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Ask HN: How do you ask for customer interviews?
I've read the Mom Test, and have realized that I've built too much of my product and tried too many different marketing strategies before fully understanding the market and my potential users.

Where do you guys typically look to find people to conduct user interviews for? I'm currently looking for people here on HN who've complained or talked about something similar to what I'm building (a Medium alternative with a focus on content ownership).

Also, once you find these people, how do you reach out for a call? Don't want to seem spammy or sound like I'm just conducting a survey — generally just want to ask some questions about problems. Especially since with the Mom Test, I want to mention as little about what I'm building as possible.
> You need the people evaluating performance to really understand the work, and make informed, discretionary decisions about who to promote to maximize real value creation.

I agree but for everyone working at / running a company without a money printing machine it is worth noting that this is really expensive. You need to take someone that’s a good engineer—-one with judgment and a modicum of people skills—-and give them mostly thankless, stressful work.
Infrastructure is 50+ year investment and everywhere in the country has been slacking in development. Given the growth of the bay area and the increase in hot weather due to global climate change the system gets exacerbated because it's going out of spec.

The fact that it has been as robust (in delivery, not hazard) as it has for the last 20 years is a testament to its strength.
I’m not sure what the threat model that this brings is. It’s certainly very cool research, but nothing particularly scary to even the highest security facilities... I can’t really imagine a situation where you can install an audio bug where you can’t also install a video bug to grab a picture of the key...
FB refused to take down hate speech to do business in India
This is the original article but its pay-walled:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-poli...

This coupled with the recent analysis by Ben Thompson of stratechery here: https://stratechery.com/2020/antitrust-politics/
makes me feel very uncomfortable with having any relationship with facebook. Should I passively protest and quit or actively try to change things?
> For me personally, coming from small town USA, and in my own large extended family, I have significant anecdotal evidence to back this up.

You make some fair points, and maybe our life experiences are just vastly different. Having grown up in abject poverty (post-Communist Eastern Europe), migrated to the States when I was 11 with my family, and watched my parents struggle and, to a certain extent, "make it" in America, the idea that there's no social mobility in the US is foreign to me. And this applies to my extended family as well.

Keep in mind that my grandparents don't even have 4 years of school, so it's not like I'm some blue-blood elite. The opportunities that the US gave me and my family make me immensely proud to call myself an American.
Two mystic ARM64 instructions that improved .NET 5 code size
Similarly to sibling comment, I just set in mailcap:

text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Neither is “gender fluid,” though, is it?
> they throttle workstation GPUs

Not sure about this, but they definitely prevent the loading of drivers for GeForce cards if they detect a hypervisor (Quadro cards work). Nvidia claims that it's a bug, and that they're not fixing it only because GeForce cards are not sold to be run in virtual machines. At the very least it's a dubious claim since for a short time there was an arms race as workarounds were figured out and the next version of the driver would detect them...

Of course it's market segmentation by obscurity so it only lasted a few weeks and it's trivial to work around, but still it's quite shady since there's absolutely no ill effect from the work around.
Trans people in general were largely ignored by research until the 2010s, so there's very little we do know at this point.

But as for unresearched hunches...

There's lots of jokes in the trans community about how your stereotypical trans girl is on the autism spectrum, with rainbow-colored hair, and into kink, anime, and programming.

I think there's more of a willingness to challenge societal expectations of us in the neurodiverse community, and many of us feel uncomfortable with expectations placed on us around gender roles and sexuality. So I'm curious how much is a causal relationship, and how much of it is a willingness to reject societal expectations that seem irrational. I value my freedom a lot, and the expectations placed on me when I lived as a boy felt stifling and exhausting.

I can only speak to my personal experiences, and I don't believe in policing peoples' decisions to transition, but I have strong memories from as early as five of wanting to be a girl. I was very sensitive as a child. Typical autism-spectrum stuff like sensitivity to sounds, lights, and pain, but also an intense emotional empathy - I was a huge crybaby until my teens, and never felt like I fit in with guys my age or shared many interests with them. So when I found out that transitioning was an option, I pushed hard for it. It's possible that in today's age of greater gender freedoms I wouldn't have had as much reason to transition. But I just don't identify with the male experience at all, and have no desire to see my body masculinize more and more as I age. Also, I can wear so much more colorful and expressive clothes now :)

I think some people transition because they identify very strongly as the other gender, and others (particularly on the autism spectrum) identify outside of the gender binary, so they transition to better express that identity.
>... also I don't think they open source much.

You could say that: https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
Maybe something like Pipfile.lock for a site and browser knows what standards to use?
It's like an 8-inch-square hole. Big enough for a shirt or pants or a towel to slide down, maybe with a nudge from a foot. By the time a kid can open the closet door to get to the hole, they'd have a hard time fitting through it. Any cat that falls through a hole in the floor has only itself to blame, and can likely manage the problem just fine.

