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Show HN: Reach 100 – a (unsolvable?) puzzle game
I recently remembered a game we used to play with pen and paper some 20 years ago, where you need to fill a 10x10 grid writing numbers in the grid up to 100 following 2 simple rules.

After showing it to my kids I thought it would be nice to adapt it digitally so that they could play it more often (not needing to draw the grid etc.) and so that other people could play it as well.

What I'm really interested in with this submission (beyond general feedback) is wether anybody knows the origin of the game and if it's solvable. Because that's the catch, my highest score of all time is 97 and it doesn't seem to be possible to go higher.
I have the feeling this game is an adaptation of a more general problem and probably has its origin in some lecture. So, once again, if you know where it comes from I'd be really grateful. Alternatively I would love to know if there is a possibility to prove if it's solvable or not.

(It's made for mobile but it works on desktop as well with keyboard shortcuts around the S key in a QWERTY layout)
Calling them "TV shows" is pushing it. They are badly produced ~5 minute sponsored clips by a bunch of internet celebrities, barely more than random stories that they would otherwise post.
Worth noting that “fake it till you make it” is a very old/well established strategy in the music world, it’s just being applied to social media. For example, read about some of the things David Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries did. Before Bowie was remotely famous, DeFries hired body guards for Bowie just to give him an aura of fame, had him drive around in stretch limos, hosted lavish after-parties after shows even when he was a nobody, leveraged curiosity about all of this into interviews with reporters at fancy hotels, etc.

The strategy was to make him appear to be famous until he actually became famous, and it worked. Exactly what people confide to do today on social.
Algorithm optimizes antibiotic use in settings with poor hygiene and sanitation
It's gonna happen in 10 years, every year.
Apple can deploy several levers to increase non-iPhone revenue which they haven't yet.

First party games. Ads. Increase first party paid app costs (final cut pro goes back to being a pro service). Developer services. All on the mac side. They also have cloud infrastructure they haven't focused on yet, but can potentially be a major source of revenue with the right hires and focus.
I think someone needs to read a little more history ;)
But it's already a big deal just with the true parts. No need to resort to false parts to make it sound like a big deal.
Possibly... but I'm skeptical. For the type of photography that I do, these are things that come from an understanding of the world and its implications. You aren't going to see certain types of clouds in certain landscapes - they just don't form there. For example, having a cloud that indicates fast moving wind in a mountain environment in a plains landscape with a glassy smooth pond.

It's not that you can't paint that picture... but you'll never be able to capture that scene in camera. If someone was presenting that as a photograph, it would feel wrong to me because of an understanding of the meteorological criteria for the scene.

I believe that they will generate images that are impressive. I watch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg and have been impressed with the pace of technology.

Yet, I am doubtful that I'll have a generated image at 11x17 that holds up to the same scrutiny that I apply to my own photographs.

I am absolutely certain that it will be able to generate images that are completely appropriate for images that you don't look at for more than a minute at a time or are used as complimentary material for other content.

All that said, I am not concerned that I will get more or less sales of my photographs with AI generated art competing. The people who are going to pay for a photograph are going to pay for a photograph. Those who aren't - weren't going to in the first place.
That's a non-answer. What more do you want? What would be "enough"?
Right. They get to decide to host these sites, and other people get to decide to organize legal economic actions against them, like boycotting. This seems like a normal and healthy part of a free market, no?
> But it would be better received if phrased plainly versus sarcastically.

The perils of thinking people receive things objectively. I didn't think it was sarcastic; it's phrased about as neutrally as I can imagine.
Law enforcement are doing the right thing responding to potentially emergency situations. The problem isn't that they are responding to SWATing, the problem is people calling them in when there is no emergency.
This is interesting from an observational point of view, but I've went down that rabbit hole and it's a never ending one. In the end, my productivity didn't improve anywhere near the time I eternaly spent optimizing the method.

I went back using a simple ANSI US layout keyboard (not the standard here) where the only change I do is to assign CTRL to CAPS LOCK.
Yeah, a week or two ago I was trying to find some kitchen thing (don't remember exactly what) and thought to look at their selection. It was something I expected a bunch of kinds of, and they had one kind, which didn't meet my needs while also being much more expensive than what we ended up with from Target.
Certainly not at all what I'm witnessing.

Instagram seems to still be used by teens, but slowly fizzling out. Tiktok is popular. Snap seems the preferred chat app for most.
Too early to tell IMO. The Ukrainians have done a great job with innovation and PR. They repelled a Russian invasion of Kyiv and forced them to retreat from an area as large as Denmark. They will likely have trouble handling a prolonged engagement and recovering the rest of their territory. But it is not impossible.

