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Show HN: AI User Persona Generator
Let's be honest for a second.

You hate doing user interviews

You still want to get customer insights

That's why we built this GPTs - AI User Persona Generator.

So you can get incredible marketing insights from your ideal customers in 5 minutes (instead of 50 hours).

You just need to provide your website or tell what your business is about. AI will handle the rest.

Try it now https://chat.openai.com/g/g-SKdgK3Apk-ai-user-persona-genera...
Good Question.

Maybe what is 'good for business' would be to split some of them up, to create a market where competition exists.

And stop approving mergers that reduce competition -> see Ticketmaster
I believe GP implicitly assumes that bash (and generally POSIX-y shell script) has lots of quirks and footguns (to which I generally agree).

After skimming through the source code though, I'd say the concerns are probably overstated.
Meta's free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
Oh darn, sorry about the email notifications. I'm going to disable them and give them a little extra polish later. Thanks for letting me know
These aren't temporary. Every message I have sent for years has got the same block message. Sure, they aren't necessarily outdated but they aren't lasting for a few minutes.

> When working with DMARC aligned domains, most email service providers will rely solely on content based spam detection

This seems to be true for most major providers. But my experience shows that Microsoft and Apple don't do this. They still apply strict broad IP-based blocking. Sending messages from the same domain via a relay such as AWS SES is perfectly fine. But if the sender IP is in Digital Ocean ASN it is dropped right away. The domain is p=reject
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In a good large company they open up jobs in other departments to current employees first. However if you apply your manager is consulted on if you are allowed to move. There are also promotions to management or architecture - both of which you may or may not want (and remember you may change your mind on this in a few years!)
> People have been claiming short term incentives for decades. If short term incentives were having long term negative impacts the corporate feedback mechanisms would have picked up on it by now.

Maybe the mechanisms are working fine, the markets keep going up, as well as the long term profitability. But I think the incentives themselves are the wrong incentives: as a society, profits are just a (very useful) tool to help us trade and regulate resources. They're not an end goal. The end goal is the wellbeing of humans.

The problem is when we forget that goal, we tend to believe predatory practices are fine, when they aren't. It may well be profitable, even long term, to make predatory (hyperpalatable, heavily processed) foods that make us unhealthy. The reasoning may well be 'Let's make enough money until consumers figure out we're being dishonest'. Getting the hands off the wheel doesn't seem like a sensible choice.

I think the solutions are many. People need to realize those problems exists, not just be in denial -- people are the agents of society, and even if you think pure markets are ideal, you need individuals to make good choices for themselves. In this sense you might say there's an untapped market of consumer and large-scale social protection that balances out our interests and capabilities with corporations. Individuals don't have decades of food research (that's in many cases influenced by industry funding, to make things more complicated) in mind when making choices, and they're influenced by marketing.

I do think ethics plays a large role here. It doesn't seem like a person, working in the food industry, should in good conscience be complicit in any scheme that harms the people eating your food. If the baker near your house started sneaking in addictive substances or subtly (and largely imperceptibly) altering ingredients to save costs, you should well claim that's a failure of ethics in the first place, not of markets. Part of the failing comes from the belief that profit is the be all end all mechanism of society. Being a good person to yourself and others is more important, fundamentally important.

If you work in industry and start seeing those practices being used as a desperate attempt to keep you alive versus the competition, that should give you pause: something in our industry, and our society is broken. You should fight, even from within your company, and spearhead, a change to align your ethical incentives with financial sustainability: by demanding more (or just _better_!) regulation, but also by changing the narrative around marketing, by investing in consumer awareness (and organizations specialized in raising awareness and food research), and also investing in genuine unbiased research. You need to basically fight evil and not let the bad guys have their way. If you're complacent, the default mode is defeat, just like getting your hands off the wheel of a car the default mode is crashing.
Since receiving an ADHD diagnosis and being medicated, your latter point was something that constantly had me putting away my meds for weeks/months at a time. My heart rate has been permanently elevated and I'm watching my diet with a microscope so my blood pressure doesn't skyrocket.

It honestly feels sick that I take this drug not to necessarily feel better (though I will concede that I can handle more of my passion projects on Adderall) but in order to best fit a standard established by business magnates like Henry Ford.
It’s the reality for anyone doing “IT”, whatever the domain. Travel, banking, hospitals, police, social security etc ad nauseam
Oh am I?
Other things that possibly could have mitigated the situation:

- the intersection designer
- maintenance workers that didn't clear visibility obstacles
- vehicle safety features, both active and passive

et cetera.

Your mother wasn't "to blame", but could she have prevented the situation by driving more defensively? Likely.
Then we are in agreement your original comment is wrong?

