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>Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.

There was a lot of bad feedback after W2 was released on Linux. It was full price, but full of glitches, bugs, crashes, unexpected dying, invisible sword... and this list can go on. A lot of users released anger on CDP who took offence and said they're not doing anything for linux any more.

From what you're saying, CP2077 is more closer to native desktop Linux than W2 is now after years, so CDP could drill into this market of fanboys and try to regain trust of the community.
CA Gov Gavin Newsom Received $3M in PPP Loans – Still Hasn't Paid His Taxes
Refraction goes beyond electrical fields. An intuitive feeling for refraction can be obtained from:

- water: when waves go from, say, deeper to shallower water, their speed changes. If they are moving at an angle, refraction is seen. This can be explained by drawing wavefronts. The wavefront doesn't hit the shallower water all at the same time, and so does not slow down all at once, but gradually.

- wheels: when rolling axle with two wheels goes from pavement to grass on an angle, its direction will bend direction, due to the change in speed, which is experienced by one wheel ahead of the other.
It would have been a fantastic bring-your-own-food social lounge though!

There's a reason I work in IT and not architecture these days :)
Fantastic logo! I first thought it was a stylized treble clef but I think it's more a stylized sixteenth note. Not sure if this was your intention but still great. You might even consider to add the five lines used in sheet music to make the music-part more clear.

Speaking of logos, I disliked that you use songbox there, but call your service SongBox. I would change it and maybe even fix it in the user stories.

Small suggestion for the image that shows the dashboard: To quote Matthew McC: "You gotta pump those numbers up!" It's apparent that they are from a demo account you use, but perhaps you could make the numbers more appealing (don't oversell it, though). If I would use your service, I would hope to have a better avg listening time for example.

Kudos for that Doctor Who easter egg, btw!
Surface of a sphere depends on how large the fence is compared to the sphere. If the fence is small, the answer is the same as the plane version. If the fence is as large as possible (an equator) then the rope needs to be precisely one quadrant in length, equalling the "radius" of the fence. If the fence encloses more than half the sphere... well, if it encloses all of the sphere (that is, it is a small circle with the "inside" declared to be the outside) then the rope is again one quadrant, so half the "radius" of the fence.

More interesting is a space-goat tethered to the interior of a hollow sphere, hypersphere etc.; no closed-form solutions for higher-dimensional cases, but the answer tends to sqrt(2) as the number of dimensions approaches infinity.
> you wouldn’t refer

you wouldn’t do that because Russia is a paradise for homophobia, not because it does not make sense.

“Они” is a valid pronoun for the same thing than now means “them” in woke English.
All of `fortune -m Californian` is worth reading (and probably mostly
dated).

(riddles)
%
Q: How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to share the
experience. (Actually, Californians don't screw in
light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs.)

Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three. One to screw in the light bulb and two to fend off all
those Californians trying to share the experience.
%
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem
to the earlier joke.
%
(ethnic)
%
Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus?
Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.
%
To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he
is allowed to drive a taxi in New York. For New York cabbies, honesty and
stopping at red lights are both optional.
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
%
To a Californian, all New Yorkers are cold; even in heat they rarely go
above fifty-eight degrees. If you collapse on a street in New York, plan
to spend a few days there.
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
%
To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks. There are,
in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people. The
only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the
Swedes speak better English."
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
Well, we can certainly speculate:

Chesky - Both parents are social workers, probably would have been in a rough spot taking on that debt. Would have moved somewhere else and gone back into industrial design.

Gebbia - Father is/was a successful businessman in the Atlanta area, currently a city councilman. Probably would have been better off than Chesky, but the debt probably still would have stung. Would have gone back into industrial design.

Blecharczyk - Upper middle class family + Harvard alum. Taking on the debt might have been painful, but he probably would have been fine eventually, especially with his technical background.

I don't think their fall-back options were great. If they had "rich uncles" or something, I don't think they would have needed to max out credit cards in the first place. I think Chesky's level of conviction was simply unwavering. I'm certain there are much more affluent people who would have given up sooner.
They could have reimplemented it in a safe(r) language and runtime. It would have been a big effort, and Adobe extracted the maximum cash for least effort.

Comparisons with Windows don't make much sense because it is an OS and a thousand SDKs and ever growing attack surface.
covid "science" is pseudo-science
If this happens you can usually reach out to Google to see if they will refund the charge. They don’t really benefit from making $72k of a solo developer’s buggy code. I’ve done it once and their team was very helpful and reversed the charge.
One could also say that all of Gibson and Sterling's early novels were warnings, describing in some detail near future cyberpunk dystopias.

