I can, I’ve written a billing system before (unfortunately). There’s a lot of annoying math/edge cases and systems to sync between.

While I never implemented a restriction like this, it would have prevented a lot of weird bugs/customer support issues and kept the underlying code much simpler.

(Annoying math = time zones, prorations, discounts, billing cycle anchors, etc. see the “falsehoods programmers believe about X” series)

(Systems to sync between = internal DBs, billing APIs, payment processors, etc.)

I mean sure, I get it, but companies like Uber leave edge cases like that out when it hurts them (customers cancelling) but move heaven & earth to remove them when it helps them (I bet its easy to re-join within 24 hours of cancelling?).

Top multimodal models have about 200-1000 tokens per image, so the math works out.

My experience from working in the security space is that all the tech is pretty un-sexy (with very good sales pitches), and none of it will save you from a nation-state attacker.

Same. I was hoping to be wrong in my cynicism but…

Be sure to check out the mentioned catalog. [1]

The NSA's capabilities back in 2008 were pretty astonishing: "RAGEMASTER" A $30 device that taps a VGA cable and transmits the contents of your screen to the NSA van sitting outside! Crazy stuff. Makes you wonder what they've built in the last 15 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog

Today you’ve got open access USB cable which can stream your shit out on WiFi, no doubt the NSA has worse.

What gives you confidence that this is a bot account and not a frequent reader of HN that is passionate about growing the number of unique topics discussed here? And what’s up with the strong, inflammatory language?

Perhaps because I am a frequent lurker.

I mean you can look the bot's post history yourself, no need to ask me.

And I'm sorry but lol @ 'strong inflammatory language' (it was neither imho) we are supposed to be adults here.

Wow, only 256 tokens per frame? I guess a picture isn’t worth a thousand words, just ~192.

Back in 2020, Google was saying 16x16=256 words: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929#google :)

gpt4v is also pretty low but not as low. 480x640 frame costs 425 tokens, 780x1080 is 1105 tokens

Designing fonts for languages that use Chinese characters is often challenging due to the sheer number of glyphs.

This approach to generating fonts is very interesting… feels like it could unlock the creation of heavily stylized fonts that just wouldn’t be feasible otherwise.

Prediction: There will soon be a lot more VR “content” available with the proliferation of VR-capable recording devices.

This could be a big push towards making the metaverse more compelling.

The "metaverse" is as dead as 3D TV. It's not really coming anytime soon.

I don't think so. The metaverse is the obvious endgame for entertainment. The only question is how long it takes to get there. Zero marginal cost everything is just a continuation of what made software so succesful so I think it should be clear to HN users why the idea behind the metaverse is so powerful.

Hrm, true, no one’s ever gotten fluent in a language just by reading a textbook.

Surely if any IC would be in the know, it would be an L9.

To my knowledge ICs were not consulted, nor was most of management.