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Ask HN: Can you understand the rules for my puzzle game? [video, beta]
The game "DropZap World" lies somewhere between Tetris and Candy Crush Saga.

But I am worried that the rules may not be explained well enough for most people to understand.

The game is currently in beta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqQoXG24is

https://testflight.apple.com/join/CdEXgjst [beta link]

So do you think the rules need to be better explained? And if so, how?

Any feedback would be appreciated.
It is precisely asking to be decieved. Precisely, exactly and specifically.
>Different people have different desires, in different regions of the country majority wants to do different things

Sure. But there is a big problem when the minority of people in an area end up getting what they want because the system that is in place isn't able to properly enfranchise the majority.
What I am surprised about is that nobody has made a high quality UVC camera with a large sensor and great lens, specifically for videoconferencing.

Even the "good" webcams (like the Elgato FaceCam and Logi Brio) have tiny sensors with small lenses. And iPhones (with Reincubate Camo) have bigger but still relatively tiny sensors.

Pair an APS-C sensor with a ~24mm f/2 lens, with no controls; just a USB connection. This would barely be bigger than the lens itself (think double the size of Apple's old iSight).

I'd easily pay $400 or more for this just to avoid messing around with mirrorless cameras and trying to mount them and use their drivers or HDMI capture USB interfaces.
Off topic, but does anyone know which monitor that is? Looks beautiful.
Scott Ritter in the past has been very dismal on the chances of the Ukrainians in the past. This video well explains his overall changed view, the why behind it.

Despite whatever reprehensible crimes Scott Ritter committed [1], I think his war analysis is often spot on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
Only tangentially related but if you already have a popular Logitech webcam (like the C920) chances are you can find a kit to mount C/CS/D-mount lenses on it, like with this one: https://www.kurokesu.com/shop/C920_REWORK_KIT2

C/CS/D mounts are for CCTV camera so you can find new and used lens for cheap. They will not fix a cheap/bad sensor, but they will definitely get you extra flexibility in what kind of framing/shot you can do.
Haha I play Pokemon Go, battery life is like 6 hours TOPs. I charge it periodically throughout the day, just hover between 20-80 percent.

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Locking up, I think it comes from moving from my old iPhone 11 Pro to the non-pro variant. I felt a little spoiled with the Pro model.
This is a useful nuance. Small but very impactful.
Don't be stupid, don't follow idiots.
We're working on an outline app with task management/planning functionality. With end-to-end encryption and multiuser/teams support (you can see other users type like Google Docs). Early beta signup at https://thymer.com
If FOSS is responsible for establishing TeX, then I would pay Bill Gates my last $ to embrace, extend and extinguish the entire miserable movement. TeX is a horror from the 1980s that refuses to die.
I’m going to have to move this discussion to a substack newsletter. There are good responses to all your objections, but a hacker news thread isn’t the place. I don’t think you appreciate the difficulty of unlocking the precise proteins that are needed for life, and pointing to a “code” that generates them just makes the situation more miraculous, not less. I’ll drop a comment here when I get a substack newsletter going on this subject. I will welcome your comments and input, since it is clear you are passionate, willing to do research, and eager to find objections to theism.
power is one thing, signal is another. Power and signal are both controlled by proprietary controller and computer in a car.

I honestly think a nice manually adjusting lumbar supporting leather driver seat (or even cloth from like a low tier sport car)would be nice enough. Now I'm planning....
I use a Sony a6400 with one of those powered "battery" adapters and hdmi out to an Elgato Cam Link 4k.

