skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DemocracyNow[1] is a good one. 100% free. Noam Chomsky is a regular guest here.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow

I wonder how they make money.

Checked wikipedia:

Democracy Now Productions, the independent nonprofit
organization which produces Democracy Now!, is funded
entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers,
and foundations such as the Ford Foundation,[failed
verification] Lannan Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund,[4]
[5][6][unreliable source?] and does not accept
advertisers, corporate underwriting or government
funding.[7]

The remark from Bill Clinton is a fun bit:

Clinton defended his administration's policies and charged
Goodman with being "hostile and combative".[51]
What would you like to know? Ask and here you might receive ....
Thats the reason Buffet has now invested in Apple as he prefers a stable earnings. His investment indicated to me that Apple will be a stable investment going forward and won't have the upward and downwards swings of fast growing company where there can be large swings up or down with each quarter earnings
I believe they’re referring to Chikan which is estimated to have happened to 2/3 of women who ride the train in Japan and the act violates several Japanese laws.
Honestly, I’d avoid any kind of device that behaves this way. Not because I’d be suspicious about the invasive qualities of such technology, but more because I don’t like devices that try to do more for me than I might ask of them.

I really hate devices that try to direct my decision making, when I never asked for an outside opinion about something. It feels like I’m being preached to. It’s less about detesting my own personal safety, and more because that’s not what I bought the phone for, and it isn’t what I’m paying for it to do.

Just like “presidential alerts” and “AMBER alerts” that I never asked for. Sorry phone, but the truth is that even if I can’t disable a presidential alert, I can still refuse to pay it any mind, so maybe think twice about any attempt at forcing me to pay attention to something.

At some point, I’ll just not even carry a phone. The phone is there for me to contact people at the time of my choosing. The phone is there for people whom I have invited to contact me.

It does not exist for any other reason. No matter how much people want them to be pocket computers, no matter how many lives they want to save, no matter the bells and whistles pushed into service, the fact is that if I refuse to use the device in that moment of truth, the extra little specialization went nowhere.

In all other cases, the people who might need such a thing the most are often the dumbest and most imperiled by their own stupidity. People who run out of gas, can’t change a tire, bounce checks, download and execute email attachments, click random links, forward chain letters, have hundreds of icons and all their important files right on the desktop, use 1234 as their password... you’ll try to put rubber baby buggy bumpers on every single last rough edge and hard corner, and they’ll still find a way to fuck it all up.

Sometimes the problem is growing up in a safety net. Sometimes the problem is a sheltered life.

Personally, I’d absolutely revile the concept of a nanny device.

I bet you could implement a phone so that it knows when it can’t call for emergency help, even in a private, offline manner, by considering factors like dead reckoning, inertial navigation, and low energy anonymous peering that approximates true availability of basic essentials like land lines and whether a municipality is walkable, drivable and whether or not you own a car or could maybe flag down a good samaritan.

But should you?
The Inventions of Intuitive AI (2017)
It is when the harassment is of sexual nature.
FTL and antigravity violate physical law. Drexler’s designs just don’t. Point me to a design in Nanosystems the that is physically impossible to construct.

The point of Nanosystems was to explore what technologies are feasible given our current understanding of physics at that scale. It turns out there is a lot of latent potential there.
$70 Nokia 8110 4G is same hardware in different package.
Admittedly it was 17 years ago, but I gave up my hobby of making maps for Westwood games because I couldn't figure out how to use 3dsmax. Of course, there weren't any YouTube tutorials back then.

A couple years ago, I learned to use Blender through cgcookie tutorials and googling. Nothing was easy, but everything made sense eventually. It really makes me appreciate the free tools and learning resources we have today.
> Templates
> When starting a new file, there is now a choice between multiple application templates:
...
> Video Editing: for using Blender as a video editor.

Video’s a reason I’ve spent time with multiple previous Blender versions. Be great if this UI refresh + templated defaults create more traction for me and other video editors.
Yes I pace with most things now. My friends have gotten used to it but anyone else gets nervous and anxious with my constant pacing. I lost the multi-year habit where I averaged about 120K steps/week until quite recently. Now I’m getting back to closing in on that number. Last few weeks have been 110K steps/week.
Chase to use marketing copy written by AI
Sucking carbon out of the air won’t solve climate change
HTML Email Template Builder on Vue/Vuex/Node Stack
I don't understand how you think this way about ownership. If it's not yours and you don't enter into a transaction (the transaction can be implied in the case of give-aways) wherein the previous owner grants you ownership, then it stays not yours. Things in a car are pretty unambiguously not up-for-grabs to anyone who doesn't own the car.
This is different. They are enforcing their house rules, by expelling you for non-compliance and barring you from entering their property again. You are only allowed in there because they let you, after all.

