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SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote

SEO MANAGER - SCALE A BLOG FROM 2 TO $10M ARR

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Hey, I’m JB, Cofounder of Evaboot: https://evaboot.com

I've grown the Evaboot blog on my own up to +$2M ARR.

I am looking for someone skilled at SEO and prospecting to take over and do way more.

Requirements:

→ You have launched LinkedIn and email prospecting campaigns that generated meetings or signups.

→ You have written long form B2B SEO contents that ranked top 3 on Google on competitive keywords.

→ You have managed an entire website (content, internal linking, backlinks, page speed).

More on the offer on how to apply on this link:

https://www.notion.so/Build-a-5M-blog-alone-c412abd0d27d452a...
Well... it's because HN community is only driven by VC money and disruptors and have absolutely no morals - just to abuse whatever the heck is possible to abuse so any notion of trying to regulate the "wild wild west" is to them like a total abuse... it's cute and amusing :)
Lol, Europe is the home and crown palace of tax evasion, look to the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Jersey...
No, it's just a far more useful definition that is actionable and measurable. Not "consciousness" or "self-awareness" or similar philosophical things. The definition on Wikipedia doesn't talk about that either. People working on this by and large don't want to deal with vague, ill-defined concepts that just make people argue around in circles. It's not an Open AI exclusive thing.

If it acts like one, whether you call a machine conscious or not is pure semantics. Not like potential consequences are any less real.

>LLMs already outperform humans in a huge variety of tasks.

Yes, LLMs are General Intelligences and if that is your only requirement for AGI, they certainly already are[0]. But the definition above hinges on long-horizon planning and competence levels that todays models have generally not yet reached.

>ML in general outperform humans in a large variety of tasks.

This is what the G in AGI is for. Alphafold doesn't do anything but predict proteins. Stockfish doesn't do anything but play chess.

>Are all of them AGI? Doubtful.

Well no, because they're missing the G.

[0] https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...
Or use a 35,000 Lumen corn light (one I use https://a.co/d/idyzuiW ). Stopped a family from falling into depression regularly throughout the year. They are fanatical about getting the light because they don't want to go back.
My point is that if you build internal products usually there’s a lot less convincing to do, and it’s much easier to get a lot of control ( no marketing, communication, etc ).

Now, if you want to ship a product to millions of people _and_ have full control over it, then a large org is indeed not the right place.
This is doubling down on “may have once been based in truth, and from time to time again approximates it.”

Analogy: phantom pain is pain in a limb that was once there but now isn’t. The limb was real. It probably felt pain. But when a patient imagines pain after the limb is gone, that’s the diagnosis.

Those comments are real. The people, probably, too. Responding to them when they aren’t in the room is a separate matter.
If you can find a copy of the game Koalition ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303/koalition ) it has some of the fun of European politics in it.

> 60 politicians of all colors stand for election in the 15 countries of the European Union: unimaginable benefits and positions of influence await their power brokers, for it is these Machiavellian lobbyists and self-appointed “leaders“ who hold the real power in the palms of their hands.

And from the rules:

> The player with the most total votes played in a given party is the party representative. If a player has two cards in the same party, their value is added. If two or more players have the same vote total in a party, the one with the highest single card is the party representative. Remember that a doubler card, if played, will always be considered the highest card. Also, note that it is possible for one player to control two parties.

> If Gaudino is played in a party in competition with another politician valued 7 in that party, he is considered to be the higher card.

> The green-leaf party is a special case. If two players tie for total value in green cards, it is possible that they will still tie for highest single card value. In that case, the two players are given thirty seconds to agree on who will be the green representative. If they do not agree in that time, each player with green cards may negotiate separately.
> Just because I included an rvalue constructor doesn't make it C++11.

Actually, it does. I mean, does it compile when you pass -std=c++98?

> This library was originally written in C.

Doesn't matter. If it uses C++11 features, it's C++11.

> I feel perfectly comfortable calling C++11 "classic" or even "baroque" compared to what people are doing with C++ in 2024.

Irrelevant. You can go the Humpty Dumpty way as far as you want to go and call anything any way. It doesn't matter. If you use C++11 features, it's C++11. If it's C++11 then you're discussing modern C++. You don't need to use all bells and whistles to quality.
You honestly think you can do it without Electron?
Being radicalized is damage. Some of those people radicalized will go on to perform mass shootings, literally. I would wager heavily that the risk of someone being a mass shooter amongst Jone's audience is much higher versus the average population.
>If you want to deliberately hire Americans who interview worse than non Americans, you're breaking the law

This is an absurd claim.
It all just sounds to me like we're back at expert systems. Doesn't bode well...
> that does not mean that there arn't giant shocking leaps forward coming from slightly different directions.

