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Show HN: FeedbackForms.io – Convert Positive Experiences to Public Reviews
I built FeedbackForms.io because I wanted a way to filter customers who had a positive experience before asking them for a public review -- and I wanted negative feedback to go directly to me.

The concept is simple: find out in as few questions as possible if the customer had a positive experience, then give them a branched exit: positive outcomes are asked for a public review. Negative outcomes get a text form asking what they didn't like, along with the options to leave an email or phone.

There's tons of free and paid survey platforms out there... here's why I didn't want to use them.
Paid:
1. Too Expensive: without naming names, I didn't want to "monkey" around (lol) with something for $40 / Month. For reference, this is more than most no-code website builders.
2. Clunky Features and annoying upsell limitations/solicitations: Features are typically revealed after you can't use them -- so you've fully built you form -- then you go to publish and they want $40 / Month.

Free - I also tried some free services.
1.Time consuming: you can make the free stuff do what you want, but it just feels like there's more contortion of the product than I want to do.
2. Weird looking URLs: This is something that probably sounds picky, but I hate long, machine generated URLs. I know you can redirect w/ a custom domain, but a feedback survey shouldn't warrant a domain purchase. I wanted a clean-looking URL that was easy to remember. Form Routes are structured this way: https://www.feedbackforma.io/your-organization/your-form-nam...

Here's a 1-question survey I made for the first release:
https://www.feedbackforms.io/feedback-forms/launch-feedback

Like any URL, you can easily plug this into any CRM automation software you are using.

So what's the catch? None, right now signups are open and free with unlimited questions and unlimited surveys. I am moving to a (reasonably priced) paid model before the end of the year -- probably $10 / month. Anyone who signs up before this will be able to keep using the product for free through 12/31/22.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the product: Signups are open, feedback is appreciated.
249 days 20 hours since March 29, 2016
It had zero affect on you 15 years ago. Is α > 0.05 comment on ADD in thread on ADHD diagnoses (2018) considered flame bait?
Feels fallacious ? Most good developers I personally know, when doing code, tend to think about the problem at hand, establish the logic of how they want to solve it, and then implement the solution. They rarely try to do this by doing pattern-hunting & merge on a mountain of code from similar projects.
I very clearly also argued that the Jones act's repeal also helps. Why would you invest in something while at the same time actively harming it? America's shipbuilding industry is a husk of its former self and every effort must be made to revitalize it. Subsidies alone would be a half measure.

China does not have its own version of the Jones act, it's a uniquely American problem. Most countries aren't stupid enough to kill their internal industry.
Don't you think that by "choosing to let them" in advance and communicating it openly - you increase the likelihood they'll do it? LE: Right now, not "in the future".

And then do it again, for the next conquest? And then other dictators like Iran, North Korea and China do it as well?
IBM Artificial Intelligence Unit
IBM's machine learning oriented ASIC / SoC
> The problem at its core is that Twitter refuses to hire appropriate levels of moderation staff for the scale it has

I don't believe that anyone could moderate at Twitter's scale. More than 500 million tweets are published per day. How do you moderate that? It's like bringing an umbrella to a tsunami.

Not to mention, Reddit moderation is crap. I've tried to use Reddit several times but gave up each time, because my innocent comments — mainly writing technical help — were getting moderated. I wasn't writing anything political; I couldn't even post on r/apple! They still use a lot of automation on Reddit in the bigger subreddits.
> It's plausible that 1000s of different galaxies spin differently because they each have different amount of mass of dark matter in them.

You also need a plausible explanation why all of these galaxies have such different distributions even though they have similar visible mass. If DM is only supposed to interact gravitationally then there should be a tight correspondence with little deviation, but there are galaxies entirely free of DM and distributions that differ across visible mass. There are also observations that don't even match DM (external field effects, tidal effects, and more). There's clearly a lot more to the story.
My license isn't "you can take a bit but not the whole bit".
I tried running this, maybe 4? months ago when it was posted on HN. I use JetBrains + PHP.

After two hours of trying to follow incomplete instructions, downloading special IDEs and plugins, hunting for alternatives to dead links, etc, I gave up on the process.
Let's say I write code, give it a license, publish it, and then some college student takes my code and republishes as part of their project without a license.

Copilot will copy that college student's code, even if it looks similar to mine.
The company released the final update and addressed vulnerabilities that impacted 27 Oracle product families.
I suspect it is easier to automate the programmer than the person doing/defining the tests.

I would argue that "programming" in essence is first and foremost the task of defining a set of actions or functions you want a computer to perform. This can be highly detailed (like assembly) or quite abstract (like SQL), and with AI you may even end up being able to just use English.