When reading Neuromancer and Count Zero, the cumulative sum of the evocative description of "the sprawl" and the post war environment led me to form a fairly bleak mental picture of the place. And floating above all that an ultra elite class of the 1% of the 1% (sensenet stars, the tessier-ashpools, etc).

Islands in the Net also paints a picture of radically even more unequal wealth distribution, coupled with massive economic disruptions and civil wars in developing nations.
You have given the ability for a normal user to modify load balancers and then are surprised they can do things like intercept traffic.

It's a bug but a very minor one. Especially if you are securing traffic inside the cluster.
The article you linked doesn't report on the Mueller report directly, but AG Barr's "summary" of the report.

Mueller himself disagreed with this summary, saying "the attorney general had inadequately portrayed their conclusions" and "the Barr letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the findings of the special counsel investigation that he led. "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation""[1]

Causing confusion was, of course, the point. It allowed everyone in the President's orbit to say "See? No collusion", knowing that the media would amplify it. Everyone who was already inclined to believe the President would rest assured that this whole thing was a Democratic witchhunt. And when the real report came out later they would disregard it.

Of course when even the redacted report came out, it had some key differences with the summary that Barr wrote:

"The New York Times reported instances in which the Barr letter omitted information and quoted sentence fragments out of context in ways that significantly altered the findings in the report, including:

Omission of words and a full sentence that twice suggested there was knowing and complicit behavior between the Trump campaign and Russians that stopped short of direct coordination, which may constitute conspiracy."[2]

It wasn't just a politically motivated probe. Just because evidence "beyond reasonable doubt" could not be found doesn't mean the crime never happened. And it certainly doesn't mean looking into it was "pysops" or "political hysteria" or "Trump derangement syndrome".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Mueller's_react...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Redacted_report...
Show HN: A key-value store built with homomorphic encryption
Was expecting it to be about the nightmares of large software projects
I asked my home insurance company if all of my electronics were covered in case of damage from such an event. They said yes. Are they unaware of how big an expense this would be for all of their insurers?
DDG is so heavily entrenched with Microsoft for results/ads that its entire business relies on it. Even if that contract could be unwinded to allow for an acquisition, the question is what IP could DDG offer to Apple that it can not build with reasonable effort (if not already build as part of Apple's search engine efforts)? There is also brand value, but a search engine with Apple's name on it would already have it. I'd argue that a much likelier acquisition is the one of Microsoft acquiring DDG.
https://www.failory.com/ (scroll down to see content) does such posts.
The dynamic exists in all relationshps regardless of (and even still in) your specific interpersonal dealings.
Take look at this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346

My point is that there is 100s of screens/features in the Uber app that you don't even know exist. And you have those same 100s of screens across their other apps. Multiplied across all of the different platforms. Plus any internal tools they use.

I'm curious, have you worked at a software company of Uber's scale? Not trying to be a dick here, genuinely curious because I hear these types of comments often here on HN and I wonder how many of those commenting have seen the scale from within.
Some platforms do that:
- Heroku costs are pretty predicable, and you can easily set a maximum scalability threshold to their auto-scalable dynos, so that they will never cost you more than a predefined amount of money;
- BunnyCDN requires me to top-up their prepaid account, so that I'll never spend more than what I have on that account.
Overengineering is easy and happens not just with AWS but with just about anything in software engineering.

I'm having trouble seeing how this changes what I'm saying: That with the way AWS pricing is structured, you are supposed to take it into account when designing your product.

When you reach a certain size / complexity and you have to design infrastructure, you should be making schematics, predictions on the usage peaks and troughs, how various parts of the infra will be affected, how active/idle they will be.

When you are dealing with AWS, pricing becomes extremely predictable because it can be derived from those plans. And it is far better to be dealing with that kind of model than to deal with "unlimited with a million asterisks" or something. AWS is predictable, reliable, and most notoriously has never ever increased their prices, so whatever you calculated will not go up because of Amazon's decisions.
Yeah, and then can you let us know what happened with JFK and also if the UFOs are aliens or what? Also, Coke or Pepsi? thanks in advance YouTube!
You understand how VPS/EC2 etc work. They are also multi-tenant architectures i.e. having roommates.

So in your world you have to only use bare metal ? Sounds fun.
One could hypothetically buy an unwanted cheap support contract to get access to the source.
Haha! People accidentally leaking their porn search habits always makes for great internet humour.

