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Ask HN: Know any Calendly-as-a-Service providers?
I'm working on an application that will provide appointment scheduling to many B2B clients. Each of our (siloed) clients will provide unique scheduling options to their customers, meaning that each of our clients requires different appointment types and availability configuration options.

Basically, we need to provide a Calendly-like platform to each of our clients. Are there any existing providers that are built for this?

Ideally we'd be interfacing with a simple API that handles all the hard parts of scheduling. Bonus points if the provider has some pre-built elements that make building client-facing availability configuration really easy.
I feel I have, however, you may be able to prove me wrong. :-) I propose having a conversation on the subject. :-) Email in my profile. Pls. reach out if you would like to. Thanks.
I'm glad new editors auto save everything and can restart without issues. Just a shame the os doesn't do it for all apps.
> This is a product of socialism without protections. Put simply, you have high taxes to redistribute wealth. Unfortunately, the government takes their cut. As government becomes increasingly large / naturally corrupt that cut becomes larger.

To blame this on socialism proves you don't know the history of Portugal.
The one place I've seen a Cessna on speeder patrol it certainly paid for itself. There was a spot where an interstate cut through an Indian reservation. The speed limit was set to 65 mph even though the road was better than that.

A bird in the sky plus more cops than I would have thought they had were a frequent occurrence there, pulling over basically everyone who wasn't aware of the speed trap. Certainly worth it.

One day they raised the limit to 75 which is far more appropriate--I've never seen the plane since, I've seen one cop a couple of times hiding behind the crest of a hill.
LZ4 is amazing - it's basically the same idea as LZ77, only implemented carefully, with all the dozens parameters and tradeoffs made in a certain way. Couple this with modern amounts of brute force thrown in an optimal parser (LZ4HC) and you get something quite extraordinary, on the "Pareto frontier" of compression efficiency. There's a tendency to focus on algorithms and scoff at implementation details, but LZ4 was possible as an algorithm 30 years ago, yet the implementation details crystallized to perfection only, say, five years ago.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29148685
I tried out T-Mobile this summer; avoid them if you can [Tweet thread]
You don't need to define relationships between tags. Like in my audio player the songs have certain tags which don't have anything to do with each other and yet the player can create tree like structures from them. For example when you have songs with tags for %genre%, %artist%, %album% and %title%, the player can automatically generate various tree structures with different levels, like:

1. genre
2. artist
3. album
4. title

or

1. genre
3. album
4. title

or just

1. title

or even less useful ones like

1. title
2. album
So, which kind of female genital mutilation do you find acceptable, just the type 4, or more?
Hydrogen: A React Framework for Dynamic, Contextual and Personalized E-Commerce
I like to think about Natural numbers as a basis for money (accounting) giving way to Integer numbers as a basis for money (banking). Going on along this trend, one gets to Real numbers (Finance? trading stock?) and so until modernity with Complex numbers as the basis for money (global financial? trading options and other derivatives?)
The fonts burned into CGA, EGA, and VGA bioses all had serifs. The default UI fonts on many X Window systems UIs, including CDE, were serif fonts. The 80-column card in the Apple IIe had a serif font.

There was really only the first-generation home computer (and arguably first-gen PDAs) that widely shipped strictly sans-serif fonts; a blip in the history of personal computing.
If their Zestimate is any indication of their algorithm's proficiency, then that might point to the problem. The range of values they give for a home are frequently ~30% wide. Then they just pick a midpoint. So, it's "we think it's worth $700K, give or take $100K. Not exactly rocket data science.

I previously just chalked that up to the whole estimate being a marketing thing anyway. And figured that if they did have some brilliant data science accurately predicting home prices, why would they give it away?

Now that I see they were consistently overpaying for houses in a rising market--even with a presumed premium baked in for the convenience of an easy sale process--it's looking like their algorithms are indeed suspect.
I’m glad I’m just a pleb programmer, who never has done anything so complicated that it would expose processor errata.

And even if I did, I wouldn’t have the expertise to even figure it out.
> No point triggering for the sake of it.

Actually there is, if it's contextualized correctly. It's called Exposure Therapy [0] and it's scientifically proven to help phobias/anxiety/fears. Avoiding the anxiety-provoking situations makes things worse.

[0] https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/exp...
Can you elaborate on this point?

"Where does Helium token derive value? Their economic policy resembles a utility token, where transacting on the network costs a fixed dollar value per packet, and these 'credits' are derived from burning the native network token HNT. There are a few other burning mechanisms as well. The credits get paid out to the node which routes traffic. Helium nodes costs less than $2/month to operate (5-10W electricity)."

You say transacting on the network costs a fixed dollar amount. Does that mean people are paying USD to use this network? Who is paying these fees in USD?

