skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe half a decade ago it wasn't uncommon, these days it's pretty rare to see something crash out from HN post DDoS unless it's some kind of webapp that isn't properly scalable
> you do have to choose

But that is precisely the point! Suppose, (as Barry Schwartz says) constraints are what drive choices we consider meaningful. Then, the greater the convenience, the harder it becomes to make meaningful choices!

Would spending time with family feel as meaningful as it does now if you were living inside the loop of "Groundhog day" and recreating the same evening over and over again? That is essentially immortality, as experienced in an unchanging world.

> Or read a book. Or play with your kids...

I don't know about the people you meet, but most people I meet seem to lament that it feels like they're getting less and less time for these things :-)
I found a fix to this problem, on accident.
I use Blokada apk on android (not the Google play store version, the good one, if that makes a difference) and when first visiting the page didn't see what the hell you were talking about, the inception url bar never showed up for me. So, when most things don't load or don't act as they're supposed to that is the first thing I go and do-- disable Blokada and reload. Once I did, then it showed up, (pretty cool little discovery btw, good job)

So tl/dr;
Can be fixed by using ad+malware blocking host file, namely this one, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jerryn70/GoodbyeAds/master... since it's the one I use and was using when I noticed this
Researchers unveil 'unhackable' Morpheus processor
The release was always going to happen eventually. Contempt is not a life sentence, in the US it isn't punishment but coercion. When the opportunity to testify is over, they let you out because they have nothing they want you to do any more. Doesn't stop them from serving you with another subpoena though.
Could also have been a credit card "test" purchase.
What goods?
> Or read a book. Or play with your kids. Or your pets. Or talk to your spouse/significant other/friends. Or write code. Or post on your blog.
> you do have to choose.

Yes, convenience frees you up to pursue something else, but I've felt that it takes so much willpower to pick an activity you know to be of value to you (like exercise, or reading a book) over something immediately gratifying.
Another thing I've been thinking about, related to this is that our value systems and/or attention span have been weakened severely by the torrent of information and immediate connectivity these days have.

I remember this quote attributed to G. Michael Hopf: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."
What if this pursuit of convenience is making us weaker, and in the long run, blind to what should be pursued with the time we free up?
Currently its price the poor out of participation in the most productive markets like its good for them to have no opportunities to get ahead because whole regions of the country are price gated out of their reach by NIMBYs that want the same skyline SF et al had in 1970.
Thanks for reviewing. Fixed the discrepancy, hopefully made it better.
Or not. Amazon is just a platform, remember?
Gun Companies Are Helping Toy Makers Design Replicas That Get Kids Killed
Some sellers even get settlements weekly or more frequently. I'm not sure how, but I know it was at least possible sometime in the past.
First of all, this isn't new. (I am sure you know this)

Secondly, why would anyone want something that is basically futures.. but with less control and information?
> Every step of that is a win.

Maybe if you focus on the wealthy it is, but it’s more complicated when you consider the less fortunate.

Here’s an analysis of Seattle that concludes "by overbuilding housing for the wealthy, Seattle has achieved some short-term improvement in affordability for the middle class, at the expense of substantial displacement and continued upward pressure on the most vulnerable."[1]

[1] https://knock-la.com/seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-si...
The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
Yes, and it's about time. The reality is that email is a huge attack vector for corporations and it's not practical for Google to bear the burden of review as part of their ecosystem. It was tested and failed.

They've only approved two vendors, blargh. More will come in time. Be patient, or raise money.
A short video on Phage from Motherboard: https://youtu.be/aVTOr7Nq2SM
Honestly, I might if I think it's just women, but for crying out loud does anyone anywhere want to go confront any man about something like this? No one wants to go tell some big guy to stop begin an inconsiderate prick. And if his cultural background leads him to truly believe he is not being a prick, that just makes the situation FAR more frightening.
> But I'm glad she has been released now and I hope it did some good.

Well, she’s only been released because the term of the grand jury expired. She’ll be called to testify again, and if she refuses to testify again, she will most likely be locked up again.

So this is more a temporary development, rather than a resolution of the issue.
What do you have to do to deserve extradition and conviction then beyond what Assange has done?
I guess the moral here is to always open your docx/xlsx files using 7zip and checking the raw xml first.
The alternative to building housing is not building housing, which is not a solution to the housing problem either.

Yes, wealth inequality needs to be solved, and its implications harm society through myriad aspects of it.

