skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on what you think of as a step, and what you think of as fees.

Is it one step if the single form for opening a restaurant is 200 pages?

Is it zero fees if the fine for violating a health inspection is $10,000?

The forms demonstrate that the new restaurateur has safe plans in place for traffic, seating, fire risk, equipment, food storage (dry, refrigerated and frozen), sanitation, and know the requirements for employment and training. If there's alcohol, there's licensing and training requirements. Are the kitchen floors both non-slip and impervious to water, with a proper drain? Are there arrangements for waste disposal, especially for used oils?

I'm not even in the food business; I'm sure an expert can tell you much more.
> sciter looks good, but just don't think about the recent modern web feature, current web feature is impossible to make it right/full by a small team, even ms can not catch up, so they just choose the chromium.

Not every feature needs to be supported, which feature are you referring to?
Also, given the use case: what is required in your opinion?
How does the shift in microsofts scope translate to the efforts to sciter?
What did the shift imply?

> sciter is good if you looking for make a small app which not depends too much on web spec.

Since when is it a feature to comply to "web spec"?
Why should anyone continue to comply with all new requirements?
And why do you feel it is required for portable desktop applications?
Why not settle on some proven essentials?
And why I am talking about browser now?

Hopefully you elaborate your thoughts: I am sincerly curious about your opinion.
Will try that!
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Obviously 92 steps is a lot, but if you want to improve the situation, it's no use just saying "this is terrible, make it simpler!", you need to consider:

- Which steps are unnecessary? Unless you have the view that the bureaucracy is just designed to be hellish, you need to figure out what each step is trying to achieve, and what would be lost if it were removed.

- Can steps/agencies be merged? If there are nine government agencies involved, you could simplify the procedure by moving the responsibilities to fewer agencies. But there are limits... at the extreme, if you made just one government agency responsible for restaurants, you'd make opening a restaurant easier, but - congratulations! - you've effectively just created a new government agency for restaurants. Now you've added to the bureaucracy!
not related but is "prepaid credit card" a debit card? Also why is the card with the debt is called "credit" and the one with actual money is called "debit"? Driven me crazy.
Yes, assuming the 100m comprises of adults only, which is probably how they would have reported it.
Food poisoning usually does not have much relation with opening a business. Most government regulations are just for illusion of safety, and gate keeping.
Agree screenshots are good, but it looks like a normal desktop window with js running inside.
I find it fresh and positive that Tauri developers take security very seriously. Before this 1.0 release they ordered a full security audit for the codebase and published the report ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/next/audits/Radical... ).

The project encouraged me to better my own workflows too, as even the awesome-tauri repo requires signed commits in the PR template :) ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/awesome-tauri/blob/dev/.github... )
Well… The farmer used sewage water to grow the apples. Then the processing factory hollowed out the apples to make juice. The sales company filled the hole with lead. The restaurant bought the cheap lead apples and then painted them red because red apples get eaten faster.

Then someone died and the outraged public demanded regulation.
Income tax exemption for mobile developers in türkiye
> It is until after I got better at English and started immerse into the Western medium of discourse, that it became apparent that my beliefs of equality by judging people upon their virtues/vices are considered wrong by many who prefer to insist on categorizing people only by their superficial features and use that as a basis of the debate

Don't confuse mostly American language and culture with "Western". The UK sometimes follows some of these things, but not always, and the rest usually don't. For instance in France It's forbidden for government entities to categorise people by how they look. There are no quotas or statistics per skin colour. There's still racism here and there of course - be it in some police actions/accidents, or political parties, or whatever. There are poor neighborhoods (which tend to be prevalently with immigrants or close descendants of immigrants, be they from Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe), and there are efforts to help the people living there ( improve schools, provide jobs, etc.), not "people from Arabian/Western African descent living there".
Swiss National Bank raises interest rates in surprise move
I agree that Sciter is pretty exciting. It's tiny and very resource friendly, and the language extensions are quite nice. It also is much better at behaving like a desktop application than Electron. Oh, and did I mention there are Rust bindings?

The biggest drawback is that it only supports a subset of Web APIs, even the DOM APIs. Most sufficiently large libraries that do more than pure compute will use an API that isn't supported, so you can't just import a random chart library. Of course fixing that is a sisyphean task for a single-developer project like Sciter.

I still really like it, but if you use it be prepared to either modify the libraries you use or write your own code.
If writers can write under a pseudonym why can't coders?
I'm amazed at how many underground food businesses there are in my area. People advertise all kind of meals on Facebook, they only take cash app, and you can have it delivered or go pick it up (at someone's house, of course). They only make food on certain days, some do meals while other do desserts...
How many people could you make sick by serving them spoiled software?