You will still need to check that the output matches your expectations, though.
Thanks. I should find and read some good sources about this, it looks like a given to me.
Ask HN: What are your favourite non-sterile designed websites?
Most sites I come across are so “clinical”, plain, don’t feel warm or inviting at all.
It's such a power move to dictate things that don't make sense or that are internally inconsistent.

Suspended: Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.

You are permanently stopped for a while.

Unfortunately: Happening through bad luck

Through bad luck (not an intentional decision we are making), our policy prohibits that.

Unfortunately, your account has been permanently suspended.
I think this is part of the super annoying to me trend of double speaking to avoid using overtly negative words.

“Banned” is a negative word so we don’t want to use that. But we still want to ban you, thus “permanently suspended.”

It’s not a new trend as “made redundant” (ie, fired) and “focusing on value” (ie, cancelled your project) are all over press releases and public communication.

I think it makes me feel worse than just using plain language as it takes me more effort to figure out the meaning so I’m also frustrated by the fakery in addition to whatever the negative message is. Makes the speaker and organization seem stupid.
I used to drink an energy drink before bed and people thought I was super weird for it! I didn’t find out it was an ADHD thing until my therapist asked, I guess knowingly, how caffeine affected me and I went on this whole rant about it.
> Quite certainly not. It's not even more popular if HTML is included.

Nowadays HTML is not XML anymore [1].

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39560454/735926
Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
> If vile, selfish, psychopathic maniacs make the decision to end the world then so be it.

I am afraid it's not just the vile selfish psychopathic maniacs, but also the general population, incensed by the media. For example, one might have thought that if the avoidance of a nuclear war were people's priority number one, then the Western media (supposing Russia is the lost cause) would have demanded, every day and from every corner, that the leaders of their countries must avoid any escalatory steps regarding the ongoing conflict in the Eastern Europe. That people would be marching on the streets with slogans demanding restraint. But that's not what is happening. The voices repeatedly cautioning their audience about the danger of a nuclear war are few and far between — Tulsi, Tucker, Eric Weinstein — and they are treated as traitorous or crazy.
Agreed —- If there’s a way of leveraging it effectively, then evolution will do so, somewhere.

My guess is that the brain isn’t unique from other tissues on this.
Yup, and I bet a lot of those repos are on GitHub. Which is owned by Microsoft. And which were then fed into Copilot.

It’s almost like Microsoft is capable of not only trawling through huge amounts of code, but accurately identifying Tim Davis’s code. Would be pretty crazy if they used these tools to identify instances of copyright/left infringement and help its users and the open source and scientific communities instead of making it clear that they do not want to do those things.
It's actually remarkable how many users discord has considering how difficult it is to register an account that's not instantly shadowbanned or disabled.
> Sometimes they are on Twitter, then you need to be there.

Wow, that's a depressing thought.

I think I'd prefer to find a different line of business, if it were me.
That’s nice and all but all newish vehicles use direct fuel injection and carburetors went the way of the dodo.
Gaslighting is now a favorite tactic of those who control these levers.
A Text Scam Called ‘Pig Butchering’ Cost Her More Than $1.6M
Zelenskyy declared martial law for Ukraine already in February. Putin now declaring martial law in some areas of Ukraine is not only redundant, but ridiculous. Ukraine should declare martial law in parts of Russia in response, maybe starting with Kaliningrad.
This kind of comment is going to poorly age
Honest question: why would the account in question not be suspended after review by a human?

It's a new account that posted 75 tweets in less than 20 minutes, all linking to the same website, and with high-profile names in the title of the tweets.

This looks like spam to me, I would have banned it too.
So move to Brazil and get a lead rain coat? This seems strangely manageable. I'm disappointed; I wanted humanity to be snuffed out, but it looks like most of humanity would remain.
> Spam (and scam) detection in social networks is hard.

Just a question.

What's the true harm in letting even obvious spammers spam as much as they want on their social media profiles? Let them waste their time. Social media is a bit different than a message board where everybody is burdened by any spam that's posted because you have to follow somebody intentionally to see their idiocy on social media. If somebody wants to post 100 ads for viagra a day on some dumb Twitter bot profile, who is actually going to follow them other than maybe other bots? You really only have to worry about cleaning up the search results to ensure that the spam is hidden from standard searches.

The only person who should be upset about random bot spam on social media is the advertiser that might have paid a lot of money for loads of low-quality ad impressions. Well, doesn't it follow that the advertising payment system and business model is the real issue here, not automating spam detection? Somewhere in the process, social media has to ensure that advertisers aren't paying for bot impressions. It's not necessarily the spam itself that's the real issue.
> There is no reason not to protect them from their aggressive neighbor

There is, and that is antagonizing Russia into a conflict. We don't have to let them be victims of Russia, as we aren't with Ukraine, but we also don't have to antagonize Russia. We can just agree to leaves these countries as neutral buffer zones.
I doubt anybody thinks "it’s no big deal". But in this game of high-stakes nuclear poker, if you communicate your fears and self-imposed limits to your enemy - you increase the chance he'll use them against you.