You seem pretty confused on the physics/mechanics of it. On a gas engine there is a vacuum created when you release the accelerator which requires force to continue to turn the engine via the drive shaft. The how is not whats causing you to skid its the amount of force. The force from a brake or the engine does not matter. I know there are conspiracy theorists online that suggest somehow its different but its really just the amount of force. Engine braking is a lot lower force than a hydraulic brake.

It all comes down to the friction between the tire and the road surface.
The safety goals you want in your perfect world are so far beyond what is practical that it seems irrelevant in a discussion about a mandate that auto software be open source.

Please remember that "open source" means access to the source code, plus the right to modify it, plus the right to redistribute it without requiring additional permissions from the copyright holders, plus no restrictions on who may use the software (other than those required by law).

You can have close source with access to the source (often called 'source available'), and even with the right to modify and use those modifications.

A license which is "for noncommercial use only" or "not for use by the military" is not open source, even if the source can otherwise be freely used, modified, and redistributed.

That said, having the source code in any form does not mean things are no longer 'inherently "unsafe"'.

Device drivers are notoriously finicky and depend, for example, on the precise timing of hardware vs. software. Reading the source, even with comments, may not be enough to assume modifications are safe, perhaps because it's obvious to an expert (which you are not) or because the original authors were not aware of the issue.

Nor does open source guarantee you can reproduce the build. The auto manufacturer may use a compiler with different behavior than your compilers. But hoseja called for open source, not reproducible builds of the open source software, so inherently accepts there will be some risks.

Certainly there's less risk with reproducible builds of the open source software, but as I said, these changes are best done in steps. There's no need for the huge step you want in your perfect world. Instead, mandate open source, get experience, and use that experience to guide future changes to public policy. That's how laws generally work.
English language article:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-seize-bitcoins-worth-2-...
I learned to program FORTRAN on a CD 3100 and a 3400 in the 60's, at the Université de Montréal. Also programmed on a 6600 at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
0-Days in the Wild: Root cause analyses
The Dark Side of Awe
I didn't know Typeform offered payment processing, huh.
I actually was thinking of what people by far use their phones the most for (in terms of what matters to them, and perhaps also in terms of time for many): Text messaging. Having a social life others aren't privy to because it's silent and easy to hide from their eyes.

Keyboards in VR are really bad, and the AVP also doesn't have any ideas there (looking at keys one by one and pinching is extremely "peck and hunt").

The closest to a magic AR solution I can think of is tracking so obscenely great that you can project a touch keyboard on a screenless slab without annoyance. Maybe.

Unless you approximate smartphone typing speeds, silently, it's not going to be a smartphone replacement for any masses.
Is there anything here to train for? The initial collision wasn't in any way Cruise vehicle's fault; but the subsequent repositioning shows their procedures and sensor coverage are lacking. Oh, and their integrity.
Fluid dynamics plays a key role in predicting cardiovascular dangers
I think it would actually be a dereliction of duty if they did not buy the data.

If the data is available for purchase, they should buy and analyze it, if for no other reason than to know what everyone else knows.

Making the NSA intentionally blind to available data, seems like a bad thing.
No police department in the world has the resource or staff to properly do an investigation of these incidents.

Unrealistic take: The police should have kept the vehicle and demanded the source code be released so that it may be investigated if proper safety mechanisms have been implemented and if any errors in the systems may have caused it to hit the pedestrian. In the meantime the vehicles running on the same hardware and software should be put on probation.

Realistically: Police cannot investigate this and as long as these vehicles are classified more like computers and less as an aircraft these incidents are "glitches".
> results of decades of incremental improvements.

Gurobi was only founded in 2008. I don't doubt the optimizer was the result of "decades of incremental improvements", but the actual implementation must have been started relatively recently.
Unearthing the Oldest Forest on Earth
For 100$, I'd expect some kind of validation of the accomplishment of my goal while the amount is reserved on my credit card.

But this app seems very low effort get rich quick to me, powered by typeform.
My red flag was that there is no explanation of what an "optimised" image is.
I very much doubt it’s the software vendor who has chosen to implement the automatic logout after a minute. Most probably someone wrote that down in a requirement because that’s how the previous system worked or that’s what they saw on the internet, and once that’s done it’s set in stone
Facepalm

Too bad keto does not help with spelling
The Treachery of Images
I like it (was actually just thinking about a bot like this after seeing a related submission on hn yesterday).

Bit of feedback: the UI confused me when it asked for what language I want to learn. I didn't realize the flag was a button to choose my language and spent a little while in two different browsers thinking the space next to the microphone was a textbox to type in or the microphone was the button for letting me talk. For some reason "use the buttons above to continue" didn't make any sense to me until now. Maybe cause there was only one button?

Anyways, I don't use a lot of apps and when I do I often find the UI to be confusing, so I might be an outlier here. But I almost gave up and didn't try it.

Good luck!
Because the prison sentence does not free you from paying it back...
Doesn't mean iPhone was underspeced.

