skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was advising a friend on this recently (he being a high-skilled engineer, looking for a non-technical cofounder) and IMHO one of the biggest items that either side should be looking for is startup experience.

If you're a skilled "x", you should look for a skilled "y" that is at your level or above, and does not need to be taught the absolute basics.

Getting any project off the ground with a cofounder that has never worked in an entrepreneurial environment is going to be extremly challenging. The bigger your skills/assets you're bringing to the table, the more you should be filtering for experience.
Put it succinctly, the Tech Co-Founder the article is looking for is the grunt worker who will lock themselves in the garage doing concept and development work while the Founder CEO wines and dines.
> Distributed cloned repos are not a single source of truth.

That's the point. No person should be trusted to be a single source of truth. If there are multiple sources of truth and they don't agree, it's a red flag. A highly useful flag, in fact. The situation must be resolved before truth can be established again, and all that commotion in the bazaar will make it more likely that a maintainer gone rogue will be caught. A signed tarball by the same rogue maintainer, on the other hand, will probably pass unnoticed until it's too late.

At the end of the day, it's neither people nor any specific chunk of code that I'd like to trust. It's the system -- a system that incentivizes accountable behavior, and blocks releases if there are any red flags, so that you don't really need to trust any single person.
Front and center in the highlights:

> Going for a run might is good for your heart

Doesn't seem like this went through much review?
Ah, the old "undercover cops can't lie about not being a cop, just ask them" technique.
Seems like they want to compete with Twitch. Hopefully with less pools and yoga.
I'm so annoyed by this. I used to listen to my podcasts through Google Play Music. Then they removed podcasts from that app and forced us to install Google Podcasts. Now they are shutting down Google Podcasts and forcing me back to Youtube Music to get my podcasts... Whats next? I'll probably move to a non-google product for podcasts.
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My only gripe with Overcast is that it relies on Apple’s podcast index. I prefer the open alternative https://podcastindex.org/
I really think this is the way. The world is full of shitty software made by bloated companies who can’t sell it cheaper, and you just need to be able to do it better and cheaper to win the clients.

The problem is just that a sufficiently mature product has been battle tested already, so it’s difficult at the beginning.
My solution is far shittier than any of those.
It's not a perfect solution, but I think Big Companies could have a role to play here. Some kind of tenure/patronage system, where for every $1B a Big Company makes in profit, they employ one critical open source maintainer with a decent salary (like $200k or something). The job would only have two requirements: 1) don't make everyone so mad that everyone on the Internet asks for you to be fired, and 2) name a suitable replacement when you're ready to move on. The replacement would become an employee at Big Company, which means Big Company would need to do whatever vetting they normally do (background checks, real address to send paychecks and taxes, etc).

In this scenario, Jia Tan would not be a suitable replacement, since they don't friggin' exist.

Yes, there's problems with this approach. When money gets involved, incentives can get distorted. It limits the pool of acceptable maintainers to those employable by a Big Company. But I think these are solvable problems, especially if there's a strong culture of maintainer independence. It provides a real improvement over the current situation of putting so much pressure on individuals doing good work for no benefit.
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Histogram of JiaT75's GitHub activity by time of day
These are the times (in UTC) at which JiaT75 interacted with the Github API. JiaT75 is the Github user behind the xz backdoor. These timestamps are more reliable than Git timestamps as they cannot be tampered with, they are recorded server side by Github.

Time count
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03:00 1
09:00 3
10:00 15
11:00 29
12:00 293
13:00 298
14:00 217
15:00 200
16:00 188
17:00 79
18:00 18
20:00 4

You can read more about Clickhouse and the Github activity dump here: https://til.simonwillison.net/clickhouse/github-explorer
yeah agree, there was a time where everyone only wanted to code in patterns. I do think they are nice, but often most of us hardly understood the original reason why they were created.
The saying “Build it and they will come is not true” - how many people on Hacker News built things nobody wanted

Having a cofounder that can sell and market, while you build is tremendously valuable
> I also believe consciousness is not quantifiable, but shared, and you just have a narrow perspective at a time.

I agree, but I would go 1 step further and say: we are all human, yet experience life as individual beings rather than the sum of the species. Similarly, we are all alive and conscious, as the trees in the forest, as the bugs that dwell within, and as the bacteria that dwell within the bugs. It’s all happening right now, but we experience a small, linear slice because we are separated by our brains.

