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throwawaaaaay17on Show HN: Dreamtap – Make your AI more creative

Cool! I like the website theme picker

throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?

pgoat - lol

Kind of a miserable book to reread a lot. The author killed himself, the one person I know of who figured it all out also killed himself

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend

throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare?

Thank you!

throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare?

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throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare?

Thank you!

throwawaaaaay17on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model

They can absolutely do for it if they charge the public the cost of GPU time.

throwawaaaaay17on Apple Event March 8, 2022

Jesus christ can they just give us the price instead of these promo videos nobody wants

throwawaaaaay17on Moscow Exchange Indices – 24 February 2022

Russian aggression will likely end when the Russian populace gets fed up with their psycho leader. That is a lot less likely to happen if they get cut off from the Internet.

In fact, during the Cold War, the US policy was to try to connect the USSR to the world to force regime change - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

throwawaaaaay17on Things that used to be hard and are now easy

NLP with HuggingFace

throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?

YMMV, but this worked for me. Find an industry you want to work in. Find a small but quickly growing company in that industry. Email the CEO, try to make yourself look as relevant as you can to that company and ask to get coffee. Come prepared with a pitch of what you can do for them.

If you reach out to CEOs directly, you skip HR, so you skip profile screens. Reaching out to medium-large company CEOs doesn't work because they have assistants/are too busy.

throwawaaaaay17on How credit cards make money

Why not write on Substack? I'd love a comments section for your newsletter.

throwawaaaaay17on Hertz orders 100k Teslas

Tesla surges by over $100B on a $4B (revenue) deal, likely at very low margins. Memes galore.

throwawaaaaay17on If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

Substack is driving a blog renaissance. A ton of high-quality niche blogs popping up everywhere.

See, for example, https://antonhowes.substack.com/ (I'm not affiliated with the writer, though I am considering switching from free to paid)

throwawaaaaay17on Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul

Your regular reminder that the Taliban offered to surrender in 2001, but Rumsfeld refused.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-pla...

throwawaaaaay17on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

I am a big fan of IBKR, but if you want someone who will be there in the morning... Pick someone bigger. Fidelity, for example, is Too Big To Fail. They will get bailed out if something happens. Not 100% sure that Interactive brokers will be.

throwawaaaaay17on Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?

I am on Slack ready to answer questions for 14 hours a day.

I attend meetings/review PRs/toss ideas around on Slack for 4-5 hours.

Productive work - varies wildly. Some days, when I'm resting after an insane week it's 0 or close to it. Other days it's 8+ hours when it's mad crunch time. A regular day is about 3-4 hours of productive work. My employer is very happy with me, keeps promoting me/giving me raises. I've found that my contributions are generally less measured in LOCs, and more in finding business problems, designing technical solutions for them, and communicating them to non-technical stakeholders.