N95 was priced at $750 vs. $500 for iPhone.

N95 could have up to 4hrs talk time, 8hrs with WiFi turned off! iPhone could do 8hrs. iPhone could also browse the web for 6 hours, play videos for 7hrs, play audio for 24 hours.

N95 was more expensive, with worse software, worse screen, worse battery life.
Related, I recommend watching Bill Gurley's talk [1] on regulatory capture from 4 months ago. It basically covers why the path to solving this is a difficult if not impossible one.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
They measure motivation by how hard the person works at achieving that goal, of course if you measure it that way the pills will "increase motivation". ADHD isn't a failure of motivation, it is a failure to put in effort doing stuff you are motivated to do. It doesn't magically make you motivated to do stuff you don't care about.

> You might be right, but, at least for me, the number of tasks that meet that criteria is too low to a useful metric.

Do you file taxes? Pay your bills? Those are simple and high reward tasks, every persons life is filled with such things.
So, we don't trust parents to monitor their children's online activity the way the government finds acceptable.

So now we will punish parents for their inability to monitor their children's online activity the way the government finds acceptable?
Because that's what their lawyers likely suggested them.
You have to know yourself a little to decide between free Youtube university and bootcamp. I think of myself as a self-starter, but at some point, I had plateaued in my learning and needed some fresh momentum.

Could I have kept learning on my own? Sure. But the butt-in-seat for 9 hours a day at a bootcamp accelerated my learning quite a bit. Was it worth the $14,000? For me, yes. I got to being a hireable junior developer many months faster, so just in terms of runway, it was worth it. You'll have to make your own assessment about how much shorter of a runway you'll have, and how much quicker you'll get to takeoff with a bootcamp for yourself.

Still, it's tough to recommend a bootcamp in 2024. I did some writing about it. https://james07.bearblog.dev/how-to-keep-coding-bootcamps-re.... It isn't so much, will gen-AI take all the junior jobs (though, to some extent, yes, it has)? It is more, only gen-AI-wielding juniors will be worth hiring. At the very least, the bootcamp you're considering should have their story straight about how they will help you learn with gen-AI. They've had a year to figure this out, or not. If they seem lost about it, stay far away.
It’s less than a 1% chance of financial ruin!m? Sign me up!
This rant is at least ten years out of date, and is at this point entirely unimaginative. More importantly it does not represent where JS ecosystem efforts have been going for 3-5 years. My personal site is built with a JS framework. It’s sent to the client as ‘static’ HTML and CSS. A JS payload is also sent to power (optional) client-side-interactive functionality (e.g. the “copy” button on code snippet blocks).

Meanwhile, I get to use what is easily the best ecosystem of (lowercase) web component / templating tools, hands down. I’ve used more templating tools than I can count, and nothing compares to Vue SFCs, Svelte, or hell, even JSX as much as I loathe it.

I’m a fairly oldschool do-it-in-notepad web developer, not some kid that grew up on JavaScript. I’ve been deeply, deeply skeptical of and hesitant to employ JS-ecosystem tools. The recent work around fairly seamless isomorphic development is slowly but surely winning me over. It’s increasingly addressing my concerns re accessibility, performance, reliability, semantics, ‘letting the browser do what it does best’, etc. All things I deeply, deeply care about, and all things that caused me to rail against JavaScript in the past.
I see where you're coming from, but comments like this are why it's taken me 30 years to understand there was something not exactly right with me. It doesn't help anyone because ADHD is something no one has completely understood, especially those that do not have it, and keep muddying the waters at any chance they get.

In my experience, if it has any value, ADHD is also lack of motivation to start new cool projects [1], despite you telling me that I'm wrong. Sorry for being curt, but I somehow have to add disclaimers and clarify every time I talk about it. It's a bit tiring.

Re: 9-5: that's also nonsense. Medication helps if you work in a cubicle, as well as to work on flexible hours and no bosses like I've had the luck to do lately. It does not necessarily make you into an effective drone.

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1: The story is much more complicated, as it often is. I used to love starting new projects. 30 years of starting and never finishing does have its toll on the psyche, and I just internalised I am a lazy bastard that will never amount to anything, so I just stopped altogether. What does the CDC say about it?
eventfs(): real VFS fight is about making inode unique across all filesystems when having sub-identifiers (by disk-id, volume-id) would suffice.

In other word, Linus blocked another "systemd" developer.
>or should society adjust itself to our needs?

Yes of course this one.

But until then I need to feed my family and not get fired for not working. And I'm not talking the difference between 99 and 100 [and getting fired]. I'm talking almost 0 to 100, meaning paralyzed with dread from starting any significant task.
Yeah, it's not like the humans in this story were showing their best side, but AVs have to tak that kind of stupidity into account I think.

