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...pay for API tokens and adjust your use of CC so that the actions you have it take are worth the cost of the tokens

Do you feel there is enough visibility and stability around the "Prompt -> API token usage" connection to make a reliable estimate as to what using the API may end up costing?

Personally, it feels like paying for Netflix based on "data usage" without having anyway for me to know ahead of time how much data any given episode or movie will end up using, because Netflix is constantly changing the quality/compression/etc on the fly.


Time is a relatively good proxy for spend. There are also more ex post diagnostics like count and cost it can write to the status line.

I agree that ex ante it’s tough, and they could benefit from some mode of estimation.

Perhaps we can give tasks sizes, like T shirts? Or a group of claudes can spend the first 1M tokens assigning point values to the prospective tasks?


Even time doesn't feel like it would provide consistent information.

Take the response on another post about Claude Code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442

This reads like even if you had a rough idea today about what usage might look like, a change deployed tomorrow could have a major impact on usage. And you wouldn't know it until after you were already using it.


You can have a message and point of view, but don't put activism over comedy.

The "joke" in this case is people's reactions to school shootings. And people's reactions haven't changed, so I don't see why the article should change.

It's just so exhausting.

This has some real "The worst thing about school shootings is knowing that The Onion is going to repost that article I personally am tired of seeing" energy to it.


It's not a joke if you repeat it 100 times.

That article has some real "The best thing about school shootings is we get to have literally every article on our website be this clever headline we wrote 10 years" energy to it.


> It's not a joke if you repeat it 100 times.

The fact that it's been repeated so often kind of makes it a tragedy at this point.


Yeah, pretty sure it's not expected to be funny. If at all, it has entered absurdist territory.

The joke is specifically that they can repost it without changing it each and every time.

It's not the joke's fault.


> It's not a joke if you repeat it 100 times.

A joke does not stop being a joke because of how often it’s repeated. You may no longer find it funny, but it’s still a joke. More importantly, it’s still satire, and The Onion is a satirical news website.

> That article has some real "The best thing about school shootings is we get to have literally every article on our website be this clever headline we wrote 10 years" energy to it.

If that’s what you take from it, you have completely missed the point. The headline works because it’s social commentary, being funny is secondary. The fact they keep reposting it over and over is itself part of the criticism, it shows disapproval for an easy resolvable situation and removes teeth from the arguments of those opposed to it.


The joke will continue until the populace finally gets it.

US welfare system seems to contain a lot of fraud, waste, abuse and grift across the board, so this will be a good chance to cleanse the system of fraud.

Taking money from social programs and piling into the military which contains "a lot of fraud, waste, abuse and grift across the board", certainly is a choice. Sort of the opposite of a smart choice, but definitely a choice for sure.


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>" taking money from fraud waste and abuse"

Congrats. Finally somebody who wants to dismantle US government.


The solution is to give them a taste of better built (specifically competetive) games and they will never like roblox.

In my experience, this doesn't work. The primary reason being that most of their friends are playing Roblox and if they are consuming any content on the internet, much of it at their age is related to Roblox.

Our kids have never been allowed to play, and it still comes up somewhat regularly despite all the various games and consoles they have available.


Doesn't YC have some code of conduct or legal/ethical guidelines?

Regardless of any claims of having this, I would say this behavior aligns with what I have seen over the last couple decades. I'm more surprised that other people would expect anything different?


Their brand has been associated with hacking-around and gaining advantage via rule breaking for a while.

Yup, this type of behavior is pretty much as I would expect and it's something I've seen since I first started posting here.


Every vehicle came with an electric lighter and plenty of ash trays. One of the more common crafts kids used to do was making ash trays for their parents.


It was not immediately clear what legal authority Trump would draw upon to impose such a ban on the private market purchases of houses. Trump did not detail the policy, the form it would take or the legal changes he was seeking from Congress.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The U.S. president was due to sign unspecified executive orders later on Wednesday.

Anyways, I thought that issues with Americans being able to afford things like housing was all a hoax made up by Democrats?

Why craft policies to address a made up issue?


It's extremely likely that the president doesn't have that power. He can disallow corporations from buying houses on a whim? I don't think so. But PR goodness has already been coming his way from the policy if there is any.


because he doesn't run mid-terms - states do. He's desperate.


Yeah its like when people say they are stockpiling gold in case of some form of economic apocalypse.

I'm not sure what good gold would do you if people start physically fighting each other for food and water.


I was given some gold as a gift and tried to sell it, they take a cut off the top and there are no laws regulating how much a coin shop can charge for exchanging (unlike securities). People don't realize it is easy to buy gold, but a LOT harder to sell it. Especially if there is no provenance like an ingot with a hologram vs. a golden eagle. But like a lower poster says, there is a lot in between, but do you remember COVID and how insane people went over toilet paper? To quote william burroughs: "Man is a bad animal".


Because there are a lot of scenarios between total apocalypse and status quo. The USD may collapse partially compared to other currencies and common assets like BTC, gold, silver without me having to defend my home from raiders and trading whiskey for ammunition.


What is an example where gold temporarily replaced a country's currency and it did't go full mad-max? I don't think you have any evidence to back up your claims, but I can just point to COVID and toilet paper to show how slippery the slope can be (replace toilet paper with "food" and play that out in your head). I didn't even mention Zimbabwe (which more closely resembles the Trump regimes blatant corruption) where wheelbarrows of bills couldn't buy bread.


...game studios have no reasons left to bother with native Linux clients.

How many game studios were bothering with native Linux clients before Proton became known?


That's exactly the point. They weren't, so a Linux user didn't have an option to run a native Linux client in preference to a Win32 version.

That goes back to address the original question of "But would you want to run these Win32 software on Linux for daily use?"


More than now, I own a few from the Loki Entertainment days.


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