skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, that was disingenuous. I should have said that the council doesn't seem to be changing it's plans despite how ineffective they have been. Maybe it's an implementation problem instead of a planning problem.

I'm extremely frustrated by the seeming tolerance for literal shit in the streets. At least put some porta-potties out for public health. If it only costs $300k for laundry, showers, toilets, and sinks (according to the plan linked in the other comment) why hasn't it been done yet?
Being evil. This is the group that invested in LinkedIn, PayPal and now recently Facebook after the scandals. If they went out of business, all I would say is, lol
This is a great example of the extreme left-wing destroying itself. Seattle City Council passed an income tax (that was unconstitutional, oops). This new attempt was probably legal (or could be patched).

This head tax failed because the campaign in favor was driven by insane anti-capitalist ranting by Councilwoman Sawant and friends, who made it a "war on Amazon" instead of a traditional, civilized, "share some of the wealth" campaign.
A simple singleton implemented in C++
That would be an option, too. Can I then set the app to open with the "Files" view by default?
"By using this site, you agree to hold it's owners, management and developers harmless for any materials which users uploaded and did not have appropriate license to upload." Along with the Cookie, and GDPR notices.

In order to "scan" and report, you have to agree to said TOS.
I added the mod_rewrite stuff that should have been there. Thanks for letting me know!
Do you expect it didn't until now?
> I am a bit skeptical now whenever someone tells me they use their iPad as their only computer

The people I've read who have successfully gone iPad-only seems to fall into two categories: Authors/bloggers who could just as well be served by a 1980's word processor, and those who use it as a very expensive dumb terminal in either SSH or the web browser.
It's quite understated, compared to reality. Also, the truth does tend to be quite one-sided; POV of cheating, lying murderers doesn't get included in it.
Nowadays you can design responsive UIs with Interface Builder or the Android Studio equivalent with joy.
The sense I get is that since about 2000 we’ve just been playing different games to try and get the old mojo back

I would concur. The global economy never actually recovered from the dotcom crash. Since then it has just been papering over the cracks, inflating property, artificially low interest rates, “quantitative easing” i.e. just printing money that’s not backed by anything in the real economy. The correction when it comes will make the dotcom crash and even the 2008 crisis seem mild.
Ask HN: Beautiful shell code?
What are some examples of beautiful shell code?

Bash---and, in general, shell---gets a lot of flack for being a bad programming language. I understand the sentiment, but after writing a few klocs, with copious support from shellcheck[0], that feeling changed for me. I think bash, and even POSIX shell, can be reasonable languages, well-suited to certain problems.

Without providing rigid metrics, I'm curious about scripts HN has encountered (or produced!) that you consider high-quality.

[0]:https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
SVG was mostly created by Adobe to establish an in-browser vector graphic model, based on their extensive experience in PDF. Once Adobe bought Macromedia/Flash around 2003 or so, they mostly lost interest in it for a while.

SVG2 is/was an initiative to modernize it (and is to be finalized these days based on actual implemented features) but browser vendors have indicated they're only implementing a small set of conservative features [1] considering many vector effect features for UI are already part of CSS.

When SVG2 is finalized, it will probably just consist of a description of those SVG 1.1 and 1.2 feature actually implemented in browsers.

[1]: https://nikosandronikos.github.io/svg2-info/svg2-feature-sup...
It's based on react-vue[1] and It is internally using react-native.

1. https://github.com/SmallComfort/react-vue

Why but Why.
Parent comment was saying that these are the books to read if you want to know life under communist rule. I wanted to say that it's not true. This kind of literature describe only a small part of a life.

Not everybody was living in a prison camp in USSR, not even a majority of the population. This kind of literature was funded and promoted by the West because it supports the western society discourse.

Person who judges life in USSR by these kind of books will have a very skewed opinion.
This is what I meant, and also what I meant when I mentioned that React Native pushed the boundaries (that I laid out above) -- it's a weird in-between of near-native, webview and native.
Omni-Path Gen1 has a Wolf River NIC and a Prairie River Switch.
I never get this about google. They had a great product here (I and I know others actively interested) but they just drop development on these things for the new shiny toy. We're not asking for a ton, but if you could assign even a few folks to maintain the non-cool stuff, I think a lot more folks would build on GCP.

I'm on AWS currently. They keep their old / uncool stuff around in a nice way (and totally seem to drop ball on other stuff that matters less like their new Amazon Linux 2 effort - python 3 support in that is totally wonky etc).
Get a nice, large journal with quality paper and just start drawing things. Pick out some interesting objects and draw the same thing from multiple viewpoints.

