skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, during the alpha it's free, but you're right that it will eventually require payment. But the incentives are better this way anyway: if it were free then in a few years we could very well be having this conversation in the wake of layoffs at sourcehut following an aquisition. Sourcehut isn't based on the VC grow-until-you-burst model. If you pay for your account, you can be confident it's sustainable and aligned with your interests.

Also, if anyone has trouble affording an account, please send me an email. I don't want anyone to be left out because they can't afford the subscription fee, we'll sort something out.
My opinion of someone’s picture is valid, I suspect, only if they specifically want to date me or someone who thinks like me. Does that matter? If is does, is there a way to accommodate that?
targeted ads typically bring in 2x or more revenue per impression

Source?
The kinds of jobs that pay so much tend to not be very satisfying and come with high levels of stress. It's no wonder that the end result is depression.
This is the thing that scares me about police, jails, and prisons, especially when visiting the U.S.

Regardless of what the law is, who is right, or who is wrong, you find yourself under the control, care, and protection of some of the lowest grade of people society has to offer.
How about a limited API that lets a program scan for a particular SSID - so it can look for a "PioneerSoundsystem" SSID, but it's much harder to scan for all SSID's.

Still not perfect, since it can search for well-known SSID's like "StarbucksWifi" or "Comcast", but it limits the exposure - the API could have a limit on how many SSID's can be searched for by the app before you need to re-authorize it, so it can only search for 6 SSID's instead of the top 10,000 SSID's.

Or the permission request can include the SSID "This app asking for permission to search for PioneerSoundsystem SSID" or maybe a prefix like "PioneerSoundsystem-*" so they can append unique ID's.

Though in reality it will never happen because few people care -- most people are happy granting the app whatever permission it requests.
> I need my phone to just work. I love the Linux desktop, but I just don't see how they can get a new mobile platform able to compete with iOS or Android.

Who says they need to compete with them at all? This isn't a big company relying on VC money that it needs to pay off, this is a small team that raised money from backers.

They need to provide a viable alternative for those of us that give enough of a fuck about privacy and... that's it. As long as they have a demand to keep up the supply, the product is successful. Their target group is willing to make some sacrifices for sure.

Not every company aims to be a trillion-dollar company and absolutely dominate its sector, and that's not a bad thing.
Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on World War I, and it will change your mind on the need for a podcast to have a conversation.

https://www.dancarlin.com/
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> half of them flat-out don't know how to handle their instruments properly

I'd venture to say that's in the eye of the beholder. A highly skilled, say, progressive rock guitarist could reasonably claim all of them don't know how to handle their instruments.

> lazy, adolescent and derivative.

I wouldn't discount any argument that would claim this is true for all metal. In a way, that's part of its appeal.
I will buy this because it's the only device aligned with the principles of Free Software. I hope many here will do the same.
"Disinformation" still seems to be a convenient and insidious vague way of describing "indiscriminate" bias... that also gives Google a free pass to listen and peak at anything going through their systems to "correct" behavior they deem misinformative.
I think the general public hasn't got a clue, or doesn't care if they do. We're vocal here, because we understand what is going on. Smaller social networks are great, for niche areas. Facebook is a glorified address book, which you need EVERYONE in to be effective.
Because that wouldn't cover the loss in revenue. $1 per year and non-targeted ads doesn't equate to $50B+ in revenue growing 20-40% per year. Also, advertisers come to FB because they can be ROI positive with the targeted ads. Most advertisers don't want to run non-targeted ads because they would be ROI negative.
Yep. Amazon even offers the Storage Gateway appliance to facilitate these workflows.
Yeah, but without entrepreneurs, VC's have no opportunity to invest in the next Uber, etc.

It's in their interest to be both nice to you, and strike a good deal with you, if they want to do business with you at all.

I wouldn't want to work with a VC who couldn't be nice to me. To be firm or offer pointed criticism is fine.
True in general, but high stress is correlated with un-happiness, and can be objectively measured based on blood cortisol levels (at least for people with normal endocrine systems).
Why not take the job, and start a lifestyle business simultaneously?

Lifestyle businesses (aka “small business”) are notoriously difficult to time. It may take you 6 months, 10 years, or something in between. You can also use some of your excess income to invest in the business.

If it turns out that your lifestyle business can’t support your lifestyle, and you have devoted several years to it, you will be in the position of having to go back to a “day job” with a big blank spot in your resume, as well as habits that aren’t suited to the corporate world.

You could consider giving yourself 3 months full time to launch it, then work part time on it after you take a new role.

