Looking online it seems like the low end estimate might be $30k a year for such math researchers? And ChatGPT pro or whatever you want will run $100 a month, and should be coverable by grants. I’m quite sure matlab alone cost more in the past

On the other hand, for something like a Netflix subscription, price discrimination DOES tend to help the poor users out. Netflix is 10x cheaper in third world countries for the exact same product. If they were forced to charge the same price everywhere, they would just charge everyone the US price and foreign users would be left out.

Additionally Dario has just been really accurate with his predictions so far. For instance in early 2025 he predicted that nearly 100% of code would be written with AI in 2026.

To me a company at FB's scale is inevitably going to be optimizing around the margins. I mean you could argue any of Google, Amazon, FB, have had basically the same cash cows for 10+ years now.

I predict that tech companies will hire back a lot of this lost headcount over time. Although AI will keep getting better, so there's more downward pressure coming. Facebook, Amazon, and Google have had flat headcount since 2022, and this layoff will reduce FB's size back to 2021 levels.

And secondly how healthy is framework as a company, and to what extent do you make money from consumers vs sales to big companies?

To be specific: There's a new lower chassis, and a new chassis top with haptic touchpad. On my older framework I could buy just the chassis top to get the new touchpad. Crazy that they could make that work.

I also just really admire the CEO for doing these semi-scripted public presentations nerding out over the new devices and shouting out specific team members who did the designs. Really hope the company is doing well.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxgCEpkiKM

I'm pretty sympathetic to Anthropic/OpenAI just because they are scaling a pretty new technology by 10x every year. It is too bad Google isn't trying to compete on coding models though, I feel like they'd do way better on the infra and stability side.

Traditional materials still have a place though. Material science has not beaten down feathers or wool yet, for the most part.

I can't say I really mind this change by Meta that much overall though. Anyone who's serious about privacy probably knew better than to pick "Instagram chat" as their secure channel. And on the other hand having the chats available helps protect minors.

In this case no, it's not the case that go can't add a "try" keyword because its errors are unstructured and contain arbitrary strings. That's how Python works already. Go hasn't added try because they want to force errors to be handled explicitly and locally.