And perhaps Indiana should have more regulation for software businesses that do have safety implications.
One of the nice things about using Bazel is caching builds, avoiding rebuilding parts of the monorepo that are completely unaffected by someone's changes.
Reminds me of the book The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto which was a look at how in many countries capitalism only exists for the rich while the poor, without social connections and bribe money, don't have access to things like enforceable contracts, official property that could be used as collateral for loans, etc. One eye opening bit was when he had grad students in various countries try to register a new business without paying any bribes and he measured how many steps, days, forms, etc it took.
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It's likely similar for a software business in Boston as well. It's really the restaurant part that is so brutal.
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying!
Different strokes. I love Jeff's style and video pacing, though I don't think this is one of his best.
What CLI…? Just set up continuous deploy from GitHub from the Cloud Run UX itself. It’ll create a Cloud Build trigger for you and deploy every time you push to your desired branch.
Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we solved the problem rather than finding an angle to monetize it?
They don't do it for you. They run the paperwork when you do it. You have to make all the important decisions.

You can use Nolo or Rocket for most of it (and you should, at least bforna first draft, because the expensive attorney is doing the same thing, like H&R Block or an accountant for taxes). Try to save their time for complex stuff; they will be happy to charge $hundreds/hr for data entry eqivalent of running TurboTax.
Even though I don't think it used this same effect but rather a simpler sound, I am reminded of MB's Star Bird, a toy spaceship from the late seventies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORtzJ3gZ5ho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Bird
Morris Ernst was an ACLU attorney who challenged other high-profile book bans during the period. He found a cooperative publisher and hatched the plan to import a copy of the book from France and have it seized by customs, although the getting it seized was more difficult than anticipated.

> A few days later the book showed up at Random House—it had passed through customs. Furious, Ernst personally marched the package over to the customs office and demanded that it be searched. When the inspector opened it and found Ulysses, he muttered, “Oh, for God’s sake, everybody brings that in. We don’t pay attention to it.” Ernst insisted that he seize it. On May 8, the book was officially seized by customs.

In lieu of the usual fees, he would receive 5% of the book royalties should it be legalized and published (not a bad deal).

More backstory here: https://crimereads.com/banned-books-ulysses-joyce-morris-ern...
There are those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect.
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Boston has a lot of restaurants, so what would it be like without this process?
I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
The idea of a desktop needing "maintenance" is something the industry has been moving away from.
"It was never there to begin with" is my answer. When we say "$X is worth $Y billion dollars" it's an expression of hope, not a quantization of an actual potential. The financial industry's tolerance of such baseless metrics is one of the reasons to avoid the whole area of endeavor: they're willing to lie to themselves and everyone else about what they do.
Hm... An interesting thought!

What does it compare against though? Need to add more state to the CI? We kinda like the interface be part of the version control and having an audit chain that's part of the code.
This also misses loop unrolling, combined with an assembly language version of "Duff's device" to be able to do an arbitrary number of transfers even if your loop is unrolled to, say, 8 transfers.

This stuff used to matter! I had an NCR5380 chip on an Amiga, simple, memory mapped I/O, no DMA or interrupts. To get a tape drive to stream (remember that?) the byte transfer loop really had to be tweaked. But once fully tweaked, "whoooooooosh" instead of "chugga chugga chugga".

And truly heroic programming techniques had to be employed on the C64 to do X/Y smooth scrolling games. Often a static part of the screen, conveniently displaying scores etc, existed to make it work - there was just enough bandwidth to do 80% of the screen, say, so you find an excuse to keep the rest of it static.

I kinda miss those days, and I kinda don't. I guess it was good to have experienced them.
Anyone interested in this topic who wishes to explore it in depth should read Marty Markary's 2019 book "The Price We Pay".

While slightly out-of-date due to legislation that has passed since then, the book does an excellent job of explaining a lot of the perverse incentives at all levels throughout the medical industry that contribute to the outrageously high cost of healthcare in the US. Worth a read.
That's fair, but going back to the report I had misread it. It actually includes a lot more cars than I thought.

However, it relies on reporting of accidents that is likely missing a lot of them. It is very likely that only Tesla's data is close to accurate.
These illustrations were used in the first edition in 1937. My edition is from 1992. I don't think frequency of use has changed at all.
HN is also similar to a blockchain in another regard - You can't really delete your account and its content, which really annoys me to be honest. I like to purge online accounts from time to time, but that's not possible with HN.
In many states if you want anonymity you ALSO have to pay a lawyer to be the principal agent in addition to the registered agent.

