skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is true. Sadly, sports is the one big thing that still prevents most people from cutting cord for real, but I prefer the current "multi streaming service" world a lot more than the old cable world.

As I said in another comment, you can just keep one subscription active at a time. It is way cheaper than cable and you can still rotate pretty quickly.

If something really good comes, you can subscribe to both for a short period, but most of the time you can do pretty well with just keeping one active.

I wish a Netflix-for-sports existed already, though. I always had to keep the basic cable just to watch my team's football (soccer) games because you can't get those in any other way.
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You can still sign up for Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Disney+ for a fraction of the cost of a cable subscription, without commercials.
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Seems like there would be a bit of a risk for a personal DDOS attack by that logic?

This attitude doesn't seem reasonable. Anyone can make up random nonsense about someone else (no federal libel laws in the US...). Acknowledging the nonsense will only legitimize it. Why should the subject of the nonsense have to invest time and energy in debunking/denying it?
I don't know. I respected him highly after Snowden and I still think he handled it greatly. But then, I lost a lot of that respect mostly due to reading his tweet feed.

It mostly kind of ceased to be worth following and at times he seemed to be in perpetual rage combined with sort of "I wish this to be true so it must be".
The broadcom SoC used on the raspi is also a horrendously designed unstable piece of shit. I can't wait for open source SoCs to come eat its lunch.
More than the root zone; it would have to have all of the TLD zones, and even deeper in some cases.
A revenue record, again. These targets are increasingly hard to pull off, and it seems like they're going to be pushing harder and harder, diminishing their overall value, to keep hitting them.

Hence lowering the BOM by eliminating previously-bundled accessories, new agreements favoring large carriers, an increase in services and service bundles, and so on.

I think eliminating the accessories is a net good, but it didn't result in a lower product price, one notes.

The new carrier agreements resulted in higher prices until the public outcry caused them to shift course. I wonder if they'll try it again next year.

And of course I'm going to sign up for the Apple One service bundle! But I nevertheless note that their push into paid services is how they're projecting keeping these revenue records coming.
The Office getting yanked end of year will be a major unsub event. I don’t think this will be.
Ya, we currently subscribe to pretty much all of them and that's already excessive, but it becomes more so as the prices keep going up. So, we'll definitely cancel some of them soon, just out of principal and a service to help would be useful.

I don't even need it to activate/deactivate my accounts. The real benefit to me would be tracking and notifying me when the shows I follow have a new season available. Then when I exhaust whichever platform I'm currently subscribed to, I'll know which one to subscribe to next.

Also, tracking the Series and Movies that I want to watch would be helpful, especially the ones that can potentially appear/disappear from different streaming services.
What "conspiracy theories". When Leslie Stahl [1] on 60 minutes says it's never been proven that the Trump campaign was spied on, that's deliberate journalistic malpractice. When Joe Biden is never asked about anything that could even remotely stymie his campaign, that's deliberate journalistic malpractice. When that malpractice covers _every single news outlet_ except Greenwald, Taibbi, and Tucker Carlson, that's a coordinated disinformation campaign. I'll let you draw your own conclusions, if you are able.

[1]. https://www.bitchute.com/video/S55HwMyFjSP3/ - I'm not sure what made it into the on-air version. I only watched the side by side.

Here's Greenwald's article that The Intercept censored, by the way: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

FYI, @scrollaway, here's Snowden referring to the Deep State, which you said he doesn't do. HN won't let me post, so I'll just edit. From Wikipedia: Former NSA leaker Edward Snowden has used the term generally to refer to the influence of civil servants over elected officials: "the deep state is not just the intelligence agencies, it is really a way of referring to the career bureaucracy of government. These are officials who sit in powerful positions, who don't leave when presidents do, who watch presidents come and go ... they influence policy, they influence presidents."

Let me remind you, he's in Russia because Joe Biden personally called half a dozen heads of state and threatened them with reprisals.
Can you repeat it using the same credit card?
> "If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election"

This is bordering on hyperbole.

1. Glenn Greenwald isn't one to produce a "Garbage Story," he's a credible journalist with a long history of dropping bombshells. He's dropped bombshells about both the right AND the left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Awards

2. It's the job of the media to do exactly what you have alluded to within the last half of the statement above. All sides do just that every single election I've been alive, all the way up to election day. But this time, only one side is allowed to do it.

3. Glenn Greenwald is a co-founder of The Intercept and is provided contractual rights to editorial freedom.

The fact that this comment is the top comment on this thread is extremely worrying. This is censorship, nothing less.

*edit: removed hints of rudeness.
No, they are not.

I am saying that while he is in a superior position at an organizational level, and thus has the authority to seize any responsibility he would like, he is noble for respecting the responsibilities he has delegated to his editors and not doing so.
The conduct of Twitter, Facebook and media outlets in suppressing this story is horrifying.

