skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of good recommendations here.

I think that selling, especially the selling you’re talking about has a lot to do with mindset. I am also an entrepreneur and I have found for my own sales process that mindset and a bias toward action have produced more results and a more comfortable, natural selling style that fits me personally rather than trying to sound like someone else or use someone else’s techniques.

For this I highly recommend “sell or be sold” by grant cardone. Ignore the macho bravado, and take the mindset of sales that he has. Really helped me a lot in selling myself and selling my company rather than selling a product (although it la good for that too). I also recommend “if you’re not first you’re last” and “the 10x rule” also by grant cardone. Good luck!
You are reading too much into cududa’s comment and mine, quite a bit of things neither of us said.

Cududa mentioned Microsoft let the NSA review it - that it was procedure, not that it was law. Furthermore, no one claimed that NSA recommendations or replacement DLLs had to be used by law - though that makes little difference. I mentioned that this would be in line with well known history of DES development. That’s basically all we said about it.

I have no idea what you are referring to with the Clipper chip. But RSA, NIST and others were definitely aware they were peddling NSA recommendations With the dual-drbg fiasco.
I love reading about newly discovered works from the ancients. I'm really hoping some of the missing plays and history and math shows up here. There are also those burned red sea scrolls, I hope later tech can read them.
The ROS Theory of Obesity
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I think it’s very hard to launch a product in a foreign market without validating it in a domestic market first.
I believe the median salary in Loudoun County, VA, which is the richest county in the US or close, is around $70K. The lower boundary of "middle class" must be lower, then.

So I continue to think that the six-figure norm people talk about is within a "reality distortion field".
Users flagged it. That's the usual answer to this question.
Nice, i will add link to your project to my GH :)

I see you solving +- same problem but a bit different way + my board have OLED to show the status and also that you supporting work on battery and i was not doing that. Another different i found that you using custom hw board. I was thinking about this initally, but later decided that motor driver is the best match here. This would work (with a small changes) with 24v version as well, but will require different hardware (custom h-bridge?) for the 60V version.
As an engineer turned founder, your instinct to jump in and start doing it is correct. It’s hard to learn from books. I never did, neither did the successful engineers turned sales people that I know. The key is learning to read each situation so you can apply the right approach. You also seem self aware which will help you learn faster.

My biggest advice is get a coach/mentor/consultant who you talk with once per week to get feedback. This is how professional sales people learn in practice (eg from a sales manager). This will accelerate you learning by a factor of 10 versus doing it yourself. They will help you read each situation and push you to focus on the right places. Otherwise it’s easy to flounder on the wrong ones.

RE metrics- closed business is the only one that matters! Do whatever gets you that as fast as possible.

I wasted a year when I first founded Amplitude trying to brute force it myself and closed a grand total of two contracts for $36k. After that I ended up working with a guy named Mitch Morando and got from $36k to $1M in ARR in less than a year. He cost me $5k a month and increased our market cap by $20M, it was well worth the investment. I’m happy to make an intro if you’d like.

Good luck on the journey ahead and I’m excited for you!
> "Senior Developer" is a heavily diluted term at this point. You can generally only count on it meaning 3 years experience. It's effectively code for "did not wash out".

Ha, I recall a link to a blog post on the subject here on HN very recently. It certainly struck a cord with me.

> The problem here seems to be that you are in fact a Lead Engineer, not a Senior Engineer, which does have some pretty hefty expectations associated with it. You feel like the blind leading the blind.

This is totally correct. It's been more pronounced since we hired an engineer who had a short tenure at a FAANG. While I believe there is rough parity in how we model and build software, there's a huge gap in our understanding of devops and systems architecture. I am a painful bottle neck in that area and I am sure the engineer in question feels the same.
The salient point in this case is that one of those persons was a journalist.

Conspiring with sources to obtain secret information is what investigative journalists do. Doing so illegally is sometimes clearly bad (like the UK Daily Mail hacking celebrity phones), and sometimes clearly good (Manning and Snowden).

Journalists are never normally prosecuted for breaking the Official Secrets Act (and equivalents in other countries). This case is the first time that's happened. It sets a precedent for other cases against journalists in the future as the US and UK governments get more authoritarian and less open.

The initial indictment against Assange was an attempt to draw some kind of line between him and "proper" journalists. The new indictment (which had to be created because, as the prosecution admitted, the first one would have failed) makes no such distinction.

This is bad for society. Assange is a bit of a twat, but this needs to stop because the ramifications are enormous.
For desktop use, I run Debian stable for the first six months or so after release, and then switch to testing. That ends up being enough time for things to settle down, and, remarkably, I have near-zero issues with testing.

One thing that is a pain is that testing isn't covered by the Debian Security Team, and sometimes gets fixes a week or so after stable does, so you do need to be more proactive about security issues.
A motorcycle is a good option then. You reduce the risk to others.
I think there might be an issue with definitions. I thought maybe Raph was talking about the Observer pattern from Gang of Four, and that you are talking about Observables as incrementally computed expressions.

