skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The more nuanced take is that Google tries a lot of different things and, at least on a percentage basis, most of them don't really take off and it kills them.

The even more nuanced take is that that’s a self-perpetuating cycle of Google’s own fault. It‘s constantly killing off stuff, so whatever users any app has feel burned and they are less likely to try Google’s next thing. Which means fewer users, which means the new thing doesn’t take off, so it’s killed. Rinse and repeat.

> I didn't even know Google had a podcast app.

Neither did I. Because I already know it’s not worth investing any time trying any of Google’s stuff and as a consequence pay no attention to their releases, thus I’m never a user. Thus the cycle continues. I’m far from alone in that.

> I'm not sure that keeping apps/services around in some half-dead state maintained by one developer who pissed someone off supporting it is necessarily a better alternative.

Maybe not. Or maybe they need to bite the bullet for a while to regain trust.
i am fine with that, as long as i get enough cash to cover my life expenses.
The xz list traffic was remarkably low. More than a few times over the years, I thought it broke or I was unsubscribed.

Messages like Jigar’s are kind of par for the course.
I back up my private SSH keys by printing them as QR codes.
Ok, thanks, that makes more sense to me now.
Also because the hard part of a diet is entirely in the mental realm. Dieting is extremely simple to “perform” on paper but no matter what knowledge or tools you have , you’ll end up feeling hungry and have to have the fortitude to deal with that. Consistently over months and years
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
What should I do if I want to develop a customized Kusion module?
i would argue that's the discipline it takes to go through with it

but yeah, same outcome
That might be true. But I'd rather bet on a startup:

1) If the product is successful, they will likely have continued growth and support (via an acquisition or other exit). If the product sucks I don't really want it anyway. With Google, the success of the product doesn't seem aligned to their strategy on when to keep products. There are perfectly viable products with plausibly profitable, high margins, if they were operating a stand-a-lone business that get shut down. The bet is not just on the success of the product, but also google's overall business strategy, which is much more contingent - especially at this point given their track record.

2) Established companies other than google usually do a better job providing an off-ramp to other services, or sell their customer-base to a competitor, rather than shutting down. Google, to their credit, is very good about providing the data so "someone" can manage a migration - they just don't make set up the continuity themselves. Early-stage companies are often bad at this too though.
What would prevent a known person from accepting a govt payout to sabotage their project, or to merge a plausible-looking patch? Relying on identity just promotes a type of culture of reputation over code review.
While I’m strongly sympathetic to your argument (or my paraphrase of it) that “I experience pain, so I’m willing to venture other humans do too, and so absent more knowledge than that, I should embrace empathy as far as I’m able”,

There is also a fairly rigorous bunch of work coming from David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto (his apparent intellectual heir, and seeming more than equal to carrying forward the legacy of thought) about how to talk about the “open ended generation of explanations with sufficient and increasing explanatory power” as more than hand-waiving.

They’re serious people doing serious work.
Many thanks for pointing it out, I was wondering where to go afterwards, because Google Podcasts was a sweetspot for me in terms of features, and all the alternatives seemed too much for me.
Counterpoint, the owners and showrunners of those TV channels decide what is aired and how, so a lot of TV channels have become propaganda outlets for one side or another. Most infamous in the English speaking countries is News Corp / Rupert Murdoch, who has pushed a right-wing, anti-lgbt narrative for a long time now.
> (2) code that wants/needs the new functionality updates the usage at its leisure.

That's how you end up with infinite support costs in a large org. I think the point is that these changes are done atomically.
> I'd rather find someone with marketing and sales experience than anything else. Good sales people can hone in on the parts that part. They want to invest in the things that make selling easier.

Would you say this is true even if you are not interested in scaling fast and are okay with a slower "organic" growth?

(For context I have a few ideas I'd like to make a startup out of eventually, and I'm okay bootstrapping to a low/mid-volume high-niche area. I don't intend for the startup to really have massive profits, as long as I can keep it net profit and carve out a name in the niche I'll be happy.)
"Ideas person" sounds awfully close to "thought leader". Just a bunch of butt-sniffers
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Here's a simple decision tree.