Trying to disentangle the financial/incentive aspect.
The crime being the existence of poor people? Europe is way worse on these fronts, they just hide their poor people better and put them in the suburbs.
So anything aside from hyper capitalism is mediocrity? This is a sad way of looking at the world.
You would be writing linux-to-linux compatibility shims instead. Desktop linux is forever stuck in the "move fast and break things" mindset that just isn't compatible with the release-and-forget style of proprietary software.
Parent did note "living in the 'winning' country" as as precondition, so seems that you are probably in agreement to some extent
If they were on the same public transport vehicle, that would likely be a different situation.
No idea where that title came from; it's not the title of the article (now) and it doesn't describe what they did. They didn't break TLS. Certificate owners leaked their private keys.

The innovation here was that they had scraped a lot of public keys for rapid identification of what the private keys were for.
I believe koka has done a bunch of work making re-use happen automatically. Some really interesting ideas in there.
> Israel bankrolled Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin even prior to the founding of Hamas

Yes, prior to the founding of Hamas, Israel was fighting secular terrorist groups and gave support to other (less violent) Palestinian factions in hope that those other factions could gain control and bring peace. That backfired miserably. But it wasn't some sort of nefarious conspiracy like you are alleging.
Except if the joke is straight up offensive or aims at mocking or stereotyping a certain type of people (whether you're part of this group or not), I fail to see how it can feel "creepy." Even doing a bad pun or joke related to the context has nothing creepy in it. At worst, it's cringey.
Portugal has nothing on the anglosphere here, but yes is probably liberal by European standards.
Has app development become too complex? – Tag1 Team Talk
I think a lot of them do. It's not uncommon to hear of devs removing DRM after a certain number of months. Especially nowadays where after a certain point they just want people to play the game ready for when the sequel comes out.
More outrageous, aggressive claims, that somehow it's up to me to address. It's up to you to establish them; otherwise, it's just some words.
Needs a switch like "Avoid tolls" in Maps
50 Gigatons: The True Scale of Emissions
RFC: AppSync Enhanced Subscriptions Filtering
Yes, and if nuclear's share had remained where it used to be they could have got rid of coal almost completely by now, for instance. Instead, coal is still a major source and gas has actually increased.

IIRC, Germany emits almost twice as much per capita as France...
Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing your knowledge, much appreciated!
> saving me from having to Google "how to find text in vim" every time

Why would you have to do it every time? Sure, if you do it very rarely then you may forget, but I dunno... In any case, the way you search in vim is the way you search in `less`, `mupdf`, etc.
i agree they are definitely getting better though. i have memberships to both and have been watching how they have improved quite a lot in last few months. the big reason why i got a membership to walmart+ was due to Amazon going from (1 day shipping for last 3 years) to (4+ days!) in the Louisville market, which makes no sense. We have multiple warehouses in the area. Tons of articles/forums discussing it, so definitely im not an edge case. Strangely enough when testing out the membership types (personal vs business) of amazon they are now just finally giving me 1-day shipping on my business account but not personal (verified using both items). Walmart+ has them completely beat on some items that are usually essentials that you can get at the local store. Plus they are offering same-day shipping for free, since they are coming from the store. I've had multiple times where I ordered something from Walmart+ where it said 2-3 day shipping and within hours, it turned into 'Oh we found it local' and delivered it that day.
>"They chased EVERY fad that could be chased. Silverlight, UPF, XAML, WPF, Islands, MAUI"

Being a wise man I spared myself from this madness long time ago;) When I need Windows Desktop App I use Delphi or lately Lazarus that can do both Windows and Linux GUI from a single source and produce native standalone executables.
I think it's better than that. The interlocking circles aspect was clever, surprising, and enjoyable when I spotted it.
Seems totally reasonable to me too. It probably has just seen the pattern

```
str = "{{SOME_ID_HERE}}-jash127hg27128h"

participant.follow({twitterUserId:"{{SOME_ID_HERE}}"})
```
If you want to bend the meaning of "free" to mean "consumes no resources", then nothing ever is "free".

But of course, that's not how we generally use the word.
I’m not trying to be rude here but going from PC gaming to consoles because you dislike DRM is like buying a sports car because you think trucks pollute too much.
> My own friend circle has shrunk about 90% since I quit social media, and it's not just because everyone else is on social media. Everyone has a phone. The problem is people don't care.

Sorry to be blunt, but I think if one leaves social media and sees their friend circle shrink, I've got bad (or maybe good) news for them: Those people weren't really your friends.

Part of the problem is with how we define "friends" now. A friend used to be someone who you could ask for advice on a very personal issue, borrow a tool from, someone who could watch your kids while you were gone, someone who will visit you if you're sick and dying. Today, "friend" has morphed into this nebulous thing: one of five thousand usernames of people (or bots) in a Social Media database, who simply chose to click a "follow" button. The corruption of the meaning of the word "friend" was the biggest casualty of social media. It's now this abstraction that may or may not have anything to do with friendship. A Social Media Friend doesn't even necessarily like you, and you don't even necessarily like them.

