skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem with them was the massive about of money they were burning on servers and being sued by RIAA (Music companies) and MPAA (Film companies) among others. They needed a big infusion of capital.

Instagram on the other hand could have remained independent and succeeded.
Only if you're from Estonia or Hungary. Finnish is so different from all the other European languages that it's like starting from zero. The letter system aside I've found Japanese much easier to learn and I'm half-Finnish (Swedish being my native language).
I keep hearing this, but I live in SF and I never felt that the taxes were that annoying, and considering the misery in the streets I'd be willing to pay much much more for things to improve.

People need to see taxes as a monthly subscription that makes life around you better
The impact of school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment
I think Singapore is one of my other favourite cities in addition to Helsinki!

In many ways it's very different though - while the taxes are lower, its generally much more expensive, especially if you have kids. Singapore is a very dense, packed, hot city - you get a bit of island fever and are not so close to nature. Helsinki is literally the opposite. Singapore and Helsinki are both very, very safe, but I find Singapore has more extreme ends of wealth distribution (very badly paid migrant workers).

Both are super functional though, with good universities, and both great options for running a company/working in tech. I would happily live in either city.
Finland was basically blocking the Northern approach during the Siege of Leningrad which lasted 2.5 years and killed almost a million Russians.
> Ww2 in Europe was largely won by the USSR.

fourstar isn't denying that. Yet the sacrifice of the USSR did not entitle them to hegemony over the free world. Instead it merely saved them and us.
I feel similar for android.
When I looked at the shutdown procedure for k3s I ran away in horror: it's basically firing off kill signals left and right and leaves all kinds of stuff laying around like bridges and temp state, making it hard to restart it if you don't want to reboot the server. The net result was the shutdown procedure for the server does not complete. As far as I can tell, this is a bit inherent to Kubernetes: it wants to be high-available and doesn't like shutting down the last node in the cluster, which is what a home server is.

Edit to add:

I'm having great fun with Podman instead. I don't need all the orchestration stuff or the autoscaling: one of each service is fine for a home server. Systemd can be the supervisor. I did a little fiddling to get service discovery with dynamic DNS, this could be improved. Using static routes on the router, I can route right into the right container network. This too could be improved: with IPv6 prefix delegation I could potentially route into the container from anywhere in the world.
That's a very strange attitude from someone who proselytizes Lisp, the language which pioneered IDEs about 30 years before other languages really had anything comparable.

Emacs, for Common Lisp, is still a much more advanced IDE than many languages have. It used to actually be a significant ingredient in the secret sauce that made Lisp so powerful - an advantage which it has thoroughly lost to IntelliJ/Visual Studio in my opinion.
I’ve only once worked under a manager who also coded, and I had extremely mixed feelings. On the one hand, he was a brilliant engineer who I learned a ton from, and who set a really solid technical direction for the team.

On the other hand, I was personally unhappy a lot of the time. On one occasion he pretty much tore apart one of my designs and I felt fairly humiliated (with reason, as a few other senior engineers confirmed in private conversations).

Did my design deserve to die horribly? I don’t know. The PR had already been accepted, but maybe the accepter was wrong. In any case it felt really crappy to be criticized so heavily by someone who in theory supports me.
But then again, they are still Microsoft and deserve none of that.
This gives me an idea for a dongle with a button, and when you press the button it sends the contents of the clipboard as keystrokes. No browser hacks needed!
That’s like suggesting a locked door that gets picked isn’t really breaking and entering.
I know Drew from Dropbox implemented a binary diff for his first version (on a bus) but I don't know the details. I don't know if git can somehow...but I suppose you could always MIME encode it (like email base64 encoding).
I would say yes. Ronald Coase did some excellent work to explain how transaction costs get in the way of optimizing economic activity among and within firms. Traditional marketplaces would clearly have higher transaction costs than these newer marketplaces. Search costs are much higher, coordination costs are much higher, and data analysis is much harder. Tech has a huge advantage in making all three of these things much lower and thereby making transaction costs much lower. Heck, just by not accepting cash, I bet they make transaction costs significantly lower than the traditional marketplaces. Heck, just by not having to operate point-of-sale card swiping devices, I bet they significantly lower the transaction costs too.

He won a Nobel Prize if that matters. I think his two seminal works, “The Nature of the Firm” and “The Problem of Social Cost” do really well to explain why tech is winning so much compared to traditional marketplaces. Especially “The Problem of Social Cost”, which explains how externalization of transaction costs creates advantageous and unfair effects.
An mutch easier solution that gets you 90% of the way is to just use a binary patcher (like bsdiff) with whatever database format you're already using.
An asymptomatic 71-year-old woman transmitted the coronavirus for 70 days
My take is that homelessness is a nationwide issue in the US more than anywhere else in the world, and its more visible in states that have more funding to address the issue. Knowing that, 360M$ is nowhere near enough to alleviate the symptoms, and nothing compared to what needs to be invested to cure the actual root cause.
Android needed google to grow, YouTube didn’t.
> That's just invalid XHTML by Calibre.

