skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations on your launch and good luck! The following are my initial impressions and thoughts upon a brief review of your product. Hope this helps.

1. It seems that pretty much all of the functionality that your platform offers could be quite easily re-implemented (assuming relevant in-house B2B sales knowledge and experience) by using one of comprehensive general team collaboration & task management platforms (e.g., Asana). It would be much cheaper on a per-seat basis in the long term as well as incomparably less limiting in terms of external application integrations.

2. It appears that your unique selling proposition is bundling B2B sales functionality with relevant playbooks (in the form of templates) and on-demand help by B2B sales experts.

3. Apparently, your platform belongs to the "sales enablement" category of SaaS platforms (with the focus on B2B sales). If I'm right on the classification, how do you position your product among relevant competing platforms (e.g., Outreach, Salesloft, Reply, Dock, Gong)?

4. Application integration limits are not attractive. So is the platform fee (apparently, it's not refundable if, for whatever reason, your customer decides to bail out in several months after onboarding). Pricing seems to be on the high side (see my point #1). Moreover, considering that this is a B2B-focused platform, I would make the solo tier free. That would not decrease your revenue much, since B2B sales is mostly a team sport, but might enable you to use the strength of now very popular Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy to grow revenue in a more organic fashion (yes, I know that you offer a free trial, however, AFAIK it doesn't have as large of a positive effect as a free tier).

5. Last point is more of a curiosity question: why does a 13-person startup need a 24-person(!) Product Advisory Board?
Please, can we make it `MonadIO m => m Bool` so that this can work with any IO-like monad and/or monad transformer stacks based off IO? It will also make unit testing much easier.
100+ years of knobs and the argument is "we still can't get it right"? I don't believe that.
How does paying a handsome lump sum to leavers help make them less underfunded? If the handsome amount is less than the value of the pension, rational people would leave it in there. If it’s more than the current value of the pension, rational people would take it out and the pension fund is thereby left worse off, right?
A warp drive is theoretically possible, and also driven by boring chemical/thermal/electrical interactions. humans may create one of those at some very far point in the future, too
> anyone interacting with the electromagnetic field that you haphazardly allow to escape the privacy of your residence is within their rights to do so

You seem to have an insufficient understanding of how wireless communication protocols work, in particular the 'communication' aspect. Simply detecting the signal would not allow you to use the WiFi network. You would have to establish a connection with the access point and actively and continuously exchange information with it, thereby directly using its resources.

This is not the same as coming across a fallen coin in the street, or reading by ambient light emitted by someone else's candle
Washington state voted on a smaller version of that, I-732, but it was opposed by half the environmental groups because they couldn't skim money off the top for themselves. So unfortunately it's going to be hard to pass such laws.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Washington_Initiative_7...
> Doctors aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” in the OR or when calculating dosages.

Yes they are. You should talk to an actual doctor before making such claims.
Personally I trawl it (there's a couple of search engines) looking for the weird stuff from the early internet that's hard to find these days.

Is 90% of it crap? Sure, but 90% of everything is crap (sturgeon's law), and it feels less corporate than the current internet. Also people seem to be less angry (on average).
Then, the restaurant should compensate anyone who doesn’t like the smell.

Or the restaurant should be fined for letting it’s smell escape the confines of its kitchen.
Relating computer science and mathematics to philosophy is already a fair and understandable argument. Yet, as separate divisions of professional academic labor, why do the fruits they bear look so different in terms of their ability to generate frameworks for multi-disciplinary consensus and international impact?
Just get him an iPad.
> Serverless is purely about CAPEX, vs OPEX.

What it's really about is managing cash flow and not spending your entire round until your team has some inkling as to what it costs for the revenues it's bringing in. This is considerably easier to do with cloud vendors, serverless or not.

It's also about operational velocity, and supporting engineering teams in getting things done without planning overhead that's almost always going to be wrong. Serverless is a tool, and if used right can significantly reduce costs. I can use a hammer to build a house, but I can also smash my fingers with it. Tools be be used improperly.

