skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For our company (we have a SAAS product for university researchers to run experiments online), the big ones that are working for us at the moment are:

- ActiveCampaign (https://www.activecampaign.com/)

Marketing Automation - you can create email campaigns (send this, then in a week send this, and then if they clicked on email A then send email C, otherwise email D, etc etc). I know you asked for sales stack, but this does the first two bullets in your list.

- Pipedrive (https://www.pipedrive.com/)

This lets you manage your sales funnel, move things from stage to stage as you get closer to closing, and so on. Also has automations where you can e.g. change properties on a deal automatically when it moves to a new stage

The other big part is Zapier - in my experience there are TONS of sales/marketing tools and sooner or later you end up using a few and then glueing bits of your process together using Zapier (if they don't have the integrations built in). There are also big, all-in-one platforms like HubSpot, but they tend to be dauntingly expensive for small companies.

In general, we've found that we've needed to experiment a bit to get the internal process right, and then figure out which tools fit us, rather than starting with the tools and bending what we do to how they're set up.

In our case, the basic idea is that if someone interacts with our site and signs up for a newsletter, say, they get put into ActiveCampaign so we can send them an email campaign. If they do something a bit more meaningful (e.g. request for pricing, or fill in a form for a sales enquiry) we might automatically then add a deal to Pipedrive which the sales team can then follow up on.

EDIT: links
A half decent flat in London costs in excess of 2000£ per month. Where “decent” means you don’t deal with pests, walls are not made of paper and your neighbour going to the toilet doesn’t cause the whole building to shake.

Universal healthcare varies a lot in Europe, for instance in the UK it is rather limited compared to continental Europe, even compared to Southern Europe. In the UK you would need a health insurance costing ~200-300£pm to enjoy the same quality of care of places like Italy or Germany.

On the other hand a good developer in the US may earn enough to retire in 5 years, 500K$ per annum are not totally unheard of. In Europe if you are very very good, you may get slightly above 100K£, but it’s still extremely rare and you will end up paying half of that in taxes.
Stay away from such interview process. Well written FOSS projects can be a huge plus but not having any should never be a minus.
That the American Dream is an intellectual ponzi scheme?

Btw I've been listening to some AM radio recently and the blatant demagoguery of these guys (between commercials of how you can become a landlord while never interacting with the tenants) is just absurd (e.g. 'there's nothing we can do about global warming {with no supporting explanation }').
What are "functional cookies"? Are analytics/telemetries cookies functional? Are cookies identifying google users so they can receive targeted content but also ads "functional"?

GDPR never bothered to specify. This is why GDPR is broken and sadly it broke the web.
If life is like that, then why bother going?
This kind of shit is just another example of why OSH is so important. Anyone who thinks we can convince people not to adopt a technology like this at scale is absolutely kidding themselves...we MUST develop functionally equivalent, affordable, and sexually appealing open alternatives that make privacy the easy, automatic default
That’s not the reason. In China, Myanmar, Egypt, and several other countries this service will not be available at all. Those customers will just have regular old iCloud.

A more likely reason is that video streaming services with georestrictions like Netflix, Amazon, or BBC would have lost their minds.
It's perfectly contextual (the whole point of the article is looking past records kept by European explorers). I think maybe people grate at seeing the words "white|European male" in any context but that's not the writers problem, that's a fact integral to the story.

Here's the passage in question for those that haven't seen TFA.

>Wehi said collating traditional Maori accounts helped give a broader view of Antarctic history, beyond the accounts of European male explorers that usually predominate.

>"History tends to be told by one voice and there's often a dominant narrative," she told the New Zealand Herald.

> "Often indigenous history and even women's history becomes invisible, so for me it's about making that history visible."
Yes. We would publish it in near future.
To add to this: it's very unlikely you have a company that knows how to manage a dream employee efficiently. Or just regular employees really.

Ask yourself this when hiring: you genuinely have a series of actually-actionable tasks ready to go for the new hire? Do you have the right resources on hand who understand that a part of their job is to answer questions about those projects from the new hire (and it will probably be a whole lot of stuff)?

The answer is going to be that you probably don't, and so whoever you hire, no matter how good they are, your company will just never know.
seems nu can do a lot of otherwise horrid sed/awk/cut/etc parsing for bash. that is great!
More like they have a bizarre mix of numbers which are way too large and those which are way too small. Technological civilization lasting 100M years per planet? But those civilizations only try to colonize once per 100K years? And, at the same time, their colony ships take tens of thousands of years to reach their destinations? I have a hard time imagining ways in which all of those are true at once.
Does this mean that all DDoS mitigation techniques need to exist before the exit node of this traffic? Which in turn mean, that everyone needs to outsource their DDoS mitigation to Apple.

