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Ask HN: How do you find time to do all the thing you want to do?
I'm one of those weird people who loves learning new things, has lots of specific hobbies, and also has some semblance of a social life on top of all that.

Specifically, I'd love to learn a new language, code a side project I've been meaning to work on, keep in shape, and hang with friends maybe once a week.

As I grow in my career, I find I have less and less time to do even 1 of those things. And if I have the time, I am frequently too exhausted after work to put my mind towards doing any one of those consistently enough to make it a practice, with the exception of working out, which doesnt require a lot of thought.

How do you find the time and _energy_ to actually do the things you'd like to do consistently enough that you actually make progress on them?

What strategies exist to help with this?

I have so much I'd like to do, and for years I've accomplished nothing...
How is it "apparent"? Suicides have been down https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-dec...

Where are you getting your information from.
This arguing from anecdote when there are stats available is just bizarre. And you talk like we as a society haven't been working to limit tobacco addition for decades. People care about that and people care about epidemic deaths.

If you don't think death is a big deal, you are welcome to live your life courting it. But I don't get the performative lack of empathy for those dead, those deeply sick, and the living who have to deal with both the rest of their lives.
If you travel to Taiwan, even as a Taiwanese citizen, you must stay in an official quarantine hotel for 14 days. You are not asked to do this - you are taken to the hotel by an official quarantine taxi driver and there are records of all this. You are not allowed to leave the hotel for any reason - food is delivered to your door 3x per day, and you can ask for certain things. My sister in law did this. That is just one of over 100 strategies employed by Taiwan to reduce virus spread.

The current Vice President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, has a Master's degree in Public Health from Harvard. The previous VP, Chen Chien-jen, has a Master's degree in Public Health from National Taiwan University. Taiwan takes public health seriously, especially after the original SARS experience.

Nobody in Taiwan thinks the virus is a "scam" or that masks are a "tool of oppression." Even before the pandemic masks were totally common. There is complete public buy-in on masks without even having to be asked. Some of my friends work in a clinic in Taipei so I hear updates. I was also in Taiwan last year for a month. The difference in attitude between the US and Taiwan is startling. If the US had acted like Taiwan, instead of acting in a way that was indistinguishable from sabotage, we'd have a lot fewer deaths and would have avoided a recession.
Maybe there's a solution beside typing (and whiteout) to my bad handwriting? Unfortunately, I don't think even a Manhattan Project can solve this one.
I had a Lisa 1 on my desk for a couple weeks in late 1983. Hard to imagine now how completely freaky it was at the time, the forerunner of all future graphical interfaces. The Object Pascal manual seemed like rocket science. All I wound up using it for was making a report, but I made sure to put some unnecessary graphics in, just because I could!
Because crypto is the first layer. It's like dealing with paper money and trades while living >200 years ago. Eventually "Trusted Institutions" will come along with insurance to keep your crypto safe for those with less risk tolerance.

The advantage then is that you get to choose how much control you want to give up for safety. Unlike the current system where you have to use these institutions to participate.
Is there a more canonical url for that doc’s info? Also, is the CDX api the proper endpoint for Wayback provenance data?
> impossible to offer a competitive rate while still taking any cut whatsoever

Huh, are you suggesting that there's no money to be made in the online payment processing industry? No differentiation in prices between processors that provide more or less service and ease-of-use?
Get the signals or stay poor. Elon Musk said that BTC should increase the block. Who is the only person who has worked to increase the bitcoin block? obviously Dr Craig Steven Wright ... Current block is 638MB
What can 1 Mwhr do?
> Drive an electric vehicle 3,600 miles.
Excellent, this works perfectly. Thanks!
Go and Java are close cousins.

The difference is of course the JIT -- with Go the single binary means you can disassemble it to find out what it's trying to do. JIT adds a layer of mystery.

Also, with Go it's largely possible to avoid heap allocations in performance hotspots. With Java I'm not so sure.
Why more countries want Twitter and Facebook to hire local staff
For all my effort and research, I'm sure I've flushed more fish than the average person. I don't even want to think about what percentage of the animals I sold during my time there lived their natural lifespan. Not many, I'm sure. Sometimes I think it would be better to give up fishkeeping altogether for the sake of the individuals. But if you've got an aquarium in your house and you're passionate about it, I'd think you're more likely to contribute to conservation efforts.

Sometimes I think about opening a pet store and being the soup nazi for fish and rodents. And sending every spare dime to conservation efforts for those animals in the wild. In the meantime, I'll donate what I can where I think it will do the most good. It's not much, but I hope it makes some kind of impact.
> Do you have a problem with the Unix Philosophy?

