skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm getting happier with my decision to embrace piracy again by the minute.

This isn't just true for books. Streaming film/TV is essentially cable TV at this point: you either pay out your arse for all streaming services or you have to constantly micromanage different subscriptions. Even if you are happy with the former, there is no way to centrally browse everything so you need 7 different apps.

Not to mention series being removed from streaming platforms because of profit: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/westworld-removed-from-hbo...

You can't even rely on being able to access the media you want in the future if you do it legally. It's insane.
Were you expecting the media to do more than report?
That's funny, I was just thinking about that the other day, how fine the climax of Catch-22 is. Shame about all the misogyny.
You can use usb cable to transfer to kindle too
Nah, their left is full on clutch, their right foot is between the accelerator and brake pressing both at the same time.
Just imagine what it would be like if everything worked with the same design.

You would own nothing and be happy...
Related : "Games as a service is fraud" by Ross Scott

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/bhdkvo/comment/el...
You’ve heard of them now :)

Good for them to call out bullying to spread awareness of their product.
Yes, and those uses would not have triggered my response.
You'd have to pay little attention indeed to ascribe inerrant nobility to public office.
The Oatmeal has a relevant comic, but for a TV show: https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
The usage of black as an adjective to describe illegal deeds and things not only precedes the slavery in the North America but existed in cultures which never even seen people with a black skin. But you can't argue with SJW with logic.
Once I discovered "desoldering needles" I basically stopped being scared of desoldering through hole parts altogether. You can get a set cheaply on aliexpress or amazon or whatever.

You slide the needle over the component leg and then melt the solder. The needle slips over the component leg. Wait for the solder to cool and pull the needle out. Hey presto the leg is separated from the PCB pad. Also works great for cleaning solder out of a hole after traditional desoldering.
I have the same feeling with streaming movies - it is often easier to watch them illegally then to pay for them and watch them legally. But I also suspect I can’t be the only one in this situation, so I assume the problem has go be global and thus a global solution will be found as there is money to be made there. Until then I will pay for what is available and pirate what is not, without feeling bad about it.
I missed this on my first read through. So I went back and tried to find what you're referencing, and this is all I could find:

> This is even before any of the really cheap shots, like observing that the entire bug class is based on unreliable premises: that there are no timeouts or resource limits anywhere else in the system (almost always false, particularly in web development), and that the regular expression engine itself is susceptible to pathological runtime behavior (plenty aren’t).

Is this what you were thinking of? Or am I still missing something?

I'd be curious to see ReDoS reports against programs using regex engines that provide a linear time guarantee.
I'm not implying anything, I think I was pretty specific.
If you Want to do some dynamic stuff and ultimately have a static site generated, check out jigsaw. It is PHP based with Laravel's blade template. Comes with JS integrations as well.

https://jigsaw.tighten.co
I dropped gmail for fastmail when google originally threatened to drop the grandfathered g-suite plans. Has worked great for me.
To be completely fair if you use a new card for every book it will rise some eyebrows
Does the like count reset when you update? Seems like that could be a little dangerous if it doesn't.
Beyond a token effort to be reasonable in word choice it is not his responsibility to try and hedge against the unforeseeably long tail of potential misinterpretations. Your jump to conclusions response is your responsibility, not his. His language was fine.
"Deuterium" is uncountable, I'd challenge "deuteriums".
I think it's a typo, probably should read "cart."

For whatever reason, Amazon doesn't seem to have a way to place Kindle books in your shopping cart and do a single, large purchase. Rather you find the book you want and buy using their 1-click purchase option then go find the next book and purchase with 1-click.
Which wouldn't have been an issue if you could have paid for all the books at once... It's still a stupidly designed system by Amazon.
Previously discussed:
7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927771
3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435195
2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159097
1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29389576

It's an insanely cool project, but I've yet to find a truly fitting use case for it. In theory, PostgREST combined with something like https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ should give you a free back-end and admin panel for most projects, but in practice, I've always found that all kinds of 'small details' won't be quite right out of the box, and that customization is really hard...
Don't know about you, but I own all my friends, a butcher and all my employees.
https://w1.pixelcdn.net/assets/images/pixelfed-app-feed.png

Well the UI looks exactly like Instagram
Eh, one “buys” the right to temporarily have the item on their device, until Amazon decides to revoke that right.

