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Hi HN,

I built Rwiz AI out of the frustration of managing reviews for several apps I’ve developed. We use AI to automate review responses across multiple platforms like the App Store, Google Play, and Trustpilot.

What it does:

- Automatically generates responses to reviews using GPT

- Allows you to customize responses based on app-specific prompts

- Provides manual editing and reply options

- Easy integration with popular review platforms

- Exceptional support and more features coming soon

We’re just getting started, and I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions!
Fair, I should have said "tech founders" I suppose. I think it's reasonable to draw distinctions between tech, media, clothing, retail, etc startups.

Like, MrBeast seems like a media startup which is different than, say, a SaaS startup or an AI assistant startup. Fair enough?
I’m not following. Creating and deleting branches is easy in git without knowing it’s a pointer. What exactly is confusing about it, and how does knowing it’s a pointer help? Creating and deleting branches in Perforce is also easy, and they’re not pointers.
‘Capitalism’ is a term that was coined by its enemies, if it had its own way it would have no name but be the thing that “there is no alternative” to.

Christopher Lasch’s Culture of Narcissism is about the 1970s (early middle Technetronic?) but also about the late 19th and the old pagan empires such as Rome and is popular in Japan as a critique of the Tokugawa era culture.

I imagine urban people in cosmopolitan centers (like that university town Corinth that my namesake wrote a letter to) of an artisan or merchant or intellectual class would have very much liked a game like Dungeons and Dragons and would have come up with similar weapons tables, monster books, spell lists, theology, etc.
Reading this article and the discussion leave me conflicted.

I retired early (40) from a career that most wouldn’t expect that from. I have two pensions and some modest investments that allow me to live quite well a couple hours from SF, but would be scraping by there.

I can no longer do the career I was successful in due to health degradation from exactly that career, but software was always a part of it so I’m pivoting to that to keep myself engaged and enjoying life.

So the comments here on health precluding this idea are very real. I also took about a year to get through the mental ramifications of my entire career being gone, as well as the entire community I was part of (due to moving). I don’t think this is talked about enough, especially in FIRE circles online. Having talked to a few other early retirees you can quite easily find that you no longer fit with the friends you’ve had for years, either due to interests diverging, spending abilities diverging, or plain old jealousy from some of them.

At the end I elected to pursue more education and (somehow) managed to get into a solid graduate program.

So I do think staying active in retirement is something you should plan, and this is even more true for early retirement. The type of partial work that I see talked about here is possible, but not generally at the earnings potential of your primary career. Things like being a substitute teacher, poll worker, etc. all pay and in California you can make around $15k/year fairly trivially doing that. If you want to donate plasma that’s another $5k/year or so; I haven’t done it but know a few early retirees that do for health reasons (reduction of forever chemicals).

The key to those jobs is that they won’t elevate your stress level like trying to find a salaried job or gig work will.

That’s a quick set of thoughts from someone who actually did execute on this type of life path and is living it in close proximity to SF, and without any type of software career.
„German Family Business“ is my bet.

They have their own internal security team, that handles activation on a case by case basis. Some users need to verify at the beginning, some after a week and other do not have to verify at all.

As you can imagine, at that price point, people will abuse the sh* out of the platform. From public posts it lookalike the main indicators are:
- country you provided
- IP based Country
- Payment method
- Payment method returned country
- order size
- order pattern (something like spawn a server, abuse stuff, order new OR many servers at the beginning)

Sadly you just need to wait. I wish they would have other solutions. But for now that’s it :-/
What you say works 100% for trivial CRUD applications. Which is also, where SCRUM is still a bad framework, but at least SCRUM works on this trivial level of software development.

When a project is about non trivial projects, people, especially developers can not be easily replaced, because no one can replace a specialist with several years of experience on the spot. What I can archive in one day and what somebody else can archive on a day highly depends on what it is. Write a field to the database? Works. Write a rule engine? I'll probably be a factor of 10x more productive than an average developer. Write some GUI/CSS? A frontend developer is 10x more productive than me.
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d964dd8c-047e-4b02-bb....
When you mentioned vocal fry and I saw a YT link I thought I was going to see this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHt-tYS2es

It's a shame it didn't get renewed.
A Kanban board for reading.

I do a similar thing a with a spreadsheet. If you keep track of the number of entries you have in each column then you can even plot a cumulative flow diagram - seeing it plotted out helps me realize when I've got more than enough books in my "To Read" pile and that I don't need to buy any more for a bit :)
There are plenty of campaigns out there that are politically oriented and traveling hobos aren't likely to get positive attention from the local lord or lady.

Turns out that having a stake in local society is one of the best ways to get that positive attention, just following logically.

