skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It being "unfair" seems to hinge on the assumption piracy = lost sale. Unless your friend simply laments people learn when they otherwise wouldn't have paid anyways in which case I'm not particularly sympathetic but at least understand the reasoning.
Arby's Making a Meat Carrot as a Middle Finger to the Plant-Based Meat Industry
Ask HN: A commenting system with Firebase back end?
For a static Github Pages website, I would like to have a commenting system. The idea is to use Firebase, because:
1. It gives social login: Google, Twitter, Github, FB
2. I want to use Firebase for some other functionality not related to comments.
For a user it should be very convenient: once authenticated he/she can comment and can use other site features (these "features" rely on Firebase)

So much theory. I started to search for Firebase commenting system and... I can find only the projects with 0 or 1 release, projects with 1 contributor, projects abandoned 5 years ago, example projects... you got the idea.

A commenting system should have a few features: something like an admin interface; something to fight/prevent spam. I can not find such a thing with Firebase as a backend!

There are quite advanced self-hosted systems, Coralproject [1] and Commento [2] are good examples. They do not use Firebase.

I do not need all the features of Coralproject. But a commenting system with Firebase backend, antispam and with something like an admin interface would be great. Do you know such a thing?

[1] https://github.com/coralproject/talk
[2] https://gitlab.com/commento/commento/
> Information we receive from third parties. From time to time, we may receive information about you from third parties and other users. We may also collect information about you that is publicly available.

No thanks.

( from https://superhuman.com/privacy )
And there I was keeping quiet about the nasty horrible weapons, just like that, which my brain cooks up at 3 am when I can’t sleep, in the hope that no real company would develop them.
The problem is you cannot even find 5" bezel-less screen phones nowadays. Seems like 5.5" is the minimum.
The one in Washington DC is now an Apple store.
Actively being worked on at the moment.
>$200 each

Sadly, you are dating yourself with that comment.
Safari is a webkit browser, off of which Chromium/Blink is a fork. So, it's not really a point in favor of real diversity on the web.
> Between lobbying and the general disdain for most things run by any type of government here,

I’ve grown to distain the government because of how often it pushes strict bills like DMCA which are quickly out-of-date and ripe for abuse.

It’s not just lobbying congress either, there have been some very strict cases coming out of prosecutors offices such as the case against MIT student David LaMacchia in 1994 who put files up on an encrypted BBS. Which resulted in congress passing a bill to fix a “loophole” where people uploading files on the internet without any commercial intent couldn’t be sent to jail. So the bill (predating DMCA by a couple of years) allowed up to 5yrs +$250k fines for online piracy, regardless of commercial intent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._LaMacchia

Every subreddit or Youtube channel or whatever online community I’ve been a part of has had to deal with people abusing DMCA takedown notices and having things that clearly fall under fair use, or even the person’s own content, being taken down.
Mozilla seems to (or will) be doing exactly this.

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/
Could be that it's configured with a single signature, and it can determine a match with 95 % accuracy
MacBook Pro recall:How to find out if your 15-inch Apple laptop is a fire hazard
Here is the price - specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
IDK, 15m of early 20th century dollars for a sound like it could finance buying a lot of books.
There’s a reasonable argument in there, but it applies to any world in which digital cameras are cheap.

This is in a sense the worst kind of argument: superficially correct but really meant to tap into a popular groundswell of sentiment.

The question isn’t “can FB use an off-the-shelf CNN to identify me personally” but rather:

“If it weren’t FB who would be doing it instead?”

and:

“Should cheap digital cameras be illegal?”
> Imagine putting one or many of those new Space X internet satellites into a rail gun that goes straight up.

Orbit doesn't work like that. Getting 200, 300 miles up is the easy part - the vast majority of the required energy comes from going sideways at 7800m/s.
I understand what you're driving at, but I think war is actually a pretty good example of something that's become significantly worse over time. It used to be fought on a small scale. The biggest battles had just a few thousand casualties.

Today, war is total, nothing is off-limits, and global conflicts reach levels of destruction unimaginable in the 15th century. And a few nations possess enough firepower, in nuclear and conventional form, to essentially end human existence on earth if they choose.
Michigan to pull plug on child-welfare computer system after 5 years of problems
I can't agree with this: "It's not like the technology behind railguns hasn't been stable and ready to use for decades now.", at least not in terms of practicality. I did a bit more research on flight and found a similar comment from Wilbur Wright[1] about George Cayley.

It is very different to be able to demonstrate a principle in physics (such as flight, or accelerating a piece of metal with electricity) and building a practical application of that principle. In many ways the time it takes between those two points is likely a good indicator of just how difficult it is to reduce the principle to practice.

You yourself mention super capacitors, another comment mentions the rails, then there are the switching devices themselves, the wiring harnesses, the control system. That is why I'm pretty awestruck at the fact that they were able to make it work and get this close to being something they can field test.

