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Show HN: ChattySurvey – a new way to discover PMF
As entrepreneurs, we have always been struggling with interviews and getting feedback, so we decided to use AI and create a survey platform that does that for us.
I'm a backend developer doing my best in UX design, would love to get some feedback on the product.
Also, you can try out the product on the landing page; let me know if you think it's useful or what could be improved.

Cheers!
It sounds impressive until you realise they're talking about the new mini, not the original
Great, then I'd recommend using jupyterlab 3.6 with jupytext right now
You Can Write About Anything
"forums channeled the global usenet discussions onto private webpages, with private censorship rules in the hand of the maintainer, out of the common block lists of the reader. spam killed that unfortunately, and then university admins."

Spam keeps getting blamed for the death of Usenet, but spam filters worked fine then.

No, the real death of Usenet was the excitement over the web, and the ability of web forums to have integrated images, nice custom layouts per forum, links tightly integrated in to the browser platform, and not needing to install/configure/understand a Usenet client.

Even just the ease of registering and logging in to a web forum compared to installing, configuring, and learning how to use a Usenet client would win over most users.

Social media cites like Reddit do one better by requiring just a single login to get access to thousands of forums.
The periodic table you grew up with is wrong
There's tons of alternatives, just not many that look like reddit clones. If you want funny meme go to tiktok, if you want to talk about news go on any of the news aggregators, if you want to talk about tech come to HN (as many have these last two days), if you want to socialize with people you know go to Facebook, if you want porn the Internet is full of it, art: deviantart, and so on.

I've been impressed with the fediverse, and I think I'm going there for good, but I agree it's not ready to replace reddit for the masses. There's real effort happening to build communities there. I'm hopeful.
What I miss is a notebook launcher button that creates a .py notebook. Don't understand why we don't have that (i could not myself find a way to configure and add it.)

I'm not sure why you think it's viable to collaborate with others who don't use jupyter? I mean on any software project, if we don't agree how to compile or run a project, then we usually can't collaborate IMO. Changes become nonsensical (breaking the one or other mode that is not tested by the author of the change.)
Intern wants me to drive him to work, saying no to a weekend party in my honor
This comment sums up why I’m so sad to be living in what I feel will be looked back on as the dark ages of neuroscience - these very very smart people are limited to “more correlated brain activity might help with everything!”

OTOH perhaps I don’t want to live in a world with happy pills… we should all be grateful
The average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute
I keep thinking back to the Arab Spring. Everyone thought Twitter could bring down dictators. Now users can’t even effectively pressure management. It should be easy for users to take over a platform and dictate terms, but the instant dopamine of infinite scroll can’t be resisted.
I recently tried the OSX version, its running via some WINE wrapper, has a huge package size and doesn't support Retina resolution. Not recommended.
Reminds me about one step within the interview process for Spotify (which I liked):

Live root-cause analysis of a failure which previously occured in Production - you explain your thought process (check connectivity between System A and B via ping, DNS name resolution, look at open ports, etc...) and they tell u the result like "ping returned 'Name or service not known'".

SWE role in infra.
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787, that still survives, right? Which is why it's not in the list of "Top-scoring Show HN Stories that Didn’t Survive" (where it would be #31).
I think now we need to define what's the "whole OS". From a user's perspective: the whole OS crashed (became unresponsive). But from a developer's perspective the OS worked, as it was still logging, responding to network, etc.
Thanks for sharing these. Though I mostly do software I found his take very helpful.

Also nice to be reminded how fungible things are when no actual wires get involved.
Yes, in the UK pickups now seem to be status items. I don't think I've ever seen an open bed used. I've seen a few towing big trailers, that's about it.
This warning can never be overstated for 5-HTP. Higher doses/longer term use can have a lot of negative effects in the heart, as well as in the serotonin and dopamine system (even up to serotonin syndrome in the most extreme cases). A major problem is that the body does not have mechanisms to regulate conversion of 5-HTP to serotonin (5-HT), which is not a really good property of a supplement.

One should do their search before starting it, which anyway holds as advice for most supplements, but even more for this one. Anecdotes should not be taken as evidence of overall safety.
I love that he didn’t shy away from prose that almost read as biblical even though he risked drawing comparison to it. The authority and confidence he wrote with.
Thank you for your service. As a consumer, you not only have rights, but also have responsibilities - if a product is not as advertised, the market needs to know about it and the producer needs to fix it.
They don't, but those that do are just ordinary users.

Power users are a tiny minority, and most of them don't post either.
Hey there

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Alignees is the only platform that connects dental practitioners with the top 1% of industry experts to ensure high-quality treatment plans, thus guaranteeing that patients receive the best treatments possible.