Best of luck on your new adventure!
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I’m not the one who originally posted. The 10x GDP is just based on raw GDP numbers. I don’t think they’re biased. As are the population numbers.
"Deradicalization" is a form of "Advertising" which doesn't seem to cause so much mainstream consternation
I'm of two minds on this. Sure improvements could be made, but the dead-simple infrastructure is part of what makes podcasts so appealing and what has kept them going. You can fetch an episode or subscribe to a feed, and that's about it. Old unmaintained stuff can continue to be available for ages. No one cares where it's hosted.

All the categorization stuff is totally outside of the podcasts themselves. Sure the default podcast apps suck, but lots of people have tried to do better and haven't caught on in a significant way. There are any number of alternative ways to get podcasts that I hear about all the time on the podcasts I listen to, have you tried those?

But ultimately, I don't think we want a rework of the infrastructure. It's not going to end well for podcasters or podcast listeners. User tracking, ad injection, and platform lock-in will be the priorities of the people who build the next successful podcast protocol.
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I couldn't find it on your website, but does your company sell/share any of your customer's genetic information or has your company received subpoenas for such information? Along those lines, does the EULA state that they can change the terms and conditions at any time without notice?

23&me is semi-notorious on HN for giving out genetic data to insurance companies, law enforcement, and other institutions. Thermo-Fisher is in a LOT of heat[0] for working with China to target ethnic minorities via genetic data and then sending those people to re-education camps.

Will your company do the same?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-u...
I'm wrestling with this at work right now and the short names don't really bother me as they are right in that the fact that if you have the type the shorter name can make the code easier to read slightly. What annoyed me is that for those single letter names I always got collisions so my naming was inconsistent. I personally ended up doing medium length names (like conf) except for the case where there was only 1 local variable (and sometimes if there were two or three) because in that case there were no collisions and what that variable was is very very clear
This seems like a band aid. Isn't it time lawyers start using a formal language instead?
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I like to listen on desktop and as far as I'm concerned there's nothing good.

For Mac I suffer itunes.
For Windows, I ended up installing Blue Stacks and using Google's Podcast app. Nothing native or web-based worked well for me. Unreliable or being delivered through Windows Store which constantly crashes for me were my main issues.

For a while I used live bookmarks with Firefox, that was great but shortly after Firefox removed that feature :)
If you are saving towards financial independence you have the luxury of choosing if you'd like to be your own boss, or indeed if you'd like a job that pays less.

Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, but those are not the people who are saving for FI.
I subscribe to a few as well. The some episodes free and some paid model is the better for discoverability than everything behind a paywall, but it can still be off-putting to new listeners. Although my primary problem with that model is that it isn't sustainable for heavy listeners. Each show can cost anywhere from $2-$10 per month. That adds up quickly. I end up spending more on podcasts a month than I do on Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify combined. I am happy to do that because I spend more time listening to podcasts than using those three services and I want to support the content creators I enjoy, but that isn't financially realistic for an overwhelming majority of consumers.
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I can tell you it's a net positive in my life. I rarely use facebook proper, but I quite enjoy instagram. I keep it to a small number of actual friends (I think I have about 20 contacts, or whatever they're called on Instagram.) And I enjoy opening it and seeing what they're up to once or twice a day.
Goddamn. Can we be coworkers? I've worked countless manual labor jobs and am now crammed in an office. If I have to be here, I'd at least like to have coworkers who have your notion of cohesion and vision.
Not really, but car manufacturers have actively used network based electronics for easily twenty years or more. (In the early 2000's, I did some work on CAN interfaces for PC's that were often used to connect them to car hardware.)

The network simplifies the wiring and reduces the amount of wire used. Material cost reductions across the life of the car (from design to use).
on one hand, pretty terrible.

on the other hand one could analyse all the calls and provide a helpful medical bot.
As thick as the visible Universe I guess. If I understood PBS Eons videos correctly the size of the universe is unknown.
> OEMs are forbidden to produce phones that fork it

Actually, OEMs are allowed to produce phones that fork it but they're forbidden from including gapps ( the google apps suit e.g play store, maps)

>most apps for Android won't run without Google's proprietary components

This isn't the case if you only use free software e.g. most of the apps on the fdroid main repo
Hey there's definitely a need for something like this. But the quantized stroke width is too limiting to make this icon set widely applicable. The ability to finely tune the icon weights, in a similar way like the weight of a variable webfont, would be truly game-changing. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about outline icons, as I feel like they go against some gestalt principles, but being able to blend shapes in with the rest of the art regardless of scale would be really powerful.
That's like saying theft will always exist, so you might as well go steal things. Tools like this actively add to the quantity of spam out there, making it worse for everyone.
2.5MM will not let you draw $100,000 for 50 years with inflation.