Rules like these are for people playing the setting appropriately. But these days I think it's appropriate to assume that large numbers of roleplayers are doing so to play out chiefly their own fantasies and all of the modern sensibilities that comes with.
Why RAG is more than just vector search
This sounds like an idea borrowed from games or other media where doing certain actions results in an audible feedback. This is often done for the benefit of the audience, or to enhance the gaming experience, but I had an idea to implement this in my workspace to somehow influence my brain and make it more enticing to write code and somehow beat procrastination.

I wrote a Python daemon which on startup loads small .wav files into memory to make latency as small as possible, and listens for interrupts as well as reads from a fifo. Other programs can send commands to it to play certain chimes on demand. In ~/.vimrc I added autocommands on certain actions - buffer write, enter/exit Insert mode, enter/exit command line, text change, etc. to send commands to my daemon. Now, when I use vim, I get audible feedback of my actions during writing. Since this is all in a separate daemon done in an UNIXy way, adding support for this in other applications should be easy enough if I want to.

If there was interest, I think that I could clean up the project a little and publish it, including a set of free .wav chimes to use.
Sounds like something one might try to train an AI to do :)
Those are completely unrelated. K8s does not provide client rate-control and FAIR does not do load-balancing. It appears you misunderstood what this is.
Report reiterates 2nm chips for iPhone 17, but highlights the challenges
Exactly. It's the same as using one of those meditation apps with gamification elements.
OpenSearch Moved into a Foundation
AWS moved OpenSearch into a foundation, announced at open source summit EU
This Week in KDE Apps
This guy "corporates"... today you win at "buzzword bingo"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_bingo
`$ ... && say 'Notice me father, I am complete'`

(something I add to longer scripts when the job gets particularly boring)
We also didn't believe in alcohol, at least not as part of the official ration. The Royal Navy "tot" was not abolished until 1970.

(The US actually had one, too, until 1862. The Kiwis kept theirs until 1990.)
I find Agile is like democracy. It does suck, but it’s better than everything else.

What would you prefer besides agile?

I had a conversation with a young devTM who was arguing that estimating is hard and always inaccurate so we shouldn’t estimate. Everyone should just work on things until they are done. He argued this earnestly and didn’t recognize that there are opportunity costs and conflicting priorities and the need to choose what to do. He earnestly argued that every single user story should be worked on in order of entry until it was completed. It would have been precious how clueless this suggestion was if he didn’t spent 20-40 minutes a week arguing this as an explanation for why his items weren’t done and why he was civil disobediencing to refuse to estimate or report time on tasks.
It's funny because I had to take a company mandated 2 day Agile training class, and I thought the exact same thing. I thought "Waterfall" was just some concocted fantasy workflow to contrast with. I actually asked our instructor if it was real and he said "Of course it was!"

Now I don't know what to think!
Since the planet is covered with independently evolved farming communities, I think it's plenty realistic to allow one in a book.
If you get to a sufficiently-high level of "realism", D&D game mechanics and fuedalism can't coexist anyhow. All of human history prior to around the 17th century is based on the fact that a "military man" is within a certain range of power. You can have better or worse, like how the Roman empire had a more reliable way of getting more-per-soldier than the competition of the time, but in general throughout history, there's definitely a range on human power. Everything is so deeply based on that model that we can't even see it. Even as I describe this you may be going "yeah, but what about...", but bear with me for a second.

In these style of games, though, there's generally exponential power growth. One level 20 warrior can take on an absurd number of level 1 warriors. With modern games being so much larger and more complicated it's not impossible to find builds where a level 20 (or 40, or 60, or 100...) warrior can defeat arbitrary numbers of level 1 warriors. Moreover, the leveling mechanics are such that the things you do to attain levels are only loosely correlated to the skills you obtain from those levels, e.g., why would killing a bunch of kobolds suddenly allow you to cast two fireballs instead of one?

This breaks fuedalism in ways both subtle and gross. If the King is level 20 (or whatever), he has little to no utility for your Level 3 warrior's oath of fealty and the several dozen Level 1 warriors following him. In the real world every oath of fealty is some incremental boost in power and you may need everything you can get, but this oath of fealty is just a waste of your military's food.

So what would it look like? Well, you may note I time-bound my claim above that soldiers were somewhat range-bound in capability. Clearly modern militaries are wildly disproportional in effectiveness per soldier. It's been that way ever since the gun became a practical military weapon and has generally gotten worse over time. And what do we see today? Broadly speaking, the people with militaries have power and offer nothing like feudalistic loyalty in return. Loyalty is a one-way street where the plebs are beholden to the militaries, but the only loyalty the militaries have back to them is mostly based around the fact the plebs are still the supply line, so you can't actually kill them all, but you sure can kill a lot of them if you need to in order to maintain power. If you feel this is an inaccurate summary of the modern West, look beyond the modern West; there's a lot more to history than just the modern West in the past ~300-400 years. And it is, of course, a single paragraph merely sketching a hint of a broad shape, not a PhD thesis; I'm well aware that this is a very fuzzy picture. But the point I'm trying to make is not a positive one about the details of the sketch I'm making here; it suffices simply to point out that A: we actually have much less balanced "power per person" in the real world (though not driven by "leveling mechanics") right now and B: the resulting social structures that have been semi-stable now for centuries look nothing like feudalism at all.
Heh, the first time I installed Ubuntu, installation took a while so we went out to lunch.

