skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having shadowed some great sales execs in my earlier career and having done some enterprise sales as a startup founder here are my pointers to get started and what perhaps matters the most. I'll address what matters most first:

1. The ability to take a NO without getting burnt out. Try to keep the emotion out of a sale as much as possible, even though it's your company and product.
2. The ability to have a sense of humour and make conversations enjoyable. No one wants to talk to a sales guy who is boring.
3. The ability to understand when have you earned the trust of your customer. Essentially your customer has to be comfortable talking to you and one of the best signals for earning positive trust is how much your customer makes casual funny comments or small talk.
4. Once you've earned your customer's trust - a sale is more or less guaranteed. Once you've learned how to earn trust - I mean once you've cracked that algorithm it's rinse and repeat.

To get started:
1. Make random conversations with people of your customer's persona either at events, through cold calling or cold emailing and be very very sensitive to the pulse of people you talk to. Do they engage in conversation, are the conversations ending with one words rather than continuations.
2. Have a very precise pitch of what you are selling. Pitch the customer once they are relatively in their comfort zone.
3. You won't be able to sell to busy execs SVPs and above - no matter how good you think you are. So it's better to reach out to someone in the lower rungs of the ladder.
4. If you play golf or some sport where decision makers hangout it'll certainly help to make conversation.
5. Sales is typically a male dominated field unfortunately. So you have to be conversant in sports/politics of that region to make some headway.

To summarise, sales is all about making conversations and earning someone's trust. It has very little to do with 'what' you are selling.
Setting aside CO₂ concerns for a moment, I was explaining cement to a young child today and was suddenly struck by how marvelous cement is: It’s poured as a liquid yet solidifies into rock, and has been known since ancient times [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement#History
There have been many civilizations on Earth, maybe not many were industrial (ancient Egypt was clearly semi-industrial so far as lithic tooling is concerned.)

We haven't looked deep enough very much. Many of the 10-25,000 year sites are buried dozens of feet underground. If there are any previous ruins, they're probably a hundred-or-more feet down. Seaside ruins from 10k+ years ago are now under 400 feet of water and 10k+ years of sediment. We've just started to notice evidence of major changes only 13k years back ... with more on the way.

Over 100,000 years, water has scoured (and deeply buried) much of the surface. Consider the number of glaciations in the past 2M years ... each one of which has scoured the surface in northern regions repeatedly. Much farther back than that, and most geo- and bio-records are erased.

The planet's dynamics would have scrubbed almost anything before 10 million years ago. There've been 400 of those; 5 major extinctions left some traces. The scale of upheavals has been massive. How long ago did the Andes arise? It was first noticed in the 1700s that Whole sections of the Earth's surface have gone missing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton%27s_Unconformity
Not hard. We have taken the whole family camping by bike-train-bike. Even a small car would be a doddle.

The four year old is towed using a follow-me, all the gear goes in a couple of panniers.

We have spent a small part of our car-money on some very high quality gear, through. Small and light equipment is much easier to pack than Walmart camping gear.
What am I supposed to think BBC wants for me (from me?) when this already-ominously-worded page popped into view with three additional scary headlines pre-loaded in my eye-line so I've read them before I can even choose not to.

"You may also like:
- Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?
- The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat.
- The greatest long-term threats facing humanity."

I know even discount supermarkets put their highest-converting items at eye-level on the shelves across, so I'm sure the same considerations go into news media and the placement isn't an accident. I remember Facebook's research project inserting more-positive or more-negative stories to a person's personalized News Feed yo successfully influence their mood in that direction. The ability for Facebook or anyone to do such a study makes me pretty confident BBC could detect three "negative" wordings if they hadn't directly paid somebody to write them this way, and they could avoid say I'll "like" them so a momentary positive hits first to maximize my emotional whiplash.
It's an interesting approach, could take away some of the "stress of choice" (first world problem?), but might perhaps run the risk of disengagement into irresponsibility.

Concept is reminiscent of The Dice Man

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
In short, the society needs to decide the success metric for the algorithm. There seems to be little discussion on it.
> High end selvedge jeans might run a couple hundred bucks, but they will last a decade.

Is there any data supporting this? Because while I think this is our intuition, i.e. "it's expensive therefore it's better quality," I wonder if there's any way we could verify this other than anecdotal evidence.
It became less relevant in the age of Julia language.
I think the fact that Google owned Boston Dynamics for a little while, and was entertaining Project Maven and Project Dragonfly are pretty important items for this list, too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4125382/google-pentagon-ai-projec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

> The Google search engine was also planning to alter the accuracy of the weather and air quality index that would be provided to the consumers in China. The change in information would downplay the actual air pollution to keep the citizens in China less informed about the actual quality of their air.