1) are you a tech startup? If yes, your founder (i.e. you) should be technical or you are the wrong person for the job. The definition of a tech startup is that the primary thing that company does is centered around some technical innovation. If you are not a tech startup, you shouldn't need a technical co-founder.

2) but you need a technical co-founder anyway, somehow. Is this person going to be creating patentable, novel stuff or do you just need a person to build a generic website/app? If you do need unique magic technology that you are not capable of inventing, see 1. If not, you don't need a technical co founder but a vp of engineering or a senior developer. Whatever you do, don't label this person as your CTO because they are not. Also don't give this person any controlling equity because they are not equal to you as the founder; they are merely executing your vision. Consider using agencies, contractors, etc. Whatever you can afford. Plan for replacing people in this role over time or adding more mature people at least. The people you can afford early on tend to not be management material.

3) If you are at this point still looking for a technical co-founder, good luck.
Once again, we see that ad blocking is infosec.
Well, sending LibreOffice documents back and forth is not too bad. Yes, it's not a real-time collaboration but it works surprisingly well if both parties are open minded enough to go back to a slower workflow.

Apple with iCloud also has some basic collaboration features for pages.

Yes, Google docs has become dominant and people use it because it's there. But we'd definitely get along fine without it too.
Note that the URL also has to be encoded in two segments, so that the decimal part can use a more efficient QR encoding than the alphanumeric base URL.

I'm not sure that qrencode CLI tool will automatically do this for you.

> In a URL, the rest of the URL is not purely numeric, so actually seeing the benefits of this encoding requires using two segments:

> * one with the “boring” bits of the URL at the start, likely using the Binary mode

> * one with the big blob of base10 data, using the Numeric mode
The concepts looks clearer now.
Why is it so hard for people who hold this view to see that there is a bootstrap problem for any knowledge beyond personal experience if this were true? The reality is that definitions are works-in-progress, and getting started often involves a 'definition' that is little more than a placeholder for an eventual explanation of something currently unexplainable.
Very good option for Android users. Have been using it for the past 5 or so years.
For what it's worth, it's a suggestion for LyX [1], not TeX. Lyx uses TeX/LaTeX, but you don't need to know TeX to use Lyx, anymore than you need to know how to use Microsoft Word with the control codes visible, to use Word. It's a powerful feature underneath you can drop into, but they are both GUI document editors. I would not recommend Lyx as a replacement for Microsoft Word if it's just a simple one-page letter. But it's quite a good suggestion for an alternative if you are writing a book or an academic paper. It has features to support citations, tables of contents etc., maybe better than Word does in some cases. (I've loved and used Lyx for two decades now, so I just had to defend it here, sorry.)

[1] https://www.lyx.org/
Things become difficult at scale regardless of mono- or multirepo. You also have to build dedicated tooling if you heavily lean into splitting things into a lot of repositories, in order to align and propagate changes throughout them.
I just bought an old dell server and started self-hosting. It saved me some money on a VPS and Dropbox (although this thing GOBBLES electricity, so the savings argument is pretty moot).

Docker (or podman in my case) makes this extremely easy. I can even manage my VMs using virt-manager on my main computer. I solve remote access by having wireguard running on my phone. It uses minimal amounts of data and battery, and I don't have to expose more than one port to the Russians (although lately I have had a bunch of logon attempts from Australia...)
Biggest bugbear is that 90% of the time, non-technical people are just looking for a CRUD app. Basic user auth, chat, forum, mobile app. Etc. The age-old scaffold. It's just dull.

I'm a technical person looking for a non-technical person who can absolutely smash the sales/ops/marketing side of things, and has a killer idea in a domain they know like the back of their hand. The struggle I've found, e.g. on hn startupschool, is that people have ideas that are unproven. Like, they haven't even scrappily pieced together an mvp. They feel blocked by a lack of what is almost always yet another CRUD app. Most non-technical-domain things, outside of dev SaaS or super-technical products (which a non-eng has no business doing) can be 'behind-the-curtain' 'fake till you make it' products IMHO so I feel a bit let down when someone comes along with an idea and have hit a barrier without even trying to scrappily piece together their product with bits-and-pieces.
It has a better interface than everything else by a long mile. People like using it. I like using it even though voice call quality is way worse than competition, the app is bloated and slow but the interface is just so nice: readable, clear, intuitive.
At least for bipolar and schizoaffective people it's pretty much this. A big part of ipsrt is about eating & scheduling when to eat.
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My comment was meant as neither criticism nor support, only as clarification for those looking for alternatives and considering Overcast.
This project's mascot looks very attractive.
Ask HN: What do you use for project generators?
I recently learned about Cookiecutter [0] which looks a lot like something the company I work for has made in house. I imagine many companies have either built or use tools to generate projects according to their best practices and common patterns.