The Russians are clearly not even the second best army fighting in Ukraine. They will likely attempt to turn this into a prolonged event which seems to be their only advantage. However the longer this goes on the more domestic resistance will materialize. Putin is worried about this since he did not increase troop numbers by conscription. The sanctions are beginning to affect the average Russian so that is a problem regardless of their propaganda.
Agreed! There needs to be much more coordination at the SAARC level to solve these issues. Honestly cross-border trade would be amazing for Northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Partition and instability of the 70s-90s really destroyed the economic potential of the region.
That's pretty much it, yes:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technol...

https://www.cyber.nj.gov/public-data-breaches/ubiquiti
Read the 10th amendment. The powers not delegated to the government are delegated to the states, or to the people. What you describe as "social justice" is constitutional, if you want to fix that, change the constitution and make it illegal, but you're quite right, the founders made that difficult, perhaps because they believed mob justice had its place sometimes, I mean in the eyes of the British, what were the Unionists but a mob rallying behind blatantly illegal ideas?
Deprecating and Removing Web SQL
Congrats on the launch, Sagar!
Yeah, but it was even worse in Playgrounds somehow. They were unusable even for testing a one-line piece of code.
I would generally reccomend against economics books for entrepreneurs as it's sort of an esoteric and niche subject. If you wanted to explore it for the sake of, I enjoyed Capital in the 21st Century.

For Entrepreneur / business books I reccomend The E-Myth Revisited.
Back in the day, the Atari 1030 modem (1200 baud, I believe) was Hayes compatible but did not have a ring detector. That makes it difficult to use it for a BBS.

So I ended up using a neon lamp across tip and ring to light up when the AC ringing signal hit. I placed it next to a photo resistor and hooked it up to the fire button on one of the joystick ports. The resistance didn’t drop to zero, but it was close enough.

Two components with the bonus of optical isolation from the phone network!
Irrelevant. Many who have read Marx (and peers like Ricardo, Smith) would agree his description of the problem was a lot better than his guess at a possible solution, and that's okay. Considering Marx was describing a very new phenomenon, it's not surprising the first attempt to guess at a solution turned out hare-brained. The detailed description of the problem still is very valuable and shockingly apt today. And now we have a lot more data.

Don't comment on Marx if all you know is "lol communism didn't work in russia". That's a borderline non sequitur that just reveals you don't know what Marx said at all. It's like British people meeting Mormons and saying "Oh you're a real mormon? What like from South Park?" You don't have to read Marx in the original, just spend half an hour on a Wikipedia or cliffsnotes summary at least beforehand. Maybe do the same for Smith and Ricardo, too, so you can have a good overview.
This could be co-opted as evidence for the theory as well, where all these products that are converting to services models are economic "inferior goods," where you switch away from them when you can afford something better. Month-to-month subscriptions are what you have when the product isn't good enough to buy an annual one, or just buy it outright.

The companies position themselves that way because they want to take advantage of peoples indifference to small subscriptions - because they know their products are objectively lame.
Just to give an idea of what the actual trade-offs are between the benefits of wind and the immediate ecological impact, I ran some numbers a few months ago and reached an estimate of somewhere between $1700 and $2500 saved in "social cost of carbon" per dead bird, for on-shore wind power in Scotland and the north of England. Social cost of carbon is the estimated value of the benefits of reduced carbon emissions, including benefits to human health. For a non-endangered bird, even $1700 saved is a good deal. Clearly a pigeon's life is not worth $1700 (not that pigeons are particularly at risk from turbines). For a critically endangered bird, it is not a good deal at all (extinctions are very bad). At some point there's a cross-over.

The problem is that as you build out wind power, you kill more birds, which starts putting populations under stress that weren't stressed before. In other words the cross-over point moves. That makes effective mitigations more important the more wind power gets built. Ideally a doubling of capacity should be accompanied by a halving of the kill rate per unit of capacity. A mitigation strategy that could cope with all the planned capacity increases would probably look like: paint jobs on all new build, plus effective radar that can brake the turbines, plus a form of active deterrent (i.e. microwave or sonic repellent). All this while policing the wind companies by tracking tagged birds.
Why don't you just Ctrl+Backspace instead of hammering the backspace key? Works fine on Windows, contrary to your last sentence.
> It seems to me that we can and should ensure that the people in power are themselves subject to the panopticon. Literally politicians should be 24/7 live streaming their lives.

This all sounds equally as feasible as simply rolling back the surveillance in the first place. The whole point of these systems is to subject the hoi polloi to constant and intrusive surveillance as a counterinsurgency tactic. Why in the world would they agree to do that to themselves as well?
From DevOps to DevSecOps: Security is the top concern
It's much more common than you may think - especially at larger organizations where engineers go "off-script" frequently.