Your goal is to understand the structure of the object (or scene) well enough that you can translate the spatial structure to an optimal 2D representation. This is not always what you would see from a single viewpoint. In order to know the spatial structure, you have to make multiple attempts.

You should enjoy looking at things, in the same way that a writer enjoys reading.

Color is a freaky beast, you should probably get a copy of the book Color and Light by James Gurney if you want to understand how to make color work for you.
Piketty seems to think that tax hikes on the rich might work. But that is really just a theor

Intuition suggests that about half the time raising taxes (or interest rates, or whatever policy lever) might help whatever economic problem you have, and half the time cutting them is better. It’s like tuning a radio, the knob goes both ways. I am wary of these so-called economists who only have one solution to every conceivable problem. Krugman is the same, whatever the scenario, he always recommends printing more money.
I didn't expect Internet based companies, like Amazon, to fix homelessness.

That said, I'm saddened that the town council caved in so quick.

Our biggest problem is homlessness.

All I know, is it's basically illegial to live without a perment shelter in this once great country. Yes--once great. I'm not sure what's great about it anymore. If I had a do over, I would have hightailed it to France, or Canada in my twenties.

Can't sleep anywhere, including your car, without breaking some law.

There's know-where to go to the bathroom once they know you are homeless.

The industrious will find food. That's about all they might find. That food will eventually need to leave the body though? I just don't understand not providing bathrooms. I'm not homeless, and I have a hard time finding a restroom in San Francisco.

This country was founded by in debt homeless individuals? All the settlers were basically camping out?

Homelessness is our biggest problem.

It's beyond debating.

We need to open up available federal, state, and county land to camping.

We need to repeal all laws that have essentially criminalized being without a perment shelter.

I don't want to debate.

I've had too many friends die on the streets. Their last days were filled with overly aggressive cops ticketing them. That whole "fix the broken window theory" is policy for most counties now.

Even to those that have a home, and a good job; do you like living in a country with so many laws? Laws that are designed to trip you up if you are poor, or even middle class.

I'm sick of it.
I found it quite accessible and have read it end to end twice. It's not a Russian heavy literature doorstop a la War & Peace, but an encyclopedic one-man survey of every aspect of the camps, roughly in chronological order: first the the history of labor camps in Russia, then the journey of a typical inmate (arrest, interrogation, trial, transit, arrival, life and death in the camps for prisoners and guards alike, freedom [1]), then the slow winding down of the system.

[1] In some sense, at least; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_kilometre
I like to remind people that Python 3 was already more than a year old when Apple announced the first iPad. I'm not sure anyone should be getting a cookie for 'working on' Py3 support more than nine years later. Though I do understand that GAE has supported Py 3 for a while in its more configurable service.
A Voight-Kampff Test for Identifying Engineering Managers
It is coercion, and it doesn't actually improve living standard.

> If it passes, you pay it or you remove yourself from the jurisdiction...that's not blackmail, it's how taxes work.

Apparently not - you can clearly threaten to leave the jurisdiction and have the law and tax rolled back. Just need to learn how to deal with the thugs (politicians).
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> 32 to 64GB of onboard storage.

If only. Probably a lot closer to 4-16GB for a lot of Android phones.
Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
I remember the time (not so long ago) when 'search' seemed to be the hottest topic in the industry. We had the rise of Google and competitors. There were search startups. Open source projects like Lucene and Solr were in the news. There were books published, blogs, conferences..

And now it seems that the industry have moved on. There is a million papers/books/blogs/online courses/video lectures/meetups about ML/AI, but I can't seem to find anything current on search.

What are the good resources to learn the fundamentals of search and keep up with the current happenings in that space? Not SEO, but more from the computer science/engineering point of view?
they literally don't have ways to use the profits to make more successful tech products

And yet they haven’t updated their pro line since 2012. And the quality of OSX is slipping badly. If they are really bereft of ideas, spending a few billion on fixing bugs (instead of the animated poop icon) might keep them occupied until inspiration strikes
Intel knows better than anyone that they need to sell a roadmap, not a chip. Who’s going to put in a large advance order on a bunch of future silicon that may get cancelled as well?
deserve your reelection by nominally “serving the poor” while wasting loads of tax dollars and throwing good money after bad to retain a city council seat, you mean
Introducing Vue Native
SVG 2 adds a big pile of stuff, some of which seems completely unnecessary to me, https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/wiki/SVG-2-new-features

But it doesn’t fundamentally change the concept, which as I said is to be a 1990s-style XML-based document format with a bunch of (frankly inconsistent and arbitrary) graphical elements in it, based on a 1970s drawing model. YMMV.