I, too, get C-lang strings for "c strings" (with or without quotes) and C++, Java, the STRING bio database for just "string" or "strings".
Super interesting. I'm still excited and hopeful about Brave. It's got quite the whos-who leadership list[1]. Yan (bcrypt) is awesome.

[1] https://brave.com/about/
I suppose one could question what is an acceptable level of risk. Security is hard, effective security even harder. Threat actors are looking for any way in and when they attack a target, it's not just personal information that they are after. Compromising a device potentially means that they can access the target work place details too.

Another thing to consider is culpability. If a device owner bricks their phone because the have downloaded malware through 3rd party store, who are they going to look too for support?
> By definition, a conservative is a slow-motion progressive

No, they aren’t. A conservative is an anti-progressive. (Classically, an anti-liberal, but that’s less clear these days, because while classical liberalism was a progressive position for its time of origin, “liberal” has been overloaded to refer to defense of the status quo elites established by the success of classical liberalism and continued progress in the direction laid out by classical liberalism, with the latter use sometimes more specifically narrowed to be “at a slower pace than is described by ‘progressivism’”.) The former sense overlaps with conservatism, the latter sense with (possibly specifically slow-motion) progressivism.

> Ignoring that technicality, there are 3 types of republican:

I would say more than that:

1) social conservative (often, but not always, for religious reasons; this group was basically drawn in as a side effect of targeting group #5 with the southern strategy)

2) libertarian (as a distinct faction, really drawn as strategists realized that it was easy to adapt the decentralization and States Rights rhetoric that was classic dogwhistles for group #5 along with a lot of the anti-business-regulatory rhetoric designed to give mass appeal to the interests of group #3 to appeal to this group and reinforce the Republican coalition)

3) corporate neoliberal capitalist (the oldest major faction of the Republican Party, it has been a major factor since very close to the founding of the party, and was dominant from about the time the slavery issue was settled until the 1960s Southern Strategy)

4) American nationalist (there’s actually a lot of these in both major parties; some late cold war issues, though, gave Reps an advantage here.)

5) White supremacist/nationalist (historically a strong Democratic consistuency from the founding of the Democratic-Republican Party with occasional rifts that healed because they had nowhere else to go (like the 1940s Dixiecrat split) until Johnson signed on to the Civil Rights Act and then the Republicans targeted this group heavily in the Southern Strategy (preventing that from being another temporary rift.)
I don't think that could happen. Government wants in on this data too.
Apple is a mega-monopoly.

They control all ingress onto their platform. Nothing gets on that they don't want.

Then they proceed to control the economic activity of everyone in the Apple ecosystem.

You literally cannot do business with Apple customers.

This is as bad as Standard Oil.
Say what you want about Apple here, but what's most striking to me is this part of Brave's business model, which I hadn't understood until now:

"Brave Rewards is built on the Basic Attention Token (BAT) and is a new way to value attention, connecting users, content creators, and advertisers. Users are rewarded in BAT with 70% of the ad revenue share of the privacy-preserving ads they opt into viewing, and they can support content creators they love by rewarding them with BAT."

This is, almost literally, Black Mirror stuff.
And when your company gets audited by Oracle and they find the repos, you’ll have a nice conversation about how you need to buy a bunch of oracle cloud bullshit or else you owe a bunch for support.
I'm struggling to come up with examples.

Maybe the 3n+1 problem? It's definitely easy to understand in a few seconds, and definitely fiendishly hard. I'm not sure if it seems easy to solve though :)

Another one that came to mind is about efficiently computing the permanent of a matrix[1]. Maybe understandable in seconds if you know how determinants work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_the_permanent
If I'm the only developer on a project and I really need to get to market I might do just that. I sometimes do day hikes on weeknights so this is actually a likely scenario for me.
Without worrying about the exact split, I have always looked for good teachers, functional district, and motivated, education-driven peers. I don't have enough kids to properly A/B test.
I worked on browser fingerprinting and countermeasures during my PhD. In one paper, we showed that in the case of an anti canvas fingerprinting extension (canvas defender I think) we were able to extract the seed used to randomise the canvas on each. Since by default the seed was constant, you could use it for tracking: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01820197 (the paper also talks about other anti fingerprinting techniques).

There is also a shorter version in a blog post: https://antoinevastel.com/tracking/2018/07/01/eval-canvasdef... (Evaluating the privacy implications of a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure)
I find it extremely ironic that the game touches upon themes of corporate greed and climbing the corporate ladder (I've only played it until I got a soft lock during the 3rd tutorial). How else do you get themes of technology being a boon to society? Isn't it these companies who indirectly dictate this (e.g by using your public data)?