They cannot however put a "If you're under 18 and violate the curfew, you hereby agree to pay a contractual penalty of $1000" in their house rules and sue you for that money even tho you did not consent to their contract.
If the hall monitor is nice to you one time, they're still gonna tell teacher unless they're also corrupt.
Wow! Way faster than I remembered! It was a while back. I spent some time trying to design a payload for a slow application with connectivity challenges once upon a time.
Defining A.I. is ambiguous – but here's a simple explanation
I listen to several podcasts.

I learned from this article that Spotify bought Gimlet Media for 200 million.

That's about it.
There could be a strong argument that continuing to make additional http requests after the first one constitutes accepting the ToS. If you didn't accept them you shouldn't continue to use the website by making further requests, and you should discard the content of the first request without using it.
DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443
> As opposed to most Android phones that never get system updates?

Don't buy them. Problem solved. Do you avoid Linux entirely because there exist Linux-based routers that are never updated? No, you buy Linux-based routers that are updated.

In this case, the choice is between properly updated Android phones, poorly updated userspace iOS phones, and poorly updated base system Android phones. The obvious choice is a phone from the first group.

> The Safari app is also used as an out of process web view for other apps as is the messenger app...

As is Chrome on Android. Since Android is designed in a way that apps can gracefully recover from arbitrary processes being killed, this does not matter. Chrome gets updated, the process restarts, and the page the user was viewing in the web view reappears. If the app wasn't in the foreground, the user won't even notice.
Same here. If they make a better 2015 MBP I will upgrade my company computer, which will probably be $3500+.

If they make a one-handed iPhone again, they will also get money from me.

For now, I'm sticking with the 2015 MBP and the SE.
Disclaimer: I run SerpApi.com and IANAl.

In the US, the law has kind of settle in favor of scrapers. Thanks to the first amendment and the fair use exemption. It the data doesn’t require to sign up and your are not DDOS the website. Europe is another story.
can't read the article because limits. do that provide some source with the claim? doesn't appear to be that the fortune 500 are particularly happy places to be and would love to see that list correlated with Glassdoor votes.
Terrible, cons have always been the nasty party and will continue this legacy.

Her unapproved meetings with foreign states should be enough to warrant her resignation but how she continue baffles me.
I padded it out with a bit more substance, but the first revision of my comment was just a reference to that sketch. Remembering the sketch reminded me of the LCS-2 hull issue.
They also have the PDP-1 lab next door which they run on the first and third Saturdays of the month.

Last visit I was able to play the original "SpaceWar!" on it and the demo was run by Steve Russell and Peter Samson. Great to see pivotal computer history that directly impacted my life as described by people directly involved in making that history.
What happened after Basecamp got big or simpler CRMs than Salesforce became a thing? Many many overlapping products came out. Nothing wrong with that.
Ask HN: Are the pioneers dead?
Having been in the industry for the past 5 years, I have come to this very crude observation that the computing industry is out of breathtaking ideas. I believe this has to do with the lack of true entrepreneurship.

True entrepreneurship, is when one goes on a journey to finding truly great ideas. Great ideas take a very long time to generate and an equally long time to be properly executed.

I have also come to the conclusion that the entrepreneurs and business people around got into starting the business as they were not skilled enough for the competing job market. And this is the escape route they choose to stay relevant. I believe this lack of required skills and true entrepreneurship is the reason there are too many not-so-skilled entrepreneurs.

So, the question I was trying to ask myself and the community is that where are all the pioneers, the true entrepreneurs, the engineers? And have you ever come across such individuals?
> If you're a criminal come to NZ. You can rob any shop you want...

And yet just today the NZ Police were touting how they are now identifying and nabbing 2/3rds of dairy (translation: convenience store) robbers. Doesn't sound like the best odds to me.
It somehow reminds me of BitBitJump[1].

[1]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/BitBitJump
How is something a status symbol when 40%+ of the population in many 1st world countries own it?

In the US, the number of people who can’t buy an iPhone on a carrier payment plan is small.
Enormous revenue growth with tiny profit margins....
Go back and read what I said. Better yet, read Schwab’s tax summary here: https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/retirement_an...

