why does google need to offer it?

Because Google scrapes other site's data to build its AI market dominance in Gemini. The promise of web 2.0 was APIs, Google aims to cement its position in web 4.0 while suing others for doing what it does on a mass scale.

Adversarial Interoperability is Digital Human Right. Either companies can provide it reasonably or the people will assert their rights through other means.

flash is closer to sonnet than gpt minis though

use it for technical design doc, where i sketch out something on paper and ask nano banana to make flow chat, its incredibly good at this kind of editing (also if want to borrow image from someone and change some bridges usually its hard its embedded image, but nano banana solves that)

how many people ll do this though? i would expect sub 1% conversion from existing users if they had to do that

this also holds true for chemical, biomedical researchers, mechanical engineers working in deep tech, software engineering is such an anomaly that it's hard to do income based lottery without overindexing on swe market

What does overindexing on the swe market mean?

If these other professions don’t pay as much as swe, then doesn’t that indicate that domestic supply is meeting those industries needs better than it is swe?

Not at all. Salaries aren't just a function of talent availability, they're also a function of capital availability.

or it doesn't have software like margins so you can't pay insane salaries and you still need great talent that's not available in us (those salaries might be higher than normal but it won't match swe salaries)

they did, judge told authors to get better representation to prove harm. I think it's dicey cause if anthropic loses then it could be catastrophic (i.e. if judge jury thinks reward is 5x of what the proposal is would mean they would need to raise a new round)

Anthropic having to raise a new round doesn't sound "catastrophic"...

I think the dilution hurts a lot

I would watch history pods for sure

do they have a decent subscriber base? i thought it was still very niche

Somewhere between 20,000 (number of t-shirts sent out) and 50,000 (their stated next target). Not too bad for a startup but a drop in the proverbial ocean of search.

They have a live tracker of subscribers, 25,785 at time of posting comment.

https://kagi.com/stats

how one can run search engine on 2-3M annual budget(with assumption avg subscription is $10/m)?..

Honestly I'm astonished there are only that many.

How? For the vast, vast majority of people, paying for search is insane. And that includes the people who pay for other services.

Judging from how often Kagi comes up here (HN), I actually thought they were far bigger than they are.

The percentage of HN users in their customer base is very probably far higher than the percentage of HN users in the general population. Many orders of magnitude ;)

Why don't you read the post you're commenting on? The answer is in there.

cause commenter was making claim that was not grounded in reality so i thought i missed something

lot of recommendations has to do with supply, noone has nowhere near as good supply as tiktok

I think you are thinking from soundcloud's perspective, i dont see how this would actually benefit youtube other than just throwing some stuff on the wall and expecting it to stick

Spotify is #1 in music streaming, but SoundCloud is well regarded. For the right price, YouTube Music could get some headlines/exposure and credibility through the acquisition.