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Ask HN: How do you sell to B2B in current state of AI?
by salesdo | 2025-07-05 20:53:03+00:00
There is a massive AI fatigue going on in the Sales, CxO circles. While everyone is building by themselves using ChatGPT or Claude, I am pretty sure building everything in-house is not an answer.

I used to get 3% to 5% replies to emails. Now, its zero for months. Similarly, LinkedIn used to have 10% reply yes and 5% positive rate. Now, it's crickets.

I guess AI is having negative impact on people's perception - especially in Marketing, Sales, GTM circles.

If you are selling "AI-powered" or "AI based" software, do you do it that demonstrates value and clearly points out that it's not a chatGPT wrapper.

How do you generate interest in your B2B software in current state of AI?
by delusional | 2025-07-05 20:53:10+00:00
I'm decently sure you have to compile separately for each architecture, and if you elect to compile for multiple architectures up front, you'll have excruciating compile times. You'd think that would be annoying, but it ends up not really mattering since AMD completely switches out the toolchain about every graphics generation anyway. That's not a good reason to not have forwards compatibility, but it is a reason.

The reason I'm not completely sure is because I'm just doing this as a hobby, and I only have a single card, and that single card has never seen a revision. I think that's generally the best way to be happy with ROCM. Accept that it's at the abstraction level of embedded programming, any change in the hardware will have to result in a change in the software.
by lancewiggs | 2025-07-05 20:53:56+00:00
If you are a US citizen then US tax will apply to you wherever you are. People form other countries switch off their home tax if they do not meet residency requirements.

There is no capital gains or wealth tax at all in New Zealand, but only for domestic investments. For offshore investments there is a deemed return that you treat as income, so if your wealth is tied up in illiquid stock then it can be dire.
by deaddodo | 2025-07-05 20:55:55+00:00
I would argue that systems languages (C, C++, Rust, and Zig standout) are the most “fulfilling” (in my experience).

The reason being that the methodologies are far more orthogonal. A uint8 directly represents a byte in memory, doing a memcpy is equivalent to a blit, etc. You spend far less time trying to wrangle a JavaScript Number type into acting like a byte/word/etc for a bitshift operation for a simple ADC. A very simple example that you’ll run into in the first day of writing a js emulator.

That all being said, if the language can paint to some surface and has the memory size to handle the machine you’re emulating, they’re all roughly equivalent. So the answer becomes “whichever language you’re most comfortable with is the one writing an emulator in is most enjoyable”.
by echelon | 2025-07-05 20:56:15+00:00
> You think it always will be? What can the new iPhone chips do locally?

I suspect we're a decade off from being able to generate Veo 3, Seedance, or Kling 2.1 videos directly on our phones.

This is going to require both new compute paradigms and massively more capable hardware. And by that time who knows what we'll be doing in the data center.

Perhaps the demands of generating real time fully explorable worlds will push more investment into local compute for consumers. Robotics will demand tremendous low latency edge compute, and NVidia has already highlighted it as a major growth and investment opportunity.
by wdavidw | 2025-07-05 20:56:17+00:00
I live on a houseboat just after paris in Meudon, facing Boulogne, we go paddle and swiming with the kids since they are 5 years old. The thing is to avoid going to the river the days after big rains. It is a very pleasant area along the Saint Germain Island (bras mort de l’Île Saint Germain)
by Aurornis | 2025-07-05 20:57:09+00:00
> In the US, "resorting" to something to make money is Plan A, B and C.

The idea of “resorting to OnlyFans” to support yourself is a myth, regardless of the country.

OnlyFans isn’t a platform where anyone can sign up and start making a lot of money. The median creator maxes out at a little over a thousand dollars in a year from what I recall.

Only a very few creators collect a lot of money. It’s similar to other social platforms where the majority of content creators get very little interaction.