My statement is correct.
I'm in that age range (29), and I've never seen that (UK). It's not out of shame, or even any particular secrecy - it just doesn't come up, and would feel a little weird to bring up.
Tcl hasn't been string based since 8.0 added dual ported objects 20 years ago. Meanwhile the latest JavaScript is burdened with keeping full source strings hanging around in memory so that comments and whitespace can be preserved.
Its happened before. I can't believe its not a worse problem (source, I worked at company before it let everyone go and started litigation. Google settled.)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/01/googl...
As a former Naval Surface Warfare Center engineer I can't really agree with your assessment. When I was there (2004 - 2010 ) there was a dedicated push to get more engineering talent in the doors. Most of the time it appeared the qualifications to get hired at a contractor was "had pulse" and they desperately needed someone to fix everything that was getting delivered completely non-functional. The deliveries for the 76, and 77 were in a similar state of disarray, and without a team of NSWC engineers onboard for years neither of those boats would have passed sea trials.
Yes. If anyone knows of any existing code to support say 3D cross/parallel-eye stereo views, with z-axis displaced words, in an emacs buffer being actively edited, I'd like to hear of it. Teaching your window manager to be 3D is fun, but the next step is to teach your apps.
What I Love About Aurelia
Marvin Minsky and the Ultimate Tinker Toy
Are we sure that half the median is a good definition of “poor”? At least hypothetically, in a very wealthy country, that may still be an adequate amount to get by.
I worked at MCC too, but in the human interface group. It was a lot of fun using Symbolics machines all day (the ultimate brain-to-computer interface). Despite nothing much coming from my work at MCC, I still got to write Lisp and Prolog for pretty much my whole career, and MCC set me on that path. So I'll thank them for that.
Until I read the article and saw the transmitters were on balloons I figured it was the elevation of the tower (476 metres)
This is a catch-22. I see this mostly on US sites in regards to cookies.

Something along the lines "by using this site, you agree to our terms of service and use of cookies". You'll definitely see a banner like this on paywalled news sites.

Thing is, I got to the site from a link from say HN. I haven't agreed to anything, let alone seen the ToS, let alone had a chance to affirm or unaffirm to the conditions until I've already used the website. Thus, they assume my tacit approval of their ToS. The only way to not agree to the ToS is to never have visited the site to begin with. Yet, you cannot know the ToS unless you visit the site, and even if you knew the exact link to their ToS, that is still construed as usage, and once again assumed implicit approval.

Additionally, if I'm accessing publicly available material without being authenticated, you cannot prove I ever agreed to your ToS.

I don't work on scrapers or anything, but I abhor the idea that I have implicitly entered into a contract by virtue of visiting a public, unauthenticated, webpage.

Want me into a contractual ToS? Make me sign up and sign in.
My nvidia driver regularly hangs my system every ~90 minutes or so, so I can certainly empathize with the goals & vouch that they still have a role today.
Looking at Mac revenue for the past 5 years, it hasn’t exactly been falling....

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/07/apple-third-quarter-2019-...

There is no world where any computer manufacturing is seeing a large growth in PCs in the last 5 years.
Things to Consider When Budgeting for Internet Marketing
As I asked questions about building my business I ran into a brick wall. I asked for information about running ads in the local newspaper and I was told that that is not the way to build my business and that I should continue to contact family and friends. Interestingly, I discovered that the people who discouraged me from running ads had themselves run ads and were successful in doing it.

One day I received a voicemail from my sponsor's up line scolding me for informing my sponsor that the company may be headed for trouble with the looming downturn in the economy after listening to the earnings conference call hosted by the CEO. Sure enough, over the course of the next 3 years, the company's stock price declined fro almost $12 to $1.98 where it is today. Not only was I just reporting what the CEO had told the investment community, the method of leaving a derogatory voicemail instead of a personal conversation was not what I considered professionally or personally in good taste.

As I continued to try to build a list of people I knew, I realized I could not in good conscience bring them into an organization of people who did not have credibility as leaders. I believe in the product and continue to use it today. It has brought me significant health benefits and is still affordable for my use.

https://thedietsquare.com/how-entrepreneurs-can-build-a-solid-income-online/
It seems premature to discount a publication because it once expressed an opinion you disagreed with. If one was a diligent reader then one would quickly conclude that they couldn't trust anyone.
I read this article about oscar wilde from a recent hacker news post, and some details resonated with me in regard to "the art - and artifice - of conversation."

- "never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story."

- Even for the men of science, mere facts were never allowed to dominate diversion.

- "the golden rule of conversation" was "to know nothing accurately."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219628
So who do you think is buying them for Mac revenue to be stable/growing? Who should we believe your anecdote or Apple’s reported numbers?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/07/apple-third-quarter-2019-...
> Even more interesting the front panels are not synchronous on these "hobby" machines from the 70s but instead are timed by RC circuits that are supposed to be "close enough" to the CPUs clock.

That is by far one of the most curious things I've ever read on Hacker News.
They actually bought some Arizona and New Mexico, not all was taken in war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase
Worldwide, men are victimized at much higher rates, especially when the perpetrator is a stranger. But men also commit the vast majority of violent crimes. Most of these crimes end up being men hurting other men. Of particular interest is homicide statistics...

>A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide.

