HackerNews Summary (2023-05-31 12PM)

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Source: NFLPA owed $41.8M in licensing and marketing payments from affiliate following crypto collapse

Summary
The National Football League Players Association has been unable to collect $41.8 million of licensing and sponsorship revenue from OneTeam Partners, LLC and pay it to the union, according to its annual report, possibly due to the collapse of the crypto marketplace. This represents roughly a quarter of the NFLPA’s commercial revenue.

Fact

  • 💰 OneTeam Partners, LLC owes NFLPA $41.8 million in licensing and sponsorship revenue
  • 🏈 The missing payments could deprive each active NFL player of $19,578
  • 🤝 OneTeam Partners is a joint venture of NFLPA, Major League Baseball Players Association, and private equity to oversee sports unions’ commercial enterprises
  • 📈 OneTeam Partners is listed as paying NFLPA $66 million a year ago and $105.3 million in the most recent report
  • 💸 The unpaid bills appear to be tied to the sputtering non-fungible token deals in the NBA and NFL

    • Source: Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe

    Summary
    The Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to ban abortions resulted in a 17% increase in vasectomy rates in the six months following the decision, according to The Economist. There was a 29% increase in vasectomies between July and September 2022. Dr Doug Stein saw registrations from potential patients almost triple the week after the judgement, including childless men under 30.

    Facts

  • 📈 Between 2017 and 2021, the rate of vasectomy surgeries performed increased by an average of 4% per year.
  • 📈 The Dobbs ruling was associated with a 17% increase in vasectomy procedures in the six months after the ruling, according to The Economist.
  • 🌍 The rise in vasectomies after Dobbs was observed in 46 US states.
  • 👦🌡️ Younger childless men had a 50% increase in vasectomy procedures since the ruling, according to Dr Doug Stein.
  • ❓ Among men motivated by Dobbs, some were concerned without access to abortion, childrearing would become even more expensive, and for others, population control was a concern, according to Dr. Stein.

    • Source: OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman

    Summary
    OpenAI is heavily limited by GPU shortages, delaying their short-term plans. Sam Altman shared OpenAI’s near-term roadmap, including cheaper and faster GPT-4 by 2023, context windows as high as 1 million tokens, extended finetuning API, and a stateful API. Plugins are not expected anytime soon.

    Fact

  • 🚀 OpenAI is heavily GPU-limited, which is delaying their short-term plans.
  • 💰 OpenAI aims to drive the “cost of intelligence” down and reduce the cost of APIs over time.
  • 🌐 Longer context windows of up to 1 million tokens are possible in the future.
  • 🧑‍💼 OpenAI is extending the finetuning API, shaped by developer feedback.
  • 💬 OpenAI plans to release a stateful API that remembers conversation history.
  • 📅 By 2024, OpenAI plans to extend multimodality beyond GPT-4 release but requires more GPUs.
  • 🔌 ChatGPT plugins are not expected anytime soon due to a lack of PMF.
  • 🔒 OpenAI provides a dedicated capacity offering via a private copy of the model for a $100k upfront commitment.

    • Source: Connect with Your Network

    Summary
    Micro is a private network to connect with your community, emphasizing on creating a safe shared chat space. Here are some of their priorities.

    Facts

  • 💬 Create shared spaces for conversations within your community
  • 🔒 Prioritize privacy and security for users
  • 📲 Allow for easy syncing with your network

    • Source: Authentication OpenPGP key

    Summary
    Governikus provides an online authentication service that compares your ID name with the name in your OpenPGP key. If the names match, Governikus electronically signs your public key and provides its own public key for verification.

    Fact

  • 🔒 Governikus provides an online service for OpenPGP key authentication.
  • 🔑 If names match, Governikus signs your public key and provides its own key for verification.
  • 👤 You can use your ID card or electronic residence permit for the authentication process.
  • 🔍 Governikus’ OpenPGP key identifier is A4BF43D7 and its fingerprint is 864E8B951ECFC04AF2BB233E5E5CCCB4A4BF43D7.

    • Source: Daring Fireball: Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20 Million Per Year

    Summary
    The developer of Reddit client Apollo, Christian Selig, is disappointed with Reddit’s pricing for its API, which would cost Apollo $12,000 for 50 million requests. This would put Apollo at over $20 million per year when it made 7 billion requests last month.

    Fact

  • 💸 Reddit’s pricing for its API is $12,000 for 50 million requests, which is far higher than the developer had expected.
  • 🔄 Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would cost it over $20 million per year.
  • 💰 Even if Apollo only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, over double what the current subscription costs.
  • 🤝 Reddit stated that its pricing would be “reasonable and based in reality” and that it would not operate like Twitter, which was ridiculed for its obscene pricing of $42,000 for 50 million tweets.
  • 🤝 Imgur, a similar site to Reddit in userbase and media, costs $166 for the same 50 million API calls.

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