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"Classic" approach turned out to be maddeningly harder.

Everything, even inside single "application", going slightly off the reservation. Services that would die in stupid ways. Painful configuration that would have been abstracted out were I running containers on k8s (some benefits might be realized with Docker compose, but docker on its own is much more brittle than k8s).

So much SSH-ing to a node to tweak things. apt-get fscking the server. Etc.

Oh, and logging being shitshow.
The SNES version was coded from scratch in 65816/Super FX assembly language [1]; how the PC version did things would’ve been neither here nor there.

[1] https://github.com/RandalLinden/DOOM-FX - yes, that’s the original code on GitHub, released by the author
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Dogfooding isn't a silver bullet. Remember Google Buzz [0]? It's been used successfully within Google for a while before being released. It turned out to be a disaster partially due to the fact that it was built (or iterated on) with Google's internal users in mind.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
Pretty much as in Germany. Election workes get a small monetary compensation for refreshments in Germany. And because all polling is local, within a couple hundred meters of your place of living, and voting is on Sundays, there is nearly no costs incurred for the election workers.
The US is the wealthiest nation by far and has leverage over any other developed nation you can name.

It has to be asked, what is being bought by the US participating in NATO? What are they getting in return? And is that in the interest of the majority of US citizens or not?

There seems to be a push from the US and the UK towards returning to isolationism. There are pros and cons to further isolation, which ought to be considered and balanced in the interest of the people - assuming democracy is the overriding principle.

That said, what consequences do you think would be borne by the US if they pulled out of NATO? And do you think there might be some benefits to counter that?
Something I don’t understand in this article is the “People won’t understand your ideas if they’re any good.” Like, the idea behind Google is, “Let’s make another search engine, but make it really good.” That’s not a crazy idea, is it? Was the problem that VCs thought existing engines were good enough and that Google’s wouldn’t be enough better to be worthwhile?
I don't think they do, at least in the long term. In the short and medium term its arguable either way. We're still at the very beginning of the era of truly distributed computing and what it tends to do when it spreads is replace centralized entities with protocols.

If this sounds like a very played out line of thinking, that's because we're now in the trough of disappointment of the hype cycle. You can't expect any fundamental new tech to live up to its hype only a few decades after invention. Also not all the pieces needed have been invented yet.
If anything Finnish is much easier than Japanese for Europeans.
Completely agree with everything you said. But how does woke and liberal politics square with almost complete apathy to the the plight of the homeless (or of those verging on homelessness)? Almost nothing has been done to make housing affordable (even very modest, incremental bills in this regard have been shot down). If you consider the plight of agricultural workers and housing for them, you would be even more befuddled. 9.2% sales tax? Regressive tax on the poor. Gasoline tax? Again, hurts the poor the most. What am I missing here?
About time people start to stand up against certain measures. It has become pretty obvious that governments are using the pandemic to figure out how much they can fuck with citizens without them rioting.
In the last 8 months, the so-called freedom in the west has been put to a pretty harsh test. It has been demonstrated that almost everything we learnt about democracy and freedom at school has been a blatant lie.
Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ?

I have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression. That comes along with the modern emphasis on "me" and "my goals" and "my desires"

As Soren Kierkegaard put it "Anxiety is the price of freedom"
Nothing, but its pretty common to have the home server plus a desktop/laptop where you do most of the work (even for home server), that may not be linux - in which case containers are the easiest way
I'm guessing we assume that the second worker doesn't steal the machine resources of the first worker in this case?
I’m curious how the DMCA interacts with the 1st amendment. Have there been court cases examining this kind of DMCA application vs free speech rights?
The GitLab logo has very prominent gray lines between the segments. I recall reading an article about this issue with alpha blending, but can no longer find it.

I found a related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14310652
Isn’t it Paul Graham who also wrote a blogpost saying “How to make a trillion dollars? Build a platform.” ?
I don’t know about Shopify specifically, but in general I think this is a red flag. Are you going to be able to leave honest feedback on your CEO’s PR? can your CEO run a company and also continue to keep up with best practices for your language/tooling? Will your CEO go along with code style consensus, when he/she hasn’t had time to participate in any of the conversations?
Sure, people may be satisfied with their system, but that's all they know. And that goes both ways, for Americans and others.

As someone who has experience both the US system and a universal system, there are things you get in the US system (if you have insurance) that you won't get in other systems.
That's not really an idea though, that's a goal, the idea is the description of how you will reach your goal, which in Google's case was PageRank.
Also if they block through-ways they would only force more people to go through main entrances increasing the likelihood of close contact there.
Finnish belongs to a language group[1] that consists of just two other languages (Estonian and Hungarian). It's quite literally like nothing else.

