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Ask HN: Calendar widget to indicate one-sided availability?
Hi all - I've been working on a tool that matches women to hormonal health specialists.

Right now our "product" is more of a lead gen tool that funnels women ("users") to the women's health providers in our directory based on preferences like budget, comm style, treatment methods, etc.

We're working on getting a more robust dashboard launched by early summer. That said -- we are having some leaky funnel issues and it seems that a few super quick fixes could have a pretty tangible conversion improvement for our providers.

One of these fixes would be a more direct link to booking a free discovery session with one of our providers upon completion of the quiz. The flow we are thinking of is as follows:

(1) User takes our quiz and receives their 3 provider matches

(2) User indicates their availability for a free discovery session

(3) Available slots are automatically pushed to provider(s) of choice, and the specialist can then take the lead on booking a discovery call

We are both non technical :) and would ideally put something together quickly ourselves for this as opposed to convoluting the v2 that we'll have a dev be putting together and/or spending more $ to put something more complex together.

That said - -we are looking for any widgets that could easily be dropped into a Webflow page where external party A (user) could indicate their availability and have said availability get pushed to another external party/ies (provider(s)). Having trouble finding something that meets this criteria (one-sided availability indication only).

Any ideas?
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I'm not as far along this curve with macOS as Graham is with NixOS (and I'm a little jealous), but I'm approaching something like what you ask for. Feel free to ask questions; I'll try to remember to check back.

I have an air from 2013; I moved (regrettably, given the keyboard) to a new air around this time last year and used the process as an excuse to force myself to specify everything well enough that I could recover everything I need from stock macOS from a short bootstrap script.

I use yadm (~git) for my dotfiles, Nix for everything Nix can do readily, brew bundle for a few mac apps around the edges, and 3 small restic backups for some project files and such. My dotfiles contain a longer bootstrap script that takes over the heavy lifting once yadm is installed. This script configures most of the settings I need on the way, and prompts me to do the few bits I haven't found a good way to automate. It also collapses ~/Downloads, ~/Desktop, and ~/Documents into a single directory, so that I don't have out-of-sight/mind places for state to hide.

It has been a lot of work, but it has bought me peace-of-mind that I can replace my system quickly (i.e., be ready to work on a new device in ~2h with maybe 20 minutes of actual babysitting?)

That said, I think the basics here are actually fairly low-hanging fruit. You can also make some really quick progress once you know you've got everything essential safeguarded if you're willing to take a dive like Graham has here and let minor losses roll off your back. Access to a second mac also helps a lot; iterating on problems in the actual bootstrap process is slow, and best done while you have a working system you can stay productive on.

I'm currently most of the way through building out the rough inverse of my bootstrap script--a script that audits as much of my "state" as it can; I hope to have it working for a living as part of my backup runs soon. It cleans up and auto-commits anything it can, tells me what is in a clean state, reassures me not to worry about everything I've worried about during past moves, and gives me an explicit checklist for anything that isn't buttoned up.

I think the main things left are forcing me to deal with downloads/desktop/documents as I go (with measures like Graham's being on the table...), and figuring out if there's a sane way to audit for drift in my macOS system/app settings.
I ran into it in my printing of Cryptonomicon at the end of the book... indeed extremely excellent!
billions in losses used to sound like a big number, ah the good old days
For those like me who don't know it, in Debian vidir is in the "moreutils" package. As the name hints, its purpose is to "edit a directory in your text editor".
> Nuclear power today is about 10% of overall power generation. Were it 100%, INES 7 catastrophes would be happening every 3 years.

Well, no. It would probably be 0 INES 7 catastrophes because none of the new reactors would be built using pre-1980s designs.

> Engineering in 1970s was overall solid...

There is no comparison between modern engineering and 1970s engineering. Was 1970s engineering good? Yes. That is your clue at how jaw-dropping modern engineering is in terms of capabilities.
Also IANAL, but its my understanding (at least under common law here in Canada) that the doctrine of privity of contract should apply here. Since the ticket purchaser only has a contract with Ticketmaster/Live Nation they should not be able to sue the 3rd party event provider, and rather are only left with the option to sue Live Nation.
> I also understand that this is possible because the emulator is running on a superscalar processor.

It's also possible because the minimal architecture of the 6502 makes it inherently inefficient. With only three 8-bit registers -- which can't even be used interchangeably! -- and a non-addressable stack, a lot of CPU time on the 6502 is spent shuffling data around. Consider adding two 32-bit numbers, for example. On a 6502, this is a minimum of 38 cycles (clc + (lda, adc, sta) x4); an x86 can complete the same operation in one cycle, potentially in parallel with other operations.
You might be on to something with your different ways to focus.

