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6 Reasons You Can’t Make Money Online Despite Your Hard Work

Content Strategy, Development, & Marketing Insights • 78 implied HN points • 06 Mar 23
💼 Business Online business Entrepreneurship Digital marketing Product Development
  1. Online business is not a get-rich-quick scheme; it requires hard work and commitment.
  2. Ensure your products or services add value to solve problems and make lives easier for clients.
  3. Build a mailing list, engage with clients, and collaborate with others to grow your online business effectively.

Infrastructure and Business Logic in Serverless: Exploring the Relationship

The Serverless Mindset • 78 implied HN points • 14 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Architecture Infrastructure Serverless Development
  1. Finding the right balance between infrastructure and business logic in serverless architecture is crucial.
  2. Serverless offers a sweet spot between simplicity and control, allowing for understanding and informed decision-making by developers.
  3. The relationship between infrastructure and business logic in serverless architectures is complex, and finding the right balance is key to creating scalable and resilient systems.

garden3d 2022 Sustainability Report

computers suck • 78 implied HN points • 05 Oct 23
💼 Business Carbon Footprint Goals Sustainability Consultancy
  1. The 2022 Sustainability Report from Garden3D highlighted efforts such as reducing studio size and purchasing carbon offset credits.
  2. The report detailed the breakdown of carbon emissions, with Scope 3 emissions making up the majority, especially from travel activities.
  3. Future goals for Garden3D include reducing unnecessary cloud computing usage, growing Seaborne consultancy, and continuing to engage in meaningful sustainability initiatives.

Taking Responsibility Without Sliding Into Shame

Suzan's Fieldnotes • 78 implied HN points • 06 Jun 23
💼 Business Mistakes Podcasts Acquisitions Responsibility Leadership
  1. Making mistakes is normal and can strain relationships, but how we address them matters most.
  2. Shame is harmful and can hinder the process of repairing relationships and rebuilding trust.
  3. Leaders should take responsibility for their actions without succumbing to shame, fostering vulnerability and strengthening connections.

Announcing the Fastest Pitch Form in Venture Capital

Ubiquitous Thoughts • 78 implied HN points • 28 Mar 23
💼 Business Technology Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneurship Investment
  1. Ubiquity Ventures offers the fastest pitch form in venture capital, responding to requests within 72 hours.
  2. The firm's focus on seed-stage startups moving software into the real world allows for specialized attention and quick decision-making.
  3. Ubiquity Ventures acts with agency, with the founder as the sole decision-maker, ensuring direct communication and avoiding delays.
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Art: Investing vs Collecting

tsalikhov • 78 implied HN points • 09 Jun 23
💰 Finance Investing Art Returns Market Collecting
  1. Investing in traditional fine art is challenging due to market complexities and transaction limitations.
  2. Art indices provide an incomplete picture of the art market, with limited representativeness and investability.
  3. Digital art on the blockchain offers potential as a more accessible and diverse asset class with compelling risk-reward ratios.

Tony Stark vs. the World

Everything's Broken • 78 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Blogging Online Communities
  1. Elon Musk has been making controversial decisions on Twitter that have impacted the platform and its users.
  2. Musk's actions have shifted the focus of Twitter towards his personal preferences and away from its original purpose.
  3. Twitter under Musk's leadership is becoming more personalized around him, raising concerns about the direction of the platform.

Dashing Data Viz - Issue 230

Dashing Data Viz • 78 implied HN points • 21 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Data Visualization
  1. The newsletter covers curated news, articles, and jobs related to Data Visualization.
  2. There are interesting articles on topics like 3D maps, graph data visualization with Neo4j Bloom, and visualizing Wordle solutions.
  3. The newsletter shares job opportunities for software engineers passionate about data viz and also includes a video tutorial on making Eurostat maps with R.

Generating Insights from Research with AI

Addition • 78 implied HN points • 28 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Machine Learning AI Data science Research Insights
  1. AI can synthesize vast amounts of information to generate insights faster than humans.
  2. AI can complement human strategists, giving them superpowers to transform the art of strategy.
  3. The tool shared in the post helps improve human strategists' AI superpowers by synthesizing research, generating insights, and providing creative interpretations.

Technical Difficulties

The Lund Loop • 78 implied HN points • 04 Mar 23
💼 Business Technology
  1. The newsletter will be delayed this week due to technical difficulties.
  2. The subscriber will receive the complete newsletter before midnight Pacific time on Saturday.
  3. Encouragement to become a paid subscriber.

#6: Times Are Changing + A Transatlantic Approach to AI + Governing Superintelligence, and more

Navigating AI Risks • 78 implied HN points • 06 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Policy Regulation AI Government Ethics
  1. AI existential risks are gaining significant attention from top AI scientists, policymakers, and CEOs of advanced AI labs.
  2. The White House updated the National R&D Strategy for AI with a focus on international collaboration and AI system safety and security.
  3. Transatlantic discussions between the EU and US aim to coordinate AI policies, but differences in regulatory approaches exist.

Daily bit(e) of C++ | [[nodiscard]] attribute

Daily bit(e) of C++ • 78 implied HN points • 24 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Programming
  1. C++17 introduced the [[nodiscard]] attribute to trigger a compiler warning when a function call result is discarded.
  2. Use the [[nodiscard]] attribute for expensive functions and query functions that may be confused with action counterparts.
  3. The Compiler Explorer tool can be used to explore code examples related to the [[nodiscard]] attribute.

A Modern Look at an Old Banking Risk

The Sunday Morning Post • 78 implied HN points • 09 Jul 23
💰 Finance Regulation Stability Risk management Social media Banking
  1. Bank runs can still happen today, triggered by various factors like social media rumors and liquidity issues
  2. The FDIC, established in 1933, guarantees a certain amount of depositors' funds to prevent bank runs and provide stability to the banking system
  3. Modern banking faces new challenges like swift fund transfers, online activism affecting stock prices, and the need for regulators to adapt to the changing landscape

The Credit Card Debt Bomb is Ticking

The Sunday Morning Post • 78 implied HN points • 17 Sep 23
💰 Finance Interest Rates Economy Household Debt
  1. Total credit card debt in the US surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in history, with high interest rates reaching an average of 20.68% in May 2023.
  2. Credit card delinquencies hit an 11-year high in the second quarter of 2023, with 2.77% of all credit card payments being missed.
  3. Delinquency rates for home mortgages and commercial loans are remarkably low, contrasting sharply with the concerning trend of rising credit card debt and delinquencies.

XGen, a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length from SalesForce

MLOps Newsletter • 78 implied HN points • 05 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Models Climate AI/ML Weather Libraries
  1. ClimaX is a deep learning model designed for weather and climate tasks like forecasting temperature and predicting extreme weather events.
  2. XGen is a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length, achieving state-of-the-art results in tasks like MMLU, QA, and HumanEval.
  3. GPT-4 API from OpenAI provides easy access to a powerful language model capable of generating text, translating languages, and answering questions.