Due to the sense of self that arises from having a brain, we consider ourselves just an instantiation of a member of our species, but i firmly believe that the same life-force (the soul?) is living as all beings, simultaneously. Most probably across the universe.

That’s why when we hurt other people/animals and the environment that which they make up, we end up only hurting ourselves. Buddhists have the concept of Karma. Islam has the concept of a Judgement day where animals, plants and even the ground you stepped on, would speak against you if you transgressed against them during your life. I don’t think these are simply stories made up to keep us in line whilst we’re on this planet - I believe that there may be something more to all of this.

On a side note: I wonder if there exists a world where the predominant life forms are literally connected? Not by DNA history, but by something physical whereby they can share the same brain/experience whilst in different bodies. A literal hive mind. I wonder if that would be more conducive to cooperation on a global scale vs the way life evolved on Earth through competition?
>To help others you know DeGoogle their life is a public service

Half of the recommended alternatives are not even alternatives, like recommending TeX/LaTeX as a Docs recplacement. It's just a no go.

I know the intentions are good but that's not gonna work for the regular userbase outside of the HN and adjacent circles.

>It's an open-source (and offline) document processor using TeX/LaTeX. It's different than Docs or Word but amazing, once you get used to it.
Thanks! Not sure about the unrestricted voice, it might get me in trouble, though if you browse the archives there are some fairly unrestricted instances for better and for worse
That proposal is not fully compatible with Typescript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations?tab=readme...
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My only takeaway from this article is that I’m going with a quick cremation instead of burial just in case something weird is still going on in my brain afterward. Don’t want to take any chances of being trapped in some kind of mental horror state for an unknown number of hours after death.
Thanks for mentioning! I would love more submissions! I have a few stories in my backlog to read and vet, but not enough. I'll be going through this thread and adding more that haven't been added yet.
It’s a nightmare only if you think of the monorepo as just throwing everything in one place (aka just a technical choice).

A monorepo requires org changes. It requires staffing teams to handle processes and tooling for everyone else. (And it may require something else than git… but git will work OK for reasonably large ones anyway.)

I wrote about some of this here: https://jmmv.dev/2023/08/costs-exposed-monorepo-multirepo.ht...
This seems like the last thing a walled garden would want to exist. An agent that could interact with a screen for you.
I mean it has to be backfiring at this point, right? Right?

I used to LOVE Google products, but I have been burned sooo many times now I am just inclined to not even trying anything Google puts out because they are but a sand mandala in the wind.

About a year ago I had a friend convince me to try Google Domains, despite my better judgement. It was a wonderful experience and within just a couple months, true to form, Google pulled the rug out from me once again, presumably yelling “Gotcha!” while they did so.
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Seconding Podcast Addict.
It's not a mess. Jeff Bezos can't make money on the back of other people's work, boo-hoo.
> That means there's 270,000 amazing engineers this mythical sales-machine-with-a-big-audience Founder could partner with.

But that founder isn't talking to 269,999 of them, in that situation. And the BATNA for not jumping on the technical cofounder train is "darn, keep my overpaid job".

This arrow mostly goes one way.
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There exists an old game called "The Incredible Machine" where you create these.
If the same problem doesn't exist in a monorepo in a different form then your project is not large enough to be in this discussion in the first place.
The blog post clarified it's about maintainers of critical packages, not all contributors. This could be limited to packages with just one or two maintainers, especially newer ones. And they could remain somewhat anonymous, providing their information to trusted third parties only. If some maintainers don’t accept even this, their commits could be put into some special queue that requires additional people to sign off on them before they get accepted downstream. It's not a complete fix, but it should help.
I don't think Github activity logs can be spoofed - of course activity can consciously been done in a certain time zone, but that's different from spoofing timestamps in git commits. See https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39905376 for the full histogram, it shows a rather narrow time distribution between 12-16 UTC - not really natural at all if you ask me.
Sure, but you still have to balance your "who benefits" against the harm of the thing they're proposing to ban.

In the case of these models, you can fine-tune the model all you want to be moral and not do harmful things like scam the elderly, carry out disinformation campaigns, harass people to the point of suicide. But as soon as you release the model weights, you are giving anyone the ability to fine-tune out all of those restrictions, with orders of magnitude less cost that it took to develop the model in the first place.

