Look at the full chart.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

The dollar rose like a rocket from 10/24 to 1/25. Then it reversed and went back to right where it was before the sudden rise. This is just a huge nothing burger. It was most likely driven by hedge funds speculating that Trump would replace Power and dramatically lower interest rates. That didn't happen and the trade reversed. This only looks dramatic due to the article's choice of measurement periods.

If some government is spending $20 million to investigate this, that seems like an insane misuse of taxpayer money.

BTW, the ascii glorp above is a unicode em-dash, proving that I am an LLM and hence not a disinterested party to the discussion. :)

At least that's what I heard skeeted on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danbi...

And of course this is no surpriseâ"an inconclusive study that can be used to justify a controversial headline is gold in the infotainment biz.

Just waiting for some vibe coder at Google to say the Gemini AI wrote it.

How would an LLM accurately determine which cases were "easy"? They don't reason, you know. What they do is useful and interesting, but it's essentially channeling: what is in its giant language model is the raw material, and the prompt is what starts the channeling. Because its dataset is so large, the channeling can be remarkably accurate, as long as the answer is already in some sense known and represented in the dataset.

But if it's not, then the answer is just going to be wrong. And even if it is, whether the answer comes out as something useful is chancy, because what it's doing is not synthesis—it's prediction based on a dataset. This can look a lot like synthesis, but it's really not.

I was hoping for football fields, but no luck. :(

Queen's English is "has got." "Has gotten" is U.S. English. Presumably author is from the UK.

Charter subscriber to Byte Magazine here. I built my Altair 8800 from the Popular Science article. Article left out the First Annual World Altair Computer Convention, March 1976 in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

It is Claude 4 Opus the top model publicly available.

Without credit card you can get 50 prompts.
With credit card you can get 14 day free trial of the $50 600 prompt account.

Now get the judge in the Google anti-trust trial to order Google to create this are you're done. I don't think the proposal is unreasonable, someone just needs to get it in front of the right people. Google would certainly prefer doing this instead of selling off Chrome.

The non-profit controlling the pool can negotiate the user fees based on usage. As for people who bypass the pooled crawler -- every web site should let them make requests and then never respond to those request effectively keeping them in infinite timeouts. Public embarrassment of the bypassing entities will also help control this.

There is a good solution to prevent gaming this. The crawler can use AI to assess whether it wants to pay the price the page is asking or not. It can always decide the price is to high and not add the page to the index. In that case it doesn't pay. The payment is not for crawling, it is for giving permission to be added to the global index.

Another option would be to let each page set a micro payment amount in it's headers. Then the crawler could crawl until they run out of money. This works as a double-edged sword. If you set your micro payment amount too high you are not going to get crawled and then you'll drop out of every search index. So it's your choice. The single crawler would crawl free pages first and then crawl from cheapest to most expensive until it runs out of money. Obviously if you set your micro payment at $100 you're never going to get crawled and you'll never appear in another search engine either.

I would like to see the Google anti-trust trial solve this. A good solution is to have a single crawler for the web (can be Google's via anti-trust settlement) and then everyone pays into a pool to get access to the feeds from that single crawler. Payment into that pool can then be used to make the equivalent of statutory royalty payments to the sites crawled. If you don't want to be crawled put your stuff behind a login. Of course you are going to be sorely disappointed in the amount you get from those statutory payments simply because of the sheer number of web pages (around 47B). Optimistically you might be looking at $0.10 a page/yr.