Also the corollary would be, that anyone who is able to bypass the protection mechanisms Apple has in place to control DDoS, can use it to DDoS a service like Google, Microsoft and get the entire service banned for all iCloud+ users. Right?
Is putting barriers into how huge multinational companies can exploit their data farming to cement an unchallengeable position in the market and kill off competition or dissent within the system "tight control into who can put messages in front of the general public"?

You are framing this as if I am somehow advocating censorship towards people, yet I am advocating the opposite position. Executives shouldn't be given a such huge powers of data mining and information distribution and ability shut powerless opposition and competition out. This is about preserving equal voice to all people, and preventing juggernauts from squashing it.
Have you noticed all the ads say “Hackers can spy on your connection when you log into your bank at Starbucks.”

That’s complete FUD. HTTPS completely avoids this issue (especially with a bank). Very few websites use HTTP now.

While VPNs do have their valid use (preventing your ISP from spying, changing geolocation, and private networks for eg, work), most of the marketing is spreading misinformation.
On social media, ideological orthodoxy and cancel culture
I don't know, they're fun. Why is there so much hate for such a simple enjoyment in the comments?
> A well done CRUD app should be pretty simple

Should it?

I'm currently building a "simple" CRUD app as a side-project. My background is in game development and backend, and I decided to learn React and React Native in the process. But at one point I realised that I want to app to be functional while the user doesn't have internet and sync afterwards, and now I'm in hell.

Now, I have to make all post requests idempotent, cache them on the client in case there's no internet, serialise and deserialise this cache when app quits and turns back on, display optimistic updates on the client as well but at the same time make it transparent in UI that those updates were not yet synced on the server, and handle request queue in such a way that when I send two requests that modify the same client-server object response to the first request that comes after optimistic update from second request doesn't override it, but a failure of one of the requests cancels all subsequent ones. I think I just got a headache writing that sentence. I also need invalidate local client cache of different server objects based on what mutation did I attempt to do and what result did I get from the server — when you create an object of some kind, different collections of these objects are invalid now, some can be updated optimistically, some need to be refetched. And I also need to invalidate these caches based on different kinds of errors returned from the server: authorisation, authentication, network problems, invalid user input and unknown problems that probably signify errors in my code all need to be handled differently.

May be I'm missing something, but implementing all of that functionality properly still seems like an unsolved problem out of the box. I've already prototyped solutions using useSWR, React Query and Redux, and I'm still not satisfied, as not of all these cases are handled properly. However, now I understand why so many web and mobile apps have so many bugs: based on the state of the tools and libraries, it seems that most developers simply don't care for all these cases and mostly stay on the happy path, cutting their workload by the factor of 10.
I don’t think this service is being offered in China, period.
I think that's painting with a pretty broad brush. What's wrong with Mullvad, for example?
I was thinking about this too, but it doesn’t seem like there’s an island far enough north that it would make much of a practical difference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antarctic_and_subant...
Does anybody know if the creator of a "Lego Idea" gets royalties if their kit ends up in stores?
Yes you're right, I was giving a reason more than an excuse. I don't think they should be doing it.
>If you see a common phrase in your code repeated many times, you can just cut it, paste it into a new definition, replace all the instances of the common phrase with the new definition and everything still works as before.

This is a profound distillation of the essence of Forth. You can stop repeating yourself without the need to work out all the parameters, variables, return values, etc.
I tried to use Joplin for a while, and stopped largely due to the same reasons as you.

I switched to Obisidan, which also stores all its notes locally in Markdown, offers all the features you want and a robust plugin ecosystem, has a (beta) mobile client, and is pretty.

The one thing it doesn't have that I really want is "WYSIWYG" markdown editing, a la Typora (but it's on the roadmap!).
Alphabet's Waymo raises $2.5 bln in funding round
This is true of shell built-ins for eg. test too.

The solution is to use the full path if you want to use the program, not the shell built-in.

In this case, "/usr/bin/open" not "open" will get you the macOS utility. If you get sick of doing that, create a shell alias.
> If the population's generally the same, but slathering on far more sunscreen every decade – but cases still go up & mortality barely budges – there's little hint of effective protection.

It is not so simple to come to this conclusion. You would have to establish that time spent in sun per person has not gone up, that per person use of sunscreen (good quality sunscreen) has gone up by a measurable amount, that it is being used properly, and the cancer is happening on areas where sunscreen was used. In addition, you would have to control for people living longer.

Note that the US population in less sunny and cold areas (Midwest and Northeast) has stalled for 3 decades compared to explosive growth in population in the South and West (sunny, warm areas).
I didn’t say I was going to sign up :)

But I don’t think it’s too far fetched. Imagine a VR system that doesn’t require wearing a helmet and can be displayed in physical space. And/or a Matrix-style direct jack into the brain. Any environment you can think of, easily accessible. Doesn’t seem that bad to me.