Nor does it mean that there are! We've gotten into this habit of assuming that we're owed giant shocking leaps forward every year or so, and this wave of AI startups raised money accordingly, but that's never how any innovation has worked. We've always followed the same pattern: there's a breakthrough which causes a major shift in what's possible, followed by a few years of rapid growth as engineers pick up where the scientists left off, followed by a plateau while we all get used to the new normal.

We ought to be expecting a plateau, but Sam Altman and company have done their work well and have convinced many of us that this time it's different. This time it's the singularity, and we're going to see exponential growth from here on out. People want to believe it, so they do, and Altman is milking that belief for all it's worth.

But make no mistake: Altman has been telegraphing that he's eyeing the exit, and you don't eye the exit when you own a company that's set to continue exponentially increasing in value.
It is not just the code produced with code generation tools but also business logic using gen AI.

For example a RAG pipeline. People are rushing things to market that are not built to last. The likes of LangChain etc. offer little software engineering polishing. I wish there were a more mature enterprise framework. Spring AI is still in the making and Go is lagging behind.
I'm a native english speaker, and prompt is pronounced "promt" ( /prɒmt/ in my roughly General American accent). Ie, there is a silent "p", but it's the second one, not the first.
> Why else would we give work authorization to a person, but then restrict them to a single employer such as with H1-B?

H1B visas are not restricted to a single employer. The catch is that the new employer is required to demonstrate the new role is valid for H1B work.

This is a control to make sure that H1-B visa holders are not underpaid or doing abusing the system.

It is a genuinely tough problem. You could decouple the H1B visa from the employer position, but then you have people entering for one type of work at market rate, and doing any type of work and undercutting salaries.

The whole employer requirement is an attempt to protect native workers. Letting H1B workers enter decoupled from a job and salary requirement would be much better for employers. They could pay them minimum wage and hire them into any role they want.

Im curious to hear ideas for how it could be structured that is better. Im sure there are options. Maybe the workers themselves could submit the info for change of employment, but I dont know how they would prove the work is at prevailing wage.
Demo Fastmail API JMAP: tutorial with curl shell scripts and JSON
It is normal in public sector. I was offered a position in a public sector job and the supervisor gave me the keys to the office and lab and told me that due to hiring requirement blah blah, they had to put a new tender and post the position online for several days before they can declare me as the selected candidate. The contract will be delivered to me via post after the day they take down the advert.

While I felt immensely special and cool, but once I received the contract by post, one of my random friends called me o say that he needed a job badly and found this perfect opening and applied there, but he got rejected, whether I was interested to also apply for that position, the requirements looked like I would be the best fit. When he sent me the PDF, dang, it was the same job that was being posted for me and I was super sad.

I eventually did not sign the contract because the practice really felt immoral to me and recommended my friend instead. While my supervisor was super sad, because they had to go through a long process for that fake job advert, nonetheless he understood my stance and went ahead and called my friend again.

I believe these public institute jobs must post internal hires publicly to comply with certain regulations or something, but the practice is weird.
I feel like I should be familiar with this song but I'm not, and I have to say, truly one of the great choruses of 80's rock: "we're layin' it on the line (layin' it on the line) ---just layin' it all, right on the line".
That's a great point. Either have a ton of money saved up or just start applying to jobs elsewhere immediately. The latter is what I assume most would want to shoot for.
The Dems are the party of wealthy elites as Trump’s campaign was funded by wealthy elites. $44billion from Elon ring a bell?
This is more reasonable, and I agree with it.

I think people should be able to work where they are most productive, assuming the work can reasonably accommodate such things, and business process and culture should adapt / grow accordingly.

If a bunch of people really want to work in an office together, go ahead. Want to work from home? go ahead. Want to work hybrid? Have at it.

The problem is, business culture hates worker flexibility, but sure loves executive flexibility.
So on the one hand you had Twitter, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to win the election.

On the other hand you had most other platforms like Reddit, with relatively heavy-handed moderation, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to lose the election.

So when you want to make a prior judgement on an extremely consequential outcome, which a posteriori was not even close, and one information ecosystem gives you the right answer, and most of the other information ecosystems give you the wrong answer, which information ecosystems do you classify as "echo chambers"?