[1] "About 100 years ago, an Englishman, Sir George Cayley[2], carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely reached again during the last century." -— Wilbur Wright, 1909 --- http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley
The books still work if you drink a verification can. Just make sure nobody else is in the room and trips the antipiracy measures.
Mystery radio waves from space tracked to a surprising home galaxy
This is true and also people drive way to fast.
edit: also they are distracted by phones and texting.
GPS tracker installed in people’s skull sounds hyperbolic to me.
Wow ... that's .. is that irony? I don't even know.
The Acquired podcast just released an episode on them today:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/superhuman
I use firefox on desktop. But on mobile one major blocker for me is that Google assistant does not work with firefox browser on android.
E-buses consume 6 times the power per mile as a e-sedan. So they are more efficient if the average passenger load is larger than that.
Piracy sucks for creators, but I also don't think it's fair that poor people should have less access to text books.
Twitter Adds Warning Label for Offensive Political Tweets
It doesn't take a lot of compute resources to have multiple profiles, and when evidence of a high assurance level (a referring URL that is known to designate a specific user of a major service) to link it with other profiles that also have that designation.

To me, that seems par for the course for any service that's generating profiles of browsing behavior and trying to make any sort of decisions based on it. It reduces cruft and duplicate profiles while also providing more accurate information. Why wouldn't it be done?

> the information-theoretic validity of your argument

The portion about canvas, WebGL and AudtioContext hashing is not theory at all, it's well known practice from years ago. Jest the other day here there was a story about some advertiser on Stack Overflow trying to use the audio hashing to tracking purposes.

Hell, if you get enough identifiable bits of entropy, you can probably assume weak to strong level matching using a bit-level Levenshtein distance that's low enough.
Adding a browser component to applications would be a pretty big regression.

You want details?

19 tabs. ublock origin, tab search.

The browser process alone (no tabs included) is sitting at about 615 megabytes of RSS. The GPU process is using another 325 megabytes. Ublock origin is using 115 megabytes on top of that. The tabs are varying between 20 megabytes (for the runit documentation, http://smarden.org/runit/), 100 megabytes (browsing a private github repository), 200 megabytes (for a Jupyter notebook with about 10 paragraphs and 3 images shown), to 1.2 gigabytes of memory (Slack tab).

The next fattest program I have currently running is Wireshark. It's at around 200 megabytes of RSS while dealing with a capture containing about half a million packets in the current list view. MPV is surprisingly large, sitting at 110 megabytes -- guessing some of that is buffering the video, but it's still a bit surprising. Sylpheed is also significant, at well over 150 megabytes. And all of the gvim 20-odd gvim and terminal emulator processes add up, each one at close to 20 megabytes of RSS. Evince is also significant, although I've only got 7 or 8 of them running. Each is using about 60 megabytes of RSS.

Still, all non-browsercombined running on my machine come out to about 20% of the RSS size of Chrome, in spite of Chrome processes being 25% of the total number of running processes.

But I suppose you're technically right: Chrome isn't the heaviest thing on my machine -- Those tend to be spark jobs that I spin up. Those are capped to 30 gigabytes. But I don't do much spark these days, so...
They will fully refund all purchases, seems reasonable to me.
this is a pretty killer idea
I've got hundred year old books on my shelf that aren't even particularly fragile. I'd estimate that maybe 5% of my shelves are younger than 10 years.
You can charge the busses at the endstation with a inverted "train roof thing" for 5 min/45 min drive.

Heating should not really be a problem. You should use some open flame heater with e.g. gas, wood spill etc for that not high quality electricity or gasoline.

(Sorry swedish but look at the picture of the setup)
https://www.bussmagasinet.se/2018/03/premiardags-i-ostersund...
Coil guns require a lot more precision and accuracy in both manufacture and timing than rail guns, because you have to sequence the pulsing of the coils (compared to one massive burst of sustained power on a rail gun).

In a nutshell, you need to deal with most of the rail gun hard problems and then also deal with the added coil gun problems.
search “HN levels.fyi”
Years ago I saw statistics for the turnover rate of truck drivers and it was quite high. Seems like there are a small number of drivers who make it a career but most move on to other things after a few years. Haven't seen this come up during discussions about drivers being replaced by autonomous vehicles but it seems rather important. Wonder if turn over numbers are very different for Sikhs.
Then it's a bit too early to say whether or not it's actually an unpopular, unworking policy, no?

