skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how you're buying these packages? Is this traded directly with the site instead of a DSP? Also it seems like you're in the UK, is that right? Aren't the privacy laws having a major effect on the programmatic market there?

I covered it in other comments but yes, SO could start their own self-serve ads like Reddit (since they both use adzerk). The problem with that ends up being lower quality ads and the inevitable support costs, and the fact that they don't have unique formats other than banners. Reddit, Quora, Pinterest, and others have custom formats but it's definitely something they can pursue.
1. @YouTube bans @Pinterest investigation
2. @Twitter suspends Veritas for Pinterest story
3. @reddit bans Project Veritas
4. @YouTube bans @Google investigation
5. @Vimeo removes Project Veritas account

DO THINK BIG TECH IS WORKING TOGETHER?
I have a collection of over 1000 faved tweets that's one of my favorite possessions. I noticed that one would occasionally get deleted by the author so I wrote a script to screenshot them all with a Python package called Splinter.
I don't understand your comment. So was your friends book not DRM'd or how could people share it illegally?
Perhaps he should publish his next book in dead-tree format.
I've had an X, 6S, SE, and Pixel 3a. Used the X/6S/3A for 13 days, 7 months, and 13 days, respectively. Each time I went back to the SE because I didn't think the size was worth the inconvenience while walking/running/using public transit/laying in bed/etc. And this even though each of those devices has nicer specs, a better quality screen, better vibration motor, much better camera, etc... those pros just weren't worth the huge con that is the unwieldy size (to me).

So at this point I'm just going to say that not everyone likes the larger size even if they give it a solid try and it comes with other benefits. This applies to other things too: even if a great sandwich is cheaper and more filling than a good salad, some people prefer the salad. Some people like smaller, more spread-out cities where they can drive everywhere; other prefer living in a closet-sized space just so they can walk everywhere. Some people like sedans, others like trucks. Some people like Great Danes, others like Corgis.

I just wish smartphone manufacturers would make corgis again.
It's short for "Schicklgruber Jugend Weiblich"
Google pays a large amount to be default search engine.
Apparently one of the Twitch streamers I sometimes watch had it do that to her just the other day whilst testing out her own site's reCAPTCHA-protected form: https://clips.twitch.tv/BitterTentativeRamenChefFrank
Very possibly, yes. The original modern libraries in the west were effectively subscription libraries, as in, they weren’t free to use, you had to pay to become a member. It was only later that they were run by the government. That said, there is a vast gulf between them and a little box people put outside their homes with some books inside.

Further reading: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Yes. Your point? It’s actually ridiculously easy to be compliant with GDPR.

Edit: That is, ridiculously easy for new companies. Incumbents have been hoarding data for too long and it was actually harder for existing companies to become compliant.
Im curious about the study that shows the causation of lowered compassion with higher income?
Finally someone that understands the difference.
As I understand it, the number of copies is enforced using DRM (which isn’t the best, of course), but the books are free and there’s usually a pretty wide selection.
Yes, lack of funding plus poor planning. In my town it seems that every time a road is newly paved, 2 months later they're tearing it up to do some utility work, then after a single winter season it's back to how it was with potholes everywhere.
I welcomed our new robot overlords at Amazon’s first AI conference
I agree, but search “HN levels.fyi” to understand that we’re in the minority on that.
I guess with such a name OP's site won't find customers in Poland... :^)
A launch system can be stationary and larger, so can build a mass driver (big coil gun) instead of a railgun.
"and you will receive a full refund of the original purchase price."

Seems fair enough to me.
To me, it's not entirely clear why we're bothering. Do we actually envision shore bombardment as a useful combat modality going forward? IIRC the types of ships that can mount this weapon are the same types that are currently vulnerable to hypersonic anti-ship missiles. All our potential equiv-tech adversaries have those, to my understanding. So wouldn't the railgun only be useful against lower tech opponents? And against such opponents, does it fill a substantial gap where we don't already have sufficient other tools?
Chap-hop star Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer, wrote "Hip-Hop Was To Blame, After All", specifically addressing this attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkES4anCYOw
I'm so shocked about this, my Iphone almost slipped out of my hands while I googled the Microsoft ebook store, but then I asked Alexa and she said everything will be ok. My Tesla is now driving me to an analogue bookshop to show my full support against dependence on digital platforms over my daily life, I might even upload a protest video to Youtube.
Ask HN: Is there a payment processor for 5ct payments?
I think we need a platform where you would load 10$ on your account with a payment method of your choice, and then have the ability to pay tiny amounts of money with virtually no fees.
You could set it to give 5ct to the creator of every YouTube video you watch. Pay 20ct for that game micro transaction. Pay 5ct to send a private message to an unknown person in a social network..
Fraud prevention would be done upstream by the providers letting you load your account.
I'm aware there's a critical mass challenge, but except for that, why doesn't this already exist? You could put a tiny paywall on things, that'd be so low that free users might consider paying for it
No, you bring back all the disadvantages I list - perhaps on a smaller scale but they still exist. You are still forcing all your buses to put part of their time on a pre-defined route. Maybe you can say we will always use this central station and put wires for a few blocks around it - but after that your buses should be spreading out in different directions. This isn't enough to get a significant charge.

It is an idea that seems sound, but fails because of reality.
Every time phones, OSes and websites update, I watch my parents struggling to deal with all the UI changes and I keep thinking I am going to be there one day.

Maybe this is the solution to all the unending changes. In Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, there is an old man who wakes up in the future and is struggling to use the latest interfaces. So the comp just overlays the old Windows 95(?) interface that he is happy and familiar with.
ESET NOD 32 does not like this site. Sorry.
Penguin Random House charges libraries $35, $45, or $55 for each "copy" and then expires them after two years. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/l... Hachette also expires their e-books after 2 years. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/l... See also the drama about "Controlled Digital Lending", where a library makes their own scan of a book and lends it out.
I've been dying to get in but can't get an invite. If anyone has a spare, I would really appreciate it.
Does anyone suffer from degrading image/video quality on some websites while using Firefox Android? I have this issue with Facebook. I don't want the Facebook app installed on my phone (mostly to block notifications and for privacy reasons) so I access FB via Firefox but images look terrible and every video I click opens in a separate tab instead of in-page (at least I can download it tho).

Only solution I have is using user-agent switcher to change my UA to either Chrome or Firefox for iOS (which is what I picked to keep Firefox in my UA) but this breaks other stuff on some websites.

Question is, how to get Facebook and other sites to stop serving shit quality to Firefox users? How is this fair?
Wouldn't the small sharing libraries also be at risk under a system with more power held by copyright owners?
Don't. It's a proof that the comment section is awesome!
I was over-sensitive. Dancing with highly refined trolls on other platforms does that to a person.
I intentionally get a few wrong (to subvert their harvesting of manually labeled training data).

It still either lets me through, or doesn’t even manage to display images for me to click on because it doesn’t like my browser settings. (The latter is more common than the former these days...)

I wonder how much legitimate traffic bounces because of reCaptcha. Can sites even measure this?
Sorry, I'm worried about getting a bad rep with Superhuman if I refer low quality users, and you have a day old account :(

I think I'll refer only above 500 HN karma. And I'm honestly sorry, I really don't mean to be elitist or anything.
Having seen some of the contracts -- there are publishers which sell them with a lifetime measured in reads, and others with a lifetime measured in years (and you buy N copies), and a very very few who don't impose a lifetime.

In all cases the author gets paid through whatever royalty arrangements they made with the publisher -- but that might contain a lower or zero payment for library and/or educational purchases.
I think mine also allows you to watch movies online, but I never tried it yet.
But you'll be constrained to the old spare books of that particular community.
Public libraries have a much broader selection, and they also buy new books.