That being said, we wanted to highlight an example of how fuzzing can be applied to a typical (albeit, toy) API to find logic bugs, and figured SQL Injection would be something that resonated with most (all?) developers.
> With the way the ranking system works this is basically guaranteed that you’ll lose half your games unless you’re a literally world class player.

This is theoretically expected of skill-based matchmaking systems.
Yep. Apologies are blood to lynch mobs.
Their moat is Apple/Google promotion while they are the only Meta alternative.

TikTok eats into that but not much because of the geopolitical issues surrounding it.
> - People often could buy a new printer, with supplies included, for cheaper than a new set of cartridges.

I had a friend who would actually do this -- every time they ran out of ink, they'd buy a new printer. I found out when I helped him troubleshoot something and saw 5+ different printer drivers installed.

After he told me about it, he opened the closet door to reveal a (actual) leaning tower of printers
The problems between India and China have nothing to do with any of what you mention. It's about regional influence and, especially, border disputes actually created by the British, none of which would change if China suddenly became a democracy (in fact public opinion is quite nationalistic of both sides so beware).

In fact it's India that has played the "lemme outlaw your products" card against China recently.

On the other hand, India has very good relations with Russia. Russia supplies half of India's military equipment.

Let's not get into invading others as the US would certainly NOT look good, including or especially compared to China...

So, again, your view seems rather superficial and naive.
> Large corporations policing free speech

Let me stop you right there. This is not a free speech issue. Please be precise with your terminology.
Then you still have to deal with the OS, user admin, and all the software yourself, right?
It's worth noting, for people unaware, that there are no suicides associate with the KiwifFarms. There have been people with threads who kave killed themselves, unrelated to them having threads, and one person who poorly faked a suicide after failing to extort the KiwiFarms into removing his thread. The site is a gossip site, not some boogeyman Law&Order-esque cyberhateden dedicated to cyberbullying gay people to death. It's absurd seeing the caterwauling the site has generated--they don't even reach the level of paparazzi who really do stalk people. All the KiwiFarms does is collect information that was already publicly available.
Climate change and insurance: Weighing up the risk
Scientists wonder if Earth once harboured a pre-human industrial civilisation
If it succeeds then billions more will be wasted on SLS.

If it fails, there’s a good chance those billions will redirected into in actually sustainable launch system.

It does suck to want something to fail, but you have to think about the bigger picture here and the greater good. No one is going to die.
This is not a Cloudflare problem. The copyright holders should follow the procedure in the DMCA to protect their content. If they're not willing to spend the time to do so then what can they expect? No one else is going to do their job for them.
It’s simple, but not easy. Intermittent fasting is an easier way to start compared to traditional fasting. Imo it’s still better than other diets due to its simplicity.
It's a bit more than that, since it's judging someone by the company they keep and who's voices they amplify.
When I worked at my first startup, I worked probably 10-12 hour days. I would show up at 8am and and work until 8pm, with a 15-30 minute lunch break to one of the nearby restaurants. One day my boss put me on support engineer duties (I suppose I broke too many things and he wanted to teach me a lesson.) Every day, I would log into the system and see 20 tickets that I needed to address. I'd fix each bug, then report the fix to the Customer Support team, who would then notify the customer that their issue had been fixed. As the day went on, new bugs would come in, and I'd fix those as well. I always got to inbox zero every single day. I did this for about 6 months.

About halfway through that six month stint, I had -- wonder of wonders -- a date, and so one fateful Wednesday evening, I left at 6pm instead of 8pm, so I could get ready for my date. I was very anxious, because I still had 4 tickets left, and a fifth one just came in right as I was walking out the door. But... you know, date.

So I come back in the next morning, and I had 24 tickets on my plate, and I fixed them and more tickets came in, and I fixed those... And not a single person noticed that those four tickets were "late."

That's when I had my epiphany: nobody truly expects you to work outside 9-5. If a business partner or customer sends you an email at 5pm, they aren't expecting a response until the next business day. You don't need to respond to things at 8pm. On top of that, there's _always_ more work. You will never, ever, ever run out of work. There's always more to do.

I took that lesson and I ran with it. I started coming in at 8-ish and leaving around 6ish, and I started dating more and going to movies and enjoying my life more. Nobody noticed or even cared. Our customers were still happy, and my boss never said anything (in fact, I got promoted shortly after that 6 month stint, so I must have done something right!).

So my advice to you: work 9-5. Don't work any longer than that. It's just a job. If your job has a problem with you working only normal business hours, find another job. There are a million out there. It doesn't matter whether you're in academia or corporations, there are company that are totally fine with 9-5, and there are other companies that expect overtime. Just find the right ones for you.

Your analysis is absolutely correct: life is short. Go enjoy it.

I wish you the best of luck and that your life is fulfilling and joyful.
Why would Google hold back on releasing Imagen if there are competitors that are publicly available already?

