skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longer games go by FIDE's "Laws of Chess" which has a section 7 called "Irregularities" that indeed specifies the behavior if you accidentally knock over pieces or the game board falls over or you make an illegal move (moving away a piece that was keeping you from check etc).

Resolving irregularities does require your opponent to notice the irregularity and bring it to the attention of the referee.

Not sure about Blitz.
I'm probably the target market for this, and I think it's going to have a hard time selling.

I currently pay for XBox Game Pass Ultimate at $15/month. That comes with 400 games, although I tend to play the more indie games. They do rotate off, so I bought Subnautica, for instance, on Steam. I notice that a few of yours have been on Game Pass.

Right now, Epic is shoving free games like crazy through their Game Store. I have a huge backlog of games on Epic that I'll probably never work through. Some indie games, some former AAA games. Same with Amazon - they give away free games every month for some reason.

I don't know if this glut of games is going to end well or poorly, but I would suggest you don't compete with XBox, and instead do a Mac-first indie game subscription service. Apple Arcade is pretty poorly marketed, and there might be more opportunity there.
Most of them are some of the time, but it’s hardly every single one all the time.

Which is hardly novel, the only difference is so many have been bought up for propaganda rather than as a money making business.
I'm surprised access through /dev/mem happens below the caching layer. I wouldn't have even thought of that possibility. Any idea why that is?
And people (including developers) aren’t always rational actors that act logically. Rightly or wrongly, there is a sense of fairness at play when something that was once free is no longer free. People aren’t entitled to a free lunch, but once you have it, it’s hard to take it away. Things like this can make even the most logical people act counterintuitively.
I don't run a business so I can't directly answer your question but I can answer it from a consumer stand point.

Assuming I find your product interesting a free trial or cheap (< $10) monthly subscription will get me in the door. After that everything depends on the product and price.

Generally this is how things are in my mind:
- I generally want a lifetime license if one is offered even if it is expensive because I want to pay once and never again.

- If a lifetime license is not available, too expensive, or has restrictions like missing features I'll opt for an annual subscription

- If I am going to use the product briefly I'll opt for a monthly subscription and then cancel it when I am done using it.

Some things that will put me off of your product no matter how good it is:
- Hard or impossible to cancel subscriptions, if I have to call to cancel you can bet I will call once and never use your product again and I will tell anyone else interested to never use your product.

- Removing features or forcing me to pay more for a better subscription tier after updating, generally unless I can't live without your product I will be canceling rather than upgrading my subscription tier
I just tried a quick experiment, and it will import GPX files that are exported from Garmin. Whether it will directly pull data from Garmin Connect is a question for the dev, but a quick test drive did not reveal that functionality.
Isn't SBF responsible for Kevin losing a decent chunk of money?

How can you support somebody who loses you money? Does Kevin really believe SBF did it all on accident/got in over his head/didn't know he messed up until it was too late?
And now make it also realtime...
Bloomberg was widely criticized as being friendly with SBF because they had him on panels after the FTX flame out.
> And yet, the pizza box hasn’t changed much, if at all, since it was invented in 1966. Then, boxes were shallow cardboard squares with flaps to lock them into place. Today, boxes are shallow cardboard squares with flaps to lock them into place. You’ll see the same design both in dinky spots for drunken college students and in the country’s most sought-after Neopolitan joints. Since the introduction of this corrugated vessel, humanity has landed on the moon, rolled out the internet, created cellphones, and invented combination air fryer–instant pots. But none of that matters: Ye olde pizza box refuses to die.

...

> We’ve gotten a couple of pizza-delivery innovations in the past few decades: the insulated heat bag—that ubiquitous velcroed duffel used to keep pies warm on their journey—those mini-plastic-table things, and … well, that is mostly it. No pizza box in widespread use today is significantly better at keeping a pizza fresh than the one Domino’s invented all those years ago.

...

> Your life is different from your grandparents’, but this is quite literally your grandparents’ pizza box—and also Elon Musk’s pizza box, and Joe Biden’s, and Oprah Winfrey’s.

The Atlantic, 11 years ago: https://archive.ph/K1uJq

> But that's not to say that there hasn't been any innovation in the pizza box space. FAR FROM IT!

> Inside most pizza boxes now, right in the center of the container, you'll find a plastic tripod often shaped like a mid-century modern table. It holds up the center of the pizza box to avoid cardboard smashing down on the cheese on the top of the pizza.

...

> It was one of a number of tweaks to the pizza box (venting configurations, say) that have improved upon the old designs. Now, some boxes designed for easier recycling, or come with holders for dipping sauces, or transform into plates. Like everything else, pizza boxes have gone niche and they can be made to order for very specific food transport situations.

...

