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rsstack··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thank you! Luckily none of those issues apply :)
rsstack··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
My time to apply for citizenship based on my EB green card is approaching (4 years and 9 months, right?). Is it still advised for employment-based cases without children to file the N-400 without a lawyer?

Additionally - I will be getting married, to a US citizen, after filing the N-400 but likely before it will be approved or before the oath ceremony. Does that change the answer? In theory, she's not benefiting my case and not benefiting from my case, but I'm not sure if USCIS has a different opinion.

rsstack··on Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software
Next.js doing that is like ASP.NET in production "in debug mode" printing stack traces, or PHP applications printing their MySQL connection errors. So sad.
rsstack··on A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
Zillow have the MLSs network that provide them lists, a similar solution could apply if courts agree that library copies apply for this - Anthropic could sign agreements with large libraries and "check out"/"freeze" copies for a minimally-agreed-upon duration and query across all to see which has a copy of each book they need. Spotify and Apple Music sign deals en masse with labels, the same could apply here with book publishers, labels for lyrics, museums for art, etc. Or whatever other creative solution that people who will need to find, will find. Right now they took the laziest path, because it worked. They will find the next-laziest path that works.

And the easiest option: Legislation change. If it's completely decided that the current law blocks LLMs from working in the US, the industry will lobby to amend the copyright law (which is not immutable) to add a carveout for it.

You're assuming that people will just give up. People never gave up, why would they now?

rsstack··on A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369227

If the US makes it illegal to train LLMs on copyrighted data, the US will find a solution and not just give up and wait half a decade to see what China does in the meantime.

rsstack··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
> HP has some enterprise division that makes stuff I'll never see and

It's a separate company now: HPE "Hewlett Packard Enterprise". He mentions them in the blog post, but if you don't know that in 2015 HP split into two companies, you might not realize. He holds stocks in both companies, HP and HPE (in 2015, it was the same number, but since then there were some splits).

rsstack··on Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL
It's the first question/answer in the FAQ.
rsstack··on Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL
> The license entitles you to receive lifetime updates for the major version. When we release the next major version, you can optionally renew the license.

Fairly common. JetBrains started that way too. Will they one day have a major version that's using a subscription model? Perhaps. But they will likely not regret this too much.

rsstack··on TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
> I've seen most of them moving to internally signed certs

Isn't this a good default? No network access, no need for a public certificate, no need for a certificate that might be mistakenly trusted by a public (non-malicious) device, no need for a public log for the issued certificate.

rsstack··on Some Command & Conquer games are now open source
No, that was gaming tabloids misunderstanding a sentence by EA a year ago. It was never announced.
rsstack··on Is a UX Designer considered a technical founder?
> I don't code.

Then no.

rsstack··on Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
Is B Corp a real thing? It's not equivalent to non-profit and they can always stop being B Corps. Wikipedia lists Nestle Nespresso as a B Corp example, not very inspiring.
rsstack··on Duolicious – Open-source dating app
Oh no: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/duolicious-4chan-dating...

The Know Your Meme article, linked from the post page, is the best anti-review for this app.

rsstack··on Netlify is forcing Starter team plan users to move to the new Free Plan
Same features, including Netlify DNS. You can also choose to remain on the Starter plan, which has traffic overage billing, by entering a payment method.

When you exceed the limit, your Netlify-hosted sites are suspended until the end of the month. Netlify DNS remains operational, as we're aware that people operate non-Netlify infrastructure, such as email, that relies on it.

rsstack··on Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
The decision on the title was already made - in the source. Unless the source violated HN guidelines, its title should be kept as is and not "improved".
rsstack··on Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
HN guidelines are "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
rsstack··on Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
The chat on the website is not their main product... They're selling access to their models to enterprises. As sickened as you are by having to log in to the chat, that's not an indication of their success at training and marketing high-quality models (the only real competition to OpenAI at this point).
rsstack··on Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out
It is unfortunately not failing them ("unfortunately" because I very much dislike the path they took). They lost Heroku, which also didn't pay them before the license change, but they got others. I don't know if the information is public.
rsstack··on Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque
I have a little insight into this (specifically through one of the media that you mentioned). It's easy to attribute this to conspiracy or planned news-creation, but this is, like so many things, an outcome of people's laziness and an environment that doesn't incentivize creativity from journalists and producers. They need to pitch articles or "news" segments, they need to pitch many, they need to pitch something that has some "social proof" (so it won't flop in the fake metrics), and they need to do this once or twice a week. What do they do? Look at their own phones and their own apps, and say, "This has been trending on a lower-tiered medium; we should cover it on our medium". The news and entertainment industries are atrophying and devolving quickly, with lower revenues, lower salaries (compared to market rates), lower head counts, and no incentive to improve because all publications are failing simultaneously.
rsstack··on We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
DO _is_ cloud. Using their droplets compared to someone more sophisticated on GCP is an engineering choice, but both are cloud and both have upsides and downsides, and one needs to understand their needs to make the correct decision both among the different providers and within a provider on the right setup.
rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
Agreed. I hated Monday. We used it for 2 months at a start-up 2-3 years ago, and quickly missed Jira (which we then bought). Using Linear at a new place now, and it's actually pretty great.
rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
> I'm curious about how they know.