How many of those abstract friend-like entities in that Facebook list would give you an actual old-school phone call or snail-mail if you were dying of cancer? Those are your real friends. The rest of those people are merely entries in a database that we increasingly confuse for a social circle.
Tesla releases FSD Beta 10.4 with improved vulnerable road user detection, more
Everyone suspended convertibility during WW1.

The U.S. also in the Civil War.
tl;dr: don't upload your private ssh keys to github or other public places.

I would say that I'm astonished by the number of people who apparently have done exactly that, but I guess at this point I really shouldn't be.
> This is kind of an American way of thinking. Small talk with strangers is weird in many places.

I agree it depends on where you are, though I'm not sure about the "American" categorization.

I was in Seoul where small talk with strangers was completely weird... then I went to a different city in South Korea, Busan, where people would chat you up all over the place (waiting in line, in a street food stall, at the sauna, etc).

I later learned that Busan was a city of refugees in the Korean War where the entire country was pushed into a single city - people had to learn to live closely packed together and cooperate, and the culture stuck.

I'm an introvert and prefer to not have small talk, but as a tourist in Busan, it wasn't that bad (fun, actually) to randomly hear about a stranger's daughter's upcoming wedding, completely unprompted.
They're on Waze five minutes later.
US also influences policy adopted by other countries, so if the US adopted the French nuclear model, we would influence other countries.

I think we're hurt by our domestic oil and gas reserves here. We have powerful interests who want the US to use its domestic oil and gas reserves, so a large-scale shift TO nuclear and AWAY FROM gas seems quite difficult to execute.
I would hope so - its not their job to play world government
If there is no data provided, this is 100% true.
I am well aware of that. My point was rather: if you want people to get tested for Covid, it helps to make it readily available and cheap.
Many EU cities were designed for the car too and made the switch successfully.
Probably, this is my wife's computer.

We aren't attached to Apple, but finding build quality, battery life, high quality screen and likely to last 10 years is hard elsewhere.
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This isn't really Github's fault (or Oracle, or whatever).

I'm pretty sure that in the old days, asymmetric cryptography was called "Secret Key Cryptography" (note the contrast with "Public Key Cryptography").

Anyway, the clue is in the word "secret", in "secret key" - you're supposed to keep it secret.
I just don't have time to argue nonsense. Have a great day!
Consoles are all about DRM aren't they?
Terrorism is not an entity, so I don't understand what you are saying.

If you are saying that the ANCs actions make them objectively terrorists, I would say that I've never seen the term terrorist used in an objective and consistent manner.
Are modern web developers ok?
Okay, but these people are already on Twitter and Twitter doesn't do any work to verify that they "own" the NFT for their BAYC avatar or whatever. But they like Twitter, so they hang out there anyway even though anyone could "rip off" their NFT and tweet it or use it as their avatar.

It seems to me that they need Twitter (and Discord, etc) way more than the other way around. No enabling required.
Honestly resorting to authority is not that different from listening to an organization with a profit motive to lie.
I got a PhD in 2004 and could not find any non-academic research positions in the US. (I was pretty fed up with academia at the time, so I didn't look at those.) The closest I got was a job offer from a group at Telcordia Research, but when I went up for an in-person interview, I found the building mostly empty, most of the people there very bitter, and the only group that was hiring doing product development, not research. (And it was in New Jersey.) I declined the offer and went back to contracting.

At IBM. That wasn't a smart move either.
Incidentally, this has to have been one of the earliest manifestations of gene-centric evolution in sci-fi; the first story was written in 1967!
And a Chromebook at #25 priced at $179.

And that is at current MacBook Air price. There is no reason why a Macbook Air cant be $799, the same price as iPad Pro from a BOM cost prospective with same margin other than market positioning and segmentation.

And most consumer dont actually care about spec. They want a computer that works. ( Actually most dont want one, they just have to buy one for different sort of reason ).
It is the last death throes of an industry coupled with some tech minded people thinking it's controversial and cool, even though the tech in reality is old and boring. The "silver bullet" to fix climate change, much like we saw with all manner of things last year with Covid.

The one chance to revive nuclear power in the west through Virgil C. Summer, Vogtle, Hinkley Point C, Flammanville and Olkiluoto 3 failed miserably with several of the major players now bankrupt.

China keeps dipping it's toes in nuclear to keep the option open but no real commitment, and this announcement of 150 reactors is no real change to the long term plans either.

In 2019, China had a new target of 200 GWe of nuclear generating capacity by 2035, which is 7.7% out of predicted total electricity generating capacity of 2600 GWe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

So with about 50 GWe from 50 reactors today adding another 150 gives you the same goal of about 200 GWe.
I expect my property, my house and yard, to appreciate less than the S&P 500. I expect the value of my property to go up a little, but not a lot. By choosing to buy property, instead of living in the cheapest rental I could find, there is an opportunity cost. And I'm OK with that.

