skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the list, she doesn’t recognise any of the sites listed there. Also she has burner/spam email addresses she uses for smaller/less reputable sites, this is the main email address so it must have come from a big, reputable site.
You don’t sign up to anything, it’s with the issuing bank or provider.
No, what GP is saying absolutely is a thing, but not terribly common. Bosch PT Service is one of not that many companies that use it. You only give them your IBAN and check a box basically saying you authorize them to debit the money from your account.
Here in the UK between working from home and "remote schools" (i.e. schools moving online because of the lockdown) spending on things like home offices, laptops, etc. went up.

If you're stuck at home you probably and in any case spend more time online and/or on your phone, which has to be good for whoever owns online app and music stores. (This also explains Facebook's good results).

All in all, it's not surprising that results are good for Apple. But it is not sustainable growth.
> More waiting for an Uber request.

Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car.

>More gigs.

You are aware that gig economy is just about 5 years old, right? And you have to be in a high demand area to do it.

There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap.
> For instance, banking and electricity are highly regulated markets, and rightly so.

You don't think banking is dysfunctional? Banking is one of the most privacy-invasive industries in existence, the rules are the reason the internet runs on advertising because they make it nigh impossible to make a functioning anonymous micropayments system and companies that try to innovate with e.g. a debit card that keeps your account balance invested in securities get booed off the stage by incumbents who don't want the competition.
Possible that estimates were before COVID was affecting us?
We often get deliveries from a DPD electric van out here in the sticks of Gloucestershire hadn't realised it was a Nissan though
What other competition do you want? Any app gets a placement on the AppleTV once it is installed and any app can but is not required to integrate with the TV app.

Netflix doesn’t integrate with the TV app completely (Netflix’s choice) but when you search for a TV show or movie, if the app is installed , Apple tells you when it’s available for free with one of your third party subscriptions instead of steering you to buy it from them.

I can say “watch DareDevil on Netflix” from the AppleTV and it launches Netflix. If I do it on my phone there is an “open in” button and it lets me choose Netflix.
Maybe just go back to PHP :D

I mean, I am enjoying the custom webpack setup that I built for my work project... but just because I can do that stuff doesn't mean I should.

Nothing wrong with tossing a php script on some shared hosting.
>Yes it is good that users use strong, unique passwords, but we know the password store can get compromised.

The point of the article was that there is no downside if your password is unique. They will have your data on that particular site. The rest of the sites are just as secure as they were.

There is no depth here...
I couldn't care less if you ban me or not. I will change account and keep posting.

Also there is nothing personal in that message. And this is not the first time that some displeased person flags my message just because he feels unsecure and have difficulty to properly interpret the text posted.

In some cases when I post the same message again, it gets a very positive reception.

The fact that messages are flagged and removed despite of the positive reception goes to show how fascist and indoctrinated this community is, and also how capricious you are and goes to show that the rules are up to interpretation so posting a link does not clarify anything.

In fact you are the one who is doing the personal attack in this case if you think about it. So maybe it's time that you live by the rules that you preach?
Thank you. I'm all for the Simone de Beauvoir flavor of feminism. I understand that women want more power, even if it is in a corrupt system -- but the problem I have with "Lean In" feminism is that it serves as cover for exploitation... it is, in our cultural zeitgeist, somehow "okay" for a black woman like Condoleeza Rice to bomb Iraqis -- does blackness and femininty now serve as the perfect mask and disguise for capital and oppression?... should we not elevate our consciousness towards an overarching view of the system?

Yes, the industrial system was not built for women... it was built to make cheap knick-knacks... which has no relation to having babies. It is indifferent to women, not beneficial by design to men... the scape-goating is counter-productive, and behind the male mask -- falls to deaf ears. That is my point.
> Many business are built and scaled on Facebook Ads.

Completely agreed. Not to mention that their M&A strategy has also been nothing short of a master class: from Instagram, to WhatsApp, to Oculus. Money making machine indeed.
Of course the company is having a great quarter even with the boycotts. It has a complete strange-hold over all social media.not really counting China social media except tikTok

FB - 2.4B MAU [1]

Instagram(FB Owned) - 1B MAU [2]2018 numbers

WhatsApp(FB Owned) - 2B MAU [3]

Facebook totals - 5.4B MAU (overlap between apps, not unique users)

Everyone else:

Snap - 360M MAU [4]

Twitter - 330M MAU [5]

TikTok - 800M MAU [6] estimate

Everyone else totals = 1.49B

*MAU = Monthly Active User B = Billions, M = Millions

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-grew-monthly-averag...

[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/253577/number-of-monthly...

[3] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly...