> The pizza sleeve designs around that constraint. Some designer (who probably worked for Domino's) said, "Let's separate out the heat retaining and moisture battling components of the box." Vent to your heart's content to control moisture, but keep the pizza in an insulated sleeve, so that the heat stays in. The pizza and the box stay the same, but the system of delivery changes. That's brilliant.
Somehow, as soon as you connect environmental strain to population size, not just lifestyle, ecological problems disappear and Earth is doing just fine.
Tangent, but I realized the same thing about competitive gaming. Games can be a lot of fun when you’re playing with noobs and you’re a noob yourself. But when you get good and start playing with good people then there’s all these things that you need to do all the time and that you need to be aware of. It demands a lot of focus, and rigor, and poop shoveling type of redundant tasks (e.g. always zigzaging when you walk to avoid snipers) that a lot of the fun is lost. But of course, competing at a high level is something that’s also much more rewarding, and in that sense shipping a serious product that’s used by many people is much more rewarding to fucking around. Doesn’t mean you can’t do both. Maybe that’s why I have so much fun when I discover a new language or framework.
To me, the cult part is the worst in this industry. Job market is rotten and it spreads to how programming is adopted. In short, cult -> demands of mediocre tools -> supply of idiots. Apology if the tone is too extreme to this post's theme.
It has a life of its own way beyond Jim Cramer these days (also Jim Cramer is pretty terrible at being a pundit overall).

As for fintech companies, it's just a different field, with different norms, expectations, and overall pay structure. It's also a much smaller field in total.
Every few months or so we get these really circle jerky posts by engineers who believe the world of business is them just pumping out code and somehow getting paid.

1) that’s the difference between a job and a hobby. You do the hard parts you’re paid to do sometimes.

2) decisions you don’t like by stakeholders you don’t like aren’t always wrong just because you see some way to “code it”. A product is not just its code base. It’s is also the design, marketing, revenue and growth strategies. Sometimes even more than the code base. Sometimes code can solve these issues but more often it can’t.

3) this view often attracts comments from engineers who seem to have very limited experience in building and running successful products that can pay the bills. It requires a lot of hard work you don’t love. Yes you can find others to do that work but that’s you. You’re the one hired to do the work higher ups don’t.

If you disagree you can start your own business and learn for yourself. A business is a lot more that solving interesting problems and calling it a day. It’s building, growing and managing a business and the tasks that go along with it.
As a D&D lover and as a game developer, Wizards is customer hostile. They employ litigation and control lawyers to protect their own commercial interests instead of letting a community of fans expand upon their works with their own creativity. TSR and crew would be ashamed. It's always been about imagination and creativity within a ruleset. The ruleset books and core are Wizards IP. OGL was to take the "math and systems of rules" that made that possible and enable others to create works of their own. I used OGL extensively when building text-based adventures and muds as well as the foundation for mmorpg's.

Restricting it in legalese to "Table Top Only" is grounds for all sorts of law suits against Roll20 and the likes that employ the OGL rulesets for non-Wizards-like games. Fuck, this is why Pathfinder forked 3.5 rules. Wizards only cares about milking their already aging customer base. They had a really good effort on 4th ed. on bringing new folks in but then they showed how shallow the walled garden is and people left. Shame on you Wizards, shame. OGL should be open. Open Source, Open Ideation, Open Arms, Open Hearts. Wizards should do this, or give up the IP and stick to Magic The Gathering where they have a huge install base with Magic Online.
Well, land is heavier than water so it drops to the bottom of the earth (South Pole) whereas there is nothing at the top of the earth (North Pole), just water and ice. (Joking obviously, I’m not a flat/hollow-earther or anything similar)
The amount of calories used by thinking about a task is almost insignificant compared to baseline thinking about "nothing". IIRC it's in the tens of kcal per day.

The difference vs sleeping is much larger, but still pretty much inconsequential. On the order of 100kcal I'd think.

The vast majority of the calories you eat in a day are used just keeping your biological machine ticking over. Most of what you do is lost in the noise of your BMR. Of course this excludes physical exertion, but that's not really part of this scenario.
Not everything bad is illegal. This guy screwed a lot of people over, bailing him out (especially considering the price tag) was bullshit and the public deserves to know who thinks he should be out living a normal live and is willing to fork over the cash for it.
A big mistake with this math is that globally developers are not paid anywhere close to 250k/yr even fully loaded for the company. In my country in Europe it's closer to 60k/yr fully loaded. There is cheaper. Also most companies aren't gonna build something from scratch, they are going to use something else that is also available. That being said this type of exercise is good to show because many managers do not do it.
Decentralized Verifiable Credentials for the Future of Identity and Access Mgmt
Would love to hear your thoughts on the future of Identity Management!
depends on your choice of floating point standard, you're right for the current IEEE one
I'll add that locking things behind a subscription also means that I lost access if I stop paying. Which puts me in an adversarial position against the company if they keep raising the price to see what the market will tolerate. And at some point people are likely to question if they continue to receive the value that justifies the ever increasing prices

With a one off purchase I don't immediately lose my access if for example, I get laid off and need to cut back on my monthly spending. I may lose support, eventually run into an OS that won't run it, etc, but for the most part I don't lose my data and access.
The market is only about as intelligent as a dog?
?? I did just that using the app.