Works nearly flawlessly. Sometimes Google meet refuses to pick up the video until I unplug but that might have to do more with the handshake between my back and my TB3 dock.
Someone may be practicing for peg breaks and/or gaining capital for the big one (Tether). The more losses and panic, the easier an attack
The Sun SPARC machines I used in the 1990's used Open Firmware for booting. It contained a Forth interpreter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Where's the visa? :)
The remaining Azov troops just surrender in Mariupol, they have been winning pretty hard lately.
how about expandable storage and headphone jack while we're at it? We can keep more phones out of the landfill and hone back production of newer stuff.
How You Move Through the Universe [video]
Ask HN: File syncing service that encrypts by default?
I'm looking for a file syncing solution, like Dropbox or Syncthing, that does block level encryption by default. Does this exist?
That still leaves the original question of why dedicated cameras aren’t doing this.
This is the method I use, in conjunction with the Sony ZV-1 which gets a mention in the article. It also bypasses the problem mentioned in the article about turning up as a mass storage device.

What I've found is that by USB charging and using HDMI out, it's good for ~2.5 hours of streaming, which I've only ever hit once as a limit.

there's a newer Sony in the same line (the ZV-E10) but it moved the ports to the other side of the camera, so if you flick the LCD round so you can see it, the cables are in the way...
About damn time, IMO. But as I fix nVidia's bugs, I'm obviously ignorant of anything impacting Serious Cryptographic Engineering.
Monetary supply outstrips the government's ability to collect on it. It is usually done on purpose to benefit some ruling individuals or for strategic reasons to zero the value of a country's debt. But I challenge you to find any example where the hyperinflation didn't make sense to pursue to the people in charge of the money supply.
Not necessarily. The FAANG stock prices are low right now due the overall market slump (except may be FB or NFLX). They will highly likely bounce back along with the rest of the market in a while. So getting a fat count of RSUs from a FAANG company at a bargain price (usually based on price on/around starting date) may likely have a huge payoff in a few years.
Well the problem is the damage goes exponential. Roads degrade with pressure changes and friction. But cracks let water in, which can result in erosion (of the road or underneath that supports the road), and then any elevation changes can greatly increase wear (for instance a 50,000 pound truck going 50 mph is regularly hitting the far side of the pothole).

Even a single winter can make a dramatic change to average road quality, thus the hurry every summer to repair roads.
Plug for Stavros K's site: No-bullshit games! https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
My copy of wikipedia is less than 100GB at the moment.
What kind of illoyal loser would denounce their wife in public, offer to “trade” her like some property, all over some completely meaningless bullshit cliché complaint about their choices of style?

Wow, angry much? I suggest contacting your local mental health crisis hotline before you turn your internet rage into something people actually care about. In the United States, just dial 988.

Failing that, try getting a sense of humor. They're nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Youngman
Ah, money laundering, the international past-time-space-crime.
The quality aspect is obviously important but I'd suggest that the location of the lens is also vital if you don't want to have meetings where everyone seems to be not looking at you.

I cannot wait until cameras work behind the screen and can be positioned right in the center but for now, the only option I found was something called Center Cam that mounts a small lense on a skinny support that can be positioned over the screen, somewhat unobtrusively.

I am a Camo user too and it's incredible but having the phone off to one side in a tripod or mount exacerbates the "here's (not) looking at you" issue.

I started a project that uses Camo and suspends the phone upside down from the top of the screen via a 3D printed mount. Then, an app on the phone, mirrors the portion of the screen that is covered by the phone. Not perfect (or even close) and it means you need to use the lower quality front facing camera but it fun to dabble.
> You contradict yourself. Is it "just a new hype-cycle," or is it "new apps, new technologies, and a new mix of features?"

The concepts are old and have a new hype. The apps are new. But generally, it doesn't matter much for the user whether you have some old-school desktop-app with gtk or Qt, or a "modern" electron app, or some webapp on your own server or some service in the cloud. At the end it's all the same ideas and concepts in different colors and flavors.

> If it's the latter... isn't that substantively different than what we had before?

That entirely depends on who is "we". We which are all users? Or we the old users? Or we the young users? Or we the new users? I'm not saying that there is not development or change, just that this is nothing new, or even a new development. This has going for a long time, it just reached a new cycle and and a new generation of users.

> Outliners have quite the fandom, but my issue with the traditional outliner is that they often trap data in outline form. Sure, most good outliners offer export options. Unfortunately, the second you've taken data from your outliner and exported it, you now have two versions of your data, and you've lost.

