skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business model isn't anything special... It's just freemium.

Take a look at ProfitWell for instance, they do the same thing: Give away their core product then make money on upsells.

Also, building the business model as they go is pretty normal for a startup.
Indeed. My family pays $15 for Music and $10 for 2TB iCloud. For $5 more we will get Fitness, Arcade, News+, and TV+.

I bet their service revenue will see quite a boost from Apple One.
I anticipate the in the next quarter report which should include the iphone 12 sales, we should see a continued trend of lower sales. Primarily because it seems they had a lot of constraint in manufacturing and distribution with these models. There has been super strong demand early on with all the carrier incentives but once people saw the distribution delays that went out almost a month, I think that demand quickly died down as people wait for faster arrival times and more option diversity (iphone 12 mini models come to market).

This is all speculation and I am using my own experience here to determine this but I don’t think the coming results are going to be as aggressive within the next quarter or so as distribution for the phones continue to be limited with rising cases and manufacturing capacity also potentially being limited
And they still don't seem to have given up the hope that I'll sign up for the YouTube f&*&(ing Music trial one day. Won't you have some dignity, Google?
I consider "mainline" more clear, using it in a currently unreleased project.
Why do public toilets have U-shaped seats?
"While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle a political campaign's — the Trump campaign's — dubious claims and launder them as journalism."

The Intercept said it had no doubt that Greenwald would "launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon."

"In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks," the Intercept statement reads.

"We get it. But facts are facts and The Intercept record of fearless, rigorous, independent journalism speaks for itself."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/10/29/glenn-greenw...
> It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you

You're going to have to prove that. Your Android device doesn't send ALL your traffic to Google today. Using this would send ALL your traffic to Google. that 100% means it increases Google's ability to spy on you.
What is UXP, and how is it affected by GitHub's decision to use WebComponents in their frontend?
Well, most of the expenditures are going to pay employees that pay 24% (or probably 34% with state taxes added).
$14/month is on par with other popular media sites like Netflix and Spotify.

Facebook employees and shareholders also pay tax on money they take out of Facebook.
Gets even crazier when you subtract China's population from that because they can't access FB there!
Awesome project. Can you share which libraries you are using with this project?
Then they're doing it wrong and should be using a cookie blocker instead.
Beacause they just left?
I'm confused. If the product targets tech savvy customers, does Google not already know its reputation among the group?
You seriously think AWS or Google is going to shut down a private independent journalism website because of a Twitter storm? When has that happened in the past that makes it remotely possible?
Anyone doing/thinking about Rails in 2020 should give matestack a try :) reactive user interfaces in pure Ruby (and Vue.js under the hood!)

https://github.com/matestack/matestack-ui-core
You are incorrect.

The standing claim is that Hunter Biden’s emails do affirmatively show Joe Biden’s involvement in questionable or illegal activity.

The emails do not show that. This has been established by all major news outlets, even Fox News.

Therefore it is debunked.

Now, some totally separate other evidence may show something different. That is irrelevant. The claim is about what these emails affirmatively prove or corroborate. If someone were to say these emails suggest impropriety by Joe Biden, that claim is totally debunked.
Yep, and if you think about the lack of access to China's population, they are almost at like 1/2 of their "addressable" market!!
meanwhile, we are watching Trump's entire family profit from DTJ's presidency. Why doesn't Greenwald write a story about that? His article is basically, "well no one confirmed none of the deals happened! So there's still a chance!" Come on man, we're watching this unfold in real time in the current administration. Clean your own house.
You're just describing any software problem where things aren't static or you haven't yet mapped the domain. Storing the whole response in the database so that you aren't losing data is a good solution while you make your logic robust against the domain of values.

You run into this talking to an undocumented API for example. But notice that to "query it later", you still have to write/polish the rest of your logic to handle the actual data which is how you end up with a system that doesn't need to store every API response to disk. This isn't a web thing, it's any time you don't have a 100% handle on the interface between two systems.

Nothing to do with Rails, though. You were trying to create harder to change solutions based on a premature understanding of the values you were working with which caused churn in solutions (like DB columns) that are annoying to change frequently.