[4] - https://www.omnicoreagency.com/snapchat-statistics/

[5] - https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/

[6] - https://wallaroomedia.com/blog/social-media/tiktok-statistic...
"Instead, why not simply randomly generate a good password for them, and instruct them to write it down or save it in their web browser? If they lose it, they can use your existing password reset procedure."

Heh. You might as well drop the password and have a 'send the login link to my email" button then.

Why is saving the password in your web browser or any application on your machine - that can also be hacked - considered secure? You're just offering an attacker one single attack point that will yield all your passwords if compromised...

What about people using multiple machines? Should we sync our password store across all our devices, so there is just one server storing them that can be attacked?

And last question, for the SMS-2FA crowd: why would I want my login to depend on my phone number working?
It was a mutual deal. Netflix chose not to. Other streaming providers choose not to have in app purchases at all and still integrate. Either way it’s the provider’s choice.

Apple really wanted Prime so it made a deal.
These good results were expected.

Working from home and lockdowns in general.
As a consumer I don’t necessarily want competition in say video. I want to be able to go to one place to find a user created video, search once and find all the videos on that topic. I want to learn one UI for that and I want to know that the vast majority of video content will be there. YouTube’s scale grants me, as a consumer, huge advantages. The same goes for content creators.

That doesn’t mean I dont want oversight. I think there may be a role for regulation in the public interest, but blindly chopping YouTube up into a hundred geographically separated chunks would be unbelievably dumb. Is ‘competition’ really going to compensate for the loss of convenience? There have always been competing video upload sites, but people go where the scale is because they like the scale. They want the scale. It has value to them.

The same goes for the App Store. I’m a happy Apple customer. I like the App Store and I think it works well, but I’m not entirely against government scrutiny of how it operates, in principle. Yes I’m concerned Apple could abuse its power, but killing the App Store or mandating by law that Apple has to implement policies that will tear the App Store into bits benefits me how? Will it make it easier for me to find and install Apps? Will it improve their quality? Will fragmented app stores make it easier for developers to connect with customers and earn revenue? I’m not convinced.
Sneaky Doki Linux malware infiltrates Docker cloud instances
Thank you for the comment. There is no such setting. I have been playing with the settings, but none of them seems to affect the flickering so far. I am going to return this monitor.

On the other hand, I really don't get how the enhancement filter is not stable. It is just a convolution, right? There is no temporal element to it, is there? So if all the input frames are the same, all the output frames should also be the same, I guess.

Bottomline: cheap stuff is almost always more expensive than expensive stuff.
If you live in an expensive NY/CA metro, that money can be the difference between unemployment benefits covering your rent or mortgage payment or not, which is a very big deal.

California's unemployment benefit caps out at $450/week.
In some circumstances, it may even be violating your termination agreement with the former one.

Often, if made redundant by a company, you cannot return to work for them (as employee or contractor) for a year, otherwise you have to pay back your redundancy pay.

That leads to a potentially hilarious conversation about rates.

"I'll do it, my rates are 100 per hour plus 10K if you want me to start before June next year"
Leverage Curves vs. Career Paths
For sure there are physicists reading HN. Absolutely. My claim, which I probably expressed clumsily, is that the majority of commenters here are not physicists.
Nested functions in c are totally awesome and perfectly safe as long as a) you don't pass them as function pointers and b) care about executable stacks. The nice thing is you avoid gross preprocessor crap.
Facebook has a very long tail of advertisers in line for spots. The biggest companies boycotting just gave the same ad space to smaller companies. Facebooks business is built exceptionally well to be resilient to these sorts of boycotts, and the results are in the pudding. Facebook revenue YoY up 11% and Alphabet down 2%.

>[At Facebook] Q1 2019 the top 100 advertisers made up less than 20% of the company’s ad revenue; most of the $69.7 billion the company brought in last year came from its long tail of 8 million advertisers.

>This focus on the long-tail, which is only possible because of Facebook’s fully automated ad-buying system, has turned out to be a tremendous asset during the coronavirus slow-down.

>This explains why the news about large CPG companies boycotting Facebook is, from a financial perspective, simply not a big deal. Unilever’s $11.8 million in U.S. ad spend, to take one example, is replaced with the same automated efficiency that Facebook’s timeline ensures you never run out of content. Moreover, while Facebook loses some top-line revenue — in an auction-based system, less demand corresponds to lower prices — the companies that are the most likely to take advantage of those lower prices are those that would not exist without Facebook, like the direct-to-consumer companies trying to steal customers from massive conglomerates like Unilever.