We'd be happy to connect with anyone from a16z Consumer Tech :)
I moved to a Dygma keyboard early in the year, and I'm not looking back. The software to record macros, remap is just great, and I'm no longer suffering pain because of my position.
If you can do nothing without network connectivity, then it seems to be an acceptable disaster.

Or do companies generally have better backup policies than Google dRive?
The Road was really poorly written, but it did have an emotional resonance. It was beautiful in some ways, but it was a pretty crappy novel that didn't deserve a fraction of the attention it received. I'm still a bit baffled as to why it received that much attention. I picked it up at random off my gf's bookshelf last year, and read it in a day. It was quite simplistic. Calling it reductive would be giving it undue credit.

If you write a novel that aims to distill a genre into its own __prototype methods, you should leave the reader with a feeling that you're doing something more important and artful than simply cashing in on the existing archetype. Perhaps, like, a critique of the archetype itself embedded in the work would give the reader something more to think about.

[edit] I'd also just call attention to "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart (1949). This pulpy, pathos-ridden, amazing jerk-off sci-fi fantasy of being the last person on earth already hits pretty much all the major themes. If you're going to write the dark and traumatizing version of it with a boy in tow, how about adding something to the genre rather than collecting accolades based on an unproven assumption that by reducing it to parts you have somehow expanded upon it?
I've seen the former happen for some GitHub docs and when enabling plugins.

I agree there's cause for concern, and I hope it's a gradual rollout that's introspected in between each propagation of such, but I definitely think it's viable to be used no more less safely than other tooling in the government today (for better or worse).
No one was ever deceived with promises of monetary compensation for their moderation work. Moreover, moderators in particular are a very small subset of the site's total users, so they have even less claim on data ownership. Comparing voluntary message board moderators with farmers starving to death sounds like satire.
It has to have some degree of autonomy to be useful. The current approach with ChatGPT to just have all the knowledge in the world directly in the base model not only doesn't scale, it would also run into issues with copyright if it could actually recite books and stuff word for word. A ChatGPT that can just use Google to look up the necessary information itself would be far more useful.

BingChat sort of tries that, but it doesn't really have any autonomy either, so it just summarizes the first Bing search result it gets. It would be far more useful if it could search around two or three layers depth into the search results to actually find what you are looking for.

In general current AI systems have the problem that you have to babysit them far to much. If you want to get specific answers, it's you that has to provide all the necessary context to make it happen, the AI can't figure out by itself what you want from past conversations.
For some reason I don't trust them that much anymore since the beginning of last year
> I also don't sympathize with these huge companies taking advantage of (what EVERYONE knew was) a temporary boon in tech

While perhaps there is an argument to be made that one can take advantage of another if there is information asymmetry, when you say that EVERYONE recognized the temporary nature of the engagement, to think that temporary hiring under that is taking advantage of a worker is quite silly. A worker needing a guarantee of x number of years of payment had every right to demand it be written into the contract.

> These companies instead decided to throw all bets in

Of course, so did the workers. They didn't have to leave their jobs flipping burgers. They chose to because they saw $$$ in the air. That same greed is no doubt, as before, why they didn't bother putting any conditions in the contract to protect themselves from the downturn you state they knew was coming. They took a chance – sometimes it worked out, other times it didn't. Such is the nature of risk.
Meanwhile there is a corpse pile of proprietary social media companies, a bunch of dead platforms walking like tumblr, myspace, twitter. Meta is hemorrhaging cash, Discord's efforts to expand outside of the social media space failed.

But IRC persists. I still visit and post in a few web forums. Email is still a thing. The modern internet is a mess but open platforms aren't gone, if anything what's become more apparent is that centralized and consolidated platforms inevitably collapse on themselves.
For advertising your target isn't necessarily someone organically scrolling who happens upon it. It's definitely the people who are googling "best cordless drill reddit" or digging through the stickied megathread of a specific interest's sub. In those cases it would be very very hard to beat the effectiveness of a well-placed comment.
You can also peg a known good version of Wikipedia and host it locally. That said I can't imagine trying to audit the whole shebang.
Translate your MailChimp content with ease. Setup integration once, define your localization workflow and spend less time managing translations.
Gmail randomly(?) requires “new senders” to have SPF records since November '22
I can't speak for any other illness mentioned, but from what I've been told as someone with ADHD a significant part of the "nature" side of it is caused by either reduced serotonin sensitivity, a faster-than-normal re-uptake of serotonin whenever it gets released (meaning it doesn't get to do its job), or some other disruption of how serotonin is supposed to function in the brain.