That’s a great number for retiring at 65. But this thread is talking about working hard for 5 years and retiring super early.
Fixing a car in everyday situations is a false analogy to writing code or using library code.
My understanding is that they rely on the reporting system because their whole curation model is built around assessing individual posts rather than patterns of activity.
That's irrelevant, you're just moving the goalposts. The point is you are the one who lives in a bubble, not everyone else, and I just answered your question to the point. Since theft still exists (and the numbers aren't exactly trivial, they're half what Montreal has) it means you should still lock your doors. That's why they come with a lock.

On the other hand please refrain from judging others for their choices and opinions, and also stop assuming only you've seen the truth. The same justice and policing system that lowered the crime rate is also responsible for suspects being considered guilty until proven innocent, routinely coerced into confessing even when being innocent [0], and sometimes investigating crimes only if a conviction is almost guaranteed otherwise treating it as an accident to keep those stats looking good [1] [2].

I'll just lock my doors, thank you.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+forced+confessions

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/09/world/fg-autopsy9 [Not for EU it seems]

[2] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/08/issues/pol...
Make sure there is a founders agreement and other legal documents in place. Consult a lawyer

Check out the book "the founder's dilemmas" for insights into these and many more issues you will encounter. It's totally worth the $20
You'd think this would be covered in the FAQ. Maybe their client deletes the email once it is received by the app but then how do you use multiple clients at once (and so forth).
"Turn your life into fantasy with our future app"... how is anyone reading anything more into this than vaporware hyperbole?!? Am I missing something? You know the creators? In on an alpha?

Update: just noticed the comments are from newly created users. Sigh.
Interesting question. I've seen collections of audio content claiming to be podcasts that don't have RSS feeds, so the term is definitely used that way. Whether that makes it a valid definition is open to interpretation, the word is pretty new still. Merriam-Webster seems to think that an automated download mechanism is required, though it doesn't specify RSS in particular:

>a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet

I can see arguing that this doesn't even rule out walled-garden streams with an auto-play feature, since streaming and downloading are functionally the same (the only difference being what type of memory the data is stored in, and swap memory destroying that distinction entirely).
Though it may seem cliche' and overused, speaking as someone with a close relative that is affected:

FUCK CANCER

There is vigorous debate in these comments on the exact stats and what they really mean.

All the same, this is fantastic news. Slowly, we are beating back this evil.
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I’m in the middle of this process right now, actually. My programming background has helped a lot with the written language— using dictionaries and grammar references to write sentences is very similar to writing code in a new language by referring to its manual. The transfer to speaking and listening is much less pronounced, as my brain hasn’t fully realized that the spoken and written languages are the same.
> What's the justification for 30% of digital goods in general?

What's the justification for any price? The market supports it.
Not just simple fraud, but a major hurdle is how to regulate CO2 necessary for producing consumer energy without creating a regressive tax structure. Once CO2 is converted to electricity on the grid, it's fungible and impossible to sort out luxury vs necessity.

Imho, government trying to sin-tax away CO2 is result of our failure to invest in technology solutions.
You can do it with credit cards as well. The trick is that the merchant must frame it as a “cash discount” and not a “card surcharge”. This means that the prices posted are the “full price” and then you can discount it on the cash.

There’s been a lot of back and forth on this over recent years, but this is my understanding of what’s currently allowed. Could change tomorrow if Visa changes their mind.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265266107_The_Value...

Study quotes 2.68x earnings in 2009 but in my experience it’s even higher these days.
99% of my podcast listening is done with my spouse. We've been together 10 years, she got into podcasts a couple of years ago as an alternative to broadcast TV. I would catch snippets of her podcast playlist when she was cooking or otherwise doing something while listening via a speaker rather than headphones. Since I was interested in some of the subjects that came up, I asked to listen to them with her.

We often listen during dinner together, pause to discuss when we hear something we want to talk about, and generally approach it as a group activity.

We started with The Dollop together, but I've soured on that lately because it's become depressing rather than interesting (at least to me). We listen to Sinisterhood (true crime, weird stuff, conspiracies, ghost stories etc), My Favourite Murder minisodes (true crime and user stories that all seem pretty made up), This Podcast Will Kill You (diseases discussed by doctorate students), No Such Thing As A Fish (facts from the people who research for QI), Infinite Monkey Cage (science stuff), etc etc. It's fun, we get to laugh (as most of our stuff has an undercurrent of humour and flippant discussion), and we get to learn stuff too.
Can we filter posts like this please...

This is bordering on religious propaganda...
I think this should be approached more broadly, making void any clause on contracts that allow unilateral modification on the contract at a later date
Nonsense. You can define "carbon footprint" that way if you like, but I view that as an accounting definition. You've just decided to define it that way.

CO2 pollution is stored in the atmosphere, which is a shared global resource.