Living in a neighboring country I understand nothing of Finnish. Spanish, Italian, French — I can make some sense out of it without knowing the languages.

I must however add that I've witnessed, more than a handful of times, English speaking knowledge workers moving to Sweden who continue speaking English and only English for years and years.

It comes with a social price though. You will never quite understand all the social codes or become a part of the social fabric. At many parties and dinners I've seen the whole group having to switch to English because there's someone in the group who has lived here for five or ten years and still haven't gotten around even attempting to speak Swedish. Everyone will switch but but it will be a different night, without all the nuances we usually enjoy. In the end everyone loses.

If you plan to stay, do everything to learn the language. You will be happier person in your new country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages
Assessment is a usually necessary part of education. You need to figure out what your class knows. And a fair proportion of your students won't bother to really know stuff unless it'll be formally assessed. And, yes, also there's the issue with granting credentials: you don't want to give them to people who haven't reached a minimum standard.

I'm fortunate in that the classes I teach are centered project-based learning and ... not too easy to crib on. But if I were teaching core academic sequences, it's a ridiculous amount of work to make problem sets and exercises of appropriate difficulty and develop rubric for them.

You want to be able to leverage other peoples' work, and your past work, in building assessments. And you want to have a time advantage in grading: a 30 minute assessment that you give to 100 students that in turn takes you 30 minutes to grade each is a recipe for no fun.

But all of these things-- these economies of scale in instruction-- open the door to cheating. A well-proctored, well-designed exam can mostly patch over the vulnerability.
I'm not sure that would work. The Republican party, at least the powerful do seem to believe that government can do no right. Even Donald Trump could not turn them toward fiscal stimulus nor infrastructure. Whereas democrats seem willing to take just about anything (though this has stemmed a bit under Trump).

In this case there is no middle as there is no place to compromise between "any" and "none".
Please send a pull request :-)
Why don't they close the University? My Uni has been closed the whole year now. Been working from home ever since.
I am sure you have an alternative suitable and ready for the masses?
No its not. For some sites maybe but not for all their supported sites.
Sci-Hub, unlike The Pirate Bay or similar sites, is unequivocally a good thing. I don't have a source on hand, but lives have probably been saved by medical articles being accessible in poor coubtries. To deny the world scientific knowledge, in many cases publicly funded, solely to protect absurd profit margins, is so cartoonishly evil and horrifically vile that it makes me sick. I have no sympathy whatsoever for Elsevier. Unless it's instructions for a doomsday device, pirate it all.
Finnish is notorious for its complex grammar. I'm half-Finnish and still cannot hold a real conversation even though I took classes for years when young. For Japanese one semester was enough to be able to hold a basic conversation when visiting Tokyo.
I often think about how YouTube was the bargain of the century.

YouTube would be one if the biggest companies ever if it had remained independent.
> From the evidence I've seen so far, startups that turn down acquisition offers usually end up doing better.

I bet causality is reversed from what he is hinting at. Startups that can see a pathway to becoming insanely valuable are more likely to turn down offers. Startups that see no path and that are, effectively, putting on a brave face do not turn down a profitable escape route.

By that dynamic alone, you'd expect startups turning down offers to be a very strong signal of success. How many idiots are there with the wherewithal to run a company but then try and turn down money in the face of going bankrupt?
> They have no herd immunity.

Neither does anywhere else.

Other places simply stabilized at a higher # of infections/day, because they have worse compliance with social distancing, lockdowns, and basic hygeine. But even bad compliance is better than nothing, and brings R0 down.

Stop compliance with all of those things, and you get a second wave that dwarfs the first.
If you look closely the mathematics is all Gompertz-Functions. Big expansion in small groups, burning locally too fast to maintain a continuous exponential fire. This results in seasonal dynamics just like a corona-virus.

Usually if you look at death by "date of death" you see Gompertz-Functions all around. If you look at death by "reporting date" you often see a very uneven lag forming some exponentials...
I would echo this. If you want to experience the best parts of Nordic living (clean/functional everything, super close to nature, great free education, egalitarian attitudes) and are a tech entrepreneur or an investor, Helsinki offers all of the above plus very skilled engineers for reasonable salaries compared to the Bay Area, to build world class companies.

People generally work hard but smart, tell you how it is to your face and are generally honest, kind and sincere.