Like the fact that a cyclist on the other side of the road is a hazard to you, not because of the cyclist, but because an impatient driver stuck behind them is likely to pull out suddenly round the cyclist, forcing you to brake.
How does this sound like something CA would do? This sounds exactly like something Florida would do.
Writing an embedded C program using ESP-IDF that polls a Bosch BME688 sensor, feeds it Bosch BSEC library (compiled for ESP32, of course) and then pushes the response to an AWS mqtt queue.
It's funny how people have to a large extent "forgotten" the deep organisational knowledge around meetings which used to - and still does in more formal context - ensure there's someone present whose role it is to take notes, and often to start meetings by reviewing notes and actions from the previous meeting.

I guess it's in large part due to a reduction in the number of secretaries and assistant roles in most companies, but while many part of those roles became redundant with word processing etc., producing good quality notes did not, exactly because meeting participants that need to focus on the meeting make really lousy note-takers.

Heck, I've been in meetings more than once where we referred back to the notes in the same meeting, and having good notes is amazing in those situations.
nothing interesting to see here
Can't wait for the developer SDK!
My guess is that domestic spooks buying the data is a threat to many people's "Just Pretend"-privacy armor. If Larry's Lawn Care, Esther's Escort Service, and 47 assorted mafias and criminal gangs buy my data...well, other than more spam, what are they actually gonna do with it? (Or so I can tell myself.) Vs. the FBI & local cops & such might dig through my data and [danger music] find something, or start doing creepy targeting of me, and they are the law, with power to do whatever they want...
> most real-world problems are far from worst case scenarios, therefore improving the worst case currently has little practical use.

This statement is probably mostly correct, but I think that in one way it could be misleading: I would not want to imply that real-world problem instances are somehow easier than the worst-case, in terms of computational complexity. They still very much exhibit exponential increase in computational cost as you scale them up.

Instead, most read-world instances have structure. Some of that structure is well understood (for example, 99% of optimization problems involve extremely sparse matrices), some is not. But sometimes, we can exploit structure even without understanding it fully (some algorithmic techniques work wonder on some instances, and we don't fully know why).

It could be argued that by exploiting structure, it is the constant factor in the big-O computational complexity that gets dramatically decreased. If that is the case, the theory and practice do not really contradict each other. It is just that in practice, we are willing to accept a larger exponent in exchange for a smaller constant factor. Asymptotically it is a losing bargain. But for a given instance, it could be extremely beneficial.
> Anecdotally, in a bar last night, a very pushy Russian lady told us we weren't allowed to vape while there. The bar allows and encourages smoking

Huh that's weird. Germany is part of the EU and they have not allowed smoking in public indoor places for at least a decade.

If it's "allowed" in Berlin it must just not be policed somehow. Here in Barcelona it never really happens that you see anyone smoking or vaping in a bar. They always go outside to do it (which causes a lot of noise obviously).
Knots are used but you have no idea how fast a knot feels.
One of the reasons OSINT is becoming more popular is that since it’s already public, it can be freely passed around the government without worrying about classification. Analysis is usually classified but handled by each agency separately while still making the core evidence accessible so everyone involved in intelligence sharing between agencies can at least know the topic of discussion without the red tape of making sure everyone has the right clearance. It also makes it a lot easier to share with international partners.
Saying “it sucks” is like saying “SAP sucks”. Whatever system you get out of one of these projects is 99% dependent on the project team (on both sides), and 1% on the product base, which is invariably “meh”
Wow - seems very apt for software engineers too.
The idea is humorous.

However,

- The incentives are misaligned.
- Meta studies in behavioural psychology show you learn from success not mistakes.

Good luck
I think they were talking about parent's name, thatsjustwrong, and how perfect it would be for a fact checking novelty account.
> Cowlings are now composite (ie plastic) instead of aluminum.

Um, no. Absolutely not “ie plastic”. Composite material in the case of aircraft means it’s made of two or more materials. In the case of modern aircraft, it often is carbon fiber, but can also mean fiberglass and Kevlar (aka aramid fibers).
TLB Flushing and dcache/icache evicting hot cache lines in favor of the instructions and data needed by kernel mode.

It takes a while of normal operation until these are populated again with the hot data, until then the system overall throughput is reduced.
DSL huh? Slurp slurp I guess, gawk gawk 9000!
It's in the paid plan
They've never been the party of small government and parental rights. That's just their sanctimonious tagline they use when convenient.
haha, did something new happen? Third post like this I see in the last day, e.g.:

"Now, given that this is the front-line SSN, the power output is probably higher. I don't know by how much and I'm not going to ask the question on the War Thunder forum to find out."

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/253977/how...
This is an interesting concept. Congrats on launching - that's an achievement!

Are you familiar with beeminder? It uses the same concept, but is perhaps more complicated than your straightforward pitch.

Any thoughts on how they compare?