So once the company is mature, such that meaningful future predictions can be made from past data, then it finds itself in a position to make significant upfront outlays in response to current or future business needs. This usually involves the CFO & FP&A team building a model to see how such a change would impact the balance sheet over the next X years. If the numbers add up, it would absolutely make sense to spend the money. But that's not always the case, even for companies at scale.
https://climatebase.org/ and https://jobs.urban.us/ are two good places to look for higher end and more nuanced career opportunities to help mitigate climate change.
By taking 7 days to make the trip for one.
You were mostly right. I went as far as seeing a "Set up later in Wallet" button and tapped it. Now it's no longer showing an obnoxious red badge in settings. Thanks.
I used meta because I assumed you’d be aware of what I was referring to instead of cryptovoxels, sommium space, or webaverse. If you grant that the meta example would be useful if it exists, then we’d just be haggling over if eg cryptovoxels has enough analogous utility to pull it into the set of things you consider worthy.
Had adobe freed and invested in standardizing flash, the web could be a very different place today.
Just tap harder.
I don’t think the businesses that are buying insurance (my own included) are “just relying on insurance payments.” It’s just an additional layer of risk mitigation - not sure why there’s so much derision in many of the comments here.
Unfortunate naming collision with an earlier multi-platform text editor by Prof. John E. Davis:

https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

and someone else has already mentioned Jedit Ω
Mine was fine. Maybe if you were not signed into the app and didn’t have your backup rfid card in your wallet you’d be in trouble.
I see no reason to suspect there is any upper limit, in principle, to the complexity or sophistication of things humans can create. The reason is that we are tool users. We create tools, including mathematical and information processing tools that magnify our abilities. These then enable us to create even more powerful tools, which magnify our abilities even more. Rinse, repeat. There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason to me that this has any theoretical limit.

Practical limits maybe, but if dumb evolution can crack the AGI problem clearly it's not beyond practical physical limits.
> The problem is we're all now dependent on stock market performance to make retirement feasible.

Which seems a bit convenient for the wealthy. I think it was intentional, to align the interests of pensioners with the wealthy.

It seems to me that pensions are one thing governments can do a good job at, because companies may fail but the government is much less likely to be unable to pay retirement benefits. They may need to renegotiate the benefits but they won’t go to zero. And if companies fail the government provides a pension of last resort anyway.

Either way, we have set up a system where those with assets are slightly in the majority (65% home ownership, probably similar number with 401ks or stocks [1] 56%) and so will continue to vote themselves benefits at the expense of those who haven’t already acquired assets.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
Maybe we can forbid the function from returning 1 in the off case. The existence of such a function means that "is this machine running?" is semidecidable - but it's surely not decidable by the machine itself.
I agree a lot is lost in the noise due to presumption about what the other side means when they’re using “ownership.”
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You just jumped from "small fuckup" to "grossly negligent", come on now.
Seems premature to call it lasting when lots of landowners own a parcel of land longer than blockchains have existed.
As someone who's done 200 watts for 20 minutes, there's no way I'd give up 25 of those watts -- and I'm racing against no one but myself.
Be open to management as well as keeping the tech skills.

The management - and more broadly people skills - are acquired just like tech skills are, and just like tech skills some learn them faster or slower than others. Just like tech skills these are valued to companies.

But one needs to mix, I think. So people management skills + tech == tech manager. Sales + tech = well, sales, or pre-sales. Or consulting if it's more tech than sales. Design / project management skills + tech == product manager. If you're an absolute SME, then you can be a tech lead, an architect, and so forth, but you really need to stand out.

The above are purely my career observations, and are subject to disagreement on semantics, the spirit or the letter of what I'm saying, and such. I don't claim absolute truth.

My other observation, though: people in their 20's have hotter skills than people with white hair who had to re-tool their skillset. And re-tooling every few years sucks in my opinion. Again, my opinion. I hate working on personal tech projects or studying on the side outside of work just to keep my head above water.

I'd rather go hiking, or to the bar.
FOMO: the article
Ask HN: YC Interview Prep and Mock Interviews?
Hi HN!

2 days ago we received an email that YC will interview us in 2 weeks! We are super stoked, and of course quite nervous :)

I am looking for any tips, advice, guidance, and generally any information that you would think we would find helpful! Please comment below or reach out to me on twitter @AndreyKocevski. Also, if anyone's available for doing mock interviews please comment below and I will reach out to you ASAP! In case you're aware of any Slack groups that exist for this purpose, please send and invite or recommend the group, it will be much appreciated.

About us, we are a hard tech startup doing Central Bank Digital Currency that works completely offline, and its based on smartcards. Lots of jargon, but the simplest way to explain this is that we make debit cards that work completely offline, this means that even the terminals never need to be connected to the internet or GSM or any other network. You can also explain our product as being Digital Cash. Our customers are Central Banks globally, and other companies that work with Central Banks as gov contractors. Our main competition is a multi-billion dollar corporation that prints traditional banknotes for Central Banks, they also have a similar product. Our big vision is that in the future we can become alternatives to VISA and Mastercard, except we are completely privacy-friendly, and there's no fees per transaction. We have a great founder team, and a great advisor and investor team, quite well known in the industry.