I can remember a long time ago reading about an Observer pattern for a UI. Views would subscribe to a model. When the model changed, the views were notified. The Views then queried the model and determined how to update. It was suggested that for more efficient updates the change notification could carry some information(context) to indicate what had changed. The article didn’t discuss this information optimization further.
There are no downvotes on submissions. Flags do have downweighting effects, once a certain threshold of flags has been crossed.
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I'm building an opinionated domain-specific language for generating GraphQL APIs. You define your schema (models), authorization rules, and you can then extend it's functionality with JavaScript or Python.

I want to know about your pain points with existing BaaS solutions such as Firebase, AWS AppSync/Amplify, etc. so I solve them with the somain-specific language I'm building.

Thank you.
Those links seem to completely confirm Stallman’s side of the story.
> Logic is fundamental and proven to be able to apply in reality

Nothing is fundamental in logic, 2500 years later and we still haven't "figure out" Zeno's paradoxes, and as such we haven't been able to refute either Parmenides's nor Heraclitus's way of looking at things/reality.

Yes, the statements brought up by Aristotle a little later allowed us to be pretty efficient further down the road (without Aristotle's "Logic" we probably wouldn't have had "science" as we know it), but there's nothing fundamental about them. And I suspect Aristotle himself knew that, almost the only way he could attack Heraclitus's views were "ad hominem"s, there was nothing "fundamental" in his explanations of why Heraclitus was wrong and why he was right.
And you then sign up to ShoppingSpree.com in order to get your thing delivered. Email verification comes in, everything set. You get to the final order screen, enter your address and now they tell you they don't ship to your country, and the information was never shown before, as they never actually performed the validation until after you signed up.

Yeah, been through that. So much fun.
Sometimes it's moderation, sometimes (more often) it's user flags, sometimes it's software affecting things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
>I'd much rather use it as a desktop dev environment than Linux

Yikes! I use Windows on my desktop at home because I like to play games on my computer that tend to not run well in WINE. I cannot program in Windows. I just can't. Even with WSL and vscode, I can't. Maybe I just suck as a programmer, but windows has a way of getting under my skin when I'm trying to get shit done.

I can use a Mac, but stuff like SIP forcing me to have a nonstandard disk layout (god forbid I want /usr/bin/python3 to be a thing because it is on every linux machine I use) pisses me the fuck off. I'm kinda tired of Apple making the computer into an iPad. Which is too bad, because it's been my programming platform of choice for a very long time.
> If Marcie can't find a useful application on day one of the "theory" she learns in school, what is the point? It's a 19th century curriculum for a 21st century world. Basic accounting and personal finance would probably serve most students better.

Sorry, but following this logic we will end up with a conclusion that almost no school knowledge is "useful". How useful is playing volleyball? Reading poetry? Painting? Studying history? Biology would be reduced to first aid and basic medicine.
I have those discussions with my daughters who learn how to do long multiplication. How is it useful if even I who know how to do it would rather use a calculator on my mobile instead? We would reduce math to basic operations on a calculators, probably nothing more would be considered useful by the majority of the population. The same apply to all other subjects.
In fact, if you are used to ad blocking in the web browser, it can make the problem worse! Every digital subscription I’ve paid for put me onto multiple mailing lists, some of which are active multiple times a week, and required me to unsubscribe from them individually.
Yes. And concepts (math) aren't language.
I’m not a physicist bu I’ve been observing my choices for years (Advaita practice) and still haven’t noticed anything I could call free will.

Unless we agree to call “life long conditioning, genetic makeup, trauma responses, habitual responses, present emotional state, thoughts and beliefs, environment, stimuli, any and all cultural influences, present blood sugar, hormonal levels, pulse, all preferences associated with avoidance of pain and striving for pleasure etc.” and a bunch of other factors which factors are absolutely out of our control, “free will”.

Once I started unpacking the phrase it became nonsensical.
> A few clicks and XP SP3 looks exactly like 2k, with a few useful features thrown in.

There wasn't much added to Windows XP over 2000 in the original release of XP (service pack 3 was released 6 years (!!!) after XP was originally launched. So it's not really fair comparing XP SP3 to Win 2k). I remember this era in computing vividly and it took a few service packs before XP really came into it's own. However you still paid the price running XP because it demanded double the hardware requirements to run when compared with Windows 2000. So sure, you could disable themes in XP but for many people sticking with Windows 2000 was more appealing because you had more preferable defaults out of the box plus less bloat / hardware overhead too.
Back in '14 I did a ASO course "App Store Optimisation" that pushed this technique. It was one of the things I didn't do because it seemed too cringy for me.
Well, your attributing my opinion to "flawed arguments" seems to be tit for tat.