Oh, they also conspired with Apple, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and eBay to steal billions in wages from their staff. They tried to settle the suit for $324M, but the judge threw that out as being too hilariously low considering the amount of wages stolen in the scheme, estimated at $3B+ USD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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It depends almost entirely on seniority and your relationship to the company. I found that for most IC jobs, once you give your two week notice you immediately lose a lot of the relational power that you previously enjoyed. There is no incentive to take on new projects, so you quickly find yourself out of things to do. Depending on how the company handles your departure, two weeks is either nowhere near enough time or way more than necessary. As you increase in seniority, there are more people who rely on you to get your job done. Therefore the task of finding a replacement and training them is larger, and so more lead time is appreciated. For manager level and above, a month would be ideal if you can swing it. For executive roles, you should ideally be letting your fellow executives or the board of directors know about your departure multiple months in advance.
hey, walrus01, I talked to you on HN about rural WA WISPs a month or so back. I'm moving back to the valley and am looking for advice, can you email me at the email on my profile? HN has no DMs...
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Here is a pie chart (globally) from epa.gov:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-05/global_em...
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Your definition doesn't really align with how "wealthy" is used.

If you're making $400k per year, how long before you start to accumulate substantial wealth? Pretty quickly I'd say. Sure it might not be millions, but if you sock away $200k at age 25 after 3 years, you have more wealth than 99% of people your age.

"Wealthy" is not limited to wealth alone. If you're making $2M a year and have no savings, you're still "wealthy".

And people with large amount of wealth (your definition) can still become destitute. There are plenty of examples.
Isn’t it?
Long live Python2 :)

docker run pypy:2.7-7.3.2 python -c "print 'no quotes, integer division %s / %s => %s' % (5, 3, 5 / 3)"
no quotes, integer division 5 / 3 => 1

Edit: i mean no parenthesis
Geologic time is certainly enough to erase evidence of worked soils. It spans billions of years, the destruction and formation of continents, and multiple global mass extinctions. Archaeology concerns only the last few million years of hominid activity.
Do you have numbers to back this up?
Little late, I signed up with non-existent email to avoid those signup popups.
No one with a family has a small car? O...kay.

brb just going to remove the two child seats from the back of our Fiat 500
> Why should an individual be punished for the actions of others who happen to have similar identity markers?

They shouldn't. But the algorithm shouldn't be making the decision in the first place.

The objection to making the algorithm incorrect in order to make the process fairer is that it's a quick hack done in the wrong layer of the system. It's like preventing SQL injection by adding escaping to JavaScript handling form submission - it's the wrong place and way to go about it.

Real world being what it is, I do however understand the worry that doing it the right way may be unrealistic.
Is it still true that PyPy is both faster and slower than CPython - faster when restricted to pure Python but slower than CPython using C extensions?
I had the same train of though. I've been using it for years and while I am not sure if it's placebo or not, I can confirm that other music for work I've found online doesn't work as well for me. The "Relaxed focus" playlist is my favorite one.

There is a coupon code for 20% in this review that's still working - https://www.gohomerelax.com/brain-fm-review/
Usually the limit there is crash safety. It's a difficult argument to make to the public that we should allow a slightly higher rate of death and serious injury in exchange for much less co2 emissions.
Technologies are tools. Figure out who your customer is and what problem you're trying to solve, and then look for suggestions for the right tool to solve that problem.
Because terrorism is used by small groups to inflict tyranny over larger groups, and if those larger groups self-inflict tyranny in the form of censorship, they reach the same end as terror attacks themselves.

Just like poker, terrorism isn't a thing that exists in a vacuum: it exists inside of, and in relation to, wider society.
> People have the ability to install Fortnite.

They do not have the ability to install it through a competing Epic Games app store.

Allowing people to install fortnite, through an Epic Games app store, that is not approved by Apple, is not going to cause people's phone to blow up.

> not the ability to install Fortnite

In my post, I specifically said "on an official fortnite app store", but it seems like you ignored that for some reason.