Thanks for reading this, and if you're in the same boat good luck with the interview!
If you start puking or having vertigo, that 10% becomes DNF.
Once it leaves the confines of your property, you no longer own it. So you’re not stealing light that shine outside. If you care so much about the light you should close your shades. If you’re concerned about your neighbors freeloading off your heat, then you should compensate them when their heat causes them problems, as well.
Call me old fashioned but back in my day we used punch cards.
> The best way I can describe my project to you is the difference between owning a room and owning a picture of a room. You cannot enter the room, only see it from a static angle based on the picture.

You already said this, and as I mentioned you do not need, nor can I see why anyone would want, a decentralized trustless blockchain-backed token for this.

> To do this in web2 infra, like I said, is a much more complicated problem and would involve probably non-user friendly DRM.

No it wouldn't, it just requires certificates and maybe accounts if you want a backup in case people lose their certificates. Or you could use the accounts without the certificates. Millions and millions of services provide "access to a virtual room" or the equivalent already today without ever touching a blockchain.

Besides which, what are you describing if not Digital Rights Management? Don't pretend that NFTs aren't the same damn artificial scarcity nonsense in a hip new garb.

> You can write off my project as a get rich quick scheme, but that is from a point of ignorance from someone that probably hasn't tried to create something on their own and market it.

I have, and I wasn't any good at it, but that's irrelevant. The point is that the only reason you seem to want to use an NFT is so you can get paid for it, presumably because NFTs are hip and sexy and traditional infrastructure doing the same thing for millions of online services isn't. You're praying on people falling for the hype.

You have not explained specifically in what ways an NFT gives you a better ability to do what you're doing than traditional solutions, other than to simply assert that it does.

> I don't really care about your opinion on if you think I'm trying to make money for providing a product.

I don't bemoan people trying to make money on a product. But I do, in fact, look down on people trying to take advantage of a hype bubble and push FOMO by pretending like it is some kind of revolution.
When coldtea said "Well, as opposed to who of us?" he implied that we all are assholes. Given the reason I was saying that about Picasso, which are all linked to sexist behavior and patriarchy, I understood that "us" as "men".
I feel like people don't care because they expect the experts in that domain to care for them... that's us, probably.
Pidgin is quite simply a terrible XMPP client with none of the features of modern XMPP. I haven't had any issues with OMEMO with my contacts on Gajim.
I just ran a synthesis of their include demo Blinky and it ended with:

End of script. Logfile hash: 00b456ea46, CPU: user 3.19s system 0.13s
Yosys 0.10.0 (git sha1 a743417f0, clang 12.0.0 -fPIC -Os)
Time spent: 63% 17x read_verilog (2 sec), 6% 1x synth_xilinx (0 sec), ...

11/21/21 12:03 PM > Finished running Yosys with status: 0

(!!!)
You will never be "caught" unless you camp somewhere inappropriate or make a mess
Since the game is long term the strategy space is much more open for punishment and incentive creation.

Long term existence can be a motivating force, but you have to get the citizens to support solving the issue.
I still don't forgive Steve Jobs for his greed in killing Flash because he wanted to get a piece of everything iphone.
I learned absolutely nothing in my degree that I couldn't have learned from a book. In fact, everything I learned in my degree was from a book. The lecturers themselves were often terrible, and the lectures would have been far better if I was watching them on youtube and could rewind anyway.

The future learning institutes will simply be places that administers tests and organize group projects at 1/10th the cost of current universities.
Lots of weed hand grown by Jean Loius-Gasse was smoked in the offices of Be back in the day...
It doesn't seem to be that far off from other (usually unconvincing) philosophical arguments that ultimately boil down to axioms or definitions.

For example, John Searle (of the infamous Chinese Room "argument"/paradox) posits that a simulation of a mind - however realistic and convincing it may be - is not the same as an actual mind any more than virtual reality is the same as actual reality. For example, you could have a chatbot that passes the Turing test but inside it is just smoke and mirrors (e.g. ML models.)

Which is to say if we could somehow replace Searle with a robot whose appearance and behavior were indistinguishable from that of the actual Searle then it would only confirm what we already know.

(Though it is fun to imagine the actual Searle secretly watching his robotic replacement in anger as it does things that he would never do but which are still completely convincing to his duped students, while faculty colleagues take a liking to robo-Searle in a way that they never did to the original.)
This simply isn't accurate. My first car after college was an Audi A4, and later an S4. And then a BMW. I've lived and driven all manner of higher-end cars while working in Germany.

I'd take the Model Y any day. It's the easiest and most intuitive vehicle I've ever driven. I used to think the same way about physical buttons. But in reality, as others have said, you rarely use the touchscreen while driving--and basically everything can be controlled by voice with a tap of a button on the steering wheel. Unlike other carmakers, the voice recognition actually works. I'm guessing they use Google for voice processing?

