skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I also feel that way to some degree, but I just never considered an integral to be closed form. There is some argument to be made for exp, as it is considered an 'elementary function'. I was going off this statement from wikipedia on closed form expressions

"It may contain constants, variables, certain "well-known" operations (e.g., + − × ÷), and functions (e.g., nth root, exponent, logarithm, trigonometric functions, and inverse hyperbolic functions), but usually no limit, differentiation, or integration."

Edit: I think if you say an integral is closed form, you must also admit that a limit is closed form, since an integral is defined in terms of limits (though technically more restrictive). In that case, you should also admit that we already had a closed form expression for this number, as it could be expressed as a limit of an iterative process.
Corporations don’t own themselves though, people do. Effective ownership and control are the main goals that benefit society, as long as the organisation is well run and generating useful goods and services, and employing people, we all benefit. Inheritance is an obstacle to that because it’s effectively random in terms of the competence of the inheritors, but there’s nothing random about the leadership of companies. By and large it’s based on merit. If it isn’t, then sure, corporate governance is a legitimate area for policy making.
Polish law specifies that the standard working time is 8 hours every 24 hours but we have reports of employees as early as one year ago who reported night and week-end hours.

Even if you don't believe anonymous employee reports, the studio's chief Adam Badowski announced in September that working time will now involve Saturdays.

To me, too many pointers are highlighting a toxic crunch culture in that studio to be ignored. I will not play Cyberpunk because of that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-29/cyberpunk...
I really don't understand why so many people would finance a headset instead of just setting the cash aside in a stable investment and owning 12 months later.

For immediate necessities like a car or mobile phone I get it, but a VR headset isn't a necessity. Own later instead of financing. You might even be able to buy used at half price in 12 months.
Its a mixed bag. They promised no crunch, but there was crunch anyways. IIRC they gave bonuses and other forms of compensation for the extra work. From what I hear they have a very generous payscale relative to regional norms (Poland) and many team members stand to make a small fortune off the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

Of course executives and investors will make much more off the release then the individuals who made the game.
JMAP is definitely more complicated, but that complexity enables some very useful features. You can search, you can fetch emails by thread. You can get text snippets of emails for preview. JMAP can also automatically convert any email into directly renderable HTML (or plain text).

I’m convinced if nothing else the jmap json format is what everyone should be using for passing around email objects since it’s so well designed and feature rich. Almost all hand rolled email json formats throw away data you really want when rendering or processing email messages.

IMAP api does look lovely though.
Even worse, if you have cookies disabled it will keep asking you for consent over and over even if you decline/accept.
It’s pretty cool. If you make a url return data that is visually aligned with “a story protocol” google will put it at top of relevant search results.

Think of it as a mini-html site that follows a specific set of visual JS and CSS protocols so that consumers have guarantee of its behavior (will not have crazy ads, gifs or third party content) and behaves consistently.

Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform.

I’d even go further and say the web needs more of these kind of things. All websites behave differently. Maybe we need a visual protocol also for general web apps (just like this web stories) so that we have consistent behavior. I dare to call this protocol Web Apps.
Clinton is quoted in the second line: “I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from,” Clinton said Monday on the New York Times podcast “Sway.”
A few years ago I could just decide to immigrate to the UK on a whim. Now I have to check if I am eligible for some sort of fast track scheme like "For example the UK is currently recruiting many doctors and nurses and people of those professions will have it significantly _easier_ to move to the UK than others." It's very likely that I do not know all the special exemptions for immigrants in the UK. I will have to consult an immigration expert so that I can maximize my chances of being accepted. Then there is the obvious problem of not being accepted. If I'm not a nurse or doctor I will have a much harder time. There is also the small but impactful risk of being forced to return to my home country even after I have immigrated. Visa programs can change in the blink of an eye and throw off a decade of planning.

It feels to me that you are just pointing at survivorship bias. Yeah sure your relatives were the few ones that immigrated without any help but what about all those that were shown the door?
A proper framerate is about gameplay though, not eye candy.
But they did develop for the platform - there is a Stadia version which essentially is a Linux runtime.
Charge AccuWeather by the megabyte. Problem solved.
> Abstract
In U.S. Pacific Northwest coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), stormwater exposure annually causes unexplained acute mortality when adult salmon migrate to urban creeks to reproduce. By investigating this phenomenon, we identified a highly toxic quinone transformation product of N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine) (6PPD), a globally ubiquitous tire rubber antioxidant. Retrospective analysis of representative roadway runoff and stormwater-impacted creeks of the U.S. West Coast indicated widespread occurrence of 6PPD-quinone (<0.3-19 μg/L) at toxic concentrations (LC50 of 0.8 ± 0.16 μg/L). These results reveal unanticipated risks of 6PPD antioxidants to an aquatic species and imply toxicological relevance for dissipated tire rubber residues.
Like the other user said. Make a landing page and accept emails for sign up and updating followers on news. This does two things: you sort of validate the idea and you also get some followers who provide a little bit of motivation (or pressure) to get you to deliver sooner.