This is a fundamental problem of every app and space. But interoperability does exist here and there, it's not just exports.

> Logseq (and Obsidian) have changed this.

Not really? They only established a common foundation for interoperability. Which is also what other apps are doing to some degree. But you still have limitations by everything which is not covered by this foundation. For example, can Logseq handle dataview-syntax? Or generally any obsidian-plugin has it's own special syntax? What about other markdown-editors? How much do they support the special syntax used by obsidian or it's plugins?

True, the markdown-space has now a healthy movement toward interoperability and gains many nice functionalities. But it's not like this is especially new. And all those features also existed before Markdown in some app, in some way or another. Nothing is really new here. What's happening is that a new platform is growing, collection nice stuff from the collective pool of abilities, and a new consolidation is happening. This happens all the time. Sometimes it works, sometimes it dies.

Funny enough, the WWW was one of the first and most successful of this movements. And markdown grew from this as a simplification, to now grew into the same space where WWW started and obsidian now moves toward too, just in a different flavor. This whole "new" movement is just replicating where others were already before in different cloths.

> Finally, a single document _is_ an outline, a backlink, a data source, a webpage, a presentation, and so on...

So has Org-mode 10 years ago, XML 20 Years ago. HTML 30 years ago. More or less, the numbers may be a bit off.

> It's more than hype for me.

Good for you. I'm not question that. Just saying this generation is not the first one having that.
I was referring to myself too in my original post, but I don't think it was clear. I resisted GObject/GLib for the exact same reasons you listed. Plus as a younger programmer I was super fussy about style conventions and didn't like introducing other styles with my "pure" style. (I know, I know.) It wasn't until I started using GStreamer that I saw the light.
That would be a very expensive hobby.
Intel is done. Gelsinger can do his best to rally the troops but it's too late to catch up with Apple Silicon. The M1 came out in 2020 and Intel is still unable to match it. The M2 is coming this year, leaving Intel ever further behind.
The camera is often the reason i end up with a phone that's way bigger than I'd otherwise like. The Pixel 6XL has the better camera but otherwise I'd have been all over the 6 (or smaller if it had they done anything in that space). My Pixel 4 still feels way better sized when i go back to it periodically.
What I don't understand is why I loved Krondor but couldn't stand Daggerfall (or any of the later Elder Scrolls games). Maybe it's just that Krondor was more focused? The chapter system certainly made it easier to know what the next "primary goal" was without restricting you too from exploring the world (at least in most of the early chapters; the last 3ish chapters were certainly more railroaded).
nope this is all under the scenes. We formerly called this JIT, which was inaccurate but removed this confusion. Calling it AOT is more precise, but people ask this question. win some you lose some I guess!

Anyway, if you use `wazero.NewRuntime()` magically it redirects to `wazero.NewRuntimeCompiler()`[1]. When the compiler is in use, all the native stuff happens automatically and you don't need to change your binary based on the wasm you use.

This is actually neater than it seems as embedded compiler is goroutine safe, meaning you can compile modules concurrently.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tetratelabs/wazero#NewRuntimeC...
For maximum clarity even if a future revision kills less people we shouldn't accept it doing occasionally doing crazy crap that could be fixed by superior instrumentation or engineering.

The goal should be as few casualties as possible NOT better than the incompetent idiots who currently drive cars.
Wait seriously? What kind of percentage do you get? That is.....both interesting and terrifying in a way
It's not THAT bad, it just depends on usage. Lately I have been using my phone a lot more, and just spending an hour or two endlessly scrolling in the morning it goes from fully charged to maybe 50%. If it is on standby most of the day, it will last most of the day.

