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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher

Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher 5 by 7777777phil | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have a preprint article [1] which I'm trying to get submitted to arXiv's cs.SI (Social and Information Networks) for peer review. As an independent researcher I do not have any affiliations to a university anymore. How do I go about this? Appreciate any kind of info / support. [1] https://ift.tt/vDyEQPC

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?

Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? 5 by pratchett | 6 comments on Hacker News. After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However, the AI boom seems like a short-lived, once in a life-time opportunity. Now I am considering if I should dive in fully even if it means sacrificing time with family? Options: 1) Joining an AI startup 2) Founding an AI startup 3) Stay at my big-tech role I make good money at my current role, but I am extremely passionate about the work I do. With the AI boom, there seems to be a lot of great infra, data movement and algorithmic challenges on the table. However, it is also clear that options 1 and 2 seem to require a lot more time commitment than a simple 9-5 job. There are also financial considerations. If AI affects the SWE job market in a meaningful way, my future salary will be drastically low. Maybe it makes ...

New ask Hacker News story: Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?

Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital? 3 by FWKevents | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I'm pre-revenue but there's a buzz in the corporate events industry about my AI Agent MVP. Who do you recommend to help me get my slide deck and financials ready for fundraising? What is the best way to fundraise for seed capital when pre-revenue? Family Offices in the Middle East (because the US is sluggish on startup investing right now)? "Go Fund Me" type sites for B2B products? Something else?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?

Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire? 2 by jemiluv8 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I was surprised to find out only recently that some credits I bought about a year a go were unusable because they had expired. I find this a bit concerning because it seems as though I'm being forced to use the credits. In my part of the world, that tactic is used by telcos to sell "broadband data". You buy internet bundle of about $1 and they give you expiry of about a week. This drives up the "real" price of these purchases because of the time constraint. Ultimately, if you had 1GB of data left after a week, it is all gone and you have to purchase again - further driving sales. Since this is a third world country we're talking about and telco's tend to be oligopolies and tend to also do some form of price collusion among themselves, it was generally accepted as "just how things were". But I always found it to be unfair because people should be...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?

Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas? 6 by JamesSwift | 6 comments on Hacker News. I thought this would be a helpful thing to read what others on the site were getting for their kids, along with the age of those kids. Doesnt have to be tech-oriented. EDIT: besides robux : D

New ask Hacker News story: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target

AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target 2 by bmadduma | 0 comments on Hacker News. Working on automating small business finance (bookkeeping, reconciliation, basic reporting). One thing I keep noticing: compared to programming, accounting often looks like the more automatable problem: It’s rule-based Double entry, charts of accounts, tax rules, materiality thresholds. For most day-to-day transactions you’re not inventing new logic, you’re applying existing rules. It’s verifiable The books either balance or they don’t. Ledgers either reconcile or they don’t. There’s almost always a “ground truth” to compare against (bank feeds, statements, prior periods). It’s boring and repetitive Same vendors, same categories, same patterns every month. Humans hate this work. Software loves it. With accounting, at least at the small-business level, most of the work feels like: normalize data from banks / cards / invoices apply deterministic or configurable rules ...