> I'm actually in that exact process, and have absolutely no idea if half of the providers I'm looking at have a decent product.

Because they used it at a previous company, because they're renewing with their current vendor but are required to compare prices, because the CIO got a recommendation at a conference that is now mandatory, because their ex-colleague works at the vendor, etc.

rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
When people buy software they often speak to multiple vendors to compare prices. 90% of the time, they already know what they're going to use and they're only getting competitor quotes to show to their execs that they made the right decision. It isn't worth the time of the salespeople to entertain them, understand their usage, and give a quote if the customer already knows they want to use a competitor's product. Sometimes it is, sometimes not.
rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
When I worked at companies with self-service plans, we'd direct them there and say that we can't provide provide them enterprise service for now, until their company grows or their budget grows. When we didn't have self-service, we were just polite and that's all we could do.
rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
It is very often in one of these categories:

1. Someone who wants only one feature that's not in self-service but doesn't have the budget to pay more. 2. Someone willing to pay more but not enough more. 3. Someone who's just trying to compare prices between vendors but isn't a serious buyer (especially when not an existing customer). 4. Various non-obvious spam (affiliate resellers, etc.). 5. Someone who's interested but can't get a sale to happen given their role: has no budget and their manager doesn't have budget, has no authority on technical decisions. 6. Someone who's only curious. 7. Etc. etc. etc.

The level of effort required to press that button is very low, so it isn't that great of a filter. Again, they take those calls because the lack of filtering doesn't mean it's never a quality lead.

rsstack··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
I've been part of the team that sets up this process at a few SaaS's, and I've done SaaS procurement for a while, so I clicked that button often (if I didn't know anyone at the company).

1. It gets added to a list of marketing website leads, which is owned by SDRs/BDRs who are there to filter and qualify leads. These are usually early-career people, with a base salary + quota for qualifying leads. The website is many times their least preferred channel of leads due to the quality, but they can't ignore it because sometimes good customers do come through there.

2. The SDR will either work over email or on a call; their goal is to identify if you're a real potential customer (vs shopping for prices, vs confused about what we sell), write up notes, and identify which customer segment you belong to (geography + business type + business size).

3. You will then speak to a salesperson (with varying titles "Account Executive", "Sales Director", "Regional VP of Enterprise Sales", or whatever inflated title makes sense for that sales organization). Their goal is to confirm they're speaking to the right person in your organization (or wasting their time), if your use case is meaningful enough for the "enterprise plan" (they can't sign too small deals), what your budget is, what your usage will be like, etc.

4. Pricing could be made up by guessing your price point, but it's rare. It is difficult to consistently make up pricing that works over time and doesn't have many lowball deals that harm the company's revenue long-term, and salespeople often don't understand the technical details well enough to make things up that make sense. Usually, there will be a pricing framework and an internal calculator (very often, a spreadsheet with formulae and VLOOKUPs) that will give them a range. They can then choose what number within that range to offer, based on who they think you are and how far off they are from their quarterly quota.

5. They can then negotiate the number, or the included features, or the payment terms (upfront payment, multi-year contract, exit clauses, etc.) which can be translated into discounts if they're favorable to the seller.

rsstack··on Inbox Ten
"If someone sends me a chat that isn’t time sensitive, I redirect them to email"

I have a private Linear project, and I use the Linear-Slack integration to create issues from non-urgent chat messages. Being in Linear means I can track and label issues and link them it to related issues in public projects.

Of course, only if "Remind me in 3 hours" isn't good enough.

I do the same thing for GitHub mentions / PR requests: They automatically open a private Linear issue, and I triage them twice a day. I try to respond during the triage process if it's a short response and if not, put a due date for later. If someone needs an urgent response (rarely), then they can Slack me to get my immediate attention.

rsstack··on Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Ew, why would you lend in-ear headphones to anyone?
rsstack··on Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
I think if you use them out of the box, they won't generate the alerts. If I understand Apple's data model correctly, once I paired them to my iPad for the first time, they were enrolled to my iCloud account, and then the tracking system was enabled.
rsstack··on Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
I use AirPods Pro but an Android phone. My girlfriend and friends we hung out with would complain about these, so I eventually found a way to turn off "Find my device" on the AirPods by connecting them to my iPad. I now can't track them but also people aren't mad at me for "tracking" them.
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