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mahathu··on A college student reached $64k/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover
Fair enough, you're right, it's his life, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't call out predatory behaviour when we see it, even when the person themselves doesn't see any wrongdoing. One simple change would be to not give 40+ hours of their labour to companies like Meta and google, who operate solely for the profit of their shareholders, just because they have cool massage chairs and free food.

I'm sure for someone at his level of technical ability there are plenty companies that would offer him an internship that also don't actively make the world worse for many people, like facebook does. Or he could work to unionise and give more leverage to the workers at such companies, and then use that power to fight against some of facebooks more predatory business practices. Facebook, the company is nothing without it's developers, but the working class would not be nothing without facebook.

mahathu··on A college student reached $64k/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover
Thinking that acquiring n dollarydoos is a worthwhile goal to pursue with your time (and dedication and technical abilities which the student clearly has). I understand my comment was a bit radical and mean and I edited it, but that line just made me want to puke.
mahathu··on A college student reached $64k/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover
>"It made it very clear that my goal of making $10k a month from a side project is not a crazy goal to have."

Honestly that entire interview just reveals how much of that poor guys thinking is already infected by the virus called capitalism. Accumulating personal wealth shouldn't be the end goal here. It's short-sighted and perpetuates the very system that created inequality and injustice in the first place.

Instead of focusing on personal gain, why not channel that energy into organizing and fighting for a more equitable and just system? Learn about alternatives to capitalism and push for systemic change that benefits everyone, not just a select few who manage to "take advantage of opportunities."

Capitalism thrives on people thinking they can get rich quick, while most end up struggling and the rich get richer. By pursuing this goal, you're just playing into that system. Focus on the greater good and work towards a future where everyone has a fair shot, not just the ones who keep up with AI or whatever the next tech trend will be for the growth imperative to exploit.

mahathu··on Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay
How do the Yakuza keep peace at night?
mahathu··on People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living
No shit..
mahathu··on Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59
How do you personally know hundreds of people well enough to know about which football team they're supporters of?
mahathu··on Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59
>I'm not understanding what you are trying to say here. Do we not all respond to hostile rhetoric in unique ways? When you say that someone "does not respond", surely you mean something else?

"to respond" in the clinical world and what she or he is referring to here means having a positive reaction to treatment: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

mahathu··on Apple’s new headset meets reality
You can get way higher audio quality at half the price with the Truthear Hexas. There are a ton of good wired IEMd that are cheaper than Airpod Pros and knock them out of the park
mahathu··on ChatGPT app for iOS
What's BradGPT?
mahathu··on Using Bun.js as a Bundler
From OP:

A second issue with the default minification is that it broke my app in strange ways that I could not track down – I’m guessing that it’s rewriting the code in some way that is not fully stable yet. I solved it by turning off the syntax minification option

Rest sounds nice:)

mahathu··on Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
It's chat-gpt generated. It's even leaked part of the prompt in the intro.

I especially disagree with:

> natural language processing (NLP), which is the field of AI that deals with understanding and generating human language.

mahathu··on OpenAI CEO says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake–and ‘it’s over’
> and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.

Remote first clearly can work well in some cases (like open source projects) but maybe some people just don't enjoy working remotely and never meeting their fellow colleagues and technology wouldn't change that.

mahathu··on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
How about using a tree-like structure to track who invited whom to the platform. Offer a generous yet limited number of invites to users, potentially adjusting this amount based on their positive interactions within the network. Permanently ban accounts that violate the rules, and if the new accounts a user invites keep getting banned (automatically) investigate whether that user is using multiple accounts, which would also be against the rules.

I'm sure deciding where to draw the line and clearly defining rules, and then enforcing them is a complex task (same as in public policy or international relations) inherent to any social network, and it is unlikely that an optimal solution exists considering the difference of opinions. However, could this type of rule help mitigate the issues mentioned?

mahathu··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
The airport is located in Schönefeld, a municipality in Brandenburg, just outside of Berlin, which is also a state.

S-Bahn ring, usually called ring for short, refers to a prominent circular route around the city center of Berlin.

mahathu··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
So they should just shrug and do nothing then? Spalter
mahathu··on AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
What about China and Russia?
mahathu··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
How are you supposed to know where you click without a screen?
mahathu··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
I'm also wondering this. I tried connecting a USB keyboard and a TV via HDMI but couldn't get the phone to unlock let alone the screen to show up on the TV.
mahathu··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
OP mentioned they lived on a station, not doing a cruise!
mahathu··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
I recently tried this with my old Huawei phone which had a broken screen but also a bunch of photos I would've wanted to save locally. It wouldn't even show up on `adb devices` let alone the programs that relied on adb IIUC. I even tried tapping the sequence for my code on the broken screen, as well as trying to turn on voice control to manually unlock the phone, but that didn't work either. I would be happy to give it another try though.
mahathu··on A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral
> Their stories are of music label hit factories

People who listen to this genre still care about them (the stories).

mahathu··on Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
No, it's the difference between normative and descriptive categorizations.
mahathu··on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
>how long before AI friends are more interesting and stimulating than any real person would be

why would this ever happen?

mahathu··on So I only ate potatoes for 2 weeks
Serious question because I am also interested in this, what about micronutrients in fruits/vegetables, fish etc.?
mahathu··on Anki-fy your life
I'm sure taking 10 minutes out of their day to reflect and write a diary entry would increase most peoples wellbeing a lot more than trying to neurotically remember everything you come across.
mahathu··on GPT-4
Yeah, here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...

mahathu··on Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted charges
Didn't they use to let users download mp3s when they bought an album? Did that change?
mahathu··on GPT-4
The assumption is that Monte will only reveal the one of the two unopened doors that has the goat behind it, as opposed to picking a door at random (which may be the car or may be the door the participant chose, which itself may or may not be the "car door").

The distinction is at which point Monte, assuming he has perfect knowledge, decides which door to reveal.

In the former, the chance to win is 2/3, in the other 1/2. However in any case, always (always meaning: in each condition, not in each repetition of the experiment, as this is irrelevant) switching is better than never switching, as there your chance to win is only 1/3.

mahathu··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
Low-background steel is actually pre-nuke tests. That's what they scavenge sunken ships a lot for.
mahathu··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
This would make a nice coming of age story but then the taping in question would have to occur some time during the character's childhood.
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