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Ask HN: Is your calendar overly full or overly empty?
I think most of us would love to find hacks for being more productive, but I'm curious, do you suffer from too many meetings, and not enough free time to work on projects, OR too much "open" calendar space that leads you to procrastinate, get distracted, etc.?
Researchers caught a pro-US campaign spreading propaganda on social media
The 1973 Orson Welles docudrama "F for Fake" is worth watching if you're interested in art forgery. It posits that there is value in the art of the forgery itself, if the forgery is high enough quality and fools enough people.
You’re describing the Athenian ostracon. The Romans did not have that and did in fact place a great deal emphasis on the law-as-such in a way we would consider it analogous to due process.
> Then they should fix the cause of tuition inflation by getting rid of the federal student loan program

The problem with this is that it then returns college to being something that only those already financially well-off have the opportunity to take advantage of.

What's needed is either a more nuanced approach, or a more radical one, simply funding the colleges directly so that they don't have to charge tuition.
I personally don't see how humans would not be affecting the climate. But, I highly doubt the accuracy of many models and predictions at this point. The best I can say is "I don't really know the sum outcome of our activities and doubt the experts really do either". Just my opinion, please don't go on ideological holy war, that isn't the point.

Here is what I'm pretty confident about.

A whole lot of people around the world are transitioning to modern energy intensive economies at a time when we have already picked a lot of the low hanging fruit in regards to fossil fuels, minerals and water from aquifers.

So what happens? Do we really think 1998 USA levels of living is globally sustainable for the population? How are we going to handle this challenge?

Looked at through this lens, a lot of activities of governments (including proclamations of climate change and various military/intelligence campaigns) start to make a lot more sense.
Directly harassing someone is already a crime in most places. Here is an example definition:

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(1)Fear for the person's safety or the safety of the person's immediate family or close personal associates. (2) Suffer substantial emotional distress by placing that person in fear of death, bodily injury, or continued harassment.
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The second part of that is a little circular, but the point I am trying to get across to you is that in the US, I can call you a "fool" every time I see you and it is mostly perfectly legal even if you don't like it and tell me to stop. It generally has to be very escalated to involve the police.

And this is how it should be, and it should be a police matter. Not the "roadways" of the Internet making those decisions.

Today it might be some asshole calling someone the n-word or misgendering someone that gets their site shut down for all intents and purposes, but if we go down this road, tomorrow it could be because you misspoke about some "Dear Leader" in charge politically and now you can not participate in society in any real respect.
Cloudflare Quietly Powers the Internet Researchers Say:Haven for Misinformation
Display HTML with Python Tkinter. Webview for Tkinter
Probably the closest there is:

https://accu.org/conf-main/main/
These would probably not be suitable for phones, but would be suitable for a local power bank for a house and probably also for a car. Where they might really find a place would be for grid scale power storage for solar and wind.
Graduated in 2020, and I was shocked by how few of my peers had done any research into the type of work and compensation that would be available to them upon graduation.

No, I'm not referring to the issue of 17-20 years olds choosing a degree path with little awareness of post-graduation opportunities, but for upperclassmen 0-2 years out from graduation. On the other hand, I can report a disproportionate awareness / interest in academia and grad school, but even in these cases I still rarely felt that these peers saw graduate school as a means to an end, looking beyond the masters degree, but more as a funnel, "the next to do I guess, idk."
As a counterexample, physicists did use particle physics for medical purposes very early on- E.O. Lawrence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lawrence#Reception
was using it for cancer treatments of various kinds in the 30s.
Actually -- a "web of trust" idea for the browsers is quite sufficient.

Google et al... have already proven that they are at least decent at security and that they care about things owing to their success in the market. They've proven that they've handled this reasonably well and following their lead on how to do security in software is probably pretty good. They have both experience and skin in the game, lots of it, in the form of lots of money et al.

NOW, these password companies? NOPE. They simply don't have the right incentives in place to be trustable. (or more specifically, that they're going to be much better at securing my stuff than I will) They're too young and don't have sufficient "punishment" at the ready for me to be able to trust them much. They don't do indemnification, and liability for them isn't going to be great. I can't presume the same level of skill or care because the infrastructure/incentives aren't as presumably solid.

(Put differently, the Lifelock guy was a hero, he was at least willing to put something real on the line.)
It's just a rebranding of GitHub OCTO:

https://github.com/githubocto
> You lose your passport after boarding

The problem being discussed is the price of US passports, not trying to figure out how to enter the US without a passport that you've paid for.
Something I experienced with a relatively young kid(2 years) and staying home and watching her grow up was really nice. But, I rethink or feel regret when she is sick crying all night and my head is pounding. I realized this feeling quickly goes away and you'll only remember the good moments with your kids and learn to love them unconditionally.
Governments under threat of competition produce positive results.
Everyone is aware AGoT has a lot of inspiration on the Wars of the Roses. Its fantasy depiction of fantasy nobility and feuds is more "realistic" than, say, The Lord of the Rings (the work of "medieval fantasy" that looms large over all others), so I'd say it does a good job at it. It also has dragons and magic, so let's not take this inspiration too far, shall we?