>In this way Facebook has a degree of anti-fragility that even Google lacks: so much of its business comes from the long tail of Internet-native companies that are built around Facebook from first principles, that any disruption to traditional advertisers — like the coronavirus crisis or the current boycotts — actually serves to strengthen the Facebook ecosystem at the expense of the TV-centric ecosystem of which these CPG companies are a part.

from https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/
Each member of Congress was limited to 5 minutes at a time. It was clear that some of the CEOs (Bezos) had been advised to try to fill that time with as much fluff as possible.

The members of Congress would ask a yes or no question, and then the CEO would start in on a speech about how great their company is. That's why you kept seeing those interruptions.
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That's certainly been my experience; management and bureaucracy will expand to fill any available budget unless constrained. Since management almost always runs the show, there's almost never constraint.
Amazon didn’t concentrate on profit (standard disclaimer I work for AWS) they did concentrate on free cash flow. They didn’t have to keep borrowing money to grow.

Netflix is also borrowing money for an “asset” that is worth less over time - content.
That's interesting. What's wrong with Cardano?
At the beginning of the pandemic I definitely was doing more online shopping. But my wife and I have definitely shifted into the 'bunker down and be prepared' mentality. We're stashing cash and loading up on canned goods. We both have good reliable jobs, but between an unexpected tax bill and worry over how the COVID situation is being handled we're bracing for bad weather.
Aren't these normally called "Quarterly Earnings"?

Amazon has a habit of making up words and pretending everyone already uses them. Perhaps they think not referring to "earnings" will help disguise they are earning money hand-over-fist?

"Peak" is their latest one, as in "Ensuring everyone is ready for Peak". Apparently "Peak" refers to the holiday shopping season, starting with Black Friday. Nevermind everyone in the industry calls it "the holiday season".
> use Ctrl+C etc. but it doesn't do anything

Did you set clipboard events to false in about:config?

Probably. After all, if you don't set that, lots of sites will do stupid things like prevent you from copying, or pasting into certain fields.

But it will break things like Google Sheets.
RV's are not a good sign of recovery in this case.

Usually RVs are bought in addition to other travel, they are more of a luxury item.

In the current environment where booking a hotel is considered by some risky RVs are bought as a necessity if one wants to travel.
The boycotts are priced in. Companies get to virtue signal a bit[1], but ad spend was going to go down anyway during the pandemic

[1] For example, in a blatant show of hypocrisy, Nike slashed FB advertising, but has had plenty of child labor and sweatshop scandals to boot.
If someone wants to break into car bad enough glass windows won't stop them.

If someone wants to break into a bank bad enough a safe won't stop them.

If someone wants to break into a house bad enough locks won't stop them.

etc

This is an unreasonable argument for trying to secure something. Every step that makes something harder to steal is an improvement in security and increases the cost of theft.
... no, definitely missed it. Do you think that there's something special about Judaism vs other religions that makes it contentious to talk about?

If so, what and why?

If not, what are you talking about?
Your system's device tree describes the CPU to the kernel. The riscv,isa string contains the list of extensions in the standard format (a string of single-character standard extensions, and Z-delimited extensions).

To clarify I did not mean that this information was accessed through specialized CPU instructions directly, but that it is available through cpuinfo on Linux and such like usual.

Here's an example device tree for the HiFive Unleashed board, which describes the embedded controller as rv64imac, and the application processor cores as rv64imafdc (same as the embedded controller, but with floats and doubles): https://github.com/riscv/riscv-device-tree-doc/blob/master/e...

If your system is application-specific enough, you won't even bother with that. You'll know what extensions your SoC supports when you make your purchasing decision, and you'll know when you compile your software.
He does a good job of showing a broad swath of the Byzantine empire, not just the intrigue among royals.
Your argument really sounds like those first year students that just attended psychology 101 or theology 101, debate 101, philosophy 101 and suddenly felt "woke" and decided to go "meta" for the discussion and mentioning "majority fallacy" instead of discussing the issue. Yeah, try that with your professors.

low effort post.
>simply the best digital distribution channel besides Google

It appears Google just had their first revenue decline ever. I guess it was anticipated, and people aren't particularly freaking out, but I wonder if it will be a turning point in hindsight a year from now.
> If you want to use Haskell today, the jobs are essentially all cryptocurrency

This is not true, by the way.
Along other reasons, with such a massive percentage of their income (and income variability) in Q4, it really helps their accountants to close out a tax year in the (relatively) predictable and stable Sept after three quarters of normalizing cashflows.

Sheltering taxes in a double-Irish requires pretty accurate projections.

Also often they just don't have all the data they need to close out a year until a few weeks after holidays, especially if people are taking a break, so it's just a lot easier on the humans involved.
You probably want blocks, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)
That is not the core argument though? Nobody uses C in order to make their nukes more marketable.

