skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple One services bundle launches tomorrow
Do you offer SSO auth like Okta integration?
We’ve come full circle sadly. YouTube TV raised fares with more channels I don’t watch or want. Netflix increases rates and further creates walled garden.

Everyone wanting to cut the cord isn’t better off then we were 5 years ago.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about ways to get spices from the East for cheaper. That sucks" - Some pundit from the 1500s.

There is nothing inherently wrong with talented, ambitious people chasing opportunities where there is the greatest profit. A lot of discoveries can be made in that pursuit that benefit other domains.

This is a similar parallel to how space exploration led to discoveries that were used in other domains.
Look at all the knowledge we as a society have acquired about making secure, reliable digital products due to engineers trying to make Google ads get more eyeballs (not to mention products like Google Translate, Google Maps, etc).
the biden article

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
I'm hoping that we keep, at least in winter, the habit of mask wearing when in crowded places.

Just because colds and flu aren't likely to hospitalize me or cause any lasting damage doesn't mean I don't mind getting them. They still suck.
This is how I do it now, sign up and then insta cancel.

That way I know the timeline and plan to watch accordingly, and then when it comes up expired on login I decide to resubscribe or try another one. Can only watch a few things concurrently anyway!
It's more likely that Greenwalds colleagues are a better judge
> Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell.

Not quite complete. They're also interested in being influential:

https://www.revolver.news/2020/10/free-market-vs-marketplace...

A story about the former VP in various pay-to-play schemes, using his son as a cutout. (Not to mention about his son producing copious amounts of kompromat — including extremely illegal activity — for the CCP) would be great for clicks.

Yet everyone is hiding the story. Why? journalistic integrity? No, try again...
Greenwald is supposedly an investigative journalist, not a columnist.
I think everyone's talking past each other. QAnon, "the Deep State", Snowden, Hunter Biden's emails, Twitter's censorship, and the media's non-reporting are all barely related, here. Let's maybe talk about things on a case-by-case, factual basis.
Excellent. His more recent delusional ranting really harmed the reputation of The Intercept.
> In the long long term, isn't it reasonable to assume that Earth may end up losing mass due to space launches?

Earth masses 6e24 kg. SpaceX Starship can carry 1e5 kg. Suppose a MILLION fully loaded Starships launched EVERY SECOND, starting now.

It would take 20000 years of that for earth to lose 1% of its mass.
Seems long overdue given the value that most users are getting from Netflix plus the relative inability for most traditional Hollywood studios to produce films at previous rates for the foreseeable future.
Depends a lot on the stage, right? If you dont have a product, 10k is enough to build one in most cases. And it's pretty early stage
It has protein and it's not greasy/salty. Like a protein bar except easier to consume and doesn't require a separate drink (bars are usually super dry for me).

A soylent is a couple dollars, whereas bad restaurant food at a crowded event is easily $15 plus 20 minutes of waiting.

I guess I don't see a big problem here? What's an alternative that's better?
If the entire issue boils down to the fact that left-leaning media outlets have finally dropped-down to the same dishonerable level as the right-leaning media outlets, and stooped to supressing anything that doesn't jibe with the world view/propaganda that they respectively push, then what's the problem -- seems like the playing field just got a little more even for everyone.
Do you have a good example of removing the profit/investment motive and the result being enough housing for everyone?
There we go. A journalist is supposed to follow the facts wherever they go -- even if it reveals something they're uncomfortable with. They build a reputation by researching and checking their stories, and not running stories unless the facts hold up.

Greenwald made his name with quality investigative journalism. It sounds like he has fallen from this standard by trying to run a story with dubious political talking points and pass it off as factual news. We have a term for people like this: tabloid writers or opinion commentators. This is a sad decline to see.

He's free to do whatever he likes in his own name -- and it sounds like this is the path he has chosen.
>>We can change Mars in large ways.

>No we can't. The gravity of Mars is always going to be a >problem. The lack of magnetic field is always going to be a >problem. Most of its atmosphere was lost to space and there >is not enough water on the planet to replenish.

Nothing a world house could not fix:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51f7d32f54b72

Bonus point - it can be built incrementally, so you get immediate results instead of waiting for generations of effort to get anything back as with planet wide terraforming!
Let's talk about the iPhone 12 and its unrepairable camera
Many people seem to be snarkily pointing out that OP's web server is down due to HN traffic, and that somehow makes it worse than a web forum like Reddit that has better uptime.

I think y'all are missing part of the point. If I host my own content, I get to decide on its availability. If there's a problem or an outage, I can fix it. If I don't want it up anymore, I can take it down. If I want to keep it up forever, I can do that.

If I post to someone else's web forum, I have little control over what happens to that content. I'm at the whim of the site admins as to its availability.
this! Having a distributed architecture or business model does almost nothing in guaranteeing the sustainability of your content (and let's be honest, how often do we go back and look at something we wrote 3+ years ago?)

it takes engineering effort, time, money, and reason to keep any system running for a prolonged period of time, centralized or other.
And this is proven by the countless won lawsuits against said media organisations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_...
Is this stated anywhere in the article? Or is it just assumed? I'm not seeing anything in the article that indicates this.
Hmm, dividends are about 1/4th of what they were last quarter ($0.205/share vs. $0.82/share: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-reports-third-q... )

EDIT: duh
One would hope, that's one of Jiras best features, even if Atlassian clearly doesn't agree.

I get why they want to compare Tara to Jira, but when you look at what companies actually do with Jira, then you'll hit a wall rather quickly with pretty much everything else.

Like them or not, Atlassians product integrate rather well, and you can "easily" customize them to integrate into pretty much everything else. We have Jira integrated into pretty much everything from monitoring to invoicing.

You can also customize the snot of internal workflows in Jira, per project basis. Even to the point where nothing makes sense any more.

Finding a replacement is hard, but relevant given the latest pricing changes from Atlassian. That and their idiotic prioritisation of their cloud offering. Oh yeah, and no Atlassian product has a functional search feature.
Cognito?
The response from The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
I interpret it as "we will somehow monetize your data and train our AI model on your activities"
I do have a NNTP server set up, and I use some Usenet newsgroups too. I recommend using this. Note that this does not preclude the possibility to have a web interface too, although they should contain text (visible in any browser, including Lynx) which specifies the NNTP service, so that you may use that if you prefer to do.

Someone else also mentioned private blogs that are exposed both as NNTP and as HTTP(S)/HTML, and this would also be good; if you are doing a blog, you could reject articles without a References header (which must reference a blog post) unless you wrote them by yourself (the articles without a References header are the blog posts, while those with a References header are the comments).

A subset of Markdown (without HTML, and maybe a few other things also removed) could be used if wanted, as long as it has a MIME type defined (so that you can identify NNTP articles which use it vs those which don't), and is perfectly readable without a Markdown parser.

I thought of making up a URI scheme for referencing Usenet/Unusenet articles. They mandatorily include the message ID, and optionally include server name, timestamp, newsgroup name(s), and/or hash. (This is better than using Google URLs.)

I would also suggest perhaps even with the Hacker News, to add a NNTP interface (or an extension to a NNTP client; at least for my "bystand" NNTP client software, protocol extensions are implemented as programs that communicate NNTP on stdin/stdout, and possibly those writing other NNTP clients might want to implement it too).
Down in afterhours trading (still not guidance for next quarter).
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>"But it is a bit weird that here we are again, on the cusp of another trump presidency, and Greenwald swoops in to Trump's aid, again. Not sure how I feel about it.But it is a bit weird that here we are again, on the cusp of another trump presidency, and Greenwald swoops in to Trump's aid, again. Not sure how I feel about it."

He does not owe it to anyone to support/be against any particular candidate. His task is to report. And if someone is inconvenienced by the truth it is their problem.
How come that people still take accusations of "conspiracy theorist" seriously, when so many have proven to be true (e.g. "NSA is spying on everybody" and "elite rich people pedophile ring")??
You can also play factorio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24&t=145s
> I assume people will look back on our current situation as akin to drinking from lead cups.

Yeah, but it's got electrolytes
It's (together with the next sentence) a figure of speech. The technical solution might well be 2000 lines of Javascript, but it's the means, not the need.
Well, thank you for that info, I'll definitely check both books out. Incidentally, I've nothing against popular accounts so long as they're not trivial or trite, I look forward to reading Becker. Moreover, I've often found that well written popular accounts not only tackle the subject matter from a different perspective to textbooks but also they can provide useful information that's not commonly available elsewhere. On several occasions I've had eureka moments reading such books long after I'd finished with the textbooks. Here, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind comes to mind.

Also, I've ever so briefly checked the web link, I see there's hours of material there.
He definitely needs a copy editor. Some of those sentences are clumsy af.
Stock split.
and now if 1password would only go back to the non-cloud based SaaS subscription version and put the client side "user syncs however they want" version as a first class citizen
Submitting your password to a site isn't the only concern. Downloading executables, for example.
Its the difference between a history book with the tone of "then the evil nazis who were the spawn of satan did this and caused suffering because they're evil nazis"

as opposed to

"then the nazis did this and caused a significant degree of suffering widely regarded in the forthcoming decades as among if not the most evil acts ever committed"

The difference is taking things personally, as opposed to a third person observational perspective. Both may come to the same conclusion, but one is hoping you'll be convinced while the other just represents what is known about the reality in question, letting the meaning of it speak for itself. There is even inclusion of opinion, but not personally taken, just noted as occurring.
Subscriber growth has stalled. So they increase the rates on existing customers.
The value I got from netflix cratered after every network started their own exclusive paid service.
The stock split https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-things-to-know-about-app...
How does increasing rates further create a walled garden?
> You don't sound like you've had much experience with these variations and their impacts.