Regulating AI, especially as it becomes AGI and beyond, is going to be very tricky, and if everyone has the ability to create their own un-restricted, potentially sociopathic intelligences by tweaking the safe models created under careful conditions by big labs, we're in for a lot of trouble. That assumes we put the proper regulations on the big labs, and that they have the ability to make them "safe", which is hard, yes. But as AI turns into AGI and beyond, things are going to go pretty nuts, so it's important to start laying groundwork now.
I will be adding this one to https://500mile.email ! What a great story.
That actually makes a lot of sense :) Thanks a lot!
My guess: the royal Governor of an (at-the-time) British colony issued a charter in the name of the crown, and people in that colony called it a “royal charter” since it was issued in the King’s name, but while that kind of thing may pass for a “royal charter” in the colonies, in London it was not considered to be one
"It's also good to keep in mind that this is an unpaid hobby project." ~ Lasse Collin, 2022-06-08.

As someone working in security, the fact that _foundational_ pieces of the computing/networking rely on motivated individuals and essentially goodwill is mind blowing.

There are great aspects to the FOSS movement, but the risks – particularly the social engineering aspects as demonstrated here – and potential blast radius of supply chains like this... We take it all for granted and that is lining up to bite us hard, as an industry.
And 270+ products and services that are still alive and resourced.

I've got an alternate take -- don't depend on _any_ other company's service without a contingency plan for if/when it disappears. Attend to possible lock-in regardless of the source, unless you have direct control over its existence. Nothing is permanent.

At the risk of sounding like a Google apologist, I'll even suggest that I'd rather a company be willing to retire products and move around resources. Especially if the application has limited available growth and there are several alternatives. Holding on to every product like it's precious is how you acquire some very insidious technical debt.

I'm sure there are more than a few of those 294 applications whose time had come for them to go. Were some gone too soon? Perhaps. Some were definitely loved. Does killing off loved products threaten the positive sentiment of users? Of course. But so does stagnation. It's a trade-off decision that neither of us had any ability to alter.
They actually open sourced the iOS and Android applications, not the server code of course.

But that's even more of a fun thing from them!
> Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck.

That's in part because it needs to be very reliable to not kill people.

If the worst that can happen is killing a garden gnome or running over someone's toes you can tolerate more error.
It will make an interesting business school study one day as to whether the Google EOL policy ended up being a net positive or negative for their bottom line.
There is nothing wrong to be iOS only but I believe OP's point is that an iOS app can't replace Google Postcasts.
Probably, if you follow the money.
Hey everyone! I recently saw an article [1] about a hospital merger (Ballad Health) in southwest Virginia and how it increased ER wait times.

I thought an interesting visualization would be to see who owns the hospital "territory" in Virginia. I pulled all the hospitals from OpenStreetMap and calculated a voronoi diagram from the data to get regions that are closest to any given hospital. Then I color-coded these regions by the hospital network operator, to see how much competition a given area has.

[1]: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ballad-health-er-wait...
At this point I am looking forward to the end of Google as a whole. Or Alphabet.

Although arguably speaking I wanted that since 2008/09. Although it took 15 years for the mainstream to gain enough traction on it.
I switched to this when I first heard Google podcast was stopping. Very happy with it.
It's more than open source. A political party I tried to join organized via Discord. A hardware project offered support only through Discord. Seems most "communities" have one now. But I hate Discord and it's a poor tool for those jobs! A subreddit might have been better as I wouldn't need an account to view proir posts for troubleshooting, or organizing meetings.

Or an email address.

Or a contact form.

But no, only the aptly named Discord.
Not sure why? My thinking in this hypothetical scenario is that the NSA would have the private key, which is why it would be a NOBUS thing.

If they didn't have the key though, then yeah it doesn't fit. Unless they can walk through ssh key security anyway. :)
Somewhat ironic photos of pointlessly large vehicles protesting having to pay for the pollution they cause and give that money to other citizens.
Google doesn't need a good reputation...they just need enough people to use (really: test) it because it's a Google product. And it works because we have a society where mindless diversions with fairly useless things has become a worldwide pasttime, a culture that Google themselves helped create.
Another example of why I switched to Apple. I know Apple isn’t going to just ditch the Podcasts app.
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I use Podgrab[0].