And welcome to Helsinki, I think Webflow will do great there! Love the platform.
The countries that sacrificed their old people like Sweden, Italy and Spain don't have herd immunity either.
As CEO or CTO, it;'s crucial you understand your business and if you're in a tech business, you better understand the tech to an appropriate level too. Coding can be a part of that
I didn't say they don't pay taxes. I said they don't contribute to the public purse. Your taxes are not a contribution to the public purse because your entire wage comes from the public purse. A public sector worker is not adding to the national gain. Their work may provide value to the nation, in that it can be considered an investment - in the case of teaching, the students who graduate and go into the private sector may create wealth that goes into the national gain.

The fact that public sector workers even pay taxes on their income from the State is a bizarre process which merely ties up financial resources into a system where they're taken from a pot, only to be put back into the same pot later on, in a repeated cycle.

It has become apparent that many of the students who graduate from publicly subsidized academies go back into the academies themselves. They are not necessarily providing value to a nation, but its impossible to really measure whether or not that could be the case. The expansion of the public sector has obvious consequences though: less income into the public purse whilst public expenditure grows. There's only one conclusion to this trend if it were to continue: the salaries of all public sector workers will eventually exceed the income tax from private sector workers. Insane.

If more workers were placed into the private sector, then not only does national expenditure decrease, the total income tax increases - those same jobs could add to the national gain rather than take from the pot, freeing up resources for other purposes. There must necessarily be a cap on the size of the public sector, and it is my opinion that the smaller the better.
Check out "No Rules Rules" by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer. If you can't leave (constructive) feedback/criticism to your CEO, you're working at a sick company.
There is a game coming out in 2021 about this. It's called Inkulinati. They have their own explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_hbTojKvw
(3 minutes)
Nobody has herd immunity yet. The idea of infecting younger people while shielding an ill defined vulnerable group never worked, and it turns out that "long covid" is a thing.
I moved from SF to the Nordics on a startup visa and feel obligated to temper expectations whenever I see these.

- There are good schools and people, but don't expect the density of top people to be anything close to SF. Finding friends to talk shop with requires active engagement.

- Every European country is trying to promote itself as startup friendly, and what you are seeing from a distance is being heavily curated by government funded marketing efforts. I recently declined to take part in an marketing video because I cannot in good faith suggest people leave SF/US unless it is for ideological reasons. Expect your company L's valuation to be 1/10th of what the would be back in the US. Expect to make up the private investment shortfall with hugely distracting public funding, both in terms of wasted time applying/reporting and tangental product development. Labour laws will require you to have a _at_least_ extra 3 months of runway on hand so that you can give the mandatory notice periods.

-Nordic work culture gets really old really quickly if you're a high achiever type.

- Nightlife is just one of those things America does bigger and better

- Finally, and this is admittedly tongue in cheek, expect to be taxed to hell and back on all things fun unless it involves making babies.

Anyone planning a move to Europe as an entrepreneur, please take time to talk to people and understand the downsides. It's still okay to move for ideological reasons or if europe offers a better environment than your home country. But understand a lot of what you are seeing is being promoted by marketing departments, not entrepreneurs.
Generating an Organic Grid (2020)
That is slightly incorrect.
There are a bunch of languages in the Russian Federation/Scandinavian Peninsula that are very close to Finnish. Much closer than Hungarian itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Permic_languages#/media/...
>a little less than half of German losses where on the eastern front

Where did you get this from? According to Wikipedia, and most other sources, 70-80% of German military casualties were on the Eastern Front.

>The US footed a lot of the material costs needed for Europe and the USSR to stay in the fight...

More than 80% of the aid to USSR was delivered after the Battle of Stalingrad was won by the USSR, and the outcome of the war was pretty much settled.

>the USSR played a significant role

...far greater than what you are suggesting.
I’ve been here a lot less than that. My family circumstances and work brought me here at the start of the year from the UK which given everything that has been going on turned out to be perfect timing! Some thoughts:

- Work in tech, the company is as international as any back in London, just with a higher margin of Finnish people. Total compensation (take home / benefits / holiday) is pretty much comparable to places I worked in London. I’m
not a web developer.

- Not had to use healthcare luckily apart from paying for a COVID test so I could shorten the isolation period on my last trip back. It would cost you more to be ill here - prescription prices for one are higher than in the UK. It feels like a public insurance system and not a National Health Service. NHS has waiting times and I’m sure they do here. Private sector is more established.

- If I earned a couple of 10s of thousand euros either way (higher or lower) then UK taxes would definitely be cheaper but tbh as a portion of my salary it seems about the same. The high taxes manifest themselves as the ‘built in’ price for pretty much everything. Bell peppers (paprikas) are something like 3 times the price as the UK. Neither country grows them at any meaningful scale (crappy example I know)

- The country is effectively an island on the edge of Europe (Finland, not the UK). It has a small population so there isn’t really an economy of scale - this also makes things more expensive.