That is what I am referring to. If you agree with me, that:

"Giving people the ability to install fortnite, on an official fortnite app store, is not going to cause people to die from phone explosion"

Is the case, then cool. You agree that there is not going to be a blowing up phone problem, if Epic Games, has an app store on people phones, that is run by Epic Games, and not Apple.
If you want to be a solo/technical founder, I'd consider learning to build web apps a great first step - it's accessible, cross-platform, and flexible. There's also no shortage of resources online. On the frontend, React is commonly used and generally a safe choice. On the backend, some nodejs with heroku or docker should give you a gentle introduction (with the added advantage that you'll be learning the same language for both front and backend -- one less thing to worry about as you're starting).
PyPy is awesome. I wrote some scapy packet-processing code, got a 10x speedup from PyPy
Perhaps the plaques help by making room and resources for youth.
Yet some devs here clamor for Apple to allow them to inflict “Add to Home Screen” prompts and background processing in browsers upon iOS users.

Whenever I see someone saying Apple should “open” their platform up to that kind of shit, I know exactly whose products to avoid.
I agree that reviews are a poor measure of value/quality. Fake reviews can be purchased now.

But ranking apps by engagement is measuring the wrong thing: Some apps are wonderful, but are used very infrequently -> Low 'engagement'. A YC example would be AirBNB.
The point of tax evasion is to not break the laws, otherwise it would be called tax fraud.

By the way, after a new French against tax fraud law was created, https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000037518803/, Google was asked about 1 billion euros as a fine from the French state. It was later canceled. So as far as I know, Google doesn't break any obvious French law about tax fraud, but is pretty good at tax evasion.

I have no clues about other countries.

Is tax evasion moral and the good thing to do? Personally, I think it's evil.
On the opposite note, amazon goes out of the way to make sure you don't unsubscribe.
IMHO Gödel's Incompleteness is also evidence that what is colloquially referred to as math is just a part of something much larger that we cannot yet grasp.
Ultimate guitar just copies the most popular guitar pro tab and labels it official, they might be paying the tabber, but they are not tabbing themselves.
Why cities have so many Pigeons?
They peck at the pavement; they coo overhead; they swoop in hundreds across town squares: Pigeons have become such a permanent fixture in our urban landscapes that cities would seem oddly vacant without them.
From wikipedia:

"In the theory, an attention schema did not evolve so that we could walk around claiming to have consciousness. Instead it evolved because it has fundamental adaptive uses in perception, cognition, and social interaction."
These "2nd order consequences" are the whole point of punishment. Money is only means of delivering them.
Yep, that was my entire point.
Parametric lamp design using circle packings
Transportation and heating are in there as well
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They may genetically engineer strange beasts that would live on as seemingly gradual improvements on existing beasts. Likely they would reflect on their actions and devolve to ashamedly destroy each other and any record of what had become of them.

#Platypus
I was looking for brick pavers recently and was having quite a time locating actual bricks instead of cement pavers colored badly and textured worse to look vaguely like bricks to nobody sober during daylight hours. I can only assume their target audience is a drunken man, at night, in a rainstorm.

I have to wonder why we are still looking for new ways to employ Portland cement at this point, over alternatives. You can, I’m told, reduce the footprint of clinker a bit with fly ash, but you get that mostly from coal, so it’s splitting the “savings” with an equally problematic cousin, and at any rate that supply should be in steady decline now, although I guess we discovered the Tennessee Valley Authority has stockpiles of the stuff when they lost one of them a decade or two ago.
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For those of you who deal with finding security defects/flaws within companies/organizations and for those of you that deal with patching/remediating those defects,

What are some of the common issues you wished were solved to help address the sheer overload of information on these defects?

Some problem spaced examples can included: Static application security testing (SAST), Dynamic application security testing (DAST), Vulnerability scanning, supply chain, CIS/NIST/CSF benchmarking, etc
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I just finished this book and I think it's the most down-to-earth approach towards selling. It even suggests an alternative title for "salespeople" that wants to help others make progress, which would be "concierge."

Looking forward to digging deeper into the Jobs-To-Be-Done theory with Clayton Christensen's book on "Competing Against Luck"
Wood, Straw Bale, Earth. This all works even in high rise building.
It’s opt-in but I think a requirement for publishing on the App Store if you offer singing-in with Facebook/Google etc.

It’s becoming more common on iOS and it’s all I use now wherever it’s available.
> That's the same as tying the consequences a person faces for a crime to their wealth (given how predictable the severity of these "2nd order consequences" are!)

I would actually say it's the opposite.

If you punish everyone with the same fine, their wealth is divorced from the punishment.

If you punish each person depending on their wealth, the punishment is directly proportional to their wealth.

In saying that, very poor people are definitely disproportionately affected by equal punishment. Though you could also say poor people would be more motivated to commit crimes if the punishment was proportional, since they stand to gain a lot more than a rich person.

I don't think there's a right answer.
The good news is that there's very little calcium carbonate on the moon, so you'll have to build it out of something else. Probably thermally fused silicates.
It's not common at all.
> The point of tax evasion is to not break the laws, otherwise it would be called tax fraud.