After all, the MAD strategy did keep us safe during the cold war while giving up their nukes did bring Ukraine an invasion.
It’s a portmanteau of the authors two favorite things: Stratego by MiltonBradley and Treachery. Something about cheating at board games.

(And the domain was available)
I come from a Python background so libraries were always just a pip install away.

In the past year, however, I've been working on a large C++ codebase (couple million lines) and the result has been a considerably greater amount of "roll your own."

This has filtered back into my Python. If it's not in the standard library, I don't install it unless I really need it.

My boss always tells me that you can probably write it faster than a library, something I never used to believe. Until I tried it. I needed to check which of two version strings, of XX.XX.XX.XXXX format, were bigger. I tried the most recommended version number library, then I tried writing my own solution, the simplest solution I could think of:

def version_compare(v1: str, v2: str) -> int:

"""
Compares two versions.

Parameters
----------
v1: str
v2: str

Returns
-------
int
1 if v1 is greater, -1 if v2 is greater, 0 if equal.
"""
for el1, el2 in zip(v1.split('.'), v2.split('.')):
if el1 != el2:
return 1 if int(el1) > int(el2) else -1
return 0

My code was faster by like 20x. Libraries are bloated and you probably only need a small subset of the functionality, so write your own code has become my mantra.
Can we get rid of licenses please. They were always meaningless
There is only one parameter that tunes the distribution of dark matter, for the entire universe: the spectral index.

The spectral index sets the statistics of the overall density distribution in the very early universe. After that, gravity and other physical laws determine the evolution of the universe.
> independent thought

What is a thought, if not a pattern of information that in humans is embodied in the energy flowing though our neurons, and which finds an analogy in the information flow though an artificial neural network?

Are human thoughts really any more independent than any self-learning process that happens to be implemented in silicon? What makes the tiny warm bags of chemicals that are our cells, special?

> self awareness

Can you define this in a way that it simultaneously (1) is something that humans do actually have, and (2) is not trivially accomplished by giving an AI access to its own state, whether by internal feedback loops in a neutral net, by embodiment in a real or simulated environment where it can sense its own embodiment as another agent in that environment, or by other similar means?

(Edit: also simultaneously with (3), no references to the word "consciousness")

> motivation

Internal states within an agent which create a disposition to engage in specific actions?

I definitely don't need much to pass that test: both (original 1993) Doom and bacterial cells demonstrate this.
https://archive.ph/gGAfV
If Russia nukes Ukraine and gets away with it, what do you think happens in the future?
Every time I see these wonderful pictures I wonder if the occupants of planets (or other structures) in this region look out across a vast horizon of amassed material and wonder if those distant 'holes' or 'gaps' in their view lead to something more .. some wider 'universe' of large space .. and what would their incredulity be once their explorers make it to the end of the 'large mass' (if ever) and see the great, giant hole into which we are all born. They wouldn't need rockets - they'd need incredibly long-lasting wheel-based devices, just to see what is beyond their world.

Like, do fish ever see the air above their world and wonder if there is anything more .. its just mind-boggling to think about.

If I were of a species born on one of these Pillars, I wonder if I would see the stars and all the emptiness, eventually, as anything other than an extreme abhorrence...
Personally, I think this might have been the right decision, though not for the reason given. If you remove accounts of people who frequently do not contribute anything useful to discussions, you'll get overall better discussions.
Whats so shocking?
> If not, what are "you"? There's nothing else but the state and mechanics in your brain and their interface with the world.

I would say that’s only probably correct. Plenty of people would say you are completely wrong. I’m undecided, personally.
Did not outlast the lettuce. Lettuce wins
so the lettuce [1] won.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0
Trying KDE Plasma Desktop Again
It's only hard if your business model is "growth & engagement" and you need to maximize user and engagement numbers at all costs.

If that's not your business model, abuse prevention is trivial. You can operate the network like a members' club where people gain privileges (such as posting links, media, etc - anything that can be used to spam or harm other users/the platform) over time as they prove themselves and acquire trust (Stack Overflow calls this number "reputation") and you can then use this trust number as a weight in automated decisions, so that high-trust users (who are unlikely to suddenly burn their hard-earned account) will not be impacted by an automated ban.

Forums in the good old days were ran by volunteers were able to deal with spam/abuse just fine with a combination of bans and privilege levels (it will take time & effort to level up an account to where it's able to post links/etc and be useful for spamming), there's absolutely no reason current social media companies can't do the same, if it wasn't for the fact that their business model to a certain extent relies on moderation being both unfair to users and subpar at effectively suppressing bad content (hint: bad content is nice to have around as long as it's not too visible, as it generates tons of outrage and thus engagement - it's only a problem when powerful people get wind of it and then you delete it and issue a fake apology).
You'd still need the coordinator node (tracker) for every single request, so you'd still be serving an absolutely insane amount of traffic off one central box.