We have kids and a cat and none have had trouble with it. It's not half as dangerous as and has a lower attractive-nuisance factor than any set of stairs.
I mean, he's clearing referring to the book by Abigail Shrier which has made all sorts of media buzz, including being banned some places and some anti censorship shouts from the right. Is the claim in the book that groups of young women transition in clusters wrong? Most of the objections I've heard to the book haven't made that argument, so I have just assumed the book was correct on that point.
> Real coding doesn't happen on a strict schedule. There's research, design, and testing to be done and mistakes to be made and corrected.

I’ve seen streamers do exactly this (while interacting with their audience through chat).

Why did you interpret “stream themselves coding” as “typing code flawlessly on stream”?
What is blond, in a two-thousand-year-old context?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
Independent Inida
> Even the ACLU seemed to be both against and for a Tiktok ban in recent tweets: “Banning an app like TikTok, which millions of Americans use to communicate with each other, is a danger to free expression and technologically impractical.” But the prevented free expression on Tiktok, noted above, is a great danger too. And since when does the ACLU care about technological impracticability?

> Another ACLU tweet: “To truly address privacy concerns with companies like TikTok, Congress must ensure that ANY company that services US consumers cannot hand over our data to any government without a warrant or equivalent. Letting the president selectively ban platforms isn’t the solution.” That tweet seems to be in favor of the ban and a process for banning other companies as well.

Seems pretty clear what the ACLU stance is. Banning TikTok is a political move that curbs free speech and has nothing to do with protecting speech. This is because we have domestic apps that not only can, but are, doing the same thing (Instagram silently dropping kamalaharris.info messages for violating "Community Standards").

If we ban the techniques that curb free speech instead, seems more in line with the argument of protecting free speech.
I used to work in a place that put me in contact with a lot of architects who worked on skyscrapers. I asked one why new apartment buildings don't have trash chutes as often as they used to.

He said a lot of developers don't want the expense that goes into building them. And a lot of owners don't want the maintenance expense. They get clogged up more often than most people realize.

That said, when I lived in Seattle last decade, my building was new and had a trash chute. It got clogged about once a month. You'd see the maintenance guys with big long poles trying to shove the stuff through.
As someone who used to work in country list related things, the existence of Taiwan as a country flag codepoint at all would be an issue for China. China will complain if you include Taiwan, and Taiwan will complain if omitted, so it's not fun appeasing both sides.
Ask HN: Favorite Dependency Manager for iOS Development
CocoaPods / Carthage / Swift Package Manager / Accio / something else...

Which one do you prefer and why?
I oft rue my failure to be vastly wealthy.
A git remote is not a backup. I could make a mistake, force push the wrong thing to the wrong place and lose a bunch of stuff.
so old school

I'd go further than that. These companies are, demonstrably, run by total idiots.

I knew someone who worked for an ATM company back in the mid 1980s. Coordinated attacks exploiting weaknesses were routine even then!

That's right. People have been finding hacks to steal cash from ATMs for at least 35 years!

That's 35 freaking calendar years. How much is that in Internet years? :)
I was already a full-time Tree Style Tab user by the time FF4 Beta came around in 2010 so I'm probably part of the reason Panorama wasn't popular enough :p
I imagine so, but it exists.
Well the spec is minimum cycle time = 200 ns, maximum cycle time 500 ns. But also it has min. low time = 118 ns and min. high time = 69 ns, which is how the 1/3 duty cycle shows up. But there is no spec violation with, for example, low time = 125 ns, high time = 125 ns for a cycle time of 250 ns (4 MHz).
I think you have it slightly wrong. LTS is not a thing inherent to the language or to OpenJDK, it is a thing that a vendor provides. It is separate from from "update" releases that Corretto and AdoptOpenJDK provide.

pron98 (pron on HN I believe) who works on the JDK at Oracle explains it better here: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/i5zyyk/wtf_does_lts_e...
it was just a cutout of the floor, directly over the washing machine in the basement below.

See also: the film Home Alone.
I think clever hunting should not require alot of running, as a human.
> The problem is that when people refuse to wear masks, it's often other people who end up dying because of it, even when the other people took more care.

Yep, just like lots of other things. 41,000 people die of second hand smoke per year because of the actions of others around them. Yet we do not take drastic measures to prevent these deaths. Having freedom means the people might abuse it to harm others, even by inaction. Novel viruses like covid come once every century. A century of second hand smoke deaths is well over 4 million deaths for the US alone, even higher in Europe.
Codagenix plans a human challenge trial to test its Covid-19 vaccine
Thank you Mutt (and also NeoMutt for pushing the envelope), you have been my e-mail client now for the last four years and as an academic that spends a significant amount of time reading and responding to e-mail it is (somehow?) the best option out there.

