Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | UltraSane's commentslogin

Credit card companies are mostly parasitic middle men but I have a credit card that I use for most payments and pay off the balance every month and effectively get 2% cashback with no interest costs.

The actual rates charged to merchants are variable, and typically higher for rewards/cashback cards. Basically, other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back (of course as people shift, the merchant raises prices to compensate for the higher average fee, or just charge an additional Z% higher than your cash back)

> other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back

Ripping off other people is the American way.


It is easily one of the most stupid and arrogant business decisions in history. The Twitter brand was easily worth billions and changing to X wiped out an estimated $4 billion to $20 billion in brand value overnight.

The ratio of privacy_reduction:convenience that most people are willing to tolerate is enormous.

Cops should always behave is such a way that they don't care if they are being recorded.

I've gone chicken only. Mostly because pork and beef are too expensive. It is very hard to get 150+ grams of protein a day on a vegan diet. And butter is in almost every delicious baked good. Avoiding it is like having the worst allergy.

Is it fundamentally different to burning wood just to enjoy watching the flames?

OpenAI does cache the most frequent questions like this.

There is no way to cache the answer to questions that differ by even one token reliably without introducing potential problems.

there absolutely are ways to cache common-routes to fields of commonly requested paths.

(hint : it's not all regex and checksums.)


Ok I'll bite, how do you reuse the answer to "what color is the sky?" while also layering in memory, custom system instructions and custom response styles?

It's probably only memory that'd need an answer for some form of caching to be worthwhile (though I'd be curious what that answer is) since memory is on by default and rarely identical between users.

The rest are nice to haves, but not everyone customizes settings just because they are there so there will be some large pool of users with the defaults who could hit cache without them.


Doubtful. Considering features like memory, response style, custom system instructions, etc. can heavy alter a users output.

Trump is going to have so much fun with this!

It would be interesting to see how US born black people's scores differ from black immigrants from Africa who tend to value education much more.

What do you use all that local tokens/second for?

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: