skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You justified a free tier but not why it's still free for one of the most trafficked websites in the world. ;)
> I don't think you can get $14k worth of deductible mortgage interest

Sure you can. Even with the new $750k cap, and if you assume a (very low; chances are it's higher by a factor of 1.5 or 2) rate of 2%, you can get to $15k.

If you assume a 4% rate, then you get to $14k with a $350k mortgage. In various coastal-metro markets that's basically an entry-level house.

The other common itemized deduction is charitable contributions. Unfortunately, I see lots of "average" data for those, when what would be most useful here is median data: the average is presumably heavily skewed by wealthier or higher-income taxpayers. But as an anecdote, I know multiple people who drop $20 in the collection plate every week when they go to church; that's ~$1k right there.
And this is Rumsfeld's only positive contribution to society: A pithy little "(un)known/(un)known" quip that people recycle ad-nauseum in project status meetings.

His other contributions consist of torture promotion and war-mongering.
That is fair. For many of the young developers who responded to the survey, they probably have a ways to go before they start hitting compensation walls.
https://suckless.org/ offers their WebKit web browser surf. For tabs, use it with their tabbing frontend, suitably named tabbed.

It was a little barebones for me when I tried it some years back but it might be what you are looking for.
I don't like to use the term "static" site, even as a provider of a static site hosting service. I think when people say "static" they imagine a small site that does not change.

I prefer to see it as a build environment for your code, data, and assets. The data can change all the time, but it either changes as part of a build process or pulled from an external API.

Here's a good summary of a team choosing this approach for their data-heavy site:
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/blog/homepage-revamp-part-two/
How does voting have anything to do with helping create the gig economy, driving up rent prices due to high paying jobs for single people, etc?
This isn't a "regulation against big companies" though, this is a direct attack on free speech and a power grab by copyright maximalists, who are feeling that their industries are getting obsolete and want to tax everyone to compensate for their own failures (like the link tax and the like). I'd say let them crash and fail, no one owns them anything just because they can't compete.
> There must be powerful forces at work because Republicans have touted a flat tax or a return the size of a postcard for decades but when they controlled all three branches of government couldn't get anywhere near enough votes to pass it

They don't actually try to pass a flat tax because it is not feasible to actually do a flat tax in a country like they US with such a wide range of incomes. Even with a low rate, there will be people poor enough that paying the tax is a major hardship. So every even remotely serious "flat" tax proposal has some cutoff and only applies to income above that cutoff.

But then it is not actually a flat tax. It is a progressive tax with two brackets. Once you get there, it is really hard to come up with a convincing argument that two brackets is better than more brackets.

If the calculation wouldn't mystify most taxpayers, what would probably be the most sound theoretically would be a continuous bracket structure.

The other reason they don't do it is that the flatness of the rate structure has pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with the complexity of a tax return. If you changed the rate structure from a progressive rate with several brackets to an actual flat rate, or a more realistic two bracket progressive system, that would shave about 1/4 of a page off the several thousand pages of the tax code and tax regulations.

The complexity of it is all in figuring out which income is taxable. Once you've got all the income classified into the various relevant tax categories, the actual calculations where you use the rate structure is trivial.
This is a great answer, and to expand on one particular point regarding "lagging behind", Django is not the most popular web framework in Python, Flask is, and by a lot. 24.8m downloads for Django, vs. 58.0m for Flask in the past year.

Additionally, neither Flask nor Django support ASGI, which is the future of how web frameworks will be written in Python. Quart is "Flask for ASGI", and Django has roadmap plans to start moving vaguely in that direction, though they're still a long way off.

Python has also struggled mightily with package management, and how to do it "one right way", which is one of the mantras of Python. Pipenv is a step in that right direction, but it's taking time to get people to adopt, and it's got warts of its own still (though it's getting better every day). I think it's still technically in "beta" (for whatever value that has these days, I am sure plenty of people use it in production).

Let's also not forget the python2 vs. python3 migration problem that I think we're finally now starting to get over. With python2 set to depreciate in 2020, the clouds are starting to lift on the major problems in Python, so naturally you're seeing a rise in converts.

https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/

https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I assume they meant the Chinese government, not the Chinese people.
I hate to be nitpicking, but "billion-electron-volt (BeV)" in the first sentence... hurts.
Exactly. You add on top of that that many of the Vegan spreads are moving to "Sustainable Palm Oil"[1] and you are really just left with the unsustainable and unimaginably cruel Dairy Industry.

[1] - https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2015/earth-balance-switch...
The ferret equivalent of a vacuum cleaner and a plastic bag and string being pulled through a pipe.
https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/reference/container-contra...

Details the contract your container must meet to run on the service and limitations you might run into

Quite a nice document to be fair.

Would be interested in hearing what use cases people would use this for, over say Cloud Functions or AWS Lambda. I'd imagine the flexibility of being able to run anything that supports HTTP is quite attractive.

One thing I did spot though is the container instance is limited to one vCPU, I wonder if people will hit performance ceilings? For lambda they abstract the CPU allocated based on the memory tiers, I'm not sure if this is the same though
Electrostimulation Restores Memory of 70 Year Olds to That of 20 Year Olds
Yes, one of the biggest drawbacks in the Ruby world is the lack of strong libraries outside of web dev. Python has scrapy, numpy, pandas, nltk, beautifulsoup, matplotlib, etc. Basically if you want to do almost anything (except high performance real time stuff) you can do it in python. it is an excellent general purpose language.

In ruby, the world isn't so great. When I was in the ruby world, I would always hit roadblocks on my side projects. There were so many times where I wanted to do something not web dev related and I couldn't find a popular and well supported ruby package. For example, I wanted to do text analysis of some sites I scraped and python's nltk was perfect (but there wasn't a perfect ruby library).

The ruby world needs to expand beyond web dev if it wants to grow.
Not just front end developers!
I got my Commodore 64 for Christmas, and had NO storage until months later when I got a 1541 for my birthday.

Every time I turned the power off or wanted to try a different program I had to start from scratch.
>Might perhaps there be something else to consider here? If I'm wrong, and the world is indeed a fixed lump of labor, can you help me understand why these people are wrong?

I don’t think the world is a fixed lump of labor. Eventually there will be enough automation that people won’t have any work to do. Not everybody has the capacity to be a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer. We are just not wired that way, the brain simply works in unique ways. So how do we take away labor intensive work and still expect people to live happily while not providing them with means of living. I think there are two ways: (i) provide people with social services so they live above the standard of poverty. (ii) split automation so only so much work will be automated. This is a good compromise as we find out what automation does to our economy as years go on. For example(don’t shoot me, these are just examples), Mc Donald’s must have people working for the same amount of automatic kiosks in their restaurant. Or half of amazon warehouse must be people and half must be robots. Half of automatic Ubers must be driven by real people.

There are ways to do automation and still take care of people. I just don’t see that conversation and it’s bothersome because soon it will too late.
To What Degree Does Marketing Rely on Psychological Manipulation?
Yes, there are plans for traffic splitting.

Currently Cloud Run only supports the `runLatest` mode of the Knative Serving spec (https://github.com/knative/serving/blob/master/docs/spec/spe...) but we're working on other modes (e.g. `release`) which would allow for traffic splits.
To Google people, do you have any suggestions for startups how to start using your services for production workloads and:
1) Not having to take the $250 monthly fee per dev that needs to be able to contact you. Just increases the start cost massively for your services.

2) Not having to worry about being hell-banned and not being able to restore your account with Google, such as "guilty-by-association" for devs in PlayStore/gApps etc trickling over to closing down the whole account. We have read so many of those stories here on HN lately that I'm terrified to use Google for anything business related as we run the risk of losing everything.

The Cloud Run product looks great and would love to use it but the above two issues makes it a no go for us.
The real problem here isn't that this company is Western or from China, it's that all this stuff relies on trusting humans to have done due diligence on our behalf, without having means to verify. It's closed source junkware on a closed source OS.
from keybase:

That identity proof for schwentker is pending, revoked, or non-existent.
No. It really is sleazy. I'm talking about a situation where the user is paying for the H&R service. This is a paying customer, not a free user.

This user then adds a tax pro review service but decides later that they do not want that add-on service. But now the user cannot remove that added-on service on the H&R website. The user calls in to an automated phone line which tells the user that, in order to downgrade, the system must clear out all of their data.
Could you please clarify if you mean all 1 billion Chinese nationals, their government, people anywhere of Chinese ethnic origin, or Chinese-domiciled companies and their workforce in general?
It's impossible to argue with your portrayal of the law, as opposed to what it actually says, so I'm going to have to just agree to disagree with you. There is no "link tax", nor is there a "meme ban". Both of these concepts are not actually based in the law, but in marketing of those opposed to it.
Another aspect is autonomy. It is routine in most companies for a low level incompetent manager to be able to waste all the time and talent of a senior engineer. So the issue is more than just money.
I don't hate snakes. But I avoid them all the same so as not to get bitten. You seem to think I am making some sort of value judgement about the Chinese, I'm not. I don't trust anybody who isn't statistically trustworthy. That's all there is to it.
Microsoft didn't kill the UWP version, they merged it. Office is only becoming increasingly a hybrid. An increasing number of the controls are becoming UWP XAML-based.

It doesn't look like Microsoft has lost faith in UWP, only that they gained faith in UWP/Win32 hybrids (and all the complicated engineering work to make that happen), and Office seems to have helped lead the way there. For instance, Office is way more sandboxed than it has ever been before. (Office's own App-V work as far back as Office 2010 helped prototype the sandboxing approach Microsoft is applying to all of Win32 with the now focused opt-in MSIX installer.)

It's probably still too early to tell exactly how much UWP Microsoft will add to their Chromium mix, but there's already some bits there. For instance, the Chromium-based Edge still supports Netflix because they already integrated a UWP Island to (UWP API) Windows Media Foundation to support hardware-accelerated PlayReady DRM.
> Only Korean?

AFAIK there is a similar problem for Japanese: MS Mincho/Gothic, MS PMincho/PGothic (this one is too popular that there are several metric-compatible free fonts), MS UI Gothic, Meiryo, Yu Gothic, Hiragino font family and of course Noto Sans CJK.

> But if you don't have a decent font on your machine, how the text is rendered?

Awfully. Imagine that everything is rendered in System or Fixedsys.
Is that any less racist?
Let me add a sample to your made-up statistic: I would not.

I don't think selling everything we hold dear on the Market will lead to a good society. We could make a few bucks by covering churches, schools, and hospitals in ads too. Let no place be spared from the profit-maximizing Market.

It's also dangerous to assume that just because something has no immediate monetary cost (e.g. plastering ads everywhere), it has no eventual cost. The kid's section of the library (the most lucrative demographic!) will get plastered with ads pushing sugary drinks, snacks, and microtransaction-laden smartphone 'games'. What should be a place of relaxation and calm will get drowned with visual noise trying to convince you to spend money. Stress and poor diet contribute to health issues.
I'd say most cis folks will pretty instantly recognize when they've accidentally entered the wrong restroom and make a hasty (if somewhat embarrassed) retreat. I generally assume most people are headed to the right spot or will very, very quickly figure out when they've made a mistake.

That feeling of, "Oh shit, I don't belong here", btw, is basically what I feel using either gendered restroom. Thankfully, most tech companies try to provide some gender neutral restrooms.
If you wish to see everything in one single doc page.

https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guide...
One feature I haven't seen in the comments here is the ability to just drag and drop an entire website folder from your harddisk to Netlify and it's live within seconds. Which worked great for a couple of older personal websites I had.

Second feature that is great is that you can use the cli to perform a draft deploy, which generates a unique public URL which you can share with your testers/marketeers/writers/translators etc. It's a great and easy way to quickly share test versions without having to set up auth (the draft URL's are a hash, so pretty long and unguessable).

Third useful feature is that Netlify can capture form submits. It's quite basic but works great if you have to whip up a quick page to gather email addresses, RSVP's etc.

It's also great that they have integrated Lets Encrypt, but Netlify did experience a bad outage a couple of weeks ago where wrong certs were served (for a different domain) causing a big scary warning for our visitors. Luckily this was resolved pretty quickly, but you do feel pretty powerless when something like that happens.

At Mailhardener we run most of our static content from Netlify and we are very pleased with the service that Netlify offers.
It's made harder by the fact that HN title is missing a word: "use of facial recognition".
> A state backed supplier is different to a subsidy

I can agree if we change it to "A state-backed supplier could be different to a subsidy".

Let's take Brazil, my home country, for example. The last government used tax-payers money to keep Petrobras from raising the gas prices for too long. You can call this a subsidy or not. I know I do. It's the same case: Petrobras is a state-backed company and look at what happened?

I know there is a lot of energy subsidies and if it was by me I'd say cut'em all and let the market figure it out.
What I think thereisnospork is trying to say is that you can't give the same weight to "discoveries" obtained through simulation using current models as "discoveries" obtained through observations via empirical research.

The models are estimated through the observations we make through experimentation on the real world. They're not necessarily right.
Soft control, local minima, convenience, creator intent, fatal consequences.

Or in other words, surveillance capitalism social media.
Python tips and tricks, pythonetc, March 2019
It's not racist at all, it's nationalist if anything.
Sorry, it's under Chapter 2. API Paradigms / Request-Response APIs / Representational State Transfer
Men and women have different insurance risks.

I expect it will take a while for insurance companies to build up risk profiles for new pronouns once those stop changing. They will want to know your biological sex and whether you are in or after transition into one of them. Depending on whatever effects social genders might have they will want to know those as well. And as a third separate item they will want to know your preferred pronouns for communication purposes.
I think we'll see AI assist in the 80% of design work that is bland/generic and get out of the way for the other 20% that is interesting/obsessive/fun.
Why are you putting this here as a post instead of in your profile, as most people do?
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - the only ex-soviet member states - sure as hell have way more say in the EU than they did when they weren't even countries under USSR. Those older people are deluded.

Not only do they each have 1/28th of the vote in the Council, they are over-represented in the Parliament. Those folks you mentioned probably don't even realize they have the right to vote for local representatives in the European Parliament. In fact, look at population per MEP:

State Pop MEPs Pop/MEP Influence

Malta 0.4 5 80,800 10.30

Cyprus 0.77 6 127,667 6.52

Estonia 1.34 6 224,000 3.72

Lithuania 3.4 12 283,583 2.94

Slovenia 2 7 286,143 2.91

Latvia 2.3 8 286,875 2.90

....