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-bu...
I set up the tweet alert thanks to the algorithmic timeline and Bartosz' low post volume but I appreciate your concern.
I don't know if much more can be squeezed out of this story. At this point what even would be the desired resolution? This person would be nuts to go back to Google, and Google would be nuts to offer that.
Have a look at https://kloudless.com/ - they have unified apis for mail /calendar / drive and a bunch more adapters.
Global by Nature: Open-Source
It's good enough for me. My old eyes don't care about 20fps
Damn this I’m starting SpaceEd.
Many websites that make use of this fall outside the jurisdiction of the USA or EU.

It's better to make browsers unfingerprintable than trying to outlaw the practice.
To have this analogy encompass the full situation, you're also a residential landlord who owns 50% of all residential housing in the US. Your tenants are only allowed to have things in their home that came from the market you control. Things bought in the market also cannot be placed in housing you do not control.

You argue you don't have a monopoly because your tenants can always move, even though most of their possessions cannot be moved to other housing.

Reasoning by analogy is bad, but I think it's important to note that most people's phones are their digital home. It is not a low friction situation to just "shop elsewhere" for a single product when it wouldn't be compatible with your home.
Wait, wait, what is it?
Right. To me cyberpunk is about what happens when extreme wealth inequality is coupled to extreme technological advances such that the richest are immortal (for all practical purposes) and don't need the 99% since all production has been automated and any attempt at a revolution is made futile by military drones
I don't know if we have freedom and wealth as correlated to happiness and fulfillment in life, however. And that's precisely what the cyberpunk genre originally was created as a commentary on- the ability to have so much advancement and also so much misery.
I rather miss the days when sites were operated by enthusiasts in a field, rather than by opportunists outside of the field, hoping to cash in on advertising dollars and privacy violations. Maybe that's rose-tinted glasses, but that's how it feels.
It is tempting to call this understanding because people switched their mind to the position that the data points to, but I doubt there is any real understanding going on. Their sense of reality was warped by things they saw on repeat in the media that disproportionally highlighted certain outlier examples. This is not an environment where solid understanding happens and good decisions get made. For some it will be a call to action to look at the real data. But I think most people will simply be emotionally manipulated by the cherry-picking and lies of omission. Such people are uneasy allies to reality. They are doing the right things for the wrong reasons. When underlying circumstances change their 'understanding' will fail to course correct and they will again need to be shown what to think. And the media coverage waning will directly correspond to their 'understanding' of the severity waning as well.
I didn't assert "proven to have failed" I said they are backing out of their plan.

I'm sorry the only articles I could find for you are behind a paywall or from secondary sources, but here's a WSJ article on the topic https://archive.is/OGN9Q#selection-2811.75-2811.130 and FT: https://archive.is/56yQu

Schools are closed, and the PM gave an address telling people how dangerous the virus is that was deliberately scheduled at the same time as Tegnell's regular address.

I don't have hard data on the consequential tail of infection and would be interested to see it. What I commented on is the false binary characterization of "it kills old people, everyone else is fine." Even if that were true, pushing grannie out on the ice floe has rarely been an acceptable strategy and if it does become an accepted decision criterion I look forward to the many other optimizations it would unlock.
Software's Next Big Leap: Fixing Internal Documentation
> So what is the difference with our current world again?

Disagree.

IMO the worst thing is government surveillance, and our lack of true democracy. It makes me sad that when Snowden made his revelations, absolutely nobody did anything. However...

Electric cars and renewables are happening. Just look at the opening sequence of Blade Runner (staged in 2019?), and tell me we really live in that world.

It's definitely not the case that economic inequality is "just accepted". Yes, it's a part of our lives, but the social justice moment is also huge, and sometimes misguided. They have caused a lot of things to change though.

IMO, to create positive change, we really need to get away from the "it's just pointless" mindset.
Marketplaces are quantified by economic value, there being no other universal unit.

There's an arrogance in tech that we can make up definitions to suit ourselves. I guess it's related to the fallacy that the law is some kind of programming language.
Datura is some scary shit. Way back in the days of "experimentation" jimsonweed was investigated by friends. In 2 of those cases they were literally hallucinating for over 24 hours -- not walls breathing stuff, literally living in a different universe.

Obviously there was recklessness involved, but it certainly made an impression on me.
I switched to iPhone after using Android for 10 years
Yes and no; it's still a cat and mouse game. You prevent one way, fingerprinters will find another way. And sometimes, the cure may be worse than the disease.