No, it's quite valid. The trouble is that FBReader doesn't do what's wanted with it. This is in the next sentence of the original article text.
Prostastream Review, Legit or a Scam?
Any chance you could share that? I think some flights still don't charge for Facebook messenger, so HTTP over messenger might still be useful.
I presume what the author is developing is code that they're eventually going to want to run on their home server, at least if they get far enough along with it. What else would the end goal of a personal project be?
A-Line Spitze Ärmellos Herz-Ausschnitt Brautkleid
Edith Wharton’s Moroccan Clichés
+1 for Crisp.

As a pre-product-market-fit startup, I was looking for the cheapest option, to basically figure out if people would message me at all or not. (They do!) I've started with Drift around half a year ago and everything was broken. (Maybe they fixed everything by now, can't tell.) Went over to Crisp and I'm super happy with it. For now I'm still on the free plan.
What happens after 90 days?
Not only that, all these props are just propaganda to me. I see a bunch of youtube videos constantly telling me that people are gonna die if I don't vote for prop something. No information, just appeals to emotions.
Yes, a high school intern did that actually - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490964
Did not know about the pricing change (no email or any attempted communication it seems). Will be moving to GH actions immediately, bye bye Travis.
> https://twitter.com/EmmaReillyTweet/status/13214608289698816... - the whistleblower herself, posting court documents.

... related to her wrongful termination complaint, arguing that she shouldn't have been fired for leaking information in 2013. So either those documents are irrelevant except to show why she is a former UN human rights lawyer (evidently her complaint was unsuccessful) or revealing the attendees of events in advance is exactly what she leaked back then, in which case it's a bit suspicious that she suddenly got multiple outlets to report on it only 7 years after the fact.

> I will humor you, and add yet more sources (though I am sure you will be able to find something objectionable about each)

The problem common to all of them is that they're not independent sources, but just different write-ups of the same person's statements, namely that former UN employee. Adding more links isn't the same as adding more information.
> What this does is, it collects money from today's FAANGs while disincentivizing future startups from starting here.

Come on... There's a million reasons why new startups shouldn't start here, the salary of a CEO is not one of them.
I'm sad you got downvoted for that, I really enjoyed it haha.
Do you have examples of what has been built?
Lots of tools available, but showing something built with tool is more compelling.
> salaries go from 4-6k euros. Take-home pay would be in the region of 2.5-4.5k most likely

With 6k salary, you would likely be taking home at most 4k. 6k translates to about 75000 yearly (lomaraha, i.e. holiday bonus, is about 50% of single month's pay). With standard deductions, your tax rate would be around 29% (that's with 19% municipal tax, it varies a bit depending where you live) & you need to add 8.40% to that for retirement & unemployment (those are required). 6000*(1-0.3745)=3753. Additional 156 if you add 1/12 of lomaraha to that.

Some additional deductions can bring the value up a bit (transport, home office etc.).
elderly dying because he can't afford treatment

The US has universal Medical coverage for the elderly.
Alternative story: NSA cracked the wallet's password and FBI invented Individual X as a cover story.
Google acquired android for 50m$.
here is a good lecture on Hegel by the legendary philosophy Professor Rick Roderick:

http://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/
> Even Donald Trump could not turn them toward fiscal stimulus nor infrastructure.

He can't pass an infrastructure plan because anything of that scope requires persuasion and compromise across many competing interests, things I believe he's constitutionally incapable of. It's the same reason he never had a healthcare bill. If he can't strong arm a deal, he can't get it done at all. I think he actually used the bully pulpit of the presidency to pretty poor effect as far as that goes.
I missed the word "NAT" once in my previous comment. IPv6 NAT exists. Works fine, if that's what you want.

But also NPT is so much better. And/or enables several architectures with so much easier topology.

> Also, try telling your friend over the phone, "The IP for my Minecraft server is ff01:119c:19f9:aaaa:8ade

Why would you not use DNS?

And even more: why would you use a phone? People don't call, anymore.
> so they could pay rent.

this may be true, but your implication is unnecessarily sinister. these organizations have balances sheets and budgets too. like everyone else in the whole world, their business model probably isnt equipped to handle an epidemic. something has to give. maybe it shouldn't have been this, but the premise that colleges dont need money to survive is foolish.
> It is this gap that Oliver Soden proceeds to plug in his delightful ‘biography’ of Jeoffry. Soden decides that Jeoffry is rust-coloured. He starts him off in a Covent Garden brothel, where he spends his kitten days chasing used condoms across the floor, avoiding piss pots and wondering at the meaty smells emanating from the bed under which he crouches while his mistress, Nancy Burroughs, doggedly transacts her business.