All the primary controls that you might need are located along the bottom of the screen. That includes front/read defrost, heated seats, etc. The volume controls are conveniently found on right, which is ideal for passengers (since the driver would just use the scroll wheel).

While driving, I use voice commands for turning on heated seats and/or steering wheel. For setting the temperature, it's literally a single tap on steering wheel, "temperature 67", or "I'm cold", and it'll lower it by 3 degrees. Probably the only time I really use the touch screen is to pull up The Bike Shed podcast and select an episode (which can also be done by voice). Other times include starting the karaoke, which is great fun when you're with family.

My mom's Lexus SUV, by comparison, is an unusable abomination of complexity. I think I counted nearly 100 buttons, including a useless "tactile" trackpad. Much of the criticism aimed at the touch interface are from people who have one thing in common: they don't drive one, and therefore make assumptions based on existing experience and intuition.

For what it matters, I'm a millennial. But regardless of age, every person who's driven my car remarks on how intuitive and easy to use it is. To be fair, there's stuff that isn't initially intuitive. When I first got the vehicle, I couldn't figure out how to put it in reverse :-). And the interaction of Autopilot and its fallback to TACC (cruise control) during disengagement, the use of the accelerator or right stalk to confirm going through traffic lights--all of which take some getting used to. But the same would apply if those systems existed in other vehicles.
Is there an effort toward creating a decentralized search engine for Gemini sites/capsules? The Lagrange/Amfora clients will be nice for adoption, but without a convenient way to locate sites it seems doubtful that the protocol will be widely adopted.
Most people don't even think about their operating system. HN is so far from the general public in terms of preference and mindshare and it is important to remember that.
I understand why you would say that, adolph. But first, Picasso's art is tightly linked to his misbehavior, and second, we're not even talking about Picasso's art here, we're discussing the name of a project which is a direct reference to Picasso.
> I hope we soon get to the point where companies that do not properly invest in cyber security get wiped out

How do you determine this objectively?
All this time I thought it was a John Cale song! (Granted I'd never checked)

Edit: Huh, he did produce it, played on the original recording, and then released his cover before the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso_(song)
That doesn't follow from the given premises. I assume the hidden leg of your rhetorical enthymeme is that the universe is a Turing machine. The burden of proof for such a claim, if you want to introduce it as an axiom, is on you. And no, the Church-Turing thesis does not prove that claim.

As a postulate, I'm happy to accept it for the sake of argument. And if we assume the universe is a Turing machine then sure the existence of human intelligence proves that a Turing Machine can simulate human intelligence and therefore it's computable.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell nothing further follows. Perhaps it's correct, but it's rather dull too.
like anything in life, to be good at something you need to have talent and internal motivation to pursue something, you can't make someone enjoy something that they don't really enjoy regardless of how talented they are.
What does SES stand for? Your link doesn’t appear to define it and I can’t find it defined anywhere else.
Ah, good ole TOCTOU
Thanks, I'm going to remember this next time I feel like I screwed up at work.
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> I alluded to this before, but the alternate explanation is that they're not going to the museum because it offers the best fidelity, they're doing so for other reasons (eg. social clout)

What % of social media posts are museum oriented? We are talking 0 percent.... it's only a matter of seeing what's the first decimal point.

Regardless, it seems to me that there is a lack of common sense among the NFT crowd, and you seem to be somehow on the same wavelenght.

The vast majority of people who right-click an NFT image have subsequently no desire to acquire said NFT. And if a museum were to start charging for an NFT collections, people would not pay to get in.

The vast majority of people who right-click an image of the Mona Lisa do have a desire to one day go out and see the painting in person as they think it would be a cool thing to do and would pay for it.

There is a clear difference, at least for people who have common sense.

Given that museums have existed for hundreds of years and have generated trillions of dollars in revenues, the burden of the proof is on NFTs, not the other way around.

When NFTs museums (either virtual or real) will open up then it will be possible to make a comparison.
Yeah, I think the organ is a pretty big missed opportunity, and it wouldn't have been so bad but the rotary simulator is really not great.
can you give an example instance? I'll test on both.
said the kettle
I was motivated by wsl and gui as well. In particular, not needing an x server for applications over ssh.

I think I'm going to mull over staying with my linux desktop as my main os. I dual boot linux and ms at the moment.
Into carry on luggage? How do they miss assault rifles but catch my swiss army knife I forgot about? Every. Time.
Well I suppose them continuing to get hit by ransomware attacks is the only legitimate metric.