It's possible that this was just a fluke, but it should certainly make you update your priors on which ecosystems provide a more representative sample of base reality.
Non-Paywall: https://archive.is/F1UOo
> thought they could cut corners to speed up iteration

Anecdotally, I find you can get about 3 days of speed from cutting corners - after that, as you say, you get slowed down more than you got sped up. First day, you get massive speed from going haphazard; second day, you're running out of corners to cut, and on the third day you start running into problems you created for yourself on the first day.
It requires an OIDC IdP, though… with PGP, I can verify that my identity is constant, but now, I’m reliant on some chosen third-party. And it has to keep being the same one, to boot! I don’t like the lock-in this causes, and I definitely don’t like the possibility of my right to publish being revoked by a third party.
I won't deny that the outdated repos was a pain in the past, but ever since ubuntu got to version 4 it's been working flawlessly for me.

I think version 4 was where podman became a reliable tool, whereas I found it to be flaky and unreliable in previous versions.

I don't use vs code extensions for managing my containers, so I can't say much about those, but I wonder if many of them won't work fine with an alias for docker and maybe the podman-socket running.
UEC Doesn't Want to Kill InfiniBand, but It Wants Ethernet to Beat It
I do live in the EU.

1) cookie banners are because tech giants are giants c-nts that will do anything to drive their point (and they are breaking the law because "reject" is usually hidden); though the UE should push to have it as a browser setting and voila - not nagging

2) there was a push for Google, as a monopolist, to offer option to use different map services but becase it's typical for the bully to abuse it's possition they removed the setting. And it seems to work as it causes the frustration in the end users.

It's kinda sad that people are still drinking google cool-aid
I got really 'lucky' in that the first major project I ever worked on was future-proofed to high heaven, and I became the one to maintain that thing for a few years as none of the expected needs for multiple layers of future-proofing abstraction came to pass. Oh but if we ever wanted to switch from Oracle to Sybase, it would have been 30% easier with our database connection factory!

I never let that happen again.
Great writeup. The writing was clear and engaging that it made me want to read it, even though I'm not in the industry. I have a question that is adjacent to your experience, but not specifically about the post. But hopefully your experience of founding a company for four years could shed some insight. Some background: I'm an incoming medical school student, and sometimes I wish I went into tech rather than medicine. My question: would it be worthwhile for a medical student to invest time to learn programming in order to potentially found a software company (I know you founded a hardware company, but previously worked as a software engineer)?

Now I know this is such a broad question, with many factors that could influence whether this pursuit is worthwhile, but maybe your experience could point out whether this is even something to consider. For example, would I even gain the necessary skillsets required to found a company whilst pursuing medicine? Would knowledge of tech compliment a medical-related company, or would I better spend my time working on the non-tech side of a company?

Your writing is great to highlight the complexities in the world of indie businesses. Thanks.
What is this supposed to be evidence of? People believing hype?
Because whatever org fills this space will be working on ARR.
that's when the robot takes his job and he can't afford the robot anymore.
That study is an interesting suggestion that there might be a physiological basis for the explicit / implicit distinction in terms of memory. Makes sense in many ways that some kind of memory might be embedded in the motor cortex. I wonder if the same is true for emotional memories and midbrain structures, as hinted at in your last paragraph.

I always find those non-obvious connections fascinating, like the disorders where e.g. someone can't say the word "fork" when they're looking at one despite being to describe what you use it for etc, but can immediately name it when they touch it.

Edit: got a link? I'd be interested to read that.
Also the conflict in Ukraine led to a popularisation of low cost drone mods and their capabilities.

Especially in the context of recon and military deployments.

So they’ve captured more of a mindshare I guess.
Dark matter developers

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
Five years, that's all we've got.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Years_(David_Bowie_song...
I mean, sure, anyone can cobble together Ollama and a wrapper API and an adjusted system prompt, or go serious with Bumblebee on the BEAM.

But that's akin to web devs of old that stitched up some cruft in Perl or PHP and got their databases wiped by someone entering a SQL username. Yes, it kind of works under ideal conditions, but can you fix it when it breaks? Can you hedge against all or most relevant risks?

Probably not. Don't put it your toys into production, and don't tell other people you're a professional at it until you know how to fix and hedge and can be transparent about it with the people giving you money.
Ask HN: Good locations in Europe to incorporate
We have a pre-seed offer by a European deep tech VC to fund our biotech + ML company. Part of the money this fund is handling is public, and requires our company to be incorporated in the EU. The UK also works for them, and a few other selected countries, since these are part of the EU Framework Programmes.