I'd argue that carbon taxing should be designed to discourage economic activity that directly or indirectly leads to greenhouse gas emissions, you need to disincentivise production as well as consumption as well as associated enabling activities such as shipping the stuff. Encourage all of these actors to do something else that results in lower net carbon emissions at the global system level.
Ask HN: What Are Your Secrets to Achieving Organic Growth for a Newsletter
Hey guys

I launched a newsletter at the beginning of this year: AR Weekly - a weekly email for busy people who care about augmented reality. I created a landing page for the newsletter (https://ar-weekly.blog) and posted it in 4-5 places. That's how I reached about 100 subscribers within 1 month. My biggest challenge at the moment is to boost the non-existent organic growth. Which strategies worked well for you?

Here are my experiences so far.

Initial position:

- Weekly newsletter
- Newsletter landingpage
- about 100 subscribers within 1.5 months

I have undertaken the following marketing activities so far:

- Communication to my network via LinkedIn
- Posts via reddit (r/shamelessplug, r/SideProject, r/indiebiz, r/augmentedreality)
- Post via HackerNews

The following worked well:

- r/augemntedreality accounts for circa 80% of subscribers
- LinkedIn accounts for circa 15%

Currently I have the following ideas for further activities:

- Social Media (Twitter, Mastodon) as an additional channel
- Ads (reddit, google, etc.)
- Publishing in newsletter directories (revue discover)
- SEO (AR news, AR newsletter, etc.)
- Make the newsletter shareable by current readers via e-mail, social media, etc.

Thanks a lot for your support!
Dominique
> A long function is easier to understand than an exploded one.

This is a pretty controversial position, and quite situational in my opinion. I absolutely agree that having to hop all over the source to understand something is frustrating, but that doesn't mean that very long functions are the right solution. Some combination of reasonably named helper methods and a function flow that makes the logic easy to parse should be the goal; either end of the spectrum is a problem.
This is Tom Clancy fairy-tale nonsense. China wants a nuclear-free Korea, for the same reason that the United States wants a nuclear-free Mexico and Canada. Nuclear super-powers aren't keen on letting their neighboring satellite states limit their foreign policy, by arming them.

A carbon tax is not 'stopping trade'. It's an increase to the price of goods that are energy-intensive to manufacture, or ship.
> The hardware that can simply bypass your local network and phone home over the cellular network already exists.

Wouldn't such a thing require an antenna that you could remove or disable to function?

Speaking of... is there a more effective way to disable a cellular modem than removing its antenna? Like some kind of component that you could replace the antenna with that would mitigate any residual antenna-function of the remaining wiring? I want to do this to the modem on my car.
The problem is one of semantics. Law is an ambiguous term and commentators have different interpretations--let's appreciate the irony for a second.
Tech Dirt recently dropped a podcast episode about podcasting.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190219/12502141633/techd...
> Perhaps I should find some AA batteries for the physical remote instead

We have a winner!
I feel, at least for me, the golden age of podcasts is over already.

There was the early [0] Retronauts the new Patreon/Kickstarter version is only same in name.

Then there was the [1] 1up Yours. All the hosts, co-hosts, and popular regular guests have moved on.

Then there was the epic [2] A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley. This is absolutely superb.

The only podcasts of similar I listen to now are Giant Bombcast and 8-4 Play. I miss the good old days.

I've tried to branch out to other topics and areas, but podcasts are my way of escaping and thinking and listening to something else outside work and study.

I have actually started to go back through these and re-listen to them. They are timeless. I have a friend who does the same.

[0] https://archive.org/details/Retronauts1-100

[1] https://www.resetera.com/threads/1up-podcast-preservation.90...

[2] http://alifewellwasted.com/
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A tariff is generally across the board though, by product type. If one company starts being more "green" than the others in the country of origin, it doesn't generally get hit less by tariffs.
I think you and I are the very, VERY small minority. I muted everyone I didn't care about too, and it works for me, but young people especially are very affected by it.
Off topic, sorry, but it makes me happy to see a Perl-based tool in the top 5 on Hackernews :-)
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In my limited experience, and excluding obvious exceptions to the rule, the people who make 7-figure salaries are chosen for those positions because they are over-leveraged, and thus controllable.
> so things like the Financial Independence movement don't really make sense to me

> Engagement and autonomy are some of the keys to a fulfilling work life.

Isn't the second point exactly what most Financial Independence proponents are seeking FI for? I imagine most work (Mr Money Mustache, a prominent FI spokesman, certainly still engages in activities that would qualify)..
Well, maybe this should be a wake up call that the models of services like Spotify aren't really sustainable for the content producers on them.
Inclined to agree, expounded upon here (“Classes should be deep.”): http://alex-ii.github.io/notes/2018/10/07/philosophy_of_soft...