It’s great that it exists because browsers don’t give web authors any alternative method to match many of its capabilities. But it’s just as much of a confusing and frustrating mess as all the other web specs.
Atrium W18 (Democratizing Legal Services) Is Hiring a Sr. Software Eng – BackEnd
Would you argue against Chrome sending out random LLMNR requests at boot to detect attackers on the network? They aren't "hijacking" computers of users who voluntarily installed chrome - in part due to the promise of a safer browsing experience, which this is all about.
Crashing on unknown extensions doesn't seem like a profitable differentiator.
Strongly disagree. Reading for the first time in Russian and finding that it flows wonderfully. Solzhenitsyn has a unique tone of voice: at once conversational, ironic, sadly humorous, and full of pathos. His imagery can be breathtaking, e.g. when he's talking about the different rivers of prisoners flowing in and out of the gulag system. When referencing his own life, his sense of narrative pacing is superb. And when it comes to matters of the soul, he has a way with words that few others can touch. Indeed, there's a number of what I would consider "best of all time" quotes in the first few chapters alone.

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere
insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate
them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and
evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to
destroy a piece of his own heart?

During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it
is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow
enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at
various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being.
At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name
doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

(I wrote down: "names are leaky abstractions.")

It's true that there's some dry and boring material, but I can hardly blame the author for that: he's the last living source for so many of these stories. I can picture him sitting at his typewriter, trying in vain to resurrect the final, fading memories of the countless missing people who touched his life—nameless and nearly faceless, probably buried in some unmarked grave—while waiting for the KGB to burst in any minute and destroy his decade of work. How much more painful must the process of editing be when the things you cut are fragments of human lives that might as well have never existed once they leave the page?

Unfortunately, there's now a contingent of the Russian population that denounces Solzhenitsyn for reasons of pure nationalism. It makes me so sad when I see Solzhenitsyn mentioned in the Runet, because it's almost always extremely vitriolic...
If those companies can't achieve basic protocol detection, I'm all for someone shoving it down their throats. Why not Google?
Nphysics: A Physics engine in Rust – 3D demos in modern browsers
Great article. Much better than the New York Times article.

From TFA

"Is this really all about Amazon?

No, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. Council member Kshama Sawant, who exhorted her supporters to “Pack City Hall!” in a mass email yesterday, has consistently characterized the head tax as a “tax on Amazon” and Jeff Bezos, whom she described earlier today as “the enemy.”

Demonizing individual corporations is rarely a path to building broad community coalitions, and that’s especially true when that corporation is Amazon, whose name many Seattleites (rightly or wrongly) consider synonymous with “jobs.” This is one reason head tax opponents were able to so easily spin the head tax as a “tax on jobs,” and to get ordinary citizens to gather signatures against a tax that would really only impact the city’s largest corporations."

That seems like bad politics. Isn't it politics 101 to anticipate that the affected parties (here Amazon and Starbucks) would push back? And if enough political support to overcome this hasn't been built up in the first place, why would someone try passing the head tax at all? This is like playing chess looking only one move ahead.

I don't get it.

Help me understand?

(Due Disclosure: Not a US citizen, nor a Seattle resident, I don't have a position, pro or anti, on the tax measure itself)
I'm avoiding a dreaded task by being on hn right now...
Who would be the guilty party here? If your phone is spying on me, I'll likely get angry with you. The fact that you're a victim of the football league isn't my problem, you're the one doing the spying.
I'll admit making desktop applications in electron seems just as crazy to me as it does many others, but.. after using Vscode I've questioned that there must be something to it.