Is this not posted in ask HN?

Unless there is something wrong with the UX, my understanding was that this was to be an Ask HN post.

Strange
DVD: Video downloader app for Android based on youtubedl-Android
and if this matters at all, the documentation is not that great, IMO. It suffers from some translation issues and isn't always very clear.

I also audited their code quite a few times, and they do some very bizarre things in the name of "performance" under the hood.
I agree, I like it but a lot of customers will feel nickel and dimed even if they never pay for it.
I don’t think it’s really so much the hardware and software vendors as it is the music industry — and their very powerful lobbyists and lawyers. The tech companies have to play along with what the music industry wants — if they don’t, then they don’t get to have the top artists on their platform — and THAT is why Zune/Groove Music failed, not anyting tech related.
Do you/your corporation use Docker Compose?
All told I had a pretty fun time trying to self-diagnose myself, and I did a better job diagnosing myself than the docs I saw. I firmly believe that the only reason I’m not on disability and unemployed is because I took my diagnosis and treatment into my own hands.

That said, if I had to do that 20x per day with only 20 minutes allotted per patient, I can’t imagine I’d be very good at diagnosis either.
I will have my lackey deal with your complaint.
Dating services are not representative of general population. Even biggest most well established slow dating platforms have m/f ratio of about 2. Young people dating - parent would be lucky to get into a 4:1 pool. Like he said, it's the same thing, except more shallow and at a higher pace.
As far as I can see, SBF paid Kevin to be a spokesman for FTX, and he lost that money when FTX went down. I don't think he had personal investments in FTX beyond his reputation.
Reading between the lines (and pattern matching), my interpretation is it’s likely a line that prevents balances going below zero. The number was an account number which was exempted from that particular check.

The $65B figure probably leads somewhere else and sounds like it would be counting bitcoins which peaked at over $65k per coin.

If there was some other limit that prevented his balance from falling below -$1M BTC, then Alameda “had access to” over $65B in credit (in October 2021)
That Dealbook interview seemed more of a "We don't know what we're talking about so we can't ask you the hard questions" thing.
Hey man where'd you go.
If 5OFF worked why not try 500/5000off?
I agree with the spirit of this take. Of course they should have.

We should structure society so that the average person has agency at the workplace, and not just blindly abides by the decisions and orders of the board of directors.

If democracy were to expand to the workplace, perhaps we would be in a better position to avoid the situations that lead to the situation described by the OP.
Kinda odd that they care so much then - like it's probably just some rich friends of SBF who were happy to put money up for an old friend, but didn't want their names plastered all over the news.
I've worked for a small company that also had one of its products widely pirated.

You indeed get some users from piracy. Some of our legitimate users asked for a Russian localization because they've seen images of our GUI in Russian online and bought it for that. In my estimation, the number of clients you get from piracy about equals the number of clients you lose to it. Many people online say that those who pirate would never be your users anyway, but some users with an inelastic need for your software will prefer piracy if it is easy.

Moving your features to your servers will significantly reduce piracy. Sometimes that is not feasible. In that case, you can issue cryptographic tokens from your server to perform operations on client machines. With enough effort, that can be worked around, but you can make it difficult enough so that the inelastic users will buy the software.

It depends on what kind of software you make, but you could also license it cheaply in some regions with a special licensing agreement. In exchange, you could ask your clients to advertise you in their products (logo in movie credits, splash screen in a video game), or you could add royalty payment terms.

You could also think about flipping your business model upside down and, rather than focusing on great customer experience, focusing on getting as many software units out there at a lower price. A price that may be more affordable for the lower income countries. Do you know your marginal revenues and marginal costs? What happens if you drop your marginal costs by 80% by moving your training online, slowing down customer support, and drop your price by 50%? What would be the % growth of units bought? Maybe, in the end, that could be a profitable transition and would eliminate piracy.

But overall... I don't know how many pirates you'll be able to convert. In my professional experience, sometimes you can get a bigger ROI on effort spent in other areas than fighting piracy. There is no silver bullet for piracy; otherwise, it would not exist.
In the case of nodes in a graph, you have to keep track of where the connections go anyway, so you can count the list of connections.
So to be clear:

1. She got fired by company, company did not sue her for stealing time.

2. She tried to sue the company that fired her. It failed. She was ordered to repay $2k in court fees or because of the stolen time?

