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Re:Ask HN: Where do you think retail investing is heading? on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:01AM (#26086341)
What information do retail investors have access to now that they didn't say 3 years ago?

Ask HN: How would I build something similar to Google Duplex?

Google Duplex makes calls for you, but with a natural-sounding human voice instead of a robotic one. It seems the target was originally restaurant reservations (i.e. controlled environment).I want to make something similar but for my own use case (daily accountability calls for my clients). What APIs would you recommend I check out to do this (from controlled NLP to voice synthesis)?

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Have you used this service? What are your thoughts on more consistent chat rather than email
Good question! Right now you can't choose your own coach and all coaches have experience in helping others be their best self/accountable (primarily have worked with employees in high tech industry)
Never seen before, very cool! Yeah similar but we do think calling & real time has made an insane difference vs async
Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:41AM (#24184936)
I used to do this too. Then I realized this only works if you actually sleep 7.5 hours and it takes average human 14 minutes to fall asleep. I.e. I’d set an alarm 7:30 from when I go to bed but then still felt tired - doing 8 hours felt better with 7hrs45ish the sweet spot. Hence I can see why people just recommend 8 because normal people don’t try to optimize to the minute and better to slightly over estimate rather than definitely underestimate
Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:35AM (#24184902)
So if I’m understanding correctly, do you end up doing a full 24 hour rotation every 8 days? Very interesting - how do you plan your week?
Hi HN! My friends and I are constantly sharing our stock portfolios, returns, and trades. Similar to Open Startups sharing revenue, we thought we would create a place where you can safely view verified returns from both strangers and more traditional famous investors. You can also follow investors you like to get regular updates from them.

Right now we verify manually through screenshots and email, but will be adding in a Robinhood integration to make it more seamless and continuous.

We built this using Airtable and Pory.io as a wrapper, and WhaleWisdom for data on more traditional investors #noCodeRules

Ask HN: How do you deal with tech industry anxiety/FOMO?

Being in early stage tech in my 20s is making me anxious. Everywhere I look people "seem" to be killing it - or at least selling that what they're doing is the greatest thing ever or the most right thing for them. Lots of hype building, VC marketing, thought leadership, etc. But also legitimate fundraising milestones, amazing product launches, great hustle.I "intellectually" understand I...

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Re:GPT3, Centaur Chess, and Human Exceptionalism on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:07PM (#23961135)
"Just like we sometimes buy pottery b/c it is handmade, will we will one day prefer writing that is also “human made”?"

I wonder what the role of cryptography will be to manage authenticity moving forward. Or if the prompts and seeded data become the "true creative art form"

GPT3 may be showing how "shallow" our human writing is, but I do think the real value of writing is to get someone else to do something (ex. writing a company memo to rally and encourage going after an opportunity). It doesn't seem far to when a human just provides intent and the AI may generate writing to best convince people to follow it. The real scary (or at least paradigm shifting) part will be, as you mentioned, when intent is no longer ours

1) If I was just trying to make money - some market manipulation experiment (most likely just Elon Musk since TSLA would be easier to hide activity)

2) Donation matching similar to this hack, but posting a collection of nonprofits around the world

3) Wanted to create chaos - some anti-China, anti-Trump, or anti-cancel culture tweet by popular figures

4) A message of unity - "Stand with humanity" or something with everyone simultaneously posting.

Hello HN!

I was working on a project that required me to scrape/integrate with several different job boards and freelance gig sites. After a couple of additional conversations, I realized this was something that a lot of places have to do (ex. personal projects, bootcamps, labor marketplaces, job boards, staffing agencies) and so spun it out as its own service with the first few customers and wanted to share with HN in case you were interested in this as well. Right now we're integrated with several sites (ex. Craigslist, Indeed, Upwork, etc.) and are adding more integrations every day :)

Would love to get you set up if interested!

Can you be happy and truly ambitious?

One definition of happiness is being at peace with oneself no matter the situation. But a lot of people who make a large difference in the world/lives of others were deeply unsatisfied/egotistical hence why they even pursued the change they did.How do you reconcile the two, or are there examples in business one can point to that have?

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