This thread got me thinking about all the unix systems I've used, admin'd, and fought with over the years, and I suddenly remembered a system I used the early 90s when you couldn't mv a file across filesystem boundaries because what that actually was was really a copy-and-remove and not just a rename, so it was outside mv's domain.

And that's what 'the Unix Philosophy' means to me, and why I consider it not worth much.
High levels of anxiety can be treated by appropriate counselling and therapy. You could try it and experience how it improves your confidence and happiness.
Exactly. I have a friend whose kids all share a condition where vaccines don't work well on them. For them to be safe, we need herd immunity. Successful elimination of the disease here makes it easier to turn toward helping others.
> Agreed. Baseball is interesting in part because of all its nonsense.

Which is one reason why MLB viewership has been in decline for the last few decades.

Younger fans simply aren’t putting up with the status quo regarding the game and their outdated traditions.
Procrastinating :) It's an average of around 15 loc/day, and I'm not great at going to sleep on time.
Does deleted mean actually writing bits over the disk contents, or just put them in the trash? What constitutes legal deletion of binary data?
> The linked wikipedia article shows some support among Israelis and a high support among Palestinians.

The thing is “one-state solution” means three different incompatible things: displacement of Israeli Jews, displacement or political suppression of Palestinian Arabs, and a multiethnic, multireligious democracy. You can’t really add up support for all three and call it support for one thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant#/media/File:Eggplant_...

Thanks for that, I had no idea!
Here is an idea:

Apple uses their App Store rules to ensure a good experience for customers. The descriptions on apps must accurately reflect what the app is about.

What if Apple required the changelog on app updates to accurately reflect what changed? This would create a better experience for users and is exactly the sort of thing I would want in my walled garden.
Yeah, those were not the original claims of Tether. At all. They kept moving goalposts to the point where any perceived advantage to traditional finance is non-existent.

A shady company in a shady jurisdiction, that time and time again refuses to show transparency in their books, moving goalposts, with a use case that at best works to appease day traders and at worst is just a vehicle for manufactured crypto spending and money laundering. Truly inspiring and revolutionary.
I agree about Trump and federal messaging being terrible, but CA’s messaging was strong from the beginning. Empirically, it doesn’t appear to have made a significant difference compared to other states.
I very much agree with English being a hodgepodge of confusing rules, especially those tense-related.

Re rewtriting (3) though: does not the following suffice?
"She must have been being watched".

I can imagine an argument that "She would have had to have" is not equivalent to "She must have" on grounds that the "have had" might suggest additionally that the past-ongoing-watching no longer occurs. I don't really think this flies, though, since the natural reading of "been being watched" already suggests to me that the watching was relegated to the past ("been" being interpreted as only connoting the past, not the "inclusive-or"-type interpretation "previously and perhaps presently"; much as "or" itself is - to my chagrin! - generally interpreted exclusively in standard parlance).

I couldn't think of how to simplify the "been being" though; that is a tough nut.
With big python projects it's often difficult to figure out what code is going to be executed next due to inheritance and mix-ins.

With Go, it's usually pretty straightforward. Yes, there are interfaces, but they're used in places where people actually want the choice of code to be dynamic, rather than people just having fun building up crazy hierarchies in the name of DRY.

So, with Go I find it very easy to read because of high code locality and the ease of following to the correct destination with function calls.

For things that are already local, "ease of reading" is just code for "familiar". Go is strictly easier to read because tracing through is strictly simpler. Anything else is just spelling and those barriers disappear with only minimal experience.
Wow. Looks like it's exactly what I've been looking for. Lightweight vanilla html editing. Going to try this.
Schools are different than a business setting. Young children have less chance of getting it and less of spreading it. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/pediatric-hcp....
Nitpicks follow. Tomatoes are counted in 個 (ko). The counter 本 for carrots and other things does not mean book in that context. The character just also means book, but has other meanings. Both magazines and pamphlets are counted in 冊(satsu) or 部(bu).
FWIW, the FT article appears to be calling out the difference in peak rates “for the same dates”, not for the full year.

While the excess deaths are awful, it’s also important to keep the number in context. The death rate has been decreasing for over a century, and in absolute terms, the death rate of 2020 looks like the year 2000 [1].

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/25/is-it-real...
See yourself PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency

https://coincarboncap.com/
It's possible that maybe, just maybe, the interior world of some crypto scheme may have sufficient formal proofs.

It doesn't change the fact that the crypto system lives in a human world were law, politics and attacks can coerce you to do a lot of things and the formality of the system is just irrelevant.
Suppose protein folding simulation and manufacturing can rapidly advance well beyond current levels. It seems like a hypothetical synthetic immune system that whitelists every configuration of every protein an individual can possibly generate and excludes everything else (if possible) would be a way to blanket eliminate unknown unknowns proactively like SELinux for the body.
"this context" is using a map from the beginning and not having that slice.
They're also requiring all new apps to be published in the Android App Bundle format instead of APK. Likely it will soon after also be required for updates to existing apps.
Of the many things we didn't bother doing, closing the Mexican border probably didn't matter a lot.