Imagen isn't special anymore.
> How much do you think Cloudflare donated for the 3 suicides caused by Kiwi Farms in the recent years?

Suicides that are awful, and were caused by Kiwi Farms. The quote I used clarified that Cloudflare's aim is to not profit from abhorrent behavior.
I saw no indication he was promoting the Church, rather than belief in G-d. (Not that it was a relevant reply anyway.)
> Yes, because that's not how it works.

I think you don't know how laws and Author rights work

The simple fact his work became part of something else he did not authorize is the problem here.

And yes, it could spit out something that is very close to the original, so close that fair use could not stand.

Fair use is not a right!

> If your friend is still upset, maybe they should consider the artists they "stole" their learning material from.

He does, don't imply differently, ad hominem are a stupid argument for very stupid people.

That's why he spent 30 years of his life learning and in the end he became good enough to meet the artists he "stole" from to thank them of what they did.

You seem to lack the ability to understand the difference between being a good person and being a senseless automata...
Microsoft is so incredibly bad at naming things it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.
My previous remarks about agricultural runoff already agree with your observation that this incarnation and its duration is substantially influenced by human activity.

I will note a pet peeve of mine: humans are animals indigenous to this planet. We didn't fly in from another galaxy for the express purpose of fucking with it for funsies.

Other animals shape their environment and alter the landscape. Alligators help create swamps and keep them alive. Beavers build dams. Etc.

Not saying humans shouldn't be mindful of the consequences of their actions, but it's a tired trope that human activity is somehow fundamentally different from that of other animals.
I thought their research actually is open, at least? That's still something...
KF users have already SWATed someone if I recall correctly. So, they're already in the worse possible situation if any further evidence comes to light.
Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman
Hey HN, I built this because I wanted a portable version of Insomnia I could access anywhere I am, without installing anything. The application is a PWA, so it will not load resources again after the first load, unless there's an update. It uses IndexedDB and loads quite fast even with a lot of nested requests and folders.

Import from Postman and Insomnia is available making it easy to import your pre-existing request collections.

Only limitation is that it only supports CORS enabled endpoints for now. I plan to add cors proxy support later on. There is of course the electron build (https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/releases/tag/v0.0.1), which can be used to bypass cors but that kinda defeats the portability of the app but it is an option.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
The Daily Stormer is a Nazi website dedicated to promoting genocide and organizing people who support genocide. That's not "things that I don't like" unless your argument is that we shouldn't actually do anything about genocide until the genocide has been done.
I'm 35, have been taking 6mg of rapamycin per week for about a year. It's hard to assign the effects directly to it since I've been taking other supplements and also fixing up my diet + exercise. That being said, I am quite sure that it has reduced general aches and pains, reduced visceral fat and I now have less gray hair compared to when I started. It did slightly increase my glucose and lipids, but still within safe ranges AFAICT. I'll continue to take it until I notice real adverse effects.
For how long will the majority of internet users be policed by special interest groups though? How far along till we all noticed it's gone too far?

There are minority groups that propagate general hate too only that their brand of hate is sanctioned. Cloudflare can't make it up for whatever loopholes that exist outside the law. I wouldn't expect any company to go any further than required either.
Founders, ditch your long presentations. Here’s how to make a 5-slide pitch deck
> Germany is in real trouble for energy, while France has lots of nuclear power plans and simply doesn't have the same level of risk

Power transmission this year so far [https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=...]:
Germany to France: 13.5 TWh,
France to Germany: 3.2 TWh,
Net export Germany: 16.9 TWh,
Net export France: -9.7 TWh

And yes, there should be more nuclear power plants online in France during winter. But some projections say that it won't be enough and France will depend on other countries until next year.

> It's not that Europe wasn't warned.

That may be so. However, most proposed solutions were not to be come independent, but to import oil/gas from other countries. Which is why public opinion never really changed. And its very hard to encourage people to become climate neutral if others (americans) are some much worse in respect to climate change.

Also, many Europeans have personal connections to Russia and don't trust the US. It's not all just corrupt politicians (which is obviously contributing, but its not just that). Similar story with Iran, btw.
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I should have known my comment would only make you more aggressive. Walked into that I guess.

You are right in that a huge amount of ads leverage user data at the expense of the user.

The point I’m trying to make is that not all involved in the advertising technology are exploitive. We do zero ad targeting based on user data. You make a search for specific products, we take the response and shuffle the order a bit based on vendor campaigns. That’s it. Nothing is associated or even collected from the user. It’s all system metrics.

The greatest harm that my team does is hurting optimized relevancy, which is inherit to advertising but also something we work hard to alleviate.

That misused proverbs quote is a nice touch. Shows a lot of self awareness.