When we came back, the laptop had partially melted and burnt through the glass table underneath it... pretty scary stuff.
> I've been on software development projects (the final product would be source delivered to the customer) where the waterfall model was explicitly specified

On the other hand, in my 50 years or so in this business, working with every size of company, I have never actually seen "waterfall" being done in practice. I'm sure it may have happened -- as you report -- but I don't think it was ever common.
You've just described a whole slew of online stores, their logistics aren't on par yet, but they will be.
Then why design batteries with built-in cell balancing support, and remove the resistors to disable the feature in the last moment?

You can safely say that if the battery pack's total capacity drops under 75%, disable it, or detect dead cells and take action.

Disabling life prolonging features while having a full MCU and a nice battery IC on board smells fishy to me.
If you write everything as if you must put your name to it, and then do put your name to it, your writing becomes stronger, and those kind of contrarian-neuroses go away.

This account name is not my real name, but I have thought about making an HN account with my real name. Mostly I just try to spend less time on HN these days.
Oh man, I'm jealous that you get cubicles. When I moved from Big Corp to startup land, I did not realize how much I would miss having a cubicle.
It also helps that they include 8 pictures. They break things up, even if they are otherwise unnecessary.
>OTOH, if you're driving and the light changes to yellow and you have room to stop, you should check your mirrors to see if there's a vehicle behind you that's unlikely to stop.

If there's room to stop, then I'll still be braking immediately because braking immediately gives me the most time to brake, which makes the deceleration as gradual as possible and gives the person behind me the most time to react. I'm not sure what the alternative is supposed to be. Delay braking but having brake harder later? Gun it and try to run the yellow?
I heard if you change your linkedin location to Lebanon and then signup for a years premium it costs about $2 instead of several hundred.
or just use a more user friendly and accessible currency and banking system
I'm surprised you've never had a hypothetical conversation
Logistics is definitely Amazon's biggest moat. Second biggest would probably be their customer service.
Why the former Tableau CEO just joined the board of a Zurich-based BI startup
Just for the record: Knuth had already published the first three volumes of TAOCP in 1968, 1969, 1973 respectively, and had then brought out the second edition of Vol 1 in 1973, and had already won a Turing award for them in 1974 — it was only in 1977 for the second edition of Volume 2 when the publishers' printing technology had become worse (from hot-metal typesetting to phototypesetting) that he decided to take up the problem, excited at having recently learned of digital typesetters.
I've felt that way, but I got past it by realizing this is kind of how most people are. It's hard to sustain generosity and compassion over the long term. They want to be that friend who sticks with you through thick and thin, but they've got their own shit to deal. It's not about you, so try not to take it personally. It's the human condition.
Byrd later apologized thoroughly as I understand it.

Jimmie Åkesson just says "I saw nothing of that".
Do you actually know that’s what’s happening? The details are extremely fickle the last I read (a couple days ago). For all we know, they are doing model routing and prompt engineering to get o1 to work.
I do. I have a small Swift HTTP notification service running on my dev machine, that uses SimplyCoreAudio to locate a specific speaker (so that notification sounds aren't affected by connecting headphones or speakers) and play a custom NSSound specified by the request. And I have all kinds of scripts calling that notification service on completion/error/specific conditions met from anywhere on LAN. The service also optionally shows a desktop notification dialog (through osascript app.displayDialog()) and/or send a Pushover notification to my mobile devices. Try it, it's a great way to wait for asynchronous tasks.
You got a broken screen when you bought the thing and they made you do the repairs yourself? And then charged you to replace a broken battery..?

Why would anyone do business with them?
I think it was more about the corporate culture which dictated that people had a plan and stick to it.

It's still the case in many trades. You don't build a house or a bridge the Agile way for instance.

IMHO Agile got a lot more prevalent because the planning phase became more and more onerous to have any reliability, and management was tired of paying upfront for it. I steady they could get a more regular billing (in particular when dealing with consulting companies) with reports of stuff allegedly shipped, instead of six months of "we're planning very hard, just trust us". Whether the end result matched what they needed/wanted to build being another story.

