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Ask HN: What marketing book helped you become a better marketer?
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-05 05:45:07+00:00
Hi HN,

There are so many marketing books out there, but most of them feel repetitive or not very practical.

I’m interested in book recommendations that helped you learn marketing and apply it effectively. Whether they're about growing a business, building an audience, or enhancing branding, I’d love to hear your suggestions.

What books made a real difference in how you do marketing?

Thanks!
by mmooss | 2025-04-05 05:45:10+00:00
> Mac OS didn't have memory protection

That's true, but that's not the only issue in system design. None were modern OSes.

Most of the rest I think is BS.

> IE was even a hell of a lot more stable (and faster) than Netscape.

Never heard that. What I always heard was that Netscape was the better browser but Microsoft used their Windows monopoly, again, to spread IE - which the US government also convicted them for.

> I put a fresh copy of Redhat on the Internet in 90s and it was p0wned in 5 minutes.

By who? Over your 56K dial-up connection?
by colechristensen | 2025-04-05 05:45:39+00:00
for countries that pay a worker $10 a day, put a tariff on the goods produced by that worker to total $10

for countries that pay a worker $15 dollars a day put a tariff on the goods produced by that work to total $4

therefore someone importing goods produced by one worker in one day from the lower wage country would spend $20 for the goods from the lower wage country but only $19 for the goods for the higher wage country giving a competitive advantage for higher wages

obviously that is a simplistic example but that's what i mean using tariffs to incentivize better behavior and level the playing field so the most exploitation doesn't make the most money
by input_sh | 2025-04-05 05:45:40+00:00
I mean, any "definitive" list of countries is gonna be inaccurate in some way.

For example, according to ISO 3166, Kosovo is not a country, but Antarctica is, which isn't particularly useful in real-world scenarios. Kosovo does have its own ccTLD (.xk, although it's supposed to be a temporary one) and were tariffed.

The reason I've mentioned Soviet Union in particular is that its domain is still active. You can go and buy .su right now, unlike say .yu (Yugoslavia), .dd (East Germany) or .cs (Czechoslovakia), which were deprecated.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-05 05:45:50+00:00
> and we lost

Lost due to lack of redistribution not because of foreign companies outcompeting everyone.

US won, its economy was basically built on exporting dollars and effectively buying “free” stuff with it. Almost any other country besides the US that had a similar fiscal policy would have already imploded. Instead you got to export your inflation to the rest of the world and even that wasn’t good enough…
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 05:47:39+00:00
> The formula for the tariffs, originally credited to the Council of Economic Advisers and published by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, does not make economic sense.

There is a 2024 paper (40 pages) by Stephen Miran, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589350

The root of the economic imbalances lies in persistent dollar overvaluation that prevents the balancing of international trade, and this overvaluation is driven by inelastic demand for reserve assets. As global GDP grows, it becomes increasingly burdensome for the United States to finance the provision of reserve assets and the defense umbrella, as the manufacturing and tradeable sectors bear the brunt of the costs... Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects.

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”
by DarknessFalls | 2025-04-05 05:48:14+00:00
Trump said he is open to negotiation on these tariffs. The factor of four difference is likely intentional padding. This way, he can:

1.) Shock the market into dropping several hundred points on the S&P and Nasdaq indices, thereby making quite a bit of money on the way down and then back up again. and

2.) Lower tariffs in exchange for patronage from countries or specific businesses that want a port opened in this new trade firewall.
by cafeinux | 2025-04-05 05:48:35+00:00
I'm really not sure: it's highly specialized to scrape the pages of that particular course and output it in my own HTML and CSS classes. Luckily for me, their format is quite standard across chapters, but may not be across courses, and I didn't write the code to be modular or adaptive given my need (and the fact that I'm learning Python, not application design).

Still, the code lives in a git repo, so it's not excluded that I'll make it evolve to something more generic and maintainable in the future. But today, it's my own little dirty code that I will jealously keep and hide like that lewd drawing I did when I was a teenager.
by nofalsescotsman | 2025-04-05 05:48:56+00:00
I love traveling, but rarely alone, and always with a purpose. I find aimless traveling just for the sake of saying I've been somewhere more exhausting than exhilarating. If I'm going to the Netherlands it's to visit some ancestral villages. If I'm going to Japan it's because I have a deep fascination with Kabuki and Noh. But I too love having a place to call home, with people in my community who are familiar with me.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 05:49:20+00:00
The idea of an "atomic bomb" would have seemed fantastical before it was developed. Bioweaponry is underfunded, far more dangerous than you think, and is a hot topic for the PRC [0].