While this story is somewhat damaging to Biden, I think, medium to long term the way it is handled is much more damaging then the story itself.
https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/ is a better option
The golden age of streaming has come to an end. There are no longer streaming services offering a wide selection of shows and movies, but silos of self-produced or owned content.

In the next 12-24 months it'll be obvious the way to consume media will change from a monthly netflix/apple/cbs/peacock/hbo/anyone else fee to a 30 day run. People will sign up and churn based on what they want to see. Services will pop up around this and handle your memberships for you. Those service will become the new cable companies.

Netflix is still a good value for the money charged.
Those are not stories about Biden, but about someone trying to make a story about Biden in the last month which apparently backfired.

The Intercept is likely pointing to stories like those:

> Biden’s Promise Of A Deportation Moratorium Is Nowhere In His Platform

> Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign

> With Tara Reade’s Allegations, Joe Biden’s Campaign Is Only the Latest Chapter of America’s Accountability Problem
Term limits

Ban professional politicians - who side step term limits by changing jobs.

All laws congress applies to the people apply to them too.

Have congress argue the issues, but have their respective states vote on it - thereby diluting power and making it harder to have money influence.
> That's not how this works. If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is right".

Except if it's about Bad Orange Man, right?
> You think we could develop a unified data model that covers source code, static files, documentation, project management and community management as a single unified thing?

Realistically, not exactly, given how much space some of those things cover.

I do think that entities like code review are as much a part of the history of a project as the deltas to code. Reviews not being first-class objects in the VCS itself has turned out to be a crack into which you can wedge an entire GitHub.

I won't claim I know where best to draw the line here. Better handling of large static files by default and a robust way to model relationships between projects obviously belong within the VCS. On the other hand, relationships modeled in issue tracking systems and the like are also part of the software's history, but past some level of complexity it gets much harder to imagine wedging them into something that you can pass around like you clone a Git repo. All I can really say for sure is that it feels broken that all of this stuff lives in competing application silos.

(As a sidebar: Not that you can't jam things like review data into git-as-data-store. Gerrit does just that. But nobody's going to mistake that for a usable interface to code review.)

Anyhow, I don't think you're wrong about the social & economic factors, but I think a different landscape with less concentration of power could have shaken out if (for example) easy code review had been baked in and host-agnostic early on. Fully p2p architectures aren't feasible, or even necessarily desirable, for a lot of problems - but it shouldn't be too much to ask that things are able to be federated and resistant to capture by a single vendor.

> Still... I completely agree that it would be awesome to have a more self-sovereign computing architecture writ large. I’m just pessimistic we can get there from here.

Yeah, fair enough. I am myself boundlessly pessimistic about the future of computing generally.
Alphabet Q3 2020 [pdf]
Types of due diligence documents to help seal the deal
I never was a well paid dev, so no. Also I applied for normal product manager roles. Product/project/team lead/business analyst - with these roles you usually only know what you got after the interview (if it says project but is a good fit just ask for a title change after a year for your product-CV).

Technical knowledge is a plus you can charge more for.

I just found it challenging not to have any lack in the other areas, but with the variety of the role and a bit of endurance you can find a good match with a company that needs what you can do.
>Ex-migration will find SF strapped for taxes

Why do you think there won't be a crop of young people moving to SF now that it's cheaper?
The main thing I think would be simply enumerable buses and support for the APCI root bus instead of the more embedded focused device tree.
I'd like to use the native tools to the platform i'm developing for. Simple as that. Abstractions, platform wrappers, transpilers doesn't make sense to me when i already know javascript. And if i didn't and it's absolutely critical to push something forward very, very quickly, maybe then i'd resort to such a thing, but that is a special case.
I see the trend, but I'm still way better off now than I was when I had a regular cable or satellite plan. When I add up all the streaming services I pay for, it's still lower than what I was paying for DirecTV, and there's much better content now.

I also regularly rotate services. For example, Amazon Prime is how I'm getting my HBO. I'm ready to remove that channel for a few months until the shows I watch return. I've done that with Acorn (UK programming) and with Showtime.

Looking at the proliferation of silos (Peacock, AppleTV+, Disney, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, etc.), it's going to get harder to have a decent all-in-one place to go for content. But this is what a lot of cord cutters insisted that they wanted ("Why do I have to pay for ESPN if I don't watch it?"). Turns out it might not be cheaper after all? That is unless you're willing to put a little effort into rotating active services.
Facebook Q3 2020
No, my argument is that he had the choice to override his editors, and that his choice to instead resign instead of corrupting the editorial process is noble.
> there was a miss on iPhone revenue which can be explained by people waiting for the new phone release.