Also I'm not sure they'd actually come into existence everywhere, even if the internet is a poor substitute for a library it is cheaper and may be enough for many.
Amateur railgun builders comment about the projectiles welding themselves to the rails; that certainly doesn’t happen in a coilgun. I think there’s also a big problem with supplying extremely high currents, which you can circumvent a bit in a coilgun by having more turns of wire.
Propellers have a fundamental speed limit on them, the tips can not exceed the speed of sound or else shock waves form which cause the efficiency to drop off sharply, as well as creating massive noise pollution from the sonic boom constantly coming off the propeller. Todays commercial "jet" engines are actually closer related to propeller planes than pure jets, turbofans provide the majority of their thrust from the ducted fan rather than the jet exhaust coming out the back.
Easy to draw conclusions, right? I wouldn't be so negative without any evidence.
Is readable = TRUE?

Book working = TRUE

Next
This "guy" has been an integral part of the Dribbble community for as long as I can remember, churning out and sharing absolutely incredible work. Just look at his portfolio. Front page material, literally created a new style trend with his desaturated low-poly mini scenes.

Dribbble got from him being a member far more than he got from being on Dribbble. If there's someone who full on deserves the right to criticize the site, that'd be him.

CEO picked a personal fight with one of most visible and respected members. He should've not. It was indeed _petty_.
Because, frankly, your article rambled and lacked a coherent point.
ftps not an option? Just too much less convenient (more set-up) than sftp, I'm guessing? I've not had great experience with WebDAV but maybe it's just the implementations I've used.
You probably only obtain a license to read a book and don't actually own it, similar to streaming movies & music.
Why is no one developing coilguns? I've been wondering.
What's made you migrate away from discord? I grew up on phpBB and IRC, but I've been using discord almost exclusively for all my social media needs. The seamless integration across desktop/mobile, the quick switcher, easy filesharing and the powerful search functionality seem like killer differentiators vs the oldschool way.
Tried it out, but got "Error: could not handle the request"

Wish I knew more. I don't think it's the HN Hug of Death™ because I was able to get it to complain about my malformed JSON earlier (since fixed).
We have those big vehicles due to regulation. The CAFE regulations for fuel economy take into account the vehicle's weight and the area on the pavement contained within the tires.

Without that regulation, station wagons would still be viable in the US market, and Ford wouldn't have discontinued nearly all cars.
I got it from a private tracker but it looks like you can find it on libgen fiction too [0]. The 1.7Mb epub one is the one I got.

[0] http://gen.lib.rus.ec/fiction/?q=A+Fire+Upon+the+Deep
> If you're being offered a licensing opportunity, it should have to be marketed as such. Yes, this would confuse consumers.

idk, spotify et al seem to be doing alright...
I'm not sure what the link is meant to show, but "cookies on the page" is very different than the years worth of user history and cookies that GP mentioned.
> It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.

Wouldn't be surprised if this isn't already happening in the Middle East, the unregulated and far away land we like to test all of the West's/Israel's new toys in.
It's why I only buy games from Gog now. I just install the .exe and it works. I no longer tolerate DRM.
Nope. Not even a little bit. The Right to Erasure is way overblown.

Even in situations where a data subject can request it (which isn't all of them), a Controller can choose not to delete any data where they have an Overriding Legitimate Interest. That's legalese for "a pretty good reason," as long as the privacy interests of the data subject are taken into account. Fraud detection is explicitly listed as an example of Overriding Legitimate Interest.

I'm not aware of any court action confirming this, but the general sentiment is that "altering back-ups is a terrible idea" is a valid Overriding Legitimate Interest, so long as you make sure that you can re-erase the data subject's data after restoring from back-up. The data subject's privacy interests are generally satisfied because the back-ups are not used for processing.