So when it's caused by reduced sensitivity I would expect it to potentially be a treatment for that part of the illness, yes.

I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually turns out that ADHD has multiple potential causes that all lead to the same symptomatic serotonin disruption though, and that only a limited number of people who have it get benefits from this treatment.

And of course, that's just the "nature" side, as mentioned. There is also a "nurture" side of things where not getting the right help to deal with the consequences of ADHD leads to issues that need to be solved through therapy (although I suppose effective medication does make it easier to able to endure therapy).
This doesn't seem to have hit any major tech news outlets at the time, but since I've stumbled upon it twice in a short timeframe, I can only assume that others have been bitten by it:

"Starting November 2022, new senders who send email to personal Gmail accounts must set up either SPF or DKIM. Google performs random checks on new sender messages to personal Gmail accounts to verify they’re authenticated."

There is no explanation on how the randomness in this works, but I can't imagine it would be helpful in troubleshooting related issues.
This was known as adding a 'duck'. It is unfortunately very helpful when your client stakeholder doesn't value your expertise as much as they should. It works for web design too, but you must be careful that your duck doesn't become a feature!
I like Discord but I get that it's not for everybody. Jumping into a very active wide Discord community (with many channels) can be an incredibly jarring sensory assault, and if you don't have a narrower community (e.g. a private server for just your friend group, or honestly just a server with very few channels to keep track of) to figure out things, it can be very off-putting.

That said, the reason why so many people want to go to Discord is pretty hard to miss: out of all the alternatives, it's the one with critical mass now. Even if everyone is distributed across different servers (to be clear to those less familiar, a server is not a physical/virtual host) and cannot directly interact with one another, the network effects are readily apparent.
Right before reddit shut down /r/programming was overrun with chatgpt bots
I have those without bettertouch tool (with a combination of standard applications).
Thank you. I haven't had time to dig into your tool yet but I did click the "Join Beta" link, unfortunately that doesn't do anything right now.

Feel free to reach out to me via my e-mail from my profile if you're interested in Beta testers.
What is interesting to me is that many here cling to complication. Straight from the horses mouth in front of Congress, Powell minced no words on whether The Fed's interest rate hikes would tackle CPI inflation for consumers[1].

Powell made it clear that the interest rates may have an effect on durable goods (cars) and asset prices (stocks/real estate). Cars and real estate seem to be complicated, lots of other factors playing into prices right now. But clearly for many asset classes, especially startups, the haircut from higher interest rates has landed.

But outside of that, the price of eggs, gas, coffee, basically no change (and none was suggested to ever occur!).

[1] Video and transcript: https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/at-hea...
The History of Cognitive Overload (2014)
Ever edited any comment of yours?
"Often, when poachers are interested only in the scales, they drop the curled-up pangolins into pots of water and boil them alive to make the scales easier to pluck."

It's times like this I feel ashamed to be a part of the human race.
Are these even sold today? Outside of embedded systems I mean.
The space must be non-linear, as a consequence of the non-linear activation functions. A neural net is just a big math equation, and deeply embedded throughout are non-linear transforms which necessarily make the entire transform non-linear. Just like the presence of 1/x makes an equation no longer linear (at least with rare exception!). Here is a deeper explanation/visualization: https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

The three references don't seem to conclude that the latent space is linear. The first seems to mention "linear" only since they add an additional linear layer to project an image encoding into a generative language model. So I'm not sure this applies here, since the encoding itself is already richly complex by the time it is mapped.

The second and third are using a "linear probe" in an attempt to gain insights about each layer. This feeds the output of a given layer into a linear classifier that attempts to predict the correct output labels. This doesn't perform well in early layers, but it improves monotonically until the final layer is reached. The researchers conclude this happens entirely as a consequence of the final layer being a linear classifier. So, the features eventually must become linearly separable since that's what the network was trained to do.

This doesn't conclude that each layer's feature space is linear. Instead, they are just using a linear projection to examine how "easily" the net at that layer can make correct predictions. Even if a layer's output is decently predictive in this way, the actual representation could still be richer and contain additional information.
Ah, you sound like the vendor we've just fired.

I wish I was joking.
If decline in service goes up, the people at the top most definitely feel it. It is actually multiplied by the fact that it is consolidated. So it is exponential.

The problem with ->big<- PEs is that they usually do not care too much. They usually have 5y exit plan, no matter what. If they are managing other people's money, like pension funds and whatnot, they usually do not care because they already got their fees. So yes, it can become a problem over time. Large PE firms simply gobble up every good deal they can so it is quantity over quality. But then, this can happen with small shop anyway. With PE it might be more exaggerated due to the scope but that's just the market. It bares what it financially can and it does not matter how big or small a business is if the management is lacking.

