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toombowoombo··on Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2025)?
<3
toombowoombo··on Can alignment be reduced to governance?
Thoughts pro or against? Are there better solutions out there?
toombowoombo··on Kind AI / You Decide
decide ...

what exactly? anyone knows?

toombowoombo··on A pro-Putin TikTok star topped Romania's presidential poll
short answer: yes, if the reasons for not liking them are good enough.

long answer: people choose based on multiple factors & those factors are not always relevant to the function of being a president.

she can stumble into good decisions / he won't & he's very set in his ways.

as in all elections in post-communistic romania, the vote needs to go to the lesser evil.

toombowoombo··on Trump wins presidency for second time
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toombowoombo··on HuggingFace Live Stream – share thoughts?
did a small check & things seem to be hyped
toombowoombo··on HuggingFace Live Stream – share thoughts?
hi, I'm curious about this streaming from hugging face, but I'm double booked for the next 2h & my brainpower is limited; need help.

If someone happens to participate and notices some insightful ideas, could you share them here?

toombowoombo··on Ask HN: What is the threshold for being a techie?
rude
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: How much time do you spend on Hacker News?
what do you do with the rest of your time?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Where do you spend most of life? Online vs. offline / with humans vs. AI
My case:

online vs offline: targetting 4h online per day: work + social

humans vs AI: rate of human chats >> rate of AI chats

I'm curious about how the rest of the world splits its time.

toombowoombo··on [dead]
Hi HN Community,

Today I've asked myself: what are the best communication methods/channels required to reach a maximal audience of people in a minimal amount of time?

As I come from a multilingual and multicultural background, I'm trying to research communication methods/channels/tools for bigger groups of people online.

Currently I'm trying HackerNews, Reddit and Instagram.

Planning to connect with github & others. Let me know if you know communities interested or of interest.

Thanks & bestest of bests!

toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Do messages change/dissappear in your conversations with ChatGPT too?
What are you using now?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Do messages change/dissappear in your conversations with ChatGPT too?
Either one. I first noticed in older conversations, but it happens also in current chats
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Do messages change/dissappear in your conversations with ChatGPT too?
Short summary of other pieces of info:

- images are quite likely to dissappear, especially if there were many consecutive prompts;

- sometimes full chats dissappear;

- sometimes my prompt is replaced with a different prompt and I get totally random content;

toombowoombo··on What's complexity and resilience all about?
these peeps say they research complexity and resilience. what does that mean? started with ML stuff around 3 years ago, recommendations?

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toombowoombo··on How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
Found it!

Moore's Law of Mad Science: "Every 18 months, the minimum IQ to destroy the world drops by one point." - said by Eliezer Yudkowsky at the At Singularity Summit 2007.

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEt1Wfl1jvo&t=1230s&ab_chann...

toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Who has unreasonable amount of resources and freedom for research?
thanks! I'm still learning how to use them.
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Who has unreasonable amount of resources and freedom for research?
US defense against what?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: How and how much do you sleep?
Ideas on why it changes?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: How and how much do you sleep?
Expand?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: How and how much do you sleep?
Why? Too busy or not falling asleep?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: How and how much do you sleep?
What time interval? And how regular is your sleep?
toombowoombo··on How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
Try pinching yourself randomly so that you can attract your mind to different spots in your body. I used to do that when I had headpain to distract me from it (I was a minor back when I learned that. In my country everyone is very careful with any substance given to minors)
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: ADHD Symptoms
Yep, yep. Got that too.

The funny part starts when you realise how little maintenance life needs, compared to the available time in a day. If you’re not there yet, prioritise getting there.

Next step is to let yourself try out increasing numbers of new things. It's not only about trying out new things, it's about increasing the speed at which you try new things. That helps with learning how to learn faster.

New experiences, foods, meeting new people, listening to new music, learning to play/sing new music, smelling new stuff, staying awake at different times of day, walking with different speeds, etc.

I basically use my easily distractable mind to experience and learn from most of my lived seconds.

I used to have many forgettable days and now less so. I make use of all easily available tools/systems that modern technology created for us.

One of the default options is to try medication ([1]). That's ok, but try to delay it until you're ready to understand the effects it has on your mind. I would recommend experiencing with different doses of sugar, cocoa, coffee, alcohol, canabioids, etc. I get a feeling that one needs acquire a taste for paying attention to one's mind. It's a learned ability/skill.

I tried concerta and I liked it (one of my friends has diagnosed adhd and I had access to a safe environment for it). Unfortunately it's quite tedious to get it diagnosed. Way too many delays and people to interact to. Fortunately I found good alternatives in the meantime.

Let me know if I can help with more :D

toombowoombo··on Show HN: Technology and Farming – study on user attitudes
Note: I'm working on setting up my own hosting & looking into options for popularizing my future science projects too. This might take a while, as life is too fast-paced at the moment.

In the meantime, after the free access ends, write me an email so I can share the article in private.

toombowoombo··on Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 25 basis points
What are basis points?
toombowoombo··on 30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Like
Which kinds of things make you happy during a typical day?
toombowoombo··on 30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Like
What's your worst fear?
toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Why is Quantum full of fancy-sounding words?
Disclaimer: what I mean by "the space of humanity's intuition" can be bigger than the sum of the separate intuitions of each person.

Still, I don't see why someone could not extend their intuition space to include any concept. Especially because the "intuition world" or "intuition space" doesn't really seem like the kind of think that follows real life laws of travelling through space (we could jump between understandings without going through all the intermediary points in-between)

toombowoombo··on Ask HN: Why is Quantum full of fancy-sounding words?
Doesn't human knowledge come from intuitions? How can we come up, as humanity, with something that's outside our combined intuition space?

I can see how different people can have different subspaces for their intuitions, therefore having access to some ideas that others don't.

This is one way in which I see math. Math can make lots of sense for the people that have these mathematical concepts inside their their intuition's space. And considering that intuition can be trained, I somehow expect to be able to understand the most complicated/complex of concepts, if they were to be mapped to my own understanding of those concepts.

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