CD Projekt Red is a great example of why publicly owned companies and creating expectations for unreasonable deadlines for any software is going to cause your employees to deal with crunch and release something that doesn't work that great. Unfortunately I'm sure that this game will entertain more than it will highlight horrible industry practices.
"The technology is a couple steps higher, and so forth, but in this particular universe, technology is not good for people.
Pollution is rampant, crime is rampant and social and economic inequality is just accepted."

So what is the difference with our current world again?

Not trying to be a cynic here, but if we were to accept that most crimes aren't violent, then this description fits with what we have now.

The landscape of Cyberpunk 2077 itself looks exactly like many east Asian metropolis at night.
> The reality is that some people can just do more per day than others. It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life.

> but the majority of professors would spend most of the midday break meeting each other

Spending 60-80 hours in meetings is not "work". Attending lectures is not "work". Work requires either mental or physical effort to which all humans have limits. People in academia like to think they work hard by quoting useless hours like this. But that's like people billing their bosses for the 2 hours they spend in traffic. From my time in academia, my impression is that most grad students have 1 to 2 hours of productive work per day. They will tell you that they spend 10 hours at the office however.
Could be, as I had it from some Asian takeaway. But I also get it from some cheap pizza.
> So when confronted with an extremely implausible voter turnout, people say the real turnout is votes/total eligible voters... which is very different than every other time I’ve experienced voter turn out

Not sure how whatever conjured view of voter turnout YOU have is relevant. You can go to https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics/turnout
grab `Voter Turnout Partisan-NonPartisan Through August 2020.xlsx` and see that turnout percentage is computed as `number of votes cast` / `voting age population`.

Which puts Wisconsin turnout at 72.3% [1]

We were talking about ballot rejection, and you start going off about "shocking" voter turnout statistics because you had no retort to the rejection stuff. Either you have an axe to grind or you are a troll. Or maybe you're a masked free speech crusader. The hero we deserve. But I kind of doubt that.

1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/05/fac...
I hope you're rich, because the vast majority of indie games, even when well designed and marketed, fail and most of the rest make almost nothing. And most of the rest of those only succeed for a few weeks or months when let's players happen to discover them and make them viral.

As far as the framework, my advice is Unity or Unreal for 3D or console, Godot for 2D, but Unreal only if you have a studio and a budget otherwise it's overkill. But in the end the framework itself matters less than the license, which matters less than the game itself and the platform(s) you intend to publish to. Remember the guy who made Flappy Bird crapped it out in a weekend and made so much money on it that it actually scared him.

It's also important to remember that the code is the least important part of a game's success. The code just makes it work, it's the plumbing, not the architecture. The days when clever programming could make a game are long, long gone - now, code is only notable when it breaks. What makes a game successful is design, artwork, production, the things the player engages with and cares about.

No, sorry.. what makes a game successful is mostly luck, but a game won't have a chance to be lucky without the rest of it.
> There is a solid case that citizens requesting weather data should have such requests fulfilled at no or minimal cost, similar to GPS services (a public good) or FOIA requests.

I totally agree that weather data should be provided for free as a public service. The NWS is one of the true gems of the US government.

That said, this view isn't universally shared. Many other countries' meteorology services charge for access to data - especially if you want access to the raw model output. Most famously, the US's GFS output is provided for free while the EU's ECMWF output requires a paid subscription.

If open access to weather data is something that's important to you, please make your voice heard!
Companies constantly find themselves in the position to move from CentOS to RHEL.
Apple only controls 50% of the market because consumers keep buying their products. They are free to chose android, there are even plenty of androids phones are comparable in build quality and specs.
I honestly do both. When I'm running something I want the output from (some to yank), I'll run in a buffer.

If doing file manipulation, CLI, etc. etc. I'll ctrl-z out.

I do the opposite of you pretty often too, always trying to `fg` a non-existent vim
I had to deal with 4 illegal AirBNB units in my small apartment complex. Above me, to the left and right of me.

I had multiple break-in attempts, attempted physical altercations and loud parties on weeknights.

Airbnb ignored complaints, my landlord ignored complaints, it took Covid-19 to get rid of the parasitical infection on my peace of mind.

They certainly are wealthy, but I was not happy. Well-intentioned residential zoning laws were ignored at my expense.
if by close shop you mean, pay a token fine as the cost of doing business and move on, the yeah.

if it were useful to big pharma to have that info, they’d have it.
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