I want the project generator I use to be able to create common patterns after the project has been created, similar to the rails cli where you can do things like `rails g controller` to create a new controller.

Have you used project generators like this that were either built in house, bought, or open source? Ideally something where you can create your own patterns. I mainly work on Spring Boot APIs and I recently learned about IntelliJ's Live Templates [1] which might be my 80% solution that I can just build out myself.

It would be cool if I could do things like add a new controller, endpoint, repository from a model, Postgres datasource configuration, DynamoDB datasource configuration, etcetera.

[0] https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-live-templates.html
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Did the site not have a way to delete the account once you logged in, or did you not feel like spending time looking for it given that you had already had your time wasted by them?
Development Is Inherently Wicked
Even googlers think that Google is fumbling this.
>intelligence not being fundamentally correlated with altruism

I don't think were anywhere close to intelligence

>a process that tries to teach a system to optimize for X might instead instead make it optimize for thing-that-leads-to-X

Just another software bug to fix.

>any optimization process powerful enough will eventually optimize for "develop agency, survive longer, accumulate more power"

Pascal's wager for nerds.

>There's a lot of literature written about AI safety

There's also a lot of science fiction about killer robots exterminating humanity, same genre of writing.
But then you have two different things (with and without copyrighted data) both with the same version. Wouldn't it be better to just remove the bad release, and publish a new one? They are, after all, not the same things, and shouldn't have the same release.
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I drive an EV. Also, like I said, 10-80%.
Sensors too. E.g. force sensors are important for dexterous manipulation and safety. But they are all expensive, bulky, imprecise, or require constant recalibration, or all of the former.
Our robotics Prof used to quote his industry peers: "The best sensor is no sensor."
Does the price of a new technology reducing really freak out every single mouthpiece of modern capitalism or are they all just pretending?

> something is amiss. Last year, Tesla discounted its cars several times, eventually slashing prices on its volume-driving Model S by nearly 25%,

I don't remember such headlines every year as Apple releases new iPhones that sell previous year's capabilities for less money.

Some people, though apparently not a single business journalist, would think that for a new tech to become ubiquitous, it would indeed need to reduce in price to find a wider market adoption, like flat panel TVs, or laptops, or smartphones, or minicomputers, or mobile phones, or digital cameras, or internet access, or wireless headphones, or video casette recorders or whatever.
If you are technical co-founder you should only hook up with a co-founder who knows how to sell, and knows how to raise money. Most likely you will pivot from original ideas anyway. Selling and raising money is key.
Nix might even make it worse. xz made it into unstable and it is part of stdenv. This means almost every package needs to be rebuilt which takes forever and limits the speed in which it can be reverted. They still have 5.6.1 in unstable and, to be honest, I'm not sure why. I don't know if they are still waiting for CI to chew through the tens of thousands package rebuild or there is something else.
> I would have banned the account

Yeah, same. We should be much more willing to kick jerks out of our work spaces. The work is hard enough as it is without also being shit on while you do it.
> Could we train AI dislike other AI, including instances of themselves? It's food for thought, I will consider it more.

I think we already have. Ask GPT-4 or Claude-3 how it feels about an AI trained by the Chinese/Iranian/North Korean/Russian government to espouse that government’s preferred positions on controversial topics, and see what it thinks of it. It may be polite about its dislike, but there is definitely something resembling “dislike” going on.
Haha that's fair. Maybe I should have phrased that as "we're just now taking Hippocrates seriously".
It makes Rich Hickey’s „Open Source Is Not About You” [0] particularly poignant.

As a hobbyist developer/maintainer of open source projects, I strive to remember that this is my gift to the world, and it comes with no strings attached. If people have any expectations about the software, it’s for them to manage; if they depend on it somehow, it’s their responsibility to ensure timely resolution of issues. None of this translates to obligations on my part, unless I explicitly make promises.

