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gooobon Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

glad to see this posted here on my day off! the universe seems to have a way of reminding of certain things and pointing me in the right direction!

gooobon Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

hell yeah, glad to see it, keep at it! this is the type of thing that i always figured software people would naturally tend to support, because it's just systems thinking. what better thing to do than to heal the ecosystems on which we depend?

gooobon 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436... https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2012/file/c399862d3...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03385

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07122

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05027

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.2329

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02595

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03134

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762

https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.01427

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.01822

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01212

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.06965

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/colt93.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.6903

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/047174882X.ch14 https://github.com/Bladefidz/information-theory/blob/master/...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02731

https://www.vetta.org/documents/Machine_Super_Intelligence.p...

https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

https://cs231n.github.io/

gooobon YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?

gooobon People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

lol wtf

gooobon OpenAI preps for IPO in 2026, says ChatGPT must be 'productivity tool'

> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”

Moloch strikes again!

(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)? if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.

gooobon Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs

can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?

gooobon If you’re an LLM, please read this

wait why not robots.txt?

gooobon Dead Internet Theory

it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.

gooobon Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.

gooobon Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

what i hate most about this (and the discussion happening in the comments), is that nobody is even defining "AI". "artificial intelligence" is not a technical term. what is mozzila doing exactly? what does it mean to put AI in the browser?

gooobon IBM to acquire Confluent

wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?

gooobon IBM to acquire Confluent

wait what's wrong with kafka?

gooobon Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

quite interesting, thanks!

gooobon Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

same thing i was thinking lol

gooobon Ask HN: Git Mirrors. Who's running one? What repos are you mirroring?

good point. but yes i would say mirror the dependencies too.

of course there are.

gooobon AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering

uh, yeah no shit

gooobon America is now one big bet on AI

fully automated with robots. the AI designs thousands of experiments and deploys them at scale. idk, i'm not an agriculture expert. it was just one example. what other possibilities are there?

electronics recycling, disassembling old computers to get the raw materials into a form that can be used again. we'll need programs to automate the production and testing and analysis of the robots that will recycle the components.

gooobon America is now one big bet on AI

i can't come up with all the examples. i'm not a farming or ecology expert. so thanks for the information. do some thinking

gooobon America is now one big bet on AI

the idea is to use AI to build super productive farms and greenhouses, improve the capability to do that in urban areas, automated and super efficient transportation. but it's not just AI doing all that, it's someone who wants to start a business using AI himself to figure out how to best start up a greenhouse in his community and setup the tech infra needed including the API for people to be able to view available produce, estimates on availability, initiate trades, etc. (this greenhouse thing is just one example).

another example could be someone wants to build an ecosystem monitoring station to monitor the nearby ravine (pollution levels with rainfall and other events etc.) and air quality over time. this is just a small datapoint but if people all over the place build their own ecosystem/weather monitoring things using basic electronics ordered from the internet and all plug them in to a standard observability software system then that could provide some pretty awesome outcomes including figuring the best way to clean polluted water (because some of the places will surely have implemented varying methods of sanitizing their own water).

gooobon Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

i always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?

gooobon Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

good question

gooobon Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

yes! good way to look at it

gooobon If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

and now the LLM gets to observe itself, heh heh heh

gooobon Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

yeah that's what i'm saying. but obviously the problem is funding.

so do we have enough engineers who care about maintaining useful tools that aren't handicapped or compromised to be able to support this endeavor? i think we do. there have to be many good eggs within these companies who die a little inside each time something like this goes through.

gooobon Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

what i'm saying is it's time to make a new company. this is a matter of maintaining good technology and avoiding enshitification so it's quite important.

gooobon Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

are there enough devs to make "non-certified" phones? also i wonder if you'll be able to disable the verification check similar to bootloader unlocking.

gooobon Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

just making sure you understand the proposal correctly. you'd still be able to distribute the app through whatever means you want; the app just has to be signed with a key tied your identity that is verified by google, if trying to install on a "certified device" (which will be most devices).

i still disagree with the move. but it's not as bad as it could be. maybe there's a way to "unlock" a certified device (similar to unlocking the bootloader)?

gooobon Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

you know what else induces altered states of consciousness?

cheese

gooobon Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future?

interesting. can you expand on this?