I call it a wash ;)

Thanks for sharing. I assumed you didn't code, and just existed perhaps attached cybernetically to the news.yc HTTP pipeline. Nice to know there's at least some depth to ya.
How much for the unknown knowns -- the stuff we think we know, but isn't true?

That's what bit us in Iraq to the tune of 5T, no thanks to DR for ignoring it.
I don't have an iPhone, and I don't like Google's voice assistant - it's not reliable enough for me.

FWIW, I have my Pebble workflow simplified to "long hold down button" as a shortcut to timer list, then scroll to the right timer, "long hold middle button" to start it. It takes about as much time as it takes me to fetch my phone from my pocket. Also, since I do Pomodoros during work day (to keep myself focused), the timer list is usually always open on my watch, so the flow reduces to just scrolling through the list and activating the right timer - i.e. roughly 2 seconds. And, after activating the timer, I don't have a phone to stow back into my pocket :).

(Also, since the timer is active and visible on my watch, I can give an immediate answer whenever my wife asks me how much longer is the cooking going to take :). That one was a side benefit I didn't initially expect.)

> No configuration necessary. I appreciate that level of simplicity.

Yeah, that's good. In my case, I achieve almost the equivalent through pre-configuration: over time I've accrued a bunch of pre-set timers that cover 95% of my day-to-day needs. I rarely need to create a new one.

Anyway, that's what works for me now. I'm not saying this is optimal for everyone.
this device was not connected to AC input. And, btw, few yrs ago in EU AC based clocks had an issue due to problems in the grid (frequency was < 50Hz)
They also cite a different study:

In contrast, research with humans suggests that children’s relative familiarity with mirrors, which greatly varies across contexts, does not correlate with the age at which the mark test is passed (Priel & deSchonen, 1986). Priel and deShonen (1986) tested Bedouin nomadic children with no previous mirror experience and compared them to same-age Israeli children familiar with mirrors. They found no significant difference in the developmental onset of MSR between mirror familiar and unfamiliar children.
80% of Americans live in an urban area.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210...
Sure. I replied to another comment with a longer explanation of the definition of beauty, i suggest you check it out and give me your thoughts.

to be brief, beauty is a transcendental. thus, it exists independently of the individual, and further, exists independently of the material universe. thus, a claim like "this angle is 72 degrees" does not have an analog in metaphysical space because the object does not exist in an empirically measurable space. think of it this way: can you measure beauty, truth, or goodness with calipers? the notion is ridiculous because these ideas exist in metaphysical space, not in a material space. the definition of beauty converges on the conditions of integrity, harmony, and clarity. Does the music have integrity? Is it complete and whole? Or is it incomplete? Is the harmonious (think about this in terms past musical theory...)? Is it proportional? Does it exhibit symmetry (imo this is not limiting)? Or does it sew discord and disharmony? Is it asymmetric and poorly proportioned? Is it clear? Is processing fluency (ease to which information is processed) high?

A more interesting question to ask is: is this music in accordance with natural/divine law?

So, you can get an objective statement on beauty by understanding beauty as true, good, and virtuous. It is objectively complete, harmonious, and clear. It is the ideal to which art strives. Therefore, when something is in accordance with the nature of beauty, we can say objectively it is beautiful. We can make an antithetical statement to this if something (say the music) is in discord with the nature of beauty.
Let’s assume that LastPass has thought this through clearly. Would it be possible that they place more emphasis on Sign Up rather than Log In user due to some internal metric which they use to benchmark their service? I’m not saying the metric is right. I’m wondering why they chose to do so.
The second one, of course, but that should come from genuine reviews, not gaming the system because when you do that then it devalues the system for everyone.
Well, comparing those grants to YC is a bit of apples to oranges. That being said, I don't think it's wrong for medium to large companies to apply for these grants, and the US also does offer grants.
If they were just embracing Linux, it wouldn't be so nefarious. You're missing that they're already starting the "Extend" phase with proprietary DirectX extensions for WSL, encouraging developers who normally favor the Linux environment to instead target the WSL, which is Windows only.

This isn't just making deploying to Azure the happy path. This is ensuring that a generation of software in the Linux environment only works on Windows' WSL.
First time founder here who came from sales at a big consulting firm, and then and then had to develop the whole marketing and sales stack for our startup.

Most of the books recommended in this thread assume that you're working for a established firm, with product / market fit, etc.

Clearly that's not the case for a start-up.

Read up on what Pete Kanzanjy publishes https://www.foundingsales.com/ - it covers the the "founder-led sales" phase.

How I did it:

- you interview as many prospects and customers as possible

- you understand what keeps them up at night, what specific pain points they have, the language they use to describe their situation

- you shape your messaging to solve those specific pain points, using their own language

- wrap your messaging into a story - the worst you can do is "problem / solution". people don't buy that way. people buy change, and you use the story to communicate that change.

