ParanoidShroom (u/ParanoidShroom)

ParanoidShroom commented on The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s apolloacademy.com/ai-bubb... · Posted by u/akyuu

JCM9 · 2 months ago

For those around for the .com bust it does feel very similar. In both cases the tech is amazing and isn’t going away, but the business models of many/most companies “innovating” with the tech is simply unsustainable. A lot of “AI” currently looks like a dry forest waiting for lighting to strike and burn it to the ground. The latest round of PR puff from CEOs saying they’re doing layoffs because of AI (vs their poor performance or prior bad business decisions) is fueling the perception that the hype is a mile wide and a millimeter thick, just waiting for the moment when it all comes crashing down.

This is a longstanding predictable pattern in tech. Most of these “AI companies” will go bust or become a shell of their former self and sold off for parts. The tech will be commoditized and become pretty ubiquitous across the board but not a profit center in its own right.

ParanoidShroom · 2 months ago

Do you think FANG companies inflate AI on purpose in order to create a scenario for a bust to happen, they can survive it given their vast warchest of cash

ParanoidShroom commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

KomoD · 2 months ago

The obvious solution to this problem is just not taking random pills.

Also I don't see how this solves anything, just because a pill "looks" like another doesn't mean it is that, it could still be anything.

ParanoidShroom · 2 months ago

It's harm reduction. Obvious? That's not how the real world works I'm afraid. Where did I claim this "solved" the problem?

ParanoidShroom commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

ParanoidShroom · 2 months ago

A reverse image search to detect dirty xtc pills. https://pillscanner.app/

ParanoidShroom commented on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy techcrunch.com/2024/12/19... · Posted by u/aquir

ParanoidShroom · 8 months ago

Can we see the interoperability requests that meta submitted? That would clarify if the shade is legit.

ParanoidShroom commented on The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number tedium.co/2024/04/27/mobi... · Posted by u/shortformblog

apienx · a year ago

SMS specifications include "Type 0" messages, also known as Silent SMS. These messages don't trigger any even on the phone when received, but they do send back an ACK that includes IMSI metadata. Silent SM, are literally defined in the RFC and primarily used to covertly track user locations without judicial oversight.

GSM, SS7, etc. are massive privacy holes _by design_.

ParanoidShroom · a year ago

They are primarily used for configuring your visual voicemail lol. Stop the hyperbolic statements.

ParanoidShroom commented on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/... · Posted by u/evah

ParanoidShroom · a year ago

I applied to open garden many years ago, solved their coding challenges but after back and forth it didn't go anywhere.

It seem Stas has since then started clostra.com The fireside chat messenger just rebranded. https://www.newnode.com/download.

I love a good conspiracy but shows little evidence.

ParanoidShroom commented on Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer bawolf.substack.com/p/emb... · Posted by u/bryantwolf

patrick-fitz · a year ago

Nice project! I find it can be hard to think of a idea that is well suited to use AI. Using embeddings for search is definitely a good option to start with.

ParanoidShroom · a year ago

I made a reverse image search when I learned about embeddings. It's pretty fun to work with images https://medium.com/@christophe.smet1/finding-dirty-xtc-with-...

ParanoidShroom commented on When America first dropped acid newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jseliger

Wonnk13 · 2 years ago

So I'm a stage 4 cancer patient and now there's a real fire under my ass to do a heroic dose. I talked to my therapist about it and he was like yea, here's this website where you can order some chocolate bars. My jaw hit the floor. I thought he was referencing the darkweb, but nope just a typical site in Canada I think.

I'm still incredibly new to it all and would love to grow my own at one point. I'd also love to know where ahem folks are sourcing their stuff.

ParanoidShroom · 2 years ago

Shroomery has all the information in the world or just youtube. Spore tend to be legal in many places, then buy sterilised kits and inject, its really easy. You can do it all yourself for a bit less money but then you'll see tricky grain infections can be.

>heroic dose. imho they arent worth it, im making assumption regarding the cancer but you might benefit more from an actual `ceremony`. Not to get spiritual but they are more guided, a guided ayahuasca ceremony might be less intense but I personally think would be a better fit.

Hope you'll be fine.

ParanoidShroom commented on I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race steele.blue/geofence-pizz... · Posted by u/nxten

siva7 · 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that was a money-laundering scheme disguised as some silicon valley-esque startup to not trigger alarm bells with institutions

ParanoidShroom · 2 years ago

I don't see how one would do that. Mind expanding? You won't turn out dividends and salary sounds highly taxed

ParanoidShroom commented on Ask HN: What are you using Vector Databases for? · Posted by u/edichief

ParanoidShroom · 2 years ago

A reverse image search where I look for similar images by transforming images to a dense vector set by a finetuned triplet loss model.