Germany 82.43 99 832,606 1.00

UK 60.64 72 839,194 0.99

France 62.89 72 873,417 0.95

Spain 43.76 50 875,160 0.9
Time in Perspective
The portability is a very nice feature of autotools, but that distinction between developer sources and distributed sources it was designed around isn't as clear cut or widespread as it used to be. If I start a new C/C++ project today, chances are I expect users to be building from the git repo or a snapshot of it, rather than a semi-cooked tarball.

(I don't know what build system I'd pick these days - probably just write the Makefiles by hand.)
Not just sales, but support (both long and short term), change management, roadmap planning, etc.
IPv6 support. For some reason Github pages is trailing badly on this aspect, and Netlify fills the gap (also for free).
I believe any piece of hardware that is sold local or internationally has a backdoor of some kind for government access. There are no mistakes. No company will say this, due to "laws" or "NDA" from a government that prevents the company from discussing these "mistakes."
I have to say it is refreshing to see someone actually thinking about things like line length when it comes to how their content is portrayed. To me, this is not just being persnickety, it's about intention. If you want me to resonate with your idea, the more clearly it is communicated (writing and typography) the easier it is for me to get invested.

Look at the simplicity of articles on The New Yorker, for example, which are very long but very readable because there's very little cruft to distract you and the design is so simple. My experience there is almost interchangeable with a "reader view" of the page, a feature that by its very existence should communicate that the modern web has lost its way in thinking about these things.

It's not that every site needs to be minimalist, but if you're writing essays or text of substance, caring about this kind of stuff goes a long way. "Engagement" is not just how long I stick around but the mental investment I put into what's there, and when it comes to writing, less design is often more.
To make matters worse, Larry Page has no demonstrated skill (expertise, history, success, et al) when it comes to competing in enterprise. He has no idea what to do. If he did, they wouldn't be where they are now in cloud. People widely dislike Ellison for understandable reasons, and yet he's an animal at doing all the things you have to to win in enterprise. From sales to the conferences to the non-stop public touting and everything in-between. Page isn't even in the same galaxy as Ellison when it comes to understanding how to fight it out in enterprise. Further to that point, he simply has no personal interest in it, clearly. There's nobody at the top in Google that knows how to compete in that arena. Amazon and Microsoft will continue to perpetually eat their lunch accordingly. Bezos personally promoted AWS in the early days, he knew the opportunity and was willing to work to capture it. Even Ballmer for all his faults as a tech CEO, coming from a sales background - and understanding enterprise well - he understood and was fine with Microsoft having to roll up its sleeves to compete in pursuit of the cloud opportunity. The rolling Google Cloud disaster starts at the very top.
Yeah, those military divisions that they have that are constantly pinging virtually every IP address in the world looking for vulnerabilities...they surely have good in their heart!
They're killing usability, [1] user control [2] and eBooks [3], I'll give you that.

Soon they'll even be killing innocent civilians. [4]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-new-study-shows-hom...

[2] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/12/microsoft-intercepting-fir...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367

[4] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/nadella-microsoft-wi...
It's debatable, most frequently cited articles are bogus with inflated numbers.
> At what level do you accept responsibility for shoddy security practices.

I agree completely-- Google's practices are terrible here. Who in their right mind would render $14,000 worth of services to a customer for which no due diligence was performed? They never stopped to make sure someone whose usage went from zero to the stratosphere was legit or has the ability to pay such a bill?

No other industry would do something so amateur. Lawyers work on retainer. Bartenders will preauthorize your card before letting you clean out the top shelf. Landlords do credit/background checks before letting you assume tenant rights under their roof. Steam will block your credit card until verification if you buy one too many hats. Know your fucking customer!

eFax and stamps.com are the only other businesses I'm aware of who do stuff like this, and it's done by design. You forget to cancel your free trial or account, they'll let the subscription bills accrue into the thousands and then send debt collectors after you to shake you down for a settlement.
Meaning the people who actually make purchasing decisions in enterprise - for the most part decidedly not technologists.
Maybe for programmers, but for DBAs, Sys and Network Admins, most companies want older candidates in my experience.
I wish I had had this last weekend in Berlin - I see it as a great improvement over the official map, which is incredibly hard to reason about compared to other big cities.
I think you are confusing "societal value" with "things people are willing to pay for". Like a coffee shop. Another coffee shop doesn't hurt society, nor does it benefit society at large. Even on the scale of a small town, a coffee shop adds nothing of intrinsic societal value.

But people still want their caffeinated milk shakes and misnamed espresso sugar drinks, and they will pay a premium for their fix.