TIL I learned 18th century condoms were a common thing [1]:

> The condom market grew rapidly, however. 18th-century condoms were available in a variety of qualities and sizes, made from either linen treated with chemicals, or "skin" (bladder or intestine softened by treatment with sulphur and lye). They were sold at pubs, barbershops, chemist shops, open-air markets, and at the theater throughout Europe and Russia. The first recorded inspection of condom quality is found in the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova (which cover his life until 1774): to test for holes, he would often blow them up before use.

Or not? Interesting contradiction here. They basically used the same thing they used for sausage casing so why was it so expensive?

> Up to the 19th century, condoms were generally used only by the middle and upper classes. Perhaps more importantly, condoms were unaffordable for many: for a typical prostitute, a single condom might cost several months' pay.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_condoms#18th_centur...
Your tone shines a light that perhaps you are on of those cloudflaire employees/fanboys who will drown out a warning.

The parent poster had a point and your reply is reenforcing it.
> 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.

If you think WWII was settled in February of '43 then that says all we need to know regarding your credibility on this matter. I only mean to be as harsh as is necessary, but it is crazy to be as cavalier as you are being regarding the history of a war where so many lives were lost.
A critical twitter thread: https://twitter.com/clinpsychbook/status/1324061745347022850...
I was being glib in the description but it’s not like PageRank is a crazy idea either, is it?

The reason I’m prodding at this is because there are different ways in which someone can fail to understand the value of an idea. The value proposition for Google doesn’t seem far-fetched at all, but I could believe that investors simply didn’t believe PageRank was a good enough idea to displace then market leaders.
The problem with the assumption that a quality service is provided, is that when there is a violence enforced monopoly on the service, it is impossible to tell whether or not the service is efficient or where it might be improved because there is no metric to compare it against. The lack of any market signal means you can never really know if your service is providing a meaningful return on investment, and potential ventures which may improve upon it are prevented from doing so by threat of violence.

I find the claim that without the State, cars would explode and bridges would fall very bizarre. There is no basis for this assumption but clouded thinking. Bridges build well before modern governments and regulations are still standing, and vehicles from the 70s function just fine. It has always been in the best interest of product providers to have their products certified by reputable organizations, and they'll pay to have it done. The Underwriters Laboratory has been privately certifying products for 126 years. Many of the government regulatory bodies are much younger. There may even be an argument that private certification would improve health and safety because businesses would be in competition to provide the absolute best, rather than merely meeting a minimum requirement set by the State.

I wouldn't argue against the fact that teachers are essential workers, but the almost state monopoly on provision of this service can't possibly face the scrutiny of individual's choices and expectations - there is no market. I would take a school voucher system like Sweden has over the public school system in the UK any day.

My point about teachers being overly supportive of lockdown is that they have no personal consequence for themselves for doing so. Lets assume for a moment that you are a teacher, but in the private sector. The government enforces a lockdown which prevents you from working, and since you aren't working, the parents of the children you would normally teach are not paying you. You have no income. Do you still support government lockdowns, or do you want to get back to work ASAP and earn money? (You have bills to pay). Public sector workers have no skin in the game - they still have income and they'll have a job to go back to when the government lets them. This drastically affects their ability to THINK, and why they are almost unanimous on their support of lockdowns.
It all falls apart for the RIAA at 2) a) "....measure that effectively controls access to a work...."
Generally true, but not always true. Shopify seem to be doing just fine with this model. If things change, maybe this model will also change.
I'm a native Finnish speaker near Helsinki. The problems you mention are definitely very common for skilled immigrants here - if you don't absolutely need to learn the language, you're not very likely to put yourself through the hardship it entails. Especially if you've already formed social bonds in English.

That's what I was trying to say. If you do want to learn the local language, you have to be willing and able to put up with it being pretty crappy for a few months. My experience has been that it's very hard to integrate a new language into your persona without immersing yourself in it. For most people it's not worth it if they can get by without. Completely understandable.

Now you've got me wondering if I should start thinking about how to teach Finnish to English-speaking professionals :D
You are getting a lot of critical responses, and I hate to dog pile, but:

>Amazon/Google/etc happily pay ten times that salary

In the thread, they say Helsinki juniors start out at ~$3k/mo after taxes. In the Bay Area, let's say you are a junior at a FAANG and are getting $150k/year. This works out to $8k/mo after taxes. So the difference between a FAANG and Helsinki is more like 3x. Maybe, 4X if you account for bonuses/options. But it's not 10x.