I wrote a totally too long Medium post on the whole topic:

https://medium.com/@larskamp/the-5-cs-an-operating-framework...

as somebody else pointed out on this thread - be read to deal with objection! You'll likely collect 9 "No's" for each "yes!"
This title is inaccurate, and a bit misleading.

For starters, the numbers presented are ratios, so the ".00003%" should be "0.003%".

The numbers are sourced from the age groups 0-19, 20-49, and 50-69 for Scenario 5, "Current Best Estimate". (Table 1) The article and Table description repeatedly states these "are not predictions or estimates of the expected impact of COVID-19."

Looking at fatalities alone, these scenarios see at worst 1/10000 deaths for ages 0-19, 1/3333 for ages 20-49, 1/100 for ages 50-69, and 1/10.8 for ages 70+. But again, these are not predictions of the expected effects of COVID-19.

(And a note to future readers: "The parameter values in each scenario will be updated and augmented over time, as we learn more about the epidemiology of COVID-19." The numbers on this page will change over time. As of this post, the article was last updated September 10th.)
The problem is that these are not made to crash-worthiness standards of other cars. The article hints around this when it says that in China an electric car that has top speed under 100 km/h (around 60 mph) has very little regulations attached to it.

So these are wonderful, if you do not consider that they will have to share the road with actual cars which can easily pancake them and kill the occupants.

With the advance of batteries, power electronics and electric motors, there all kinds of cool new modes of transportation coming up but they are all kind of metaphorically and sometimes physically crashing against the concept of cars and the fact that all of our streets are basically made for cars.

I think we have to start seriously rethinking cities in view of these new modes of transportation. I would suggest a city center where there are no cars and bycicles and various slow speed electric vehicles, like scooters and glorified golf carts are allowed to roam. And then you can have the suburbs where full sized cars (electric or not) can drive but will have to have full modern crash protection.

Something like this is already starting to vaguely happen in some cities in Europe. It is of course easy to do in some european cities where the streets in their centers were pre-industrial and never designed for cars to begin with. But it is something to be expanded.

And it will be very helpful if large international manufacturers created a "glorified golf cart" standard that was reasonably safe for pedestrians and bicyclists (again assuming that it does not have to share the road with cars) so that the cities around the world can start doing city planning around it.

This "$5k electric car" is a glorified golfcart pretending to be a car, which is quite dangerous, because people will treat it like a car and will all to late realize how bad it fares when it crashes with actual cars.
Other than the license and ecosystem, isn't the Windows kernel broadly superior?
In the 00 years I started my first company with a product called "Search Engine Optimized Distribution of Pressreleases and -communication over Blog and Web 2.0 Networks".

Today we would call it Corportae Blogging.

I created a product, a blog CMS (very poor on the M) and wanted to convince companies of SEO and blogging. Non of it where anywhere on their radar.

And 0 sales experience from my side.

I fail and realized I needed sales experience. So I applied and became a key account and a slazy company which sold crappy websites to estate agents.

Worst job ever. Learned a lot.

If you want to really learn sales, start selling. Just change your job for a while.
Interestingly, I'm pretty sure apps that drive traffic to other apps are generally not permitted on the app store, per some huge HN thread recently featuring a letter to Tim Cook from the developer of such an app who got removed.

I feel like the internet-pro's work around to validating quality of anything, strangely, is to find a reddit thread where people seem to discuss it meaningfully and logically.
Both. Say I’m looking for a budget app. They can be very different and work very differently. Also given that it is still possible to buy reviews, how much do you really trust them. I would even look at the app that had 1000 one star reviews out of curiosity. I mean Apple’s own apps often have a 2 star average and they are the ones I use all the time.

I think I’m going to adopt the strategy of leaving a 1 star review saying “the app prompted me to review it before I got to use it”.
Yes, but the concept is not the language.

E.g. the word “carbohydrate”, or it’s equivalent in different languages, describes a concept; but the concept itself exists independently of any language construct that describes it. Similarly, in math, a concept e.g. “prime number” is independent of the many ways and many languages you can use to describe it. It just is.
From the end of the post: "Now, counterfeiters re-label RC4200 chips and sell them as the more-expensive AD633 multiplier."

The counterfeiters are doing this now, not in the 1970s. They just happen to be using a chip from 1978 since it is still available and cheap to impersonate a more recent chip that is more expensive.

My first encounter with counterfeit ICs was in the late 1980s. Though PCs had been designed to use memory with parity, nearly everybody turned off parity checking in the BIOS. That made it popular to sell DRAM SIMMs/DIMMs with 8 good memory chips and one bad one. Sometimes the ninth chip wasn't actually bad but just a cheaper one that was far slower than the other eight.
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I don’t see anything that resembles a startup accelerator. Am I wrong? Are there examples of such companies?