Canada did greatly restrict the border!
A lot of products you buy (especially ones that are huge recurring purchases, like lots of baby stuff) include coupons that direct you to the website to buy more via direct subscription.

It’s insane that in my product I cannot tell people about ways you can purchase it. Defending this rule seems like Stockholm syndrome.
The most important thing to watch out for in this type of articles is for this push by certain anti-market interests to not succeed in a mining or even an outright Bitcoin ban in the West. They are using both environmental angle and an terrorist angle to justify a potential action, that can range from a new type of mining tax to an outright Bitcoin ban.
> A better metric would be "energy use per double-spend that was prevented."

Not for a general audience. The purpose of a currency is to enable transactions. Internally, I get why people involved might fuss about the metric. But from the societal perspective it's reasonable to ask, "What does it cost per unit of value created?"
Different societies have different standards. Society X could say that the color red is problematic and should never be displayed, and Society Y could have no such rule or any problem with the color red. In that instance it wouldn't be wrong to say that "Our Society X visitors are important to us" and block them from seeing AllTheRedThings.com while still allowing Society Y members to see it.
The Clothing Revolution
My Linux environments are open -- I am free to obtain and run software from wherever and whomever I please, and they're not infested with malware. I apply my own reasoning and decision-making, which includes considering the reputation of the source(s). It has worked out fine for many years now.

We can have openness and still be thinking of the children. /s
What's the age distribution of that 0.1%? I guess it's mostly old people. When a war takes down a big chunk of young males, it's a problem. When a pandemic takes down 2x more but only old people, the nation may as well not notice that. This coronavirus is surprisingly courteous in this regard for it doesn't touch the young folks.
Could you say specifically what you think I got wrong? It would be cool if one or more of us learned something from our exchange.
I've built a few over the years:

- https://volt.fm - See, share and compare your Spotify stats

- https://postsheet.com - Send emails to contacts in a Google Sheets or Airtable document

- https://pikaso.me - Screenshots Twitter for sharing on Instagram

- https://github.com/soheilpro/zsh-vi-search - Adds support for searching the current line (in normal vi mode) to zsh

- https://github.com/soheilpro/catj - A better way to display JSON files

- https://github.com/soheilpro/mann - Never forget command line options again

- https://github.com/soheilpro/pgcmd - Non-interactive PostgreSQL query tool

- https://github.com/soheilpro/sqlmon - Collect events from SQL Server and save them to Elasticsearch

- https://github.com/soheilpro/sqltop - Find the most resource consuming SQL Server queries

- https://github.com/soheilpro/mon - Painless performance monitoring for Windows

- https://github.com/soheilpro/Ledger - Interactive CLI double-entry accounting
In my experience very true and I dont even like Go (but use it daily for work for several years now).

I used to write Python. I was very happy writing Python but dealing with other peoples Python bullshit is not something I miss.
A number of points:

1) Decentralized finance is extensible, pluggable, open, auditable, and non-custodial. This means, when you want to integrate, say a popular crypto money market like Aave into your application, you don't need Aave's permission. You can just have your application interact with Aave's smart contract. (https://aave.com/)
2) When a smart contract is properly engineered, you retain full 24/7 access to your funds with 100% uptime guaranteed by the base chain that it sits on (Ethereum in most cases). You do not get Robinhood-like situations where all of a sudden they turn the buy button off on some stock like what happened two months ago.
3) Everyone has access to the same information. It's all on the public blockchain. There are no backroom deals, it's all in open-source code on the chain. It's all auditable.
4) The yields on so-called stablecoins (cryptos that are pegged to some traditional currency, like USD) are higher on DeFi. You can earn 7 or 8% or more on DeFi, because you are effectively acting as your own peer-to-peer bank and lending out your funds directly to a collateralized third party.(https://compound.finance/)
5) Decentralized finance has already introduced things like decentralized exchanges, which allow people to crowdsource liquidity. You can earn a yield for participating in a liquidity pool on Uniswap, for example (https://uniswap.org/)
6) There are additional exciting applications in this space, it's currently undergoing a Cambrian explosion of activity similar to the early internet. I cannot explain all of this in a short-form HN response, but there's real value there. Real innovation that will change finance forever. If you want to learn more, please check out:

