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landl0rd commented on Speed up responses with fast mode   code.claude.com/docs/en/f... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
stavros · 3 days ago
This makes no sense. It's not like they have a "slow it down" knob, they're probably parallelizing your request so you get a 2.5x speedup at 10x the price.
landl0rd · 3 days ago
What they are probably doing is speculative decoding, given they've mentioned identical distribution at 2.5x speed. That's roughly in the range you'd expect for that to achieve; 10x is not.

It's also absolute highway robbery (or at least overly-aggressive price discrimination) to charge 6x for speculative decoding, by the way. It is not that expensive and (under certain conditions, usually very cheap drafter and high acceptance rate) actually decrease total cost. In any case, it's unlikely to be even a 2x cost increase, let alone 6x.

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Der_Einzige · 3 days ago
Make voting be based on military eligibility. This is something Starship Troopers was sort of correct about.

You can't be drafted in war time emergencies? You can't vote (also yes I do want women to be draftable)

landl0rd · 3 days ago
You're right about military eligibility, but also that you shouldn't make calls for a nation which you will never see. Doubly so if one does not have children. No skin in the game, no alignment of incentives, no moral right to choose.

Even moreso when you consider basically the whole generation relies on leeching off the young and have continued to capture an ever-increasing proportion of public spending across the western world despite owning an outsized proportion of both real estate and wealth overall.

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saithir · 4 days ago
It's also super easy not to use hard drugs, yet that's not a reason to stop restricting them.

If something's harmful it should be controlled.

landl0rd · 4 days ago
I find it pretty hypocritical that the same people who push for e.g. legal marijuana would go for banning social media apps. Don't get me wrong, I use neither and think both are mentally, physically, and morally corrosive. I would not care to have either present in the community where I live, nor for my future children to use them.

That does not mean it is the province of the state to ban them.

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landl0rd commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal   bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik
dewey · 14 days ago
> BBC.com reaches 139 million visitors globally, including almost 60 million in the US, the corporation said.

From: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

The other countries most likely don't make up such a big chunk of visits / costs.

FWIW: There's many news sources in the US (Usually regional news papers etc.) that just throw a forbidden or 402 status code right away at anyone not using a US IP.

landl0rd · 13 days ago
The BBC puts ads on visitors from outside Britain. The NPV for them of having a foreigner visit the site is probably very weakly positive.
landl0rd commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal   bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik
dewey · 14 days ago
> US-based visitors to BBC.com will now have to pay $49.99 (£36) a year or $8.99 (£6.50) a month for access to most BBC News stories and features, and to stream the BBC News channel.

Only the US traffic has a paywall, there's none if you visit it from somewhere else. Understandable to charge people who don't pay for it with their taxes in my opinion, especially if you delivery videos and other expensive content for free without ads.

landl0rd · 14 days ago
There are another two hundred-odd countries who also do not pay for it with their taxes. The BBC has apparently not seen fit to paywall them. This is a very confusing and inconsistent move.
landl0rd commented on House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs   ispreview.co.uk/index.php... · Posted by u/donpott
zrn900 · 15 days ago
After enforcing age verification to prevent children from viewing those pesky Gaza genocide videos that Israel did not want them to see, they gotta ensure that those brats wont be able to get around it and still see the videos.

Its amazing how this censorship was brought on rapidly and precisely after Netanyahu demanded it at the start of last year. No surprise as half of Starmer government was funded by zionists.

landl0rd · 15 days ago
I really don't think governments need a kick in the tail from a foreign power to try to grab more power. It's just what they do by nature.
landl0rd commented on House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs   ispreview.co.uk/index.php... · Posted by u/donpott
armada651 · 15 days ago
If this becomes law, then yes. But then people will turn to VPS providers instead and set up their own VPNs, which will then prompt a law to demand age verification before renting any server. I wonder how far they're willing to go down this rabbit hole.
landl0rd · 15 days ago
You're implying pervasive KYC and tying everything to your real-life identity is some unfortunate side-effect rather than a deliberate end. I have contempt for people who pass policies such as these but I do not think them foolish; they are likely aware of what will happen.
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quentindanjou · 18 days ago
This is not always true. LLMs do get nerfed, and quite regularly, usually because they discover that users are using them more than expected, because of user abuse or simply because it attract a larger user base. One of the recent nerfs is the Gemini context window, drastically reduced.

What we need is an open and independent way of testing LLMs and stricter regulation on the disclosure of a product change when it is paid under a subscription or prepaid plan.

landl0rd · 18 days ago
There's at least one site doing this: https://aistupidlevel.info/

Unfortunately, it's paywalled most of the historical data since I last looked at it, but interesting that opus has dipped below sonnet on overall performance.

u/landl0rd

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