Obviously, 3-4X is still a lot. If it's a choice between Helsinki and SF, SF wins hands down.

Problem is that most of the engineers working in the US are not working for a FAANG company in the Bay Area. If you look at what engineers are getting paid in places like Houston or Atlanta, you will find that juniors start at $60k/year, which is $4k/mo after taxes. That's very close to the reported $3k/mo rate for Helsinki.

There is this weird trend I noticed on HN. Whenever the subject of money comes up, people start casually quoting Bay Area numbers like they are representative of the industry as a whole. I don't think they are.
When you click on this link you are being tracked before you agree to tracking, my router is blocking this domain so silent redirect doesnt work for me and exposes tracking:

https: / / guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_cc-session_680ec19f-a1f4-4061-94cb-114bef96ed56

Every click generates new sessionId. Quite sure this isn't legal.
> Housing is literally exclusively a supply and demand problem. If you want rent to go down, allow more building

Wrong. Without Land Value Tax the housing market simply doesn't clear. If there is no force to make house and land owners to sell to those who would actually utilize it better, they will sit on it forever until a huge ass corp or gov eventually buys them out for ridiculous price. As an owner you just have to wait while not paying virtually anything. Everybody else who actually needs to live, work or produce something in that location has to rely on new housing in ever increasing urban sprawling cities.

San Francisco is a prime example of this and apparently always has been as Henry George showed more than a century ago.
When I book a dentist or an oral hygienist, the first available times are usually at miminum 8 months ahead. The cost is 60 €. This is at the public healthcare.

Granted, this is another Finnish city, not Helsinki.
I'm unaware of any Google product with any kind of per-user "admin" UI that only employees can access.

That kind of thing isn't good for security - an evil employee could use it for bad things.

Instead, all accounts get the same permissions, except disabled accounts (and in some cases blacklists for certain features, but these are avoided because maintainance of the list is a burden).
A range would be fair. For example "safe to use for 3-7 years" in the case of this phone by the sound of it.
I live in Norway and I can tell you, 300 km will not suffice. The thing is, when you have other trucks on the market with more range (e.g. Tesla-Semi), and likely, much better charging infrastructure, why would you go with Volvo?

Volvo has a way to go if they want to compete in this market.

Noise wont have any effect as it is not government regulated. A buyer of Semis wont think twice about noice if $ / km is lower.
“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world” —George Washington (b. 1732) https://archive.is/X0UJc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy_of_the_Uni...

In my experience, farming is 24x7 hard work;
Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
I agree that a land tax is great policy if anyone wants to argue about fairness and outcomes. (And therefore I suspect politicians talking about land taxes will by a sign of the end times.)

But it is very easy to have cheap housing and lots of it without a land tax. If I could sign a 50 years lease with strong protections that might even be better for me than buying, and landlords would have the usual incentives to build lots of houses if there is demand.

The problem in California sounds like the landholders who are being rewarded are the ones who choose not to build more dwellings. Greedy landlords in high-demand areas would build more, because then they make more money. I'd rather rent to an apartment building of people than a wealthy middle class family. And they'd be making generational fortunes doing that.
A place in the university course, or a place in halls-of-residence, though?
There is one in progress from the EFF. [0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/first-amendment-case-a...
I think instagram is one of the (few) companies that could eventually have eclipsed Facebook really.
> What do Microsoft really think about open-source?

- "Thank you, creative person, here is your exposure"
https://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/exposure/expo...
Wikipedia lists dozens of mnemonics, including a number of sexual, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive variants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_...

The article includes a story about a professor who specifically mentions one offensive variant as a reason she felt alienated at MIT in the 80s, leading her to leave the program.
Moreover, there’s a story about a teacher being reprimanded for using an offensive variant.

I think all of this adds up to: yes, it is probably best if you keep the offensive version to yourself.
Thin air. This is the internet after all.
100% this! People can’t possibly complain when companies charge for their tools. If an open source project is important to an organisation, they better start donating.
A documentary and a Bollywood film highlight two disparate paths in mathematics
I have something very, very similar for a new line of business app I've just started building, except with no docker or terraform (I use docker to run a local postgres, that's it).
Exactly. This is long haul trucking we are talking about, not the typical FedEx van.
> I don't know why you would want to change the law now

The law change was when app drivers were ruled to have to be employees. That is the status quo that was change.

Prop 22 merely reverts the situation back to the previous status quo, that the drivers preferred. (the majority of drivers supported prop 22)
I wrote an NPM package to convert JSON objects to/from a dotted format. It doesn't (currently) sort the flattened output, but that would be easy to add.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/flattenjs
Travis is trash anyway. I've switched to CircleCI years ago and I'm happy with it. Also completely free. PS: I'm in no way affiliated with CircleCI, I'm just a happy customer.