Basically the lawyer is the CEO/“Owner” but since you pay them to do exactly as you say, they delegate everything back to you and just sign forms occasionally that you put in front of them.
The source survey is a few links it but it does support the article in that 41% people said they owed money that they could not immediately pay off.
> the proposal from tauri is to run majority of the application in JavaScript / HTML ecosystem

That's a decision the developer has to take, but I'd rather see it as the opposite: the sensible approach is to run just the UI related things in Javascript, and run almost all of your business logic in Rust.
Something for people to keep in mind that this is pulling in the source for:

- An electron-like framework

- A web framework

- Multiple HTTP clients

- An HTML parser

- An image editor

- A search engine

Some potential dependency savings I noticed:

How come you pull in both isahc and reqwest? On the surface, don't they fill the same role? Similar for rustls and openssl.

If you upgrade your readability dependency, you will only pull in reqwest once instead of twice. Might be useful to run `cargo tree -d`.

I'm not familiar with savefile? What does that get you over serde_json which you also pull in?
Well, he's wrong, given that output has been knocked about by a large number of non-monetary factors such as COVID, supply chain issues, the war with Russia, and (yet again) oil and gas.
Dicorcing a criminal CFAA violator may be to your advantage in the divorce.
This was a very honest sentence in this article, in stark contrast to the title.
Ask HN: How are world leaders able to visit Ukraine?
I keep seeing reports of one leader then the next visiting Ukraine and their leader every so often. How is this possible, given then fact that it's a warzone?

I would imagine it's simply too risky. Can someone please explain why they're taking such risks, or why the risks are in fact smaller than they appear. Thanks!
I don't want to misjudge you but the question kind of suggests that no answer will truly satisfy. I mean like you could ask did your eyeball rest upon each word? Did your brain decode the meaning of every word? I don't know.

I read it when I was 17 and again at 21. Haven't read it since. I studied literature so I had to read it the second time. It's very far from being a favourite and lots of silly things are said about it but it is readable and evocative and interesting.
It is embarrassing to me we fund shit science like this.

Surely, someone who eats chocolate cake everyday day also has health issues compared to those who do not because of the correlation with poor lifestyle choices that someone who eats chocolate cake everyday is bound to have.

How many people eat a good diet, exercise regularly and have a non-diet coke everyday? Basically no one.
I'd also say that while this is a major problem and ought to be fixed, streamlining the process from the perspective of the people applying is probably going to require both political will and spending more on city administration.
I believe that reading a line-editing manual [0] has greatly improved my writing. Keeping writing and editing as distinctly separated as possible also helps a lot.

[0]: Personally I use Line by Line (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580473.Line_by_Line).
For anyone getting walking voluntarily into a bureaucratic labyrinth like this, I highly encourage documenting the whole sequence so you don't get lost in the middle of it. With something distasteful like this value-destroying sequence of waits and applications and meetings, it's reasonable to try to hold it at arm's length and minimize the time you voluntarily commit, but these things will eat you alive if you let them go that way.
Yes. It'd be a shame if this effort were to continue to use the same name, especially given they're both operating systems.

Drew?
You can use tauri without concerning yourself with rust at all. You can use typescript or JavaScript. Optionally if you want too you can write backend stuff that needs to go fast in safe or unsafe rust. It's kinda dreamy if you need to access drivers, or other things that are very uncomfortable to do in js.

When you get comfortable with rust it's just like any other language you might use. Yea it has safety benefits but it's just a nice language.

People talk about rust like it's impossible to learn, or not worth it, I think it's a language every programmer should learn at some point to fact check their understanding of memory management. It does take a few weeks to figure out for some people, but writing basic/easy/sane rust isn't a challenge at all.
Several years ago a hostel owner in Costa Rica was telling me about trying to get things done through the small city government for his business.

After failing to get permits/licenses/whatever it was, someone told him he needed to give the city administrator some cash on the side for things to go through. Boom! Instant success!

At the time of our talking, he'd accepted that paying bribes to the government (not what the locals called it) was just a regular part of doing business.

It was astonishing that it was required, openly acknowledged/accepted by the locals, and pervasive through other government branches.
I agree it's entirely possible that some bureaucracy is intended as a trial by fire. That said I think that is a tiny minority of the time. Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

The people implementing these regulations don't have the time, resources, or expertise to create holistically efficient systems. Instead they can have meetings, write rules, have more meetings, vote on the rules, and then add another step to a process that assumes you go to an office and fill out a form because that's how it was done the first time someone had to come up with the permitting process.