Beyond that, A lot of people already spend 10+ hours staring at screens here on Earth...
If it's as they say I guess it will look pretty bad for someone like Martha Coakley to have been their face.
Nearly all UK financial advisers shun crypto and 'meme stocks' – Opinium
What does it mean that you don’t believe in human nature? Surely there has to be some baseline that’s based in genes and hormones and so on (that we’re not yet sophisticated enough to precisely define, of course). Obviously nurture plays a huge role as well.

Or do you believe that if you were raised like a tiger in the wild, you would think and behave exactly like a wild tiger?
I doubt there is an easy fix in cases like Google Calendar due to consumer expectations. Simply put, there are certain types of data that many consumers expect to be synchronised, and those of us who have the opposite expectation (or only want certain data to be synchronised) are likely in the minority.

This is somewhat different from most tracking done on the web, which is done for the exclusive benefit of those doing the tracking.
That looks almost identical, does Stabel offer a way to type check the parameter or anything?
Counterexample: the Internet. Reliable communication over unreliable networks. Any highly-available system with better reliability than any individual component also shows that it's not _impossible_ to build from unreliable components, though it might be difficult.
I think I have read some old source where this occurs. Possibly the Bible or Shakespeare. Get the mark to do their deeds while a trustworthy witness is hidden somewhere to watch.
Media is already plural. Medium is the singular.
FedEx to test package deliveries with self-driving startup Nuro
He is not saying he is unique. He is saying that he don't find value in studying philosophy or what someone long ago says about how he should live.

That is not nearly the same as thinking you are terribly unique.
Just curious, are you on the free tier? Just wondering if 300k queries per month is sufficient for the average person. I have no reference to base that number on.
Let me spin your question back at you: Do you not acknowledge that yes, many (not all) crimes are committed as a result of desperation, addiction, or otherwise poor community conditions that could be prevented by better social services?
> A "directive" is a legislative act that sets out ...

Maybe my wording was a bit vague. How about: "The GDPR is an EU Regulation which is, by definition, a binding legislative act which applies in its entirety across the EU without the need for Member States to pass any further national legislation. This is different to EU Directives, which EU Member Sates will implement by translating them into their own national law - which in turn does give Member States room to 'interpret' the Directive's requirements - subject to legal challenge in the Court of Justice of the European Union"
Apple has sort of addressed this with only having it work with Safari and other apps that implement the API, rather than system-wide as something you can connect to. It’s probably going to take a lot of reverse engineering before hackers figure out the API and how to get third party devices to connect and authenticate, if at all. If you can’t get third party devices to connect, you are missing the first D in DDOS.
Then how do you have all that money? And where are you keeping it?

(1) Earning that money is still growing the economy, and (2) even a zero-interest bank account is growing the economy (you're just not seeing any remuneration for your part in that) - and (3) even if you took the money home and destroyed it, since you're still working, you're providing a very useful deflationary function since it means someone else can print more money safely (and once again you're helping grow the economy, just yielding your output to a third party).
Our software essentially is for registering and sending some official forms to the government. We're based in Norway but couldn't get access to Danish governmental systems for testing our because we had no physical presence in Denmark.

We couldn't just set up a PO box and get an org. number, apparently that wasn't enough.

So far one of our customers have been kind enough to lend us their credentials for testing, but yeah would have been nice to have our own.

In Sweden we spent almost two years after being done getting our software released there, as the officials required that the main UI was approved by them and it involved a ton of back-and-forth.

Not just that, but each major version change that altered the main UI would also have to be approved...

The Finnish are quite decent at spending money on their government IT systems it seems, so they're more up to date. However not all documentation is in English and while your average Norwegian can read Danish and Swedish just fine, Finnish is something else entirely.

And of course all the Scandinavian governments have completely different systems for this, even though the forms are essentially the same across the countries, so zero code sharing there. Heck the Danish even have two completely different systems depending on which form you send.

We're just dealing with the Scandinavian countries, I'm sure it's similar in the other EU countries.
I answer to myself after finding the answer: " The image was snapped by a remote camera deployed by the rolling rover." (from https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210615.html)
Google One storage space management
Does it replicate smells, tastes and touch sensations as well as just sound and vision? I spend a lot of time staring at a screen, but it's the time I spend not staring at a screen and interacting with other beings that makes life worth living.
Ohio budget may impact broadband money, government networks
If I feared sleep ads I would simply not put an internet-connected speaker running untrusted code in my bedroom.
We know how small: 4% clicked to opt-in to IDFA tracking in iOS 14. And I suspect a large number of those are people who got confused and clicked on the wrong button.
A lot of people in this thread are forgetting that it’s not necessarily about the actual completed object but more the process of putting it together that often brings the most joy with LEGO.

