By RSU, I'm assuming you mean this:

> Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are a form of equity compensation where employers promise company shares, typically vesting over time, offering a way to align employee interests with company performance

Yes - you buy the house in the bay, and companies will lock you in with the vesting schedule. Just another 3, 4 years and you’ll be rich enough to afford a second one, or retire early. Some people can self justify what they do, or pretend because they work in a “nicer” part of a company than the core revenue part that it’s all okay that what pays their checks is mass behavior manipulation. I don’t like ads or social coercion, at all.

If you're not paying full-fat API prices, then probably.

From what I've heard, the metrics used by Anthropic to detect unauthorized clients is pretty easy to sidestep if you look at the existing solutions out there. Better than getting your account banned.

No, they specifically said it’s only if you’re trying to build a whole other product for public consumption on top of it

I'm still trying to figure out how "open" it really is; There are reports that it phones home a lot[0], and there is even a fork that claims to remove this behavior[1]:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rv690j/opencod...

[1] https://github.com/standardnguyen/rolandcode

the fact that somebody was able to fork it and remove behaviour they didn't want suggests that it is very open

that #12446 PR hasn't even been resolved to won't merge and last change was a week ago (in a repo with 1.8k+ open PRs)

I think there’s a conflict between “open” as in “open source”, and “open” as in “open about the practice” paired with the fact we usually don’t review software’s source scrupulously enough to spot unwanted behaviors”.

Must be a karmic response from “Free” /s

so how is telemetry not open? If you don't like telemetry for dogmatic reasons then don't use it. Find the alternative magical product whose dev team is able to improve the software blindfolded

> Find the alternative magical product whose dev team is able to improve the software blindfolded

The choice isn't "telemetry or you're blindfolded", the other options include actually interacting with your userbase. Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc.

For example, I was recruited and paid $500 to spend an hour on a panel discussing what developers want out of platforms like DigitalOcean, what we don't like, where our pain points are. I put the dollar amount there only to emphasize how valuable such information is from one user. You don't get that kind of information from telemetry.

> Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc.

We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase.

> For example I was paid $500 an hour

+the time to find volunteers doubled that, so for $1000 an hour x 10 user interviews, a free software can have feedback from 0.001% of their users. I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it’s optional.

—a company with no telemetry on neither of our downloadable or cloud product.

> We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase.

On the contrary, your users will tell you what you need to know, you just have to pay attention.

> I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it’s optional.

The lie is believing it’s necessary. Software was successful before telemetry was a thing, and tools without telemetry continue to be successful. Plenty of independent developers ship zero telemetry in their products and continue to be successful.

Or by testing it themselves.

Fingers crossed for a normal-sounding voice this time around. The cute Kitten voices are nice, but I want something I can take seriously when I'm listening to an audiobook.

How is the Bruno voice for this one? there will also be another release in ~15-20 days where we have more professional voices. if you'd like to get early access and give feedback lmk, or dm me.

Hey Rohan, love to contribute feedback.

Huge fan of Ava multilingual and hopefully there are many other others with similar taste, so my feedback might shape things towards a halfway decent direction at least for some.

btw, use case is most often to listen to news/articles.

got it, this is very useful. thanks a lot.

Not too bad, actually! Looking forward to hearing some more voices.

No need to DM me, just post on HN or /r/LocalLLama and I'll catch wind of it.

Thanks for your work!

Kubler-Ross process -> "A model outlining emotional responses to terminal diagnosis or loss: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance"

Exactly. The stages don't always occur in order, or at all, but you can see the general progression play out any day, all day on here.

I'm happily surprised (frankly amazed TBH) that the submitter didn't get bawled out by people flagging the post and accusing him of posting slop.

But what if they find a bad one? There's a lot of junk out there.

Yes, this can happen. Some people just have the worst luck, and will always find the bad one. This is why Greene made "stay away from unlucky people" law 10 out of 48. It's really that important.

You really need to try it for yourself. People working in different domains get wildly different results.

It has subpar grammar (uncapitalized word "humans" and "hand crafted" is unhyphenated). I think you're hallucinating.

Clearly so. To me it's the LLM writing style at least.

Start using speech to text more. You likely have the hardware needed to run a Whisper model locally.

I will give a go. But my rambling mumblings to Gemini on my phone sor far confirm that I write with more clarity than I speak

I use SpeechNote with FasterWhisper and I've found it to be much better than any cloud dictation services I've tried (which, to be fair, is not a whole lot... they all suck so much that I give up fast).

Pink elephant problem: Don't think about a pink elephant.

OK. Now, what are you thinking about? Pink elephants.

Same problem applies to LLMs.