nickfromseattle

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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
Yes, then get a treadmill desk, so you can work while you walk. Walk 3 - 6 miles a day effortlessly and burn an additional 200 - 400 calories.
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
My understanding of the algorithm is that Google uses UX metrics to stack rank content. I believe this because I focus on creating the most relevant & most valuable page of content Google could show for the keywords I want to rank for,
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> But we missed one rather obscure method. Please share.
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
I blog about growth @ https://contentdistribution.com/free-guides Some of my more popular articles: - 0 to 1,500,000 organics/month for an A16z startup: https://contentdistribution.com/seo-case-study&#x
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> * Beware Stripe Atlas as a non-US citizen: owing a US company comes with very complicated legal obligations in all your future banking and tax dealings I'm looking at adding a co-founder who is a non-US citizen. Any more details h
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
The only way to lose is to quit. I am 36 and working on my 4th company over a period of 16 years. I've started even more projects that never materialized into companies. I worked for 4 years at a startup in-between failures. Besides wo
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods. There are surprisingly few mods for how much engagement the subreddits have. There has to be mods that are just as good as the current batch, but haven't had a chance to shine.
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
I tried two other prompts, here is the last one (4) - asking GPT to use the voice of the best writer I know. Prompt: Re-write this in the voice and style of the financial writer, Matt Levine Output: Ah, the oft-encountered comment that warr
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> Similarly, I see many people claim GPT-n is "dumb", yet when I see their prompt, I realize it was a bad prompt. I see this comment a lot, but I drew a different conclusion. People with high reading / writing ability assi
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
Full lifecycle integration of our technology into F500 companies to deliver cloud services to their end-customers. Think Rackspace, GoDaddy, Sprint, Comcast, AT&T and two dozen of their peers across the EU and APAC. The average sales cy
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
I met the CEO of a startup a local Hacker News meetup. I joined his company as employee #8 in a (non-technical) role I wasn't qualified for, in an industry I didn't know existed, leveraging a technology I knew nothing about. I did
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
The difference is scale. An artists studying and copying/integrating other people's art in their own style can get a job for $75,000/year. An LLM copying/integrating everyone's data and reselling can become the most
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
According to Linkedin 54% of Uber employees (48,000) are in operations roles.[0] I suppose some of these could be drivers, but I believe Uber's biggest department is operations, which is one of the reasons it's so expensive to ent
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
>Google could bang out a ride booking app in a weekend. Google's culture isn't really built around providing human support to users. I believe there is also lots of onboarding involved for restaurants so Google may struggle the
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
What I don't get is: #1 - All of his recent moves are being judged with an assumption of malicious intent. #2 - I assume Paul Graham and Michael Siebel are a good judge of character. #3 - Sam Altman claims (in his congressional hearin
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
A variation of this - a fake job offer, allowed scammers to steal $540 million dollars in crypto tokens. [0] I guess the scammer assumed as a contractor, you may have access to other customer systems they could exploit. The internet be craz
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> it's about the net benefit to society and we should be very careful what we wish for. Seems like we have a classic trolly problem. On one track, compensating copyright holders is required for LLMs, and it's going to be very e
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
Too early to tell, but it might have negative implications for the startup ecosystem. The HN discourse towards Google Search has been been very negative the last few years, and I never see HN users giving Google credit for: - It's ofte
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
> or marketing copy I don't think marketing copy deserves to be grouped with 'boilerplate' and 'canned responses'. It takes a lot of brain power to create marketing copy that isn't boilerplate / canne
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Thank you for the interesting discussion! > I never said that was okay either. LLMs should be open source and open data. > That is one reason why I abhor copyright, patents, and intellectual property in general. If it turns out that
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
Is an LLM that slurps up all data created ever, without compensating the creators of that data, and then charges for that access not the definition of "rent seeking"? Next question, does this share similarities with academic journ
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
I am receiving an increased amount of spam hitting my inbox (O365). It appears to be other mail servers that were hijacked sending me txt files. Sometimes 5+ per day.
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
Are you OK with the developers of LLMs capturing the most value of every incremental piece of content created by humans in perpetuity? The difference is scale. A human can use their learnings from copyrighted work to get a job making $80,00
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
LLMs have led to significant advancements in brain scanning. [0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1354ju1/scientists...
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
The stock market has been declining for a while. 4% is better than a 10 - 50% loss.
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> I’ve had friends travel here just to get treated. And a million+ Americans in border states travel to Mexico for routine procedures and prescriptions [0]. I imagine the numbers would be even higher if more Americans lived within travel
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by nickfromseattle 3y ago
If white collar workers are displaced, millions will re-train as blue collar and bring down wages there too.
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by nickfromseattle 4y ago
> UBI will pretty much be a requirement if AI lives up to the hype and doesn't hit a sudden wall in improvement again. I've always read about UBI in the context of a national system. Any speculation on how UBI works with an int
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> what's the harm in ingesting that? It means that large tech companies benefit the most from every incremental piece of content created by humans, in perpetuity.
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by nickfromseattle 4y ago
It's true. After the Theranos scandal broke I bought a hat on ebay. It sits on my desk as a conversation starter.

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