Readit Newsdrak0n1c commented on Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Government subsidies enable fraud and largess. Individuals and organizations are inherently less careful and results-oriented with Other People's Money. That is starting to be rectified, for better or worse.
drak0n1c commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp
Metered billing makes sense for B2B infrastructure-as-a-service type products (AWS), where as your company grows both you and the infra provider know the bill will grow manageably over time. Infra is set it and forget it.
But for AI in the context of point-solutions and on-the-job use cases, metered billing is a death blow.
In this context, metered is a massive incentive to not use the product and requires the huge friction of having to do a cost/benefit analysis before every task. And if you're using it at work you may even need management sign-off before you can use it again.
For a tool that's intended to amplify productivity, very few humans want to make a cost/benefit analysis 250 times a day whether it's worth $3 to code up a boilerplate or not. On metered billing, they just wont use it.
Venice AI has a solution where I stake their Base ERC20 token, and in exchange I get a proportional amount of free daily-refreshing API access to a variety of high-powered open source models, besides the staking yield and free Pro subscription level access to their webapp.
It's great for free experimentation when coding apps that use API inference, it's actually motivating to build uses for it because it feels akin to a benefit that otherwise goes unused. Of course there is some price risk in holding their crypto token. After a large spike and drop in the first couple days, it's held steady for 6 months with a $2-$3 floor, possibly due to it having that baseline utility. Mentally, it's far more comfortable to me to stake a principal sum that I can wholly unstake in the future, than to spend on per-request fees.
What was wrong about what she said?
I think it was a perfectly reasonable statement. But because it does not align with a recent radical redefinition of diversity, she was fired. Apple certainly wasn’t at risk of losing money over keeping her in that role.
The previously continuous Taxpayers -> USAID -> NGO/Foundation -> Media Matters spigot being turned off is starting to show effects.
There's only one guiding principle for Apple - and that's money. Dont let their privacy marketing ("Privacy is a human right") fool you otherwise.
Apple fired its Chief Diversity Officer when she said that white men with blue eyes can also count towards a diverse workforce. A purely non-monetary ideological capitulation.
https://www.bet.com/article/pe65fc/apple-s-black-diversity-c...
drak0n1c commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
Why is everyone so careless about letting Claude Desktop upload their source code and/or private data to its servers? Or maybe I'm too paranoid for caring about where data go.
VeniceAI is great for privacy focused hosting of open-source models. Hopefully they add Qwen 3 Coder (which appears to be on par with Claude 4 for coding) to their API, then I can use my tools with it.
This would actually be an effective way to teach kids about technology. If they learn enough to install their own OS, let them have their smut.
I’m hearing more and more how younger generations don’t have what people used to call basic computer skills, because everything just kind of works now. Putting up some road blocks that require research and hands on tinkering to solve, is an invaluable part of the learning process.
While I wouldn't put it that way, I definitely agree that local device technical obstacles are the best conduit for learning as a youth. As a kid and young teen during the 1995-2005 era there were a lot of hoops to figure out and jump through as a gamer with Mac and then Windows ME. There were no video guides or wikis - just print manuals and text forums. Needing to upgrade the family computer RAM from 128 mb to 512 mb to get WoW above 2-3 FPS was a formative experience.
One could say the same of server/cloud obstacles, but because those systems are afar and opaque, it's easy to be content copy-pasting scripts. And there is less sense of progression and ownership since it doesn't involve building up your own environment.