That doesn't change the fact that building, especially for density, is a good thing. No, don't build 50 story apartment blocks adjacent 2 lane country roads with no transit, of course, duh? Modernizing American cities, all of them, will take trillions of capital to fix the collapsing infrastructure and dramatically increase the density, but doing so would confer force multipliers to productivity that are stymied by participatory isolation over distance. People could be much more successful in life if they had access to opportunities they cannot reach so long as the closest they can get to an urban business district is several hours away by bus.
Previously the CEO only had to ask, are all of my employees using ChromeBooks? Now he also has to ask, are those ChromeBooks all configured for security? It used to be a simple question, which could be answered at a glance. The new question is an order of magnitude harder to answer.
"throw shade"

I am sick of these simian neo-phrases. Apparently, titles must now emulate "rap battle" prose in order to reach click quota.

I did not add to their totals at least.
TLDR; article suggests to replace a gif img tag with

<video style="display:block; margin: 0 auto;" autoplay loop muted playsinline poster="RollingCredits.jpg">
<source src="media/RollingCredits.av1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="media/RollingCredits.vp9.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="media/RollingCredits.x264.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<img src="media/RollingCredits.gif">
</video>
Fit any data with 1 parameter 300 stars on GitHub
My site has been front-paged on HN several times as well, and I can corroborate. On those occasions my log files show something like a tenfold uptick in average traffic, while GA registers a tripling or so. When I get front-paged on reddit, by contrast, GA shows about 70-80% as many visitors as indicated in the access log.

Also, my site is supported by donations, and when one of our articles gains traction on HN we get a substantial increase in one-time donors during that day. Other big sites like reddit barely bump the numbers at all, despite often bringing a much greater increase in total visitors.

One time we were front-paged on /r/TodayILearned, and GA showed a peak of 6,680 concurrent visitors. Hotchie motchie.
Database with Millions of Indian Personal Records Exposed and Hijacked
Vintage and obsolete are two different categories. Vintage = 5-7 years after last manufacture vs 7+ for obsolete. Service is generally not available for vintage or obsolete products, however some places like California have service for vintage products available. Further details on Apple’s website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
Most of Western Society refuses to build
3 1 bedroom tiny homes on a block of land for 200 per week rent
instead they keep doubling down on the old model of building on the SAME BLOCK of land

1 story
3 bedroom
1 car park
1 bin
"home" that gets rented out for AUD$300-450 per week

Which often ends up getting rented out to 3-5 different people and often only lasts 6-12 months,

till the new set of renters rent out out and a lot of the time the same place can go thou 3 different owners

in a period of 5 years
I caught that before it was posted in the news, and it really disturbed me to see it. "MY REALITY IS DIFFERENT THAN YOURS" or whatever it said. What's that about, talk about unprofessional. That and removing Live Bookmarks really degraded my trust, this weird Pocket thing (seems like a feature, not a product, and one that should've been built from scratch to maximize uniqueness), and I've been using Firefox and only Firefox since 2002. They're definitely losing me over time, it's the community that saves Firefox. Mozilla enables that but shouldn't really get credit for it.

Currently testing out "Edgium" though, and I can already say it's the one browser that could pull me away.
Just a heads up on iOS with Safari your two GA images are wider than the rest of the page.
Thanks, your post is much more informative. :) I was writing mine from more of a story-telling perspective, but I'll be following up with a harder post-mortem.

FWIW I estimated visitor count mostly based on a requests per second metric I had handy from GAE console. Also sanity checked against other similar blog posts like ours to see other people's numbers. I'd say 50K was a good lower bound. It was hard to say but I'd be surprised if it was as low as 15K-20K. In my experience Google Analytics numbers can be really deceiving. Especially when you compare them to other tracking methods, and go "huh?". Or your other tracking methods are messed up. Either way! Lies, damn lies, and statistics, as they say. HN audience probably uses ad blockers a lot more too which could potentially really skew things, unless you're doing GA stuff server-side.

I made a conscious choice to not even track visitor count, which I'll expand on...in another blog post!

Good luck with Polar!
Julia is a fantastic language and ecosystem, but I don't think it's the right thing to compare Mathematica against. As a language, Mathematica's computational model and strengths are closer to Lisp, IMHO. As a "computational system" their goals might be similar, but I can't fathom what Stephen Wolfram actually aims at, for Mathematica.

Julia, btw, is actually a language you could potentially know inside out. The discipline to keep the language simple enough that LLVM can generate fast code means that it's not hard to understand and there aren't many gotchas. On top of that, the community discussions (on Github issues and the Discourse forum) are very interesting and enlightening to read through.
I upvoted you, although I disagree with you. You made an argument, deepened the discussion and offered some sources -- it's more than most people do.

Regarding the second site that you linked, and the PHIMBY idea in general -- if it's summed up by "housing is a human right", then there is a certain weakness built into it from the start. If you do not have a house, can you sue someone? Can you sue the government, for example? That is an important part of what a right is -- it provides a "cause of action", a basis for suit, when it is abridged. If it doesn't provide that, then it is not a right.