But in that situation, you as an engineer have to be able to step back and go "okay, what can I do to handle this at a more dynamic layer until I understand what I'm working with?"
And yet this product is being built by an advertising company who's business model revolves around tracking your online activities to sell you to advertisers, which makes me deeply suspicious that there isn't some way using this makes you more trackable (by them) than using a different VPN
I'm not sure if you're just trying to stir the pot, but it's included as TAC (traffic acquisition costs) and has clearly been reported every quarter for years.
The burden of proof is on you to prove that it is Russian disinfo, not to prove that it is not. No one has any proof that it is. And Greenwald lays out plenty of reasons in his article why the documents are likely real.
It says iOS, Windows, and Mac coming soon. Not ChromeOS though?
It probably differs in that you don't need to be on Fi, which is a pretty major difference.
Hey! Co-founder/CTO of Tara here.

We take privacy around your data very seriously. We're thinking about the ML training model as a "walled garden", ie recommendations are based on your past sprint activity, effort load, tasks completed during a sprint, etc. and are exclusive to your organization.

In the future, if we decided to do benchmarking (for eg quick recommendations on how companies in your industry are running sprints), we would have a double opt-in. This would mean anonymizing the data, and providing the recommendations an opt-in. Basically, very similar to how google's autocomplete email recommendations work.
Well, Earth has one big advantage for sending something back - the atmosphere! Free deceleration and semi automatic landing system (add parachutes & airbags as necessary)!

Just make sure to choose the right entry angle and speed, or else the locals won't like you. Either for burning op their packages or due to delivering them rather too directly to the surface at high speed.
Hell, that warning could be helpful even on signups to new sites: “This is your first time visiting this website. Only enter passwords on websites you trust, and don’t reuse passwords from other sites. We recommend you use this securely-generated password:”
It’s very scary that disinformation conspiracy theories affected them like that.

And I mean this absolutely sincerely, from the POV of open journalism, high priority for inquiry into our democratic process, freedom of the press.

The way the Hunter Biden email story has morphed into basically a manipulative, disinformation campaign to overwhelm citizens and undercut basic trust in journalistic integrity and election procedures is staggering and frightening - as this anecdote about your parents being swindled by it highlights.

It could be a no true scotsman issue on my part, or it could be that really, actually the story is completely debunked and belief in it indicates departure from credible journalism to instead embrace partisan conspiracy theories.

The evidence really, actually suggests the latter in this case.
Yes it is the first time the YouTube experience has become noticeably unusable for me.
As I wrote in another comment, his faith that the story is there, if only he can find it, is what makes a good investigative journalist, but in this case he wants to publish a story built around that faith and nothing else. What his editor wanted him to take out was his insinuation that other news outlets' failure to come up with corroborating evidence is evidence that they are protecting Joe Biden, despite the fact that he, just like them, is a high-profile professional journalist that has looked into the story and found nothing to corroborate it. On this topic, there is nothing that separates him from any other journalist except his desire to communicate, through his coverage of the same lack of evidence that they already reported, his confidence that the evidence exists.
150 years ago there were no cars, and no roads to speak of. Now I’m pretty sure every country on the planet has cars and roads.

Try and find a pay phone in 2020. In 1980 they were everywhere.

The human race cooperates via market mechanisms. Those need to adjust to reflect the costs of global warming.
I applaud your self-awareness untog. A good friend once told me

"Never read the comments"

Later expanded to:

"Never respond to the comments"
Parallels the dodgy wangling going on in Australia for the past decade or more.

"Pending" legislation to prevent money laundering via real estate has gathered dust in Canberra for well over a decade!

Lawyers, accountants and real estate agents are still exempted from reporting anything suspicious (including briefcases full of cash), providing an easy avenue for foreign buyers to launder funds through property.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/10/us-expert-slams-aus...

On the surface we are a western nation, but lift the covers and we are enabling money laundering into real estate, to the tune of billions and billions every year.

Real estate agents report unprecedented numbers of overseas’ buyers of residential and commercial property in Melbourne and Sydney paying cash…

An estimated 70 per cent of Chinese buyers pay in cash
I believe that vegans have made a strong point that humans can live reasonably well without any animal-derived foods and other materials, so a mass extinction of animals would not destroy our way of life.

The same goes for pollinators - while there are many commercially important plants that rely on pollinators (e.g. almonds as one of main exports of California), the staple crops that feed humanity - wheat, rice, corn, potatoes - do not require pollinators and would be viable even if all insects died.