Setup:

* Mutt (I had slowdowns with NeoMutt)

* Vim with four e-mail specific lines in the `vimrc`

* fdm for retrieval and delivery rules

* Syncthing for synchronisation between machines (it is just files! although ~1,000,000 of them…)

* tmux to give me a single horizontal split so that I can browse and compose at the same time

* Notmuch for search

* Lynx to beat text/html into shape

* a tiny snooze shell script of my own coupled with an equally tiny unsnooze shell script that runs every few minutes on a box that is on 24/7

That is it, although I have to admit that I should clean up my `muttrc` at this point as it is an outright mess. There are always more tweaks one could perform, my next one probably being figuring out tagging and then sending multiple mails to the snooze script. But one has to exercise a bit of self restraint or get less rather than more work done due to “over tweaking”.

Gripes? Well, the configuration is very arcane at times and monolithic; you wish you had a more modern, scriptable, and modular interface. If so, you could probably cut down the time it takes to get something working by more than half. I also suffer occasional CPU spikes, perhaps due to some weird interaction with Syncthing when both monitor directories.

Other than that, it is very smooth and pleasant sailing. HTML e-mails in particular hardly if ever pose a challenge after I got Lynx into the mix.
It would be helpful if you chose to educate by linking to the definitions you are using instead of just chastising for someone not knowing the terminology you are using. The Wikipedia article for gender mentions that the terms sex and gender for biological gender/sex have flip flopped multiple times in the last 30 years.

HN is supposed to be a place where people learn, not an anger pit like the rest of the web.
if hyperbole doesn't match your worldview of being pedantic then we can rephrase: it is an extremely low effort patch that has a net positive for society. The net positive is empowering productive people in the workforce. People that were otherwise marginalized, or uncomfortable enough to be suicidal. A prerequisite to this worldview is that we don't want them to go away or be dead, which seems to underlie some people's perspective.
Kindness be fucked; the programmer clearly has the talent and motivation to not care and to have surely already discovered VCV Rack. What's bad about it though? VCV Rack's eurorack skeumorphism forces inefficient arrangement of modules because they're forced into a grid, forces separation of inputs and controllers like knobs unlike a synth like Audulus, which is totally unnecessary in a non-physical medium, ends up with a far less consistent modules because they're designed like eurorack modules of various brands. All these problems don't even compare to how VCV Rack spends a lot of extra resources on graphics because everything looks physical.
There was an episode of Monty Python I remember. The premise was that in the late 1960s Hitler and his cronies, under assumed identities, were staying at an English boarding house in Minehead, Somerset planning "to get the band back together" via some local election. The TV audience could see through the ruse, but the other residents of the hotel were oblivious. The scene I remember was Mr Hilter ranting from a balcony to a few scattered locals. The bunting was red, don’t remember was the insignia was. As a local yokel was staring up blankly at Mr Hilter’s Germanic rant about the sovereignty of Taunton, Hilter’s crony, Ron Vibbentrop, sidled up to the yokel and, as an aside, told the yokel "He’s right, do you know that?"

Don’t know why, but that just popped into my head...
and it does make it worse. "if someone is determined to use psychedelics to self-medicate their depression" they recognize they have a problem, are trying things to fix it, and hence have a higher chance of a control group that does nothing, or doesn't acknowledge how bad they feel, or have an urge to get better.

you select a sample of people who want to get better, and are surprised they get better more frequently than a group including people who don't? where's the test on a person depressed and not actively trying to get better taking the same drug? i bet the negative side effects and the death of extra brain cells makes it worse.

yes, if someone tries to use drugs to fix something, you absolutely should stop them. there's a reason you need a doctorate to prescribe those drugs.

new test. my test. I'm going to prove wikipedia makes you a neurosurgeon. let's take 300 highschool seniors who read a wiki article on neurosurgery. let's take another 300 from a random sampling at the dmv. send them all to school for neurosurgery. wow. just wow. the 300 who read the article - a higher percentage of them succeeded in becoming a neurosurgeon. holy crap. wikipedia is amazing.
Submersible Arduino data loggers for long term environmental monitoring projects
What Is Human Intelligence and Why Would Machines Need It?
Is there a reason why mp3 is still around? AAC has better compression ratios, and support is a non-issue. Maybe mp3 has better brand recognition? Most people know what a mp3 is, but probably wouldn't know what AAC or a .m4a is.
How do you do arpeggiation or tremolo?
This whole white, brown, and black are races thing is the most juvenile incarnation of racism yet.
This story is still developing, but I think a forced buyout or outright ban is shortsighted.