1) https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/
2) https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/
There was another article posted recently which explained that suburban traffic patterns changed so there was a lot more traffic congestion in the afternoons in suburban areas, while roads such as interstates and highways had lower than normal peak traffic. Having more traffic concentrated in areas not designed for heavy traffic could explain it.
Remember 6 months ago when Christopher Krebs insisted that DHS had successfully protected US infrastructure? Since that time, we've discovered the Solar Winds breach which had gone on for 9+ months and then the Colonial Pipeline. And those are just the ones we know about. :|

However behind/compromised we think the US Feds+private infrastructure is, seems like it's even worse.
Why do they just ignore proof of stake mainstream coins like Cardano ADA, its super efficient, functional, and rewards holders. Musk is blind.
You wouldn't write a monolith in Go? I think it's fair to narrow it down to microservices (maybe just "services" though?). A lot of programming these days is translating one thing into another thing (there are several packages out there for making protobufs more efficient, f.ex.; which I think is the most I can say on the topic?). It's not a slur if it's actually good at doing something we do a lot of.

I've recently tried using it as a "better shell script for gophers" but it's still too early to say.

We've all heard the nulls, pattern matching, etc arguments already. I just think it's not that big of a pain if you are only doing CRUD and that's why it makes sense in its domain.

EDIT: I've fallen out of love with Python because it's bad at large programs (distributed or not). Didn't think that's controversial.
But almost any other activity only benefits from getting more efficient. Compare today's efficient LED lighting technology with what was available a few decades ago. With proof-of-work on the other hand, efficiency is actively counteracted. If a proof-of-work cryptocurrency holds its price, its energy usage can only go up.

You are also assuming that only renewable energy will be used for mining in the first place. I don't think that is a given: As long as it stays profitable no matter how, miners will exploit any resource that is available to them, literally burning resources for money in their wallet. Cryptocurrencies are decentralized by design, so while the US for example can stop the use or import of inefficient stadium lighting technologies, there is no way to apply a carbon tax or stop the "import" of cryptocurrency mined through "dirty" means.
Does it really make a difference whether it's called libsystemd or something else? If you're talking about the other functionality that's private and unstable, it's not included in a separate library for exactly that reason: it's considered private and unstable (Also I'm not sure if you're joking with that name but I really doubt there would ever be something like this literally called "libredhat," that makes about as much sense as putting a random b-tree implementation in a library called libubuntu or a libgentoo).
This is literally what I was saying. It was in response to:

“That's pretty damning and it makes me wonder if there is a huge gap in autonomy here that is being papered over by clever route planning”

To which I said that clever route planning is not a hack but the only reasonable way forward.
Cloudflare says time to end CAPTCHA's, launches new security replacement
How odd, then, that the IGN staff decided to post this article without coming to that realization, and then suddenly came to that realization after an unrelated post by IGN Israel who was very offended at this attack on Israel.
FYI, Firefox on Android supports desktop extensions, including uBlock and NoScript.

They're pretty painless to use, too; there's an 'Add-ons' option in the main ⋮ menu with an entry for each extension. Tapping an extension's entry opens the usual extension dialogue in a full-screen view, and tapping 'back' in that view has the same effect as closing the extension dialogue on a desktop browser.

So you can use NoScript to enable a script and reload the page in...5 taps. It could be worse.
Open source dapp project over WebRTC
How it work?

Although WebRTC is a very fast and cheap technology, opening too many connections causes problems with the scalability and performance of the application. Decentralized applications often use the Mesh topology, so the use of WebRTC is a tough choice for a project that might have a lot of users. Therefore, nodes have to meet some conditions before they are connected to each other.

A small example to explain:

If you type "foxql" in the search box and search, the query packet is sent to the signal server first. The signal server broadcasts this to all users. Then all users search for the term "foxql" in their databases during the predetermined timeout. Webrtc connection is initiated with users who successfully respond within the given time. In this way, a connection with a certain number of users is always initiated no matter how many users there are.

https://github.com/foxql
There you go, dig into the specific policy choices of specific leaders. The world isn't as simple as which team you're on.
Notmuch[1] is using it. It has a good reputation.

[1]: <https://notmuchmail.org/>
I am willing to make that assumption when we're talking about people in an academic context.
> I actually think Apple's, "only our payment system can be used," system is reasonable. ....
But I also don't think Apple should be able to prevent an app from advertising their own payment system out of the app.

Aren't those two positions mutually exclusive?

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Pictures were an underrated feature, especially the fact that they were a standard drawing language in the graphics library.

The videogame Avara used them as its file format for levels. This made it possible to create levels with any graphics program that spoke the drawing PICT format.
Same in French and Spanish. It's probably similar in all Romance languages.
Interesting. Never considered that.

For me it's the opposite: the pure game is boring to watch. I love when unusual stuff happens.