The US models are still better though, let's not get carried away. Ours are better, theirs are cheaper. That's how it's always been.

I just tried it and the search results are terrible. Maybe because Google knows things about me, I guess I can give them the benefit of that doubt.

Clearly inferior to Google though.

Do you have some example searches that you made? I’m not a heavy search user and not a programmer but I’ve still found the experience on par or better for all of my general searching.

I tried with the search I had open which was "cf d1" and I was looking for info on cloudflare d1, Google surfaced it #1 and Kagi it was way at the bottom

For the record this is on Google https://imgur.com/a/De1AVpt definetely not #1

Kagi allows personalization, the difference is you as a user control it. If you used kagi for decade (assuming this is what you used Google for) I am sure the results would be fine tuned to your preference too.

> An inbox to receive mail seems good and valuable.

The only receiving mail applications that come to mind are bots registering for accounts. The point of verifying email is to prove you're not a bot.

> The point of verifying email is to prove you're not a bot.

I thougt it was primarily to verify that the address is actually yours, so they don’t unknowingly spam someone else and can reach you with important information such as pricing changes.

No, there's a separate way to gate that which is a captcha on the signup. If they pass the captcha that email gets sent whether it's really the right person's or not. Then if it's not, the account just never gets verified.

Obviously it would be worse if you remembered it, but the trauma is still there even if you don't. Ask Bill Cosby's victims.

Oh apparently from downvotes, some people here would prefer to remember being raped by Bill Cosby. Well I hope I get what you wish for, lol.

People will downvote anything, SMH.

That might work if it wasn't for FOMO. Are you ok with only $20 of frontier usage a month?

Subjective, but if we compare to compute not everyone needs the most expensive laptops or super computers for their work.

I think frontier models will be invaluable for scientific research, defense, financial analysis and such. But the average person probably would be reasonably well-served with a local model.

If you're in sales, customer service, product management and such - the leading open models at the 30B mark are already good enough.

I mean customer service maybe, but how much longer will humans even be doing that job at this point?

If anyone out there needs to burn some tokens, just DM me your keys. I got you.

A disincentive to replace your tires? What could go wrong.

Yeah because today tires are free for anyone with a tread depth of less 3mm, of course.

Realistically tires and brakes are already subject to sales taxes and are not subject to review at annual vehicle inspections. We probably should enforce that cars on the roads have working brakes and tires but that’s seemingly beside the point of how we pay for the maintenance of the roads.

Can't save them all.

We're discussing a country that bases "Safety ratings" by how well they protect the driver, and ignore every other person outside the vehicle - meaning the people least likely to be hurt here are the ones trying to cheat the tax

For God's sake man! You must learn to shield your thoughts from the crystals!

not very balanced if it doesn't also track new hires