Light footprint, easy to use -- and no reliance on Google or anyone else.

[0] https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab
A complication is that some of this jargon gets mangled over time. "Based and redpilled" is definite jargon associated with certain subcultures, but you won't see it in mainstream media other than articles about that exact phrase.
Here you can see Larzhu's activity by time of day, looks much more natural than JiaT75's: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUCiBmb3JtY...
Spotify dropping millions to get into podcasting, Google just gives it up.
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I would also love to see Google fail and lose its dominance. Google more than any other business is responsible for SEO garbage. It's time for space to be created for newer, smaller solutions.
For better or for worse, Perforce seems to see itself mainly in the niche of having binary or media files in source control. They are busy promoting themselves in game dev, automotive, etc, where this is a common pain point.

Maybe they should do more to highlight their strengths with regards to monorepos, but apparently their marketing hasn't identified that as a strength, or thinks it isn't a worthwhile market.
Spotify if you already use it.

I liked Beyond Pod, but haven't used it in a long time. The ability to schedule automatic downloads was great when I was more aggressive in reducing cell data usage.
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I have submitted my application to this.

The tech stack is up my alley and I would be glad to be part of the movement!
"....[6502 and 8080] simulators were written in APL".

Now THAT would be software to behold. No mention by the author as to whether the code of these emulators still exist.
Sounds interesting to me, may give it a try later.
>I think we're just starting to understand the link between diet and mental state

"All disease begins in the gut" – Hippocrates (460 – c. 370 BC)
Not for statistical studies across a population.
4chan is the infinite racists on infinite typewriters analogy; that said, some ideas converge and crystallize and escape out of the shitposts. Greentext screenshots and images that are distributed outside of the cesspool and get mainstream appeal though e.g. Reddit.

Survivorship bias, evolutionary somethings, and curation help the shit escape 4chan's confines. I can probably word that more eloquently when my brain isn't fried.
No, the opposition is based on them being warmonger republicans, and Trump being a 1990s Democrat who doesn’t think it should be “team America: world police.”
I would assume 99% of HN users (and most of people loudly proclaiming their high standards for a co-founder) do not fit that profile.

This whole thread reads like a lot of 6's bragging how they only date 10's.
Meh article but it raises an interesting question: How do you test documentation? The best (and maybe the only real) test is be for someone unfamiliar to try it and manage to do what it explains. You can't rerun that test without finding a new person.
> A signed tarball means the signing key you use to verify the tarball has been verified by a web of trust. The web of trust requires the physical confirmation of identity of the private key holder.

Hasn't the web of trust collapsed due to an unfixable hole in keyservers?

PGP keys in practice have almost always amounted to checking a hardcoded list of acceptable keys that is periodically updated, not unlike a list of trusted CAs.

(In any case, the attack we're talking about here--a rogue maintainer creating a backdoor in their project--won't be caught by any amount of advanced signing infrastructure. Somebody was elevated to a position of trust and any reason not to elevate them wasn't discovered until after the damage was done.)
If it's that easy, you shouldn't need a technical co-founder in the first place.

Right?
In whose jurisdiction?
>clay tablets are expensive

That's not the first time I hear that. Still can't figure out why it was true.
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Apple needs to go back to the Steve Jobs era where they just released a final product with no rumors. Just "here it is" on stage, and available that day in the store. They need to replace Siri ASAP with a real AI LLM.
Podcast Addict has some niche features I really like, I like being able to have a different automatic playback speed per-podcast, as I tailor it to the talking speed of the specific podcasters. The UI can be a bit cluttered, but in a power-user "I can make this work exactly how I want for each podcast" way.
The problem is actually higher ups network and or sales/marketing. You'll be amazed at how those CEOs and sales people can sell trashes at diamond value. Tech cofounder will need them as CEO cofounders.
Encryption was about ensuring trust and privacy.

AI is about destroying trust (in the short term).

Give every script kiddie, bored teenager, Mexican cartel and scammer an AI that can mimic anyone's voice and likeness, and the world will get a lot messier.

I don't think they're the same. I wish we could put the genie back in the bottle. I think AI will make humanity less special.

I'm not convinced society will be better with AI. The benefits must push down cost of living for the masses, improve quality of life for the masses, all without destroying society with disinformation and shattering job loss.
It’s not compelling enough unless we find out who was behind it, which is probably unlikely.