This is not true. Tax Evasion is an illegal activity.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taxevasion.asp

I believe the term you want is "Tax Avoidance". The terms, although similar, have very different meanings. However, if a company is merely engaging in Tax Avoidance, the state can't force them to pay taxes.
See https://lh3.github.io/2020/05/17/fast-high-level-programming...

Also I should note that Julia performance greatly improved since. Next week there should be the 1.6.0 release, which will have even better numbers.
I agree that health care is very expensive, but you may be overestimating a bit... I looked up some plans on California's exchange for a hypothetical family of 5, and all except for the "platinum" tier were between $1200/mo and $1600/mo -- so 6% to 9% in this particular example.

With a lower income, the percentage would increase -- but only up to a point since a family of 5 starts qualifying for ACA subsidies if their income is less than $120K.

The subsidies make a big difference -- 84% of people who purchase insurance through the exchanges receive a subsidy and the average monthly cost of a plan after taking subsidies into account is $145 (vs $595 without) [1].

[1] https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/will-you-receive-a...
> Yes, there is one in the proposed "B" extension. Not good enough: it won't be in the smaller chips, or even in the biggest ones for a good while.

The lowRISC Ibex core which I work on and whilst not the smallest core is definitely at the small end has full bitmanip extension support: https://github.com/lowrisc/ibex

Yes the extension isn't finalised yet but we're not expecting much change so we can tweak the implementation to match the ratified standard when it appears.

I'd also note bitmanip is broken up into subgroups so it's possible smaller cores will only implement the simple stuff (e.g. Popcount) to avoid the overhead of the full implementation.
Huge parts of Europe are also car dependent and we also have urban sprawl.
There was an interesting pilot performed by SEI (Stockholm Environmental Institute) and UCL, using shipping data from Brazil, that tried to attribute shipping emissions to commodity type [0]

0: https://www.sei.org/publications/shipping-emissions-per-comm...
That comparison is dishonest.

You are claiming that if rmrfstar can't do it, it doesn't exist.

If a given forum commenter does not know how to buy someone's cell-tower location does not mean that an experienced practitioner could not, etc. for the other data.
I've never heard of that.

What I have heard, though, is that string operations are more expensive in pypy than cpython.

Regardless, performance gains and regressions are unlikely to generalize; what's true for someone else's project may not be true for yours. If you're concerned about performance, I recommend benchmarking your own codebase.
Low end selvedge denim lasts longer than a decade and even low quality denim lasts. You don't wear stuff out of fashion though, it would be like wearing the best of the 90s.
You're also assuming that the clothes get worn. The cheaper stuff may just be worn as much as the high quality stuff or that they continue to be used.
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> So the phone company provided a way for criminals to organize in secret and communicate with each other without having to meetup in person so the phone company is responsible for that crime?

This is a bad analogy. The phone company isn't a broadcaster. Facebook is.
interesting thought
Reading on an iDevice in 2012 was light years ahead of almost everything else, owing to their displays.
China is even more about outwards appearances, so Tesla will do just fine. They have enough wealthy people there.
Doesn't matter. The rags companies get clothing and Africa imports tons of clothing for free. The clothes aren't all just made and discarded, they often have a second life.
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I don't see that. The reason that Facebook was even possible is safe harbor laws that shield them and every one of their vendors from liability.
It is a pretty rare word to come across in modern writing.

"And a sea of pulchritudinous models would have served as a lesson on how not to choose words: the ugly pulchritude sounds like the opposite of what it means, and it is one of those words that no one ever uses unless they are trying to show off.” https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40167209-the-sense-of-...
1 does not equal "1 of <something>", the latter is a concrete example only (and as mentioned the quantity error, you would have 2 drops of water if the volume of 1 drop stays consistent).

1 is an abstract concept applied to many things that share this "singleton property".
While the argument that our self-models and social models evolved from our early "covert attention" mechanisms may in fact be valid, it still doesn't explain what consciousness is. Without introducing panpsychism [1], these explanations of consciousness fall prey to the Chinese Room argument [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
"About 13 percent of the solid waste in Missouri landfills is demolition waste."

From page 128 of
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Or maybe he got a better offer from somewhere else.

Or something else happened after they were hired. Maybe they had to move across country to be closer to their aging parents etc.
Spend some time in actually wintery places, like the north of Sweden/Norway/Finland, or Siberia, and you'll find most people don't drive large vehicles. AWD and snow tires make a far bigger difference than raw size, and plenty of SUVs are utterly terrible in winter conditions.