The underlying fear is the impact that a foreign entity will have on our political and social fabric (because America has never done that before). It's a valid concern, especially after Cambridge Analytica. But TikTok falls into the same regulatory challenge forces that can impact change through social media platforms. Building a better framework is a long term solution that encodes into law American values, transparency, and constraints by the legislative branch, not precedent set by the executive branch.

At the same time, every time there is a major hearing against big tech, it's always disappointing.
Not having a remote is the killer feature of DVCS.
I love this point, I believe it'll make its way into my day to day thinking on carbon.
Would you consider doing an addendum that uses PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB?

I've been looking for something exactly like your book, but I need to use a SQL database.
Hounding him by, whenever his name is mentioned in any context, bringing forward example after supposed example of how he is somehow not competent enough to ever be allowed to have a receptive audience. Even though this very example you brought up is a prediction of just this kind of thing?
8" square is pretty big: 11" on the diagonal. I think my 6yo would fit through that fine, though she has the sense not to.
The point in which autism moves from "neuro-diversity" to "disorder that affects quality of life" is a difficult and controversial discussion. In general we try to use sensitive language, and respect the spectrum.

Many of the genes that control brain development are also linked to sex differentiation, and so it not surprising to me that in the presence of greater number of mutations (technical term) in these genes, the more sexual development will be differentially regulated, and will follow a different trajectory. I suspect, but do not know how to model, that this would tend to result in less sexual differentiation, making the binary male/female extreme phenotypes less likely in ASD.
Bill McKibben: 130 Degrees
I had recently read a book about the 1918 flu, and it had made the point that these urban cities, at the time, required a constant influx of workers, just to replace those deceased.

So, to actually increase the labor pool, required a tremendous amount of human life.
Well, arpeggiation is just a sequence of notes, no special handling necessary.
BML started as a twitter hashtag. A couple hangers-on started an organization with the same name. BLM is a movement, there is an organization too, but the vast majority of people are part of the movement that has no official organization behind it.
One other issue is that China did not just outright ban Google or Facebook or Twitter.

The Chinese government gave these companies a chance to stay, as long as the complied with the censorship laws.

Google was going to re-enter the Chinese market again with Project Dragonfly, but they backed out due to bad publicity.
Regardless of who or what wrote it, the article is insubstantial, pseudo-intellectual blather. It reads like a fourth grader mocking grown-up problems by throwing around words he doesn't understand.

The following is completely nonsensical, and occurs very early in the article, right after the general introduction:

"Over-Thinking (OT) is the act of trying to come up with ideas that have already been thought through by someone else. OT usually results in ideas that are impractical, impossible, or even stupid."

The only reason to keep reading after this is just to see what other bullshit has been heaped on, like not being able to take your eyes away from a train wreck.

I didn't visit the story when it appeared (regardless of its upvotes) because the very title smelled of self-helpy twaddle. I would for sure have flagged it.

That behavior may be a clue as to what happened. The submission title was crafted in such a way as to deter "nonsense-averse" users from clicking on it, and that may have helped it evade flagging. If a submission evades flags, the only other points it can get are upvotes.
People making claims like that generally no nothing of the procedure by which mental health issues are diagnosed - which is to say, mental health treatment is about addressing issues which are negatively affecting someone's quality of life, until they are not. This is the same reason you can't just go through the DSM V and ascribe mental health conditions to people on TV or in the media or whatnot - it doesn't work that way.

People who hear voices don't have a problem because they hear voices, they have a problem because in general schizophrenia presents those voices as hostile and aggressive towards the person. People who hear voices that are positive or helpful (which is not uncommon, though it seems to be less common in Western culture socialized people) don't have a problem, probably don't even need treatment if they do not cause any distress.

That trans-people live happier lives after transitioning means that the treatment they receive (hormones,gender reassignment surgery, remembering that all of those are quite optional) is completely adequate.
Which is a far more convincing argument when someone can point to a well-documented set of predictions, than when they claim "I'm right a lot" and try to get you to fall for an association fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
Being "mentally ill" and having the specifics of that diagnosis changed every time the DSM does due to social pressure (from homosexual/bipolar DSM 4 to schizo in DSM 5), I honestly think "mentally ill" has just become another loaded term. Most "menatlly ill" people are simply people who have used the faculties that have to choose to be abnormal. The reasons for that non-conformist decision are varied, but are rarely irrational. Generally, I've found that any non-conformist person, regardless the category of such they've been assigned, has a unique and valuable perspective at some level if you just get to know them. Sadly, that's rare in an age where everything new is threatening and everyone I don't understand is the boogey man. Protected groups do the same villification to those who practice societal norms. A genuine smile and a ready heart for other people that also bleed red and feel more pain than life should ever have allowed is probably a better start than pissing matches over who is right and who is evil.

TLDR - non-conformists are almost always interesting and brilliant in some sense, but they generally lack the ability to reach within the Overton window and effect change.