Lol... I have had tons. In more than one language. My point was, that despite your best efforts, you will still offend someone eventually and that that's the point at which you can't take responsibility for how they feel.

For a time I did competitive speech and one of the precepts I operated on (and still do to this day) is "know your audience". It's always beneficial to frame your message to the intended recipients.

But what happens when an unintended recipient receives it?

Or, due to local differences (and this specifically happened to me), the use of a word was received differently than you intended - than it was elsewhere in the same language?

There's only so much control you have. Thus, what you truly control is your intentions, and people must make an effort to expect you are acting in good faith. So much of good communication simply comes down to that simple point. An expectation of good faith.

I expect that in the modern world this is where much of the breakdown in communication is coming from, really: everyone seems to be expecting "HAHA GOTCHA!" rather than a good faith conversation, and more worryingly, are more recently probably right.
Jira is a project management tool? I think that one of the only things we don't use it for.
That is a worrying characterization, I hope you reconsider.
Awfull article. There might have been a nuanced point in there if it wasn't infested with politics beyond the scope of the article. To talk about Trump and his plans for NASA are relevant, so are the effects of severe technological progress on our daily lives. Yet to then reference Trumps relationship with the media and to claim he has destroyed trust in american insitutions and link an article about how "This has led to a wholly new and different, but still very real, wave of destruction [reffering to coronavirus misinformation]." is so completely sidestepping any usefull discussion about space exploration. (Yes, there are also references to Nazi's)

nonetheless I feel like pointing out some actual claims.

"Indeed, the idea that technological developments will solve all of our problems —eventually allowing us to leave Earth — is instrumental to political mobilization on behalf of the powers that be. It [the idea of technological developments] helps to perpetuate the current socio-economic system that is designed for the one percent to stay in power and the working class to stay working."

Technological developments have been awfull at 'keeping the 1% in power'. If technological developments truly made sure that 'the 1%' would stay in power then Bill gates as an example wouldn't have been able to go from his 'working class' status to the top 0.0001% using technological developments. The author's statement couldn't be further from the truth, unless you are of the opinion that the 1% ought to be so immoral that they dont deserve to exist in the new world of technology.

"the wealth divide between the global billionaires and the bottom half of humanity is steadily growing"
When has this NOT been the case? If I manage to aquire any wealth or influence in this world I would give it to those I know that deserve it. This probaly means someone close to me rather than an unknown person who might have needed it more. If parents want anything it is to give their kids the best oppertunities to prosper. What more could you ask for than a millionaire willing to pay a piano teacher for their kid?
Basically the same that I'm doing. If I am in the middle of something in one, I'll just renew it.

Works really well. Usually by the time you go back to the first service, there are some pretty interesting new things that might slip by if you just kept that one.
So do you use new email every time you re-subscribe or use the same email? This trick can also be used for free-trial services but that definitely needs new email address.
> Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents, especially digital documents, have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.

And who are those folks? Liberal media? Didn't they publish that embarrassingly fake accusation against Brett Kavanaugh that he gang-raped Julie Swetnick? Didn't they claim mutliple times to find "decisive proof" that Trump (himself) colluded with Russians, only to be humiliated again by Mueller report?

It seems that the media's standard for "verification of authenticity" depends a lot on who, or what party is getting accused.
The slides provided are also very quick to read, providing visual graphs of growth in many areas by catagory: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3...

3.21 billion monthly active users across their products, insane!
the education takes work and they are raised to believe they will be rewarded for it. "fancy education" isn't something useless. read the article. there are 25000+ layers formed every year who can't find a job. lawyers do important jobs it's just there aren't enough jobs for them. there are too many humanity majors too. stem people think they are superior but they also are part of this overproduuced elites. more and more people are educated in stem and soon the demand for them will saturate and their salaries will drop. there is just no control over universities and no planning for the future they let too many people in and the economy can't absorb them. "useless" humanity majors in the past would have gotten jobs teaching or doing research but there's too many of them. society is paying the price
I'm much better off. I can take my subscriptions with me, wherever I go. I can subscribe for a month at a time. I can cancel online. I can share subscriptions.
YouTube brings in $5B in ad revenue as Alphabet and Google bounce back
My youtube experience has consisted of about 50% political ads for a while now - would be interesting to see some insights into their total share of the pie.
Except we have fewer advertisements interrupting shows.
tl;dw You apparently cannot replace the camera on the iPhone 12 without going through Apple.
That sounds right, since Apple just completed a four-for-one stock split: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-things-to-know-about-app...
Performance, I work in a B2B company that helps small business management. Because of this nature of the clients, sometimes they will have old machines, and they don't feel the need to upgrade them. Our software must run even in a old Pentium 2GB machine, we only can do this with native development.
In the following example, the text is bound to the text of a line edit:
https://www.sixtyfps.io/editor/?snippet=import+%7B+LineEdit+...