Crypto uses the academic big-brain alpha-nerd reputation of Haskell to make their platform appear more reputable. „Look, written by 100% organic PHD-certified FP programmers, raised on our free-range Monad Farm. Oh btw our whitepapers are Very Legit and definitely not just decorum for an ICO scam.“
twitter isnt the place for reasonable nuanced discussion, if you think facebook et al. are bad then you are supposed to agree with the hyperbolic black and white language.

although this isnt twitter, i sometimes feel like the commenters on HN have spent too much time on twitter. i cant stand opinionated twitter "personalities" that tweet more than they code, and it's been bleeding over to other places as well.
Yep, was a basic advertising campaign.

American democracy and accountability is over.
Those things don't sound like tools to me. Better examples would be hammers, screwdrivers, etc..
To that end: is it possible today to build a major VC-funded consumer facing tech company (eg Oculus) without being forced to sell to an “evil” (privacy/human rights-disrespecting amoral multinational) acquirer?

Snap is the only example I can think of that remained independent so far, and even they are one App Store flipped bit away from being out of business. Are there “never Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon” startups that have or would be able to raise nine figures to pursue big projects?

Is that even a viable path, or is the winning endgame always just being acquired by Big Tech and Big Tech only?

I guess my question is “Is avoiding major/typical VC funding the only way to “win” and not end up as FAANG staff?”

The reason I ask is because I already have a perfectly comfortable lifestyle business, and would love to pursue something larger (that requires funding and a medium-sized staff) but there is no amount of money or equity that would make me ever be okay with working for a company that helps governments abuse human rights, which is 100% of Big Tech these days. Is there any third path?
The financial says that they had a $2B penalty (which decreased net income, but I'm assuming wasn't deductible for tax purposes) and a court decision that resulted in tax of about $1B, so their effective tax rate (edit: last year) looked a lot higher than it would have without the penalty and judgment. Their tax rate didn't actually go down from year to year.
Reminds me of env0 [1]. Pretty cool idea overall.

[1] https://www.env0.com/
This is why defense-in-depth is so important. Very few companies can test and rollout a patch in a few days, and that's not even accounting for regulatory concerns that may add additional time.
Apparently:

For a variety of reasons, some public companies will use a non-standard or non-calendar quarterly reporting system. For example, Walmart's first quarter is February, March, and April; Apple Inc's Q1 is October, November, and December; Microsoft Corporation's Q1 is July, August, and September.

In addition, certain governments use different quarter systems. The first quarter of the United States federal government’s fiscal year is October, November, and December, Q2 is January, February, and March, Q3 is April, May, and June, and Q4 is July, August, and September. State governments may also have their own fiscal calendars.

Sometimes a company may have a non-standard fiscal year to help with business or tax planning. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows companies to choose a “tax year” that is still 52-53 weeks long but does not end in December. H&R Block (HRB) ends its fiscal year on April 30th, which makes sense because that is the end of the busiest part of the company’s year. Releasing your annual report, which may be accompanied by shareholder meetings and additional disclosures after the busiest part of your year will help managers and shareholders make better decisions about the year ahead.

Companies that rely on U.S. government contracts may use September as the end of their fiscal year, and the fourth quarter because that is when they expect new projects to be closed and budget planning from the government to be available. Historically, large technology firms had stronger quarters early in the year, which is why many of them (including Microsoft (MSFT)) have a fiscal year that closes at the end of June.

Some companies have very unusual quarterly systems. Adobe (ADBE) closes their fiscal year on the Friday closest to November 30th. In 2018, November 30th was a Friday, as well as the last day of the month but in 2017, ADBE closed their fourth quarter and the fiscal year on Friday, December 1st, because it was the Friday closest to November 30th.
I don't think disability requires using the magstripe. The chip can mark what security is required, just like many American cards are "Chip and Sign".
> If you don't live in NY or CA, those extra $600 a week can go very far

True. My girlfriend lost her job March. She is unemployed since then. We are not based in NY or CA. She has mentioned this to me several times that how much more she has in savings now. With all this time and some extra cash, I have asked her learn coding. She is working on her app idea.
Love what the folks at fly.io are doing with edge deployed containers.

Interesting comparison with Cloudflare's isolate approach which they expanded on earlier this week: https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

Seems like there is an edge compute option for any requirement these days!
“Quarterly results“ is pretty common, as is “Peak” in retail.
Thanks! I’m aware of this. I was interested in seeing content that’s more similar to my use case.
I'm interested to know if they ever actually have enforced this
CA has plenty of people living in poverty $600/wk make a world of difference for.
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Correct. No family vacations in France/Italy ($15K easy), just spending on gadgets/home renovations.