Other considerations like data minimization still apply, so even if you have Overriding Legitimate Interest for some data that doesn't give you carte blanche to horde all data. But things like logs (with a sane retention policy), back-ups (with a re-erasure process), and trained ML models are generally allowed to keep remnants of your data around.
> or (as I suspect) you find them too valuable to dismiss entirely quarantine

You are wrong. I block the known IP blocks of the big surveillance shops and a lot of the small ones[1].

> sour grapes that a mediocre employee at one of these places makes 3-20x what anyone makes

Are you sincerely saying you believe people who are uneasy about surveillance are just jealous?

[1] Twitter is currently an exception, I was playing with something. But I'm going back to blocking them soon.
The trouble I see is in how these GPS based driving systems give directions.

Even when the directions are accurate and the pronunciation is good (ha) and the turns are correct, they're completely mechanical. Every turn is given with exactly the same precision and urgency as every other turn. If I were telling you how to get where I'm going this afternoon, I'd start by saying "get on I-5 north". My phone would say "go 50 feet, then take a left onto X, then go 200 feet, then take a right onto Y", and so on. I don't know until 5 seconds before I hit the on-ramp that I'm just supposed to get on the freeway.

Worse, often it'll be the case that the instructions are given late enough that if you wait to consider or second-guess them, you'll miss the turn. (And roads are not in general designed to make recovery easy, so missing a turn can add quite a bit of time, especially if it sends you into a tunnel, across a bridge -- or worse, waiting in line for a drawbridge.) There's many places where it will say "take a right ... now take a left", and I've got half a block to get across 4 lanes of traffic. Get moving now! (Lane sweeping is legal in California but nowhere else I know of.)

In essence, it's treating me like a computer, and feeding me literal instructions one at a time. It's training me to blindly accept and immediately act on them. It's not surprising that people do.

I care less about improving the (comically bad) pronunciation of local names than I do about getting instructions that are phrased like a human being does. "Get on I-5 north -- it's just like you're going to ${other_place_you_go_every_week} but you'll turn right on ${other_street} instead of ${normal_street}." Then there could be a giant button for "Break it down for me -- I need more details".
Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts
No disagreements that advertising manufactures demand to some degree. But the claim in your upthread comment was that people wouldn't buy what they need without advertising; you may have meant it more narrowly, but I've seen the literal sentiment expressed often enough (esp on HN[1]) that I didn't see any reason not to take the statement at face value.
OUYA stopped working this week.

Games lost (hacks available to get around it do exist though, like you could hack the Microsoft books) even 100% free apps stopped working correctly.

For all OUYAs extreme self-righteous about open source they became the worst.

Perhaps a middle ground is needed
I think the interesting use case would be to put things into space for a lot less money. Imagine putting one or many of those new Space X internet satellites into a rail gun that goes straight up.

It doesn't need to go all the way into space, it just needs to get pretty high, then the cost to break into orbit can require a lot less fuel and make it a lot more cost effective to do space stuff.
Does your friend get royalty for each copy of the book? Could your friend have negotiated an upfront fee from the publisher and no royalty? This way, only the publisher would be exposed to piracy risk, a risk it can manage much better than an author ever could.
The parent is talking about the federal carbon tax with it's "Green Action Incentive", not BC's RNCT.
They are fully refunding all purchases, though.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719730
Exactly, dead tree books aren't a solution. I mean if a tiny library at my home or town burns up, there would be serious loss of a unique collection with that too!

IMO, a more robust and resilient solution would be to bring native experience of books on the web. And tie it up with open source and paid model both in two separate states: of a manuscript and that of a book. If a processor of books dies (like in this case Microsoft), there'd still be a manuscript to fork and re-process into book again through an alternate channel. That's my 2 cents.
Indeed. As an anecdote, many of my left-leaning friends have become full-blown communists over the last few years. The political situation is likely going to get much much worse before it gets better.
True, they could kill him or capture him, etc. But I doubt the US is worried about a provocation to Russia. It would simply be a massively unpopular move. Mostly pointless.
You use something that blocks scripts (like uMatrix) with an aggressive ruleset. On some sites you'll need to allow things to make them work. If they are loading trackers from the same servers that they load content from, you can't do much without wasting more time than you want. I'd say it breaks most of the tracking though.