The author of the blog we are quoting understands this, fortunately. He's being nitpicky for fun's sake, as he readily admits in one of his initial articles about AGoT [1]:

> "But first, I want to answer a question: Why am I bothering? Isn’t this all a bunch of useless nitpicking? Well, first – what did you expect from a blog named A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry? Useless nitpicking is our specialty."

He then goes on to say:

> "But – for once – I think this is useful nitpicking. For a great many people, Westeros will become the face of the European Middle Ages, further reinforcing distorting preconceptions about the period."

It's true that fiction, especially in movies and TV shows, reinforces what people think they know about the past. See how many people (and games) repeat terrible tropes from the wildly inaccurate movie "Enemy at the Gates", and think the Soviets basically constantly mowed down their own troops at the first sign of wavering, or that at Stalingrad there were not enough bullets or weapons for every soldier.

So I feel the author's pain. Then again, neither the AGoT novels nor TV show pretend to be about real medieval history, they just claim to be inspired by it. If the audience thinks this represents real history to any degree, maybe they should have paid more attention to all the dragons, magical weapons and undead zombies in the show?

PS: the blog author's point about how medieval armies were raised, their numbers, and the involved logistics is fascinating and extremely interesting. It obviously doesn't work like this in AGoT or Lord of the Rings!

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[1] https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-wa...
I want to do 2 things here where i live in San Francisco, anyone have advice for me on where to start?

1 - I want to start or join a coalition of folks looking to get this implemented in California

2 - I want to contact the city/owner of the specific digital signs right outside my window of my apartment that are on 24/7, loud, and have their glass broken monthly and then wait for the glass to be replaced for weeks. It's a public hazard.
But the people that are actively misleading you are the same ones that are supposed to implement the solutions. How are we supposed to trust these people will effectuate incredibly difficult tradeoffs if they fail basic litmus tests of accountability?
yeah, I'd much rather politicians give that money to their friends via way over-priced government contracts that will never benefit the majority of us, and probably end up 'lost' by the Defense Department ten years down the line, than actually doing something that might make people's lives better, and actually give a damn about this country because they don't feel like politicians are constantly bleeding them dry and selling that blood to rich blood thirsty oligarchs.

/s - I would definitely rather we tackle homelessness, poverty, debt, and create upward mobility for the lower classes, because I'm not a narcissistic greedy bastard.
how many hours per month are usually retained?
Scraping emails and sending spam is passive aggressive and wrong. It is much more disruptive and hostile than calling someone a name, and nitpicking the use of "utter scum" here is drawing attention away from the real offender, the spammer.

If calling someone utter scum might get them to rethink how they are exploiting others, I will have no issue using it. OP did nothing wrong here.
Are they really a "discovery" if they aren't? Seems more like a plain observation.
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This sounds like burning the candle at both ends and I can't help but think the attitude is counter-productive.

That is, if a gasoline powered engine is actually less expensive, why not drive the gas engine and invest or donate the savings towards alternative energy initiatives? That way EVs (and alternative energy in general) can flourish and become unequivocally better.
This attitude is the product of an insanely competitive and violent environment. People have learned that this is how you have to be to make it to the top. Also, what's the fun of being rich if nobody else is poor? The lower the low, the higher the high. People enjoy feeling the power of crushing others. Putting your boot on the throat of the weak makes you feel intoxicatingly strong. I'm convinced this is why the rich turn to philanthropy. Instead of helping make a system where the poor and needy don't exist, they rather make charities that transmute their greed into benevolence. There's some truly sick psychological stuff going on in this country.
I've worked on porting a program written in C to a memory-safe language.

On the very first run of the port, immediately, I've found a bug due to C weak typing. After a few days, I've found a few buffer overruns.

My take is that there are two types of programmers: those who admit they can't avoid making memory safety mistakes, and real programmers, who don't make such mistakes, and happily keep programming in C/++.

EDIT: Just for fun, I've randomly picked up another C program, written in C17/C18. Immediately found a bunch of problems (not sure if there is any impactful, or not), including inconsistent function prototypes.
I do federal contracting for a parent company and I get billed out around $320-350/hr as far as I can tell. I, of course, only see a fraction of that though =P
AI envisions futuristic sustainable city of air-purifying biophilic skyscrapers
No, you can't. This article is literally about how they're going to roll out online renewals for US passports in a few months.
LastPass is a larger target for attacks, which is why there's some kind of breach or security issue with it every few years. It's too often. I already lost trust in them years ago, but was too lazy to switch until this year. BitWarden hasn't had the same issues yet. Plus BW is open source and critical bugs can't be hidden. There's also the option to self-host your data if you want.