There's a couple of confounding factors at work, here, the most important one of which is the smoke from the tyre pyre of the Federal Liberal administration.
The cities are less dense, and the population boomed (and moved to the suburbs several miles away) in a time where the economy was good and car ownership was cheap.
Jumping ships also forces you to learn new things, it gives you a broader view instead of a deeper view of what is being used at your current company. Staying in a technical position is ok if they makes you happy, better to be an excellent Dev than a shitty manager
I'd prefer that change to come from the people... but yes, I'm proposing a solution, not something that I expect justices to suddenly will in to being.
MiSACWIS

I wonder if there is a relationship to naming complexity and ... failure of a system to perform well.
That's not "stop working". That's "work slightly less well". A book is dusty? Dust it. A book has yellowed paper? Still readable.
I think that developers would have more in common with other professions than blue collar workers.

Whilst both types how workers have problems at work - they express themselves quite differently.
You’re commenting on HN, you know it’s there.
When you order a soldier to commit a war crime he might refuse. A machine never refuses.
From academia, to Kaggle Grandmaster, to putting maps into autonomous vehicles
Having a place where people tolerate your toxicity is not a legal right, human right or even on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If people are addicted to being toxic, they will have to accept the consequences of others' reactions.
My app has a similar policy: https://easygit.app/privacy/

It even has the sandbox entitlements to prove it.
We need someone to be the Carl Sagan for Stallman's philosophy. He's right a lot, but he's also abrasive and doesn't package his arguments in a publicly digestable way.
That's not perfect btw, many apps today are using websockets (e.g. https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream) to connect upstream and they bypass iOS/Android proxy settings entirely with no way for http based mitms to see that traffic.

Gotta fall back to wireshark for 100%.
All this does is make the large display doubly useless: not only does it take up too much space and make the phone difficult to pocket/handle/type on, you're suggesting I should also make it only contain as much information as the 4" SE screen! That's not really a solution.
Trying to make sense of that last sentence. Putting words in your mouth, but you mean that we live in a simulation, for some definition of 'simulation' that we don't yet fathom?
It's more than a decade old. I doubt it's going to work with modern versions of Python and libraries. It's very sad it has been abandoned. The fact it has been probably means it was very difficult to maintain.
Railguns have potential for ship defense and missile defense.
I forget which store it was, but back in the day when I bought e-books to read on my PDAs they came encrypted, with the credit card number I used to buy them being the decryption key, so I was completely independent of the store to read them and could share them with anyone I trusted with my card number. It seems like a quaint solution to modern sensibilities but thoroughly satisfying on a moral level.

These days I buy the digital version on Amazon but don't download it. I pirate the copy I'm actually going to read and archive.
I doubt the US is worried about Edward Snowden anymore. That’s not to say he could come back to the states without getting arrested, but I don’t think they’re going to send a spy over there to kill him. I think any covertness is just theatrics at this point, struggling to maintain relevance in a world that’s largely lost interest in him.
Has the price changed recently?
Yes my first thought was great another we'll mine your data for a trivial benefit that you can mostly get from Tunderbird or other desktop clients. E-mail is a utility to be provided by non-ad tech company and browsed using an open source/private desktop client... that you pay a monthly fee for.

At $30 / month for a webclient I would hope it comes with full iron-clad private hosting of your stuff with an strong privacy-based agreement to boot. I pay half that for my mail for a few mailboxes about maybe 50 gbs of storage between them.
One option is to attempt (despite of all of the obstacles they might put in place..) to increase Firefox's market share, perhaps by spreading the word about privacy concerns and/or ux benefits.

Another might be adblocker-esque trusted and shared community-maintained lists along with an add-on (does this exist?) for per-domain user agent mocking. Hopefully with enough adoption (i.e integrated into ublock) that it reduces the value proposition of investing the time.

Thirdly, continuing to call out the companies who do this sort of thing.
This was already with uBlock Origin. Also tried combinations of Ghostery and Privacy badger. All of it made very little difference for panopticlick, and that's probably a low-bar compared to what's common these days.
USA Network Orders ‘Masters of Doom’ Pilot Produced by James and Dave Franco
I've followed lines on paper maps near Moab that eventually turned into rock crawling (regular road maps, not trail maps). On the road trip when I moved to Colorado, the paper map we had showed Rollins Pass as being drivable over the top...I'm glad we didn't try to go that way.

Four or five years ago, Apple Maps routed me to Smugglers' Notch ski area through the notch, which is closed in the winter. This past winter, it routed me through the notch on a dirt road which is not maintained year round, then I followed another road that looked like it went through until I got to a locked gate at a farm.

Interesting how maps are just data, and the level of trust we put into them is up to us. I don't trust Apple Maps any more. Waze is usually pretty good, possibly due to the real-time data from other users.

