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New comment by romeros in "Ask HN: ADHD and Entrepreneurship"

romeros — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:48:39 +0000

I got 1 paying customer. I already built it. But I have to revamp it.

Ask HN: ADHD and Entrepreneurship

romeros — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:00:03 +0000

Working for others just hasn’t worked out for me. Over the past decade, I’ve tried to ignore my urge to market my side projects and build a business around them, choosing instead to focus on what seemed like the "right" path—a steady 9-to-5 job.

I even tried medication, but my output still doesn’t match others’. My working memory isn’t strong, and my thought processes often feel out of sync with the usual approach, which has created challenges. I can solve complex problems, but my way of doing things is distinct from others’.

I got lucky with an investment and made a few quick millions.

I am thinking of taking a year off and just focus on my side project and see if it makes any money. I already have a virtual personal assistant who helped me keep my job.

Just wondering if ADHD will throw a wrench in my Entrepreneurial aspirations as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042101

Points: 15

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New comment by romeros in "Men Arrested for Transcribing a Movie, Posting Details to a Website"

romeros — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:53:42 +0000

by profiting from another person's work.

New comment by romeros in "Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)"

romeros — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:57:19 +0000

Facing adversity when one is young is important. Elon Musk faced it a lot and so did Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both of them credit it for building resilience in them. But again it will back fire if there is too much adversity / trauma.

In fact in one of the interviews Elon talks about implementing structured adversity.

New comment by romeros in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

romeros — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:24:34 +0000

thats just cope. I stopped using stackoverflow because I get everything from chatpgt/claude. Just a case of having better tech.

Sure the mods were arseholes etc.. but before gpt never minded using it .

New comment by romeros in "Move Fast and Abandon Things"

romeros — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:03:53 +0000

Reality #1: Universal Basic Income (UBI) will empower people to break free from the grind of work. They'll have the freedom to start innovative companies, create art, make music, learn to dance, and generally enjoy happier, less stressful lives.

Reality #2: Alternatively, many might find themselves stuck at home, glued to their screens. This could lead to boredom and depression, resulting in online trolling and petty arguments. Some may even resort to crime out of frustration.

New comment by romeros in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

romeros — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:21:08 +0000

is it better than Claude?

New comment by romeros in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

romeros — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:54:04 +0000

The intuition is pretty spot on though. We don't need to get to AGI. Just making progress along the way to AGI can do plenty of damage.

1. AI-driven medical procedures: Healthcare Cost = $0. 2. Access to world class education: Cost of education = $0 3. Transportation: Cheap Autonomous vehicles powered by Solar. 4. Scientific research: AI will accelerate scientific progress by coming up with novel hypotheses and then testing them. 5. AI Law Enforcement: Will piece together all the evidence in a split second and come up with a fair judgement. Will prevent crime before it happens by analyzing body language, emotions etc.

Basically, this will accelerate UBI.

New comment by romeros in "Ask HN: Isn't all SaaS just wrappers?"

romeros — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:28:44 +0000

Does it solve my problem? Yes? Shut up and take my money! ~ Sincerely, a customer.

New comment by romeros in "Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors"

romeros — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 04:04:11 +0000

Google is risk-averse. There is no real incentive for its management to be aggressive. Even with the Gemini AI, they only acted after being pushed around by OpenAI.

You need someone ruthless and aggressive at the top, like Travis Kalanick, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Steve Jobs who basically stop at nothing. Folks who act fast and can take big decisions. MBA business types often get caught up in endless meetings, prevaricating over inessential things.

New comment by romeros in "Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this"

romeros — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:42:28 +0000

For some reason I felt Claude was Yahoo to ChatGPT's Google in the initial days. It just felt like ChatGPT had an insurmountable moat.

I played with Claude and it is just insanely superior compared to ChatGpt as of now. Someone on HN commented the same thing a few months back but I did not take it very seriously. But, Claude is just superior to Chatgpt.

New comment by romeros in "Large Enough"

romeros — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:13:33 +0000

ChatGPT is like Google now. It is the default. Even if Claude becomes as good as ChatGPT or even slightly better it won't make me switch. It has to be like a lot better. Way better.

It feels like ChatGPT won the time to market war already.

New comment by romeros in "OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership"

romeros — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:51:30 +0000

yup.. and thats good for the consumers as well because they don't have to worry about their private data sitting on open ai servers.

New comment by romeros in "Sony Pictures to Use AI to Produce Movies and Shows in "More Efficient Ways""

romeros — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 08:10:16 +0000

AI can create creative regional works. Anything a human being can create an AI can too.

New comment by romeros in "Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries"

romeros — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:50:28 +0000

Similar to the self checkout process at Walmart/HEB etc. One person will be there for any issues and will intervene minimally.

New comment by romeros in "Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization"

romeros — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:55:55 +0000

Not really. AI overview is a natural progression. It is pretty accurate. The hallucinations have decreased significantly over the past year. Most people won't mind this.

New comment by romeros in "AI copilots are changing how coding is taught"

romeros — Sat, 04 May 2024 05:01:57 +0000

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ~ U. Sinclair

A significant problem is the subconscious defense mechanism or bias that compels us to conclude that AI has various shortcomings, asserting the ongoing need for status quo.

The capabilities of GPT-3.x in early 2023 pale in comparison to today's AI, and it will continue to evolve and improve.

New comment by romeros in "Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud"

romeros — Wed, 01 May 2024 08:00:39 +0000

It's challenging when dealing with millions of dollars. $5 million is a substantial amount, and a 37% capital gains tax would reduce it to approximately $3 million. Essentially, you would lose $2 million to taxes.

$5m is life changing.

Having said that it is stupid to commit tax fraud and live a life of perpetual fear.

New comment by romeros in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

romeros — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:51:40 +0000

It leaves a bad taste in the mouth, doesn't it? Why haven't they taken action until now? People aren't children to be appeased by such gestures.

New comment by romeros in "Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its cloud GPU bills"

romeros — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:06:14 +0000

AI is not a bubble. Anymore than iphone / the internet was a bubble.