Is that the kind of example you were looking for?
Isn’t this because they did a stock split type of thing recently?
Yes, if you have the right connections, which almost all these investors have, it's no biggie to move money out of China.

There are a few ten thousand Chinese investors with U.S. projects that wish this were still true, so if you have a method for doing this, you should let them know immediately because you will become an extremely wealthy individual (if it works).

But it hasn't been since 2017, when they cracked down on the use of surrogates to move money out of China. (China first cracked down on direct transfers in 2014/2015. I had a number of clients at the time that were directly effected by these measures.)
Netflix's current trajectory makes me sad.

It reminds me of cable TV now: cheaply produced shlock, with less and less premium TV.

The last thing I watched that was truly wonderful on Netflix was Mindhunter -- which I heard was canceled by Netflix because it's too expensive.

Meanwhile there's a dozen or more new "reality TV" knock offs seemingly every week.

We've switched most of our viewing to HBO now -- it has a lot of fantastic content, like Raised by Wolves, Lovecraft Country, His Dark Materials, Chernobyl, etc. And they actually stand behind their product because they believe in it -- they aren't constantly pulling the rug out from under their viewers like Netflix does.
Most revenue doesn't include any of the new iPhone 12 phones - there was a miss on iPhone revenue which can be explained by people waiting for the new phone release.

Mac Sales absolutely crushed the number, by an almost 3B beat (9B vs 6B). That is HUGE.

Apple is going to have a phenomenal next quarter.
If this is a conspiracy then surely the Biden family started a lawsuit against Newyork Post, right? Easy money.
The Mueller report did no such thing.
Cloud and ad spending lift earnings at Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook
> The only thing we have to lose is privacy for domain owners.

This is a huge downside. Anonymous publishing is a very important right.
NASA’s Osiris-Rex Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu
TL;DR Apple kills it again with record revenue as well as all-time quarterly records for Services and Mac revenue:

Revenue: 64.7B

Profit: 12.7B
Maybe AT&T or someone could make a service where they take a bunch of different entertainment providers and bundle them all together.
I share various streaming and news subscriptions with a small network of friends and family. I pay for 7 services myself and have access to 5 others. (5 television, 3 music, 3 news, 1 podcast)

The messed up part is, that's still only a sampling of the services that are out there! But most of the remaining are regional newspapers and niche streaming video services.
In the New York Time's original investigations into the defenses of Joe Biden, they noted that "other Western nations and international lenders" long also were critics Ukrainian prosecutor-general. Why is that? Are they suggesting that Biden simply used their longstanding criticism as a cover for his questionable activity?
Good strategy, why would you pay separately for Prime Video when it comes with Prime in general?
> Mac Sales absolutely crushed the number, by an almost 3B beat (9B vs 6B). That is HUGE.

I'm eagerly waiting to be an early adopter on their non-Intel laptops as soon as they come out as well. I'm sure I'm not alone.
A password manager helps simply because it "remembers" exactly what sites you've been to in the past and if you go to a different site with a same looking url it won't auto-fill.

Well, your browser also has a history of all the sites you've been to in the past, and people tend not to go to a lot of random sites. It would be pretty simple to display something when you go to a site you've never been to before. Just an unobtrusive, but not too unobtrusive, "this is your first visit to this site.". So when you see that on googie.com you might double check where you are. If the site url is similar to one you've been to in the past it could even say "Did you mean to go to one of these sites with similar looking names?...."

I'm not sure what the deal is with shilling for a vpn, or how that helps. It doesn't.
Apart from a few notable exceptions (like The Queen's Gambit), there is an enormous difference in quality between Netflix and Hollywood productions. Netflix redefined the meaning of 'pulp'.
Because it's easy to fix, but the effort is not _zero_

Also, people may not realize this is a problem until it actually becomes a problem. In the mean time they will be happily rendering stuff on every page load, after fetching (static!) data from mysql on every single request.
Sounds like a good way to get people to cancel and create a downward spiral. I feel like Netflix just recently raised rates. Maybe it was a year ago but feels like yesterday.