So even the horrible ecological disaster scenarios threaten human wellbeing and comfort, but they don't really threaten the existence of humanity; fucking up our ecosystem would be a great cultural loss but industrialized farming could still march on.
One way we've tried to fix this is with our slack integration. Using the task URL, or ID, the integration quickly unfurls context in the task (showing story info) and allows quick actions. Same process with requirements/epics.

URL unfurling was shipped today with the slack app, and quick actions are coming in a few weeks.
Just re-release the 2015 MacBook Pro as MacBook Classic.

Classic Keyboard ( Scissors, with decent Key Travel ), Classic MagSafe, Classic "Sane" Sized TrackPad ( so you dont get as much or zero false positives ), SD Card, HDMI.

Change the USB port to USB-C and upgrade the CPU. That's it. Dont touch anything else.
Google recently opened up a full 130nm ASIC design platform, including core cells, tools, etc... Google it, can't remember the name right now. They've even committed to manufacturing silicon for free for a few select open source / open hardware projects. I guess that's going to turn into some kind of low-cost shuttle in the near future. That's probably the biggest movement towards democratizing ASIC design the way that JLCPCB and others have democratized PCB manufacturing (and assembly, as you mention, although with a quite restricted selection of available parts). Kicad democratized PCB design and it's being successfully used for many projects these days.
Why stop there though? Mine is configured to be ESC when tapped, CTRL when held down. Took a while to get used to, but it's a big improvement compared to other ways of handling ESC on a 60% keyboard.
Just because it's clear, straightforward, and polite doesn't mean that it is right or we should uncritically accept it.

As an example, I've read many "clear, straightforward, and polite" illegal eviction letters sent by landlords in the past few months.
Similar here, but... considering new iMac in next few months, because the covid stuff has meant... I'm not nearly as mobile as I used to be. 2019 MBP will keep me going for mobility needs in the next couple years, but a desktop will give me somewhat better processing speeds for some tasks (some video, some data crunching).
Like I said, genetic variation.
I was always a fan of wall mounted PCs (As someone who doesn't have kids, pets, or other forces of nature in my house).

Do any manufacturers make wall mount PC "cases"?
Your personal email may be retained indefinitely.

Corporate email (and IM, etc) gets purged pretty quickly, within 2-3 years, unless you save a particular message / thread explicitly.
No, the problem was more you were dancing to the tune of someone else's fiddle. It's always boring having to slice, dice and store someone else's JSON data from an API.

As others have noted, maybe you should have just stored that data in a JSON column, but it depends on the app. Making it relational can be useful if you're going to be running reports, etc. on it.
I would posit that for normal run-of-the-mill communications, anonymity is overrated. What is this edge case of politically sensitive communications that you think is at risk?
The McDonald's Cocaine Spoon Fiasco
I pay $3/month for NordVPN, but many IPs are blocked from making Google searches. I wonder if this will be compatible with Puppeteer/Playwright
Which by itself is almost more effort than it is worth...

Take it further instead, just give me the option to rent a single episode/movie.
There are Risc-V chips in the Google Pixel phones in the image processing core, see notes here https://techroose.com/tech/riscvWorkshop.html

There are probably lots more, but lots are not documented.
Thanks, one of the great things about creating a program where other people can create things is seeing them inventing things you wouldn't even think of, it's so open ended. Alan Turing and those other guys had no clue what we would do with his idea. I'm looking forward to see what people will make with this. (Not that I'm comparing myself to Alan Turing!)
The Flutter Multi-Platform Ecosystem with Chris Sells
The Dart Developer Show podcast recently welcomed Chris Sells from the Google Flutter team to talk about some interesting topics including lessons learned from building UI technologies, the evolution of software engineering, new features in Flutter, Flutter Desktop, Flutter Web and working on open source projects.

Use the timestamps below to jump to any topic that interests you:

01:25 -- Chris’ background and work at Google
05:41 -- Challenges and trade-offs in building a UI toolkit
13:29 -- Flutter’s approach to multi-platform support - how it avoids common pitfalls
19:20 -- Navigator 1.0 vs Navigator 2.0
28:15 -- Flutter Desktop for Windows - getting to alpha and what’s left to do for a full 1.0 release
41:15 -- Flutter Web - unique challenges of targeting the web and how the team is approaching this.
47:10 -- Building Flutter as an open source project
51:25 -- Chris’ publications and approach to writing
56:11 -- Final thoughts and advice
FWIIW it appears that UPS located the mail.
Tucker Carlson is a professional entertainer. Why are you mentioning him in a discussion of journalism?
Our ancestors practiced slash-and-burn agriculture. A boreal forest that burns down in a wildfire should result in reasonably fertile land.
Read their whitepaper: https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/whi...

