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We've talked with a ton of AI companies and I was surprised how much of the challenges were the usual challenges in any project. Just amplified by the rush to do AI right now, but …

The SaaS version of Label Studio does have a natural language interface to create custom interfaces: https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/ask_ai I'm ostensibly an expert in the produ…

There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately. One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person…

Or to make it even more obvious: Founder raises $1MM then immediately sells the company for $900k :) Some terms are going to need to exist to prevent that, so the investor shares w…

It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge w…

You need 3 things to make a sale: 1. Why anything? 2. Why this? 3. Why now? Sure FOMO is one of your tools, but I suspect it's overused. Consider the classic "This price won't be a…

I sometimes wonder if our definition of failure is flexible and moves so that half-ish of projects are below average thus failures. I once had to do a post-mortem on why a project …

+100 to this, I don't think many people reading this thread realize how easy they've made it to run a LLM locally. It's a great start if you want to kick multiple tires (be careful…

I'm sure it's been posted to HN before but Scott Alexander's writing on the FDA is pretty nuanced. "Beyond "Abolish The FDA"[0] is pro-FDA but contains the section "What policy pro…

Personally I'd start with the phone system guaranteeing that the person calling me owns the number that shows up on the call display. That's how people already assume it works and …

https://aihelper.bot/ was a combination of testing some APIs and scratching my own itch. Now arguably filtering Twitter isn't the apex of productivity software, but if I can get my…

This sounds very much like an "enterprise" sale, with a sales rep who can help with checklists and presumably extend your trial quite a bit.

> So she paid a $7,500 deposit and was all set to join Newchip when a founder friend told her to “never pay for introductions.” Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid …

One partial data point: I talked to my local theatre and they don't have the rights for any of the movies I wanted so that adds ~$400+ (we're still talking, I don't have a full quo…

Quebec's language laws are fascinating, the newest version "requires non-French signs to be accompanied by French descriptions that are twice the size." Since the goal is "to ensur…

I suspect the follow button exists primarily to train the advertising algorithm -- how much more would you pay to show a political ad to someone who "followed" Nikki Haley or show …

I love giving users a library of lambdas. We did something similar almost a decade ago at PagerDuty, we'll map the fields & headers for you and provide examples, but you can munge …

Yeah, it can be a little mindblowing coming from the SF market, but just about any city[0] you can name has a couple of 10,000 sqft houses on the market right now. Sometimes they a…

Maybe 75% of the people who interact with the kind of person who blogs about institutional efficiency for the HN audience hate conflict but love their craft. Maybe on a good day. T…

Literal beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper) …

A $10,000 invoice also means that procurement gets involved on the buyer side and sales on the seller side. Notion doesn't want 1 month of credit card spend tricked out of someone …

Which means you need office space for 100% of the people, but that's only used 40% of the time. You can get a little clever with GTM coming in on different days than Eng but it's t…

It's worth noting that this isn't unique to Europe. There's a garden industry of minimizing the $s needed to get an EB-5 greencard. It originally required a "Plan to create or pres…