What also makes this a little different is that there's not many nefarious actors that truly benefit from fingerprinting random people. Fingerprinting is very useful in large scale operations, and it's hard to maintain a large scale web presence as an outlaw.

I fully agree that fingerprinting should be outlawed by privacy directives. But writing such a law correctly is really tough.
> kubernetes ... is super easy to setup

Can you point me to the super easy setup guide? Because I've tried a few and never gotten it working.
Is this a common problem people run into when using ES? Curious about the trade-off between structured logging and field explosion.
Amazon Linux 2 is optimized for some things, but it's easily possible to beat it in other areas, such as boot time. It's a kitchen sink, which is great for getting started quickly, and not great for optimizing.
Global app spend increased by 25% in 2020
How to handle request validation in your Express API – Simon Plenderleith
How about Lightsail, are there any benefits to use it there?
> I have heard a lot of murmurs about "horrible industry practices" regarding CD Projekt Red, but nothing concrete. Is this just a smear campaign, or a half-truth being thoughtlessly repeated because it fits preexisting narratives?

The crunch is very real, but the silent part is that insane working hours and crunching are a staple of gaming industry. Pretty much every single project ends up in this state and the stories can get pretty horrifying (Blood, Sweat and Pixels is an interesting read on this topic - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34376766-blood-sweat-and... ).

The strange part of this story is the way how it's set to snipe at certain companies - CDProjekt and Rockstar were target of these stories, but other development studios for some reason weren't.
Love it! Great looking site, very professional. I agree with another comment that your name/face on the 'why' page could be useful, but not a deal breaker.

Out of interest, do you have the rights to embed Wrecking Ball? If I was musician who saw you using another musicians music without permission that would turn me off.

(Also on android chrome the count up timer worked on the player, but the bit that would tell me how long the song was stuck at 0.0)
Do you also refuse to purchase clothing made in Bangladesh and sneakers made in Indonesia? Seems like a fairly trite issue to take a stand on.
There's always Fermat's Last Theorem.
Hubble Identifies Strange Exoplanet That Behaves Like the Long-Sought “Planet 9”
>it's absurd that you can't do a factory reset on the hardware and then revoke the credentials from your FB account.

You can do that. I literally did it 2 weeks ago, when I was giving away my Quest 1 headset to someone. Was a pretty smooth and simple process.
This is what we did at CircleCI. In fact, most of our best hires were people who did not know Clojure before joining the company.

People who already knew Clojure had a tendency to overcomplicate things with solutions that used every bit of their Clojure knowledge.
I think the problem is actually that content has no value because it’s cheap to copy. It never did have hence why we had to come up with other parasitic models to make money out of it. One way was to stick a wall around it but because it’s so easy to get content elsewhere without that wall it’s a dead end.

For me, if I was to write content it’d be open, free and be used for marketing my skills which you can’t copy easily.

Value comes from scarcity, consumer apathy, skill and trade off gains. Content doesn’t win anything there.
>You're a they/them.

Why on Earth are you trying to dictate someone else's pronouns?
One if the best arguments I've heard in favor of this is that it feels like we're on the cusp of interplanetary civilization. Protocols built on IP (particularly TCP/IP) break down hard with half hour packet latencies. Most of the work I've seen to attack this problem goes about it (in part) by conceptualizing each planet as having its own internet, with synchronization between the two internet's being handled by new protocols like DTN.
The Middle Ground Fallacy
Congratulations. Lovely project.

For electronic music creators, Formaviva.com is a great alternative to the mention platforms that besides free private sharing also enables downloads, play and heatmap tracking (for free).
> The fact that each user thinks that their one use-case is "all the app does" is fucking brilliant product design.

Alternatively: The fact that they try to bundle all the world's use cases in some 100+ MB monstrosity of a client app is a tragicomic commentary on the misaligned incentives in the tech world's VC-driven wannabe-monopolies.
They of course are free to work with or not work with whatever vendors they choose, but it's really surprising to see a financial services company make a choice that will mean they make less money. Maybe I'm just jaded, but it can't possibly be that they're doing this just because they think it's the right thing to do. Why is this better for their bottom line in the longer run? Do they foresee some sort of huge liability headache if that site gets shut down, so they're just taking their ball and going home before the storm hits?
Pornhub uses the Tether stablecoin (USDT) operating on the Ethereum and Tron blockchains as a valid payment option https://cointelegraph.com/news/pornhub-adds-tether-stablecoi...

One of cryptocurrencies' core use cases is uncensorable payments for vendors shut out of the mainstream financial system.
I have a beefy pc setup that I purchased recently specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 and some other demanding PC games still in development (wink wink Star Citizen) and I have had one non-gameplay bug in my couple of hours of play where elevator doors didn't open for my partner but did for me. The situation is very different for people using the previous gen consoles though, it seems, and I feel bad for them. I have a couple of good friends in this cohort who were very much looking forward to the game.
Elated by this.