If I approach a rule maker and say "you're trying to over regulate!" then I'm challenging their raison d'etre without demonstrating understanding of their limited toolset. If, on the other hand, I say, "let me reduce your costs, save you time, and help you collect money faster" then (I believe) I'm going to have a better time. It's for that reason that I feel the "everyone vs inefficiency" argument is more likely to succeed.
All these components/frameworks are build for websites, but a desktop application looks different. I haven‘t seen a maintained desktop application ui framework in years.
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i agree - it’s a significant distinction that often gets overlooked. whilst a company is ran by (ostensibly) moral agents, the overall entity is not the sum of those parts.
It's reminiscent of conspiracy theories. You can sit there and untangle the jargon until you understand all the oblique references to events, and it's still nonsense.
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Probably someone showed up with a hundred thousand tonnes of apples coated with toxic pesticide, several people died, and now you need to prove you're not a poison apple vendor.
> Also, what's up with people asking this question in the first conversation?

At least here in the USA, there's a lot of advice about deflecting that question. Things like, countering with "What are your pay ranges?", or "Let's wait to negotiate the salary until we're sure we're a good fit." and so on.

I believe the common reasoning that they ask early is to cut out overpriced developers. When a company gets lots of applicants this probably makes sense to them. I think generally, if you're a good fit they'll go a little above their max pay to try and bring you in.
I have issues with how they did their analysis. They count anyone who paid for medical services on a credit card and then is carrying that on their credit card balance month to month. Folks… that’s how many Americans pay for all goods and services and run their finances. The last time I checked, 60% of Americans carry a credit card balance from month to month. The findings in their report seem aligned to that.

I think people are reading too much into a poor analysis, created and reported on by institutions with an obvious agenda.
Not everyone has the skills to build the toolset and use it. My brother called last night to help him change some SASS variables in a bootstrap theme. He’s a data scientist and had no idea how to build bootstrap’s js and apply the new variables. If bootstrap came from npm fully built, over half of his problems he called me about (15 times!) would have been avoided.
Most of those steps exist because of some asshole who did asshole shit.

You need to have an inspection by the water board to size the grease trap because some asshole dumped his cooking waste down the drain and created a fat berg that clogged the sewer. You need fire inspections because assholes block emergency egress, disable smoke alarms, etc. We have health permitting and inspection because people will do things like not fix freezers or leave a tray of raw chicken in 90 degree heat on a tray perched in the grease trap.

Entrepeneurs are great, but many will cut corners to make it work. I’d rather not get poisoned to advance their dream.
Maybe I'm jaded but 5k (or even the 22k in the article for SF) doesn't seem that bad to me. In 2016, I did a kitchen remodel in my CA townhome and the permit costs, which included a city inspector coming over for 20 minutes cost 3.5k. For context, I paid the licensed contractor 10k for labor. If taxes are low, expect fees I guess.
Corporations are sociopaths by their very design. Their number one mandate is to make money for their shareholders and to grow. This colours every decision they make.
That’s the sound of the wave motion gun charging up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-1zWsXFNs
These businesses are underground because the regulatory burden of being over the table makes them either impossible to start because of upfront costs vs future profit or impossible to to keep viable because of recurring costs.

Nobody "wants" to run an under the table business and have their income be subject to the whims of enforcement but the other option is just so bad it's the lesser evil.
Hmm. Last time I suggested that[0], I was quickly shot down. I still don't really know why, but as I'm no geologist or civil engineer, I'm willing to believe either a yes or a no at this point.

I definitely don't see any other gravity batteries being useful on this scale.

[0] specifically I suggested that there was a lot of room for a lot of additional pumped hydro — I don't mean my more recent claim, which is merely that existing pumped hydro is cool
Romanian port becomes key transit hub for Ukrainian grain
If you truly think that the Democrats hold controlling majorities in the House and Senate, then you are quite misinformed.
Did you really need LinkedIn to begin with? Possibly the worst service I have ever used.
Eh, both Manchin and Sinema self-identify as democracts, which some argue is all you really need these days. More importantly to me, however, if we rely on actions and not words, they consciously elect to remain members of Democractic party ( as opposed to say.. being Republican, Independent, Green or whatever ).

For all practical reporting purposes, they are Democracts. The moment you apply 'but they voted for X', you can cast McConnel as a democract, because he greenlighted new gun deal.
Remember, that argument to `findOne()` is an arrow function. You need a compiler to turn it into a efficient, deferred query; otherwise you need to _evaluate_ the function at runtime.