Agree, I think a lot of people were waiting for iPhone 12 to release.
I’d chalk that up to getting fairly mainstream press. Like I said, I’m surprised they haven’t gone after the SM64 ports as well.

Also, I think “Dawn & Dusk” was the hack that was ported to 64DD, not Missing Link.
I believe the multicolored ascii art with 400+ variants is great by itself.

It's kind of like one of those movie franchise reboot sequels that turns out to be a good movie just on its merits.
Particularly if it's a fast + light + long-lasting 12" MacBook revival.
Turns out that if they make computers people want to buy…they buy them!
A service that combines all these together... You mean cable tv... we have come full circle...
They know you walked from Baby Gap to the food court, bought a pretzel, then left via the doors by California Pizza Kitchen. If you sue the mall, the court may agree your privacy has been violated and now are asking you to come up with a dollar figure for the harm done. How do you do that?
Seems pretty risky to announce this the day before the Mandalorian comes out...
TK-17 Arkhangelsk Ballistic Missile Submarine – $945,000
All the big tech cos announced today and all beat, yet all of them are flat to down except for Google.

Perhaps there’s a limit to already lofty valuations.
Great question-- I would pay money for this kind of resource, especially if it's summarized.

For startup business a couple of my favorite VC blogs are YC and AVC. For startup tech I can suggest ThoughtWorks Radar. For emerging startup business mental models I love Stratechery .
According to the response by the Intercept he's actually flipping out against basic edit suggestions as censorship. [0]. https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283/ph...

Seems like a temper tantrum to me, even if the journalism is legitimate. It could very well be these claims are clickbait for the journalist to strike out on his own without the publisher.
I am just worried about all my developer tools (Docker, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox, brew) all breaking switching to ARM.
Personal observations:

- No mention of YT subscription revenue? Does that mean it is low. Considering Netflix success, I am assuming there is a lot of ground to be gained there.

- GCP revenue at $3B seems quite low compared to even what MS reported. Their cloud(Azure + office?) revenue was $16B if I am not mistaken

- Dip in capital expenditure from $7 to $5 billion. I am assuming GCP and data center expansion went fine, but a lot of office related costs have been reduced.
It'll be interesting if the homeless population moves back into houses, stays on the street or moves on.
Great response by The Intercept. Pretty much sums up the comments on the previous thread. I do enjoy this new normal, Ok boomer, way of responding to the Greenwalds of the world. Instead of wasting time refuting every ridiculous conspiracy theory or accusation, they treated him like the child he's acting like, gave him the boot, and moved on.
If the "golden showers" is not a garbage story, I don't know what is.
To clarify the WSJ opinion section wrote articles including the one you linked that treat the allegations credibly. The newsroom wasn't as generous: https://variety.com/2020/politics/news/wall-street-journal-h...
Caps lock is much more useful as a home row ctrl key
The New York Post is a 200 year old publication started by Alexander Hamilton, it's not some fringe media source.
At every company I've ever worked at, even if I recommend someone, they still have to go through the hiring process. No company would hire someone just because I said they were worthy. It's just lead generation.
Wanted to read the actual article when I saw all the hubub. Greenwald has been a go to for a long time. Article reads like Trump propaganda.

Central argument is that the 'story' about Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it is not being taken seriously by the mainstream media.

The purported emails have not been provided with their metadata as far as I can tell.

The story told by the emails appears to be some vague, 'Hunter Biden was pursuing a business deal and trading on his family name' type thing.

And all of this from an unnamed author in the New York Post citing evidence on a laptop left in a computer repair shop? All sounds completely ludicrous.

Makes me wonder why the hell Greenwald is making so much hay over this. Kompromat?
Twitter Q3 2020
One key is whether you're willing to give up live TV. If you have to pay >$50/month for essentially a streaming cable bundle, you've cut way into your savings by cutting the cord especially if you had some sort of internet/cable or internet/cable/phone bundle.

I dropped phone and cable a while back and it saves me quite a bit of money overall but I do lose some things because of it.
And we can do better than white

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q4/this-white-...
I miss low prices and high quality. Netflix has lost its way.
I will not engage with arguments presented by Tucker Carlson for the same reason that I wouldn't engage when Ted Kaczinsky presents the merits of "The Industrial Society and it's Future". Maybe it's my fault as a European that these people to me seem absolutely insane. (literally and in some cases even criminally insane)
Naspghan Position Paper: Plant-Based Milks
It's a fine idea and I do eat a lot of nuts. But it's pretty hard to match the convenience and effectiveness of a soylent.