We are of course discussing this with a tax expert, but there are many different options and other subjective matters aside from tax. Taxation is tricky as many things are changing quite rapidly for founders thanks to Draghi's report. Where would you incorporate? Would you keep your operations in the same place? What are your favorite locations?
Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson also did an episode on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaqVg6BXXtA
The confirmation bias is certainly strong in many of the comments here, be cautious of accepting an explanation that makes you feel better over the alternatives

From the other side, they may be evaluating more candidates, hoping for a better fit. From the same side, I accepted an offer with another company after waiting for weeks for Google to respond, only to have them finally get back a couple days later. Someone dropped the ball on their end. Another interesting aspect is that I was laid off 4 weeks into my new job, only to then be hired by the team I was embedded with 2 weeks later, which goes to show you that large corps can be disorganized, so while one team is trying to hire to meet demand, the larger org is planning cuts to the workforce without giving them the heads up, while another part of the org is expanding with permission
I hope for the opposite, Jones has so much video and audio content available cloning him digitally and shoving an AI generated fist, ahem, somewhere, and using his likeness as the satire would be cathartic. Better yet he himself argued in court that the person live on Info Wars is a character inseparable from the brand.
“Defending that claim isn’t really the main focus of this post, but a couple pieces of legible evidence which are weakly in favor”
Balin had that whiney edge that was in style (and probably always is).
To add to this, the IMF did a broad global meta analysis of all the different WFH studies, and found it was at worst neutral, and at best increased productivity by a median of 2-9%.

That's the most objective study I've been able to find, largely because it aggregates all available research at the time of its publication together and does a reasonably good job of making sense of it.
Before you place bets on Polymarket you need to check the box which says something like this: "I promise I'm not from US". Pinky swear that I'm not using VPN to place illegal bets. That's why FBI is investigating them, so case still hangs in the balance.
The Mandala effect is forgetting that the effect is about Nelson Mandela not a Buddhist exercise in impermanence.
No way to vet the quality of your offering makes a both-ways attention economy fundamentally unworkable in a Western society. If you were really prepared to be an 'attention worker', then you could go work at a click farm or content moderation firm or the like, one of the fastest growing markets in the developing world.

Best I can offer you is an in-game bonus for watching an ad.
Freemium speech?
no, it doesn't need to be self aware, it just needs to take your job.
Funny enough I have free next day shipping (or even same day if order in the morning) and I'm in the UE. Magic!
Use both and get everybody!
What a stupid piece. We are making leaps every 6 months still. Tell me this when there are no developments for 3 years.
For more information on compose files take a look at the Compose Spec [0], looks like podman compose supports the Compose Spec which Docker compose files use as well.

[0] https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec?tab=readme-ov-f...
I think I would be better off with API key + PGP than API key alone. And that’s being phased out?
Many late investors in the genAI space about to be bag holders
> Assholes you depend on are changing language definitions, compiler behavior, and libraries in a massive effort concentrated on breaking your code. :)

Big Open Source is plotting against the working class developer.
> Like you have to get a work visa or green card which can be extremely difficult.

Darn... so the US is not the land of the free? Gosh! Wait till you learn about all the other stuff you can't do there xD
The idea of a worst song of all time is silly, but I want to use this as an excuse to juxtapose We Built this City with another Starship hit: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. The latter is just as fluffy and corny, but instead of generic corporate rock it's a soaring silly power ballad duet.

I think the secret sauce is Diane Warren. It's the same reason I love belting out I Don't Want to Miss a Thing at karaoke, or listening to If I Could Turn Back Time on a loop while working.

This post has been sponsored by the Committee to Get Diane Warren into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (CGDWRRHF).
How were cable ads skippable? I guess you could change the channel?
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If it's printable...? Perhaps?
Technical analysis: the silent torrent of VileRAT
Googling guitar-related stuff is how I learned there’s such a thing as c-string women’s underwear & bathing suit bottoms, not just g-strings.

That was, briefly, a real WTF moment.

[edit] oh my god, of course that one didn’t come from searching guitar topics, that makes no sense given the standard tuning. I’m pretty sure I was googling strings in the C language when I hit that one, lol. I did probably accidentally land on “g string” after searching without thinking about what would obviously come up, when looking up guitar topics, and must have combined the two incidents in my memory.
Well shoot. It's not like it was patently obvious that this would happen before the industry started guzzling electricity and setting money on fire, right? [1]

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
you're bypassing the thing I'm saying though, in that all the examples, real or perceived, are limitations of the person thinking of them, but not actual limitations of the medium of which work is done.

You can hand wave away the conversation a bit more with what you're saying at the end, but that doesn't really get to the core of the issue here.