As OP said,

> I'm never buying e-books again.

I do something similar.

If the book is worth it, I buy it in material form.

If it’s not worth the bookshelf clutter it’ll cause, I just skip it.

But then again, most of my books aren’t on digital subjects, for that I usually rely on specs and articles, as tech is moving too quickly to be worth being nailed down on paper.
I quite clearly indicated that it was just a response and that I was sure that that was just my reading of it.
If you want a sustainable vetted community, pick a channel, build a funnel, skim the cream.

Like startups, communities are growth and sucessful ones grow at an incremental replacement+ rate, where ones that grow explosively fall over on their own weight, and ones that sustain a base level just die. A plan for a vetted community is a system of harmonious growth that requires a funnel and conversion scheme that yields vetted members. I see orgs spinning their wheels and arguing over the merits of individual candidates when their real problem is they have no funnel to simply select the best n% from.
One could argue that you're not buying the book though, as Amazon can remove the book from your device later without your consent. And as we know, that's that a theoretical threat, it happened with the book 1984 in 2009. While you could keep your Kindle in airplane mode all the time to prevent that, if you do you will miss out on the ability to easy "purchase" and go back to a world where you have to side-load.
Ugh I tried to get off of Gmail and went to Kolab. That did not work for me at all. The formatting abilities were severely lacking. Maybe I'll try again since I've spent so much energy on this rant at this point.
There absolutely should be a legal clarification of what "buy" means with respect to digital goods. And then fine everyone who uses "buy" instead of "license" for false advertising.
Both the book and a course:

Behave - Robert Sapolsky

Human Behavioral Biology - https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/intro-to-human-behaviora...

As a side effect of the course I also read Chaos by James Gleick and my mind was blown.
Not sure where this take is coming from. I learned about the Iroquois Nation in elementary school. And its influence on US democracy was mentioned in multiple classes later on.
The particular store in question occupies a prime location within a prime retail destination in an affluent area. It should be a showcase location for the new strategy but isn't. If they can't get this store course corrected then it signals to me and likely others that nothing has changed with B&N overall. Enough locations like that and you doom the chain even if other locations have changed.
The Academy and nutrition and dietetics depend on dietitians renewing their Registered Dietitian credential. That's how they make money.

In order to force the issue, the AND's lobbyists have gone around the country and made it so that you are required to have a license in 14 states to talk with another individual about food and nutrition.

The AND made it so that in order to get that license you must be a registered dietitian, in other words, you must pay a private organization for the privilege to pay the government for a license to talk about food and nutrition.

It's a classic government back monopoly that has no positive impact on society, other than protectionism of an outdated business model.

https://ij.org/client/heather-kokesch-del-castillo/
As a long time Pirate of everything, I have found that Gabe Newell was right.

> "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

As soon as a Store offers a better Solution than pirating it, I tend to buy it. Steam being a Prime example. Took ages to build the trust that when I buy something on Steam, it's safe and mine. Whatever the EULA says, at the end of the day, my Steam Stuff feels safe. Add to that the Linux Compatibility (I'd rather pay for a game and have steam deal with compatibility than do it on my own with a pirated copy).

Same with Spotify. I can't be bothered to maintain my own music library and music piracy is dead these days anyway. As long as Spotify has all the music I'm happy to pay them to deal with keeping everything up-to-date and well sorted. The moment they fuck up and I can't find the music I want it's either to another provider with a better library or back to piracy.

Movies and TV Shows are still broken. Especially here in Germany. Now given the Production Cost I'd arguably accept a little less variety per Service but for me it's more like each Provider has 1-5 things I'm interested in and none has enough to justify buying into them. So Piracy it is. And let's not even talk about the atrocious Quality of the streams we get. Banding everywhere, obvious compression artifacts and annoying DRM Ridden interfaces making it hard to deal with them on Linux. Try watching a Nolan Movie on Netflix on Desktop Linux and fix the horrible Audio Mix via Post Processing. Just Nope. Same is trivial with a pirated Copy (that incidentally also looks better because a 50GB Blue Ray Rip just has more Bits than a Netflix Stream).