Personally I love the adventure of following lines on maps where I haven't been before, as long as there aren't any time/other pressures.
If we merely had the same copyright we had when the country first formed, this entire "your books turn off thing" would possibly be completely acceptable: a subset of works would be onerous and somewhat annoying for 28 years, after which you could literally do whatever you want with them. Key here is that this means that within your lifetime this would quite possibly be the case. This also means that a very large variety of still-somewhat-recent works would be public domain, and thus creating tools to read them would be profitable. Right now, a "public domain" Kindle would be for what, works that are over a hundred years old or something? Few people will ever encounter public domain works they want to read so it's as if everything fits the rent model.

The crazy thing is that everything is more amenable to "sharing" today, it is merely legal structure that prevents it now. Arguably the true utility of a library is that it would be (or would have been) absurd to duplicate a physical book for every person that wants it, and then when no one was actively reading them they'd take up a crazy amount of space. This is still true today! This world should be strictly better than the past. But instead we have nostalgia for libraries, not due to any essential reason, but because we've created an artificial environment where it is more appealing to potentially wait for a copy of something to become available vs. instantly duplicating it.
There is something awe-inspiring about raw power in action -- whether it's a power that creates or a power that destroys.
> Bookmarks have become even more first-class now - just swipe up from your address bar anytime. Try it now ( in the Firefox preview).

Swiping up seems to only give me the option to share and/or bookmark the page, and in Fennec those things were already possible through the main menu, so not much of an improvement (though I suppose swiping might be a little easier than precisely hitting the menu button).

Actually viewing my bookmarks has indeed become more cumbersome, though, and that is what your parent comment is referring to: In Fennec bookmarks were accessible through the about:home UI, which appears both when opening a new tab and when tapping the URL bar to enter URL edit mode, both of which feel quicker than "Open main menu -> Open library -> Open bookmarks" in Fenix.
Which I intentionally and repeatedly fail anyway, because I'm not training Google's AI so they can sell it for use in drone strikes.

If this reduces the world Google allows me to access, it doesn't diminish mine because of it.
What classification are you seeing? Thought maybe the “new domain” blacklist they have but looks like the site has been alive since at least January
Crops get eaten and their straw rots, releasing the CO2 they've sequestered. That happens with trees too, but less completely and over a much larger time scale.
Not how many bots, but how many botnets.

The nets themselves take resources (time, effort) to set up and maintain. Presumably they're engaged (at least for the purposes of generalised website defence, though specific niches such as targeted commerce fraud may not apply) in systematic behaviour, which leaves signatures.

Systemic cross-site collaborative detection. -- essentially what Google's CAPTCHA systems are, though there are others, such as CZ.NIC's Turris project -- could identify these, and via network-based domains of authority (ASN and CIDR assignments) assign reputations and target anti-fraud or anti-abuse countermeasures.

Durable, privacy-respecting reputation tokens might be another approach.

Present systems are far more primitive and reflect an earlier world-state.
My grandmother is in her late 90s, has dementia, and is in a care home. My mother sent me this update last week:

> Went to see Granny yesterday, was quite cheerful, read though the poems in "When we were very young"[0], her original copy[1], given to her in 1928, how about that. She knows them off by heart and joins in when you read them to
her

Q: When we're in our late 90s, how many of us will be able to consume 90-year-old-content that way?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Very_Young
[1] It was first published in 1924
IMO voice chat in discord is unreliable. The rest is great barring privacy concerns. I'd like to go back to mumble but my group's inertia is too strong.
Note that the article has been submitted by 5 or 6 persons, not always the same user. Looking at the profiles and submission/comment history of the submitters, they look as different real users, not sockpuppets or something.
Convince others.
There's only one glitchless run on the leaderboard, in 21m 32s of in-game time by the person with the 8th fastest glitched run. It really doesn't seem like a very actively run game and glitchless is even less so. (Also, note that the glitched record is 14m 29s in-game time and this is what runs are ranked on. Completing it in 25 minutes on the in-game timer would make you 12th fastest out of 14.)
For what it is worth I love my local libraries.

I'm able to hold any book online so as soon as I hear about a book I place a hold on it. They have most books even new ones and if not I can request it for free through all libraries in North California.

I stop by the library once a week and pick up all the holds of that week (typically 3-4). I love to have the physical medium around.

I typically renew my loans 2 or 3 times and as such I keep the books close to 3 months. It allows me to fully read the ones I find interesting and just go over quickly the ones I don't care about.

Once a month I bring back all the books I got.

And all of this is completely free. I love my local libraries and cannot believe it took me that long to find out about this wonderful service.

From now on I go out of my way to never buy a single book again and avoid all DRM and other nonsensical digital medias like that.
It may be the camera is no better, but photos look better when shown on a bigger screen.
No copies are being made, so no. Keep in mind we're talking about physical books, not filesharing.
Maybe one of the laws of the universe is that, one should never understand “it”.

Perhaps we should just enjoy what we have.
Thank you for your answer. So if we were to put some restriction on the virtual currency, it would be worthless, and if we didn't it would be used to do money laundering from stolen credit cards?