And let's be clear — the US did not "lose a war" in Afghanistan or Iraq. Yes, we had failed pseudo-occupations. That is not the same as losing a war. No country, save perhaps Iraq during the Gulf War, has experienced the force of a modern American army. And if you want know what happened during the Gulf War, look at the "Casualties and losses" section on the Wikipedia page [1]. Spoiler: America won, Saddam lost.

You, and I, and the entire world, have been living under a Pax Americana for the past 70-something years. As that world order fractures, you will see that no country without hard assets and military power, the Netherlands and Switzerland included, are as powerful as they may seem.

Friedrich Merz, the incoming German Prime Minister, spoke very eloquently about this in his first televised conversation. Germany will lead the re-militarization of Europe (disclaimer: I am also a German citizen) [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon#People's_Repu...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CBhioWra4rA
by Abdur91 | 2025-04-05 05:49:48+00:00
Location: Lahore/ Pakistan. Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies:

Frontend: JavaScript, typescript, html ,css, angular, react, Html

Backend: Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Celery, node JS

Email:abdurleo91@gmail.com.

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QXu9rPHTJmjnr47SMfcULBSDOFJ...
by piva00 | 2025-04-05 05:50:35+00:00
It's not that crystal clear when the ideas from Stephan Miran to reshape the world order by turning allies into vassals is also part of the plan.

There's a plan, it's to reshape the global trade à la Bretton-Woods, and the Plaza Accords.

The rest is just noise and plausible deniability for people to gobble up and accept to have been shoved into a New World Order.
by akra | 2025-04-05 05:50:52+00:00
This is what I think as well. Unfortunately for the AI proponents they already made an example of the software industry. Its on news reports in the US and globally; most people are no longer recommending to get into the industry, etc. Software for better or worse has made an example for other industries as to what "not to do" both w.r.t data (online and option), and culture (e.g. open source, open tests, etc).

Anecdotally most people I know are against AI - they see more negatives from it than positives. Reading things like this just reinforces that belief.

The question of why are we even doing this? Why did we invent this? etc. Most people aren't interested in creating a "worthy successor" at best that eliminates them and potentially their children seeing that goal as nothing but naive and dare I say it wrong. All these thoughts will come from reading the above for most people.
by exoverito | 2025-04-05 05:50:55+00:00
Likewise friend, I extend the same reciprocity and hope you're being rewarded for your internet posts.

Interesting that you don't engage with the words at all, and lazily use insults. I'm actually somewhat curious what kind of person you really are, since you've accrued quite a few internet points here on HN. I hope you're independently wealthy by now, otherwise god help you.
by iofiiiiiiiii | 2025-04-05 05:50:55+00:00
I used to run my personal website on Hugo but after a few years I wanted to upgrade the Hugo version and was suddenly out in the cold - there was no real path to upgrade, everything only works together once and as soon as I started upgrading, there was mismatch between the generator, the theme, and whatever widgets I used.

Moved to wordpress.com since that. No more worry about keeping things working, I can focus on the content. Admittedly, the horrible load times of wordpress.com sites are causing me to look at alternatives - waiting 5 seconds for the homepage to show up is not really acceptable.

I wish someone made a hosted version of a static site generator - they maintain the compatibility between individual components, provide some online editor for content, but the output is just a bunch of static files generated from this. Have not found one so far but if you know one, please drop a line!
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-05 05:51:14+00:00
> If the Zionist pioneers had managed to achieve a 99% majority of Jewish population in Palestine through legal immigration before asserting sovereignty, would that pass your test?

The whole enterprise was illegitimate, because it was carried out against the will of the population of Palestine. The population did not want a foreign group of people to come in, settle the land and take over. The British colonial rulers forced Zionism on the Palestinian population undemocratically.

You keep on appealing to self-determination, but you completely ignore the Palestinians' right to self-determination on the land they had inhabited for centuries.

> Or would you just prefer to see the European Jewry perish in toto under the Holocaust and Eastern European pogroms?

The way to avert the Holocaust would have been to prevent the rise of fascism in Europe. The vast majority of Jews were anti-Zionist, and did not want to leave their home countries. The idea that Polish Jews would have all left Poland for the Middle East before WWII is just fanciful. Only a small percentage of them wanted to pack up and go to Palestine, a far-away place they knew nothing about.
by astrange | 2025-04-05 05:51:27+00:00
The public wouldn't be supportive because they have no idea what is going on or how politics is connected to any of it.

For instance, they don't know who was president in 2020, and everyone thought "the economy" was bad for the last four years at the same time as they answered surveys saying they personally were doing great.

See:

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/16/will-stancil-repeti...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-median-voter
by mmooss | 2025-04-05 05:51:46+00:00
> The government lawsuit was specifically about Internet Explorer, not Office.

There was more than one government action back then - DR-DOS (maybe a private lawsuit), IE, Office, maybe others. It's possible Microsoft settled before anything was filed for the Office abuse, but there was government action on it.

> At no time were manufacturers forced to pay for Office licenses. Go ahead, look it up, I'll wait.

Do I work for you? What will you give me to look it up for you?

Why are you making this stuff up?
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 05:52:16+00:00
You prove my point.

Open innovation does not lead to geopolitical power.

There is one exception, which is that you can use your open innovation pipeline as a carrot to recruit intelligent people who then bolster your closed innovation ecosystem. The US used to be very good at this. We are still very good at this, but we're getting worse, and we're progressively more hostile to skilled immigration.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-05 05:52:17+00:00
> It's no longer an all-benefit, no-risk strategy.

Interesting when the US has benefited more from this system than almost anyone else.

You have massive economic growth compared to almost all developed countries and (according to your words) don’t even have to work for it. Can hardly blame the rest of the world for US government/etc. failing to fairly distribute the value US is extracting from the global economy.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-05 05:53:11+00:00
> Interest rates didn't rise because of industrial revival acts; they rose because they had been artificially low for a decade and someone had to throw water on the economy to cool it lest hyperinflation hit.

I hate "artificially low" why artificial? What makes something artificial and what makes it real? In economics, there's an idea of a natural interest rate: the interest rate which is the lowest under which inflation will not occur. That has been trending lower, see https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/rstar. It absolutely is not artificially set anywhere: the fed doesn't set the natural rate of interest, it accommodates it with a policy rate and has to deal with a 12-18 month lag for their policy to be effective (a fun quirk - there's a cool badeconomics thread on this) which is why it was hard to deal with inflation caused by the russian invasion: you can't predict that 12-18 months out!

> The nature of tech layoffs and what has happened in the Midwest over the last 50 years are completely different.

No data backing this up.

> where are you getting that from OC's comment?

OC talking about media calling them 'flyover country' as if it matters / is somehow out of bounds conduct at all.
by theanonymousone | 2025-04-05 05:53:24+00:00
I have also been using Coolify happily since its early(?) days (mid 2022 IIRC). One big plus for me is that there is nothing to be installed on the client: No CLI, etc. In my specific use case, I switch laptops I work with, so it's a huge advantage that I can just open the UI in the browser and do my work. Of course there is room for improvements in many corners of it, but I couldn't get any of the alternatives to works the same way, yet.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-05 05:53:32+00:00
>But on the other hand, the US's entire industrial base has fallen into complete ruin and needs to be rebuilt. Broad tariffs will help with that

It won’t, unless they’re sustained for a long time, longer than Trump will be president and even then I’m not sure. It won’t be like it was in any case.

If anyone actually cares about undoing the externalized costs of businesses moving their manufacturing overseas it should be to invest in re-training, re-education, fostering R&D and targeting industries we can have global advantages in. Get people working on things that will sustain themselves without major trade interventions.

The entire premise of helping our industrial base is extremely hollow and doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. Especially since this isn’t being followed with any reforms or subsidies that will do anything to help. There’s no talk of it coming either. It’s hand waved away.

At any rate, why does it matter? What non critical manufacturing benefits from being in the US? What benefit does the US get if any of this non critical manufacturing comes back? Why not invest in new industries to take its place? Invest, retrain, reskill, retool. Those should have been the mantras. Not bad trade policy. Not throwing away the rules based order on effectively a whim.

>One good thing is that everyone's now on notice: Taking advantage or over-relying on the US now has consequences. It's no longer an all-benefit, no-risk strategy.

It never was, not really. There’s no evidence that our faithful (re: the EU, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan etc) were getting all the benefits without giving up something in return, in some manner. Our close allies always maintained symbiotic relationships with the US.

The biggest of which is the USD status as reserve currency. That gives the US such immense power that it’s easy to forget just how big a deal it is. It was also technology sharing, intelligence sharing, trade, international finance etc.

It’s not a good thing this is breaking down

As for the Rust belt. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it’s not going to recover. There’s no chance it ever meaningfully does, but doubly so because there is no plan, no funding. Nothing.

I don’t understand any of this unfounded confidence
by greaber | 2025-04-05 05:54:19+00:00
Doesn't this formula also punish circular trade patterns in a strange way, like if the US imports $X of good from country B and country B imports $X of goods from country C and country C imports $X of goods from the US, and there are no flows in the opposite direction, then the US would impose an infinite tariff on country B since US imports from B are zero?
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-05 05:56:39+00:00
wouldn't a drop in equities be the worst thing for them then? That'd trigger a margin call and liquidation; at the very least, they can do that without the shares falling.

You're implicitly saying that they have an enormous if not cash position then leverage capacity that they're holding out on with the opportunity to buy more shares. In which case I challenge you: tell me where! I see tons of evidence of rich people completely shifted to risky risky equities (accredited investments have many attractions, one of them is not risk / 'volatility' (depending on your definition, see matt levine for details)!).
by ggm | 2025-04-05 05:57:01+00:00
The central point seems to be his declarations to steadfastness and flexibility at the same time invite disbelief: if the intent is to negotiate then the "not one inch" posture is unhelpful and if the intent is to push the Mar a Lago accord model, negotiating won't help because it undermines the financial consequences driving it.

Domestic investor sentiment isn't really the point, nor the effect on people's retirement income. It would not think empathy is really driving this WH.
by peterburkimsher | 2025-04-05 05:57:50+00:00
In NZ culture there’s a house #404, halfway between the CBD and the suburb, about half an hour by 70 bus.

Somewhere near: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kquCDUWtEWGbp1qX7?g_st=ic

“404 Great South Road, Greenlane, Auckland 1051“
by akra | 2025-04-05 05:58:45+00:00
I'm not sure where construction and physical work goes into your categories. Process and chores maybe. But I think AI will struggle in the physical domain - validation is difficult and repeated experiments to train on are either too risky, too costly or potentially too damaging (i.e. in the real world failure is often not an option unlike software where test benches can allow controlled failure in a simulated env).
by beardedwizard | 2025-04-05 05:59:16+00:00
Jails have been around longer, but I'm not sure how much it really matters. Jails and containers both share the kernel across workloads. A kernel exploit is generally accepted as the barrier to break out (and of course implementation bugs). VMs don't share kernels across workloads, but do share a hypervisor which can also have breakout bugs. Both jails and containers depend on the kernel to be bug free.

VMs (depending on hypervisor) are easier to secure by default, you can't easily forget an overlay fs, or make other mistakes that expose some part of the host to containers.
by pj_mukh | 2025-04-05 05:59:38+00:00
After 35, you don't like traveling but boy do you like 'Vacationing'.

Author is right, after you travel (and slum it a bit) you realize that after surface level cultural/food/history differences everyone kinda/sorta wants similar things in life and while people's life stories are interesting, you start noticing patterns.

OTOH, (Caveat:I don't have enough money for this) there is nothing that recharges you more than first class tickets somewhere beautiful and getting pampered in a resort. People (esp in their 20's) poo poo this. Rightly so, you should be experiencing the "real culture". But me, I've done that already, I'm gonna sit in the Four Seasons.

P.S: Another thing I'd suggest the author try is fitness trips! Big Hikes, marathons, surfing competitions? Nothing speedruns cultural competency like doing a really difficult thing somewhere new. Get Travel insurance.
Show HN: BookmarkFS – A pseudo-filesystem for managing web browser bookmarks
by cismonx | 2025-04-05 06:00:13+00:00
> Everything is a file.

Well, perhaps not _everything_, but bookmarks certainly could be.

With BookmarkFS, you can mount your browser bookmarks to the local filesystem, and manage them flexibly using file management tools and techniques.

For example:

# Mount Firefox bookmarks. # - Replace <profile-name> with actual profile dir name mount.bookmarkfs -o backend=firefox,rw \ ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile-name>/places.sqlite \ /mnt/firefox # Change working dir into the Firefox "Other Bookmarks" folder. cd /mnt/firefox/bookmarks/unfiled # Remove duplicate bookmark URLs (while keeping the first one). # - Install "fdupes" using your distro's package manager, # or download from <https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes>. fdupes -dN . # Move all HN posts into the subdirectory named "Hacker News". find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \ -exec grep -l news.ycombinator.com/item {} \; \ -exec mv {} ./Hacker\ News \; # Mount Chromium bookmarks. mount.bookmarkfs -o backend=chromium,rw \ ~/.config/chromium/<profile-name>/Bookmarks \ /mnt/chromium # Copy the "work" folder from the Firefox bookmarks toolbar # into Chromium's bookmarks toolbar. cp -R /mnt/firefox/bookmarks/toolbar/work \ /mnt/chromium/bookmarks/Bookmarks\ bar # Dismount. umount /mnt/chromium umount /mnt/firefox

BookmarkFS is a hobby project in alpha stage, and you're likely to experience bugs and quirks. Always backup your bookmarks before use.

Cheers!
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-05 06:00:18+00:00
Your story made me feel less alone.

I used to love traveling too. I would go to many places, meet new people, try new foods, and see pretty things. It made me happy and helped me learn a lot.

But then, like you, I stayed home more. I moved to a small town. Life became slow but nice. I made new friends, grew plants, cooked food, and played games. I started to feel happy without going far.

I liked how you said, “the connection to people not being punctuated by an impending departure.” That means a lot. When we stay, we make deep friendships that last.

Maybe one day we will travel again. But right now, this calm, quiet life feels good. Maybe this is a new kind of adventure.

Thank you. You helped me understand my own feelings better.