Get your facts right. That’s Amazon, not Blue Origin. Amazon has booked flight with various launch providers, including SpaceX to meet their license’s requirement. It’s still a very aggressive schedule with little room for error.
It’s typical HN reaction to only paying attention to layoffs, but not hirings. Blue Origin grew substantially from 1000 in 2018 to 6000 in 2022, to 14,000 in 2024 [0]. Which isn’t much less than SpaceX, despite the latter handling 140 launches a year and handling thousands of Starlink satellites. Reducing the workforce only makes sense. Whether they’ve done it right is another story.
I am saying it is poor management, nothing more nothing less.
Hiring 8,000 people in two years then coming to the conclusion you "aren’t set up for the kind of success that we really wanted to have" is gross incompetence. Management isn't cleared out on the back of such a performance.
1 year of data is indeed too little if you are trying to forecast one year ahead. Also the pricing is set by OpenAI. We don't know their actual costs decreased by that factor. Only that they cut their prices.
The retail price, or the actual cost to deliver? Those are not the same thing. Cost to deliver could actually mean something. Retail pricing is approximately meaningless.
In context, retail pricing is very meaningful. The next sentence is "lower prices lead to much more use". That is, price elasticity of demand is large, and here price is retail price.
Cost and price are two different things. Sam said cost, but really he meant price, because even by his own admission, ChatGPT's services are running at a loss
I know this is subjective but he is comparing GPT-4 to 4o. The new model definitely felt lighter and faster, so probably cheaper for them to maintain, but at the same time very often gave worse answers than GPT-4.
How much do those tools cost? And if they are gonna use OpenAI's tools anyway, adding a similarly capable sales agent at a fractional cost would be a win.
It's the same story that has happened with phone camera. It's became capable enough, at much lower price, since everyone already has a phone, that standalone camera is a rare sight nowadays.
This isn't an overseas trip though. It's a private partnership announced by the sitting president in the Roosevelt room, literally across the hall from the oval office. I don't know how unprecedented that truly is, but it certainly feels unusual.
It is hard to build a successful business out of even a most mundane ideas. That alone can be a great accomplishment that many people strive for. Also to be able to set and execute initiatives is also a great motivation. Seeing the fruits of your labor can be very rewarding.
> People who support Donald Trump are, in general, terrible people
This is not true, and that shows your narrow mindset. To give you the benefits of the doubt, can you explain why Trump supporters are not only wrong, but generally "terrible people"?
I have no desire to change anyone’s mind about their political views. Anyone who supports a known rapist and felon and who openly takes bribes can not be convinced of anything. I don’t engage in political discussions with such people. There is no consistency in their beliefs so no meaningful discusion can be had.
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