That being said, I also play golf and use a Golf GPS tracker, Pokemon Go, and social media most of the day. Coming from an iPhone 11 Pro which had incredible battery life, it is a major change. BUT, the lower battery life is manageable. I have external battery packs, I prepare for these types of things. I can make it last when I need it to.
There's no reason it should be, it's unclear to me which scenario concerns you:

Mirrorless cameras can be powered by USB, either Micro or C depending on model. The batteries have a built-in BMS so leaving the camera plugged in won't harm them.

Some mirrorless aren't thermally compatible with running full video on battery for long periods, this is worth researching before purchase, but for the ones which are it's not going to damage the battery to run off of it.

There's no motive to do so with a desktop setup.
From the IAM perspective (If the service is an IAM) I agree.
But as SaaS provider I don’t want to use multiple realms because in that case my client would need to understand multiple issuers.

Also Keycloak has a cutoff of around 400 ish realms last time I checked ;-)
In my experience, people usually try to avoid exchanging air with the outdoors when they're concerned about significantly heating/cooling their homes. If you're exchanging air then a heat pump could super heat/cool the outgoing air, and that's the piece I was missing from your proposal.
> Startup School goes all the way back to 2007

Oct. 15th 2005, fwiw.
Punishing the company just hurts investors further. The board members or CEO should be fined personally if they lied.
What is not easy is getting that money on the hands of the people, instead of a few rich folks.
Malicious JS can be served directly, e.g. via ad iframes. Injecting it into a low-stakes (read-only) site doesn't gain much, does it?

Points 2 and 3 are the same, they're about integrity which could be had cheaper with content-addressing (hashes uniquely identifying the content) rather than pulling in the full TLS+CA machinery.
Jiggle of Existence
[re-parenting this comment under OP]

I don't think what you were describing is a "problem" at all. And it looks like you don't view at it as a problem, either. Not sure why so many of the replies in this article are trying to interpret your post as some kind of call for help.

I hate the phrase "Data Hoarding" because the word hoarding has negative connotations that don't apply to collecting digital media. When you look at actual hoarders, their homes are disgusting, filled with trash, and not navigable. On the other hand, there are no negative effects of data "hoarding", besides maybe the cost of buying and powering hard drives. Most hobbies have monetary costs and don't carry negative connotations. It's no more of a problem than stamp collecting. We don't call people Stamp Hoarders.
It's fun to look at the earliest Startup School threads on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1230768000&dateRange=custom&...

Like this one:

pg: Will everyone please relax? It's still the 27th here in California. Trevor's finishing reading the applications. We'll send out responses tonight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=148333
There used to be plenty of small Android phones. They could make them again. Battery life or processor power might be a bit less, but they used to work fine. There's no good reason why they can't again.
We know them ;-)
They are also the only domain registrar that I've interacted with this decade that does not allow you to set your own nameservers. Effectively locking you into using cloudflare DNS and related services until you can transfer again.

Its frankly, disgusting.
it's easy to predict the past

did you short?
I have a voice, I vote with my feet. I don't get to choose what products Apple makes or what games Nintendo releases, but I do get to choose wether I engage in their ecosystems.

In any system I'm not obligated to participate in, I prefer benevolent dictatorships. If I disagree with the dictator, I can take my business elsewhere.
> You can find these for $40-$100 and it allows one to switch out hardware brands at will without installing drivers.

The cheap ones (as little as eight bucks) all use the same all-in-one HDMI-receiver-MJPEG-encoding-USB-device chip; it's not perfect, but they do actually support 1080p at 30 fps.
Isn't the PinePhone 6"? https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/
That would have been very helpful. The [Enable DNSSEC] button in the control panel is very assertive and confident through its casual and innocuous appearance.

Source: me, having lost access to my domain for 4 days for reasons that are not yet fully clear to me.
Ask for a referral to a psychiatrist about Anxiety/ ADHD.

A major, but subtle ADHD symptom, is executive dysfunction. It's like when your willpower fails to start your body in the same way that a car may fail to start its engine. People with this can't start a task even if they desperately want and need to start it.