The wiki speculates that this could be due to biological differences, such as men being much more willing to engage in risky behavior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime
JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse, SceneBuilder and OpenJDK11: Java Coded Components
https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/use-face-id-with-sunglass...
First Robot Cafe to Open in Dubai
I'm fully remote, enjoying Western Montana. I'm in a small town on Flathead Lake with mountains in my backyard. I couldn't imagine much better. ATVs, archery, guns, fishing, boating, and more.
I agree with your sentiment, I do see some nuance here though. This phenotype is very valuable in how it could reduce inputs across industrial agriculture--and industrial agriculture is an extremely competitive and well-developed market. Entrenched interests are change-averse (unless they themselves are exploiting the change), so the very powerful industry will either squash this plant if it threatens their dominance, or squeeze every last penny out of it through patents. The net benefit will be best for everyone involved if the Nitrogen-fixing phenotype is hybridized into every corn cultivar around, which is only likely to happen if big-ag can exploit it for profit. That being the case, can we find a way to reward the farmers who genetically engineered this plant by selecting for the strongest individuals for the last several thousands years? Perhaps we can compensate them proportionately to the western seed companies who will close the last-mile gap getting this valuable trait to market.
The fact that this idea is deemed worthy of an article in the Economist, and then hits the front page of HN is, IMHO, a sad statement on the current quality of thinking about how to run companies. It's hard for me to summon anything but 'duh' in response to the headline. For intelligent commentary, give me Peter Drucker's "The Effective Executive".
AOC has at least studied economics at Boston University and has made it a goal to go after corruption and corporate greed.

Another presidential candidate said he would “clear the swamp”. How did that work out?
You mean open source yes, free software no.
I can't count the number of assholes I have avoided by not being on Facebook ;)
I'm American and have never known anyone who had an imaginary friend during my entire childhood or adulthood. (40 years old, midwest)

Either my cohort is very unusual or the stats given are BS.
> but posting a roundabout directly goes (I believe) against HN policy

Not true; it has long been customary for people to share paywall workarounds in the comments, and the moderators welcome/encourage it.
That was my first instinct as well but, you know, at some point if you don't know what it means and you aren't going to bother to find out, extra information is just noise. Green locks and red slashes are probably enough.
I am not a lawyer, so I will have to ask you to explain why not. It's not immediately obvious to me that the penalty doctrine would apply, as the penalty is not a mechanism to circumvent the recovery of damages through the courts.
Why does it matter who is hurting who? Just protect those who are being hurt.
Here's what he is doing. He wants to start with the set of real numbers, intuitively the points on the line, usually denoted by R, maybe typed in some special font.

Then he wants to define, say, addition of real numbers. So, given two real numbers, x and y, that might be equal, he wants to define x + y.

So, here he wants to regard addition, that is, +, as an operation. Then, as is usual for defining operations, he wants an operation to be just a special case of a function. So, he wants to call + a function. So, + will be a function of two variables, say, x and y. With usual function notation we will have

+(x,y) = x + y

The set of all (x,y) is the domain of the function, and the set of all x + y is the range.

So, that defines the function + except commonly in pure math we want to be explicit about the range and domain of the function.

For function +, the range is just the set of all pairs (x,y) with x and y in R. That set is also the set theory Cartesian product of set R with itself and written R x R. So, the domain of + is R x R. The range is just R. Then to be explicit about the range and domain of function +, we can write

+: R x R --> R

which says that + is a function with range R x R and domain R.

We learned how to add in, what, kindergarten? So, why make this so complicated?

Well, he wants to regard the real numbers as just one example of lots of different algebraic systems, e.g., groups, fields, vector spaces, and much more, with lots of operations and, possibly, more that could be defined. E.g., later in his book he will want to add vectors and matrices, take an inner product of two vectors, and multiply two matrices.

So, back to addition on the real numbers, he wants to regard that as just a special case of an operation on an algebraic system.

IMHO there's not much benefit for making adding two real numbers look so complicated.

Whatever he did in that chapter for defining addition on the reals, soon he is discussing matrix multiplication with no definition at all -- assuming the reader already understands that, that is defined and discussed many pages later in his book.

So, in his notation

+: R x R --> R

and matrix multiplication, he is using material before he has defined it, even before he has motivated, explained, exemplified, indicated the value of, and defined it. In good math writing and in good technical writing more generally, that practice is, in non-technical language, a bummer.

But from the table of contents, it appears that the book has quite a long list of possibly interesting narrow topics. And maybe for the routine material, his proofs and presentation are good -- maybe. I thought enough of the book to keep a copy of the PDF. It's there; if someday I want a discussion of some narrow topic, maybe I'll try his book!

In mathematical writing, it used to be common for the word processing to be much more work than the mathematics! Now with TeX and LaTeX, and I'm assuming that the book used one of these two, the flood gates are open!
Hmm :(

What about loading the commenting and review part onto our own environment?

Btw, did you guys talk to dockup? (another YC company I believe)