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cactusplant7374··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
It's not an addiction. I take breaks all the time because I get bored. Like breaks of 2+ months.
cactusplant7374··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
I find nicotine vaping really pleasurable. It's all about finding the right device and flavor though. I'm rocking the XROS Pro 2 right now but I also have a box mod with a mesh coil that I sometimes use as well. I'm not against vape shops as long as they aren't selling disposables.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
His sister claims all of the big social media companies are conspiring against her in an attempt to help Altman.
cactusplant7374··on Mac at Any Scale
Why HDMI cables instead of a HDMI dummy plug with screen sharing enabled?
cactusplant7374··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Did I miss something? Where are the pics of the actual toilet?
cactusplant7374··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Unemployment isn’t very much, is it?
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
It is impossible to make sophisticated software products at a high level with a low TPS. Try making a modern emulator or an award winning game. Both require a lot of iteration and not everything works well with multi agent.
cactusplant7374··on Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
It discourages and frustrates. So yes, it is useless in terms of modern browsing.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
The moat is high TPS. No one has rolled it to average consumers though.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
What is the TPS of DeepSeek? All of the LLMs I have tried are slow as molasses. \
cactusplant7374··on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Perhaps you can expand on why you think that is a bad idea.
cactusplant7374··on Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
> Utilities: Guests shouldn’t be asked to avoid using a listed amenity like air conditioning, but you can ask them to turn it off when they leave.

Turn it off and come back to a sauna that will take 3 hours to cool down. I'm not doing that.

cactusplant7374··on The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results
I'm working on building a JIT for an emulator and there is no end in sight. Running plenty of experiments though. So I guess that is something. LLMs are not good at building emulators unless they have a reference implementation in the training data.
cactusplant7374··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Because engineers are lusting for 1000 tokens per second. You can only achieve something like that with OpenAI.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
The link doesn't work.
cactusplant7374··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I think your argument would be stronger if you claimed introspection is only a feature of humans.
cactusplant7374··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I have used a simple feedback loop to generate AI art: 1) the initial prompt 2) ask for criticism of the generated image 3) apply those changes and generate another image 4) repeat the criticism / fix cycle again

Isn't that somewhat introspective?

cactusplant7374··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Ultrafast uses 6x the usage. They probably realize that people will complain if the plan limits are too low. In any case, the TCO of the newer chips is supposedly lower. Hopefully everyone is on ultrafast eventually.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI (2015)
The biggest donor is Elon Musk.
cactusplant7374··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Was he paid to review the paper? His praise reads very unauthentic.

> After reviewing the pre-print, Feng Zhang, one of the pioneers of CRISPR genome editing and a professor at MIT and the Broad Institute said:

> This is an exciting example of how AI agents can contribute to biological discovery. The identification of RNA-repeat arrays associated with reverse transcriptases is genuinely intriguing and merits further investigation. I hope this work encourages more scientists to explore how AI can support their research.

cactusplant7374··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had.

Hate to be a downer, but this has been done before.

https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/150th/Plaks.html

cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
And HN users are being used as part of these attacks?
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
This isn't about you personally. There is a public interest here.
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
I can't control their behavior nor can you. But if you don't want to respond to the substance of my comment then perhaps you shouldn't respond?
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It tells us that the moderators of HN support copyright infringement and DDOS attacks. They are actively moderating this forum and choosing to do nothing.
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It is telling that HN moderators allow links to archive.is/today
cactusplant7374··on GoldenEye 007 native port after the N64 decompilation reached 100%
It 404s now. DMCA?
cactusplant7374··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Codex has 20+ million users. They are doing much better than Cursor.
cactusplant7374··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
What company fired them? I don't see that in the repo but maybe I missed it.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
It is incredibly cheap now. What sectors are you thinking of?
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