> Now, a civil tribunal, which is part of Canada's judicial system, has ruled that Besse owes her former company $2,756 after the software installed on her laptop revealed she misrepresented over 50 hours at work.

Ah... did she bill by the hour or something? Not salary?
Did the firm repay the clients that were overbilled? 2k from her pocket probably billed out at 10x that so 20k in client billings.
> Dual Pixels sit at the heart of the isometric grid. They encapsulate the 2/1 proportion inherent to isometric pixel art.

Honestly I never thought about this, but that's really neat.
> This promising engine [Servo] was developed by Mozilla[...] Mozilla fired a quarter of their developers, which apparently included the whole Servo team. There have still been some commits to the code since then (presumably by hobbyists) but it is questionable if Servo will have a future.

Why do people keep framing the story this way? Servo's future is in Gecko.

always_has_been.jpg

The Servo repo was a testbed that allowed people to work on new, Rust-based browser components without anyone having to pass the type of code reviews that are necessary for a production Web browser that is by the way already continually shipping to millions of existing users.

This (far too common) meme of Servo as a somehow failed separate browser engine that was supposed to, I dunno, be swapped out at some indefinite point and retire the lizard or something is very weird.
CDC&FDA Identify Preliminary Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65
I don’t have a set of clear goals and objectives. I have a very broad problem area and my job is “make this better.” And I’m salaried so I spend about 40-60 hours per week in this area. I think my employer trusts me quite a bit.

For task based jobs by all means figure out a cost and bill by the item. Some professionals do this. I paid my accountant $600 and didn’t care how long it took her.
Much of the corporate and industrial world runs on software that is sold in boxes and installed on the local machine. This is doubly true when you go beyond standard $10/mo consumer tools and in the range of thousands of dollars per license and beyond.

The move to the webapp model you describe is slowly happening, but it will be a very long time (if ever) before it can cover 100% of software use cases. Try telling someone in your accounting department they they have to use the web version of Excel moving forward and watch them quit on the spot.
Ask HN: When will Hotwire release Strada?
I've been waiting to play around with Strada, from basecamp/hey for a couple of years now, but the release keeps getting pushed back.

On the site (https://hotwired.dev/) they explain that Strada will
"Standardizes the way that web and native parts of a mobile hybrid application talk to each other via HTML bridge attributes. This makes it easy to progressively level-up web interactions with native replacements."

in 2021 it was supposed to be released later in 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20211128183813/https://hotwired.dev/

in 2022 it was supposed to be released later in 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20221104081346/https://hotwired.dev/

And now, it ids scheduled for 2023.

Anybody know when we should expect an official release?
I forget what job it was I was interviewing for but I remember being stunned at the open lack of process they had in place for trying to bother unifying all these teams to be on the same platform framework etc and instead deliberately let sub teams work with tooling that worked for them and didn't create a lot of overhead trying to coordinate and sync and share a common codebase. Every place prior to that day I had only heard of people going for long stretches to impose a company wide uniformity in tooling. All the costs associated with getting everyone on the same page was always taken as a worthy cost to pay and that future date in the promise land would have made it all worth it.

The folks in this other company just flat out said not worth it, just get your stuff done, ideal development scenarios and perfect harmony and alignment have too much hidden costs to bother with.

It's naturally a pro and con scenario but it was pretty refreshing to hear of folks so unconstrained by this self imposed constraint every other shop had imposed on themselves.
I was too young to know/understand the hows and whys, but I do remember having a couple of programs that you had to disable the turbo button on the front of the computer for them to run. I always thought it silly to have a button to intentionally slow down the computer, but yet it absolutely was required.
On iOS Mozilla might not be actually 100% at fault if their app does not work correctly.

This is because an inside apple policy dictates that all apps on iOS must use the Safari web engine and can't ship their own. As a result all browsers on iOS are just glorified Safari skins & Web application support continues to lag as a result among other things & Apple has complete control over what that one true web engine of iOS supports and what not.
Where did you read that license can be revoked after 35 years?

Does this include licenses that say "irreversible" in them?
I strongly dislike enterprise development/engineering, but I love programming/engineering. Enterprise software is written to optimize for the most amount of people working on any given codebase. As a result the practices and conventions adopted tend to sacrifice many programming techniques that would otherwise prevent a number of recurring problems.

This is also why pure functional programming never takes off despite being the more advanced and sophisticated way that leverages techniques which would prevent bugs and speed up development. I understand why large companies prefer extremely verbose, repetitive code, which allows for easy scaling of engineers, but I wonder what the industry could be if engineers prioritized computer science - more robust codebases, faster development which would translate to better products that never break while at the same time evolve faster.

"Planned obsolescence" might make business sense for hardware, but I feel software has so much wasted potential at the moment.
Alameda Got Liquidated Again