I don’t think I’m more at peace than the few times a year I sit down with a new LEGO kit and build it. It’s a delightfully enjoyable break from just about everything else that keeps my mind busy and is such a calming activity.
I think it's the density rather than the absolute size of population in cities.
Maybe unpopular, but I don’t think the victim’s pain and suffering should be relevant in determination of guilt, sentencing, or reintegration, just as a victim’s resiliency is obviously not. The important thing is the demonstrated intent and willingness to do harm, or inability to control their harmful behavior, because that is what we can expect more of.
I really hate this argument. You can't reliably determine the exact temperature or future weather conditions by looking out of the window.
GP wanted to watch BBC News in particular. I don’t think there’s any licensing issue with that, surely?
> I'd rather advocate for a proper block-level filesystem API that could be used as backing storage for a WASM SQLite library.

This is happening at https://web.dev/storage-foundation/ fwiw
To be fair, it's part of quite a few URLs, just usually called "fbclid" or "ref" or "utm_*" or encoded in a cookie.
The continuity is an illusion. What is continuous? The matter in your body? The way your brain is wired? Your memories? All of these things are in a more or less constant state of change. That's without getting in to things like the concept that you might just be a Boltzmann Brain. The only "you" that you can be certain of is the one experiencing its existence in the immediate moment.

Perform this thought experiment: identify things that make you "you". Now, one by one, ask yourself "if that was stripped from me, would I still be me?". Are you still you without each of your memories? Without each of your talents? Your opinions? Your body? Your genes? Continue long enough and I believe you will see that there is literally nothing you can't strip away.

Consider things like Alien Hand Syndrome, or that people can live with half their brain removed and it doesn't even matter which half. Which hemisphere is the one that contains "you"?

Consider why people are willing to sacrifice their lives for others. Why do people voluntarily end their own existence for the betterment of their children, their community, their nation, or their ideals?

There are literally thousands of years of philosophical writing on the concept that I cannot hope to do justice to.
“rewrite (the easy parts of) $battle-tested-ancient-coreutil in rust” seems interesting as an exercise or as a way to learn a new language, but i’m not convinced of it’s broader utility.
Yes. Stabel is staticly typed, and types are inferred if the type signature is left out. You could also write the code as:

def: cube
type: Int -- Int
: dup dup * *
I've never understood how a VPN doesn't get too carried away to pull a MITM with some central cert
Where do you find low level positions? I'm in a similar position as the OP and I'd be fine with an entry level job (at entry level pay), but they're all labeled as 'intern' or 'new grad'.
Government via WhatsApp: Boris Johnson Calls Health Secretary “Fucking Hopeless”
That's sort of the opposite of what I've read from the companies operating at this scale; most seem to assume that failures are inevitable in a sufficiently large distributed system, that tracking the root cause of every failure is infeasible, and that the solution instead is to design resilient systems.
Finally!

Why on earth this was not implemented in the first place on web browsers?
Coworkers can actually see how productive someone is, assuming they are actually 10X that’s not a problem. I have worked with people that I thought should be making bank.

The only issue is people outside your organization, but they have no idea what a given title means. Scrum Lord’s make 500k, wonder what they do?
That is the "deterrence" wing of the list above. Shouldn't that primarily be the job of the criminal justice system? If someone is free after a punishment, and seems repentant, do you think it is the job of uninformed/half-informed citizens reading a local police blotter from 10 years ago to shame someone for their past?
When We All Pretended We Had Computers
Obviously we are speculating here, but projecting current tech 300-400 years into the future, it doesn’t seem that absurd to me.

And don’t forget that you’d be in space with tons of other colonists too.
I'm not sure about the specific context here, but benchmark warm-ups are often used to make sure that the program's run time is nothing but that, and doesn't include things like setting up an environment or compiling to a cache.

I think there are sometimes arguments to be made that, for the user, that is run time. When using benchmarks to compare programs like this, though, I think isolating the "actual" (i.e. useful) program execution is productive.
It wouldn't have been too hard to just implement this feature for chinese customers if that was the only driver.

But I agree that making the exit node in the same country probably goes beyond video content providers, it avoids all sorts of potential legal, diplomatic and practical issues.
Ask HN: Contract help desk support for our SaaS app
I run a small SaaS company. We get 2-5 user tickets a month that go to our helpdesk. I previously had some contractors monitor the help desk and answer tickets (according to a runbook) but they ghosted me and quit without any communication.

Does anyone have a quality agency they recommend that we could engage to monitor our helpdesk? Looking to pay ~$500 / month.

Thanks!
Of course it was a false flag issue, it never made sense from the beginning.