That said, curious if others have any thoughts about the externalities of this.
As with Swift vs. ObjC, this may be an instance of "fashion over function".
Great writeup here but I have a question on whether Product Analytics is at all appropriate for Startups. I'm incredibly biased (this problem is why I built Chartio), but I think these tools end up being quite bulky, expensive and a non-agile way to do analytics on your product. I feel these products are best suited for later stage companies trying with great tracking detail to improve a funnel or engagement metric, not simply monitor usage.

The majority of the important things for a startup are usually already being tracked with timestamps in the database (new signups, new users, churned users, new todo items, etc). If a key metric is not directly tracked, there's usually a good enough proxy available somewhere in the database. A Busineess Intelligence product, or a SQL to chart tool is much more applicable and affordable in the startup stage.

There are likely going to be responses here "But what about..." and I'll premptively respond to those with the question: Could that be answered/solved almost just as well with a query to the database, without sacrificing the agility, extra setup and data collection time, and expense overhead? Those are all very costly things for a startup.
Ask HN: Is Centos Effectively Dead?
Lots of recent news about changes in Centos. So for the layperson, is Centos now dead?
This is not what I meant by maintainable. The companies I've programmed clojure in were sizable and bet on it for their entire stack, and hired very sharp senior people to work on them.

Even there, the projects suffered so much to hit release dates and stay understandable as the system grew that velocity suffered relative to peers doing experiments in traditional OO languages. In fact, the maintenance burden (for code composed by smart senior people!) is so high that it's actually convinced me on the virtue of regular OO/procedural languages over lisp.
Even better, think how much quicker you can achieve a sufficiently large application if you can source some really unwise developers?
Oh fan art and etc, I'm not thinking of that.

I'm thinking more large scale across subreddits (including a lot of subs that have nothing to do with the content). Most of these accounts have almost zero recent comments and etc.
Here's how I view the Google brand in a nutshell: Half-assed crap that will fall out from under me, with bright colors.

That's it. There's more to it, but that's the primary view I have of them. Gmail was good once, then got bloated and slow. Search was good once, but is now Search for Stuff to Buy. All sorts of other things were good once, and now don't exist.

So when you said, "I don't know what this is and I don't want to know", I'm right there with you. I feel like I already know the part that will make me ignore it, so I'm not going to spend another minute on it. (Other than to trash it here, of course :)
* Medallion taxis being safer because they're more rigorously inspected.

Free space in the middle: drivers have no clue as to their costs and are only signing up because they're too naive to realize they're losing money.
This is the New York Times editorial (mentioned in the 3rd paragraph) that led to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301913
> Elated by this.

How come?
As opposed to the status quo, where our attention is monetized and we get no benefit?
I think that missed the point.

Engineers are applied scientists.

Programmers are not applied scientists.
Any possibility to replace systemd?
Ask HN: Got promoted with a near zero increase. Time to leave?
I'm a software engineer for context and will hit 2 years for this job in April.

Managed to get promoted at my workplace recently. This is also around the time that we're doing the salary reviews.

So my performance review was great. Even got promoted. But the my actual increase was about 2% despite the perceived achievements. This is less than inflation in my country, so effectively working hard made me poorer in real terms?

The real reason why this happened, was that according to market data, I'm apparently paid higher than market rates for my country probably. Therefore, my increase is little to nothing because I'm hitting my "ceiling".

In theory, existing low earners get a high increase so that everyone is within the same bands. I'm just the wrong place at the wrong time kinda guy.

So on the one hand, I love the place I'm working at and the experience has been great. People are great too.

On the other hand, I can't help but feel undervalued by the actions of the company. Basically feel that no matter what I do going forward in this place, my compensation is decided by market data and not the value that I added to the company. Basically, I could've been intentionally average and probably still get a similar increase and this is what's affecting me now.

From the company's point of view, they've been acquired and only recently started becoming profitable. The pandemic didn't really affect anything from a business perspective.

It's either stay for a little bit or go job hunting. Other option is to start my own company. Easier said than done of course, but that's an option at this point.

But yeah, any thoughts?
Idk where this comes from, you absolutely can. Hardware factory reset on Oculus Quest devices (both 1 and 2) is a thing. I did it myself last month, as I was giving away my Quest 1 headset, it is pretty simple.

It would be extremely strange if that wasn't possible.
It's mainly hamstrung right now by the hoops you have to jump through to get it talking to the actual web page, is my understanding. Some companies though, like Cloudflare, are playing with it as a cross-platform server/desktop runtime, which is interesting