Vscode has pretty great performance and is a serious pleasure to use with the right customizations. Should some of that success be credited to electron? (I'm just asking, not implying)
The Rock should absolutely be worried about his health, specifically his endocrine system as it is physiologically supranormal because of the cocktail of drugs he is undoubtedly on.
Was it this one, by chance? https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4011302

I thought the reading was superb, even though the quality was a bit scratchy.
"Basic programmer competence" is not something you can consistently expect from people in the industry. Be it a bad day, general carelessness, or business pressures - there are many reasons to cut corners.
Businesses != Managers != Private equity sharks. Time horizons vary, debts and buybacks are "in the game"...
Having to worry about all these different screen sizes, devices, browsers and OS is a completely valid reason for not using a Windows 95 era form builder anymore.
There’s iVim!
Singapore’s Grab Gets US$1B Investment from Toyota
More accurately, tax Amazon and over half a thousand other employers in the city. And spend money on social services that don't have a particularly good track record of eliminating the social ills they are intended to solve. Politicians made their own judgement as to whether or not this would be beneficial to their chances of reelection.

Immediately concluding that because a government didn't pass a new tax, the government is a de-facto autocracy is extremely reductive.
Numbers I've seen are that 10-15% were women.
I cannot take this author seriously. By adapting your product to fit a current design trend, you are not necessarily "supporting Google" - rather you're supporting your users who are familiar with certain patterns.

However, to applaud "Web Brutalism" (It's nice that they put "web" there, since the term 'brutalism' in digital work is so misappropriated it's not funny) as an alternative goes to show that this author is not necessarily against Material/Bootstrap as a design choice, but more against it because they feel that form is more important than function.

This is not a good position to take if you want to develop intuitive software in my opinion.

They go on to contradict themselves as well, saying that you should disregard form and recognizable patterns ("If for modernists form should follow functions, for post-modernists, form is the function."), then immediately makes the comment "Legibility-communication must never be impaired by an a priori aesthetics."

This whole article screams "First year academic" to me.
Sadly this will be true for 95% of the storage
Microsoft Office 365, Skype, Teams, VSCode are being completely rewritten in JS
I think that's a really overly simplistic view of the Rust situation and an unnecessary comment on the current situation. Daniel did not 'quit in a huff' or even quit at all.

This belittles his contributions and the situation he's been put in.
I've been using it a bit at work.. The thing that stops me fully adopting it is how long it takes to start, and then it's very laggy for the first few seconds after that. It is a very nice editor once it's running though for sure!
I highly recommend using pen or pencil on paper and not using anything digital. The paper will last for decades, just roll your finished drawings into a tube and put them away for ten years, then revisit them or frame them and send to friends.
Kolyma Stories is probably the best book about the reality of communism.

Is what I'm replying to. It's a very narrow slice of a much bigger thing.

Life after (or even before) Stalin was not free from such abuses.

I'm not sure why you think I said anything of the sort.

As to 'figured out', no, of course they didn't have a sudden epiphany while taking a shower one morning. The paranoid nutcase that ruled them died.

The thing that I was getting at, really, is that there is a fairly common but mistaken notion that the Soviet system was all about overt repression; that it depended, throughout its entire lifespan on the direct and immediate threat of deadly state violence. It didn't and that's, in many ways, a more interesting and disturbing thing to consider.

This isn't a particularly original or new thought - if you've run across, say, Masha Gessen's recent writing, it's often reiterated (as a kind of starting point) there as well.
Ooc, why run .net core on gcp instead of azure?
D3 is a joy to use and one of the reasons we've been able to iterate on our product so fast. Once you get over the initial learning curve you can build things really fast and the actual charting part ends up being the easiest to do in the whole process. Processing data, handing interactions end up taking most of your time (I'm speaking this as a developer working on a visualization product https://zebrabi.com/pbi/).
Funny, at the same time he took money from the Warburg family to fund his revolution that killed millions, the Warburg family went on to be part ownership of Standard Oil during the same period.
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But then why do I need a wife? To be clear I was talking about 100% stay-at-home wifes. If she's also working 100% at some other job than it's another story. (Then the question is more why 2 people in a household have to work 100%...)

Maybe there is some specific thing that she especially dislikes for some reason... Or maybe there is something that only you like, and takes a lot of effort to do... But in general the stay-at-home partner should care (and do sacrifices) for the family.

Otherwise that's the point? To have one more mouth to feed at home?
Yes, but the "norm through out history" of course contains a lot of variations.

If you look at the UK or US during the Industrial Revolution (or China today) you will see poor people doing hard jobs and its all part of a huge economic build-up that makes everyone richer -- even if some people at the top could skim off fortunes.

But if you look at even broader history, such as Medieval Europe, or China and India for most of their history, you will still see industrious poor people. But there's little build-up -- just skimming by the people at the top.

I think modern India is somewhere in between those two modes. And sometimes I fear that western democracies are converging on the same in-between place, but from the other side.