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nnq commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) · Posted by u/david927

nnq · 4 months ago

DragoChat - https://www.facebook.com/ai.drago.chat <~~^(o_o)^

TINY attempt to fight the growing divide between "AI haves" and "AI have-not" with

- PREPAID access (+ bring-your-own-API-keys alternatives for more technical users) to premium models (ChatGPR plus and above)

- multi-channel access (SMS/MMS, Whatsapp + many many more) to give ANYONE, ANYWHERE, regardless of how non-technical they are access to absolute TOP/SOTA model advisors with easy access in their language + fact checkers + more (think african farmers looking for intelligence to grow best crops, former delinquents lookeing for rehavilitation, absolutely anyone deservers ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE)

- zero lock-in - paid (freemium, but no adds) product, but 100% open data formats, sharing, import/export etc.

STAGE: prototype for personal use as a whatsapp bot+ webui, somewhat usable for us but still wip, next stage is building accounts and payments for EU access, next for US/international

nnq commented on Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video] backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/lisper

nnq · a year ago

At least Penrose himself has an excuse for this: he's actually intellectually honest and came to this from a mathematics first purely theoretical perspective - he might have been deluded by others' trashy science, but he didn't go on to delude others.

It's funny that while it's great to also keep this perspective open as an interesting theoretical avenue, and Penrose is worth appreciating as a very original thinker... all the "evidence" for quantum consciousness theories is probably pure junk sci =)

nnq commented on Llama3 running locally on iPhone 15 Pro imgur.com/a/FRiBYSE... · Posted by u/yaszko

ben_w · a year ago

Last time I cared how much RAM any phone had, iOS or Android, I was working at Augmentra on the ViewRanger app, and we were still supporting older devices with only 256 MB.

That was… *checks CV*… I left in April 2015.

I think RAM is like roads: usage expands to fill available infrastructure/storage.

That an iPhone today has as much RAM as the still-functioning Mid-2013 MacBook Air sitting in a drawer behind me is surprising when compared to the 250-fold growth from my Commodore 64 to my (default) Performa 5200… but it doesn't seem to have actually harmed anything I care about.

nnq · a year ago

I was basically always slowed down by RAM on Android - prob bc I switch between lots of very badly coded apps... so even on desktop I've grown to see RAM as "insurance against badly written code" as in "I'll still be able to run that memory leaky crapware and get what I need done" or in "I'll just spin up a VM for that crap that only runs on that other OS"...

Swimming in badly written SPAs and cordova/whatever hybrid apps is seriously helped by eg 12GB of RAM on a mobile :)

nnq commented on Llama3 running locally on iPhone 15 Pro imgur.com/a/FRiBYSE... · Posted by u/yaszko

cqqxo4zV46cp · a year ago

8GB for a premium device in 2024 is a hard ask, completely agree. But I hold absolutely zero hard feelings toward Apple for not catering to gamers as a demographic

Most importantly, though, we are talking about iPhones here. I can’t say I’ve ever thought to myself “gosh, I wish my phone had more RAM!” in…over a decade?

nnq · a year ago

...so, you haven't used Android in over a decade?

nnq commented on John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence dallasinnovates.com/exclu... · Posted by u/cmdr2

poulpy123 · 3 years ago

As soon as we reach real AI, even at the level of a 5 years old, it is game over. So education or not education people will become completely useless to the rich that will own the AI

nnq · 3 years ago

you can also translate "being useless" as "they having no reason to manipulate me into slaving as a cog in their machine/society/whatever"... I'd say uselessness should be our highest aspiration, when people higher up have no need to constantly brainwash you and social condition you into being just another cog in the machine you get true freedom.

nnq commented on C++ Neural Network in a Weekend (2020) jeremyong.com/cpp/machine... · Posted by u/cpp_frog

nnq · 3 years ago

this is cool, but try C (modern, C99) instead: all I see in this C++ version is obsfucation and confusingly named things...

(sure, for an "industrial strength" version C++'s features are worth the cost, but for learning/education I never saw the appeal of classes and objects and smart pointers and stuff)

nnq commented on I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding statistical evidence (2014) statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/acqbu

nnq · 3 years ago

"Eugenics" is a wide term. What part of it are you against strongly enough to completely condemn anyone involved with the idea?