If money was the only goal, renting something extremely inexpensive and investing would give me a better financial return.
While I agree wrt backwards compatibility, some sort of per-file way to disable the crufty parts so they don't accidentally sneak into new code might be nice.
If all they're saying is "Your software is vulnerable", that's not news. That's like saying the sky is blue, there's nothing to investigate without more details.
> Conclusions: Contrary to common expectations, adults consuming a carnivore diet experienced few adverse effects and instead reported health benefits and high satisfaction. Cardiovascular risk factors were variably affected. The generalizability of these findings and the long-term effects of this dietary pattern require further study.

Well thats downright thought provoking. Although the long-term effects / life expectancy etc would change the conversation a lot.

For whatever its worth after getting insane food poisoning from some undercooked / old frozen chicken (mainly my fault) Ive for the most part naturally stopped eating meat and feel healthier than I have in a while. Also just cut down on eating in general.

I guess its nice to know that the old me in highschool that felt sick and tired every time he tried to join the popular norcal kids and go veagan wasn't imagining it maybe.
Not to mention the Mi-17 (with possible CIA links) used in evacuating the "Salt Pit" black site: https://twitter.com/Gerjon_/status/1428809921156591620
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> Uranium race

Are you sure it's not a "Plutonium race?"

China is the nation with the fastest growing nuclear arsenal today.
Oceans rose 400 feet in past 20,000 year. We have been exiting an ice age.

Climate change will continue regardless of people. Only possible change is the rate.

Of course it will reverse course eventually and the ice sheets will be back.
Different antenna. ADS-B is at 1090 MHz, and VHF air comms is more around 121-135 MHz. The same SDR radio can tune those two bands, but an antenna that works well for one would work poorly for the other.
You are replying to a post about an Australian health care issue with a knee-jerk response that is focused on American domestic health care policies.

This suggests that you did not read the article and that you process the existence of a headline as confirmation of your existing beliefs, even when those beliefs are completely irrelevant.

Australia has universal health care and HMO means Health Medical Officer there. Nothing about your comment has anything to do with the subject.

It does say Australians right there in the headline.
Coming from Poland (theoretically a country with lower salaries than Portugal) this strikes me as super low - you can easily earn 2-3x that working remotely for English-speaking contracting companies, and way way more if you try to get a job at a remote first tech company.
You left out the money quote from the Gizmodo article:

> The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.”

(Emphasis added.)

So, if anything, game companies should literally be putting their stuff up on torrent sites themselves!
It works to boost preorders and the crucial first week to get into sales charts.
Part of the reason to be critical of the US isn't just our high overall carbon emissions, but our per-capita carbon emissions. US citizens emit far more carbon per-person than Chinese people do. That is worth criticizing
In case of China, after Fukushima they decided to suspend generation 2 reactors and only build generation 3 reactors. But that didn't go smoothly and there were lots of delays. By the time generation 3 was ready, the trade war hit and a bunch of Chinese nuclear companies got blacklisted by the US. So they had to ditch foreign IP (French designs) and create their own IP (Hualong One) which also took time.

These 150 reactors we see today are the end of a long pipeline.

David Fishman is an expert on this topic. Thread: https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat/status/12939610958922792...
I believe GitHub, GitLab etc needs to find a way to detect this and automatically make it reject git pushes across the platform automatically (with some way to say yes I really really want to do this). I know there are automation tools out there, but they’re not by default across all of these code repos. Humans will be humans and error, so we need top-down enforcement especially as places like GitHub have users of every knowledge and skill level.
Even with my personal projects, I am wondering "What am I learning?" and "How might this benefit me professionally?" Other times I'm thinking "I just want this to work".

I started with C# with 1.0, back when structs inside structs didn't serialize properly. I've written iOS apps with Xamarin. I am a C# fan. I haven't used it professionally in a decade and my last personal project was years ago.

When is C# the right idea? The only time is when the project is entirely captured by the Microsoft ecosystem. There are plenty of places where this is the case. Windows desktop applications. Small business contract work who are still using Windows. Big business IT who still use Windows. Opportunities to migrate to Azure.

Where is C# the wrong idea? Everywhere else.

Writing for the best monetized mobile market? Swift.

Writing for cross-platform mobile market? Javascript.

Writing for cross-platform desktop market? Javascript. Maybe Java if you have a history of it.

Writing for the cloud? Something linux first. Javascript, Python. If you want a big GC language, why would you pick C# over Java?

AAA games? C++

Not AAA games? Maybe C# with Unity?

In every category where C# is used (outside Microsoft captured environments), there is a dominant solution which is not C#.

And that sucks. Because C# is awesome.