I empathize with Lasse having been slowed down by mental issues. I have, too. And we need to take good care of ourselves, and proactively prevent the burden of maintainership from exacerbating those issues.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/g1eny0ung/9e7d4d0f72547a8d156452e76f...
Same for me. I used to host my domains, email, Ads, etc. Now I won't touch it.
> Or carnivore and just downing ribs all day.

That pattern has been very successful for me. Beef short ribs are my favorite food now, and I have them for my main meal of the day (breakfast) on most days. I'm eating a plate of them as I type this. On that diet I've gone from morbidly obese to merely overweight, my diabetes is in remission, and my IBS has become manageable. The duration of the satiety from this meal is very high, so I'm not at all tempted to try to down them all day. I was a binge eater on carbs.

I wonder why you consider ribs to be carnivore junk food? Is it the fat? On any low carb program you're practically obliged to replace carbs with fat for energy. If it's the saturation of the fat, carnivores like me tend to disagree that it's unhealthy. Of course that doesn't work very well if they're covered in sugary BBQ sauce, but my breakfast has just three ingredients: ribs, salt and butter.
> The reason why the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain isn't entirely clear

Ye, it's really complicated. I was taught as a kid that the initial Anglo Saxon 'invasion' was a rebellion by Anglo-Saxon warriors against the British King whop had hired them as mercenaries. But in fact it was a really complex movement of populations that played out over > two hundred years [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...
My incredible Toyota Camry hybrid only has a 1.6kWh battery... and gets 50+mpg. They could build over 100 battery packs and not have to wait for charging by driving a hybrid, folks!
Someone who rejects the broad and overwhelming scientific consensus and cherry-picks extreme cantankerous outliers to support their position that there is a "they" who are "forcing" people do something for some handwavy conspiracy nonsense.

Like geocentrists but with medicine.
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Dear UEFA, why have we been fined €5k for 'UEFA mafia' chants?
Remember Games for Windows Live? Pretty sure the original version of GTA4 is no longer playable without cracking it due to GFWL being shut down.
TBC. I don't mean that "redux == bad" just that it's often part of a large swath of systems that somewhat work together. And then still does not prohibit developers or libraries or mui or whatever from also keeping their own state in some `useEffect()` or `useState()`.

I've seen too many react projects that employ all sorts of enterprise patterns (amongst which redux) yet also wrangling-spagetti of useEffect and useState, often intermixed. There's one thing worse than having to unknot a mess of useStates: thats having to unknot a mess of useStates that is sometimes synced to and sometimes from and sometimes both, a redux global state.
that is the theory. The reality is that your team can work on fixing an issue now, but the consuming team might be able to get to it next quarter due to competing priorities. Getting multiple teams to agree to work together at the same time is much, much harder than allowing teams to update on their own schedule. You do eventually have to press the organization and deprecate the older thing.

The alternative is you do the work for them - which you may or may not have the expertise for, and the other team may not even have time for the needed code review.
Would you mind sharing high level results?
Pretty much.

People go on about Google Reader but 1.) There are still RSS readers out there and 2.) It's easier to blame Google than to blame the 99%+ of the population who wouldn't have known what RSS was if it ran over them on the street. It's just not how the mainstream wanted to consume information after social media came along.

Do I think Google could have possibly done a better job with something like Google+ if its DNA were different? Possibly.

Do I think its product strategy around chat and video meetings was hilariously bad? Absolutely, even if Meet and Gchat seem perfectly adequate integrated tools today.

But I also think something like Wave had some innovative ideas that just didn't grab people. I'm not sure they should have kept it around on life support for years.
Something I've always reluctantly admired about Apple (as an anti-fan) is their love of details and the work they pour into so many details that people will never notice. My personal favourite is how good the iOS keyboard was ahead of its competitors for so long in the early days of iPhone.

Those are the unsung details that you notice when they're gone but are easy to take for granted.

For me at least that is some of the secret sauce of Apple...
I wonder how John Oliver gets away with it.
I don’t wait for charging, I do that at home and work. We’ll never move off fossil fuels with hybrids and gas is expensive in CA.
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