I know many companies that had an official Waterfall cycle, while actually working on something more granularly shipped with many phases of prototyping. And they didn't move to Agile either, just stopped calling their process anything and went on doing whatever felt right.
We planed to do that originally but unfortunely the NIMBY crowd near yucca mountain got upset about it. fortunatly we have tech now to build reactors that turn refine used fuel into new fuel and low radiation byproduct but thanks to decades of the fossil fuel industry funding groups like the siera club and greenpeace we now have a national irrational phobia of atomic energy of any-sort
1e literally had examples on how to blend the game with other games such as Boot Hill, Gamma World, etc.
yes

> blacklist pcspkr
>>Expecting "realism" and coherency from a fantasy world destroys the fantasy.

I don't know about realism, but coherency is absolutely required for any fantasy world(imho).
The funny thing is that "communism" is a highly overloaded term, with several very precise definitions, one of what is so successful that about every country currently implements and people that dismiss it are ignored and considered radical. (But then, nobody calls that one "communism" nowadays, the the people pushing the others will really hate you if you talk about it.)

While "scrum" is a proper name with a single definition that anybody can look that is absolutely not precise enough for anybody to follow. By definition you can't really do scrum right.
Yes -- despite my comment, I am in the same boat. Code-CAD is actually a backup/toolbox item alongside FreeCAD, for me.

(The programmer in me would love to be able to leave comments in more places on FreeCAD designs. I have spent a lot of time trying to learn how to make the simplest, most self-documenting parametric flow.)

But the reason I framed my comment above in terms of spending at least some time with CadQuery or Build123D etc. over OpenSCAD, is that CadQuery taught me additional CAD concepts that helped me make progress.

I had tried to use FreeCAD before, about 18 months before I finally got my 3D printer, but I was absolutely bamboozled. So when I finally started with my 3D printer, I started with OpenSCAD. I got small stuff done and held it in my hands, but I immediately felt its limitations (partly because I struggle with co-ordinate spaces and maths). Was I really going to be stuck doing all the maths, over and over again, or using libraries of specific functions like BOSL? My maths skills are weaker than I'd like, and it felt like a dead-end.

I stumbled on CadQuery, spent some time working on some key things in it, really immersed myself in the documentation, and this helped me grasp the bRep fundamental ideas of faces, vertexes and edges, normals, orientations, planes, etc. All the higher-order concepts in modern CAD above CSG.

I then had two things I knew could work for me -- CadQuery or in a pinch OpenSCAD. And because as you know there are/were workbenches for both, the knowledge gave me the confidence to spend time with FreeCAD.

Without stumbling on CadQuery I would have been stuck with OpenSCAD and it may have driven me away from trying to make my own things.

There are elements of my designs I will be (re-)building in Build123D to get some code-CAD advantages (scripted customisation). But it's the time with CadQuery that helped me make the transition to CAD thinking.
Microsofts' Game-Changing Benchmark: How AI Assistants Boost User Productivity
I have made similar android app for semantic image search, works offline too, still gathering feedback and polishing UI, but it works, if you are brave enough here is it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tE0cY6umj5h5zCY_Jvaou1M8sCf...
I swapped to Shark and haven't looked back. Current one takes an absolute beating (masses of dog hair, kids mess, countryside dirt walked into the house etc. etc.) and still performs perfectly after 3+ years of almost daily (ab-)use
Hollywood's secret weapon is an animation studio called Titmouse
> and more

The best example of which being Retaliation - https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation
> My team chooses the characteristics of the sprint. It’s not like they are randomly assigned. It’s a collaboration between leadership, team members and non-team stakeholders. It’s not like there’s anything mandatory, so we set our release schedule and what a release means based on what makes sense.

But then it's not Scrum. Scrum is weekly.
A simple query with a direct response:

QUERY /contacts HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
Content-Type: example/query
Accept: text/csv

select surname, givenname, email limit 10

Not quite full SQL (no JOIN or WHERE in any examples I see)

Hmm... as long as you handle authentication/authorization correctly, why is it bad?

It's a way to pluck certain JSON fields that were otherwise going to be returned? Kind of like one of the benefits of GraphQL? Will this catch on?
I must have missed the part where Gondorians and Orcs where sitting for months in trenches opposite to each other fighting for the same few kilometers of ground?

The entire war of the ring lasts less than a year, and most battles are won after at most a few days of fighting by glorious charges on horseback with the leader in front of his men. Making them far more similar to the battles of Arthurian legend rather than anything contemporary to Tolkien.
Location: EMEA (Georgia), can work in the CET time zone

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Work authorization in home country: Yes (can also do a full-time B2B contract that's widely used here)

Technologies:
Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Express.js, Nest.js, RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Serverless, and many more related other technologies

Skills: Solving business problems, good communication, writing reliable documentation, designing horizontally scaled microservice architectures

Love: Infra-as-code, functional programming, data-oriented programming, Functional core, imperative shell

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ERdJ8Tnp3Af6-czG6hFKtcsyA3g...

Email: In the CV