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lifty··on Gemini 4 Argon
Aaand of course we can’t use it! GoOgLe iS bAcK iN tHe GaMe! There’s basically no way around it, all enterprises end up dysfunctionally shipping their org chart.
lifty··on Starship Achieved Orbit
Random guy on X said that a couple of years ago. He’s supposedly an aerospace engineer.
lifty··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
There are scenarios where either can fail, that’s why it’s smart to have a multi pronged energy strategy. Maintain strong industries for being able to do both renewables and nuclear in house so you can hedge the tail risks of either of them. Not everything needs to have the most economically efficient model. As we’ve seen with the supply chain problems they happened during Covid, some things are more important than absolute cost.
lifty··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
I love renewables, especially solar with batteries, but I definitely see the tail risks of not having some amount of independent base load, for which nuclear seems like the best fit. The tail risk could materialize from different sources; could be an asteroid, nuclear war, weird weather patterns etc. nuclear would chug along in most of these conditions. So if I would be a policy maker or decision maker, I would definitely invest in nuclear and maintain an industry regardless of the initial cost. I would try to make it as cheap as possible.
lifty··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Finally got the nuance. Indeed the chat part of the subscription is unlimited as far as I know. Now that part of your comment makes sense!
lifty··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
That’s the default. I didn’t express myself clearly but I thinking your situation is not the common case anymore, or perhaps you are not using it hard enough. Codex limits deplete very fast these days, it’s not “unlimited”.
lifty··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
It’s all anecdotal based on my experience and other countless discussions I have seen online. I’ve heard speculation that once they hit 20 million codex users capacity is tighter so they have to manage it. The previous limits were unsustainable compared to token pricing.
lifty··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
What are you talking about? ChatGPT unmetered? No way! That was 2 months ago perhaps and it’s possible your account still hasn’t gotten the new limits. I noticed around 1 month ago I was still going full throttle on my codex subscription and my limits were barely budging, and then all of sudden people around me started to complain about limits. I thought they’re crazy, but then my account go the hammer, and that was it. If I have the same pattern of usage like I did before, basically having an agent working continuously on a coding take, my weekly limit goes in 2 days.
lifty··on Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Can you buy these already? I think not.
lifty··on MiMo v2.6
I’m having the same issue. Hold max subscriptions on both frontier labs but I’ve been forced to use open source models because token limits are not what they used to be. So I end up using Astra and Fable for reviewing, and open source models for implementing.
lifty··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
Is there any chance bcachefs will be included again in the future?
lifty··on Laya the open source version of Jev
I was wondering, do you think its possible to use something like SAM 3 (segment anything from FB) + Laya to create a super efficient and fast computer use tool?
lifty··on Homebrew 7.0.0
I think at one point you said you’re working on a rust rewrite? Is that still in the cards?
lifty··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Meant as a joke in good spirit. I do appreciate what Google is doing but I am rooting for them to also compete on the frontier.
lifty··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Google is crushing it! They’re going toe to toe against the European giant Mistral with all these small useful models and they have a chance of winning! Never have I been more excited about Google’s capabilities.
lifty··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
That TPU training part I get, but from what I have seen the NPU is rarely used for inference by LLMs. They still use the GPU, no?
lifty··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Do current models run on the NPU or GPU? Wondering if Apple will have something like a TPU.
lifty··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
Unfortunately the codex plans don’t offer the same amount of tokens as they did before. This changed around a week ago. There’s been a lot of user reports noticing this issue, and I’ve noticed the same pattern on my account. Previously I would never reach my weekly quota but last week I managed to finish it it one day. Same project, same single session sequential work. Not sure if there’s an issue or if it’s on purpose, and not even sure it applied to all accounts. Curious if other users on HN noticed the same problem.
lifty··on Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Great primitive, I’m a big fan of prolly trees! You mentioned git like filesystem snapshots? How would you retrofit that on an existing filesystem? Or you’re talking about writing a new one?
lifty··on Flutter 3.47
Thanks for the detailed reponse!
lifty··on Flutter 3.47
I’ve been keeping an eye on hypen.space and hope it succeeds. What is the level of maturity now and are there any multiplatform app examples that are not trivial?
lifty··on Superlogical
Interested in your choice of Raft. How well does that work when you have heterogeneous machines with varying degrees of latency to each other?
lifty··on Claude Opus 5
But still nerfed compared to the initial release.
lifty··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Nostr is not blockchain. It's a p2p protocol.
lifty··on Agent swarms and the new model economics
Perhaps you can get hired by a company to do that. You can't compare yourself as an individual with a company with a large budget.
lifty··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
My bad. The only point I was trying to make is that there’s no left vs right conclusions that you can draw from this.
lifty··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
We’re talking about erosion of privacy and draconian internet surveillance. Brexit was a major screw up and I’m not here to defend any side, just to dispel this illusion that somehow the left are the good ones and the right is the bad far right.
lifty··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
The whole left vs right is a useless caricature. And it’s especially meaningless when comparing ideologies across country borders. Better talk in terms of policies.
lifty··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Can you give an example of what happened in UK that points to this issue?
lifty··on A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech
But do you agree this bill is positive?
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