If you baked something like IPFS or DHT torrent capability into the application and requested your blocklists that way you'd solve the single point of failure problem, but that's asking a whole lot from a shittily maintained and poorly configured browser fork.
+1. Imo we need to get rid of licenses once and for all. If you don’t want your code to be used, then don’t open source it. Simple.
In Alan Kay's recent talks where he describes the implementation of Squeak, one of the last things he demonstrates is the ability to query the system for:

Number of total objects
Size of objects
Number of methods
Avg size of method
Etc

As a sibling comment points out, by definition a live system can do everything a dead system can and more.
π/1, then. in base π.
The shortest serving British PM was George Canning who was in office for 119 days(1827). And now she made history.
You're seriously saying that in a forum dedicated to software engineering and technology?
Have tried blending on my own. YT tutorials seem "algo-generated" now. I really really want to immerse at the Full Sail Winter Park campus (but who has the time). I think having proper mentors in industry is key ;)
Free Software can't exist without copyright. Free Software is all about forcing people who re-sell your code to make their code available to their customers, and copyright is the legal mechanism by which that is done.

Open Source software can exist in a world without copyright; that's basically what permissive licenses are. Proprietary software can exist in a world without copyright; just don't release the source code, only distribute build artifacts. But free software is dead without copyright.
Well, there's the link in my profile...
Who’s drowning? I feel better than ever. This is a great problem compared to the old way of stuff being out of date and it being a giant pain to use libraries and stuff.

Also (knock wood) I haven’t experienced any dependency related outages and have been able to run Java, ruby, Python, and javascript stuff for many years without problems. When I need reproducibility I pin to specific versions. And I vet what packages I use and don’t just randomly grab whatever is in the stackoverflow copy and paste.
Why are people obsessed with credit in places where it doesn’t matter? Nobody looks at code and read comments or files crediting others. Maybe in an article, or a whitepaper, or a blogpost, sure.
You remember that demo where someone made an EXE from C# and made it run on Windows 3.1?

I wish there was some streamlined way (config of VS Code?) of doing that, not as extreme, but building regular Win32 apps without the .NET runtime, but with the C# language. Like how you can still use modern C++ but target just Win32.

That would be I think, an awesome compromise of power. C# is a really great language all on its own, without the .NET standard library.
Is there a comprehensive list of dedicated AI accelerator somewhere?

- Google's TPUs

- Tesla's Dojo Chip

- Cerebras? ...
Ask HN: Tool that suggest keywords based on scaning your website
Wondering if there is a tool that scans your website and suggest key words based on what who your are trying to market to?
Awesome. I couldn't watch them all so this is great!
Lol, I love how you go to Murdoch looking over the largest group of people that have said most of humanity isn't needed, that people should eat bugs for the environment, and

“At Davos a few years ago [surveys] showed us that the good news is the elite across the world trust each other more and more,” she said.

“So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together.

“The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less. So we can lead but if people aren’t following we aren’t going to get to where we want to go.”

They definitely have a bunker, and probably feel like a few nukes handles some population issues.
The just need to stop it with their collection nonsense and let people install extensions without the hastle... So what if some are broken? In my experience most still work anyways.
I worked for the Watson group. It was largely a marketing play which did land with some enterprises but is ultimately a failure because the tech was not there.
> That's incredibly niche

The very website we're talking about in this submission is specifically made for vintage computers! But I agree, relatively niche.

> Need some secure way to pass around the SHA256 (or whatever) hash you're using for verification.

That gets passed out-of-band before actually downloading anything from the registry. In the case of Arch, every package is signed by developer keys that are securely fetched on initial install, and later fetched as a package.

Less niche use cases are doing latency sensitive things over HTTP (which overall I wouldn't recommend, but sometimes you're stuck with 3rd party stuff), then adding the handshake can easily double the time for the connection.

For example, one website I have can have the TCP connection be established in ~40ms, while the SSL/TLS handshake takes ~100ms. So because of SSL/TLS, the request time more than doubled. If I was serving signed packages over this connection, you can easily skip the handshaking part and when you download thousands of packages, save some time. I don't think that use case is as niche as you think.
> Lambda CDM makes very few assumptions. It only has 6 free parameters.[0] If you start with those 6 parameters, and then let the laws of physics work, you get the universe we see today.

Not including the DM distribution needed to match each galaxy's rotation curve, or external field effects, and dozens more observations:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm

Contrast that with MOND's 1 parameter, visible mass.