I haven't even bothered with books so far...
"Blogging websites also exist but there's just too much noise."

https://xkcd.com/927/
Exactly, it’s a play on a metaphor people know (“I bought a book”), yet one that’s doesn’t really apply (we “buy” nothing, it’s just revocable access).

So it’s ever so slightly fraudulent.
Or you could just answer the question here as it was asked instead of getting hits for your site.
It should work with a universal basic income. Everyone has enough to eat and a place to live. Then you price your efforts based on not needing a subsistence. It would make it easier to dismiss the notion of intellectual property, since you no longer need to artificially limit copying so that creators could survive.

They'll probably want some kind of job to afford art supplies, but it's an option rather than a mandate.

This is oversimplified, of course, but it doesn't seem fundamentally impossible.
I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enjoy a longer form item like this and then only run into said longer form item after chewing up most of the time on 10-15 shorter articles (on second thought, we could rename the original feed to normal dump and this new feed to epic dump).
Since chargebacks due to fraud costs the retailer extra (thus they must do fraud checking and magic heuristics) as far as I understand, does that make it the credit card system's fault?

Using a ton of different cards indeed would sound like a database leak to me, so with the retailer being liable for the user's and/or bank's failure to design a system under which the user can keep their credentials secure, this behavior being not allowed is understandable. This is all relatively foreign to me as a European who just pays with iDeal (Dutch system) that doesn't know fraud chargebacks or anything, and where it's on the banks (rather than retailers) to refund fraud from e.g. phishing so it's in their own interest to design a secure system, so correct me if I misunderstood something about how credit cards work.
Yes, its latest commit was 3 days ago.

I just stumbled over it. I find it very interesting. Exactly because it made such a strange impression on the first look. The web design and the choice of C89 are not that common in nearly 2023.
iirc fritz-os was very much based on openwrt, same as most homerouters
> went into contracting for startups instead

Did you find these opportunities mostly through your personal network? What would you recommend to others looking to find similar opportunities?
Same with buying digital music. On Amazon's website you can tell it is a legacy business. Songs now appear in the same messy search result than other physical items (so you can't try quickly several results to find the correct version). You need to open the page of each song to get a chance to get a hear a sample. If you click anything on that page you get a modal for trying amazon music unlimited, and this modal will reappear again and aagin on every click.

With such a UX I presume the number of mp3 sales on amazon must be near zero.
> Eh, one “buys” the right to temporarily have the item on their device, until Amazon decides to revoke that right.

Yeah, just like someone can "buy" an empty iPhone box on eBay for $800.
But can you see how your comment is unfortunate giving the context of the discussion?

We all saw the context of OPs use of words, so I have no idea what it is that you were trying to add to the conversation.
In the meantime:

1. Rarbg or rutracker to dwn anything in minutes
2. mpv to watch anything in minutes with subtitles and bunch of flexible options that propriatery or FOSS tools like plex can only dream to have
3. enjoy life without commercials ever and hord stuff if you want it and pay for things after the fact

For books replace 1. with libgen and 2. with calibre reader.

Yes, its 100x easier.

Games could be in some cases easier to buy, especially since you realy must test those for viruses and other malcious stuff, not something you should be concerned with multimedia.
First sentence: "The reason your three-pound brain doesn’t feel heavy is because it floats in a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid". I'm already feeling a little angry!
It's not just Amazon. Kobo has gone Adobe corrupted too and now instead of epub downloads, or even just the basic consideration of telling you what format the book is in you first have to pay for the book then you get to find out weather you're getting actual text or just some shell of a drm file pointing to adobe's servers (.acsm).

I've had to sit through a couple 30 minute chat holds with Kobo in order to get refunds recently due to their lack of proper labeling.

