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Re:Show HN: Dreamtap – Make your AI more creative on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:01PM (#45388016)

Cool! I like the website theme picker

Ask HN: How do you sell out?

Posted by throwawaaaaay17 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've worked for startups my entire career, had some nice exits, but nothing life changing. Now looking to get a high-paying job in finance or big tech or something. I can do ML/AI/Anything with data/SWE. Any advice? Has anyone gone through the process?

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Re:Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your l... on Monday July 04, 2022 @03:06PM (#31980647)

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

Re:Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare? on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:18AM (#31530588)

Thank you!

Re:Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare? on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:03AM (#31530440)

Thank you!

Re:Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare? on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:03AM (#31530438)

Thank you!

Ask HN: How can you buy high quality healthcare?

Posted by throwawaaaaay17 on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been dealing with a serious health issue that is a major problem in my life, I am in constant pain, I can barely work. My experience with the US healthcare system has been abysmal - I go to a doctor, the doctor sends me to get tests, it's 3 weeks, after that another 3 weeks to see a specialist, 3 weeks more for more tests, etc, etc. I've been ping-ponged around for 4 months with little...

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Re:Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:06PM (#31486846)

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

Re:Apple Event March 8, 2022 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:53PM (#30604296)

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

Re:Moscow Exchange Indices – 24 February 2022 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:09PM (#30463315)

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...

Re:Things that used to be hard and are now easy on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:22PM (#30407301)

NLP with HuggingFace

Re:Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications? on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:10AM (#29307095)

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.

Re:How credit cards make money on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:56PM (#29123364)

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

Re:Hertz orders 100k Teslas on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:10AM (#28996640)

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

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (... on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:37AM (#28592654)

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)

Re:Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:43AM (#28189667)

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...

Re:Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:41AM (#25955333)

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.

Re:Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work? on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:55PM (#25425657)

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.