Anxiety can also cause similar issues. Although, usually I see anxious friends meet deadlines.
Phones have just an image sensor with a direct interface to the CPU, with a driver plus a ton of software running on the CPU to enhance quality. You can get good cameras with modern image sensors with usb interface. Note that they need a local controller to well, control them and provide a usb interface, and need firmware for the local controller and need to provide a driver or support for a standard API at the USB end. The market is tiny compared to phones, so for those reasons you can't buy a usb camera with the same low cost and high performance as what is in your smartphone.

That being said, you can buy good usb cameras based on many modern image sensors from a company like e-con[1], but you have to do research about what features are enabled by the driver.

I'm not sure why actual webcams including a way to mount on your monitor are so far behind and expensive. Logitech C920 is still a common recommendation, and it's now 10 years old!

[1]https://www.e-consystems.com/See3CAM-USB-3-Camera.asp
That really entirely depends on the brand / model. Some will overheat in under an hour, some will go on forever as long as you supply power. Price has nothing to do with it.

DSLRs will almost certainly be a cheaper option than a mirrorless camera for this, because pretty much any DSLR from the last ten or so years works for this, and there are many more of them. Autofocus and availability of clean HDMI in video-liveview mode depends though. Many support direct streaming over USB using proprietary tools.
This is not envy in my opinion. You are not upset, you are happy John is happy, where is the envy exactly? You recognizing that he has something you don't?
I’ve found the range for unlocking your phone with the watch is even tighter. When I’m on the subway it’s less than six inches, presumably because of local radio noise.
Actually it can be the opposite - if the miner is using it properly and not overheating them regularly they can be in good shape. If they run at a high percentage but the temperature stays constant then theres not a lot of wear going on vs suddenly heating and cooling all the time.

I imagine the bearings in the fan might have more wear, however, but that might be more easily fixed.
https://archive.ph/yI5lk

Archive link for those on mobile who might be listening to something else and don’t want Ars Technica’s website to interrupt playback.
IANAL, but you might be compelled to give up a fingerprint, face or other biometric access options; you cannot be compelled to give up a passphrase or something stored in your mind.
Even if we were at war in a planetary scale, a population of billions is more than enough to survive anything but the most apocalyptic scenarios. We can surely scale back without risk to our species.
Awesome stuff - happy to answer any questions
More or less. In my jurisdiction you can be compelled to give up biometrics, which has been expanded to include biometric unlocking. However, it requires a separate authorization, which in many cases will take long enough for the paperwork for TouchID to time out, and passcodes cannot be compelled (again, in my jurisdiction). There is no such protection for directing you to look at your phone.

For clients under investigation who have FaceID or similar unlocking for phones or computers, we always recommend they disable it and just use a passcode until the investigation is complete.
I'm pretty content to buy Nvidia on the way down. Their position in the type of silicon that is essential to the future of computing would be very hard to assault.
hahahha :D You missed the fact that every turk born as a soldier when it comes to availability :)
> Instead, early 90's "computer class" involved only typing tutors and Oregon Trail.

Don't forget the LOGO turtle on the Apple II which seemed to be in every damn classroom well into the 90's. It wasn't until 1994 that I sat in front of a PC in high school and even then it was friggin Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor (I snuck Doom onto the LAN to rectify that).

Giving a student a simple game with the ability to hack its source is a nice idea. Very basic game, 2d graphics, simple procedural api or language that lets them easily poke at a few lines of code. Start them in a dumb simple IDE, write a hello world, draw a box, make a decision, make a loop, then introduce them to the game and let them open it in the IDE and go nuts. A very vary light weight version of something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak
Brexit was fine for a referendum? Are you kidding me?

This Country hasn't held a fair, informed referendum. Whether that be the AV , Scottish independence or brexit.

The game has changed, you have social media companies, Russia, Palantir and Cambridge Analytica types weaponizing misinformation.

The electorate got pushed to voting against their interests for both Brexit and AV by absolute bullshit lies. (E.g. 350 million to the NHS, AV referendum killing babies...)

At this point in time, we have seen the same thing happen in India, Brazil, the US, UK...