When there is no option to buy the actual text of a book I will try pirating and it is almost always simpler and faster. If pirating fails too then I have to find an old paperback to buy and send off to a scanner/OCR company.
I deleted all social media over the span from 2016 to 2019, and after an short period of actively missing it, I don't even think about it anymore, unless the topic comes up as one of societal concern, or in connection with my kids. Phones are still distracting without social media, but materially less so. Being off social media has not just been a net positive, it is almost an unmitigated positive. The social connection it promises to provide is illusory, and it gets in the way of actual social interactions. It is sad to see people who obviously know each other sitting next to each other while staring at their phones, many of them presumable looking at social media. I see it among young people at my kids' events, among my social set, and especially among other families out to dinner.

The harm it appears to be causing to kids is my main concern, given social pressure to do what other kids are doing. Banning communication platforms for kids would be hard to implement in practice. A good starting point would be to ban phones from K-12 schools. They are raising a generation of kids with really bad habits and poorly developed social skills, attention spans, and creativity.
How do you know if he's not a lawyer? You are dashing out assumptions left and right and are criticizing others for it. And yes, they have trademarks and patents for part of their UI and product names. You can easily check them out by using the uspto website.
Beer too (very common) and there's also a sake vending machine centre which I hope to visit one day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKcXpr0tUU
How is this group "shaping US nutrition". Thats quite a claim.
I'm a victim. So that's why i said Alert.

It's fine for you to experience though.

I'm not living abroad, it's reality.
Isn’t that just a different form factor for Instagram? They already had an infinite feed of content, many of which videos; TikTok made it full screen
Mind-blowing that you can have a rare nearly-unanimous decision be reached at a time when agreement is hard to come by, and it still won't get through.
For my library at least there are very few modern technical books in their Libby subscription.
Tangential: I've had good luck over the years with this flow:

-Buy on Amazon (using a single card!)
- Install an old version of Kindle for PC (might be able to find an installer online); download/open the book in it
- install a Calibre de-drm plugin.
- Open the Kindle file downloaded to a home subdirectory in Calibre.
- Convert to epub in Calibre, using one of the big HD formats etc so it won't downscale images
- save the epub somewhere you can back up, and also transfer it to your reader.

Yikes ... I guess I wouldn't recommend this as an easy solution!
> Monads seem to be a fundamental building block.

Sorry, but no. If that or transducers are the things you think about on this context, you are going on the wrong direction.

Not that those aren't useful. Whatever software solves the OP's problem will certainly make plenty of usage of interpreters and lambdas (what monads and transducers are), and any developers should be able to use both of those. But those are completely removed from the problem, they aren't an attempt to solve it.
it seems to me that you’re confusing this idea of “harmful social media” - i.e. facebook, twitter, etc - with the concept of social media itself. HN avoids dark patterns and tries to circumnavigate the engagement trap, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an online medium through which people - including you - communicate
No, it isn't. Perhaps the point you are trying to make would be clearer if you quoted what in that link answers the question?
Bullying? Really?
What you describe is a lease. Leasing or renting specifically grants you the right to use something for a period of time without a transfer of ownership. If Amazon are leasing you a book, labelling the button "Buy" is fraud. The problem here is that trade laws were not written for digital-only items so Amazon and their ilk get away with this fraud.
Show HN: Dumbo – A tiny ActivityPub server for building bots
> Is that right? I thought response time was the time from user input to completed response.

You're right. In fact, that's how the Gil Tene defines it in the linked talk. It's essentially service time + wait time.
It's expensive to turn physical books into something my text to speech program can read. Typically about $25-35 to ship off the book to a scanning/OCR company and get back an epub.
surely,after fixing all the dependencies, and getting borg running again, you would've been able to access your backups?
Interesting! Although I found the original paper much more illuminating than the write-up: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/...

Also, the use of the word „civilisation“ here feels wrong. What they discovered was an early, large-scale polity of a known civilisation.
You were exiled from modern society and had your bank accounts cancelled? What for? Sorry, but I don't believe that this was caused by a tweet or hacker news comment.
Windows, docker and WSL are my favorite combo.

Windows is a user friendly platform, WSL brings a good CLI, docker is a great way to distribute software.

So I guess the uptick in Linux has been due to containers and WSL. In my circle, still few people run it natively in their work computer.
Interesting idea, and I think social pressure probably would have worked pretty well in the pre internet days. But anonymity for the buyer and seller would ruin it, I think.