Freedom of movement within the United States, guaranteed by the Privileges & Immunities Clause of the Constitution, is a right. When someone writes something like "by overbuilding housing for the wealthy, Seattle has achieved some short-term improvement in affordability for the middle class, at the expense of substantial displacement and continued upward pressure on the most vulnerable.", they seem to be operating from a frame where it is the government's responsibility to provide housing, but it's not clear where the government gets that charter. Not every nice or good thing needs to be effected by government agency. However, respecting the right of people to move in -- to buy or rent property on the same terms as non-residents -- would seem to be completely in line with a broad commitment to the equality of all American citizens, regardless of their place of birth, before the law everywhere in the country.
When you read a great novel you almost feel as if your there in your head. When I read you code, I know what the program does, but if its elegant or even brilliant, I have no idea what it was like in your head the day you wrote it and where that epiphany percolated from.

I think a computational language would emphasize how you perceive the program in your head, or at least experience reliably how other people do AND do the thing (unlike state diagrams and flowchars, uml etc)
I’ll never understand why obvious marketing makes it to the front page, only to get shat upon by 95% of the comments.

Of course we can do better than SQL. We could obviously do better than Javascript. It’s globally understood that we could all do better than English.

We sometimes struggle to express ourselves with language. We can blame the language, try to fix it, or invent a new language and try to get people to speak it.

I would rather spend my time refining my elocution than learn a new language. That said, there are words and phrases that simply work better in other languages. I don’t know a single-word corollary to ‘Simpatico’ in English.

I wish the best to those who would make programming more expressive, and the worst to those who would try to streamline away subtlety.

Performance is quite loosely linked to language, given sufficient abstractions and optimizations. I submit NumPy as an example. We humans have lots of ways to say what we want, and we want lots of different things in myriad ways. As an analyst I often wish for a richer language, some way I could transcend tabular data thinking to find and make associations around real-world state. I’m certainly self-satisfied when my nested subqueries return what I’m expecting, but I may be able to add more value if I had a better way of expressing my questions.

If we can do better than SQL, it ought to bring more people closer to the reality that lies behind the data, and further from the methods used to obtain it. Maybe I don’t have the words for what I’m looking for yet...
I dont buy anything on Amazon that I need to rely on being a real product for safety after I received a fraudulent pair of solar eclipse glasses.

For my child, we dont buy any toys at all on Amazon. I especially dont buy branded stuff because I don't know what is commingled.

Amazon may not be losing money here yet, but eventually they will. Everyone that works there should be ashamed.
The technical aspects of this article are super interesting, but also the aspects that talk about adobe's early business model: Adobe’s original business model was to sell this font technology to people that make printers, and sell special recreations of fonts, with added hints, to publishers, which is why Adobe, to this day, sells their versions of Times and Futura. Adobe can do this, by the way, because fonts, or, more formally, “typefaces”, are one of five things explicitly excluded by US Copyright Law, since they were originally designated as “too plain or utilitarian to be creative works”. What is sold and copyrighted instead is the digital program that reproduces the font on the screen.

An interesting way to look at this technology from a startup perspective. From the new industry of digital printing they found a business model based on the loophole that fonts are uncopywritable and could be monitized.
> What did you expect to happen?

Not this? I didn't think things would break with updates disabled.

Like I said, now I've been educated on a new mechanism for things to break.
> They should require amazon to randomly sample.

This doesn’t seem like the most sensible approach.

If my yogurt product is sold in grocery stores, isn’t it my responsibility to make sure my yogurt is produced properly and my responsibility to label it with the correct ingredients and nutrition facts? I wouldn’t expect it to be the grocery store owner’s responsibility to randomly sample my yogurt and check for its quality or ingredients.

Edit: Toned down inappropriately strong wording. Sorry for that. Didn’t mean to be a blowhard.
That sounds backwards to me. It's only lack of standardization that forces it to be an "implementation detail". To any application that needs to be able to query data in reasonable time, it's fundamental and necessary functionality.
They dominate plenty of industries today. What are you getting at with this statement?
> you will use those credentials in the future, and that's to the cost of us, the potential clients.

How is that? I don't follow.
We wanted to order Evian or Fiji bottled water from Amazon but were put off by reviews mentioning oddly attached labels, misshapen bottles, wrong tint on bottle caps. So we just stuck with local supermarket water delivery. Fake water? Wondering if anyone has tried ordering these.
I can right-click and save videos just fine. You can too, try it here: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GregariousDevotedArachnid-mobile.m...

You just have to write some Greasemonkey script to circumvent all the crap that the video-serving websites do to prevent you from getting the normal video-in-a-browser UI. It's harder when you get this link https://gfycat.com/GregariousDevotedArachnid
The auto-hiding address bar on my 2 Android phones was straight-up glitchy with document scrolling, not the "convenience" behavior. Even other sites on my phone were fine. It was just my site, and I believe I tracked it down the the fixed side bar. When I get rid of that the scrolling was fine.