- Language is a pain. I went to a class to study the basics, and make an effort to pick things up. I can order coffee and beer in Finnish but a lot of the time they switch back to English. I can get the gist of a lot of conversations. Most of my friendship group are friends of my wife or other foreigners. Tbh most of my good friends in London weren’t British so that’s the same.

- Immigration isn’t really on the same scale as London. Yeah as a proportion it’s probably higher but it is a small number of people.

- Education is free in both (student loans in the U.K. are just a tax under a different name. It’s not a loan. I was also paid to do my PhD back there) But here you could choose to study a(nother) masters degree at any point in your life for basically free which would be very expensive in the UK.

- I’m writing all this from my perspective as someone who had a job lined up before arriving. If you are thinking of starting a new life here and you’re not highly employable but have bought in to the American hype about it being a land where the state will provide everything for you then you’ll get a rude awakening. Even as a (not any more) EU citizen I had to provide proof of income to fully register here which ironically the UK never required from EU citizens.

- I had to drive 20km to find a good curry last weekend.
My guess is that iOS 13 didn't drop support for any devices, and Apple is only releasing a patch for devices that can't upgrade to the newest OS.
This might be a silly question, but is there a reason why git can't also diff binary files? If I have a huge binary file and I change a few bytes in the middle, what's stopping Git just checking that in as a diff? I don't see what's so special about text...

[edit] just did some research and it looks like Git will store the delta of a binary file in its packfiles, just like a text file. The question is just how delta-able sqlite binary files are.
By that logic there's no such thing as a non-type-safe language, because all programs have behaviour.

Normally one would say a checked downcast like that is not type-safe, because you can't reason locally about the type behaviour of the downcast based on knowing the type of v. You would have to know the value of v, which is a Turing-complete problem in the general case.
Couldn't one implement NAT for IPv6 too? Is there a reason why not?
Congratulations on launching!

If I mention a tag on an item, how can I later remove that tag?

The blog link in the footer is broken.

The page was empty for about 2 seconds while it loaded the animations. I almost clicked away. Could you make the static content load right away and show a spinner in place of animations that haven't yet loaded?

I looked for an About Us page and didn't find one.

How about making comparison pages, "Ambra vs Trello", "Ambra vs Jira", etc?
How to do a device based code split in React
If you read the top comment in the Reddit thread, it sounds like there was a bit of an arms race, with uBlock and Twitch each releasing patches to undo the other’s change. It seems that uBlock got the final word in.
The MusicBrainz dataset unfortunately does not have a popularity score and so I've only ordered results by their text_match_score and release_date. So songs that were more recently released are given higher weightage unfortunately. In a production-grade search setting, you'd typically want to have a popularity score and sort by that.
They are using the first digit distribution, not the second digit that your reference quotes. The law is self evident, and the jupyter notebooks are very simple. Have you actually looked at the repository?

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e667/b8ad9f58992828ff820ddc...

PS the title needs to be edited to correct the misspelling
This feels like survivor bias.

Why aren't there more revolutionary startups? Well, it's because they sold out and some no longer exist.

Why aren't there less revolutionary startups? Well, it's because they didn't sell out and some went on to became tech giants.
Product not available in the UK and I can’t see any details. How much does one bottle cost?
Yeah that’s what I meant. It seems much more convenient to generate PDF layouts this way than to use standard layout structure like you would with tcpdf or similar.

I know there are a bunch of caveats AKA the browser generally helps renders smarter and some features don’t translate well. But generally I prefer your approach.
Which university?

The government rhetoric was that universities should not only remain open but must do face to face teaching.

Without this, the landlords of student accommodation would have been deprived of a years income.
Yes, the USSR paid a very high price for the defeat of Germany. And yes, the US and UK could have stayed out of it and the USSR would have rolled up to the Atlantic Ocean and we'd be talking about the amazing growth of the Finnish economy since it's independence from the USSR in 1990.
Disability insurance provides a percentage of your salary while disabled. It does not provide medical insurance and often you'll get dropped by the company insurance because you're not working.
The new pricing model announcement on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24964601
I also learned Japanese to a professional level very rapidly by immersion (and focused study in parallel), but I was single and not working at the time, which was critical. If you have a full-time job (that you need to perform in your native language), you lose 50% of your immersion potential; if you have a (non-local) family, you likely lose the other 50%; now you are just spending scraps of time studying.

So I think in this context of a professional—who likely has a family—coming over to work, deanclatworthy is right.