I'd love to use a tool (in-browser perhaps? or an app for tablets?) where I could:

- load/import reading material from various sources (typically web articles or ebooks)

- efficiently edit in-place (with a trace of the original content, google-docs-like),

- annotate words or paragraphs,

- classify the content for future reference (a sort-of Mendeley bibtex builder, as opposed to simple bookmarks)

- auto-formatting for "pretty-printing" (thinking about the reader mode in browsers there)

- perhaps with the option of sharing that content, or allowing for comments on my annotations (here I am thinking about goodreads and how authors themselves can answer questions about the books directly)
Have you tried running an actual DNS query against 1.1.1.1? Some ISP were known to filter/blackhole/reroute 1.1.1.1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g... maybe you're concerned. Otherwise, that's a pretty insane latency!
How about discovering the joy of the wide world outside programming? Why lock yourself in the same box you've been in for 20+ years?
My naive predictions:

- Countries are going to become increasingly authoritarian, not unlike what happened after the Great Depression

- There are going to be a lot of angry poor people looking for someone to blame and they might become violent; there might be riots, protests, or calls for revolution

- There might be a slight increase in abortions or births depending on the current prudence of couples

- Some countries might start experimenting with permanent Universal Basic Income once they realize how unnecessary most jobs have become

- Mental health and self-esteem is going to degrade (esp. in the younger generation); there might be a sharp increase in suicides or people who choose to opt out and become recluses

- We will see a very strong push towards smart cities, cybernetics, and eugenics by the start of the next decade

- Leaks upon leaks of nude media from all the random sexting going on during the quarantine

- Plenty of divorces
NE pact article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...

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Asked whether the collaboration among the states was a rebuke to the President Trump, who has said the decision about businesses reopening was his to make, Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said only that he was focused on making decisions based on facts and science, and he reiterated that an economic recovery was inextricable from a public health recovery.

Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania echoed Mr. Murphy’s comments in responding to a similar question.

“The sequence,” Mr. Wolf said, “is you’ve got to get people healthy first, and then you can reopen the economy.”

Interviewed later on CNN, Mr. Cuomo was more pointed in his remarks on who bears responsibility for restoring life to something like normal.

Trump administration officials, the governor said, could have enacted a nationwide shutdown to stem the spread of the virus.

“They didn’t,” he said. “They said we’re going to leave it to the states. Now all of a sudden when it comes time to open the economy, now it’s back to the federal government’s responsibility?”

“””
Agree. Also, you loose money when you buy it. P2P transfer is extremely cheap, but on-ramp and off-ramp are horrible. That's why there are so many exchanges making money in Bitcoin business.
That’s always going to be a WIP. If artists want to cut out Ticketmaster, they already can, and sometimes do. Ticketmaster exists solely because artists want to charge lots of money but maintain a warm relationship with their fans.
If a pandemic doesn't strike you as the appropriate time to temporarily cede some personal rights then what situation does, exactly?
One advantage I've recently encountered is that CVE scanners like Nessus or Stackrox seem to be naive. They don't seem to examine binaries for statically linked libraries, so a container with only a single statically linked binary is likely to stay nominally CVE-free in perpetuity.

This might also be true if you simply copy shared libraries. AFAICT these scanners rely on the package index to identify potential CVE exploits. But I may be wrong, and in any event it'd be much more difficult to identify the version of a statically linked library than a shared library, which can be identified by its name or hash.

This doesn't excuse avoiding keeping containers updated, but if you want to be cynical about vulnerability management, i.e. that any trick which improves the signal-to-noise ratio is worth exploring, then it's something to keep in mind.
Really? I picked these two at random: "A COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS ..." They can't even spell it. "Project from course CS430 Principles of Programming Languages" - It's a school project. Whitespace is mentioned exactly twice. It has completely unverified asssertions such as "Easy-to-read: Python code is much more clearly defined and visible to the eyes". The rest of that list are pretty dumb too.

That paper's worth nothing. It's literally schoolwork.

and one I looked at is https://alistapart.com/article/whitespace/ Whitespace is used there as a feature of graphics layout mainly (though text too, as margins, space between lines etc). From it

“Whitespace,” or “negative space” is the space between elements in a composition

Article's about using space around things. If this is about defending punctuation then it's not, and if it's about whitespace in the sense of left-indenting python, it's not either.

As for the question about regexps, they aren't punctuation that punctuates anything else, they're a mini, dense string language. They reveal nothing about python spaces vs braces, and nothing about punctuation in an informal or formal language.

To answer your question about regexps, which is clearer depends on what's required. A common emacs regex is to remove left-spaces from data:

^[ \t]+ -> (empty string here)

To swap 2 fields separated by a space (assuming the 2 fields don't contain spaces, common in data scrubbing):

\(.\) \(.\) -> \2 \1

In these cases regexps are cleaner than methods, but that I find it so neither supports nor denies agreement with you.