So this idea that people are “resorting to OnlyFans” to support themselves isn’t supported by the realities of the data and the payouts.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-05 20:57:43+00:00
You seem to have confused the comments. I'm an employee living in one of the highest CoL areas in the world. But I know quite a few who run small businesses here and make use of that fact to the fullest extent. They can charge insane amounts of money for minimum quality work that wouldn't even put enough food on the table, let alone afford any luxury at home elsewhere. In the countryside I imagine you'd actually need to bring some talent or do quality work as well and not just make use of unsaturated business markets in overeducated areas.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-07-05 20:58:12+00:00
I used to be the one that in big meetings would ask the 'dumb' questions a lot of people undoubtedly had in their mind, but wouldn't dare to pose. I didn't care that some people would find the question stupid, since it would make other people happy for not having to speak up themselves while still getting the info they needed. It would as well make some people happy for establishing a slightly higher place in the pecking order. At least i would gain some karma and maybe even some admiration.

Over the years I did this less and nowadays I mostly only speak when asked so in rather big meetings.

How did this come to be? I found that people who feel that they belong in the higher ranks of the social pecking order sometimes don't like this behavior and actively try to make you look bad. As I'm quite sensitive and am generally a people pleaser who thrives on getting external validation (I'm working on it...), it did not feel good and I feel it wasn't worth the trouble...
by wqaatwt | 2025-07-05 20:58:44+00:00
There is plenty of empirical evidence from the 1800 to 1930s showing how a deflationary currency affects the economy. Amongst other things getting stuck in permanent boom and bust cycles wasn’t that great.

> But the same criticism can be leveled at Treasury bonds

Not to the same extent. Bond returns are usually barely above inflation. e.g. back in the second half of the 1800s you’d get 4% interest plus 1.5-2% average yearly deflation (since the economy was growing due to technological progress/etc. yet money was relatively very scarce).
by CommenterPerson | 2025-07-05 20:58:56+00:00
Good article. Verified by years of observing my own and others' failures and successes. Do-Learn is a great positive motto. Compared to the nihilistic break things, or fail fast, etc.

Must say, it was a bit long. At the beginning, and after looking up the author, I confess to thinking "Oh no another pretty face influencer". But it built up very well. My respect level increased a lot when I saw Olin College of Engineering on her bio. Had checked it out for my daughter and came away very impressed by their approach. Most all American engineering colleges are so full of theory and so little doing, when it should be the other way around. Kudos.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-05 20:59:35+00:00
> Legislators seem to love to do this. They deliberately write these laws using vague terms like "using" and then expect people (and the courts) to read their minds later on.

I don’t think it’s as intentional as you think. Writing rules to cover every situation ahead of time is extremely hard.

Even writing simple rules for something like an Internet forum or Discord has proven time and time again to be more difficult than anyone predicts. People will find loopholes in everything and real world situations will expose edge cases you never would have been able to predict.
by majormajor | 2025-07-05 20:59:39+00:00
This seems like the complete opposite of legislators doing that.

The part you're quoting is about a previous version of the law, but you left out the money part:

> That interpretation, according to the court’s written decision, was because the state law at the time stated phones had to be used in a way that allowed for “hands-free listening and talking.”

> In 2016, the law was amended, with legislators pointing out that cellphones now acted more as “pocket-sized computers” and the law was too narrow.

So using it for maps doesn't prevent hands-free listening and talking. The law was outdated, if anything because the law was too specific about "listening and talking", not too vague.

It was from 2008. From some googling, it seems there was also a text message-specific update from 2009 or so.

And now the courts are saying "yes, when they updated that law in 2016 in the smartphone era about using a non-mounted phone, they meant 'using' generally, as opposed to the prior laws just about talking and texting."

There's also debate elsewhere about the "mounted vs unmounted" thing and whether or not that's a "loophole." But IMO that's intentional and reasonable because preventing using a mounted phone for navigation but allowing using a built-in-touch-screen would be completely absurd, and "mounting so you can glance and it and hit it with one hand" seems like a reasonable-enough line to draw for now.
by bsenftner | 2025-07-05 20:59:55+00:00
No, we have the intelligence part, we know what to do when we have the answers. What we don't know is how to derive the answers without human intervention at all, not even our written knowledge. Artificial comprehension will not require anything beyond senses, observations through time, which builds a functional world model from observation and interaction, capable of navigating the world as a communicating participant. Note I'm not talking about agency, also called "will", which is separate from both intelligence and comprehension. Where intelligence is "knowing", comprehension is the derivation of knowing from observation and interaction alone, and agency is the entirely other ability to choose action over in action, to employ comprehension to affect the world, and for what purpose?
by gffrd | 2025-07-05 21:00:21+00:00
Squint/blur your eyes as you skim the list of icons. Think of this as an approximation of peripheral / partial vision. Some new icons fare well, other are a muddy mess.

The glass metaphor seems inconsistently used in iconography, and semi-transparent gears are just plain silly, even if it’s in keeping with the aesthetic standard.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-05 21:01:48+00:00
Not just muted--I look at them and I genuinely feel like my vision is getting worse. I have this giant, beautiful high DPI display, but the icons don't look sharp anymore--they look like someone downsampled then upsampled them with a gaussian blur. Very weird choice for a company that used to pride themselves on the "retina" resolution of their display technology.

I feel like peak Apple icon design was around 2014, where they were high-resolution and clearly depicted what the application was. Since then, they are all moving towards these indistinct, abstract hieroglyphics.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-05 21:01:59+00:00
Swedish and to a certain extent Norwegian feminism is strongly opposed to sex work [0][1][2], as it is viewed as undermining gender equality (let's be honest - there isn't equivalent demand for meat markets of men) and exacerbating trafficking of women from poorer regions like Eastern Europe (it is extremely unlikely that someone in the sex industry is Swedish/Norwegian/Icelandic/Danish given the mixture of social bias and social safety net).

The initial ban in Sweden was itself legislated in 1999 when the Riksdag became majority women.

The libertarian and market-driven framing is a uniquely American and Canadian lens that doesn't hold much water in much of Europe - especially highly collectivist and monocultural societies like much of Scandinavia. It's the same with attitudes around drug legalization (zero-tolerance but with a heavy rehabilitation tilt is the mainstream view in much of Europe).

[0] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545701.2010.54...

[1] - https://feminismandhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...

[2] - https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article...
by cdrini | 2025-07-05 21:02:09+00:00
I was dubious so did a fact check, and it is indeed necessary! Not sure what the reasoning is, I wonder if it's some rule about public swimming which was originally created only for pools? Or maybe there are some wildlife concerns with certain lotions/etc getting in the water.

> Y a-t-il des douches ? > > Oui ! Chaque site de baignade propose des douches – obligatoires avant d’aller se baigner –, un accès à des toilettes, un poste de secours ainsi que des espaces pour s’asseoir et profiter du soleil.

https://www.paris.fr/pages/baignade-en-seine-toutes-les-ques...
by Anyhao | 2025-07-05 21:02:24+00:00
While it's true that they aren't designed to not last as long, not lasting as long is a side effect of their design decisions.

The primary reason for the tendency of clothing to wear out faster is the textile manufacturing processes allow for the production of thinner fabrics at a cheaper cost per yard. As anyone who sews or knits can tell you, thinner fabric wears out faster. It allows companies like Zara, H&M, Walmart, Rack, et al to sell their product at marginal cost increase for higher YoY profits with a faster replacement cycle.

Furthermore, it's a plainly stated business strategy of fast fashion that fungibility and the production of disposable consumables is core to their business. As that type of fashion cannibalized market share from more traditional brands that banked on quality more than affordability in the 90s, those same brands responded by creating separate imprints ( Off Fifth, Rack, et al ) or just wholesale adoption of the approach ( e.g. H&M ).

Fast forward to 2025 and we're having a conversation about whether or not the quality delta in clothing is real or a Mandela Effect. The reality is unfortunately the more banal "number go up by any means necessary" explanation.

https://slate.com/business/2024/12/white-t-shirt-quality-dec... https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/sustainable-cloth...
by tombert | 2025-07-05 21:02:25+00:00
I was pretty disappointed by their entire process, and I guess if their goal was to weed out candidates who don't want to spend days indulging them in pop-psychology bullshit and writing multiple projects after writing nine pages of answers to questions, then they achieved their goal.

I would have loved to be paid to work on FOSS stuff, but this interview process was too stupid.
by maeln | 2025-07-05 21:02:29+00:00
An important part of the pollution in the Seine is from Paris itself. Due to being an old city, the sewer system and the flood water system (i.e rain) goes through mostly the same tubes and are dump directly in the Seine. This leads to the river being full of biological contaminent, a.k.a, shit.

A lot of effort was done to remediate this very old issue, with a very big push before the Olympics games (but improvement to the sewage system has been going on for years).
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-05 21:02:32+00:00
In my state the law is that such devices must be used "hands-free" so it's OK to have it mounted on the dashboard and displaying a map, but not held in your hand. I'm not sure if it's clear whether operating a touch interface is considered "hands-free" but considering almost every new car has a touch screen it would seem so.

All that aside these laws don't seem to be enforced. I see drivers using phones in their hands every day even though it's supposedly illegal.
by Animats | 2025-07-05 21:03:42+00:00
A real reason to avoid Amazon is fake merchandise. I'd been buying a vitamin supplement from them for years. Then they sent me a notice that it was being recalled as a fake.[1] (Archive [2]) They paid a refund for the last purchase. But that's all. Amazon won't respond to questions about what was in it or who the real seller is.

I no longer buy anything from Amazon that could be faked.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx2Q5O0C84HF1GU/

[2] https://archive.is/rN8B9
by Lerc | 2025-07-05 21:03:44+00:00
That's the case where I think it will pick up. If the reason for its lack of use is perception based, then instances where its utility outweighs perception will gain ground.

There are numerous places and times around the world that you can look at the situation that occurred and see that Bitcoin would have been a boon had it been established at that time.

Future instances will exist like that, and perhaps that's a good enough role for it to exist on it's own. It can be the candle that provides light when the power goes out.

The irony of course that it doesn't work if the power goes out, but that's another degree of infrastructure damage entirely. It might even be sufficient to ensure the power doesn't go out during some crisis.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-05 21:05:16+00:00
> Huh? The most basic skill of any driver is the ability to see if you're at a collision course with any other vehicle. I can accurately judge this at distances of at least 50 meters

Can you tell me the distance between 2 objects, each 50 meters away from you, down to 1 cm? That's the superhuman part. Even the distance between you and an object 10 meters away down to a few millimeters is impossible for a human.
by singron | 2025-07-05 21:06:22+00:00
I think we can blame the court for this one. "Using" means using. It's not specific, but the court reinterpreted it to be more specific for some reason. It's essentially impossible to write a statute to defend against this since you can't depend on any particular word to be load bearing.

Even if you use comprehensive forward-looking language, the court can choose to strike any part they don't like under the guise that the current situation didn't exist at the time of the drafting.
by Rochus | 2025-07-05 21:06:35+00:00
> I didn't see anyone mentioning the C programming language

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591993

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675

and many more ...
by yawpitch | 2025-07-05 21:06:58+00:00
If PureWord in allows the user to replace “shit” by mapping it to “poop” then it allows that same user to map “poop” to “shit”, and by extension “black” to “[not going to write this word]” or “trans|gay|lesbian|jew|palestinian” to “[not going to write those either]”.

Sure, I can see convincing oneself that there’s nobility in empowering people to pretend “bad” words don’t exist on the internet, but it seems you’re still empowering people to pretend arbitrary “good” words they don’t like don’t exist either, by replacing them with arbitrary “good” words they do like.

Sure, they’ll still be able to mouse over to discover they’re just pretending their personal version of civility has been roughly plastered over their personal version of incivility, I’m just not sure there’s an overall social benefit to that.
by egamirorrim | 2025-07-05 21:07:27+00:00
Looks really cool! But I have to able to bring my own LLM. In a space moving this fast by the time my enterprise has finished vetting a tool that wants to be it's own LLM/process my data itself, it's already out of date.