BitWarden's UX is a little different, and in some ways inferior to LastPass. Sharing passwords with my wife feels convoluted in BW, but it works perfectly fine. You have to create an "organization" where both users join, and then add your sites/pws to. In LastPass you just share it. But I've also found BitWarden works better, especially on mobile. LastPass would fail filling in passwords on some sites, and I'd have to use different autofill methods to get it to fill. But BitWarden doesn't have the same issue and mostly just works. I also like BitWarden's built-in 2FA field for each site's password, which eliminates having to use other authenticator apps. Except you'll still want to use a 2FA app for BitWarden's master password.
Sure, but somewhat lesser, but still innovation, on the Internet/WWW itself was made by young adults in their dorms. Current billionaires included.

I hate myself for having been born with fucking mental problems.
The details don't really matter. What matters is that 1) a new source of energy is discovered which 2) disrupts an existing equilibrium which in turn 3) brings about ecosystem collapse faster than even intelligence can adapt. The exact mechanism by which this series of events plays out is irrelevant.
The government must allow American citizens back onto US soil, even without documentation. They're not happy about it and will make you answer a ton of questions, but I've seen it happen a few times.
Investing in Software Infrastructure in a Downmarket
Downturns are a great time to build & cowboy vc shares some areas they'll be investing behind: cloud cost management, developer productivity, and open source in new categories
I'm not sure I espoused any utopian view.

Reading back, I'm actually genuinely interested to know why you want a third-party 'gatekeeper' to protect you personally from certain kinds of (uncomfortable) scientific facts. I don't judge, you can make that decisions for yourself, but why do you personally want to write that blank-check to a third-party, so that they decide what scientific facts you should or shouldn't be allowed to learn? Maybe you can elaborate?
Interesting that the equivalent in the US is about 10,000 kWh p.a. The delta is so large I thought there might have been a monthly/annual confusion.

I have lived in both countries and it didn't feel like there was much of a difference in electricity consumption.
Ask HN: What is your experience with intermediary companies?
In the age of remote work companies not having a legal entity in your country use an intermediary company to hire you. What’s your experience with such companies?
Fast-growing sunspot may threaten Earth with flares and eruptions
>Headphones don’t age. It’s perfectly fine for such an old article coming up, especially if gets referenced on prosumer forums such the r/audiophile or r/hifi subreddit.

But an outdated article doesn't guarantee this to be true. For example, maybe the manufacturer released an updated version that is a better value proposition and kept the old model around to have a more budget friendly option. Or perhaps another company purchased the manufacture and demand they cut costs. Or maybe this model is new and people haven't yet learned that there is a specific part that frequently fails after a few years of use. An old article can't speak to these hypotheticals. It doesn't mean the article is wrong. It just means that the article is less informed than if it were written today giving the exact same recommendation.

>the sennheiser hd 650 is so durable and has such a great soiund quality, that people just aren’t switching away from that 20 year old headphone.

But this is only something that can be truly known after those 20 years.

>I hate the sites on google who update the dates of their articles although the content wasn’t changed.

I agree, and while this is a related issue, it isn't really the same problem. It is a failure in Google's anti-SEO features. They don't need to trust the date on the article. They could compare cached versions of the page to see what changed besides the date.
What bugs be is the common impression that "USA" is this or that or "USA wants" this or that.

USA is (more or less) a democracy so which party is in power at the time determines what "USA wants".
The characterisation was against Go 1.15 as that is what is current in the version of Debian we're using (11?).

So other than noting that Go 1.18 adds Generics but they can be ignored due to us targeting 1.15, they weren't mentioned.

As I recall the another thing we get in 1.18 (as a side effect of the Generics constraints mechanism) is a slight improvement in static checking for certain constructions of type switch.
Isn't there something important missing here? My understanding is that Go's non-standard ABI doesn't guarantee much available stack space or the existence of guard pages. IIUC, this places a standard-ABI-like stack frame on the Go stack for calling into Rust, but what guarantee is there that the Rust/libc code won't overflow the small stack? What happens if it does? AFAICT, the answer are "none" and "memory corruption".
No mention of the scientific revolution? (I did a read + a search)

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

Difficult to have the industrial revolution without first having the scientific revolution.
My passport was expired in 2019, and I had a trip to Germany, meaning I had to renew it.

