TrueGeek

Sure, go ahead and ignore what people on the moon feel because Earth is more important. It's all fun and games until people start throwing rocks.

I understand, it's hard. But from the opposite end it can be hard for users to trust so you have to make that easier on them by being more transparent.

I'd suggest finding a perfect use case - maybe it's not T-Mobile. Then record a happy path video showing it working perfectly.

Also - as a tip, a lot of these companies will use the same software. So, right now your bot didn't do well with T-Mobile at all because it didn't know how to response to multi-button prompts. But once you teach it how to do that it'll know how to response to any company that uses the same software (LivePerson). Almost always you don't have to 'press' the button, you can just respond with the text of the button.

"Underwhelming" is putting it mildly. The bot didn't even notice it wasn't talking to the agent yet and the "demo" ends with the user giving up and ending the conversation.

This was posted by an account that was created an hour ago. I'm not sure how this product is going to make money as there doesn't actually be any product here.

I'd be very careful about giving this extension access to your browser.

If you had just worked harder and become a billionaire you too could have been safe from the AI apocalypse

Last night we tried ChatGPT to see what we could change the “Welcome {MyFamily} Name” at our AirBnB to say.

ChatGPT 3.5 gave suggestions where most of the options needed letters we didn’t have.

ChatGPT 4 took a very long time and then apologized and said it was trying to loop over the letters but it couldn’t verify if they were real words because it didn’t have a dictionary.

Multiple tries returned the exact same results each time.

I’d hate to do this with Legos and then be missing parts part way through!

$100 / company so get 99 friends to go in on an account and it’s only $1 / year!

> The answer is always the same: start a company. I'm not sure why so many developers are terrified by the prospect.

Every one says this yet almost all companies fail in their first year. Surely you see why people would feel more comfortable being employed by someone else and having the security of a regular paycheck.

It's crazy to Americans too.

Per capita car ownership in The Netherlands is comparable to nearby countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...

Not taking a side, I agree with you that trying to use a car in any of the larger Dutch cities would be crazy. But car ownership has sadly been on the rise recently.

I failed this twice. Wasn't there an article on HN a few months ago about how AI was already better than us at these captchas?

The best time to build a nuclear power plant is 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

The article mentions that Atlanta runs sweeps quarterly. This is only inside the city though. I live outside the city (25 to 90 minutes depending on traffic) and we don't get any sweeping. The intersection outside our neighborhood gets about an accident a week and it's just constantly filled with glass and, occasionally, bumpers. The tow truck drivers are normally kind enough to sweep it to the side but that isn't great for cyclists. Everyone drives SUVs here and their tires are big enough that glass doesn't matter so no one is going to agree to pay for sweepers.

I haven’t done it since covid, but in consulting it’s often fly out Monday, fly home Thursday. If you can get out of the office early or you have a connecting flight that lands early and you can get on an earlier flight it can get you home hours earlier after a very long week away from home.

I agree it's a great free service and I've rarely seen downtime, but as a nitpick:

The posts for YC backed companies that are hiring (where the comments are turned off) are ads.

I'll stop buying cool looking (but useless) tech that ends up sitting in a drawer when they stop making cool looking (but useless) tech.

This would be kinda cool (without the keyboard) to sit on a kitchen counter and show a family calendar or something

I'm the opposite. In movies (and real life to an extent) I have trouble telling people apart. I'd love a closed caption like service that just put name tags over everyone.

I was told no one was ever fired for buying IBM

I saw one of the Microsoft product owners give a talk on Power Apps at Atlanta Developer's Conference:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/powe...

You can write just a few sentences, or even upload a drawing of what you want your app to look like, and it'll create it for you.

The catch is it's only for corporate apps. These can't be publicly facing. Everyone needs to sign in with M365 and have an individual license.

Some of the people in these comments never got their documentation in paper form and it really shows

> only a company that has gone bananas would do that.

There are plenty of companies that have, indeed, gone bananas.

There was a story on HN last year about a tech writer who lost their lost job and was being replaced by ChatGPT. They argued to their boss "but I'm 10x as good as ChatGPT, you aren't going to get writing nearly as good once I'm gone!" The boss replied "I know you're 10x as good but you're 10,000x as expensive. The company is okay with the drop in quality."

I thought you meant like an old school O'Reilly book. For anyone else who was curious I believe this is the link:

https://www.refactoringui.com

It looks really good.

This is complete and utter entitled bullshit

Not the commenter, but for me this is it. I'm don't mind any other insect or rodent. But for some reason roaches are absolutely disgusting.

I know how silly it sounds but I would hesitate to work on any project that worked with this tech just because it would make me uncomfortable to hear the word so often.

> Who is the intended audience for these videos and what's the motivation?

There may have been ads if you lived in Canada

That's decent mark up. I bet I could write an app to take products from that site, post them to Amazon, and then just drop ship the orders for me. Of course, I'd have to write all those descriptions...

Bobiverse and Murderbot are both in desperate need of a movie / series.

What should one specialize in for the EU job market?

Not that I've seen