Almost anyone who has a semi-useful technical or trade skill and can manage communications, marketing, sales etc is liable to become extremely rich.
Almost anyone with no skills except they can talk to people and arrange/organize deals is liable to make someone else rich, and might be well-off if they can figure out how to get a slice of the pie.
Re: Smart TVs. An old laptop running a browser with an ad blocker and some fancy controller setup (perhaps a wireless multi-button mouse or a specialized remote control) can get you way more privacy (and the sanity of a mostly zero-ad experience, just the occasional in-video affiliate ad) and makes whatever you watch a lot smarter, since you are the one doing the searching/surfing rather than the advertiser-funded smart TV channels that are specifically smart at advertising to you for profit. You can hook up an HDMI cable to a bigger screen/projector if you're playing stuff for lots of people.
Regenerative farmers posting on hacker news gives me hope for humanity. Thanks.
Apparently anyone in US/Canada can just ask for a farm and practically get one at this point. Either via USDA / private loans or indie farmers giving you great lease-to-own terms because you don't look like a corporate billionaire. Urban rent is so darn expensive now that some of y'all can probably get rich just by farm squatting and having a good time.
(Seriously thinking about solo farming in real life now. Not that it would really be solo because of all the animals.)
Gulag Archipelago and various China / Vietnam / North Korea prison memoirs are really good to study also. This is stuff tens of millions of people went through.
Been mucking around with huge doses of B Vitamins (especially B3/Niacin) and 5-HTP (a serotonin precursor). Both of those are rather, uh, effectful. 500mg+ Niacin will turn you red unless you're actually deficient. And you do not want to mess with the 5-HTP and alcohol at the same time, plus 5-HTP can cause some nasty side effects in some people.
Seems like a nice way to have some weird dreams while probably improving my health (high dose B vitamins seem to do great things for mental disorder and the only apparent downside is colorful piss and possibly turning into a cherry).
For people who don't do vita-drugs, there's always tea, coffee, chocolate, and matcha.
I feel like I'm in a similar boat. Like 6 different mental disorders including constantly pulling my hair out.
I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on the order of over $1000/hour while sitting on a bench or walking on a trail. It can be done in short bursts once you get the hang of it.
Then once you have some financial freedom in a few hours of successful work (not the first few hours), you can sell other people designs for clubhouses and build them all over the world and pay people to show up to club meetings (because sadly that is the only way).
Modern workplaces are a lot like clubhouses because everyone is friends there, but they suck because you have to be there all day. If you could just show up to any workplace for a few hours here and there whenever you wanted, the world would be a better place. Some days you could be a dishwasher, other days you could be a bulldozer operator or dig in the mines. I like to try new jobs.
Endless mountain of todo lists on desk: Index cards. Put them in a box when there are too many and let the unreasonable goals expire. (Optional: Trade them with your friends after a year.)
Personal notes: A waterproof mini-notepad.
Personal notes I don't care about: Sticky notes.
Movie scripts, math problems, and complex functional diagrams: A full-size sheet of paper taken from the nearest printer.
PS: The domain www.particleacceleratorferrets.com is currently available as of my posting this.
I'm not necessarily saying we shouldn't domesticate raccoons, but we have to be really careful about what animals are allowed to pilot submarines. It's a serious issue!
And between this and some Whisper benchmarks on data center GPUs I worked out this formula approximation using the two most significant features:
stable_diffusions_per_minute ~= memory_clock_mhz x CUDA_cores / 424000
Of course it works out to RTX 4090, RTX 4080, RTX 3090 TI / 3090 beating everything else on speed by a pretty large margin. But not as much as the actual tests indicate. The main use of this test is that it indicates that most of the recent but older GPUs would have to sell for a pretty good bargain to justify buying them over the new stuff.
Yeah, you have to force the results into strict JSON, enforce it, and handle a lot of error cases, and be prepared to give up or reroll on failure. It basically takes a 2nd LLM pass to standardize the JSON keys of the initial result. But it's worth it to be able to turn messy stuff into structured data.