I was actually amazed how efficient the system for passports was. I mailed in my old passport and a new photo, and in less than a week I had a brand new passport arrive in the mail. The process was actually pleasantly painless for me.
Eh, that's exceedingly rare. I wouldn't be surprised if defects in the mass manufacturing of the new battery produces rare fire hazards too. I assume the thermal expansion and contraction of the containment materials will lead to issues too (I've seen it in even cooler operation temps for other batteries). Lithium sulfur batteries are supposed to be fire safe too. I assume there are other options out there as well, stuff with thousands of cycles vs hundreds.

It will be interesting to see how it pans out over the next decade, if it becomes commercially available at all.
The technological progress of the modern era is a product of the Renaissance movement beginning in the 14th/15th century. A transformations that cuts through culture, society, and technology. Social changes like the emergence of scientific organizations and Rationalism are impossible to meaningfully disentangle from modern technological artifacts.
You might have a tank water heater in your home that holds a large quantity of very hot water 24/7. Not quite to this level but in the same scale. That water heater is insulated and doesn’t prove a problem due to heat.
Save them for your kids so you can tell them about the wacky things we did in the olden days.
Why would you deploy Kubernetes WITH Terraform?
Me too (of course), but the last time I had a segfault that took me longer to fix than at most a couple minutes must have been years ago. The last time I got a segfault at all is probably months ago.

It's a matter of the more global design - factoring out the nitty-gritty things in some central places removes many bugs without you having to think about it. A lot of "usage" code then looks very simple, almost python-like. Variables and function calls. A few ifs and elses, a little bit of arithmetic.

Look at the Linux kernel for example. It is superficially not pretty, but you have to walk around quite a bit for example to see explicit locks and unlocks. It's a matter of factoring out the hard stuff in central places. This is a skill that is totally unrelated to the language you're using.

Yes, bugs happen to everyone, and more so in C than some other languages. Yes, there are security problems that come from lack of memory safety. But simply in terms of productivity, I feel that C is a very good tradeoff for me.
Agreed. When your job requires you to meet new people often or do trade shows, business cards with a qr code are the way to go. At one trade show I collected about 80 cards. About 10 people had special app vcards. Each with a totally different app. I'm not downloading an app for your information. Give me the fucking piece of paper.

However, pro tip. Blank back cards. People want to write notes about you and vice versa. Stop over designing cards with a back. A typical card is not a flyer. You should only hand them out to people you've met and talked to. That same card will fail as that hybrid business card/flyer. You'll never have enough info to justify expecting someone to go "huh, I just found this card somewhere without context and suddenly I'm compelled to talk to them".
Aisde: If you apply for a passport for the very first time, does it require someone to countersign your application? Or some means to verify you?

For example, in the UK, we have no national ID card. So, first-time passport applications and photos must be signed by someone else (the ‘countersignatory’) to prove the identity of the person applying.

(From GOV.UK) Your countersignatory must:

- have known you for at least 2 years

- be able to identify you, for example they’re a friend, neighbour or colleague (not just someone who knows you professionally)

- be ‘a person of good standing in their community’ or work in (or be retired from) a recognised profession (there is a accepted occupations for countersignatories)

The countersignatory signs one of you photos and application. As far I'm aware, there is no real way to verify the countersignatory.

How are brand new passports issued in other countries when identity is required?
I think the key with Obsidian -- especially if you're overwhelmed, is to refrain from extending it too early.

Day (week?) 1 of Obsidian, you should be getting familiar with it, and adding plugins, if any, slowly.

It's pretty easy to become enamored by awesome the plugins and all the awesome ways you can customize Obsidian, but it's easy to get yourself in a big mess.
It looks like most of those translate to "We build our automated systems around DOCX so you get all our features if you use it".

But it doesn't really say why they chose to build on docx.
I think you are oversimplifying things. People interact with government services when using water at home. They interact with government services through the local k-12 school system; through the Post Office; and they know roads are largely funded with taxes. People interact with government far more than as you describe and attributing a general attitude about government to the two things you mentioned does not seem reasonable to me. Do you have good reasons for the belief you have other than a general perception? It’s ok if not and there’s nothing wrong with holding a pet theory without studies to back it up.
If you don't use WiFi, try turning the dip switch off. In my case it makes the phone 7-10 deg C cooler (~39 -> ~31). It'll also make your screen brighter; I can lower brightness from 25% to 0% for indoor lighting.

(This is regardless of whether you're connected to a WiFi network or not. ie just disconnecting from a network isn't enough; you have to turn the dip switch off.)
No mention of
https://github.com/srstevenson/nb-clean ?

Has been my go to for this. It seems like nbdev2 is fastais own cooked solution with a bunch of other tools.
Nice to see they call out LibreOffice as a usable application as well.
Yeah I had this misconception as well. These guys are very poorly paid a lot of the time.
Are you sure about the lack of due process? If there was something important in Rome it was its citizens (in the legal sense).