Basically, if you ever have cravings or moodiness due to food, that can be solved by a soylent in about 60 seconds. Maybe nuts can solve it too, but a lot of people don't do that, and end up eating junk instead.
I don't know why

Both of them seem to have bought into insane conspiracy theories about the actual Russian collision with the Trump campaign
I hate when ThinkPad lovers point out that it can be remapped in BIOS... it's not the same thing! The width of the keys is different and at least in my sporadic use of colleagues' ThinkPads, it's been a major pain point.
I should have been clearer. The news departments of those two Murdoch entities would not touch the story. Anything goes in the oped department.
They're still blocked, regardless of who is doing the blocking.
For sure, this will bifurcate, cause those on one side to suffer greatly, & those on the other side will as usual pay for the convenience of it not affecting them.

But at the same time, I think the level of crisis is perhaps bigger than we realize. Climate scientists talk about the conveyor systems of the ocean, that literally keep the ocean flowing around the world. It's not spoken of very much, but the threat really does go up to "the ocean stops circulating" (is drastically drastically reduced in circulation). The ocean acidifies, runs out of dissolved oxygen,... dies.

Meanwhile we're already in an era of mass extinction for the animals. How many more shocks can the animals take?

Maybe the rich can get by on a deadening husk of a world without really noticing, maybe human life goes on. Who am I kidding, of course it does, but my general gist is that the current pattern of extreme weather & disasters being localized is knitting together as the crisis marchs into ever more dire territory into something truly globespanning & globe-wrecking, where earth itself will visibly no longer support the same everyday vitality of life, and where we have to find new means to artificially sustain the ecosphere & pollenate our farmlands.
That's exactly why I built EasyOrg. It has a simple to use editor and an Agenda viewer. You can add, edit and delete org mode todos via a GUI or using the editor. For note taking you use the editor. No difficult Eamcs keybindings and buffers.

The agenda has several different views to help you prioritize what to work on next based on priorities and scheduled timestamps. You can also sort and filter.

It does not support all the Emacs org mode features, but supports the most common ones. The main focus of EasyOrg is on Todos and I tend to use one org file per project (mainly bigger projects, not the shopping list or to do around the house type of stuff). I used to use a regular text file to keep track of what to do for my projects, but with Org mode and EasyOrg's agenda it's easier to see what needs to be done and prioritize.

It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux desktop. Feedback welcome!

https://www.easyorgmode.com
> Just go to original sources and make up your own mind.

But that's not an easy thing to do, is it? Even if we can do this one time, that's not sustainable. We need to trust somebody, and that's unfortunately getting lot harder.

Usually, I would put more trust on an established media organization like The Intercept over an individual, even though he's a co-founder. But after seeing (what I perceive to be) media's blatant disregard for journalistic standards, specially in last 4 years, I'm not so sure anymore.
This is so cool. It would be great to use this as a teaching tool so students can visualize things. Keep at it man.
Is it wise to raise prices now when you have more people watching than every and more people who can not pay more because of this pandemic? Ok, it's just $2 but still...
No, you're not getting it.

Geo-fence is the backstop safety mechanism for SuperCruise, not the primary mechanism.

They don't need to update geo-fence to account for changes to "ground truth." The whole point of the geo-fence is to confirm sensor data and assist in identifying anamolous situations like accidents and construction. If sensor data doesn't match "truth" then the self-driving system can engage safety mechanisms, engage additional processing, or disable self-driving as appropriate.
I switched to that model a while ago. I refuse to pay for Netflix/Disney+/Hulu/Crunchyroll simultaneously. So I queue up shows I want to watch on a given platform, buy a month of that platform, and then switch to the next platform in the queue the next month.

It requires more overhead (i.e. manually cancelling and re-enabling services), but it saves probably $200-300+ per year vs. having 4 simultaneous subscriptions.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/petnames.html
But those people in country would be paying national taxes either way. It isn't like if Vancouver stops a rich person from Toronto investing in real estate that this person will leave their millions of dollars in a checking account instead. They will find some other way to invest their money.

If you are solely worried about the tax base, wouldn't bringing in foreign investors into real estate investing while letting domestic investors focus on some other investment vehicles lead to more tax revenue?
This has to be one of the best show hns I have seen in quite a while. It looks amazing - congrats and thanks!
Try exporting your threads from HN even. Tedious but possible. But the community of discussion will eventually disappear.

Same with Usenet -- far more useful than Reddit, Google Groups or places like HN, but fell victim to the pressures of spam, moderation and lack of standards evolution. I probably have a deep backup with News posts from the 90s but it is essentially lost to the world. It was never intended as a historical artefact, so in 100 years it will seem like a dark age, no hardcopy records and a tiny digital archive. In contrast, FB will still have everything but you won't be able to access it.
I've had my CapsLock bound to Compose for ages; it's a great use of that piece of keyboard realestate.

I still don't have a good way to discover compose sequences other than by groveling through xkb and compose files. I really wish there were a character-palette tool that would tell me how to type the characters by introspecting the current input settings.
Emails with Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article