But even big PE firms can be good managers. So again, it is circumstantial and not something that can be generalized.

There are always bad apples. But those apples, once they make their bad name, they will go out of business sooner or later because other people will know of them and to avoid them.
Great way to get mired down in bullshit.
Discord is more featureful than IRC, and prettier than IRC clients, but there are no local archives or logging, and its searching capabilities are atrocious in comparison to having local logs searchable with ordinary text-processing tools.

Not that it matters to most users, because they wouldn't know how to use such tools to begin with, and don't know what they're missing.

Discord is an information black hole, and I pity future generations who'll have virtually no access to the petabytes of history lost in dark data vaults like Discord.
> to me this just highlights the impacts it can have.

I believe it also highlights that the body cannot regulate its conversion to serotonin, as it does with L-tryptophan (which needs to be converted to 5HTP) for instance, which can result to these issues.

Also, the body does not regulate where in the body the conversion happens, you _really_ do not want it do be converted to serotonin in peripheral tissue (as it can cause heart issues), you only want it in the brain. Heart palpitations is a very common side effect due to it.

If it was patentable drug it would possibly have been banned/restricted as a drug like many other 5HT2b agonists (but it is not patentable as it is something that our own body makes), and research would have turned to something with less cardiotoxic effects.
Interesting idea but sometimes your projects aren't just a mess of errors and cryptic code. Sometimes they are clean enough, but mainly are just there to learn something, and spending all of the time finishing everything off to try to make it shippable is just a waste of the time that you could be spending on something worth shipping using your new found knowledge.

Although if projects are getting abandoned just because of the mess they are in, that's definitely something to work on.
On my website, I set up a webhook to a Zapier “send email” zap: I have a basic contact form and a button that, in practice, does a POST to the Zapier webhook with the email content.

It is not perfect, but it works for my very little volume and hides my email to the outside (I rarely get spam on the email address linked to the contact form).
The issue I don’t see talked about is the removal of the reserve requirements for banks during Covid. They did that for liquidity reasons.

However that allows bank A to loan 100% of their money to bank B and 100% to bank C.

This is extremely problematic. And now with bank failures they are too scared to put it back in place.

Just this concept alone creates huge inflation.
those are unfair comparisons.

They are franchises, not standalone projects. Much like you are more keen to see a video from a creator you have enjoyed in the past. The barrier to entry is lower.

And the avengers have comic books as well as an excuse to yourself that it's probably worth it to risk putting your time into watching the movie.

Now think of a random movie, I call it 'The study of Protastores'
It's a made up name, it has the word study in it. Would you go and watch it if it was 3 hours long? You it would be a difficult pitch, even if it is the best movie ever and has an exciting thumbnail
Any reccomended alternatives?

I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
Read the comments questioning the whole point of all
The Times isn't a tabloid either, jesus christ. Have you ever actually lived in the UK? It feels like you're just making things up to try and muddy the waters here, in the hope of making all this stuff go away.

To assist: The Times was founded in the 1700s and was the first newspaper in the world to use that name, a name that has been copied many times due to its reputation. In 2004 they switched to a compact paper form of the size used by tabloid papers, but that didn't affect the content or style and didn't make it a "tabloid paper" in the sense you're trying to use here.
Thanks! That looks like just the ticket :)
Interestingly Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men looks alot like Cormac McCarthy around the same age. [1][2][3]

Coen brothers still make movies with real people and brought this world to life in an authentic way.

[Anton vs the "We can't give out no information" lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLA81q9ok0) I love Coen movies with regular people like this. The lady is hilarious and it is one of the only people that Anton didn't take out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Co...

[2] https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/how-quentin-tarantino-...

[3] https://twitter.com/mdbell79/status/1263644096385564673
Although I agree with some of the advice, I also remind myself to the exact opposite: Kill your projects. If during a project you learn that it will not work, will not be as good as you hoped it would, or if the circumstances have changed, put it out of its misery. Do not let it hang around nagging for you to finish it. Declare it dead, maybe archive it somewhere far away, clean it out of your sight, and move on.

Do not consider a killed project to be a failure. Rather, it was an experiment with a negative result. You learned at least one thing that didn't work, and probably you learned a lot more.

It is better to start exciting and ambitious projects, of which some may succeed, than to play it safe and only start working on something simple and boring that you already know will get released.
GitHub as a tool is easily replaceable. GitHub as a platform where you can easily interact with countless projects is not. MS would have to really fuck up to negate the network effects.