At the most basic romantic selection level we're all doing it after all... it's how evolution works.

nnq commented on It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot jolexxa.medium.com/its-ti... · Posted by u/proxybop

dmitriid · 3 years ago

Full quote doesn't make it better in the least

nnq · 3 years ago

At least appreciate his honesty - it's way better for everyone to be so blunt about it.

nnq commented on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics gpdp.it/web/guest/home/do... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

progman32 · 3 years ago

I believe your argument simply boils down to "laws shouldn't apply to people". Am I mistaken?

nnq · 3 years ago

Besides the missed irony, I mean that we need to have and we'll inevitably have a separate internet layer / set of protocols / etc. where information will be freely broadcastable and exchangeable without enforcement of any laws. We de-facto have it now too, but it's practically geek-only hence no real "broadcast" to masses of people function can be achieved.

And that once such tech becomes usable by a large percent of the general population (by eg. allowing "unsecure" websites to "do anything") and we make the mistake to add a truly functional and anonymous money transfer technology to this layer of information tech, we're royally screwed as a species.

I obviously don't want a lawless and free for all regular/default internet because on the regular internet we exchange real money and we have real identities. I'm perfectly OK with having lawless layer of information exchange and broadcasting (it's just a natural generalization and globalization of "free speech" and I think it's crucial for humanity) and even working to making them usable by the general population, as long as we don't allow any serious kind of money transfer and commerce to happen through them. Eg. A psycho posting a killing video once a decade is no biggie and would happen anyway, let's at least enjoy it / groups of psycho creating a market and industry for their "products", not ok. Two random guys planning to meet to exchange some guns for some money is no biggie and already happens anyway; trading weapons on scales to supply real wars not ok. Etc.

De-facto "having sites op-out of anti-fraud legislation" or of "human rights" protections is already happening, and is less obvious because of the centralized nature of our current internet. A less centralized internet will just allow it to happen in the open in theory. Only it won't because since they're already doing other more serious illegal stuff and don't want to draw attention.

PP's "Bizarre idea. Should websites be allowed" thinking was just funny and ridiculous at the same time: there's nothing bizzare, thing are already happening (naturally) like this, and ofc it's happening discretely (eg. having telegram or other messaging app groups instead of http websites but performing similar functions etc etc) and in the silence bc ppl doing them do even more illegal stuff and nobody wants attention from authority or ppl concerned with morality ...and I couldn't help make fun of it a bit. It's the kind of guys that argue against free speech and yell the "but think of the kids" argument at us all the time, and it's tiresome to have to trick them all the time since reasoning with them doesn't work...

So suggesting that maybe we should bring what's already happening anyway in the open, base it on more open standards technology, have it be indexable by search engines etc. :P I'd rather have a legal:any flag that I can add to a google search when I want to go off the beaten track then to have to switch the program/protocol I'm using (and the browser should make sure as hell I don't leak my identity and don't pay for anything on such unsafe sites), and that's the crux of it, the browser would know that a site is unsafe and needs total sandboxing simply because the site owner has decide to "opt out of the laws" - you realize that longer term when s settles down it's a win win situation for everyone if you just twist your mind out of the default narrative the current tech-corporate establishment is brainwashing you with...

(Or the "let's make a decentralized and truly free internet layer" into a real and usable thing... or the crypto-crimies will beat us to it and do a version that also has payments, generates obvious disasters/wars etc., and then is taken over by big gov and turned to a totalitarian nightmare with social credit tracking extra features" argument.)

nnq commented on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics gpdp.it/web/guest/home/do... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

closewith · 3 years ago

Bizarre idea. Should websites be allowed to opt out of anti-fraud legislation? Anti-money laundering? Human rights protections?

nnq · 3 years ago

Yes? ...this was the original dream of non-national cyberspace and we almost had a hope at getting it. Then the second chance with web3 but this was also spoiled by people getting too greedy and too nasty too fast.

A parallel anonymous-and-free-for-all-but-with-payments-included, smth. like Tor-but-powered-by-IPFSv9-and-Etherv7, will probably emerge in a couple decades done right after a couple failed iterations. Some techs need hardware to catch up to be cheap enough, and only after a few failed attempts they manage to grow a trend... and it will probably will last until it's used to finance a proper starting of WW3 and by then banning it will be too late.

Anyway, we'll enjoy the hell out of ourselves on the new patreons-but-for-snuff-p03n, so it will all have been worth it :)