Client source code: https://github.com/google/vpn-libraries

What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far.

I wonder how they'll deal with abuse.
That isn't the rationale that the editors used to make copy suggestions - that's the rationale that Greenwald is projecting onto them. I suggest reading the email thread he posted on his blog - it does not make him look very good.
> Two movies on one screen.

It reminds me of Shiri's Scissors: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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If they have no influence, why bother censoring some information?

Which is it?
I also wonder if advertisers get value.

Have I been influenced to spend an additional $160? I’m highly doubtful but who knows!
So the content creator has decided to insert their own ad inside their content resulting in a worse user experience (since you seem to be complaining about it). Should Youtube ban in-content third-party ads?
I mean, there is a growing consensus that corporations need to pay more taxes, yes. I don't know if the public generally "vilifies anyone who understands taxes". Some certainly do. But I would point out that those two things are separate and distinct from one another.

I think there are greater obstacles for the collective of ordinary people being able to effectively change the law than reading comprehension, and one of those things is the nearly limitless capacity of large corporations to lobby government. The more they lobby, the less they pay, the more they earn, the more they lobby, the less they pay, the more they earn, the more they lobby, the less they pay, the more they earn.

You could add into that cycle "...the less money is available to fund the government, the less money is available for education, the dumber the people get, the less capable they become at managing their own government, etc...". Never minding of course that schools are largely funded by property taxes (stupid IMO), it still affects the overall availability of public funding.

Corporations should pay more because the tax code should be written to require it, not out of dumbness or virtuousness. The cycle of wealth inequality must be broken, and it's not a simple thing to actually implement a solution.
What the article doesn't address is that these same organizations fingerprint visitors phones [i] too.

From a retailer's point-of-view I totally get the rational and value behind collecting these metrics... from a privacy point-of-view it is a bit disconcerting.

[i] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cadillac-fairview-mal...
Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers
You were talking about Kids in your comment, Doomers I guess you said. So by serious people I mean not that.

"The world would end by 2030", like obviously there is no way this can be true. No matter what happens the world will not end in a biblical sense.

"People made predictions and were wrong in the past" is a great point.

Why should you believe you should act or that you can and do something about it? I don't know great question! I'm sure someone has explored the morality of avoiding the worst case scenario caused by human induced climate change.
You could have cached the entire API response in a field for a given record (or their own table) from the beginning. Then you could reprocess it if you had to change the schema, assuming Apple didn't change the response on their end in the interim.

Schema changes are normal in web applications, yes.
Unsurprising though after the duel crises of their deficiencies reporting on the Bush administration and then Trump. People often attempt to correct the wrong problem, like having a kid to save a marriage.
When I was dealing with large excel spreadsheets, having a large enough surface was a 2x speed increase. No scrolling..
I think Greenwald is probably right regarding his accusations in the email, but I agree that they weren't necessary to include, at least so early in the discussion process. He did seem to react unnecessarily harshly, before his email even received a reply.

As you say, he was the one who first began displaying the unprofessional behavior. He probably should have just sent like half of his follow-up email (the citations of the email compared to the article) and given them a chance to reply. But I also understand why he felt he was being unduly pressured and why staying there wouldn't have been wise for him.
Thanks for engaging with me friend - I promise to reply but this will take a bit of time. Unfortunately, I have to step out.

I promise to write a proper reply and don’t want you to take my silence as a sign of disrespect. It’s been fun engaging with you and I appreciate your brain - I’ll edit this comment when I get back.

Seriously thanks, this has been a lot of fun!! :)

Edit - Hey friends, meowface genuinely doesn’t deserve those downvoted. They are smart - I don’t agree with them, but they’ve made some strong points in excellent ways.
Sure, but it is difficult for everyone to work on the same tree if they can't communicate over a given web endpoint.

At minimum, a mailing list allows you to coordinate shifts to a new repository location, which might be hard if all of your communication was via GitHub.
You can roll this yourself with Cells (https://github.com/trailblazer/cells) and Stimulus Reflex (https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/). I've been watching view_component too but the simplicity of cells keeps me happy.

I've been working full time using both and love the flexibility. My process is mostly using state machines on cells which take in a struct and output the html for that state with Stimulus Reflex.