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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

What Should I Build?

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: When is there too much structure?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?

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news.ycombinator.com 8mo ago

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

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news.ycombinator.com 8mo ago

What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: What's your standard suite of OS applications?

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

HN Discuss: thoughts on the butlerian jihad

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: Any Android Engineers Here?

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

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

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Why Technology is Enslaving Us [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Super cogent points on issues of managing spaceship earth – Dan Schmachtenberger [video]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Email vs. Capitalism, Why We Can't Have Nice Things Dylan Beattie NDC Oslo 2023 [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Are there any good T9 keyboards for Android?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Ending Copyright Could Save Art and Journalism [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What if you are an AI?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Misalignment, AI and Moloch – Daniel Schmachtenberger and Liv Boeree

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What should companies be doing with all their empty office space?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What should we be doing?

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“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.

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.

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?

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.

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).

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.

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)?

Gemini CLI 1 year ago

not working for me either. getting "too many requests". my own CLI tool i wrote for gemini last week works better lol. maybe i have something configured wrong? though that really shouldn't be the case. my api key env var is correct.