This is silly. Good night.
If you rename the 'mv' command, won't this break a lot of things relying on it?
You have a compelling offer to Ticketmaster's free money? Those giant stadiums are likely getting million dollar annual upfront payments for signing exclusive multi-year ticketing deals. Not even the mighty Pearl Jam (in their prime, no less) could beat the hated Ticketmaster.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster#History
You are referring to the game-theory model of advertisement spending; but when game-theoretic decisions are made stochastically over time, it becomes a congestion game[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_game
This is one of those times when I just love coming to hacker news. Seemingly trivial quality of life improvement makes it to the top and the comments section is lit up with several other cool alternatives.
My guess is Ticketmaster simply doesn't care. It's a cost of doing business for them.

Six years from now, 400,000 people will get postcards in the mail telling them that they're part of a class action settlement over this.

The class action lawyers will get second houses with third boats.

The lawyers on Ticketmaster's side will get nice bonuses for saving the company money.

The 50,000 people who actually responded to the postcard will get 53¢ each.
There are hundreds of changes listed here and still no mention of fixing the fact that zig purposely errors out on tabs and carriage returns. This might sound too ridiculous to believe, but if you use tabs or save a file out of windows text editor with normal settings, zig just won't compile. It would be trivial to do what every other compiler in history does, but they want to screw with windows users or anyone you uses tabs for some philosophical reason.
Oh how the tables are turned... Coming from VS2008-2010, it's weird to see someone said Visual Studio is fast
Why do you need to encrypt YouTube videos?
Fossilised remains of 90M-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice
“If we are allowed to dream”
And nemo, caja, nautilus, finder, thunar, simple file manager, dolphin, konqueror...?

There are more graphical environments than just Windows' built-in :|
Try suing Live Nation. Each tour will be spun up as a separate production, a standalone legal entity, specifically to limit such liability. Same goes with the artists, who don't work for Live Nation but rather provide their services via their own personal services companies.
Ask HN: How to connect with experts outside of the tech domain?
I had an idea that came about after a dinner with an acquaintance, where he told me about the time he used to work as a professional chef. An interesting thing I picked up on was a decision making process that chefs go through by eyeballing some numbers and just going by their gut feeling. I thought the decisions could be made faster and more accurately if the users had an app that showed how their choices would affect their costs in real time. I even put together a small demo, and I think the recovery after the pandemic would be a good opportunity for restaurants to save costs by removing some inefficiencies.

The problems is I have no contacts in the business so I have no way of knowing what users actually need, and whether they would even be open to using insights from an app. Normally that would be the end of it, because I have zero experience in marketing to that sector. But I'm wondering if there's a way for me to get in contact with people in the restaurant industry and see if they'd be interested.

Are there any strategies for making contacts in domains outside of your own? How can you find people to work with you who aren't in tech?
The Times covered this on the 8th. The policy didn't change

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/arts/music/ticketmaster-r...
You can also do control+x control+e to send the command line to your editor(whatever $EDITOR points to).
Good luck with the chargeback. I tried to open one with Amex online and it was insta-denied with a note to the effect that I needed to work it out with Ticketmaster myself. I'm hoping Amex phone support is willing to work with me, whenever I make it through.

Ticketmaster's phone support tells you to open a live chat, then hangs up on you. When you open a live chat you get a canned response that the show is postponed and to go away until it's either canceled or rescheduled... then auto ends chat.

If nothing else, I can at least enjoy the minor irony that is getting fucked by the machine over a few Rage Against the Machine tickets.
This is exactly how I've been treating GitHub lately; in addition to my own SSH-enabled server, I have both GitHub and Bitbucket configured as remotes (strongly considering adding sr.ht to the mix), and every push pushes to all remotes simultaneously (well, technically sequentially, I guess).
I think you misunderstand my argument. I have zero issues giving Amazon credit, where credit is due. It is as big as it is, because it got a whole lot of things right from customer perspective. Compared to even to say BestBuy today, it is still probably best experience I had online.

That, however, does not mean that they cannot get so big that I would not want their power limited.

So to answer your question: sure.
He did make a million dollars though?
Google Design Blog on Soli as a New Interaction Language
there are a number of video games by ZachTronics in which you program in assembly language for fictional computer architectures in a sci-fi settings. “Shenzhen I/O” and “Exapunks” are both fun.
It's where the subsidies are, flexblue took a hit from Fukushima as did other efforst but the concept does resolve the issue of availability of land and addresses a lot of cost issues via serial factory production.

Rn the most promising efforts to watch concept wise IMO are nuscale and russia/china's floating concepts.
Some people are simply better or worse at allocating capital than others. Similarly, some people are just better at math than others.
The other replies are interesting as it sounds like the bar for entry (at least from HN people) to giving up an email address (even a disposable one!) is pretty high.

