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whoisjuan commented on Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database    · Posted by u/willbryk
whoisjuan · 4 months ago
Did you guys change the pricing of Exa?

When I checked this a year or so ago, I might have gotten the impression that it was cheaper. Now, it costs the same as what Perplexity charges for search-grounded queries, which is the same as Google charges for Gemini queries with search.

So basically, one player sets a price, and everyone is anchored on that as the pricing for the entire category? I'm just genuinely interested in why every offering in this space is priced like this.

It seems a bit misaligned with how pure LLM queries are priced.

I have a product that would benefit from search grounding, but this pricing wouldn't work with my volume of queries.

whoisjuan commented on Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/vivekd
hank808 · 10 months ago
That sounds really interesting! Can you cite any articles or anything?
whoisjuan commented on Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/vivekd
whoisjuan · 10 months ago
This is wild, but many studies have reached the same conclusion.

I remember reading somewhere that heart transplant recipients have random memory flashes that are not their memories, and sometimes they develop new personality traits.

whoisjuan commented on DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
whoisjuan · a year ago
This is a very sneaky ethically gray company. Their app is not only of terrible quality but also full of dark patterns. I'm convinced that any revenue they make comes from people who can't figure out how to cancel. Stay away from it.
whoisjuan commented on Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?   dive.club/ideas/will-figm... · Posted by u/ridd_design
jay_kyburz · a year ago
Nice design!

Small suggestion, I would preload the contents of each tab and the images in the circle after the main content is loaded. There was a good two second lag loading the images here in Australia.

whoisjuan · a year ago
Ohh nice catch. Will do. Thanks
whoisjuan commented on Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?   dive.club/ideas/will-figm... · Posted by u/ridd_design
whoisjuan · a year ago
I'm a designer. I built brainglue.ai without Figma, a design system, or a UI library. I just went directly to code (react+tailwind) and let a style organically emerge.

I'm not saying that I'm a unicorn and that my idea-to-code-to-design execution is flawless, but I certainly believe that in this situation, if I hadn't done it this way, I wouldn't have done it all. However, doing this would be wasteful or dumb in almost every other situation that requires my design output.

People pay for Figma precisely because it's a middle ground. It was a middle ground before, and it will continue to be unless something fundamental changes.

whoisjuan commented on Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses   bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/mgh2
cbsmith · a year ago
This seems like an odd spin/reeks of PR and politics more than the reality. $20B spend is just fine if you have the revenue to justify it. They've just struggled with the revenue. Killers of the Flower Moon brought in $157 million at the box office --that's without streaming revenue, but I think even that would still be considered a failure... and some of the others have been huge stinkers.
whoisjuan · a year ago
AppleTV+ is a tiny business. It's nowhere near of generating enough revenue to cover a $20B hole in content production costs.

Yes, Apple generates LOTS of revenue overall, but that doesn't justify bleeding cash on a business line that hasn't produced material returns and has no significant positive trajectory in sight.

It's clear that Apple saw this as their Prime Video bet on their services strategy, but that hasn't worked out. Just look at AppleTV+ market share. It's hilariously miniscule.

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whoisjuan commented on Walls are starting to close in for Tesla, let's have a closer look   threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/type_Ben_struct
whoisjuan · a year ago
I own a Model 3, and I honestly think it is the best car I have ever owned.

Despite that, I know people who have ruled out owning a Tesla because they believe the brand mirrors Elon Musk's public persona. They flat-out reject any Tesla product because the brand's visible face is someone they believe doesn't represent their values.

I'm unsure he understood the implications of becoming such a polarizing figure. It was totally unnecessary, yet that was his choice.

whoisjuan commented on Meta's new LLM-based test generator   read.engineerscodex.com/p... · Posted by u/ben_s
webdood90 · 2 years ago
> ... basically just creates a change-detector program

interesting perspective - why do you think this is a bad thing?

to me, it's an opportunity to verify that the change is intended. without it, how do you know that the program does what it is supposed to do?

whoisjuan · 2 years ago
No op, but I don’t think test-driven development resounds with everyone who writes code.

I don’t want to write tests for everything. I just want to write the ones that matter.

u/whoisjuan

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