More sites than you'd expect work without js or with first-party js only. It's annoying when you need to read a news site, because those are usually bloated garbage. Not a huge loss.
This has been discussed many times over many years, and was actually one of the original use cases presented by proponents of cryptocurrency. The short answer is that processing fees in fiat currencies make this infeasible, even on software platforms (ex. PayPal generally charges a 30 cent minimum), so you're going to be stuck with a virtual currency that is easily abused/walled off from the real world.
Perhaps if text books didn't cost $200 each, broke college kids would actually be able to afford them.
Beats Music is the basis for Apple Music and was absolutely worth the purchase for the technology.
That's too bad. It's quite funny thinking Toyota Production System is where TPS reports come from because it's so believable. Even though Toyota switched to Agile-ish methodologies, they still produce 20x the documentation and paperwork that the Waterfall method produces!
Thanks for the invite. I contacted you over linkedin. We can talk about visa.
At this point we've seen this play out so many times that using DRM to "stop piracy" is like tossing the virgin into the volcano to stop the eruption.

Yes losing all of those pretty girls sucks but so do volcanoes destroying the village...
PCTE: A vestige of a bygone era of ISO standards
Human Terrain: visualizing the world's population in 3D (2015)
Most authors of anything other than best selling trash don't make anything worth caring about. Almost all the money goes to publishing, including ebooks. Does piracy still suck?
> Could you hit a railgun with a railgun?

"Smaller than a missile". You could, but it's harder.
> see the same virtue in the engineering of

Actually yes, but the application of on the other hand...

Only a tiny few of the multiple conflicts since WW2 have been helpful or even justified. Many have been hugely counter-productive. Yet I can't deny that wars and military spending have given huge impetus to advance many capabilities. Capabilities that have ended up having huge applications in peacetime too. Whether rocketry or WW2's improvement of the cavity magnetron, or early computers. Who knows how many decades later some of the stuff we take for granted might have arrived, or sat on a dusty shelf as interesting but impractical or non-commercial? Even the humble tin can got its start supplying food to the navy, in the age of sail.
Further, pirated works have a long history of not getting shut off or otherwise made inaccessible, unlike "legitimate" DRM'd copies. :-/

[EDIT] what I'm getting at is that DRM doesn't just fail to stop piracy, it also makes the pirated version much better than the original.
> Most all of what NASA does or has ever done has directly benefited the Department of Defense.

Especially since a lot of the benefit has gone the opposite direction a lot of times - how many of our space telescopes started life as extra reconnaissance satellites?
You can make that argument about anything, though and it be would be equally applicable. 'The branches of the US government can start ignoring each other'. Sure, they could but that possibility doesn't really offer any useful insight. It's like saying I can become world heavyweight boxing champion by shooting my opponents.
It won't take long if you guys get popular. I don't say this as a rip - I just have never come into contact with your CAPTCHA.
Even ignoring the fact that physical books last for much longer than a decade, the alternative to DRM'd books isn't physical books. It's digital, non-DRM'd books. And the lifetime of a DRM-free digital copy of a book is practically infinite.
The last thing the internet needs is "government regulation". If that were to happen, you could kiss everything you love about the internet goodbye. Governments do a horrible job regulating basically everything else other than critical, necessary services, and the jury is still out even on that one. Why would they suddenly do such a better job regulating something we're still all trying to figure out?
I remember a lot of dumbfounded looks >..<
YAGNI. Just use whatever Notepad-like app that was pre-installed on your device.
Principle of the thing aside, is the annotated version worth reading? I read the book and it was quite good, curious what the annotations add to it.