Sadly non of it was written by a human being.

Fair. The study is backed by a human being who stands behind every number. And absolutely, use whatever tool you like.

Each one makes me update my estimate slightly in favour of AI. Also, pangram agrees.

It’s been 20 years since first iphone, this is nothing new. And somehow people are not recording everyone all the time.

What is new is that now people will be recording everyone all the time, as a default.

That’s simply not possible with the announced Apple products. Afaict, Apple will let people save *transcripts* of last 15s and save *summaries* of transcripts.

Live streamers make a habit of doing this and are widely hated for it.

Exactly, they are *hated* for it. Afaik, I haven’t met anyone live streaming in my boring real life.

> is there a way to make the money flow through it? It's always good when money flows through you.

Ah, yes! The dream of being rent seeking middleman! The first thing that come to mind when I think “hacker” ;)

Is it their way of saying “we are unable to increase energy production to maintain growth rates” without saying it?

I think so, see the tournament results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chess_Engine_Championship#...

I wonder what was total token cost of the rewrite.

I think around $300-400k, but that does not include the github issue/pr/ci stuff that runs continuously, which could double or triple it. Somewhere, the first two weeks were said to be about $200k.

That total assumes API billing rates, which isn't what Anthropic pays for the inference. So I'm confused why people keep quoting that. It's not representative of what it'd cost for you either because you could use cheaper models.

> That total assumes API billing rates, which isn't what Anthropic pays for the inference. So I'm confused why people keep quoting that. It's not representative of what it'd cost for you either because you could use cheaper models.

It is, because this rewrite was marketing for Claude. So it reflects the price for what other companies might need to pay if they want to rewrite something else with similar size.

Yeah, when you spend billions in infrastructure you get to save $300k occasionally

From the Rewriting Bun in Rust blog post: 5.9B uncached input tokens, 690M output tokens, 72B cached reads, came out to ~$165k at API pricing.

That was the initial work, but since then there was lots of work performed with LLMs.

It tells you little about living conditions but it tells you a lot about importance of a country as a whole. GDP per capita of China might be far from US but due to its size it still makes China very important actor.

Or you can just use any of the actual European companies (I’m using Tuta).

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

Any providers that don't provide SMTP/IMAP/JMAP are just a boring way of giving away control over your mail and the client software you use.

I don't know about Tuta specifically, but Protonmail is practically intentionally hostile against anyone using their own keys. Which is the biggest sign that their marketing and actual intent do not align.

I started using tuta until I realised they don't support IMAP. Something to do with not guaranteeing encryption (which isn't even enabled by default) but has the convenient effect of locking you into their apps

https://mailbox.org/ is great. It's the only provider recommended by privacyguides.org that supports IMAP/SMTP.

Tuta is always encrypted I don't know where you got the impression that it was optional or that they could somehow magically make it work over IMAP without a bridge like proton.

> Tuta does not support the use of third-party email clients or the protocols IMAP/POP3/SMTP as we cannot guarantee end-to-end encryption of your data.

So it "breaks end to end encryption" even with smtps and imaps apparently. The few emails I received weren't from tutamail users so presumably came over SMTP.

It's confusing to know what they mean because they confuse terms. They say emails are "stored end to end encrypted".

They don't pass my smell test

And here I thought using open source client software is the only way I, the user, can guarantee E2EE of my data.

They offer similar product to a more well known Proton.

PGP works over IMAP.

IMAP can do TLS though (IMAPS).

Did they say what's stopping them from using that (and requiring the encryption!)?

They didn't need to. When you start denying IAMP to your customer in the name of "encryption" at that point it becomes privacy theatre, instead of privacy, irrespective of how nobly activist their intensions are. It is probably slightly worse than a mail provider assuming they can't trust their users with encrypting their emails when needed.

> When you start denying IAMP to your customer in the name of "encryption" at that point it becomes privacy theatre, instead of privacy, irrespective of how nobly activist their intensions are.

How would the lack of IMAP compromise encryption? Sounds dubious.

Lock-in effects are problematic, but separate from encryption or privacy in general.

If the concern is actually lock-in, it is worth noting: there is little lock-in in the current Tuta offering. The service allows users to export emails into standard EML files. If you decide to switch providers, simply point your domain to the new provider and import your latest backup.

Its probably about end to end encryption. Protonmail doesn't store mailboxes in plaintext, only the client actually decrypts the mailbox. IMAPS only encrypts the conn between mail server and client.

Infomaniak is another one https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite