Some local radio DJs frequently play songs I enjoy that have under 1K plays on youtube. No algo or platform is surfacing those. Local radio gets me both local and international music. A friend of mine prefers critically acclaimed stuff, so he streams radio shows from NTS and the like.

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>Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents.

So you'd be willing to pay thousands for a new feature, right?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130784

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These devices are are small, snappy and powerful enough in 2025.

Unfounded statements (outside of language tasks, fwiw), such as: >LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says.

As well as this bold claim about OAI's potential to double the conversion rate: >It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.

Does not include a major player in its market share analysis at all: >Google is excluded entirely

And, still, it suggests that: > OpenAI is expected to still be subsidising its users well into next decade

Fascinating.

more: https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536687

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I think quite a few Europeans have lasting and direct experience with totalitarian, oppressive regimes. Which might also explain why they have stricter (or simply more precise) laws governing expression – not as an oppressive tool, but as a safety valve for the society.

It certainly doesn't help that the journalist wrote more words on kayaking than trying to get Berners-Lee to square the circle of wanting data sovereignty AND as much data on the web as possible.

I know that my direct manager is using a popular chatbot for generating work-related slop, which would make them more inclined towards redoing stuff just for the sake of it.

So, an unqualified thought I had was that the nitpicks and micromanagement might be a result of managers/execs getting into LLMs.

I couldn't find anything tangible on this topic, and am unsure if it's just about my company going down the drain process/management wise. What's your experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125571

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It's sad to know that sobriety groups use addictive tech for check-ins.

> Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a static site generator, etc.

I've personally found that this approach is just not enough. Sure, I might be "building" something with distracting stuff just a click away, all the while I'm still sitting, staring at a screen, and, fundamentally, in denial that life is possible without the Web.

Took me a couple of years to come to this realization, I went through the whole schtick of getting off doomscroll portals by deleting accounts and using alternative frontends, using addons on my browser to limit and then block those sites, using screentime limits, removing apps, reducing colors on my phone, getting into static websites, web publishing, audio editing, etc. – all of this effort to end up here, commenting on a VC-backed forum during my working hours, because it requires me to sit in front of a screen.

It's like strapping yourself into the chair from A Clockwork Orange (and managing/maintaining each strap) just to pretend that, for many of us, this tech is not a clear net negative, and that those negatives don't come from all sides, i.e., it's not just particular apps or sites we use, it's the tech itself that makes us stationary, distracted, obsessed, overstimulated, etc.

There's something fundamentally wrong if I'm picking up my distraction device because of a "touch grass" notification, much like trying to fix radiation poisoning by trying a different isotope.

Then again, those that make a more radical shift and get off the web don't waste time publishing blog posts about their framework to get off the web. Of, for that matter, comment on said posts...