All your points have really convinced me to give document scrolling another go though. Thanks for the list and the link.
Or scammers decided to sell socks.
A little bit, but fresh. Parroting some things too.

Pros:

(1) At surface it's mostly M-expressions variant, but underneath is term-rewriting system. This makes it, well, anything. Multi-paradigm is an understatement. Feels like a better layer of abstraction to float in than "code is data".

(2) That TRS has possibly biggest rule set in existence. I doubt anyone but Stephen has good idea of the breadth of it, but it just works.

(3) It's been around for 30 years (40, if you count SMP). Most notebooks from 30 years ago will run just fine on latest. This means it has good foundations. They're gonna add a LLVM compiler in there soon and so far they make it seem like just another day at the office.

(4) Did I mention the giant rule set? It had function for anything that came up on my plate, well integrated with everything else, and well documented (color-coded!), runnable examples and all.

(5) Notebooks and other facilities in the language/environment encourage exploration. I've barely begun working with it but I already used it thrice to solve some tricky problems. Porting that to whatever I use in production seemed trivial so far, once I groked it with a .nb first.

(6) You can simply reach out to curated datasets, and they're really impressive. I feel like they covered beginner level pretty well, as well as a lot of specialist areas, but there are holes in the "middle". This doesn't sound like intractable problem and it's only getting better. Playing with their neural net repository is something I look forward too.

(7) A lot of what would usually be boring boilerplate elsewhere (unit conversions, plotting parameters, etc.), here can be done via natural language input.

(8) Makes math look nice and readable.

Cons:

(a) Some areas grow neglected at times (i.e. graphs atm). But that sounds natural - this is a tree or a forest, not a flower.

(b) It looks usable for production as live system, but you better prepare budget.

(c) It's not open-source. You'll be hard pressed to know what's exactly happening under your code. As I grow older, I care increasingly less.

(d) You have to wait for updates for fixes/features.

(e) I'm afraid that if you don't have at least some inclinations towards science (vs. "programming"), you're not going to enjoy it. This is not a tool to maximize CRUD app output.

Remarks:

(I) After watching some streams by Stephen, I feel it harder and harder to justify attacks on his ego. He sounds like a really smart and sensible guy with enthusiasm of a child and huge ideas that may or may not pan out.

(II) "Computational" thing he's pushing for makes perfect sense to me. At even rudimentary level, I feel like end-game for math notation (or music, for that matter) isn't some prescriptions of Royal Society of Mathematical Notation, but exactly something like Wolfram Language is. And on high level, "mining computational universe" for actual practical stuff also makes sense. But we'll see. Feels right but far away.
As an app developer, whenever I need something animated, I use the baseline MP4 format. My main motivation was that animated GIFs were not supported by Android without third party libraries.

I've had 10-15 seconds of videos (640x480) at 10 fps well under 200 KB. I also compared JPEG with MP4 and decided to use MP4 video (1 frame) instead of JPEG to keep myself from re-implementing a UI again for an image.
Show HN: High quality pdf reflow app
I am not familiar with Datalog but if it is anything like Prolog then it should be extremely easy compared to SQL. Right now if I want to make any query that is more complex than Select x from table in SQL I will have to make multiple google searches and look at multiple resources that explain the unintuitive SQL syntax. Meanwhile if I want to do something more complex in prolog it will be trivial. For example if I want to do an inner join in prolog I can just do something like: table1(X, FirstName, LastName), table2(OrderId, X, OrderDate, OrderCost).
Roads aren't a great comparison because there is legitimate induced demand for roads - if you build more roads, and the roads are not at capacity, those around the roads will trend towards more car ownership, more frequent usage of the roads, the range of commute using said roads will grow larger and larger, and people will immigrate and build up sprawl to fill those roads.

This keeps happening for any practical width of road, because in practice you can't really have a 30 lane wide highway. Automotive travel is inefficient enough that even at suburban density you can always congest any road network you build around it.

This does also apply to housing - even at the highest densities you can get, rivaling Hong Kong, there are too many people in the world for anyone city to ever build enough housing to legitimately run out - density itself creates economic multipliers that attract business, and if you were to have some of the highest density in America (which is largely the claim of NY) you would have effectively unlimited attractants for capital to fund immigrants to move into said city and populate it. In the scenario where you "overbuild" high density housing to the point where the next poorest local cannot afford it at its upkeep costs you would attract foreign immigration for the cheap housing with ample employment opportunity.

Note that that last scenario assumes all other variables are held constant - desirability, transit supply per-person, availability of public services like fire and police, etc. Missing other variables can make high density areas undesirable for capital and thus prevent the chain reaction.
Please let your partner know that Amazon also supports 2FA, which would have likely prevented her account from being compromised.
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