odd_primes
2d ago
It's a big reason to maintain a two income household as well, even if childcare ends up costing most of the second paycheck. Marital assets are generally going to be 50/50, but it's a lot harder for a woman to argue for alimony if she has been working full-time for most of the marriage.
odd_primes
5d ago
There are really two different types of paywalls. The lazy version just hides the content using JavaScript but the site still serves it, so it can be displayed with a browser extension. Or the site gives you "n free articles" so an extension can just reset the counter. This has become less common over time.
Services like Substack use a more advanced version, that only serve the paywalled content to authenticated users. To get around that, you generally need:
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Someone with a paid account willing to scrape the content (or allow their creds to be used to scrape it).
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A site willing to host the content that won't fold after the first DMCA request.
I'm not aware of a Substack service for this, but archive.today does it for major news publications that are paywalled, and there's a fairly well known one for Patreon called kemono dot cr where people can upload paywalled content, or provide their Patreon auth token to enable it to be scraped automatically.
odd_primes
12d ago
These tools don't generate 1-shot perfection - you need to create a feedback loop that will iterate until it reaches the goal. That can be either test coverage or using tool calling to hit a live service with a test API key or something. Even just prompting it to use a linter or a compiler to catch syntax errors makes a huge difference. Claude would fix most of the issues you flagged in a few loops of trying to test the library, failing and getting an error message, adding the error to its context, editing the code, and repeating. Then at the end once you have something that works, instruct it to write some regression tests, clean up the code, and make sure everything still works as intended.
You're doing the equivalent of handing an intern a sheet of paper, telling them to write down their program based on a vague problem description, and then calling them an idiot when it doesn't work on the first try.
odd_primes
20d ago
Today, if you are in a situation where you need to be respectful, you are in a very bad place. You are either in court, in a ghetto, or in prison. In court you must pay deference to the judge (who, being very high class indeed, is often very disrespectful- “I just can’t with that history.” I wanted to jump her too.) In the ghetto you must pay deference to the top dogs, the alphas, the crime mob bosses, whoever is in charge. In prison you must be respectful of everyone else or you’re going to suffer the consequences.
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When I’ve traveled in the Middle East and Greece, men are extremely respectful of each other. They never talk poorly of their local community and those around them.
Do you not see the connection there? Yes, places where perceived disrespect results in violence tend to have different norms regarding politeness. That isn't to say that disrespect goes unpunished in the US - it can easily lose you social capital. It's just less likely to get you punched in the face.
293 - the pyramids question, makeup, and poetry were my main misses. Also I didn't realize it was supposed to be exactly five until most of the way through...
odd_primes
24d ago
Wan 2.2 had the lead for a while, but LTX 2.3 came out recently and might have changed that. They are pretty impressive considering the VRAM limitations they have to work within, but definitely a ways off proprietary SOTA.
odd_primes
26d ago
B) is the most surprising, in my opinion. I guess they pulled it off by buying out an established SFW business, switching it over to NSFW, then hoping that they could become "too big to fail" before the credit card companies and app stores caught on. They did eventually get banned from app stores, but amazingly they still apparently use Stripe for credit card processing.
odd_primes
26d ago
Not surprising at all. The guy embodies a whole bunch of negative stereotypes - a Jewish pornographer and AIPAC donor who became a multi-billionaire thanks to somehow maintaining access to mainstream credit card processors. Then there's all the ongoing issues with alleged minors on OF, or teens doing releases on their 18th birthday... It's like a perfect storm of Zionism, porn, and finance. Maybe he could have had a Bill Gates style redemption arc if he had lived another 30 years and donated a bunch of money to charity, but it would have taken a long time and a lot of work to rehabilitate his image.
I guess it depends whether you think this is a forced move due to running out of money or if they have run their internal numbers and think people are willing to pay the increased prices. VC money is a runway, it's not intended to be a permanent subsidy. If they reduce the amount of money they are burning on subsidized inference, that's money they can put into R&D, more GPUs, etc.
It's hard to speculate without knowing more about their internal metrics, but based on the complaints I have heard about Claude being slow, laggy, etc, it sounds like they are quite oversubscribed. If the demand exceeds the supply, increasing prices is the logical move.
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