Anyway I signed up - I know I can unsubscribe if I don't like it, and I very much doubt you are a spammer (which I define as someone who won't let me unsubscribe!)

It's probably worth outlining what we are going to get in bullet points, and a bit about your experience though. But hold on, I don't need to tell you that!

Good luck. I recommend sharing your story on Indiehackers.com. Marketing newsletters seem to go down well there.
Show HN: I made an IoT device with JavaScript that shows my next bus arrivals
Yeah. Fuck sites that disable basic functionality that would help the disabled (those who don't have perfect vision, in this case). Blocking screen readers, disabling zoom, etc. Bullshit.
Sure. Google the opening claim to find a website where ppl are registering them, and notice another hit where it's debunked. Try this: study the message's source and google the IP address. Mine originated in Mexico.
This is my new favorite bash trick. Thanks!
I am continuously surprised by the amount of work zig committers manage to put out every release. It is actually inspiring. How do they get to appear so productive?

Anyway, here's a nitpick. In this release they've removed varargs, and now this is how a printf call looks like in zig:

std.debug.warn("{}+{} is {}\n", .{1, 1, 1 + 1});

The ergonomics of typing .{} for every print seems pretty awful if you're a heavy user of debug printing. I was hoping that maybe some sort of a syntax sugar is planned so that tuples could be used without .{} -- emulating varargs, but the bug tracker doesn't turn up anything in that direction.

In the previous release (0.5.0) one didn't need the .{}, but instead integer literals needed explicit casts, because the vararg implementation was limited:

std.debug.warn("{}+{} is {}\n", i32(1), i32(1), i32(1 + 1));

Both of these options seem like a regression compared to the usual

printf("%d+%d is %d\n", 1, 1, 1 + 1);

... and there doesn't seem to be a way to work around it by e.g. using a function overloaded in the number of arguments (no such thing in zig) or some preprocessor tricks (again, no such thing).

PS. I'm also surprised to find out that zig seems to take 2.6 seconds to compile the above example.
The constant pattern of over promising and at most under delivering indicates shenanigans.

Telsa's FSD package is a scam that will never be delivered. It's not a sale because there's no service delivered, it's a lie meant to trick people and investors out of their money.
Gmail.

At some point they redesigned the UI and it's been a horrible experience since. It hasn't wasted 100 hours, but it certainly feels like it:
- It takes multiple tries to delete files or select them as read. If you select the options to mark as read, or delete a message. For some reason it 'forgets' that I've done this when I exit the browser, and so I usually have to perform this operation at least twice.
- There's some sort of annoying animation that pops up when the inbox loads. Why?
The issue is that FBP (flow based programming) scales to a certain point of complexity.

After that, it stops being more effective than a textual representation or (gasp!) even old fashioned imperative programming.

As a result, we need new approaches for more powerful tooling that scales better along the axis of complexity (for the idea / thing we want to create)
Here's another one. http://playingcards.io/game/remote-insensitivity

This site is also a good platform for card games in general
I'm checking to see how much impact is has on hn vs reddit. That's why.
247B, Notes 2: Decoupling theory
you can also create a bunch of directories that way. Or anything really.

mkdir /var/{log,spool,asdf,bar}
Accounts were exposed in previous hacks, the accounts are now being exploited if the user didn't change the pw credentials and used the same email address.

Nothing in this suggests this is Zoom's fault (except that they might be able to check haveibeenpwned and warn users)
.. and shares his affiliate link to transferwise at the end.
We ran the largest elastic search cluster on the west coast some number of years ago. If you are small enough, elastic search can go a long way. Our data teams and operations folks celebrated the day that that system was turned off. Elastic search does not even hold a candle to the way we leverage splunk at our org, but that could be because we are bigger than some and deal with scale that few others deal with. Splunk costs us a fortune but enables amazing data analysis. It is easily our most expensive service we pay for and worth it. It would be great for our bottom line if it were cheaper, but they can charge what they do because the do it so well.
The Skynrt was probably all dreamt together in an adversial neural network.
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> But if f is NOT linear, the slope will be higher in some places than LNT would imply (this again is a simple theorem from calculus).

What does that even mean? That is junk maths, I don't believe there is such a theory. A line can have any gradient and I can always come up with an arbitrary curve that has a lower or equal gradient at every point that matches the line.

A model that matches LNT exactly to some threshold then the risk drops to 0, for example. Not higher than the LNT anywhere in any negative sense.
What does inDesign have to do with anything? This article isn't talking about using Windows or Mac software, and especially not proprietary Adobe software.

Also, if he's writing a book, why would he want to save anything as a "high res image" (implying raster graphics)?
William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned