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This marks the new age of "AI Optimization" where companies will strive to get their business featured into answers in ChatGPT.

The OP's example is Unwanted demand, but it clearly shows that ChatGPT can funnel potential customers towards a product or service.

Maybe someone "fishing" to get comments approved so they can post comments in the future from the same alias and get auto approved?

There's a WordPress setting to auto approved comments from previously approved authors

did you compare options when choosing backblaze? the only other one i see recommended online is carbonite

great tip! my only concern is it's a deprecated product so it won't receive security updates

Yes, someone realized that marketing still works on everyone, and decided to put some legwork into promoting their chess bot.

I'm surprised it took so long too.

I would have expected to see AI versions of well known grandmasters and other notable figures to drive users to these chess sites.

is it so hard to believe that someone who spends 20 years in prison might have recognized their mistakes, and set out to do as much good as they can within their constraints?

Google is indirectly encouraging marketers to promote structured data / schema that specifically spells out these details.

In the near future I predict an AI like GPT 3 could interpret unstructured screenshots of websites to answer queries like "what hours are they open"

For folks in the comments who didn't bother to read the first 5 pages (the summary)

The judge interpreted the HAA as only applying to units that expand housing beyond single family homes.

The proposed project would be a 4000 square foot single family home in a neighborhood of roughly 1500-1600 square foot homes.

Either way I think the law is absurd here, but it's actually having the INTENDED affect.

Rather than building a luxurious single family home, the developer is encouraged to build a multi family home and actually expand the amount of housing available in the area.

This seems like a "win" if your goal is to increase housing supply.

sellers can cancel and refund transactions when buyers seem shady or unscrupulous.

The most common buyer scam I've seen is when they claim they need you to ship to an odd address that doesn't match up with billing info.

Ukraine had McDonald's since 1997 I don't think this has been a valid theory since at least 2014.

Will be interesting to see how a modern plant stacks up to the aging ones running in most of the world

Key point: if your platform allows people to post links that Google can see Spammers will inevitably try to take advantage of your website

Thanks! I'll take a look and see if I can fix it. I appreciate the notice.

Generally SEO (ranking on Google without ads)

I run several amazon affiliate websites like https://www.hayksaakian.com

Basically we find the top rated products and summarize why people might like them.

It's nothing too fancy, and I got into it mostly to see if I could do it without investing more than 1 day a week into it and outsourcing the rest.

I'm more focused on my main thing right now (marketing agency) so the side project's been pretty stagnant.

It's really not THAT difficult to make $500 per month if you invest your nights and weekends into making it happen.

advertisers pay more per impression when they can target better. Publishers show ads and get paid from advertisers. (simplified)

one of my first companies was a recruiting business so we found a freelancer to post job ads every week for our clients.

It was one of the first business books I read, and for the time it was published in it contained a lot of actionable advice.

I learned about the concept of hiring people on freelancing websites.

I learned about the power of delegation.

I'm sure in hindsight Tim didn't discover any of this stuff, but I don't think that's the point.

It was a great "101" book for someone without a clue about how business works.

I hope the engineer who works on search console sees this and implements it.

Google Search Console is just unusable for browsing large data sets due to this issue.

would be interesting to hear about the 'big unsolved problems' in fintech as of 2021.

AI's response on GitHub:

"@jorgebucaran sorry for PostCSS/Browserslist migration from colorette. I understand your feeling (but it was an only move in case of colorette 2.x API changes and following API breaking change in patch release).

If you want to send another PR and replace chalk to colorette, I am OK with it. Babel’s users will be happy in both scenarios, since all colorette and nanocolors are both much smaller than chalk.

rebranded it as nanocolors

It is not true. Nano Colors was influenced by colorette API and internal design and I mentioned it in top section of Nano Colors docs. However, it is not rebranding:

I mix ideas not only from colorette but also from kleur, another great color formatting library. colorette and nanocolors has very different results in benchmark showing difference in internal implementation. If you compare kleur, nanocolors, and colorette you will see many similarities (because it is open source, and they share ideas between each other), but also many differences: In color detection. Nano Colors uses process.argv to be compatible with Chalk. In color’s functions. Nano Colors do not generate RegExp on every call for performance reasons. It also doesn’t have init/raw separation. This is not in the true spirit of open source.

Forks and idea sharing are also an important part of open-source if they are coming with respect to authors of origin ideas and mentioning them.

You are mentioned not only in docs (colorette mentioning text in Nano Colors docs was even approved by you) but also in LICENSE.

Before colorette 2.x API changes, I promote your project to other projects because I tried to find chalk alternative. I sent you PRs. I used your library in all my projects for a year.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. We both used Chalk color detection algorithm as reference. We both using other source code to find the best optimizations.

If you do not like that your tools is also used as an inspiration (with mentioning you), feel free to replace this PR with PR of replacing chalk to colorette."

https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783#issuecomment-92710...

This definitely seems like more of a "for fun" project, but it's a fun challenge to think about a practical situation where this is the best solution.

Older versions of bootstrap work just fine too.

I've been using v3 and v4 in various projects without issue.

I don't feel like upgrading a CSS framework is as important as an NPM library, since I wouldn't expect security issues etc. to crop up here.

You could probably teach an AI to post-hoc rationalize their decisions, the same way people do.

Interesting because it shows that bounce-back is a more significant ranking factor than before.

It seems like they've manipulated rankings by locking people in to reduce their bounce-back stats (in addition to keyword-stuffed content)

The intrinsic problem is you have a finite amount attention and an increasing number of startups. I'm not sure how much aggregated threads actually solve that (not at all IMO).

I think you just let them go at it with Launch HN's and let the upvotes fall where they will.

Re: Writing Launch HNs -- My idea: set a lower character limit on what they're allowed to submit and you'll have less to edit. If there's more information that people want to know, create the expectation that they should just ask in the comments.

There's a book called "how to decide" by Annie Duke that has some good advice on how to inspire this type of thinking.

For example, one of the ideas is the "doctor evil" or "imposter" game.

(1) Imagine a positive goal.

(2) Imagine that Dr. Evil has control of your brain, causing you to make decisions that will guarantee failure.

(3) Any given instance of that type of decision must have a good enough rationale that it won’t be noticed by you or others examining that decision.

(4) Write down those decisions.

Someone elses notes from this book: https://wisdomfromexperts.com/why-you-must-use-negative-thin...

most people with complex tax situations pay a accountant $500-2000 per year to do their taxes and move on with their life.

docs.new creates a new google document

The same thing happens in Magic The Gathering.

There are cards from Alpha/Beta etc. that have an exact same number of printings as other cards worth 10-100x more

The value of short-print cards is to collectors who want the entire set of "Alpha" cards regardless of what the specific card might be.

In the same way, there are probably collectors who want to own the entire collection of NES games or Atari games who would highly value an obscure game with a short print-run.