I'd love to be able to connect Azure AI and Vertex to this (for the full range of models it uses)
by deaddodo | 2025-07-05 21:07:32+00:00
Most C and C++ developers take umbrage with combining them. Since C++11, and especially C++17, the languages have diverged significantly. C is still largely compatible (outside of things like uncasted malloc) since the rules are still largely valid in C++; but both have gained fairly substantial incompatibilities to each other. Writing a pure C++ application today will look nothing like a modern C app.

RAII, iterators, templates, object encapsulation, smart pointers, data ownership, etc are entrenched in C++; while C is still raw pointers, no generics (no _Generic doesn’t count), procedural, void* casting, manual malloc/free, etc.

I code in both, and enjoy each (generally for different use cases), but certainly they are significantly differing experiences.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-05 21:07:57+00:00
FUSE is what a microkernel filesystem would look like. There are some optimisations that FUSE doesn't do, that microkernels usually have. In the most extreme form, L4 trims down communication primitives to the most efficient platform-specific ways of exchanging memory buffers. In all cases, microkernels and FUSE still need context switches for everything, and those are expensive. If you leave out the context switches, you don't have a microkernel anymore. This is what Windows did by pulling graphics drivers into the kernel, because context switches are slow.

So no. Microkernels have been tried. Microkernel-workalike filesystems are here with FUSE. They suck because microkernels suck when you need performance. Research has gone into different directions, like microkernels as hypervisors and for security, because it has become clear that the performance problems if microkernels are inherent and unfixable.
by jasonsb | 2025-07-05 21:08:15+00:00
> The elephant in the room. Until that problem is solved. AI systems can't be trusted to do anything on their own.

AI system can be trusted to do most of the things on their own. You can't trust them for actions with irreversible consequences, but everything else is ok.

I can use them to write documents, code, create diagrams, designs etc. I just need to verify the result, but that's 10% of the actual work. I would say that 90% of modern day office work can be done with the help of AI.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-05 21:08:21+00:00
From someone who has read a lot of resumes through the years: Don’t play resume games like this if you want to find a good company.

After you’ve read a hundred resumes in a week, spotting resume “hacks” like hiding words in white text, putting a 1pt font keyword stuffing section in the bottom, or now trying to trick an imagined AI resume screener become negative signals very quickly. In my experience, people who play games or manipulate with their resumes aren’t going to stop at the resume. They’ll manipulate through the interview, then continue to manipulate you when they have the job.

If you want to optimize your resume to be screened out by real humans at companies that care to read your resume but selected by companies using some bad ATS screener, these tricks might work. Seems like a bad gamble to me.
by arendtio | 2025-07-05 21:08:21+00:00
Regarding the no-spinners: I think it is the wrong approach to argue that just because you have data locally, you don't need any spinners.

Whether you need a spinner or not should be decided by the User Experience (e.g., when the user has to wait for more than 100ms, show a spinner), and not by the location of the data. I am a big fan of local-first apps and enjoy building them myself. However, sometimes your app takes a moment to load. With local-first, you eliminate the network as a source of delays, but there are other factors as well, such as large data sets or complex algorithms.

For example, when you have a project planning software and want to plan 100 work packages with multiple resource combinations in an optimal way, depending on the algorithm, this can take some time. In that case, a spinner or a progress bar is a good thing.
by nerdsniper | 2025-07-05 21:08:30+00:00
That’s a good point. Seems like that could be a problem for current ballots too - add a second checkmark to invalidate ballots voting for the “other” guy. Doesn’t seem to be a widespread issue, but detecting it for current ballots would be more obvious.

Maybe that breaks this idea. Maybe ideally you’d maybe want a touchscreen+printer to fill in the bubbles with printer ink and show it to the voter for them to double-check before putting in the stack (or, if wrong bubble filled, put it in rejected stack).

Would love more feedback from people to get a better sense of all pros and cons.